Forest and Stream, 
A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 
Copyright, 1900, by Forest and Stream Publishing Co. 
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NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 1900. 
VOL. LIV.— No. 25. 
No. 846 Broadway, New York 
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Torest and Stream Platform Plank 
*' /'/le sale of game should be foi^bidden at all seasons." 
NAILS DRIVEN IN 1900. 
n,— By the Congress of the United States. 
The Lacey Game Law. — Sec. 3. That it shall be unlaw- 
ful for any person or persons to deliver to any common carrier, 
or for any common carrier to transport from one State or Ter- 
ritory to another State or Territory, , . . the dead bodies 
or parts thereof of any wild animals or birds, where such 
animals or birds have been killed in violatioo of the laws of the 
State, Territory, or District in which the same were killed. 
Sec. 5. — That , . . the dead bodies or parts thereof, of 
any wild game animals, or game or song birds transported into 
any State or Territory, or remaining therein for use, consump- 
tion, sale, or storage therein, shall upon arrival in such State or 
Territory be subject to the operation and effect of the laws of 
such State or Territory to the same extent and in the same 
manner as though such animals or birds had been produced in 
such State or Territory, and shall not be exempt therefrom by 
reason of being introduced therein in original packages or 
otherwise. 
The Lacey Law is directly in line with the attainment 
of the end declared in the Forest anl Stream's Platform 
Plank. In this statute Congress has gone, as far as it 
could go to put an end to the sale of game. It has done 
this by strengthening the State laws which forbid the 
shipment of game to market. It declares that when game 
as an article of interstate commerce has been exported in 
violation of a State law its transportation is then in viola- 
tion of a national law as well; and thus it fortifies the 
local authority by that of the Government. The Lacey 
Law also removes any lingering doubt that might be enter- 
tained respecting a State's control of game imported into 
its markets for sale contrary to the local statutes. 
In short, while Congress has not enacted — for it had 
not the authority to enact— that the sale of game should be 
forbidden, it has given us a law which means that the 
prohibition of the sale of game shall be made effective in 
so far as the national control and regulation of interstate 
commerce may be interposed to sustain the State laws for- 
bidding such sale. 
THE FISH BASKET AND THE SUNSET. 
In commenting upon Mr. Joseph W. Howe's entertain- 
ing notes of his forest camp visitors, the other day, we 
repeated what has been said so often, that the mere taking 
of fish and game is not all that is worth recording in an 
outer's memoranda. To this a correspondent responds: 
"My personal observation leads me to believe that very 
many persons who go afield really, but unconsciously, de- 
rive the greater part of their satisfaction and pleasure, not 
in the taking of fish and shooting, but from their close 
contact with nature, and yet in their oral recital or written 
narrative fail to recognize the fact." 
In our preparations for going fishing we make provi- 
sions for catching fish. On the trip we do the best we 
can to catch fish. When we come home we recount the 
fish Ave have caught or the fish we tried to catch. Study 
the average fisherman ; watch his going and his coming ; 
listen to his talk. From it all you conclude that the chief 
end of fishing is to catch fish ; but such a conclusion would 
very often be untenable. The actual allurement which 
draws the fisherman does not lie wholly in the fish catch- 
ing. It is on the contrary found in a combination of many 
factors — in the attendant circumstances, surroundings, 
novelties of scene and incident, adventures and mis- 
adventiires, the being with nabtre. 
We have all said that it is not all of fishing to fish, and 
said it so often that the phrase has come to be a platitude. 
And yet when the average fisherman tells of his fishing 
excursion, one would think that fishing was the all and 
that there was nothing else. For when you ask a person 
about his luck, and he tells you what it was, he may say 
in a word good or bad, or dilate at length on how he fared 
as a catcher of fish ; but of the other things he is silent. 
He does not talk of the song of the birds, of the shimmer 
of the sunshine, of the green of the woods, of the majesty 
of mountain slopes, of the mystery of shadowy ravines, of 
the wild flowers and the fleecy clouds, of sunrises and sun- 
sets. He gives just what you ask him — the cold summary 
of his luck; but though your asking does not call for 
these other things nor his reply include them, if he were 
indeed to speak truly, he would say less of the fish, 
whether few or many, and would tell you of the other 
circumstances of the outing which actually had con- 
tributed most to his satisfaction and the recollection of 
which will abide with him long after he may have for- 
gotten the score of fish caught or shqll have relegated 
this to the category of unimportant details. 
NATURE STUDY. 
The constantly growing interest in nature study is 
shown in no way better, perhaps, than by the flood of 
books on mammals, birds, fishes and insects which come 
from the presses of the publishers. These books find a 
warm welcome among adults and children alike, and un- 
questionably do great good. Yet after all, while they are 
awakening an interest in natural history, they tell about 
them only a part of what a child wishes to know. ';^The 
untechnical personage obtains a very unsatisfactory arid 
often an entirely mistaken idea of the object about whichi 
he is reading from the description as it appears in type.' 
To learn what this description means, he must see the 
object, or a representation of it. Pictures, of course, are 
good and help very greatly, but they. are not to be com-- 
pared with seeing the actual thing, and in these days the 
actual thing is usually to be seen in some form or other. 
The country child, passing much of his time abroad in 
fields or woods or on country roads, sees for himself many 
of the commoner things of nature and comes to know 
them. He learns what they look like and what are their 
ways. He can name the birds, the flowers, the trees and 
the insects, though the names that he gives them are 
perhaps of his own coining, not those of the books and 
not understood by you, but they serve his purpose. 
The city child's opportunities are far less. Everything 
that comes before his eye is artificial, a part of civilization, 
something in which nature has no share. Yet, on the 
other hand, a city child* has opportunities which are 
denied him of the country. There are museums that he 
can visit, where a thousand things are displayed that the 
country lad never sees : there are zoological parks, where 
are confined strange beasts from foreign lands, such as 
perhaps Robinson Crusoe, Marco Polo, Livingstone, saw, 
or Du Chaillu, when he traveled through the swamps of 
Africa with his friendly negroes. 
The country lad if a book be given him on the birds or 
the mammals or the insects of his own locality .will 
speedily teach himself about them more than most 
scientific men know. The city boy should have a like 
chance, and it should be a part of the schooling of everj' 
class in the schools of our large cities to visit from time to 
time the local museums and zoological gardens, and to 
be told about the things that may there be seen. 
Such plans are being adopted in certain cities and 
cannot fail to do great good, and it is not to be doubted 
that this method of teaching the children will spread as 
soon as its advantages become generally understood. The 
pupils of the public schools at Washington visit the Smith- 
sonian Institution, the National Museum and the National 
Zoological Park, and in these visits learn a thousand 
things not taught in books, that it is yet well to know. In 
the same way. by the London Board of Education, visits 
to museums and instruction in outdoor life are reckoned 
as school attendances, and in many schools are now re- 
garded as a part of the plan of education. 
In country districts where collections of natural his- 
tory objects are not accessible, school excursions into the 
fields and woods in charge of competent persons might 
well take the place of museum visits, and might awaken, in 
many children who have r>o spfci^l leaning toward nattiral 
history study, a desire to know more of what is going 
on in the world about them. 
FISHCULTURE AND FORESTRY. 
The first course of lectures on fish and stream protec- 
tion and fishculture was recently successfully finished in 
the New York State College of Forestry at Axton, by Dr. 
Barton W. Evermann, Ichthyologist of the United States 
Fish Commission. 
The purpose of this course was, primarily, to give the 
students in the College of Forestry some conception of 
the relation of the forest and forestry operations to the 
streams and lakes and the fishes which inhabit them. 
Forestry and other utilization of the forest product 
should be carried on in a manner which will result in the 
least injury to the forest waters and their inhabitants. 
But unfortunately, many of our streams and lakes have 
been ruined, so far as fish life is concerned, by logging and 
milling operations. That such depleted waters may be 
restocked, it is important that those who have the care 
of forests should know something of fishcultural methods 
and how such waters may again be made fit for fish life. 
The course was given to some ten students, all of 
whom took a deep interest in the work. Besides lectures 
and laboratory work, much field work was done, con- 
sisting of visits to streams and lakes and to the State 
fish hatchery near Saranac Inn. The director of the 
college is to be congratulated upon the successful inaugu- 
ration of this valuable and interesting adjunct to forestry. 
SNAP SHOTS. 
We invite special attention to the consideration of the 
Marin county decision, which is printed on another page 
in this issue. It comes from the pen of a member of the 
New York Bar, and while it sustains the lay opinion ex- 
pressed by us last week, it has the added weight and 
authority of presenting the case from a professional stand- 
point. All who are interested in the cause of game protec- 
tion will be grateful to Mr. Thompson for his lucid state- 
ments of the principles here applicable, and will share his 
hope that the Marin county case may not be permitted to 
rest where it is. 
ft was the old story of counting one's chickens before 
they were hatched. If the fond hopes of the year 1878 
had been realized we should not now be discussing the 
date of the killing of the last moose in New York. For 
while the species was indeed then extinct, a public spirited 
eadeavor was made in that year to restore it to the 
Adirondacks game list. The affair progressed at least so 
far as to provide a law for the protection of moose which 
were to be secured and freed in the North Woods. From 
the initial six pairs of imported moose, it was figured 
that there would be "20 animals in the second year, 40 in 
the third year, 80 the fourth year, 120 the fifth year and 
240 the sixth year." In the course of six or seven years, it 
was thought, hunting might be permitted with a limit on 
the number killed by each gim. Men have counted sheep 
in the same way, and afterward have gone out of the 
sheep raising poorer than when they entered it. Moose 
were in 1878 and in after years put out in the Adiron- 
dacks, but the stock has never been re-established outside 
of pressrves. 
We have failed to discover any record of the introduc- 
tion of Western pinnated grouse into Martha's Vineyard. 
Our files give quite satisfactory accounts of the heath hen 
from early times, but there is no record of any imported 
stock having been added. The latest enterprise m this 
direction was that undertaken by the Massachusetts Fish 
and Game Protective Association some years ago. At 
that time they put some Arizona mountam quail and 
Southern quail on the island, but the pinnated grouse 
which they brought on from the West, some sixty m all, 
were deposited elsewhere. One plausible working theory 
to account for this persistent belief that pinnated grouse 
were put out on Martha's Vineyard is this. Formerly, 
from Audubon's time to within the last few years, the 
bird was verv commonly known as the pinnated grouse, 
and the fact that so-called pinnated grouse were found m 
this one locality in Massachusetts and nowhere else m 
the East would very naturally prompt the belief that they 
had at 'ome time been brought fmm the West. 
