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, NOVEMBER 17, 1900. 
J VOL. LV.— No. 20. 
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GAME EXPORT. 
The growing tendency to forbid the shipment of game 
from the limits of a State is likely to receive an im- 
petus from the eifect of the Lacey Act. The prominence 
given to the Federal act by the press has directed at- 
tention to the non-export laws as g-ame protective ex- 
pedients, and the more familiar the public becomes with 
this system the stronger it will be. The non-export 
law should be of universal application; every State in the 
Union and every Province in the Dominion should 
adopt such a regulation and enforce it rigorously. 
To stop the transportation of game is to stop the sale 
of game. 
To stop the sale of game' is nine-tenths of game pro- 
tection. ' 
The Lacey Act makes no new rule respecting the 
transportation of game from one State to another. It 
simply gives effect to the respective State laws on the 
subject already existing. It provides, in short, that a 
violation of a State non-export game law shall constitute 
also a violation of the Federal law. If the statutes of 
Montana forbid the export of game from Montana, the 
Lacey Act makes the forbidden export an offense, under 
the interstate commerce law. and provides a penalty 
lor it as such. 
While non-export laws are to be desired in all States, 
those laws which forbid absolutely the carrying out of 
game or fish are in some instances unduly severe. In 
New Jersey, for instance— cited because of the wide- 
spread hardship the non-export rule has imposed— the 
law forbids absolutely the carrying of any game out of 
the State. A New York city sportsman who goes into 
New Jersey for shooting and bags his half-dozen birds 
may not take them home with him. and naturally he feels 
aggrieved. As a sportsman said the other day, "It is not 
as if I were a pot-hunter who wanted to take game to 
sell ; I only want to bring- the birds home to my family. 
That is a part of the satisfaction of going shootiiig-— if 
a fellow has any luck, to take his game home." 
sential. In States which forbid the export of game, but 
permit the owner to carry with him a limited amount, 
this concession to the visiting sportsmen has not rendered 
the staute any the less effective and useful. The sports- 
man should be permitted to carry home his game. The 
amount allowed may well enough be small; but the man 
who spends time and money to get his game should 
not be compelled to leave it behind him. 
GRAY SKIES. 
Sportsmen would be willing to undergo the depriva> 
tion sucli laws Nvork, if this were essential to the effi- 
denc)' of a nc i-e-xport regul^tip|i, feyt i^ j^o* sq «^ 
The days have come of gray skies and dripping rains. 
Faster and faster have dropped the falling leaves, until 
now they carpet the ground in the woods, and are heaped 
in windrows along the brush patches and in the fence 
corners. Some are yet soft and green, and the feet of 
the wayfarer push them aside with a soft rushing sound 
like the hiss made by a retreating wave as it hurries down 
over the hard sand of the beach to overtake its fellows; 
others; are crisp and harsh, and rattle and break under the 
foot with a noise that warns each woods dweller within 
hearing that some clumsy creature is approaching who is 
strange to the forest. The branches are almost bare. Al- 
ready many of the trees and shrubs have lost their leaves, 
and looked on from the hillside above, the swamp shows 
gray— a mass of naked twigs. The great oaks still hold 
their leaves, brown, stiff and rustling, but where scrub 
oaks show, singly on the borders of the swamp, or massed 
on the hillside, or contrasted with black scrub pine or 
conical juniper, their leaves glow with the color of 
cooling iron from a blast furnace. 
The days and nights are colder now, and the sharp 
frosts have come. Already they have closed the little 
prairie ponds, have fringed the pools in the swamps with 
a jagged rim of ice, and have hardened the surface of the 
lumps of black mud along the brook side. The berries 
that still hang upon a hundred shrubs are shrunken and 
wrinkled now, and their pulp has dried up and is hard and 
tasteless. Flowers are gone, fields have lost their color, 
and only in the depth of the swamp where the woodcock 
still feeds are patches of grass that is still bright, or in 
the brook under the running water the waving cresses look 
up at you fresh and green as in summer. 
Beneath the apple trees of the orchard the ground is 
.strewn with fruit, red and yellow and green, or brown 
where the early harv^est has rotted and retains its shape, 
but nothing else. In the country apples are so coinmon 
as to be worthless, yet how much good and how much 
pleasure these tons upon tons of fruit would afltord, could 
they be distributed among the poor of the great cities, who 
never taste an apple fresh from the tree. 
The bluewinged teal and the shoveller have long ago 
gone south, but along the coast the hardy black ducks 
remain, feeding at night in ponds, brooks and spring 
holes, and by day sitting on the salt water, safely far 
from shore. 
The ducks of the prairie stay now on the wider, open 
waters, and are resorting more and more to the corn- 
fields, where grain and weed seeds furnish them a fat 
subsistence. The mallards still wake the echoes along 
the streams and in the timber with tumultuous quackings, 
sprigtails whistle and blackjacks croak. 
The prairie chicken broods long ago ceased to keep by 
themselves, and now the birds are found in great packs, 
v.'hich are as wild as hawks. The quail have chosen 
their winter feeding ground, and have settled on some 
grain field where the ragweed grows thick and the swamp 
i,': convenient, or have selected a corn lot adjacent to the 
woods. The ruffed grouse are working down into the 
swales. In the swamp and along the edges of the forest 
the old pa'tridge still scratches busily among the thick 
strewn leaves to uncover the chestnuts that the October 
gales rattled down from their brown burrs, or deeper in 
the wood feeds on the three-cornered nuts of the beech 
until its crop is full to bursting. 
The hardening ground has warned the earth worms to 
seek safe shelter from the winter, and the moles are 
burrowing deeper, while woodchucks and prairie dogs 
have begun their long sleep. Squirrels still dig in the 
frosty ground to bury nuts, which .soon they will have to 
unearth again. Through the shortening days the striped 
chipmunk, which we might think had a case of inter- 
mittent mamps, makes hurried and frequent journeys from 
his hole to the farmer's late standing shocks of com, re- 
taming with distended cheel? poyches to add to Us over- 
flowing store. 
By day and night now the hunters are abroad, for this 
is the moon of hunting, On two legs or on four, back-» 
ward and forwat-d they traverse the land, working de' 
struction to the simpler creatures which furnish thenj 
their food, and often, too, working it on each other. 
Unending warfare goes on between the wild creatures 
from year's end to year's end, but now the bird shooters 
are at work in the stubbles, and in the underbrush for 
grouse, for quail, or for the woodcock flight — so small to- 
day. Decoys have been gotten out, their strings tested, 
new weights attached, and here and there a dash of paint 
applied. The fox hunter takes his hounds abroad and their 
mellow music may be heard echoing from hill to hill, and 
bursting from the woods, all through the day and some- 
times far into the night. When the full, round moon 
shows herself, the forest often resotmds with the sharp 
bay of the coon dog, and with the yells and exclamations 
of the hunters, who excitedly follow the dog and at last 
gather about the tree where the ringtailed prey has sought 
safety. ' 
Though its skies are gray and often drip tears, and 
though the earth is dull and brown, yet who shall say 
that November has not its charm? 
WARDEN LOVEDAY'S REPORT. 
That report of Game Warden Loveday, of Illinois, is 
deser^'ing of special attention. It sums up the result of 
effort intelligently applied to the protection of game. 
Mr. Loveday has demonstrated in Illinois what has been 
shown in some other States, and remains to be shown in 
a yet larger number, that the actual enforcement of the 
game and fish protective statutes will change the atti- 
tude of the public toward them from one of apathy and 
contempt into one of interest and respect. While it is 
true in a general sense that a law will not amount to 
anything which has not public opinion to back it up^ the 
principle is not less well established that public opinion 
may be rallied to the support of the statute simply by a 
determined stand on the part of the authorities. The 
indifference which has permitted the game laws to be 
dead-letters must not be confounded with any real oppo-; 
sition to the laws. The reason that the poachers and the 
"sooners" and the market-hunters have had things all 
their own way is not to be found in active antagonism 
to game protection, but in a l^ick of popular information 
and appreciation of what protection means for the com^ 
munity. The agent of the law who sets about his task 
with such intelligence and determination as Warde^n 
Loveday's report shows he exercised may be assured 
of ultimate success, which may be looked for just so 
soon as the people in general know what the purposes 
and the benefits of protection mean for the many as 
against the few. 
SNAP SHOTS. 
If one professes not to believe in luck, let him go moose 
hunting; or if he may not achieve that, let him do the 
next best thing, read Mr. W. N. Amory's story of hi§ 
hunt and of the part luck had in it. 
A note elsewhere relates that at least one hunter's life 
has been saved by the Forest and Stream's display- 
type injunction, "Don't shoot until you see your game, 
and see that it is game, and not a man." It is probable 
that there have been other cases; but just a single one 
is sufficient to have justified the caution. We shall 
keep it standing. In these days of perfected arms and 
many men in the woods, the exhortation "Don't shoot" 
constitutes the teachings of the whole art of shooting. 
Vermont has an open season of the last ten days of 
October for deer hunting; and Commissioner Titcomb gets 
reports through the postmasters of the numbers of deer 
killed in the several counties. So far as the returns 
have been made, 123 deer have been reported. Windsor 
county led with forty-eight, Rutland reported thirty- 
seven, Bennington ten, and the rest were dispersed over 
ten counties. The largest buck, reported to have weighed 
by actual weighing 385 pounds, was killed by Frank G. 
Goad in the town of Montgomery. The law protects 
d6es, b«t several were killed. A large snow-white deer 
was seen, but not killed. 
The New York Journal had an illustration of Long 
Island hunting the other day, picturing a pointer dog 
staunchly standing % '^pll elk, thf elk joyoualy bagling 
ajeanwhile, 
