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[April 13, 1901. 
and three deer in one season, a hunter can now only kill 
one moose, two caribou and two deer. While the Minister 
could not see his way clear to entirelj'' prohibit the spring 
shooting of ducks, the season has been materially short- 
ened, so that now ducks can only be killed up to March 
I, instead of April 15, with the exception of the bufflehead 
ducks, commonly known as pied ducks or divers. We 
have gained much, but not all that we want. For the 
balance we shall continue to agitate and to struggle. Mr. 
Parent is doing all that he reasonably can to aid us in our 
work, and we are looking to him for financial assistance 
as well.. 
I have only to add tliat we look for similar aid from 
all sportsmen interested in this work, that the annual 
subscription of members has been fixed at the low figure 
of two dollars a year, in order that all angling and 
hunting visitors to the Province of Quebec may be in- 
duced to join us, and that I shall be glad to I'eceive their 
subscriptions and applications for membership. 
E. T. D, Chambers^ 
Secretary Sportsmen's Fish and Game Protective Associa- 
tion of the Province of Quebec. 
to be on the shooting grounds this week and next, and 
they are hopeful of great success. The parties that have 
already been shooting at the preserve have not had the 
greatest of luck, but have had a good deal of cold weather 
and high winds to contend with. A great many brant 
have been seen flying, but they have been far out, and 
have not come well to the decoys. Special. 
No Spring Shooting in Jefferson. 
Watertown, N. Y., April 5. — Editor Forest and 
Stream: We have finished that protection fence around 
Jefferson. Governor Odell drove the last nail on April 
4 when he signed the bill prohibiting spring shooting in 
Jefferson for three years. It is perhaps needless to say 
that we are proud of our job and that nothing would 
please us better than to have the gentleman from Os-vvego 
try to sneak under that fence and let us catch h'm at it. 
Up here in Jefferson we think just as much of the fellow 
that, shoots a hen grouse on her nest and then sucks the 
eggs as we do of the spring duck shooter. Now, boys, 
you who want spring shooting stopped, pull off your coats 
and get to work and stop it. If Long Island wants to 
shoot in the spring, let her. If Oswego wants to shoot in 
the spring, put a protection fence arovmd her and she 
can't. I am talking to you, Lewis, Oneida, Madison, 
Onondaga and Cayuga. Oswego will never consent to 
stop as long as you permit her to kill ducks in j-oitr 
count:es in the spring. She's a great county for ducks, 
and the black duck is her favorite, but she would get 
mighty few of them on her own side of that fence. What 
a splendid duck preserve those five counties would make. 
Almost as good as Jeft'erson. If the other counties want 
to come in let them, but if I had my way about it I 
wouldn't let Oswego in if she wanted to. Just thinl-c of it, 
boys, every year since 1894 we have had a bill at Albany 
to stop spring sliooting, and every year Oswego has bluffed 
us to a standstill with this same old gag. "We won't stop 
unless Long Island does." Let Long Island shoot; we 
can't stop her. But we can atke Oswego by the neck and 
expel her, and stop it in the rest of the State, and if you 
want Jefferson to help you to do it next winter, and if you 
more than willing. 
And now before I close this article, which is probably 
tlie last I shall be permitted to inflict upon you, I wish to 
express our sincere thanks, ist, to Forest and Stream 
for their kind and courteous treatment, and for their 
earnest fight in our cause, for which we hoped so much 
and secured so little; 2d. our new Commissioner, Mr, 
De Witt C. Middleton, who has given all our bills his 
earnest support. I have known Mr. Middleton for over 
twenty years, and if honesty, good executive ability and a 
determination to enforce the game laws are what you 
want, you have got it in your new Commissioner. 3d, 
Senator Brown and Assemblymen Bryan and Roberts for 
their earnest and persistent fight for the State, as well as 
the county bill. (By the way, have you noticed that since 
Senator Brown has been chairman of the Senate Fish 
and Game Committee, no bad bills have ever come 
out of that committee?) 4th, Governor Robert B. Odell, 
who signed the bill that started the fence we are going to 
put up around Oswego county. 
W. H. Tallett, _ 
President Jefferson County Sportsmen's Association. 
Michigan Q«ail* 
Alma, Mich. — Editor Forest and Stream: March has 
been hard-on our little friend Bob White. Sunday, 
March 10, ushered in a long storm of high winds, rain 
and sleet that fro7.e as it fell, so that by Monday morning 
forest trees as well as the grasses and weeds of the field 
were ice coated. It moderated by the 13th, so weed seeds 
were available then ; then we had a heavy snow storm — 
the severest of the season. The i6th and 17th were sweet 
and mild as one could desire, then another storm of wind 
and snow set in, until Wednesday night, when everythin.g 
was again in crystal mail, which held till the 21st idt. I 
have heard of no dead quail being found since the storms, 
and as there were many left over for seed, should think 
the prospects were good for next autumn. Alma. 
New Brunswick Moose* 
Perth Centre, N. B., April 6.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: I just returned from the hunting grounds of 
tlie headwaters of the Tobique and Miramichi rivers, 
wliere I have been looking after my camps. I found 
game very plentiful, especially moose and caribou. The 
moose are looking fine, as they have had a good winter. 
The snow is not very deep this year — about half as much 
as last year — so the moose and deer have had no trouble 
to get all the feed they wanted. 
This spring is much earlier than last spring here. 
Geo. E. Aiai strong. 
Moncmoy Efant Cluh* 
Boston, April 5— The "Boys' Party" of the Monomoy 
Brant Club held its annual d nner at the Boston Tavern 
on Saturday evening. Thirteen sat down to table, and 
though the number is considered unlucky, the "Boys"" 
are ready to pin their faith on excellent luck in "the 
boxes" next week. There were present James Wright, 
Edward Cray. William Colbnrn, Benjamin Dorr, Joseph 
Dorr, Edward Bigelovv', George Hopkins, H. R. Burbick 
P, §Rd George H n The plan of the party }.| 
Narrows Island Qub Meeting:* 
The annual meeting of the Narrows Island Club was. 
held Monday, April 8, at the Hoffman House, New York 
city, at 8:30 P. M. There were present Messrs. F. B. 
Austin, W. J, Boardman, B, Dominick, Chas. Greer, G. 
B, Grinnell, E. N. Lawrence, J, B, Lawrence, Dr, F. H. 
Markoe, C, R. Purdy, R. H. Robertson, Henry Sampson, 
Norman Schulfz, Wm. Trotter and T. S. Young, Jr. 
The following officers were elected for the ensuing 
year: President, J. B. Lawrence; Vice-President, Henry 
Sampson; Secretary and Treasurer, Wm. Trotter; Execu- 
tive Committee, R. PI, Robertson, T, S, Young, Jr., G. 
B, Grinnell and the officers. 
Proprietors of fishing resorts will find it profitable to advertise 
them in Forest and Stream, 
Notice. 
All communications intended for Forest and Stream should 
always be addressed to the Forest and Stream Publishing Co., and 
not to any individual connected with the paper. 
ANGLING NOTES. 
The Aflalo Pad. 
Any ohe who has the pleasure of knowing Mr. Fred- 
erick G. Aflalo would probably gitess that any pad with 
which his name was associated' would be either a writing 
pad or a fishing pad, for he is one of the best known 
of English angling writers, and he who guessed the last 
would guess right the very first time. Mr. Aflalo has 
sent me one of the pads from London, and it is designed 
to hold a fish with spines, like a black bass or a fish 
covered with slime, like an eel, while it is taken from 
the hook. One who has tried to hold an eel in one hand 
while trying to remove the hook with the other will 
appreciate the Aflalo pad. In shape the pad is very 
like the palm side of a mitten, solid from wrist to tips of 
finger, with a projecting thumb piece. This is of canvas- 
like material and to this is attached What I tnight call a 
wire brush that is very flexible, the ends of the wires 
being so close together that they hold rather than pierce. 
On the pad are tw'O loops, one for the hand and one for 
the thumb, and the hand and thumb slip into them 
easily. The pad is made for ttse on the left hand, and 
once it is wrapped around an eel with a man's hand in 
the loops, the eel will stay put until its captor desires to 
release it. It strikes me that the Aflalo pad is a most 
convenient invention, and its use will obviate lacerated 
fingers and strong language when an angler is fishing for 
the kinds of fish that it is designed to be used upon. 
Supplement to "BibUotheca Piscatotia.** 
The first edition of "Bibliotheca Piscatoria" was printed 
in 1861, and the second in '883. by Westwood & Satchell. 
The preface of the second edition states that "The Wal- 
tonian Library of Dr. Bethune, the able, erudite and sym- 
pathetic editor of the American edition of 'The Complete 
Angler', * * * contains about threee hundred entries, 
* * * The new 'Bibliotheca Piscatoria' included six 
hundred and fifty distinct works on the sport." 
In a postcrlpt, Messrs, Westwood & Satchell say: 
"There are 3,158 editions and reprints of 2,148 distinct 
\vorks here registered.** 
Mr, MarstDtl has tiow issued a sttpplement to the 
"Bibliotheca Piscatoria" of Westwood & Satchell, and I 
find that he gives 869 titles of what may properly be styled 
books upon angling, sixty-nine titles of books on fish- 
ctilture and 118 titlfes of books on fisheries, or a total of 
1,056 titles. Who can say in the face of this evidence 
that the interest in angling, fishculture and the fisheries 
is not advancing with mighty strides? I have had no 
time to analyze Mr, Marston's list, but a glance shows 
that there are just forty titles relating to Walton, or 
Walton and Calton. 
I will note here but otie omission, Marstott gives* 
■'Garlick (Theodotus, M, D.). A treatise on the Artificial 
Propagation of Fish. 2d ed. 8 vo. New York; A. O. 
Moore, '58; 
["Bibliotheca Piscatoria'' does not mention this, but 
gives the third edition, which it refers to as the second.] 
_ Just before the death of Dr. Garlick (who spelled his 
first name Theodotus) he sent me six copies of the first 
edition of his book, which bears the imprint: "Cleveland: 
Tho. Brown, publisher. Ohio Farmer Office, 1857." 
What I have hitherto called the second edition was 
presented to me by Dr. Elisha Sterling, a classmate of 
Garlick's, and the only American to witness the experi- 
ments of Remey in Paris, when under Prof, Coste he 
hatched trout artificially. This edition declares on the 
title page: "Second Edition (enlarged), published by the 
Kirtland Society of Natural Sciences. Cleveland, Ohio. 
J: B. Savage, printer, Frankfort street, 1880." 
Dr. Sterling wrote on the title page, "This, second 
edition, has been published by the Kirtland Society at 
the expense of R. K. Winslow, its president." 
Dr. Garlick, "the father of fishculture in America," 
read a paper before the Cleveland Academy of Natural 
Sciences on Feb. 17, 1854. in which he described how he 
artificially hatched the first trout in this country. The 
Cleveland Academy subsequently changed its name to 
the Kirtland Society, as Prof. Jared Potter Kirtland was 
its founder, and to him Dr. Garlich dedicated what I 
have called the second edition of Garlick's book, the same 
that Westwood & Satchell called the secgnd, and which 
Marston proves to be the third. 
Only last week I mcj g paper before the Buffalo So 
ciety of _ Natural Sciences on the "Development of Fish- 
culture," in which I tried to correct some errors and in- 
cidentally show that Garlick was really the first to hatch 
trout artificially in this country in spite of the claim of 
another, and now I shall ask Brother Marston to in- 
clude Garlick's first edition, it being the first publication on 
the subject in America, Marston's list can be obtained in 
this country at the office of the Publishers' Weekly, 59 
Duane street, New York city, the cost being nominal. The 
editor's note in the list concludes: "I shall be greatly 
obliged to collectors of angling books and others who will 
send me a note of any corrections in or omissions from 
this list which they may notice. They should be addressed 
to R, B, Marston, Editor Fishing Gazette, St. Dunstan's 
House, Fetter lane, London," Mr. Marston credits the 
Hon, D, B. Fearing, of Newport, R. I,, with many of the 
entries m his list, and Mr. Fearing is said to have one 
of the most complete angling libraries in the world. 
Fishes of Porto Rico. 
Dr. Barton W. Evermann's report on the investigations 
m Porto Rico of the United States Fish Commission 
steamer Fish Hawk in 1899 is a sumptuous volume, con- 
taining, as it does, plates of forty-nine fishes in colors. 
The fishes are drawn in colors by C, B. Hudson and A. 
H. Baldwin, and are remarkable for accuracy in drawing 
and coloring. The reports of the Forest, Fish and Game 
Commission of New York have never contained more than 
sixteen colored plates in one year, but here are forty-nine, 
every one striking in coloration. The New York reports 
have been almost universally commended at home and 
abroad, I say almost, for I have seen one adverse 
criticism, and while it is not now before me, the chief 
objection seemed to be that a report should not be issued 
that a taxpayer could not obtain, and some taxpayers 
could not obta'n the New York report. As there are 
seven thousand New York reports printed by law, and as 
there are more than seven thousand taxpayers in the 
State, and as public libraries and school libraries and 
fishery commissions at home and abroad are supplied with 
copies, it is quite certain that some taxpayers have to go 
without a report. If reports of other State commissions 
would serve, I th:nk all taxpayers could be supplied, for 
I think I saw five cords of the reports of one commission 
carted off to the paper mills. The true solution- of the 
matter is to prepare a report that no one, taxpayers or 
otherwise, will accept, and there will be no trouble. Now 
I am curious to know how the United States Fish Com- 
mission will come outjn supplying all the taxpayers with 
copies of the Porto Rico report. A, N. Cheney, 
District of Columbia. 
The Game and Fish Protective Association of the Dis- 
trict of Columbia held its adjourned annual meeting on 
April 3 in the parlors of the Ebbitt House. Dr. Walter S. 
Harban presiding, A scheme of reorganisation was 
adopted broadening the proposed field of operations and 
adding to the officials and committees. The following 
officers were elected for the ensuing year: 
. Presideiit, Admiral Roblev D, Evans; Vice-President 
District of Columbia, Dr. Walter S. Harban; Vice-Presi- 
dent Maryland, George Dobbin Penniman; Vice-Presi- 
dent Virginia, Capt. Joseph E. Willard; Vice-Pfesidettt 
West A'^irginia, John J, Cornwell; Secretary-Treasuref , 
Dr, W. P. Young; Warden, Major Richard Sylvester; 
Chairman of Executive Committee, Harrison Dingman, 
Chairmen of Committees — Membership, John Breen; 
Press, H. L, West; Ways and Means, George W. Rouzer; 
Auditing, Rudolph Kauffmann; State Laws, I. W. Sharp; 
Fish Stocking, Frank B. Curtis ; Fish Places, Jesse Mid- 
dleton ; Game. Stocking and Hunting Grounds, Dr. George 
Henderson; Library and Literature, Dr. Thomas S. Pal- 
mer; Entertainment, E, H. Neumeyer; Pollution, Henfy 
Talhott; Foreign Relations, Charles A. Neale; Head- 
quarters, J. Robert Sutton; Transportation/ W. S. Bron- 
son. 
In line with the new purpose of the Association, the 
followittg resolution was offered by Major Sylvester, and 
adopted: 
"Whereas the neighboring States of Maryland, Virginia 
and \Vest Virginia, with attractive resorts that are a 
perennial delight to nature-loving citizens with camera, 
rod and gun, and from whose wooded slopes and pretty 
valleys come the streams which fiirnish the District with 
its water supply, have an interest commotl with oUr own 
in their preservation ; and 
"Whereas the health and pleasure resorts, hotels, board- 
irig houses, boatmen, liverymen, merchants, railroads and 
various other interests derive a large financial support 
from the tourist sportsmen and temporary sojourners 
from the cities, all of whom are interested in clear and 
pure water; and 
"Whereas the streams in these States are being rapidly 
despoiled of their beauty and their fish and rendered ilil- 
fit for human use by their abuse as sewers for corpora- 
tions and sluices for factories; therefore, be it 
"Resolved, That this Association invite every interested 
organization and individual in these States, ofhcials, legis- 
lators, municipalities, protective associations, scientific 
and educational institutions, the press and citizens, to co- 
operate with us to save the streams which j'et remain un- 
contam'nated and in redeeming those alread}' polluted." 
Hon. John J, Cornwell, of Romney, W, Va., editor of 
the Hampshire Review, and Vice-President of the Asso- 
ciation for West Virginia, addressed the Association on^ 
the subject of the impending ruin of the South Branch of 
the Potomac, and a further threat to the already polluted 
water supply of Washington by the proposed establishment 
ai new tanneries on the only pure stream left in West 
Virginia. 
Mr. Wm. Cornwell, County Attorney from the same 
locality, spoke briefly of the legal aspects of the case, an- 
nouncing that the laws of West Virginia were ample to 
prevent such outrages if they could be enforced. 
On motion of Major Sylvester, the Chairman of=-the 
Committee on Pollution was directed by the Association 
10 confer with the presidents of the Board of Trade and 
Business Men's Association of the city of Washington, 
looking to a more general organization in defense af the 
city's water supply and incidentally the famotts anxl levftd 
fishing plficeg in the Uj)j)e[ ^iyftr 
