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of the experiment must have in determining the out- 
come of artificial propagation in regions in which it is 
not possible to distinguish, with satisfactory accuracy, 
the natural from the artificial conditions. If these 
far-reaching results attend the planting on a few occa- 
sions of small numbers of fry in waters to which the 
fish are not indigenous, is it not permissible to assume 
that more striking consequences must follow the plant- 
ing of enormous quantities of fry year after year in 
native waters. There is no reasonable doubt that the 
perpetuation of the extensive shad fisheries in most of 
the rivers of the Atlantic coast has been accomphshed 
entirely by artificial propagation. On no other sup- 
position can the maintenance and increase of the sup- 
ply be accounted for." 
It appears to the writer that these facts from Cali- 
fornia are a sufficient answer to Old Angler and the 
"certain scientific gentlemen in England who deny that 
salmon culture, by means of hatching houses, has 
been a success anywhere, so far as stocking rivers with 
fish or increasing the catch is concerned." and will 
enable Mr. R. B. Marston, of the London Fishing 
Gazette, to combat the statements of "these gentlemen 
who have looked for fish and found only oodles of 
ova and figures of fry." If they do not, then let them 
read the reports of the United States and the Cali- 
fornia Commission, or consult- Dr. Hugh M. Smith, 
Mr. Livingston Stone, Mr. A. W. Wilcox, Mr. A. B. 
Alexander, or Mr. Cloud Rutter, all of the United 
States Fish Commission; Mr. A. T. Vogelsang, late 
of the California Commission, or Mr. A. C. Little, ex- 
fish commissioner of the State of Washington. The 
above-mentioned gentlemen are well-known experts, 
vyho have" made themselves familiar with the results 
of salmon culture on the Pacific coast. 
As to the results of salmon propagation on the At- 
lantic coast, the writer is not qualified to write. Let 
the Eastern experts answer for that part of America. 
Successful propagation does not consist in filling the 
hatcheries with "oodles of eggs" and the planting of 
"figures of fry" at the alevin stage. The eggs must be 
carefully handled, and the fry liberated must be strong 
healthy' fish of sufficient age and strength to give prom- 
ise of success. Where this has been done in the hatch- 
eries on the Pacific coast, with the ova of any of our 
Pacific salmon, success has been attained. 
John Pease Babcock, 
Fisheries Commissioner. 
VicTOR'>, B. C, March 4. 
The Massachusetts Assocration 
Dinner. 
It was a goodly company which gathered on Monday 
night of this week in the banquet hall of the New Algon- 
quin Club, Boston, for the twenty-ninth annual dinner 
of the Massachusetts Fish and Game Protective Associa- 
tion. President James Russell Reed presided, and the mem - 
bcrs present were: Messrs. Wm. Almy, Butler Ames, L. 
G. Blair, T. G. Brewer, A. W. Burke, C. R. Byram, Jr., 
W. O. Blake, Dr. Heber Bishop, Paul Butler, E. H. 
Clement, Dr. Wm. M. Conant, Gilmer Clapp, Mr. Cory, 
George Clark, Harry Dutton, W. L. Davis, W. W. Davis, 
S. W. Davis, H. S. Dodd, H. W. Dodd, O. R. Dickey, 
C. W. Dimick, Robert F. Ford, Chas. F. Ford, J. Fulton, 
C. K. Fox, Dana J. Flanders, L. N. Godfrey, R. S. Gray, 
M. D. W. Green, T. N. Genoud, I. L. Halman, T. H. 
Hall, C. W. Hutchings, Mr. Hastings, John Hopewell, W. 
S. Hinmann, Bernard Hyneman, C. D. Holmes, H. FI. 
Flartung. M.D. ; Col. Haseltinc, T. H. Johnson, Secreary 
H. H. Kimball, C. D. Lewis, T. F. Mullen, Her. Merriam, 
E. L. Osgood, Mr. Rich, C. W. Parker, H. M. Pinkham, 
W. Pitcher, M. H. Richardson, Com. Roberts, B. W. 
Rockwood, George J. Raymond, W. G. Rose, Mr. Rob- 
bins. G. O. Sears, S. W. Smith, A. C. Sylvester, W. H. 
Sweatt, S. Sterne, A. D. Thayer, H. W. Tufts, J. H. 
White, A. R. Whittier, Mr. Whiton, Mr. Whidden, J. H. 
Young, J. C. Young, C. York. 
The guests were Prof. Richard Richard L. Garner, the 
famous investigator of simian speech; Prof. Plugo Muns- 
terberg, of the Harvard University psychological labora- 
tory; Rev. Julian C. Jaynes, of Newton; Hon. Wm. H. 
Phi'nney, of Lynn, secretary of the Legislative Committee 
on Fish and Game and chairman of the Central Commit- 
tee of the associated Massachusetts fish and game pro- 
tective clubs; Commissioners Collins and Delano, and C. 
B. Reynolds. 
t, 
It was a social occasion, yet one pervaded through 
and through with enthusiasm for the special work to 
which the Association is committed. President Reed 
congratulated the members upon the very substantial 
achievements of the year and the bright promise for 
the future. The Association, he said, is accomplish- 
ing its purpose; it is a live force in the community, and 
in its undertakings it enjoys the hearty cooperation 
and valued support of three agencies — the press, which 
is heartily with it, the Commissioners of Fisheries and 
Game, who are energetic, active, capable and efficient; 
and the associated clubs representing diiferent locali- 
ties throughout Massachusetts, which have united their 
influence and activities to achieve the common end. 
The law prohibiting the sale of woodcock and grouse, 
he declared, was the best law ever adopted for the 
protection of Massachusetts game. 
Responding for the legislative committee, Hon. Wm. 
H. Phinney expressed his confidence that the impor- 
tant measures now before the Legislature would be 
disposed of, each in a way to promote fish and game 
interests. There is every reason to believe that the 
amendment making permanent the anti-sale law, which 
otherwise would expire by limitation in July, will be 
adopted, for the sentiment throughout the Common- 
wealth is overwhelmingly in its support. The law to 
reduce the penalty for killing a deer frorn $roo to $25, 
and the measure providing for a reorganization of the 
fish commission, will, it is believed, not receive the 
sanction of the Legislature. 
Rev. Mr. Jaynes gave an eloquent appreciation of 
the outdoor recreations of rod and gun as upbuilding 
work." said he, "when cares and troubles cottie in 
FOREST. AND STREAM. 
work," said he, "When cares and troubles come in 
and sleep is banished from my eyelids, I have no use 
for sedative drugs, but recalling some woodland stream 
known of old, I wander once again along its banks, 
casting my flies upon its waiting pools, here entering 
the shade of the dense forest and again emerging 
into sunlit openings, where pleasing landscapes lie 
spread out before the eye, and so in retrospect con- 
jured up from the days of the past, with the sound of 
the placid waters in my ears, and the odor of balsam 
greeting my nostrils, I fall into pleasant dreams. 
"I felicitate you elders, that by your experiences in 
the woods and on the streams you have provided for 
yourselves such rich stores of memory, and you 
younger ones that, by your excursions afield, you are 
preparing for yourselves solace for the years that are 
to come." 
Mr. Jaynes received much sympathy in his confession 
of a long standing wrong he had committed against 
one of the members of the Association. "Some years 
ago," said he, "as we were grouped about the camp 
fire in the north, and the stories went round, as they 
do go around camp fires, I related in a modest and 
diffident way certain of my own achievements in fishing, 
when one of the company approached me and with 
a sob in his voice, gave into my hands a small leather 
case. 'Take it,' said he, T have carried it long, but it 
is yours.' I opened the case and looked in. It con- 
tained a gold medal inscribed Ananias II. You may 
remember that at the Association dinner four years 
ago I related this incident and exhibited to you the 
medal. I have now to confess that in having retained 
this badge of distinction during all these years, I have 
committed a grievous wrong to a member of your 
Association; for at the dinner to which I have referred 
this member said to me, commenting upon my owner- 
ship of the token of superiority, T never have to 
stretch the truth when I am telling about what I have 
done in the field, for my game bag is always heavy 
when I come home and my creel is always full. The 
simple statement of the actual fact, backed by such 
substantial testimony is enough for me.' When he 
said that, I recognized on the instant that the medal 
should be his; but I was proud of that medal, and I 
retained it, and took it home and put it up where my 
eye might often fall upon it and I might gain inspira- 
tion from it. But all through these years I have had 
the accusing consciousness that it belonged not to me, 
but to him. Here, then, to-night, publicly, in your 
presence, I make restitution by giving it over to the 
one to whom it rightfully belongs and who alone should 
wear it — President Reed. Now my conscience is 
clear." And while the company applauded Mr. Reed 
accepted the gift with a countenance upon which mod- 
esty and a grateful consciousness of deserved recogni- 
tion of merit contended for the mastery. 
The presence of Professor Garner had special ap- 
propriateness, because, as he related, it was due to the 
financial support of some of the members of the Asso- 
ciation that he had been enabled to prosecute his studies 
in Africa. It is rarely that a company of sportsmen 
have the privilege of listening to such an intensely 
interesting account of hunting and nature study as that 
which he gave, as he reviewed in outline his recent 
experiences in studying simian speech and intelli- 
gence. "As a hunter rather than a sportsman," said 
he, "I have traversed the game regions of three conti- 
nents. In my last experience in Africa, where I was 
duly installed as the white king of a village of natives, 
it was a part of my kingly duties to provide my sub- 
jects with meat; and this I did by hunting the buffalo. 
The African buffalo is a creature very different from 
the American bison. Jt is exceedingly savage, charg- 
ing its pursuer with great fury and ferocity, and de- 
manding efficient arms and a steady nerve in the en- 
counter. The hunting grounds are a combination of 
jungle so dense in parts that nothing but a snake or 
a rodent can penetrate it, and there are vast expanses 
of plain consisting of grass as high as one's head, in- 
terspersed with numerous sloughs, in which the water 
reaches from the waist to the shoulders, and progress 
through which sets free noxious and deadly gases. 
The hunting grounds are infested with pythons, which 
prey upon the buffalo, and after one of my hunting 
men had been swallowed by a python it gave me a 
creepy feeling to go over the ground alone, as I was 
often obliged to do." 
Professor Garner's work on this expedition consisted 
in part of experiments to determine whether apes pos- 
sess a comprehension of dimension, shape and color. 
Among the tests made were some with a series of 
boards, in which were cut holes square, round and tri- 
angular, with blocks to fit into the holes. With a 
number of the chimpanzees experimented upon, it was 
found that after a little practice, being encouraged by 
rewards of tid-bits to eat, they would fit the square 
block into the square hole, the round block into the 
round hole, and with greater difficulty could distin- 
guish between the square and the triangular blocks. 
Further test was made by painting upon the square 
block a round black disk, and upon the circular block 
a square black disk. This produced at first consider- 
able confusion and difficulty, but in the end some of 
the chimpanzees became expert in fitting each block 
into its right hole, irrespective of the shape of the 
disks painted upon it. Other experiments consisted 
in providing holes of different dimensions with corre- 
sponding blocks, and in the placing of these the sub- 
jects displayed a certain degree of proficiency. 
The subject of animal psychology was further pur- 
sued by Professor Munsterberg, who described some 
of the experiments in this field which are being con- 
ducted in the Cambridge Laboratory of Animal Psy- 
chology. Many of the movements of the lower forms 
of animal life, which are popularly credited to con- 
sciousness on the part of the subject, laboratory study 
appears to demonstrate may be explained as due only 
to reflex action with no more consciousness involved 
than is present in a beheaded frog, which, when an 
irritant is applied to its skin, will respond with 
mo-veraents to free itself from the irritation. 
The profpssor exhibited S ho^ tortojse, which had 
[March 21, 1903. 
been made to seek its food by passing through a laby- 
rinth; and, whereas, when first put to the task, it re- 
quired an hour and a half to find its way, it could 
now pass through the labyrinth in a few minutes. 
The progress of the dinner and the speaking was punc- 
tuated and enlivened with song, an excellent quartette 
being in attendance; and Mr. T. H. Hall, familiarly 
known to the members as "dear old Tom Hall," rendered 
several songs with great effect, among them these: 
In the Good Old Summer Tfme, 
(A la Clearwater Club.) 
In the good old summer time. 
In tlie good old summer time, 
We journeyed to the State of Maine 
With our rod and line, 
To catch the salmon and frisky trout 
In a manner that was quite sublime; 
But our blessed breath was all we caught. 
In the good old summer time. 
A ChoTLS, 
Chorus : 
Good-by, trolley, we must leave you, 
Soon our joyous cry will be; 
"Subs and L" will not be needed 
In the woods or by the sea. 
First time : 
Soon will nature have her opening, 
■Read her "ads" 'neath azure sky; 
Then you'll learn of priceless bargains 
Money cannot buy. 
Second time : 
Winter's back will soon be broken. 
Spring gates will be ajar; 
Forth we'll ^o with voices ringing, 
Good-by, trolley car. 
Another. 
Chorus : 
Just one bite, only just one bite, 
All day fishing and only have just one bite; 
But, alas! 'tis as sure as fate. 
Fish won't rise to a man who has brought no bait. 
The Care of Fishing Rods. 
After having used a fishing rod enough so that it be- 
comes a favorite it is apt to increase in value much be- 
yond its original cost to the owner. Below are a few 
suggestions which, if followed, will add years to the life 
of a rod. 
In jointing put the tip in middle joint first, then push it 
from you, unite the middle joint with butt. In threading 
line through rings be careful and not rest the butt of rod 
where it is liable to be stepped upon by a companion. If 
during a day's fishing your rod should take a set give the 
line a pull in opposite direction, enough to take set out. 
When you stop fishing for the noonday lunch, or for any 
other reasoia, do not rest your rod where the sun strikes 
it, particularly if it be a split bamboo, as the heat is liable 
to start the glue. When the day's fishing is over, after 
removing hook or cast, be sure that you do not leave a 
knot in line, as it sometimes happens in reeling up a knot 
will catch in top and cause the breaking of a tip. After 
unjointing, dry rod with a soft cloth. Before putting 
in case glance over each piece and remove set by bending 
in opposite direction. If ferrules stick apply a little oil 
or tallow (tallow is the best) to the male ferrule, which 
will make ferrules work smoothly together and prevent 
sticking. 
At the end of the season look your rods over carefully 
and have necessary repairs made on same. Rods that 
receive considerable use should have a coat of good 
varnish each season. The tips of bait-casting rods receive 
very hard use, and if from the wetting they receive by 
reeling line through guides it is found they need it, apply 
a coat of varnish during season. Put your rods away for 
the winter in a cool place, otherwise you will find in the 
spring the artificial heat has caused wood to shrink 
more or less and ferrules and reel seat will have to be 
reset. If you do not use a wood form for your rod, be 
careful and not tie rod bag so tight that joints will be 
kept bent. If your rod be a steel one be sure that it is 
well dried before putting away, particularly around fer- 
rules. Steel rods are made to stand lots of hard use, but 
a little rust around ferrules may play havoc with them. 
The above suggestions ma}^ seem quite unnecessary to 
old anglers, but will possibly be some assistance to young 
ones. Chas. C. Elliott. 
Elgin, 111., Jan 25. 
Fly-Casting at New Yotk. 
In the report of the fly-casting at the Sportsmen's Show 
in our last issue, reference was intended to be made to the 
absence of Mr. T. B. Mills, but the name of William 
Mills was inadvertently given. 
In the single-hand bait-casting contest of March 7, Mr. 
C. J. Tormey, of San Francisco, won with no feet. Mr. 
I.,cvison did not cast. He was a judge of the event. 
Cortland, N. Y., March 12. — Editor Forest and 
Stream: I beg to call your attention to error in your 
report of Anglers' Tournament in yoin- March 14 issue, 
as to Class V., Thursday evening, March 5. My record 
was eighty-six feet six inches. _ R. C. Leonard and L. S. 
Darling, officials, the latter with Abercrombie & Filch, 
314 Broadway, New York City, will substantiate this 
pssertion. I only used about two minutes of my allotted 
five. 
I had reported the correct score, and have been sub- 
jected to adverse criticism and some humiliation owing 
to your report, which is considered official by the general 
public. 
We had good sport among ourselves, and personally I 
was not out for records of any kind, only used my regular 
fishing equipments. W. D. Cloves. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
I have been in formed that there were some errors in the 
scores of the fly-casting contests at the Sportsmen's Show 
whiph I reported for yau, I regret this very much, as I 
