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Inais, M.P.P., Brandon, spoke of the feeling with 
which he had come in contact in that city. The local 
gun club was also organized for game protection, and 
every member was bound to do all in his power tor 
this object. The doctor strongly advocated that the 
system be adopted throughout the province. He 
Pointed out that unless the hearty suppor. and co- 
operation of the farmers was secured the association 
would have difficulty in carrying out the work. There 
was not the slightest doubt that if a campaign of edu- 
cation were instituted the farmers could be_ brought 
to see that game protection was more to their benefit 
than to the resident of the city, and he suggested that 
an organizer be secured to start branch associations 
in the different districts. It was finally decided that 
in the officers of the central organization one vice- 
president should be chosen from Winnipeg, and where- 
ever a branch of the association was formed irt the 
province, the president of that branch would be an 
ex-officio vice-president of the central organization. 
The officers, as elected, were as follows: Patrons, 
Lieutenant-Governor Sir Daniel McMillan and William 
Whyte; President, Dr. Mclnnis. M.P.P., Brandon; 
Vice-President. Sheriff Inkster; Secretary-Treasurer, J. 
P. Turner; Executives, A. B. Code, Geo. Bryan; Dr; 
Gordon Bell, Isaac Pitblado, Eric Hamber and G. W. 
Britton. 
At the close of the election of officers a general dis- 
cussion was in order. Mr. Turner read a number of 
letters which he had received from various sources on 
the organization of the association. The presidents 
of the Game Protective Associations of Ontario, Que- 
bec and the Kootenays, sent their congratulations to 
Manitobans for the step they were contemplating, and 
inclosed considerable useful literature on the constitu- 
tions and work of these organizations. A number of 
the members of the local house, including the premier, 
Mr. Roblin, sent their heartiest commendations of the 
move and promised their support of any suggestions 
toward the protection of the game. The reeves and 
clerks of a number of rural munici^ialities also sent 
their assurances of support and several of the councils 
sent copies of motions which had been adopted, in 
which the circular issued by ihe organizers of the as- 
sociation was commended. Mr. Turner_ then read a 
most interesting paper on game protection, in which 
he explained that the object of the association is to 
conserve the game of the province for all classes of 
people. It is not to provide protection for the city 
sportsman, nor keep it away from the farmer, but to 
formulate a plan whereby the rich man and poor man, 
farmer and city sportsman, settler and townsman may 
each get his share of the game and at the same time 
protect the game in such a way that the whole of it 
will not be killed of¥ in the course of a few years, as 
is threatened at the present time. 
The Adirondack Park. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
An act to amend the forest, fish and game law in re- 
lation to the boundaries of the Adirondack Park, in- 
troduced sometime ago by Assemblyman Steele, of 
Herkimer county, deserves more attention than it has 
received. The Adirondack Park boundaries inclose 
an area within which the State can condemn and pur- 
chase land for the purpose of making the Adirondack 
Park. This park is supposed to embrace the head- 
waters of the streams in the Adirondack region, but 
as the law now stands, it fails to cover the headwaters 
of the large and important East Canada Creek, on 
which many industries depend for motive power. Most 
important of all, however, is the fact that on one of the 
tributaries of the East Canada, Spruce Creek, Little 
Falls, a city of 11,000 inhabitants, depends for two 
months for its water supply each year. The primary 
object of the Adirondack Park was to conserve the 
v.'ater, and why the headwaters of the East Canada were 
not originally included in the park is past finding out. 
One reason may be guessed at, however. A steady 
effort for permission to exchange State lands outside 
the park boundaries for lands within has been made 
on the part of those in authority. Lands within the 
forest reserve are not to be sold or exchanged, ac- 
cording to law, but if the forest reserve, could be re- 
duced in size to the boundaries of the Adirondack Park, 
State lands outside of the park line would become 
graftable. Cheap second growth in the mountain 
country could then be exchanged for good woodlands 
outside the line. It appears to be the_ policy of those 
in control to keep as much land outside of the park 
line to pick from as possible. 
The forest reserve and the Adirondack Park are two 
propositions, having laws applying, to each that dp 
not apply to the other. The reserve is a wide terri- 
tory, bounded, roughly, on the south by the Mohawk 
River, on the west by the R. W. & O. railroad, on the 
north by the railroads, and on the east by Lake Cham- 
plain. From within this territory flow the Hudson, 
Mohawk, St. Regis, Black, Indian, Oswegatchie and 
other important northeastern streams of the State. 
Within this area is the Adirondack Park nucleus, which 
includes a large part of the actual forest lands, and 
which ought to be all owned by the State, otherwise 
the forest will be in constant jeopardy on account of 
the money-making possibilities offered by the forest. 
It ought to be greatly extended at several sides. 
Gradually the State was acquiring this land within 
the park, but recent administrations have had no 
thought of preserving anything but their own op- 
portunities. In consequence of this, countless thous- 
ands of acres which the State could have easilly pur- 
chased in the past four years, are slipping from the 
market, and the State can get much of this land now 
only through the exercise of the right of eminent 
■domain. And yet this land is absolutely necessary for 
the control of the water supply, and must sooner or 
later be acquired. 
The park boundaries ought to be extended down the 
East Canada Creek, for instance, and then all the land 
within taken by the State as rapidly as possible. Only 
those who have watched the countless cords of pulp 
plunging down stream, followed by the countless thous- 
ands'^of hemlock logs, and all interspersed with balsam, 
realize how near and how deadly the danger to the 
Adirondacks as an adequate watershed is. 
One of the hardest fights Little Falls ever had Mvas 
only this winter to prevent the passage of a law which 
would permit the floating of logs through its very 
water reservoir. When pulp and lumber companies 
are willing to jeopardize the health of a city, what 
can be expected if they have a chance at the wood 
depths themselves? 
The Adirondack question is one of the most serious 
that confronts the State these days. Every city around 
the region must look to it for water — Utica has gone 
25 miles to the West Canada, and others must soon 
go in the direction of the mountains. Why Steele's 
little bill, to which no one in particular objects, was 
forgotten is not known, but it's a step in the right 
direction. Raymond S. Spears. 
Little Falls, N. Y, 
In Massachusetts, 
Boston, Mass., Aprik 15. — Editor Forest anl Stream: 
At a meeting of the Massachusetts Fish and Game Pro- 
tective Association, held at the office of the Associa- 
tion to-day, 108 new names were added to the list of 
annual members, and three to the roll of life members. 
Ten life members and 100 annual members were elected 
at the February meeting. Only a small proportion of 
this increase in membership has resulted from personal 
solicitation. The importance of the work the Associa- 
tion has been doing of late in caring for the birds in 
our covers and its efforts to restock thern have 
awakened a wide-spread interest in the community, and 
appeals for aid from those interested in this and other 
lines of work incumbent upon this organization have 
met with a gratifying response. 
While this special bird work has been going on, 
matters of legislation have not been neglected. _ As 
soon as it was known that the fish and game committee 
had reported in favor of making the open season for 
quail shooting the months of November and December, 
instead of October and November, as now, protests 
began to pour in from sportsmen's clubs and from in- 
dividuals in nearly every county of the State, earnestly 
remonstrating against the change. One of the mem- 
bers of the State Association, who has been buying 
many quail to liberate in his section the past two years 
and providing food for all the coveys in his neighbor- 
hood, says the passage of the bill will be very destruc- 
tive to partridges, and will undo what we have gained 
for their increase since the enactment of the anti- 
sale law in 1900. It will also prevent him from con- 
tinuing the efforts he has made to increase the number 
of quail. Last December, he says, he and a friend 
put out twelve dozen imported quail, and by constant 
feeding he has been able to bring through at least 
eighty good strong birds, the shrinkage being largely 
due to foxes and hawks. If December were allowed 
the hunters, he would be obliged to put off his winter 
planting till January, which would be unfavorable to 
success. "We have found it necessary," he says, "to 
look up the birds in the first snows which occur in 
December." He says that last year he found and se- 
cured in special feeding boxes three coveys in Decem- 
ber, and they stayed at the feeding places they were 
started in all winter. In January the snow becomes so 
deep "the percentage of loss will be so great, we will 
hardly want to venture the outlay." 
James H. Bowditch, of the Massachusetts Forestry 
Association, writes: "As a sportsman and citizen of 
Massachusetts, interested in the protection of birds in 
general, I desire to protest strongly against the pro- 
posed change making December an open month for 
quail." The testimony of these two gentlemen will 
serve as an illustration of the general sentiment of 
those men in all walks of life who give any thought to 
questions of this nature. 
The report of the committee in favor of this bill was 
a great surprise, as was the indorsement of the bill to 
allow the sale of imported lobsters nine inches in 
length during the winter months. An ex-senator who, 
several years ago, did all he could to secure a g-inch 
lobster law tells your correspondent that he does not 
think such a law can ever be enacted in Massachusetts 
— that is, a law to legalize the taking and sale of 
9-inch lobsters. 
Senator Kimball's substitute bill to legalize only 
those from 9 to 11 inches does not please the short- 
lobster men, and the impression prevails that final 
action will result in the defeat of all legislation 
and the retention of the present length limit of loyi 
inches. 
The absence of Senator Harding, detained at home by 
sickness, has prevented any action as yet. Our com- 
missioners have started a campaign for protection of 
song and insectivorous birds. A dealer in Boston mar- 
ket has had snow-buntings in his stall, which were 
shipped from Montreal, the sale of which is illegal 
and will be stopped. 
Dr. Field has sent a notice to the millinery dealers, 
calling attention to the State laws in reference to the 
wearing of the body or feathers of wild birds as articles 
of dress or ornament, whether taken in this common- 
wealth or elsewhere. Some dealers claim that their 
particular goods, especially aigrettes, are manufactured, 
ana therefore are not prohibited. While expressing a 
desire to secure results with as little hardship as 
possible to the public and requesting the cooperation 
of the dealers, the chairman declares that all legitimate 
means for enforcing the laws will be used and that 
"all persons having such birds and feathers, whether 
dealers or wearers, are liable to arrest." 
Ex- President J. R. Reed returned the first of the 
week with a good string of trout taken near his cot- 
tage in S. Sandwich, and started out yesterday for 
another trip to the same place. Mr. Luther Little, of 
Boston, had good luck last week on a club preserve 
in Wareham. 
The bill requiring unnaturalized foreigners to pay a 
license fee of $10 for the privilege of hunting received 
a favorable report of the committee, and has passed 
its several readings in both branches of the Legislature, 
has been engrossed and in all probability will go to 
the Governor, and, it is thought will receive hi» 
signature. 
This class of people have become a nuisance almost 
intolerable in the suburbs of all manufacturing centers, 
and it is devoutly hoped that this law will prove an 
effective restraint. Central.^ 
A National Society Proposed. 
- Indianapolis, Ind., April i^.-^Editor Forest and, 
Stream: I have read with considerable interest' the 
various articles by correspondents to your paper in re- 
gard to the protection of fish and game, and in some 
instances have seen a synopsis of the game and fish laws: 
of the State of the writers, and have also observed reme- 
dies suggested by such writers, but I realize that a law 
that would cover the subject and be a sufficient remedy- 
in one State would fail in another, so that laws would 
have to be enacted corresponding with the climate, the 
game and fish and their habits. 
For instance, the laws of this State prohibit the taking 
of game in the closed season, also the having of certain 
game iq one's possession; and the law also provides for 
the taking of fish at certain seasons and how it may be 
done, and prohibits it at other times, and gives the size 
and weight of fish that it shall be unlawful to take; it 
also provides that one shalh not have in his possession 
certain fish at certain seasons and of certain sizes taken 
from the lakes and streams of this State, but says noth- 
ing about fish shipped from other States, and I frequently 
see upon our market in this city a goodly supply of small 
bass, some of them not over five or six inches long, and 
bushels of small crappies not to exceed three inches^ in 
length, that are said to be shipped here from adjoining 
States. 
Now, in my judgment there should be, if not already, a 
national society to take charge of this matter and see that 
uniform laws are enacted in the various States prohibit- 
ing the sale or the having in one's possession any game 
in the closed season, and the same as to fish, whether 
the game is killed or captured or the fish caught in youn 
own State or not; 
I regret to expose my ignorance by admitting that I 
know of no national body which could take charge of this 
matter, but should there be one, I hope_ they will take 
hold of the same along these or other lines which will 
accomplish the desired results. And I hope your paper 
will take the subject up in a way that will attract the 
attention of a sufficient number of true sportsmen, that 
a conference may be held and that body may come to a 
common understanding, and formulate a uniform statute 
prior to the assembling two years hence of the various 
Legislatures and a sufficient organization get behind the 
same and secure its passage. J. W. B. 
Destfttction of Canadian Game. 
United States Consul Worman, writes from Three 
Rivers, Quebec: "Complaints are multiplying against 
the wholesale destruction of game and fish in the Domin- 
ion, regardless of legal restrictions. The people of the 
province of Quebec say that the law for the closed season 
is not observed, and that in all seasons partridges are 
shipped to the United States. - 
"A gentleman who spent some time recently in the 
northern portion of Argenteuil County inspecting timber, 
says that a few days ago he visited a wooded tract that 
he had gone over before and found teeming with game. 
On this last visit, however, he covered eight miles of the 
tract, but saw no living thing. The partridges have dis- 
appeared, having been killed by the thousands to meet 
the needs of the American market, while the deer have 
been stalked with dogs, battued in droves, and killed, 
skinned, and buried. The people who destroy this fine 
game do it simply for commercial purposes. The deer- 
skins are all that is wanted, the remainder being buried 
to prevent prosecution. The settlers are in sympathy 
with the law, but they dare not express themselves to 
that effect through fear of the consequences. 
"The superintendent of fish and game is doing all that 
he can under the system which now prevails. He is as- 
sisted, to a large extent, by the fish and game protection 
societies, but he lacks efficient support. The game ward- 
ens get only sums ranging from $25 to $50 a year, which 
is not sufficient salary to secure men who would save 
forests and streams from being devastated. 
"The fish in the lakes are also sadly in need of pro^ 
tection. In some districts where the lakes teemed with 
trout a few years ago the fish have disappeared almost 
entirely. Mills have been built on the borders of the 
lakes, and sawdust is dumped into them, so that the fish 
are driven away." 
A Prayet for the President. 
Springfield, 111., April 11.— Chaplain Bradford, of the 
Illinois House of Representatives, offered, at the opening 
of the Legislature's daily session on April 11, a prayer 
for the safety of President Roosevelt, on the latter's 
hunting trip through the Southwest and West. He drew 
a picture of the dangers into which the President was 
going, and prayed for his safe return. His prayer was, 
in part, as follows : 
"We invoke Thy choicest blessings upon our country 
at large. Bless the Chief Executive of this great nation 
personally and officially, and as he is soon to reach the 
'happy grounds' on which he has fixed his far-away gaze, 
and where the wild beasts abound, whether these mon- 
sters of the mountains flee from him in fear or fly at 
him in fury, may he find himself protected by the shield 
of the Almighty, so that upon his return^ to his home 
in peace and safety, like Thy servant David, of old, he 
can testify to the people that the Lord delivered him out! 
of the paw of the lion and out of the paw of the bear, and 
let all the people praise Thee. Amen and amen." 
The reference is to David's story of his encounter with 
the lion and the bear while he was tending his father's 
sheep. See I. Samuel, 17; and read the whole chapter. 
A farmer had a seeder for the sowing of his seed, • 
'Twas a seeder made of cedar, and, .said I, "Pray, is there need 
Of a seeder made of cedar?" Said the farmer, ' Yes, indeed, 
I have never seed a seeder, sir, that I'd concede the speed 
To exgeed a cedar seeder for the seeding of the seed." 
