May, 1922 
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perched on guard in some tall pines a 
hundred and fifty yards away, and others 
on a poplar at a still greater distance. I 
was surrounded by black, watchful eyes. 
How long this extraordinary exhibi- 
tion of bird hysteria would have kept on 
I cannot say. The call of the dinner- 
horn, which interrupts so many dramatic 
scenes, and which now summons me as 
I write, intervened. 
But neither dinner nor family duties 
appealed to owl-mad crows. They are 
too fond of a crowd and a row for that. 
They hung wistfully about the blind as, 
in full view of them all, I wrapped the 
ancient owl in a cloth and prepared to 
leave. An hour later, after I had with- 
drawn, a dozen of them swooped again 
over the blind, just “looking for trouble.” 
GAME FISH AND 
RESTOCKING 
{Continued from page 206) 
one element in the complex of modern 
development without causing reaction 
elsewhere, the shortage of trout creates 
additional demand for large- and small- 
mouth black bass, pickerel, perch, blue- 
gill, crappie and other so-called warm- 
water game and table fish. 
Trout anglers turn from disgusting or 
vanished streams to pursue the lake and 
pond fishes instead, and year by year an 
increasing number of fishermen, from an 
increasing population, are pouring forth, 
with the aid of the automobile and good 
roads, to seek, with the remarkable mod- 
ern efficiencies of tackle, the game fishes 
still surviving in a decreasing number 
of unpolluted waters. With the candle 
burning at both ends, how long will it 
last? Moreover, be it remembered that 
while these conditions have been increas- 
ing the reproductive capacities of our 
game fish have not gained one iota. 
P LANTING fish on insufficient infor- 
mation often wastes time and money 
and should cease. The mere fact that 
fish for stocking, and particularly bass 
and other warm-water species, are hard 
to get, has had the effect of concentrat- 
ing attention upon the solution of this 
difficulty to the neglect of a more com- 
prehensive study of the subject of re- 
stocking as a whole. It is my earnest 
belief that mere stocking is a small part 
of the problem. Surely a fish culture 
which extends only to the raising of fin- 
gerlings which are then literally dumped 
haphazard into waters too warm or too 
cold, lacking in food supply or filled with 
^enemies, from whose stomachs the young 
fish may be obtained shortly thereafter, 
is not going to hold its own against the 
forces which are tending to the gradual 
elimination of our game fishes. 
The real solution will be found in 
studying conditions of acquatic environ- 
ment and making such adjustments there- 
in as shall minimize or eliminate the un- 
toward factors while intensifying those 
which are favorable. Depending upon 
the extent to which this is accomplished, 
the fish will increase because that is all 
they can do ! 
For illustration; Under natural (unde- 
veloped) conditions the black bass, one 
I N their excitement preparing for the much looked-forward-to trip, 
there are many things that the boys might have forgotten to pack. 
“Take it easy, fellows,” said the Old Man, “or the first thing you know 
we will have to do this packing all over again. 
“Now it is very important that we have with us this Colt of mine. No 
matter what else we forget, be sure and not overlook that. And I would 
advise you fellows if you haven’t each got one, to make it a point to drop 
into the dealer’s tomorrow and buy yourselves a Colt. 
“Perhaps you would prefer a Colt Automatic. Most young fellows do. 
Personally, 1 am so used to the Colt revolver that 1 prefer it.” 
In your outing trip, be sure that you carry as part of your equipment, 
for your protection and rec- — 
reation, a Colt Revolver or 
Automatic Pistol. 
the 
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