December, 1920 
FOREST AND STREAM 
649 
Even then he didn’t want to let go his 
hold. Bay fishermen are not inclined 
to look upon such a thing as an unu- 
sual occurrence. 
The teeth of this eight-pound cod 
were set in the smaller fish a couple of 
inches below the hook that held it and 
the big fellow must have imagined the 
little one was swimming away and not 
wishing to lose his dinner, held fast, 
but the story about the bass and the 
lily pad beats me. Yet I am sure it 
happened exactly as Pete says it did. 
Edward T. Martin, California. 
OF INTEREST TO TRAPPERS 
To the Editor of Forest and Stream: 
A S you are aware, we have not 
placed any advertising copy with 
you this season encouraging trapping 
or soliciting inquiries from prospective 
trappers. It is not because we do not 
believe in advertising, but because un- 
der present conditions it is not advis- 
able to encourage trapping. 
It would be better for the entire in- 
dustry (and in this we include the farm 
paper as well as the trapper) if no 
fresh furs came to market at all this 
season. 
The fur dealers of the country still 
have on hand the bulk of last year’s 
catch, which they are ready and willing 
to sell at a considerable loss. 
One of the principal reasons why the 
dealer is carrying such an enormous 
stock is due to the fact that the manu- 
facturing end of the business has had 
a strike since last May. Ten thousand 
men have been out, and a great many 
of them are still out. This has resulted 
in the fur dealer’s being compelled to 
carry the furs all during the manu- 
facturing season, and he still has them 
on hand with a new raw fur season 
coming on. 
With financial conditions as they are 
he is not able to borrow more money 
at the bank with which to carry present 
stocks and buy the new crop of furs, 
no matter how cheap they might be. 
So that you can readily understand 
that new furs coming to market will 
not find a ready sale, unless at greatly 
reduced prices. This will mean a tre- 
mendous disappointment to the trapper 
and fur shipper unless he is aware of 
the market conditions before he traps 
and sells. 
We believe that it is your desire and 
intention to inform your readers as to 
the truth about conditions in the fur 
market, as well as other affairs, and 
such being the case the better thing 
to do is to advise your readers that the 
price of furs will be low and not to 
trap until conditions improve. 
As soon as the stress of the present 
situation is relieved and conditions get 
back to normal the business will soon 
right itself from trapper to retailer, 
and every one of course will be willing 
and glad to advertise for fur shipments 
and carry on business as usual. But 
the thing to do now is to help the busi- 
ness to get back to that condition. 
Funsten Bros. & Co. 
International Fur Exchange, 
St. Louis, Mo. 
FEEDING A BLACK BEAR 
To the Editor of Forest and Stream: 
L AST summer, while at Lake Louise, 
Alberta, I was told several times by 
different people that the place was in- 
fested with wild bears. For a num- 
ber of days I sauntered through the 
woods in search of the furry black 
bruins without result. One evening, 
however, I had not gone five hundred 
yards when all at once I saw a large, 
glossy black bear emerge from the 
woods. I backed up cautiously, facing 
him, until I found the hotel garbage 
dump behind me. There Mr. Bruin, 
who had been following me curiously, 
diverted his attention to the empty jam 
tins lying around the dump. I left 
him there and sped to the kitchen of 
the hotel and obtained a handful of 
French rolls and a half a tin of jam. 
Thus armed I returned to my new ac- 
quaintance, whom I afterward named 
“Pete”. He was sitting on the sunny 
side of an old ruined shack calmly 
putting has paw in a sticky tin, draw- 
ing it out and licking it off with every 
appearance of supreme enjoyment. He 
took no notice of me, though I ap- 
proached within fifteen feet of him. I 
called him and he arose and shuffled 
close to me, a sly look in his small eyes. 
The French rolls and jam were tend- 
ered and eagerly taken from my hand. 
When this feed was completed Pete sat 
down with his tins, looking behind him 
occasionally to see if any more sweet- 
bearing humans were coming. I then 
returned to the hotel to bring my 
friends to visit my new acquaintance, 
but on our arrival at the dump we 
found Pete had returned to the wilds. 
However, he was not gone for good. 
Every day after that I went to meet 
him. Upon the call of “Pete” being 
sent into the woods he would come out 
to see if I had anything for him. On 
the 23d of August I was sitting on a 
log throwing pieces of bread to- a squir- 
rel when I heard voices behind me. It 
was a man with a camera accompany- 
ing one of the guests at the hotel. I 
told them my mission there and offered 
to go into the woods and bring my 
friend out. It was not long before 
Pete and I came back. He posed beau- 
tifully for his picture, not at all wor- 
ried by the presence of strangers. We 
took several snaps of him and after 
receiving his meal he went into the 
woods again. He associates with any- 
one now and accepts sweetmeats from 
tourists in a well bred manner, but he 
has been utterly ruined as a rustler 
for his own living. He is glossy, sleek 
and fat and he has not turned over 
a dozen logs in a hungry search for 
grubs and mice since I first met him. 
There is no longer any need. Now 
that winter is here and the hotel guests 
have departed, I suppose Pete has re- 
turned to the wilds and holed up for 
the winter. No doubt he will return 
in the spring, ready and anxious to 
renew his very satisfactory relations 
with humans, as he now probably fig- 
ures it is easier to pose for photographs 
and be fed than to hunt his own grub. 
George Price, British Columbia. 
AMERICAN CANOE ASSOCIATION 
To the Editor of Forest and Stream: 
'T’HE following amendments to the 
constitution and by-laws of the 
American Canoe Association were pre- 
sented for discussion at the Execu- 
tive Committee meeting on October 30, 
1920, held at Syracuse, N. Y., and 
it was moved that the amendments 
herewith proposed or such modification 
thereof as may seem acceptable to the 
committee, be submitted to a mail vote 
as soon as practicable after fourteen 
days from the date of this publication. 
Article IV of the Constitution. — 
Amend by adding a new section : 
Section 3. — Junior Membership. — Any 
boy or girl, between the ages of 12 and 
18 years, who, if over 18, would be eligi- 
ble for active or associate membership, 
may become Junior Members of the As- 
sociation, application to be made and 
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