April, 1921 
FOREST AND STREAM 
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his table may be found by hundreds 
along the shore of his pond. 
As timber such trees are of little 
value, a large proportion of them being 
doomed to be crowded out of existence 
by the close-set ranks of their rivals 
before attaining a respectable size. If 
the beaver’s depredations in the Adiron- 
dacks were limited to the cutting of 
such saplings, or even to cutting trees 
merely for food and lodging, there would 
be small cause for alarm in his re- 
markable increase in the Adirondacks, 
but it is his dam that does the damage. 
It floods the land ‘roundabout, killing 
well-grown timber without reason and 
fringing the lake or pond he selects as 
his abode with dead and dying trees. 
In the West, where the beaver has 
ensconced himself near farms, the prob- 
lem is a somewhat different one and a 
different remedy is under consideration. 
As the result of complaints from the 
Walla Walla Valley, the United States 
Biological Survey intends to try to trap 
the beaver alive and transport them to 
national forests where it is thought that 
there will be room for their development 
without serious injury to property or 
scenery. 
Canada for 
Real Fishing 
You will find in Canada practically every variety of gamy, fight- 
ing fish to he found in inland waters. Easy to reach by way of 
The Canadian Pacific Railway 
Let us know what kind of fishing you are interested in and 
what month you want to fish. We will tell you where the fish- 
ing grounds are found, what the open seasons are, and will give 
information as to local conditions — putting you in touch with 
guides and outfitters. 
Write to A. 0. Seymour, General Tourist Agent, Cana- 
dian Pacific Railway, Montreal, Canada, for full informa- 
tion. 
A PREHISTORIC 
INDIAN NATURALIST 
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bear in the Ohio valley. In 1798, while 
some women were washing clothes in 
the Little Scioto at the mouth of Bon- 
ser’s run, five black bears swam across 
the Little Scioto and landed just be- 
low the women. But the women 
neither fainted nor screamed. They 
set a little dog on the bears. The dog 
snapped at the bears’ heels so lively, 
and barked so sharply, that soon the 
bears climbed trees. A hunter by the 
name of Barney Monroe came along 
and killed them. 
By the custom of the hunters the one 
who drew the first blood from a wild 
animal was entitled to the skin. The 
meat was divided among all who aided 
in killing the animal. So in this case 
the man with the rifle got the bear 
skins, but the women, who set the dog 
on the bear, were given their share of 
the meat. 
George Cochran, who came to the 
Ohio valley in 1799, had a peculiar ex- 
perience with a black bear. He saw a 
bear swimming in the Little Scioto and 
determined to give chase, though he 
had no rifle. He found a canoe tied to 
the bank and started in the canoe after 
the bear. Every time the bear made 
for the shore Cochran turned him with 
the canoe. This finally exasperated the 
bear, so the next time the bow of the 
canoe was upon him he turned and 
climbed into the canoe. As Cochran 
was rather careful of the company he 
kept, he jumped from the canoe and 
swam to shore. The last seen of the 
bear he was licking his fur dry as the 
canoe slowly drifted down with the 
current 
In 1798 Andrew Lacroix was hunt- 
ing on a hillside in the Ohio valley. 
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