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A LUMBERMAN’S DEVICE. 
The cut, Fig. 538 shows how we load 
long poles, such as are used for electric 
light and piling work. A chain or rope 
is put up in a tree 25 or 30 feet from 
the ground. Then we hitch on to a pile 
or pole so it will balance, and put the 
wheels under it. The rest of the poles 
are put on one at a time. After the 
pole is nearly balanced as shown in 
the picture, one man takes hold of 
heavy end and lifts it over wheel. 
Connecticut. f. a. barnes. 
A SPORTSMAN ON HUNTING. 
Being interested in fanning, as well as 
in good sports, I deplore the attitude which 
you take in regard to hunting upon farm 
property. I appreciate the fact that there 
are black sheep in every flock, and this is 
true of sportsmen as well as farmers. Be¬ 
cause some would-be sportsman rides 
rough-shod over a place, leaving broken 
fences and general destruction in his wake, 
I do not think that the entire sporting fra¬ 
ternity should be condemned and held up 
to scorn and ridicule. The law is ample 
to take care of those who leave a trail of 
destruction in their paths without condemn¬ 
ing the men to whom a day from their 
desks and from the factories is a tonic and 
a health-giving incident in an everyday life 
of work and worry. There are troubles 
enough upon this earth without augment¬ 
ing them by inciting the farmer against 
the citizen, and I am sure it would redound 
to the greater credit of your esteemed 
journal if it were to adopt a middle-ground 
of conciliation and “get-togetherism.” Will 
you not give this matter a little more 
thought, and, looking at it from all angles, 
adopt a conciliatory tone? I am sure it 
would be better appreciated by both sides 
to the controversy and do more lasting 
good in the end. louis will. 
Onandaga Co., N. T. 
R. N.-Y.—The more thought we give this 
subject the more it seems that the sports¬ 
men have now more actual rights than the 
farmers. We doubt if any reputable city 
man would have much trouble in arranging 
MORE OF THE “GAME LAWS.” 
Every time I read of a case like that of 
Mr. Edgerton’s, page 1220, it makes the 
blood boil at the injustice of the Fish and 
Game Commissions and their subordinate 
officers, who are continually encroaching on 
our liberties in order, it seems to me, to 
keep themselves in an easy job where they 
won’t have to do heavy work for a living. 
Boom your good work, and I would like to 
have our governors-elect supplied with 
plenty of your evidence, that they might 
make proper recommendations to the Legis¬ 
latures. Last year in Newbury, Mass., a 
farmer was arrested for gunning on the 
Sabbath because it was his chance to shoot 
a woodchuck which was eating his vege¬ 
tables. He was discharged (or fined $1, I 
am not sure), with loss of a forenoon’s 
time and trouble in order to show that 
the warden was on his job, as it is per¬ 
formed on the Sabbath. It seems to me 
that if these wardens were ordered to look 
out for fake gunners who were looking up 
the vegetable patches previous to an even¬ 
ing's raid, they would be of more service 
to the farmer. They would here. 
Much land has gone to waste here be¬ 
cause the gunners and oerry-pickers tres¬ 
passing will leave down the bars or tear 
down the walls or cut the wire, making it 
impossible to pasture the land, and the 
gunner’s nice dog must be allowed to exer¬ 
cise in the fields and bushes, playing with 
the sheep, until they can be no longer 
raised here. 
The last time a field (now gone to waste) 
was pastured my father tells me it cost 
him $12 damage by the cattle being let 
out into a garden, by berry-picKers or gun¬ 
ners unknown to him, as the field was two 
miles from home. He now has a section 
of wall torn down by hunters digging out a 
hole. lie says the large rocks were rolled 
out into the field, birenes cut down and 
dirt thrown about so that it would take us 
three or four hours of good hard work to 
replace the damage. As he is not able to 
do it himself he will have to hire it done, 
costing probably more time, allowing for 
the natural lack of interest in a hired 
man. 
The Fish and Game Commission of 
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METHOD OF LOADING POLES. Fig. 538. 
with farmers for legitimate hunting. Our 
experience indicates that the “black-sheep’’ 
are in great majority. 
HUNTERS’ CASUALTIES. 
The hunting season which closed Novem¬ 
ber 30 was more deadly than the season of 
1911. The dead and injured number 103 
and 51, respectively, as against 100 and 37, 
respectively, for 1911. In 1910, the deadli¬ 
est year of which there is record, 113 per¬ 
sons lost their lives while hunting. The 
following table shows how the deaths and 
injuries were distributed in the States this 
year: 
State. Killed. Injured. 
New York . 10 4 
New Jersey . 1 
Pennsylvania . 12 5 
Massachusetts . 4 
Maine . 13 
Illinois . 8 
Indiana . 2 1 
Iowa . 2 
Kansas . 1 1 
Michigan . 26 18 
Minnesota . 8 6 
Ohio . 1 
Vermont . 2 3 
Wisconsin . 13 12 
Alaska . 1 
Totals . 103 51 
The list of accidents in Michigan is ap¬ 
palling, 26 persons having been killed and 
18 injured. Last year only 16 were killed 
and four injured. The heavy casualty list 
undoubtedly is due to the great number of 
hunters who entered the woods in that 
State. Nearly 5,000 licenses were issued 
by the Michigan game warden. 
The deer hunters became such a pest 
and caused so much terror among woods¬ 
men in Ontonagon County that placards 
were posted by the Diamond Lumber Com¬ 
pany, warning all hunters to keep away 
from the lands of the corporation. It is 
said several employees of the company nar- 
nowly escaped being shot by excited hunt¬ 
ers, and it was in an effort to end the 
hazard that notice was served that hunters 
would be treated as trespassers. 
Near Grayling deer hunters were so 
thick that an agent of the game warden’s 
department refused to go into the woods 
on land investigation. 
One Wisconsin victim was Miss Pearl 
Sherwood, living near Iony. While hunt¬ 
ing with her mother she accidentally shot 
herself. Her mother dragged the wounded 
daughter through the brush and timber to 
her home. 
A glance at the causes of the accidents 
is interesting. The following table shows 
how they happened: 
Shot by companions. 35 
Shot themselves . 30 
Mistaken for deer. 112 
Shot by unknown hunters.! 7 
In Vermont the hunting season does not 
make any impression on the deer. The 
law allows only bucks to be shot, and the 
result is there is danger of the animals 
becoming a pest to farmers. An effort will 
be made to change the law so as to allow 
both sexes to be hunted. 
Massachusetts two years ago spent $3,000 
in trying to take our clam flats from the 
people by means of a law which would 
give this commission authority to lease 
them out. Can you tell me where the 
farmers got a 35-cent value for the dollar 
counted in a tax to meet such an appro¬ 
priation? Can you tell me where they or 
the public get a 10-cent value from the 
expenditures of our Fish and Game Com¬ 
missions? Pheasants are raised and lib¬ 
erated to destroy and eat the farmers’ 
corn ; deer are protected to live on more 
savory food than nature natually furnishes, 
fish are hatched and trout placed at great 
expense in brooks, and we read of millions 
of them being killed by nature's Summer 
droughts. They have a law passed (re¬ 
spected by no fisherman) protecting short 
lobsters not capable of breeding, while 
large ones may be taken. As Mr. Iidgerton 
says, "Who owns them?” If our Constitu¬ 
tion gives us a right to live, hasn’t the wild 
life got to pass, and domesticated animals 
and birds be protected to make our civiliza¬ 
tion complete? It seems no worse for me 
to go to the marsh to get a duck if I 
have the leisure time and luck than to be 
forced to go to the roost and kill a tame 
fowl for the table. True, I hate to see 
deer shot up, but I believe if we cut out 
the dogs as we have the wolves, bears and 
the like, deer would be domesticated. At 
any rate, is it worse than buying veal 
that had to be killed before being sold? 
Yes; the skunks must have your chickens; 
the muskrats must undermine your bridges ; 
the black turtles ought to have your gos¬ 
lings ; the foxes must have your hens ; the 
deer must have your caobage; the wood¬ 
chuck must have your squash ; you mustn’t 
go gunning and exterminate these pests, 
even if your forefathers took the liberty of 
shooting the human Indians for blocking 
progress. You must appreciate the good 
and growing work of our fish and game 
commissions and forget the increased cost 
and difficulty of an honest living, w. l. v. 
Massachusetts. 
THE MEXICAN NUT CROP.—Consul 
Lawton of Oaxaca sends this report: “Pe¬ 
cans and English walnuts thrive in this 
section. The latter are an excellent quality 
of thin-shelled nuts, readily crushing in 
the hand and very full meated. The origi¬ 
nal trees were probably planted by the 
English mining companies that operated 
here about a century back. The pecan 
yield this year is especially heavy, there 
being in the neighborhood of 1,000 long 
tons in the whole crop, and this without 
any special cultivation or planting. This 
crop is eagerly sought by buyers, as the 
nuts are, as a rule, large and of select 
quality. The price paid in the local mar¬ 
ket is about three pesos an arroba ($1.50 
per 25 pounds). The local commission men, 
however, receive about eight cents United 
States currency per pound f. o. b. cars 
here. So far (Oct. 29) there have been 
aboutl 400 long tons shipped directly to the 
United States from this place. Possibly an 
ffiual, amount will bo shipped through Mex¬ 
ico City and other dealers not in Oaxaca. 
The English walnuts are a very much 
smaller crop and are mostly consumed lo¬ 
cally.” 
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