July 5 , 1913 
FOREST AND STREAM 
13 
Atlantic. As our waters here are mostly brown¬ 
ish in hue, I found that it was difficult even for 
me to see the leader, and though the scientists 
are still disputing about the way the trout sees 
things (see the late London Fields), I believe 
that this pale orange leader is as invisible as a 
mist color, or white, and probably more so 
(excuse the bull). I have had the greatest 
difficulty in buying leaders here that were not 
equal to salmon, and I use only the most deli¬ 
cate. Hence when Mr. Orr sent me these I re¬ 
joiced. I found them light, strong and finely 
tapered. His color theories may be wrong, but 
I found this one right. 
And meanwhile, Mr. Editor, the four dried 
May flies (for I lost my formaline) are waiting 
for Mr. Gordon. 
Illinois Casting Club. 
Chicago, Ill., June 23 .— Editor Forest and 
Stream: The threatening sky at noon on Satur¬ 
day, June 21, caused the postponement of events 
scheduled for that day. The next day was near¬ 
ly perfect, and there was a goodly number at 
the Pool the entire day, including several visit¬ 
ing members from other clubs. The morning 
hours were devoted to the quarter-ounce accu¬ 
racy bait and quarter-ounce distance bait. There 
was a brisk north wind in the morning of 
twenty miles, and in the afternoon, when it had 
fallen to fifteen miles, the delicacy and accuracy 
fly and light tackle dry-fly accuracy were cast. 
The scores follow: 
Quarter-ounce accuracy bait: 
C. McCarthy_ 
. 98.8 
De Garmo . 
. 99.0 
Pierson . 
. 98.6 
Stanley . 
. 99.8 
Amman . 
.98.7 
tChatt . 
. 99.1 
Nicholson . 
. 99.5 
Heller . 
. 90.2 
Kernaghan . 
.98.2 
*C. McCarthy . 
. 96.5 
Whitby . 
. 99.3 
♦Nicholson .... 
. 99.0 
Tice . 
. 98.9 
♦Kernaghan .... 
. 98.8 
Wehle . 
.98.2 
♦Tice . 
Kerr . 
. 99.4 
♦IToxey . 
. 98.2 
Iioxey . 
. 94.8 
*C. W. Grant.. 
. 98.7 
C. W. Grant.... 
. 97.3 
♦Peacock . 
. 96.9 
Peacock . 
. 97.1 
* Re-entries. 
Delicacy and 
accuracy fly: 
Amman . 
... 9(1 1-15 
C. W. Grant.... 
...96 10-15 
C. McCarthy .. 
...97 
De Garmo . 
... 97 14-15 
Stanley .. 
... 96 15-30 
fLingenfelter ... 
... 96 15-30 
Pierson . 
Quarter-ounce distance bait, feet: 
Kernaghan .... 
.121 4-5 
fEllsworth . 
.123 
Whitby . 
. 73 3-5 
fChatt . 
. 67 2-5 
De Garmo . 
.... 126 1-5 
fLingenfelter .. 
.157 4-5 
Amman . 
*C. W. Grant .. 
. 77 4-5 
Wehle . 
♦Kernaghan .... 
. 32 4-5 
C. McCarthy .. 
. 10 4-5 
*C. McCarthy . 
. 72 
Stanley . 
♦Stanley . 
.129 3-5 
Light tackle dry fly accuracy. 
Re-entries. 
Pierson . 
99 6-15 
Whitby . 
99 9-15 
C. McCarthy .. 
. 99 2-15 
99 3-15 
Stanley . 
99 4 15 
Tice . 
Amman . 
99 1-15 
C. W. Grant.... 
- 
98 6-15 
W. T. Grant.... 
. 99 3-15 
97 14-15 
De Garmo . 
. 99 
98 4-15 
fLingenfelter ... 
. 99 
*Re-entries. tGuests. 
July 12 is the date of the next contest, and 
the events will be half-ounce accuracy bait, ac¬ 
curacy fly, light tackle distance fly and distance 
fly. J. D. Anway, Sec’y. 
Jefferson County Sportsmen’s Ass’n. 
The Jefferson County Sportsmen’s Associa¬ 
tion has been doing much to arouse an interest 
in fish and game. They have just planted 200,- 
000 trout fry and 200,000 pike fry in the streams 
of the county, and hope through the Conserva¬ 
tion Commission of the State to be able to liber¬ 
ate at least 1,000 pheasants in the county this 
year. Frank S. Tisdale is president of the asso¬ 
ciation. 
Virginia Game and Fish Protective Ass’n. 
Richmond, Va., June 13.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: There has recently been formed in 
this State an association known as the Virginia 
Game and Fish Protective Association, this or¬ 
ganization being the rejuvenated outgrowth 
from the old game protective association of 
Virginia, the latter organization having practi¬ 
cally died from dry rot in the past few years. 
The objects of the new association will be the 
conservation of game, game fish, song and in¬ 
sectivorous birds in the State of Virginia, the 
enforcement of existing laws for their protec¬ 
tion and the enactment of more beneficial laws 
for their protection, the fostering of a more 
sportsmanlike spirit in the minds of the fisher¬ 
men and gunners of the South, and a general 
campaign for the education of the public respect¬ 
ing the above points. 
The work has been taken up with great en¬ 
thusiasm—officers elected, committees appointed, 
which are working now on their first reports. 
The new officers elected and committees ap¬ 
pointed to date are: President, W. P. Patter¬ 
son, Richmond, Va.; Secretary and Treasurer, 
L. T. Christian, Richmond, Va.; Executive Com¬ 
mittee, Julian Bossieux, A. F. Huntt, Chas. R. 
Winston, MacD. Hart, William Todd; Member¬ 
ship Committee, J. B. Dunn, Peter Howie, E. R. 
Lafferty, E. Clark, A. S. Kellam; Press Com¬ 
mittee, Col. Joseph Button, State Insurance 
Commissioner; J. M. Bell, Richmond, Va.; Dr. 
M. P. Rucker. 
W. P. Patterson, 
President Virginia Game & Fish Protective 
Association. 
U. S. Department of Agriculture, 
Year Book, 1912. 
The nineteenth volume of the U. S. Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture Year Book has been print¬ 
ed. The edition will as usual be distributed by 
Senators, representatives and delegates in Con¬ 
gress, as the Department’s allotment is reserved 
for its official correspondents and others render¬ 
ing valuable voluntary service. 
The previous volumes, aggregating 9,000,000 
copies, have been thus distributed, and those 
who received copies, knowing their value, will 
doubtless be expecting the new volume, which 
contains 781 pages, sixty half-tone plates, ten 
lithographic plates, and nineteen text figures. 
The form of the Year Book being pre¬ 
scribed by law, there is little variation from year 
to year in its general form and style. The re¬ 
port of the secretary for the fiscal year 1912, 
which occupies the first 259 pages, has already 
appeared in separate form. Twenty-four special 
articles prepared by direction of the secretary 
that relate to the subjects of general interest 
which have received special consideration during 
the year by experts in the respective bureaus 
of the Department and have not heretofore been 
publishd, will be issued as separates or extracts, 
so as to make them available for a wide dis¬ 
tribution to those not securing a copy of the 
Year Book. 
These subjects are not treated with exhaus¬ 
tive detail, as the articles are restricted in length 
in order that the number might be increased 
and a wide range of information covered. The 
table of contents of the new Year Boook com¬ 
prises titles of articles on Promising New Fruits, 
by William A. Taylor and H. P. Gould; Our 
Meadow Larks in Relation to Agriculture, by 
F. E. L. Beal; The Handling of Dressed Poul¬ 
try a Thousand Miles from the Market, by Mary 
E. Pennington; Some Results Obtained in Study¬ 
ing Ripening Bananas with the Respiration 
Calorimeter, by C. F. Langworthy and R. D. 
Milner; Crop Safety on Mountain Slopes, by J. 
Cecil Alter; Insects Injurious to the Onion Crop, 
by F. H. Chittenden; Condensed and Desiccated 
Milk, by Levi Wells; How the Produce Dealer 
May Improve the Quality of Poultry and Eggs, 
by H. C. Pierce; A Successful Method of Mar¬ 
keting Vegetable Products, by L. C. Corbett; 
The Chestnut Bark Disease, by Haven Metcalf; 
Some Useful Weather Proverbs, by W. J. Hum¬ 
phreys; Some Important Insect Enemies of Live 
Stock in the United States, by F. C. Bishop; 
Relation of Birds to Grain Aphides, by W. L. 
McAtee; National Forest Timber for the Small 
Operator, by William B. Greeley; Truck Soils 
of the Atlantic Coast Region, by Jay A. Bon- 
steel; Seed Collection on a Large Scale, by 
Henry H. Farquhar; Improved Methods of 
Handling and Marketing Cotton, by Charles J. 
Brand; Dairying and its Relation to Agriculture 
in Semi-Arid Regions, by A. K. Risser; Agri¬ 
culture in Public High Schools, by Dick J. 
Crosby; The Settlement of Irrigated Lands, by 
Carl S. Scofield; Some New Grasses for the 
South, by R. A. Oakley; Raisins, Figs and other 
Dried Fruits and their Lise, by C. F. Lang¬ 
worthy ; Possible Sources of Potash in the 
United States, by Frank K. Cameron; and The 
Commercial Weather Map of the United States 
Weather Bureau, by Henry L. Heiskell. 
The portion devoted to the appendix com¬ 
prises the Review of Weather Conditions, the 
names of the officials of the agricultural colleges 
and experiment stations and State officials in 
charge of agriculture, statistics relating to agri¬ 
culture in aspects of production, acreage and 
value of crops, of the number and value of f&rm 
animals, of price of farm products at the farm 
and in the wholesale market, of foreign trade 
in farm and forest products and of railroad 
rates for the transportation of principal farm 
products. 
Beginning with the earliest years for which 
statistics were obtained, tables are given exhibit¬ 
ing the acreage, production, value, prices, ex¬ 
ports and imports of the corn crops . of the 
United States, and for all or most of the items 
mentioned, of the crops of wheat, oats, barley, 
rye, buckwheat, potatoes, cotton, tobacco, flax¬ 
seed, rice and cane and beat sugar. 
These statistics provide a great variety of 
information for investigators and workers in 
many lines of endeavor, and are original com¬ 
pilations of crops and animals, their import and 
export for most of the countries of the world. 
To Preserve Fish Two Years. 
The Russian scientist, Prof, de Levsky, is 
said to have discovered a process for preserv¬ 
ing fish for two years. 
The principal preservatives used in the pro¬ 
cess are salt, vinegar and alcohol, and the cost, 
he asserts, is only one-fifth that of the present 
system in which ice and salt are employed. 
Several English automobiles are stated to 
have been recently installed in the Imperial 
household garage at Tokyo, Japan. 
