Oct. 25, 1913. 
FOREST AND STREAM 
527 
C. H. Kewell.. 
E. A. Mocker. 
F. J. Cooper.. 
*C. H. Gardner 
98.48 
98.20 
98.34 
97.56 
98.40 
98.18 
98.32 
95.40 
97.6 
95.48 
97 
96.24 
Event No. 4, %-ounce lure casting, per cent.: 
Dr W. E. Brooks_93.8 C. H. Gardner. 
Sam Wells .95.4 C. H. Kewell . 
J. F. Burgin. 93.9 E. A. Mocker . 
James Watt . 97.2 F. J. Cooper . 
Event No. 5, 14-ounce lure casting, average feet 
Dr. W. E. Brooks.129 C. H. Gardner. 
Sam Wells . 82 C. H. Kewell . 
T. F. Burgin. 98 F. J. Cooper. 
James Watt . 150 *Dr. W. E. Brooks.. 
Event No. 6. dry fly accuracy, per cent.: 
Dr. W. E. Brooks.... 98.3 C. H. Gardner ... 
Sam Wells . 99.3 C. H. Kewell - 
J. F. Burgin. 97 F. J. Cooper . 
James Watt .98.6 
Event No. 7, light tackle, long distance feet: 
Sam Wells . 81 C. H. Kewell .... 
*Re-entries. 
98.3 
90.1 
97.8 
98.6 
141 
, 135 
. 83 
. 132 
97.13 
98.6 
97.12 
Judges, C. H. Gardner, James Watt, F. J. 
Cooper; Referee, C. H. Kewell; Clerk, E. O. 
Ritter. 
Correction. 
New York City, Oct. 16. —Editor Forest and 
Stream: In the next issue will you kindly make 
a note of the following correction: 
In event No. 3, of the Anglers’ Club tourna¬ 
ment, dry-fly accuracy, the score of the winner, 
J. L. Kirk, should read 99.4-15; not 99.11-15. 
Thanking you in advance. J. G. Fulton. 
Game Conditions in South Dakota. 
BY H. S. HEDRICK, STATE GAME WARDEN. 
Game conditions are much better in this 
State than they were last year, especially on 
small game. 
In this State we have prairie chickens in the 
prairie country and several kinds of grouse in 
the Black Hills territory. We also have a great 
many ducks and geese; a good many ducks hatch 
in this State, especially in the northern parts. We 
have a good many quail, but the last Legislature 
placed an indefinite closed season on them. There 
are a good many deer in the Black Hills country, 
and an open season on same of thirty days the 
month of November. We also have a few beaver 
and quite' a good many mink and muskrat in 
certain localities. 
The best hunting grounds for ducks and 
geese, also prairie chickens, is in the northeastern 
corner of the State. We have a great many non¬ 
resident hunters coming in from Minneapolis and 
St. Paul, as well as from points further east. 
The deer section of the country is in the Black 
Hills, especially in the northern hills, and the 
western portions of Lawrence and Pennington 
counties. 
Alaska Game Conditions. 
BY J. C. TOLMAN, CHIEF GAME WARDEN. 
Game conditions are better than last year, 
moose, sheep, caribou, goat, deer and bear being 
found here, while all are abundant in different 
parts. Kenai and Alaska peninsulas offer good 
shooting. 
The Cost of Milk Production. 
Bulletin No. 145, giving information rela¬ 
tive to the cost of milk production, has just been 
issued by the Experiment Station. It gives the 
cost of the food consumed by each cow in the 
station herd from 1896 through 1911, the esti¬ 
mated cost of caring for the cow, and the cost 
to the farmer of a quart of milk. Data are also 
cited from other sources bearing on the cost of 
production. Five suggestions are made to dairy¬ 
men, and the place of dairying in the agriculture 
of the State is briefly discussed. 
The bulletin may be secured by addressing 
the Director, Massachusetts Agricultural Experi¬ 
ment Station, Amherst, Mass. 
Siam exports about nine million dollars’ 
worth of teak a year. 
The Bass of White Lake 
By H. H. BRIMLEY 
1 HAD always been taught that the best time 
to catch bass was in the very early morning 
and late in the afternoon. Another lesson 
deeply impressed on me by years of reading— 
and some experience—was that if you could see 
the fish, he could see you, and that there was 
not much use in your throwing a bait at him 
while in full view. But the present summer has 
modified these views. 
I spent the latter half of June on White 
Lake, which is situated in Bladen county. North 
Carolina, between the Cape Fear and South 
Rivers. It is a lake of perfectly transparent 
water, approximating two miles in diameter, with 
a maximum depth of ten or twelve feet. Around 
three-fourths of its wooded shore line the bot¬ 
tom is sand, and shoals gradually from a few 
inches along the banks to a depth of five or six 
feet a hundred yards from shore. These shal¬ 
lows are mostly grown up in thin, scattering 
reeds of varying density—locally called “grass”—- 
with some underwater plants growing among 
them. And here I found the bass. 
The other fourth of the circumference of 
the lake—the “'swamp side,” as it is called—is 
five or six feet deep right up to the bushes, which 
overhang the water and form good lurking places 
for both bass and war-mouth perch. But I had 
no success along that side on this trip. 
The other game fishes of the lake are blue 
brim, pike and yellow perch. 
Several mornings I was on the lake by sun¬ 
rise (as I had been the previous summer), but 
I never had any success before breakfast. After 
breakfast, however, which meant a start at about 
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EVEN THE DARKIES FISH ALONG THE SWAMP SIDE. 
DOES HIS SMILE DENOTE SUCCESS? 
