FOREST AND STREAM 
Nov. i, 1913. 
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Published Weekly by the 
Forest and Stream Publishing Company, 
Charles A. IIazen, President. 
W. G. Beecroft, Secretary. Charles L. Wise, treasurer. 
127 Franklin Street, New York. 
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THE FORESTRY AMENDMENT. 
Of the four constitutional amendments upon 
which the electors of New York State will vote 
in connection with the forthcoming general elec¬ 
tion, amendment No. 4 is the one that is being 
most generally discussed. The purpose of this 
proposed amendment is to give the necessary 
authority whereby dams and reservoirs can be 
constructed on the State forest preserve to con¬ 
trol the flow of certain Adirondack streams. 
If the people of the State of New York 
shall vote away the integrity and security of the 
Adirondack Forest Preserve now guaranteed by 
the constitution, it will be because the voters 
fail to realize what they are doing. Important 
as are the other issues at stake in the election, 
let us not be blinded as to this one, nor be de¬ 
ceived into the thought that it is not of moment¬ 
ous concern. 
Section 7 of Article VII. of the Constitution 
reads: 
Forest Preserve.—Sec. 7. The lands of the State now 
owned, or hereafter acquired, constituting the Forest 
Preserve as now fixed by law, shall be forever kept as 
wild forest lands. They shall not be leased, sold or ex¬ 
changed, or be taken by any corporation, public or 
private; nor shall the timber thereon be sold, removed or 
destroyed. 
connived at legalized despoiling of the North 
Woods that the citizens of the Commonwealth 
determined once and forever to take from it 
by this constitutional enactment the power for 
further mischief. Security of the people’s heri¬ 
tage in the Adirondack forests is to be preserved 
only by keeping intact the constitutional prohi¬ 
bition embodied in Section 7. The amendment 
proposing to nullify the section should be over¬ 
whelmingly defeated next Tuesday. Every vote 
will count. It will not be enough to avoid cast¬ 
ing a ballot; a negative vote should be regis¬ 
tered. Mark the "No'’ of the forestry amend¬ 
ment space on the ballot. Save the forests. Pre¬ 
serve them to the people, to whom they belong. 
Repeat again and with the emphasis of a full 
vote the former declaration that the wild lands 
of the forest preserve shall not be turned over 
to private interests. 
GAME LAWS. 
The migratory bird law, signed Oct. 1 by 
President Wilson, and delay in getting gover¬ 
nors’ signatures on some State laws, has delayed 
our publication of game laws. We are glad, 
however, to announce that we are on press with 
the most comprehensive publication of this char¬ 
acter ever put out by this house. More for the 
money has been our aim, and we have made a 
bull’s-eye. In addition to the complete revised 
game laws we have arranged the migratory bird 
law, so confusing to many gunners, by States; 
so you can tell at a glance open and closed sea¬ 
sons without figuring out in what zones 
your State lies, and separating gallime, ana- 
tidae, limicolie, rallidse and other “daes" one 
from another, so that you look for duck or 
whatever else you are after and shoot ac¬ 
cording to date given in the book. And there 
still is more new stuff. We have added the best 
shooting sections in each State and Province, 
with guides to match. The sportsmen’s hand 
book section is full of real information on care 
and use of gun, rifle and rod, backwoods surgery, 
camp equipment and a host of hints for sports¬ 
men, useful at home as well as in the field. By 
experience we have learned that the paper cover 
won’t do for a book for camp use, so we have 
selected a waterproofed cloth cover, a little 
thought that will keep your copy permanently. 
And, we have kept the price down to twenty-five 
cents on the first edition of ten thousand. Order 
now, and be sure of your copy. 
INFLUENCE OF THE HOME PAPER. 
That declaration embodies public opinion 
and represents the public interest. But, need¬ 
less to say, it does not suit the scheming indi¬ 
viduals who are hungering for their old-time 
license to use public property for their own per¬ 
sonal advantage; and these intriguers have now 
come forward with a cool proposition that the 
people of the State shall retract their will, as 
expressed in the forestry section of the Con¬ 
stitution. 
The end sought to be gained by amendment 
No. 4 is wholly and purely private, personal and 
selfish in character, and contrary to the rights 
of the public in the public’s own possessions. 
The intention is to open the way to hand over 
to water power and lumbermen the people’s 
property. 
It was precisely because the Legislature had 
It is perhaps not unfair to say that the aver¬ 
age local paper will chronicle without censure 
and as a creditable achievement the taking of 
excessive bags of game and strings of fish by 
local sportsmen. Nor is it anything less than 
fair to credit the local press with a ready willing¬ 
ness to take a stand for moderation in fish and 
game killing, if only the attention of the editor 
is called to the subject, and his sympathy is en¬ 
listed on the side of reasonable sport. The home 
paper may be made a most valuable and efficient 
ally in the cause of game protection. The first 
concern of a sportsmen’s club whose purpose is 
to enforce the laws and raise the standard of 
practice in the field might well be to secure the 
co-operation of the local press. Most right- 
thinking men are in a peculiar degree sensitive 
to the praise or blame of the home paper, where¬ 
as they might not care very much what was said 
in print of their exploits when the criticism did 
not come so closely home to them. The sugges¬ 
tion made by a correspondent some time ago 
that the local press should be made an ally in 
the cause of moderate and reasonable, rather than 
excessive and boastful fishing and shooting, is 
deserving of general adoption. 
THE CAMP COOK. 
In camp the fastidious gourmet becomes the 
omnivorous man. As a rule, the members of 
the average camping party do their own cooking. 
That is to say, it is done by the amiable, obliging 
member who will voluntarily, or by popular 
cajolery, act as chef, for which he has the hearty 
approval and support of his affectionate con¬ 
freres. The camp cook, thus qualified, is gen¬ 
erally a shining star as a sloppy housekeeper. 
But the urbanite, who thus in camp eats his 
peck of dirt at one sitting, raises not his voice 
in protest. Let the dishes be smeary, the pota¬ 
toes soggy, the coffee muddy, the bread heavy, 
the fish and game badly dressed and worse 
served, and our good urbanite, so dainty and 
critical at home, avidiously crunches his food and 
gulps more ashes, twigs, fish scales and feathers 
at one meal in camp than he possibly could in 
the course of his whole life at home, yet main¬ 
taining a discreet reticence the while. If one 
protest were uttered, the volunteer camp cook 
might resign, at the same time pertinently sug¬ 
gesting that his fellows could cook for them¬ 
selves. 
POINTS ABOUT FISHWAYS. 
1. There are numberless streams capable of 
furnishing valuable supplies of food fish, but now 
barren. 
2. It is foolishness to stock such streams 
with anadromous fishes, if by reason of insur¬ 
mountable obstructions the fish cannot return 
from the sea to their spawning beds. 
3. Individuals and corporations have no 
right to maintain dams which thus ruin the food 
fish supply or prevent its restoration. 
4. Fishways, properly constructed, will 
remedy the evil by providing a passage for the 
fish over the dams. 
5. Fishways will not injure the dams, nor 
detract from the efficiency of the water supply. 
6. It is not unreasonable to compel the 
owners of obstructive dams to provide fishways 
for the benefit of the public, whose rights have 
been infringed in this respect chiefly because of 
ignorance. 
7. Efficient fishways are not of necessity ex¬ 
pensive. Compared with the capital employed 
by the manufacturers who maintain the dams, 
and with the volume of business done by them, 
the cost and maintenance of a suitable fishway 
are insignificant. 
8. When these principles shall be more 
clearly understood, there will be such an open¬ 
ing of dams and restocking of now barren 
streams that the prices of freshwater fish will 
be lower than they are to-day. 
There are laws compelling construction of 
fishways, but unfortunately their enforcement is 
not always attended to by the proper authorities, 
hence it becomes necessary to appeal to the 
honor of those who dam the streams. 
