Nov. IS, 1913 - 
FOREST AND STREAM 
623 
Spring and telephoned my tale of woe to the 
superintendent, Mr. Walters. 
The prescription was salt, Turk’s Island 
salt, about a quart dipper full placed under the 
intake pipe at the head of each hatching trough. 
Dr. Walters’ prescription worked like a charm. 
We dose the whole hatchery full now once or 
twice a week. It seems to have a cleansing 
and, at the same time, a tonic effect. 
I want to thank Mr. Walters publicly for 
his help. No matter how much of a “fool ques¬ 
tion” I ask him, he has time and patience to 
give advice. The “Con” Commission have a 
valuable man there, who has the breadth of 
vision to realize that the hatcheries are run for 
the benefit of the people. 
We had about the same number of fry this 
year that we had last. I cannot speak definitely 
as to the number, because they have not been 
counted yet, and it is impossible to get at the 
number by accounting from the number of eggs 
taken, and the number of losses since. You 
see, we did not have that kind of “help.” 
We are quite -optimistic about raising our 
fry this year. We took out the last of the 
“runts” in February and turned them down. 
They had caught up with their brothers in the 
brook in growth. Therefore, we feel that 
without the hardships suffered by them at the 
beginning in the old spring hole ponds, the 
new hatch ought to do very well in the new 
rearing ponds, as they are a much better and 
more vigorous looking lot. 
We are going to turn down more fry this 
year and keep fewer for fingerling growth in 
the rearing ponds. I mean fewer to the cubic 
foot of water. 
Our club members caught and used 1,700 
trout, all over eight inches in length, last year 
at the club. These were, of course, fish that 
had been in the waters some years, as many 
weighed from a pound to a pound and a half 
each. They were produced by turning down 
fry only. We hope to increase the output by 
turning down fingerlings as well as fry, and 
do it from our own hatchery. 
If the troubles and joys of the club fish and 
game committee are of interest to those who 
read this, and Forest and Stream can stand it, 
I’ll tell you later how we make out with this 
year’s crop. 
I must again rush in to that place avoided 
by angels. As soon as we can get the right 
man to do the active work at the club, I want 
to add to his sorrows by trying to raise grouse. 
If we can get away with that, the future of 
American sportsmen will be assured. 
Bringing Back the Game. 
If any one doubts that the people of this 
country are thoroughly aroused on the subject 
of the preservation of its precious heritage of 
wild life, let him scan the following incom¬ 
plete resume of happenings along this line within 
the past few months: 
In South Dakota something more than 30,- 
000 acres has been added to the State forest in 
Black Hills section, which makes a tract 8 x 12 
miles in extent in one compact body. This 
tract is being fenced and next year will be 
stocked with game. 
In Washington the county of Spokane has 
set aside two townships, covering the east side 
of Mt. Spokane, as a game preserve. This 
preserve will be known as the Spokane County 
Game Reserve. It is proposed to make of the 
new reserve a natural game breeding grounds 
with special reference to deer, bear, grouse, 
pheasants, prairie chickens and song birds. 
State Game Warden R. B. Wales is working 
enthusiastically on the new project. 
In Oregon U. S. Chief Forester H. S. 
Graves has approved the establishment of a 
great game refuge in the Siskiyou Forest in 
which elk and other species of large game will 
be planted and protected. Plans have been 
made for the changing of the territory sur¬ 
rounding the marble caves of Josephine County 
from a large monument to a large park and 
making the boundaries of the game refuge 
and of the Cave National Park identical. This 
will result in the creation of a dual purpose 
park. During the summer several thousands of 
China, Reeves, silver and golden pheasants and 
Hungarian partridges were liberated in Oregon 
from the game farm near Corvallis. Game 
Warden W. L. Finley estimates that the hunt¬ 
ing and fishing in Oregon resulting from pro¬ 
tective measures that have taken place in that 
State within the past few years are worth nearly 
$10,000,000 to its citizens. 
In Iowa State Game Warden E. C. Hin- 
shaw is considering the establishment of a 3000- 
acre game preserve in Clinton county, where 
quail, pheasants and partridges will be pro¬ 
tected. Mr. Plinshaw made a splendid exhibit 
of birds at the Iowa State Fair this year, to¬ 
ward which the game farm of the American 
Game Protective Association gladly contributed 
quota. Mr. Hinhaw is doing a splendid work 
in Iowa and deserves the support of every true 
sportsman and nature lover. 
In Louisiana Henry E. Hartner, a million¬ 
aire lumber manufacturer and an exponent of 
forest conservation principles, is reported to 
have turned over to the State for forty years a 
tract of more than 25,000 acres in La Salle, 
Wynn and Caldwell parishes to be kept as a 
game preserve under the supervision of the 
conservation commission. 
In Arkansas Ernest V. Visart, secretary of 
the Arkansas Game and Fish Protective Asso¬ 
ciation, is working hard to secure the consent 
of Congres to the setting aside of 200,000 acres 
of Arkansas forest reservation as a refuge for 
birds, in particular to establish a resting place 
for the migratory species that regularly pass 
through that territory. 
In Alabama President Woodrow Wilson has 
set aside Petit Bois Island as a game and fish 
reserve. It will furnish a breeding ground for 
waterfowl, principally. There are said to be 
nearly 300 wild hogs on the island and an effort 
will be made to exterminate them in the interest 
of the birds. 
From Oklahoma word comes that the buf¬ 
falo herd in the Wichita National Forest is on 
the increase, numbering forty-eight at the pres¬ 
ent time. Ten calves have been born this year. 
The original herd in 1907 consisted of fifteen 
head. 
In California the lands heretofore held un¬ 
patented by the Federal Government in the Big 
Basin have been transferred to the State and 
have become a part of the Redwood Park reser¬ 
vation. These include about half the area of 
the Basin remaining outside the State park. 
Hunting on this territory at all seasons is for¬ 
bidden. 
Manager Gene Simpson, of the Oregon 
pheasant farm, states that 5,000 Chinese pheas¬ 
ants is the sum total of the product of that 
farm for this season. 
Game Warden Frank Shook, of California, 
reports that the experiment of stocking the 
Carmel Valley with pheasants is likely to prove 
a success. He states that the old birds turned 
out have bred and that the numbers are in¬ 
creasing nicely. 
In South Dakota the State Game Commis¬ 
sion has voted $5000 for the purchase of pheas¬ 
ants to be distributed in the care of keepers in 
the eastern part of the State. 
In Iowa the State Game Department has 
contracted for 3000 pairs of Hungarian par¬ 
tridges to be delivered January next. 
In South . Dakota State Game Warden 
Hedrick is stated to have purchased 5,000 
Chinese pheasants for distribution throughout 
the State. 
In Pennsylvania the excellently arranged 
system of State game preserves has been stocked 
with wild turkeys, deer and elk. Commissioner 
John M. Phillips states that in forty years’ ex¬ 
perience he has never known game to be as 
abundant as it is in the State to-day. He lays 
emphasis on the interest taken in its increase by 
sportsmen and farmers. 
In Oregon the Game and Fish Protective 
Association of Josephine County has under way 
a plan whereby it hopes to have created a 
national park and game refuge for wild life in 
Southern Oregon and Northern California. The 
fourteen counties that it is proposed to include 
in this reserve embrace the wild and primitive 
ranges of the Pacific Coast. The reserve as 
proposed would contain 16,000,000 acres.—From 
Bulletin of American Game Protective Associ¬ 
ation. 
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One of the principal by-products of the 
national forests of Japan is furnished by mush¬ 
rooms, which have yielded in one year a revenue 
of a million dollars. 
Articles of clothing from wood fiber are be¬ 
ing made in Europe. The material for a suit 
costs about fifty cents. Clothing made of this 
material, however, can not be washed. 
