28 
FOREST AND STREAM 
January 3, 1914. 
(Continued from page 10.) 
of thousands of fingerling trout delivered to peo¬ 
ple in the section referred to, during the last 
four or five years, there have been no such re¬ 
sults as occurred from the early stockings with 
brook trout fry. On the contrary, the annual 
supply of trout in these waters is decreasing 
rather than otherwise, a circumstance which 
should be thoroughly investigated. 
It is hoped that the coming spring will show 
a great change in the methods adopted by the 
commission in the all important detail of actual 
placement of young trout in waters suitable for 
their future existence and growth, and that the 
state will furnish a suitable number of expert 
custodians to accompany the consignments of fish 
to a given locality, and direct the matter of the 
planting in an intelligent manner and without 
expense to those who apply for the fish for stock¬ 
ing our brooks and creeks. Surely the intelli¬ 
gence of our people, in co-operation with the 
work of our efficient Department of Inland Fish¬ 
eries, can supply the too often missing link in 
the chain from hatchery to trout brook, caused 
by that last journey in the farmer’s wagon up the 
hill, which has been so often a funeral proces¬ 
sion, as far as the young fish were concerned. 
There has hitherto been too much secrecy 
about the putting out of the state’s fish. Men 
have been in the habit of receiving cans of trout 
and never informing even those who actually ap¬ 
plied for them where they had been planted. Not 
knowing where the trout had gone, conservative 
citizens could throw no safeguards about the 
young fish. The whole purpose of the receivers 
of fish hitherto has been to get all the state’s 
fish into their hands that they could, fingerlings 
always preferred, and place them with the utmost 
secrecy in some waters most convenient to their 
homes, and to treat them as their future property, 
as far as possible. As a consequence of the 
greed of such men, fish are often placed in 
streams which dry up in summer, or in those 
where they cannot live, from other causes. There 
have been also cases where the state’s fish have 
been sold to the owners of small private ponds 
to be grown for their sole benefit. 
This is an age of publicity, and the arrival 
of fish in a locality from the hatchery should be 
made a rural event. The boys should be invited 
to help put out the little visitors, and instructed 
by their teachers and parents how to protect them 
in the brooks until of full size. It would be well 
for them to hear lectures on fish propagation 
and planting, similar to those now given on tree 
planting. 
It has been well suggested that the Boy 
Scouts in any community could handle this whole 
question of distribution and care of the local 
trout even better than it is now done by men. 
PETER FLINT. 
New York, N. Y., Dec. 15, 19x3. 
(Continued from page 8.) 
The freighter could not keep near it and was in 
trouble all the way, making plenty of leeway 
and but little headway. The writer, using a 
light paddle and kneeling fairly well back, found 
it possible to handle his skiff perfectly, and just 
flew. He rode every wave by throwing his 
weight to leeward, raising the weather side and 
letting the water roll underneath. It was “Rock- 
a-By-Baby” all the way—the ride of a lifetime— 
not a pint of water was shipped, and, old as he 
is, he would like nothing better than to put away 
his work, and go out and try it over again right 
now. The large boat came in half an hour be¬ 
hind, water logged and almost sinking. 
Warm weather virtually ended duck shooting 
at American Bottoms that year before the close 
season came to protect the game, and both of 
us were glad to follow the birds, go North and 
rest up for the fall, having had a shoot that 
not only was full of action but profitable as well. 
Highland Gun Club. 
Philadelphia, Dec. 27.—Getting the target as soon as 
it left the traps, before the keen wind could have any 
appreciable effect on it, enabled Charles H. Newcomb 
to make a show of his field in ‘the monthly shoot of 
the Highland Shooting Association yesterday at Edge 
Hill and gave him the best score of the day, 95 out of 
the scheduled program of 100 targets. In addition to 
easily carrying off the honors, Newcomb won two of the 
club spoons by being high at 50 and 75 of the clay birds. 
Newcomb was the solitary shot who showed anything 
like form, and from the jump he was on the “birds” as 
soon as they left the traps, while the others, in many 
cases, waited so long that the wind played all kinds 
of pranks with the skimmers and made all work hard 
for what scores they made. Two 24s, a straight—the 
only one of the afternoon—and finishing with 22 when 
he grew somewhat careless, made up Newcomb’s score. 
In addition to Newcomb the other spoon winners 
were J. Frank Pratt, who carried off two dippers for 
being the best in Class B at 50 and 75, and William 
H. Clegg, who added two to his collection for being the 
real thing in Class C. The spoons in Class D were 
divided, Fell getting the prize on 50 targets and C. 
Jones taking the one for best at 75. There was also a 
spoon offered to the visitor making the best score, and 
this easily went to Harry Eyre, with a total of only 67. 
Points toward the yearly trophies were made by the 
following members: Newcomb and Pratt, each 4; Fell 
and L. Jones. 3; Griffith, Clegg and Houpt, 2, and J. F. 
Meehan, 1. There followed the regular program a shoot 
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