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By Henry Chase 274 
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.By J. H. B. 277 
By Paul M. McBride 
. .By Meade Wilson 
.By Hayseed 
Around Long Island by Canoe. . 
An Afternoon’s Fishing in Maine 
Duck Shooting. 
Editorial . 
Feeding the Quail. 
For National Co-Operation .... 
Fur, Fin and Feather. 
Important Game Law Decision 
On a Few Duck Hunts. 
Trap Shooting. 
Trouting in Arizona. 
By Robert Page Lincoln 
February 28, 1914 
FOREST AND STREAM 
Vol. LXXXII. No. 9. 
FEED THE QUAIL AND OTHER GAME. 
February 13 , 1914 . 
The Game and Fish Conservation Commis¬ 
sion of the State of Illinois had in mind such 
terrible storms as are now sweeping over the 
country when they announced their policy of es¬ 
tablishing game preserves. In keeping with this 
policy, they to-day called upon all sportsmen, 
farmers and other people interested in the con¬ 
servation of game to take whatever steps they 
possibly can to prevent the perishing of game. 
An hour a day, especially by persons who know 
the places frequented by game, and a little feed 
will save more quail and other game than is 
killed by all the sportsmen in the state. 
The Commission desires that this statement be 
given the widest publicity possible, and call upon 
the press as well as others to assist them in this 
effort to conserve the game. 
State Game and Fish Conservation Commission. 
C. J. Dittmar, 
Henry V. Meeteren, 
J. B. Vaughn, 
Commissioners. 
TO PROTECT NIAGARA GAME FISH. 
Seine fishing for bass in the middle of the 
Niagara river, or from the islands in the river 
above the falls, will not be permitted at any time, 
even during the season which begins July 1st. 
Rod fishing from the islands will be- permitted. 
Inshore seine setting will be permitted as, because 
of the river pollution, there is no game fish in 
that part of the river. 
Of 606 fires last year on the national forests 
of Arizona, New Mexico, and Oklahoma, more 
than one-half were caused by lightning. Camp¬ 
ers set about one-tenth, and railroads one- 
twentieth. 
REPORT THE FIRST SPRING BIRDS. 
Cheerless and cold as seems the Febru¬ 
ary landscape, and rigorous yet the grip 
of winter, the sun is swinging North , 
again, and snow drifts soon must give way 
beneath his cheering rays. Even in this 
latitude the backbone of winter is broken. 
Only a few days more, or a few weeks at 
the latest, and the familiar wedge lines of 
returning water fowl will be defined 
against a softer sky. Soon, too, we may 
expect to hear the familiar but feeble 
voices of the first migratory song birds, 
harbingers of Spring. When does the first 
of this returning band of Southern winter¬ 
ing birds make its appearance north of 
Mason’s and Dixon’s Line, and where are * 
they first observed? “Forest and Stream” ■ 
readers have observant eyes and are keen j 
to note Nature’s changes. Let us know jj 
the date on which you first observe the jj 
returning birds this Spring, and where. A j 
few hardy specimens, we know, remain 
North all winter, but we would like to 
record in “Forest and Stream” during the [ 
next month or two the return of the bird 
traveler to his Northern home- Commu¬ 
nications are solicited, and will be gladly 
welcomed. 
QUAIL SEASON CLOSED FOR FIVE YEARS. 
A five-year closed season on quail in Essex 
County, Mass., was urged recently by Represen¬ 
tatives Lyle, of Gloucester, and Webster, of 
Boxford. 
CLUB ASKS FOR HATCHERY. 
The Rod and Reel Club, of New Bedford, 
Mass., who recently petitioned for a bill provid¬ 
ing for the establishment of a salmon hatchery, 
has succeeded in having the bill presented to the 
committee on fisheries and game. Dr. Garry 
DeN. Hough, who presented the bill, told the 
committee that landlocked salmon was considered 
the most valuable asset to the state. He said that 
in Maine the value of salmon is so thoroughly 
recognized that the state annually appropriates 
many thousands of dollars for the stocking of 
hatcheries. Dr. Hough recommended that the 
$10,000 be expended at the Sandwich hatchery, 
which is best adapted for the propagation of the 
salmon. It would be impossible for salmon to be 
raised under the present conditions existing at 
Sandwich, he said, and he would leave all regula¬ 
tions as to an open season with the department 
of fisheries and game. He said that the club has 
found that it is a waste of money and energy to 
put fry into the streams, and that to propagate 
the salmon would depend largely in which sec¬ 
tion of the streams the fry was deposited. He 
said that fingerlings in the fall give better results 
than fry in the spring. Lake Quinsigamond at 
Worcester, he said, is the only lake in the state 
where salmon have been deposited. 
NO CHANCE AT REELFOOT LAKE, KY. 
Commercial hunters at Reelfoot Lake, Ky., re¬ 
ceived. a check to their operations the latter part 
of last month when Col. Joseph H. Acklen, the 
chief game warden for the United States, spent 
a few days at Walnut Log, a famous stopping 
place for hunters. The enforcement of the new 
game law for the protection of migratory birds, 
which went into effect on January 15, was the 
object of Col. Acklen’s visit. 
