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F.A.O.Schwarz 
FIFTH AVE. and 31st ST. 
NEW YORK 
FISHING TACKLE 
AND 
SPORTING GOODS 
DRY - FLY - TACKLE 
SCOTCH AND ENGLISH 
DRY FLIES 
HALFORD’S AND EMYLN GILLS 
PATTERNS 
HARDY BROS. FLY-CASTS 
(Mounted, Ready for Use.) 
ENGLISH DOUBLE TAPERED VACUUM 
FLY LINES 
JOHN G. LANDMANS AND NICHOLS 
HAND MADE FLY RODS 
BAIT -CASTING-SUPPLIES 
HEDDON’S BASS RODS 
DOWAGIC MINNOWS 
CHIPPEWA BAITS 
MEISSELBACH AND MEEK CASTING 
REELS 
HAND MADE BAIT CASTING LINES 
SURF - CASTING - TACKLE 
VOM HOFE REELS 
“SURFMANS” CASTING LINES 
SURF AND TUNA RODS 
(Hand Made.) 
E. HOLZMANN’S REELS 
TROUT—BAIT—AND—SURF 
We respectfully solicit your patronage 
and would be pleased to have you call and 
jnspect our tackle department. 
Fishing trips laid out and proper 'tackle 
advised for fishing in the different sections 
of the United States and Canada. 
Inquiries by mail given prompt and 
careful attention. 
FOREST AND STREAM 
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS PRESERVE. 
The first game reservation to be established in 
southern Illinois under plans of the state com¬ 
missioners will be located on several farms west 
of Edwardsville, Madison county. Land owners 
who are reported to have entered into the ar¬ 
rangement are Representative William Dickman, 
Mrs. P. F. Wheeler, Christ Rathert, Fred Ort- 
gier, John Barnsback and Edward Brockmeier. 
The reservation will probably contain be.ween 
1,500 and 2,000 acres. 
PROTECTOR MEANS BUSINESS 
Sixteen men who violated the game laws of 
New York State in obtaining hunters’ licenses 
by misrepresentation were arrested and convicted 
in the last few weeks through the activity of 
State Game Protector J. A. Ginder. He recently 
obtained the conviction of one man on two 
counts, the first for taking out a license at Sche¬ 
nectady and representing that he was a citizen, 
and the second for taking out a license and 
transferring it to a friend. The offender was 
fined $30 and $50 on the two counts. 
TO ATTRACT WILD DUCKS. 
Warden Hedrick, of South Dakota, plans to 
utilize part of the recent $7,000 appropriation in 
starting the growth of' wild rice in about ten 
lakes in the eastern part of the state, which are 
known to have been favorite nesting places for 
wild ducks in earlier days. The twenty-five elk 
assigned to the state forest reserve have not yet 
been obtained, the reason being that the absence 
of severe winter weather has caused the animals 
to remain in the hills where they cannot be 
caught. 
SETTING PARTRIDGE. 
On the cover of our issue of January 17th we 
reproduced a wonderful photograph of a hen 
partridge setting. It took Mr. C. A. Hooker, 
of Evart, Mich., ten days to get this photograph. 
When Mr. Hooker finally succeeded in breaking- 
down the reeds in front of the bird she pecked 
his hand, thereby showing how carefully he had 
to proceed in order to avoid frightening the bird. 
CAN SHIP BEAVER MEAT. 
The meat of legally killed beavers can be 
shipped out of the state of Michigan, according 
to a recent notification from State Game Warden 
W. R. Oates. All packages must be marked plain¬ 
ly to indicate their contents. With the price of 
beaver meat quoted at Chicago at upward of $1 
a pound, it is evident that the pelts may bring 
less than the meat, most of which heretofore has 
been wasted. 
WOMAN SHOOTS 30-POUND LYNX. 
The first Canadian lynx known to have been 
shot in that part of Vermont was brought down 
recently by Mrs. Cora C. Bancroft, of Fairlee, 
about a mile from her home. Her husband had 
been losing his fox traps and she had trailed them 
to a den in the ledges of the mountains. After 
several days’ work Mrs. Bancroft succeeded in 
inducing the thief to come out, and she shot him 
with a 38-calibre revolver. Her husband met her 
as she was bringing home the trophy on her 
shoulder. 
NORTHERN PACIFIC TO HAUL ELK. 
The Northern Pacific railroad has filed a “live 
elk’’ tariff with the interstate, commerce com¬ 
mission, in anticipation of its hauling elk from 
Yellowstone Park to such city parks as may ask 
for them, under recent ruling of the department 
of the interior. The work of transporting the 
elk will probably be begun in the spring. 
SHORT MUSKRAT SEASON. 
The trapping of muskrat on the Wisconsin side 
of the Mississippi river will be permitted only 
during the forty-one days between March 1st and 
April 10th, when the fur of the animals is sup¬ 
posed to be at its best. The widespread activity 
of amateur and professional trappers in that 
region of the Badger state necessitated the legis¬ 
lation in the Badger State. 
TO CONFORM TO FEDERAL LAWS. 
The Rhode Island Commissioners of Birds re¬ 
commended recently, in their annual report to 
the Governor, that the state game laws be changed 
so as to conform to the Federal law. Another 
suggestion was that sportsmen and farmers be 
urged to scatter grain or the sweepings of hay¬ 
mows in the haunts of game birds when snow is 
on the ground, so that the birds can find food 
easily and thus be preserved for the hunting sea¬ 
son. Encouragement for the future was held out 
in the statement that “the mild winter which thus 
far has prevailed in Rhode Island, following the 
generally temperate conditions of the year previ¬ 
ous will undoubtedly aid greatly in multiplying 
the game birds and game animals.” 
HATCHERIES NOT EFFICIENT. 
A Maine newspaper suggested recently that in¬ 
stead of establishing more hatcheries, the state 
would do better to furnish more funds for those 
already in operation. It is pointed out that while 
the present hatcheries increase their output from 
year to year, the equipment remains as when first 
established. It would be cheaper and more prof¬ 
itable, it is implied, to get full benefit from the 
present hatcheries. 
TO RESTORE TRUCKEE RIVER. 
Fish ladders and an absorption system are part 
of the plan to restore the Truckee river to its 
status as a trout stream, as taken up by the Fish 
Commission of Nevada, the Fish and Game Com¬ 
mission of California, and the officials of the 
Floriston Pulp & Paper Co. The absorption sys¬ 
tem will keep the river free from acid from the 
paper plant. Fish ladders will be installed in two 
places. 
SUNDAY HUNTING AND FISHING. 
A bill making it a misdemeanor, punishable by 
a fine of $25, to hunt on Sunday, and providing 
moreover that the prosecution need not prove 
that the hunting caused any serious interruption 
of the religious life of the community, was intro¬ 
duced in the New York State legislature recently 
by Assemblyman Ferry. Assemblyman Dubois 
introduced a bill proposing a referendum on 
Sunday fishing and amateur sports. If the bill 
goes through, the question will then be decided 
by vote upon petition of one-fourth of the elect¬ 
ors. 
“GHOST BEAR” PROVES REAL THING. 
A white bear, the first ever taken in the Adi- 
rondacks, was captured recently near the settle¬ 
ment of Hague, and the mystery of the ghost 
bear of the mountains appears to have been 
cleared up. The bear, which was caught in one 
of a dozen traps set for the “ghost,” is of average 
size and is almost snow white. He is thought to 
be a “sport” of the black North American bear. 
