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March 14, 1914 
FOREST AND STREAM 
Vol. LXXXII. No. 11 
CONTENTS 
Page 
A History of the Audubon Movement By Ernest Ingersoll 339 
Editorial . 348 
Fur, Fin and Feather. 349 
Five Important Wild Duck Foods. 347 
Hunting the Ruffed Grouse.By R. H. McNair, M. D. 33 7 
Hunting Arrows.By I. M. Fulton 350 
The Color Sense in Fishes.By Theodore Gordon 342 
Page 
The Large and Small Bore Gun By Dr. W. S. Rainsford and 
W. R. Gilbert 345 
The Purpose of a Hackle. 344 
Trap Shooting. 3 51 
Trapping the Beaver.By Collin McDougall, M. D. 340 
When Passenger Pigeons Were Plenty By Tacitus Hussey 341 
practically all of the reputable newspapers are 
scoring us heavily because of our lack of inter¬ 
est in this vital question of wild life conservation. 
We must wake up or soon suffer the ridicule of 
the civilized world. The time is ripe and never 
before in the history of the state has such wide 
sentiment been aroused and expressed as at the 
present time, but we must not rest one moment. 
It would be an everlasting shame on the sports¬ 
men of Virginia if, because of lack of interest, 
we allowed the Hart-White game bill to be killed. 
We appeal to every sportsman in the state. 
Arouse yourselves now, this day. Do not put 
off one hour this vital question. See your neigh¬ 
bors. Write to your representatives at the state 
capitol, or, letter still, telegraph them. Use 
every ounce of power that you yourself per¬ 
sonally possess toward the passage of this bill, 
which will be your everlasting monument. 
Very truly yours, 
W. P. Patterson, 
President Virginia Game and Game 
Fish Protective Association. 
M. D. Hart, 
President Virginia Audubon Society. 
ST. CLAIR HUNTERS ORGANIZE. 
The St. Clair county branch of the Illinois 
Sportsmen’s Protective League has been orga¬ 
nized with Eugene Kreitner, temporary chair¬ 
man, and August Semmelroth, temporary secre¬ 
tary. The organization will urge the temporary 
suspension of the Federal law on duck shooting 
in favor of the state law, thus closing the season 
on April 15th instead of December 15th. 
A WORD OF APPRECIATION 
If the editors of “Forest and Stream” 
assume for the moment the privilege of 
talking to readers directly and individu¬ 
ally, it is because the editorial department 
feels that a word of thanks and apprecia¬ 
tion is due, not only to old contributors, 
but to the constantly growing list of new 
friends who have done and are doing so 
much to keep “Forest and Stream” up to 
its originally intended, and always main¬ 
tained, high standard of literary excellence. 
For more than forty years this paper 
has been the means of communication 
and exchange of opinion, and the offering 
of new ideas between a larger audience of 
intelligent outdoor men and women than 
reached by any other publication printed. 
What impresses us—to drop into the edi¬ 
torial method of expression—is the solid 
character, the high tone, the expertness 
and real authority that characterize the 
communications that reach this office. How 
much natural history this paper has 
taught during its long life we will not at¬ 
tempt to say, nor can we more than men¬ 
tion in passing the sustained common 
sense writing, the real literary finish, and 
the absence of ordinary juvenile dribble 
that mark the articles that come to us 
every day from people who observe out¬ 
door things, who know them and write to 
us of them. We want to make this paper 
more and more the medium of exchange 
of views between readers. We trust 
therefore that our—no, not contributors, 
we will call them associate editors—will 
continue to favor us with articles and pho¬ 
tographs for the information and the en¬ 
tertainment of a very rapidly growing 
family of American and foreign readers. 
GETTING READY FOR THE BIRDS. 
Nesting boxes are to be placed in three park# 
near Pittsburgh, Pa., to attract the migratory 
birds on their return from the South, according 
to plans formulated by City Ornithologist W. S. 
Thomas, of Pittsburgh. He says that to attract 
the birds when they return it would be necessary 
to have nests ready for them. The advantage 
of putting them up now would be that the bird- 
boxes put up would not look so new by spring, 
the birds rarely “nesting” in new boxes. 
Mr. Thomas is working for the introduction 
of lectures on bird protection in the public 
schools. 
PLENTY OF BASS HERE. 
Lake Apopka, near Winter Garden, Fla., is 
heralded by local anglers as furnishing “the best 
bass fishing in the world.” Anyone with a hook 
and line or troll, they say, can in a very short 
time catch all the fish that he can carry away. 
The popularity of the lake is growing so rapidly 
that twelve new boat houses are in the course 
of erection. 
AFTER DUCKS. 
In our issue of January 17th we published a 
rattling story entitled “After Ducks.” Inadvert¬ 
ently we omitted the author’s name. This was 
written by J. L. Banks. The photograph of the 
small boy and the partridges on page 137 was 
made by Mr. Banks. 
New York leads all the other states in th* 
Union in lumber consumption, with a total annual 
bill for timber of all kinds of over $54,000,000. 
