FOREST AND STREAM 
791 
Live Notes From The Field 
Being Weekly Reports From Our Local Correspondents 
FOREST NOTES. 
In preparation for the coming fire season in 
California, no miles of fire lines have been built 
on the Sierra national forest. 
The imports of matches into China greatly ex¬ 
ceed in value any other wood product. Most of 
the matches come in from Japan. 
Hyndman Park, Idaho, the highest named peak 
in the state, is more than 12,000 feet high. 
Several unnamed peaks near it are of about the 
same elevation. All are on the divide between the 
Sawtooth and the Lemhi national forests. 
MIGRATORY BIRD LAW CALLED INVALID. 
The federal migratory bird law was denounced 
as unconstitutional in the Senate recently by 
Senator Reed of Missouri, who is seeking to 
have the law tested in the.courts. 
“I don’t believe there is a reputable lawyer in 
the. Linked States who believes the law constitu¬ 
tional,” said Senator Reed, “and I don’t believe 
the Attorney General and the Secretary of Agri¬ 
culture believe the law is valid. Otherwise, I 
don’t see why they refuse to let it be tested.” 
TO LECTURE ON BIRD HOUSES. 
The National Association of Audubon Societies 
has a new plan on foot. Under the direction of 
Secretary T. Gilbert Pearson, aided by contribu¬ 
tions from wealthy bird-lovers, a competent orni¬ 
thologist will travel about the country showing 
people just how best to attract the wild birds to 
their grounds and keep them there. The scheme 
is to teach people how best to feed birds in win¬ 
ter, to provide water in which they may bathe 
and drink in summer, and especially what houses 
to provide and where to put them so that the 
hole-nesting birds may find homes near our or¬ 
chards, gardens and lawns. 
NEW CLUB FORMED. 
A new fishing association under the title of the 
Kinnikinnic Fishermen’s Protective association 
has been formed at Minneapolis. 
BUSY SAVING FISH. 
Heavy wind for several days in northern Iowa 
drove the fish spawn up on the sand banks near 
the fish hatchery on Spirit Lake, and Commission¬ 
er Hinshaw found there were upward of two 
million spawn of pike in danger of destruction. 
By hard work Hinshaw and his assistants trans¬ 
ferred the entire amount to the hatching ponds 
in safety and they will be saved for the lakes. 
TROUT FISHING MAY BE BAD. 
The consignment of 1,500 rainbow trout which 
were liberated in Lake Lenape, N. J., recently, 
are fast dying in the lake. Boating parties on 
the lake have found many of the fish floating in 
the water and lying along the shores. A number 
have been found dead in the Great Egg Harbor 
river, where they have washed over the falls at 
the race. At the Messrs. Woods’ cotton mill 
many were sucked in by the large turbine wheel 
and killed. Fishermen claim that the trout will 
not live in the cedar savored water, and their 
hopes of good trout fishing along , with the pick¬ 
erel fishing has been blasted. 
Elk may be turned loose in the Missouri river 
bottoms, according to Game Warden Reko, who 
is in communication with the department of agri¬ 
culture. 
HOUNDS BRING HIGH PRICES. 
High prices, which recalled the dispersal sale 
of the South Cheshire hounds some half dozen 
years ago when Lord Lonsdale established a 
record price for hounds in buying a single bitch 
for 300 guineas (about $1,500) and another 
couple for the same price, were brought by 
hounds at the recent Rugby sale when Mr. Ful¬ 
lerton’s pack, which have hunted the Avon Vale 
country (England) for the last three seasons, 
formed one of the most important sales of the 
year. Mr. Fullerton is giving up the mastership 
there. They were brought out in wonderfully 
fine condition and forty-nine and one-half couples 
brought $19,039. This was an average of about 
$192. 
Of this lot the working pack of twenty-four 
couples realized a total of $13,561, an average of 
about $282. Half a dozen brood bitches brought 
$352, or an average of a shade better than $58. 
Nineteen and one-half couples of unentered 
hounds were sold for $5,125, their average being 
$131. The highest single lot was $1,584, which 
Lord Furness gave for the sisters Sanguine and 
Shameless, by Milton Rector, out of South 
Shropshire, Sylvia. 
Three-fourths of all the furs trapped on the 
North American continent are shipped to St. 
Louis houses to be sold. 
TO ENFORCE MIGRATORY BIRD LAW. 
The Senate is to be congratulated on having 
restored the House’s appropriation of $50,000 for 
enforcement of the migratory bird law to the 
appropriation bill, said the New York Tribune 
recently. To reduce the appropriation for this 
purpose to $10,000 or $20,000, as the Committee 
on Agriculture sought to do, would be to spread 
the money out so thin as to render it useless. 
No adequate enforcement of the law possibly 
could result. 
This law T is worth enforcing, not only from an 
aesthetic but an economic view. It should pro¬ 
tect from wasting slaughter not only game birds, 
but songbirds and insect eaters. The country 
will be richer for such protection in beauty and 
in solid, countable dollars. For Congress to have 
nullified this law, in effect, as withholding of 
an adequate appropriation would have done, 
would have been notice to the Canadian authori¬ 
ties that the treaty now being worked out for 
bird protection by the two countries was consid¬ 
ered of no moment here. The appropriation 
should be adopted and spent in careful carrying 
out of the law’s purposes. 
FISH AND GAME CLUBS. 
The territory already leased to private indi¬ 
viduals and to fish and game clubs in the pro¬ 
vince of Quebec is very large, 'the number of in¬ 
corporated clubs alone in possession of such 
leases running up in number into the hundreds. 
The fish and game department of the province 
has recently issued an illustrated booklet descrip¬ 
tive of some of the clubs, and containing well 
executed views of a number of club houses and 
camps in the northern wilds. Some of these are 
log buildings of the most primitive description, 
while others are provided with many of the con¬ 
veniences of luxurious city homes. 
EPIDEMIC KILLS SPARROWS. 
The loss of thousands or maybe the extinction 
of English sparrows is threatened by an epidemic, 
according to Pittsburgh ornithologists whose at¬ 
tention has been called to the number of dead 
birds found around the city. 
Dr. T. L. Hazzard, senior surgeon of the 
staff of the Allegheny General Hospital, and 
an authority upon the bird life of western Penn¬ 
sylvania, examined several dead birds in the 
laboratory of the hospital. 
“I found that they had suffered from an in¬ 
testinal disorder, probably accompanied by fever, 
which caused them to stay near pools of water,” 
he said. 
CONDITIONS POOR AT RENO. 
Reno, Nev., May 29.—Cooler weather has 
caused the Truckee River to clear and to fall 
considerably and bait fishermen are again out 
in numbers after rainbow trout. Fly-casting 
will not be in order for two or three weeks. 
Fishing in the small mountain streams within 
easy reach has also been poor for the last few 
weeks, due to high and muddy water. Several 
parties of sportsmen have enjoyed good sport at 
Pyramid Lake, rowing out near the island far 
from the mouth of the river, where the water 
is too muddy for good fishing. 
Some of the members of the Nevada Bank¬ 
ers’ Association, which closed a recent conven¬ 
tion with a day at Lake Tahoe, tried fishing, but 
with indifferent success. L. E. Gary, of Chicago, 
and A. P. Ensign, of San Francisco, secured a 
single fish, but M. D. Fairchild, of Reno, and 
George P. Edwards, editor of the Coast Banker, 
of San Francisco, secured a number of trout. 
They were accused of using silver bait. 
Mr. and Mrs. Percy Gardner, of Reno, Mr. and 
Mrs. W. O. Woodbury, of Carson City, and 
Julius Parry, of Reno, spent a day at Lake Ta¬ 
hoe recently, making the trip up King’s Can¬ 
yon by automobile to Glenbrook. Although the 
lake was rough and the weather threatening, they 
secured ten lake trout. Market fishermen would 
not venture out owing to the bad weather. 
N. L. CHAPIN. 
