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Forest and Stream 
WILL PRESENT 
FIFTY SILVER CUPS 
TO SUCCESSFUL ANGLERS 
The angler fortunate enough to capture the 
largest fish deserves a prize, and Forest and Stream 
will see that he (or she) gets it. There will be no 
red tape about the contest. This paper will place 
fifty handsome silver cups in as many public camps or 
ummer hotels conducted for the angling fraternity in 
sifferent sections of the country. 
The cup in each case will go to the person who 
catches the record fish during the season of 1914, as 
verified to Forest and Stream by the management of 
the hotel or camp. 
The contest is open to all, subscribers and non¬ 
subscribers as well. Where different varieties of fish 
are caught in the same section, the management of 
the camp or the hotel can determine to which variety 
the cup will be limited, or it may be that arrange¬ 
ments will be made later for cups to be given for 
ifferent species of fish. 
M ore definite announcement of the contest will 
be made in an early issue, together with a list of sum¬ 
mer camps to which the cups have been consigned. 
FOREST AND STREAM, 22 Thames St., New York 
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Getting Hunters’ Opinions. 
Federal inspectors are touring Illinois to learn the 
sentiment of hunters regarding the new migratory bird 
law, and to see if there is a disposition to ignore it and 
shoot the ducks and geese as usual, while they are 
making their annual flight to the breeding grounds of 
the North. 
The inspectors are appointing a number of deputies 
who will patrol the Illinois River and other resorts of 
the game birds and will make arrests of all hunters who 
violate the Federal statute. The inspectors report that 
they have found a wide divergence of opinion among 
nimrods regarding the new law, some applauding it, 
while others regard it as unnecessary. 
Not Stopped By Federal Law. 
Reports from lakes and rivers near Carthage, Mo., 
indicate that ducks are plentiful and hunters have made 
hunting expeditions recently with varying success. Some 
have been held back believing the new migratory bird 
law would make it illegal to kill ducks. The law is not 
being enforced, however, according to local newspapers. 
Minnesota Fish. 
Under the terms of a bill just reported from the 
committee on foreign affairs of the House at Washing¬ 
ton, the fisheries in Minnesota boundary waters will be 
restricted to a large extent, and, it is believed, with 
the result that supply of food fish will not be in danger 
of extermination. The bill is designed to put into effect 
the boundary waters fisheries treaty agreed upon be¬ 
tween the United States and England in 1908. 
There is also proposed a closed season of four year 
on the sturgeon fisheries in the Lake of the Woods. 
May Stop Ice Spearing. 
A proposal to enact a law making all spearing through 
the ice in Michigan an offense was one of the principal 
topics at the Lansing meeting of game wardens. Every 
game warden present favored the adoption of the pro¬ 
posed bill. Governor Ferris complimented some of the 
wardens upon the energy they have displayed in abol¬ 
ishing the practice of fishing through the ice. He also 
complimented all wardens who have upheld the laws 
regulating spearing. A majority of the wardens ex¬ 
pressed the opinion that the law prohibiting spearing 
would be passed. 
WIRELESS WAVES AND BIRDS. 
Popular Mechanics. 
Observations made in sections of the world 
where there are many wireless stations indicate 
that birds are disturbed in a singular way by the 
wireless waves, says Popular Mechanics. It is 
stated that gulls are apparently the principal suf¬ 
ferers. but that also large numbers of doves are 
in some way prevented from finding their way 
home when there are wireless stations in the line 
of flight. This strange phenomenon is attributed 
to some effect of the ether waves not yet under- 
StO( id. 
More Game Protectors. 
Through a bill introduced in the New York Legis¬ 
lature by Senator Sanner, the State Conservation com¬ 
mission hopes to secure an increase of twenty men in 
its force of game protectors, now numbering 105. The 
bill also provides that the commission may issue per¬ 
mits to organizations to run field trails for dogs. Un¬ 
der the present law they are not permitted in the 
Adirondack region for hunting purposes. 
Woman Lands Monster Fish. 
A six-foot sailfish weighing forty pounds was caught 
recently with a six-ounce rod by Mrs. Fred B. Ells¬ 
worth at Tennessee Reef, seven miles from Long Key, 
Fla. The sailfish put up a teriffic fight, making ten 
leaps in all. It was turned over to a taxidermist to 
be mounted and sent to Chicago. 
One Si gn of Spring. 
An early spring was predicted by Boston fishermen 
when they learned that a shark had been hooked off 
the Middlebank. It is declared that the appearance of 
sharks in those waters is a sure sign of an early 
mackerel season and of spring. 
New Life for Georgia Club. 
The Georgia Sportsmen’s Association, which had con¬ 
siderable importance and influence before the new game 
law, may be revived and vitalized, through the activity 
of State \Y arden Davis. The plan includes the organi¬ 
zation of county associations to affiliate with the state 
association. 
Deer in Pennsylvania. 
The Pennsylvania State Game Commission has re¬ 
ceived word that in spite of the snows the men en¬ 
gaged in trapping deer at Westover in Clearfield county 
have secured a number to be turned loose in the newly 
created preserves. Later some may be sent to eastern 
preserves. 
CHARGED WITH DYNAMITING. 
For the first time in several years a warrant 
was issued in Rochester, NI V., for the arrest 
of a man who was alleged to have exploded 
dynamite in the bottom of the Genesee river to 
get fish. Deputy James A. Colloton, of Albany, 
swore out the warrant. 
CALIFORNIA IS SECOND. 
With an annual expenditure of $200,000 for 
conservation of game and enforcement of fish 
and game laws, California is second in the list of 
the states in the amount of work done by its 
Board of Fish and Game Commissioners. 
