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May 2, 1914 
FOREST AND STREAM 
CONTENTS 
Vol. LXXXII. No. 18 
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MAY 4 1914 
Blacksmith Fork Canyon .By W. J. Sloan 5 73 
Birds in Lake Ontario Region . 585 
Editorial . 586 
Fly Fishing For Blue Gills .By Charley Craigie 5 77 
Fur, Fin and Feather . 578 
Fox Farming in Newfoundland .By W. J. Carroll 581 
Out After Bonita .By William Perry Brown 582 
Significance of the So-Called “More Game’’ Doctrine 
By Henry Chase 580 
Steelhead Trout Season Opens in California. 
By Golden Gate 584 
The Lady Afield .By Edward C. Crossman 5 79 
Trapshooting. 587 
Women In Camp .By “Switch Reel” 5 75 
something red, typical no doubt of the blood of 
the lamb sprinkled upon the door posts. 
To make this scheme of protection complete, 
every one should be required to wear protective 
colors who wanders in the woodland when the 
greenhorn is at large with a dangerous weapon. 
Does it not seem more rational to strike at the 
source of this evil and impress upon the careless 
individual the necessity of obeying certain rules 
that insure safety? 
The victims of another season are still unslain, 
perhaps something can be done to reduce the 
number of casualties due to carelessness. 
COLEMAN RANDOLPH. 
TO INVESTIGATE LAKE POLUTION. 
Final and official action was taken recently at 
Washington, D. C., by the international joint 
commission for the second step in the investiga¬ 
tion of the polution of the international waters 
of the Great Lakes system. 
The opinions of the leading sanitary engineers 
of the world will be secured at a special meet¬ 
ing of the commission to be held in New York 
some time in May. After this the commission 
will travel over the ground and hear what the 
various cities and other parties in interest may 
have to say. These hearings probably will com ¬ 
mence some time in June. In the meantime the 
work of gathering data on the most approved 
methods of sewage disposal will be under way. 
When all the material has been collected the 
commission will formulate its recommendations 
to the Governments of the United States and 
Canada. It then will be up to those govern¬ 
ments to decide what to do with the matter. The 
probable course of action will be either to accept 
Ice on Northern Lakes 
Special reports received by “Forest and 
Stream,” dated as late as April 19, were 
that the ice on trout lakes in the province 
of Quebec, north of Ottawa, was still 
thick, although rotting rapidly. Our cor¬ 
respondents figured that May 1 would see 
the lakes clear, although it is not safe to 
take this for granted, as backward weather 
may push the actual opening of these lakes 
to May 7 or 15. The season for Canadian 
trout fishing will not get into fair swing 
until the last two weeks in May. It is 
pleasant to record from letters received 
not only from Maine but Canada as well, 
that game has survived the winter remark¬ 
ably well. Unless there ensues a repeti¬ 
tion of the exceptionally dry summer 
weather which characterized the season 
last year and played havoc, particularly 
with the feathered game, there will be 
good hunting throughout all the provinces 
of Canada the coming fall. Correspond¬ 
ents will confer a favor by reporting to 
“Forest and Stream” the date of all lake 
openings in the northern part of the 
United States and the provinces of Canada 
as well. 
or reject the work with the commission, with¬ 
out attempting to amend it. If it is accepted, 
the treaty between the two governments pro¬ 
vides for the resubmission of the question to 
the joint commission and when thus submitted 
it gives the commission plenary power to carry 
it out. 
EXPEDITION TO SIBERIA. 
The University of Pennsylvania museum has 
dispatched an expedition to the northern portion 
of Siberia, between the Yenesei and Lena rivers, 
to collect ethnological specimens and data among 
the little-known indigenous tribes there. 
MOUNTAIN LION HUNT AUTHORIZED. 
The big mountain lion drive in progress in 
the confines of the Yellowstone National park 
■ is proving successful, both from the standpoint 
of the sport and from the number of preying 
beasts killed, it is reported. 
The Yellowstone kennels, located at Gardiner, 
secured permission from the United States Gov¬ 
ernment to hunt the mountain lions which are 
a constant menace to the young elk, deer and 
antelope in the National preserve. There are a 
score or more Airedales in these kennels. With¬ 
in two weeks eighteen mountain lions have been 
bagged, one the largest ever seen in this coun¬ 
try. Henry Anderson, an old scout, who is part 
owner of the kennels, was the hunter who trailed 
the big lion. 
When the hounds first scent their prey they 
give chase and the lion resorts to even' device 
to outwit his pursuers. At last he climbs a tree 
or seeks some spot that he considers safe. When 
the hunters and dogs reach the place, the lion 
is shot. When he falls wounded from the tree 
he finds himself in the midst of the pack and a 
battle royal ensues. 
