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Here’s A 
Brand New Savage 
The .22 Tubular Repeater 
Y OU’LL never know how perfectly a . 22 -caliber rifle can balance, how naturally and instinctively 
it will handle and aim, until you have had this new Savage in your hands. 
It has all the original Savage . 22 -caliber features—hammerless trombone action, solid breech, 
solid top, side ejection, no exposed moving parts, simple takedown device, breech-boit removable 
without tools, and spiral main spring—features every one has imitated but no one has equaled. 
It looks better than others. The outlines are more graceful and symmetrical; but that isn't half 
the story, .lust put it up to your shoulder. Extend your left arm naturally—this side handle is 
long enough to let you. Hold her steady—this pistol grip actually supports the hand; it is made to 
GRIP, to control the rifle, not merely to look at. Press the trigger and work the action. Now how 
about it? 
Can’t you FEEL how you could shoot it? How much easier its perfect handling and balance and 
its short, smooth, snappy action will make any rifle work, fancy or plain, at any object, target or 
game, moving or at rest? 
But when you shoot it—when the hits PROVE and CLINCH what the feel of the rifle suggests 
—you’ll find it has spoiled you for any other . 22 . After that no other is good enough for you. 
And it holds a lot of cartridges—20 shorts, 17 longs, and 15 long-rifles. 24 -inch octagon barrel. 
Weight, 514 pounds. It only costs $ 12 . 00 . Write us about it. 
SAVAGE ARMS COMPANY, 925 Savage Avenue, Utica, New York 
Makers of the Famous Savage Rifles. 
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woodland stretches before the visitor, and, wher 
one gets into the midst of this forest, all evi¬ 
dences of civilization are swept away. It is as 
though for the nonce one were dropped down 
amid a wilderness remote from all civilization. 
The country is rough and mountainous, and mile 
after mile may be traveled without the sign of a 
clearing, and with no sound audible save such as 
are heard in the forest. Birds abound of all the 
native varieties of song and game birds, and in 
the summer days the air is vocal with their melo¬ 
dies. The place is one of the most ideal in the 
country, and it is earnestly to be hoped that in 
time it may come into the possession of the state. 
CONCERNING KILLING RABBITS IN THE 
ORCHARD. 
Conservation Commission, Albany, April 28. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
Mr. C. E. Brisbin of Schuylerville, in a rather 
lively letter asks why there should be “laws that 
create a flood of rabbits and laws that forbid us 
killing them in our own orchards.” That is a 
simple question. An equally simple answer is 
that the laws do not forbid Mr. Brisbin to kill 
rabbits which are harming his orchard. 
Section 196 of the Conservation Law says 
“The owners or occupants of enclosed or occu¬ 
pied farms and lands, or a person duly author¬ 
ized in writing by such owner or occupant, may 
take, except by tise of ferrets, in any manner at 
any time, and in any number, varying hares and 
cotton tailed rabbits which are injuring their 
property.” (The italics are mine). Mr. Brisbin 
paid about $80 because the persons killing the 
rabbits which injured his orchard killed them in 
the only way which is forbidden by law. They 
took them with ferrets. Mr. Brisbin admitted 
that the law was violated and he paid the penalty. 
Mr. Brisbin complains because the game pro¬ 
tector enforced the law. If he had not enforced 
it the sportsmen would have complained with 
equal bitterness. The sportsmen would have been 
right, because the law enforcement is the duty of 
the game protector and the duty of the Conser¬ 
vation Commission. 
JOHN D. MOORE, Commissioner. 
ASSOCIATED CANOE CLUBS OF THE 
DELAWARE. 
Burlington, N. J., April 13, 1914. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
The Associated Canoe Clubs of the Delaware 
held its annual meeting at Burlington, N. J., on 
the evening of March 28, 1914, and elected officers 
for the ensuing year. Other business of import¬ 
ance was taken up, and reports from the dele¬ 
gates present would seem to indicate a particu¬ 
larly active season during this year. If possible, 
the association will arrange to lease a suitable 
site along the Delaware river to be used by the 
members of clubs of the association as a perma¬ 
nent camp site—a place where they can go at any 
time and stay as long as desired, and where they 
will be far removed from the usual Sunday rab¬ 
ble found at various points along the Delaware. 
In addition to the usual regattas held by the 
different clubs, the association will arrange to 
hold an Association Regatta, probably at the 
Mohican Boat Club, Florence, N. J., sometime 
in August, making it the big event of the season. 
Only two dates have been selected by the clubs 
for holding regattas, and these are as follows: 
Philadelphia Canoe Club, off their club house at 
Wissahickon, Pa., on June 13, and Lakanoo Boat 
Club, at Burlington, N. J., on July 4. The other 
clubs will select their dates in the near future. 
The officers for the coming year are: Elmer 
B. Ayres, president; Harry J. Burns, vice-presi¬ 
dent; Henry B. Fort, secretary-treasurer. 
NEW ONTARIO AND QUEBEC FISHING 
AND HUNTING TERRITORY. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
Is any definite information obtainable with 
reference to the new “Transcontinental Country,” 
aroun the head waters of the Ottawa, Gatineau 
or St. Maurice Rivers in Canada? 
SUBSCRIBER. 
[Real information relative to the new country 
being traversed by the Transcontinental, particu¬ 
larly east or west of Cochrane, which point you 
can reach by taking the Government line from 
Toronto north several hundred miles, is extreme¬ 
ly difficult to furnish. Up to the present time 
nothing of real value has been published relative 
to this territory, and as a consequence no one is 
in a position to give the desired particulars. 
Forest and Stream hopes soon to send a represen¬ 
tative into the country to get some first hand in¬ 
formation. All that can be given at present is 
largely impressions gathered from persons who 
have covered only small sections, and who have 
not been very far from the railway tracks. At 
the present time there is no regular passenger 
train service east or west from Cochrane, and 
persons going into that country will have to de¬ 
pend on work trains that run two or three times 
a week in either direction. These remarks also 
apply to that portion of the Transcontinental 
lying west from Quebec and LaTuque in the St. 
Maurice territory. We have every assurance, 
however, that all this great area will provide the 
finest fishing and hunting grounds to be found 
in the country, and as soon as possible, we will 
be very glad indeed to furnish you with com¬ 
plete information.—Ed.] 
1913 REPORT N. Y. ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
The eighteenth annual report of the New York 
Zoological Society has just appeared. 
During the year 1913 the board of managers 
lost two important members, J. Pierpont Morgan 
in March, and Hugh D. Auchincloss in April 
The membership of the Society is slightly in¬ 
creased, though during the year losses by death 
and resignation have been many. The attendance 
at the Park almost reached the two million mark 
for 1913, while that at the Aquarium was more 
than two million two hundred thousand. 
The Society is in sound financial condition. 
The endowment account was increased during the 
year by more than $21,000. There was expended 
for the purchase of birds, mammals, reptiles, 
insects, and their transportation, over $23,000. 
At the spring meeting of the board of mana¬ 
gers it was proposed to raise a fund of $2,500 a 
year for five years to start a Gallery of Oil Paint¬ 
ings of American Wild Game. A large number 
of subscriptions to this fund have been made, 
but it has not yet been completed. 
On January 1, 1914, the exhibits of the Society 
at the Aquarium numbered 6,705 specimens, rep¬ 
resenting 192 species. The project of building 
the new Aquarium has been postponed owing to 
the unsatisfactory financial condition of the City 
of New York. 
In the latter part of 1913 the Zoological Society 
donated and gave to the Bison Society for the 
United States Government fourteen pure blood 
bison, which were shipped to the Wind Cave Na¬ 
tional Park in South Dakota. 
The Society’s expedition to West Africa for 
living gorillas is still in the field. Two female 
gorillas have been captured and are at present in 
good condition. 
The death rate among the collections of the 
Society was unusually large. This was due part- 
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