FOREST AND STREAM 
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Vol. LXXXII. No. 20 
FOREST AND STREAM 
Channel Cat Fishing.By R. H. McNair 649 
Down and Around the Allagash. 
By Palmer H. Langdon 645 
Editorial. 658 
How to Camp Out in Comfort, Part II. 
By Stillman Taylor 650 
How to Make Nesting Boxes for Birds. . 655 
648 
Live Notes from the Field. 
People’s Fish and Game Association of California 
Again Busy .By “Golden Gate” 652 
The Bull Dog.By Walter H. Deering 653 
The Surf Fishing Outlook.By B. C. Clapp 65 1 
Trapshooting . 659 
Virginia Game and Fish Protective Association. 654 
THOUSANDS OF BROOK TROUT DIE. 
Nearly 40,000 brook trout, ranging from three 
to five inches in length, have died at the New 
Jersey State Hatchery at Hackettstown, since 
March 1, which is the first serious loss since 
the hatchery was started, it is reported. Super¬ 
intendent Charles O. Haverford announced that 
he believes he has found the cause. B. Frank 
Fox owns a farm adjoining the water supply 
to the hatchery. Some months ago Mr. Fox 
spread upon his farm for fertilizing purposes 
large quantities of refuse matter from the vats 
of the Lackawanna Leather Company. Mr. 
Haverford says recent rains and the heavy March 
snows carried quantities of this poisonous mat¬ 
ter into the water supply feeding the pools to 
the hatchery. He has notified Mr. Fox to dis¬ 
continue the use of the tannery refuse on his 
lands adjacent to those of the state. 
BRITISH PLUMAGE BILL. 
A newspaper cablegram from London reports 
that the government has been defeated on the 
plumage bill, designed on lines similar to the 
measure enacted in the United States last year, 
and certain amendments have now been intro¬ 
duced which make it valueless for the purpose 
originally intended. The bill has passed its 
second reading, and is now in the hands of a 
Parliamentary committee. Mr. Glyn Jones 
moved an amendment that the expression “per¬ 
son” should not include any woman over 21 
years of age. He said it would be going too 
far to dictate to an adult woman what she should 
wear in hats. 
The government, he said, must give women 
either feathers or votes. If the bill became a 
law many thousands of women would adopt as 
the emblem of their suffrage organization a 
cheap foreign feather and would probably be 
seen walking with it in their hats round the 
Houses of Parliament to show their contempt 
of Parliament. 
Mr. Glyn Jones finally altered his amendment 
so that the expression “person” should not in¬ 
clude any woman unless engaged in the im¬ 
porting, buying, or selling of plumage. This 
amendment was carried, and women will still 
be able to wear feathers without the prospect 
of being fined or imprisoned. 
It is stated that the provisions of the bill to 
which the persons engaged in the feather trade 
so strongly object remain. 
TROUT IN NEW JERSEY STREAMS. 
Fifteen hundred rainbow trout have been 
placed in the lakes of the southern portion of 
New Jersey by the Fish and Game Commission, 
and sportsmen may look forward to many an 
exciting battle in capturing them and their off¬ 
spring. This is the first time that this variety 
of trout has been available to sportsmen in New 
Jersey waters. 
NEW PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION. 
Butler and Bloomingdale, Pa., have organized 
a fish and game protective association. Streams 
throughout the community of any privacy at all 
will be stocked and cared for, and game will 
be set at large in the private lands. The asso¬ 
ciation has a membership of 250. Ewald Sachs, 
Dr. Samuel K. Owen and Mark T. Hennion are 
the promoters of the club. 
TO MAKE PRESERVE OF FOX RIVER. 
Steps are to be taken to have the Fox River 
set aside as a state game preserve as has already 
been done with the other principal streams of 
Illinois, with the view of preventing the illegal 
taking of game fish with seines which is known 
to be going on at present. To this end the 
anglers who fish in this stream are planning to 
enlist the interest of Representative Charles 
Clyne, Senator Stewart and other representa¬ 
tives from districts along the river in having the 
Fox and its stream of lakes made a State re¬ 
serve and thus preventing seining altogether. 
The Desplaines, Mazon, Kankakee and other 
rivers are already protected in this way. 
INSTRUCTION FOR WARDENS. 
The Kentucky game and fish commission, in 
session recently, arranged for the establishment 
of a school of instruction for the paid wardens 
of the state, to be held in Frankfort in the 
form of a convention lasting three or four days 
during the summer months, the instructions to 
cover every branch of the business—the easiest 
and least expensive way to care for the inhabi¬ 
tants of the preserve, especially the young, how 
to proceed when a poacher is caught, etc. 
It was decided to devote the funds and labor 
of the commission during the coming year to 
inauguration of other preserves throughout the 
state along the same lines as the one in Bell 
county, upon which eighteen deer have beet, 
liberated and where the members of the com¬ 
mission say that they found the conditions ideal. 
