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the sheep pens, Pete slipped up and, an unpre¬ 
cedented thing for him, he bit the man badly. 
Nor did he let it go at that. He stood ready 
to fight it out with the butcher, seeing he had 
been unable to catch the butcher’s dog. My 
father had to shut him in the cow stable, for 
he wouldn’t allow the butcher to move so much 
as a finger. 
I’ve always thought the old dog must have 
got a good deal of satisfaction out of the en¬ 
counter after all. At any rate, the butcher 
found reason to “lam” his dog right soundly 
before he left, and Pete surely heard the hulla¬ 
baloo the pup set up when he felt the horsewhip. 
Grizzly King. 
A Trip to Remember. 
New York City, Feb. 10 .— Editor Forest and 
Stream: I have just returned from my trip to 
Cocoa, Florida. It was one of the most success¬ 
ful and delightful trips I have ever taken. 
We had good guides both on land and water. 
Our shooting was done mostly back of the St. 
MR. CORSA. IKS GUIDE. 
Johns River, some twenty miles from Cocoa. 
The fishing was done mostly in the St. Johns 
River and consisted of large-mouth black bass, 
of which we caught fifty-two the first day, thirty- 
eight the second and forty-eight the third. The 
largest weighing seven pounds even, others six 
and mostly around five pounds. They were al¬ 
most all caught trolling; a few casting. 
The hunting comprised deer, turkey, quail 
and ducks. On a four days’ trip inland we shot 
two deer, two turkeys (one twelve and the other 
ten pounds), a good many quail, tw'o, rattle¬ 
snakes, one about five feet long and the other 
four feet. 
Ducks were very plentiful, and had we de¬ 
sired could have filled our boat with them almost 
any day. 
Mr. Corsa and I are very grateful to you for 
recommending such a fine place to us, and we 
■will long sing the praises of Cocoa. 
R. E. Pardee. 
,, , Montreal, February 3, 1913. 
Oentlemen and Friends: 
Now then, on the q. t., my good wife has looked 
my paper for many years, but circumstances have 
placed many miles between us for the past year, and in 
a recent letter she says: “Your Forest and Stream 
subscription must be due. Now, don*t let it run out, for 
next your Bible, it is the best on the table.” That from 
a good woman is some recommend. 
Inclosed please find check covering my subscription 
tor another year. 
_truly yours, W. H. Thurlow. 
No. 9(5 Frontenac St. 
Effective Game Protection 
By C. L. CHAMBERLIN 
T he subject of game protection is receiving 
considerable attention from the people in 
several quarters. It is none the more likely 
to succeed because it is apparently becoming a 
fad. Much is said in farmers’ clubs, nature 
study societies and other organizations about 
the best methods of protecting the remaining 
game birds and animals, but these same organi¬ 
zations overlook the practical and effective 
methods of preserving our wild life, while State 
Legislatures are importuned and pressure 
enough brought upon them to secure the kind 
of laws that seem most needful. While clubs 
and societies are writing and talking, wild life 
is decreasing, and by the time they have settled 
upon the laws most necessary and have secured 
their enactment, wild life will have disappeared 
entirely in many places. The thing to do is 
MR. PARDEE A DAY’S KILL. 
to act now in a way that will keep alive the 
fast vanishing species while strong and far- 
reaching laws are being secured. 
People living in cities can do little active 
work since they have not the opportunities for 
personal work. However, it will require but 
a limited amount of organization with a single 
purpose in view to place things in a situation 
where city people, as well as country, may help 
by furnishing the funds required to put into 
practice the necessary operations. What are 
these means by which they may assist in pre¬ 
serving wild life and how may country people 
at little or no expense do much to keep alive 
the wild life among them? 
The answer is not far to seek. There is 
just one thing which must be the forerunner of 
any successful movement of this kind. People 
everywhere must rid themselves of this feeling 
that “why should we spend our time assisting 
in the raising of game when other sportsmen 
will come in and shoot from our flocks?” There 
are laws in almost every State which prevent 
trespass, and these may be enforced if the land- 
owners choose to see after it. The farmers 
have it in their power to do much for wild 
game on their premises with the laws as they 
are. 
First, arrange a local subscription to which 
as many farmers subscribe as it is possible to 
secure. Let the heading state that the farmers 
and landowners or renters whose names appear 
below agree to enforce the trespass law against 
all hunters, not owners or renters of land whose 
names are found on the paper. Signers have 
the right to hunt on the premises of others by 
getting one annual permission, otherwise they 
may shoot only upon their own land. Out¬ 
siders may shoot upon the land thus protected 
only by getting permission from each member 
.separately upon whose premises they wish to 
shoot. No one landowner may give permission 
for the land of another except in cases where 
an organization is effected with officers whose 
duty it is to grant permission to outsiders. 
Permission may be sold or granted free as 
seems best, but only to reliable sportsmen who 
are able to give references as to their responsi¬ 
bility. 
An arrangement of the kind described will 
effectually shut out the irresponsible, shiftless, 
reckless class, those that usually do the damage 
to stock and crops. By strictly enforcing such 
regulations the game may be largely protected 
without another thing being done. But there 
are two or three other things just as effective 
and no more expensive that farmers may do. 
One is to locate the coveys that are left on the 
premises at the close of the shooting season 
and when winter is about to open. Few birds 
will wander much after that. They seek a 
swamp, thicket, or other natural protection and 
keep within short distance of it during the cold 
weather. The farmer may in an hour’s time 
locate all the birds that are congregated on 
his premises for the winter. He should keep 
an eye on them to see if they are holding their 
own or if predatory birds and animals have also 
located them and are diminishing their num¬ 
bers with the rapidity known only to the ability 
of a hungry fox, mink, or owl. If he sees 
where some of these prowlers are dining on 
the birds, a little inspection will decide the 
nature of the thief, and traps carefully placed 
will soon put a stop to their depredations. 
As winter advances and the snow deepens, 
food also becomes scarcer, not only from much 
of it having been eaten by that time, but also 
through its being buried under snows having a 
crust too firm for breaking readily. More real 
game preservation can be effected at such times 
by scattering some screenings or other cheap, 
small grain around the runways and hiding 
places of the birds than in a winter of lobbying 
a politically hardened Legislature to pass im¬ 
possible laws. 
The people in the city who wish to do 
something along this line may open communi¬ 
cations with some true sportsman or farmer, 
who has the interests of the game at heart, and 
send money for the purchase of grain on the 
condition that the farmer places it daily or 
every second day where it will do the most 
good. It does not require a large amount of 
grain to keep the life in a quail or partridge 
during the season of deep snows, and with the 
coming of a thaw the birds will be able to get 
down to the ground and obtain food for them¬ 
selves. 
With the coming of spring, the birds mate 
