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FOREST AND STREAM 
May 24, 1913 
Published Weekly by the 
Forest and Stream Publishing Company, 
Charles Otis, President. 
W. G. Beecroft, Secretary. W. J. Gallagher, Treasurer. 
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NEW YORK STATE FORESTRY BILLS. 
It is only the possibility of being overlooked 
in the excitement of enthusiasm over direct pri¬ 
maries that can prevent Governor Sulzer’s sign¬ 
ing that most worthy bill—McLelland-Jones 
(Assembly 2733) recently passed by the New 
York State Legislature. The bill is backed by 
the Empire State Forest Products Association, 
the Adirondack League Club, the New York 
State Fish, Game and Forest League, the Asso¬ 
ciation for the Preservation of the Adirondacks, 
the Camp-Fire Club of America and the New 
York Board of Trade and Transportation, and 
practically all other authorities on forestry in 
the Empire State. Concisely, the bill asks an 
optional State control of lumbering on private 
lands, where forestry devastation is carried on 
to its greatest extent. It solves the problem of 
preservation and rehabiliation of State forests 
and the protection of watersheds. 
Every reader of Forest and Stream, of 
course, will support the McLelland-Jones bill. 
WHY KILL AFRICAN BIRDS? 
Further evidence of the broadening interest 
in bird preservation is offered by correspondence 
abstracted in another column, between Sir Harry 
Johnston, the African traveler, and officials of 
the Plumage Committee and Textile Trade Sec¬ 
tion of the London Chamber of Commerce. 
Sir Harry Johnston bears witness to the 
great usefulness of insect-eating birds, which are 
now so rapidly being destroyed for the sake of 
their plumage—testimony which cannot fail to 
prove an effective weapon in the hands of the 
bird protectionists of the Old World, as it has 
been in the New. 
The extraordinary stupidity of spending vast 
sums of money to fight certain diseases carried 
by blood-sucking insects, and at the same time 
permitting the most effective enemies of these 
blood-sucking insects to be destroyed for com¬ 
mercial purposes, must be obvious to anyone. 
The only question is as to the facts, and all 
students of birds and of insects are agreed that 
birds are the most efficient enemies of the harm¬ 
ful species, whether they destroy property, tim¬ 
ber or crops, or life, by conveying diseases. 
It is interesting to note that the species of 
herons which furnish egret plumes, are the 
enemies of the tsetse fly, which we are told is 
responsible for such tremendous loss of human 
life in Africa. 
Forest and Stream has for many years in¬ 
sisted that in the birds the farmer has a vast 
army of unpaid servants, working for him all 
day long, for 365 days in each year. To a less 
extent the same may be said for the medical man 
—at all events in certain quarters of the globe. 
BARN SWALLOWS. 
Paradoxical as it may sound, swallows in¬ 
crease rather than diminish the milk supply. Of 
course we refer to the members of the Hirun- 
dinidcE family and not to the action of the 
esophagus. In making this observation we 
quote C. D. Howe, State ornithologist of Ver¬ 
mont, who says: 
“The barn swallow has a direct relation to 
the milk supply, for it feeds upon the flies that 
are about the barns and trouble the cattle. 
Holes should be made in the gables of barns 
to allow them a chance to get in and nest among 
the rafters, or a cleat be nailed along under 
the eaves to allow them a chance to nest there.” 
And even if this little graceful passerine 
ate no flies and saved no milk, what is prettier 
than its volplaning about the barnyard and over 
the orchard. Its grace alone entitles it to pro¬ 
tection. j 
AMERICAN GAME PROTECTIVE AND 
PROPAGATION ASSOCIATION. 
On another page we print the summary of 
the first year’s work of the American Game Pro¬ 
tective and Propagation Association, incorpor¬ 
ated Sept. 25, 1911. The annual report shows 
a remarkable bit of history in conviction of game 
law violators, bird propagation and protection, 
as well as the history of its greatest achieve¬ 
ment—the enactment of the Weeks-McLean bill, 
for to more than any other organization credit 
belongs to John B. Burnham and his associates 
for this migratory bird protection law. 
Financially and numerically the association 
is in excellent condition. The support of every 
red-corpuscled human should be given the Amer¬ 
ican Protective and Propagation Association. 
The new offices of the association are in the 
Woolworth Building. 
“THE WAY OP THE WOODS.” 
Every time we look over “Eddie” Breck’s 
guide book, the more we are impressed by his 
knowledge of the outdoors and all that therein 
is. Many times have we perused “The Way of 
the Woods” and just that many times have we 
found, between its covers, something almost in¬ 
dispensable to the camper. Just now we have 
cured a severe case of ivy poisoning with a Breck 
remedy, and it wasn’t a whiskey solution, either; 
just ordinary baking soda—^bicarbonate—dis¬ 
solved in water and applied frequently. For 
this solution and for hundreds of other solu¬ 
tions to harder problems we recommend “The 
Way of the Woods” to every one about to call 
upon dame nature. 
CARRYING GAME THROUGLI NEW 
JERSEY. 
In another column appears a letter from a 
resident of New York State who was put to 
considerable expense and inconvenience for 
carrying game through New Jersey. We print 
his letter, not so much because the warden was 
not within his prerogative in making the arrest, 
but because the court proceeding constituted a 
travesty on justice. Appended to the subscriber’s 
complaint is a letter from C. H. Napier, Presi¬ 
dent of the New Jersey Game Commission, ex¬ 
plaining in detail his ideas on the subject, which 
to us seem reasonable and fair. However, if 
we interpret correctly, Mr. Napier’s idea of a 
“reasonable deposit,” he should get together with 
the justices in Jersey City and impress upon them 
the fact that $48.80 is not a “reasonable deposit” 
for the possession of one snowshoe hare in 
transit from Sullivan county to New York 
county. 
NO MORE BIRD PLUMES FOR HAT 
DECORATION. 
The Plouse of Representatives has passed 
the tariff bill, and present indications are most 
favorable to its passage by the Senate. Sched¬ 
ule N in this bill contains a clause (Section 357) 
that means wonderful things to wild bird life. 
It forbids the importation of bird plumage, ex¬ 
cept for scientific purposes, and was made pos¬ 
sible through concentrated efforts of the vari¬ 
ous influences whose work and whose names 
are too well known to need further mention. 
To all those concerned in this great work, and 
to those nature lovers in future generations, we 
extend our hearty congratulations. To the 
National Milliners’ Association we offer con¬ 
dolences. 
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MONTANA GAME LAWS. 
It is unfortunate that in the 1913 game laws 
of Montana, set forth in another column, game 
birds in other States may be possessed and sold 
publicly. This is not only unfair to the neigh¬ 
boring States, but is retrogression rather than 
progress in national game protection. 
