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FOREST AND STREAM 
July 6 , 1912 
Published Weekly by the 
Forest and Stream Publishing Company, 
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THE OBJECT OF THIS JOURNAL 
will be to studiously promote a healthful in¬ 
terest in outdoor recreation, and to cultivate 
a refined taste for natural objects. 
—Forest and Stream, Aug. 14, 1873. 
MARKET HUNTERS’ DAYS ARE NUM¬ 
BERED. 
In another column appears an article from 
our New Orleans correspondent, its subject being 
the organization of an association to fight against 
a proposed bill to prohibit the sale of game. The 
association also fights to have the hunting license 
fee reduced from one dollar to fifty cents, and 
the extension of the open season on deer. In 
other words, these market hunters pray for per¬ 
mission to kill off all the game in the State of 
Louisiana at the lowest possible cost to the 
killer. This surely is an extension of the game 
hog. Louisiana, like her sister States in the 
South, has come to realize that from an un¬ 
limited supply of game, good shooting is con¬ 
fined to certain localities, and there are very few 
of these. The market hunter says it will hurt 
his business if he has to sell to the consumer 
instead of to the market. The law should for¬ 
bid him selling game to anybody. 
Section i of the bill recently passed in Mass¬ 
achusetts is a model Louisiana lawmakers should 
pattern after. It reads: 
“It shall be unlawful, except as hereinafter 
provided, to buy, sell, barter, exchange, or in 
any manner deal in or trade with respect to-, the 
dead or living bodies, or any part thereof, of 
wild birds or game quadrupeds, except hares and 
rabbits, protected by law in any part of the 
United States, whenever and wherever taken or 
killed.” 
One State after another is taking up the 
important work of retiring the market hunter. 
It has come to pass that every market hunter 
shall buy himself a hoe, rake and plow and take 
to market gardening. It is more profitable than 
market hunting and much more useful. Let him 
turn his gun into a plow share and his powder, 
horn will become a horn of plenty. Let him turn 
his address of command to his ox instead of 
to his dog. His “steady” and “hie on” must be 
transformed to “gee-haw,” while he cultivates 
the habits of rice, potatoes and other vegetable 
edibles instead of the habits and haunts of ani¬ 
mal foods. Verily his days are numbered. 
FOREST PRODUCT STATISTICS. 
The forest product statistics for the year 
1911, gathered by the Conservation Commission, 
show that the lumber and pulpwood output ex¬ 
ceeded that of the preceding year, but that there 
was a falling off in wood used for alcohol, ex¬ 
celsior and cooperage. 
The output of the forests in 1910 showed a 
decrease of 25 per cent, from that of 1908, a 
decline of about 300,000,000 feet in three years. 
The annual removal of about one billion feet 
of wood material from the forests and wood¬ 
lands of the State cannot go on indefinitely with¬ 
out reforestation on a large scale. 
Following are the figures for the lumber cut 
of the State for 1911 in board feet: 
Spruce . 
. 81,841.173 
Hemlock . 
. 132,941,586 
Pine . 
. 79,189,015 
Maple . 
Birch . 
. 29005,135 
Beach . 
Basswood .... 
. 29,637,603 
Oak . 
. 28,947,15/ 
Chestnut . 
. 17,506,409 
Elm . 
. 14 , 239,789 
Ash . 
. 11,161,001 
Poplar . 
. i, 75 L 46 i 
Hickory . 
. 1.301318 
Cherry . 
. 3 , 58 iJ 93 
Cedar . 
. 378,960 
Butternut .. .. 
. 95 , 96 o 
Cucumber .... 
. 84,130 
Tamarack . 
. 64,875 
Sycamore . 
. 15,883 
Apple . 
. 25,000 
Locust . 
. 36,668 
Willow . 
. 18,800 
Black walnut , 
. 7,070 
Iron wood . 
. 3,060 
Gum . 
. 259 
Total .... 
. 540.358,005 
The total board 
feet for 1910 was 519,215 500. 
pulpwood cut 
in 1911 was as follows: 
Cords. 
Spruce . 
. 403,983 
Balsam . 
. 43,378 
Hemlock . 
. 7 L 392 
Pine . 
Poplar . 
. 30,050 
Basswood . 
. 2,960 
Total ...., 
. 552,229 
In 1910 the output in the same line was: 
Cords. 
Spruce . 
. 392,680 
Hemlock . 
... 46,259 
Pine . 
. 2,607 
Basswood . 
. 3 085 
Poplar . 
. 43,292 
Balsam . 
. 39.820 
Total ...., 
. 526,744 
In 1911 wood 
used for alcohol, excelsior, 
cooperage, kilns, etc., totaled 235,091 cords, as 
compared with 217,915 cords in 1910. 
Other forest products as shingles, lath, head¬ 
ing, staves, ties, posts and poles for 1910 were 
170,606,646 pieces as against 149,353,201 pieces in 
191. 
The Conservation Commission is increasing 
the number of nurseries, is improving the effici¬ 
ency of forest protection and preservation, and 
in many ways encouraging reforestation on pri¬ 
vate lands, in addition to replanting denuded 
State lands. It is confidently expected that the 
taxation relief feature of the new conservation 
law relating to lands and forests will give an im¬ 
portant impetus to the work of restoring the 
forests on lands which are better adapted to 
tree growing than to any other economic purpose. 
PROGRESSIVE YACHT DESIGNING. 
Out of the West came the challenge. Into 
the West went the cup, all of which is an attest 
to the prowess of Chicago Y. C. and its syndicate 
of capitalists who made possible the racer Michi- 
cago. Chicago has in yacht racing, as in all 
things else, a snappy, no argument sort of way 
of going about things. Chicago knew. Gardner 
was about the best designer of sail racing yachts. 
Chicago knew that Woods, of City Island, could 
not be improved upon as a constructor. Chicago 
knew that to sail on Long Island Sound a native 
sailor was essential. Chicago raised no point of 
State or Western patriotism—she wanted a boat 
to defend successfully the Richardson cup, inci¬ 
dentally and equally important being the taking- 
home of the Manhasset trophy. Decisively she 
put away Cara Mia, holder of the coveted 
trophy, and Joyant, the winner of it, and 
now she is ready for Canada and all comers. 
The race for Manhasset cup proves emphatically 
the strides made each year in race boat design¬ 
ing. Last year Joyant was the fastest thing in 
her class; this year a new, practically untried 
boat, runs away from her, and as there is little 
to choose between the skippers of the two boats 
in the recent races, design is the winner. Chi¬ 
cago’s enterprise is to be congratulated. 
QUAIL DISEASES. 
West Haven, Conn., June 12 .—Editor Forest 
and Stream: The Storrs Agricultural Experi¬ 
ment Station, address Storrs, Connecticut, is un¬ 
dertaking general research work in the propaga¬ 
tion, nutrition and disease of game birds and 
wildfowl. One special line of research is a 
scientific study of the diseases of quail, which 
seems to be the key to the artificial propagation 
of the species. An expert bacteriologist and as¬ 
sistant are now engaged and are at work. Speci¬ 
mens of diseased quail are needed, not those 
killed by accident, but such as have died of 
disease. If any of your readers are so unfortu¬ 
nate as to have quail thus die during the pres¬ 
ent summer, they will help on the cause and re¬ 
ceive diagnosis of their birds if they will kindly 
send them to the station as above. Express 
charges should be prepaid. The only way to 
ship is to put the specimens into a small box, 
say a tin can, and in a larger box surround it 
with ice packed in sawdust. In this way we 
may the more quickly gain information on this 
difficult and important problem. 
Herbert K. Job, 
State Ornithologist of Connecticut. 
