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FOREST AND STREAM 
Sept. 28, 1912 
Published Weekly by the 
Forest and Stream Publishing Company, 
Charles Otis, President. 
W. G. Beecroft, Secretary. S. J. Gibson, Treasurer. 
127 Franklin Street, New York. 
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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. 
NOVEL EXPEDITION FOR WILD DUCKS. 
The Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station 
of Connecticut, under the Federal Department of 
Agriculture, as part of its new work of investi¬ 
gations in economic ornithology, including game 
bird problems, has been enabled this season, 
through funds generously provided by prominent 
sportsmen, to send out a scientific expedition to 
the Canadian Northwest to study methods pf in¬ 
creasing wild ducks and to secure proper breed¬ 
ing stock for experimental put poses. 
The expedition was in charge of Herbert K. 
Job, State Ornithologist of Connecticut and orni¬ 
thologist of the Experiment Station. With him 
as assistant went his son, George Curtiss Job, of 
the present junior class of Yale University, and 
other local help was employed. Most species of 
wild ducks have not been made to breed under 
restraint, but it has been believed that they would 
do so if stock could be secured that was hand- 
reared from the egg and had never learned wild 
ways. 
Mr. Job, who is familiar with the northwest¬ 
ern wilds and with the breeding habits of wild 
ducks, chose a location on the shore of Lake 
Manitoba, and established a camp. Wild ducks’ 
eggs were hunted out in the surrounding wilder¬ 
ness and were hatched out in incubators which 
had been shipped out there. Twelve species of 
wild ducks nested in the region, and eggs or 
young of all of these were secured. 
The hatching was remarkable. In the ma¬ 
jority of cases every egg of the set hatched. The 
average for the season was 92 per cent., which 
is high even for domestic fowl. Most of the 
voung, except of two peculiar niaiitime species 
the white-winged scoter and the ruddy duck 
were successfully raised, with little loss. Even 
the redhead, canvasback and bluebill proved per¬ 
fectly docile, and thrived in confinement. On the 
2,000-mile journey back, Mr. Job personally at¬ 
tended and cared for the consignment. Eleven 
species were safely landed, and are now thriving 
on one of the large preserves affiliated with the 
Experiment Station, where further experiments 
with them will be conducted. Despite the ardu¬ 
ous trip, but one duckling that was three weeks 
old or over at the start succumbed. The achieve¬ 
ment is unique in the annals of game bird re¬ 
searches, and may prove the beginning of an im¬ 
portant movement to save and restore the wild¬ 
fowl. 
DO UNTO OTHERS. 
Has it ever occurred to you how much bene¬ 
fit the convalescent and crippled in hospitals de¬ 
rive from reading of the big, wide wholesome 
outdoors and the healthful doings of those so 
fortunate as to be out in it? 4 he thought comes 
to us that some of our subscribers interested in 
charity and the uplift of those less fortunate 
than themselves might find pleasure in sending 
Forest and Stream to hospitals, homes or insti¬ 
tutions where its teachings would be appreciated. 
We give away dozens of such copies during the 
year and it has given us so much pleasure that 
we felt our readers, if they knew the demand 
for reading matter among those not in a posi¬ 
tion to secure it for themselves, would willingly 
join us in disseminating sunshine to those on 
the inside looking out. Consider this suggestion 
and the next time you want to do a big thing 
at small cost send to some institution a subscrip¬ 
tion to Forest and Stream. It will be lasting 
and satisfying not only to one, but to many. 
P EMM I CAN. 
This sustaining, though unluscious, food 
long has been the larder staple of the arctic ex¬ 
plorer. Though unpalatable to those within 
lunching distance of a Cafe de Childs, the traveler 
who must pack light, relishes it as an Eskimo 
does the by-product of the Standard Oil Co., so 
popular on Hallowe’en Eve. The news from Dr. 
Vilhj almar Stefansson that he lived for thirteen 
and one-half months wholly without pemmican 
will come as a shock to - the amateur explorer, 
the blow only being made more severe when it 
is known that the exploring doctor substituted 
fresh caribou meat for the compressed edible. 
How cheering and unusual is the statement from 
an explorer that he “was at no time in danger 
of starvation,” and that hardships were no more 
than he had expected. In addition to doing a 
great work for science, the doctor has done all 
of us a kindness in bringing back no harrowing 
stories of privation and suffering, either real or 
imaginary. 
WHISTLE AS YOU GO ALONG. 
Did you ever notice how much is expressed 
in a whistle? The sharp crescendo of surprise, 
the long upper register whistle of discovery, the 
nervous, tremulous note of the boy calling cour¬ 
age in the dark, the sighing wind-like diminuendo 
of the tired, the monotone of the farm boy im¬ 
mortalized by Denman Thompson in the “Old 
Homestead,” whistling because he can think of 
nothing else to do; the quick, shrill call of at¬ 
tention to the dog, and the doleful imitation of 
t he owl—each and every one denotes a mood. 
The whistle we want to talk of is the “whistle 
as you go along” sort; that which indicates pleas¬ 
ure, satisfaction, rumination, retrospection. The 
shooter coming home after a successful day, 
tired but happy; the fisherman with a full 
creel, the carpenter at his bench, work well in 
hand, and a disposition as full of cheer as the 
Bank of England of gold. The man on the 
street going to and from a work he likes—some 
perhaps out of tune musically, but mentally har¬ 
monious, but all whistling as they go along. A 
disposition to whistle means a disposition to hap¬ 
piness. It is the exuberance of sunshine, the ex¬ 
haust of satisfaction, the radiance of pleasure. 
Join the cheerful ones and whistle as you go 
along. 
MONKEYS. 
It has long been custom among the medical 
fraternity to charge the fly and mosquito with 
being germ purveyors and disease transmitters. 
This caused us no pang of regret, because no 
one likes flies and mosquitoes, anyhow. Now, 
however, we are touched in a tender spot. The 
children's delight, the menageries’ sunshine, the 
frolicsome monkey, is charged with being a car¬ 
rier of disease—an ailment so popular among 
children—measles. 
The allegation is made by no less a body than 
the fifteenth International Congress on Hygiene 
and Demography, now assembled in Washing¬ 
ton, D. C. 
Here is a quandary: A zoo cannot get along 
without children, and children won’t go to the 
menagerie unless there are monkeys, and yet, say 
hygienists, the two must not be brought into con¬ 
tact. Shall we put the Simians behind glass as 
we do lepers? Shall we keep the kids away 
from their palace in zoological parks, or shall we 
exonerate the fun-making organ grinders’ col¬ 
lector from the charge of the hygienists and let 
him amuse the kids as he did their fathers be¬ 
fore them? Ask the kids. 
ARCHERY. 
Fulton, N. Y., Sept. 10.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: The writer was much pleased to read 
the splendid report of the National Archery meet 
in the issue of Aug. 31. Often are the volumes 
of Forest and Stream of the early 8o's pulled 
out of the case and the archery notes, written 
by Maurice and Will Thompson, E. B. Weston, 
J. W. Sutton, Joe Hussey and others, read. The 
scores compared with those made by the writer 
and a mental decision made to make a better 
score “next time.” 
YYmr notice of the last meeting, coupled with 
an invitation to the lone archer to join, was the 
means of my joining the National this year. I 
do not know of any sport so beneficial physically 
as archery. To the fellow who really tries to 
excel the mental discipline is truly good for him 
also. H. L. Lake. 
The Picture-Postal Card. 
BY JOHN PRESTON TRUE. 
A card has come to me this gloomy day, 
When all the heavens seem on verge a-weep; 
A voiceless message from the realms of play 
To us who stay at post and charges keep 
At battle with grim business’ turbid stream. 
It tells—the world is never all at work! 
It tells—some joys in shadows love to lurk 
Like violets or arbutus in May. 
It gives one joy to know there are such places, 
That one dear friend at least such beauty faces 
And on my desk the sunlight falls a-gleam. 
