Oct. 26, 1912 
FOREST AND STREAM 
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Low License for Non-Resident Sportsmei 
BY GOLDEN GATE. 
The fish and game commissions of Califor¬ 
nia, Oregon and Nevada are now acting more 
in accord with one another than has ever been 
the case before, and the friendly relations that 
have been established are expected to result in 
some changes in the present license laws that 
will cause much rejoicing among sportsmen in 
these States. At the present time residents of 
any one of these States desiring to hunt within 
the confines of an adjoining State must pay a 
license of $10, but a movement is on foot to 
reduce this to $1. This matter will be brought 
up at the coming session of the different State 
Legislatures and will doubtlessly receive favor¬ 
able attention. 
Of late years the commissions in these three 
States have come to see that the interests of all 
are common, and efforts have been made to se¬ 
cure more uniform fish and game laws, especially 
along the boundary lines. Formerly fishing was 
allowed in Nevada before it was permissible on 
the California side with the result that Cali¬ 
fornia anglers had very poor sport in the Truckee 
and the fish were not allowed to get up-stream 
to spawn. Now the regulations are more uni¬ 
form. The same is true in regard to Oregon 
where a number of streams rising in one State 
cross the boundary line into the other. 
The Board of Supervisors of Marin county 
has passed an ordinance in effect immediately 
shortening the open season on deer and quail. 
Under the State law the quail shooting season 
commences Oct. 15 and lasts for four months, 
but the Marin officials have shortened it by one 
month, making Nov. 15 the opening date. The 
district attorney of Marin county has announced 
that no person will be prosecuted for having 
quail in possession while passing through the 
county, the birds having been killed in other 
counties. 
That the new measure is badly needed this 
year is the general opinion among sportsmen, as 
the season is such a backward one that the 
young quail are not half grown at the present 
time. 
Operations have been very successful this 
season at the State Game Farm at Hayward and 
more birds have been distributed throughout the 
State than has ever been the case before in one 
season. Since the middle of August over 1,200 
pheasants and wild turkeys have been liberated 
as follows: Monterey county, 100 pheasants; 
Santa Cruz county, 50 pheasants; Placer county, 
25 turkeys; San Benito county, 100 pheasants and 
fifty wild turkeys; Humboldt county, 100 pheas¬ 
ants and 50 turkeys; Solano county, 100 pheas¬ 
ants; Tulare county, 165 pheasants; Fresno 
county, 160 pheasants; Lassen county, 150 pheas¬ 
ants ; Mendocino county, 50 pheasants; Napa 
county, 100 pheasants; Del Norte county. 100 
pheasants; Nevada county, 30 turkeys; Sonoma 
county, 25 turkeys; Alameda county, 50 pheas¬ 
ants; Goat Island, San Francisco county, 25 
pheasants. Most of the birds now on hand at 
the farm will be retained for breeding purposes. 
Sullivan Co., N. Y., Oct. 13.— Editor Forest 
and Stream: The outlook for ruffed grouse shoot¬ 
ing in October and November was quite good be¬ 
fore the season opened. I found birds myself and 
had many reports of full broods. These reports 
are usually too favorable, as they are often based 
on seeing a single brood of young birds with the 
old hen. One of the best observers in this region 
says that the grouse are not really plentiful. 
They are certainly well scattered as one flushes 
mostly single birds. If I had a first-rate dog 
I could judge better, as when the leaves are on 
the trees one may pass by many birds without 
flushing them. A few woodcock have been bag¬ 
ged, but these were mostly local birds. The 
flight birds should move in the first moon in 
October and one or two good frosts would bring 
them down. Some good ground has been spoiled 
by floods which covered the feeding grounds 
with sand or washed out the soft rich soil on 
the bottoms. It is a beautiful country, but not 
an easy one to shoot over. There is much good 
cover and the ruffed grouse are usually quite 
smart. Many rise out of shot and fly a long 
distance. Probably a well bred pointer of mature 
years that has been much shot over is the best 
dog for this section. Such a dog has had ex¬ 
perience and is clever at handling these birds. 
He is content to point at a distance, works a 
running grouse carefully, until it lies for him, 
and he can establish a point. With a sly old 
pointer one will get many shots where a heed¬ 
less fast dog would flush the birds out of range. 
There was a good crop of gray squirrels, 
and rabbits seem to be plentiful. Guns were heard 
frequently yesterday and one man reported three 
ruffed grouse and five rabbits. The fact is that 
a dozen birds in two days, grouse and wood¬ 
cock, is a good bag nowadays. One must be 
satisfied to work hard for modest results. I 
know that a brace of grouse in an afternoon 
would satisfy me. There is a fascination about 
these wary birds that causes one to persevere 
in spite of blank days. At any moment in the 
most unlikely places a bird or two may get up 
and give you an opportunity to retrieve the situ¬ 
ation. 
A long tramp this afternoon gave me one old 
cock grouse and two rabbits. I flushed but two 
birds, yet I know the ground well. 
Theodore Gordon. 
Liberty, N. Y., Oct. 19. — Editor Forest and 
Stream: This seems likely to prove a fair season 
for shooting in this part of the country. The ruffed 
grouse have recovered to some extent from the 
loss by disease in 1907. No flight of woodcock 
yet, but local birds are found wherever there is 
good feeding ground and cover. Deer are said 
to have done well this year. Theodore Gordon. 
The wild deer in Devon and Somerset, owing 
to the abundance of good food, have become too 
fat to provide the followers of the Devon and 
Somerset staghounds with good sport.—From the 
London Daily Mail. 
New Cure for Rattlesnake Poison. 
BY HARRY H. DUNN. 
Golondrina, a common weed of the southern 
part of California and so named by the Mexican 
residents, is now credited with robbing the 
deadly fang of the rattlesnake of its terrors. 
C. S. Jenkins, who has lived in this part of the 
country for a number of years, got the remedy 
from an Indian twenty years ago. He claims 
to have seen the weed used with success on 
several occasions where, without its help, the 
victim must have died. 
At the time of his discovery, Jenkins, who 
is now a captain in the local fire department, 
was working on his father’s ranch in Castaic 
Canon, above Newhall. One day one of the 
horses came into camp with its head badly 
swollen from the bite of a snake. The wound 
was on the upper lip, and apparently had been 
received by the animal while grazing on the 
short grass of the region. 
1 he white men at the ranch wanted to 
shoot the animal, but an Indian volunteered 
to save it by a weed that he knew. This weed, 
golondrina, was gathered and a strong tea 
brewed from it. This was poured down the 
throat of the horse and the leaves, left from 
the steeping, were bound on the nose, after the 
wound had been cut open. In the morning the 
horse was as well as ever, save for a little stiff¬ 
ness of the joints. 
After this the weed was used frequently on 
the Jenkins ranch, and the local firefighter says 
that it is the common remedy on many of the 
mountain ranches of the Sierra region and of 
the Mexican desert. 
Golondrina is a weed common to Southern 
California. It grows close to the ground, and 
has small leaves of an ashy color. The tiny 
blossom suggests a snake's eye, being white 
with black center. Captain Jenkins says that 
if used when green the weed should be boiled, 
as it is too strong in its natural state. 
The weed has a white milky juice which 
must be boiled into a sort of tea before it can 
be taken. When dry it can be chewed with no 
bad effects. It is easily dried in the sunlight 
and retains its strength well, even when kept 
a number of seasons. It grows commonly in 
the vacant lots of Los Angeles and other 
Southern California cities. 
A live turkey vulture, or “buzzard,” alighted 
on the power transmission wire of the Edison 
Electric Company in the San Fernando valley 
a few days ago, stretched himself, spread his 
wings until the fleshy part of on? of them 
touched an uninsulated wire, and the buzzard 
went up in a puff of smoke and a flash of flame. 
Sheepshearers at work in the valley below 
the big steel- cable tower, near which the bird 
alighted, saw the flash of flame against the sky, 
saw the burned carcass of the bird falling ap¬ 
parently from the heavens, and. dropping their 
shears, fled for their lives. 
Peculiarly, no damage was done in the 
powerhouse. A sudden brightening of the 
lamps in the resistance circuit was all the work¬ 
men in any of the houses knew of what had 
happened. It was not until the route man re¬ 
ported the involuntary suicide of the buzzard 
that the accident became known. 
