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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[July 29, 1911. 
The Tallyho Preserve. 
New Orleans, La., July 22. — Editor Forest 
and Stream: The State Game Commission will 
lose the former biological building in Cameron 
parish. The court during the last few days 
rendered a decision to the effect that this struc¬ 
ture having been abandoned as a biological ex¬ 
perimental station it can be utilized by the Game 
Commission and the land reverts to the heirs 
of the donor. The commission intended to use 
this structure as headquarters for making ex¬ 
periments, but under the decree of the court the 
building will have to be demolished or removed. 
The Tallyho Club, of Chef Menteur, has again 
leased the game preserve comprising 700 acres, 
extending from Michaud to Chef Menteur and 
from the Louisville and Nashville tracks to 
Bayou Tortue. The club expects some fine sport 
in this game preserve during the late fall and 
winter. These are mainly prairie or marsh 
lands and abound in thousands of ducks from 
November to February and a few wild geese and 
brant. The members of the club are preparing 
for a great sport next winter and expect to en¬ 
tertain visitors from the North and East. The 
club has recently installed a modern electric 
plant and otherwise improved its comfortable 
building. 
Reports from the several game wardens in the 
State are to the effect that game of all kinds 
will be abundant this fall and winter and active 
preparations are being made by the hunters to 
enjoy the sport. It is said that turkeys are 
abundant in the hills of Louisiana. 
The prospects for a good hunting season this 
fall are very bright, and it is believed that game 
of all kinds will be abundant. Quail, doves, wild 
turkeys and various birds will be plentiful. It 
is thought also that the duck season will be the 
best in several years in Louisiana marshes and 
near the big streams and bodies of water. A 
great many deer abound in the woodlands. Some 
complaints have been made to the effect that 
the game protection laws are not properly or 
strictly enforced in some of the parishes by the 
game wardens. The Game Commission is en¬ 
gaged in investigating all the complaints as it 
intends to enforce the laws strictly, and those 
who violate the game laws will be prosecuted. 
F. G. G. 
Dealers’ Views. 
A. Silz, who is without doubt the best au¬ 
thority on the handling of game in this coun¬ 
try from the dealer’s standpoint, says the Ameri¬ 
can Meat Trade Journal, stated that the Bayne 
bill, which became a law by the Governor’s sig¬ 
nature Monday, -was not only satisfactory to 
him, but that all of the prominent hotel men in 
New York city are greatly pleased to note the 
passage of this measure into law, as it is the 
first intelligent step looking toward the increase 
of our domestic game birds, which will un¬ 
doubtedly tend to reduce the cost of this staple 
and wholesome article of food, which has, as 
far as the idea of raising game in preserves, 
been more or less neglected, and now that it 
is possible for anyone who procures a license 
to raise game in this way, the consequence should 
be that within three or four years game will 
sell here at the same price for which guinea 
chickens can now be purchased. 
In the meantime the opportunity is also pro¬ 
vided to import the following species of game 
such as pheasants of all species, Scotch grouse, 
Egyptian quail, redleg partridge, black game, 
black plover and such venison as red and fallow 
deer; also roebuck, the season beginning Sept. 1, 
extending through a period ending March 1. 
It is certainly a very good thing for the hotels 
in New York city, who now have the oppor¬ 
tunity to get something new for their bill of 
fare for their dinners and banquets where in 
the last few years practically all that they have 
been able to serve were squabs and guinea 
chickens. 
The protection which the wild game of this 
State will receive through the enactment of this 
measure should certainly result in a noticeable 
increase of the various species which are still 
found in such places where it has not been com¬ 
pletely exterminated, and with the game pre¬ 
serve now a practical possibility, the overflow 
from these protective centers should materially 
add to the remnant of game now remaining, and 
let us hope the inevitable result will be that our 
great Empire State, with the conservation of its 
game resources strengthened and added to, will 
become as great a game center as in years gone 
by. 
Dont’s for Campers. 
The San Francisco district forester of the 
Federal forest service has drawn up the fol¬ 
lowing set of rules for the guidance of campers: 
1. Be sure your match is out before you 
throw it away. 
2. Knock out your pipe ashes or throw your 
cigar or cigarette stump where there is nothing 
to catch fire. 
3. Don’t build a camp-fire any larger than is 
absolutely necessary. Never leave it, even for 
a short time, without putting it out with water 
or dirt. 
4. Don’t build a camp-fire against a tree or 
a log. Build a small one where you can scrape 
away the needles, leaves or grass from all sides 
of it. 
5. Don’t build bonfires. The wind may come 
up at any time and start a fire you cannot con¬ 
trol. 
6. If you discover a fire, get word of it to 
the nearest United States forest ranger or 
State fire warden just as quickly as you pos¬ 
sibly can. 
Dry in the Woods. 
Utica, N. Y., July 16.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: The Adirondacks, according to old- 
time woodsmen, were never as dry at this time 
of year as they are at present. The leaf mold 
is dry to a depth of many inches, and on the 
higher ground in some places the small trees 
are dying from lack of moisture. Many brooks 
and springs that were never known before to 
become dry have ceased to run. Others have 
shrunk to pools of water here and there, and in 
these pools many little trout have died because 
of the lack of fresh water. The West Canada 
Creek and other large streams of the Adiron¬ 
dacks are the lowest ever in their history. 
Usually there is little danger of forest fires at 
this time of year, but now the woods are in 
danger. 
The dry weather seems to have sent the deer 
to the lakes and the watercourses. It is not 
unusual to see a half dozen deer feeding about 
a small lake at sunset or at sunrise. I have 
seen deer rush madly from the woods, jump into 
the water with a splash and swim about in com¬ 
fort. Usually, they approach open places with 
some caution, so that one hears only now and 
then a twig snap as he moves slowly to the 
shore. But the flies will drive deer into the 
water. E. A. Spears. 
Caught at Last. 
After a career of destruction that has made 
him as noted in the countryside as a man-eating 
tiger would be in India, the South Fork moun¬ 
tain lion has at last fallen before a bullet, says 
an Ogden correspondent of the New York Times. 
Tales of the depredations of this beast run 
back for at least ten years. Huntsmen who have 
looked at his badly worn teeth say he was at 
least twenty years old, but it is probable that 
for a long time he lived on deer and other wild 
creatures. In time, however, he came to learn 
of the ease with which a calf or sheep could 
be brought down, and then he devoted a great 
deal of attention to the flocks and herds in the 
vicinity of Huntsville, which is only about fif¬ 
teen miles from here. Hundreds of valuable 
grazing beasts have been killed and eaten, and 
the cost of his living has run well up into the 
thousands. His operations have been exceed¬ 
ingly bold at times, for he has killed and carried 
off his prey before the noses of armed men. 
It is most remarkable that the mountain lion 
should have lived so long. There had been a 
standing reward for him for five years, and be¬ 
sides there was always the lure held out to 
hunters who wanted to bag real game. Many 
parties have been organized to kill him, and 
many times he has been trailed to places where 
it was believed he would be trapped. He has 
often been seen on such occasions, and good 
marksmen have taken shots at him, but somehow 
he has always before escaped. 
It was a steel trap that finally ended his 
career of destruction. It was set by Ray Pass, 
of Huntsville. When Pass and a party of hun¬ 
ters went to the place where the trap had been 
set, they found evidences of a great struggle 
and only part of the big chain that had held the 
trap. Away through the wild mountain they 
followed a plain trail made by blood and the 
trap dragged by the beast. In spite of the great 
handicap, great leaps had been made and ledges 
which the men could hardly climb had been sur¬ 
mounted. The beast was finally found crouched 
under a tree, ready to fight, and was shot to 
death. 
His den, which had been sought for years, 
was found near by. In it were the carcasses of 
two small deer recently killed. 
Reinstated. 
Capitola, Cal., July 3.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: You may be interested to know that 
on Monday last the board of supervisors of 
Santa Cruz county fully reinstated me to the 
office of fish, game and fire warden of this 
county and fixed my salary at $100 per month. 
You will perhaps recall that a former board of 
supervisors summarily dismissed me from my 
office in May, 1909, without notice or hearing 
any charges filed against me. 
Walter R. Welch. 
