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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Oct. 14, 1911. 
Published Weekly by the 
Forest and Stream Publishing Company, 
127 Franklin Street, New York. 
Edward C. Locke, President, 
Charles B. Reynolds, Secretary, 
S. J. Gibson, Treasurer. 
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THE OBJECT OF THIS JOURNAL 
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terest in outdoor recreation, and to cultivate 
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—Forest and Stream, Aug. 14, 1873. 
IMPROVEMENT IN EVIDENCE. 
The selection of a site for a State game farm 
and fish hatchery has been delegated to Com¬ 
missioners Percival Chrystie and Ernest Napier 
by the Fish and Game Commission of New Jer¬ 
sey. The southern part of the State is favored, 
largely because its climate is more equable than 
the higher northern portion, and it is probable 
that no difficulty will be encountered in finding 
a place where there is an abundance of good 
water, together with soil suited to the require¬ 
ments of game birds and the raising of food for 
their sustenance. The scarcity or abundance of 
the natural enemies of pheasants and partridges 
will also be carefully considered, for the com¬ 
mission has already lost a goodly number of im¬ 
ported birds through this agency. The neces¬ 
sity of destroying pests in the vicinity of the 
game farm is pointed out by Commissioner 
Kuser, who says that as an experiment one of 
the wardens tried trapping for a week, and in 
that time caught sixty-seven weasels, thirty-five 
stray cats and seventeen hawks. 
The warden service is now on a better basis 
than heretofore. The men are selected under 
civil service rules, they receive better pay than 
formerly, and as they are required to devote all 
of their time to the work, increased efficiency is 
assured. Progress has also been made in the 
forestry department, and this, together with the 
favorable natural conditions due to an abund¬ 
ance of rain during September and the first ten 
days of the present month, should enable the 
forestry officials to hold the whip hand in the 
situation this year. 
The game and fish and the non-game birds 
are still the prey of numbers of aliens who 
work methodically and persistently, but now and 
then one of these is dealt with in a way he does 
not like, and as news of this sort is spread 
broadcast by friends, the effect is salutary, and 
it may be said with confidence that progress in 
the education of this c ass is being made. 
INDIANA SPORTSMEN TO ORGANIZE. 
Indiana sportsmen are preparing to organize. 
The Marion County Fish and Game Protective 
Association, which was organized four years 
ago, and is an influential body, has very prop¬ 
erly taken the lead in the preliminary work, and 
as its home is in Indianapolis, in Central In¬ 
diana, the convention it has called for Oct. 26 
should be a largely attended and representative 
one. 
While the promoters of the proposed league 
of clubs are entering on the work with the best 
of intentions, they are evidently not fully de¬ 
cided on the proper course to pursue, hence a 
word as to this may not be out of place. In 
view of the lack of complete harmony between 
the sportsmen, the landowners and the State 
game and fish commissioners, we would suggest 
that every effort be made to bring about the 
organization of a branch of the new association 
in every county in the State and to secure the 
affiliation of all existing clubs that are interested 
in game and fish protection. With active 
branches a central body can do excellent work, 
and in this way only can it be representative of 
sportsmen in all sections. 
Better laws are needed, more propagation 
work is imperative, and a very important thing 
is the missionary work that must be done to 
settle the long-standing differences between land- 
owners and sportsmen. In parts of the State 
these are acute, but if the sportsmen will assist 
in the work which farmers have cheerfully un¬ 
dertaken with a view to replenishing shot-out 
covers and depleted streams, and the landowners 
will show more interest in the recreative pur¬ 
suits of sportsmen, a great work will have been 
accomplished. 
Success to the proposed league. 
Joseph Bell, who died on Oct. 4 at his home 
in Midlothian, Scotland, aged seventy-four years, 
sought relief from his numerous duties along 
the streams and in the hills of Scotland, with rod 
and gun. He was a distinguished surgeon, a 
lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, editor 
for many years of the Edinburgh Medical Jour¬ 
nal and author of medical books. One of his 
pupils was Sir A. Conan Doyle, who was great¬ 
ly impressed with Dr. Bell’s fondness for study¬ 
ing mysterious crimes and following clues con¬ 
nected with circumstantial evidence. It was 
natural then that the author should have copied 
many of Dr. Bell’s methods in writing “Sher¬ 
lock Holmes.” At any rate, the doctor was 
known as the original of that famous character. 
Ordinary sportsmen, not trained to make their 
way about in the woods without map and com¬ 
pass, will find it difficult to suppress a smile when 
they learn that one of the State Conservation 
Commission’s engineers lost his way and wan¬ 
dered about for five days last week before he 
met a woodsman and broke his fast. There are 
still sections in these forests sufficiently wild for 
a thing of this sort to occur to one not versed 
in woodcraft, but it is difficult to believe that a 
surveyor would neglect to acquire this useful and 
necessary information. At the same time it is 
only fair to conclude that natural conditions 
were unfavorable, and to await the unfortunate 
engineer’s explanation. 
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Wardens in Fulton county, Pennsylvania, have 
reported that two of them were recently shot 
at by hunters they were attempting to arrest for 
illegal shooting. Two other wardens say they 
overtook two men who had killed a doe and a 
fawn, and that several shots were exchanged 
before the wardens gained possession of the 
deer. Complaints are made of numerous viola¬ 
tions in that section, but it is unfortunate that 
in these instances, as often occurs, the violators 
got away. 
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Under the new law in Siam, in effect since 
Sept. 1, the importation of magazine rifles and 
automatic pistols will be allowed only for Euro¬ 
peans who import them for strictly personal use, 
and on the condition that when the importer 
leaves the country he must account for them 
either by taking them out of Siam or by selling 
them to the Government or with its consent. 
These arms are in use in the Government ser¬ 
vices, and it is desired to keep this kind of fire¬ 
arms out of the hands of the population in gen¬ 
eral. 
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Newfoundland shipped 1,800 barrels of trout 
in 1910. Of these, eighty-two barrels were sold 
in the United States and the balance in Canada. 
Another thing that is attracting attention in the 
island is the collection and shipment to the 
United States of vast quantities of pebbles from 
the sea beaches. These are picked up by some 
200 men, sorted by machines and shipped in 140- 
pound bags, evidently for building or road use. 
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The change in the game law of New York 
State affecting non-resident taxpayers is popular 
with numerous sportsmen who live in other 
States, but who own business or other property 
in New York. The license fees are, $1.10 for 
residents, $10.50 for non-residents who are tax¬ 
payers in this State, and $20.50 for non-residents, 
unnaturalized persons and aliens. 
The woodcock season in New Jersey will not 
be open this year until next Monday, Oct. 16. 
The 15th falls on Sunday, which is a closed day 
for shooting. On Nov. 1 other small game may 
be hunted, but until then only snipe, rail and 
woodcock may be hunted. There will be five 
days for deer shooting, Nov. 1, 8, 15, 22 and 29, 
males only. 
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Molasses to the fore. In New Orleans a lot 
of it overwhelmed a part of the city, flowed into 
the lake and killed the fish. In the Hawaiian 
Islands it is being shipped in tank steamers, like 
crude oil. 
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Forest fires have occurred in several places 
in California recently. One of them destroyed 
considerable property in Placer and Neveda 
counties. 
