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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Dec. 16, 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 
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. 
GOOD WORK. 
The change in the National Association of 
Scientific Angling Clubs that was inevitable, but 
was too long delayed, has been brought about. 
H. W. Perce, its president since its organiza¬ 
tion in Kalamazoo several years ago, has re¬ 
signed and the executive committee has elected 
as president Dr. R. Johnson Held, of the Ang¬ 
lers’ Club of New York. 
Mr. Perce deserves a great deal of credit for 
the work he has done toward organizing this 
great association, which is composed of twenty 
of the leading angling clubs of all parts of the 
country; and, with the assistance of H. E. Rice 
and Charles P. Clifford, its secretaries, placing 
it on a sound if narrow foundation. But Mr. 
Perce long ago took a stand that was not popu¬ 
lar with the members, and believing he was right 
refused to recede or to retire. 
This stand was on the status of anglers as 
amateurs or professionals, so-called. The ma¬ 
jority has long been in favor of the wide Amer¬ 
ican rule of considering every angler a sports¬ 
man until he has shown proof of the contrary. 
A small number of the tournament casters, life¬ 
long sportsmen, happen to be connected in one 
way or another with the fishing tackle and 
sportsmen’s goods trades, and classifying them 
as professionals has not met with general ap¬ 
proval. There are no professional casting in¬ 
structors or anglers in America, and the re¬ 
moval of all bars has been frequently demanded. 
Only this month the Anglers’ Club of New York 
decided to do this, and other clubs have already 
taken similar action. Still, the formation of a 
new association was not deemed advisable, and 
the recent action of the governing committee 
of the National Association has cleared the field 
and made it possible for the new executive to 
make it a representative national organization. 
Dr. Held is a veteran fisherman, a skilled 
caster, and a liberal. He will use his influence 
in the protection and propagation of game fish, 
in the securing of better laws and in the pre¬ 
vention of the pollution of streams. As for the 
sport of tournament casting, which is every¬ 
where conceded to be an excellent school for 
anglers, it is in safe hands, and the association 
will increase steadily in size and in power for 
good. 
STATE ’LEAGUE RECOMMENDATIONS. 
Five very important recommendations were 
made by the New York State Fish, Game and 
Forest League at its annual meeting last week 
in Schenectady. These were: 
Favoring the protection of female deer—and 
of hunters—by limiting the deer shooting to 
bucks only in season; 
Reducing the wildfowl bag limit to twenty- 
five per day per man; 
Making the minimum limit of trout seven 
inches instead of six inches. 
Favoring the planting of fingerling trout rather 
than fry; 
Refusing to favor a long-time closed season 
for small game. 
These recommendations carry weight, and will 
be considered by the Legislature at its coming 
session. The league is a power, and the reforms 
it asks for are the result of State-wide discus¬ 
sions between fair-minded sportsmen who wish 
to do what is best in conserving the game. It 
is believed that stopping the shooting of does 
will result in a material increase in the deer 
supply. Certainly it will compel would-be deer 
slayers to look before they shoot, and in an in¬ 
direct way do something toward putting a period 
to the hysteria that has been rampant in the 
woods for several years. 
Twenty-five wildfowl in a day make a very 
liberal bag limit. Few shooters exceed it; the 
majority would be glad to see ducks abundant 
enough to make its attainment possible once or 
twice in a lifetime in this State. 
The seven-inch trout limit may be said to be 
the standard established by the unwritten law 
of sportsmen, and there can scarcely be objec¬ 
tion to its enactment into law. The old argu¬ 
ment that small trout are better panfish than the 
large ones is obsolete, and wild native trout are 
so scarce that better protection along these lines 
is needed. And the enormous waste incident to 
turning vast numbers of helpless trout fry into 
the streams may well be stopped. Fingerlings 
are better able to take care of themselves. Re¬ 
ducing the loss by all available means is good 
policy. 
For the development and care of the national 
parks, the Secretary of the Interior has asked 
Congress to appropriate the sum of $791,080.60, 
an increase of $617,830.61 over the appropriations 
for the current fiscal year. The national parks 
constitute ideal recreation grounds for thousands 
of people, but their development and use are 
seriously retarded by the lack of adequate roads 
and trails, and until sufficient money is appro¬ 
priated for beginning a comprehensive plan of 
development, the parks will fall far short for 
rendering the important public use for which 
they are intended. The general public interest 
in these pleasure grounds is shown by the fact 
that in a list recently issued by the Department 
of the Interior, 390 magazine articles on the 
parks are enumerated. It is the intention of the 
department to make the principal places of in¬ 
terest in the parks more accessible, to render 
traveling more comfortable by sprinkling the 
roads throughout the dry season, and to guard 
the health of the traveler by the installation of 
proper water supply and sewerage systems. The 
responsibility for the future conduct of the na¬ 
tional parks must rest with Congress, but the 
department feels that the financial needs of these 
reservations should be clearly presented to Con¬ 
gress in the annual estimates. 
FOR NEXT YEAR’S READERS. 
Forest and Stream for Jan. 6 will be devoted 
largely to Southern shooting and fishing. Some 
of the best known veterans with rod and gun 
will contribute articles on quail, wildfowl, bear 
and turkey shooting, salt and fresh water fishing 
and other timely topics. The cover will be a 
reproduction in three colors, from a painting 
by Lynn Bogue Hunt, the sportsman-artist. 
That number will be the first of a series of 
issues containing able papers by writers who 
have “been there” and know their field as well 
as the Forest and Stream family know them. 
Among them are Lewis Hopkins, beloved by all 
the Old Guard, who will write of quail shooting 
in Tennessee. Frank W. Bicknell will describe 
how the Western North Carolina mountaineers 
capture bears alive. John W. Thompson will 
tell of the enthusiasm displayed by a well-known 
governor over a turkey hunt in Southeast Mis¬ 
souri. and Brent Altsheler will give outsider? 
an idea how winter turkey matches are con¬ 
ducted in the Blue Grass State. Palmer H. 
Langdon will take readers on a cruise from San 
Francisco to Honolulu on a square rigger, and 
describe, with pen and camera, how the crew 
worked the ship; this in a way the landlubber 
can understand. 
George A. Irwin and Clarence Vandiveer know 
upland Florida and will write of the sort of 
shooting to be had by sportsmen who spend their 
“days off” in the back country, but lack time to 
go very far from home. Herbert Brimley will 
contribute a paper on deer shooting in North 
Carolina, and Ernest L. Ewbank will surprise 
Northern anglers with a paper on the sort of 
trout fishing that is to be had in the hill country 
of that State. 
From Oklahoma, Paul IT. Byrd sends a paper 
on bass fishing in the limpid streams of that 
favored region, and William Perry Brown will 
take the reader for a journey among the Unaka? 
of the Great Smoky range. 
Among the writers of the Northwest, Robert 
E. Pinkerton and Charles S. Moody are promi¬ 
nent, and each will be heard from early in the 
new year. 
Some of these papers will appear in the special 
number, and others later on. Altogether, Forest 
and Stream for 1912 will be, as it has always 
been, the sportsmen’s fireside companion. 
