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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Dec. 23, 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. 
GREETINGS. 
The tide of the seasons has reached its lowest 
ebb and has turned. The period of “slack 
water,” the short, dark days, now passing, will 
give way to longer and longer days—days of 
snow and sleet and rough winds, to be sure— 
but with their steady march will come warm 
sunlight, bright skies, pure air and bracing winds. 
Nature is sleeping soundly, at rest from her 
labors of the year, but her sleep will grow lighter 
as the hours of darkness diminish, until, with the 
passing of March, the boisterous winds will 
awaken her to new activities. 
The rod and the gun have been laid away and 
the indoor season of merrymaking and good 
cheer is at hand. It is a time of reunions among 
families, of visits between friends, of amuse¬ 
ment and fun for the children. The sick are 
cheered, the unfortunate aided, the hungry fed. 
Peace and good will prevail. 
But while snow may cover the ground and ice 
the waters, there is much of enjoyment abroad 
if one will but seek it. There are skating and 
coasting and snowshoeing and skiing in the colder 
regions, and tramps across country and along 
roads and streams elsewhere. All are productive 
of keen enjoyment and benefit to those who are 
unwilling to remain indoors, whose activities are 
curtailed only by rain and mud. 
The number of all-the-year round outdoor men 
and women is increasing, and it is well that this 
is so, for there are many things worth seeing in 
the winter woods, nearby as well as in the wilder 
regions. 
To all its outdoor friends, and to those who 
must, perforce, remain close by their firesides, 
surrounded with friends and re atives and little 
children, Forest and Stream extends Christmas 
and New Years greetings. 
BETTER GAME PROTECTION. 
During the year just passed, the State of New 
York has been very successful in its enforcement 
of the game laws, viewed from the standpoint of 
prosecutions and recoveries for violations. It is 
true that New York has a large number of pro¬ 
tectors, but on the other hand, the State is large 
and thickly settled, for it contains not far from 
10 per cent, of the population of the United 
States. Yet much of its territory is still very im¬ 
perfectly covered by protectors, owing to lack of 
force and lack of funds. 
During the year there were no less than 1,482 
successful prosecutions—a record of convictions 
overtopping last year’s great success by about 
fifty cases. The penalties imposed and recov¬ 
ered amounted to $37,195.74, and the total cost 
of collecting this large amount, including the 
services of constables, attorneys and court ex¬ 
penses, was $4,735.79. In other words, it cost 
about one dollar to collect eight. 
This is very gratifying, and is due largely to 
the energy and efficiency of Llewellyn Legge, 
the chief protector. Mr. Legge was trained in 
the school organized by John B. Burnham, so 
long chief game protector of New York, to 
whose patient and persistent efforts the energy 
and efficiency of the warden force is chiefly due. 
Mr. Burnham, who has now accepted the presi¬ 
dency of the new Game Protective and Propa¬ 
gation Association, has moved into a broader 
field, where it is believed he will do the same 
excellent work as in New York. This associa¬ 
tion has recently issued a prospectus setting 
forth its objects and aims, all of which are 
praiseworthy. 
The association desires the membership, sup¬ 
port and contributions of all sportsmen, and of 
all State and local organizations interested in 
game protection. It believes that migratory game 
birds are not the property of any one State 
more than another, and that they should be pro¬ 
tected by the Federal laws. It is ready to assist 
in the improvement of the game laws, but it 
realizes that good laws are worthless unless 
properly enforced. 
It is an American characteristic to believe 
that the way to remedy an abuse is to pass a 
law forbidding it, and then promptly to forget 
the whole matter. This association, however, 
purposes to try by means of its own men to 
assist the protectors and wardens of various 
States to enforce their laws. Incidentally, it 
will try to create among wardens and protectors 
a spirit of emulation, and will offer rewards for 
meritorious services. 
Fish and game should be propagated; shooting 
opportunities should be avai'able, so far as pos¬ 
sible, to rich and poor alike, and these oppor¬ 
tunities can be had by well administered laws 
and well carried out game propagation. The 
association believes in the license law, stands 
fo/ bag limits of game, absolute protection to 
insectivorous birds, prohibition of the sale of 
wild native game and all other reasonable pro¬ 
tective measures. 
In other words, this important association, 
backed by the contributions of successful manu¬ 
facturers, and under the presidency of John B. 
Burnham, stands for the very things that the 
best sportsmanship of the day believes in. 
Five separate days in November were set aside 
by New Jersey for deer shooting. So few were 
the deer that local hunters knew the habits of 
each one, and on the open days went to the 
haunts of the half-tame deer confident of suc¬ 
cess. There was no deer hunting, but there was 
some killing, and the few deer left alive to-day 
owe their escape to circumstances beyond the 
control of the hunters. Some of these deer are 
now carrying charges of bird shot. It is time 
to put a stop to shooting deer in that State until 
they have had an opportunity to increase. The 
commission has recently announced that it will 
expend $30,000 in 1912 for English pheasants, 
Hungarian partridges, quail and deer, but as the 
number of birds ordered is large, it is probable 
that not much of the sum mentioned will be left 
for the purchase of deer. The game birds are 
to be liberated late in March instead of in the 
winter. 
*» 
The mosquito is more numerous in the Arctic 
Zone than in the Tropics, though there is no 
land too cold or too hot for its habitation, and 
the only place where it is not found is in locali¬ 
ties where there is little or no moisture. Consul 
G. C. Cole, of Dawson, says that there is no 
country where the mosquitoes are so large and 
so numerous as they are in the Klondike, and it 
is impossible to destroy them, as they propagate 
in the heavy moss that grows there, which con¬ 
tains moisture almost equal to swamp lands. If, 
therefore, a safe preparation were invented which 
would keep the mosquito away, there would be 
an immense sale for it, not only in A'aska and 
the Canadian Klondike, but in all parts of the 
world. 
* 
It was in August, 1894, that James M. Root, 
then an engineer on the St. Paul and Duluth 
Shortline railway, performed an act of heroism 
seldom equalled. Plemmed in by forest fires, he 
backed his train through fire and smoke seven 
miles to a swamp where he and the passengers 
lay in the mud and water until the fire died out. 
He was severely burned, but recovered, was pen¬ 
sioned by the railway company, and made his 
home in New York city, where he died last week 
in his sixty-seventh year. 
Someone has estimated that 40,000 hunters 
went into the Michigan woods for deer during 
the recent open season. One of the railways 
claims that its agents counted 18.000 hunters who 
crossed the Straits of Mackinac in one week, 
bound for the northern woods. Of the total 
number of hunters, in reality an army bent on 
peaceful pursuits, only a few hundred non-resi¬ 
dents paid the high license fee and joined the 
residents in the pursuit of deer. 
m, 
Importers of foreign game paid the State of 
New York $2,080 during the month of Novem¬ 
ber, and the sale of shooting licenses brought the 
total receipts for these two items up to $35 355. 
about $10,000 less than the receipts for October, 
when the largest number of licenses were sold. 
