Boy Scouts took up the call, and the fields are 
now daily filled with men and boys, each one 
bent. on showing through works that he truly 
pities the needy and helpless these cold days. 
Who will be neighbor to the birds in your com¬ 
munity? A prayer or kindly spoken word means 
something, for they may reach some listening- 
ear, but neither prayer or kindly feeling amount 
to much without acompanying works. One 
bushel of grain placed where Bob-White and his 
family can get it means more to them than all 
the kind words that could be spoken in the 
county where they are about to die of starvation. 
I beg of you to do something now for the 
birds. 
JOSEPH KALBFUS, 
Secretary, Penna. Game Commission. 
NEW GAME LEGISLATION IN PENNSYL¬ 
VANIA. 
West - Chester, Pa., Dec. 14.—At the session 
of the legislature, which opens the first Monday 
next month, it is probable that a bill will be 
presented in the interest of the hunters of the 
state requesting that the open season for squir¬ 
rels be changed to conform with that for rab¬ 
bits. For two years the squirrel season has been 
open fifteen days previous to that for rabbits 
and the consequence has been that many “bun¬ 
nies” have been killed by irresponsible shooters- 
The season also 'bids fair to be the death knell 
of all squirrels if continued for any length of 
time. 
During the season just closed there were more 
hunters in the timber after squirrels than ever 
before. People who never hunted took up arms 
after the animals and in Chester county alone 
over three thousand resident licenses were taken 
out for the shooting, while the total number 
taken for the year is but seven thousand. Squir¬ 
rels had grown plentiful, due to the season con¬ 
forming to that for rabbits for two years, but 
the last law sounded trouble for them. 
All shooting among the gun dubs of this sec¬ 
tion has been abandoned for the present because 
of the prevalence of the foot and mouth dis ase 
among many herds of cattle in the.. county and 
nearly all farms have been closed to hunting 
for the same reason. All the fox hunting clubs 
have abandoned the sport for the season a d 
farmers are acting in a drastic manner. As a 
result many beagle hounds have been killed by 
them and a number of hunters have paid fines 
for trespass. W. T. HUNT. 
TO URGE ENFORCEMENT OF STATE’S 
GAME LAWS. 
Oklahoma City, Okla., Dec. 5. 
In announcing the appointment of George 
Noble of Poteau to the office of State Game 
Warden, Governor-Elect Williams said that the 
rumor that he favors merging this office into the 
Department of Agriculture is an error. It is the 
announced desire of Judge Williams to make the 
office of Game Warden a great and powerful fac¬ 
tor in preserving the game birds and animals of 
Oklahoma, and in establishing and maintaining 
preserves for wild game in the waste places of 
the state. He is particularly in favor of estab¬ 
lishing game preserves in the Kiamichi Mountain 
country of the Choctaw Nation. 
In the past the office of Game Warden has 
collected a large sum of money from the sale of 
FOREST AND STREAM 
hunting licenses. This fund was designed ■ for 
the protection of game and enforcement of the 
game laws. The legislature diverted about 
$100,000 of this fund to be used in construction 
of the State capitol. It is understood that this 
money may be repaid to 'the Game Warden’s 
fund in the State Treasury, but that is a prob¬ 
lematical matter. It is the intention of Judge 
Williams, however, to use his influence against 
any further diversion of the funds thus accumu¬ 
lated in the future and to see that they are ex¬ 
pended as the law contemplates, with some addi¬ 
tions probable to the law 10 make the conserva¬ 
tion of fish and game in Oklahoma more practi¬ 
cable than in the past. 
The salary of the State Game Warden is $1,800 
a year and an expense account for traveling has 
been allowed in the sum of $500 a year. The 
office employs a clerk at $1,500 and a stenogra¬ 
pher at $1,200. The total appropriation for the 
office last year was $7,350. So far this year 
license sales have brought in about $34,000. 
George E. Noble has been a sheriff in the east 
side of the State and personally apprehended 
many lawbreakers of desperate character. 
THAYER GAME PRESERVE OF 1000 ACRES. 
Lancaster, Mass., Dec. 13. 
The 1,000-acre game preserve owned by Bay¬ 
ard Thayer, Lancaster, where many sportsmen of 
New England came to hunt as guests of Mr. 
Thayer, will not be the scene of any more hunt¬ 
ing parties, as Mr. Thayer has disposed of all the 
pheasants on the preserve. 
William Hare, keeper of the preserve, made a 
specialty of raising pheasants on the preserve 
when Mr. Thayer decided to give it up and they 
have all been disposed of. The preserve 
abounded in other wild things but pheasants were 
the only game that were raised by Mr. Thayer. 
TO PERFECT TENNESSEE GAME LAWS. 
The legislature is near at hand and all who 
have the interest of the game and the fish of the 
state at heart should get busy and begin the agi¬ 
tation of better and more progressive steps look¬ 
ing to its better protection and 'to its propaga¬ 
tion. 
The game warden system in Tennessee should 
be taken off the fee system and the warden 
placed on an annual salary. The $3 so-called 
“optional” license, which is an anomaly found in 
no other state in the Union, should be changed so 
as to make the license to hunt anywhere in the 
state only $1, and it should not he “optional” but 
compulsory. Every man who hunts out of his 
own civil district should pay it. It is the legiti¬ 
mate and proper way to raise revenue with 
which to operate a game and fish department. 
It is the system that is employed in practically 
every other state in the Union that has done any¬ 
thing with game and fish preservation. 
The sale of the wild duck and the wild goose 
should be stopped in Tennessee. Our wild fowl 
life is rapidly vanishing. The National Govern¬ 
ment in the Weeks-McLean bill has framed and 
passed a measure that is intended to protect and 
help save the duck. For a state to permit the 
sale of the wild duck and its wholesale destruc¬ 
tion by po't hunters for the purpose of sale, is 
directly violadve of the spirit of the govern¬ 
ment’s bill, and is in conflict with every idea of 
protection. The pot hunter knows no bag limit- 
815 
Locked Antlers. 
He shoots and kills for money. What are game 
laws to him when he is selling what he kills and 
is killing all he can? 
The state of Alabama, our sister south of us, 
makes poor old Tennessee hide her head in 
shame with the progress she has attained in game 
and fish preservation under the direction of John 
H. Wallace, game and fish commissioner of Ala¬ 
bama. His annual report for the past two years 
is off the press, and it makes a most creditable 
showing. It is compulsory to hunt in Alabama 
with a license. The warden there is on a salary. 
The open seasons are - shorter. No game of any 
description is aliowed to be sold. Alabama has 
a fund of $35,120.64 to her credit for the past 
two years, and it has all been accumulated 
through the operation of Alabama’s laws. 
Tennessee could do the same thing if the mem¬ 
bers of the legislature would permit some of 
their own members to investigate the game laws 
of other states and ascertain what Tennessee 
needs, and the individual members would stop 
the practice of trying- to pass them a lot of local 
game and fish laws for their own special uses at 
home. No more harmful practice was ever be¬ 
gun than the enactment of local game laws. 
Tennessee’s laws in some respects are good. 
They should not be repealed, but should be 
amended. 
GAME PROTECTORS AT AMSTERDAM. 
Gloversville, N. Y., Dec. 9.—Game Protector 
Clayton H. Masten of Gloversville attended the 
regular tri-monthly meeting of the South Adi¬ 
rondack game protectors which was held yesterday 
afternoon at Hotel Warner. Others present 
were: C. C. Underhill, division chief; J. E. 
Ball, C. M. Hiller, Joseph Jenkins, John Kane, 
W. F. Newell and G. Cleveland Wheaton, pro¬ 
tectors, and E. W. Gauding, special protector. 
Matters relative to the game laws were discussed. 
