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Belgium sends 50,000 larks to Paris each sea¬ 
son, while the game importations from other 
countries are: Austria, 2,500 deer, 80,000 part¬ 
ridges and 50,000 hares; Italy, 25,000 quail; Aus¬ 
tralia, 100,000 rabbits, 20,000 hares and 50,000 
larks; England, 40,000 pheasants and 30,000 part¬ 
ridges. 
No doubt considerable game that did not get 
away from the continually beaten war zone has 
been destroyed, and the sportsmen who have 
shooting preserves in these parts of the country 
are pessimistic concerning the future. They 
think it will require several years to repopulate 
those regions. On the other hand, the prohibi¬ 
tion of one season’s shooting in the territory not 
affected by hostilities, it is thought, will result in 
immense benefit to game in general, and next 
year and for many years to come all kinds of 
game will be more plentiful than ever before. 
LAVARACK AND STYLE, 
New Haven, Conn., Dec. 15, 1914. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
Laverack’s article in the issue of Dec. 12, the 
Style and Other Field Points touched a respon¬ 
sive chord ‘in my heart when he wrote Style and 
Feather to him were quite essential qualities or 
something to that effect. The sneak act of 
which he speaks, crouching and crawling to my 
mind are very essential points in a grouse dog 
when on track of our wild Connecticut grouse. 
In speaking of why the regulation dog of the 
day is less feathered and more slimly built than 
formerly I feel that Laverack knows the answer, 
that beauty has been sacrificed 'for speed to pro¬ 
duce a field trial dog on quail, but let us ‘hope 
that the grouse trials so recently started in 
Pennsylvania will give us back our compact 
evenly marked feathered dogs that did not have 
to cover a whole field but seemed to know where 
to look for the birds. Dogs that, when they 
stood for their picture, did not have to have their 
heads supported, tails pulled out straight by 
their handler if they did not happen to be on a 
point. And as we have about ten months of the 
year when we can’t hunt let us try and get back 
as near as we can to the type of dog “Laver¬ 
ack” describes and not have dogs that are like 
the fellow who went to a ball in overalls. He 
knew all the fancy steps, had a glorious time 
but was a terrible insult to the eye-sight. 
DR. PAUL STETSON. 
Norwood, Minnesota, Dec. 12. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
Biennial report of Game and Fish Commis¬ 
sioner State of Minnesota, 1913-14 shows game 
violators have spent 2,035 days in jail and paid 
fines aggregating $17,559.85. The warden ser¬ 
vice has 'cost the state $122,000. Eighty thou¬ 
sand has been paid into the state treasury for 
resident and non-resident hunting licenses. 
About 1,000 seizures made of nets, guns, boats, 
game, fish and etc., valued and sold for over 
$2,900. 
GEO. J. BRADLEY, 
President Minnesota Game and Fish 
Commission. 
LOCATING PRESERVES. 
Harrisburg, Pa., Dec. 17.—Definite steps to 
locate other game preserves in this state will 
be taken shortly by officials of the Game and 
Forestry Commissions and it is expected that 
early next year the stringing of wires around 
the preserves in the Loyalsock region, and at 
the point where Lycoming, Clinton, Potter and 
Tioga counties come together, will be taken. 
The Huntingdon site will be surveyed soon. Two 
other preserves are to be located. 
TO PROTECT MOOSE IN MAINE. 
Bangor, Me., Dec. 1. 
What may be Maine’s last open season on 
moose for a number of years ended at midnight. 
A total of fifty-four moose have been received 
here since the season opened a month ago, com¬ 
pared with forty-nine for the corresponding pe¬ 
riod last year, and sixty in 1912. 
The Fish and Game Commission has recom¬ 
mended to the Legislature that moose be pro¬ 
tected for several years. 
MAKING THE FARMS ATTRACTIVE TO 
BIRDS. 
To induce every property owner in the United 
States to increase the number of birds on his 
land is the purpose of a movement just 
launched in New York, according to an an¬ 
nouncement made by T. Gilbert Pearson, secre¬ 
tary of the National Association of Audubon 
Societies. 
This new work will consist in part of estab¬ 
lishing throughout the country many experimen¬ 
tal stations for attracting birds. Bird boxes, 
feeding and drinking devices and similar artifi¬ 
cial apparatus will be set up in suitable places 
on estates to serve as object lessons to all the 
people of the region. 
It is understood that attractively illustrated 
bulletins explaining this subject, as well as the 
propagation of grouse, quail, wild turkeys, ducks 
and geese, will be issued and given wide distri¬ 
bution. 
On the Trail. 
