FOREST AND STREAM 
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RECORD SMALL MOUTH BASS FOR “FOREST 
AND STREAM” TROPHY. 
Traverse City, Mich-, Oct. 16, 1914. 
On September 20th, 1914, while fishing in Cedar 
Lake, Mich., I hooked and landed a small mouth 
bass weighing six pounds four ounces; length, 
22% inches; girth, 16% inches. Rod of own 
make, bait was Bert Winnie’s “Stumpdodger”; 
line, Shakespeare’s “Favorite”; reel, Meisselbach 
Tak-part Tree Spool. Find attached affidavit. 
I stopped with Ross Monroe, whom I can recom¬ 
mend highly. 
CHARLES E. QUICK. 
CONVICTED FOR “SOONER” TRAPPING. 
The first conviction for ’’sooner” trapping in 
North Dakota this year was secured when A. 
W. Erickson, living near Tower City, was fined 
$52.50 and $10.90 costs for having caught seven 
muskrats. The season does not open until Nov. 15. 
$10,000 TO SAVE THE BIRDS. 
Ten thousand dollars has been subscribed to 
the movement for bringing back the birds to 
their old homes by friends of :ne National As¬ 
sociation of Audubon Societies. 
This amount, it is believed, will see the work 
through tor at least two years, and it has been 
given so as to be available as the need for it 
arises. 
The chief endeavor will be to spread the knowl¬ 
edge of the means by which birds can be attract¬ 
ed. The work is in charge of Herbert K. Job. 
He will establish model stations for the care of 
the wild birds on estates where they can be 
studied by those who are interested in the pres¬ 
ervation of the feathered songsters. There will 
be nests and feed boxes and drinking fountains 
and various appliances by means of which the 
birds will be encouraged to live in northern and 
eastern parts of the country. 
Those who have subscribed $1,000 each to 
the project are Edmund C. Converse, Samuel 
Thorne and William Rockefeller. Others who 
have contributed to the war chest of the asso¬ 
ciation for this purpose are George Eastman, 
Mrs. Frederick F. Thompson and George F. 
Baker. 
On the Havemeyer estate, Greenwich, Conn., 
a station has been built under the supervision 
of Mr. Job where those in the neighborhood who 
are interested in this practical and applied orni¬ 
thology may observe the working out of the 
ideas of the association. Mr. Job also has ar¬ 
ranged to give a series of lectures throughout 
the country. - 
NIMRODS FAVOR CHANGE IN LAWS. 
The movement to have the state law amended 
to have the season for all game birds open Sept. 
15 or some days later, is gaining considerable 
support from the nimrods in North Dakota. 
They declare that a common opening day for 
the small game would be the logical thing, as it 
would help to stop unlawful killing and give ad¬ 
ditional protection to the birds. The season for 
prairie chickens and ducks open Sept. 7 and 
that for partridge Oct. 1. The chickens and 
partridges are easily mistaken for each other 
by the average hunter and the early opening 
of the chicken season brings many men into the 
woods who could not otherwise be there but 
who, once in the field, do not care what they 
kill so long as they aren’t caught. The conse¬ 
quence is that many partridges are killed un¬ 
lawfully. 
The hunters state that Sept. 7 is too early for 
the chicken season opening. They point out 
that the cover is much heavier than would be 
the case a couple of weeks later and that as 
prairie chickens are comparatively new to this 
section they should be better protected in order 
that they may increase rapidly. Except for 
local ducks, the duck hunting isn't much good 
until October, or when the fall freeze-up starts 
the ducks on their long southward flight. 
Some favor having the big game season 
open later than Nov. 10 in order to increase 
the liability of snow, which makes the hunting 
better. Snow “deadens” the woods and makes 
tracking easy, adding to the chances of the hunter 
and lessening those of the deer. 
George A. Flinn, president of the Northeastern 
Minnesota Game and Fish Protective association, 
and C. G. Krelwitz, secreatry-treasurer of the 
Northwestern Gun club, state that the majority 
of the members of those organizations approve 
of having the season for small game open on 
the same day, Sept. 15, or a little later. 
WOMAN EXPLORES ALASKAN FJORDS. 
Miss Dora Keen, of Philadelphia, returned 
Oct. 2nd from Harriman and College Fiords, 
Chas. E. Quick and 1914 Record Small Mouth 
Bass. 
Prince William Sound, where she went Aug. 15 
with three men to explore the glaciers of the 
Fiords and the mountains back of them. 
Miss Keen, who has done much mountain ex¬ 
ploration work in Alaska, said she had obtained 
valuable photographs showing marked changes 
in the glaciers emptying into Prince William 
Sound. The approaches to the glaciers were 
extremely difficult, she said, because of solid 
packs of fallen icebergs. 
TEXAS RABBIT DRIVES. 
Down in the Texas panhandle, sometimes re¬ 
ferred to as the “plains” country, the farmers 
have started a movement to exterminate the jack 
rabbit in the interest of the grain crops. The 
county commissioners of Hale county have placed 
a bounty of three cents each on the rabbits’ 
scalps. Several rabbit “drives” have been pulled 
off near Plainview, the county seat of Hale 
county, and up to last New Year’s day there 
had been 9,000 rabbits brought in for the sake 
of the bounty upon their heads. The choicest 
ones are sold to the local produce companies for 
table use, at 5 cents apiece, and the ears are 
then taken “to count” to claim the 3 cents bounty. 
The produce companies have done a big business 
shipping the rabbits away for food, and hun¬ 
dreds of those not suited for such use have been 
bought by farmers for hog feed. 
Plainview is in the heart of what is known 
as the “shallow water belt” of the plains country, 
where for several years past such wonderful 
development has been taking place. 
PROTECT GAME; WATCH INDIANS. 
Fort Collins, Colo., Oct. 4.—Joseph L. Gray, 
deputy state game commissioner of Fort Collins, 
has been sent to the White river country to 
prevent Ute Indians from killing game out of 
season in the state. 
The charge made against the Indians is that 
they know the game trails and that they camp 
along these and kill deer as they come from the 
higher mesas down into the valleys for the 
winter. 
Gray will have a number of wardens with him. 
They will proceed to Rifle, and from there to 
Meeker, and then about seventy-five miles into 
the country about Rangeley, where the Utes are 
said to do the greatest amount of damage. 
RECORD CATCH OF HALIBUT. 
Tacoma, Wash., Oct 17.—Approximately 120,- 
000 pounds of halibut, declared to be the great¬ 
est catch ever to come to port in a fishing 
schooner, were brought i by the Tom & A 1 from 
the Alaska banks. On the previous voyage the 
schooner returned to port with 110,000 pounds, 
a high record for the present year. So far as 
any of the fishermen can recall, the 120,000- 
pound catch breaks all records for the port’s 
fleet of schooners. The catch was sold at the 
rate of 6% cents for the No. 1 fish. 
FOX CULTURE IN YUKON. 
Washington, Oct. 12.—Consular Agent E. J. 
White writes from White Horse, Canada: 
“While the fox markets of eastern Canada, 
principally in New Brunswick and Prince Ed¬ 
ward Island, are practically the same as last 
year, the prices paid here for young foxes this 
season are only about one-quarter of those paid 
last year. This is due to a law passed by the 
Yukon Territorial Legislature in March, 1914, 
providing that a fox from the wild state must 
be kept in captivity two years before it can be 
exported. Animals born in captivity may be ex¬ 
ported at any time. 
“As the majority of the young foxes captured 
are taken by Indians who are not prepared to 
keep them for any length of time they are bought 
by ‘fox farmers,’ of whom there are now about 
twelve in Yukon Territory, and kept by them 
until such time as they may be legally exported. 
The result of the passage of the law forbidding 
