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FOREST AND STREAM 
the exportation of captured young foxes has 
prevented outsiders from buying for immediate 
exportation, as was done in previous years, and 
in consequence prices are now much lower. A 
silver gray pup three months old, which one 
year ago brought $800 to $1,050, now sells for 
$150 to $250. 
“During the latter part of the summer and 
fall of 1913 more than half of the foxes in cap¬ 
tivity in Yukon died from some malady that 
the owners were unable to combat. This season 
there has been no disease among animals in 
captivity, and in the same pens where there were 
dozens of deaths last year foxes are doing well 
and growing at least as rapidly as they would 
in their wild state. Of three litters of pups in 
one pen, sixteen in all, fourteen are living, and 
are now larger and in better condition than 
captured foxes of the same age. Foxes do not 
always breed while in captivity, and in some in¬ 
stances the mother destroys the young as soon 
as they are born. 
“At present there are about 300 foxes in cap¬ 
tivity in southern Yukon, of which fully 50 per 
cent, are crosses, the remainder being silver 
grays and blacks, the former exceeding the lat¬ 
ter in number in the proportion of three to two. 
In the majority of cases the owners are holding 
them for breeding purposes.” 
MAINE DEER HUNTERS. 
That the Maine deer season has been excep¬ 
tionally good is vouched for by Carl Borstel- 
man of New York and party, comprised of Wil¬ 
helm Meyer and John Kaulein from Augusta. 
They hunted around Machias Forks, where, in 
8 days they killed six deer, averaging 200 pounds, 
and one gray fox. All week Mr. Borstelman’s 
friends have been enjoying venison steaks, stews, 
saddles and the “horns,” as generally go with 
such a repast. 
WISCONSIN WANTS SHORTER SEASON. 
Couderay, Wis., October 26.—The deer coun¬ 
ties of northern Wisconsin have joined in a 
united protest against the hunting laws. 
“We want either all hunting prohibited for a 
period of two or three years, at least, or all 
outside hunters prohibited from hunting in the 
northern counties,” declares R. W. Reiser, leader 
of the movement. “We believe a man should 
not be permitted to hunt outside of his own 
county. 
“There are several reasons for this attitude. 
We are constantly endangered in the north dur¬ 
ing the hunting season by city people who are 
responsible for the innumerable hunting accidents. 
“There are only about five counties in which 
deer can be hunted- There the hunters swarm 
and the deer having been harassed are seeking 
shelter across the line in Michigan. The deer 
season should be cut down and the penalties for 
violation made greater.” 
TO RAISE MINK AND SKUNK. 
Bemidji, Minn., Oct. 8.—E. M. Sathre, secre¬ 
tary of the Business Men’s association, and a 
leading farmer, announces that he has opened a 
fur farm on one of his properties in the town 
of Liberty, located on one of this section’s beauti¬ 
ful lakes. 
A. B. Coan and family of Champaign, Ill., have 
already taken possession of the place and will 
superintend the farm. Skunk and mink will be 
the chief fur bearing animals raised during the 
first year. Mr. Coan is an experienced man in 
this line of work and believes this section of 
the country ideal for this business- 
Farmers who have been troubled by these ani¬ 
mals stealing chickens will do well to trap them 
and turn them over to the Sathre Fur Farm 
alive. A four-acre pen will be fenced in on the 
farm for the raising of skunks, while the mink 
problem will also be cared for in a similar man¬ 
ner. 
MIGRATORY BIRDS AND LIGHTHOUSES. 
Cruelty to animals is not always caused by 
indifference to their sufferings. A case in point 
is the slaughter of migratory birds around light¬ 
houses, which was long believed to result from 
the birds being dazzled by the great light and 
consequently flying round and round until they 
dashed themselves against the glass or fell ex¬ 
hausted into the sea. But a Dutch naturalist 
refused to credit this explanation. He believed 
that the birds remained within the glaring light 
because they could not see beyond it; in the 
morning, if they could keep themselves on the 
wing so long, they could continue their journey. 
Experiment seeming to confirm his theory, the 
British Royal Society for the Protection of 
Birds tested it on a larger scale by having rest¬ 
ing-places for birds attached to certain light¬ 
houses. The result has been most gratifying. 
The birds no longer die in thousands, but settle 
for rest upon the perches, and at sunrise resume 
their flight. This solution of the problem is of 
economic as well as of humanitarian interest, 
for many of the birds are insectivorous. The 
plan should be extended without delay to all 
lighthouses standing in the way of the streams 
of migration. 
WANT PA. LAWS CHANGED. 
Windber, Pa-, Oct. 8.—The local branch of 
United Sportsmen is on record in favor of re¬ 
vising the present state game and fish laws. At 
a recent meeting held in the office of ’Squire 
Sell, President Murphy appointed a committee 
of five to draft recommendations and have the 
report ready for the next meeting to be held next 
Monday evening in ’Squire Sell’s new office on 
Thirteenth street. This committee consists of 
Sol Roach, Daniel Hough, John Seymour, George 
Snyder, and Hugh Murphy. These gentlemen 
completed a rough draft of their findings last 
evening and they will present them for adoption 
or revision next week. 
The local sportsmen are in favor of reducing 
the limit of trout that may be legally caught in 
a day from 40 to 25, but without regard to the 
size. For instance, it is now illegal to catch a 
trout under six inches. Under the new regula¬ 
tions which are recommended there would be no 
size limit. A day’s catch would be 25 and beyond 
that number would be illegal. They would also 
have the open season from May 1 to July 15 
and would not be in favor .of closing the streams 
after trout have been planted. The size limit 
of eight inches on black bass is tabooed, the 
Windber men believing there should be no limit 
as to size of these fish. 
They would have the deer season remain as 
it now is — from Nov. 10 to Nov. 25. On noxious 
animals, such as fox, wildcats, and the like, they 
would have the proof consist of split ears or 
split heads, instead of removing the ears or 
heads entirely. This would constitute legal evi¬ 
dence of their having been killed in order to 
obtain the bounty which the state authorizes, 
pays and at the same time permit the pelts to 
be sold. Weazels are excepted from this recom¬ 
mendation. 
The committee unanimously recommends a uni¬ 
form hunting and fishing season throughout the 
state. They object to the purchase or leasing 
of game preserves in this state by private per¬ 
sons. Under certain restrictions they also rec¬ 
ommend that Sunday fishing be permitted, as 
this is the only day in the week that many of 
the laboring sportsmen and others have in which 
to enjoy the sport. They would not go so far 
as to advise Sunday hunting on account of the 
danger to the large numbers of people who take 
to the woods on that day. 
THE SALE OF GAME ALWAYS EXTER¬ 
MINATES. 
By Ernest Thompson Seton. 
In the matter of sale of wild duck, I cannot 
comprehend how any man who has honestly at 
heart the protection from extermination of the 
remnant of our wild life, can advocate re-open¬ 
ing the sale of wild duck. Wherever open sale 
has been allowed it has resulted in extermination, 
and no wise men in power have allowed it when 
they realized the situation. Whenever it has 
been re-establisheid under law, it was because 
unscrupulous dealers deliberately fogged the is¬ 
sue and confused wild duck with barn raised 
duck. 
In my opinion the question is not “shall we 
sell or shall we not sell the wild duck, but shall 
we keep the wild duck forever for the joy and 
profit of the people, or shall we slaughter them 
off within a couple of years for the benefit of a 
few sordid dealers.” 
MARKET HUNTER A DESTROYER. 
By Emerson Hough. 
If the sale of game had not been stopped in 
many or most of our States, there would be no 
game left today to sell. No one sets any wild 
duck eggs under any hen. What would we say 
of the farmer who would sell all his eggs from 
under a setting hen and then cut off the head 
of the setting hen herself and sell her also? How 
long would his family have poultry to eat? We 
don’t raise poultry enough even with our best 
efforts at increase- If we use our wild game as 
a mine and not as a farm its end is at hand. 
The men who sell wild game work day and 
night. They add nothing to the wealth of the 
country, pay no taxes, take no part in society. 
They are destroyers, not builders. To allow the 
sale of wild game means the immediate exter¬ 
mination of wild game. 
SHALL USE OF GAME BE DETERMINED BY 
THE POCKET BOOK? 
By Stewart Edward White. 
I am and always have been in favor of the 
non-sale of game- The arguments in my mind 
are briefly these: There is not enough game for 
everybody, so that some method of distribution 
is necessary. Under the sale of game idea that 
method is determined by the pocket book; under 
the non-sale of game idea that method is deter- 
