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ANGLERS’ ASSOCIATION OF ONONDAGA 
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served. Personally, I know of dozens of par¬ 
ents who refused longer to allow their boys 
to use the air-gun, and I presume that many of 
you know of similar experiences, so that there 
is no question in my mind, but that this edu¬ 
cational feature was and will be the means of 
permitting thousands of our songbirds to con¬ 
tinue as our guests while in the North. 
Last year the output of the State trout 
hatcheries was rather limited, and as a result 
we received only about 30,000 brook trout fry 
which were placed in the brooks in various 
parts of the county, including Onondaga 
Creek, Peck Brook, Swamp Brook, Elmwood 
Brook, tributaries to Nine Mile Creek, tribu¬ 
taries of Limestone Creek and a number or 
other well-known trout streams. 
Fishing conditions throughout the county 
were reported generally more satisfactory than 
for some years previous. 
About a year ago members through an 
auxiliary company, arranged to provide a club 
house to be located at South Bay, Oneida Lake. 
After many conferences and committee meet¬ 
ings, the old Sagamore Inn was sold to the or¬ 
ganization on very reasonable terms. • The 
building" was opened in July as a club house, 
but on the first of December it was burned. 
Plans for the new building have been prepared, 
and it is the ambition of the board of directors 
to have the club house completed and ready for 
dedication and occupancy on the Fourth of July. 
During the last session of the Legislature 
the game laws were revised to a great extent. 
Among the more important revisions which 
interest this locality, and the most important 
without doubt, was the law requiring all resi¬ 
dent hunters to secure licenses. This license 
fee costs $1.10; foreigners are required to pay 
$20.50. The result of this law has been the 
means of discouraging hundreds of the foreign 
element in using a gun, which directly has been 
the means of saving thousands of our song 
birds, which have in other years been wantonly 
slaughtered. No citizen imbued with the spirit 
of sportsmanship has found any objections to 
paying this tax, and the benefits which he will 
eventually derive from the investment of this 
money in game, birds and additional game pro¬ 
tectors will satisfy him to the extent that he 
will favor the law remaining permanently in 
force. 
Owing to the fact that we have no spring 
shooting for ducks when they are seen in this 
vicinity in flocks of thousands and fly over us 
in the fall when the season is open, as the 
ducks are not inclined to patronize our feeding 
grounds, it was considered advisable by the ex¬ 
ecutive board to do something which would 
tntice the ducks to come here, in order that 
the sportsmen in this vicinity might have some 
of the pleasures of duck hunting. Therefore, 
the association purchased a large quantity of 
specially germinated wild rice, which was 
planted in all bays where there was sufficient 
mud bottom in which it was possible for it to 
take root. A few of the seed were placed in 
mud balls and thrown overboard from a boat 
in these localities mentioned, the object being 
to have the seed retained in native soil to in¬ 
sure its growth, and at the same time not to be 
washed from its intended field. We anticipate 
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