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NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JUNE 19, 1909. 
j VOL. LXXII,-No. 25 . 
/ No. 127 Franklin St., New York.- 
A WEEKLY JOURNAL. 
Copyright, 1909, by Forest and Stream Publishing Co. 
George Bird Grinnell, President, 
Charles B. Reynolds, Secretary, 
Louis Dean’ Speir, Treasurer, 
127 Franklin Street, New York. 
THE OBJECT OF THIS JOURNAL 
will be to studiously promote a healthful interest 
in outdoor recreation, and to cultivate a refined 
taste for natural objects. 
—Forest and Stream, Aug. 14, 1873. 
PROTECTION FOR ANTELOPE. 
It is gratifying that at last after many years 
of effort the prong-horned antelope is every¬ 
where protected by law. This ought to mean a 
great deal, because public respect for protective 
laws is everywhere constantly increasing. This 
mental attitude is of recent growth, but the senti¬ 
ment is one that will grow stronger rather than 
lessen. 
It has often been said that we Americans 
have enough laws if only we would enforce 
them, but no law can be enforced that is not 
supported by public opinion. The public can 
have no opinion on a subject about which it 
knows little or nothing, and it is therefore im¬ 
portant that people should be educated as to 
the desirability of protecting all innocent forms 
of wild life. The work of educating the public 
in these matters is slow to be sure, but that it 
can be done is shown by the success achieved 
by the Audubon Society, which of late years has 
devoted time and money to the task of explain¬ 
ing again and again in many places that all this 
wild life possesses an economic value to the 
country and should be preserved. 
To-day the temptation to kill comes chiefly 
from the desire to reduce wild things to posses¬ 
sion—commonly called sport. In old times it 
was a question of food to eat, of supplying the 
house with its winter’s meat, or of taking toll 
of the big game by the cowboy, so as to save 
his owner’s beef. 
In some localities the antelope seem actually 
to be increasing. Last winter we printed a 
letter from a transcontinental passenger telling 
of a considerable band seen just west of the 
eastern border of Colorado. Recently antelope 
have been reported in Pima county, Arizona, in 
localities where they have not been seen for 
many years. 
A generation ago the antelope was extremely 
abundant from about the Both meridian west 
to the Pacific coast. We believe that it was then 
more numerous in individuals than the buffalo. 
It was probably never found, save as a straggler, 
to the east of Missouri River in either Iowa or 
Minnesota, but all over the plains country to the 
west of that stream and on the high central 
plateau and again westward it was abundant. 
Of extraordinary interest—because it is unlike 
any other animal in the world—the antelope 
should have careful protection, and all persons 
who have charge of preserves in regions where 
the animal is native and thrives should strive to 
have it introduced and protected on such pre¬ 
serves. Over great areas of the Western coun¬ 
try which, owing to their aridity and broken 
character, must always remain pastures for 
horses and cattle, the antelope should have rigid 
protection. 
Students of our animal life are at work now 
endeavoring to estimate the number of antelope 
in the United States to-day. It is a hard matter 
to find data foi* an estimate, but we may feel 
sure that the number is small. 
FOREST AND STREAM STORIES. 
A TIMELY paper on salmon and trout fishing 
in Labrador and Newfoundland waters will be 
printed in our next issue. It was written by 
J. L. D., who has in the past contributed a num¬ 
ber of timely informative articles on the sub¬ 
ject of fishing in Newfoundland waters, and re¬ 
cently told his experiences with the trout of 
Wyoming. As a rule the last week in June is 
the time to embark for Newfoundland if one 
seeks sea trout and salmon, but the season has 
been backward, with a heavy run of ice along 
the coast. 
In J. W. Schultz’s Arizona series, the story 
we print this week relates to a situation in which 
old-time prospectors and hunters occasionally 
found themselves. To tell determined men 
that they could not prospect in a certain region 
because the Indians would not allow it was a 
bait that cost many lives in the old days. The 
Schultz stories that are to follow are equally 
interesting. 
A series of notes on the peculiarities of trees, 
illustrated with photographs, is contributed by 
George H. Feltus and will be printed shortly, as 
will also timely notes by Theodore Gordon on 
some of the things amateurs can do. 
Francis A. Niccolls will tell, in an illustrated 
article, what is being done by the members of 
the Megantic Fish and Game Club to discourage 
the keeping of trout that are caught but cannot 
be used. This is a practice that is general wher¬ 
ever men fish, but on the preserve of this club, 
on both sides of the International boundary line, 
its own unwritten law regulates the number of 
trout kept, and the number is constantly decreas¬ 
ing. There, as in some other clubs, the minimum 
length limit is higher than that required by law, 
and the result is satisfactory. 
The recent references in these columns to tuna 
fishing in Nova Scotia waters have attracted 
widespread attention. It is not uncommon to 
take Atlantic tqna with harpoons, but we believe 
J. K. L. Ross, of Sydney, N. S., is so far the 
pioneer in catching Atlantic tuna with rod and 
reel. Mr. Ross has hooked a score of these bfg 
fish, and one fish he mentions in a paper we shall 
soon publish towed him and his boatman for 
nearly fourteen hours and was never seen. To 
prevent being carried out to sea in a fog at 
night, the line was cut. 
THE DAY OF THE LITTLE BROWN TENT, 
Summer’s approach is marked in one way by 
the little tents that dot the shores of river and 
lake. Their number will increase steadily until 
September, when the greater demands of busi¬ 
ness will compel their owners to journey home¬ 
ward. Cold nights affect some campers just as 
they affect the foliage of the trees, though the 
autumn months are glorious for life in the open. 
A complete change has come over these camp¬ 
ers in their demand for shelter. No longer is 
the white tent of history in vogue. The demand 
to-day is for -anything but white. Although 
green is believed to be restful to the eyes, and 
not a few green tents are used, brown is the 
favorite. Brown is hardly the word, however, 
but if will serve, since it is most used in this 
connection. Dead grass color is nearer the 
average, so variable are the shades attainable 
by the makers of cotton duck, no two bolts of 
which are exactly alike. 
So many useful articles are now made for the 
short-trip camper that his entire outfit need not 
equal half his own weight. And there are so 
many places where it is pleasant to sojourn for 
a few days that the little brown tent bobs up 
in the most unexpected places—on mountain 
tops, along the seashore, or beside the trout 
stream. 
Try it. Take wife and children with you. 
They will enjoy the experience and all will be 
better for it. 
When the Camp-Fire Qub held its field day 
at Cos Cob, Conn., last week, Ernest T. Seton, 
its host, provided several novel contests, and 
these in turn furnished amusement. Besides the 
fly-casting and the rifle shooting there were com¬ 
petitions in portaging, in making camp, building 
fires, etc. Although some of the members had 
never tried to make camp against time, experi¬ 
ence counted, and they performed the task in 
a very short time. To pitch a tent, build a fire 
and cook a meal while a thunderstorm is ap¬ 
proaching is good practice, and not a few old 
campers have at times performed seemingly 
hopeless tasks of this kind in less time than at 
first seemed possible. 
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The best part of the trout fishing season in 
the Middle Atlantic States has lapped over the 
bass season, and during the present month ang¬ 
lers may find good fishing for both in regions 
where streams and ponds are numerous. 
