Jan. 20, 1912.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
97 
ONE 
TWO 
THREE 
The Official 
Amateur Season’s Averages 
for 1911 
FIRST Allen Heil—High on Doubles 
Allentown, Pa. 
174 out of 200.87% 
SECOND R. Graham—Second High on Singles 
Ingleside, Ill. 
Second High on Doubles 
3877 out of 4050.95.72% 
369 out of 450.82.00% 
THIRD J. P. White—Third High on Singles 
Watertown, S. D. 
3037 out of 3190.95.20% 
These gentlemen shot 
DU PONT SPORTING POWDERS 
The Powders which are used by Record Makers. 
Insist on your shells for field and trap shooting 
being loaded with the Regular and Reliable brands. 
E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS POWDER COMPANY 
"Pioneer Potuder MaHyrs of America 
ESTABLISHED 1*02 ( gUPDl ) Wilmington, Del. 
*Mr. Graham's shooting was done in all sections of the country under varied conditions, including in the above the entire 
Program for the 1911 Post Season Tournament at St. Louis, where conditions were extremely difficult. 
average cost of prosecuting a case was less than 
the preceding year. The commission says: 
“The game laws cannot be enforced unless 
they appeal to the common sense and common 
interests of the sportsmen, the farmers, the land- 
owners and all who delight in the recreation of 
rod and gun. The conservation commission is 
in hearty accord with the popular demand for 
‘fewer laws, more fish and game.’ 
“The general desire of the commission is to 
make the law, first, more simple in form so that 
it may be clearly understood, not only by the 
experienced lawyer, but by the average citizen; 
secondly, to make the law general throughout 
the State, in so far as it is practicable. The 
present law abounds in local provisions, and in 
order to eliminate these it will be necessary to 
give to the conservation commission the power 
within certain proper limits of prohibiting or 
regulating the taking of any species of fish or 
game when such prohibition or regulation be¬ 
comes necessary for the proper conservation or 
protection of the same. Among the more radical 
changes recommended are: First, a change in 
the size limit of trout from six to seven inches; 
second, a bag limit of twenty-five birds per day 
to be placed on wildfowl; third, a bag limit of 
fifteen birds per day to be placed on shore 
birds; fourth, the permitting of the sale of 
trout raised in private hatcheries under a proper 
system of licensing and tagging. 
“The commission believes that without impos¬ 
ing any unjust burden on the citizens of the 
State, the division of fish and game can be made 
self-supporting, providing a proper solution may 
be reached for obtaining an adequate income 
from the lands leased for shellfish purposes.’’ 
The commission says that it wi 1 endeavor to 
popularize the work of preserving and protect¬ 
ing the wild life of forest and streams, but that 
meantime an increased number of protectors is 
urgently required; that there should be one in 
every county and several protectors in the coun¬ 
ties where the fish and game are most abundant 
and the largest number of violations of the law 
necessarily occur. It notes that from all over 
the State come demands for increased protec¬ 
tion for fish and game which the commission is 
unable to meet without legislation increasing the 
total number of protectors. A favorable report 
is made as to the workings of the socalled plum¬ 
age law, the Bayne-Blauvelt law prohibiting the 
sale of game with certain exceptions, the cold 
storage law and the Sullivan law, and it is re¬ 
marked that as a result of the enforcement of 
the Bayne law the pot-hunter has lost his market 
and hence his incentive to kill more game than 
he can use himself. 
The State game farm at Sherburne distributed 
during the year 2,535 pheasants and 12,945 pheas¬ 
ants’ eggs. It is expected that this distribution 
will be easily doubled in 1912. The experiment 
of feeding deer during the winter, it is stated, 
proved successful and should be greatly ex¬ 
tended in scope. 
The nine State fish hatcheries during the year 
produced and distributed 700,000,000 fish, almost 
one-fourth as many fish as the Federal Govern¬ 
ment’s fifty hatcheries. This output exceeded 
last year’s by 165000000, and the State fish cul- 
turist expects a production of 1,000,000000 fish 
for 1912. Upon the basis of half the price 
charged by commercial hatcheries, the State 
hatcheries’ production last year was worth over 
$200,000, and the cost of the work was only 
about $75,000. The commission recommends the 
establishing of a new fish hatchery in St. Law¬ 
rence county. 
Of the work of the Bureau of Marine Fish¬ 
eries it is said that the value of the shellfish taken 
from the waters within this State during the past 
year is upward of $12,000,000, and that it is safe 
to assume that the value of the migratory food 
fish output was of at least equal commercial 
value. 
The report goes on to say that since its in¬ 
spector of docks and dams was appointed in 
October last, the commission has inspected and 
reported on no less than forty-six dams in this 
State. In all, thirty-eight were found defective; 
in same cases entire rebuilding and in others re¬ 
pairs were recommended. The commission is 
pleased to add that in every case its recommen¬ 
dations are being cheerfully complied with. The 
report also refers to the fact that the report of 
its inspector as to the causes of the collapse of 
the Austin dam was the earliest explanation 
thereof has been widely accepted as authorita¬ 
tive, and has been fully corroborated by subse¬ 
quent testimony. The commission proposes, it 
says, to see to it that every old dam in the State 
is made safe; that no new dam shall be con¬ 
structed which is not safe. To the end that 
adequate power in this regard may be vested in 
the commission, it recommends that the law be 
amended. 
