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FOREST AND STREAM 
Feb. 3, 1912 
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—Forest and Stream, Aug. 14, 1873. 
GROUND-NESTING BIRDS. 
Massachusetts sportsmen propose to curb 
the wanderings of self-hunting dogs during the 
nesting season of quail, grouse and woodcock. 
A bill for this purpose is now before the State 
Legislature, and excellent reasons why it. should 
become a law are given in another column. 
To the appeal made by Mr. . Clark there 
is little that may be added, but we would sug- - 
gest that those who now oppose the passage of 
the bill give careful consideration to the fact 
that, as more and mote land is cleared for -agri¬ 
cultural purposes, cover for ground-nest ng birds . 
decreases, and important agents in this situation 
are the fires that creep about among the leaves 
and grass in autumn. These little .fires are re¬ 
garded as of small importance, but'they destroy 
many of the few covers left to the birds'. 'When- 
severe storms and periods of cold come in mid¬ 
winter, the birds find difficulty in securing food 
and shelter, and in the nesting season they be¬ 
come the prey of every dog that roams at will, 
and of cats as well. 
If a portion of the vast sums of money now 
expended in the purchase of foreign game birds 
were devoted to simple measures for protecting 
our native game birds, the results would not be 
so difficult to find as is the case to-day. It may 
properly be regarded as an innovation to tie up 
the dogs during certain periods, and to look after 
the welfare of small game in severe weather, 
but the necessity for this is evident. 
The cold weather of January killed immense 
numbers of small game in regions where the 
game formerly wintered with small loss. The 
substitution of barbed wire fences for the old- 
time worm fence of split rails, accounts for no 
small portion of the loss to-day. These old fence 
corners were always perfect shelters for birds 
and rabbits, even in cleared fields. Because of 
the scarcity of wood, the worm fence has en¬ 
tirely disappeared over much of the country, and 
the wire fence which takes its place affords no 
shelter, as there are no angles grown up to 
brush and dense grass, to furnish windbreaks, 
keep out the snow and protect the birds hiding 
therein in winter and nesting in spring, from 
night and day prowlers, wild and domesticated. 
Much is heard of conservation. Real conser¬ 
vation, which is only another way of saying pro¬ 
tection, includes within its scope the feeding of 
and providing shelter for our small game, and 
there is no better way to continue this work 
through the seasons than to prevent the disturb¬ 
ing by dogs and cats of the nesting birds. 
CLIPPER SHIPS. 
The suggestion made by Palmer H. Langdon, 
in concluding his story of a voyage from San 
Francisco to Honolulu in a bark, that a sailing 
ship might well be put to similar use on the 
Atlantic, merits the approval of all those who 
love the sea and witness with regret the pass¬ 
ing of the clippers. There are, on the Atlantic 
coast and elsewhere, many persons who wou'd, 
if it were possible, be glad to pass their vaca¬ 
tions on board a first-class sailing vessel, and 
if such a ship were put in commission, properly 
equipped to insure the comfort and amusement 
of a reasonable number of passengers without 
overcrowding, it is more than likely that the 
enterprise would prove profitable. There are 
ships aplenty suited to this use, or that may be 
adapted to it with some alterations ; officers and 
crews to be had, and no lack of men who would 
gladly take passage if permitted to “play sailor” 
now and then, and with them would go their 
families. 
The Atlantic’s moods have not changed, but 
men have acquired greater skill than was pos¬ 
sessed by the navigators of the old-time clipper 
ships, and they are assisted by instruments and 
data unknown then, while it is possible now to 
so equip ships that living aboard one for a fort¬ 
night will be a pleasure. 
CALLING TURNEYS. 
The accidental killing of one Arkansas turkey 
hunter by another may strike the average person 
who has never called a turkey as of the same 
brand of carelessness as that which has been 
displayed so conspicuously in the woods of the 
Northern States. Such unfortunate happenings 
are rare in the regions where turkeys may still 
be found, and the only explanation that may be 
deduced from theory alone is that the man who 
fired the shot was not an expert hunter, and 
that he was deceived.by the imitation of the 
turkey hen’s p’aintive call. 
In places where calling is practiced the gob¬ 
blers can be deceived only by an excellent 
imitation of the hen’s call, but there are very 
few veteran hunters who mistake the imitation 
for the real call and are thereby placed in per¬ 
sonal danger from a possible shot from the 
other hunter’s place of concealment. Still, that 
such a thing is possible is proved now and then. 
but usually the deception is discovered before it 
is too late, and few hunters fire before the gob¬ 
bler is actually seen. In the Arkansas case the 
shooter did not wait to make assurance doubly 
sure, and was therefore guilty of the inexcus¬ 
able carelessness which has cost so many deer 
hunters their lives in other States. For he fired 
into the bushes and of course did not miss the 
other hunter concealed there. Such shots rarely 
do miss. 
It is a blessing, to say the least, that deer and 
other game of the Northern hunting grounds 
cannot be lured by calling or any similar decep¬ 
tion. As it is, the fatalities have kept pace with 
the increase in the number of persons who go 
into the woods every autumn to hunt deer. If 
green hunters had, as an additional excuse for 
random shooting, a call of some sort, their 
imaginations would lead them to further reck¬ 
lessness, if that were possible, than some of them 
have displayed in the past. 
Work will be begun this year on two new 
additions to the American Museum of Natural 
History, New York City, the plans for which 
have been filed with the Building Department. 
The original building fronts on Seventy-seventh 
street, and with the completion of wings from 
time to time, it now covers nearly the entire 
block on that street between Columbus avenue 
and Central Park West. One of the new addi¬ 
tions will extend the structure part way along 
Columbus avenue, the other along Central Park 
West, and in the course of time other additions 
will complete the plan to cover the entire block, 
leaving an immense court within the quadrangle. 
The present additions will cost in the neighbor¬ 
hood of $700,000. 
The New York State Conservation Commission 
has announced that there will be 30,000 pheasant 
eggs and 5,000 pheasants for free distribution 
from the State Game Farm at Sherburne, this 
year. Sp.ortsmen, farmers and lovers of game 
birds desirous of obtaining allotments of these 
birds or eggs for restocking covers may apply 
to the commission. Upon request blanks will be 
sent for the purpose. All applications should 
be made before March i. The distribution of 
eggs will commence about the middle of April 
and continue during May, June and the first part 
of July. Pheasants will be ready for distribu¬ 
tion during August, September and October. 
Richard Tjader, the big-game hunter, is plan¬ 
ning another expedition, but in this one he will 
bag big game of another sort, and lay his plans 
for capture in a different way than those made 
on his African hunting excursions. Both he and 
Mrs. Tjader have long been interested in mis¬ 
sionary work, and his plans include an extensive 
journey by motor car into many parts of the 
world in the continuance of this work. While 
he is saving souls, perhaps Mr. Tjader may also 
do a little shooting now and then on side trips. 
Plans are being made in New Rochelle, N. Y., 
to secure a fund by popular subscription for the 
erection of a statue of the late Frederic Rem¬ 
ington on the plaza in that town. Mr. Reming¬ 
ton lived in New Rochelle for a great many 
years and his neighbors were very fond of him. 
One of the stations of the new railway building 
there will be named for him. 
