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FOREST AND STREAM 
March 23, 1912 
Published Weekly by the 
Forest and Stream Publishing Company, 
127 Franklin Street, New York. 
Edward C. Locke, President, 
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S. J. Gibson, Treasurer. 
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—Forest and Stream, Aug. 14, 1873. 
WHY REYNARD SMILES. 
“The fisherman’s expense is now paid by the 
hunter, and this is not fair,” said an after din¬ 
ner speaker at a recent meeting of sportsmen, 
in advocating a fishing license fee in New York 
State. This is the gist of most of the argu¬ 
ments in support of the proposal to establish a 
license system for fishing. As a matter of fact 
the State pays for fish, game and forest pro¬ 
tection out of the general treasury. The total 
sum paid in for shooting licenses, fines for vio¬ 
lations and fees of various sorts is not appro¬ 
priated for fish or game protection. 
The liquor dealers pay for licenses, but the 
fund obtained from the sale of liquor licenses 
is not set aside and expended in paying salaries 
of special policemen to protect the dealers’ prop¬ 
erty. There is no direct relation between the 
shooting license fund and the money appropri¬ 
ated by the Legislature for game and fish pro¬ 
tection : in fact, the sum paid out for protection 
is much smaller than the shooting license fund, 
although the cost of maintaining the Conserva¬ 
tion Commission has increased under Governor 
Dix’s administration. He it was who wiped out 
several commissions and placed the present one 
in charge, urging as one excuse for doing so the 
need of economizing. But economy has been lost 
sight of in this connection, as is frequently the 
case in much lauded “reforms.” 
When depleted waters are restored to their 
former abundance of fish life and are free to 
all. then will the angler willingly pay a fee in 
addition to his other necessary expenses for the 
privilege of taking a few trout, and he will 
not complain that the fund he has helped to 
pile up is not expended in his interests. At 
present, however, it would hardly be fair to 
exact a fee for fishing and then inform license- 
holders that they may possibly find fish to catch 
in some other State. Nor is it likely that hotel 
and camp keepers, guides and boatmen, who de¬ 
pend on the patronage of anglers, will favor the 
plan to mulct the latter still more. Not "that the 
shooting license carries with it any guarantee of 
game; it is merely popular, that is all. 
When game commissions cannot longer resist 
the popular demand for information as to what 
is done with license funds, they purchase and 
liberate a few European partridges, the press 
agents spread the good news, and everybody is 
happy. Even reynard licks his chops with a 
semblance of a sense of humor. He may not 
know that Abraham Lincoln once said, in his 
whimsical way, that it was easy to fool the 
people at times, but reynard is fond of a full 
meal now and then, and afterward he can afford 
to indulge in a foxy smile at the expense of 
the easy-going people who pay so dearly for his 
imported food. 
PROGRESS IN NEW lERSEY. 
There is a great tempest in a teapot in New 
Jersey over the introduction into the Legisla¬ 
ture of the Radcliffe bill to stop the sale of 
game. One representative, in condemning it, 
said the bill, if passed, would save all the game 
for men who have time and the inclination to 
shoot for their own amusement and their own 
tables. Exactly, and it would put a stop to the 
shooting of game for market by guides who are 
paid well to assist their patrons to secure a little 
game, but it would not prevent these guides 
from supplying their own tables. In other words, 
stopping the sale of game removes the commer¬ 
cial stigma from sport, but under an equable 
arrangement that will no doubt be agreed to in 
New Jersey, as in New York State, the market 
men and hotelkeepers may still be enabled to pur¬ 
chase game that is imported. The sportsmen of 
New Jersey have taken a long step toward game 
protection in the establishing of a licensing sys¬ 
tem, which goes far toward keeping aliens out 
of their fields. ’ The next step is to stop the sale 
of game. 
An excellent law just passed by the New 
Jersey Legislature prohibits shooting into squir¬ 
rel nests. This reprehensible practice has been 
followed by a great many hunters, and in sec¬ 
tions where the trees in the woods are not large 
and contain few holes in which squirrels can 
find shelter, many of them live in nests in tree 
forks. When the leaves fall off the trees these 
nests may be seen at a long distance, and hunters 
go from one nest to another, shooting into each 
one. Even if the game is killed it is not always 
secured, and if the new law is enforced, it will 
provide good shooting for men who are fond 
of squirrels, both as game and food. 
Letchworth Park at Portage. N. Y., com¬ 
prises about a thousand acres of land in the 
valley of the Genesee River. It was given to 
the State by the late W. P. Letchworth, 
and is cared for by the American Historic 
and Scenic Preservation Society. Half of the 
land is now covered with forest trees, and it is 
the intention of Charles M. Dow, its custodian, 
assisted by Overton W. Price, of the Forest 
Service, to plant the balance of the tract with 
native trees and with European conifers and 
hardwoods, devoting one acre to each species. 
A deer park and flying cages for native birds 
will also be established. 
A large number of the best-known anglers in 
England have banded together as an Anglers’ 
Defense Committee, the purpose of which they 
have outlined as follows: 
That the Anglers’ Defense Committee will, when pos¬ 
sible, and advisable, take such steps as are necessary 
towards the defense of any angler in the United King¬ 
dom af¥ected by the Act prosecuted under the Protection 
of Animals Act, 1911 — provided he has used generally 
accepted and sportsmanlike methods of angling. 
With rhododendrons and daffodils flowering, 
the trout season approaching, the railways par¬ 
tially blocked by the great coal strike, and finally 
the likelihood of arrest for violating the new 
law mentioned above, the anglers of the tight 
little island across the sea are not all a happy 
Lot to-day. But then, uncertainty adds spice to 
angling, as to other forms of amusement. 
9 
Senor Mario Ugalde, of Guatemala City, has 
made application to the Government of Guate¬ 
mala for the exclusive right to manufacture gun¬ 
powder in the Republic for ten years. Senor 
Ugalde contemplates utilizing the Arnoudts for¬ 
mula in making the explosive, which he proposes 
to carry on under the direct surveillance of the 
Government. Exemption from customs duties on 
all materials needed for and in the manufacture 
and sale of the gunpowder, as well as exemp¬ 
tion from any national or municipal taxes now 
existing or that may be imposed during the 
period covered by the proposed concession, is 
also requested. 
9 . 
William Yates, of Goldenburgh, Canada, in 
writing to L. O. Armstrong, of Montreal, sug¬ 
gesting the organization of a wolf hunt, says 
that wolves seem to be quite plentiful north of 
Clearwater Lake on the Mississaga. “Last win¬ 
ter,” writes Mr. Yates, “two of my neighliors 
killed ten. There is a good road to Clear Lake 
from Thessalon where Eddy brothers have a 
lumber camp. The two neighbors referred to 
have a small camp a day’s trip from Clear Lake ” 
Mr, Armstrong will not hunt wolves this winter, 
although this information has tempted him to 
do so. He is actively engaged in exploit ng 
Canada’s natural resources. 
9 
The season for black bass fish'ng in New 
Jersey waters will open on June 15 hereafter, in¬ 
stead of on IMay 20, Governor Wilson having 
signed the bill which was passed by the Legis¬ 
lature for that purpose. It is to be assumed that 
in most, if not all waters in that State, the 
spawning season will be over in mid-June. The 
laws of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York 
are now uniform, as regards the opening day 
for bass fishing: that is mid-June, for the season 
opens in New York on the i6th. 
At the hearings in Washington on the propo¬ 
sition to place migratory game birds under Fed¬ 
eral protection, representatives from a majority 
of the States favored the plan. This is encour¬ 
aging. 
