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FOREST AND STREAM 
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Forest and Stream Publishing Company, 
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S. J. Gibson, Treasurer. 
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THE OBJECT OF THIS JOURNAL 
will be to studiously promote a healthful in¬ 
terest in outdoor recreation, and to cultivate 
a refined taste for natural objects. 
—Forest and Stream, Aug. 14, 1873. 
THE GAME REFUGE BILL. 
A BILL authorizing the President to set 
aside, on the application of the Governor of 
any State, an area of the forest reserves in that 
State not to exceed 50,000 acres, as a game 
refuge, was introduced in the Senate in the 
same form as the bill, H. R. 23839, printed two 
weeks since, and the favorable report of the 
Senate Committee on Forest Reservations and 
Protection of Game is given elsewhere. 
The general and increasing interest in game 
refuge legislation is indicated by the fact that 
in the last twenty-two years more than thirty 
bills, exclusive of bills for national parks, have 
received consideration by Congress. Of these 
thirty, five have been favorably acted on, and 
game refuges established in one form or an¬ 
other under their provisions. These refuges 
are the Wichita Game Refuge, which became 
law in January, 1905; the Grand Canon Refuge, 
June. 1906; the bill for the National Bison 
Range, May, 1908. The bill to establish the 
Olympic Game Refuge was afterward replaced 
by a National monument established by procla¬ 
mation, while a bill for a game refuge in Min¬ 
nesota was later included in the Superior Na¬ 
tional Forest as a State refuge. 
It is hoped that before long the House bill 
will be favorably reported from the Agricultural 
Committee, and that the measure may be passed 
by both houses of Congress. 
Thus the work goes on. far less rapidly 
than its advocates would wish, yet it goes on, 
and it will go on with constantly increasing 
momentum. Should this bill become law the 
Boone and Crockett Club is prepared to pro¬ 
ceed with the stocking of the first refuges es¬ 
tablished, so soon as the season comes for 
capturing the required animals. 
WILDFOWL WINTER-SUFFERING. ' 
It is known to many people that portions of 
some of the lakes of Central New York, as 
Seneca, Cayuga and Keuka. remain open through¬ 
out the winter. Here, during the bitter weather 
of January and February, are found large flocks 
of canvasbacks, redheads, bluebills and other 
ducks, together with many grebes and loons. 
Under ordinary conditions the vegetation grow¬ 
ing at the bottom of these lakes and the small 
fish that are found in them give good feeding to 
these birds, many of which remain until early 
spring. 
Last winter the unusual cold partly closed 
up these waters and partly shut off the food 
supply, and great suffering ensued among most 
of these winter birds. 
The loons perhaps suffered least, but the 
grebes, weakened perhaps by lack of food, per¬ 
ished in numbers. A single red-throated loon 
was caught in the ice near Utica, but died after 
being chopped out. 
On the other hand, the State Conservation 
Commission did good work in feeding the ducks, 
and Mr. Legge, the chief game proteetpr, is 
quoted as saying that 5 000 ducks were cared for 
in Seneca Lake in waters kept open over a large 
spring hole. 
Verdi Burtch and his companions saw many 
canvasbacks, black ducks and scaups alive, but 
very weak, and some were found dead; and as 
the weather grew more and more severe, and the 
food more and more scarce, the birds disap¬ 
peared, going no one knows where. 
Birds are constantly exposed to danger from 
unfavorable weather conditions, and naturalists 
recall many examples of this in bird literalure. 
One of the most extraordinary winter killings 
was that reported many years ago by Arthur H. 
Wayne, in a Southern State, and quoted by Mr. 
Grinnell in his “American Game Bird Shooting,” 
under the head, perhaps, of “Woodcock.” Years 
ago enormous destruction of Lapland longspurs 
occurred in the Northern Mississippi watershed, 
and other examples are frequent. 
We talk of Mother Nature, but she is a stern 
parent. 
KEEPING FLIES OFF CATTLE. 
The director of the dairy department of the 
Kansas Agricultural College has published the 
following recipe for keeping flies off horses and 
cattle in hot weather: “Dissolve two cakes of 
laundry soap in warm water and add one and 
one-half pounds of rosin and one-half pound of 
fish oil and boil until the rosin is thoroughly dis¬ 
solved, then add enough water to make three gal¬ 
lons. Apply to animals with brush or spray pump 
at the rate of about half a pint of liquid to 
each animal three times a week until the coat is 
pretty well covered with rosin. The fly pest can 
be still further reduced in the stables by putting 
dark covering over the windows and pieces of 
slit gunnysacking in the doorways through wh'ch 
the animals must pass in going to their places.” 
\ 
JUNE I, 1912 
Now, if some kind soul will give us a recipe 
for keeping black flies and mosquitoes away from 
humans, while paddling up stream, or landing the 
biggest fish, we all will thank him. 
THE FISHING_GOVERNOR. 
A MAN may be a good politician and a poor 
fisherman or a good fisherman and a poor poli¬ 
tician, but to be a good governor and an equally 
good fisherman is a tribute few State executives 
may lay warrant. Governor Shafroth, of Colo¬ 
rado, fishes and governs equally well, and we all 1 
know how well Colorado is governed. So as a ' 
fisherman. Governor Shafroth has promised, in ' 
fact has in preparation for Forest and Stream ‘ 
an illustrated articles on fishing in Colorado. ^ 
This article will be to fishing what John McCraw I 
knows about baseball—inside stuff. It will ap- ' | 
pear in an early issue of Forest and Stream. | 
Everyone knows Colorado streams and lakes | 
teem with game fish of all sorts, but like Little ^ 
Bopeep and her lambkins, everyone does not 
know where to find them. 
Who, then, should know more about the sub- ^ 
ject of Colorado fish and their dwelling places 
than the Governor of the State? And so—know¬ 
ing all this — Governor Shafroth will, at our \ 
urgent supplication, tell fishermen of Forest and ^ 
Stream all about Colorado fishing. } 
TODD RUSSELL. J 
In the death of Todd Russell the outdoor 5 
world has lost one of its most ardent exponents « 
and the magazine reader one of nature’s most 'I 
accurate portrayers. Mr. Russell has long been ? 
a contributor to the columns of Forest and } 
Stream, as well as to other outdoor magazines, j 
He was most resourceful and accomplished in t 
various outdoor sports, being an expert angler, 9 
trap and field shot, equestrian and tennis player, • 
as well as a foremost authority on hunting dogs. ^ 
Todd has left many good friends to mourn him ^ 
and many clever writings to perpetuate his _ 
memory. He died on May 21 at Albuquerque, 3 
N. M., after an illness of several months. He ^ 
leaves a widow, mother and four sisters. { 
THE INCIDENT IS CLOSED. t 
The Senate Committee, under direction of j 
William Alden Smith, has placed the blame for 
the Titanic disaster. It has blamed Captain ^ 
Lord, unsusceptible to rocket and racket, the * 
dead Captain Smith; the harassed J. Bruce 
Ismay; the laws of far away England; in fact, , ’ 
everything comes in for a share of blame for ♦ 
the disaster—excepting the iceberg. .And the re- t 
suit—may we predict? The incident, like the 7 
hole in the ocean, through which the Titanic 
sunk—is closed. 
The first quarterly ivory sale for 1912 in Ant¬ 
werp comprised the following quantities, in kilos 
(of 2.2 pounds each) : 52,48514 Kongo (hard), 
3,377 Kongo (soft), 37.412I4 Angola, 1,316 Sene¬ 
gal, 466 Ambrize, 1,049 West Coast, 8 iMA Egypt 
(soft), 277 Egypt (hard), 1,182 Sudan (soft), 
182 Sudan (hard), 850 Abyssinia (soft), 19 Siam, 
71 hippopotamus tusks, MA curiosities; total, 99,- 
505. Also 160 kilos of rhinoceros tusks. The 
first sales in 1911 and 1910 aggregated 90,850 
kilos and 89,202 kilos, respectively. The next 
quarterly ivory sale will take place on April 30. 
