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FOREST AND STREAM 
ESTABLISHED 1830 
THOMAS J. CONROY 
Manufacturer, Importer and Dealer in 
FINE FISHING TACKLE 
and SPORTING GOODS 
28 JOHN STREET 
Corner Nassau Street NEW YORK 
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HIS LATEST REEL 
Patented Nov. 1 7, '85; Oct. 8, ’89; Mar. 21, ’1 1. 
Adapted for Tuna, Sword Fish, Sail Fish and 
other large Game Fish, in fact the last word in 
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MICHIGAN GAME REPORT. 
William R. Oates, Michigan State Game, Fish 
and Forestry Warden, has favored Forest and 
Stream with a copy of his biennial report just 
made to the Governor. The eighty pages of the 
report are filled with an interesting mass of 
matter dealing with Michigan game and fish life 
and a discussion of amendments to the law, etc., 
etc. Mr. Oates argues vigorously in favor of 
the buck law; he believes in it from first to last 
and some of the contributors to Forest and 
Stream who have been debating this law for a 
long time past, will no doubt find something to 
their advantage if they write Mr. Oates folr a 
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February 
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copy of his report. The past history of Michi¬ 
gan so far as the destruction of forests and 
game is concerned is that of all other states, but 
fortunately .the era of wantonness has been 
superseded by one of conservation and while the 
remnant left is not large, an increase may be 
looked for. Michigan was the first state, we 
believe, to employ a salaried game officer. Un'der 
Mr. Oates it is establishing many game refuges 
and following the provision of the 1913 law, 
more than twenty-four thousand acres have 
been thus set aside with good results. We are 
glad to see that Midhigan has taken steps to 
stop auto hunting, that is, the indiscriminate, 
sneaking hunting which is proving so obnoxious 
in other states- Altogether, the Michigan re¬ 
port affords interesting reading and deserves 
more mention than space here permits. 
BIRDS AROUND COLUMBUS. 
Birds around Columbus, Ohio, have cause to 
feel that the new year is starting well for them. 
In four of the municipal parks feeding stations 
have been erected through the efforts of the 
Audubon Society and the boys in the Mound 
Street Manual Training School, who construct¬ 
ed the devices. 
Two of the stations are in Franklin Park and 
one in Goodale, Schiller and Livingston Parks. 
Others soon will be placed in Iuka Park and 
on the campus of Columbus School for Girls. 
A large station will be erected on Ohio State 
University campus. 
Spring Fishing number of Forest and Stream, 
published April first, will be chock-a-block with 
tackle talk, taking trips and telling tales. Get it. 
