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FOREST AND STREAM 
Live Notes From The Field 
Being Reports From Our Local Correspondents 
* S.ftrfdS.-' 
PRAIRIE CHICKENS IN COLORADO. 
Sterling, Colo., March 9, 1915. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
Find enclosed subscription to my favorite 
magazine, also price of five of your books. 
At one time I contributed. to your magazine 
but as years roll on my time is now taken and I 
can hardly get time to read. I am getting the 
books for my two boys whom I want to bring up 
to love outdoor things as I have always loved 
them. I want to tell you of the following, which 
I call very encouraging news to a sportsman. 
Three years ago there were scarcely one dozen 
prairie chicken along this, the Platte river—that 
is along the stream within this country. But 
there were a number, perhaps 300 over at Haxton 
which is thirty miles from here. Two years ago 
I noticed in the month of April ten pairs of 
chickens in the sand hills along the river while 
making a trip of eighteen miles. 
Last season in September, there were, I would 
judge, 2,000 chickens in the sand hills and about 
200 were killed, while this winter I have seen 
along the river several flocks of from one to 
two hundred each and from now on we will 
have splendid chicken shooting here. The reason 
for this is the ideal cover for hatching that the 
sand hills afford and the protection given by our 
game laws and the migration of the birds from 
the Haxton Country. It is simply an ideal coun¬ 
try for them and they our multiplying rapidly. 
The Haxton country is also more plentifully 
stocked with them than formerly. I regard this 
as very encouraging when we hear of so many 
counties being shot out. Also, I might mention 
that our two new irrigation reservoirs have 
stocked themselves with ring perch and last 
summer I caught them there weighing as much 
as two pounds each. The reservoirs have been 
built four years and the fish have come from a 
reservoir sixty miles up the river. We planted 
7,000 young bass in one of them two years ago 
which are doing well also. 
J. H. KELLOGG, M.D. 
MOOSE IN NOVA SCOTIA. 
Editor Forest and Stream : 
Permit me through the medium of Forest and 
Stream to make a few brief remarks in refer¬ 
ence to the moose hunting grounds of the east¬ 
ern counties of this Province; especially Pictou 
and Guysborough counties. My object in doing 
so is simply to offer a litle advice to some of 
the sportsmen who visit this Province in pursuit 
of moose or caribou. 
Of late years the non-resident hunter seems to 
have given the preference to the western grounds 
and abandoned the denser and more promising 
areas of the eastern forests. I believe this to be 
a delusion, and that they have been lured away 
by men of local or mercenary interest. 
Allow me to inform you that there are no bet¬ 
ter moose hunting grounds to be found in this 
Province than in Pictou or Guysborough. Take 
as a sample the splendid areas of forests all 
about the Liscombe River to the sea. Pictou 
County is also not behind its neighboring county 
for game, but from its proximity to the popu¬ 
lated commercial and mining areas is greatly 
disturbed during the open season for moose, and 
consequently the big game are driven into 
Guysborough County. 
Last season two fine heads were brought into 
this town. Any experienced guide will tell you 
that unusually large bull tracks are occasionally 
seen which prove that the monarch of the forests 
still holds his own here in spite of the axe, the 
mine and the rifle. 
With regard to the topography of these coun¬ 
ties there are towns and villages within reason¬ 
able distance of the grounds, probably twenty-five 
or thirty miles. Good guides are found here by 
making application previous to the opening of the 
season. There are white and Indian guides; 
some of them excellent “callers.” 
Licenses may be obtained by application to J. 
A. Knight, Esq., Chief Game Commissioner, Hali¬ 
fax, N. S. 
A. PRITCHARD, Game Commissioner, New 
Glasgow, N. S. 
COMMISSION TO MAKE GAME LAWS. 
Supreme Court, Chambers St., New York. 
February 27, 1915. 
Editor Forest and Stream : 
As you may perhaps know, I tried for some 
years to get from the Legislature a comprehen¬ 
sive, conservative, sensible and enforceable sys¬ 
tem of game laws. From actual experience I 
became convinced years ago that to procure such 
a system directly from the Legislature is hope¬ 
less. I have therefore prepared the enclosed ten¬ 
tative amendment to the constitution to be sub¬ 
mitted to the constitutional convention in April 
next. Will you kindly publish it in your paper 
and invite discussion and suggestions—so far it 
has met approval. 
E. G. WHITAKER. 
Mr. Whitaker’s proposed amendment follows: 
Fish and Game Commission. 
There is hereby created a Fish and Game Com¬ 
mission : It shall consist of three members who 
shall be appointed by the Governor by and with 
the advice and consent of the Senate. The term 
of each commissioner shall be five years and the 
salary of each commissioner shall be fixed by 
the legislature. Not more than two of the com¬ 
missioners shall be appointed from the same 
political party. 
The Commission shall be charged with the pro¬ 
tection and propagation of wild animals, fish, 
shell-fish and birds. 
The Commission shall have full and exclusive 
power to enact, repeal and amend laws prohibit¬ 
ing or regulating the killing of wild animals, 
wild birds, the taking and catching of fish and 
shell-fish and prescribe penalties and punishment 
for violations thereof and the periods of time 
within which wild animals, wild birds and fish 
may be had in possession, sold or transported. 
All such laws shall require the approval of the 
Governor. 
The Commission shall also possess the inci¬ 
dental powers requisite to the exercise of the 
powers hereby granted. 
Every law passed by the Commission shall be 
numbered and have an appropriate title express¬ 
ing succinctly the purposes of the law. All laws 
passed by the Commission shall be duly certified 
and filed with the Secretary of State between the 
first day of January and the first day of March 
in each year and shall take effect on the first day 
of April following. Such laws shall be printed 
and published by the Secretary of State in the 
same manner that laws passed by the legislature 
are printed and published. 
The Commission shall have power to appoint 
and at pleasure remove a secretary and such 
number of clerks, wardens, fish culturists and 
assistants as the legislature may authorize, whose 
salaries shall be fixed by the legislature. 
All fees for licenses and all fines and penalties 
collected for violation of the laws passed by the 
Commission shall be paid to the State Treasurer. 
As soon as the Commission shall have been 
appointed and qualified, it shall make a complete 
set of laws and certify and file the same with the 
Secretary of 'State, and such laws when approved 
by the Governor shall be filed before February 
1, and take effect the first day of. April succeed¬ 
ing and on said first day of April all laws then 
in force relating to the propagation, of fish and 
game or the protection of wild animals, birds, 
game, fish and shell-fish, or the killing of such 
wild animals, birds, game and fish, the transpor¬ 
tation or possession thereof shall be repealed. 
The legislature shall pass such laws as may be 
necessary to carry the provisions of this section 
into effect. 
Any member of the Commission may be re¬ 
moved from office by the Governor for cause, an 
opportunity having been given him to be heard 
in his defense. 
