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FOREST AND STREAM 
MONTANA TO PRESERVE BIG HORNS 
AND GOATS. 
The legislature in Montana has passed a bill 
which the Governor has signed, making a three- 
year closed season on mountain sheep and goats. 
This is very important legislation, and means 
much, since it is expected that the closed period 
will result in preserving these animals and in¬ 
creasing supply to such an extent that limited 
hunting may again be indulged in. 
500,000-ACRE GAME PRESERVE. 
Charleston, W. Va. 
J. A.Visquesney, State Forest, Fish, and Game 
Warden, and H. M. Lockridge have obtained 
a thirty-year lease from William Seymour on 
50,000 acres oij forest land in Randolph and 
Pocahontas Counties, which will be converted 
into what may be the largest game preserve in 
the United States. 
On the tract are bear, deer, and other wild 
game. It will be stocked with a heard of elk. 
The best trout fishing streams in the State are 
located in the preserve. The purchasers of the 
lease are officers of organizations composed of 
New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Vir¬ 
ginia sportsmen. 
REGISTERED TOURNAMENTS. 
September 23.—Greensburg, Kans., Greensburg 
Gun Club, J. J. Randall, secretary. 
September 25.—Philipsburg, Pa., Central Penna. 
Trap Shooters’ League Tournament, Tack 
Waltz, secretary. 
October 1.—Lincolnville, Ivans., Lincolnville Gun 
Club, Fred Munstermann, Secretary. (Old 
Policy.") 
October 7.—Elkton, Md., Elkton Gun Club, H. 
L. Worthington, manager. 
October 8.—Bradshaw, Nebr., Bradshaw Gun 
Club, W. E. Yoder, secretary. 
October 14.—Tampa, Kans., Tampa Gun Club, 
P. H. Meehan, Secretary. (Old Policy.) 
October 16.—Wilmington, Del., Du Pont Trap¬ 
shooting Club, W. A. Joslyn, Secretary. (Old 
Policy.) 
November 5, 6 and 7.—Tucson, Ariz„ Arizona 
State Tournament, under the auspices of the 
Tucson Blue Rock Gun Club, W. A. Julian, 
President. 
SHOT VELOCITY. 
One of our friends among the dealers has re¬ 
ferred to us a letter from Mr. Arnold Boutell, 
asking for information that never, as far as I 
know, has been found. The inquiry calls for 
“striking velocities of shot of different sizes at 
different distances using standard field loads, 
percentage relation which the velocities of nine 
different loads bear to velocities of standard 
loads and striking velocities of shot of different 
sizes required to uniformly kill game of different 
varieties, assuming a pattern equal to the 
standard trap pattern of 300 pellets in a 30-inch 
circle.” Given the striking velocity of shot of 
different sizes at various ranges, and knowing 
the size shot required for game of different 
kinds, I think it will be a simple matter for Mr. 
Boutell to figure what will happen his game 
at various distances. The figures given are, as 
requested, based on Schultze nitro-powder in a 
12-guage, choke bore gun. The following table 
is figured in actual velocity in feet per second 
and not muzzle velocity: 
drms. 
ozs. 
shot 
5 yds. 
20 yds. 
25 yds. 
3 
1 1-8 
1 
1169 
1089 
1054 
do 
do 
5 
1127 
1047 
1014 
do 
do 
6 
1119 
1035 
99 Q 
do 
do 
10 
1076 
941 
886 
LEAD IN BARRELS. 
“What makes streaks in my shotgun barrel, is 
it lead?” 
The streaks are caused by shot. Take a wire 
cleaner, dip it in a good gun oil and run it 
through the barrel until streaks disappear. The 
wire brush, dipped in oil, will not injure the 
barrels. - 
NEW CONSERVATION LAW FOR NEV. 
YORK. 
The State of New York is making a new ex¬ 
periment in the matter of conservation, and the 
Guvcrnor has signed a bill which does way with 
three conservation commissioners and substitutes 
therefor one commissioner at an annual salary of 
$8,000. The new commissioner has the power of 
Miss E. Marie Sinclair of New York, an en¬ 
thusiastic devotee of trap shooting and 
winner of the Gilbert Anniversary Handicap 
at Pinehurst, N. C. 
appointing a deputy commissioner at an an¬ 
nual salary of $6,000, a superintendent of forests 
at an annual salary of $4,000 and various other 
deputies. A new office under the commissioner 
is that of chief game protector at $4,000 and ex¬ 
penses not exceeding $1,000 a year. He will have 
a deputy chief game protector at $2,400 per year 
and actual expenses and a number of division 
chief protectors at an annual salary of $1,600 and 
expenses not to exceed $750. There are also 
fisheries protectors at an annual salary of $1,300 
and limited expenses and game protectors at an 
annual salary of $900 and expenses not exceeding 
$600. - 
GEORGE D. PRATT, N. Y. GAME COM¬ 
MISSIONER. 
Mr. George D. Pratt, who has just been ap¬ 
pointed Conservation Commissioner by Governor 
Whitman of New York, is a resident of Glen 
Cove. 
L. I„ and 
for many 
years has 
been prom 
35 yds. 
40 yds. 
50 yds. 
55 yds. 
60 yds. 
962 
935 
891 
861 
825 
914 
875 
790 
741 
672 
890 
850 
769 
717 
652 
773 
710 
465 
430 
375 
inently associated with many of the activities of 
New York City. 
As President of the Camp Fire Club of Amer¬ 
ica, as a member of the Boone and Crockett Club, 
of the New York Zoological Society, and as a 
member of the Wild Life Protective Fund, Mr. 
Pratt has prominently identified himself with 
all out-of-aoor conservation. He is also a 
member of the Public Recreation Commission of 
New York City, and Vice-President of the 
Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, and is 
actively interested in the work of improving our 
parks and our public museums. 
Mr. Pratt not only has an intimate acquain¬ 
tance with forest and game conservation, but is 
a level-headed man of large affairs and wide 
business experience, and his appointment is 
therefore an ideal one. 
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WANTED—Pointers and setters to train game, plenty 
for sale; trained setters, also some good rabbit hoiftids. 
Dogs sent on trial. Stamp for reply; dogs boarded. 
O. K. Kennels, Marydel, Md. 
SETTER PUPPIES FOR SALE—English setter pup¬ 
pies, ready to ship. Champion Deodora Prince stock, 
pedigreed. Stanford Kennels, Bangall, N. Y. 
AT STUD—Irish Water Spaniel Mayor Oneil 23009. 
Photo on application. Joe R. Morton, Lombard, Ill. 
PHEASANT FARMING by Gene. Simpson, Superin¬ 
tendent of Oregon State Game Farm, 47 pages of valu¬ 
able information on the breeding of pheasants. Price 
postpaid 50 cents. Oregon Bird & Pheasant Farm, 
Beaverton, Oregon. Department J. 
MOOSE HEADS—$18 to $8s; deer heads $5 to $15; 
horned owl, $3; twenty kinds of ducks, $1.50 to $50. 
Several hundred specimens, all new stock. Send for 
list. Established 1878. John Clayton Company, Natu¬ 
ralists and Taxidermists, Lincoln, Me. 
A TOUR TO THE ORIENT—Hawaii, Japan, Korea, 
China, Philippines, June 12 to September 13, 1915. Con¬ 
ducted by Dr. Homer C. Stebbins, College of the City 
of New York. Booklet, Address 431 W. 121st St., New 
York City. 
WHITES’ PRESERVE—Wild celery and all kinds, of 
wild duck, food seeds and plants. Also entertains 
sportsmen. Waterlily, Currituck Sound, N. C. _ 
FOR SALE—Registered English beagle puppies; 
beauty, brains and business combined; immense ear- 
age, delightful voices. P. W. North, Dushore, Pa. _ 
PACIFIC COAST—Yellowstone, Expositions, Alaska, 
Rockies, Great Lakes. Years’ experience. Reasonable. 
Write M. E. Pearson, Box 451. Larchmont, New York. 
FOR SALE—Ex-Lieutenant Governor Jones’ private 
summer home, located 1 mile from Vergas, on the very 
best fishing lake; furnished; second to none in Min¬ 
nesota; everything in first class condition. Write 
Brooks & Holt, Vergas, Minn. _ 
FOR SALE—One pure silver black fox male, sound 
and in excellent condition; one year old. Ranch raised 
and very tame. Price $1,250.00. Fishers’ $100.00 per 
pair. J. B. Sutherland, Strathway, Ont. 
I.X.L. RANCH, in the Big Horn Mountains. Every 
facility for comfort. Good fishing. Rates from $15.00 
per week up. Apply to J. Milward, Dayton, Wyo. 
RAISE Belgian Hares for us. We furnish stock and 
pay you $1.50 each. Also Skunk, Mink, Squabs, Frogs, 
etc. Send dime for booklet and contract. Address The 
Belgian Hare, Department 15, Holmes Park, Mo. 
itatement of the Ownership as of April First; Manage- 
lent, Circulation, etc., of FOREST AND STREAM, 
ublished monthly at New York, N. Y., required by 
he act of August 24, 1912. — , 
Editor, W. G. Beecroft, 22 Thames Street, New York. 
Managing Editor, W. G. Beecroft, 22 Thames Street, 
Business Managers, FOREST AND STREAM PUB¬ 
LISHING CO., 22 Thames Street, New York. 
Publisher, FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING 
;0., 22 Thames Street, New York. 
Owners: (If a corporation, give names and addresses 
f stockholders holding 1 per cent, or more of total 
Owner^ FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO., 
2 Thames Street, New York. 
Stockholders: ^ , 
Charles L. Wise, 22 Thames Street, New York. 
Charles A. Hazen, 22 Thames Street, New York. 
Charles Otis, 25 West Broadway, New York. 
George Bird Grinnell, 238 East 15th Street New York. 
Known bondholders, mortgagees, and other security 
olders, holding 1 per cent, or more of total amount 
f bonds, mortgages, or other securities: 
N0NE ‘ CHARLES L. WISE, Treasurer. 
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 29th day of 
Jotary Public. , H. B. Frank 
New York Register No. 6096. Notary Public. 
New York County noo. 
Commission expires March 30, 1910. 
