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Combination Feeding Station for Game and Non-Game Birds on FoxhoIIow Farm, Rhine- 
beck, New York. Estate of Tracy Dows, Esq.—Note Shelter of Sheaves of Grain Which 
is Particularly Adapted to Feeding Game Birds in Winter. (Courtesy American Game 
Protective Association.) 
forest. Tens of thousands of acres have been 
cut over. 
But there still remain a good many .thousand 
acres of State land in this watershed, some of it 
old cutover (now growing up with a new cover) 
and a great deal of virgin timber. From this 
state land comes most of the water that still 
runs into West Creek in the summer. Metcalf 
brook, especially, is such a tributary. Much of 
the Adirondack League land was cut over be¬ 
fore the present “skinning” process was gotten 
down so fine, so it supplies a fair runoff in the 
summer months through Jock’s Lake (Honne- 
daga) outlet and Jones brook. The West Can¬ 
ada Lakes region is also in pretty good condition, 
although there were heavy operations around the 
mud lake locality near the Brook Trout and main 
lake. 
Now the state has in the Adirondacks hundreds 
of thousands of acres of virgin forest. This land 
was so far back in the old days that the timber 
thieves and land grabbers of the ’70s, ’80s and 
early ’90s did not think it worth while to steal 
them from the public. They let them revert to 
the state or left them in the state hands. Now 
these same companies, and in some cases the 
very men—grown a bit old and hoary—are be¬ 
hind the movement to get at the fortune which 
they neglected to observe years ago. Some of 
the most active are at this moment under civil 
suit charges—instead of criminal—for taking 
state timber and state lands. 
They still have tens of thousands of acres of 
the land that they filched from the public by 
“redemptions” and “cancellations,” and they have 
sold tens of thousands of acres to various makers 
of private preserves. They have persuaded the 
state to build huge storage reservoirs on the out¬ 
lets of streams whose flow has been ruined by 
the timber operations on the public and private 
lands, as up the Hudson River, on Raquette, 
Sacandaga, West Canada, Black and Moose 
River, and various other famous streams. 
Not satisfied with the ruin they have wrought 
upon their own lands and not satisfied in having 
kept the New York state authorities from getting 
back the hundred thousand acres of public lands 
held by the log companies and other money-mak¬ 
ing companies, they are trying their best to per¬ 
suade the delegates of the Constitutional Conven¬ 
tion to let them in upon the public playground, 
which is just now becoming accessible to the pub¬ 
lic through the construction of state roads into 
the wilderness. 
That is to say these men are trying to get at 
the state lands just when it is beginning to be of 
greatest service to the public. They are like Old 
Colonel Fox who argued that “the public doesn’t 
know the difference between hardwood and ever¬ 
green timber—they never miss the spruce hemlock 
and balsam trees.” 
They would ruin the public playground if they 
could. They would turn the swamps into thin 
growths of shrubs and low bushes dry and hot 
and playgrounds of fires instead of camping places 
ot the people and the reservoirs of the streams. 
The forest fires this year and in previous years 
have been completing the devastation created by 
the saws of the loggers; they burn in the cut-over 
lands, burn through where the waters used to 
lie and feed the summer brooks of old. 
The deer lived, and the few remaining Adiron¬ 
dack deer live, in the swamps during the rigorous 
winter months. The reason hundreds of deer 
died on the Adirondack League’s lands twenty 
years ago was because this organization had cut 
over the swamp lands, and so exposed the yard¬ 
ing places of the deer to the rigors of the win¬ 
try winds. 
If the state permits these men to clean off the 
Adirondack state lands, they will cut over the 
winter harbors of the deer. Of what use is there 
keeping a force of game protectors and fire patrols 
if the state is going to throw the woods open to 
the most destructive agency, known, so far as the 
timber and the game is concerned? 
GREAT SALMON SEASON IN NEW 
FOUNDLAND 
Reports from the various salmon streams are 
calculated to make one drop everything and hie 
off and take a hand in the sport. 
Two anglers from Salmonier report the river 
teeming with fish—in fact, the wardens report 
that this year’s run beats all records, and is a 
complete vindication of the Game Commission’s 
extra expense and efforts to protect the spawn¬ 
ing grounds. The two anglers mentioned report 
for fifty beautiful fish. 
F. J. Morris, K. C., returned from Placentia 
yesterday. He caught eighty pounds of fish and 
he says the like of the salmon was never seen 
in Placentia before. 
A fair number of American anglers have ar¬ 
rived on the west coast. 
They are doing very well, and I would not be 
surprised if Forest and Stream published some 
records from here in the next few weeks. 
The weather appears to have settled now. It 
has got pleasantly warm and bright, but not too 
hot. 
American anglers who want good salmon fish¬ 
ing, can obtain all they want during the next 
couple of months. 
St. John’s, N. F., July 12. W. J. Carroll. 
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION SCIENTIFIC 
ANGLING CLUBS 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
The N. A. S. A. C. International Bait and 
Fly Casting Tournament will be held under the 
auspices of the San Francisco Fly Casting Club, 
San Francisco, August 12, 13, 14, 15; banquet, 
evening of the 19th; fishing, Aug. 21 and 22, at 
the Club’s lodge, on the Truckee River. 
The Pacific Northwest Tournament under the 
auspices of the Tacoma Bait and Fly Casting 
Club, Tacoma, Wash., will be held August 26, 
27, 28 and 2g; fishing in Puget Sound and 
mountain streams; an Inter-State Tournament 
will be held by the Southern California Rod and 
Reel Club, Los Angeles, Calif., August 7 and 8, 
with fishing at Catalina Islands. 
These clubs urge all anglers and fishermen to 
enjoy their hospitality; their prize lists are in 
keeping with their reputation as sportsmen. 
J. W. Smith, Secretary. 
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt; President M. L. 
Alexander of the Conservation Commission 
of Louisiana, (center) and an Audubon 
Warden Examining a Royal Tern’s Egg on 
the Breton Island Bird Reservation, Louisiana. 
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