Forest and Stream 
, A Weekly Journal. Copyright, 1907, by Forest and Stream Publishing Co. 
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NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JUNE 29, 1907. 
j VOL. LXVIII.—No. 26. 
I No. 346 Broadway, New York. 
The object of this journal will be to studiously 
promote a healthful interest in outdoor recre¬ 
ation, and to cultivate a refined taste for natural 
Objects. Announcement in first number of 
Forest and Stream, Aug. 14, 1873„ 
SUMMER SHOOTING EVILS. 
The season is approaching when parties t of 
various sizes will go to all the well-known game 
fish waters, equipped for fishing and recreation. 
Too many of them, we fear, may take advan¬ 
tage of the fact that their constitutional right 
to carry firearms will not be questioned by State 
authorities,’ and their hunting rifles will be as¬ 
sumed to be for their .“protection” in regions 
where their lives are safer than at home. 
The possession of rifles in the closed season 
for game tempts many persons to shoot deer. It 
is particularly easy, when traveling by canoe, to 
pick up a rifle and shoot a doe standing on the 
bank. Someone may be on hand to assert that 
the act will never be known of other men. And 
as a steady diet even bacon and brook trout pall 
in time. 
Of course some men carry rifles on fishing 
trips for the purpose of killing game. They are 
law-abiding citizens w-hile at home, but of neces¬ 
sity they go further away each year in quest, of 
satisfactory fishing. Their expenses are very 
heavy. It is pay, pay, all the time. Some of 
them feel a certain resentment against the State 
and all who are benefited through their visits, 
and conclude to “get all that is coming to them" 
by way of squaring the account. So they shoot 
a deer or a moose. Perhaps they save a little 
meat. It depends on the risk of being caught. 
Some men take a sort of secret pride in “beat¬ 
ing the wardens” and may boast of it among 
their friends when they are safe at home. 
The number of deer killed in summer is large. 
The practice is a survival of the time when it' 
was customary to live on venison while fishing 
for trout, with this-difference, that the meat was 
saved then, but is usually wasted now. It is 
proof that some men obey laws through fear, 
and when the probability of punishment is re¬ 
mote, break them. It is also a reflection of the 
secret opposition to hunting license fees, a stumb¬ 
ling block in the path of all game protectionists. 
Nonresidents seldom pay their fees willingly, to 
assist a worthy cause. The outlay is regarded 
simply as an increase in their “hunting trip tax.” 
Those who go on fishing trips in summer know 
they will be compelled to obtain licenses to hunt, 
later on, and some of them conclude to combine 
the two, dodging both tax and warden. Besides, 
they are encouraged by the fact that others do 
the same thing. 
Is it remarkable that these men, who succeed 
in attaining their own selfish ends at the ex¬ 
pense of others, feel a contempt for the war¬ 
dens they outwit, and sneer at laws? Further¬ 
more. is it not natural for their friends to be¬ 
lieve they, too, can kill game in summer and 
get away? 
This is not a theory. It is a condition; not 
everywhere, but in vast regions East. North. 
Northwest, West, where big game is found. 
There are two points that- must be considered : 
(1) States now exacting fees from nonresi¬ 
dent big game hunters, but failing to render ef¬ 
fective the closed season laws, have no moral 
right to compel sportsmen to take out licenses 
to hunt in the open season if shooting' in the 
closed season is not stopped; for, in exacting 
license fees, the State in one sense guarantees 
game for the visitor, whose money goes into 
the fund used in employing wardens and enforc¬ 
ing the laws. If the law is not enforced, then 
the State fails to keep faith with the nonresident 
contributors. 
(2) If, however, existing laws prove inade¬ 
quate, more stringent ones will be enacted, and 
it follows that they will take cognizance of the 
fact that a hunting rifle is not necessary in the 
“protection” of fishing tourists. 
So far the theory that hunting rifles should 
be barred from the woods in the closed season 
has lacked general support. It is not certain 
that it will become necessary to adopt such a 
measure, or that it could be made law. But, if 
summer shooting continues to be a nuisance, it 
may be abated by removing the temptation. 
THE EDMONTON BUFFALO HERD. 
Reports of the Pablo herd of buffalo up to 
June 12 last show that the herd is settling down 
to its new home at Elk Island Park near Lamont, 
Alberta. 
Mr. F. A. Walker, who spent the early days 
of June at Elk Island Park looking after the 
buffalo, states that the majority of them are scat¬ 
tered over the open hills on the south side of 
the park', while some small bunches are scattered 
through the timber where the feed is abundant. 
It was reported in Edmonton that some of the 
animals had broken through the wire fence sur¬ 
rounding them, but this Mr. Walker says is not 
the case. On the day when the herd was being 
driven into the inclosure a portion of the tem¬ 
porary fence was pushed down by the crowding 
of the animals against a post, which was thus 
displaced. This occurrence gave-rise to the re¬ 
port that the fence around the park has failed 
to hold them. This fence is supported by heavy 
tamarack posts deeply planted in the ground, 
and on one or more occasions, when people have 
teased the buffalo through the fence, the buffalo 
have charged it, but in no case have they broken 
through. It should be recognized, as it does 
not seem to be now, that the buffalo are not 
accustomed to seeing people on foot and that it 
is dangerous to go near them except on horse¬ 
back. These buffalo have always been accus¬ 
tomed to seing riders about them, and a man on 
horseback is quite safe. 
Mr. Walker has made several deposits of rock 
salt for the buffalo in Elk Island Park, an im¬ 
portant provision for their health; since it is 
said that there is no alkali in the soil there. 
It is reported that the herd has fully recovered 
from the trials of the long journey from Ravalli 
to Lamont and is now doing well. 
We shall print next week the authentic story 
of the origin of the Pablo-Allard buffalo herd, 
a most interesting and curious bit of ancient his¬ 
tory. 
FLY-MAKING FOR WOMEN. 
If our sisters, who are seeking new fields of 
employment through which they may obtain the 
wherewithal to keep the wolf .away from their 
doors, will turn their attention to artificial fly¬ 
making they will find it profitable and in many 
ways adapted to their tastes. Some of the finest 
artificial flies and other lures found in the mar¬ 
kets of the world are fashioned by women. Their 
fingers are deft and their work in this field skill¬ 
ful. Nor- is much capital required, in the be¬ 
ginning, for the fly-maker’s tools are few and 
small and the materials are sold by wholesalers. 
Several women who earn a living making flies 
began by asking angling friends for orders. 
Their skill soon becoming known, the rest was 
easy. 
Millions of flies are made and marketed every 1 
year at a reasonable profit. One often marvels 
where all the flies made go to. Still, the de¬ 
mand is constant. Out of a dozen flies pur¬ 
chased perhaps six are lost or damaged and 
therefore discarded. Moths destroy more flies 
than all the fish caught on them. There is not 
an angler who does not possess twice, as many 
flies as he can ever use in fly-fishing, but he 
purchases more from time to time, and never 
seems to be overstocked. There is something 
irresistible in a case of flies in a tackle shop. 
It may interest our angling readers to know 
that Mr. Arthur Jerome Eddy, who is contribut¬ 
ing the splendid series ■ of articles on “Light 
Tackle Sea Fishing,” now appearing in Forest 
and Stream, is president of the Catalina Light 
Tackle Club and one of the most persistent mem¬ 
bers of that school whose object in experiment¬ 
ing widely is to perfect fishing tackle and assist 
others in every manner possible in scientific ang¬ 
ling. , Not, as some persons assume, to make fish 
catching more certain, but to enable beginners 
to start right, with The smallest possible loss of 
time and money. Mr. Eddy is practical; that 
is shown in his book “Two Thousand Miles in 
an Automobile,” as well as in his present series. 
We are glad to give expression to his wish that 
the use of lighter rods and tackle may attract equal 
attention among the salt water fishermen of the 
Atlantic as it has those of the Pacific. The time 
is passing when a hand line and a few hooks 
are deemed sufficient for the salt water fisher¬ 
man. 
