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by a word of warning, just as the bird rises 
and urged to be deliberate, and lesson after 
lesson may be given which should greatly profit 
the learner. 
“In these latter days such instruction is much 
more important than it would have been to those 
who were learning to shoot twenty-five or thirty 
years ago, since to-day the opportunities for 
practice on wild birds are fewer than they used 
to be.” 
It seems to me that this article may be read 
with profit by every man who wishes to make 
•easy the path of the son, daughter or other 
relative whom he would be glad to see interested 
in the splendid breezy outdoor sports of the 
field that many of us love so well. 
Wild Rice. 
Wood Production in Germany. 
Among all the nations of the world Germany 
receives the credit of being the most thoroughly 
scientific. She does with her limited natural re¬ 
sources what younger nations will soon be com¬ 
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pelled to do in self-protection; she conserves 
them. 
When our wood supplies, stored up from 100 
to 500 years, are within sight of their end, and 
sawmills that have been moved from the white 
pine belt of the North to the yellow pine belt 
of the South have been moved to the Pacific 
-coast for their last stand, then Germany’s scien¬ 
tific forestry policy will receive better recog¬ 
nition. 
We do not think of moving a grist mill about 
from one wheat field to another, as the fields 
in turn become exhausted. After one crop is 
harvested another is coming on. So it must be 
with the sawmill and the crop of trees. If it 
takes fifty years to raise a tree of a given species, 
then one-fiftieth of the forest may be cut each 
year, provided it reseeds or is replanted—and 
the sawmill stays at the same place and the 
workmen live in their permanent snug homes 
near by—the “lumber shanty” will be a thing of 
the past; raising trees a business like raising 
wheat. 
Recent Publications. 
Newfoundland and its Untrodden Ways, by 
J. G. Millais, F.Z.S. Illustrated by the 
author and from photographs. Cloth, 340 
pages, $6 net. London and New York, 
Longmans, Green & Co. 
While much of this most excellent work is 
devoted to hunting in Newfoundland, its gifted 
artist-author gives particular attention to the 
people of the coastal towns and to the Micmac 
Indians. The mode of life, trapping, areas, etc., 
of the latter, he says, seem to be as little known 
as when Cormack wrote of them in 1822. Any¬ 
one who appreciates Millais humor as well as 
Millais pictures will find his latest book a fit 
companion with his “A Breath from the Veldt,” 
“The Wildfowlers of Scotland,” etc. 
“The average Englishman,” he says “imagines 
Newfoundland to be a little bit of a place some¬ 
where near the North Pole, which, with two or 
three other colonies, could be safely stowed 
away behind the village pump. * * * The New¬ 
foundlanders .are not black or red, but are of 
a good old English stock, and they wash them¬ 
selves twice a day. * * * Here in these forests 
and barrens with their natural sanctuaries the 
caribou are holding their own—one of the few 
instances where the purely wild game of Europe 
and America are not decreasing.” 
Mr. Selous was delighted with the comments 
of the daily papers of St. John’s, which often 
find news scarce and must perforce “dig up” 
something to take its place. Two of them are 
reproduced as samples: 
Deer were plentiful at Topsail and Quidi-Vidi last 
week. Ananias P. Slechter, of Providence, N. Y., shot 
a 72-pointer. 
Despite the universal impressions to the contrary, the 
editor of this paper is always prepared to accept cash on 
subscriptions. 
Mr. Millais followed the route taken in 1900 
by F. C. Selous, whose “Hunting Trips in North 
America” was reviewed recently in these columns ; 
that is, to St. John’s Lake from Terra Nova,, by 
ascending the Terra Nova River, a hard journey, 
but one that had its compensations, for big cari¬ 
bou were abundant and Mr. Millais obtained 
some fine heads and a large number of studies 
from life, many of which are reproduced in the 
book. 
From there he went into the Gander River 
country, and later visited the coastal villages, 
cruising from point to point; then to Mount 
Sylvester and the Long Harbor River country, 
etc. 
Hunting and fishing stories; incidents of camp 
life and the trail; legends of the Indians; yarns 
of old salts, with his actual experiences in hunt¬ 
ing, sketching and exploring the country far 
from beaten trails—all serve to make this one 
of the most interesting of modern books from 
the sportsman’s viewpoint, as it is a guide to 
the intending visitor to the island. 
Through the Mackenzie Basin; A Narrative 
of the Athabasca and Peace River Treaty 
Expedition of 1889. By Charles Mair. 
Map and numerous illustrations, also notes 
on the mammals and birds of northern 
Canada by Roderick MacFarlane. Toronto, 
William Briggs. Cloth, 490 pages, $2 net. 
For nearly 200 years the Company of Adven¬ 
turers of England Trading at the Hudson’s Bay, 
better known as the Hudson’s Bay Company, 
ruled a great empire in the northwest, and on 
the whole ruled it well. The inhabitants of that 
empire, while grumbling more or less, as all 
people do, were yet fairly well satisfied with the 
government of the great company. They had 
learned to work well and to live on the whole 
quiet, decent lives. For a few years after 1811, 
to be sure, the orderly procedure of the Hud¬ 
son’s Bay Company’s government was locally 
interrupted when the «Earl of Selkirk purchased 
from the Hudson’s Bay Company a large tract 
of land, and active quarrels with some blood¬ 
shed went on for a time. In 1836 the two fur 
companies, having consolidated, bought back 
from the heirs of the Earl of Selkirk the tract 
that he had purchased, and things went on 
quietly again. In 1850 treaties were made with 
the Indians, and again in 1871 and from thai 
time forward the Canadian government began 
to work with many of the Indians with a view 
to confining them to reservations and making 
room in their country for the white people that 
were sure to come. 
The most recent of these treaties was made 
by an expedition, sent out in the year 1899, and 
an account of the journey of the treaty making 
commission has just been published by Wm. 
Briggs, of Toronto, under the title, “Through 
the Mackenzie Basin, a Narrative of the Atha¬ 
bascan and Peace River Treaty Expedition of 
1899.” The narrative is written by Mr. Charles 
Mair, English secretary of the Halfbreed Com¬ 
mission, and offers an extremely interesting ac¬ 
count of the country through which the ex¬ 
pedition passed and the events of the trip. This 
narrative occupies 150 pages of the book. It is 1 
illustrated by numerous excellent photographs of 
the region and of the people. 
The remaining 330 pages of the book consist 
of notes on mammals and birds of northern 
Canada by Roderick MacFarlane, retired chief 
factor of the Hudson’s Bay Company. Mr. Mac¬ 
Farlane needs no introduction to readers of! 
Forest and Stream, who will remember his 
contributions to its columns, nor to naturalists 
on this side of the boundary line. He is am 
finding a man’s track. 
From Millais’ “Newfoundland and Its Untrodden Ways.” 
