Nov. 21, 1908.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
815 
New York League. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
The annual meeting of the New York State 
Fish, Game and Forest League will be held in 
Syracuse, N. Y., Dec. 10 and 11. This meeting 
will undoubtedly be the largest and most repre¬ 
sentative meeting of the sportsmen ever held 
in this State. During the past few months the 
organization committee, consisting of Dr. V. R. 
sion the delegates and others who may come 
to the convention will be invited to the magnifi¬ 
cent club house of the anglers, located on the 
shore of Oneida Lake, where they will be served 
with a wild duck dinner. Other plans for en¬ 
tertaining the guests are being worked out by 
a committee which was appointed to look after 
their interests. The sessions of the convention 
will be held in Assembly Hall, University Build¬ 
ing, and the committee is now planning elaborate 
sportsmen which will come up for discussion will 
be the question of closing the season on par¬ 
tridge and woodcock for one or two years, open¬ 
ing the season on pheasants throughout the State 
for a limited number of days and a very limited 
bag, putting a limit on the bag of ducks, open¬ 
ing the season earlier on upland plover, taking 
cranes off the list of protected birds, prohibiting 
the taking of trout at night, etc. Efforts will be 
made at this meeting to interest the State in es- 
WILD TURKEYS. 
From the Group in the American Museum of Natural History 
Westervelt, Schenectady; Dr. H. J. Cull, Caze- 
novia; H. W. MacBean, Niagara Falls; J. A. 
Wood, Cortland, and A. H. Maloney, Camden, 
have been busy interesting clubs throughout the 
State to join forces with the other sportsmen of- 
the State who are already members of the State 
League. From present indications there will be 
about eighty clubs represented by their dele¬ 
gates at this meeting. The meeting has usually 
required only one day’s session, but this year, 
on account of the large amount of business to 
come before the meeting, it will be necessary to 
hold a two days’ session. 
The Anglers’ Association of Onondaga, located 
at Syracuse, is planning to entertain the dele¬ 
gates in royal style while they are at the con¬ 
vention. On the evening of the first day s ses- 
decorations in harmony with the spirit of the 
convention. 
Aside from matters of routine business there 
will be a programme which is not yet completed, 
but at the present time includes an address by 
William Dutcher, President of the National As¬ 
sociation of Audubon Societies; “Game as a 
Community Asset,” by Andrew D. Meloy, of 
New York city; “Pollution Problems,” by C. 
H. Townsend, Director New York Aquarium; 
“Harmonizing the Interests of the Farmer and 
Sportsman,” by Alfred T. Durston, Syracuse; 
“Successful Propagation of Imported Game 
Birds,” by W. F. Mackensen, Yardley, Pa., and 
a “Biological Report, by W. D. Cloyes, Cort¬ 
land, N. Y. 
Among the matters of universal interest to 
tablishing farms for the propagation of birds to 
re-stock the covers. Various other subects will 
be brought to the attention of the delegates 
which are too numerous to mention in this brief 
article. 
Any clubs which are not now identified with 
the State League or any number of sportsmen in 
any locality where no game club exists, are in¬ 
vited to organize and join the State League and 
have delegates at this convention. Information 
regarding the convention or admittance to the 
State League, or points on the organization of 
clubs, will be cheerfully furnished by any of the 
members of the above organization committee or 
the president of the State League, Dr. F. S. 
Honsinger, Syracuse. N. Y. 
V. R. Westervelt, Sec’y. 
