April 9, 1910.] 
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have gone to their happy hunting grounds, or 
eisewhere, a few only remaining, and these are 
fast diminishing in number. 
We have in this State three classes of men 
who are a menace to the best interests of game 
protection, and a blot on the ’scutcheon of true 
sportsmanship. One is the man of abundant 
means and epicurean tastes who never goes 
shooting, but who, however, claims that he has 
the moral, if not the legal right, to purchase 
or to hire some gunner to kill all the ruffed 
grouse, quail and woodcock desired by him, 
and who perhaps unthinkingly creates an 
“underground” market for the disposal of these 
birds by the unscrupulous. Another is the fel¬ 
low who pretends to be a sportsman and is a 
member of some club composed of honorable 
men. He returns to his business house at the 
end of his week’s vacation, and boasts to his 
fellow qlerks of the fact that he received more 
money from the sale of game birds killed by 
him during his absence than he receives as a 
weekly salary from his employer. The last of 
these offenders is the man who, not content 
with three or four ruffed grouse as the reward 
of a day’s shooting, must needs return home 
with ten or a dozen of these fine birds. 
So far as is possible, the open season on all 
upland game should begin and end at the same 
time. It requires a lot of moral strength for a 
man to resist the temptation, when out shooting 
one sort of game in its proper season, the 
many chances offered of shooting another 
species on which the close season has just 
placed the ban. Some one of course will think 
that he is discommoded by one law or another, 
but the game law that is of benefit to the ma¬ 
jority of the people of the entire State is the 
one that should obtain. 
Our Massachusetts game is a valuable herit¬ 
age to the citizens of the State and rightly con¬ 
served by a short open season, and a moderate 
bag, together with trained and careful protec¬ 
tion, may be made to endure through all the 
generations yet to come, furnishing not only 
vigorous and health-giving sport, but also giv¬ 
ing employment to all those engaged in the 
manufacture of guns, ammunition, out-of-door 
clothing, shoes and all the various implements 
of the chase called into existence by the de¬ 
mands of the sportsman. 
Bradford A. Scudder. 
New York Legislature. 
A bill introduced by the Senate and Assembly 
Committees on Forest, Fish and Game, amends 
the forest, fish and game law generally. It in¬ 
creases from 85 to 105 the number of game pro¬ 
tectors. It authorizes the commissioner, on 
request of a majority of the town board of any 
town, to set aside with the consent of the owner 
any lands within the town as game refuges for 
a period not exceeding ten years. The taking 
of birds or game on such lands is prohibited 
while the lands are set aside as refuges. The 
commissioner is authorized to bring in the 
name of the State any action or proceeding in 
respect to land owned or claimed by the State 
in the forest preserve counties which an owner 
of land would be entitled to bring. With the 
approval of the Governor, the commissioner 
may lease land within the forest preserve for 
not more than ten years, not over five acres in 
one parcel, to any person for the erection of 
camps or cottages for the use of campers. Not 
more than one site is to be leased “directly or 
indirectly” to the same party or persons consti¬ 
tuting the same family. The form of lease is 
provided in the bill, and includes requirements 
that the camps shall not be used for tavern, 
dance hall, saloon or gambling purposes, and 
that the tenant will not cut away any timber 
and will use precautions against forest fires. 
The number of fire districts in the forest pre¬ 
serve counties is increased from four to five. 
The penalties for setting forest fires are some¬ 
what stiffened. The commissioner is given au¬ 
thority to make surveys to fix the boundaries 
of public and private lands in the forest pre¬ 
serve, and the maps prepared in such surveys 
may be received in evidence in courts of justice. 
The open season for bucks in various counties 
(mentioned in Section 76) is from Sept. 16 to 
Oct. 31, both inclusive, and this -open season is 
made to apply to wholly inclosed deer parks. 
Generally the provisions as to possession and 
transportation of deer or venison are made to 
apply to bucks as to other deer. 
The Assembly has passed the bill of Assem¬ 
blyman Thompson’s, providing that there shall 
be no open season for deer on Long Island for 
three years from the time this bill is enacted. 
It also strikes out the provisions permitting tak¬ 
ing dogs into forests inhabited by deer during 
the present open season for deer on Long Island. 
The Senate has passed the bill of Assembly- 
man Merritt’s authorizing the Forest, Fish and 
Game Commissioner to reforest lands in the 
forest preserve, to propagate or purchase trees 
for the purpose, and to sell trees under proper 
restrictions to cities of the State, for reforest¬ 
ing lands. The bill carries an appropriation of 
$10,000. 
The Assembly has passed the Merritt bill au¬ 
thorizing the forest, fish and game commission 
to bring in the name of the people of the State 
any action or proceeding which an owner of 
land would be entitled to bring to perfect the 
State’s title or record title to lands in the forest 
preserve, and any other action with respect to 
such lands which an owner would be entitled 
to bring. 
BILLS INTRODUCED. 
By Assemblyman Wood, including in the St. 
Lawrence Reservation, all that portion of Lake 
Ontario adjacent to Jefferson county, including 
Chaumont Bay, Guffins Bay, Black River Bay 
and Henderson Bay, with the islands therein. 
The same bill has been introduced in the Senate 
by Senator Cobb. 
Assemblyman MacGregor’s, increasing from 
$60 to $500 the penalty to be imposed, in addi¬ 
tion to that imposed for the misdemeanor for 
using explosives in violation of Section 135, of 
the law. J 
Assemblyman MacGregor’s, making the open 
season for black bass from July 1 to Dec. 31. 
By Assemblyman Wilkie, relating to the penal¬ 
ties for pollution of streams and use of explo¬ 
sives. 
By Assemblyman Reed, changing the open 
season for ducks, geese, brant and swan so that 
it shall be from Sept. 16 to Jan. 10, and provid¬ 
ing that they may be possessed from Sept. 16 to 
Jan. 15. The open season for ducks, geese, brant 
and swan on Long Island is made to last from 
Oct. 1 to Jan. 10, and possession to Jan. 15. 
Camp Cookery. 
Saginaw, Mich., April 2 .—Editor Forest and 
Stream: Why cannot we establish a camp cook¬ 
ery exchange in Forest and Stream ? Have a 
certain corner of the magazine set aside for the 
camp cookery exchange. Not have too much of 
it in one week, but the different sportsmen could 
furnish their recipes for things that they make 
in camp that they know are good, so that two or 
three of these are published weekly. To start 
off with I will give you a few of mine. 
Coffee .—Measure the water by cups, the num¬ 
ber of cups of coffee you are going to make. 
Put the water in cold, nice and fresh, in your 
kettle, or an absolutely clean coffee pot. When 
it is boiling add coffee at the rate of one big 
tablespoonful for each cup of coffee. Clap on 
the cover immediately and set it beside the fire 
where it will remain hot, but the water must 
never boil after the coffee has been put in, other¬ 
wise it will be muddy. Just before you get ready 
to use it dash in one-half cup of cold water. This 
latter is not absolutely necessary, but it does not 
do any harm. The coffee will be perfectly clear 
when you pour it. The coffee should not stand 
longer than a half hour. 
Creamed Potatoes .—Very easy to cook; in camp. 
Can use condensed milk, but cow’s milk is better. 
Be sure the potatoes are boiled beforehand; a 
freshly boiled potato is not the thing. Take the 
cold boiled potatoes left from the night before, 
slice reasonably thin into the spider, put in a 
good lump of butter, milk to not quite cover the 
potatoes, then dust a little flour (not over a 
tablespoonful) lightly over the top, a little salt 
and plenty of black pepper. I always carry a 
pepper grinder and grind my own pepper corns 
rather coarsely as I use them. Cook this over 
a fire that will not scorch the milk. As the milk 
boils, it will come up to the top and absorb the 
flour. Then begin turning, do not break up the 
potatoes, just stir them with a knife a few times 
to get them well mixed. They will be creamy 
and they will not look shiny like paste, either. 
Hozv to Fry Brook Trout— Select your smaller 
trout, but have them as near uniform size as 
possible so that they will get done at the same 
time. Trout should not be put in water and 
washed. They should not be taken out of the 
refrigerator or your cold box until you are ready 
to cook them. Do not let them stand around a 
half hour to get soft and slippery. When they 
come from the cold box they are hard and firm. 
Have plenty of cloth. I always carry a roll of 
cheesecloth and wipe the trout thoroughly dry. 
It is unnecessary of course to say that the heads 
and tails are left on; every cumper-out knows 
that. Have an old-fashioned spider if possible, 
one of the cast iron kind, that will cook and 
not burn. Put in several slices of sweet fat salt 
pork; never use bacon. The smoky taste to bacon 
should not be mixed with anything unless it is 
calf’s liver. Do not put in too much pork so 
that your trout are swimming in grease. They 
should have very little more of the pork fat than 
would be necessary to bake pancakes. Have the 
fat screeching hot and then carefully lay in the 
trout after you have rolled them in dry flour. 
Some people prefer cornmeal. Either one will 
do. Then as they begin to cook, dust them well 
with salt. Fish will stand a pile of salt. When 
one side is nicely browned, carefully turn them 
without breaking the tails off or disfiguring the 
