April 23, 1910.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
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Springfield Fish and Game Association. 
Springfield, Mass., April 15 .—Editor Forest 
and Stream: In the course of his address at 
our meeting last night, Leroy T. Carleton, of the 
Maine Fish and Game Commission, said in part: 
“Fifteen years ago there was one small fish 
hatchery in Maine, attended by one man, where 
were hatched 250,000 eggs. The fry were planted 
as soon as hatched. To-day we have ten modern 
fish hatcheries and feeding stations and hatch 
several millions of fish yearly, feeding them until 
one and two years old before planting. 
“The Legislature appropriates $50,000 yearly 
to carry on this work, and we have restored 
fishing conditions in hundreds of lakes and small 
streams to as good or better condition than they 
were originally. We expend about $40,000 in 
protecting the big game and birds, and a game 
warden is no longer despised except by the few, 
but is a welcome visitor in any community— 
honored and respected by the many—dreaded by 
the few. 
“This, as you say, is a most remarkable trans¬ 
formation in a few brief years. It certainly is. 
Is all this of value to the State? The most of 
us down in Maine think it certainly is. If we 
did not, we should not be spending this large 
sum of money yearly. 
“Our lakes, ponds and streams and the fish 
in them are an asset of the people. And ‘free 
fishing and free hunting’ is our birthright, which 
has come down to us from the mother colony 
here in Massachusetts. Let me call your atten¬ 
tion to some official figures that will show you 
something of the benefits the State derives from 
its fish and game, aside from the privileges we 
ourselves enjoy—to fish and hunt. 
“By the sworn returns of the assessors of the 
various cities, towns and plantations in 1909, it 
is shown that there are, in the settled part of 
the State, 5,100 summer cottages owned by par¬ 
ties living outside of Maine, valued for the pur¬ 
poses of taxation on the assessors’ books at $10,- 
162,083. These cottages are contributing to the 
public expense in the way of taxes nearly a 
quarter of a million dollars annually. 
“From the best information obtainable it is 
believed that not less than 350,000 people go to 
Maine every year on some kind of vacation more 
or less extended, and that not less than $15,000,- 
000 are expended by them while in the State. 
We have 2,100 guides employed more or less of 
the year in guiding fishing and hunting parties, 
and they earned last year $275,000 in wages. 
Five hundred of these guides were farmers. A 
great many tons of fish were taken and con¬ 
sumed for food. Our forests yielded 15,000 deer 
and 500 moose, also 100 bears, 1,000 foxes, many 
raccoons, hundreds of mink and thousands of 
muskrat, besides sable, otter, fisher and wild¬ 
cats. Time will fail to tell you of the com¬ 
mercial value of all these. 
“Now I have called your attention somewhat 
in detail to the money value to us as a people 
of our fish and game. In all this it is not shown 
the value at all to our own people—the residents 
of our State—of our great opportunities for fish¬ 
ing and hunting, which will be conceded is very 
great. It all tends to a considerable extent to 
keep our own people at home—to keep our young 
men from going West—or leaving us.” 
Geo. H. Graham. 
Black Bass. 
Albany, N. Y., April 13 .—Editor Forest and 
Stream: Your correspondent, A. J. Fox, in 
Forest and Stream of April 9, page 581, makes 
some statements about the work of this com¬ 
mission with black bass which should be cor¬ 
rected, and I send you some data for that pur¬ 
pose. 
The Forest, Fish and Game Commission, it is 
true, has not distributed any big-mouth 'bass for 
a number of years, but it has been engaged since 
1907 in the cultivation of small-mouthed bass 
for stocking public waters. 
The first station engaged in this work was the 
hatchery at Constantia which, in 1907, furnished 
11,000 small-mouthed bass to applicants. In 190S 
the station at Bemus Point, on Chautauqua Lake, 
raised 1,500 fingerlings for stocking Chautauqua 
Lake, while the station at Constantia distributed 
57,650 fry among numerous applicants. 
In 1909 a new station entered upon the work 
of black bass distribution. This hatchery, located 
at Linlithgo, Columbia county, supplied 43,000 
fry and 1,800 fingerlings for the public benefit. 
In the same year the ponds at Constantia filled 
many applications, requiring 105,000 fry and 1,800 
fingerlings. This station also sent to the Lin¬ 
lithgo ponds 237 adults for stock fish. 
’ I do not know what your correspondent means 
by “hybrid fish.” I-do not believe that the two 
species of black bass hybridize under any cir¬ 
cumstances, and especially in our ponds, where 
no artificial hatching is attempted. 
Your correspondent undoubtedly is laboring 
under a misapprehension as to the attitude of the 
commissioner. No applicant for black bass for 
stocking public waters within the last three years 
has been denied the fish, provided that the supply 
on hand warranted the granting of his request. 
The work is comparatively new in our State, 
but everything points to a steady and rapid in¬ 
crease of the output from the hatcheries at Con¬ 
stantia and Linlithgo. Tarleton H. Bean, 
State Fish Culturist. 
Planting Trout. 
Utica, N. Y., April 9. —Editor Forest and 
Stream: The Paris Fish and Game Association 
of Cassville has placed 75,000 trout fry in Sau- 
quoit Creek and its tributaries. In May the as¬ 
sociation will plant 15,000 fingerlings and 25,000 
more fry. The Whitesboro Sportsmen’s Asso¬ 
ciation also planted 60,000 fry and fingerlings in 
the Sauquoit, Six Mile, Oriskany and the Punch 
Bowl creeks and Black Brook. 
Sauquoit Creek has been stocked for years, 
but difficulty has been experienced in enforcing 
the six-inch law. The Paris Association, however, 
has asked the co-operation .of the Utica Game 
and Fish Association to watch the creek and to 
examine creels of the fishermen to see that 
undersized trout are not taken. E. A. S. 
Hartford Y. C. 
The members of the Hartford Y. C. are look¬ 
ing forward to a very lively season, and the fine 
weather of a week ago caused many owners to 
take a look at their yachts, but nearly all wisely 
waited until sure that the weather had settled 
before starting work, fitting out. The club has 
to get a new home in Hartford. The lease of 
the ground at the Grove street station expires 
next year and the land is wanted by the rail¬ 
road. A. committee—G. Y. Symonds, Charles 
Noel Flagg, W. T. Fenn and C. M. Lane—has 
been appointed to secure a new site. Until a 
new site has been selected, nothing can be done 
in the way of planning the new house. 
Although Karl E. Peiler, chairman of the race 
committee, has been abroad for some time and- 
there has been no meeting of the committee to 
map out plans for the season, the members are 
looking forward to much activity. The racing 
was enlivened considerably last season by the 
advent of the “sneak-box” races. The sneak- 
box class is composed of the smaller craft, about 
the 14-foot size, and there are several in the 
club. The races last year alternated between 
Fenwick and Westbrook and were under the 
supervision of John S. Spencer and Walter 
Goodman. They will have charge of the sneak- 
box events this season, as they were so success¬ 
ful last year. 
Mr. Peiler is expected home from Germany 
in about a week and the committee will get to¬ 
gether then to make plans. Commodore Good¬ 
win says that the prospects are good for a big 
yachting year. He said that the club will hold 
its usual quota of regattas and a special feature 
will be made of the cruise in July or August. 
The long distance power boat races on the river 
and the sailboat races on the Sound will take 
place as usual every Saturday afternoon. Com¬ 
modore Goodwin said that the annual cruise will 
probably be made to the westward this year. 
Marcus A. Potter, of the race committee, said 
that the station at Fenwick would probably be 
opened about July 1 and the annual regatta would 
probably start from there on July 2. The boats 
will go to New Haven and participate in the 
regatta of the New Haven Y. C. on July 4. The 
date for the midsummer regatta has not been 
definitely settled, but the fall regatta will no 
doubt take place as usual on the Saturday before 
Labor Day. Another leg in the Hart cup race 
will be sailed at Fenwick on July 2 and at New 
LTaven on July 4. The first leg in this race was 
won by the Red Jacket, owned by Mr. Potter, 
on July 4 of last year. In order to own the cup 
it must be won three consecutive times. The 
Grove street station will probably be opened 
about May 1. 
