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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Jan. 21, 1911. 
Reaves for an extended hunt along the Florida 
4oast and oyer on the Bahama Islands the latter 
part of next week. Mr. Townsend will be the 
guest of an old shooting and fishing chum of 
Tarpon, Fla, 
George A. Hoagland and son Bill left this 
morning for Rockport, Tex., for their annual 
mid winter shoot. Mr. Hoagland is probably 
the wealthiest man in Nebraska, and either shoots 
or fishes with brief intermissions of rest from 
January to January. 
State Fish Commissioner Will J. O’Brien is 
out with a strong plea to the Legislature to 
change the law disposing of the handsome sum 
of money that is derived from the shooting and 
fishing licenses which now go to the school fund. 
Mr. O’Brien very properly urges that this money 
or the bulk of the amount be devoted to the im¬ 
provement of our State fish hatcheries, and to 
the propagation, protection and preservation of 
"our game and fish. 
Since the present license law has been opera¬ 
tive, Mr. O’Brien says that annual average col¬ 
lections from resident and non-resident licenses 
have been a little over $9,000 a year, or $90,000 
for the ten years, and the fish commissioner or 
game committee has not been allowed to use a 
single dollar of this fund. Fie also says that 
Nebraska is the only State that handles this sort 
of revenue in this way. Iowa’s Legislature ap¬ 
propriated $1,300 out of the general fund for 
the support of her game and fish commission 
and passed a universal license law which pro¬ 
duced an income of $108,000 the first year it was 
in effect, and the commission was empowered to 
use every penny of this big fund for the propa¬ 
gation and protection of its fish and game. The 
last Colorado Legislature appropriated $72,000 
for the support of its game and fish department, 
and the wardens collected $53,174.60, all of which 
went to the game and fish propagation industry. 
Kansas has a universal license and collects an¬ 
nually about $40,000, all of which the game and 
fish commission is empowered to use for the 
same purpose. The last Missouri Legislature 
appropriated something like $90,000 for its game 
and fish interests and besides devotes all the 
license money and that derived from the con¬ 
fiscated game and fish to the support of its game 
and fish commission. 
Mr. O’Brien gives these figures to show that 
all our surrounding States are spending all 
moneys derived from this source in the interests 
of their game and fish. He says the figures are 
small when compared with what New York and 
Pennsylvania are doing in this line. Last year 
the New York State Game, Fish and Forestry 
Commission expended $481,000, and of this large 
sum $68,000 went to fish culture. The last Penn¬ 
sylvania Legislature appropriated $172,000 for the 
support of her fisheries department, the game 
commission being a separate body in that State. 
Pennsylvania now operates eight fish hatcheries 
and has started on the ninth a fish preserve 
containing 1,200 acres donated by the State and 
National Government, and they expect to ex¬ 
pend $250,000 on this project and make it the 
finest natural fish culturing station in the United 
States. 
In view of what these States are doing, Com¬ 
missioner O’Brien thinks it high time that Ne¬ 
braska was waking up and doing the right thing 
by its anglers and shooters who pay such enor¬ 
mous sums into her treasury. Sandy Griswold. 
New York Forest, Fish and Game Report 
The annual report of the State Forest, Fish 
and Game Commissioner recommends that the 
open season for hunting deer be continued as 
at present, or if any change is made that the 
season be lengthened to include the first two 
weeks in November, with the restriction that no 
does be killed at any time. The protection of 
does would conserve both deer and hunters, as 
a hunter who stops before shooting to make 
sure that the animal at which he fires is not a 
doe is not likely to kill a human being. 
It is recommended that some amendment 
should be made to the law which would permit 
the possession and use of dogs for legitimate 
purposes in the Adirondack 'section. A properly 
safeguarded system of registration of dogs, it 
is said, could no doubt be made which would 
permit the use of dogs for bird and fox hunting. 
A bureau of inland fisheries is recommended 
to have charge of the commercial fisheries of 
the State not now under the jurisdiction of the 
bureau of marine fisheries. The State’s revenue 
could be materially increased by this bureau with 
but slight outlay. 
The total acres burned over by fire during the 
year were less than 13,000, which is only about 
4 per cent, of the . acreage burnted over in 1908. 
The value of oil-burning locomotives in forest 
sections has been demonstrated. The number 
of observation stations for observing forest fires 
has been increased from seven to twenty-one. 
The production of spruce lumber for the year 
shows a decided increase, as does also the out¬ 
put of pulp wood. 
Nearly one and three-quarter millions of trees 
were sold to private landowners for reforesting, 
the demand which could not be supplied being 
fully half a million greater. The nurseries have 
been enlarged during the year, and there are now 
on hand nearly 12,0004100 trees which will be 
ready for distribution during the coming two 
years. 
THE ADIRONDACK ANIMALS. 
All the reports from the great Northern 
forests indicate that the animals therein con¬ 
tained have made a steady increase under the 
present protective system. This is especially 
true of the elk (wapiti) and the familiar deer. 
Although the foliage was heavy until late in 
the hunting season, and there was little rain or 
snow to quiet the woods, deer hunters were as 
successful as ever. Certain sections, particularly 
the lower Adirondack region, showed poor re¬ 
turns, however, and it was not until the season 
was well advanced that the best results were 
secured by the hunters who at that time fairly 
swarmed in the woods. There were the usual 
early predictions that there would be a poor 
season, but later it was admitted by the guides 
that the deer were not only larger than usual, 
but that there was no apparent falling off in 
the number to be found by the skilled sports¬ 
man. Reports received by the New York Forest, 
Fish and Game Commission showed that fifteen 
deer were killed by railroad trains along the 
line of the Webb preserve in the Adirondacks 
during the year, and that one was killed in the 
Catskills. 
From the record which follows it will be seen 
that the shipments were entirely satisfactory, and 
that on an estimate of $25 value placed on each 
deer killed, the return from this species of ani¬ 
mal life in the,Adirondacks was at least a quar¬ 
ter of a million dollars. 
* 
. t THE ANJJJJAL KILL. 
Statistics collected ea<;h year, showing the 
number of carcasses, saddles and heads shipped 
out of the Adirondack region over the various 
railway lines form interesting reading for those 
who make a study of Adirondack deer. Begin¬ 
ning with the. year icjoo and including the. season 
just closed, these figures are as follows: 
Year. Carcasses. Saddles. Heads. 
1900 .'.. 1,02a. 89 95 
1901 . \ . 1,062 103 121 
1902 ..-.. 1,354 113 193 
1903 . 1,961 145 188 
1904 . 1,618 124 152 
1905 . 2,196 108 180 
1906 . 2,413 108 102 
1907 ....-. 2,021 72 70 
1908 . 1,986 103 85 
1909 . 2,810 51 164’ 
1910.... 2,155 53 135 
A detailed statement of the shipments of deer 
from points' in the Adirondack region, showing 
the railroad stations from which the shipments 
were made, is given in the following tables. By 
comparing these figures with those given in 
former reports, it will be easy to see how the 
shipments vary from year to year from the 
various stations. 
. Mohawk & Malone Railway. 
Station. Carcasses. Saddles. 
Heaver River .. 72 
Big Moose .. ’ ’. 37 
Brandreth Lake . 5 
Childwold 35 
Clear Water .” 55 
Eagle Bay... n 
Forestport . 39 
Floodwood . 32 
Fulton Chain . 63 
Gabriel . n 
Horseshoe . 2 
Hinckley ...;... 24 
Lake Clear Junction. 25 
Lake Kushaqua . 4 
Lake Placid . 2 
Little Rapids . 3 
Long Lake West. 92 
Loon Lake . 7 
McKeever . 9 
Minnehaha . 5 
Moulin . 8 
Mountain View . 8 
Nehassane . 0 
Newport . 4 
Otter Lake . 6 
Onekio 
Owl’s Head . 
Piercefield . 
. 89 
Poland .. 
Pleasant Lake . 
Rainbow Lake . 
Robinwood . 
. 6 
Raquette Lake . 
. 29 
Saranac Lake . 
Saranac Inn . 
. 12 
Tupper Lake Tunction. 
.129 
Woods Lake . 
White Lake Corners. 
. 45 
909 
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New York & Ottawa Railroad. 
Brandon . 13 
0 
1 
Derrick . 
. S4 
0 
3 
Kildare . 
. 28 
1 
0 
Madawaska . 
. 12 
1 
0 
Meno . 
. 14 
0 
0 
Santa Clara . 
. 48 
0 
0 
Spring Cove . 
. 22 
0 
1 
St. Regis Falls .... 
. 8 
0 
6 
229 
2 
11 
Utica & Black River Railroad. 
Alder Creek . 13 0 0 
Barneveld . 1 0 0 
Beaver Falls . 1 0 0 
Boonville . 9 0 0 
Carthage . 3 0 0 
Croghan . 32 0 0 
Glenfield . 36 0 0 
Lyon Falls . 16 0 0 
Lowville . 18 2 0 
Prospect . 43 1 0 
Port Leyden . 9 0 0 
Remsen . 9 0 0 
190 3 0 
Rome, Watertown & Ogdensburg Railroad. 
Canton . 5 0 0 
De Kalb Junction 8 0 0 
Edwards . 8 0 1 
Evans Mills . 2 0 0 
Hermon . 13 0 0 
Massena . 0 0 6 
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