Jan. 28, 1911.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
Iowa Sportsmen’s Association. 
Des Moines, Iowa, Jan. 16. — Editor Forest 
and Stream: The sportsmen of Iowa have for 
the first time become thoroughly aroused con¬ 
cerning the need of taking intelligent and ef¬ 
fective measures for the adequate protection 
of the fish and game, the forests and lakes of 
the State. The State gun license of one dollar 
for residents and the large fund it created 
brought those interested together and last week 
there was organized here the Iowa Conserva¬ 
tion and Sportsmen’s Association. The first 
meeting, just at the opening of the Legislature, 
had a large attendance. The immediate cause 
of the gathering was the necessity of doing 
something at once to save Wall Lake, in 
Wright county, in the northern part of the 
State, which the county supervisors threaten to 
drain and destroy. The Legislature will be 
asked to prevent it. The resolutions, after re¬ 
citing the rapid disappearance of the game from 
Iowa and the urgent need of prompt action to 
save the natural pleasures of the rod and gun 
to the people of the State, declare: 
Resolved, That we, members of the Iowa Conservation 
and sportsmen’s League, recommend to the State Ex¬ 
ecutive Council the immediate employment of a com- 
Pe , e “ t , game warden at a commensurate salary and the 
establishment of an effective system of county wardens. 
Second-1 he conservation of all remaining Iowa lakes, 
lake outlets, waterways and marshes. 
Third—Ihe planting of wild rice and wild celery in all 
the game waters of the State. 
Fourth-We recommend the utmost care in the pre- 
t of f forests ’ tree growths and game c ° ver s 
on btate lands. 
Fifth-The immediate establishment of State farms for 
the propagation of game fish. 
Sixth-The propagation of native Iowa game birds 
especially that most delightful of all game birds the 
Iowa qua.,, and a]so th£ seIectjon Qf the Hun J ar ‘ a h n e 
Chmes d fan^fp^e™^" 0 " * 
out licenses on the same terms as hunters. 
Eighth—Further, be it resolved, in the opinion of the 
League^that 2* a " d Sport^S 
League that the Executive Council in permitting the 
dew 8 / *" Lake " making the intake and 
doing a great injustice to all the people of Iowa 
We believe that the natural haunts of game and fish 
have been destroyed in great part, because of the 
natural settlement and the cultivation of all the lands 
of the State, but partly also to a lack of foresight on 
the part of State authorities in allowing breeding grounds 
to pass into the possession of private individuals, to the 
detriment of the great majority of our citizens now 
living, and the unborn generation to come. 
We therefore suggest, in compliance with our rights, 
that the Council suspend its action in ordering Wall 
Lake drained, and set a day when all people con¬ 
cerned can appear before it and be given a full hearing. 
G. H. Jameson, 
D. E. Allyn, 
L. W. Snuggins, 
• J. W. Eichinger. 
amount during 1910. State Game Warden 
George A. Lincoln, of Cedar Rapids, has been 
using the money rather carefully, but has made 
a very large investment in Hungarian partridges, 
scattered over the State, the results of which 
are not yet known. Fish propagation has con¬ 
sumed some thousands also. The feeling is 
strong that fishermen should also be required 
to take out a license, if they are to participate 
in the benefits of the license money. 
In the opinion of myself and of many other 
sportsmen and observers, one thing that is 
most urgently needed in Iowa is to stop spring 
shooting and give birds an invitation to come 
and live in Iowa and get fat for fall shooting, 
which should begin at least,two weeks later 
than it does now, or September 15. Some think 
it should be October 1. If this were done we 
MR. jantzer’s method of supplying food and 
SHELTER FOR QUAIL. 
would have more game, and at a time when it 
is in best condition. With a system of honest 
and competent wardens, the Lacey game re¬ 
serve scheme and no spring shooting, Iowa 
would in a few years be an illuminating ex¬ 
ample of what sensible, temperate conservation 
will do. We would all be proud -of it and more 
than satisfied with it. F. W B 
A Way to Feed Quail. 
Nev\ \ ork City, Jan. 14 .—Editor Forest and 
Stream: In to-day’s issue I notice your edi¬ 
torial on Feeding the Game Birds and want to 
tell you the most practicable way we have found. 
After the snow we take a whole sheaf or 
bundle of wheat, separate the stalks, distribute 
them upright around trees near cover and tie 
them to the trunk, as shown in inclosed rough 
sketch, bend over the tops and strew loose food 
in all directions to attract the birds. Should a 
new snow come, the birds can go underneath 
the bent-over tops and find the food, as the snow 
never covers it altogether. We have done this 
on a ten-inch snow and later had another twelve- 
inch snow on top of that, but found there was 
p enty of food left, and always one side of the 
bundle that was not covered. We had a sixteen- 
. '" ch fal1 of snow at Eastport, L. I., last month. 
Uur warden at once tied out one hundred 
sheaves of wheat, and after two days, visited 
them all and found that the quail had been to 
every one, and that all the coveys he knew of 
were intact. 
We have tried every way known to us, and 
find this the simplest and best, and in six years 
have not lost any birds because of snow. 
Our Forest and Stream is better than ever. 
George E. Jantzer. 
New Conservation Magazine. 
The National Conservation Association, of 
which Gifford Pinchot is president, will publish 
a monthly illustrated magazine. It will be called 
“American Conservation.” It will make its first 
appearance next month. The price will be two 
dollars a year, and already a large list of sub¬ 
scribers is announced. 
Since conservation has become a great national 
issue, officers of the' association say there has 
been a wide and insistent demand for a maga¬ 
zine covering the entire conservation field. The 
object of the new magazine, it is announced, 
will be to keep the thousands of individuals 
who are interested in the conservation movement 
informed as to the country’s natural resources, 
what is being done with them, what ought to be 
done with them, and of conservation activities 
m general in America and other parts of the 
world. 
The magazine is to be popular in style and 
profusely illustrated and will present articles by 
leaders of national reputation, eminent specialists 
and other well known writers, who will tell how 
specific conservation problems are being worked 
out^ practically in this and in other countries. 
It will deal with the subjects within its field 
without, prejudice or political bias.” 
The officers of the association are: President, 
W. E. D. Rummell, and Secretary, D. Y.’ 
French, both of Des Moines. 
Major John F. Lacey, former Congressman 
and author of the Lacey game law, proposes 
that the northern tier of townships in each 
county shall be made a game and bird reserve, 
within the boundaries of which it shall be un- 
3W U t0 . shoot or kill any game or song bird 
at any time. This would have the effect of 
setting aside about one-sixth of the State as a 
game refuge, scattered over the State. 
The dollar gun license produced over $100,000 
ie first year and somewhat less than that 
The National Beagle Club of America. 
Camden, N. J., Jan. 17 .—Editor Forest and 
Stream: The February meeting of this club 
will be heM at Martin’s, Fifth avenue and 
Twenty-sixth street, New York city, on Tues¬ 
day, Feb. 14, 1911, at 9 p. m., at which time all 
matters of business which shall be brought be¬ 
fore the meeting will be acted upon. 
James Mortimer, superintendent of the West¬ 
minster Kennel Club Dog Show, has just ad¬ 
vised me that beagles will be judged by H. T. 
Peters, at New York, on Feb. 14, i 9 n. 
Chas. R. Stevenson, Sec’y. 
Wolf Moneth. 
January, the month with the Latin name, had 
a grimmer name in Saxon England. Richard 
Verstegan, in his “Restitution of Decayed In¬ 
telligence in Antiquities,” a curious book pub¬ 
lished in 1673, writes: “The month which we 
now call 'January’ our Saxon ancestors called 
‘wolf monat,’ to wit, ‘wolf moneth,’.because peo¬ 
ple are wont always in that month to be in more 
danger to be devoured of wolves than in any 
season else of the year; for that, through the 
extremity of cold and snow, those ravenous 
creatures could not find other beasts sufficient 
to feed upon. ’—London Chronicle. 
