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or four foxes and had lost more than 100 hens. 
Our State Commission has asked for legis¬ 
lation on several subjects, the first being a repe¬ 
tition of the request of last year for authority 
to lease, purchase or construct one or more 
suitable fish hatcheries. The board claims that 
the State requires not less than five million fry 
and one million fingerling trout, and other de¬ 
sirable species. It is impossible to depend upon 
commercial sources for stocking public waters 
and that the hatcheries now owned by the 
State are entirely inadequate to meet the re¬ 
quirements. 
I doubt if there is anyone who will deny 
these allegations as regards the present hatch¬ 
eries or the needs of our trout streams. 
Henry H. Kimball. 
Seizing Game. 
New Orleans, La., Jan. 20.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: Attorney Amos L. Ponder, of the 
State Game Commission, has instituted criminal 
proceedings against several express companies 
for receiving game for shipment that was not 
tagged as the law requires. Mr. Ponder says 
the express companies are more to blame than 
the hunters and they should demand that the 
tags be placed on all shipments of birds. How¬ 
ever, there seems to be no evidence of a studied 
attempt to violate the law, and he believes it is 
more negligence than malice,' as the shipments 
have come from small railway towns or stations 
where the agents are not as careful as they 
should be. From Dec. 7, 1910, up to the present 
time there have been 3.000 birds valued at $1,000 
confiscated on account of the failure of the ship¬ 
per to tag them legally. The shipments when 
confiscated have been sent to various hospitals 
and charitable institutions in this city. The law 
in regard to tags was passed last summer at the 
meeting of the Legislature, and it is certain that 
scores of people failed to inform themselves on 
this subject. 
Dr. A. K. Fisher, of the United States 
Bureau of Biological Survey, will visit New 
Orleans during the coming week. He will make 
a special study of birds. He desires especially 
to get several specimens for the Department in 
Washington of blue geese, which only can be 
found at the mouth of the Mississippi River. Dr. 
Fisher will be granted permission to kill the 
birds he desires for scientific study during his 
stay here. He will go from New Orleans to 
Brownsville, Tex., to continue his investigations. 
Dr. Fisher will hold a conference with the game 
commission and make an address on the subject 
of birds and especially that class which destroys 
the boll weevil. 
A large number of visitors are in New Orleans 
to spend several weeks, and many of them will 
remain for the Mardi Gras festivities in the lat¬ 
ter part of February. Some of the visitors are 
taking advantage of their stay here to enjoy 
hunting expeditions and fishing frolics. 
The hunting season is fast coming to 
a close with a very satisfactory record. It 
is thought the reports of the various wardens 
will show that more deer were killed this sea¬ 
son in Louisiana than last year. Ducks have 
been plentiful in certain places, especially about 
Lake Arthur, Lake Charles and the Jump near 
the. mouth of the river and in Plaquemines 
parish. Brant and wild geese were killed in 
large numbers. The Game Commission esti¬ 
mates that there are more quail in Louisiana 
this season than ever before and the numbers 
are constantly increasing. Wild turkeys were 
brought to the market in fairly good numbers. 
Muskrats have been hunted very generally, al¬ 
though not as many were shipped from Lou¬ 
isiana this season as last year. 
Secretary Babington of the Game Commis¬ 
sion has gone to inspect the former State bi¬ 
ological station building located in Cameron 
parish at the mouth of the Calcasieu river. 
This building was deeded by the present Legis¬ 
lature to the Game Commission and it seems 
probable it will be removed to a point either 
in or near New Orleans and used as head¬ 
quarters of the officials in charge of the fish 
hatcheries and game wardens. The structure 
is in excellent condition and originally cost 
$S,ooo. F. G. G. 
A Tagged Black Duck. 
New York City, Jan. 20. — Editor Forest and 
Stream: While shooting on the marshes of the 
Pocahontas Fowling Club, at Munden, Va., last 
Monday, Jan. 16, I shot a blackduck which was 
in a flock of four or five others, and on retriev¬ 
ing the duck I found that he had a tag around 
his leg, both of which I inclose to you, and wish 
you would inform me, if possible, where I can 
find out anything about the person who put the 
tag on the duck, or whose duck it is. 
Spencer Aldrich. 
[The tag is a white metal band stamped with 
the number 703 P. In our issue of Jan. 14, 
1911, there is a notice of a tagged mallard. In 
November, 1907, a redhead duck tagged with a 
band marked T. J. O. D.—49 and a canvasback 
with a leg band T. J. O. D. No. 48 were re¬ 
ported killed in New Jersey. The tags in ques¬ 
tion are not those of the American Bird Tagging 
Association. Who is tagging these birds?— 
Editor.] 
Ducking at Currituck. 
Waterlily, N. C., Jan. 28.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: Duck, goose and swan shooting at 
Currituck from Christmas day to Jan. 15 was 
the poorest I have seen it for many years. The 
birds would get up at daylight and often be¬ 
fore and go into the ocean and never return 
until after dark, but they did not do this last 
week, and some fine bags were made. To-day 
they are exceedingly abundant, so I think the 
shooting will be good for awhile. I had some 
friends from Newark, N. J., Messrs. R. D. 
Unger and Charles Keim, who came to shoot 
geese and swan especially, and while they did 
not make any large bags any day, they took 
home with them several hundred pounds of 
geese and swans. More Anon. 
New York Legislature. 
Albany, Jan. 30.— Editor Forest and Stream: 
The following bills amending the forest, fish 
and game law have been introduced in the Leg¬ 
islature: 
By Senator Thomas and Assemblyman Mil¬ 
ler, relating to suckers, eels and dogfish in Ot¬ 
sego county. 
By Assemblyman Wende, relating to mullet, 
suckers, carp and catfish in Lake Erie. 
New Publications. 
The Powers, Duties and Work of Game War¬ 
dens, by Harry Chase. Pocket edition, paper, 
50 cents. Published by the author at Ben¬ 
nington, Vt. 
The time is passing when the position of game 
warden is one to be given to the man who is 
willing to give half-hearted attention to it, and 
not be too severe on those who regard their 
acts, as above the law. Harry Chase, as our 
readers know, is county warden at Bennington, 
Vt. He is one of that little group of men who 
have made a study of game protection, and 
adopting it as their profession, have by their 
acts and teachings aided materially in elevating 
the cause to the high place it occupies to-day. 
Harry Chase loves the work, for it takes him 
abroad during all the varied moods of nature, 
and he is an enthusiastic leader in present-day 
protection, which argues for timely preventive 
measures rather than severe punishment. Being 
a graduate in law and a sportsman, he is quali¬ 
fied to write a treatise on the legal and moral 
aspects of the cause. The book is one every 
sportsman, as well as every protector, should 
read. Some of the subjects treated at length are: 
If two men are hunting and both kill a deer 
or fox or rabbit, which does the game belong 
to? What is the good of a six-inch trout law? 
Has a warden a right to search a person for 
illegal fish or game? Can a man shoot a deer 
or other protected game to save his property? 
Are game laws constitutional? Must a warden 
show his warrant to a person whom he seeks 
to arrest? What is the proper way to plant 
trout? What is the best way to fight forest 
fires? How shall I prepare a deer head or fish 
for mounting? Does the man who steals ani¬ 
mals from my traps commit larceny? If I am 
trying to arrest a man and he runs away, can I 
follow him and arrest him when I catch him? 
What is meant in law by an arrest, anyway? 
Can a justice take jurisdiction over a case if no 
formal complaint has been made to him? How 
is a formal complaint prepared? These and 
hundreds of other similar questions are all an¬ 
swered. The information on legal matters is 
culled from the best authorities in the United 
States. All decisions of the Vermont Supreme 
Court applicable to fish and game cases are 
cited. The best authorities on scientific fish cul¬ 
ture are freely quoted. Several chapters on the 
detective work of game wardens are given. The 
full meaning of fish and game protection as it 
is understood in this country is reviewed. 
Camp Cookery, by Horace Kephart. Cloth, 154 
.pages, illustrated, $1 net. New York, the 
Outing Publishing Cofpany. 
Of a size to fit snugly in a corner of the 
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square meal in camp. There are recipes galore, 
while several blank pages in the back of the 
book are left for others the possessor may pick 
up here and there. 
The Outing Company has issued, in its Rob¬ 
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Camping and Woodcraft,” and “Camp Cook¬ 
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Surgery.” The covers are flexible leather, the 
price of the set $4 in a durable cloth holder. 
