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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Feb. 25, 1911- 
Hunting in the Yukon. 
Ciiarmouth, England, Feb. 4. Editor Forest 
and Stream: I should like to call the attention of 
any sportsman contemplating a trip to the Yukon 
to the fact that by a Dominion customs regula¬ 
tion only two heads may be shipped from the 
country out of the six caribou and two moose 
allowed to be killed by the Territorial game law. 
This regulation is no new one, but was not 
enforced in the Yukon Territory previous to 
last September. It was rather a shock to me on 
getting back to White Horse in October after 
a hunting trip to be told that the customs would 
not allow my heads to pass, although shot on 
license and well below the limit as to number. 
The local authorities, who were most cour¬ 
teous throughout, readily granted a permit to 
take the heads out of the Territory, but the cus¬ 
toms would only pass them through in bond to 
a Canadian port, leaving the difficulty unsolved. 
The heads are now on their way back, but my 
method of getting them out of Canada entailed 
considerable delay and some anxiety.. 
The Yukon is one of the finest hunting grounds 
left, parts of it abounding still in moose, cari¬ 
bou’, sheep and bear besides smaller game, and 
not’the least of its attractions is the liberality 
of its game regulations, but until the Dominion 
Government ceases to enforce in this remote 
territory a regulation framed for the Eastern 
Provinces, there will be no certainty of anyone 
being able to take out the heads which the hun¬ 
dred dollar license permits him to shoot. 
It is for the Yukon Legislature to bring pres¬ 
sure to bear at Ottawa to get this matter cleared 
up if they want their game to be a source of 
revenue to them. A - D - Pass - 
Camp-fire Rules. 
Washington, D. C., Feb. 10.— Editor Forest 
and Stream: Securely tucked away in the 
Indian Allotment Act, approved June 25, 1910. 
is a provision amending Section 53 °f the penal 
code of the United States in relation to forest 
fires. The amended section sets forth that 
whoever shall build a fire in or near any forest, 
timber, or other inflammable material upon the 
public domain, or any Indian reservation, shall, 
before leaving, totally extinguish the fire, and 
upon failure to do so, shall be fined not more 
than one thousand dollars, or imprisoned not 
more than one year, or both. To call attention 
more effectually to the provisions of this law, 
as well as to give general istructions to the 
oublic relative to the prevention of forest fires, 
the Secretary of the Interior has issued a cir¬ 
cular and linen poster inviting attention to the 
provisions of the act cited, and further states 
that the best way to prevent large fires is to 
be careful with small ones, advising all persons 
as follows: 
1. Do not build larger camp-fires than are 
necessary. 
2. Do not build fires in leaves, rotten wood, 
or other places they are likely to spread. 
3. Dig holes or clear the ground for your 
camp-fires in dangerous places, and during 
windy weather. 
4. Put out all fires completely before you 
leave them, even for a short time. 
5. Do not build fires against large or hollow 
logs. 
6. If fires are found, put them out, if pos¬ 
sible. or immediately notify the nearest govern¬ 
ment officer. 
These rules, while simple, are useful and 
valuable, being the experience as well as the 
practice of the careful camper and woodsman, 
and the thoughtfulness and solicitude of our 
great government may not be unheeded by 
those citizens who go into the woods for 
pleasure and profit. Raleigh Raines. 
Low Water. 
Minneapolis, Minn., Feb. 8. — Editor Forest 
and Stream: Sport at present is confined to 
occasional chases after foxes, and even that is 
poor, for the snows are all off. The snows came 
this year about Christmas time and the weather 
to date has been most unseasonable. We have 
had several good rabbit hunts, but I do not think 
we will have any more this year. There are a 
number of men out with ferrets, and they reap 
a harvest while they are at it. There is a law 
against it, but few are punished. I know one 
hunter who ferrets the rabbit out and then lets 
the creature run until it is almost out of range, 
then shoots, giving the animal a chance to escape. 
The lakes are very low this year on account of 
the dry summer; in fact, all the ponds are dry to 
the bottom, and there is not a muskrat in the 
country. When the ponds lowered, the rats 
swam down the Minnehaha Creek one moonlit 
night by hundreds, their destination being the 
river which, I judge, they reached long before 
daylight. One trapper set traps in the shallows 
at a bend and caught one for every trap. If the 
water rises in the spring, they will no doubt re¬ 
turn. 
It has been my good luck to find tw^o coveys 
of quail within the city limits this winter and 
to have done something to help them out. One 
covey numbers about thirty and the other is a 
smaller one. They seem to make out all light, 
although the conditions have been most unfavor¬ 
able. They stay around the fields where the 
abandoned corn shocks are. R. P. Lincoln. 
The English Setter Club. 
Germantown, Pa., Feb. 16.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: I beg to advise that this club has 
completed the preliminary arrangements for the 
holding of the A. K. C. Specialty Show on Fri¬ 
day, April 7. Besides the regular classes we will 
have classes for members of this club only. The 
entry fee will be $2 with a percentage division 
for prizes. 
There are a number of attractive special prizes 
already offered, and we solicit the support of the 
bench and field enthusiasts and the sporting press 
generally in this event, and our field day, which 
will be held on Saturday, April 8, at the same 
place. Special prize offers will be greatly appre¬ 
ciated. 
The field day for our members will be held 
at the above stated time and the dogs will be 
worked on liberated Hungarian partridges as 
heretofore. The prizes will be cups, medals, 
certificates and ribbons. No fee is charged for 
entry in these events. 
The premium lists will be mailed the early 
part of March and we will be very glad to hear 
from anyone who may be interested. 
FI. T. Bryan, Sec’y. 
Winter Protection. 
Phoenixville, Pa., Feb. 6. — Editor Forest and 
Stream: Woodcock, pheasants, ruffed grouse 
and partridges (quail) seem to be in great plenty 
in this county (Chester), notwithstanding the 
severe conditions of the weather. If it were 
not for the natural covers and haunts on the 
hills as a protection, it is believed many of the 
game birds would perish or be wiped out. 
The ground has been covered with snow in 
consequence of which food is scarce. Farmers 
are on the lookout, however, and if possible 
give them cover, food and protection when and 
where seen. The farmer seems to have a 
greater love and admiration for the partridge 
(quail), for he is considered the farmers friend. 
A thoughtful farmer in the neighborhood see¬ 
ing a covey of partridges in the snow in the 
orchard, and moved with pity and compassion 
toward them, set a fish hoop net, covered it with 
straw and sprinkled grain in and around it, to 
where the birds returned and took refuge. The 
following morning the good man of the faim 
raised the net, put the plump and gamy birds 
in a roomy box with an opening in front of 
lattice work, and set it on the sunny side of 
the porch, and the noblest of the game birds 
are fed and watered daily. They show no sign 
of discontentment. They are as tame and spruce 
as little chicks. 
In the spring, or as soon as the cold weather 
breaks up, the birds are to be given their free¬ 
dom. In most instances, with such treatment, 
they stay on the farm, and notices of trespassing 
and hunting forbidden are liberally tacked up 
about the farm. Teddy. 
Recent Deaths. 
Major Farnham Lyon, of Saginaw, Mich., 
died on Feb. 14 at the ripe age of eighty-two. 
He was one of the old ■'Saginaw Crowd” and 
had many and delightful shooting and fishing 
trips on the car Mershon. 
Major Lyon loved the goose shooting of the 
old days when we used to go to Dawson, N. D, 
and also greatly enjoyed shooting sharp-tailed 
grouse in the bottom lands of the Little Mis¬ 
souri, where we used to make a camping trip 
now and then. 
He was one of the best trout fishermen; one 
of the old school type. 
Major Lyon was a member of the Loyal Le¬ 
gion and a personal friend of the late General 
Custer, with whom he served as quartermastei 
of the old Seventh Cavalry. Part of his service 
with Custer was in Texas and in old Western 
campaigns. 
One by one the members of the old “Saginaw 
Crowd” are dropping away. None will be missed 
more than the Major, as we always called him. 
He was of a most lovable disposition and had 
not an enemy in the world. W. B. M. 
Albert H. Funke, who died at his home in 
Flushing, N. Y., last Friday, was a well-known 
figure in the sportsmen’s goods trade of New 
York city. For a long time he was associated 
with Herman Boker & Co., importers and job¬ 
bers of firearms, in Duane street. In recent 
years he handled German magazine rifles and 
"automobile lights, first in Chambers street, then 
in Warren street. His age was forty-three years. 
