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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[April 8, 1911. 
Pheasants in New York City. 
New York City, March 27 .—Editor Forest and 
Stream: Section 96 of the game laws, as 
amended by Chapter 657 of the laws of 1910, 
provides that there shall be no open season for 
Mongolian, English or other pheasants, nor shall 
the same be killed or possessed, except in certain 
counties of the State of New York, prior to 
October, 1914. “And it is further provided that 
pheasants bred or purchased or liberated in Suf¬ 
folk, Dutchess or Fulton counties by the game 
clubs or private owners may be possessed in 
Greater New York for consumption, but not for 
sale.” 
In the neighboring States of New Jersey and 
Pennsylvania there are game clubs and private 
owners who have pheasantries, raise pheasants, 
liberate them, shoot them and can, under the 
laws of those States, take them out of the State. 
There are a number of sportsmen resident in 
Greater New York who belong to clubs such 
as those mentioned. Why should they not be 
allowed to possess in Greater New York “for 
consumption but not for sale” pheasants legally 
shot in New Jersey and in Pennsylvania as well 
as those shot in Suffolk, Dutchess and Fulton 
counties ? 
It seems to be an unreasonable injustice and 
I write in the hope that Forest and Stream may 
be able to persuade the fish and game commis¬ 
sion to have the law amended. 
Old Subscriber. 
Michigan Efforts. 
Saginaw, Mich., March 30 .-—Editor Forest and 
Stream: The Michigan Legislature now has be¬ 
fore it three of the most advanced and meritori¬ 
ous bills for the preservation of game and birds 
that it ever had a chance to consider. These 
bills were introduced by Senator Watkins in the 
Senate. One consolidating the Game Warden’s 
Department with that of the Fish Commission by 
creating a new board of five to be appointed by 
the Governor, honorary (without salary) non¬ 
partisan. This bill is yet in the Senate. The 
other two bills have passed the Senate and are 
now before the committee on game laws in the 
House, and the chairman of the committee is 
unfavorable to our bills and thinks they are 
against the farmer. Of course this element al¬ 
ways looks with suspicion on anything advo¬ 
cated by sportsmen, especially if said sportsmen 
live in the city. One bill' is for the licensing 
of resident hunters for shooting protected game. 
It is $1 per year. License for resident aliens 
$10 per year, for non-residents for hunting other 
than deer $10, carrying with it the privilege of 
taking home out of the State a legal day’s shoot¬ 
ing. The deer license is left the same as now 
—$1 for resident, $1.50 for non-resident. This 
should raise a fund of $150,000 a year to be 
used by the. to be created. Game and Fish Com¬ 
mission. The third measure is our general game 
bill to put a stop to spring shooting. This is 
meeting with a lot of opposition from a lot of 
pot hunters who want to destroy the game and 
not save it. We have had this same gang to 
combat years before, and they have always de¬ 
feated us, and they may beat us this time, for 
nine times out of ten selfishness seems to get 
the best of it. Our present limit on ruffed 
grouse is twelve a daj r , fifty in possession and 
no season limit. The new bill modifies this to 
six a day, not over fifteen in possession and not 
over fifty in a season, certainly a very liberal 
limit, and yet you will find many who are try¬ 
ing to have this limit increased. One feature of 
this bill is new, and that is that it will allow 
people to engage in the rearing of game in in¬ 
closures and the marketing of same under proper 
restrictions. It contains the Audubon bird pro¬ 
tective features, the no selling of plumage feat¬ 
ure, that may be combatted by the millinery in¬ 
terests. 
Some of us have been laboring for a life 
time for better outdoor conditions to make it 
possible for the children of the future to enjoy 
outdoor life, to hunt and fish and picnic and 
canoe, gather wild flowers and put up bird houses 
for birds. The boy that likes to hunt and fish 
and live out-of-doors is pretty apt to be a good 
citizen. You do not generally have to pass pro¬ 
hibition laws for his benefit. I would a great 
deal rather bank on his future than the boy 
that hangs around town, smoking cigarettes, is 
a good pool player, must have an automobile 
if the old man has to mortgage his house to 
get it, but you cannot make the farmers in the 
Legislature see this. They always know a heap 
about banking and insurance legislation; they 
know exactly how to run railroads, but they 
never legislate anything for agricultural improve¬ 
ments. W. B. Mershon, 
President Michigan Association. 
New York Legislature. 
The Assembly has progressed the bill of As¬ 
semblyman T. K. Smith, providing that if in 
accordance with the provisions of this chapter 
the open season commences or ends on Sunday, 
it shall be deemed to commence or end, as the 
case may be, on the Saturday immediately pre¬ 
ceding such Sunday. 
Bills introduced: 
By Senator T. D. Sullivan and Assemblyman 
Gurnett, in relation to breeders of game and 
game fish. It provides that farmers and other 
landowners and their lessees who undertake to 
increase game or game fish may be licensed by 
the forest, fish and game commissioner. The 
license fee is made $10 annually. All licensed 
breeders must keep a registry of all such game 
or game fish sold, stating the kind, amount and 
date, and the party to whom sold. The bill 
provides an open season for game and game 
fish breeders as follows: For game, from Sept. 
1 to April 1; for game fish, from April 1 to Dec. 
31. It also provides for licensed game dealers 
who shall be authorized to sell the game or 
game fish reared by licensed breeders. The 
license fees for such dealers are to be $50 an¬ 
nually in cities of the first and second classes 
and $25 elsewhere. 
By Assemblyman Colne, providing for the 
licensing of pheasant breeders. The license fee 
is made $25. Licensed breeders may kill pheas¬ 
ants bred in captivity at any time between Nov. 
1 and December 31, but only in the presence of 
a game protector or justice of the peace. 
By Assemblyman Shea, authorizing the hunt¬ 
ing of game birds, rabbits and foxes during the 
open season with dogs licensed by the forest, 
fish and game commissioner. The applicant for 
a license for such dogs to give bond. 
Wolves in the South. 
New Orleans, La., March 31. — Editor Forest 
and' Stream: News has been received here to 
the effect that wolves have been exceedingly bad 
near Rayville, La., and several calves and pigs 
have been killed by them. W. J. Coleman with 
two packs of trained dogs went out and hunted 
down a large wolf. The hunters in and near 
Rayville will keep up the hunt until they have 
destroyed all the wolves in that section. On 
account of the wolves the farmers have experi¬ 
enced much difficulty in raising hogs, calves and 
chickens. 
Since the regular hunting season has closed 
in this State it is expected the reports of various 
game wardens will be made public shortly show¬ 
ing the game killed during the past season. 
An effort will be made by the game commis¬ 
sion to have some kind of measure passed which 
will protect the alligator in various bayous and 
streams. President Miller says that the alligator 
destroys the muskrat and the alligator gar, and 
both of those animals are destructive and a 
nuisance. The alligator gars devour game and 
table fish by the hundreds, while the muskrats 
ruin the levees protecting the farms and towns. 
The city council of New Orleans declined some 
time ago to pass an ordinance protecting the 
alligator in Orleans parish. It is claimed that 
souvenir stores sell scores of baby alligators, and 
professional hunters slaughter' the big alligators 
in order to procure their skins for the manu¬ 
facture of handbags and purses. It is said the 
alligator is fast becoming extinct, and something 
will have to be done to protect them at once. 
Harry B. Farwell, of this city, a leading mem¬ 
ber of the Delta Duck Club at Myrtle Grove, 
La., died at the Touro Infirmary on March 23 
of typhoid fever after an illness of about ten 
days. Mr. Farwell was a leading business man, 
clubman, capitalist and one of the best known 
men among the fishermen and hunters in this, 
section of the South. He was a member of 
social and carnival clubs and a Mason of the 
highest standing. He was fifty-three years of 
age and was born in Maine, coming, to New 
Orleans when a mere lad. He was very fond 
of hunting, fishing and boating and was'looked 
upon as an authority on the sport. 
Commissioner Miller has received a large 
collection of lantern slides in colors which he 
will display and explain in a lecture before the 
Louisiana Press Association at its annual con¬ 
vention, to be held at Lake Charles April 25 to 
27. The slides show the haunts of various 
species of birds in Louisiana and also the scenes 
of a number of the most important fishing 
streams. Mr. Miller will give several lectures 
and tell the newspaper men of the importance 
of the conservation of the natural food supply 
of Louisiana. He hopes to enlist the press in 
the good cause and to assist in the education of 
the public on conservation subjects. 
F. G. G. 
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