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NEW YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 15, 1911. 
VOL. LXXVI.— No. 15. 
No. 127 Franklin St., New York. 
A WEEKLY JOURNAL. 
Copyright, 1911, by Forest and Stream Publishing Co. 
George Bird Grinnell, President, 
Charles B. Reynolds, Secretary, 
Louis Dean Speir, Treasurer, 
127 Franklin Street, New York. 
THE OBJECT OF THIS JOURNAL 
will be to studiously promote a healthful in¬ 
terest in outdoor recreation, and to cultivate 
a refined taste for natural objects. 
—Forest and Stream, Aug. 14, 1873. 
NEW YORK SPRING SHOOTING. 
It is reported that the efforts to repeal the 
New York law prohibiting spring wildfowl shoot¬ 
ing are to be renewed at Albany, and a letter 
from a Rochester correspondent printed in this 
issue sounds a warning note that should be 
heeded. 
The Long bill, which extends the wildfowl 
season to March 31, passed the Senate by a 
bare majority, was defeated in the House by a 
vote of 66 to 73, and was then laid on the table. 
At any time, however, it may be taken from the 
table, provided a sufficient number of members 
wish to have this done. The situation calls for 
especial watchfulness on the part of game pro¬ 
tectors, all of whom should be prepared for any 
effort to do this. 
The method of bringing a tabled bill to a vote 
on final passage is more or less laborious. A 
vote of seventy-six members will take from the 
table the motion favoring the bill. After that 
has been done, seventy-six votes will be required 
to reconsider the adverse vote on the bill’s pas¬ 
sage, and finally after the bill has been taken 
from the table and the adverse vote reconsidered, 
the bill will come up on its passage and seventy- 
six votes will be required to pass it. Unless the 
game protection sentiment in the New York As¬ 
sembly is less strong than we believe, and un¬ 
less sportsmen through over-confide’nce cease to 
watch this bill, there should be little danger of 
its passage. Yet, in dealing with game protec¬ 
tive bills in State Legislatures, eternal vigilance 
is the prices of success. 
The good work of the Kentucky Fish and 
Game Protective Association deserves the sup¬ 
port of every sportsman in that State. Judge 
James P. Gregory recently said of the organiza¬ 
tion and its plans: “If we were to stock the 
streams and forests of Kentucky with fish and 
game, and protect them as they should be pro¬ 
tected, our State would be a veritable hunters’ 
paradise.” Kentucky is, indeed, a wonderland 
of which the seeker after recreation never tires, 
but its fine streams and its covers have been 
sadly abused, and there is abundant need for 
work in renewing its stock of fish and game. 
AN APRIL MORNING. 
When the good people of a large part of the 
country awoke on Sunday last, a great surprise 
awaited them. The world was covered by a 
white blanket such as is seldom seen save in 
winter. The greening sward was hidden and 
the trees bent low under a moist burden. Every 
object was outlined in purest white, and the 
vista of fields and woods was far more beauti¬ 
ful than pen can describe. 
When the sun rose, turning the treetops to 
spires of dazzling brightness, the background of 
hills in the distance assumed deep tints of purple 
and azure. Fields were beautiful, woods a fairy¬ 
land. Robins sat about on fences and low trees, 
strangely quiet and subdued, as if trying to solve 
the problem of their advent into a wintry instead 
of a vernal season. Bluebirds flitted about, 
equally mystified, while jay and crow scolded 
from the higher treetops. 
The full brooks ran noisily through meadow 
and woodland, their waters strangely black, their 
margins strangely white. Every little feeder was 
picked out in hard black, its overhanging willows 
and huckleberry bushes lined out in white. Every 
pussy willow and gray birch catkin supported 
an oval globe, and the bursting buds of the 
witch hazel peeped out on a wintry aspect. Here 
and there the opening leaves of the skunk cab¬ 
bage showed patches of lavender and green in 
the universal white, and the deep shadows of 
overburdened pines and hemlocks stretched far 
toward the west. 
As the sun rose higher the buds of the red 
maples appeared first, as if claiming their right 
to herald the real coming of spring. By and 
by the red-browns and the greens triumphed 
over the white covering, and where this had 
been completely dissipated, the evidences of the 
near approach of the season of tender greens 
and of blossoms were complete. 
MISSOURI'S AWAKENING. 
The sportsmen of Missouri are to be con¬ 
gratulated on the fact that Jesse Tolerton is not 
to be removed from the office of State Game 
Warden, merely to satisfy the politicians. Mr. 
Tolerton has prosecuted a vigorous campaign 
against law breakers in regions where for many 
years it has been the rule to destroy game and 
fish by wholesale. 
It is not an easy matter for wardens to per¬ 
form their duties in many of the backwoods 
counties, where public sentiment is bitterly op¬ 
posed to any laws which serve to restrain the 
people from doing those things which they mis¬ 
takenly believe it to be their hereditary right to 
do. And if the leader of these wardens is not 
a man of action, backed by a governor like 
Herbert S. Hadley, all the advance that has been 
made will soon be lost. 
That large portion of Missouri which lies 
south of the Missouri River is peculiarly adapted 
to the needs of game birds and mammals and 
fish. A little protection is productive of excel¬ 
lent results, but until recently the people’s assist¬ 
ance has never been sought in a popular way. 
Too often the residents have regarded visiting 
sportsmen with suspicion, considering them as 
outlanders, to be feared and avoided, but in re¬ 
cent years a better visiting element has sought 
the backwoods for recreation, and through them 
and through the work of Mr. Tolerton's wardens 
a great deal of missionary work has been per¬ 
formed, the result of which is increasingly satis¬ 
factory. The people’s eyes are being opened to 
the beauty of their own surroundings and the 
possibility of turning it to account in attract¬ 
ing visitors. It follows that they are coming 
to realize now as never before, that the game 
and fish they destroyed so ruthlessly, and the 
forests they sold for a song, will, if replaced, 
prove a valuable asset. 
To lose the able assistance of Mr. Tolerton 
now would be for Missouri a grave misfortune. 
FOGAS—PIKE PERCH. 
A recent article in one of the Sunday dailies 
described at some length a certain fish, the fogas, 
which is to be brought from Hungary to this 
country to be served April 26 at the dinner of 
the Hungarian Republican Club of New York, 
when President Taft is to be its guest. The 
article states that the fogas is caught in only 
one lake in Hungary, and is to be the especial 
delicacy for the dinner. 
The sentiment here implied is charming. We 
have no doubt the fogas will be good, and that 
Mr. Taft and his fellow diners will enjoy it; 
but for the sake of accuracy, it is perhaps just 
as well to say that the fogas is the ordinary pike 
perch, an excellent fish, but one that might 
readily be obtained from nearer waters. 
The fogas of Hungary freshly taken from the 
Danube is cooked in Budapest in such a way 
as to furnish an excellent dish. It is reported 
that in Louisville, Ky., also they have a special 
method of cooking it so that after one has eaten 
it there, the mention of jack salmon—the local 
name—always makes his mouth water. 
The findings of the United States Board for 
the Study of Tropical Diseases, in the matter 
of heat resisting garments for the tropics, are 
not without interest for the sportsman. It was 
the board’s intention to ascertain the effect of 
the sun’s rays on various fabrics, with a view 
to recommending that color which would absorb 
the least heat. White drill, it was found, was 
the coolest material, gray was second, and dusty 
brown khaki seems to be third, with the olive- 
gray of the regu’ar army uniform in fourth 
place. 
