April 29, 1911.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
657 
Opposed to the Sale of Game. 
Utica, N. Y., April 14. — Editor Forest and 
Stream: The annual meeting held April 12 was 
largely attended, and great interest was mani¬ 
fested in the proceedings. The officers chosen 
for the ensuing year are as follows: President, 
Tom W. Johnson; Vice-President, W. E. Wol¬ 
cott; Secretary, W. S. French; Treasurer, 
George L. Bradford: Executive Committee, 
Messrs. Johnson, French and Wolcott; Di¬ 
rectors, Dr. J. G. Kilbourn, George L. Brad¬ 
ford, Tom W. Johnson, Harry Lancaster, N. L. 
Hayes, W. E. Wolcott, Major H. J. Cookin,- 
ham, W. S. French, C. W. Keeler. 
A resolution was unanimously adopted re¬ 
questing the secretary of the association to 
communicate with the Senator and Assembly- 
men from Oneida county and urge them to 
oppose the passage of the bill which proposes 
to amend the State constitution so as to permit 
the flooding of State lands in the Adirondack 
forest preserve for the establishment and main¬ 
tenance of storage reservoirs. 
Major H. J. Cookinham, chairman of the 
legislative committee of the New York State 
Fish, Game and Forest League, spoke of the 
Long Island spring duck shooting bill which 
failed of passage by two votes. He also re¬ 
ferred tO' the Bayne bill to prohibit the sale of 
game, and asked the association to do all in its 
power to secure its passage. Reference was 
made to the bird plumage bill, which, it is now 
thought, will be defeated. Dr. F. H. Peck, Dr. 
F. S. DeLong and Secretary French also spoke 
concerning the Bayne bill. Thereupon the as¬ 
sociation endorsed the Bayne bill and directed 
the secretary to write to the Senator and As¬ 
semblymen of Oneida county, requesting them 
to advocate its passage. 
Dr. Peck spoke in favor of scientific forestry 
in New York State. Dr. C. R. Weed ex¬ 
pressed the belief that placing a bounty on 
foxes, skunks, red squirrels and owls would do 
more to protect the grouse than any other 
measure that could be adopted. 
John Teesdale told about a blue heron found 
with ten trout in its stomach, two of them 
nine inches long and the others ranging down 
to one and one-half inches, and yet this bird is 
protected by law. He also told about a number 
of partridges killed near a potato patch in the 
vicinity of Lyons Falls, which, when dressed, 
were found to have nothing but potato bugs in 
their crops. 
The matter of game refuges for Oneida 
county, where nothing can be shot for a term 
of years, met with favor. It is probable that in 
the near future a number of them will be es¬ 
tablished. 
At a meeting of the Remington Gun and Rifle 
Club, of Ilion, held April 11, the following 
officers were elected: President, M. A. Mulvey; 
Vice-President, Charles Gammage; Secretary 
and Treasurer, W. H. Grimshaw; Captain, R. 
H. Tomlinson; Collector, J. J. Jackson; Di¬ 
rectors, Charles Jenne, Forest Banker, W. F. 
Lawrence, J. J. Van Doren. The club passed 
resolutions condemning the wholesale slaughter 
of game by market hunters and expressing the 
belief that the prohibition of the sale of game 
is the only practical means whereby the game 
birds of the country may escape total extermi¬ 
nation within a few years, also favoring the 
passage of the Bayne-Blauvelt bill prohibiting 
the sale of game in New York State at all sea¬ 
sons and requesting that Senator Heacock and 
Assemblyman Bridenbecker do all in their 
power to assist in the passage of the measure. 
The Mohawk Fish and Game Protective As¬ 
sociation held its spring meeting April 12, the 
attendance being large. A resolution was 
passed favoring the Bayne-Blauvelt bill pro¬ 
hibiting the sale of game birds in New York 
State at all seasons. Copies of the resolution 
will be sent to Senator Heacock and Assembly- 
man Bridenbecker with the request that they 
do all in their power to further the passage of 
this measure. W. E. Wolcott. 
The New Kansas Laws. 
Topeka, Kans., April 20 .—Editor Forest and 
Stream: Llerewith is a summary of the new 
Kansas game and fish laws, which embody the 
requests and work of the better and more pro¬ 
gressive sportsmen of the State in all but two 
items: 
Tree squirrels (fox), Sept. 1 to Jan. 1; no open 
season on gray and black squirrels. Muskrats, 
skunk, mink, raccoon, opossum and civet cat, 
Nov. 15 to March 15. Beaver and otter. Ante¬ 
lope and deer, unlawful to kill or capture for ten 
years. Wi.d geese, brant and ducks, Sept. 1 to 
April 15. Plover, Aug. 1 to April 30. Snipe, 
Sept. 1 to April 30. Grouse or prairie chicken, 
Oct. 1 to Nov. 1. Quail, Nov. 15 to Dec. 1. 
It is illegal to shoot at or kill game birds 
sitting on ground or on the water; to kill game 
birds earlier than one hour before sunrise or 
later than one hour after sunset, and to shoot 
at birds from a motor boat, nor use live ducks 
as decoys. Bag limit for one day—Snipe, 12; 
prairie chicken, 12; quail, 12; plover, 12; wild 
ducks, 12; wild geese, 6; wild brant, 6. 
No protection is given the English sparrow, 
bluejay, crow, blackbird, great-horned owl, 
Cooper hawk and sharp-shinned hawk. 
The eagle is protected, and may not be killed 
or captured. For six years no Hungarian par¬ 
tridges or English, Mongolian or Chinese pheas¬ 
ants may be killed. No part of the plumage, 
skin or body of any bird protected by this act 
shall be sold or kept in possession for sale, irre¬ 
spective whether said bird was captured or killed 
within or without the State. 
The bill requires owners of artificial dams to 
construct fish ways, under the direction of the 
fish and game warden over such dams. 
The use of seines having three-inch meshes 
is permitted, except during the spawning season. 
No person is permitted to use more than one 
trot line and such trot line shall not have at¬ 
tached to it more than twenty-five hooks, nor 
shall it be set within 3,000 yards of a dam nor 
within 200 yards of the mouth of a creek or 
river. 
The season on migratory wildfowl should close 
Jan. 1, and the use of seines with meshes three 
inches in diameter, which is the panacea for our 
fish supply, urged by our game and fish warden, 
Prof. Dyche, who claims that the large and over¬ 
grown bass, giant crappie and catfish, by their 
size and activity, keep down the increase in the 
fish supply, and that they should be taken out 
of the streams for the protection of the smaller 
sizes; and that only by seines can the carp and 
buffalo be kept within bounds. 
W. F. R. 
Breeders’ Bills. 
Considerable hostility to the bill which for¬ 
bids the sale of game has been manifested by 
wealthy men—and some not so wealthy—who 
are more or less engaged in the breeding, under 
domestication, of wild game in New York State. 
Some of these breeders have declared that they 
would fight the Bayne bid to the death, unless 
it were so amended as to give the breeder the 
right to kill, and sell under certain conditions, 
game that he had reared in confinement. 
I he passage of the Bayne bill forbidding the 
sale of game, whether killed in the State or out 
of the State, has seemed so important to many 
game protectors that they were willing to make 
great sacrifices to get it through. On the other 
hand it is only just that breeders—actual breeders 
be it understood—should have the privilege 
under proper conditions of disposing of the 
game that they had bred. 
Within the past week or two a number of 
conferences have been held in New York city 
between the breeders and the supporters of the 
Bayne bill in the effort to find a common ground 
on which they could work. Two weeks ago a 
conference was held and a bill was drawn which 
was sent to Albany to be introduced as an 
amendment to the Bayne bill. It did not satisfy 
a number of game protectors, for it is reported 
to have given special privileges to the owners 
of preserves which many people think they ought 
not to have. On 1 uesday of last week another 
conference was had, and Senator Bayne was 
asked to withdraw the amendment. 
At this same time a bill relating to pheasants 
was considered and approved. It is reported to 
permit the killing of bred pheasants only during 
the open season for wild pheasants, and to pro¬ 
vide that such killing may take place only in the 
presence of a warden or justice of the peace, 
and it must be limited to birds which have never 
been released. Thus it is wholly a breeders’ bill, 
enabling the breeders to put pheasants on the 
market as food. The question of deer bred in 
captivity was brought up a little later, and a bill 
was agreed on to permit the killing of bred deer 
from the beginning of the open season to Feb. 
1. The killing of such deer will be controlled by 
the general law during the open season, but after 
the close of the open season bred deer may still 
be slaughtered up to the date mentioned, but 
only in the presence of a warden or a justice of 
the peace and not hunted or shot. 
There remains the question of the breeders of 
wildfowl, and it is proposed to treat this very 
much in the same way as the pheasants are to 
be treated. It is thought that this series of bills 
will cover the whole problem, and will receive 
the support of breeders and hotel men. 
At present there is only one breeders’ bill be¬ 
fore the Legislature, that introduced by Mr. 
Gurnett in the Assembly and Mr. Sullivan in 
the Senate. It is the one prepared by Mr. Camp¬ 
bell of the hotel keepers’ association. It is de¬ 
clared that this bill has no prospect of passing. 
Andrew D. Meloy, president of the Fish, Game 
and Forest League of the State of New 
York, has been very active in this matter, try¬ 
ing to bring together and arrange a proper com¬ 
promise between the most extreme partisans. 
A hearing on an amended Bayne bill contain¬ 
ing these breeders’ provisions was held in Albany 
on Tuesday last. 
