[April 29, 1911. 
A Battle Royal 
is awaiting you. lug 
locked salmon, ouanan 
challenge your skill. 
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Resorts for Sportsmen. 
Winter Sport with Rod and Gun 
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1IC1C. .Ill iviiiuo . 1^1 ■ 
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Where, When and How to Catch 
Fish on the East Coast of Florida 
Bv Wm H. Gregg, of St. Louis, Mo., assisted by 
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tions. Cloth. Illustrated. 238 pages. Map. Price, 
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A visitor to Florida can hardly make the trip with¬ 
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She fish he takes, while the colored plates of the trop¬ 
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tackle, which the uathor uses. A good index completes 
the volume. 
forest and stream publishing company 
HITTING vs. MISSING 
By S. T. Hammond (‘‘Shadow”). 
Cloth. Price, $1.00. 
Mr. Hammond enjoys among his field companions the 
repute of being an unusually good shot, and ■onewho is 
particularly successful in that most difficult branch of 
upland shooting, the pursuit of the ruffed grouse, or 
partridge. This prompted the suggestion that he should 
write down for others an exposition of the methods by 
which his skill was acquired. The.result is this ord¬ 
inal manual of “Hitting vs. Missing. \\ e term it 
original, because, as the chapters will show, the a.utVior 
was self-taught; the expedients and devices adopted and 
the forms of practice followed were his own. I his then 
may be termed the Hammond system of shooting, and 
as h was successful in his own experience, being here 
set forth simply and intelligently, it will prove not less 
effective with others. 
The Indians of To-day 
Demi-quarto, 185 pages, 
CCilVC VV Hit uiiiviv, 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING COMPANY 
By George Bird Grinnell. 
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Tt describes the old-time Indian and the Indian of 
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photographs. 
Contents: The North American Indians, Indian 
Character. Beliefs and Stories n <? D °S S H 
Dance. The Buffalo Wife. A Blackfoot Sun and 
Moon Myth. Former Distribution of the Indians. 
The Reservation. Life on the Reservation. The 
Agent’s Rule. Education. Some Difficulties. The 
Red Man and the White. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING COMPANY 
There are 4,000 square miles in the Adiron¬ 
dack woods; 10,000 square miles in the moun¬ 
tains. Sympathizer suggests, therefore, that the 
State put from 266 to 400 protectors—even 1,00c 
—in the Adirondacks. This would insure a num- 
her of places for people able to pass civil set 
vice examinations. Sympathizer suggests tha 
the State now has a protector on every twenty 
five or fifty square miles. Probably thirty pro 
tectors all told are on duty in the Adirondacks 
or sometimes go there—twenty, say, regularly 
That is, each protector looks after about _>o< 
square miles, with occasional assistance from th 
ten sent in on special occasions. 
Fair criticism never hurts a square official. H 
will profit by his mistakes and work harder i 
consequence of good advice. But attacks on th 
Forest, Fish and Game Commission by men wh 
know neither the results of the department 
work, the conditions met by the officials, nor th 
quantity and quality of the work done, mad 
without a general view of the situation and ft 01 
some isolated instance or even instances, do n 
good and perhaps do harm. 
Asking a policeman to cover 200 square mill 
of territory is too much, but imagine putting 4< 
game protectors into the Adirondacks, one 
every ten miles! This would be indefensibl 
Just how many should be put there is a questio 
As to cutting the rate of pay to $500 or $6 
a year and $400 expenses, the wages were i 
creased because the right kind of men cou 
not be had for $600 a year. If the wages 
protectors were cut now, I am quite certa 
from what I know of the kind of men who a 
in these offices more than half and the best 
them would get out. Everyone knows that gat 
protectors should be extra good woodsmen, a 
most of the Adirondack force are far better 
their line of work than most other woodsm 
are in theirs. It would please many violate 
to have the good men weeded out as the pc 
men were. 
There is no epidemic of violations. Flere a 
there are violations by people who pretend 
know better than others. Yet knowing of 
specific instance, or several instances, it wot 
be easy for an unaccustomed, imaginative 
forgetful man to think conditions were wot 
Cut. off the sale of game and fish and dr 
the lines a bit clearer and more emphatic 1 
add a score of protectors to the Adtrondac 
and observance of the law will be taken to 
per cent, of the camps and hearts where n 
the law is disobeyed. 
In the meanwhile sportsmen and others sho 
do more to help the game protectors in the e 
cation of the public. 
“A Sympathizer’s” statement that timber 
being stolen is another misleading genera 
Certain Adirondack business men are wil 
to receive stolen goods. Where there is a n 
ket for fiddle-butts or saw timber, there is lil 
to be timber stealing. There may he pi; 
where timber thieves work wholesale, but I d< 
it. There are occasional stove wood trespas 
‘‘getting over the line” and perhaps a raid 
State lands, as at Tupper Lake, discovere 
few days ago and now being pressed for pe 
lies, but not one stick is stolen now whei 
thousand were stolen a few years ago, an 
‘‘A Sympathizer” does not know that, he 
not know the Adirondack forest work any r 
than he knows his map scale or territory cov 
by game protectors. Woodchuc 
