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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[June 24, 1911. 
Published Weekly by the 
Forest and Stream Publishing Company, 
127 Franklin Street, New York. 
George Bird Grinnell, President, 
Charles B. Reynolds, Secretary, 
Louis Dean Speir, Treasurer. 
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communications will not be regarded. The editors are 
not responsible for the views of correspondents. 
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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. 
THEIR CONTRIBUTION DECLINED. 
The Audubon Society, as reported elsewhere, 
last week declined to accept from a group of 
manufacturers a continuing contribution of $25,- 
000 a year for five years, to be devoted to game 
protection. To some Audubon members, and to 
many persons who are not members, this action 
will be very gratifying, but to others who are 
genuinely interested in the progress of the Audu¬ 
bon work and the protection of wild life, it is 
more or less puzzling, if not alarming. 
From the report of the meeting it is inferred 
that the contribution was declined because the 
directors believe that the work of the Audubon 
Society should be confined strictly' to the pro¬ 
tection of song and insectivorous birds, and that 
to go outside of that field will be to endanger 
the proper carrying out of this main work. 
Such a narrowing of the work of the Audubon 
Society is quite unexpected. It does not seem at 
all to agree with the Society’s course in advo¬ 
cating better game laws and plumage bills be¬ 
fore legislative bodies, nor with the view gen¬ 
erally held that the National Association of 
Audubon Societies—as its title declares—is de¬ 
voted to the protection of wild birds and ani¬ 
mals. This is the view held by William Dutcher, 
whose work is everywhere so admired and re¬ 
spected, and by many others whose efforts in 
behalf of bird protection cover at least a quarter 
of a century. 
It is not credible that any large number of the 
members of the Audubon Society—or even the 
directors who voted to decline the donation from 
the manufacturers to be used for game protec¬ 
tion—wish to limit the field of the Audubon 
Society's work as they are reported to have 
announced. Yet they seem to have declared a 
policy which later may prove most embarrassing. 
THE COMMON GROUND. 
From the time—now nearly forty years ago— 
when Forest and Stream first began to be pub¬ 
lished, the relations existing between the paper 
and its readers and between the readers them¬ 
selves have been peculiarly intimate. It is for 
this reason that contributors constantly speak of 
the Forest and Stream family, and have the 
feeling that in Forest and Stream they have 
rights and interests far more close than those 
which usually subsist between a newspaper and 
those who subscribe to it. In other words, be¬ 
tween the readers and the paper in which they 
had a common interest, there has always been 
a close personal touch. 
Who among the older readers of the paper 
has not felt a warm personal affection for Row¬ 
land E. Robinson, Nessmuk, Fred Mather, Manly 
Hardy, and to speak of a living man, C. H. 
Ames. 
In Forest and Stream each man has always 
had the opportunity to tell of the joys and sor¬ 
rows that have befallen him, of the odd experi¬ 
ences that he had met with in shooting and fish¬ 
ing, of the curious natural history observations 
that he has made; and to the great Forest and 
Stream family he has appealed for information 
on a great variety of matters which were obscure 
to him. 
In the years that have passed, vast changes 
have taken place in American life and in Ameri¬ 
can methods. To-day we are perhaps less frank 
and less simple than we were forty years ago; 
but in the sports of the field, in shooting and 
fishing and natural history and yachting, the 
possession of a kindred feeling makes men won¬ 
drous kind to one another, and tends to break 
down the various artificial barriers which wealth 
or education or social position often seem to 
build up between man and man. 
On the common ground of Forest and Stream 
we can all meet on the level of our common in¬ 
terest, and letting the cares of daily life roll off 
into temporary oblivion, can become again the 
simple men of the woods. 
It was partly business policy which prompted 
the Fish and Game Board to allow one-day 
visitors to fish free in Newfoundland, and is 
proving a real convenience to one class of visi¬ 
tors while not injuring the fishing at all. That no 
one goes to Newfoundland for one day’s fish¬ 
ing is conceded. At the same time many tourists, 
not anglers, who stop there for one or two days, 
take advantage of the board’s courtesy without 
being compelled first to secure a season’s license 
in order to enjoy a day’s trout fishing. On the 
island these tourists are known as trippers. 
They come from all over America. Many pass 
their vacations in swinging around a great circle, 
through the Canadian Provinces and the New 
England States, or vice versa, including a brief 
sea voyage to Newfoundland. To many tourists 
a journey to the island without a brief try for 
trout would be like Egypt without the pyramids. 
It is not the casual angler that depletes game 
fish waters, and these visitors of a day pay 
enough as it is for their brief sojourn in the 
rock-bound island. 
* 
So far the widely heralded seventeen-year 
locusts have made their appearance in large 
numbers in certain portions of the East. In a 
locality where they are working, the trunks and 
limbs of the trees are thickly dotted'with them,, 
and the noise they make is exceedingly trying, 
to human ears. It may be described as at times 
a continuous roar which drowns other noises,, 
while merging into the low roar is a high-pitched 
discordant note irritating to the nerves. Bird 
songs are drowned by it, and even the drumming 
of the ruffed grouse can hardly be heard at a 
distance. The hole left by the locust when it 
emerges from the ground is a trifle larger than 
a lead pencil. In places several of these holes 
may be covered by one’s hand, while the insects 
are seen in every tree, inert or moving slowly 
about. On the wing they are clumsy and feeble. 
At present they infest certain localities, while a 
few miles away they are scarce or absent. 
A kill has been presented by the Government 
of Uruguay having for its object the increasing 
of the forestry acreage in that South American 
Republic. Bonuses will be given, taxation re¬ 
duced and seeds gratuitously supplied. To those 
proprietors who refuse to extend their tree¬ 
growing areas an increase of taxation will be 
made. Millions of trees from all parts of the 
world have been planted on lands otherwise of 
little value which are now sources of timber 
supply, the area being increased each succeed¬ 
ing year, the Government paying large sums to 
those having great areas of artificially planted 
trees. 
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Governor Dix has appointed James W. Flem¬ 
ing, of Troy, to be Forest, Fish and Game Com¬ 
missioner of New York, to succeed Thomas Mott 
Osborne, who recently resigned. Sportsmen gen¬ 
erally are disappointed at the Governor’s action, 
for they had hoped that he would select as the' 
head of the commission John B. Burnham, now 
deputy commissioner. The conservation com¬ 
mission bill favored by Governor Dix is being 
considered by the Legislature, and it is said that 
if it becomes law, Mr. Fleming will be made 
one of the three commissioners provided for in 
the bill. 
* 
In November and December next an inter¬ 
national exhibition will be held in Paris. It will 
be devoted to fishing and fish culture, oyster 
culture and manufactures relating to these sub¬ 
jects, navigation, hydraulics, water sports, and 
to the conservation and use of water for every 
purpose. It will be under the patronage of the 
French Government, and will be held in the 
Grand Palais. Among those on the committee 
of arrangements is the Prince of Monaco, who 
has devoted so much time and money to the 
study of oceanography. 
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Japan is to listen to and admire the sonorous 
voice of the American bullfrog; that is, if the 
plans of one of her citizens attain maturity. One 
of the graduates of the Connecticut Agricultural 
College is reported to be on his way home with 
a crate of bullfrogs, which he hopes will thrive 
in the marshes of Japan. 
