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FOREST AND STREAM. 
bass and other fishes, as well as troughs contain¬ 
ing game fish eggs and twin tanks containing 
respectively brown trout fingerlings and a num¬ 
ber of albinos of this species. 
In the fish exhibit there are tanks of brook 
trout loaned by the Paradise Brook Trout Com¬ 
pany of Parkside, in the Pocono Mountains of 
Pennsylvania. They are beautiful specimens, and 
remind one of similar speckled trout that rise 
to the lead-wing coachman and the hare’s-ear 
flies in the Brodhead Creek that flows by the 
hatcheries where over a million brook trout are 
•reared and distributed annually. 
The Canadian Pacific Railway has a very 
large exhibit that occupies the rear end of the 
hall. Tepees, booths, trophies, relics, pictures, 
mounted specimens, etc., are found here in quan¬ 
tities. Mounted specimens of enormous brook 
trout are important features, and the biographs 
always lure the crowds. These show the familiar 
scenes along a railway and were made from a 
fast train. Another one pictures two anglers 
casting the fly in a Canadian river, and the leap¬ 
ing salmon that fights so hard to escape the net 
sends a thrill through one’s rod arm and his 
whole body, so realistic is the scene. 
In artistic display Schoverling, Daly & Gales 
exhibit a fine line of Sauer and Daly guns, Sauer- 
, Mauser rifles, Luger pistols and carbines, gun 
furnishings, Marble axes, gun cases, Swedish 
dog skin coats and vests, etc. They also display 
some exquisitely fine rods, lines, reels, flies; in 
short, all that is necessary for the angler, the 
! shooter, etc. Mr. Gus Greiff is in charge of the 
guns. Mr. James Bryan is in charge of the fish¬ 
ing exhibit, while Mr. E. G. Lane acts as assist- 
i ant. 
Von Lengerke & Detmold make a fine display 
of Westley Richards and Francotte guns, Mauser 
rifles, cartridge cases, rods and reels in size from 
trout to tarpon, and the paraphernalia for golf, 
hockey, tennis, curling, etc. An expert exhibi¬ 
tion of Diabalo is also an interesting feature. 
There is a strong staff in attendance. Mr. H. 
J. Hughes is in charge of golf and athletics. Mr. 
Everett Auryansen is in charge of the photo- 
, graphing features, while Messrs. John Wright, 
. Herman von Lengerke, Henry Krugg and Ed 
j Morehouse have charge of guns, fishing tackle, etc. 
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Government Game Regulation. 
The plan of preserving big game from exter- 
1 mination by providing game refuges where shoot¬ 
ing is either prohibited or carefully regulated is 
i at present attracting attention all over the world. 
• In order to profit by the experience of other 
• countries in a matter that must soon be of press- 
i ing interest in the United States, investigation 
1 has been made of the systems employed in Can¬ 
ada, particularly Ontario and Quebec, the Trans- 
. vaal. Natal, British East Africa, Sudan and Cape 
Colony. This work has been carried on by cor¬ 
respondence and will be continued and extended 
during the coming year by the Department of 
t Agriculture. 
The preservation of the game of Alaska con- 
. tinues to present difficult problems. With the 
:j present unsatisfactory game law, and no appro- 
t priation available for enforcing its provisions, 
| fhe efforts of the Department of Agriculture 
li have been confined to preventing export of heads 
t and skins by trophy hunters and dealers in hides, 
5 a fruitful source of destruction. 
The Seasomin the Athabasca District. 
Edmonton, Ont., Dec. 17. — Editor Forest and 
Stream: The big game season opened on Nov. 
1 and closed on Dec. 1. In previous seasons it 
has closed Dec. 15. As regards the number of 
deer, etc., the shooting season was disappoint¬ 
ing, but as far as game protection goes encourag¬ 
ing. 
Several moose were killed between here and 
Athabasca Landing, and a few jumping deer. 
These were killed mostly by chance because 
there was no snow. Tracking was out of the 
question. From the look of things the small 
number of deer killed, and the disappearance of 
coyotes, the big-game shooting in future ought 
to improve. Elks are on the prohibited list until 
Nov. 1, 1910. 
Ducks and Wildfowl, 
The spring of 1907 was very late and back¬ 
ward, delaying the hatching, numerous young 
birds being unfit to shoot and unable to fly on 
opening day, Aug. 23. The large bags made 
were during the first few weeks of the open sea¬ 
son when the majority of birds were unable to 
fly and really were not ripe or fit for food. 
This fall, late in the season, birds were extremely 
wild and desperately hard to kill. Even full 
choke guns with heavy shot and smokeless pow¬ 
der, when fired at the breast of the coming 
birds, seemed inefficient. The shot just seemed 
to rattle against the feathers. You will hardly 
credit the statement that a halfbreed at Lac Ste. 
Anne, about a week ago, killed forty-two ducks, 
chiefly black ducks and mallards, which he found 
in a small open place in the ice, unable to fly 
on account of want of practice and fat. An¬ 
other hunter killed five birds a few days ago, 
and on Dec. 8 the writer was at Lac Ste. Anne 
when hundreds of ducks were reported on open 
water some one or two miles out, unable to fly 
on account of being so fat. Every year it is 
customary to hear of a big killing of ducks on 
the ice, by skaters armed with clubs. 
Coyote. 
At last this gentleman is up against it. In 
spite of his large brain powers he is going to 
get it in the neck; first, because the rabbit has 
disappeared off the face of the earth, and sec¬ 
ond, because the Alberta Government gives a 
bounty of one dollar for each scalp. Farmers and 
others have provided themselves with rifles, and 
like the Ishmaelite of old, every man’s hand is 
against the coyote. When hunger gnaws his 
vitals, anything and everything is good food for 
the coyote, from ordinary calf to dead horse, 
cow, berries, beets, carrots or other vegetables; 
everything goes. 
Buffalo. 
The buffalo in the Elk Island Park are re¬ 
ported to be doing well. They have plenty of 
water, feed and shelter, the Canadian Govern¬ 
ment having had 1.500 tons of hay put up for 
them. A dispatch from Winnipeg says: 
“A. Ayotte, Dominion immigration agent at 
Missoula, Mont., arrived in the city Dec. 14. 
Mr. Ayotte is the gentleman who so success¬ 
fully accomplished the purchase of the Pablo 
buffalo herd for Canada, something which did 
more to advertise this country in the Western 
States than any other effort the Government has 
yet put forth. Mr. Ayotte stated that just prior 
to leaving Missoula on the present trip he se¬ 
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cured a new contract from Pablo to deliver the 
balance of the herd at Edmonton next spring. 
It is estimated that there are still 350 head on 
the Flathead reserve and these, together with the 
242 head already delivered, will give Canada a 
magnificent herd. No one not familiar with the 
conditions as they exist nor with the people 
with whom Mr. Ayotte had to deal, can appre¬ 
ciate how much tact and business maneuvering 
he had to bring to bear on the wily halfbreed 
to get these contracts in the face of opposition.'' 
Me-co-puck-e-wan. 
Shooting in California. 
Pasadena, Cal., Dec. 18.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: It is a long hark from the woodcock 
covers of old Vermont to the valley quail haunts 
of Southwestern California. As I have become 
a resident of this land of sunshine, fruit and 
flowers I had no difficulty in procuring a license 
to hunt and shoot here. This license is one 
dollar for residents and ten dollars for nonresi¬ 
dents, and the fund derived from this source 
amounts to about $100,000 a year which is used to 
protect and propagate game. Here as in other 
States both feathered and other game is dimin¬ 
ishing in numbers. The cause of this is over¬ 
shooting. There are thousands of cheap breech¬ 
loading guns being dumped on the market every 
season, and at prices that brings them into the 
reach of every boy in the country who, when 
he possesses a gun, is going to kill something 
at every opportunity, in season and out of sea¬ 
son. The only way to remedy this evil is to 
have a gun tax and use this fund to protect our 
game. If this were done in Vermont it would 
give a fund that would help our energetic fish 
and game commissioner, Mr. Thomas, very 
materially in performing the duties of his office. 
This is the only way it seems that such a fund 
can be raised. When our Vermont legislators 
get down to the capital they spend, at the ex¬ 
pense of the State, months in doing weeks of 
work, and then, to make their constituents think 
they are very economical, they cut down on 
appropriations, and the fish and game appropria¬ 
tion is the one that suffers first. 
There are several of the “Old Guard” resid¬ 
ing in this vicinity, one Mr. H. L. Storey, who 
has a beautiful home here, and whom I knew 
many years ago in Vermont, but the place was 
too small for him ■so he went West and prospered. 
On some of the club grounds in this vicinity 
bags of ten to twenty ducks are made in an 
evenipg and morning’s shooting, small as com¬ 
pared to a few years ago, but still sufficient for 
good sport. We have confined our shooting to 
the valley quail. While we have not run up to 
the limit, twenty-five, we have been satisfied, as 
we have had grand outings and enough birds to 
give us quail on toast and a quail pie occasion¬ 
ally. What more de we require? 
The possibility of running up against a coyote 
or a bobcat adds to the pleasure of the outing. 
Ground gray squirrels, jack rabbits and cotton¬ 
tails as well as a small sage brush rabbit are often 
seen, as well as a few deer tracks, which show 
that a few of the latter animals are left here 
in the foothills of the Sierra Madre Mountains. 
Stanstead. 
All the game lazvs of the United States and 
Canada, revised to date and now in force, are 
given in the Game Laws in Brief. See adv. 
