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March 7, 1908.] 
Dr. Barton Evermann gave a most inter¬ 
esting talk on “Aquatic Plants in Pond Cul¬ 
ture,” and also read a short paper on the sub¬ 
ject from Mr. John W. Titcomb, Chief Fish- 
culturist, Washington, showing how essential 
they are for the oxygenation of the water, for 
furnishing necessary hiding places for the fish, 
both old and young, and for providing a suf¬ 
ficient supply of the minute forms which con¬ 
stitute the food of the fry. The paper included 
a valuable list of the most desirable aquatic 
plants for pond culture, with brief descriptions 
of the different varieties. 
A very charming talk on the forestry opera¬ 
tions of the New York State Commission, 
couched in extremely telling and convincing 
language, was given by Commissioner Whipple, 
and engaged general attention. 
Thanks were tendered to the retiring presi¬ 
dent. Senator Allds, to Mayor Gaus and others, 
for their services to the association and pleas¬ 
ant welcome of its members, and the visitors 
to the convention will not soon forget the 
hospitality of Senator Allds, Commissioner 
Whipple and others. 
Toronto is to be the association’s next place 
of meeting, and the new president is the Hon. 
Dr. Rheaume, the Minister of Public Works 
and Fisheries of the Province of Ontario, whose 
acceptance of the office has given much pleasure 
to all who have the welfare of the association at 
heart E. T. D. Chambers. 
Careless Shooting. 
Knife River, Minn., Feb. 6 .—Editor Forest 
and Stream: I have been interested in various 
articles in your paper in regard to accidental 
deaths due to criminal carelessness during the 
open hunting season. As a boy in 1881, ’82, ’83, 
etc., I was out in the Black Hills and adjacent 
country. Every one carried a gun in those days, 
and we very seldom heard of an accident. It 
is very seldom that a seasoned hunter has such 
an unfortunate thing happen. Now, during the 
hunting season we all take more or less precau¬ 
tion here. We do not go running around 
through the brush unless we are certain that we 
have business there. 
During the last five years I can recall inci¬ 
dents of horses, mules, hogs, cows, dogs and 
other animals that have met an untimely fate 
by being in the wrong place. For some reason 
not to be explained we had a fall last year with 
a minimum of fatal accidents. There certainly 
is some reason for this; what it is I do not 
know. I have heard various reasons advanced, 
but the one we would like to think the true one 
—that hunters are more careful—is hotly dis¬ 
puted on both sides. I personally think that in 
time all such accidents will get smaller in num¬ 
ber yearly. Not that they are going to cease 
entirely; that is something we cannot expect. 
All game has had a good winter so far, though 
the late heavy fall of snow is going to cost us 
a good many deer. As soon as it crusts over 
the wolves will kill a greatly increased number 
of them. The partridges have had the best 
winter so far in years. We are in hopes that 
the few left w l ill finish in as good shape as pos¬ 
sible. 
It looks as though there would be a big loss 
in trout. Many small trout streams are frozen 
to the bottom. Fred Chase. 
New Publications. 
A Practical Guide to the Game Laws. By 
Charles Row. London and New York, Long¬ 
mans, Green & Co. 256 pages; $1.60 net. 
This treatise on the game laws of Great Brit¬ 
ain is intended for the instruction of sportsmen, 
preserve owners, gamekeepers and the police, 
who may not be thoroughly conversant with the 
complex written laws. In very plain language 
all the laws are explained and in this way sports¬ 
men and others can keep themselves informed 
without referring to the statutes. 
The source of all the seemingly peculiar laws 
is traced back as far as possible, and Mr. Row 
tells us that as early as the reign of Henry VIII. 
the buying and selling of game was prohibited, 
the penalties being light; but James I. early in 
his reign made these prohibitions broader, the 
only exceptions permitted being partridges and 
pheasants raised in houses or imported. 
That there were landowners in the early days 
as well as at the present time who neither shot 
game themselves nor permitted others to do so 
SEASONABLE SPORT. 
is illustrated by Mr. Row’s quotation from Col. 
Hawker’s “Diary” in reference to a day’s shoot¬ 
ing in October, 1808. The Parson Bond referred 
to owned the manor, but under existing laws he 
could not prevent a person from shooting on it 
until he had “named” him; in other words, given 
him formal notice that that was a private pre¬ 
serve and he could not shoot there. Those who 
were not “named” could continue to kill and 
carry away game, but the less fortunate ones 
were compelled to shoot if at all from paths. 
“Went from Ipwich with a party amounting 
to near twenty, besides markers an<J beaters, to 
storm a preserved cover belonging to Parson 
Bond, because he never allowed anyone a day s 
shooting, and had man-traps and dog-gins all 
over his wood. I had made out a regular plan 
of attack and line of march, but our precision 
was frustrated by the first man we saw on reach¬ 
ing the ground, who was the keeper. We there¬ 
fore had no time to -hold a council of war, but 
rushed into cover like a pack of foxhounds be¬ 
fore his face. Away he went, naming everyone 
he cotild, and we all joined him in the hue and 
cry of,'‘Where is Parson Bond?’ 
“In the meantime our feu de joie was going 
on most rapidly. At last up came the Parson, 
almost choked with rage. The two first people 
he warned off were Pearson and myself. Hav¬ 
ing been served with notices we kept him in tow 
while the others rallied his covers and serenaded 
him with an incessant bombardment in every 
direction. The confused rector did not know which 
way to run. The scene of confusion was ridicu¬ 
lous beyond anything, and the invasion of an army 
could scarcely exceed the noise. Not a word 
could be heard, for the cries of ‘Mark,’ ‘Dead’ 
and ‘Well done,’ interspersed every moment with 
bang, bang, and the yelping of barrack curs. 
The parson at last mustered his whole estab¬ 
lishment to act as patriots against the mauraud- 
ers, footboys running one way, plowmen mounted 
on cart horses galloping the other, and every 
one from the village that could be mustered was 
collected to repel the mighty shock. At last we 
retreated, and about half-past four those who 
had escaped being entered in his doomsday book, 
renewed the attack. The parson, having eased 
himself by a vomit, began to speak more coher¬ 
ently and addressed himself to those who, being 
liable to an action of trespass, were obliged to 
stand in the footpath and take the birds as they 
flew over. At last so many were caught that 
the battle ceased. Though’ a large number of 
pheasants were destroyed the chase did not en l 
in such aggregate slaughter as we expected, and 
not more than one-third of those brought down 
were bagged, in consequence of our being afraid 
to turn off our best dogs. We brought away 
some of the parson’s traps, one of which was a 
most terrific engine, and now hangs in the mess- 
room for public exhibition. Only one dog was 
caught the whole day, and whose should that be 
but Parson Bond’s.” 
Les Chiens, le Gibier et Ses Ennemis. Album 
containing 178 colored plates and text. St. 
Etienne, France. 
The Manufacture Frangaise d’Armes et Cycles, 
of Saint-Etienne, France, has recently issued a 
large and heavy album in colors which it calls 
“Les Chiens, le Gibier et ses Ennemis,” or Dogs, 
Game and its Enemies. 
The work is intended particularly for hunters, 
and in it are described and illustrated all breeds 
of hunting dogs, all sorts of European game, 
furred and feathered, together with many birds 
and mammals that prey on game. There are 
thus nearly 180 colored plates, all of them drawn 
by the artist Mahlen, and all these illustrations 
are taken either from life or from the best speci¬ 
mens of birds or mammals represented in mus¬ 
eums. Many of the dogs are prize winners at 
shows and so are famous. 
Besides these pictures which make the volume 
so attractive, the sheet of light paper which faces 
each colored plate contains a description of the 
animal represented on the opposite page, its 
habits, and the hunting that it is used for, or in 
the case of game, the different methods by which 
it is hunted. There is room enough on each of 
these pages to give quite an extended notice of 
the species. In looking over this albumn one 
sees not a few pictures of animals that he has 
only read of. Among mammals, the mouflon and 
the ibex are illustrated, as well as the European 
elk. which perhaps has not been found in France 
since the days when Caesar invaded it. That the 
flamingo is found in France at the delta of the 
Rhone, will also surprise many people. 
The volume, which is about 8 x 12 inches in 
size, is bound in buckram. The retail price in 
France is about $2.50, at which price the manu¬ 
facturers offer to sell it. To import it to this 
country would probably cost about twice as much. 
