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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[March 7, 1908. 
A Game Protector for Each County. 
Norwich, N. Y., Feb. 28 .—Editor Forest and 
Stream: Three or four sections of the State are 
pretty well protected, while much the larger por¬ 
tion has but little care and attention—some coun¬ 
ties getting none at all. 
Comparatively few of the men who fish and 
hunt go into the few sections which are best 
protected, but fish and hunt in the locality where 
they reside, and where little, if any, protection 
is given fish and game. 
If each county has its own game protector, se¬ 
lected by the sportmen in order to have one who 
knows the section and its needs, then there will 
be a gradual and satisfactory increase of fish in 
our streams and lakes, and of birds in our 
woods, so that all over the State there may be 
an abundance for sport and recreation for all 
who wish such outings. Until we have a good, 
honest protector in each county, so that viola¬ 
tions of game laws cease, we will be short of 
fish and birds. 
As it now is the man who is a natural born 
poacher robs the streams by use of dynamite, 
lime, nets, etc., and the woods with snares and 
other illegal means, while aliens use the same 
methods together with imported ones. The 
writer is stating just what happens, year after 
year, in the county where he resides and in which 
are some of the finest of trout streams and best 
cover for partridge and woodcock. This county 
has never had a game protector, fish and birds 
are not protected, and the law-breakers do about 
as they please. Many other counties are in the 
same deplorable condition. All this would be 
changed for the better if each county had a 
game protector of its own choosing. 
It is to be hoped that sportsmen in each and 
every county will at once write their member of 
Assembly and their Senator asking them to have 
the proposed new game law (Senate Bill No. 
255) changed so it will provide one game pro¬ 
tector for each county and that the sportsmen 
have the right to nominate a man or men for 
their county protector. Also write Hon. George 
H. Cobb, Chairman of Senate Fisheries and 
Game Committee, Senate Chamber; Hon. W. 
Ellison Mills, chairman of the same committee 
in the Assembly, Assembly Chamber, Albany, N. 
Y., and ask them to have the proposed new law 
provide one game protector for each county in 
the State, with the privilege to sportsmen of 
choosing our own game protectors. 
The proposed hunting license law will take 
over one hundred thousand dollars from the 
pockets of sportsmen each year and we should 
have the right of choosing our protectors in each 
county, letting all other needed protectors be 
selected as at present. We will gladly pay our 
hunting license fee and then we want good game 
and fish protection by men of our own choos¬ 
ing. Clarence L. Parker. 
New York Legislature. 
Mr. Meade had introduced in the Assembly a 
bill relating to Mongolian ring-necked and Eng¬ 
lish pheasants in Monroe, Wayne, Ontario and 
Livingston counties. 
In the Senate Mr. Agnew has introduced a bill 
•which is intended to permit cold storage com¬ 
panies to hold fish during the closed season, pro¬ 
vided they are left on hand at the end of the 
.open season. Also a bill prohibiting the sale of 
ducks, geese, brant and swan from January 10 to 
September 15, inclusive. This is an amendment 
to Section 20, which makes the closed season 
Jan. i-Sept. 15, and allows possession until 
March 1. 
Mr. Cobb has introduced in the Senate a bill 
which is intended to encourage tree planting. It 
provides that all land which shall hereafter be 
devoted exclusively to the growing of timber 
shall be assessed at the same rate as barren land 
until the trees grown on it are ready to be cut. 
Six hundred sound trees, or 1,200 shrubs growing 
any wood product other than fruit, must be 
planted on each acre to entitle the owner to the 
privileges conferred, and the owner must make 
a contract with the State Forest Commission. 
More Rhode Island Deer. 
Providence, R. I., Feb. 11 .—Editor Forest and 
Stream: Convinced that a city with all its pit- 
falls was more secure than the wilds of Rhode 
Island, wherein lie in wait the wily farmers with 
shotguns loaded to the muzzle for stray deer 
meat, a year old buck wandered in from the 
Olneyville district the other day looking for fun 
and protection. 
During its journey toward the heart of the 
city this youngster had many narrow escapes 
from capture, but by dint of sundry kicks and 
jumps cleared all before it and finally reached 
a point near the Central Police Station, where 
a citizen, slightly uncertain as to footing be¬ 
cause of the icy sidewalk and other things, 
paused in bewildered fright and made solemn 
pledge that he would thereafter keep to the 
straight and narrow way because of seeing “rein¬ 
deers.” 
As the deer crossed to Westminster street, a 
large automobile came near causing a clash, but 
the youngster jumped lightly over the engine 
hood and made for the lobby of the Westminster 
theatre, followed closely by Patrolman Kane, 
who is always on the watch for suspicious char¬ 
acters. It looked like an easy capture at this 
point, as a crowd gathered quickly, but the buck 
was of a curious turn of mind and made for 
the swing doors, butted in, and colliding with 
one of the colored men at work, sped up the 
stairs to the gallery and finally brought up in 
an ante room where the bluecoat, backed by 
several prominent citizens, made preparations 
for a quick taming of the wilderness creature. 
Patrolman Kane, having in mind that gentle¬ 
ness will subdue the fiercest beast, approached 
softly with a jumbled collection of endearing 
terms, ranging from “Whoa, boy,” and “Quiet, 
girl” to the barnyard command of “So boss,” 
and as he was about to reach for the tawny 
specimen, according to Kane, it soared like a 
bird, its ears scraped along the ceiling, and in 
an instant it was on the floor in back of the 
spectators and its feet did not touch a stair in 
the twenty foot drop; then it “soared” some 
more, back up the other side where Mr. Parkin, 
manager of the theatre, grabbed it by a leg— 
whether to capture it or avoid being kicked is 
not known—but at any rate it served the pur¬ 
pose, for in an instant eye witnesses claim that 
there was a vision of forty men and four deer 
imitating a Brown-Harvard football game, with 
a touchdown scored for the deer. 
The fight was kept up for several minutes, 
but numbers soon told and the buck was securely 
fastened, and afterward by order of Agent 
Smith, of the society with a long name, trans¬ 
ferred to the park to join membership with the 
happy family that delights the children in the 
good old summer time. H. 
One Warden’s Work. 
In his annual report to the supervisors, Wal¬ 
ter R. Welch, Fish, Game and Fire Warden of 
Santa Cruz county, California, states that dur¬ 
ing the year he made twenty-two arrests and -se¬ 
cured a conviction in each case. Deer and quail, 
he says, are abundant. He distributed 205 cans 
of trout and salmon fry, each can containing 
from 1,000 to 2,000. All the county streams are 
well stocked with game fish. Since the establish¬ 
ment of a county hatchery numerous young sal¬ 
mon have been taken in Monterey Bay and 
streams flowing into it. Bass planted in two 
lakes are doing well. 
“Public sentiment favorable to a strict enforce¬ 
ment of the fish, game and forestry laws,” he 
says “and a proper appreciation to the value of 
our supply of fish, game, song birds and forests 
is daily growing stronger throughout Santa Cruz 
county, and 1908 will find this county abreast of 
any other county in the State in perpetuating 
these great and valuable natural resources.” 
Game Farm Catalogue. 
From Mr. Wallace Evans of Oak Park, III., 
comes a beautifully illustrated catalogue of his 
game propagating farm. The catalogue, which is 
in pasteboard covers, is beautifully illustrated by 
a multitude of photographs, and by a number of 
colored plates reproduced from Elliott’s monu¬ 
mental Monograph of the Pheasants. A number 
of species of pheasants are described and some 
of their characteristics given. 
On his farm Mr. Evans rears thousands of 
pheasants of many different sorts, and many wild 
fowl. We believe that he has been singularly 
sucessful in rearing the marvelous Reeves and 
Amherst pheasants. He tells us that he has on 
the farm forty-five varieties of pheasants, wild 
ducks, &c. The catalogue is sold for $1, an 
amount which is credited on the first order for 
birds received from the purchaser of the book. 
“My Friend the Partridge.” 
Westfield, Pa., Feb. 28. —Editor Forest and 
Stream: I wish “My Friend the Partridge” 
might have run longer. Seems good to read this 
by one that knows. So many articles in the sport¬ 
ing papers you read part through and stop in 
disgust. 
I find grouse are usually plenty in the woods 
now. I have made it a point to ask farmers and 
have looked for myself. 
Do you not think the unusual amount of 
“shock” beech and other nuts, that birds were 
much scattered the cause of the seeming scarcity? 
Some of the writers that doubt Mr. Burroughs’ 
skunk stories might write some of the skunk 
trappers in this section of Pennsylvania. Many 
are caught in traps and dug out, since the skins 
have brought a good price a few years back. 
F. B. H. 
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