FOREST AND STREAM. 
[April ii, 1908. 
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side of the field and alighted in some high 
weeds. We started after it and flushed two 
more, Charlie killing one and I the other. We 
now raised the bird we were searching for, and 
both guns cracked at the same instant. We 
were on each side of a clump of high weeds 
and neither knew that the other was going to 
shoot. The quail was of little value when 
picked. After the first shot the younger dog 
disappeared and did not show up for several 
days; a fact not deeply regretted. 
Failing to find more quail in the field, we 
entered a nearby wood and I soon raised a 
covey and missed two good shots. We raised 
the birds again, and this time two birds fell to 
our guns. From this on we had fast but very 
difficult shooting. The wind was blowing 
keenly and the birds, flying with it, went like 
bullets. The old dog did her best and kept 
finding the birds in fine style, while Charlie was 
getting down to business and was doing some 
excellent shooting. 
,We entered a stubble field and raised four 
birds. Charlie made a neat double and I 
dropped another, while the remaining one flew 
into the wood. The dog soon found it and it 
went into the game sack also. We entered a 
field of standing corn and had some brisk work 
for a few minutes, and I took an exceedingly 
long shot at a quail and killed it to the great 
astonishment of both Charlie and myself. 
All at once we realized that it was dusk and 
that we were five mile’s from home. The old 
dog was so tired she could hardly walk home 
and did not leave her nest in the straw for sev¬ 
eral days after. 
So far as I know, our day’s hunt was the most 
successful one of the season in that section, for 
the best shots were complaining of their in¬ 
ability to secure more than a half dozen birds 
in a day’s tramp. C. A. V. 
Terrible Destruction of Swans. 
Lockport, N. Y., March 30 .—Editor Forest and 
Stream: I have just learned that during a heavy 
fog one night about a week since many wild 
swans went over Niagara Falls, and that during 
the next two days one hundred and twenty-eight 
birds were secured between the ice bridge and 
the Horseshoe Falls, and probably many more 
were carried down the river, as I heard that 
some were taken down at Lewiston. Most of the 
birds secured were only crippled. They were 
picked up in the eddies with dogs and pike poles. 
My informant said that he got six birds and 
a friend two, one of which showed no wounds, 
and he gave it to the Buffalo Zoological Society. 
I have often heard of swans flying up the river 
during the fall migration while going South, 
but I have never heard of their being carried 
over the Fall during the spring migration North. 
My informant said that “last fall he got sev¬ 
eral guillemots (probably Brunnich’s murre) 
and one small ‘auk,’ and that he had taken both 
pelican (white and brown) also different eiders 
and all kinds of ducks. They seem to be dumb¬ 
founded and very seldom even try to fly.” 
J. L. Davison. 
THE CAMPING OUTFIT 
of the thoughtful camper invariably includes a 
supply of Borden’s Eagle Brand Condensed Milk. 
With this in camp, the most important food item 
is taken care of. Eagle Milk keeps indefinitely 
in any climate. The original and leading brand 
since 1857. Always uniform.— Adv. 
Michigan Association. 
About eighty members attended the second 
annual meeting of the Michigan Association, 
which was held at the Cadillac Hotel, Detroit, 
Mich., on F'riday, March 27. 
The morning session was called to order at 
11 o’clock by President Burgess and seventy-five 
new members were elected. Mr. W. B. Mcr- 
shon, of Saginaw, spoke briefly on the import¬ 
ance of educating the people of the State as to 
the need of preserving and propagating game 
and the stopping of the spring shooting of wild¬ 
fowl. 
Officers were elected as follows: President. 
F. S. Burgess; First Vice-President, S. L. 
Wheelock, of Owasso; Second Vice-President, 
W. B. Mershon, of Saginaw; Treasurer, F. L. 
Albertson, of Detroit; Secretary, Col. Will A. 
Waite. Detroit. Committees were appointed to 
consider a number of important questions, and 
to report at the afternoon session. 
At the afternoon session resolutions were 
passed declaring the association to be heartily 
in sympathy with the protection of song and in¬ 
sectivorous birds, and that the game wardens 
should be held responsible for the enforcement 
of the laws relating to those birds as well as 
to game birds. The various committees reported, 
and the association put itself on record in favor 
of the following restrictions: Total abolition 
of spring shooting with an open season for 
waterfowl, from Oct. 1 to Jan. 1 only; amend¬ 
ment of the trout fishing law, the open season 
to be from May 15 to Sept. 15, making the open 
season for black bass June 15 to Nov. 1, fish 
smaller than ten inches to be returned to the 
water; recommending a rod license and a gun 
license; rod license for nonresidents to catch 
trout or black bass $2, licensee to have the right 
to take one day’s catch out of the State; non¬ 
resident license for all other fish $1 per rod; 
resident license fifty cents per rod for all fish ; 
gun license to contain an oath to be subscribed 
to by licensee that he will observe the game 
laws; nonresident no change for deer or small 
game; resident no change for deer; birds and 
small game $1 per gun; establishing a bag limit 
of twenty per day and sixty per season for wild¬ 
fowl, and limit of ten per day and twenty-five 
per season for upland game—partridge, grouse, 
quail, snipe, woodcock or other game; open sea¬ 
son for small game mammals and birds, Oct. 
15 to Dec 1; use of ferrets prohibited except by 
land owner on his own land; close season for 
muskrats between March 15 and Nov. 1 of each 
year; penalties for conviction for violation of 
fish or game law not less than $10 nor more than 
$ioo or by jail sentence or both. 
The Michigan State Game and Fish Protecting 
League was by resolution invited to co-operate 
with the association. 
The next annual meeting is to be called at the 
city of Lansing, between Jan. 1 and March 31, 
1909. hut a special meeting is to be held at 
Saginaw in December to consider game and fish 
legislation. 
Mr. W. B. Mershon gave an interesting talk 
on experimental work that he has been carrying 
on with the European partridge. The Forest 
and Stream has already printed this. 
About one hundred persons sat down at the 
dinner held that evening. Among the speakers 
were: Mr. A. Kelly Evans, of Toronto; Rev. 
Reuben Torrey, President Burgess, A. Patri- 
arche, W. B. Mershon, Senator W. W. Potter, 
of Hastings; Rev. John J. Staley and Louis Hil- 
senbegen. Mr. James Schermerhorn presided. 
Boone and Crockett Club. 
The twenty-first annual meeting of the Boone 
and Crockett Club was held at the Metropolitan 
Club, Washington, D. C., Saturday, March 28, 
1908, at 7 o’clock P. M. There were present 
President Wadsworth, the President of the 
United States, Madison Grant, C. Grant La 
Farge, Dr. C. Hart Merriam, Col. John Pitcher, 
Dr. W. Lord Smith, C. D. Walcott, Lyman N. 
Bass, W. B. Bristow, De Forest Grant, Col. 
Henry May, Henry C. Pierce, Arnold Hague. 
W. E. Humphrey, Col. H. L. Scott, James H. 
Kidder, Gifford Pinchot, A. P. Proctor and W. 
B. Devereaux. The following guests were pres¬ 
ent: Postmaster General Meyer, Assistant Sec¬ 
retary of State Bacon, Hon. Wilford B. Hoggett. 
Major W. P. Richardson, Chas. H. Townsend. 
After the reading- of the minutes the secretary 
reported the deaths during the past year of four 
members, Phillip Schuyler, Judge W. K. Town¬ 
send, Lyman Nichols and Thomas Paton. Five 
transfers have been made from regular to asso¬ 
ciate membership: Col. Geo. S. Anderson, Wm. 
B. Bristow, Geo. H. Gould, Col. Osmun Latrobe. 
Dr. Chas. B. Penrose. Eight new members have 
been elected and one vacancy remains. Hon W 
A. Humphrey and Wharburton Pike have been 
elected associate members. The reward of $20t 
offered by the club for evidence to secure the 
first conviction of anyone illegally killing elk in 
Idaho, Wyoming or Montana during the yeai 
1907 was paid to Henry Ferguson, game warden 
of Bozeman, Mont. 
Officers were elected as'follows: President 
Major W. A. Wadsworth, Gen.eseo, N. Y.; Vice 
Presidents, Archibald Rogers, New York; Col 
W. D. Pickett, Wyoming; Walter B. Devereaux 
Colorado; Arnold Hague, Washington, D. C.: 
Winthrop Chanler. New York; Secretary. Madi¬ 
son Grant, New York; Treasurer, C. Grant La 
Farge, New York. Executive Committee l:c 
serve until 1911, Wm. F. Whitehouse and Dr 
Alexander Lambert. Editorial Committee, Geo 
Bird Grinnell, Theodore Roosevelt. 
Resolutions were passed approving and endors 
ing Senate Bill 6159, introduced by Senatoi 
Joseph M. Dixon, of Montana, to establish 1 
bison range on the Flathead Indian Reservation 
A resolution was adopted, approving the bill in 
troduced by Senator Thomas H. Carter, of Mon 
tana, setting aside the Glacier National Park, anc 
urging the passage of the bill. The meeting thei 
adjourned. 
After the meeting came the dinner, after whicl 
Mr. Madison Grant addressed the meeting or 
the subject of the “Conditions of Game ii 
Alaska.” Mr. Chas. H. Townsend, Director o 
the New York Aquarium, and especially familia: 
with the life of the Arctic, spoke on the neces 
sity of the preservation of marine mammals, anc 
a series of moving pictures by Mr. Arthu 
Robinson was exhibited. The occasion was on< 
of unusual interest. 
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