Forest and Stream 
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NEW YORK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 
27, 1910. 
VOL. LXXV.-No. 9. 
No. 127 Franklin St. New York. 
A WEEKLY JOURNAL. 
Copyright, 1909, by Forest and Stream Publishing Co. 
George Bird Grinnell, President, 
Charles B. Reynolds, Secretary, 
Louis Dean Speir, Treasurer, 
127 Franklin Street. New York. 
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. 
AUTUMN COMING. 
Clear skies, cool breezes, straggling flocks of 
robins crossing the sky, unite to remind us that 
autumn is at hand. Families of bluebirds not 
long from the nest, follow their parents from 
tree to tree, and take their first lessons in search¬ 
ing for food. Across the open lots kingbirds 
straggle one after another, perching now and 
then on the top of a conical cedar, or alighting- 
on the stem of a goldenrod, which, too heavily 
weighted, swings down to earth and sends the 
bird on its way again. Groups of young crows, 
inexperienced, and so unafraid, permit the 
stroller in the fields to approach close to them, 
and then suddenly discovering his presence, fly 
away in noisy alarm. 
The stubbles, a few weeks ago shining golden 
in the sun, have now changed color, for they are 
hidden by a growth of tall weeds. Grass is start¬ 
ing anew in the mowed hay meadows; on the 
tasseled corn the ears have set and are growing 
large, weeds hide the fences or fight with the 
crops for possession of the cultivated fields. All 
vegetation is now at its fullest luxuriance. 
Where drouth prevails the leaves are dusty, 
dry and turning brown; but where there has been 
rain, the clean washed foliage is dark and strong 
looking. 
The woodcock, which for weeks have been 
hidden away in the thickest underbrush of the 
hillside renewing their plumage, will now soon 
come back to the swamps of their nativity. The 
prairie chickens and ruffed grouse by this time 
are well grown, and the quail chicks can fly well. 
Already the blackbirds are flocking, barn swal¬ 
lows and sand martins hold daily meetings along 
the road side, perching by hundreds on the tele¬ 
graph wires. Before we know it, the migration 
will have begun, and autumn will be upon us. 
From different quarters come reports of the 
results of the breeding season for game birds. 
J11 the Dakotas, Nebraska and Kansas, the 
prairie grouse have reared good broods, and in 
New England and the Middle States, the season 
has been favorable for ruffed grouse and quail. 
On the other hand, drouth in the Northwest 
has dried up many ponds and sloughs where 
wildfowl commonly hatch their young, and the 
prospects for shooting at home-bred ducks are 
not good. 
THE MICHIGAN MEETING. 
Few States are as bountifully supplied with 
natural resources as is Michigan. Great forests, 
beautiful lakes, clear streams, and an abundant 
supply of fish and game, make that State a sec¬ 
tion toward which, in summer and autumn, thou¬ 
sands of people go for rest and recreation. Yet 
Michigan has followed out the history of other 
States in being careless of the good things she 
possesses, and has been slow to protect them. It 
was Michigan that possessed streams in which 
alone east of the Rocky Mountains swam the 
graceful and beautiful grayling, which many 
people believe is now extinct through over fish¬ 
ing, and the pollution of the waters that it in¬ 
habited ; it was in Michigan that the eastern elk 
lingered longest, and where the few that existed 
were unremittingly pursued by men who wished 
to get the last one, until finally some man did 
get it, and elk are there no more. 
At the meeting of the Michigan Association, 
noticed in another column, there will be a gather¬ 
ing of men interested in outdoor things, and 
among them a number who have done good work 
in protection throughout the country; and who 
are glad to assemble under the leadership of W. 
B. Mershon, to help point out to' Michigan her 
plain duty. 
Of the citizens of Michigan there are a multi¬ 
tude who are devoted to outdoor life and the 
things connected with that life; but too many 
of these have long been indifferent to measures 
set on foot to protect the natural things of the 
State. This is an opportunity for all lovers of 
outdoor things to let their voices be heard. 
Proper legislation set on foot now, and proper 
enforcement .of good laws by the executive, w.ll 
result in a few years in a great increase of the 
fish and game of the State, which will be of 
great benefit to all its citizens. 
Our cover picture this week is from a negative 
made in far away Australia, where, if the shoot¬ 
ing is not as good as it once was, the trout fish¬ 
ing is at least excellent. This is the result of 
careful hatchery work and the planting of rain¬ 
bow trout, which have increased in numbers and 
have grown to large size. It is not uncommon 
to put three- and four-pound trout back into the 
water when larger ones are rising—trout our 
anglers would be glad to catch now and then 
during an entire season. 
K 
Dr. James A. Henshall has come into his 
own again. For a number of years he has had 
charge of the Federal Government hatchery at 
Bozeman, Mont., where his efforts have been di¬ 
rected toward hatching and distributing grayling 
and trout, with eminent success. Recently he 
was transferred to the hatchery station at 
Tupelo, Miss., where his favorite game fish, the 
black bass, and that succulent panfish of the 
Mississippi Valley, the crappie, are reared. An 
important work which has also been placed in 
his charge is the rescue of fish from overflowed 
levee pools and bayous along the Mississippi 
River, with headquarters at the Rosedale station, 
an auxiliary to the Tupelo hatchery. Vast num¬ 
bers of game and food fish, practically stranded 
when the Mississippi flood waters subside, may be 
taken in nets and transferred to lakes and 
streams. Where this is not done the loss is often 
total. Sportsmen’s clubs do effective work at 
times in rescuing land-locked fish, but too often 
they are preyed on by both man and the lower 
animals. 
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1 he unusually good health of the people of 
Pennsylvania for a year past is credited to better 
sanitary regulations and increased care in the 
supervision of the water supply. Pennsylvania 
is leading in the movement to prohibit the pollu¬ 
tion of streams. The people are being educated 
up to the necessity for reform, and the Health 
and Fisheries departments are working quietly 
to bring about in time the cessation of all pollu¬ 
tion of fresh waters. So far considerable 
progress has been made among manufacturing- 
industries. The people are beginning to see the 
effect, and are encouraged to do their part to¬ 
ward bringing about the desired result. The com¬ 
missioners are meeting with less opposition in 
their efforts to stop stream pollution than was 
anticipated, and some of the large manufacturers 
who have complied with the new regulations are 
taking profits from material saved now but 
which was formerly wasted. 
Surf-casting for the better varieties of sea 
fish is a remarkably popular diversion this sum¬ 
mer at all of the seashore resorts near New 
York city. As this method of fishing requires 
action, the element of uncertainty is large and 
the supply of fish is unusually abundant, the in¬ 
crease of interest in this form of fishing is par¬ 
tially accounted for. Some very large channel 
bass have been taken from the surf at the Long 
Island beaches. 
When the executive committee of the West¬ 
ern New York Sportsmen’s Association met at 
Lyons recently, its members protested against 
the law which allows the use of ferrets in hunt¬ 
ing rabbits; the “indiscriminate distribution of 
fish in the waters of the State”; and the present 
methods of rearing pheasants at the State Game 
Farm. The latter, they claim, should be liber¬ 
ated and permitted to rear their broods in the 
open. 
r. 
In Oregon there has been a marked increase, 
over last year in the number of shooting licenses 
taken out by residents. In that State a license 
to fish is required, the fee being one dollar, the 
same as for the shooting license, and residents 
who wish to do so can take out a combined 
shooting and fishing license. 
