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STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP, MAN- 
AGEMENT, CIRCULATION, ETC., RE- 
QUIRED BY THE ACT OF CON- 
GRESS OF AUGUST 24, 1912 
of Forest and Stream, published monthly at New 
York, N. Y., for October Ist, 1924. 
State of New York iT 
County of New Yorks §%- 
Before me, a Notary Public, in and for the 
State and county aforesaid, personally appeared 
T. H. Mearns, who, having been duly sworn ac- 
cording to law, deposes and says that he is the 
Business Manager of the FOREST AND 
STREAM and that the following is, to the best of 
his knowledge and belief, a true statement of the 
ownership, management (and if a daily paper, the 
circulation), etc., of the aforesaid publication for 
the date shown in the above caption, required by 
the Act of August 24, 1912, embodied in section 
443, Postal Laws and Regulations, printed on the 
reverse ot this form, to wit: 
1. That the names and addresses of the pub- 
lisher, editor, managing editor, and business 
managers are: ; 
Publisher, Forest and Stream Publishing Co., 
2ALEW tol th Ste, ING oN OILY, 
Editor, William A. Bruette, 221 W. 57th St., 
Neem Cltye 
Managing Editor, William A. Bruette, 221 W. 
5ith St., N. Y. City. 
Business Manager, T. H. Mearns, 221 W. 57th 
Dt. Naw ae eltys 
2. That the owners are: (Give names and ad- 
dresses of individual owners, or, if a corporation, 
give its name and the names and addresses of 
stockholders owning or holding 1 per cent or more 
of the total amount of stock.) Forest and Stream 
Publishing Co., 221 W. 57th St., New York, 
N. Y.; William A. Bruette, 221 W. 57th St., New 
York, N. Y.; George Bird Grinnell, 238 E. 15th 
eta UNew™ Mork, Noj@y.: eb there arker,) Pitts- 
burgh, Pa. 
8. That the known bondholders, mortgagees 
and other security holders owning or holding 1 
per cent or more of total amount of bonds, ‘mort- 
gages, or other securities are: (If there are none, 
so state.) None. 
4. That the two paragraphs next above, giving 
the names of the owners, stockholders and secur- 
ity holders, if any, contain not only the list of 
stockholders and security holders as they appear 
upon the books of the company, but also, in cases 
where the stockholder or security holder appears 
upon the books of the company as trustee or in 
any other fiduciary relation, the name of the per- 
son or corporation for whom such trustee is act- 
ing, is given; also that the said two paragraphs 
contain statements embracing affiant’s full knowl- 
edge and belief as to the circumstances and con- 
ditions under which stockholders and _ security 
holders who do not appear upon the books of the 
company as trustees, hold stock and securities in 
a capacity other than that of a bona fide owner; 
and this afhant has no reason to believe that any 
other person, association, or corporation has any 
interest direct or indirect in the said stock, bonds, 
or other securities than as so stated by him. 
T. H. MEARNS, Business Manager. 
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 17th 
day of September, 1924. 
[Seal] WALTER L. BISHOP. 
(My commission expires March 30, 1925.) 
In writing to Advertisers mention Forest and Stream. 

the first work on salt water angling 
that approaches completeness. Mr. 
Hulit’s work is well known by Forest 
AND STREAM readers. 
Few men have a more intimate 
knowledge of the sea and its inhabi- 
tants than he possessed. The book fills 
a much-needed vacancy in sporting lit- 
erature. 
Published by, 
D. APPLETON & Co., 
330 pages, illustrated. Price $3.50. 
Carlsbad Cavern 
HE wonders of the Carlsbad Cavern, 
which is included in one of Uncle 
Sam’s newest National Monuments in 
the Guadalupe Mountains in southeast- 
ern New Mexico, are attracting many 
visitors. 
Representatives of the government 
and the National Geographical Society 
investigating the Carlsbad region re- 
port that the Guadalupe Mountains are 
full of interesting limestone caverns, 
most of which have never been entered. 
Four new caves were recently explored, 
any one of which if found in many 
localities would be considered a world 
wonder. In three of these caverns the 
bones of prehistoric men were discoy- 
ered, and it is believed that most of the 
caverns contain such bones. From a 
single point, seven cave openings in a 
canyon wall were observed. 
It is understood that the State of 
Texas is considering the establishment 
of a state park to include that portion 
of the Guadalupe Mountains extending 
into Texas. 
Transplanting Rabbits 
NOTHER importation of 15,000 
wild rabbits from the west to repop- 
ulate New Jersey gunning grounds has 
been planned by the State Fish and 
Game Commission and Chief Protector 
James M. Stratton has announced that 
the distribution will begin immediately 
after the close of the deer season, next 
December. Results of the introduction 
of 10,000 Kansas cottontails last year 
have delighted sportsmen, who report 
there is prospect of game increases in 
practically every county. 
The rabbits will be placed by wardens 
in areas with good game cover. Care 
will be used to avoid placing rabbits on 
cultivated ground where farmers object, 
or on land posted against public gun- 
ning. Many of the applications for rab- 
bits last year, and a majority of those 
filled, thus far, this year, have come 
from farmer-sportsmen. 
As the cottontails will not be brought 
into the state until after the hunting 
seasons, they will have nearly a year of 
protection and during this period are 
expected to multiply rapidly. The cross- 
ing of the western stock with native 
It will identify you. 
rabbits is expected to have: beneficial 
results in invigorating their progeny. 
The commission will allot approxi- 
mately 720 rabbits to each county, with 
an additional 100 to Burlington county, 
to partially compensate sportsmen for 
the closing of the hunting season on 
ringneck pheasants in the central Jap- 
anese_ beetle area. No rabbits are 
reared on the state’s game farms, as 
experience has shown it is more eco- 
nomical to buy the stock from western 
dealers. The cost of bringing in the 
cottontails is met from sportsmen’s 
license fees. 

Snowshoe Rabbits Thwart Forest 
Planting in Minnesota 
TPS picturesquely-named “snowshoe 
rabbit” is not a favorite among 
foresters in northern Minnesota, al- 
though it is protected by state law in 
that part of the country, according to 
forestry officials of the United States 
Department of Agriculture. 
“The snowshoe rabbit is the one prin- 
cipal factor in the loss of a consider- 
able number of planted trees in the 
forest plantations of northern Minne- 
sota,” states Director Raphael Zon, of 
the Lake States Forest Experiment 
Station at St. Paul. “The abundance of 
the rabbits this year and the damage 
they are doing are evident to the most 
casual observer who visits the cut-over 
areas of the region, where both State 
and Federal authorities are endeavor- 
ing to make denuded forest land again 
productive through extensive planting 
of young pine seedlings. 
“Not only are the tips and needles 
of planted trees eaten by the rodents, 
but much of the natural young growth 
of pines, spruce, aspen, maple, etc., is 
cut back and defoliated, or barked near 
the base if the trees are over three feet 
high. Of the three principal species 
planted, white pine, Norway pine, and 
white spruce, the damage is heaviest in 
the white pine and least in the spruce. 
All three, however, are so heavily dam- 
aged as to cause death in the case of 
any of the trees whose tips can be 
reached above the surface of the snow 
by the rabbits.” 
In giving examples of recent dam- 
age to support this statement, Director 
Zon declares that as much as 79 per 
cent of the trees in one plantation were 
eaten off by the rabbits, 43 per cent 
fatally. In another instance, practi- 
cally the whole of a plantation of white 
pine on the J. Cooke State Park was 
destroyed by the rabbits. Control 
measures recommended are removal of 
the closed hunting seasons that at pres- 
ent protect the rabbits nine months in 
the year and systematic destruction of 
the rabbits in the vicinity of planta- 
tions until present plantations are out 
of danger, a matter of 10 to 15 years. 
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