Forest and Stream 
Copyright, 1906, by Forest and Stream Publishing Co. 


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NE WeiOhkyon FUR DA Ya ANUARY 27, 1906. 

The object of this journal will be to studiously 
promote a healthful interest in outdoor recre- 
ation, and to cultivate arefined taste for natural 
objects. Announcement in first number of 
Forest AND STREAM, Aug. 14, 1873, 
NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. 
Beginning with Jan. 1, 1906, the subscription 
price of ForEstT AND STREAM 1s $3.00 per year, 
$1.50 for six months; $1 for four months. 
All subscriptions now on our books which 
have been paid at the $4.00 rate, and which run 
for any period into 1906, will be extended pro 
rata to conform to the changed price, 
NEXT WEEK. 
THE issue of ForREST AND STREAM of next week, 
February 3, will be a special monthly magazine 
number, enlarged to fifty-two pages. Among the 
contents will be an account of a sportsman’s win- 
ter in Florida, and the illustrations of the num- 
ber will largely be devoted to picturing Florida. 
Among the other illustrations will be a wonder- 
ful flash-light photograph of wild deer by Hon. 
George Shiras, 3d, whose achievements with the 
camera on game are the most notable successes 
in this difficult field. 
IN CALIFORNIA NATIONAL PARKS. 
THE advocates of national parks, game refuges 
and game reserves—whether State or National— 
have strong arguments in favor of the establish- 
ment of such refuges in the fact that they abso- 
lutely protect the game within their boundaries 
and that the game soon comes to understand per- 
fectly well that certain localities are safe for it 
in case of disturbance. Just as a startled deer 
runs up the mountain side, or a flushed bevy of 
quail takes to the swamp, so disturbed game 
hastens within a game refuge if it can. 
In a report from Walter Fry, Park Ranger of 
the Sequoia and National Parks in California, 
dated Jan. 7, this fact is noted, together with 
much other interesting information about these 
parks, 
It is obvious that until a popular sentiment in 
favor of its protection is aroused among the peo- 
ple residing in the neighborhood of such a refuge, 
the abundance of game within its borders fur- 
nishes a continual temptation to lawless or 
thoughtless hunters to invade it and kill the game. 
Then, too, in many of these national refuges, the 
winter’s snow drives the game down to the lower 
country, and often outside the lines of the refuge, 
and hunters understanding this, lie in wait for 
and destroy it in great numbers. This has been 
the case in the Sequoia National Park; and in 
the Grant National Park, which is of smaller size 
and where the snow within the last few months 
has fallen to the depth of five feet, all living 
things have been driven down into the valleys and 

out of the park, so that during the winter there 
is practically no game there. 
Since sheep have been kept out of the Sequoia 
Park, grouse and mountain quail have become 
much more plentiful. There is nothing more 
destructive to ground nesting birds than sheep, 
which trample the nests, eggs and young birds. 
The valley quail, which live at a lower altitude, 
are decreasing in numbers on account of the con- 
stant pursuit by man and the destruction of their 
eggs by the digger squirrels. 
Wild ducks, wild pigeons—the band-tail spe- 
cies—and doves are all abundant in winter in and 
near the Sequoia Park. The larger game, con- 
sisting of deer, lions and coyotes, has increased 
recently. Since the season of 1902 deer have 
greatly decreased in the territiories without the 
park, but they are much more numerous within 
it. During the spring and summer they scat- 
ter over the outside country, but when the hunt- 
ing begins they retreat to the park, seeming to 
recognize that there they are safe. There is a 
considerable increase in the number of bears in 
the park. 
As noticed some months ago, twenty-two of the 
tule elk from the Miller & Lux ranch, were cap- 
tured last autumn and transferred to the Sequoia 
National Park. Of these four have died from 
bruises, leaving eighteen which now seem to be 
doing well. They are being carefully watched 
by the rangers, who fear that the lions may at- 
tack them. This is a real danger, and the lions 
should be destroyed. They add nothing to the 
attractions of the park but may do much harm. 
THE FIELD COLUMBIAN MUSEUM. 
MarsHALL FIELD, of Chicago, who died last 
week, was one of the very few well known rich 
men in this country who was never subjected to 
criticism, either on account of his wealth or the 
means by which it was acquired. He made his 
money honestly by hard work, careful living and 
great business shrewdness, and notwithstanding 
its vastness this wealth never appeared to excite 
the envy or hostility of others. 
Like many other rich men—who are not so well 
thought of as he was—Mr. Field gave liberally to 
good objects. The founding and endowment of 
the Field Columbian Museum of Chicago is the 
best-known and the largest of such donations, It 
is one thing to give money to found a great insti- 
tution, but it is quite another thing to select the 
man or men who shall have the dispensing of 
these large funds. Though a young institution, 
the work done at the Field Museum in investiga- 
tion and in the collection and exhibition of speci- 
mens stands very high, and that it has attained 
sO great a measure of success is due not less to 
Mr. Field’s liberality of donation than to Mr. 
Field’s judgment of men. The same capacity 
which enabled him to see that he was well served 
in business matters, also enabled him to select 
with rare discretion the director and trustees of 
his museum, and how excellent these selections 
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were the event has proved. The beauty and use- 
fulness of the collections in the museum now 
housed in one of the old World’s Fair buildings 
in Jackson Park are very impressive. 
Besides this foundation, which will always be 
a memorial to Marshall Field and one of con- 
stantly increasing importance, he made liberal 
donations of land to the Chicago University. 
TuaT Massachusetts and Rhode Island should 
continue to permit the snaring of ruffed grouse 
is one of the anomalies of game protection. As 
Dr. T. S. Palmer well puts it, the license to snare 
game birds, while ostensibly for the benefit of the 
farmer’s boy, is, as a matter of fact, all in sup- 
port of the professional trapper, who sets his 
snares on farm lands with or without permis- 
sion, and sends his birds to market. No one 
would wish to take away the privileges of the 
boy; if the snaring done by him were the end 
of it, there would be no necessity of prohibition; 
but the grouse taken by the boy are few com- 
pared with those of the market snarer; and the 
interests of the boy are, by comparison, negligible. 
Massachusetts has gone so far in the direction 
of cutting off the local market for game, it would 
seem that the Legislature might without great 
effort be persuaded to cut off the market snaring. 
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It is a decided satisfaction to record the ap- 
pointment of Dr. Tarleton H. Bean to the office 
of State Fishculturist of New York. Dr. Bean’s 
attainments as an ichthyologist, his long experi- 
ence in fishculture and his practical knowledge of 
all that pertains to fish and fishing, and fish 
breeding and rearing, equip him in a peculiar de- 
gree for the work before him. He brings to the 
place the qualities essential to the administration 
of its affairs in an intelligent, business-like and 
successful way. 
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SomME months ago we had a spirited discussion 
of Kipling’s “Red Gods,” and of the fidelity to 
nature of the poet’s characterization in the 
famous lines: 
“Do you know that racing stream, 
With the raw, right-angled log-jam at the end?” 
As a reminiscence of the “Red Gods” contro- 
versy, Mr. C. E. E. Ussher sends us an excel- 
lent photograph, reproduced on the cover, of a 
log jam at the notch of the Montreal River, near 
Lake Temiscaming, on the line of the Canadian 
Pacific Railway. 
od 
TuatT under certain conditions trees may serve 
as compasses is very strikingly illustrated in the 
photographs sent us by Mr. W. B. Cabot, of 
Boston, showing-the barren ground country of 
northern Labrador. The prevailing winds which 
sweep over this melancholy waste being from the 
northwest, the spruce trees develop toward the 
southeast and their branches give infallible indi- 
cation of direction. This is a mode of tree 
growth familiar in many places near the sea and 
in the vicinity of the Great Lakes. 
