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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[FEB. 10, 1906. 

lobsters were taken by thousands; grouse were 
snared in their. covers, and all found a ready 
market in our principal cities; and in our efforts 
to secure restrictive legislation all the forces be- 
hind these practices were arrayed in solid phalanx 
against us. 
But while in the past we have had to encounter 
all these forces, we have had with us, at the same 
time, the judiciary and the chief executive of the 
commonwealth. 
On more than one occasion our chief executive 
has prevented, by the exercise of his veto power, 
the passing of pernicious legislation, which had 
been lobbied and log-rolled through the two 
houses of our Legislature; and our courts have 
invariably sustained such remedial laws as we 
have been able to secure. But we have not 
stopped with the securing and enforcing of whole- 
some laws. While our efforts have always been 
along the line of protection, of late we have taken 
up the other purposes for which we were char- 
tered and organized, namely, education and pro- 
pagation. 
Fifteen years ago this Association took up the 
subject of restocking the State with game birds 
and animals, and from that time to this we have 
carried on the work with good success in the 
main. The varieties of birds which we have 
brought into the State and liberated have been 
pinnated grouse, sharptail grouse, Southern quail, 
Arizona quail and Oregon quail. We have also 
put out about roo white northern hares. 
Our greatest success has been with the different 
varieties of quail. Of quail, we have thus far 
liberated about 5,000 birds at an exnense of about 
$5,000. Of pinnated and sharntail grouse about 
500 birds at an expense of about $1,000. The 
quail were liberated in various places throughout 
the commonwealth, and our reports show that 
they have at once proceeded to multiply and re- 
plenish the earth. Of the pinnated grouse liber- 
ated less favorable reports have been received. 
Some of them are known to have brought out 
broods the first year after they were liberated. 
but generally they are believed to have taken the 
advice of Horace Greeley to young men, and have 
gone West. 
What the Association will do in the matter of 
restocking in the future is somewhat problem- 
atical. We are now confronted with the difficul- 
ties of procuring a supply of quail. It is not 
merely the matter of increased price for the quail, 
but the non-exportation laws of the quail-produc- 
ing States are seriously handicapping us in secur- 
ing our supply. 
It is claimed by some that there is no serious 
difficulty in the matter of breeding quail in cap- 
tivity. If this be so, it may be that in the near 
future we may be forced to establish hatcheries 
of our own. 
I cannot let this occasion pass without a brief 
reference to the co-operation and support which 
we have received from other clubs and associa- 
tions having kindred interests with our own. 
Three times in our history we have attempted to 
form a union of the different fish and game or- 
ganizations of the State. Our first two efforts 
were almost abortive, but the third, which we 
made in 1899, has proved a decided success. 
In my annual address in 1892 will be found the 
following paragraphs: 
“The local fish and game associations which 
are springing up all around us are another pow- 
erful agency in our behalf. I do not mean those 
associations whose members on a given day array 
themselves in opposing forces and start out to see 
which side can out-do the other in the indiscrimi- 
nate slaughter of birds and animals—a most bar- 
barous and unhallowed sport; but those associa- 
tions whose aims and purposes lie in the same 
direction as our own. These organizations de- 
serve, and ought to receive, our heartiest co- 
operation. 
“Put half a dozen of these local associations in 
every county throughout the Sfate and interest 
them in our work and we can bid defiance to all 
the hostile, selfish opposition that can be arrayed 
against us. 
“There is another class of men who ought to 
be with us, and in the future I believe will be with 
us, and they are the marketmen. They ought to 
understand, and I believe they are beginning to 
understand, that the indiscriminate destruction of 
our fish and game means, in the end, the de- 
struction of a portion of their profits. When 
once this fact comes to be fully realized by them, 
they too will be found on our side instead of in 
the opposing ranks. 
“To gather up all these forces, to marshal them 
on the side of right, and to lead them on to vic- 
tory, is the work of this Association. 
“These suggestions did not bear fruit until 1899 
when, in response to our invitation, sixty clubs 
in the State sent delegates to a convention held 
at the Copley Square Hotel, Boston, Dec. 14, 1890. 
The results of that convention have far exceeded 
our most sanguine expectation. From that time 
to the present our efforts have been harmonious. 
Each club, or association, preserves its own iden- 
tity, but all are working in the common cause, 
and through a central committee. 
“The result of this united action is that when 
we go to the Legislature, either for needed legis- 
lation or to prevent the enactment of some perni- 
cious law, we go with a constituency behind us 
which is bound to command respect.” 
Results. 
To the careful observer I think it is apparent 
that the fish and game interests of the State are 
in a prosperous condition. Our laws are strin- 
gent without being severe or oppressive, and are 
being well enforced by our State officials. 
With few exceptions the supply of our fish and 
game is, we believe, steadily on the increase, but 
there is not the remotest possibility that the sup- 
ply will equal the demand so long as the number 
of hunters and fishermen go on increasing in the 
ratio noted during the last decade. 
In closing allow me to say that while we have 
been only a factor in bringing about such results 
yet in all the work which has produced those re- 
sults we have always taken an active, conspicu- 
ous and honorable part. 
A Florida Shooting Camp. 
SPORTSMEN at large, and especially that con- 
siderable class who go South to spend some part 
of the cold weather, will be interested in the new 
project of the Seaboard Air Line to make the 
good shooting and fishing found along their line 
accessible to the public with a minimum of effort. 
A new Powell Camp has recently been estab- 
lished near Drifton, Fla., and the reports coming 
from there are very interesting. Mr. Powell re- 
ports that on his way to the camp his dogs 
pointed a good many bevies of quail along the 
road, and he quotes Mr. McKenzie as having 
found twenty-one bevies of quail between noon 
on Saturday and night. Within a mile from the 
camp is a large lake in which there are thousands 
of duck, while turkeys and deer are found in con- 
siderable numbers near at hand. 
Mr. Powell writes that they have fine fishing, 
are prepared to hunt anything from a ’coon to a 
bear, and are provided with expert hunters with 
trained dogs for each kind of game. This pro- 
ject of making sport easy, which we are inclined 
to believe is original with the Seaboard Air Line, 
will be watched with interest by sportsmen. 
The Ontario Season. 
Tue hunting season in the “Highlands of On-’ 
tario” during the year 1905 was probably the most 
successful that has been experienced, both as re- 
gards the number of hunters and the results se- 
cured. 
The information to hand shows that 6,425 
licenses were issued, including 422 non-resident 
licenses, 203 resident moose licenses and 5,800 
resident deer licenses. It is estimated that 12,000 
deer were killed-during the fifteen days of the 
open season, between Nov. 1 and 15. Of the 
moose, some 150, heads were taken out, mostly 
from the Temagami district, about 100 of which 
were taken from that territory. This is a large 
increase in comparison with the season of 1904, 
when only twenty- -two heads were secured in that 
locality. This large increase is accounted for by 
the fact that the country was made easy of access 
last year via the Grand Trunk Railway system 
and Temiskaming & Northern Ontario Railway, 
whereas the difficulties in former years of reach- 
ing the hunting grounds debarred many from 
making the attempt. The Canadian Express Co. 
alone carried 2,796 deer weighing 306,395 pounds, 
an increase over 1904 of 244 carcasses. The larg- 
est shipments were made from Burk’s Falls, the 
starting point for the Maganetawan River re- 
gion; Huntsville, Lake of Bays district; Muskoka 
Wharf, Muskoka Lakes district ; Powassan and 
Scotia Junction, the diverging point for territory 
contiguous to the Ottawa Division of the Grand 
Trunk Railway system. The number carried by 
all express companies’ was 3,310 deer. This 
amount, of course, does not give any idea of the 
number killed, as many of the deer are used for’ 
food in the woods and many are transported by 
other means than the transportation companies. 
Instead of the diminution of numbers, the deer 
and moose in the “Highlands of Ontario” and 
New Ontario are increasing, the woods are full 
of them and the game laws are so well put in 
force by the Ontario Government that good hunt- 
ing in that territory is assured for years to come. 
Elk in the Adirondacks. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
A wealthy friend of the Adirondacks and of 
the cause of large game propagation has author- 
ized me to offer to any responsible organization 
or individual who will liberate them on unfenced 
land in the Adirondacks (public or private lands) 
and will give a pledge that they will be protected 
after liberation, a herd of twenty-five elk, all wild 
forest bred and in splendid condition; such or- 
ganization or individual to assume the expense 
of transportation and liberation, which would be 
about $200 or $300. 
The best time to ship these elk to the Adiron- 
dacks and liberate them is early in May. They 
will not need any feeding or care after liberation, 
and will be amply able to shift for themselves in 
the wild state, as they have always lived wild in 
the forest. The elk which have been liberated in 
the Adirondacks during the past five years have 
done well, and the State Forest, Fish and Game 
Commission in their last report place the number 
of wild elk in the Adirondacks at 200, as against 
twenty-two in 1901. I expect during the next 
few years to receive additional gifts of elk from 
public-spirited persons who are interested in the 
experiment of reintroducing the elk, as well as 
the moose and beaver, into their former home in 
the Adirondacks; so that there will always be 
ample infusion of new blood into the Adirondack 
herds to prevent inbreeding. The experience of 
the past few winters has shown that the elk with- 
stand deep snow and severe cold even better than 
the Adirondack deer. 
I shall be glad to hear from any friend of. the 
Adirondacks who would feel disposed to bear the 
expense, or a part of the expense, of transporting 
these elk to the Adirondacks and of liberating 
them. Prompt aid is requested, as there are a 
number of details to be attended to. 
Harry V. RADFORD. 
212 East 105th St., New York. 
Currituck Protection. 
Boston, Mass., Jan. 24.—Editor Forest and 
Stream: I am glad to see in ForEsT AND 
STREAM of the 20th inst., that the complacent, Au- 
dubon Society of North Carolina is receiving 
some attention on the subject of night shooting 
in Currituck Sound. When a State charges non- 
residents a fee for the privilege of shooting it 
owes them the common decency of enforcing its 
game laws. Nothing else is a square deal. 
A letter from a member of the Currituck Sound 
Shooting Club received yesterday says: “The 
game warden at Knott’s Island is worse than use- 
less. Night shooting is going on all the time.” 
How many arrests for night shooting in Curri- 
tuck Sound have been made? | Non-RESIDENT. 
THE “Off-Season” may be very profitably em- 
ployed. If an angler, one may practice fly-cast- 
ing. The ice is a capital place for this. That is 
where some of the most successful tournament 
fly-casters found their training. 
