Forest and Stream 
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NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 1906. | 
VOL. LXVI.—No. 22. 
1 No. 346 Broadway, New York. 


The object of this journal will be to studiously 
promote a healthful interest in outdoor recre- 
ation, and to cultivate a refined taste for natural 
objects. Announcement in first number of 
Forrest AND STREAM, Aug. 14, 1873. 
wOeHUDSON BAY BY CANOE. 
In our issues of next week and the week fol- 
lowing, June 9 and 16, Dr. Robert T. Morris will 
write of a thousand-mile canoe trip to Hudson 
Bay. The two papers will be illustrated with 
photographs. 

“A MIDNIGHT WADER.” 
WE give to-day another one of the remarkable 
series of wild game photographs by Hon. George 
Shiras, 3d. This was taken on Whitefish River, 
Mich., on a night in August. Other flashlights 
have been reproduced in our issues of. Feb. 3, 
March 3, April 7 and May 5. 
Apart from their extraordinary character as 
achievements in pure photography, these night 
pictures are notable for two things; first, for the 
absolutely real, unstudied and unconscious atti- 
tude of the game, and again for the artistic qual- 
ity, which is as if the animal had been posed by 
an artist. This characteristic, which pervades 
all the series, is peculiarly marked in the picture 
printed to-day. 

THE WICHITA GAME PRESERVE. 
Mr. Lacey’s amendment to the Agricultural 
Appropriation bill appropriating $15,000 for the 
erection of a wire fence and sheds to provide a 
range for the buffalo of the Wichita Preserve, re- 
cently passed the House of Representatives. It 
will be recalled that the New York Zoological 
Society has offered to present to the Government, 
to be turned out in the Wichita Game Preserve, 
a herd of buffalo which is likely to form the 
nucleus of a second Government herd, established 
under very favorable conditions. The first herd 
set on foot three years ago in the National Park 
then numbered twenty animals. It has already 
increased to fifty-four head, of which eleven are 
this spring’s calves, A few more calves are ex- 
pected during the summer. In other words, in 
three years the herd has nearly trebled, and while 
it cannot be expected to continue to increase at 
this rate, there is no reason why it should not 
grow rapidly. 
The Wichita Game Preserve was established in 
January, 1905, as a National game park. It is a 
portion of the Wichita Forest Reserve and in- 
cludes more than 50,000 acres of land. It lies 
in the midst of the old buffalo range and it 
would be hard to imagine a region better fitted 
for a range for buffalo, although, to be sure, 
these animals are so adaptable that they seem to 
flourish equally well north and south, in the high 
mountains and on the burning plains. 
The Wichita mountains are low, sparsely tim- 
bered hills, well watered and with abundant 
grass. The existing life there includes deer, an- 
telope, black bears, panthers, wildcats, wolves, 
coyotes, beaver and otter. The prohibition 
against hunting will certainly protect the deer, 
antelope and beaver, while such destructive spe- 
cies as panthers, wildcats and wolves can prop- 
erly be destroyed by order of the Secretary of 
Agriculture as occasion demands. 
The Wichita Mountains formerly abounded in 
wild turkeys, and prairie chickens are found in 
some numbers. There are few birds that need 
protection more than the wild turkey, which is 
gradually being exterminated, as is also the 
prairie chicken. 
Within this preserve are to be found all the 
conditions favorable to the indigenous life of the 
southern plains region, and, as Mr, Henry W. 
Henshaw, of the Biological Survey, has very 
justly said, this preserve affords the opportunity 
of restoring in Oklahoma practically all the spe- 
cies of big game and game birds which formerly 
were abundant there, and of maintaining a per- 
manent source of supply for the Territory and 
other portions of the United States. 
THE WILD PIGEON. 
THE cataclysm theory of the destruction of the 
wild pigeon is combated in a strong argument in 
a paper by Mr. B. Waters, of which the con- 
cluding portion is printed to-day. The records 
of the former plenitude of the bird and the war 
upon it, which is shown to have been sufficient 
to account for its destruction, are described in 
large measure from data contained in the files of 
this journal, A note in our issue of May 19 
from Mr. John Burroughs reporting the obser- 
vation of a flock of wild pigeons in the Catskills 
gives hope that the bird may yet be restored in 
such stock as to make good its preservation under 
more favorable treatment by its human enemy. 
COLD STORAGE GAME. 
THE startling disclosures of the practices of 
the meat packers may well give pause to the con- 
sumers of cold storage game. If it be the com- 
mon practice of the packers of beef and mutton 
and pork and sausage and canned chicken to use 
deadly chemicals for preserving the meats, for 
restoring the color of diseased flesh and neu- 
tralizing the odors of that which is rotten, what 
may we not assume to be done in the same direc- 
tion by the dealers in cold storage game? As is 
well known, immense quantities of game are kept 
in the cold storage establishments for years, 
whence the product is removed for consumption 
as opportunity offers. Anyone who has ever seen 
the stuff in mass knows what a disgusting object 
it sometimes is, and will readily understand that 
some of it must be subjected to a meat packer’s 
process of renevation before it can be served, 
even to the most confiding and ignorant con- 
sumer. Of course, much of this cold storage 
_ by the angler. 
game is eaten by persons who have game served 
to them because it is the correct thing, who have 
a notien, too, that game to be game must be 
“high,” and who eat the bird that is set before 
them, no matter how alarming it may be in color 
and flavor. In the light of the Chicago packing 
house revelations, the consumer of cold storage 
game may not unreasonably view the dish with 
suspicion, and refrain from it with prudence, 
FISHING AND WATER SUPPLIES. 
A New York city water supply project, for 
which $160,000,000 will be spent, will involve the 
taking of some 18,000 acres of land in the Cats- 
kills, the obliteration of several villages, the re- 
moval of nineteen miles of railroad track, and the 
confiscation of boating and fishing privileges in 
many streams and ponds and lakes. This is one 
of a rapidly growing number of instances of 
water supply extensions which involve the taking 
away of rights enjoyed from time immemorial 
In Middletown, N. Y., a war has 
been waged for four years over the prohibition 
of fishing in the public reservoirs; the strife has 
split both political parties, made bitter enemies 
of life-long friends and caused bloodshed several 
times. In Massachusetts the Legislature this 
year passed a bill permitting fishing and boating 
in several bodies of water in the Boston water 
system, but Governor Guild has vetoed the 
_ measure, holding that the lives of a million peo- 
ple should not be imperilled for the advantage of 
a few thousands. 

AmMeERIcAN food and game fishes have been sent 
to stock the waters of many foreign countries. 
Last year Mr. John W. Titcomb, of the United 
States Bureau of Fisheries, made a successful 
trip to Argentine with fishes adapted to that 
country, Now the Gaikwar of Baroda, who is 
touring the United States to study its institutions, 
has been so impressed by the success of our 
fishcultural enterprises, that he has expressed a 
desire to have an expert from the Bureau go to 
India to give instructions in fishculture. This is 
of increased significance when it is considered 
that Great Britain might be expected to supply 
the talent in this field throughout her own pos- 
sessions. 
ad 
New Jersey has appropriated $350,000 for 
fighting the mosquito pest. The sum is to be 
spent in instalments of $50,000 per year for seven 
years, Modern study of the life history of the 
mosquito has shown very clearly that if under- 
taken intelligently, schemes for the extirpation of 
the pest may be entirely successful; and the time 
has come when public moneys may reasonably 
be devoted to such work. The experience and 
success or failure of the New Jersey mosquito 
campaign will be watched with much interest. 
