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In writing to advertisers mention Forest and Stream. 
Though I have different varieties of 
geese—such as blue, snow, bernicles 
and Canadas—they will rise together 
after a more or less prolonged conver- 
sation, fly by the hour, and all will 
alight at one time; they all wheel left 
or wheel right, or rise and fall as the 
leader commands. 
Now, it is all right to read FOREST 
AND STREAM, but let us all do some- 
thing. Merely reading a magazine and 
agreeing with it, is dead, and gives no 
help to its objects. Our fathers and 
grandfathers have killed the game 
birds of North America to such an ex- 
tent that very few birds can be seen 
on a trip about the country. We must 
get into action and not only bring our 
useful game birds back again, but must 
bring other game birds from other 
parts of the world to augment those 
varieties we have exterminated. There 
is no better environment than the 
States of Washington and Oregon for 
the introduction of the Impeyan pheas- 
ant. This exceedingly beautiful, sweet 
voiced game bird loves the mountains 
and follows the snow line throughout 
the year, ascending as it recedes, de- 
scending as it returns. The Reeves 
pheasant prefers valleys; the Hun- 
garian partridge delights in the mead- 
ows and fields; the capercalzie prefer 
the deep spruce woods. They would 
do well on Vancouver Island. 
| CHANCED to meet a gentleman 
from Sweden the other day who told 
me that only the very wealthy in Swe- 
den could afford to eat cheddar, as 
these birds are named in his country. 
“Beeg as a turkey” was his descrip- 
tion of this game bird. Larger than 
a turkey, and even finer eating, is the 
Great Bustard of Austria. This bird 
could be introduced into the Carolinas 
and Georgia and made an American 
game bird. All of this would make 
North America most interesting, more 
so, even, than all other countries. Too 
much money is being spent in the 
cities. Much of it that is really wasted 
could be spent to great advantage in 
the country, beautifying our farms, 
our farm houses, our roads. When I 
see Jack Miner’s former dirty brick- 
yard made into a place of extraordi- 
nary attractiveness, with its food trees 
and birds, I believe the time is not far 
away when the mad rush cityward will 
change to the right about and we 
Americans will become intensely inter- 
ested in the soil. 
Individuality in Touring 
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puncture or a dreadful night in a rain 
storm. And I have talked to travelers 
*| whose chief excitement and delight was 
that they had succeeded in violating, 
uncaught, the game and fish laws of 
each of the states through which they 
traveled. And others have boasted even 
less savory experiences and activities. 
Of the morality of view-points we 
need not concern ourselves here. I’m 
not at the moment trying to reform 
anybody. What I want first of all to 
do is make plain that every traveler’s 
great joy lies in the understanding of 
his own desires, his own hopes, his own 
instincts and ambitions. I have too 
often answered some vague longing, to 
find its gratification a disappointment 
and full of gall, not to know whereof 
I speak. 
ORSE than useless is the attempt 
to dodge the necessity of looking 
ahead, by depending on somebody else, 
to tell one where to go and what to do, 
especially what to take. Only in a gen- 
eral way can the old timer help the 
youngster to his desires. Clear think- 
ing is utterly essential in every branch 
of outdoor experience and adventure, 
whether automobile touring or fishing, 
hiking or hunting, trapping or motor- 
boating, bicycling or study of birds. 
And we are all of us specialists in a 
measure. 
Personally, I have dabbled in hunt- 
ing, fishing, trapping, photography, 
skiff, shanty-boat,. motorboat, walking, 
auto, motorcycle, bicycle, wilderness 
and game park and great lake and 
brook, Mississippi river and desert—I 
really should not go along with the list. 
Dabbled is not quite a fair word to my 
own industry and curiosity however; 
no matter how trivial the thing in 
hand, I believe I have faithfully en- 
deavored really to know and under- 
stand the subject; I could not, with the 
training of persistence and completing 
tasks undertaken, very well neglect 
whatever thing I had to do. And I find 
that a few minutes earnestly given to 
a subject years afterwards has often 
rewarded me out of all proportion to 
the expenditure of attention and time. 
So I urge upon all who would go 
automobile touring to look ahead with 
attention and clear mind to the actual 
things desired on such a tour. The 
trusting to what the day will bring, to 
what sights one will chance to see, to 
what experiences one will happen to 
have is not enough to make a tour a 
genuine success. I absolutely know 
that we all make automobile trips and, 
with the world rolling beneath our 
tires, gain less and return home with 
less than we should have—simply be- 
cause we did not have any yardstick by 
which to measure all features of our 
journey, nor any adequate receptacle 
of open mind in which to place every- 
thing gained—no complete preparation 
out of which we could grow and ex- 
pand, is feasible, but much can be 
done! 
It will identify you. 
