
FOUNDERS OF THE AUDUBON SOCIETY 

Dr. WILLIAM BRUETTE, Editor 

ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES 
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Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation 
THE OBJECT OF THIS JOURNAL WILL BE TO 
studiously promote a healthful interest in outdoor 
recreation, and a refined taste for natural objects. 
August 14, 1873. 
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SPENDING MONEY AT HOME 
HE game refuge movement is making highly 
satisfactory progress in several states with- 
out waiting for proposed Federal legislation, 
new Washington bureaus, or special forms of 
taxation. 
Pennsylvania easily leads with a $25,000,000 
appropriation for the purchase of cut over and 
forest lands. George N. Mannfield, Superinten- 
dent of Fish and Game for Indiana, reports that 
his commission has acquired 5,018 acres of land 
in Brown County for a reservation and that 3,000 
acres are being negotiated for at this time. Mary- 
land is making good progress toward a state 
reservation, and there are similar movements 
under way both north and south. 
In the long run it will prove more satisfactory 
to have the money collected from the sportsmen of 
a state expended within the state, rather than to 
turn it over to a Federal bureau in Washington 
to spend it when and where they will. Certainly 
it is a more American form of government. 
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A REAL CONSERVATION STEP 
SIGNIFICANT step in the cause of game 
propagation is indicated by the recent an- 
nouncement of the Western Cartridge Com- 
pany that the well-known Tennessee sportsman, 
Nash Buckingham, has been added to their staff to 
direct the company’s newly created department of 
game propagation. Few men have had wider ex- 
perience in marsh and upland game field than Mr. 
Buckingham, and his work in connection with the 
Tennessee State Game Commission has attracted 
much favorable comment. This move on the part. 
of one of the country’s largest ammunition manu- 
facturers and one of the acknowledged leaders in 
its field will come as a welcome surprise to those 
sportsmen who have been in the habit of thinking 
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of the big manufacturing organizations as indif- 
ferent to the interests of the sportsmen and con- 
cerned only with their own profits. It means that 
the Western Cartridge Company, at least, recog- | 
nizes that the sportsmen’s interest and its own are 
identical and that the full strength of all con- 
cerned including manufacturers, dealers and shoot- 
ers, must be put behind the movement if our hunt- 
ing and shooting is to be ultimately increased. 
This company has already had some experience 
in work of this sort in connection with propaga- 
tion of game on several of its extensive properties. 
It is hoped that such experimental work may de- 
velop sound and feasible practices which will make 
possible the successful adaptation of the idea on 
a large scale. All the information resulting from 
the study and experimental work which the 
Western Cartridge Company plans to undertake 
will be broadcast to interested parties. 
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GOVERNMENT AGAIN TO DISTRIBUTE 
BUFFALO 
OLLOWING the policy inaugurated last year, 
the Department of the Interior is again offer- 
ing to distribute surplus buffalo bulls from 
the great herd in the Yellowstone National Park. 
The herd, developed from a small nucleus placed 
in the Yellowstone several years ago, has increased — 
so rapidly that Congress granted the Department 
permission to dispose of the surplus. This year 
about 100 bulls can be spared. 
Application for buffalo bulls should be made di- 
rect to the Director of the National Park Service, 
Department of the Interior, Washington, D. C., 
who, upon approving the request, will instruct the 
park superintendent to make shipment. 
Any person desiring a buffalo bull must pay the 
cost of catching and transporting it from the point 
of capture to its new home. The cost of captur- 
ing, crating, and transporting a buffalo from the 
buffalo farm to Gardiner, Montana, the shipping 
point, is approximately $80 or $85. To this must 
be added the express charges. <A buffalo will 
weigh from 1,200 to 2,500 pounds crated, but in 
considering express rates from Gardiner to the 
point of destination 2,000 pounds can be consid- 
ered as average weight. Based on these data ap- 
proximate rates of shipment can be obtained from 
_ the local express company. Shipments of buffalo 
, will be made in late September, October, and early 
November. 
Applicants for buffalo should state for what 
’ purpose the bison are desired and what facilities — 
, are available for their care. 
The age of animal 
desired should also be stated. 
Last fall 86 buffalo were distributed in this 
manner. 
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THE .SPELL OF THE FOREST 
LONE amidst fluted columns and green roofs 
the spell of the forest possesses man and 
mood. I have a peculiar feeling opposite to 
that of walking a city street, and am forced to 
leave estimates of towns and personalities. There 

