
Forest and Stream 
A Weekly Journal. 
GerorGeE Birp GRINNELL, President, 
346 Broadway, New York. 
CHARLES B. REYNOLDS, Secretary. 
346 Broadway, New York. 
Copyright, 1907, by Forest and Stream Publishing Co. 
Louis DEan Spetr, Treasurer. 
346 Broadway, New York. 



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THE OBJECT OF THIS JOURNAL 
will be to studiously promote a healthful interest 
in outdoor recreation, and to cultivate a refined 
taste for natural objects. 
—Forest AND Stream, Aug. 14, 1873. 
THE ADIRONDACK DEER SEASON. 
Wuen Governor Hughes affixed his signature 
to. two of Mr. Mills’ Assembly bills early this 
week, his action completely changed the Season 
for deer Shooting in New York State. 
It is now lawful to shoot deer at sunrise on 
Sept. 16 and thereafter for six weeks until sun- 
set of Oct. 31, but no wild deer can be killed 
while it is in the water. 
Possession of deer or venison for transportation 
by common carriers will be allowed from sunrise 
on Sept. 16 until midnight of Nov. 3, provided 
the owner accompanies it, and if taken for trans- 
portation before midnight on the 3d, it can be 
lawfully possessed until its destination is reached. 
These are the changes in the deer law. Other- 
| wise the provision relating to numbers is still 
in effect. It permits the transportation of only 
one deer at one time, and limits: the number to 
two deer in each season per man. 
In view of the discussion of the merits of 
the former law, in these columns last winter, it 
is plain that the new law does not meet the ideas 
of all sportsmen. The season does not open on 
Sept. 1, as some think it should, and it closes 
| too early to please those who prefer to. hunt 
when the leaves are off and the ground reason- 
ably certain to be covered with snow. As a 
compromise measure, however, it may prove 
satisfactory. , 

AMERICAN HUNTING ARMS. 
| MucH# interest is being manifested by sports- 
imen all over the country in the collection of 
| American Hunting Arms which has been set on 
|foot by the Boone and Crockett Club, and is 
| to be exhibited in the Administration Building 
}of the New York Zoological Society. Many in- 
|quiries have been received asking for further in- 
formation about -the collection and its purposes, 
jand as knowledge concerning it extends, interest 
lin the collection will increase. 
Already there have been donated a number 
lof articles dating back to the first part of the 
\last century. These include old time rifles of 
the period of 1840 and earlier, a huge old bowie 
knife, an old T. Gray axe—one of the first iron 
implements traded to the Western Indians—and 
other objects of which the average sportsman 
has read, but which he has never seen. 
A successful big-game hunter, who is interested 
in Indians and Indian matters, has asked the 
temporary custodian of the collection whether 
a couple of old time Indian bows made of elk 
horn would be suited to the collection. We be- 
lieve that such hunting implements, which now 


’ feel for a domestic animal. 
NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1907. 
scarcely exist except in a very few museums, 
have a distinct place among this collection of 
American hunting implements. 
It is very gratifying to be able to. announce 
that the Président, who possesses a rifle formerly 
belonging to Kit Carson and by him given to 
Kit Carson’s old friend, the late General Beale, 
has offered to deposit this most interesting and 
valuable relic in this collection. 
No doubt many of our readers, scattered far 
and wide over the land, possess interesting old 
arms or hunting implements which they would 
be glad to donate to or deposit in this collection. 
Outside of the field of firearms, hunting knives, 
hunting hatchets, powder horns, ball pouches, 
bullet moulds, and a multitude of other articles, 
belonging to the pioneer hunter’s outfit, suggest 
themselves as useful articles to make this ex- 
hibit complete and interesting. ° 
THE CHESTNUT TREES IN BLOOM. 
From the hilltop, looking over the woodland 
in*the valley and on the ‘opposite slopes, some 
great trees are seen to be crowned with a thick 
cap of white. Mid-summer has come, for the 
chestnut trees are in bloom. Already many of 
the hay lots show brown where the mower has 
passed, and fields of rye and oats, yellowing 
beneath the fierce July sun, bow themselves in 
the breeze at morning and evening, ready for 
the reapers’ sickle. 
Now woods, thickets and hedgerows are peo- 
pled with new-fledged birds, some of them short- 
tailed, streaked and just from the nest, others 
full plumaged, but without experience, and re- 
garding man with no more fear than they would 
Most parent birds 
have reared their second broods, and now, free 
from family cares, are beginning to lose their 
worn feathers and to prepare for the great event 
which the next two months will bring to them 
—the start on the autumnal journey southward. 
Now is the time when the country dweller, 
crossing through his woodlot, may unwittingly 
walk into a brood of partridges as large as quail, 
which taking wing and scattering, alight about 
him in the trees, and stare at him with innocent 
curiosity. Or when jogging along the shaded 
country road he may surprise a family of quail, 
the parents and a dozen tiny young, wallowing 
in the dust of the highway. Small though they 
be, these young are now well able’ to fly, but 
they trust their feet rather than their wings, and 
scuttle off into the roadside: grass and weeds, 
where, no matter how carefully you look for 
them, you will hardly find a single one. 
Down on the wet meadows among the tall 
grass, the mother rail leads about her brood of 
little ones which a month or two later will fur- 
nish sport for the early gunner; a sport for him 
which indeed is death to these simple-minded 
marsh dwellers. Soon over these meadows will 
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flocks of blackbirds, whose 
sharp cries and loose scattering flight recall rail 
shooting scenes, tides known as paygy and pogy, 
and all the discussion of old time shooting days 
be passing to and fro 
with some pusher of long experience. 
Though in the air the earth 
no hint of a change, the blooming of the chest- 
nut trees always suggests to us the coming of 
winter with fields deep with snow and streams 
ice bound, and howling northwest winds that 
swing and bow the great trees on the hilltop. 
the maturing of the fruits 
larvest—the reward which 
or on there is 
It is a notable sign of 
of the earth, of the 
the farmer is to receive for his year’s work. A 
which the heed, for it 
warns us that soon ‘the shooting season will be 
sign gunner, too, may 

here. 

THE recommendations of Dr. Droogan, given 
elsewhere in this issue, that the depleted brook 
trout streams of the Catskills be devoted to rain- 
bow and brown trout, are deserving of the in- 
dorsement of anglers who haunt these beautiful 
waters. The rainbow trout will without doubt 
thrive in the upper waters and the brown trout 
further down. Both are lusty and well able to 
take care of themselves, but their presence need 
not cause the brook trout to be lost sight of. 
This beautiful little fellow _ the 
distinguished consideration of all classes, and in 
streams where he holds his own he should not 
be disturbed. In many waters it is a matter of 
choice between other than the native species, and 
in spite of the strong sentiment in favor of our 
trout, will 
never again be found in any considerable num- 
bers. The question, therefore, resolves itself in- 
to one of introduced trout or none, and the rain- 
bow and brown trout are worthy successors to 
our dethroned favorite, fontinalis. 
deserves most 
brook there are waters in which he 
ad 
ANOTHER ‘New York law now in effect is 
confidently expected to assist forest protec- 
tors in their efforts to secure adequate punish- 
ment for handle fires 
lessly while clearing land of brush, logs, ete. 
The old law fixed a penalty of three hundred 
dollars flat, but it is now optional with judges 
to impose fines of that amount the 
minimum being fifty dollars. Few juries would 
want to see excessive penalties imposed in cases 
where the evidence may leave room for them to 
doubt due to intent or 
a lack of care. 
persons who care- 
or less, 
whether the offense be 
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Our attention has been called to the fact that 
sportsmen, sojourning in the woods, who desire 
to assist the game protectors, often neglect to 
report law violations promptly, and in this way 
actually assist the poachers to get away. 

