

Forest and Stream 
A Weekly Journal. Copyright, 1907, by Forest and Stream Publishing Co. 
GrorGE Birp GRINNELL, President, 
346 Broadway, New York. 
Cuar es B. Reynotps, Secretary. 
346 Broadway, New York. 
Louis 
DEAN SpeEir, 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. 

HAND-REARING GAME BIRDS —l. 
Tue continually growing respect for the game 
laws and their gradual improvement year by 
year, seem to show that the residents of the 
United States and Canada are slowly coming to 
appreciate the value of game and its importance 
to the community. The extension of the license 
laws, which tend to limit the free shooting of 
game, also provide large sums which may be de- 
yoted to its protection and increase. These 
things very naturally go together. It would be 
a waste of money and effort to spend great sums 
in increasing game when the selfish public has 
full liberty to destroy it at any time under any 
circumstances and in any quantity. It is rea- 
sonable that the sportsman who uses the game 
for his pleasure should pay—in part at least— 
the cost of preserving what game we have, and 
of increasing the supply. License laws, at first 
extremely unpopular, are now recognized as rea- 
sonable and just. 
As respect for the law increases and the eco- 
nomic value of game becomes better understood, 
it is proper that every effort should be made to 
foster the game supply to a point where the 
annual increase shall more than equal the annual 
destruction. This is what we may hope to see 
done in the United States. Obviously it cannot 
be done with all game; there is no longer room 
in this country for vast herds of buffalo nor for 
sky-darkening hordes of wild pigeons, but there 
should be room, and there always will be, for 
the true game birds whose food consists largely 
of noxious insects and of harmful seeds, and for 
the waterfowl whose value as food and as an 
element of sport is so great. 
In England, thickly populated and _ highly 
cultivated, the game would long ago have been 
exterminated had it not been for the practice of 
closely preserving it, and of rearing game by 
artificial means—“assisting nature,” as it has 
been called. As a result of these courses, the 
English have game in astonishing abundance. 
On large estates birds are enormously plentiful, 
and small shootings may be had, we are told, at 
moderate cost by almost any one. Game is re- 
garded by landowners as a part of the pro- 
duce of the land and is sold as a matter of course, 
so that in the season the markets are flooded 
with game, the price of which is very moderate. 
There is no reason why an equal abundance of 
game should not be had in this country, and we 
do not doubt that in the future it will so prevail; 
but it would be a misfortune if this were to 
happen before the public is ready for it. 
THE PALMA TROPHY. 
Tue clean-cut, decisive victory of the United 
States team, in the contest for the Palma trophy, 
on the Rockliffe Range, near Ottawa, Ont., on 
Saturday of last week, places that team indisput- 
ably in the lead of the world in international 
military competition. It cause for the 
heartiest rejoicing on the part of all American 
1S 
citizens. 
The winning score, 1,712 points out of a pos- 
sible 1,800, is a record breaker, far surpassing all 
prior records in connection with this great inter- 
national contest. It is not far from perfection. 
The second team, the Canadian, was 41 points 
behind the victors. A most gratifying feature 
was the dominant good 
sportsmanship which prevailed throughout the 
good fellowship and 
contest. 
Since the first contest for the Palma trophy, 
emblematic of the rifle supremacy of the world 
in a military sense, the United States has been 
pre-eminent, except in two contests. In this suc- 
cess, there is reason for a feeling of just pride. 
The first contest was held at Creedmoor, Long 
Island, in 1876. With a total score of 3,126 points, 
the United States team defeated teams respec- 
tively of Scotland, Ireland, Australia and Can- 
ada. The Irish team was second with a total of 
3,104 points. 
In 1877 the team of Great Britain made a 
determined effort to capture this trophy, but 
again the American team was superior by a score 
of 3,334 to 3,242. 
Owing to some differences of opinion in 1878, 
between the team of 1877 and the directors of 
the National Rifle Association, the American 
team indulged in a workover. 
During many years thereafter the Palma 
trophy remained in possession of the National 
Rifle Association without being disturbed by 
challenges, 
In time, it was deposited in the Museum of 
Military Service at Governor’s Island, where it 
remained till the late American-Spanish war. 
Thereafter, for a long while, it was stored in 
New York City. 
In 1900, the American team had another walk- 
over, thirty shots per man. In igor, the Cana- 
dian team captured it in a contest at Sea Girt 
by a score of 1,522 to 1,494. In 1902, at Ottawa 
the team of Great Britain captured it with 
score of 1,459. Of the other two contestants, the 
score of the United States team was 1,447; Caria- 
dian, 1,373. 
In 1903, the United States team won it at Bris- 
ley, England, defeating teams of Great Britain, 
Canada, Australia, Natal, France and Norway. 
The winning score was 1,570. Owing to some 
disputes after the match, on matters pertaining 
to technicalities, the National Rifle Association 
of the United States voluntarily the 
Palma trophy to the National Rifle Association 
of England. 
returned 
NEW YORK, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1907. 
, VOL. LXIX.—No. 11. 
1 No. 346 Broadway, New York. 
THE WOOD BUFFALO. 
THE importance of taking immediate steps to 
protect the wood buffalo of the Northwest is evi- 
dent. According to the statement of Inspector 
Jarvis, of the Northwest Mounted Police, printed 
in another column, it would be a comparatively 
easy matter for poachers to wipe out the entire 
herd instead of killing one or two from time 
to time, as they have done in the recent past. 
The inspector’s should 
acted upon at once by the Canadian Government. 
He urges that the present range of the buffalo 
be made a government park, a thing that can 
easily be done before the attention of cattle men 
is attracted and the region invaded by them and 
recommendations be 
by settlers. 
Meanwhile the herd should be protected by 
competent mounted policemen. The fact that its 
range is known will serve to attract unscrupulous 
persons, and if the greatest possible care be not 
exercised the Canadian Gcvernment will 
what may prove to be the last opportunity to 
save this little herd of buffalo from extermina- 
lose 
tion. 

At Gold Hill, Oregon, to-day, Sept. 14, a 
meeting of all those interested in the fresh-water 
game fish of that State will be held for the pur- 
pose of beginning a campaign in favor of better 
regulations for the fresh of Oregon. 
Her legislators have not displayed much inter- 
est in matters regarded by her sportsmen as im- 
portant, and the latter, backed by the Gold Hill 
popular 
waters 
Chamber of Commerce, propose a 
movement in of reforms while there are 
a few game fish left in the streams. Governor 
Chamberlain has become interested in the pro- 
posed reforms and will be present, while the 
wardens and hatchery surperintendents 
will assist. It is to be hoped that the State 
association, to be formed during this meeting, 
will become strong enough to secure the enact- 
ment of proper laws covering the propagation 
and protection of the fresh-water game fish of 
Oregon. Few States have trout streams equaling 
those of Oregon, but reforms are needed there 
favor 
game 
An examination of the reproduction of ths 
California lynx skull, which appears on page 4II 
of this issue, may astonish some of our readers, 
who, perhaps, seldom realize the actual size of 
the head and jaws of these interesting animals, 
about which so much nonsense has been written. 
Take away from the lynx the brilliant, large eyes, 
the prominent ears and the general appearance 
of size, which are impressive, and there is not 
Without their “catamounts” and “lu- 
the 
publicity 
much left. 
however, concerning back- 
woods must to 
through the yellow books and journals 
yarns 
tame 
civees,”’ 
be too secure 

