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/ he Joy of L,

iving

J HERE is lots of joy in living if you strike

the proper gait;
If you always come up smiling in the face of every

fate.
If you're keeping step and whistling some lively

little tune,
You'll be living gay and happy as a summer day

in June.

l\_EEP a level head, don't worry, help your

brothers on the way;
Let the sunshine of good humor shine upon you

ev'ry day;
Speak a cheerfid word at all times, never "knock"

your fellow man
And you'll surely be rewarded — just keep doing all

you can.

/HERE is lots of joy in living if you live your

life all right.
Lots of sunshine and of roses, keep your eyes

turned to the light,
Look behind the clouds of trouble; there's a silver

lining there,
And you'll find it if you're only living life upon

the square.

OCATTER good cheer like the posey scatters
seed before the wind,

And the petty woes and troubles soon will be left
far behind.

Be a "booster" every minute, help along your fel-
low man,

And you'll surely be rewarded, just keep doing all
you can.

Page Two

MONTANA WILD LIFE

The Official Publication of The State Fish and Game Commission

VOL. IV.

HELENA, MONTANA, JANUARY, 1932.

No. 8

Williams Heads Montana Sportsmen

U

Fred B. Williams
Bozeman

XDER the lead-
ership of Fred
B. Williams of
Bozeman, outstand-
ing Montana sports-
man whose efforts
for the conservation
and propagation of
fish and game ill the
Gallatin Valley have
extended throughout
the state, the Mon-
tana Sportsmen's
Association has
started its 13th year
of constructive ac-
tivity. Mr. Williams
succeeds Glen Smith
of Missoula, who
has served as chair-
man of the board
for 10 consecutive
years. The election came at the con-
clusion of the annual convention at the
Placer Hotel at Helena. December 18-19,
following two days crammed with edu-
cational features. Andy C. Baumgartner
of Great Falls, leading license dealer
of the state, was elected to member-
ship on the board of governors to suc-
ceed L. A. Smith of Lewistown.

The twelfth annual convention of the
association was properly declared the
most interesting in the history of the
organization. In addition to delegates
from affiliated clubs, speakers were
present representing the forestry serv-
ice, the U. S. Biological Survey, the
national parks system, the fur farmers
of the state, the Dude Ranchers' Asso-
ciation, the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries,
the Izaak Walton League, and other
organizations.

Resolutions passed by the association
are published in full in this edition of
MONTANA WILD LIFE. Another reso-
lution brought upon the floor without
recommendation, endorsing the plan to
donate 25c out of the fee collected for
each fishing and hunting license in the
state, to the bureau of biological sur-
vey, was tabled.

Presentation of two other resolutions,
submitted by the committee without
recommendation for discussion by dele-
gates, commending the State Fish and
Game Commission for making possible
the completion of reels of moving pic-
tures of fish and game and for continu-
ing the publication of MONTANA WILD
LIFE, official publication of the de-
partment, resulted in the adoption of
a substitute motion by Fred B. Williams
of Bozeman. The motion, which fol-
lowed extended discussion emphasizing
the value of the magazine from an edu-
cational standpoint and its worth in the

upbuilding of Montana, in carrying the
message of the state throughout the
nation and its possibilities for future
constructive endeavor, provided for the
appointment of a committee of three
to meet with the State Fish and Game
Commission to work out ways and
means whereby the scope of the maga-
zine may be extended. It was argued
that all constructive development or-
ganizations of the state should play an
active part in extending the circulation
of the magazine setting forth the vir-
tues of the dude ranches, the Montana
Automobile Association, the fur farm-
ers, the highway department, and simi-
lar activities, as well as fish and game
activities.

The minutes of the convention re-
flect the comprehensive scope of ad-
dresses and discussion:

The twelfth annual meeting of the
Montana Sportsmen's Association con-
vened Friday morn-
ing, Dec. 18, 1931, in
the Blue Room of
the Placer hotel, with
President Glen Smith
of Missoula presiding.
It was attended by
a number of delegates
from sportsmen's or-
ganizations through-
out the state; also
representatives of af-
filiated associations,
with sportsmen from
other states present.
City Commissioner
J. R. Wine welcomed
the sportsmen, citing
the advantages of
having the meeting
in Helena, the capi-
tal city.
S. Barry Locke of Ogden, Utah, con-
servation director of the Izaak Walton
League, was the first speaker. His
subject was "Conservation and Utiliza-
tion of Wild Life in Western Regions."
Former activities having familiarized
him with conditions in the west, his
address added materially to the interest
of the conference. Among subjects he
reviewed were conservation of elk herds
both in Montana and in Idaho. He
traced the increase in deer, and also
reviewed the antelope problem. Con-
servation and utilization of mountain
sheep in Wyoming were discussed.

Chairman Glen Smith presented bis
annual address and thanked veteran
sportsmen present for their attendance,
some of whom have not missed a con-
ference in years. He reviewed the ob-
jects of the Montana Sportsmen's As-

A. H. Croonquist
Billings

sociation as set forth in its constitu-
tion ; the propagation, preservation and
protection of game fish, birds and ani-
mals, and forests; the enactment of
laws for preservation, propagation and
protection of all wild life; and to create
and foster public sentiment toward this
end. He urged recognition of various
industries and cooperation with them
in an honest effort to fit association ob-
jectives into their proper place in the
general scheme of development; to co-
operate with the livestock industry,
timber industry, the dude ranch indus-
try, and other industries. He praised
work done in the Bear River territory;
the Jackson Hole; the five years' fish-
eries program; handling of the Yellow-
stone National Park herd, and other ref-
uges. He also discussed wild life in
relation to the national forests.

Disposal of unappropriated public
land came up for discussion. Chairman
Glen Smith said there were many mil-
lion acres of unappropriated public land
in Montana. He said a committee would
be named to study the situation and
to make recommendations.

A. H. Croonquist of the Montana-
Wyoming Due Ranchers' Association,
read the annual report of Secretary
Ben Gerry. It revealed the association
in good condition, 46 meetings held in
various sections of the state, a volume
of correspondence work performed, and
prospective organization of several
clubs.

Prediction was made by Dave Mad-
sen, superintendent of wild life re-
sources for the national park service.
and former game commissioner of Utah,
that the hunting season of 30 days on
waterfowl, such as prevailed this year,
would replace the three and a half
months open season heretofore pro-
v i d e d throughout
n ~ the country. In em-

phasizing the dim-
jA inution of waterfowl

<B k he cited the can-

vasback duck which
is in danger of ex-
• iSb 4t , Unction. He said the

only cure for the
condition, as he saw
the problem, was in-
creasing the num-
ber of migratory
b i r d s, having a
shorter open season
until the waterfowl
have a chance to
come back. "We
have been drawing
Dr w. M. Copenhaver on our principal and
Helena not on the surplus

Page Three

MONTANA

WIS*© lif:

A. C. Baumgartner
Great Falls

stock and the nat-
ural increase," he
said. The national
association has
sought to raise a
large fund by one
of two methods —
one to provide for
a dollar license to
be sent to the fed-
eral fund and the
other to impose a
tax of a cent on
shells. There were
many objections to
either or both sug-
gestions, he said.

Mr. Madsen said
that Utah, when he
was commissioner
of fish and game,
arranged for a
board, composed of the commissioner
of fish and game, a sheepman, a cattle-
man, a member of the forest service and
a member of the sportsmen's associa-
tions who met and settled the question
of grazing of livestock and elk and
deer on the public lands. This ended
the dispute which has long vexed the
two classes.

Ray C. Steele of the U. S. Biological
Survey, told of the drying up and dis-
appearance of former famous waterfowl
nesting grounds in eastern and central
Oregon through drainage and irriga-
tion. Scarcity of waterfowl had also
been brought about by the increased
number of hunters and accessibility of
shooting ground due to the automobile,
he said.

W. M. Rush, in charge of the study
of the Yellowstone park elk and deer
herds as well as the herds in the Sun
River preserve, told of how depletion
of these animals has been halted and
of increases in numbers in recent years
through the imposition of the buck law
and other provisions. In 1912, he said,
there were 30,000 animals in the Yel-
lowstone herd, and by 1920 the number
had decreased to 8,000. In 1927 it had
increased to 17,000. The Sun River
herd has grown from a few scattered
elk in 1910 to about 5,000 in 1930.

Some 8,000 beaver are caught an-
nually in Montana, Robert H. Hill,
state fish and game warden, said. The
future of these and other fur-bearing
animals not in captivity depends on
the protection they are afforded through
legislation, he declared.

The coyote was described by R. E.
Bateman of Billings, leader of preda-
tory animal control in Montana, as the
worst enemy of deer and game, sheep
and cattle. Stock killing bears, he said,
are fewer in number and difficult to
wipe out.

Kenneth F. MacDonald, superintend-
ent of state fish hatcheries, gave an
able address. He quoted figures show-
ing the number of eggs taken, dis-
cussed rearing ponds and the advisa-
bility of permitting fish to grow from
fry to fish at least two or three inches
in length before being liberated.

At the evening meeting Fred B. Wil-
liams of Bozeman, presided. Frank Lem-
mer of Great Falls explained what the

Izaak Walton League has done for
the sportsmen in that vicinity. He
urged the sportsmen's association and
the league to work for the same pur-
pose. He also alluded to the feeling
which sometimes existed between stock-
men and sportsmen due to dispute over
the grazing privileges. President Smith
said he was always prepared to bring
all classes together in conference and
thresh out differences.

S. G. Tonkin of Billings was assigned
the subject: "Coordinating Sportsmen's
Efforts." He said he would also speak
on "Cooperation." Mr. Tonkin's discus-
sion brought forth arguments in which
Attorney Frank Polutnik, Jr., of the
Great Falls chapter of the Izaak Wal-
ton League, which is not affiliated with
the Montana Sportsmen's Association,
participated. Roger Cummings and W.
L. Anderson of Missoula, O. C. Lam-
port of the Helena club, and Dave
Madsen likewise took prominent parts.

W. T. Thompson, superintendent of
the federal fish hatchery at Bozeman,
gave what was considered his farewell
speech as an official of the govern-
ment. Mr. Thompson, who is retiring
after 35 years of
service, will be
succeeded Jan. 1 by
Harry Johnson, for-
merly of Leadville,
Colo., now in charge
of a government
hatchery in Alaska.
Al H. Croonquist
of Red Lodge, ex-
ecutive secretary of
the Montana- Wyom-

€i ing Dude Ranchers
' Association, gave an
excellent address on
the industry. lie
said in part:

"The Dude Ranch-
ers Association is
interested in fish
and game in the
west. The dude
ranchers can sell the sight of this
game to the kodaker, hiker, and the
horseback rider for ' as much money
as the state can sell it to the hunters,
so in this way we will sell our game
for twice its value.

"Trout is bait for millionaires. This
has been proven on the dude ranches.
With the flood of tourists sure to come
to Montana, good fishing will be essen-
tial if we are to hold these people with
us all summer. A big trout will do
more to advertise our state than vol-
umes of printed matter. These big
trout with pictures and conversation
of the angler who hooked him will
cause the angler to come back to us
year after year and bring his family
and friends.

"This brings out the point that fish
and game is not only the sportsmen's
problem, but the problem of every citi-
zen within our boundaries. Good fish-
ing will sell thousands of dollars worth
of merchandise, oil, gas, hotel accomo-
dations nad everything else that makes
western prosperity.

"Commercial clubs, hotels, highway

L. A. Smith
Lewistown

and development associations should
all join hands with the sportsmen in
cooperating with our Fish and Game
Commission, the U. S. Bureau of Fish-
eries and the Forest Service.

"Seventy-two dude ranches report
value of land, leases and buildings at
$3,500,000. They own or control 560,000
acres and have $1,220,000 worth of dude
ranch equipment and furnishings. The
approximate value of these 72 outfits
is $6,100,000.

"The dude ranchers do not want the
west set aside as a game preserve to
the exclusion of all other interests.
There is room for everybody, and if
people will get together and talk things
over, there will be no misunderstand-
ings. Their problems can all be solved
even to sheep. The dude ranchers
themselves own 37,000 head of 'em
along with 10,200 head of cattle and
6,700 head of saddle horses.

"The thing that should interest the
people of these two states is cash and
population. Eastern people with money,
the people who come to dude ranches
for vacations, like the region and stay
to make their homes, and 119 eastern
people have done this and now have
over $3,031,000 invested in their hold-
ings. In ' most cases good fishing and
hunting have closed the deal."

Joe Hendricks, superintendent of the
state game farm at Warm Springs, said
that Montana was better adapted for
the propagation of Chinese pheasants
and Hungarian partridges than was
Oregon, where he had worked for many
years before coming to Montana. He
names as enemies of the game birds,
coyotes, magpies, crows and house cats.
Ernest Miller of Bozeman, dude
rancher, said he strongly favored all
groups uniting in putting over a pro-
gram for Montana development.

Murray Stebbins, secretary of the
Montana Wool Growers Association,
showed the importance of the wool and
sheep industry in Montana.

M. M. Atwater, fur farmer from
Basin, said that sportsmen are overlook-
ing a bet by not using beaver dams
for the rearing of fingerling fish. At
the same time, he said, the stream or
marsh could be employed to advantage
for migratory waterfowl refuges,
equipped as they are with duck food,
which is also planted
for the benefit of I he
beaver.

Mr. Atwater said
the; beaver could
fraternize well with
the muskrat, the trout
and the ducks, and
conserve' the water
by building dams in
dry seasons. Old
timers were reminded
of the late Jake de
Hart, for eight years
state game warden,
who always claimed
the beaver was the
smartest wild ani-
mal.

Mr. Atwater said
at the rate the bea-

Ed M. Boyes
Libby

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W. A. Brown
Great Falls

ver had been dis-
appearing in recent
years. within the
next decade all bea-
ver fur would come
from animals reared
on farms. He as-
serted the beaver
ranch could be made
a side attraction for
the dude ranch and
with its food, wild
ducks and t r o u t
rearing ponds, would
claim the interest
of the guests and
tourists.

The concluding ac-
tivities of the con-
vention came at the
Placer grill Satur-
day evening, Dec. 19,
when with President Glen Smith pre-
siding, a number of speakers were
heard at the twelfth annual banquet,
attended by about 150 sportsmen and
their wives.

Attorney T. W. Carolan of Forsyth
gave an address. He complimented
out-of-state speakers who had addressed
the convention by saying that he had
learned more about wild life than he
had believed possible when he came to
Helena. Particularly did he mention
Dave Madsen. superintendent of wild
life resources in the national park
service, and M. M. Atwater of Basin
who had talked about the beaver. Dave
Madsen said he had enjoyed the con-
vention which he declared had been
outstanding in the annals of sports-
dom. He commended the state fish
and game commission for its excellent
work, and reiterated his advice to
change from the ■ hit and miss game
conservation method to a scientific sys-
tem. Roger Cummings of Missoula
gave a short talk, illuminated with wit.
During the two-day discussion of
fish and game problems, sportsmen
attending the convention were given
the opportunity of sharing in educa-
tional facts placed before them by
Dave Madsen, director of wild life
resources of the national parks serv-
ice, whose remarks formed a whole-
some part of every session. Mr. Mad-
sen, former commissioner of the Utah
department, has attained a position

Or. J. H. Garbersor
Miles City

F. MacDonald
Helena

of international prominence and es-
teem, through his activities in behalf
of the conservation of fish and game.
He came all the way across the con-
tinent from New York to attend the
Montana convention. He was prom-
inently identified with the American
Game conference held at New York
early in December and in recognition
of his constructive activities, was
elected chairman of the 1932 national
game conference. His work calls him
to all parts of the nation where na-
tional parks have been established,
hence his knowledge of conditions, es-
pecially in the west, forms a founda-
tion for authentic statements. Dur-
ing the years Mr. Madsen was asso-
ciated with the federal government,
he was particularly active in work
that eventually brought the reclama-
tion of the Bear river marshes, famed
feeding and breeding grounds for mil-
lions of ducks.

Among those who attended the
twelfth annual meeting, including mem-
bers and visitors, were the following:
W. M. Rush, Yellowstone National
Park: A. H. Croonquist, Montana-
Wyoming Dude Ranchers' Association;
O. C. Lamport, Hel-
ena; A. C. Baum-
gartner. Great Falls;
G. C. Stevenson,
Great Falls; 0. J.
Christensen. Ana-
conda: Frank Point -
nik, Jr., Great Falls:
H. H. Hendron, Hel-
ena; Dr. John D.
Sutphen, Helena; F.
T. Johnson, Red
Lodge; Frank Lem-
mer. Great Falls;
R. E. Batemau, Bil-
lings; J. F. Holecek,
Lewistown; Dr. W.
M. Copenhaver, Hel-
ena; Ernest Mil-
ler, Ennis; W. L.
Anderson, Missoula;
J. F. Hendricks,
Warm Springs; Glen Smith, Missoula;
Fred B. Williams, Bozeman; K. F.
MacDonald. Helena; W. C. Phillips,
Laurel; Frank E. Hirsch, Helena; L. B.
Tipling, Helena; Byron DeForest, Great
Falls; George F. Baggley, Yellowstone
National Park; J. H. Chartrand, Miles
City; M. M. Atwater, Basin; W. T.
Thompson, Bozeman: J. L. Price, Laurel;
S. G. Tonkin, Billings; L. Lomasson,
Missoula : Fred J. Foster, Salt Lake
City; D. C. Salyerds, Helena: W. A.
Brown, Great Falls; E. A. Wilson, Liv-
ington; Dave Madsen. Salt Lake City;
Robert H. Hill, state fish and game
warden; J. W. Carney, assistant game
warden; Senator L. J. Donovan. Shelby;
Floyd L. Smith. Helena.

Fred B. Williams, chairman of the
board of governors, will call the
elected members into session in the
near future, to work out financial
plans for continuing t lie constructive
work in which the association has been
engaged.

W. M. Rush
Yellowstone Park

Tom Marlowe Hurt
in Auto Smash

THOMAS N. MARLOWE, chairman
of the Montana Fish and Game
Commission, was painfully injured
during holiday week, when he sus-
tained several fractured ribs and a
slash of the leg in an automobile
accident on the Evaro hill, near his
home at Missoula. The hill was a
glare of ice and while returning to
Missoula from the reservation region,
Mr. Marlowe, accompanied by a Mis-
soula sportsman, attempted to drive
the car over the dangerous road. The
car became unmanageable, skidded off
the road and turned over several
times. Mr. Marlowe was given first
aid and taken to Missoula. When a
wrecker reached the scene of the ac-
cident, the car was righted and
started toward Missoula. After going
a short distance it started skidding
again and in its acrobatic stunts on
the ice, came near dragging the
wrecker into the ditch.

WHY WORRY.'

You are either successful or you are
not. If you are successful there is no
cause for worry. If you are unsuccess-
ful, there are just two reasons, either
you are ill or you are not. If you are
not ill, why worry? If you are ill.
either you will get well or you will
not. If you get well, why worry? If
you do not get well, you will either go
to heaven or you will not. If you go
to heaven, why worry? If you don't
go to heaven, you will at first be so
embarrassed that you will probably
feel hot and your face may burn. But
then you will soon become interested
shaking hands with old friends and
after awhile you will feel perfectly at
home. So why worry?

FOR YOUR SWEET TOOTH

Farmer (talking to street car conduc-
tor about hard times): "Well, if all
else fails, we farmers can eat our for-
est preserves."

Operator: "You've nothing on us! We
can eat our traffic jams!"

S. G. Tonkin
Billings

E. A. Wilson
Livingston

Page Five

Helgramites

A TOUGH, dangerous looking bass
bait is the helgrarnite. Anglers
like to fish with this fellow, al-
though few are enthusiastic about han-
dling it. A vicious pair of nippers on
the head, twin stickers on the tail, and
an ability to turn, double and twist its
many muscled body about, advises care
in hooking him on. Those who know
look for a shell-like collar just behind
the head and slip the hook under it.
When so hooked a helgrarnite will live
a long time and be active enough to
attract fish.

Helgramites have an interesting life
c, cle. He at different stages lives in
the air, earth and water. For a period
they live in the water, usually in riffles
under stones. By holding a seine of
fine mesh at the foot of a riffle and
having a companion turn the stones
above, the helgramites are carried by
the current down into the net. Hel-
gramites are also found in any sand
beaches, along stones and logs. They
leave the water and curl up in a sort
of cavern. After a length of time the
tough black skin is shed and then it is
tender yellowish white and almost help-
less. Now the helgrarnite grows a pair
of gauze-like wings and eventually
takes wing. They now fly around and
are frequently found around street
lights. The only resemblance they now
bear to the water nymph is the same
old nippers on the head. It is claimed
that three years are required to com-
plete this life cycle. Regardless of the
time required for these startling changes
in appearance and life he is one strange
creature and a dandy bass bait at any
stage of it. The most fortunate fisher-
men hook him on a line without sinker
and flip him around likely spots. An
ideal combination is fly-rod, leader,
helgrarnite and a bass pool. — Hunter-
Trader-Trapper.

ELECTRIC PEAK HIGHEST

Highest peak in Yellowstone National
Park is Electric Peak, 11,155 feet above
sea level. It was so named when one
of the early pioneers climbed to its top
during an electrical storm and was
amazed to find sparks issue from his
finger tips. A peculiar sensation as
though his hair were standing on cud
accompanied this phenomenon.

THRILLS IN SPEEDBOAT HIDE

Never failing to thrill visitors in
Yellowstone National Park is a ride
on a speedboat on Yellowstone lake,
7. 710 feet above sea level. Covering an
area of 139 square miles, with approxi-
mately 100 miles of shore line, this lake
is one of the largest in the world at
s' i great an altitude.

CONSERVATION TEXT BOOK

The Texas game commission has
started a movement to have conserva-
tion taught in the public schools of that
state. As a result, more than 2,500
copies of a book on conservation and
wild life have been distributed.

VETS GUARD "ALARM CLOCKS"

Quail may be scarce in most places
but disabled World War veterans of
the Livermore Veterans' hospital, San
Francisco, find they have too many fol-
iate sleeping mornings. Two years ago
the ex-soldiers made the hospital
grounds a quail refuge and began pro-
tecting a lone covey by giving stray
cats the "bum's rush" and putting out
grain. Now they report that several
hundred quail, grown tame, invade the
inner yards early every morning and
laise "merry cain" until fed.

How To Cook Carp

ONE REASON IS PLENTY

Passerby (to man who has just land-
ed from a three-story fall) :

"Why did you jump out of that win-
dow?"

Man Who Jumped: : "A woman lied
to me."

Passerby: "That's no reason for
jumping out of a window. What did
she lie about?"

Man Who Jumped: "She told me her
husband was in Canada."

BILL LARGER THAN THE PIG

A Montana farmer purchased a pure-
bred pig from a raiser of fancy hogs.
The pig and bill arrived the same day.
Next day the dissatisfied farmer wrote
to the hog raiser as follows: "Dear
Sir: Both pig and bill arrived safely.
Judging from their comparative size,
you made an error in shipping. You
should have sent the bill by express
and the pig by mail."

CANNING THE PRATTLE

A barber was surprised to receive
a tip before he had cut his customer's
hair.

"Thank you, sir! Not many tip us
first," he said.

"That isn't a tip," snapped the man
in the chair, "that's hush money."

Fifteen million young forest trees are
to be planted in New York state this
year.

Fur Auction Sale
Dates In 1932

Jan. 11. — Regular silver fox sale,
N. Y. Auction Co., New York.

Jan. 18. — Special silver fox sale.
Fred'k Huth & Co., New York.

Feb. 8. — Winter sale, N. Y. Auction
Co.

Feb. 17.— Winter sale, Fred'k Huth &
Co., New York.

April 11-13. — International Retail Fur-
riers' Convention and Trade Exposition,
Royal York Hotel, Toronto.

May 2. — Spring sale, Fred'k Huth &
Co.. New York.

May 16. — Spring sale, N. Y. Auction
Co.

Julv IS. — Summer sale, N. Y. Auction
Co.

July 25. — Mid-year sale, Fred'k Huth
& Co., New York.

Sept. 26.— Fall sale, Fred'k Huth £
Co., New York.

CLEAN a nice large carp but do
not cut off the tail or fins or
scale it. Build a big fire and let
the blaze burn out so that good hot
coals remain. Roll the fish in clean
mud until a covering about an inch
thick adheres to it. Then place the
mud-encased carp in the coals, cover-
ing it with the hot embers evenly and
bury the whole with dirt or sand.

You must leave the fish bake thusly
for about an hour. If the above men-
tioned preparations are made care-
fully, the fish will, in that length
of time, bake to a turn, keeping all of
those piscatorial flavors that make your
mouth water when you smell frying
fish.

After the relapse of the required in-
terval, during which time the remainder
of your meal is being prepared, the
fish is unearthed. The mud will have
been baked until hard and will give
off a savory odor.

Remove this shell of mud by strik-
ing the mass on a rock or some other
handy article. The mud breaks open,
revealing to the sight delicious white
meat and enticing the nose with ap-
petizing odors. You will find, when
the shell is opened, that the skin of
the fish, together with its other un-
palatable appendages, has adhered to
the mud. Two slabs of white steam-
ing meat will be ready to fall from
rows of fish-bones.

The cook then passes the fish around
in order that all may inspect it. He
then tosses it back into the coals from
whence it came, and serves the baked
mud for dinner, carefully covering the
area with other scraps from the din-
ner— or the carp can be thrown back
into the water when it is first caught.

For
For
For
For
For
For
For
For
For
For
For
For
For
For

BIRTHSTONES

laundresses, the soapstone;
architects, the cornerstone;
cooks, the puddingstone;
soldiers, the bloodstone;
politicians, the blarneystone;
borrowers, the touchstone;
policemen, the pavingstone;
stock brokers, the curbstone;
shoemakers, the cobblestone;
burglars, the keystone;
tourists, the Yellowstone;
beauties, the peachstone;
motorists, the milestone;
pedestrians, the tombstone.

INGENIOUS

A university student, when sitting
for an examination, was asked to com-
pose one verse of poetry including the
words "analyze" and anatomy." He
wrote:

"My anal, ze over the ocean,

My analyze over the sea.
Oh! who will go over the ocean,
And bring back my anatomy?"

LOW POINT IN PARK

The lowest point of elevation in Yel-
lowstone National Park is 5,313 feet.
This point is at the north entrance near
Gardiner, Montana.

Page Six

MONTANA

WEIL® 1LEFB

Cooperation is Keynote of Sporteumeim

Address of Chairman <>len Smith at the Twelfth Annual Convention of The Montana Sportsmen's Association.

S'

Glen Smith

OUNDING a call

for sportsmen of
the state tu dem-
onstrate 100 pei-
cent cooperation in
educational, con-,
structive, research
activities intended
to conserve \v i 1 d
life of Montana.
Chairman Glen
Smith of Missoula,
made a ringing ad-
dress before the
twelfth annual con-
vention of the Mon-
tana Sportsmen's
Association at the
opening of the two-
day session, Dec.
1S-19, at the Placer
Hotel at Helena. Glen Smith has
served as chairman of the governing
board for the last 10 consecutive years
and has attained a position of merited
esteem in state and nation.

His address follows:

"It is very gratifying, indeed, to see so
many here at this, our 12th annual
meeting of the Montana sportsmen;
also, I see a number of men in this
meeting that have participated in no
small way, in a majority of the former
meetings, and this fact gives me cour-
age to carry on, and added assurance
that the Montana Sportsmen's Associa-
tion is worth while after all.

"Sportsmen do not come here just for
the purpose of getting away from home
and family cares — they come because
of the deep interest they have in Mon-
tana-out-of-doors, because their hearts
and souls are in tune with the things
the great out-of-doors holds. To these
men and others of like purpose and
fortitude who are with us today, and
those who unfortunately could not be
with us in person, but who are with
us in mind and heart, depends to a
very large degree, the future of these
things we hold so dear — the forests
and game, the streams and fish, the
fields and birds, and all.

"Gentlemen, for the past 10 consecu-
tive annual meetings, it has been my
privilege and duty as chairman of the
Governing Board of this Association to
address you and to preside over these
meetings, and between meetings and
between the hours required to earn my
bread and butter and those necessary
tor rest and recreation, I have given
of my time and energy most liberally,
all for the one and only purpose of
carrying out the objects of this asso-
ciation, which is set forth in Article
Five of the Constitution of this Associa-
tion.

It seems apropos that we pause just
for a moment to meditate on these
objectives.

ARTICLE V

Object

Section 1: The object, purpose
and scope of the Montana Sports-
men's Association is hereby de-
fined and declared as follows:

"First, to propagate, preserve
and protect game, fish, birds and
animals and forests.

Second, to procure the enactment
of laws for the preservation, protec-
tion and propagation of game, fish,
birds, and animals and forests, and
to promote the observation of such
laws.

Third, to create and foster public
sentiment in favor of the propaga-
tion and better protection of game
and fish, birds and animals and
forests.

"To my mind, the intent and purpose
of these objects are fundamental and
should ever be borne in mind. They
are, however, ambiguous in some re-
spects, and at the proper time I shall
offer for your consideration, some
changes and amendments.

"Eight years ago today, I addressed
this meeting as follows:

" 'We all appreciate that the fu-
ture development of Montana de-
pends very largely on how well we
plan. The future of our agricul-
tural possibilities depends upon how
well we apply proven principles of
agriculture as they are now known
or as they may be developed by
our agricultural experiment sta-
tions and others. The future of our
livestock industry depends upon our
application of well known methods
of breeding, feeding, and range man-

State Sportsmen
Elect Officers

WHEN the Montana Sportsmen's
Association gathered in an-
nual convention at the Placer
Hotel at Helena. December 18-19,
the terms of two members of the
governing board expired. Glen Smith
of Missoula, assistant regional for-
ester, who has efficiently served as
chairman of the board of the Asso-
ciation for so many years, asked
that he be relieved, and the honor
was bestowed upon Fred B. Wil-
liams of Bozeman, outstanding ex-
ponent of conservation of wild life.
Mr. Williams was elected to succeed
himself as director.

Andy C. Baumgartner of ' Great
Falls, leading license dealer of the
state and a keen sportsman of wide
knowledge of conditions, was elected
to succeed L. A. Smith of Lewis-
town. The terms of these two com-
missioners expire in 1934. The terms
of Ed M. Boyes of Libby and Dr.
J. H. Garberson of Miles City, ex-
pire in 1932. The terms of A. H.
Croonquist of Billings and Dr. W. M.
Copenhaver of Helena, expire in
1933.

agement. The future of our lum-
bering depends very largely upon
how thoroughly we recognize and
apply the principle that all poten-
tial forest land must be kept at
work growing trees.

" 'Likewise, the future of Mon-
tana's wild life depends upon our
application of such principles of
fish and game management as are
known. We must recognize, how-
ever, that our knowledge on this
important matter is sadly lacking
compared with what has been done
along all other lines which I have
mentioned. Thousands of men spend
their entire life and millions of
dollars have been contributed to-
wadrs the science of agriculture,
of lumbering, animal husbandry.
etc., and it may be said without
fear of contradiction that the sur-
face has only been scratched. If
this is true, and I am sure it is.
the question may well be asked:
Where do we stand with reference
to fish and game management?'
"What progress has been made in
the field of fish and game research?
What have we learned in the past
eight years that will guide us more
clearly in the problems of wild life
management here in Montana?

"Gentlemen, we must never lose sight
of the fact that deer, elk, antelope, and
other game and fur bearers 'don't just
happen.' They are not like Topsy of
'Uncle Tom's Cabin.' Neither do fish,
birds, and waterfowl 'just happen.'
They come into existence through cer-
tain laws of nature. Biological law, if
you please. Their every moment of
life is beset with elements natural and
unnatural that tend toward limiting
their number if not their total destruc-
tion. If we are to be true to our pur-
pose as set forth in our Constitution,
we must have facts about these ani-
mals, fish and birds; we must know
more about the factors that tend to
limit their numbers, habitat and en-
vironment. We must not be content
to know that there are deer, elk,
moose, sheep, goats, antelope, fur bear-
ers, and various varieties of birds in
our mountains and plains, nor that
there are fish in our sparkling streams
and placid lakes.

"No, gentlemen, we cannot afford to
lounge or grope in the dark; we must
direct our efforts and our influence
towards more fundamental forces con-
cerning every phase ot nature's secrets
in the field of our game, fish, birds,
and fur bearers, for these will be the
tools by which we may accomplish
our objectives.

"To carry forward and meet the ob-
jectives of this association requires
the fullest possible cooperation of the
entire citizenry of this grand old state,

(Please turn to Page 13)

Page Seven

Mootaima ¥hh amid Sm \ ; '% Game Coeimissioe

W. A. Brown, Great Falls.. Commissioner V&
Jos. L. Kelly, Anaconda.. ..Commissioner

W. K. Moore, Billings.... Commissioner
E.A.Wilson, Livingston. .Commissioner

T. N. Marlowe, Missoula, Chairman R. H. Hill, Helena, State Fish and Game Warden, Secretary

^&

Official Publication of the State Fish and Game Department.
Published Monthly at Helena, Montana

Floyd L. Smith, Editor

Subscription Rate $1 per Year — 15 cents per Copy
Advertising Rates on Application

Copy for advertisements subject to approval of State Commis-
sion and must be in the hands of the editor at the State Capitol
building, Helena, on the 15th day of the month preceding pub-
lication date.

VOL. IV

HELENA, MONTANA

No. 8

MONTANA WILD LIFE COLUMNS OPEN

MONTANA WILD LIFE, official publication of the
State Fish and Game Department, will be four years
old next June. The magazine was established by
the department because of the need for placing accurate
information regarding fish and game conservation activ-
ities before sportsmen of the state and nation. It is a
magazine with a mission. In no other Montana publica-
tion have lovers of the out of doors been provided with
complete facts regarding the investment of their license
fees, achievements of the department, strides made at the
game farm, fish hatcheries, spawning stations, and in other
activities. Educational features, discussions of natural
history and of problems peculiar to Montana and the Rocky
Mountain region have caused educators to introduce the
publication into schools and libraries. From its inception
the columns of MONTANA WILD LIFE have been open
to representatives of every organization interested in the
upbuilding of Montana. The cooperation of dude ranchers,
fur farmers, sportsmen's organizations, rod and gun clubs,
forestry, biological survey and fisheries departments, Mon-
tana Automobile Association and allied groups has been
invited and the sincere invitation is renewed with the
opening of 1932. MONTANA WILD LIFE is the only
publication of its kind within the state. It carries the
message of Montana's vacation grounds, its fish and game
and natural resources into homes of residents as well as
to sportsmen of east and west eligible to become Montana
visitors, investors and eventual residents.

These days it might be well to emulate the example of the
Scotchman who leaves the front door ajar so Opportunity won'1
have to knock.

COTTONTAILS SLATED FOR IMPROVEMENT

THE democratic cottontail, hero of Uncle Remus tales,
chief distributor of the lucky left hind feet and familiar
creature in must states, will take on a swankier ap-
pearance and leap with a superior air in Ohio after a few
years, if Conservation Commissioner William H. Reinhart
succeeds in carrying out his plans.

The new commissioner has recommended the establish-
ment of a "super-game" ranch in Ohio. The proposed
ranch would produce for liberation in the wild larger and
better cottontails by crossing the native rabbits with Bel-
gian hares. It would also improve the native variety.

A strictly managed game refuge in every county, on
which desirable species would be protected from predatory
killers, and a new fish-protection system, under which a
third of the streams of the state would be closed alternately
to fishing every year, are other plans recommended by
Mr. Reinhart.

SENATE APPROVES FEDERAL WILD LIFE UNITY

THE first bill to come before this session of the senate
and the first to ' be passed was one which recognized
a "depression" among wild game creatures. The pur-
pose of the measure is to compel federal departments and
agencies to cooperate with each other in considering the
needs of wild life before carrying out any project that
might affect this resource. Its passage was the first con-
crete result of a two-year study of the problem by the
Senate Committee on Conservation of Wild Life Resources,
of which Senator Frederic C. Walcott of Connecticut is
chairman.

During discussion of the bill, Senator Harry Hawes of
Missouri, vice-chairman of the committee, said: "In our
investigations we find that there is not a single department
of the government which does not in some way come in
contact with the problem of conservation of wild life. The
purpose of this bill is to call to the attention of these de-
partments the fact that in considering public projects they
should, if economically practicable, make provisions for
wild life preservation and production."

The bill would make it compulsory for the Bureau of
Reclamation, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the National
Park Service, the Forest Service, and other agencies to give
the Bureau of Biological Survey and the Bureau of Fish-
eries an opportunity to establish adequate wild life produc-
tion on public domains, Indian reservations, national for-
ests and parks, and any lands owned or leased by the
federal government wherever practicable.

The measure would give the Bureau of Fisheries ex-
perts a chance to see that future government-constructed
dams do not hinder the bureau's work by failing to pro-
vide some means for fish to pass from one side to the
other. It would also compel government agencies controll-
ing impounded waters to allow use of these for wild life
production, when such use is not inconsistent with their
primary purpose and does not conflict with the constitu-
tional rights of the states in which the waters are located.
The bill did not call for an appropriation.

KENTUCKY, HERE WE COME!

On the back of the fishing license issued by Kentucky for
the year of 1931, they give a synopsis of the fishing law, a part
of which is as follows: "Unlawful to use a seine in taking min-
nows that are more than ten feet in length and four feet in
width."

BIG SEASON FOR MONTANA HUNTERS

THOUSANDS of report cards torn from Montana's big
game licenses and returned to the Fish and Game
Department in compliance with the law passed by
the last legislature, tell the story of one of the most suc-
cessful deer and elk seasons in the history of the depart-
ment. The law requires that each purchaser of a big
game license shall return the report card by January 1,
1932, whether he has killed any game or not. The compila-
tion of the figures contained on the cards means the set-
ting up of valuable facts for the guidance of the commis-
sion and for the information of sportsmen of the state.
The completed figures which will be published in MON-
TANA WILD LIFE, will show the number of deer and elk
killed in each county, the condition of the range, whether
killed on or off a forest reserve, the sex and the date
taken. In addition to this information, volunteer state-
ments adorn thousands of the cards. These comments
will likewise be grouped and studied in order that a com-
prehensive view of the big game situation may be gained.
One of the most significant wise cracks is that penned
across the face of a card received from western Mon-
tana, which reads: "No runs, no hits, no errors."

Page Eight

DUCK SATING PLAN READY K(H! ACTION

OSCAR H. JOHNSON, game director of South Dakota, a
state which formerly ranked high as a nesting ana
for wild ducks but whose favorable watering places
have been reduced an estimated 90 per cent by agriculture,
drainage and drought, has announced that his department
is now prepared with definite plans for aiding in the re-
storation of waterfowl as soon as a nationwide program,
financed by wild fowl shooters, has been authorized by
congress. Backed by the recent national conference of
game officials in New York City, a committee of experts
is now being selected to decide in what manner waterfowl
sportsmen should contribute. The decision of this national
committee, which has the pledged support of practically
every state and organization, will be presented to congress
as an emergency plan, financed entirley by sportsmen.

"Although there are objections to federal control of
what might rightfully be viewed as a state prerogative,"
Mr. Johnson announced, "I agree that only through a fed-
eral agency can an effective restoration program be car-
ried out in view of the tragic waterfowl shortage. For a
single state to venture upon a plan of this nature would
seem hopeless, since migratory birds produced in one state
are enjoyed by sportsmen of other states as well."

South Dakota's share in a nationwide effort to bring
back destroyed waterfowl nesting, resting and feeding areas,
as outlined by Mr. Johnson, would involve an expenditure
of $500,000 over a five-year period, and would, he said,
produce in a comparatively short time ten times the num-
ber of birds required for home consumption.

The game director will propose that at least 25 nest-
ing refuges in his state, averaging 1.000 acres or more
each should be purchased, fenced, planted with fast-growing
shrubs and aquatic plants and allowed to revert into native
jungles. This land is now of no value otherwise, he said,
and could be bought at a low average cost.

"With the Old Almanack and old year leave "Id vices though
ever so dear." — Poor Richard.

AMERICAN GAME TO TAKE OYER DUPONT .STAKE

IN ORDER to strengthen and better coordinate the con-
servation movement, the American Game Association
will take over the trained conservation field force of
the E. I. duPont deXemours & Co., Inc., of Wilmington,
Delaware, on Jan. 1, 1932, according to announcement by
officials of the association.

Officials feel that such a field force can operate more
effectively under a non-profit organization. The field force,
maintained by the duPont company for the last four years,
is to operate directly under the supervision of Seth Gor-
don, president of the association.

Among the objectives of this field service will be to
aid in establishing sound state, county and local game re-
storation and production programs; to develop local dem-
onstration projects and to keep them operating smoothly:
to help established local educational institutions provide
special training courses to develop game experts and to es-
tablish fellowships at such institutions; to develop and
promote local and national information services; to keep
in close touch with game conditions throughout the coun-
try so as best to serve the interests of the sportsmen, land
owners and general public; and to cooperate with all agen-
cies and organizations working toward the objective of
providing more game for everybody.

How some husbands smile to see their modern wives cleaning

their own ashes from the parlor rugs.

SPORTSMEN PEED MEN WHO FEED THE BIHDS

A PLAN for feeding birds and the families of the un-
employed at the same time this winter is being ad-
vanced by Commissioner John H. Ross of the Mis-
souri game and fish department. The commissioner has
urged that every sportsmen's organization in the state en-
a needy bread-earner to gather wild grain seeds now,
pack them in bags, and distribute the seeds, mixed with
other grains, to game and other valuable bird species dur-
ing the starvation period of sleet and snows. Several groups
have already responded, according to the report.

ISE CARE IN FEEDING BIRDS

TOO many Montana sportsmen forget about game after
the close of the hunting season, the very time their
assistance is needed most. Unless they can personally
arrange to place feed for upland game birds, especially
where snow and ice cover the ground for long periods, they
should arrange with someone in the locality where they
hunt to feed the birds.

Experiments have demonstrated that ruffed grouse,
Hungarians, quail, ringneck pheasants and prairie chickens
will survive almost any amount of cold weather if well
fed. February is usually the most critical month. Start
feeding operations at once.

Many types of simple inexpensive shelters can be con-
structed. A shock of grain properly placed on a fence
post will save many game birds through trying winter
periods, but small grain placed regularly will help even
more.

The main thing to keep in mind is not to concentrate
feeding operations in any one area. Feeding stations should
be distributed as much as possible, otherwise predators
will get in their deadly work. Grain should not be scat-
tered in the snow or placed where it will be covered by
drifts.

"There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog,
and ready money." — Poor Richard.

MONTANA AGENCIES PILL TOGETHER

DEMONSTRATION of the determination to cooperate
in order that Montana may be a better state in which
to live, such as was exemplified at the recent annual
convention of the Montana Sportsmen's Association, might
well be emulated by commercial and industrial organiza-
tions of the Treasure State in the pull toward prosperity.
Representatives of the Dude Ranchers' Association, the fur
farmers, fish culturists, forestry department, fish and game
department, automobile association, commercial organiza-
tions and others interested in selling Montana's recrea-
tional facilities, willingly placed their collective shoulders
to the wheel. The result will be apparent. With unified
cooperation, thousands of dollars of eastern money an-
nually expended abroad and in other lands, can be diverted
to Montana's vacation areas. Meanwhile the fight must
continue unhampered in maintaining the supply of fish
and game to keep pace with ever-increasing inroads. With
good fishing and hunting available, the task of interesting
investors in Montana homes and enterprises becomes less
arduous.

Redecorate your Christmas tree with suet bags, bits of
toast and place it out of doors for the birds to enjoy.

OBSERVATION— A SHORT CUT TO KNOWLEDGE

1NQUISITIVENESS, an acknowledged trait of youngsters,
is, as a rule, not found in man except in rare instances.
As a child satisfies its curiosity by inquisitiveness, man,
by his keen observation and rational reasoning acquires real
and lasting knowledge. This applies to men in every walk
of life. In business as well as in pleasure, does man have
the opportunity of finding himself, of testing his powers of
observation and reasoning. But, in no other calling or pas-
time does man have such unlimited material for observa-
tion as does the hunter and fisherman, who has a chance
to observe Nature in all her various mods, to convene and
reason with her.

It is surprising to note that many who live in close com-
munion with Nature are poor observers. They are not nearly
as familiar with Nature as they might be. They feel it is
not theirs to question the many oddities of nature, but,
accept them without comment. It is true that a sportsman,
well read in the ways of nature has an obvious advantage,
but books cannot be relied upon altogether, for even books
are sometimes wrong. Many sportsmen do not appreciate
the beauties of nature. It is not a requisite of a sportsman
to be able to appreciate the golden sunsets and the gorgeous
colorings of the autumnal foliage, nor. is it required that a
sportsman be a botanist or zoologist to be able to enjoy
the sports that the field offers. But, to combine nature study
with sport, gives one a new interest in sport. Try it. You
will find Nature most revealing, if you will but observe. —
Yellowstone Nature Notes.

Page Nine

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EMBERS of the Mon-
tana State Sportsmen's
Association, in annual
convention at Helena,
December 1S-19. pro-
vided a succinct out-
line of their construc-
tive activities in the
adoption of resolutions presented by
the committee including Chairman B. L.
Price of Laurel, A. C. Baumgartner of
Great Falls, and 0. C. Lamport of Hel-
ena. Broad in their scope, foresighted
and constructive, the resolutions t'oini
an interesting part of a keenly interest-
ing convention. The resolutions follow
in full:

"BE IT RESOLVED: That the Mon-
tana Sportsmen's Association express to
the management and the employes of
the Placer Hotel, to the City of Helena,
to the Press of the City of Helena, to
the Lewis and Clark County Rod and
Gun Club, to the Helena Commercial
Club and to all participants of the pro-
gram, our appreciation of the many
courtesies extended."

"BE IT RESOLVED: That we extend
our thanks to the officers of this Asso-
ciation for their faithful, conscientious
and untiring efforts, in the performance
of their duties during the past year."

■WHEREAS, the National Park Serv-
ice, the Forestry Service, the Biological
Survey, the Dude Ranchers' Association,
the Montana Wool Growers' Association,
and the Bureau of Fisheries have
rendered invaluable assistance in mak-
ing this convention a real success by
sending to it, fine capable men who
have delivered messages of utmost im-
portance in their respective lines of
endeavor ;

"RESOLVED: That the Montana
Sportsmen's Association extend a note
of appreciation to these departments
and our sincere thanks to the men who
represented the same, and that a copy
of this resolution be forwarded to all
above mentioned."

"WHEREAS, hundreds of thousands
of visitors from all parts of the United
States are annually attracted to the Na-
tional Parks, National Forests and other
Public Lands of the states of Montana,
Wyoming, Idaho and Utah, and

"WHEREAS, said National Parks, Na-
tional Forests and Public Lands which
are under the supervision of the various
Federal Agencies, comprise extensive
areas in said states, and,

"WHEREAS, the waters of the Na-
tional Parks, National Forests and Pub-
lic Lands located in the states of Mon-
tana, Wyoming, Idaho, and Utah, are
rapidly becoming depleted of fish life,
and

■WHEREAS, the available funds of
said states and the present fish cul-
tural facilities of said states and the
U. S. Bureau of Fisheries are inade-

Sportsmanship?

DESPITE activities of outstanding
sportsmen of the state, cooperat-
ing with the Fish and Game De-
partment, law violation and vandals
continue to take illegal toll of denizens
of forest and stream. Here's a strik-
ing snapshot that tells a mute story.
This magnificent buck deer was found
dead in the woods near Priest Pass by
T. W. Hildeman of Helena, Nov. 3, 1931.
The buck had been shot through the
back, from an eminence above, and left
to perish. The horns still bore marks
of the velvet, indicating that the mon-
arch of the woods had been slain be-
fore the opening of the season.

quate to maintain the ever increasing
demand upon these waters, and

"WHEREAS, the maintaining of fish
in these waters is of great economic
importance to the various public inter-
ests of said states and the development
of the states themselves,

"THEREFORE, be it resolved that
Congress be and is hereby petitioned to
appropriate for the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1933, the sum of $4S0,000, to
be expended under the direction of the
Secretary of Commerce, as follows:

"For a fish hatchery and rearing
ponds either within or without the
boundaries of Glacier National Park,
$60,000.

"For a fish hatchery and rearing
ponds in Yellowstone National Park,
$60,000.

"For a fish hatchery and rearing
ponds in the Jackson Hole region of
the State of Wyoming, either within or
without the boundaries of Teton Na-
tional Park, $60,000.

■For rearing and holding ponds in
the National Forests located in the
State of Montana, $75,000.

"For rearing and holding ponds in
the National Forests located in the
State of Wyoming, $75,000.

"For rearing and holding ponds lo-
cated in the National Forests in the
State of Idaho, $75,000.

"For the rearing and holding ponds
in the National Forests located in the
State of Utah, $75,000.

"And in the expenditure of said funds
the cooperation of the various fish and
game departments of said states may
be solicited for the purpose of coordinat-
ing the work of the various depart-
taen s and federal agenoies to the best
advantage."

"WHEREAS: Congress is now con-
sidering measures providing for the dis-
posal or administration of the remain-
ing unreserved and unappropriated pub-
lic domain ;

"WHEREAS: On large areas of this
public domain the wild life occurring
there, or which can be maintained, con-
stitutes a definite part of the land re-
sources and in certain areas is the
resource of major public concern;

"WHEREAS: The preservation of the
remnants of our once abundant wild
life is of greater importance in supply-
ing the traditional, recreational needs
of America, particularly for future
generations ;

"THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED:
That the Montana Sportsmen's Associa-
tion urges that in any measure provid-
ing for the management or disposal of
the remaining unappropriated public
domain, definite acknowledgement be
made of the part these lands can and
should take in the solution of the great
problem of wild life management of
the respective states and nation.

"And that definite provision be made
for the administration and preservation
of the wild life resources on such pub-
lic lands.

"That a copy of this resolution be
furnished the Senate Committee on
Wild Life, and the congressmen from
Montana."

"BE IT RESOLVED by the Montana
Sportsmen's Association in convention
assembled at Helena, Montana, on the
18th and 19th days of December, 1931,
that we do hereby heartily endorse and
approve of the action taken by the Sec-
retary of Agriculture and the Biological
Survey in promulgating regulations re-
ducing the open hunting season on mi-
gratory game birds to a period of 30
days during the current season in or-
der more effectively to conserve migra-
tory game birds during the emergency
effecting them by reason of the drouth
and other conditions which have seri-
ously reduced their numbers.

"BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED: That
a copy of this resolution be sent to
Hon. Arthur M. Hyde, Secretary of Ag-
riculture, and to Paul C. Reddington,
Chief of the Biological Survey."

"WHEREAS, Mr. W. T. Thompson,

(Please turn to Page 15)

Page Ten

•M.OMTAMA

W2IL1D) of:

Tlhair's Goats in Them Tltrair Hnlls

Bv T. W. Hildeinan of Helena

ONTANA'S Rocky Moun-
tain goats are where
you find them. U'ter
a jaunt into the crags

where a teller takes
one step forward and
then slides back three,
the toter of a rifle on
the trail of a trophy, begins to realize
the truth of the story about the side-
hill gouger. He's the animal that old-
timers assert has two legs on one
side a foot shorter than the two on
the opposite side, the two short ones
having been worn off trying to main-
tain his balance on the precipitous
cliffs where thrive the mountain goats.
Some supreme power has tipped the
hills up on edge, yet to get into the
goat country, a sportsman must emu-
late the billy. It's climb, brother,
climb, and then skid, brother, skid.

This being the third year that the
Rocky Mountain goat season has been
open in Montana west of the Bitter
Root river, a hunt was planned with
Harry Moore and several friends from
Victor, from which place we were to
pack into goat heaven.

Early Thursday morning, Oct. 22,
Harry and I left Helena by car, arriv-
ing at Missoula three and a half hours
later and at Victor early in the tore-
noon. Not expecting us until later,
Levi and Earl Ess, who were to pack
us in and be our hunting companions,
had not made arrangements to leave
until the next morning. The after-
noon was spent eating Everbearing
strawberries of which there were quan-
tities in the large patch back of the
farm house, and rounding up horses
for the morrow.

Friday morning found us packing our
four horses in a steady downpour of
rain. After much delay, with the help
of John Blake and John Skaggs, whom
we dubbed "Poincare" because he re-
sembled the French diplomat, the last

Harry Moore, the white goat and Hildy,

when they reached camp after a stubborn

battle against the elements to land their

trophy.

vigorously protesting bronc was finally
packed, but not until he had kicked
both Earl and "Poincare."

The trip to the cabin, seven miles
up Big creek, landed us there in the
middle of the afternoon. Alter getting
camp in order, we made a survey of
the immediate territory we were to
hunt the following day, many times
looking through the binoculars or tele-
scope sight at some distant white ob-
ject which generally proved to be a
white rock or speck of snow.

Saturday morning we climbed way
up into goat heaven but found no goats.
We concluded that goats must be bad.
I found the track of one large billy in
the snow. His tracks led straight up
where I was compelled to crawl on
all fours and where a slip of my boot
or tip of my fingers from the crev-
ices or rock would drop me to the
happy hunting grounds; I decided I
had not lost that particular billy in
them thar hills.

Levi suggested that we hunt near
the Idaho line Sunday. They had found
goats there last year in the shelter
of cliffs and bunches of trees that
spotted the rocky slopes at the head
of the ravines. We followed the trail
up the South Fork of Big creek for
several miles watching the mountain
sides without success. I was determ-
ined to get a goat and suggested that
we climb to the top and run them
out.

Just as we were leaving the creek
bottom we jumped a moose which was
evidently yarding down for the winter
close to a large patch of mountain
maple. We climbed about 400 yards,
at times on all fours without seeing
signs in the snow which was knee
deep.

By this time the goats were get-
ting our "nanny."

Harry and I decided to give up the
hunt and walk back to the ranch that
day. The rest of the party decided
to stay longer.

After leaving camp, on our way out.
we kept a sharp lookout on the open
rocky slopes not covered with snow.

Presently Harry whispered a word
of hope. I kidded him, saying that we
had been seeing goats for several days
but they had proved to be everything
else but.

Looking through the glasses, how-
ever, we spied a real live wild goat, not
one of Jim Hill's trademarks painted
on the side of a Great Northern box
car. We were certain there wasn't a
railroad track on the side of that moun-
tain. Looking lower down I passed
the word to Harry that "I see a goat,
too."

It was getting late. We hurried
across the creek, getting as close to
the foot of the mountain as possible
without losing sight of the lower goat.

We were about 350 yards away. The
second was on another ridge too far
out of range.

Taking careful aim. Harry, with his
Krag sporter, and I with my Spring
field sporter. 'scope sighted, both fire
apparently scoring a hit, but not
knocking the goat off its feet. We
fired again and the goat was knocked
over, sliding down the smooth face of
the rock several hundred yards to the
creek bottom. It was a thrill we will
always remember.

At last we had "got our goat." our
first real mountain goat, not one of the
Catalina Island variety of which I have
shot several in California.

While dressing our kill, a nanny with
horns 8% inches long, Harry looked
across the creek and spotted two more
about 400 yards above the trail from
where we were when we sighted the
first ones.

Leaving the goat hanging in a tree,
we hurried back across the creek, hop-
ing to get another shot. Just as we
were within range a heavy cloud of
fog settled down upon us, making it
impossible to see the goats clearly as
it wras already getting dark.

Taking aim as best we could at the
obscure target, we fired but evidently
failed to connect, as a thorough search
that night and next morning failed
to disclose signs of a kill. This was
disappointing as we were sure of get-
ting one of them had the fog not thrown
a protecting blanket around them.

That night snow fell again, which it
did every day we were there.

The goats, anticipating a storm, had
evidently moved to lower levels before
we arrived, which explained not find-
ing them in their usual haunts.

Monday morning, Levi packed our
game and camp equipment back to the
ranch. Loading the car and bidding
Levi goodbye, we were on our way back
to Helena well satisfied with the re-
sults of the hunt which would have
been a blank but for the eagle eye of
Harry. All members of our party suc-
ceeded in bagging goats after we left.

Here's a small panorama of the goat coun-
try in the Bitter Root area of Montana
where the hills stand up on end and the
going is tough for hunters and hill billys
alike.

Page Eleven

Pheasants for Mootainia Sportsoiee

By Floyd L. Smith

Joe Hendricks

MO X TANA'S
State Game
farm at Warm
Springs has just
completed its work
for the year with
the production and
liberation of S.720
Chinese pheasants
less than two years
after the game farm
was e s t a b 1 i shed.
Less than one year
after the establish-
ing of the farm by
the State Fish and
Game Department.
6.146 birds were
reared and liberated
in 1930, making a
total liberation for
the two years of 14.S66 — a modern mir-
acle in game bird propagation. In ad-
dition to the figures quoted for the
birds released, the following number
of game birds has been retained at
the farm as the nucleus for the pro-
duction of 1932:

Mongolian pheasant hens — 260.
Mongolian cocks — 50.
Chinese pheasant hens — 120.
Chinese pheasant cocks — 22.
Hungarian partridges — 30.
California quail — 32.

Superintendent Joseph F. Hendricks
reports that, in addition to the Chi-
nese, Mongolian and Huns liberated,
the following number of birds were
reared during the year just closed:

Golden pheasants — reared 30 and lib-
erated 10.

Melanistic Mutants — 10.
Lady Amhersts — 15.
California quail — 100.
Silver pheasants — 4.
Reeves pheasants — 6.

In addition to the oriental birds lib-
erated from the state farm. 24 Gambel
quail were freed in Lewis and Clark
county, 32 were freed in Deer Lodge
county near the state farm. 10 Chi-
nese pheasants were hatched from eggs
and liberated in Missoula county, and
10 Golden pheasants were liberated for

Chinese Pheasants
Reach 14,866

Golden Pheasants

THE following table shows the num-
ber of Chinese pheasants reared

at the State Game farm at Warm
Springs and liberated by the State Fish
and Game department in counties in the
last two years:

1931 1930

Beaverhead 204 244

Big Horn 144 16S

Blaine 144 S4

Broadwater 192 S4

Carbon 168 140

Carter 144 108

Cascade 408 144

Chouteau 144 120

Custer 168 96

Daniels .' 120 72

Dawson 144 96

Deer Lodge 212 155

Fallon 144 72

Fergus 217 162

Flathead 216 168

Gallatin 144 6S

Garfield 120 72

Glacier 36

Golden Valley .... 144 96

Granite 96 4S

Hill 168 144

Jefferson 120 124

Judith Basin 168 92

Lake 360 120

Lewis and Clark 324 250

Liberty 144 72

Lincoln 48 96

Madison 180 374

McCone 72

Meagher 144 96

Mineral

Missoula 144 96

Musselshell 144 96

Park 216 120

Petroleum 144 S2

Phillips 144 96

Pondera 144 120

Powder River 144 4S

Powell 173 150

Prairie 144 96

Ravalli 216 216

Richland 120 96

Roosevelt 144 S7

Rosebud 144 96

Sanders 240 48

Sheridan 144 SS

Silver Bow 24

Stillwater 168 116

Sweet Grass 144 120

Teton 144 96

Toole 16S 72

Treasure 144 96

Valley 120 108

Wheatland 144 72

Wibaux 144 96

Yellowstone 210 138

8,720 6,146

experimental p u im-
poses in Yellow-
stone county.

Minutes of the
meetings of t h e
State Fish and Game
Commission s h o w
that the first lifera-
tion of Chinese
pheasants in Mon-
tana was authorized
at the session of
December 29, 1929,
when Joe L. Kelly
of Anaconda was
elected to succeed
E. P. Mathewson as
chairman. The com-
mission at that time
— 16 years ago —
authorized the pur-
chase of two dozen

J. L. Kelly

ringnecked pheas-

ants from a farm at Murray, Utah, at
a cost of $100. They were liberated in
Lincoln county near Eureka on the
Tobacco Plains. These birds were pur-
chased at a price of more than $4
each. They are being reared now at
the state game farm at a fraction of
that cost. In connection with this sig-
nificant move on the part of the com-
mission, the interesting fact develops
that Joe L. Kelly, who 16 years ago
was elected chairman, continues an
active, constructive member of the
commission. During the years he has
been a member of the commission he
has never presented an expense ac-
count, as permitted by law, and has yet
to collect any fees from departmental
funds for the sincere, voluntary effort
he has put forth to maintain Montana's
supply of fish and game. The game
farm at Warm Springs is located in
Mr. Kelly's district and success of the
project has been largely due to his
supervision and cooperation with Su-
perintendent J. F. Hendricks.

If plans of Superintendent Hendricks
work out during the coming year, the
propagation of California valley quail
will become an important adjunct to
the rearing of Chinese pheasants. Ex-
periments have demonstrated that the
California quail is well adapted to
Montana climatic conditions. Those

Blue Grouse

Page Twelve

MONTANA

WHJLr© tukt:

liberated near the game farm have
reared their young, many hatching two
and three broods during the season,
and then returning to answer the call
of mates in pens.

Fourteen pens are being prepared
for California quail. Tests have shown
that quail are reared more success-
fully if they are permitted to make
their own nests and rear their young
rather than to entrust the chores to
bantam hens. During the 1931 season
one pair of quail reared two broods
in a single pen, and Superintendent
Hendricks permitted the first brood to
remain in the pen while the second
was being hatched and reared.

Expectations are that the first eggs
from pheasant hens will be laid, under
normal conditions, the forepart of April
and the average season's egg collection
from each hen is estimated at from
45 to 50 eggs. To secure this number
of fertile eggs, however, requires strict
care and study of diet with prepara-
tion of especially mixed food daily,
varying with weather conditions and
other influences.

Wheat is kept before the birds at
all times. Twice each week they are
given Spratt's game meal with 8 per
cent Crissel, a meat preparation. Let-
tuce trimmings are fed twice a week
when weather permits. Grit and char-
coal is constantly before them. When
gloomy days cause dispositions of pheas-
ants to droop, they are given internal
sun baths by the feeding of cod liver
oil meal. Take it, by and large, the
care and successful rearing of birds in
captivity is considerable job and Su-
perintendent Joe Hendricks has dem-
onstrated his ability to cope with the
situation.

In the distribution of Chinese pheas-
ants this > ear, the largest number was
liberated in Cascade county, where ln,s
were freed. In the preceding year, 144
were liberated in the area tributary to
Great Falls, making a total for that
county for the two years of 552. With
the natural increase from these lib-
erated birds, shooting there should be
excellent. Lake county, where natural
conditions are ideal, received the sec-
ond largest number this year with 360
while Lewis and Clark was third with
324.

RETRIBUTION

John Ferguson, a farmer living near
Freeborn, Minn., saw a hawk swoop
suddenly into a nearby field and pick
up something. He noted that the hawk
flew almost straight up until almost
out of sight and then came down like
a plummet. When Mr. Ferguson
rushed to the big bird he was sur-
prised to find a weasel lying near it.
The weasel, when picked up, had sunk
its teeth into the hawk's body and
killed it it mid-air. The weasel was
apparently dead also. When Mr. Fer-
guson looked for it the next day, he
found it gone. Apparently it had
been only stunned and come to life.

Until

By Constance Marion Simpson

Until the storm is passed you can not
see
The glistening drops of rain upon the
grass,
Where, crystal clear, they mirror every
hue
Of beauty that is nearby, or may pass.

Until the eyes are dry you can not look
With vision clear, or see a happier
way,
Nor say with perfect trust, and faith
renewed,
"I know that soon will come a better
day!"

Until the pain is gone you can not see
Beyond the hurt, nor measure gain
or loss,
All estimates are by the acid test —
Perhaps of gold, perhaps the merest
dross.

Until time brings its healing to your
heart,
And you have yielded that for which
you yearned.
You can not rise to heights of nobleness
To grasp the new-found lesson you
have learned.

WOLVES WERE NOT CHARMED

The age-old belief that the music of
a violin hath power to charm the sav-
age breast of a wolf and send it slink-
ing away in shame may have to be
modified insofar as it concerns the wolf's
emotions. According to a science let-
ter from London, a musician playing a
violin out of sight behind the wolf
cages at the London Zoological Gardens
caused the animals to tremble and put
their tails between their legs, but when
he stepped in front of the cages the
wolves lunged at him in violent anger.

DUCK AFRAID OF WATER

That inherited instincts may not be
as powerful in the lives of wild crea-
tures as "home training" was demon-
strated on a game farm in Pennsyl-
vania this year when a duck, hatched
and reared among turkeys, persisted
in roosting in trees and being afraid
of water. The duck had to be forced
to swim. The experiment was reported
by Charles A. Hiller, superintendent of
game propagation of the Pennsylvania
game commission.

SQUIRRELS LEAD IMPORTS

Aside from rabbits and the kid and
lamb skins, the largest item in the
United States imports of raw skins for
the first seven months of 1931 was
squirrel, which totaled 3,93S,66S skins.
Mole was second with 1,467,125 skins.
Weasel was next with a total of 1.412,-
850, then fitch 72S.133, and muskrat
722.439 skins. Kolinsky totaled 538,400
and mink 681,104. Raw pony skins
totaled 100,711.

Cooperation is Keynote
of Sportsmen

(Continued from Page 7)

for much is at stake and all are af-
fected in one way or another.

"To do the work that this associa-
tion has pledged itself to do, requires
leadership of the highest quality, and
the citizenry of this state should see
to it that funds are made available
to secure this leadership.

"The sportsman's duty is to arouse
the public to this important matter
and make sure that his community is
doing its fair share.

"As sportsmen, we must ever keep
in mind that the cooperation with all
other interests is vital to our progress.
We must recognize the place of the
various industries and enterprises that
go to make up this commonwealth and
work with them in an honest effort
to fit our objectives into their proper
place in the general scheme of devel-
opment. Many of the game birds and
fish are reared upon the property of
the agricultural interests. Much of our
hunting and fishing grounds are found
there also, and it therefore behooves
us to work in the closest possible man-
ner; and likewise, we must not over-
look the livestock industry, the timber
industry, the dude ranching industry
and the various other industries.

"I have used the word cooperation,'
a word often used but little understood.
I came across a definition of that word
a few days ago, which seems to me
should be framed in the minds and
hearts of all humanity. I therefore
take the liberty of quoting it: Coopera-
tion is the act of working together in
doing a thing in which the co-workers
have mutual interest and mutual re-
sponsibilties.' Cooperation can be inn
per cent effective only when each co-
operator has, first, an active and con-
scious need for the work to be done;
second, performs his fair share of
this work; and third, receives com-
mensurate benefits.

"Cooperation comes to its finest
flower in an atmosphere of mutual con-
fidence and understanding, while it
soon withers in an atmosphere of dis-
trust and misunderstanding. When each
co-operator is ready to go half way or
a little farther, if necessary, the spirit
of cooperation enters the project. Noth-
ing can withstand this spirit when
applied to a worthy cause. It is this
spirit which has invaded modern bus-
iness and has raised it to new high
levels of square dealing and large
accomplishment."

Lions and tigers are too weak in
lung power to run more than half a
mile.

There are no snakes in the Hawaiian
islands.

ALL LIT IF

Eph Willet's little girl was combing
her hair. It "cracked'' and she asked
her mother why it did.

"Why. dear, you have electricity in
your hair,'' explained her mother.

"We're a funny family, ain't we.
mother?" the youngster said. "We're
all lit up. I have electricity in my
hair and grandma has gas on her
stomach!"

Page Thirteen

.M.0MTANA

wiud ur

AN IDEAL MARRIAGE

A federal probation officer was ques-
tioning a 64-year-old Chinaman who
had been given a suspended sentence
on a charge of possessing narcotics.

"How long have you been married,
Mr. Lung, said the officer.

"Thirty-eight years," the Oriental re-
plied.

"Ever had trouble with your wife?"
"Trouble? No — no trouble."
"Where is your wife now?"
"Oh, she been China thirty-seven
years."

THE CANDID DOC

"Doctor, don't you find it inconveni-
ent to travel miles to see me?"

"Oh, no; I have another patient near
here, .so I get the chance to kill two
birds with one stone."

A CALLING

"And what is your father's profes-
sion?"

"He is a worm imitator."

"What?"

"He makes worm holes in antique fur-
niture."

THE DIFFERENCE

Teacher — Johnny, what is the differ-
ence between a battle and a massacre?

Johnny — A battle is when a whole lot
of whites kill a few Indians and a mas-
sacre is when a whole lot of Indians
kill a few whites.

A SELLOUT

Box Office Clerk — I want some 2-cent
stamps.

Postoffice Clerk (about to tear them
off sheet) — How many?

Box Office Clerk— I'll take the three
front rows.

RUSHIiNG THE PAST

First Furnituremaker — That bookcase
isn't an antique, is it?

Second Furnituremaker — No, but an-
other day's will work and it will be.

The doctor had forgotten his patient's
name; but not willing to admit it, said,
"Is your name spelled with an i' or
an 'e'?"

The astonished patient answered,
"Why doctor, my name is Hill."

"As Kipling says, my dear, 'Woman
is a rag, a bone and a hank of hair!"

"And man," she replied, as she
smiled sweetly, "is a jag, a drone and
tank of air."

Lawyer: "I must know the whole
truth before I can successfully defend
you. Have you told me everything?"

Prisoner: "Except where I hid the
money. I want that for myself."

Big Meat Man: "Hurry up, Jimmie —
break the bones in Mr. Jones' chops
and put Mr. Smith's ribs in the basket
for him."

Little Meat Boy: "Yes, sir, as soon
as I've sawed off Mrs. Murphy's leg."

"Papa, who was Izaak Walton'.'''
"What? Do you mean to tell me you

don't know who Izaak Walton was?

What do I send you to Sunday school

for?"

Nature's Beatitudes

1. Blessed are they who plant the
long-lived tree and shrub, for genera-
tions shall rise up and call them
blessed.

2. Blessed are they who are owners
of flower gardens, for in the heart of
a flower may be seen its Creator.

3. Blessed are they who appreciate
Nature's gifts, for they shall be known
as lovers of beauty.

4. Blessed are they who clean up
the highways, byways and home
f'ounds, for cleanliness is next to
godliness.

5. Blessed are they who brighten
and freshen their buildings and fences
with paint, for improvement and the
praise of many people shall be their
reward.

6. Blessed are they who war on
signs and unsightly billboards along
the rural highways, for they shall be
called protectors of roadside beauty
and landscape scenery.

7. Blessed are they who stand for
the protection of Nature's gifts to our
Nation, for they shall be recognized
as patriots.

8. Blessed are the towns with plan-
ning boards, for beauty, prosperity and
peace shall descend upon them.

9. Great shall be the reward of
those who protect forests from fire,
for the bird shall continue to serve
them and the fish and wild animal
to furnish them food.

10. Whoever conserveth national re-
sources, serveth himself and the gen-
erations following.

BEAVER FEED ON SCUM

Dr. W. J. Hamilton, Jr., of the Zoolog-
ical department of Cornell University,
while touring through Pennsylvania re-
cently, observed beavers feeding upon
pond scum, probably spirogyra. Plenty
of bark and succulent herbs were close
at hand, but they were apparently
greatly interested in this algae, accord-
ing to Dr. Hamilton.

SAP AND SAPS

Nature placed the sap in trees to
sustain their growth, as is the case
with blood in the human body, but na-
ture had nothing to do with making
the sap who goes off and leaves his
camp fire burning to set the woods
afire.

WELL SUPPLIED

Antique Dealer — Now, sir, if you'll
step this way, I've a very fine speci-
men of a Queen Anne sideboard I
would like to show you.

Client — Say, that old queen of yours
must have had a big dining-room.
This'll be the eighth sideboard of hers
I've seen this week.

PA'S IDEA OF ONE

"Pa," said Clarence, "what is an over-
played hand?"

"It is one that always is being stuck
out to the tune of 'gimme,' " growled
his dad.

ALL OUT OF STEP

"Do you think it right to buy an
automobile on the installment plan"

Jack Smith: "Sure. 10,000,000 people
can't be wrong."

Sweet Young Thing: Could you fix
up some castor oil so it won't taste?

Druggist: Surely; sit down — won't you
have a soda while you're waiting?

S. Y. T.: Surely.

Druggist: Something else, Miss?

S. Y. T. : No; Where's the castor oil?

Druggist: You just drank it.

S. Y. T. : But that was for mother.

EXTRA DARK
GLACIER MOUNTAIN MINK

Fine, heavy furred, excellent quality

of breeding stock. $75.00 to $125.00

per pair.

BARNEY M. BRANNIN,
Melville, Montana.

Better Taxidermy

allows you to be
just as proud of
your trophy after
it is mounted as
when you bagged
it.

Lentfer Bros.

Succesors to
Jonas Bros.
Taxidermists

215 W. Park St. Livingston, Mont.

Phone 337-W

INTERMOUNTAIN KENNELS

S13 Pine Street, Helena, Mont.

ENGLISH SETTERS AND LABRADOR RETRIEVERS

Registered Stock Only

BEST OF BLOOD LINES
PUPPIES AND BREEDING STOCK FOR SALE

Correspondence Invited

DR. B. C. SHEARER

Helena

GUY F. SAUNDERS
Bozeman

GEORGE L. GRUNER
Helena

Pnge Fourteen

MONTANA

•WS3L© of:

Florida Raises Quail

FLORIDA is the latest state to dem-
onstrate that quail tnay be reared
in large numbers for stocking
purposes. Commissioner Woodward,
with the aid of officials of the State
Prison farm, inaugurated the work two
years ago and during the last season
more than 2,000 mature birds were pro-
duced by the Coleman method.

The work was supervised by T. W.
Shuler, head of the poultry depart-
ment, who had never attempted to
raise quail. He took the information
available and demonstrated that suc-
cessful methods of others can be made
to work if followed strictly.

The average number of eggs pro-
duced per pair of breeders was 83, the
highest egg production of any one bird
being 126. The 10 pens at the top of
the list ran from S3 eggs to 126 eggs,
and the percentage of the hatch from
these 10 pens ran from 84% up to
100%, six of them producing an aver-
age hatch of 93% and higher.

Florida has 52 free range breeding
grounds ranging from 3,000 to 100,000
acres each, about one-third of which
is good quail territory. The commis-
sioner believes that he could trap from
50 to 1,000 quail from these areas
each year for stocking purposes, and
that they would produce better results
than the captivity-bred quail.

A salesman sold an elderly negro
farmer a tractor. Several weeks after
the machine had been delivered the
salesman called on his customer for
payment.

"Can you pay me for the tractor to-
day, Uncle Jim?"

"Pay fo' de tractor!" said Uncle Jim
in astonishment. "Why, man, yo' done
tole me dat tractor would pay for his-
self."

NO?

"How long did it take you to learn
to drive a motor car?"
"Oh, three or four."
"Weeks?"
"No. Motor cars."

EASY HONOKS

Smart Alec (getting on bus) : "Morn-
ing, Noah, is your old ark full?"

Driver: "Nope. Only one jackass so
far. Come on in."

An excited woman rushed into the
office of the Tenth District Police sta-
tion in Chicago a few days ago. "Oh,"
she cried, "I've just murdered my hus-
band."

"Well, you're in the wrong place,
lady," said the desk sergeant. "This
ain't no vaudeville booking office."

Rotary Ann: "Please be careful, my
floors are highly polished."

Rotarian: "Don't worry about my
Slipping, lady. I have hub nails in my
shoes."

Resolutions Passed by
Sportsmen

(Continued from Page 10)

Superintendent of the Bozeman Hatch-
ery, for the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries,
has in his 18 years as superintendent
cooperated whole-heartedly with the ex-
isting State and Federal Bureaus, and
with the Fish and Game departments
and the sportsmen in these Rocky Moun-
tain states for better fishing and for
the wise conservation of our natural
resources, and

"WHEREAS, he is about to be retired,
after 35 years devoted to fish culture,
25 years of which has been spent in
the Rocky Mountain states,

"THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED:
That this convention extend to Mr. W.
T. Thompson our sincere thanks and
appreciation for all that he has done
for better fishing in the Rocky Moun-
tain states."

"WHEREAS, the Montana State Fish
and Game Commission has seen fit to
install on lands adapted to that purpose,
a game farm in Montana for the propa-
gation of game birds to be distributed
for breeding purposes throughout the
state, and

"WHEREAS, the expenditures on this
project have made it possible for game
birds to be liberated at a very reason-
able price, and that the progress made
thus far is very gratifying;

"NOW THEREFORE BE IT RE-
SOLVED: That this organization go on
record as heartily endorsing this enter-
prise and commending the Fish and
Game Commission for their action in
establishing this game farm, at the
same time recognizing the good work
of Joe Hendricks, its superintendent
in charge of the work."

"B. L. PRICE,

"A. C. BAUMGARTNER.

"O. C. LAMPORT."

Lions are exceedingly curious about
automobiles.

The true man-eating shark has a
highly developed nasal apparatus.

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U. S. FOS1AUK

PAID

Helena, Montana
Permit No. 27

MONTANA

WE]UD LIF

ONTANA'S State High-
way Commission, which
has supervised the vast
program of expendi-
ture of millions of dol-
lars in federal aid
projects in the Treas-
ure State, has in-
structed its employes to cooperate with
sportsmen in preserving all cover pos-
sible along roads for the protection
and feeding of game birds. The mat-
ter was originally called to the at-
tention of the highway commission
by T N. Marlowe of Missoula, chair-
man of the State Fish and Game Com-
mission, in a letter to Chairman O. S.
Warden of Great Falls. Immediate ac-
tion by the highway commission fol-
lowed.

For the information of sportsmen of
the state, the letters exchanged re-
garding the problem, are published
herewith:

Mr. Marlowe's letter to 0. S. Warden,
chairman of the highway commission:
"Several weeks ago when I was driv-
ing to Poison, Montana, I saw some
men along the main highway about
five or six miles this side of Poison,
cutting down a lot of wild rose bushes
that had grown up along the fence ad-
joining the highway. I do not know
for sure, but I believe these men
were in the employ of the highway
commission as I understand they were
surveying the road at this particular
point; in fact, I have seen them there
several times this summer.

"Probably it is not realized, but
these rose bushes along the bound-
aries of highways afford wonderful
protection to upland game birds such
as Chinese pheasants and Hungarian
partridges. They protect them not
only from the severe weather in win-
ter but afford shelter for them during
the warm weather in summer. Not
only this, but they afford protection
for these birds from their natural ene-
mies, such as hawks and owls. In sev-
eral states in the Union, fish and game
commissions have persuaded the rail-
way companies to refrain from cutting
down cover of this kind along their
right of ways for the reasons men-
tioned above. I am quite sure the fact
that these rose bushes were there did
not in any way interfere with the high-
way and I am quite sure that had this
idea been conveyed to those cutting
the bushes that they would not have
done so. I feel that the matter was
simply never thought of. I am con-
veying this idea on to you with the
hope that you will take kindly to the
same and have an order made urging
employes of the commission to refrain
from cutting down cover of this nature.
"The upland birds of this state are
doing wonderfully well and we have
just closed the most successful open
season ever known to the sportsmen

of Montana. I do not know, however,
how the season was over there, but in
western Montana thousands of these
birds were killed and wonderful sport
enjoyed by our sportsmen and we are

Frederick the Great's
Fire Penalties

STARTING a forest fire in the days
of Frederick the Great meant a
heavy fine or jail sentence for some
one, according to historical data. Amer-
ican foresters have long debated the
general public disregard of forest val-
ues, the indifference to damage by fire
or promiscuous cutting, but they have
never urged the infliction of severe pen-
alties upon persons guilty of such dam-
age. It is sometimes felt, however, that
the penalty imposed in a particular case
is a heavy one. By contrast with the
earlier laws of countries where the
vital relationship of forest to public
welfare was first recognized, present-
day penalties for violations of forestry
laws in this country are mild.

Excerpts from a proclamation of King
Frederick, Berlin, December 3, 177">,
show some of the severities in his for-
est laws for East Prussia:

"Anyone starting a fire in or within
100 paces of a forest, or using a pitch
torch or any fire when fishing or catch-
ing crawfish in any lakes within and
on streams or creeks flowing through
a forest, or who smokes tobacco during
the dry or summer season within a
forest, even though no damage is done,
shall be punished with a 4-week jail or
penitentiary sentence, and if any dam-
age results, shall pay such damage; if
he can not pay the damage, the period
of imprisonment shall be in proportion
to the amount of damage ascertained,
up to 100 thaler ($75), one-fourth year;
from 100 to 200 thaler ($75 to $150),
one-half year; and 200 thaler and over,
1 year imprisonment.

"Any person wilfully or maliciously
starting a fire in a forest, with intent
of damaging such forest, shall be pun-
ished with a 10-year penitentiary sen-
tence at hard labor, and upon establish-
ing the moral responsibility the sen-
tence may be increased even to a death
penalty. Anyone discovering and re-
porting such evil-doer shall receive a
reward of 50 thaler."

The present-day attitude of Germany
toward forest fires is indicated in the
trial, reported by the Deutsche Forst-
zeitung, of a 15-year-old boy who care-
lessly started a fire that burned several
thousand acres. Because of his youth,
he was sentenced to only three weeks
in jail. In addition, however, he must
report to the state forester at the be-
ginning of each planting season and
must work without pay during the en-
tire season.

simply trying to do everything possible
to give them all the assistance we can."

Chairman Warden's reply follows:

"I have read with interest your let-
ter of Nov. 28. It opens up a new
subject to me. I shall take your letter
to a meeting of the Highway Commis-
sion in Helena on Dec. 2 and 3, and
we will give such attention as we can
to your suggestion. I am sure you can
depend upon such cooperation as may
seem wholesome for the protection of
game birds.

"I am surely much interested in the
fish and game situation in our state
because I think it will wonderfully
supplement the attractions we have in
scenery as we get our highways in
shape so that people may comfortably
visit these Rocky Mountain areas."

Ralph D. Rader, state highway en-
gineer, then addressed this letter to
Mr. Marlowe:

"Your letter of Nov. 28 to O. S. War-
den, chairman of the Montana High-
way Commission, has been referred by
Mr. Warden to this office for reply.

"In order to prevent the drifting of
snow upon our highways during the
winter it is necessary for us to cut
all brush along the fence lines and
road shoulders in the fall. I presume
this was the reason for the cutting of
rose bushes along the fence lines south
of Poison as mentioned in your letter.
We have great difficulty in keeping our
roads passable during the winter
months and find that any objects such
as weeds, brush, piles of rock, cause
drifts of snow to form on the roadway
itself. Our snow fences, of course, are
set at some distance from the road
so that the drifts they form lie en-
tirely outside of the traveled way.

"However, I am sure that our men
do not all- realize the importance of
brush and shrubs as a protection for
game birds and I am writing to all of
our division engineers requesting them
to avoid cutting brush on the right of
way in all cases where this brush
would not cause drifting. Thank you
for calling our attention to the matter."

FISH LESSONS IN CAUTIOS
Untutored salmon are getting novel
"lessons" in caution" in New Bruns-
wick, Canada. Accommodating offi-
cials, desiring to keep their tourists and
their fish, too, are issuing special per-
mits allowing anglers to fish to their
hearts' content ahead of legal seasons
as long as they use the innocent barb-
less hook and return to the water all
but one fish a day. They believe this
plan will benefit all their visitors, both
human and piscatorial. It will amuse
early nimrods and at the same time
fill the streams with fish well schooled
in the virtue of wisdom.

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