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"WHAT WAS THAT YOU SAID YOU WERE FISHIN' FER, OBIE?" letters to the Eidtar OUTDO( Dear Sir: name Wetzel-instead of the proper I would like to take this opportunity Whetzel-is largely the fault of Zane to toss a bouquet and a brickbat at the Grey who dropped the "h"; why we DIANA same time. First off, your magazine is do not know. The family still spells doing a swell job and many of the arti- their name Whetzel and the old grave- cles fit right into our scheme of things, stone shown with the story bears out A old guns and shooting. Our organization the fact that it was the accepted spell- Vol. XIX, No. 6 Issued Monthly ing when Jacob Whetzel died. The follows your historical articles with avid JUNE, 1952 interest. championship shoot was a trap shoot. Address all communications, Editor, Outdoor Indi- Now the brickbats. On page 16 (April) Dear Editor: ana, 311-325 W. Washington St., Indianapolis 9, Ind. is pictured a long rifle under the caption Regarding the article in the April of "flintlock" rifle. This rifle is clearly issue, "Taste of Fowls." You can mix a caplock rifle and though it may be a wheat and rye and give it to chickens. converted flintlock, it is definitely a cap- They will pick out the wheat grains and lock. Next is the name of the Wetzel That would indicate a CONTENTS leave the rye. Page family. In all the books we have avail- highly-developed sense of taste. able the name is spelled without the LETTERS TO EDITOR ...... 1 LEE MADDOX, TROUT STOCKED...... 2 "H." Maybe you should shed some light 12,000 Oaktown. LEGAL RESPONSIBILITIES ...... 3 on this fact. Next is the championship REDBUD ARCHERY TOURNEY ...... 4 Shoot article on page 23. There was con- Science is founded upon theory, ex- CONSERVATION CAMP OPENS ...... 6 siderable doubt left as to what kind of perimentation and observation. Thanks THIS STATE OF OURS - 7 shooting was done and what type of for your observations, sir. KENTLAND JR. RIFLES ...... 8 guns were used. Dear Sir: McCORMICK'S CREEK STATE PARK ...... 12 Keep up the good work and we hope I have just recently become familiar WHERE SILENCE HAS LEASE ... 14 for more frontier articles for OUTDOOR with your publication OUTDOOR INDI- INDIANA BOGS TELL STORY ...... 15 INDIANA. ANA, and consider it one of the finest UNCLE JIM . ~.-..~...... 17 CHARLES L. SINGLETON, Secretary, publications with which I have come in AGRICULTURAL NOTES...... 20 IndianapolisBlackpowder Gun Club. contact. THE PORCUPINE ...... 23 Of special interest to me were the two EDITOR'S PAGE...... -- . . 24 Well, sir, we have about reached the issue, "Ori- conclusion that we are not doing such fine articles in the February gin of the Ohio" and "Water and Flour." a good job if we leave our readers with I have on occasion visited several of the as many questions as you have put to mills mentioned in the latter article and us! We apologize for the misleading Editor was especially glad to obtain some his- caption. That was strictly an error on BOB HOOVER torical information about them. our part and Mr. H. W. Rothgeb of Associate Editor Hoagland also pointed out the mistake. RUSSELL J. WHISTLER, JR. MARGARET LANAHAN McABEE (Incidentally, the writer should have Corps of Engineers, known better.) The spelling of the Louisville, Kentucky. 0

THE COVER You can certainly tell it's the good old sum- mertime in Indiana when you see a youngster out along the stream bank with his bamboo EDITORIAL BOARD pole and a can of worms. And just as often as not, you'll find the lad having difficulty HENRY F. SCHRICKER with a fishhook in his thumb or a tangle in his line. Governor Our cover this month shows one of "the men in green," a state conservation officer, un- JOHN A. WATKINS tangling a line for a member of the younger set. We have done a lot of writing about con- of Agriculture Lieutenant-Governor and Commissioner servation education, but the men who work in the field day in and day out are really much INDIANA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION better equipped to spread the gospel of good James M. Tucker, Chairman Ora Ax Howard Hiestand Robert H. Heller sportsmanship and good conduct as evidenced by this photo. ,Kenneth M. Kunkel, Director So here's to all the kids and their crappies, and here's to all the officers who untangle the Published monthly by the Indiana Department of Agriculture in cooperation with the Indiana Depart- ment of Conservation. Offices at 311-325 West Washington St., Indianapolis, Ind. (Entered as second- lines and take out the fishhooks for them: A class matter at the Post Office, Indianapolis, Indiana, under the Acts of June 6, 1900.) bountiful limit of fish for you, lad. And more Permission for republication of any material from this issue is hereby given with a request that proper good sports -than bad sports for you, sir. credit be given. Responsibility for the return of unsolicited manuscripts and photographs is not assumed unless sender's request is accompanied by a self-addressed, stamped envelope. Conservation Department Photo.

OUTDOOR INDIANA * Page 1 12,000 TROUT STOCKED IN INDIANA'S STREAMS N ow that early returns from the 1952 trout season are coming in, Hoosier anglers are going to have some tall and fancy explaining to do to the little woman if they fail to bring home the limit next weekend. What with more than 12,000 legal- size rainbow and brown trout stocked in northern Indiana lakes and streams, almost every angler who heads north should return with a pretty fair catch. Now, don't go alibi Ike'in', brother; the Department of Conservation knows those trout are there, 'cause they put 'em those three pictured here-we didn't let The day we went to LaGrange county there! And this writer was there and them die just to get a picture. We put on a trout-planting trip, the weather was saw 'em! As per the accompanying pho- them right back in the lake and they took bitter cold and alternating rain with tographs, you can see these rainbows and off fast. snow. It might have been spring in the browns range from about 7 inches to 14 This trout-stocking job was a tiring, south, but the north still had winter or 15 inches. And stop worrying about repetitive process to the men of your (Continued on Page 6) state fish hatcheries. These boys had to man two tank trucks, drive in relays to the federal hatcheries at Neosha, Mis- souri, load up with trout and start right back, driving day and night, to complete the job by the time our season opened May 1. In all, 16 trips were made to Neosha, eight by each truck. The trans- port and stocking job took about eight weeks to complete. Some 7,100 legal-size rainbows were released in the 13 counties of northern Indiana, and an additional 4,900 brown trout were placed in the waterways of LaPorte, St. Joseph, Elkhart, LaGrange, Steuben, DeKalb, Allen and Noble counties. Legal Responsibilities of Water Resources By CHARLES H. BECHERT, Director Division of Water Resources systems 347 municipal water OF servingthe Indiana communities, 296 obtain water from the ground. With increasing populations and the influx of new industries many of these cities and towns are facing difficult problems of augmenting their supplies and developing new ground water sources. This is one of the reasons the Division of Water Resources has been making studies of ground water conditions in various parts of the state. Not only is it concerned with the waters underground, however, but it is engaged in investigating the streams and lakes of the state and appraising its other water resources. For, while the majority of cities use ground water for their municipal supply, most larger cities depend on surface waters. Power companies and many industrial concerns also use large quantities of surface water from our rivers and lakes. It is, therefore, important to know resource point of view, but also from the quantities of water available for such an struction and recleaning of drainage economic use, especially if the demand for water and recreational standpoint. At ditches, and one of the purposes of the continues to rise as it has during the the present time 110 lake gaging stations lake level law is to enable the court to past decade or two. Information on the are being operated. These stations con- set a legal level at which the lake can flow of our streams is also important to sist of a staff gage installed at some con- be maintained without adversely inter- fering with the engineer who is responsible for the venient location in the lake where daily needed drainage and at the design of bridges which span them and observations and recordings are made of same time preserving the lake from fur- for the design of flood control projects. the surface elevation of the water in the ther harm. Under the provisions of this law, Such data is also needed for the design lake. In addition to the daily water level the average normal water level has been established on 63 lakes. Several and operation of hydro-electric projects, records of these lakes, periodic measure- control for irrigation projects, operation of mu- ments of the surface inflow and outflow dams have been built to maintain these levels and a number of others nicipal and industrial sewage treatment of the lake are made. Two evaporation facilities, and a variety of other purposes. stations have also been established in the are presently being planned. Under Chapter 285 of the Acts of Because of these needs, 112 stream northern part of the state to provide data 1947, it is unlawful to construct or re- gaging stations are being operated and on rates of evaporation from the lakes. construct a drainage ditch having a bot- maintained on the more important All of this information is needed in solv- tom depth lower than the normal water streams of the state under a cooperative ing various lake problems, in the estab- level of a lake of ten acres or more within program between the U. S. Geological lishment of lake levels and in the design one-half mile of a lake without first hav- Survey and the Division of Water Re- of control structures to maintain the es- ing secured the written approval of the sources. Prior to entering into agree- tablished levels. Department. The purpose of this law is ment with the U. S. Geological Survey, Establishing of lake levels may be an to prevent drainage enterprises from un- the Department of Conservation operated unfamiliar term which needs further ex- necessarily lowering the water level of from 25 to 30 stream gaging stations planation. In 1947, the Legislature passed public lakes. The administration of the and continuous records on these streams a law authorizing the Department to es- law requires the collection of hydrologic are available from 1921 until the pres- tablish the average normal water level of data and other information needed to ent time. all the public fresh water lakes of the make an appraisal of the effects of drain- Another important phase of the in- state and to construct or supervise the age on the level of the lake involved. vestigational program is that of collect- construction of control dams to regulate The Division is also responsible for ing hydrologic data for the natural lakes the water level of the lakes and maintain the administration of Chapters 181 and in northern Indiana. These lakes are ex- them as near as possible to their average 301 of the 1947 Acts which prohibit tremely valuable to the local community, level. In the past, many of the lakes of alterations in the shore or beds of public to the county in which they are located northern Indiana have been lowered and fresh water lakes without the approval and to the state, not only from a water seriously injured as a result of the con- (Continued on Page 10)

OUTDOOR INDIANA * Page 3 REDBUD ARCHERY TOURNAMENT DRAWS 150 TO BROWN COUNTY permanent trophies, medals and ribbons Leading off for the men's sight match- THE sunny warmth and clear skies of a late April Sunday brought some presented as top awards for the various es was Fred Strain, of Indianapolis, who 150 persons to the archery range of events. scored a total of 1,129 points to take Brown County State Park and despite a The men's and women's matches were the trophy from runner-up Dick Shire- gusty wind that carried arrows off their set at 60-50-40-yard lengths, while the man who tallied 1,112 points. mark, the archers met there to prove their junior and beginner ranges closed in to Men's Instinctive matches saw Jack prowess in the annual Redbud Archery 50-40-30 yards. Still and all, the young- Small, of Shelbyville, the winner over Tournament managed to score brilliantly. sters managed to pull some pretty strong Maurice LeFavour with tallies of 1,160 Visiting clubs from Fort Wayne, Rich- bows and if enthusiasm is the mark of and 1,093 respectively. mond, Evansville, Indianapolis and Terre a champion, each one of those young- Ruth EuDaley took the women's sight Haute vied against each other for the sters deserves a winner's prize. match from Lois Shireman with a total points. Mrs. Shireman's total The ladies step to the line. of 1,017 was 963 to give her the runner-up award. Women's Instinctive matches were won by Lillian Kines with 742 points as against the 616 points run up by Jennie LeFavour. Even the visitors had their day at the Redbud and the visiting Finkhousen family staged an all-out shoot to win first, second and third prizes between them. Glen Finkhousen tallied 1,030 points, Donald scored with 1,006 and Goldie hit for 595. One of the most interesting matches to the lay spectator was the shoot between members of the junior division. Ronald Hargrove took this match with 375 points to beat out Wesley Boyce who scored 347. Ken Holden came in third prize winner with 279. Another match that garnered spectators' attention was that between the beginners. Those youngsters did remarkably well and Stephen Boyce managed 93 good hits to earn him a total of 449 points. Don Atkinson scored for second with 415 and Target 2 in the men's sight class checks the target for hits. R. A. Royster, Jr., tallied 327 to win third place. "The Redbud," as it is affectionately called by its fans, is one of the three main archery events of the year, the other two being the annual Brown County Open Archery Tournament and the Cot- tontail Roving Meet. All of these state- wide events are sponsored by the Hoo- sier State Archery Association and are held at the Brown County State Park range. Our listing for the Brown County Open is August 10 and visitors are certainly welcome to drop around to the archery course in the park and watch these interesting bow and arrow target matches. One of the Brown County Open matches you'll be sure to want to see is the Clout Tournament. This is an adjunct of the old European army archers artillery The entire field at full draw. wherein the targets are placed flat on the ground while the archers, standing at a distance of approximately 150-140 yards, attempt to place their shots as near the bull's-eye as possible. The Brown County Open also schedules Flight, York, National and Columbia matches for men and women. Junior matches are also held in conjunction with this event. Some 20 revolving and permanent trophies will be presented the winners of the various matches. This year will mark the 22nd anniver- sary for the Brown County Open, too. During the war years the number of en- trants was greatly decreased, but the matches were continued by remaining members. These later years have seen the membership grow like Hoosier corn and now approximately 200 to 250 are regu- Bob Helmke, Fort Wayne, repairs his bowstring on the spot. lar participants in the matches. sored by various organizations and held drop in at one of the parks to watch or participate as your inclinations dictate. Archery matches are not the only sea- at the parks' riding rings. Almost every sonal events scheduled at Brown county week end throughout the season, some Three of the boys talk over the and other state parks, however. Cogni- big sporting event will be carried on in possibilities. zance must be given the wonderful east- the Indiana state parks, so plan to take ern and western riding-horse shows spon- the family for a trip some Sunday and

The beginners' division examines form with a professional eye. 12,000 TROUT STOCKED CONSERVATION CAMP IN INDIANA'S STREAMS (Continued from Page 2) breathing down its neck. Splashing in OPENS JUNE 16 and out of those creeks and stream planting trout, any one of those hatchery- Session Split -- to Aid Students men might well wish he were back in his Session Split to nice, comfortable hatchery with nothing 0- to do but clean and drain ponds, seine Scholarships out crappies, bluegills and bass for later Conservation Education INDIANA'SCamp for ownteachers and school admin- So outstandingly recognized has been stockings of these popular fish, scrub istrators is scheduled to open this June the work of this Conservation Education down the trucks and keep his equipment 16 and we want to introduce you folks Camp that numerous scholarships from up to par. to some of the work being conducted at local chapters of conservation clubs, gar- Nevertheless, the boys went about their Versailles State Park during this course den clubs, civic groups and other organ- trout-stocking with a minimum of com- of study. izations have been set up. Any teacher ment and the maximum in work. In four In these past few years there has been interested in attending either the first hours, some 12 plantings had been made an increasing demand for instructors qual- three-week course or the full six-week at a widely divergent number of points, ified to teach the fundamentals of natural session may be overlooking an excellent and upon completion of the job itself, resources. Certain teacher's licenses now possibility if he or she does not check the reports were made out--12 plantings, require at least three semester-hours of with home town groups about obtaining LaGrange county, 720 rainbows released. training in this field and the Conservation one of these scholarships. Then followed a list of the points at Education Camp is designed to fill that Library facilities will be available at which these trout were freed; however, let the reading fisherman guess need within three weeks. This three-week the camp and bulletins, pamphlets and we will do to training period is an innovation in the course manuals will be furnished. Lab- at these locales, for it would not have 3,000 Conservation Camp program, for in pre- oratory and field equipment, other than anglers in 12 creeks-rods, reels, boots and all! vious years the six-week program was the clothing, will be provided also. day. Since many teachers found As opening day of trout season dawned, rule of the Recreation is not overlooked in the impossible to remain away from conservation officers for the northern it nearly camp curriculum. Fishing, hiking, swim- camp di- counties, plus roving crews composed of other duties for the full period, ming, motion pictures and other social this year split the course to in- lieutenants and captains, visited every rectors entertainment play their part too. clude two sessions within the same pe- stream and lake bank, checking licenses riod of time. Facilities and trout stamps. As in years past, each fisherman holding a license with the ap- Two Courses The regular camp area is located in proved trout stamp affixed is entitled to Now this split session does not mean one of the park group camps and there 15 trout. Trout taken must measure seven that the same subjects will be taught in are permanent buildings, including a din- inches, and any undersized brown or rain- both the June 16-July 5 and July 7-July ing hall, recreation and classroom unit, bows must be returned to the water im- 26 sessions. The first session will consist a shower house with modern facilities and mediately and with as little harm as pos- of the fundamentals of soil, water and attractive cabins for living quarters spaced sible. plant conservation while the second will conveniently. Another law concerning our fishing deal with fisheries, wildlife management Versailles State Park, scene of the an- season states that "any license or permit and curriculum development. Thus, the nual camp course is located just east of issued . . . shall not be assignable or to the first session introduces the teacher Versailles, in Ripley county, 73 miles transferable. It shall be unlawful for and the natural resources of our country southeast of Indianapolis. Transportation any person to change, alter or counterfeit the conservative second session deals with arrangements will be made for students any license or permit issued under provi- management of them. coming in by bus or rail and signs will sions of this act." So, don't loan your Personnel be posted along the highway to lead license and stamp to anyone - t'ain't drivers to the camp. legal! The course is open to advanced under- graduate and graduate students, teachers, If you are a teacher, student or school school administrators and others working administrator, learn full details about In- Whitewater Lake in conservation, and it is sponsored joint- diana's Conservation Education Camp by Stocked with Fish ly by Purdue University, the Department writing Prof. H. H. Michaud, Camp Di- of Public Instruction and the Depart- rector, Department of Forestry at Pur- The lake at new Whitewater State ment of Conservation. It is staffed by men due. And don't forget that camp begins Park near Liberty was stocked with game of such outstanding caliber as Prof. June 16-so write now! fish from Driftwood State Fish Hatchery Howard Michaud, Dr. Helmut Kohnke, recently. First shipments included blue- Prof. E. J. Lott, Prof. T. E. Shaw, Dr. The angler is forever at gills, largemouth bass, red-eared sunfish, J. E. Potzger, Dr. W. P. Allyn, Prof. G. and crappies. The mercy of the skeeters; E. Lehker, Dr. Shelby Gerking, Dr. C. Later in the season, plantings of fin- M. Kirkpatrick and Superintendent of Of stinging flies and biting gnats gerlings and channel catfish will be made Newcastle Schools, Mr. Joseph Craw. And other blood depletors. in the Whitewater park lake.

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Meet a Friend - THIS STATE OF OURS By'MARGARET L. McABEE cent of the building limestone needs of take the physical Q UITEworld oftenof daily we life as a matter of the country. Furniture manufacturers, small importance, forgetting that with- using native wood, make 12 per cent of out the natural resources of our land and the household furniture used, thus pro- the physical and inventive resources of viding us with the appointments of the our people, we would merely exist from Indiana home. Large brick and tile indus- day to day rather than live from year to tries supplement home construction by year. But, because our life does revolve manufacturing additional quantities of around these factors and we have accept- building materials. And the manufac- ed the patterns they have set for us, we ture of prefabricated houses is a young tend to overlook and cease to marvel at and expanding business in our native them, thereby denying ourselves the pleas- state. __17 ure of new discovery in old friends, so By and large, farming is our second to speak. greatest economic asset, bringing an an- This state of ours is an old friend to nual $940,791,000 to the state. Approxi- most of us. The munificent bounty of its mately 175,970 farms encompass 20,027,- hills, waters, fields, glades and marshes 015 acres of land valued at more than a are matters dear to our existence, yet we billion and a half dollars. Some 10,936,- frequently ignore that bounty because we 000 acres of corn, oats, wheat, rye, barley are too busy with details of turning that and other crops were produced last year bounty into personal satisfactions. while thousands of head of hogs, cattle Indiana, for instance, is classed by statis- and sheep were fed out to take their ticians as a "great manufacturing state" places on our dinner tables. because it has some 8,000 industries which When "The State of Indians," other- annually add $3,000,000,000 to the purs- wise known as Indiana, was settled in es of its people. This fabulous amount 1733 there were only a handful of pio- of income may be broken up into parcels neers in the whole territory. By 1800 that designated as investment of capital in handful had swelled to 5,641 inhabitants. land, buildings and equipment, salaries By 1950 we boasted a population of 3,- to personnel and taxes to the state. Six 934, 224 men, women and children. Nine out of every 10 persons in Indiana is en- of our cities had grown to a population gaged in metal industry work and the of 50,000 or more. state as a unit ranks third in steel pro- Diversified crops are combined with duction for the United States. our stock-raising activities. Muck crops Some 157 coal mines averaging 20,- of potatoes, cabbages, onions, and celery 000,000 tons a year provide not only fuel fill our tables during the growing season for the industrial and home fires but and our tomato production is second only funds for food, homes, clothing, educa- to California's. We lead the nation in tion, social security payments for its em- peppermint and spearmint oil produc- ployees and tax money for social im- tion and our central Indiana orchards provements. produce bountiful harvests of fruits. The homes we build or buy with our Business in general is considered pret- savings may be constructed of native ty good. Our banks deposited $3,322,- limestone blasted from the quarries of 273,000 during the 1950 year but totals southern Indiana, for we satisfy 80 per The Kentland Junior

FOLKS, meet the "Dead-Eye's" of the Kentland, Indiana, Junior Rifle Club. While the editor of this here magazine was figuring out just which of his various pairs of eye glasses he should use in making the photographs shown here, the Kentland sharpshooters had made bulls-eye after bulls- eye. So I was lucky to get a shot which was reproducable. The sparkplug of the organization is Dr. Jack F. Newland of the northern Indiana city, who has organized more rifle clubs than a dog has fleas. He is aided by William H. Miller, assistant instructor, and Dale Hamman, who checks the shots made by the boys. The club photographically portrayed is composed of 25 lads who range in age from 10 to 19 years. All use 22-caliber rifles of various makes. For some of the kids who cannot afford such firearms, the "loan" of one is ready. Tiny little kids tag along sometimes and are provided with air rifles. Everybody gets in the act. The dues are $1.50 a year and in case the amount is not forthcoming, that amount comes forth -if you get what I mean. The Kentland club is registered under the Director of Civilian Marksmanship and is conducted under the auspices of the Board for the Promotion of Rifle Marksmanship, a national organization. Through the untiring efforts of Dr. Newland and his staff, the boys are taught how to use fire-

Page 8 * OUTDOOR INDIANA Rifle Club in Action arms in such a manner as to insure safety in the field, on the range, and elsewhere. As the lads reach certain degrees of efficiency they are given diplomas for their progress. Of late they have entered into contests with a number of rifle clubs and have really shown the efficiency they have attained. The Indiana Department of Conservation is most happy that such clubs are springing into existence, inasmuch as the improper use of guns figures heavily each year in hunting accidents. It is felt that such organizations as this go a long way toward preventing injury and death. The range is shown in photos 1 and 3 while the boys are shown taking careful aim in photo 2. Armed with a powerful pair of field glasses, No. 4, an enthusiast checks the firing line from a safe spot. No. 5 shows Mr. Hamman checking fire accuracy by means of a binocular unit. What makes a gun tick is explained by Mr. Miller, left, Dr. Newland, center, and Mr. Hamman. Various diplomas given are shown in photo No. 7, while the entire club is pictured in photo No. 8. Class No. 9 is attended by all shooters present. One lad, William Miller, Jr., shown on the left in photo No. 6, lost a leg in a hunting accident a few years ago. Not daunt- ed, he took up the study of careful shooting and today has as many medals for accuracy as an army general. In fact, they call him "Eisenhower"!

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OUTDOOR INDIANA * Page 9 MEET A FRIEND-. Thousands of Americans have hummed, water per minute from the ground for THIS STATE OF OURS whistled or sing the songs of Cole air conditioning or cooling purposes, un- (Continued from Page 7) Porter, Hoagy Carmichael and Paul less the water is returned to the ground for 1951 are not yet available. Invest- Dresser. The Dresser melody "On the and re-used or a permit to use it in ments totalled an additional $1,642,005,- Banks of the Wabash" which is our state other ways is obtained. song, was written about the river which 000 that year. The per capita income was Since this law applied to ground wa- averaged at $1,451 a year. forms our western boundary-but curi- ously enough that river just ambles 425 ter used for air conditioning only, it was Our people are fairly well-educated by miles through the state from its source found to be inadequate and in 1951 it the 2,569 public and private elementary in Darke county, Ohio! Our 36,291 was repealed and a more comprehensive schools, 337 public and private high square miles of state includes 86 square law was passed. Under the provisions of schools and 38 colleges. We claim high miles of inland lakes, reservoirs and the new law, which the Division of Wa- position in the literary ranks of America, ponds. Bounded as we are on the north having produced such stellar writers as ter Resources must administer, the De- by Lake Michigan, on the west by the Booth Tarkington, George Ade, General partment of Conservation may declare Wabash and on the Lew Wallace, Med Nicholson, James south by the Ohio, certain areas as "restricted use areas" it is small wonder that much of our in- Whitcomb Riley, Maurice where the withdrawal of ground waters Thompson, terest is tied up in the waterways Max Eastman and exceeds or threatens to exceed the nat- Theodore Dreiser, is just 255 miles Even though our state ural rate of replenishment. In such Gene Stratton Porter. only 160 miles wide, it pulses long and areas, further use of additional waters Twenty-five schools of nursing aug- planes, cars, with the movement of trucks, are controlled and regulated. ment the medical staffs of our 131 hos- tractors, threshers and combines. From pitals and the health needs of 387,014 all sides come the voices of businessmen, Water is vitally important to all of us. patients were cared for last year. Birth farmers, teachers, and writers. Our kalei- And in order to make a just appraisal of rate statistics show a 24.2 per cent rate descopic climate reflects the many-facet- our supply we must have the facts. These while the death rate is gauged at only ted Hoosier character-character intent facts must then be examined and inter- 10.3 per cent. The trend of medical im- on forming rough metal and stone into preted if they are to be of value to those provements is reflected in the fact that usable products, character bent on grow- concerned with water supply, flood con- our average population is considerably ing crops and harvesting them, character trol, stream pollution, air conditioning, older than that of 50 years ago. It is founded on an appreciation of our his- water power, recreation and the many unfortunate that 1,124 automobile driv- toric past and mellowed by song and other uses of water. ers in the state lost their lives in acci- story of this-our native state. As the data is obtained, correlated and dents. Our auto death rate measures one interpreted with other hydrologic data, it for every 7.8 miles of highway. death Legal Responsibilities of Water will be possible to make a more accu- Seven airlines service Indiana and 223 Resources rate appraisal of our water and thereby determine what steps, airports acclaim the fact that Hoosiers (Continued from Page 3) if any, must be taken to prevent a depletion of this all- like to travel. Several railroads provide of the Department. Artificial changes in important resource and how to transportation and numerous trucking the bed or shore might conceivably cause best de- companies throughout the state accommo- velop and utilize it. a loss of water from one underground ---- 0 date our heavy freight shipments. The formation to another. Changes may also ore boats that provide transportation from upset the biological balance, all of which Argos Club Rears northern mines to mills in the Calumet requires a study to determine whether or area supplement this perennial movement not they will be injurious to the lake. Minnows for State of men and material. Still another law passed during the Distribution Our greatest steel production is, na- last legislative session allows the Divi- turally, located in this Calumet region sion of Water Resources to inspect all Three members of the Argos area of Gary, Hammond, East Chicago and new intake installations of industrial Izaak Walton League, Glen Warner, Whiting. Gary was just a sand dune in plants using water from Lake Michigan. Harry Lower and Ray Hooker took an 1905 when U. S. Steel Corporation lo- No new pumping equipment can be in- estimated 225,000 bluegill minnows from cated its mills there. It now has a popu- stalled without being approved in ad- the clubhouse pond recently. lation of 132,000. vance. This protects not the water, but The minnows were placed in a state Among our recreational areas recog- the fish which in years past have been conservation truck and taken to Bass nized throughout the nation are the 16 sucked into the pipes and screens and Lake State Fish hatchery and from there state parks, 15 state forests, the Vincennes killed. Development of electric fish will be distributed to lakes and streams Memorial to George Rogers Clark, the screens and other safety devices show throughout the state. Approximately 75,- Rappite settlement at New Harmony, the promise of halting this destruction which 000 of these minnows will be placed at grave of Nancy Hanks Lincoln and our is both unintentional and unnecessary. the Willow Slough Game Preserve near World War Memorial. Wyandotte Cave For more than 100 years all water Enos, Indiana. near Leavenworth, is the third largest rights in Indiana were based on the com- The bluegill distribution is part of natural cavern in the United States and mon law principle. It was not until 1947 the program of cooperation between the draws speleological interest from all over that the state attempted to control the Indiana Izaak Walton League clubs and the world. Santa Claus, Indiana, our fa- use of water by statutory action. In that the Department of Conservation. Many mous post office beloved of philatelists, year a law was passed prohibiting the local clubs maintain holding ponds for is deluged with mail every Christmas. withdrawal of more than 200 gallons of such purposes.

Page 10 * OUTDOOR INDIANA Remodeling Completed At Hoosier Parks W HEN Memorial Day rolls around and swimming pools open for the season, almost every youngster, and grown-up. too, starts thinking about summer vacation. And it is small wonder that vacation- ing plans inevitably include the out-of- doors and the green covered hills of In- diana's state parks. All during the spring and early summer a great deal of work has been under- taken at the parks to provide this year's visitors with even more comfortable accommodations and conveniences. Abe Martin Lodge in Brown County A new "Grandma Pash" housekeeping cabin goes up. Unlike the former cabin State Park has undergone a major en- which stood on this spot, the new cabin will be a four-unit type. largement with the addition of a whole cabin which was destroyed by fire two been redecorated for the season and youth new dining room and kitchen section. years ago. groups meeting there this summer will Complete installation of new kitchen At Clifty Inn Annex in Clifty Falls find them light, airy and refreshingly equipment, plumbing facilities, electrical State Park, a new roof has been added clean. wiring, painting, and flooring has been and the installation of a new hot water At Turkey Run State Park a new wa- finished, as has been the addition of a heater and new kitchen equipment has ter pumping system has been installed, new loading dock. All new tables and been completed. pipelines and all. A dam for Newby chairs decorate the dining room addition Kitchen equipment seems to be a para- gulch reservoir was completed last year which has been finished in the rough mount consideration in the renovation of and the augmented water supply afforded rock and natural wood motif in keeping park facilities, for the kitchen at Spring (Continued on Page 18) with the older section of the lodge. Mill Inn also received new equipment to Down make visitors' meals even more enjoyable. Workmen set the window sills in place. in the housekeeping cabin area, The entire motif is rustic, combining two new four-unit cabins have been All of the group camp cabins and din- rough hewn stone with natural wood erected, one to replace "Grandma Pash" ing halls at Shakamak State Park have beams.

Abe Martin Lodge at Brown County State Park receives the needed addition of a new dining room and kitchen section.

OUTDOOR INDIANA * Page 11 McCORMICK'S OUTLINES PLA SUMMER ! MANY a delightful scenic spot recommend it visitor. And there is fun for the whole fa reational activity. Around the borders of our map of McCormicl may be seen some of the natural areas as well as reational facilities available here. In addition to the scenic views and recreational shown, provisions for tennis, badminton and he augment the list of out-door sports and a well-equipped play- ground is the delight Canyon Inn at McCormick's Creek. of younger visitors. A trailside museum filled with exhibits of animal and bird life habits plus a newly-completed miniature planatarium t, CED bring the natural world into a finer focus PUMP while the animal shelter, where many species of wildlife native to Indiana may be viewed, charm the family group. In addition to the museum and animal shelter's education intent, an evening program of colored slides concerning animal and plant life of the area is presented as a public service in the amphitheatre. A park naturalist is on hand throughout the season to guide visitors on bird and trail hikes through McCormick's Creek so that park guests can take full advantage of their opportunity to see the highspots of FAMILY CABIN scenic attraction. AREA This park, which was the first unit in Indiana's state park system, contains a wealth of natural beauty. McCormick's Creek cutting its way through a 100-foot canyon is one of nature's many wonders. The modern swimming pool The old stone quarry. Deep in this canyon is a falls dropping OAK 12 feet into the creek. I RO Another unusual feature is a stone bridge spanning the creek. Stones for this bridge were cut and fitted into place without any other support such as was cus- S tomary during a period of early Roman architecture. Overnight accommodations are provided by modern LOOKOUT POIN 63-room Canyon Inn and the Inn dining room serves deliciously appetizing meals. Both room and meals are included in popular American-plan rates. Housekeeping cabins, too, are available for the family, and their facilities and conveniences include a living room, bedroom, lavatory, kitchenette, screened dinette, pots, pans, silverware and other living appointments. Once again, we remind our readers to get their reservations in early, by writing the Reservation Clerk or Park Superintendent at McCormick's Creek State Park, The fire tower. Spencer.

Page 12 * OUTDOOR INDIANA CREEK PARK NS FOR 1952 EASON TWIN :self to the McCormick Creek State Park BRIDGES mily in this 1,230 acres crowded with rec- WOLF McCormick's Creek Falls. Creek -- GAVE" -

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Mail call at Hillcrest group camp.

OUTDOOR INDIANA * Page 13 Where Silence Has Lease By CARL M. CARPENTER, District Foresfer

day in one direction without reaching the was reached. At that time there were the total land area of 23,248,000 OF acres in Indiana approximately 31/2 other side. Naturally, the wish was never roads and houses on nearly every ridge million are covered by forest. This is a gratified during that period. Everytime I and in every valley large enough to clear little less than one acre in six. Since the tried it I would come out to somebody's for a potato patch. Remnants of old log bulk of our population is in the northern plowed field or pasture in just a few cabins, hand made picket fences, and part of the state and probably visits the minutes walking. There are areas in other signs of bustling activity will still southern half only by way of the main southern Indiana now where a person be found in deep forests. In the early highways, a good many Hoosiers perhaps can walk for hours in one direction with- twenties many of these one-time homes feel as I once did, that the forests of In- out leaving the woods or encountering a and so-called farms were abandoned and diana are in small chunks interspersed human habitation. I would like to de- reclaimed by forest. Timber has since with farm land. scribe such an area to you. You see, I been cut from many an area that once I spent my childhood in Tippecanoe kept searching until I found it, and then grew wheat and corn, all within the County near Lafayette. I can well re- built my home on the fringe. memory of men now living. The Brown member that we could see forest land There was a time when it would have County State Park of 17,500 acres is from our home to every point of the been very difficult if not impossible to largely made up of abandoned farms as, compass, but mostly these were small find large wild areas of forest in south- in fact, are all of our larger parks and tracts of 10 to 20 acres per farm. My ern Indiana except land paralleling a state forests. The abandonment of these fondest wish at that time was to find a river. Around 1880 in most southern farms was not due to the rigors of pio- woods where I could enter and walk all Indiana counties the greatest population neer life in close communion with nature. Nature is a benevolent friend and pro- tector of life. The difficulty lay with the failure of the people to understand nature's irrevocable laws. Land was cleared that was meant to be perpetual forest; hillsides were plowed that were too steep for the plow; fertility was extracted without any or sufficient thought for replace- ment, and that important soil character, tilth, was not understood and maintained. As a result of these things the people were generally starved out of the more rugged areas, victims of their own failure to work with nature in using and conserving the precious growing capacity built up in the soil over centuries of forest growth. Immediately following the removal of plow and livestock, nature began the slow and laborious but steady rehabilita- tion of these soils. Many of the plants the pioneers hated and cursed are a part of this plan of restoration. As most of you know, good hardwood timber will not re-establish itself on abandoned and worn-out farm land. There has been too much change in the soil-the top soil has all washed away, the humus has largely oxidized, leaving the clay a heavy, sodden, poorly-drained mass. Broomsage, blackberry, sumac, sassafras - more or less undesired on a going farm--all are a part of nature's team of tenacious battlers, all fighting to restore to the sick soil, aeration, humus, mulch, microscopic plant and animal life, shade, etc. Even that hateful greenbrier, tearer of clothing (Continued on Page 18)

Page 14 * OUTDOOR INDIANA Indiana Bogs Tell Their Story By G. K. GUENNEL, Paleobotanist, Coal Section, Geological Survey

LAKES and bogs literally dot central and northern Indiana. The lakes provide Hoosier sportsmen with recreational facilities. The solidified bogs and marshes, on the other hand, give Indiana some of its valuable muck soils. Marl deposits in the lakes and bogs are important to the cement and fertilizer industries. Moreover, dried peat from bogs is used extensively in landscaping and horticulture, and in some localities peat even serves as fuel. To scientists, particularly botanists and geologists, the lakes and bogs are valuable sources of information. The geolo- gist uses lake-filling as a measure of sedi- mentation and deposition. Distribution of glacial lakes aids in tracing routes of ice sheets, in determining extent of glaciation, and can be used frequently to date stages of glaciation. The botanist, on the other hand, looks upon filled-in lakes and bogs as archives in which are recorded the rise and fall of plant empires. He speaks of invasions, migra- tions, dominance, reign, decline, and extinction of forests or other formations of vegetation. One may wonder how the botanist knows all this. In attempting to provide the answer to this question, one must go back thousands of years in order to reconstruct the development of a bog. Geologists state that all natural lakes in Indiana are the result of glaciation. Fig. 1 Pollen grains common in peat deposits (magnified 450x) The smaller lakes and bogs are depres- A. Spruce; B. Hickory; C. Oak; D. Alder; . Pine. sions and basins that were formed by posits, one can easily visualize the blow- like opening and a bit. The cylinder is chunks of ice which broke off from the by a sleeve with a similar open- main sheet and became buried by debris ing of great clouds of pollen "dust" into encased when the glacial ice retreated. This type the lakes. After they had floated on the ing and a cutting edge. The sleeve can be of lake is known as a kettle-hole. The surface of the lake for some time, the rotated so that the opening of the cylin- larger lakes, however, were formed pri- pollen grains settled to the bottom and der remains open while cutting through marily as a result of damming, either became a part of the record of past ages. the sample takes place and closed after directly or indirectly, by the ice. Be- As the lakes filled, this record was kept the cylinder is filled. Attached to the cause the kettle-hole lake usually lacked up-to-date by layers upon layers of pollen borer are varying lengths of steel rods drainage outlets, filling-in was more rapid deposition. A study of these layers en- which are marked at six-inch intervals so and also facilitated the preservation of ables the botanist to reconstruct forests that the exact depth of any given sample organic remains. of the past, both in kind and number, can be ascertained. As plant life invaded the area sur- and to draw conclusions as to the envi- The peat which is obtained in this rounding these lakes, the first chapter of ronmental conditions which made the manner is prepared for laboratory analy- vegetational history was written. In addi- different kinds of forests possible. sis either with a solution of 95 per cent tion to fragments of leaves, stems, twigs, The most common method of sampling alcohol or 12 per cent potassium hydrox- cones, and seeds, pollen grains were pre- bog deposits for pollen analysis is that of ide. The sample then is examined under served in the water-filled basins. Pollen boring the deepest part of the bog or a high-powered microscope. By identify- grains are extremely small, but they resist lake with a special type of hand auger. ing and counting the pollen grains pres- decay because they have waxy and resin- The instrument which is preferred by ent, the botanist can determine what type ous protective coating. Because pollen many pollen analysts is the Hiller borer, of forest existed during any given period grains are abundant in Indiana lake de- which consists of a cylinder with a slit- of lake deposition. In spite of their small

OUTDOOR INDIANA * Page 15 size, pollen grains, differ widely in size, gram which illustrates this method of sheet receded northward, the climate be- shape, and ornamentation. Thus differ- analysis. The profile which is shown is came warmer. It also became drier as entiation and identification are fairly easy that derived from an analysis of peat much of the excess water of the melted for the experienced analyst. Fig. 1 shows samples that were taken from Pinhook ice drained off. The warmer and drier five common tree pollens found in Indi- Bog in LaPorte county. By reading up- climate then permitted the establishment ana bogs. ward, one can readily see that from the of an oak-hickory type of forest. When one speaks of pollen analysis, lowest level, 59 feet, to the 41-foot mark- In reading forest histories from these the name of a Hoosier botanist immedi- er, spruce was the dominant tree. At the ately comes to mind. Dr. John E. Potz- pollen profiles, the botanist feels the time the 40-foot level was deposited, pine ger of the Department of Botany, Butler vibrations of world dynamics. He sees University, has been directly responsible gained in abundance and became the a forest type invade an area, sees it grow for bringing Indiana's peat bogs to the dominant tree at the 36-foot mark. The into a stately empire, follows a new in- attention of world science. He has done decline of pine was contemporaneous vading force which is supported by cli- much to give this relatively new phase of with a rise in broad-leaved trees, mainly matic and environmental conditions, and botany prestige in the scientific world. oak. Oak maintained its dominant posi- sees the established empire crumble, de- tion Furthermore, he is recognized as one of throughout the rest of the profile, cline, and finally die out as the new and and today it still is the main forest con- the foremost authorities in this field of vigorous invader grows and flourishes research. The author is indebted to Dr. stituent of the woods around Pinhook and finally attains complete victory. The Potzger for his interest and guidance in Bog. botanist lives these struggles of past for- the author's research during the past The botanist can determine climatic decade. conditions and changes which occurred est empires; he may even take sides and In analyzing peat samples, the bota- during any given period of time by a become a historian. He wonders why a nist starts with the bottom layer and ex- study of the dominant tree or trees dur- certain type of forest was wiped out amines upward, because the lower layers ing that period. For example, the spruce- while it was in its prime. Was it due to are the older ones. On the basis of pol- fir forest which existed during the early a sudden climatic change, which perhaps len grain abundances, statistical relation- history of Pinhook Bog indicates that the was caused by re-invasion of an ice ships of tree genera and species can be climate, after the ice had retreated, was tongue, or was it due to a disease or a established. Fig 2 shows a statistical dia- cold and moist. Gradually, as the ice forest fire, which ravaged an entire area of forest monarchs? The questions are Fig. 2. Pollen profile of Pinhook Bog, LaPorte county. Pine at 36 feet represents many, but the answers still are few. As 80 per cent. This can be used as a scale. bits of information are dug up, analyzed, DEPTH and interpreted, however, more and more IN FEET building stones are added to the struc- I 1 1111111III III I IIII II II I l111 11 ture which represents scientific knowl- edge of the life of the past. ---- Sportsman's Show At Elwood Draws Capacity Crowd Elwood's big Sportsman Show carried on at the Armory of that city during the latter part of April proved a whopping success and the Elwood Conservation Club which sponsored the now annual event called it the largest and best display ever staged there. Visitors were attracted by some 35 displays of equipment ranging from fish hooks to house trailers and the variety of size of the exhibits entered called for the addition of a huge tent to help house all the material on display. The evening shows, complete with Ring Brothers Wonderland Circus, drew capacity crowds. Hundreds of folks from Elwood and surrounding communities visited the Armory and the expansion of exhibits and interest can be laid to the work of General Chairman A. C. Locke and the Elwood conservation club.

Page 16 * OUTDOOR INDIANA Nothi' Is Sacred to Soie aolks Uncle Jim Thinks

Y ou know I'm a feller who don't git Jeff said to wait a minute an' then he a saplin' a hunnerd years before Christ very mad very offen but so help me come back on the line. It musta worked wuz born. An' its still goin' big. I know Hanner oncet in a while I gits so aggra- cause the baby quit squawlin' an' I could He didn't have that attitude. He wuz an' voked at what I see with my own two hear women on the line a laughin'. Well still is for conservin' everything. 'Bout eyes, even iffen they is bad, that I could pretty soon I got Euno on the phone seven or eight miles further on I seen lick my weight in whatever comes along. an' he wanted to know iffen I couldn't some dogwood bloomin'. Gee it was purty an' I ast Euno Now maybe what I jest wrote to the come up to Indynaplis an' stay with him to stop while I pulled off eddytor, I guess he'd call it a lead to a spell on accounta his wife wuz gone a couple uv sprigs fer a vase at his house. I like to busted a G string a ain't quite clear to those of to the Smokies fer his health. Said he my offerin', climbin' up the bank to git 'em but I you who may find a idle moment an' wuz kinda lonesum pokin' around by read it. What I'm referin' to is the abso- hisself. I got Lem Sachelbritches to take made it. When I got to the top uv the lute disregard people uv today has got care uv my cow an' feed my two cats an' little knoll I seen that I wuz in a little fer what is or what orter be held kinda look after a couple uv porkers I got an' private cemetery. I didn't have no hat sacred or at least above kickin' around. change the ice pan under the ice box fer on or I woulda took it off. Lilac bushes T'other day I dropped in at Limpy a day 'er two while the ice lasted an' an' spring flowers wuz a doin alright an' Louie's Linoleum an' Droopy Drape Shop went to the city. When I got there we up an comin' blue grass surrounded the fer to git a pound uv shingle nails to fix went out to Euno's place at Beech Grove. place. I walked a little bit further in an' my leaky roof an' he tole me that I had I sorta looked around fer beech trees but saw sort uv a lover's lane nearby. Grave hadda long distance tellyfone call frum fer the most part I seen a buncha tired markers a hunnerd years old had been a friend uv mine in Indynaplis. Feller lookin engines gittin' their valves ground. pulled up to make a sorta steppin' stone walk named Euno Howe. Well I went to the Well we drove round out east an' north from a little spring to the lane. The people whose tellyfone an' give her a coupla twists. one evenin' 'bout the time the sun looks graves had been rev- erently The operator come on the line an' I ast like a big tangerine an' we run acrost a marked by them there stones oncet had her to connect me with Euno in the big little creek sorta meanderin' around. It been good citizens uv their community. They had loved city. She said, Jim, I'm sorry but Lottie wuz the purtiest little stream I'd seen an' lived. They had done Offspring just had tripplets an' everybody in a coon's age. An' don't you know there their best. I stopped an' read some uv the 'tween here an' Deep Ruts is on the line wuz a pasture on each side. Plenty uv inscriptions on them worn stones, now mud tryin to offer congratulashuns an' talkin' room fer a house on either side but some spattered an' foot trodden. Beer cans stood on several. about them there Diown quinttuppletts dumb Elmer had cut down about fifty Well, rememberin' that dogwood that come along some time ago so you'll trees a foot in diameter on both sides uv wuz used to make a Cross oncet upon just hafta wait. An' she told me that old the pastures I mentioned. There wuz a a time I shouldered my dogwood branches an' went Auntie Biotics, a woman vetterinarian feller standin' there lookin' kinda pen- back to the car. I guess to a lot 'round these parts, was next on the line sive like an' I ast him what in tarnation of people there ain't nothin' sacred, not on accounta a litter uv pigs down at Skids he cut down the trees fer. He said he even conservation uv natural resources Turn what needed a lotta attenshun. So wanted a big yard. Well that floored me. or tradition. I jest set down an' waited till Myrt'd A yard without trees is about as inter- Uncle Jim. B. H. give me a ring. It got kinda tiresome just estin' as the Sahara desert accordin' to sittin' so I thought I'd get current on the way I looks at things. Them there what was a cookin' so I lifted the hook trees wuz years in growin'. They cast Law Prohibits an' listened in jest fer the heck of it. Mr. their wonderful shade about - natural Running of Offspring's boy, Jeff, was on the phone God made shade. I ast what he was a tryin to find out how to put a didy on gonna do to keep the house cool an' he Fur-Bearers one uv the other little tikes in the Off- said he had air conditionin' planned. I Dog owners are reminded that dogs spring family while his ma was busy can't imagine a feller who has natural may not be permitted to run or chase fur- with the trippletts. The boy was sure air conditionin' set up by nature buildin' bearing animals until August 1. be-addled an' I like to died at how the a house in the middle uv a little forest an' The season for pursuing, running and woman he was a talkin' to told him how then throwin' away nature's natural cool- chasing of fur-bearing animals has been to do it. He got more mixed up as she ness fer a gismo. The Conservation De- limited to February 16 through noon of went along till she called her husband. partment is doin' its best to learn people April 1 and from noon of August 1 un- He told Jeff how to operate an' he sure that unless they conserve the forests God til January 15. A discretionary order had it figgered out. He told him to put give 'em an' keep a plantin' new ones has been issued by the director of the the unfolded didy in a position like a we ain't gonna be able to weather the Conservation Department pointing out baseball diamond with the boy Jeff at storm. Well I give this guy a piece uv that as provided by law, it shall be un- bat. Then he told him to fold second my mind but he jist said "nuts" an' lawful for any person for a period of 15 base over home plate with the baby on walked away. I wonder who wuz nuts, days prior to the open season on raccoon the pitcher's mound. Then he was to pin him or me? I heered uv a tree t'other to run or chase any raccoon or any other first base an' third base to the home plate. day which wuz found out west which wuz fur-bearing animal with a dog.

OUTDOOR INDIANA * Page 17 WHERE SILENCE HAS are far above the rest of the world, it write now for reservations at the lodges LEASE seems. We know, of course, that in the or housekeeping cabins. And if, for some (Continued from Page 14) big valley we left so recently there are reason, you must postpone your visit after people living, laughing, and happily tied and lacerater of skin, can be loved a lit- reservations have been made and verified, to the black ribbon known as a state realizes its rightful place please notify the park superintendent or tle when one road, but they seem so remote from us Inn manager so that he may accommo- in the general scheme of things. Grow- here as to be almost in another world. date other folks who would like to take ing on the poorest, the most adverse sites This is the habitat of trees and kindred it produces an impenetrable mass which wildlife. Man is an interloper, tolerated your place. They will appreciate your defies trampling and which collects and and even welcome as long as he keeps consideration and courtesy. holds leaves and other litter, thereby re- his place respectfully and does nothing building the soil to the point where its to upset the balance that nature has presence is no longer necessary, after worked so long and diligently to restore. News Items Around which it disappears from the picture Let us walk here and enjoy the things leaving in its place better soil and better growing and living as they should be. the State plants for the production of things use- Beyond each hill is a new exciting dis- June 7-9-Hoosier Boys State, School ful to man. Can anyone improve on such covery, around each bend is a scene al- for the Deaf, Indianapolis; B. W. an arrangement? Certainly not!-but tree ways new and charming. Let's hope it Breedlove, Century Bldg., in charge. planters can help to accelerate the proc- can always be just that way. On our Estimated attendance-400. ess. This we do by planting pines since return we think of the words of Robert they are easier to grow in the nursery Service: June 9-27-Midwest Extension Service than nature's selection of plants, easier "There's a great big broad land way up Summer School, University of Wis to transplant, stand a better chance of yonder; consin, Madison, Wisconsin. supplying a valuable crop and yet achieve It's the forest where silence has lease; much the same result in the long run June 10-12-1952 4-H Club Round-Up, It's the beauty that thrills me with won- restoration of the soil for production Purdue University. Estimated attend- der, of the better hardwoods. ance-3,000. It's the stillness that fills me with Peace. But let's take this trip I promised you -- 0 June 19-Jennings County Field Day, earlier. We'll drive part way and had George Enfield, Purdue, in charge. better take my jeep since the roads into REMODELING COMPLETED Estimated attendance-500. the area were never meant for use of the AT HOOSIER PARKS (Continued from Page 11) modern lowslung car. We leave the June 16-July 5-7th Annual Conserva- state road and follow the gravel for here will service the residential area. The tion Education Camp, first period, about a mile than turn off where you kitchen at the Inn has also been reno- Versailles State Park. H. H. Michaud, hadn't suspected there was a road at all. vated and new facilities installed. Purdue, in charge. This road has gravel in spots, but just A great deal of work had to be com- July 7-26-Second period. Estimated at- the soil has washed away leaving pleted at Dunes State where Park this year, tendance-40. a gravelly surface. Down across a field since late winter and early spring storms we go, then parallel the creek for a short wrecked the underground waterpipes, lit- July 4-6-U. S. Women's Olympic distance. After awhile we cross the erally pulling them out of the ground Swimming Trials, Broad Ripple Park, stream and start rather sharply up a and twisting them into some amazing Indianapolis; Edwin Aspinall, Indian- hill. Immediately we are in the woods. shapes. Division of Engineering field apolis, in charge. Estimated attend- The road angles up the hill at a grade men have been working on the devas- ance-300. not too steep for horses since it was estab- tated area since early spring and by the --- lished originally by horse-drawn vehicles, time the season opened at Dunes, almost and in about three-quarters of a mile every piece of new equipment was in reaches the summit. Let's leave the jeep place and ready to go. Locker Permits here, being past the hard climb. From New hot water heaters were placed OK'd For Game Fish here the road, or in many cases merely a in the showerhouse which serves the cab- are again reminded that trace, follows ridges. Nearly every ridge ins at Duneside Inn and quite a few of Sportsmen game fish taken during wide enough will show a trace of some the rooms in the Arcade were repainted. they may keep in their frigid lockers kind of trail. We walk about another Last, but not least, some new and the legal season first secure a permit from mile back the main trail gaining imper- much needed flooring was added to sev- provided they Conservation. Appli- ceptibly in elevation, passing through a eral rooms at Canyon Inn in McCor- the Department of be secured from couple of farms abandoned so recently mick's Creek State Park near Spencer. cations for permits may locker plants, some that they are still in the process of forest At every park throughout the Indiana hardware merchants, of Con- restoration. Part of a tumble-down shack state park system, our 1952 summer visi- county clerks or the Department Washington is still present as is an open well cov- tors will find every available facility in servation office at 311 W. ered treacherously by some old limbs and tip-top working order to make their week Street, Indianapolis. boards. Then suddenly we are in the or weekend a really enjoyable, comfort- This permission to store game and forest where it is impossible to tell able excursion. fish was made possible through an act whether any clearing has ever been done. If you are planning to visit one of passed during the last legislative session. Let's stand and look around. Here we our lovely state parks, don't forget to The permit covers a period of six months.

Page 18 * OUTDOOR INDIANA DEDICATION OF HOW RESERVOIR WORKS FOR FLOOD CONTROL CAGLES MILL SET FOR JUNE 18 Dedication of Cagles Mill dam and reservoir west of Cloverdale has been scheduled for June 18 at 1:30 p. m. Spon- sored by the Indiana Flood Control Com- mission and erected under the direction of the U. S. Corps of Engineers, the project will become an important part of the comprehensive up-stream flood control plan for the Ohio River basin. Federal, state and local officials will participate, with the public invited to attend the event and inspect the project. Among those who will be on hand for the dedication are Lt. General Lewis A. Pick, Chief of Engineers, Department of the Army; Governor Henry F. Schricker; former governor Ralph Gates; Conserva- tion Department Director Kenneth M. Ktnkel and Lt. Col. C. Bidgood, District Engineer, Louisville. Anton Hulman, Jr., chairman of the Indiana Flood Control and Water Resources Commission will be at Cunot is not finished and prevents nati and Missouri Valley districts. in charge of the dedicatory ceremonies. filling of the reservoir at this time. In World War II, he directed the The reservoir project already has General Pick, main speaker for the building of the famed Ledo Road in served to lower the stages of Eel river dedication, is one of the foremost engi- west China. He is also co-author of the in Clay county, although it has not been neers in the world. A native of Virginia, Pick-Sloan Plan for flood control and ir- put into operation formally. Although he served in World War I, in the Philip- rigation improvements in the Missouri the dam is completed, work on the bridge pines, and in the New Orleans, Cincin- valley.

OUTDOOR INDIANA * Page 19 ments on feeding and management with he followed all the practices known for HOOSIER GOLD COMES TO which research men hope to increase milk high yield production. HOME GARDENERS production in the state. Dr. N. S. Lund- The Brookston farmer, his father, the E quist, associate professor of dairy hus- late Harry O. Roadruck, and a neighbor, Corn-on-the cob at its best will be the bandry, will have general charge of the Jerry Wickersham, won the top three payoff for Indiana home gardeners who day's events. places in the contest by growing their this summer will have the first chance to Hay and silage experimental work will corn in an 18-acre field which had been grow a new yellow sweet corn-Hoosier be shown during a morning tour. Pas- in red clover cut for hay the year before. Gold. ture grazing trials, making grass silage The field was plowed in April, double Hoosier Gold will come to the dinner and hay, and pasture utilization by cows disked three times, harrowed three times, table about five days earlier than the long are included in the program. One cow and cultipacked once. time favorite Golden Cross Bantam. The has averaged 225 pounds of grass intake The championship yield was made in newcomer was developed at the Purdue a day, digesting 75 per cent of the feed. a field in which certified Indiana seed University Agricultural Experiment Sta- Her average milk production has been corn was being produced. It was planted tion by Glenn Smith, well known hybrid 59.1 pounds of milk a day for 84 days on May 16 with the corn drilled in rows sweet corn breeder. Smith also gave Hoo- pasture alone. that averaged 39 inches wide with the in sier gardeners Golden Cross Bantam Showers for dairy cattle will be on plants about eight inches apart in the The new hybrid is ready for eat- 1932. display. Dehorning methods and results rows. This gave an extremely heavy planting. ing about 80 to 83 days after will be shown. Experiments on the way population of 20,000 ear-bearing stalks For the production of Hoosier Gold, a cow's size is related to her milk produc- per acre. seed stocks were distributed to commer- tion, and tests with bedding will be de- Fertilization in the field was heavy, cial seed growers in 1951. This year scribed during the program. Work is 1,200 pounds per acre. Of this, 200 seed will be available in limited amounts, also being done with feeding corn cobs pounds of 3-12-12 analysis were applied about 100,000 pounds having been pro- and results will be available. in the row with a corn planter. Plowed duced for the retail trade. under were 300 pounds of 33 per cent During the afternoon program, staff According to the new bulletin of the ammonium nitrate, 400 pounds of 20 members from agronomy and dairy de- Purdue Agricultural Experiment Station, per cent superphosphate, and 300 pounds partments will describe progress that has ",Hoosier Gold Sweet Corn" No. 563, the of 60 per cent potash. With the excel- been made on growing and using grass new variety is a single cross hybrid pro- lent soil tilth on the Roadruck farm the in- better ways. Buses will carry visitors duced by controlled cross-pollination of corn apparently was able to take full on the tour between the dairy areas. two inbred strains of yellow sweet corn advantage of this heavy application of C-30 and Purdue G-8. It is considered fertilizer. an early midseason hybrid. Roadruck's field was rotary hoed once Three-year field trials showed that aver- NEEDED IN 1952 and cultivated three times. He estimated age yields for Hoosier Gold was 4.68 the yield was increased 85 bushels per per acre for tons per acre and 5.06 tons Hoosier farmers asked to produce more acre by the heavy fertilization. Golden Cross Bantam used as a check. corn in 1952 to meet defense needs must Ears averaged a little better than 10 depend on application of the latest and COUNTIES RECEIVE usually slightly heavier ounces and were best corn growing practices rather than FORESTRY FUNDS Bantam. than Golden Cross on increased acreage. Copies of the bulletin, "Hoosier Gold Sweet Corn" are available, free, from Increased yields are possible through Eight Indiana counties shared in re- county agents or the University. the adoption of good agronomic practices ceipts from national forests last year. A such as those followed by J. Herbert total of $2,202.64 was received from the Roadruck, of Brookston, and other high- sale of timber, grazing fees and special DAIRY FIELD DAY AT ranking contestants in the Five-Acre land leases according to information re- PURDUE JULY 18 Corn Contest sponsored by Purdue last ceived at Purdue University from the year. U. S. Department of Agriculture. Each Something new on dairying in Indiana Roadruck was Indiana's most success- state receives 25 per cent of the receipts will be added this summer with a first ful corn producer in 1951. He set a new from national forests within its boun- dairy field day and program at Purdue record in winning the 37-year-old con- daries. By law, the money is earmarked University July 18 from 10 to 3 o'clock. test by producing 199.4 bushels per acre. for public roads and schools in counties Visitors will get a look at many experi- Along with many others in the contest, containing national forests.

Page 20 * OUTDOOR INDIANA ? ? HAVE YOU HEARD ? ?

OSTRICHES, the largest birds alive when no consideration is given to wingspread, have been known to run as fast as 50 miles an hour.

FUR SEALS do not drink. They absorb water directly through their pores. Non-Payment-One way to lose control of a car. * . BATS are not "blind as bats." As far as naturalists can tell, they have very fair Bolder-What a girl becomes when day-time vision. she finds she is not the only pebble on the beach. THE KEYS DEER, of Florida, now down to pitiful numbers, is about 28 inches * 0 high and weighs around 50 pounds. Valiant efforts are being made to save this place that over- Summer Resort-A species from extinction. looks a lake-good beds, good food and good water. * 0 MOST BIRDS lay only one egg a day. Some lay an egg every other day. But the Rheumatism-A joint affair. brooding does not start until the last egg of the clutch has been laid, which causes * " an all-at-once hatching. Stork-A bird with a big bill. * 0 THE MALE MOTH will often starve to death from grief when his mate is caught Walking--By means of which you in a trap. reach the garage. * 0 BECAUSE the bald eagle is supreme in the air and has no natural enemies, it Propaganda-Like fertilizer it is of makes no attempt at concealment for itself or its huge nest, usually perching on dead no use unless it is spread. branches in full view of the world. * * Drawers-A couple of artists. * * BLUE--for the SKY--on land and Fame-A matter of dying at the right OUR STAR-STUDDED sea, or atop the highest pinnacle, the moment. FLAG Stars and Stripes shall fly forever free -while she holds us safely in her pre- C r Irritant-A person who In 1776, General George Washington cious folds- and buys nothing. loo everythingg designed a pattern for the Flag, and, also in 1776, the first Flag was made OUR FLAG OF LIBERTY! Cward-What lots of people would by Mrs. Betsy Ross. On June 14, 1777, LEONORE M. FRYE. the courage. be if they had the American Congress formally adopt- ed this design. The colors chosen by l'ong;e-Of which, if given enough, a General Washington were Red, White Incoming requests for copies of c or aal will tie up a cashier. and Blue, as symbolic the INDIANA LAKE GUIDE have The * * of our Country, then comprised of 13 States, which two been so numerous that our present Bef--Not deer but sure is. A revised edi- * 0 years later were represented by 13 Stars. supply is exhausted. On May 30, 1916, by tion is being proofed and printed, Mustache-The only thing that keeps a Proclamation, President Wilson designated June 14 as but will not be available for distri- some men from being bare-faced liars. S. "National Flag Day." bution until August 10. Until then, please hold your requests for this Outcome-Upon which the outcome guide to our waterways. Thank you. of the income depends on the outgo RED-for the BLOOD shed on the for the upkeep. battlefield-honoring those who made the "supreme sacrifice" that we might school teacher was trying to explain Raise-What you get just prior to A build a mighty bulwark of strength and subtraction to his young pupils. "You going a little further into debt. against any foe protection for America have ten fingers," he said to one young- to attack our who should attempt ster. "Sup pose you had three less, then Antimony - Money inherited from shores: your mother's sister. what would you have?" * 0 WHITE - for PURITY - that our Came the prompt reply, "No music Mongoose-A Scotch male goose. ideals shall be of the highest and no- lessons." * * blest character; that we shall so conduct Specialist-A doctor whose patients the affairs of State and Nation as to are expected to confine their ailments warrant the respect and esteem of all Rules for making a speech: Get up, to office hours. other Nations on the Globe: speak up, shut up, sit down.

OUTDOOR INDIANA * Page 21 Odon C. C. Opens Clubhouse Men Arrested for Spearing Game Fish Pay the Penalty Two Elkhart county brothers were recently apprehended in the act of spearing game fish by the conservation officer for that county, and upon court hearing were fined $65 each. Both men admitted spearing game fish from Simonton lake. When the officer appeared on the scene, one of the men threw a 191/2- pound northern pike over the side of their boat. A two-and-one-fourth-pound largemouth bass was found under the seat of the boat by a deputy officer. Both the pike, which was recovered, and the bass were given to a local charitable institution. The men also lost their 1952 fishing- ters and several inexperienced but en- W HEN men join together in a com- hunting-trapping licenses. mon cause, all things are possible. thusiastic men began work. It turned out A Whitley county man also was ar- And the same is true of men whose goal to be a one story, with basement, Satur- rested while spearing fish in Troy Cedar is having a good time in the out-of-doors. day, Sunday and holiday house with a Lake. A fine of $50 and costs was ad- This has been proved by the Odon con- four-foot fireplace in the meeting room judged by the local court. Under the servation club. and a kitchen and furnace in the base- law this fisherman could have been fined A little more than 12 years ago 80 ment. as much as $500 for each fish-he had three bass, six bluegills and two crap- men decided to do something about satis- Through the years, the Odon Club has fying their fishing pies-and could have received a sentence desires. A WPA lake boasted a maximum membership of 180 project had been started near Odon on a of 180 days' imprisonment at the state out of the town's population of 900. 10-acre plot of ground. The Odon boys penal farm. obtained the area and when the ease- The local Boy Scout Troop received hon- The confiscated fish were turned over ment on the plot ran out they engaged a orary memberships and use of the club- to a nursing home in Columbia City and private construction company to finish house recently in return for their fine the man was released from cus on the 200-yard dam needed to form their work in landscaping the grounds. payment of the fine. ,own fresh-water lake. Each of those 80 The regular club members added to the A Steuben county man also wa ap- men worked on that area as if the whole benefits of their lake by cleaning and prehended spearing game fish:' on i°im- thing belonged to him alone, and the stocking the spring-fed waters with bass, ilton Lake in that county and threefuYs piping, valves, rip-rapping and other nec- bluegills, crappies, catfish, sunnies and and a bluegill were confiscated. The of , essary work was finished in spare hours rock bass. Several four-pound bass have claimed the waters were murky a, le without cost. since been taken from the lake and some did not know the fish he was 9 onceg After the lake was filled, the club sold 13-inch bluegills have also been caught. were game fish protected by law. a'- Suspension of the chances on a jeep, a deep freezer and a Club President, Harold Flynn, offici- man's hunting license was ordered by the local judge and shotgun to raise cash for a clubhouse. ated at the recent "open house" held by an outboard motor, spears and They also held two horse shows which the Odon conservation club with both battery light were confiscated. went over famously with the folks of old and new officers and members on 9412 southern Indiana, and between these three hand to take cognizance of the united Section of the Laws of Indiana for events they garnered a sum large enough effort put forth in making this club a the Protection of Fish, Game, Fur- Bearing to begin construction. going concern. Animals and Birds states "it shall be unlawful to take with and by means The only difficulty was that space lim- OUTDOOR INDIANA, too, wants to ex- of a fish spear or gig, at any time, any ited clubhouse location to the north side tend its congratulations to Odon's con- northern pike,. wall-eyed pike, bass, sil- of the lake. And the north side of the servation club and the many men who ver bass, bluegill, sunfish, perch, red- lake was marsh. A nearby coal mining are joining the ranks of Hoosier sports- eared sunfish, crappie, rock bass, Ken- company, Indiana Central, very kindly men by walking in its open doors. tucky bass, brook trout, built the boys a road across one corner brown trout, Loch Leven trout, rainbow trout, channel of the lake, enabling them to reach the Every time I see the sign "Shoes Shined catfish or common catfish, except that it area and begin construction on a rela- Inside," I wonder how they do it. shall be lawful to take with and tively high and dry spot. by means of a spear or gig at any time, any Again the work of members was en- It is what we learn after we think we sucker, carp, gar, dogfish, buffalo, red- listed and two bricklayers, three carpen- know it all that counts.-Abe Martin. horse or water dog."

Page 22 * OUTDOOR INDIANA a few days following birth, they are Erethizon Dorsatum weaned and seek green herbs. In the second day of life, they can climb. or Porky is a slow but good swimmer, crossing streams of his own volition. He The Porcupine climbs trees, but displays none of the swiftness of the squirrel, considering We thought we would reverse the bio- each about 15 pounds, he twists his rear to movement carefully. In climbing, he fails logical name and the understandable meet the attack. The powerful tail jerks many times to dodge rocks thrown at him name of this barb-arious little cuss, be- up-usually catching the adversary under and never attempts to put the tree trunk cause we figured that should we first say the chin, in the throat or in the mouth. between himself and a hunter. porcupine, and then follow up with the Hundreds- of quills are dislodged and the If captured young, porcupines make long-haired phrase we just mentioned, attacker is down for the count. The dart wonderful and affectionate many readers might not know what it game is over. pets. (Edi- meant. I am sure I would tor's Note: Ever sit down on Aunt Effie's not. For my Every quill burns like fire and the sewing basket?) Really, though, they do part, ERETHIZON DORSATUM sounds greater the attempt to dislodge them, the make great pets and, once domesticated, more like the name of a tube in. the tele- more the heat increases. As the moisture never get rough. vision set I do not have than like the in the skin takes effect, the quills swell For the most part name of a critter. at the base. Pliers are required to remove they are bark eaters, living mostly in trees in the winter as a Indiana dogs should be thankful that them. Some quills push in and work out, means of livelihood during the cold sea- this state is not infested with this mobile but cases have been cited in which they son. In the spring, they go quivver of arrows. In fact, Porky or Quill have made their way to vital spots caus- for Sugar Maples, for their cambium is loaded with Pig, as he often is called, is an animated ing death. The attacker whose mouth has sap. The animal is fond of salt and the dart game in which the other player can't been badly stuck oftentimes dies of star- bones of dead animals. It is not carnivor- win. Invariably he is "stuck" with what- vation because of its inability to eat. ous, but definitely is subject to tularemia. ever wager he put up before going into Leave a porcupine plum be. the game or maybe the combat. There is no record of a porcupine ever The animal is not a neat housekeeper, having been found living in Indiana. Many mammals, cornered, escape by living among tumbled rocks, a hollow Being unable to read, it is entirely pos- running, hiding or resorting to a number log, a brushpile or between the exposed sible that a few may have crossed the of tricks to escape injury or death. Some roots of a stump. When the young are state line between Michigan and Indiana. get tough and return the attack. born, they are not made comfortable by There is no proof of that, however. But not Porky. He can protect himself the mother in a special den. The kids are For my part, I'll take a stuffed one. by merely bristling and waiting. aggressive and full of fight in a week. In BOB HOOVER. An odd thing about his armament of quills-and there are thousands of them -is that the natural weapon possessed by this mammal is hardly rough to the touch. But Roxie, please do not be fooled. Those quills are red hot. Were I a dog and a porcupine came along, I'd get in my doghouse, shut the door and throw the catch. The porcupine is harmless looking to any meat eater that chances upon it. Until aroused, its quills lie so close to its body as to create the appearance of soft fur. Attacked, the animal raises every quill much like the hair raises on your neck "iffen you git skeered." It humps its back, pulls its unprotected nose and face back and raises its tail. The attacker, noting this ritual, tries to find an opening for the kill and rushes in to snap the neck. Look out! As the attacker rushes in, Porky re- volves jerkily on his front legs, turning his rear toward the enemy. The hind legs throw the body around in little hops. Should the attacker close in on the little mammal, which is anywhere from 27 to 40 inches long, a foot high and weighs

OUTDOOR INDIANA * Page 23 'N JUNE ii ixdia a with the editor . .. . I

are imports from Missouri and Michigan. Last Word Heard GAME FARM BURNED The research division of the Conserva- On Big Sassafras IN 640-ACRE FIRE tion Department and Indiana University have completed extensive surveys on Spring Vale Cemetery The secretary of A forest fire of undetermined origin many lakes and streams and have found at Lafayette sent us the accompanying swept over approximately 640 acres of suitable waters for all species of trout. Jasper-Pulaski state game preserve re- photograph of one of the big sassafras The Fish and Game director went on of cently. The blaze apparently started near trees mentioned in previous issues to say that brown trout were growing and the quail pens northeast of the main OUTDOOR INDIANA. In the letter which thriving in our streams and were proving buildings and then spread north to the came along with the picture, Mr. Lev- harder to catch than rainbows. He also evergreen nursery plot and east to Road ering, the secretary, says, "Naturally we said that research indicates trout do not letter of C. R. 421. were interested in the spawn and reproduce in Indiana waters. Kinnaman in your March issue regarding Five fire companies representing Rens- The Northeastern Indiana Trout Asso- the size of the sassafras tree he discovered selaer, Medaryville, Francesville, North ciation was commended by fish and game here in the cemetery. Judson and a local township answered officials for their trout stocking projects the call for help. The North Judson "We have several trees of this variety. carried on for many years. Officers of the truck was compelled to return to its own The trunk of this tree (shown in the Association are J. L. Sefton, president; operating area when a fire broke out in photo) is 103 inches in circumference Elmer Wiltrout, vice-president and town. as measured at a height of one foot above George Schmitt, secretary-treasurer. the ground." Because of lack of farm fire fighting ------equipment, the trucks confined them- Well, sir, bring your tape measure selves to preventing the spread of the back up to breast height and measure Blackpowder Club conflagration to other parts of the pre- again. Foresters measure high on the Gets Nice Turnout serve. The Rensselaer truck was unable tree in order to gauge the total amount to get down the fire lanes because of Match in usable wood. For Muzzle wet road conditions. The Indianapolis Blackpowder Gun The foresters also tell us that the Most of the blaze was confined to the Club, recently organized muzzle-loading presence of sassafras trees indicates poor grassy sections of the farm and none of rifle organization, held a jim-dandy shoot soil conditions. Be that as it may, we the buildings was damaged or destroyed. at the New Palestine Conservation Club still like our sassafras tea, so let 'em A large number of evergreens was burned target range Saturday, May 31. grow! over. Muzzle-loading enthusiasts from the Again, the next evening, another fire entire middle west were on hand to com- broke into full blaze south of the main pete in the various matches and the building and game farm men and the growth of a new club like this forecasts recalled fire departments battled it on and reflects the growing popularity of into the night. That blaze, too, was con- these old style guns. fined to the grass and did not damage The boys of the Blackpowder club are buildings although it did threaten the planning two more such matches for July them when it first broke out. -- e---- and September, both of which will be held at the New Palestine Club range. Trout Hatchery The success of their first shoot called up a lot of enthusiasm from the 35 men Planned For North of the Indianapolis and Marion county Plans to inaugurate a trout hatchery area and they further plan to stage an and rearing program in northern Indi- all-out drive for additional memberships ana were made public recently by Direc- from some 150 known muzzle-loading tor of Fish and Game, Henry P. Cot- enthusiasts in the central Indiana area. tingham. Charlie Singleton, secretary of the In an address before the Northeastern group, has listed monthly meetings at Indiana Trout Association at Pretty Lake the Indiana World War Memorial for conservation club, Mr. Cottingham said the last Wednesday evening of each that the pressure exerted by trout fisher- month. These meetings will start at 8:00 men and the sale of trout stamps has p. m. and will include motion picture influenced the Department of Conserva- programs and short talks by outstanding Spring Virgil V. Fagan, superintendent of sportsmen. Anyone and everyone is wel- Vale Cemetery, and one of the big sas- tion to start such a program as soon as safras trees. possible. Trout now planted in Indiana come at these meetings.

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