New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-07-08
NATURE STUDY FEATS


NATURE STUDY ftAlS /
Moving Pictures Procured OF
Beavers at Work.
BIRD LIFE ALSO DEPICTED.
, Professor c. r. kellosg Caught Views
of Wild Creatures In Maine Woods.
Effect of Music on Beasts-Wonder-
full Animal Sounds and Bird Songs
Obtained by Phonograph.
i With priceless moving picture MINIS
and data procured in the Wilds OF
Maine of the habits, haunts and actiyl-
4 ties of the busy beaver family, caught
for the first time in the history of ma
ture studies. sets of films depicting
bird. animal and insect life and infor-
nation on the effect Of music upon the
denizens of the wild, Professor G. R.
Kellogg, a New York naturalist, came
out of the Dead river regions around
the Kennebago chain of lakes the other
day after months work far from the
, ! haunts of mankind.
The Dead river region is the habitat
of numerous large colonies of the inter-
esting beaver family, whose activities
: in dam building and the consequent
| L. IL, .1e 1ars t0Or0
! protection, have raised protest by tim
4 Der land owners and demand that the
!; omen time on beavers be made law
i again. Now beavers can only be killed
= under the direct supervision of the
,, Maine fish and game commission, and
it Is estimated that the damage caused
# to growing timber by howage from
u beaver dams mounts into the thousands
annually.
= It was in the midst of these beaver
colonies that Professor Kellogg spent
his days, says Rangeley (Me.) CORE
spondent Of the New York World. HI
7 found that in some parts where sinai
trout streams originally were there art
now stable ponds teeming with trou
created from dams built by the beave
engineers, dams so well built that dy
J Mantle must Of necessity be used to re
move them He found trees felled
the thickness of more than twelv
inches by beavers and used In dam cor
struction.
With his special apparatus carried "a
into the woods where neither roads nc
trails penetrate, Professor Kellogg sc
up his establishment, made frienc
with food given the colonists and We
able to procure most wonderfully
teresting series Of motion pictures
the beavers at work and at play IN al
) around their spacious houses fringir
the ponds they artifcially create f
their dooryards.
He caught them toting large al
good sized logs, rafting them down t.
streams with the skill Of river driver
adjusting them with intelligence I
markable for dam construction, al
- photographed them at work on tr
IS telling. Interesting experiments to
the effect of music on the fur beari
o animals seen mink, otter, fisher, fox
skunLs and even bears-Were mac
The flute, Professor Kellogg sa.
an, seemed to have the most attracti
for these animals, which fed at
III sound Of violin. At twilight WI
the beaver families were about to
tire he had no difficulty in draw
avs them to their doorways with the sof
- played strains Of the flute, and tt
would invariably retire when the vic
was sounded. 'Tsf ~ i !;
One evening he was somewhat frie
ened to behold a large she bear, wh
he had seen some days before, sta
ing close to him with three cubs, WI
were apparently agreeably affected
the music and at these concerts
had many sorts Of animals that CO
1 to be regular patrons.
He obtained valuable pictures in
ton of clouds of beautiful colored
terf1ies, and with his photograph he
wonderful animal sounds and song
birds, the like of which he says l
= scarcely ever hears near civilizaut
9# a record Of the bull moose calling
8 his mate, the weird night cries of
.tot as Indian devil. the almost human c
aking of wounded rabbits and of the pr
es his ;
have Ing ioup celSlel.
les is This material will be used by
fected lessor Kellogg to illustrate lecture:
kill of nature study and is the first ate
,e and -. a;,oo+;o, WITH
icient ID In1S unique uneel1oh. Viln
a few nictlres and real sounds simulated
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