Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1908-07-28
NATURE STUDY FEATS'
Moving Pictures Procured of
Beavers at Work.
BIRD LIFE ALSO DEPICTED.

Professor C. r. Kellogg Caught Views
of Wild Creatures In Maine Woods.
Effect of Music on Beasts-Wonder-
full Animal Sounds and Bird Songs
Obtained by a Photograph.
With priceless moving picture films
and data procured in the wilds of
Maine of the habits, haunts and activi-
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
f1owage of timber lands, under legal
protection, have raised a protest by tim
Der land owners and demand that the
open time on beavers be made law
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 flowage from
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. He
found that in some parts where small
trout streams originally were there are
now stable ponds teeming with trout
created from dams built by the beaver
engineers, dams so we'll built that dy-
Mantle must Of necessity be used to re-
move them. He found trees felled of
the thickness of more than twelve
inches by beavers and used in dam con-
struction.
With his special apparatus carried far
into the woods where neither roads nor
trails penetrate, Professor Kellogg set
up his establishment, made friends
with food given the colonists and was
able to procure a most wonderfully in
teresting series of motion pictures Of.
the beavers at work and at play in and
around their spacious houses frtnging
the ponds they artifcially create for
their dooryards.
He caught them toting large and
good sized logs, rafting them down the
streams with the skill of river drivers,
adjusting them with intelligence re-
markable for dam construction, and
photographed them at work on tree
telling. Interesting experiments to get
the effect of music on the fur bearing
animals seen-mink, otter, fisher, foxes,
skunks and even bears-were made.
The flute, Professor Kellogg says,
seemed to have the most attraction
for these animals, which fed at the
sound of a violin. At twilight when
tire, he had no difficulty in drawing
them to their doorways with the softly
played strains of the flute, and they
would invariably retire when the violin
was sounded
One evening he was somewhat fright
ened to behold large she bear, which
he had seen some days before, stand
ing close to him with three cubs, which
were apparently agreeably affected by
the music, and at these concerts he
had many sorts of animals that came
to be regular patrons.
He obtained valuable pictures in mo-
ton of clouds Of beautiful colored but
terf1ies, and with his phonograph he got
wonderful animal sounds and songs of
birds, the like Of which he says man
scarcely ever hears near civilization
a record of the bull moose calling to
his mate, the weird night cries Of the
Indian devil, the almost human cries
of wounded rabbits and of the prowl-~
ing loup cerYier
This material will be used by Pro-
fessor Kellogg to illustrate lectures on
nature study and is the first attempt
in this unique direction. With real
pictures and real sounds simulated he
hopes to set at rest many claims of ma
ture fakirs and nature writer's theo-
rieS.