Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-07-10
NATURE STUDY FEATS
Moving Pictures Procured Of
Beavers at Work.
BIRD LIFE ALSO DEPICTED i

In OF Wild Creatures In Maine WOODS.
Effect Of Music on Beasts-W Wonder
full Animal Sounds and Bird Songs
Obtained by Phonograph.
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 c. r.
Kellogg, 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
i protection, have raised 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
1t Is estimated that the damage caused
to growing timber by flowage from
beaver dams mounts into the thousands
/ annually.
i 1t was in the midst of these beaver
A colonies that Professor Kellogg spent
his days. says a Rangeley (Me.) CORE
spondent Of the New York World. He
q 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 well 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-
j struction. IA. III.
4 With his special apparatus carried far
into the woods where neither roads nor
trails penetrate, Professor Kellogg set
up his esta blishment, made friends
with food given the colonists and was
able to procure most wonderfully In
s teresting series Of motion pictures of
the beavers at work and at play In and
around their spacious houses fringing
the ponds they artifcially create for
their dooryards.
], He caught them toting large and
Z good sized logs, rafting them down the
streams with the skill of river drivers,
adjusting them with intelligence re-
narkable for dam construction, and
photographed them at work ON tree
Telling. Interesting experiments to get
t the effect Of music on the fur bearing
j animals seen-mink, otter, fisher, foxes,
q 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 violin. At twilight, when
the beaver families were about to re.
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
J. ened to behold a large she bear. which
e he had seen some days before. stand
O. ing close to him with three cubs, which
e 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-
e ton of clouds Of beautiful colored but
s terf1ies. and with his monograph he got
a wonderful animal sounds and songs Of
+ birds, the like of which he says mar
scarcely ever hears near civilization
record Of the bull moose calling tt
his mate, the weird night cries of the
(, Indian devil, the almost human cries
y Of wounded rabbits and of the prowl
). ing loup cervier.
til This material will be used by Pro
= fessor. Kellogg to illustrate lectures OF
nature study and is the first attemp
In this unique direction. With rea
q pictures and real sounds simulated hi
hopes to set at rest many claims OF ma
g ture fakirs. and nature writer's theo
h Res. Ri ...s s.ss /.
III NC II A Bird curfew.
II The town of Montclair, N. J., ha:
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