River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1922-01-19

telest in outside lite centers in snakes
for he is one of the best informed men
on the subject of birds in Wisconsin
outside the ranks of professional or
nithologists. he has written great
dc al on the habits and habitat or tat
birds that make Wisconsin thei5
breeding place. He has also write
a great deal about snakes, and as !;
boy vas famous in his neighhorhoo
Tor his success in aTturing live lat
tlesnakes. This much by way OF in
reduction to the statement that tn.
Assistant Attorney General has puo
lished in the January Conseryationist
a request for information the date Oh
the appearance of snakes IN the
spr.ng. He hopes to get data sufficlea.
% determine which kinds of snakes
fin awake IrUsn their winter
s'eep, and also determine whether ~,
cave dwelling makes OF those wlic
winter in burrows make their appear
ance first. Yea viii contribute some
thing therefore to the sum CT human
know ledge ii you VIII writ Mr.. Gil
nan, care of the Attorney Generals
office when and where you saw you
iit-t snake tie coming String. T. n
lav any suspicion that this reapos
nay awaken, the yliter Ct this cT
iespondence pledges his WORD tina
tkele is no collision between Nh. Gil
man and the Prohibition Commission
Ell.
The Conservato on Commission is lie
ceiving many inalities about til
raising OF pheas2nts. Reliable infor-
nation which kas come to the Com
mission has lei to advise against the
raising OF peasants in Wisconsin
From far western and middle ives
tern states where the pheasant craze
has had wide run. it is learned chat
rheasants when they become pienti-
FIJI DESTROY other game birds, such as
Grail. ,artrid~e and nrairie chickens.
Thew do this by hunting out the nests
of these other game birds and des-
troying them. The Hungarian part
ridge is the gar,e bird now racom-
fnendad for locking the fields and
woods of Wisconsin. The HUNGARIAN
,irds are not yicio'-s and Ghrive i
the same fields with the others
The Attorney General rendered an
important opinion 10 the Dept. of
MARKETS. this week concerning the
right OF the public o. any member
of it to inspect official documents on
file. The Statute permittin inspec
ton OF iblic records is limited to
4uch documents az the officer is IN
DEF legal OBLIGATIONS to preserve
II is nanife1t That to extend it to un
official memoranda on documents
Kept for the convenience of the of
ficer would he d;sasteroIs from the
standpoint Of public policy. A con
densary operator who reports the
pi ee lid to hiAl for milk cannot de-
Eand that the prices Paid By other
competing buyers be diyulged ex.
cent under condition. indicated
above.
State Treasurer Henry Johnson
estimate of S33. 900. 900 as the cost
of carrying on the state government
during the year 1921 is rather start
ling. IT the cost does reach that
amount the year will be a record
breaker. MIR. .lohnson's figures ex.
coed the estimate made by your cor
respondent six months ago. by about
$40, 600, 600 This di ference means
that your orresion6ent made larg-
er deduction FIR money earned and
retu n d to the state treasury by
different departments. But il is
safe, even ii we have not the acu-
rate figures to anticipate that the
cest Of state government is higher
than it was last year and will be
higher next year than this. The
question after all is whether or not
We are getting our moneys worth
for the amount expended. If living
is safer and more comfortable in
Wisconsin under larger expenditure
than it was when the cost of state
government was much less; if the
oppo tunitv offered to men and
Wo ne1 t. be helpful II others and
thus make m ore of their own lives
is greater than when we paid less
let us thank God we have the price
and go our way satisfied AMI happy
In summing up the work of his
for the year Dairy and
Food Commissioners Emery gives
some interesting figures of the saw
ing effected throu yh the supervi
sion of weights and measures in the
siagle matter OF gas )line BY the
inspection and supervision of state
and city dealers of gasoline measur-
ing devices says Mr.. Emery, mot
less than / 800, 900 gallcnsofgasoline
valued at $3.50 900 were saved to