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PENNSYLVANIA REPTILES ÂMPHIBIANS (Edited and approved by M. Graham Netting, Curator of Herpetology, Carnegie Museum) AMERICAN TOAD (Bufo terrestris americanus) . . . Maximum length 4)4 Inches; this is the familiar toad of our gardens; has black-spotted belly; each dorsal spot contains but one or two warts; large spiny warts appear upon upper surface of hind legs; trilling of males on warm spring nights is melodious; females lay 4,000 or more eggs In ponds and flooded depressions; economically valuable for its diet of harmful insects; generally distributed throughout the state. SINGING AMERICAN TOAD ... An inflated sac on the toad's throat serves as a sounding board to intensify the volume of the song; this is a single sac with air entering it from the mouth through two slits; only the males sing, the purpose of the song being to attract the females during the mating season; toads can sing under water by keeping both mouth and nostrils closed, the air passing back and forth from throat sac to lungs over the vocal cords in the throat. TOAD TADPOLE . . . Toad eggs natcn in irom tnree to twelve aays, depending upon the temperature; tadpoles of the American and Fowler's toads are indistinguishable in the field; tadpoles emerge in a very rudimentary condition, possessing neither eyes nor mouth; they develop temporary external gills and a small V-shaped adhesive organ on the throat for clinging to vegetation; in a few days they become typical pollywogs with oval bodies propelled by wriggling tails. No. 6 Toads FOWLER'S TOAD (Bufo woodhousii fowleri) Maximum le lEei >,VA inches; distinuished from similar American Toad by its uninar 1 ;or lightly spotted belly, by the presence of more than two warts -f /each dorsal spot, and by the absence of large warts upon the JJPPj, ",surfaces of the hind legs; song distinctly different from American "Ijffi likened to the bleating of a sheep or goat; breeds about one m°j ; tie* later than American Toad; found in 29 scattered Pennsylvania coun AMERICAN .i.'i urn v ;!.-. TOAD n/.Ji/ LAYING I..III.-,VT uw«o . . . n...u cssa lllrtj M*. - . JJ» guished from the eggs of Pennsylvania frogs because they are la 1 strings, never in clusters or singly; fertilization of the eggs, " JJJ as „
C\ Hurrah For Little Giant Heeby-Jeeby Plastic I Porkrind! J- picked up an outdoor magazine the ."Jer day, and on the back cover appeared ''Ull-page advertisement for a well-known 'J 6 of lures. Almost half the space was •>en Up by a photograph showing three Mermen holding a string of twenty-two Ûmouth bass, wall-eyed pike and (one) ^kellunge. All caught, says the ad, on ! e advertised lure. And while several of 6 fish were of a respectable size, none " the sort that you rush to the taxider- 1st, i and at least a dozen should have been jj*ed loose to finish junior high school, presumably there were plenty more in e Ontario lake from which these came, j * they won't be missed. Nevertheless, : '"ink the advertisement raised several J 6 resting questions. Or at any rate, they » er est me. For instance: What did these ., r 6e guys do with what appeared to be ,i°Ut sixty-five pounds of fish? Possibly e fishermen intended to eat their catch— P how hungry can you get? And if the vêrmen were merely interested in food, k y didn't they stay home and spend the j ' c e of the trip on pork chops or pate de 1 *& gras? But let's assume that the men |i^ some acceptable reason for keeping (.^ many fish. In that case, why did the ûfacturer feel obliged to use the photoc a Ph in an advertisement? His lures are a^-rate—even I can dredge up fish with 6tn—but for my money, his advertising ^ e Us to high heaven. There must be some y^ he could find to convince customers it'hout showing bushels of dead gamefish ij, e Wn all over a page, in a go-thou-and-doe Wise way. f Ut again, let's assume that the manuj 11 'Urer had his own reasons for using ! R 6 photograph, as presumably he had. In * a t case, why don't the outdoor magazines v together, agree to refuse to accept ad- [J'tisement which in any way glorify the s-take-everything-the-law-allows boys, force the manufacturers to find some X 6 r advertising technique? fi rsonally % liu I look forward to the day n ^l see an * advertisement which goes 6 this: ? TEMBEIt-1949 By ED ZERN The illustration shows an angler, absolutely empty-handed, with the legend to the effect that Gus Glmptch, pictured above, took seventeen smallmouth bass from 1V2 to 4.V4, pounds in one afternoon and evening on a Little Giant Heeby-Jeeby Plastic Porkrind, and released every damn one of them. When I see this advertisement, I'll go right down to my favorite plastic-porkrind dealer's and buy a dozen Little Giant Heeby-Jeebies. Because the fact is, of course, that photographs of dead fish don't prove any more than a simple statement, unillustrated. If I'm willing to take an advertiser's word that the fish in the picture were caught on his lure rather than seined or dynamited, I'll be willing to take his word that the same number of fish were caught and released— and I'll have a lot more respect for the advertiser. So will most readers of this magazine, I suspect. rfi ^ -O^b -M-a.»i f*+ For obstinate cases of rusted hooks, tarnished spoons, rod fittings and reels flour emery in oil may be used. Dry emery cuts too rapidly on any polished surface. Bacon, lard, butter and other perishable foods can be kept sweet in a tightly capped mason jar sunk in a spring or stream. To make your fishing plugs waterproof, scratch proof and keep the enamel from cracking and colors from fading, give them a coat of liquid auto wax. To revive dying minnows put a teaspoon of salt in the water of an average sized minnow pail. If short of pork rinds cut some from a piece of chamois skin or white rubber toy balloon. No matter how careful a camp cook is he is bound to scorch the beans or stew sooner or later. If it happens to you just drop one or two small pieces of charcoal into the pot of food and the scorched taste will disappear like magic. Swatara Creek Becoming Clean Preventing silt from anthracite operations from entering the streams has extended beyond the Schuylkill River basin under the intensive efforts of the Bureau of Engineering, State Department of Health. It is now reported that clear water is flowing in the Swatara Creek and the streams by which it is formed in Western Central Schuylkill Co. as a result of the installation of desilting systems by coal operators to meet requirements under the Clean Streams program. That stream, which flows into the Susquehanna River at Middletown, has been a heavily silt-laden waterway since the beginning of coal mining along its course nearly 50 years ago. Not only has the silt problem been solved on the main stream, but desilting systems are also keeping the silt from the streams by which it is formed, which are Good Spring, Lower Rausch, Middle and Lorberry Creeks. At the present time there are 11 breakers and five dredgers operating along the different waterways. The number of breakers was reduced by three during the past year through discontinuance of operations, but one dredger was added to the list during that time. Excepting at one of the breakers where the wastes are discharged to an abandoned mine, the breakers have constructed silt ponds for keeping the silt from entering the waterways. This accomplishment follows closely upon the heels of the outstanding achievement in the Schuylkill River Basin where all of the 47 collieries along that river and its tributaries now have desilting systems, which it is estimated are keeping more than two million tons of silt annually from those waterways. Outdoor Recreation Beneficial The benefits of outdoor recreation and sports afield have been enumerated frequently and this is one case where the doctor takes his own medicine. Did you ever stop to think how many in the medical professions are fishing and hunting devotees? We have checked countless lists of outdoor enthusiasts and MDs. and DDSs. are always well up in the various classifications. Physicians, surgeons, dentists, various specialists and others interested in therapeutics not only prescribe recreative outdoor activities for their patients, but take a good dose of that medicine themselves— hunting, fishing, running dogs in field trials, camping outdoors, wilderness canoe trips, ranch vacations, etc. There's one feature about fishing that accounts for its tremendous popularity. Unlike the lyric popular during the World War II—"They're either too young or too old"—the very young and the very old, as well as all those in between, can enjoy fishing. The boy with his willow pole and bent pin; the octogenarian situated comfortably on a sloping bank with cane pole and bobber, dunking a worm or live-bait and hauling out (often enough to keep it interesting) a good panfish or even a finny gamester. A plug with a wiggle will account for some nice bass and walleyes if sunk deep and trolled. 11
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