FOREST AND STREAM. 



75 



contemporary, Nature, "It is certainly remarkable how a 

 settled westward course is that chosen, calling to mind the 

 similar direction which races of rnen are assumed to follow." 



GAME PROTECTION. 



MEETINGS OF STATE ASSOCIATIONS 

 FOR 1878. 



Tennessee State Sportsmen's Association, Nashville, Deo. 2. 

 Seot'y., Clark Pritchett, Nashville, Term. 

 Wisconsin State Sportsmen's Association. 



MaBsachuaet ts State Sportsmen's Association, at call of President 

 Missouri State Sportsniou'B Association. 



Meeting of the Nkw -Terbby State Association.— We 

 trust our friends among the Now Jersey sportsmen will not 

 forget, the adjourned meeting o£ the Association for the Pro- 

 tection of Fish and Game, to be held at Newark on the 5th of 

 next month. A full meeting is earnestly requested, as not 

 only final arrangements must tie made for the State Shoot, it 

 one is to lie held this year, but a full and free expression of 

 opinion is desired as to the proper legislative action to be 

 taken this winter on the very conflicting game law of the 

 State. Other matters of importance wilt come before the 

 meeting. We are in receipt of the following official notifica- 

 tion: 



"Notice is hereby given that the New .lersoy State Associa- 

 tion for the Protectio n of Fish and Game will hold a meeting 

 at the Clarendon Hotel, 495 Broad street, Newark, N. J., at 

 t-130 P. m. , September 5. All delegates are requested to be 

 present, and ail organized clubs of the State, which have not 

 yet joined, are invited to attend and send three delegates 

 each. J. Von Lknqkkke, Rec. Sec." 



Tennessee. — Legislation is sorely needed to prohibit the 

 wanton destruction of fish by seining in liurpeth ltiver and 

 other streams of this State. The formation of numerous game 

 protective clubs of Tennessee sportsmen will in time, we 

 trust, he effective in Securing sufficient public interest in these 

 matters to see that the supply of game and food fish is 

 properly protected. 



An Unfaithful Steward.— Chicago, Aug. 12— Editor 

 For&ft and Stream: I notice iu your issue of Aug. 8, a com- 

 munication Blgned B. M. E,, w'atertowu, Wis., in which he 

 speaks of one Joe Marckres shooting at Lake Koshkonong, on 

 July SUtli and iJlst, some, thirty-eight woodcock. Perhaps S. 

 M. "K. doee not know that the open season for woodcock in 

 Wisconsin does not Open this year until Sept. 35th : but such 

 is the fact. Marckres is the steward of the Black Hawk Club 

 of Lake Koshkonong, and no doubt the members will be a lit- 

 tle surprised to learn his manner of preserving Ihcir gamu. 

 The fact is, however, be never did pretend to keep the game 

 laws, and it is time the club knew of it and took some action. 



How Ann. 



HUNTING DEER WITH DOGS. 



KlNOSTON, S. C, Aug. SO, HIS. 



KlllTOtt FoEEST AKn STREAM i - 



I hug leave to il Iter with the gentleman from Maine in regard to 

 "Hunting Deer with bogs." Tliere are quite a number ol' (leer In 

 S.iuth Carolina, especially iu the counties of Williamsburg and George- 

 town. The only way they can be killed is with dogs. Tliis is my 

 experience, aud it is alBO that or a good many old hunters with 

 whom I have conversed upon tills subject. If a deer Is chased and 

 gets away without being wounded, yuu will be certain to and him 

 back about the same spot he was started from iu less than three dais 

 afterwards. I have known deer to be chased by dogs from Black 

 Elver Swamp to Sante Swamp, a distance of from twelve to fllteeu 

 mllca, aud be back again in less than a week. M. F. H. 



Philadelphia, Angast 22, 187S. 

 Editoe Fobbst and Stream : 



For many years prior to 1876 I have passed some weeks in each year 

 camping in the Maine wilderness with a friend or two and the neces- 

 sary guides, enjojingnot only the bracing and delightful recreation 

 that camp life affords, but with occasional " red letter days" with rod 

 or gun ; that were enjoyed with, the zest of a clean conscience, vigor- 

 ous appetite aud good health— such as properly belong only to true 

 sportsmen. 



In the fall of '69 or 'TO two friends and myself started on onr usual 

 trip, when we spent some weeks among the Schoodtc Lakes, In the 

 eastern portion of the State, and though we had bnt a limited amount 

 of good sporting luck, we enjoyed every moment of the trip most thor- 

 oughly. On this occasion the man whose name is attached to the article 

 In your iasue of Aug. 15 was one of the guides to oar little party, and as 

 guide or hunter is not excelled by any one In that State. But, all the 

 same, It is to just such experts as he is that the whole sporting fraternity 

 are Indebted for the wholesale game spoliation of the Maine forests of 

 their game ; and it is the acta of just such men that caused the very 

 Btrlngent game protective laws to be passed, and wliich, If my memory 

 ia correct, forbid the killing of moose until after lfSO, or the export of 

 any caribou, deer, or grouse that are killed In the State. 



Now, here Is the reason for my assertion : In the trip in question 

 when Mr. Darling was one of our guideB, he told the writer, as did 

 Ma brother George, who was with us In a simliar capacity, " that in 

 he winter of the deep snows, a few years prior to our trip, he and Mb 

 brother killed upward of 300 deer without firing a shot— running 

 ,them down on show-shoes, cutting then- throats, taking off their hides, 

 and leaving the carcass lying where it was killed." The hides, having 

 a small cash value, were " brought out of the woods in a sheboggan." 

 Again, this very Baine person, with another whose name escapeB me 

 for the moment, but who lives or lived on the banks of Cold Stream 

 Pond, near Treat's Mills, in Enfield Town, killed, a winter or two pre- 

 vious, in the Aroostoock region, upward of eighty moose for their skins 

 alone, which reached the tannery In due season. There are doubtless 

 others whose lust for gain has been at, strong that they have lent them- 

 selves to the destruction of nearly all the wild animals in that grand old 

 State. Her tens of thousands of aorea of foreBt, scores aud scores of 

 magnificent lakes, and miles of Tivers and streams should afford 

 delight to the heart and hand of the sportsman. Now her wildernesses 

 have not a tithe of the wild life in them that they are entitled to and 

 would have but for such wanton destruction. 



The Game Law of Maine is very stringent, and I for onehope most 

 fervently that It will neither be altered nor tiukerod at in. any way, bnt 

 moat vigorously enforced, that her woods and watere may once again 

 be full of wild life. No doubt the guides do most BerlouBly desire 

 to have these gaine laws altered. As I understand it, they are reason- 

 ably well enforced, and betm; ao, It materially Interferes with their 

 profits- Any tinkering wltn it, no matter whether deer are run with 

 dogs or not, would, in all probability, make au opening sufficiently 

 large to psrmit rapacious men to step throngh 1 at their pleasure. 



Rue Rap. 



Warbkksbobqh, N. T„ Aug. 19, 1878. 

 Editor Forest and Stbeam : 



It has been a wonder to me. that this thing has not been brought up 

 In your columns before. Mr. Darling's thirty years' experience in hunt 

 ing deer ought to make him a competent Judge on any defect la a game 

 law protecting them ; alBO thoroughly acquainted with their habits and 

 aciions both when they are unmolested and after belug driven by dogs. 

 I think, from his writing, I should nut differ from him, My experience 

 has been short, compared with nla, it having been only ten years since 

 I commenced hum lug them, but have hunted with men who are good 

 deer hunters— two of them have hunted in the Adlrondacks every year 

 for nearly fifty years. They have killed deer at all timeB, with dog and 

 without. My opinion is the same as theirs— that deer driven by dogs 

 as soon us they can elude them by swimming rivers or ponds, or wading 

 small streams, they lie down to rest, and when night, comes go back to 

 the place they started from, or Its vicinity. Have known of several in- 

 stances when deer have been started three successive days in the same 

 place, being driven each lime two or three miles. On Sept. 2 a very 

 large buck was pursued by dogs across the Boreas Elver, and followed 

 up the stream, wading and swimming, and at times running on the 

 bank of the river, until be bad gone over two miles. The second day 

 after he was started from the foot of the same mountain and took the 

 same route. The next day he was killed, being started from the same 

 place, and making the same race every time. We have a deer near 

 WarrenBhnrgh -a doe. She has been here since last winter. I will 

 warrant she has been driven to water by houude once a week for fifteen 

 weeks, always starting from the same place, and she can be seen 

 almost any day in the same field In which she was first seen last spring. 

 I could mention other instances that have come under my observation 

 when there could be no doubt about it being the same deer that would 

 return when night came. 



another point is, that no man can kill as many deer when there is 

 snow on the ground with a dog as without, if he la a good hunter. The 

 last time I hunted deer with dogs there were eight in the party, and six 

 hounds ; four of the hounds ran two races per day for six days. We 

 killed four deer, all we saw near enough for a shot, and that number is 

 as many, or more, than parties will average In a week'a hunt, I don't 

 care how many dogs they nave. 



Dew never i uu iuu^. Aoont the first thing they look for after being 

 started ts water, in which they hope to throw their pursuers off their 

 track, and they altuostalways do it. But when on bucw they sto still- 

 bunted (that IB, hunted without dogs) tne hunter finds the track, aud 

 follows cautiously uutil he finds his game. If he is an ordinary hunter, 

 aud even a third-rate marksman, he seldom misses his deer. In the 

 early part ot the winter this is the way niottof our deer are killed. 

 Market hunters, some of them, kill, In good hunting, five to seven in a 

 dny. 



Then comes the butcht-ring season (when deer are worthless, both 

 the meat and lhe hide), the ialter part ot winter and early spring. The 

 first crust- that comes upon the anow, It Is impossible to go into the 

 Adlrondacks without hearing how deer are being slaughtered on the 

 crust. Some use dogs, others take their gun and e nowstioes. They 

 uevcr hunt for single deer, but always go for a flock. As is generally 

 known to spoi tsmen when snow is deep, deer get together where young 

 hemlocks and laurel are plenty, aud yard there like sheep. The snow 

 gets packed hard in their yarJs, so they can get about to feed as well as 

 in the summer ; bat when they are forced by their wholesale butchers 

 to vacate their yards, and are chased by them until they can ran no 

 longer, then they are shot or the. dogs kill them. Two years ago it 

 was reported (and I don't doubt it) that some of the Adirondack guides 

 would kill a deer and deliver the saddle for one dollar. This butcher- 

 ing iu spring, and lloatlug on ponds in summej evenings when does are 

 with young, la what is ruintug our deer, and if not stopped, soon will 

 entirely destroy the burning in Die Adlrondacks. 



Our game law prohibits homing deer with dogs. In my opinion, and 

 every man without exception that knows anything about deer that I 

 ever talked with agrees with me, you may hunt deer with dogs as long 

 aud aa mnoli as you choose iu the fall, say from September to 

 December, three in •utlia, and they will increase. It is the spring and 

 summer shooting that is destroying them. All the law we want is 

 someihing that can and will be enforced to protect them at that time- 

 It cannot bedonewltu the law we have now. If our law prohibited 

 the sale of venison after Dec. 1 (by the sale of, I mean shipments from 

 the country to market) so there would be no sale fur it after Dec. I, 

 that would In a measure stop still hunting in December ; as it is now 

 more deer are killed that month than the three preceding, bt cause the 

 law gives one month to dispose of their deer they take advantage by 

 hunting almost to the last day for market, and It is very easy to say their 

 deer were killed in season. 



Then, again, some of ths city gentlemen who are so earnest in 

 their endeavors to Bnstaln a game club (In the city) for the protection 

 of game, when they come north not only hire guides to help kill deer 

 for them, bnt use all means in their power to kill all they can them- 

 selves, and that too in summer, when nearly every deer they kill de- 

 stroys one or two others. This iB the class of sportsmen you will In- 

 variably find who are always crying with a loud voice, ''You mast not 

 dog deer," when they themselves do more harm In a single summer 

 night than they could do in a week'a time in the fall with dogs, 



I Bay, have them stay at home a little more, or remember it is their 

 duty to help encourage this protection ot the game aud not its destruc- 

 tion and annihilation. There are a few city sportsmen who are In the 

 woods in the summer months who would refuse to hunt deer with a 

 jack lamp, and do all they can for the preservation and protection of 

 game. I mention city sportsmen, because guides depend on them 

 tor their support aud would not hunt unless paid by them. I should 

 like to hear from others oa this subject. A. H. Thomas. 



Pbovtnob oi? Qdebeo Rifle Association.— Concluding 

 Day, Aug. 17.— Strangers' stakes; small bores at 800, Snider 's 

 and Martini's at 500 yards ; rounds, seven ; F. Schwartz, 33, 

 first prize. Ladies' stakes j 600 yards for Martini's and Sni- 

 ders, 900 for small bores ; Mr. G. D. Booth, 43, first prize. 

 Small-bore champion match ; rifles any ; 1,000 yards, fifteen 

 rounds ; W. A. Jamieson, 05, first prize. Consolation match j 

 300 and 500 yards, five shots at each range ; Private Morri- 

 son, 43, first prize. Quebec Volunteer Champion Match; 

 five rounds at 200, 500 and 600 yards ; won by D. Turnbull, 

 first prize, with 65. Frontier Stakes;; 500 yards, seven shots; 

 first prize, Lieut. Col. J. M. Gibson with a full score of 35. 

 The City Stakes ; 600 yards, seven shots ; won by Shaw with 

 39. The Battalion Match ; teams of five, 500 and 600 yards, 

 seven rounds at each range ; won by the Montreal Garrison 

 Artillery, with 218, Three Rivers Battalion making one point 

 less. The Macdonna Match; ten rounds at 500 yards; first 

 prize, Lt. (Jol. Gibson, with 44. The Association Match ; 

 teams of five, 500 and 600 yards, five rounds at each range ; 

 won by Richmond Rifle Association, Fifty-fourth Battalion, 

 with 177. The Military Match ; five rounds at 300 yards, 



standing, and 400 yards, kneeling: first prize. Corporal Cop- 

 ping, with a score of 44. The Wimbledon Team — The fol- 

 lowing are the successful marksmen in the competition for 

 representatives of the Province of Quebec at the Wimbledon 

 (Eng.) meeting of 1879: Capt. Thomas. Fifty-fourth Bat- 

 taliou: Sergt. Kiddle, M. G. A.; Pte. Wynne, Fifth Royal 

 Fusiliers ; Lieut. Vaughan, M. G. A.; Major Mudge, P. W 

 R,j Sergt. Wardill, P, W. It; Pte. Ross, P. W. R ; Capt. 

 Balfour, Eighth Royal Rifles, Quebec : Sergt. Orr, P. W. R. 

 Pte. Ross, Sixth Fusiliers; Sergt. ITarkom, P. W. R ; Sergt. 

 McAdain, V. V. R.: Oapt. Boyd, Fifty-fourth Batlalion; 

 Lieut. Campbell, V. V. R.; Pte. Wilson, Fifth Royal Fusi- 

 liers; Capt. Thompson, Fifty fifth Battalion Megantic ; Pte. 

 Turnbull, P. W. R.j Pte. Kowaud. V. V. If.; Corpl. Allen, 

 P. W. B.; Corpl. Currie, Sixth Fusiliers. 



August Amateur Series— -Boston,.— 200 yards. We give 

 the leading scores : 



O IV Jewell 5 5-1514446 6—45 



J N Frye 5 55446444 6— 45 



II E Lord 5 6 4645445 4— 46 



W E (merrier 6 5 4 4 6 5 4 5 4 4—45 



O Mar.iuall 5 64465464 4— IS 



JJ 1! Southern 4 45544445 4—43 



Walnut Mill Range, Aug. 19.— No-cleaning match; dis- 

 tance, 300 aud 300 yards ; possible 35 : 



200 yards. 300 yards. 



(IM Jewell 5 4 5 4 4 4 4—80 4 5 4 4 4 4 4—29—59 



.1 BDrden 4 4 4 5 4 4 4— 29 4 4 3 4 4 4 2—25—54 



C MelggS,. 4 4 4 3 3 5 4— 27 4 3 a 2 3 8 4— M-51 



U M Jewell (re-entry 3 3 5 3 4 4 8—25 4 4 4 6 4 6 6—31—56 



J Borden (re-entry) 4 4 6 3 4 4 5-29 4 4 3 4 4 4 3—26-55 



Aug. 31.— Seventh renewed competition in long-range 

 nlatch at 800, 900 aud 1,000 yards. The weather was all that 

 could be desired up to 1 ,000 yards, when it came out bright, 

 with a change of wind, followed by a cloudy sky. In the 

 scores we give, those having a star were shootiDg for places 

 on the American team. Both the scores made by Messrs. 

 Gerrish and Jackson are admirable ones. 

 William Gerrish." 



800 4 546 'j 66 ft 545555 B— 73 



900 4 55565565466 5 6 5—73 



1,000 5 5 455654S55545 6-72—218 



Captain W H Jackson* 



80" 5 6 5 54645655555 6—73 



900... 4 5 0465555 55 5 6 5—73 



1,000 4 4534555555454 5-68-214 



JS Sumner.* 



S00 5 5!>4B655556565 5-74 



Sill) / (I 5535666555556 3—06 



1,0U0 5 6455566550445 6—72—212 



J F Brown.* 



fiflO 3 5B65544455555 6—70 



900 8 555655656 4 564 5—73 



1,000 4 3646556554554 4-68—211 



U T Rockwell.* 



800 4 4665355565555 6—71 



»0U 4 55554454 5 54 4 6 6—69 



1,000 5 4343555565345 6—66—206 



G W Davison,* 



800 4 5365453555556 5-69 



91)0 5 5 055655585536 5—66 



1,000 5 5 5 4 5 4 5 E B 4 5 5 6 6 4— 71-200 



Johu A Lowe : L 



800 6 443454B555665 4—68 



900. 5 4654655445565 6—71 



1,000 5 4645545566333 4—65—204 



Salem Wilder. 



P00 5 5 5 56545656555 4—73 



B0U 5 5 4 5 4 4 5 5 5 5 4 5 3 0—09 



1,000 5435453554332 B-01— 203 



A Hebbard. 



800 5 3B5 5 4 46454546 6—68 



900 4 4 5 55554543554 4-07 



1,000 5 4 3 35545655345 6—66—201 



J Chadwoll. 



800 4864 156656065 5—65 



900 4 5546655668885 5—64 



1,000 5 565455B66A565 5—69—198 



S Lewis. 



800 4 5 555455554545 3—09 



900 3 4 4 6 5 3 3 5 5 5 4 4 0—50 



1,000 2 865564 5544358 6— 63— 1S2 



G Loomis. 



800 6 S553464505655 6—66 



900 4 8 4 4543B365 4 04 5-58 



1,000 2 545603603034 5—44—168 



The shooting was the best on record, excepting the Ameri- 

 can team at Creedmoor on the second day of the international 

 match, they making on the first day 1358, and on the second 

 day 1277, while the six gentlemen yesterday made 1267. Mr. 

 William Gerrish's splendid showing of 318 out of a possible 

 225 equals Oapt. W. H. Jackson's superb score made last sea- 

 son, and the largest ever made on Walnut Hill, and only sur- 

 passed by Mr. Bruce at Creedmoor, and Mr. Selph of New 

 Orleans, who each made 319, the largest scores on record. 



Boston and Metfobd — Metf&rd. — Teams of six, 30 shots 

 each man, 200 yards. Won by Boston with 755 ; Metford, 

 652. The highest score was made by N. W. Arnold with 133. 



Boston and Attleboro Teams, Aug. 19.— Teams of nine 

 men, 30 shots each man, 200 yards. Boston team, 1,105 ; At- 

 tleboro, 990. Highest score made by J. B. Osborn, of Bos- 

 ton team, with 139. 



Medfobd Amateur Association — Bellevieio Range, Aug. 

 35. — Third match of the August series; the scores mads at 

 the 300 yard range are as follows : 



CnsOlng 4 6 5-5 4 4 5—32 Telle 4 3 4 3 4 4 4—28 



Hayes 4 5 4 4 5 4 4—30 Me teal i 



Eames 4 4 4 5 6 4 4—30 Richardson 3 S 3 4 4 4 4—20 



Howard 4 4 5 4 4 4 4—20 Dickson 3 2 3 4 5 5 3— S5 



Yl u lug 4 4 4 4 4 4 4—28 Sampson 3430443—21 



Ames 4 3 4434 4—28 



Scores made at the 400-yards range : 



Osborn _ .554535 6-34 Ireland 4 4 5 5 4 G 6—32 



6 5458 6 5—34 Vlnniug 5 4 5 3 4 5 4—30 



Withiugtou 5 5 4 4 6 5 6—33 RIcharJBon 5 5 4 4 5 8 3—29 



Springfield vs. Holyoke— Springfield, August 23. — 

 The second contest of the rifle match between the Rod and 

 Gun Club of this city, and the Holyoke Rifle Club, having 

 teams of six men, took place at Willimausett to-day, and was 

 won by Holyoke by the close score of 350 to 249. The dis- 

 tance was 200 yards, the strings ten shots, and the shooting 

 off-hand. Holyoke was also victorious in the first contest, 

 and, therefore, wins the match. 



Connecticut— Stamford, Aug. 24.— Match at 300 yards : 



JHSwartwout 6 5444338353444 3—51 



W II Siuford 4 4342443444544 3—65 



Q ¥ Uendrle 4 34 3 4435434446 0—54 



I'D Bennett 5 4443434484400 4—52 



WaltOD Ferguson 4 04443 034 4 0232 5—47 



\V 11 Taylor 2 33 8 3443423482 3—46 



Norman I'rovos 3 4544540202333 4—40 



It HI Wilson 8 444 3 303844222 3—44 



T J Warren 2 335343440348 a— 48 



AS SWordS 84 4 3 3S480 8 3 4 4— » 



