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rifle-tool ere do j i ■■■ i We want d rlfla 



A') or ii he shoulder without ad- 



justing sights, an thi ■".-. n- ball level tip to 200 yurds. We 



have -,. ,, .|, ,, i mi' v i ■!, uchagun with os 



a in el i certainty as ft snipe at 2ffya*i 

 Inave made i id tried them in different rifles. 



but there is ool '' hold enough powder to 



drive them straight up to WO yard,. They lose penetration 

 rapidly after 300 yards, but 30U yards is o b a \ waj to kill a 

 deer. I have heard men tallc of killing » 'da with 



a shotgun. My experience is, if I get a shot, nt deer at 50 

 yaidsTl am Jneljy to get it after running it with hounds 10 

 miles. My gal I ' . I iflt two or 



three buck into my Old hat every time. It takes a big shock 

 and a bigger charge oi to stop deer iu their 



tracks. Such is my experience lor the last sis years in Texas. 

 San Antonio, Texas, Sept, B, R. B. 



COM-MOS Sense CnAXU.- 



Mottville, NY, the Con 



merous improved sources 

 to a public 



•warm weather, this e'n lii 



ide by F. A. Sinclair, 



'hair. Are.' ■ 

 i'crcd almost every day 

 iy, particularly during 

 s the least. Withon 



any pretentions to the luxurious cushions of the usual loung- 

 ing chair i it affojds a degree of comfort and rest which cannot 

 be attained m the former'. We do not propose to explain this 

 minutely, but cordially suggest that you try the Common 

 Sense Chair, and secure the utter rest we enjoy in its ample 

 and so conveniently disposed proportions. In it there is no 

 rest for one part of the body to the discomfort of any other. 

 Happily, all there is of you is induced to rest thoroughly. 

 For the man of business, who .seeks relief from the burden- 

 some application to corresp mdence at the usual style of desk, 

 ' adjustable to this chair will 

 te his WOTk, as the body may be at all times in 

 restful position, and books and papers approach one's person 

 at any convenient angle. The chair, with table, is a veritable 

 benefaction, while " the chair, my pipe and L" are the very 

 picture of felicitous rest. 



GAME IN SEASON FOR SEPTEMBER. 



<i:ah-hi:t. Black bellied plover, ox-eye, aqua- 



Caribou, Taraiuius rangifsr. taroln hehdUa. 



Riug plover, JUgialitu miiipatma- 



SuBirr&la, fed, Mack and gray. Stilt, or inng-slianks, IIimar,(op-us 



Hares, brown anil gray. rn&ricoms. 



Keen or rice bh-ci, DottcTumj/jt oryss- Wb ideocje, Philahela minor. 



Red-bfeatnea Snipe, or dowitctiex, 

 Wild tiirkev. Mekaarta yaUapava. Macrnrhamplivjt grittut. 



■ prairie cttick- Ked-naetcd sandpiper, or ox-blrd, 



en. Clip 

 Ratted firoase or pheasant, £<,«««« Ureal inarnled godwit, or marlln, 



'iuml or partridge, Ortyx Virginia- Willie, Tolanm semipalmatub. 

 ii»». Tattler, Totanua nu-lanoleucus. 



Vt:iiow-Htiank9, Totanuij jlavipw. 



" Bay birds" generally, Including various species of plover, sand 

 piper, snipe, curlew, oyster-uatclier, suit blr.ig. plialaropea, 

 etc., corniDg under itte group Lluiacalce or Sbore Birds. 



t&~ Tins tiblu doos not apply lo all Hie States. It Is meant to repre- 

 sent the game wliich is generally iu season at this time. Slate regula- 

 tions may prohibit Hie killing of some species or game here mentioned. 



Game ln Mamcm— Ri:tail Peices, Porji/iKy and Game— Phila- 

 delphia fowls, 17 to 2u cents: do chickens, 18 to 22; do. ducks. IS 

 to 20; do. geese, 17 to 18; do. turkeys, 17 to 20. State and West- 

 ern fowl, 11 to 17 cents; do. ohickens, 15 to 18; do. ducka, 15 to 

 18; do. geese, 1J to 15; do. turkeys, 15 to 18. Partridge, SI. 50 

 per pah; grouse, $1.25; reed birds, 76 cants por doz.; amiabs, 

 S2.50; rail, $1.25; woodcock, $1,36 per pah; large snipe, S3 per 

 doz.; email do., 75 cents. 



Ontap.10— Kingston, Sept.. 9.— I see by the weekly reports 

 from all parts of the Union that the prospects of plenty of 

 game, and consequently good sport this season, is more than 

 the average. Unusually fair prospects aiso await the lovers 

 of the icid and gun in this fair proviuce of ours. 1 notice an 

 almost eutiie absence of sporfdng news from this side of the 

 lines, only an occasional communication finding its way in 

 your columns, u i we have plenty of ardent sports- 



men who would make most excellent correspondents. We 

 have a tolerably good game protection law, and game of all 

 kinds, in consequence, is plenty, especially are the prospects 

 good for the approaching season, From all parts back of the 

 city reports daily arrive that, deer, duck, partridge, woodcock 

 and plover are very plenty. Al. 



This GqjShbpwot/t Lakes.— The rod and gun have abund- 

 ant use in the region of the Connecticut Lakes. That wilder- 

 ness has been delightfully free from the regular round of 

 tourists who have no! } the good things in the 



dense forests! there. The recent notice which we have taken 

 of the locality wid doubtless send scores of people there, so 

 all are hereby warned, as in the city entertainments, to "come 

 before the crowd." 



Ten thousand acres of land there, in the northern part of 

 New Hampshire and including a part of the .First and all of 

 the Second and Third Connecticut Lakes, are owned by two 

 gentlemen o£ this city. In response to our inquiries they re- 

 ply: 



We have not the slightest objection to any lawful fishing or 

 hunting on the laud, or of the proper use of wood for camping 

 purposes. Net, ILhme fiyjeug or hunting Dut of season— or 

 the peeling back for camps (as has been done in former times) 

 we do Object to, and will prosecute offenders where we can 

 formation. We hive made application to the N. H. 

 Slate Fish Commission to get landdooked salmon to put in 

 the lakes. Me; d Chester at Second Lake act as 



guides. Mr. Chester has a good cabin, but tents are necessary 

 generally. 



' .—The game 

 season hereabout! fVoodcock arereported 



scarce: yet. There are 



and h;,, .:. ■ , near. They tly high and wide, Buffed 



grouse have, I think, hatched well, but they won't suitor 



leaves fall. No bjjoii 

 Wild pigeons. F. C. B. 



Nan tucket-. Sept, 10.— There have been hereabouts very 

 large flights of plover the past week. Every one was out, 

 and some gunners bagged sixty each. Jaoe CtUCDBW. 



BtpSQMoSAO Club.— The Monomcmac Sporting Club, of 

 the south village of Gardner, Mass., returned home from their 

 annual excursion Sept. 11, having enjoyed their trip notwith- 

 standing the unfavorable weather. A large number of fine 

 pickerel were caught, the largest, which weighed two and one- 

 naif pounds, being drawn in by Mr. C. F. Read, of the South 

 Village, The captive was photographed and prepared for the 

 table without delay. The innocent amusements of the club 

 were indulged in very extensively, and a very interesting il- 

 lustration of the wonders of the phonograph, made up an 

 evening's entertainment. Mr. G. R. Pratt, assisted by Mr. L. 

 Walker, presided over the culinary department to the entire 

 satisfaction of all, their tables being graced with substantial 

 viands, including ducks, partridges, wild turkeys, prairie 

 chickens, squirrels and other game, which were brought in by 

 the hunters. A large number of visitors were received, in- 

 cluding friends from Gardner, Wiuchendon, Kiudge, Fitch- 

 burg, Boston, Greenfield and New York city. 



Long Island— Siielter Island, Sept. 12. — The sea fowl are 

 just beginning to collect in the bays, and very soon the coot 

 will be "here in myriads, furnishing capital sport for the gun- 

 ner, either by sailing on them or killing them in batteries. 

 The loons— always the first to come — are beginning to pass 

 over bay and beach, and the black ducks are numerous. I 

 tried for them a few evenings since, but got no shot, killing 

 only a long-winged crane. In Montauk the birds have been, 

 so far, very scarce; nor are they plenty on Gardiner's Island. 

 A party of four tried for them there last week, but got only 

 seventeen birds. A few years since Iho green plover and 

 blackbreasts were there in innumerable flocks. 



lSAAO MCLUIXAN. 



New Yokk. — Laktport, Sept. 10. — Yellow legged plover are 

 quite plenty on the shores of the lake. Large basrs of wood- 

 cock and partridge are made about the woods and cornfields 

 every few days, with quite a number of wild pigeon. 



A Hunting Pabty.— Nyack, N. T., Sipi. 18.— Editor 

 Forest and Stream : A friend and myself would like to join a 

 party of four or Ave gentlemen to spend about two or three 

 weeks, late in October and November, shooting quail and 

 partridge and deer, if possible. Wo would prefer to go not 

 more than 36 or 48 hours' ride from the city. 



A. M. Vooitnis, 



Pennsylvania— Greenville, Sept&nber 13.— Squirrel shoot- 

 ing has commenced in earnest. Messrs. Brooks, Beatty and 

 Grim shot 39 in one day. Pheasant shooting will be good in 

 this locality, owing to the strict observation of the law, al- 

 though there are a few pot-hunters who of course don't ob- 

 serve it. B. 



Pike County Notw.— The indications here are that the 

 pheasant will be more plentiful the coming season than any 

 time during the past ten years. Already " the woods are full 

 of them." Mr. Harry Nyce, of Egypt Mills, a few days ago 

 shot a gray eagle measuring six feet eight inches from tip to 

 tip. 



Middleburg, Pa., Sept. 12.— Some of our sportsmen have 

 been on the warpath for cooub and glory. S. S. Schoch, M, 

 Z. Staininger and J. M. Vanzandt recently captured eight of 

 the beasts alive. Coon. 



Blooming Grove Park. Association. — On September 28 

 the executive committee announce that a meeting of the 

 Ladies' Archery Club will take place, when the cut Prize Pin 

 and other prizes will be shot for. Shooting deer is interdicted 

 in the State of Pennsylvania until 1881, the exceptions being 

 on the grounds of the B. G. P. Buffed grouse and ducks, 

 with rabbit shooting, may be had. At present the bass and 

 pickerel fishing is quite good. Apply for permits to Dr. 

 Bradley, Hoffman House, These permits to visit the parte 

 embrace all the privileges to intending members, after the 

 usual introduction, which can be had of the executive com- 

 miilee. Time from Jersey City four hours by rail, and one 

 hour and fifteen minutes by stage. Excursion tickets all 

 around, $5, to be obtained at the E. K. Ii. office. Broadway 

 and Twenty-third street. 



Kentucky — Stanford, September 13. — Reports oome in 

 from every direction that the season has been unusually fa- 

 vorable for nesting, and that the crop of quail is larger than 

 ever before known. The birds are generally well grown, and 

 shooting will begin at light the day after close season. 

 Pigeons, in small numbers, put in an appearance this week. 

 Recent rains and the material fall ot temperature will inaugu- 

 rate fall fishing. Kbnttjokian. 



Tennessee — Savannah, September 0. — The prospect for 

 good shooting has probably never been better than at, present. 

 Q.uail are numerous and unusually forward ; many are already 

 fully grown. This is in decided contrast to the state of things 

 last season, when, even so late as November 1, I found several 

 coveys too small to shoot. Squirrels are now "cutting" 

 hickory nuts, and are quite plenty. A party in the river bot- 

 tom lands, several miles above this place, brought in one day 

 last week, as the proceeds of one day's hunt, eighty squirrels, 



Will. 



A Florida Oampino Ground.— Editor Forest and Stream : 

 On the east side of the lower road from Homosassa to Bay 

 Point, about ten miles from each place, there is a valley about 

 a mile wide by four long, interspersed with small sandy bot- 

 tom ponds. Around some of them are natural graperies 

 covering acres. Bushels of the most delicious grapes 1 ever 

 tasted were rotting on the bushes and ground. There is not a 

 dwelling within six miles. Wild turkey, bear and deer were 

 plenty, and large flocks of parakeets were feeding on these 

 luxuries. It seemed too bad to see game and fruit so abund- 

 ant and no sportsmen near. Some four years ago two men 

 with their families located near there, fenced in and improved 

 some ten acres and built a good house and out buildings ; but 

 the deer and turkey ate up their garden, and the bears and 

 panthers killed and devoured all their hogs and cattle. As 

 there were no neighbors near they grew tired of such loneli- 

 nesB and abandoned their property and moved lo Texas. I 

 visited this place last winter, aud I should think it one of the 

 beBt places in all Florida for a party to stay to hunt, say for a 

 month or so, It lies between the Great Gulf Swamp ouuUhc- 

 Natihka Hammock, a kind of crossing place for game. W. 



Putnam. Vuiin., September, 1878. 



Tbkas— Houston, Sr.pl. 4.--I consider it sufficiently worthy 

 of remark to make note of the unusually early appear- 

 ance of migratory gftm o bird* in this latitude. Mr.Wyse, 



who lives about afx miles from Houston, at what is known 

 as Pierce's Junction, on the San Antonio Ii. R., reports bat- 

 ing seen and killed several jacksnipc (Scolopazj ■■■"il.\o,n'i) on 

 the 10th day of August. Dr. Tom Robinson sIbo reports 

 having seen several birds a few days subsequent to this date. 

 This, I am confident, is an unusually early arrival of this 

 species of snipe in our latitude. On 'referring to my own 

 record of early birds, my notes give the 19th day of Septem- 

 ber, 1S73, as a very early date, and it was so considered by 

 the majority of sportsmen with whom I spoke iu regard to it 

 then. I thought, at the time Mr. Wyse mentioned the matter 

 to me, that they were wounded or crippled individuals, who, 

 unable to take the long journey to their northern breeding 

 grounds, had remained with us during the Bummer ; but a 

 careful and thorough examination failed to discover any marks 

 of former wounds. Many seem to think that their early ar- 

 rival here is indicative of a long and severe winter. Several 

 flocks of wild geese going South at this time, and the predic- 

 tions of weather prophets, seem to lend some color to this 

 opinion, I myself can imagine no cause for their appearance 

 here at this time. We can attribute it to unusually cold weather 

 iu their northern Bumruer residence, and of this I have seen 

 no account. Our summer has been uncommonly wet, raining 

 almost continuously, with short intervals, for the past two 

 months. September sets in cold and cloudy, with the wind 

 from the North, accompanied with rain. Should it continue 

 this way for any length of time snipe will be abundant with 

 us in a few days. J. W. D. 



1 ' City of Woboestbe. " — Editor Forest and Stream : Ar- 

 rived at this place yesterday afternoon, going out of the direct 

 lino to visit Sauk Centre, where we had heard there were prai- 

 rie chickens iu abundance. Two days' hunt failed to find them 

 in any quantity. On the same train we met Mr. Hallock, 

 John Davidson, 'i. W. Whitman and others, all bound for the 

 Field Trial, which is to oome off about fourteen, miles south- 

 west of Sauk Centre. Deer are said to be veiy plenty all 

 about here for miles in any direction one may go. Coming 

 from Sauk Centre our party saw three deer near the track. 

 Duck and geese are reported very plenty. Leave Brainerd 

 this p. m- for Glyndon, where we expect to find the Bharp- 

 taU grouse and ducks and geese. Dakota. 



Brainerd, Minn., September 13, 



Dote Shootiito ExxKAonDiNABY. — Marlboro, N. J. , Sept. 

 7. — Mr. Editor : Last Friday a. ji. I received word from 

 my enthusiastic sporting friend, Taylor, of "Colts Neck," to 

 repair immediately to his place, as the prospect for some fine 

 sport was very encouraging that afternoon. I soon drove the 

 distance of five miles, and was upon the grounds promptly and 

 in good season — half-past twelve o'clock p. m. There were. 

 however, ahead of me several other sportsmen, and their 

 shooting-stands were already all arranged with proper blinds, 

 admirably located, and I was told over one hundred birds flew 

 off the field when the first party approached. The birds 

 were feeding upon lately sown rye, not sufficiently covered 

 with soil to quickly germinate. Ouly a few had returned by 

 one o'clock, and as yet not more than two or three killed. I 

 consulted with my friends as to the best, remaining position 

 for me fo occupy. The field commanded a fine view of the 

 surrounding country, and gave one an excellent opportunity 

 to see the approaching game from all directions. I now dis- 

 covered a flight of doves to the west of me alighting in an 

 adjoining corn-field. The corn was very tall in places and 

 small in others in this field, containing about forty acres. The 

 doves were also feeding upon rye iu this field. You could 

 get in good range of them in the tall corn, but frequently 

 could not see them long enough to get a good shot. Where 

 the corn was small they could see you approach, and it was 

 almost impossible to get in range. After walking about this 

 field a while, and killing a few," I returned to the others, and 

 found their numbers so largely augmented, aud every available 

 position taken, I concluded to stick to the cornfield. At this 

 time there were fifteen shooters upon these fields, and one or 

 two had discovered my retreat. I had all the company if. was 

 safe for me to have. About two o'clock the birds began to fly 

 thick and fast. Sometimes in flocks of twenty aud thirty, 

 but oftener in fives, threes, twos, etc. From this time until 

 five o'clock it waa one constant f usilade. It was not far from 

 the village, and I am sure the inhabitants must have been 

 alarmed. The falling shot frequently fell all around you, and 

 in a corn-field, where you could not see distinctly more thau 

 forty yards, it was not the moat comfortable place to be in. 

 So much firing at the birds in and out of range caused them 

 to fly very wild and high, and of courso no one made an ex- 

 traordinary bag. The flight of doves is very rapid, and it 

 requires no small degree of skill and practice to kill them 

 successfully. After the flight was over, and the extraordinary 

 sport at an end, we all got together to talk the affair over, and 

 count out. As near as I can remember, I will give you the 

 individual scores, viz.: Heyer, 14 j Conover, 14; Win. Buck, 

 10; John Buck, 8; Cambpell, 6; Taylor, 6; Emmons, 8; 

 McLain, 4 ; Drummond, 4 ; Reeves, 4 ; Snyder, 9 ; Vande- 

 vere, 3; Magee, 5; others I cannot recall. M. 



Whbbb Squtbeicls abb a Nuisance.— Mr. Editor: A 

 recent number of Fobest and Stream told us where jack 

 rabbits are a nuisance, and the manner of destroying them. 

 In the southern part of California there exists in countleEs 

 numbers gray ground squirrels which very closely resembles 

 in size, color and general appearance the gray squirrel of the 

 Eastern States. Their habits, however, are somewhat differ- 

 ent. So far as I have seen, they nsver make their nesta or 

 homes in trees, but always take up their quarters in a hole 

 which they burrow in the earth, or else a crack in a rock, 

 which latter device saves them the labor of making themselves 

 a home. They have little or no fear of man. You may ap- 

 proach them to within a few feet before they will run away. 

 They aro never eaten here except by the " Greasers," though 

 I suspect they would be considered good food if they were 

 less abundant. They are a great pest, to the farmers, being 

 exceedingly destructive of all sorts of grain. Until lately the 

 farmers have waged an unceasing but unavailing war upon 

 them. Shot guns, traps, poison, dogs and what-not have proved 

 ineffectual to diminish their numbers to any perceptible uegrce. 

 Recently, however, some genius has invented a poison, in 

 which he soaks grain, which has proved so deadly that many 

 ranches have been quite rid of these pests. The happy iti- 

 venter has pocketed a nice sum of money, and receives the 

 hearty thanks of ranchmen generally. An organized and 

 systematic effort at destruction by the use of this poison is 

 about to be put into execution in Santa Barbara Oo. M. 



Santa Barbara, Oal. 



Why A Nbwspapbb Man Wanted to he Kicked.— One 

 of the editors of the staff on a New York daily paper ia 

 rusticating in the wilds of Pike County, Peun. I a his strolls 

 through (tie forest h« earn** bi» gun along, ostensibly to shoot 



