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FOREST AND STREAM. 



paper. The deer jumped over him, carrying the paper with 

 him. Another deer, an old buck, was in the habit of coming 

 into town to drink from a pond. Finally he was killed, Deer 

 are rather plentiful, rabbits numerous, turkeys abundant, and 

 during the migratory flight of ducks and geese, good shooting 

 is found on the ponds, sloughs, etc., in the neighborhood. 



VAX. 



Illinois— Warsaw, Oct. 1. — The outlook forhuntingthis fall 

 is not as cheerful as we would like; but we are hopeful, un- 

 less the vast enlistments in the army of Niuirods the past sea- 

 son, excited by the interest created in glass ball and pigeon 

 shooting, should divide up the sport into too small chances for 

 pleasure or profit. Quail 8re very abundant, and if they 

 escape pot-hunters, who will hunt them at all times, we will 

 have good shooting November 1. A. few ducks are found in 

 (he sloughs south of here, and also a few flights of wild 

 pigeons, but afford but rare shots. The famous region for 

 ducks in paat seasons, ten miles down the Mississippi from 

 here, known as Lima Lake, is but a shadow of its former 

 prestige as a hunting resort. A levee, built mostly the past 

 year, has prevented the usual overflow of the vast bottoms be- 

 tween the river and the bluffs, and only the deep sloughs re- 

 tain any water. Those hunting-grounds are being rapidly 

 reclaimed and converted into farms. The sloughs afford fine 

 fishing, and the Sportsmen's Club assemble there frequently 

 en masse to have a chowder frolic. A. A. 



Wisconsin— La Crosse, Sept. 30.— One gun the past week 

 bagged 118 woodcock in three days' shooting, 49 the llrst, 43 

 the next and 21) the last. The 43 were killed in 55 shots. We 

 call this first-class for an amateur, and not easy to beat. 

 Weather too warm for ducks, though fair bags have been 

 made on teal and wood-duck; mallards just beginning to 

 come. For all kinds of game this is the best season for years. 



Squib. 



Pewaukee Lake, Sept. 29.— Duck shooting is now quite 

 good in thus lake, but the larger ducks yet remain North. 

 One good storm will bring them down. Parties from Milwau- 

 kee and Waukesha are constantly visiting this place for ducks 

 and fishing. The lake is very clear and pretty, and affords 

 food for duck and fish, and has cover for both. 



Mud Lalie, Fox River, Oct. 1. — I am trying the ducks here, 

 and find good shoot. ng, though the large ducks have not yet 

 arrived in abundance from the North. This lake is but a 

 shallow marsh of open wild rice land on the Fox River, and 

 is nearly two miles long and three-fourths of a mile wide, and 

 is covered with rics and flags, and affords food and cover for 

 thousands of duck and other game birds— the rail in particu- 

 lar, snipe, etc. It lies three miles N. E. of Mukwanago vil- 

 lage, and taken in connection with Long Lake, which lies one 

 mile west, and Army Lake, three miles south of said village, 

 gives ample field fur good sporting all the fill, and large bags 

 can always be made by the sportsman. There is a groat vari- 

 ety of gam* here, and 1 can always get a full bag in a short 

 time and enough to tire in carrying to quarters. This ia llie 

 finest fox and gray squirrel country we have. Both are very 

 large, and one can soon load himself down with these, which 

 are very fine eating. A day of promiscuous shooting may 

 run thus : Ducks, fox squirrels, gray squirrels, fox and gray 

 mixed— and all very large — ruffed grouse, pinnated grouse, 

 rabbits, quail, snipe, woodcock, rail, wild pigeons, coons, 

 woodchueks, hawks, owls, etc. Thus the shooter is kept 

 busy. Maj. H. W. Merrill. 



Montana.— Virginia City, Sept. 23 —Game is very plentiful 

 here this season. DuekB, geese, and grouse of all kinds are 

 found everywhere in great abundance. Some good bags have 

 been made. In a pare of three days' shooting I bagged OS 

 •mallards, 23 teal, 1 goose, and about 3 dozen pinnated grouse. 

 Deer and bear in abundance. K. 



Arizona — Camp Verde, Sept. 15. — Just now there is no 

 shouting, but in a few weeks expect to have plenty of sport 

 after ducks, as there is always an immense number along the 

 valley through which the Verde River flows, and from which 

 this post takes its name. There is plenty of California quail, 

 mountain grouse and black tailed deer in the mountains with- 

 in a few miles of the pos'. J. T. 

 Company K, 6th TJ. S. Cavalry. 



California— San Francisco, Sept. 24.— We are having fine 

 sport here in California at present with the quail and ducks, 

 the law having expired on the 14th. The mallard ducks this 

 year are especially line. S. L. A. 



A New Flexible Gun CleANBB.— Mr. F. C. Axtell, of 

 Buffalo, has sent us for examination a most simple and con- 

 venient flexible gun and rifle cleaner, to which we would call 

 the attention of sportsmen. The principle is that of a weight- 

 ed cord, which has an ingeniously constructed acorn which 

 will hold a rag. The convenience of such a little "fixing" 

 is well known by those who have to wipe out their Winches- 

 ters. For breech-loading shotguns we would think Mr. Ax- 

 tell's invention would be of the greatest use. 



Guns at Auction — A very good article can sometimes 

 be picked up for a very little money in city auction rooms. 

 Tunis Johnson, in ano'ther column, advertises two days' sale 

 of English imd American guns and rifles. 



DOVE SHOOTING IN CENTRAL 

 KENTUCKY. 



Stanford, Ky,, October 2, 1878. 



EUITOB FOKEST AND STREAM : 



Last, Monday I accepted an invitation to join a trio of Lan- 

 caster sportsmen— Capt. W. S. Miller, Jim Burnside, Esq., 

 and Col. Snialley Wherrett— in a day's dove shooting in 

 neighboring hemp-fields, where they three bagged 108 a few 

 days before. Shells were loaded, und all other arrangements 

 necessary to an early start Tuesday morning were made; 

 but Captain M., master r>f transportation, as usual (the boys 

 said), had a hundred things to attend to before we got off, 

 and Dr. Hill Huffman learned what was in the wind early 

 enough to "'ring in on us,'' in company w ith a neighbor 

 pill-peddler, whom he persuaded to haul him out to the 

 grounds. 



By the way, a brief biographical sketch of Huffman will 

 not be out ol place here, and would be wonderfully interest- 

 i ng to his thousands of acquaintances if he only had an able 

 biograpter. Vet, Huffman is deserving more than a pass- 

 ing mention at all times. He is one of the most popular 

 sportsmen in Central Kentucky, and, while he doesn't own 

 either gun or fishing-tackle, can always borrow, and has a 

 happitfr faculty than the most accomplished confidence 



man of persuading an acquaintance who owns a good horse 

 and buggy that now is the time to go fishing or hunting. He 

 was, till his tight began faiiioar him, the most graceful and 

 successful field shot ever produced by this part of the world, 

 if he were not the best in the worl 1, and to-dav I as a finer 

 and better trained pointer than : ! ody. He" bus had a 

 friend's Meek reel borrowed so lu.ig that the most accom- 

 plished logician on earth, armed with all the facts in the 

 case, couldn't convince him that it is not his own ; and he 

 can almost equal Dick Burnside in stealing minnows and 

 borrowing minnow buckets. '1 he boys say that Dick never 

 bought a bucket in his life, never bought. "a reel nor rod, a 

 hook nor a line — still has a better outfit than anybody. 

 Huffman is second only to Dick in those accomplishments. 



The buys do say that, while Huffman is not too old, he is 

 actually loo lazy to follow the dogs through the most invit- 

 ing cover, and will complacently and contentedly plant him- 

 self in the shade of the nearest walnut or hickory-nut tree 

 and spend the time eating nuts, while his companions do 

 all the hard work. Yet, when it comes to the divide, Huff- 

 man — necessarily having the lightest bag, though a bird 

 never escapes him— always liberally permits the boys to 

 have half that they have killed. 



Dr. Huffman is "one of the mo3t accomplished physicians 

 in interior Kentucky, and enjoys a large and lucrative 

 practice; but if anybody doubts the above, Sam Miller, Jim 

 Burnside and Smalley Wherritt, refer to Stephen Marra, 

 Wm. 11. Kinnaird and " The Little Dog " for corroboration. 

 I could write volumes about Huff., but the dove shooting is 

 the question. 



Soon after our arrival, at a late hour, after the birds had 

 ceased feeding, quite a breeze had sprung up, and the birds 

 flew high and fast ; but we tumbled them right and left, and 

 started home to supper with 179 in bags. There was some 

 excellent shooting, and some very indifferent ; but, alto- 

 gether, it was a successful day, in view of the wind and the 

 fact that much shooting has been done there this season. 



BLauiccKiAN. 



It strikes us that this is dove shooting with the doves left 

 out. 



PIGEON MATCHES. 



New HAMPsniRK— Freemont, Sept. 23.— Match at jjlas3 balls between 

 fie 1'owow fchoo iuir dun, of Ames .urv, aad the kjcuinguam Ciub, of 

 Freemout. Bogardus trips ana rale?, 18 yards rise : 

 Fowow. 



Wales 1111111 101000110110111 1— IT 



Kustnian I 1 1 1 : 11 1 I) 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 111 11 1-23 



Spollord 1 01111011010111011011111 1-19 



Qodroe l lliillilliilillliiiliii 1-23 



J Howell 1 10111000111111111111111 1—21 



E Rowell 1 lilllllllllllllllllllll 1— SB 



Man-tun 1 10 111111010001111111111 11—19 



Hatch 1 01111111010111001110001 1— IT— 1M 



Bockiugham. 



J Brown 1 1111110 1 110 110111110 11 1-30 



A Brown .....1 111 1111 1111 011111011110 1— ';S 

 A W Brown. ..0 loloolOOlllllOllllllooo o— 14 



bcribner 1110 oil 1101011 011111101 1— la 



Price 1 1 1 1 1 I 1 1 1 1 1 U 1 1 1 1 I 1 1 1 0—19 



Tilion 1 11110111111111111111101 1-23 



Gibson l lliouoioiiioioiioiooiii o-if, 



Gove 11101011100001111111111 1— IS— 149 



SEC. 



Massachusetts.— Worcester, Oct. 6,— At the glass ball shoot last 

 weik, twelve men from North BrookflelU, twelve from Spencer and 

 tlvelrorn Leicester participated. -Each mm shot at a su-.n* ot 52 

 balls, and North Brouktldd broke 161, spencer, 143, and Leicester, Tl 



Brooklyn A watf.urs.— Pigeon shooting sweepstakes ; 2S yards rlie, 

 SO yards boundary ; L. I. S. u. roles : 



Shields 1 1 1 l 1 1 1 1 1 n— 9 Jones 1 » 1 1 1 1 1 1 1— s 



Eddy. 110111111 1—9 Broadway.. ..1 1 1 1 1 o o 1 o 1—7 



W»elover...l 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1—9 Hicks 1 1 1 1 1 1 o 1—7 



Glilett 1 liioilli 1—9 Williams ....l o l l o 1 1 l l 0—7 



Hughes 1 1 1 1 1 l 1 1 1—9 



Shields, Eddy, Selover, Glllet and Hughes divided (he money. 



Same Djy.— Sweepstakes, 28 yards rise, SO yarda boundary: 



Glilett 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 I 1-10 Hicks 11111111—8 



Eddy 1 llllllll t— 10 Selover 1 111001111— 



Broadway...! 11 1 1 I 11 1—9 Hnghea 1 1 1 1 1 1 ■ 1 t— 



Wyun 1 111111110—9 Atkinson. ...I 00111110 1— T 



Jones 1 11*1110 11—8 



Meesra. Glilett and Eddy divided nrst and second money, Broadway 

 and Wynn divided third aud loorth money. 



Pennsylvania— Jersey Shore Fair, Sept. 27.— Bdgardus trap and 

 rules : 



Kephart 1 00001011110010110 0-9 



Tin-dean 1100011110001011101 1—12 



Kraal i ooooooiuooow 



tuliuier 00100110000W 



Kejher 1 1 1 1 1 1 1— 7 



Koch, A 1 1 1 1 1 1 11 1 1 1 1 1 1 01 1 1 1—18 



Lucas 1 10100111 Olloulliol 1-13 



Davidson 1 110110111010010110 1—13 



Kmery 1010010111110101110 1—18 



Tramp 



Koch, E G 



Illinois— H'arsaiD, Sept. as.— Sport-smea's club's shooting match; a 

 Bogardus screen trap autl rui^s at IS yards : 



General Edward's Side. 

 O Edwards. .1 111110 1-T Thirteen.... ..0 1 1 0—2 



,1 Vvorthen...l 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1—9 Johnston.. ..1 1 1 1 0-4 



Al Hill 1 10 1111111—9 — 



lotai 31 



C K Worthen's Side. 

 C Worthen .111111111 1— 10 J H Finlsy..O 10101110 1— G 

 FA uunn..l llllllll 1— 10 J A Davis. .0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0- 7 

 W8HU1....0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1— S 



Total.. 



. . ;1 



Secund match : 



First Team. 

 O Edwards. .0111111011-8 XnltifllU.*,.l 11000111 1-7 



j Worthed -1 oiioiooo o— i Johnston 1 11101111 l— 9 



AlHdl 1111111110—9 — 



Total - ST 



Second Team. 

 O Worthen. .0 1111 0110 1— T J H Fin!ay...l 11001001 0—5 

 F A Dunn....l 111111110-9 J A Davis. ...1 1 1 1 1 1 0-8 

 W a 111. I 1 1 ,011111 1—9 — 



Total S* 



Slioolat double balls: 



F A. Dunn 01 11 10 11 11—9 Al H1U 11 11 10 10 01—7 



<J Edwards 1111 11 ol 10— 8 W S Hill 10 1110 00 1(1—5 



MICHIGAN— Hotmtll, Sept. 2T-— Filth trial lor Jewett revolver ; g!a»8 

 balls 21 yaids rise, bogardus trap betiiud screed at Better's option. 

 I'nc r.,in fell moderately, unu the wind blew a gale, resulting iu the 

 following score, aud oeing won by Hubert: 



Mnlllken....O 9 110 2 111—6 CHoit 101111111—6 



Beach 1 loll 01 1 0-fi Angel 1 ! 1 1 0-4 



Oil 1101. tl <->-l J Hoit 10 1 1 1 oi lo 1-7 



i ra Hon l olioiioo 1—6 Fisuer ouuiiooi 1— i 



KUboit 1 111110 111—9 Saunders. ...1 llfllOlll-d 



Match between B. F. Mulliken and C. G. Jewett to break the moat 

 balls in live minuter, resulted as follows : 



Mulitken— 1 111 I 01 lllloilllOOOllloiOlllll 

 1111111 11111110111111101 11100111 1—83. 



Jewett— 1 101111110111111111111110011011 

 11111001111111001710100111111 1-43. 



Ott. *.— Sixth contest tor the Jewett revolver; 21 yards rlee, new 



model Bogardus trap behind screen at 5ct er's option; Palne's balls: 



Hubert .1 10 111111 1-9 Fisher n 1 l'l 1 1 l l 0—7 



Jewett 1 10111111 0-s Mniiken....n 101 111 100-8 



Ttuuisey 1 1 Oil 1 1 1 1— 9 Bjach 1 1 1 I 3 H 1 1 1 l-fl 



Lee 1 1110 1—0 Holt 1 111110 11 1—9 



Wilber 1 ooiiol lll-T Switzer 1 1 1 1 1 o i u-6 



Angel 110000111 0-6 



Ties on nine— 24 yards. 



Rubert 11110-4 Hoit 11111—6 



Bench ] 1111—3 



Ties on Ave— same distance. 



Holt i him Beach „ l nil— 6 



Obsgqbt. 



Booardus Retires.— (Japt. A. H. Bogardus sends to ns notice of his 

 withdrawal rn.m the d> l'l for a period of two years. The reasons ad- 

 dnced hj the Captsn are that having now held the undi-puted Ig^on 

 jhtoting championship of (be Uuiieu Suits for more than sev-n years, 

 and of Ihc worl I f< r ov, r I ; ", r iwo 



years iu order w give othcrx a chance. He hopes to st-iunla'e compe- 

 tition by offering a medal, which -hall carry with it the title ot the 

 American Champtonanlp. If any worthy competitor shall appear to 

 win this medal the Captain will allow him to hold it, unless some one 

 else shall win it, nnlll me expiration ol tnc two years, when (he > op- 

 tain will again ohallense hiru tor the champlousuip. Tins ooofrt w ill 

 came oil" in some large city ah titctir sin-as, nnds-r ruirs pri-.-rnbid by 



: Eniranc". J2'v ; tinK one-na f d ubi.- rises uni--ba f single 



rises; winner to take etianmiojaiilp. champion mtd.il and unf-third 

 the entrance fe.--e; second m in to take 51 per cent, or the bat nee, and 

 third and fourth to lake :•:« aud 20 per cut. respectively. On the secernl 

 day of the stunt win be lln contest for ihe glass bill championship 

 medal M be Bitot under my rules, 100 balls HO enrano-, m i •• divided 

 aa money in piga n em est. a purse ,,f f 1,1100 will be tsven as pr.ze 

 money during the conte.ts. While i litis abr igatin" the Atueilcau 

 Championship title, rapt. Kn./ar his still re-aim the World's Cuampicn- 

 shlp, and will give public exhibitions of tils skill. 



fOBiTiONS ok •! bats,— To secure the peat prac ice at ihi traps, Capt. 



Ihe trap shoul 1 be bolted D'tnly on 



a plank, 'j o learu to shoot well at qiart/Ta there sooud be three traps 



set lea yards apart, and pulled so as Lot to know out of which one Hie 



ball la coming, for ttiia luakea lha Irett practice. ■ i 



i row str. tL'lit. a-ny, aud the two ou side traps .should tliio.v 

 quartering slmia bacu from the shoot-r. crossing the centre line about 

 rlfteen ja-ds from ihe middle trap. This lnetcoi of setting and using 

 the trai? gives better practice ror flell and wiu^ shootim man any 

 other glass bad amuying that ea-i ne dune. In the llrst place, when 

 you ao into the Held to ihoot you will get mue out of ten saoti either 

 straightaway or leu or right qnaitmng." 



A Word About Cokkesfondbsts. — Any one who has ever 

 been inside of a newspaper office knows that all the world 

 writes for the papers. And, as according to the proverb it 

 takes all kinds of people to make up the world, it follows 

 that in the newspaper mails come every conceivable and in- 

 conceivable kind of communications from every conceivable 

 and inconceivable kind of people. The problem in publishing 

 a weekly journal like the Forest and Stbeai,! is not what to 

 put in, but what to keep out. We may refer with pardonable 

 pride to the growing general excellence of the material weekly 

 laid before our readers. As a matter of course we cannot 

 please every one— the subjoined letter is from a man who is 

 not pleased. We were at first tempted to believe that the 

 communication must have been misdirected, having been in- 

 tended for some other paper. However, there is some gen- 

 eral truth iu the suggestions of " Scriba," and we may allow 

 him tO say what we could not with proptiety write ourselves. 

 We may add that the proper thing for him to do would be to 

 send in his contribution, and thus give us one of the articles 

 whose merit he advocates ; 



The goodness, accuracy and wisdom of the communications 

 from correspondents in the columus of Forest aud Stream 

 from time to time is something that concerns us all, and it may 

 be assumed that unless our editorial friends insist upon a higii 

 standard of excellence the interests of subscribers suffer. 



Traveling much of the time, one of my principal duties and 

 pleasures is to procure, weekly, the Forest and Stream und 

 kindred weeklies, and for many years have derived from such 

 perusal much instruction and comfort. With toe satisfactory 

 results obtained, I have, however, been pained by the persistent, 

 efforts of certain correspondents to ot.-trude their private con- 

 cerns, numely, to puff their favorite canines which they breed 

 ■and sell for a living, and which, too often, are inferior inj 

 leess to strains not so continually bepuffed, or to bring into 

 notice, without paying the printer, some patent canine neck 

 wear or new dog tail suspender, the efficiency of which does 

 not seem to be proved by the sales thereof. The din raised 

 about these canine matters— hair-splitting about points inter- 

 esting only to the disputants, and the assumption displayed by 

 wiseacres in learnedly discoursing upon subjects with which 

 they are in no sort critically familiar — these have been long 

 noticed and borne wiili by respectable aud intelligent, renders, 

 whose comfort has been sadly interfered with. One man, 

 hailing from the interior of Texas, seems unhappy unless he 

 is continual ly lauding bis favorite American gun, and another 

 from Louisiana, with strange laste, chooses a sportsman's 

 weekly in which to publish a statement concerning his limited 

 resources, and to intimate that if So-and-So should 

 give him a puppy, ihe same would be gratefully, etc. Another, 

 a young person from some wild, woody place in a north- 

 western Slate, seems, in some unknown way, to have obtained 

 gome paste, scissors and postal cards, and, "having printed his 

 little book, is unhappy unless trying to swell his obscure vil- 

 lage mail-hag with postals to every writer, great and small, 

 whose name has ever appeared in sportsmen's papers, 'this 

 young person, ruined by injudicious praise, writes without 

 trouble in a gushing strain, but in a style hard and mechanical. 

 His writing is simply writing against space. Samples of it 

 may be seen, too often for the fame of Herbert or of I his unwise 

 youth, in good sporting weeklies. Iu ihe person now in mind, 

 who, in ten years, may have learned something, there is ob- 

 servable continually lliat inordinate love of praise, which 

 seems to be slopping over eternally in ttusbiog praise of Blank 

 or Blanker, if there is any decent cliance by so doing of get- 

 ting bespattered with praise in return. In his case, so well 

 has the youth selected his game, the return praise is duly 

 sounded from quarters unnecessary to name. Our papers are 

 to be read abroad each week to some extent, und it behooves 

 us, as gentlemdn and not simpletons, to consign to our maid- 

 servant for use instead of the deadly kerosene, all such of our 

 contributious about which we ourselves have any lurking sus- 

 picions. It is only by self denial and repealed effort in these 

 directions that we can hope to possess weeklies replete with 

 things indisputably good. Scribe. 



What Test sav-u. C. Squires, No. l Cortlandt St., New Tort— 

 Dear Sir; I im i ier for $S for which send me its value 



in Dill mar powder. I think it excels the old Kinds in every way, and 

 wish yon would establish an agency in Canada. Tours iruly, 



Walkertou, Wm. E.iItaEir.-[j!lo. 

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—Geutlernen wishing most desirable grounds for summer residence 

 near New York (15 minutes by rapid transit), win please refer to ad- 

 vertisement la our co.unms this week. There is a line trout pond on 

 1 me premises.— [Ado, 



