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Island, and the men employed depend upon their success for 

 a living. Soiuo of these boats have taken over three million 

 fish this season, and with oil at three gallons per thousand, 

 and fish-scraps at $13 per ton, you may judge that the fac- 

 tories are doing a good business, and so with the fishermen, 

 •who are paid according to the fish they take. The oil is 

 worth about 27 cents per gallon. Ibaak. 



—There was capital blue-fishing week before last off Mon- 

 tauk ; the Greenport yachts coming loaded with them. Oapt. 

 Rogers brought in over a hundred of them, caught with hook 

 and line, averaging 10 pounds each. They were sold in 

 Greenport at 5 and 6 cents per pound. 



Pknxsvlvania— Erie, Nov. 1. — Thomas Key was out fish- 

 ing daj lay, and caught t wo of the finest musea- 

 ionge ever caught in this bay. One weighed exactly 391bs. 

 and the other weighed 37ik'3. Both measured four feet and 

 five inches. Pishing for white fish is about at an end, but 

 plenty of duck and wild geese have arrived from the North. 

 This bay is an excellent one for fishing and hunting, and a fine 

 refuge for storm-tossed vessels. T. D. I. 



Fly PisHijio w tile Jambs,-— EktwumH, Va., Oct. 30.— 

 Editor Forest and Stream : Your correspondent, ;l James 

 River," in writing of the bass fishing here, states that none of 

 these fish have been caught with a iiy. Now this is just a little 

 slander on both our fish aud fishermen. I have never used 

 anything but flies in those waters, and though 1 think the 

 live bait is best, yet I have had fair luck. One evening, in 

 about one hour's whipping, I captured five tolerable specimens, 

 running from a pound to a pound and a half, which, consider- 

 ing the fact that the bass are not numerous in our waters, is a 

 very good catch. I have, on two occasions, caught two fish at a 

 single cast. The fly with which I have had most success is a 

 turkey wing, gray or green body, with bunchy whitish-gray 

 hackles. Though I have used every description, this fly has 

 caught nearly all my fish. Occasionally I get on the same fly 

 a striped bass. Fly -Fisher. 



Tkhsbsbbb— iVasftaiMa, Nov. 1.— Large quantities of bass 

 and black perch are beginning to be brought to our market 

 from Redfoot Lake, besides a fair amount taken from the 

 Cumberland River. A party of gentlemen, consisting of L. 

 Whorley and two or three friends, have just returned from a 

 week's fishing iu Buffalo Greek, where they had fine sport, 

 taking enough fish for their daily consumption, and bringing 

 home nearly one hundred pounds besides. They would have 

 remained longer, but L. Whorley wanted to come home to 

 to attend the opera bouffe company then playing here. 



Arkansas— Butler Co., Sept., 1878.— Mr. Editor: This 

 beautiful little stream, called the Overflow, finds its source in 

 the "sheep-raising belt" of Arkansas and winds its way 

 through the eastern bottoms of Little Red River. Its waters 

 are afforded by spriugs within the " belt," thereby making it 

 a refreshing resort the entire year. Its length is probably 100 

 miles, depth, from 15 to 30ft., and width, 50 to 75ft.; at its 

 mouth, of course, wider. Here is where the sportsmen en- 

 gage in capturing the " finny tribe," consisting of trout, white 

 and speckled perch, bass and gars. The months of April and 

 May are most suitable to fishing, as it is cool and refreshin g 

 On one beautiful fifth of May morning a company of five 

 Arkansas youths embarked in a two-mule wagon for Over- 

 flow, with the usual complement of camp utensils and fishing 

 tackle, A three hours' drive brought us to our destination. 

 While some procured crawfish for bait, others looked about 

 for a skiff, which was easily gotten by paying ten cents per 

 hour, the customary price for skiffs for the purpose. All 

 being in readiness, we sailed for the mouth of Overflow, se- 

 lecting a cool place and anchored. After five hours' sport we 

 cut loose and glided over to camp with a cargo of seventy-five 

 perch and trout. After dinner we were off again for sport, 

 and met at camp in the evening with fish and nice squirrels, 

 which were excellent, served up in "Indian style." 



Red Snappers — Luljanm Blackfordii. — Dr. Chas. J. Ken- 

 worthy, better known as "Al Fresco," perhaps, recently 

 visited New York with a view to induce city capital to invest 

 in the catching of the fish known as red snapper, a very 

 palatable fish indeed, which is exceedingly abundant on parts 

 of the Eastern coast. He paid a visit to Eugene Blackford, 

 of Fulton Market, and had interviews with other gentlemen 

 relative to the subject. He thinks that fishing smacks sent to 

 the South could make fares which would prove most remu- 

 nerative. If the snapper could be more generally used here, 

 its acquisition to the table would be readily admitted we feel 

 certain. 



X 



PREPARING SILK GUT. 



The following correspondence may interest some of our 

 readers who are desirous of making then 1 own silk gut s 



To the Editor of Forest and Stream : Dear Sir— I noticed in 

 a late number an article on the preparation of silk gut. I have 

 been trying to obtain some of this gut fbi the last week, hav- 

 ing a large number of silk worms. I have removed the gut 

 carefully from not less than twenty-six worms. I have also 

 removed the silk with a large pin, aud have made very nice 

 dissections of the silk worm, having observed all the direc- 

 tions laid down by Mr. T. Garlick. I have tried alcohol, tur- 

 pentine and many other substances, will: the view to toughen 

 the anelL but nothing seems to be of any use. The snell 

 seems to be deficient in some way, as it always broke on being 

 stretched after it was dried for as much as twenty-four hours. 

 It is not owing to a deficient amount of silk from spinning 

 their cocoons, as I have taken them just as they were about to 

 spin their cocoons. They seem to nave plenty of liquid silk, 

 and the gut looks good when obtained iresh, but when stretch', d 

 and pinned to a board and allowed to dry and harden it be- 

 comes brittle and of little use for snells. Hoping you will give 

 me some information on the subject, or direct me how to be- 

 come enlightened on this matter, as there are three readers 

 of your valuable journal anxious about it, I remain 



Yours, etc., Hi J. M 



Jersey City, August 36, 1878. 



Having forwarded this letter to Dr. Garlick, the Doctor re- 

 quested of E. J. M. further particulars, which were given a* 

 follows : 



Jersey City, N. J. 



To Br. Qarlick : Sir— In answer to the questions concern- 

 ing silk gut, the date of my experiment was August 17, being 

 eontlnued to about August 33. The worm used waB native, 

 and is found feeding on the maple and apricot trees. I send 

 you inclosed a specimen of the gut obtained by Dr. Harden- 

 berg, of Jersey city ; alio a cocoon. There appears to be a ' 



gelatinous covering on I he gut that causes it to break when 

 material I have had so much trouble 

 in removing, and when removed the gut presents a belter ap- 

 poarauce apparently and seems to be stronger. Hoping you 

 will inform an ever -anxious inquirer by letter or through 

 Forest and Stream, I remain 



Yours, respectfully, E. J. M. 



August 5, 1878. 

 To which Dr. Garlick has very kindly replied, as follows: 



Bedford, O., September8, 1878. 



To E. J. M. : Dear Sir— Tour favor dated August 5, in- 

 closing a cocoon of silk, also a most inartistically-drawn silk 

 gut. is received. 1 shall attempt a reply ; but never before 

 have I attempted to write a letter of this character under such 

 trying circumstances, such fearful suffering. You say the 

 gut was drawn August 17 to August 23. The silk of the co- 

 coon appears of good quality, the fibres strong, as that of the 

 Italian worm. 1 cut open the cocoon aud found the larva; of 

 what I think was the Attdcm cecropia, iu very good condition. 

 It could not have been long dead ; it had spun and woven the 

 last thread of its windiug-"sheet, and was awaiting its change 

 into a higher state of existence, the chrysalis. The cocoon 

 was the smallest one T*ever saw (jf a Cecropia). You say the 

 larvis were fed on the leaves of the maple and apricot. I 

 should think the leaves of the apricot would or might be a 

 suitable food for it, but I never knew the larvte of the A. 

 cecropia feeding on the leaves of the maple ; but perhaps for 

 the want of a more suitable grub he might do so. I am sorry 

 I caunot inform you why better results were not obtained by 

 Dr. Hardenberg. Perhaps the silk gut was drawn too early. 

 It should not be drawn till the worm begins to spin his co- 

 coon ; and perhaps his food was not suitable. But this is 

 hardly probable, as the silk of the cocoon you sent me is good 

 enough, but deficient in quantity (if of the A. cecropia). 

 Now it is evident, to me at least, that all the conditions have 

 Dot been complied with. You have sent me a cocoon composed 

 of excellent Bilk from a native silk worm. I ask you is it not 

 just as reasonable and just as practicable to draw silk gut of 

 good quality from this worm as from the Italian worm. 1 

 have done it, and know it can be done ; but I cannot tell you 

 why Dr. Hardenberg has made 3uch a miserable failure. Some 

 people have no tact in doing things out of the ordinary line of 

 every-day matters. 'There is a time and place for everything 

 under the sun.'' Something was wrong in Dr. Hardenberg's 

 experiments. Try it again, doctor. Don't give it up so. 

 I return this nobby gut and the cocoon to the editors of the 

 Fobbst and Stream, with the request that they be preserved 

 for future reference. 



I wish I were well, or well enough to write more fully on 

 this subject; but 1 am literally worn out with suffering. 

 With kindly feeling, I am truly yours, T. Garliok. 



%mn$ §ng mid §mu 



GAME IN SEASON FOR NOVEMBER. 



MOOB3, Alces malchvi. 



Elk or wapiti, Cervus canadcnjiti. 



Town ami gray. 

 Wild turKey, ileleagria gallopavo. 

 Woodcock, PhUulKla minor. 

 Huffed grouse or pleasant, Banasa 



wmbeUus. 

 Plover, Vliaravriiiuti. 

 Uodwit. 



Rails, liallus tiir-rinianua. 

 finrpe and Bay Birds. 

 Caribou, Taraadvs rangifer. 



Ued or Va. deer, O, vinjinmmin, 

 SquirrelB, red, black and gray. 

 Quail or partridge, Onyx Virginia- 



Pinnated grouse or prairie chick- 

 en, Cuptiionia eupido. 



Curlew, J/umenius arquaria. 

 . ■ 



Willets. 



Heed or rice bird, Votichonvx orys- 

 ivorow. 



Wild Duok. 



'■ Bay birds" generally, lacludfug various species of plover, sand 

 piper, snipe, curlew, oyoter-oatotier, surf birus, phalaropes, aVocets 

 etc., coming under tne group Limacola or Store Birds. 



"®~ The frequent alteration of game laws makes such oon 

 fusion that sportsmen are kept quite in the dark as to when 

 shooting on various kin&j of game is permitted. We there- 

 fore append the following table for reference : 



III.. 



tad.... 



Iowa... 

 Minn... 

 Wis.... 

 Neb.... 

 Kan 



Sep 1 to Dec 

 Aug 14 to Oct 1 

 mg 25 to Junl 

 No Suooting 

 AagltoUVbl 



Oct 1 to i<'eb . 

 Nov 1 to Jan 1 

 Oct i to Jan i 

 Sep 1 to Dec 1 

 Aug 25 Wan 1 

 iNo snooting 



Nov 1 to Feb l 

 Nov 1 to Jam 

 Oct 1 to Jan l 

 Sep 1 to Dec 1 

 40223 to Jam 

 Su S booting 

 Oct 1 ta Jan 1 



Sopt 1 to Jan 1 

 July i to Jan l 

 July 10 to Jan 1 



Juiy 3 to Nov i 



iug 25 to Jan I 



No Restrictions 



Forbidden 



Game in Mabket.— Pinnated grouse (prairie ohiokena), JH'Jfi to 

 $1.25 per pair ; partridge (ruffed grouse), $1.00 to $1.25 per pair ; 

 canvas book dnoks, 91.75 to $2 per pair ; red head, $1 to $1.26 

 per pair ; mallard ducks, 75 cents to $1 per pair; black do,, 75 

 cents per pair ; widgeon do., 50 oants per pair ; broad bill do., 50 

 oente per pair : teal do., 50 to 75 cents per pair; venison, saddle, 

 20 to 22 cents per pound ; caroaaB, 12 to 14 cents per pound ; rab- 

 bits, 4u cents per pair ; squirrels, 15 eents per pair ; hares, 75 

 oents per pair; quail, $2 to $3 per doz.: Wilson snipe, $8 per 

 doz. ; plover, S3 per doz.; bay birds, large, $3 per doz.; do. small, 

 60 cents per doz ; reed birda, $1 per doz.; wild pigeons, stall fed, 

 *2 per doz. ; Philadelphia squabs, $2.50 per doz. 



Poultry— Philadelphia and Bum County dry picked chickens, 

 15 to 22 oents per pound ; do. fowls, 15 to 18 cents ; do. turkeys, 

 18 to 20 cents ; do. ducks, 16 to 18 oents ; do. geese, 13 to 15 

 centB ; (State and Western chickens, 14 to 16 cents ; do. turkeys, 

 13 to 10 cents ; do. fowls, 12 to 15 oents ; do. dnoks, 12 to 15 oenta ; 

 do. geese 8 to 12 oents. 



Canada— Co Jow^, Nov. 1.— A good many snipe have been 

 killed here this fall. Ruffed grouse are more than usually 

 plentiful a few miles back. Ducks are very plentiful at Kice 

 Lake, an hour's ride by rail. Some very good bags have been 

 made, but the shooting will be better from this out. 



Blub Bell. 



New HAMPbiuuE— North Bunbarton, Oct. 30.— Ruffed 

 grouse unusually scarce this season, owing probably to heavy 

 rains of last spring which caused the death of many of the 

 young birds. Iu covers where last year ten or a dozen birds 

 were to be found there are not more than two or three now, 

 and nearly all of them are old birds, ily largest bag this 

 season consisted of eleven birds, and only three of them were 

 young- O. W. 8. 



Massachusetts— Goshen, Oct. 29.— Our ruffed grouse are 

 mostly well grown and in vary good condition, and though 



here is complaint in some quarters of a scarcity of grouse, 1 

 have found no difficulty in getting from 50 to 100 rises in a 

 day's tramp and a reasonable number of shots from iho same. 

 Foxes are very plenty here this fall, though their fur is not 

 prime yet, and little hunting has been done on account of the 

 remarkably dry hot season. Squirrel hunts have been all the 

 rage. R OTF . 



New Yoek— Syracuse.— The sportsmen hereabout have 



taken active steps toward the enforcement of the gamo laws, 

 and have succeeded in driving the seine fishermen from On- 

 ondago Lake, so that the fishing is excellent this season, the 

 waters of the lake abounding in all kinds of fish peculiar to 

 this locality. Game is also well protected, and sportsmen re- 

 port the shooting comparatively good. DeL. 



Shelter Island, Oct. 29.— The mild weather still keeps 

 back the fowl on the eastern shores of Long Island. They 

 are plentiful along the shores of Montauk and Fort Pond and 

 Napeague, but do not seem to pass further west. Many 

 flocks of fowl have collected off the eastern shores of this 

 island, but the numerous sailing boats so persecute them with 

 their fusillades, that the poor birds have no chance to gather 

 on their favorite feeding grounds. I sec them constantly in. 

 pursuit and blazing away at them, but they seem only to 

 frighten away all, killing but very few. I tried them with 

 my small battery boat a few days siuee, and got dowi 

 six fowl. They did not return to stool and their Ei 

 grounds, as they should have done, but all flew away to parte 

 unknown. I try for them daily, at daylight on this beach 

 which separates Peconic Bay and John Cuttle's Harbor hut 

 few of them are so accommodating as to fly over it. ' My 

 friend Oapt. Ooutwight, however, in two days' sport with 

 battery, killed 24, and 19 fowl yesterday. The first flock of 

 wild geese passed over this beach, numbering 19 fowl, but no 

 gun happened to be there to welcome them with " hospitable 

 hands to bloody graves." Isaak. 



—Fowl shooting has not been very good so far, as the shores 

 have been bank-full and no bars and shallows where fowl can 

 alight and feed ; but if the fowl come Bill Lane and the Pos- 

 ters know how to trap them. This mild season keep3 back 

 the geese, brant and broad-bills, and we hear of so few shell- 

 drakes aud old-Bquawa that I think they too are waiting for 

 more favorable weather. 



New jTZRSKY—nrammonton, Oct. ill.— Quail shooting ta 1 

 No. 1. Fine strings are to be made. Weather inagnifirent 



L.' W. S. " 



Barnegat Inlet, Nov. 3.— Your correspondent has ba»*red 

 over 100 head of fowl the past 10 days. Fowl are, with the 

 exception of brant, very plenty. We are looking for the 

 flight of the latter every day. B 



Patermn, Nov. 2.— Have had a few days shooting a few 

 miles north of this place. Mr. A. Bcckwith and myself left 

 here in the afternoon of October 31, and in the evenine found 

 ourselves at the Sussex Hotel, McAfee's Valley, Sussex Co 

 N. J,, who makes a specialty of the accommodation of bdi 

 men, furnishing a guide ana all needed aid and mformin'.i 

 We had our own dogs, guns, etc. Smith joined us ■ 

 hunt next morning. Although the day was blustery aud an, 

 lavorable for game, and very cold aud uncomfortable for the 

 hunters we seldom enjoyed a finer day's sport in gam. ■■ 

 ing. We came home that evening, November'! with the 

 following i Five woodcock, 8 partridge, 23 quail, 5 rabbit., 

 and 2 gray squirrels. fj. H. J B 



Pennsylvania— TUmville, Nov. 2.— Asplendid white snifc„ 

 buck was shot the evening of October 30 near Marieu Forest 

 Co. There was a few red spots on rump and head The 

 "old boy "who shot him is an especial object of envv at 

 present, aud every hunter that had previously Been the buck 

 seems to feel in a sense defrauded. One more open wintri,- 

 like last would make Forest Co. as good huntinff erounrl «L 

 any in the State. *" * lou ™ as 



Delaware— Georgetown, Oct. 31.— Birds are very tbfeo, 



here this season. The farmers say that there are more 

 there have been for a number of years, Good hotel here n„, 

 season lasts until February 15. 



—A correspondent who has just returned from Maryland 

 writes that birds were very plentiful, but everything w^'rank 

 and weeds so high that he could do nothing with tbe birds 

 Snipe had just made their appearance, and he killed a few 

 Ducks were in great numbers on the Havre do Grace Flat/ 

 but none flying, as the weather was too calm. 



YmQimk-Oftarlotteaville, Oct. 31.-The Camp-ArmiBten,! 

 hunting parly thirty strong, accompanied by stout fifty 



dogs, left their hunting grounds in Augusta last St and 

 this morning, rendezvousing ia Staunton. s 



Lake Ds.vnhconD-Iiic7i.mond, 7a, Oct. 30.— If a nerson 



undertakes to traverse the Dismal Swamp Canai wi h a bZ 

 drawing over four leet he will meet w th a sad disappoint 

 ment and I may be mistaken, but I do not think ™« 

 into Lake Druinmond with a boat drawing more than two, 

 and one half feet. If any one expects to go to the Swamu 

 this fall I would recommend him to write lo Marshall ParkT 

 Esq., President Albemarle & Chesapeake Canal Co., who lam 

 sure will give him all the information he may require cm 

 perning ; those waters and concem.ng what outfit can he had 



Sot/th Carolina— Cliarkston, Oct. 30.— A small partv of 

 gentlemen from this place and Summerville were out last wppIt 

 and had magnificent sport, Two fine bucks and two turkTvk 

 were the result of the day's hunt. They started a large mun 

 ber oi both deer and turkey. Since the 13th of October T,, 

 which date the birding season began, several of ourgood sLta 

 have been out, and have enjoyed fine sport. One gentlemm 

 brought in a bag of thirty-two partridges, all killed on V^ft 

 the islands within sight of the city. Birds are reported scarce 

 on the mainland near the city, but are Quite plentiful lalhe 

 neighboring is ands During the recent high tides kr„m 

 bers of marsh liens have been killed in the marshes around he 

 he city On Monday one gentleman brought in seventy and 

 the next day forty-two. It is estimated that at leaT«ix\u n - 



dTvs TiUd^l 11876 ! be6U kU1,id ^«withinThela S tf w 

 days. Wild ducks and geese are reported in largenumbera L 

 the upper part of the State, but as we have had no cVld 



h!3&3 UP t0 thmime VCTy few luwe bBen se9Q « thiB ne^h. 

 borllO0<U Y«nowi 



