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FOREST AND STREAM. 



Now, Mr. Editor, I do protest that this little poem, as 

 Horace wrote it, is beautiful and the sentiment is delicious. 

 It is, as Scaliger said of another one of his poems, which 1 

 may translate for you during the next wet norther, "all am- 

 brosia;" but in translating it I had to laugh several times, 

 and could hardly restrain myself from making a burlesque of 

 it. I pictured to myself Horace wandering among the ice 

 floes of the Polar regions, with a pitiless tempest beating 

 upon his head, and I didn't believe that under such circum- 

 stances he would think of Lalage, much less sing of her. 

 And then I pictured him cornered against an iceberg by a 

 grim Polar bear, and thought to myself, " What will his hon- 

 esty avail him now ?" These poets won't do to trust to too 

 much, however prettily they may write. I account myself 

 passably honest, but I have been in several scrapes with Injuns 

 and such like where I would undoubtedly have been "chawed 

 up " had I not been heavily armed. And several times, in 

 spite of being heavily armed, I owed my escape solely to the 

 tleetness of my horse. Honesty is excellent, but- no man will 

 catch me risking all I have on it. 



I clip this from the Galveston News : 



Pbodigiotjs Lemons. — Yesterday a sample of lemons was 

 sent to the News office as a present from Mr. W. S. Deats, of 

 Dickinson Bayou. They were grown upon his farm, in that 

 locality, and for size have probably never been surpassed, if 

 ever equaled. The largest had a weight of seventeen and a 

 half ounces, and was nearly as large as a small canteloupe. 

 This shows what Texas can do in lemon culture. 



We have only lately found out that the tidewater district 

 of Texas is unsurpassed for oranges and lemons. The ladies 

 planted them for curiosities or ornament, and they grew right 

 on, producing when old enough enormous crops. Houston 

 now has a great many, some so heavily laden with the ripe 

 fruit that the limbs have to bo propped up to keep from break 

 ing. In point of quality they seem to be the best I ever saw. 

 I have several in my yard in the city, planted with no thought 

 that they would ever come to anything, and I now deeply 

 regret that I didn't plant a hundred. I have never known our 

 trees to bo injured by the cold, though doubtless they ought 

 to have some protection during cold snaps until they are three 

 years . N. A. T. 



ffwst n, Texas, Nov. 26, 1878. 



GAME PROTECTION 



A Call i?or Massachusetts Men.— Boston, Dec. 7.— The 

 Massachusetts Kennel Club Committee on Game Laws desires 

 to hereby notify sportsmen and others interested.in the protec- 

 tion and preservation of our game birds and animals, that a 

 meeting in the interest of better game laws will be held in 

 this city, at Young's Hotel, on Wednesday, the 18th inst., at 

 four o'clock, p. m. Messrs. Hall and Whipple, the gentleman- 

 ly proprietors of the above named house, having shown their 

 friendship to the cause by tendering to this committee the 

 free use of a suitable room for the purpose. The committee 

 would respectfully invite the presence and co-operation of all 

 good sportsmen and others interested, with a view to deter- 

 mine what revision oE the existing game laws of this 

 Commonwealth is desirable and necessary to make the same 

 more effective and worthy of respect. For the Committee. 

 John Fottleu, Jb., Chairman. 



We have before this expressed our opinion of the good re- 

 sults likely to follow from the Massachusetts Kennel Club's 

 work in game protection. That the present game laws of that 

 State are unsatisfactory and do r.ot accomplish the ends of 

 protection is amply illustrated by the simple fact that they 

 are practically a dead letter and nothing more. Only a mi- 

 nority of the best sportsmen and game dealers have any regard 

 for their provisions. We bespeak for the proposed meeting a 

 large attendance of those most interested. It is the duty of 

 all who love the sports of the field to put their influence and 

 effort oh the right side. 



New York Association.— The New York Association for 

 the Protection Of Game held its first meeting of the Beason 

 at the residence of Mr. C. E. Whitehead, on the evening of 

 the 9th inst. The President, Hon. Kobt. B. Roosevelt, hav- 

 ing called the meeting to order, congratulated the club upon 

 its success of the past season, particularly in getting the law 

 enforced against pound-nets in the Great South Bay. The 

 fishing in that locality has improved wonderfully since the 

 nets have been removed, and is again attracting anglers 

 from all parts of the country and rilling the hotels with 

 euests. Mr. Roosevelt also called the attentiou of the club 

 to the' destructive whitebait fishing, whereby thousands of 

 voung fish, mostly young shad, were being destroyed. Un- 

 less something can be done to check it, it will be useless to 

 soend money in hatching them. The counsel, Mr. Whitehead, 

 reported on the satisfactory state of the suits brought by the 

 Association and stated that infringements of the game laws 

 in the city were becoming very rare. The matter of bringing 

 suits outside of the city was discussed, and finally the coun- 

 sel was empowered, by a resolution proposed by Mr. Lawrence 

 and seconded by Mr. Holberton, to bring suits in any part of 

 the State where in his judgment it was thought advisable to 

 do so After the regular business of the club was over, Mr. 

 Whitehead entertained the members in his usual hospitable 

 manner. Among the many good things was a magnificent 

 black cock, killed, we believe, in Scotland, and ranking sec- 

 ond only to the wild turkey of our own woods. 



Onondaga Fishing Club.— At an unusually full meeting 

 of the Onondaga County Fishing Club, of Syracuse, N. Y., 

 December 4, a very satisfactory report was given of the work 

 accomplished by the club in the first year of its existence. 

 The report is a most creditable one, and the activity displayed 

 by the Syracuse sportsmen is in every way commendable. At 

 an expense of $200, derived from members of the club and 

 from fines collected of offenders against the game laws within 

 the county, a game constable has been engaged throughout 

 the season to watch the lake and rivers and arrest offenders. 

 Thirty-five law-breakers have been arrosted and convicted— 



some on two or more charges— and sentenced,to pay a fine of 

 $50 and costs of conviction. One of these was confined in the 

 penitentiary the full time of 54 days ; four were incarcerated, 

 but subsequently paid their fines, and the remaining 30 have 

 signed a stipulation to pay part of the fine and costs, and to 

 abstain from illegal Ashing, the club agreeing not to enforce 

 the body executions against them, provided they kept the 

 laws and brought in their nets to be destroyed. About 40 nets 

 of all kinds have been captured and destroyed, together with 

 a number of eel traps, etc. The club feels much elated at the 

 work of the past season, and is fully determined to carry out 

 the laws and prosecute all offenders to the bitter end. During 

 the meeting of the club muffli interest was developed in the 

 proposition to call a State convention to revise the fishing 

 laws, and a committee was appointed to report upon the 

 feasibility of the plan. 



Debr in the Adirondaoks.— Wc have received from Mr. 

 H. W. Hayt, of Lowville, N. Y., the following letter written 

 by him to the Utica Morning Herald. The letter from Mr. 

 Fenton to the above journal, republished by us Nov. 28, Mr. 

 Hayt thinks, "does injustice not only to many true sports- 

 men who hunt in the lawful season for deer, but also to the 

 motives of Mr. Fenton himself, especially the remainder of his 

 letter, in which he speaks so feelingly of the needs of tourists, 

 sportsmen and hotel keepers or pot-hunters, and that the law 

 would allow him to kill deer from the 1st of July to Jan. 1." 

 Wc publish Mr. Hayt's letter with pleasure. We do not, 

 however, endorse all that it contains. So long as hunting 

 deer with dogs is against the law there can be no excuse for 

 practicing that mode of capture. Men who lose their dogs, 

 when they know that in so doing they are violating the State 

 statutes, must not complain if the dogs are filled with lead or 

 poison. On the other hand, wholesale still-hunting butchery 

 has nothing to defend it. The letter is as follows : 



The statements of Mr. Fenton, although from a source 

 that should be correct, in this instance must be received 

 with some allowances. Host Fenton has been a still-hunter 

 by profession for many years. This is a very successful 

 method of killing deer. No companions are needed ; each 

 man hunts by himself alone, and generally is jealous of any 

 intrusion of other hunters on what he calls his hunting- 

 grounds. From the first snows until deer are worthless, and 

 often longer, is the season for the market or pot-hunting. 

 First-class still-hunters kill from thirty to one hundred and 

 twenty deer in a good season. If dogs are seen when still- 

 hunting they are often killed for fear they might disturb the 

 deer, and make them more watchful. This killing of dogs 

 has often happened when it was lawful to follow the chase 

 with hounds. The owners of the dogs naturally resent this 

 treatment of their property, and, because of this, Mr. Fen- 

 ton has had the pleasure of paying for a number of valuable 

 hounds killed at different tiines. These things naturally 

 color the statements of our friend. 



The pursuit of the chase with the hounds has justly been a 

 favorite means of diversion with the most of true sportsmen, 

 not pot-hunters and poachers, for hundreds of years, and large 

 packs of stag hounds are now maintained in those countries 

 where deer are found or preserved. There is more genuine 

 and intensely exciting sport in killing one deer in the chase 

 than five or six potted or poached when unsuspicious of 

 danger with scarcely a chance for life. It is a fact beyond 

 dispute that game of all kinds is in more danger of extermina- 

 tion from still-hunting, traps, snares and poaching of all kinds, 

 which is much more difficult to prevent, than from the use of 

 dogs when game is in season. Venison or any other game 

 killed then with dogs, if properly dreBsed, is sweet, whole- 

 some and cau be kept any reasonable length of time. Not 

 one-tenth of the deer pursued by dogs are killed. It is well 

 known how often they will bailie the hounds. Host Fenton, 

 having abundantly provided his table with venison, which, he 

 says, " most of the sportsmen and tourists who visit the woods 

 in July and August feel the need of,'' alsosupp'yiog the wants 

 of a large number of regular boarders, now on the approach of 

 still-hunting, becomes particular as to the manner of killing 

 venison, and makes very broad and extravagant assertions 

 with regard to the guides and some of the hotel-keepers, whose 

 assistance he no longer needs in supplying his table with 

 venison. These statements will shrink fearfully in approach- 

 ing the truth. Fifty deer will more than cover all that has 

 been brought out of the woods by way of Number Four in the 

 last two months. If Mr. Fenton was placed in an ordinary 

 boat, will) the usual chances of sportsmen, armed only with 

 the " club " he speaks of, I fear his guests would starve on 

 beefsteak and mutton, at least until he sent for his trusty rifle, 

 with which f by the way) he boasts of having killed more tban 

 2,000 deer. The season is long enough now for true sportsmen 

 to kill deer, if not for the hotel-keepers and pot or market- 

 hunters. More than enough venison reaches the markets from 

 other States, without our drafting the woods to supply it. If 

 we are allowed to enjoy the chase With our hounds, if only 

 for a portion of the season, witbout having our valuable 

 hounds shot or poisoned without redress, we are content, and 

 will aid in preserving the game. This following the chase in 

 the proper season must not be confounded with the reckless 

 crusting of deer in the deep snows, when worthless, or a simi- 

 lar slaughter at other seasons, which cannot be too severely 

 punished. 



The Slaughter of Deeb in Mien.— The slaughter of 

 deer in the northern part of tbiB State can hardly fail to at- 

 tract the attention of all lovers of sport of that description. I 

 think all will recognize the advisability and necessity of pro- 

 hibiting the killing of deer for some time to come, for from 

 three to five years. There are now hundreds of men in the 

 northern country who fairly slaughter those beautiful animals 

 for pecuniary purposes, aud by no fair means either. They 

 have their dogs who drive the deer into some lake near by 

 where there are some dozen men in waiting for them, and 

 when the animal takes to the water there is no hope of escape. 

 The killing of deer is so great that when a party of three or 

 four take a few days' vacation for a little pleasure shoot in 

 this line, it is as much as their life is worth to get any sort of 

 a chance, and if thev see a deer he is closely followed by a 

 pack of hounds that unless shot dead, he escapes only to fall 

 into the hands of these men who take up their station on the 

 banks of these small lakes with which this State is so plenti- 

 fully supplied- There are hundreds of deer sent into the 

 market every seasou, and they are perceptibly getting scarcer, 

 so that the State that was noted to* the amount of wild deer 

 within its limits is rapidly netting to be a very poor place lor 

 that kind of sport. If the gun clubs and the sporting associa- 

 tions would take this matter up and present it to the Legis- 



hey would receive the thanks of all true lovers of 

 sport. Trao. 



Ann Arbor, MkTi. 



The good old principle of shutting the stable door after the 

 horse has run away seems to obtain in all matters pertaining 

 to game protection. Ten years from now we may look for 

 stringent enactments to "protect" the game which has long 

 since been drawn, quartered and hung on the pegs. 



§ffe gifle. 



Massachusetts— Boston, Dec, 4.— The weather looked 

 most unpromising this morning at Walnut Hill, but the long- 

 range men were out, and good work was shown , It was the 

 final contest in the long-range classified scries, which opened 

 on Wednesday, July 17, and has continued on successive 

 Wednesdays since. For the purpose of equalizing the dis- 

 tribution of prizes, members were divided into two classes, 

 the Executive Committee reserving the right to assign mem- 

 bers of no record to either class ; prizes to bo awarded to the 

 beat total of five scores, not necessarily consecutive ; first 

 prize, gold medal ; second, silvermedal; third, cash or trophy, 

 $10 ; fourth, cash or trophy, $0 ; fifth, cash or trophy, .$4— 

 five prizes in each class. The result i First class— W. H. 

 Jackson, gold medal ; J. S. Sumner, silver medal ; Messrs. 

 W. Gerrish and H. T. Rockwell, third and fourth cash prizes, 

 respectively. Second class— J. F. Brown, gold medal; Lewis 

 Saunders, silver medal ; Messrs. Salem H. Wilder, G. W. 

 Davidson and W. M. Ward, third, fourth and fifth prizes, in 

 the order given. The fifth prize in the first class has not been 

 awarded. The scores to-day stood : 

 W H Jackson. 



800 5 55 5 565555B0B6 4— T4 



91)0 G 5 6 5 3 5 8 5 S 6 6 3 r> i G-I.l 



1,000 4 3465335455465 5-05— 212 



W Qerrlsn. 



800 5 455536G5555B6 6—72 



900 B 6484835654856 5-60 



1,000 3 04 5 G f. 55855453 5—87—305 



J S Sumner. 



SOn 4 4 5 5 5 5 5 5 3 5 4 5 6 B— 70 



900 4 5845644566554 0— C8 



1.0JO 5 5633555465553 3—68—204 



J B Francis. 



800 5 5555554556554 3—71 



000 5 58 $ 5 3 32 2 35063 5—56 



tiOOfl 4 5536535604566 4— GJ-185 



,1 Smith. 



Will - 4 5546 4 45545655 0— TO 



900 5C 3 564256443 5 4-59 



1.00J n 4 5 5 5 5 6 5 5 5 6 3 6 6— 04-191 



L Saundera. 



800 5 5 3 6 5 5 5 5 5 5 6 5 6 B 4—73 



900 5 5R44 5 4*5 4 566 5 8-04 



1,000 4 4 4 4 533342334 3r-49— 1SS 



A member of the club, speaking of the classified match, 

 says: " I give the names of the contestants, the number of 

 matches that they shot, the grand aggregate and average, aud 

 the aggregate of the best five : 



FIBBT-OLASS WIJTOJSR3. 



W. H. Jackson, Sharps Creedmoor Rifle.— Thirteenmatches; 

 aggregate, 2,742; average, 210.92. Aggregate of best five, 

 1,083 ; average, 210.6. 



J. S. Sumner, S. G— Fourteen matches ; aggregate, 9,838 , 

 average, 209.85. Aggregate of best five, 1,075": a'v ■■<■ 



Win. Gurst, 8. C— Eleven matches; aggregate, 2,251 ; 

 average, 204.6. Aggregate of best five, 1,056; average, 

 211.2. 



n. T, Rockwell, R. C— Five matches; aggregate, 1,014 ; 

 average, 202 8. 



Wm. Poland, R. C.--Fivc matches; agsregate, 983; aver- 

 age, 196.0. 



fiEOOND-OLASS WINNERS. 



J. L. Brown, S. C— Nine matches; aggregate, 1,820; 

 average, 202.4. Aggregate of best five, 1,04a ; average, 

 208.4. 



Salem Wilder, R. C. — Nine matches; aggregate, 1,700; 

 average, 195.5. Aggregate of best five, 1,021';' "average, 204.2. 



Lewis Saunder, S. C. — Eleven matches ; aggregate, 8,187; 

 average, 194. Aggregate of best five, 1,030 ."average, 20-1. 



O. W. Davison, P."Mart.— Five matches ;' aggregate, 1,1)00; 

 average, 200, 



W. M. Wain, JR. C— Eight matches ; aggregate, 1,429 ; 

 average, 178.6. Aggregate of best five, 967; average, 193.4. 



This is individual" shooting, and it beats the American team 

 of '77, first day, for the aggregate of the average of the best 

 eight is 1,602.2, while the twin made 1,6.10, and the walk- 

 over first day 1,660. We can produce an eight that could 

 challenge the world from our own little club, and wo dj not 

 know but what we would include United States for our A. fl. 

 Hebbard, J. A. Lowell and H. L. Hubbard did cot finish live 

 scores ; their individual average is about 205. We feel rather 

 proud of our rifle ability." 



Walnut Hill certainly has reason to be proud of ilB range, 

 which has become famous through its long distance marks- 

 men. Established in 1876, it has shown that in rifles and meD, 

 America's success in the international matches is the result 

 not of a sudden fluke of luck, but is instead a legitimate out- 

 come of skill, intelligence and patient study and practice. 



Dec. 7.— The winter shed match to-day, at 200 yards, was 

 shot in a clear, bright atmosphere, but with a cold, strong 10 

 o'clock wind. The" leading score was a perfect one, and a 'long 

 string of others were close upon it, standing a3 follows . 



LLEubbaru 5 5 5 B 6— SB W E Goerricr 5 5 4 5 4— TA 



B u i 5 5— 24 DFHUIK \ 5 i 5 4— *t 



DKIlkWOOd G 5 G G 4—24 W ft JscUon 5 5 4 4 4—22 



EBSoaiher 5 4 4 5 S—liS HP J 



JBOsbom n 4 4 5 5- ,...« 4 3 5 4—20 



JNFrye 5 5 4 5 4-23 Col N Wales -i B 



In the November amateur series, the leadiDg score at ten 

 shots, 200 yards, was C. A. Parker, 45 ; J. B. Parker mak- 

 ing 38. 



Jaoksosi Rifle Gallery— Boston, Dec. 7.— Regular weekly 

 prize shoot, 75 feet, ten shots, reduced target ; D. F. Small, 

 47 • E. Emerson, 44; F. H. Hartshorue, 43; V. P. Seele, 42; 

 F. Williams, 41; E. Smith, 41; F. Hollis, 41. 



Some Rem*kkablh Shooting.— On Friday evening, 0th 

 instant, Mr. L. V- Sone, Captain New York Rifle Club, made 

 tbirty-one consecutive bull's-eyes, 100 feet tango, l^th inch 

 buU'a-eye, ,23 Ballard, at Conlin's Gallery, 1,222 Broadway. 

 This is considered the greatest feat on lecord ia gallery shoot- 

 ing. 



