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FOREST AND STREAM. 



Iowa.— Black hass, April 1 to June 1 ; salmon, November 

 I to February 1 , deer ami elk, January 1 to September i ; 



fowl and geese, May 1 to August 15 ; pinnated grouse, Decem- 

 her I to September 1; quail, ruffed grouse and wild turkey, 

 January 1 to October 1 ; snipe, May 1 to August 15 ; wood- 

 cock. January 1 to July 10. No person to kill more than 25 

 grouse, quail, snipe or plover in one day. 



Kissiia- Pinnated grouse, February 1 to July 81 ; quail, 

 January 1 to September 30. Killing of plover, ruffed grouse, 

 wild turkey and woodcock prohibited at all times. 



KENTueirr.— Deer, March 1 to September I; squirrel, Feb- 

 ruary 1 to June 15; rabbit, February 1 to October 20; fowl, 

 May 1 to September 1; quail, partridge or pheasant, Febru- 

 ary 1 to October 20; woodcock, February 1 to August 15; 

 doves, February 1 to August 1 ; wild turkey, February 1 to 

 September 1. 



Louisiana.— Deer, February 1 to August 1; quail, April 1 

 to September 15 ; wild turkey, April 1 to September 1. 



Mainr.— Hlacl; bass, April" 1 to July 1; land-locked sal- 

 mon, September 21 to February 1; in St. Croix River ami 

 tributaries, September 15 to February 1, and in Moosehead 

 and Penobscot waters, September 21 to June 1 ; salmon and 

 shad, July 15 to April 1 ; togue and trout, see land-locked 

 salmon; caribou and deer, January 1 to October 1; moose, 

 until 1880: wild fowl and plover, May 1 to September 1 ; pin- 

 nated grouse (possession), January 1 to September 1; ruffed 

 grouse, snipe and woodcock, December 1 to September 1, 



Maevland. — Partridges (quails), December 24 to November 

 1; woodcock, February 1 to June 15 ; pheasant; (ruffed 

 grouse), January 1 to August 15 ; rabbits, January 15 to 

 October 15 ; wild fowl must not be killed northward of the 

 following described line from April 1 to November 1 : Be- 

 ginning at the Light House on Turkey Point, in Cecil county, 

 and drawn westward to a point half a mile north of the most 

 northerly part of Sposusie Island, thence continuing said line 

 Still westward within half a mile of, and north of the northern 

 end of said island, and the adjacent mainland, until it reaches 

 the shore of Harford county, at or near Oakington. The 

 same date applies lo the waters lying southward of a line 

 drawn East Point Concord Light House in Harford county 

 to Carpenters Point on the western shore of Cecil county. 

 Wild fowl can only be killed northward of the lice described 

 above, three days in each week, until the 1st of January, viz.: 

 Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. After the 1st of January 

 they can be killed on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sat- 

 urday until the end of the season. Each of said days com- 

 prehend the time intervening between one hour before sun- 

 rise and half an hour after sunset. The above are the general 

 laws of the State, but nearly every county has local laws. 



Massachusetts. — Black bass, December 1 to July 1; land- 

 locked salmon, October 1 to April 1; salmon, until April 7, 

 1880; lake trout, October 1 lo April 1; shad in the Merri- 

 mack, June 10 to March 1 ; in the Connecticut, August 1 to 

 March 15 ; trout, October 1 to April 1 ; deer, until January 

 1, 1880 : wildfowl, April 15 to September 1; pinnated grouse 

 shooting allowed only on one's own land ; plover, January 

 1 to July 15; quail, January 1 to November!; ruffed grouse 

 and woodcock, January 1 to September 1. 



Michigan. — Trout, September 1 to Mayl; grayling, No- 

 vember 1 lo June 1 ; deer in Upper Peninsula, November 15 

 to August t ; Lower Peninsula, December 15 to September 

 15 ; wild fowl, January 1 to September 1 ; uinnated grouse, 

 January 1 to September 1; quail, January'! to October 1; 

 ruffed grouse, January 1 to September 1 : wild turkey, Jan- 

 uary 1 To October 1 ; woodcock, January 1 to July 5. 



Minnesota. — Trout, April 1 to September 30 ; antelope, 

 deer and moose, November 1 to Dec. 15; wild fowl, Sep- 

 tember 1 to May 15 ; pinnated grouse, August 14 to Septem- 

 ber 30 ; quail and ruffed grouse, September 1 to November 

 30; woodcock, July 3 to October 31. 



Mississippi. — Deer, March 15 to Sept. 15; quail, March 

 IB to Sept. 15; dove and starling, April 1 to Sept. 15. 



Missocbi.— Deer, January 15 to September 1; pinnated 

 grouse, February 1 to August 15 ; plover, February 1 to Au- 

 gust 1 ; quail and ruffed grouse, February 1 to October 15 ; 

 wild turkey, March 1 to September 15 ; woodcock, January 

 10 to July "1. 



Montana.— Pinnated grouse, ruffed grouse and quail, 

 March 1 to August 1. 



Nebbaska. — Buffalo, elk, mountain sheep, deer and ante- 

 lope, January 1 to October 1. No wild birds save only water 

 fowl, jack-snipe, sand-snipe, waders and woodcock can he 

 taken at any time of the year. 



Nevada. — Trout and salmon trout, January 1 to Septem- 

 ber 1 ; deer, antelope, elk, mountain sheep or goat, January 

 1 to July 1 ; pinnated grouse, partridge, pheasant, wood- 

 cock, grouse, quail, fowl, geese, sand-hill crane, plover and 

 curlew, April 1 to September 1 ; sage chicken or snipe, 

 April 1 to August 1. 



New Hampshire. — Black bass, May 1 to June 30 ; musca- 

 Iohge, December 1 to May 31 ; pickerel, March 1 to May 31; 

 pike, December 1 to May 31 ; salmon trout and speckled 

 trout, September 1 to April 30 ; deer, January 1 to August 

 1; moose, February 1 to October 1 | plover, quail and ruffed 

 grouse, Feb. 1 to August 1 ; woodcock, Feb. 1 to July 4. 



New Jeesey. — Salmon trout and speckled trout, October 

 1 to March 1 : black buss, April 1 to July 1 ; pike or pick- 

 erel, March i to May 1 ; deer, December 1 to October 15 ; 

 squirrels, January 1 to July 1 ; rabbit, January 1 to Novem- 

 ber 1 : quail and pheasant, "January 1 to November 1 ; wood- 

 cock, January 1 to July 4; rail, December 1 to September 

 1; reed birds, December 1 to August 15; upland plover, 

 January 1 to August 1 ; prairie chickens, until 1880. 



Nrcw'Yoiuc— Black bass, Oswego baas and muscalonge, 

 January 1 to May 20 ; trout, September 1 to April 1 ; salmon 

 trout, October 1 to March 1 ; deer and moose, January 1 to 

 September 1 ; wild fowl and geese, May 1 to Sept. 1 ; quail, 

 January 1 to November 1 ; ruffed grouse, January 1 to Sep- 

 tember 1 ; woodcock, January 1 to August 1; on Long 

 Island, January 1 to July 3. 



Noeth Carolina. —Trout, October 15 to December 30, in 

 the counties west of -.he Blue Ridge ; partridge, quail, doves 

 and wild turkeys, April 1 to October 1. This applies only 

 to the counties'of Davison, Randolph, Rowan, Anson, War- 

 ren, Guilford, Rockingham, Orange, Caswell, Mecklenburg, 

 Edgecombe and Carbarns. 



Onto.— Deer, November 1 to September 20: quail and 

 pinnated grouse, January 1 to November 1; wild turkey, 

 January 15 to November! ; ruffed grouse and blue-win-'ed 

 teal, January 1 to September 1 ; other ducks, April 1 to 

 September 1 ; woodcock, January 1 to July 4. 



Obegon. —Deer, moose and elk, February 1 to July 1 ; 

 fowl, April 1 to August 1 , pheasant and sage-hen, April i 

 to June 15; piunated grouse, March 1 to July 1; quail, 

 April 1 to August 1. 



Pbnnsy.lv ania.— Black bass, January 1 to June 1 ; salmon 

 snd trout, August 1 to April 1 ; lake trout, October 1 to 



January 1 ; squirrels, September 1 lo January 1 ; deer, De- 

 cember 1 to October 1 ; rabbits, January 1 to October 15 ; 

 wild fowl. May 15 to Sept. 1 : pinnated grouse, January 1 

 to Octoberl; plover, January 1 to July 15 ; quail, January 

 J In October 15; ruffed grouse, January 1 to October 1 ; 

 wild turkey, January 1 to October 15; woodcock, January 1 

 to July 4; rail and reed-bird, December 1 to September L 



Sooth Carolina. — Deer, January 1 to August 1; quail, 

 snipe, wild turkey and woodcock, April 1 to October 15. 



Tennessee. — Deer, March I to September 1 j pheasant, 

 grouse, quail, partridge, lark, snipe and woodcock, March 1 

 to September 1.5 ; wild turkey, May 1 to September 15. This 

 law applies to the counties of Henry, Dyer, Giles, Maury, 

 Davidson, Madison, Hamilton, Bedford" and Wilson ; in 

 Montgomery, Robertson, Maury, Davidson, Lincoln and 

 Shelby counties, for all birds, and Shelby county, deer and 

 squirrel, February 1 to September 1. 



Utah. — Elk, deer, mountain sheep and antelope, January 

 1 to August. 1; quad, until February 22, 1883; ruffed ana 

 pinnated grouse, March 15 to September 15 ; fowl, March 5 

 to August 15. 



Verm nt. — Black hass, May 15 to July 1; trout, land- 

 locked salmon, salmon trout or lunge, September 1 to May 

 1 ; whitefish, November 1 to November 15 ; wall-eyed pike 

 or pike perch, April 20 to May 20; fowl and geese, May 1 to 

 September 1 ; ruffed grouse, March 1 to September 1 ; wood- 

 cock, March l to August 1. 



Virginia. - Deer, January 1 to August 15; running them 

 with dogs, January 1 to Oct. 15 ; wild fowl, geese, pinnated 

 grouse and plover, February 1 to September 1; quail, Jauuary 

 1 to October 15; ruffed "grouse, snipe, wild turkey and 

 woodcock, February 1 to September 1. 



Washington Territory. — Deer, February I to August 1 ; 

 quail, to October 1, 1878 ; grouse, January 1 to August 1. 



West Virginia. — Deer, January 15 to July 15; quail or 

 Virginia partridges, January 1 to October 15 ; ruffed grouse, 

 pheasant, pin nated grouse, wild fowl and geese, February 1 to 

 September 1. 



WtSGOSsni. — Trout, September 15 to April 15 ; deer, Jan- 

 uary 1 to September 15 ; woodcock, quail, ruffed and pin- 

 nated grouse and wild fowl, January 1 to August 25. 



Wyomino. — Elk, deer, mountain sheep, antelope and buf- 

 falo, January 15 to August 15 ; pheasant, quail, pinnated 

 grouse and sage-hen, March 1 to August 15. 



Ontario Close Season. — Deer, December 15 to September 

 15— cannot be exported at any time ; pheasants, partridges, 

 grouse, prairie fowl and wild turkeys, February 1 to October 

 1 ; quails, January 1 to October 1 ; woodcock, January 1 to 

 x\ugust 1 ; snipe, May 1 to August 15 , mallard, gray, black, 

 wood and teal ducks, January 1 to September 1 ; other ducks, 

 swans and geese, May 1 to September 1; hares, March 1 to 

 September 1 ; trout, September 15 to May 1 ; bass, May 15 

 to June 15. 



WHAT KEEPS THE WILD FOWL 

 AWAY. 



Editor Forest and Stream : 



Your correspondent " B," of Barnegat Inlet, wrlteB under date o 

 November 24, aa follows : 



" Brant and geese Have not made their appearance (where are they 1) ; 

 the oldest gunner has not known them 30 late before." 



Last spring I visited Barnegat Bay for the purpose of shooting, and 

 sailed from Great Sedge Island to Manahawken Bay without seeing any 

 wild fowl. 



At Harvey Cedars 1 met a well Known gunner who gave me the names 

 of several persons suspected of flrellghting and shooting geese and 

 brant at night ; previous to this the bay was literally alive with wild 

 fowl. I also witnessed the thootliig of blacX ducks after sunset on t-he 

 Great Sedge Island by parties from the upper part of the bay. 



It Is the custom in Barnegat Bay for half a dozen persons, and Bome- 

 tlmesmore, to shoot from oue point, and I have frequently seen tha 

 whole crowd " cnt loose'- at a flock passing at the distance of a hnndred 

 yards, tha consequence being that the birds fly a hundred miles or more 

 before attempting again to alight, on the South Side of Long Island 

 the gunners use better judgment and teach the parties t.hey take on 

 the bay never even to show themselves unless the birds oome within 

 range. 



It has beeu often proven that the same wild fowl visit their favorite 

 localities from year to year, and it is possible that the geese and brant 

 which were molested on their feeding grounds at night have " skipped" 

 Barnegat Bay for a more desirable resting place. 



If all the gnu clubs aud game associations In the country do not unite 

 in the common cause to have proper game protective laws passed and 

 see to then- rigid enforcement we may as well sell our breech-loaders 

 and then " Bell short" the whole prospective production of the Sootts, 

 webleya, Greeners, ete, 



I Have anxiously watched the past twenty-five years the rapid ex- 

 tinction of game and at the same lime the great Improvement in de- 

 structive fire-arms. I will wager my best gun against a flint look that 

 the last named gun will suillce to kill all the game we can Dud ten years 

 hence If the destruction is not checked. 



A gun never ought to bo Bred at any fowl, snipe or game whatever 

 between ttie first day of January and the first day of J uly in any year. 

 Oscar B. Smith. 



Eh* Site' 



AN INTERNATIONAL MILITARY 

 « PALM A." 



WE have already dwelt upon the matter of an interna- 

 tional military match, and in a recent issue incor- 

 porated, with the severe critiques of a correspondent on the 

 British position, our hopes that such a match could lie 

 brought about. The Volunteer Service Gazette has urged the 

 same scheme, and says in a recent, article alluding to ^the 

 matter : 



We continue to believe that if the matter were to be 

 taken up in earnest, and if our hands are not too full, and 

 limes were a little better than they stand much chance of 

 being at present, it might not be impossible to send a really 

 Strong Martini-Henry team across the Atlantic, for once at 

 any rate. There can be no doubt as t« the great interest 

 Which would attach to a contest between " twenties," or 

 even smaller teams of Britons and Americans, ■with bona 

 Jide military rifles. The difficulty, of course, lies in the 

 choice of rifles, and we have often said that this difficulty 

 could hardly be satisfactorily got over if a number of teams 

 were to bo allowed to enter each with its own weapon. Ihe 

 yariety would be much too great, and it would bo impossi- 



ble to tell what amount of merit was to be asi 1 

 men, and what to their peculiar Weapon. Bui 

 that the Sharps-Borchard and the Mnrtiui-HoniT would 

 meet on pretty equal terms, though it might be necessary to 

 ascertain that neither party had "any advantage of import- 

 ance in the construction of the sights. 



We are not at all sure, it such .1 match was got up, that, 

 it would be wise to confine the selection of competitors to 

 the ranks of the National Guards and the Volunteers res- 

 pectively. The visit, in fact, should be, we think, in one 

 sense, a military proceeding, though no doubt it would be 

 probable that most of the competitors would be serving, or 

 would have served, in some military body. Indeed, unless 

 a relaxation of the wholesome rule against attending foreign 

 rifle meetings in uniform or with Government arms were 

 allowed, the Britons could not even take the Government 

 Martini-Henrys with them. The War Office would, how- 

 ever, not improbably yield this point, though they might 

 well adhere to their regulation as to uniforms. We 

 have long held that it is not desirable for anybody 

 of men of a more distinctively military character than mem- 

 bers of a band of military musicians to pay one another "in- 

 ternational " visits. But there is no reason at all why a set 

 of men in plain clothes should not try conclusions with the 

 military rifle as well as with the target weapon at Creed- 

 moor or elsewhere. It would, we are inclined to believe, 

 be even more easy to get up a "military" team than an 

 " any rifle " team for au expedition of this sort. The field 

 of selection would be very large, and a good captain — we do 

 not use the word in its military sense — would be able prob- 

 ably to find plenty of men among our very good shots will- 

 ing and able to make an autumn holiday over to America. 

 Business and other engagements would, of course, keep 

 many, perhaps, of our very best men at home; but slill 

 there would be enough left from whom to pel. 

 formidable "twelve" or "twenty," now that so many vol 

 uuteers are becoming really accustomed to the use of the 

 small-bore military weapon. We believe that such a match 

 would be good for us, and we trust that the Council of the 

 National Kifle Association may see its way to organizing a 

 team for the United Kingdom, if the proposal should take 

 shape and result in any formal challenge. And we are quite 

 certain that such a match would be most healthy for the in- 

 terests of rifle shooting in Ihe United States, iii which the 

 military Tifle is only just beginning, and thai somewhat 

 feebly, to take its rightful place. With the stimulus of such 

 a competition before them, it is not improbable, indeed, that 

 the American riflemen may put on such a spurt, aud prac- 

 tice between now and next autumn to such good purpose 

 that they might give our men something like the surprise 

 that their match riflemen gave us a few years ago. 



But after all, if such a match is useful and desirable, why 

 should we not rather take the initiative, and invite the Na- 

 tional Rifle Association of America to open the ball by send- 

 ing us over a team of Sharps-Eorchards next July I With 

 plenty of notice we might get up a match which would be a 

 great and novel feature in our prize meetiug, and we think 

 we could promise that a really hearty welcome should await 

 our visitors in England. It would certainly be more gra- 

 cious in us to tiy and get the Americans to " come over here 

 than to continue, as we fear we have been, to some extent 

 doing, to suggest to them how very agreeable it would be to 

 us to pay them a visit in New York. 



If the gentlomon who arc urging the scheme of a national 

 militia would devote a little attention to the bringing about 

 of this match, they would indirectly help their project im- 

 mensely. The popular attention would then lie turned to 

 the fact that the militia system of the country at large is in 

 a most, inchoate and unsatisfactory condition. Whether the 

 first move should be made by our own or the British Associ- 

 ation is a question to be best settled by a general expression 

 of opinion by the ritlemen of the two countries?, It will 

 matter little on the actual result, but it certainly does appear 

 from the number of visits our foreign friends have paid us 

 compared with the one trip of an American team to Ireland 

 and England, that it was about time that our on 

 once more showed the Britishers "how to do it." 



— With the Marquis of Lome as Governor -General of 

 Canada, the riflemen there may congratulate themselves on 

 having a practical shot to overlook their efforts, and it is 

 time now that the marksmen of Ihe Dominion should render 

 a better account of themselves than they have so far shown. 

 The Victoria Club have sustained long-range shooting 

 against great and discouraging odds, and now with a valued 

 member of the House of Commons team upon their ranges, 

 they should find heart to keep on and show I heir mettle 

 once more on our American grounds. 



—The "champions "are having a glorious ruction in the 

 columns of one of our esteemed contemporaries, and the 

 Pokkst asd Btbkam can only say, u Let them fight it out," 

 and can only guard its pages against their intrusion. The 

 views of our correspondent last week on the professional 

 plague seems more than apropos now, and gun houses may 

 learn then that there tire other ways of ad-. ■ 

 employment of a wrangling expert ever ready to trumpet out 

 his exploits. 



Massaoitusetts— Walnut Hill Mange, Boston, Dee. 14.— 

 The comfortable winter shed was filled yesterday by the 

 largest number of marksmen since Ihe opening 

 " winter-shed " match. Noted shots from, abroad 

 spectators came out in the afternoon trains, and all Ihe targets 

 were in use. The day was perfect : the wind did not cause 

 much trouble, as it remained strong and steady from the 

 northwest, indicating 10 to 11 o'clock. The atmosphere was 

 exceedingly clear, and xhe air just cool enough u> make the 

 day's sport thoroughly enjoyable. The amateur match was 

 called with ten entries. Only the best scores are given : 



OAParlcer ' '■■ 145541 r> .^-,1 



C A Parker (ro-ontry) B * •; 5— II 



.1 B Parker B 6 4 4 4 ;. <l 4 I 4— II 



J B Parker (re-entry) iJSS 



HB Sargent, Jr : 4 s 3 



HB Sargent; Jr (re-entry) 1 i ■> 5 ) 4 9 i 4 s-afl 



After the usual half hour for dinner, the shooting was very 

 brisk in the winter-shed mutch, which had seventy-six entries. 

 Capital shooting was done, although not aa large « 

 as a week ago Only the best BCOrea lire given, as subjoined ; 

 off-hand, 300 yards, romds five ; 



iSBScnthor 5 6 r. r, +_s» 



E B Souther (ro-entryj i 16 6 ±- 28 



