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FOREST AND STREAM. 



Chekdmook. — Preparations are being made to close the 

 Creedmoor matches of this season still undecided. These 

 are the competitions for the Turf, Fk'n and Fhrm Chal- 

 lenge Badge, the Remington Diamond Badge, and the 

 Leech Cup. All promise to be interesting as the best 

 shots in the National Rifle Association will undoubtedly 

 try their skill, for it is no small honor to win any of the 

 enumerated prizes. Tile first badge is to be shot lor at a 

 distance of 200 yards; position standing; any rifle within 

 the rules; that is, it must not weigh over ten pounds, have 

 telescope sights, nor have less than it three pound pull of 

 trigger. The ninth competition comes off at three P. Iff, 

 October 31st, and the tenth competition November 2Sth at 

 the same hour. This has to be won three times to enable 

 the victor to hold it; lint after that it is his personal prop- 

 erty. The winners thus far are the following gentlemen: 

 OapttJ. Bodiue, 17 points; Col. Geo. W. Wingale, 18 

 pphitej J. T. B. Collins, 10 points; L M. Ballard, IG 

 points; Col. Geo. "W. Wingate, 16 points; E. H. Madison, 

 18 points; J. T. B. Collins, 16 points; E. II. Madison, 17 

 points. 



From this score it will be seen that Messrs. WintoUe. 

 Collins, and Madison have won it twice. Should either of 

 ihem tie in the next contest it will be given to the one mak- 

 ing the best general score. 



The sixth competition for the Remington Diamond 

 Badge, Will come off October 17th at. eleven A. M., and 

 the seventh competition November 14th at the same 

 hour. This; also, has to be won three times ere it becomes 

 the personal property of the victor. The distances at 

 which it is to be shot for are 800, 900, and 1,000 yards. 

 Such a prize is sure to elicit a lively competition, so we 

 may anticipate some capital work at the next meeting. 

 The-following are the winners up to the present time: — 

 500 Tdf' 800 T«f». 1000 Yds, Total. 



R. Oniand 33 23 & 70 



Col. J.Bodine & 24 SB 69 



J. P. M. Richards.. 88 21 *> Tl 



A. V. CanBeld, Jr... S4 26 23 78 



L. L. Hepburn 36 27 25 78 



A glance at this table will show that the competitors 

 i most excellent shooting, the last being quite an unu- 

 sual score. Good as this seems, we expect to see it ex- 

 celled m the next meeting, as the practice since that time 

 must have improved the men in almost geometrical ratio. 



The final match of any importance, during the present 

 season, will be for the Leech Cup. This handsome tank- 

 ard is valued at $600, being made of pure Irish silver, by 

 the best artist in the Gem of the Sea. It was presented by 

 Major Leech, of the Irish team, to the Amateur Rifle Club, 

 to be competed for by American riflemen. The Executive 

 Committee of the Amateur Rifle Club are preparing the 

 conditions for which it is to be contested, and will submit 

 them at as early a day as practicable to the donor for ap- 

 proval. The probability is that the cup will be made a 

 perpetual challenge cup, out of compliment to Major 

 Leech, and 'o give proper encouragement to long range 

 rifle practice. The first competition will take place some 

 time in November, as Major Leech, who is now absent in 

 the West, enjoying the pleasure of a hunt among the prai- 

 :is, is expected back in two or three weeks. This 

 handsome prize is open to all citizens of the United States, 

 who may use any rifle within the rules, the distances beiog 

 800, 900, and 1,000 yards. As a compliment to the genial 



. ,, if the Irish team, the .Amateur Rifle Club have 



made him an honorary member of their Association, a 

 courtesy which will, no doubt, he highly appreciated by 

 the gentleman thus honored. The Bennett Cup, won by 

 Mr. lligby, is also being suitably engraved for presentation 

 to the winner on his return from the West. 



The Executive Committee of the National Rifle Associa- 

 tion met at the rendezvous of the First Division, No. 7 

 West Thirteenth street, on the 14th instant, to hear and 

 decide upon all protests entered at the last contest for the 

 tooling. All Comers' and Cavalry matches. 



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The J. II. Stewaiid Phizes. — Mr. J. H. Steward, of 

 London, the appointed optician to the National Rifle Asso- 

 ciation ami National Artillery Association, of England, 

 tendered to the National Amateur Rifle Association for 

 competition, three prizes, after the programme for the sec- 

 ond annual prize meeting had been made up. These prizes 

 were therefore added as followsc — 



tst. To the highest aggregate score in the first or second division 

 v. i.: 3l ■"■ .ml ■ lattlpg i" itch, i -a -ward's New Camp Bin- 



Fit |.,i: . as u-ed officially at Wimbledon Value, $45.00 



This aggregate prize w:us won by Col. Gddersleeve, 12th 

 Regiment, who, in the three matches, made 81 points. 

 2d. To the ruarksman making the highest aggregate score in the "Sporis- 



niiins." "All Comers" and "Bennett" matches, a Lord l-inry Telescope, 

 - StO.OO 



This prize was won by Lieut. Henry Fulton, of the 12th 

 Regiment, with an aggregati - oof 335 points. 



Si To the marksman making the highest score in the third stage of 

 the Bennett mutch, a Steward's Improved Watch Aneroid Barometer, 

 for measuring mountain heights, and foretelling weather, with the ad- 



dit iou of Compass and Thermometer Value, $50.00 



Won by Captain Mason, of Canada, with a score of 52 



points. 



4th. A third prize was added in Competition Vll.. the officers match, as 

 follows:— To the third highest, score, an Officer's Dress Swim], to be 

 Be] )0ted by the winner, presented by Horstmann Bro's & Allien, 



Value.. $40.00 



\\ i,ii by Lieut. Col. EL A. Gddersleeve, 12th Regiment, 



N, G. 6. N. V., by a score of 23 points. 



TttE Ftitsr Subscription. — The following letter from 

 the proprietors of the Windsor House, of New York, ex- 

 presses the feeling of ajl those interested in our riflemen, 

 and we hope that others will be equally generous in their 

 contributions, so that our team may have more than a 



I stinted enough to defray their expenses to the. Green Isle: — 

 WrNDSou Hotel, Nkw York. October i ■;. 



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The Irish Riflemen — The Irish riflemen are now in 

 Kansas or the Indian Territory, engaged in slaying pniiiie 

 chickens and such other game as they may encounter. 

 They have been treated with the most distinguished courtesy 

 wherever they went, the railroads vicing with eachotherin 

 honoring them. They are accompanied by Mr. Hallock, 

 editor of this paper, who has attended to the arrangements 

 of their tour. We learn that they are receiving il ihosl 

 profuse courtesies throughout the country, and that pre- 

 parations are being made in Chicago, St. Louis, T 

 Hannibal, to give them enthusiastic receptions on theii ie- 

 turn homeward, which will be in a couple of weeks. 



—The following is the result of six: shots fired from six 

 different kinds of guns by members of the Nassau Spotting 

 Club, all using the same quality of ammunition. Target, 

 8 inches diameter, distance, 4.3 yards, 1 j oz. of No. 8 shoi 

 (Talhaiu's). 



First— 12 gauge gun, 30-inch barrel, trefeht, 7i pounds, 3 drachms pow- 

 der. Highest number of pellets at one shot 30 



l.ir.VR.t ntimuer of pellets at one shot. ., 



Avi ragi at the six shots is 1-6 



Second— 10 gang* gttn, 30-tnch barrel, S pounds weighty drachms of 



'" ier. BH| -•. number of pellets at one shot 25 



Lowest number of pellets at one shot . :i 



Third-ll gauge gun. 30-inch bartels, 7} pounds weight, Of draohma-of 



powder. Highest number of pellets at one siiot 12 



Lowest number of pellets at one shot , I) 



Average of the six shots 3 J-6 



Fourth— JO gauge gun, 30-iucti barrel, pounds weight. Zt diai-lims of 



powder. Highest number of pellets at one shot 1.1 



Lowest number of pellets at one shot S 



Average of the sir shots 10 4-0 



Fifth— 12 gauge i'liii. ri pounds, 80-inch barrel, 3 drachms of pu«'dur. 



Highest number of pellets at one shot IS 



Lowest number of pellets at one shol !i 



Average of Ihft si* shots 12 4-6 



Sixth— 14 gauge guu. 7 pound.- weight. 30-inch uuirel. 2* drachms of 



powder. Highest number of pellets at one shot tl) 



Lowest number of pellets at one shot . 2 



Average of the six shots..... 41-8 



S. A. L. 



Game Protection in Nova Scotia.— The Game and In- 

 land Fishery Proteci iou Society of Halifax deserve eredjl 

 for the energetic manner in which they have sel ibou 



very laudable undertaking. They have pubhsheda] 



phlet containing the constitution of their society, i ■■■:: 

 copy of an Act passed at the last session of their local leg- 

 islature, entitled an "Act for the preservation of useful 

 birds and animals." The 1st and 7th sections of this Act 

 prohibited the killing or chasing of any moose or beaver 

 from three years from the first of September, 1874. As the 

 new Act is one of considerable interest to sportsmen we 

 pi bli b three sections alluded to: 



2. No person shall take or kill, or attempt to take or kill 

 any partridge between the first days of January and Octo- 

 ber in auy year, or shall sell buy or have in his possession 

 any partridge so taken, between such last mentioned days 

 both inclusive, and no person shall take or kill, or I emfj 

 to take or kill, or have in his possession any woodcock, 

 snipe, blue-winged duck, or teal, between the first days of 

 March and September in any year. The possession of anj 

 such bird during the close season prescribed in this set tion 

 in respect of such bird shall be presumptive evidence of 

 such bird having been illegally killed or taken. No person 

 shall kill auy woodcock before sunrise or after sunset. 



3. The killing, taking, or having as aforesaid each par- 

 tridge, woodcock, snipe, blue-winged duel;, or teal, shall 

 be deemed to oonstitule a separate offence; and any person 

 violating the next preceding section, .-hall be liable to a 

 penally of not less than five nor more than ten dollars for 

 each offence, and an additional penalty of one dollar for 

 each bird so taken or killed alter or in addition to the first 

 bird. 



10. All penalties imposed by this Act may be recovered 

 in a summary manner before a Stipendiary Magistrate or 

 before one or two Justices of the Peace, in the name of 

 any person who may sue for the same, and when ret i rvered 

 shall be paid, one half to the informer, and the other hall 

 to the prosecutor; and in case the amount of penalty and 

 of costs be not paid, the defendant shall be committed to 

 jail, and shall not be admitted the benefit of the chap- 

 ter of the revised statutes, third series, for the relief of in- 

 solvent debtors, until he shall nave undergone an imprison- 

 ment, without jail limits, of one day for each dollar of 

 such penalty and costs. 



This hitter provision is certainly sufficiently emphatic, 

 and the penally severe. In commenting upon the above 

 the Toronto Sporting TifMi says: — • 



The reckless manner 111 which game of all descriptions 

 has been in past years slaughtered; in ail the other provinces, 

 calls not only for legislative interference, but also Eoi n 

 appointment of suitable officers to enforce the law. Even 

 iu Ontario, where some very useful legislation h;< bei 

 augurated for the preservation of game and uah, there it 



not that respect for the law exhibited which would be the 

 case it were somebody's special business to carry out its 

 provisions. We know that several of the finest trout 

 streams in the country have been nearly ruined this season 

 throng!) the wilful carelessness of mill owners in throwing 

 their sawdust into the water, and if such recklessness is 

 permitted another year or two none of these rivers will 

 be worth fishing. It is all very well to say that neighbors 

 should inform against the offender, but very few men care 

 to breed a bad feeling in their neighborhood by acting as 

 an informer, and rather than play what they consider an 

 ignoble role they look quitely on and refuse to interfere. 

 Let us hope that more active legislation will be induced in 

 this direction, because if our Legislature will but appoint 

 one or two active overseers the people will soon be made 

 to respect the law and assist in preserving what they now 

 appear anxious to destroy. 



The great obstacle to the enforcement of law in every 

 country seems to be the fear or reluctance on the part of 

 officers and others to arrest or inform against offenders. 

 Hence t lie appointment of suitable men becomes impera- 

 tive; who are not afraid to do their duty, but whoso pay 

 shall at least approximate to an equivalent for their police 

 duties. When people find that offenders cannot escape and 

 that penalties are to be enforced, they will respect the game 

 laws as much as any other law*. A* ).,- --.it most persons 

 cannot anderstand that fera natu ■■<•• arc n ii public property; 

 but they must be tanght, ever with - ■■■. •.■: --" thai the legis- 

 lation that protects them is constitutional and wise, and "tor 

 the universal good. 



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FISH IN SEASON IN OCTOBER, 



Black Bus-, i/urrn/i/o-is .<nln:ni,,/ r \i wk-ioimrtu nlgrican 

 Striped Bass, Bocous lin&aius Weakiish. 



BhiefiBh, temnodoti salitUor. sle-epsliead. 



Trout (blaOk ki-.-i 

 Drum (two species). 

 Kingtisti. 

 Striped Base, 



Fish in Market.— Mr. Blackford, of Pulton Market, 

 reports smelts as quite plentiful. They hail from Maine. 

 The blue fish, which is coming iu quite freely from New 

 Jersey, retails at eight cenls per pound: and salmon-trout 

 and white fish, which are sent here from Sandusky, Ohio), 

 sell at eighteen cents. Small striped bass, weighing from 

 two lo three pounds, are very abundant and sell al fifteen 

 cen - bu| the larger variety, weighing from seven to twelve 

 p tun Is, is very .scarce, and brings twenty-five cents. These. 

 are -hipped from Rhode Island. Eels, from the coast of 

 Massachusetts, are very plentiful at fifteen cents per pound. 

 Soft shell crabs are scarce, and bring in $3 per dozen, but 

 the hard shell variety is abundant at from $3 50 to $3 per 

 dozen. In the language of our informant, now is the time 

 to enjoy "deviled crab." The only uncommon type of the 

 piscet) family on Mr. Blackford's tables was the "triple tail," 

 [jjoboft Surinam wts,) which was caught off the coasi of 

 Long Island. This is a very rare visitor to our market, so 

 is ; a , iting from its scarcity. According to DeKay, this 

 lias an elliptical form, deepest, opposite first dorsal ray. 

 i'he scales are moderately large, adherent, forty-five in a 

 'jngitudinal low, and thirty m a vertical line Mitred es 

 being ciliafe. The head is covered with scales, except 00 

 the snout and end of jaws; the lower jaw being somewhat 

 projecting. The dorsal fin is long, with tweive subeqiial 

 spines, and fifteen soft rays, the longest of the latter reach- 

 ing nearly to the middle of the caudal fin. The pectoral 

 fins are small and oblong, and the caudal is rounded. The 

 color of the hack and side-, is a rusty black; abdomen 

 dingy rufous, variegated with black and yellow specks; 

 the dorsal and ventral fins being slightly tinctured with 

 yellow. 



— Prank Buckland, Esq., of Land and Wata\ has been 

 studying the anatomy of the tunny, {Scomber Thynnus,) 

 and has besides been eating of it. He says : — 



"In order to get at the skeleton, 1 had to cut off all the 

 flesh; this was red like beef, exceedingly firm, no fat, but 

 oily like salmon. 1 distributed this among my friends. 

 My secretary, Mr. Searle, made his supper off of it, and he 

 reports that, fried in thick slices, it resembles very lender 

 veal cullets; when boiled and pickled, is very much the 

 flavor of salmon. Those who have never tasted tunny 

 should try the tin of potted tunny thai can lie obtained at 

 any provision warehouse. The vertebra are very strongly 

 ii together, and bound together by extremely' firm liga- 

 ments." 



We, too, have just been eating tunny. The only ob- 

 jectionable point about tunny is, that the flesh i 

 color. The meat, however, was short and crisp. Tunny 

 put up in cans and cooked in oil would he a most desirable 

 article of lood. The small tunny, {QTaymi* TlatMua^ 

 not uncommon now in market, but finds no puna 



New JEJVSBT.— JBitrnegntK Oct. 10. — Sheepshead gone; 

 plenty of black fish; big, catches of blue fish reported from 

 the Branch, South to reeds. We are expecting our turn 

 soon. A few good catches of striped bass are repoi ad this 

 week. Our gunning season commenecs on the loth. Do 

 you want a big day's shooting? Kinsev. 



—Jersey fishermen have had a good " catch" of Spanish 

 mackerel during the present season. 



— William Green, while fishing in front of the Pavilion 

 Hotel, Long Branch, caught the largest Spanish mackerel 

 ever caught in those waters. It measured three feet ami a 

 half in length, and weighed 11$ pounds. 



—A remora, or sucking fish, about eight and a half inches 

 long, was caught near the Gosuold Mills, New 

 recently. When found he was on his back, fast to the up- 

 per surface of a log. 



—The catching of smelt with the use of alight pole, 

 hook and line, with shrimp bait, is now engaging the 

 attention of anglers in the waters and estuaries -of Massa- 

 chusetts Bay, Seventy dozen to a tide is reported 

 catch of an expert fishing from a row boat and tending 

 two poles, It is I 



