202 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



— The Executive Committee of the National Rifle Asso- 

 ciation met at the office of the association, No. 93 Nassau 

 street, last Thursday afternoon to listen to several protests 

 which hud been raised on several points. Colonel Church 

 presided, Generals Shalcr and Woodward, and Liculenunl- 

 Colonel Gilriersleeve. being present. The case of Private 

 Irwin, of the Seventy-ninth Regiment, in the Galling gun 

 match, was first taken up, aud after mnchlalk, referred to 

 the full board for settlement. The matter between Messrs. 

 Pulton and Talcs as to what constitutes a breecbjloading 

 rifle, was then taken up. Lieutenant Pulton had placed a 

 cartridge in bis breech loader, and then completed the 

 charge bv putting the powder-wad and bullet down from 

 the muzzle. He explained that he .lid it to save time from 

 loading cartridges ai Borne- Ho Insisted, however, that his 

 was a breech loader, and the particular mode of loading 

 did not affect the conditions of the match. General Shalcr 

 thought his mode was simply loading the cartridge and not 

 the gun. It was finally unanimously determined to award 

 the contested prize to Lieutenant Fulton. An attempt was 

 ■ in fix upon a definition of a breech loading gun, 

 but the hour being late, the previous motion was recon- 

 sidered, and the whole matter referred to the full board. 



—To encourage rifle practice among the members of the 

 California National Guard $1,000 have been given to the 



Major-Geueral 001 

 he has allowed tin 

 For the best regin 

 cavalry cor) pany 

 company tareet pi 

 will take pla 



andiug by the State authorities, and 

 OTng Sums for each competition: — 

 :arget practice, §100; for the best 

 [iraclico, $."ii); for the best infantry 

 floO. Competition for said prizes 

 id June next, before a Board of 

 three United States army ollicers, and the awards will be 

 made on the 4th of July following. 



— The rifle tournament of the Second Connecticut regi- 

 ment was held On tllfi 38th at -New iiaveu. The teams 

 shot at 200 and 500 yards for team prizes, and individuals 

 at 200 for the Col. Smith gold medal. A team from the 

 First regiment was beaten by" a team from the Second. A 

 tnedal was also slid fur by commissioned officers. Owing 

 to the foj in the morning' the shoot was not concluded at 

 night. This was the second annual tournament, and the 

 :.i shooting was much better than last year. The 



[ 88 1;. i die was used. 



—The Rifle Tournament of the Second Regiment, Col. 

 S. R. Smith, closed tin Wednesday. The first prize for 

 companv teams, at 200 and 500 yards, was won by Company 

 K. of \Vallingford; seeped, by Company I, of Meriden, 

 and third by Company B. Corporal J. M. Lane, of Meri- 

 den, won the first prize for individual excellence at both 

 rangeB, making 33 Oat Of a possible 40. The. Colonel 



- —on by Quartermaster-Sergeant S. Park 



18 out of a possible 20, at 200 yards. 



3 won by Adjutant J. S. A. Baker. The 



mch better thiin last year, the winning 



of a possible 820. The twelve best 



Smith medal was wo 

 Bio.wi. who made 

 The Bane medal > 

 shooting has been 

 ug 201 ( 



ires, five shots each at 200 and 500 yards, sum up 337, an 

 average of over 38 out of a possible 40, surpassing the cor- 

 responding twelve best scores of the 'twenty-second regi- 

 ment of New York at Creedmoor, which summed up 29-5, 

 ttn average of 2-l.t out of a possible 40. 



—We have been shown a double barrelled, muzzle load- 

 ing shot gun, made for Mr. Norman Elmore, of Granny, 

 Conn., by Messrs. Cooper, Harris & Hodgkins, or Broad- 

 way, about two years ago— length, 28 inches; 11 bore; 

 S'i pounds weight ; 4f inches drop ; 12* inches from heel- 

 plate to front trigger ; laminated steel ; walnut stock. Its 

 greatest peculiarity is its extreme drop and the shortness of 

 the stock ; but those who might at first be tempted to 

 guffaw at the awkward-looking tool, cannot but feel how 

 mechanically and with what readiness and comfort it fits 

 the shoulder, arm and eye when brought to bead. We hear 

 of several gentlemen who purpose ordering stocks of tho 

 same pattern, aud we ourselves shall lose no time in putting 

 in our application, for we cannot but feel convinced that 

 its use will practically explain away many muffin shots 

 which have reluctantly been credited to nervousness or 

 bad marksmanship. Mr. El wood prefers all bore gun for 

 general shooting . 



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San Fbancibco, Cat, Oct. 20th, ISM. 

 Eprron Forest and blHKAJl.— 



The regular monthly match of Co. E.. First Regiment N. G. C, was 

 held at Ihiv View, October 17th. Firteen members shut in the lire! class 

 at 2"0 and 500 yards, ihots cacb distance. Target at 300 yards -1 feet. 

 and fi feet. SOI) yard target, usual size, feet by 6 feet. HiBe, Sharp's 

 military, 511 cal. Weather, rainy in the forenoon, afterwards clear. 

 Wind, hardly perceptible. I append the scores of the best U in the first 

 class. 



mmm. 



BOO v<A*. 



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W0 yil«. 





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Private C NhhIi 



3 3 3 4 3 



16 



4-14331 18 



34 





s a s a 3 



13 



1 i 4 i 3 19 



32 





13 34 



11 



2 4 3 2 4 



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3 2 3S4 



IS 



2 3 2 ) 3 



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28 





4 2 3 3 



12 



3 3 4 2 4 



to 



28 





8 3 2 



K 



3 S 3 4 2 



14 



22 





s -i a o « 



9 



14 4 



IS 



31 





8 .1 3 3 4 



IB 



! 3 R n 



6 



21 



o ite anl !•:. O. Hunt 



ii ii a a % 



to 



2 2 2 11 3 



9 



19 



1 iMiirphv 



g 8 a 3 a 



IS 



2 3 R 



s 



18 



i ii ■;, i- J.S. Campbell 



S 2 3 4 



11 



4 8 



3 



17 



Jenkins 



2 2 2 2 



s 



4 3 2 



9 



17 



Pistol Fbacmce.— We are pleased to acknowledge the 

 receipt of the following complimentary note from Mr. J, 

 S, Conlin." Foud of pistol practice ourselves, we naturally 

 fed interested in imparting such information to our readers 

 as can be obtained relative to the science or art. — Ed.] 



930 Broadway, New Yobk, Nov. 2, 1874. 

 BniTOn Forest and Stream:— 



Im am pleased, Mr. Editor, to uotice the Interest yon manifest in 

 practice with email pistols, as the popularizing of small-arm shooting 

 will do away In a great measure with (he immcrons accidents that attend 

 the handling of pocket fire-arms by those unskilled In their use. It Is a 

 i ..ii fact (hat not more than one in fifty knows anything either as 

 [,, accuracy ol aim (it the manner of holding a pistol. 



Bp lit: the atlention of the public called to this fact, your reputa- 

 tion' as a public benefactor will be established. 



-Tin: Hefawmre County Tt^nMiivtn says:— A movement 

 will shortly no made by a numbur of persons in this city 

 and its vicinity, to form an association for the protection 

 Of game, auxiliary to the Spoilsmen's Clubof Philadelphia. 

 Such a society is greatly needed, 



|#* and Miver 



FISH IN SEASON IN NOVEMBER. 



Striped Bass, ZJpiww linmtw, 



Pompano. Trout (b 



Snapper. llmtu (t 



Grouper. Klnefist 

 Kocklish. 



riped Bass. 



.Sheepshead. 

 Tallorflali. 

 Sea Bass. 



Fish in Market.— Pish has been scarcer within the 

 past few days than it was Jast week. The Southern witters 

 are furnishing a large supply fit blue fish, which sell at 

 eight cents a pound. Stnelts.arc abundant and retail at from 

 twenty-live to thirty cents per pound; king fish is common 

 and varies from twelve and a halt to twenty-five cents, and 

 fresh mackerel from New England is -worth fifteen cents. 

 Salmon trout from the Western lakes brings fifteen cents; 

 whitefish from the same locality, bring eighteen cents; 

 sheepshead from the coast of Virginia aud Maryland 

 twenty-five cents, and weaklish twelve and a half cents. 

 Flounders are quite abundant, aud retail at ten cents per 

 pound. 



— The fishermen on the South side of Long Island are 

 having remarkable good luck this Fall. Large shoals of 

 blue fish have recently passed along the shores and great 

 numbers have been taken off Freeport, Islip, BabylonTand 

 Southampton, Several tons were caught at the latter place 

 during the past week, and shipped to New York. At 

 Weslhanipton a fishing company caught nearly 4,000 and 

 another company look about 2,000. The fish average about 

 five pounds apiece and are very fat. The oyster season, 

 too, is now fairly under way and bids fair to be very suc- 

 cessful, and to give employment to a large number of men 

 at good wages. They find a ready sale at from fifty cents 

 to $1 25 a bushel. 



— A strange fish was washed ashore at the east end of 

 Staten Island one day last week. It was from four to five 

 feet long, and weighed about, sixty pounds. It has neither 

 dorsal nor ventral fins, but large flippers, under which were 

 its gills, and above which were two formidable horns. The 

 mouth was very large, and furnished with formidable teeth 

 above and below. The head was about two thirds the en- 

 tire length. Hundreds of people viewed it, but nobody 

 could tell what it was. 



in circulation 



— A peli 

 in the into 

 asking the 

 force the i 



the taking 



— Large qualities of lobsters 

 caught along (he shores of Slat 

 hook and line for striped bass : 

 good, in consequence of the co 



— There was a fine specimen 

 bition^at Sullivan's ' 

 Whitehead, Esq. It 



in Sayville, in this St"te, 

 ters of the neighborhood, 

 die laws, or rather to en- 

 e new in force, regulating 

 t South Bay. 



and crabs are now being 



a Island, and fishing with 



id black ush is unusually 



Untied fine weather. 



ueu of a muscalongo on exlti- 



Monday, sent by Charles E. 



caught' in Lake* Huron, and 



weighed thirty-eight pound: 



The PnovrxcETOwx Fishermen.— Forty sail of cod 

 fishermen have arrived from the banks and the bay with 

 38,500 quintals, and there are icn more sails to come. The 

 latter have been reported, and their catch will increase the 

 aggregate to 50,000 quintals, being an average of 1,000 

 quintals to a vessel. Last year, at this date, fifty-six sails 

 had brought in 71,710 quintals, and this quantity was sub- 

 sequently increased, by the arrival of second fares, to a 

 total of 80,000 quintals, giving an average of 1429 9-14 

 quintals to a vessel, and a total catch of 30,000 quintals 

 more than the entire products of this year. One vessel 

 only, the Camilla, has this season returned to the bank for 

 a second fare. 



Notwithstanding this large decrease in tho catch, there is 

 nevertheless compensation in the prevailing higher prices. 

 A year ago to date sales for larger cod had averaged less 

 than S>1 30 per quintal, and the market is still active and 

 promising. While several vessels have como in without 

 fares, incurring serious loss for owners and sharesmeu, the 

 majority of the fleet will realize more net profit from their 

 voyages than was obtained last year from an unpreccdent- 

 edly large catch. 



—The Georgesmen are bringing in very good fares of 

 halibut of late. 



—According to the Cape Ann Advertiser, the shore 

 mackereliug Beet have mostly abandoned the business. 

 Some of the vessels have hauled up, and others are fitting 

 out for haddock fishing, whicli will be quite extensively 

 prosecuted through the Pall and Winter season. Messrs. 

 Judson, Tarr & Co., of Rockport, have leased a wharf at 

 the Port, and will have four steamers employed in this 

 branch of the fisheries. 



Tie Newfoundland and Grand Meuan herring fisheries 

 will also lie extensively engaged in the coming season. 

 Four vessels have already sailed for the former porl lor 

 caro-oes of salt herring, and others will soon follow. The 

 frozen herring fleet will.be off (he latter part of next 

 month and early in December, aud some forty or fifty sail 

 will engage in its prosecution. 



The hay fleet are coming in slowly, live vessels having 

 arrived the past week, and several others are on the home- 

 ward passage. Most of the fleet will probably bo along by 

 the middle of November. There have also been ten arri- 

 vals from the Grand Banks the past week, second trips, the 

 vessels averaging good fares of codfish. 



A. Washington correspondent sends us the. following 



notes, which will prove gratifying to State Pish Com- 

 missioners and encouraging to resident anglers: — 



of the Potomac, Oct. 20i/c — The Great falls 

 made illustrious. Mr. John Hancock, file 

 ie noted for its skill in angling, has accomp- 

 lished the biggest feat of the kind ever' known on the 

 Upper Potomac, He fished a half a day, (Thursday, the 

 22d of October,) and look thirteen blade bass, btaiities 

 every one, On Friday lie captured twcnly-four more; on 

 Saturday Bfty-ejght accepted the tempting bait and found a 

 hook in their noses, and on Sunday thirty three more were 

 booked for a journey to Washington, mailing in all one 

 hundred and thirty-eight, more black bats than any one 

 man ever caught before in the same time in tho Great Falls 

 Fishing Grounds. In weight they averaged about two and 



a half pounds and were as fat as pigs. The Club propose 

 to have a grand celebration in honor of the event and to 

 crown Mr. Hancock "King of Fishermen" for the ensuing 

 year. 



— It seems that sharks are beginning to become numer- 

 ous in those parts of the St. Lawrence which are now 

 being fished for porpoise. The fish, though dangerous to 

 man, are not wholly useless. The skin may be converted 

 into a sort of leather of considerable value; a good deal of 

 very tolerable oil can be obtained from the liver, and though 

 the flesh is coarse and poor, is bj' no means absolutely un- 

 eatable. Not only is shark occasionally eaten at sea for a 

 change from salt provisions, it is employed as food in some 

 parts of northern Europe, and its fins are preserved in some 

 places for the Chinese market, where they are sold as a 

 delicacy. 

 j The Labhadoii Fisheries.— The following letter from 

 j the Secretary of State relative to the discussion as to the 

 ; status of Labrador in the Washington Treaty, and which 

 involved the whole of its commerce in fish, has been pub- 

 lished : 



Department of State, / 

 Washington, D. (J., Oct. 20, 1874. J 

 To Hon. B. H. Brislow, Secretary of the Treasury : 



Sir : Referring to your letter of the 14th of October, and 

 to previous correspondence, on the question of the relations 

 of Labrador to theDomiuion of Canada or to the Colony of 

 Newfoundland, and particularly to the question in your 

 note of the 14th inst., whether' La' irador is oris- not ac- 

 cepted as a part of the Dominion of Canada or of the 

 Colony of Newfoundland, from which fish are admitted 

 free of duty under the Treaty of Washington, I have the 

 honor to inclose you a copy of a note from Sir Edward 

 Thornton, her Britanic Majesty's representative, dated the 

 20th of October, upon that question, in which he informs 

 the department that the whole of Labrador, outside of the 

 Province of Quebec, is under the jurisdiction aud govern- 

 ment of the Colony of Newfoundland, aud is actually in- 

 cluded in and forms a part of that colon}-. In the absence 

 of this information, now communicated, it has not been 

 possible to furnish an earlier answer to your letter. I have, 

 therefore, the honor to inform you that the whole of 

 Labrador being included in and forming a part of New- 

 foundland, the provisions of article 18 to 25 of the Treaty 

 of Washington have been extended thereto, In pursuance 

 of article 22 of the same treaty, and that the exemptions 

 which by these articles are extended to the Dominion of 

 Canada are equally applicable to Newfoundland, including 

 Labrador. 



—By the arrival of the steam tug Cabot, from Labrador, 

 bringing dates to the 2lst ult, from that coast, the Harbor 

 Grace Standard is enabled to lay the following particu- 

 lars before its readers: — 



"The sailing fleet from the north had returned thence, 

 the larger crews having caught from 350 to 000 quintals 

 each, and the smaller ones from 250 to 300 quintals. Prom 

 Cape Harrison to Indian Harbor a good improvement had 

 taken place in the cod fishery since last reports, and from 

 that locality southward a little improvement had also been 

 made. The boats were catchins occasionally from two to 

 four quintals per day. Tho lateness of the season will 



Great. 

 Chili Im 



soon wind up (he cod fishing 



estimate this y 

 boat on the coast, - 

 on the southern pa 

 voyage. Herring i 

 ult., when, up Id li 

 A storm from the i 

 ing for a few days, 



catch at a 

 ,-hich, com! 



t of I he sh 



perations i 



c 11th, the 

 orl.hoast th 

 du 



operations, so that we may 

 average of 110 quintals per 

 ined with the herring catch 

 ore, will give a fair average 

 ad commenced on the Olh 

 netting was pretty general. 

 in interfered with the catch- 

 As, and forcing 



the herring into "deep water. After the gale had subsided 

 netting commenced again, and fair catches were being 

 made. In seining, very few bars have been secured, and 

 most of them lost, owing to the seines having been over- 

 turned by the sea and tide. However, wilh another good 

 week's success, it may be safely calculated that our usual 

 herring cargoes will lie secured. The quality of the fish is 

 reported as very flue, and, with strict attention given to 

 them this year, our customers may be certain of a good 

 article in their market this Fall." 



—A seventy-eisht pound codfish was shown in the 

 Halifax fish market last week. It was the largest seen for 

 many years. 



—The American fishing fleet of Cape Breton, are reported 

 doing poorly lately. Some -vessels have made fair catches 

 of mackerel, but the majority have taken but few. 



—Large bass have been caught during the past few days 

 from off the battery, near the fort, at St. Augustine, Pla. 

 Mr. Francis Hantee one day caught a bass which weighed 

 forty-five pounds, aud measured about four feet in length. 

 Some fifteen of these monBter bass have been caught at 

 that locality. 



— There is very- good trout fishing, in its season, in the 

 vicinity of Granby, Connecticut, 



—English herring, fish seldom seen in our waters, were 

 taken quite plentifully from the river at Pawtucket, R. I., 

 last week. 



THE FISH OF IOWA. 



Dav'k.vpobt. Iowa, October 15th, 1874. 



! flsh of the inland waters 

 tS white salmon, and in 



tame name in Ohio and on 



a large growth, sometimes 

 Years ago the writer has 



sribod, but the largest he 



t-eded eleven pounds. He 

 to ten pounds in weight 



ing in the Spring, when 



cents a pound. 



b passed mak- 



i iron 



e (Im 



Excepting bjac.lt bass, pi 

 nf the Went ie the pike perch, whose misnonu 

 some placea wall-eyed pike. This li.ih has the 

 the Susquehanna. In the hater stream II attaini 

 reaching even twenty ponuds weight, or more. 

 seen them taken in that river u- i. .... B ne 

 has aeen taken from the MiesiB&i] I • ' ' ' ' ' - 

 has himself killed quite a number from flv 

 The greatest destruction of this fish is by sei 

 they are exposed for sale in the market for tei 



At the. lust session of the Leglslatnre of loi 



nd the i 



ing a small appropriation for fish 

 commissioners. In this act there was some 

 the wanton destruction and wholesale ext-n: 

 of fish. But, unfortunately, neither Iowa o 

 jurisdiction over the waters of the Mississiy. 

 be properly guarded. 1'ossibly Conjrressioi 

 voted to prevent the tolling of the white 

 other i-peoies in the midst of their spawning season. 



On Saturday, 10th instant, I honked four pretty spevmiens of pike 

 perch, and, after some play, succeeded in landtag two, one weighing 

 three pounds, and the other seven and a hall, which made a glorious Sun- 

 day morning breakfast. 



ml of three 

 n provided against 

 nation of different .varieties 

 Dlmois has such exclusive 

 ii that (he fish therein can 

 d legislation might be in- 

 alrnon, or pike perch, find 



