FOREST AND STREAM. 



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his territory, and upon the brink of this delectable stream 

 where he could superintend his workmen in person. Al- ( 

 ready he has cleared and widened the stream opposite ihe 

 shanty into a very considerable pond, which will reach a 

 quarter of a mile in circumference when completed. He 

 has turned loose largo quantities of trout at sundry times, 

 until with the aid of their natural increase he has made 

 this one of the best stocked streams of its size in the States. 

 Last Spring we tested its abundance by taking out forty in 

 a few minutes. By nest Spring Mr. Keith hopes to have a 

 comfortable sporting house built close by, (o accommo- 

 date not more than ten gentlemen at a time, to whom the 

 privileges of fishing or shooting, according to the season, 

 would be granted, at moderate prices, upon the presenta- 

 iion of suitable references. This will not be a club house 

 in any sense of the word, nor yet a hqtel ; but applicants 

 will be served, in turn, for a limited period, at a fixed price 

 per diem, to include game and fish killed or taken away. 

 There will be no tariff per pound, nor any special privileges 

 to barter off at extortionate prices. It will be simply a 

 sportsman's rendezvous, where good food and fair terms 

 may be had, and a good bag of fish and game be guaran- 

 teed. This guaranty could.uot bo given were the number 

 of guests to be unlimited, or to exceed the fixed number of 

 ten at. any given time. 



This stream, it should be said, runs through the choicest 

 hunting ground of Long Island, and is the centre of the 

 present deer country. It traverses the thickest cover, and 

 is crossed by frequent runways. Partridges are more 

 numerous here than elsewhere, and quail are found in con- 

 siderable quantity. When ready for visitors, Jlr. Keith 

 will have some basswood. canoes placed upon the stream 

 for the use of anglers. He has five men now employed in 

 improving the pond and creek. "Wo are glad that he has 

 consented to devote his efforts to the entertainment of 

 sportsmen in the manner proposed, for his scheme is 

 founded on common sense, humanity, and honorable deal- 

 ing. At present trout fishing and cover shooting on Long 

 Island is almost a farce, by reason of the extortion of land- 

 lords, or the restrictions of landed proprietors. 



We understand that the South Side Club has been nego- 

 tiating for this properly of Mr. Keith for a considerable 

 time, appreciating as they do its value as an addition to 

 their preserve, especially as it includes the head water.-! of 

 their stream, to which the trout instinctively resort to 

 spawn. Mr. Keith, however, has declined to sell, which is 

 a fortunate decision for those persons not members of the 

 club. The entire tract embraces about one thousand 

 acres, and lies within two miles of the South Side Railroad. 

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Deer SijAUOUTEU in the Adlrondacks. — All sports- 

 men left the Adirondack region early in November, but 

 we learn from a resident at Keeseville that ihe guides arc 

 making fearful slaughter of deer. We believe that more 

 deer are killed by the few score guides in that locality, 

 whose occupation ends with the advent of snow storms, 

 than by all the sportsmen put together. There is crying 

 need for some restrictive measures and very heavy penal- 

 ties to prevent speedy extermination of the deer in that 

 section. But neither laws nor fear of penalties will of 

 themselves stop the slaughter. We are in favor of the 

 appointment of special officers or overseers, who shall visit 

 different localities incognito, as detectives, during the 

 Fall and Winter, especially after the snows get deep, 

 report offenders, and procure their arrest. In no other way 

 can violations of the law be stopped. We suggest that a 

 petition to this effect be presented to our State Legislature 

 this Winter. It will be one step at least toward the con- 

 servation of those important interests which it is hoped the 

 creation of the State Park will accomplish. The Adiron- 

 dack region ought to be placed under the immediate super- 

 vision of the State authorities, just as portions of Canada 

 are under those of the Dominion, with efficient men to act as 

 wardens. It is all nonsense to inveigh against sportsmen 

 for lulling deer in July and August by jacking or hound- 

 ing, when the strapping backwoodsmen, whose occupation 

 as guides makes them perfectly familiar with all the haunts 

 of deer, slaughter them by the dozen in the deep snows of 

 mid-winter. Slaughter by sportsmen! Faugh! there's not 

 one in a hundred who couid catch a deer without the aid 

 of his guide, even if he were at the point of starvation. 

 Let wise men stop the leak at the bung, and not at the 

 spiggot. 



La Vie Sportive.— We have received a new journal 

 published in Paris bearing the above name. As its title 

 indicates, it is devoted to field sports and all those exer- 

 cises which develop a vigorous manhood. We notice 

 among its contributors several names well known among 

 the oldest nobility of the realm, a fact which indicates that 

 the aristocracy of Europe are yet the supporters and keen- 

 est lovers of all that is ennobling and exhilirating. This 

 journal is also replete with short and varied essays on 

 various subjects, and while none of them displays much 

 originality yet they are quite readable. We wish our con- 

 temporary success. 



— Our friends and readers are requested to scan our Prize 

 List column in another page. The premiums offered for 

 subscribers are unusually liberal, and embrace articles 

 adapted to the wants of every gentleman sportsman in the 

 country — be he tyro or veteran. The subscription list of 

 Forest and Stream is flatteringly full, but our ambition 

 and hopes, and we think its own deservings, place our mark 

 still higher. 



—Earl Dunraven has returned from his hvmting expendi- 

 tion to the West. 



GAME LAWS OF PENNSYVANIA. 



For the information of our readers who visit Pennsylvania, we print herewith a Digest of the Game Laws of Penn- 

 sylvania, as prepared by the "Lancaster County Fish and Game Society." Preserve it. 



Xame of Game. 



Bass (black) 



Bird** 



Dirt, coal or culm 



"Drawing off Water". 



Any time.. 

 June 1 



Drugs or poisons 



"Ducks fwild) 



Egg» (bird's* 



Fish.. 



Fish baskets 



Fish ponds (private) . . 



Goose (wild), _ Anv time Any time... 



(,v.,ii- . ,,r ll,...,i„. , s,.,,- i . ,l:ui. I . 



Hare, or Rabbit Oct. 1 Feb. J... 



Informer 



Am lime. . 

 March J... 



Insectivorous birds* 



Limitations of actions.. 



, Prairie Chicken. 



Quail— See I'uitlidg 



Kahljit. or Itare 



Kail, orKeed LUrd.. 



Shad (Delaware audtrib).. 

 Shad (Susquehanna & trib 

 Snipe ( W ilson or G rev ),... 



Any time.... .. 



AtlJJ. 1 



Nov. 1 



Oct. i 



Sept. 1 ., 



April 1 



Aug. 10 



Aug. 10 



Any time 



Sept. 1 



Anytime.. 



Feb.] 



Dec. 1 



Aug. 15... 



Dee. 30 Feb. 1 . 



Get. 1 Jan I.. 



nlv i Jan. 1.. 



Penalty for 

 taking out 

 Of Season. 



May be lakeu with band nets (or angling or (scientific, purposes. 



Hook and line, or scroll, only to be used. (See Nets.l 



Not to be trapped or snared;' $10 for destroying nests. 



Not allowed to he thrown iu creeks or ponds. 



Fishing not allowed where water is drawn off, except for scientific i 



propagating purposes. 

 Not allowed in fishing, hunting, or to bo thrown into streams. 



No "punt gnns" or "; 

 Except those of "hire 

 Not to be taken durir, 

 To be removed on tei, 

 After due notice givei 



only to ponds or 



lish. 



alio' 



8tr< 



for scientific pnrposcs. 



E by sheriff. 



>ne allowed to fish therein. Applies 



1 or unproved for propagatioi " 



rivals" allowed.— See Ducks. 

 -, _- traps allowed. 

 See Rabbit— §10 line for hunting with "ferrets." 

 Any person may inform within six months and receive one-half of the 



line. 

 Not to be trapped or snared; Ten dollars penalty for destroying 



nests. 

 All information must be made within six months before a Justice of 



the Peace. 

 Not to be placed within one-half mile of dams with shutes, unless mesh. 



es are three inches where iln-re are trout or bass. 

 Not to be set across canals, rivulets, ana creeks, except for propagating 



purposes. 

 Not to be destroyed.— Sec Insectivorous Birds. 

 Ko feed, bait, blind, or traps allowed. 

 May he trapped ahve for preservation only. 



No feed, bait, blind, or trap allowed. 



Hook anil line ami scroll only. except for propagation. 

 Not to be killed or molested on nesting or roosting ground. 



. 'i lY.j:1 lo.i o. Minus, o: ■ :\s -.. ' so p :'s.r rs .: :: ; s 



No feed, bait, or blind traps allowed. 



Ten dollars penalty for banting walll "ferrets. 1 ' 



Not. to be killed on nesting or roosting ground. 



Owner of private pond may catch in his own pond to stock other waters. 



May be taken alive with nets any time for propagation. 



May be taKeli ally.' with nos ,'srr.- one i'sir prop; ssi .. 



Not to be killed or molested on nesting or roosting grounds.— See 



Nests. 

 This applies to Grey, Black, and Fox Squirrels. 

 No hnntine, shooting, or fishing allowed 

 Hook and line only, except for propagation.— See Nets. 

 Hook and line only, except for propagation.— See Nets. 



.. . allowed to be taken or killed in any 

 ! $5 for each bird. This includes bluebirds, 

 ' lairer. thrush, woodpecker, whippoc 



May be used to"pre„. 



No feed, bait, blind, c 

 No feed, bait, blind, c 



e birds during the Winter only, 

 trap.— See nests, 

 trap. -See nests. 



-•.except, for preservation through the Winter, or for scientific, 

 bobolink, cat bird, cedar bird, dove, finch, lark, marten, night hawk, 

 and other insectiverons birds.— Act of May 1, 1874 



CREEDMOOR-RIFLEMEN'S COUR- 

 TESIES. 



PREVIOUS to the departure of the chivalric Captain of 

 the Irish team for his home, he was made the recipient 

 of a handsome badge by the members of the Amateur Rifle 

 Club, as a slight token of their esteem for iiim. During the 

 ceremony of presentation. Colonel Church, editor of the 

 Army and Navy Journal, made the following remarks, and 

 they express the feelings entertained for Major Leech and 

 his men by their American friends and friendly rivals, 



Major Leech: — The Directors of the National Rifle As- 

 sociation have requested me to present to you, on their be- 

 half, and on behalf of the Association which they represent, 

 this badge, which they ask you to accept as an expression 

 of the esteem in which they hold you and your compatriots 

 of the Irish International team. It is only at the moment 

 that I have learned that the pleasant duty of this presenta- 

 tion was to devolve upon me, and I am sure you and the 

 gentlemen of the board will pardou me i£ I should fail, as I 

 "most certainly should fail, even under more favorable cir- 

 cumstances, to give adequate expression to the sentiments 

 which they entertain toward you. They ask you to accept 

 this badge, not only as a token of personal regard, but as 

 proof ofthcir high appreciation of the service you have 

 rendered them in. stimulating the growing interest in rifle 

 practice in this country. In the cordiality with which you 

 aided our efforts in this respect, you have shown a great 

 and, as \vc are glad to know, a well-founded confidence in 

 the traditional friendship between Ireland and America, 

 and whatever the result of our efforts in reviving and per- 

 petuating the traditions of American skill in the use of the 

 rifle, we are sure that you can cordially second those efforts; 

 joining with us in the hope and assurance that the green 

 and the blue will never be found opposed to each other, ex- 

 cept upon fields of friendly competition. When we recall 

 all the circumstances of the contest to which you invited 

 us, and remember how many possibilities there are of un- 

 pleasantness and difficulty in such contests, we shall remem- 

 ber with no small satisfaction that there is no single cir- 

 cumstance conuected with the International competition 

 at Creedmoor which any of us can refer to otherwise than 

 with pleasant recollections of our acquaintance. This fact 

 is in itself testimony sufficient as to the character of the 

 contestants; and accepting you and your friends as repre- 

 sentative Irishmen, I can assure you that we look forward 

 with no small pleasure to Ihe acquaintance we shall form 

 during our anticipated visit to Ireland in the Summer of 

 1ST5. And now, in taking leave of you for a season, we 



sh you, my dear sir, God speed and a pleasant voyage. 



To this the recipient responded in his usual manly and 

 feeling manner, and his reciprocation of the sentiments of 

 good will and warm friendship proved how close, are the 

 bonds that unite the distinguished riflemen of the Green 

 Isle and those of our own country. Now that the greater 

 portion of the Celts have returned home, we wish them un- 

 bounded happiness through life, and hope that when next 

 they visit us, they may know nothing worse than the hos- 

 pitality with which they have been received on their first 

 visit. 



They are worthy foemen, and as genial as they are 

 skilful and unpretentious, so we hope that the bond of 

 friendship created by ibis visit will always remain as strong 

 as it is at present. To Major Leech and his "team" we will 

 say "sUtunhd/t," and promise to give them another "cwl 

 mille failthc " whenever they return to our shores. 



Postponed. — It was supposed that the Leech cup would 

 be shot for this month, but owing to the lateness of the 

 season, the event has been postponed until next year. 



— Lieut. Col. Joseph Laing, of the Seventy-ninth Regi- 

 ment, N. G., in placing at the disposal of the National Rifle 

 Association the Qatling gun, of which a majority of the 

 Executive Committee have deprived the Regiment, saj's ; 

 " I had considered the propriety of holding the gun, not- 

 withstanding the decision, and leaving the matter to a 

 jury, especially after learning that three, of your Board, 

 Gen. Shaler, Gen. McMahon, and Major Smith of the 

 Seventh Regiment (who aside from their w r ell-known quali- 

 ties as soldiers are men of upright characters), had seen the 

 injustice of throwing out Private Irwin's score and voted 

 in our favor upon that point. Subsequent reflection con- 

 vinces me, however, that such a proceeding would be un- 

 seemly. I have, therefore, concluded to surrender the 

 property in question. During our existence as a regiment 

 we have taken whole batteries of guns in the cause of our 

 National Union, and we certainly can afford to lose one 

 now for the sake of preserving union and good feeling in 

 the National Guard." 



— The competition for the Turf, Field and Farm badge 

 comes off at Creedmoor next Saturday. This will be the 

 last regular match of the Creedmoor season, so our best 

 marksmen are expected to be present. 

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NATIONAL SPORTSMEN'S ASSOCIATION 



The subjoined letter has been addressed to us by an 

 officer of the National Sportsmen's Association: — 

 Editor Forest and Stream: — 



It is proposed to make the Convention of the National Sportsmen's 

 Association, which is to be held at Cleveland on the second Tuesday in 

 June next, an interesting one to all true sportsmen. The attendance wilt 

 undoubtedly be large, as efforts are being made to have State Sportsmen's 

 Associations organized in all of the principal States. Papers will be read 

 and addresses made upon interesting topics, and the sportsmen of Cleve- 

 land will do all in their power to make the occasion pleasant and one to 

 be remembered. The Ohio State Sportsmen's Association wilt meet at 

 the same time "and place, but the time of meeting will be so arranged as 

 not to conflict in any manner with the National Association. 



Speaking of the Ohio State Sportsmen's Association, we will In this 

 connection state the manner of its formation and the beneficial results 

 already secured. In the early part of the present year, the Cleveland 

 Sportsmen's Club, deeming it advisable that a State Association should 

 be formed, addressed a circular letter to sportsmen throughout the State, 

 setting forth the advantages to be derived by the organization of such an 

 association, and asking suggestions in regard to the same. The re- 

 sponses were numerous and favorable; consequently a call was made for 

 a convention of sportsmen to meet at Cleveland at a certain date. The 

 result was a large attendance, an association organized, constitution and 

 by-laws adopted, officers elected, and the Ohio Sportsmen's Association 

 a listed fact. Since its organization local clnbs have been formed in many 

 of the cities, villages and townships, auxiliary to the State Association 

 The game laws have been more vigorously enforced, and much attention 

 given to the preservation of game. Although the association is only in 

 its infancy, the good resulting already from it can hardly bo estimated. 



Now here is a chance for other States to go and do likewise; then join 

 Hie National Association, and then all heartily unite iu one common ob- 

 ,te<. t , the preservation and propagation of game and fish, and uniformity 

 in game laws. We might here add that any one wishing information re- 

 luiive to the annual meeting of the National Association, or desiring 

 copies of Constitutions for State Associations, or local clubs, can write to 

 A. T. Brinsmadc, Esq., President of the National Sportsmen's Associa- 

 tion,^ Cleveland, Ohio, wbom we know will be always ready to respond. 



