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FOREST AND STREAM. 



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%nn mul 



GAME IN SEASON FOR JANU A I(Y, 

 Hares, brown and gray 



Wild duel;, goose, brant, &e. 



Deer. 



V\W. 



urkey, Woodcock, Quuil, bulpe, Ducks 



i EBlOtfl' 'A," h.n.l or "Ham-, 



f,j in general ttrih ' 



Mimv.A thai urn lr* In al 



thai' putii: 



i/,i*.<n,m. Thii ■' 



lailimj game irrttit (patleti I. 



Game in M m:kit.— Wild turkeys are getting rather 

 abundant and retail at twenty.fiTC cents per pound. Buffed 

 grouse retail al seventy-five coats per brace; prairie chick- 

 ens bring ihe sume price; brant are scarce at $1 75 per 

 brncM, but ducks arc common. Mallard bring $1 per DriToe; 

 canvas backs $2 50; qanil rare :u *•! per d«zen-, English 

 pheasants $(S per brace, and Euglisii hares ate $3 per brace; 

 Small snipe from "Virginia sell at seventy-live cents per 

 dozen-, although they are not very abundant. 



/., Massachusetts.— Andrew Bales, of ffauover, Mass., 

 1 captured 2,000 skunks last year, the skins ol which brought 

 him eighteen dollars a dozotl. Aral last year was uot a 

 good one for skunks in Massachusetts, either. 



M.Mtvt.Asn— />«•)■ Purl;, December 39iA.— Wot much of 

 importance this week, for the de-op j.UOW and rainy Weather 

 have spoiled the shooting, with the exception of shooling 

 at turkeys in a box with their heads for a target at a hun- 

 dred yards. 



Same is very abundant. From all that I hear I should 

 think it won d "lie cheaper than other kinds of food. 



Allri-haxy. 



Iowa— 11-tUhhi, Dallas County, D«c< rft&ef, 29//*.— Our quail 

 shooling eJoses first of January. tlav« had good sport 

 lately; Within the last four weeks- 1 have been out five 

 times averaging live hours each trip, and bagged one him- 

 died and Sixty. They were nearly all killed in the thick 

 oak brush where I think I rio v 

 two shots. I am quite partial t< 

 although one can't get so many, 

 what you do get, Yesterday i - 

 distance and stl'ucll against a sU 

 to look for il the dog- evidently 



wilier which ran from under a piece of ice attached to the 

 hank, mi . 1 plunged his head clear under several times, feel- 

 ing the bottom carefully with Ids nose. On breaking up 



hen killing once 

 kind of shooting, for 

 'a twice the honor in 

 tie which flew quite a 

 eek-hauk. Oil going 

 lilting in the 



U 



the 



:ake of ic 

 some drift beneath 

 and I he current swi 

 Minnesota — !},■■> 

 gentleman, lias hoe 

 Lake near lirainci 

 lie has a good boat 

 Deer grouse mob 



the finest mil lit of gnus probably 

 The Warlield Brothers, of Lin 



1 bird was found lodged against 

 it. It had fallen into the water above 

 •pt it under. O. H. Hampton. 



'in nl 2HM.— A Mr. Clayton, an English, 

 ght eight hundred acres on Fish Trap 

 i, Minnesota, and opened a fine farm, 

 on the lake, which abounds with fish. 



1 other game on his premises, and 



State, 

 ild Kentucky family of 

 that niune, have bought out several farms at Pelican Lake. 

 Minnesota, including Peaboily's famous stopping place. 

 They have introduced several car-loads of blooded horses 

 and horned stock which will he of untold value in that 

 legion. They have imported bird-dogs and hounds, so that 

 Winter and Summer alike on prairie and lake they can 

 enjoy the sports of Ihe chase. His oiler of a hunter's hos- 

 pitality will he something in these woods next year. 



Godfrey Vivian, M. !>., of Alexandria, Minnesota, has 

 for some 'years bred fleer hounds of a very superior quality 

 from imported slock. Willi a parly of" friends not long 

 since he killed nine deer in one week. The last, a noble 

 buck, aftei-a long run turned lo iighl Ihe (logs, hut. closer 



pressed, took to the lake where two dogs followed him a 



mile, when he was shot and they taken into a boat. He 

 weighed dressed two hundred and twenty-eight pounds. 



General U. A. Custai passed through Brainerd on ihe 

 lasl through train for Bismarck, in a special car with Mr 

 0. W. Mead, General Manager of the Northern Pacific R. 

 K., on his way lo Port Lincoln opposite Bismarck. Dakota. 

 He hud some hue fox bounds from Kentucky nnd a high 

 bred pointer With which to replenish his targe kenna, 

 With his fox hounds, stag hounds, and greyhounds lie ex- 

 pects to make the woods about Ihe Missouri musical this 

 Winter. 



Mr. Thomas r. Caniw-cll, your graceful wood-arlist, in 

 describing Minnesota sports under the nomiilt rite phnne of 

 •' Havibuid,'' has the land at the end of his garden fenced 

 high, and a fine large dog-house built therein, partially 

 underground. lie has several blooded dOgs, especially a 

 fine, fox hound bitch with a large Utter of puppies. 



MISSOURI— SattAia Sec %'Mh.— Nice clear mild weather. 

 Plenty of game. Ducks, mallard and wood, two to four 

 bits per brace. Quail dressed live cents each. Prairie 

 chickens fifteen arid twenly-five cents each. Babbits ten 

 and twenty Cents each. Fox Squirrels ten cents each. 



(sASKDA—GravMhiuvf, Musko/xt, Dcr. 29/«, — The steam- 

 boats made their last trip on the 88th of November Ibis 

 year, which is about the usual time they stop running. The 

 lakes up here are generally frozen up by the first of Decem- 

 ber. All ihe hotels in the district are open both Wintfet 

 and Summer. The depth of snow now is about 18 Lushes, 

 and the average depth is about the same 



We have, good roads in the Winter and generally good 

 sledging from about the middle of Ibis month until the 

 the first of April. The Northern R. R. now extends to 

 Severn Bridge which is t*0 miles further thai) Washago. 



i ran from Severn Bridge on the arrival of -the 



train f i oui Toronto, to Gravenhurst and Bracebridge at 

 eight and nine-thirty A. M. to connect at Severn Bridge. 

 With Ihe trains lor Toronto. Tickets from Toronto to 

 Bracebridge ^;;.,"ilj. A stage iil.o leaves Bracebridge for 

 Rossenuand Pain Sound every Monday, Wednesday and 

 T:" ■':;•,. I'.nuifr^ leaves I i:, TV Sound fjr Braceli'tdge on 

 ' days al eleven A. M. There is also a mail stage 

 leaves Russeau every Tuesday morning for the Magauefa- 

 wan, hut don't return until the following Monday:. There 

 is uot much fishing done Up here through the ice. There 

 has been a few Speckled trout, salmon and pickerel caught, 

 but nothing 10 speak of. I intend to have # few days 



fishing through the ice next month, so a few hints on fish- 

 ing through The ice in your valuable paper would be very 

 acceptable just now. This month closes the hunting season. 

 JOSEl'li BCOTT, 

 GKOnor.v. — The Savannah Nimvh says a snow white" deer 

 was killed at Behlatlerville/on the 22d ult. Two brothers 

 named Ezell, living in Putnam county, have killed thirtj'- 

 four wild turkeys during the last Fall. A sixteen pound 

 Otter has been captured in Monroe county. 



— An elk of large size has been seen within the past fort- 

 night in the northern pari of Marquette county, Wisconsin. 

 Several hunters have pursued him, but failed to get within 

 gun shot. 



— The- quail taken from California to Nevada were thriv- 

 ing well among Ihe sage brush, when some idiots, fond of 

 sporting, butchered a large number of them. 



— .\ call has been issued lo the citizens of Kent county, 

 Michigan, to meet, at Grand Rapids, January 14th, to or- 

 ganize a county sportsmen's club. The call is signed by 

 nineteen gentlemen. 



—Colonel George W. Wirtgate, the energetic Inspector 

 of liiile Practice-in the Second Division, N. V. S. N. G., 

 has issued his first annual report, and quite an interesting 

 one it is from its very sensible comments and deductions. 

 He thinks il a piece of idle work to send inexperienced 

 men practising al a target 200 yards distant when they 

 cannot hit one not more than 50 yards off. Ho, therefore, 

 recommends that novices begin al 100 yards, and increase 



ship until they 

 position al 400 yards. His 

 >or Binge should be I hi own 

 I, when in uniform, free of 

 ise they cannot practice with 

 kc them good marksmen.. If 

 appropriation to enable Ibis 

 ell expended. We learn 



iinental tear 



i of twelve men 

 at 200 and MOO 

 ith. 16 L; Tliirty- 

 igltth 130 ; Thir- 

 Inspceior thinks 

 mc if the shells 



the distance as they inc. 

 can assume the recumbent 

 suggestion that Ihe Cre&dt) 



open lo the National Gun 

 charge, is apropos, for other 

 the assiduity neces9nry to m 

 the Stale were to increase th 

 to he duie, il would be moil 

 from the report that Ihe re<! 

 each, made Ihe following t< 

 yards : Twentvtnird 207 po 

 second 182 ; Porty -8CVI nth 1 

 teenth 123 ; Fifteenth Banal 

 that better shooting would 

 issued were belter. 



— Objections arc made against Ihe Wimbledon style of 

 targets adopted by the American Biile Club of Mount 

 Vernon by a very competent authority, for several reasons.; 

 the principal being that uniformity of scoring throughout 

 the country is destroyed and therefore that "the scores of 

 marksmen cannot he compared, and also that the machinery 

 for marking, as at Wimbledon, does not exist here. We 

 shall publish an article on this subject, by our highest 

 authority, next week, 



A running deer of iron, on Ihe Wimbled-m plan will be 

 one of the objects to be fired at during the present sertsou 

 at WlihpledOft, Double barreled lilies will be allowed in 

 firing al the salU'torial MHtUt, so that, the chance for hitting 

 it is good. 



— The Leech Cup will he shot for next May. The win- 

 ner retains il one year then returns it to the Board wdio 

 will give him a badge, proving Ids victory, in place of it. 



— Col. Gildersleevo will probably command the next 

 American International Team, as pressing duties may not 

 permit Col. Wingate to cross the Atlantic this year. 



— All American citizens can shoot for the Leech Cup. 



—The 

 .nswer 



California 

 ) the Chalk 



Rifle 



of Co. D. 12th 



it yet relumed an 

 P.egiment. 



;on Sin 

 illy pas 



al by 



f «._ The 



rt day of 



of the Lc 





P 



plea 

 Clu 

 Jam 



sweepstakes, under the Long 

 cap sweeps, from five trails, E 

 following are the matches and 

 Herald-— 

 Match of 8100; 15 birds each; al yards rise, eighty yards boundary; 1} 



ig Island Shooling 

 it Dexter's, on the 

 •h, four handicap 

 es, and two handi- 

 18 governing. The 

 I furnished to the 



Shut. 



. 14; r 



8860, '<■ 



each, 3 turds; $18 to the first and Jil to the 



W. E Birdseye, !M yards— 1 1 1-0. 

 0. Ireland, *» Tarda— 1 l 0. 



;c|i-ladcs, J.'l each, ;i birds; $18 to the first trad $9 to the 



te, 21 yards-1 11—111. 

 1 wuils— I 11 110 

 yo, -.'i yard! Ill -10. 

 yards -t t 1 -10. 

 , -a -..lmI:- 111 in. 



W. [rebuilt. Jl'v.-e.!- n 

 Cnpi. Kliiieiuloif. ,M.iard*-0. 



U.fei .Mi. WhlMcm. 



. 85 each, a hlrde; 520 to the flrst, $15 I 



Handicap - 

 sound and $ 



veepslukes. 



$5 each, 3 1 





.. 



M. UiivliM, 



5 irarda -i 



1. 



C. Ireland. 



Jl y;,rds-l 



j 1-1 0. 



Dr. Aikins 





-1 1—1 0. 



U. Walters 



•31 yards -i 



1 1-0. 



w t: Bird 





«-l 0. 



r. w . Win 





s-1 1) II. 



(1--1 i) 0. 



Hr Sl'siiis,,,,, -Ji; vai-ds"- Tola!, I.'.: killed. 11; missed, -t. 



M. Bavlia, SI via,]-- Total. 1.1: killed. 10; missed, 5. 



W. K.'liird-e.c. -ji, Minis I,,::.;. i:, : killed, :.'; missed, 0. 



Jni A. Panic. :;i> vafds— Total, 15; killed, 1\ missed, 8. 



Referee, Mr Parks. 



flainli. -.-.p sw.-,-psi-,k.-s. }10 entrance. 1 

 bonndaiy; Eml-IisIi rules i.i i;overo; S:x 

 and Ihe iwo lo.».-.-l to ~i ttle tor the birds. 



tra A. Painu, 80 yards— Total 10; killed. S: missed. 2. 



Moses Baylis, -':! yards-Toed, id: kill-d, :. n,Uscd. .'.. 



Dr. Atkinson. a9 yards-Total, in; knl.-d. I; aliased, 8. 



W. E. Birdseje. 26 yards-Total, 10; killed, 3; missed, 7. 



ilck-i.-f , .Mr, Padt«. 



— Several memhers of the Long Island and Jerome shoot- 

 ing club and their friends, assembled at Dexier's, on Long 

 Island, on Saturday afternoon to witness the conclusion of 

 the pigeon match for $400 hetween Messrs. W. K Bridseye 

 and James M. Ilickock of Brooklyn, hegun on Christmas 

 Day. On that day the contestants shot itt fifty birds, thirty 

 yards rise, English rules. The result was a tie, each kill- 

 ing twenty-six oul of fifty. They agreed to let the stakes 

 lie, and shoot at thirty additional birds on Jan. 2, same 

 conditions. Birdseye won. Cut of the seventy-four birds 

 shot at, Birdseye lulled forty-four. Ilickock killed thiity- 



The Match for $100, between Dr. Atkinson and \V. C. 

 Root, at thirty birds each, English rules, was won by Hoot, 

 who killed twenty-one lo his opponent's sixteen. 



—A. pigeon shooling match between amateurs, represent- 

 ing Sew York and Philadelphia, took place on the Dela- 

 ware last Wednesday at Ihe grounds of Mr. Sartori. The 

 day was rather favorable for the sport, being slightly 

 cloudy. The match was between C. Livingston and J. <J. 

 Heckscher, of New York and General Grubb and George 

 Potts, of Philadelphia. 



- The shooting was at thirty yards rise, each contestant 

 b°ing entitled to shoot at twenty-live birds, under English 

 rules, and the slake was -$2,000. 



The contest resulted in favor of Mew York by the fol- 

 lowing score : 



Livingston, 2o; Heckscher, 14. Total for New York, 30. 



Grubb, 18 ; Potts, 10.— Total for Philadelphia, 28. 



Two sweepstakes were also shot for, and both were won 

 bv Mr, Heckscher. 



Sbnkca Falls, Jamniry 1, 1815. 

 Editor FokesI and Stiibam: — 



A match between H. Sbsby and \V. 3. Peck at twenty-live slUffle birds, 

 plunge traps, 31 yards rise, took place lo-day. The following is the 



H. Siliby— 1 1110110I10O11110I1111O1 1—13. 

 W. :. Peck-fl C 1 1 1 1 1 1 00 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 I I I l-IS. 

 Match between H. Silsby and J. D. Burroughs, twenty-five single birds, 

 sanie as above, with the following score: — 

 H. Silsbv--1 11.1111 I 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1—2-1. 

 J. D. Biu-roughs-1 00 1 ! 1 14 1 1 1 (1 1 1 I) 1 1 1 L— 16. 



Oeo. M. Compsok, Keferec. 



Hock 

 Editor Forest and Stukam: — 



If ; -S. K , Jr.." will visit our n, -Ail 

 him how to coot in a dory. DoryS nn 

 other boats, on accmnt of their s.if 

 hands of a sailor, will ouilive all the 

 fishermen use these "nasteady" do 

 (leori;e's Hanks. It s(.,< m s ,o me that 

 sc-a going qualities. When the wiud i= 

 sale breeze, we cun lay ia our dorys a 

 cream of coot shooling, while our vi.-i 

 glad to '-pull up kill cork," and make 

 or start on the home stietch for Rockp< 

 have them head toward the boat, as it 

 duck family lo fly lo !he head end or y, 

 then turn and lly down the lin,- to inSpi 

 up and n 



COOT SHOOTING. 



', Mass.,'December is, ISVI. 



mi season, we « ill. how 

 e io the excliwion of all 



'Salisbury il.u-y," in the 



rawlsou 

 ,-h their 

 a whole- 



. K., Jr. 



will redui 



ily, and 

 double 

 dually. 



be able to kill elea 



COOT SHOOTING OFF MINOT'S LEDGE. 



Editor Forest and Stream:— 



"S. K., Jr.," in a short arlicte upon 

 the last number of Forest and Sti 

 the true way of taking Ihese ducks. 

 in such real northeasters as Ihosoin « 



coot shooting off Jllnofs Led-,-, in 

 tKAM, glees anile n eonect idea ot 

 Fol ii IU1Y1CB, Inil dory uriereoot, 

 llletil often usud to shoot, his lirst 

 attempt wonln probatjly be his last al tooting ia a .storm in a dory shell. 

 It all reads well on paper; it ia an exceedingly "rooly, or fishy" Story, but 

 that is about ulltliere is of il. To liaga couple of dozen only, on a rough 

 November day, in a good, staunch bout., is not. il small day's w m-k, es- 

 id blows very siruusod the Ledge, one end of your 

 rn in the trough of the sua, and the nest moment 

 wave; onfl this pitch and toss movement is pleas- 

 haths of salt water, dretuiiing yon I'rom lop to 

 1 have many days laid off the Jfinol.t's with d'.coys, and without 

 ly ducks iua day without decoys as 

 i boat, Ian prefer to anchor I hem in 



m Id know there is some e.irne n.i. 



iu do not believe Ibis theory, phase 

 bulterbill widgeon, When you pull iu 

 :, and see if they do not stiike a bee line for deep -sea 

 sounding. They are a queer bird, these ducks, and will rjelil;, epo ' 

 sportsman for his leisure observation, t have always used a No. IS gauge 

 breech loader, and have shot at the Glades, Oohassett, off llinot's, and 

 at Falmouth and Scituate, and other favorite locations on the .Mas-achu- 

 setts coast. I have gencnlly found it as "5. K , Jr.," says, "nn baby 

 work," but I have generally piled up my quota. 1 w ould say no dory f, a 

 me, or pop guns for coot. Give me a good, stauuc h boat, a good Mana- 

 ger with me, and let the wind blow as hard as It may, if Ihe ducks fly 

 well, 1 am sure of my quota. Olui'od IJiiiiL. 



illy when tin 

 boat one moment down 

 upon the crest of the wi 

 aritly varied with doubt 



decoys, and have obtained as ma 

 with them. I never tie them to 111 

 dependency. The birds, to me, sei 

 with the decoys and boats. If y 

 watch a fine large dock of coot, 



GOOD GROUND FOR 



DU 

 York- 



CKS. 



New 



January 1, 1875 



Editor Forest and Stream:- 







We hear that some parties having vistiel 



Co. Hi 



Ground, L, I . lor 



ducks on what, they understood was i In- ie,. mn 



endiili 



so of "Jai • i afl 



have been disappointed. To all such we wo 



ltd sa 



y, thai if tiny will 



drop a line to Mr. William lam 1 nr 



nod). 



hoy will receive a 



prompt and trathfutanswer; will bo told wb.-n.a 



id oul 



■when, birds are to 



bo obtained, and If they go down they will meet 





eneions treatment, 



and on the word of 'Jaeobstatl" they will 11 



id th 



■lr bills, boll, as lo 



gunners and the otbei Incidentals, moderate ai 



d sati- 



factory. 



In saying Ibis much we have no other titter 



--: In 



the mailer than nn 



honest de.-ire to post lumber .-!>"■ ; 



'!'..!.' ' 



s iii [he vicinily of 



the city for lords in ihe. -,-.,-,.. Hi-. - been 





.1 time.-, 



both sniping and during ducking nine. ■ -w- k 





,, I, >>r w, speak. '• 



Mr. Lane will not send for sportsmen to come 



to III 



Bays unices there 



is a fair prospect for a bag. Me will do bis 



icst to 



r them, and ho will 



not go for every dollar they have got before the 



Vl-.OI 



YOUTS truly, 



I 



Editor Foticst ash BtrKaii :— 



We have had a good man) ducks, hares and -q'mn-ls .,-, live on since 

 we've- been on the Winding Tennessee, ami die oilier day, when we were 



o.ampedat the mouth of the Little Tennessee, 0]>p " 



we «ot a salmon (?) weighing llf pounds. (What kind »' liah win. this so, 

 Balled salmon, Mr. Editor'! Two toppers and lisheimciUnul been there- 



