Makoh 10, 1881.] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



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parties who kill deer out (if season. I will say here only tbat 



ad to ha 



1 have reasons that to 

 is the. same that 

 who would be gl 

 say that if the; 

 time for bounding to cj ill 

 even allowing fluting if 

 and the deer would inerea' 

 is the opinion of fifty or m 

 ers residing in this comity 

 subject within the last six 

 all live up lo it thevadmit il 



mind I think sufficient, which 

 ■ residents besides myself have, 



stopped. In conclusion, r will 

 :, with a little alteration in the 

 lenee, would be good enough, 

 ley could be property enforced, 

 in the Adirondack*. And this 

 8 spoilsmen, guides and liuut- 

 hom I have talked with on the 

 tontliK. Although they do not 



be t ho fact. Their cry is " ttii 



game is going and I atn bound to get my share while I can 

 AdiuoX (Jntmok. 

 P. S.-- A lumberman hereto-day, who is Cutting lumber 

 between the middle branch of the St. Regis River and Mea- 

 cham Lake, tells me thai as many as forty or fifty deer are 

 feeding every night on the iree' tops winch are cut down 

 during the day. "The snow is about two and a half feet deep 

 on the level, 'The deer come there instead of yarding. He 

 -would not admit any had been killed, but judge by his talk 

 that the camp has a supply of venison. A. O. 



The points on which the experience of doer hunters is 

 asked are as follows -. 



1st-. What is the character of the. country referred tot 



Bd, What is the prevailing method or hunting deer? 



sd. Describe hounding deer, as prai 

 and Its effects. Does it drive deer on 



4tn. Describe in litre maimer si, lli-h 



6th. What class of men kill the mo: 

 ties ol spoilsmen ?— residents or uoii- 



Bth. Woui.i resident sportsmen ape 

 ing deer ? Would the residents oasis 



.th. would thoy approve ol' a law f 

 ltlng the killing or capturing; of tbe d 

 water ? Would such a law Do practicable 1 



SUi. What Is the open season for deer? 



iith. What are the winter habits of deer, so tar as yon hare person 

 ally observed them ? 



jotlon referred to' 



e ot a law prohibiting nouhd- 



MIGRATORY QUAIL. 



Boston, Feb. 28. 

 Editor Forest, and Stream: 



I am in receipt of advices, under dat ■• of Jan. 35, from 

 Mr. Carl F. Brauu, of Messma, Sicily, by whom most 

 of the migratory quail that have come to this country 

 were shipped. He requests me to make public his prices 

 and terms lor the present season, which 1 gladly do through 

 your columns. Mr. Braun offers to deliver the cages of one 

 hundred birds each on board steamer, to provide food for the 

 voyage, to prepay the freight to New York, and to effect 



■f 1*30 

 r, the 



the money iu case th 

 season proves to be so 

 ers without ioss to hini- 

 ds from Mr. Brauu in 



marine insurance against total loss, all for the pric 

 per cage of one hundred birds He reserves, how 

 right to cancel the orders and return the nioneV in 

 flight of birds during the Comli 

 small that he cannot execute the 

 self. ThoBe who have received 

 previous years will beat cheerful testimony to the con- 

 scientious manner in which he pe formed his part of the con- 

 tract, and to the excellent condition in which the birds ar- 

 rived. The greatest, ioss that came to my not, ce was six 

 from one cage ; the average loss was less than three per 

 cent, and in many cases not a single bird was lost. 



The terms named by Mr. Brauu are cash in advance ; evi- 

 dently die only terms upon which it is possible for him to 

 deal with purchasers at such a distance. Upon the arrival of 

 the bird- they must be passed through the Custom House 

 (duty free) and must be delivered to express companies, to 

 be forwarded to their respective destinations. As this is a 



ill, as in 



order to 



irge ; and I 



orders and 



No orders 



idred birds 



troublesome operation for parties at. a distance, I 

 former years, ■ t the request of Mr. Braun, and 

 facilitate the importation, attend to it free of cht 

 will also receive and forward to Mr. Braun any 

 money sent tome by parties desiring to import, 

 are received excepting for full cages of one hu: 

 each, aud the price of large and small lots is the same, to 

 wit, $30 for each cage. The latest time to forward an order 

 nth any possibility of having it filled is April I ; and tbe 

 chances are more than even tha 1 orders received here so late 

 as tlwt cannot be filled. 



Those desiring to order from Mr. Braun will please send 

 to me as quickly as possible, and certainly before. April 1, 

 their orders with cash inclosed to the amount of $30 for 

 each cage, and with full address and name of express route 

 preferred for shipping the birds from New lork. I will buy 

 the foreign exchange and send it and the orders to Mr. Braun, 

 after which my responsibility ends until the birds arrive in 

 New York, when I will see that they are passed through the 

 Custom House, and given to the express company designated 

 by the purchaser. 



As some of your readers may be interested to know how 

 many migratory quail have already been imported. I gire 

 below the exact, figures for 1879 and 1880, and figures which 

 I believe to be correct for 1877 and 1878. 



Imported in 1877, 200 : 1878, 5,000; 1879, 3,046 ; 1880, 

 5,10d; total, 13,846. Hokaok P. Tobev. 



17 Oliver street. 



The .Proposed Game Bill. A meeting of ' he Long Is- 

 land Sportsmen's Association forthe purpose of conferring with 

 a committee from the New fork Society for the Protection of 

 Fish and Game was held at, the rooms of the Fulton Market 

 Fishmongers' Association, Monday, afternoon, March 7. The 

 committee from the New York Association was composed of 

 Hon. 11. B. Roosevelt, Senator Wagstaff ami Charles E. 

 Whitehead, Esq. Mr. Roosevelt pointed out tbe imperfec- 

 tions of the bill, and offered the following suggestions : That 

 the penalties shotdd not be the same for unequal crimes. 

 That the. word "willful" should be stricken out of the entire bill 

 excepting in the clause relating to trespassing. That the law 

 on ducks be changed so that the open season commences the 

 first of September. That the law iu regard to small fish 

 should not apply to the fisherman who catches them with rod 

 and reel ; and that all contraband game should lie surrendered 

 to the officer appointed for that purpose iu twenty-four hours 

 after it had been received, or the party having the same would 

 be liable to prosecution. The law on summer woodcock 

 shooting is to apply to Long Island, also the words "volun- 

 tary surrender or," have been stricken out of the bill. The 

 above suggestions are to he placed before the special sub- 

 committee of the Long Island Association who pass upon 

 them subject to the approval of the New York Association. 



OUR DETROIT LETTER. 



Fifty last preceding letter to Fobest and Stbeam I hit 

 nearer the truth in respect of time than I anticipated in 

 the matter of those then prospective changed in the rules gov- 

 erning tne shoots of the Michigan State Sedical Association, 

 ji. meeting was held this week at which iuy identical prognos- 

 tications were literally realized, that is tossy, &e handicap- 

 ping experiment was abandoned by a nearly unanimous vote, 

 the only opposition coming from" Goff Stanton and J. V. D. 

 Eldredge, both excellent shots, but somehow infatuated with 

 the twenly-i.ne yards range. The new rules are : 



1. H, atid L -plunge traps at twentv-six vauls for tame 

 birds, usual rules to gdvera ..t her points. 



2. English, rules, twi rtty-si* yards rise lot «dd birds. 



This action effectually settles handicapping by this associa- 

 tion so far as contests for its much coveted trophy are con- 

 cerned. 1 am glad of it. and T am very sure that the associa- 

 tion as a. whole is glad' of it too. It can well afford to drop 

 everything that hasthe appearance of child's play, and per- 

 mit its members to come to the scratch on their merits as 

 marksmen, and not, by sufferance of a too tender managing 

 committee; 



The Pacific. Gun Club held its annual meeting last night 

 and elected officers for one year as follows : President, John 

 Demass ; Vice-President, W- H. Gillnian ; Treasmer, John 

 Shuton ; Secretary, Lyman Brant. 



This club will give it Shoot so soon as the weather shall have 

 taken a, favoring turn. At present there is a complete embargo 

 on sport. Even our usual fox-chasing has been laid on the shelf, 

 and is snugly reposing there all because of the heavy snows 

 which render it impossible to run dogs with anything like a 

 compensating measure of success. Our local sportsmen arc 

 burnishing up their arms, however, preparatory to a seizure 

 of time by the forelock when the sign is right. 



Game legislation at Michigan's capital is in a reasonably 

 satisfactory state of forwardness. There is considerable op- 

 position to that clause of the bill prepared by Ihe State Sports- 

 men's Association which prohibits duck shooting from batter- 

 ies. The opposition cennes from those who live near the big 

 lakes who say that battery shoolingis the only kind they can 

 indulge in with any considerable degree of success. A com- 

 mittee of the association is in correspondence with Senator 

 Gibson (who introduced the bill) advising him that there is 

 no disposition to be tenacious about the objectionable clause 

 if the bill can be passed aud preserve intact its remaining 

 features. G. P. G. 



Det/roit, March 5. 



ENGLISH RABBITS FOR LONG ISLAND. 



THE great prolificness aud fine epicurean properties of the 

 English as compared with the American rabbit have 

 been the cause of many trials by American sportsmen and 

 others to introduce it into this country, but invariably with- 

 out succe s 



Mr. Aslin Ward, a well-known sportsman of Brooklyn, has 

 succeeded, after much trouble aud expense, in importing a 

 number of these rabbits, and has, presented them to the South- 

 ampton Sportsmen's Club, of which he is a member, to be 

 turned out upon their preserve. By this instance of liberali- 

 ty Mr. VYird has uot alone b netited sportsmen and the 

 Southampton Sportsmen's Club, but the people generally, 

 aud especially the poorer classes, the increase of these rabbits 

 being so rapid that, in a very few years they will he plentiful 

 throughout all parts of the State, ami the wild lands will 

 abound in a spontaneous production of fine meat. 



The indefatigableness and efficiency of the. efforts of this 

 filub in the promulgation aud preservation of game deserve 

 the enconiums net alone of the sporting fraternity but of 

 the public generally. 



During the whole of this severe winter the birds upon their 

 preserve have been well fed and thoroughly cared for and 

 are now all alive. Nbw Yokkkk. 



INFORMATION WANTED. 



Minnesota Shooting.— C. E. W., Troy, N. Y., asks (1) 

 where he can find best deer hunting within ISO miles of St. 

 Paul, Minn,; wants hoard, preferably with some one who 

 understands sport. (2) Resort for deer, ducks and geese in 

 Otter Tail County, Minn., with board. (3) Sporting centre, 

 with board, on line of St. Paid, Minneapolis and Manitoba 

 Railroad. 



Bicaufokt. — "Subscriber" asks: (1) What is the ran ge of 

 the thermometer at Beaufort, N. O, in winter and summer ? 

 (2) Is the c'lmate healthy, or subject to malaria and fever 

 and ague? (3) Is wild fowl and general shooting good in 

 its vicinity ? 



Tr apt-ins the Cat. — Our song and game birds have no 

 deadlier foe than the common cat. The serpent destroys only 

 when compelled by the pangs of hunger to seek his food. He 

 fasts for more than half the year. The eat, cruel and cun- 

 ning as the tiger, kills more than she can consume and, like 

 the " Bersekers of old, is mad with the love of slaughter. 

 Prowling by night through forest and by stream, her path is 

 dyed with blood. The young in the nest of the hare tbat es- 

 cape her tiger fangs are fortunate. As a household pet she 

 is a nuisance ; as a destroyer of rats, a failure ; as a compan- 

 ion, unsatisfactory and uninteresting, feeling lint little affec- 

 tion for either friend or homo ; she is the sworn enemy of 

 the farmer, killing the beautiful birds that are his friends and 

 helpers; she is the unrelenting foe of the sportsman and 

 should lie hunted down and destroyed like the wolf, almost 

 any dog can soon be taught to chase and kill a cat ; without 



this accomplishment h 

 The breech-loader ca 

 or when the moonbei 

 prowls most when the 

 where the ruffed grous 

 the stubble fields,- whe 

 deadfall placed here ar 

 to arrest the midnight 

 the grounds, throw a t 

 The cat dislikes to v, 

 bridge. As is well kni 

 the odor of val 



s but pc 



only be 



gin- 



irly educated 



ised effectually by daylight, 

 i very bright; but as the cat 

 are dark in the lonely woods, 

 to lead her young, and through 

 e the quail have their play-ground, a 

 1 there along the paths is almost sure 

 narauders. Il" a stream flows through 

 ee across it and sot your trap there, 

 et her feet and will always use the 

 ■wn, none of the feline race can resist 

 i all the tribe it is the elixir of life 

 and the fountain of youth, and they will rush into any trap 

 where it IS. The skunk also loves 'it, and in bis dea,th\:gony 

 will mingle his own perfume with it. If you set a deadfall 

 and sprinkle under it some of the essential oil of valerian no 

 Thomas or Tabilha passing near it will fail to enter and yield 

 up the last, one of the nine lives at the shrine of this great 

 medicine god of the tribe. Xil Yobeis. 



[Our correspondent does not tell how to take cats on fish- 

 hooks, but it can be done, and has been done. ] 



PBOPOSKD MASSACHUSETTS LAW. 



AN ACT FOB THE BE ITER PROTECTION AJTO. TOKSURVATIOX OF BIBDS, 



or ruffed grouse, whe' 

 elsowhoe. shall, upon 



Mil, whethel 



shall, upon 



black , 

 Septet 



shall, upon c 

 h and every i 

 5. Whoever 



bin said tin 

 wood M 'in 



•riehed by a 



, be punished 



iwealth or 

 of twenty 

 ny person 

 hs of Jau- 

 ;idl.V taken 

 ail during 



i v.: il It dollars foi 



SlBOn of the year, tabes or kills any 

 jailed prairie chicken, except upon 



Blto, and gre-uBe placed thereon by 



Uori.'bep.iu.-.lM'd ,- . i:,,,, of twenty 



iiinil am- 

 or turtle 

 reen the 



i, shall, 



K.'ll HUeh 



yoar any 



Sue. fi. Whoever takes or kills upon their br 



dove, herring-gull, tern, sea-swallow or mackerel 

 tir-t clay of May and tho first (lay of September i 

 upon conviction, bo punk-died by a fine of ten del 

 offence. 



si,. . 7. Whoever takes or ltdls at WD seas' 

 mid. -.in. -Minded birds not named in the preeedi 

 Act (except birds of prey, crows, crnw-bla.-l.hirds. jays, wild geeso. 

 heron, bitterns and BUCh fresh wider or sea fowl as are uot named 

 in the preceding sections of lliis Act), <-i willfully destroys, disturbs 

 or takes the boats or eggs of any mid iteatl d bud- I . N.eut ihe 



shall, npou conviction, he punished by a. line of ten dollars for each 



veins, ' having acarUficatB from the Curator of tho Museum, of 

 OoiirparativeZoology at Cambridge, the president of the Massa- 

 chusetts Agricidiural College at Amher.-t. the lie-ton Society of 

 Naiutal IJ.-iorv. the Worcester Lyceum and Natural ffistory .So- 

 ciety, Hi- I'ciibody Vadeuiy of Science al Salem „r from any in- 

 ert ,.-1 that said person IB engaged in tin- scientific M,i,ly of orni- 

 thology or in collecting in the interests of and for said institutions 



son of tbe year take or kill any tiudomc-dic.-'t. d birds ; but this 

 provision shall not apply to the birds or eggs of birds named in the 

 first, five sections of this Act during the time they are protected. 



Slid. 8. Whoever, except (luring the months of October and 

 November, takes or kills any deer (except bis own tame deer, kept 

 on his own grounds), shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine 

 of one hundred dollars for every i-uch oll'en,-,-. ; and whoever hunts 

 ,1,-,-r at anv .-e:,M.u of th, v,:ar bv the u<-e or aid of dogs, shall, 

 upon conviction, be punished by a fine of fifty dollars for every 

 such offence : and any porson may kill any dog found chasing or 

 hunting deer. 



Sec. !). Whoever, between the first day of March and tho first 

 day of September in any year takes or kills' any gray squirrel, hare 

 or rabbit, shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine of ten 

 dollars for each offence. 



SfflClO. Whoever, at any season of the year, takes, kilU or 

 destroys any game bird, hare or rabbit by meant- ot traps, snares, 

 nets or springs ; or, whoever, for the purpose of taking or lolling 

 any game bird, hare or rabbit shall construct or Bet any trap, snare, 

 net or spring ; or whoever takes or kills any hare or rabbit by the 

 use or aid of any ferret, or whoever shoots at or kills any wild fowl 

 or anv of the so-called shore, marsh or beach birds with or by the 

 use of any battery, swivel or pivot gun or by the use of any torch, 

 jack or artificial light, shall, up™ conviction, be punished by a fine 

 of twenty dollars for each such offence: 



: he provisions of this section shall uot apply to the 

 trapping or snaring of ruffed grotu-o i commonly called partridge), 

 hare or rabbit by anv person upon his own laud between Ihe first 

 day of September and th. tir-t day of January following ; andjjro- 

 vii'lrd. also, that owners of land shall not lease said lauds for sucb 

 purposes, nor under any cirenmstances allow any other person to 

 suare or trap upon their land-. 



Sec. 11. The Commissioners of Inland Fisheries shall have 

 authority to act as gam,- o.inini-.-ioners also: and their authority 

 shall extend t., ihe protection aud preservation of game birds and 

 animals in like manner as to fishe*. 



Sec. 12. Anv re^ularlv incorporated association for the protec- 

 tion of fish and game within this Stale may appoint, With the 

 approval m tbe g.o.-ruor and council, one or more persons for each 

 county of this Commonwealth, to a.-i as lish and game constables. 

 Such offiuera shall have authority to enforce any and all provisions 

 of acts relating to the protection and preservation of fish and game 

 within this Commonwealth, aud shall sorvo without expense lo 

 county or State. 



Sec. 13. It shall lie the duty of even- officer ijuahfied to eorvo 

 criminal processes, including the olliccrs who may bo appointed 

 under the provisions of this Act. to arrest without warrant any 



who 



Actaudbri 



ins of this 

 (rest 'magistrate. Any 

 forco the provisions of 

 aint, shall be punished 



this Act, upon proper information an 

 by a line or imprisonment, or both. 



Sec. 14. Any justice or magistrate, on receiving proof or hav- 

 ing reasonable cause for believing iu the concealment of any game 

 mentioned iu this Act during the time possession of such gamo is 

 prohibited, .-hall issue his search warrant and cause search to be 

 made in any house, marketer other building, or in any boat, car 

 or vehicle nf au\ description whatever | and for that end iua\ cause 

 auy apartment,' ohest, locker, box, crate, basket or package of 

 whatever description to be broken open and the contents examined- 



Sec. 15. All linos accruing under this Act shall be paid one- 

 half to tbe "omplauiaut aud one-half to the city or town wherein 

 tho offence is committed. 



Sec. lfi. Chapter 209 of the Acts of tho year eighteen hundred 

 and Mcventv-ume. and all Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent here- 

 with are herein repealed. 



A Dnrac Brtdt-k- Port Royal, 8. C, Feb. 14.— I inclose 



you a "duck bridle," No man knowing the intelligence of 

 the wild duck will shoot over dead decoys. AVith the old 

 poodle duck, muddy may, and ihe green-headed drake, 

 'mallards" bridled, placed as decoys, you can kill all the 

 ducks you want. Take up the ducks by the two w r,gs, us 

 you would carry live ducks, place both wings through the 

 slit, one part going behind the wings, the other in front of 



