438 



FOREST AND STREAM, 



[Jtjhe 30, 1881. 



slocking all the streams of the State with tlie finest of fish. 

 Dr. J. T. Irwing has been appointed to lake charge of 1 he 

 stocking of the Little Mi mi. Col. David I}. Corwia, the Big 

 Miami, and two gentlemen whose names 1 cannot recall at. 

 pre enl l lie Scioto. There has been gr a iroul.U fc LUSi id US 

 by i he defective game laws of Ohio which we hope to have 

 remedied next winter when the Legislature meets. For in- 

 stance, the Fish Commission sets aside $1,000 lor stocking 

 t,h si reams of Ohio will fish, and at the same time the 

 Legislature passed an act giving permission to shoot, and 

 Bpear fi-h, and to seine for ' mullets. ' Now what are mul- 

 lets? They fire worthies* fish commonly called the red 

 horse.' When seining for mullets a person is liable to seine 

 a lew black bass. Is he going to pick out the bass and throw 

 them back into the stream and keep the mullets? Not 

 much." 



" When will your new club house be completed, Colonel?" 



"We expect to occupy it about the first of November, and 

 a finer club house there will not be in the city. The success 

 of our club is that no gambling or drinking is allowed, and 

 we have the good wishes of the ladies, for they know that 

 when their husbands are at the Cuvier Club they are in good 

 eompaey." 



"Y>'r club house will he built, entirely by. private sub- 

 scription, won't it?" 



" Vcs, by members of the club, and I wish you would dis- 

 tinctly slate that fact, for when we issued our circulars ask- 

 ing I"! subscriptions from members of the club the impres- 

 sion got abroad that we were calling upon the public for sub- 

 scriptions, which was not the case by any means." 



SUMMER GUIDE BOOKS. 



THE B AND O. STJMMBK BE90ET BOOK. 



THE Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Co. publish a novel 

 little handbook directing the public to the choice 

 poiii s for scenery, health and sport reached by their lines. 

 There is an index at the end of the book, Which is a uuaran- 

 tee that the rest of the book is complete. We always "take 

 to" a book of this kind which has an index. Of Deer Park 

 and Oiklaud, the book says.- 



The devotees of the rod and gun will find in the Alle- 

 ghanies much food for both hook and shot, as, for the one, 

 there is tiout and like fish which most abound in mountain 

 streams, and for the other wild turkey, deer, grouse, etc. 

 The t'-rras at Deer Park and Oiklaud are S3 per day; .$15 

 to $18 per week, and $60 to $75 per month. Address let- 

 te s relative to accommodations to J. P. Dulschart, Supt. B. 

 es I). hotels, Deer Park. Md. Leaving New York in the 

 evening Deer Park is reached the next morning, and Oak- 

 land ten minutes later. From the West, 1 aviug Chicago 

 late m the afternoon, Oakland and Deer Park are reached 

 the next day for dinner without change of cars. Leaving 

 St. Louis on the famous Daisy express in the morning, and 

 Cincinnati in the evening, Oakland aud Deer Park are 

 reached the next morning; or, leaving St. Louis in the even- 

 ing and Cincinnati in the morning, Oakland and Deer Park 

 are reached that evening. The 'rain leaving New York an.i 

 Philadelphia in the eveuing arrives at Deer Park aud Oak 

 laud for breakfast next morning. The train leaving New 

 York late at night arrives at these resorts next day for 

 dinner. 



For the guide book send your name to the Baltimore and 

 Ohio Railroad Co., Baltimore, Md. 



PENNSYLVANIA B. B. BXCUK810S' ROUTES. 



The passenger department of the Pennsylvania Railroad 

 publishes a large handbook detailing almost one lie usaml 

 excursion routes. The book is handsomely embellished 

 with numerous pictures of famous places, and is accompanied 

 with an useful map. Now, here is a bit of advice. The 

 Pennsylvania Railroad Company offers to send this book free 

 npon application ; we advise you, gentle reader, to put your 

 name down for one, whether you propose to go anywhere or 

 not. For tourists the book is invaluable; for Btay-at-bomes 

 it will be entertaining. 



ARE THERE NIHILIST-) ON OUR RANGES? 



OUR DETROIT LETTER. 



SLNATOR Thomas W. Palmer is practiea ly the Detroit 

 Socie y f r ihe Prevent m of Cruelty to A'-imala, al- 

 though nominally he is only President nf that organization. 

 The Mict.ij.an sportsmen who indulge in pigeon shooting 

 and Senator Palmer are having an interesting tilt. The lat- 

 ter announets his intention to prevent the shooting of 

 pigeons ; and the shooteis say, in effec, "prevent us, if you 

 can." A genteman who is neither a sportsman nor an advo- 

 c .to of the Prevention etc., business, was heard dilating on 

 the subject the or her day. His id-a is that, "it is strange 

 thai a society of Mr. Palmer's well-known horse-ser.se should 

 expend energy in such a caute. It is, of course, to be re- 

 gretted that pigeons should be killed. Indeed one could de- 

 sire that the economy of nature be so reversed that life 

 should never be destroyed ; i ut unfortunately that isn't tip- 

 way things are arranged. The universal law of nature, 

 which is more cruel in her methods thin any art man has in- 

 vented, is to kill and be killed. The pigeon is no except! m 

 to this ru e, and the individual birds Mr. Palmer's tenderness 

 may save from the marksman's shot-gun may by th*t very 

 mems be left lo die a more m serable death by starvatian or 

 overcrowding in the northern woods, where millions of them 

 perish from Mich causes annually. If tbey are to be killed at 

 all, trow could tip- work be done more mercifully than when 

 ti eir deaths con'ribue to so useful an art ssmnrksmansnii'?" 

 Such is in brief, the ingenious and apparently secure argu- 

 ment of the person whose ideas are inclosed within quotation 

 marks. 



Now, Senator Palmer says it isn't so much Ihe actua' shoot- 

 ing of pigeons that he objects to as it is the manner in which 

 they are shot. He has often seen them, he declares, crippled 

 aud" fluttering off to die in helpless misery. This may pos- 

 sibly be interpreted as a "wipe" at our noble Michigan 

 marksmen. I should not be surprised if the Senator were 

 all the time quietly having a comforting chuckle at the fel- 

 lows who have persuaded themselves that pigeons enjoy the 

 distinction of being shot at by them. One other point— and 

 I think it a good one -made by Mr. Palmer is that the man- 

 ner in which pigeons are transported for s-de and use is bar- 

 Tmroua. With his extravagant notion that the shooting them 

 is demoralizing to the young I have no sympathy. "Whether 

 or not 'he shoo ing clubs here shall be compelled to resort to 

 glass balls is just now the question which is agitating their 

 members. They try to look serene and unconcerned about 

 it, but there must be some significance in the repeated post- 

 ponements of the match for the State Championship medal. 



Bbnvbnuto. 



them detailed 

 exp osive aud rever, 

 ihe destructive pow 

 tired into a hank of 

 is peculiarity of gi 



Jfsw York, June 28. 

 fid 'tor Furexl and. Shewn : 



Sir — vs nil the intention that I may possibl y be doing a 

 service, I wish to give you a conversation which 1 heard the 

 other day in coming to the city on a train down the Hudson 

 River road. The parties were two men, both of them ap- 

 parently foreigners. At first glance I took them lo be Ger- 

 mai s, but now think that one of them at least was a Russian 

 born. They were conversing of rifle shooting, and as I have 

 myself been a frequenter of the ra ges about New York I 

 paid some attentiou to a talk of which I was a( first an un- 

 willing hearer. They spoke of different makes of rifles, and 

 ■ heir powers of carrying with accuracy for various distances. 

 They discussed bolt bullets and spherical ones, ami one of 

 ri merits he had been making with 

 llets from long-range weapons, and 

 had found them to possess when 

 They si oke of wooei powder and 

 ait, ittle smoke and a ■ iminished 

 Then one of the two told of the 

 progress which a nuiuber ol' individuals were making as 

 marksmen. The names were, mentioned, hut these seemed to 

 be short nick-names. They were apparently in various parts of 

 the cotiutry, and my travelling companion was speaking of 

 correspondence he had held with them. 



All the talk I had thus far heard almost tempted me to turn 

 and open a conversation with the strangers on a topic where 

 I was thoroughly at home. 1 did not do so, however, and 

 the two men went on talking, and dropping in'o Ihe German 

 tongue one narrated to tlie other a i lot which gave point 

 to their former talk on small bores and charges. So far as I 

 could judge they had in view the assassination of the present 

 Czar of Russia or Emperor by the use of a flue small bore 

 fired from a long distance up to from 200 to 500 yards or 

 more. The advantages of the plan seemed lo be its surety, 

 since from a known distance and with the most approved 

 outfit, including strong glasses or lenses, which he spoke of, 

 and firing from a rest, lie declared that it would be possible 

 to hit a single button on the coat, at that distance, and he ex- 

 pressed the hope that some of the men would be able to gain 

 that proficiency. There were a number of details of the plan 

 which have escaped me now ; but with a telescope rifle, or 

 one fitted somewhat Sim lariy, (hey hoped to be able lo plant 

 one of their explosive bullets in the body of a man at a dis- 

 tance which would screen them from observation, and to en- 

 able them to carry out their scheme to a sure fatality. The 

 whole plot was talked about in a low tone of voice and wi'h 

 great freedom, and they seemed to be entirely set at rest 

 when talking in GF rinan by the fact that there were no Ger 

 mati-lo king persons in the car. He spoke in terms of great 

 admiration of American arms aud said lie was glarl they had 

 come here, and said that thus far ihey had had no tremble in 

 ge'ting whatever they wished, and he sad also that tbey had 

 arranged for having their guns sent home. 1 was, as you may 

 well be aware very much amazed at the murdering talk I had 



iu there about July 1, on a visit of several weeks, to paddle 

 his tiny canoe on his favorite Third Lake. Tiout-tisiiiug 

 with fly is now good; they are ill line condition ami very 

 gamy. The prospect for deer-buutiug is good when the 

 time arrives. I have seen several in my rambl s lately, and 

 William Dart, one of our reliable guides, when out with a 

 sportsman last week, fishing on Nor h Branch, Moose River, 

 saw five deer in one day's I rip. They have been unmolested, 

 so far, in that region, and are very tame — can row right, 

 close to them. — Yours truly, Rou't Pawns. 



heard and while I was 



left Ihe train at Spuyiet 



train later to Ihe wests: 



I 



. definite 

 repeat my conch 

 ough study of rif 

 to this regldical 



ish to been 



I might do tne men 

 Onyvil, autl seemed to wait for a 

 in of the city. 



ue involved in any way. I can give, 

 ition than the above, and can only 

 iched that the men had made a thor- 

 iee here, with the plan of applying it 

 fitiem on our ranges. 1. V. 



WtaooNBffl Notes.— At its last session the Legislature of 

 Wisconsin passed a lawproviding for the payment "of a bounty 

 of six dollars on each wolf killed, three dollars on each wild 

 cat or lynx killed, and two dollars on each fox killed. The 

 law has now been in operation about two months, and during 

 that, time the secretary has audited claims to the amount of 

 #5,517. Most Of the. money has been obtained by persons in 

 the southern part of the Slate, and when the wolf-killers in 

 the northern part (where wolves are plenty) commence to get 

 their work in the drain on the treasury will certainly be very 

 eucomaarg to sheep-raisers. As the solstitial days wear 

 away, and the 15th of August draws near, bearing with it 

 prospects of a splendid s-iooting season, our lovers of the dog 

 and gun seem to grow feverish The gun rests uneasily in 

 its case, aud needs removal and inspection, and turning over; 

 the pointers and setters receive more attention and are 

 fondled oftener. Well, there is excuse for all this, for the 

 open season promises Lo be the finest that we have bad here 

 for years, and we never have vcrv bad ones. Plenty of 

 chickens wintered over, and the weather during the hatching 

 season wus p rfect. 



Last Friday Mr. W. H. Skinner was in town and some of 

 our ritle-sliootist- — amateurs — met aud they and Mr. Skinner 

 shot, resulting in the defeat of Mr. Skinner, much to the 

 credit of Mr. E. A. Benjamin, ihe winner. Sixty-five balls 

 each were thrown from a Bogardus trap and, with a rifle, E. 

 A. Benjamin broke 46; W. H. Skinner, 45. Then five balls 

 each were thrown, of which E A.. Benjamin broke 5 and W. 

 H. -kinner 4. Also 35 balls were thrown by hand, of which 

 number W. H. Skinner broke 31 andjE. A. Benjamin 30. 



Mo. 



Ohio Game Prospects— Wauseon, O., June 25. — Abounty 

 is paid in this State for hawks. A person presenting a dead 

 hawk to the township clerk when killed, is entitled to a cer- 

 tificate from said officer to Ihe fact. On presentation of this 

 certificate to the County Commissioners they are compelled 

 to order the payment lo said person the sum of 50 cents for 

 each hawk killed, named in ihe certificate, out of the dog-tax 

 fund. Sportsmen should now endeavor to earn an extra dol- 

 lar while out and thus help preserve the game, aud at the 

 same time kill two birds with one st ne. The quail pros- 

 pects are better with us than I have known them for years. 

 W e will have excellem shooting this fall. Squirrels are very 

 plenty, and we expect, splendid woodcock shooting. I hear 

 of large numbers. — H. 



WlUTESTOSE GDN ClUB— WHIT 



On Monday, June 2d, we organs 

 Club," commencing with a inemhe 

 elation is much needed here to set 

 respected, and we pi 



SSTOSB, L. I., June 24. — 

 id the " Whitestone Gun 

 whip of twenty. Auasso- 

 ihat the game laws are 

 them rigidly enforced, 



thereby doing away with all poaching and pot-hunting. We 

 hold our inaugural match on Jul)- 4, prox. The fo lowing 

 officers were elected : President, A. G. Uontgomery, Jr. ; 

 Vice-President, James Watson ; Secretary, A. C. Wilrner- 

 ding; Trtasurer, H Simomls. — A. C. Wilmkboino, Sec. 



Bonneville, June 18. — I have opened a sportsmen'B resort 

 on Third Lake, Fulton Chain, and expect "Nessinucks" 



New . Jersey Woodcook Se son- The first open season 

 for woodcock shooting in New jersey opens July 1 and ex- 

 tends to August 1 . The months of August and September 

 are a close season. The- second open season extends from 

 Sept. 30 to Dec. 16. 



Holablrd Shooting Suits. Uptlaegrovc & iteLellan, Valparaiso, ttv.1. 



S4h gnltme. 



POACHERS. 



BY .JAMES ANJIIN, .TR. 



[A. paper read before the American ifiahculturel Association. 1 



I SHALL endeavor to give a list, of some of the most dostruetiv 

 frequenter's of the trout pond and stream which have emu 

 undo) nij observation, ,m,:t also Home of tin- rem. dies used 



.First, I have the kingfisher. His notes are heard f 

 spriug until cold weather in late tall, and sometimes be « 

 during the winter, like some sportsmen X have seen who 

 stand it until the season opened in the spriug, but they 

 go autl take a look at the stream whore, during Ehe sun 

 they had had such fine sport. 



This bird is never satisfied, from daylight until dusk h 

 look-out, and ever ready to plunge in" altej anv fish whi 

 exposed. 



I honestly think that a kingfisher, undisturbed durim 

 on or near the stream, will take as many h-out an th 

 sportsman. Some say. Why don't you Hlio.it ttirur.' 

 lend is vary good « lien you get the time and chtujee 



after then., but you can't be on the look-out, all the ti. 



think tho bent way to get the follow out of barm's wav is to trap 

 him. For that purpose X have used small, round steel traps, the 

 kind without the shank or tail piece, FMtttUlUg them on the end of 



pole, say ten or fifteen feet long, and then 



,. early 

 apjiBB I' 

 uld not 



1st just 



.a- past, 



1 on the 

 may he 



md it 



along tin. stream near enough to 

 bird may think it a splendid point to make 

 When tlie trap is sot and iu position the hi tit 

 little the highest part of the trap, ami as hi i 

 the trap you have him every time, and by both 

 as many as throe of the birds in one trap dm 

 ways ready, it costs nothing to keep it rnuiiin 

 cost of the trap. Occasionally yftu will havi 

 other variety of birds. I have taken large tis 

 never but one robin. 



Nextcomc the ducks, wild and domestic. 

 destructive not only to'the fish but to the lish 

 They am almost always at work feeding durie 

 not easily driven away. 



The best plan is to have no ducks yourself, 

 bors ha-e them and they come on your pi 

 nth the understanding if they hi 

 that you will shoot. I have, seen 

 • a trout six inches long, 

 species of wild duck trouble fish 



iter- 1 was annoyed with a flock 



drakeH. Most of the streams t 



. and they came to our Calodou 



I had a hard time with th 



them, and 



trouble yo 



and swn'llo 



But fen 



at, so that the 

 a-vations from'. 

 ,te en- dn.p is a 

 ., and drops on 

 , I have token 

 da v. II, is id- 

 -,i,:,-s [he first 



loit, from some 

 .".'ks, owls, etc.: 



latter are very 

 ol" the stream. 

 ie day, and are 



if your neigh- 



ies, offer to buy 

 more and II. ey 

 me duels, catch 



in trying te keep then 

 would only fiy to the other end of the 

 back. (Tlie stream is only about one 

 over the large .spawning beds where y 

 dred to a thousand lish, aud after the, 

 ish, and could not find 



.all. 



nil, but dming 



f what I .'ailed sin. : - 



onghoui the nountrv 



Spriug Creek, as that 



weeks 



d get a shot they 

 stream, and would soon he 

 ute long.) They would go 

 ti coidd see from one Iran- 

 had been over it you would 



all that day, a 



ouce or twice it was the thud day before they began to show up 

 again. 



I found that shooting did not work, ho I mad.:- some scarecows 

 out of old clothes aud set them up on the hunk of the stream. 

 That did vary well for a day or two. but they soon n ■■> fcbl rugi 

 the fraud, anil were as bad as ever. 1 then thought I would try 

 somethinp that would move, as I saw that a boat on the stream, or 

 a person in motion would start them the moment they saw it, even 

 if a long way off. So I made some small red fiaurjel flags and 

 put them by the side of the scarecrows, and that did the business-, 

 and I had no more trouble with the sheldrakes. 



Next I have the common hoot or screech-owl. I have but little 

 to Hay about them as they have given mo but, little trouble or dam- 

 age that 1 know of. What first made me suspect th.'.t thov were 

 up to some mischief was that I found them in mv steel trap- lout 

 were set for muxkrat. mink, etc. in setting traps for theKewe 

 generally place, them under tho surface of the water iron. on. o 

 four inches, and when I found the owls iu th.-in I could not, make 

 out what they were after m thu water, but I soon found that it 

 was for the fish-food in the stream, such as the fresh-water lob- 

 ster, caddis worm, shrimp, etc. Ho that iF not a direct enemy to 

 the fish, they indirectly do much harm, as 1 said under the head of 

 Poachers No. I. I have taken them during the night in the traps 

 placed f..r kingfishers. 



Then comes the heron, tbo "blue heron," and what a wickod 

 fellow, dealing death to evervthiug in the fish line that be ouce 

 strikes with that long, heavy. Mid sharp bill of his. .Must of his 

 poaching is carried on after dark an.i oath mornings. Duriug the 

 day you find him m the more secluded parts of the 

 marshes, but after dark he will come into anv of vonr shnllnw 

 ponds, coining to within a rod or two of 

 lish move around (he standing in the ware 

 aud come within his reach, he strike-, am: 

 he hits him. From what X have Been i 

 others I think the bird capable of getting 

 two dozen, three dozen trout m one night, 



During the summer when I have been 

 often heard witlou a short distance of mo s 

 turbauce in the water. The next mornii 

 the spot as near as possible, and found t 

 feet, and very often near by the stream 

 one-half to one ponnd in weight, dead, wi 

 side into which yon could put your fi",gei 

 through the fish. " I suppose the" fish four 

 little too large and strong Tor the heron, una j 

 but onlv to die from the effects of the wound. 



If v 



o the 



r thii 



get out your steel I raps. 

 most set one, two or three, the more tl 

 shallow water or soft mud without, bait 

 for when they find themselves caugh 

 carry it off urrleLs proper precauti 



etly motionless i, 

 bye to the fish if 

 and heard from 

 i of from one to 



have often gone to 

 nark of the "heron's 

 rge trout, say from 



hole m hifi b iqIi or. 



id .-oruefm-.es going 



from him, 



„ . .nr ponds or 



ud at the spot frequented 



better. Set them in the 



g Secure the trap well, 



thoy start to fiy, aud will 



I have taken several 



„ this way, aud sometimes in winter. When yon find c 



trap be very careful about going very near until you have quieted 

 him with a long club or a charge of s ut, for they are savage, and 

 can and will inflict a bad woimd, as I know from experience. 



The bittern, a bird something after the nature of the heron. 

 only very much smaller, must do some damage. I always shoot bitu 

 when X oan. 



Then 1 have the muakrat. Iu his poaching he is after much tho 



