GAME PROTECTION. 
New York Association for the Protection ©f 
ame.— The monthly meeting of this association was held 
■st night at the residence of Mr. Clinton Gilbert, No. 30 
feat Tenth street, Mr. Royal Phelps, President, in the 
mir. After the minutes of the last meeting had been 
tad, the President said that it became his painful duty to 
iOve for the expulsion of a member. The duty was all 
le more painful from the fact that it was the first time in 
te history of their association in which it had become 
tcessary to take this action. Mr. Phelps then read a reso- 
ition to the effect that in view of the sudden disappear- 
ace of their fellow-member, Wm, 0. Barrett, and the 
ibstantiated reports of his having appropriated trust funds 
i his private use, it became his duty, under the sixteenth 
'tide of the constitution of the association, to move for 
is expulsion, which he then did. A ballot was taken on 
le motion, and Mr. Barrett was, by a unanimous vole, ex- 
slled from tbe association. 
The President read the usual large number of communi- 
Uions from sportsmen in other States, commending the 
)od work of the association, and asking for information 
ilh the view of establishing similar associations in their 
ispeetive localities. 
Mr. Luddington, chairman of the Committee on Amend- 
ients to the Game Laws, reported that he had had several 
iterviews at Albany with Senator Kanncday aud other 
sntleincn, and there seemed to be uo doubt that, notwith¬ 
anding the organized opposition of market men and 
hers, all the important amendments proposed by their 
isociation would become laws before the close of the ses- 
on. 
Mr. Clapp said that the Legislature had been petitioned 
) repeal section 4, chapter 511 of the laws of 1874, pro- 
ibiting fishing on Rockland Lake from December to 
pril, uiid a counter petition had been prepared and pre- 
•nted by Robert J. Henderson. He thought the associa¬ 
te should take measures to aid in preventing the repeal 
: the act, which protected the fish with which Rockland 
ake had been stocked. 
Dr. Green offered a resolution requesting the Committee 
j Amendments to the Game Law s to take action in the 
alter. 
Mr. Robt. B. Roosevelt thought that each locality should 
■ke care of its own fish and game, and moved that the 
■solution he laid on the table, which was adopted. 
Secretary Cutlibert read a number of communications 
a warded to the association by Setli Green, which gave 
ost satisfactory accounts of the success resulting from 
le stockiug of Otsego and Canandaigua lakes with trout, 
coving beyond doubt that barren waters can be fruitfully 
oeked with fish by means of artificial propagation. 
The President said that during the past month he had 
:ceived a number of communications from respectable 
t-izens, commending the organization for its praiseworthy 
foils in preventing the killing and sale of fish and game 
iiring tlm past seasou, and thought the New York Associ- 
ion for the Protection of Game had reason to be proud 
| such general recognition of its labors. 
After the transaction of some routine business, the meet- 
g adjourned.— Times, 11 lh instant. 
Onondaga County Sportsman’s Club. —At tbe annual 
deling of the Onondaga County Sportsman’s Club, held 
l the 4tll Inst., the following were elected officers for the 
lsuing year: President, 8. W. Sherlock; Yice President, 
hornas E, Townseud; Secretary, John Steadman; Treas- 
■er, Thomas Kimber, Jr.; Financial Secretary, 11. B, 
irong; Executive Committee, John Bedford, Wm. Staul- 
lum, and Wm. Page; Attorney, Geo. W. Gray. 
—The following gentlemen have been elected by the 
onroe County Sportsmen’s Club to represent them in the 
iming Stale convention at Geneseo. W. J. Babcock, A. 
. Lanfbcrton, J. H. Brown, E. O. Sage, and Dr. C. E. 
ider. 
—At a recent meeting of tbe Leather Stocking Club of 
swego, the following members were elected delegates to 
e State convention to be held at Geneseo, in May, viz.: 
. Stevenson, G . W. Lyman, P. P. Eagle, N. W. Nutting, 
id H. C. Tanner. They were also given power to snb- 
itule. 
Smelt Fishuso in Massachusetts— Our New Bedford 
rrespondent, “Concha,” kindly sends us a copy of the 
w cut from the statute book, regulating the catching and 
le of smelts. We print the first and second sections, 
le third section relates to the duties of officers, etc. The 
^Visions of section two are in consideration of the fact 
at no one fishes for smelts with a line south of Cape 
id; in fact, those fishes only run up the rivers and back 
, ,th the tide:— 
| Ieotion 1. Whoever within this Commonwealth offers for sale, or 
i in his possession, any Bmeit or smelts between the 15th day of March 
1 the 1st day of June in each year, shall forfeit for each and every 
elt bo sold, offered for sale, or had in his possession, the sum ox one 
lar. 
Iection 2. Whoever takeB or catches any smelt or smelts with a net 
any kind, or in any other maimer than by naturally or artificially 
ted hooks and hand lines, shall forfeit for each smelt so caught or 
:en the sum or one dollar: Provided, that nothing contained in this 
Bhall apply to any person catching smelts in any seine or net, within 
‘ limits of Uri>tol, Barnstable, or Dukes counties, daring the time, and 
the manner, a person may lawfully iiah for perch, herriuff, or alewives, 
to auy person oJlering for Bale, or having in his possession, smelts so 
igbt, within those limits; and in all prosecutions .under this act the 
rden oi proof shall oe upon the defendant to show that the smelt or 
eltB, the offering foT sale, possession, or catching of which is the sub* 
,t of the proseco tion, were legally caught. 
Massachusetts Angler’s Association.—T he third an- 
,al meeting of this association was held at their rooms, 
I 8 Washington street, Boston, Friday evening April 7th, 
. d was one of the largest meetings yet held. The follow. 
' | ; gentlemen were elected officers for the ensuing year:— 
President, Dr. John P. Ordway; Yice Presidents, Hon. 
lomas Talbot, John F. Mills, S. W. Hatheway, C. War- 
l Gordon, Charles Stan wood; Treasurer, Wm. F. Story; 
icording Secretary, George B. Brown; Corresponding 
erelary, Charles E. Pierce; Librarian, James A. McGee; 
iecutive Committee, James P. Richardson, Walter M. 
uukett, James Walker, Beni, P. Ware, L. Prouty; Com- 
ttee on Membership, D. T. Curtis, E. Delano, H. M. 
rristali. 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
Prof. Spencer F. Baird, U. S. Fish Commissioner, the 
Fish Commissioners of the several States, Hon. W. F. 
Whitclier, Fish Commissioner of Canada, and Dr. D. 
Humphrey Storcr of Boston, were elected honorary mem¬ 
bers. 
Interesting communications were read from several 
gentlemen, among them one from J. H. Kimball, Esq., of 
llalb, Me,, President of tbe Maine State Association for 
Protection of Fish, congratulating them upon their success 
in having a law introduced in the Massachusetts Legisla¬ 
ture for the protection of trout, in which he says:— 
“We have been watching the progress of your bill with 
a great deal of interest, for it really was of more import¬ 
ance to Maine and New York than your State. The re¬ 
port of the committee fell like a wet blanket upon us, hut 
wc are revived and encouraged by the action of the House 
on Wednesday, Our close lime laws would avail us but 
little while there was an open market for our trout in Bos¬ 
ton all the year. The recent decision in Missouri as to the 
constitutionality of the prohibition of possession sections 
of the law have great beneficient effect.” 
Walter M. Brackett, the artist, presented to the associa¬ 
tion, in the name of Edwin F. Snow. Esq,, a neatly framed 
lithograph printed in 1834, entitled “The Complete Ang¬ 
ler,” in return for which a vote of thanks was passed. 
By the secretary’s report it appears that eighty members 
have joined, ton had died or resigned during the year, and 
that there were now over five hundred members. 
A letter from Hon. Theodore Lyman was read, inform¬ 
ing the association that ihey would receive this week from 
the Museum of Zoology specimens of the different fish of 
Massachusetts, and that he would deliver a lecture upon 
the same before the association on Wednesday evening 
next. To this lecture the ladies are invited. 
After adjournment the members retired to the library 
room, where they discussed a fine collation there in wait¬ 
ing for them .—Boston Journal. 
—The annual meeting of the Rhode Island Association 
for the protection of Fish and Game was held April 5th. 
Rev. F. II. Hemperly, the President, stated that the soci¬ 
ety has between eighty and one hundicd members. Its 
object is to cheapen good wholesome food at a time when 
fish and game are difficult to obtain and preserve. Ours 
are said to be the best spawning beds in the country, but 
the use of the net has had a detrimental effect. To secure 
the necessary legislation tho attention of the people must 
be called to tbe importance of the matter, and an illustra¬ 
ted course of lectures ou the ways and habits of fish and 
birdB would be a desirable means. 
Officers for the ensuing year were elected as follows: 
President, Rev. F. H Hemperly; Yice Presidents, Dr. P. 
S- Redfield, John Howe, C. M. Carpenter, C. H. Clark, C. 
H. Wilmartb; Secretary, L. H. Cutler; Treasurer, Charles 
F. Pope; Advocate, H.B. Whitman. 
—A correspondent writes us that a Mr. Doyle, a resident 
of Beaver county, Penn., killed a few days ago eight quails 
out of a bevy at one shot. Fortunately the testimony to 
prove the fact is in the possession of the president of tho 
Enon Valley Sportsmen’s Club who will see that this viola¬ 
tor of the law in properly punished. Certainly we have 
not heard for a long time of such a flagrant and unsports¬ 
manlike action. 
Stump Pulling. —Thera are few farmers but who have 
had a fight with some obstinate stump, and tbe man who 
travels with the patent stump-puller is almost as familiar a 
character in the rural districts as the peripatetic lightning- 
rod man, or the ubiquitous book canvasser. In clearing 
new land the stumps are the great- stnmbliug blocks to tbe 
agriculturist, and the word “stumped” lias passed into a 
proverb as expressing the full stop, either to the plowman or 
the stump orator and arguer. It is of value, therefore, to 
know that dynamite or giant powder is the agent which 
can be used with the least labor and expense in removing 
these pests of the farmer, the unsightly stumps which or¬ 
nament many a fair field, leaving awkward angles where 
there should be straight furrows, and providing the village 
blacksmith with constant employment in the re-sharpening 
of broken plough points. Indeed, if we can trust the re¬ 
ports of recent experiments in England, not only will the 
use of this explosive remove the stumps, but at tbe same 
time supply the farmer with an unlimited amount of fire¬ 
wood ready sawed and split, although, as we should im¬ 
agine, somewhat scattered. A short time since a series of 
experiments with dynamite were made on an estate near 
Birmingham, England, with, according to our exchange, 
the following results:— 
“The first to be experimented upon was a large, ugly 
ash root, and it was decided it should be split up without 
boring an auger hole into it; consequently, a charge of 
two cartridges was placed in a natural recess on the side of 
the root and fired. To the astonishment of those present, 
the whole mass was shivered into firewood. Several other 
roots were then broken up with equal success without the 
use of the auger, A very large oak root was then broken 
up, so large, in fact, that the ties or roots had to be cut 
asunder; the ground got from underneath, and the whole 
dropped about eight feet beneath the surface of the soff¬ 
it was intended to drop and bury it on account of its ex¬ 
treme size and cost of labor. Two crowbar holes were 
made, one on each side the root, facing each other, and both 
charged with.about 1 lb. dynamite. These were fired sim¬ 
ultaneously, from the effects of which the monster was 
broked into four quarters; two more shots completely 
split the mass up, much to the satisfaction of all oresent. 
The experiments were concluded by blowing bodily out of 
the ground a large intact oak root; this was done by mak¬ 
ing a crowbar hole between tbe ties or minor roots, and in¬ 
serting a charge of dynamite under the centre. On the shot 
being fired, the root was completely lifted from its bed." 
—A. T. Stewart, tbe millionaire merchant, died in this 
city on Monday last, and will be buried to-day. His vast 
business will be, for the present at least, conducted under 
the management of Judge Henry Hilton, his legal adviser. 
It is not known as yet what disposition is to be made of his 
estate. 
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—We would call the attention of gentlemen who may be 
looking for such a place to the advertisement in another 
column of Willow Lake, the residence of R. Francis, 
Esq. Probably there are few places oh Long Island pos¬ 
sessing all the attractions of this valuable property; a fine 
residence with all appurtenances, and a fine lake aud 
stream for the propagation of trout. The location is salu¬ 
brious and attractive, being situated near Glen Cove, on 
the north side of the island. 
—We are pleased to notice the success of the Eclectic 
Library, No. 38 Union Square. Tlic large number of new 
books daily put in, and the little delay in getting any or all 
new books, its easy access, the prominence of its location, 
with its thorough system and plcasaut appearance, make it 
a popular and desirable place of resort. All the latest En¬ 
glish, French, and American publications, books, reviews, 
novels, periodicals, etc., are on sale, together with photo¬ 
graphs,stationery, etc. 
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—The monthly record of the thermometer, as furnished 
by our correspondent, Major George J. Alden, at New 
Smyrna, Fla., shows the mean temperature for March to 
have been 70i°; highest, 83"; and lowest, 45°. 
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Kangaroos in FRANCe. —A large number of kangaroos 
have been imported to France Irom Australia, and are 
found to thrive excellently in their new home. Already 
they lire becomi ng plentiful, and in softie places the flesh 
is sold In the mar ket, and it is thought a great dainty. 
J|7/p fennel. 
THE POINTS OF A SETTER. 
L AST week we published a letter from the veteran field 
sportsman Ethan Allin, in which lie suggests the 
propriety of some skillful sporlsmuu giving the general 
outlines of the most approved form of the setter oE tbe 
present time, in order that the owners of dogs can, with 
some degree of certainty, select suoh as would probably he 
entitled to premiums at the coming bench show. In reply 
to this letter wc say that we consider Mr. Allin among the 
most skillful of our correspondents upon dog subjects, and 
we will be glad to publish an article from him giving his 
views; yet it would be very difficult for him or anyone 
else to write out a set of points for the government of 
judges at bench shows which would be carried out; for the 
reason that it is very frequently impossible to see the ex¬ 
act form of a dog when brought upon the bench, as many 
dogs, when forced in among strangers, cannot be induced 
to move around or stand in position long enough to enable 
tho judges to see exactly what his true form is. 
There are, however, some points which it is important 
a setter should have to entitle him to a prize at a bench 
show. Among them is the.size; he should not be over¬ 
grown or diminutive. He should stand square upon his 
legs, which should be neither too long or too short, but in 
proportion with the size of his body, and by all means 
standing a shade higher before than behind. Tati should 
come out well up, and be straight or scimeter-shaped, and 
should be carried on a level, or rather above the level of 
the back, and by no means too long. A tail reaching to 
the gambtil joint, or an inch below, is about right. A cut 
tail is not excluded from our bench shows unless so cut as 
to disfigure the dog. The chest should be deep and some¬ 
what rounded; loins, muscular. Feet should be rounded 
and somewhat feathered between tbe toes. A short, thick 
neck never looks well. Ears should he long and some¬ 
what rounded at the points, but not so long as to give a 
spaniel look, and they should be vteil coated, fringe hang¬ 
ing below the rim. A thick ear would indicate ill breed¬ 
ing. Head should be broad at the top, and nearly square 
to the eyes, and the latter should bo full, bright, of gentle 
expression. Muzzle should he well squared out, and lips 
slightly pendulent. Coat should not be curly, but long 
and wavy. Many persons prefer that the feather on tbe 
hind legs should oxlcnd below the gambril joint, and 
many of the best bred dogs have it, but we do not consid¬ 
er it either ornamental or useful. 
In regard to the best colors for a dog for field purposes, 
a groat diversity of opinions prevail. In shooting over an 
open country—the prairies, for instance—it does not mat¬ 
ter so much about colors; but in shooting in dense co¬ 
verts it is important, we think, that a dog should be of 
such colors as can readily be seen—such as orange and 
white, lemon and white, black and white, or black, white 
and tan. 
We consider that all dogs entered for prizes should have 
a pedigree sufficient to satisfy the judges that they are 
thoroughbred; but that imported dogs, because they have 
a pedigree as long as the moral law, should receive a prize 
over an American-bred of equal qualifications, is an ab¬ 
surdity. 
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The Sfringfeld Bench Show.— On the 3(ith and 37th 
inst., the Rod and Gan Club, of Springfield, Mass., will 
hold what promises to be one of the largest and most suc¬ 
cessful bench shows of dogs ever held in this country. At 
least we judge that such will be the ease, first, from what 
we hear among sportsmen as to the number of entries to 
be sent from this vicinity alone, and secondly, from the 
energy displayed by the club last year in bringing their 
show to a successful issue, and with the experience gained 
on that occasion, the present cannot but he superior. The 
prizes are both numerous and valuable, and it only requires 
discrimination inthe selection of the judges to give satis¬ 
faction to exhibitors—that is, as much satisfaction as is pos- 
