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FOREST AND STREAM 
A WEEKLY JOURNAL, 
Dff^OTED TO FtELD ANT) AQUATIC SPORTB, Pp^CTICAL NATURAL Hi BTQBY, 
FKnJCDLTURB, THE PROTECTION OF GAJHEjPbEBERYATION OF FOHESTB, 
Aru the Inculcation in Men and Women of a healthy interest 
in Otjt-door Recreation and Study : 
PUBLISHED BY 
forest md ptreanj publishing <j£omgai\g t 
17 CHATHAM STREET, (CITY HALL SQUARE) HEW YORK, 
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NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JUNE S, 1876. 
To Correspondents, 
All communications whatever, whether relating to Oualnesa or literary 
Correspondence, must be addressed to The Forest and Stream Pub¬ 
lishing Company. Personal or private letters of course excepted. 
All communications intended for pnhlicationmnst he accompanied with 
leal name, as a guaranty of good faith. Names will not be published if 
objection be made. No anonymous contributions will be Tegaraed. 
Articles relating to any topic within the scope of this paper are solicited. 
We cannot promise to return rejected manuscripts. 
Secretaries of Clubs and Associations are urged to favor us with brief 
notes of their movements and transactions, as it is the aim of this paper 
to become a medium of useful and reliable information between gentle¬ 
men sportsmen from one end of the country to the other; and they will 
find our columns a desirable mediant for advertising announcements. 
The Publishers of Forest and Stream aim to merit and secure the 
patronage and countenance of that portion of the community whose re¬ 
fined intelligence enables them to properly appreciate and enjoy all that 
is beautiful iu Nature. It will pander to no depraved tastes, nor pervert 
the legitimate sports of land and water to those base uses wbicb always 
tend to make them unpopular with the virtuous and good. No advertise¬ 
ment or business notice of an immoral character will be received on any 
terms; and nothing will he admitted to any department of the paper that 
msy not be read with propriety in the home circle. 
We cannot be responsible for the dereliction of the mail service, if 
money remitted to os is lost. 
Advertisements should be sent in by Saturday of each week, if possible. 
CHARLES HALLOCK, 
Editor and Business Manager. 
CALENDAR OF EVENTS FOR THE COM¬ 
ING WEEK. 
Thursday, June 8th.—Racing: Jerome Park. Trotting: Belmont 
Park.Phils.; Dnbnqile, Iowa; Medina, N. Y.; Washington, I). C.; 
Beacon Park, Boston. Regatta: New York Yacht Club. Base-Ball: St. 
Lonis vs. Hartford, at Hanford; Chicago vs. Athletic, at Philadelphia; 
Cincinnati vs. Mutual, at Brooklyn; Louisville va. Boston, at Boston; 
Alaska vs. Chelsea, at Brooklyn; Madison vs. Lexington, at Brooklyn; 
Rose Hill vs. Jasper, at Manbattanville, N. Y. Pigeon Shooting Tour¬ 
nament ut St. Panl, Minn. 
Friday, June flt.h.—'Trotting: Belmont Park, Phila.; Washington,!). 
C.; Pottatown, Pa.; Beacon Park, Boston; Sharon, Pa. Base-Ball: 
Mutual vs. Argyle, at Brooklyn. 
Saturday, June 10.—Racing: Jerome Park. Trotting: Sharon, Pa. 
Brooklyn Yacht CInb Regatta: Seawanbaka Yacht Club Corinthian Re¬ 
gatta for sloops. Rennsalaer Polytechnic Institute Rowing Races, Troy, 
N. Y. Neptune Rowing Club Regatta: Staten Island; Colombia Boa' 
Club, of Brooklyn Regatta. Base-Ball: St. Lonis vs. Hartford, at Hart¬ 
ford; Chicago vs. Athletic, at Philadelphia, Cincinnati vs. Mutual, at 
Brooklyn; Louisville vs. Boston, at Boston; Madison vs. Olympic, at 
Brooklyn; Orange va. Athletic, at Orange; Osceola vs. Olympic, at 
Brooklyn. 
Monday, June 12th.—Regatta Columbia Yacht Club. Base-Ball: 
Alaska vs. Olympic, at Melrose, 
Tuesday, June 18th.—Racing: Jerome Park. Trotting: Buffalo, N. 
Y.; Elmira, N. V.; Homer, N. Y.; Point Breeze Park, Philadelphia; 
Grand Rapids, Mich.; Peru,pud. Seawanhaka Schooner Regatta. Com 
petition for places on American Term: Creedmoor. Base-Ball: Louis¬ 
ville vs. Hartford, at Hartrord; Orange vs. Star, at Orange. 
Wednesday, Jnne 11th.—Trotting as above. Last competition for 
places on American Team. 
Announcement. —Mr. Wm. C. Harris having resigned the 
office of business manager of Forest and Stream, the edi- 
rial and business management of the paper, will from this 
date bo under the sole charge of Mr. Charles Hallock, its 
original proprietor. The Philadelphia branch office is dis¬ 
continued, and there will he no other office than the present 
general publication office at 17 Chatham street, New York. 
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To Patrons m Arrears.— In view of the change in the 
business management of this paper, we beg those who are 
in arrears for snbscriptions and advertisements to pay up at 
once, so that we may square accounts to June 1st, and 
wipe ofE the old slate. 
Hereafter we shall stop our paper two weeks after 
the term of subscription expires, without farther notifica. 
tion. 
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— Colonel Delaucey Kane, the New York amateur sla?e 
coachman, is a gr^at-grandsop of the late John Jacob 
Astor, 
COUNTY DELEGATES TO STATE CON¬ 
VENTIONS. 
O UR readers are aware that it has been a custom of 
late years to admit to the privileges of the State 
Sportsman's Association at the annual conventions a 
number of gentlemen as County Delegates, from coun¬ 
ties wherein no sportsman’s clubs had been organized. 
It is most probable, from the action taken at the 
recent convention, that the custom will be done 
away with. It certainly should be. Any county 
which cannot number sufficient sportsmen to form a club 
for the protection of their own game, not only deserve to 
have no game, but are clearly not entitled to the privileges 
of the Association. The question was very pertinently put 
at Geneseo. “Who are to appoint County Delegates? Are 
they to come armed with certificates of good moral charac¬ 
ter from their pastor, Sunday school Superintendent, 
Justice of the Peace, or, as one gentleman suggested, the 
village undertaker?” The admittance of these unauthorized 
delegates is a direct premium against the formation of 
sportsman's clubs, and although we sympathise with the 
gentlemen from Steuben and Chatauqua, we approve of 
the action of the convention in refusing to recognize 
them. The effects would be the same as if irresponsible 
or unauthorized persons were to be admitted to the delib¬ 
erations of our Legislature on equal footing with the peo¬ 
ple’s duly elected representatives. We presume this prop¬ 
osition was thoughtlessly introduced by persons who 
wished to imitate the action of the National Convention at 
Cleveland just one year ago, thinking that wisdom cen¬ 
tred in that body. For their edification we will explain 
why the Cleveland Convention voted to admit individuals 
not connected with any club, and isolated clubs from 
States having no State Association, on the same terms as 
regularly accredited delegates from State Associations. It 
was to get rid of the necessity for adopting the resolution 
offered by the Secretary of the "International Association 
for Protecting Game and Fish,” inviting a conference be¬ 
tween the Committees of the two bodies on Nomenclature 
and Distribution of Species, with the view, as stated in 
the text of the resolution, “to secure all the information 
and wisdom that can be obtained upon the important mat¬ 
ters under consideration.” This action having been taken 
as to the admission of individual members, the Convention 
was the belter prepared for the report of the Executive 
Committee, rejecting the conference resolution. We quote 
from that report as follows: 
“We [the Executive Committee] submit that the admis¬ 
sion of new clubs and new members covers the ground 
comprised in this resolution. The gentlemen members of 
the International Association for Protecting Game and 
Fish may become members of the association, if they so 
desire." 
The design was to utilize the efforts of its cognate body 
or cousin germain by absorption, which would be equiva¬ 
lent to wiping it out—this latter object being then evidently 
paramount to its avowed purpose of protecting game. 
We do not bring this matter up by way of accusation, but 
to show that motives, often not clear to outsiders, govern 
actions of deliberative bodies, and that what is sauce for the 
goose may not always be sauce for the gander. The Na¬ 
tional Association will eventually discover, if it has not 
already done so, that its action of last year was ill-advised, 
and that its deliberations will be clogged by extraneous 
matter, which, having been introduced ostensibly as a lu¬ 
bricator may prove to be only dirt to impair the move¬ 
ments of the machine. We are glad to see that at our 
Geneseo Convention a large majority were found to cham¬ 
pion the principle for which we strugged at Cleveland single 
handed. _ _ 
Sea Island Sheep. —lu our issue of November 18th, 
1875, Vol. Y. No. 15, page 328, we published a very inter¬ 
esting article upon a curious breed of sheep to be found 
upon the islands off the coast of Maine. We have now 
been favored with a long and interesting letter from the 
owner of the sheep and the proprietor of the island 
whereon they live together with a sample of the fleece, 
which measures nine inches in length, and is of very fine 
texture. We print the following extract from the letter;— 
Maouias, Me., April23d, 1876. 
Editor Forest and Stream:— 
A friend of mine had the kindness to loan me a file of the Forest and 
Stream which l hate been reading of late with a great deal of pleasure 
and some profit, I notice an article in the Issue dated November 18th, 
1875, headed “Sea Island sheep,” which I have reason to suppose means 
me. Said article mast have been taken originally from a letter I wrote by 
request (with no idea of its being published) to John L. Hayes, Esq,, 
editor of the “Bulletin of the Notional Association of the Wool Manu¬ 
factures," and which he inserted in the “Bulletin" for January and 
March, 1875. My Post-office address is as above, but I live on Rogue 
island in Englishman's Bay. This island contains ahont 1,-100 acres. I 
have now something over 300 of those carious sheep. With the excep¬ 
tion of about 511, which have been around my barn and had hay thrown 
ont to them when the ground was covered with snow, they have not been 
fed or housed, but have got their living entirely, with no shelter but woods. 
The only socret about it is, they must be born and roared on the sea 
shore. I have bought several “ham sheep" and brought to the island, 
but they invariably need shelter and care In the winter. Ail of the 
islands along this coast, as far as 1 am acquainted, are stocked more or 
less with sheep, which if let alone, would get their living the year 
around, but the sheep thieves are so troublesome of late that some take 
their sheep home winters. I picked up a dead sheep on thB shore the 
other day that I suppose was washed off a ledge and drowned, which 
had a two or three years' fleece. I inclose a sample. 
GILBBRT LoNSEELLOW. 
—It is said that the Allen Line steamers are to make Mi- 
ramichi, instead of Halifax and Portland, the terminus of 
t-Ueir Atlantic trips from Groat Britain. 
GAME PROTECTION. 
—The law prohibiting the taking of any Balmon, slmd, 
alewives, or other migratory fish in any manner but with 
single hook and line, within five hundred yards of any 
dam, mill race or fishway, was repealed by the Maine legis¬ 
lature of last year without the knowledge or consent of the 
■commissioners of fisheries. Under the new law every dam 
operates as a trap, where the fish are slopped and collected, 
the more readily to be swept into the nets of the fishermen. 
The present law allows four days close time, within which 
“no saimou, shad, alewives, or bass shall be taken or de¬ 
stroyed in the Penobscot River, etc., above the railroad 
bridge between Bangor and Brewer, etc. The text of the 
law reads:— 
“Between said Thursday and Sunday at sunrise, as afore¬ 
said, it shall he lawful to take any of said fish in said 
waters above said bridge, any law to the contrary notwith¬ 
standing. Any person violating the provisions of this act 
shall be liable to a penalty of flfteeu dollars for each sal¬ 
mon, and five dollars for each fish aforesaid, taken or 
destroyed from or in such waters during the period above 
interdicted.” 
This act was passed February 7th, 1876. Mr. E. M. 
Stillwell, the efficient State Fish Commissioner, has shown 
most praiseworthy energy in his effort to counteract the 
mischief which this law promises to make-, and in an 
article printed in the Bangor Whig and Courier he refers to 
the provisions of the act, as embodied in the clause quoted, 
as follows:— 
“That is to say, according to their interpretation of their 
own law they may fish during the close time, but cannot 
be punished uulesB they can be convicted of catching fish. 
It is worthy of a Legislature that passed a law for the 
protection of pickerel , and cut down the appropriation for 
our Agricultural College. We now appeal to our fellow 
citizens, to the people at large, for aid iu this emergency.- 
If the inhabitants on our rivers are not with us, if they 
are not willing to furnish us with evidence of all infrac¬ 
tions of the law, a standing army of wardens, or police 
officers, or constables would be of no avail. 
“The issue now is, ‘shall we allow all the lime and money 
that.has been expended in efforts to restock the Penobscot 
and "tits tributaries, to be sacrificed to a few unprincipled 
men who would kill the last pair of salmon in the river if 
they could make a dollar by it.’ If any person will fur¬ 
nish us with sufficient evidence to couvict any of these 
men of fishing during the close time, viz.: between sunrise 
on Sunday and sunrise on Thursday, with nets, or with 
traps, or pots at any time, we will endeavor to convince 
them that there is a different reading to the statute they 
framed to give impunity to crime. Complaints left at my 
office, wiiu names of witnesses, or with City Marshall 
Walker will be promptly acted upon. 
“E. M. Stillwell, 
“Commissioner of Fisheries for Stale of Maine.” 
—The “Forest and Stream" Club of Scranton, Pa., or¬ 
ganized in February, 1875, already has 100 members, and 
is exertmg much healthful influence throughout the County 
of Luzerne, in inducing proper respect for the game lawB. 
Several violators have been prosecuted and fined or im¬ 
prisoned. This club has a shoot on the 24lh, 35tli, and 
26th of this month. 
Indiana.— A society has been formed at Valparaiso, Ind., 
known as the Porter County Society for the Protection and 
Propagation of Fish. The officers are, President, W. H. 
Holabird; Vice-President, Orin Wells; Secretary, W. H. 
Vail; Treasurer, Abe Marsh. Near Valparaiso in a chain 
of thirteen little lakes, and one of the main objects of the 
society was to prevent the spearing of fish during the 
spring and fall mouths. The President writes us that the 
efforts of the society have been so obnoxious to the poach¬ 
ers in the vicinity that they have retaliated by destroying 
his boats, and at last by killing his favorite dog. We 
trust that Mr. Holabird may succeed in having the mis¬ 
creants punished, and that the objects of his society may 
be fully accomplished. 
—Our Texas correspondent sends us a letter published in 
the Gainesville News, and dated at O’Brian’s Gamp, near 
Fort Griffin, which gives the results of a buffalo hunt from 
the middle of March up to date, as follows:— 
“Jesse Benton and I have 825 hides of our own, and we 
are now hunting iu partnership with James Ennis. Day 
before yesterday ire killed 46 buffaloes, and yesterday 38. 
We may hunt all summer, as buffaloes are geutler in sum¬ 
mer than in winter, but the hides are harder to save. 
“J. C. Vaughn.” 
Fort Griffin is on the Clear Fork of the Brazos River, 
about 150 miles a little southwest of Gainesville and is a 
good buffalo country. Our correspondent says very point¬ 
edly;— 
“It may look like‘going back on’my former argument 
in favor of McCarty’s Big Hunt, but this wholesale killing 
for skins is too much of a good thing. I do not know how 
many parties 1 have heard of being iu that locality last 
wintor, but I did think that when the summer came it 
would be stopped." 
The recent law of Congress to prevent the wholesale 
destruction of buffalo will fix the flints for these fellows, 
if some one can be found bold enough to prosecute them. 
The New Pennsylvania Game Law.—B y the new 
game law, amending and consolidating the several acts re¬ 
lating to game and fish, passed on the last day of the ses¬ 
sion, deer may ho killed from October 1st to January 1st; 
gray, black, and fox squirrels from August 1st to January 
1st; woodcock from July 4th to January 1st, partridge, or 
quail, and rabbit from October 15th to December 15th; 
pheasant from October 1st to January 1st; trout and salmon 
from April 1st to August 15th; black bass from July 1st to 
March 1st, and only with rod, hook, and line. The bill 
imposes a penalty of $20 for killing, catching, or discharg¬ 
ing any firearms at any w ild pigeon while on its nestiug 
ground, or in any manner disturbing such nesting ground; 
a fine of five dollars for killing aay insectivorous bird, and 
a fine of $25 for hunting and fishing or Sunday, 
