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FOREST AND STREAM. 



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 A WEEKLY JOURNAL, 



DsvOTCT TOFlElJ) AND AqUATIC SPOBTS, PEAOTICAi N ATCEAI. HlBTOBT, 



™« CCTLTrp.E, Tai PROTECTION 01- GAiE,PRESERTATI0N0TF0KEST8, 

 ACT I TB3 INCULCATION IN MEN AND WOMBH OF A BBALTHr ISTEKBST 



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NEW YORK, THURSDAY, 3IA.Y 3. 1877. 



To Correspondents. 



All communications whatever, whether relating to onBlnesB or literary 

 correspondence, mnBt bo addressed to Tab Forkst and Stream Pet- 

 tisnraa Company. Personal or private letters of course excepted. 



All corninunicatlonsintcnded for publication must be accompanied with 

 real name, as a guaranty of good faith. Names will not be published if 

 objection be made. No anonymous contributions will be regaracd. 



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 

 no . es of their movements and transactions, as it is the aim of this paper 

 to become a medium of useful and reliable Information between gentle- 

 m m sportBmen from one end of the country to the other ; and they will 

 find our columns a uesirable medium 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- 

 ined intelligence enables them to properly appreciate and enjoy all that 

 1b beautiful in Nature. It will pander to no depraved tastes, nor pervert 

 the legitimate sports of land and water to those base uses which 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 be admitted to any department of the paper that 

 may not be read with propriety in the home circle 



We cannot be responsible for the dereliction of the mall sorvice, 1/ 

 money remitted to ua i« lost. 



Advertisement* should be sent in by Saturday of each week. If possible. 



EST" Trade supplied by American News Company. 

 CHARLES HALLOCK, 



Editor and Business Manager 



NOTICE. 



This paper is now issued from its office at 103 Ful- 

 ton street, New York. 



THE "GREAT CONSOLIDATED.' 



To oue Readebs. 



We present to you this week the united Forest and 

 Stream, and Hod and 'run — a consummation which we 

 confidently believe will result advantageously alike to the 

 paper, the reader, the advertiser, tend the interests of legiti- 

 mate sport in America in general. While individual effort, 

 well directed, is potential, we believe that "a strong pull 

 together" is the best calculated to produce effective results. 



We are confident that under the new dispensation 

 any projects for pleasure or profit, whether they af- 

 fect the sportsman, the farmer, the game, orthedog, individ- 

 ually or together, whether they be to institute, acclimate, 

 improve, or extirpate, will now be carried to a successful is- 

 sue through the aid and intervention of our great and minor 

 game associations, with which it is our purpose intimately to 

 co-operate. 



We profess to be the organ for the sportsmen of America, 

 dating back to the spring of 1871— not a long life-time to be 

 Bure, but sufficient to give us precedence, maturity 

 and wisdom. America, the great country of inher- 

 ent sportsmen, descended from a paternity of born 

 hunters whose childish playthings were the tools that de- 

 fended their homes and supplied their larders, needs an 

 organ and expositor, and we believe that our combined jour- 

 nal can fill the bill to general satisfaction. 



Publishers of the 

 Foeest A>1> Stream and Eod and Gun, 

 The ' ' American Sportsman's Journal." 



Subscribers and Advertisers under our new :4yl<' and 

 title are respectfully notified that in cases where the sub- 

 hftvebeen paid for both journals, the joint paper 

 i be supplied for the full term already paid for. 



Our advertisers are notified that the competition between 

 the two papers being at an end, the rates have been fixed 

 with reference to the existing state of business; our present 

 rates will, we trust, bo satisfactory, and we shall hold to 

 them. 



It'is evident that where our advertisers have been running 

 two advertisements they will now be better served by an 

 advertisement in the joint journal with its largely increased 

 circulation. 



GAME PROTECTION. 



Massachusetts. — The following iB an abstract of the game 

 law passed at the last session of the Massachusetts Legisla- 

 ture: 



Woodcock and partridge (ruffed grouse) may be killed be- 

 tween September 1st and January 1st following. 



Quail may be killed between November 1st and January 

 1st following. 



Trapping and snaring game birds prohibited entirely. 



Upland plover may be killed between July 15th and Janu- 

 ary 1st following. 



Wood-duck, black duck and teal may be killed between 

 September 1st and April 15th following. 



Penalty for illegal killing of woodcock, partridge, quail, 

 upland plover, wood-duck, black duck and teal, twenty-five 

 dollars ($25) for each bird. 



Penalty for killing any undomesticated bird not before men- 

 tioned (except birds of prey, crows, crow-blackbirds, herons, 

 bitterns, wild pigeons, jays, rail, Wilson's snipe, wild geese, 

 plover, sandpiper, and any of the so-called marsh, beach, or 

 shore birds), ten dollars ($10). 



Penalty for destroying or disturbing the nests or eggs of 

 any undomesticated bird (except birds of prey or crows), 

 ten dollars ($10). 



Hares, rabbits and gray squirrels may bo killed between 

 October 1st and March 1st following. " Penalty for illegal 

 taking or killing, ten dollars ($10). 



No deer to be killed or taken (except one's own tame 

 deer) until 1880. Penalty for illegal taking or killing, one 

 hundred dollars ($100). 



All forfeitures to be paid one-half to the informant or 

 prosecutor, and one-half to the city or town where the 

 offence is committed. 



Trout and land-locked salmon may bo taken by hook and 

 line only between April 1st and October 1st following. 

 Penalty for illegal taking, ten dollars ($10). 



Black bass may be taken with hook arid line only between 

 June 1st and December 1st following. Penalty for illegal 

 taking, twenty dollars ($20). 



Possession prima facie, evidence to convict. 



Nevada.— The last Nevada Legislature paBsed a game law, 

 of which the following is a brief abstract: 



Sec. 1. Protects insectivorous birdB generally. 



Sec 2. Makes a close season from April 1 to September 

 1 for prairie-chickens, partridges, pheasants, woodcock, 

 grouse, quail, wild-geese, wood-duck, teal, mallow, or other 

 ducks, brant, swan, sand-hill crane, plover, curlew, robin, 

 meadow-lark, yellow-hammer and bittern; from the first 

 day of April to the first day of August in each year for sage- 

 chickens and snipe. 



Sec. 3. Prohibits the trapping of quail and the disturbing 

 of nests of any birds mentioned in the Act. 



Sec. i. Makes a close Beason for prairie-chickens until 

 September 1, 1879, in the Counties of Esmerelda, Douglas,. 

 Ormsby, Lyon, Storey, Churchill and Washoe. 



Sec 5. Makes a close season between January 1 and July 

 1 for doer, antelope, elk, mountain sheep or goat. 



Sec 6. Makes the penalty for violation of any of the pro- 

 visions of the Act a sum not to exceed two hundred dollars, 

 or imprisonment in the county jail for a term not to exceed 

 six months. 



Michigan. — The annual meeting of the Michigan State 

 Sportsmen's Association will be held at the Morton 

 House, Grand Rapids, on Tuesday, May Sth, 1877. The 

 meeting will be called to order at 2 p. m. All gentlemen in- 

 terested in the protection of game and fish are earnestly 

 requested to attend, whether members of the association 

 or not, 



Intebnationat. Bbittsh Ceeebbation. — An International 

 British Celebration, in honor of her Majesty, Queen Vic- 

 toria's birthday, will be held at Petersburg, Va., on May 24th, 

 under the immediate patronage of Lord Dufferin, Governor 

 General of Canada, the British Minister, and a long list of 

 Honorables. The various St. George's societies and British 

 societies generally throughout the country are expected to 

 participate. A full programme of the proceedings will be 

 issued on May 1st, and can be obtained from Jno. J, Camp- 

 bell, Esq., Assistant Secretary, Petersburg, Va. 



A Palpable Ebbob. — By one of those typographical errors 

 which will sometimes occur even in the best regulated news- 

 papers, or by a process of what Mr. Richard Grant White 

 terms heterophemy, which we take to mean, thinking one 

 thing and writing another, in our issue of the 19th nit. we 

 named His Excellency Lord Dufferin, Governor General of 

 the Dominion of Canada, as the Lieutenant-Governor of 

 Quebec. The gentleman we should have named was His 

 Honor, L. Letellier St. Just, Lieutenant-Governor, etc. We 

 ask pardon for an error, which, although palpable, would 

 yet indicate an ignorance which we repudiate. 

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New DrvEBTisEiiENT, — Our friend James Meyer, Esq., 

 well known among gentlemen sportsmen, is contemplating 

 the opening of a delightful summer resort at Pelhamville, 

 near thiB city, whose pleasures will include trout fishing, as 

 well as open-air exercise and garden luxuries. Ho has issued 

 special cards of invitation to a preliminary entertainment 

 for next Monday, May 7th. This resort is destined to be- 

 come as much of an institution as Col. Kane's Pelham coach 

 line, by which Mr. Meyer's place is readily reached. We 

 shall say more of this horeafter. 



Expbess. — The American Express Co. have offered to carry 

 dogs to and from New York lor the show at ope-half their 

 usual rates. 



Noracs to BPOETSMEN.-Having received bo many commnnicatiooB 

 asking us for information in regard to our sii-aeotion bamboo trout, 

 Wank bass, grilse and salmon rods, we bavo prepared a circular on the 

 subject, which we shall take pleasure in forwarding to any iddrasB. 

 We keep on hand all grades, the priooa of which range from $16 to *150. 

 We put our atamp only on the best, in order io protect our customers 

 and our reputation, for wo are unwilling to sell a poor rod with a false 

 enamel (made by burning and staining, to imitate the genuine article), 

 without letting our customers know just what they are getting. 



P. O. Box, 1,99*.- Adv. Abbet & Imubie, 48 Maiden Lane. 



[Owing to the great interest manifested in the New York 

 Bench Show, to be held on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thurs- 

 day next, we have devoted much, of our space" this week to 

 matters pertaining to it, to the exclusion of other matter in 

 our regular departments.— Ed. F. A S.] 



Mb. Macdona's Arbtval.— The Bev. J. Cumming Macdona 

 arrived from Liverpool in the White Star steamer Adriatic 

 on Sunday last Mr. Macdona was met at the wharf by 

 some of the members of the Westminster Kennel Club, and 

 escorted to the Fifth Avenue Hotel, which will be his head- 

 quarters while here. He brings with him Rover, the red 

 Irish setter, own brother to Plunket, whose portrait appears 

 in our present issue. Mr. G. deLandre Macdona sailed 

 from Liverpool on the 25th ult. , bringing Banger H, Blue 

 Prince, Magnet, a number of red Irish setter puppies, and 

 several of his splendid St. Bernards. The same steamer 

 brings a number of other dogs. 



Rahoeb's Victobx.— We had the pleasure on the arrival of 

 the Adriatic of handing Mr. Macdona a cable message, which, 

 although it contained but theBe simple words, "Ranger has 

 won all, Lort," was sufficient to afford the most intense grati- 

 fication to the recipient, The message referred to the field 

 (rials which were run at Shrewsbury on the 25th and 26th 

 hit, and indicated that old Ranger, Mr. Macdona's champion 

 setter, had won all of the stakes for which ho was entered. 

 Those who have read the almost bitter controversy which has re- 

 cently been renewed in the columns of the London Field wil I ap- 

 preciate Mr. Macdona's elation. In the very last issue of that 

 journal a correspondent, who has taken a prominent part in 

 the battle, describes Eanger as a " dead dog, " and says that 

 "not even the puffing he receives can put him on his legs 

 again." For a " dead dog " he has done some very lively work 

 in beating in his old age the best dogs that could be brought 

 against him. We shall look for the particulars with interest, 

 and also for the result of the Kennel Club field trials, which 

 were to have been run at Horselieath on the 2d and 3d 

 icBt., and in which Ranger was again to compete. 



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THE DOG LA.W. 



New Yobk, April 20, 1877. 

 Editor Forest and Stream. 



The fruits of the fierce attacks made by a prominent me- 

 tropolitan journal on "the noblest friend of man" is now 

 ripe and ready to be plucked by the executioner. If this 

 bill as passed by the Board of Aldermen becomes a law by 

 the signature of the Mayor, it will never reach the end in- 

 tended by the journal in question, for their sole war is 

 waged against the spiteful spitz; but the law as passed by the 

 City Fathers makes the innocent suffer for the gnilty, and 

 the latter, as will be shown, will not be incommoded in the 

 least, nor will they help to swell the City Treasury by pay- 

 ing the tax imposed npon them. Dogs are "rational; 

 unfortunately, they cannot speak, or else we might 

 learn their opinion of the madness in men; but when it 

 comes to a question of sound sense, or horse sense, as Abe 

 Lincoln nsed to call it, then we find that they are as much 

 imbued with that desirable article as the common run of 

 men. Everybody, no doubt, has heard of the dogs of St. 

 Bernard and the noble Newfoundland, and where is the 

 sportsman who will not vouch for the intelligence of the 

 pointer and setter in the field, who understands his master's 

 every word and action: and yet, with all this acknowledged 

 intelligence, these common-sense dogs are to be driven mad 

 by being deprived of their liberty and made a tow-boat of; 

 and all for what ? To please a few crusaders who have 

 good cause to remember the spitz, for spitz is a German 

 by word for "tight." This law, in the first place, says that 

 every owner of a dog shall pay two dollars for a license, and 

 one "dollar for a renewal; that said dog is to wear a bell 

 punch or collar about his royal neck, and if this was not 

 disgrace enough, when in the street he is to be held by a 

 chain or rope, not more than four feel in length, and a fine 

 of three dollars can be recovered from Fido's owner if he 

 does not carry those requisite ornaments; and lastly, the 

 poor dog is be taken out to the public pound, and if not 

 ransomed — a la Italiano — in forty-eight hours, he is to be dis- 

 patched with all haste to dog-heaven, from whence his spirit 

 will hasten back to plague the inventors of such a cruel and 

 indistinctive law. The newspaper which is entitled to all 

 the honors in this new crusade will not obtain the object 

 desired, for the spitz will not be touched by the rough hand 

 of the law. How are you going to reach him 7 Will the 

 brigandoB climb into a lady's chamber, where the well-fed 

 darling is reclining in safety, and snatch him out bald- 

 headed ? Not a bit of it, for there in the castle of his queen 

 and owner broom-sticks abound, and woe be unto the man 

 who attempts the feat ! This ends the spitz, and this is just 

 the way the tax will be collected on him. But the good dog 

 —"the" first to welcome, and foremost to defend"— must 

 suffer or pay the tax. The latter alternative, no doubt, will 

 be adopted by those whosehearts are as large and faithful as the 

 dog he owns. And the collar business is grand, for the little 

 boys of Mackerelville are waiting in anticipation of reoping a 

 harvest, and they nay "there's millions in it," while at the 

 same time they mil be aiding the City Treasury by uncollar- 

 ing dogs, thereby giving the owners a chance to be fined, 

 all of which will go into the strong box, while the dogs will 

 be going into another kind of box. It is fair to presume 

 that the modern Solons know the much-dreaded spitz is 

 owned and caressed by ladies, and when the latter get their 

 dander up the fighting along the line will be beautiful; but 

 do they know of an instance where an intelligent dog with 

 full liberty ever injured a child ? They may, if they refresh 

 their memory, recollect of such dogs saving life. AVho makes 

 the best watchman ? A dog. Who is it that will do more 

 for man than men will for each other — aye, even die for 



