FOREST AND STREAM: 



387 



In the course of his remarks 



itliin butfew years, when 

 lien our poinds and. sloughs 



Save 



ies of 



i! fast 

 seful 



GAME PROTECTION. 



Onrn i i ■■'• i tear '■ Iden death of Henry 



regqr, Iowa, who was ever active iu the 

 adi ana men of] b idG urn I 'roti ction. 



MlSHBSOTA State BfonTSMB^S C«> vkxtion.— The first 



I meeting of this Association was held al St. Paul, on 



2Tth, one hundred and fifty delegates being present. The 

 President, Mr. C. J. Butler, delivered the annual addn - 

 echos were made by Dr. Davi i Paige and many 



othi m ■ ■ h a a " ■ - ■■■ - - ■•■ \ ' ■■!' ■ - 



ipinion fhiil the gam ■ ' lerely as an oh. 



sport, but as a food re 

 duriug the period of breeding, 

 the President said 

 Jlosl ■ > ' ' mind, and 



: 



wen- tenanted by myriad d( svate 

 our forests were tilled with deer, 



I low is it 



mote districts grouse are no longa w he ■ . .,..„. ,„ ■„„ 



the waterfowl have been persecuted away t 



fiighl iu their migrations in the Farther \Y est, and deer s 



following the fate of all wild creature! , a i matti r b i i 



or hiw beautiful, than can be made to contribute totto jn d 



,i ,| scrupulous dealer who pliesbifi nefarious trade out 



,,f s ,..,.. .. ... ..i his ally the destructive and insatiable 



potbu ■ ' «> ""■ ' '"' °™r- 



,,„,„.; :: , _.., , :,, - n isl .1 avi I I on i solute ex- 

 lirpalion. 



Tbe result of the effort made in securing belter protection 

 for game, dining the last session of the Legislature, gave grat- 

 ifying evidence of the influence we can exert when the mem- 

 bers of the clUbs of the State bestir themselves to action. 



fnsecliverous birds and the songs :■ groves merit 



and undoubtedly will receive tin " full -. - d our protective 

 attention, and the wild i.k.-in, .-■> u-*cli: a-, n tood resource and 

 othenri- ' •.-.r-T.jrvi-il. should also receive a 



, , i i on sufficii tto enable it to pass through its breeding 

 undisturbed, 



It affords me pleasure on this publii occasion to acknowl- 

 edgethe obligations which weas sportsmen are tndea to Ear 

 mens. Pornyrself, 1 will say that 1 ctii»r m i . ■. ■ 1 ■■ 1 in pursuit 

 of same without feeling thai I am there by the courtesy of the 

 ■ ■■., in', and llial it: is incumbent, upon me to exercise the great- 

 est care that I do no injury, and when 1 leave it is with a sense 

 01 oil igation for a favor enjoyed. 



The following gentlemen an ' ■■, ., i , ■. i , for the ensuing 

 vear President, ('. J. Butler; first \ : ice-President, L. S. Van 

 'Vliet; second Vl< ■ Mor«6. 



—Again we have to chronicle a game protective organization 

 whiehhas honored us bv .-.it ■■:■!■ 1 1 ■ ihe litle of Forest and Stream 

 Association. This time it is in Wilmington, Clinton Co., Ohio, 

 and has the following officers : 



President, Dr. L. B. Welch; Vice President. Wan. B. Tel- 

 iviary, Melville Hayes: Treasurer, L. D. Savers. 



1,,\ia.— The Lansing Shooting Club was organized June 

 'JSth. with H. Breisch as President: C. A. Gardener, Vice; G. 

 tary, and B.A. Blum, Treas. J. O. Lyttle, Theo. 

 Mahoncy andB. E. Brockliausen, constitute a board of Direct- 

 ors. 



A Keci-tari.e Game Oli;b.— We have received the follow- 

 ing letter from Detroit, under the date of June 30, whi:: 



one of many similar complaints regarding the clubs of that 



i We sincerel y hope this is an error, or if not, that it may 

 -ted bv the " strong arm of the law : " 



The latest improvement on the old game- of -'Presto change " 

 is successfully played since the advent of glass-ball shooting, 

 as folio* 



A half dozen '/lass bails and a miniature Bogardus i 

 placed in the- pocket, the gun tin-own over the shoulder, the 

 '■ blue bl tods " whistled up, and a start made for a good glass 

 bull looatilv. The loealitv means ;mv, for this sport is very 

 V be found on Bell Isle, River Kouge, Pon- 

 nd is reached, they 

 ball in the 

 the hall is thrown 



o be a plump woodcock. 



oken in this manner each 



placed by the members 



of the Solbns who frame 



peculiar, and 



ti.ic. or Gratiot roads. When the pro] 



hide their traps, load their guns, i 



hand start for a scout. When al 



in the air, fired at and broken, and 



in. for as it is retrieved it turns o 



From one to twenty glass balls an 



day. The garni : - iu-.i:- -'!■■■ -e- - 



of "the Detroit Gun Club and by at 



our laws. , 



If our L-lass-ball shooters do not let up on this " little game 

 I shall be compelled to give their names, and likewise the num- 

 ber of " balls " (?) broken. Presto. 



Is the use of Set-Lines a > t g lxng ?—'' Amateur "writes us 

 that a couple of Trojans while fishing in the Mohawk a few 

 weeks since demolished a set-line, and being caught in the act 

 were threatened with prosecution. On consulting a '' limb of 

 I he law," the zealous protectors received little comfort, being m- 

 f orated t hat this fishing came under the head of angling. Though 

 the questions may be thus construed, we cannot but consider 

 sel-Iincaas violationof the act, tlefiwto if not tkjure. The 

 !,, rt , , should not have meddled with the line, but 

 informed the game constable, who would, undoubtly, have de- 

 stroyed the line and arrested th&owner. 



— Tne new law in Florida for the protection of game, in- 

 cludes also song birds during the breeding season. Deer, 

 turkey and partridges are protected from the 1st of April to 

 the 1st of September. The destroying of nests or young birds 

 is made a punishable offense, This, with the law passed last 

 i , ea birds and birds of plume, places 



la in the front rank, so far as game protection is concern- 

 ed, The penalty for violation of the law is $20. 



G. E. D. Jr. 



New York. Jtme 1877.— Is there no one in Bergen county, 

 N .T , true sportsman enough to see that tbe game law is not 

 violated with it, ;l /'■ i- has been during the present 



mrm ,hr Tn a littli ; wan p that had about a dozen woodcock, 

 all that was left was one wounded bird. Henry Engle, Jr., 

 who lives between Fait vi B i erry, boasts ol ha ring 



killed them, and justifies himself, first, that he had permission 

 of the occupant of the land; and, secondly, that all the other 

 a in the neighborhood tin i le thing. 



Spobtsman. 



NOTES FROM OUR SPECIAL COMMIS- 

 SIONER. 



Pbeh Base, Cincinnati, Ohio, June 22. 1877. 

 Em rot; Foeest and Stream: 



Though past threescore. I will confess thai it was with" the 

 jocund spirit, of a school-hoy going home for Ins vacation that 

 I left your pleasant, but just now rather warm, sanctum in Ful- 

 lon street for a run through the West in pursuit of health for 

 myself and subscribers for your paper. 



The', ride over the Pennsylvania Central from New York to 

 Cincinnati was most delightful, for the road is in such su- 

 perb condition that the cars glide upon it with the smoothness 

 ot a lioat upon the placid bosom of a quiet lake. 



I left Philadelphia by the night: express and daylight dawned 

 upon us just in time to give us a \ lew of the famous Horse- 

 shoe Bend— that great triumph of engineering skill which 

 affords one Of the grandest and most striking views to be seen 

 anywhere on the continent. As we gradually descended the 

 western slope of the mountains and reached the Cultivated 

 lands we were greeted on every side by great fields rff waving 

 grain just ripening for the harvest. The wheat crop even 

 whereon the route is truly magnificent; of corn there is a good 

 stand, but continuous rains have stopped the plow and the cul- 

 tivator, and it is somewhat in the grass. But of all the rural 

 sights the most grateful to the eye of so staunch a desciple of 

 Gambrinus and John Barleycorn as myself, was the barley 

 fields, already reaped. covered with shocks of grain .standing in 

 thick serried ranks resembling mounds of pale gold glittering 

 in the sunlight. 



For the time being I have made Fern Bank, a most charm- 

 ing place on the Belle River twelve miles below Cincinnati, 

 my headquarters; going into town in the morning and return- 

 ing in the evening. But with my arrival the ''heated term' 

 commenced and I have done little more, so far, than to secure 

 you a dozen or so of subscribers. The fact is it is too hoi to 

 work, and for the last few days Tophet itself might be thought 

 i cool, pleasant place compared with Fourth street in the 

 Queen City, and I doubt not that old Cbabcrt, the fire k 

 and those incombustible youths, Shadraeh, 

 nego woidd rather throw up the sponge th 

 even for so clever a paper as yours. By tin 

 .! : ' i i . I mii all sides at, the fusion of the Poke 

 ihe Rod and Gun, Your readers here are 

 you cannot fail with such a combination to 

 success and to become ihp sportsman's papi 



I had a most cordial recept: 

 respondent " Gloan." He hi 



Mesluclt and Abed 

 in canvass the town 



•ay I f 



rat- 



tTAXoSTKKAMwilh 



of the opinion that 

 achieve an immense 

 ir of the country. 

 my friend and your cor 

 it returned from a most sue 

 cessf ul fishing excursion to Kelley r 's Island where the back bass 

 are more numerous this season than for many years past. 



GAME PBOSPECTS. 



Common report confirms my own observation that nudf are 

 more abundant in Ohio this season than for many years. At 

 Fern Bank, where I am sojourning with my daughter.tbe cheery 

 whistle of Bob White is heard from morning till night in every 

 direction, and the birds, as if conscious of immunity for another 

 season, have become so familiar as to mix with the poultry 

 about the. out-houses. Tbe great number of quail about Fern 

 Bank may, in a measure, be attributed to Mr. Short, the Lord 

 of the Manor and the founder of this charming and picturesque 

 village. He turned down two hundred brace this spring, but I 

 learn that quail are equally abundant throughout the whole 

 State, and for this gratifying fact we must, in justice, give 

 credit to the wise legislation inspired by that most efficient or- 

 ganization of gentlemen and true sportsmen, the Cuvier Chip, 

 of which model institution I propose to give you an account in 

 a future letter. 



I have recently had a letter from my friend "Pious Jeems. " 

 He has a paper iu the hands of Scribner on the wild turkey 

 which, if I am not greatly mistaken, will make a sensation 

 among both naturalists and sportsmen. He proves a fact which , 

 strange as it may appear, has escaped the attention of such 

 close observers as Nutall, Wilson, Audubon, and indeed of all 

 our ornithologists ; it is that we have in this country two dis 

 tinct varieties of the wild turkey. To sportsmen the paper 

 will prove of the deepest interest, not only because of the emi- 

 nence of its author as a leading sporting writer, but because it 

 treats of turKey hunting, that most thorough of all tests of 

 woodcraft. 



To stalk an antlered buck, or kill a black be 

 compared with the circumvention of an old b 

 This letter is a day late because T wished to repo 

 but I might just as well have let it alone, for it 

 a fiasco as 1 ever witnessed. It was organiz 

 Bob Niles, that genial and popular emprcssario of the opera 

 house and manager of theatres and hippodromes, but on this 

 occasion Bob's ambition led him to wade beyond his depth ; he 

 did not know that the inopportune time for a dog show is when 

 he dog, star reigns. No owner of valuable dogs would risk t he 

 canicular heat ; the consequence was, that there is beneath the 

 canvas at Highland Lena House a beggarly show of empty box- 

 es. Then again. Bob was not in luck : Jupiter Pluvius and 

 Jupiter Tonans and Eolus and all the minor gods ruling the 

 elements were down upon him. and yesterday his majestic tent 

 was blown down and the whole locality was in a few minutes 

 reduced to a quagmire. But to day the potent hand of the ex 

 perienced manager has reduced chaos to order, and everything 

 as regards the locality is in the most satisfactory condition. But 

 alas! there are no dogs on the benches; the storm created a 

 panic and "Sauw qui peat ! " was the cry among the owners of 

 the most valuable canines. Still there were some few fine animals 

 which weathered the storm. The show of Newfoundlands was 



is ei 



sy work 



rded 



cobbler. 



the d 



.g show, 



as as 



tomplete 



1 and 



run by 



belter than you had in New York Jessie: an Irish bitch impal- 

 ed by Edward Greenwood, and belonging lo Mr. Win, S. Hud- 

 son, is a beauty, and can hold her own in any company, and so 

 can Grouse, an orange colored pointer, belonging to Mr.Huda in 

 and a white andliver pointer, Joe by name, exhibited by A. II' 

 Clausseu. Esq There was but one black and tan Gordon on 

 the benches, and he has as perfect a head as I ever saw upon a 

 dog. He was entered as an Irish Gordon, bred by II. It. North, 

 COtt, Marysville, Ky. ; he would have been hard to teal even at 

 the Westminster show. Mr. It. L. Carry's fox terriers ' 

 worthy of mention as the truest type of their breed of varmint 

 breeds which I have seen out of England. Au reoofr. 



r 0. Si 



Eastern R. P.— Those intending lo visit Ihe White Moun- 

 tains will find Ibis line particularly convenient. It passes di- 

 rectly through the "Notch, " no change being made b, , 

 Bo ton and St. Johnshury, Yt. 



— G'RtiEi.TV to Animals.— Exgi.and vs. America. In a 

 late copy of aLondon paper (Telgrnph, wethink ). a writer who 

 signs himself '• Cornishman " inveighs against the " Bar- 

 barity 6H American trap shooting," and "Cruelly inflicted 

 upon the birds as packed and shipped by the fowler." We find 

 iu the Spurting Ua<?iU:, of June 23, 1877, that a favorite sport 

 of the miner, is to fasten lighted crackers to the tails Of his 

 pigeons, which are then tossed in the air "whoronrs with kugh- 

 ter at the agony of the birds when the crackers e-- plo !, . burn- 

 ing their feathers and scorching the flesh of t he imp less 1 irds." 

 Do our transatlantic friends need a missionary ? We have a 

 few we can spare. 



■».—. 



—Any of our subscribers having live deer for sale might 

 address n. Norcross. Box 77:5, N. Y. 



^,*. — 



Si-mmei: TJesoiits.— The attention of our readers is called to 

 the column advertisements, where will be found nunu rons. sum- 

 mer resorts, and how to reach them. The variety presented 

 allows a choice for the most fastidious of those that desire to 

 escape the discomfort of 1 he cily during the heated term. We 

 know how it is ourselves. 



The New Bijandi.— We believe we are right iu saying 

 that the brandy of Boutilleati fib is the most recent addition 

 to the brands commanding a sale in the American market. It 

 has for forty years been known to European consumers, and 

 was very favorably received on its introduction to this coun- 

 try. Of fine flavor and exceptional purity, it will be found 

 well worthy of a trial. There are, no doubt, people who be- 

 lieve that brandy of any kind is an evil, yet it finds its way 

 into the pedestrian's knapsack, the fisherman's and sports- 

 man's outfit, the yachtsman's locker, and even (under a nma 

 (k plume, or in a disguised form) into the medicine chest. 

 This may be all very wrong, but it is a fact ; and if we grant 

 —which we carefully refrain from doing— that the brandy 

 bottle is a necessary evil, then in selecting from two or three 

 evils it is always desirable to choose the least. The Boatil- 

 le&ufils Cognac, of the vintages of '35, '5S, '05 and '70, is put 

 up in cases containing either one or two dozen pints, or four 

 dozen half-pint flasks, suitable for hunting or excursion par- 

 ties. 



Let it be understood that we would hurt no man's preju- 

 dices ; but since there are instances when the use of brandy is 

 beneficial, and wdien it alone has been and will continue to be 

 used, we discharge a duty by calling attention to a brand 

 which so justly deserves the high rank it has attained.— [Ado. 



<§ea nnd giver <gmhing t 



FISH IN SEASON IN JULY. 



MiiskaiiiniRC, Esox noUlior. Bluctisli, / .-',<,<i!<.„, ■)« xaltatrix 



Pike or Pickerel, Vsm !« 'w». BnanigTt Mo ikerel, Cubivm mi'wuln. 



Yellow Perch, ft™/tw.»». tu.u. ' n».™mwo 



Bonim, Sardap 



Kmgllsll, Mcntirin-us ncbutoms. 



Far li.it of Trout Flk$ inscason for July, see issue of June 28. 



Fish in Makket.— Fish of all kinds arc very plenty this 

 week. Our quotations for the week are as follows : 



Striped bass, 10 to 20 cents per pound: bhiefish, 6 to 8 

 cents ; salmon, green, 20 cents ; mackerel, 12 to 25 

 cents each; shad, Connecticut River, .TO cents; white 

 perch, 15 cents per pound; Spanish mackerel, 18 cents; 

 green turtle, 15 cents: terrapin, $1 2 per dozen; halibut, 18 

 cents; haddock, 6 cents; king-fish, 2.1 cents; codfish, 8 

 cents; blackfish, 15 cents-, herrings, 6 cents; flounders, 8 

 cents; porgies, 10 cents; sea bass, 18 cents; eels, 18 cents; 

 lobsters, 10 cents; sheepshead, 15 cents; soft clams, 30 to 60 

 cents per 100; pickerel, 15 cents; Long Island trout, ,$ 1 ; 

 Canada do., 50 cents: hard shell crabs, So 50 per 100 ; soft, 

 crabs, SI 50 to $3 50 per dozen ; weakfish, 12 cents; frog 

 legs, 35 cents per pound. 



Coney Island Creek.— The comforts and attractions of 

 Coney Island have been vastly increased during the past l.«o 

 years, and the facilities of reaching the island measurably es- 

 en I ■: i . All oyer the beach there is pow glitter of gaslight 



