March S3, 1888.] 



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vice or assistance required, and under their directions prose- 

 cutions for flie illegal killing of game, followed by convie- 

 lions, have been the inevitable consequence. Some parties 

 hive been tried and convicted in the neighborhood of Oil 

 Springs for killing deer out of season through the interven- 

 tion of one of our energetic members, and another of 

 our members is now investigating a matter of a similar 

 kind in the township of Down. Our society may 

 safely congratulate itself upon its being the only 

 game socieh in Western Ontario that has taken any 

 interest or prominent part in game protection and the exten- 

 sion and observance of the game laws, and in the futttte as 

 well as in the past will always be found to the fore. In 

 conclusion, we would suggest, in the. hope that our hint may 

 be acted upon, the formation of really good and strong 

 game and protective' associations in West Elgin, Kent. Both- 

 well, Lamblonaud Essex, and that such societies keep op 

 constant correspondence with each other, and act in unison 

 in obtaining any further legislation that may at limes appear 

 necessary to protect our game and to further the interest of 

 game protection generally. It is to the interests of every 

 genuine sportsman to take the matter up and carry it 

 through, and the assistance and experience of this society 

 will be f reel \ given. 



The very energetic fishery inspector of the district, Mr. Peter 

 McCann, one of the vice-presidents of this society, reports 

 that there have been no prosecutions for the violation of the 

 fishery regulations since our last annual report, which shows 

 that he is attending faithfully to his duties. 



W. C L. Giu.. Prsident. 

 London. March 13, 1883. 



The following were elected officers for 1883 : President. 

 Dr. Woodruff; "Vice-Presidents, Messrs. W. C. L, Gill, and 

 P. McCann; Secretary, D. Skirviug; Executive Committee, 

 George Kelly. Jno. Puddicombe. T. H. Smallman, R. Wal- 

 lace, Dr. Niveu, 0. A. Stone, K. Mercer, A. Chishohn, John 

 Cousins; Finance Committee, Messrs. Puddicombe, Stoni 

 and Kelly. 



Dr. Niven reported that he had appeared before a com- 

 mittee of the Local Legislature in reference to legislation 

 bearing on the protection of fish and game proposed to be 

 passed at the lase session, and had found the bill proposed by 

 Mr. Monck somewhat unsuitable and inhospitable. It pro- 

 posed a tax of $25 upon any stranger shooting within the 

 Province, which precluded the possibility of taking a visit- 

 ing friend for a day's shooting and would permit American 

 restaurant keepers to Send into the Province and shoot to any 

 extent they choose f>n payment of the prescribed fee. 



Mr. W.'C. L. Gill was appointed a delegate to attend the 

 meeting at Ottawa referred to in the president's report. 



HINTS FOR NEXT SEASON. 



THE other side of all enchanting tales would not come 

 amiss, as sportsmen are now making preparations for 

 future trips to unmolested game resorts. 



1. Never locate camp near the feeding ground of large 

 game, to enable you to get the best and first chances at what 

 could be seen there. I will give the reasons after you 

 return to your homes with hail luck pictured on your fa 

 S, D° n ot go fishiiiir or hunting before October 1 with 

 u good fly mixture, in which the odor of tar can be 



teeted. 



:{. My diary, date January S.i. 1S7!I, says: ••Don't lloat 

 down the Suwanci-. River, Fla.. without an antidote for the 

 bite of water-moccasins and scorpions. Remain under 

 shelter until the dew disappears, and do not drink the waters 

 of the Stale until it has been boiled. Pi ovide Shelter for 

 mosquitoes outside your tent before sunset." 



4. After establishing headquarters remember that game 

 and fish in American forests will not be around to dine 

 with you. 



5. In Northern wilds rubber clothing is as necessary to 

 your enjoyment as a good fly -rod. 



6. if you think a gam with single grip to hold the barrels 

 down as good as the best, put it in some other fellow's boat. 

 If a $5 gull shoots well, rind the mark the striker made 

 when it backed out of one I shot a year ago. The gun has 

 strayed since. No information wanted! 



7. If you fail to find a guide whose sex vices are worth 

 enough in summer and autumn to enable him to get a winter 

 supply of meal without crust-hunting it, get along without 

 one. Ned Nobton. 



Colbbkooe., New Hampshire. 



Expansive Buixets.— Pittsficld. Vt.— JSQitov Foir-.it and 

 rni, a: I called on our gunsmith and had him turn a bur 

 of steel, about /.rVin. in diameter at base, }A\\. at point, 

 lone., with a projection at point of ball&in. in diame- 

 .._, lin. long, filed like a twisted drill, for drilling.! hole 

 through bottom of moulds to receive pin which projects 

 into the point of the mould gin. , tapering from &in. al 

 point of bullet to a blunt point Jin. from base of ball. This 

 1 find just the thing to turn a Thomas cat or ground-hog 

 inside out. For deer make the point a little shorter, leaving 

 more solid base to increase penetration. On the shank of 

 bur. at the base of ball, forge or clamp on projecting lips, 

 with cutting edge to face the mould and make the ball per- 

 fect To rr.ake it ; olid us, a pin that will just reach tin- 

 point of the mould; the pin can be finished to make the 

 point of the bullet flat or round, as desired. Mv mode of 

 loading the Winchester rifle, model 187:1, with this bullet 

 is as follows : Into the rifle put a primed shell : then into the 

 muzzle turn 7Ugrs. of E.G. rifle powder; next over the muzzle 

 place a fine linen patch tiin. in diameter, using care to place 

 the bullet in the center of the patch ; then with the driving rod 

 (the end of which is countersunk to fit : the bullet i drive it 

 home. Owners of Winchesters, with this bullet east solid, 

 and loaded as described, will find the arm very accurate at 

 long range. They will also find the flight of the expansive 

 bullet up to 2o0yds. (which is as far as 1 have tested it) very 

 accurate, and with the magazine full of regular cartridges 

 you are prepared for any game that breaks cover, The 

 regular ammunition for the rifle made expansive in this way 

 increases the killing power of that arm fourfold.— Edwaud 

 Smith. 



The Boy IIontee 

 us by our occasion 

 copy* the following: 

 my notes of summer 

 think will interest vc 

 weeks with a relative 

 and where the ruling spirit w 

 tie hero — about thirteen years 

 able pleasure of speuding hi 

 mountains, and it was from o 

 the following: 



3F Bash-Bisii.— From a letter sen! to 



1 correspondent. Charles Laninaii. we 



While recentlv looking over some of 



eereatiou. I round a fragment which I 



ar renders. I had been spending a few 



vho has a summer home in Berkshire. 



I boy— a wild and noble lit- 



t age, who has the unspeak- 



ehool vacations among the 



of his journals that I filched 



June 25—1 small wooflchuek. 



June 20—1 large woodehuck. 



June 211—1 medium v.'oodenuck:. 



July 7—2 large woodchueks. 



July 15 — 1 large woodehuck. 



All killed by my dog Major. 



Chipmunks ana rats in cornfield— a good supply. 



SNA-RES. 



One rattle killed and brought borne. 

 Of common snakes-a big tot killed. 



In eighteen days in June killed 281-one day 81. 



cue V"; -inl': > : . e r lo: eel ; V :_ I, : 



Expenses for aev, taekie i:>. .Time, $i.7«. 



My Crampton-Lauman rod has been al! smashed to fragments. 



One night when all the family were in eestacies over a 

 magnificent aurora, this Nin rod came rushing out of the 

 house with this exclamation, ' 'What a glorious night for 

 'coon hunting!" ) 



South Adlxgton. Mass.. March 10.— As the season for 

 hunting foxes in this part of the country expires by mutual 

 consent about the first of March, i wilfgive the. number of 

 foxes, mink, "coons, etc., captured. by n* inhere of the South 

 Abington Spoilsman's Club during the last five mouths: 

 Wm. B. Lincoln. Ill foxes, I minks. 4 Voons: M. Hall, 

 IK foxes: Beth P. Gitrney, 1 fox, 4 minks: fj, B. Smith, 

 1 fox; I). B. Howe, I fox; K. E. Bales, 1 fox Total. 

 86 foxes. Si minks, 1 Voons. At our annual meeting, 

 March 1, Mr. Win. B. Lincoln had his entire collet lion ol 

 fur on exhibition. David, who has been very unfortunate 

 considering the number of days out. promises to show a 

 better record aexi season. Mr. P. II. Smith 'wishes to in- 

 form his numerous friends (throughout the country that his 

 total score for the season was one squirrel— Si as ■> 



Mtjskoka Deer.— Braulford, Ont., March 12.— A friend 

 of mine who has just come from Mn-kokn savs be- never 

 saw such a daughter among the deer by wolves.' The Sum 

 was deep with a heavy crust, so that, a" man or a wolf could 

 go with safety on tiny place, but the deer would break 

 through at every step. Ee said. their legs were skiuned to 

 the bone, arid some were found with their Ihroals bitten 

 through, and others partjj eaten, in places where they had 

 yarded up for the winter, lie thinks not one litis escaped. 

 Then, in some localities where there are no four-legged 

 wolves, the two legged ones are. if anything, Wot.se. Mus 

 koka was a good hunting ground for deer. I was there last 

 fall and found deer in plenty; in five days I got live deer. 

 But I am afraid it is all up now. — G. A, 



CHICAGO, 111., March 17.— The thicks have captured the 

 local sportsmen, ami everywhere about Che-age. dei i . art 

 afloat, shells loaded, and club-houses occupied by the sports- 

 men. At English Lake there were plenty of ducks Satur- 

 day The KRiumans ate al Lake SeuaehV.iiie hunting, and 

 have sent in plenty of tin; feathered animals lor the boys. 

 Reports from Putnam, on the Illinois, are that ducks are now 

 plentiful and the feeding fine. The overflow of wute* is 

 faSt passing away, and in a day or so the boys will be tak- 

 ing a turn down'on the Illinois Bottoms. The Kankakee is 

 full of mallards, redheads, ami all sons of clinks. Messrs. 

 Howe. Taylor, Gillespie. ( ronin and others are out. 



PHILADELPHIA 



NOTES. 



•turned from his fa v 

 teaque Island, bringin 



ClAPT. A. H. CLAY has laid. 

 ) ducking grounds near lb 

 with him eleven w ild gt ese and one hundred and fifty bald- 

 pat-. These he and a friend killed in a few days' shooting. 

 He tells me all the oyslcrmen of the" Chiuestcaque and Sin- 

 nepuxent waters carry carbines or muskets in their boats 

 and shoot into the flocks of geese and brant at long distances 

 with ball as they sail by. This has the cffflcl of frightening 

 tin. 1 fowl from the feeding grounds, and they have tin- bays, 

 make their way outside the beach, and sit beyond the 

 brakers until evening, when they return to the bay to feed. 



About Sinncpuxent. Sound there appears to have been a 

 strange mortality among the little ruddy ducks. Many have 

 been found dead on the mainland sonic distance from the 

 water, and not a few have been picked up on the beach. 



During the past week it has blown so hard on the days 

 allowed for box-shooting at Havre do Grace, that it has been 

 too rough to comfortably lie out in a box, consequently 

 there has been but little shooting, although redheads and 

 blackheads were plentiful. A duck supposed lo have been 

 an English teal was brought into Ivrider's for stuffing last 

 week, it was killed at Havre de Grace. No snipe have 

 arrived here yet; the first part of last week was warm 

 enough to bring them, but it closed wintery and blustery, 

 and we have given overlooking for them until the next 

 pleasant spell. 



Brant are in go at numbers in both Barnegat and Tucker 

 ton bays, but the fowl stool poorly. 



In our own river sprigtails are very numerous and the 

 marshes on the Delaware shore are now black with them. 

 It is very hard to get shooting at these ducks on these bare 

 marshes unless one sinks a box in the mud where they come 

 to feed, puts a lew decoys out and waits for the arrival of 

 the fowl. The job is a dirty ami hard one. and scarcely re- 



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lear from the 

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 feeding grounds, of which there ate 



Tin. Pot i.iiKt ■tfi'siK CASES.— Pouglikcepsic. 

 Editor Fomt and St/taut: G. A. Man's, thegan 

 found guilty of having in bis possession sevet 

 on the SrJ day of February, which he offered ft 

 da v. Thifl. man, in conuectioi 

 for a violation of the game 

 indicted plead guilty, and wei 

 third person, stood id- trial, ai 



vearhig that the rabbits 



March (i.— 

 -.deah-r. was 

 een rabbit- 

 sale on that 

 h mil. rs, were indicted 

 s. Two of I he. persons 

 led $5 each. Maas, the 

 mmittcd willful perjury, 

 itufied with salt and 



used as a sign. The' presiding judge said lo Maas: "Yon 

 made a mistake in not telling the truth (that is in committing 

 perjury). You swore the rabbits were stuffed; nobody 

 behoves you, and as you have made more trouble and cost 

 tite county more, we shall fine you teu dollars. It is only a 

 small affair; you simply had a rabbit at the wrong time, 

 and although I know you have committed penury, 1 will 

 make the penalty more severe in your case and fine" you ten 

 dollars." This "very judge has sentenced persons to the 

 State prison for milder offenses than perjury. How very 

 encouraging all this is to persons who are anxious to protect 

 our game. Kaess was indicted for Having in his possession 

 20 partridges and 10 quail; Smith Bros, for having in their 



I -ion 80 quail, and Maas ir rabbits, all of which were 



Been and examined by Braylon, the game constable, and in 

 K a .— '- ca^e many more. The I WO first are let oil' with a tine 

 ind the latter, with perjury thrown in, $10. Is 



there any use in trying to uphold the game laws 



e— S. 



New Hampbhirh Notes.— New Market, March 12.— 

 Partridges arc scarce: there were some woodcock in their 

 season. Within two or three years, there have been a few 

 quail around here, whistling Bojj White almost always 

 from an apple tree. We have never heard of any being shot 

 around hen-. Gray squirrels were very plenty la-l fall; 

 ami a great many Were killed. Foxes and white rabbits are 

 abundant this winter, but il ha- been a bad time for tin 

 sportsmen, as after most every snow - 

 and form a crust, thus making it impc 

 But on every favorable snow every m 

 (no matter what he is as long as they c 

 out: either foxing or rabbiting, Quite a mini 

 kinds of game have been killed A party of 

 three dogs, went out the other day and got fourl 

 The handsomest fox we have seen this winter was shol by a 

 young man at Parkers Falls. Il was a cross between 'he- 

 red and gray and weighed over eleven pounds. — W. 



Tennessee.— Savannah. March 5, 1883.— The season just 

 past, has been the most discouraging I have ever known 

 here. Warm weather and consequently dense cover inade 

 the. bird shooting a failure, and notwithstanding the exces- 

 sive crops of mast anil corn the ducks gave us the go-hy 

 Since January 1 the weather lias beenuufavninble to all kinds 

 of sport, nothing but. rain and mud repeated ail nauseam. 



Teen '<■, ; ii!'- eOLi vjialion . lei i: j"je quail v, ere -Il " there 



are all the more left to breed for nest season, and 1 trust 



that next November Bob "White and relatives will "bob up 

 serenely" and in great numbers. — Wn.T,. 



MnuioAM. — Detroit, March 17. — The market hunters arc 

 sending in large number- of redhead docks of excellent 

 quality. In fact, the market is glutted with them, but as 

 the weather is still cold the (hater- bold them at seventy • 

 live cents pel pair. Although the winter has been one of 

 unusual severity, such reports as have come to band; indi- 

 cate thai gl'ouse and quail have had plenty of food and fuel 

 and are promisingly numerous in number. — 11. F. \V. 



merchants. 



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THE FUR MARKET. 



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The SnoNOUM Company.— At the annual meeting of the 

 Shougnm Company, of Morristown, N. J., held March 13, 

 the following officers wen- elected' President, Henry \V. 

 Miller; Vice-President, Charles II. Raymond; Secretary. 

 J. Frank Lindslcy: Treasurer, Ilcury T. Hull; Counsel, 

 Mahlon Pitney. Directors— II. W. Miller, E. M. Quiinby, 

 II. T. Hull. ' Committee on Membership — Francis Child, 

 J. Frank Lindslcy, Geo. B. Raymond, Henry M. Smith, 

 Mahlon Pitney. 



Amkiiicw Wood Powdbr. — In reply to several queries 

 in req.od to the American wood powder, we Vould state 

 that the Fokkst and Stiieam sonif time ago submitted a 



eek a large flock of Canada geese wtts seen tiving quantity of the material to a chemist for an exhaustive test, 

 :d high above our city. Homo. which is now in progress. The result will be published in 



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