168 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



plAncn 39, 1883, 



to the cost of the properly it represents is a trifle flippant, 

 but hardly requires an answer. It may be suggested, how- 

 ever, thai if two pictures are equally well executed, equally 

 true to nature, so that the best juilgcs cannot agree as to 

 which is the original, which the copy, the real value of the 

 pictures cannot bo so very different, A fine painting is no) 

 a hank note. The value is dependcnl on execution and 

 fidelity to nature in the one case, on 1he genuineness of sig- 

 nature "' thO other. The material, colors, canvas, etc., is 

 fcltB Bttme on both pictures, the artistic ski'l not distinguish- 

 able. One may lie a copy, but both being alike true to 



nature, neither is a counterfeit. 



And this simile of '-Picket's" is fair and apt, only that 

 the $25 plebeian liver and white is not a copy, lb- may 

 havea longer and better line of anoestry than ids 11,000 



cousin, only it is utiw riiten. His blood, bone. MUScle lind 

 .ii I ire make-up are essentially the same as the pedigreed 

 Liwrnek or Llewelliu. In the field he is tougher, hardier 

 and less liable to nervousness and gun-shyness. If he works 

 just ;i.s well as the field-winners, why is he, less valuable? 

 As for the Inflated nonsense on dog pedigrees, "pedigrees 

 BTe like potatoes— the best part underground. 1 ' 



Ni.ss.\u.k, 

 Wellsboro, Ph., Moreh'.'l. 



Under the many obligations that i 

 region at least) to the visiting sport! 



as we are on their patronage. 1 think we cannot do better 

 than to offer them the best we have, and try to please all 

 Classes, Who can say that there are not just a's pure-blooded 

 sportsmen that enjoy" jack-shooting as there are that enjoy 

 trout fishing? 31 v only reward for the trouble I took to do 

 what I could tor what I sincerely believe would be much to 

 the advantage of the State of Maine, the visiting sportsmen 

 and the game, was unjust, censure from a leading news- 

 paper which at least might have been expected to give a 

 fair deal. Audit' whoever encouraged the Boston llt.nild 

 to work up our lish and gmue question was really inter- 

 ested tor the public good, they should have cautioned it to 

 not be too extravagant with its censure, then I think that 

 the article last fall on fish propagation ae.d the two articles 

 this winter on the game question would have bad a much 

 better effect, especially with the people who know and look 

 " may have been better if 

 larted me agoing, or if 1 

 but 1 

 ight to 



cation most agreeable to all 

 bait, is, the pursuit of game, 

 i-i. which was the business 

 . and which is our pleasure, 

 widest opportunities to pur- 

 ent with its preservation in 



THE MAINE DEER QUESTION. 



KiHtor Fort a( mid. Sim',,,: 



After mi absence of some over two months I am hwnie 

 once more. It looks a little different from what it does in 

 the Summer about here. Cleft Rock Hall (the dining-room) 

 is buried in a snow drift; and while wondering just where 

 Camp Avernus was 1 stuck the heel of my snow-shoe square 

 into the flue of the chimney. I have dug the cook-room door 

 OUt, shoveled out most, of the snow that had found its way 

 through the cracks, have had my supper, turned the plate, 

 eup :iud saucer bottom side up all ready for breakfast, and 

 as I strcieh out before a blazing lire and pull the wrapper 

 oil" from the last . Fours T a,nd Stream, 1 realize that "you 

 ! SO much at home as when in your own shebang " 

 : i I letter cam-pure companion can a man ask for 

 than a FOREST AWD Stream right out of the wrapper'; 



"Summer Shooiing" attracts my attention, and after read- 

 me it carefully I am glad to know that there is one man left 

 In the world who has courage and fairness enough to stand 

 up and 68 v Give the Other side of the question a chance, 

 let :l lie I ' tiled C ;!■;; i"e:et.; end not by prtjud;:;- and mis- 

 representation. .!.nd while I do not by any means claim to 

 lie ihe looked-for advocate, there is an explanation that I 

 be; -leave to make in behalf of myself and the rest of the 

 i i i leeches" who, in the eyes of so many, brought dis- 

 gr&ce on ourselves by asking for summer shooting of moose. 

 deer and caribou in the three counties embracing and in the 

 vicinity Of the Rahgfiley lakes. We did not by any mean, 

 ask for the whole State' of 31aiuo, as has been represented. 

 The slaughter of deer that has been going on in mir Stale 

 ihe pasl season is nearly a hundred miles from us. I believe 

 that the whole number of deer killed in these three counties 

 from October 1 to January 1 would not exceed ten. Would 

 It not have been much fairer in our worthy critic, the Bos 



ton Ifcni'.! (that got ,-o well posted upon the Mai leer 



qncstion), to have, allowed this instead of trying to make us 

 SlOUlder Ihe eighteen hundred deer claimed to have been 

 killed and marketed from the eastern portion of tins Stale; 

 There they an- iirofcsioiial market-hunters, and want to 

 market their deer in Boston, Here we want to market ours 

 in the wood- to the Sportsman, as well as our trout. That 

 petition asklug for summer shooting was signed by every 

 man, I believe, in our region lli.it it was presented to who 

 is interested in our spoiling travel Is it likely that we who 

 have been brought up here and spent much of our time in 

 the woods, have worked and invested our money in this 

 business, know nothing about it, that we would ask for, as 

 js claimed, the privilege of "killing the goose that is laying 

 the golden egg" for us? Will sunn. 1 one who would really 

 kuow what a deer was if he saw one, please tell us where 

 the value in the Hangeley region deer is if summer shooting 

 13 not to be allowed'.' 



I'll admit still-hunting on the fall snow T s is much the fair- 

 est and most proper way to hunt them, but owing to tin 

 hardships and uncertainties it will never be practiced to any 

 extent by city sportsmen in our region. Jack-shooting, in 

 my estimation, comes next. In either of these ways' the 

 doer are not taken advantage of by dogs or deep snows; 

 they arc not driven to the pond, and if there is anything in 

 the looks or smell of their favorite watering place that they 

 don't like thev make their stay short. If everything work's 

 well, the wind, the weather, the boat, the jack! the gun, the 

 guide, and most of all, if the shooter has plenty of pluck 

 and nerve, he may be successful. If any roan has an idea 

 that, there is anything lazy about sitting perfectly still in a 

 boat, six or eight' hours, let" him try it. 



The fawn question, I tun aware, is a very important one, 

 and by the tin a her does being shot as early as July, in many 

 crises they would die. But very few of them would be de- 

 prived of their mothers, I think, for I believe that when the 

 fawn is dependent ou the mother she seldom leaves it in the 

 night; if she goes to the pond at all it is in the evening and 

 early morning. She then leaves her fawn hidden back in 

 the bushes, Watch her as she feeds, and every iew seconds 

 yuu will see her raise her head and look and listen in the 

 direction of her fawn. Is a State law needed to protect the 

 deer in this condition? I think not. 



As long as there arc deer in our forests they will be hunted 

 in some way or other by people of one class or another. 

 Good feeling and public' sentiment go much further in the 

 woods than the fear of the law. There is such a thing n-s 

 fashion oven among woodsmen. As long as summer shoot- 

 ing is not practiced, there will be crust hunters in the 

 winter. Allow summer shooting, and I honestly believe 

 that no law can be made that will better protect 'the deer. 

 Then the cluster sees more money in leaving them for the 

 summer sportsman. Which is 'it that is first overtaken in 

 the deep snow and torn to pieces by the dog, is it not Ihe 

 doe every lime! and does not the killing of the doe at this 

 ii of the year mean death to just as many others as if 

 is killed the day her young was born? 

 The dfier are very plenty in our region, much more pleuty 

 thtm they were five years ago. And as long us dogs and 

 Bi'UStel'B aic kept down they will remain abundant. They 

 will never be decreased by jacking, for the reason that, the 

 places where they can be jacked is but a peck: compared with 

 the territory of good feeding ground where they cannot be. It 

 was with the best intentions that we asked our 3Iaine Leg- 

 islature to grant summer shooting, but not even September 

 was opened for us, Mori- law was what was wanted to 

 keep down the "restless poacher" and the "game thief," 



on both sides of the question, it 

 ''Clefioua'a" suggestion had not 

 could not have 'found pen, ink 

 feel that I have been unjustly i 

 say SOI and when the Boston lie 

 that, "the MiflJne game COmmlS 

 persou "has done more prospect 

 deer of Maine than the best of 

 many years," ynd the i 



oners say that" a certain 

 ve and actual harm to the 

 legislatures can repair in 



ici's say that they did not 

 say so,' it looks as though the advocates of summer shooting 

 wore not. the only ones in disgrace, 



CART. F, C. lvUlKElt. 

 Camp Hemis, Rnng<>li-y bake-. Me., March 17. 



SUMMER SHOOTING. 



Etiito, 

 In set 



there hi: 

 Stimrni 



W» 



H and St. 

 ral recent numbers of the Forest and Stream 

 3 appeared articles in which the subject of 

 Shooiing" has been discussed pro and con, and 

 ig leave to add our mile to the "eon" side of the 

 question. While we acknowledge that, We are at present in 

 the minority, we arc glad to know, nevertheless, that the 

 Forest and Stream - is on our side, and we, believe in the 

 right on ibis question, as it always is on others, and we are 

 confident that ere long the minority will find that on this im- 

 portant question they" are in the "majority; even as the rc- 

 " ild found" that at last the cause of the few became 

 th. 



Although we have read, yei we cannot hearken unto the 

 plea for deer shooting in July, even though that is the ont 

 month when our friend can satisfy his ambition to be called 

 the "Deer Slayer"; nor arc we able to follow in the wake of 

 "Clerieus" and men of hi-- "cloth," who advocate the killing 

 of woodcock in July, for they too closely resemble the re- 

 nowned "Ucv. Adirondack Murray," who openly boasted of 

 t the early summer months. 

 e advocates of summer shooting! Men who 

 hnardiug houses and hotels, and wish to ad- 

 hunting and fishing within a stone's throw of 

 arkelshooiers, who supply their tables with 

 iuld as soon shoot a young ruffed grouse, which 

 ;'ts uutil the first of September, as they would a 

 ideock; and "C'lericus," who advocates it from purely 

 selfish motives, and hns no regard for the. laws of God or 

 Nature. 



This same "Clerieus" says that "something must be 

 trusted to the honor of men." As a knight of the bigger, I 

 would not trust "Clerieus" (after reading his article on sum- 

 shooting) if a half-grown grouse sh- 



are (in the Rangeley wholly, or half, or quarter, or not at all "brain-workers." 



an, and as dependent from "Clerieus" himself down to the horse in the eider press 



turned suddenly out to grass" 



1 assume that the form of n 



the readers of Forest ano St 



be it clothed in fin. fur or fea 



We should, therefor.' have 111 

 sue all forms of game COnsi 

 reasonable abundance. 



We should not destroy game excei.t. within reasonable 

 seasons. We should not kill the parents when rearing their 

 young, nor the immature offspring, and Mi- -ea-xms should 

 be arranged to prevent the probability of such an occurrence. 

 But the seasons should be arranged to suit the habits of the 

 game, and so arranged, too. as, if po-.ul.ile, to give the pur- 

 suer — lie he brain-worker or what you will— an opportunity 

 for an outing at any time in the year. 



Let us look at the matter of shooting woodcock in July. 

 1 can only speak for my own section of the country. I am 

 not a naturalist) but. I know the habits of woodcock here. 

 The birds arrive in Southern New Jersey in February in 

 large numbers. They immediately besriii to nest, and b\ 

 the middle of June all are full grown, "and they are abun- 

 dant. By that time the swamps and meadows have become 

 dry, and by the opening of the season in July all but a 

 few birds have disappeared, hi August these, too, have 

 gone, and uo more are seen until October, when the fall 

 flight of scattered and rare birds yi 

 to the quail-shooter. The spring I 

 rear their voting with us; there ate 

 mer, and the fall birds are purely 

 one or two days' good shooting, itr 

 severe frost. "There are none of th 

 in the spring by the inhabitants, as I believ 



id paper t 

 d and 1 



.Iblishes 



_ _ jcasional trophy 



lirds are abundant; they 



but few birds in suni- 



migratory, and vield but 



mediately after "the first 

 ese numerous birds shot 

 Few as they 



are in summer, one who knows their haunts can, in the cool 

 of the evening, secure a half dozen, giving himself recrea 

 tion and furnishiug a delicacy appreciated at his own table 

 or by his invalid neighbor. Not til for the table? Far more 

 welcome is he then than later is the more mature autumn 

 traveler, lean from his long flight, and contesting suprernacy 

 with snipe and quail, and rail and canvas-back. 

 The old protest, that if there is no summer woodcock 



.shooting at all, carries 

 re have no summer shoot- 

 We ought not to shoot 

 tg; we. cannot in autumn, 



(dim 



keep summ 



the house;" 



game, and x 

 the law protei 



1 believe he would, if possible, bring if 

 votlld an unprincipled market-shooter, 

 iceds exercise wc would suggest that he 

 ,te" of some friend, and with his"Don-Quix 

 n undoubtedly find enough "imaginary 

 ira busily engaged during his vacation, 

 come before the public outwardly as a Iamb. 



as a roaring lion, seeking what half-fledged 



firing to bag. 



r" has the ■'strange fascination for the trigger" 



up before him. to 

 hi bag as soon Da 



If "Clerieus" 

 borrow a "Bosinn 

 otic" ideas he ci 

 foes" to keep 1 

 Better this than to 

 but inward! 

 birds he ma 



If "Cleric 

 that he says he has. let him go forth on a bright October 

 day when nature has had time to fully mature the birds, and 

 we think he will then feel, as he probably never has before, 

 what it is to have a conscience void of offense, and know 

 that be has not transgressed the laws of nature. 



We heartily indorse every wind written over the signa- 

 ture of "W." in your issue 'of 3Iarch 33. As he says, to shoot 

 a game bird when it is not lit for game is murder, and in 

 July the woodcock are not fully grown, have no fat about 

 them, are weak, immature things, and can be easily shot by 

 any man who knows how to hold a gun and pull a trigger. 

 In August tllO birds, young and old alike, are moulting, and 

 arc therefore weak and sick, and not fit to serve on the table 

 until September. 



His defense 0l the fanners is also well timed, and we trust 

 that ere long "Clerieus" and other advocates of summer 

 shooting may see the folly of their ways and become pos- 

 sessed of a little of that charity that "thiukctk no evil." 



Planixers. 



Hudson, N, T., March 28, 



shooting we should h; 



sense with it as applied here. If 



ing we shall have no woodcock-. 



them in spring, for they arc breed 



because I hey are not with us. 

 "We are told, too, that w 



shooiing of snipe and hay bit 

 'slid reason as applied to this 1 



mate or breed here, they arc 



summer residences. Why shoi 



curlew in spring diminish the 



had occurred the previous sunin 



in the interim, nor has he begun 

 One word in regard to the ' 'p 



told that he is damaged by stun 



think the "Othercus," says that fields (sic) have been posted 



because of summer shooting. From the standpoint of my 

 this seem- extraordinary. 



ite claims dominion over ihe yam... it undoubtedly 

 s one of the /'».<•,, malty. The Stale can oidaiii 

 a- may be killed, and by whom. But the State 

 heright io no man to gO on another's land to 



the game, although it can prevent the owner. 



the "vjtrsceutcd farmer's" only grievance, is that 



in his own land, that is, 



6ns of his State- in this 



prevent its appropriation by any other 



Editat For 



st ,1 



id Mr 



There is. 



amo 



ng spo 



their view 



s in 



print. 



acrimony. 



Net 



dim 



Is. 

 rat 



-hould giv 



I have ! 



lity. The 



elcrs retat 



- p 



bin). 



i spring 



seen any 

 do not 

 to their 



id 



the death 

 tc supply E 



Of i 



snipe or 

 than if it 



el- 



Hehasra 



sed 



io young 



ite. 



usekeepiug 



■cuted tanner." We are 



■ shooting. One man, I 



Thercfi 

 he cam i 

 he is oi 

 respect 



person. 



Wh 



killgai 

 a footing with the other c 



Bui. he: can 

 it any time, 



has this to do with summer shooting? My observa- 

 tion is that many farmer's wish to protect their quail. They 

 like to see the birds about, their farms. Occasionally they 

 will give permission to a friend to shoot a few, but they 

 don't want these birds exterminated, or anything like it. 

 But I have yet to see the man who objected to shooting 

 woodcock. 



The summer shooter is en object ot wondet to them, not 

 unmixed with good-natured contempt. The idea of a man 

 live in an office, in cool linen, facing a South Jer- 



np. 



atbe 



liform of 



rshoc 



sey sw 



in mud, roasting and 

 ing uncountable mos 

 snipes," not half so gt 

 plenty of uneompliu 

 farmer objecting to si 

 gested by the "other i 

 this or any other "spi 

 cuttle, or do anv other wanton ir.isehe. I 

 recreation, the farmer would have can 

 could redress his injuries under the law 

 But why the more occasion for offen: 

 fall? 



.p, wading knee deep 



a. tropical 

 he sake of 

 , gives the, 



. I never 

 ig. Of cot 



hers follow: 

 ild break f 



. ad fight- 

 afew "mud 

 i material for 

 heard of any 

 rse if, as sug- 

 ing of his ilk. 

 ences, wound 

 ihe pursuit of his 

 >. for complaint, and 



: in summer than in 



PSITTACTJS. 



smen, at least among those who put 

 in subject which seems to induce 

 ition it? It is, of course, spring and 

 summer shooting. The latest impetus and newest life given 

 to the. controversy has been the good-natured and rather 

 fanciful challenge Of ■■Clerieus," ihe blight and pert reply 

 of "OUiercus," a sedate rejoinder by the former, and a large 

 number of sober remonstrances from everywhere against 

 "Clerieus's" heretical views. 



1 have some reluctance in entering the arena, and do not, 

 propose to become a combatant further than Io state an in- 

 ference from my own limited experience. It has been said — 

 ad nauJianit — that circumstances alter cases, but it is true, of 

 course. The reasoning from data supplied by one section of 

 the country may fail in another, where the same conditions 

 arc lacking. So, arguments which are unanswerable on one 

 statement of facte, may sustain the reverse of the proposition 



Recreation, t take it, is the indulgence in an occupation 

 which is at the same time innocent and agreeable. It is dis- 

 tinguished from rest or repose, which is a cessation from all 

 occupation, by the addition of the element of activity, 

 mental or bodily. It implies a. change from our ordinary 

 pursuits or business, although they may be in themselves 

 both innocent and agreeable, ami it may lie far more arduous 

 and exhausting than they. 



AH "llimals arc benefited by recreation, whether they be 



eason 



is just betwixt and between — 



ill lit. 



mil assuredly not the proper 





3 for the latter are scarce, and 



jceutlv 



arrived on our waters. The 



u day 



, however, has been very fair. 



iii" 1 nov 



are all kinds of ducks, such 



pinlai 



s, mallards, greenwiugs, blue- 



NOTES FROM CHICAGO. 



[From our own Correspoudeatj. 

 "Y r OllB correspondent at, this point has had little to chroni- 

 X cle lately, as the 

 neither the proper h 

 trap-shooting season 

 the ducks have only 

 hunting for the past 

 Decorating the game 

 as redheads, spiketaii . . 



bills, teal, butterball, widgeons, and in fuel, nearly every 

 kind known to northern lakes and rivers. The late cold 

 snap has senl them south again, that is, nearly all of them. 

 The lakes are partially frozen up, and only running waters 

 remain open. Still the boys bring in irood bags every trip. 

 John Gillespie, .Jehu Wiggins, aid several others left last 

 night for English Lake. 'Bob Hyman. William Haskell and 

 Ed. Hoyt returned Friday night from a ten days' shoot on 

 the Mississippi River, near Davenport, la. They had fully 

 twenty-five dozen ducks of all sorts, and enjoyed some 

 splendid shooting. Fred. Taylor arrived back from Lake 

 Senuphwine Thursday, leaving John Kleinman still there. 

 Taylor brought back'a good many ducks, and reports the 

 shooting fine, All the cluh-honses will be tenanted in the 

 next few days, with sunny ski 

 Clarence Schutt, one of the 

 man Hunting Club, came neat 

 kakee last Monday, lie wat 

 floating ice to gain the SWI 

 Thayer's Station, when he 



leading mem 



being'drowii 



pushing a 1 



mp on the '. 



ed the: 



•rs of the Ger- 

 1 on the Kan- 

 iat through the 

 st shore near 

 •raft, and, 



weighted down with game bag. shot , etc. , he soon found 



