JULY 5, 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



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but is generally smoked with pujrento.lsaves, junipei edai 

 shavings, etc.. 'before being cooked. thus imparting to it an 

 aromatic flavor. Jerked or barbecued pig,is not to be des 

 pised. and is easily procured by those residing in the neigh- 

 borhood of the Maroon settlements. 



Out host was grieved-on hearing of the loss of I he pup. 

 but took the matter very good-naturedly; tbe pluck shown 

 by the others was in a measure a. consoling I heme, and one I hat 

 he frequently alluded to afterward. Tbe- excitement of the 

 dav bud nearly worn us out, bnl after cooling down, and 

 having a dip in the cool mountain stream, we felt refreshed, 

 and wen in capital form for the evening's entertainment. 

 Our host and hostess (luring our absence baying .in- 

 vited several neighboring families to come over to an im- 

 promptu party, the surprise, tf anything, added to the pleas- 

 ure, and on retiring to rest at 5:30 A. M.. wc three came to 

 the conclusion that a more jolly time we certainly had never 

 spent, and 1, for my own part, cannot recall another snob 

 good day's sport 0. COlyct.t.k Mai.tos. 



Frbdeiuctos. New Brunswick. 



"DIDYMUS" RECANTS. 



h'li/tor threat iii hi Stream: 



"Fresco." translated into s ulgar English, means fresh I 

 say this merely lo prove to \ our cayenne peppef correspond- 

 ent that if I dont know how to shool 1 know something, 



and I ilidn'l get it. from my Munchausen dictionary either, 

 which I used in writing my Florida letter. Some of his can- 

 nibnt ions have entertained me very much, bin it will pain 

 him awfully to know thai he has gone down some I wo and 

 it half inches in my esteem by firing that fifteen-Inch shell at 

 me. Only think what tbe direful result would have been if 

 he had hit me: Acres upon acres of the best farming land 

 would have been Hooded with tears »| my departure, and 

 Forest and Stream would Lave lost its most effective 

 wakor up of drowsy and close mouthed correspondents, 

 who, at tile very mention of his name, burn I'orw ard by the 

 dozen at a double-quick trol to publish a'll they know (or 

 more) from the secret recesses of their innermost bosoms, 

 where they had stowed away whole wagon loads of the 

 choicest, knowledge of good hotels and the finest hunting 

 and fishing grounds thai they intended "never tell to any," 

 and never would if they hadn't been "riled" into it by that, 

 horrible name "Didymiis." Woe is me! I've been pum- 

 meled and pounded from the time I wrote that awful letter. 

 till I feel like a "bowl full of jelly. "and I've not had a wink 

 of sleep for nearby a month except what 1 could catch at in- 

 tervals between Hie times when I've been awake. 



1 stood up with manly equanimity against all those, 

 furious (though alightlv funny) attacks, until 1 came to Mr. 

 F.'s Hal footed assertion that I was "no sportsman'." Then 

 I wilted. Hut I have sufficiently recovered to make an at- 

 tempt at vindication, for such a withering charge as that a, 

 high-toned shootist must clear up or die. Where were Mr. 

 F.'s spectacles when he read my letter? I remarked (very 

 modestlyi that I killed ten quail in succession— some of them 

 double "shots — and then, with a full-blown blush on my 

 cheek, admitted thai 1 missed three snipe out of six. Now 

 for the vindication. These three little stragglinE "snipes" 

 were digging for their dinners by a little pond among the 

 trees. Iliad not seen one for a u age, ami was rather puz- 

 zled at the way they bad of twisting round among the trees. 

 But, after all (begging Mr. F.'s pardon for not, explaining 

 it. before). 1 only missed two, for on account of an un- 

 crimped shell in the left barrel the shot all ran out, and I 

 sent nothing after one of them but a paper wad. So there 

 were only two misses oul of six. and among the trees. 



Now my amiable friend. Mr. F.. could even you have 

 managed the matter any better? And now, Mr.'Editor, a 

 word to you. If you'll promise never to let those terrible 

 fellows loose against me again I'll lake that Florida all 

 back and never do so any more. DTnvMTs. 



iidiiur FiiriKt and HI ream; 



Florida does catch it now and then, doesn't she? Well, 

 she, or rather her editors, land sharks and deluded immi- 

 grants, who are filling the earth with inducements to bring 

 others to help them eke out a miserable existence, deserve 

 if. I am not speaking of sport or lack of it. now, but simply 

 of the deception practiced by the above mentioned, resulting 

 in dissatisfaction and ruin to thousands. I kuow whereof 

 I speak. I could count, when 1 left, seventeen heads of 

 lamilies, who were gazing with longing eyes and achitig 

 hearts, to say nothing of empty pockets and wasting strength 

 and energies, toward their northern (former) home. Thisin 



tion." Noise. As rood as the average pine land of the 

 (State. It's an infernal, gigantic swindle on deluded mortal- 

 ity, this booming oi' orange growing. I know well that 

 there are favored spots where oranges can be grown at com- 

 parative small cost. Those are the spots which arc ruining so 

 many who ate not judges of land, and settle on pine land 

 at tlie instance of interested parties. They couldn't live on 

 hamak, anyway. I am uol blind to the fact, either, that for 

 poor, suffering humanity of certain classes, the Slate offers 

 relief and prolongation of life. Such can sacrifice every 

 thing else, and enjoy immunity from rigorous weather, i 

 know, too, from much pleasurable experience, that there is 

 good sport where the game is. But it don't walk into the 

 house and invite the knife. When I speak of Florida, I do 

 so in a condemnatory way, because of gross exaggeration 

 and misrepresentation, and my gorge rises whenever I thiuk 

 of it. As to my trees there, ' lhad one of the nicest places 



io he, lound. "if I do soj it as oughtn't," and parted with it 

 willingly to a "pulmoner" for a trifle over $10,00(1 (silence as 



to cost), but 1 ruined my health and constitution in working 



it lip. ( IsCKOI.A. 



South Carolina. — Chester, June 25. — We will have 

 birds in abundance this fall. They wintered well, and the 

 spring was dry and favorable for hatching. Tin.' first 

 coveys are all hatched out and have commenced to use their 

 wings. If the season continues to be SO favorable, they will 

 hatch out a second covev and then the country will be alive 

 with thorn. Some parties here have been killing a good 

 many squirrels. I visited a. grove near here a few days ago. 

 where 1 counted sixteen gray squirrels all in sight at one 

 time. The owner does not allow any shooting, and takes 

 great care of them. He puts bv nuts and grain for their u.?c 

 during the winter. You can see i] ie m nuv hour of the day 

 drinking with the chickens from a watertrough at the roar 

 of the house. What sport one could havetn be lurried loose 



in that grove for a day with a aS-cal. rifle, f would not 



advise any one to try it. as the owner keeps an old musket 

 loaded with buckshot for trespassers, and as a consequence 

 the boys give him and his squirrels a wide berth, — -T. M. W. 



KYNOCH SHELLS. 



Editor Vbreti mid Stream: 



I have used ihe Kynoch shells since fall of 1883 with the fol- 

 lowing results, oil receipt of shells I loaded a few as fol- 

 lows; 2- drs. Oriental powder No. 1 grain, two pink edge 

 wads, No, It. 1 oz. No, ssnot. cardboard shot wad. No. n : 

 ;', drs. same powder, same wads. 1 oz. same shot, and card- 

 board wad: SI drs. same powder, sum,' Wads, same shot. 

 Tried lor pattern first and found each seemed to give asgood 

 results, whether loaded 2.!, 3. or 31 drs. powder, in each case 

 the pull, rn being very even, no "bunching" being shown. 

 Next, to obtain idea of penetration. I set several sheets of 

 paper an inch apart, in an oblong box, and was very much 

 surprised lo find the Kynoch shell sent shot through several 

 ■i le ■■;- 'i paper 1 could not penetrate with paper shells loaded 

 exactly like Ihe brass ones. I regret I cannot give you the 

 exact number ol sheets of paper penet rated by each load of 

 shot, but the difference was very much in favor of the new 

 shells. The gun used was a Parker. 12 gauge, Damascus 

 barrel. 71 lbs. weight. 



Not being able to own two guns, 1 have been in the habit, 



of shooting ducks with the "above, light though it is, and 



find by loading the Kynoch shell with 2i drs. No. 4 



Oriental powder, with 1 dr. fine, diamond grain powder of 



me make, on lop of the other powder, two pink-edge Wads 



Id 1 oz. chilled shot— either No. li or 7, I can do as g I 



;ecution at long range as is generally done with a heavy 



> gang, — I bough there is no question but Ilia! a ','■ His. u i m 



ton light for steady work on ducks, or the 850 shots Bred 



from these shells, not a single case of "sticking" in the 



chamber did 1 find, while in shooting from boat with paper 



shells, I always had more or leas trouble from that cause, 



and the loss of a fine day's duck shooting, on a little lake in 



the wilds of Pennsylvania, caused me to send for the new 



shells for trial. While I do not assume to be a judge in the 



matter, my belief in regard to these shells is, that they give 



far better pattern, increased penetration, anil arc durable — 



some I have shot four times and appear to be as sound as 



ever, the edges not splitting in the least. B. 



Ki.Minx. Slew York. 



Editor VtrrtsianA Stream: 



Unless I am very much mistaken 

 penence has been that to get good 

 brass shells. Ihe chambers of the gu 

 must he bushed out. There was a 

 experiments and discussions on the 

 little time ago in the London i'iil'l, 

 was that unless the chambers w ere 

 shell, the result w-as unsatisfactory, 

 sded as to how, if a shell was too 

 and eonseqeutly expanded, matter! 

 making the chamber still larger, n 

 fromsome letter published, that the 

 gauge' ol' the gun was the one usi 

 shells, being as much smaller in tin 

 the ordinary pap 



ic result of English ex- 



sulis with the Kynoch 



hjei i published some 

 id the result arrived at 

 red expressly to fit the 

 I remember being puz- 

 mll to fit the chamber, 

 ould be improved by 

 I it was evident to me, 

 ze next larger than the 

 The No.' 12 Kvnoch 

 outside diameter than 

 brass ones, astheyare thinner, an air 

 space is left between the shell and Ihe chamber, and expan- 

 sion or explosion results; lmt bv bushing out the chamber a 

 little, it can be made to tit a No. 10 Kvnoch shell, and 



lei hi - ■ circumstances, according to the Fi, id, the result 



is verv g,.od Whether it would br worth while to have 

 vour gun chambered so that it would be a little tod large for 

 an ordinary 12 shell, and too small for a 10 ditto, is a" ques- 

 tion which 'everybody must decide for themselves. It would 

 depend, of course, on how much better result could be ob- 

 tained, and also on Ihe fact whether the Kynochs could 

 always be got If the experiment was nut a success, the gun 

 would have to belabored to 10-gauge. .v[jc Mac, 



Be..' 



. June 



I. i,b 



misconstrued the nature of the bushing process, which is. in 

 effect, to decrease rather than increase I he diameter of the 

 Chamber. To "bush" is. as the term is generally used, to 

 furnish an orifice or chamber with a lining of metal. A gun 

 chamber is hushed, in order that, if may "receive a shell of 

 smaller exterior diameter ihan before. For instance. The 

 interior diameters ,,f the barrel of a 12 gauge gun and of a 

 12-gauge shell are, -,a\ . .129 in. But the paper shell being, 

 say, .030 in in diameier. h is perfectly plain that the 

 chamber of the gun to receive this paper shell must have a 

 diameter of .729 plus twice .030, or .789. Now. were the 

 Kynoch shell equal in interior diameter to the barrel of the 

 gun, and only ,007 in. thick. Ihe chamber should In only 

 '.729 plus twic- .007. or .7-13 in. It is evident, therefore, that 

 the chamber bored to .789 for the paper shell, would, in that 

 casig have to be reduced to .7-13 for the Kynoch. 729 interior 

 diameter. This could be accomplished by inserting in the 

 chamber a steel lining which is bore,) out to the' desired 

 diameter. .Vs a matter of fact, however, the Kvnoch shells 

 being n ade with exterior diameters to tit the present cham- 

 bers of the s, , rv , : , ... ii has been found thata 12-gauge 

 gun may be bushed with best advantage for a 14-gaiige 

 Kyrio, h shell, the interior diameter of the shell being .711 

 iu. The process of bushiug is made perfectly intelligible by 

 the illustration given herewith, which we 'take from Mr. 

 Y\ o-n "Modern Spoilsman's Gun." The upper side of the 

 engraving shows the chamber as it is before bushing; the 

 lower sh„ws ihe chamber bushed. It will be observed that 

 the original chamber is slightly cut away to admit of a lin- 

 ing of sufficient thickness to stand boring out.] 



KiIHah- Fbrest Mid Sfirearm 



I will give my experience with tbe Kynoch shells, hoping 

 il will be of some value so others. The gun I have used 

 them in is a N. It. Davis A Oo.'s 12 gauge." I have reloaded 

 sonic of them from eight to twelve times: they have always 

 resumed their original shape when tired. I load with one 

 grease-proof, one thick felt and one cardboard wad, all No. 



11. over powder, and one common felt wad overshot. 1 

 find the shells will expand after repeated firing so as to fit 

 the chamber very close, but I have had no trouble in gelling 

 them into the gun or extracting them, and no trouble from 

 misfires. The loading funnel anould fit the shells closely; 

 this will prevent bulging or bending them while loading. 

 The cause of their sticking in the chamber is in my Opinion 

 the fault cf the gun. The shells beir.g verv thin if tt?3» 

 are any irregularities j u the chamber, or if if is the least 

 trifle larger nearest the muzzle, the shell will expand 

 into these" irregularities and cause the shell to stick. A gun. 

 to use brass shells, and especially Kyuochs. should have a 

 very smooth chamber, audit should be tapered from breech 

 toward muzzle, then as soon as extractor starts u,e shell il is 

 free to come out. With my gun the Kynoch do nol give as 

 good pattern as paper shells. This, no doubt, is on account 

 of the gun being chambered for paper shells. On the whole, 

 with a gun properly chambered for brass shells, and with 

 the loading and crimping tool advertised iu Forest \m> 

 Stb.EAM. 1 think the Kynoch the best shells now in the 

 market. S. S. Wu.oox. 



The Fabtrtdoh Fly Larvae. - -Monticcllo, N. T., 

 -Tunc 271— Editor Fbrest and Sf/reaitm While Out to-daj 

 working a pair of young dogs only a short distance from my 

 kennel." the dogs found two broods of young partridge or 

 rutted grouse.' They were about Ihe 'size of a quail. 1 

 caught one of Ihe young birds which the dogs were pointing 

 under a log. and was about to let it go again, when I dis- 

 covered something on the back of its neck. On examina- 

 tion it proved to be a tick about Ihe size of a pea, with its 

 headfirmly imbedded in the neck of the young bird. Around 

 this tick were three more ticks of different sizes, from a very 

 small one to half the size of the large one. They were 

 packed close together, with the heads all last in the neck of 

 the bird. I pulled them out and let the bird go. The ticks 

 were of a blue color. Could allot the young birds have 

 had (he ticks on them? and was this large' lick breeding ils 

 voting while attached to the bird's neck?— 0. F, Rest. 

 [Very likely all the young birds were similarly affected. The 

 insects were not ticks, but were the larva; of the partridge 

 flv, of which so much has been written in Forest \:,h 

 Stream. The blue color of the insects was due jo their 

 being full of blood, and the difference in size was simply in 

 dicafiveof a difference iu age of the lai-vie. | 



Leet-Ha^ded Shooting.— Editor Forest and Stream: 

 If your correspondent "C. D.," Wyoming Ter., will pursue 

 his' experiments a little further, I think that he will find that 

 the right eye is uol always the stronger. Take his expert 

 ment of bringing the corner of a house at a distance into line 

 with the edge of a post near at hand. Close the right eye 

 and briug the two objects into position, then open the right 

 eye and no change iii position will have taken place. Now 

 close the left eye and the post will apparently have moved 

 as far to the left as in "C. D.'s" experiment ft had moved to 

 the right. It would seem from this that the eye with l he 

 quickest perception power takes the lead, yet if the weaker 

 eye for any reason gets Ihe start, the stronger has not suf- 

 ficient strength to overcome the other. Microscopists work- 

 ing with monocular instruments seldom close the unused eye. 

 although seeing absolutely nothing with it. — -I. II. T. (Bos- 

 ton. Mass.). 



A Deer's Srs.OULAR Death. — Wading River. L. I., June 

 34.— In the year l8S5Mr. Samuel Hulse had a carting to 

 haul timber for n house, Mr. Harvey Skidmore (my inform- 

 ant) being there. 'They heard hounds barking, aud pres- 

 ently saw a deer running in a southerly direction, but seeing 

 some one in the field it changed ils course westward. This 

 brought the dogs quite close to the fleer, which run aerrws 

 two fields in view of the persons assembled, and iu its hurry 

 to escape attempted to leap a. hedge on which was a rail. 

 The deer struck the rail with its head, breaking it in two, 

 aud lay there. Mr. Skidmore and another person ran to 

 the spot, and one held its legs while the other cut its throat. 

 Just then, Mr. Skidmore says, ihe hunters came up, threw 

 the carcass on their horse, and never thanked them for their 

 trouble. Did you ever hear of a deer meeting a similar 

 death V -('. 



Pkesekving Meat and Fisji. — Ulitiir Forest un, I Sireamu 

 I have a receipt to keep fresh meats in warm weather. Il 

 may be of benefit to some of your many readers. For 7 

 pounds of meal mix the following-: 1 ouiiee soda. ,t Ounce 

 saltpeter, i pound charcoal, pulverized, ] pound sugar, 14 

 pounds salt. Dissolve in water and place the meal" in the 

 brine; take care to cover the meal with fluid about three 

 inches deep. It wdll be necessary to place a weight upon 

 the meat to prevent exposure to insects. The meat can be 

 kept in open vessels. You may commence using men I im- 

 mediately, taking care to weight it down. Place ihe meat 

 in cold water about three hours before using; wash well 

 then steak or roast. We have kept fish for several days in 

 warm weather with this process. I think it a good thing 

 where ice cannot be had. — J. Q. Sms. 



Tennessee.— Nashville. Tenu., June 28.— Dove shooting 

 has already begun, though it. is too early iu the season. 

 Squirrels were never more abundant or in" liner condition 

 for the table. A Tennessee squirrel stew is an institution 

 that even the most delicately-palated epicure might afford 

 to come here to feast upon. Tomatoes and roasting ears 

 are not, however, sufficiently abundant as vet to warrant 

 stew parties hebig made up.— J. D. II. 



MicuiOAN Game Law.— The mingled mass of meritorious 

 and meretricious Michigan game protection bills in the hist 

 Legislature all came to nothing, and the old law remains 

 unchanged. 



