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FOKEST AND STREAM, 



A WEEKLY JOURNAL, 

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CALENDAR «OF EVENTS FOR THE COM- 

 ING WEEK. 



Thubsday, September 23.— Racing, Louisville, Ky. Trotting, Quincy 

 111.; Burlington, Vb.; Waterloo, N. Y.; Poughkeepsie, N. Y.; Beacon 

 Park, Boston; Tiskilwa, 111.; Indianapolis, Ind.; Meriden, Ct.; Colum- 

 bus, Ohio; Watkins, N. Y.; Sharon, Pa. Sculling, Geo. Brown and 

 Alex. Brayley, at Bedford Basin, Halifax. Base Ball, Philadelphia vs. 

 Chicago, at Chicago; Eaele vs. Una, at Cummunipaw, N. J.: Active vs. 

 Quickstep, at Philadelphia. 



Feiday, September 24.— Racing, Louisville, Ky. Trotting, Quincy, 

 111.; Poughkeepsie, N. Y.; Burlington, Iowa; Beacon Park, Boston; 

 Ambler Park, Pa.; Cynthiana, Ky.; Tiffin, Ohio; Meriden, Ct.; Cuba, 

 N- Y. Base Ball, Alaska vs. Americus, at Brooklyn. 



Saturday, September 25.— Racing, Louisville, Ky.; Dallas, Texas. 

 Trotting, Quincy, 111. ; Sharon, Pa. Creedmoor, Amateur Rifle Club vs. 

 Ontario Army Rifle Club. Meeting of Mount Vernon Amateur Rifle 

 Club. Base Ball, Philadelphia vs. Chicago, at Chicago; Hartford vs. Bos- 

 ton, at Hartford; Flyawa\ s vs. Chelsea, at Hoboken. 



Monday, September 27.— Racing, %llas, Texas. Trotting, Dayton, 

 Ohio. Central New York Fair, Utica. Regattas, Newark Bay; Queens 

 County Yacht Club, Bay side, L. I. Base Ball, Philadelphia vs. St. Louis, 

 at St. Lom>, Star vs. Chelsea, at Irvington, N. J. 



Tuesday, September 28.— Racing, Dallas, Texas. Trotting, Beaver. 

 Pa.; Blmira, N. Y.; Salem, N. J.; Keene, N. H. Empire State Rifle 

 Tournament, East Syracuse, N. Y. Third Annual Prize Meeting N. R. 

 A., Creedmoor. Queens County t Agri cultural Society, Mineola, L. I. 

 Athletic Games, Yonkers, N. Y. Base Ball, Philadelphia vs. St. Louis, 

 at St. Louis; Confidence vs. Hoboken, at New Rochelle, N. Y.; Alaska 

 vs. Keystone, at Brooklyn. 



Wednesday, September 29.— Racing, Dallas, Texas. Trotting, Le 

 Roy, N. Y., and as on Tuesday. Empire State Rifle Tournament, East 

 Syracuse, N. Y. Queens County Agricultural Society, Mineola, L. I. 

 Regatta, Queens County Yacht-Club, Flushing Bay. 



A Noble Action. — The most inveterate opponent to 

 Mr. Bergli's system of philanthrophy must give him credit 

 for great magnanimity on reading of his action in the 

 Court of Special Sessions a few days since. One John 

 Sheriden was charged by the officers of the Society for 

 Prevention of Cruelty to Animals with working a horse 

 upon whose withers a dreadful sore was discovered. The 

 case was not only clearly proven, but the circumstances 

 were greatly aggravated. In extenuation, however, it was 

 shown that Sheriden had only worked his horse to provide 

 food for a wife and six children who were in almost a 

 starving condition. So aroused were Mr. Bergh's sympa- 

 thies that he not only withdrew the charge, bat handed the 

 man a five dollar note wherewith to provide necessities for 

 his family. Actions of this kind on the part of Mr. Bergh 

 nave great effect in drawing toward him the sympathies of 

 a class of persons who have hitherto looked upon himself 

 as a meddlesome hypochondriac, and his Society as a nui- 

 sance. 



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A snake recently cut open on the Lehigh. Mountains was 

 found to contain a large quantity of potato bugs. 



AQUACULTURAL COLLEGES. 



THE wonderful growth of fish culture in this country 

 shows that its progress i3 to be in accordance with 

 the rapid strides of science of every kind and form, which 

 is one of the marked characteristics of the day. But no 

 step, having in view its further development, has been 

 taken which possesses a greater amount of interest, im- 

 portance and encouragement than that which emanates 

 from the old, and as it is now customary to call her, effete 

 State of Virginia. In a letter from a valued correspondent 

 published in our last issue, we are advised that the State 

 hatching house is to be located at Blacksburg, with Pro- 

 fessor Ellszey, the Professor of Natural History of the 

 Agricultural College at that place, in charge; thus allying 

 the two sciences in one common institution and granting 

 to agriculture the same importance and attention that is 

 now devoted to the sister study. It is further proposed to 

 plane hatching establishments, in conjunction with the 

 University of Virginia, the Virginia Military Institute, and 

 perhaps other colleges, with a view to the education of 

 experts and the spreading of a general knowledge of the 

 principles of fish culture throughout the State. We are 

 glad that this movement Was originated with "Old Virginia," 

 foremost in so many things in days of yore, and look con- 

 fidently to see her example followed in this and other 

 States. Why should not fish culture be placed on the same 

 footing as agriculture? "An acre of water will produce as 

 much as an acre of land." Its importance from the food 

 producing point is equally as great, and the necessity of 

 preserving and increasing equally important, and as certain 

 ultimately to be recognized. It must be gratifying to the 

 pioneers in this science to see the results which now flow 

 from their humble beginnings. When Seth Green first 

 tried the experiment of hatching shad eggs at Holyoke and 

 his boxes were stoned by the unbelievers, who would have 

 predicted that snch a triumphant success would have 

 rewarded his labors, and that colleges for instruction in 

 fish culture would be established throughout the country? 



THE RIFLE MOVEMENT. 



IT is a matter for congratulation that the occasion which 

 has given rise to the increased interest taken in rifle 

 shooting throughout the country was a peaceful one, and 

 not the outcome of some sad necessity. The reports of 

 new rifle clubs which reach us and the enquiry for "rules 

 and regulations" come from almost, if not quite, every 

 State in the Union, and if the present mania for long range 

 shooting continues the remarks of trans- Atlantic papers in 

 extenuation of their riflemen's defeat, that the Americans 

 were a nation of riflemen, will be amply verified. It is 

 also true that the American possesses the foundation upon 

 which to build the marksman. Familiarized as most of 

 our young men are from an early age, with the use of a 

 gun of some description, with ample room for its use, and 

 without hampering restriction in the way of licenses or 

 caste, the first great principle is learned and the embryo 

 riflemen is fit to be initiated into the higher branches and 

 all the apparent mysteries of elevation, trajectory, and wind- 

 guage. 



Not the least striking result of this movement is the 

 rapidity with which proficiency is acquired. We hear on 

 one day of the formation of a rifle club and on the next 

 receive diagrams of targets showing remarkable shooting. 

 An excellent exemplification of this is shown in the case 

 of the recent match at Saratoga between the club of that 

 place and the Parthian Junior Club of Hudson. It was 

 the first match in which the former club had ever partici- 

 pated. We have the diagrams of the targets made before 

 us, and the array of shots in the bullseyes is really formid- 

 able. The range was 500 yards, number of shots, twenty 

 each. The Parthian Club scored 545 points out of a possi- 

 ble 600, four of the team making over 90 points each, 

 "Trustworthy" Smith alone contributing 95. The Saratoga 

 Club scored 512 points. Of course this shooting would 

 not be considered remarkable among the older members of 

 the National Rifle Association and Amateur Rifle Club, 

 and indeed at Creedmoor on Saturday last in the Ladies' 

 Match several of the contestants scored 50 points in ten 

 shots at 500 yards, the highest amount possible. While 

 referring to this Creedmoor match it is rather suggestive 

 to look at the scores made at 200 yards off-hand, where in 

 a large number of instances the short range men who have 

 inferior totals have excelled at this range, showing that 

 our long range experts have not devoted as much attention 

 as they might have done to shoulder shooting. 



It is reported that the committee of the Amateur Rifle 

 Club appointed to select a team to contend with the Cana- 

 dians in the forthcoming match, have had some difficulty 

 in completing their labors, owing to the poor scoring made 

 in the competitions for places, and that they may yet be 

 compelled to exercise their prerogative and select from 

 among the members of the International team. If this is 

 done we fear that our neighbors will form the same opin- 

 ion of our riflemen as the Chinese have of our navy, the 

 Hartford having been sent to the Asiatic station so often 

 that the celestials believe she is the only big ship we have. 

 It has been suggested that outside riflemen, for inst'ance 

 the best of the Hudson Club, might be invited to places on 

 the team, but as the challenge was to, and accepted by the 

 Amateur Club, the places must be filled from among their 

 own body. 



The London Times, which of late has been unusually 

 complimentary to America and Americans, discusses at 

 length, in a recent issue, the significance of the movements 

 in this country of which, the reception accorded to the 



American team was a demonstration. The probability of 

 a renewal next year of the contest for international honors 

 on this side of the water is mentioned, and the key note to 

 the popularity of rifle shooting given, when it is shown to 

 be one of the amusements "into which the corruptions of 

 the betting ring will not be allowed to intrude," a point on 

 which we have previously expatiated. The Times further 

 says : — 



"No one has ever doubted the perfect integrity with 

 which our rifle shooting competitions are conducted,' and 

 it is only bare justice to say that the American marks- 

 men of Col. Gildersleeve's team shoot as "straight" in every 

 sense of the word as the best of our Wimbledon prize win. 

 ners. These are some of the incidental benefits to be ex- 

 pected from the encouragement of such rivalries as that of 

 the American and Irish marksmen. The main advantage 

 of course, in every movement of the kind is that it breaks 

 down some small portion of the thick wall of distrust 

 suspicion, and jealousy which a painful history, checkered 

 with many misunderstandings, has raised up between two 

 great nations, who ought to be one in heart as they are oue 

 in blood. We do not exaggerate the effect of a slight af- 

 fair like a rifle match, but many private friendships have 

 been comented by a community of amusements, and com- 

 munities, after all, are very much like the indiyiduals who 

 make them up." 



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. GAME PROTECTION. 



WE alluded last w T eek to the efforts of the Hudson 

 River Sportsmen's Association to prosecute and 

 punish an old offender named Hoxie, who dwells in the 

 Adirondacks and gains his livelihood by systematic poach- 

 ing. Since then Dr. Chas. W. Torrey, the Vice President 

 of the Yonkers Club, has handed us the following letter 

 'from John R. Wiltsie, Esq., President of the Association 

 first named, referring to the same matter: — 



Newburg, N. Y., September 6th, 1875. 

 Dr. Chas. W. Torrey, Vice President Yonkers Sportsmen's Club: 



Dear Sib:— We started our association with a view to calling the at- 

 tention of sportsmen to the fact that the laws for the protection of birds 

 and. fish were violated, continually by men calling themselves sportsmen. 

 We think that we have done some good by circulating about 1,000 copies 

 of the game law annually from our own vicinity to the Adirondacks. We 

 have not had many suits at law. We arrested one of the chief poachers 

 of the wilderness and broke up his business, which was perhaps the 

 largest in this State. He had working for him about forty trappers in 

 the Adirondacks, catching trout and killing deer. His name was Hoxie, 

 and he was located at Indian Lake, kept a store, and was Postmaster 

 there. In one of my tramps through the lower region of the Adiron- 

 dacks I came across his place after traveling over 100 miles on foot 

 among his employes. He sold that season over seven ions of trout to 

 Saratoga, Springfield, and Boston, and all the deer he could ship. He 

 paid his men forty cents per pound for dressed trout and twelve cents 

 for venison. He visited me the day following and wished me to pur- 

 chase some venison. I spoiled the sale of his venison, and one of our 

 members had a barrel of trout seized at Poughkeepsie, in cont>equence of 

 which Mr. Hoxie left for parts unknown, leaving his sewants unpaid. 

 Our friend sent the papers to Hamilton county for his arrest, as the law 

 will reach any violator of the game law whose penalty reaches $50. 



You speak of our gas house. The law clearly forbids their running 

 their refuse into the river, as well as all other matter calculated to destroy 

 fish. Although the game law is not by any means perfect, if it were 

 rigidly enforced it would answer a good purpose. I hope that the sports- 

 men of -the State may yet meet somewhere and draft such a code of iaws 

 as may be easily understood, making them as brief as possible, and sub- 

 mit the same to our Legislature for their consideration. I have person- 

 ally felt a great interest in protecting game of all kinds, for I have spent 

 many pleasant days in hunting and fishing for the last half century, and 

 am not exhausted yet. I enjoy the sport as well as ever, and am happy 

 to say that I can keep close to the best of the boys, and propose to go on 

 until the machine runs down. Very respectfully yours, 



John R. Wiltsie. 



It will be observed by the last clause that the honorable 

 gentleman urges a meeting of the sportsmen of the Btaie 

 for the purpose of drafting a new and simplified code of 

 game laws. Surely, the ink and effort of the past two 

 years have been to some extent expended in vain if Mr. 

 Wiltsie has not been made aware that a Convention of 

 Sportsmen from all the States met at Cleveland, Ohio, last 

 June, and appointed a committee to draft suitable game 

 laws to govern all the States. Moreover, an association of 

 gentlemen, for the most part naturalists, was organized last 

 May for a similar purpose. It included representatives 

 from both the United States and Canada, and for this rea- 

 son was styled the "International Association for Protect- 

 ing Game and Fish."' It invited the co-operation of any 

 person interested in its objects, and has already secured a 

 membership of over two hundred. Mr. Wiltsie should be 

 one of the members. Any person who wishes to aid its ef- 

 forts is admitted on application by the payment of $1, and 

 such aid^in order to be most efficient, should be proffered 

 at once. A call will soon be issued for a meeting 

 of the Executive Committee with a view to appoint sub- 

 committees. These committees have power to add to their 

 number, and any volunteer qualified to serve will be re- 

 ceived. Any suggestions- that may be offered to any mem- 

 ber of the committees in writing, from any source what- 

 ever, will be appreciated, the object being to obtain the 

 fullest and most intelligent information upon the genera 

 subject at the earliest moment. 



A completion of this important work is sought for 

 at a date sufficiently early to enable it to be submitted 

 to the Legislatures of the several States the coming Win- 

 ter; some law by which the public can be intelligently 

 guided and governed being greatly needed. However, n 

 code of laws will be submitted at any time until it w 

 deemed as perfect in its entirety as human wisdom can 

 make it. This law will be as nearly uniform in its appli- 

 cation to all the States as their genera and climatic condi- 

 tions will permit, so that being simplified, it maybe tie 

 more readily and universally understood, executed, a n 

 obeyed. This plan of uniform, or at least co-operative 

 laws, has been much discussed during the past two yea 1 

 by the press, and especially by that portion of the press m 

 the interest of sportsmen and propagation , It has been 



