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FOREST AND STREAM. 



Massachusetts.— Salem, Oct. 1— Sporting items "from 

 old Essex are quiet with two exceptions-^-the booting, which 

 is now a regular thing, and smelt fishiug. This last is 

 much pursued, and affords good sport. At Marblehead 

 they do the "boss" fishing, catching from six to fifteen or 

 twenty dozen per day with pole and line. A flock of geese 

 went along last week. Saw one "winter" yesterday. There 

 ought to be some snipe, as we have had a lot of rain lately, 

 Hope to say something for the quail soon. Teal. 



— Four wild pigeons and seven ty-five men with guns 

 passed North Saturday afternoon.— Banbury JSfeius. 



New Jersey.— Kinseifs Ashley House, Oct. 7. — The pros- 

 pect for Fall shooting looks well. Season opens on the 15th 

 inst. Large quantities of black ducks and sprig tails are 

 feeding intke coves to the southward of high bar and Clam 

 Island. If they are not disturbed until the 15th there will 

 be some big day's gunning. B. 



Kansas. — Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad, Oct. 4. — 

 Quail more abundant than for years before. Prairie chick- 

 ens are coming in to feed on cultivated farms by thou- 

 sands . Those who delight in shooting in corn have plenty 

 of it. Duck shooting promises to be good, owing to abun- 

 dence of water. The writer does not own the above road, 

 nor has he any interest in it. This is simply written for 

 the eyes of sportsmen, with the assurance that plenty of 

 game can be found &t any point along the line of the M., 

 K. and T. road in the State where there are cultivated 

 farms. . TJm Zoo Ee. 



(jAme Laws op Maine.— We are indebted to Mr. E. M. 

 Stillwell, Commissioner of Fisheries of the State of Maine, 

 for the following transcript of the game laws of that State, 

 The laws relating to fish will be found under the head of 

 Sea and Kiver Fishing: — 



Section 1. ISfo person shall kill or have in his possession, except alive, 

 or expose for sale, any wood dack, woodcock, or English snipe, com- 

 monly so called, between the 1st day of January and the 4th day of July 

 following, or kill any quail, grouse or partridge between the 1st day of 

 January and the 1st day of September following, or have the same in 

 possession, or expose the same for sale, except alive, between the 1st 

 day of February and the 1st day of September following, under a pen- 

 alty of not les* thau Ave nor more than ten dollars for each bird so 

 killed, or had in posession, or exposed for sale 



Section 2. No person shall at any time, or in any place within this 

 State, with any trap, net, snare, device, or contrivance, other than the 

 usual method of sporting with firearm?, take any wild dack of any va- 

 riety, quail, partridge, grouse, or woodcock, under a penalty of five dol- 

 lars for each bird so taken. Penalties, when collected, to be paid one- 

 half to the overseers of the poor of the town or city in which convic- 

 tion is had, and the remainder to the prosecutor. Upon non-payment of 

 penalty tne defendant may be committed to common jail of "the county 

 for a period of not less than five days, and at the rate of one day for 

 each dollar for the amount of judgment where the sum is over five dol- 

 lars in amount, etc. .Revised Statutes State of Maine, chap. 239, p. 168, 

 March 3d. 1874. 



Deer and caribou may be killed from 1st of Oct. to 1st of Jan. Penal ty 

 for killing at any other time, or for hunting a-nd killing with dogs at any 

 time, forty dollars for every deer or caribou so killed, and dogs to be shot 

 at sight.— .Revised Statutes, chap. 103, p. 68, Feb. 17th, 1873. 



No moose shall be killed in the State of Maine from Feb. 16th, 1875, 

 until the 1st of Oct., 1880, under penalty of one hundred dollars for 

 every moose so killed. — Revised Statutes, chap. 12, p. 11, Feb. 16th, 1855. 



— The members of the Worcester (Mass.) Sportsmen's 

 Club shot a number of matches on their grounds on Tues- 

 day of last week. The following is the result of the ten 

 bird match: — 



Name. Score. 



F. S. Koowles 7 



Dana K. Fitch 1 



R. L'. Gilbert... 3 



A. P, Cutting 9 



S. A. Smith 7 



H . W. Cleveland 2jJ. Ply;npton 



H. B . Verry 3 Sted man Clark 



Name. Score. 



Isaac Fiske 6 



J. M, Djennan 5 



O. L Taft 6 



F. M. Adams 8 



L. R. Hudson 4 



6 



..7 



W. S. Perry 8 G. J. Rugg 7 



C. H. Bowker 6 Benjamin Zacder 1 



John Boyden 4S.1I. Bowker 6 



J. E. Browning 5|L. W\ Hollman \ 6 



G.R. Newton 6|C. B. Holden .....7 



A. Houghton 7 John Goodell 8 



T. M. Lamb 6|J. W. Carev 6 



J. F. Davenport ..7IS. Forhhand 5 



W.H.Cole 7\ 



Mr. A. P. Cutting having killed all of his birds took the 

 first prize, Mr. John Goodell the second, Mr. C. R. Holden 

 the third, Mr. C. H. Bowker the fourth, and Mr. J. M. 

 Drenn an the fifth. In a subsequent match at five birds, 

 contested by twenty-three members, Mr. 1ST. S. Johnson 

 took first prize, Mr. Goodell second, and Mr. Wood third. 

 A number of other matches were shot, which our space 

 will not allow us to summarize. The ."judges were A. L. 

 Rice and A. Houghton, Jr. ; referee, C. H. Frost, of Hop- 

 kinton. This is regarded as the most successful field clay 

 the club has yet enjoyed. 



— A match occurred at Long Branch on Saturday, the 

 3d, between Messrs. J. L. Bright and J. L. Henderson .at 

 15 birds each, 21 yards rise; shot according to Long Island 

 rgles. Below is the score: — 



J. L. Bright 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0*1 1 1 1 I-H 



W. J. Henderson 0*1 111101111111 1—13 



*Dead out of bounds. 



This is the best shooting that has ever been done by 

 members of the Amateur Club. 



— The following are the scores of the Forest and Stream 

 Shooting Club made at the match on October 80th for club 

 badge; 21 yards rise, 80 yards boundary; shot at Tacony:— 



Score. 



Total. 



Name. 



William Sinister 1 1 



William Reckless 1 



Dr. Brown ..1 



Thomas South 1 1 



Fred Widera ay er 1 



Matthew Brieily 1 1 



A. H. Capper 1 1 



Charles Foulke 1 1 



Adam Smythe 1 1 



A. Cummings 1 1 



J. Kiehl 1 



W. J. Givens 



—The Trap and Field Club of Minneapolis shot on the 

 30tli instant for their club badge, with the following re- 

 suit,- 



■I 



1 







1 



1 



1 



1 



1 



9 



1 











1 



1 



1 



1 



1 



7 







1 







1 



1 







1 



1 



7 



1 







1 



I 







1 



1 



1 



8 











1 







J 



1 



1 



1 



6 



1 



1 



1 



1 



1 



1 



1 



1 



10 



1 







1 



1 



1 



1 



J 







8- 



1 



1 











1 



1 







1 



7 







1 















1 



1 



1 



6 







1 



1 



1 







1 







1 



7 ' 











1 



1 







1 







1 



5 



1 







1 



1 







G 



1 



1 



5 



Nnme. Score. 



C. Cyphers 4 



\. GRand "s 



A. B. Band 6 



L. C. Shepley 7 



R. J. Baldwin t 4 



G. A. Bracket! ...2 



Allie Brackett 2 



H. S. Pease 8 



George P urn fort 4 



W. W. McNair 3 



iName. Score - 



F. L. Morse % 



D. T. Smith 7 



John Harvey, ... -. f 



M. Hoy • 5 



E . Grimshaw ° 



G. A. Camp 5 



Charles Haihaway 4 



G. W. Tinsley 7 



John Noble :4 



R. S. Williams 7 



Chismore 7 



A. C. Rand and Roger S. Pease having tied, the distance 

 was increased to twenty-six yards, a miss and out being the 

 rule : — 

 A. C. Rand 1 1 1 1 I— 5 | Roger S. Pease... ....i 1111—5 



There still being a tie, the distance was in3reased to 

 thirty- one yards:— 

 A. C.Raiid. ...1 1—2 | Roger S. Ptase 1 0-1 



Mr. Raad therefore holds the club badge. In the even- 



ing a meeting of the club was held to elect a team to rep- 

 resent the club in the contest for the State badge. The 

 following gentlemen were elected: John Harvey, Al. 

 Smith, G-. W. Tinsley, A. C. Rand, Robert McMullen, L. 

 C. Shepley, R. S. Williams, Michael Hoy, and George S. 

 Tuckerman, with Roger S. Pease, E. Grimshaw, and Major 

 Camp as alternates. Colonel S. W. King was unanimously 

 elected a member of the club. 



—The crack pigeon shots of Sedalia and Jefferson City 

 had a team match on the 29th ultimo, in which six men 

 from each town participated, resulting in a victory for the 

 Jefferson City team by two birds. The score was as fol- 

 lows, the Sedalia members being represented by the even 

 numbers before their names, and the Jefferson City's by 

 the odd : — 



Name. Score. I Name. Score. 



S.K. Parsons....lloll0111 1-8|PhilT. Miller....* 1 1 1 1110 11-8 



T.T.Major UlloOlOll 7|W. J. Maltbv... .0 1 1 * 1 1 1 1-6 



A.M. Beckers. .0 1 11 1110 01-7 A. S. Krekel... .1 1 1 1 1 1-6 



A. B. Dempsey . . 11110 11*1 0-7 ! J. G. Fish 111111111-9 



T.fl. Pruit... -...lllllll 011-9 Capt. Holmes.... 1 111111011-9 

 P. D. Watson. ,..1*01 111111-8 McBlvany.. 1101011111-8 



Jefferson City 47 Sedalia 45 



On the following day a grand tournament was inaugu- 

 rated, which resulted in some capital shooting. The fol- 

 lowing table shows the result: — 



Name. Score. 1 Name. Score. 



C. T. McElvany 7 



R. F. Waddell 10 



A. Farnham 7 



J. C. Wood 



T. J. Commins.. 

 J. C . Parmerlee . . 



J. G. Fish 



J. J. Cnmby 7 



P. D. Watson 



W. J. Maltby__ 



James Doyle 2 



H. Pierson " 7 



J. P. Fromme 2 



J. D. Brown 7 



P. T. Miller, Jr...... 8 



Frank Houston 9 



J. Warren 4 



O. A. Crandall 7 



A . M. Beckers 5 



A. S. Krekel 7 



H. T. Holmes 5 



T. T. Majors 6 



John J. Brown 8 S. K. Parsons 



J. M.Kulimer 10JT H. Burtt 6 



S. II. Ilnsten 9!B. J. Freeson.. . 4 



W. B. Parsons 9 



W.B.Hamlet 9 



D. W. Papons ; ... 7 



J. W. Babcock 



G. L. Schofield 6 



J. S. Austin 5 



John S. Cochran 4 



A. B. Demsey 7 



S. W. Scovern 6 



E. Diamond ]0 



J. F. Heinrichs 7 



Henry Ewing 9 



In shooting off the ties of ten at twenty-six yards Mr. 

 Diamond killed three birds and took first prize. The ties 

 of nine were then shot, resulting, after another tie between 

 Fish and Houston, in a win for the latter. The same re- 

 sult followed in shooting the ties of eight, Messrs. Parme- 

 lee and Babcock tieing on three birds. In shooting off again, 

 Mr. Parmelee proved' the victor. There were no less than 

 twelve who- had tied on seven birds. In shooting off, there 

 were several other ties, the contestants finally being re- 

 duced to two, Messrs. Pierson and Dempsey, who divided. 



We would call the attention of our Sedalia^ friends to the 

 fact that their mode of shooting off ties is becoming obso- 

 lete. It seems scarcely reasonable that a man who kills 

 but seven birds in the first round should receive a prize 

 when he who kills ten has none. We should say that when 

 three men each kill all of their birds the one who is best 

 in shooting off the tie takes first prize, and the other two 

 shoot off for second, or if one is better than the other in 

 the first round of tie shooting he takes second and the 

 other third prize. It is like the old question in raffling, 

 which has been so often decided, that where there are two 

 prizes, and the highest throw is tied, the throwers either 

 divide, or throw off for first and second. 

 _*.*.». 



Portsmouth, N. H., October 6th, 1875. 

 Editor Forest and Stream: — 



A match was shot here yesterday for the Eldridge Medal, between J. 

 Bell and M. Stimpson, at fifteen birds each, 21 yards rise, 80 yards bound- 

 ary. It was a very cold day, but some fine shooting was done by the 

 champion, Mr. Stimpson, as will be seen by the score: 



Bell ...1 1101001001100 1—8 



Stimpson 1111011111*1110 1—13 



Stimpson has now been the winner four successive rimes. Afterwards 

 came the match of the Portsmouth Sportsmens 1 Club at wild pigeons, 

 ten birds each, 21 yards rise, 80 yards boundary. The birds were stall 

 fed and very lively, and the shooting was not very good, as will be seen 

 by the score : 



Name. Score. 



Norton 8 



Nelson 6 



Potter -. 8 



Sides 4 



Stimpson 4 



Watkins 2 



Young ; 4 



Slurtevant 6 



Stark .,.' 8 



Hayes ". 3 



Name. Score. 



Bell 5 



Carroll 5 



Conner 3 



Eldridge 5 



Emerson 1 



Goodrich 7 



Hartshorn 7 



Kidder 5 



Loud 5 



Lock 7 



Moses 1 2 



Following the annual shoot four small matches were shot, between 

 Captain Emerson and J. Sides, which resulted in favor of Mr. Sides win- 

 ning all four, the loser paying for the birds. A match for $25 a side at 

 twelve birds each, between Mr. Stark of Concord, and J. Lock of this 

 city, Lock won, killing 10 to Stark's 9. Another match was made be- 

 tween Mr. Stark and Mr. Sides for $50 each, English rules, 25 birds 

 each, to be shot at Manchester within one week. 



A pigeon match took place recently between Captain A. L. Emmerson 

 of York, Me., and C. A. Load of this city. Captain Emmerson shot at 

 sixteen bi<"ds to Load's fifteen, with the following result:— 



Loud .,111011111011 1*0*0-11 



Emmerson.. 1 1 1 1 *0 1 1 1 *0 0— 7 



Captain Emmerson, not feeling satisfied, challenged John Sides, of 

 this city, for the same amount of money, Mr. Sides shooting at seven- 

 teen to Emmerson's fifteen birds. Tbe match took place on the 30 h, 

 and was a very pretty affair, Mr. Sides putting in some very neat work. 

 The following is the score:— 



Sides 1011011111111 1_12 



Emmerson 1000001111101010 1—9 



The Portsmouth Sportsmens' Club will have their annual match on 

 Wednesday, October 6th . We expect a lively time, as about twenty five 

 members will shoot at fifteen wild birds each. Quail. 



— -^*<&» ■ ■ 



LETTER FROM MR. EDWARD HOPE. 



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NewYoek Mills, 

 Northerx Pacific Eailroad, 



Minnesota, October, 1875. 

 Editor Forest and Stream:— 



A few weeks ago I sold Riverview House, with all its beauties and its 

 comforts, and found myself foot loose, with a strong desire to go north- 

 ward, and taking the Northwestern, of the Keokuk Northern Line (Capt. 

 Davidson) made a most delightful journey to St. Paul. Let me recom- 

 mend the Northwestern and her genial captain to all good fellows who 

 have occasion to navigate the Northern Mississippi. My Scott gun and 

 Bap, the sole survivor of my old breed left in my posses-ion. and a small 

 outfit was all I took from the dear old place, and I felt as many of yonr 

 readers T trust wou'd feel, a^ the good boat passed under the bluff where 

 poor old Grouse and Sell rest peacefully. On arriving at St. Paul, on 

 Saturday, I called on my old friend General Mead, of the Northern Pa- 

 cific, and he invited me to accompany him over the road, starting Sun- 



day evening. This gave me the opportunity of meeting many m 

 of sporting proclivities and seeing several well bred setters o ei1 

 stop was at Brainerd, at which point are the general office and w * v* fir ' Sl 

 of the road, and here I was invited to go chicken shooting v i? ' 

 Hick, who makes his home there, and taking a good double rean *■■ ' 

 driver, we drove to a prairie some eight miles distant, Mr Hi?? 11 ' 

 with him a very handsome red setter bitch, whose working Wonldh 

 been perfect but for the almost universal fault (West) of runiii • ^ 

 ter the gun is fired. Of this, however, he expects to, and I belUy * 

 cure her; for he handles a dog well and shoots like a son of a gun ° p"' 

 did beautifully, though only ten months old, and over him I k"li 1 

 first sharp-tailed grouse, and a royal bird they are. I fmd that "the "^ 

 the staple bird here, the genuine prairie chicken only being occasuf X 

 met with. I killed one of the latter, however, associated" with a 

 of the former. Next morning we pushed on to Fargo, 011 tl n'^ 

 River of the North, passing over as fine a farming country ' a8 man. c I 

 desire, and from the appearance of the cattle and the favorable r t 

 that on all sides I have received of the crops, T have coucludedi 

 own mind that there is a compensating influence either in the pre t^ 

 length of the days, or larger space of sunlight during the growing se! 

 son, which makes up for the apparent disadvantage of beiaw g /' 

 north. I returned with General Mead as far as this point, which is s ** 

 rounded by a dense forest, with prairie no great distance, and for tl ! 

 reason presented, I thought, better advantage for making ray W n r 

 camp than any other part of the road. I shall go into camp about 

 twenty miles north of here, (with my partner, Sam Brewer) a loghou< 

 on Red Eye Creek, having found a good deal of bear, some moose gj 

 and deer in great quantity. Ruffed grouse are very plentiful, and Samn si 

 arrived home the other evening with five spruce partridge- at least that 

 is, 1 think, what they must be— red iris, shorter tail and darker plumage 

 than the other bird. We are, however, not well fixed in dogs for this 

 kind of sport, though Rap occasionally gets a point and we a flying shot 

 thereby. Your readers I trust will consider, should they come this war 

 that such as it is, we are at home to them, and Mr. Walker, of this place' 

 will haul them to the d en. Edward Horn ' 

 i —^.9^ . 



SUMMER WOODCOCK SHOOTING. 



* 



Portland, Me., Sept. 20th, 1875, 

 Editor Forest and Stream:— 



I am glad to see that the "feeler" I put out on the subject of Summer 

 woodcock shooting has brought out views from many sportsmen of dif- 

 ferent sections on this truly difficult question, and 1 have just read "Vet- 

 eran's" letter from Ohio with pleasure. The question is a wide one, aud 

 there is much to he said for and against Summer shooting, rforget 

 whether myself or anyone else has brought this argument to bear on this 

 question or not, but if so it will bear repeating— viz. : that admitting 

 Summer shooting ought to he abolished, is ic wise or politic to pass laws 

 to that effect 11010 ? oris it better to wait until our people have become 

 more familiarized with the wisdom and importance of all game laws, be- 

 fore increasing their stringency? Of one thing I feel certain, that while 

 Boston or New York dealers can lawfully expose woodcock for sale in 

 July, it is worse tban folly to pass laws in Maine forbidding the shooting 

 of them before October, oecause no law can be enforced with an open 

 maiket tempting poachers with high prices to evade it. Again, co-oper* 

 ation is needed between the different States, in order for the law to be 

 effective, no matter at what time the close season ends; aud I for one 

 am more satisfied, the longer I think of it, that July 4th is the best com- 

 promise for us all to agree upon. I admit that sometimes (this year, for 

 instance,) the birds here in Maine are many of them coo young to shoot, 

 and some not fledged; but on an average season such birds are rare, and 

 seldom found by the sportsman, because our young birds, bom and bred 

 as they are on a dry southern hillside, do not come into our July covers 

 of alders until their bills have grown so that they can probe for earth 

 worms, and then the owners of said bills are well worth a quick shot and 

 a gridiron, and he who finds fault with either before a breech loader or 

 a knife and fork, is neither sportsman or epicure nil ju dice. I sec that 

 "Sanez" has sent in another protest to you, bused on his own personal 

 experience. Now, perhaps I have flashed as many rock as he, but neither 

 his or my personal experience. is a safe guide to go by. He. was ont in 

 July, and his dog picked up an unfledged woodcock with no feathers on 

 it. I was out the same day from 5 A. M. until dark, and went through 

 the best range of covers I know in Cumberland county, or the Slate, 

 and did not see a young bird; «hot one old one only, yet a friend of 

 mine watched eighteen broods of cock hatch near these very cover?, 

 and some, if not all, would have struck into them as soon as they were 

 grown large enough. I could have found them on the hillsides, but 

 knew that if they were there then they were not fit to shoot. But no 

 matter; neither his experience or mine is wide enough to determine this 

 question. Let us look at the result for our section, say Cumberland 

 county, and see how much destruction has been caused by allowing close 

 time to end July 4th. How many of these unfledged, uneat- 

 able birds have been shot? 



I have been unable to hear of a single instance outside of the case that 

 "Sanez" relates in his own experience, where a woodcock has come to 

 an untimely end in this county this year. 1 have hea-d of a very few 

 unfledged birds being seen, bat of none being shot, and I am firmly con- 

 vinced that woodcock can never be exterminated here by July shooting, 

 for the reason that until they are grown and able to take care of them- 

 selves they are as difficult (if not more so) to find, and as broadly scat- 

 tered as in the moulting season. At any rate there are some thousands 

 of woodcock shot in this county each year on an average, and I Will 

 challenge "Sanez" or "any other man" to prove that twenty have been 

 shot 1 his season unfit for gun and table; and I will also guarantee to him 

 that if we were to change onr close time next year from July 4lh to Oct. 

 1st, as he advocates, there would be more woodcock shot in this county 

 before Oct. 1st than after, in spie of all the laws that might be enacted, 

 or protective clubs organized. 



Let us "make baste slowly" in this matter. First, foremost, and all 

 important is agitating and discussing this question of grme protection, 

 until all the people have become familiar with it, and do not let its iron 

 bands be bound around the innocent bands of ignorant "sboorisfcs' 1 he- 

 fore we have taught them what is their interest as well as our own. If 

 the man who killed the goose that laid him the golden egg had been 

 quietly reasoned with, I have no doubt, Mr. Editor, that goose would be 

 alive to-day (for the natural life of a goose is still an unknown quantify). 



"We are in a very similar predicament with the last-named man. Wv 

 have'nt quite killed the goose (our game and fish), but we are not quite 

 sure that she may not die of neglect and ill treatment, so we are try- 

 ing if any of her eggs will hatch so that we may keep up the breed, let 

 us go slow and sure, if possible, and if it is necessary for me to given? 

 training my young dogs in July on cock, so as to have a fortnight s 

 shooting in October, I'm willing to do it for the benefit of brother 

 sportsmen south of me, even so that the Louisiana darkey shall not w 

 disapoinled on his nightly quest with torch and pole; hut I want to see 

 the necessity first. Yours. ^ AG ' 



, — . — p ^^e*- — 



Ciiamots Stalking.— Chamois stalking has opened in 

 some of the Swiss cantons. In the Orisons it has been 

 marked by what local papers term a perfect carnage. A 

 single sportsman killed fifteen in a very few days, an 

 public opinion protests against the wholesale riestruet} 011 

 which comes from improved arms of precision, and whicj 

 threatens to exterminate the breed. Much is expected fros 

 the measures now being discussed in the Federal Chambeis 

 for the protection of mountain game.— Illustrated x c } 

 and Bramatic News. 



—The Camp Lounge advertised elsewhere has been 

 adopted by some of the crack companies of the Massaclai- 

 setts Volunteer Militia, and is highly commended bypromi 

 neat army officers. 



