FOREST AND STREAM. 



'killed by him in the course of two days' shooting at "Bill 

 Lane's," Good Ground, Long Island. We heartily thank 

 the good giver for this donation; if he doubts our sincerity 

 he should see us at dinner time! 



—A correspondent states that a few days ago at Meacham 

 Lake, N. Y M he killed a loon from a boat with his 12 bore 

 Scott gun at a distance of 15 rods. Charge 3 drachms Orange 

 powder, and. l£ oz. No. 4 shot with a few pellets of No. 2. 

 The loon was hit in five places. It is an unusual feat to 

 kill a loon with shot. 



New Hampshire— Madison, November lQth, 1875.— First 

 snow storm of the season, clearing off with five inches on 

 a level. Weather mild, and very favorable for hunting. 

 Bears are quite plenty this Fall, ranging the lower lands 

 more than usual, probably owing to the superiority of mut 

 ton and acorns over other bear provender. One has made 

 his rendezvous on Staycey Mountain, four miles below 

 Mad i -on depot, and has regaled himself on the carcasses of 

 thirty one sheep, taken in the course of the Fall. Joshua 

 N. Piper, the noted bear and deer hunter, and son, with 

 the undersigned, taking advantage of the recent snowfall, 

 went for him, but failed to capture him. He had doubt- 

 less got into Winder quarters before the snow fell. Mem- 

 bers of the craft who would like to find good sport will 

 €nd Mr. Piper on hand for a bru?h. The route is from 

 Boston to West Ossipee, via Eastern, Great Falls and Con- 

 way road; five hours ride; stage conveyance irom West 

 Ossipee to Chocorn in about one hour and a half; time 

 enough left the same day to go out and knock over a brace 

 of partridges just back of the house. Charles Coon. 



Wisconsin— Montello, November 15th, 1875. — The season's 

 shooting is fast drawing to a close in our northern districts, 

 d-rouse shooting is practically over. Mallards are far from 

 plenty, but a fair amount of canvas backs. Myriads of 

 •scaup ducks (*". e., blue or broad bills, In local vernacular) 

 -suffice to make the sport quite fine. The latter species 

 have two regular flights daily — one at daylight from Puck- 

 &way Lake, six miles eastward of this village to Buffalo 

 Lake, one hundred rods west of this place, where they 

 remain until the shades of evening are approaching, when 

 they fly with the same regularity back to Puckaway. In 

 these nights the ducks pass directly over the village and 

 ;afford sport to numerous gunners for about half an hour 

 .each evening Deer are reported plenty in Northern Wis- 

 consin, and bears more numerous than for years previous, 

 giving promise of sport at the first fall of snow. Fred. 



Pennsylvania— Harrisburg, November 15th, 1875. — The 

 ishooting season has been fully inaugurated in this section 

 •of Pennsylvania. Quail, or partridge, as our people insist 

 upon calling them, have been tolerably plenty this season, 

 but are so no longer, as many have fallen victims to the 

 aim ot our practiced Nimrods. Recently a colored man 

 named Wilson Hopkins, in the employ of Harry McCor- 

 mick, one of our most respected and wealthy iron manu- 

 facturers, left for a week's shooting in Adams county, south 

 of Gettysburg. He returned at the end of a week, having 

 in his possession 246 birds, several woodcock, and a brace 

 or two of ruffed grouse. The colored amateur sport insists 

 that he shot the game, assisted by his brother, but report 

 says he used greenback gun wads to some extent. Wood- 

 cock are remarkably scarce in this locality. My friend, 

 Mr. C A. Roumfort, who owns several fine pointers, was 

 out the oi her afternoon in the favorite resort of the "tim- 

 ber toodle," Wetzel's Swamp, where years before it was 

 not unusual for Mr. R to bag from ten to a dozen wood- 

 cock, but he only "raised" one and five jack snipe during 

 the afternoon. A few wild turkeys have been brought in 

 from the mountains, but the birds are far from being fat. 



Pinckney. 



Canada.— Cornwall, Nov. 6.— Duck shooting on the St. 

 Lawrence is said to be excellent in this neighborhood. Two 

 gentlemen of Ogdensburg killed 150 ducks and three geese 

 a few days since. Snipe and plover are also abundant. 



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PIGEON MATCHES. 



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— Arrangements have been completed for a pigeon match 

 for $6,000 between Mr. B. DeForrest, of this city, and Mr. 

 A. V. Grubb, of . Philadelphia. The conditions of the 

 match are for each to shoot at 100 single birds, thirty-five 

 yards rise, 100 yards boundary, with one and a half ounce 

 of shot, from five traps placed five yards apart, English 

 rules, for $3,000 a side. The match is to take place at the 

 Pimlico Track, Baltimore, on the 30th. Mr. Grubb is a 

 gentleman amateur of Philadelphia, and figured in several 

 handicaps last July and August at Newport, R. I. Mr. B. 

 DeForrest is a noted shot, and has participated in several 

 matches. He is a member of the Long Island Gun Club, 

 and well known in Wall street. The gentlemen are quite 

 evenly matched. ^ 



Poktsxuouth, N. H., November 9th, 1875. 

 Editor Forest and Stream:— 



A pigeon match was shot to-day for the Eldridge champion medal, 

 between Mr. O. Stimpson, the present champion, and Charles A. Loud, 

 of this city. The match was at fifteen birds each, under the Eldridge 

 medal rules. The Bhooting was considered good on both sides, as will 

 be seen by the score:— 



Loud 1 1 1 1 *0 1 1 1 ! 1 1 1 *0 1—12 



Stiuipson 1100 011111111 1 1-12 



Each man killing 12 birds making a tie; there being no birds on hand, 

 it wa-j decided to shoot off on Friday, November 12th, which resulted in 

 a victory for Mr. Loud, he killing all three birds to Slimpson's two. Mr. 

 Srimpson is one of the best shots in the State, and has proven himself 

 so by winning the medal and retaining it four successive times. 



QrjAli,. 



♦ 



Titustille, Pa., November 9th, 1875. 

 Editor Forest and Stream:— 



The Titusviile Association and Sportsmen's Club shot a prize pigeon 

 match yesterday, aud'as the score was not up to the standard I will not 

 send it to yon. The prize was presented by C. W. Isham, Esq., and 

 consisted of a silver cup fifteen inches in height, the bowl five inches in 

 diameter, lined with gold, and surmounted by a bas relief of frosted 

 work finely engraved. The shooting was not good, to the surprise of 

 everyone, owing probably to the weight of the cup resting upon their 

 shoulders, together with the large pool improvised on the occasion. This, 

 you know, is apt to unnerve the young experimentalise at the trap, and 

 will account in a great measure for the low scores. 



In a contest with the Erie Club, at Erie, on the 8th of October, they 

 did far better, making 78 out of 100, which is not bad. Mr. Henry Har- 

 ley, well known in New York, won the prize. This club is not regularly 

 organized, but is in a fair way to be so. They begin to be awake to the 

 true interest of sportsmen in the protection of game and fish,^ through 

 the teachings and admonition of your valuable paper, which is highly 

 appreciated here, as everywhere else. B- 



[All very well, and we hail "with pleasure the formation , 



of every new sportsman's club, but how is the protection 

 of game to be assisted by trap shooting? On the contrary, 

 we fear that the ostensible objects of association are for- 

 gotten in the momentary excitement of the match, and 

 protection relegated to that "sweet by and by," to join other 

 good intentions in assisting to form the pavement of a spot 

 prepared, we trust, for poachers and law-breakers. — Ed.] 



SHOOTING ON CAPE COD. 



Boston, Mass., October 28th, 1875. 

 Editor Porkst and Stream.:— 



My finsers burn with indignation, for if I can trust my eyes, your 

 New Hampshire correspondent, ''Quail," boasts in his letter of October 

 17th of having killed thirty -five quail at Eastham, on Thursday, Septem- 

 ber 30th and Friday, October 1st. Now, as our Massachusetts la,v makes 

 a close season for qnail until October 15th, will the gentleman please 

 "rise and explain" how it happened that he, an "outside barbarian," 

 came to be in my native State shooting his patronymics out of season, 

 and in direct violation of the laws of the State. As Artemus Ward says, 

 '•This is too much." 



I sincerely hope that if "Quail" is ever guilty of the like again that 

 his discretion will bear a more reasonable proportion to his wickedness, 

 and at least restrain him from a parade of his crime, by publishing it in 

 the leading sporting journal of the country, before the eyes of more 

 scrupulous sportsmen who regard the laws. As it is, he is convicted 

 on his own testimony, and stands indebted to the Old Bay State for 

 thirty -five quail at $25 apiece— Ohe! jam satis. 



The fatuity of allowing quail to be killed, even as early as October 15th, 

 is finely illustrated this season hereabouts, in the fact that about fifty per 

 cent, of the birds compare favorably in size with a good plump English 

 sparrow. I hear the poulterers give 12\ cents apiece for them, so that a 

 very able-bodied man might possibly earn in a day the astounding sum 

 of one dollar and twenty-five cents! if he was active and persevering. 



Under Grip. 



[We sympathize with our correspondent in his indigna- 

 tion. If there is one thing worse than a violation of the 

 law in one's own State, it is going into a neighbor's and 

 slaughtering his birds.— Ed.] 



CHOKE BORES. 



SPORT IN LOUISIANA. 



Baton Rouge, La., October 28th, 1875. 

 Editor Forest and Stream.:— 



The line of railroad (Baton Rouge,Grosse Tete and Opelou<?as) of which 

 I was secretary, rnnB from the Mississippi River, in the parish of West 

 Baton Rouge, to Livonia, in the parish of Point Coupee, twenty-eight 

 miles, and from tbence is graded twelve miles to the Atchaf ulaya River. 

 The country is level, and where not reclaimed, is swamp and dense cane- 

 brake, abounding in deer, bear, wild turkey, etc. It is subject to over- 

 flow from the Mississippi, in case of breaks in the levees. Bayous Grosse 

 Tete, Foxdoche, and smaller streams run through the country, and at 

 low water afford good fishing for trout, perch, white cat, etc. The 

 trains run twice a week now from Allen Station, about a mile above the 

 town of Baton Rouge, and make connection with a steam ferryboat to 

 the town. The accommodations on the line of the railroad are poor, 

 there bema: little or no travel beyond the actual settlers. The country 

 on this side (east) of the Mississippi is high and rolling; the streams, of 

 which the principal are the Amite and Comite Rivera, are clear and af- 

 ford excellent sport fishing for trout, various kinds of perch, white cat, 

 etc. The wood* abound in squirrels, wild tu-keys, rabbits, and deer; 

 the fie'ds with quail, doves, larks, etc., and in Winter, snipe, ducks, 

 woodcock, robins, wild pigeons, etc. Transportation is abundant and 

 very cheap. Parties who go with the intention of camping generally 

 send the conveyances back, to return for them at a specified time. A 

 carryall with seats for fifteen persons, four horses and driver can be had 

 for il2 per day. Board, $1.50 to $2 per day; by the month, $30 and $^5. 

 Very respectfully, Geo. Henderson. 



Making Game of a Sportsman.— During the recent 

 political canvas in this State, a gentleman well known in 

 literary and scientific circles was nominated for State Sena- 

 tor. He had never figured as a politician, and therefore 

 bore an unblemished character. Indeed, he might be con- 

 sidered "an Israelite in whom there was no guile." So 

 invulnerable to ordinary slings and shafts of the enemy 

 was his armor, that the opposition essayed to damage his 

 chances of election by twitting upon the fact he was a 

 sportsman. Just as if a thoroughbred sportsman ever 

 could be a successful politician! Whereupon, a fellow 

 sportsman and friend of the persecuted and non-combative 

 candidate took up the cudgel in his defence in this wise, 

 through one of the local papers:— 



"The joke-makers have been trying to excite prejudice 

 against our nominee for Senator on the ground that he 

 takes his recreation by following field sports. Well, it is 

 fortunate that they can say nothing worse about the gentle- 

 man, and indeed it is not a very serious offense to take a 

 day's shooting once in a while. A certain George Wash- 

 ington was an ardent sportsman, and I believe he made a 

 respectable figure in other capacities. One Daniel Webster 

 loved to bag the wild ducks and snipe around Marshfield. 

 He even bred famous breeds of setters, but he was none the 

 less able to crush to powder the sophistries of Hay ne. 

 But there may be some who regard familiarity with fire- 

 arms as an evidence of unspeakable turpitude. To such, 

 I would say that although Mr. T. can handle a gun with 

 skill he never gets cocked; he is opposed to overloading the 

 people with taxes; he has snap in him, he is a man of 

 action- he would lock up thieves; he does not break off 

 with his friends because they are not rich ; his private 

 character is not checkered; he is not the butt of his asso- 

 ciates- he is a man the people can "take stock in; he would 

 not muzzle the press; he can safely be put on guard; he is 

 not a political tumbler; the mainspring of his life is not per- 

 sonal <*ain- he is not a bore, but a man of calibre, and I'll 

 en-aaae'yvmhe a good official ; he would not rifle the sav- 

 ings of the poor or the State treasury. Can 's barrel or- 



e:an say as much for him, or dare they deny that he is a 

 mere "Hash in the pan," a blank cartridge, a squib; who 

 opened fire on worthy public officers to make them "shell 

 out " but did not have the courage to push home his 

 charges. Let them, if they can, prove that — is not 

 what Jefferson called Aaron Burr, mz: "A crooked gun 

 whose aim you can not be sure or, ana then we shall hold 

 him in a little less contempt" • 



But all would not do. Although T. run far ahead of his 

 ticket, he was caught in the reflux of the "tidal wave," 

 and his political hopes rendered for the time **- 

 moist." 



'demnition 



AS anything relating to the merits of the new system of 

 boring guns must be of interest to our readers we 

 copy the following from the Illustrated Sporting and Dra- 

 matic News. The system alluded to in the first paragraph 

 was what was known here as the "Roper." Other Ameri- 

 can makers claim to have bored guns on the present so 

 called new plan, many years since. The competition for 

 the cup to be presented by our English contemporary to 

 the gun making the "best pattern" for general shootino- 

 would afford our makers an excellent opportunity for try- 

 ing their guns against those made across the water:— 



"In previous numbers we pointed out that the origina- 

 tor of the "choke bore" system in America only intended 

 the part of the barrel that was "choked" to screw on the 

 barrels of guns of the ordinary length when used for shoot- 

 ing wild fowl at long ranges. For other sport the guna 

 were used with the barrels in their normal state, and with- 

 out the "choke part," which was a piece of barrel six in- 

 ches in length. Our contemporary, the Field, says Mr, 

 Pape, of Newcastle, invented this— the choke bore system! 

 We challenge our contemporary or Mr. Pape to prove his 

 claim to it. About eighteen months before the Field gun 

 trial, Mr. Dougal, gunraaker, of St. James street, told us 

 that he was trying to develop a system of boring— Ameri- 

 can — which would revolutionise the boring of the present 

 day. This was the "choke bore" system. Mr. Dougal 

 was the first gun maker — in London, at any rate — who to 

 our knowledge knew anything about the matter. Shortly 

 before the Field gun trial we happened to be at Nunhead 

 shooting grounds seeing a "choke bored" gun shot by an- 

 other maker. Having finished the shooting, we strolled 

 over to another target, where some one was shooting with 

 double barrelled guns; the "pattern," shot after shot, 

 averaged from 190 to over 200 pellets on a 20-inch circle at 

 forty yards. We found upon inquiry that this was Mr. 

 Dougal's son trying guns. We afterwards found that these 

 guns were bored on what is know as the "modified" choke 

 bore system. Mr. Dougal, like a sensible man, had found 

 out where the "choke bore," pure and simple, was a fail- 

 ure — i, e., "balled" or "clubbed" the shot on the target, 

 and he developed the system into the "modified" choke 

 bore. And the natural conclusion we come to is, that he 

 had been at work upon it since he had mentioned to us 

 eighteen months before that "he was developing a new 

 system of boring." Not one word did anyone hear during 

 this period about Mr, Pape or Mr. Greener being acquaint- 

 ed with "choke boring," or "modified choke boring." It 

 will be seen, too, upon reference to the back numbers of 

 the Field, that that paper was as ignorant of the existence 

 of any such system, as it usually is about improvements in 

 gunnery. So much for the Field, Mr. Greener (so called 

 inventor of the system), and Mr. Pape (also credited with 

 its invention). The pure choke bore was never intended for 

 general shooting. It is almost useless in the hands of a 

 man accustomed to use a ''wide-patterned" gun on the old 

 system. 



The following letter, which has appeared in a recent is- 

 sue of the Field, best explains the situation, pro and con, 

 as regards choke bored guns:— 



Balgbeggan, Stranraer, Oct. 4th, 1875. 



Sib- Again in this last week's Field there is no account from the pub- 

 lic of he performance of their choke bores on game. Allow me to state 

 my opinion of the merits of the choke bore as a gun for ordinary ehoot- 

 mv. I in common with many of your subscribers, had a pair of N<>. 12 

 ch7)ke bore barrels tltttd on to the stock of an ordinary gun. On taking 

 the choke barrels out snooting the increase in weight was at once felt. 

 My barrt-l* by Lansc weigtt 1 lb. more than oidinary barn-Is. Then the 

 new choke barrels are longer, and the 1 lb. not bems; distributed o^er 

 the barrels, bur. mainly at the muzzle, makes the sun top heavy— a latal 

 stumbling block to brilliant xhootim*. I do not find in the field that ex- 

 tra killimr power at long ranges that one expected. I find my choke 

 barrels cause me to miss many snap and cramoed shots— many shots at 

 snipe. I should be very sorry to tee the ordinary game shot come into 

 my turnips, with a choke bore. I know how it ^onld be-one shot 

 at fifteen yards, and the next at eighty. F->r grouse when wild I should 

 conskter toe mw boring as a most decided improvement, or for any 

 powerful. steadv-ny ing bird, as ducks or black ^.ame. To show how lit- 

 tle my humble self cares for the new toy, 1 am asking one third ot me 

 price I gave for the choke barrels. Sckutatob. 



Writers in the Sporting Gazette and Land and Water echo 

 the opinions expressed by "Scrutator." So that the ignor- 

 ance of the Meld newspaper as to the failure of the pure 

 "choke bore" system in America, seven years ago, has led 

 that paper to recommend it to the British public, and a too 

 credulous British public have thrown their money away 

 over "choke bores." Next year we shall offer a handsome 

 and valuable silver plate (similar to the one hundred guinea 

 cup given by this paper to be competed for by the Irish 

 and American riflemen at Dublin) which will become the 

 property of any gunmaker possessing a gun able to make 

 the "best pattern" for general shooting. Gunmakers also may 

 be assured that the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic Hem 

 will not ask the competitors to put their hands in their 

 pockets to defray the expense of making the targets. 



The Growth op American Cheese Production. —A 

 writer in Harper's Magazine gives some very interesting and 

 curious facts in relation to the astonishing growth of Am- 

 erican cheese production. In 1850 the aggregate value of 

 the butter and cheese exported from this country amounted 

 to only $334,000. About this time a farmer in Oneida 

 county, New York, named Jesse Williams, originated the 

 cheese factory system, and his success was so great that 

 farmers in other sections of the State began to follow his 

 example. The system has developed so rapidly that there 

 are now 500 cheese factories in New York alone, and m the 

 entire country about ten times that number. As a result, 

 the exports of cheese in 1861 amounted to $3,334,631, ana 

 continued to increase until in 1874 they reached $12, 000,uuu 

 and for 1875 the figures will be larger still. In 1874 tn 

 exports of cheese from the port of New York amounted to 

 96,834,691 pounds, and Canada in the same year exP 01te " 

 20 000,000 pounds. The principal cheese-producing btate 

 are New York, Ohio, Vermont, Illinois, and Massachusetts. 

 Cheese is a very nutritious article of food, and the D 

 substitute for meat. The scarcity of meat in Europe ana 

 other European countries has led the laboring classe » w 

 adopt cheese as a substitute, and to this fact is lar S el ' V .^ 

 the increased demand for the product of our American 

 cheese factories, 



