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FOREST AND STREAM. 



"Knowing the stand which your journal has alwavs 

 taken for the preservation of game and fish in this coun- 

 try, I venture to suggest a w T ay in which the extermination 

 of -trout, surely foreshadowed in this wilderness, might be 

 avoided, and that is, by the appointment of fish wardens 

 at a stated salary, without any interest in the fines collect- 

 ed, the whole of which should go to the State. Plenty of 

 young men can be found to do the woik at a very moder- 

 ate salary. Being, then, officers of the law, simply doing 

 their duty, without any interest in the money received from 

 fines, they would be secure from violence. To attack an 

 officer, backed by the majesty of the State law, is quite a 

 different thing from assaulting a neighbor for informing 

 against you, and taking money extorted from you by a 

 fine. It is proper to state that this wholesale netting of 

 trout is caused by the demand to supply the hotel tables in 

 Saratoga, and accordingly, as one recedes from that great 

 resort of fashionable folly into the northern portion of the 

 wilderness, the practice nearly ceases, and fishing is conse- 

 quently much better. Still, the headwaters and tributaries 

 of Moose river, in the wildest and least frequented part of 

 the Adirondacks, have been persistently raked through 

 this whole season b} 7 parties who remained on the ground, 

 an agent going in each week to carry in provisions and 

 bring out the fish. 



"This article is already much too long, but I cannot 

 close without referring to the absurd law which opens the 

 season for grouse shooting on August 1st. It causes al- 

 most a feeling of horror in the breast of any true sports- 

 man to see the slaughter of the tiny, half-fledged birds, 

 many of them scarcely able to fly high enough to alight 

 beyond the reach of the dog. When the mother of the 

 brood is sacrificed they convert her into a 'chicken part- 

 ridge' by simply pulling out her tail feathers. This 

 practice also is carried on to furnish 'game suppers' to the 

 pleasure seekers of Saratoga, 'chicken partridges' being 

 their greatest delicacy." Penobscot. 



Indian Lake, N. Y.. Sept. Qth. 



Game Laws of Canada— Province of Ontario.— Moose, 

 reindeer or caribou, deer, and elk may be killed from the 1st 

 day of September to the 1st day of December. Wild tur- 

 keys, grouse, pheasants, or partridges, from the 1st day of 

 September to the 1st day of January. Quail from the 1st 

 day of October to the 1st day of January. Woodcock 

 from the 1st day of July to the 1st day of January. Snipe 

 from the 15th of August to the 1st of May. Water fowl, 

 w T hich are known as mallard, gray duck, black duck, wood 

 or summer duck, and all the kinds of duck known as teal, 

 from the 15th of August to the 1st of January. Hares 

 and rabbits from the 1st of September to the 1st of March. 

 No person shall have in his possession any of the said ani- 

 mals or birds during the periods in which they are so pro- 

 tected; provided they may be exposed for sale for one 

 mOntli and no longer after such periods, and may be had 

 in possession for the private use of the owner and his fam- 

 ily at any time; but in all cases the time of killing or tak- 

 ing shall be upon the party of possession. It is enacted 

 that no beaver, muskrat, mink, marten, raccoon, otter, or 

 fish shall be hunted, taken, or killed, or had in possession 

 of any person between the 1st day of May and the 1st day 

 of November. The penalties attaching for transgression 

 of this law are as follows: — In case of deer, elk, moose, 

 or reindeer or cariboo $50, and not less than ,$10. In case 

 of birds or eggs, $25, and not less than $5. In case of 

 fur-bearing animals, $25, and not less than $5. 



Tennesssee. — A correspondent sends us the following 

 letter descriptive of the working of the new game laws of 

 Tennessee. The trespass sections appear to be as strong 

 as those of the Ohio laws, but we believe that much might 

 be left to the good sense and discretion of the farmers. 

 They are certainly able, at least the majority of them, to 

 discriminate between the pot-hunter and the gentleman 

 sportsman, although we reluctantly admit that there are 

 those upon whom any amount of "moral suasion" would 

 be lost. 



Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 20th. 

 Editor Fobest and Stream:— 



Five days ago the limit fixed by the law for the preservation of eatne 

 expired. The act, which was passed by the Gt-neral Assembly on the 

 23d day of March, 1875, and approved on the following day by Gov. 

 James D. Porter has been productive of much good. The excellent 

 results of a general observance of its* provisions are demonstrated more 

 and more every day in the increased quantity of game over that of two 

 years ago, and finer sport than ever. The law provided that no person 

 should hunt, kill, or capture deer in the counties of Dyer, Davidson, 

 Giles, Henry, Bedford, Maury, Madison, Hamilton and Wilson between 

 the first day of March and the first day of September in each year. No 

 one was allowed to hunt grouse, quail, pheasants, larks, partridges, 

 snipe, woodcock, or wild turkeys, or any bird of song, such as the spar- 

 row, blue-bird, yellow-hammer, or woodpecKer, from the first of May 

 nnt'l the 15th of September. The fine imposed upon any person con- 

 victed of having violated the law is $10 for each deer killed, $5 for 

 every turkey, and $2 50 for any of the birds mentioned. Another law 

 expressly provides that any sportsman found hunting on an inclosed 

 tract of land without having first obtained permission from the owner to 

 do so. is liable to arrest and punishment for trespass. This act is re- 

 garded with great disfavor by the devotees of field sports, who think 

 that as this is a free country any gentleman does not need to gain the 

 consent of the owner of a field to pursue his sport therein, provided he 

 behaves himself as every true owner of a dog and gun should. Of 

 course there are two sides to every question, and 1 am willing to admit 

 that the land owners have much reason to complain cf the conduct of 

 persons who neither manifest a proper regard for the rights of farmers 

 concerning the prevention of hunting on their premises, or the true dig- 

 nity wnich every gentleman should possess, and which should impel 

 him to retire from afield when requested to do so. Admitting all this, 

 however, I am of the opinion that the Legislature overstepped their 

 bounds when framing this ridiculous law. Fern. 



West Meriden, Conn., Sept. 22d. 

 Editor Forest and Stream:— 



It was with great pleasure and profit that I read in the columns of 

 Forest and Stream the able address of President J. V. LeMoyne to 

 the National Sportsmen's Convention held at Chicago, and 1 was deeply 

 impressed with its wise and practical suggestions. In the course of his 

 remarks Mr. LeMoyne said: "Our first great object is to arouse suffi- 

 cient interest in game protection to make proper legislation possible." 

 Now this is exactly true, for outside of the readers of papers devoted to 

 game preservation and our sportsmen generally, there is a large majority 

 of our citizens who understand but very little about our aims and pur- 

 poses, and who interest themselves still less about the matter. This I 

 kno -v to be true in the State of Connecticut, and as far as I can learn it 

 is about the same in other States. As it is a well known fact that 

 the masses have been educated and taught to appreciate other matters of 

 public benefit, why cannoi, the game associations undertake to enlighten 

 the people on the importance of just and proper laws to protect our 

 birds and fish from wanton destruction? I sincerely believe it can be 



done if the sportsmen will devote a little time and money to the cause, 

 for it is most certainly a worthy one, and furthermore it is a necessary 

 undertaking, if we wish to preserve the game of America from total an* 

 nihilation. 



Now I would like to suggest to the various game associations a plan 

 (which I believe is worth a trial) to bring about the desired result. What 

 I propose is this: That the iocal game clubs hold one or more public 

 meetings this fall in some suitable hall, and engage a lecturer— one who 

 is well qualified to present the question to an audience, and who can 

 make his listeners understand its importance to the community at large. 

 The club should issue invitations free (or as cheap as possible) to the 

 farmers, the clergy, their representatives to the Legislature, and the cit- 

 izens generally, and I believe if this is done, and the question of pro- 

 tection, etc., be discussed in an intelligent manner, the opposition or 

 indifference to game protection, which arises, I believe, more from a 

 lack of information than any other cause, would soon disappear, and I 

 have no doubt but that we would soou have the support of a large class 

 of our citizens, and having gained that we may be sure that our law- 

 makers will pay more attention to our just and proper demands. Now, 

 the expense of having such a lecture need not be very large, in fact I do 

 not think that the hire of hall, expense of lecturer and printing need ex- 

 ceed the cost, of a club pigeon shoot, and I am sore that none will con- 

 tradict me wheu i claim that it would be laying out money for a more 

 worthy object. I throw out this idea trusting and believing that, if tried, 

 it may prove of some good to the cause. Von G. 



Litchfield Co., Conn., Sept. 25th. 

 Editor Forest and Stream:— 



I am glad to see that you are calling in question the supposed advan- 

 tages of modern improvements in sporting implements and their relation 

 to the threatened extermination of all game. I think it is quite true 

 that sport diminishes as the certainty of killing your game increases. If 

 this were not so a seven-shooter Colt revolver with laminated steel 

 barrel, or a portable Galling gun, or mitrilleuse, would be the perfection 

 of a sportsman's outfit. Even with a first-class breech-loader a shooter 

 snugly stowed away in his eneak-boat or blind, and sending cartridge 

 afier catridge into a flock of demoralized coots, is about as near 

 slaughter work as anything but a pot shooter or poultry dealer would 

 care to be engaged in. What true angler would care to go to a trout 

 preserve (Caledonia, for instance), where some thousands of tame trout 

 are ready to spring at anything that looks alive, and with stout tackle 

 jerk out 20 or 30 pounds of 10-inch trout, when he could spend his morn- 

 ing in landing a brace or two of wild ones that could only be lured by 

 the tightest tackle, and only landed by the most consummate skill of 

 the most practiced hand? For this reason night lines and net sand 

 trawls are relegated to the pot fishers, and no true angler will give them 

 a moment's countenance; and for the same reason battue and drive are 

 driven out of sii<hc by all lovers of genuine sport. The fact is that the 

 less machinery a man puts between himself and the game he pursues, the 

 better for the man, and the fewer tools he cumbers himself withal, be 

 they landing nets, gaff -hooks, cartridge-belts, or breech-loader jimcracks, 

 the better for the sport. It is even doubtful if the railroad, with its din, 

 dust, cinders and "whew" is such an improvement over the social old 

 stage coach, as yonng folks are trying to believe. The Delancy Kane 

 idea is bound to go ahead, and shanks mare is yet a good steed, with 

 dog and gun for a driver. As to the game, we must give it a chance, or 

 lose sight of it in its old haunts forever; for with the increase of sports- 

 men and crack sholB and set days (legal) for turning dog and gun loose 

 to kill everything at Bight, it will take more "protection" than the laws 

 can give to prevent its utter annihilation, and it is a mere question of 

 time as Lo how soon. Muzzle-Loader. 



Louisville, Ky., September 26th, 1ST6. 

 Editor Forest and Stream:— 



We organized on the 22d inst., with a large membership, the Louis- 

 ville Hunting and Game Protective Club, and the following officers were 

 elected for the ensuing year: President, L. W. Noel; Vice-President, 

 Thos. S. Randal; Secretary, J. L. Booker; Treasurer, Will H. Stanley. 

 The members have determined to have our present game law strictly en- 

 forced, as we are badly afflicted with the miserable pot-hunter and close 

 season dealer; so hereafter they had better beware. On Watch. 



The. Forest and Stream teaches all liow to lest enjoy the 

 good things that Nature has given, and thus makes life happy 

 and prolongs it. Good reader, let your friend subscribe for it 

 and prolong his life. 



College Necrology.— The record of Tale graduates 

 who died during the year ending in June last" (36 pp., 8vo), 

 comprised 66 names, representing a majority of the classes 

 between 1808 and 1875, and including 16 clergymen, 14 

 lawyers, 10 physicians, 6 teachers, and 8 business men. 

 The average age at death was 55^ years, and the deaths 

 occurred in 18 different States, New York standing at the 

 head of the list. Among the more distinguished names 

 were those of Rev. Dr. William B. Sprague, of '14; Rev. 

 Dr. Horace Bushnell, of '27; Judge Lewis B. Woodruff, 

 of '30; and Senator Orris S. Ferry, of '44. The similar 

 necrological record of Williams graduates, prepared by 

 Dr. Calvin Durfee, comprised 37 names, representing almost 

 as many classes between 1802 and 1872. Among the 

 names were those of Judge Jesse O. Norton, of Chicago, 

 class of '35, and Judge John Wells, of Boston, class of '38. 

 The deaths took place in 16 different States or countries, 

 and the average age at death was about 50£ years. Am- 

 herst, during the last academic year, lost 22 graduates, half 

 of them clergymen, representing classes from 1824 to 1867, 

 and averaging 58 years in age; Brown lost 27, averaging 

 68 years of age; and Colby lost 6, whose average age was 

 52 years. The number of deaths of college graduates 

 reported since commencement time is quite extensive. Dr. 

 John Jeffries, of Harvard '15, died in Boston about the 

 middle of July, aged 81. He was a son of the tory, Dr. 

 John Jeffries (Harvard, 1763), and he some years ago re- 

 signed active practice to his son. Dr. Benjamin J. Jeffries, 

 Harvard '54, so that the family has been represented in 

 the piofession of the same city for upwards of a century. 

 Dr. Waiter Channing, who practiced in Boston for more 

 than 50 years, and was for a long time proiessor in the 

 Harvard Medical School, died in Brookline, July 27th, 

 aged 90. A college rebellion in 1807 put an end to his 

 career as a Harvard undergraduate (class of 1808), as well 

 as to that of his brother, Edward Channing, and his cousin, 

 Richard H. Dana. Dr. C. was the father ; in-law of Col. T. 

 W. Higginson, Harvard '41. Another old citizen of Brook- 

 line, Col. William Aspinwall, died there the second 

 week in August, aged 90. He lost an arm in the war of 

 1812, and was rewarded by the consulship at London 

 which he held for 40 years. His son, of the same name 

 graduated in '38, and is well known in Boston as a lawyer 

 and Democratic politician. Octavus W, Weeks^ of Harv- 



ard '76, a resident of this city, aged 22, was killed on th 

 South Side Railroad, July 15th, while alighting from the 

 train at Manor Station, L. I. ; and on the following week L 

 H. Cheney, of Cape Girardeau, Mo., one of four students hi 

 the Harvard summer school of geology, who were buried by 

 falling earth in an Indian mounds they were exploring near 

 Cumberland Gap, Tenn., was killed, the other beine 

 rescued. Rev. Edward P. Smith, of Yale '49, died on 

 board the steamship Ambrig, near the island of Fernando 

 Po, Gulf of Guinea, June 15th, aged 50. Early in'thi 

 war he became field agent of the Christian Commission- 

 afterwards established negro schools and colleges in the 

 South; was appointed Indian Commissioner in 1873, and 

 President of Howard University in 1875, which position he 

 held at the time of his death. Allen T. Caperton, of Yale 

 '32, Senator from Western Virginia, died at Washington 

 in July; and on the 23d of that month, Frost Thome, a 

 Yale non-graduate of '71, was drowned by the capsizing of 

 the yacht Mohawk, oft* Staten Island. Charles C. Chat- 

 field, of Yale '6Q, book and periodical publisher, died at 

 New Haven, August 23d. At the same date died Rev 

 Chauncey H. Hubbard, of Yale '42, for many years pastor 

 of the Congregational Church at Bennington, Vt. William 

 McCracken Lathrop, of Yale '25, President of the Com- 

 monwealth Insurance Company, died at Hamilton, Mass., 

 August 24th, aged 09; and Henry Clay Easton, of Yale '76* 

 died at Covington, Ky., at about the same time Dr. Elijah 

 Stratton, a Dartmouth graduate, died at North field, 8 Mass. 

 his native town, the second week in July, aged 65. Rev! 

 Dr. J. C. Bodwell, of Dartmouth '33, died July 17th, at 

 South West Harbor, Mount Desert, aged 64. He was 

 pastor at various towns in England from 1836 to 1850, and 

 Professor in Hartford Theological Seminary, 1866 to 1873. 

 Jonas Cutting, of Dartmouth '23, for 21 years Associate 

 Justice of the Marine Supreme Court, died at Bangor, Au- 

 gust 19th, aged 76. Albert P. Sanborn, of Dartmouth '77, 

 died at Lake Village, N. H., August 26fch, aged 21. Rev! 

 Jonathan McGee, a Williams graduate, for many years 

 pastor of the Congregational Church at Nashua, N. H., 

 died August 3d, aged 87. Samuel P. Benson, of Bowdoin 

 '25, ex-Congressman of the Kenebec District, died at Yar- 

 mouth, Me., August 12th; and at about the same date, 

 a Rutgers graduate, Rev. William A. Cornell, com- 

 mitted suicide, near Poughkeepsie, by hanging himself to 

 a tree. Rev. Chailes S. Moore, of Amherst '72, died at 

 Brookfield, Mass., August 29ih. Henry. S. Randall, of 

 Union '30, ex-Secretary of State of New York, died at 

 Cortland Village, August 14' h, aged 65. Rev. Nathaniel 

 M. Wood, recently Professor in Shurtleff College, 111., 

 died at Camden, Me., August 2d. Rev. Dr. William 

 Hooper, President of the Baptist Female Seminary at 

 Murfreesboro, and formerly connected with the Universities 

 of North and South Carolina, died at Chapel Hill, N. C, 

 August 19th, aged 80. 



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FISH IN SEASON IN OCTOBER. 



Black Bass, Micropterus salmoides ; Weakfish. Cynoscionregalis. 



M. nigricans. , Blnefish, Pomatomm saltatrix. 



Mascalonge, Esox nobilior. Spanish Mackerel, Cybium macula- 



Pike or Pickerel, Esox Incites. turn. 



Yellow Perch, lerca Jlavescens. Cero, Cybium regale. 



Sea Bass, Scicenops ocellatus. Bonito, Sarda pelmnys. 



Striped Bass, Itoccus lineaius. Kingnsh, Meuticirrus nebulosus. 

 White Perch, Mot one americana. 



For list of seasonable trout flies for October see our issue of July 27th. 



Fish in Market. —Fish appear from our quotations to 

 be even scarcer than they were last week: — Striped bass are 

 worth 30 cents per pound; smelts, 35 cents; bluefish, 12£ 

 cents; salmon, (frozen), 50 cents; mackerel, 15 to 25 cents 

 each; weakfish, 15 cents per pound; white perch, 15 cents; 

 Spanish mackerel, 75 cents; green turtle, 16 cents; terrapin, 

 $12 per dozen; halibut, 18 cents per pound; haddock, 10 

 cents; kingfish, 25 cents; codfish, 10 cents; pollock, 8 

 cents; blackfish, 15 cents; flounders 12| cents; porgies, 15 

 cents; sea bass, 20 cents; eels, 18 cents; lobsters, 10 cents; 

 sheepshead, 20 cents; scollops, $1.50 per gallon; soft clams, 

 40 to 60 cents per hundred; whitefish, 20 cents per pound; 

 pickerel, 18 cents; salmon trout, 18 cents; black bass, 18 

 cents; hardshell crabs, $3.50 per 100; soft do., $1.50 per 

 dozen. 



Beautiful Trout Painting.— We saw last week, at the 

 Cashier's office of the Erie Railway in this city, a very 

 meritorious canvas from the easel of Mr. Augustus Rock- 

 well, painted for Treasurer A. P. Sherman, and which is 

 destined to grace his beautiful home at Allandale. It is I8x 

 36 inches in size, and represents a dozen or so well-favored 

 trout, naturally grouped upon a bed of exquisite f ems. 

 To say that the picture will bear the criticism of old ang- 

 lers and connoisseurs in painting might be considered suf- 

 ficient praise by the artist or the casual observer; but we 

 cannot refrain from adding an expression of approval of 

 the literal way in which the brush has stuck to the text. 

 It is to be assumed that in paintings of this character the 

 closest imitation of nature is desired. We want to see the 

 fish as they are, carnally; not invested with the romance 

 that enthusiasts surround them. We desire the dish served 

 au naturel, with flavor undisguised by garnishes, condi- 

 ments and sauces. 



In the class of average fish-pictures we find some stereoty- 

 ped forms; as for instance, in one we discover the but of the 

 rod in the foreground, a fish basket, and two fish much too 



