370 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



[Dkobmbbr 9, 1880. 



stm'ted, and found tlie roads very bad, liavbig not been lately 

 worked. Tlie team could only go in a slow walk. We 

 arrived at Brady's al one o'clock i'. m. Hiiviiii^ ridden in the 



Northwest snow sturm idl Hu " ■■ ■■"' ^ ,.,.,.. ,!,.i. ..ijn,.,!. 



I went into the house and i i i 



a good warm dinner antl w - i i 



home, wiiich we dah- arij; •_ 



We found !u .. Messrs. Adama 



and Brady. Mtly under fence, 



with iniiee h, i i. ■ rj. in which were 



eighteen head "1 ln.i.-.r s i , ,i . i.. The firm had 



2,000 head of siluH'p oil 11 . iiin auothur 1,000 



head on that v.cek. xVtb i uicd ourliunliiig 



clothes and rubber boots, uhu ..!.;_- .,:. ^iidaiice of Frank 

 Fuller, son of our host,, we went to the river to try 

 the ducks, but it wa.s snowiug so hard that the ducks 

 were flying- but very little, and only two ducks were 

 killed that evening. We found that the riwr Hl,Mjoiing' would 

 not do, and that we shoidd have u. wy ilu- s's'.iimi.s. 



Next morning the snow storm v^.sovrr, and rhe pnispcut 

 was much better. After an eiiriv l^iLaKlasl wi_- cius»_<l Uic 

 river and made our way soinc liu.e uiilrn ncm.ss ilu- coimlry 

 to a large rice swamp, fierc ^-e fu;nid vliv hard traaiping 

 to get into the swamp. The insiiiie L^rats and wild rice had 

 fallen down, covered with sat..., a.irl undenunilb water and 

 mud. We did not see any duek? tlyici:-, and it, looked di?- 

 conruging. Kei'dolph, Bishop nnd IlupkJns siopjieil at the 

 edge of the swamp, while t'rauk Fuller and myself con- 

 cluded to make our way to the ceutre, wliieh we did aflei 

 hard work. 



Suddenly the ducks rose out of the wild rice by 

 the hundreds. We both fired, but were too fax away. 1 

 quickly put in two more sitells, and as a second Hock 

 rose nearer and circled toward us 1 got one with a right and 

 one with a left, both line mallacds. V\'c then waded into the 

 rice and took our positions, eaeii mi a imisknu house. Soon 

 tlie ducks commenced fljdn^' and we had ijnod shooting all 

 day as they tiew over us. \Vo lost quite a number of crip- 

 pled ducks that feil .ml in tliC vice and water aiul wuu!.l uct 

 away before llie dog could t^el to them, it \,-a.s so bard for 

 him to ^et tbriii-ii i.i- L/Mrkl', -iMievn rice and the rat boles. 

 and weVor" . r - if it liad nut lieeu formy 

 yomig Gtatt ■ ted en him. 'Die weather 



and water .', ■ , ' n hiui e<j\M!red with a rub- 



ber coat after eaeli iiaiii. liy .1 oclock Frank and I had all 

 the ducks we cared to carry out of the swamp. We loaded 

 Tip and started for lionie. After tramping about one-half 

 mile we .sat down fmd poured the water ont of our rubber 

 boots, which had got in ov'T i i ■ i ' ' - i: iml: "ito the rat 



holes and rumvays. Afiei fiu-lher I 



found I was going to give uu. ,,;:i ii t';"i, in ifiy very tired 

 and weak, not having had anyi iiing l<' eat .'*ince early morn- 

 ing. Prank took the ducks and I the guus, and thus weighted 

 we tjudged on another quarter-nule, when I told him I eonld 

 not go any furtlier : it wa.s tlu-n after dai'k. I told him I 

 would have to stav tli^-re inilil he went home, t\Y(j miles, for 

 a team. He .^ai.i ile^ae v.-as a Si ede lived uljout a lialf-mile 

 across the countrj' and he would \ro iliere and s^el him tohaul 

 US home. He took iny light gun and sinne shells in c.".,se he 

 could not find me on fiis return, luj could shoot iind I could 

 anawer. He left duchs and hi.^ gun with me. -'Vfter he had 

 gone ■ ■ '' : li the side of a leg to rest, but being wet 

 and '" after walk iiej', 1" thought 1 would certainly 



free. ,ii-ed tu walk around and ileep warm. I 



tried I.., .-,1.... .. ,.■--', Iiut the gra.bS sticks were too wet. I then 



examined llic ducks and found tiuite .a. nmuber of them still 

 warm. I piled them up and sul ilowTi on them audthre^v the 

 wet rubber coat that I had tised over the dog over mj' shoul- 

 ders ; I was then a little more comfortable, fmt stUl 1 shook 

 like the ague. 1 must have made a comical and forlorn- 

 looking picture .silting humped over on that pile of ducks in 

 the moonlight, with the gun lying against the log tmd Sigel 

 curled up near me, and [ nii'iall/.ed ilmaly : What fools some 

 men can make of themseivcs I'-r ,i little sport I It wouldhave 

 been a good subject f'>r Thus S. Steele and Ids tourograph, 

 entitling it " The Weary Spoilsman." 



AfterVhat seemed to me an hoiu-, which was really but 

 half that time, I beard a team coming llu'ough the woods and 

 then Frank's welcome halloo ! I answered, ;md he was sooji 

 with me with the Swede and a spring wagon. A^ e loaded in 

 and quiclily drove the two miles home, for \vhich I pakl him 

 one dollar. The rest of our paity had come in much earlier. 

 We soon exchanged oin- wet eluliies fur dry ones imd did am- 

 ple iu.stice to a good »uij|)ei', wbieli Mrs. Fuller knowsso well 

 how to prepare. On going to bed I took a heavy dose of 

 quinine, but 1 did not get to sleep until after midnight, Iwas 

 so completely fagged out. 



Next morrdng I found myself all right and ready to do the 

 "same thing over again," and had f:---'i ■ • i; ntiont IJiat 

 moralizing on the pile elf ducks. '" is ley (ill - 



ing them with hot oats and then .si e.ip again. 



This time we ci-o.^^aed the river in e .;ii up the 



bayou to within a mile of the swamp, liicuup went with 

 Frank and I into the center, where we had lieeu the day tie- 

 fot-e. J-letoolchia pasition as we did oua rat boi.sc. About 

 one lumdred vards from us we saw Bihiio]i knock down sev- 

 eral duck diu'ing the tlrst hour'.s .shnoliuL' and then we lieard 

 a report like a young caimnn. ^Vr li-il.:,.] over iliat way, bui 

 did not see Bishop. ' lie had e i -Id ' " i- ■"- ihat he had 

 bragged about the day betwre h rit would 



shoot, and ho had loadctl verj- i, at a duck, 



when both barrels went, off, nai! i '-port, and 



when Bishop came to he was on b i, ;tiier at the 



foot of the rat, hoase. The gun h;ii .i clear off, 



Afew miuuiesafter wesawhimg, ' .-sanopen- 



ing in the marsh, occasionally looking uae:, with a sorrc" 

 ful, ill-used look. Ho did not shoot any more. His arm w- 

 black, blue and lame. Om' shooting was not so goodtb 

 day, the ducks were wild and flew higli. I could only use oc ; 

 barrel of ray gun, having lost one of the plungers the evening 

 before. But wc had our dinner with us and got home a little 

 after dwk in good condition with a. heavy bunch of ducks. 

 AUthe duck,s we shot cm llJ nallards, except two 



teal, and Ihey were ihe he: _ if ever shot. The 



next moraingMr. Fuller I :, ■ ,''iice. 



We purchased here u hue m ..i ■ .. i el aiid bass for our- 

 selves and fiiends al home. ^Ve eui uoi iiiak-e ■.:= large a bag 

 of game as some others who have been on the ■• Kauk" duck- 

 ing, but we enjoyed the trip and returned feeling strong 

 from the ont-door exercise and with huge appetites, except 

 poor Bishop, and we shall never ask to be more generously 

 treated or to sit at a better table than thai furnished by j\lr. 

 and Mrs. Fuller at Brady's. R. E. S. 



Neioport, Tnd., Noo. 30 



iJUCKIKQ m A SNOW STORM. 



IHAVJil been awa,y for a few days duck shooting in the 

 neighborhood of Bond's, Lung Beach, N. J. 'Phougbt 

 \ on would like to know how l,hc shooting was. We left r li 

 Tviarket Street Ferry at at thilt, Novemlii;r33, bound for Tucl - 

 ertou ; arrived al Tuckerton about twelve o'clock ,■ fnuuti 

 Ourgutmer.s, Sam Siiords and son, aUreadv with skiffs, sneak 

 bo.\e8 and decov.s. A norlinve;.,t gale had' lieeii blowing hard 

 two or tliree davs, and ha.l blown th.' water out of Tuckerton 

 Creek so that (Japt. Geo. Biutou, who was to take us over io 

 Bond's, could not gel his y.ieht alioat, After wailing some 

 time tlie tide cuuie in so tliat we got ihc yacht off and started 

 for the beach, Altera cold but plea.saut sail oi aboutone hour 

 wc arrived at Bond's. The cold was increasing fast, and it 

 loolced like a freeze up. However, we made everthing ready 

 for an eailv ''tan in the morning. Nevt morning we were up 

 by davliitht, but foemd tve could have nr,. shooting. Sam re- 

 ;.;,iledthe b,i\ frozen out t" the edge e, tlie caamiel. and a 



the" flight of Vuani,' black .lock and bmad bills flying up and 

 down the chHiinei hepini; lor belter luck ne;;t da,v. It was 

 getting colder al! day, and Wednesday was no beitei'. A re\e 

 suuners broke li.e: ,■ ,e. intougb tiie ice with their sneak 

 biixcsandne ihe ice with poor success. Two 



boats shot ' ' ■' i-s, tliree cub beads and one brant. 



Til.' la-Nl d,e ■ ,e: warmer wirli good tide, wind 



ensl and the ve ■:,. , ,'i;.l we cnul(( get lo 



ilie bneeiie-. Vte- i,'acoutdec>H'S and 



Hx.M.1 ourselves see J,, ., souje shots at tlie 



black ducks us tla-, -,.,.... v,_i „a.. ......i.g ground. We did 



nothing eai-ly, although ive heard die ducks and geese honk- 

 ing all rounti us, but they did not want to fly. Abont nine 

 o'clock V.,: liad a. iuug shot at IWo btcad b;ll^ iiieb. uver head. 



San. -. ' \ -. ■■ •- '■■-■■: -..1 I . ,.i ' ,,,■,,• . iVtIer 



eant and 

 •-,;.il. after 



, . leeiiot the 



spread, and the ruattei 

 that a small piece of c 

 with the human patiei 



dowi 



bunch ; they did 

 making fast and v, 

 time 





bonking and turned ilieiu toward us. They came on 

 spieiidid. "Don't shoot till J give the word," said Sam. On 

 theyciiine; rounded up in the wiiai, hovered Over our de- 

 coys, and at the woid we gave them three guns, and down 

 came eight. AVe gaiiiereduiuihardlj gotti.'ced when two black 

 ducks came in. Three guns again, anddowuweuta pair. 

 After that w^e had .shots at single and double duclcs until we 

 had fifteen or si.xleen. 



It now began lo snow; the wind went from east to 

 northwest again ; it began to thicken so that we could not 

 see the shore. We stood this for a good while thinking to 

 get some more shots, but it grew worse, so we took up decoy .s 

 and left. Next morning it was froicen on the ivcst side of the 

 channel .so that we could maki' no liide in llie bunches. We 

 concluded thai we v.'ould leave for ho:ue, a,nd we left in a 

 snow firiuall ; wind northwest bleiwim; a li^ale. Capt, Bur- 

 ton put in a 'double I'ect and si.ai trai lofTuckei ton. When we 

 got ofF'Tuckertun l_'ove found the cove and lUOiuh ot (leek 

 froiCTi up, but %'.e liad a guci crew and cm lair v.-aylinough 



gone out with the tide. "tVc .soon made our weiv to the ndf- 

 road. look the five o'clock train tor Philadelphia,' aud arrived 

 al Market street whaif nine o'ckiek well satisiled with eair 

 trip, and think if we had good weather so that we could have 

 shot foiu' days we woidd have made a big bag, for the braul 

 and ducks were very plenty. L4.fatette. 



r/uUuUip/ua. Pa. 



OUR PHttADELPHIA LETTKH, 



"an importJint discovery has jn.st been mai 

 XA. TouS3ainf, of the Vete'riuai-y College rilToi 



ie hv Frof. 



ilousgwith 

 the view of protecting animals from epizootic diseases tiy pre- 

 ventive inoculation. M. Pasteur, of the |saine college, had al- 

 ready succeeded in shielding gallinaceous birds to a gi-eat ex- 

 tent from the zymotic disease known as chicken cholera by 

 vaccination with attenuated virus. Recently young himting 

 dogs has'e been inoculated with vaccine virus to protect 

 them freim a disease (distemper) which decimates them when 

 rjuile young, which has pi'oven tpiile siiccessifui, the average 

 numlier of puppies .succumbing to this fatal malady in large 

 kennels, where it fn'riueutly lagcs |o a fearful extent, being 

 mncli le.s,s, and those attacked by it have it in a much milder 

 form than animals not inocidated." The aliove 1 htivc taken 

 freim the French, being from a letter liated October. 1880, 

 written al Paris to a medical journal of rhis city, and will no 

 drailil tie interesting lo your readers in-be;' ki'iieels and c.v- 

 pectedliilersof vaiuable'dogalorais-e ' . , ' e,, experiment 

 ciiu easily lie ti'ied here, and wewa.n- i , ,i ,, ,e ,v„. p^i-t ot 

 the borly oi' rhe voinigster most e ,„, , , ,., i, , l upon to be 

 dircclly under tin- forefum wliere liie skin i, JVec from hair. 

 Vv'e wemld use tue ireshest of vaccine virus, which can be 

 readily purcliased at ten lohfteen cents per pint from any re- 

 lialiledi'speu.sing druggist. 



In the s,iine article we retul that " M. Toussaint has direct- 

 ed his attention to the extension of these esperimenta to 

 other animals, especially to sheep, with the belief that Ihey 

 may be protected from the invasion of certain forms of ma- 

 lignant maladies which annually carry off victims innumera- 

 ble unjo]- L'le Imrued beasts in varhjus parts of Europe." 



V ■ e ■ iiig access to a large list of 



me: resting accounts of esperi- 



niei e to the kennel man will be 



riant tost has been made as to the, virtue of Lie- 

 t of beef as a nutriment. Beef extract being often 

 : ihe rearing of puppies, it may be well lo give the 

 uii.eie ea the suhjeot to yom* readers. 



The London ZtMCiEt says : " It has been proved that dogs 

 fed c.-:cliisively upon Liebeg's extract were found to die soon- 

 er than tliose not fed at all. This has been accounted for as 

 due to the deleterious influence of the potSvSh salts of the ex- 

 tract ; for although these are indispensable to the econo.mv 



lavg- 



beg': 



"m is injuiioua m the absence of the tViod 

 it is their oifice to direct." The food here 

 ebiimenand fabrinc of Ueah wnntingiuFie- 

 iiLe.vn confession; in fact, all sio'iplc e.v- 

 ! beef only, in no sense nutritious, 

 uianis Imt not food, the entire 

 g iu the idbumen imd fibrio or in- 



Tdk Foeest and Stebam's exposition of •' Dittmar sport- 

 ing powder" will be sent upon application. 



bad been well rubtied into the part, 



juit ]il!i.ster be placed over it as is done 



I, CHie sliould be taken, Iiovvever, 



I .,-. i;,,,, , ,u d.inger of its flow wash- 



1 uUo the circulation, aud 



K should try the expeii- 



e,iiied — certaiiily before Ids 



1 in earnest, with every proba- 



ged one before u«, with pjpuiv 



Veed, Mr '■',■-. ,- •■ ■ Yi.a c«u- 



ATe :ne 1 - 

 of show. So mere l,- 



tinue to agitate and ( 

 country to tlie necessi' y iif jii rfeei I , ,.> i,,i,,is 



and to freely exchange I heir views ..II I ,. _.j j.l., as is in- 

 vited in the admnns of your journal last week, 



Illustrative of what can he done by systematic effort, notp 

 the result of the labors of the West Jersey Game Protective 

 Association. 



I have been rending with much interest the papeis on nat- 

 ural hisioi y ill F.ccF.si .■,:;!) Stkbam. In number three, un- 

 der In ad of 'Our Water-Fowl." the writer slates the snow 

 g.>(,se I A/e5,r iiifpirlunUj is less iibundant on the Allantic 

 than further we-tw:ud. This wc know lo be the ctuv-. 



of her. 



and are v 

 uom'ishing . 

 soluble ponii ,1,:, 



Referring again bef.-.vc closing my letter to the vaccinathm 

 of puppies'as a pievtiiiive oj io cause a woditicaliou Of Vio- 

 lence in the atl'ick, I wouh.l advise, after the skin had been 

 abraded with • he ivory point on whicli the virus has heea 



cidei 



ihe 



Mai 



Bojwn— 

 e shot 



but \ve would 1 

 migrations of bu'ds, i ! 

 of the fowl mention. 

 ware Bay, below Bra.: 



ari-ival none of the loem anniieis i^ne 



wei-etbev al all ne.lested' for two or \ 

 Philadelphia diickers— John McCulh 

 wh.i were down the bay, Came across 

 and sent to the city to be sold for what they would bring. 

 McOullmu and Brown being uiiacquainled with the bu'd, Kiev 

 Avere offered for sale for a trilling sum and t he wise one's 

 i e.adily and eagerly ptuchased them, for they are of all water- 

 f.iwl the most delicious. They have again appeared in Bela- 

 wene Buy, but not in such great qnauiilies. These are the 

 laigcr liirds ( JJi/pfi titru;i), not Ihe Smaller variety (All>'ulii<'j 

 The writer, iu I .S7,a^ killed three about twelve mile^ from 

 Valpaiais.i, fa.l.. while snipe-shooting, a gander and iwn 

 geese, one eif the latter, having a wounded and festered leg^ 

 liad evidently sought the upland pond, where they were 

 foimd, for rest, leading the other two witJi ii. Homo, 



HOW THEY DO IT IN ARKANSAS. 



Baltimore, Nov. 26. 



TIlKHi: ::■■■. I nhilcss manj' of your reader.s who are noi 

 II ii li a method usedin the South— and prob 



ably 'if Ihe .states— by pot-hunters for caplm- 



ing tl. ; II Mill li little .jnait; and for the enliglitennienl of 

 th..'SC i u ii! riescribe the /iiitdujt (fperandi, prefacing the de- 

 scription with the hope that although tlicy may heroifier be 

 acquainted with tlie nmnner, they Vvill, notoncof iliem, mtUte 

 use of their information. It is merely for their trttneral know I- 

 edge, not instrucUon. 



The 'Siiuire was the only one in the village who practiced 

 netting, and was very fond of it. Often was he seen astri. !. 

 ilia gray nag, with his net slung from tlie horn of his sad.il 

 bound on a pot-hunting expedition against Boh While, 't'h 

 Siiuirc was one-legged, but rather active if he chose to lit 

 which was rather seldom, as he was lazy: he waspixir, he hail 

 a wife and five small children to feed, but for all that IhmcUy 

 ihink the means were justifiod- I had never seen how it was 

 done, imd once accomprmicd him 



As rpiail we.e plenlifid in tha.t region, we Jiad hardly p.. 

 ceedcd alxive a riuarter .jf a mile lhr..i'j.gli tho woods ere '■' 

 flushed a bevy. .Marking them down abiait a himdrcd yai 

 off, under a bush, the 'Squire selected a place about thirty 

 forty yards distant from the birds, dismounted and set 1 1 

 net, which was composed of twine, the meshes being abriii 

 one inch and consisled of a barrel ti-n feel long, the opening 

 ficirig tifli'Cu inches in diameier, tapering to a point at the 

 otiier end. The opening ha.l stakes on each aide, which were 

 stuck into the ground and the tiairel rhawn out its full leugtli 

 and slaked al the point, ihiii wooden rings preventing The 

 net fi-om cohapsing. AViugs iwelve feet in Jeiiglh, of the 

 same matcri.al, al.enl lifeen inches in width, werctlieuatidtcd 

 obliciuely tr.-e i i the operung, forming a figure like 



the letter Y e with a quickness denoting prae 



tice. Then : I'r posting me atr a sutficieiii dis- 



tance not loi.igi.Leii luc iiirds, but near enough to W'itness 

 everything, he niade a detour, and coming toward the birds 

 on the opposite side from the net, so slowly as not lo make 

 them talce wing, he started them from the cover where they 

 had flt. Slowly he advanced, whenever the birds appeared 

 inclined to scatter, hestopped altogether. Now a litthion one 

 side lo steer them, now on the other, he gradually drove them 

 into the oubsptciid wings weU bunched. Runijing along, they 

 came to the opening, ami of course entered. As the last of 

 the birds entered, [lie 'Sijuire quickly dismomited and run- 

 ning up drew the stakes at the opening, imprisoning tlie en- 

 tire bevy, which one by one met an ignominious tleaih by (he 

 applicatiou of the 'Squire's thumli to thcii- skulls. Fourteen 

 quail were thus killed. I tried hard to get him to set at least 

 one pair free, that a chance might remain for a next year's 

 brood, but was iinsucees-sfid ; he wanted thorn lor his young 

 'uns. 1 1 was my first and last participation iu this kind of 

 bird-killing. 



There is, or was, no game law in that State— Arkuueat— 

 protecting quail Duiing the season the 'Squire prohiil iv 

 killed more quail iu this manner tJiun I did with shot-gu., 

 the net frequently not leaving a single bird of the bevy. Do 

 the Long Islanders do the same ? Fk^bbiok. 



DOWN IN SOUTH MISSISSIPPI. J 



WooDviu-E, Wilkinson, Co., Miss., Nov. 28. ' 



I SEE in your department of Game Bag and (Juu sport- ■ 

 ing notes from all parts of the comilry except this. I 

 thought perhaps your readers would like to'know how things 

 are done with gun and dog away down in South Mississippi, 

 In (he ^^'ay of game we liave the qnail, tiulcey, wild fo.x and 

 a few deer out heroin the hills, though twenty miles from 

 here, ill the swiimp lands, dear are quite plentif id. The above 

 list comprise what we consider game. Besides that wohave 

 innuuierabie quantities of rabbits, squirrels, coous, etc. 

 Quail (or, as they are more commonly called here, partridge's 

 shootmg is our principal sport in this imoiedistc sectii i 

 Om- dogs are altogether pointers aud priiicipnliy native stoe 

 though they have no long pedigree dttachcd to their nan 

 Tet, I fancy, for the work we have them for they would ne 

 able to hold their own with the be«t "blue bloods" of the 

 North and West, OiU' do .a have oue very serious objection, 

 however : very few of them are thoroughly broken, though 

 that is jiltrihutablt^ I think, to Uie abiwidiuioe of birtls and 



