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TORE ST AND STREAM. 



[February 5. 1890. 



GAME PROTECTION. 



MIGRATORY Quail in Okoicha.— An Atlanta corres- 

 pond! nj m ■ us the following note from the Thomas- 

 il] lie,?, ih.: flrsl recognition ho has seen of the 



presence of the birds m thai section ;— 



Mr. .i. M Blackshear caught and sent to (own the other 

 day, for the inspection of IUs friends, a dwarf quail. The 

 bird appeared on Mr. Blaekshear's plantation lust year. It 

 is a beautiful, s; erj highh prized 



I •>■ sportsmen. The Fosest and Sib 

 cent issue, an interesting acoonnl of their introduction, 

 rotb this country, They are called the Messina quail, and 

 are uugrat >ry in their nature During the pasl few years 

 several thousand have been imported from Messina by 

 ■id Northern sportsmen. Nona, bo far as we 

 know, have been sent South, and how the little stranger 

 found his way down here is a mystery, 



THE NEW JERSEY WOODCOCK LAW, 



Mobiusto-ws, N. J., Jan. SUt. 

 IStn m.— There seems eyiaenta strong d:spo- 



i tie part of 80meofour.J6raeymen.to oppose Eaeeftorts Of 



:. iQami iaaoeintion from procuring proper leglsla- 



ii ' ' :.. . comprehension. If I am not mis- 



taken, the main cause of this outbreak is the proper, l J 

 Of summer eoolc-shootiiis. Xow.it is my firm beliel thai nilM 

 lUto'J i of tbe sportsmen of fifiv Jersey are in favor of a law 



f>K! t er shooting. Are the wishes of nine sportsmen 



tu be set aside tor the unit ': By re lei'..' nee to the reeords of the 



i in I ana that the bill for the amendment of the game laws 



i i rofluced by Senator Lawrenie of Sussex County. If there 



is a roan in the Stale of New Jersey wlio is more competent to 



say whether summer shooting is exterminating the woodcock 



tve yet to near of him. Mr. Lawrence 



was 



1 Lai 



rthatwlK 



thirty ye 



, Letter 



e their 



tec :gi i" . a th '■'■ 6 S 



Sussex and Or.in.a'O Counties. No on 

 were a tin nd red hints on these jrroui 



I ■■ i. 01 1 1 Therefore 1 1 



irons ing mi. ier the prese 



"i '•'■■ the enactment of 



upon what grounds do tie opponei 



objection? I. hear them Say, " We will not have any shooting- if 



i ,. i opa dnow law is passed ?•" Let me ask a question. How 



n. .,,...,.,.-. ...ii the sportsuven get it siifth an alteratton la 



- ,, ■ jjut it is not, my brother sportsmen, a question of 



how many woodcock you will tret, hut how many there will he. 

 . i of the country is for the farmers to rally and defeat 

 the i.i i 



What possible hem II ' - farm i derives from summer shoot 



in? Is unknown to the yeomanry Of New Jersey. As thewood- 



i nfthisSt Zensh e little fellow, and never dam- 



i mi . crop to any appreciable extent, ho cannot be 



called a pest, and as the majority of our farmers do not. revel in 



■ I. rebooting 1 tail to seel he occasion for this hue. and cry. 



Trusting that I he present session of our Legislature will give us 

 a law which will improve thoshootlng in this State, t am, yours 

 interest of true sport, Jeksey. 



nothing astonishing In the fact that the New Jersey 

 hill should have ils antagonists, for its oppo- 

 iund on examination to he either selllsh per- 

 sons ealling themselves sportsmen, or else villainously bad shots, 

 ,;:-s. are the most difficult to deal with ; they 

 w.aild blindly kill the goose thai lays the golden egg-, reasoning 

 ii.ii .1= life is Uncertain they might not he spared to be in at the 

 i re easily sorted out and readilydis- 



posed of hro e a special act passed iu their 



■., i.;. 1 1 s . ■ oi blazing away whenever 



I,, pi, movesthem. For Heaven knows it would only keep 



hardio "ground." 



fdnp §ng m\d §m\. 



G,UIE EN SEASON IN FKBRTJAKY. 



Hares, brown and gray. 



Wild duck, geese, brant, etc. 



FOB FLORIDA. 



QeOJ " 'id Turkey, Woodcock, Quail, Snipe, Ducks, ami Wild Fowl. 



" Bay birds" generally, including various species of plover, sand 



piper, snipe, en-lew, ovster-eateuer. sun birds, nhalaropas, avo- 



... : under The group Lim.icota or shore Birds. 



GAME AND FISH DIRECTORY. 



•tfl for the Fobkst and Stream Directory to 

 lords, our correspondents are requested to give 

 ith such other information aa they 

 ; State, Town, County ; means of access; Hotel 

 Idattons; Game and its Season; Tishand Jts Sea- 

 ore.; Name of person to address ;— after the fol- 



ia sending rep 

 Caanaand Fish II 

 the following pa 

 may deem of vali 

 and other accomi 

 eon: Boats, Guidt 

 lowing model :— 



Arkansas— Clinton, "Van Buren County.— Little Hock and Fort 



Smith Railway to Cliim n, ,,,•-. ,v,., r «,oe DJ nan. Turkey^ 



deer, hear iu greater abundance than elsewhere in the State. No 

 canebrakes. From here it is easy logo In Sugar Loaf. Beter Creek, 



"Bis Q ' treasyVallet the 



"Gourd," Devil's Po i. I ...ilk, the " Gull, 



other desirtihle places. Country wild and mountainous; people 



ad obliging. Hotel— Hartwoll Greoson, proprl : 

 per day. Address Richard Poe, Esq.,, as above. 



M, Messenger, of the Bromfield House, Boston, 

 Mass., with a parly of four others, has gone to North 

 Carolina, where he will spend souio weeks quail shooting. 



o 



—The cariboo, Oervna tarand/ua, is seldom seen in New 

 York City, in fact, not over twenty have over been shipped 

 to this market. It was our good fortune, however, to in- 

 spect, yesterday, at the restaurant of Mr. John Suther- 

 land in Liberty street, two magnificent specimens, a bull 

 and a eow. They were shot by an Indian in tin. neighbor- 

 hood of the Revtere Dhpont, Canada, and described by 

 him ag " nice fat," each ;deer having weighed in life over 

 ..50 pounds. 



Tut; RrvTN-ciTi.iN Gcn &nd Rifle Club.— The annual 

 meeting of the club, formerly known as the Social Gun 

 arid Rifle Club of Philadelphia, convened Jan. s 17th, 

 at the Union League Club, when the name was changed 

 to the Rivington Can and Rifle Club of Philadelphia. 

 NO doubt under the new title the members will acquit 

 themselves individually as creditably as they did under 

 the old name. 



The reports at the annual meeting were of the most sat- 

 isfactory nal.i ire ; the membership numbers sixty-eight, 

 and the club has no debt, with a balance in the treasury, 

 That the meetings meant something last year will be 

 learned from the following summary taken from the 

 shooting record for 1879, and sent to us by a correspond- 

 ent :— 



The club gives an annual prize for the best score made 

 at 4(1 birds from B I raps, handicap rise. This was won by 

 the score of 37 killed, the winner standing at 30 yards. 

 The next best were 4 of 35 killed, 1 of 34, 3 of 33, etc. 



Number of members who took part in these contests. 34: 

 largest number in any one match, 21 ; total number of 

 birds shot at in matches for above prize, was 1,-221; killed, 

 871; missed, 350; percentage killed, 71|; highest percent- 



it lie 



of te 



stra 



thly matches, 37 out of 40, 

 or fioi per cent. 



Besides the above we have had a great many matches 

 for other prizes, all of which were well attteirded, as you 

 may judge from the following record :— 



Total Lumber of birds shot at on the club-grounds dur- 

 ing the year 1879. was 7,481 ; killed. 5.337 ; 'missed, 2,141, 

 Per cent, killed, 71{, or, omittiug double bird shooting, 

 73 percent. 



"We also gave a prize for glass ball shooting from three 



Bogardus traps. 18 yards rise, won by the ."score of 76 



broken out of 80. Excluding rillo shooting, we find there 



| ait 16,000 shots fired upon the grounds during t lie 



year, Crummel. 



New Yoke State Sportsmen's Association.— The 

 Seneca Falls Reveille gives the following encouraging 

 report of the preparations for the nest convention of the 

 Association, which will be held there : — 



It having been decided to hold the annual shoot of the 

 State Sportsmen's Association under the auspices of the 

 Seneca Gun Club of this village, preparations are being 

 made for the largest and most successful gathering of 

 the kind ever witnessed in the State. Neither time nor ex- 

 pense will be spared in promoting the objects of the As- 

 sociation. The generous hospitality of our citizens will 

 be extended to all members of the Association who may 

 gather here during their annual tourney, and all our 

 sportsmen will vie with each other in the magnanmity of 

 their efforts to make the convention a gratifying success. 

 We hope for the attendance of an unusually large num- 

 ber of the sportsmen of the State. They may lie assured 

 that the occasion will be one of profit and of pleasure. 

 Our home sportsmen to whom were entrusted "the cares 

 and responsibilities of the convention of 1872, and who 

 managed it so successfully and satisfactorily, will have 

 the coming convention iu charge, The Seneca Gun Club — 

 which embraces within its membership such well-knovn 

 names as Silsby, Hoag, Lawrence, Stacev, Parrish, 

 Tubbs. Ten Eyck, Nicer, Soiled;:, as well as many others 

 —will omit nothing in its efforts to make, the coming 

 convention worthy of the highest commendation. The 

 prizes which it will offer for competing shots will sur- 

 pass .those of any other meeting. They will be numer- 

 ous, valuable and worthy of the sharpest contests. Al- 

 ready arrangements have been perfected for obtaining 

 birds in great numbers, and there will be no delay be- 

 cause of any neglect in tin's respect. The convention 

 will be held" at: an opportune time, and all our citizens 

 will feel it incumbent upon them to contribute in every- 

 way possible toward making it a credit to our village and 

 an honor to the Association. 



Vermont Fox Hunting. —Pittufnrd, Rutland Co., Vt. 

 —Jan. 21th.— In. issue of Jan. 15th I notice an account 

 of a New Hampshire fox hunt, in which the parties lag- 

 ged two foxes in one day. It is not unusual lor fox 

 hunters in our town to bag two foxes in a day's hunt. A 

 few weeks since, Mr. Burdett and Mr. Morgan, of this 

 [dace, were out, and bagged five red foxes in one day. On 

 Dec. 4th Mr. Elliott and mvself were out, and at i a. m. 

 the first fox was started; "at 3 v M. the third fox was 

 bagged, among them an old veteran who was toothless 

 and tipped the beam at 13} pounds. Two of them fell to 

 my 10-bore. In this, hunt only only one dog was used, 



E. S. 



Massachusetts and North Carolina— Marlboro, 

 JSIass. — The Marlboro Sportsman's Club have held one 

 edass ball shoot, since the new year came in (Jan. 15(h), 

 and had a nice pleasant afternoon for outdoor sport. We 

 had out about a dozen shooters, and shot sweepstakes. 

 The President of the club. Dr. Chamberlain, made the 

 remark, when lie took three first prizes in succession, 

 that his little gun had not forgotten its cunning, but 

 after that, Erie-. -r. Thy, Lughion, Bodrev. Brush and some 

 of the boys bad a chance to shake hands with someof 

 the money. We shall shoot once hi two weeks the rest 

 of the winter. One thing we copied from the Worcester 

 Club, to which many of our members belong, that is to 

 have hot coffee on the stove in the club-house all the 

 time wben the shoot is going on ; it keeps a man warm 

 and in good humor, or at least it helps to. 



1). 8. Mooney, one of our most popular members, has 

 just returned from Currituck, N. C, where he bus been 

 for the last eight weeks and has had some splendid duck 

 Tmi ting. One day he killed with his Schuyler gun one 

 hundred and twenty ducks of different kinds, but a ma- 

 jority of them were red-heads. He also had splendid 

 quail ami snipe shooting, with a few woodcock. He took 

 id .setter dog " Boss " with him. and lie was the 

 admiration of (be natives there, as they have nothing 

 but duck dogs. They make very little account of any- 

 thing but duck and sea-fowl shooting. The. weather was 

 very warm most of the time, which" made cauvas-baeks 

 very scarce. D, 



New Jersey— Imperii I 



The -weather still remains - ■. ■ i . - . . ' ice tvhal ever in 



the bay. The duck shooting remains good, with a pros- 

 pect of continuing ; and some good bags of red-beads and 

 broad-bills, with occasionally" a canvas-back, are mado 

 every shooting day. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday 

 are the days in Musquilo Cove, where the duck now are. 

 Shooting on tho main bay is allowed on all days. 



S. K„ Jr. 



Pennsylvania— Allentown, Jan. 30th.— The one hun- 

 dred migratory quail, which were imported lasl spring. 

 were released on farms in Lehigh County ; and mil of Ibis 

 lot, to my knowledge, not one eovcy wars liaodi.'d. One 

 or two pair were seen last fall, but where they a am w 

 no one knows. The land is full oi "Bob Whites," and it 

 the yvinter will not get worse we shall have pi ntyby 

 next fall. 



Notes from Kentucky.— Mitt Springs, Ki/.. Jan. 2nf/i. 

 — Our crop of quails is not up to anticipation's bused iimi 

 the multitudes of pairs seen during early SUnimeJ :'! 

 very few wing shots of this county have hunted but lit- 

 tle, and the annual influx of visitors has yet to report, 

 Parties from abroad have invariably manifested so great 

 a degree of pot-hunterism in neither sharing game with 

 fanners over wdiose lands they shot, nor having game 

 served where they sojourned, that numerous oonspi o 

 posters would have surprised, and divers "Git out Of 

 that's" amazed them had they come around as usual. 



My first day's snort of the season, in company with an 

 enthusiastic Voting visitor during the holidays, resulted 

 in twenty-eight of the fattest quail that I ever saw in 

 the same bag. and eight hares that were singled out be- 

 cause of their extraordinary size. Many wild tnrkevs 

 have been killed iu my immediate neighborhood ; a deer 

 was chased within earshot of my T house recently ; the 

 music of a neighbor's pack in full chase is enjoyed semi- 

 weekly — ofteuer if the weather be unusually propitious. 

 The last report from three of the boys a mile avay 

 was that they were in hot pursuit of a black bear which 

 had strayed in from the adjacent high mountains. Mal- 

 lards were on the creeks and overflowed meadowlamls in 

 countless droves during the few chilly days of Dei a 1 1 ! ■ 

 but .disappeared with return of the" springlike weather 

 which has prevailed the past four weeks or more. Re- 

 markable weather — mercury in shade often registering 

 60 and 70 Fur. More than one thunder storm recently. 

 Several of our Central Kentucky hunting clubs have 

 long been accustomed to matting annual excursions to 

 tho mountains of East Tennessei inquest Of deer, and 

 two or three came to grief this fall through ignorance of 

 an ordinance against Kentuckini- tree] ing on that 

 sacred soil and the prerogatives of that favored people, 



and a deaf ear to the warnings of their brethren j 



the line who know. Their convictions were that hunters 

 on the border would selfishly confine them to Kentucky 

 territory and they pushed ahead cheerfully, to bo 

 promptly hauled up before an uncompromising tribunal 

 that promptly lightened their treasury of the full penalty, 

 said to be $50 for each offence. \\ e knew that the slowly 

 returning trains were not funeral processions from a 

 sister State. KentuckIAN. 



Wild Pigeons.— O.rford, Ohio. Feb. 2d.— Pigeons are 



'eported feeding iu the bush north of here. Th 



mvel match at a little town ten miles up in the country, 

 It was reported that there was to be a glass ball mutch 

 on Saturday afternoon, but through some mismanage- 

 ment the balls did not- come. To avoid disappointing 



those that came thev used potatoes. G 



Lury one, I believe. I .: LAND, 



IowA — Pomeroy, Jan. 2G/7).— We h.tve been havit] 

 very open winter, and during the last two "weeks it has 



not been COld enough to freeze nights a great deal of the 

 time. The sky appears warm and hazy, similar to In- 

 dian summer. ' The ice is nearly all thawed out of Twin 

 Lakers, and for the present has ruined the hopes of ice- 

 house owners. During a thirty -mile drive across the 



country to-day 1 saw a large trumut c i prairie chickens 



and quail, while around the lake were large 



ducks and geese, and occasionally a string of pelicans 



were seen floating lazily along. ' Abe DAOOTAH. 



Arizona. — Vamp Thomas, Jan. '.Hit. — Ljuuil shooting 

 has been very good here this season. My Bcore is 7tid 

 quail, about 20 Wilson snipe and 40 ducks, Very few 

 snipe and ducks stop. ( i. Ii" M. 



The Fountain (li.x CLBB.— On Monday last the Foun- 

 tain Gun Club held an enthusiastic meeting in their cosey 

 new rooms at Harry Miller's in Brooklyn, Every chair 

 was filled and "standing room only " was the mJ 

 occasion was the regular monthly business meeting. 

 Since the club's members determined to possess a head- 

 quarters second to none in this vicinity, the interest of 

 the residents in the neighborhood became decidedly 

 aroused. 



The '• Heights " near the ferry is sufficiently provided 

 with social club houses such as the Brooklyn and Kings 

 County, but the equally important '• hill" around Pros- 

 pect Park was without such convenience. The Foun- 

 tain Club appear to have met this necessity-, and now its 

 members may. without interruption, and with proper 



privacy, come together In an elegantly furnished suit of 



apartments and pass a social evening in 

 of whist or euchre, or, if so disposed, meet worthy antag- 

 onists in the philosophic.--: •; ■ , efcesa and draughts. 

 Scarcely had the nn | a d ere the 

 applications for men ... to porii in, 

 the President was so importuned by many memh 

 he felt it his duty to call a special meeting to rec 

 petitions and set the examining committee at work that 

 their rep its might be acted upon at the regular meeting 

 of February. At thi last ueeiang the committee ie> 

 portcit favorably on nineteen at the applicants for active. 

 membership ana nine nominations for honorary member- 

 ship, and all were elected. The club now numbers about 

 125, and bids fair to be the largest in the State. 

 Good-fellowship has always ; prevailed. One reason ba- 

 th is is the invariable oppu-i ui lim.n to gambling, no 

 matter in how insidious a form it may appear, 

 election it was decided;! 

 commodations now existing, and tbe nee. ■ I ■■■ 



taken, and the former Btttisfactoi iii ■ 



WingerL Chamberlain, Hines, "Whitejand Begg 

 empowered to proceed immediately- with the umbellish- 

 Mr. Chamberlain presented the club with a 

 beautiful statueti titerpart of that 



