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FOREST AND STREAM. 



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tennaster at Fort Missoula and myself went below here 

 about forty miles ami hunted ten clays: we killed fifty - 

 five deer and eight mountain sheep." What do you 

 think of that for a hunt ? H. 



Brule Lakh— Quebec, Feb. 29th.— I see in your paper 



to-day some person asking information as to a -aide at 

 or near Brule Lake, north of Ottawa. If he wants to 

 ■write to any one on the subject let him address his letter 

 to the Postmaster, River Desert P. O.. Township of Mn.ni- 

 walci. Upper Gatineau, Ottawa Co.. Prov, Quebec. This 

 direction is absolutely correct, but if too Ion- let them 

 leave out the name of the township and it will go just as 

 well. If the parties inquiring are thinking of gomgtpere 

 for sport I am afraid they will be disappointed at the 

 poor show of game, All 'the lakes arc full of the gray 

 trout, known in this part of the country as lunge, but the 

 game is scarce and hard to get at. There are moose, cairi- 

 bou, bears, wolves, hares, some partridge, and ducks in 

 summer and eaidy fall, but all the shooting, as I said he- 

 fore, is poor. I have several times been far up the Gati- 

 neau, and I find that the best guides are the Indians. 

 The white men are not of much account. Indians can 

 be got for fifty cents a day. with tea and tobacco. They 

 will find canoes and all necessaries of this kind. They 

 are always to be found at the Desert, but let anyone be- 

 ware of allowing them any whisky, except incases of 

 extreme necessity. Pest arm for this section is a good 

 heavy choke-bore or Winchester rifle. Au Sauble. 



DUCK SHOOTING ON LONG ISLAND. 



The ducks are Hying on Long Island, and we need not 

 urge our city friends to improve the opportunity. Below 

 are reports from three famous ducking grounds. The 

 first is from William Lane, Good Ground, L. I., and was 

 written last week. Good Ground is on the Long Island 

 Railroad, three hours and a half from New York : — 



There are lots of red-heads and broadbills in the bay. 

 There are more red-beads now than I ever saw in the 

 bay, and they are getting in good shape to kill. 



Commenced to break up to-day and bids fair to make 

 good shooting, but it is so early I can't got people started. 

 Geese will be along soon now ; some in the bay, but 

 know too much. 



I have just returned home from a grand day's sporting 

 at Quogue, Loug Island (one mile east of Shinnecock 

 Bay), and it may prove interesting to your many readers 

 to know what sort of a "grand " time I had. I left New- 

 noon, and by 7 o'clock 

 enjoying my "after-dinner 

 rtabl'e parlor, and, I must 

 ? questions about the nior- 

 the south side of Long Isl- 

 iny hitter disappointments 

 »C driven me to despair of 

 r's shooting, but tl ' 

 ress. Friday & 

 vintl, much to 

 IT birds during tl 

 roing toward tl 



ed a 



_nstj ; 

 a afternoon. 



S north, and 



York last Thursday 



that evening found myself 



cigar in Joe Howell's coruf 



confess, asking rather anxioi 



row. I've shot so much oi 



and and have met with so n 



that the experience lias ah. 



ever having a reallv good d; 



Fortune proved a willing mi 



and clear, with not a puff of 



but we managed to kill a. 



A great many ducks wer 



occasionally a small gang 



to want to stop, and we watched tuem with aching 



hearts. Toward sunset the wind commenced to blow 



sharp from the south, and Joe's eyes sparkled as he told 



me his hopes of the morrow, Wa retired early, and at 



4 o'clock I found myself shivering in the blind, with 



the men rigging the stool oft" the point and the wind 



blowing a gale from the southwest— a dark and gloomy 



day — a *' ducker's '' day — so everything promised, 



" I think we'll have iheiu to-oay." said Joe, as he laid 

 his Parker on the nil 'her coals beside me. 



They were moving now, and, in fact, I could distinctly 

 hear the sharp whistle of wings overhead. It made me 

 feel good. 1 can tell you. At last the day dawned dark 

 and gloomy, and I "could soo the long, low bluffs across 

 the bay, arid presently a dark mass in the air. A warn- 

 ing whisper from Joe, and we lay as still as death. 

 •' Now give it to 'em !" and four barrels rang out in the 

 gloomy air. Four dead and I could not tell how many 

 (rounded (with a precious little chance of getting them, 

 either). Proadbills arc expert divers, and when wounded 

 will swim a considerable way under water, making it 

 very difficult, to shoot them over. Joe succeeded, how- 

 ever, in retrieving two, and by the time that he had re- 

 turned from his long pull 1 had several more dead among 

 the decoys. I felt at last that J was to have a •• day," 

 and so it proved. Single and double shots were frequent, 

 and as the lasi rays o£ the sotting sun glanced across Ijhe 

 waters 1 Counted H.JJ my blue-billed beauties— thirty-one 

 — a, lam:.:, bag (point shooting, remember, gentle 

 duckist) at any time on Long Island. If I could have 

 retrieved the cripples the bag would have counted close 

 on fifty. At all events, I was more than satisfied, and 

 returned to town with a much more favorable impres- 

 sion (and a much heavier bag) than I have hitherto ex- 

 perienced. 



Duck shooting this spring promises well on Long 

 Island. The bays are free from ice, and have been so 

 almost the entire winter. Consequ atly a great number 

 of birds have remained, and will make excellent shoot- 

 ing, to say nothing of those that are to come. Those who 

 contemplate a lew davs' sport will do well to consult J. 

 P. Howell, at Quogue". at whose place I stayed. He is a 

 thorough bay man, and has everything pertaining to duck 

 shooting in perfection. Charges are reasonable. 



New York, March 3d. Blce-Bjll. 



For good gunning at this season, and a good bay man 

 and gunner, 1 would recommend Allausoif Edwards, of 

 Centre Moriches, Suffolk Co,, L. I., via Loug Island 

 Railroad to Moriches Station. Either write Edwards to 

 meet party at station or take Moriches stage to his house. 

 His charger, are :fi per day to take party out and $1,50 

 per day for board, 



Edwards and myself shot yi ,i .■:•:■■, ■ (lie shore 



(there being no battery shooting in Moriches Pay, from 

 Smith's Point to Quogue) twenty-five ducks— sprigtail, 

 teal, black and widgeon. There, is a State law against 

 battery shooting in this hay. in defiance of which one of 

 the resident gunners uses a battery, and is liable under 

 the law to a line of $100. lie shot one hundred birds on 

 Tuesday. On Monday, the S2d, a friend and myself 



brought down fifteen ducks and eight geese. The 



weather was too mild b ■ n.lay. I consider 



Moriches Bay very fine ground for sportsmen, if the 

 resident gunners will protect their interests by rigidly- 

 enforcing the law against battery shooting and jacking 

 birds at night, which latter process of slaughter is 

 chiefly indulged in by the life-saving crews, who desert 

 then post of duty, and are one of the causes of the " de- 

 pletion of game on Long Island," referred to in your 

 issue of 26th ult. I wish you would use your influence 

 to protect this section, as it is one of the best in the neigh- 

 borhood, and will so remain if properly treated. 

 JVeto "Fqvhj March. 6th, E. W. 



WINTER IN NORTH CAROLINA. 



ng the 



HAYING seen frequent inquiri 

 Stukah regarding North Q 

 to be found there, and real 

 toward all parts of the Si 

 refuge from the chill blasts 

 1 am persuaded to give i 

 County and vicinity. It 

 pari 

 mil 



in the Forest and 



ihna and the sports 



increasing interest 



ith as a sporting resort and 



i our New England winters, 



little sketch of Edgecombe 



situated in the northeastern 



f the State, on the Tar River, about seventy-five 



from the seaboard. The principal town, as well as 



if the smartest towns in the State is Tarbo . 

 numbering about twenty-five hundred inhabitants, of 

 which the colored population are in plurality by about 

 three or four to one white. 



The geographical peculiarities of this part of the State 

 are very interesting ; undeniable evidences exist of its 

 having "once been the bed of the ocean, the surface of the 

 soil often containing an endless variety of sea-shells, and 

 by diggmg a few feet, a mixture of bluish earth, shells 

 and fossil bones, called "marl" is obtained, which, 

 mixed with guano, cotton seed, or ashes, is used as a fer- 

 tilizer. The" character of the soil is a sandy loam, and 

 gives more satisfactory results to the owner, with a crop 

 of cotton, than any other, and though the low prices of 

 cotton for the past few years have greatly impoverished 

 the land-owners, (hey are waiting for a season of higher 

 prices on the old staple that will pay up the debt. Some 

 attention, however, is being paid to corn and the cereals. 

 This section is slightly undulating, but nearly level, and 

 is artificially drained by digging a system of canals and 

 ditches which empty into the Tar River. Springs are 

 surprisingly numerous for a country of this character, 

 and the ditches always contain good water, an import- 

 ant item for ourselves and dogs. Had it been otherwise 

 our setters would have suffered even in winter months. 

 On account of the climate the pointer prevails in the 

 South. Ah 1 that statement needs qualifying ; for the 

 prevailing dog in North Carolina is a mixture, a com- 

 pound, a conundrum, a " what is it." All sizes, all 

 colors, all shapes, and as you pass across country you are 

 saluted by the confusion "of voices of from three" to six 



y poor darkey's cabin. You 

 lor man can afford to feed so many. 

 and you will then understand. It 

 j feed" six than it does one. The mys- 

 is only equaled by their ability to 



ith in this historical land of cotton 

 .ted at Tarboro, reached via Pbiladel 



of these spec 

 may ask, how the pi 

 Just see them once 

 costs him no more t 

 tery of their origin 

 exist. 



In spending a moi 

 and darkeys, we Iocs 

 phia, Washington, Richmond and Weldou, all rail, or by 



the Pa 



the 



Ne< 



doi 



bal 



,-idi 



Line via Norfolk, etc. As a healthful 

 dimate, like the latitude, isa happy medium between 



England and Florida, with no cold winds, and sel- 



isty 



Soo: 



idatif 



idship. Last hut 



ly snow or ice ; a bracing 1 



noonday, and soft mild eve 

 d, we found good hotel accoi 

 prices, many good shots with gun a 

 result of their being subscribers to 1 

 and a hearty, cordial and courteous j 

 many friends Whom we shall remen 

 our list with strongest feelings of f 

 not least — the game. This consists, first, of the quail 

 (called here "partridge"), of which there seemed no limit 

 in numbers, and to these we devoted most of our time 

 and powder, filling good bags in spite of their matured 

 strength and activity at this season of the year. There 

 are also sufficient woodcock to vary the sport, and the 

 spring months of March and April bring with them 

 plenty of snipe. Wild turkeys cannot be successfully 

 hunted here without previous baiting, but are more 

 numerous in some adjoining counties. The local law 

 if land to prohibit shooting by posting, 

 o had availed themselves of the right 

 rations to come and shoot. 

 the State has given attention to arti- 

 M food fishes, and during the time 

 of young fry of California salmon, 

 land-lock salmon and brook trout, have been hatched and 

 turned into various waters of the State from, the hatchery 

 at Swannanoa Ga pi, Buncombe Co., and the supply of 

 these valuable fishes is thereby rapidly increasing. 



Conclusion : Go to North Carolina for health comfort 

 and sport. M. 



Bromfield House, Boston, February, 1880. 



allows the o 

 but even tin 

 f reely gave i 

 Since May 

 licial propag 

 several ti 



A Worthy Example.— \l'aah ingtmi C. II., Ohio, March 

 1st.— The severe winter of 1878-70 destroyed many of our 

 quail, yet in some localities where the cover was favora- 

 ble they survived it. Our Legislature then gave, or tried 

 to give us, a close season this year, The fear of appre- 

 hension puts our boys to trapping and netting, us well as 

 encouraging them to shoot them 

 tending to hunt rabbits, and in the 

 nor, the dread destroyer of the qi 

 their appearance, and by the oli 

 fewer quail left than if the 



Tin 



en to the la 



ver. the: 

 Ut 



i has 1 



surplus of 

 spend mn 



cocks. 

 ;htii 



of flu 

 e hem 



i liL'.hth 



iCSt? 



red with, hi 



We 



coveys while pre- 

 bsenee of thegun- 

 il, the hawks make 

 'of the winter there are 

 on had been left open, 

 een but little attention 

 efforts have been made 

 twks. These hawks de- 

 bus leaving us with a 



th Bsea setsin.they 



eventually m destroying 

 want our regular game 



nanlike 



law tamp 



popular, winch wui i 

 Our late trespass law 1 

 stimulates our boys to 



The writer oil'.: red a premium of a fine gun to the party 

 who would produce the most hawk-hens by the 15th of this 

 month, and that gun will perhaps cost 1,000 hawks their 

 scalps. This offer has also stimulated some individuals 



of other localities to do likewise, and while they may kill 

 many hawks they will not save SO many quail as if 'they 

 had "commenced" earlier. Can you not advise other in- 

 viduals and shooting clubs to do"l ike wise ? C. C. B. 



Eight Dollar Sturi: Twists.— Sheldon, VL, March 

 U)th. — Game has dwindled down to the smaller varieties 

 — ruffed grouse, foxes, rabbits, etc. The sportsmen here 

 are mostly of tlie primitive kind, who cling to the tradi- 

 tional muzzle-loader, tree their grouse with a small dog, 

 take a dead rest, and blaze away at fifteen paces from 

 their game. Wonderful are the stories that they tell 

 about the performances of guns owned or seen in their 

 boyhood days. "They were genuine Stubb and twist, 

 O03t $3 or $10 in New York, sir." In vain do you attempt 

 to reason with them by proving first that a.SLubba.ini twist 

 barrel alone could not in those days be bought in London 

 for $10 or double that amount ; second, that with our 

 improved system of boring our best guns now cannot be- 

 gin (o equal I he performances that they claim those cheap 

 gnus were able to do. I believe that manv things that 

 occurred in our childhood become with age greatly mag- 

 nified, and could we now see. them repeated we would 

 find that we have been nourishing the most absurd fal- 

 lacies. 



A lone lyux lately passed over the adjacent hills, 

 which caused great excitement in the village, even gro- 

 cery pitch and penny draw-poker were abandoned tor a 

 lime. Many were the ways Suggested to defend the town. 

 One stalwart son of a Vulcan thought that ho could knock 

 him out-of-time with bis sledge. Poor little " Selis can- 

 adensis," whose timidity prevents you from preying on 

 anything more formidable, than a rabbit or young spring 

 lamb, did you but know what terror your presence ox- 

 cites in the heart of mankind, you might with impu- 

 nity, were it not for the village curs, in some of your 

 jovial moods place our town in a state of siege. 



The winter lias thus far been a singular one ; alternate 

 snow and rain— a good one for small game. Puffed 

 grouse are very plenty, which augurs favorably for next 

 season's Ehooting. ' Stakstead. 



SHOOTING MATCHES. 



Massachusetts- Quincy, March nth.— The Merry Mount Shont- 

 ingClub had their we- kly glass-ball shoot .Saturday afternoon. 

 Following are flu; scores, the highest possible total being 20:— 



-Rotary Trap. Duvhle Trap. Totat. 



George Monk.... 

 John Curtis, 2d. 

 A. Keating 



' mis . 



N. Curtis 



0. Preseott 



H. O. siudley... 

 P. Chubbuck.... 

 T. Fornald 



. it 

 .... S 

 ... a 



IB 



IB 

 17 



;.-:! 



11 11111-7 



20 



I 1 1 J 0. 1-6 



21 



2 1 t 1 1 1 -it 



23 



111110 1-0 





I) 1 10 1 0-3 



21. 



i) 'I- .1 ie ii 0-1 





110 10 10 4 



21 



0* 1 1 0* 1 0-3 



:::) 



1110 l—l 



23 



ii ii i i o t-a 



25 



10 10 11-1 



23 



110 1 1 1-5 



2a 



II 0* 1 1 1-3 





r. r. p. 



-Several or (he Massachusetts Clubs have arranged for meet- 

 ings on Fast Day. Tiic -Worcester Sportsmen's Club have invited 

 five members of the Marlborough Club to .join them upon that oe- 



HulliMon, March 0th.— The Glass Ball Shooting Club has reor- 

 ganized lor the coming season, with Warren Carpenter as Frc-si- 

 dent, and Frank Cuss, Secretary and Treasurer; Directors, 

 Aitemus Lelaud, George L. Sanborn, Orrin P. Joslyn. The open- 

 tug match game will bo on Fast, Day. 



Fountain- Gun CttTB,— Eroo78j/ri Driciiw Park, ParkviUc, L. J., 

 March 3d.— Regular slioot from. 5 ground traps; handicap risejy 

 J-'CiK. Tutal. 



.T.White 



H. Mass 



W. A. Ctaony.... 



P.Kavunhall, Jr. 



M..1. Kearney. . 



J. O'Connor 



J. T. Slan'e 



Cazenovia Gun OiAni—Cuzavn-iu, N. Y.,M,irch at.— First shoot 

 for gold badge presented to the club by W ill. H. Criutcudcn. 

 Ten balls; Card's rotary trap; winner handicapped three u t- 

 every lime he wins badfc, up tu thirty yards. Ties shut .iff from 

 the distance each shooter occupied during the shoot. Very high 

 wind blowing, wh icU made the shooting very difficult ; it j ards :— 

 Name. Varan. Total. 



Moreo 17 1 1 1 1 1 I 1 n 7 



Ra-s 17 11 J 1 1 1 1 7 



Cratrendcn 17 1110 1111 7 



Dean 17 I 1 I 1 1 ft 



Dover 17 I 1 l 1 1 l 1 1 1 fl 



Atwell 17 1 1 tl 1 1 1 I) I 1 1 7 



Mather IV 10011111 1 R 



Stanton IT o I I l l o l l l i 7 



Eggleston 17 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 7 



llAM.MKHr.liS:-. 



Penksvi.vasia-JIioi.:-(/, 3f»r<j7l Stft.— Beltfw please find scores 

 made in a friendly contest between the members of the Lycoming 

 Sportsmen's Club, of Wtlliamsport, and 1 he HammerleBS G uu Club 

 of tin's place, on Saturday, Maroh 0th :— 



WllAlAMSPOHT. 



Aug. Koch 1 111 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 13 



e Ill 11001 1 1 1 no u on 1 1 13 



C. llogim 1110 10 10 111 t 1 1 11 



C.Tiusman 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 I 1 1 1 I I IS 



W. Ed. Eels 1 1 1 1 1 I 1 1 1 1 1 1 11 1 1 (I (I H 



J. Itubb 11 00 1 111 1 1 II 1 1 II 00 10 



11. S. Lucas 1 1 1 I (I 1 I 1 1 I 1 1 I 1 1 1 15 



iirscv. 



Do La Green 11111111011110111101 17 



1 . Sporul ) 1 11 1 1 t 1 I 1 I 1 1 t 1 1 1 1 i 17 



Clint. Buyer 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 n 1 1 1 1 I 11 1 18 



,1. Cover I (Ml 11 1 1 1 1 II 1 1 t (I 1 1 (I t 1 13 



L. Watt . 1 1 1 1 I 1 1 I 1 11 (I 1 I 1 1 13 



J. Fowler 1 1 I) 1 1 II II 1 I 1 1 1 M 1 1 13 



Chris. Gayer HOlOa 111 J 10100 til 1 if 



WilliamsporCllt; Money, <I0. 



New .TERsr.v— p.j./cr.srm, March l(/c-rartridgo Gun club man fa 

 foragold badge. Won by Henry llalliday: 11 yardsrise; Hubor 

 trap :— 



Ohas. Van dnclen I I 1 1 I I 1 fl 1 1 1 1 11 



J. .McNeil 0.10 00000110100 11 11 8 



llelirv Hallidaj I I 1 1 II 1 1 II I ill I 1 1 II 1 1— 13 



lien. Maste] ... 1 1 1 1 1 01 10 1 U 3 I 



Herman Mertol OlllOllOlliOl I U O-lo 



Coaxhn GUN Clio;, lee dial K.JH til i. '' ly-Org'RD 



issed glass-ball olul shoot here to-day 



for a badge, to be Won three limes in succession heroic becoming 

 iy one member. Card's rotating 



the permanent proper 



