June 17. 1880.1 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



395 



(ion. Itspurpose is to afford its members amusement. 

 and that is something not bo be slighted iu a country 

 where there is a tendency \" work t, 10 hard and not play 



enough, 

 a needed 

 I hope r. 

 shot at v 



would li. 

 the Ohan 



to miss 

 Neither 



theentsi 



one-half. 



cd at the State shoot is to many 

 i exhausting work, and as such 

 ted. If the number of pigeons 

 -li;,ii\ I do not think the interest 



n any way diminished, f< 



•s would remain as at present ; 



shooting at his first bird as 



»uld it detract from the general 

 06 fees to the various matches w 

 Manufacturers of guns, et 



posed, make an interesting 



tiou by showing the weapon 



manufacture, as some did at 



xhil.it 



rest Of skill 



t the tenth, 

 enjoyment if 



rere out down 

 add, if so dis- 

 ; each conven- 

 tions Bfcagesof 

 .•niomu'al Exhibition, 



Kiniijjxr. REDMOND. 



New York, June 15th. 

 Editor Forest and Stream: — 



Your editorial of June 10th, alternately ati 

 patronizing '• The New York State AASOCial 

 Protection of Fish and Game," COrtcludi S ! 

 reply. Your personal re. n- o i ■ • 1 1 . ■ - same etl'i 

 day received. Courtesy demands acq ui 

 ing professional engagements require the enfc 

 the maxim, " brevity is the soul of wit," 



I do not, think your s trie tu res upon the Assi 



us - and 

 or the 

 g for a 

 as this 

 press- 

 Lent of 



are 



quite merited. Its existence of twenty two years has 

 been accompanied bv great increase in game, fish and 

 birds, which result is'in a large measure traceable to the. 

 efforts of the Association audits clubs. The time devoted 

 to the business meeting of the convention is necess- 

 arily limited, and to the causal observer little is there 

 accomplished. But the individual .dubs and their 

 members, and the committees, during the recess perform 

 labors, the result of which is apparent iu the improved 

 la w s up. in our statute hooks, and in the increased variety, 

 quality and quantity of game in our woods and streams. 



To the efforts of the individual members at home and in 

 the legislative halls are due all our protective game laws. 



The tournament has its purpose. It brings together 

 the sportsmen from every part of the State and tends to 

 the cultivation of social intercourse and improvement in 

 skill with the rod and gun. The recent contests may 

 have appeared disproportionate to the work accomplished 

 at the business meeting. Doubtless the retiring officers 

 of the convention and these of the club, under whose 

 auspices it was held, would dispute Ol explain this if re- 

 quested. The recently elected officers and the Long 

 Island Sportsmen's Association are charged with the 

 management for next year, and they will not shirk the 

 responsibility. 



We believe that the result will be satisfactory to the 

 large body of sportsmen in this Slate. The subject of 

 game propagation and protection is of grave importance. 

 Among the "members of the Slate Association are men of 

 worldwide reputation, possessed of all necessary mental 

 and physical qualifications to originate and enforce such 

 measures as may be prudent to effectuate the desired end. 

 An organization is powerful in proportion to the strengtl 

 of its individual members. To the in, li vidua! members 

 an appeal will be made in proper time for suggestions 

 and these will be submitted to the proper committee, win 

 will present to the next Legislature such proposed bills at 

 by general assent may appear necessary or proper. 

 Further, it is proposed to invite the most competent 

 ornithologists and pisciculturists of this and other States 

 to favor us with suitable essays, to be read at the next 

 convention. 



It is somewhat premature to give in detail the precise 

 plan to be followed. The Long Island Sportsmen's 

 Association has already taken action with reference to 

 game propagation and protection upon Long Island, and 

 to that end has appointed a committee consisting of the 

 Presidents of its various clubs. 



To conclusion, permit me to say that while criticism is 

 easier than suggestion, we may "still expect from such 

 authorities as the Forest and Stream ami kindred papers 

 Some enlightenment as to what, the Association can and 

 ought to do : what evils exist and what remedies are de- 

 manded. Trusting that we shall not, however, be called 

 upon to cry despairingly, " save us from our friends," I 

 have the honor to be, yours truly, Abel Crook. 



Tiie Altar? WORM.— The Government Department, of 

 Agriculture is vainly exerting itself to cope with the 

 army wo...,, which is now ravaging the land. Paris green 

 will kill the pests, provided they eat it. and so will arsenic, 

 if it can be put down their throats. All published sug- 

 gestions have so fat proved ineffectual. The following 

 method has been tried on Long Island, and is sine and 

 certain in its results : A deep furrow or ditch is 

 plowed around the field. When the worms have ac- 

 cumulated in this ditch throw upon them unslaked quick- 

 lime and sprinkle with water. This kills the worms, de- 

 stroys their eggs and is good for the land. To protect a 

 conservatory or greenhouse, Smear Oil a streak of lard 

 and daub with sulphur. 

 The Long Islanders are troubled with another pest : — 

 Sayvitti, L. I, , June Hth. — Herewith I send you a speci- 

 men of a fly or beetle, called by some people a June bug. 

 This insect will strip a leaf, like the specimen sent you, hi 

 avervshori time. Thev feed on roses, fruit, "voting 

 grapes— in fact, any young plant or tree. In the morn- 

 ing they are in the air, but at mid-dav hang in bunches 

 on trees and vines, and then can be shaken on to sheets, 

 and scalded. They will take a morning bath in whale oil, 

 soap suds, dine on Paris green, sleep all night in a box on 

 a bed of white hellebore. Who can recommend a, quicker 

 killing process than scalding ? 



— The members of the Independent New York Schuetz- 

 en Corps, with their families, have made arrangements 

 for a week's recreation during the summer at Lake Ho- 

 patcong, where they will not only have the beauty of 

 the lake, rustic scenery, etc.. but will enjoy their rifle 

 shooting, as of old, A new feature will he glass ball 

 shooting. A new departure, and one which we most 

 hearly commend, will be the introduction of lawn ten- 

 nis, croquet and archery for the ladies. Our wealthy 

 Germans are, as a class, worthy of all praise for provid- 

 ing sports and pastimes for their families, and the plan 

 of this year, inaugurated by Capt. J. J. Diohl, will place 

 his name at the head of the list as a, provider for such an 



occasion. 



»< t <m 



— The long-needed Greenwood Ferry promises tote pro- 

 vided in a short time, the undertaking of building the 

 piers and carrying out the enterprise having been assumed 

 by Mi. C. Godfrey Gunther, proprietor of the popular 

 route to Coney Island — the Brooklyn, Bath and Coney 

 Island Railroad. 



GAME PROTECTION. 



Captain BoSardus' Nkw Gun. — We have this week 

 been shown by Captain Bogardus his new Scott hammer- 

 less breech-loader, just received bv him through William 

 Read & Sons, of Boston. It was ordered some time since 

 by the Captain, and is an exact counterpart in size and 

 weight of bis "old reliable Scott." which he has been 

 using for years past, and which has done Buch remark- 

 able shooting and scored so many victories. It is to-day 

 as perfect as ever ; and though looking like a veteran, yet 

 does not showthe hard usage, and great strain it has seen. 

 This new gun is one of W. & C. Scott & Son's hammer- 

 less, with their own patent side crystal apertures (which 

 is a great feature of safety, as it allows the hammers to 

 be seen at a glance), and also has the regular safety bolt. 

 Two sets of barrels— one twelve and one ten— fit the 

 same slock, and a more superb gun in proportions and 

 general balance and fine workmanship we have never 

 seen, The Captain is delighted with it, and will at 

 once put it in service. 



m i i i ■ 



— The Coney Island season is fairly open. There were 

 not less than twenty thousand people the first day at the 

 various immense hotels, and still there was room for 

 more. The Brighton Beach Road was running rapid, 

 well-lilled trains, and the Hotel Brighton was more than 

 equal to the occasion, with our venerable friend Chad- 

 wick, formerly of Willard's Hotel, Washington, D.Cand 

 recently from San Francisco (one of the best hotel men 

 iu the country), walking quietly around, always present 

 when wanted. At .Manhattan Beach the throng seemed 

 still larger, and the Manhattan road was running an ex- 

 tra large number of cars, The music, was fine, and there 

 were accommodations for double the number of people. 



IMPORTATION OF MIGRATORY QUAIL. 



.Quebec, Can., June 12th. 



Editor Forest and Stream : — 



I received yesterday two cages of migratory quail fro 

 Mr. Boynton of New York with only two dead ones in 

 the lot. of 200 birds, and they bad been dead sometime. 

 If, is really wonderful how well these birds have traveled. 

 The system of a canvas cover instead of a hard board is 

 excellent, as the birds do not knock themselves foolish. 



I have shipped 100 birds, or one cage, to Mr Romeo 

 Of Mod treal, who will turn them out in the new 

 park, I believe. The remainder I will divide into colonies 

 of ten birds at intervals of two or three miles, and so 

 people the neighborhood with them. One lot of forty 

 birds I will send adrift to the North of Quebec on the edge* 

 of the Lawreutian range, where they can colonize to any 

 extent. 



The birds I released to-day were stiff on the wing, only 

 able to fly a few yards, as I had wetted the cover to keep 

 down the heat. 'They looked very like voting partridges 

 (Perdri.r ./rises), and 'will certainly be described as such, 

 BO l.lo.iot expect to hear of the'" quail " again unless I 

 gee them myself. I will, however, keep you posted. It 

 is a great pity the birds have arrived so late iu the season, 

 because it will take them one month at least to nest and 

 lay twenty eggs, say July 15th ; then one month 

 to" hatch, say Aug. 15th ; so there will be only two 

 months for the young birds to grow before our cold 

 weather commences in October, consequently they will 

 not he strong enough to join the migratory flight in No- 

 vember. These experiments, however, rarely succeed on 

 the first attempt, but perseverance will succeed. 



The public, I am happy to say, take a great interest in 

 this importation, for Mr. Public is very fond of a bargain 

 where he has nothing to lose and something to gain: 

 whilst roast quail, quail shooting and Touiours perdrix 

 are ideas tint please both he and she, especially the last 

 idea, which requires a French woman or a cardinal to 

 thoroughly understand. AY. Rhoades. 



Manchester, N, H., June iith. 

 Editor Forest and Stream : — 



The 300 migratory quail ordered by the Manchester 

 Shooting (lub arrived here on the Oth'inst., in good con- 

 dition. There were only two .lead, and one with a broken 

 wing, which seems remarkable, when their long confine- 

 ment and voyage is considered. They have all been put 

 down in some of our best localities, twelve or fifteen in 

 a place, and iu the manner recommended by the FOKE8T 

 AMD Stream last season. We have no law to specially 

 protect these birds, but rely upon the honor of sports- 

 men not to molest or shoot them, and the cooperation of 

 ira for their protection. Whether our efforts 

 will be rewarded or not remains to be seen. Mr. Tobey 

 I a the "cinks of our club for favorsshown. Have been 

 hoping to see some communication to your paper from 

 some one who has imported previously, as to whether the 

 birds have, returned to the places where they were lib- 

 erated. J. E. W. 



The 2,600 bird consigned to Mr. Everett Smith, Corn- 



misioner of Fisheries and Game, were received in good 

 order at Portland. Me., June 9th, and distributed to the 

 parties who had ordered them. 



Boston. June li th. 

 I don't expect to hear from last year's quail until 

 mowing time comes in. In spring and early summer 

 there is little to call people into the woods. Last year 

 the returned quail were found mostly by the mowers who 

 came upon their nests. "Horace P. Touf.y. 

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GAME PROTECTION IN NEW JERSEY. 



HACKESSACK, N. J., Jlllle, 10th. 



shewing- up the character of "frame pro- 



wtiose only object is an annual s be 



mi gen nine game proteotive associations, 



owed t„ copyright, their title, so that: mere 



Editor n, 





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ia of no practical use in pro- 

 i. ,i.il .■..lain that this work can he accora- 



but by county or town organissi lis. 



m do good work with very little trouble. 

 lulvo aniline yiroleclive association of three 

 e a year »'. advertise thelaw in the county 

 ard of *ln tor evidence that will procure a 

 Hon. We also keep posters iu convenient places showing 

 ■sed seasons for all kinds of game, and the penalties for 

 ag out of season. If 

 later of the law, aguiu?t wl 

 send him a letter of warning. 



work has been productive of good result, and 1 think the 

 Passaic County sportsmen would do well to follow our example. 

 If they find any nam "shooting- on his own laud" out. of season, 

 the law gives them full power to prosecute him. X. 



.vo Im- 



ported to us as a vfo- 

 . direct evidence, we 



§mt\i §ag nt\d §nt\. 



JUNE IS A CLOSE MONTH FOR GAME. 



— Address all eommnniea lions to " lorest and Stream- 

 Publishing Company, New York." 



WITH ONE BARREL. 



[T is arousing to read of the wonderful shots sometimes 

 made single, double, triple, quadruple, and even quin- 



tuple, by diffe 

 country with their w 

 give credence to the si 

 it— in fact be told the 

 he actually believed i 

 ith one barrel, the 



different parts of the 

 iderful guns ! One is tempted to 

 n-y of the man who insisfci upon 

 story so many times over that 

 himself— that he killed two quail 

 is springing from the ground 



the same instant and both flying off in different direc- 

 tions ; he whirled around so quickly after killing the ~ 



lo 



one that he di 

 the birds, dead 

 But while we a. 

 quail, and th. 

 down with choke 

 must not forget 

 measured, is exact 

 friends will set up 

 an English snipe a 

 the bird would apr 

 space of distance." 

 of his ammunition wo 1 

 hope of hitting his gam. 

 The writer has targ, 

 ammunition at accurate 

 found that a target tl 

 seventv-five yards is a v 

 yetwehavehit.it. \V. : 

 shot through a businesi 

 'mehes at seventy-fi 



1 down came both of 

 ;h ! That leas a wonderful shot. 

 these double shots at snipe and 

 distance which game is brought 

 res and bores" half choked," we 

 one-hundred yards, if correctly 

 hree-hundred feet, at which, i our 

 ,rget the exact size of a quail or 

 lake a careful look, will find that 

 to he away a " considerable long' 

 1 that a gunner who was careful 

 ould not shoot, at it with much 



geted good guns with first-class 

 tely measured distances, and has 

 the size of an English snipe at 

 very small mark to shoot at, and 

 iTe once put two nellets of No. 6 

 card one and a half by four 

 trds exact measurement. The 



gun was a good one, far better, in fact, than the average 

 of guns now made ; but before the card was hit half a 

 dozen charges were fired at it by as many different persons. 

 An experience of more tban thirty years at gunning 

 indifferent parts of the country, and at almost all sorts 

 of game except alligators, with all sorts and conditions 

 if guns, has convinced the writer that the average of 



killed with shot is brought 

 hundred and fifty feet from the muzzle 

 fired. We have killed wild ducks in 

 the fowl were in full and heavy feathe! 

 tances than one hundred 

 driven by extra heavy oh 

 forced in front of four dr 

 good gun, are very dange 



yards oil ; but how many oj tin 

 are hit by more then two or thrt 

 many. One T shot will kill a wild 

 is touched, or if will break a wing- 

 fowl ; but what gunner of niuct 

 goose shooting has not been madi 

 gusted when a goose has given lorn 

 flopped away, " on buoyant wings, 

 dangling in mid-air V lie won't use 

 will wonder why that, one T. shot . 

 instead of a leg. We have killed d 

 dead ; but not over one hundred 

 twenty-five feet distance. That fes 

 riddled, or he will give you a, long 

 must receive such a, shock from tl 



ide of one 



I the gun when 



idwinter, when 



at longer dis- 



1 fifty feet with hea.vv shot 



■•s of' powder. T shot, when 



ins of good powder out of a 



■ild fowl at eighty 



irds at that distal 



f the shot "'. Not very 



goose if a vital spot 



ad thus secure, the 



experience at wild 



heart sick and dis- 



- ith 



od by", 

 ■ oke 



he 

 i leg 

 nss words, but he 

 dn't break a wing 

 >r with buck shot, 

 ied and 

 uust bo 

 base; be 

 force of the charge 



:> bund 

 limal 



as will place him hors de combat at once, or he wTll 

 give you a jolly good run, even if he have but three 

 sound legs for use. We have " been there," and know 

 whereof we speak. 

 We can readily believe that two or three snipe, spring- 



from the 

 lin~o, may he 1 

 with a iu til tit 

 not usual with 

 The writer .1 

 killed by the s; 

 other, the lead 

 through him a 

 killed. The si 

 with one barrt 

 but on 



-ought do 

 de of line 



■e and in an almost direct 

 "with one barrel " loaded 

 lot, hut such good luck is 

 miner after snipe. 



foil. 



bei 



iug man was aimed at, the bullet passed 

 id his follower, and both were instantly 

 arpshopter who made that " double shot 



I" told mo (he was captured) that; he saw 

 hen he tired. 



Wonders in guUnery will never cease, and gunners 

 and the owners of guns will never tire, telling stories of 

 their exploits in the field, and the wonderful qualities of 

 their particular guns j and we love to hear them, and wo 



