[July 1, 1880. 



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Books For Summer Reading, —"Canoe and Camera; 

 or. Two Hundred Miles Through the Maine Forests," Ivy 

 Thomas Sedgwick Steele, price $1.50 ; " Camps ami 

 Tramps in the Adirondacks, and Grayling Fishing in 

 Northern Michigan," by A. Judd Northrup, price $1.26 : 

 '• Tronting on the Brule River; or, Summer Wayfaring in 

 the Northern Wilderness." by John Lyle King, price 

 $1.50; "Bodines, or Camping on the Lycoming," by 

 Thad. S. Up de Graff, M. D., price .$1.50. For sale at this 

 office. 



—When the State Association meets at Coney Island, 

 our Western friends will have in addition to the many 

 attractions at the shore, the opportunity of seeing how 

 the Brooklyn, Flatbush and Coney Island Railroad is 

 operated, which can dispatch trains of from eight to 

 twelve cars every three minutes when necessary. They 

 are drawn, by engines as large and powerful as those of 

 the Pennsylvania road, and weigh about thirty-two tons 

 each. They have run as many as 250 trains in aday with- 

 out any crowding or inconvenience. The road is laid with 

 all steel rails, and operated by telegraph and Rosson 

 electric signals, which work automatically. The whole 

 is under the supervision of Supt. Wm. E. Donovan who 

 has been twenty-four years in the service and is a natural 

 born railroad man as well as an expert telegraph oper- 

 ator, and when work is lively he never trusts subordin- 

 ates, but is always on hand. 



MIGRA TORY Q UAIL. 



WE publish this week additional reports of the safe 

 arrival of the migratory email, and shall be 

 pleased to hear further of the birds. Those who may 

 this year observe the return to their nesting ground of 

 former importations are particularly requested to trans- 

 mit such information to us, for there are a great many 

 interested ones who are watching for news of this 

 kind:— 



Chatham, Out., June 20th. 

 Editor Forest and Stream :— 



Two hundred migratory quail arrived here in good 

 order, on the 9th inst, only one having died on the way. 

 They were turned out ac the Big Poin t Preserve, thirteen 

 miles from here, on dry ground adjoining the marsh. 

 Yesterday three members of the club went down and 

 reported them calling in all directions. Their call is some- 

 thing like a young turkey. They were found very hard 

 to put up, but by walking past three abreast to the spot 

 from whence the sound came they generally managed to 

 raise them, but not until they had been almost walked 

 upon. They dew very fast when they did get up. One 

 of the members, a slow shot, dosen't think he will care 

 for them. 



They have taken more to the wet ground, but have 

 not gone far from where they were turned out. Our 

 keeper is scattering food for them, which no doubt tends 

 to keep them from wandering off. They are very fond of 

 corn, which seems to be large grain for so small a bird. 

 I saw one swallow a large peanut, shell and all, that was 

 put into the cage when they were in the express wagon. 



Nottoway Court House, Va., June 21st. 

 Editor Forest and Stream:— 



There have jusi been received at this station two hun- 

 dred migratory quail from Turin, Italy, sent by Mr. 

 Louis de Fernex, to be put out on his sporting farm near 

 this place, which he has recently bought of Mi - . C. D. 

 Epie. We learn that Mr. de Fernex intends to put out 

 many varieties of fish and game on this farm, and is en- 

 tirely pleased with the farm, as it has large quantities of 

 game on it ; he is also pleased with the health and climate. 

 How is this for old Virginia by one from sunny Italy. 



There are quantities of game here this season of all 

 kinds, and particularly quail as we have had a dry spring, 

 which was favorable f #r their raising their young. 



Virginia. 



Biddeford, Me., June IStli. 

 Editor Forest and Stream .-— 



The quail, for which sobjjj of our citizens subscribed, 

 have been received in good condition, and distributed by 

 George F. Calef, President of the Fish and Game Society. 

 They were let loose in Biddeford, Saco, Buxton, Hollis 

 and Parsonfield. Other parties have secured and let 

 loose another large lot in Kennebunk. All apparently- 

 doing well. 



Our river, the Saco, seems to be pretty well stocked 

 -with salmon, for they have caught some fifteen, weigh- 

 ing from ten to twenty pounds. Mr. Ed. Hanson caught 

 a nice one this morning, Friday, June 18th, weighing 

 eleven pounds. Our Fish Commissioner ought to take 

 notice of this and have lishways constructed. The river 

 once was famous for salmon, but none have been caught 

 for a long number of years until now. C. J. C. 



Protect the Nesting Quail.— The following hints 

 from a Rockland (Me.) correspondent are timely and 

 worthy of adoption : — 



I want to say a word of caution in regard to the nests 

 of the migratory quail. Having learned some things 

 last year, I have not to learn them over again. 



Alt the nests found last year were in the hay field, and 

 were found while haying. In a number of cases the 

 bird was killed or wounded on the nest, and so the eggs 

 (in one case there were fifteen eggs) were lost. In other 

 cases, where the grass was mown clean from the nest, 

 leaving no cover, the nests were forsaken. But in some 

 cases, where the grass was mown from one side of the 

 nest, and it was discovered in season to place a tuft of 

 grass back and over it, every egg (in one case fifteen) 

 was hatched. A bunch of grass as large as a water 

 pail will save fifteen quail ; but where the birds lay so 

 r>r<e it in hard to find them till the machine has passed 



over them, and it is too late. The farmer? are all right, 

 and would gladly do anything in season, but are not ex- 

 pected to tramp through the grass searching for birds' 

 nests, Hundreds could be saved by a person passing 

 along before the mowers with a stick, rustling the grass 

 and discovering the nests, so that a tuft of grass might 

 be left to cover the nest. After the birds get to coming 

 back they will nest earlier, and the young will be out of 

 way of the haymakers. 



P. S.— I let out 101 quail on the 10th, received from 

 Hon. Everett Smith, who is deserving of great praise 

 for his elTorts in introducing the quail into Maine. They 

 wero all strong but five, and they wore good runners. 

 James Wight. 



THE TILESTON MEMORIAL FUND. 



New Yonrc, June 2801. 

 Editor Furest and Stream :- 



Ihttvoto acknowledge the receipt to date of further subscrip- 

 tions to llio " Tiloston Memorial Fund," as follows:— 



Previously sicknow'gcd . .$3!til 00 I R. M, LivlnffStono Jfi 00 



W. as, 25 00 ThoB.Blak«ley... BOO 



Total $1W DO 



T inclose copy ofjletter received from Mr. P. C.Ohl, and would 

 add that we are informed by sovernl chilis that (hey are making 

 up lists, an example which we trust that others will follow. 



Yours truly, Fred N. Ram, Secretary. 



PiiAinfeld, N, J., June S8iJ. 



Mr. P. H. Motrins.— Dear Sir .—Tours concerning circular, etc., 

 relative to the fnnd for the family of the late Wm. M. Tileston to 

 hand. -The same will lie presented at meeting of the New York 

 Game and Fish Protective Society June -'atli. 



I will also state of being at present engaged painting a picture 

 of an English snipe, which I will donate to the fund, suggesting 

 same to bo raffled for, your committee setting a price on the 

 picture. 



The list I have headed with $10 ; regret I cannot do better, but 

 trust the call will be liberally responded to. 



Yours very respeotfully, Peucy C. Onx. 



GAME PROTECTION. 



Work fob Game Protectors.— Editor Forest and 

 St ream. .'—Your editorial upon what should be the true 

 work of the State Association for the Protection of Fish 

 and Game meets with a responsive echo in the hearts of 

 thousands of devotees of the rod and gun. I confess that 

 I feel very- strongly upon the subject, and, while I do not 

 presume to criticise either individual action, nor the in- 

 tentions of the honorable body, it seems that their past 

 proceedings are open to severe censure. For the past 

 twenty years these representatives from different clubs 

 have met in solemn convention, and with a grand flour- 

 ish of trumpets have incontinently proceeded to the 

 slaughter of thousands of pigeons, and then adjourned. 

 At the last meeting, not even the pretense of work was 

 indulged in; and the barren stubbles and woodlands of 

 Western "New York, which once resounded to the cheery 

 whistle of the gallant Bob White, attests better than I 

 the practical results of the State Association for the 

 Protection of Fish and Game. We all realize how our 

 game is disappearing under the indiscriminate assaults of 

 "pot-hunters," and others who, often enrolling them- 

 selves under the banner of sportsmen, and equipped with 

 pot-metal gun and bag of portentious dimensions, sally 

 forth for the slaughter- of everything they meet, from a 

 sparrow to a young hog, while the farmer, realizing his 

 loss, and not discriminating between people who carry a. 

 gun, wages war against all who shoot. The farmer 

 must be shown that his best friend is the true sports- 

 man, who protects his stock, fences and game. If we 

 will only unite, gentlemen sportsmen, iu emulating the 

 good deeds of each other in preserving and introducing 

 game, as we now do on deciding personal prowess at the 

 trap, in a few years we will not only have the. birds, but 

 also the good-will and assistance of our farmer friends, 

 I do not condemn trap-shooting per se, but object most 

 decidedly to the practice that has obtained of trap-shoot- 

 ers banding together under the misnomer of sports- 

 men's clubs, and devoting all their time and money to 

 the trap, without thought or care of how our miserably 

 inefficient and changeable game laws are violated on 

 every side, Henry F, Aten. 



New York, June 22d. 

 Editor Forest and Stream: — 



In answer to your request, I beg to say that I did not 

 attend the annual meeting of The New York Slate Asso- 

 ciation for the Protection of Game that was held this 

 year, nor have I for a number of years past. I have no 

 doubt the meeting was a genial assemblage of skilled 

 shots, in which test trials with the shot gun, rifle and 

 pistol absorbed several days of time. One evening was 

 devoted to a supper, and but a few moments to casual 

 and ineffectual talk upon the laws for the protection of 

 game, their manner of enforcement, or the habit's and 

 history of game and fish. This, at least, lias been nry 

 experience of Lhe action of those meetings I have at- 

 tended, and for that reason I have not been at the recent 

 meetings of the Association. I prefer to find and kill my 

 game in the open field and forest. I am frank to say 

 that I consider this a higher amusement, more bracing 

 to one's manhood, more congenial to gentle and hu- 

 mane tastes. There are, however, many gentlemen who 

 prefer trap-shooting. If this was divested of its money 

 prizes and its betting accessories, there would be no ob- 

 jection to it as an amusement, As now managed, it 

 brings together a great crowd of people who corne to 

 make money, and whose habits are totally at variance 

 with those of a true sportsman. The different county 

 societies for the protection of game have been the salva- 

 tion of game in the State of New York, and have largely 

 aided in its conservation in other States, and they have 

 established a code of laws and decisions which will always 

 aid by example and precedent those who are seeking to 

 further this work, The State Association does but little 

 in this regard. It would seem, therefore, as if its title 

 : -urate. Chas. E. WHITES it a i >. 



AWokkinoI Society.— Plainflild, N, J., ouae- Sis?.— 

 Editor Forest and Stream:— 1 must, as a loyal member 

 of my tribe, ask for a little spaoe to express my opinion 



abollt game protective societies, and the threatened vio- 

 lation of the woodcock law, as in your two last issues 

 you speak so disparagingly of the present societies that 

 sportsmen would hesitate of joining a society for the 

 protection of game if his money was to be used toward 

 some pigeon shooting tournament. 



Now, the society of which the writer is a member has 

 solely for its purpose the protection and propagation of 

 game and fish, and as the law of this State forbids non- 

 residents from killing game within its domain unless 

 members of a game protective society (which means ,s:3 

 per yean, it is but just that said money be devoted to 

 the propagation and protection of game." Such an asso- 

 ciation was needed, and such an association we have. 

 Its members are empowered with authority to arrest any 

 violator anywhere in the State. This society is known 

 as the New Jersey Game and Fish Protective Sociotv, 

 organized May, 1S79 ; Secretary's address, W, L. Force, 

 Plainfiold, N, J, The society is in a very flourishing con- 

 dition, and if sportsmen, farmers, land owners and others 

 desire to Ree game and fish protected they should join it. 

 In reply to "W.," who mentions in yours of the 10th 

 the intention of property owners, somewhere) in Passaic 

 County, going in a body on the 4th of July to shoot 

 woodcock, claiming they have the right to shoot them 

 on their own land, it seems to me that any bird, wild 

 by nature, and protected by State laws, unless proven to 

 be of damage, cannot be killed on one's own land. How- 

 ever, if " W.," or any one else, will give this association 

 the necessary information of any one violating the game 

 laws, the offender will be prosecuted to the law's fullest 

 extent. This September law for woodcock may bo re- 

 pealed next year, but while a law live up to it, and give 

 these birds the first chance they have had in a hundred 

 years to raise a brood in peace. Don't say, "If I don't 

 shoot them some one else will," but say, " I won't shoot 

 them and no one else sliall." Vice President. 



ptg nt\d 



JULY IS A CLOSE MONTH FOB GAME. 



— Address all communications to " Forest and Stream 

 Publishing Company, Next) York." 



NEW JERSEY STATE SPORTSMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



THE third annual meeting of the New Jersey Sports- 

 men's Association was held in the spacious parlors of 

 the Continental Hotel (the headquarters of the New 

 Jersey sportsmen), in Newark, on Monday evening, the 

 28th inst. There was a large gathering of delegates 

 from the different clubs and the best of feeling prevailed. 

 Sheriff J. J. Toffey, of the Jersey City Heights Gun 

 Club and President of the State Association for the year, 

 presided in his usual felicitious manner. Representa- 

 tives from the following clubs were present and took 

 part in the exercises : Essex Gun Club, of Newark ; For- 

 ester Club, of Newark ; Palisade Gun Club, of Jersey City ; 

 Jersey City Heights Gun Club, Rod and Gun Club, of Nov - 

 ark ; Raritan Shooting Club, Our Gun Club,of Jersey City : 

 Englewood Gun Club, Eureka Gun Club, Wagunkas, of 

 Newark ; Morristown Gun Club, Midway Gun Club, Fair- 

 view Gun Club, Hackensack Gun Club. Little Falls Gun 

 Club, Newark Shooting Club and the West Side Game Pro- 

 tective Association. Several new clubs presented then- cre- 

 dentials and were received as members of the Association. 

 After the reading and adoption of the minutes of the last 

 annual meeting, a committee of one from each club was 

 appointed by the President to make arrangements for 

 and to select the club to manage the next annua! tourna- 

 ment. They reported very unanimously to give the 

 honor of the same to the Palisade Gun Club, of Jersey 

 City. The following officers were l lien unanimously 

 and with good feeling elected for the ensuing year : 

 President, B. S. Payne, of Palisade ; First Vice-President, 

 Dr. J. Burdett, of Jersey Citv Heights : Second V ice-Presi- 

 dent, Jacob Pentz, of the Essex ; Treasurer, W. C. Con- 

 over, of the Midway (reelected); Recording Secretary, 

 Justice Von Lengerke, of Palisade (reelected) ; Corres- 

 ponding Secretary, Dr. J. Q. Bird, of Jersey City Heights, 

 also a reelection. 



It will be remembered that the running of the State 

 tournament for the present year was given at the last 

 annual meeting, unanimously, to the Jersey City Heights 

 Gun Club, as to that club was due the honor of initiat- 

 ing a movement for the formal ion of the State Associa- 

 tion, and it was by the efforts of its officers and members 

 that the first annual tournament, last year, was such it 

 triumphant success. Butowingto unforeseen difficulties 

 in the securing and fencing of the grounds of then- club in 

 time this year before the flight of the wild birds would be 

 over, Jersey City Heights very reluctantly were obliged 

 to decline the high honor, and it was therefore given of 

 a late day to the Essex, of Newark. Too much praise 

 cannot be given to this club for the Herculean efforts to 

 make it a success. Coming so late — only two weeks to 

 obtain prizes, arrange grounds, print programmes and 

 attend to the ten thousand other incidentals of a four 

 day's tournament the — club lias done wonders, as the 

 programme will testify. The prizes are rich and ample. 

 The grounds at Erb's have been fitted up regardless of 

 expense, and the arrangements in every way bid fair for 

 a very creditable result. There seems to be a gtjw 

 uine good feeling among all the delegates aud the ear- 

 nest wish for the Essex boys to meet with the success 

 they so well deserve. 



After the election of officers a very lively and interest- 

 ing discussion ensued on the proper enforcing of the 

 game laws and the propagation of game and fish. Elo- 

 quent speeches wore made by Dr. Burdett, Dr. Johnson, 

 Jacob Pent/., Mr. Beecher, President Toffey and others, 

 and it was very evident that the recent hot shots in FOR- 

 EST and Stream had hit: the mark in more than one 

 GflatJ. On motion of Mr, Pentz tho following was unani- 

 mously adopted: That a special committee of three be 

 appointed to see to the more efficient carrying out of the 

 present frame Jaws, and for the procuring of quail to bo 

 let out in certain sections of the State, and bIbo for thy 



