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quence of the close cover and partly my very had shoot¬ 
ing. I was accompanied by Oscar Purdy of Tarrytown 
with his dog, and I had Mr. Raymond's bitch, Sukie, who 
beha ved splendidly. The swamps were full of sportsmen, 
but although theirewas a constant fusilade few birds came 
to bag. 
I desire to acknowledge politeness from a stranger. I 
had as I supposed knocked over a bird and had sent Sukie 
into cover to find dead, when the bird got up and flew in¬ 
to the face of a gentleman breakfasting under a chestnut 
tree. He knocked the cock over handsomely and then 
called to me to send the dog who found him in the retrieve. 
Sukie did the work well and the bird went to the stranger’s 
bag. He was frank and polite and I raised no question of 
property : but there is a nice point in it. R. S. 
Ohio— Youngstown, August 13.—Woodcock shooting is 
about over here for the present, as the birds have deserted 
their former favorite grounds for the more secure quar¬ 
ters to be found amidst the tall com of the rich bottom 
lands ; there to fatten, feast and feather. The Mahomngs 
and the Ohios are the only clubs of this city that were 
courageous enough to undertake a trip to the unknown 
wilds bordering on Chautauqua Lake. Buckeye Boy. 
Nevada— Reno, August 15.—Game in this region is 
abundant. Meadow shooting for snipe opened on the 1st 
of this month, and some fair bags have been made. We 
are looking forward to the fall flight of ducks and geese, 
which always affords lots of fuu. The shooting lasts all 
the winter, and the guns are always to be heard on the 
Truckee meadow. Brant, swan, curlew, doves, sage 
hens, quail, jack rabbits, cottontails, mountain grouse, 
deer, etc., make up a rarely excelled variety of game. 
And with all this the fishing is superb. Hach. 
The Florida Mosquito.— Titusville, Brevard Co., Fla., 
August 2d.—The mosquitoes are so bad in Florida that 
even the stoical Indian cannot stand them. Civilization 
interposes a mosquito or muslin sand-fly bar to stay their 
attacks, but then untutored Indians have not reached such 
heights of material progress as to be provided with such 
appliances. Their resort is smoke from smouldering wood, 
which is called a * 1 smudge.” Sitting around this ‘ • smudge” 
in the daytime they manage to keep away the pest, 
almost asphixiated at the same time themselves. For the 
night they erect a scaffold supported on four posts a few 
feet from' the ground. On this they spread their blankets 
and build an immense “smudge” beneath. The black 
volumes of smoke roll up and envelope them in plutonic 
shades in which no mosquito can live. Outside of the 
smoke the hum of the innumerable millions sounds like a 
mighty vrind sweeping through a field of tall wheat or 
rye? The poor dogs run howling about and rush at last 
to the water and he down np to their noses. Oftentimes 
the mosquitoes fall into the fire in such numbers as to ex¬ 
tinguish it. 1 have seen the so-caUed blind mosquitoes 
washed up on the shore in layers four inches deep. They 
rise up before you like a wall, in the marshes. Let a 
hunter be hut lost or disabled without a musquito bar and 
nn way of making a fire in the marshes or the woods dur¬ 
ing a night and his fate would be sealed. If not dead, he 
would he a raving maniac by morning. They are worst 
during the fall of the moon and during ramv weather. 
There are half a dozen kinds of the insect in Florida; one 
variety that I have seen, the “ gallinipper,” measures 
three-fourths of an inch- On my expeditions when locat¬ 
ing railroad lines, upon moving our camp to a new loca¬ 
tion we always burn over afl the surrounding country 
for several miles. In this way we manage to destroy most 
of them, and new-comers find no congenial cover. I won¬ 
der if mosquito netting was discovered at the, time the 
old Spaniards occupied this country ? The settlers sit at 
table with a brazier of smoking brands at either end and 
one under the table, and thus partake of their meals. Old 
rags or leather is substituted for wood while the supply 
lasts, the smoke being more pungent. Out m the hen¬ 
coop the poor fowl are stamping all night in the vain en¬ 
deavor to keep the mosquitoes from their legs and feet. 
When I take an observation through the transit they set¬ 
tle on mv face and hands in clouds, and my note-book is 
spattered throughout with blood. Al. I. Gator. 
Our correspondent should domesticate these creatures 
and teach them to bore post holes with then- bills. Prop¬ 
erly harnessed, a Florida mosquito might be made a most 
efficient instrument in railroad and canal construction. 
Loading A Parker Gun .—Editor Forest and Stream 
In a late issue you publish a tabular statement of trials at 
a target with a Scott gun. I use a Parker pin, than 
which I believe there is no better gun made. Everyone 
seems to have the right through your columns to adver¬ 
tise his choice, and I claim the same privilege. The 
writer’s statement for his and many other guns as to the 
best load is undoubtedly correct; and while a 10-bore 
may be proven by United States Army officers, as a gen- 
eral rule to burn clean just four drachms of powder, there 
axe exceptions which burn somewhere between tour and 
fiVe drachms of powder. The difference maybe tnflmgm 
amount, hut there is a decided difference in the pattern 
ami penetration. If, therefore your ^n shoots better 
with four and a half drachms it shows that the chamber 
bums over four drachms ; and, even if a little is not well 
consumed, use four and a half drachms instead of four. 
Different sized wads are required for metal and paper 
sheik of course, but 1 find two different styles of Imtomg 
metal shells. No. 10 A as follows -.four and a halt drachms 
powder, two common Eley wads No. 9, one arid a quarter 
oz. shotandonepink edge wad, No. 8; again five drachms 
powder; one No. 8 pink edge wad ; one and a quarter 
ounces shot, and one No. 8 pink edge wad. You will 
find with No. 4 or 6 shot about the same propor¬ 
tionate pattern and penetration, and difficult m either 
case to be improved with any other load. I piefei the 
first as always sure. When the ducks get plenty, I will 
report the result of these loads ; at present l ean only 
fudge from the target. If some one asks you the cost of 
such a load at retaifprices of ammunition, it will be about 
four cents It pays to shoot enough powder and shot to 
tell Thirty-eight birds bagged out of thirty shots is far 
more satisfactory than twelve out of thirty, as wefi as 
more profitable as an investment. R. W. H. 
Oconto, Wi's., Augusts. 
Long Distance Targets.— Boston, August Vlth, 1879. 
Whv cannot “ Forest Aisle ” give us some long distancetar- 
gete say75 and 100 yards at a 30 inch nng t I think we 
would afl be obliged to him. I have never seen any long 
distance targets in the “Forest,” and think they would 
he very interesting to all gunners who like to “reach out” 
for their game. Let us>have some long distance fellows, 
just for a change. Pluvier. 
There is no person more competent to treat these sub¬ 
jects than “ Forest Aisle,” who has beenlong qualified by 
British official service, and is even now one of the fore¬ 
most of the London Field’s correspondents. — Ed. F. andS. 
An Error in Grade.—Mississippi— JaAtson , August 12tii.--.lfr. 
Editor:— In issue of Forest and Stream August 7tb, “Forest 
Aisle " says, one of his “ companions was armed with a gun lit lb. 
10 guage, etc.,” and “ used 41 dra. powder and 11 oz. shot; ” if For¬ 
est anj» Stream did not malre a mistake in proof-reading, please 
ask “ Forest Aisle ” the length of a 16 bore shell to take above 
amount of powder and shot as well as wads. Would also like to 
know weight of the man who fired 12 drs. out of the 7 bore, provi¬ 
ded " Forest Aisle ” knows what.became of the 12 drs. man. 
Geo. C. Eyirch. 
The error was on the part of the printer ; it should have 
been 10 guage. With regard to the 12 drs. of powder, our 
correspondent must remember that the gun weighed 17 
pounds ; and although we should not have cared to have 
stood behind it, as John Phenix remarked in his celebra¬ 
ted reply to the pistol challenge of Capt. Travis, in offer¬ 
ing to repeat the latter’s feat of shooting an apple off a 
man’s head, although a man in San Diego could not be 
found to hold the apple, perhaps one in St. Louis (or Can¬ 
ada) could.—E d.] 
Indianapolis, August 12th.—Mr. Editor:— Dear Sir: In thelost is¬ 
sue, August7th, of your paper, one of your contributors—” Forest 
Aisle," speaks of Stonehenge’s new method of loading shells where¬ 
by the pattern and penetration iB marvelously Increased. I have 
been a somewhat careful reader of your paper and have failed to 
see anything upon tliissubject. If there is anything In it, what is 
it ? I am anxious to learn ail that I can touching the efficiency of 
the breecb-Ioading shot gun. H. G. C. 
THE ECHOES OF A BUGLE. 
Huntingdon, Tenn., July 15. 
Editor Forest and Stream :— 
Some weeks ago I propounded an interrogatory through 
the Forest and Stream on the subject of a' “ harp horn,” 
or tongued horn, stating that I had seen such in the pos¬ 
session of a hunter while on a camp hunt last fall. Since 
the question appeared in your columns I have been forc¬ 
ibly impressed with the extensive and attentive reading 
that must be devoted to the Forest and Stream, and if 
I have not elicited the desired information, I have at least 
been interested in the numerous responses that have been 
forwarded to me. I am now prepared to set up a con¬ 
siderable tin shop of specimen tin horns that I have re¬ 
ceived, and am quite sure that I now have on hand the 
most extensive collection of manuscript on the subject of 
tin horns that can be found in America. But now, by 
way of being more specific, I would say that it was not 
the “fog horn” that I was inquiring after, nor was it any 
kind of a tin horn, but the old fashioned cow's horn, with 
the amendment of a vibrating tongue inserted in the neck 
and mouth-piece, pointed so as to go inside ,the mouth 
instead of pressing against the lips. Ordinarily such a 
horn would be considered inferior to the common blowing 
horn, but to those who cannot well blow the common 
horn it would be preferable. The one that I saw came 
from St. Louis, and gave out a piercing, shrill note, that 
could be heard for miles. But as I have seen no adver¬ 
tisement of such I suppose that the inventor made one 
and then died. For the information of the numerous 
manufacturers who seem to imagine a tin horn the very 
thing for a sportsman, 1 would say that I never knew a 
hunter to carry a tin horn ; but from time immemorial the 
cow horn has been peculiarly his instrument for calling 
in his hounds ; and so long has the noble breed of dogs 
been accustomed to its sound that intuitively they set up 
a gladsome howl when it is heard, and no doubt feel as 
did the poet when, with a slight change, he penned the 
following beautiful lines: 
his errands here the purchase of a number of steer horns. 
We doubt if one man in a thousand met on Broadway 
would know where to direct a stranger for Texan steer 
horns. But our friend knew where to go. Down in a 
Front street cellar, dimly lighted by a flickering gas jet, 
were stacked up scores and hundreds and thousands of 
horns; short horns, long horns, straight horns, crooked 
horns, horns smooth, horns crumpled, brown, gray, white, 
and black horns ; a spectacle ghastly enough to throw a 
timid body into convulsions for a week. The hunter 
after hunting horns was told to select half a dozen. He 
began by picking out a magnificent specimen, long, well 
tapered, symmetrical. This was, however, quickly dis¬ 
carded for a better one; then the second for a third, and 
embarrassed and bewildered by the wealth of Texas be¬ 
fore him, he would have gone on selecting alternately 1 and 
rejecting until this day had not desperation come to his 
rescue, when he took the first six at hand, regretfully 
cast one lingering look behind, and made his way out; 
and we presume that the hills of North Carolina have ere 
this resounded to the merry notes of those horns, urging 
on horse, hound and hunter to the chase. The instru¬ 
ment devised from the cow’s horn is not always sweet 
toned. Properly prepared it becomes a means of most 
horrible discord, much affected in certain localities of 
the United States by night revellers and mob-serenaders; 
and it is a musical instrument high in favor with savages. 
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Maine.— Bath, Aug. 6.—The third and last of the series 
of glass ball shoots of the Sagadahoc Fish and Game Pro¬ 
tective Association, for the association badge; rotary 
trap ; Bogardus rules ; 18 yards rise :• — 
,T. 8. Bonney. 10110100011 
S. W. Carr. 00000000100 
H.B. Fisher. 00101101011 
Charles Goud.0 1 0 
A. C. Williams.. 0 0 0 i 
L. B. Newell. 0 1 1 0 
William Williams.1 0 1 0 
Samuel Knight.0 111 
C. H. G reen leaf. 0 0 0 1 
J. A. Fisher.,...1 011 
George Minott.. 10 0 0 
W. W. Brown.0 1 1 0 
A. Q. Goud. 1111 
James H. Millay.1 0 1 
Alonzo Leighton . Ill 
A. Leighton, badge; A. Q. Goud, second,prize. In 
second match ; 8 balls from Bogardus trap ; 8 double and 
8 from Card rotary :—A. Q. Goud scored 17, and took first 
prize; Leighton, 16, second prize; C. Goud, 14, third 
prize ; Wright and Greenleaf tied on 13, which was shot 
off from rotary, and Knight was the winner of fourth 
prize. Gi E. N. 
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Maine — Topsham. August 15.—Freeport and Riverside 
Clubs at Freeport; Card trap : — 
FREEPORT CLUB. 
W. Merrill.... 
Wing. 
Burr. 
Davis. 
J. P. Merrill.. 
Webster. 
Thurlow. 
Soule. 
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RIVERSIDE CLUB. 
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A. Q. Goud. 1 
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Ties on fourteen :— 
W. Merrill..1 111 1—5 | Bonney . 0 1 
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W. A 8., Secretary. 
Oh! huntsman, wind that horn again, 
For never did the listening air 
Upon the lambent bosom hear 
So soft, so wild, so sweet a strain. 
What though thy notes are sad and few. 
By every simple huntsman blown, 
Yet is the pulse to nature true, 
And melody In every tone. 
Milford . — There was a glass ball shoot on Wilkinson’s 
grounds last week. J. G. Mole rotary trap, rise of 18 
yards. Out of a possible 20, the score was as follows:— 
J. Martin.12 | 
G. Whitney.11 
C. S. Evans. 9 
W.B.Denett. 81 
C. White. 
H. V. Brooks. 
T. Wilkinson.. 
L. B, Putnam, 
8 
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6 
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I have not heard the above lines for more than twenty- 
five years, but think that I give them substantially cor¬ 
rect. U L. H. 
Our correspondent who has had the novel experience 
related above might have saved him self from such an 
overwhelming avalanche of paper and tin had he been 
more explicit in his original inquiry. It is not strange 
that with all the information bo gratuitously sent to him 
he has discovered nothing better than the old-fashioned 
cow’s horn, for this instrument has a melody all its own, 
and is deservedly the one commonly adopted by followers 
of the hounds. It is usually formed by simply scraping 
and polishing a cow’s horn, and sawing off the small end 
at a suitable distance ; the key depends upon the length 
of the barrel and the size of the apperture. Almost any 
boy at the South knows how to make one; but there is a 
knack about it, as there is a knack about constructing 
violins. The virtuoso’s collection of hunting horns is as 
interesting in its way as a collection of any other musical 
instruments; especially if your host has a fund of stories 
and romances connected with the initials cut upon this 
horn and that one, and if he is disposed to relate the stir- 
ing stories recalled by each. 
Texan steer horns are generally the best for hunting 
bugles. A North Carolina Congressman of our acquaint¬ 
ance, who ran down to New York during one of the in¬ 
termissions at Washington last winter, is very skillful in 
the construction of these instruments, and had among 
New Haven Gun Club — Medal Shoot; Bogardus’ rules ; 
August 12th : — 
Folsatn. 
Langdcn. 
Hanson. 
Leate. 
Bens. 
Willis. 
S. Bryan. 
Inguson . 
Iliiixon 
W. Bryan. 
Jarry. 
Shooing off ten, Hanson won the badge. 
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New York .—Brooklyn, Aug. 6.—Fountain Gun Club 
match for championship ; five traps ; handicap rise 
W. M. Hans.. 
E, Pike. 
J.T. Slane. 
G. Helmstedt. 
H. Smith. 
A. P. Carlin — 
E, H. Madison... 
L. Brown. 
A. Bush . 
J. White . 
J. De Frano. 
H. Miller. 
P. Sheridan. 
G. Cowenhovcn. 
G. A. Chappell.. 
W. K. Hunter... 
C. Loinken . 
Seiover. 
A. Hunter . 
W. Coolier. 
W. Climber . 
K. James.. 
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A Novel Match— Syracuse, N. Y., Avgust 14 th ,— 
Match between F. A. (Frenchy) Johnson, the colored oars¬ 
man, of Boston, and L. H. Boughton, the champion one 
