FOREST AND STREAM 
871 
Peru, is 15,845 feet high. The inhabitants all come of 
high families ; drink Hyson tea ; make high scores when, 
they go shooting; eat their game a little high, and have 
a high old time of it all the year around. And if the tide 
ever gets up there it will be a high tide sura enough. 
GAME PROTECTION. 
Moonlight in a. New Phase. — Richmond, Tit., Nov. 
201ft .—Editor Forest and Stream :—lu your issue of Nov. 
20th your Washington correspondent, over the signature 
“ O..” relates very graphically Ids duck-shooting at night 
on their roosting-grouuds. I beg to ask if it is not ques¬ 
tionable taste in the leading game protective journal to 
publish such things, thereby giving it the color of legiti¬ 
mate sport. Night-shooting is known to he the most injuri¬ 
ous to the hunting-grounds, and is inexcusable, except to 
the veriest pot-hunter, who goes exclusively for the bag— 
not sport — and will invariably drive the game away more 
quickly than any other manner yet devised. Wild water 
fowl disturbed on their roosting-places will invariably 
leave. More can he done to drive game away from a 
section by three nights’ hunting on their roost than by 
four weeks’ shooting during the day. Section 1 of game 
laws of Maryland reads as follows : “ That no person shall 
at any time in, on, or over the waters of the State of 
Maryland, shoot at, or shoot any waterfowl bedded in 
flocks, either upon the feeding or roosting grounds of 
said waterfowl, or elsewhere, from any vessel, boat, float 
or canoe, or any craft of any kind whatevor.” Section 
3 reads: “Or shoot any waterfowl flying about their 
feeding-grounds or elsewhere over the waters aforesaid,” 
etc. We have fine hunting-grounds, and always extend 
most heartily the right-hand of fellowship to all sports¬ 
men ; but if they must shoot ducks at night, we sincerely 
hope they will stick to the Maryland side of the Potomac. 
GtREENHKAD. 
The above communication is from the President of the 
Virginia Fish and Game Protective Association. To the 
implied charge against ourselves we can only say this : 
We aim to pub! ish an ill teVesting as well as a useful paper. 
How far we accomplish this, it may be left with our 
readers to decide, But we must assume to ourselves the 
privilege of determining what it is proper for us to pub¬ 
lish and what it is improper for us to publish. 
We cannot reject the communication of a man who 
writes a good story, simply because his adventures do not 
contain a quantum stiff, of moral teaching. No doubt 
many a man reads his Forest and Stream on Sunday, 
but we are in no sense of the word a Sunday-school 
paper. Our constituents ought to understand by this 
time that when we publish sporting papers we do not 
thereby subscribe to,nor endorse, all that their writers may 
say or do. Nor have we any fear that our influence for 
game protection will be lessened because we have allowed 
a man to describe the sport of shooting ducks by moon¬ 
light. We cannot afford the time to follow duck hunters 
in their skill's, and moose hunters through the forests, 
and trout fishermen up the mountain side, and,dog the 
steps of our contributors all over the world, to see if they 
are transgressing some law. We have not the time for 
this. Our friends can hardly ask it of us. 
Maine State Association. — Portland, Nov. Hath .— 
Several communications relative to the above subject 
have appeared in your columns of late, and a step has 
been taken by the organization of a State association that I 
hope will be productive of practical results. Several years 
since my brother (Manasseh Smith) endeavored to effect 
a combination of the fish and game clubs in this State so 
as to secure a union of forces towards accomplishing de¬ 
sired results. While the majority of our sportsmen are 
interested in the propagation and protection of fish, as 
well as birds and animals, there was too much apathy 
among those interested especially in fish, to insure com¬ 
bi ned action. 
All over the State there are sportsmen who are awake 
to the importance of a more rigid enforcement of our 
game laws, and much is said but little done ; and practi¬ 
cally little can be done until there are officers paid to en¬ 
force the laws. In the fishery department we have a 
few, a very few, paid wardens. But even these few effi¬ 
cient officers render most valuable service to the State 
under the direction of the commissioners, and there is 
already a marked change in the observance of the laws 
in localities guarded by them, and the practical benefits 
arising therefrom have produced a change in public sen¬ 
timent which renders it now easier to obtain a conviction 
by jury, of the poachers arrested, If the State legislature 
would furnish us with sufficient funds the work could 
be effectively carried out all over the State ; and when 
everyone who is interested in, and has a knowledge of, 
the importance of increasing and protecting our fish and 
game, will personally use his influence and energy toward 
effecting this, it will be done. * 
Although the protection of game is not one of the of¬ 
ficial duties of the commissioners of fisheries, yet much 
has been done in the past by my colleague, E. M. Still¬ 
well, Esq., who, to my personal knowledge at various 
times, was instrumental in punishing those who had been 
in the custom of ki llin g game out of season, and very 
much more might he done in the future with a fund at 
command to be used in the furtherance of this object, 
My duties the present year have more than ever taken 
me about over different portions of this State, and given 
rnanv opportunities to learn of infringements of the 
laws"for the protection of game, in which] as naturalist 
and sportsman I am no less interested than as an official 
in the fishery laws. 
If a warden is sent into the wilderness to detect parties 
fishing with set-lines in winter, he is instructed to also 
detect deer slayers if possible. But we have no funds to 
employ an officer to detect violators of the game laws, 
X have personal knowledge, of the fact of game killed oat 
of season (and in large quantities, too.) within the present 
year: and liad I the necessary fund, with authority to 
use it as I deemed best for the purpose, I could put a stop 
to nearly all of this business in one season, and keep i t 
stopped thereafter. Few sportsmen have any knowledge 
of the amount of game killed each year out of season, 
even in their own immediate vicinity. A sportsman ill 
conversation with me deplored the scarcity of woodcock 
and grouse in favorite coverts that formerly afforded fine 
sport. I chanced to know that a market hunter had 
each season, for three years, shot in these and other co v¬ 
erts for miles around, during July and August, This 
game was marketed in Boston, and it is very probable 
that the now famous woodcock served for Mr. John Fot- 
tler. jr., at Young’s Hotel in close season was killed iu 
Maiue. But one may ask why I, having knowledge of 
these things, have not stopped them '! Simply because I 
could not afford to devote the necessary time at my own 
expense, to obtain the requisite evidence, and arrest, and 
conviction of the offenders. My familiarity with the 
habits and haunts of game, and my frequent visits to the 
various portions of our .State at all seasons of the year, 
give me an intimate knowledge of these facts, and if the 
State of Maine, or the sportsmen of this State, will fur¬ 
nish me with the munitions of war, I will exterminate, 
or materially decimate the ranks of these enemies to the 
propagation of game. Everett Smith. 
Duck Shooting in Stratford Harbor. — Milford, 
Conn., Nov. 23ti, — In your issue of Nov, 20th I notice a 
eommunicationsigned “Black Duck” on duck shooting in 
Startford Harbor, which deserves some notice. Your 
editorial remarks are based on the ex -parte statement of 
your correspondent, but even so they are satisfactory. 
The law to which our anatine friend takes exception 
has been in operation something over a year ; that is, this 
is the second season during which the birds have been al¬ 
lowed to occupy their feeding grounds without molesta- 
tation, and in the view of many sportsmen be¬ 
sides myself, the ducks were more abundant last 
winter in the harbor than they have been 
for ten years past, aud they stayed during the whole 
winter. Large numbers ’ were killed while flying 
to and from the Sound. The birds fly over the beach or 
over the neighboring hills, and “Black Duck’s” statement 
to the contrary, notwithstanding, did furnish fair sport 
last winter. The fact is that the benefits of this law are 
just beginning to make themselves felt. The clucks are 
very abundant now and will become more numerous each 
season. They fly over the beach each day, and besides 
this, scatter more or less over the streams and pond-holes 
of the surrounding country and up the river, thus fur¬ 
nishing many opportunities for the gunner. We have 
thus a great preserve at our doors. I am credibly in¬ 
formed that there has not been as good shootiug on the 
Stratford marshes for many a long year as there was last 
season. After a few years, when the ducks shall have 
become thoroughly wonted and accustomed to regard 
the mouth of the river as a place where they will be se¬ 
cure; it may be wise to permit shooting for one or two 
days every two weeks,- hut to open the way for harrying 
t he ducks now, while on the feeding ground, would sim¬ 
ply be to reduce things to their old basis. 
"The slurs of “ Black Duck ” on the 11 selfish Milford men ” 
are amusing. I don't think the Milford men, who were 
instrumental in having this law passed—and I know them 
all—are much more selfish than others ; and I think the 
innuendo against Geo.-, who keeps the hotel on the 
beach, especially uncalled for. Mr.-is well known 
throughout the State, and has a host of warm friends, 
all of whom will testify to his excellent and genial 
qualities. “ Black Duck” will not help his cause by traduc¬ 
ing people iu tins fashion. The argument brought for¬ 
ward by youx correspondent, that if he and his friends 
do not shoot these ducks, some one else will, is precisely 
the one advanced by breakers of the game laws every¬ 
where. That is just what those men, who shoot wood¬ 
cock in the summer in Connecticut, say ; and it is cer¬ 
tainly a most selfish principle to act on. " If all these peo¬ 
ple would only do as they would he done by, we would 
have good shooting everywhere. Let “Black Duck ” pos¬ 
sess Ms soul in patience, and give the present law a 
chance. If it proves not to be effective, and does not in¬ 
crease the supply of birds in Stratford Harbor, all gun¬ 
ners will be glad to have it repealed, Among others, 
White Belly. 
Guinea Quail, —The Owego, N, Y. Gazette has tMs 
Some interest has been excited among sportsmen in this 
village by articles recently published in a prominent sports¬ 
men’s paper regarding migratory quail. Last Monday a 
small boy, about thirteen years of age, came to the place 
of business of one of our well known sportsmen. Inno¬ 
cence was stamped on his countenance, and every linea¬ 
ment was expressive equally of verdancy and honesty. 
He said he was from the Gaskill neighborhood, and that 
he had a coop of young quail, which he had witli diffi¬ 
culty caught near his father’s barn. Our sporting friend 
looked at the birds and came to the conclusion that he was 
on the track of the rara avis described in his newspaper. 
He consulted with a fellow sportsman and the twain made 
a critical examination of the qnail. The boy wanted a 
shilling apioce for them. Ho was anxious to secure his 
money as soon as possible, as he had left a span of young 
horses on another street and he was afraid they might run 
away. A dollar and a half was finally paid to liim, and 
the rare birds became the property of our sporting friends. 
The prize was soon afterwards shown to a third sports¬ 
man a gentleman of a skeptical turn of mind, He ex¬ 
amined the birds carefully for a moment, and then doubt¬ 
fully remarked that they looked and peeped very;much 
as Guinea chickens do. The eyes of the purchasers of the 
quails distended somewhat, and after a few moments, 
one of them remarked with a sigh, “Well, I guess we 
have been sold.” The more they examined and reflected, 
the better satisfied they became that they had been victim¬ 
ized, and that the rustic, in whose mouth apparently sugar 
wouldn’t melt, was a young fraud of the first water, The 
“migratory quail” were taken to the barn of one of the 
victims, and turned loose in the bam yard. They aro 
now perfectly at home in their new quarters, and don’t 
appear to migrate worth a cent. 
m m. 
Dk. Carver Abroad. —We are glad to learn from 
Land and Water that Dr. Carver of rifle-shooting cele¬ 
brity, is earning so good a name a,broad. In winning the 
candid avowals of esteem for his own behavior and ac¬ 
complishments, he is earning substantial honors for his 
uative country, We confess we’are not proud of the per¬ 
formances of very many who set themselves up abroad 
as representative Americans, Our Engl ish contemporary 
says■ 
Dr. Carver, we believe, was by no means popular at one 
time in New York, hence such marvellous shooting as 
he is capable of making being so designated. His slioot- 
ing is no “ trick ” in the sense usually conveyed in the 
application of such a term. It may bo a “ trick ” in the 
sense that it is a “trick” to shoot five-and-twenty 
English bred blue rocks in succession at thirty yards rise ; 
a • • trick ” that any man who professes to be a shot may 
be proud of. We have seen the best shots in the world— 
that is, those who have shown public form—shoot, and 
are therefore justified in offering an opinion on the sub¬ 
ject. Dr. Carver's rifle shooting is most emphatically 
genuine, and probably because he performed at New 
York all he announced he was capable of doing, lie dis¬ 
appointed those prejudiced against Mm, Being perfectly 
innocent of that kind of swagger wMch characterises 
certain classes of Yankees, and altogether of an unassum¬ 
ing, manly, and straight-forward disposition, Dr. Carver 
lias earned the good opimons of those who have come iu 
contact with him here, as do also all his countrymen of a 
similar disposition who visit England. Great doubts were 
entertained and expressed at one time of his capabilities, 
but once having had proof of the genuineness of his 
prowess, the fullest credit was accorded him forthwith. 
Englishmen of all classes appreciate genuineness as much 
in foreigners as in their own countrymen, and are never 
backward to acknowledge it. 
Everlasting Shells.— Oakfleld, Wis. Nov. latft.—I 
have been much interested in the letters of “ Bexar ” and 
“ Subscriber,” and as they seem to throw discredit on my 
favorite rifle, the Ballard, and the Everlasting shells, I 
will give you my experience with the same : — 
“About three years since, I purchased a mid-range Bal¬ 
lard, forty calibre, seventy grains, and fifty Everlasttng 
shells ; twenty-five of the shells I have never used. The 
other twenty-five I have fired and reloaded at least forty 
times each, and in my long-range experiments I have 
often loaded from the muzzle, using 100 grains of powder. 
Have always used Oriental Powder. F, G., and to-day 
every one of those twenty-five shells are as perfect as the 
day I bought them. Not one has ever burst, expanded 
or stuck in the rifle. 
“In fact, the rifle, shells and reloading implements, are 
as near perfect as any I have ever used ; which includes 
the Remington, Maynard, Stevens, WMtneyand Winches¬ 
ter ; of wMch I now have a Remington, Maynard, and 
(my favorite) the Ballard. 
"Subscriber, in his letter of Oct. 27th, says the Maynard 
shell will not expand or bother. I agree with him. But 
as the' Ballard Everlasting shell is twice as tMck as the 
Maynard, wifi he kindly give me the reason why the 
Ballard should expand, and the Maynard not. Provided, 
of course, that the sheila properly fit the chamber of the 
rifle, and that the rifle is properly chambered for the 
shell.” I-Ioricon. 
Massachusetts. — Boston. — Magnolia Rifle Gallery has 
been filled during the past week by contestants in the 
Ludwig match, and the new Military match. Mr. Hoi Us 
sent ten shots into the little one inch’iris and won the $15, 
extra prize. Following are the best scores in the Lud¬ 
wig match 
F. Hollis. 
J.M. Smith . 
E. F. Richardson.. 
N. James. 
E. Whittier. 
C. M. Guetb. 
C. P. Gleason. 
W. II. Schaefer ... 
J. F. 1(. Schaerer. 
P. Jones. 
.5 5 5 4 5 5 5 5 5 5 
.5 5 5 5 4 5 5 45 
.5 5 5 5 5 4 5 4 5 
. 5 4 5 5 5 5 4 4 5 .. 
.5544455555- 
• 5 5 5 5 4 4 5 4 5 ‘ 
.445554455 
•4 4 5 4 5 5 5 5 5 
5-50 
3— in 
5-46 
5—48 
5- 47 
6— 47 
4— 46 
5— 4(1 
4- 411 
5— 46 
The Military match opened on Monday, and has proved 
very popular. The match is open during the month to 
any regularly enlistod man of the State Militia ; the best 
scores are :— 
Private Spnfford, Co. T., 2d cadets.. 4 5 
Private Gardner, Co. D., 1st Regt... 5 4 
Sergaut Osljorn, N. C. S. 1 1st -Rogl... 4 4 
Corporal Everett, Co. 1). 1st liegt. .4 4. 
Colonel Wales, l8t Kegt. 4 4 
Corpora] Litbgow, Co. I),, 1st Regt. 4 ii 
Private Browuell* Co. D., Regl .lat;. 5 5 
4 4 4 5 4 4 4 
4 ‘i 5 3 4 t 4 
5-46 
g-45 
5—45 
4- 45 
5- 16 
5- 41 
4-4, 
.Boston, Mass.— Walnut Bill, Nov. 27th.— Thanks-uv- 
ing was a gala day at WaMut Hill, but we have only 
space for the head scores in the several competitions- 
We print 
SCLVERWARB MATCH—200 YARDS. 
5 4 
• ..4: 5 4 
SILVERWARE. MATCH— 800 YARDS. 
E. F. Richardson.. . f, 4 5 
E. F. Hunks. ...4 4 5 
H. Tyler .- . ,...5 4 4 
K. Pago. ,.. 4 4 8 
5 0 5-38 
4 4 4-29 
4 4 4-29 
4 4 5-28 
•MB OLASS-BAEL .MATCH. 
Single. Double. Rotary. Total. 
O. F. Belcher. 
ID. S. Belcher..4 3 
J. Nichols.4 n 
H. A. Adams.4 10 
H. Scavcrns.4 7 
E. M. Preble. t « 
H. A. Brown .1 i 
NOVEMBER AMATEUR SERIES. 
0. R. Griffin.5 5 4 4 r, 
S. B.Hcnrv.” 4 4 4 4 4 
Cttpt. Howe.. 3 4 4 4 
'4 5 5 5—47 
( 4 4 4—41 
3 4 3 4—37 
That Florida Party.— One morejmembev is now de¬ 
sired to complete the Florida party under Dr, F,, to which 
we invited attention some weeks ago. Must report by 
Deo. 8th, Commumcate t hrougli this office. 
The successful competitors for the turkey shoot were 
Messrs. Richmond, Henry, Osborne, Guerrier, Tyler, Sar¬ 
gent, Richardson, aud Nichols. 
1 Tlie Raymond Sportsman's Club held its final competi¬ 
tions in the subscription glass-blass and rifle matches at 
