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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[Jan. 18. 1883. 



Prohibiting Urn spring shooting of ducks, for the reason 

 that they are driven from their breeding grounds. 



Prohibiting rlie shooting of ducks between sunset and 

 sunrise, for the reason that tliey are driven from their feed 

 ing grounds. 



.Making the baving in possession of game out of *ii<iiii, 

 prima facie evidence of tne kdling, and throwing thebnrdeu 

 of proof upon the owner, that it was killed in season. 



The English sparrow waa excluded from the list of pro- 

 tected song birds. In the present law. sparrows (not the 

 English pests) are protected. A close season foi pigeons to 

 cover the nesting period (March 1 to June 15 suggested*. 



Placing male and female dogs upon an equal footing as re- 

 gards taxation. The present tax is one dollar for dogs and 

 three dollars for bitches. 



Prohibiting fishing in interior streams for three yews tlftttr 

 brook trout have been planted therein. 



Prohibiting the spearing and shooting of fish, exceptiug 

 mullet, suckers, sturgeon and redsides, in the Lakes and 

 Detroit and St. Clair rivers. 



The penalty for violation ot the game laws was fixed at 

 not less than $10 nor more than $50. It is now $50. 



In the evening the visiting members of the association 

 and many invited guests were entertained by the Detroit 

 members with a banquet at the Michigan Exchange. Ed- 

 win F. (onelv presided, and the occasion was rue of rare 

 enjoyment. The table* were well supplied with such game 

 as is obtainable at this season of the year, and were ren- 

 dered very attractive with (lowers and ornamental pieces 

 appropriate to the occasion. The following were the regu- 

 lar toasts and responses: 



•'Welcome Michigan Sportsmen, to Detroit." Edwin F. 

 Concly declared that no one was more welcome to the city 

 of Detroit than the sportsmen of Michigan, and no one 

 could welcome them with more heartfelt cordiality than 

 himself. 



"The Michigan Sportsmen'-. Association." President E. 

 8. Holmes said that when the Kent County Sportsmen's 

 Club chose delegates to the Detroit meeting he took espe- 

 eial pains to have a toast speaker among them. He is not 

 present, however and the speaker had accomplished noth- 

 ing by strategy and foresight. Dr. Holmes spoke at con- 

 siderable length of the early history of the Michigan Asso- 

 ciation, declaring that it had two fathers— the [vent Counlv 

 Club ami the Audubon Club, of Detroit, 



"Detroit." Mayor W. GK Thompson said if he were to 

 be again elected "Mayor of the city, of which then' is no 

 probability, since he suppressed the "James Hoys," he 

 would sit' down some rainy dnv and compose a response 

 to the City of Detroit. No man iuore enjoys the fruits of 

 the Chase than himeelf, and he could prove it to the entire 

 satisfaction of any one who will give him an invitation to a 

 game supper. 



"The North Woods of Michigan. How we shoot our 

 i k-er and other people shoot our dogs." E. C. Nichols said 

 be had learned the i rue secret of deer -.hooting, and that is 

 to be there when the deer j*oes by. As to the shooting of 

 dogs, he had never started for the woods without being in- 

 formed that dogs were not allowed to run deer, and yet he 

 had never had a hound shot, If there is any sport in deer 

 hunting, it is not in still-hunting, but in' hunting with 

 hounds. 



".Legislation — What has been accomplished toward game 

 protection, and what is yet to be done." G. P. Gibson said 

 lie could respond to that toast in lew words. What the 

 Legislatures of the past have 'lone, everybody knows. 



What the Legislatures of the future will do." the Lord only 

 knows. 



'The Hhinoccros— ilis habits and appetite. What, legis- 

 lation is needed for the protection of this new" and valuable 

 game bird '' G. W. Latimer said he had been figuring up. 

 and found that his minnows, since he joined a fishing club. 

 had cost him $11 each, and each fish 'he has caught. $32 

 each. 



The following poem, contributed by a Chicago lady, was 

 then read; 



THE DBUUHT8 OP NATURE. 

 Busy, throbbing, growing city. 



Marching with a giant's stride, 

 Pause- and rear n stately marble. 

 To Hie vletims of thy pride. 



"Victims to thy stately honors, 



Victims to the lore of gold, 

 Let the sculptor 'grave it deeply. 



Home and happiness were solH. 



•ebaut, scholar. 



od away. 



view It, statesman, me 



Wasting bone and bit 

 Lined and whitened ert 



Half is spenf of life's fair day. 



Fading eyes now bending closer. 



O'er quotations, bonds and stocks. 

 On thy bags sits blear-eyed folly 



Waning heritage to mock. 

 H-ar the voire from polished granite: 



Spare thy youth, thy strength, thy heart. 

 And in needless, ceaseless labor 



Dare net thou to kill a part. 



Sre the picture nature giv es thee, 

 Wafting forth her od'rous charms: 



l-almy forests, brushy meadows, 

 Held in her extended arras. 



Chase the stag o'er sloping hillsides. 



'Noble monarch of the glen," 

 Mark the rich blond's dancing globules 



Into life's renewars; then. 

 Bend his antlers lower, lower, 



Nature cries, "he must he slain," 

 t.uscious bonnet) the feast, shall gladden, 



8ay not he has died in rain: 



' >r 'midst vvlndsighs. stripping branches. 



Heron hmt 'mongst rush and reed. 

 Prairie chicken, quia and ploi er, 



sere'., sport to meet thy need. 

 Cam as-bact and green-head mallard. 



Teed, where feathered b amies sing, 

 With the swiftly coursing teal-duck, 



Take them, huntsman, on the wins. 

 Or, pass on, where placid waters 



Filled with myriad tinny life, 

 QUlet, healthful sport afford the-. 



■ oo.uing change from city's strife. 



Noble game as in the forest. 



Thou canst Hud beneath the wave, 

 Deem the time net lost to seek it , 



Thou thy health must also gave. 



Sit wheu evening's sky stains purple. 



t>r at morning's crimson dawn, 

 Note through clear transparent water. 



How the flab each other fawn; 



Spin thy reel and wait thy venture. 



Speckled trout, or tiger bass. 

 Angler, land a plucky black one 



'Ere the chances from tbeu oass 

 Hook the pickerel, swiftly darting. 



With the graceful wall-eyed pike, 

 Herman carp will soon he thriving— 



Hardy, too, as one would like. 



Heed a word— 'tis said quite wisely. 



Hold line taut, yet hold it light, 

 And two rules must ne'er escape th 



Site, 



ekei 



.'ell f 



jape thee, 

 sight. 



Hast thou watched in vain for large game 

 Since thy hook gave first its plunge; 



Do not weary, ev.ry angler 

 Catches not a muscalenge. 



ame bag flat, 



Bravely take 



bevels not t 



rith naught to boast. »f ? 

 in ill-timed sneer. 

 favored marksman 

 eek-skiuued ib'er. 



stro 



Thou art neat , 



For these brief relaxing spells, 

 And the voices of thy dear ones, 

 shall seem sweet as Easter beljs, 



— UnoWNia. (Chicago, 111.) 

 TlltmsDAv's SESSION. 



The committee On credentials, in reporting a large list of 

 applicants for individual membership, submitted for honor- 

 ary membership ttie name of Mr. C. 1>. Reynolds, of the 

 Forest amiStkeam, who was unanimously'elected. 



Upon the subject of disposing of the Offal of. fish, Messrs. 

 Clark and Dewey spoke in favor of an enactment requiring 

 fishermen to impregnate the eggs of whilefiSh they may 

 caich in their nets with the milt of the whitetish and commit 

 it to the waters. Mr. Dewey said he (bought the fishermen 

 would willingly oomph wild such a law, and Mr. Clark 

 said he had long followed this practice. It takes but a few 

 moments of time, and may result in a large increase of food 

 fishes. He has thus impregnated and thrown into the river 

 15,000,000 eggs; the past season. The recommendation was 

 concurred iu. 



('. 0. Fitzhugh, from the committee on Sunday shooting, 

 reported in favor of a law empowering officers to'arrest Sun- 

 day shooters without a warrant and hold them until Mon- 

 day for examination. The true inwardness of this action is 

 not found in the excessive morality of Miebiganilers. but 

 in the fact that daylight Sunday morning finds tin- roads 

 leading from every large city thronged with hoys and young 

 men of every nationality anil condition of life going out for 

 a day's shooting. Each one has an old army' musket. 

 price $1.23, or an arm of about the same value, and a 

 majority have cur dogs. The woods and marshes within a 

 radius of ten miles arc thick with them all day long. They 

 go out to shoot, and shoot tiiev do at everv liviiiir Ihiu'g 

 they see that has fur or feathers. ' The legislative committee 

 will include this recommendation in its bill and petition. 



The secretary read a letter from Munising, detailing vio- 

 lations of the game laws in that vicinity. Hunters "from 

 Pittsburgh and other places go there as early as August and 

 shoot deer. for their skins only, killing them in great num- 

 bers, leaving the carcasses i,, rot on the ground. 



H. B. Hone;,. ..f East Saginaw, wrote suggesting that the 

 modi&tea be requested to make "sparrow-brown" a fashions- 

 able color. Then the ladies will want sparrows for their 

 hats, and the fate of the little pests will be sealed. 



The next annual meeting was fixed for the second Tues- 

 day in January, 1884, at 7:30 o'clock in the evening, end 

 Jackson will be the place. 



ELECTION Oi OFEKEUS. 

 The association then plot ceded to the election of officers 

 for the ensuing vear, with the follow ing result: 

 President—: E. S. Holmes. Grand Rapids. 

 Secretary— Wm. B. Mershou, East Saginaw . 

 Treasurer— N. &.. Osgood. Battle Creek, 

 Director for four years— S. E. Rogers, Jackson. 

 The association then adjourned •«'/•• >//■ . 



JOTTINGS FROM JERSEY. 



i N item is going the rounds of the press to the effect that 

 Y the West J-rs- v Ciio:; Protective Soebt , has irdered 

 1,500 pairs of quail from Tennessee, to he distributed in the 

 five lower counties of the State, We do not vouch for the 

 truth of the report, but gladly, repeat if as the first evidence 

 of the year in favor of (lie existence of the organization, 



Snowy owls seem to be on your mind, and we notice that 

 they nave been caught in lower Burlington county this 

 winter. If they were trying to get away from cold weather 

 they did not go far enough for" this morning (January 12) 

 the mercury stands at zero, and we have a foot of snow. 



Last, week I saw a large flock of skylarks on a cornfield 

 in Monmouth county. Tn December blue heron and brown 

 quak or bittern were shot in Mercer county, forty miles from 

 theses. On December 19, a gentleman driving along the 

 public road near Highfsiowu saw what he thought was an 

 English snipe flv ahead of him. Soon afterward he noticed 

 in the roadside 'hedge a small hawk which appeared to be 

 unable to rise. He left his team and gave chase to the 

 hawk which attempted to get away with its load, but 

 finally dropped its prey and escaped. Fie picked up the 

 victim. Which proved to be the snipe, still warm, but with 

 its skull crushed and eyes picked out. "Does the gray 

 snipe stay in Jersey so late';" was the question I asked of 

 Squire Vannest, whose meadows on the Millstone are, their 

 favorite feeding grounds. He replied. "Yes, sir; the snipe 

 that come on my meadows in the fall never go away except 

 in the game bag. If I go out and sttrt a dozen an 1 kill 

 three, Iknow I will find nine next time if I don't go until 

 Christmas. They won't move on. " Being a little incredu- 

 lous, he gave me as a clincher this: "Why. if you will 

 come down to my place I'll show you as lively a swarm of 

 musquitees to-day us you ever saw in a Barncgat salt meadow. 

 The season has nothing to do with it if they like the neigh- 

 borhood. "I 



Last week 1 was talking with Hart Sight, the well-known 

 trainer and shooter of Monmouth county. He says that 

 my reports in regard to the number of quail left o'verure 

 correct, and that, with anything like n fair winter, there 

 would be plenty of quail' in that couutv next rear He 

 knew of seven large bevies in a half mile", arid found many 

 bunches that had not been thought of in November. He 

 gave as his opinion that there would be no more wintei to 

 hurt the quail; but by this time he is, no doubt, satisfied 

 that, he was iu error on this point. 



A neighbor of mine, who keeps a store, has a strange night, 

 watchman on duty. It is a common screech owl, which 

 somebody turned 'loose in the establishment a few weeks 

 ago. During the day the bird remains quietly in some 

 nook, generally unknown to the proprietor or clerks, but at 

 night comes out and takes charge of the concern. 



A few days ago a lad brought us a very handsoie |n-e: 

 men of the white mole. We notice that" it is much large) 

 than the common varmint, and the fur seems to he much 

 liner, longer and heavier. Is it an albino or another species'' 



Mr O. Formati Taylor, of Colt's Neck, has just, returned 

 from a trip to Kansas. He reports plenty of' all kinds of 

 game in that State and was so completely 'charmed with the 

 splendid quail. shooting that he vows he will never "descend" 

 to hunting in New Jersey again Yet, if "he lives, you will 

 find him and some of Old Sauoho's progeny on the meadows 

 after woodcock on July 3, 1883. though the mercury stands 

 at 100. We know him. ' A. 



New Jersev. .Inn. 13. (883. 



|The mole was no doubt an albino.J 



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Worcester, Mass., Jan. 12.— The Worcester daily &}U 

 of to-day has the following; "Officers from Maine have been 

 in the city the past week looking after Worcester parties 

 who, it is claimed, were engaged in moose shooting there 

 last summer. Worcester gentlemen were included "in two 

 parties who went into the Dead River country last summer 

 after 'rout, and during their fishing one of' the parties is 

 reported to have killed a moose, and'the members tire said 

 to have lived like kings, if kings can be imagined to enjoy 

 themselves among those persistent Maine 'woods' pests- 

 black flies— onlnoose steak and trout. In this party was ;, 

 lawyer, who finds occasional relief from his professional 

 cares with his fly rod. The landlord with whom they left 

 their luggage, on" entering the woods sought to secure patron- 

 age for himself by sending an account of the moose shooting 

 to tin- Forest and Stream, where it fell under the eyes of 

 the Maine authorities, and they are trying to secure evidence 

 against the sportsmen. Of the doing's of t he other party, in 

 Which were some hah a dozen Worcester gentlemen, the 

 Maine authorities know but little, and. if they shot a moose. 

 they have kept the story of the shooting to themselves ; 

 this party were manufacturers, lawyers, and a prominent 

 United Stales official, but the investigation thus far fails to 

 establish a case against them. The penalty is a fine of $100. 



Two other Worcester wen, who saw a moose in the Maine 

 woods last slimmer, are feeling much better in tin belief 

 that the animal is slid living than they would be over recol- 

 lections of choice moose steaks and anxiety about the move- 

 ments of Maine officials." [The "•/>;/ is in error in saying 

 that the landlord sent a letter to the Forest ami Stream, 

 The letter was addressed to another party, and our mention 

 of it in issue of August 10, 1SS3. was simply to expose the 

 nefarious practices of its writer.] 



Tin VlUGIHlA Snov-tokm.— Richmond, A*a.. Jan. IS.— 

 On Tuesday and Wednesday last, the 10th and 11th. there 



the memorable winter of 1857. The snow now covers the 

 ground on the level to a depth of twenty inches. It has 

 been fun for the darkies, but death to the game. An exam- 

 ination made this week of the three markets of Washington, 

 D. O, Alexandria, and Richmond, Va.. has shown me an 

 unprecedented amount of -amefor sale, by the sable brother, 

 generally, chiefly of rabbits and partridges Sot only have 

 the countrymen 'turned out for a general battue to Capture 

 and kill al'lthe fur and feather that are rendered fearless and 

 weak by hunger, and who leave a plaiu trail in the snow; 

 but the cities have disgorged their vagrants to assist in the 

 nefarious work. 1 noticed on a trip from Alexandria to 

 Richmond, at every wayside station, couples and gangs of 

 Africans, armed with old army muskets, on their way. and 

 preparing to beat every covert in the country and track every 

 squirrel, old hare, and" quail, and shoot them on sight. 1 

 fear this winter will prove fatal to the quail and that the 

 few that are left will be exterminated, unless, indeed, they 

 have sense enough to migrate. I will wager my Greener 

 agaiust an old flint-lock that there is hardly a ee ; in.> cabin 

 in the backwoods on whose table cannot be found the follow- 

 ing iiKiiti: Ashcatee; spare ribs; rabbits, fried: snowbirds, 

 do.; partridges, do., and a jug of turpentine whisky— the 

 hitter obtained at the nearest crossroads store by a trade for 

 half the butchered game. — OfiASBBl R, 



Michigan Game Notes. — On our recent deer-shooting 

 trip to the Manistee region we found some bears, but there 

 being no snow, we could not track them. 1 saw a good 

 many marten's tracks during the last days I was there. ( >ne 

 of our party went to a lake iu the vicinity of our hunting 

 ground and found that quite a number' of beaver were 

 there. We did not go prepared to trap game. I saw the 

 tracks of two otter on the bank of the Manistee; and 1 have 

 no doubt if we had been prepared we might have caught 

 considerable fur. Ruffed grouse were quite plenty in sonic 

 localities, but no quail. The law against killing deer in the 

 water is not regarded in any section where I was. At 

 Houghton Lake deer were driven in and pursued with boa 

 and shot or clubbed to death. Two deer were shot in the 

 Manistee one moniii g by one of the party who were 

 camping on the cast side. Another case, a mini from near 

 Syracuse. N. Y., shot a buck iu the river and wounded him 

 badly, but did not get it. The mau whom we boardetlwith 

 shot* the buck the next day, and when dressing him we 

 found the Winchester ball with which he was shot the day 

 before.— Stili. -Him eu (Palo, Ionia County. Mich., De- 

 cember 23. 18821. 



Eseanaba, Mich., Jan. 10.— Deer all'for nearly all) left for 

 the South through the monlh of November. 1 have not 

 seen any deer or tracks since Dec. 10. Wisconsin will have 

 to change the time of killing deer or have none left in a few 

 years. When they run short we. will lie in tin sate 

 here. — A. F. Y. " 



Indiaka.— Spirit. Lake, Iowa, Jan. 6,— We are having 

 rather a rigorous winter with some snow 7 , but not enough ttu 

 injure next year's chicken crop as yet. They are quite 

 plenty, with now and then a flock of quail. — A A. Mosher 



