JLooust 11, 1881. 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



29 



i?orge a trout seven inches long. I am quite sure the fish-was 

 dead when he look him, as I saw two dead oues that morn- 

 jng and I fiJUUd but one when 1 went with net tO ttike them 

 pur, 1 tbiuk they rarely have trout on bill of fare. Two 

 yean ago L parcel by one of my pom's All was quiel. 

 fifteen minuti later 1 cape back and saw- about one hun- 

 dred irOot atiacking a garter snake. I took a rake and lifted 

 him out of I lie wiiut." His "goose was cooked." I saw a 

 bide.— A. F. Y. 



E>:amn/)il, Mick., An;/. 1. 



FOREST AND STREAM GAME TABLE. 



OPE\ SEASONS. 



The seasons, In which, it is lawful to shoot game in the several 

 States and Territories, open as designated in the folio., in- lain,.. 



HOW DID THE FISH GET THERE? 



Cnooincrr, Texas, Aug. 1. 



I HAVE for four or five months been making a carp 

 pond by digging nut a piece of ground below two small 

 springs and imuiadl&tely between the springs and a running 

 branch. About two months ago I quit work on my pond 

 and lei the water accumulate in it until two week* ago, when 

 I (h/ailied off the water, ami to my surprise found a lot of 

 lish, a dozen or more, some as long as seven or seven and 

 one-half inches. They consisted of cat and ptrch, such as 

 inhabit but creeks here. Some of those that 1 caught wire 

 not more than one or one and one-half inches long. Now, 

 l here was not, a bucket of water in all when I quit work in 

 I he pond, aud there has been no possible chance for any 

 water from any other source than the spring to get in it, 

 with "lie, exception. At, one time, when it rained, I made a 

 trough, and from a hillside where there whs a small gully 

 running near the pond I turned it through the trough and 

 alowed I he rain water to pass into the pond. Now, the gully 

 I speak of is only one of those that, conduct off ths rain 

 water and was dry a? soon as it was done raining, and I 

 know there was not a fish put in the pond, for 1 had a picket 

 fence ieu feet high around.it. Now, can you tell me where 

 the fish came from ? 



The springs run some fifteen fet t before they get to the 

 pond, and do not run a stream large enough for a minnow to 

 go in; besides, both springs have barrels in them, and I have 

 never seen any sign of fish in the springs. R. 0. S. 



At.iuno Swallow — Sisolalrvillb, N. Y., Aug. 5. — Seeing 

 mention of an albino swallow at .Newport, in a recent 

 issue of Fokhst and Stream, induces me to report a similar 

 occurrence., 1 observed one at Dunkirk, N. Y., on the 20th 

 ult. It was with many others of its species flying about the 



docks and elevalo 

 the breast, ■ 



It ' 



it 



i pure white all over exeept on 

 the usual pale chestnut of the 



barn swallow (IRrundo horreurum). From this fact, as 



well as thai the 

 lows, no doubt it t 

 white birds were 

 season I hear of i hem 

 and from the (Jeacripl 

 pewees {(Juntupus r.ir 

 to get a look at them. 



nrity of its associates were barn swal- 

 mgs to that species. Last summer two 

 ported as nesting near here, and this 

 again. I consider the reports reliable, 

 lions given, suspect them to be wood 

 i.) I regret that I have been unable 

 J. M. E. 



Wktght of Wooncm-ciw. — Hornellsville, N. Y. — A per- 

 fectly bl itik, full-grown woodchuclc was killed here last 

 week ; also a woodchueK that weighed over 18 lbs. Do you 

 not call this a large one? I never weighed one before, and 

 only weighed this one as it was such a large one. — J. Otis 

 Fellows. 



llelnl 



ft Suits. Upthegrove & itelellan, Valparaiso, Hid. 

 .iirbed Sleep, Indigestion, Stomaeli Gas, ail vanishes 



THE ILLINOIS SPORTSMEN. 



THE annual convention of Hie Illinois State Sportsmen's 

 Association was held at the Palmer House, Chicago, 

 hist week, delegates being present from the following clubs : 

 Fi. Oniric of Peoiia, Canton, Geiieaeo, Maple City of Gene- 

 seo, Macomb, Peoria, Quincy, First Lee of Franklin, Glen- 

 eoe, Gem of Quincy, Galesburg, Audubon, Austin, Chicago, 

 Delaware, Egyptian of Cairo, Forester of Chicago, Cumber- 

 land of Chicago, Lake George-, Staunton, Ridgland, Blue 

 Island, VViiniLiah, Mak-saw-ba, Alton, Milwaukee, South 

 End, Evanst m, Meic rof Rio, aud Wyoming. 



Mr. Abuer Pries, the Secretary, pr< senterl to the Conven- 

 tion a report of the Magner case, and asked that a voluntary 

 subscription be made to reimburse the firm of Chicago law. 

 yers, Mess's. Palmer & Durkee, who had at their own ex- 

 pense, carried the case of the club through the cou-ts and se- 

 emed tne conviction of Magner. To this Hon. J. L. Pratt, 

 of Syracuse, objected, on the ground that the prosecution of 

 Magner had been the work of the local clubs, and it was not 

 the duty of the State Association to help to pay for it. Sen- 

 ator VV. T. Thompson, on the other baud, thought that it 

 was the business of the Association to be somethiug more 

 than a pigeon shooting society, and it ought to do something 

 practical in the way Of game- prelect ion. He urged that the 

 money be paid. The subscription was taken up and the 

 good name of ihe Association gained thereby. In fact, the 



Beer, W'oalcofk 



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.1 turmpp. — i,ul, ;*epij. i ; luuuo, .Aug. j ; ncu., 

 N. Mex . Sept. I ; Vtali, Aug. l ; Wyo., Aug. 15. 



Buffalo.— Colo.. Sept. 1 ; Ne' ' 



QclPibao.— Me., Oct. 1 : N. II. 



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Klk— Colo., Sepl. 1: Jilalu 

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 Aug. 15. 



ilaoxe.— Me., Oct. 1 ; N. II., Sept. 1 c; (ire., July I. 



ilounlain ,s/.i:»-j>.-C0l., sept I : Nob, Oet. 1 ; Nev., Aug. 1 ; X. Mex., 



J'larck— 1). ('-.. Sept'l ; Me', Aug. 1 ; Mn., Aug. 1 ; Nov., Sept. 1 ; X. 



'h'mL— Del., Sept. 5; n! j'., S<-pt.Ti'a., Sepl. 1. 



/imtbiY,/.- Pel., Kept. S; I). C, Sept.. I ; N. J., Allg. 25; Pa., Sept. 1. 



Snipe.— Dakota, Aug. 15 ; 13. C, Sept. 1 ; Nev., Sept, 1 ; N. ft, Oct. 15. 



■ In these states there are special county laws, a The deer law ap- 

 plies to sale in- p-^esr-inn. (, uiluiowl net proleererl mi the rna.-.t, 

 ,.■ In Upper Peninsula deer sea-en o|«-i.,An-:. ::.. , eain'omia ,m iil 

 protected to 1883. <• In Coos t oinn.y n, ■. m-m ..,,-ai opens Am-. I; moose 

 and Cariboo, Sept. 1. / First open woodcock season began July l; 

 will close Aug. l. g Quail shooting prohibited tc Nov. I, 1852, en ooud 

 ties nf Monigoiuerj, Selieneeind.v, Sarniog-a and Albany. Wildfowl 

 season in Long island waters npens (let. l. Wondeock shooting in 

 Dutchess County prohibited during August, h IX er law relates to 

 female deer only. 



good work has g<me 

 Have n fund of f^OOu" 



Ill's, IJie men most no 



fairbank, L, '/.. Le Lei 



The following moti i 



adopted l»y the oq 



it'll now the Chicago sportsmen 

 r ihe purpose of enforcing the game 

 i in this effort being Messrs. N. B. 

 d Geo. L. Dunlap. 

 iras introduced by Mr. Felton and 



" Resolved, That It is the sense of this association that 

 trap-shooting is but an incident connected with our annual 

 convention and not the primary purpose, for which it is con- 



vened ; that, the p 

 vertising iu our annual an 

 contests at trap-shooting 

 w-'i-k and si ould not be 

 which should be adveriis( 

 are those which are authi 



if managers of tournaments in ad- 

 nouiiccineuts their programmes of 

 s out of taste and injurious to our 

 permitted; that the only^ contests 

 d as a part of our convention work 

 rized by our convention and by the 

 e ..inns of our annual conventions, and tint the Board 

 of Uireel.ns lie le-piested to separate altogether its annual 

 ftrmouncfcnrenls-o£ programmes of tournaments, which usu- 

 ally follow our convention contests." 



Tbe next convention, in 1883, will beheld at Chicago. 

 The folio wins- are the new ofBcera for ihe ensuing year: 

 President, Dr. K. B. Korcom, South End Gun Club, Chica- 

 go; First Vice-President, Chas. E. Wihard, of Chicago: 

 r-eennd Vice-President. Geo. S. Wells, Geneseo ; Secretary, 

 .bihii Li. Wiggins, Chicago; Treasurer, Aimer Price, Chi- 



HEBRASKA GAME GROUNDS. 



North Platte, Neb., 1881. 



IN the Birch-wood Creek country, twenty-three miles from 

 here, reached by wagon or horseback lide, sportsmen 

 can find deer, elks, and an abundance of ducks and grouse. 



Good accommodations can be had at Brott's ranch. 



After staying here a few clays the hunters can puH up and 

 go to Cody's ranch, and to North's ranch on the Dismal 

 River, sixty miles from North Platte. They wilt find an 

 abuudance and variety of gane there, aud a most cordial 

 greeting by Major North and W. F. Cody or, as he is better 

 known, ''Buffalo Bill." There are some buffalo in that, 

 country now. Then they can go to Smith's and D. \V. 

 Baker's ranch, on the Loup River, where they will find all 

 the hunting they want. 



It costs little to hunt out here. They may think the boys 

 a little rough ; but we are big-hearted and always do all in 

 our power to make our friends enjoy their stay. A good 

 rifle should be provided for the game. P. H. i\l. 



A GOOD WORD FOR ADIRONDACK GUIDES. 



Editor Forest and Stream : 



I have lately seen paragraphs In the daily papers which 

 speak harshly in a general way of the Adirondack guides. 

 Ihe Evening Mail said : "Adirondack guides would seem to 

 be a class of men to be let severely alone. Recent events 

 will discourage tourists from availing themselves of theirser- 

 vices and future evints willsee some'of them in Slate Prison." 



Now, from all thai 1 have been able to learn, the only act 

 that has been commi led by a guide lhat would give any, 

 cause for this paragraph was the atrocious assault by a guile 

 named Parker upon a lady he was guiding from Forked Lake 

 l o Long Lake. That was bad enough ; a man who could for- 

 get his honor and the h nor of his craft so far as to allow 

 himself to perpetrate such a crime well deserves Slate Prison 

 or something quicker and more relentless in its punishment 

 —a running noose oyer the limb of a tree. 



But because one man has sinned, are they all to be put un- 

 der the bau? 



In my wunde-ings through the Adirondacks. which have 

 extended through a good many years, I have met and become 

 intimate wilh many of ihese* guides and, while there are 

 great d ffereuces between them as lo talents and ability, I do 

 not know of one in all my circleof accniaintance thai [would 

 hesitate to tramp the woods or paddle upon the lakes with ai 

 any lime or under any circumstance?. I have always found 

 them honorable, upright, sterling men — faithful in Ihe 

 discharge of their duties, honest in their dealings, cool and 

 collect! il m times of danger, pleasant companions and faith- 

 ful friends. 



It grieves me to see this whole class insulted aud maligned 

 solely fo> the wickedness of one of their number. "When 

 Adam fell he was the representative of the whole human 

 race, and the curse of his sin clings to every son of Adam 

 down to the las' man ; but in this case Parker, and he alone, 

 is entitled to all the odium of his wickedness. 



These noble fellows have hard work and none too much 



pav for their services. Don't let anything be said or done 

 that will lead their customers to look upon them with dis- 

 trust or suspicion. James. 

 jYcw York Villi. 



A 



POT-U UNTLSG RL.VCMUIRDS. 



LOXG ihe Delaware River below Chester the market 

 shooters are killing blackbirds by the hundreds, hav- 



ing adopted a new and most deceptive method foi 

 strtieiion. A blind Is built in the course of ihe i 

 evoniny Mights of ihe bird, and the gunner pa 

 its appearance, Three or four poles are diiv 

 iiiMis.ii, and on Ihese poles branches are fasl.t 

 every I Wig cm be swept by the shot from a lar 

 On a pole at one side dead birds are placed at 



tit: 



dc- 

 ind 

 tits 



the 

 that 



8 gun. 

 As 

 ner has 



ii ti 



oys. 



Hie birds begin to fly shortly before sunrise the w 

 all his preparations completed soon after daylight. The iirst, 

 (lock decoy best ; the poles arc soon black wilh the chatter- 

 ing crowd. Three or four dozen are often killed at a, shot, 

 and from fifteen to twenty dozen is an average morning's 

 work. After eight o'clock the shooting is over, as the birds 

 are scattered over their feeding ground. As they return in 

 Ihe evening the slaughter begins again and lasts until sun- 

 down. Blackbirds now are young and tender, and are easily- 

 sold to restaurants in Phil idelphia, and these men make good 

 wages in ihe seas ai, which lasts until reed birds are per- 

 mitted to be killed. By that time the blackbirds are covered 

 with pin-feathers and are very difficult, to pick, but still fre- 

 quent the reed marshes in millions. Their condition— for 

 they do not seem to fatten on the seed of the, reed as the rail 

 and reed birds do — and their being in the moult causes ihem 

 to he unmolested in a great measure, ihe market shooters 

 pa\ing ail attention to the latter named, as they bring a 

 much better price. 



We arc haviug a long spell of dry weather here. All the 

 small streams are du'eri up, and the -woodcock, in order to 

 exist, has taken up his quarters in the river bank cripples, 

 where the ground is kept moist and iu boring condition hy 

 Ihe rise and fall of the lide. These cripples and thickets 

 are being indusiriously worked out by market shooters with 

 their spaniels, the gunner keeping on the outside while the 

 spaniel drives out the birds into Ihe open where they pre- 

 sent an easy shot to even a bungler, and are killed before 

 they fly into the thickets again. 



Grass plover have appeared in the fields around Philadel- 

 phia, and iheir note is heard every evening as they wing 

 their way over our city. Homo. 



SHOOTING AT PORT JEFFERSON. 



Poet Jefreuson. Suffolk Co., L. I. 



WHILE roamirg around the fields aud through Ihe 

 woods surrounding tbis growing country resort I 

 came to this conclusion: that quail shooting is going to be 

 grand this fall. On every side, over hill and valley, the. mer- 

 ry notes of Rob White can be heard. There arc thousands 

 of fields of wheat and buckwheat stubble which make excel- 

 lent feeding ground for quail and wild pigeon, within a radi- 

 us of ten miles of this place. Woodcock shooting is very 

 good now, and a large number of birds have been killed since 

 August. 1. 



\vhi!e convers'ng with Mr. W. H. Raynor, of the firm of 

 B. R. & W. H. Raynor, proprietors of ihe Port Jefferson 

 Hotel, or,in other words, the Sportsman's Retreat, he informed 

 me that they have spared no pains to have everything first 

 class for the accommodation of city sportsmen. He being a 

 good-natured, whole-souled sportsman hinise f, knows how 

 to make everything comfortable for those around them. They 

 have everything requisite for a good day's sport. First class 

 dogs well-broken on game, guns, fishing tackle, live decoy 

 thicks, sail and row beats and bathing houses, are all pro- 

 vided for ihe pleasure of the guests of the hotel. 



Adjoining the hotel is a shady lawn lor playing croquet and 

 lawn tennis, and their terms are Viry reasonable— only $7 to 

 $12 per week. Mr. W. H. Raynor will go out hunting or 

 lishing with any guest who may favor them with a call, 

 whether it. be of long or short duration, and there are no mos- 

 quitoes to trouble you, and the evenings are delightfully cool. 

 He has secured the privilege of hunting over a great many 

 farms, where there are signs up that no trespassing is allow- 

 ed, aud can take sportsmen over new ground every day as 

 long as shooting la=ts. 



Wild ducks ate iu abundance, and no one need go two or 

 three hundred miles to find good duck shooting. It is an 

 cvery-day occurrence to see gunners come up the bay with 

 thirty or forty ducks in a morning's shoot during ihe fall of 

 ihe year. This was such a generous otter tbat I desire every 

 reader of the Fokkst and Stkeam to know of it and give 

 him a trial, as the "proof of the pudding is in the eating of 

 it." F. Jl. S. 



- A BRACE OF WOODCOCK, 



iVIo-t -i VIU.B, N. T., Aug. 8, 1881. 



FOUR of us had been scouting in the latter part, of July, 

 urn i had found some "patches" which promised excellent 

 shooting. In fact, as late as July 25 in one pa'ch the 

 dogs would put them Up on every side. So hree of us arose 

 at. three o'clock August 1, hitched lip, and started for that 

 patch of about ten acres of small cedars. Our only anxietv, 

 i hat. some of those "City" hunt' rs, who had came up Sun- 

 day would be in before us. We arrived about sunrise, 

 list clear, sent in the dogs, after posting 

 he oulsiric. Dogs sent ore out in about 

 g! bang! and mark to Ihe man On Ihe 

 nrl " Send us another.'' (old that Ibis one 

 rig better positions and scolding ihe dogs 



aud l'o 



ourselv: 



live minutes, 1 

 other side bai g 

 was saved. Si 

 for thetr lively 

 Five, ten, fiflee 

 rate the dogs Eo 

 same be refuse! 

 come out lookit 

 A counsel of 

 pateti, but our 1 

 happen t, 

 grass ; In 

 him the 



>rk, we squared ourselves for the next. one. 

 , twenty minifies aud he didn't cane. Now 

 slowness, carelessness, etc., etc., but all ihe 

 to come out. An hour passed on,j the dogs 



disheartened and well warmed. 



var is held, an(| we determine to try another 

 eii hopes are " petering out," By chflnQe I 

 ■. eve on the il i log a few rods away in the 

 1 step lhat way and ive 

 have two. It is now six BxfLock, and 



stiff : 



id ■ 



wc try another patch and start one but lose him, Then we 

 get ■ ur horse and drive five miles and try again; couldn't 

 raise a feather; go on three miles where we always mid them 

 (in July, i, not a ho die. Well, we will go down to the spring 

 and btook two miles further. Yes, we got one there, 

 making us one apiece; started for home about 4 P. m., and 

 were overtaken nnd nearly overwhelmed by u thunder 



