SjtPTBMBEE 1, 1881. 



FOEEST AND STREAM. 



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FOREST AND STREAM GAME TABLE. 



OI'EX SKA SONS. 



The saasons, In which It la lawful to shoot game In the several 



States and Territories, open as designated In the following table: 



Ala.' . . 

 Call.'.. 

 Col .... 

 Conn .. 

 Dakota 

 Del." . . 

 D.G. 



Idaho*. 



Oct. »).. 

 July 1... 



sept. 1 . . 



Ind.. .. 



Iowa... 

 Kan . .. 

 Ky\... 



Me.ft... 

 Mass. 



Mlell.r 

 Mlm 



Pfp,-. Wooicock 



Aug. 1.5.. 

 Oct. 1... 

 Angi 1.. 



sept, i . . 



Oct. 1.. 



sept. l.. 



Sept. 1.. 

 Aug. ].. 

 Oct 1. ., 

 Sot. 1 . 

 Oct, 1... 

 Nov. 1 . . 

 Oct. 1 . . . 

 sent. 1„ 

 oct. t . . . 

 Auir. i .. 



Sepr. 1.. 



Miss. . 

 Mo. d . 

 Net), ., 

 JSBV..*, 



N. He.. 

 N..1./.. 

 N. Mex. 

 N. Y. g. 

 N. C. • . 



O 



Or 



Pa Oct. 1 



K.I.... 



s. c... 



Tenn." 

 Texas h 

 Utah... 



s-'pt. 1 . 

 Aug. 1 . 



Aim. i . 



Jul J- 4 



Sept. l.. 

 Aug. 1 . . 

 Aitsr. ir>. 

 Or!, in.. 

 .lUlV t . 



vu 

 Va.*.... 



Wash'.. 

 W. Va.. 

 Wis. ... 



Aug. 1 

 Sept. 1 



Aug. 1 .. 

 Aug. 1 . 

 sept. 1. 

 sept. 1.. 

 AUR. 1.. 

 July 15.. 

 Sept. 15. 



Wyo . .. Aug. 15 . 



July 4. . 

 July l.. 

 July 10. 



Sept. 15, 

 Sept. 15. 

 Fni:ll rl. 

 Oct 1... 



AUg. 15., 

 Nov. 1... 

 Nov. 1... 

 Oct.! .. 

 sept. 1 . . 

 oct, l... 



Oct, 15., 



pet. 1.. 

 1.1 



. NQ< 



Htt'd 



,■....,. 



en). 



Sept;,. 15, 

 Oct. I... 

 Oct, 1., 

 Aug. 15. 

 NOV. 1 . 

 Aug. 1... 



DOt 1.. Oct. 20. 



Sept. is 



Oct. 1 I , .... 



'Sept. l. Fronted, 



Aug. ml 



Sept, l 



Oct. I.. 



Oct, 15. 



Oct. J., 



. | Oct 



Aug. 1. 

 July 4.* 



1.. 

 |Oct 15. 

 [Oct. 1.. 

 .Sept. l. 



ISept.. 1- 

 Nov. 1 

 sept, i . 

 Nov. 1. 



lOCt, 1.. 

 Nov. 1 . 



Nov. 1., 



Sept 



Oct. 15. 



Aug. 1. 



Oct. 25.. 

 Sept. 15 

 Sept.. 1. 

 Sept. 1.. 

 Sept. I.. 

 Sept. 1.. 



Oct, is'.'. 



Atcr. 15.. 

 Sept. 1 

 Sept.. I.. 



NOV, l , . 



sept. i.. 



Sept. I . . 

 Oct l... 

 Sept. I , . 

 June 15, 



S pi, i 



sept. IS. 

 Sept. 15. 



Bepfc I.. 



>epr. 15. 



Sept. 1 . , 

 Aug. 1... 

 Aug. !.. 

 sept. 1 

 Aug. 15., 



'Aug. ].. 



Aug. 15 



s>ept 1 . 



Aug. 15 

 Sept. i . 



Sept. 1 . 



Oct i , . oct l . . 



Sept. 1. 



Aug. 15 Sept. 1. 

 -iept. 1 - Hov. 1 . 

 Aug. 15 Oct. 1.. 



Sept, 1 , 



1'joh'ti 



Sept, 1 . 



Oct 15 

 Scpt.'i' 



Sept. 1. Sept, I. 



Sept, 1 . 



Sept. 1 



septVi'. dotl'l 



Sept 1 



iOirt.1.'. 



Sept. IS 



Oct. 1.. 



Sept. 1. 



Aug. l 



Sept l. 



sept, l 



Oct i , . 

 Nov. i. 



6otis! 



July l 



sept. 15 



Sept. l. 



isept. l. 



Aug. I.. 1 ., 



Sept, 1, Sept, 1. 



AUg. 15| Aug. 15 



,1 ntH'npe.— Col.. Sept. 1 ; Idaho. Aug. t ; Net}., Oct. 1 ; Nev., Aug. 1 j 

 X Mex . sepc. i : Ctah, ah- i; Wyo., Aug. 15. 



;;,, ir.n'.i.—rolo., Sept. 1 ; Neb., Oct. 1 ; N. Alex., Sept l. 



Cariboo.— Me., Oct. 1 : N. H., sept. 1 e. 



Do«s.— Ala., A ng. 1 ; i 'at, July 1 ; Oa., Oct. 1 ; Kan., Aug, 1 ; Miss., 

 sept, 15; Mo., Aug. 1 ; N C, Oct. l ; S. ( .. Oct, 15. 



Att-.— Colo,, Sept. 1; Idaho, Aug 1; Minn., Nov. 1 ; Neb., Oct 1 ; 

 Nev., Aug. 1; N. Mex.. sept. 1 ; or , July 1 ; Utah, Aug. 1; Wto, 

 Aug. 15. 



those.— We., Oct. l ; N. 11., sept, l e ; ore., July 1. 

 Mountain .N/u'^.-Col., Sept. ; : Neb , Oct. 1 ; Nev., Aug. 1 ; N. Mex., 

 Sept 1 ; Utah. Ainr. I : Wyo., Aug. 15. 

 riom.-H. C, Sep;. | ; Me., Aug. 1 : Mo., Aug. 1 ; Nev., Sept. 1 ; N. 



iimutftru. — l'cj., ocjjl. ;i , j.». v.,, .^cpe. i ; ,,. ,j., .^ug. ,;i ; in., r.e|H, i. 

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



' In these states there 

 piles to sale or poa see 

 c in Upper Peninsula de> 

 protected to 1888, e In Ci 

 and t arlbno, sept. 1, / 1 

 will close Aug. I . ij Quail 

 Hesof Montgomery , -■ 

 season In Long Island v. ; 

 Dutchess County prohit 

 female deer only. 



e deer law ap- 

 on the coast, 

 ilitninla quail 



began '.Inly 'l; 

 ,1882, In con li- 

 ny. Wildfowl 

 k shooting In 

 law relates to 



THE LAKE HOPATCONG EXCTJRSIOH. 



THIS beautiful New Jersey lake lies among the Schooley 

 Mountains, 1,300 feet above the level of the sea. We 

 visiletl it last week by invitation of the Washington Gun 

 Club, of Brooklyn, on the occasion of their first annual ex- 

 cursion. The lake is famous for its pike (N. Y. pickerel) 

 fishing and also contains black bass, perch and other fish. 

 The invitation si t forth that a dinner, a boat race, a rillc 

 match and a sail on the lake were to be enjoyed, as well as 

 the music of Ftank's brass hind. So on Thursday, Aug, 25, 

 we boarded the train at lloboken and, after a Iwohours' ride 

 to Hopatcong station found a little steamer, which took us 

 three miles up the cinal and one of its feeders and then up 

 the lake to the Lake View House, where the sports were to 

 be held. 



First came the boat racing, in working boats, for a hand- 

 some cup, given by the host, Mr. A. J. Zuck. There were to 

 be four preliminary races and tie winners were to then row 

 for the prize. The first one had four entries, the names be- 

 ing given iu the order of their arrival at the finish: Dr. 

 Hughes, Mr. Bernheimer, A. Altenbraud and .Tost Muller. 

 The second heat was between Kubesam, Fieldinati. 0. Obrig 

 and Cotter. The third between Mr. Griffith, of the Dela 

 ware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad ; Petty, Witt 

 ard Behrens. The fourth between Messrs. Trott, Condit, 

 Hopps and Bulger. Then caine the final race for the. cup 

 between the winners. They came in in the following order : 

 Dr. Hughes, Trott, Griffith. Mr. Rubeshant declining to 

 toss for boats was not permitted to compete. The course 

 was one-fourth of a mile; no time taken. Judge, Mr. Fred 

 Mather, of Forest and Stream. A shell race, with single 

 sculls, over a half-mile course, followed between Messrs. 

 Raveand Ross. Won by the former. 



Dinner was then in order and the following menu was 

 served : 



soue. 

 Green Turtle, a la Heine. 



FISH. 



Boiled take. Hopatcong Pike, with butter sauee. 



Filet de Ho. 

 Spring La 



ii m. with Asparagus. 



Vanilla Tee co-am, wtffi Cake. 



DKS3EIIT. 



Washington oun Club Pudding. 

 Cheese. 

 After dinner Mr, Henry Altenbraud, the President of the 

 club, in a neatly- worded speech, welcomed the guest t 

 tendance and expatiated upon the benefits and u' trued 

 outdoor sports iu general. Remarks were also made 

 S. J. Brady, Mr. Mather, Captain Miller and Mr. W. 

 Wilde. Following dinner, the shooting match, open 



! in at- 

 ons of 

 by Dr. 

 Leslie 

 to all- 



was entered upon and participated in by most of the party. 

 The prize, a silver cup with crossed rifles on the lace, was 

 win by W. Leslie Wilde with a score of thirteen. Other 

 sports were engaged in until 7 o'clock in the eveuing, at 

 which Imur the company made a start homeward, arriving in 

 the city about 9 o'clock. 



ARE THEY MONOPOLIES'/ 



Sandusky, O., Aug., 1881. 

 I )<'«>■ X : 



I have just received a copy of the Forest and Stream of 

 Aug. 18, and I presume T am indebted to you for it. If so. 

 accept my thanks, and 1 thank you also for the article en- 

 titled "Are They Monopolies?' which I feel sure is from 

 your ready pen. I approve of every word of it. But it 

 seems strange that any such defense should be needed. Why 

 should not a man or a corporation have as good a right to 

 own wet land as dry — land covered with water as land above 

 water ? Why should he not be permitted to own what he 

 can raise in the water belonging to him as well as on the 

 land? If be cannot, let us abolish all right of property (I 

 suppose this is what •' Didymus 1 ' and all agrarian, commu- 

 nistic sharks want) ; let ev ry thing be in common and ihus re- 

 turn at once to the worst state of barbarism and confusion. 



T advised the Colonel of the unusual number of ducks in 

 the marshes for this time of the year, have sent my guns and 

 ammunition forward, and hope to meet you and the Colonel 

 on the lslprox. E. B. S. 



[The above letter was sent to us by its recipient for publi- 

 cation. — Ed.] 



INDIANA GAME LAW. 



Foet Wayne, Indiana, Aug. 35. 

 Editor Forest arid Stream: 



Herewith find statement of the Indiana game law, as ap- 

 proved April 14, 1881. Open seasons, penalties, etc. — Deer, 

 October 1 to January 1; penalty $10. Quail and pheasant, 

 Oct. 1 5 to Dec. 20 ; penalty $2 for each bird shot out of 

 season. Turkey, Nov. 1 to Feh. 1; penalty $9. Prairie 

 chicken, Sept. 1 to Feb. 1} penalty SI0. Woodcock, July 1 

 to Jan. 1 ; penalty $2. Duck, Sept. 1 to April 15, penalty 

 $2. 



Penalty of one dollar for each and every quail, pheasant, 

 prairie chicken, woodcock or duck exposed to sale, possessed 

 or pursued with intent to kill during close season, and sime 

 penalty selling or attempting to sell any of said birds that 

 have not, been shot. Each bird creates a separate and dis- 

 tinct offence. 



Unlawful to take any fish with a net, seine, gun or trap of 

 any kind (minnows excepted; or set net, weir or pot at any 

 time, penalty not less than ten nor more than twenty dollars 

 for ench fish so taken. The use of gig and spear permitted 

 in March, April, May, November and December. Same 

 penalty attaches for killing or attempting to kill fish by use 

 Of poison, drugs, giant powder, dynamite, etc. Penalty not 

 less than ten nor more than two hundred dollars audi im- 

 prisonment for any determinate period added, for using or 

 placing in the water any dip net, gill net, set net, or seine, 

 except for minnows for bait or acquarium. 



Willis D. Malee. 



NOTES FROM HOLLID AYS BURG. 



Hou-idaysburg. Pa., Aug. 22. 



SINCE the opening of the woodcock season, July 4, the 

 weather has continued very dry and warm, but several 

 bags of nearly a score have been marie. On the Fourth of 

 July our party of four guns bagged forty-three cocks, 

 all nice plump birds, as sweet when plucked as when shot 

 We have been out several times since then and succeeded in 

 tnakintr good bags, although none so large as the. first. 



On Tuesday, Aug. 19, our party of three— P. B., P. W. 

 and self — shot six brace of cock, as many doves, one rail (a 

 scarce bird among our mountains) and a huae gray crane 

 over four feet high, with a spread ot nearly six feet. P B.'s 

 ten bore " barker " brought down this gentleman at over sev- 

 enty yards, with No. 8 shot. 



Our shooting is nearly all in the ta 1 weeds and willow 

 scrub of the creek and river bottoms and if requires good dogs 

 and snap shooting to bag the birds. With a few exceptions 

 along the spring runs the woodcock leave us at the latter 

 part of this month and we see them no more till another sea- 

 son. 



Quail have been almost exterminated since the repeal of the 

 bounty on hawks, owls and "other vermin," and quail 

 shooting is a thing of the past. Ruffed grouse and rabbils 

 are, as usual, abundant and promise good sport this fall. 

 Gray and black squirrels are reported numerous On the 

 mountains aud wild turkeys and a few deer remain for those 

 wlin r, m get them. 



Although the old canal reservoir near this place, which is 

 over a mile and a half long, by three-quarters wide, and in 

 some places fifty feet deep, aud which was stocked with 

 black and grass bass by the Fishery Commis-ioners has been 

 drawn off, yet good catches are made in the ,l Juniata" 

 farther down. Quite a number of fishermen use the fly in 

 catching bass but the majority still stick to their old love, the 

 minnow. 



One of our sportsmen recently shot and killed a large 

 crane, snowy white, with a pinkish bill, aud thebrd was 

 sent to your city to be mounted. T. D. 



THE WILD TURKEY CALL. 



Editor Fore.-t mid Stream : 



I have read interesting articles on wild turkey huutmg in 

 your paper, but do not rememhi r to have .-een any on the 

 call notes of the wild turkey. On several occasions] have 

 flushed flocks of wi'd turkeys anil all my calling would not 

 bring them lack. Once I was sitting with a friend on a log 

 in a dense woods. My friend lean' d me his " caller," made 

 of the small end of an ox-horn. I made frequent cal's of 

 seven notes, commencing slowly ami using fast aud I iirhi 

 After calling a If ng while and submitting to the upbraidines 

 of my friend that "no fane man ever u-ed such notes to call 

 turkeys," etc., etc., 1 discov<red that weweie surrounded 

 by wild turkeys. I killed an eleven-pound ynnny cock and 

 the flock scat ten d. All the calling I did failed to bring one 

 of them back or even get a response. Some hunters Bay Ei ur. 

 calls are proper, and others say the, with a ri-i- g U)fli etiou. 

 I have often fried this and as" often Tailed. Which are the 



proper notes to call a wild turkey? Will any of v ; 



ers explain?— Keotjk. 



Wo trustf that some of our experienced turkey hunter, 

 will compare notes and give us the result of their use of 

 the various calls. We have used the common bone calls 

 wh eh is made from the hollow wing bone of the hird. The 

 ends are cut off aud the call-note is made by vio'ently sucking 

 through the tube. With a narrow chisel hollow out a piece 

 of dry cedar, two inches long and one and one-half inches 

 wide and one-quarter inches thick, so that the sides are about 

 as i hick as a p ece of tin ; but do not let them be too debca'e. 

 Ii slvmld lie hollowed out, within a quarter of an inch of the 

 bottom and ends. Taking this simple caller between your 

 thumb and fingers, rub it, crosswise against the butt ofyour 

 gun or on the barrels, No ro-in is required ; the simple 

 wood can be manipulated with a little practice to perfectly 

 imitate the turkey call. 



AN IOWA GAME CENTRE. 



LOCATION, Humboldt County, Iowa, Can be reached 

 via Illinois Central Railroad lo Fort Dodge, thence by 

 Fc. Bidgely Railroad to Humboldt, or by Iowa Division Chi- 

 cago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad to A'gona and thence 

 by st ii<re to Humboldt. Good hotel accommodations at Hum- 

 boldt. Dakota or Rutland at $1 per day. Guides not needed. 

 Teams, $3 per day. The fish are pickerel, wall-eyed pike, 

 black less and rock bass in great abundance. Game birds 

 are ducks (mallards, teal, wood, sprig-tail, spoon-bill, red- 

 heads, hooded mergansers and bufiie heads), Hutchin's geese, 

 Canada geese, snow geese, white-fronted geese (brant), sand- 

 hill and whooping or white cranes, pinnated grouse, quail, 

 golden plover, Wilson's snipe, rail, long-billed curlew, Hud- 

 son ian curlew and rabbits or hares. 



Of course not all of this game can be taken at any one 

 time of the Tear, but in their season may be taken. The west 

 fork of the Des Moines, above Rutland, is the best fishing 

 grounds in Iowa from Sept. 1 to Nov. 1. Black bass and 

 wall-eyed pike may be taken beyond desire. Bass and pike 

 of six and eight pounds are very common. During Septem- 

 ber pinnated grouse may be killed by the hundreds, but Oc- 

 tober and November arc the months for ducks, geese and 

 cranes. Hunters will find it easier to reach the shooting and 

 fishing grounds by camping out. 



Address Chas. Sherman, Ira E. Welch, or the writer, at 

 Rutland, Humboldt County, Iowa. N. A. Peioe. 



FAMOUS FOX-HUNTERS. 



EOMK EXTEAORDINAET EIDKBS. 



IT is astonishing with what enthusiasm a man— or woman 

 —enters upon the sport when once a taste for it has been 

 acquired. A regular fox-hunter dies in harness; the older 

 he grows the stronger becomes his love for the pastime. 

 Such, at least, may be inferred from the lives of men and 

 women who have gained renown in the field. Men who were 

 as blind as bats have followed the hounds with the best ri- 

 ders of iheir day, and, in one instance, the want of both 

 bands and feet has not deprived a hunter from being in at 

 the death. This seems hardly possible, but of it there is am- 

 ple evidence. Of blind fox-hunters a dozen or more instances 

 might be given. 



The Reverend Edward Stokes, of Blaby, county Leicester, 

 Englind, may be cited as one. such insta-'ce. He lived to be 

 ninety -three years of aue and died in 1797. At the time that 

 he L 'St his sight, then fourteen years o'd, he had acquired a 

 taste for fox-hunting fn an his father, whom he had succeeded 

 as rector of the little church at Blasley. During hisbu'y life 

 he never lost an opportunity to mount and follow the hounds, 

 accompanied by an attendant, who rang a bell as they ap- 

 proached a fence, or hedge, and both went over together. 



But the reverend gentleman was outdone by an officer of 

 the British army, who equally blind, was noted as one of the 

 bnlde-t riders in the Marquis of Granby's hunts. He had no 

 attendant, but went with the, crowd and relied on some one 

 to say, when he neared a stiff place, "A little to the right, 

 sir," or " Half a length to the left," and over he went with- 

 our fear or mishap. Lord Bertie, whose portrait has a con- 

 spicuous place in Hoga'th's picture of " The Cockpit," rode 

 to hounds in the Bame way ; and Lord D erhurst, who lost 

 his sight by a fall from a horse, was not debarred by the ac- 

 cident from burning. Stephen Chase, of Cowfold, was also 

 a hi nd fox-hunter. But when this infirmity came upon him 

 he reluctantly gave up the saddle and stalked across Ihe 

 country on foot, when a chase came off , attended by a ser- 

 vant, and with such good judgment as to the spot where the 

 fox would be killed that he, too, was often in at the death. 



John Metcalf was a still more remarkable lover of the 

 chase. He washing known about Knaresborough as " Blind 

 Jack" and was the first person who set up a wheel carriage 

 in Harrowgafe for the conveyance of pas . engers to and from 

 plnccs of resort. At one time he was a musician in Colonel 

 Thornton's vo un leers (1745) and was taken prisoner at Pal- 

 kirk. Singularly enough, this man established himself as a 

 common carrier between Knarcshorough and York, and, 

 blind as he was, s rved as guide through the intricate paths 

 of the for' at, when covered with snow as well as at other 

 times. Fox-huiring was to him a delight, and he entered 

 upon it heart and soul, following the hounds both on foot 

 and in the saddle, with the greatest precision and without 

 meetinc with any serious accident. More than this, he ex- 

 plored the neighboring cOUntrj , projected and laid out roads 

 and built houses and bridges by contract. 



But Thomas Roberta was the most extraordinary fox-hunt- 

 er of whom I have ever heard, for he followed the hounds 

 under difficulties that would have discouraged most men. 

 lie was born without forearms and had no legs below the 

 knees Above one of his elbows there was a protuberance, 

 sgmethinif like a thumb, which was capable of muscular ac- 

 tion, and this served him iustead of a hand. Yet Thomas 

 had a firm Beat in the saddle and, as huntsman to Sir George 

 Barlow, the last baronH of that ancient family, bad charge 

 of a large pack Of hounds. With all his defects there must 

 have been something pleasing in his manners, for he had 

 three wives, who bote him a number of children. Daniel 

 Lambert had the same fondness for fox hunting and he in- 

 iiilir '1 il BO long as lie could get, into the saddle. When he 

 could no longer do that he sold his hounds at TatterealU and 

 drove to cover in his carriage. This taste never left him and 

 to the last he had around him a number of hounds. Cock- 

 fighting, a questional ile pastime even in his day, also stood 

 high in his estimation and he came hy it naturally, for his 

 maternal grandfather was a noted cock-fighter. 



As I have already remarked, a man once imbued with a 

 love for fox-hunting never willingly gives it up and there 

 have been those who at their death have been anxious for "a. 



