FOREST AND STREAM. 



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The Conkectiout Rifle Association. — The annual con- 

 test for fche'T, Steele tS Son silver cup will probably take place 

 at the Willpwbrook range, Berlin, on Saturday, October I8tjt. 



The prize is open to teams of lour from the different, towns in 

 the. State, ton Shots each man, ;it 500,000 and 1,000 yards. 

 The priae was easily won last year by the Middletown team, 

 the other computing hams being from Hartford, New Britain 

 and Manchester. More interest La exhibited litis year, and it 

 is probable that more teams will lie represented. It is expected 

 thai, New Haven will solid a selection from its Creedmoor 

 team, and probably tlie rifle eluhs in Norwich, YYut.erhtiry, 

 Bridgeport and Stamford will he heard from. Special trains 

 lioiu Hartford will run to the range during the day. Greater 

 importance is placed in this trial each year, and ere long the 

 largest portion of the towns in the .State of Connecticut will 

 bti represented m it. • 



New Yokk— J-forvi'lh-pillr-. — A soldiers' field day and target 

 shoot was held at .louts' Trotting Fart: September 26, and 

 drew together an interested crowd towateh the contest for the 

 championship of Western New York iu target Shooting. Kitle 

 teams from iOmira and Ihiffalo were present, with whom the 

 ilornell Independents contested tor the prize and champion- 

 ship. Victory rested with the, latter team by a handsome 

 score. When it is remembered that they were wholly unused 

 to the lire-arm used at, this eon test, and besides had never 

 practiced at 500 yards, the victory is the more surprising. The 

 following is the score; 



KLM1UA TEAM. 



S(0U yards. r.mi va-ds. 



btuuieil 5 ■! -I D :s o ii i * :: -«s 



Couch ._.% 3 8 i i a u a o o'-afl 



nonlei u u 4 » -t 2 :i 2 S— go 



Rtitaa .• •( :t 3 a- a a ii o_9 



BubIi 3 3 3.34 a 2 0-20 



Total ,tjj 



B1 I i ALU TEAM. 



Sltcpard a 8 3 3 5 I) (I 3 11 2-22 



IVree i 2 3 3 'I 11 11 11 2— 16 



WUlama 11 'i 4 5 n .( 2 3 8 25 



Sampson I 4 3 4 2 5 4 , ( ■, 3_ 3S 



Qvt 5 a 4 3 3 3 2 u 3-21! 



'J'"^ 1 - 4 121 



nOWSKli, rjftaPRMDEOTS. 



LcLtcti 4 3 .| 3 g 11 O-la 



Baxter 2 3 4 4 03 :: 2—21 



Fellows 4 4 44 4 4 4 5 4 4—41 



Todd 8 M 4 3 3 4 3 2 3 3-31 



LoomlB 3 4 3 4 2 4 2.0—22 



Total Y3I 



—A long-range club has been organized at Madison, N. J., 

 and a 1,000 yards range laid out. 



Eliza isethport, N. J., Saturday, Sept. 22.— Singer rifle 

 range, 200 yards. 



SINGER KIFLE ASSOCIATION. 



Johnson, CI 4 5 3 4 5 5 4 4 5 5—44 



MeLatigljliu 4 344344 4 4 i— 38 



YV Vj 4 4 5 3 3 4 4 4 3 4-3S 



Jolmsoii, F .4 44454444 4—11 



< Jumpboll 4 4 4 4 4 5 4 3 3 4-3SI 



hchall-ur 4 3 4 3 4 4 5 4 4 4-B9 



bieyeus ....4 3 4 4 4 4 4 4 3—30 



uartei ..5 45445545 £-45— 318 



HA'UWAV BtFlB AND SCOUTING- CL(7I!. 



Haves 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4— til 



VfaltSOll 4 4 5 4 4 4 4 4 4 4-41 



Alder 4 4 5344445 4—41 



Vail 4 44545545 4—44 



S«0ire,5 5 44445435 3—41 



Winn 4 35444443 4—39 



SlielflOU 4 4 4 5 5 4-544 3—42 



Squire, E 4 54544445 4—43—331 



Stioei&AW— The Glen- Alger Rifle Association, of Ilarris- 

 ville, Mich., had a shooting tournament on the 14th ult. for a 

 silver cup. The scores stood : 



L AColwelt..,, 3414444445-40 J C Gram 30 



Jim Lyman ... .31 4 4 4 5143 5-40 I, Iknnliuan 2S 



11 W Lyitmu 37 II II Novi'8 24 



GWCohvell 37 Jos Evans 24 



(ieo Buck-. 30 A Noyes 23 



D McGregor 33 Jlio t'asque 23 



MeCiimhriilno 33 Juo Wood 22 



.1 K Faiiehiid 83 Geo Storms 19 



Tlioa Alackin ,. 31 



Gunnery Exi-ekiment.— Did you ever hear of the sural 

 cannon experiment made before the Abyssinian war by the 

 English War Cilice? The facts are as follows : The Com- 

 mander-in-Chief thought that a small battery could be car- 

 ried and fired on the backs of camels. So a small brass 

 cannon was cast, a day fixed, a donkey procured, and 

 cannon, donkey, commander-in-chief, the Prince of Wales, 

 alid a large and gorgeously dressed staff went down to 

 Shoeburyness. A target, was fixed, and the donkey, with 

 the cannqfl loaded with grape and safely strapped on, 

 placed at some KK) yards distatioc ; a sergeant then placed a 

 fuse to the touch. The donkey, who had heretofore taken 

 a very sleepy kind of interest in the proceedings, now 

 pricked up hja ears at the spluttering of the fuse, and calmly 

 wheeled about, placing the spectators in the place of Ihe 

 target. Then look place a most undignified skedaddle, and 

 commander-in-chief and stall officers were seen elbowing 

 each other in any dry or wet ditch they could find near. 

 When the explosion. took place the donkey exploded at the 

 same moment, and it would take Mark Twain or Dion Bou- 

 cieuult to properly describe the figure cut by scarlet and 

 whiti unii'crmsd -lide de-ca rips al'Lr hugging mother earth 

 for Leu minutes or more. They certainly were not fit to 

 grace a St. James reception. Nothing more was heard of 

 the camel field battery. K. D. V. 



— Shakespeare says, "Care Is no cure, but rattier corrosive, for tilings 

 that are not to be temeihea." We cannot associate care ami corro- 

 sion, however, wild n. T Babbitt's Toilet .Soap, lor it. saves care and is 

 deliciously emollient. Tins new toilet isoap is the highest achieyement 

 of a well-known manufacturer, for its perfect purity ami pleasant re- 

 action on tile skin are combined with a sweet natural odor.— [.lift 1 , 



RraimeRd, Mbm ,, Sept. 99; is77.— Please stop my ad. I have no t 

 time to answer half the letters Chat have poured in upon me regarding 

 Hie setter, dog 1 advertised. Dog is sold 10 Hon. s. LeeDavisoi St.. 

 Paul. . Yours truly, Tfios. P. Cantwkll. 



The above curt notice is from the gentlemen who is popu- 

 larly known as the "Wild Rice Man," and this incidentally puts 

 us iu mind that the two dozen inquirers for wild rice, whose 

 letters we have, will do well to address him at once a.t the 

 ttbove^ address, 



§&*#$ |?</# mid 0un. 



CAME IN SEASON IN OCTOBER. 



Woose, .i/.tm ■inarii.iiH. Red Deer, Cttriamie mrtiinimw*. 



KM; or wapiti. (V, /,■■.■; .YukcV/miVj. Squirrels, red, Muck and gray. 



IlhrfiU, brown and gray. (mail, OptffX luriiriiimni;;. 



VVinl turkey, ,\Mnniri" ■ ikII.i/hiiui. I'lnmiled Grouse, Cn r i,ln CupiilMlfa 



Wood cock, Phtlnkcta Mum,: curlew. KumumiuH urf/wtria. 



Hull,. I irons'', limifiuu umbiilftls. Sandpipers. 'J'riiuiniiv, 



l'lovcr, ('luitw.lruitw. Willels. 



Gotlwit. i.'i-eii or i.'io 1 Birds, baUcJivn!) sun 



Hails, Hallux viivitiiamw. vorutt. 



Snipe and Bav It'lrds. Wild Hiick. 



Ca.nl Sttorotttfos finnijiy. 



"Bay birds "generally, inciiiding various gnecies 01 plover, sami- 

 pipcr. snipe, curlew, oysler-calcher, stirt birds, phnlaropes, uvoccty, 

 etc.. coming under the group Limacolee or Shore Birds. 



r =.: The lrequent alteration of game laws makes such con- 

 fusion that sportsmen are kept quile in the dark as to when 

 shooting on various kinds of game is permitted. We there- 

 fore append the following table for reference : 



Slates 1 



Ruffed Uroiise 



111 



lad .... 

 Iowa... 

 Minn... 

 Wis.... 



Sep 1 to Jan 15 

 Oct 1 to Kel) I 

 .'\ugi5io Deci 



Ailg II to Oct 1 



Neb....lNo'\Sh,,oi.in»- 

 Ivans.. J Alio; 1 | ;il peb 1 



(niail. 



Woodcock. 



Oct t to Feb 1 jNov 1 to Feb I Sept 1 to ,7an 15 



Novl to .Ian 1 Nov 1 to. bin 1 July 1 to ,lnu I 



3epl2toDccl5 0ct Ito.iaiil Inly 1 to Jau I 



Sop 1 to DoolSettl to Deol Julys to Mov 1 



Sep 15 to Jan 1 Sep Ir. to -tail I July ■! to Nov 15 



>10 Shooting. NO Shooting No llest,nc- 



" I Oct 1 to Jau l| f.iuus. 



"Ekuai'1'ek" to "Equity." -1 am very sorry that in your 

 paper of Sept. 27 " liquify " takes my opinions so much to 

 heart. Lie very evidently misunders! anils me from beginning 

 to cud. i do ii.oi write in the interest of Messrs. Dougall or 

 -Tolley. Their work needs no pulling at my hands. I /nine 

 always admitted that the snap-action had merits, but I claimed 

 that they were not so many as possessed by the positive ac- 

 tion, whether of the lock-fast pattern or the double-grip. 

 " Equity " seems to be ignorant of the fact that all systems of 

 breech-action are open to all makers, and that I may think 

 highly of any one of them without any reference to the in- 

 ventor. I do like Mr. Dougall's guns, and Tollcy's likewise, 

 but my saying so is no more a proof of my effort to puff them 

 than "Equity's" own article wherein he speaks well of Scott 

 and Greener, or Eemington and Parker. 



When 1 spoke of the impossibility of building a gun to sell 

 here at a profit for li ss than $100 currency, 1 spoke of fine. 

 guns. The coarse work may be just as reliable, but you can- 

 not be so sure, of it. I have never said that trade. gun's cannot 

 be made good ; 1 only claim that out of a case' of perhaps 

 hundreds you may get one thorough good gnu, and you may 

 not. As to " Equity's " challenge 1 cannot accept it, for I 

 do not own a Dougall gun, and if I did and shot it against his 

 < ireener and got liea'eu by him, that would prove nothing 

 more than his gun shot better than mine, ft would be a ques- 

 tion of shooting powers and not one as to the merits of the 

 different actions, it strikes me that "Equity" is trying to 

 puff Greener and his guns. But enough of this; it is only a 

 question of taste after all. I have the bad taste to prefer 

 snap-actions. Very well ; so be it. I have, however, the 

 endorsement of some of the best sportsmen in America, of my 

 views, and 1 am weekly in receipt of letters from them thank- 

 ing me for my letters. Don't let us be like a couple of dogs 

 fighting over a plate of bones. You stick to your bone and 1 

 will try and hold on to mine. 



CoNVKUTiNG Me/./.bii-LoA.DEEs.— A. number of cases have 

 occured lately where owners of goodisb muzzle guns, disliking 

 to throw them away, have had them altercd,aud have found to 

 their sorrow that the muzzle guns which can be. converted to 

 a safe, effective breech loader, are very few in number. Guns 

 under the old regime— good ones I mean — were well built, 

 and were built, haying in view the sole purpose of its 

 construction. Every particle of metal that could be spared 

 was cut away. Well, those persons who have spent half the 

 price of a fair breech-loader, getting for their pains a compara- 

 tively weak weapon, mean by their muttered d , I suppose, 



to express the fact that they have been lamentably late in 

 learning that in the construction of a fine ami expensive tool 

 there is and must be unify of. design, a sole end kept always 

 in view during the building of it. Seldom is it, I say, that 

 such a tool, can be torn to pieces and a new tool built of the 

 debris which will do the work, e. {/., of the modern choked 

 breech-loader. It is a pity that so many fine muzzle guns 

 should now be so completely shelved ; but it is the truth that 

 they are almost east into outer darkness, save for the good 

 the've done in days of yore. And they do not sell. 1 speak 

 of good goods in the hands of individuals, because, so wonder- 

 ful have been the advances since the Field Trial days of 18ob- 

 18(56, that the best muzzle gun that Tape won with in the lat- 

 ter year is now easily distanced, so far as concerns the essen- 

 tial matter of killing qualities by a score of .f 50 breech- 

 loaders. Converted guns would never stand a decent proof- 

 charge,and generally it will be money in one's purse to sell the 

 muzzle-loader for the old iron which it is, and buy a tool 

 which was intended by its builder to be used for the definite 

 work which you intend to make it do. So will you be spared 

 the temptation to say and emphasize naughty words. 



It. E. Dee'AICNK. 



M.\.,sicursETTs— Salem, Sept. 2<k— There has been quite a 

 flight of teal, principally blue-winged, through our county 

 the past week, and some of the gunners have done finely. 1 

 shot a blue- wing with a fresh water clam fast to one of its 

 feet ; the bird attracted my attention while in the air by its 

 singular appearance. This same teal hew a good hundred 

 yards after 1 shot her, and when picked up had only a wing 

 broken close to the body The bird evidently kept up until 

 the bone became displaced when it. had to drop. I took a 

 trip to West JMewbutg. where I found a fine rail (/'. Carolina). 

 Ncwburyport Commons are very thy, and all our grounds are 

 much in need of rain. Our usual " line gale " went back on 



us this time, giving us only a thunder shower with cooler 

 weather and strong nor'-wester per 48 hours. Woodcock are 

 things we read of. There are a, few scattering snipe, one 

 gentleman killed two last Friday afternoon im Miles .River 

 near Beverly. Partridges are more numerous than other 

 game birds. Messrs. Loud and Gardner, of this city, shot, 10 

 between them last Friday at or near Topsfield. A I'eabedy 

 gentleman shot, 13 green back p'over (•& hefaitia) at Ipswich 

 one day last week. Uplands, at least the most of them, arc 

 gone. Cnpe-bracc (O. Septetltrionaks) were very numerous in 

 Ipswich Bay a week ago. Oooting oil Tinkers Island is now 

 in order. Mark 1'roctor, of Swampseotl shot Ihe fust about 

 10 days since, and they have been more plenty lately, so the 

 fishermen say. Sheldrake (M. Serrator)h:ivt' arrived; rather 

 early for them. Gulls are seen in large flocks outside the 

 Islands, and loons (C. tarquttlvx) are getting up the Green 

 Harbor. They make much of this Last named bird at Boars 

 Head, N. II., both to shoot and eat, good young and plump 

 ones often bring a dollar a piece. TEAL. 



Rod-port, Sept. 28-— George Parsons shot the other day, 

 near the village, a rough-legged hawk, a bird rarely seen 

 in this locality. 



Wc.tlport lliirlior. — Woodcock and par! ridges rather sraro •, 

 but large coveys of quails are numerous, and they promise ex- 

 cellent quail-shooting this fall. .1. W. B. 



SpvinyfwU, Oct. 1. — Buffed grouse are very plenty here, 

 owing to the almost entire absence of snaring. Quail, are 

 fairly plenty. Woodcock scarce. n. 



Salem, Oet. 1.— Nothing special this week except two pigeon 

 shoots. Plaster balls as a substitute for glass ones are a fail- 

 ure with our shooters. Ti : \ 1,. 



Nnw lf,\MPsiiiRK--SVw,W TnrwoorlTi., Sept.Zl. -The-shooting 

 is very fair here this fall. 1 was out a few hours this morning, 

 and succeeded in bagging three ruffed grouse and a few pig- 

 eons. Bucks have been Hying well since the last cold snap ; 

 have bagged over a dozen, which is doing very well for (his 

 section, as they are usually not very plenty. I have shot but 

 one woodcock this summer ; they ore scarcely known hero. 



KlSiNISBOOK. 



Nicw York". — llruxldon,, Franklin. Co., Oct. l.--This 

 place is on the Ogdensburg Railroad near the northern 

 part of the Adirondack Mountains, among which is Blue 

 Mountain, Cavanaugh Pond. Long Pond, Trout Pond , the 10- 

 mile level on the St. Regis River, all which are as good lo- 

 calities for deer hunting, if not the best, in the Adirondaeks. 

 The deer are plenty there this. fall. Four nice ones have been 

 sold here within the last two weeks 1 . A. C. 



An Adthok's Enoountke with a Catamopnt.— Mr. Wal- 

 lace Bruce, the distinguished author and lecturer, and a com- 

 panion recently encountered a large catamount in the Adiron- 

 daeks. They were walking on the highway through the forest 

 in the neighborhood of the Lower Iron Works, half a mile 

 f 1 om John Cheney's place, tit about 8 o'clock in the evening 

 when they discovered iu the road, a few rods ahead of them, 

 an animal in crouching attitude which they mistook for a dog, 

 evidently inclined to dispute their passage. Approaching 

 wilhing three feet of it, Mr. Brace extended bis hand to smooth 

 if caressingly, with the expression, " nim fellow," when the 

 savage creature, whose eyes glittered with cat-like brillialiey, 

 gave a terrific scream, bounded several feet away in the road 

 and after a slight pause suddenly disappeared in the woods 

 toward the mountains. Our travelers, being unarmed, did 

 not tarry to watch for his reappearance, but with nervous and 

 hurried steps pursued their journey. 



Death 01? an Adirondack Guide. — Scores of readers will 

 learn with regret of the death of John Chcney r , the. oldest, 

 most widely known, and generally beloved of all the guides, 

 hunters and hosts of the North Woods. His virtues have 

 been celebrated in the verse of Hoffman and the prose of nu- 

 merous writers, and an account of bis exploits, extending |far 

 back into the early part of the century, would, if collected, 

 fill a volume. 



Nkw XmSEY—Morrixlown, Sept. 29. — "Lank Quiniby" arid 

 a party of hunters have .started for a deer hunt iuPike couuty, 

 Penn. 



Bar negat Inlet, Oct. 2. — Black ducks increasing. Sprigtails 

 in large flocks made their appearance on Sunday. B. 



PKNNSvnvANiA — St. Marys', Sept. 28.— Wild pigeons are 

 abundant in the vicinity. 



Huntingdon. — The sportsmen of the vicinity are to have a 

 game association. 



[Arxinirg, Sept. 20. — Doves, bull-bats and occasionally ducks 

 are being killed. 



From the "Tae-IIkel " State. —LilesoiUe, N. O., Sept. 

 22. — The outlook for sport hereabouts is of doubtful cask 

 Our wing shooting commenced (by law; on Oct. 1, but from 

 last winter's dreadful severity, and Other causes unknown, 

 game is scarce. 



The long-bills are going to Florida, Louisiana, Alabama and 

 Southern Mississippi. No sport from them can we have 

 until February and March, when, too fat for long journey a, 

 they may stop hereabouts I'or a short time, one pair in ten 

 thousand possibly remaining to breed here and stay during 

 the summer. By " next moon" the Canadageese and green- 

 head ducks will make our " Old Pee Dee" River a sports- 

 man's paradise for a few weeks, and you may hear from me 

 again. E. 



2ffao Berne, Sept. 29. — Bears are unusually numerous in 

 the vicinity. 



Virginia. — Harrisonburg, Sept. 28. — Nimrod Dove and 

 John May, w T ho reside on Shenandoah Mountain, one da_y last 

 week, while shooting squirrels, heard a hog squeal for life. 

 They advanced in Ihe direction of the noise and saw a bear 

 sitting on a hog, the bear looking strange at the new comers. 

 Mr. May only having a single load of squirrel shot, took 

 direct aim and hit him in the breast. He left a line of blood 

 in the direction he took, but was not caught. They then, the 

 same day, built a bear-pen, as old hunters call it, and on visit- 

 ing it the next day the old bear was there. He was caught ^ 

 with a ham of the hog that he had killed. — Harristinbifrf} 

 Commonwealth'. 



EJBSTVOKY—LouiMHlle, Sept. 20.— II. M. Griswold, ,1. V. 

 Cowling, and j. W. Short leave Monday night on their hunt- 

 ing expedition to the Kankakee, where they will be joined by 

 Dr. Henry Griswold, of New York. Mr. Spurrier, of the 

 firm of Sues & Spurrier, with a party of gentlemen, left last 

 week for a few weeks hunting and fishing on the Arkansas 



