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FOREST r AND STREAM. 



Leonozoff's business). There the caviar is put into tins and 

 sent to all parts of Russia. It is calculated that the produce 

 of these fisheries exceeds 200,000 tomans a year. No export 

 duty is levied ou this produce, and the Persian government 

 have no control over this gentleman's establishment. It is, 

 therefore, difficult to say what amount of profit is made ; but 

 the expense of catching, salting, packing and shipping cannot 

 come to much less than" 100,000 tomans a year. (Salmon and 

 salmon trout weighing fifteen pounds to twenty pounds or 

 more can be bought in'the season for ■ from 2s. to 4s. The 

 flavor of the former is more like the salmon trout than the 

 real salmon. Its color is of a paler hue, and it can surely be 

 recognized as salmon by its taste. The sefud maid does not 

 exceed five pound or six pound in weight, and is sold fresh at 

 4d each. 



"^ —Land and Water tells about the biggest salmon killed by a 

 fly. It is to be credited to Mr. John Haggart, of Stanley 

 Waters, who lauded one of sixty-one pounds. 



—It is rather difficult to place a new English sport, and to 

 decide whether it be gunning or fishing. Mr. Buckland pro- 

 poses to go after Pinner whales, only seventy feet long, which 

 may be found rollicking off the Scotch coast. "It can be 

 easily accomplished," writes Mr. Buckland, " with the aid of 

 a steam yacht and a harpoon gun." This must be pot hunt- 

 ing of the very best character, and quite profitable when one 

 learns that whalebone is worth, say, $4,000 a ton, and sperm 

 oil is equally high priced. If bagging a whale does not offer 

 sufficient excitement, Mr. Buckland proposes that porpoise 

 killing be made fashionable, as the Fishery Board offers a 

 bonus for their destruction. 



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GAME IN SEASON IN NOVEMBER. 



Mooa Alcese, machlis. 



Elk or wapiti, Cerims canadensis. 



Hares, brown ana gray. 



Wild turkey, IHeteagris n,:i!!oparo. 



Wooctoock, jPhUohela Minor. 



Buffed grouse, Bonaaa umbellus. 



Plover, Charadriinm. 



God wit. 



Halls, Rallus virginianus. 



Snipe and Bay Birds. 



Cariboo, Tarandvs rangifer. 



Red Deer, Curiums virginianus. 

 Squirrels, red, black and gray. 

 Quail, Opti/.c tiriiirtiaiiu.i. 

 Pinnated Grouse, Cajddo Cupidonia 

 Curlew, JXvmcnius unjuaria. 

 Sandpipers, Tringance, 

 Wallets, 

 Reed or Rice Bi rds, Volichonyx oriz- 



vorus. 

 Wild Buck. 



"Bav birds "generally, including various species of plover, sand- 

 piper snipe, curlew, oyster-catcher, surf birds, phalaropes, avocets, 

 etc., coining under the group Limaeoue or Shore Birds. 



■^"Tke frequent alteration of game laws makes such con- 

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

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

 fore append the following table for reference : 



in...... 



lnd.... 



Iowa. . . 

 Minn. . . 

 Wis.... 



Neb.... 



Kans. . . 



Sep 1 to Jan 15 

 Oct 1 to Feb 1 

 Aug 15 to Decl 

 Aug 14 to Oct 1 

 Augl5toNovlo 

 No Snooting 

 Augl to Feb 1 



Quail. 



Octl to Feb 1, Nov 1 to Feb 1 

 Novl to Jan 1 Nov 1 to Jan 1 

 Sep 12 to BeclS Oct 1 to Jan 1 



Sep 1 to Dec 1 

 Sep 15 to Jan 1 

 So Shooting. 



Sepl to Decl 

 Sep 15 to Jan 1 



No Shooting 

 Oct 1 to Jan 1 



Woodcock. 



tfepi. I to Jan 15 

 July 1 to Jan 1 

 Julv 1 to Jan 1 

 July 3 to Nov 1 

 July* to Nov 15 

 No Restric- 

 tions. 



Franklin, Oct. 29. — Ruffed grouse are more plenty than 

 usual in this section. I keep the cockers busy on good days, 

 and my friends busy devouring grouse pot-pie. Woodcock 

 scarce. M. P. Moll. 



Bloomingburgh, Oct. [29. — Woodcock shooting is good in 

 this part of the county. Last Tuesday bagged 20 woodcock, 4 

 partridges? on Wednesday, 14 woodcock and 2 partridges; 

 on Thursday, 12 woodcock and 4 partridges. This is the way 

 the shooting holds. Any one wanting some good shooting 

 can find some here. Milo Seagear. 



Syracuse, Oct. 26.— A party of sportsmen are preparing for 

 a week's duck hunting on Oneida Lake. They are to be the 

 guests of Capt. Nichols in his steam yacht, Spitfire. 



New Jersey — Red Bank, Oct. 24. — Quad crop fair through- 

 out the county. Wild. 



Maryland— Havre de Grace, Oct. 24.— A correspondent 

 writes : "Too caim for marsh duck shooting. Ducks plenty 

 on the flats. Quail crop short in Hartford Co. I had four 

 days' snipe shooting of the finest kind ou Specosia Island. I 

 thank Mr. Hyde for his permission, which 1 did not get until 

 after I left, for the' good time among the jacks. I will not 

 tell you how many 1 killed, but I wasted over one hundred 

 and fifty shells, and did not miss but every other time. Now 

 you know." 



Baltimore, October 27. 

 Editor Forest and Stream : 



The ducks have been very backward in making their appear- 

 ance in our waters this fall, but the shooting is fairly opened 

 now. 



We hear of good bags having been made at Carroll's Island, 

 Grace's Quarter, Maxwell's and at some of the points on Back 

 River. 



On last Friday a friend and myself killed at Legoes Point, 

 located at the mouth of Bush River, forty-eight ducks, all red 

 heads but eight. Most of these ducks had just arrived, as 

 their craws were filled with small shell-fish and seeds of dif- 

 ferent kinds — some of the latter of which I send you, and 

 would like to know what variety of plant they come from, as 

 I have never seen anything of the kind during an experience 

 of thirty years' duck shooting. 



They' are now busy on their favorite food, the Valisinarie 

 grass, and in eight or ten days will be in prime condition. 



Ducks are said to be more plentiful on the flats at I lavre de 

 Grace this season than for many years before. Sink boat 

 shooting begins the next week, which will stir the ducks up 

 and thereby make better shooting at the points on the various 

 rivers. Respectfully yours, Wm. H. Keener, M. D. 



[Ass.— We have made diligent, inquiries of seedsmen and 

 florists, Botanical drug stores, and the Botanical Garden, 

 without satisfaction. The specimen you enclose may be the 

 seed of the ramie, a species of flax cultivated in the north- 

 west ; but this is not probable, as the breeding-places of the 

 red head are in subarctic regions — though it is believed that 

 some breed in the Rocky Mountains. More likely, and we 

 feel quite positive in our opinion, the seed is of a species of 

 grass w T hich we have ourselves seen along the Labrador Coast, 

 but we cannot give the botanical name. — Ed. J 



Pennsylvania — Shar»n, Oct. 26— The best bag that has 

 been made here for several years was made by Frank Davis 

 on the 22d — eleven ruffed grouse. Rob. 



Saw the 

 Veed Mont. 



Maine— Kingfield.— About twenty-five bears have been 

 killed in Kingfield within a few weeks, making fifty killed the 

 past season. 



Vermont— FerrisburgJi, Oct. 26.— Wild geese are flying 

 south. Ducks plenty in the lake, but very wild. taffe< 

 "•rouse quite numerous. Fox hunting at its height, 

 last woodcock of the season yesterday. 



Massachusetts— Chatham, Oct. 24.— Picked up a few 

 blackbreasts and yellow- legs, and some surf snipe, frost birds, 

 etc every day the past two weeks. On the mainland, just 

 across from Nausett beach, a man came across a passing flock 

 of winters, about 200 in number, and secured fourteen with 

 the first barrel on the ground, and three more when they rose. 

 Saw only two redbreasts during my stay, and there have been 

 none since the 1st of Sept. Gunners here say that the young 

 birds which always come last, must come, but as it is so late 

 we fear that they may go along the first cold storm without 

 stopping on our coast. Coots are very plenty outside, and 

 black ducks were passing over in small bunches Friday and 

 Saturday last. Reports from Mononioy grounds for same 

 period indicate a corresponding state of affairs. The outlook 

 for further shooting on bay birds here is good. lou 

 cannot give away chilled shot here ; the gunners cite in- 

 stances of plover flying a number of hundred yards alter being 

 struck by three or four shot (corresponding to Tatham's No. 

 8) the pellets often going right through, and making too 

 clean a wound to stop them within bounds. There are more 

 winters in Boston markets to-day than for six weeks previous, 

 and are in first-rate condition. Ruffed grouse are a drug, 

 and the poor snarers have hard work to get rid of them. 



Fbuvier. 



Salem, Oct. 20.— Quail very plenty here this fall, but appear 

 to be moving south ; saw first teal on 6th ; bagged two of 

 them Saw two snipe and two teal on 19th ; bagged them 

 all ; saw first geese this evening, about thirty of them moving 

 south-east very high. J- B. 



Salem Oct. 29. — Since, last, have been out some with the 

 nun at West Newbury, Newburyport and Hamilton on id ilea 

 River Have found some snipe, though not at all plenty. 

 Got s'rail last Friday at West Newbury ; this is late for these 

 birds The grounds 7 nil through our county have been in bet- 

 ter order far fall snipe shooting this season than for some 

 years A parly of three at Plum Island last Tuesday rnorn- 

 in* shot 58 grass birds. Coots have been numerous m Ips- 

 wich Bav, and BWne good marsh bird shooting has been re- 

 ported from Rowley. Woodcock are scarce ; some partridges 

 around 1 have an albino taken at Hamilton lately, I have, 

 it. pretty straight that one Wm. Dane, of Hamilton, with three 

 Beverly gunners, have been shooting quad in a shameful man- 

 ner. Toms, Teal. 



New Your— Eldred, Oct. 19.— A number of sportsmen who 

 have been stopping at the house of Mr. J- M. Bradley, El- 

 dred, Sullivan Co., report good fare and excellent sport. 



Auburn, Oct. 27.— Partridges are plenty in the vicinity. 

 One man bagged thirty-six the other day. 



Cayuga, Oct, 29.— Wild gceEe have been Docking about the 

 lake the past lew days. 



HornelUmlle, Oct. 29.— There has been some fair shooting 

 since my last. Eugene Kennedy, 11 woodcock ; Burl, Elliott 

 and Dan Gardner each 10. Dan Gardner one day at Silver 

 Lake, 9 ducks ; Arnett and Tenney at Loon Lake shot 2 fine 

 loons and a duck never before seen about here — white head 

 and breast, black back and two very long slim feathers for a 

 tail. Some say it is an Old Squaw ; I say it is more big injun. 



Joun. 



Uniontmm, Oat. 25. — A party of sportsmen, consisting of 

 Thomas H. Lewis, John Biercr and E. B. Wood, had remark- 

 ably good luck the other day, capturing a number of wood- 

 cock, quail, pheasants, etc. 



Hdrrisburg, Oct. 26.— Wild turkeys are abundant in the 

 valleys which skirt the base of Roberts', Kittatanny and 

 Peters' Mountain, north of the city. Quail and pheasants ar« 

 in unusual numbers, especially in the valley cast of the Sus- 

 quehanna. 



Sunbury, Oct. 26.— Quail afford good sport. Several gun- 

 ners have made fair bags. 



Virginia— Norfolk, Oct. 26.— There arc few red foxes in 

 Norfolk County, but the gray ones are nearly as numerous as 

 rabbits. This is the season for the limit, and, with the ex- 

 cellent runs here, there is the best of opportunity for sport. 



Kentucky— Stanford, Oct. 34.— Out slftoting yesterday. 

 Quails superabundant, but a majority of coveys not more than 

 half-grown. Weather too dry for dogs to work well. Bagged 



37. ' KliNTUCKIAN. 



North Carolina— Charleston, S. C, Oct. 24.— A corres- 

 pondent in Uie neighborhood of Charleston, S. C, informs us 

 that foxes a»e plenty, and that, capital sport can be had: < In 

 four occasions a fox hunt was in order, and each time reynard 

 was bagged. Deer are also reported in fair numbers, and 

 much sport is anticipated. 



Georgia— Americus, Oct. 25.— Partridges or quail are very 

 abundant in this county. 



Albert L. Rees. 



Florida.— Owing to the enforcement of the game laws, all 

 kinds of game this season promises to be more than usually 

 abundant. 



Enterprise, Oct. 26.— Deer, wild turkeys, snipe, quail, etc., 

 are to be found in great numbers. 



Tztlks— Cohesion, Oct. 3.— Ducks are plenty, judging from 

 the quantity in the markets ; but have to go some distance for 

 shooting, as it is really dangerous to hunt near town on Ac- 

 count of the crowd that sallies out to shoot indiscriminately. 



C. O. P. 



Ohio— New England, Oct. 26.— Never within my recollec- 

 tion were quad so plenty in southern Ohio. A favorable win- 

 ter followed by a most excellent hatching season accounts for 

 it. My father owns a little farm of less than 100 acres on which 

 there are not less than nine bevies, some of them containing 

 two hatchings. G. P. J. 



Illinois— Warsaw, Oct. 20.— The region of Lima Lake, 

 some ten miles south of this city, has for many years past bten 

 a famous hunting and fishing resort. The location is a part of 

 a vast bottom subject to attflial overflow, and possess* f 



forests and numerous long and deep sloughs teeming ; 

 During the Fall months camps are established by spo 

 from Keokuk, Peoria, Qumcy and other cities and to 

 lesser note. £ln company with a couple of friends eq 

 with rods and guns I inade.a recent trip. We found b 

 woodcock, these fox squirrels, a few snipe, two bevies i 

 and a few prairie chickens. The small birds were mig 

 and in places the forest "was found to be literally alivel 

 them. We saw several flocks of ducks, mallards, leaa i 

 black jacks, but they were flying very high, and seldprj 

 ed a shot, Geese and brant are quite numerous on the j 

 I have noticed at least two hundred of the foi 

 flock. Pelican are also abundant in places. 1 notic. 

 lake, on the river bank with an area of several acres while 

 (hose snowy birds. On the west bank of the river wild tu; 

 are met with quite often, and at several points along Hi 

 and N. R. R. quail shooting promises to be prime. St 

 are quite numerous also in "the timber at several places^ 

 that road. The first cold snap will no doubt 

 many ducks to Lima Lake as a levee is partly construe! 

 prevent the overflow of the bottoms this season, and the 

 will be to contract the water area to the lake and sloug 



Wisconsin— F^rajikUn, Oct. 22.— Excellent duck 

 on Muskego Lake since the 10th of Sept.. about whic! 

 the blue winged teal began to arrive in enormous mi 

 Fred. Cfesar, a resident farmer, bagged one hundn 

 thirty of those delicious birds in one day, ana his 

 Louis, on the same dry, killed eighty-four. This ban. 

 teal lasted about three or four days. For the last tun 

 scaup ducks arid redheads have been very abundaut, 1 

 ccedingly wild and difficult to approach. I bagged 

 heads, 16 scaupers, 2 mallards and 6 blue winged teal 

 16th inst., which was deemed good sport. M. , 



Minnesota — St. Paul, Oct. 35. — Have been out on 

 noon just below the city with Reuben Warner. Wei 

 tor snipe, and failing to find I hem went into a favori 

 of corn for woodcock earlier in the season. We did 

 pect to find any birds, but thought we would walk 

 grounds for "old acquaintance sake. " We had ban 

 tered the corn before up went a bird just out of sk 

 W. got him up again and bagged him. In doing so 1 

 out of thick corn into hazel brush, when his dog c 

 point and up went another bird. Tins was repeatl 

 eleven birds were raised, ten of which went into our I 



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California — Santa- Monica. — Mr. Jolin Steere of tli^H 

 killed 2,051 wild ducks during eight months of the yc^H 

 ing the first of October. 



Santa Rosa.— Since the 15th of September, one deiJ^.H] 

 S. Sacry, has shipped to San Francisco, besides supplyjjj^H 

 local customers, 4,211 quail, 5 deer, 17 hare, 37 liioilpj 

 quail, 11 birds, 24 English snipe, and 3 rabbits. 



Canada — Montreal, Oct. 21. — Deer have been killed MM 

 woods within the past twelve days with the velvet o ffBrl 

 horns. 



From Sitting Bull's Stamping Ground.— The follK 

 extract of a private letter to the editor of this paper ffij 

 former resident of New York and Brooklyn, now locutS 

 Fort Walsh, the scene of Sitting Bull's interview wlilte 

 Commissioners, may prove interesting to many of ouriwM 

 Sun River, Montana, Oct. ISjBifl 



My Dear llalloclt—t&znj thanks to you lor kind retuembr^M 

 shape of your "Gazetteer." Had I known you wo.'e prcpai'ingfHll 

 work I could have assisted you materially as regards ibis coa^H 

 the far Northwest. I have been collecting some of the ditri'i'nUjma 

 of game, and the facilities for reaching It, to send you, as sounaJSp 

 get time to work it up. My travels have extended far north, 4fUfU 

 from here to Fort Calvery, on Bow River, properly the So^B 

 kotchewau, and I have made inquiries as regards game fartlieqB 

 I am indebted to works I have read in regard to that rcm^D 

 country, also to oilicers of the mounted police, who have beeiiiifrhm 

 Fort Soskotcbewao, twenty miles from Fori Elmonston, ou <Q^H 

 Soskotcbewan. Last winter I spent at Fort Wal=h, in tbe^Bfl 

 Mountains, and one of your subscribers, an officer, McIllveeB^B 

 who, by the way, is an enthusiastic sportsmen, gave me mnojflp 

 as to hunting, etc I asked him to send the Fokkst and isTuii^^H 

 Has he done to ? 



In this locality I find you have many subscribers, and le ar lnd** 

 ally that you are to receive an iuvitatiou to visit this section, -HA 

 like to see your old familiar face again, and spend a few we^H 

 you in traversing the grand old Rocky JIouiitalns,whone .snowj^H 

 are in full vlesv from here, and- take you farther north to F^B 

 leod and Cavuiry, where you would meet with a right royal tBM 

 from the scores of amateur hunters and fishermen. You otHBH 

 streams where it requires no art to catch the sportive trout, ^H 

 the buffalo and deer, moose, elk, and satisfy any lorjgiog».^P| 

 have experienced to hunt such game in abundance. Of smi^H 

 you would fiurl the famous ja -.kass rabbit, cotton tail, b idgs^H 

 odorous skunk. Yours very, truly, Akthur B. $^H 



— We have received from Mr. W. Holhertou a brvo^H 

 book, which he entitles the Sportsman's Note Book. 1(9 

 form of a diary, and on its blank pages may be joltoiW* 

 the many incidents of the sportsman's day. A portioBI 

 book is arranged so that a record of pigeon, glass bal^H 

 shooting can be kept. 



Camp's Automatic Caijteidge Loader. — There jwj 

 tain poiuts which a sportsman requires about a machin^B 

 to load cartridges. Such an apparatus should neilhcr^W 

 plicated nor cumbersome, and must distribute pow^H 

 shot with great accuracy. Such adjustment as mays'' 

 required, when different charges or gauges are waut^H 

 be easily accomplished. The Camp automatic carfridj^H 

 though scarcely a year old, has come greatly into t^^H 

 ■■ i by our leading sportsmen. Taking up a snijfl| 

 easily handled, and working with great expcdlt^H 

 loader does away with almost all trouble in the prep.att" wl 

 cartridges. 



— Lund and. 11 'a ter says that, "Gun accidents ^H 

 seems to be almost incredible. Iu 1 874 there were '-*•! *^M 

 of which nineteen were fatal aud sixty-one were V^H 

 cases. In 187.3 the total had mounted to 387, of whicllH 

 one were fatal and ninety-seven very severe. FinallJ^M 

 the number of accidents amounted to 414, of wh.cfl^fl 

 seven were absolutely fatal and 102 wore very severe . ^ 

 is evidently on the increase, a fact which spoilsmen ^H 

 well to take lo heart and endeavor to take more nr^H 

 against accidents than they general! p 



