FOREST AND STREAM 
A WEEKLY JOURNAL, 
Devoted to Field and Aquatic Sports, Practical Natural History, 
"Fish Culture, the Protection op Game.Preservation or Forests, 
and the Inculcation in Men and Women op a healthy interest 
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WILLIAM C. HARRIS, Business Manager. 
CALENDAR OF EVENTS FOR THE CUR¬ 
RENT WEEK. 
Friday, June 26tli.—Agricultural Society, Laporte, Inch— East Sagin¬ 
aw Associatiou, Mich.— Utica Driving Park Association—Waverly Park 
Association, N. Y.-Loekport Driving Park Association, N. Y.—Argo- 
nautavs. Buffalo, four oars, on the Kill von Kali, Staten Island. 
Saturday, June 27th.—Lockport Driving Park Association, N. Y. 
Tuesday, June 30th. -Fearnauglit Driving Park, Romeo, Mich.— 
Bloodstock Associatiou, Denver, Colorado. 
Wednesday, July 1st — Fearnaught Driving Park, Romeo, Mich.— 
Blood stock Association, Denver, Colorado—Driving Park, Huntingdon, 
Xnd._Columbus Driving Park, Ohio—Riverside Park, Ottawa, Ill. • 
Galesburg Park, Ill 
Thursday, July 2d.— Blood stock Association, Denver, Col.—Driving 
Park, Huntingdon, Ind. —Watkins Driving Park Association, N. Y. 
Columbus Driving Park, Obio-Riversido Driving Parl^ Ottawa, Ill.— 
Galesburg Driving Park, Ill.—Auburn Driving Park, N. \. 
TO THE PUBLIC. 
Edward Moore, who was formerly connected with the Forest and 
Stream as canvassing agent, is no longer in the employ of this Company, 
his connection having ceased on the first day of May last. 
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ENDEAVORS TO PROPAGATE AMERI¬ 
CAN GAME BIRDS IN ENGLAND. 
S OME six weeks ago we informed our readers that 
Richard Valentine, Esq., of Janesville, Wisconsin, 
had requested us to mentjon to him the names of certain 
gentlemen in England to whom he should send the eggs of 
the pinnated grouse. , 
Understanding that the Prince ot Wales had expressed 
the very laudable desire of trying the experiment of pro- 
parting American game birds, we advised Mr. Valentine 
to send to the Prince a certain number of eggs, and to 
make at least two other consignments. The two gentle¬ 
men named by us were Frank Buckland, Esq., of Land 
and Water, and Lloyd Price, Esq., of Balia, Wales. We 
preferred our services to Mr. Valentine to aid quick trans¬ 
portation of the eggs, and on the 18th of last month 
some fifty were sent to the Prince of Wales, from Janes¬ 
ville. Arriving in New York on the 21st, they were for¬ 
warded on the 22d per Atlas to Liverpool, consigned to 
Sandringham, the country residence of the Prince. 
Undei°date of the 26th of May we received a letter from 
Francis Knollys, Esq., the Private Secretary of the Prince, 
which, in reply to a communication of ours addressed to 
the Prince, informed us that “His Royal Highness thanked 
Mr. Valentine for the kind offer of sending some American 
grouse eggs, and would accept them, providing Mr. Valen 
tine would be good enough to put a price on them.” From 
a gentleman in charge of Sandringham Cottage, King’s 
Lynn, we have had a letter informing us that the eggs were 
safely delivered there on the 8th of this month. The 
The writer says: “The eggs were immediately placed 
under hens by the Head Game-Keeper, and the Prince was 
informed of their arrival. His Royal Highness had re¬ 
ceived before this the intimation of the sending of the i 
eggs, as Mr. Knollys wrote us to take great care of them. J 
I hope the result may be successful. I retain 3 r our letter \ 
of advice, and will write you again.” I 
We have every reason to believe that the. eggs arrived in t 
good order, as Mr. Francklyn, of the Cunard Line, was j 
good enough to have them placed in charge of the purser J 
of the Atlas, and at Liverpool they were fowarded with j 
the utmost dispatch. As to the condition of the eggs, Mr. j 
Valentine used every precaution in the selection. The j 
freshest eggs from new nests were taken, and when over 
six eggs were found in a nest all of them were allowecHo 
remain, the eggs from the nests containing not over six 
alone having been taken. The box was : carefully made, 
and padded outside, so as to prevent any. jar. We must 
believe, then, that eggs never were sent on a long voyage 
with greater precaution and celerity, and as the Prince of 
Wales seems to have been interested in the matter, the re¬ 
sult of the experiment, we believe, will be successful as to 
the hatching. Whether the birds will live and thrive, 
time alone will determine. The eggs for Messrs. Buckland 
and Price, Mr Valentine writes us, unfortunately will not 
be coming this year. After having collected a certain 
quantity of eggs an accident occurred, and though other 
eggs might have been had, Mr. Valentine thought it better 
to put off gathering them until next year, when he will 
certainly forward the eggs to these gentlemen. We think 
sportsmen on both sides of the wafer should be grateful io 
Mr. Valentine for the trouble he has taken in their behalf, 
and we have to thank Jackson Gillbanks, Esq., of Carlisle, 
England, for a great deal of attention paid to the most in¬ 
teresting subject of introducing our American game birds 
into England. 
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AN OLLA OF SQUID. 
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* * A/”OUR occupation is gone,” said to us, quite enig- 
X matically, a leading fish dealer in Fulton Market. 
“How gone?” we asked. 
“Why, you see after Colonel DeVoe, our market super¬ 
intendent, who has made it an imperative dutyto cook and 
eat every kind of fish that turns up in the market, you might 
perhaps have come in as second taster, but now your occupa¬ 
tion is gone. Squids are off the market. There is, in fact, 
a corner in squids. There came to market this morning a 
Spanish restaurant keeper, Martinez by name, who made a 
clean sweep of everything in the squid line.” 
Now to have imposed on ourselves the role of Curtins, 
to have plunged headlong into a gulf of squid, to have of¬ 
fered ourselves up as a gustatory sacrifice to science, and 
to find out that there was nothing the least heroic about it, 
was really too bad. 
“What, bought them all?” we inquired. 
“Every one of them, and has contracted for all I can get. 
My buyer, it seems, had read Forest and Stream, and 
became aware through its columns that squid were found 
in our waters, but were looked upon with contempt by our 
own people. Those squid will be served up to-day in 
style.” 
“His address; bis address?” we asked, and we added sol¬ 
emnly, “we will try squid once more, although our first 
experience with the cephalapod was not satisfactory.” 
Towards one o’clock we sought Martinez, of Pearl street, 
and a Spanish waiter, with terrific whiskers and moustache, 
in the purest Gothic asked us “what we would have?” 
Now a notion came into our head to ask for an olla of poly¬ 
pus, but we only feebly muttered “Some stewed squid.” 
We were not understood. Remembering how Hogarth 
stood at Calais, ignorant of French, in search of the good 
inn called the Silver Lion, and how he assumed the appear¬ 
ance of the noble animal, standing rampant, with a shilling 
on his tongue, we flung our hands wreathingly around our 
head, as if to imitate the squirming of the pretty decapod. 
The waiter, who certainly had never read Victor Hugo, 
had no power of interpreting pantomime, and stood aghast. 
At last we seized a pencil, and on the back of a bill of fare 
drew off a squid in all its flaring glory. The man could 
read pictures (most primitive people can), and he forth¬ 
with smiled and clapped his hands, and rolled out grandilo¬ 
quently these impressive words :—“Calinares con m Unto.” 
‘■‘Tinto!” we repeated to ourselves, that means ink. We 
were polyglot enough for that. Was that waiter going to 
serve us with a bottle of Thaddeus David’s best copying 
ink, warranted as indestructible. Furbishing up our Span¬ 
ish—as rasty as Don Caesar de Bazan’s cloak—we said, 
“ SI Unto many ana.” The latter word, we believe, is ad¬ 
missible at any time in Spanish conversation. 
Just then the host came in person, and in English ar¬ 
ranged things comfortably for us. We had not long to 
wait. In a trice the dish was brought, a collection of 
squids all basking calmly on a rock of toast. Was it good? 
It was admirable, delicious, superb! It was a dream of 
the cafe de Paris of twenty years ago, when great Thacke¬ 
ray dined there at one table, and the curious Doctor Veron 
at another. Imagine?. volts (no one can pretend to describe 
a perfect dish in English without starting it off in French) 
something that tasted as delicate as the combs and wattles 
of cocks, or of sweet breads, with a reminiscence of the 
flavor of soft crab. All notions of the ugliness of the 
thing were set aside. It had changed its appearance, and 
had put on the guise of an ichthyological carrot. There 
was the round taper body like the root of the succulent 
vegetable, and the tentacles formed the leafy portions 
How-was it cooked? That is a mystery. There was a ricli 
brown sepia looking sauce, and there was a soupcm of gar- 
lick, as gentle in its ifbrfume as that shed by a violet. I n 
fine, he ate up every atom of it, and washed it down with 
a bumper of excellent Catalonian wine. 
We retract, we wish to recall, unequivocally, every and 
anything we may have said against squid. In our barbar¬ 
ism we were at fault. We did not know liow to cook it 
All the authorities in the London Field were correct in re¬ 
gard to the edible excellence of the octopus. Mr. Marti¬ 
nez told us that iu Spain the squid was considered a luxury' 
and that it was put up in oil like sardines. “In. cooking 
it,” said the host, “you must preserve the ink sack. It is 
the ink that imparts the beautiful color and the delicate 
aroma to calinares con su Unto.” 
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PROTECTION OF GAME. 
W E call particular attention to the circular issued by 
the President of the New York Association for the 
Protection of Game, addressed to all leading sportsmen’s 
clubs in the country. Associations throughout the Union, 
thinking favorably of the plau suggested, are requested to 
communicate with Royal Phelps, Esq., of New York, as 
early as possible. We have before this given considerable 
space to the measures embraced in the report of the Com¬ 
mittee, on the expediency of having co-operative game 
laws, and we trust that this most important subject, to wit, 
an uniform law governing the close seasons, within certain 
geographical limits, will meet with the approval of all 
sportsmen. The main object of the circular letter is to in¬ 
vite a thorough discussion of the question, and to have con¬ 
vened a National Convention composed of sportsmen, fisli 
eulturists, naturalists and members of acclimating societies 
who will urge legislation to adopt co-operative game laws: 
[CIRCULAR ADDRESSED TO SPORTSMEN’S ASSOCIATIONS, &C.] 
New York, June, 1874. 
Sir.—A t a recent monthly meeting of the New York Association for 
the Protection of Game, an unincorporated society in this city which has 
for its objects the enforcement of the laws passed for the protection of 
Fish and Game and the promotion of a healthy public opinion m relation 
thereto, the enclosed Report and set of Resolutions were presented by a 
Committee, to whom the matter had been referred at a previous meeting, 
and were unanimously adopted by the Association and were referred to 
the Executive Committee thereof with power. 
Pursuant to these resolutions the undersigned Committee would re¬ 
spectfully submit the subject matter therein contained to you and to your 
Association for consideration, and should you think favorably of the plan 
therein suggested, we beg that you will forward at your convenience a 
formal notification of the fact and also inform us at what time and place 
you would prefer the Convention therein called for to be held. 
If acceptable we would suggest the first of November, 1874, as the time 
and the City of New York as the place, in our judgment the most con¬ 
venient. 
Please address your answer to Royal Phelps, President, &c., 45 and 47 
Exchange Place, New York. 
Yours respectfully, 
Royal Phelps, President; ] 
Robert B. Roosevelt, Vice-Freeh.; | Executive Com- 
W. J. Hayes, Secretary; I mittee of N. Y. 
Chas. E. Whitehead, Counsel; [Associvtiou for 
G. II. Gautier, 1 the Piotection 
Clinton Gilbert, > I of Game. 
CO-OPERATIVE GAME LAWS. 
The New York Society for the Protection of Game held its last monthly 
neeting of the season at the residence of Clinton Gilbert, Esq., on Mon- 
lay evening, May 11th, Royal Phelps, Esq., in the chair. Among other 
nisiness, the Committee to which had been referred the resolutions 
jffered by Mr. Charles Ila’lock in reference to a uniformity of the game 
avvs, submitted the following report:— 
That on the examination of this subject they note the varying laws that 
roveni the protection of game, and that the variations m the legal tnnes 
killing game do not depend upon the periods when the animals nave 
•eased breeding, or upon the different climates which advance or retard 
ncubation, as much as they do upon the accidental selection by the iegis 
at arcs of the law of some other State or Territory as a model. In some 
instances the breeding season of some hsh lias been made the open 
season. In other circumstances open seasons have been 
firds, which should never be allowed to be killed, as for 
H-own thrush, in section 10 of the law ol our own State. Fut pa iculai 
v we note the objection that adjoining States m the same latitude, and 
Effected bv the same climate, and stocked by the same kinds of game, 
:iave different seasons in which they may be taken. 1 he t biiv doue by 
•his is manifest. It not only imperils the existence of the pud in the 
State where it is adequately protected, but it renders nugatory to a laige 
logree, the proper law in the adjacent State, because most of these laws 
are enforced by prosecuting the venders ol the game, and if game taBed 
according to law in one State is sold in another State wheie it is illegal 
the vender can plead that the game was killed m an adjoiningJjgg 
where the killing was lawful, and thus not only escape h /^e f, but iei der 
convictions under the law so uncertain that lew will 
of prosecuting, it oftentimes occurs that the breeding place of some 
game may belli one State, while the game in the autumn moves other 
grounds, as in the case of woodcock, and a great temptation is thrown in 
the way of those who live near the breeding place, and know that m a 
few days the birds will move oft where they will be killed, ana taey nui 
allowed to participate in the chase. . which 
The reasons seem even stronger when applied to fish mmusjk 
ran through several States, as, for instance, the Connecticut, which m 
liable to be fished by the citizens ot iqnr different StateSv any one 
which could prevent by their action the enjoyment of thefisheiies by any 
of the others. 
There are certain zones of climate where the birth md^atuny 
game are so nearly simultaneous that the same law could govun i - 
Take, for instance, the quail in Connecticut, IN ew Vork.Rew deGy, 
Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, indiana Mm gan, 
Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota. These birds are a staple game baa o 
great market value and field pleasure. w tw York and 
' Their incubating season may vary between Central NewW 
Maryland about two weens, and m either place will be advance . 
tarded that much of time by the character ot the season. 1 
these places, however, do any laws propose to °Pf‘\ i ^,f 1 f a 0 f is 
precise day when the birds aie grown. A reasonable margin o:r 
made, extending from October 1st to February 1st. Incur own State «ie 
open season is from October 20th to January 1st, lhe.se netuallv 
subject, had their laws been uniform as to times, wo ui( L^ Vnre P itainty. 
aiding each other; now they are the cause ot stumbling uncc 
Another matter which is essential to a complete system of ^ c i ose 
to have as many kinds of game as possible conueused into tl - 100 ting 
season. Each Stale has not only varying tunes to commence H oot^ 
the same game, but also varying tunes to commence shooting _ • for 
ent varieties of game. Thus in our s . fcate . ^^her^for wartridga • 
woodcock bogtqtf July 3d ^ for.^uail, tUc.SOtk ol Octobci ) A 
