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-vvitli hook and. line, trap, net or any device whatever, any 
tisli from Rockland Lake, in the county or Rockland. Any 
person violating any of the provisions of this section shall 
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon convic¬ 
tion thereof shall pay a penalty of not less than five dollars, 
nor more than fifteen dollars, or be confined in the county 
jail not less than five days nor more than fifteen days, in 
the discretion of the court. 
NEW JERSEY. 
For deer, December 1st to October loth following; pen¬ 
alty for violation, $50. For gray snipes, April 25tli to 
September 1st; for woodcocks, July 5th to January 1st; 
lor quails and pheasants, November 1st to December 31st; 
for rail and reed-birds, September 1st to November 31st. 
The penalties for the killing of birds out of season range 
from $5 to $15. 
With respect to game fish the law provides that no person 
shall at any time catch any speckled trout, bass or salmon 
•with any device save only kook-and-line, and only from 
April 1st to August 15th. The same provision applies to 
black bass, pike or pickerel, between March 1st and June 
1st under a penalty of $25 for each offence. 
No set net or nets can be placed across any of the canals, 
rivulets, thoroughfares or creeks of the State. Penalty for 
violation, $25. 
MARYLAND. 
The Maryland Legislature at its last session passed 
an act for the protection of speckled trout in the waters 
of that State. The first section provides that it shall 
not be lawful for any person to take any speckled trout 
in any of the waters of this State after the passage of 
the act, save with a hook and line, or to have any such 
trout in possession except during the months of April, May, 
June and July, and the-first fifteen days of August, under 
a penalty of five dollars for each fish so taken or found in 
possession. 
The second section prohibits the taking of any such trout 
in any of the waters of the State by means of fish baskets, 
nets, seines or traps, under a penalty of five dollars for each 
fish so taken. 
The third section prohibits the placing of lime or other 
deleterious substance in any of the fresh waters of the 
State, without the consent of the owner, with the intent to 
poison or catch fish, under a penalty of one hundred 
dollars. 
The fourth section provides that where any one erects an 
artificial pond upon his own land, or land of which he is in 
legal possession, for the purpose of propagating fish, and 
shall give notice thereof by publication in a newspaper of 
the county, or by printed or written bills put up in public 
places near said pond, any person thereafter catching fish 
therefrom shall be guilty of a trespass, and in addition 
thereto shall be liable to a fine of five dollars for the first 
fish, ten dollars for the second, and twenty dollars for the 
third and for each subsequent offense. 
The fifth section provides that persons engaged in the 
artificial culture of brook trout may take from their own 
ponds in any manner and at any time such front, and may 
sell or transport them, and dealers may sell them, provided 
that the packages containing them are accompanied with a 
certificate of a justice of the peace that such trout are sent 
by the owner or by agents of persons so engaged in their 
culture. 
None of the provisions of the law prohibit the taking of 
fish at any time and in any manner from artificial ponds by 
the owners thereof, or by the authority of the owner. We 
give the substance of this act fully, because some of its 
provisions may inimediately affect our readers. 
OHIO. 
It shall he unlawful to catch, kill, or injure any spar¬ 
row, robin, blue bird, marten, thrush, mocking bird, swal¬ 
low, oriole, red bird, gross beak, catbird, cliewit or ground 
robin, pewee or phoebe bird, wren, cuckoo, indigo bird, 
nut hatch, creeper, yellow bird, fringilla, yellow hammer 
or flicker, warbler or fincli, mavis, red stark, dummock, 
nightingale, cross bill, European quail or com crake, Hun¬ 
garian robin, European black bird, great tit or blue. Quail 
and Virginia partridge are not to be killed between the 
first day of January and tlie fifteenth day of October. Ruf¬ 
fed grouse, prairie chickens and blue winged teal, mallard, 
wood duck or any wild duck, wild geese or brant, between 
tlie first day of January and first day of September, and 
woodcock between tlie first day of January and the fourth 
of July. Rabbits and bare are not to be killed between 
the 1st day of January and tlie first of October. It is un¬ 
lawful to snare or trap quail at any time, or to use swivel 
or punt guns for, or to use push boats or sneak boats, with¬ 
in the State of Ohio, in pursuit of wild fowl. For disturb¬ 
ing eggs of birds protected by this act, a fine not less than 
two dollars nor more than twenty-five dollars is imposed. 
If notice is placed on a man’s land, or a verbal order is 
given by the owner of the land, it is considered as protect¬ 
ing the property. A fine is imposed of not less than five 
dollars or more than twenty-five dollars, or imprisonment 
of not less than five days or more than thirty days, to those 
trespassing, or offending by shooting on such premises. 
It is unlawful to shoot or kill deer in any way, between 
December first and October first. It is unlawful for any 
person to purchase or offier for sale game or birds during 
the close season, no matter where they came from, and 
persons having such game on ha ml for sale are liable to the 
same penalty as if they bad killed it. 
Our correspondent, Hon. H. O. Collins, of Hillsboro, 
Ohio, has sent us the following letter and criticism of this 
law, which we think worthy of consideration:— 
Hillboro, Ohio, July 8tli, 1874. 
Editor Forest and Stream:— 
Though in some respects objectionable, it is perhaps as good, as could 
be expected, considering the conflict of opinions upon the subject. Clos¬ 
ing the quail season on the 1st of January is an improvement, for be¬ 
tween deep snows and lack of cover and food, they have a hard time in 
winter; but with this early closing of the season it should commence the 
1st of October, when most coveys are fully grown. The late broods are 
owing to the failure’of the first, for after long and careful observation 
I have not been able to satisfy myself Aat a second brood was ever at¬ 
tempted if the first succeeded. Great numbers of nests are dis¬ 
turbed by the cutting of meadows and grain fields in June and July, and 
the birds will rarely return to them, but begin anew. No matter liow 
well grown the coveys, the old cock and hen will be found with them, 
* ‘barring accident. ” 
The close season for pinnated grouse ends-September 1st, as is proper. 
There are but. few of these birds in Ohio. 
The spring killing of water fowl, though objectionable on t he waters 
of Lake Erie, is less so on the Ohio and its tributaries, and it will be diffi¬ 
cult to enforce it. The farmers have at length got a strict protection 
against shooting on their enclosed lands, for which they have long con 
tended. They have been subjected to so much annoyance from pot hunt¬ 
ers and reckless persons, that it is no wonder they feel sore upon the 
subject; but most of them will freely give the privilege of shooting on 
their land to those who will not abuse it. 
The principle embodied in the report I made to the Senate of Ohio in 
1861, a copy of which I sent you, a*-e in the main carried out, ana it is 
gratifying to see the increased attention which is paid to the subject, as 
it will tend to more thorough and accurate information, and of course 
more perfect legislation. II. O. Collins. 
MICHIGAN. 
Section 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That 
it shall not be lawful hereafter at any time to fish with 
seines, trap nets, pound-nets, or any species of continuous 
nets, during the months of March, April, May and June, 
or by spearing or shooting in any of the waters of tlie State 
of Michigan except Lakes Michigan, Superior, Huron, St. 
Clair, and St. Clair and Detroit Rivers and Lake Erie: 
j Provided, Nothing in this act shall be construed as prohibit¬ 
ing sole owners of fisli ponds from fishing therein, as they 
may think proper. 
Section 2. Any person offending against the provisions 
of this act shall, on conviction thereof, be liable to a fine 
of not over one hundred dollars, or imprisonment in the 
county jail not over sixty days, to he determined by a court 
of competeut jurisdiction. 
GEORGIA. 
—The following law is in force in Georgia: 
Whereas, a continual wholesale and ill-seasoned de¬ 
struction of deer, partridges and wild turkeys by shooting, 
hunting, trapping, and other means, has threatened to ex¬ 
terminate and utterly destroy the breed and growth of deer, 
partridges, wild turkeys, and other birds hereinafter des¬ 
cribed, in the counties of Chatham, Bryan, Clark, Fulton, 
and DeKalb; and, whereas, the breeding season of deer, 
partridges, wild turkeys, etc., is between tlie months of 
April and October of each year, during which season the 
killing or trapping thereof is excessively cruel and not pro¬ 
ductive of good to the people of said counties, or of the 
State of Georgia, it being conceded by eminent medical ex¬ 
perts that the flesh of deer, partridges, wild turkeys, etc., 
when obtained by trapping, or when killed during the 
treading season is, for sanitary reasons, improper as an 
article of food. Therefore, 
Section 1st, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the 
State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by the authority 
of the same, That the shooting, killing, trapping, or des¬ 
truction of any deer, partridge, wild turkey, wild duck, 
mocking bird, dove, red bird, nonpareil, or any insectiver- 
ous bird between the first day of the month of April and 
the first da} r of the month of October of any year, shall be 
held and determined a misdemeanor, and shall be punish¬ 
able by fine not exceeding five hundred dollars or impris- 
ment in the county jail not exceeding six months at the 
discretion of the court." . 
Section 4th, Be it f urther, enacted by the authority aforesaid, 
That the trapping or shooting, killing or destruction of any 
mocking bird, red bird, nonpareil, or any insectivorous 
bird or birds of any kind, at any season of the year, shall 
he punished as provided in section first of this act. 
Canada. —We reprint from our issue of March 5th a 
table of close seasons for game and fish in the Provinces of 
Quebec and Ontario. Canada. 
FIS II. 
Whitefisli. 
Whitefisli seining. 
Salmon, net fishing ... 
Salmon, fly surface. 
fishiug. 
Speckled trout. 
Bass. I 
Pickerel (doree).>■ 
Maskinonge.) 
GAME. 
Deer, elk, reindeer, or 
caribou. 
Moose. 
Hares and rabbits. 
Turkeys, grouse, pheas¬ 
ants or partridges. 
Quail.• 
Woodcock. 
Snipe. 
Mallard, grey duck, bl’k 
duck, wood or summer 
cluck and teal. 
Wild swan, wild goose. 
ONTARIO. 
19tli Nov. to 1st Dec., 
80th May to 1st Aug... 
1st Aug. to 1st May... 
1st Sept, to 1st May... 
1st Oct. to 1st May_ 
15th April to 1st May. 
ONTARIO. 
1st Dec. to 1st Sept... 
1st March, to 1st Sept.. 
QUEBEC 
.. 119th. Nov. to 1st Dec. 
.. 1 31st July to 1st Dee. 
.. 1st Aug. to 1st May. 
.. 1st Sept, to 1st May. 
.. 1st Oct. to 1st May. 
.. 30tli April to 24th May. 
QUEBEC. 
.. 1st Feb. to 1st Sept. 
1st Jan. to 1st Sept... 
1st Jan. to 1st Oct_ 
1st Jan. to 1st July .. 
1st May to 15th Aug.. 
1st Jan. to 15th Aug . 
1st March to 1st Sept. 
1st March to 1st Sept. 
list May to 1st Sept. 
In New Brunswick and Nova Scotia rod-fisliing for 
salmon is permitted until September 15tli. Fishing for 
black bass is forbidden between the first day of August 
and the. first day of April. 
Ontario Game Laws. —The following is the new game 
Act in the Province of Ontario:— 
Deer, moose, elk, reindeer, or cariboo, between the first 
day of September and the first day of December. 
Wild turkey, grouse, pheasants or partridges, between 
the first day of September and the first of January. Snipe 
between the 15th day of August and the 1st day of May. 
Mallard, grey duck, black duck, wood or summer duck, 
and all kinds of teal, between the 15tli day of August and 
the 1st of January, 
Hares and rabbits, between the 1st day of September and 
the first of March. Except in the counties of Essex, Lamb- 
ton and Middlesex, no quail shall be taken or killed from 
tlie passing of this Act. 
No person shall have in'his possession any of tlie above 
animals or birds, or any portion of them during the close 
seasons. They may be exposed for sale, nevertheless, for 
one month and no longer after such periods, or had in pos¬ 
session at any time for family use; but in all cases the 
proof of the time of killing shall be upon the party so in 
possession. 
None of the animals or birds above mentioned shall at 
any time be taken by means of traps, snares, gins, baited 
lines, or other similar contrivances. Any person* may de¬ 
stroy such traps, snares, etc., which lie may discover with¬ 
out incurring any liability for so doing. 
No person shall have in possession the eggs of any of tlie 
birds mentioned at any time. No batteries, sunken punts t 
or night lines allowed in the killing of swan,geese or ducks. 
Beaver, muskrat, mink, martin, racoon, otter and fisher 
may be hunted and killed only between the 1st day of 
November and tlie 1st day of May. 
r i he fine for killing deer, etc., out of season, shall not be 
less than, ten dollars nor more than fifty dollars for each 
animal. For having in possession the birds or eggs of any 
of tlie birds protected, at any time, not less than five dol¬ 
lars for each egg. For killing any of the fur bearing ani¬ 
mals out of the season not less than five dollars for any 
other breach of the Act. In all cases the whole of Hie fine 
to be paid to the prosecutor. 
S'tiswet[8 Ufa (jj£ort[ett}iondcnt$. 
C. E. L., Lockport, N. Y.—Duck in season in Ontario, Canada, Aug. 
15th. See this week’s issue Forest and Stream. 
L. A. K., Boston.—Texas Jack has not- yet been seen at Crecdmoor. 
. Do not know wliat rifle he uses. 
S. S. R., New York. —Can yon tell me where in New York to buy wall 
tents? Ans. Wellington A. Carter, 51 and 52 Courtlandt street. 
H. D., Philadelphia.—We would advise you not to give your dog any 
medicine or interfere with him in any way, unless he gets much, worse. 
W. II., Ralston, Pa.—Do you know anything about the Cocker pups, ad¬ 
vertised in your last? Ans. We believe they are genuine, but do not 
know the gentleman personally. 
Relyuc, Albany.—What is the cost of board at Blue Mountain Lake 
Adirondacks, and during what months is there good fishing there? Ans. 
No hotel on Blue Mountain Lake. Fishing till September. 
A. W., Philadelphia.—1. Land cmd Water, 169 Fleet street, London. 
2. They did some years ago, but to-day English cartridges for breech¬ 
loaders are charged with about the same sized powder as ours. „ 
C. S. R., Boston.—Who are the best guides for the Rangely region; 
also, am I in error in thinking that the time for trout fishing in Maine 
lias been extended to October 15th? Ans. Guides all good. Get Char¬ 
ley Soule, if you can. Season ends September 15tb, 
J. S., Philadelphia.—What is the proper load of powder for li shot in 
a lOrbore breech-loader what size and what brand? Ans. See answers 
in Forest and Stream July 23d. You do not state wliat game you pro¬ 
pose to shoot. 
C. P. W., Albany.—We have learned that the Monitor Raft for sports¬ 
men is made by the Combination Rubber Company, 62 Church street, for 
the patentee’s price, $75. The bamboo rods are made by Thomas Tout, 
Kingston, Mass. 
Columbia. —Would you please give me the course of training pursued 
by the Columbia boat’s crew, also tlie diet used by them for the m'ontli 
previous to the race? Ans. If you will write a letter to Captain Reese, 
Columbia College, N. Y., we think he would give you the desired infor¬ 
mation. 
Trout on the Brain. —I have about fifty dollars to spend on my vaca 
tion, which begins the 20th of August, lasting ten days. I would like to 
ask yonr advice as to where 1 should go to have first-rate sport in trout 
and lake fishing? Ans. Go to Twin Lakes, Canaan, Connecticut. Take 
Harlem and Conn, Western Railroad. 
Friday.— Is the fishing at White Lake, N. Y., good, and wliat kind? 
What are the hotels and board per week? How shall I get there, and 
what is the fare? Ans. Would not advise you to go to Wbite.Lake for 
fishing. Used to be good bass fishing, but very poor now. Get off at 
Coshecton, Erie Railroad, or at Monticello; White Lake House and Wool- 
ridge House. Fare, $6 or so. 
L. G. B., New Jersey.—Will you oblige me with the addresses of the 
most reliable parties in England from whom to obtain a Gordon or Rus¬ 
sian setter bitch, or the name and address of sporting papers in England 
of whom I can obtain reliable information? Ans. Frank 0. Pearce, 
Preston street, Favershara, Kent, England, will give you every informa¬ 
tion. 
Circle.— When does the open season for trout end in Maine? Ans. 
Season ends Sept. loth. Where do you think would be the best place 
to so for two weeks’ fishing the last of August; if in Maine, at what 
place nearest Portland? Ans. Sebeclakes. Is there any shooting there 
ill August; if so, what kind? Aus. Snipe and the like. 
M. B. & Co,, Springfield, Mass.—Would it be oC any use to take flics 
into the Thousand Islands district; if so, what kind would be best? Ans. 
Take lUes, by all means; the Page fly, scarlet wings ivith guinea fowl 
shoulders or primaries, is a most killing fly. Oswego river bass take 
browns of turkey wing. Any gaudy combination—scarlet and white, 
yellows, nondescripts of all sorts, regular calico patterns, arc the best 
for bass. Red flannel is often a killing lure. 
F. S. D., Boston.—Would you tell me of some preparation that would 
make sheeting waterproof, so that it could be used for a tent? Canvas 
makes too heavy a load to carry through the woods? Ans. Take half a 
pound of sugar of lead and half a pound of powdered alum, dissolve 
them m a bucket of rain water, then pour off tlie fluid with the dissolved 
-ingredients into another vessel. Steep the canvas thoroughly in the so¬ 
lution, letting it stay for a considerable time. Hang it up to dry, but do 
not wring it. The water of a rain storm seems to hang to it m globules 
and does not go through it. 
Inquirer.— The whole number of improved trout ponds on Long 
Island is 82. They occur on both sides of the Island, from Brooklyn to 
Riverhead. Most of these are private, but there are several in which 
fishing privileges are sold to transient anglers at so much per day, or 
$1.50 per pound caught. The principal ponds are at Maspeth, Little 
Neck, Smithtown, Northport, Huntington, Centreport, Cold Spring, Wa¬ 
ding River, Smithtown River, and Roslyn, on the North side, and at Riv- 
erbead, Seatuck, Belleport, Fireplace, Islip, Patckogue, Canarsie, Sea- 
ford, Amityville, Babylon, South Oyster Bay, Freeport and Hempstead, 
on the South side. 
J. A. P., Philadelphia.—Are black flies very bad in the Umbagog and 
Rangely region, say from August 12th to September 1st? Ans. No flies. 
Is fishing good at above time on the Megalloway river, can a guide and 
boat be obtained, and at what point? Ans. Good fishing. Take stage 
from Bethel Hill, on Grand Trunk Railroad, to Upton, cross Umbagog to 
month of Megalloway, then go up stream fifteen miles to upper settle¬ 
ment, where you can get guide and boat. Thence there is a two mile 
carry, then twenty-seven miles up stream to mouth of Little Megalloway, 
then a carry of three miles into Parmachene Lake. You can cover as 
much of this ground as yon please, and enjoy best of sport. Could you 
recommend a better place in same neighborhood fur good-sized brook 
trout? Ans. No. 
R. Roff, Washington.—Please inform me of the difference between 
the horse mackerel, bluefish, salt water taylor and the snapping mack¬ 
erel, also what connection the white perch has to the bass, and oblige? 
Ans. Well, a horse mackerel is a thynnus which will sometimes weigh 
2,000 pounds, while of the mackerel of commerce, No. 3, it takes a good 
many to fill a barrel. It would require pretty strong tackle to play a 
horse mackerel. They are captured with harpoons. All the fish you 
mention are nearly allied; the bluefish and taylor are the same, and the 
snapping mackerel are merely young bluefish. The horse mackerel are 
numerous around Nantucket. The bluefish are known south of New 
Jersey as the taylor fish, and the snapping mackerel fill the harbors and 
entrances of Long Island Sound in July m countless numbers. The 
black bass belong to the Perehlee or spine-rayed bony family, which em¬ 
braces three-fourths of the kinds that are known. 
Wellsville. N. Y—In your issue of July 9th, in answer to C. S. R., 
Fulton, you say there is a fine of $25 for fishing on Sunday. The law 
reads thus: “There shall be no hunting or shooting upon the first day of 
the week, called Sunday,” and says nothing about fishing. The game 
laws in 1869 read: “There shall be no hunting, shooting, fishing, or trap¬ 
ping on the first day of the week, called Sunday,” since which time I 
have never seen anything in regard to fishing on Sunday. Please tell me 
where I can find the Sunday law? Ans. See Laws of New York, Chap. 
721, sec. 15. “There shall be no shooting, or hunting, or having in pos¬ 
session in the open air, the implements for shooting, on the first day of 
the week, called Sunday * . under a penalty of not more than $25 
nor less than $10, for each offence.” If you wish to go fishing on Sun¬ 
day there is nothing in the above text to prevent; but should you be 
brought before a justice be would probably, if a conscientious man, rule 
according to the spirit rtf' the law, for our careless legislators never 
meant to imply by their omission that hunting was improper and that 
fishing was not. 
