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and am only unfortunate in not having the necessary cash to 
provide myself with a gun which will of itself do everything 
I now find it necessary to do myself to insure proper action 
and no accidents. Ihave had to take the guns of the manu- 
facturers as I have found them, as the majority have to do, 
and, even though /the list has been a long one, have yet to 
discover a gun that-will safely, surely, and beyond all per- 
adventure of a doubt take in ‘‘swelled heads,” fire them and 
extract them; that is a gun that I could afford to buy, or that 
the majority could reach. I congratulate ‘‘Almo” on his ex- 
ceptional success, C. D. 
New York Crry, Aug. 17. 
GAME IN THE ARCTIC CIRCLE. 
TSOLLOWING is a statement of the game killed by 
Lieutenant Greely’s party in the region adjacent to 
Lady Franklin Bay during their long stay in the frozen 
North: 
August, 1881—1i6 musk oxen, 1 hare, 1 ptarmigan. 
September, 188i—5 wolves, 10 musk oxen, 1 seal. 
February, 1882—7 hares. 
March, 1882—1 lemming, 4 hares, 
April, 1882—1 fox. 
May, 1882—2 lemmings, 3 musk oxen, 5 seals, 1 hare. 
June, 1882—1 wolf, 4 lemmings, 18 musk oxen, 1 seal, 11 
hares, 17 king ducks, 6 long-tailed ducks, 20 dovekins, 2 
burgomaster gulls, 1 arctic fox, 20 skuas, 5 brant geese, 7 
ptarmigans, 7 tarnstones. 
July, 1882—4 ermines, 10 musk oxen, 2 hares, 8 long- 
tailed ducks, 19 eider ducks, 1 sabine gull, 5 arctic terns, 118 
skuas, 27 brant geese, 6 turustones, 1 sandpiper, 14 owls. 
August, 1882—2 ermines, 33 musk oxen, 2 seals, 11 hares, 
5 king ducks, 6 long-tailed ducks, 7 eider ducks, 13 dovekins, 
1 burgomaster gull, 3 arctic terns, 40 skuas, 87 brant geese, 
32 ptarmigans, 54 turnstones, 1 sandling, 16 knots, 2 ringed 
plover, 2 owls, 1 walrus. 
September, 1882—3 foxes, 1 ermine, 1 musk ox, 8 seals, 2 
hares, 1 raven, 3 ptarmigan, 1 turnstone and 1 owl. 
November, 1882—1 fox and 1 musk ox. 
December, 1882—1 seal. 
February, 1888—1 hare, 
March, 1888—1 ermine and 3 hares. 
April, 1883—2 hares and 4 ptarmigan. 
May. 1883—3 musk oxen, 2 seals, 7 hares and 11 turn- 
stones. 
June, 1883—1 wolf, 2 foxes, 8 musk oxen, 3 seals, 14 king 
ducks, 27 long-tailed ducks, 1 eider duck, 21 dovekins, 1 
diver, 3 burgomaster geese, 12 arctic terns, 12 brant geese, 
15 ptarmigans, 28 turnstones, 8 knots, 1 owl and 1 phalarope. 
July, 1883—1 lemming, 3 hares, 8 king ducks, 5 long- 
tailed ducks, 2 brant geese, 3 turnstones, 2 knots and 1 
phalarope. 
August, 1883—8 seals, 6 long-tailed ducks, 3 eider ducks, 
6 doyekins, 1 brant goose, 1 turnstone and 1 knot, 
A summary of the above gives a total of all game killed 
as follows: 7 wolves, 7 foxes, 8 ermines, 8 lemmings, 103 
musk oxen, 19 seals, 57 hares, 44 king ducks, 53 long-tailed 
ducks, 30 eider ducks, 60 dovekins, 1 diver, 6 burgomaster 
gulls, 1 sabine gull, 21 arctic terns, 178 skuas, 84 brant 
geese, 1 raven, 79 ptarmigan, 100 turnstones, 1 sandpiper, 1 
sandling, 27 knots, 2 ringed plovers, 18 owls, 2 phalaropes, 1 
walrus. 
The above statement of the game found by the Lady 
Franklin Bay expedition, which was prepared by Sergeant 
Brainard, is of interest as showing what species of birds and 
animals frequent Grinnell Land, and at what season of the 
year the migratory hirds return to that region. No game 
was killed during the months of October, November and 
December, 1881; January and October, 1882, and January, 
1888, when hunting was impossible on account of the 
darkness and cold. The solitary musk ox killed in 
Noyember, 1882, was found by the party which was sent 
during that month io Carl Ritter Bay, though there can be 
no doubt that it is resident throughout the year, subsisting 
during the winter season on saxifrage and the scant grass, 
to find which it removes the snow with its hoofs. The 
number of these animals seen disproves the theory advanced 
by Major Feilden in his paper on mammialia (see ‘‘ Voyage to 
the Polar Sea,” volume 2, page 201, Nares) ‘‘that the number 
of musk oxen in Grinnell Land is extremely limited,” and 
was well nigh exhausted by the onslaught made by the 
Wares expedition during the winter of 1875-76.—.W. Y. 
Herald. 
Harty Days In Western New Yorx«,—Dansyville, 
Livingston County, N. ¥Y.—The following brief notes taken 
from a standard history of the period serve to remind one of 
the halcyon old times experienced by the pioneer settlers of 
Western New York. Wecan imagine how the old settlers 
may have enjoyed the situation in the midst of abounding 
wildwood creatures, trout streams and the myriad feathered 
creation so charmingly written about by Wilson and Audu- 
bon. I opine, however, that there would have been no use 
for a sportsman’s journal in those piping days of plenty. 
Here is a quotation: ‘John Mountpleasant, Indian son of a 
British officer stationed at Lewiston, Niagara county, N. Y., 
says of those dear old days: ‘Deer were not plenty, the 
wolves hunted them, driving them into the Jake (Ontario); 
then they would wait and catch the poor tired creatures when 
they swam out. They also made sad havoc among them 
in the deep snows and crusted snows. A slope between the 
ridge and Lake Ontario abounded in bears; flocks of swan 
were often at the islands above Niagara Falls; bitterns were 
found in the marshes; white owls were numerous. I have 
taken salmon a foof long with my hands in Highteen Mile 
Creek, near Lockport. Trout were abundant.’ Judge Hop- 
kins, who came to Lewiston in 1788, says: ‘There were a 
great many bears, wolyes and wildcats, and being in the 
trade, | paid from fifty to seventy-five cents for beaver and 
otter skins, and four cents apiece for mink and muskrat 
pelts.’” Although the foregoing meagre notes only make a 
good show for bear meat and trout, and they omit any men- 
tion of the millions of grouse, ducks and other small game, 
yet we know they were abundant, and as for deer, they were 
numerous. throughout the State. Cannot ‘‘Antler,” my for- 
mer neighbor of Allegany county, furnish a contribution on 
this subject—or anybody else—trom either personal recol- 
- Jections or book gleanings?—OBED Boaas (of Livingston). 
Wrst Jursey Socrmry.—At a recent meeting of the 
_ directors of the West Jersey Game Protective Society at 
Gloucester city, Joseph Ore was appointed special detective 
- for Camden county; Fish Warden Platt, of Woodbery, for 
Gloucester county, and the directors of Salem and Cumber- 
_ land counties were authorized to appoint their own. The 
detectives are paid $12 per week, with the instruction to 
enforce the game laws from date.—Homo, 
Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis, a graduate of the forest 
Acadamy at Tharand, Saxony, among other reasons why 
government should engage in forestry in this country as well 
asin Europe, says (a) that without governmental oversight the 
abundance of woodland will be, as is the case in America, 
where it is least needed. 
for fuel—this is true of two-thirds of our so-called wood- 
land—and in census and tax returns, much is called such 
that ought not to be. 
long ago had ten million acres of good forest, have only two 
million left. 
private control of the business. 
population, of wood-consuming industries, und the extension 
of railroads, the demands made upon our forests are increas- 
ing, and yet their area is diminishing, 
years are necessary for some of the most valuable trees to 
reach maturity. Many will not even plant fruit and grapes 
which they may hope to enjoy. Will they plant forests 
whose completed growth they will never see? 
areas, more capital and more knowledge than most farmers 
have, arenecessary for the successful growing of timber, 
This knowledge must be largely traditional; it cannot be 
acquired by personal experience. 
will not show themselves the next as in ordinary crops. 
Hence government should take the lead as in Germany, 
where it gives its forest service a long technical training and 
apprenticeship. 
GOVERNMENT Conrron or Forests.—Mr, Schatzka, of 
(b) Most of the woods are fit only 
(ec) Michigan and Wisconsin, that not 
This is always what results from unrestricted 
(d) With the growth of 
(e) From 80 to 200 
(f) Larger 
The mistakes of one year 
ADVICE THAT WILL PROBABLY BE FoLLOWED.—Menomonie, 
Wis., Aug. 12.—The season to commence netting pinnated and 
ruffed grouse, ducks, etc,, opens Aug. 15, and itis estimated 
by good mathematicians that every citizen of our city who 
is old enough to bear arms, and who has arms to bear 
will be in the field promptly at four o'clock on the morning 
of said day; and it is hoped that there will be no bad misses 
of good shots, and that every bird that can possibly be killed 
will be brought to bag. For it would be a great misfortune 
to have too much game in the country (particularly the dan- 
gerous game known as grouse) and for that reason I say to 
shooters of this vicinity—don’t stop shooting after you have 
all you want to eat, but keep right onand kill all you can, 
because the fifteenth of August is here, and besides, some 
other hunter may kill more birds than you do, and that 
would be a disgrace for you, especially if you are credited 
with being an expert with the gun at the traps, and the 
other fellow only a novice. The prospects for prairie chicken 
shooting this year are exceedingly good. Good dogs are 
scarce, but good guns are exceedingly numerous. The birds 
are too small on the fifteenth to afford the best of sport; the 
open season should not commence before the first of Sep- 
tember.—B. A. E. 
IowA PRAIRIB Cutcenns.—Morning Sun, Iowa, Aug. 13. 
—Chickens are plenty. There is no doubt of it, but whether 
they will be by the first of September remains to be seen. 
I have just learned to-day that they are shooting them now 
out on the prairies in spite of the law. One party killed 
sixteen in one evening. Now, isn’t this too bad? Our laws 
are good enough, but there is a lack of the proper officers 
to enforce them. It seems to me that the experiment of 
having game wardens has been tried and been a success in 
other States, and with proper help they would do good work 
in the State of Lowa just now. The warden could drive 
out in a buggy and with the aid of a good glass catch men 
in the very act of shooting game out of season. I could 
show him now within six or cight miles of my house where 
he could make it hot for the law-breakers. Going into town 
this evening I found the bays terribly worked up, wanted to 
organize a club for the protection of fish and game. This is 
all right and we will organize such a club, but is it the duty 
of clubs to protect property that the State claims as its own? 
I think not, only when the State giyes them the authority 
soto do. I only hope these lines may be read by some one 
who can and will use his influence in the right direction.— 
Mors. 
W oopcock in Oxnto.—Wooster, O., Aug. 11.—The recent 
heavy rains haye moistened the ground, consequently our 
expectation have been realized. I anticipated that after the 
pround became moist again the woodcock would return to 
their feeding grounds. Such is now the case, and one who 
understands hunting them can make a fair bag, or rather 
the one that can hit them after he findsthem. I killed in 
one day last week over my beltons, Buckeye Belle and Bon- 
nie, fourteen brace. Got up one more bird, which I failed 
to shoot at. Killed all of those in the cornfields, which in 
places are very rank and thick. I was at work nearly two 
hours, and fired thirty shots. Remarkably good, considering 
the density of the cover. I shall send you some papers on 
the habits of the woodcock, particularly on the moulting and 
the nonsensical idea that sportsmen get into their heads that 
woodcock seek dense cover to go through this process. 
Quail are doing splendidly. While running a brace of Blue 
Dick bitches this A. M. I found three coveys of nearly full- 
grown ruffed prouse—one of 17, one of 13 and one of 15— 
and all within 300 yards of each other, I long for Sept. 1. 
—JouN Bouus. 
Two-Eyvpp SHoorinc.—Centralia, Pa., Aug. 15.—Hditor 
Forest and Stream: J think a good solution of the “‘two- 
eyed shooting” question is that those who practice it really 
use but one eye while the other may be open. This isa 
matter of only a little practice I find. J am quite interested 
in microscopic and astronomical work, In using my instru- 
‘ments I never think of closing either eye, using one for a 
while then changing to the other for rest, never thinking of 
closing the one not in use, At first things were considerably 
mixed; a beautiful double star seen with one eye was put in 
a cherry tree with the other, and the scales of Lepisma sac- 
charina were mixed up with the meshes of my table cover, 
but after a while I learned to pay no attention to what 
Was in view outside the tube-—Spricewoop. 
Game Azout Lowrin, Mass.—The prospects for good 
shooting in this vicinity during the coming season looks bet- 
ter than for a number of years past, Our summer has been 
cool, with frequent showers, and all the old and well-known 
woodeock grounds, as well as many new places, are well 
bored throughout their rich, moist bottoms by our long-billed 
favorites. Two and more have been flushed im each of a 
number of places by the writer. Reports come in favorable 
for sport with ruffed grouse, and some half dozen broods 
of these regal birds have been located by your correspondent. 
The whistle of Bob White is heard in every field, and if the 
writer is not mistaken in the symptoms we will have the 
best quail shooting for many years,—HEMLOCK. 
A Crosn SHAve.—Centralia, Pa,, Aug. 18.—Rattlesnakes 
seem to be a frequent topic in your paper these days. The 
other evening while riding out 1 heard the “sing” of one of 
those wretches close by the roadside. 
horses, and my setter dog passing the wheel was struck at 
from a low oak bush by the snake; she dodged it, but with a 
little yelp. I was afraid she was ‘done for,” but no ill-effects 
followed, so his snakeship, not making allowance for the 
dodge, came a little short of the mark and my dog was saved 
to help me in some of the sport promised this season. Quail 
and pheasants seem to be unusually plenty, and wild turkeys 
are on all the mountains.—Sricewoop, 
I reined up my 
Quai In Inprana.—Hartford City, Ang. 11.—The pros- 
pect for quail shooting this fall is exceedingly flattering here. 
In a half hour’s walk I can raise from 15 to 20 covies of 
young broods, 
hatching, We all lock for better shooting than we have had 
for the past five years. 
The season has been most favorable for their 
Ruffed grouse are more numerous 
also, though they are not hunted much by our sportsmen, 
quail being too plentiful and easier of access.—At Loox. 
CHazy Laxn, Dannemora, N. Y., Aug. 11.—Woodcock are 
very plenty this summer, and partridges also. On the shore 
near the lake is the cabin of Old Mose fhe guide. Of him Rey. 
8. O. Prime says: ‘Out of the thicket emerged an old man 
in many colored and patched raiment, with long and matted 
hair and beard.” Mose is now over 80 years old, and never 
wore a hat in his life. He can tell a good story and shoot a 
rifle with many young men to-day.—Rommr. 
RUFFED Grouse Near New Yoru.—lIf “H. G. B.” 
will come to Indian Point, Chateaugay Lake, Franklin county 
N. Y., he can find enough ruffed grouse for any reasonable 
sportsman. Our woods are full of the young birds, tyo- 
thirds grown. Ishall be happy to impart any information 
sportsmen may want concerning game and fish of our woods 
and waters at any time.—Mosms A, LAayram (Chateaugay 
Lake, Franklin county, N. Y.). 
PRAIRIE CHICKENS IN _Kansas.—Hartford City, Ind., Aug. 
11.—Reliable reports reach me from Marshall county, Kansas, 
that prairie chickens are thicker this year than grasshoppers 
were in 1870. Two parties were out on the 5th inst, and 
killed thirty-one in half an hour. It would be a good idea 
for sportsmen of that section or game protectors to look after 
the game a little, as the law is not off before Sept. 1.—Anm 
Loox. 
Camp Sire Hlickeyings. 
re 
“That reminds me.” 
1338. 
NTO the store one eyening strolled Hank, the old hunter 
of the town, and the talk turned to hunting. Some of 
the boys asked the difference between a grouse and a part- 
ridge. While we were discussing that subject there came in 
a fellow who, we thought, might enlighfen us, so Bill 
asked him if he could tell us the difference between 
a grouse and a partridge. After scratching his head and 
looking at the wall, he drawled out, “J always supposed a 
grouse was a specie of rabbit.” Hank told us a yarn about 
trapping. He said that when he used to trap, mink were 
plenty and commanded a good price, and he used to catch 
several every night. One morning as he was going over his 
traps he came around a high bank in the creek and there on 
top of the bank not twenty yards away sat a mink. Hank 
said he pulled up his gun and fired, and the mink started to 
roll down the bank and Hank ran so fast to get it before it 
went into the creek that the load of shot struck him in the 
legs. Then Bill related a story he had read in the Formst 
AND STREAM, about some boys who ran a rabbit under a 
powder house and tried to smoke it out. The powder house 
exploded, blowing them to pieces, tore a hole in the ground, 
carried a tree several yards, and broke glass in a window 
half a mile off. After he had finished, Bob eagerly asked, 
“Did it kill the rabbit?” Brut. 
ATHENS, Pa. 
134. 
Tt was our last evening in camp; there were three of us, 
C., the genial ‘old trapper,” H., the man of varied experi- 
ence, a traveler in many lJands—a roamer of the seas—but 
now the woodsman, and the writer, J. W, H. had in his 
dime many adventures with the wild animals of the forest; 
the panther in particular. Perhaps it would be no exagger- 
ation to say, for a choice between a good Thanksgiving din- 
ner with all the ‘‘fixin’s,” and a hand-to-hand clinch with 
that ferocious beast, the latter would be taken every time. 
I ventured to intimate to my friends that it was our last 
evening in camp, and asked if H. would entertain us with 
some real good panther stories, Without deigning even an 
intelligible reply, but only giving a half grant or mutter, and 
a few extra puffs at his pipe, he relapsed into silence, and 
that was the order of things for the next few minutes, Just 
when it was getting to be the least bit oppressive, however, 
the old trapper began: 
‘My grandfather was a great hunter, trapper, and Indian 
fighter, and eventually his name was a terror to the red man. 
He lived at that time in Northern New York, not far from 
the ‘old Canada trail.? His business was hunting, trapping, 
and killing Indians; the latter came about this way: One 
day, while absent ona hunting expedition, the Indians 
raided that section, murdered his entire family, and burnt 
his home and all its contents. When my grandfather re- 
turned and saw what had been done, he swore eternal ven- 
seance against the red devils, and never after did he omit 
an opportunity to killand scalp an Indian. He set about 
building a small log cabin, selecting a spot not far from his 
old home, but more secluded, and not so likely to be observed. 
There the poor old man lived solitary and alone, with none 
to cheer or comfort him; but what with his rifle, traps, and 
hunting Indians, he was kept pretty busy, and so had not 
much time to brood over his troubles, It was one cold 
morning in the winter following the sad occurrence, that my 
grandfather started out to visit his traps. 
“There had been the night previous one of those furious 
snow squalls which usually precede very cold weather, and 
he had not proceeded far when he found it so intensely cold 
that he was sorry he had come out, but thought he would 
go only to the first trap and then return. Now in order to 
reach his first trap he would cross the Indian trail which led 
into Canada, and when he had got so far he saw the fresh 
tracks of five Indians. Though the day was so very cold 
