Feb. 5, 1885.1 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



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tors of the law, and will notify hiin at once if his presence 

 is required there. 



The territory assigned to tlxis district is altogether too 

 large for one protector. No one protector alone can success- 

 fully enforce the game laws in all parts of it, especially in 

 those parts where the residents are not in sympathy with 

 game protection, as is the ease in a great portion of Frank- 

 lin county. Only a short time ago 1 was told by one of the 

 leading men of the county, who has been elected supervisor 

 several times, that he thought game protection by the State 

 wrong, that it was wrong to tax the people to pay the game 

 protector's salary, when not one in a thousand ever went 

 into the woods to hunt or fish, and he did not care whether 

 came was protected or not. Scores of others in the county 

 hold a like opinion of game protection. This a game pro- 

 tector has to contend against. There are localities in the 

 district to reach which, by the route the protector would be 

 obliged to take, would require a journey of a hundred miles 

 or more, and to go there and return would use up over two 

 weeks' time, and the expenses for the trip would be $50. 



As far as intercourse between the two places is concerned, 

 the Settlements in the southern part of Franklin county, on 

 Tnpper's Lake and elsewhere, and the villages and towns on 

 the northern border of the county, are as distant apart as 

 those villages and towns aud the Territory of Dakota, as it 

 requires the same length of time to go from them to the one 

 place that it does to go to the other. This district contains 

 within its borders one-half at least of that portion of the 

 wilderness that is the most unsettled and inaccessible. 

 Many parts of it can only be reached by traveling through 

 the woods on foot, or by boats a part of the way, when one 

 can be procured. For one person alone to^ properly enforce 

 the laws in a district like this would require a salary to pay 

 the traveling expenses alone larger than all the salary a 

 game protector gets. Were it not for a share that a game 

 protector gets of the fines collected, the protector for this 

 district would not have been able to do what he already has 

 done in St. Lawrence and Jefferson counties toward their 

 enforcement there during the past two years. 



I have, as probably will be noticed, omitted to mention 

 any cases of violation of the game laws at other times than 

 during the early summer months, or of their being violated 

 by any other method of hunting than hunting at night by 

 jack-light. My reason for so doing was, because the state- 

 ment made by "L." principally, if not wholly, referred to vio- 

 lations of the law by the guides in those months. I only 

 wished to state what I know to be facts from my own ob- 

 servation, and which cannot be successfully contradicted. 

 But that the game laws arc violated in the St. Regis district 

 at other times during the close season and by different modes 

 of hunting, I am as well satisfied as I would be had such 

 violations come under my own observation. I am informed 

 by reliable parties that deer were hounded or hunted with 

 dogs all through November, aud in part of the month of 

 December last, on and in the vicinity of the east branch of 

 the St. Regis. Among those who were engaged in it were 

 two of their number at least who act as guides during the 

 sporting season. 



A year ago in the last week of July, a party of so-called 

 sportsmen came in by way of St. Regis Lake or Paul Smith's, 

 with guides and dogs. They went to Long Pond, three 

 miles west of my camp on the level, and remained there 

 several days hounding deer. I heard the dogs myself from 

 ray camp. Shortly after they left two of my acquaintances 

 Went over to the Pond to fish for trout in the outlet, and 

 they saw the carcasses of three deer in the water, from which 

 only the hide and hindquarters or saddles had been taken, 

 and the rest left to rot. I did not see the part}' nor their 

 guides myself, but the latter were said to be by those who 

 did see them guides who make their headquarters at Smith's 

 Hotel. Deer are hunted with dogs frequently at times when 

 it is unlawful. 



Although there is the best of trout fishing in the streams 

 and in many of the ponds, this region is but seldom visited 

 for the purpose of angling alone, except by residents on its 

 border, who occasionally go there for a day's fishing. Al- 

 though nettiug trout is practiced in these waters, the laws 

 in regard to fish or fishing are not violated to anywhere 

 near the extent that they are by hunting deer, 



I have written to show that the statement made by "L.," 

 concerning the guides, arc perfectly true of many of those 

 who follow that vocation within tie Adirondacks; and in 

 part to show a few of the many obstacles against which the 

 game protector has to contend, or which are in his way in 

 enforcing the game laws, especially in this district, of which 

 Franklin county forms a part. 



I intend no disrespect to the guides in making these state- 

 ments. They are no worse, nor as bad as the gentlemen 

 sportsmen, so-called, who employ them to violate the law 

 and who guarantee to pay all fines. It is not strange that 

 many of the guides still violate the law. The majority are 

 men ot small means, who get their living for themselves and 

 their families by guiding during the summer and fall and by 

 working at what they can find to do Avinters. And when 

 we consider that four-fifths of the inhabitants of the county 

 have no sympathy with game laws or game protection, it is 

 no wonder that guides violate the law, and almost impossi- 

 ble for the protector to enforce them. Adrion Ondack. 

 Near the Adirondacks. 



The general expression of public opinion, as given in the 

 press of the State, is decidedly in favor of a non-hounding 

 law. We give herewith a number of extracts from our ex- 

 changes: 



THE PRESS ON THE PETITION. 



We heartily commend the movement as both proper and desirable. 

 If some measure of the character indicated be not speedily adopted, 

 this noble game will no longer lend romance to the Adirondack 

 regioD, and its existence, in a few years, will be known only in the 

 hunter's story. — Oneonta Press. 



We doubt not but such a petition will receive many signatures. The 

 practice of hounding deer or slaughtering them for the mere sport of 

 it should certainly be prohibited by law, — Lowville Times. 



This is, really, a very important matter, and we hope it will receive 

 widely extended attention and encouragement.— Albany Press and 

 Knickerbocker. 



Legislators should give their assistance to the framing of such a 

 law, which seems to be the general will of the people.— Buffalo Mer- 

 cantile Review, 



This matter is worthy the attention of sportsmen. At the same 

 time would it not be well to take measures to stop the shooting of 

 deer hereabouts out of season, as was done in this city last Sunday?— 

 Home Daily Sentinel, Jan. 28. 



This should be religiously attended to, for our deer grounds of the 

 north are an inheritance which it is the height of folly to allow to go 

 unprotected adequately. Every sportsman will take the matter to 

 heart at once, and be anxious to see something definite accomplished. 

 Who will take the matter in hand iu Le Eoyf— Le Boy Gazette. 



It is to be hoped that the petition may be granted. The relentless 

 warfare that is being waged against the deer at will, will soon exter- 

 minate them entirely. The natural ingress of civilization will too 



soon enough cause them to disappear, and all wanton and wholesale 

 killing should be stopped.— Bath Plain-dealer. 



We hope this matter will not be allowed to rest until protection full 

 and complete is given, by strict legislation, to this most wantonly per 

 secuted animal.— jkvoca- Advance. 



Those who value the Adirondacks as a summer resort, and all good 

 citizens, whether they ever visit that rogion or not, will heartily in- 

 dorse, and gladly attach their signatures.— Pine Plains Register. 



The movement should be successful. Old hunters who have lived 

 in the woods all their lives are in favor of restricting deer hnntiug to 

 still-hunting. Drive the dogs out of the Adirondacks and keep the 

 wolves killed off aud deer hunting would soon become a real pleasure. 

 —Oswego Falls Observer. 



All true sportsmen will favor this, as at the present rate of killing 

 their race must become extinct. Give the deer a chance. Should the 

 law forbid their being hunted for the next five years it would more 

 nearly meet the requirements of the case. — Oneida Free Press. 



Unless something is done to stop the wholesale slaughter of deer In 

 this State, the race will become extinct, and he who loves venison 

 will have to enjoy it only in memory.— Kinderhook Rough Notes. 



While on the question of protecting deer it would be well to re-enact 

 the prohibitory law in Suffolk comity. An old hunter suggests that 

 a law might be framed to allow four days' hunting in the month of 

 November, each year, giving one day in each week, Any legislation 

 which will protect these fast disappearing beauties should be 

 welcomed.— Babylon Budget . 



It is a fact well known and regretted that the deer of the Adiron- 

 dacks are rapidly disappearing, owing to the recklessness of fre- 

 quenters of the wilderness. The favorite means of destruction is the 

 use of dogs trained to the purpose. To put a quietus on that sport 

 within the limits of this county, our Board of Supervisors at the 

 sessions in December made it a criminal offense to use dogs for this 

 purpose, and authorized the shooting of the dogs on sight when pur- 

 suing deer.— Sandy Hill (Washington county) Herald. 



It is very much to be hoped that this effort will prove successful. 

 Unless something is done, and that very soon to stop this aud other 

 modes for the wholesale slaughter of deer, the animal will at no re- 

 mote date become extinct in the State.— Camden Advance-Journal. 



Those interested in the preservation of game will be pleased to 

 learn that a special effort will be made during the winter to secure a 

 law preventing the hunting of deer by dogs in this State. This un- 

 sportsmanlike and destructive method of hunting deer has been fol- 

 lowed to suchanexteut that the deer are being rapidly extermin- 

 ated. The Forest and Stream has the preseut movement in charge, 

 and it will be well managed and we hope successfully urged. We 

 hope that some of our sporting citizens ■will he inclined to render as- 

 sistance in this cause by circulating a petition asking for such a law. 

 — Cohoes News. 



There is a very commendable movement on foot to secure an en- 

 actment by the Legislature prohibiting deer hounding in the Adiron- 

 dacks. The matter of better protecting the game of that and every 

 section of the State has come to be one of vital importance.— .Ifora- 

 via Fallen Register. 



Deer hounding has so many objoctionable features that its preven- 

 tion by law r would be not only humane but for the public good.— 

 Ogdensburgh Signal. 



Cut this out, paste it on to a sheet of paper, secure all the 

 signatures possible, and send it back to the Forest and 

 Stream: 



To the Honorable, the Legislature of the State of New York: 



We, the undersigned, residents of the county of , 



N. Y., respectfully petition that Chapter 543 of Laws of 1879, 

 entitled "An act for the preservation of moose, wild deer, 

 birds, fish and other game, be so amended as to absolutely 

 prohibit the Chasing, limning and hunting of moose and wild 

 deer with dogs, at any season of the year, on the ground that 

 such chasing, running and hunting with dogs is very destruc- 

 tive to such game and is rapidly destroying the same. 



THE DEALERS AND THE GAME. 



THE newly formed Game Dealers' Association wrote to 

 Chas. E. Whitehead, Esq., counsel for the Association 

 for the Protection of Game, asking him on behalf of his 

 society to request the New York Legislature to suspend the 

 game law temporarily until the glut of ganie could be dis- 

 posed of. Mr. Whitehead wrote in reply as follows: 



"In reply to yours of yesterday, I would say that our Asso- 

 ciation for the Protection of Game has given the game dealers 

 no assurance of immunity from prosecution for violation of 

 the laws on this subject. 



"The law of this Estate in comity with other States for the 

 protection of its and their game and fish provided a large open 

 time, within which game could be killed, extending it to Jan. 

 1 of each year, also a further time within which game so 

 killed or brought here from abroad could be consumed up to 

 Feb. 1, and after that made the dealing m game unlawf uL 

 The reason of the law is the preservation of species of game. 

 The chief destruction of game arises not from the individual 

 killing and using of game, but from the organized netting and 

 trapping of game by the quantities for sale in the markets 

 of the great cities of Eastern States and for exportation. This 

 netting is greatly facilitated by the deep snows of midwinter. 

 In January carloads of dead or partly frozen quail, prairie 

 chicken, sharptail grouse and ruffed grouse are consigned to 

 thismarket, some from this State, but mostly from Iowa, Ill- 

 inois and Nebraska. If they meet warm weather, it often 

 occurs that tons of them rot and are thrown away or sold to 

 the poorest classes of the community at trivial prices. If the 

 weather remains cold, the3 r are sold' at as low prices as fifty 

 cents a pair for grouse and two dollars a dozen for quail. 

 Those that are not sold here, by Feb. 1, are sent out of the 

 State or exported to Europe or concealed in refrigerating 

 warehouses, where they are retailed to those who have the 

 conscience and taste to buy them. The amount exported is 

 often a hundred barrels at a time. The amount concealed for 

 covert retail can be judged of by one seizure by us in April 

 last of 8,795 quail secreted in the Washington Street Refriger- 

 ating Warehouse Company by one of the members of your 

 organization. 



"This law was enacted after great and prolonged discussion. 

 It has been in force many years. Its provisions are well- 

 known in this State and by all dealers in other States, and its 

 effect is to diminish the killing and exportation of game to a 

 large extent. The very association which you have formed , 

 great in number and wealth, and which you have incorrectly 

 called an Association for the Protection of Game, etc., shows 

 what a large and profitable trade you are doing m. a business 

 which, sooner or later, if not restrained, will cause the anni- 

 hilation of most of the species of birds whose names I have 

 enumerated, 



"You have it in your power to stop these consignments to 

 you during the last of December and the month of January 

 by notifying your consignors that you will not receive them. 

 You allow them to come forward, and ask us to aid you and 

 them in defeating the purpose of the law, and we must decline 

 to do so. Yours, Chas. E. Whitehead, 



Counsel for Association for the Protection of Game," 



A Man Eaten by Wolves.— Jefferson City, Mo., Jan. 24. 

 — I send you the following, which I clipped from one of our 

 exchanges to-day. Perhaps it may interest some of your 

 readers: "Kankakee, 111., Jan. 23.— A. H. Butts, secretary 

 of the Chicago Lumber Company, has just returned from a 

 logging camp near Metropolitan, Mich., a point in the 

 pineries forty miles north of Escaboine. He says the night 

 before he left the camp the mercury had dropped to 43° 

 below zero. This was the climax of four days of very ex- 

 treme weather. That night an old trapper and Indian 

 hunter, named Tom Duging, returning from hunting, was 

 killed and eaten by wolves within two miles of the camp. 

 The wolves there are more numerous and bold than usual, 



on account of the scarcity of small game. His friends, 

 searching for him the next morning, found his closely- 

 gnawed bones. Thirteen dead wolves were lying near him, 

 pierced by his rifle balls, and his Winchester rifle by his 

 side, with "one chamber still loaded." — P. D. F. 



Exportation or Game.— Philadelphia, Jan. 31. — A prom- 

 inent commission firm of this city made the statement last 

 week that the cause of the extreme high price of canvas- 

 back ducks now ruling was occasioned by the demand for 

 these luscious fowl from England. Fully seven-eighths of 

 the fowl of this description coming from the wild celery 

 feeding grounds are shipped by order to Great Britain. The 

 price now received for prime canvas-back ducks from 

 abroad is $6 per pair, and they are chiefly shipped to the 

 restaurants and cafes patronized by the upper ten on the 

 other side of the pond. Here and even in Baltimore an order 

 for canvas-back ducks and fixings costs $3. If the demand 

 from England continues, next year we shall have to pay $5 

 for the same indulgence. Our river is full of the heaviest 

 floating ice known for years, and on the turn of the tide the 

 immense mass makes navigation almost impossible. Duck 

 shooters from below are sending many fowl to market, but 

 they are in poor condition.— Homo. 



Captain Bond Safe. — Editor Forest and Stream: Your 

 correspondent, "Homo," evidently drew upon the "first re- 

 ports" as to the drowning of Capt. Bond, of Long Beach, 

 N. J. Although I believe the captain is over eighty years 

 of age, he is yet a skillful yachtsman and fully understands 

 all the currents and storm "freaks of Tuckerton Bay. Find- 

 ing himself confronted by a dangerous gale he just ran down 

 and took refuge at the lighthouse. After the subsidence of 

 the storm he returned home safe and sound and ere this has 

 doubtless read several heartfelt obituaries of himself, none 

 of which ho need be ashamed of. In a retrospect of twenty 

 years no more pleasant hours recur than those spent with 

 Capt. Bond, whether on the bay or on shore. 1 hope he 

 may be spared to cross the bay for many a year before touch- 

 ing upon the unknown shore.— M. P. P. (Philadelphia, Feb. 

 2, 1885). 



Glencoe, Volusia County, Fla. — I have seen more wood- 

 cock in this vicinity than during any one winter since I have 

 been in the country. They are generally seen in single pairs 

 here, but with a good dog I can flush a dozen or so in an 

 hour's time. I see more of them just after or during a cold 

 "norther" than at any other time. While fire-hunting for 

 deer recently I flushed one while walking near a swampy 

 place; it flew up and lit not over thirty feet away. I do not 

 think they ever breed with us, although some writers say 

 they do. I never saw one in the summer time. Snipe, 

 quail and doves are quite plenty. There have been very 

 few sportsmen on the coast, so far this winter, to hunt them. 

 This is owing no doubt to the depression in business matters 

 and to the New Orleans Exposition. The hotel accommo- 

 dations, both at New Smyrna and Oak Hill, are among the 

 best in the State. — Bed Wing. 



Indiana. — Fremont. — Game quite scarce. Babbits caught 

 with ferrets. Five foxes caught in the neighborhood this 

 winter. — C. Y. 



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"That reminds me," 

 147. 



ABESPECTED member of our village sportsmen's club 

 has a 'coon dog which has long since retired from 

 active service on account of advancing years. His owner 

 says, "That's the greatest 'coon dog that ever anybody saw. 

 His teeth are all gone, you know, and he couldn't kill a 

 'coon to save him; but he hunts just the same. And the 

 other night 1 follered him, an' he chased a 'coon to the foot 

 of a big tree, an' I'm blamed, when I got there he was 

 a-pokin' the 'coon with his nose an' a-tryin' to make him 

 climb the tree!" ^[ 



Camp-fire Flickering 145, by J. L. B. Hancock, would 

 read better to knowing parties by stating Bedford countv, 

 Pa., notVa.— E. T. T. 



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SNELL, SNOOD, GIMP. 



IF the inquirers through the Forest and Stream will try 

 the following plan for fastening snells to hooks they 

 will never have occasion to complain of them slipping off. 



Get a roll of rubber cement such as is used to fasten bicycle 

 tires, (it can be procured where bicycles are sold) warm the 

 shank of the hook in a lamp sufficient to melt the cement, 

 then draw the shank of the hook across a piece of the 

 cement and enough will adhere to answer the purpose. Let 

 it cool for a second to prevent it from sticking to the fingers, 

 then press the end of tne snell on in just the position you 

 wish it to remain. After allowing the cement to stiffen a 

 little more wrap with good thread, and if you have just the 

 proper quantity of cement and the right consistency jfhe 

 wrapping thread will bury into the- cement smoothly'; it 

 will be perfectly waterproof and stick to business under all 

 circumstances. The cement also answers well to waterproof 

 thread or cord for wrapping; use as you would cobbler's 

 wax. 



The best way to snood hooks with silkworm gut is, instead 

 of fastening the gut directly to the hook, to fasten a small 

 loop of relaid linen line No. 5 to the hook as directed. The loop 

 should be quite small, not over one-eighth of an inch. Then 

 prepare the gut by tying a loop at each end, one for attach- 

 ing the hook through the small loop on hook, the other for 

 attaching the line. Many advantages are gaiued by this 

 method, the gut is double near the hook, it also forms a 

 flexible joint and avoids the annoyance of chafing or 

 breaking off by being bent short; in case a hook is broken 

 another can be easily attached to the same gut. Hooks and 

 gut can be carried separately and attached when required 

 for use. If flies were tied in the same manner many anglers 

 would find less occasions to lose their religion by having 

 their flies break off where the gut joins the hook. 



Canoeists will find this rubber cement excellent for stopping 

 leaks in canoes, either joint, cracks or holes; quite large 

 holes can be fixed up with it for cracks or joints, with a hot 



