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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[Deo. 31, 1S85. 



ited to five days after the open season? In practice five 

 days do actually suffice for handling after killing is stopped. 



The auti-hounding law is essential to the protection and 

 preservation of deer. It makes protection possible, and so 

 strengthens the purpose of game protectionists and insures 

 desired results. Nothing can he more true than that with 

 hounding permitted the results of protective effort are merely 

 to save the deer from one set of enemies for the benefit of 

 another, and the most deadly. If the dogs may be let loose 

 to exterminate, what use in" attempting to stay the lawless- 

 ness of other and comparalivcly harmless methods of hunt- 

 ing? It is but feeding the dogs— feeding the greed and 

 cupidity of their lawless owners. 



Peter E. Leonard, Game Pfotector, 



Ogdknsburg, N. Y., Dec. 14. 



Editor Forest and Siremn: 



Yours to hand. I can say for the Pulton Chain guides 

 and f'portsmen that they have observed the law to a letter. 

 Tliey seemed to think it for their interest. It makes us dis- 

 couraged to have a lot of pot-hunters come in and kill all our 

 deer off iu the fall and sell them for a mere nothing. It has 

 been a most destructive season for deer, and more have been 

 slaughtered than in many years before. One party on the 

 Pulton Chain killed lliirty-eight deer this fall and shipped 

 them to market. They we're from Pennsylvania, and there 

 have been hundreds of deer killed by still-hunting this fall 

 all over the woods, and mostly by pot-hunters from Penn- 

 sylvania. I think to save the deer we ought to have open 

 season from Aug, 1 to Oct. 15, with the privilege of hunt- 

 ing with dogs. Dick CREtK). 



BooMiviLLi;, Dec. 15. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



I only succeeded in the conviction of five men for the vio- 

 lation of the hounding law, all in this county. Pour of 

 them were fined |25 each and the other $50. The public 

 sentiment here is so strong against this law that it is almost 

 impossible to get any information from any source. Men 

 who heretofore were always willing to give information 

 and ready to assist in bringing violators to grief will do 

 nothing now. Notwithstanding, I think the law has saved 

 a great many deer in my district, and wherever I go the in- 

 dications are that deer are very plenty. What hounding has 

 been done was away from the settlements, and then very 

 slyly. I have cases to come before the Essex county Grand 

 Jury next week, but do not know how I shall succeed. 



John Liberty, Game and Pish Protector. 



EuzABBTHTowN, N. Y., Dec. 9. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



Noticing an article going the rounds of the iournals of 

 the State in regard to the "Butchering of Deer" in the Adi- 

 rondacks, I will give a few facts upon the subject. I am a 

 sportsman and acquainted along the borders of the great 

 New York wilderness, having visited the woods every year 

 since boyhood. 



One year ago last August, in company with a brother. I 

 visited the Beaver River section, going in by the way of No. 

 4, and stopping at all of the principal lakes between this 

 point and Smith's Lake, a distance of about sixty miles from 

 home. I found the wilderness thronged with people from 

 all paits of the country, and principally from the cities — 

 legitimate sportsmen, as the gvudes term them (on account 

 of their willingness to "shell out" their money to hotels, 

 guides, etc.) 1 stopped a little while with Uncle Joe Dun- 

 bar, at Stillwater; found him overrun with boarders, and no 

 accommodation for any one except his city sportsmen, but 

 nevertheless I could not blame Uncle Joe, for sport is his 

 hobby and cash his best friend. 



The second day I stopped at Wood's Lake, a favorite deer 

 resort up among the mountains, about six miles from Still- 

 water. Here 1 found a party of four men and plenty of 

 good venison ; and it was no place for tresspassers at that 

 time. I traveled on in the direction of Little Rapids, a 

 point on the river about twenty-six miles from Stillwater. 

 Here 1 found an old acquaintaiice, Mr. Pred Crandall, a 

 jovial, good-natured fellow and cunning hunter, pleasantly 

 situated at Andrew Muncey's. After a brief visit I took one 

 of their hght-running canoes and journeyed on toward 

 Albany Lake, a distance of four miles, and* everywhere we 

 found the wilderness alive with hunters, and concluded that 

 we had come a long way and that we would bring up in 

 some remote spot not thronged by sports. Pound a few 

 wild deer at old Albany, but concluded that they were too 

 cunning for us, and after paddling my brother faithfully for 

 one night I started in the morning for Thayer's Lake and 

 thence to Big Rock Lake, a beautiful sheet of water about 

 one and one-half miles in length, sun-ounded by dense for- 

 ests and lofty mountains, and equalled in grand'^eur by few 

 lakes in the great wilderness. Here we found rest for a 

 weary hunter, with abundance of game and plenty of shots 

 at fine deer, and stayed two or three days, pretty well satis- 

 fied with a short .sojourn in the forest. 



The present season, in company with a brother sportsman 

 1 visited the same lake, but how great the change. At the 

 old lake, where one year before I could drive out deer by 

 the dozens, not one remained to be seen or heard. I in- 

 quired into the cause and found out that one of the so-called 

 manly guides had visited the lake in company with his party 

 of sports and slaughtered twenty fine deer last fall during 

 the Hounding season, and also iny informant killed six or 

 seven, making in aii about twenty seven deer in one short 

 hounding season on the same lake during the season of 1884. 



These are facts and can be proven very quickly by the 

 writer, who can give the parties' names who slaughtered 

 them in this instance if necessary, and likewise on Albany 

 and Smith's lakes where the lithe and beautiful creatm-es 

 were driven far and near by hounds during that fall. And 

 still these sporting men try to make it appear in their lengthy 

 articles that the cause of the scarcity of deer is owing to 

 a band of Pennsylvania pot-hunters, who they say" are 

 encroaching upon public and private hunting grounds and 

 constructing "salt licks" in the woods and therefore have 

 killed a great many in this way. 



The salt-hcks in question are by no means a new device 

 in the woods, as they have been in constant use for years. 

 The writer can point out a salt spring in this locality where 

 deer were killed fifty years ago by the pioneer hunters ; and 

 also numerous salt-licks that have been in constant use by 

 hunters for generations, I will admit that there have been 

 more still-hunters in the woods the present fall than there 

 have been for years, but we are informed by these very men 

 that there have been but a few deer killed compared with the 

 numbers killed by hounding in former years. The general 

 complaint is that it has been a poor year for "city sports;'* 

 and why is it? Simply because the month of August is the 



poorest month in the year for "floating," as no deer of any 

 account will water in the lakes during this month; and then 

 the law deprives them of their old-time sport of hounding, 

 and the sporting man, in order to still-hunt, must shoulder 

 his gun, act the part of a frontiersman by tramping through 

 an unbroken forest from early morn till dark, and sometimes 

 for days iu this way, with but little or no luck; and is it 

 anything strange that they do complain of a poor year for 

 venison? 



They tell us that public and private detectives should be 

 sent into the woods to apprehend the law breakers, or other- 

 wise in a year or two all game will be exterminated beyond 

 recall. Don't worry; the law is good enough as it is; and 

 as long as we can keep the dogs out of the Adirondacks, we 

 will have abundance of deer, and then all sporting men will 

 thank the Legislature of 1884 for its wisdom in passing the 

 non-hounding law. George V. Norton. 



Glkkdale, Lewis County, N. Y. 



The following paragraph has been extensively copied : 

 ' 'Last Thursday a telephone dispatch from West Leyden 

 informed Louis Shankenbury of this village that a load of 

 deer was being taken through that place to Rome, and as the 

 season for shipping deer was closed Game Protector Brinck- 

 erholl, who was at Rome, was iut'ormcd of the fact. He 

 kept a lookout for the venison venders but obtained no clue 

 to their whereabouts. Priday the deer arrived in Rome and 

 the SenUrnl furnished the following facts about their arrival 

 and shipment: 'Priday morning Philip Haynes, of Otter 

 Lake, Lewis county, twenty miles from Glendale, came to 

 Rome with the carcasses of eleven deer — five bucks and six 

 does— and a pair of saddles of venison. Mr. Haynes is a 

 guide during the summer season, having a house and living 

 at Otter Lake. He said he shot the deer still-hunting, within 

 the past three weeks, and that none were shot after Dec. 1. 

 He asked twelve and a half cents a pound for the saddles, 

 and a trifle less for the whole carcasses. Some of the deer 

 were sold here and the others shipped to New York and 

 Syracuse. The load of deer attracted considerable attention 

 on the street. One old sportsman said to a reporter: 'You 

 see the result of the new law forbidding the running of deer 

 with dogs and allowing a long season of still-hunting and 

 floatiog. You couldn't kill as many deer as there are in that 

 wagon by hunting all the season with dogs. I am in favor 

 of allowing the running of deer with dogs until the month 

 of Oclobtr and closing the season then. In that way pot- 

 hunters, like this man, would be shut out.' Mr. Haynes 

 being asked if he was a pot-hunter, smiled and said, 'I s'pose 

 that's what these city sportsmen call me.' " 



The "old sportsnian" is either a myth or an idiot. . As a 

 matter of fact the hounding season undei the old law would 

 have closed Nov. 18, and under that law the still-hunting 

 season would have been just as long as it is now. The kill- 

 ing of these deer by still-hunting in what has been for years 

 the still-hunting season has no bearing whatever on the 

 hounding law, unless we may reason that had dogging been 

 allowed this year these deer might have been killed long 

 before they were. And why all this pother about a dozen 

 deer, when season after season scores of deer have been 

 hauled out of the North Woods by dogging parties from 

 neighboring towns? Why was no "old sportsman'' found 

 to raise his protest then? And why all this hypocritical 

 talk about the season being too long? It is all intended to 

 mislead respecting the present law, which is the best one 

 ever on the statute books, and is going to stay there. 



Washington, D. C, Dec. 36, 1885.— Qtiail shooting has 

 been only fair this season in the neighborhood of Washing- 

 ton, and'great complaint is made of the dark skinned nim- 

 rods and their altered mnskets, as being the main cause of 

 the scarcity of birds. It is not generally known that within 

 a very short distance of the capital of the nation — eight 

 miles as the goose flies — there exists a flock of wild turkeys. 

 The primeval forests about Falls Church in Virginia are the 

 stamping grounds of these birds, and three of them have 

 been killed this season by three different hunters. Sundry 

 persons who have seen the flock estimate that it contains 

 about thirty turkeys, led by a giant gobbler. Wildfowl are 

 quite scarce on the upper Potomac. Your correspondent 

 saw a fine flock of swan on the way to Mount Vernon. 

 Nothing but a Winchester, how^ever, could reach them. 

 There is some talk of a dog show iu Washington this win- 

 ter, and a movement on the part of the Baltimore Kennel 

 Club to hold one at the capital — where such displays have 

 always paid — is contemplated. We think it a good plan. It 

 is about time the Baltimore Kennel Club gave a show. Quite 

 a number of gadwall ducks— a rare bud east of the AUe- 

 ghenys — have been shot near Washington this fall, the mar- 

 ketmen invariably call them female redheads. Hanging up 

 in the markets of the capital 1 saw numerous woodpeckers, 

 jays and other insectivorous birds for sale, mostly at the 

 stalls of the negro countrymen. Can these birds be pur- 

 chased for the table, or are they shot for ornamental pur- 

 poses? It seems a shame that such should be allowed within 

 the shadow of the Smithsonian Institute, — Homo. 



PENNsyi.YANrA THREE Years' QtJAiL Law. — Williams- 

 port. Pa., Dec, 21, 1885. — Editor Forest and Stream: In re- 

 gard to prohibiting the shooting of quail in Pennsylvania 

 for three years, I most heartily agree with "Homo," and feel 

 confident that there is not one sportsman in this city who 

 would not favor such a move. By all means let there be a 

 three years' quail law. Four or five years ago quail were 

 quite plenty in this section, but to-day I know of but three 

 or four smfill coveys within a radius of ten miles from 

 Williamsport, two of which I planted two years ago, and 

 now have some which I will put out in the spring. Rabbits 

 and grouse are plenty, it beiug no unusual sight to see forty 

 or fitly rabbits hanging in front of a market stall on market 

 days (Wednesday and Saturday). Red and gray foxes are 

 also plenty, and the owner of a good foxhound need not 

 want for sport in this section. — ^Rede. [All that Pennsyl- 

 vania needs in this respect is enforcement of the present 

 law, which is good enough.] 



Proposed Long Island Game Club.— An advertisement 

 in anotlier column proposes the formation of a new game 

 and fishing club for Long Island. This region is so easy of 

 access that it seems strange that its desirability for this pur- 

 pose was not long ago seen and taken advantage of. It was 

 in the case of the Southside Club at Islip, and the splendid 

 success which this organization has made of its preserves 

 shows what can be done on the island by judicious manage- 

 ment. We have little doubt that at some time in the not 

 very distant future Long Island will be 88 great a shooting 

 and fishing ground as it ever was. 



Shooting at Geese and Swans with Ripie.— Easton, 

 Md., Dec. li — Editor Forest and Stream: Having occasional 

 chances for shots at large wildfowl from the shore with a 

 rifle, I write to the various rifle experts, through the columns 

 of your valuable paper, for information as to the best caliber 

 of rifle and ammunition (as to weight of powder and lead) to 

 be used for above purpose; also, as to what sights are best 

 adapted. The distance to be shot over is seldom less than 

 300 yards and running up to, say, 1,000 yards. Wildfowl, 

 especially swan, will often allow the shooter to try several 

 shots, so that he has a chance of a sighting shot or two to 

 regulate the sights. I am, of course, speaking of sitting 

 shots on the water. Any information gentlemen interested 

 in rifle shooting can give me will be duly appreciated by— 



SiNKBOAT. 



Havre de Grace.— Washington, D. C— I learned at 

 Havre de Grace on the 23d inst., that the ice which had 

 made on the flats some two weeks since having now broken 

 up, had driven the ducks south when the feeding places 

 closed up, and the fowl had not returned nor are likely to 

 until their northern migration in the spring. No fowl can 

 be found now at Havre de Grace or at the Gunpowder or 

 Bush livers, the great bulk of them being in the North Car- 

 olina sounds. The town of Havre de Grace, which depends 

 almost entirely upon its near fowl shooting, is to-day a very 

 dull and unhappy one. Canvasbacks shot some time since 

 are biinging |7 per pair at the town,— Homo. 



Long Island Game Protector.— A correspondent 

 writes: "Would you be kind enough to use your influence 

 in favor of Gilbert A Penny, of Good Ground, for State 

 game protector? He is just' the man for the business, and 

 lives in just the place where protection is needed the most. 

 It is too bad the way birds are netted and fire-lighted and 

 shot on their feeding gi-ounds nights In this bay. Howell, 

 who is opposed to Penny, does not know anything about 

 the duties of a game protector, and lives ten miles away from 

 the bays, and would not be interested as much as Penny." 



Galveston, Tex. , Dec. 1 9 . —The weather has been unusually 

 warm here, and duck shooting has been on the decline and 

 has not proved to be as good as I thought it would. The 

 ducks have all left us again and have gone further East, 

 Two or three days ago I saw a flock of geese going east as 

 fast as their wings could carry them. They all seem to be 

 going east. The snipe have all left us, also the plover; and 

 as for poor Bob White, he has heen thoroughly cleaned out 

 from this place, thanks to pot-hunters and no game laws.— 

 Redbreast. 



Death op Ben.)Amin Tatham.— Benjamin Tatham died 

 Dec. 35, at his home in this city, in his seventieth year. He 

 was the head of the firm of Tatham & Brothers, the shot 

 manufacturers at 83 Beekman street, and in Philadelphia. 

 The other members of the firm are Charles B., George N., 

 Henry B., and William P. Tatham. Mr, Tatham was a 

 prominent and active member of the Society of Friends and 

 was identified with many benevolent enterprises, to which 

 he gave valuable aid in the shape of money, advice and per- 

 sonal work. 



Indiana. — Pairland, Dec. 33 — We have had a nice fall 

 for field sports. Quail are somewhat more plentiful than 

 for a few seasons past — gradually recovering from the effects 

 of the great freezeout of 1879. Hares not so numerous. 

 Indeed the boys complain very much of their scarcity. The 

 trouble is that too many were 'killed last winter daring the 

 long continuance of the snow. — C. W. W. 



Vioksboro. ALiss., Dec. 33. — The shooting season is a 

 little late with us, caused by low water in the Mississippi. 

 We have some mallards in the swamp and a few teal, but 

 not as yet in paying quantities. — P. 



Cooking Woodohuck. — Springfield, Mass., Dec. 19. — 

 "Chuck Hunter's" article read with interest. Will "Chuck 

 Hunter" or some other hunter give some good receipts for 

 cooking the game?. — Woodchuck. 



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TROUT FISHING IN NEW BRUNSWICK. 



STARTING from my home on a July day 1 arrive at my 

 destination, which is a little town called Richibucto, 

 N. B., in a little over two days. Having been there twice 

 before, I of course know most of the streams where the trout 

 were to be found. Having rested from my journey, I made 

 ready to start for a place called Peter's Pond, which is about 

 four miles from where I was stopping. When I arrive at 

 the pond I find the Indian whom I had engaged all ready, 

 awaiting me with his birch bark. It takes but a short time 

 to rig the rod, and stepping into the canoe we start. The 

 Indian, with that noiseless dip which only a native under- 

 stands, shoots the canoe forward as if propelled by unseen 

 hands. i\jriving at the locality, 1 reel out my fine and 

 make a cast Avhich bears no fruit. Prom the next I get a 

 rise which terminates in my favor, and land a beauty about 

 three-quarters of a pound. From that time onward I have 

 some excellent sport, and catching enough for a good sup- 

 per, start home thed but happy. 



Of all the times I have fished on Peter's Pond I have 

 never yet experienced what is called fisherman's luck. The 

 next day I start for Teedie's Brook, which is said to be the 

 best stream in the province; and surely it deserves the name. 

 It runs for about a mile through a meadow, where the 

 smaller trout are to be found. Following the stream along 

 one gradually enters a scene which he instinctively knows is 

 trouty. On either side the alders overhang the stream, 

 under whose shade the gamy trout disport themselves. 



Wading down it, with the water waist deep, I drop my 

 flies in pool and rill and at last reach a place which looks 

 promising for big trout. Casting my line 



"Beneath a time-scarred oak whose leafy boughs 

 Stilt in its age when summer sun beats doTO," 

 I have a rise which makes the water churn. The tail fly has 

 hooked a trout which to my eager eyes looks like a young 

 whale. I assure you I only see him for a short tim e when 

 away he goes and then commences that inevitable flgh t which 



