FOREST AND STREAM. 



[Sept. 16, 1886, 



AN UNNECESSARY DEATH. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



According to the Forest awd Steeam of Sept. 9, 1886, 

 Prof. Wm. Cook, of Haxvard College, bled to death "after 

 hotu's of intense suffering" from a gunshot wound of the 

 knee. If the report is true it is in order to state that his 

 death from hemorrhage AA-as wholly unnecessary, and 

 that any boy with common sense and a very little knowl- 

 edge of blood vessels could have stopped the bleeding in 

 a few minutes. Perhaps a word on tlie subject will be of 

 use to some of j-our readers who may be shot in the same 

 way, or who may happen to be present on the occasion of 

 such an accident to another person. 



Wlien a limb has been injured so that the large blood 

 vessels are opened, a handkerchief twisted into a roll, 

 or a, coat sleeve, or a strong ]Diece of cord, should be tied 

 loosely about the limb above the wound (toward the body). 

 A stick should then be slipped under the knot and turned 

 aroimd and around until it has twisted the cord so tightly 

 that the circulation of blood in the limb has been stopped. 

 Some pieces of common twine and a pair of forceps are 

 then wanted. Tlu-eads pulled from a coat will do for 

 twine, and a couple of sticks whittle!.! to a point wiU 

 answer for forceps. The woimd is WHshod out with 

 water, and the consti-ictiiig cord alwut the limb is slowly 

 loosened, A sudden spurting of blood from some one 

 point will soon be observed, and then the cord is 

 again tightened and a search made for the end 

 of the blood vessel wliich spm-ted. This end is 

 then to be pulled out a little way vnt]\ the forceps and a 

 piece of twine is firmly tied about it with a square knot. 

 That blood vessel having been attended to, it is out of the 

 way, and the cord about the limb is again loosened in 

 order to show the cut end of another vessel (after again 

 washing out the wound). All of the bleeding iDoints of 

 any importance can be found in this way and the hem- 

 orrhage stopped. The cord about the hmb must then be 

 removed entirely. If the bleeding points are situated 

 deeply in the wound it will perhaps be necessary to make 

 the wound larger with a jack-knife and to cut away and 

 destroy ragged bits of tissue which are in the way. The 

 cut for enlargmg the wound should be in the long asis of 

 the limb, unless the operator happens to be a medical man 

 who knows where a cross cut could be made to advan- 

 tage. If there is a slow oozing of blood fi-om minute 

 blood vessels a hard wad of grass or a handkerchief rolled 

 up into a ball can easily be bormd in with sufficient com- 

 pression to stop the bleeding. 



The injured man is now safe, if his only danger was 

 from hemorrhage, and he can wait for twenty-four hom-s 

 if necessary, for the surgeon to arrive. The sm-geon will 

 do the same work over again, but more thoroughly, re- 

 placing the twine ligatures with cat gut and preparing the 

 wound antiseptically in order to prevent inflammation 

 and suppiu-ation afterward. 



It is well to remember that bleeding from any one point 

 can always be stopped by putting a fuiger on the bleeding 

 vessel — simi^le enough, isn't it? Mauk West, M.D. 



[The Avriter of tlie above is the author of a book en- 

 titled, "How we Ti-eat Wounds To-day," published by the 

 Putnams.] 



LOUISIANA GAME INTERESTS. 



IT is a pleasure to find in the press such editorial ex- 

 pressions of opinion as the following taken from the 

 New Orleans Times-Democrat of recent date: In the 

 ancient ante-bellum era the hxmbing grounds of tliis State 

 were famous thi-oughout the South, All over the State 

 they were preserved and worked in the shooting season, 

 principally, by gentlemen si)ortsman. After the war the 

 government sold about a hundred thousand, more or less, 

 condemned muskets here, at prices that placed them 

 within reach of the lowhest Nimrod in the land; and the 

 weapons which had been used in the attempted extirpa- 

 tion of armies were turned to the extermination of our 

 feathered and fom'-footed game. 



It was not tmtil 1877, we believe, that any successfrd 

 steps were taken to protect our indigenous game from the 

 perpetual warfare of the meat-seeking tyros, who slew 

 the nesting quail and the nursing doe with as much 

 avidity as they slaughtered the gallant five-i^ronged buck 

 in the "blue," or swept away with one shot the autumnal 

 bevies of birds in their "nooning" retreats. 



The universal and unlicensed hunting even caused a 

 sad diminution of our finest migratory game birds. The 

 swift- winged Wilson's snipe has been made to depart from 

 some of liis favorite feeding grounds in the vicinity of 

 this city. The green- winged teal, the mallard and the 

 canvasback have deserted many of the ponds and weed- 

 grown flats, to seek secmity in the more inaccessible 

 marshes; and the deer, before the law intervened to save 

 them from utter extermmation, were gradually being 

 driven westward, toward the last American hunting 

 grounds in the Rocky Mountains. 



To instu-e the retm-n of the migratory birds there should 

 be some restriction on the promiscuous shooting now car- 

 ried on in the feeding grounds. In some portions of the 

 State the professionals themselves regulate the times and 

 methods of shooting, and find it to their interest so to do. 

 One community of them alone has taken ui3 about forty 

 square miles in the marshes around Lake Salvador, and 

 by limiting the hours of shooting, procure all the game 

 they want without scaring the flocks hundreds of miles 

 away from the most frequented haunts. 



It is easy to afford j)rotection to the native birds and 

 deer, and under the beneficial influences of our game 

 laws both quail and deer are said to be increasing in 

 Louisiana. 



One of the noblest game birds in all the world has with- 

 in the past few years been imported into this State, and is 

 now increasing and spreading fast. Tliis is the royal 

 English pheasant, which was introduced iu Louisiana, a 

 few years ago, by Mr. John A. Morris and piit in a 3,000- 

 acre preserve in "St. Tammany parish. The birds have 

 been breeding very rapidly and spreading, and the young 

 broods seem to thrive splendidly. It will be a great day 

 for Louisiana sportsmen when they can have a pheasant 

 "battue" as frequently as they once enjoyed the old-time 

 deer drive. 



Another extensive game preserve has been recently 

 started by New Orleans gentlemen on a large piece of 

 park land near the mouth of Pearl Eiver. This has been 

 stocked lately with several hundred dozen quail, and 

 promises to be one of the fine hunting fields of the near 

 ftitm-e. 



In the way of sports of the flood, this State is almost as 



famous as it once was, and may be again, as a himting 

 ground. The three finest varieties of the bass tribe, the 

 green ti-out, bin ck and striped bass, frequent its creeks, 

 bayoxxs and rivers, as do also manv other species of the 

 gamy genus Percidoi; and any of these fish, it has been 

 shown, thrive splendidly, multiply rapidly, and attain 

 their greatest size in artificial ponds, constructed by 

 several of our citizens who are greatly interested in jjisci- 

 cultm-e. The Louisiana passes, bayous and bays of the 

 whole seacoast, from Pearl River to the Sabine, abomid 

 in all the varieties of the GuK fish, from the delicate 

 croaker to the tackle-defying tarpon, silverfish or gi-ande 

 ecaile. 



In a word, this State is a winter paradise for the true 

 sportsmen; and if its citizens will see that its present 

 ame laws are rigidly enforced, in ten years it will be the 

 nest himtiag ground in the United States. There is no 

 close season for its fishing, and no end to tlie sport 

 afforded by its present fishing grounds. The time may 

 come when the varieties of bass will need protection; but 

 for nearly all other varieties it has the Gulf of Mexico to 

 furnish an inexhaustible and undiminishing supply of 

 the very best fish that swim in the sea. 



DAKOTA PRAIRIE CHICKENS. 



PERMIT me thorough the Forest and Stream to 

 answer tl le many inquiries I have had a s to the locality 

 of the places in Dakota, where I have found cliicken and 

 grouse shooting in "paying quantities." In your issue of 

 Aug. 26 you publish a list of "shooting and fishing re- 

 sorts" on the line of the Hastings and Dakota division of 

 the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, as detailed 

 by General Passenger Agent A. V. H. Carpenter. Circu- 

 lars of this kind are generally looked upon as advertise- 

 ments and not always fully credited by tliose seeking 

 hunting grounds, but I can vouch for the accuracy of this 

 circular as regards Groten, Aberdeen, Wolsey,' Woon- 

 socket and MtcheU. The pai-ticular grounds over which 

 I have hunted most are in Hand and Spink counties. 

 Leaving the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Rafiway at 

 Redfield, about eleven miles southwest of Eedfield is 

 Cottonwood Lake, a body of water one half mile Avide by 

 one and one-half miles long. Here I spent two weeks of 

 the month of October and never had better duck shoot- 

 ing, Avith enough of geese and brant to give variety to the 

 sport. Near the Lake is Turtle Creek; walking along its 

 banks the hunter Avill pxxt xxp a flock of ducks at almost 

 every bend, and coveys of chickens or grouse when "cxit- 

 ting across" from point to point on the creek. From Cot- 

 toJXAvood Lake, almost due Avest, it is nineteen miles to 

 the village of Howell, and the Avhole nineteen miles is 

 good chicken gx'ound. Fourteen miles southwest from 

 Aberdeen is Scatter wood Lake, another great resox-t for 

 dxicks, geese and brant. 



There are many other small la,kes near Aberdeen and 

 Ashton, at any and aU of which duck shooting will be 

 found, and one caa hardly go astray for chickens and 

 grouse. All of these places can be reached by rail and 

 good accommodations Avill be found at all of them. 



S. C. G. 



Grand Haaten, Mich., Sept. 8, 



TARGET TESTS AND SHOT. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



AVhy did not Mr. Brown say he made the targets sent 

 to Forest and Stream with the ti-ap sizes of Tatham 

 shot? The inference was that they were made with regu- 

 lar 7s and 8s. If he Avill get a coxxple of bags marked as 

 follows, "Tatham's impiwed chilled shot, Nos. 7 and 8," 

 and will target his gxxn from them, he Avill find it impos- 

 sible to make any such patterns as he rejjorts. Also by 

 coixnting lioz. sti'uck measxxre from the No. 7s, he will 

 find my count pretty near right. It is one of the tricks 

 of the gun trade to target with trap 8s, and to tag the gxxn 

 as making certain patterns Avith No. 8, intentionally 

 omitting the word trap. Mr. Ci-uttendeix is riglit when he 

 says the oixly absolutely correct way is to coxmt each load, 

 but mxless we had oxxe of Mr. C.'s machines for counting- 

 pellets it would be rather tedious counting 20 or 30 loads. 

 In such a test as Mr. Crutteixden xH'oposes it woixld be 

 necessary to do so. Still I think my Avay of couxxtiixg a 

 load from each bag Avill give yoxx a better idea of yoxu- 

 pattei-ns than accepting the niunber on the printed list, or 

 (if using the trap sizes) the figures on tlie bottom of the 

 bag. When you make targets Avith the trap shot, say so, 

 and do not try to convey the impression that your pat- 

 tex-ns Avere made with regular sizes. The advice from a 

 member of Tatham's firm, telling sportsrxxen to use that 

 brand of shot wlxich gives them more pellets than they 

 expect for then- money may be satisfactox-y to some; it 

 certauxly Avoixld not be so to me. When I find a certain 

 size of shot kills my birds or breaks artificial targets bet- 

 ter than others, I want that size. If I waixted more pel- 

 lets to the oxmce I woxdd get a smaller size, 



C. M. Stark. 



DiTNBABTON, N. H., Sept. 11. 



THE PROPOSED MOOSE PRESERVE. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



In I'eply to yoxxr inquuy: There Avill be no difBcxxlty iix 

 detecting and preventing moose killmg under the system 

 of preserve which I ijropose. I speak of what I kixow, 

 having siient many Avinters in the forest among luxxxber- 

 men as land sxxrveyor and explorer, and I do not think 

 that I am a visionary. Lxmxbermeix spend the winter in 

 camps, crews averaging from ten to tAA entj- xneix, who 

 have a boss over them, and each knosvs what the other 

 does. The only time when tlxe lumberman troubles the 

 moose is during the period of deep snows, when he walks 

 xxp to him on snoAvslxoes and bxitchers him — that is to say, 

 during the AA^hole or pax't of Febxnary, the vi-liole of March 

 and part of April. AVhexx the moose is killed the body is 

 hauled to the camp and eaten by the lumbermen. The 

 log sxxrveyor, who visits the camiJ Aveekly, must be cog- 

 nizant of the fact that a moose has been kxlled; he can teU 

 eA^en by the scattex-ing hans of tlxe animal, differing from 

 those of aixy otlxer beast, Avhich he wiU notice about, 

 I woxxld propose that when the Ixxmber contract is signed 

 by all intending to cut logs on the preserve that there be 

 a penalty insei-ted imposixxg a fine of .f 200 upon any camp 

 ixx which any of the men were concex-ned in killing 

 moose, the payment to be a charge on logs. Of course it 

 would be necessary, dxiring the above-mentioned months, 

 to have two or more foresters, whose duty it should be to 

 travel ai'oxmd lines and to see that all regulatioixs were 



duly caiTied out. If any moose killing was discovered by 

 them, one-half of the penalty shoxxld go to such forester. 

 Fx-om my knoAvledge of the woods and its uxhabitants, I 

 woxild say that Avith reasonably good woodsmen as f orest- 

 ei's it Avoixld be morally impossible for any camp's creAv to 

 conceal the death of a moose. Fnst, there is tlie moose 

 track in the sixoAv, followed, if chased, by the man's snow 

 track, to tell the Avhole story; the forester need only fol- 

 low this xxp. Then, Avlxen a moose is killed there isaAvide 

 toboggan track made by those hauling the meat to the 

 camp; this is easily followed even after tAvo sixoav storms. 



I may mention that on the reserve which I vs'oxxld pro- 

 pose to buy tliere are in one j.ilace from ten to fifteen lakes, 

 ranging in size from one-riuarter to three-quarters of a 

 mile, within a radius of five mxLes, AvMch aljoixixd in trout 

 from-Pb, to l^lbs. in weight, in none of which lakes, to 

 the best of my knowledge, has a fly ever been cast, the 

 fishiixg having l^een done by hunters with bait, chiefly in 

 winter, to socxu-e bait for sable traps, etc, Edward Jack, 



Fbedehicton, N, B. 



Tested by Dollars and Cents.— Mr, F. M. -Gilbert, of 



EvanstoAvtx, Ind. , avIio is well knoAvn as an ardent sports- 

 man and game j .rotector, puts it in this way in his pa,per, 

 the Tribune Neirs: it is sti-ange that men" aa^xo hA^e in a 

 game counti-y caimot see the great benefit in keeping 

 game laAvs enforced. We Avill put the matter in dollars 

 and cents (somethhxg that the most igxxorant xxnderstand) 

 arid try and give a little illxLstration. A certain town in 

 Minnesota is in the very center of what was last year a 

 good prairie clxickeix country. If the chickens had been 

 protected it Avould have been a good one this year, bxxt the 

 natives of the section began shooting the yoxxng birds as 

 early as the first of Axxgust, and by the 15th there were 

 none left worth shooting. The bkds AA-ere sent to St, 

 Paul and Minneapolis, where they brought possibly 

 enough to pay the greedy law-break'ing market-hunters 

 enough to pay for theix" ammxxnition. Now, from the 

 pei'sonal knowledge of the writer, there Avere at least 

 thii-ty gentlemen who Avent into that section at a great 

 expeixse to shoot chickens, and who ga ve up the xxxatter 

 and went home the next day. Let's figiu-e tlie thuxg. 

 They divided into pairs and paid $5 per day for teams. 

 Total if they had staved five days longer, $375. Board at 

 hotel, $300 (if they liad stayed). Noav add AA-liat the local 

 gunsmiths Avoxdd have gotten for ammunition, then the 

 various amounts that free-handed Hjiortsmen (for your 

 ti'xxe sportsxnan pays for his sport) would have spent, and 

 one thoxxsand dollars Avoxild liardly have covered the cash 

 amount that that little town Avould have taken ixx in that 

 oxxe week if the villagers had liad the nerve to enforce the 

 laAA's, Figau-e it xxp for j^ourselves. Will the sportsmen 

 go back Avith their moixey xxoxt year? No. The place is 

 killed forever, and aU because a few sixeaking, gi'eedy, 

 law-breaking pot-hunters went out and lulled the bu-ds 

 before they were strong enough to get aAvay. Of oixe 

 tlnng all law-breakers may be assured, and that is that 

 every case that comes before the game warden of this 

 district this season will be pushed to the full extent of the 

 law. 



New Brunswick Bear Grounds.— The great Miramichi 

 fire devastated a large portioix of tlie pixio forests of New 

 Bruxxswick, many years ago, and ipxite an area of the 

 land so lam over by fix"e is now crAcred AAutli bluoljexiy 

 bushes, whiclx iix their season yield nbundaxxtly. Of this 

 fxaxit bears are veiy foixd, axxd during its season subsist 

 almost eixtirely upon it. This time of tlie year, then, 

 offers a favorable opportunity for hunting tliem with the 

 rifle. As the bushes are Ioav, very little cover is afforded 

 them, axxd they can be seen at (jxiite a distance. I have 

 seeix quite a nxxmber of these animals while traveling the 

 Avoods of New BrunsAvick, bxxt they woxxld invariably 

 make all possible haste to get aAvay. I know bxxt one in- 

 stance of a bear attacking a xxxan, and that Avas in defense 

 of her yoxmg. October and November are much the best 

 time of year for bear hxmting, as the days then are cool 

 and the nights ixot too cold for caxxxping out. The bears 

 then resort" to the beech ridges, where they in most in- 

 stances flxxd an amj)le sxxpply of food. Frederictoix is a 

 good starting poiixt, and tlxex'e one may get all the infor- 

 matioix necessary and procxxre trxxsty gxxides. I may men- 

 tion the faithfuf and hoixest Indian, Gabe. I might also 

 refer you to 11. B. Rainsford, Esq., a prominent barrister 

 of Fredericton and a thorough sportsman,— D. McMil- 

 lan (Belau-, La.). 



Plover in Place op Woodcock.— Oakland Mills, Pa,, 

 Sept. 9.— Of all om- summer game birds there is no more 

 wary or shy bkd than the field or xxpland plover, which 

 Ave have here in season fx'om the 15th of Jxxly xmtil the 

 1st of September, Avhen they leave us for tbe shore and 

 swamps of Jersey. This liird keeps in flocks of from 

 tlu-ee to a dozen while on tlxe xxplands, and is in its fuxest 

 condition then. I have shot these birds in Augxxst Avhen 

 tlxe force with Avhich they fell to tlxe groxmd Avoxild break 

 the skin axxd the fat woxxld ooze out in a sixxall stx-eanx till 

 the bird's feathers were soaked with it, while woodcock 

 slxot at the same tune Avoxxld be in such poor condition as 

 to be hardly Avorth eating. Now, if sportsmen would 

 speixd more time after upland plover instead of slaxxghter- 

 ijxg America's finest and fast-disappearing game bird (the 

 woodcock) in July, they would prolong the existence of 

 this noble bii'd, and have much finer shooting the latter 

 pai-t of Axxgust and all through September. A great many 

 make the excxise that woodcock do not stay txll October, 

 bxxt I think if they let them alone uixtil the 15th of August, 

 they will find them in sufficient mxmbers all through 

 September and part of October to Avarrant good sport.— 

 C. N. B, 



Colorado,— Berthaud, Sept. G,— It is i-eported that the 

 White River Ute Indians, numbering 1,500, are scattered 

 aloxxg the entu-e coxmtrv Ix^tAveen Meeker and Glenwood 

 Springs, and are said to be kiUing 400 deer every day for 

 their skiixs; and a party of Ixxxxxters are killing deer over 

 on the West Dolores simply for the sake of getting hides; 

 the carcasses of the dead deer have been seen and found 

 by pax-ties who have recently retxxrned from there. This 

 shows where the deer of Colorado are going to. About 

 Oct, 13 Avill see me oft' for my regnxlar fall hxmt in the 

 Caspar Mountains. Wvo. I exi^ect to meet a jiarty from 

 Ohio at Larune City that wiil go with me to tlie huntmg 

 grounds. We axiticipate a grand good time after the 

 antelope, deer and elk. Duck are now conxing into our 

 lakes, and shooting avUI sooxx be good. A number of Hons 

 and black bear have been kiUed in the hills near here 

 lately.— Elk. 



