Aug. 11, 1587.] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



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pup and Terry had a yearling buck squarely to thpir 

 credit. While gi'allocliing this deer, they had heard the 

 bleat of a doe, probably its mother, and presently she 

 came running by, pursued by the blue pup and some of 

 the other dogs. Red fired two or three shots from Rick- 

 er's ,45-90, and just singed the foreleg behind the knee. 

 Teny ran in from near where they were standing and 

 turned the doe, at which the blue puppy bolted in, and lie 

 and Terry killed, close together in the seizing. These two 

 dogs had done grand work all day long. 



After a lunch, Mr. Allison and I took the buck board, 

 with Bugler and Iris mate, and started out to bring in l In- 

 door, half fearing Ave should not find them, it being late 

 and the distance over ten miles. We drove, hard and fin- 

 ally did find the game a little before sundown. The 

 country was beginning to look very dangerously alike all 

 over, when we fell in with Mr. Strecter, and shortly after 

 happily hit the gate in the pasture fence of the 2 1 , 

 whence we easily got into camp. 



Mr. Streeter reported plenty of deer, but all very wild. 

 He had one or two good runs, but caught none, unless the 

 blue dog, now absent, had caught one. He complained 

 that Prince had stuffed himself up so on corn bread in the 

 morning that be could not tun "a little bit." 



Our game rack was now a goodly sight. It was cov- 

 ered with deer, and showed besides abundance of cat and 

 coon skins, to say nothing of the otter, the solitary tur- 

 key and the festoons of wild ducks we had bung upon it. 

 It bespoke a successful hunt. We all agreed tbat the last 

 day was a fitting close. 



By dark most of the hounds were in; and to our sur- 

 prise, Jack reported that the two foxhounds were swim- 

 ming the river from the south. The dripping coats of 

 these two vagabonds disclosed no signs of conflict, and 

 their faces were solemn and imperturbable as ever; but, 

 as they had started so early in the day. and as they must, 

 from the direction they had when they came in, have 

 gone thirty miles at least, it is altogether probable that 

 they killed their deer. They are fast enough and fierce 

 enough to kill almost any deer within twenty-four hours, 

 even with an indifferent start. These two dogs were in- 

 separable. If you saw one, you saw the other. They 

 hunted excellently together. E. HotNjffi. 



GERMAN HARE SHOOTING. 



Editor Forest and Stream : 



The season for partridge shooting opens in Prussia on 

 the 20th day of Aitguat, in some parts of Germany on the 

 lit day of September. Hares can be hunted everywhere 

 after September 15, and one month later all game, deer 

 calves and young roe excepted, follow. 



The prospects for partridge and hare hunting are good. 

 The weather has been favorable for both during the hatch- 

 ing and breeding time this year. The Prussian province 

 Silesia is the best field for partridge hunting in Germany. 

 Silesia also contains excellent hare hunting grounds, is in 

 short the Eldorado for a gunner. A good gunner can 

 kill as many as one hundred partridges on one day, and 

 can reach the same number when hares are hunted. 



Hares are generally hunted by means of a so-called 

 "Kesseltreiben." From thirty to fifty gunners and double 

 that number of so-called drivers surround a given space of 

 an open field. After the selected space is thus surrounded , 

 drivers and gunners move toward each other in a circle, 

 when the aroused hares as a rale try to find a safe open- 

 ing to escape on the opposite side. Upon reaching the 

 other side they find the same body of men in motion, and 

 now break to* the right or left. Meanwhile the circuit 

 has assumed a smaller size. The gunners are only 150yds. 

 apart and no hare can possibly break through the fine 

 without passing a gunner at shooting distance. It affords 

 great pleasure to see from twenty to fifty hares run in 

 every direction within the circle. Frequently after one 

 has broken through the line half a dozen will follow in 

 the same direction, and thus the gunner nearest the point 

 will not have time to reload his gun quick enough. 

 Where hares are in great abundance, as in Silesia, each 

 gunner is equipped with two guns, one being carried 

 and loaded by a servant marching in the rear of the gun- 

 ner. 



Hares generally weigh from 81bs. to 121bs. ; the market 

 price averages 75 cents. The hares killed are gathered 

 up after each circle and placed on a wagon, the same 

 wagon which, as a rule, carries the lunch, beer and wine 

 for the hunting party. A small fine is collected for every 

 miss. There are, however, gunners who seldom miss a 

 hare in the open field. 



For hares No. 3 chilled shot is used in the winter, No. 4 

 and 5 before the animals have then heavy winter coat. 

 On rainy days a good charge of powder is required to 

 give the pellets sufficient penetrating power, and even 

 then old hares will often get away in spite of all good 

 shooting. Armin Tenner. 



Berlin, July 13. 



Rochester Woodcock Shooters. — Editor Foi'est and 

 Stream: Rochester sportsmen had fair sport on the open- 

 ing of woodcock shooting, Aug. 1. The best bag reported 

 was seventeen birds, by a party who shot in Irondequoit. 

 Abram Geis and two friends shot ten in the same town. 

 Two men got twelve east of the city. John Nouch, Geo. 

 Zimmer and John Hafner brought in ten and F. H. Krag 

 got twenty-four in two days. One man who shot nine, 

 and whose word is good, states that he saw a woodcock 

 perched in a tree Oft. from the ground. He flushed the 

 bird and shot it. On the morning of the opening day one 

 favorite piece of cover near the city was beaten by sev- 

 enteen men with guns. About twenty-five birds were 

 taken out. — E. R. 



Shore Birds.— New Castle, N. H., Aug. 6.— Shore 

 birds have not made their appearance here in numbers as 

 yet. ; I have seen several flocks of ringnecks and peeps, 

 but no large birds. I heard of two curlew being observed 

 off Appledore Island, Isles of Shoals, a week ago. I have 

 no doubt that the next two weeks will bring in some sum- 

 mers and a few yelpers. — J. Wendell, Jr. 



Hunting Rifle Alteration.— In your paper of the 

 21st tdt. ''Flint Lock" asks me to name the gunsmith that 

 altered my .88-45 over into a .40-60, "and whether the im- 

 provernent is a success in every particular." Mr. H. V. 

 Perry, of Jamestown, N. Y., did the job to my entire 

 satisfaction.— Cap Lock, 



A Recollection of Long Pond. — I was very much 

 interested in the Adirondack story by Ralph K. Wing in 

 the last Forest and Stream, more than usually so 

 because two friends and I met them at Mother Jolmson's 

 carry and went with them on the Saranac River to where 

 we turned oft" to go via Spectacle Ponds to the Hiawatha 

 House, and "that reminds me." We three fellows, Walt, 

 Al and the waiter, when we came back on our route 

 stopped in camp at Long Pond, just opposite Duryea 

 Camp. We had an open camp and slept on the browse 

 in front of an all-night fire. One night about 12 I was 

 waked by Al, "who whispered "There's somebody round 

 the camp." Visions of rapine and murder rushed through 

 my head, and calling Walt, I hurriedly told him. We 

 hastily armed ourselves, Walt taking the revolver, Al the 

 little .22-cal. rifle and I the axe and an old birch bark 

 lantern with a candle in it, which I lit. All this time, 

 while we were preparing, the thump, thump of footsteps, 

 now heavy, now light, could be heard at the back of the 

 camp. With blanched faces and overstrung nerves, 

 grasping our weapons fiercely in our hands, we three 

 bra vo spirits started on our perilous trip of investigation. 

 I know I shook like a leaf. Cautiously peering around 

 the back of the camp we saw nothing, but the scary 

 thump, thump, still came at regular intervals. Soon Al 

 discovered our nocturnal intruder. It was the largest and 

 ugliest "toad" it has ever been my misfortune to see, and 

 Lis jumping on the sticks and dead leaves at the back of 

 the camp had produced the fearful sounds, magnified by 

 our fears. That was the only trouble we had in all our 

 two weeks outing, but I guess we were all as much scared 

 as we could have been had it been a wildcat. By the by , 

 won't Mr. Wing tell us of the wildcat they saw on the 

 Marion River?— Elk. 



A Heterodox Opinion on Chokes.— New York, Aug. 

 1. — Editor Forest and Stream: JJid it ever occur to any 

 of your readers that more chickens fired at with a choke- 

 bore fly away filled with shot than are brought down 

 with a cylinder barrel with half the shot in them; that 

 the choke so hinders penetration as to make it necessary 

 that a greater number of shot hit the bird than when the 

 shot are not retarded by the choke of the barrel? I have 

 a chokebore 3^in. long and am considering having the 

 choke taken out. A cylinder that long ought to get the 

 shot so well started in a line, it seems to me, as to render 

 the choke unnecessary, particularly for wing-shooting. — 

 J. H. B. ^_ 



Kansas City, Mo., Aug. 3. — Our prospects of good 

 shooting this fall are very good, it having been very 

 favorable during the breeding season of both birds and 

 beast. — E. A. W. 



THE GAME LAWS. 

 Arizona. 



It shall uot be lawful for any person to take, kill or destroy any 

 elk, deer, antelope, mountain sheep, mountain goat or ibex, or to 

 buy, sell or have in their possession any of such animals between 

 the first day of February and the first day of October of each year, 

 except such as are tamed or kept for show or curiosity. 



It is unlawful for any person to shoot or kill any partridge, wild 

 turkey, goose, brant, swan, curlew, plover, snipe, quail or ducks 

 of any kind between the first day or March and September of each 

 year, except on his own premises. 



It is unlawful for any person at any time within five years after 

 the passage of this act to shoot or kill any grouse or prairie 

 chickens. 



It shall be unlawful for any person to take or catch any fish 

 with any seine or net. 



It is unlawful for any person at any time to kill or destroy any 

 fish with giant powder or any other explosive substance. 



Any one violating the provisions of this title, is guilty of a mis- 

 demeanor, and shall be fined in a sum not exceeding one hundred 

 dollars or less than fifteen dollars and the cost of prosecution, and 

 in case such fine is not paid, the person so convicted shall be im- 

 prisoned in the county jail until such fine is paid, provided such 

 imprisonment shall not exceed one day for each dollar of suck 

 fine. See page 752 Revised Statutes. 



Massachusetts. 



(As compiled by the ^Massachusetts Fish and Game Protective 

 Association. Copies in pocket (orm may be obtained free of cost 

 by addressing the secretary, Mr. Honry J. Thayer, 24# Washing- 

 ton street, Boston.) 



TROUT, LANDLOCKEB SALMON AND LAKE TBOUT. 



"Whoever takes a trout, landlocked salmon or lake trout be- 

 tween the first day of September aod the first day of April, or buys 

 such fish taken in this Commonwealth between said dates, or takes 

 a trout, landlocked salmon or lake trout with a net or salmon-pot 

 at any season of the year, shall forfeit not less than five nor more 

 than twentv dollars for each fish so taken." Public Statutes, 

 Chap. 91, See. 51. Acts of 1881, Chap. 171. 



"Whoever sells, or offers or exposes for sale, or has in his pos- 

 session, a trout, landlocked salmon of lake trout, except alive, be- 

 tween the first day of September and the first day of April, shall 

 forfeit for every such fish taken in this Commonwealth between 

 said dates, ten dollars; and the possession of any such fish between 

 said dates shall be prima facie evidence to convict." Chap. 91, 

 Sec. 53. Acts of 1884, Chap. 171. 



"Whoever takes a salmon at any time otherwise than with 

 naturally or artificially baited hook and hand line shall be pun- 

 ished by a fine of not less than fifty nor more than two hundred 

 dollars for each fish so taken; but a person catching a salmon when 

 lawfully fishing, and immediately returning it alive to the waters 

 from which it was taken, shall not be subject to such penalty." 

 Chap. 91, Sees 45and46. 



"Whoever takes a salmon between the first day of August and 

 the first day of May, and whoever at any time buys, sells, or has 

 in his possession a salmon taken in this Commonwealth between 

 the first, day of August and the first day of May, shall forfeit for 

 each offense not less than ten nor more than fifty dollars; and 

 whoever at any time buys, sells, or has in his possession a young 

 salmon less than one foot in length, shall forfeit five dollars for 

 every such salmon." Chap. 91, Sec. 47. 



BLACK BASS. 



"Whoever takes a black bass between the first day of December 

 and the first day of July, or at any time, except with naturally or 

 artificiallv baited hook and band-line, or buys, sells, or has in pos- 

 session any such fish taken in this commonwealth between said 

 dates, or otherwise than as allowed in this chapter, shall forfeit 

 for each offense not less than two nor more than twenty dollars; 

 provided, however, that this limitation of time shall uot be ap- 

 plicable to the Connecticut River, or its tributaries." Chap. 91, 

 Sec. 56. 



SMELT. 



"Whoever sells, or offers or exposes for sale, or has in his posses- 

 sion a smelt between the fifteenth day of March and the first day 

 of June, shall forfeit one dollar for every such smelt taken in this 

 comnionM'OHlth between said dates; and the possession of any 

 smelt between said dates shall be prima facie evidence to convict." 

 Chap. 91, Sec. 57. , , A . -•_ 



"Whoever takes a smelt in any other manner than by artificially 

 or naturally baited hook and hand-line, shall forfeit one dollar for 

 every such 'smelt so taken; and in all prosecutions under this sec- 

 tion the burden of proof shall be upon the defendant to show that 

 smelt or smelts taken by him, the catching of which is complained 

 of, were legally caught," Chap. 91, Sec. 58. 



"The two preceding sections shall not apply to smelts taken m 

 a seine or net, in the counties of Bristol, Barnstable, or Duke's 

 county, during the time, and in the manner, in which fishing is 

 allowed for perch, herring, or alewives." Chap. 91, Sec, 59. 



LOBSTERS. 



"Whoever, during the month of July in any year, catches or 

 takes from any of the waters of this Commonwealth any female 

 lobster bear.ng eggs, shall be punished for each offense by a fine 

 or not less than ten nor more than one hundred dollars or by im- 

 prisonment in the house of correction for not less thau one nor 



sutaect to such penalty." Acts of 1882, Chap. 98, Sec. 1. 



Whoever, during the month of July in any year, sells or has in 

 bffi possession with intent to sell any female lobster bearing eggs, 

 taken m this Commonwealth, shall forfeit for each offense a sum 

 not less than ten nor more than fifty dollars. Acts of 1883, Chap. 

 98. Sec. 3. * 



'Whosoever sells or offers for sale or has in his possession a 

 lobster less than ten and one-half inches in length, measuring 

 from the extremity of the bone projecting from the head to the 

 end of the bone of the middle flipper of the tail of the lobster, ex- 

 tended on its back, its natural length, shall forfeit five dollars for 

 every such lobster; and in all prosecutions under this section the 

 possession of any lobster not of the required length shall be prima 

 facie evidence to convict." Acts of 1887, Chap. 814, Sec. 1, amend- 

 ing Public Statutes, Chap. 91, See. 84. 



SCALLOPS. 



"Whoever at any time between the first day of April and the 

 first day of October shall take scallops from any of the waters of 

 the State by dredging or by nots of any kind, or shall expose any 

 scallops for sale within the State or shall export the same, 

 shall be punished by a fine not exceeding twenty dollars for each 

 offense." Acts of 1887, Chap. 9B, Sec.l. " 



"Whoever takes in any one day, between sunrise and sunset, 

 more than twenty-five bushels of scallops, including the shells, 

 for each boat actually employed by him in taking the same, shall 

 be punished by a fine not exceeding twenty dollars for each 

 offense. Acts of 1885, Chap. 220, Sec. 3. 



GENERAL PROVISIONS. 



"Whoever puts or throws into any waters for the purpose of 

 taking or destroying fish therein any Indian berry or Indian cockle, 

 or other poisonous substance, whether the same is mixed with any 

 other substance or not, shall forfeit ten dollars for every such 

 offense." Public Statutes, Chap. 91, Sec. 44. 



"Whoever, without the permission of the proprietors, fishes in 

 that portion of a pond, stream, or other water in which fishes are 

 lawfully cultivated or maintained, shall forfeit not less than one 

 dollar nor more than twenty dollars for the first offense, and not 

 less than five nor more than fifty dollars for any subsequent 

 offense." Chap. 91, Sec. 27. , 



"Whoever draws, sets, stretches, or uses a drag-net, set-net 

 purse-net, or seine in any pond in the Commonwealth, or aids in 

 so doing, shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty nor 

 more than fifty dollars, one-half of which shall he paid to the per- 

 son making the complaint, and the other half to the county within 

 which the offense is committed, and in addition shall forfeit to 

 the Commonwealth all fish taken by tho above means, and the 

 seines, boat, and other apparatus used." Acts of 1884, Chap. 318, 

 Sec. 1. 



"Fishes artificially propagated or maintained shall be the prop- 

 erty of the person propagating or maintaining them; and a person 

 logally engaged in their culture and maintenance may take them 

 in his own waters at pleasure, and may have them in his posses- 

 sion for purposes properly connected with said culture and main- 

 tenance, and may at all times sell them for these purposes, but 

 shall not sell them for food at seasons when their capture is pro- 

 hibited by law." Public Statutes, Chap. 91, Sec. 26. 



"Whoever takes any fish which at any season frequent fresh 

 water, except eels and pickerel, and except as otherwise allowed 

 in this chapter, in any other manner than by artificially or natur- 

 ally baited hook and hand-line, hand or dip net, sweep-seine or 

 salmon-pot, shall forfeit not less than five nor more than fifty 

 dollars: provi'ird, however, that towns may permit the use of set 

 nets for taking herring and alewives." Public Statutes, Chap. 91, 

 Sec. 48. 



"Every superintendent, clerk, or other person having charge of 

 a market, provision store, or other place where fish are sold, and 

 have reasonable cause to believe that any fish taken in violation 

 of the law has been offered for sale on such premises, shall im- 

 mediately give information thereto to a constable or trial justice 

 in the city or town where said premises are situated; and for each 

 neglect so to do shall be punished by fine of not less than five nor 

 more than fifty dollars." Public Statutes, Chap. 91, Sec. 62. 



GAME BIRBS AND ANIMALS. 



"Whoever takes or kills a pinnated grouse at any time, or a 

 woodcock between the first day of January and the first day of 

 August, or a ruffed grouse, commonly called partridge, Detween 

 the first day of January and the first day of October, or a quail 

 between the first day of January and the fifteenth day of October, 

 or a wood or summer duck, black duck or teal, or any of the so- 

 called duck species, between the fifteenth day of April and the 

 first day of September, shall be punished by a fine of twenty 

 dollars for every bird so taken or killed." Acts of 1S86, Chap. 276, 

 Sec. 1. 



"Whoever takes or kills a plover, snipe, sandpiper, rail, or any 

 of the so-called shore, marsh or beach birds, between the first day 

 of May and the fifteenth day of July, or a wild or passenger pigeon, 

 or a gull, or a tern, between the first day of May and the first day 

 of October, shall be punished by a fine of ten dollars for every 

 bird so taken or killed." Chap. 276, Sec. 2. 



"Whoever buys, sells or has in possession any of the birds or 

 animals named in this act and protected thereby, during the time 

 within which the taking or killing thereof is prohibited, whenever 

 or wherever the aforesaid birds may have been taken or killed, 

 shall be punished by a fine of twenty dollars for the birds pro- 

 tected by section one, and ten dollars for the birds piotected by 

 sections two and four; provided, however, that any person, firm 

 or corporation dealing in game may buy, sell or have in possession 

 quail from the fifteenth day of October to the first day of May, 

 and pinnated grouse, wild pigeons and any of the so-called shore, 

 marsh or beach birds, or of the so-called duck species, at any sea- 

 son, if not taken or killed in this Commonwealth contrary to the 

 provisions of this act." Chap. 276, Sec, 3. 



"Whoever takes or kills any wild or undomesticated bird not 

 named in sections one and two, except English sparrows, crow 

 blackbirds, crows, jays, birds of prey, wild geese and such fresh- 

 water and sea fowl as are not named in sections one and two, or 

 wilfully destroys, disturbs or takes a nest or eggs of any wild or 

 undomesticated birds, except of the birds herein exemptfrom pro- 

 tection, shall be punished by a fine of ten dollars; provided, that 

 any person above the age of twenty one years, having a certificate 

 from the game commissioners, or from the president of the Boston 

 Society of Natural History, to the effect that such person is en- 

 gaged in the scientific study of ornithology or collecting in the 

 interest of a scientific institution, may take the nest and eggs of, 

 or at any season take or kill, any undomesticated bird, except 

 woodcock, ruffed grouse and quail; but nothing herein contained 

 shall be construed to authorize any person to enter upon private 

 grounds without the consent of the owner thereof for the purpose 

 of taking nests or eggs or killing birds; and provided, further, 

 that the game commissioners and the president of the Boston 

 Society, of Natural History may at any time revoke any certificate 

 they have, respectively, issued." Chap. 276, Sec. 4. 



"Whoever takes or kills a gray squirrel, hare or rabbit, between 

 the first day of March and the first day of September, or within 

 said time buys, sells, or offers for sale any of said animals, shall 

 be punished by a fine of ten dollars." Chap. 276, Sec. 5. 



"Whoever takes or kills a game bird or water fowl, hare or rabbit, 

 by means of a trap, net or snare, or by the use of a ferret; and 

 whoever, for the purpose of taking or killing a game bird, water 

 fowl , hare or rabbit, constructs or sets any trap, snare or net, or 

 uses a ferret; and whoever shoots at or kills any wildfowl or any of 

 the so-called shore, marsh or beach birds with or by the use of 

 a swivel, or pivot gun, or by the use of a torch, jack or artificial 

 light, or pursues any wildfowl with or by aid of a Bailboat or 

 sfclaiM launch, shall be punished by a fine of twenty dollars." 

 Chap. 376, Sec. 6. 



"The commissioners of inland fisheries shall be game commis- 

 sioners also; and their authority, personally and by deputy, shall 

 extend to the protection and preservation of birds and animals 

 in like manner as to fish." Chap. 2* \ 



"It shall be the duty of every officer qualified to serve criminal 

 processes, to arrest without warrant anv person whom they shall 

 find taking or killing, or who has in his possession birds or ani- 

 mals contrary to the provisions of this act: provided, hmeeecr, that 

 persons engaged in the business of regularly dealing in the buying 

 and selling of game as an article of commerce, shall not bear- 

 rested without warrant for having in possession or selling game at 

 their usual places of business. Any officer who neglects or refuses 

 to enforce the provisions herein contained shall be punished by a 

 fine not exceeding twenty dollars." Chap. 2>i6, Sec. 8. 



"All fines accruing under this act shall be paid one-half to the 

 complainant and one-half to the city or town in which the offense 

 is committed." Chap. 276, Sec. 9. , . . , 



"Whoever takes, carries, sends or transports any of the birds or 

 animals protected herein, out of this Commonwealth, the said 



