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agency for the sale of Schultze gunpowder at No. 8 Mur- 

 ray street, New York, as will fee seen from your adver- 

 tising columns; and all necessary information as to load- 

 ing, etc., will be gladly offered. It may be, however, 

 as well in general terms to give a few simple rules for the 

 loading of Schultze, so as to give satisfaction. Too large 

 a charge should not be used; 3drs. (42grs. by weight), in 

 a 12-bore, and 4drs. (56grs. by weight), in a 10-bore are 

 good charges and generally sufficient. Load exactly as 

 with black, placing a tight-fitting card or cloth wad over 

 the powder, seating it firinly. Do not ram the powder. 

 Allow sufficient shell for a fair crimping in, but not too 

 much. By following these rules, cartridges will be loaded 

 to give the excellent' results arrived at by the large Eng- 

 lish cartridge loaders, whose Schultze cartridges now 

 bear a large proportion to the black cartridges issued, and 

 are used by the bulk of the customers of the chief houses 

 in London and Birmingham, with entire and growing sat- 

 isfaction. 



Schultze gunpowder is issued of one density and 

 strength, exactly one-half density and fully double 

 strength of black No. 4, so for use take one-half by 

 weight or equal in measure to the charge of black No. 4. 



R. N. S. Griffith. 



Eteworth Lodge, Lyndhurst, Hants. 



SHOOTING NOTES. 



HHHERE is a big crop of quail and some partridges 

 -I (ruff ed grouse) in the vicinity of Green Pond, Morris 

 county, N, J. The abundance of quail is due to the con- 

 stant re-stocking of the perserve owned by Mr. Kinney, 

 of cigarette fame, which is located not far distant. Mr. 

 Kinney also planted some English partridges on his 

 place, several of which have been recently killed by local 

 gunners. 



Samuel Castles and Charles Hedden, of Newark, shot a 

 few hours at Pine Brook, N. J. , one day last week. They 

 moved six snipe and two or three woodcock on the flats; 

 and got several of them. 



There are quite a number of quail on Bradford and 

 Upshur Necks in Accomac county, Va., but land owners 

 will not allow strangers the privilege of shooting, and 

 save the birds for their friends. Before the New York, 

 Philadelphia and Norfolk Railroad made its ways down 

 the eastern peninsula, this was the choice shooting ground 

 of Bob Robinson and Ben West, of Brooklyn; the late 

 Frank Palmer and the late Ben DeForest, and William 

 Parks of this city. In those days thirty-five quail could 

 be killed by one gmi every day. 



The Doughty boys on Hog Island, Va., are making 

 preparations for a big season. There are more blinds 

 stuck tins season in the Virginia broad waters than ever 

 before known. Already the ducks have begun to come. 

 Some one is baiting for black ducks hi Cherry Creek 

 Harbor, and as several strange boats have been noticed 

 off Brant Hill, it is thought the Maryland night shooters 

 contemplate a raid on the fowl, prior to working their 

 way south. I have seen these fellows following their 

 nefarious calling several times, and have seen how dis- 

 astrous night shooting is in it's effect to drive away fowl. 

 The Hog Islanders are wild on the subject and threaten 

 all sorts of things if they catch the "night shooters." It 

 is my private opinion, publicly expressed, that they 

 need not go far from home to catch some of the culprits 

 who are engaged in the same low-lived business. I have 

 seen some remarkable looking reflectors in several of the 

 houses on the island. 



It is rather unusual at this time of year to see so many 

 jack curlew and willet as are now congregated on the 

 bald marshes off the coast of Accomac county, Va. They 

 make morning and evening trading flights, going north 

 at daylight and returning about sundown. There are 

 also some sandpipers and black-breast plover on the 

 shoals at low tide, with which the oyster rocks are 

 crowded at rising tides. Occasionally a flock of sickle- 

 bill curlews string their way across the sinks to some 

 favorite muddy creek bank in some wild and secluded 

 marsh. As a rule the birds are wild and pay but little 

 attention to stools. Two friends of mine have just re- 

 turned from Burton's Bay, and they did not average over 

 fifty birds a day between them. This is bad work for 

 these marshes, and I have done much better myself in the 

 same place in the dead of winter, when the majority of the 

 birds had moved south. I remember seeing on Dec. 14,1881, 

 the day before the big freeze, more curlews and willet 

 on Trout Channel Marsh than I have ever seen before or 

 since in all my travels. It was too cold to lay in a bat- 

 tery, and I went on the marsh to walk black ducks up 

 out of the little drains. The tide came up very high 

 toward night and all the oyster rocks and bars were sub- 

 merged. Birds coming from northean marshes began to 

 collect on the big bald marsh. They were very restless 

 and circled over the marsh in immense flocks. At last 

 they all got together in one big gang, which, in the dis- 

 tance, looked like the rising of a great sea fog. The flock 

 was over two miles in length. Capt. John Ed. Mears, of 

 Locust Mount, was with me, and although a gunner for 

 many years on these waters, he never saw the like. One 

 tail end of the flock swept by Bill Doughty, who was in 

 his blind brant shooting, and he killed forty-four curlew 

 out of the gang with his big 201b. goose gun. 



A little boy, name unknown, sold a woodcock to a 

 friend of mine up in Rockland county the other day that 

 had. but one leg. People wbose business it is to know 

 where birds' legs ought to grow say the bird never had 

 but one, the other was probably lost in the shuffle. I 

 wanted my friend to allow me to publish his name and 

 full particulars, but he was afraid, so he said, of having 

 the boys down in the street get on to the story, and being 

 called the "one-leg woodcock" by them for some time 

 to come. This woodcock freak reminds me of the 

 three-legged one now in the possession of John Suther- 

 land in Liberty street. It was shot some six years ago 

 in Westchester county, N. Y. Unfortunately the bird 

 was picked before the extra leg was discovered. It was 

 attached to the bird near its vent. Instead of having 

 four toes, three front ones and one hind one, as is cus- 

 tomary with all well regulated woodcock, it had an ad- 

 ditional toe in front. The nails on the toes of the extra 

 leg were half an inch in length. Mr. Sutherland has the 

 bird preserved in spirits. , 



The Chesapeake Bay duck shooting this season promises 

 to be unusally good. From Havre de Grace I learn that 

 there are a great many redheads and canvasbacks bedded 

 on the fiats. There is an abundance of feed, so that by 

 the first of November when the season opens the lucky 



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ones who own rigs in these waters will have some birds to 

 shoot at. It is a great misfortune that the fine shooting 

 of the upper Chesapeake should be so much disturbed by 

 night gunners. In spite of what every one says to the 

 contrary, I know there are big-guns at this time not far 

 from Spesutia Island. It's about time the. owners of the 

 ducking shores made another raid. 



It is not very often that Long Island affords good Eng- 

 lish snipe shooting, but on Saturday last a friend of mine 

 killed eighteen birds in one cornfield adjoining Mecock 

 Bay, near Bridgehampton. 



On Friday last there was a big flight of yelpers in Shin- 

 necock Bay and Moriches; about 200 of these birds came 

 to the Robbins hi Fulton Market. 



There are plenty of woodcock now in Connecticut, 

 while the crop of grouse in Rockland and Green counties, 

 in this State, seems to be even larger than was first antici- 

 pated. 



Thousands of migratory ducks passed Barnegat Light 

 on Sunday last bound for the waters of the sunny South. 



The Wise Acre, 



New York, Oct. 17. 



Connecticut Snaring amd Exporting. — Hartford, 

 Conn., Oct. 14. — Editor Forest and Stream: Are there 

 any sportsmen in New London county, Conn, , who will 

 try to punish the violators of game laws? One party 

 attempted to ship some ruffed grouse from Hadlyme. 

 Conn. , the last of September and was caught at it, and I 

 have been trying ever since to find some one who will try 

 the case. The violating being in New London county, I 

 am handicapped. In 1883 the following law was enacted: 

 "Sec. 1. The selectmen of every town shall appoint two 

 or more persons to be game wardens, who shall assist in 

 detecting and prosecuting offenses against the game laws, 

 and shall be paid the same fees allowed grand jurors 

 in criminal cases. Sec. 2. Game wardens shall hold 

 their offices for the term of two years from the 

 date of then appointment, and shall have the same 

 powers as other officers to arrest for the violation 

 of any law relating to game." Now snared birds are be- 

 ing shipped from New Haven, Stafford Springs, New 

 London, Stamford and other towns, and nothing is done. 

 We have a law prohibiting carrying gsme out of the 

 State. If you know of any game wardens outside of 

 Hartford, kindly give me their address. Since my 

 appointment (about six weeks ago) I have had several 

 letters from weak-kneed milk-and-water sportsmen, who 

 say Mr. A. and B. are selling birds out of season, but 

 "don't you mention my name, I will help you all I can." 

 If you can assist me in finding out how a person can be 

 prosecuted in New London county, Conn., it will oblige 

 me, and any sportsman in this State that wishes to co- 

 operate with me in trying to enforce our game laws 

 kindly write me. — A. C. Collins, Game Warden. 



Possession of Venison in November. — Norristown, 

 Pa., Oct. 17. — In your issue of the Gth inst., I read the 

 law about deer and elk. What is meant by "No person 

 shall kill * * * any wild deer, save only from the 

 first day of October * * * to the fifteenth day of 

 December * * *. and no person shall have in his or 

 her possession or offer for sale * * * deer, save only 

 from the first day of October to the thirtieth day of 

 November." I cannot understand why we are allowed 

 to shoot deer for fifteen days and yet dare not have them 

 in possession? — Roujsd Knob. [The law as printed in the 

 Forest and Stream was credited to the pamphlet com- 

 pilation prepared by direction of the Legislature, For 

 the printers convenience we used also as copy the law as 

 printed in the Pennsylvania Fish Commission report. 

 The word "November" is there given, but it must be a 

 misprint for December, since in the pamphlet the last 

 month is named.} 



Cape Cod, Mass., Oct. 10. — The prospect for quail shoot- 

 ing in this part of Massachusetts is good. Quail have 

 bred well, but there are many broods of young scarcely 

 able to fly; in fact, I think there is an unusttal'uumber of 

 small quail this season. A man found a nest" containing 

 ten eggs about Sept. 20, and on looking for the eggs one 

 week later found that all but one had hatched. About 

 Harwich we find as many coveys as usual. Have not 

 heard from lower parts of the Cape. Oct, 8 your 'cor- 

 respondent and two gentlemen, who intend to have 

 several weeks' fun with the quail as soon as the law is off, 

 took a few hours' fcranip in the vicinity of Yarmouth to 

 see how birds were in this locality. We found several 

 coveys of large birds and one of very small ones. We 

 also started quite a number of partridg s. The law goes 

 off Saturdays and we expect to be up bright and early 

 ready to give the brown beauties a try. — Chester. 



Michigan Wardens. — Central Lake, Antrim County, 

 Mich, Oct. 14. — The Board of Supervisors has allowed the 

 deputy game and fish wardens $2 per day for services 

 rendered the past season. This is gratifying to us, as 

 there was a chance at least that their bills would be thrown 

 out altogether. A good deal of honest work has been done 

 by these gentlemen, and there is evidence of a gradually 

 increasing public sentiment favoring the enforcement of 

 the laws for the better preservation of our fish and game. 

 —Kelpie. 



Houlton, Me., Oct. 13.— J. H. Carlisle, of Houlton, 

 and several other sportsmen of that place, have just re 

 turned from a successful hunt at St. Croix Lake, bringing 

 in the fattest caribou ever seen at that town. A few days 

 since two deer were seen herding with domestic stock 

 within two miles of the center of the city. Some thought- 

 less children drove them from the field or the sportsmen 

 would have bagged them. — Warfield. 



Woodchucks.— Dryden, N. Y., Oct. 15.— Those Con- 

 necticut fellows are "no good," so far as numbers of 

 woodchucks slain are concerned. I have, since the 15th 

 of last April, killed 103. I killed them with 330^rs. lead, 

 thrown with 70grs. of powder from a single-shot Winches- 

 ter rifle, ,40-cal., and at from 30 to 175yds. Who can 

 beat it?— O. J. H. 



Reelfoot Lake. — The hotel at Reelfoot Lake, Tenn., 

 formerly known as Idlewild, is now the Kentucky Club 

 House, and is open only to members. 



[Oct. 20, 1887. 



NEW YORK GAME PROTECTORS. 



THE game and fish protectors and their districts are as fol- 

 lows, the list heing furnished to us by Secretary H. H, 

 Thompson: • 



First District— Geo. W. Whitaker, Southampton, Suffolk county. 

 District: Counties of Sti ffolk, QueenB, Kings and R iclunond. 



Second District— Jos. H. Goodwin, Jr., King's Bridge, New York 

 county. District: Counties of New York, Rockland and Orange. 



Third District— Matthew Kennedy. Hudson, Columbia county. 

 District: Counties of Westchester, Putnam, Dutchess, Columbia, 

 Greene and Ulster. 



Fourth District— Francisco Wood, Schoharie, Schoharie county. 

 District: Counties of Albany, Schenectady, Schoharie, Delaware 

 and Sullivan. 



Fifth District— Seymour C. Armstrong, Riparius, Warren coun- 

 ty. District: Counties of Rensselaer, Washington, Saratoga, 

 Warren, and the town of Indian Lake, in Hamilton. 



Sixth District— John Liberty, Elizahetktown, Essex county. 

 District: County of Essex, all of Clinton except the towns of 

 Clinton, Elleuburgh and Dannemora; the town of Harrutstowr:, 

 and so much of Brandon and Dickinson, in the county of Frank- 

 lin, as lies south of an extension of the northerly line of Harruts- 

 town, through the said towns of Brandon and Dickinson to the 

 west branch of the tit. Regis river, and thence to the east line of 

 St. Lawrence county. 



Seventh District — Peter R. Leonard, OgdenHburgk, St. Lawrence 

 county. District: AH of the county of St. Lawrence, all of Frank- 

 lin except the territory included in district number six, and the 

 towns of Clinton, EJlenburgh and Uaunemora, in CI uton. 



Eighth District— Thomas Bradley, Rockwoud, Fulton county. 

 District: The counties of Montgomery and Fulton, and the 

 towns of Wells, Lake Pleasant, Hope, Benson and Arutta, in 

 Hamilton. 



Ninth District— John L. Brinkerhoff , Boonville, Oneida county. 

 District: The county of Lewis, all that part of Herkimer lying 

 north of Moose River to the north branch of that stream, and 

 north of the said north branch to the west line of Hamilton 

 county, and the town of Long Lake, Hamilton county. 



Tenth District— Nathan C. Phelps, Renisen, Oneida county. 

 District: All of the county of Herkimer lying south of the north 

 line of Moose River to where the north branch enters the main 

 stream, and of the north line of the said branch, and the town of 

 Morehouse, Hamilton county. 



Eleventh District— Frederick P. Drew, Washington Mills, 

 Oneida county. District: The counties of Oneida, Otsego, Che- 

 nango, Broome, Cortland and Tioga. 



Twelfth District— William N. Steele, Clayton, Jefferson county. 

 District: The counties of Jefferson aDd Oswego, except the waters 

 of Oneida Lake in Oneida and Oswego. 



Thirteenth District— William H.Lindley, Canastota, Madison 

 county. District: The counties of Madison, Onondaga, Wayne, 

 and the waters of Oneida Lake in Oneida and Oswego. 



Fourteenth District— J ohn Sheridan, Penn Yan, Yates county. 

 District: The counties of Cayuga, Seneca, Schuyler, Yates, Che- 

 mung, Tompkins, Steuben and Allegany. 



Fifteenth District— George M. Schwartz, Rochester, Monroe 

 county. District: Monroe, Livingston, Orleans, Ontario, Wyom- 

 ing, Genesee and Orleans. , 



Sixteenth District— Stephen A. Roberts, Buffalo, Erie county. 

 District: Erie, Niagara, Chautauqua and Cattaraugus. 



m mid §$ii er fishing. 



Addresss all communications to the Forest and Stream Pub. Co. 



IN THE LAND OF THE MICMACS. 



HOW anxiously we gazed up the broad Miratnichi to 



catch the first view of Red Bank, the villfige home I 



of the Micmacs, among whom we expected to get our I 



guides and canoeinen. Presently the arms of a huge 1 



wooden cross rose slowly above the hilltops in the distance J 



and stood out in bold relief against the clear Canadian I 



sky — an unfailing sign of an Indian settlement. Columns, 1 



too, of pale smoke were soon observed stealing upward I 



from out the groves and melting away in the thin blue I 



air, as the red race itself melts away before the tread of I 



the white man. As we rounded a point in the river we 1 



saw the bank and shingle in front of the encampment j 



thickly dotted with bright yellow bark canoes, drawn out j 



and turned over as is the Indian custom; but no other sign | 

 of life met our eyes as we dropped anchor abreast the 



village. Commodore James reached for the cord of the : 



whistle, and the wild scream soon peopled the bank with ! 



a motley crowd of Indians, squaws and pappooses, who j 



rushed from then bush-hidden wigwams at the first echo j 

 of this unusual noise, and stood jabbering away to one 

 another in excited tones. 



Pushing off from the yacht, we went ashore in our ten- 

 der. At our approach the women and children quietly 

 withdrew, but, womanlike, the curiosity of the former 

 kept them within s ght and hearing. Some of the men i 

 advanced and received us kindly, calling us by the fam- 

 iliar name of "brothers." We were struck with their I 

 appearance. The majority of them were of pure Indian I 

 descent, strong, stout, sturdy fellows, with rich brown | 

 complexions, tinged somewhat with yellow, with long, 

 straight, black glossy hah- and broad, strongly-marked 

 features. No admixture of foreign blood has destroyed 

 the splendid native physique of the red man in this local- I 

 ity. They are as they were when, two hundred and fifty I 

 years ago, their forefathers welcomed to their shores the J 

 indomitable Nicolas Denys, the first white man visiting I 

 this region. 



When we had made known the object of our visit a I 



pow-wow was held, nearly all the men at home at the I 



time taking part, though only a few did much talking, j 



One especially, called Sak, speaking English quite well I 



for an Indian, and assuming an air of superiority among I 



his fellows, was foremost among the speakers; and we 1 



observed, too, that the rest had a very high opinion of I 



him, for they listened attentively while he addressed us ( 



on the difficulties of the proposed trip, assenting to his j 

 views in the usual Indian manner by a long drawn a ft. 



The end was sooner reached, no doubt, through the I 



kindly influence of a timely treat of booktawichk, which I 



roused the drowsy nature of the red man, when unem- I 

 ployed, and brought him out on the jibboom of business. 



Six canoemen and three canoes were hired. Our camp- I 



ing outfit and provisions were soon transf erred and stowed I 



away, and about 1 P. M., in our light craft, each manned I 



by two canoemen, we were stemming the strong current I 

 of the Little Southwest Miramichi. 



Just above the Indian village the river makes a sudden I 



turn, thence sweeping around in a great semi-circular i 



curve. The bank on one side is composed of reddish \ 

 clay, is bOft. high and void of vegetation. This is known 

 by the name of Red Bank. Thither, tradition says, the 

 red men of Acadie came ages ago to procure material for 



the manufacture of their tumakums (pipes), especially I 

 the calumets or pipes of peace; at lease so said our friend 

 Sak, the Indian philosopher of the party. 



The current increased in strength, and an occasional I 



rapid added to the labor of the men, but that stock of I 



native patience and endurance of which we were to have I 



many proofs on this excursion, now began to show itself. I 



Either because they expect too much, or are ignorant I 



of the character of the work being done, many sportsmen I 



