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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[April 21, 1887. 



A Simple Stove. — As the season for pleasure camping 

 will soon be upon us, a hint upon the subject of camp 

 stoves may not come amiss. I have used the following 

 "stove" with satisfaction, although it is not as convenient 

 as some might wish. A is a piece of light sheet iron, 



C 



which may be of any convenient size, 2x2-£f t. being the 

 dimensions of mine. The dotted lines B B are the cross 

 pieces of iin. iron bars upon which the sheet iron rests, 

 being held in place by small bolts, one in each corner as 

 represented by C. The bars should be allowed to extend 

 10 or 12in. beyond the corners, that they may be bent 

 down to serve as legs. Having no sides, the stove may 

 easily be taken apart and made into a roll about as large 

 as a section of stove pipe, in which may be packed pro- 

 visions enough to last a man two or three clays. Some 

 may object to the smoke, but if one be careful to keep 

 upon the windward- side of the stove, I think he will have 

 no trouble. Others may think the loss of heat too great 

 to be of advantage, but if the fire is large there will be 

 sufficient heat. Try it and report,— Watt. 



British Columbia Game Law. — The new law forbids 

 kilUng hen pheasants at any time; deer, elk, reindeer, 

 caribou, mountain goat, mountain sheep, hare, between 

 Jan. 10 and Sept. 1; grouse, partridge, prairie fowl, Cali- 

 fornia quail, Virginia quail, cock pheasant, robin, meadow 

 lark. Feb. 1 and Sept, 1; wild duck, March 1 and July 12. 

 Sale of pheasants forbidden. Sale or possession of game 

 forbidden in close season, save first three days. Gulls 

 may not be shot in the harbors. Snaring game forbidden. 

 Deer may not be killed for hide alone. Deer may be 

 killed if ' 'depasturing within cultivated fields. " Unlawful 

 to kill or capture blackbird, linnet, thrush, chaffinch, sky- 

 lark. 



North Wilmurt, Herkimer County, N. Y., March 

 31. — We have had a. very hard winter here. If all the snow 

 that fell had remained we would have had 25 feet. It has 

 been very bad for partridge, so much crust. Most of the 

 time the deer have been able to run on the crust. Fishing 

 will be very late this spring, for the ice is from IS inches 

 to two feet, and the snow is four feet deep ; I don't think 

 trout will take a fly until May 15 or 20.— Forest Port. 



Kansas. — Salina, April 12. — The Cheyenne bottoms are 

 famous as the grounds used by the American Coursing 

 Club for their meetings, and from the fact that the ma- 

 jority of the waterfowl that migrate across the State 

 stop on the immense lake and feeding grounds. In 

 season geese are there by the millions. To reach this 

 via Hoisington, which is situated at the east side of the 

 bottoms.— Kansas Tramp. 



The Cape Cod Deer. — An attempt is being made to 

 secure from the Massachusetts Legislature an open season 

 for deer. They are now protected at all times. It is not 

 probable that the committee on fisheries and game will 

 listen to these petitioners. Another petition for liberty 

 to snare grouse. Sept. 1 to Jan. 1, has been unsuccessful. 



Silver Fox.— Let no one sneer at shooting foxes. It 

 may not be 1 'English but there is money in it if the prize 

 happens to prove a silver fox. The Ferrisbui'gh, Vt., 

 hunter, whose prize of a silver fox was reported in our 

 columns last winter, has received for the skin $47.50 from 

 a New York fur de aler. 



How to Start a Balky Horse.— Erie, Pa., April 17.— 

 Assistant Paymaster Joseph Frick, United States steamer 

 Michigan, was mortally wounded to-day while out gun- 

 ning. He used the butt of his gun to start up a balky 

 horse. In the operation the horse kicked, discharginj 

 the weapon, shooting Flick's right arm off. The woun< 

 is fatal. 



New Yore. — Bristol 'Center, April 11. — Grouse have 

 wintered well in this vicinity: there are more birds in 

 the woods than I have seen before for years.— L. J. E. 



Duck Boat. — See description in yachting columns. 



THE NEW YORK LAW. 



Editor Forert and Stream: 



"_t is a fact, not disputed, that just so long as fish and game 

 may be sold in this State, just so long will they lie killed in viola- 

 tion of law, after the opsn season."— Extract from argument of 

 John D. Collins he tore Assembly Game Committee, of New York, 

 "It is not disputed." The remedy is as plain as the fact— pro- 

 hibit the sale. It may be added, and contradiction challenged, 

 that tho'only efficient preventive against catching or killing in 

 the close season has been under the provisions of law prohibiting 

 possession, or sale, after the close seasons, making possession— in 

 the few days permitted for handling after the season closes— 

 prima facie evidence against the possessor, and putting upon him 

 the burden of proving his possession to be of game lawfully 

 killed. 



disputed." It cannot be, truthfully. The market- 

 t'ovieion allowing possession and sale after the close 

 ce to keep their stalls replenished, and 



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charge against such efforts, as against the 

 3 and amendments with which the Legislature 

 ertain tendency, if not their manifest purpose, 

 t efficient game laws into disrepute, and game 

 lv, into contempt. This will serve the "inar- 

 ually. 



ind will have, the cordial thanks of every 

 protectionist in the State, for his ex- 

 ommittee of the Assembly, of the per- 



quietly by with an expression of thanks merely? 

 miethingto a great cause that will excite a tell- 



But shall 



Do we not i .. . . . , . 



ing effort in its behalf ? We are recreant when we are not active 

 in its interest. The general public sentiment is with us, but it 

 will not follow a supine, inert attention on the part of its natural 

 leaders. 



Speak out loud, then. Forks. 

 St. La-wrence, April 14, 1887. 



WENTWORTH ASSOCIATION. 



HAMILTON, Out. April 11.— Editor Forest and Stream ; In- 

 closed vou will find copies of the annual report of the 

 Went/worth Fish and Game Association, which may interest yon 

 enough to publish. I send them to you as some time since vou 

 expressed a readiness to help us in anv good work. I hope that 

 the legislative wave against spring shooting, which Started in 

 Ontario last year nnd which has spread westward to Michigan 

 and Minnesota will go outward in all directions. This year our 

 society will move chiefly in the direction of stopoing pike shoot- 

 ing in the marshes in the spring, better protection of the fish in 

 our bay from netting, attempts to interest the county in preserv- 

 ing a large swamp in the neighborhood, the source of some con- 

 siderable streams and numerous springs, and the removal of the 

 sparrow in the interest of the songsters, from among the pro- 

 tected insect! vorons birds.— A. E. M. 



The report is as follows : Your committee in presenting their 

 fifth annual renort, congratulate the associa tion on the good work 

 that has been done during the past year. It is to be regretted, 

 however, that its members are not so numerous as formerly, but 

 this is accounted for by the fact that devoting itself exclusively 

 to the protection of fish and game it has lost manv of those who 

 combined this interest with club shooting matches and social en- 

 joyment. Two flourishing shooting cluhs have been formed in 

 the city whose members, while having their neriodical shooting 

 matches at clay pie-eons. etc.. have done their best to protect the 

 game of this locality. It is to hoped that all lovers of true sport 

 will combine to form one strong association. Your executive 

 have no doubt but that with such a union periodical shootintr 

 matches might be held and the protective interests looked after 

 without anv increased expenoe to the members. At the close of 

 our last, annual meeting at. the suggestion of .T. C. Goode.nough, 

 the association determined to make an effort to have the game 

 laws amended, and that single-handed as it were, for vour at- 

 temnts to get combined action toward this end with other pro- 

 tective associations had foiled. Though it seemed almost hone- 

 less when begun, especially as the doine awav with spring shoot- 

 ing as a whole was contemplated, a hill in complete bnrmnoy with 

 the resolutions regarding close seasons, etc., which had' been 

 passed by vou from time, to time, was written out and handed to 

 J. M. Gibson. M.P.P.. who secured the able assistance, of Wm. 

 Caldwell, M.P.P. in bringing it before the legislature of Ontar'o. 



The association is to be congratulated in having induced the 

 legislative assembly to pass a bill, which, while not embodying all 

 your views, is the. best, as it is the most protective bill that has 

 anpeared in the Ontario statutes. It is needless to men+ion the 

 changes effected, so well known to you all, hut, briefly, all spring 

 duck shooting has been abolished; plover of all descriptions, coots 

 and n'ce hens have been included a.moner the gome birds; email 

 have been protected for three, and wild turkeys for four breeding 

 seasons. It is to be regretted, however, that, all snriug shooting 

 was not done away with, but it is to he hoped that in time the 

 eyes of the goose and black heart plover ^hooters, from -"'horn the 

 opposition came, will be opened, and that the princinle of not 

 killine- the srooso that lays the colden etrg will move them to aid 

 us in the furor". We cannot help remarking on the silence with 

 regard to this Mil of the sum-tine- pauprs m the United Slates; th«v 

 have givep little or no credit to Ontario for initiating such a good 

 measure, hut at the same, time they are, powerful b- advising that 

 bills to do away with spring shooting and to curtail the open ?ea- 

 «ins for frame Rhould bo. passed in the various Sta+es of the Union. 

 The. game bill has no clause preventing the shooting of name for 

 exportation, and this may seem st.ra.nge to some, but such a clause 

 by the aid. of a go-between or third Dartv would be inoperative, as 

 exportation can onlvbe prevented by the action of the Dominion 

 government. The Dominion government by orders to its c ustom 

 house officers, have prevented or attempted to prevent, the ex- 

 portation of all game except ducks and snipe, and the attention 

 of the. government has been directed to this apparent oversight 

 bv vour executive. It seems stra nge that the most plentiful c-ame 

 birds of our Dominion should not have, been included in their 

 •n-der. Whv should the best ducks, sav from the celebrated Loo* 

 Point preserves.be permitted to pass over the border to Delmonico's 

 and not be kept for Canadians? Let the rich Americans who 

 spend weeks in shooting at these and other preserves, eagerlv 

 vieing to slaughter the most, nav a little more for their snort bv 

 helper compelled to sell, as sell thev do. in a smaller market. Why 

 should ducks killed in Canadian territory he made Nearer, eom- 

 nnr.atively, than other game to Canadians by this apparent over- 

 sight? 



The association has been immediately interested in sixtiials for 

 breaches of the game la.w=, on» for selling ducks out of season, 

 Inst: one for hounding and kilHne deer in Beverly swamp, lost. 

 In this case the deer was shot out of season, the hounds that had 

 been running during the dav were traced to their owners, but the 

 magistrate was not fn^lv satisfied that the hounds had been set on 

 the deer. One for illegal netting in the tributaries of Burlington 

 Bay, won: two for sellinsrpartridgesont of season, won; and lastly, 

 the case of pollution of the Twelve-Mile Creek with sawdust, won. 



The association has been successful indirectly in a prosecution, 

 as by inclosing to the Bav of Quinte Game Association a short 

 article from the Hamilton Spectator copied from a Syracuse paper, 

 relating the good time that some so-called sportsmen from the 

 State of New York had had on the river Trent, they aided in secur- 

 ing the conviction of a Dr. Faulkner, a county councilor and a 

 magistrate, and one Sanger Golding. for killing deer nutof season. 

 A case of illegal pot shooting of quail in the heart of the city came 

 under the not ice of your executive, but unfortunately too late to 

 secure such proof as would satisfy a magistrate. 



It was hoped that the association would have been a.ble to have 

 imported live quail to distribute in the neighborhood of the city 

 and throughout the country; but the funds required were insuffi- 

 cient. Numerous complaints were made last spring of nest-rob- 

 bing of our soncsters, but the nubile should remember that mere 

 information without the necessary proof is not sufficient. In gen- 

 eral this breach of the law is done thoughtlessly by boys who do 

 not appreciate the misebief they are doing, and a word of warning 

 and common sense in the interests of the Audubon Society from 

 the teachers in our schools at the proper season would do more to 

 protect our songsters than any number of prosecutions. 



This winter the spearing of black bass through the ice, which is 

 true and legitimate sport, was prohibited by the government local 

 inspector of fisheries, J. TV. Kerr, Esq., and it should be thorough- 

 ly understood that this prohibition did not emanate from any 

 action of this association, though we have good reason to believe 

 that a report to the contrary has been circulated. On this point, 

 too, it should be remembered that when this association first pe- 

 titioned the government to prevent nettingiu Burlington Bay and 

 its inlet", the petition was so altered by the recommendation of 

 the fishery overseer that it was made to include spearing as well, 

 and it was only through the active exertions of this association on 

 becoming acquainted with this fact that while netting was pro- 

 hibited spearing was allowed. Your executive have found the 

 greatest difficulty in getting the Dominion Government to listen 

 to their appeals on the fishery interests of this neighborhood. In 

 this connection we had proof last spring that in a schedule ob- 

 tained from the Dominion Government with the names of those 

 persons therein to whom the local fishery overseer, J. W. Kerr, 

 had given permits for netting in some of the inlets of Burlington 

 Ray, several names appeared of persons who had never received 

 such permits, had never even asked for them, and who were total 

 ly opposed to spring netting. The thanks of the association are 

 due to the Hon. James Turner, and to our late members, His Lord- 

 ship Judge Robertson and F. K. Kilvert, Esq., for their endeavors 

 on our behalf to place the true fishery interests of their neighbor- 

 hood before the Dominion Government. From communications 

 and from inferences arising in the course of conversation with 

 them, it would appear that -they equally, with your executive, had 

 difficulty in getting a proper hearing from the deputy minister of 

 fisheries. 



Posters giving the open season for fish and game and a synopsis 

 of the laws pertaining thereto were distributed and posted 

 throughout the city and county. 



W. D. Balfour, M. P. P., has now a bill before the Ontario Legis- 

 lature to permit spearing of muskrats through their houses, and 

 to allow of spring duck shooting, and it is to be feared that unless 

 active measures against it are made throughout the length and 

 breadth of the laud il may become law. A deputation of this 

 association should be appointed to combat any such retrograde 

 movement, and correspondence entered upon at once with the 

 various protective associations in the Province urging them to 

 like action. 



By removal from the city the. association lost one of its most 

 active, and enthusiastic members in the person of our late secre- 

 tary, F. L. Hooper, who has left to us our correspondence hook a 

 proof of his zeal and taste, and that he may find good sport and 

 good friends in his new field of labor is the wish of all his old 

 associates. 



$m mti Hirer fishing. 



Address all communications to the Fairest and Stream Pub. Co. 



ROD FISHING FOR HALIBUT. f 



SAN DIEGO, Cal. — I send you photograph of a halibut 

 which I caught off the steamship dock in San Diego. 

 My rod is a bamboo, 15ft. long, weight 29oz., hook baited 

 with live bait. I used one of Chubb' s click reels, and a 

 light braided linen line 55ft. long. It took me full twenty 

 minutes to land him. When he struck he took about 10ft. 

 of line and went to the bottom. I immediately struck, 

 and away he went, and when I attempted to check him 

 I found I had my hands very full indeed. I worked 

 him toward the shore, 150yds. 

 distant.as it was 6ft. to the top of 

 the dock from the water. Three 

 times he struck out into the 

 bay, and as many times I re- 

 covered my line safely. Once 

 he tried to run under "the dock 

 and around the huge piles, and 

 I feared that he was lost, but by 

 careful handling and a good 

 rod I turned him and continued 

 toward the shore. The fish 

 twice sulked, ran his nose into 

 the mud, and I could not budge 

 him, but retreating I could then 

 loosen him, and in that way I 

 took him ashore. A gentleman 

 placed the hook handle of his 

 cane into his gills and pulled 

 him in so that he could get his 

 hand into his gills and pull 

 him up on to the railroad track. 

 I felt as if I had sawed and 

 split a cord of hickory wood in 

 twenty minutes, instead of tak- 

 ing in such a huge fish with 

 such a tackle. The rod, reel and line in the picture are 

 the ones I killed him with. I took him into the steam- 

 ship office close by and weighed him, when he pulled 

 down 411bs. and measured 48in. long. It was the best 

 fight I ever made, and I never expect to equal it again. 



D. B, Hinma>\ 



Difficulty of breathing, a short, dry cough, a quick pulse and 

 pain in the left side are symptoms of approaching consumption. 

 Relieve the chest and cure the cough with Hale's Honey of Hore- 

 hound and Tar. Sold by all druggists. Pike's Toothache 

 Drops cure in one minute.— Adv, 



CANADIAN SALMON STREAMS. 



I^HE following notes, taken from the Eeport of the 

 . Commissioner of Crown Lands, gives information 

 respecting some of the salmon streams in 1886. The 

 names of lessees are given in parentheses: 



Little Saguenay (N. P. Rogers). Salmon scarce at be- 

 ginning of season, but as many observed on spawning 

 grounds as in previous years. Trout in abundance. 



St. Jean, Chicoutimi (Evan J. Price). About 100 salmon 

 spawned in this river. 



A. Mars (Evan J. Price). Number of salmon consider- 

 able diminished. 



Ste. Marguerite, N. W. Branch, (Ste. Marguerite Salmon 

 Club). Some 40 salmon were seen in this part of the 

 river. Number of trout diminished. 



Ste. Marguerite, N. E. Branch (Walter M. Brackett). 

 Sixty fish seen on the spawning beds, none of more than 

 3 or 41bs. Yearlings in considerable numbers. 



Trinity (John D. Giltnour). Large numbers of salmon 

 and sea" trout frequent this river. The weight of the 

 latter sometimes reaches 61bs. The river also contains 

 numbers of black and yellow eels, whiaii do much harm 

 to the young salmon. It is reported that salmon are 

 taken by Indians every fall from spawning beds in the 

 upper part of this river, some twenty or thirthy miles 

 from the mouth. 



Little Trinity (Henry T. Machin). It appears that num- 

 bers of salmon frequent this river. No trout in the upper 

 part, as far as the guardian knows, but sea trout abound 

 at the mouth. 



Ste. Anna des Monts (Henry Hogan), This river is fre- 

 quented by both salmon and trout. The principal run of 

 salmon this year took place only in August and 

 beginning of September, just before, the spawning season. 

 The spawning beds were then as well, if not better filled 

 than in previous years. The catch of salmon was not as 

 good as usual; on the other hand, trout fishing was better, 

 these fish appearing in great abundance. The increase in 

 the number of trout is becoming alarming, as it is now 

 well established .that they prey upon the salmon ova and 

 even the young salmon. There are also large numbers 

 of small trout in the lower part of the river. The people 

 there take them with seines, to use them as bait in cod 

 fishing. 



Grand River (Col. John Walker). Salmon and trout in 

 abundance. 



Little Pabos (Louis Cabot). This river is well stocked 

 with fish. At least four hundred salmon are understood 

 to have run up to the spawning beds, as well as a consider- 

 able number of trout. 



Grand Pabos, N. and W. Branches (Henry Hogan). 

 West Branch. — About fifty salmon run up; not many 

 trout. North Branch. — About two hundred salmon run 

 up, and large numbers of trout; too many for the river. 

 The value of the river depends greatly upon the protection 

 given in the bay. The practice of flambeauing for eels, 

 hitherto permitted, constitutes a permanent danger in 

 regard to the salmon. 



Little Cascapedia (L. J. Riopel). Not many salmon. 

 Trout in abundance, besides other fish, such as eels, etc. 



Nouvelle (John Maitland). The only fish frequenting 

 this river are trout, which exist in large numbers. 



Escumenac (John Maitland). The only fish found in 

 this river are trout, which appear this year in larger num- 

 bers than usual. 



Matapedia and tributaries (Sir George Stephen). 

 Guardian Blais. — Frequented chiefly by salmon. Trout 

 are so scarce that anglers do not take the trouble to fish 

 for them. The increase in the number of salmon does 

 not answer to the protection afforded. This is due to 

 causes not clearly explained by the guardian, but which, 

 in his opinion, inight be remedied by the Federal and 

 Provincial Governments, especially the former. This 

 guardian is also of the opinion that the restocking of the 

 Matapedia with young fry from theRestigouche hatchery 



