March 6, 1890. J 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



127 



Whitney Hammhbless— Showing Safety Action. 



Whitney SAFETY Hammerikss. 



irce shots at 4-foot square; 80-inch Circle selected from 

 test pattern. 

 right barrel. left barrel. 



1 148 pellets. 1 121 pellets. 



2 145 pellets. 2 92 pellets. 



3 136 pellets.- 3 120 pellets. 



Average 143 pellets. 



Average 111 pellets. 



CLAREMONT, N. J., Dec. 27, 1889. 

 "EST MADE AT FOREST AND STREAM GUN-TESTING SCREEN. 



im— -Whitney Safety Hammerless. Cost, $47. No. of gun, 

 1. Weight, 715-16] bs. Length of barrels, 30in. Gauge, 12. 

 Right barrel, modified choke. Left barrel, full choke. 



lather— Clear. Direction of wind, 3 o'clock. Force of 

 wind, 16 miles per hour. Thermometer, dry, 38° . Do., 

 wet, 33°. Humidity, 57° . Barometer, 29.9in. 



■arge, as given by holder of gun : 



BOTH BARRELS. 



Shell— U. M. C. Club. 

 Powder, Brand— Special Wood. 

 • Powder, Quantity— 3 drs. 

 ( Malie— Tatham. 

 Shot-<. Quantity— 1% oz. 

 ( Size-No. 8 Chilled. 



ffiEPNEY, 40YDS., RIGHT BARREL, WOOD POWDER, ^53 PELLETS. 



CARTRIDGE ANALYSIS. 

 Three Cartridges Taken at Random. 



BOTH BARRELS. 



Loading. Powder. Shot. 



rd over shot; two(l... 37 grs. 544 grs. 509 pellets, 



teavy B. E. wads and ■< 2. . . 38 grs. 542 grs. 507 pellets, 



■ard over powder. ( 3. . . 37 grs. 543 grs. 509 pellets. 



Average 37 grs. 543 grs. 50S pellets. 



'HTTJSEY, 40YDS., LEFT BARREL, WOOD POWDER, 300 PELLETS. 



TEST AT 40 YARDS. 

 Five Shots per Barrel from rest at fixed 30-inch Circle. 



LEFT BARREL. 

 Pattern. Penetration, a pellets. 

 282 pellets. 10 sheets. 



RIGHT BARREL. 

 Pattern. Penetration, s pellets. 



66 pellets. 

 . 251 pellets. 

 , 195 pellets. 

 . 207 pellets. 

 , 238 pellets. 



_ sheets. 

 6 sheets. 



4 sheets. 



5 sheets. 



6 sheets. 



266 pellets. 

 314 pellets. 

 121 pellets. 

 242 pellets. 



sheets. 

 4 sheets. 

 4 sheets. 

 10 sheets. 



Three shots at 4-foot square; 30-inch Circle selected from 

 ■ best pattern. 



RIGHT BARREL. LEFT BARREL. 



1 253 pellets. 1 291 pellets. 



2 244 pellets. 2 300 pellets. 



3 248 pellets. 3 321 pellets. 



Average 248 pellets. Average 304 pellets. 



TEST AT 60 YARDS. 



-Five Shots per Ban-el from rest at fixed 80-inch Circle. 



RIGHT BARREL. 

 Pattern. Penetrath 



19 pellets. 

 37 pellets. 

 59 pellets. 

 17 pellets. 

 97 pellets. 



■i pellets. 



LEFT BARREL. 



sheets. 

 3 sheets, 



2 sheets. 

 .. sheets. 



3 sheets. 



1, 



Pattern. _ 

 50 pellets. 

 27 pellets. 

 33 pellets. 

 75 pellets. 

 48 pelTbts. 



sheets, 

 sheets, 

 sheets, 

 sheets, 

 sheets. 



sheets. 



Av. 46 pellets. 2 sheets. Av. 47 pellets. 



Three shots at 4-foot square; 80-inch Circle selected, from 

 best pattern. 



RIGHT BARREL. LEFT BARREL. 



1 40 pellets. 1 59 pellets. 



2 63 pellets. 2 98 pellets. 



3 106 pellets. 3 53 pellets. 



Average 69 pellets. 



Average 70 pellets. 



filets. 5 sheets. Av. 345 pellets, 7 sheets. 



ON THE FACE OF THE MOON. 



LOUISVILLE, Ky.— Mr. John B. Riley, an old and 

 famous Kentucky hunter, was in town yesterday 

 and tells me of the following -possum hunt, which he en- 

 gaged in. 



"We were out looking for 'possum late one autumn 

 night. The dogs had been trying in vain for nearly an 

 hour to follow a trail. They at last located a 'possum in 

 a limited space, but they could not unanimously deter- 

 mine upon the tree wherein the sly old 'possum was en- 

 sconced. One specially sagacious 'possum hunter, who 

 had spent half his nights in the woods, at last declared 

 that he could tree the 'possum himself. 



"After about twenty minutes patient searching he 

 called the rest of the party to his side, and directed our 

 attention by the pointing of his finger through the dead 

 lumber and dry leaves of the treetopstill our gaze almost 

 rested on the face of the man in the moon himself, when 

 all exclaimed in amazement. There was the 'possum 

 with the hairs of the backbone bristled up on the face of 

 the moon. He was perched in the top of one of the tall- 

 est trees in the forest, but he could be plainly seen in that 

 peculiar position with the animal between you and the 

 moon, although the night was otherwise dark in the 

 forest." C. A. D. 



New York Legislature.— Albany, March 1.— The 

 Senate has passed Mr. Stevens's Assembly bill prohibit- 

 ing the shipment of game killed in the counties included 

 in the forest preserve. The Senate Committee on Game 

 Laws has reported favorably Mr. Coggeshall's bill for the 

 revision and codification of the laws protecting fish and 

 game. The Governor has signed Assemblyman Curtis's 

 bill amending the act establishing the State Forestry 

 Commission relative to lands in the forest preserve. In 

 the Assembly Mr. Crawford offered a resolution, which 

 went over at the time, but it will undoubtedly be passed. 

 It provides that the Attorney-General be requested to 

 furnish the Assembly with his opinion on what consti- 

 tutes the ''waters of this State, as mentioned in the vari- 

 ous laws for protecting game and fish, as distinguished 

 from _ waters belonging to individual associations, and 

 especially as to the status of waters covering lands upon 

 which taxes are paid, and whether waters can legally 

 be taken for the public use without compensation to the 

 owners. 



Hunting in the National Park.— Hyde Park-on- 

 Hudson, Feb. 27.— Editor Forest and Stream: I want to 

 call your attention to a difference between your report of 

 Senator Vest's new Park bill, Section 5, in your issue of 

 Jan. 80, and the same section of S. 491, passed Feb. 21. 

 Iu your issue Section 5 "prohibits hunting, killing, 

 wounding or capturing wild animals or birds, except 

 dangerous animals; prohibits the taking of fish, etc." Sec- 

 tion 5 of the bill, as passed in the Senate, reads: "That all 

 bunting, or the killing, wounding or capturing, at any 

 time, of any wild animal or bird, except dangerous ani- 

 mals, when it is necessary to prevent them, from destroying 

 human life or inflicting an injury, is prohibited within 

 the limit of said Park, etc." From your report of that 

 section of the bill one would infer that the hunting of 

 dangerous animals was permissible under the provisions 

 of the bill; whereas such is not the case, as will be seen 

 from the italicized words above.— Archibald Rogers. 



Quail for British Columbia.— Vancouver. B. C.,Feb. 

 1 2. — Editor Forest and Stream: A committee meeting of 

 the Mainland Game Protective Association was held at 

 the Lei and Hotel, Vancouver, British Columbia, last even- 

 ing. In addition to the 300 pheasants ordered from China 

 and Japan, it was decided to import 100 quail. These 

 will be turned down as soon as they arrive, and if they 

 do at all well we should soon have some quail shooting. 

 The Association already has over 40 members, and it was 

 decided to canvass the neighboring city of New West- 

 minster to increase the membership as much as possible. 

 All the farmers in the district are giving the Association 



a hearty support and the Legislature will be appealed to, 

 to protect pheasants and quail on the mainland of Brit- 

 ish Columbia for at least two years. We had quite a cold 

 snap here after Christmas, which drove the ducks south. 

 They have now returned and the shooting is again excel- 

 lent,-C. E. T. 



WATERPROOFING CLOTHING AND TENTS. 



THE following directions will be welcomed by many who are 

 desirous of a good recipe for waterproofing textile fabrics. 

 Our correspondent is evidently fully conversant with the subject, 

 and his instructions are so clear and explicit as to be easily fol- 

 lowed: 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



Many inquiries have been made in your journal respecting the 

 best method of waterproofing cloth. I send the following recipe, 

 copied, to the best of my recollection, from a scientific paper in. 

 1872. It may be useful to those who dread being poisoned by the 

 alum and lead solution, although with proper management there 

 is really no danger of this. 



"Gelatine and soap of each one pound, dissolved together in 

 thirty quarts of boiling water. Add by degrees one and a half 

 pounds of alum and continue boiling for a quarter of an hour. 

 When the fluid is at 123° Fahrenheit, put in the cloth, let it soak 

 well, then hang up without wringing, till dry. Afterward wash 

 in cold water and mangle. The sulphuric acid of the alum com- 

 bines with the soda of the soap and sets free the fatty acids, which 

 form with the gelatine a substance insoluble in cold water." 



For my own clothes I have always used the alum and sugar-of- 

 lead solution, in the proportions of lib. of the former to Mjlb. of 

 latter, added to Igals, of rain water. The alum being in double 

 the proportion usually recommended insures the precipitation of 

 all the lead in the form of sulphate, which sinks to the bottom if 

 allowed to stand for a few hours. The clear liquor should be 

 poured into a clean vessel before the clothes are put in it. This 

 method prevents the deposition of the sulphate of lead among 

 the fibers of the cloth. 



I used to soak my 

 of yellow soap 

 and when hall 



The fatty acids of the soap are stated to form minute crystals 

 with the alumina, which adhere to the fibers of the cloth and 

 help to repel rain. Clothes treated in this wav are of course not 

 so absolutely waterproof as India rubber, but have the great ad- 

 vantage of not confining the perspiration. Thevwill "keep out 

 heavy rain for 8 hours or more, if perfectly loose all over, but any 

 part that fits tightly lets in a little wet. After being taken off they 

 should be spread before a fire to dry. If thrown into a heap, or 

 M en If hung all right upon a peg, they will be found damp the 

 next day, especially inside the sleeves. 



Clothes waterproofed by one of the above-mentioned methods 

 will, I believe, soon be in general use instead of macintosh, among 

 sportsmen and campers out. The best kind I have ever owned for 

 reil rough work were invented a few years ago bv a tailor named 

 Burberry at Basingstoke, in this country. The inside is of thin 

 tweed and the outside of a fine cloth woven from flax and very 

 strong, both being made waterproof. They are light and warm, 

 and the flax cloth is almost untearable by thorns when pushi g 

 through the thickest bushes; at the same time it is free from the 

 unpleasant stiffness of canvas or leather clothes. 



Combmakttn, North Devon, England, Feb. 19. J ' J " ■ M ' BYEXCK - 



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$sfting. 



WHAT IS THIS? 



Act First and Last. 

 Scene 1.— Your boatman takes you to the grounds. 



You 



bait up and cast out (if you know how, otherwise 

 your man does it for you), then sooner or later lay 

 your rod down and wait. You keep on waiting, 

 sometimes for days, yes, weeks. 

 Scene 2.— At last something has passed over and found 

 your bait: it i3 moving off with it; you don't strike, 

 that seems too much like angling, and you are not 

 angling now, but wait until the something has swal- 

 lowed the hook to its tail almost. In great excite- 

 ment you now pick up your rod and hold on like grim 

 death (your pole will stand all the strain that can be 

 put upon it), grinding on your reel when your strength 

 permits. Mr. Boatman now heaves up his mud hook 

 and steers the boat as you are towed along. 

 Scene Presently, from sheer exhaustion (and that, re- 

 member, without the slightest chance of being able 

 to rid itself of the hook), the something rolls itself 

 on its side alongside the boat and is gaffed. 

 Scene It is weighed and found wanting. 

 Scene .5.— You now talk yourself deaf, dumb and blind 

 trying to explain to your friends (who already know 

 all about it) how skillfully you handled it and how 

 many times it nearly got away, and because you 

 know no better, think you have accomplished a great 

 feat. You have no skill, you used no skill, but still 

 you kill. 

 And this is called tarpon fishing. 



Except for being able to say that you have killed your 

 tarpon on rod and reel, weighing —lbs., surely you can- 

 not call it sport from an angler's point of view. Fancy 

 comparing it with angling for salmon, trout or bass, where 

 skill tells above all else. Bio Peel. 



Virginia.— Lexington, Feb. 22.— In consequence of 

 the muddy condition of the streams last summer few 

 bass were killed. During some of the warm days this 

 winter a few were taken from deep pools, and more are 

 reported to be in the streams than we have ever had. — 

 T. M. S. 



Jamaica Bay. — A determined effort is making to 

 abolish seining in Jamaica Bay, a Long Island resort 

 much in favor with New York salt-water fishermen. 



The Best Fishing Tackle in the World is to be found at the 

 salesroom of Ihns. J. Conroy, 65 Fulton street, N. Y. See adver- 

 tisement opposite first page of readme matter. -Ado. 



