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whistler and the decoys. They went straight on until 

 within easy gunshot, when they wheeled, making a hand- 

 some poise in the air, almost in a bunch. Mr. Tarbox ex- 

 pected to hear his friend's double shots in quick succes- 

 sion, and to see a dozen at least of the birds fall. But 

 much tr> his sm-prise the other gun did not speak at all. 

 The birds came pretty close to Blr. Tarbox's ambush, but 

 not in so good a clump as they had appeared to the otber 

 gunner. He let them have both barrels and secured 

 seven. Then he shouted to the other fellow: "Why, in 

 the name of aU that is great, didn't you shoot? You had 

 a beautiful chancel" The other man rather sorrowfully 

 replied: '*! was expecting them to light! " Mr. Tarbox 

 kept on shooting that morning with a result of 53 birds. 

 The bag was mostly summer yellowlegs, though there 

 was a sprinkling of ringnecks and black breasts. Only a 

 few peep were in the number. 



On f riday morning, after the great storm and blow of 

 Thursday, Mr. Tarbox was on the shooting grounds again. 

 But the wind was still so severe that he got no birds. 

 The sportsmen will many of them spend Labor Day, a 

 legal holiday in Massachusets, September 4, among the 

 shore birds. 



Black bass fishing is i-eported to be good in Maine, 

 The best report come from Maranocook, Annabessacook. 

 Cobbessee Contee and the lakes around Winthrop, Mon- 

 mouth and Augusta. .Judge W. P. PhUbrook, of Water- 

 ville, is reported to have had some excellent black bass 

 fisliing at Maranocook one day last week. With his 

 friend, Mr. Ryder, he took 40 bass, the largest weighing 

 4Ibs. They are said to have hooked three on one line, 

 and to haA-e landed them all, the three weighing 81bs. 

 Mr. Eugene E. Patridge, of Patridge & Macullar, has 

 been at his camp in Annabessacook, where he has been 

 enjoying the black bass fishing. But old associations are 

 strong. Mr. Patridge has visited the Rangeleys annually 

 for many years. This year, through the advice of his 

 physician, he decided early in the spring to give up his 

 Ilangely fishing. But Friday his Boston partner had a 

 letter from him saying that he was off for the Rangeleys. 

 Ml'. Edwin C. Stevens, of Btillman Kelley & Co., and well 

 known in the New England molasses trade, is spending a 

 a couple of weeks fishing in the vicinity of Saulsbury, Vt. 

 He sends home an account of a handsome string of 200 

 trout in one day, and mentions the taking of pickerel 

 weighing 41bs. SpBOIAL. 



CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 



[From a Staff Correspondent] 

 Chicago's New Warden, 

 Aug. 10. — Mr. M. R. Bortree, late game warden of Chi- 

 cago, has been supplanted, under order of Gov. Altgeld, 

 by Mr. Chas. H. Blow, who has entered upon the duties 

 of his ofiice witli a disposition for results which atigurs 

 well for his future. Mr. Blow has already made several 

 seizures, notably one of eleven prairie chickens of the 

 Mayer IPoultry Co., who have quarters in the A. Booth 

 Building, State and Lake streets. For these he collected 

 a fine of $70. He also has a case set for next Monday be- 

 fore Justice White. This past week I gave him the names 

 of two restaurants report^ed to me as selling prairie chick- 

 ens, and he said he would go search them at once. That 

 reminds me that I must telephone him again, for to-day, 

 when I stepped into a certain restaurant near here, I saw 

 prairie chickens openly and brazenly ofliered on the bill of 

 fare. 



Mr. Blow's addi'ess is 1,178 Milwaukee avenue, Chicago, 

 and his teleplione is West 476. He requests that any one 

 knowing of or suspecting the presence of illegal game 

 shall telephone him, giving him the street number of tlie 

 suspected place, which he will search at once and without 

 parley. 



Nebraska Chickens. 



Dr. H. S. West, of Council Bluffs, la., a long time 

 reader of Forest ajs^d SxREAjii, made this office a pleasant 

 call this week. Dr. West says tliat the chicken crop in 

 Nebraska this year is good and tliat there will be plenty 

 of birds in certain sections, even though the market- 

 shooters ai'e now at work. He lately was out with some 

 puppies which his handler was breaking for him and 

 found numbers of coveys, in fact, an abundance of birds 

 if they were treated rightly at all. This was not far 

 from Neeley, Neb., in Wheeler, Holt and Antelope coim- 

 ties, about 150 miles west of Omaha, I believe. The birds 

 were the pinnated grouse. The sharpies have not 

 migrated into that country for two or three years, as they 

 formerly did. They used to come along about frost time 

 in the fall. 



Dr. West also says that if I have a friend who wants 

 elk or mule deer he can give the address of ranchmen 

 who have taken him to a fine big game country last year 

 and before. He thinks elk would be a certainly. 



E, Hough. 



909 SBCURinr Building, CMcago. 



Notes from Rochester. 



Rochester, N. Y., Aug. 27.— Editor Forest and Stream: 

 Notwithstanding the stringency of the money market, 

 many residents of Rochester have been enjoying their 

 annual outings duriog July and August. 



Dr. E. M. Scranton has lately returned from the Mus- 

 koka region, and John Barnhite, with two friends, is now 

 there. Geo. W. Aldridge, prominent in the city govern- 

 ment, returned last Friday from the Adirondacks, where 

 he enjoyed the trout fishing and also killed a fine buck. 

 J. B. Davis put in fom- days last week on the Niagara 

 River with tlie black bass. 



Fedor Willimack and party lately returned from Clear 

 Lake, Canada, where they enjoyed two weeks with the 

 bass and muscalonge. 



Earlier in the season Mr. Willimack and Mr. Judson 

 spent part of two days at Clear Lake and brought home 

 68 ba.ss. Such a trip as they make covers only three days 

 and costs only $6.50, and stfil some of us are "chained to 

 business" so closely that we have to read it in Forest and 

 Streajc. 



Dr. Brownell and party enjoyed a ten days' outing at 

 Rice Lake, Canada, last month, and although the resi- 

 dents of that section declared that the fishing was very 

 poor they caught all the fisii they had lost and a few more. 

 Supervisor Edward Englchart caught a wall-eyed pike 

 that weighed 4ilbs. in Irondequoit Bay last month, these 

 fish are rare in that water. 



Local fishing has not yielded good results this season, 

 very few catches of game fish being reported The htmt- 



ers have been out in full force since the season opened, 

 but birds are very scarce, grounds dry, but heavy, how- 

 ever, yesterday, and to-day will freshen things some. 



C. C. M. Hunt told me the other day that he had killed 

 more partridge than woodcock this season, but both were 

 scarce in his section. 



The bird question is about settled in this vicinity, rab- 

 bits are all there isMef t, and in a few years, if one must own 

 a dog, we might as well own a pug as a hunting dog. 

 However, I will take that back, as I prefer the beagle or 

 cocker, even as kept as a pet. 0. S. Bee. 



DEAD DEER IN MAINE WOODS. 



It is very certain that the headwaters of the Penobscot 

 are again infested with outlaws and poachers, who wan- 

 tonly kill deer and moose for the sake of seeing them die, 

 and who care no more for the laws and the game wardens 

 than they do for the winds that blow. 



A prominent citizen of Waldo county, a man who is a 

 dead shot with the rifle, and a man who has killed many 

 deer and moose in his day and who now has many 

 ti'ophies of his hunting at his home, was in Bangor Wed- 

 nesday. He has just returned from a trip with canoe and 

 camera. He camped in many placas, went into the deep 

 woods and saw the scenes of which he tells. To a re- 

 porter who saw him he gave the following extracts from 

 his diary that make excellent reading. Here it is: 



Aug. 2.— Left Bangor, and went by raU and water to North East 

 Carrj'. 



Aug:. 3.— Went up to Lobster Lake outlet. Passed three dead deer 

 on the shore and saw two Mve ones In the stream. On the shore saw 

 six live deer and one caribou, all very tame. 



Aug, 4.— Started at 5 o'clock A. M. In the forenoon saw five deer on 

 shore of Lobster Lake and one deer carcass on North Lake. Also saw 

 signs of bear and several moose tracks. It began to rain at 3 o'clock 

 and I returned to camp. While in camp I heard the report of a rifle 

 near the outlet. 



Aug. .5.— Saw sis deer on west shore and outlet. Got back to camp 

 at 3 o'clock, having seen four dead deer and the legs of another and 

 the disemboweled carcass of yet another which had just been killed. 

 Left carnp again at .3 P. M. for Blood Pond stream, getting back at 

 8:45, having seen signs of moose, caribou and bear. Saw four deer, all 

 m easv short range, so a man could shoot at least 90 per cent, of them. 



Aug. 6.— Sunday. 



Aug. 7.— Went to Russell's Pond. On my way saw three deer and 

 found one carcass. Also found one moose hide and part of the body 

 newly killed and sunk in the water half a mile from the West Branch. 

 Then traveled up toward North West Carry. Saw three deer on the 

 road above Seboomook Falls. On Russell stream saw two famiUes of 

 beavers. 



Aug. 8.— Broke camp and came down to North East Carry; from 

 here went to Moose Brook. Saw one deer. Also found a small party 

 that had no guns. 



Aug. 9.— Went to Caribou Pond. Saw one moose, one caribou and 

 three deer on ray way. Also saw two carcasses of deer untouched, 

 and intestines of a third. Camped at Moose Horn. 



Aug. 10 — AVent to Pine Stream Pond and from there to Ragged Lake. 

 Raw six deer on Moosehorn and Pine streams. Also saw bull moose. 

 Found five dead deer between Lobster Lake and Moosehorn. 



Aue. 11.— Back to Lobster Lake, and passed two parties camping 

 with ladies. Left Lob.ster Lake for Russell Stream, and camped at 8.30 

 p. M. Saw eight deer. No dead ones. 



Aug. 13.— Canoed up to Russell's Falls. Here took the Caucomago- 

 mac tote road and traveled eight miles to Jackson camp, where I 

 found there had lately been a terrible slaughter of deer and moose. 

 Could not tell how many. There were certainlfcr five; perhaps ten. 

 The camp site smelled so bad of carrion that I had to gather it up and 

 burn it before I could stop in the camp. Saw a big bull moose and 

 two deer near the camp, and one cow moose and calf and three deer 

 coming down. Caught a few fine trout near Jackson camp. 



Aug. 13.— Sunday. 



Having used up all my plates, left for Northeast Carry and Kineo, 

 and thence for home.— Sanger News, Aug. m. 



Mississippi Quail. 



Mr. S. N. Ayres, of Blue Mountain, Miss., in a letter to 

 me dated Aug. 14, writes as follows: 



"Ten weeks to-day since we have had rain. Upland 

 corn is ruined. Bottom com is sorry. Cotton is about 

 one-third ordinary size and poor. I think that the quail 

 have done well this dry time, though some people tliink 

 that they have perished for want of water in some sec- 

 tions. I have seen several bevies about full grown, num- 

 bering each from fifteen to twenty. 



"I made a discovery of which I never saw nor read. A 

 friend and myself saw a leech swallow a fishing woz-m as 

 long as itself. After it had swallowed the woi'm, my 

 friend switched it with a twig and it disgorged two worms, 

 and the worms crawled off. Is it known that leeches eat 

 worms? 



"I wUl some time write you a plan I have adopted to 

 keep negroes on my place from molesting quail nests. I 

 think it will work to great advantage. I think your ref- 

 erence in Forest and Stream to the negroes and their 

 dogs was sound and without exaggeration." B. Waters. 



Adirondack Notes. 



Keene Valley, N. Y., Aug. 28.— Owing to the Adiron- 

 dack Reserve's prohibition of hunting on its .30,000 acres, 

 deer are very abundant in the neighborhood of Keene 

 Valley at present. During the warm nights of June this 

 year, it was no unusual thing for parties formed for that 

 purpose to see from twenty to thirty deer feeding on the 

 lily pads around the Upper Au Sable Lake and Inlet. It 

 is not probable that in any other part of the Adirondacks 

 could so many wild deer be seen at one time. 



Aug. 20 a deer was seen in a cornfield between Beede's 

 and Keene Flats, and a few days before that one crossed 

 the road near the "River Bridge." Still another was 

 seen by one of the servants of Dr. Adler, of New York, 

 who lives at the foot of Noon Mark. 



Louis Tiffany, of New York, and Dr. Roosevelt, came 

 on a bear while in the neighborhood of Chapel Pond. 

 The meeting was wholly unexpected, and neither party 

 stopped to exchange greetings. J. R. 



Connecticut Otters.' 



Hartford, Conn., Aug. 2.5.— Mjt' Brooks can find otters 

 at Chaplin, Conn., 10 miles from Willimantic on the New 

 York and New England Railroad, judging from the in- 

 closed clipping from the Hartford (Conn.) Post. It reads: 

 "Samuel Chappell, Jr., of ChapUn, has captured an otter 

 in a steel trap and wiU endeavor to keep it aUve. The 

 animal is thought to be about six months old , and more 

 of them are in this vicinity." A. C. Collins, 



New Hampshire Bigr Game. 



Manchester, N. H., Aug. 23.— Mr. Samuel Ann is says 

 he saw a young moose, much bewildered, in the adjoin- 

 ing southerly town of Londonderry the 18th; it was also 

 seen by a Mi-s. Jones. Deer have been seen during the 

 summer in Goffstown , on our western boundary. Why 

 should we go to northern Maine hunting when moose 

 and deer stalk almost at our very doors? Payson. 



A JNEW YORK GAME LAW MUDDLE. 

 There appears to be widespread misinformation respect 

 ing the New York season for woodcock and ruffed grouse 

 shooting. 



The Game Code of 1892 contains a chapter relating to 

 Long Island, for which seasons are provided difi'ering 

 from those which prevail in the rest of the State. Thus, 

 while the close season for woodcock and grouse in the 

 State at large is prescribed in Sec. 74, the close sea- 

 son for these species on Long Island is prescribed in Sec. 

 164. In the Code as originally enacted the general State 

 law (Sec. 74) made the close season between Jan. 1 and 

 Aug. 15; and the Long Island law (Sec. 164) made the 

 close season between Jan. 1 and Nov. 1. 



In the 1893 session of the Legislature the State law on 

 woodcock and grouse (Sec. 74) was not changed. The 

 close season still remains between Jan. 1 and Aug. 15. 

 Both grouse and woodcock are now in season in the State 

 at large, except where supervisors' ordinances prevail in 

 the counties of Chenango, Columbia, Dutchess, Madison, 

 Otsego, Sullivan, Wayne and Yates. These were given in 

 our issues of July 29 and Aug, 9. 



Tlie Long Island law (Sec. 164) was so changed by the 

 last Legislature as to make the close season for woodcock 

 between Jan. 1 and Aug. 1, and for grouse between Jan. 

 1 and Nov. 1. The amendment was promulgated as 

 "Chap. 547 — An act to amend the game law, relating to 

 woodcock and grouse," and it reads: "Section 164 of the 

 game law is hereby amended, etc." The section applies 

 only to Long Island. Amending Sec. 164 only, it did not 

 affect the season elsewhere. 



Prairie Chickens in South Dakota. 



Mitchell, S. D., Aug. 18.— Editor Forest and Stream: 

 County Judge John T. Kean of Woonsocket county, this 

 season declared that the game law of this State was null 

 and void, and says that prairie chickens (which are so 

 plentiful this year) may be shot and killed at any time of 

 the year without trespassing on the law. The last Legis- 

 lature while attempting to amend the law, repealed all 

 law on the subject. 



To show the manner in which the birds have been 

 slaughtered this season, two Eastern hunters are reported 

 to have bagged thirty -five dozen prairie chickens in one 

 day's time, in the fine game land in the neighborhood of 

 Mitchell. 



In a few years our Eastern hunters wiU be complaining 

 of the scarcity of this game which has held its own so 

 long in this section of the country, and of which this 

 year there is said to be a great increase. 



This style of extermination will soon cause our Eastern 

 sportsmen to be less and less kindly treated by our farmers 

 and local sportsmen every year. 



Our law will evidently be remedied at the next meeting 

 of the Legislature. Yet this butchery cannot be shut off 

 until after next season. H. G. Nichols. 



[We do not understand how the situation can be as 

 described. The law as amended by act of Feb. 21, 1893, 

 forbids killing prairie chickens and other grouse between 

 Jan. 1 and Sept. 1.] 



Not Much Encouragement for a Conscientious 

 Sportsman. 



Vermillion, S. D., Aug. 12.— Inclosed please find 25 

 cents in postage stamps for Game Laws in Brief. I want 

 to keep posted on the game laws. I never hunt until the 

 law is out, and the result is that I never get any game 

 near home. By the time the law is out there is not a full 

 covey of chickens to be found within twenty miles of 

 VermiUion. There are a good many chickens here this 

 fall, and the quail are thick, but not many ducks; it is too 

 dry. I think that if more of the hunters would take 

 Forest and Stream and read it there would be less law- 

 breaking, but I can not get them to read it. It shows 

 them up too much. VERanLLlON. 



New Hampshire's Foolish Hawk Law. 



Manchester, N. H., Aug. 23.— The State pays a bounty 

 of 25 cents on dead hawks. For the first time this year, 

 in this city, advantage was taken of it last week by Alice 

 Roby, the little daughter of Frank Roby, and who was 

 the center of considerable interest among the city ofiicials 

 while making the collection. The law is sadly abused by 

 boys and gunners of near boundary towns in Massachu- 

 setts, on the sea coast especially, they bringing many 

 hawks over the line for the bounty, their State not pay- 

 ing any, One party smuggled in sixteen and got his 

 money, then telling of it has probably injm-ed the busi- 

 ness for his imitators. Payson. 



West Virginia Quail. 



I CANNOT say as regards the plentifulness of quail in 

 West Virginia, but during the summer the mrusic of his 

 whistle was heard as usual, and I think I flushed in my 

 walks about as many as formerly. Thus I think the shoot- 

 ing will not be altogether poor. West Virginian. 



Fairmont, W. Ya,., Aug. 20.— In this vicinity quail will 

 be very scarce during the coming season in consequence 

 of the extremely Kjugh winter, but there wiU be a goodly 

 number of ruft'ed grouse. C. W. W. 



New York Woodcock Season. 



Frontenac, Jefferson County, N. Y., Aug. 22.— Editor 

 Forest and Stream: It is the universal opinion of sports- 

 men all over New York State, so far as my acquaintance 

 extends, that our season opens at least a month too early. 

 Have not been out myself, but have seen birds only about 

 half- grown brought in. H. W. B. 



Fulton Chain Bucks. 



Bald Mottntain House, Old Forge, Herkimer County, 

 N. Y., Aug. 19.— Our guests killed 8 large bucks last week 

 within two miles of our camp, floating on Third Lake, 

 which is one of the best salmon trout lakes on the justly- 

 celebrated Fulton Chain. Chas. E. Thompson. 



