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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Jan. 19, 1895. 
New Brtmswiok for caribou during the fall, and in con- 
cluding said that he wished to be enrolled as the 282d 
member of the club. 
Rev. Charles Ifollen Lee said that his wood days were 
no more, and told of the deer be had shot at distant five 
yards, and how badly he scared it. Mr. D. J. Flanders, 
general passenger agent of the Boston and Maine road, 
was called upon B for a speech, but did not respond. 
Fred Beal of the Sandy River L B.ailroad, and Editor 
Brackett of the PhilipsPhonongraph. than which no paper 
gives more hunting news, each made a few remarks. 
Then Dr. Heber Bishop told the story of his moose in a 
graphic way. 
Capital speeches were^also made by Mr. C, J. Wood- 
bury, vice-president of the Massachusetts Fish and 
Game Association, and Hon. George W. Wiggin, ex- 
president of the same association. . 
The club song "Ozone," to theJair B of "Daisy Bell," 
was then sung with a spirit, and the club banquet was 
over. J. B. Bubnham. 
Cod Fishing on the Al Foster. 
New Yoke City, Jan. 18— Since writing my last 
article on cod fishing I had the pleasure of meeting 
several admirers of Forest and Stream on the Al Foster, 
and all agree without exception that a great deal of 
pleasure can be had in catching a cod. My friend Mr. 
William H. Van Cott, Jr. , caught three the last trip of 
the Al Foster — total, 36 pounds — and regrets that this 
last storrn has driven the fish away. I had the pleasure 
of catching my largest cod, weight 30 pounds, and trust 
the bad weather we have had will soon clear up so we 
can again try our luck. The largest cod fish I saw 
caught with rod and reel on the Al Foster weighed 45 
pounds, and the one who caught it — Mr. Smith — 'told 
me, ' ' it was a serious question at one time who owned 
the rod. " H. C. W. 
A Lazy Man's Fishing Dog. 
Little Rook, Ark. — The secretary of the Grassy 
Lake Club has a fishing dog, so he says. The mode of 
working him is to plant the rod, adjourn to the shade 
for refreshments, and when the fish bites the dog barks. 
If the fisherman loses the fish the dog shows his disgust 
in the plainest terms. I have not seen that dog fish 
yet, and for further details refer you to the honorable 
secretary. J. M. R. 
§mti* and ^fjfrft protection. 
The Michigan Export Law. 
Bscanaba, Mich. — Editor Forest and Stream: Quite a 
sensation was caused here the other day by the arrest of Q. ft. 
Hessel and Charles Grunert, of this city and Capt. Thompson, 
of the schooner Frank Miner, on the charge of having venison 
hi their possession. In some manner the officers discovered 
that the schooner Frank Miner, lying at the Merchant dock, 
had a huge quantity of venison aboard which was billed for 
some point in Wisconsin, and made an investigation, which 
confirmed their suspicions. The captain of the vessel was, of 
course, indirectly interested in the matter, but he was brought 
before Justice Gdaser and fined $10 and costs, amounting in all 
to $17. Hessel. it seems, induced the captain to take the veni- 
son, but claims that he was ignorant of the contents of the 
boxes and was merely doing a friendly act for Grunert. HoV 
ever, the officers considered the evidence accumulated sufficient 
to warrant the arrest of both Hessel and Grunert, and on Mon- 
day morning the latter appeared before Justice Glaser and was 
fined $50. Hessel entered a plea of guilty yesterday morning 
and was discharged after paying a fine of §16. The contraband 
venison was disj)osed of according to law. 
The Adirondack Deer. 
Hamilton, N. Y., Jan. 10.— Editor forest and Stream: I wish 
to record my opinion as to the hounding of deer. Two hunting 
trips to the Adirondaeks have convinced me of the mistake in 
allowing the use of dogs. The real sportsman will feel more 
satisfaction in getting his deer by honest stalking than m any 
other manner. There is no honor in standing by a runaway and 
murdering a deer that is driven before the muzzle of one's gun 
by dogs. There are enough deer in the wilderness to give any 
one who is willing to work for the opportunity a fair shot. I 
hunted only ten days each trip, and could desire no better 
chance for success. During my first outing, which was in 
September, 1893, 1 saw eleven deer with two standing shots, and 
last August I saw four deer, two standing within thirty-five 
yards. With the convening of the new legislature let us have a 
new deer law. Collegian. 
The Massachusetts Fish and Game Protective As- 
sociation. 
Boston, Jan. 10. — Editor Forest and Stream: The annual 
meeting of this association was held at the. Hotel Thorndike 
last evening. After seventy-five members had fortified them- 
selves with a good dinner they got right down to business, and 
after the election of four new members— Messrs. J. Payson Brad- 
ley, Wm. B. Kehew, Sanford Phipps and Edward W. Morse— and 
the choice of Mr. Isaiah O. Young of the State Fish Commission 
as an honorary member, the report of Secretary-Treasurer Kim- 
ball was in order. This gave the very gratifying information 
that the bills were all paid and that there was upward of $2,000 
in the treasury. During the year the work of the association 
has been considerable, and several prosecutions for illegal fish- 
ing have been made ; this has been especially the case in Worcester 
county, where the work of Deputy Warden John F. Cuming has 
been very effective ; he has received substantial encouragement 
from the committee of the association on the enforcement of 
the fish laws to continue the good work. The following officers 
were elected for the ensuing year : President, Benjamin Cutler 
Clark ; Vice-Presidents, George W. Wiggin, C. J. H. Woodbury, 
Edwai-d E. Hardy, Dr. John T. Stetson, Ivers W. Adams, Ed- 
ward J. Brown, Edward E. Allen, Secretary and Treasurer, 
Henry H. Kimball; Librarian, John Fottler, Jr. ; Executive Com- 
mittee, , Herbert Bishop, Sidney ChaBe, Dr. W. G. Kendall, W. B. 
Hastings, Ohas. G. Gibson, Hon. W. F. Bay, Chas. A. Allen, 
Loring Crocker, Jr., W. B. Smart, Bollin Jones, Henry J. Thayer, 
Edward E. Small; Membership Committee, Edward T. Barker, 
Arthur VV. Bobinson, Walter C. Preseott; Fund Committee, Dr. 
J. W. Ball, W. Hapgood, Edward Brooks. 
Mr. George W. Wiggin retires voluntarily from the presidency 
after several years of faithful and efficient service, but the board 
of management will continue to have benefit of his careful 
judgment and wide experience. Mr. B. C. Clark, who succeeds 
him, has been one of the moBt active members of the association 
for many years, and its affairs could not be intrusted to safer 
hands. 
The annual dinner — always an interesting occasion — takes 
plaee at Young's Hotel, Wednesday evening, Jan. 30, and accept- 
ances have already been received from a brilliant galaxy of 
after-clinner speakers, so that the affair promises to be up to 
the usual high standard. A big moose is already in the cold 
storage at Quiney Market. Dr. Heber Bishop, returned from 
1 Megantic region, will lead the choruses. Wm. B. Smaet. 
New York Association. 
The annual winter convention of the New York State Associa- 
tion for the Protection of Fish and Game was held in the As- 
sembly rooms of the Yates House, Syracuse, Jan. 10, President 
D. H. Bruce in the chair. The meeting was a great success in 
every way— attendance, earnestness and attention to business. 
The tollowing delegates were present: 
Anglers' Association of St. Lawrence River — G. M. Skinner, B, 
Grant, H. 0. Cornwall, W. H. Thompson. 
Honeoye Falls Anglers' Association — A. Mather. 
Rochester Rod and Gun Club — H. D. McYean. 
Canandaigua Bod and Gun Club— Chas. B. Laphain, Chas, T. 
Mitchell. 
Gen essee Valley Fish and Bird Protective Association — F. J. 
Ainsden, F. W. France, H. S. Wads worth, H. H. Weidemer. 
Niagara County Anglers' Association of Lockport — Wm. H. 
Chase, F. K. Sweet. 
Caledonia Fishing Club— Jas. Annin, Jr. 
New York Association for the Protection of Fish and Game- 
John G. Hecksher, Bobt. B. Lawrence. 
Onondaga County Sportsmen's Club— Andrew S.White, A. B. 
King, Myron Weidman, Nathan Ayres, Wm. Prettie. 
Anglers' Association of Onondaga County— Gen. D. H. Bruce, 
C. S. Smith, R. A. Molyneux, D. S. Morgan, Amos Pad g ham, 
Henry Loftie, Chas. H. Mowry. 
Black Biver Fish and Game Protective Association W. E. 
Wolcott, G. G. Chassell. 
Morehouse Lake Club, Middleville— W. W. Mosher. 
Chautauqua County Association for the protection of Fish and 
Game, Jamestown— F. H. Garfield. 
Honest Fisherman Club, Seneca Falls — Dr. F. G. Seaman, 
Ernest G. Gould. 
Steuben County Fish and Gun Club— L. S. Parker. 
Central New York Fish and Game Protective Association — H. 
C. Carr, J. D. Alden, W. S. Gavitt, S. S. Granger ,E. J. Gould, Dr. 
Seaman. 
Franklin County Fish and Game Protective Association— Mor- 
ton S. Parmelee, H. C. Skinner. 
There were also present Chief Protector J. Warren Pond and 
twenty-five of the district protectors. The attendance of the 
protectors has come to be a regular ieature of the State Associ- 
ation meetings, and the effect is beneficial and stimulating to all 
concerned. If anything were needed to rouse enthusiasm it was 
supplied when President Bruce made his opening address. The 
services of Gen. Bruce in revivifying the Association and putting 
it upon a business basis, are well understood and appreciated 
The recommendations as to legislation adopted were as follows • 
Prohibit floating or jack-shooting for deer and the killing ot' 
does at any lime. The transportation of deer after Nov. 5 should 
be prohibited. The hounding of deer should be permitted only 
between Sept. 10 and Oct. 11. 
It is the sense of this Association that the open season on rab- 
bits ana hares in the whole State, except Queens, Kings, Suffolk 
and Eichraond counties, and in the counties of St. Lawrence 
Franklin, Esses, Clinton, Lewis, Warren, Hamilton and Herki- 
mer be confined to the open season on woodcock and "rouse 
and the use or ferrets be prohibited. 
Web-footed wildfowl, except geese and brant, shall notbepur- 
sued, shot at, hunted, killed, possessed or sold between the first 
day of March and the first day of September, and shall not be 
pursued, shot at, hunted or killed between season. On the Hud- 
son River, south ot the Troy Dam, and its tributaries, boats pro- 
pelled by hand may be used for the purpose of skootin" web- 
footed fowls. " 
Amend Sec. 74 by striking out "16th day of August" and insert- 
ing "1st of September" as opeuiDg day on ruffed grouse and 
woodcock. 
Amend Sec. 76 by striking out the words beginning "unless it 
be" and ending "out of the State." 
Amend Sec. 79 by* making the season for meadow larks open 
Aug. 15. v 
Amend Sec. 82 by including English pheasants. 
Amend Sec. 102 as follows: Any illegal device to be used for 
taking fish being found in possession of any person on any of 
the inland waters of the State when such use of such device 
is prohibited on shore or islands of said waters, shall be deemed 
a violation of Sec. 102. 
The section fixing the open and closed »easons for bass was 
approved. 
There was considerable discussion over Sec. Ill, resulting in 
no changes of the section ; length to be continued at 8in. & 
Amend Sec. 132: That Sec. 132 be amended so as to read after 
the words "nor in Lake Ontario within one mile of the shore nor 
any islands therein," nor within three miles of the mouth of 
Niagara River. 
See. 132, strike out: "The waters of Lake Ontario to the 
county of Jefferson included between Blue Roekwithin the town 
of Brownvilie and the town lying between the towns of Lynn and 
Cape Vincent, including Chaumont Bay, Griffin Bay and Three 
Mile Bay and in the county of Oswego between the northerly line 
of the town of Mexico and Jefferson county line are herebv 
exempt from the provisions of this act." 
Resolved, That the above-named wording of Sec. 132 be herebv 
repealed. J 
Sec. 134: Resolved, That it is the recommendation of this Con- 
vention that Sec. 134 be changed so as to make the size of bar 
of meshes of nets used in Lake Erie and Lake Ontario one and 
one-half inches instead one and one-eighth inches as the law now 
reads. 
Resolved, That the Board of Fish Commissioners be author- 
ized to fix conditions under which Canadians may be permitted 
to fish in American waters and hunt iu American fields such as 
shall fairly accord with similar provisions of the Canadian 
officials. 
Sec. 141, strike out: "Suckers, bullheads, eels and dogfish may 
be caught at any time by means of hooking and spearing in any 
of tne waters of this State." 3 
Sec. 145: Restrict the length of minnow nets to twenty feet 
and their width to four feet. The young bass, pike or wall-eyed 
pike shall not be taken or "used as minnows for bait but all such 
young fish when taiten must ho returned to the water without 
unnecessary injury. This section shall not authorize the placing 
or use of nets or any other device of the kind used for catching 
fish iu the streams, or the taking of trout by means of nets or 
other device except angling, in other waters. 
Sec. 149: Resolved, That all net Ashing, except for minnnows 
in all inland waters of the State be prohibited. 
Second resolution : Resolved, That all fishing in the inland 
waters of this State with nets, except for minnows, should be 
prohibited, but if such prohibitions should not be made then it 
is resolved that Sec. 149 be amended by striking out the words 
"may prescribe such rules and regulation," etc., and insert 
"shall prescribe such rules and regulations," and at the end of 
such section add the following : That no netB shall be drawn for 
whiteflsh except under the supervision of a regular or special 
game protector or their duly constituted deputies; that each and 
every person shall pay a license, to be fixed by the Commissioner 
of Fisheries, for the privilege ol drawing .a net, said license to be 
paid to the person or persous so supervising the drawing of the 
same; that no person shall be licensed to draw a net until the 
name of the applicant shall have been submitted to the organi- 
zation in the locality where he resides, and that a copy of the 
rules and regulations Bhall be forwarded with each license 
issued. 
Add to Soc. 150: That licenses shall, upon application, be is- 
sued by the Commissioners of Fisheries to those parties who de- 
sire to deal in live game, birds or game fish, and without such 
license no persons shail deal in live game or fish. 
Amend Sec. 231 : That this Association recommend the pen- 
alties to be imposed for violation of the game laws be fixed as 
follows, except dynamiters : for conviction, first offense a fine 
in the discretion of the court; for conviction, second offense not 
less than $25; for conviction, third offense not less than $50- 
for conviction on any subsequent time, no fine imposed but im- 
prisonment within the limits fixed by law. 
W. S. Gavitt, James Annis, Jr., and A. C. Cornwall, aa a nomi- 
nating committee, brought in this list of officers for 1895: Pres- 
ident, Frank J. Arnsden of Rochester; Vice-President, Robert B. 
Lawrence of Flushing ; Secretary and Treasurer, John B.Sage of 
Buffalo. The nominations were ratified. 
The following were appointed a legislative committee to pre- 
pare the resolutions adopted at the meeting, and to bring them 
before the Senate committee: Cornelius W. Smith, Syracuse; J. 
S. Van Cleef , Poughkeepsie; Howard Widner, Rochester ; Dr. J. 
S. Parker, Bath, and Charles Laphara, Canandaigua. 
A vote of thanks was tendered to Gen. Dwight H. Bruce, th>:> 
retiring president, for his efficient work done in the past for the 
Association. 
The National Game, Bird and Fish Proteetive Asso- 
ciation. 
Chicago, III., Jan, 11. — As announced earlier, the annual 
meeting of the National Game, Bird and Fish Protective As 
sociation occurred at the Sherman House, this city, the first 
session being ou the evening of January 9, the concluding one 
on the evening following. On both occasions, President M. R. 
Bortree was in the chair, filling the duties handsomely. The 
secretary, Mr. Fred E. Pond, being detained at home by sick- 
ness, Mr. W. H. Thompson, of Waukeka, Wis., was chosen 
secretary pro tem., serving thus acceptably for both sessions. 
It was a singular, but I hope not inauspicious fact, that when 
the meeting was called to order, both on the first and on the 
second evening, there were 13 members present. These in- 
creased to sixteen the first evening, and to about 30 on the 
second. There were present Mr. A. L. Lakee, of Kalamazoo, 
Mich., Mr. C. F. Bates, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Mr. W. H. 
Sharpe, of Waugeke, Wis.; Mr. Howard Bosworth, of Milwau- 
kee, Wis. : Mr. L. K. Buntain, head fish and game Warden of 
Ohio, from Dayton, O. ; Mr. I. W. Sharp, of Indianapolis, Ind. ; 
the remainder was made up from Chicago. Several new mem- 
bers were admitted, making the total membership for the 
United States now foot up about 250. 
It would waste valuable space to no purpose to take up in 
detail the routiue business of the first evening. The only real 
news of the evening, and it was very good and interesting news, 
too, lay iu the remarks on the raising of Mongolian pheasants, 
made by Mr. Howard Bosworth, Warden Buntain and Mr. 
Thompson. 
Mr. Bosworth said that he started two years ago with eight 
birds. This fall he had had 150 full grown birds at one time, 
but a mink got into his coops one night, and killed fifty birds. 
He paid $5 each for his parent birds. He had put $2,500 into the 
project, and all he wanted was to get the birds introduced and 
protected in Wisconsin. He w T ould furnish eggs next season at 
nominal cost to anyone wishing to rear the birds. He thought 
about forty of his birds had escaped and were now wdd near his 
place, fifteen miles out of Milwaukee. He thought the Legis- 
lature would soon pass a law protecting the birds. 
Mr. Bosworth said that these birds were prolific, laying from 
forty to sixty eggs in sixty days. One hen laid eighty-one eggs 
one year. They were polygamous, one cock being proportioned 
to five hens. The cocks had to be separated by nigh base 
boards in the pens, so they could not see each other, as they 
fought viciously. He said he had lost ten broods of chickens 
by putting the eggs uuder hens infested with vermin. (All 
hatching had to be done under dosmestic hens.) He had found 
it best to build the nest on top of a pile of sulphur, and lime. 
He first put in three .hen's eggs, to see whether his hen was 
going to set. He shut her up on these eggs, and after a day or 
so let her out. If she returned to the nest, be placed the 
pheasant eggs under her, first killing the vermin on the hen. 
This was done by holding her up by the wings, and filling the 
reversed feathers, even to those of the neck and head, full of 
insect powder. Three days after that, the same treatment was 
given again, and it was repeated about three days before the hen 
was to come off, (which is twenty-four days, three days more 
than will domestic fowls). 
Mr. Bosworth said he had found dry maggots the best food 
for the young birds. These he obtained by hanging raw beef 
above the coops the maggots dropping down. The slaughter 
house maggots scurvied the young birds so that they died. The 
young birds were large and active. The old birds stood the 
winter very well. They lived on buds, etc., much as wild 
grouse do, but would eat grain if necessary. He thought their 
adaptibility to this region as established beyond doubt. He 
had wasted money iu his ignorance, but thought he was on the 
right track now. His coops were made tight, to keep out wild 
animals, and his runways were 250 feet long, covered with fine 
wire netting. 
Mr. Sharp told something of his personal knowledge of the 
success of the Oregon experiment with these birds, and Mr. 
Buntain, the Ohio Warden, spoke in a very interesting way of 
the attempts to introduce the bird in Ohio. This, he said had 
been done by the State of Ohio as a State, $800 having been 
appropriated for that purpose, to the Fish and Game Commis- 
sion of Ohio. Their first three attempts had been unsuccessful, 
but now they had ordered three dozen ring-neck pheasants (at 
$45 per dozen), and one dozen Memphis pheasants (at $70 per 
dozen(, and he supposed these birds were now at hand at. 
the State hatchery at Salina Ohio. He said the State would 
push this well, as they had sportsmen on their State Board, and 
a fund to work with. He thought it was advisible as to have 
public fish hatcheries. The Board would probably lease 
Rattlesnake Island, in Lake Erie, about seventy acres in 
extent, to use as the breeding ground. 
Mr. Thompson said that he and some friends had a few birds 
at Gay's Mills, Wis., and that one* or two having died, the 
others had escaped, one cock and three hens, and were now- 
wild in ;the woods near there. He also knew of three pairs 
that were loose and wild in the woods near Muscoda, Wis. 
GOOD WOEK IN OHIO. 
. .Warden Buntain gave an interesting stor*y of the State work 
in Ohio against game law violators. He said that a year ago 
last August he had a midnight fight with five illegal seniors. 
He was forced to shoot three of them down, and knock the 
other two down with a rock, being shot twice in the fight him- 
self, and having his skull fractured by a blow from a rock. 
This injury necessitated trephinning of the skull, but he said he 
wasn't dead yet, nor was any one of the men arrested. He 
took them all into town in a farm wagon, all unconscious, 
fainting away himself after they had been taken care of, 
While waiting for the wagon, he had his five men all piled up 
like cordwood, and was sitting on top of them, on the point of 
shooting the whole gang, one by one, not feeling very well him- 
self. Mr. Buntain said' there was no worse State than Ohio, 
but that an entire change of sentiment w T as occurring, so that 
his work had full support. 
Mr. Buntain said Ohio had stopped the sale of quail, and its 
Supreme Court had affirmed its decision in the Roth case, of 
Cinncinati, which held that Indiana quail could not be sold in 
Ohio. (A most important decision it would seem.) 
THE SECOND EVENING. 
At the election of officers the following were chosen to serve 
for the ensuing year: President, M. R. Bar tree, of Chicago, re- 
elected; 1st Vice-President, Jos. Hunter, of Washington, D. C.j 
Secretary, A. L. Lakee, of Kalamazoo, Mich.; Treasurer, W. 
H. Thompson, Wauzeka, Wis. State Vice-Presidents will be 
appointed later. The next meeting will be at Chicago. Sev- 
eral reports were read, including the interesting ones of the 
President, Mr. Bostree, and of the attorney, Mr. F, S. Baird. 
A long list of recommendations was advanced by its commit- 
tee, on recommendation being in tote such as would 
need enthusiasm, but little was said about better executive 
measures in putting into effect the laws now on the statute 
books. As much discussion seemed inevitable over such details 
as how best to spend the $50,000 which a $1 que tax would raisa 
for the protective purposes (provided it were past and collected 
and as little had been said as yet by way of practical action, it 
