Forest and Stream: 
A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 
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[ NEW YORK, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2 6, 1896, 
1 VOL. XLVn.— No. 13. 
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II FOREST AND STREAM PUB. CO., New Yorkt 
caught his trout or killed hia deer to carry the trophy 
home with him. This adds to the visitor's satisfaction, 
and in practice is shown not unduly to impair 
the game supply. On the other hand, in Connecticut 
a State which does not seek to attract outsiders for sport, 
and where there is no such army of sportsmen tourists, the 
best law is one which shuts off game exportation without 
reservation. As to Texas, which is bidding for revenue from 
Northern sportsmen, the law permitting the export of game 
accompanied by the owner would be 'the one best suited to 
secure the desired end; while Vermont, which does not in- 
vite sportsman travel, might adopt the system of absolute 
prohibition of export. We hope to see the non-export sys- 
tem extended to every State in the Union. The time has 
gone by when any one section can afford to supply game for 
the markets of another section. Deer, grouse and quail are 
no longer legitimate freight. 
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FOREST AND STREAM OFFICE 
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AUDUBON BIRD PLATES. 
The Forest and Stream is put to press 
on Tuesdays, Correspondence intended for 
publication should reach us by Mondays and 
as much earlier as may be practicable. 
NON-EXPOBT LAWS. 
The laws forbidding export of game and fish from a State 
in which they are taken may be divided in two classes: one 
is of those which forbid export absolutely, and the second 
.of those which limit it to taking out game only when accom- 
panied by owner. Of the first type is the Connecticut law, 
^which reads: 
Sec. 2546. Ko person shall at any time kill any woodcock, rufifed 
igrouse, or quail, for the purpose of conveying the same beyond the 
limits of this State; ©r shall transport, or have in possession with In- 
lent to procure the transportation beyond said limits, any of such birds 
ikilled within this State. The reception by any person within this 
State of any such bird or birds for shipment to a point without the 
State shall be prima facie evidence that said bird or birds were 
killed within the State, for the purpose of carrying the same beyond 
its limits. Sec. 2547. Any person violating any oE the provisions 
of the preceding section shall be fined not less than seven nor more 
than fifty dollars. 
The New York section relative to the transportation of 
venison is a good example of the laws of the second type; it 
reads : 
Sec. 46. Deer or venison killed in this State shall not be transport- 
ed to any point within or without the State from or through any of 
the counties thereof or possessed for that purpose, except as follows: 
One carcass or a part thereof may be transported from the county 
•where killed when accompanied by the owner. No individual shall 
transport or accompany more than two deer in any one year under 
the above provision. The possession of deer or venison by a com- 
mon carrier, or by any i>erson in its employ then actually engaged 
in the business of such common carrier, unaccompanied by the 
■ owner, shall constitute a violation of this section by such common 
carrier. This section does not apply to the head and feet or skin of 
deer severed from the body. Whoever shall violate or attempt to 
violate the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of mis- 
demeanor, and in addition thereto shall be liable to a penalty of one 
hundred dollars for each wild deer or part thereof had in possession 
in violation of this section. 
Similar provisions apply in New York to game birds and 
trout. These are only two of a score of statutes forbidding 
game exportation. Recent legislation has been directed 
along these lines. The principle has been shown to be the 
correct one, and it is encouraging to note that in States so 
widely separated as Texas and Vermont similar Jaws are now 
contemplated. While either of the two types will accom- 
plish the purpose if the executive service is efficient, the 
choice between them depends upon the character of an indi- 
vidual State as a sporting resort. In Maine, for instance, 
where sportsman trayg] is a recognized factor of rev^Piie, 
and every inducem§9fc is held out to bring spor^gmen 
The portrait of the Black Duck is the first one of a series 
of reproductions of the famous plates of Audubon's "Birds 
of America." The engraving is by photographic process 
direct from an original copy of the magnificent double ele- 
phant folio edition of 1827-35. 
The Forest akb Stream has provided these reproduc- 
tions of Audubon's bird portraits chiefly for the purpose of 
affording to its readers an opportunity of seeing for them- 
selves the pictures of which every one has heard, but which 
few have ever been privileged to see in the original because 
of the extreme rarity and inaccessibility of the work. The 
copies of Audubon now in existence are confined to a few 
libraries and fewer individual possessors; and when the work 
falls upon the market, as it does now and then, it sells at 
prices ranging from $2,500 to $3,500. 
Our reproductions are the most perfect that can be made 
with the wonderful engraving processes of the day; but a 
few short years ago to represent the original with such 
fidelity of detail and successful translation of the spirit of 
the artist's own hand would have been beyond the engraver's 
skill. 
The birds we have chosen for illustration comprise several 
species of ducks — including the beautiful plate of the 
canvasback— two species of grouse and several of the 
waders, 
BIRDS AND THE FARM AND GARDEN. 
In response to a demand for Miss Florence A. Merriam's 
paper, "How Birds Affect the Farm and Garden," we have 
reprinted it in a pamphlet of thirty-two pages, and it is now 
for sale at this office. Price, 5 cents per copy, postpaid ; 
with special prices to individuals or bird protection societies 
ivho may wish it in quantities for distribution. 
several salmon have been taken in Delaware waters thia 
year. Mr. Geo. B. Taylor reports in the New York Times 
that in July seven salmon were speared by "eel spearers" in 
Lakins Eddy, near Hancock Junction, on the East Branch. 
The identity of the fish was determined beyond question by 
Superintendent Edward Ganfield, of the Ontario & Western 
Railroad. Again on Aug. 13 General Passenger Agent An- 
derson, of the same road, received for identification a 
"trout" from Walton, on the West Branch, which proved to 
be a salmon of seven pounds, and a photograph of another 
one weighing ten pounds. In addition to those taken, 
numerous fish have been seen leaping, which from the 
description given of them may be counted salmon. There 
appears to be a good basis of c-onfidence that if the fish could 
be protected from the spearers we should in time see the 
Delaware a salmon river. It is preposterous that the enter- 
prise should be defeated by the lawlessness of the gangs of 
spearers who infest those waters. 
DELAWARE RIVER SALMON. 
The Pennsylvania Fish Commission has made repeated 
attempts to stock the Delaware River with salmon. In 1871 
10,000 salmon eggs were brought from Canada, were 
hatched in Dutchess county, N. Y., and were sent to 
Easton, where the 2,500 surviving transportation were put 
out in the Bushkill, a tributary of the Delaware. In 1872, 
under the personal direction of Thad Norris, 11,000 more 
were put into a Delaware River tributary. Then in 1873 
Prof. Baird sent to Pennsylvania a lot of eggs from Bucks- 
port, Me., and the fry were put into the river at different 
points, making a total of 58,500 planted during the three 
years. The results were meager. In 1877 a 32in. salmon 
was taken in the Bushkill, and a few were caught in the 
Delaware; infrequent specimens were reported in 1878 and 
1879, one of them weighing 251bs. ; then all trace of the fish 
was lost, and for ten years nothing further was attempted. 
The commonly accepted conclusion was that the Delaware 
and Susquehanna were not salmon waters; the files of 
Forest aud Stream for those years show that the Fish 
Commission had severe critics for its alleged misdirected 
?ieal. 
Ten years later, however, the project was taken up again 
in earnest, and in 1889 and 1891 40(),000 eggs were hatched 
at AUeutown and Corry and planted Jq the Delaware, There 
into the State, the, e?(port l^W permits the man-vyiiQ ha^ jis r^sojj to believe th^t gproe of th§ ^sh have SuryiYed, for 
SNAP SHOTS. 
The best word that could be said for the former New Jer- 
sey non-resident shooting law was that it shut out the un- 
tamed horde of songbirii gunners who, without such check, 
invade the territory adjacent to New York and overrun 
farms and woodland. These shooters are for the most part 
of foreign origin and have brought with them to this coun- 
try foreign notions of sport. Whatever files is game; here as 
in Italy and France no bird is too small for their potting; 
they take everything. The statutes which forbid the killing 
of song and insectivorous birds have no meaning for them. 
Since the present Fish and Game Commission took hold of 
the work of protection in New Jersey and for the fingt time 
converted the game law into a living force, the monthly re- 
turns of the wardens have shown that these pot-hunting 
songbird gunners are contributing more than any other class 
of violators in fines for oft'enses in which they have been ap- 
prehended. Farmers, landowners and officials who have 
had experience with these gentry know perfectly well that 
they are a dangerous class of ruffians who must be dealt 
with in a summary way. 
Occasionally in scuffles between the songbird shooters and 
the game wardens shots are fired and somebody is wounded. 
This happened in a Lyons Farms case last week when Game 
Warden W. H. Chandler was endeavoring to take into cus- 
tody three Italians from Brooklyn, and shot one of them in 
the hip. The newspapers have expended a good deal of 
sympathy upon the victim, but the feeling is not shared by 
any New Jersey farmer who has ever been at close quarters 
with Italian songbird shooters from Brooklyn. 
Mr. Hammond's paper on posted covers and on the ways 
of sportsmen who shoot over property not their own is an 
instructive lay sermon which deserves to have wide reading. 
A sportsman owes it not only to himself but to the entire 
fraternity to observe the rules of good conduct in his treat- 
ment of the farmer by whose tolerance he pxirsues his sport. 
He must remember that there are others who will come after 
him, and whose reception will be determined very largely by 
his own record with fence and stone wall. 
Because of his own hardy nature and the roughness and 
inaccessibility of the cover he makes his home, the ruffed 
gi'ouse is of all our upland game birds the one best equipped 
to take care of himself against pursuit by man. In Minne- 
sota and Wisconsin the grouse is found in cover so dense 
that, as some one has said, it makes the sportsman 
tired even to look at it; and in the East he takes refuge in 
sanctuaries where one encumbered with a gun would not 
think of foUowing. Experience has demonstrated that the 
partridge will hold its own against the shooter, but cannot 
withstand the work of the snarer. 
The forthcoming report of the New York Fisheries, 
Game and Forest Commission promises to be a valuable 
document. It will be elaborately illustrated with four- 
teen colored plates of fishes, one of deer, and another of 
the ring-necked pheasant. The text will comprise special 
papers on fish and game. 
And now we have the regular annual reports of destitution 
and starvation on the Labrador coast, with appeals for help. 
The most humane disposition of the problem would be the 
wholesale deportation of the unhappy people from that bleak 
land to a more favored clime. The world is wide; there is 
room for all in those quarters of the globe where comfort- 
able living is practicable the year around ; and it is one of the 
mysteries of the human kind that people will elegt to d"WeU 
to Buch uafayorecl pouiitries as Ijabrador, 
