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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[AvG. 7, 1897. 
by men who killed deer foj profit and resorted to many de- 
vices to catch them, such aa cuttiDjar soft maple trees, also the 
birch, for the deer lo feed upon when the snow was deep, 
and setting traps for them It was always a contest among 
the hunters as to who would kill the most dper and who 
would get the best price for them when sold. Had this con- 
tinued the deer in the Adirondacks would have been exter- 
minated to-day, same as the buffalo in the West. Our 
thanks are due to the game laws that protect the de. r. 
In my opinion the present game laws have stopped all 
hunting for profit, and the deer have largely iucreasf d. Our 
game preserve is situate on the St. Eegis Kiver, in Township 
No. 9, Kildare, covering about five and one-half miles of 
river, in acreage about 1,800, fully twelve miles as the bird 
flies from any civilization, and oil from any thoroughfare. 
The camp is, almost isolated, and the deer today are so 
plentv that it requires very little skill to kill one— and the 
true sportsman will not kill two if he needs only one. 
Our trout fishing is always good. This season I am in- 
fo'rmed that during May "and June the streams were so 
swollen that few fishermen had success. The writer expects 
to spend the entire mouth of August in camp and part of 
September, 
I think the game laws cannot be made too stringent. The 
penalty for illegal transportation, the law prohibiting any 
person killing inore than two deer, the prohibiting of hound- 
ing and jacking, as passed by thfi last Legislature, are good 
ones, and if the State of New York would only appoint a 
sufficient number of game protectors to cover the noble Adi- 
rondack wilderness, there need never be fear of the deer being 
exterminated. Henry L, Smith. 
Pavrtuxet Rod and Gun Club. 
It is reported that a number of Washington sportsmen are 
interested in the proposed game preserve which is to be 
established hear Marlboro by ttie Pawtuxet Eod and Gruu 
Club The preserve will occupy, it is said, between 12,000 
and 15,000 acres. It will be posted, game wardens employed, 
and the property restocked every spring with North Caro- 
lina or Tennessee quail, and golden or bronze Mongolian 
pheasants. Members of the club, including several Wash- 
ingtonians, are canvassing the land-owners between Marl- 
boro and Bowie, the line of the railroad and the Pawtuxet 
Kiver. Those who have been approached are favorable to 
the scheme and anxious to assist in preventing the utter ex- 
termination of game birds in this vicinity. A meeting of 
the land-owners will be called in a few days and a protec- 
tive organization formed. 
Maple Lake Club. 
-Utica, N. Y . July 13.— Maple Lake Club was incorpor- 
ated July 29, 1892, with a memberseip limited to ten. The 
lake ana grounds are in Wilmurt, Herkimer county, N. Y. 
The property of the club consists of the lake and about 2,000 
acres of woodland, a two-story club house, with five sleeping 
rooms in the main part, and large club room, dining room, 
cloak and wash rriom on the first floor, with an immense fire- 
place in the club room. 
The keeper's quarters are a wing of the house, with four 
rooms on the first floor and three on the second. We have a 
large barn, ice house, two boat houses, and eight boats. All 
the members of the club live in Utica, and prize the property 
because of its easy access. There are four trains daily on the 
R., W. & O. E. E., all of which stop at Eemsen, which is 
twenty-one miles from Utica. An hour's ride of nine miles 
over good roads and through wild scenery brings us to the 
club house. Brook trout are the onlj fish in the lake, and 
the fishing has improved each year since it became the prop- 
erty of the club. We have never stocked the lake, and it is 
considered one of the best natural breeding grounds in the 
State. There is good partridge shooting in the fall, and 
some deer; more ileer have been seen there this season 
than in many years before. The reason for this is that 
the hounds m that locality have either been killed or kept 
tied. 
The keeper, Anthony Crosway, and his family, live in his 
part of the club bouse the entire year. He has some land 
under cultivation and takes care of club property. 
The presence of members of the club is always indicated 
by a handsome streamer 30ft, long, white, with blue border, 
and in red letters .through the center the words "Maple 
Lake." It floats from a pole 71ft, high, cut from the forest 
at the head of Maple Lake. 
JouN CuMMiNGs, Je , Sec'y-Trcas. 
The rules governing club members are as follows: 
No member, iuvited euest, employee or other person visiting ttie 
grouads of the club, ahall violate any of the laws of the State of New- 
York, for the protection of gatoe and fish. Nor shall any person sell 
on or off such grounds, or send away to be sold, any game or fish 
lakeu on such territory. 
Members and their frisnds will limit their catch of trout to the 
number or quantity wanted for use at the cluD house. No member 
or his trieuds shall catch trout from WLaple Lake to be taken from the 
club grounds. 
Each member shall be allowed to take for himself and friends, not 
to exceed forty (40) pounds of dressed trout each season, and after 
each catch, he shall weigh his trout and charge the same to his ac- 
count in the club fishing book. 
Each member shall make a record in club fishing book of the num- 
ber of fish taken by himself and friends. 
Trout caught for use at the club lodge shall be charged proportion- 
ately to the accounts of the members present. 
No member is allowed to give his keys or an order to fish or hunt 
on the club grounds to anyone not a member of the club 
No person -will be entertained at the lodge, or allowed to fish or 
hunt, unless accompanied by the member of the club extending such 
nvitation. . 
Every member and party \'i=itiDg the club grounds and usmg the 
Inb property phall make careful use of the same, and when he de- 
parts shall leave the articles he may have used in cleanly condition, 
and properly s ored in the place provided. 
Each member shall pay the keeper of the lodge for work done for 
himself or friends. 
The Alegantic Fish and Game Corporation. 
The Megantic Fish and Came Corporation was organized 
in Boston in January, 1887, being incorporated under the 
laws of the State of Mame, Feb. 15, 1887, and obtaining a 
chartei- from the Province of Quebec on March 26, 1887. 
The club owns and leases a territory comprising 250 
square miles, and containing three lakes, twenty ponds, six 
rivers, eight streams and brooks, and eight bogs. 
Besides its club house it has thirty-seven camps (fourteen 
' Of which are private), a fish hatchery and a boat house. 
The territory controlled is an unbroken wilderness, 
3,000ft. above the sea, lying in the northwestern corner of 
the State of Maine and extending over the border into 
Canada. In this domain are found qioose, caribou, deer, 
bears and all kinds of smaller game. Partridge are very 
plenty, and all kinds of waterfowl infest the lakes ^and 
ponds. 
The waters abound in trout and bass, and landlocked 
salmon have been successfully introduced for stjveral years. 
and the meinbfera will soon have this added variety of sport. 
The club employs a Maine game warden who is also 
general superintendent of the preserve, and a Canadian 
warden who also looks after the club's interest over the 
border. 
The number of members in the club at present is 297. 
Treasurer L. Dana Cbapman writes: 'Tn the ten years 
we have had possession we have done all possible to enforce 
the laws of Maine and of Canada, our preserve lying in 
parts of each of these. We have been stocking one of our 
larger ponds for the last four years with landlocked salmon, 
having hatched out some 50,000 eggs, besides putting in 
about 4,000 yearflng fry. The results are just showing, last 
year the salmon rising readily to the fly, and affording a 
great deal of sport to the members. We are pleased to 
grant permits to any of our sportsmen friends, to visit us 
and share with us in the benefits of our preserve." 
Following are the fishing and hunting rules : 
FISHING. 
Section 1. No member shall kill any trout, landlocked salmon, or 
bass or other game flsh, unles.s he has good reasons to believe that it 
will be used for food. 
Sec 2. No member of this club shall kill more than fifty trout or 
fifteen black bass upon the club preserves in any one day. 
Sec. 3. No member of this club shall send or carry away from the 
club premi.ses more than ISlbs. of trout, landlocked salmon or black 
bass upon any one visit. 
Sec 4. Trout of less than 6in. in length, and landlocked salmon less 
than 12in. in length, and black bass less than lib in weight, caught in 
waters owned or leased by this club, shall be carefully returned to 
the water as soon as caught. If such flsh die, it shall be scored 
against the member taking the same, and he may reclaim it 
Sec, 5. When members an' camped together at any of the lakes or 
streams, they shall not kill more trout than needed to supply the 
camp, and they shall see that no flsh is wasted or thrown away; at 
such times, also, when flsh are plen'vful, members are expected to 
returnt ot he water, as soon as caught, all flsh under V^lb., until they 
have sufficient for their immediate use, when they shall stop flshing 
altogether, 
HONTING. 
Section 1. Every member shall vigorously observe and enforce 
the game and iflshery laws of the I'rovince of Q 'ebec and State of 
Maine. . . , 
Sec 3. Any member found guilty of viola tmg any of the game or 
flshery laws, or any portion thereof, in their respective territories, 
shall be subject to expulsion from the club at tue first meeting of 
the directors following such violation, besides paying the lawful 
peaalty to the Province or State in which such violation took place. 
Sec. '3. No member of the club shall hunt moose, caribou or deer 
on the club preserves with dogs, and no dogs (except bird dogs) shall 
he admitted upon the territory. 
Sec. 4. Members shall use every means possible, in bunting deer, to 
single out bucks and spare the does. 
Sec 5. No member of this club shall shoot more than one moo.se or 
caribou or two deer, on the club grounds, upon one or both sides of 
the international bovmdary, in any one season; and, where a party 
are camping together, they shall not shoot more deer than are suffi- 
cient to supply them with venison, and they shall carefully observe 
that no deer are shot and their carcasses, or any portion thereof, 
wasted or thrown away. 
Sec. 6. No member of this club shall shoot more than twenty- five 
partridges on the club grounds in any one week during the season. 
Ampersand and Santa Clara. 
St. EegtsFalxs, N. Y., July 23.— Ampersand Preserve 
is situated in the southeast corner of Franulin county, and 
includes all of Townships 36 at.d 27. except the northeast 
quarter of 27. It also includes lot 44, Essex county, con- 
taining 50.000 acres. The land was put into a preserve in 
1892 by Dodge, Meigs & Co., the original owners of the 
territory, The firm has since emerged into the Santa Clara 
Lumber Company, who also own and control the Santa 
Clara Gun Club Preserve of 65,000 acres, situated in Town- 
ships Nos. lO, 11, 13, 14 and 17, of Franklin county. Both 
preserves were instituted at the same time. I find that the 
fish and game are increasing very fast in both preserves 
under protection, and as I formerly guided through the 
same territoiy I have hael a very good chance to note the 
dift'erence 
The Meigs fannily have a very fine cottage built on Fall- 
ensby Pond, Township 26, in the Ampersand Preserve, 
noted for its superior hke trout fishing. Ampersand Pond 
(from which the preset ve takes its name) is considered by 
many people to be the most beautiful labe in the woods. 
Seward Mountain, as you will see by looking on the For- 
est Commission map, is wholly within this preserve. The 
preserve also includes two of Preston Ponds in the southeast 
corner of the county. There are a large number of ponds 
on the preserve that are not shown on the map, a few of 
which are: Eock, Lilypad, Seward, Mountain, Pickerel, 
Dawson, Lost,' County Line, and many other small ponds 
too numerous to mention. 
We have men stationed at different points on the preserves 
to see that the laws are enforced. I inclose you a' sample of 
the permits and rules existing on both preserves: 
BULKS. 
No live trees shall be cut for firewood. 
No peeling or cutting of trees will be permitted. 
The building of fires, excep in camp, will not be permitted, and 
those must be extinguished before breaking camp. 
All persons using this permit must conform to the State game and 
forestry laws. „ , , 
\ny damage occurring from the non-observance of these rules will 
be^charged to the person causing same. ^ ^, ^. , 
Permits not iransferable, and if used by others than those namea 
therein, will be taken up and cancelled. 
We have not allowed the killing of does at Ampersand 
and Fallensby ponds, and arc very well pleased with the 
law that does away with hounding and night hunting. 
E. S. Bkuce. 
The Adirondack Lieague Club. 
The Adirondack League Club has 105,000 acres of land in 
Hamilton and H' rkimer counties. New York, a large portion 
of which has been preserved from inrii'crimirate hunting 
since the incorporation of the club in 1890. The following 
extracts from the report of the fish and game committee, 
dated March 1, 1897, will prove of interest: 
It will be remembered that during the year ending March 
1. 1896, there were distributed from Combs Brook hatchery 
175,000 brook trout fry, and that 17,430 one and two year 
old'brook trout were purchased and planted in January, 1896. 
During the year ending March 1, 1897, no trout have been 
purchased, and apparently none need to be purchased here- 
after, so long as the hatchery is operated as at present. We 
can easily hatch and rear more than can.be profitably placed 
in our own waters, and can sell the remainder if it should be 
considered discreet to do so. 
During the past year, the hatchery has produced and 
distributed 130,425 salmon trout and 139,600 brook trout, a 
total of 270,000. In comparing this result with that of other 
years, it should be borne in mind that afl of this stocking is 
with fed fish. No fry, that is fish just hatched, has been put 
out. The distriliution was not begun until the fish were 
three months old, and this ^ as continued gradually through- 
out the year. The first plant was made in Little Moose Lake 
in June, 1896, and the last, of 17,000 yearlings, in Honnedaga 
Lake in January^ 1897. 
The feeding and rearing of this great number of trout 
wa? made possible by the ingenious plans of an expert, E. 
M. Eobinson. who stayed at the hatchery during April, May 
and June, and installed a series of half-hogshead tubs out of 
doors, which, in the manner of their installation, -was an en- 
tirely novel experiment. These tubs are a much cheaper 
arrangement than that of ordinary rearing boxes, such aa 
those in the hatchery building; they are capable of indefinite 
extension; they are somewhat more economical in mainte- 
nance, and they produce fully as rapid flsh growth, and as 
low a death rate as the rearing boxes. 
The total deaths of trout, from eggs to yearlings, have 
been 256,000; that is, 536.000 eggs produced 270,000 trout, 
from three months to one year old, so that the loss during the 
first year was less than 50 per cent. 
Last fall the U. S. Fish Commission offered us 1,000 year- 
ling Swiss Lake trout {Salmo lemanm) for experiment, and 
report. Such experiments are not unaccompanied with 
danger, as we have learned from experience with brown 
trout; but this offer was finally accepted, and the fish were 
duly received on Nov. 20, and 921 were put in Green Lake, 
where they can be observed and cannot get away, and 
seventy-five went l;o a retaining pond at the hatchery for 
closer observation. Only four trout were lost in transporta- 
tion. 
The report of the ISTew York State Fish and Forest Com- 
mission for this past season, shows that the seven State 
hatcheries produced a grand total of 841,660 fed fish, only 
about 25 per cent, greater number than we have produced in 
our single hatchery. These seven State hatcheries produced 
of course, in addition, a large number of trout fry. Your 
committee finds corroboration in its judgment, in feeding 
and raising all fish before distributing them, in the announce- 
ment of tlie State Fish Commission, that hereafter the State 
hatcheries will follow the system v?e have already adopted at 
Combs Brook hatchery. 
The different lodges report the number of fish caught last 
season, by members and guests, as follows: 
Mountain Lodge, 1,200 brook trout and 427 salmon; Bisby 
Lodge, 438 brook trout and 666 salmon; Forest Lodge, 775 
brook trout and 43 salmon ; making a total of 3,539 trout 
reported, and being materially less than the actual num- 
ber. 
From the same sources we have reports, which are prob- 
ably quite correct, of the number of deer killed by our 
members and guests, as follows: 
Mountain Lodge, 32; Bisby Lodge, 18; Forest Lodge, 21; 
total, 61 deer. Of these, 17 were does and 44 were bucks. 
Three deer were killed by means of jackinsj: on Nicks Lake, 
contrary to the spirit of the club rules. Unclassified game 
reported killed are one black duck and one black bear from 
Bisby Lodge. 
Annoyance from trespassing has been slight during the 
past year. A continuance of the present methods of treating 
the nuisance will undoubtedly be all that is needed to secure 
peace. We have caused seven persons to be punished with 
.fines and costs, and in one case with seventeen days' impris- 
onment. Inasmuch as the co.sts and one-half the fines recov- 
ered are returned to the club, the net expense has been 
slight. 
The total cost for hatchery operation and fish stocking 
for the past year has been |2,310, but in this total cost is 
included $525 paid for trout purchased and distributed dur- 
ing the previous year. The cost of fish stocking due to this ■ 
year is .$1,785, and we are" thus enabled to determine the fact i 
that the hatching, rearing and distribution of our fed fish has 
cost us $6.60 per thousand, which is just one-fifth of the cost 
of fish purchased last year. 
A considerable study has been made of the art of putting 
out young fish under circumstances which will secure the 
smallest percentage of loss. With young salmon, we ap- j 
parently have no choice, it being generally accepted that 
the easy way of setting them free in the deepest water in a 
lake, is the safest way, as they have then the shortest dia- j 
tance to go to reach their nntural food and hiding places 
among deep water rocks With brook trout the problem is j 
more complicated. They naturally seek the inlet brooks 
and thrive best in them, although they are continually beset 
by their enemies— mink, birds and larger fish. None of our 
lakes have, however, enough room in their inlets for as many ' 
• brook trout as we want to put out Last summer an exam- 
ination was made of the inlets around Little Moose,_with the 
result of making an experiment with one of them, in which 
was placed a series of low dams or obstructions, by means of ' 
logs judiciously bedded in the stream so as to make a succes- 
sion of pools and riflles. It seems reasonable to suppo ethat, 
aside from largely increasing the capacity of small streams 
for sustaining small trout, this treatment will also better the 
natural conditions of food and refuge. Eight thousand 
young trout were put in the stream so obstructed. 
The waters of the preserve where stocking has been done 
now show a marked increase of small speckled trout, and in 
order to prevent their wholesale destruction, to induce mem- 
bers to let them alone until they become worthy of the rod, 
the committee recommend that the limit of catching each 
day be to a number, instead of to a weight of lOlbs. They 
further recommend that the limit of fiz; be raised from 6in. 
to 7in. To accomplish this they submit the following 
PROPOSED KULE AS TO PISniNfi. 
The limit number which each member may take and kill 
in one day is as follows; Twenty-one speckled trout or 
Bisby trout, flve salmon trout or landlocked salmon, ten 
black bass. 
Brook trout less than 7id. in length shall not be killed, 
and in case any such flsh is caught or hooked, it shall be im- 
mediately released and returned to the waters from which it 
was taken, without unnecessary injury. 
A member may delegate his flshing right or any portion 
thereof to any one of his family or to his guest. Catches by 
families or guests shall be charged to the member. No more 
than the limit of one day's catch shall be taken out of the 
preserve by any member or guest at one time, and no fish 
shall be sent out unaccompanied by the ownei-. 
It is also recommended that the kilUng of loons and gulls 
be prohibited, and that, in some proper way, the killing of 
hawks, owls, squirrels and foxes may be encouraged. 
Maine's Game Stock. 
Eeed's CAiiPS, Big Machias Lake and Long Lake, Ashj 
land, Me., July -ZQ— Editor Forest and Stream: Much gam* 
was seen by two parties who were up in the Machias Lake re 
gion. Mr. 0. A. Pitman and son, of Haverhill, Mass., were 
in the woods eight days. Mr. Pitman saw in that time 246 
deer and nineteen moose. He saw in one day sixty -flve det!i 
and eleven moose. This statement can be proved, as there 
were three of US in the Qanoe, Ms. 0. A, Pitman, 0, C 
