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FOREST AND STREAM. 
PSTOT. n, 1897. 
NEW YORK STATE ASSOCIATION. 
Seneca Falls, K. T., Oct. 28.— To all Clubs, Organiza- 
tions arid Associations for tlie Protection of Forests and Propa- 
gation and Protection of Fisli and Game in the State of New 
Yoi'k: You are bert by notified tbal the annual meeting of 
the New York State Assoeiation for tlie Protection of Fish, 
and Game will be field at the Yates Hotel, Syracuse,' at 10 
A. M., Thursday, Dec. 9. 
The meeting is called at this time, instead of January, in 
Order to give the law and legislative committee ample time 
to properly engross and present the proposed amendments of 
the Fisheries, Game and Forest law, to the Legislature early 
in the session. 
This meeting will be of great importance to all clubs and 
associations, for the following special reasons: It is proposed 
to incorporate this Association under the laws of the Slate 
of New York; to sever our connection with the trap shoot- 
ing branch of the Association ; to revise and amend the ex- 
istmg constitution, by adopting one which will be in all re- 
spects sufficient when we shall have become incorporated; to 
give all clubs, organizations and associations, whether in- 
corporated or not, a full representation at this meeting, to 
the end that this organization may be strengthened and its 
efficiency increased so that the fish, game and forests of this 
State may be fully and carefully protected. 
Each club or association interested in these matters is 
entitled to and is urged to send five delegates with proper cre- 
dentials; and all are expressly notified that any suggestion 
of amendments to the fisheries, game and forest law must be 
submitted in writing to Mr. R. B. Lawrence, chairman of 
law and legislative committee, not later than Nov. 20. 
Game protectors and foresters are urged to see that clubs 
are organized in every town and village in their districts, 
and that they send delegates to this meeting. No part of the 
State should fail to be represented in this Association, for it 
is only by a united effort on part of each and all that suf- 
ficient protection can be accomplished. 
It is the policy of the State Association to simplify the 
present fish and game law, remedying if possible the many 
evils that now exist, eliminating unjust local legislation and 
rendering to protective associations aid in the enforcement 
of the laws. It is the medium through which all right- 
minded organizations should seek and 'give counsel. Eyery 
county in the State should have a strong fish and game pro- 
tective association, thus carrying to the Legislature a voice 
of power working for a common interest and an honest pur- 
pose. 
The sportsmen of this State are requested carefully to con- 
sider this matter to the end that they may identify themselves 
and the clubs or associations to which ihey belong with us. 
Success will be dependent entirely upon the forces we can 
muster. 
The object of this appeal is to place the State Association 
upon a sound basis having a large, enthusiastic enrollment of 
members, true sportsmen, willing to serve the organization 
faithfully in its work. 
Tbe cause is a worthy one requiring hearty co-operation 
on the part of all true lovers of legitimate sport with rod and 
gun. i)o not fail to have your club or association fully 
represented at this meeting. Yours respectfully, 
W. S. Gavttt, President. 
By Ernest G. Gotjld, Secretary. 
Mongolian Pheasants in Massachusetts. 
FiTCHBXJRG, Mass., Oct. 30— Several years ago, before 
there ever was such a thing as a Mongolian pheasant in New 
England, a few members of the Fitchburg Rifle and Gun 
Club sent to Oregon and purchased five dozen pheasant eggs 
and had them shipped here by express, but eitner they were 
sterile or were shaken up too much in transit, for none of 
them hatched. 
Last year we obtained some eggs from Hon, E. A, Brack- 
■6tt, chairman of our State Commission of Inland Fisheries 
and Game. From these eggs we raised eleven birds; eigLt 
got away, leaving us three. We oolained another trio from 
Mr. Brackett last spring, and_ have now seventy fine full- 
grown pure breed Mongolian pheasants all in beautiful 
plumage; and they are a sight to gladden the heart of the 
sportsman and the lover of the beautiful in bird life. 
We have had ups and downs in breeding these elegant 
birds, but have now accomplished our desire. We can now 
rear these pure breed Mongolian pheasants with as much 
certainty as the ordinary poultry man can raise his Plymouth 
Rocks. Mr. Harlaw Foster, of Ashby, has charge of our 
aviaries, and he has proven himself equal to the task, and 
has reduced the rearing of these birds to a science. We now 
have eight large double pens and a winter and summer run 
for the hirds. In the coming season shall have between 
thirty and forty hens to collect eggs from, and as they lay 
from fifty to eighty eggs in a season, we ought to have "right 
smart" of these birds next fall, 
Of those which got away and were liberated last spring 
we know of three broods that have bred wild here this sea- 
son, and every few days someone comes in and reports see- 
ing some of toe birds in our fields and covers. 
The members of the club are doing a grand work in propa- 
gating and releasiug these elegant game hirds, for they are 
not only a benefit to the sportsman, but as they work in 
fields to a large exteat, and are great insect destroyers, they 
will prove of benefit to the crop raiser in this vicinity. The 
club is doing a purely unselfish work, for all of the birds 
will be liberated on public grounds, so they will be a benefit 
*to the public at large as well as to members of the club. 
The birds are very hardy, impervious to cold, and as game 
birds will tax the skill of our sportsmen, and require the 
keenest of pointers and setters to bring them to bag. We 
would he pleased to assist any other club that is trying or 
would like to try to rear these lovely birds. 
We have released several this season and shall have quite 
a number to breed wild next spring. We ask everyone to 
refrain from molesting or destroying in any way any of these 
birds anywhere withm our State until the law goes ofl: in 
1900. Ikying 0. Conyekbe, 
Sec'y Fitcbbuig Rifie and Gun Club. 
That Sixty-Six-Inch Moose Head, 
Fredbricton, N.B., Oct, 80. — Editor Forest and Stream: 
Will you kiiidly allow me to state .in your columns that 1 
had nothing whatever to do with the exaggerated press re- 
Sorts on the subject of a moose recently shot by me in the 
[episiguit couniry, (1) 1 never "claimed" that the head in 
question beat any record. (2) I never asserted that this 
antler spread was 66in., nor even that it was 61in. (3)1 
never measured nor saw these antlers measured with a tape 
and 1 therefore decline ail responsibility for any statemen 
that may have beea made about their size. John Bodkcn, 
Newfoundland Caribou. 
CoL. A. B, Blair, of Scranton, Pa., sends us the story of 
a hunting trip to Newfoundland as told in the Scranton 
Truth: Mr. E. G. Asmus, of West Hoboken, N. J.; Mr. 
Benjamin Dorrance. of Dorranceton, and iVtr. A. B. Blair, of 
Scranton, Pa., reached New York Saturday, Oct. 33, by 
steamer Portia of the Red Cross Line, on their return from a 
visit to Newfoundland, where they had been for the purpose 
of hunting caribou These gentlemen are perfectly delighted 
with their trip, had all the shooting that tbey wished for, 
and met in and about St. Johns a very genial, hospitable and 
intelligent class of persons, who did iinuch to make the stay 
a pleasant one in all respects. The hunting grounds were 
reached some 250 miles northeast of St. Johns. 
The objective point of tbe huntsmen was the head of Holls 
Bay, where the efficient guides, Richard Le BufPe and James 
Goodyear, met the party. Twenty five miles of tramping 
brought the Americans to the extreme end of the Big Marsh, 
near the old camping grounds of Dr. Davis, and within easy 
access of Granufather's Look Out, and the great white hills 
where the caribou roam m large numbers. The shooting 
nroved to be all that one could desire, while even under the 
severe license law three stags and two does heads or horns 
may only be brought out by a non-resident. 
Of course, in so far as possible, the better specimens were 
selected, and as a consequence the stag's heads secured are 
beyond a doubt among the finest ever brought to the United 
States, and as to points ranging from twenty-eight to fifty- 
two in number, heads of great symmetry and beauty. 
Thirty-one days of camp life gave the sportsmen ample 
opportunity for seeing for themselves, and for pronouncing 
judgment upon that part of Newfoundland where the soil is 
remarkably unproductive, and the people necessarily, for the 
mcst part, very poor. 
It is very evident that the business men of St. Johns, and 
in fact the great mass of the people of Newfoundland, hold 
in high esteem the better citizens of the United States, and 
one cannot be surprised at this when he learns that so many 
places with thousands of acres totally inaccessible to dog 
and gun, all suitable to their habits, and with the variety 
and abundance of food, this country forms an ideal com- 
bination, which will be instrumental in assisting this noble 
game bird to hold its own against the ever -increasing legion 
of sportsmen for years to come. F. P. Latham. 
Water Lilly, N. C, Oct. 37.— The prospect for good 
duck shooting this fall and winter was never better. The 
sounds are filled with wild celery, and the ducks have arrived 
in abundance during the past week. Our opening day begins 
Nov. 1, and ends March 31. Redheads and niddie ducks are 
more plentiful than other kinds, but the first flight of canvas- 
backs has arrived. Ctjrrittick, 
Thttrmait, N, C, Nov. 1. — The prospects are very good 
here tor game. We have quail, turkeys and ducks, and bear 
and deer. ' JonN S. Harbison. 
Maine's Game Season. 
Greenttllb, Me., Nov. 1. — Edito-r Forest and Stream: 
The record of big game killed to date throughout this Moose- 
head Lake region will undoubtedly exceed that of last year, 
large though it was. Already hundreds of deer have been 
received at the Bangor & Aroostook station here, together 
with moose and caribou. Notwithstanding the late opening 
of the season on moose, fully as many heads have been ob- 
tained in this section as last year. Caribou are noticeably 
increasing, and are apparently working back into this coun- 
try from the eastward, where they are plenty. More than 
the usual number of bears have been secured by sportsmen, 
and altogether the season has thus far been decidedly suc- 
cessful, which may be accounted for not alone by the in- 
crease of our game, but also because of the splendid hunting 
weather we have enjoyed. 
Throughout all northern Maine venison i 3 more plentiful 
than beef, and much cheaper, too. Restaurants and hotels 
A CANADA MOOSE. 
Photographed from life. 
of her people have become Americans and are to be found in 
perhaps every Stale of the Union. These men are even here 
in Scranton, Pittston and throughout this valley, well known, 
respected and representative persons. 
It is quite true that a limited number of sportsmen visit 
this island, where tourists are needed and even wanted, only 
to find that the license taxis burdensome, while the natives, 
for the most part, many of them, kill and destroy the noble 
game in season, out of season, and indeed at all seasons of the 
year. 
The fishing is free for all, under good and wholesome laws; 
but we Americans should not be compelled to pay a heavy, 
onerous tax for the privilege of killing five reindeer during 
any one season. 
If these fine animals are to be exterminated, the fault will 
not, I am sure, lie at the hands of Americans, some of whom 
within the past two weeks have, out of sympathy, absolutely 
refused to shoot down the does and fawns. 
To those of our fellow-countrymen who enjoy legitimate 
sport, who are willing to undergo the fatigue of walking, 
who can make themselves comfortable wliile sleeping on 
the balsam boughs, and who have the time and money at 
their command — to all such, the members of this late success- 
ful hunting party would say: "Go up to Newfoundland and 
enjoy a two months' outiag." A. B, Blair. 
Southern Quail. 
Haslin, N. C, Oct, 31. — Editor Forest and Stream: For 
the benefit of your readers desiring to learn of the quail shoot- 
ing and conditions governing it in North Carolina, especially 
the level tidewater section of the eastern part of the State, I 
will give what information I have at hand, the greater part 
coming from my own store of knowledge, acquired by close 
observation during a period of twelve years afield with dog 
and gun. It is a great country for quail, arranged by 
nature seemingly to supply their every need and want. Pos- 
sibly 10 to 15 per cent, has been cleared and is now under 
cultivation or growing up in hedges, etc, The remainder 
is as nature made it, each part contributing an essential 
to the welfare of Bob White. A great portion of the 
virgin forest is covered with a growth of pines, among 
which grows in profusion a wild feed (known locally as 
quail peas), upon which thousands of birds find sus- 
tenance. In these open pine forests the shooting is all 
that Gould be desired ; there is enough grass for birds to 
'lay" perfectly, and the cover is open enough for shooting 
yei not so 'dead easy" as the open field, where hundreds of 
birds are brought to bag. With a territory so vast, and in 
everywhere serve it so often as the j/iece de resistance, th&t 
the ubiquitous drummer is kicking and the butchers are in 
despair. At a restaurant in Bangor where they make a 
strong card of the legend, "Regular Dinner for 35 cents," a 
son of the Emerald Isle created great merriment by disgust- 
edly exclaiming, when confronted with a steaming venison , 
stew. "Take away yer dum Yankee grub and bring me some ' 
mate. I'm the Government contractor from Camden, and I 
want more mate!" 
I returned last week from a month's moose hunt. Never 
have I en j oyed such glorious, invigorating fall weather, 
although 1 have hunted for twenty years. Day after day' 
my friend and myself went about in shirt sleeves, the skies 
were unclouded and the air was like rich wine. At night 
the tent flaps were left open, and the camp-fire was only 
kept going for the cheer which it imparted. Game of all 
kinds abounded. We saw seventeen deer the first day we 
went out. and although we remained on one camp ground 
for three weeks, actually counted 113 deer during our stay. 
We got a big moose with a46in. spread of horns and twenty- 
five points, and two deer, Five years ago I hunted in the 
same place, and at that time there was not anywhere near' 
the amount of game there, which indicates how our big 
game is increasing through the more rigid enforcement of 
our game laws. 
A number of so-called ".sportsmen" have been detected in 
illegally shipping game out of the State, but on the wholf, 
there is a disposition among our visitors to respect the law 
protecting our game. But now we need a law to protect 
om- hunters as well. There are too many cases of gross 
carelessness and criminal stupidity occurring in our forests 
and men are being shot for deer beyond all excuse. We 
need a law to land some of these fool sportsmen, who shoot, 
at everything that moves without troubling themselves tq 
learn what it is, behind prison bars for a term of years. It; 
is manifestly unfair and unwise to jail a man for a dead 
moose and yet let him go scot free for a dead hunter, Or,; 
as an old Indian friend of mine puts it: "Sportsman kill! 
moose, he go jail; kill white man, he call accident." 
Echo. 
Carrier Pigeon with Gold Dust. 
CoNXERSVTTiE, Ind , Nov. 3.— J. B. Sacre, while hunting) 
near Laurel, killed two carrier pigeons. On the legs of botlj, 
were silver bands on which were numbers, K. 3l,lt)5 and K. 
2,383. Encircling the neck of one was a small back of gold 
dusi. The supposition is that the pigeons were from Klon- 
dikei They were ia an exhausted condition and were flying 
