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The Japanese Shooting License. 
Yokohama, Japan, Jan. g.— Editor Forest arid Stream: 
In your issue of Nov 25, 1899, I find an article headed 
"Will the License do It?" and thinking that while it 
might do some good, it can surely do no harm. I inclose 
a Japanese shooting license, which we have to take out at 
the commencement of every season, and which costs us 
yen. ten ($10), Japanese and foreigners alike. It strikes 
me that it would be just the thing to keep the run of the 
rowdy element that you describe, if you can make a 
law of it. A. Weston. 
The license- setit by Mr. Weston is printed in English 
and French. We copy the conditions of its issue and 
the shooting regulations: 
The license B is granted to those who take game by using a gun, 
jNTo game shall be taken by means of an explosive substance, 
spring gun, or a dangerous trap or pitfall. 
No shooting shall be allowed between sunset and sunrise, or in 
streets, or in places where dwelling-houses are numerous or a crowd 
of people is present, or in the direction of a building, vessel, or 
railway train at such distance as the shot or bullet may reach. 
No shooting and hunting shall be allowed at the following 
places: Imperial Preserves; at places where notices prohibiting 
shooting and hunting are posted; public roads; pviblic parks; 
within the precincts of shrines and temples; cemeteries; and on 
any land belonging to another person, and having a fence, railing 
or enclosure, or planted with a crop, or on a common shooting 
ground of other persons who have obtained permission thereof 
unless the consent of the owner ■ or, . pEfion in charge thereof has 
been obtained. " ', ' ' 
This license shall be valid from 'tlfe HSih day of the 10th month 
to the 15th day of the 4th month: oTE the following year. The said 
period can be prolonged or shortened according the conditions of 
the locality by the Local Governor with the approval of the Min- 
ister of Agriculture and Commerce for the space of time not ex- 
ceeding thirty days. 
The use of every license is limited only to its owner. But in 
such method of shooting and huntitjg as requires assistance the 
holder of a license may be accompanied by persons having no 
license. 
Every person shall, when in pursuit of game, carry his license. 
A Police. Gendarme, or Forest Officer and Chief of a city, town 
or village may inspect the licenses of persons in pursuit of game. 
In the case provided in the preceding clause, no person in pur- 
suit of game shall refuse the inspection of his license. 
When a license has been lost, the fact shall be reported to the 
Police Office of the place where the loss occurred and to the 
Authorities who originally granted the license. 
When a license has been lost or injured, its owner may apply 
for the grant of a new or duplicate license. Ip the c^se p| such 
application, a fee of 25 sen shall be paid. 
Every license shall be returned to the Authorities who originally 
granted it, within thirty days from the date on which it ceased to 
be valid. 
It is prohibited to take or sell eggs or young of the birds which 
are prohibited to be taken. 
The following birds shall be prohibited to be taken: Tsuru 
(■ Cranes); Tsubame except Iwa-tsubame (Swallows and Martins); 
Kogara i.Masrh-tit) ; Higara (Cole-tit) ; Shijukara (Great-tit); Go- 
gkara (iSTuthatch) ; Enaga (Long-tailed tit) ; Misosazai (Wren) ; 
ototogisu (Little cuckoo) ; Kwakko (Cuckoo) ; Sankocho (Para- 
dise flj'-catcher). 
The following birds shall be prohibited to be taken during the 
close time from the 16th day of the 3d month to the 14th day of 
the 10th month: Kiii (Pheasants); Yamadori (Copper pheasants). 
The following birds shall be prohibited to be taken during the 
close time from the 16th day of the 4th month to the 14th day of 
the eighth month: Sekirei (Wagtails); Mukudori (Grey staring); 
Hitaki (Fly-catchers, except Paradise fly-catcher; Red-start and 
Blue-tail) ; Raicho (Ptarmigan) ; Ezoyamadori (Hazelgrouse) ; Hi- 
bari (Lark); Hiyo (Bulbul); Mozu (Shrikes); Kogera (Pigmy 
w^oodpecker) ; Hato (Doves and pigeons), except Dobato (Domestic 
or half domestic pigeon). 
The following birds shall be prohibited to be taken during the 
close time from the 1st day of the 5th month to the 30th day of 
the 9th month: Shigi (Snipes and Woodcocks); Wuzura (Quails). 
Female deer shall be prohibited to be taken during the close time 
from the 1st day of the 10th month to the 15th d,ay of the 7th 
month, and male deer during the close time from the 1st day of 
the 10th month to the .30th day of the 11th month. 
In Hokkaido, it shall be prohibited to take deer even when it is 
not the close time mentioned in the preceding clause. 
A Turkey-Call for Squirrels. 
Fronton, O. — Editor Forest and Stream: In a recent 
number there was a note about the sharp eye of the wild 
turkey, I fully agree with Mr. Drane, and regard the 
wild turkey as the hardest game we have to get. Yet at 
times it will do things wholly at variance with its usual 
wildneis. The last turkey I got came to me in an open 
spot. I was out still-hunting deer and sat down on a 
small log with my back against a tree in a place where I 
could see in all directions for a hundred yards. To 
amuse myself I began to try my turke^'^-call, not think- 
ing to see anything, much less to get a shot in so open a 
place. In a few minutes I heard the "put, put" of a 
turkey very close and right behind. I whirled around on 
to my knees, and there were two. I killed one while 
flying. The other got the tree on me. Not so foolish 
after all. 
Did it ever occur to you to use a turkey-call in squirrel 
hunting? I once had three gray squirrels up a large gum 
tree, and had tried to slip up on them, but they saw 
me and hid. I went up as close to the tree as I wanted 
and sat down to wait for them to come out. I sat there 
twenty or thirty minutes, and they did not move that I 
could see. I was in a fairly good turkey country, and so 
got out my turkey-call and made a few calls, and in 
less than two minutes all three squirrels were in sight; 
and in a good deal less time they were all mine on the 
ground. I take it that they thought that if it was safe 
for a turkey to be calling, they were in no danger. I 
would like to know if any one else ever had like ex- 
perience, and if I ever get in like situation I will make 
experiments until I am satisfied. 
I had a bunch of what I thought were petrified fish 
eggs, and were so pronounced by all who examined 
them. But now I don't know what they were after seeing 
the article on fish eggs in Forest and Stream on petrified 
eggs. James Dupuy. 
Getting: Some Good Out of It. 
South Haven, Mich., Feb. s— Editor Forest and 
Stream: I notice paragraph on the first page last paper, 
and would like one of your calendars. 
I have been a constant subscriber to Forest and 
Stream for over thirty years; am past three score years 
of age; commenced shooting at ten years; paddling and 
sailing canoe at thirty-two; target rifle practice at thirty- 
five, with one of Billinghurst's best rifles, mounted with 
a Malcolm finest telescope, and later have used Maynard 
& Stevens, and now use a Winchester special, and still 
enjoy target practice. Bought a Parker Bros, fine gun, 
with two sets of barrels, in 1871, and it has never had a 
rust spot on it; later have contented myself with a Rem- 
ington hammerless- Have run a steam launch since '91 — 
all of this, and still am able to enjoy being in the forest 
and on stream. H. W. S. 
Protector Shriner Resigns. 
As a result of the prolonged opposition to him by 
Governor Voorhees, Fish and Game Protector Charles 
A. Shriner sent in his resignation last Saturday, as' 
follows : 
Paterson, N. J., Feb. 10, 1900. 
To the Honorable, the Board of Fish and Game Com- 
missioners of New Jersey : 
When in August last I resigned my ofiice as Fish and 
Game Protector of New Jersey, I intended thereby to 
wholly sever my official connection with the cause of 
fish and game protection in the State, You, however, 
determined that my resignation applied only to the ofiice 
of Fish and Game Protector, and that I still retained the 
office of Fish and Game Warden ; you requested me to 
retain that office until my successor as Fish and Game 
Protector should have had some benefit from my experi- 
ence and until some matters I had in cimrge should have 
been disposed of. That time has now arrived, for I have 
in charge only one matter, in connection with which it will 
be necessary for me to meet in conference with the Fish 
Commission of Pennsylvania; this will be done within a 
few days. I accordingly hereby tender you my resigna- 
tion as Fish and Game Warden and trust that the same 
may be speedily accepted. 
With many thanks for your uniform courtesy and the 
approval which my course in office has always met 
with at the hands of your honorable body, I am, 
Respectfully yours, 
Chas. a. Shriner. 
In a Carboy. 
Boston, Feb. lo.— Speaking of partridges being shipped 
to this market in a jug, the bottom of which had been 
nicely removed and cemented on again, noted in the 
Forest and Stream last week, an express man tells me 
that he knows of something as good as that. A car boy, 
or glass demijohn, encased in wood, has been backward 
and forward several times, loaded with Maine game on 
the trips this way, and empty going back. The carboy 
was really no carboy at all, except as to the glass neck, 
neatly fastened into the wood of the top of the case. Of 
course the top came oft", glass carboy — neck and all, leav- 
ing a nice wooden box for game. In this case birds and 
even saddles of deer have been forwarded to this market. 
It came from Maine directly to a chemical concern. This 
concern was friendly to the shipper of the game in the 
imitation carboy. In the firm's storehouse the game would 
be taken out and ptit into another box, and sent, by the 
firm's own teamster, to some commission house in the 
market, for sale. The teamster was instructed to know 
nothing as to where the game came from, and doubtless 
he never saw it unpacked from the imitation carboy. 
That receptacle itself was immediately shipped back to 
the game shippers. One way it went freer as "an empty" 
till the express people got pn. to the trick. 
Special. 
Fowl on the Eastern Shore* 
Paiintter, Va,, Feb. 8. — Editor Forest and Stream: 
At this writing duck are very plentiful in Hog Island 
Bay, east shore of Virginia, Brant do not seem to be 
so plentiful as in former years, but for redhead and 
broad bill, the like has never been known before. Acres 
upon acres are covered by these ducks, in blocks of 
millions, so to speak. 
^ No doubt the vigilant measurer of the Eastern Shore 
Game Association have done much in drawing these birds 
to our waters. A constant patrol is kept upon the 
grounds, and night shooting and shooting by lights has 
been totally suppressed. Besides, large swivel guns are in 
violation of the law. No gun that cannot be shot from 
the shoulder, at arm's length, is allowable. 
T. G. E. 
The Sale of For6i8:n Game. 
New York State Museum, Albany, N. Y., Feb. 6.— 
Editor Forest and Stream: As I understand that some 
of the organizations for the protection of game are 
actively engaged in the prosecution of dealers who sell 
European game imported to this country, I woixld sug- 
gest that you open your columns to a discussion of the 
question, "To what extent does the importation of for- 
eign game and its sale in our markets interfere with the 
protection of native species?" 
F. J. H. Merrill, Director. 
South Florida. 
Punta Gorda, Fla., Feb. 2. — This is a favorite re- 
sort for sportsmen. Quail are abundant in the im.me- 
diate vicinity. Wild turkey and deer are to be found 
not far away, while an occasional bear enlivens the cha,se. 
Dogs, guides and teams can be procured here. Fishing 
for trout, bass and Spanish mackerel is good now, and 
tarpon will, we are told, hunt these waters within a 
month, to the delight of all fishermen in search of real 
sport with rod and reel. Caldwell. 
Hotels for Sportsmen. 
Persons who are conducting hotels or camps in regions 
where there is good shooting or fishing should under- 
stand that the best way to make their places known to 
persons interested in these sports is by advertising in the 
Forest and Stream. Sportsmen have come to depend 
on the hotels which are advertised in Forest and Stream, 
and registered in its Information Bureau, and the hotel 
keepers who patronize these columns are unanimous in 
declaring that they receive most satisfactory returns for 
the money invested. 
NAMELESS REMITTERS. 
The Forest and Stream Publishing Co. is holding 
several sums of money which have been sent to it for 
subscriptions and books by correspondents who have 
failed to ^ve name and address. If this note comes 
to the eye of any such nameless remitter we trust to 
kear from bitn. 
m mid ^iv^r ^isliing. 
ANGLING NOTES. 
' Salmon Prospects. 
For many years I carried on a correspondence with the 
late John Mowat, of Campbellton, N. B., who had been 
connected with the salmon fisheries of Canada for nearly 
half a century, and I considered him the best informed 
man regarding salmon habits and salmon fishing of any 
man of my acquaintance. He was one of two men that 
I knew who fished alone for salmon from a canoe, the 
other, Andrew Alford, once killed a salmon of 48 pounds 
on the Alford water of the Ristigouche River, now 
owned by Mr. Archibald Mitchell, of Norwich, Conn. 
I have fished from Mr. Mowat's little canoe, and every 
time I stood up in it I believed I took chances of going 
overboard while casting, and once when I hooked a 
black fish above Derside that was thought to be bright 
until it was brought to gaff, and the fish took us through 
the rapids, I was moi-ally certain that the canoe would 
never jive, for it once turned its owner over in tlae same 
rapids, but it went through right side up. After Mr. John 
Mowat's death on the Ristigouche, frotn being crushed by 
a log upon which he had been sitting with Mr. Mitchell 
discussing the fishing, his son, Mr. Alexander Mowat, 
also connected with the fisheries, became my correspon- 
dent, and has kept me posted as to the salmon rivers and 
salmon fishing about the Bay of Chaleur. Last year the 
salmon hatchery at Deeside was burned, a hatchery which 
turned out one to two million of young salmon annitally. 
Mr. Alexander Mowat writes me under date of Feb. i 
from Campbellton; "We have built a new hatchery 
twenty miles lower down on the Ristigoitche, and we 
hope to prosecute the work of hatching salmon on a much 
larger scale than heretofore. We expect to retain a large 
number of salmon fry in rearing ponds until they are 
three and four years old, and will mark them before they 
are liberated, hoping it will result in valuable information. 
* * * As to salmon fishing, I look for 1900 to be a 
big year on the Ristigouche, with early fishing. The late 
fishing last season was fine from July 15 to Aug. 15, pools 
full with water, high and cold. June was not good. I 
look for the reverse the corning season." 
If this forecast proves to be correct, I hope to' be 
able to ^yrite some notes from actual experience on the 
river of just how good the fishing proves to be, for, like 
every other man who goes to the Ristigouche River for 
salmon, I shall be looking for a fish of 40 pounds, such as 
I recently saw on the wall in the dining room of my 
friend, Jordan L, Mah, Jr., in New York city. 
A Trout Pond. 
A correspondent on Long Island sends the following 
query: "I have just read an article written by you in a 
report of the Fisheries, Game and Forest Commission 
'Concerning Brook Trout,' having discovered the volume 
in our village library, and it is the first that I knew of 
the publication of such a work, and as I am greatly in- 
terested in the propagation of trout and in trout fishing, 
would you kindly give me the necessary instructions as 
to where I can get an np-to-date work on the artificial 
propagation and rearing of trout. I have a pond on 
my grounds about 100 feet square with several boiling 
springs in the bottom of it. It is 4 feet deep at one end 
and about half that at the other end. The temperature 
of the water at the surface of the pond is 52 degrees in 
summer and 45 degrees now, although I have known the 
surface water to get as high as 65 degrees. There are 
fresh-water shrimps in the pond, and in the stream 
flowing from it. I could enlarge the pond to three or 
four times its present size. Do you think the above 
conditions are favorable to my raising brook trout in 
the pond? There are two ponds containing brook trout 
within two miles from where I live. Will you state when 
the trout season opens on Long Island, as both ponds are 
public waters." 
The best American work on trout breeding is Living- 
ston Stone's "Domesticated Trout," but a work that treats 
of rearing trout by modern methods is "An Angler's 
Paradise and How to Obtain It," by J. J. Armistead, 
published in Scotland, but both books can doubtless be 
obtained of Forest and Stream book department. Your 
pond has the requisite temperature of water in which to 
rear trout, and it contains food, and if it affords hiding 
places and shade, or you provide it, your pond will sus- 
tain a limited number of trout, as it is a fair assumption 
that the water is frequently renewed, as the pond is made 
from boiling springs. That the pond does contain shrimps 
is evidence that it contains watercress or water weeds, in 
which insects and their larvse may find lodgment and 
breed, and a close examination will probably disclose 
other crustacean food than the shrimps, and very likely 
insect food, for the waters of Long Island are rich in 
fish food. 
If the idea of the last question is to stock this private 
pond with trout from public waters, it will be well to 
understand that this cannot be done under the law, as 
the fish and game law of the State especially forbids that 
fish shall be taken from public waters for the purpose 
of stocking private ponds, and if State fish or fish reared 
at the expense of the State shall be placed in a private 
pond, it by law opens the pond to public fishing. Trout 
can now be purchased so cheaply of private breeders for 
stocking private waters that there is no excuse for taking 
them from waters belonging to the public. The trout 
season on Long Island opens on the 29th day of March. 
Eet Pots. 
In the preliminary report of the Fisheries, Game and 
Forest Commission to the New York Legislature, just 
submitted, I find what I call a wise and timely recom- 
mendation for a change to be made in the fish law. The 
language of the recommendation is as follows: "Section 
143 of the Fisheries, Game and Forest law provides that 
'eel pots of a form and character such as mdy be pro- 
vided by the rules of the Commissioners of Fisheries, 
Game and Forests, may be used in any waters not tn^ 
habited by trout, lake trout, salmon trout or land- 
locked salmon.' We would recommend that this sec- 
