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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Nov. 17, 1900. 
of feathers, a fact which showed conclusively that they 
were killed while nesting.^ Some female teal ducks were 
found in the same condition. 
Game and Bird Protective Associations. 
Since the passage of our present game laws, many as- 
sociations for the protection of game and birds have 
been formed throughout the State. In the northern and 
middle counties particularly, the farmers have banded 
together and posted warnings about their farms to keep 
out trespassers. They have done this not only to save 
the game birds, but to prevent the shooting of song and 
insectivorous birds, which the agriculttxrists have come 
to know at Jast are so vitally necessary for the preserva- 
tion of their fruit and grain, through the constant war- 
fare which these birds wage against crop destroymg 
worms and other insects. 
There has been recently formed in Sangamon county 
an organization known as the State Game Reserve As- 
sociation. It comprises the three townships of Buffalo, 
Buffalo Hart and Mechanicsburg. The entire section 
has been posted at considerable expense with warning 
notices. The members of the association have agreed' 
that for three years no prairie chickens or squirrels may 
be killed, and that only a limited number of quail shall 
be shot. ' The preserves are open only to the members 
of the association, each one having a pass signed by the 
president and secretary. A reward of $25 is offered by 
the association for the conviction of anyone trespassing 
or shooting on the grounds. On the farm of the secre- 
tary ot the association, Henry C. Garvey, at Buffalo, a 
pheasantry has been established, where hundreds of im- 
ported pheasants are bred each year. These birds will 
be turned loose as soon as it is considered practicable. 
The State Game Reserve Association, with its stringent 
rules, will undoubtedly do a good deal for the game sup- 
ply in that part of the State in which it is located. The 
"overflow" of the birds and animals from the associa- 
tion's preserves will do much toward increasing the 
general supply of game. 
I wish to call particular attention to the work of the 
Illinois Aubudon Society, which has for its object the 
protection of all kinds of birds. Mr. Ruthven Deane, 
of Chicago, an actix^e member of the American Ornitho- 
logical Union, is the society's president. Miss Mary 
Drummond, of Wheatoii, Illinois, is the secretary. I 
have not words at my command to express m.y appre- 
ciation of the extended and thoroughly unselfish work 
of this society. Unlike organizations formed solely to 
protect game in order that the shooting harvest may 
be increased, the Aubudon Society looks only to the 
.saving of the birds for the general good of mankind. 
The society is agressive, and it is doing particularly 
efficient service among the children of the State. 
The State Sportsman's Association has a name that 
should gu.irantee its standing and usefulness in the mat- 
ter of the protection of birds. I am sorry to say, how- 
ever, that although its State charter named game Rro- 
tection as one of his prime objects, the organization, in 
the last few years, has degenerated into little more than 
a trap shooting club. It is a matter of congratulation, 
however, that a new spirit has come over the associa- 
tion and it is to be made, what it was originally intended 
it should be, a protective as well as a shooting club. 
James R. B. Van Cleave, a thorough sportsman and a 
■ thorough believer in game preservation, has been elected 
preside'nt. This fact alone insures a proper future for 
the club. No member will be admitted who will not 
pledge Irimsclf to the protection of game and the en- 
forcement of the State law. 
During the year that the new law has been in effect 
we have secured a total of 142 convictions out of 203 
cases brought to trial Scores of cases have been in- 
vestigated upon complaints, which^ however, did not 
have sufficient ground upon which to base prosecution. 
The fines assessed amounted to $1,464. There have been 
thirteen people committed to jail. In accordance with 
the law one-half of the amount of fines assessed, $732, 
Tias been paid to the wardens making the complaints. 
Of the amount remaining. $208 has been paid into the 
State treasury, leaving a balance still due the State of 
$433.29. This amount is being held back either by State'.^ 
attorneys or by justices of the peace, although I have 
made every effort to collect it on behalf of the State. 
The officials' excuse for keeping the money is that the 
- counties where the fines were collected are in arrears, 
and that while this is the case they have the right to all 
money penalties inflicted. 
Cuvier Club Dinner. 
The Cuvier Club, of Cincinnati, will hold its twenty- 
seventh annual banquet on Wednesday, Nov. 2t. The 
menu card bears this sentiment: "Our game birds and 
game fishes are a precious heritage to be guarded care- 
fully and used judiciously, if we are wise and far- 
.seeing. bestowing benefits on ourseh'cs and succeeding 
generations, or to be recklesslj' squandered, like the for- 
tune of the spendthrift, leaving to posterity not even a 
memory, but a simple tradition of the noblest races of 
feathered and finny creatures nature ever produced. 
Which shall it be?" 
The list of good things to which the Ctiviers will ad- 
dress themselves includes these supplies from stream and 
field; Kennebec salmon, muscalonge a la Cuvier, Cali- 
fornia .^almon, fillet of Virginia deer broiled, boned breast 
of broiled prairie chicken a la Cuvier, breast of ruffed 
grouse, partridge, saute, larded snipe, broiled quail on 
toast, roast quail, bluewinged teal duck, breast of wild 
turkey. 
A Penmylvatiia Elk. 
Mr. C. Tielenius had on exhibition at his restaurant 
in the Staats Zeitung Building, this city, last week, the 
carcass of an elk killed on his preserve at Mount Pocono. 
Monroe county, Pa. The animal was a yearling buck, and 
Avcighed when dressed 185 pounds. It was shot by Count 
Cuno von Campe on Nov. 3, the third day of his hunt. 
This is the third elk killed at Mount Pocono since the 
onening of the season on Nov. i. Five years ago Mr. 
Tielenivrs turned out twenty-.<?ix p]k. and to-day he has >^ 
Jierd of T50, ' 
West Virginia Mountains. 
MorgAntowNj W. Va,, Nov. 3. — Editor Forest and , 
Stream: Profiting by the experience of past contributors 
to the columns of Forest anu Stream, I forsook m.y bed 
at 4 o'clock A. M. last Tuesday morning, "rustled" an 
early breakfast, fastened my gun to the bicj^cle and sallied 
forth in the early dawn, and at 7 o'clock was seven miles 
up in the mountains, where woods of goodly scope were 
found. Hiding my wheel in a tree top — the tree was lying 
down — I went forth in search of a cure for physical in- 
disposition, and incidentally and secondarily, to find any 
wild meat that might be straying my way. 
Very soon I was greeted by the familiar and pleasing 
quack, quack, quack, qua-a-a-a of a gray squirrel, which 
greeting was repeated at intervals all day. The newly 
fallen leaves were deep and dry;, so that going quietly 
was out of the question, and I just stood about quietly 
and moved slowly from place to place, enjoying watch- 
ing the falling leaves. Seeing a gray squirrel going 
away from me, I shot at it, barely expecting to get it on 
accotmt of the distance. It went on unharmed and went 
up a tree and began to bark. I shot again and missed, 
when it went on up the tree, and I moved nearer, when I 
saw it away in the top. I shot again and crippled 
it, and it jumped to a chestnut tree and started down a 
limb, in the forks of which was a nest of leaves, into 
which I felt sure it went, as I .watched carefully for it 
to leave the tree, and did not see it. I shot into the 
nest, and when it failed to come out, concluded, of course, 
it must be dead; and not to be outdone, I climbed up to 
Notes from Iowa. 
Nov. I came too soon this year, for it marked the finale 
of legitimate fishing in Iowa. It came too soon because 
of the delightful weather which obtains this fall, and be- 
cause the fishing for walleyes, pickerel and bass never 
was better here than right now. However, the boys 
regretfully reeled in or lost the last one, dissembled the 
rods, and turned to the milder pastime of lying about 
the size of the one he had out of the water, discussing 
the merits of reels and the proper method of hooking 
a minnow. 
Fishing has been good this season. Here, \Vhere the 
Iowa is a comparatively small stream, and the city full 
of fishermeji, individual catches are necessarily limited. 
The river is fished to death; but at some little distance 
from town excellent sport may be had by the Waltonians 
who know where to go; and despite the farming com- 
munities with the company seine and the occasional 
dynamitard (who should be blown to his own place by 
his favorite explosive) there are still localities where a 
real fisherman may find sport that will make his hair 
curl. 
Seining goes on quietly, but vigorously. Not by 
market fishers, but by farmers and inhabitants of small 
towns and villages. A half-dozen farmers chip in and 
buy a seine. Some Saturday afternoon they, their wives 
and children constitute a seining party that furnishes all 
kinds of tun and plenty of fish for Sunday's dinner table. 
Parties from villages sneak out and take a barrel full of 
game fish in an evening. The worst feature and the one 
THREE TIGERS IN FIFTEEN MINUTES. 
the nest, not less than' 50 feet, and found the nest empty.O 
I will always wonder where that squirrel went. That was| 
four shots gone and nothing to show for it. ^ 
The next four shots brought me three gray squirrels 
and a red one, which atoned for the bad start. Don't) 
speak disparagingly of the red squirrel, even as a game 
animal, and do as I have often done, passing them by 
with contempt, without even wasting a shot. If yor 
get a chance, especially where game of lai-ger size is 
scarce, kill one and have it nicely cooked, and if you 
do not agree that it is well Avorth a load of shot aside 
from_ what little sport it might be, why you can send the 
next' one to me. I got home from my day's outing that 
evening with a good appetite, a choice mess of meat and 
a new lease of life. 
By experimenting I fbund the easiest way to carry a 
gun on a wheel is to sling the gun on the back instead 
of tying it to the wheel. I find the wheel a great con- 
venience in getting to the hunting ground in suitable 
weather and over suitable roads. 
I would like some one who knows to explain for what 
purpose squirrels build nests of leaves in the forks of 
trees. Is it to rear young or simply to lie in to hide? 
Being a former resident of Wyomnig, I take an in- 
terest in the affairs and happenings of that State. The 
Saratoga, Wyo., Sun of Oct. 25 says; "The Laramie 
Plains Live Stock Protective Association has arranged to 
contimte the paying of bounties on predatory wild animals. 
Since last March, when the State appropriation became 
exhausted, the Association has paid bounty on 379 coyotes, 
123 wolves and 28 wildcats." Emerson Carney. 
The Weight of Quail. 
St. /\i;gustine, Nov. 3. — Why is it that I cannot induce 
any of your correspondents to give the weight of quail 
m different sections? A Virginian said last year that 
the quail in that State was larger than in any other part 
of this cotmtryj which I doubt. I have weighed two 
large cock birds here and they weighed exactly 5 ounces. 
Now I feel quite sure that a Long Island or Jersey quail 
will pull down 6 or 7 ounces, if not more. 
Now don't all weigh your quail at once, or Forest and 
Stream will not have room to print the list. 
DiDYMTJS. 
An Extfaofclinaty Tiger Hunt. 
Our illustration, from the London Illustrated Sporting 
and Dramatic News, shows three tigers killed within a 
space of fifteen minutes by Sir Vikar-ul-Umra, Prime 
Minister of Hyderabad. India. All three tigers were full 
grown, and the one shown in the foreground was an 
enormous hegst. 
§ff (hf Hsi of good thm^^ i» If^oodcraft in om q<^v. eolif. 
which renders the suppression of the practice extremely 
ytdifficult is that the farmer sees no harm in it. The river 
«runs past or through his field. He owns and pays taxes 
''on the sandy bottom it Hows over, ^nd he can't see why 
he should wait for his city brother in the knickerbockers 
! and high rubber boots to come and "snake" out the fish 
with a limber pole and a shiny reel. For himself he 
doesn't care about the rod and reel business. He wants 
results, and he gets them with his one-hundred-foot drag 
net. There's a^big family, and the hired man, and they 
all li;-e fish. He wants a "mess." He gets it all right 
enough, and when the man with the limber pole comes 
along- he wonders why he doesn't get a rise by that big 
boulder in mid-stream. There's a good reason. The old 
bass which formerly resided there is assisting to push 
the wrinkles out of the hired man's vest. 
The farmer is a good fellow and in other respects an 
exemplary citizen. Individuals do not wish to inform on 
him. Officers know him, and evade the unpopularity; 
of information and arrest. And so it goes. 
The star fishing point on the Iowa, and according to 
the writer's observation in the State, is at Steamboat 
Rock, thirty miles north of Marshalltown. Bass of dif- 
ferent varieties, walleyed pike, croppies and pickerel 
abound in the clear water among the stumps and 
boulders and beneath the beetling rocks that palisade 
the banks. The fishes are not only abundant, but bred in 
pure cold water, are game as a Claibone cock. The 
writer and several friends have enjoyed "and tested their 
fighting qualities on a number of occasions during the 
season. The best catch by our party of six was 52 
pounds of bass and walleye in a morning's fishing. 
And that's enough. 
This string was caught at the dam, and the long reaches 
of river north where fishing is best were not disturbed 
by us owing to a lack of boats. Next year the writer 
intends spending his vacation there with the game fish 
and the squirrels, of which latter the name is legion. 
Moscrip. 
Marshalltown, .la., .Nov. 2, 
Taken for Bruin. 
Barre, Vt.. Nov. 9. — The open season of ten days for 
shooting deer closed in this State Oct. 31, and up to date 
the writer has not heard of a casualty resulting from a man 
iDeing taken for a deer. The accidents are not reported to 
the press, while the ones which might have proven fatal 
seldom are printed. I know of one life last season which 
would have been sacrificed but for the words of the 
Forest and Stream, "Don't shoot." The above words 
were ringing in the hunter's ears as he was about to 
press the trigger. He withheld his aim a moment and 
the life was saved. Another inci4ent this season was told 
me by .one of principals, where ^ man wa'; iaken for ft 
