IFOREST AND STRISAM. edec. 8, 1900. 
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Longf Island Shootmg;. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
Reports from Eastport advise us that there has been 
a great flight of woodcock there, and that within a 
few days more birds have been killed than for a long 
time. It seems as if, on account of the warm weather, the 
migration of the woodcock had been very late, and that 
most of them have lingered somewhere up north and then 
by aome sudden spell of cold weather have all been hur- 
ried on at the same time. It will be interesting to learn 
if a similar abundance of birds has been noted in other 
parts of the country, especially in Connecticut and New- 
Jersey, 
There are said also to have been an unusual number of 
partridges (ruffed grouse) killed on the east end of the 
island. There are usually a few found there, but only a 
very few. For some reason the country does not seem 
well suited to them, or perhaps there are too many opos- 
sums or foxes to allow them to breed. 
The number of ducks to be found in the Great South 
Bay is still very large, but they are becoming educated 
and are no longer killed 'in such numbers as when they 
first came. The continual shooting on the feeding grounds 
and the pursuit of the bird by sailboats has had its 
natural result, and now the ducks leave the bay m the 
early morning, and going outside, rest on the ocean until 
evening, when they come in again to feed durmg the 
night. 
Precisely this result was to have been expected frotn 
the hammering that the birds received on their first 
arrival, and thus the highly intelligent New York or Long 
Island sportsman has succeeded in killing the goose 
which laid the golden egg. 
Speaking of geese, a number of these have been killed 
in the bay, one man, I believe, having secured fifteen. 
Long Islander. 
SAYvitLE, L, I., Dec, 1. 
The Pittsburg Quail Market. 
Pittsburg, Pa., Nov. 30— Editor Forest and Stream: 
Herewith I send you an item taken from the Pittsburg 
Post of Nov. 28. Here is a chance for some of Pennsyl- 
vania's sportsmen to make a few inquiries as to where 
these birds were killed. 
"At an East End banquet last Friday evening the 
guests were all served with 'quail,' one bird to each 
person. There were about 1,200 people present, conse- 
quently I 200 quail. As it is against the law .to sell game 
in Pennsylvania, these birds could not have been bought 
—therefore they must have been given to them. I am 
personally acquainted with one man who was there and 
helped to eat the quail, therefore I know whereof I speak. 
Now. Mr. Editor, where did these quail come from? 
Did the guests go out hunting the day before the banquet 
and fetch the birds they got with them? If so, where did 
they hunt? I am something of a hunter myself and 
would like to find a place where I could get 1,200 quail. 
Please answer through your paper, because if they were 
bought I would like to know where — might take a few- 
hundred myself. What^ good are game law'S if they can 
beat them in this way?" 
It appears that there is no trouble for Pittsburgers to 
get all the quail they want, game laws or no game laws. 
D. G. Lamont. 
Vancouver Island Big Game. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
The hunting season has been in full blast for months, 
and many deer and bear have been killed by sportsmen. 
Last week a party of hunters bagged nine deer, and others 
have recently been brought in also by Messrs. R. Coe. 
Sheppard, Ripley and Beckman. 
But the most important and interesting bag made re- 
cently was Lieut. Bromley, of H. R,- M. Navy, who on 
Tuesday last, reached Comox with two elk and five 
bears. Lieut. Bromley made a trip into the interior with 
Mr. H. Smith as guide. They followed up Oyster River 
for fifteen .or twenty miles with the above results. The 
two elk heads were fairly good ones of five points each, 
and besides bringing out these heads and the skins, Mr. 
Bromley had most of the meat brought out also, thus 
showing himself a good man and a good sportsman, and 
very different from many of our hunters who kill their 
game for the heads alone. 
We have had already some snow here, which has started 
hunters off after deer with renewed energy. A. 
Cumberland, B. C. Nov. 24. 
A Flag that Was Lowered. 
Dennysville, Nov. 25. — I was up in the western part 
of the county last week, and in a little stream between 
Tunk Pond and Spring River Lake saw a lot of 
landlocked salmon on the spawning beds. I thought of 
you and how you would enjoy it. I think it the prettiest, 
wildest and most fishy looking place in the county. 
Had the good luck to tumble on a nice buck a short 
distance back of my house a few days ago. Shot at 20 
yards with No. 6 shot, and the deer never dropped his 
tail ; he ran about 75 yards, stopped, turned to look at 
me with tail still up. While watching him and wishing 
for a charge of heavy shot, his tail very slowly came 
down, and in half a minute or so he dropped. When 
I reached him he was stone dead. The aorta just as it left 
the heart was nearly severed, and the shot had penetrated 
from one side into the skin of the other. I had smokeless 
powder; it was light as day, and in an open field, and I 
know his tail never flinched. But it did look odd to see 
it so slowly lowered after he had stood looking at me 
with it bolt upright. A. T. L, 
Notes from Worcester, Mass. 
The close season on partridge and quail begins Satur- 
day, Dec. I. If the winter should be mild and open quail 
should be very plentiful next fall, as there is an abundance 
of them left over. 
The total number of foxes killed, by the Worcester Fur 
Company since Oct. i is forty-six, and J. H. Baird is 
high man with six kills. 
Henshaw_ Pond has been leased and stocked by the 
town of Leicester and ice fishing xvill not be allowed .there 
this wnter. ' ' A. W. W. 
What Did the Caribou Weigh? 
Bethlehem, Dec. i. — Editor Forest and Stream: The 
article in your last issue in regard to the vweights of 
game prompts me to send you the measurements of a 
caribou skin I shot and brought with me from New- 
foundland in September of this year. The estimates of 
the probable weight of the same when killed vary so 
much that I send you the measurements after tanning, 
which, as I think, shrinks the skin some. The antlers 
w-ere quite large, but by no means a record head, having 
thirty-two points, but rather heavy. Entire length from 
neck about 6 inches back of base of antlers, 6 feet 2 inches, 
not including tail ; 5 feet 2 inches at widest part just in 
front of hind legs; 4 feet 5 inches just back of forelegs, 
3 feet 5 inches just front of forelegs. 1 would like the 
judgment of your readers who have shot large caribou 
as to the probable weight of the animal. M. C. L. 
A Florida Game Country. 
Me. J. M. WiLLSON, Jr., of Kissimmee. Fla.. writes that 
there is a territory available for a large game preserve in 
the vicinity of Kissimmee, the expenses connected with 
the acquisition of which would be very k'ght, and he sug- 
gests that the opportunity is one which might be wel- 
comed by a club. 
Notice. 
All communications intended for Forest and Stream should 
always be addressed to the Forest and Stream Publishing Co., and" 
not to any individual connected with the paper. 
Proprietors of fishing resorts will find it profitable to adverUse 
them in Forest akd Stream. 
Buzzards Bay Fishing. 
Fairhaven, Mass., Nov. 27. — Editor' Forest and 
Stream: If you should call attention in your valuable 
paper to the fact of the great improvement in the fishing 
in the waters of Buzzards Bay. as stated in our report, 
you might not only induce more sportsmen to visit them, 
but add also to the number of members of our League. 
The next season's fishing in the bay will undoubtedly sur- 
pass even that of thie year. 
Geo. H. Palmer, Secretary. 
Mr. Palmer sends us the annual report of the Execu- 
tive Committee of the Southern Massachusetts Fish and 
Game League for the year ending Nov. 13, 1900. It is a 
record of work done and results achieved. We quote : 
When in October, 1888, the League was formed, the 
chief object in view was to procure such legislation as 
would prevent the setting and maintaining of weirs and 
nets in the waters of Buzzards Bay. It was believed then, 
as it is now known, that the continuous use of such ap- 
paratus was exhaustive and destructive of the fi.sheries. 
After successive failures and defeats such legislation 
was. in 1893, secured. It was mainly urged, against great 
opposition, as a remedial experiment. 
It was claimed, in answer to our complaints, that the 
use of w^eirs and nets was in no way responsible for any 
scarcity of fish, nor any injury to the fisheries. It was 
urged by us that, at best, it was a monopoly, injurious to 
the rights of the people to whom the fisheries belonged, 
and interfered with the natural laws which regulate the 
growth, increase and distribution of the fishes. 
At first only a few weirs in Fairhaven were removed, 
and only slight improvement could for some time be ob- 
served. It was not until 1898 that the law went fully into 
effect, so that only two years have been given to test the 
experiment. 
During the past two summers, however, the bay and 
rivers have abounded in fish. They have come back to 
tlieir old feeding grounds, which for years had been 
abandoned and deserted. Not only so, but the sniall 
fishes, which were taken in vast numbers by the weirs, 
have been permitted to grow, and have come in of larger 
size and of greater value. No hand line fisherman has 
been heard to complain that he could not catch all the 
fish he wanted. All around the ledges, the wharves and 
docks, tautog of good size have rewarded the skill of the 
fishermen and sportsmen alike. The bay and rivers have 
abounded in rock bass and scup, the bluefish has become 
an easy prey to the boatmen, and squeteague in large 
numbers could be caught by the most inexperienced angler 
and by almost any means. No such fishing has been 
known in these waters for years. 
Whether this condition of things is owing entirely to 
the protection which tlie law has thrown around them to 
the exclusion of weirs and nets, or whether for causes not 
yet ascertained, that in some seasons fish are plenty and 
again are scarce, may not yet be fully determined, but 
so far as is apparent, the experiment has succeeded as 
we have always believed it would. 
All that remains for us and kindred associations now 
is to guard against hostile legislation, that it may be 
fully and fairly tried. 
We have ourselves heretofore not given much atten- 
tion to the protection of birds, the Massachusetts Society 
for the Protection of Game having devoted their efforts 
to this branch of the general subject, and from their 
greater knowledge and greater influence we have been 
content to leave it to them. Early last year, however, in 
view of the threatened extinction of the partridge in many 
localities, they called in the aid of our own and all kindred 
associations. The League co-operated with the Massa- 
chusetts Central Committee in working to secure the two 
laws to prohibit the sale of woodcock and grouse, and to 
provide for fishways over the dams of such streams as 
were tenanted by trout and other edible fish. Every pos- 
sible effort was made to succeed upon these two matters, 
and the result was the passage of Chapter^; 344 and 379 
of the Acts of 1900. The fisliway bill originated with our 
League, and was twice, in 1898 and 1899, defeated. We 
deem this law second in importance to_ none which we 
have ever attempted' to secure, for it is of. as much con- 
s^ue^cc to provide tn^^^s \|?her^fay fi.sl^e;s aiscciicl the 
streams to spawn as it is to protect the fisheries against 
destructive fishing. 
The work of 1901 is not yet laid out, but the Executive 
Committee will shortly be convened, and will receive sug- 
gestions and consider purposes. 
It will be seen from the report of our Treasurer that 
oiir income is ridiculously small — not equal to the current 
expenses of the League, nor does it enable us to pay our 
share of the expenses of the Central Committee. Our 
membership from death and resignation has decreased. 
Many of the young men in our vicinity ought to be in- 
duced to join us, that they may take the places of those 
who have done about all that we shall ever be able to 
do. And those of our members who still remain with us 
should do what they can to increase our means and add 
to our usefulness. We know of no charitable institution 
with a more benevolent object than to increase the num- 
ber and value of those birds and fishes which furnish 
so great an amount of inexpensive food for man. We 
know of no work more commendable than that in which 
we are engaged. 
When God gave to man dominion over the beasts of the 
field, the birds in the forest and the fishes in the sea. He 
coupled with it His laws for their increase, growth and 
preservation, which are every day violated, to satisfy the 
greed and avarice of man and the vanity of woman. It is 
our business to stop it, as far as we can, and it is not for 
food alone that we are called upon to do all in our power 
to protect and preserve the tenants of the forests and 
the streams. Geo. H. Palmer, Secretary. 
Nbw Bedford, Nov, 12. 
ANGLING NOTES. 
Correction as to Spring Pond. 
So.ME weeks ago I mentioned the planting of a few 
landlocked salmon in Spring Pond near Bog River, in the 
Adirondacks, and that the result of this small plant had 
been the practical stocking of the pond and that the fish 
had grown very rapidly. This notice brought me a letter 
from Mr. L. O. Crane, of Boston, as to the original 
stocking of Spring Pond with trout and an account of a 
remarkable catch of trout from the stocked pond. Re- 
turning home this evening I find another letter from Mr. 
Crane correcting some of the details of his former letter. 
He says : "On my return last night from a trip I found 
a letter from my old guide in the Adirondacks. George 
Faygette. in answer to my inquirj- regarding the stock- 
ing of Spring Pond, and the first catch made there. 1 
find that I was mistaken when I stated that Mr. Walter 
Aiken and his guides stocked it with trout from Graves 
Pond. George says that the fish were put into Spring 
Pond by Mr. John Merriman, and when they first fished 
the pond they took twenty trout that weighed jO^i pounds, 
and eight of them weighed 5 pounds eacli. Mr. Aiken got 
•one afterward that weighed 6 pounds and a few ounces, 
and he was in the party at the time of the first killing. 
George is located on Dr. Webb's preserve at what we 
Knew as Albany Lake, and has been there for a nuiuber of 
years. I put in the whole season with him at Smith's 
Lake the year before Dr. Webb bought it. The lake is 
now called Lake Lila, and the railroad station right up 
back of the old camp they call Ne-ha-sa-ne, but I call it 
Smith's Lake still, and I am sorry that Jim Lamont and 
liis good wife had to vacate, just as I regret a good many 
■changes that have taken place there in the last few years, 
George wishes it understood that he has given the simple 
facts in regard to the trout of Spring Pond." 
I do not know whether to regard it as curious or no! 
that yesterday afternoon I was at Ne-ha-sa-ne Station, and 
that yesterday forenoon while at Little Clear Pond I wa? 
talking with some men about this very Spring Pond, arid 
the growth of landlocked salmon in it. and planning to 
plant another pond with salmon simply because they had 
done so well in Spring Pond. One of the first letters that 
I opened this evening before I had my dinner was ihc 
one from Mr. Crane, which I have qnuied, refetriivg to 
the region I visited yesterday. 
Tfoot Eggs. 
A few days ago I lifted a tray of trout eggs from a 
trough in one ot the State hatcheries in the Auirondacks, 
and apparently there were two distinct kmds ot eggs on 
the tray. Ont kind consisted of small white eggs, and 
the other of large reddish-pink eggs, certainly three times 
as large as the white eggs, yet both were from the same 
species of fish. The large eggs were from a brown 
trout, a wild fish, taken in one 01 the nets while the men 
were netting whitefish. The small white eggs were taken 
from a brown trout, about the same size as the other, that 
was captured last year from the same pond, and it had 
been in the stock ponds just one year. All fish eggs are 
measured as they come into a hatchery, as that is the 
beginning of the count of fish that result from the eggs, 
but eggs differ greatly in size from the same species, and 
they have to be counted and counted again. The trays in 
a hatchery trough are all of the same size, by 12^4 
inches inside measurement, and they will hold from 7,000 
to 9,000 lake trout eggs, and from 12,000 to 14,000 ■ 
brook trout eggs, but they cannot be spread on a tray 
to insure a trustworthy count. Trout eggs have been 
counted by the square inch, but an actual square inch 
will contain many more eggs than a theoretical square 
inch based on the number of eggs to a lineal inch. Quarts 
and quarts of eggs have been actually counted, and parts 
of quarts have been counted, and fluid ounces are now 
continually counted to determine the number of eggs in 
a standard quart. Here are the counts made by the 
United States Fish Commission of the number of rain- 
bow eggs to a quart, made at different times and places: 
. 6,87s, 6,624, 6,536, and with this for a basis one would 
be on the safe side to call, each quart 6,500 eggs, for an 
allowance must always be made, and is made, if the man 
who measures the eggs is fair, as he should be to make 
sure that that he has the number of fry that he reports 
when the hatching is finished, but here is another count, 
7,625 eggs. The last count is from eggs of domesticated 
fish, and the man who measures the eggs must have one 
count for wild, eggs and another for stock eggs. This 
allowance can be illustrated by two reports that I saw 
within a few days. One foreman had sent to the fore- 
man of another hatchery some whitefish eggs. The first 
man rejplied tl\3tt li*? ha4 seat 150 qtiarta of eggs, and 
