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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Aug. 31 j 190 1. 
the good old catfish is king of them all. He will hang up 
on a trout line with a No. 4.0 hook in his system, and wait 
patiently till you come and get him, and then live a week 
in a crowded live box, and come out for the trip home 
as lively and sassy as ever, easy to dres.s and just as good 
eating as anybody's fish. Horner fished for bass by the 
hour, but they did not bite, though there is generally 
fair bass fishing there, and we caught plenty of small bass 
in the minnow seine. One of the boys stole a man's wife 
over there, and the man seemed a little put out about it. 
He came over with a .22 Quackenbush rifle that missed 
fire oftener than it went off, and made war medicine 
around our camp considerable. I gave him another box 
of cartridges, and then took the axe and ran him off. We 
caught somewhere from 100 to 150 catfish, plenty of 
turtles and a few squirrels, and all around, the trip left 
nothing to be desired. 
"The weeds are not bad this season, and it won't take 
much frost to make the shooting good. I don't look for 
much sport shooting chickens in this country any more, 
for they stay in the corn all the time after the last of 
August, and the only way to get them is to walk the corn 
rows. A dog is no use, only to retrieve. 
"How is the fox terrier?" 
Illinois Chicken Country. 
Over one hundred chicken shooters of Chicago have 
been out after prairie chickens already, a couple of weeks 
before the law is out, and it is to be presumed that most 
of the country shooters have been equally thoughtful and 
far-seeing, so that opening day will probably see the 
chicken crop pretty badly broken into. 
As to the localities for chicken country in the State of 
Illinois, from which some pleasure may be had and which 
are worth remembering, the likelihood is that one would 
get a little shooting, say half a dozen to a dozen birds a 
day, at any of the following points, even so late as the 
beginning of the legal season. Chicken hunting now, as 
in the past, is much a matter of dogs. That man is very 
lucky, indeed, who has a good chicken dog these times. 
De Kalb county is perhaps the best chicken county in 
IlHnois this season. Any of the little towns of that coim- 
ty will do. Get a rig and drive out five or six miles 
from town. There have been abundant birds in this loca- 
tion all summer, and the report is that the law has been 
better enforced than is usually the case in that county. 
Another awfully good range to remember is that lying 
between Koutts and Knox, Ind. A gentleman who drove 
this week between those two towns put up nine coveys 
of birds in one day. _ There is good breeding range in that 
vicinity, and the birds are by no means exterminated 
there. This is one of the best points to bear in mind. 
Remember, it is in Indiana, one of the license States. 
Another good and convenient point for Chicago shooters 
to remember is Lee county, some seventy or eighty miles 
west of this city.. Out of Amboy, Lee Centre or Ashton, 
one can, in a drive of less than a dozen miles, get into 
good chicken country. This has been one of the best 
protected parts of Illinois— in fact, too well protected to 
suit the average local shooter. Many of the farms are 
posted. 
Out of Bloomington, 111., there can be had some good 
chicken shooting by going a few miles into the country. 
This is in the center of what was originally a fine chicken 
ground, and the birds still hang about in some numbers. 
Mineral is a point worth remembering, both for the 
snipe shooter in season and the chicken .shooter. Get 
back from the town a little bit, among the fields, and, un- 
less the sooner has entirely cleaned out the crop, you will 
get some good shooting there the first week of September. 
Anna, 111., is another place Avhich it is well to know. 
Mason City, lower down in the State, is in the center of 
a big corn and wheat country, where the birds still may 
be found in some numbers. 
Sheffield, 111., is a point which is called a very good one 
by some of the best shooters of the <;ity, and it will be 
visited the first day of the season b}' several Chicago gen- 
tlemen. Trainers have located a good many covies of 
birds in the neighborhood of Sheffield, and so late as this 
week they were not shot down. 
Near Elkhart, 111., and the big Sullivan farm, there 
may still be found some prairie chickens in a region which 
was once a splendid one for all sorts of upland game. 
This was the old Bogardus shooting ground. To-day it is 
much taken up with corn, but there is this to be said, that 
this season the hea.vy droughts have dwarfed the corn so 
that it is not so thick as usual. Hence one can get some 
shooting by following the birds in the cornfields. 
Localities in Wisconsin. 
There is quite a chicken-shooting industry possible in 
the old State of Wisconsin, and he who knoAvs the 
wrinkles can get sport in any one of a number of localities 
in that State. One of the best to remember is Fond du 
Lac, Wis., at the foot of Lake Winnebago. Near this point 
are large marshes which serve as breeding grounds. The 
shooter can drive out from Fond du Lac, and if he has a 
good local companion, can find chicken shooting which is 
quite well worth remembering. 
Of course there are still considerable numbers of birds 
hanging around the edges of the big Horicon Marsh. 
There are quantities of small grain planted by the farmers 
of that district, and sometimes rattling good bags of 
chickens are made by members of the Horicon Club, who 
go up on opening day for a combined duck and chicken 
shoot. 
Sometimes around a much frequented place like Ocono- 
mowoc, Wis., one can get very good chicken shooting, 
and a number of birds are killed not far from that chain 
of lakes every season. This is comparatively low down 
in the State. 
Further up in the State of Wisconsin, toward the edge 
of the pine timber country, there are a great many more 
prairie chickens than is ordinarily supposed. Necedah is 
a favorite point, and the morning of opening day will 
probably see anywhere from fifty to seventy-five guns 
going out from that town. In that neighborhood the 
shooting is about half sharptailed grouse and half pin- 
nated, or, perhaps, one-third sharptailed grouse. It is an 
odd thing to see prairie chickens put up on a little open 
field, flying straight into the pine timber like so many 
ruffed grouse. This is the country where Mr. Neal 
Brown, of W^usau, goes for his annual chicken trip, and 
where he has invited the writer to join him OH opening 
day. 
„ „ , E. MOUGH. 
Hartford Building, Chicago, 111. 
The Catjghjiawana Preserve. 
, MiNEOLA, Y., Aug. 20,— Editor Forest md Stream: 
It may interest some of your readers to learn that we are 
just in receipt of a long letter from our head game war- 
den, who lives on the height of land between the Ottawa 
and Kippewa waters. He tells us that our preserve has 
escaped the visitation of the tremendous forest fires that 
have ravaged the Kippewa district, and that he has never 
seen in his life such quantities of moose in any one terri- 
toi-y as have gathered in ours, as the effect of these fires. 
We would like to renew through the medium of your 
paper the notice to the hunting world which you so kindly 
inserted last year, that our territory, comprising five hun- 
dred and odd square miles, covers the entire Maganissippi 
Valley, starting a few miles north of the Ottawa at Deux 
Rivieres, and runs north to what is locally known as the 
Great Lake, and to the edge of Lake Kippewa itself. 
Our territory embraces what is locally known as the 
Hull Lumber Company, Greer, Moore, ' Hawxbury and 
Eddy limits, and we must insist that visiting sportsmen 
respect our boundaries. We feel the greater necessity 
for giving this notice early publicity, because of the ravages 
of the forest fires which have destroyed much of the best 
hunting territory about Lake Kippewa. 
It may interest some readers also to know that a num- 
ber of trout lakes along the northern watershed of the 
Ottawa are good for speckled trout fishing, almost equal 
to that of the Nipegon. As a sample of what these lake 
waters can produce, I may cite a catch made just across 
the height of land from the Maganissippi waters about 
the middle of Jvme; twenty-two fish were taken in two 
afternoojis' fishing with the fly; none Avere returned to the 
water; all were kept that were caught. There Avere four 
small trout among the tAventy-two. The twenty two 
weighed, when dressed, ready for the table, 63 pounds. 
These fish have an abundance of food, and are of the most 
brilliant colors, We are informed that the trout fishing 
of that territoi-jf has been most excellent this season, and 
as it is becoming more and more accessible, there is no 
reason why lovers of fly-fishing should not enjoy it more 
fully than they have in the past. 
. Hai,.stead Scudder, Sec'y-Treas. 
Currituck* 
Currituck, N. C, Aug. 10.-— Editor Fore&t and Stream: 
I was glad to see in your paper that a part of New York 
State had stopped spring shooting and that the result 
was a small crop of young ducks. There is no doubt 
that if spring shooting were prohibited from Currituck 
to Canada ducks, especially black ducks, mallards, teal, 
AVidgeon and sprigtails, would breed in abundance all 
along the coast; in fact, 1 think I can prove it. About 
twenty-five years ago, Avhen ducks were not much hunted 
late m spring, the-e were a few pairs of black ducl<s 
that remained and raised their young ones here every 
summer, but the .spring shooting Avas extended until 
the last duck left our waters, aud for fifteen years I am 
certain not a single pair remained with us. During the 
past three year.s the old Currituck Cliib has protected 
its marshes during the spring and summer, and, to- 
day, there are some large flocks of black ducks full 
groAvn, and others just beginning to fly. On Aug. i my 
nephew saAV a flock of twent3'-three, and I am sorry to 
say could not resist the temptation to shoot at them. 
He bagged three— all young birds — but they Avere fully 
feathered and Avere very fat and in fine condition. 
Our Avild celery beds this season are so thick all over 
Currituck_ Sound that it is almost impossible to navi- 
gate a sail boat unless the wind is bloAving very hard. 
This should give u? good shooting in the fall and winter. 
Our summer bay bird shooting is quite up to the aver- 
age, and some fine bags are being made daily. I shot 
si.xtv-one last week, one day, and expect to" be up at 
dawn to-morrOAV morning, as it promises to be cool, and 
the shooting pleasant. More Anon. 
Some Notes ffom Vemiont* 
Editor PoreM amd Stream : 
A brief description of the Coon Pond forked tail 
speckled trout Avill be found at the top of page 193 in Hal- 
lock's Gazetter. Shortly after that article Avas Avritten 
the pond was stocked Avith the ordinary 5. fontinalis. 
Avhich has, as the natives say, run out the fork tails. 
I Avas highly pleased Avith Mr. Cheney's ansAver, and it 
confirmed my own belief, that these fish Avere the red 
trout. 
Yesterday a flock of plover passed camp, flying high 
southAvard. They gave us a greeting as the}^ passed. They 
Avere closely folloAved by a big storm, that rivals the so- 
called equinoctial storm of a month later. 
Here in the upper end of the big Back Bay some good 
catches of black bass have been and are noAV being made. 
Frogs and dobsons are the best killing bait. 
Ducks and Avoodcock haA'e bred here in their usual num- 
bers. Ruffed grouse are scarce. A large covey of quail 
are reported near North Sheldon, Vt., the result of a 
planting made there some years ago. If they, unaided, can- 
live through such a scA^ere Avinter as the past one, thcA^ 
may be regarded as a permanent addition to our list of 
game birds. 
Deer are seen somewhere in this vicinity nearly CA'^ery 
day. Recently our local United States collector saw a 
deer swimming in the lake near his camp. Thinking, or 
rather hoping, that it might be a Celestial, Avith $100 in 
his pocket, he, Avith a posse, started wnth. canoes in pursuit. 
They surrounded the deer, which, as they had him closely 
cornered, promptly do\'e and came up outside the circle 
of boats, and Avhile his would-be captors Avere motion- 
less with surprise at such an undeerlike performance, he 
swam ashore, shook the water from his sides, flipped up 
his white tail in derision and loped aAyjay to the bush, 
Stanstead, 
Camp )Ja.cle Poiht, Swanton, Vr, 
Chickens in the Notthwest* , 
Calg.ary, N. W. T., Aug. 13.— From all accounts | 
chickens are more abundant than usual, and there are 
thousands of ducks, so there will be great shooting here 
later on. A. W. du Bray. 
mid ^w^r «0iMf(ing. 
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Proprietors of fishing resorts will find it profitable to advertiit 1 
them in Foksst and Streak. ' 
The Boy With the Hoe* 
From the Springfield Republican. 
In this hot and sunny world of ours 
No creature's more forlorn 
Than is my young son Johnnie, 
When he goes to hoe the corn. 
Yet with a will he works away. 
For he sees the cornfield's needs — 
He smashes all the big clay lumps 
And mutilates the weeds. 
When he stops at last to take a rest. 
At the end of the weedy rows. 
The cooling winds come coaxing him 
To the AVoods, where the river flows; 
The trees AA'ith their branches beckon him 
To leave his work for play; 
"Just drop your hoe and come to us!" 
Are the words they seem to say. 
The fun that's fotwid Tn the shady haunts 
The little field hand knows; 
He loves to wade the shallow broftk 
That through the woodland flows. 
The "minnie" and the "shiner" 
Are dear old friends of his; 
He knows the tree where the gray owl sitb, 
Where the nest of the heron is. 
When he slowly turns to Avork agaitt, 
A sight more sad there's not 
Than his small figure toiling 
In the sun rays fierce and hot. 
With my hoe I go to help him, 
When, lo ! to the Avoods liei's aWaV J 
I find his hoe deserted there 
'Mid the J2prn ^nd Jumps o[ clay! 
I know I ought to thrash him. 
Once or twice, or maybe more: 
But as the boy isi dfiing now 
His pa's oft done before ! 
And -someJiow it is pleasant 
To have a feeling sure 
That this world of toil and trouble 
Still has pleasures sweet and pure. 
Charles K. Farley. 
In the Maine Woods. 
All have heard of the Maine woods. Few realize the 
extent of the vast forest, which, except for a few small 
clearings along the eastern part, is still a Avilderness. Its 
area is 15.000 square miles, or 10,000,000 acres, The great 
State of Massachusetts could be placed in its center and 
lost. It is covered Avith a forest of spruce, fir and various 
kinds of hardAvood, is drained by six large rivers and a 
thousand lakes so connected that one may travel for 
Aveeks by canoe, Avith fcAv carries. 
Having arranged to spend my summer vacation in this 
territory, I found myself at Bangor on Aug. i, and took 
the early morning train f®r Greenville, on Moosehead 
Lake. This ride is through the forest the greater part of 
the distance, and gives 'one some idea of the immensity of 
the wilderness Avhich he is entering. Small steamers run 
from GreenA'ille to Kineo Hotel. tAventy miles up the 
lake. Here I met my guide, who had obtained in advance 
provisions for our trip down the East Branch of the 
Penobscot River, about 200 miles through the heart of the 
forest to Grindstone, a station on the Bangor & Aroostook 
Railroad, in the eastern part of the Avoods. After din- 
ner arrangement Avas made Avith the captain of the steamer 
to take us to Northeast Carry, near the head of the lake, 
the balance to be made in that graceful craft, the Ma'ne 
Avoods canoe, thg same, in an improved form, which served 
the Indians. Theirs Avere made of bark, these of cedar 
wood and canvas. The model is the same. One Avriter 
has truthfttlly said: "Boats are artificial; canoes are 
natural. In a boat one is ahvays an oar's length and gun- 
Avale's height aAvay from nature. In a canoe j^ou can steal 
up to her boAver and peep into her very bosom." 
At the carry a team is kept to tote canoes over the trail 
of tAvo miles to the West Branch of the Penobscot River. 
Early the next morning the guide and I loaded our canoe 
and said good-by to civilization and started for a trip of 
two Aveeks, or, perhaps, in case of accident, six Aveeks 
to Grindstone, miles away on the other side of the Avilder- 
ness. Nothing to hear from the busy world, alone Avith 
nature in all her grandness. That day we saw many 
deer, but no moose, although their tracks Avere numer- 
oits along the shores. At night we camped about tAventy 
miles down the river, and slept as only he Avho has slept 
on a bed of boughs in a hunting blanket has slept. The 
guide rose early the next morning, looked out of the 
tent, and turning quickly said to me in a Avhisper. 
"Moose !" Stepping quickly out, I saw standing in the 
river four or five rods aAvay a handsome coav moose. I 
Avatched her for some time, took photographs of her and 
then Avalked to the edge of the bank, which Avas some 
higher than the river, and still she did not see me. I 
drew my revolver and fired it off, and if Herreshoff could 
build a boat to equal the speed Avith which she ran for 
the Avoods, Lipton Avould never hold the Cup. Hearing a 
noise in the river, I turned around in time to see a large 
bull run out of the Avater a feAV rods away. We had been 
so interested in the cow Ave did not see him at all, nor, of 
course, did he see us until he heard the shot. 
The guide cooked breakfast, and, as we sat down to 
eat, a monstiio«§ |>ul| came out into the river a few rods 
