Dec. 26, 1903.] 
FOREST » AND STREAM. 
NOTHING NEW. 
Sl'ANIELS AND COCK SHOOTmC. 
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OLD TYPE SETTEE. 
Pictures of Old Time Shootingf. 
Then- did not have kodak? in tliose da3'_s, but no doubt 
the lithographs of held scenes gave perfect satisfaction 
to a l-asLe less exactino than that of to-day-. Certainly 
the very c4-iiclen«|S Wi4 (^uaintnfSs of these "sporting 
views" make them all the more interesting, as they are 
here taken from musfy prints and reproduced for the 
eyes of this generation. The pictures are front Hodgson's 
Sporting' Views, and were published in the early part of 
the last century. Not the least itjteresting feature of the 
prints is the illustration of th^ old tyjpes o| §?jd io^s. 
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"Game birds in general, and canvasback docks m 
particular, must be subjected to a certain amount of 
heat for a certain length of time before that chemical 
transformation can take place in their flesh and blood 
necessary to make apparent to the human palate that 
flavor peculiar to the bird. In the uncooked bird the 
flavor is present in a dilute form; it needs heat to drive 
off the water and thereby concentrate the juices. In 
the overcooked bird you have approached too near to 
charcoal, a substance without flavor. Just where to 
stop between these extremes we have endeavored to in- 
struct you. 
"The man that wants his bird dried to a crisp does 
not like the flavor of that bird, and would have you 
destroy that flavor with fire. The man that says, 'cook 
my canvasback twenty minutes by the clock,' and 
then to eat it covers a warm slice of the raw, blue 
flesh with currant jelly, or Worcestershire sauce, does 
not know much about the delicious and delicate flavor 
of the canvasback duck. A tender sheldrake, or any- 
thing to form a foundation for jelly or sauce, will do 
for him. Have all your game as fresh as you can get 
it after the animal heat has passed off. Putrefaction 
does not add to the flavor of any game. To any one 
fortunate enough to possess a 'spit,' to him I say, 
never trouble your oven with a game bird. — H. DeG." 
There you have it, and the rest remains with the 
duck and the cook. Frank Hey-wood. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
Dr. Morris in a late number gives four ways to cook a 
duck, and his fourth one is the way T would want to 
cook it, or anything else that can be cooked that way. 
I have used the kettle and the hole in the ground to bake 
beans in, even when 1 had almost any sized Dutch ovkii 
I could have used; but the beans would not have tasted 
so good if I had used the oven. 
One advantage a camp kettle sunk in the ground has 
over the oven is that it can be filled, then left there all 
night; if there are any coyotes in the country they are 
not likely to empty it before morning. 
I have had them waste a good deal of their time in 
trying to get the hot lid off an oven and not bum them- 
selves. The first one which had been detailed to remove 
it had no doubt been burned, and the others would be 
busy trying new plans to get into the oven, when I found 
them at it and put on more coals to keep it hot. 
Cabia Blanco. 
The Massachusetts Association. 
Boston, Dec. 19. — Editor Forest and Stream: Last 
Thursday evening the December meeting of the Massa- 
chusetts Fish and Game Protective Association was held 
at the Copley Square Hotel. A meeting of the Executive 
Committee of the Massachusetts Central Committee for 
Protection of Fish and Game was held at 4 o'clock. 
Chairman H. A. Estabrook, of Fitchburg, presiding. 
Former Chairman A. B. F. Kinney, of Worcester, said 
the scarcity of partridges in the central portion of the 
State this year had been so great as to cause much 
anxiety lest the birds would become extinct in that quar- 
ter unless more restrictive measures are adopted. He 
said that he was sure there would be some petitions pre- 
sented to the next Legislature for more strmgent 
measures, either asking for a limit of the bag or a re- 
duction of the time allowed for shooting. President 
Reed said that in tramping through the woods of Sand- 
wich and in traveling on the highways since the close of 
the shooting season he had seen more partridges than 
during November, and in that section he is of the opinion 
that there is a good number of birds left over. Chair- 
man Estabrook, while admitting that he had found the 
birds less numerous in towns where he has hunted this 
season than they were a year ago, said he had found them 
fairly plentiful this year as compared with some previous 
' The committee took no specific action on the subject, 
deeming it wise to await further developments. 
Your readers will recall the name of Mr. Wm. B. 
Phinney, of Lynn, who Was a member of the executive 
committee since its formation in 1899, and whose death 
occurred a week ago. As a member of the House and of 
the Committee on Fisheries and Game the past two years. 
Mr. Phinney has rendered excellent service in the cause 
of protection. A practical sportsman for many years, his 
first efl'orts in the interests of sport resulted in the or- 
ganization of the Lynn Fish -and Game Protective Asso- 
ciation, of which he was president at the time of his de- 
cease. Suitable resolutions were adopted by the commit- 
tee, and the secretary wa^s instructed to send a copy of the 
.same to his family. 
The attitude of the committee as regards legislation 
the coming winter, so far as developed at this meeting, 
-is likely to be in favor of such changes, if any, as the 
commissioners may recommend in their forthcoming re- 
port, and Chairman Collins, who was the guest of the 
State Association in the evening, expressed an earnest 
wish that meaas be found to facilitate securing warrants, 
and that the right of search be so much extended that 
when a warden feels sure from existing circumstances 
that a man has been violating the law he should have 
such authority as to enable him to .secure the evidence 
needed to secure his conviction. 
Heretofore Massachusetts legislators have been un- 
willing to allow the search of the person of a hunter 
for evidence of guilt, chiming that the privilege is liable 
to abuse. The deputies and other officers may search for 
and seize, without warrant, any smelts which they have 
reason to suspect were taken illegally. For enforcing the 
provisions of the lobster law, "any commissioner or 
deputy, or any member of the district police, may search 
in suspected places for, seize, and remove, lobsters which 
have been tmlawfuUy taken, held or offered for sale." 
For one, I see no reason why such a provision should 
not be made for searching the premises of dealers and 
cold storage -warehouses for game illegally taken or held. 
I see no reason why such a privilege is more liable to 
abuse when applied to game than when applied to 
lobsters. , , , . 
Besides C&airman CoUins, other speakers at the Asso- 
ciation meeting were Mr. Herbert E; Tuck, of Haverhill, 
and Q^airman Estabrook-. Dt- E. W. Branigan present€4 
