forest and stream. 
sources of the Hudson. Arrangements have been made with Mr 
Green to furnish the club with one of his best men to take 
charge of and superintend their fish-breeding establishment 
bo as to insure its success. The club have purchased, in Cana’ 
da and forwarded to their preserve, a bull and cow moose 
and have contracted for more. Within the next five years the 
club eutertuins the hope that they will be enabled to restock 
this favorite resort with fish and game. The Adirondack Club 
is incorporated under the Game laws of the State- Its sfflcers 
Persia TrT^ mpS ° U ’ ^ ^ J ' Hall > *** W. E 
Association for the Protection of Game.— 
Tue monthly meeting was held on Monday, the 11th The 
KJ as < T UP ! ed by . M f r - H - Lawrence Mr. Thomas N 
Cuthbcrt, Secretary, informed the meeting of the interest 
SS!“ °^ er States in the topics treated by the association, 
.tecalling the history of game protection, the Secretary states 
Jlat the first game laws were only passed in 1848. 
ur. Charles E. Whitehead, counsel to the association, staled 
,hat the recent action of the association in not enforcing 
,he law in relation to the sale of venisou after January 1 haa 
•esulted in the wholesale vending of the forbidden game by 
imall dealers, who said they had sold it on the assurance of 
,he wholesale dealers that the association would not deal 
larshly with them. The action of the association had demor- 
llizcd the dealers, and he hoped no such leniency would be 
ihowu them next season. He had commenced some fifteen 
mits for selling venison out of season, and had brought three 
;o trial, gaining two. Dr. A. R. Slruchan was duly elected a 
nember aud the name of Dr. G. Winston, President of the 
Vlutual Life Insurance Company, was proposed aud laid over 
mid the next meeting, under the rule. Ex-Congressman 
Jinton L. Mernam of Lewis county, N. Y., gave information 
n relation to the wholesale destruction of deer in the Adiron- 
lacks. He mentioned one case in which three young men had 
;one up there, lured five guides, secured as many hounds and 
nercilessly slaughtered the deer. They were, of course ar 
rested, but compromised the matter by paying a slight fine Such 
icts worked incalculable mischief, and l.e hoped the association 
would take some action with the view of securing legislative 
lid. Senator Alfred Wagstaff assured the gentlemen that 
Senator Turner was about to introduce a bill authorizing the 
Governor to appoint State Game Constables, who would see 
that the game laws were properly enforced all through the 
State. It was determined to combine with the West for the 
purpose of stopping the shipment of game to New York out 
of season. 
New Jersey State Convention.— A convention of dele 
gates from Cape May, Cumberland, Atlantic, Burlington 
Ocean, Monmouth, Hudson, Bergen and Middlesex counties’ 
one hundred members in all, met at Trenton, Feb. 5 to dis- 
cuss the present system of net-fishing. A committee’ having 
been appointed, framed a bill prohibiting all seine fishing from 
June 1 to Sept. 15. 
—The Sportsman’s Club of Cecil County (Md.) have sent the 
Legislature the draft of a law for the protection of fish in 
the Elk River. 
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starting with hare soup, runs all through the culinary gamut 
of game. Some of the toasts were kindly thought of and 
most appropriate. We, though abseut, feel sure that tho 
toast, “Our Sister Societies in the United States,” was well 
received and heartily responded to. Our well-known con- 
tributor, R. H. Kilby, Esq., is tho President, and A. Shewan, 
Esq., Secretary of the Fish and Game Club. 
IP* 
THE FOREST AND STREAM AND ROD 
AND GUN TOURNAMENT 
For tho Short-Range Championship 
And three team medals, which will be awarded to the teams 
making the first, second and third best scores. Other prizes 
will be offered also, to take place at Conlin’s shooting 
gallery. Open to teams from uny organized rifle club. 
Co7k/rti(ww.— Teams— Bach team snail consist ot ten men. The teams 
participating must be composed of members of tho various clubs 
which they represent. Klttes-LUn^tcd to ten pounds In weight ; mini- 
mum pull of trigger, three pounds ; 22-100 cal. Teams can furnish 
their own rifles and ammunition, or use those at the gallery as they 
may desire. Number of Shota-Ten by each competitor. Sighting 
Shots Two shots will be allowed each competitor. Position— off- 
hand. Targets— 200-yards targets, according to the regulations of the 
N . K . A . reduced In proportion to the range at the gallery . Praotlce- 
No practice allowed on the day of the match. Entrance Fee-Five 
dollars to be paid at theenice of tho Forest and Stream and Rod 
and Gun, No. ill Fulton street, N. Y. All teams -leslnug to compete 
must be entered teu days before the time the match Is announced to 
take piece. Tne match to ho governed by tue rules of the N. R. a. 
relating to teams. Captains of the competing teums shall meet one 
week before the commencement of the match, make all preliminary 
arrangements, choose referees, and decide In what order their respect- 
ive teams shall shoot. The referees shall elect an umpire, whose de- 
cision In all cases shall be final . 
The match will commence on Monday, March 11. 
We beg to acknowledge from Messrs. Remington & Sons 
the receipt of a nickel-plated, pearl-handled revolver, as one 
of the prizes for the Forest and Stbeam and Rod and Gun 
tournament. 
'NICK” ON THE TROPHY CONDI- 
TIONS. 
Louisiana — Opelousas, Feb. 10.— The season for deer closed 
last week. This game is reported plentiful in the eastern part 
of the parish. A change in the law, making the season open 
Nov. 1, instead of Aug. 1, as now, would prove beneficial 
—Remonstrances to the proposed five years’ prohibition law 
in regard to quail shooting are pouring into the Ohio Legisla- 
ture from all over the State, and its passage is considered 
pretty effectually defeated. 
Ohio. — The Jefferson Game Protective Association was 
organized at Jefferson, Feb. 4, with the following officers 
Pres., Geo. W. Beckwith; Vice-Pres., J. L. Brown; Treas. 
L. H. Means; Sec., W. D. Honells, Jr. 
Michigan — HoweU, Feb. — A club has just been organized 
here to be known as the Howell Game Protection and Shoot- 
ing Club. The following officers were elected : President, 
H. B. Blackman ; Vice-president, L. S. Montague ; Secretary’ 
C. U. Jewett; Treasurer, B. H. Hubert. 
Michigan State Sportsman’s Association. — The ‘State 
Sportsman's Association of Michigan convened at Battle 
Creek Feb. 5, with Pres. E. S. Holmes in the chair Repre- 
sentatives were present from tho St. Clair, Detroit, Bay Coun- 
ty, Kent County, Howell, Saginaw, Hastings and Battle 
Creek Associations. Among the papers read was one by E. 
R. Miller, Esq., of the Fish Commission, on the prohibition 
of lake trout aud whitefish seining during the spawning sea- 
son, and for a brief time thereafter. The entire cessation of 
all netting of whitefish when running in large schools into 
shoal water to deposit spawn, and of trout while seeking the 
reefs for spawning, was urged as the only means of restoring 
the fishing industry of Michigan to its position among the 
other commercial interests of the State. The paper prepared 
by Mr. John Davidson, of Monroe, advocated the strict pro- 
tection of all ducks that breed in the State, viz.: Mallard 
wood-duck, aud teal, between the 1st day of February and 
the 1st of September. Fallowing the discussion of this topic 
came an able presentation by Senator J. L. Burleigh, of Arm 
Arbor, of the need of more stringent game protective enact- 
ments. Prof. H. B. Roney, of East Saginaw, read au able 
essay on “The Importance of More Effective Legislation for 
the Protection of Game aud Fish.” The difficulty of secur- 
ing proper enactments, the writer thought, was the lack of a 
healthy public sentiment aud laxity of public opinion on the 
subject. Statistics show that of I he enormous ammiut of veni- 
son shipped from fifty-four stations in the northern part of 
the peninsula, during two months of the present winter, about 
four-filths went to markets in other States. The subject 
elicited a lively discussion among the members, one subject 
of warm dispute being the prohibition of still bunting deer 
and legalizing only hounding. Other papers were on the 
handling of a gun, by Mr. T. S. White of Grand Haven • and 
Creek 0 Micblgau Styling, by Mr. E Harbeck, of Battle 
The next meeting will be held at Lansing the third Tues- 
day of January ,1879. The officers for the ensuing year are : 
Pres. Dr. E C. Holmes, Grand Rapids, re-elected; Sec., 
^tle'cSe P ke ‘‘ G ‘' aUC Ka F ids i Treas o N - A. Osgood, 
Dim and Game Protection Club of the Province of 
SJO BBaa _Our thanks are due to the club for their polite invi- 
..ou to dine with them on the 7tli of February. If only time 
and space were annihilate we might undoubtedly have dined 
in Quebec with our many Canadian friends. We look 
hen, with intense longing at the savory bill of fare, which,’ 
T^ROM an association numbering among its mauagmg 
J- members so large a proportion of practicing lawyers, the 
National Rifle Association has its laws and regulations in a 
most remarkably inchoate state. Among the smaller clubs 
throughout the country it is no uncommon thing to adopt as 
their standard the rules of this prominent organization, and it 
becomes the more important, therefore, that these rules for 
the conduct of rifle shooting should be drawn with all the 
fullness aud perspicuity possible. The association could well 
afford to drop all the wrangles into which its opponents and 
ill-advised friends would draw it on the question of repre- 
sentative nationality, and make itself a model of its kind, to 
which growing clubs could look up to with the assurance that 
a sound, progressive example was set before them. But, in- 
stead, the records of the association show a system of tinker- 
ing, patching, altering and amending, practiced on the un- 
fortunate by-laws and regulations, until they teach and direct 
almost everything in their assertions, and practically amount 
almost to nothing in their many contradictions. Of course it 
has often occurred that the legal rifle managers enjoy interest- 
ing matches of interpretation, and the board meetings were 
often the scenes of amusing mimic battles of gab between the 
hair splitters. The climax came when one of the members of 
the board discovered, or thought he had, that the association 
had been living for five years or more a lawless life, in that 
the by-laws had never been legally adopted. Of course an 
issue was raised, the lawyers wrangled, and once again the 
directors performed each his part in a grand legal circus. A 
compromise was reached, and now the association rests on the 
belief that it has a set of t by-law8, at least until unother legal 
light chases away the notion. 
In legislation affecting the association there has been the 
same halting mode of procedure. Several acts have been 
passed, each tacking on some feature which a little more care 
and circumspection in the drawing of the original bill would 
have included. There was, of course, much that was fresh 
and untried in the work of drawing up laws touching rifle 
associations. No models existed on which to frame their re- 
quirements, and ter a certain extent it was necessary to feel 
the way ; but allowing for all this, there has been a great 
amount of blundering, and a liberal stumbling upon good luck 
rather than its intelligent pursuit. 
No small share of the apparent success thus far of the N. 
R. A. has been due to the support of the general public and 
the earnest endeavors which the secular and non-professional 
press has given to the topic of well-directed rifle practice. 
There have been bickerings which have at times found their 
way into the columns of the sporting papers, but the great 
world without, who have no axes to grind, and are there- 
fore not wroth when the grindstone fails to turn, are not dis- 
satisfied wilh the progress thus far made; but the fact re- 
mains that the path has been a devious one, according to 
methods more blindly lucky than discreetly shrewd aud busi- 
uess-likc, and lo-duy it would he an economical use of time 
and effort if some one should lake upon himself the codifica- 
tion of the mass of by-laws, rules, regulations, precepts aud 
directions already passed by the directors of the N. R. A 
The latest case where this want of intelligent drawing up of 
rules and conditions hus come to the surface, is in the specifi- 
cations governing the contests for the Centennial trophy. 
£ i.4ss SS 
securing the best shots Ld . 6 op method of 
left open for a vast amount of’ fn ™r W l0 ' matter « in fact, 
contests thus fur bad, the NuLnal RH^'f^' l u C ' two 
sumed the control without anv siwi«i ^ 8s . oc,lU,ou as- 
The results certainly could K JSSb2eSSS5 
any management, aud though in eqffitVthn w", uad ® r 
Association should have extra privileges ofSrSV° Dal - K,fle 
further contests or selections W 7fi of affi^ !" “X 
tha conditions give them no mora <£n?!S r and 
est backwoods target company. J u fact there 5 Vc , n ‘ 
mode of selection fixed. The i natch to P arl . ,ca,ar 
pretty much us the practice of the iV G s n y mt ' ( ,° n 
constant hope for the best. The riflemen of thelnnH^ h tt 
posed to draw themselves together into S sort ^ 8 , U1 ’' 
tous concourse of atoms " 7 „,h i l h0rl 11 forlui- 
represeutative team— a theory of evnlin ,? lber creQte a 
siding intelligence. The present team thM^ld^wT 
each year with the holders, but there are obicciio,« ,5 “A* 1 
to leave ffbest meu'^Tlfn^ while Z f 
'Safa? sgti ,£ P 
have been representative. g or m, SlA not 
But now the practical question arises- If Q en n »i,:„. Q 
team fix Chicago as the place, will the National 
cation enter upon the work of fixing condiSns ? a * 
not, who will? Will the DearWu S 
mav g have no mat^ 
will ultimately fall a victim to these lapm penna. 
— ■ 
MATCH FOR THE TROPHY. 
The following notice has been sent by the Secretary of the 
world A ’ ° f AmmCa 10 the V “ rioua riflo associations of the 
muon ” 1 haV i° lhe hODOr t0 lnvlt ® your attcntlon >° t^u 'foUowfni^reao 
lailon ; unanimously approved by the Board of Director! of the nIEIIi 
R ine Association of America, belli Tuesday, Fob. ts, lsis viz • ^ 
•<yf« 0 /v«d, TUac me secretary bo directed to notify m 0 riflemen o, 
nr rin Ud | ?, «' HC0Uttn ' 1 ’ Franoe - Australia, me Dominion 
A* 6 " Mmm. uud an other countries having 
^•.• associations or clubs, that the next match for the Centennial 
trophy wtl take place In this country In September next, open to the 
riflemen °f all countries on the sumo terms us the former competitions 
provided that notice be received by tills association on or before Jane 1 ’ 
is. 5| from the riflemen of any country or uny foreign rifle i’ 
that a team will be sc D t to represent them in such match. That In case 
“ ‘“ dl “®‘‘ ce b0 r*>vod >'y t"“t date or mutch take place, that such 
match will be postponed to tho year 1879. the trophy to remain In the 
meantime In tho possession of tho last American team, us at present 
aud to be Inscribed as having been won by America In ISTs •• ’ 
A printed copy of the conditions of the match above referred to n, 
furnished herewith, aud I have great pleasure in expressing the 
earnest desire of this association thut your country may be represented 
In the third competition for the American Centennial Trophy 
1 am, Blr, with sreat respoct, your vory obedient servaut, 
_ Gbo. S. ScuBiuiimnoHN, Jr., See. N R A 
Cop °s of the foregoing sent to N. It. A., Great Britain: National 
Association of the Riflemen of Germany; Socl6l6 U-Snerulode Kir do 
?,£ o, n Tl r n ' 1 1 Ul8ter Rlfl0 Association, Ireland ; West of Scot- 
land Rifle Club; Natlonrl Rifle Club of Scotland ; Victoria Ride A»sc 
elation, Montreal; Dominion of Canada Rifle Association, otuiwa 
Canada; Province of Quebec Rifle A.soclatlon, Cauadu; Suc7 6 m 
Havralse de Fir, Havre, France ; La Sock, to de Kir d*s Communes de 
France, Calcutta Rifle Association, India; Southern ludia Itirie Asso- 
clation. InGla; Coburg Rifle Association, Canada ; Prince Edward's 
Island Rifle Association; Am. Rifle Club, Lima, Peru ; Port Elizabeth 
Rifle Association, South Africa; Demoraru Rifle AlsocTtltfon We« 
Indies, New South Wales Rifle Association, Australia; Victorian 
Rifle Association, Australia; Irish Rifle Assoch.tmu, Ireland; Guelph 
Rifle Association, Canada ; Victoria Rule Club, Canada ; Ontario R|u 0 
Association, Victoria, Canada, 
National Rifle Association. -At a meeting of the Board 
of Directors, held on Tuesday, Feb. «, incut ion of which was 
made in our lust issue, the president, Judge N. F Stanton 
announced the result of the annual meeting o( the association 
and reappointed the members of atuudiug committees for ihe 
ensuing year. He recommended the equalization of the sala- 
ries of the assistant secretary and the superintendent of the 
range at Creedmoor, and that the Range Committee should 
assist in the work of making the headquarters a centre of in- 
formation, etc. Secretary Schcrmerhorn announced that the 
° f - l ‘ C ' vas Dwtrl y r <-’ady lor printing, and 
1,000 copies would be distributed at an early dale. 'The re- 
poit of Treasurer Wylie showed a balance on bund of *50 87 
Gen. John B Woodward reported that the committee had 
drafted a skeleton form of a proposed programme, which was 
submitted to the Executive Committee for revision and action 
1 he plan embraced was similar to the one which governs the 
matches of the National Rifle Association of Great Hritiun. 
The uumber of shots per man iu all matches wus placed at 
seven, aud the number of men in each squad at four. I n the 
majority of matches subscription prizes would be allowed 
The spring meeting will open on Thursday, May 28 with 
the “ Leech Cup," which will be contested ou the old ranee 
while the targets on the new range will he allotted to matches 
for “ volley firing ” aud “skirmishers." On the secoudfdav 
tun matches will be contested at 800 yards, five at 800 vnnls 
three at 900, and three at 1,000 yards. On the third day 
thirteen matches will be contested at -200 yards seven at ,100 
yards, and 0 at 000 yards. In conclusion Gen. Wood wan! 
8lu . lt 1 dwt ^ P roh ‘ 8 of the spring meeting last year were 
only while under the proposed plan he thought some 
money might he realized by which many needed improve- 
