FOREST AND STREAM. 
A WEEKLY JOURNAL, 
nKvoTKD to Field and Aquatio Sports, Practical Natural msTORY, 
D ^=JfnTTTDRK T8B PROTECTION OF GAME, PRESERVATION OF FORESTS, 
Men and Women of a Healthy Interest 
in Out-Door Recreation and Study : 
PUBLISHED BY 
forest and gtreant gnblishin# tw*nS- 
—AT— 
NO. Ill (Old No. 103) FULTON STREET, NEW YORK. 
[Post office Box 8832.] 
TERMS, FOUR DOLLARS A YEAR, STRICTLY IN ADVANCE. 
Twenty-five per cent off for Clubs of Three or more. 
Advertising Rates. 
inside pages, nonpareil type, 25 cents per line ; outside page, 40 cents. 
Special rates for three, six and twelve months. Notices In editorial 
columns, 60 cents per line. 
Advertisements should be sent in by Saturday of each week, if pos- 
sible. 
All transient advertisements must be accompanied with the money 
or they will not be inserted. 
No advertisement or business notice of an Immoral character will be 
received on any terms. 
• • Any publisher Inserting our prospectus as above one time, with 
brief editorial notice calling attention thereto, and sending marked copy 
to us, will receive the Forest and Stream for one year. 
Where Our Paper Circulates. — A Warsaw, HI., sub- 
scriber wonders how the impression has got abroad that the 
Forest and Stream circulates chiefly at the East, when he 
finds it all over the Western country. The impression is per- 
haps a natural one, because our publication office is at the 
East, but it is altogether erroneous, as a statement which we 
published last week shows. Leaving out the State of New 
York, where we are distributed among 300 post-offices, we 
find that our Eastern circulation, including Canada, embraces 
701 post-offices, while our Western circulation reaches 725. 
It is quite likely, however, that we send more copies of our 
paper to the Eastern offices than we do to the Western, al- 
though if the Western clubs keep coming in as they have been 
doing the past two weeks, they will soon overhaul the East 
lap, and carry by — that's all. 
By the way, our post-office circulation in Pennsylvania was 
given in our last issue as 61 ; it should have read 161. 
Another Large Adirondack Park — A Movement Which 
is Likely to be Benefioial.— Dr. W. W. Durant, President 
of the Adirondack Railway, with Messrs. Cheney and Rose- 
krans, Qf Glens Falls, N. Y., own and control about 700,000 
acres of land in the choicest part of the Adirondack region, 
and they have a plan in mind to add enough more land to 
make 1,000,000 acres, form a club, get a charter, and make an 
effort to protect the game and fish. Then say to the guides, 
“ You may hunt or fish on this land or these waters as much 
as you please in season. If you hunt or fish out of season, 
or we hear complaints from the people that you guide into 
the woods of overcharge for service, or anything else unbe- 
coming a guide that will make the Adirondacks a by-word 
and reproach, you must seek other fields and pastures new. 
We’ll have none of you.” The move is to be for the protec- 
tion of the game and protection of people who frequent the 
woods. As some some of the best fishing and hunting is on 
or in these very woods and waters, it would be for the inter- 
est of the guide to do right. It is not the intention to make 
a park in the sense of Blooming Grove Park, but rather a 
mutual protection society. 
NEW YORK, THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1878. 
To Correspondents. 
Ail communications whatever, Intended for publication, must be ac- 
companied with real name of the writer as a guaranty of ^oodfaltb 
and be addressed to the Forest and Stream Publishing Company. 
Names will not be published if objection be made. No anonymous com 
maul cations will be regarded. 
We cannot promise to return rejected manuscripts. 
Secretaries of Olnbs and Associations are urged to favor ns with brief 
notes of their movements and transactions. 
Nothing will be admitted to any department of the paper that may 
not be read with propriety In the home circle. 
We cannot be responsible for dereliction of the mall service If money 
remitted to ns Is lost. No person whatever Is authorized to collect 
money for ns unless he can show authentic credentials from one of the 
undersigned. We have no Philadelphia agent. 
tr Trade supplied by American News Company. 
CHARLES UALI/OCK, Editor. 
MEETINGS OF STATE ASSOCIATIONS 
FOR 1878. 
New Hampshire State Sportsmen’s League, Manchester, April. 
New York State Association for the Protection of *ieh and Game, 
Buffalo, May— ; Seoty., John B. Sago, Buffalo. 
Connecticut 8tato Sportsmen's Association. Hartford, May 15. 
Iowa State Sportsmen's Association, Des Moines, May 28. 
Nebraska State Sportsmen's Association, Fremont, May ilBtand 
22d. 
National Sportsmen’s Association, Wilkosbarre, Pa., June 11 
Illinois Stato Sportsmen’s Association, Quinoy, June 11. 
The Pennsylvania 8lato Association for the Protection of Game 
and Fish, Wilkesbarre, Juno 11 ; Sooty., BenJ. F. Dowanco. 
Ohio State Sportsmen’s Association, Cincinnati, June 16; Secty., 
Wiltbank, Toledo. 
Tennessee State Sportsmen’s Association, Nashville, Deo. 2 ; 
Sect’y., Clark Pritchett, Nashville, Tenn. 
Wisconsin State Sportsmen's Association. 
Massachusetts State Sportsmeu's Association , at oall of President . 
Missouri State Sportsmen's Association. 
MESSINA QUAIL. 
Quite a number of letters having been received by us from 
clubs, members of which were desirous of importing the Si- 
cilian quail, we have addressed a correspondent in Messina, 
who has kindly furnished us with the following : 
Messina, March 81, 1878. 
Editor Forest and Stream : 
Your favor of 2d to band, In answer to wbloh we beg to give you all 
Information relative to quails. The cost Is 6d. each bird. They must 
be put In proper cages, which cost 12s. 6d. each, containing 100 birds. 
Feed for every hundred for at least thirty days’ passage, about one bag 
and a half of hempseed, 2s. 16d.; freight for a cage, 2a.; fees to the 
steward of the steamer to feed them during the passage, 2s. If yon 
wish any birds, please write to me at once, otherwise I cannot be In 
time, as the r season Is from the 10th of April to the 10th of May. You 
would have to deposit the amount of Invoice to Messrs.- Phelps Bros. & 
Co., of your city. I am, dear sirs, yours truly, Dr. Bonanno. 
T. C. BANKS, 
Business Manager. 
8 . H. TURRILL, Chicago, 
Western Manager. 
CALENDAR OF EVENTS FOR THE COMING 
W EK. 
Thursday, April n.-Mlnlatn^a^t Race Boston. Massachusetts 
Rifle Association : Amateur Series at Walnut HU1. Base Ball . Provi- 
ded vs. Yale, at New Haven; New Bedford vs. Matesmet, at New 
Bedford. Running Meeting at Mobile, Ala. 
Friday, April i 2 .-Oxford-Cambridge sports. Running Meeting as 
above. 
Saturday, April 13.-Boston Bicycle Club Rnn to Arlington; New 
York ScottWmerican Club Games; Oxford-Cambrldge Race. Ross- 
more Rifle Club, at Staten Island. Creedmoor : Sharps Rifle Com- 
Danv Badge, at 11:30 a. m.; Turf , Field and Farm Challenge Badge, at 
?T/m * Spirit of the Times Medal, at 3 p. M, Seventh Refft. Rifle 
Club Match; Irlsh-Amerlcan Mid-range Badge; Creedmoor, Jr., Prize 
Match. Base Ball : Harvard vs. New Bedford, at New Bedford. Run- 
ning Meeting as above. 
Monday A prU 15.-EDglisb Amateur Athletic Championship Meeting. 
Empire vs. New York Rifle Clubs. Base Ball : Auburn vs. Picked Nine, 
at Auburn. 
Tuesday, April 16 ,-Creedmoor, Jr., Prize Match. Auburn vs. Roches- 
ter, at Auburn ; Harvard vs. New Bedford, at Fall River ; Cricket vs. 
Horned, at HornellsvlUe. 
Wednesday, April 17.-Manbattan Cricket Club, at Prospect Park. 
Creedmoor: Ballard Rifle Mid-range Badge, at 1:30 r. m.; Appleton 
Prize, at 3 p. m. Base Ball : Rochester vs. Utica, at Utica ; Auburn vs 
New Bedford, at Auburn. 
Answers to Correspondents. -We answered last week 
one hundred aDd thirteen questions of seventy-one correspond- 
ents in fifteen States. There were besides these many which 
we received too late for insertion, and some rejected as silly. 
The space devoted to this part of our paper is constantly in- 
creasing to meet the pressure, and innumerable letters testify 
to the popularity and value of these columns. 
Capt. Ducaigne promises us copies of some unpublished 
autograph letters of Henry Wm. Herbert, which we shall 
frame in memory of the subject and the donor. 
The Alligator Industry.— We know not how many for- 
tunes encased within the hide of the Florida alligator have 
been permitted to bask in the sun of summer and sleep in the 
mud of winter. But now that, like the unshapely casket 
pulled from the sea by the fishermen in the Arabian Nights, 
this ungainly monster's armor is found to contain gold or 
silver— the alligator industry is assuming important propor- 
tions. It may be that the “Florida Swamp Crocodile Hide 
Tanning and Oil Refining Company, Limited ” will be in the 
prime of its power when its northern prototype, the Hudson’s 
Bay Fur Company, shall have become a thing of history. 
The hides bring seventy -five cents .each, and the revenue ac- 
cruing from the oil adds to the profit. Three men in Louisi- 
ana, last winter, killed 9,000, and will soon, we should sup- 
pose, retire from the business, and adopt for their family coat 
of arms an alligator rampant. 
Good Obanghs to Bad Houses.— Some of our correspond- 
ents have informed us that consignments of oranges, forwarded 
to certain parties in New York, have been reported by the re- 
ceivers as having been all damaged, and returns for charges 
have been made. We have been the recipients of quite a 
number of packages of oranges from Florida this season, and 
all of the parcels came to hand in prime order. It is our duty 
to warn our Southern friends to be careful as to whom they 
ship their goods. It is wiser not to be carried away by flaming 
and specious advertising circulars. Find out reliable old 
houses— there are plenty of such— and make consignments 
only to them. The Sun exposes rascals on the consignment 
lay every week. 
Not Sport.— Running a horse down at the rate of 100 miles 
in ten hours at the Prospect Park track, the pounding of a 
plucky man nearly to death by a superior antagonist, who 
scarcely received a scratch, and the shooting at an apple on a 
woman’s head in a theatre, missing the apple and killing the 
woman— these doings are not sport, although so designated 
in the placard of announcement. 
“Anoth±b State Heard From.’’— Last week, in giving 
the number of towns to which the Forest and Stream and 
Rod and Gun finds its way, the types made us say “ Penn- 
sylvania, 61." It should have been “Pennsylvania, 161," 
which looks better, reads better and pays better. 
—In our issue of March 28 we printed an article fron Dr. 
Kenworthy entitled, “Marooning,” detailing a coastwise trip 
in Florida. The Doctor complains, with good reason, that 
the types made him say “lug a cruise" instead of “lay a 
course." In one place, where he wrote “ eight miles to the 
east," the printers had it “ to the weal." Such is the bitter 
fruit which this author is made to pluck from his choicest 
planting. 
—The Waltonian Club of New Haven, Conn., offers a re- 
ward of fifty dollars for any Evidence that will lead to the 
detection and conviction of any person or persons violating 
the trout law. All reliable information given to any member 
or the Secretary of the Waltonian Club, P. O. box 1613, New 
Haven, Conn., will be immediately placed in the hands of 
their attorney and suit brought against the offenders forth- 
with. 
New York Association.— At the monthly meeting last 
Monday, Senator Alfred Wagstaff, Jr., of the Committee on 
Game Laws, reported that a bill in the Assembly in relation 
to the appointment of State Game Constables was progressing 
favorably. It was proposed to amend the law for the incor- 
poration of associations of all descriptions by inserting the 
words, “Association for the Protection of Game." Mr. 
Whitehead drew the attention of the association to the fact 
that a number of bills providing for the modification of the 
game laws in the interest of certain localities had been intro- 
duced in the Legislature. They were detrimental to the gen- 
eral laws for the protection of game, which bad been passed 
after so much labor, and should be condemned. The follow- 
ing were elected members : District Attorney Benjamin K. 
Phelps, J. Harson Rhoades, Paul Thebaud, Dr. Frederick G. 
Winston and Perry Belmont. Mr. Whitehead made a satis- 
factory report on the condition of the lawsuits in progress. 
The proposition to establish a club-house and game preserve 
outside of the city was tabled. 
Protection in Kentuoky.— Through the energetic Presi- 
dent of our State Commission, Mr. Wm. Griffith, of Louisville, 
and four accomplished Senators, Hon. Henry Bruce, member 
of State Fish Commission, an appropriation of $3,000 for ar- 
tificial propagation of fish in Ky., was made irr the Legisla- 
ture. Some wholesome and greatly needed amendments to 
our State Fish Law, were projected by those enterprizing com- 
missioners, and have been passed, we hope, as seining, netting 
and apodging have been practiced with impunity by many of 
the don’t-care-a-d— n ilk, because an affectionate regard for 
out-buildings, hay stacks and fine stock restraines riparian 
farmers from procuring warrants against violators whom they 
detected. An amendment which will develop violations before 
Grand Juries will work wohders in the protection of our 
streams by constraining to observance of the law through fear 
of the penalty of violation. Kentuokian. 
Stamford , Ky. 
—The Howell, Mich., Shooting Club have rigidly enforced 
the game and fish laws and effectually stopped the wholesale 
spearing of pike and bass in the streams and lakes of that 
vicinity. 
—The Grand Jury of Knox, Ind., have indicted parties for 
illegal seining. 
—The first illustrated lecture of B. Waterhouse Hawkins, 
8. D., on Natural History and Art, is delivered at Chickering 
Hall this evening. 
Forest and Stream will be sent for fractions of a year 
as follows : Six months, $2 ; three months, $1. To clubs of 
two or more, $3 per annum. 
gl\e J \ifie. 
Massachusetts Rifle Association.— The Massachusetts 
Rifle Association opened the season April 3, at Walnut Hill 
range, by a competition in the “shot-gun match," begun last 
fall. There were seven entries. The following are the 
scores, which are good for the first meeting : 
( 800-6 6 4 4 3 6 6 5 6 6 6 5 6 4 6—70 
W U Jackson -J 900 — 9 B56565453636 4 3—67 
U.00O— 5 554346666434 6 6-67—204 
f 800—6 664646646666 6 6-72 
A H Hebbard < 900-6 545664466334 6 8—66 
A 1 1,000— 3 8444046656*66 6— 66—20 
f $00— 6 662433865544 4 4— 61 
Rftlpm wilder < 900—3 5 5 6 3 6 6 4 6 4 5 6 6 6 6—04 
U.000-6 4 0 6 3 3 6 6 6 3 6 6 6 6 4-62-187 
( 800—3 4 4 4 4 4 3 4 6 5 2 4 R8 6—64 
N Washburn •< 900—4 4 4 5666860434 3 4 — 08 
” 1 1,000— 0 6 4 3 6 4 3 4 5 6 6 4 6 6 6-62—179 
f 800— 4 4 4 3 4 6 6 6 5 5 6 4 6 6 6-6S 
J S Sumner -< 900—3 6 4 4 5 5 4 6 5 0 3 6 6 4 4 -01 
11.000— » 003424446634 6 4—49—178 
( 600—4 654664606656 8 4— A3 
C C Hebbard 900-4 36460466 4 564 3 3-69 
1 1.000 — 6 6 6 3 8 6 0 4 6 4 6 0 6 0 5—64—177 
( 800—6 3648666653636 5—06 
n Tvler . . < 900-5 3446263463644 4-60 
3 [1,000 — 3 3 6 5 6 6 6 0 6 4 H 440 3—61—177 
New Haven.— On the third the regular monthly meeting 
of the New Haven Rifle Association took place at the Quin- 
