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in the bay. How is it possible for shad to be found of size 
or in any quantity, when, at the very threshold of our river, 
there is such wanton destruction ? As food, such fish ure use- 
less, and they are peddled about the streets, selling for a few 
cents. We must particularly call the attention of the Fish 
Commissioners of New York to this dreadful waste, and we 
hope the American Fishcultural Association will memorialize 
the Legislature in regard to it. This kind of thing has been 
going on for years, and putting to naught the earnest efforts 
of fish culture. It is time that such stupidity— to call it by 
no better name— should be checked, and a stringent law 
should be enforced, preventing any further repetition of this 
indiscriminate waste of fish. 
TnB “Pacific Life,” the representative journal of the 
sportsmen of California and the west side of the contiuont, 
has been of late iu charge of our esteemed friend R- L. 
Ogden, E-q., Commodore of the Yacht Fleet, and leading 
sportsman of the Pacific slope. Mr. Ogden has been long and 
favorably known by the sobriquet of “ Podgors," over which 
he has written some of the raciest bits of sporting literature. 
When the Pacific Lije sporting paper was started, Mr. Ogden 
told us personally that he “ would give it ten months in which 
to live.” Now that he has become its master spirit we will 
vouchsafe to it a hundred times ten, and wi9h the enterprise 
all success. There is ample material of natural resources, men 
and measures in that part of the country, requiring an especial 
exponent. The information to be constantly mined out of the 
rich and unworked lodes, leads, gulches, pockets, or whatever 
they may be called with which that couutry abounds, needs a 
sensible and experienced purveyor. There are men in other 
parts who Bhould be supplied ns well a9 the home consumers. 
How to Procure tiie Gray Partridge. — The article in 
our last issue, relative to the gray partridge (Perdix cinerea) 
of Sweden having caused numerous letters to be addressed us 
as to the method of procuring the birds, we are glad to give 
some information as to how they can bo obtained, John H. 
Stevens, Esq., U S. Consul at Stockholm, having kindly given 
U9 the methods of transportation, cost of birds, etc. Mr. 
Steven9 says that the gray partridge can be obtained in 
southern Sweden, and could be caught from August to the 
middle of November, but that about September would be the 
best month to transport them. The cost of delivery on 
steamer would be from flve to six crowns a brace, male and 
female— from $1.35 to $1 GO per pair (the Swedish crown is 
about 20 to 27 cents). Transportation from Stockholm to 
London or Liverpool could be easily arranged. Any one de- 
sirous of importing these birds should address Col. Nere. A. 
El wig, No. 13 Duttninggatan, Stockholm, Sweden. Our 
thanks are due to Mr. Stevens for hi9 kiud attention. 
A Flattering Letter.— A gentlemen in Pittsburgh, Pa., 
sends us the following. Such acknowledgment of our use- 
fulness is exceedingly grateful to us. All we can say is that 
it will be our desire to merit the many expressions of friendly 
feeling which we receive : 
WUUe your columns are not given up to the discussion of subjects of 
the lower order of sports— aud Is not tins word greatly abus* d by 
miuy-you furnlsU the true sportsman with such reading and reports 
as none but a true sportsman can appreciate. Tboagh ranking 
specla ly as a sporting Jouroal, your columns are treasures to the natu- 
ralist, the lilstor an, tne anatomist and students of other soleutlOc and 
su notary pursuits. Allow me to thank you sp dally— aud I know I 
speak for inauy— for the manuer In which your columns devoted to lu 
quirles are conducied. One cannot peruse these questions and an- 
swers without finding much that Is of Interest. Iu keeping up such a 
column for Inquirers, you not ouly exhibit enterprise, but bestow lu 
many cases a great favor to the Inquirer. 
Another Indorsement.— Here i9 another gratuitous in- 
dorsement from one of our advertisers : 
Editor Forest and stream: Boston, April 2, 1878. 
Wo were led last year by emphatic assurances of a number of our 
neighbors, dealers In sportsmen's goods, eto., to have high expecta- 
tions as to the results of advertising lu your paper, aud It gives us 
pleasure to say that our hopes have been more than realized. From 
the time we began until now we have been constantly receiving letters 
of inquiry aud many orders for our goods. They come from almost 
every part of our continent, and from all sorts of people— from army 
officers, civil engineers, surveyors, college professors, divlneB, sports- 
men, miners, trappeis, and campers-out generally, and also from deal- 
ers ;'aod for this rea-on we have kept rur advertisement iu yoor paper 
lu season and out of season, so muon louger than we at first intended. 
We have never been so well sa'lslled lo all of our advertising experi- 
ence as we have with you, and deem It no more than Justice to say so, 
Respectfully yours, Gale & Co. 
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Mr. Ingram Fletcher, Esq., of Indianapolis, has returned 
from his third expedition down the Kissimmee River and 
around Lake Okeechobee in Florida. He found the mouth of 
Fish Eating Creek and saw A1 Fresco’s “ old dead cypress,” 
which be beheld afar off when the lettuce and drift forbade 
his near approach to that great inland sea— Okeechobee. 
A Monster Party. — On Saturday last tbe Prospect Park 
and Coney Islaud It. It. Co., of Brooklyn, sent out invitations 
to some 30,000 people. To accommodate so many persons, 
some 75 trains of 5 cars each were kept running all day. Mr. 
Culver, tbe President, and Mr. Washington, the Vice Presi- 
dent of the P. P. &C. I. R. R. may be said lo have reinvented 
Coney Island. It is indeed surprising that this wonderful 
place, right on the ocean’s side, aud iu close proximity to 
lo some 2 000,000 of people should havo wailed so long to bd 
practically developed. A railroad may lead, it is true, to 
nothing, but this largely syllabled little railroad has for ter- 
minus Tom Cable's tumous restaurant. On the occasion we 
refer to, there was a magnificent band of music right before 
Cable’s' establishment. The day was quite a festive one, 
and will inaugurate a series of pleasant summer junketings. 
GAME PROTECTION. 
MEETINGS OF STATE ASSOCIATIONS 
FOR 1878. 
Now Hampshiro State Sportsmen’s League, Manchester, April. 
New York State Association for the Protection of Fish amt Game, 
Buffalo, May— ; Sooty., John B. Sage, Buffalo. 
Connecticut State Sportsmen’s Association. Hartford, May lo. 
Iowa Stato Sportsmen's Association, Dos Moines, Mav ‘is. 
Nebraska 8tate Sportsmen's Association, Frouiout, May 21st and 
22 ( 1 . 
National Sportsmen's Association, Wilkosbarro. Pa., .Tune 11 
Illinois Stato Spurtsmou's Association, Quincy, Juue 11; Sooty., 
Geo. IS. Wlieolor. 
Tho Pennsylvania Slate Association for tho Protection of Game 
and Fish. Wdkesbarre, June 11 ; Seety.. Benj. F. Dowance. 
Ohio State Sportsmen's Association, Cincinnati, June 1ft; Seoty., 
Wiltbank, Toledo. 
Tennessoo Stato Sportsmen's Association, Nashville, Doo. 2 . 
Soct'y., Clark Pritchett, Nashville, Tenn. 
Wisconsin Stato Sportsmen's Association. 
Massachusetts St ate Sportsmon’s Association, at call of President 
Missouri State Sportsmen's Association. 
BREEDING CALIFORNIA QUAIL AND 
PINNATED GROUSE. 
Bay's End, Md., April 10, 1878. 
I received in the winter a number of California quail of 
both the mountain and valley species. I look good cure of 
them during the remuluder of the winter, and turned them 
loose in the spring. All disappeared but one pair, which 
stayed around the house aud fed with the chickens. This 
pair was frightened off by some means, and went to a neigh- 
bor's, where they made a nest and were saitl to have laid sev- 
eral eggs. Whether any of the eggs were hatched or not 1 
do not know, but none of the youug one9 were ever seen. I 
see no reason why they should not succeed in this region, es- 
pecially the mountain bird9, as they muat bo accustomed to 
quite as severe a climate as we have here. I also received 
five piuualed grouse from Ohio. Three of these were shot 
belore breeding season. The remaining pair laid thirteen 
egg9, every one of which they hatched, and wore all raised. 
They increased, till in a year or two, there were between 
seventy-five and one hundred birds. These stayed on the 
marshes most of the time, only coming otT to feed in the 
fields. In spite of a law made to protect them, these have 
all fallen a prey to the pot-hunter. I do not think there is a 
bird left. I consider this a very hardy bird, even more so 
than our native quail. Dr. T. S. Purnell. 
Shad and Nutmegs. — It has been left for the broad-minded 
and public-spirited Connecticut farmer, with his extended 
views of political economy and inter-State courtesy, to make 
an importaut discovery in scientific farming. This brilliant 
tiller of soils loug since exhausted by the continual bearing of 
wooden nutmegs lms found that his barren acres may be re- 
stored to their pristine fruitfulness by a generous deposit of 
fish, as manure. And tho rustic experimenter lias determined 
that of all tbe flab in the Connecticut rolling past bis door, 
the tender young shad posseses virtues the most potent. So 
when the Massachusetts fish commissioners, with much labor 
and unstinted outlay of mouey in the last few years, turned 
their attention to the artificial propagation of these fish, the 
ripariau possessor of landed estates in the sister State, smiled 
in his sleeve, mended his nets, and then took his slate aud 
worked out this little problem : “So much money expended 
by Massachusetts fish commissioners ; so m my shad fry ; so 
much shad manure to an acre ; so many bushels of nutmegs.” 
Then lie chuckled again and wrote to his Boston commission 
agent to get up a corner in nutmeg9. But how foolish it is 
for Massachusetts to complain that having expended her 
dollars 9he should have a shad or two ! S'had ought to. 
Long Lake Club.— We took occasion upon the organiza- 
tion of this club to express our gratification at the action of 
the Adirondack guides, and we now taka pleasure in noting 
the good results of their work. From a letter to a gentleman 
in this city, under date of April 20, we learn that the rules of 
the club have been most rigidly observed, both in regurd to 
shooting and fishing, and as a consequence tbe pro. peels for 
both of these sports is all that could be desired by sportsmen. 
No deer are to be killed until after July 10th. 
Kennebec Association.— The officers of the Kennebec 
(Maine) Association for the Protection of Fish and Game, are: 
Pres , Ur. G. W. Martin, of Augusta; Vice- Pres., Geo. I*. 
Haskell, of Augusta, and S. B. Glazier, of* Hallowed ; Sec. 
and Treas., R. B. Capen, of Augusta. 
Virginia Association. — At the annual meeting of the Vir- 
ginia Fish and Game Protective Association, at Richmond, 
May 3, ihe following officers were elected for the enduing 
year: President, Cburlea T. Palmer; Vice-President, Dr. O. 
A. Cren9liaw; Secretary, Edward H. Fisher; Treasurer. 
John Olt ■ Executive Committee, Moses Ellyson, A. Q. Hol- 
liday, W. Russell Robinson, A. G. Babcock, Philip Haxoll. 
Ohio Fish Law.— The new fish law of Ohio, which went 
into effect the first inst., reads os follows : 
“Section 85. Whoever, in any of the waters of aDy creek, 
river, canal, lake, pond, or reservoir, or in any body of water, 
whether artificial or natural, lying within tbe State of Ohio, 
except the waters of Lake Erie, injures, or kills, or catches, 
in any other way than by hook and line, any fish, except min- 
nows, or owns or possesses any fish pond, fish net, fish trap, or 
fish seine, except seines to catclf minnows, in or connected with 
any waters in the State of Ohio, except the waters of Lake 
Erie or in any way maliciously disturbs any fish iu any pri- 
vate fish pond, shall be fined for cacli offence not* more than 
fitly dollars, nor less than ten dollars, aud be imprisoned in 
the fail of the county not less than ten days nor more than 
sixty days. And provided further, that it shall be unlawful 
to catch, or destroy fish in any manner during the spawning 
season, excepting in reservoirs containing one thousand acres 
or more, from the 1st day of May to the 15th day of June, 
in each year.” 
DR. CARVER. 
In Vermont. — The National Rifle Olub at South Vernon, 
Vermont, will hold their soring meeting May 21). This club 
uses old fashioned rules and old fashioned rifles. As questions 
are sometimes asked us us to handicapping, we copy trom tho 
programme of the club. What a rillu a40-poundor must he I 
There must be soiuo of the old English fire-locks in Vermont 
to this day. Tile standard weight of ritle .barrels being 15 
lbs. nil over must give the. following odds : 
From 15 to 20 lbs, 1-4 inch to the lb for every 10 Bliots, 
“ 20 to 80 “ 3 10 " “ “ 
“ 30 to 10 “ 1-10 “ " " “ 41 
Massachusetts.— Boston, Saturday, May 1.— First trial of 
tho May amateur series, nod sixth unewed competition of 
the “■dirty match. " Wiud high, rendering fine shooting 
impossible. Ooolest ants were not numerous, owing to the 
had weather. The following are the scores at 200 yards: 
J VVcniyss, Jr 4 0 6 4 4 1 4 4 4 ;i-41 
W K ■uerrler i 4 4 4 s 4 « 6 « 4—10 
■I B Parker 8 o 4 4 a i 4 1 6 4—10 
W Arthur 3 0 4 4 4 5 0 3 4 3— 411 
WPola <1 4 4 I 4 4 3 4 4 4 4-110 
!•; B Souther 4 4 4 i 4 4 a 3 4 O-tO 
living Juntos 4 44044433 8—88 
W r oiio.i. •• •••‘4 84434438 4-04 
But few marksmen entered for tho non-cleaning match. 
The result of this mulch at 200 and 300 yards was ns follows: 
■jiio yarns. 8<>U yards. 
W Poland 6 1 4 3 4 4 4- \S 3 3 4 4 4 3 6-25-63 
J Weinyss, Jr .4 4 4 4 4 4 4-wl 434443 3—26—68 
Gardner. — The rifle club havo elected the following offi- 
cers: President, Henry C. Kimwllon ; Vice-president, C. D. 
Bent ; Clerk and Treasurer, G. F. Ellsworth; Executive 
Committee, A. Coleman and 8. B. Hildreth. 
At Walnut Hill. — Want of space prevents our giving 
more than Captain Jackson’s remarkable store, with two 
Olliers at the range near Boston. The total 218, fifteen shots 
at 800, 1100 and 1 ,000 yards, is a marvelous. one. It is true 
218 have been twice beaten, Dudley Bclph, ut New Orlenus, 
scoring 219, find tin* same number having been made by Mr. 
Bruce. Making 149 out of a possible 150, at 800 and 900 
yards, is marvelous. Mr. Tyler's 209, and Mr. Poland's 19(1, 
are excellent. 
W II J ckson. 
800 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 5 6 5 6 6 6(1 6 —76 
DUO 6 6660466666665 6—74 
1,000 3 4664645606645 6—00—218 
II Tyler. 
3446466665566 6—00 
00.1 6 6 4 6 0 6 6 6 3 5 3 6 4 6 6—09 
1,000 5 6656666662665 4—71—209 
Win Poland. 
80C 6 6666006660 4 66 6— 74 
HIM) 1 8 2 6 4 8 0 3 8 4 6 3 6 5 5—6! 
1,000 4 6 6 3 6 6 6 6 4 5 0 6 4 6 6— !0— 190 
At the second competition for ehampiou gold medal, pre- 
sented by Zctllcr Bros., at Guttcnherg, Sunday, May 5, 1878, 
although the weather was very unfavorable lor good scores, 
the following scores were made : 
M. Dorrler 10 * J. Dull! 173 
o, a. Schurmaun ins v . FuUarm 179 
M. L. ltigi,8 1 sit l>. Aimer iw 
B. Zettler 205 P. Founlug .ion 
G. A. Scliurraunn See. 
Boston April SO .— Best scores at rifle gallery, (155 Washing- 
ton street, for three rises, eight shots per man, distance 100 
feet : 
F. UnllU 6 4 6 6 4 6 6 6— 3H 
J. K. Harris 4 4 6 4 6 6 6 8-iT 
H. T. Rockwell 64654 466- H7 
j Fitzpatrick 6 6 6 6 6 4 4 1 - 8 T 
.J. Cl. wen 3 3 4 6 6 6 5 6-35 
D, F. Wing 5 4 6 4 6 4 8 4-38 
it. U. 
Stamford Amateur Rifle Club.— Y esterday, May 8, at 
10 o’clock, the all-comers' short-range mutch took place. On 
the 11th will occur the fourth competition for the Sharps 
rifle ; on the 15th for the Tiffany cup ; on the 18lh for the 
Harris revolver ; on the 22d for the bull's-eye budge, aud 
on Wednesday the first competition for the “Teackle Cup." 
— Harvard und Yale nre to Lave a rille match. 
Jamaica Rod and Rifle Association.—' T he first chal- 
lenge badge of the season at 299 yards took place on Satur- 
day nt the range. Mr. T. Rogers, with a score of 43, won 
the first priz ■. The second was won by Mr. J. M. Crane 
with 38, possible 50. 
Cbredmoor— Saturday, May 8.— In spite of the strong 
wind and squally weather, l lie shooting w ns fairly good. 
The leading match wus for the Sharps’^ prize, $250 gold, 
which commenced shortly before 11 o'clock. Match open 
to all comers, with any rille. Distances, 800, U0O opd 1,000 
yards ; 15 shots at each range. Mr. Weber's score, 215 out 
