have entered the field against him ; but then he is equally con- 
servntive, and I imagine I can almost hear him saying to him- 
I know mysdf.” inS ° f ^ " N ° gig ,n ' back, if 
“ In passing through these shoals with lumber rafts I have 
known as many as seven fine fellows to jump on the ’raft in 
one day s travel by being hemmed suddenly between the raft 
and drift-lined towheads. Seeing no other means of escape 
and being frightened, the fish would leap a distance of ten 
feet in the vain hope of clearing the raft. 
* *\‘ e Rovemment is having a canal constructed along this 
fmd a it & S^i t d 0 thnf^ Ct tbC Davagahlu waters nbove and below, 
aud t is said that the concussion produced by blasting along 
the shore has driven the fish away. I doubt this, and propose 
g ? « among theniin October with a full outfit to remain a 
° r * eu days Those persons who fish for bass along the 
river confine themselves to the mouths of creeks, and at fa- 
vorable seasons catch immense numbers of them to the extent 
that one actually grows tired of lashing the banks with them. 
l fits kind of work generally comes in the mouth of April 
when the river is swollen and muddy and the creeks clear— 
a clasi of sport I could never relish because of the unfair ad- 
vantage taken of these “game cocks of the deep”— to wait 
until they are massed in the narrow mouths of the creeks and 
then fire upon them. But, thanks to nature, this season is 
uncertain and does not last long. Imagine to yourself a good 
solid table rock with the water roaring and rushing by on 
either side, and stretched out below you a long eddy suffleient- 
ly calm for your float to be seen one hundred yards, your boat 
safely lushed alongside the rock ; then cast your minnow in 
the edge of the curl and let it float away twenty, thirty, forty 
fifty yards, when down it goes with a pop. Let me feel of 
him, theu I will decide upon the mode of warfare. Now I'll 
hook him and see what kind of a fight he proposes. Heavens 
alive . Look at that I Fifteen yards of line like a streak of 
lightning, which makes our reel spin like a buzz saw. Now 
we 11 give him some up hill work. Bear upon him just enough 
to let him understand that two are playing at this game 
There he goes three feet into the air. See that mouth with 
distended gills, and how like a lion aroused from bis lair he 
shakes himself in open defiance and throws our shiner sky- 
lngh. His weight will go full five pounds. Again he’s in the 
air, with every bristle a spear, and I could get both fists in 
his mammoth mouth. Now he goes across the eddy to try the 
virtue of the stiff water there— he takes line again. Now 
comas the death struggle. He grows weak and turns back 
Now we are reeling in with a line just taughtenough to present 
a sudden snap should ho charge airain. I can see him distinct- 
ly; lies within ten feet of my boat, and one of his worst 
tricks to be tried ; sure enough, there he goes under the boat 
like an arrow, vainly searching for a projecting point of rock 
or an arm of a lodged snag around which to foul our line, and 
then “fare thee well.” But, old fellow, you can just come 
out again. I fetch him a pull and stubbornly he comes ; he 
yields up the ghost and is hammocked into the boat. “ Five 
pounds,” I exclaim, and he answered back by spattering mud 
and water and sand in my face and shirt-front. I caress him 
but he only gets his dander up the higher ; but that's all right! 
Captain Jenks, you shall be taken care of. 
This is what any lover of the sport may have in these mag- 
nincent shoals of the Tennessee, and a continuous repetition 
ot it by moving from point to point. There is room here for 
all and the supply of bass inexhaustible, and I desire this to 
be known from “Maiden Kirk to Johnny Groats’.” The 
Tennessee has been stocked with shad, but I fear that they 
may not do very well, as the river contains great numbers of 
fish of prey, though time enough to settle this doubt has not 
yet elapsed. Tramp. 
Jnca, Miss. 
FOREST 1 AND > STRE AM, 
2dotn fr thel! iYTf.TiMJ! P otS , .!“ ly 
On arriving near a 
pouud wecornttad, oVjbS. SSSM’lfS , ^ 
tersarranged-gum boots, guns and bags ^ju^ 
advanced mto the dead grass cover vvhiel. X*! U Ul [ ee 
UndeniMfli uj ™.‘, ‘Z 
§amc §aq and §nn. 
GAME IN SEASON FOR JULY. 
Jaly Is a close month for game, except as to woodcock, tn certain 
States. 
S 3 f~ Nbw York Law.— T he open season fur woodcock In New York 
Stato begins August 1 ; for quail, Nov. 1 ; and for ruffed grouse or part- 
ridge, Sept. 1. 
Game in Market— Retail Prices, Poultry and Game— P hila- 
delphia spring chiokens, 22 to 28 cents ; do. fowls, 18 cents ; do. 
ducks, 20 to 22 ; do. squabs, per doz., $2 to $2.25 ; Western spring 
chickens, per pound, 22 to 25 cents ; do. fowls, 15 to 1G cents ; 
do. ducks, 15 cents ; do. turkeys, 16 cents ; Boston geese, per 
pound, 22 to 25 cents; Vermont frozen turkeys, 25 cents; Eng. 
snipe, per doz , $4 ; yellow leg do., $2; wild pigeons, per dozen, 
$1.25 ; stall fed do, $1.75 ; frogs, per pound, 25 cents. 
Massachusetts — Pittsfield, July 15.— Woodcock more nu- 
merous in this section than I have seen in some years. Par- 
tridge (ruffed grouse) also plenty and well grown. Some of 
the birds are in with their second crop. T. C. 
Salem, July 13.— Marsh bird-shooting is in order, and some 
fair sport has been had ; among the birds along are robin 
snipe, winters, summers, grass birds, beetle-heads, one golden 
plover, one stilt 8. piper; also Jack Curlews aud peeps by the 
thousand. The season opens early and finely. I bad some 
fine sport on Wednesday and Thursday last. I think New- 
buryport will afford better shooting this month than either 
Ipswich or Essex, as the “black grass” is cut earlier. Up- 
lands are reported. In fact the ball has opened. 
R. LN. 
New York.— Dr A. Ferber and Mr. Otto Frank left 
luesdayfor Colorado on a hunting and fishing trip. Thev 
will be absent for two mouths. We expect short reports of 
the trip These gentlemen take with them a full armament, 
and no doubt will have fine sport. Mr. John Omohundro ac- 
companies them as guide. 
Pennsylvania.— Game in the iuterior of the Slate is re- 
ported to be more abundant than for several seasons past. 
West Viboinia.— A gentleman desirous of hunting in 
West Virginia writes to find some oue similarly disposed A«1 
dress F. W. M. Summit, at this office. 
Arkansas Van. liuren, June 30. — Our last winter and 
spring were noted failures as game seasons. Ducks were re- 
markably scarce all winter, and the snipe season was likewise 
very far behind. Even Vine Prairie, generally a very good 
RT nf f 0 T!;. did U m L air ° rd an >' thiD 6 like former sport. I 
uut after falling a all other more convenient points, with a ' 
rendered the necessury exercise exceedingly irkiime W nS 
grand score. 1, being on the wrong side of Hood i ng 
summers, returned at three o’clock pretlv w!llf!!l,? y 
wuh only seventeen birds; but the two youngsters C D am! 
S. T., did not arrive until suudown, with re8DeciiJ..lv ri n d 
70, and S. T., 54, making in all 147 SK 7, ° ( D 
call them and four or five rabbits, which we' do not ’call 
game. About one o’clock at night the rain in »« 0t e i 
sT,hm h e COn . UnU r ed ““V* thc SD1 I>e grounds were™ COrnSy 
submerged as to render any further effort nugatory “Ed we 
ST™ ss^s sttr ** of 
Up 
brood among our mesqu.te bush, which gives the ve?v bit 
cover. The woods are alive with deer aud turkey We 2 
rely upon ge ting plenty of sport with our new choke boS? 
We have just got the choke-bore fever in this far-off State 
B. R. B. 
Illinois- Warsaw, July 6.— Quail are very abundant here- 
wS^ i f ° 0t,Dg i8 antici P ft ted when the law allows 
Woodcock have become scarce of late. The interest innhmt 
ing in this region is rapidly on the increase 
Miohigan— Detroit, July 14.— On the 6th inst Ar„ 
Adam and William Holland made a bag of 23 woodcock. ^On 
the same day John Dubucu bagged 7 woodcock William 
Jordiae, of Rock wood, w M af.efwoodcoS' the aft 
first day of the season, making a bag of 25. Woodcock are 
very plenty this season, but very few have been shot so faf. 
smoke, about half the recoil, and last and best of nil ;,i 
your gun clean, <>„, huillir , ( | s[un , ™ ° aI ; • leaves 
h^'y.usnlg .'i wire hrSLttzinoa^S 
Sisascfi 
Rood powdc r S“" LTSo f, ; c '' ■'■fccdnwl.u,. 
1 ““‘ l 
“ Diok.” 
referring to the Pennel match “ I » Ho . ? iyp * 
St. Joseph, July 9.— Our protective law was out on wood- 
cock July 5. Parlies made bags from six to fifteen. Your 
orator with his dim eyes bagged eighteen. Is that fair for an 
almost septuagenarian? \y y 
Crystal, July 8.— There is every prospect for good hunting 
here this fall. Deer have been seen most every day. Rabbits 
by the hundred, quail and partridges in great plenty. 0. L. 
Wild Oats. — A correspondent most kindly informs us that 
he will supply our friends with wild oats. He writes as fol- 
lows : 
‘‘ Editor Forest and. Stream: You are at liberty to send my 
address to any of your friends or readers who want to plant 
theu- ponds with an attractive food for wild fowl, and say 
that I will take great pleasure in sending them seed whereby 
they may * sow their wild oats,’ without any danger of an 
attack of quickened conscience in the future. 1 hud meant 
to have offered them the wild rice from our lakes or marshes 
in this county, but upon inquiry I find that the grain is hard 
to gather, and the chances are largely against its successful 
propagation where it has to be transported auy distance. In 
the opinion of old professional huuters, the wild oats is in 
every respect a superior grain for artificial planting; it is 
much sought after by the ducks, is good food for such fish aa 
bass, sunfish and pike, and where odco planted in u congenial 
mud bottom will spread rapidly. The gruin will ripen the 
latter part of this month, and I shall have a quantity gathered 
for distribution to such os want to try the experiment. 
“ Grand Tower , III., July 10. T. M. Williamson.” 
Woodcock— We have to thank Mr. D. W. Arnold for a 
brace of fine birds, killed near Farmingdale. The birds were 
fat and in full plumage. 
A Ponderous Fowling Piece.— In the wiudow of one of 
our gun stores here is a heavy punt-gun for wild-fowl, built 
aud grooved in Birmingham, 1854, by Wni. Greener, the 
father of the present excellent maker. This curious gun, 
probably the largest gun for killing game ever seen in Ohio, 
was picked up by Captain Heath, of this city, lately while on 
a trip to California. It is a fine piece of workmanship— not 
for sale— some sixty inches long, and of a weight that would 
bother a Bogardus— about fifty-three pounds, it is of a very 
large gauge— larger than any of the shot-gun gauge— aud if a 
cannon, as it appears to be, would be about a “one pounder.” 
It is valued merely as a curiosity, as there are no game in this 
part of the country at which it could be tired, even if one were 
so murderously disposed. R. E. D. 
The Dittmar Powder.— Editor Forest and Stream : Dear 
Sir— In your lost issuo, where the trial of Sparks’ chilled shot 
is published, I notice that the B. Dittmar powder was used. 
I beg to state that much better penetration could have been 
made with the C. Dittmar. The B. is a slower grade of pow- 
der. Yours very truly, Henry C. Squires. 
No. 1 Courtland Street, N. 7. City. 
Dittmar Powder— Editor Forest and Stream : I prepared 
some target pads of 30 sheets of hardware paper, 12 inches 
square; loaded four shells with three drachms Dittmar 
powder, 1^ oz. No. 7 shot in two of the shells; put two pink 
edge wads over the powder; in the other two oue wad over 
powder. Then loaded four shells in the same way with 
Orange Lightning No. 6 powder. I shot at the target at 35 
yurds, with the following results: Dittmar with two wads, 
average pattern 100 pellets, penetration the whole pad; with 
one wad, average pattern 98, penetration 25 sheets. Black 
powder with two wuds, average pattern 93, penetration 
whole pad ; with one wad, average pattern 09, penetration 
whole pad. The above results go to show that with two 
wads over the powder the Dittmar gives as good pattern 
and penetration as the best black powder, while it has the i 
following advantages : It makes little report, very little I 
lent account of an exhibition held ut Affriculturn H» i n 
S £ we are on the winning Sis iS 
Hioonfi- ^ hen wo beat our cousins at the Derhv some of 
these, fine days, our measure of triumph will bo quite com- 
PIGEON MATCHES. 
Stanley o u u u u n o i o— 2 r ° WD 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1—5 
Second match, same conditions, July u 
&2S r •*. : s : r. •, ? a tar sissshr *-» 
rtss s j s i i ; j ? a IS 8 ** ' •" ‘ ° ° ° ' i : s a 
«ft£2!»lHiliU ?ifcssu;|sss=i 
Drown 0 0 0 0 1 0 l 1 1 l- 6 ^ d ° 0 0 1 « 1 0 0 l 1-4 
Fourth mutch. Double rises. 
j i s : i=i »—•••! j i : ? a 
Firth matofu Double rises. u u 1 ^ 
Cushm in i l l i i i j j_g 
ihesSTaKW^a* /“' y4 - Tho tournament was well attended 
First competition tor tho “Weed Bowl." 25 imiin onm. a 
front of trap ; balls thrown in mi directions. II. M. VtUentlnef rSoree! 
o s Fcotu.' oooouooouooooiioouooooioito 
Class II.— Prize, pltohcr vuao. 
sroocin. ...liiiiiooi o-7 Weed, Jr....o oioioom-s 
Vde worke.,. t iu 1 i l u 1 0 1— « Grain... i o 1 o o o 0 0 o oTj 
Vu en'lne I 0 l 1 o 1 n o o 1 — 5 Gillespie o 1 o o o o 0 0 0 0—1 
uothout, Jr. .o l o l o l ii n 0 i_4 Teaclue o 0 0 o l o o 0 0 o— i 
Jones « 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 I 0 — 3 F„ x „ o o 0 o o o 0 o o-o 
t,o C r. lor Welnl BowL P ° tlll0a '° r tU8 ^ r ° VOlVOr ’ 
Scotleld 0 101111110100 111 1 1 0 0 tt 1 I o 1 l-is 
Orain 1 l 1 0 0 I o i o i l i n i o I l o I i o 1 u o o- i 
vS&F—i ! }''} o lo l o i l o i o i i i i i J o o 0 0 l- 
Vanderwarken l llioooioiioioooiiooooil a la 
Oothout, Jr ooili l o 0 o o o o o l l imitoi i i o V_ia 
Woed, Jr .1 o o o i o o i o o o m o l o l o n i o o 1 l i-io 
GlUeaple l 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 o 0 o o 0 0 0 o o o u o 1 o— a 
StudweU ...ooooi ioi luoouuo oooo ooouo 0— 4 
C'laiB IV.— Prize, silver cako basket. 
Gillespie. ...10 1 10 1 1 1 1 1—8 Hoodrlo 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 1—0 
V derwerken 1110 110 11 o — 7 Jonea o 1 o o 0 0 li o 1 0 2 
2 ra,n i l i o i l i o u i— 7 Stuawell o l n o o o o o l c—2 
Oothout, Jr.. 1 10 10 10 10 1—tl 
Class V.— Prlzo, silver ash receiver. 
Oothout, Jr .. 0 l l l l o l t l 0-7 
V'derwerken lliouuiiii t— « 
Scotleld 1 11110 0 10 o — a 
Weed, Jr. ...i 0 t l 0 1 0 1 0 0 — s 
Gillespie l ii l o o o 1 o o o — 3 
Kirk o o o 0 0 0 o o ii o—o 
Practice sh otlng, July o : 
V’derwekenl 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1—6 
Scotleld 0 10 0 10 1 1 11-0 
U G.llesple.-.O 0 110 1110 0—5 
July S: 
Gillespie.... oiioiOlioi-o 
V’derwerken o 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 1—5 
Scofield o oooioooo o— l 
Gillespie ....o 11101101 l— 7 
V'dcrworkenO 0 0 l o o 0 1 o l— t 
Scofield 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 e— i 
Gillespie 0 0 1 1 0 1 l 1 1 1—7 
V'dorworkeuo o o l l o o o l i— i 
Siollold 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0—1 
Hossmoor vs. Jamaica. — \ much last week between toams from tho 
Rosamoor Shooting i.lub, of Smtoa Island, and tho Jamaica Rod and 
Ride Cub (uff-haod, Sou yurdiq. resulted as follows: 
Rod and Uttlo Team. Rosatnoor Team. 
W S Elmendorf 11 U B own «t 
J Fleming iu II c Meu-alf 30 
T Rogers M* S Ellis sg 
11 Creed W Robinson 37 
A M Crane 36 U w Ellis '.','37 
T Lloyd 35 W W Wright % 31 
Team total 229 Toam total hq 
Lono Branch Gon Club -J uly 16.— Pigeon sweep for Governor 
Wurmoth'a prize, twenty-five yurJs rise, five traps uud eighty yards 
boundary : 
E Murphy. .1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1—10 Murphy ....0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 o_ 9 
W Murphy..! 1 l 0 1 1 1 1 1 1— 0 I Hopper... 1 1 0 l 1 0 
A. Sewell, F Levy, J. S. Ilooy, E. Fox, W. Stono, Bouclcault, and J. 
M. Dursnd withdrew. 
Sweepstakes at pigeons, 25 yards rise, five trapi and fio yards bound- 
ary. Bird and bird. 
Sewell l 111111-7 Maud ...1 1 1 1 1 1 0— <} 
W Murphy 1 1 1 1 l 1 1-7 Green 1 l 1 1 1 
Zolonoiuki 1 11111 1— T 
