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After n half mile or this kin-1 of work, I thought U would 
be belter to try the edge of the mars'll where there were no 
trees. Acting accordingly I h id plunged along in the mud 
nnd water until I thought I must be near the curry, and l 
went to enter the woods, when to my surprise 1 found 
water intervening, nnd deep nt Hint. I had a few matches 
with which to make u torch, but they proved to be dump. 
I started to go back but found the mud yielding and deep. 
How lmd I got into such a fixy I attempted to go on and 
wus quickly mired. Sinking slowly but steadly, I became 
excited — the idea of drowning in a mud puddle, and all my 
future usefulness spoiled! 1 floundered about, desperately 
and at last brought up on an old stump, and from that by 
leaps I readied a solid fooling. Wet, muddy, nnd shiver- 
ing, I found my bont and was soon out into the dark stream 
heading for Lite bright camp fire on the lmnk below. 
We hud a merry time that evening after we had taken 
our supper steaming from the roaring tire, and we piled up 
the big logs until the river shouo like a stream of gold be- 
neath its blaze, and now and then a duck coining around a 
point near, frightened by t he unusual proceedings, would 
give a quack and take rapidly to wing. The young trap- 
pers sat on a log skinning a large pile of muskrats. 
We built another tire at the entrance of our bough- 
house and then tumbled iu. The stars shone through the 
leafy canopy above, and no sound was heard except the 
cry of some coon in a neighboring tree, or the honk of the 
wild geese at intervals, and, when the last spark of fire 
spluttered and weut out, we were all fast in slumber. I 
awoke with the crackling of the fire and found the Don up 
and silting on a soap box, communing with his pipe. He 
told me it was one o’clock ^ind to go to sleep again, as the 
moon would not rise until two. It was no use, however, 
so I shivered through a long hour, and then, as the first 
beams of the moon appeared, we roused the boys and set 
off. Silently the youth paddled us down to the lake, and 
we heard the geese a half mile out, but scarcely were we 
within rifie range of them before they arose with a startling 
cry and flew further out. We followed them lime and 
time again tbrougli that eventful night, but without getting 
a shot, and as the first rays of the sun appeared behind 
Ml. Mansfield, wo rowed back up the river will} teeth chat- 
tering and feeling generally unconfortable. We took no 
notice even of the duetts that we passed on the way up 
within easy range. Arriving at camp we tumbled in again 
and slept until the sun wn § high, when we were awakened 
by a pot hunter with a wooly cur treeing partridges. The 
dog barked at the foot of the tree and the man fired off his 
canon-like gun at the poor bird. I think I could have 
killed the bird with a stick. But that is the way they do 
up there, and we found our well trained setters almost use- 
less. The grouse will soon go as the salmon have gone 
from their streams. They have poor success with the 
ducks, however, and have to slaughter the young broods 
ill the Summer to make up for it. The geese, I think, 
generally speaking, are quite secure, at least we found 
It so. 
We gave it up and started for home. When our friends 
saw us coming up the road they wondered where the geese 
were. But although our success was not great, I leave it 
to the readers of Forest and Stream, the true spoilsmen, 
to appreciate our pleasant experiences. 
Charles H. Crow. 
WILD TURKEY TRAPPING AND HUNT- 
ING. 
Norfolk. Vu., February 20, 1875. 
Suitor Forest and Stream:— 
It may be Interesting to some of the readers of your paper to learn 
how “we down lu Dixie” manage to capture the wily, silly, wild turkeys 
—the finest of all forest game. They have been very plenty in this por* 
tion of Virginia the present season, from the fact that the last Summer 
wus a lemurkably dry one; about all the young that were hatched were 
raised, none having been drowned or draggled to death by heavy ruins 
about batching seuson. There are several modes adopted for their cap- 
ture; bsltiug and trapping is one. In this mode, first find out where the 
turkeys use This will always be found to bo unfrequented places and 
near some swampy or largo forest growth, where they may find high 
trees to resort to when nlarvaod by tlio approach of huntsmen and to 
roost iu at night. Having found such haunts and feeding grounds, 
the baiter scatters peas, wheat, or com about iu small quantities in dif- 
ferent marked places, and occasionally viBils are made to the places to 
see if the bait has been eaten. If so, and by turkeys, it is easily deter- 
mined by the signs of scratching away of the leaves iu all directions In 
search of more food. If the halt has been euten, re-bait at once. They 
will soon begin to resort to such places for food. Having ouc.e gotten 
them to do so, then make a pen of old weather beaten fence rails, or 
something of the sort, using nothing to make the pen of new or fresh 
cut stuH, as they are very cautious and will not venture near it. Having 
gottou the rails on the spot, dig a trench elghteeu inches deep and about 
as wide, and four or five feet long with a slope from the outer end, 
deepening to the middle; then lay ucroas it the rail . Lay one rail as the 
width of the pen and two rails as the length (ordinary fence rails, teu to 
eleven feet long), building the height of eight ot teu rails, and covering 
it over with the same sort of stuH, sudlcleutly close to prevent the tur- 
keys from getting out when once in. A few cross rails as weight to keep 
tlie top down is always necessary, for when alurmed at the approach of 
the trapper it will take n good uinount of weight to keep them in prison. 
Now, having completed your pen, take care to remove and cover up 
every vestige of the freshness of your operation, throwing In a light cov- 
ering of dry leaves in the trench you have made under the pen. Then 
scatter more of the same kind of grain before baited with, 
around, nnd particularly iu n train leading to and into the iDlet 
under the fence, and a larger quantity iu the pen. It may be some 
days before the turkeys will venture up— but they will, If not often vis- 
ited by the huntsmen. When they have made themselves somewhat 
familiar with it, nnd get up courage and get on the train of bait leading 
to the mouth of the trench, with heads dowu eagerly picking up the 
grain, they will thus go under the fence In quest of food, not raising up 
till Inside. Once Inside (perhaps a half dozen), they begin to look up 
for a way of escape, never for a moment looking down for a place to get 
out. Not seeming to know how they got iu, they walk round and round, 
and frequently walk or hop over the trench through which they entered. 
The trapper then has them at bis will aod may take them at his pleasure. 
Another mode it to get them to a bait. Build a blind of old brush und 
cover for the hooter to sit in, entirely conceuled from all quarters; mak- 
ing a straight line of bait, and all in a circumscribed distance from the 
blind, so as when the tnrkeys come to feed oil will he In a Hue, which 
they will do if the bait is properly laid. When they are picking up the 
food he watched his opportunity to get as mauy heads together as pos- 
sible while down, and using No. 6 shot he may get several ata shot. A 
friend killed three at a shot a few weeks ago while I w as with him In 
this way. Hive is as many as I ever knew to be killed at one fire la this 
manner 
Yet another mode of bunting is in nse, viz: honting with dogs— 
pointers or setters arc best, because more easily trained. The dogs find 
and flush the turkeys. Taking (o the high trees, keeping am ojo on the 
dogs while they are running around harking nt the turkeys np the tree, 
they being so ranch engaged In watching the dog. me hnnUouncan 
come up In shouting distance nnd kill his game. This mode la adopted 
by nn another of my friends, with whom I np. nt a few dny* during my 
laic trip. This friend has killed about a dozen this season up to 1st 
January; but take it whatever way they may, a good fat wild turkey Is 
no mean game to lake home, whether after patient walling or a long 
lra,n P- Kcvotonk, K. K. V, 
ANOTHER FELINE GONE 
Dbkii Park, Md., February 16. 1875. 
Editor Forest and Stream:— 
Still another has gono from among ns; hi* name was "Panther" (sci- 
entific name unknown). Ho was noted for his philanthropy nnd large 
ralndeducm. One of the best traits about him was hi* love for children 
He would say: "Others may like the sternness of manhood, or the gentle- 
ness of womankind, but the unresisting softness and sweetness of chil- 
dren is far more to my taste. He was also In the habit of saying to him- 
self. "If Mary had a little lamb I don't see why I should not have one, 
too." One day not long since he was seated on a rock moralizing thus: 
"Even the greatest of us are often unappreciated, and It Is so In my 
case; I think I’ll emigrate and go to Texas." 
He rose from his sent, and was about to go home to bis graveyard, 
when his foot slipped nnd ho fell over a rifie ball, which had been pined 
there by a Mr. II . who immediately came forward nnd nsslsiod him 
to rise. As a reward for his friendly assistance, the lute lamented pre- 
sented Mr. H. with a work of hiscntitlcd "Dental Process,” which Mr. 
II. found to be very Interesting nnd full of strange cngros»lug power, 
which was difficult to eltnko off; R was a handsome edition, bound in 
calf (Mr. 11. 's calf). It was also found, on opening his will, that he had 
left bis Winter overcoat to Mr. II., which, opon measurement, proved to 
be seven feet five inches long. Ho was burled In the family graveyard, 
and bis epitaph was taken trora Charles Lamb. 
Poor Pantherl may nil bis faults be forgiven, and may he be wafted to 
bliss by little clierab boys, all heads and wlugs, w ith no "bodies" to re- 
proach him with his sublunary Infirmities. Ali.kurany. 
ffli oodland , Jfarm and {garden. 
THE CLEMATIS AS AN ORNAMENTAL 
FLOWER. 
T HERE is probably no form of plant life which can be 
applied to so many beautiful variations as the run- 
ning vines, the various lioney-sucklcs and clematis. How 
attractive arc they when clustered around our rural homes. 
How beautiful and lasting ure the lessons they impart. 
They were created for lessons of wisdom and instruction. 
In many instances it may be said with truth that “ fash- 
ion governs all things hut plants we are sure to leave out 
of this classification. Years ugo the Clematis, or Virgin’s 
bower, was culled the reigning belle, or fashionable flower, 
in all the floral circles of Europe, Great prices were in 
those days esteemed light in exchange for the rich cluster of 
the old Jackmannia with its wreath of crimson blossoms, or 
iu varying violet and purple ; it is indeed a rare old plant, 
revelling in many quaint old memories of Hie past. Among 
the stories told of thecBteem in which this jackinannis spe- 
cies was held in the oldeu limes we have only to recall tlie 
common fact, that growing at the foot of a tower of Mel- 
rose Abbey was a remarkable viue of this plant, whose 
graceful tendrils completely covered -the whole turret of 
the tower, throwing far and wide its fragrance and beauty. 
Says a pilgrim from afar : “ I rode many miles to behold 
this wonderful plant. In mute admiration, I received anew 
a lesson of the wisdom, of God, who muketh even the lil- 
ies of the field glorious.” “To me this was a floral treat 
never to be forgotten." 
Carrying out the idea, how shall we improve upon tho 
suggestions of nature, how to make more beautiful our own 
surroundings ? — First, we are to study the nature of tho 
plants we are to use in our laudscape. The place, and its 
lace of country, its capabilities, from much or little water, 
natural aud artificial. Having ascertained just the capabili- 
ties of our soil we are to consider the nature of the vines 
and plants we are desirous of usiug as ornaments or embel- 
lishments about our dwellings. 
The plants under discussion all belong in point of scien- 
tific classification to the crowfoot family, an order contain- 
ing the buttercups, peonies, unncmonicn, columbines, lurks- 
spurs, bepticas, meadowiues, monkshood, and several oilier 
genera. These plants are either herhacious or perennial. 
Of the herhacious the tops live during the season and do 
not die down. Of the roots of the perennial they live 
from season to seasun, or they are what is called perennial, 
or woody. 
In these climbing vines their slender leaf stems are lik* 
delicate fingers, or tendrils eagerly embracing and clinging 
for support to the most rugged surfaces. Thus supported 
it is no uncommon thing to see one of these flowers, mak- 
ing its way upwards to a height surprising in itself, while it 
covers all space around it witli glory and life. The using 
florally of this plant ns a garden decoration will be found 
neither prosy or uninteresting, as a few of these plants pro- 
duce clusters of very fragrant small, white, sweet flowers. 
They are the Asiatics that throw out the magnificent iruni- 
pet-shaped and gorgeous flowers, over which the student of 
nuture bends iu rapt udmiiution as he carefully trams their 
delicate tendrils over the most rugged aspects. One of the 
finest places in which to grow these vines I have found to 
be a pile of rude rocks in a natural or wild state situated in 
a remote part of the grounds. By pluuting sundry snade 
trees ou the southern side, producing thereby a purliul shude, 
you have just the situation for the clematis vine. Set out 
your vines at the foot or side of these rocks — in the base 
of good rotted sod, amid which also revel the nzelia and 
rhododendron, and truiu them carefully over the supports 
either natural or applied, you have provided for them. 
Here you have from which to make your choice the 
following— all of which are good, and I cun from trial re- 
commend. One called John Oould Vcilch is a lively', pleas- 
ant flower, of a lavender blue ; of quite u large size, 
blossoms remaining upon stalk a long time. 
Lanuginosa has a woody foliage — blue — of this plant 
are also to be had fine while blossoms, and from it many 
fine shoots are obtained, as it breaks often in new and 
wonderful revelations. Do not omit this in your collec- 
tion. 
Another old favorite has reddish purple blossoms, and is 
called viliceUovenota. This is a light-veined, beautiful and 
delicate plant. Among the numerous claimants for fuvor I 
name one from Florida, that lias well sustained its home 
recommendation, even in our colder sum menu, and is Flori- 
da plena, very double, creamy white, with a delicate green 
rosette in the centre of flower : It la a slender crowing vine 
amt needs looking to once in three or four dny*. 
Lady ’ Boucitle — grayish blue, fine graceful’ foliage, deep 
green lmrdv. every way desirable. This Is one of the jack- 
mams seedlings. J 
Thomat Moore— inw of the moat magnificent of the varie- 
ties, very much resembling the passion tlowor, it is when 
in flower a most beautiful sight, has deep violet colored 
flowers in great masses. 
Two'seeaHngsJfrom the Jackman nls deserve n place in thU 
collec ion, for they are all three clawed as hurdy plants; 
once planted out they need but little care except to cover 
the roots with Ann manure In the full, and when Soring 
cumes manure the same and turn up, ami tie up tho vines 
.«r*. Moore is a plant of Iminutiae proportions; some of 
the flowers ure from eight or niue inches lu diameter anil 
almost pure white in color. 
Jamt* Bateman is a new clematis Hint blooms for a suc- 
cession of weeks, flowers bright lilac. 
In another paper we shall give another very picturesque 
manner of cultivation of tho clematis iu connection with 
other flowers. Ollipod Quill. 
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
Maria, M. 8., Nyack, N. Y.— Tho fragment of fern 
leaf you sent contains the insect that destroys it. At row » 
one of the little “ death watch " class, Is very minute til 
itself, yet it makes quite a ticking noise, from which It re- 
ceives its name. Your herbarium, if much infested with 
this and Other parisltic Insects, of which there are many 
preying upon the green und dry ferns, should ho dusted 
w ith powdered corrosive sublimate— a dry poison— put, say 
4oz. spirits of wine in a bottle, and half tea spoonful of 
the dry powder in a bottle, lot it stand for a day or two, 
and use when you prepare your herbarium— with a small 
brush put this solution carefully over each fern leaf before 
you place tlie same in your hook, nnd you will never huvs 
any trouble from insects preying upon the sumo. 
Eveline Miller, Warehouse Point, Conn. — The follow- 
ing are among good plants that will come into flower iu 
from June to September. Should be carefully sown in 
April. Of the yellow *— mulls tropacololdes. A tine plant 
for edging. Lertoslphon aureus and luteus ; sonvltalia pro- 
cumbcus. This is half hardy aiul very pretty. Tropucoluu, 
Tom Thumb. 
Lilac— C'larkln elegans and stiphius vcmmtus. 
Scarlet — Tropiirolum, Tom Thumb and varieties. 
Blue — Neni ophila insignia, supiuus vuuus, whulluvla 
grnndiflore, and campanula specluui. 
Purple — Iberia umholhila. 
Hone — Silcnc peudulu. 
I. 8 , Providence, R. I.— You can prevent the ravages of 
mice among your young trees by giving them a good . out- 
ing of a preparation made by the admixture of equal parts 
pi pine tar und fish oil. Thoroughly warm this composi- 
tion, and with a brush give the trees u good hand of Irom a 
fool to flfleen inches in width, beginning close to ihe 
ground. This remedy is a sure protection from mice, and 
if you clioosc you can apply the sniiie nt any time during 
the Winter when tho ground is free from snow urouud the 
trees. 
([he fjor.ie aiyl f onrjw 
— The racing on the other side of tho water may he said 
to have fairly commenced, hut betting on the principal 
events remains dull. Cumballn is in>(..lhd as favorite lor 
the two thousand guineas, but the “talent'' appear to he 
in diltlcullics as to a selection for the Derby. 
—Sawdust trotting is resumed at tho Hippndromo this 
week under the dlrce.lon of Messrs. Mace and Walton. 
— W. F. Harper, of Woodford county, Kentucky, sold a 
few days since to Colonel McDaniel, ol Princeton. N. J., 
the brood mure Hally Watson, by Ringgold, in tnnl to im- 
ported Glen Athol, aud a yourliilgche-tunl filly In imported 
Glen Athol, dam Hallv Watson. Colonel McDunl. l lias 
also purchased from Major H. G Thomas the che-tnul 
mare Orange Girl, live years old, by Colossus, dum Sully 
Watson. Orange Girl is in foal to Longfellow. 
— The Nashville Blood Horse Association has christened 
a new four-mileruce to be run lu 187(1, the Lorillurd stake. 
— II. P. McGrath will ship In a few days from Lexing- 
ton, mares Susan Ann, eight years old, out pi Box ana, by 
imported Chesterfield, and Sarong, eight years old, out of 
Greek Slave, to Chestnut Hill Stud Farm, utur Philadel- 
phia, to be bred to Leamington. 
— Mr. Charles Bathgate sold for a low figure Ills trotting 
colt, Speed, two year old, hv Volunteer, lull brother to 
Volunteer Maid, to Mr. Bluntly, of Ohio, a few days ago. 
— At the annual meeting of the Hudson River Driving 
Putk Association, held a few days since, it wus resolved, to 
by a unanimous vote, that tho cupitul stock he increased to 
$100,000. The following odiccrs were elected for the ensu- 
ing year:— President, Morgan L. Molt; Vice Presidents, J. 
O. Whilehouse, J. F. Winslow, William Butler, William 
B. Dias more, B. Ray, J. Muckiu; Secretary, J. G. Frost; 
Treasurer, J. H. Weeks. 
— The celebrated white trotting gelding, Crown Prince, 
was sold on Wednesday last at auction, tor $8,1100. Dun 
Mace wui the purchaser, and il is supposed he was acting 
for Mr. II. N. Smith. 
— Mr John Hawkins, of WnllsnIJ, England, announces 
Hint he is ready to mutch his (rotting horse Jack, to trot 
twenty miles ou u turnpike r#ad, against any horse in 
America for £800 a side, lie says that lie is uwuro I hut it 
would not be wortli tiny one’s while to trot for $1,000; hut 
that some thousands of pounds would he won >.r lotj in 
bets on the race, which would compensate for the small- 
ness of the stakes. He ulso Buys that he will ullow a fair 
amount for expenses. 
—Katie Pease, the great four-miler, who lowered the 
colon* of Thud Stevens, appears to be Invincible ammqf thu 
Pacific slopcrs, aud us good at half-mile heats as the longer 
spins. She recently beat Chinaman iu such a race; L< st 
heut, 49* seconds; 100 pounds up. They must have misty 
weather ut the Occident, for iu the last heal the sta. ting 
post could not be Been on account of the fog, so no time 
was taken, 
