38 
Jan. 21 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Selling Celery in Boxes. 
H. C., Marlboro, O.—I have for the 
last four years used boxes or crates like 
those illustrated in a late Rural by Robt. 
Niven, for the sale of my celery. I take 
up the stocks and trim them, leaving the 
roots on, and pack them in the crates 
with a little earth. The dealers cut off 
the stocks, leaving the roots in the cra te 
to be returned with it on receipt of a 
fresh one. It is much less work to fill 
these crates than to trim, wash and tie 
up the celery in the old way. Moreover, 
the dealer can keep it fresh any reason¬ 
able length of time, and consumers al¬ 
ways get it fresh. 
The Game Laws Again. 
W. L. II., Brooklyn, N. Y.—As one of 
the “masses,” when not angry or in¬ 
dignant, I’ve always been amused at the 
fuss made about the game laws in this 
and other countries, usually by small 
coteries privileged above others either 
by their social condition or self-conceit. 
The game laws of to-day are merely 
among the last surviving instances of 
the unjust and sometimes atrocious class 
privileges of the “ good old times,” 
which—thank God !—have gone, let’s 
hope for ever. The unfairness, injustice 
and petty and gross abuses connected 
more or less frequently with the enforce¬ 
ment of the game laws of the United 
Kingdom and other European countries, 
are too remote to be discussed here, 
especially in view of the incompatibility 
of our own g ime laws, not only with the - 
institutions of this country, but even 
with the attainment of the objects they 
were meant to secure. American game 
laws are based on those of Europe, and 
the latter are intended for ‘ ‘ gentlemen 
sportsmen ”—for the owners of preserves 
and their invited friends. How many 
private game preserves are there in this 
country ? Can any of you name as many 
as can be counted on the fingers of both 
hands or even of one ? Yet the game 
laws of the whole of every one of our 
States in which any statute game laws 
exist, are based on Old Country anti¬ 
quated legislation applicable solely or 
mainly to the interests of those who own 
game preserves ! What monstrous incon¬ 
sistency ! Let the most rigorous laws be 
rigidly enforced for the protection of 
the game in the preserves of millionaires 
George Gould, Austin Corbin and other 
wealthy men who were their prototypes 
or may follow their example, but no 
longer let struggling land owners be 
overtaxed to afford amusement chiefly 
to city sportsmen—mainly the owners of 
personal property who in this case also 
shirk their due share of taxation. 
Again, it is well known that in those 
parts of this country where these laws 
are rigidly enforced, instead of an in¬ 
crease, there is a steady decrease of game 
birds, owing chiefly to the sins of sports¬ 
men, who are constantly killing great 
numbers and scaring off more. Their 
noisy weapons hurl against their prey a 
multitude of pellets, killing a dozen, 
wounding a score and frightening hun¬ 
dreds away from the low lands to distant 
and inaccessible woods and mountain 
fastnesses. And this butchering, maim¬ 
ing and scaring of half domesticated 
little feathered wretches, with noise 
enough to attract the attention of a 
whole country-side, E. P. R. calls “the 
grandest sport ever enjoyed by man.” 
Alas for man ! What would Gordon 
Cummings, Jules Gerard and Paul du 
Ckaillu, and other nimrods of the jungle, 
the desert and the forest say to that ? 
Ilow much nobler and manlier is such 
sport than the perilous pursuit of the 
anise-seed bag, the hounding- of tame or 
even pet deer, or the butchery of hun¬ 
dreds of thickly assembled animals 
by royal and princely personages and 
their entourage safely and comfortably 
placed where they can cheerfully 
slaughter the standing or moving masses 
within easy gun-shot, with glory and 
eclat ? 
There are doubtless a few farmer 
sportsmen of the same kind as E. P. R., 
but what influence have they ever had 
on the formulation or passage of the 
game laws of their respective States ? 
Are not these, in sober truth, the emana¬ 
tions or creations of “city sportsmen” 
almost exclusively ? As to the use of 
the murderous shotgun being “ the only 
fair way of killing game,” what is meant 
by “ fair ? ” Fair to the bird, the sports¬ 
man, the owner of the land, or merely 
legally proper ? Gentlemen of the medie¬ 
val days and later who used chiefly traps 
and snares, were adepts in true wood¬ 
craft and had an extensive knowledge of 
nature and of the habits of animals and 
the methods of taking them by the means 
then in vogue. When, about the close 
of the seventeenth century, the shotgun 
came into pretty general use, the idea 
began to arise that to snare birds and 
other small game was not ‘ ■ sportsman¬ 
like.” The idea was wonderfully fostered 
by the fact that while the owner of the 
game and his friends could use guns in 
the preserves with impunity, poachers 
couldn’t use such noisy weapons, but 
could use the old, silent traps and snares. 
So it came about that the use of the lat¬ 
ter became a shame, a sin and a crime, 
while the shotgun, scattering death, 
wounds and terror, became the gentle¬ 
man’s weapon. 
Anent the ownership of game, why 
shouldn’t this be rightfully vested in the 
owners of the land which affords susten¬ 
ance to the beasts or birds? Then each 
of them could propagate and cherish or 
neglect and destroy his own property as 
seemed good to him. Why should farm¬ 
ers and other land owners be put to the 
expense of maintaining game, principally 
for the diversion of those who contribute 
nothing toward the cost while so solici¬ 
tous for protection for their quarry? 
Even if such a policy led to the destruc¬ 
tion of the game, the feed it necessarily 
consumes would maintain more useful 
and profitable animals. Never have I 
felt inclined to shed a single tear over 
the nearly total extinction of even the 
buffaloes of the plains. Their places 
are now occupied by the far safer, more 
useful and remunerative herds of horses, 
sheep and cattle which could not exist 
there if the prairies were still dark with 
the bisons’ millions or resounded with 
their uproar or trembled beneath their 
flying feet. Still, being myself, too, 
somewhat of a sentimentalist—and sen¬ 
timent is a cherisliable possession in these 
grad-grind days—I’m somewhat inclined 
to sympathize with E. P. R., in his re¬ 
gret at the possible death of what game 
still remains in country places, by the 
vulgar trap, net or snare, instead of meet¬ 
ing an enviable euthanasia by the sports¬ 
manlike shotgun. 
Piths and Reminders. 
The following letter explains itself. 
I send Tuk RURAL fair samples of the fruit from 
the younger bushes of my seedling gooseberry which 
I have named Portage. It has been fruiting here on 
my place for several years and has never yet mil¬ 
dewed. It is a chance seedling and I have succeeded 
In propagating about 20 bushes from the original 
one. It is very productive. Its large size and su¬ 
perior quality together with Its great productiveness 
will, I think, place It at the head of the list of goose¬ 
berries. A. H. HOUSE. 
Remarks. —The berries measured about 
one inch from the stem portion to the 
blossom or tip. Shape oblong, veins con¬ 
spicuous, color light-green. About the 
size and shape of Industry. 
The cultivated kinds of American 
gooseberries have probably sprung from 
one or the other of the following natives: 
Rires (Grossularia) Cynosbati. Berry 
large, purple, covered with prickles. 
Flowers two to three, spines strong and 
sharp. Found in the Northern and East¬ 
ern States. 
Ribes Hirtellum.—The berry is usually 
smooth. Thorns short on the branches. 
One to two flowered. It is said that the 
Houghton is a seedling of this, found in 
the woods of the north. 
Ribes rotundifolium.—Berries smooth. 
Solitary axillary spines. Berries of fine 
quality and purple in color. Found in 
the woods of the Northeast to North 
Carolina and Missouri. 
Ribes gracile is probably a variety of 
Rotundifolium. Short, slender subaxil- 
lary spines, berries small. Found in the 
mountains of Tennessee and Alabama. 
The large-berried varieties of England 
all come from Ribes uva crispa which is 
a native of northern Europe. There are 
two or three thorns in the axils of leaves; 
the branches are spreading or erect. The 
berries are in some seedlings smooth, in 
others prickly ; the color of the ripe 
fruit is either yellow, greenish or red. 
There are hundreds of named varieties 
of English or European origin, the best 
of which have elsewhere been alluded to. 
In England much attention has been 
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