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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[May ii, 1907. 
New Hampshire Sportsmen. 
Nashua, N. H., April 21.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: 1 desire as a New Hampshire sports¬ 
man to take issue with your correspondent De¬ 
sirous. of Manchester, N. H., m your issue ot 
April 20. He desires a sportsman’s association 
in New Hampshire. We have several already m 
existence in different counties, one of the oldest, 
strongest and liveliest in his own county the 
Hillsborough County Game and Protective Asso¬ 
ciation, the officers of which are many of them 
located in his own town. Why does not Desirous 
join this association as a starter? It has been in 
existence about fourteen years and was the hrst 
organization in this State to make any move 
against the sale of game by adopting the plat 
form of Forest and Stream by unanimous vote 
some eight or ten years ago. _ . ., 
Desirous states that no attention is being paid 
in New Hampshire to game preservation. While 
our laws are not just perfect, and never will be, 
to the satisfaction of all, I doubt if there is a 
State in New England where the laws are any 
more vigorously enforced than in New Hamp¬ 
shire by one efficient commissioner of fish and 
game, and . in Desirous’ own county a large 
majority of the prosecutions are made upon evi¬ 
dence furnished by the association which De¬ 
sirous seems to think needs “organizing. I here 
are of course infractions of the law that are never 
punished. It is so with all laws. But if Desirous 
will do his share I can assure him that his efforts, 
if based upon actual evidence, will bear fruit. 
One point in Desirous article will he at once 
antagonized by many members of our organiza¬ 
tion." His proposition to legislate against boys 
being allowed to hunt. I believe the majority 
of New Hampshire sportsmen think there is no 
better recreation for a boy than that to be found 
in the woods and along our streams, and I do 
not believe that a law such as Desirous wants 
will ever be passed by our Legislature, certainly 
not without strong opposition by many sports¬ 
men. It is a very easy matter for a man to 
write a letter to a sportsman’s paper kicking 
against existing laws or grumbling because they 
are not more strictly enforced; hut it is another 
matter to look up the officers of a well organized 
sportsman’s association, pay $1 per year for mem¬ 
bership, and then take hold and work. The latter 
course amounts to something, the former does 
not. 
For Desirous’ benefit I may state that the pres¬ 
ent officers of this association are: President, 
Elliot C. Lambert; Secretary. Leon D. Hurd; 
both of Manchester, N. H. The terms of both 
these officers expire April 23 and they will prob¬ 
ably be filled by the election of president and sec¬ 
retary from this city, but either of the above will 
be glad t-o welcome Desirous to the ranks of the 
Hillsborough County Game and Protective As¬ 
sociation. W. H. B. 
Dipper Ducks. 
New Florence, Pa., April 30 .—Editor Forest 
and Stream: I inclose a clipping from a recent 
Johnstown paper. If cost counts for anything 
surely the sportsmen at Johnstown will rank the 
dipper duck as an epicurean tid hit in the same 
class as the diamond back terrapin. Just think, 
about two bites of tough old dipper duck with 
its ever-reminding fishy odor at $10! Even dia¬ 
mond hack hardly comes that high. But putting 
aside the amusing part of this matter, what 
economic value does the dipper duck have that 
it should be given the benefit of protection? 
Some twenty-five years ago I shot three of them 
and opened them up and made an examination 
of the contents of the intestines and found same 
to he fish in various stages of digestion. The 
flesh was reeking with a fishy oil, and on the 
whole I should look upon a dish of crow as 
highly desirable compared with dipper duck. 
J. N. Crossland. 
[The article referred to relates how a party of 
men and boys tried to exterminate a number of 
dippers after the open season had ended. It con¬ 
cludes as follows; 
“Alderman Wirick tried a number of men ar¬ 
rested by game wardens yesterday. Edward 
Keller paid $60 and costs for his little hunting 
tour among the dippy duck brigade. Paul Hugan- 
dubler was assessed $70 and costs for the seven 
birds he killed. John Denny killed one little 
long-necked duck with a stone. It was the cost- 
best stone Denny ever threw and he paid $10 
and costs. Others who killed only one duck and 
were fined $10 and costs were S. R. Field, W. L. 
Simpson and David Costlow, Jr. 
“Alderman Joseph Hornberger did a rushing 
business yesterday also. Although no informa¬ 
tion could be secured from his office last night 
it is said that seven men paid fines, and costs 
there for indulging in the duck shooting. 
“Several of the' game wardens and constables 
are looking eagerly for the Coopersdale man who 
got twenty-seven ducks yesterday noon. This 
man had a boat. Some ducks he killed and others 
he picked up out of the stream without any 
trouble. Twenty-seven ducks at $10 a duck 
makes $270. Half of this, or $i3ff would go. to 
the game warden. No> wonder they are looking 
for the man with the twenty-seven!”— Editor .1 
Write to Them. 
Norwich, N. Y., May 4. — Editor Forest and 
Stream: Yesterday, on receipt of your last 
issue, I wrote each member of the committee on 
rules, as you requested, and asked them not to 
report out from committee the concurrent reso- 
b’tion to amend Section 7 of Article VII. of our 
State constitution. The names and addresses 
of the members of the committee on rules fol¬ 
low; The Hons. James W. Wadsworth, Jr., 
Sherman Moreland, Tames Oliver, William H. 
Burns, Ezra P. Prentice. E. A. Merritt, Jr., As¬ 
sembly Chamber. Albany, N. Y. 
Many who will write if they know who to 
address may not have a committee list at hand 
as I did. It seems Quite likelv that the Legis¬ 
lature may be in session for most of May and 
ihat will five time to get more letters of nrotest 
before this committee as Forest and Stream 
advises. Clarence L. Parker. 
Easy School Money. 
Enid, Okla.. Anril 24 .—Editor Forest and 
Stream: In the district court to-dav the case 
of Territory vs. Rock Island Railroad, growing 
0"t of the car of quail confiscated by me in the 
city last winter, was called. The law provides a 
fine of $500 against any common carrier hauling 
the game out of the Territory. It -dso nrovides 
an attorney’s fee of $100 to the officer bringing 
th p action. 
When I discovered the 30,000 email which I 
confiscated, Countv Attorney Huett at once 
brought action again=t the road to collect the 
penalty and his fee The case came up for trial 
hv jnrv to-dav and a verdict was rendered for 
the nlaintiff. All of the $soo goes into the school 
fund. Eugene Watrous, 
Territorial Warden. 
Mr. Woodruff Wins. 
In the Appellate Division of the Supreme 
Court, in Rochester, N. Y., Mav t. a decision 
was rendered in the case of William Ervin 
against Timothy L. Woodruff. The plaintiff was 
a guide in the employ of Mr. Woodruff at the 
latter’s camp in the Adirondack’s when a tame 
bear injured him, and he brought suit against 
Mr. Woodruff for damages. The lower court 
found for the defendant, and the higher court 
affirmed that decision. 
Possession of Game. 
New York, Anril 20— Editor Forest and 
Stream: Several associations urgently advocate 
a law prohibiting in the State of New York the 
sale of wildfowl after the TOth dav of January, 
and the reasons for doing this have been elabor¬ 
ated in your esteemed publication as well as else¬ 
where. This would nil he well and good and 
would most earnestly be supported by any sincere 
lover of wildfowl shooting. T find, however, little 
mafle of the fact that coincident with such law 
it is demanded to prohibit also- the possession 
of any such game after the 10th day of January. 
This would seem to be unjust to many who are 
members of southern gun clubs. 1 hese rarely 
open before December and the law would for a 
New York man, make the shooting season so 
short as to be prohibitive. If such a law as 
herein above mentioned should pass, proper pro¬ 
vision should be made that game, taken in ac¬ 
cordance with the laws of another State, to a 
limited extent, and when accompanied by the 
owner in person, may be possessed in the State 
of New York as heretofore up to March 1 and 
when clearly not intended for sale. 
Theodore de Lemos. 
Legislation at Albany. 
Assembly bill 2183, by Mr. C. Smith, relating 
to fishing in Otsego Lake, has been recalled. 
Assembly bill 2211, by Mr. Draper, relating to 
spearing fish in Lake Ontario, was signed by 
Governor Hughes on April 30. 
On the same day the Governor signed Assem¬ 
bly bill 2212, by Mr. Lewis, an amendment to 
the forest, fish and game law in relation to the 
seizure of nets. 
Killed by a Rattlesnake. 
A correspondent informs us that a sportsman 
of Miami, Fla., was recently found dead in the 
woods; and close by him was the body of a 
huge rattlesnake. While hunting the snake had 
bitten him and his death was evidently very 
sudden, although he had blown the snake’s head 
off with a charge of shot before losing conscious- 
ness. 
New Publications. 
“Birdcraft,” by Mabel Osgood Wright, is a 
volume every reader of Forest and Stream 
should possess. The last edition—the seventh— 
has just been announced by the publishers, and 
it consists of 317 pages of just the sort of informa¬ 
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by Louis Agassiz Fuertes. In her introductory 
chapters Mrs. Wright tells of the spring songs 
of the birds, the nest building operations, and 
follows with the water birds and autumn and 
winter birds. Part of one chapter appears else¬ 
where in this issue. Her synopsis of bird families 
is most complete, and together with the large 
plates, will assist any student to identify and 
study our birds. It is divided into branches re¬ 
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birds of prey; pigeons, quail and grouse; shore 
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and indices to English and Latin names. Pub¬ 
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“British Bird Life,” by W. Percival West- 
fell, M. B. O. U., author of “A Handbook of 
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etc., is a complete record of every species of birds 
at present to be found in the British Isles, and it is 
very fully illustrated with sketches and photo¬ 
graphic reproductions of the birds and their 
nests. His remarks anent the wildfowl are par¬ 
ticularly interesting. “Great Britain,” he says 
in one place, “still possesses more species of wild¬ 
fowl than any other country, notwithstanding, 
the fact that SO' much of our land is cultivated.’ 
The A. Wessels Company, New York, is the im¬ 
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“A Practical Guide for Authors,” in their re¬ 
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“Canadian Nationality, the Cry of Labor 
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