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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[April 18, 1908. 
Expensive Broadbills. 
For some years it has been notorious that the 
law forbidding spring shooting on Long Island 
was not made for the natives, but for the out¬ 
sider. Residents on Long Island have shot 
ducks in winter, fall and spring with no regard 
whatever for the statute. Moreover, it is told 
that the residents are banded together, and that 
if a game protector makes his appearance any¬ 
where on th'e island the news travels far and 
fast and every one is warned of his coming. It 
is said that at certain places on the island a 
regular system of pickets has been established, 
and that when the coming of a game warden 
was heard of, the news was quickly conveyed 
to the shore and the gunner who was violating 
the law was notified by a system of signals of 
the conditions, and at once proceeded to remove 
the evidence of his shooting, and if necessary to 
decamp. Recently, however, a cog seems to have 
slipped in this great system and there has been 
a conviction of a resident of Centre Moriches, 
which must shake the confidence of the Long 
Island poacher and market hunter in his 
sources of information and in his system of 
signals. 
About March 26 Game Protector Byron H. 
McCullom made a trip over Great South Bay, 
from Centre Moriches to Babylon. The weather 
was pretty bad, for a gale of wind was blow¬ 
ing and it was too rough for anyone to be shoot¬ 
ing. The game protector, therefore, saw no 
violations of the law, but did see great quan¬ 
tities of fowl—thousands of duck and geese 
being put up at frequent intervals. On April 
1 Mr. McCullom was joined by Warden Birch 
and Special Game Warden Collorton. The three 
then went over the same ground, and returning 
east found substantially these conditions: great 
numbers of birds, but the wind blowing a gale 
and no one shooting. They did, however, hear 
many reports of fire-lighting fowl—jacking as 
it is called down there—and of illegal shooting. 
According to these reports there was little con¬ 
cealment about these matters. 
After returning from the west the game war¬ 
dens went through Quogue Canal into Shinne- 
cock Bay and over this, and here they found 
conditions much the same as in Great South Bay. 
Everywhere there were multitudes of birds. 
After their inspection they returned to Centre 
Moriches. 
On Monday last the wardens heard a great 
banging not far from Centre Moriches, and tak¬ 
THE ACT OF RETRIEVING A DEAD ONE. 
ing a boat they rowed up the Forge River, and 
soon came in sight of a gunner, who had his 
decoys out in front of a point and was hammer¬ 
ing the broadbills in great shape. The wardens 
rowed calmly up and arrested him. He proved 
to be a well known hotel proprietor of the place, 
J. W. Rose, and it is said that near him on the 
shore the wardens found twenty-five birds con¬ 
cealed in a bag. When taken before the judge, 
Rose pleaded guilty and was fined $100 and costs. 
We have frequently remarked that only two 
or three convictions of these Long Island spring 
shooters was required to bring them down to 
a point where they would consider the law as 
something serious, which was applicable to them 
as well as to others. This conviction, which of 
course represents a good deal more than the 
actual amount of the fine, is a most wholesome 
thing, and it is likely to be particularly useful 
to Long Islanders, and to those who shoot on 
Long Island. 
Long Runs of Foxhounds. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
I note in your issue of April 11 an accoui 
of a five days’ run by a foxhound in New Eni 
land. I have never known a hound to run fh 
days, but can vouch for two dogs running 
red fox for fifty-three hours. 
Last winter L. P. Smith, of Ithaca, and M. 1 
Smith, of Syracuse, were in their camp ne; 
Parish, N. Y., and at 7 A. M. Tuesday put tv 
hounds selected from their pack on a fox tra 
The dogs were in hearing of these men sever 
times during Tuesday and Wednesday, and c 
Thursday morning drove the fox on to the port 
of a house three miles from camp; then th< 
ran straight away toward Oneida Lake ar 
were heard and seen by a reliable member < 
the Amboy Club at noon on Thursday still dri 
ing the fox, so it is certain they were runnir 
for fifty-three hours and probably longer. Oi 
dog was returned from Cleveland on Oneio 
Lake, twenty-four miles from camp; the oth< 
evidently started for home and was accidental 
caught in a mink trap four miles from horn 
where it was found later and returned mo 
dead than alive. 
The remarkable part of this run was that tl 
two dogs that made it were very fast dogs ar 
were running hard and fast every time th< 
were seen during the whole run. These doj 
repeatedly run from twenty-four to thirty hour 
Ithaca. 
Opposed to Brant Shooting. 
Rochester. N. Y., March 30.— Editor Fore 
and Stream: The following amended resoh 
tions were adopted by the executive committi 
of the Western New York Sportsman Associ 
tion: 
“Resolved, That this association is unanimous 
opposed to any restriction in the hunting c 
game birds with dogs, for the reason that tl 
most of birds so taken are migratory and ther 
fore such restriction would be unfair to Ne 
York State sportsmen and would give sportsme 
of all other States an unjust and unfair advai 
tage over those of this State; and further r 
solved that the proposal to permit the taking ( 
brant is contrary to the better spirit and sent 
ment relating to game protection and amoun 
to a license for the violation of the game la 
in that it will be but a cloak for taking of due 
and other waterfowl illegally.” 
John R. Fanning, Sec’y pro tern. 
Retrieve and Point. 
Philadelphia, Pa., April 7.— Editor Fore 
and Stream: The accompanying photograph w; 
taken in Florida last month of my setter Ingl 
side Sport on point while in the act of retrie' 
ing. In over forty years’ experience I nevi 
saw this before and fortunately happened ' 
have the camera along. J. W. Hamer. 
BREAKFAST IN CAMP 
is nothing without coffee, and coffee is nothir 
without Cream. Ordinarily cream is out of tl 
question nine times out of ten, but Borden 
Peerless Brand Evaporated Milk takes its pla< 
perfectly and keeps indefinitely until opened, 
is unsweetened and has the natural cream flavc 
and color.— Adv. 
