The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1879-03-06
PROJECTING FISH AND CANE

growing disposition to protect food
fishes and game is noticeable throughout the
State. More has been accomplished in western
and central New York than in the other parts.
because the sportsmen there have Interested
themselves in enforcing laws Within fifty miles
Of Rochester there are more than twenty clubs
and associations whose object is to secure the
punishment of offenders. The Onondaga
Sportsman's Club has sent half n score of men
to Jail for netting Ash and shooting ducks out
OF season. Where game constables have proved
themselves inefficient. detectives have been
hired at the clubs expense to watch suspected
persons. As n result. the game laws are now
very generally observed. and n gratifying in
crease in the number Of birds and fish has al
ready been noted. In Oswcgo. Jefferson. and
several other counties the Supervisors have for
hidden tho catching OF brook trout for three
years. Their authority to do so has been ques-
toned. yet in the counties named the ordinance
has been enforced. and trout in large numbers
have reappeared. Sportsmen have become con-
WINGED That tho streams and woods must soon
become barren unless they themselves take tho
preservation Of game and fish in hand. The
laws aro good enough in the main; it is their
enforcement TINT needs looking utter. The sue
cess already achieved is so encouraging that
associations and clubs. individual sportsmen.
and conventions are discussing and acting.
New York Is the natural place Of haunt for
many varieties OF game and fish. Tho head
waters OF the Delaware. the Susduchanna. and
the Hudson have been the most famous trout
streams on the continent. The trout taken
from the Long Island ponds and brooks are
VIGOROUSLY of finer flavor than those captured
under any other sky. Shad caught in the North
River are only cXcelled by those from tho Con-
nectcut One hundred years ago salmon were
ms plenty in the clear streams OF the State as
they were in the Cascaprdia or the Rcstigonche.
Black bass and members Of the pike family find
natural feeding grounds from wcstchestcr to
Buffalo and Ogdensburg: nor is the great
muscallonge yet entirely gone from the 81.
Lawrence and the coves OF Lake Ontario. or
birds. the woodcock and the English snlpe are
found in the lowlands Of the central and west
ern part Of the state. while the ruffed grouse
picks his pinions In every rural county. Ducks
flock by thousands to the Montczumia marshes.
aud TO the wild rice tracts Of Jefferson and
Oswego Counties. while the sport afforded 10y
their visits to the south shore Of Long Island
has made the place famous.
very few deer remain in the northern part
Of sullivan County and in the pine forests OF
Suffolk. as reminders OF the time when they
were plenty. Many are yet to be found in the
great Adirondack wilderness. Notwithstanding
the slaughter that continually goes on among
them there. But their number rapidly de-
creases. The hotel keeper pushing his way
from the Mohawk and the Lake Champlain
side. the builder ofcarriage roads. and the navi-
gator OF steamboats, on the beautiful lakes are
driving the tlmd animal before them. In the
spring and summer an army OF tourists hunts
Tor him; in the fall guides and settlers set dogs
on his track and run him into the lakes where
II Is easy 10 kill him; IN tho winter vagabonds
from the clearinGs. skimminG over the crust on
snow shoes. come up with him while he ia
houndering IN the deep snow his sharp hoois
having cut through and despatch him with
clubs In herkimer and Lewis Counties only