Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-03-24
FOREST AND sTRRAM.

The Boston market has recently been
flooded with quails and also prairie chick.
ems, frozen to death in the northern lati-
tudes by the hard winter. The esthetic
population at the Hub are having q fine
thing of it.
English fishermen in Canada complain of
the scarcity of salmon. The absence of
fish they think is due to over-netting. The
following extract, taken from the London
Field. explains the cause for some of this
prumbling ? ''The principal rivers are
all leased, chiefly by our American cousins,
to whom money is no object
When they take fancy to particular
river there is no mistake about it. they
will have it.
The losses of the Gloucester fishing feet
have been uncommonly severe this year,
and the whole statistics have not yet been
completed. Tne heavy gale of ten days
ago will probably add to the list of disas.
tiers. So far thirteen vessels are reported
as lost. with total of 949 tons, valued at
$50. 900, with lis lives. In examining the
table of losses, those of 1882 have been
greater than during both 1880 and 1881.
Looking at the sacrifice of life in the last
seven years, including 1882, the sad total
is 779 The assurances on vessels cover
about rs per cent. of the losses.
The catching of smelt in the provinces
is assuming important dimensions. The
season for capturing smelt in New Bruns-
wick is limited by law from November 18th
to February 18th. The method employed
is to cut hole in the ice OF the river and
to use small scoop-net. Nets are lower
ed and lifted, and Oh the Miramichi the
average catch of single man in night is
over 900 pounds. Occasionally an ex-
pert will take as much as two tons. The
Montreal Gazette cites eight tons as having
been caught by a man and his boy in 6
week. These fish are shipped in large
Quantities to New York and Boston. At
present there is something like a monopoly
in this business, and the price of smelt has
been enhanced beyond its true value.
The proprietor of well. known Paris
restaurant was prosecuted for allowing a
dish of perdriu au1 choun (stewed part
ridge, with cabbage, bacon and sausage) TO
be served out Of season and though he
proved by the evidence of several wit
nesses that the partridge used in this
dish was taken from tin in which
it had been preserved, and
though this was allowed to be the
case by the public prosecutor, the Court
nevertheless found him guilty of the Of
Tense, and in the course of long judy
ment which need not give at lengthy laid
down as the law that it was as much an
offense to sell preserved or even potted
game as that which had been freshly killed
out of season. The London Field.
A correspondent writing from Rutland,
VT. saws In conversing with gunners
as to the velocity of the different birds in
their fight, 1 find quite difference of
opinion. If you or any of your readers can
throw any light upon this matter it would
be of considerable interest. A series of
calculations on this subject was made some
wears ago by our valued correspondent,
D. w. Cross, of Cleveland, o., the
results being published in his Fifty
Years with the Gan and Rod" For the
fight per hour OF birds in full plum.
age and at highest rates Of speed, he
gives the following estimates Crow, Is
to 40 miles mallard, black duck and
shoveler, 40 to so; pintail, so to 60;
woodduck, IS to 60; widgeon and gad-
wall, so to 10; redhead, so to 90; blue
winged and red-winged teal, so to 100;
bluebill, so to ITO; canvas back, so to l20;
sparrow, 40 to go hawk, 40 to $50; wild
geese, so to 80. The distance travelled by
birds in / second is as follows At rate
of 5 miles per hour, GIFT; rate of 10 miles
per hour, S3ft.; rate of II miles, 2 2ft.;
20. miles, 3.66ft; 80 miles, 5 SIT. 40 miles,
7. 33ft.; 60 miles. lift; so miles, Ia 66ft.;
80 miles, Is 05ft; 100 miles, Is 33ft; l2O
miles, 22ft.; $50 miles, 27.5ft. forest
and Stream.