FOREST AND STREAM. 



A WEEKLY JOURNAL. 



Devotkd to Field and aquatic Sports, Practical Natural History, 

 Fish Culture, the Protection of Game, Preservation of Forests, 

 and thr Inculcation in Men and Women of a Healtht Interest 

 is Out-Door Kecreation and Study : 



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FOR THE FEVER STRICKEN CITIES 

 OF THE SOUTH. 



LAST week the following circular was issued by us and 

 sent to all our advertising patrons, to the sportsmen's 

 associations and rifle clubs in the New England and Middle 

 States : 



" New Yobs, August 29, 1878. 



"The attention of the nation is turned to the fever-stricken 

 cities of the South. The sufferings of the sick are greatly 

 augmented by a general destitution consequent upon business 

 stagnation. Ptie appeals for aid are urgent. 



" -Bitig convinced that these appeals will meet a ready and 

 generous response from the sympathy and benevolence char- 

 acteristic o£ the fraternity of sportsmen, and to facilitate the 

 proffered assistance of sportsmen and sportsmen's clubs, we 

 will cheerfully receive all cjntrioutions, which will be ac- 

 knowledge.! in our editorial columns, and at once given into 

 the general fund in charge of Mayor Ely of this city. The 

 money sent through tne agency of the Fuetbt and Stream 

 axd Koo and Gun is to be known as the 'Sportsmen's Con- 

 tribution.' 



" Money orders and drafts should be made payable to 'The 

 Forest aud btream Publishing Co.,' New York." 



In response to the same we are in receipt of the following 

 amounts lor the ''Sportsmen's Contribution:" 



Forest A Stream Pub. Co $25 Dr. S. T. G. Dudley $10 



Giii Oeo. W. WingaLe 25 Jamea Brady B 



T. W. sharks, Plulti 16 ThomBon & Son 5 



L. S. Lawrence & Co 25 flolbeitoni Co 5 



E.G. B actloid 10 B. P 6 



Fowler & Fulton 10 Major Merrill 1 



Mes-is. ria touife Co 10 Mr*. F 1 



JoUnScOH 10 



The total amount, $172, we have this day handed to Mayor 

 Ely for distribution in the South. Our work has but just 

 commenced. We know of a good deal of money on the way 

 to iii u\ t all contribute who can. We feel sure that our 

 appeal will not be in vain. 



As the money comes in we will turn it over to the Mayor, 

 and full lists of donors will be published in this paper. 



OUR INTERNATIONAL TEAM MEN. 



The season of 1878 cannot be called altogether a blank one, 

 with such a record as we herewith present of the endeavors of 

 the team candidates for places on the squad of 1878. They 

 were made at periods extending over a month on ranges here 

 and there over the country, in all sorts of weather, generally 

 not the most favorable, and by men in many cases working 

 singly ; or where direct competition did exist, there was, of 

 course, no helpfulness in it, nor were the men stirred to great 

 endeavors by the prospect of a coming team of foreign cham- 

 piODS. There was everything to discourage, and little to en- 

 courage the formation of the very best. Per contra, the men 

 working for places were in nowise tyros. They were all men 

 of intelligence, and as riflemen trained to that careful watchful- 

 ness over minor details, which yields the difference between a 

 medium and a magnificent score. How slight a thing may 

 bring down a score is seen in the case of Professor Dwight, 

 who made his big scores of 218 and 219 on the 12th and 13th 

 of August respectively. Owing to some error in the arrange- 

 ment of dates he was compelled to shoot again on the 15th 

 and 16th, and scores of 197 and 188 were made, the fatigue 

 and the care of such a slight built man being sufficient to 

 create the falling away. The team will now be called together, 

 elect a captain, enjoy a few days' practice together, and then 

 shoot over the ranges for the " Palnia " in 1878. Really, for 

 all purposes as a record, and for the scientific memoranda, 

 it will be all that could be secured were a dozen teams in the 

 field. With such a magnificent initiative the team of 1878 

 should put something on the rifle record overtopping anything 

 now on the cards, even though it should result in creating a 

 permanent panic and slay-away feeling among the foreign 

 riflemen : 



SCORES BETWEEN JULY 16 AND AC0UST 10 INCLUSIVE. 



W H Jackson, Sharps. Tot. Avge. 



192 198-390 214 216—120 214 206— 410 200 310—110 1,260 210 

 RHathbone, Remington. 



19! 2.9— 400 203 214-417 205 209-114 213 213—426 1,557 209 1 i 

 C BDwight, Maynard. 



182 199-381 2I)S 206-414 219 21S— 43T 197 1SS— 385 1,236 206 

 T S »umner, Ballard. 



18U 2-.B— SSS 212 209-421 2t9 196— 4"B 199 204-403 1,229 204 5-6 

 J F Krown, Ballard. 



1S2 198-380 211 211—422 201 203-404 205 198—403 1,229 204 S-6 

 H F Clarke, Sharps. 



203 200—103 2o6 200-406 211 207— llS 204 1S9-393 1,227 204 1-2 

 W Gerrish, Remington. 



179 202— 381 2IS 196-414 200 206-^106 1,201 2001-6 



H T Rockwell, Remington. 



177 193—370 206 211—417 156 197-353 200 195-3S6 1,182 197 

 G W Davison, Peabody Martini. 



173 189—367 1S9 199—388 194 201—395 1,150 191 2-3 



HOW TO NAME A YACHT. 



OUE contemporary Pacific Life has an appropriate word 

 to say upon the abominable practice in vogue of nam- 

 ing vessels after some fifth-rate little politician, or a corner 

 lounger unknown to the world beyond the block he lives in. 

 All the more nauseous is it to see such designation applied to 

 yachts. The Christian names of feminine gender may be ex- 

 cused, though even they become hackneyed, when the Lizzies 

 and Carries and Belles and Annas number up in the hundreds. 

 But to call a pretty clipper after such a meaningless inanity as 

 John T. Smith, H. P. Brown, O. R. Jones, J. TJ. 6. Johnson, 

 et id genus ornne, is carrying the mutual admiration business 

 a little too far. Who on earth, outside of the intensely dull and 

 narrow limits of a country town ward, knows or cares for the 

 Smiths and Browns and Joneses anyway ? Such names are apt 

 to repel any one before he sees the yacht. In contradistinction 

 are such pertinent and appropriate titles, which have lately 

 been followed up on a certain line among some jib-and-main- 

 sails in our waters ; they include Thistle, Nettle, Bramble, 

 Thorn, Prickle, Briar, etc. 



What does our contemporary think of the following plan for 

 naming a yacht ? Invite all the girls in the neighborhood, seat 

 them in a circle, tell them to think each of a name, and at the 

 count, " one, two, three," sing them out as loud as they know 

 how. The first name caught by the owner's ear decides the 

 clipper's appellation. There need be no fear of the young 

 ladies all calling out their own names, not at all. This hap- 

 pened once, when all those rejected are said to have immedi- 

 ately drowned themselves. The terrible consequences have 

 ever been a lesson to the fair ones. And then girls have so 

 much more taste in such matters than your rough-and-ready 

 tar. 



THE SCOTCH HERRING FISHERY. 



WE published some time ago a very remarkable chrono- 

 logical table due to Mr. Lindahl, of Sweden, which 

 gave the perodlcal visits of the herring to the coasts of North- 

 ern Europe. Herring may be always caught in the northern 

 waters in larger or smaller quantities, but Mr. Lindahl shows 

 in what years herring abounded. Prom a careful examina- 

 tion of the tables there appears certain intervals when the fish 

 are found in great numbers. During about eighty years be- 

 tween the lapses of a century, fish seem to swarm, then the 

 shoals disappear and fish are scarce. No exact rule can, how- 

 ever, be formed as to when the fish may be expected in large 

 numbers. Mr. Lindahl's first date of abundance is in the 

 year 1020. This was followed by a herring period during 

 the latter part of the twelfth century. Then again at the 

 close and middle of the thirteenth century. From 1556 to 

 1590 the fish were in enormous quantity, the large catches 

 lasting for thirty-five years. There has been preserved fairly 

 authentic data of the enormous catch in the sixteenth century. 

 It had a special name and was called a Land-Stotning. Old 

 chroniclers state that for a space of fifty and sixty miles the 



shores of the Swedish mainland and the adjacent islands were 

 covered with curing and salting houses, many of them two 

 and three stories high, and inhabited by vast multitudes of 

 people who had congregated there from various and distant 

 parts, and whose sole occupation was in connection with the 

 fisheries. Herring were so abundant that thousands of ships 

 came annually from Denmark, Germany, Friesland, Holland, 

 England and France to purchase fish. One small town' 

 Marstrand, alone, for a long series of years, shipped 600,000 

 tunnor, or some 2,400,000 bushels of fish, In 1587 the- herring 

 disappeared and reduced the fishermen to misery. There is a 

 strange old story which is told on the Finland coast how the 

 queen of the herring having been caught all the rest of the 

 fish left. The advent of herring in 1774 was a very large one, 

 and it seems to have lasted until 1804. In 1808 herring were 

 veiy scarce on the coast of Sweden, and pernaps have never 

 been in as large quantity as in former years. 



Our attention has been called to the report of the Scotch 

 Fishery Board for 1877. We find that the total number of 

 barrels cured was 847,718, being almost 250,000 barrels more 

 than last. year. Takingthe average then of l he last ten yenrs the 

 total annual catch must lHisomethinglike843,250,800 herring 

 worth some .€1, 750,722. In the year 1870 the herring harvest 

 was a failure, only 598,197 barrels having been cured, while 

 during 1873, '74 and '75 the catch represented respectively 

 039,233, 1,000,561 and 942,980 barrels. Many causes were 

 alleged for the absence of herring, pi incipally the bad weather 

 which occurred in 1876* Taking, however, th • highest yield 

 of fish in 1874 as someihing over a million of barrels in pro- 

 portion to the increase of boats, fishermen and implements 

 now in use, it seems that for ihe present fish must be less 

 numerous than in former years. 



Some curious investigations have been made in regard to 

 the number of herring destroyedby the birds on the Scotch 

 sea coasts. " It is ai-sumed," says a leading authority, " that 

 the gannets consume more than 1,110,000,000 herrings per 

 annum." But this can by no means account for the loss 

 in herring, as the gannets in former years devoured quite as 

 much fish as tbey do to-day. The devastation that cod, had- 

 dock and ling and other fish make on the herring is undoubt- 

 edly greater than the birds ; and it is supposed that ou the 

 Scotch coast the incalculable number of 29,400,000 000 of 

 herring are consumed hy these fish. When the fishing in 

 Scotlandis compared with the industry of former years, the 

 enormous expansion of the fishing interest is manifest. There 

 are 7,000 boats fishing for herrings in the Scotch seas, with 

 an aggregate of 230,000,000 of square yards of netting. If 

 these nets were placed in a continuous line they would stretch 

 out to 12,000 miles— more than across the Pacific — and would 

 cover a superficial area of seventy square miles. If, then, 

 the power to capture has increased fivefold, the catch has not 

 responded in an equal ratio. 



In comparing the results of the Scotch herring fisheries 

 with our own, it will be found how really insignificant is our 

 catch. Professor Brown Goodo read before the American 

 Fishcultural Association, in February last, a table of the es- 

 timated value of the United States Fisheries for 1876. In 

 this table we find the value put on herring to be ¥507.077 

 and the weight 28,000,000 of pounds. It is the menhaden 

 fishery which at present is of great importance, its value being 

 in 1876, some $1,657,790, representing a catch of 402,000,000 

 of pounds. It is quite probable that this year the catch will 

 represent something over two millions of dollars. This 

 special fishery employs 1,500 men, with sixty-five steamers, 

 and several millions of dollars are embarked in the enterprise. 



THE BUCEPHALUS OF THE PLAINS. 



YOUR general reporter must be an imaginative person, and 

 your St. Louis one most particularly so, for it is to this 

 gifted individual that we are indebted for the story of the 

 " Wild Texas Racer," who makes three miles in 4:50. These 

 are the figures, with a stop-watch. The Forest akd Stbbam 

 ahd Rod and Gun is not a horse paper, but still the history 

 of this untamed pacer is so wonderful that we must give it in 

 detail. Tho Untamed delights in the name of tlie " Black 

 Boss," and is the glory of the plains. When you go for Boss 

 he looks at you, whinnies, flirts his tail, and is off like greased 

 lightning. Once (so the reporter says) the celebrated Mexican 

 vaquero, Juan Gonzales, went for " Black Boss," tooth and 

 nail, mane and hoof, with mounted relays and lassos and 

 lariats. It was colt's play for the Untamed. Even when they 

 had driven him into Hermosa Gully, and had the rope on his 

 neck near the Wichita Mountains, and the vaquero and the 

 whole, of the company sat on him, he got up and, like that 

 Western play mule in the drama of the " Forty Thieves," he 

 kicked the whole establishment to smithereens. He bit Juan 

 G., carried him three-quarters of a mile by the nape of his 

 neck at a gait of 2:13i (Rarus' time), then dropped him 

 and betook himself to his native plains with a snort. The 

 "boys" were not, however, disheartened, .but ran him for 

 twelve long months ; but it was no use. Now, alas ! "Black 

 Boss " has learned to be cunning. He no longer awaits the 

 chase, but at the sight of a pursuer " devours the earth," as 

 the Arabs call it, or " dusts," as we Yankees briefly express it. 



Now, all this is very fine ; but we are forced to put but 

 very little credence in the whole story. Ferocious lion hunts 

 can be as plausibly written up in New York as wild horse 

 chases in St. Louis. 



We doubt if to-day there are really any true wild horses in 

 Texas. We mean those which are, or have been, wild during 

 several generations. A good many horses escape from herds 

 aud reonsnlo, but aro not wild horses, as the public unde 



