THE AMERICAN SPORTSMAN'S JOURNAL. 



Entered According to Act of Congress, In the year 1831, by the Fore3t and stream Publishing Company, In the Office of the Librarian of [CongTesa, at Washington.; 



Terms, 64 a Year. 10 Cts. a Copy.l 

 SixMo's, 82. Three Mo's, SI. J 



NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1881. 



CONTENTS. 



Editorial :— 



The State Tournament ; The Trout Hog Order ; Notes,. 383 

 The Sportsman Tourist :— 

 Notes of an Angler in the North— Part Third; Tenting in 

 Michigan; Poor Little Penn ; Deer Hunting in Canada, 384 

 Natural, Historu : — 

 A Tame Chippy j Bearer Trapping in the Northeast ; Some- 

 thing About Woodchueks j Leaves from the Note-Book of 

 A School Girl ; A Drumming Woodpecker ; Birds and 



Ants.. 386 



Game Bag and Gun : — 

 Our Detroit Letter ; The Old Goose Blind ; The New York 

 Game Law ; Slaughter of the innocents ; Mr. Bergh on 

 Pigeons and Snakes ; Hounding vs. Still-Hunting ; Hur- 



lingham Club Kules; London Gun Clnb BuleB 387 



Sea and Biter Fishing: — 

 Worms in Pishes ; Becords of Fly-Casting Tournaments j 

 The Fly-Casting Tournament; Angling Notes and Que- 

 ries ; Angling at Monson, Me. ; South Fork Pishing Asso- 

 ciation ; Notes 890 



Fish Culture : — 



An Improved Shad Hatcher ; The Gourami 391 



The Kenned :— 

 Snipe Shooting with John Davidson ; Pet Dogs and How 

 to Teach Them ; Schemes for a Dog's Rescue ; The Nor- 

 folk Spaniel : 392 



Rifle and Trap Shooting:— 



Range and Gallery 393 



Yachting and Canoeing : — 

 Sailing Rules ; Atlantic Yacht Club ; Seawanhaka Yacht 

 Club ; New Jersey Yacht Club : Eastern Yacht Club : 



Quaker City Yacht Club 395 



Answers to Correspondents 397 



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FOREST AND STREAM. 



Thursday, June 16. 



Worms in Fishes.— We would call the attention of ang- 

 lers to the article on this subject from Mr. Frederick W. 

 True, of the Smithsonian Institution. Mr. True is a rising 

 young student, who has taken up the little-known subject of 

 intestinal and other parasitic worms. We have always 

 claimed that the worms in fishes were harmless and have 

 offered to eat any fish containing them or to pick out the 

 worms and eat them alone to prove our belief in iheir inno- 

 cent nature when taken into the stomach of a warm-blooded 

 creature. It is pleasant to. find that Mr. True coincides with 

 this view of it, because some rash newspaper correspondents 

 have tried to get up a scare on ' ' trichina? in shad " and other 

 sensational questions. Just as the mites in cheese have a 

 flavor undistinguishable from the cheese itself and are harm- 

 less in the human stomach, so, Mr. True informs us, are the 

 worms in fish. They have not reached the proper place for 

 development and are destroyed by digestion. It is of course 

 a matter of taste with a person whether they will eat a fish 

 inhabited by these tenants or not, but if they do there is no 

 danger. Some people are a little nervous about such things 

 and cannot take a cherry on trust, but must open and exam- 

 ine it. This is merely disgust at worms in general, without 

 fear of becoming a "host" to them, and it is gratifying to be 

 assured that the parasites of fishes are as harmless as the 

 worms in cherries. For ourselves, we eat cherries in full 

 faith that there are no worms in them and if there are we 

 nevei see them and the taste must be like that of the cher- 

 ries. We do not care to bate our pleasure marred by the 

 doubt that our cherries are not inhabited, and so we regard a 

 ripe, plump cherry as Cajsar's wife was held to be, above 

 suspicion. Mr. True is certainly worthy to be enrolled among 

 the noble band composing the Ichthyophagous Club, who 

 will thank him for the hint that the Italians eat the "maca- 

 roni worms " from fishes. At the next dinner of the club 

 perhaps "macaroni worms, a la True," may adorn the bill 

 of fare. 



THE STATE TOURNAMENT. 



THE preparations for the tournament at Coney Island 

 have been completed, and the Long Island clubs will 

 be ready next Monday to welcome the delegates from other 

 parts of the State. 



Badges for the delegatos and visiting clubs have been pro- 

 vided, each one being numbered and the name of the person 

 receiving it to be registered. They admit to all the privi- 

 leges of the grounds and are not transferable. None but 

 members of the State Association will receive them. They 

 will be distributed at the headquarters of the Long Island 

 Association, Hotel Brighton, Coney Island, at noon on Mon- 

 day the 20th, by Mr. T. C. Chamberlain, Chairman of the 

 badge committee. Members must apply for them in person. 



Members who have not provided themselves with hotel ac- 

 comodations are requested to send their baggage to the Long 

 Island Sportsman's Association, Hotel Brighton, and to be 

 present at rjoon on the 20th to select their hotel. Frice at 

 Hotel Brighton will be two dollars per night for rooms with- 

 out meals ; or four dollars per day including board. Lower 

 terms can be obtained at other hotels, and there will be 

 plenty of room for all. 



On Monday noon a special chowder will be served in the 

 large dining room of the Hotel Brighton to members of the 

 Association who can obtain tickets without charge upon ap- 

 plication to Judge Henry S. Lott, chairmau of the reception 

 committee, at the Association headquarters. The grounds 

 will be open for inspection on Monday and the prizes will 

 remain on exhibition at the rooms of the Brooklyn Furniture 

 Company, 563 Fulton street, Brooklyn. The committee 

 will accompany those wishing to view the grounds and prizes 

 during the afternoon. The convention will assemble in the 

 east dining hall at Hotel Brighton at 8 p. m. The balcony 

 will be reserved for ladies and their attendants. Admission 

 to the convention hall and to the balcony will be by ticket 

 which can be obtained at headquarters. Attached to the 

 ticket will be a coupon to be retained for admission to the 

 dining room where the collation will be spread and tickets 

 will be issued to the ladies as well. The collation will be 

 largely composed of sea-food, and seats will be furnished to 

 all who may attend. These details are intended to insure 

 the comfort of visitors and ladies who may accompany them, 

 and to insure freedom from intrusion and from outside inter- 

 ference. 



The ground committee have arranged the traps so that the 

 inside columns of the grand stand will form the eight v -yard 

 rear boundary, and the outside fence of the track will form 

 the one hundred-yard boundary for double birds. The pond 

 for fly-casting will be abont 100 feet square. Entries can be 

 made at headquarters or with Fred Mather on the grounds. 

 The rifle contest will be placed near the fly-casting at a dis- 

 tance of over a quarter of a mile from the trap score. Plat- 

 forms are prepared at the traps so that the shooters may 

 stand either on the planks or on the turf, as they choose. 

 Comfortable moveable settees have been provided for the 

 shooters with a canopy to protect them from the sun. Dur- 

 ing the tournament the tent committee of the Long Island 

 Sportsmen's Association, Harry Miller, 451 Flatbush ave., 

 Brooklyn, chairman, will provide a substantial lunch for 

 those members who may not wish to leave the grounds dur- 

 ing the day, without charge. Mr. Eogeman, proprietor of the 

 grounds, will provide an old-fashioned clam bake daily, and 

 the Long Island Association will also provide a cook in order 

 that no man shall hunger. 



The bulletin, or illustrated programme, published by the 

 Long Island Association, will be ready for delivery at noon 

 on the 20th. Each delegate will be given two copies and 

 each donor of a prize will receive one copy. The remainder 

 will be sold at a price sufficient to cover cost of publication. 

 This has been considered necessary by the extensive scale on 

 which it has been gotten up as it will be a most elegant 

 souvenir of the tournament. It will be a book of 172 pages 

 on fine sixty-pound tinted paper and beautifully illustrated. 

 It is Irom the press of William O. Martin, 111 John street, 

 New York, and is under the direct supervision of Mr. Abel 

 Crook, the President of the Association, and Mr. S. 8. 

 Conant. 



Delegates are requested to present their credentials at head- 

 quarters at noon in order to avoid delay at the opening of 



the convention, and to allow more time for enjoyment of the 

 elaborate musical and literary programme in the evening. 



THE ORDER OF TROUT HOGS. 



A PENNSYLVANIA subscriber, who by the way bears 

 the honored name of Cotton, sends the Forest and 

 Stkbam this clipping from the Bradford, Pa., Era, and asks 

 what is to be said of the exploit chronicled : 

 haul of 4,000 trout. 



To Gene Ford and Charley Eastman must be awarded the honor 

 of Bradford's Champion trout iishere thus far this season. Dur- 

 ing an angling sojourn of less than two days along the green banks 

 of the unpolluted streams at Cross Forks, Potter county, they 

 caught four thousand of the prettiest specimens of the toothsome 

 trout family. To remove that doubt, which mankind is bo prone 

 to ul.Utok to fish stories, the successful fishermen arri\ed in the 

 city yesterday, in open daylight, with the full number of trout 

 mentioned. The fish were fresh, fat and as tempting as the red 

 lips of a maiden. The trout will bo served at Henderson's Public 

 Square restaurant. 



Well, there is not much to be said in such a case of pure 

 and unadulterated hoggishness as this. If the Era report be 

 true, Messrs. Ford and Eastman deserve an exalted position 

 in the ranks of the trout hogs. They have earned their 

 shoulder-straps. We have no personal acquaintance with 

 these Bradford fish scoopers, nor any desire ever to go fish- 

 ing with them ; but we take great pleasure in aiding them to 

 make known to the universe their claims as "champions" of 

 Bradford and of the whole country, for that matter — for let 

 us hope that no one will be found any where else so shame- 

 less as to claim to have outdone this 4,000 trout haul. And 

 while we are about it — provided no other claimant turns up 

 — we propose a medal for the Bradford champions. 



The editor of the Bra, by the way, calls it "angling." 

 Does he not know the distinction between fishing with arod 

 and line, and shoveling them out with scoops ? And he says 

 the streams were "unpolluted." Does he not know that saw- 

 dust and coal tar and lime and strychnine are not more pol- 

 luting and destructive than this outrageously hoggish plun- 

 dering he records ? 



Some of the fish commission reports contain drawings of 

 the insects and other creatures which prey upon and destroy 

 trout. Would it not be a most excellent plan for the Penn- 

 sylvania Commissioners to send a photographer to Bradford, 

 and in their next report give us the portraits of these two 

 "champion trout fishers?" 



But perhaps the item is only an invention of some of the 

 Era staff. If so, we do injustice to the parties mentioned ; 

 and as we would fain injure no one we invite Messrs. Gene 

 Ford and Charley Eastman, of Bradford, Pa., to tell us how 

 many trout they did catcb, how long they were catching 

 them and what style of tackle they employed. 



It looks now very much as if they would come in for a 

 medal. Can some one suggest a suitable design ? 



Migkatoky Quail Retuen.— Last week we published a 

 note of the return of migratory quail to one of their breeding 

 places in Quebec, and we have received from Mr, C. B. 

 Hazelton the pleasing intelligence that the birds put out at 

 Wintorton, Me., have also been seen ther,e this spring, sev- 

 eral of them having been observed on the 28d of May. 



Mb. Bergh has been talking to a World reporter about 

 the coming pigeon-shooting tournament at Coney Island. 

 How he talks and what his talk amounts to may be seen 

 from the World extracts which we give elsewhere. Mr. 

 Ucrgh's language needs no comment. 



TffB headquarters of the New Jersey Game and Fish Pro- 

 tective Society are at Plainfield. The organization is active, 

 alert and prosperous. It is receiving accessions of non-resi- 

 dent members. A further notice of its mode of working will 

 appear in our next number. 



Thb Forest and Stream of June 30 will contain a supple- 

 ment of four pages giving the full scores of the pigeon shoot- 

 ing at Coney Island. 



It's a jolly company of ban vtoants that will gather when 

 that 'possum ia served. 



