Forest and Stream. 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



NEW YORK, MARCH 29, 1883. 



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CONTENTS. 



EnrroniAL. 



The Need of Range Data. 



The Maine Indictments. 



Trout Day. 



Caviar. 



The Minnesota Movement. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



Nimrod In the North.— V. 



A Reminiscence of Utah. 



The Last of the Grouse. 



New Maine Laws. 

 Natural Hxstorv. 



Salmagundi of Natural History. 

 Game Bag and Hon. 



,".: :Jr- '.In.: ..■.., -,; 



Whiter at Indian, Lake. 



Catching a Grouse Alive. 



Babbit Shooting. 



That Screed Again. 



The Maine Deer Question. 



Summer Snooting. 



Notes from Chicago. 



Another Heterodox Screed, 



Hints about Loading. 



New Jersey Gunning Grounds. 



An Adirondack Deer Country. 



A Texas Scamper. 

 Oamp Fire Ft.i 



Sea and Rives Fishihq. 

 Tot's Trout. 



Boyhood Reminiscences.— n. 

 The Wail-Eyed Pike. 

 Early Fly-Fishing. 

 A Growl from Grizzly Gulch. 

 Northern Michigau Once More. 

 Long Lake. 



The Detroit Hatchery. 

 The Kennel. 



Song of the St. Bernard. 



"American Kennel Register. ,; 



The Gordon Standard. 



K.-iii.-ei Management. 



Kennel Notes. 

 Rifle and Traj? Shootcno. 



Range and Gallery. 



Muzzle vs. Breeeli. 



The Trap. 



Glass Ball Club Rules. 

 Yachting and Canoeing. 



Object of Naval Architecture. 



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The Progress in Yacht Building, 

 The Boyj' Sea-Going Sailing 



Withits compact type and in its pernio nently enlarged form 

 of twenty-eight pages this journal furnishes each week a larger 

 amount of first-class matter relating to angling, shooting, the 

 kennel, and kindred subjects, than is contained in all other 

 American publications put together. 



TEE NEED OF RANGE DATA. 

 T^O revert to a subject on which the Forest and Stream 

 -*- has before thought it necessary to speak, we would ask 

 why it is not possible for our rifle associations to take more 

 definite and active steps toward making more valuable re- 

 ports upon the work accomplished on the several ranges. 



It is not enough to have a mere clerk who can present an 

 accurate copy of the score-sheets. That may be necessary 

 enough for the determination of the prize lists. But that 

 after all is but a small part of the field that should be covered 

 by an association which pretends to be organized for "the 

 encouragement of rifle practice." There is not that steady 

 progress in the development of small arms which there 

 should be met with when so many men give so much of 

 their time to practice before the butts. Eveiy shot fired is 

 an atom of experience which it should be the endeavor of 

 the controlling body to gather up for the use and guidance 

 of succeeding riflemen. 



It is not enough to say that this work of experiment and 

 carefully noted trial will be carried on by private individ- 

 uals or by rifle-making firms interested in securing good re- 

 sults. The best results cannot be reached in this way. and 

 the trial of a decade shows that they are not. What are 

 needed most just now are carefully conducted series of 

 shooting trials, so that the rifleman going out to practice 

 may know at least in what direction he may expect fruitful 

 returns for his effort, and what he may not expect to find in 

 other directions, The association will be able to make im- 

 partial trials, and the conclusions, whatever they may be, 

 will be accepted on ;d) sides as conclusive, at least for the, 

 time being. By exploding many old and antiquated notions 

 which still cling about the theory and art of gun and rifle 

 shooting, the way will be cleared for progress iu the right 

 direction toward simplicity of mechanism and accuracy of 

 result. 



■* for example the amount of shooting which during 



the past ten years has been done in different parts of this 

 State by the members of the National Guard. Have any 

 general conclusions been drawn from that practice? Has 

 there been any compilation of results in such form that suc- 

 ceeding officials may find a fund of information awaiting 

 them, drawn from the rich mine which the annual practice 

 of nearly twenty thousand men opens? There are an abun- 

 dance of figures, but they are useless records of what was 

 accomplished by the hap-hazard system in vogue. 



A small elub devoting itself to this line of original re- 

 search and test can do more for the advancement of the art 

 of riflc-shoating than the richest and most extensive organiza- 

 tion which aims only at merely gathering a number of shooters 

 together to compete for prizes. The work now clone is an 

 important one. There must be grand field days, when in 

 open matches opportunity is given for a careful and keen 

 comparison of results. In this way different experimenters 

 are enabled to air their theories and get the knock-down 

 quietus of defeat or the encouraging indorsement of victory. 

 But there are dozens of needed tests— of charges, of shells, 

 of rifling, of holding, of powders, of wads, of bullets, of all 

 the hundred et ceteris which enter into that most complex 

 of results — a well-delivered bullseye. Such a series of tests 

 should run over an entire season in order to gain the advan- 

 tages of varying, weather conditions; and when carried out 

 by different individuals they include that personal equation 

 without which factor tests are apt to become mere bench 

 trials, and correspondingly misleading. 



THE MAINE INDICTMENTS. 

 TN our issue of August 10, 1882, we called attention to the 

 -■- summer killing of moose in Maine by three parties who 

 we stated were residents of Worcester. One of the three 

 who were thus named, subsequently called at this office 

 and explained — that the other two did not live in Worcester 

 — which was certainly much to the credit of the sportsmen 

 of that city. We do not know just how much more he had 

 intended to explain, but we convinced him that we "had 

 the papers" for our statements; which did away with the 

 necessity ®f further explanation. By reference to our "Game 

 Bag and Gun" columns, it will be learned that indictments 

 have been found by the Grand Jury of Somerset county, 

 Me., against the other two of the party named, as well as 

 against their guide, for the very offense reported by us. 

 Many other individuals have been indicted on similar 

 charges, and the public is now given to understand that 

 Messrs, Slilwell and Stanley, the Maine Game Commis- 

 sioners, "mean business." 



In addition to the parties against whom indictments have 

 been piesented, were many other offenders against the Maine 

 game laws, who eagerly accepted the Commissioners' offer to 

 allow a private settlement, and paid up their fines. We are 

 glad that the detectives failed to discover evidence that the 

 Hon. George F. Hoar, of Worcester, Mass., was present at 

 the moose killing which has been somewhat freely coupled 

 with his name during the past months. The publication of 

 the. names, given elsewhere, of which we have been in pos- 

 session some time, will also relieve from worry several 

 other gentlemen who have been quite oppressed by the 

 thought that their good name might be tarnished by un- 

 founded suspicions. 



It is a pleasure to know that 1here is a gradual change of 

 sentiment among sportsmen tourists, and this change is very 

 largely due to the influence exerted by right-thinking men 

 who annually carry their home principles with them into 

 the woods.' Among the Maine summer visitors are many in- 

 dividuals who have by persistent preaching and consistent 

 living exerted an influence in behalf of respect for the game 

 laws. Wholesale condemnation of Maine tourists is, there- 

 fore, most unjust 



The Game Protectors.— We understand that the bill 

 to increase the force of game protectors in this State to six- 

 teen has been passed. The new law will put the wardens 

 under I ho control of the Fish Commission, and there may 

 s» be some possibility of making them do their duty. We 

 have been unable to learn that any of the eight wardens, 

 always excepting Mr. Dodge, have earned their salary, or a 

 tithe, of it. They have been unprofitable servants, and 

 ought to be cast out of office. We hope to see Mr. Dodge 

 reappointed, for he has proved himself to be an admirable 

 man for the place, and if the fifteen others were like him 

 game protection would mean something in (his State. 

 Special care should be taken in the appointment of these 

 game wardens to supply officers at points where they are 

 most needed. Long Island should not be neglected, nor the 

 New York markets. 



TROUT DAY. 



THE legal opening of the trout season in the State of 

 New York Is the first day of April, which this year 

 falls on Sunday. While many of the northern lake* and 

 streams are still ice-bound, the streams of Long Island have 

 been free of ice for a month, and the trout are feeding to 

 make up for lost time. How many anglers from the city 

 will visit the island it would be hard to say. The new penal 

 code aakes it an offense to fish on Sunday, and we hope 

 that all our readers will strietly observe the law and wait 

 until Monday morning. 



Those who are fortunate enough to have friends who own 

 preserved streams and are in possession of invitations to 

 fish them arc. mortals to be envied. We have several such 

 invitations but cannot accept them for a week or two yet, 

 and it is this fact that disturbs our sleep and makes us thin 

 of flesh. Long Island is the greatest trout country iu the 

 State. Its waters have always been filled with trout by 

 reason of their coolness and their plentiful supply of food. 

 To-day there are nearly two hundred private ponds and 

 streams which afford excellent fishing, and also a few 

 streams which have, been open to the public for years, and 

 are not yet fished out. The famous South Side Club has 

 been adding to its preserves several new streams, whi»h will 

 be stocked from the abundant supply in ponds and lakes be- 

 longing to the club. Its members comprise some of the 

 most prominent citizens of New York. Near Yaphank, the 

 Suffolk Club has its grounds and its excellent fishing. Mr. 

 Austin Corbin's, near Babylon, are well known, and here 

 and at the ponds of Mr. W. Floyd Jones, at South Oyster 

 Bay, President Arthur occasionally wets his fly. At Green 

 River, near Say villa, are the preserves of Messrs. E. R. Wil- 

 bur and Charles F. Imbrie, which afford some wild trout 

 fishing. 



Beside these places where only invited guests may fish, 

 there are other preserved waters where the angler may cast 

 by paying for the privilege, usually about a dollar a pound 

 for fish taken. There are Thompson's pond, at Noyac, near 

 Sag Harbor; Clapham's pond, at Roslyn; Seaman's, near 

 Ridgewood; Carman's, at Amityville; Furman's, at. Maspeth; 

 Douglass's, at Huntington, and others. 



The charge of a dollar a pound is certainly very reason- 

 able and is less expensive than to go miles by railroad where 

 the fishing is free. Of free fishing on the island there is little 

 or none that is good. A few tro ,' a«.Y be taken from Cedar 

 Brook, near Baldwinsville, the jni .•• 

 town, and in the streams al > 



Cove, but they do not yield re b i i ■■■' ... ■, 



number of rods and the ca so ' iai&od 



streams before the opening oi : i two 





CAVIAR. 



THERE are many people who pretend to like caviar, and 

 it is possible that a few may have forced themselves to 

 relish the intensely salt or rancid preparation of sturgeon 

 eggs called by this name. We believe the "delicacy" first 

 came from Russia, and we can imagine that a native of 

 Siberia, half Indian and half Esquiniax, might find caviar a 

 delightful change from whale's blubber and decayed seal. 

 We have tasted caviar, and think that old rusty mackerel 

 brine is nectar beside it. 



The Germans pretend to love caviar, and Americans who 

 have been abroad eat it before their friends to show their 

 acquired taste contracted in foreign lands. We read iu the 

 Deutsche FMn'rci Zeititog that some Germans have been 

 making caviar from the eggs of the pike, and wo wish them 

 success in their search after a new source of supply of 

 delicatessen, Shakespeare speaks of something which 

 the general public cannot relish as being "caviar to the gen- 

 eral." The bard is correct, as usual. Caviar is caviar, 

 whether made of triple-salted rancid sturgeon eggs or of the 

 ova of the pike flavored with seal blubber and stale mack- 

 erel brine. 



To our friends who have not yet met this luxury we will 

 say that at dinner, after the pudding, ice cream, cheese, 

 nuts, figs and raisins have passed, you take a piece of toast 

 about three inches square and cover it with a quarter-inch 

 layer of something that looks like broken rice stewed In 

 coal tar. On this you put a thick layer of finely-chopped 

 raw onion and squeeze lemon over it. You raise it to your 

 lips; you bite into it and roll j our eyes heavenward and de- 

 clare that you never tasted anything half so delicious before. 

 At the first opportunity you slip down-stairs and take a 

 quiet drink out of the kerosene can to get up a proper after- 

 taste in your mouth. 



Yea, the Germans have discovered a new source of caviar 



