Forest and Stream 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



NEW YORK, JUNE 7, 1883. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 





FisHta-LTcnE. 



Tin- New VorkFij- 





Misdirected Fishculture Again. 



k.'ui was Spa 



'ed. 



The Kennei.. 



Ok.iael.'s in Ride 





The San Francisco Dog Show. 



The Spoktrmax Tot 





Gleucho and Trix. 



Quiet Sport.— ti. 



II -!,,-.k:, Ll.k.-S. 





The Last of the Foxes. 





'Jhieaa-o Bench Show. 



minting and Sfl i 





The Dogs at the New York Show 



Summer Spurts i 



) Canada. 



Kennel Notes. 



H/.'ivuu.llisToav. 





Kennel Management. 



A Naturalist ii 



Washington 



Rift.b and Tiue Shooting. 



Territory. 





Muzzle vs. Breech. 



When the Birds Return. 



Creedmoor. 



Winter and SprA 



tr Jfotea, 'g2-'«8 



Range and Gallery. 



The Engl! liSpai 





The Trap. 



ClA tr ,'in E Ji en 





Trap and Field Shooting. 



<■■. ,.i: tlAfl mD Gun 







Concerning Bear 





Weight and Displacement in 



Hunting Rill.' Sie 



its. 



Canoes. 



Hay Bird Siiootin 



% on the Ches- 



Round the Isle of Man in a 



n.ioake. 





Mersev Canoe. 



Florida J'./.'i.-i'i./i, 





Royal Canoe Club. 



Once Mote "fcheF 



eived." 



Yachting. 







Decoration Dav's Brush. 

 The Keel Cat Fearless. 



VVaecamas Lab 





- '! rip .' -:;:"!/-! 





Outside BaUast. 



Bass Trmline: in 



lorldai 



Oswego Y. C. — May 25. 



Aii-IIm:/' ill 1 licet 





The Capsized Grayling. 



Black iki-M- in La 



te Erie. 



Experiences in a Deep Draft. 



The United Stat 

 London. 



cs Display at 



South Boston Y. ('. 

 Knickerbocker Y. C. 



"KfsfiDay".afW 



oreestcr. 



Answers to Correspondents. 



With its compact type unci in its permanently enlarged form 

 of twentp-eiijlit pages this jour nal 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. 



TUE NEW TORE FISH COMMISSION. 



THE Governor of New York has vetoed the item in tile 

 supply bill wluc.li gave the Commissioners of Fisheries 

 three thousand dollars additional to carry on the work at 

 Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, on the ground that their 

 regular appropriation was sufficient for all purposes. We 

 do not know from what source the Governor drew his in- 

 formation, nor how correct his conclusions may be; but we 

 rlo know thiil the proposed work on Long Island is a much- 

 needed one, and is a step in advance in the good cause. The 

 station has only been in operation live months, and has not 

 only a commendable exhibit of work clone in the way of 

 hatching and distributing, but also of much in the way of 

 permanent improvements in such things as troughs, rearing- 

 ponds and fixtures for hatching fresh- water fishes generally. 

 Although the public recognizes the fact that a hatchery for 

 the salmonidae and other fluvia tile fishes is a necessity in the 

 southeastern portion of the State, the facts are that the 

 proximity to the salt water renders the Cold Spring station 

 one of almost unlimited possibilities, especially as it is unique 

 in this respect, and has therefore the assistance of the United 

 States Fish Commission, with its extensive connections at 

 home and abroad. There has been no hatchery established 

 for salt-water fishes in America, nor in any other laud, and 

 the New York Fish Commission took the lead in trying to 

 establish one, and they only asked for a very small sum to 

 start the work; therefore the Governor's action in this mat- 

 ter is much to tie regretted. The springs at this station are 

 so elevated that they have heen used to turn mills, and would 

 easily pump salt water to a height of twenty feet or more, 

 Where it could be used for hatching codfish, and all other 



fishes which are available, as at high tide the salt water 

 comes to within a hundred yards of the old mill whicli is now 

 used as :i butchery. 



The United Stales Commission has hatched codfish to a 

 limited extent, but has worked with the disadvantage of 

 having no hatchery near salt water. Some were hutched at 

 Gloucester. Mass., and turned into the harbor there, and 

 have since been taken near the docks, where no deep-sea cod 

 were ever seen before; and others have also been hutched in 

 the old Arsenal at Washington, iu artificial sea water. No 

 doubt new cod grounds could be created about Long Island 

 Sound and New York city, as well as on the south side of 

 Long Island, by large plantings of the fish, for food is 

 plenty there, and eggs by the lens of millions can be ob- 

 tained from the live fish brought to Fulton Market. These 

 facts show reason enough to have the work continued, and 

 it is to be hoped that it will nol be abandoned, even though 

 the Governor did not approve of a special appropriation for 

 this purpose. Fishcitlture is a progressive industry, and its 

 hold on the people is now so strong that it is in no danger 

 of being turned back on account of a temporary impedi- 

 ment. 



OBSTACLES IN RIFLE PRACTICE. 



YYTITH the opening of the present month, shooting will 



* ' begiu on many ranges under official orders from vari- 

 ous commanders in the ranks of the National Guard, A 

 uumber of States have made arrangements for the practice 

 of the men, and considerable time and effort will be expended 

 in securing records of the proficiency, or the want of it, on 

 the part of the troops. Each State seems to have devised a 

 special system of ball practice, and the result is that it is eu- 

 entirely impossible to make any precise comparisons. The 

 Regular Army, [too, has a system, and this seems to be a 

 shifting one, so that during a decade past we have seen a 

 half dozen schemes devised for securing a short cut to good 

 marksmanship without the tedious detail of careful range 

 practice. 



"With a general observance of some one plau of practice, it 

 would be possible to so show up the failings of some of our 

 organizations, that a feeling of emulation would spring up 

 and good results follow; at present there is too much striking 

 about iu the dark, and the general public are left in a state 

 of uncertainty, whether or not this banging of rifles, which 

 goes on through each summer on our State ranges, really 

 amounts to anything. 



It was the strong point made by the advocates of rifte 

 practice when it was introduced iu the National Guard that; 

 it was then entirely possible for a member to go through a 

 full term of service and yet never have occasion to fire off a 

 gun. Is it quite certaiu, then, that this cannot be done 

 to-day? That there are not now members of the Guard who 

 have not had any practical experience with the rifle iu the 

 field before the targets? There are certainly many who do 

 not go near the ranges. That this Iftso, may in somo wry 

 rttro instances be due to unavoidable obstacles, but ft is too 

 true that the armory methods are sadly at fault. There is 

 not and never has been enough aiming drill in the squad 

 rooms. Without this, work out of doors is worse than use- 

 less, and with it the field records are sure to stand out in 

 excellent prominence. 



Progress has been made and perhaps a. fair result has been 

 secured for the amount of effort pul forth thus far in the 

 cultivation of military marksmanship. Still, there is danger 

 that a great deal of waste labor may be expended aimplj lie- 

 cause each worker in the field does not know what other 

 directors of practice are doing. In New York changes of 

 administration have led to changes in the personnel of the 

 Inspector-General's office," and then naturally comes a differ- 

 ent way of putting the Guard through its course of training. 

 There are no definite principles guiding. There is no 

 standard set toward which the men are expected to ap- 

 proach, and the result is that there is no end of the work 

 and no way of telling how much the men have profiled 

 by it. 



It would be unfair to conclude that because but twenty- 

 nine men fitted themselves to shoot iu the preliminary com 

 petitions for places on the American International team, 

 that the interest on the subject among guardsmen is at a low 

 ebb, or that there is not a general ability to shoot well. It 

 is one thing to shoot for pleasure, or even in fulfillment of 

 one's duty as a member of the Guard, and quite another to 

 undertake the responsibilities of a place on a representative 

 team. Neither is it just to gauge the interest or want of it 

 by the fact that Creedmoor is not crowded by competitors 

 at the fall meetings. Time and distance prevent any such 



gathering. It would be worth the while of the Board of 

 Directors here to arrange a programme of matches to be 

 shot on the several local ranges throughout the country, 

 making the conditions so simple that they could be easily 

 understood and generally complied with. 



Ttiis city is able to furnish a team of any sort of shooters, 

 and over the several States they would find many responses 

 to a well-put invitation for a test of ability. Such matches 

 at off-hand shooting are going on almost every week now in 

 a quiet way, and all that is required is for some central 

 body to undertake the labor of directing and managing 

 them. This can be well done, from this point, and perhaps 

 through such a series of shoots something could be done 

 toward breaking down the barriers of localism and place- 

 proudness which now play so prominent a part in keeping 

 riflemen from knowing more of each other, and enjoying 

 their sport in its best feature— that of generous rivalry. 



ise, the undue exercise, of 

 lie knew of no exercise of 

 an that which brought him 

 He was in that positiou, 

 BOIt of retributive iu-tice 

 ; ago, as president at the 

 iie was a member, thoma- 



TSB ROD WAS SPARED. 

 A T the recent dinner to the foreign representatives to the 

 J - r *- International Fisheries Exhibition, at Fishmongers' 

 Hall, London, in reply to a toast, Mr. James Russell Lowell, 

 the American Minister, said that — 

 "He had always been jealous of tl 

 arbitrary power, and he must COni 

 arbitrary power more cruel to its ' 

 to his feet when he was at loss wh: 

 but he could not help thinking the 

 in it; for it happened to him sevei 

 annual festival of the University o 

 hgn satisfaction with which he use 

 honored with the presence of a very distinguished gentleman. (Laugh 

 tor) and then he paused and saw a shudder pass through the assembiy 

 e.very one of course imagining iiiawlf to tie the distinguished gentle- 

 man meant, tile average of ilisiinguisboii gentlemen iu America i»eblg 

 very high. (Renewed laughter.) They had never heard of a llsh 

 speaking, it was true. There was a tradition of St. Anthony at Padua 

 preaching to the fishes, but now the fishes bad been brought to preach 

 to us and to instruct us. If he could only make the speech whiuh was 

 sure to come to his mind as he was going down the stairs whan fchey 

 were all going away, he should have a deal to say to them; but as it 

 was, he thanked liis Royal ITighni/ss for the kindness with which he 

 bad proposed the health of the representatives of foreign coUKtnes. 

 Tin- kindness tie met with in this country convinced him that he rep- 

 resented less a foreign country than most of the ministers for JoTeign 

 States there, and that, ho rather represented the eldest daughter of 

 England. (Cheers.) He believed that some of the exhibits sent from 

 his country would not be found inferior in interest to those in other 

 departments. He held in his hand a rod, one of the exhibits from 

 America, weighing only four ounces anil a half, warranted to land a fish 

 weighing five pounds. He wnotas a great lisher.but he had exceedingly 

 pathetic associations with the American rod. (Laughter.) He once 

 bought one which cost him $18, and he took it to a river and had his 

 cast, and at fast succeeded in hooking a silver i rout, and brought it 

 home in triumph, when he was told that he hail caught the most val 

 liable fish in the world, as, seeing that it measured about six inches 

 it had cost him $3 an inch. (Laughter.) 



It is evident from this that Mr. Lowell took to fishing too 

 late in life. A boy, or man, who never went fishing until 

 he could amass wealth enough to buy an eighleen-dollar rod, 

 will never become, as Mr. Lowell puts it, a great fisher. 

 This is not the only instance on record where the rod was 

 spared and the child spoiled, vide Solomon. A father who 

 brings up his boys in ways which they do not depart from, 

 buys his sons rods and lines at an early age, or he gives 

 Ihem currency of the realm sufficient for an outfi t, and they 

 forego the rod aud buy cheap lines and hooks, and apply 

 the remainder of the cash to the purchase of other necessities 

 of boyhood, as marbles, balls, etc. A boy whoso angling 

 education had not been neglected, would never figure up 

 that his first six-inch trout had cost three dollars an inch, 

 because the rod had been bought for eighteen dollars. He. 

 would have swapped his line rod for a sled, a terrier pup, 

 and a quart or two of marbles to boot, and have gone into 

 the swamp aud cut him au alder sw r itch for a rod and been 

 happy. It is very evident that the American Minister to 

 the Court of St. James has been entrapped by our English 

 friends, who are born anglers,' into talking about things that 

 he is not familiar with, in order to lead him on to tin: ques- 

 tion of the Halifax Award and the Fisheries Treaty of Wash- 

 ington. 



We suggest to them thai if they want to know about the 

 commercial fishet ies, or the ichthyology of America, that 

 they ask Prof. Goodo or Capt. Collins. If they seek to 

 penetrate the mysteries of flshcullure they may inquire ol 

 Mr. Earll, while Reuben Wood will tell them how the de- 

 lusive fly is palmed off on the unsuspecting trout as gome 

 thing whicli is desirable as a lunch. We have never heard 

 much of Solomon as an angler, but his maxim, ".Spare the 

 rod and spoil the child," shows that he thought that a boy 

 would be ruiued if he did not go lishing. We fear that the 

 rod was spared in the ease of Mr. Lowell, 



