Forest and Stream. 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



NEW YORK, JUNE 14, 1883. 



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CONTENTS. 



The Teain Question. 



The American Fishculture As- 



Fishcultuiv in England. 



sociation. 



How to Buy a Dog. 



The Kennel. 



[•SHAM Tourist. 



Chicago Hench Show. 



Major Jim 0. 



An Interesting Case. 



Camping in Southern California 



From a Sportsman's Notebook. 



Improvement of the Beagle. 



Bench Shows and Judging. 



Natural History. 



Rue. 



Anomalies in Bird-Life. 



Harry Howard's Last Fox. 



S^b.i"o Salmon. 



In the Matter of Lewis. 



Bird Life in the Central Park. 



Kennel Notes. 



More About tne "Stickfish." 



Kennel Management. 



Description of a Merman. 



Rifle and Trap Shooting. 



Game Bag and Gun. 



Range and Gallery. 



A Deer Hunt Near Monroe. La. 



The American Team. 



The Minnesota Law. 



The Trap. 



The Slaughter of the Innocents. 



Massachusetts Glass Ball Asso- 



The New Sporting Powder. 



ciation. 



The Ouachita Sportsmen 's Club. 



Canoeing. 



■■_ . : '-V . ' -:,!■... 



Canoe Racing. 



The National Rod and Reel As- 



Toronto C. C. 



sociation. 



Yachting. 



Ran;.:Hey Lake. 



Light and Heavy Displacement. 





Chicago Y. 0. 



Roughing it after Black Drum. 



New Pacific Coast Schooners. 



Fish Prospects in the North. 



East River Y. C. 



Bass Slayers. 



Hudson River Y. C. 



A Touching Chronicle. 



Larchmont Y. C. 



Black Bass in the Oswego River. 



Olson's for ]SS3. 



FlSHCULTUKE. 



Marjorie, the Terror. 



Attractive Aquaria. 



Answers to Correspondents. 



THE TEAM QUESTION. 



T>EFORE the issue of another number of the Forest and 

 -*-* Stream, the American team will have sailed for the 

 British shores. They -will go accompanied, we are sure, 

 with the best wishes of every American citizen, and we hope 

 with enough of the coin of the republic to make their jaunt 

 a pleasant one and enable them to fittingly discharge the 

 duty of representing the American National Guardsmen on 

 foreign ranges. 



With the history of the make-up of that leant our readers 

 are familiar. It is a squad which fairly represents to-day 

 the best available shooting material in the ranks of our citi- 

 zen soldiers. It is not easy to secure a dozen or more men 

 who are willing and ready to make such a trip as that un 

 dertaken by the American team, and especially when these 

 men must be experts in a very difficult art. 



The National Guard of the country does not make a very 

 creditable showing in this matter. After months of notice, 

 we find but twenty-nine men appearing to contest for places 

 on the team, and of these several were shooting merely for 

 a record. The fact is, that marksmanship has not yet be- 

 come a part of the Guard system here. While the public 

 and the men in uniforms will flock from near and far to 

 witness a contest in the manual of arms, or to see a picked 

 company strut up and down a paved plaza in the evolutions 

 of the squad drill, but a man here and there can be found 

 who has a well-founded knowledge of ball practice, and 

 who can put that knowledge into play. Aside from the 

 beggarly show which the Guard of the whole country makes 

 when compared with the whole male adult population, there 

 is wanting in the Guard, as at present organized, that con- 

 ception of a soldier's duty which gives to rifle shooting an 

 important place. 



But the team as organized is a strong one. A glance over 

 the records made during the weeks of preparation and drill 

 at Oreedmoor, will show'to the experienced reader that the 

 men come very near to the maximum which may reasona- 

 bly be expected of a military breech-loader. A year ago the 



British team, which visited America, and had such an 

 easy victory, were not as competent as the men now leaving 

 our shores. That is, judged by the records made by them 

 in practice and in the match. There were certain points in 

 which the English team showed great strength. Individu- 

 ally they were far in advance of the men who composed the 

 American team, and we cannot hope to equal them in that 

 respect until we too have secured such an immense field of 

 choice as is shown in the ranks of the British Volunteers. 

 This year will find a system of team management and dis- 

 cipline, which will mean a great many points on the Ameri- 

 can score. 



Public opinion in regard to the team has been largely 

 modified by the action of the Board of Directors. A great, 

 deal of childish wrangling and foolish exhibition of petty 

 spite on the part of the "has beena," has served to bring the 

 whole matter into much disrepute. There should not have 

 been from the start anything concealed or done in an 

 underhand fashion. There was such a star-chamber pro- 

 ceeding, and while the popular verdict would, in all prob- 

 ability, have sustained the directors had they declared their 

 opinion that the rejected marksman was an undesirable per- 

 son to place. on a team, there is no doubt that the N. R. A. 

 management has lost much in popular confidence by the far 

 from manly fashion in which Mr. Farrow's case was dis- 

 posed of. This is a matter which, so far as the present team 

 is concerned, has passed into a "by- gone," and unpleasant 

 things of that sort are always best when forgotten. 



The work of the team is before it, and for that work it is 

 fully competent. Col. Howard may not be statuesque, but 

 he has managed to show that he has a quiet working method, 

 and if the men are acting in good faith on the ammunition 

 question, he ought to know just what he can rely on from 

 each man. This is something which the captain of the last 

 team never did know. Should defeat come to the Ameri- 

 cans, it will simply be that chance of conflict, which may 

 at times send the best equipped and most competent adver- 

 sary to the wall. It will not be from that utter disparity 

 between the opposing forces which marked Ihe match of 

 1883. 



The pressing need now of the team is a substantial finan- 

 cial backing. The entire National Guard of the country 

 will be disgraced if the team is sent abroad poorly equipped, 

 and the civilian citizen will share in that disgrace. From 

 our knowledge of the management of the team we feel safe 

 in vouching for the economical expenditure of all funds 

 raised for this purpose. There has been much sacrifice of 

 time, labor and money by the men on the team, far more 

 than may ever be known to the world at large; but every 

 man who will feel a thrill of pleasure in the victory of the 

 team should do something toward bringing suc.h a result 

 about and this can be done in a measure by liberal subscrip- 

 tions. 



FISHCULTUBE IN ENGLAND. 

 TT is only within the past two or three years that a few of 

 -*- the more advanced fishculturists of Ergland have taken 

 to reading the reports of what has been done in the United 

 Slates and in Germany, and have candidly told their fellow 

 workers that England was far, very far behind those coun- 

 tries. It is exceedingly hard for Englishmen to believe that 

 their land is not up to the standard in all things, and when 

 Mr. Arthur Chambers, President of the English Fishcultura! 

 Association, and Mr. R. B. Marston, editor of the FkMmj 

 Gazette, both publicly stated tbat their country was far in 

 the rear in this matter, it created some surprise. The fact 

 is, that for years there have been some efforts in this direc- 

 tion, but they have been the work of individuals, who real- 

 ized the necessity of increasing the stock of fishes, but who 

 lacked the financial support of the government. Mr. Fran- 

 cis Francis early started the good work of salmon breeding, 

 and of sending the eggs to Australia, and he was followed by 

 Mr, Bucklaud, who, however, seemed to be ignorat of what 

 had been done abroad, and therefore gioped in the dark to a 

 great extent. To illustrate this, he packed salmon eggs for 

 Australia on the day they were taken and, of course, lost 

 them, where if he had taken the pains to read American re- 

 ports, he would have learned a fact known for years previous 

 by all intelligent fishculturists, that the egg does not bear 

 long transportation well until the embryo is visible to the 

 unassisted eye. 



These facts have been called up by the following extract 

 from a report on the International Fisheries Exhibition in 

 the London Fu&7,which says of the American display; 



In pisciculture there is a large and varied show of models and 

 other apparatus. Many of the models appear to be rather need- 

 easly complicated, though exceedingly ingenious. There were plans 



of hatcheries, trays, earners, hatching boxes in various forms and of 

 varied ingenuity. The same may be said of a large collection of 

 models of tlsh passes and salmon ladders. They are Ingenious be- 

 yond all doubt; but many of th'.'m arc. we fear, too ingenious to he 

 practicable. In these matters there arc certain broad principles to 

 be Observed! if these be recognized the work is easy; but if they be 

 not, all the ingenuity in the world will not replace them. Among the 

 most interesting things in the American exhibit is a large and fine 

 series of black and white pictures of all manner of piscicultural 

 operations. The United States have done well, and altogi. thcr make 

 a tine exhibition. 



If there is anything in which the fishculturists of America 

 excel it is in their apparatus which is designed to accom- 

 plish the greatest results in the least space and with the 

 minimum of labor. There have been implements devised 

 which arc needlessly complicated, and these are possibly 

 shown with the Government collection, but they are not 

 those which are in common use, or which will be found in 

 the models of the best hatcheries. Of the salmon ladders 

 which the Field fears arc ' 'too ingenious to be practical" there 

 are some which exceed by far any in use in Europe. For 

 instance, the McDonald fishway may appear to be compli- 

 cated, but its principle, which is different from any other, is 

 simple enough when seen at work, and a fishway up which 

 a man can row or pole a boat is certainly a practical one. 

 The "broad principles" in the construction of fishways are, 

 a diminished speed of water down an incline as short as pos- 

 sible. The device which accomplishes this in the best and 

 cheapest manner, need not fear to be called ingenious. 



There are some excellent private fishcultural establishments 

 in England which sell eggs and fry at high prices, such as 

 obtained in America ten years ago, but beyond stocking the 

 waters of some of the nobility, not much has been done. The 

 proposition to hatch what in England are termed "coarse 

 fish," such as pike, and the cyprinoids of the rivers, has re- 

 ceived much favor, and if the new Association carries'itout, 

 it will afford both food and sport for those who do not own 

 vast parks with lakes and streams, which are of use only to 

 the owners. We believe that the day will come, and come 

 soon, when England will workup to the present high stand- 

 ard of fishculturc on the Continent and in America, and those 

 who plainly tell the people that they are behind other 

 countries in breeding fish are the best friends of the cause. 

 If the new Fishcultural Association can workup popular in- 

 terest in this question and obtain government recognition 

 and financial aid, we expect to see a body of progressive fish- 

 culturists spring up in that land that will make their mark 

 on this industry, provided that some person whose only 

 claim to distinction is a long title is not put at theheadof it. 



England has several earnest workers in this field besides 

 the gentlemen named. Mr. Charles W. Harding has been 

 experimenting with the breeding of mirssels and oysters in 

 Norfolk; Mr. Charles C. Capel, of Foots Cray, Kent, has a 

 hatchery for Sidmonidw which is well known on this side 

 of the water, and there are others who are earnest, capable 

 men, who should long ago nave had charge of government 

 works to provide fish for the million, instead of for the few 

 wealthy persons who plant them merely for sport. 



Fishculture in England has been mainly a toy for the rich 

 to play with, and hence there has not, been that stimulus to 

 devise space-saving and labor-saving apparatus, which will 

 turn out millions of fish into the public waters at the least 

 expense. It has never bad the slightest aid from the Gov- 

 ernment, notwithstanding the fact that thousands are en- 

 gaged in the coast fisheries, and that the people consume 

 vast quantities of fish. The salmon rivers of Great Britain 

 are kept from exhaustion by protection alone, but with a 

 plentiful yearly stocking would produce many more fish 

 than at present. The Fisheries Exhibition, now in progress 

 in London, should open the eyes of the Members of Parlia- 

 ment to these facts. 



The reports heceived from the various fishing locali- 

 ties, far and near, would seem to indicate that the prospects 

 for the sport this summer are unusually good. The season 

 opened very late in all localities, and those who tried the 

 overfished streams near the cities, as soon as the law was off, 

 returned disappointed, with empty creels and droopingrods. 

 We are inclined to believe, however, that this is to be a good 

 fish year, and that the same old frosts and storms, which 

 annually destroy the peach, the corn, the wheat and the ice 

 crop, have this year left the trout and the bass harvest un- 

 harmed. 



Dr. James A. Henshali, will publish in illustrated book 

 form the two series of "Florida Sketches," contributed to 

 this journal. The entertaining material contained in those 

 papers was ample for a successful volume; and our readorn 

 will welcome them in the new form, 



