Forest and Stream. 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



NEW YORK, JULY 19, 188S. 



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CONTENTS. 



The Kennel. 

 The li.igs' Hospital, 



The Sportsman as a t 

 Che Sportsman Tourisi 



Camp Henderson. 



Camp Fire Flickeri 

 Uame Gag and Gun. 



Duck Shooting o 

 Coast. 



Game in Colorado. 



The President's Mi 



Star Wads. 



d River Fis 



V I >a j 



FlSHCULTLTRE. 



Tin ii]!H-i..'a u 1 i^lieulinval As- 

 sociation. 

 Flshculture in North Carolina. 



Buffalo yachts at Clevi 

 Salem Bay Y. C. 

 New York Y. C. 



A-..-.--VERS TO t 



With its compact type and in its permanently enlarged form 

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

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

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

 American publications put together. 



understand just what the Volunteer movement in England 

 amounts to. It can be studied to advantage by the authori- 

 ties of every State, and the people of the United States 

 would not regret the time and money spent in building up 

 8UOu a reservoir of passive power in case misfortune ever re- 

 quired the throwing of a body of armed men into the field. 

 With such a force of semi-trained civilians to pick from 

 there would not be that scrambling about for available men 

 which has marked the formation of every American team 

 thus far. But entirely apart from team formation, the 

 possession by the United States of such a body of men would 

 be a wonderfully effectual guarantee of peace and safety 

 from invasion, and if the present match will in any way 

 lead to the bringing into existence of such a body, it will be 

 worth all the expenditure of time and money which it has 

 cost. 



THE SPORTSMAN AS A GULL. 

 4 TTENTION has frequently been called, in the 



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ON THE EVE OF TEE MATCH. 

 rpO-MORROW and the following day are the dates set 

 -*- for the match between the American and British 

 tennis at Wimbledon. Each team lias been most carefully 

 selected, and the two dozen men will embrace the pick of 

 the thousands of civilian marksmen on both sides of the At- 

 lantic. The match promises, at this writing, to be a close 

 one, for since the arrival of the American marksmen in 

 England they have been very diligent in their range work 

 and the scores have been such as to lead Colonel Howard to 

 express his opinion that the team under him is in good 

 form and able to do its best on the match days. 



There certainly is little difference in the excellence of the 

 weapons employed. If the Americans have not been able 

 to make rifles in every respect equal to the English arms the 

 odds are so little in favor of the British arm that they are 

 hardly worth considering in anything but a careful bench 

 test. The British riflemen are individually vastly superior 

 to the Americans in experience over many ranges and under 

 every possible condition of wind and weather, so that taking 

 such a measuring unit as the average of each man's shooting 

 for a time past the British aggregate might run the higher, 

 but if Col. Howard's assertion that his men are working In 

 good trim means anything, we understand that the men are 

 in a condition to help each other in every way during the 

 progress of the match. In this way, and in this way only, 

 is the match to be won. That the men help each other is 

 not of itself a warrantee of a victory, but it is very certain 

 that, taken from first to last, the individual members of the 

 American team are not, the equals of the British shooters, 

 and only by a well organized system of co-operation can the 

 Americans successfully cope with the home team. 



While the match and its results is in itself of compara- 

 tively trifling importance, yet in its consequences, direct and 

 remote.it is an event of more than passing moment. It 

 would he a thing of vast value if the American public could 



A this journal, to one of the growing abuses of the time, 

 the luring of sportsmen by hotel proprietors into regions 

 where there is neither game nor fish, The summer resort 

 landlord and the farmer, who takes "city boarders, " both 

 put forth their mendacious and alluring advertisements of 

 "good fishing in the vicinity," and "game abundant," when, 

 as a matter of fact, there may be no fish, save minnows, 

 within ten miles, and the only game is the mal-odorous 

 skunk or the burrowing woodchuck. Many sportsmen, 

 misled by these lies, make long and expensive journeys, only 

 to find themselves most abominably sold. 



We know of no sufficient course of action to remedy this 

 evil. It is little satisfaction to "show up" the unscrupulous 

 "hosts;" that does not give one back the wasted money and 

 time. A very good rule is to write personally to the adver- 

 tisers of these rare fishing and shooting resorts, and obtain 

 from them in writing an explicit statement of the case. It is 

 often the case that a man will lie in an advertisement to the 

 general public, when he will hesitate to put the same deceptive 

 statements on paper in black and white, over his own sig- 

 nature, for which he may be held to a personal accounta- 

 bility by the victim of his greed. The sportsman tourist is 

 wise in his day and generation who thus provides himself 

 with the documentary evidence which, in the event of disap- 

 pointment, may serve its useful purpose in fixing the blame 

 where it belongs. 



FORESTRY. 



IN another column we give a report of a meeting held to 

 organize a society to preserve the Adirondack forests, it 

 is an organization much needed, and one which will com- 

 mend itself to all who love out-door life, as well as to those 

 who look upon it from the utilitarian point of preserving a 

 great water supply for our aquatic highways. In parts 

 of Europe forestry is a science, and officers are appointed by 

 the governments to supervise the forests; and only judicious 

 thinning of young trees and the cutting of those which have 

 attained their growth is allowed, and we understand that 

 this law applies to tracts of woodland owned by individuals, 

 the theory being that the individual will pass away, but the 

 forest must remain forever. Such laws would be unpopular 

 to many here, but they would work well for the people a 

 large. A man who can only live a hundred years at most ii 

 allowed to buy a tract of land in the great water producing 

 region of the State and for his own pecuniary benefit render 

 it forever sterile. 



The State was too anxious to sell Adirondack lands at an 

 early day, in order to get some one to pay taxes on them. 

 Lands were sold in great tracts at a price often as low as five 

 cents per acre ; the timber was cut off, and then the lands 

 were allowed to be sold for taxes and finally came back to 

 the State. In consequence of this there are isolated tracts 

 of State laud scattered all through the wilderness; and in 

 some cases the State has an individual third interest inlands 

 on which the other two owners can cut the trees, but from 

 which the State derives nothing. These State lands are re- 

 garded as free plunder by some lumbermen, aud a sort of 

 squatter sovereignty has been established in some cases 

 where lumbering and bark-peeling have been carried on 

 freely. 



The new association deserves the support of all interested, 

 and we hope that names of new members will flow in to the 

 secretary from all Who love the woods. His address is, Mr. 

 Verplanck Colvin, Superintendent Adirondack Survey, Al- 

 bany. N. Y. A meeting for further organization and action 

 will be held this fall, when all who are likely to take an in- 

 leivst in it will be out of the woods, 



Great SocthBat.— The watersof the Great SouthBay of 

 Long Island were formerly celebrated for their tine fishing. 

 Hundreds of anglers went daily from New York and other 

 places to capture bluefish, weakfish and other fishes in its 

 waters. For years the people living near it received much 

 money from the angling strangers who came to fish; and they 

 waxed fat from summer boarders, boat and horse hire, bait, 

 etc. But they also allowed netters to take the fish, in open 

 violation of the law, and failed to support those who prol ested 

 againstit. Mr. Roosevelt, of the New York Pish Commission, 

 was one of those who protested some years ago, and the net- 

 ters convinced him that he was in error by boring boles in bis 

 yacht and other arguments of a like character. Now the 

 fishing is rained, and the angler who goes there not know- 

 this fact soon leaves for Barnegat Bay. or other good 

 locality, and the hotel keepers are hi mourning. True, a 

 society has been formed to correct the evil, but they are 

 late, and it will take them years to repair the mischief which 

 has been steadily exhaustiug the fisheries for the last decade. 

 It seems to us that the Long Island Railroad, which has de- 

 rived its share of benefits from the traveling anglers, should 

 help this new association to preserve the fisheries of this 

 great natural feeding and breeding ground. 



American Wood Powder.— In reply to several inquirers, 

 respecting our opinion of the powder manufactured by the 

 American Wood Powder Co. of this city, we repeat what 

 we have said before. The manufacturers of the powder, 

 when they first brought it out, stated that they had suc- 

 ceeded in overcoming, by the process of manufacture, the 

 objection we urged against the Dittmar powder, namely. 

 its liability to detonate. The strength of their claims could 

 be tested only by a chemical analysis of the powder. This 

 we at once instituted, putting samples of the powder into • 

 the hands of an eminent chemist for that purpose. Circum- 

 stances have delayed his reporting to us. Pending this 

 report we must decline to give advice in the matter. We 

 prefer to treat such important subjects thoroughly, believ- 

 ing that the interests of all concerned— particularly those of 

 the consumer — demand intelligent consideration instead of 

 a hasty and therefore premature passing of judgment. 



Tin?, U. S. Fish Commission. — Prof. Baird is now at 

 Wood's Holl for the summer, where the scientific portion of 

 the commission is at work on sea-dtedging and general 

 marine investigation. The menhaden investigation by the 

 Senate committee, consisting of Senator Lapham, of New 

 Y r ork, Senator J. F. Morgan, of Alabama, and Senator Call, 

 of Florida, is at Cape May. Col. McDonald, one of the 

 brightest and best fishculturists that this country has pro- 

 duced, is with the committee, representing the commission. 

 The question is a very vital one, and one that anglers take 

 a great interest in. We will look for the report with much 

 anticipation. 



Rainbow.— Speckled beauties— trout. Crimson beauties 

 — snappers. Green beauties — bullfrogs. Brown beauties — 

 woodcock. White beauties— polar bears. Blue beauties — 

 disappointed belles. Red beauties — Irish setters. Black 

 beauties — crows. Liver and white beauties — pointers. 

 Crushed strawberry beauties— sunburnt anglers. Rusty 

 beauties — gun barrels. Yaller beauties — Ki-vis. "White, 

 black, and read all over" beauties— Forest' and Stream 



Thf. Game Prospects for the approaching shooting sea- 

 son are very satisfactory. The birds are' recovering from 

 the decimation wrought by the severe winter weather of 

 1881-2, and where they have been fairly well protected from 

 illegal shooting will afford good sport in the fall months. 



Logic is Logic— "That Office Boy" says that a man who 

 will kill game out of season will not, scruple to kill his fel- 

 low man as well. This is, we must confess, a pretty severe 

 statement, but the suggestive point is that out in Colorado 

 the "Boy" has found facts to sustain his proposition. 



The G. A. R. — Target practice, carefully conducted, is 

 getting to be a feature of the many G. A. R. picnics held. 

 The "old tins" show considerable skill with the improved 

 weapons of to-day, and always manage to boast of much 

 more than they accomplish. 



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