THE AMERICAN SPORTSMAN^S JOURNAL. 



IBulered According to Aot of Conjcress, in the year 1879, hy the Forest iind Stream Publishing Company, in the OIHce of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington 



NEW YORK, THURSDAY, AUGUST 12,1880. 



CONTENTS. 



Kditobial ;— 

 Advertisements ; WiJd Rice ; Palace Cars for Sportsmen ; Tbe 

 Michi(fiin Sportsmen's Association; Sixteenth Century 



Doti T, Ml Vi L.I isfui'lAnsriinjr; Bay SnipeSbooting— Lo- 

 cnlh li incite : Fishery Exhihltious : The Team 

 Call ' astoni House; The Cannillrtii Match; To 

 Coll'-ii ,.,.,; Greene Smith; Celebrated Shots 15i 



The *p<inys_MA.v Iuhrist:— 

 A Moral laiu lor I'oaehersr Kough Notes from the Woods ; 

 Look I^oint ; A Miiisummer Fox Chase. ..,..., 2(i 



Natitrat, Htstorv;— 

 A Captive Woodcock ; Directions for Collecting AIgm; A 

 Rat with a Collar; A Tame Ruffed Grouse ; Temperature 

 Of Fresh Water Lakes; Enlightened Liberality _ _, 3T 



Pisa Ct7T<TITRE : — 



The International Fishery E.vliibitioji in Berlin ; Hatchiuw 

 the Lophius : D.iith of Mr. W. A. Lloyd ; Tbe Fish Hawk': 

 Codllah in Fresb Water ; A Xew Species of Maoterel ; 



Another New Fish on the Atlantic Coast :J8 



Ska anc !;:vi , "i,|7, .-,. 



Tr.Hi: - ,,: . _in; Trout in North Carolina; 



'I'll- .' iiaiia: Heeovereu Hooks: An- 



f>}'"- ..:,:. 1, ...lis Fishing in Sullivan County : 



^or;:,..u .■>:,. .ai.a., ; .-.aiuon Aniflinir in Caluornia; Crap- 

 pie and Califoniia Sal mon ; Salmon in Maine take the Fly ; 

 Fish in Market ; Salmon find Sea-trout in Canada: Gray- 

 ling in New Brunswick: Crawttsh Bait '. . 28 



Gaue Bao a>d GtTN :— 



Migratory Quail in Maine, in N'ermont, inljuebec; To- 

 ronto Game and Fisb Fraiectioii ; Mr. Squires on Dittmar 

 Powder: Cobb's Island l^riccs; Iowa Game Prospects; 

 Connecticut ^yoodcock ; Tennesee Dove Shooting ; Snipe 

 Shooting at Good Ground ; Iowa Chicken Shooting; 3hoot- 



IngMatohea ,. ,. 30 



Thk Kennel :— 



Of English Dogges; Pride of the Border: Toronto Dog 



Show: Notes „ 31 



The RrFLE:— 



Kange and Gallery ; Fraud in Scoring; The Canadiaa Bifle- 



men; The Halford-H,yde Match Abroad 33 



ABOHBiiy :— 



Buffalo tw. Highland Park; Granger Smith's Scores: The 

 Spirit oX Archery ; Hawthomes to. Oritanis 34 



CRIUKfT — 



Mate!, 1 I . _ 3j. 



Tacii 1 



^'\, , , Ljs Regatta, Beverly Yacht 



. '"" ' 35 



Answers J.O {. ,uRE5['ONDE\is 3ij 



POBMSITEBS' UEPARTME.VT 3g 



For advertising rates, instructions to correspondents, 

 etc., sec prospectus at end of reading matter. 



Forest r;^ Stream. 



NEW YORK, THURSDAY, AUGUSI! 13, 1880. 



Advertisejiissts.— Advertisers are respectfully re- 

 quested, in all cases wiiere it is possible, to send in their 

 advertisements by Saturday of each week before the issue 

 in which they wish them to appear. We cannot receive 

 new advertisements, nor make changes in those already 

 standing, later than Tuesday morning. 



Wild Riob:.— We are in receipt of numerous inquiries 

 for wild rics. At present none is in the market : it is 

 too early. When the harvest is gathered, those who are 

 collecting it will give due notice in the Forest and 

 Stream. We shall then repeat full instructions for its 

 sowing, 



Palack Cars for Sportsmen.— The cars ■' Davy 

 Crockett" and " Izaak Walton "' are fitted up expressly 

 for the convenience of sportsmen. As there will probably 

 be a great demand, this autumn, for these comfortable 

 moving hotels, wc recommend our friends to apply early 

 to the Pullman Palace Car Company, m order to secure 

 their accommodations without fail. 



i:i03e who read Porter's Sjpirit long before the 

 -r AND Stream was published will recognize in 

 ■ Rough Notes from tlie Woods," published to-day, the 

 same pleasant chat tlrnt " Nessuiuk " used to contribute 

 to that journal. We have further notes on band, and 

 shall publish them shortly. 



—The leader of the crew making, the reprisal, related 

 by " Awahsoose, ■ isnow a flsh warden— evidently the 

 right man in the right place. The moral of that tale, by 

 the way, is not wholly for poachers ; it may well be ap- 

 plied by organized or non-organized game protective so- 

 cieties. If a net catches fish when flsh should not be 

 caught one remedy is to bm-n the net, 



THE MICHIGAN SPORTSMEN'S ASSOCI 

 ATION. 



THIS is one of the best organizations of sportsmen 

 in America. It is what all such associations 

 should be, a protector of flsh and game ; and its delib- 

 erations are of the most interesting character, compris- 

 ing essays upon all subjects which come within the stope 

 of the organization and which are followed by discus- 

 sions. We are in receipt of their third aimtial report of 

 tlie fifth annual session of the association! which was 

 held at Bay City, Feb. 3d to .5lh, 1880, a neat pamphlet of 

 one hundred pages, to which is appended a synopsis of 

 Michigan game, flsh and allied laws. Instead of being a 

 mere pigeon shooting club, it devotes its time to consid- 

 ering the habits of flsh and game, the laws for their pro- 

 tection during such times as an increased knowledge of 

 their habits requires, and even the introduction and ac- 

 climatization of such species as may seem suitable to the 

 climate of the State. At the last meeting President 

 Holmes, in his address, while of the opiaion that the mi- 

 gratory quaU, CoturnLv vulgaris, was hardly suitable for 

 their State on account of its habits, which might impel 

 it to leave for a warmer clime as soon as the young were 

 fit to travel, strongly recommended tiie introduction of 

 tbe "gray partridge " of Asia and Africa, Perdix cineria, 

 as an addition to the game birds. 



A paper by Mr. Fred Mather was read, appealing to the 

 association to save the grayling from extermination, and 

 citing cases where the spawn of this fish had been artifi- 

 cially taken and the young reared in this countrj , not- 

 withstanding there was an impression abroad that this 

 had never been done. Mr. Geo. H. Jerome also wrote a 

 brief note on the same subject, and Mr. McLean advo- 

 cated the right of the settler to kill game to supply his 

 wants, to which most of the members gave assent. Mr, 

 Frank Clark gave his experience in bringing East and 

 ' breeding the rainbow trout, Salmo iridea, with which 

 he had been very sticceasful. 



The Committee on Nomenclature made a report which 

 was followed by that of Jlr. E. H. Gi-illman, chairman of 

 the Committee on Sporting Dogs, in which he treated 

 dog culttrre, management and field trials, in a very able 

 manner, and to which we had occasion to allude in a 

 former article. Sir. J, G, Portman, Superintendent of 

 Michigan Fisheries, read a paper on fish culture in the 

 State, in which he spoke of the attempt to introduce 

 shad into the lakes, the land-locked salmon, the eel, the 

 trout, the whitefish and the carp. The eel had been 

 planted to tbe extent of about 700,000 in the years 1877-8. 

 At the Pokagon hatchery Mr. Portman has hybrids of 

 SnlmofontinaUs and S. namai/msh which are fertile. 



Following the report of the Committee on Laws for 

 the Protection of Game, Mr. C. W. Higbj' read a paper 

 upon the subject, in which he advocated reducing the 

 market value of game by preventing its sliipment out of 

 the State, or shortening the time in which it was allowed 

 to be killed ; also to pass a law punishing persons who 

 killed deer for the skins and left the carcasses to rot. 

 The question of shortening the open season for deer by 

 making it from Oct, 1.5th to Dee. 1st, instead of, as at pres- 

 ent, from Sept. loth to Dec. 15th, was. by general con- 

 sent, .allowed to lie over until another year. Mr. D. H. 

 Fitzhugh, Jr., then offered a resolution of regret at the 

 death of Prof, .James W, Milner, of the LTnited States 

 Fish Commission, and an obituary paper was read on the 

 death of Dr, Thomas A. Brewer. Senator Palmer referred 

 to the custom of shooting pigeons from a trap, and 

 hoped that the association would discountenance it, 

 whereupon Mr. C'olliurn showed that the association had 

 never recognized the questioii of trap-shooting tis a legit- 

 mate one for discusaion in its deliberations ; that the as- 

 sociation had more important business in hand than the 

 agitation of a question which would only serve to bring 

 discord into the convention and cripple its effectiveness 

 for good, the opinions held by the members upon this 

 subject differing widely ; and closed by quoting from 

 Mr. Mathers paper his sterling compUment to the asso- 

 ciation, in which he pronounced it one of only three 

 clubs in the United States whose meetings are for the 



protectiion of game instead of pigeon slaughtsr and 

 shooting for prizes. 



The good that it is possible for the Michigan Sports- 

 men's association to do is almost unlimited, and we are 

 glad to see that its work is meeting with appreciation, an 

 evidence of which is the increa.sed demand for its pub- 

 lished reports, which in 1878 was only 1,000 copies ; in 

 1879, 1,500, while the present year witnesses an edition 

 of 3,000 copies distributed gratuitously to Michigan 

 sportsmen and to aU others who are thoughtful enough 

 to inclose a stamp. This is douig excellent missionary 

 work and is well worthy of consideration by all bodies 

 of sport.smen who desire to elevate not only their sport 

 but themselves from the mere routine of slaughter, 

 shooting and fishing for count and for brag, to the high- 

 est level of sportsmanship which propagates and protects 

 the game for the sake of healthful recreation in forest 

 and by stream, and which never allows sport to degen- 

 erate into slaughter nor approach extermination. 



SIXTEENTH CENTURY DOG LORE. 



THE " foure good dysportes and honest gamys that is 

 to wy te, of huntynge : hawkynge : f ysshynge : and 

 foulynge," must have held a high place in England in the 

 Fifteenth and Sixteenth centuries, for some of the first 

 laborious and clumsy efforts in printing were devoted to 

 rehearsing their merits and to instructions for their pur- 

 suit. English books of sport are almost as old as the 

 Engfish printing-press. The first press established in 

 England was that of Westminster in 1477, after which 

 came, two years later, that of Oxford, and the third at 

 St, Albaus in 1480. We do not know even the name of 

 the first printer of St. Albans: we only know that he was 

 a schoolmaster, for Wynken De Worde, who reissued 

 one of his books, tells us that the original was printed by 

 " one sometyme scolemayster of Saynt Albon," and we 

 coirld wish that more than these meager details had been 

 left to us of one to whom, even at this late day, sports- 

 men of antiquarian tastes owe so much pleasure. Fot- 

 among the eight books— six of them devoted to educa- 

 tion — printed dming the six or seven years after 1480, 

 and before the worthy man relinquished his new labor 

 for the old work of tutoring, was " The Book of Hunting 

 and Hawking, and of Cote Armour,'" or what is better 

 known as the "Boke of St. Albans." This rare old 

 work was printed in red and black, and its crude type 

 filled twenty-eight pages, upon the last of which was 

 the colophon : ' ' Translaty t and com py lit togedyr at Scy nt 

 albons the yere from thincaniacion of oure lorde Jhu 

 Crist. M.CCCClxxxvi.'' 



This old work lias taken its place among the rarest of 

 fiterary and antiquarian treasrues. It has been esti- 

 mated that probably not more thttu fifty copies of tbe 

 original edition were prhited, and of ttiese, now after 

 a lapse of four centuries, those whicJi have survived the 

 destructive agencies of fire, damp, the worm and 

 neglect, are extremely rare, and all but one of them 

 ahuost inaccessible. Ittipeilect copies are in the Bod- 

 leian, (jxford, and the University Library at Cambtidge, 

 and a fourth, having been sold for old paper at a penny 

 a pound, afterwards lingering on a kitchen shelf for 

 many years, and passing neglected and unknown 

 through a great many like vicissitudes, finally came into 

 literary hands, and is now exJiibited in a glass case in the 

 King's Library of the British Museimt. We are glad to 

 learn from the Antiquarian that a fac-simile reprint of 

 the "Boke ''is now being prepared for publication, which 

 wiU afford the curious reader an opportunity of studying 

 over the quaint illiiatrations and the old-time spelling 

 and dialect of the specimen of Fifteenth Century Uie- 

 rature. 



A part of the book, the charming " Treatise of Fyssh- 

 ynge with an Angle," attributed to Dame Juliana Bemers, 

 was reprinted in London in 1837, and in 1875 an Ameri- 

 can repiint of this edition was edited, with appreciative 

 care, by that well-known and genial angler, Geo, W, 

 Tan Siclen, of the New York Bar, and is doubtless now 

 to be found on the library shelves of m a n y readers of 



the FOEEST AND STKE.AJ1, 



