IBnterea According to Aot of Gonuri-ese. in the year 1879, by the Forest and Stream Publlahlng Company, In the Omee of tiie Librarian of Coneress, at Washington 



NEW YORK, THURSDAY, AUGUSTS. 1880. 



CONTENTS. 



EniTOKiAL:— 

 Onr Midsummer New Tear: Iho Jiow Game and FishPrn- 

 toctors; Col. Bodine's Irish Vieiory; The Anthmciio De- 

 elln"s: Another Pennsylvmiin Association; Diij- Snipe 

 Shootintf: The Bucks rountv Assi^cinlion ; Cr.-iiii wliore 

 Credit is Duo; American Anli.s Ahi-Oiirt ; A Siif;i/e?tion for 

 Kennel Cliib^i; SiUmoti ici (!.il..'d<miiv Creek; Tlie Utieu As- 

 Kociatlou ; liloomlng Grove I'arlt , 



i N'O' 



Doo|) Si .1 :."-.■. iLii!,: A Oiumi 

 Fisrr CuiAunF.;— 

 California Salmon from Geneva Lake; AVork of the Cnn- 

 neetidut Commi'ision ; Record of Hatching Brook Trout; 

 HatchiUfi: the "Ang-ler" or Kishing I'Yog-; Increase of 

 Salmon in the MoOloiid Biver; Eras of Culil'ornia Trout ; 



Aut'UKta Kisliway; Uijoovory of Menhaden Oil 



Sea ano Hivku Fishino:— 

 Spiiwin;.- ni rli.-. Colu.ubia lllvav Chub; I''ly-Fi9liln{f for 



Kha. 



nd 



hri.ji' li,,...ix,. ,;...,i.l.i iniiii, ri«lm,:,u oii tlio Upper 



Jaeuur„, Uu-licr; Dl leii i.;i3S 8 



flAMK Hui AND Hun:- 

 The Diitmnr lv>w(]i.r Aeeidentj Saturday NlBlit at the 

 Head of the Neck; The Gun in England ; VVoodeook 

 Habits; Woodrnonc Rod and Gun Club; Cobb's Island; 

 Powder Measures; Notes; Shooting: Matches 10 



Thb Kennel :— 

 Treatment in Cases of Polgonlng-; Deaths by Paris Green ; 

 Hoi-sehair lor Distemper; Dav7 Claws la St. iierijards ; 



Carbolizod Paper for Kennels ; Notes..,., 12 



The ItiFt.E :— 



Col. Uodlue at Home ; Rang-e and Gallery 12 



ARCiiisriv :— 



Archery In the Litchfleld Hills; Notes 13 



Cricket:— 

 Matches and News Note.?; The Laws ot Cricket in the Past 

 and Present 



TAOnTtNG AKt) CANOErNG:— 



Yatehiiip \(jw<; Tlie Anthracite Answers; The Bay Ue- 

 iftttta; Mcasuri'iiiL-at , . js 



Answers to (.:<j hkesi'ondents 10 



PtXBrAsnEus' Department 17 



J^er advertising; rates, instructions to correspondents, 

 etc., sec prospectus at end of reading matter. 



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TREAM. 



NEW YORK, THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, 1880. 



Our Midsummer New Year.— The register at the 

 head of this page marks the first number of a new vol- 

 uaie, and tliis jom-nal to-day outera tipoa the eigbtli year 

 of its puljlicatioii. 



We are duly gratified at attaining this maturity, and 

 express our satisfaction in a substantial manner by a 

 change for the better in make-up and the adoption of a 

 superior grade of paper. These improvements, with the 

 others whicli nave been introduced witliin the List six 

 months, now malce the Forest and Stream a model m 

 its mechanical execution. 



If we may credit the many kind wordsi of our friends 



and the evidence afforded in the decided indorsentent of 



a standi patronage, the paper is also growing apace in 



'he value of its contents. 



That the Forest and Stukam has sacoeeded in adapt- 



>g itself to the wants of the gentlemen sportsmen of 



merica, and is in turn supported and indorsed by them, 



highly satisfactory, and ia oompUmeutary to all oon- 



med, for it is proof positive of two things— first, of the 



■.sdom of the management of the paper, and second, of 



good taste of the sportsmen, 



•\i:rtise.mests.— Advertisers are respectfully re- 



ted, in all cases where it ia possible, to send in their 



\ i;7-lisements by Saturday of each week before the issue 



.vliichthey wish them to appear. We cannot receive 



v advertisements, nor make changes in those already 



ing, later than Tuesday morning. 



j'he portrait of Greene Smith, which we liad hoped 



I publish this week, has been unfortunately delayed, 

 I we are, therefore, reluctantly compelled to defer it 

 itil our nest issue, 



THE NEW GAME AND FISH PROTEC- 

 TORS. 



SEVI3BAL amendments t ) the game law of the State 

 of New York were proposed last winter, but only 

 one act among them received the signature of the Gov- 

 rirnor and became a law. As a rule, changes in our game 

 laws are too frequent to be thoroughly learned by the 

 jieople at large before they are modified or entirely su- 

 perseded by others, and in many cases this frequent tin- 

 kering is a worse evil tiian no law at all, causing many 

 people to despair of comprehending or remembering the 

 ever-changing clauses of the laws, and almost rendering 

 it necessary for a sportsman to carry a copy of the Re- 

 vised Statutes with him into the field before lie dare 

 wet a line or pull a trigger. The practice of having dif- 

 ferent laws or different close seasons for fish and game 

 in adjoining counties, is often the cause of much unwit- 

 ting violation of the law by those who are ignorant of 

 sucli difference ; but the main trouble has been not so 

 much in the law itself as in its lack of enforcement, de- 

 pendent, as it has been, upon clubs, societies and indi- 

 viduals, who were either actuated by public spirit or a 

 desire for gain, former laws having a provision allowing 

 the informer or prosecutor to receive a portion of the 

 penalty imposed upon the transgressor — a clause which 

 rendered the complainant liable to the suspicion of mer- 

 cenary motives, and often invested the offender with the 

 sympatliy of his neighbors as a persecuted man. 



It is a fact well knoflTi to all who have watched the 

 workings of the game laws, that the local constables are 

 not to be depended upon to prosecute their friends or 

 townsmen for an offense which is to them a venial one, 

 and in the eyes of too many others one to which no 

 moral guilt is attached. 



It is to he hoped that the officers appointed under the 

 new law will prove to the poachers and unprincipled 

 inarketmen that the game law is not a dead letter. Tliis 

 Liw, which was very careftdly framed by Mr. John E. 

 Devlin, of New Y^ork City, prorides for the appointment 

 of eight officers, to be known as Game and Fish Protect- 

 ors, who are to have full power to enforce the laws and 

 arrest all offenders, and in order to secure a good class of 

 men in those positions, no share in the penalties is of- 

 fered, but instead of this a salary is given. We under- 

 stand that the appointments are made, but the list has not 

 reached us yet, and with the right men, who will do their 

 duty fearlessly, there is a prospect that the laws which 

 have been deSed so long will now be enforced.. 



These protectors will be charged with the duty of en- 

 forcing all statutes for the preservation of moose, deer, 

 birds and fl'Sh, or other game laws, and to bring, or cause 

 to be brought, actions and proceedings in the name of tlie 

 people of the State, against all offenders. They are to be 

 appointed by the Governor, and will hold office for three 

 years from the date of their appointment. Section 1 

 provides that the district attorney of any county in the 

 State shall, upon the request of any one of such protec- 

 tors, commence and prosecute to termination, action 

 against any person reported to him by such protector to 

 have violated any of these laws. Section 3 provides that 

 any net, pound, or other means or device for taking fish 

 which is set in violation of existing laws, is declared a 

 nuisance, which may be abated by any citizen, and the 

 protectors, if applied to, must seize and remove it. Sec- 

 tion 3 gives the protectors authority to arrest persons 

 violating any of the provisions of any statute now or 

 hereafter enacted for the protection of fish and game 

 withotit the formality of a warrant. 



For these sea-vices the protectors are to receive a salary 

 of |.500 per year, and traveling expenses not to exceed. 



Wo hope for a better enforcement of tl^e existing laws 

 under this new regime, and shall watch it with great in- 

 terest, and think that ^t least one o^ these protectors 

 should be located in New Y'^ork City, to watch th» n;iar- 

 kets, which are the great inducement to the market 

 poacher to violate the law. Destroy hia chanc* of profit 

 and his desire to shoot or net Ulegally is gone, and we 

 do not think th^t it woiU4 be ftn exaggeration to say 



that one-fourth of all fish and game which is unlaw- 

 fully killed within the settled portions of the State flnda 

 its waj' to the markets of the great city. 



COL. BODINE'S IRISH VICTORY. 



THE return of Col. IBodine and his explanations of 

 his work and the work of his team in Ireland 

 adds the emphasis of an official sanction to what the 

 FoREsr AND Stream has already given in the regular re- 

 ports of the match. With more details about the 

 weather conditions, the effort of the six men who added 

 another defeat to Irish rifle history only appears the more 

 brilliant. On such a day the score of the Irish team 

 shows that the men have fully mastered the problem of 

 wind judgment, while on behalf of the Americans it 

 muse be said that they are entitled to a credit fully up to 

 that accorded any previotis team. 



The Irish riflemen, more than at any of the preceding 

 matches, had a clear anticipation of success ; they hivt, 

 hy their successive defeats, arrived at a very disiinot un- 

 derstanding of tlie strength of the American team shoot- 

 ers. Every little incident and contributory eiemont of 

 strengtli had been carefully gauged, and such sharp 

 watchers as the Rigbys, Milner and Fenton had taken ia 

 the points which in their opinion helped to the lijie of 

 victories which the Cteedmoor men ha%'e enjoyed. The 

 Americans have not been reticent at all in proclaiming 

 the secrets of their victories. Everything has been set 

 out in the plainest of terms, so that American riflemen 

 while leading the world, have not made a mystery of 

 their craft. For a time the Irish riflemen did not heed 

 the lesson. They did not seem to comprehend the propo- 

 sition that the strength of a well organized team is far 

 ahead of the mere total of the strength of its individu- 

 als. The old muzzle-loaders, once the weapon beyond 

 comparison at long range, was clung to in spite of tho 

 overwhelming proof of each match that the American 

 makers had united accuracy Yith convenience in their 

 breech-loaders. The proof of their error was too strong 

 for the most conservative of Irishmen or Englishmen to 

 withstand, and with a ijrospect of an unlimited series o£ 

 annual whippings before them if they persisted in tjierr 

 antiquated methods, the Messrs. Rigby decided on a 

 change. First came the change in the posit-l^on when 

 firing, in the adoption of the back-position, w'jiich is now 

 the universal position for long-range work.. Iq x\ie, seve- 

 ral years of quiet which have elapsed since their last 

 match at Creedmoor, the Irish haye been hard at work 

 and when the invitation of tUis spring was sent out 

 they were prepared to reap ^the victory they anticipated 

 from Irish labor and Ai:jerican listlessnesa. But whfle 

 the shooters on thU side the water had done little or 

 nothing in the way of showing their skill, they had lost 

 none of their cunning, and with a good reasoning of that 

 indefinable element— luck— another leading score waa 

 put on record. 



Col. Bodine may do a good service for riflemen or_^ tlifa 

 side by giving, in his written and formal report, a ca^reful 

 survey and esthnate of the several points in svhich the 

 Irish riflemen liave added to their strength, ^^^ wherem 

 our chances of continued success now 'jg^ q^^ thine 

 is certain, that from this time on r.^nc but tlie rnosd 

 perfectly organized teams shou'.j be permitted to go 

 forth as representative ones. Ymx^ what Col. Bodine 

 says, and from what he -'.gniacantly omits to say, it is 

 pretty certam that h<:, Had much crude strength and much 

 discordant matev, jj ^ j^jg jg^^ . ^ut he had the back- 

 bone and t;;ie good sense to determine, when it came to 

 a choice between discipline and defeat, to choose the 

 ?oymer. The best the discomfited ones can say is that 

 he might possibly have had a stronger team. It is hardly 

 probable that he would. The good men of his squad did 

 all that was expected of them, the weak men more, amd 

 and so the fight was won. A. priori, we should say that 

 th« omission of Capt. Jackson from the shooting six 

 was a mistake. There may have been some element of 

 partiality and personal feeUng entering into tile omis- 

 sion, aa is claimed in some quarters ; hut it must be ooa- 

 oeded tl^at the right of judgment was given to Col, B<h 



