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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[March 11, 1880. 



C3 A WEEKLY JOURNAL, 



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Notes.— By request of Prof. Balrd, Mr. Walter Brack- 

 ett, of Boston, will send his famous salmon pictures for 

 exhibition at Berlin. 



At the meeting of the New York Association for the 

 Protection of Fish and Game, last Monday evening, it was 

 decided to hare one good bill drawn up by the Associa- 

 tion and its enactment at Albany attempted. In this way 

 the game legislation will be taken out of the hands of in- 

 competent or interested parties. The bill will be pre- 

 pared at once and published in the newspapers, so that 

 the public may have an opportunity of judging for them- 

 selves of its merits. 



The Adirondacks are popularly supposed to have been 

 fished out. Many a summer visitor to the NorthWoods 

 has been disgusted by the scarcity of trout and the ob- 

 trusiveness of the tin can and the paper collar — two of the 

 modern traces of semi-civilization. Yet there are regions 

 where one may find abundance of game and fish. Some 

 of these localities are designated on our first page to-day. 



Duck shooting is fairly inaugurated in the Eastern and 

 Middle States. Excellent reports come to us of the flights 

 of birds. We invite our friends who have success with 

 the ducks to send us early reports of the same. We 

 should also be pleased to hear of the game prospects of 

 the country. 



"Wallace's Guide to the Adirondacks " is the standard. 

 Intending visitors to those regions should provide them- 

 selves with it. We furnish the book. Price $1.50. 



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jf— The Herald Irish Relief Fund is developing some 

 curious phases of charity. Next Saturday evening, at a 

 hall in this city, the exponents of the manly art are to 

 give a benefit in the good cause, when " Dangerous Jack,'' 

 Paddy Ryan, Pete McCoy, and others, will punch each 

 other's heads in aid of old Ireland. 



Personal, — Mr, John Harvey, of the Harvey Ship- 

 building Co., Wivenhoe, England, left for home by the 

 Parthia yesterday. Mr. Harvey, during his stay in 

 America, won many friends by his affability and genial 

 disposition, and his views upon yacht design wo found as 

 broad and liberal as they were intelligent. We had the 

 pleasure of examining a fine lot of models he brought 

 with him, including those of that peerless trio, Seabelk, 

 Miranda and Jullanar, concerning which a book might 



■ ■ and pi»ne drew forth pi ■■ Crore 

 qU who were foiti 



THE MUTUAL INTERESTS OF FARMERS 

 AND SPORTSMEN. 



Till: right side of the much-vexed question of game 

 protection certainly and always is the duo protection 

 of gatne at all times, both when the law forbids taking 

 game and when it allows it to be taken. The right side 

 also includes the use of none but fair means of taking 

 game and in fair quantities. 



The article in a recent nttmb.er relating to the game of 

 Long Island and its former abundance and variety, and 

 the present deplorable scarcity, with some of the causes 

 which have led to it, and the best means of renewing, or 

 at least of augmenting the supply to a reasonable quan- 

 tity as much as present circumstances and careful man- 

 agement may secure, was a very attractive, luminous and 

 readable sketch. Yet it suggests two points which may 

 be urged courteously and amicably in a few words, as in 

 fact the writer of that article may himself have it in his 

 own mind to suggest in a future article. These sugges- 

 tions, too, are by no means confined to Long Island, but 

 are equally applicable to the whole Union. They are: 1. 

 The means of protecting feathered game by the aid of the 

 farmers. 2. The limit of slaughter which sportsmen 

 themselves will set to their own pleasure. 



Now, first, the means of protecting feathered game, 

 particularly young birds, till they are of proper strength 

 and size to have a fair chance for life, or a fair share of 

 them to renew and perpetuate their race, is a most vital 

 point. Omitting at present the discussion and even the 

 mention of all other means, there is one precaution and 

 protection which of itself alone would suffice abundantly 

 to enforce thoroughly all the game laws, and in fact go 

 far beyond the scope of the laws — namely, such a uniform 

 system and policy on the part of all sportsmen as will 

 give, all the land-owners a warm and steady interest 

 raising and sheltering and defending all the broods of 

 young birds on their farms. If all the farmers on the 

 Island were one and warmly one in this matter the work 

 would be done up thoroughly, for they are lords of the 

 land. 



In very many instances, as matters now stand, fanners 

 and gunners are not friends in these matters, and have 

 no interest to befriend each other. Without going closely 

 into particulars — which in fact is not necessary — the i 

 is that there are gunners who are brutes and wild bei 

 when their gunning-fever is at the height, and who, like 

 so many Malays running a-niuck, will recklessly trample 

 down crops in a ten-mile walk, damage and exasperate 

 the farmers all the way ; perhaps if accosted, and that 

 in -a proper way, insulting or damning the farmer, or to 

 the disquiet or alarm of his wife and daughters shooting 

 into his doves, possibly while the doves are near the 

 house or on the home lot or on the barn roof. Such gun- 

 ners come out from the cities every year and are a dis- 

 grace, and worse yet, a great injury to all the real gen- 

 tlemen who like now and then to handle a gun in the 

 right way and time. One is an offender, and the next ten 

 are blamed and hated on account of this one. 



Let all the farmers and their sons and hired men find 

 it pays them to protect birds and they will do it and 

 satisfy all parties. The- gunners are willing to pay for 

 their sport more than the pittance of ten cents a quail, 

 which a sly and stingy baggage-master hands out secretly 

 to the trapper. The dime is a bigger coin to the hard- 

 handed farmer's boy, scanted of spending-money, than a 

 quarter is to many a sportsman. Let all parties under- 

 stand each other and the birds will be left undisturbed, 

 and will be carefully protected till the honorable gunners 

 come at the appointed time and pay for the sport that is 

 then and thus guaranteed them on good grounds, some- 

 thing as in the old country, but in the right way for 

 American citizens. The practical details ought not to be 

 at all difficult, to arrange in most parts of the Island, nor 

 in other sections of the country. But if some farmers 

 are dogs in the manger — do not shoot nor lot others shoot. 

 on then- farms— all the better, Col there will be safe 

 harbors, secure game preserves, where the birds will come 

 up to full strength, and from which they will take wing, 

 to be shot elsewhere or to procreate another generation. 



Secondly, the limit of slaughter. It is an axiom which 

 nobody can deny that there must and will be some limit to 

 the number of birds that any decent and provident sports- 

 man will kill under the greatest temptation, for the more 

 birds there are killed one season, of most varieties ex- 

 cept sea fowl, the fewer will be left to breed and replenish 

 the stock for the next season. "A mass of putrefac- 

 tion," says the writer to whom we have referred — the 

 splendid woodcock ruthlessly butchered to satisfy the 

 killing mania, not to be eaten by the gunners, not to be 

 given to friends, not even to be sent to invalids in hos- 

 pitals if nothing better occurred, not even to be sorry 

 for, least of all to be left to increase and multiply an 

 ample quantity of birds for the same or other gunners in 

 future. Of course the writer meant to explain it with a 

 good reason, but failed to explain, and there it stands, 

 sickening, "a mass of putrefaction." No wonder the 

 farmers dislike, despise, abhor and oppose such a waste 

 and greedy butchery. 



The remedy ought to be no very dimcull matter, namely, 

 . ■ ■■ 



strain wholesale killing of game and killing of all pros-, 

 pects of future game therewith, and it is to the encour- 

 agement of such a sentiment that the Forest and Stream 

 is lending its influence. It ought to be settled that no 

 true sportsman will kill merely and solely to kill ; that 

 such a spirit is cold-blooded cruelty, which has not the 

 excuse of the hot-blooded criminal, for be often repents 

 bitterly and does works meet for repentance, if the gun- 

 ner would always pay for the birds he shoots, and if ho 

 shoots only what can be properly used, the farmers of 

 the Island and the State and the Union, in a vast majority 

 of cases, would welcome such gentlemanly gunners, and 

 perhaps be proud to rank among them as warm friends 

 of fair and lawful sport. 



These two points, upon which we cannot too strongly 

 insist, are of vital interest to many thousands of men, 

 whose interests in the matter are really identical in the 

 long run, if only regarded in the proper fight. But if. 

 the farmers are expected to protect and support and favor 

 quail and meadow larks, in order to let mischievous or 

 butchering gunners kill ninety-five out of every hundred, 

 without thanks or pay, perhaps with serious damage to 

 crops, temper and comfort, the sport is rather too one- 

 sided. Rather let mutual arrangements be made to equal- 

 ize it and to harmonize it all around. 



THE INTERNATIONAL FISHERY EXHI- 

 BITION. 



THE exhibition which opens in Berlin on the 20th of 

 next month is not one which will attract crowds of 

 people from all parts of the world to revel in sight-seeing 

 and other holiday indigencies, but its importance, from 

 a commercial, scientific and fish cultural point of view, 

 will prove to be far beyond what those who are not 

 familiar with our fisheries would imagine it to be capablel 

 of. At this gathering of the fishery products of all na- 

 tions we have much to show the people of other countries 

 in the way of preserving fish-food in all its forms of dried, 

 salted, canned, smoked, put up in spices, in oil, refriger- 

 ated, caviare, " extract of fish," prepared baits, etc., as. 

 well as much to learn. The same can be said of im-i 

 provements in modes of capture both by the com mercial 

 fishermen and by anglers ; our display of rods and line 1 

 tackle will probably be unexcelled, v. Idle in the matter i 

 of methods and apparatus used in fish culture it is only 

 necessary to say that nothing is lacking in this depart-i 

 ment, from which other countries have long borrowed 



The exhibition will be the means of comparing our pro- 

 ducts with those of other countries, of introducing such 

 of them as prove to be better or cheaper than others, and 

 of bringing those which may be inferior Up to a higher 

 standard. As the American exhibit is to bo made under 

 the direction of Professor S. F. Band, it is certain that it 

 will be more full and creditable to the country tha. 

 could be made by anyone not having the resources at his 

 command. We know that Professor Baird, having the 

 fishery statistics for the census of 1880 upon his hands, 

 and the building of the fish-hatching steamer FiaJtHawk, 

 in addition to his duties as Secretary of the Smithsonian 

 Institution, and Fish Commissioner, was not at all anxious 

 to make a display at BerUn ; but the persistent requests 

 of the German Fishery Association through our Minister 

 at Berlin, Mr. White, finally moved Congress to action. 

 when, as a matter of course, the arrangements wore 

 placed in the hands of Professor Baird, who, notwith- 

 standing the limited time which intervened between the 

 passage of the bill making the necessary appropriation 

 for this purpose, and the date of the opening of the exhi- 

 bition, has, by the aid of his corps of trained assistants, 

 gathered all that was not already in the Smithsonian 

 collection, and will have a display which few countries] 

 outside of Germany can equal. 



The enormous strides which have been made in these 

 directions by our country within the past fifteen years 

 may be partly realized by the fact that at the Interna- 

 tional Fishery Exhibition held at Bergen, Norway, in 

 1865, the United States was represented by barely one ex- 

 hibit. Then fish culture was an experiment here, and feWJ 

 preparations of fish were in the market, except salted 

 mackerel and dried cod, while now we could not enum- 

 erate them all within the limits of this column, not to 

 mention the display which will be made of netting, boats I 

 and all the implements in use. Mr. E. G. Blackford, of ; 

 Fulton Market, and one of the Fish Commissioners of the 

 State of New York, will send over fish in ice, consisting 

 of shad, salmon, trout, bass, red-snappers and such other 

 fish as may be in the market, as well as a few of the 

 famed Michigan grayling, which will be sent him for 

 this purpose by that well-known grayling angler, Mr. [J. 

 H. Fitzhugh, Jr., of Bay City, Bfiob. These, with sam- 

 ples of fish-guano, fish-oil, plaster casts of our principal 

 food-fishes, charts of fisheries, models of hatcheries and 

 canneries, models of the National carp-ponds at Wash- 

 ington, and of thedifferent fish-ways will make a most 

 extensive, and nearly exhaustive exposition of our h'sh-J 

 ery and fish cultural resources, while the persons selected 

 to go over in charge of them wi! ' ! to makg 



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