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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[Apiol 8, 1880. 



A WEEKLY JOURNAL, 



Devoted to Ennvo and Aquatic Sports, PriAcncAi'NATtmAi, 



History, Fish Cut,tutse, ihi ' of Game, PRESERVA- 

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Removal. — On or before May 1st the Forest and 

 Stream will remove into its new offices in the Times 

 building, Nos. 80 and 41 Park Row, 



Wild Rice. — We have received from Mr. Chas. Gil- 

 christ, of Port Hope, Ont., a sample of the wild rico 

 secured by him, and furnished for sowing in ponds, as 

 was noticed in these columns some weeks since. The 

 seeds are plump, well developed, and evidently in excel- 

 lent condition. As the success of the undertakings to 

 introduce this cereal into ponds is becoming more gen- 

 erally known, the demand for the seed is largely increas- 

 ing. We are in receipt of several inquiries for the sup- 

 ply of the same ; and as the harvests gathered by our 

 friends have long since been exhausted by the orders re- 

 ceived through their advertisement in this paper, we can 

 only counsel patience until a new supply can be secured 

 next season. We hope that those who have the facilities 

 will make special efforts to gather a quantity which may 

 prove sufficient. 



National American Kennel Stud Book, Vol. II.— 

 In another column we notice that the entries for this 

 much needed record book will close May 1st. All 

 persons owning well-bred setters, pointers, mastiffs, New- 

 foundlands, terriers, colleys, greyhounds, spaniels, St. 

 Bernards, pugs, beagles, foxhounds and all prizB-winners 

 or well-bred household pets, good field dogs aud hand- 

 some canines of every description, will find advantage 

 and satisfaction in entering them in the National Ameri- 

 can Kennel Club Stud Book. For future reference these 

 entries will be invaluable to dog owners and breeders, as 

 they constitute an official record, which may always be 

 referred to as authoritative, and will be especially adva 

 tageous in tracing the pedigrees of the posterity 

 of the dogs entered as of the present year. All 

 entries should be addressed to Mr. Charles De Ronge, 

 Secretary, No. 51 Broad street, New York. 



TROUT AND TROUT. 



WHEN good Father Front, of blessed memory, Wea- 

 ried of his Lenten diet, he cast a ham bone into 

 the sea and drew it forth again ; and by that token, for- 

 sooth, the flesh had become fish, for whatever comes 

 out of the sea is neither flesh nor fowl, but fish. Now, 

 no one for a moment supposes that by this ingenious bit of 

 strategy the worthy old priest tried to deceive, or did de- 

 ceive, his palate as well as his conscience. Such a feat of 

 gastronomy and imagination has been left to our own 

 day of wooden nutmegs and artificial trout ponds. We 

 cast liver into the water and haul it out as trout; but, 

 not stopping here, we rush to the market slabs, where lie 

 in ignominious rows the alleged Salvelimm fontinaMs, 

 scooped and netted from the ponds, pay a royal price for 

 the scaly prize, and then, perpetuating the delusion, roll 

 the insipid morsels about in our mouths with the ecstatic 

 and pitiable fancy that they taste good. Prout Was in- 

 genious, so far as ham goes : we are far ahead of him. 



We are aware that we are preaching old fogy and un- 

 fashionable doctrines — sentiments which will find little 

 sympathy among t lie deluded fish-eaters, who fancy them- 

 selves epicures, judges of what is what, and think that 

 theykuowatrout when they taste it. They never did 

 eat a real trout, or, if they did, it was so long ago that 

 they have really forgotten how the fish ought to taste. 

 But the books say that trout is a delicacy ; the dealers 

 affirm that these speckled monsters are trout ; hence, 

 logic is logie, and fcheyemack their lips with satisfaction, 

 and discourse over their glasses of the glory of America's 

 game fish. 



Tin's iiver-fed sluggard, intrenched in his pond, is gain- 

 ing ground ; he reckons his blind adherents by constantly 

 growing legions. And the true trout— the fish that you 

 and I know, reader— is being pushed to the wall by this 

 fat-bellied parody. The wild streams are becoming 

 "fished out;" even the rainbow-hued fellows in the 

 streams, which only we two know of, by and by, when 

 another shall have stolen our secret and our fish with it, 

 even they will be supplanted by the great, coarse black 

 bass — "the fish of the future," they call him. 



Yes, we are undoubtedly on the losing side ; but here 

 let us make a stand, utter a word of protest, and linger, 

 even though but a brief moment, over the trout as nature 

 made him. Some of us have met him in his native pool, 

 years ago, before men knew anything about these adul- 

 terated abominations, these animated masses of hashed 

 liver and deception. This fish has been for years battling 

 in the fierce struggle for existence ; he has gathered 

 strength and muscle and bravado from a thousand tussles 

 with the dash of the waters ; what he has eaten he has 

 worked for, and the constant exercise of looking for his 

 dinner has hardened his body and made it compact and 

 firm of texture ; the natural food provided thus for him 

 has been transformed into juicy, sweet-flavored flesh ; and 

 now, in the pride of his strength and years, he is a fit sub- 

 ject for your costliest tackle and the best skill you know 

 how to put forth. If you have been for years learning 

 how to take a trout, so has he been for years unwittingly 

 preparing for that battle, and you may count on a test of 

 your patience and of your line and rod and wrist, before 

 he will lie panting in your basket, conquered and cap- 

 tured. 



It is mortifying the flesh if, when you come back at 

 night, you pretend that suoh a fish as this was not born 

 into his mountain home just for your own platter aud 

 palate. "Catch your hare before you cook him" is good 

 advice for Simple Simons, but it means more than the 

 bare advice to an idiot that the first essential to a dish of 

 rabbit is the rabbit. It means that to enjoy the flavor of 

 a trout you must catch the fish yourself j this adds a deli- 

 cafe taste that the most ingenious chef, with all his skill, 

 cannot command ; a satisfaction that money cannot buy, 



—Mr. Fred. Mather has permanently left the paper with 

 which he has for some months been connected as editor 

 of the fish and fishing department. 



At the meeting of the Directors of the N. R. A., 



on Tuesday last, the Pal ma conditions were altered 

 to permit shooting by a British team only. It was also 

 agreed to send a team of six men to Ireland to resume 

 the Irish-American matches. No spring meeting will 

 be held this year. A full report of the action taken, 

 with amended conditions of the " Palma," will appear 

 in next week's Forest and Stream. 



to target station. The target rests in au iron frame, just 

 large enough to seize the pasteboard sheet on allits edges, 

 BO that l lie bullet passes directly through to a slab of lead 

 fixed behind. This target frame is fixed upon a small 

 car, and by winding a small -winch below the tunnel 

 frame the car is brought up abreast of a small door on 

 the side. This door is made to swing toward the firing 

 point and to the interior of the target. Sheathed with iron, 

 it will stop any bullet fired from the gallery end while 

 the door is open. Diaphrams prevent low firing and hit- 

 ting the tramway car, while the smoke of the firing is 

 drawn off by a. smokestack, made to communicate with 

 the chimney near by. 



With only thirty members on the roll now, the club 

 will no doubt soon reach its maximum of 100 members. 

 Even now the rooms have become the center of rifle 

 news in the city, and a very popular, pleasant place the 

 club-room has grown to be. 



National American Kennel Club Derby,— We pub- 

 lish in our Kennel columns the full list of entries to 

 the N. A. K. C, Derby stakes for puppies born after 

 April 1st, 1879. Over one hundred entries have been 

 made, with their forfeit money of .$5 each. We con- 

 gratulate the managers on such a rousing send off for 

 their first puppy Derby, 



The New York Rifle Club.— Gilt-edge gallery prac- 

 tice has been the aim of the New York Rifle Club, and 

 those who wish to see the simple feat of popping the 

 bull's-eye reduced to a fine art may visit the rooms re- 

 cently fitted up at No. 211 Fourth avenue, in this 

 city, and inspect a pair of target tunnels of the very best 

 description, It is a club in earnest, with a club room. 

 and all made subservient to the main object of the club, 

 which is the culture of its members in the art of off-hand 

 shooting. On entering, the visitor is in u parlor, or re- 

 ception room, with its piano and soft, yielding carpet, its 

 heavy window curtains, elaborate chandelier, bronzes 

 and works of art displayed on the walls. Adjoining this 

 is another room, scarcely less sumptuously furnished. 

 Done up in the obtrusively naturalistic Eastlake style, 

 the room suggests use without fear of consequences in 

 breakage and scratching. This is the shooting room, 

 and from a platform in the corner the marksman may 

 look into the gaping mouths of a pair of tubes of sheet 

 iron, about a yard in diameter, and suggesting a gigantic 

 binocular. These are elevated above the floor, so that 

 the entire floor space may be utilized. After about a 

 dozen feet of iron tubing the shooting tunnels change to 

 a square focus, with three feet a side, interior measure- 

 ment, and so stretch away out from the back of the 

 building until ninety-six feet is reached from firing point 



Practical Hints to Swimmers.— Prof. Marquis Bib- 

 bero, of the Royal Polytechnic, London, Eng., gave an 

 exhibition of swimming on Friday last at I he Central 

 Park Bathing Establishment, this city, which probably 

 has never before been equaled in this country. His pro- 

 gramme contained nine parts, the majority of which 

 were full of instruction, and contained many new and 

 useful suggestions to both tyros and experts, treating of 

 "How to act in case of shipwreck,'' illustrated ; "How to 

 undress on the surface of the water." ■•Useful swim- 

 ming," showing the different variety of strokes; "How 

 to breathe while swimming, and how non-swimmers may- 

 save their lives ;" "Easy ways of turning in the water on 

 back and chest," was the Professor's amusing way of 

 showing a "learner's difficulties without a teacher;" 

 "Ornamental swim min g," "Swi mmin g with hands and 

 feet hound." Parts 7and 8— "Submarine feats," "How to 

 save a person from drowning," "How to break away from 

 the grip of a drowning person," and "How to restore the 

 apparently drowned" — were the most useful parts of (he 

 exhibition. The Professor, using his attendant for a 

 drowning person, showed that a single lock of hair was 

 sufficient to draw ihe floating body ashore with, if the 

 person retained sufficient presence of mind to keep quiet. 

 If the person struggles, as is usually the case, he should 

 be approached from behind, his head held on the res- 

 cuer's breast, and both go ashore on their backs, The 

 drowning person frequently grasps his rescuer, and endan- 

 gers both their lives. In this case, if his head can be got 

 under the surface again for a few moments it will con- 

 fuse him, and breaking away is comparatively easy. 

 Should ho grasp his rescuer by the wrists, a quick wrench 

 of the arms will break his hold. Should he grasp him 

 front behind, his hold must be loosened by wrenching 

 back his fingers, as in ordinary cases. When the drown- 

 ing i>erson gets his arms firmly clasped around his res- 

 cuer's neck or around his waist, or gets any other dan- 

 gerous hold, the rescuer may instantly free himself by 

 putting two of his fingers to the drowning person's nos- 

 trils, and thus forcing his head back. This will make a 

 man loosen any hold, in the water or out of it. Even a 

 drowning man cannot keep his grip when this plan is 

 resorted to. 



Woodmont Rod and Gun Club.— The Woodmont Rod 

 and Gun Club, of Washington, D. C, have purchased the 

 well-known tract of land bearing that name on tho Po- 

 tomac, near Dam No. 0. The estate secured there con- 

 sists of 2,000 acres, and affords magnificent cover, which 

 abounds in turkeys and pheasants, and every variety of 

 smaller game. There are also Borne deer on the property, 

 and these will be protected for a few years. The grounds 

 front on the Potomac, alid on the Virginia side of the 

 river the mountains rise abruptly, and these are full of 

 deer and turkeys, which cross over to the club's grounds 

 to feed. Here, too, is the finest black bass fishing on the 

 Potomac River. 



The Woodmont Club, which has been recently organ- 

 ized, has a membership limited to twenty-five, and on its 

 rolls are the following names of prominent gentlemen in 

 Washington: President, A. H. Evans; Vice-President, 

 Gen. T. C. Drum ; Treasurer, Major J. O, P. Burnside ; 

 Secretary, J. B. Church; Admiral Ammen, U, S. N.; 

 Commodore Earl English, U. S. N.; Parker H. Page, R. 

 K. Evans, Commander R. D. Evans, U. S. N,; Comman- 

 der Henry Taylor, U. S. N. ; Major Marcellus Bailey, J. 

 M. Tinker, W. H. Doolittle, Assistant Commissioner Pat- 

 ents ; Gen. A. E, Paine, Commissioner Patents ; Major 

 Prank Taylor, U. S. A. ; H. A. Seymour, B. E. Ellis, H. 

 S. Nyman, B. F. Guy, A. W, Crossley, M. C. Mclntire, 

 Judge L. Hill, Major Justus J. McCarty, Thomas Russell, 

 E, T. Hutchinson. 



