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FOREST AND STREAM. 



["Jtoe 10, 1880. 



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Advertisements. — All advertisements should reach us 

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 servance of this rule will insure satisfaction to all con- 

 cerned. 



—June is the month selected by , the pigeon shooters, 

 and in consequence a large amount of our space is neces- 

 sarily devoted to that sport. 



— The minds of certain citizens of New Jersey, are still 

 hefogged by the opinion that the State game laws are in- 

 operative on private lands. We commend the letter of 

 " W,," published in another column, to the New Jersey 

 State Association. There is an opportunity here for that 

 body to show their metal. And that there may be no 

 trouble in discovering the offenders next Fourth of July, 

 we will be happy to give the proper parties such definite 

 information, that there will be no excuse if the wood- 

 cock are slaughtered on that day. 



Letters to Herbert. — Letters postmarked Paris, and 

 addressed to William Henry Herbert (Frank Forester), 

 who has been dead over twenty-two years, have recently 

 been received at the Newark post-office. They were ad- 

 dressed " The Cedars," Herbert's old home on the Pas- 

 saic, which was long ago burned down. 



America at Berlin. — The American exhibit of fish 

 culture apparatus and methods is deservedly attracting 

 much attention at the Berlin Exhibition. The visitors 

 are not satisfied with the regular hours of the Exhibition, 

 but have so besieged the American representatives at 

 their hotels that it has been found necessary for them to 

 leave their hotels and resort to private lodgings in order 

 to escape. This would seem to show that we have sent 

 something to Berlin which is worth seeing. 



WANTED-A "N EW YORK STATE ASSOCI- 

 ATION FOR THE PROTECTION OF 



FISH AND GAME." 



The Fraser River Salmon.— The paper on this sub- 

 ject, of which we print to-day the first installment, will 

 not fail to attract the attention of naturalists and practi- 

 cal fish cttlturists. Systematists have given no little 

 attention to the Salmonidce of our Northwest coast, but 

 of their habits very little has been written, and the little 

 is inaccessible to most of our readers. 



It affords us much satisfaction, then, to be able to fur- 

 nish such an excellent account of the habits of the salmon 

 of Fraser River. Our correspondent, " Mowiteh," whose 

 writings have so often interested the readers of Forest 

 and Stream, has, by this contribution, further increased 

 he burden of gratitude which they already owed him. 



WHEN the "Females' Society for the Protection of 

 the Naked Limbs of the Infants of Dahomey " 

 lonverts its weekly gatherings into sessions of gossip and 

 lander, the public is not inclined to bother itself much 

 about the matter, for it is by no means certain that the 

 infants of Dahomey need clothing, nor even if they did, 



it a matter of particularly vital importance to that 

 public. When, on the contrary, an association of intel- 

 ligent men repeatedly convene under a title which im- 

 plies ,< certain amount of work in a designated and im- 

 portant field, and then deliberately ignore that work and 

 its claims upon them, a certain portion of the public does 

 interest itself in the matter, and it calls for some explana- 

 tion and remedy of the abuse. 



There came together, at Seneca Falls, New York, the 

 other day, as the readers Of the Forest and Stream have 

 already been told, an assembly of the delegates of forty- 

 three sportsmen's clubs. The convention met under the 

 title of the "New York State Association for the Protec- 

 tion of Fish and Game," The meeting continued from 

 Monday through the following Saturday. During that 

 period several thousand pigeons were shot in competitive 

 matches at the traps, but not a single iota was accom- 

 plished in the way of advancing the interests of game pro- 

 tection in the State. As a pigeon-shooting tournament 

 the convention was a great success ; as the session of a 

 game protective body it was an utter failure. 



The intelligent, systematic and proper protection of 

 game and fish is a subject of live importance, and the 

 proceedings of the Seneca Falls convention, therefore, is 

 of interest to every sportsman in the State. A society 

 professedly established for the protection of game and 

 fish, and assuming a title setting forth that claim, repre- 

 sents not only sportsmen in general, but particularly the 

 higher class of sportsmen who recognize and practice 

 the higher code of sporting ethics. 



The reputation of the individual is here directly con- 

 cerned, and every man who is thus represented at the 

 annual meetings of the Association may call that body to 

 account for its repeated delinquencies in its neglect of a 

 professed duty. The very grave charge may be preferred 

 and sustained, that, so far as the ostensible object of its 

 annual meeting is concerned, the convention is a wretched 

 farce, and that, instead of exerting any good influence 

 for the cause of the due protection of game, what in- 

 fluence there may be is bad. 



This is not a question of pigeon shooting, nor of the ex- 

 pediency of a body of men gathering for a week's tourna- 

 ment at the traps. It is simply the question whether a 

 society may profess one thing and practice another ; 

 whether a body of men with such a grand field for 

 earnest work as was presented to the convention at Seneca 

 Falls may bring that work into ridicule by systematically 

 and year alter year ignoring it. 



The title, "New York State Association for the Protec- 

 tion of Fish and Game," is a misnomer. This organiza- 

 tion is one to which all who are interested in the protec- 

 tion of game should look for their greatest encouragement 

 and from whose influence, example and efforts the greatest 

 good should result : yet at the only time when it appears 

 before the public, the only time, in fact, when it appears 

 at all, it entirely loses sight of the objects which it ought 

 to bold in .supreme importance ; it deliberately throwsaway 

 its opportunities for creditable effort, and substitutes an 

 amusement which affords temporary pleasure to its 

 members. More than this, it belies the cause it professes 

 to serve. It is a shame that instead of the good work 

 which a true New York State Association for the Protec- 

 tion Of Fish and Game, with its wealth and infiuence,might 

 accomplish to restock and keep stocked the vast territories 

 which offer themselves for easy improvement, the 

 organization which appears before the public for the 

 professed accomplishment of these ends should have de- 

 generated into a congregation of trap shooters. 



The interests of game protection in this State impera- 

 tively demand of the so-called " New York State Asso- 

 ciation for the Protection of Fish and Game " one of two 

 things : either to abandon its false title, or to make itself 

 worthy of that title. As the " New York State Associa- 

 tion of Pigeon Shooters," or a body with any other name 

 which shall designate the true nature of an annual tour- 

 nament, no one can find fault. Such an association 

 would be both honest in name and consistent in practice. 



We should much prefer, however, that the present 

 body, who are so well known to each other, who are 

 practical and experienced sportsmen, and consequently 

 so well fitted to work understandingly and in harmony, 

 should really assume the character of a game protective 

 society, and substitute for their present negative influ- 

 ence, the positive power they are so preeminently capable 

 of wielding. 



The Long Island Sportsmen's Association is with 

 reason jubilaut over its exploits at Seneca Falls. The 

 "convention of 1S81 will offer to it a magnificent oppor- 

 tunity for reform in this matter. The new president of 

 the Association, Abel Crook, Esq., and those who are asso- 

 ciated with him as officers and committees, are capable 



of shaping the course of the Association next year in a 

 direction which shall make it a credit to the sportsmen 

 of the State and the country. 

 What will they do ? 



MIGRATORY QUAIL. 



THE migratory quail ordered by gentlemen in this 

 country were shipped from Messina May 5th, tilt., 

 per steamer Gilsland, for New York. She is due in New 

 York in the forepart of this month, and her arrival is 

 daily expected. The birds will be distributed as follows :— 



Lewiston, Maine 400 



Other towns in Maine, 

 by Mr. Everett 

 Smith, Fish and 

 Game Commissioner 



of Maine 2,300 



Rochester, N. Y 200 



Franklin, N. Y 100 



Manchester, N. H 300 



Toledo, Ohio 200 



Quebec, Canada 200 



Danville, Canada 100 



Chatham. Out., Can. . 200 



Sherbrooke, P.Q., Can. 30Q 



Altoona, Pa 100 



Zanesville, Ohio 100 



Wilkesbarre. Pa 100 



Baltimore. Md 400 



Jefferson City, Mo. . . . 100 



Glencoe, 111..'. 100 



Total 5,100 



— Caleb Cooke, a widely known naturalist, curator of 

 Essex Institute at Lynn and attache on the staff of the 

 Peabody Academy of Science, died at 9 o'clock on the 

 night of June 5th, of typhoid pneumonia, after a brief 

 illness. He was about forty years old, and unmarried. 

 He held the United States consulship at Zanzibar at one 

 time, and was a man of wide range of knowledge, genial 

 and warmly endeared to a large circle of friends at home 

 and abroad, Mr. Cooke was an active worker in the 

 Salem fraternity, and was of a modest, unassuming and 

 generous disposition. 



How it Works. — The subscription price of the Forest 

 and Stream is $4 per year, but it costs the subscriber 

 more than that. One of our stanch friends, who sub- 

 scribed for the American Sports-man in 1874, then to the 

 Rod and Gun, and whose name has been on our hooks 

 ever since, writes that he was led by reading its pages to J 

 buy first a Parker gun and the various knick-knacks 

 which go with a gun, then a Nichols and Le Fever, with 

 loading toois, and rods, reels, lines and other fishing traps 

 too numerous to mention. 



This is just the work we are doing all the time, If a 

 a man is not a sportsman when he begins to read the 

 Forest and Stream, the paper incites him to be one. 

 We can never fully estimate the good effects accruing 

 from a year's subscription to a bright sporting journal. 



Valuable Contributions.— -We have recently printed, 

 under the title of " Spring Notes from Minneapolis, 

 Minn.," two papers which are of very great value, as 

 well for their matter as their method. Mr. Thos. S. 

 Roberts, from whose pen they come, is well known to 

 our naturalists, not only as a careful and accurate 

 observer, but also as a student of very great originality 

 and acuteness. His " Spring Notes" show in their prepa- 

 ration a careful attention to detail which is most admir- 

 able, and which gives to his contributions an import- 

 ance far above that of most of the notes which come 

 under that heading. 



We cannot refrain from recommending these pro- 

 ductions to field collectors as models of then - kind, and 

 we think that a series of similar notes from different 

 sections of the country would not only be of great 

 interest to most of our readers, but would have a high 

 scientific value as well. 



Such field notes should not be interrupted, but contin- 

 uous, the thermometer should be read at least three 

 times daily, morning, noon and night, and, if convenient, 

 the minimum temperature for each dav should be given ; 

 the state of the weather should be noted, the different 

 plants in bloom mentioned and matter pertaining to any 

 of the different vertebrates be introduced. Only by 

 following some such method as this can field notes be 

 made as valuable as they ought to be. 



One of Many Letters. — It is always encouraging to 

 receive merited commendations and expressions of ap- 

 proval. Our lot in this respect is a most happy one. We 

 are constantly in receipt of letters from old and new 

 friends, which are filled with expressions well fitted to 

 encourage us in our efforts to make the Forest and 

 Stream an acceptable journal. Here is an extract from 

 one of these letters : — 



I cannot close this letter without giving- expression to my ap- 

 preciation of your efforts in providing sportsmen with so excel- 

 lent a journal as Forest ant, Stream. 



No other influence isso widespread and powerful in the up- 

 building- and maintenance of a healthy sentiment in favor of 

 those outdoor sports which are so delightful and beneticiul to all 

 who indulge them in moderation. 



Nowhere can one find a paper so full of all that is of timely in- 

 terest, and yet bearing the test of age. Its every utterance has 

 the saving quality of purity, and much of the matter published 

 from week to week will endure in the memory of sportsmen a 

 long as the love of nature is strong within us. 



Your removal to more commodious quarters, while being ai 

 evidence of financial prosperity that must be peculiarly gratify- 

 ing to those directly interested, is not without promise to your 

 readers, for we all know that pleasant surroundings are condu- 

 cive to good work, in whatever direction one's efforts may be ap- 

 plied. It must be especially so in your lire and work. 



