Forest and Stream. 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



NEW YORK, AUGUST 81, 1882. 



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Editorial. 

 A Neglected Sport. 



Kole.s ,,t [be Season. 



Adirondack Survey Notes, -vii 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 

 Eaglcsmere. 



in i ■' .' A. : i jo- ., 



Despoiling the Adirondack^. 

 Natural History. 



Serpents Wanted. 



What is the National Museum'? 

 (.'amp Fire Flickering.?. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



Game in Season in September. 



A Peer Hunt near Lake Simcoc 



An Elk Hunt in the "Spicy Isle.' 



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Hunting in Texas. 



Gossip of a "49 



A Typical Tor 



I Sea and River Fishing. 

 I A Track Velocipede Trip. 



!■ II I'LTURE. 



The New Ship of the Fish Com- 



The" 

 The 



Tempe 



rst Trip. 



The American Fishenltural As- 

 sociation. 

 American Catfish in Belgium. 

 Tee Keknee. 

 Li.lJli Rookh. 

 Dos- Pictures. 

 The Fii-sl of September. 

 Dogs that I Have. 

 Rheumatism in Docs. 

 ! The Prairie Chicken Trials. 



Eennel Management. 

 I Kennel Notes. 

 Refle and Trap Shooting. 

 Preparing for the Match, 

 Pistol Shooting. 

 Matches and Meetings. 

 Yachting and Canoeing. 

 i Cruising. 



| Beverly Y. C.--Aug. 19 and 30. 

 A Long Cruise. 

 Hull Y. C.-Aug. 10. 

 Vixen's Victories. 

 Answers i 



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NOTES OF THE 8MA&0JT. 

 \ NO-THER leaf is torn from the calendar, and to-mor- 



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tow's sun ushers iu the glorious September, first of the 



three months which hold the highest place in the sports- 

 man's heart, From this time until the leaden sky of winter 

 shall succeed the autumnal blue, the out-door world will in- 

 crease its luring charms, and with clarified atmosphere and 

 ever Changing garb of verdure and foliage, call the sports- 

 man forth. September, October and November — these are 

 the (1110106 field months of the year. 



To-morrow, September 1, will in many States open t he 

 legal shooting season for a wide and rich variety of game. 

 And eagerly as the}' have been anticipated, and patiently as 

 the intervening weeks have been counted off, so heartily will 

 these field days be improved and enjoyed. 



A glance at the carefully-prepared game table printed on 

 another page will show that the personage, we speak of as 

 "the American sportsman" may in September take bis 

 pick of a heterogenous supply of game. If he be ambitious, 

 there is the deer or the moose, flip caribou, flic elk. the. ante- 

 lope, the mountain sheep; or — if that be game — the buff alo. 

 Or if more humble be his aspirations, robins, "rabbits" and 

 squirrels are in season too. The fancy of most gunners will 

 turn to the feathered race, and here may he found a like 

 diversity, ruffed grouse and rail. Many a quick-aimed gun 

 will be discharged at the flashing form of Tetrcto nm/it-iliix, 

 that prime favorite of the expert shot, and the wily hero of 

 many a zig-zag escape from wing-shooter, and unscathed by 

 the volley of the poke-shooting 'treer." The grouse, in 

 most, sections where in season, are now pretty well advanced 

 in growth, and much more scattered than they were a month 

 ago, or will be a month hence. The gunner who in early 

 September returns at night with a good bag of grouse must 

 have followed them far over the hillsides. The Tatio of 

 steps taken, shots fired and birds bagged, is decidedly differ- 

 ent now from what that ratio will be a month or six weeks 

 hence. 



With the exceptions of Connecticut and New Jersey, 

 woodcock will be everywhere in season in September. In 

 some of the States the birds have already been hunted for 

 two months. But in many sections, even though the close 

 time has expired, the birds are not yet fairly through their 

 moulting: they are ragged, and not in full feather. But 

 from this time they will improve, and toward the end of the 

 month they will be flushed in prime condition. They, too, 

 are scattered now; a few still linger about the cornfields; 

 others will be found in the low-lying covers along the 



reams, and others in the damp dingles on the hills. 



Quail shooting opens in some States to-morrow, and in 

 others on the fifteenth; elsewhere they are protected, as 

 they should be, for a month or two months longer. Sep- 

 tember is too early for quail shooting; the broods are, as a 

 rule, not half-grown. They will afford a much more worthy 

 object of pursuit later in the season, when the sky is bluer 

 and the rustle of the falling leaf intensifies the silence of the 

 woodland. 



Prairie chicken shooting is with the first of September 

 just in its prime. From many parts of the great West re- 

 ports of the abundant "chicken crop" have come to us, and 

 before this number of the Forest and Stream reaches its 

 thousands of Western readers they will have tested for 

 themselves the prairie chicken shooting of 1882. 



The storm of last Sunday was just, what the shore-bird 

 shooters had been looking for. and it is safe to say that the 

 visitor to the beach now will reap a rich harvest. This 

 should be a red-letter week for the beach gunners. The 

 rail and recd-bird gunners are now flocking to the marshes, 

 and with to-morrow's tide the fire will open all along the 

 line. 



And to the gunner, whether his game, be the rail which 

 makes a mouthful, or the elk which will feed a camp, the 

 Forest and Stream extends the compliments of the 

 season, bespeaking for each a full measure of the enjoyment 

 and satisfaction which come of days well spent afield. 



A NEGLECTED SPORT. 



IT is very singular that few sportsmen in the East hunt 

 large and dangerous game. The States of Pennsylvania 

 and New York, as well as most of those lying east of them, 

 still have more or less bears, panthers, lynxes and wild eats, 

 which few men except guides and trappers ever hunt. Why 

 this is so, we are at a loss to answer. It cannot be that our 

 lovers of field sports have become so degenerate, as to aban- 

 don these sports which their ancestors delighted in on ac- 

 count of the danger attending them, for certainly there are 

 sports still followed which are as full of danger to lite and 

 limb as the pursuit of these animals, and 'the only reason- 

 able solution of the question appears to be that the hunting 

 of such big game has gone out of fashion only in this part 

 of tlie country, for some Eastern men have gone to the far 

 West, to hunt the grizzly bear. 



In Germany the wild boar is hunted with dogs and spears; 

 in India the officers of British regiments have their regular 

 "pig stickings," and hunt the tiger and the elephant. In 

 other parts of the world the wolf is followed with as keen 

 a zest as it. was two centuries ago. And yet- our youth go to 

 the Adirondacks and are content, with bagging the harmless 

 deer, many of them even killing them by "floating" at 

 night, a most lazy and unsportsmanlike method, and one 

 little calculated to develop manly qualities. Some one, 

 whose name escapes us at this moment, has laid down the 

 axiom, "the greater the danger the greater the sport," and 

 young Hotspur, eager at the scent of danger in defying the 

 power of the king, exclaims, "O, it more stirs the blood to 

 rouse the lion than to start the hare!" 



Instead of looking on the cougar, which by a mistake has 

 been termed a panther, as the noblest of our eastern game 

 animals, as indeed it is, our sportsmen haveallowed a bounty 

 to be placed upon it, as belonging to the class of vermin, 

 Let our young deer floaters imagine their feeling of triumph 

 on bringing down a lordly panther or a ponderous and 'sav- 

 age bear, and compare this with the killing of a timid deer. 

 How their hearts would throb and the breath be held until 

 the swollen veins protested! And what memories of the 

 long chase, the sudden turning to bay, and the quick but 

 sure shot which brought the savage monster down to earth, 

 would be cherished and told over at the fireside. This is 

 the sort of sport which develops manhood and self-reli- 

 ance. 



We believe that if bear and panther hunts were organized 

 by our sportsmen they would soon become popular. True, 

 tin; game is not plentiful, but still the greater will be the 

 triumph of bagging it, and a party might be weeks in the 



woods without seeing a bear, and would fail to get many 

 that they did see, but the chase has its excitement which 

 culminates when the game is brought to bay. 



A party of four, with proper dogs that have not too much 

 courage, could have splendid sport in the pursuit of a bear, 

 and the following of it would involve some generalship in 

 order to head it off. They would start as lightly encum- 

 bered with blankets and provisions as possible, and sleep on 

 the trail until the game was lulled or lost. We have sug- 

 gested dogs with not too much courage for the reason that a 

 dog which is brave enough to attack a bear seldom lives to 

 repeat it, and timid dogs which would follow and annoy it 

 by circling round and briuging it to bay occasionally, and 

 so detain it until the hunters came up, would be the best. 



Panthers are not plentiful enough to hunt systematically. 

 There are probably not more than half a dozen in the entire 

 Adirondack region, and they could only be found by acci- 

 dent when a party was out after hears, but when found they 

 are wary, and their chase is calculated to develop the high- 

 est qualities of both pluck and muscle. Let us remove the 

 bounty from panthers and organize bear hunting chilis. 



The London Fisheries Exhibition. — Although Prof. 

 Baird's circular, which we publishedin full in our issue of Aug. 

 10, was very plain and clear, there seems to be some misunder- 

 standing of it by a few who intend to exhibit. The Profes- 

 sor's rule is that objects which he purchases in order to fill 

 up the American exhibit will be shown as part of the collec- 

 tion of the National Museum, or the Fish Commission, without, 

 either label of the seller on the object, or the appearance of 

 his name in the catalogue. Objects which arc loaned or 

 douated by the maker, inventor, or dealer, will he labeled 

 with his name, which will also appear in the catalogue. The 

 rule which the jury at Berlin followed was to award prizes 

 to the exhibitor of an article and not to the maker; thus a 

 dealer in fishing tackle might receive a reward for the best 

 rods, lines, or reels, which he bought from some maker who 

 had not enterprise enough to exhibit. While the Fish Com- 

 mission will receive full series of articles it will not allow an 

 unnecessary, or unreasonable, duplication, merely to make a 

 show of quantity. Those wiio wish to exhibit will do well 

 to bear these things in mind. 



Catfish for Belgium. — We publish elsewhere the cor- 

 respondence which relates to the introduction of American 

 catfish into the waters of Belgium. The sluggish, muddy 

 rivers of that country are particularly adapted to sustain this 

 fish. Professor Baird has directed Air. Fred Mather, of this 

 journal, to procure the fish, and has left the. selection to his 

 judgment, merely suggesting that more than one kind be 

 sent. Mr. Mather has decided to send the small northern "bull- 

 head, " Amiurw ratus, for one, and thinks of obtaining a 

 larger southern species also, and would like suggestions as to 

 the comparative table qualities of southern catfish, and also 

 the best means of obtaining forty or fifty young specimens of 

 them. He can be addressed at the office of the Forest and 

 Stbeam. 



The Coming Field Trials. — The coming field trials are 

 sure to be a success so far as the running of the dogs is con- 

 cerned, for we hear whispers from far and near of many 

 wonderful animals that arc to take part, each and every one 

 of whom can win "just as easy as rolling off a log." We 

 have also heard of several others who, perchance, may not 

 secure the first place, but are dead sure to win the second. 

 No one to our knowledge has yet put in a claim for third 

 place, and we would aavise those who have this class of dog- 

 to enter them at. once, as this prize is well worth the winning. 



Forest Lake Assoclvtion. — This club, composed of 

 well-known residents of this city, have secured the Forest 

 Lakes, in Pike County, Pennsylvania, where they will 

 maintain game and fish preserves, with club house, cottages, 

 etc. The management of the enterprise is in good hands, 

 the officers being: Dr. Alexander Hadden, President; Edward 

 G. Black, Vice-President; Dr. J. V. S. Wortlcy, Secretary; 

 Robert Betty, Treasurer: J. H. Van Etten, counsel. 



The Forest and Stream aims to reflect the varying 

 phases of legitimate field sports as conducted in every por- 

 tion of this broad land. With the opening of the shooting 

 season our friends everywhere are invited to send us for 

 publication reports of their field days and shooting excur- 

 sions. 



