Forest and Stream. 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



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NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 7, 1882. 



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CONTENTS. 





Editorial 







S r • 0"r: '; ::: ::'v L ;;p_ Fi-uiNf; 





Our Am 







J.Iississippi Coast Fishiae-. 





Adirond 







The Fishless Schuylkill. 





The Sport 







That Camp on the Susr itieha 

 Fish-culture. 

 The American Fiskeultural 





The Pac 





{;' 



As- 



Marylan 







sociation. 





The Van 







Black Bass Culture in Ohio 





Natural } 







The Kennel. 





Use of a 







The Prairie Chicken Trials 





Perform 







Do Bogs Dream? 





Game Bag 







The Best Dog in the World. 





Game iu 





itember. 



Dogs that I Have. 





A Wolf ] 







Some Observations Respec 



a'hfj 



Hunting 





Medicine. 



Setters. 





A Texas 







Rifle and Trap Shooting. 





Adirond 







The British Team Arrival. 





"Bachel 







Creedmoor. 





Pennsyh 



anlfl I >eer 1 ; i 



nting. 



Matches and Meetings. 





"Nipkins 







Yachting and Canoeing. 





Ohio ( la 



nc Notes. 





Vixen and Maggie Ratio] 



illy 



Camp Fire 



Flicrerlxgs. 





Compared. 





Sea and Ki 



vf.r Fishing. 





A Substitute Rule. 





Fish in S 





ember. 



The Present Rules Good Em- 



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Shrimp-' 







Beverly Y. C.— Aug. 29. 



The -Nessniuk" Hatchet. 





iiassiu-.. 









Light an 

 A Trip u 







Bay of Quiute Y. C. 







ehigau. 



The America Cup. 





Sharkint 



at Nantucke 





Logic in Measurement. 





Rivers a 



id Fish of Ne 



fada. 



Leading Tvj.es of Schooners 







n-nor Respon 



Is. 



Answers to Correspondents. 





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man, he could not be safely trusted as a team man, and did 

 not shoot on any oi' the teams. 



In the make up of our International Military team we fail 

 to see that there is the fixed point from which to make cal- 

 culations. The men do not hold steady — the prone position 

 is uot now and never was a steady position. There is a cer- 

 tain amount of snap shooting iu it, That is, the foresight of 

 the rifle goes wavering about over the target face and then 

 at the right instant the trigger is pulled. Some riflemen are 

 more steady than others, but there is not that fixed holding 

 on the bull which was a feature of our American team shoot- 

 ing from the back position. There are difficulties connected 

 with the taking of the back position with military rifles, but 

 they are not insurmountable. Many excellent marksmen 

 use it in matches similar in condition to the International 

 match. The committee on the organization of the team 

 should have recognized the importance of position iu carry- 

 ing out a team discipline, and should have made it 

 requisite of admission to the team that the back position 

 should be used. A few months' practice would have 

 abled every member of the team to have shot from the back 

 position at the second stage, but now" it is too late to cluing 

 The match must be fought through with the men as the 

 now shoot. We do not see that much can be done in the 

 way of team drill under these conditions. The practice thus 

 far of the men may not be a good criterion, as the shooting 

 is yet nothing more than an active rivalry for place on the 

 team. In our next issue we shall be able to give the record 

 of the men as chosen. The rivalry should then have ceased, 

 and if the scores do not show a marked improvement we 

 may conclude that there is no basis for Col. Bodine to estab- 

 lish team practice as contradistinguished from the mere 

 practicing upon the same day and over the same ranges of a 

 company of shooters. Without the application of this team 

 drill it is not unlikely that we have seen the best our team is 

 capable of, unless perchance the spur of the actual match 

 shall lead to some unexpected displays, but this pressure 

 may bring unsteadiness and poor scores instead of firmness 

 and fine shooting. 



We should have been much more easy as to the result if 

 we had noted the application of the team principle, had seen 

 the men catch step together and move along, each getting 

 aid from and giving assistance to his comrades. If that 

 plan can be carried out the final team should have been made 

 up long ago, if not, then the present desultory practice is 

 about all that can be done. 



OUR AMERICAN TEAM. 

 hRHE present week will close the practice of the American 

 -*- Team, and by the entl of next week the match will 

 have been decided. It is difficult to predict a victory for 

 either side. There are grave points to be criticised in the 

 make-up of the home team, in its methods of practice, iu its 

 choice of arms, and in its preparation forthe work in hand. 

 The prospect does not become more rosy as the date of the 

 match draws near. Our team does not seem to pull well to- 

 gether. The scores run up and down in a jagged way. and 

 the top man of to-day is the bottom man tomorrow. This 

 means that there is a great deal of independent practice go- 

 ing on; that the men are not holding in with one another, 

 and while each is no doubt doing his best right along, the 

 team system is entirely wanting. 



it is doubtful whether or no the team system can be ap- 

 plied with this team, and that after all we will have to drop 

 back to the English system of allowing each man to do his 

 best, and calling the aggregation of the scores a team total. 

 That is not the way that previous American victories have 

 been won, and it will not improve the American chances if 

 we are to throw aside our old winning habit and adopt a 

 much cruder system. The first requisite for a well organized 

 team, one that cau work together, is a fixed poiut of depar- 

 ture. They must hold alike. It is of no use to have an 

 elaborate table of the variations between the several rifles, if 

 the men do not use. the weapons in the same way at each 

 shot. In the small-bore matches, the holding was perfect. 

 It was "dead on" all the time, and this being known, one 

 rifleman could follow another with certainty when the 

 proper allowances had been made. The back position en- 

 abled all this to be done with ease, the men could hold their 

 rifles with vise-like accuracy shot after shot. One rifleman 

 we recall who was excellent in many ways, was left off the 

 successive American teams simply because of his bad 

 habits of "holding for wind" to various points of the target 

 instead of making the allowance on his sights and wind 

 gauge. Though individually he was an excellent marks- 



Sportsmen's Outfits. — A full directory of the sports- 

 men's goods trade is comprised in our advertising columns. The 

 firms there represented are well established business houses, 

 most of them of long standing, and all reputable and reliable. 

 The sportsman who is in need of tiny article to complete his 

 outfit, from a gun to a box of wads, or from a rod to a fish 

 hook, may obtain it by communicating with these dealers. 

 It is, of course, considered the more satisfactory way to pur- 

 chase in person what is needed, especially if the article be a 

 fine gun or rod involving the outlay of a considerable sum of 

 money. But this is not a necessity. The firms to which we 

 refer annually send out in response to mail orders tens of 

 thousands of dollars' worth of goods, and it is a significant 

 fact that dissatisfaction on the part of the purchaser is the 

 very rare exception. We know of no other class of goods 

 in which the purchaser at a distance can be so sure of receiv- 

 ing fair dealing as he is when ordering a shooting or angling 

 outfit, or any part of one from these firms. An important 

 rule to be observed by the party giving a mail order is to be 

 as explicit as possible in his directions and explanations of 

 what he wants. This will obviate, possible misunderstand- 

 ing and greatly assist the dealer in supplying the right article. 

 In nine cases out of ten where the purchaser is not suited, 

 the fault lies with himself for haviug been vague in his in- 

 structions. 



FORMING LOCAL GLUBS. 

 VyTE sometime ago took occasion to refer to the method 

 of work adopted by the Michigan Sportsmen's As- 

 sociation. The work is briefly this: The association sends 

 out an agent, who visits the several towns in a given district, 

 talks with the residents, invites them b. meet him, ami when 

 they have come together explains to them the object of the 

 association and the purpose of the game laws. He is as a 

 rule successful iu arousing sufficient ittlerest to insure in 

 each village thus visited the formation of a game club, 

 which takes its stand on the side of game protection. The 

 present representative of the association, who is now doing 

 SUCh work on the northern shore, is Hon. Cyrus W. Hieby. 

 of Jackson. Mr. Mershon. the secretary of the association, 

 who is now iu this city, tells us thai the Michigan plan is 

 working well, and good results are following Mr. Higby's 

 labors. 



This is certainly one of the most efficient methods of in- 

 ducing among the people an appreciation of just what game ■ 

 protection is and what it is not. The spirit and intent of 

 the restrictions imposed On the capture of fish and game are 

 largely misconstrued by the general public, particularly in 

 the frontier sections of the country. Came laws are re- 

 garded as enacted in the interest of a few, and are thought to 

 be an infringement of the rightsof residents and land owners. 

 Obviously, then, in an intelligent scheme of game protection 

 the first essential is to remove this misconception, and to 

 secure that appreciation of the justice of the game laws, 

 which a clear understanding of them is sure to effect. When 

 this has beet: accomplished the rest is a comparatively simple 

 matter. We shall watch with interest the progress of the 

 Michigan Association, because we believe that they have 

 adopted the right course. 



An Active Pish and Game Club. —Chagrin Falls, Ohio, 

 has a fish and game club which does not confine its attention 

 to the mere killing and capturing of fur, fin and feather, but 

 is wise enough to devote a portion of its energies to keeping 

 up the supply for future needs. In another column we print 

 a letter from the secretary of the club, Mr. J. J. Straualian, 

 on their success in the culture of black bass, and we learn 

 that now they have young bass to distribute, thus prov- 

 ing the success of the experiment of introducing them to the 

 waters of their ponds. They will now attempt the propaga- 

 tion, of the finer species of catfish. It is sincerely to be 

 hoped that the public will afford the club all the encourage- 

 ment and assistance necessary to continue this excellent 

 work. 



Ska Salmon or Land-Locked?— We were recently shown 

 a salmon taken by Mr. E. A. Green, of Newark, N. J., 

 from the Marguerite, which the fishermen of the Saguenay 

 region declared to be a "winninish." The fish was brought 

 to otu- office for identification by that enthusiastic angler. 

 Mr. T. S. Morrell, of Newark. It was apparently a sal- 

 mon of about six pounds weight, but its extremely pointed 

 snout gave it a peculiar appearance, and its coloring was 

 some like, that of a laud-locked salmon. After a care- 

 ful diagnosis we incline to think it merely an abnormal 

 specimen of Snlr/uj solar. The "winninish'' is uot now 

 recognized as distinct from the land-locked salmon, and the 

 latter fish is structurally a 8. salar whose habits have 

 a changed, and a slight change in coloration hasfol- 

 ed. In other words, i I is merely a variety and not a 

 inet species. Dr. Ferber has also brought its two small 

 land-locked salmon from Loch Lomond, twelve miles from 

 St. John's, N. B. 



Sea Turtles Near New York.— A few w r eeks ago a 

 friend told us in conversation that many green turtles were 

 caught near Sandy Hook this season. We have known of 

 an occasional one being taken on Long Island, and even in 

 Great South Bay. but not of frequent occurrence enough to 

 be considered worth more than a passing notice as stragglers 

 from the Gulf Stream, and we thought no more of what our 

 friend said. Last Monday while Mr. Frauds Kndicott. the 

 well-known president of the Btaten Island Sportsman's 

 Club, took three, of them while fishing for striped bass from 

 the lower end of the island. The turtles, which were small 

 ones, of about eight or ten pounds weight, were taken on the 

 shore of Staten Island and were iu good order. Now that 

 we know of this fact, we are prepared to believe that they 

 are of much more frequent occurrence than is generally sup- 

 posed. 



The Moodus Dog Swindler.— We understand that the 

 Moodus dog swindler, who formerly advertised under the 

 names of Howard, Fowler, Chester, Gleason, etc.. is again 

 at his tricks. He has been advertising from Middle-town, 

 Conn., under the name C, E. Pollard, and we understand 

 that another <W«W is "Rev. S. C. Fowler." This fellow- 

 whatever his real name may be — is an arrant rnscal. If any 

 of his victims care to take steps to punish him, we can give 

 them some additional information about him. 



Boston Press Shoot.— The annual shoot of the Boston 

 Press Rifle Association will be held at Walnut Hill, Septem- 

 ber 28. The match promises to be an interesting one. 

 Representatives will be on hand front the Herald, Globe, 

 Journal, Star, Boat, Transcript and AdverMm-. Last year 

 forty-six newspaper scribes shot at the targets, This year it 

 is probable that there will be seventy-five entries, each man 

 eager lo get a "beat" on all the other papers. 



