Forest and Stream 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 28, 1882. 



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CONTEXTS. 



■Editorial. 



Farmers and Field Sports. 



The Forest and Stream Prize 

 Award. 



Match After Thoughts. 



Adirondack Survey Notes.— xi, 

 Tun SeoH'i'HH.iK Tourist. 



Familiar Eetlrrs.— n. 



Tn Camp. 



Below Quebec. 



An Afternoon on Bos River. 



Maine Notes. 

 Nattr.u. History. 



Breeding Quad in Confinement. 



Tie- (iasper-Gou. 



A Fine Display in Aquaria. 

 Game Mag and Gun. 



The Range of the Shotgun. 



The St, Lawrence Game Club. 



NonHesiilenis in New Jersey. 



hail Shooting. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



Fish in Season in October. 



incl-Ts' Tournament. 



Drum, Croaker and Shark. 



Finny Representatives to the 

 Court of Hawkins. 



Blue-Backed Trout. 



Sea and Kiver Fishing. 

 The Menhaden Question. 



FlSHCULTURE. 



The McCloud River Salmon 

 Station. 



An Aerating Machine. 

 The Kennel. 



The Prairie Chicken Trials. 



Raleigh. 



Montreal Dog Show. 



Kennel Notes. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 



Why and Wherefore. 



matches and Meetings. 

 Yachting .and Canoeing. 



A Yacht Builder's Views. 



Annasona. 



The America Cup. 



Safe Sailboats. 



Beverly Y. C— Sept. 16. 



Royal Canadian Y. C— Sept. 16. 



Narrow Cutters and Cruisers. 



Cost of British Yachts. 



A Narrow Cruising Yawl. 



Canoe Rigs. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



FARMERS AKD FIELD SPORTS. 

 "Happy the man whose only care 



A few paternal acres bound, 

 Content to breathe his native air 



On his own ground." 



A ND happier still is such a one who has a love lor the 

 -*•*- rod and gun, and with them finds now and then a 

 day's freedom from all eares by the side of the stream that 

 borders his own acres and in the woods that crest his knolls 

 or shade his swamp. 



As a rule none of our people take so few days of recrea- 

 tion, as the farmer. Excepting Sundays, two or three days 

 at the county fair, and perhaps as many more spent in the 

 crowd and discomfort of a cheap railroad excursion, are all 

 that arc given by the ordinary farmer to anything but the 

 affairs of the farm. It is true that his out-door life makes 

 it teas necessary for him than for the man whose office or 

 shop work keeps him mostly in-doors to devote a month or a 

 fortnight of each year to entire rest from labor. Indeed, he 

 can hardly do this except in winter, when his own fireside 

 is oftoner the pleasantest place for rest. But he would be 

 the better for more, days of healthful pleasure, and many 

 such lie might have if lie would so use those odd ones whicll 

 fall within his year, when crops are sown and planted qt 

 harvested, and he need not stay at Home. A day in the 

 woods or by the stream is better for body and mind than one 

 spent iu idle gossip at the village store, and nine times out 

 of ten better for the pocket, though one come home with- 

 out tin or leather to show for his day's outing. One who 

 iceps his eyes and ears on duty while abroad in the field can 

 hardly fail to see and hear something new, or, at least, more 

 interesting and profitable than ordinary gossip, and the wear 

 and tear of tackle and a few charges of ammunition wasted 

 will cost less than the treats which are pretty apt to be part 

 of a day's loafing. 



But barring the dearth of the objects of his pursuit, the 

 farmer who goes a-usliiug and a-hunting should not be un- 

 successful if he has fair skill with the rod and gun. For he 

 Who knows most of the habits of fish and game will Sue- 

 | :l " ' in their capture, and no man, except the naturalist 

 and the professional fisherman and hunter, has a better 

 ehanco to gain this knowledge than the farmer, whose life 

 brings him into everyday companionship with nature. His 

 fields and woods are the homes and haunts of -the birds and 



beasfe of venery, from the beginning of the year to its end. 

 and in his streams many of the fishes pass their lives. By 

 lis woodside the quail builds her nest, and when the foam 

 of blossom has dried away on the buckwheat field she leads 

 her young there to feed on the brown kernel stranded on the 

 coral stfems. If he chance to follow his wood road in early 

 June, thu miffed grouse limps and flutters along it before 

 him while her callow chicks vanish as it by a conjuror's 

 trick from beneath his very footfall. A mouth latei . grown 

 to the size of robins, they will scatter on the wing from his 

 path with a vigor that foretells the bold whir and the swift- 

 ness of their flight in their grown-up days, when they will 

 stir the steadiest nerve, whether they hunt from an October- 

 painted thicket or from the blue shadows of untraeked 

 snow. No one is likelier to see ami hear the strange woo- 

 ing of the woodcock in the soft spring evenings, ami to 

 the farmer's ear first comes thai assurance of spring; the 

 wail of the Barlram's sandpiper returning from the South 

 to breed in meadow and pasture, and then in hollow trees 

 that overhang the river the woodducks begin to spoil their 

 holiday attire in the work and care of housekeeping, 

 The fox burrows and breeds in the farmer's woods. The 

 raccoon's den is there iu ledge or hollow tree. The 

 hare makes her form in the shadow of his evergreens, where 

 she dons her dress of tawny or white to match the brown 

 floor of the woods or its soft covering of snow. The bass 

 comes to his river in Stay to spawn, the pike-perch for food, 

 and the perch lives there, as perhaps in his brook does the 

 trout. 



A 11 these tire his tenants, or his summer boarders, and if 

 he knows not something of their lives, and when and where 

 to find them at home or in their favorite resorts, he is a care- 

 less landlord. 



His life will be the pleasanter for the interest he takes in 

 theirs, and the skill he acquires in bringing them to bag and 

 creel. 



THE FOREST AND STREAM PRIZE A WA IU). 



A Tthe last convention of the New York State Association 

 -^*- for the Protection of Fish and Game, the Forest And 

 Stream offered a cash prize to that society, to be awarded 

 under the following conditions ; 



To be given to that club, belonging to the Association, which shah 

 showthe best record for the past year in the work of game protection, 

 i.e.. (1) the promotion of a better observance of the game laws: and 

 (2) fostering and increasing the supply of fish and game. The award 

 to be determined by a committee of three, to consist of the President 

 of the Association and two others to be appointed by him. There- 

 cords of the competing clubs to be made in writing and submitted to 

 this committee. The award to be made on or before August 18, 

 1882. 



ft was explained that in considering the record of the 

 clubs in respect to "the promotion of a better observance of 

 the game laws," it was designed that the committee should 

 take into account, first, the prosecution of offenders against 

 the law and the prevention of such offenses; and second, 

 efforts intended to effect a better appreciation of the true 

 spirit and intent of the game laws and game protection by 

 the community at large. 



The committee appointed to make the award was com- 

 posed of the president of the association, Mr. S, T. Murray, 

 of Niagara Falls, and Messrs. William Pool, of Niagara 

 Falls, and John B. Sage, of Buffalo. Having been un- 

 able to make a, decision within the time named in the 

 original conditions, the committee, with the acquiescence of 

 the Forest and Stream, extended the time fo September 10; 

 and, as was stated in our issue of the 4th inst., then awarded 

 the prize to the Onondaga Fishing Club of Syracuse — a de- 

 cision which will meet with general approval throughout 

 the State. 



The Onondaga County Fishing Club and its record are 

 splendid examples of what such an organization should lie 

 aud do. The club is composed of some two hundred gen- 

 tlemen of good standing and much public influence. For 

 years past it has been known as an active, wide aw T ake, fear- 

 less and determined society, and as such has won the respect 

 of the decent portion of the community, and the fear of flic 

 rest. Those who were familiar with the condition of affairs 

 in Onondagacounty five or six years ago and the general spirit 

 and practice of lawlessness which reigned among the fisher- 

 men and fish pirates in those waters, will appreciate the 

 magnitude of the task assumed by the Onondaga Club and 

 the credit due them for the present improved condition of 

 affairs. The club has, since its formation, prosecuted suc- 

 cessfully in the COUrtt more than two hundred suits against 

 illegal fishermen, having won two of these suits on appeal. 

 They have destroyed more than two hundred fishing nets 



illegally set, and have sent the lawbreakers to jail. Their 

 persistent; efforts have been rewarded by a gratifying suc- 

 cess. They have practically broken up the illegal fishing 

 whicll once threatened total ruin to the fisheries of the 

 county. 



The principal work of the club the past year, we are told, 

 "has been more particularly the stocking of waters, assist- 

 ing or opposing the passage of proposed laws, and in call- 

 ing the attention of the public and other chilis of the State 

 Association lo the necessity ot en forcing-existing laws.. The 

 result attained since our organization is such as the fanner 

 expects when he plows the ground and sows his seed in the 

 fall — a good crop thefollowing spring; and our well-stocked 

 waters are evidence that our earlier aud our continuous 

 work was not in vain." 



The record is one of which the Onondaga. Club may justly 

 feel proud, and other clubs emulous. Were there a like ac- 

 tive and determined society iu each county, game protection 

 would soon cease to be a by -word among the people. There 

 are clubs enough now T belonging to the State Association to 

 thoroughly enforce existing game laws, provided these clubs 

 cared to do it. Unhappily, however, there appears to be a 

 most discouraging apathy regarding such endeavors. In- 

 deed, so far as we have been able to learn from the officers 

 of the Association, the Onondaga Club was the only one 

 which presented for the committee's consideration any ex- 

 hibit of game protective work during the past yeat. 



The FrERGE Storm of last week was looked forward to 

 by rail hunters as the so-called "equinoctial" always is. It 

 was expected that it would bring with it a high tide and 

 consequent good shooting, and so shells were loaded. 

 pushers engaged and all preparations made, flow good 

 the shooting was we have not yet learned, but it is cer- 

 tain that very high tides occurred in this vicinity. The 

 terrible ravages in New Jersey, caused by the unprecedented 

 rainfall, certainly turned the thoughts of the people of that 

 State away from the pleasures of shooting. All lowlands 

 were overflowed, houses were floated oft" and cattle drowned. 

 But f ew r lives were lost, but. the damage to propei ty was 

 very great. The railroads suffered severely, bridges being 

 broken and tracks washed away in many places. The 

 Philadelphia & Bound Brook line was the only one over 

 which traffic from Philadelphia to New York was uninter- 

 ruped, and the trains of the Pennsylvania Railroad were sent 

 to this city over the tracks of that road. 



Non-Residents in New Jersey.— Last week we pub- 

 lished a letter from au officer of the New Jersey Game and 

 Fish Protective Societ.y, presenting, from his standpoint, the 

 disagreement bow t existing between that society and the 

 West Jersey Game Protective Society. To-day we print a 

 letter from a prominent member of the latter society, giving 

 his side of the case. The question involved is an important 

 one, and happily the decision is not to be arrived at by the 

 uncertain and unsatisfactory medium of newspaper con- 

 troversy, but by recourse to the courts. While extremely 

 deprecating the unfortunate absence of that harmony which 

 should unite two such societies iu their work for a common 

 end» we shall await with no little interest the court's decis- 

 ion of the point at issue. 



GEORGE W. Cfiappei,, President of the Long Island 

 Sportsman's Association, died on Wednesday, September 20. 

 Mi-. Chappel was quite well-known to the sportsmen of Long 

 Island and of New York State. He was senior member of 

 the firm of Chappel & Storcr, wholesale fish dealers, Fulton 

 Market, and was forty-nine years of age. 



Wii Publish Elsewuere a very noteworthy corres- 

 pondence Between the St. Lawrence Gun Club aud the Dis- 

 trict Attorney of St. Lawrence county. The letters arc 

 exceedingly creditable to both parties, and afford an encour- 

 aging evidence that the game interests of that section are in 

 good hands „ H&i 



The Newport Hunters of the Anise-Seed Bag have 

 incurred the, displeasure of some of the members of the S. 

 F. P. C. A., and it, is hinted that next season the bag may tie- 

 relegated to the bourne where Rhode Island pigeon shooting 

 disappeared some years ago. We very much doubt, how- 

 ever, if the society will succeed in suppressing fox hunting. 

 If it does, what will be the next thing to receive attention'.' 



Major Joseph Yeiut', says it, is better to catch a trout 

 than to cat eh sight of one. 



