Peb. S. tSM.] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



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and out of season, then it, is but useless tails ami twaddle 



i protection of deer. It just suits the 



I • ' :,■.,■ be much 



tute book. 



1 woiUd-i ■ ■■!■'■. lie amended, cuffing down, the 



I lie hounding- of doer one Die Etl taat 



i lo season to commence the 1st daj of October, instead 



of the lsf of November, and double the penally. Such a law 



only can lie of i nj account. Cap Lock. 



(3oi.T3 81 '-'■'• •■>' ■ A. friend of 



i.imc, .in ardenl sportsman, who has followed the bounds 

 i'l-om his boyhood and who i-, a clo o tfgfiniejiiid 



its habits, tnfo a I nu last fall when hunting -with bis bea- 

 I ihe scent lift by the track of fo u other nnimd 

 in the soft snow or growi I ,; ! track be frozen while still 

 fresh, will not be giWO nit until the track is thawed, when 

 it will be taken by tlie hounds and followed as readily aa be- 

 fore it was frozen. In other ■>■•' ! tli ■•' i' I i : " 'i ■■■' 

 while ths tratkifl frozen an l # bron.riii uiio n-. :o.-d\ when 

 thawed Efeturl i dfhal a fpx or other animal in 



i ; | er " clear crystal iced" left no scent whatever, and. 

 i cenl could ool be followed by the Icoenest nosed 

 to statements eorreel ?— Sawcjio P.wza. [We 

 |i me experience with the frozen scent. On one 



■ ,,.--.-, ted, being stopped by tne soent coining 



ffom quailff tracks which had been frozen and were at the 

 time thawing out. It is also true, according to our own ex- 

 perience, that the fox leaves iio scent on clear ice.] 



Ric.wKR Rivkb 0{.vb.— Springiield, Mass., Jan. 36, 1882.' 

 —The Beaver River Club held its eighth annual > 

 'Malay, January SO, a1 the "Old Tavern," West Spring- 

 iieM, Mass. The elnti accepted the courtesy of the Rod 

 and Gun Club Kith- Team, hy nslflg (heir two hundred 

 yard range. The gold badge held by ft. i-, Whipple, 

 'of Adams, Mass., was won hy A. L. Phillips, of Adams, 

 Mass, The EoUowing scores were made: Phillips 110, 

 ' 105, Brownell 104, WHscn 102, Whipple 101, 

 Cooler 100, Brlggs88, Williams 88, Mayotl 85, Orausten 88, 

 Kimball 73, Moore 67. The club then 

 sat down to a good supper, carefully prepared by landlord 

 oelden, after which the following officers were chosen: 

 President, Dr.W. C. tlrownoll ; Vice-President, H. K. Coole.y; 

 Secratgxy, F. P. DoolittliJ. It. was voted lo hold the annual 

 field day In Adams, Mass., July next. The remainder of 

 the evening was given to sketches of last .summer's trips to 

 I lanadian woods, Adirtmdacks and the wilds of Maine. 



G\.mt, iS Sullivan CotuWV, TST. Y.— Wild ducks are 

 found in quite large numbers on the Long Pond and Mon- 



fiup Ponds during September, thej Ray, and the tracks of 

 ruin are found on the mountains during the winter. A fair 

 specimen of his beavshipwas taken a few weeks ago from an 

 adjacent mountain. He may be seen from the road, chained. 

 near the Shin Greet store; The country known as the head 

 of the lieaveikill, Which lies between Morsston, on the On- 

 tario Railroad, and Big Indian Station, on the Ulster end 

 [: art Railroad, t consider the best grouse shooting coun- 

 try between NeW i'ork and the Adirondacks. Plain country 

 board maybe had at from $4 to $6 a week. To reach the 



" that he had i 



QUt down at our 



h'ava been in these 



Without bemgrliscovf 



him at one 















bei ■ ! 



is (Mb si,: 







.•L— that at 1 



or trout iu 







ms was firsl 



many gray 





s tro 



.it; but with 



period of ; 



'ears 



the t 



ormer have 



that fooati 





■ i 



lo in any sti 



daut, is a v 



gry r 



•IV 





co hi i 



that 



the 



beautiful fisl 



• seen a brook trout " he would have 

 coruifag-from a warm climate — could 

 !" i - ippr riaale length of tunc 



■ . , ,. ■ 1 1 i , ; 1 1 : .. known 



ling to a ' cue in this Opinion 



' ie when the discovery 



t-ively 



short 



lisapp 

 it are 



iared 



tbun- 





y and 

 md it 



at " ai 



.Idesi 

 d tlte 





evar; 



complete extinction. Only a few years, uomp&l 



will only exist in the traditional remembrance 



in i l1 bant ' andthe " picklejars" of the -maa 



1 M en'-te ■ " and " Sauble " will know them no 



its predaeious and voracious cousin will have been at once 



executioner .and its tomb, 



But in the Stem economy of nature, that accords the front 

 ranks to the strongest, there is also a just law of compensa- 

 tion, audi! these streams arc to have new tenants, they are 

 ateo destined to find their way into the thousands of Other 

 streams scattered throughout the State that at present give 

 ailta to man in supplying bun with either the 

 who will take the 

 State, and count 

 a mile in length 



number of miles 



'to any 



any one 



grounds frt 



town, thence ra. 

 eight miles I : @ 

 the Beaverkil] 



house — or Mm 

 the farmers all 



New York, take 



Ontario Railrc 



Erie Railroad to Middle- 

 tad to Morsston, then stage 

 lin ('reek or any point you desire further up 

 'i.er. Mr. Lynch keeps a good boarding- 

 lock and several others at Shin Creek — and 

 through that section, as a rule, are a jolly 

 good set of fellows, ready to accommodate any one. — Doc- 

 toe. 



Laws That WOBXP Be Laws. — Trenton, N. J., Jan. 4 — 

 Among the numerous bills brought forward in the House 

 making drunkenness sufficient cause for divorce; 

 forbidding the killing of woodcock and ruffed grouse for 

 five years and more to come, and one requiring all physi- 

 cians' prescriptions to lie written in English, under a penalty 

 of one hundred dollars. 



A ( tig— n tug ! With face ten times flushed and palp by turns ere 

 you coiikl count ten, he at last has strength iu the agitation nf his fear 

 and joy, to pull au-ayatlhe monster: and rhere lie lies in his beauty 

 among the gowans and greensward, for he has whopped him right 

 over Ms head and far away, a fish of a quarter of an ounce in weight, 

 and, at the very least, two incites long! Off lie dies oa wiuga of wind 

 to his father, mother and sisters, and brothers and cousins and all the 

 neighborhood, holding the fish aloft in hoth hands, si ill fearful of its 

 escape; and, like a genuine child of corruption, his eyes brighten at 

 the first flush of cold blond on his small funny fingers. He carries 

 about with hirn, up-stairs and down-stairs, his prey upon a plate: he 

 will not wash his hands hot ore dinner, for be exults in I lie silver scales 

 adhering to the thumb nail that scooped the jjin out of the baggy's 

 maw; and at night lie is overheard murmuring in his sleep— a thief, 

 a. robber and a murderer, in his yet infant dri'ums.—Chi-istophpr in 

 his Sporting Jaoket. 



BROOK TROUT IN THE LOWER PENINSULA. 



BY DR. J. O, PAJJKEB, GRAND RAPIDS 

 From all the information I can obtain, I feel quite confident 



? ago there were 



of the 

 cSeyer 



tln- 



ni roak 



no brook trout oil the " Lower Pen 



At thai time I was mosi bal 

 State, collecting and clas 



came to hand, and mak; 



esfced as to what could be found in 



i ■ jiw.erve.i-. To the question often asked of hunters, 

 trappers and surveyors conversant "with the •'streams, of the 

 North," ' Are there any brook trout up thepe :" 



Theyo. . ■.■;:.. ,.d what thev usuaUv called •• Michigan 



trout, nut which 1 then knew bv their descriptions was no 



broul at i e an I which we ail know now to be the "Grayling." 



The first definite information I had that there were fcrotrb in 



this part of the state was when a party from &rand Rapids 



went tip lowharwes then e.-died i'ine' River, now the •well- 



fenown Jordan, ndwho on returning brought back the first 



.e. that I have seen in the State. 1 was 



well aware that they were found in the " Lake Superior re- 



ntB ahoreol the ^.npper Peninsula," in 



ine rivers i ■■,--. Mackinaw: 



but this was the first that was known of them on this side of 



■' to ',,_,-- - ,i but what they have 



touudfheii .:.:■,.'.,-,' ::d become .loniiciled in 



the "Jordan" ana othei 



ago, for it s«< 17 improbable that a fish ^ distinctly 



marked as the "Brook trout "—one so universally distributed 

 over the whole World, so much so, indeed, that if a man was 



necessities or luxuries of life. 

 trouble to examine almost an 

 the number of sections (eacl 

 crossed by a stream i 

 the brook trout, will find t 

 somewhat of a surprise. 



Going oyer twenty-four counties, taken as an average of the 

 whole, I found an average of more than one. hundred "miles to 

 each county of streams that might be made available by 

 proper care and judicious protection for the successful growth 

 of this fish; for f think there is no oilier species that will 

 thrive BO well and make so large a growth in small streams as 

 thiSj they are fully able to take care of and propagate 



themselves to the full extent of then - food supply if judiciously 

 "let ai.-i e 



It has been an open question as to whether the trout would 

 live and multiply in the warmer waters of the southern por- 

 tion of the State. But the experinients made by the State 

 Fish Commission and private individuals has demonstrated 

 beyond a question that they will. 



Admitting then that my calculation iu regard to the number 

 of miles of available streams is correct, and taking the 68 

 comities in the " Low r er Peninsular."' and we have 8,800 miles 

 of trout streams. 



Now, if each m il e of stream will yield five pounds of fish per 

 annum — which I think a very moderate estimate — [A very 

 small estimate. — Ed.] we will have 84,01)0 pounds of debcious 

 food from waters that now yield nothing. 



The cash value of this product at 28 cents per pound — a 

 price they would net in any of our metropolitan markets- 

 would yield the handsome ' little stun of S'S.oOO. a sum more 

 than sufficient to keep the Fish Commission up to its full 

 ' 'fighting weight." 



There is still another value, that attaches to all our game 

 fishes, and to the trout more especially, and that is the " fun 

 value." Now, 1 believe that a dollar's worth of fun is worth 

 just as much as a dollar's worth of pork txnd beans, to any- 

 one who pays for it. The only difference is that we must 

 have pork arid beans and we. ''don't have to " go fishing. 



But. when by energy, economy and frugality we have 

 secured a sufficient amount of pork and beans,' for several 

 days to cbme, and there is a time when the eternal tread-mill 

 of toil can stand still for a time, without the barm of starva- 

 tion ringing in our ears, the first thing looked for is some 

 place where we can get a dollar's worth of " fun." 



Just what shape the article will come in is just as varied as 

 the tastes of those we do purchase. But no matter what shape 

 it comes in. whether you call it recreation, sport, amuse- 

 ment, needf id exercise", enjoyment "or happiness, it all means 

 but one and the same thing," and that is, the gratifications of 

 one's own self, in self's own way; and our presence here to-day, 

 with the avowed purpose for which we have assembled, 

 emphasizes in the strongest manner the money value we place 



And so with "going-a-fishing;" the individual who goes mav 

 want the fish he catches for food ; perhaps absolutely needs 

 them, but even then, the "frm" he has in catching them adds a 

 zest to life that never comes to him in digging potatoes or 

 husking corn. 



A hungry man may go to his henroost and strangle a pullet 

 for his dinner, and it will satisfy his hunger. But let the same 

 hungry man "nip" a ruffed grouse, as it whirs out of the 

 brash like a bullet, and when he satisfies his hunger with it. 

 the remembrance of the. handsome way he "brought it down," 

 will sweeten every morsel as no other sauce on earth can. 

 We all know what a keen enjoyment there, is in it, a sweet 

 hint of the romance of wild fife, that is beyond any money 

 value, so much is it a part and parcel of ourselves; and so 

 much does it satisfy that "home-sickness" that is in the hearts 

 of the most of us, that longing for the solemn woods and the 

 rushing streams of our old aboriginal ancestors. 



And yet how many there are that Uve and die, — dare we. say 

 happy? who never have a hint, e\ T en, of what comes to the 

 soul of a true sportsman. How often has the sneer been 

 thrust at you by old Gunny bags when you have returned from 

 a rislrmg trip, "Well, I giiess those ere trout must have cost 

 you about two dollars a pound." Y\ T ell, admitting they did, 

 the one who caught them knows that he got more "fun," more 

 genuine enjoyment out of his two dollars than old Gunnybags 

 ever got out of anything in his life, unless it was in knocking 

 his wife ov scolding his children. Those two dollars a pound 

 for trout mean to you a new lease of life; a htulding anew of 

 those energies that made the getting of any money in vour 

 Ufe possible. 



And thus would 1 add to the money y r alue of the trout as a 

 food fish, the other unknown quantity in the problem, its value 

 in "fun,"' which can only be ealciilated by each individual's 

 capacity for enjoying it. 



Mr. Frank N. Clark agreed with Mr. Parker's paper- that 

 brook trout will live, in many of the southern Michigan streams. 

 but not all, and where the brook trout cannot live, the Cali- 

 fornia trout will. The latter fish like cool and rapid running 

 streams, but will live in warmer and slower ones. Tie believed 



the idea th 



tie erroneous. He believed 



those having p bi . ofBmaJJ 



and places where the fish c. 

 where the water is warmer. 



Si) degrees, and the speaker c 

 ery and took spawn from the 

 tore of 82 degrees. 



Mr. A. H. Mershon agreed with Mr. Clark concerning trout- 

 living in warm water, and cited an instance of his having nine 

 or ten years ago planted trout fry in some small stream i 

 ping into the Tobacco river, where the water gets very warm 

 in summer, and he had since caught them from 6 to it', 1 - '-, inch 



n cold spring water, to 

 e best streams for front were 

 >ld brooks running into them, 

 : go back into the deep holes 

 -out will live in water, at about 

 lght fifty of them at his hatch- 

 , in a stream Having a tempera- 



• the original plant had bred 



as doubted that the large 

 erior were genuine brook 

 hem that, were caught out 

 er, some of them weighing 

 to be the genuine brook 

 3. Some years ago he put 

 root in a pond with large 

 attention to either as long 

 ras discontinued they gob- 

 bled them all up. Brook trout will eat a bass, shiner, or any- 

 thing else, but California trout will not eiit other fish. He had 



if different sizes, showii 

 and mtdtipUed. 



Air. Clark said that mam- j 

 speckled trout found in Lake 

 trout, hut he had seen and ea 

 of the lake in pond nets last si 

 4 to 5 pounds, and he knew 

 trout, and the water c 

 50mi ynung grayling and brc 

 . out and the latisr pc 



- ' e -vere fed, and when th 



ear Questions pertainiug-to 

 'ing to many persons as in- 

 Q those Of the -;ame of the 



re hundreds nf M reams in the 

 j California and brook trout 



Sistance where brook trout 



two years, and cited cases 

 lw to protect stocked trout 



recently proven this by taking 12 brook trout (yearlings), 13 

 California trout and 13 small carp, and penned them a .11 hp to- 

 gether, The fish were not fed for thirty days, yet at the. end 

 of that time he counted out the whole as ■; put in. He 

 had put the largest of his California trout, 3u incites long, in 

 with the yearlings with perfect safety. 



President Holmes was e!al to 

 game and food fish discussed, it 

 tcresting, and to some more so, t 

 woods, the fields and the air. an 

 sion of opinion from all present, 

 est to him if brook trout could be £ 

 tioning some in streams near Or,- 

 finely. He had no doubt there wi 

 southern part of the State whei 

 would do finely. 



Mr. Clark never knew of an 

 were planted and not seen wit-hit 

 in proof, and urged an effective 1 

 streams. 



Dr. Parker confirmed all that had been said concerning tha 

 prolific qualities and hardy habits- of the trout in streams of 

 varying temperature. 



In reply to a question of Mr. Kogers Mr. Clark said that 

 pickerel, 'as a rule, do not run up small streams inhabited by 

 trout, but preferred deeper water. 



Mr. Rogers mentioned an instance where trout escaped from 

 a hatchery near Jackson, to a pair of lakes where the Water was 

 pure a.nd cold, never varying much from 45 degress, and were 

 never heard of afterwards^ but thought the r might have 

 perished for want of feed. He thought neither grayling or 

 trout would eat the other if they found sufficient food and 

 favored the artificial propagation of the grayling in the south- 

 ern streams. 



Dr. Parker said the case spoken of by Mr. Rogers was the 

 only one he had ever heard of where trout had escaped from a 

 hatchery withoht propagating in new waters. 



Mr. Osgood, of Battle Creek, mentioned a case of where, fifty 

 grayling, 9 to 13 inches long, were planted in a stream sis 

 miles above Marshall, about two years ago, and had never been 

 heard of since. 



Mr. Clark thought the grayling faded to appear not on ac- 

 count of lack of food in the river. 



Mr. A. H. Mershon thought brook trout were perfectly able 

 to take care of themselves, and had found all kinds of river 

 fish in the same stream with trout. 



Secretary Mershon mquired of Mr. Clark if it had not been 

 found that grayling would five in three or four streams in 

 Michigan, viz: the Sauble, Manistee, Pere Marquette, etc., and 

 also that they could not stand as warm water as trout. He 

 believed that grayling would die at about TO to 72 degrees, 

 while trout would stand 10 or 12 degrees more. 



Mr. Clark thought grayling would not Uve in water over 80 

 degrees. 



Dr. Parker mentioned an experiment made by Supt. Port- 

 man several years ago to test the relative endurance of the 

 graybng trout and some other kind of fish, in which Mr. P. 

 put an equal number of each in a small pond, and after a long 

 time found the graylings all alive and the others all dead. He 

 thought grayling would live in wanner water than the trout, 

 and attributed their failure to propagate, to the fact that they 

 need a peculiar food and are difficult to handle in getting 

 spawn from them and propagating them artifically. 



President Holmes related his experience upon the Jordan 

 and Bordman rivers fourteen years ago, when grayling, as 

 well as trout, were plenty, where now the grayling was al- 

 most extinct. A study of the anatomy of the two fish showed 

 that the grayling had not a predacious mouth and the trout 

 had, and like all of its family, was a predacious fish, and this 

 satisfied him that the trout had made food of the grayling. 

 He did not believe that trout and grayling wotdd thrive in the 

 same stream, and contended that streams where the grayling 

 will five should be reserved for him alone. 



A TRIP TO BROWN'S TRACT. 



LAST JUNE I went up to my old camp ground on the Ful- 

 ton Chain, in Brown's Tract, on my annual fishing trip. 

 Going early, I often have to go alone. Sometimes that's the 

 best way; you can go where, when and how yon like, with- 

 out having to consult a " wayward pardner "— and then 1 

 have, a special partner up therein my guide, Honest John 



B , who is a whole team and a half all by himself. So, 



when John and I get together, we don't calculate to be lone- 

 some, and the net result is a real pleasant time, and, to me. a 

 decided profit in health, pleasure, change of scene, good fish- 

 ing and good feeding. 



According to appointment John met tne at Boonville on the 

 morning of June 2, and after devoting about two hours for 

 breakfast and calls on old friends, we started for the woods 

 on one of Charley Phelps' fast-line buckboards, so called be- 

 cause everything is tied fast with a hue. else when you got to 

 the end of the line your baggage would be scattered all along 

 the line, and that's twenty-six imles long. 



To me a ride in the country is a rare treat, living as I do in 

 the great city, and rarely getting out of it, all the sights 

 and sounds of the country are new, fresh and ever varying. 

 Driving along the road, the stone walls, the birds in the 

 fields, the chipmunks running along the fences, the cattle and 

 horses, the people you meet, the streams and rocks and woods 

 are always fresh. And then the feeling of exhilaration of 

 going on a vacation, a rest — a change from the every day. 

 humdrum of a busy life — stirs one's blood and makes me 

 young again. And in this I am not alone; others have the 

 same feelings and enjoyments. 



After a pleasaDt ride' of twelve miles the wagon stops, and 

 we. dismount at the Moose Paver House, which any school- 

 boy can tell you is a house on the bank of a river called 

 Moose. Why, I can't tell, but suppose at some time, in the 

 past animals of that species were to be found along here— but 

 that's not so now. However, we were glad to' reach the 

 house, for it is the last one on the road before too enter the 

 woods, and the lasthouse I was at was where I got breaklast, 

 and this last house contained our dinner, hr-needi wa - '■ T erv 

 welcome, 1 thank you." In a brief space of time Tom Night- 

 ingale, that's he that runs this melancholy end bouse, told us 

 to walk in and get dinner, and this lie did in the blandest 

 manner, which reminded me of the old story of the spider 

 and the fly; but when he found out our oapaoity-T guess he 

 wasn't feeling quite so bland; but he did u mi , -.remark, 

 so we paid our bill and he smiled and told it-, to cali again." 

 Of course he knew when we came back again out of the 

 woods we could not help stopping at bis lions", for we would 

 be hungry again by that time, and— well, I hope he will have 

 a good supply of provisions on hand for the occasion. And 



here " f rise for to remark " that the aforesaid Tom N has 



this bouse fixed up in real nice sltyle, everything neat, clean 

 and fresh, and he keeps a very good house, even if it is 

 the last. 



"Now, then, boys; all aboard"— this is next in order— so 

 we take our seats ou the buckboard. and, with a crack of the 

 whip, we are off. A few rods from' the house we cross the 

 Mo-.se River on a ferryboat, and then we are in the woods in 

 reality. Anybody can tell you what the woods are, but: can 

 anybody describe a wagon road through the woods ? I doubt 

 if full justice, can be done the subject : it is vast, it has length 

 breadth Inot much), depths (put that in the plural) and 

 heights (also plural). Well, get firmly braced on vour seat 

 and keep an eye open forany obstacle, Such as a pebble set 

 up on end in the road, or any small wetness of a dubious ap- 

 pearance, and as you strike the one or sink down into the 

 other, try to suit the motion of your body to the motion of 

 the wagon, and you Will likely miss it everv time. 



We had hardly got started when some o began to figure 



