Forest and Stream. 



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NEW YORK, MAY 4, 1882. 



j VOL. XVIII.— No. 14. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



fe The London Fishery Exhibition. 



, Forest and Stream Fables. 



A Matter of Sentiment. 



Spring Wildfowl Shooting. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 

 < Wild Hogs in Ohio. 



Some Curious Kentucky Beliefs, 



The Glorious Grouse. 



A Farewell to Florida. 

 Natural History. 



Buzzards Again. 



Spring Notes. 



The Lmnean Society, 

 Same Bag and Gun. 

 "New Jersey Game Law. 



A Page, from Other Days: 

 My First Wild Goose. 

 The Last Bear Hunt, 

 Rat Hunting in the Flood. 

 Divining Rods. 



Decoy Duck Shooting. 



A Georgia Dove Meadow. 



Notes from a Veteran. 



Wyoming Game Law. 



Philadelphia Game Notes. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



How he Went Trouting. 



Sea and River Fishing. 

 Angling in South Carolina. 

 Black Bass not Wanted in New 

 Hampshire. 



FlSHOULTURE. 



American Fishcultural Associa- 

 tion. 



Edinburgh Fisheries Exhibition. 



Calif ornia Salmon taken in Ohio. 

 The Kennel. 



Gordon Setters. 



We Advise him not to Shoot. 



The Story of a Lost Dog. 



Eastern Field Trials Club. 



Pilot and Lady Pilot. 



Pugs. 



The Bizmark Setters. 



The Irish Setter Puppy Awards. 



Kennel Notes. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 



The International Match. 



Match Conditions. 



Matches and Meetings. 

 Yachting and Canoeing. 



The Roslyn Yawl. 



Loaded Centerboards for Canoes 



And the Fishing Fleet Too. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



SPRING WILDFOWL SHOOTING. 

 T> Y reference to our game columns it will be learned that 

 -*-* the Canadian clubs are making a most commendable 

 effort to prohibit the spring shooting of wildfowl. There 

 can be no question that this is a wise course. The wildfowl 

 sliould be protected just as other birds are; the same com- 

 mon sense principles applying to other game apply with 

 equal force to ducks and geese. No game should be killed 

 in its breeding season, nor just as it is repairing to its nest- 

 ing grounds. To shoot ducks which have mated is simple 

 folly, pure and unmitigated. Spring shooting is inconsider- 

 ate and improvident. 



It is gratifying to know that there has been a great 

 change of sentiment on this subject, that men are coming to 

 see the unwisdom of spring shooting, and that the change in 

 public sentiment is likely to be followed by a change in 

 practice also. 



The good results which would be sure to follow a general 

 cessation of spring wildfowl shooting are admitted by 

 almost all men who are familiar with the habits of the birds, 

 and who have had any extended experience on the various 

 shooting grounds of the country. Nine of every ten of the 

 older sportsmen are agreed that spring shooting is wrong ; 

 indeed, we have yet to find one who will contend to the con- 

 trary. Nevertheless, these same men, or a majority of them 

 at least, go out every spring and kill all the birds they can. 

 Their practice belies their principles ; but this is only another 

 of the multitudinous exhibitions of that trait of human na- 

 ture which prompts a man to "go in" for what he can get 

 now, regardless of the rights of others who are to come after 

 him, and indeed df his own future advantage. 



This question of spring shooting or no spring shooting is 

 one which should receive careful and honest consideration 

 by individuals, game clubs and State associations. 



Our Readers will confer a favor by sending us the nanus 

 of such of their friends as are not -now among the subscribers 

 &f the Forest and Stream, but who would presumably be 

 interested in the paper. 



FOREST AND STREAM FABLES, 

 n.— THE PBWEB AND THE ROBIN. 



^/^VNE June morning, a Pewee Flycatcher was sitting on his 

 ^-^ favorite perch, the topmost twig of a dry tree surrounded 

 'by many green ones, in which swarmed countless winged in- 

 jects. He was taking his breakfast, and at the same time 

 enjoying the very finest of sport. If a gilded fly came within 

 range of his sharp eyes, he was snapped up by him in such an 

 !»rtistic manner that it seemed as if it must be almost delight- 

 ;ful to the victim. The Pewee would regard him for the frac- 

 tion of an instant ; and getting his direction, launch forth on a 

 t SUdden flight, at the speedy end of which there was one less 

 ■insect in that portion of the world lying outside the Pewee's 

 praw. It was a pretty sight to see him at his airy sport, rare- 

 ly missing moth or fly or little beetle— the blundering June 

 WUg he deigned not to pursue— and he well knew that he was 

 acquitting himself most creditably. 

 Happening to cast his glances toward the earth, he saw hop- 

 ig there a Robin, and watching hiB motions a little, pres- 

 ly saw him draw an earth-worm from among the grass- 

 and then another and another; while unheeded just 

 his head, fluttered a lusty miller, inviting capture, as it 

 ted to the Pewee. 

 I neighbor Robin," he cried, "why dost thou not come 

 among the branches, and have some sport worthy of 

 I, instead of grubbing the earth in such clodhopper fash- 

 ; or at least make a flight for that fat miller, which I see 

 mviting thee from above, almost within hopping distance?" 



"Nay," said the Robin, "I should get only hunger and more 

 of thy scoffs than now, if I were to attempt to get a break- 

 last out of the ah'. Every bird to his gifts. I And sport which 

 satisfies me in taking these fellows, for I assure thee, they 

 £ive me some lusty tugging. And," he added, as he swal- 

 lowed an angle-worm half as big as his own neck, "they are 

 very fat, and toothsome, and wholesome withal." 



MORAL. 



_ a thou fishest only for Trout and Salmon, despise not 

 7 humble brother of the angle who findeth pleasure in tak- 

 iven go mean a fish as the Bullhead, 



A MATTER OF SENTIMENT. 

 TT appears that quail are very plentiful in the vicinity of 

 -*- Monroe, North Carolina. They are there caught in traps, 

 taken into town and sold, their necks wrung, and the birds 

 served up on the table. We are in receipt of a letter from 

 Monroe, in which the writer, after stating these facts, asks 

 why it is not perfectly proper for him to buy these birds and 

 trap-shoot them. "To buy the quail, " he says, "which the 

 epicure would otherwise have bought, and to give them a 

 chance to escape from the trap, is, I think, much more com- 

 mendable than to pull off their heads in some back yard. 

 The only difference that I can see is that I love sport, and so 

 trap-shoot them; the epicure cares only to gratify his appe- 

 tite." Our correspondent appears to be perfectly sincere, 

 and he asks us to pass on the question of ethics involved in 

 his statement of the case. 



Life is short; and we are disposed to believe that in the 

 three score years and ten allotted to the race, there is not 

 much time to be spent in discussing the merits and demerits 

 of the trap-shooting of quail. In this case, we conceive, it 

 is a matter of sentiment. If our friend lacks the innate 

 feeling which should forbid him to trap-shoot "Bob White" 

 no amount of coldest logic or most impassioned argument 

 could instil it into his heart. We shall not attempt the fruit- 

 less .task. 



THE LONDON FISHERY EXHIBITION. 

 TT is now certain that the Prince of Wales and those man- 

 aging the International Fisheries Exhibition, to be held in 

 London in 1883, have begun to make an effort to have the 

 United States represented at it. England did not make a 

 creditable display at the German Exhibition, because the 

 government took no part in it, but no one doubts that the im- 

 mense fishery resources of Great Britain would, if properly 

 represented, make a display, that would be difficult to excel. 

 Germany made a fine display, and the fishery interests of that 

 country are small in comparison to those of England. 



These exhibitions are productive of great good to all na- 

 tions taking part in them. The participants not only see and 

 learn methods of capture, implements, culture, curing, and 

 preservation, and gather information on the building and 

 rigging of boats, life-saving appliances, and the thousand 

 things that are intimately connected with fish, fishing, and 

 fishermen, but they also serve to open a market for fishery 

 products, salted, dried, smoked, preserved in oil or by other 

 modes, canned, etc. 



Mr. Lowell, the American Minister, has transmitted a for- 

 mal invitation to our government to take part in the exhibi- 

 tion, and the Secretary of State has laid it before Professor 

 Baird, U. S. Fish Commissioner, who has prepared a letter 

 of acceptance, provided that Congress shall order such action 



and make an appropriation of $50,000 to defray the neces- 

 sary expenses attendant upon a full and fair presentation of 

 the subject in models, specimens, and the apparatus which 

 are employed in our various fishing enterprises. The Presi- 

 dent will soon lay the matter before Congress. 



Should Congress approve this, the display would no doubt 

 be much more complete and exhaustive than that made by 

 our country at Berlin, where but six weeks elapsed between 

 the passing of the appropriation and the shipment of the ex- 

 hibit. Also, the experience gained by Professor Goode at 

 Berlin would enable him to know exactly how to arrange 

 and display his collection in the best possible manner, and 

 would greatly facilitate the better presentation of the pro- 

 gress made in the mechanical methods of our fishing indus- 

 tries and the preparation of their food products during the 

 last decade. 



Mr. Page and the Fish Commission. —In our biography 

 of Mr. George Shepard Page, President of the American Fish- 

 cultural Association, in our issue of April 13, we stated that 

 he was made chairman of a committee to present a memorial 

 to Congress asking for an appropriation to erect a salmon 

 hatchery on the Pacific coast, etc., and that he asked for an 

 appropriation of $10,000 and received $15,000, and that 

 Professor Baird was then made Fish Commissioner. We 

 wrote this hurriedly, without consulting the records, as the 

 above statement seems to have been the prevalent impres- 

 sion. On looking over the records we find that what we 

 said is only true in part. He did introduce the resolution, 

 which did not pass. Prof. Baird, who was appointed Com- 

 missioner Feb. 25, 1871 (not 1872, as we stated), afterward 

 induced the Appropriation Committee to make the first ap- 

 propriation of $15,000. The Fish Commission was not cre- 

 ated for the purpose of fishculture, but to investigate the 

 condition of the fisheries, especially the marine fisheries. 

 We make this correction in order not to mislead future his- 

 torians, as the value of such things lies entirely in their cor- 

 rectness. 



The Tile Fish and its Mouth,— In our first article on 

 the dead fish which were so plentiful in the ocean, we made 

 a curious and absurd mistake concerning the tile fish. We 

 spoke of it as "a flat fish whose mouth is too small to admit 

 the hook, and which was first brought to light by the dredges 

 of the U. S. Fish Commission. " We had in mind at the 

 time a totally different fish. The tile fish, although a bottom 

 fish, is not flat, and its mouth is quite large. 



We were once abused by the editor of a daily paper for 

 printing in a winter number of the Forest and Stream a 

 sketch of summer sport. Our critic, it is needless to say, 

 was not a sportsman, and so could not appreciate the pleas- 

 ure of living over again in memory the shooting expeditions 

 of other days. This hint is given to prevent any captious 

 criticisms of the publication in to-day's paper of an October 

 shooting sketch. 



From the Bench to the Boards.— The St. Bernard dog 

 Bayard, Jr., exhibited at the late New York bench show by Mr. 

 A. W. Pope of Boston, has been sold to J. K. Emmet, the 

 actor, the price paid, we understand, being $2,500. Mr. 

 Emmet ("Fritz") will train the dog for the stage. 



The Text of the Montana Game law is given on another 

 page. As we have already announced, a game league is now 

 forming which will make a vigorous effort to render the pro- 

 visions of the new law effective. There is urgent need of 

 like action in adjoining Territories. 



The Black Bass eor Scotland.— Mr. George Shepard 

 Page sends us a cablegram announcing his arrival with the 

 live black bass which were sent by Mr. E. G. Blackford, and 

 are to be presented to the Duke of Sutherland at the close of 

 the Edinburgh Fisheries Exhibition. 



That Cannery.— The proposed North Carolina wildfowl 

 cannery will not be established. Our New Haven contem- 

 porary, the PacJcers' World, announces a determination to 

 oppose it. That settles it. 



"Doggy."— This word is used quite commonly m England; 

 and we have observed a tendency to adopt it in this country. 

 It has absolutely nothing to recommend it. The plain word 

 "dog" answers every purpose, and is a much better word in 

 every way. 



"Ground Hog Day."— Some of our friends down in Hill's 

 Hole, on the Sheep Horn, want to know when Ground Hog 

 Day is? We find a difference of opinion; and have decided 

 to take testimony. Who can tell? 



