Forest and Stream. 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



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NEW YORK, MAY 18, 1882. 



j VOL. XYIH.— No. 16. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



Game Protection, Public and 

 Private. 



The Delegate from Wild Rose 

 Point. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



To the Sportsman. 

 fi Bob,the Angler of the Schoodics. 



Oregon Hill and Ansleys. 



Some Wisconsin Resorts. 

 Natural History. 



Spring Notes. 



The American Association. 



Scale Insects on Orange Trees. 



is I ■■;■ ,' in;' ' 'j v. 



New Yucatan Bird. 

 Odd Nesting Places. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 

 Gossip from a '49-er. 

 Sketches from tho Ah. 

 An Aerial Chase. 

 Major Joseph Verity. 

 Fables and Fabulists. 

 Woodcock in Columbia County. 

 A Day in the Woods Alone. 

 A Trip to Nova Scotia. 

 Ruffed Grouse in Maine. 



Sea and River Fishing. 



Where to Go for Trout. 



The Ichthyophagi. 



Fishing in Mmnetonka. 



Angling in the Adiroudacks. 



Eyesight of Trout. 



Rainbow Trout. 

 Fishculture. 



American Fishcultural Associa- 

 tion. 



Winter Haddock Fishery of New 

 England. 

 The Kennel. 



Eastern Field Trials. 



Cleveland Bench Show. 



Prince Taxis. 



The Boston Bench Show. 

 Rifce and Traf Shooting. 



Funds for International Match. 



Matches and Meetings. 

 Yachting and Canoeing. 



Measurement in General. 



Cutters. 



Delaware Yachting. 



Buffalo Yacht Club. 



Length Measurement. 



Dead Rise in Canoes. 



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GAME PROTECTION, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE. 



f~PHE Legislatures of many of the States have eitherfinally 

 -"- adjourned, or may be shortly expected to do so, and it 

 ■will be in order to look over the ground and see how far the 

 game laws have been improved. "We have before expressed 

 it as our opinion that these acts in many of the States are very 

 well as they are, and only require to be rigidly enforced to 

 be productive of great good. It is clear enough that the best 

 laws in the world will do nothing for the protection of game 

 Unless some vigorous organized and united effort is made by 

 those interested, to see that these provisions are carried out. 

 There are a few— sorry we are to say that they are so few — 

 societies which work hard for the enforcement of the law, 

 and a large number of enthusiastic gentlemen who do what 

 they can. But individual effort can never have the force of 

 concerted action, and the public at large do not as yet see the 

 vital importance of encouraging by every means in their 

 power the protection of game. 



If, however, each man, who believes that the laws regu- 

 lating the killing of game and fish should be enforced, will 

 endeavor to use his influence to encourage respect for the 

 laws and to instruct his neighbors in them, a great deal 

 of good may quietly be accomplished. A considerable 

 portion of the illegal pursuit of game is the act of persons 

 who really do not know that they are doing what is wrong, 

 and into such people, if approached with tact, and talked 

 to in the right way, a wholesome respect for the statutes 

 may be instilled. There is an old and true saying to the 

 effect that "you can catch more flies with molasses than you 

 can with vinegar," and many a man can be deterred from 

 shooting out of season by a little quiet reasoning and persu- 

 asion, who would only be strengthened in his defiance of the 

 law, if threats of prosecution were used against him. Such 

 men can often be lead, but will not be driven. The story of 

 a few years' quiet work of this kind is told to-day by a cor- 

 respondent in another column, and the success which has 

 crowned his labors ought to be an encouragement to each of 



us to do what we can toward preaching the gospel of game 

 protection, and thus securing additional recruits to work for 

 the cause. 



If each man who reads "Juniata's" experience will try in 

 a quiet, unostentatious way to act on the plan there laid 

 down, we are persuaded that good results would follow. 

 Of course there are individuals who are amenable only to 

 the reasoning of force, who refuse to acknowledge the 

 weight of any argument that is not enforced by the per- 

 suasion, of a club, but the average man, be his station in life 

 what it may, can usually be coaxed and pushed, in a direction 

 which he does not wish to follow, faster and further than he 

 can be driven. 



So we urge all our friends, and especially those who 

 reside in the country and in neighborhoods where game is 

 to be found, to use their personal influence with those of 

 their neighbors who shoot and fish, and by argument and 

 persuasion endeavor to elevate the standard of morality in 

 regard to obedience to the game laws. There is no man so 

 dull as not to be interested in the operations of nature which 

 are going on about him, nor any who, if he can be induced 

 to talk on the subject, will not have some observation of his 

 own to detail to an attentive listener, and by encouragin^ 

 this interest in the workings of nature, a real affection and an 

 active care for the live creatures of the woods and fields 

 may be brought into being, which will make the interested 

 man go out of his way to protect them. Often a little push 

 in the right direction is all that is needed to turn a law- 

 breaker into an unpaid but active game protector. 



It is the duty, as it should be the pleasure, of the readers 

 of Forest and Stream to do what they can to educate their 

 neighbors, and thus the general public, up to the plane which 

 they occupy. They are already a power in the land, but 

 they should be even more so than at present. Let every one 

 of them do his part and a public sentiment will soon be 

 formed which will do more to restock our covers than all the 

 game laws that have ever been passed. 



THE DELEGATE EROM WILD ROSE POINT. 

 T OVELY among the waters of Central New York lies 

 -L / Otsego Lake in its setting of lofty hillsides. Charming 

 associations cluster about the beautiful lake. Its shores are 

 classic ground. Here lived and wrote James Fenimore 

 Cooper, and many of the scenes of his novels were laid here. 

 The lake and its vicinity Were once peopled by the creations 

 of his genius. Conspicuous among them all roved and 

 hunted kindly, simple-hearted, brave, honest old Natty 

 Bumppo. Who is not familiar with the life of this true- 

 souled son of nature, the Deerslayer, Hawkeye, Leather- 

 stocking and Pathfinder? And who has not admired the 

 high principles of the woodman, provident of nature's store 

 of game, rich in woodcraft and considerate of nature's 

 laws? 



The sportsman of to-day who hunts through the cover and 

 open once haunted by Natty Bumppo must of need imbibe 

 something of the spirit of the old craftsman, and sharing 

 his sentiments looks upon nature and nature's ways as he 

 looked upon them. 



Last March a convention of sportsmen assembled at 

 Albany to prepare a revision of the New York game law. 

 Many of the delegates to this convention were well known 

 and commanded the confidence of the public; if some of 

 the others were less known as sympathizers with the true 

 interests of game protection and sportsmanship, still no one 

 was disposed to doubt the propriety of their presence in the 

 convention nor their honesty of purpose in being there. 



Among these delegates, was a Mr. E. W. Thayer, from 

 Cooperstown, who ostensibly represented the sportsmen of 

 Otsego county. This gentleman happened to be a stranger 

 to us. But knowing the high character of the sportsmen of 

 Otsego county, and remembering that Cooperstown was on 

 the shore of Otsego Lake, the old hunting ground of Natty 

 Bumppo, it was to be taken for granted that the delegate 

 from such an historic spot would add his honest endeavor to 

 perfect the law for the protection of game. We therefore 

 looked to see Mr. Thayer take a prominent part in the meet- 

 ing. 



The delegate from Cooperstown was conspicuously active, 

 most decidedly so. He was, in short, clamorous in his de- 

 mands that the law of the State should be specially adjusted 

 to meet the peculiar requirements of Otsego county. The 

 convention agreed to fix the open season for ruffed grouse 

 beginning September first; but, cried Mr. Thayer, give us in 

 Otsego county the month of August too. Shut out the nets 

 from other waters of the State if you will, but, vociferated the 



delegate from Cooperstown, give us the privilege of using 

 gill nets in Otsego Lake in July and August. 



So strenuously did this Otsego county delegate contend 

 for these special exceptions in favor of his county, that we 

 were compelled to adopt one of two conclusions— either that 

 the interests of game protection in Otsego county were 

 strongly at variance with the same interests in all other 

 parts of the State, or else that the delegate from Coopers- 

 town did not represent those interests. 



Some investigation as to what and whom Mr. E. W. 

 Thayer did represent developed these facts: 



At Wild Rose Point (or Three Mile Point) on Otsego Lake 

 is a hotel, known as Thayer's Hotel. Mr. E. W. Thayer we 

 understand to be the landlord of the same. At the Albany 

 Convention this gentleman represented nobody save himself 

 ami the gang of pot-hunters who peddle their birds to him; 

 he was working in the interests of nothing but his own 

 kitchen and the pots on his range. In so far as he professed 

 to represent the interests of the sportsmen and of due game 

 protection in Otsego county, he was sailing under abomi- 

 nably false colors. 



The delegate from the Wild Bose Point Kitchen was 

 attempting, and not altogether unsuccessfully, to pidl the 

 wool over the eyes of the other members of the convention. 

 Mr. E. W. Thayer appeared at that convention for the sole 

 and only purpose of working the law so that he could serve 

 game birds to his guests in August. 



We are at a loss which to admire more, the impudence of 

 this delegate from his own hotel kitchen, demanding that 

 the State of New York should make an exception to its 

 general game law in favor of his kitchen pots, or the com- 

 placency of the convention and the committee which listened 

 to his brazen demands, and actually embodied them in the 

 draft of the proposed new law. 



Some little backbone is surely needed to withstand the sel- 

 fishness of such men as the delegate from Wild Rose Point. 

 It is to be remembered, too, that the sportsmen of Otsego 

 county have some interest in this matter. Their rights should 

 not be sent to pot in this manner. We hope that the sports- 

 men of Otsego county— and, for that matter, of every other 

 county in the State— will use their influence to have this ob- 

 noxious clause taken out of the proposed law, and thus save 

 some of the birds of Otsego county from the gang of ne'er- 

 do-wells who dispose of their spoils in midsummer to the 

 kitchen delegate from Wild Rose Point. 



The shooting of English snipe containing eggs in an ad 

 vanced state of development and of ducks already paired and 

 on their way to the breeding grounds is over for this season. 

 The slaughter of beach birds will go on, however, for a week 

 or two longer. For every female shot this spring, the stock 

 of birds to return to us in the autumn is reduced by half a 

 dozen. The short-sighted policy of keeping up the killing 

 as long as the birds remain with us is bringing about the 

 result which was to be expected, and the day is not very dis- 

 tant when the shooting for fowl and Wilson's snipe will be 

 practically confined to preserved land. The selfish prac- 

 tices of the sportsman of to-day will meet with legitimate 

 punishment, and those not interested in shooting clubs will 

 put away their guns for a long rest. In the meantime, the 

 best shooting grounds are being taken up, and the value of 

 membership in regular clubs is increasing. Hotel keepers 

 advocate the continuance of spring shooting as they do the 

 killing of ruffled grouse in August, andj sportmen's conven- 

 tions and Legislatures meekly accept the dictum of the Boni- 

 faces without a word of demur. And so it will go on until 

 our people take hold of the matter in earnest, and show by 

 their votes how they feel on this subject. It ought to inter- 

 est each one of those who reads these lines, and each one 

 ought to have something to say about it. Every man who 

 can influence a vote in the Legislature ought to speak up, 

 and in no faltering accents declare that spring shooting must 

 be stopped. 



Sale of Mrs. Van Slyck's.— Just as we go to press we 

 are informed of the sale of the Van Slyck property in Curri- 

 tuck county, North Carolina, to the Kitty Hawk Club. 



By an Unexpected Exigency of our "make up" this 

 week the answers to several correspondents are necessarily 

 deferred to next week. 



The Story of the three legal anglers told in our "Sports- 

 man Tourist" columns to-day is, the writer assures us, a true, 

 tale, 



