Forest and Stream. 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



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NEW YORK, JULY 20, 1882. 



j VOL. XVTIT.-No. 25. 



I Nos. 39 & 40 Park Row, New York. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. . 



The Open Seasons. 



Adirondack Survey Notes. 



Frederick Darwin Sherwood. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



"Hamak" or "Hammock." 



To the Jordan. 



Camps of the Kingfishers. 



Camp Fire in the Great Swamp. 

 Natural Historv. 



Mimicry as a Protection. 



Summer Notes from NovaScotia 

 Camp Fire Flickerings. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



The Land of the Sky. 



Forest and Stream Schedule"A" 



Forest and Stream Schedule"B" 



The Man Began the War. 



Fresh- Water Clams. 



Game Protection for the People. 



The Philadelphia Poachers. 



The Adirondack Doe Slaughter. 



The Indiana Outlook. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



Bass Fishing on the Potomac. 



We3t Virginia Trout Streams. 



Sea and River Fishing. 



The Richardson Lakes Region. 

 Fishculture. 



The American Fishcultural As- 

 sociation. 



History of the Sword-Fish. 

 The Kennel. 



A Roanoke 'Coon Hunt. 



V. H. C. 



Tweed II. 



TbeAlexandra Park Collie Trials 



"What is a Cocker?" 

 Rifle and Traf Shooting. 



Minnesota State Tournament. 

 Yachting and Canoeing. 



Seawanhaka Y. C. 



Chicago Y. C. 



Beverly Y. C— June 8. 



Maggie and Hesper. 



Keel, Lead and Depth Win at 

 Oswego. 



Royal Nova Scotia Y. S. 



Reform Movement on the Lakes 



Sbferpies. 



Cutters. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



THE OPEN SEASONS. 



ON another page will be found a carefully collated sched- 

 ule of the open seasons for game and fish. The data 

 there given are very comprehensive, and the two schedules 

 give all the essential points of the several laws as they now 

 stand on the statute books. 



Much time has been devoted to the preparation of these 

 lists and great care has been exercised to insure their cor- 

 rectness. While it would be hazardous to assert that no one 

 of the thousand dates maybe erroneously given, it is believed 

 that the schedule is as psrfect in respect to its freedom from 

 error as it is in its comprehensiveness. 



The data relating to New Brunswick, Ontario, Tennessee 

 and Virginia are given provisionally. 



Few persons, who may not themselves have had occasion 

 to loak up tb.2 game law3 of different States, can understand 

 the difficult nature of such a task as is the compilation of a 

 complete game law schedule. There are, to begin with, 

 fifty-one different States, etc., which have, or have had, 

 game laws; and then in each State several different seasons 

 are designated, with exceptions and exceptions to the excep- 

 tions, in indefinite number. In the absence of any reliable 

 compendium of the laws, we have been obliged to apply to 

 reliable authorities in the several States; and we take this 

 occasion to express our acknowledgments to the gentlemen 

 who have so courteously rendered us their invaluable assist- 

 ance. 



The game laws as a ride are cumbersome, and very often 

 they are exceedingly ambiguous. If more concise they 

 would be better understood. There is in the wording of 

 many of them a woeful disregard of the ordinarily accepted 

 rules of English grammar. In construction and punctua- 

 tion some of them are models of inaccuracy and shiftless- 

 ncss. It is to be hoped that in the annual revisions of the 

 statutes more attention may be given to precision and 

 simplicity of statement. 



The provisions of the game law should be so plainly worded 

 that the dullest comprehension may grasp their meaning. 

 The class which offends most against these statutes is an 

 illiterate one, and their plea of ignorance of what the law 

 means may in many instances be well sustained. 



In rending the tabic of open seasons it will be observed 

 that the terms pheasant and partridge are nowhere em- 

 ployed, the names ruffed grouse and quail being substituted 



for them. In New England and New York the word part- 

 ridge is almost invariably used to denote the ruffed grouse 

 (Bonasa umhellus), but in Pennsylvania and Southern States, 

 as well as in some parts of the West, especially Minnesota 

 and Iowa, a ruffed grouse is always a pheasant. Through- 

 out the northern sections of the country the word quail is 

 everywhere applied to Ortyx mrginimtus, but in Mar3'land, 

 Delaware and to the southward, the bird changes its name, 

 and becomes a partridge. These local designations are now 

 so firmly established that it is scarcely worth while to at- 

 tempt the impossible task of bringing into use a uniform 

 style of nomenclature for the whole country. As a matter 

 of course the laws of the various sections are couched in 

 such terms as may be supposed to be most intelligible to the 

 residents of these sections, and therefore local terms are al- 

 ways employed, in order that there may be no misunder- 

 standing of the statutes. Thus in the laws of some of the 

 States and Territories the same species is called by several 

 different names. Often, too, a general term is employed 

 which will cover several species; as for example when a law 

 protects "sage cocks, hens or chickens, and grouse," we 

 may understand that in certain ssctions of the Rocky Moun- 

 tains this simple clause protects the sage, dusky, ruffed 

 and sharptail grouse and the whitetail ptarmigan. 



The substitution of the term prairie chicken for pinnated 

 grouse is so common throughout the whole country, that it 

 need scarcely be alluded to, but it is perhaps not so well 

 known that in different sections the sharptail grouse {Pediw- 

 cates phasianettas, columbianus) bears the names grouse, (to 

 distinguish it from Cupidonia capido) white belly, white 

 breast, sprigtail, sharptail, pintail and willow grouse. The 

 term curlew is usually employed to designate the long-billed 

 curlew, the most important species of the group, but it is 

 a generic term which covers our three well-known species. 



There are a numbe. of other localisms which might be 

 alluded to, but they have for the most part a very limited 

 application. 



In the schedule of fish seasons, the term "California trout" 

 is the designation adopted in the text of the law for the rain- 

 bow trout, the latter being the more correct name of the 

 two. The terms "Jack (or white) salmon" in West Virginia, 

 and "wall-eyed" pike in Illinois, Iowa and Vermont are 

 localisms for pike-perch. "Longe" or "lunge" in Vermont, 

 "togue" in Maine, and "salmon trout" in several States, are 

 local names for the lake trout. 



The Forest and Stream is prepared to furnish readers 

 at all times with further information upon any specific point 

 in the game laws. 



The Wimbledon Meeting. — The meeting of riflemen 

 from all parts of the Kingdom at the great London range has 

 been shorn somewhat of its prominence by the doings of the 

 English men of arms in Egypt; yet it is well attended and 

 promises to be a success. The composition of the team 

 which is to visit America will be pretty well determined at 

 this meeting. While our English friends are gathering men 

 and money for this battle, there appears to be a very great 

 lukewarmness on the part of our managers here. There is 

 a great deal of reporting ' 'progress, " but whatever progress 

 there may be is of a sort invisible to the common eye. Yet 

 the marksmen who made victory out of nothing in 1874 are 

 not likely to disappoint us in 1882. What the feeling is may 

 be seen in an interview had with Gen. Wingate, and which 

 is published in another column. 



Association of the Carollnas. — A number of gentle- 

 men met at Asheville, N. C. , Fourth of July week, and 

 formed "The Sportsmen's Association of the Carolinas." 

 It is their purpose to have an annual summer reunion at some 

 point in the mountain region where they may enjoy the mag- 

 nificent scenery, renew their youth in the invigorating moun- 

 tain air, and contend in "generous rivalry" in marksman- 

 ship. Our correspondent, "Wells," was present at the Ashe- 

 ville meeting, and was chosen President of the association, 

 a fitting appointment, upon which we felicitate the recipient 

 of the compliment and those who conferred it upon him. 

 The description of the "Land of the Sky," given by "Wells," 

 is an enticing one. With such surroundings we cannot see 

 how the reunions of the Carolina sportsmen can be other 

 than most delightful gatherings. 



Death of Lewis H. Redfleld.— Lewis H. Redfield died 

 at Syracuse July 13, at the age of eighty-eight years. The 

 son of a Revolutionary soldier, Mr. Redfield was born in the 

 last year of Washington's first Presidential term, and con- 

 sequently had lived under the administrations of all the 

 Presidents, and was, as he once said, "almost as old as the 

 constitutional government of our country." He began his 

 newspaper work in 1812. and he had for a long time previous 

 to his death been recognized as the veteran editor of this 

 State, if not of America. The last years of his life were 

 spent in honored retirement at his home in Syracuse. Mr. 

 Redfield's taste for field sports were well known; our col- 

 umns have in years past been enriched by contributions 

 from his pen; and it was only last summer, if we mistake 

 not, that we chronicled his going on an angling excursion 

 to the Adirondacks. 



Webster in the Field.— As field and camp customs 

 went in those days, we should hardly look for a tribute to 

 Webster's temperate habits to come from one of the great 

 statesman's hunting comrades; yet such evidence has been 

 recently adduced as given by the late Mr. Chester Harding, 

 the well-known artist of Boston. Mr. Harding was one of 

 Webster's camp cronies. Some years after the latter's death, 

 having been asked as to the truth of the stories circulated 

 about Webster's habits, "False, sir! false!" rejoinedHarding. 

 "I knew Webster for over twenty years. I have fished with 

 him, I have shot with him; we have camped together; I was 

 intimate with him at Washington ; my daughters have vis- 

 ited his daughter Julia; and, sir, I never at any time saw 

 Webster the worse for liquor." 



Lump Fish. — There is a saltwater fish (Cycloptenis lumpus) 

 known as the lump fish, lump sucker, sea owl, cock paddle, 

 etc., which is not eaten on our coast. It is a singular look- 

 ing fish, and is jelly-like in the consistence of its flesh. We 

 suggested its possibilities to the head caterer of the Ichthyo- 

 phagous Club, but even he dared not test it, and laughed us 

 to scorn for thinking that it could be made into a marine 

 calves-foot jelly. We would now call attention to the fact 

 that at the International Fisheries Exhibition, at Edinburgh, 

 a diploma "for dried fish and smoked lump sucker" was - 

 given to A. Hendrickson, Borstahusen, Skania. Now if 

 this fi^h has consistence sufficient to stand smoking, it is firm 

 enough to eat in other ways. Anyway, it is interesting to 

 know that it is a recognized article of food in Sweden. 



West Virginia Brush Fishers.— Our correspondent 

 "Jack" complains of the mysterious disappearance of trout 

 from West Virginia streams, where only a season before 

 there had been abundance of them. Perhaps the letter 

 which follows his own in another column may throw some 

 light on the subject. The brush-fisher is a specimen of 

 animated nature of which we should like to have a fuller 

 description. 



Anent Alexandria. — The editors of about nine thousand 

 of our respected and esteemed contemporaries, from Park 

 Row to Podunk, sat down after the bombardment, the other 

 day, and wrote leading editorials telling Queen Victoria and 

 Admiral Seymour how they would have done if they had 

 only been there. It's a great pity some of them were not 

 there — on the Egyptian side. 



Adirondack Doe Killing. — A correspondent writing 

 from the Adirondacks signifies his readiness to give to the 

 officers of the State Association for the Protection of Fish 

 and Game evidence which will convict the perpetrators of 

 the outrages mentioned in his letter. It is to be hoped that 

 this offer will lead to the prosecution of the parties. 



Mosquitoes and Black Flies.— The following prepara- 

 tions are recommendbd as lotions for the face and hands to 

 ward off the insscts : 1. Equal portions of purified tar and 

 salt butter. The tar may be obtained at a drug store. 2. One 

 ounce oil of wormwood, with one pint olive oil. 



President Arthur has not forgotten how to cast the 

 fly. His success with the Potomac bass is told by our cor- 

 respondent "Ivanhoe." Senator Wade Hampton is credited 

 with a big score, all caught with the fly, while Senator Vest 

 used a minnow, and Senators Jones and Cameron dangled 

 the worm. 



Quatl in Vekmont.— Our Ferrisburg, Vt., correspondent, 

 "Awahsoose," writes, under date of July 14: "One of my 

 neighbors is sure that he heard a common quail near his 

 house one morning. If so, it is the first that has been heard 

 here in forty years." 



Gordon Setters.— We have in type for our nest issus 

 some very interesting correspondence on this subject. 



