Forest and Stream 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



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NEW YORK, JULY 27, 1882. 



1 VOL. XVTTT.-No. 86. 



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



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 

 Enlargement. 

 Amateur Photography. 



Forest and Stream r'aoles. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



Camps of the Kingfishers. 



Tim Pond and tne beven Ponds. 

 Natural, Historv. 



Monsters of White River, Ark. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



A Summer's Rambling in Colo. 



trairie Chicken i J rospdcts. 



Old Eagle-Head's .Sepulcnre. 



Outfitting lor the Bucks. 



Ontario Uame Interests. 



The Bears Again. 

 Camp Fire Flick.erings. 

 Sba and kiv&r Fishing. 



Trout Flies Dictated by Religion 

 and Music. 



An Ower True Tale. 



With Hackles and Gentles. 



Southern Fish .Notes. 



Some Fish Stories. 



The English Fly Casting. 



Light vs. Heavy Rods. 



FlSHCULTURE. 



Accident to the Current Wheel. 

 Edinburgh Fisheries Exhibition 

 Canadian Reports. 



The Kennel. 



Transportation of Bogs to the 

 Trials. 



Gordons and Black and Tans. 



A Standard for the Gordon. 



Chorea. 



The First Point. 



Lady Dufferin. 



Pennsylvania Woodcock Shoot. 



The Color of Bu'ldogs. 



Kennel Management. 



Kennel Notes. 

 Ri* kE and Trap Shooting. 



One View of the Match. 



Western Rule Association. 

 Yachting and Canoeing. 



Fixtures. 



The Repudiated Cup. 



Give them the Chance. 



Combination Row and Sail Boats 



The Cutters and their Victims. 



New York Y. C. 



Bf verly Y. C— July 15. 



Hull Y. C. 



Why Not Ask Her to Fly? 



The Clipper's Third. 



CenterDoards for Canoes. 



The Cutters Sweep the Lakes. 



New York Canoe Club— July 22. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



ENLARGEMENT. 



T>EGINNING with the issue of August 3, that being th} 



first number of the Nineteenth "Volume, the Forest and 



Stream will be permanently enlarged to twenty-eight pages. 



This increase in size is rendered necessary by the constant 

 growth of the several departments of the paper and the con- 

 sequent demand of each for more space. 



The field filled by the Forest and Stream is a broad one. 

 The paper has taken a firm hold upon the sympathies of an 

 ever-widening constituency. The hearty support with which 

 they have been favored by the public warrants the publish- 

 ers in assuming the added expenses involved in the change 

 from twenty-four to twenty-eight pages. As the same 

 principles that have guided the paper in the past and won 

 for it its present position will be adhered to, it is not un- 

 reasonable to trust that they may receive a commensurate 

 support in the future. The favor in which the Forest and 

 Stream is held by its many thousands of intelligent 

 readers is the most satisfactory indorsement of its course 

 and the best possible guarantee of its continued prosperity. 



With added facilities the editors hope to make not only a 

 larger, but also a better paper. 



AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHY. 



A MOST valuable addition recently made to the outfit of 

 the sportsman tourist is the portable amateur photograph 

 camera. There are several styles of this instrument by dif- 

 ferent makers. We have seen excellent work done with 

 each, having inspected a large number of photographs made 

 by amateurs. Mr. Steele's books, "Canoe and Camera" 

 and "Paddle and Portage," were illustrated with drawings 

 from photographs which the author took in the Maine wil- 

 derness with one of these instruments. Mr. Ober brought 

 back from the Tropics a number of pictures made with the 

 same instrument. "Yo" returned from British Columbia 

 with a box full of negatives of snow-capped peaks and 

 glaciers, from which very fair photographs have since been 

 developed. In addition to these we have inspected a num- 

 ber of views taken by other parties, among them an Adi- 

 rondack camp scene by Dr. Stetson, and a New Jersey hunt- 

 ing scene by our well-known contributor, "Fairchild, Jr." 



With one of these outfits the amateur may secure a great 

 variety of views, picturesque landscapes, the camp and its 

 surroundings, groups of field companions, dogs on point, 

 the bag of game or string of fish, the canoe and its crew, 

 the yacht — and, in short, a thousand and one subjects, 

 which will ever after call up pleasant recollections of by- 

 gone days. 



The manipulation of the photographic camera requires 

 some care, and experience is necessary before really satis- 

 factory results can be obtained. The operation of picture- 

 taking is very simple. By the ' 'dry process" the plates are 

 prepared ready for immediate use, and stored in the dark 

 box. All that the operator need do is to adjust the focus of 

 the camera, and by touching a button drop the plate into 

 position. The part of the process requiring the most judg- 

 ment and care is to determine the length of time of the 

 exposure of the plate. This depends upon the intensity 

 of the light, and upon the sensitiveness of the plate itself. 

 After a short experience the knack is acquired, and to take 

 a picture comes as easy as to cast a fly or bring down a bird 

 on the wing. 



The developing of the pictures after they have been taken 

 is very simple, but the comprehension of the method and 

 of the processes to be gone through with is rendered much 

 easier if one can obtain the assistance of a professional pho- 

 tographer in developing the first few plates. The eye ap- 

 prehends at once what is to be done, but it is not always 

 easy to convey the necessary instructions through the ear. 

 Therefore if you can see a few plates developed by some 

 one who is familiar with such work, by all means do so, and 

 spare yourself some annoyance, perhaps some irritating fail- 

 ures. 



The cost of the apparatus is very moderate, insignifi- 

 cant when compared with the pleasure afforded. We 

 hear of an increasing number of the outfits now in use, 

 and a general expression of satisfaction by those using 

 them. 



Work with the camera affords a novel and pleasant varia- 

 tion in the usual round of camp occupations, and aside from 

 the actual "trophies of the chase," there can be no more 

 valued souvenirs of a recreation trip than the photographs 

 made with one's own hands. 



Dog Larceny in Ohio. — An important decision was 

 rendered by Judge Tilden in the Probate Court, Cleveland, 

 Ohio, July 17, who held that stealing a dog is larceny under 

 the laws of that Srate. The written decision is a lucid state- 

 ment of the law and,-we may add, the common sense of the 

 case, and its importance to owners of valuable dogs in Ohio 

 cannot be overestimated. The full text of the, court's de- 

 cision will be given in our next issue. 



Game Xotes.— We shall be glad to have game notes from 

 various parts of the country, telling of the prospects for 

 sport in the coining season. Details as to localities, routes, 

 accommodations, etc., are valued by those who are seeking 

 for such information to guide them in their brief vacation. 



Dogs to be Deadheaded.— We are much pleased to note 

 that the officials of the railroads are so courteously agreeing 

 to remit charges on the dogs which go to the North Caro- 

 lina field trials. This is quite in keeping with the intelli- 

 gently liberal policy pursued by many of the railroads 

 toward sportsmen. We can remember the time when 

 the annoyances attending the conveyance of a large number 

 of dogs to a given point by rail would have proved almost 

 insuperable obstacles to such an enterprise as our modern 

 field trial has grown to be. The new order of things is 

 much better, and if there is still fault to be found with some 

 roads the cause of the' trouble will, in most cases, be found 

 to lie not with the rules of the road, but with the abuse or 

 neglect of these rules by subordinates. Patience and an 

 appeal to the proper officials will, in most cases, provide a 

 remedy for the wrong sustained or prevent its repetition. 



Useful Suggestion. — A correspondent thinks that it 

 would be a good plan to increase the panther supply to scare 

 donkeys out of the woods. Perhaps a few stuffed house 

 cats, conspicuously set up in the trees, would do as well. 

 Or a steam whistle might be rigged up to scream like a 

 panther; that would protect the woods for five miles around. 

 If the steam panther fails, a small New York newsboy 

 might be substituted. He would scare a "true sportsman." 



The Warwick Woodlands.— The famous "Warwick 

 Woodlands," as they appear to-day, are pleasantly described 

 in a paper by Mi-. Harrison W. Nanny, which is now in type 

 and will be printed in our next issue. Many changes have 

 been wrought in the country described by "Frank Forester," 

 but the famous landscapes of Orange county still remain, 

 and the "Woodlands" are well worth a visit. They are 

 easily accessible by th? Erie Railway. The game has not 

 disappeared from Orange county. Of late years, spurred to 

 action by the gunners from the city, who overran the 

 country at all seasons and shot everj thing from "chippies" 

 up to barnyard fowl, the citizens set about enforcing the 

 game law, and the result is that in some places the game 

 supply has largely increased. We visited a favorite locality 

 last week, not quite within the borders of the "Woodlands," 

 and found the prospects for November very promising. 



Maine Routes. — Taking it all together, first and last, 

 there has been a good deal of disputing in these columns 

 about the preferable routes to certain resorts in Maine. It 

 may be that the interest in this matter is sufficiently wide to 

 justify the extended discourses indulged in by the champions 

 of the various lines, but we beg to suggest that there may be 

 too much, even of a very good thing, and it might be well 

 to wind this up before the letters exceed in length the routes 

 themselves. We hope that an army of tourists may visit 

 Maine this year large enough to keep the grass from grow- 

 ing on any of the routes, and to fill all the camps and the 

 pockets of their proprietors. Those who go one way this 

 year can go another way next ; then they will be sure to 

 have gone the right way once — perhaps twice— or, it may 

 be, not at all. And then everybody will be contented and 

 happy. _^__________ 



. Judicious Advertising is Bound to Pat. — The firms 

 who have occupied positions in our pages for the past eight 

 years continuously say that advertising in the Forest and 

 Stream pays. The circulation of this paper, always large, 

 is this year greater than ever before. Advertisers who em- 

 ploy it as a medium bring their goods to the notice of a 

 liberal class of purchasers of necessities and luxuries. There 

 is no paper of any class that yields better returns to its 

 advertisers than does the Forest and Stream. 



The Bass for the Pacific— Our correspondent, Mr. G. 

 H. Wild, writes that the bass now on their way to the Pa- 

 cific Slope are being transported with success. Much credit 

 is due those in charge, Messrs. J. G. Woodbury and W. L. 

 Marks, as they have lost but fourteen of the small bass be- 

 tween Red Bank, N. J., and the Mississippi River, Later — 

 Just as we go to press we have received a telegram from Mr, 

 Wild, dated July 26, which says: "Woodbury arrived at 

 San Francisco with 300 live bass in good condition." 



Deferred.— We are obliged to defer until our next issue 

 several communications which properly should have ap- 

 peared this week. Correspondents favoring us with news 

 notes, reports of club meetings, etc., will greatly oblige by 

 sending such matters in as promptly as may be practicable. 

 Owing to the large editions which we are printing each 

 week it is necessary to go to press early, in order that sub- 

 scribers may receive their papers on time. 



FOREST AND STREAM FABLES. 

 VDX— THE SOCIETY OF PERCH FOR THE PROTECTION OF MINNOWS. 



\TTHEN the Perch saw. as they did after a little, that their 

 VV Society for the Protection of Minnows was not protect- 

 ing the minnow, they petitioned the King of Fishes to make a 

 law which should do so. So the King, after advising with his 

 privy council, decreed that there should be no ininnows taken 

 except on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. This at first 

 seemed very satisfactory to all the fishes but the Minnows, 

 who would rather not be taken on any day, but their wishes 

 were not considered. After a time, however, the Perch be- 

 gan to complain that from Friday till Monday was too long 

 to be deprived of the pleasure of taking Minnows; the Bass 

 that they would rather have them on Sundays, Tuesdays, 

 Thursdays and Saturdays, and the Pike maintained that they 

 being such hungry fellows, should be permitted to take a few 

 on every day of the week. Then presently each class of 

 fishes began to be a la v unto itself, setting at naught the 

 King's law, ancl the poor Minnows were harried by Perch, 

 Bass and Pike from one end of the week to the other, and 

 were no better off than when nothing had been done to save 

 them. Moral. 



The honest sportsman abides by the laws, though they 

 be not exactly as he would have them. 



