Forest and Stream 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



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NEW YORK, MARCH 6, 1884. 



f VOL. XXlI.-No. 6. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



Lawyers' Fees versus Cham- 

 pagne. 



Shotgun Philanthropy. 



The Boston Game Market. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



Between the Lakes.— vi. 



The Tenderfoot's First Deer. 

 Natural History, 



Woodland and Barren Ground 

 Caribou. 



Some Arizona Quail. 



Color of the Sea. 



Bird Notes. 

 c'amp-flre flickering9. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



New England Game Laws. 

 Z Our Detroit Letter. 



The Performance of Shotguns. 



Mucilage-Edged Wads. 



The Choice of Hunting Rifles. 



Tennessee Notes. 



The Squibob Bear Machine. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



Dowels and Ferrules. 



A Mascalonge. 



Hints and Wrinkles. 



Fishing and and Fishermen. 



A Domestic Trout Pond. 



Trouting on the Bigosh. 

 Fishculture. 



More German Trout Eggs. 



Eggs Shipped Abroard. 



English Trout in America, 



The Kennel. 



Washington Dog Show. 



New York Dog Show. 



Importation of Beagles. 



Beagles and Wildcats. 



Beagles for Foxes. 



Duke. 



Lice on Dogs. 



The National Stud Book. 



What Dogs Shall be Registered? 



Current Dog Stories. 



Kennel Management. 



Kennel Notes. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 



Science of Ride Shooting. 



Militia Shooting East and West. 



Range and Gallery. 



The Trap. 

 Canoeing. 



Rochester (N. Y.) C. C. 



Amateur Canoe. Building.— ix. 



Large versus Small Canoes. 



The Galley Fire. 

 Canoe and Camp Cookery. 



Canoe versus Sneakbox. 

 Yachting. 



The Rational View of It. 



The New England Y. A. 



A Fine Piece of Work. 



Mignonette, Cutter. 



A General Topic. 



Small Yachts in the Chicago 

 Y. C. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



Wlthits compact type and in its permanently enlarged form 

 of twenty-eight pages this journal furnishes each weelc a larger 

 amount of first-class matter relating to angling, shooting, the 

 kennel, and kindred subjects, than is contained in all other 

 American publications put together. 



LAWYERS' FEES VERSUS CHAMPAGNE. 

 TT IS an old story, repeated year after year. A garn e 

 *- protective society is established; and enters with won- 

 derful vim and zeal upon the momentous work of protecting 

 the game. After a little while it gets tired and fizzles out. 

 The active work is left for two or three of the most enthusi- 

 astic members. The rest do the talking. And they do a 

 great deal of it. Talk is cheap. We know men who will 

 talk game protection by the hour, day or week. Then they 

 go into the field or the woods and kill all they can. We 

 could name individuals who talk game protection so earn- 

 estly at home that they have completely exhausted their 

 feeling on the subject by the time they get a chance at big 

 game out of season. 



Game protection talk involves semi-occasional meetings of 

 the society. These in turn call for a copious flow of cham- 

 pagne of approved brands. The champagne is usually ac- 

 companied by a flood of genuine eloquence. Denunciations 

 of the work of market shooters and "trout hogs" are fol- 

 lowed by suggestions of what some one else, other than the 

 speaker, ought to do about it. Indignation and enthusiasm 

 glow in the breasts of the orators and suffuse their counte- 

 nances. The fire rages so furiously that by the next morning 

 it will be found to have burned itself out, and the game pro- 

 tector's ardor will then be as cold as the ashes of the cigars 

 he smoked at the meeting. 



It is a truth, susceptible of demonstration, that money 

 devoted to paying lawyers' fees for the prosecution of game 

 law breakers will accomplish more for game protection than 

 the same money expended for champagne dinners. A bill 

 of fare is an excellent thing in its way, but there are occa- 



sions when a lawyer's brief would be more to the point; 

 post-prandial heated oratory rounds off the dinner, but the 

 cold, convincing logic of a lawyer before a jury of twelve 

 men will do more to discourage the sale of snared game. 



SHOW UN PJlfLANTHROPY. 

 TN a flourishing city of Western New York dwells a physi- 

 -*- cian who, by means of a judicious use of printer's ink, 

 is well known beyond the bounds of the Empire State. In 

 addition to the arduous toils of a dispenser (on a wholesale 

 scale) of patent medicines and an author (also on a wholsale 

 scale) of medical works, this gentleman lias devoted lavish 

 sums of money to secure the protection of game and to en- 

 courage the art of wing-shooting. His ardor as a game pro- 

 tector led him some years ago to present to the New York 

 State Association for the Protection of Fish and Game, of 

 which he was at the time president, an $850 diamond badge, 

 as a prize for the game protector who would under given 

 conditions kill the most pigeons. That plan having doubt- 

 less secured the desired result, and game in consequence being 

 abundant, the benevolent physician has set now out to pro- 

 vide the populace with weapons to slay it. He appears in 

 the guise of a cheap shotgun philanthropist. Here is the 

 proposition (though we are obliged to omit the beautiful 

 delineation of the renowned Zulu gun which embellishes the 

 original). It reads: 



A GOOD BREECH-LOADING SHOT GUN FOR $4.00, 

 AND THE MEDICAL ADVISER THROWN IN AS A PRESENT. 



Price $8.50 without the Present. 

 A Strong, Durable and Close Shooter, 



12 Gauge, Uses either Metal or Paper Shells. 

 Having made special arrangements with the manufacturers, we 

 are enabled to sell these guns at the remarkable low figure of $4,00 

 and give a copy of the Medical Adviser to each purchaser as a 

 present. The gun will be packed and delivered at the express office 

 in Buffalo without charge. We will also furnish, if ordered with gun, 

 100 good paper shells for 80 cents; and a set of re-loading imple- 

 ments, consisting of rammer with cap-expelling pin and tool for 

 recapping shells, for 50 cents. We guarantee the gun to be a strong 

 and close shooting one. We will send the gun as a premium for a 

 club order for 10 copies of the Medical Adviser, with the money, 

 $15.00, giving also to each member of club a present of any $1.00 

 article in this circular. Send in your club order. 



"Thus it may be seen that in the person of this energetic 

 game protector and enthusiastic promoter of wing-shooting 

 has arisen a dealer in cheap guns who has a conscience as 

 well as a possible eye to the main chance. For the paltry 

 sum of four dollars he will outfit you with a ' 'good breech- 

 loading shotgun," and, man of kindly forethought that he is, 

 a "Medical Adviser" to go with it. What a "filling of a 

 long-felt want" it is when one takes the field with such a 

 weapon to have at one's elbow a Medical Adviser with a 

 supply of lint, bandages, and a full and suggestive kit of 

 surgical tools ready for any accident, and who, if you should 

 happen to go off with your gun, might carry to your friends 

 an exact and scientific report of the cause and manner of 

 your taking off. But better than all these, if he were a 

 proper Medical Adviser, when he saw the game start before 

 you and you raising your four-dollar shotgun for the almost 

 inevitable deadly shot, he would stop you with the brief 

 advice, or command perhaps, "Don't shoot!" 



But let us read the advertisement over again. Ah, the 

 Medical Adviser is only a book, alter all. That is not so 

 well, for though one might carry the volume under his arm, 

 or in his pocket if of convenient size, to get it out and hunt 

 up the chapter on gun-shot wounds after one had a finger or 

 a hand blown off, wonld be awkward and apt to consume 

 valuable time; and then the appliances to be used in such 

 cases might not be at hand, and one might not be able to 

 treat himself by book, especially if he had lost his head, as 

 sometimes happens to those who shoot four-dollar breech- 

 loading shotguns, and even muzzleloading ones of that ex- 

 travagant price. 



And so, upon the whole, while we duly appreciate the 

 benevolence of this advertiser, we cannot advise our readers 

 to buy his gun, even with the "Medical Adviser thrown in;" 

 in fact we should feel easier in our mind to recommend as a 

 safe investment the buying of the Medical Adviser itself, 

 with the four-dollar breechloading shotgun thrown out. 



The Birds, the song birds, the brightplumaged birds, the 

 birds that chirp about the doorway, the birds that sing in 

 the orchard, and twitter under the eaves of the old barn, the 

 birds that circle in the meadow, the birds that cheer one's 

 spirit by their vivacity and melody— these are the birds that 

 the New England farmers are now devising measures to pro- 

 tect. The cause is a most excellent one, and the farmers 

 are more interested in it than any one else. 



THE BOSTON GAME MARKET 

 ' piIE matter of a uniform code of game laws in New Eng- 

 •-■- land, so far as Massachusetts is concerned, is now in the 

 hands of the Committee on Agriculture. Its many friends 

 believe that the committee will report a bill to the Legisla- 

 ture indorsing the measure in the main, though the game 

 dealers have "dined and wined" the members of the com- 

 mittee. The hearing before the committee was exhaustive, 

 occupying two days, and drew out facts showing that the 

 Boston market is even a worse institution for the harboring 

 of game out of season in other States than it has the name of 

 being. Game dealers, who know whereof they speak, testi- 

 fied that the business— all in the hands of twenty or thirty 

 men— amounts to from $200,000 to $300,000 anrually. It 

 also appeared that there are now actually in Boston, in cold 

 storage, at least 100,000 quail. 



It was proved before the committee that freshly killed 

 quail had been repeatedly seen in the market since Jan. 1, 

 the legal close time for killing in this and many other States. 

 It was also shown that the marketman, being allowed to sell 

 pinnated grouse, takes advantage and sells ruffed grouse 

 illegally. In consequence of this laxity of law in permitting 

 the selling of game out of season, it is next to impossible to 

 prevent the sale of illegally killed birds. It was clearly 

 shown that the game of the West was fast being depleted 

 by the enormous demand for it in Europe, and Boston is the 

 center for its shipment. American deer, grouse and quail 

 are cheaper in Liverpool to-day than in Bostou or New York. 

 The refrigerator business of Boston has dug the grave of the 

 game of the northwestern country, unless Massachusetts puts 

 a stop to it. • 



The chances that the uniform game bill will pass, if re- 

 ported by the committee, are not doubted by its friends. The 

 enemies, the marketmen, have been out in full force, but 

 they could show at the hearing only that an extensive busi- 

 ness would be stopped. They laid claims to class legislation 

 being proposed, and would have other States look out for . 

 their own game without he^p from Massachusetts. But the 

 narrowness and selfishness of their ideas wa& so apparent aa 

 to plainly show that class legislation was long ago granted to 

 them when the law was made allowing them to have in pos- 

 session and sell game when sportsmen and other people 

 would be arrested for it. 



The Pennsylvania Case reported in our last issue (page 

 88) is worthy of notice. The Lycoming Sportsmen's Club 

 sought to secure the indictment of certain men who had 

 drawn a seine in a millpond (public water). The judge, in 

 charging the Grand Jury, is reported to have asserted that 

 the seiners had the same right to take fish from the pond 

 that a farmer would have to take his cattle from the pasture. 

 If the circumstances were as our informant has given them 

 in the communication referred to, this ruling of the judge 

 was clearly wrong. We do not wonder that the members of 

 the club were discouraged by the adverse influence of the 

 judge. There can be no question, we venture to opine, that 

 the society was perfectly right in its position. If the prin- 

 ciple stated by the judge in his charge to the jury holds good 

 with regard to the Williamsport millpond, where shall the 

 limit between public and private waters be drawn, and how 

 may the fish in any of the waters of Pennsylvania be pro- 

 tected from improvident netting? When a game protective 

 society undertakes a case of this kind/.the least it can ask is 

 a proper and fair administration of the law. When men 

 who ply their unlawful fishing find judges and juries ready 

 and willing to acquit them, in the face of the clearest laws, 

 it is indeed time for societies to organize for the protection 

 of the public. We hope that, for the good of Pennsylvania 

 fishing interests, the Lycoming Sportsmen's Club will not 

 let the case drop here. 



A Sports Defense Association.— Englishmen are or- 

 ganizing a Sports Defense Association to combat the efforts 

 of those who are attempting to secure a law to forbid pigeon 

 shooting. It is urged that the abolition of trap-shooting will 

 mean the ultimate suppression of all pursuit of game and fish, 

 and the pigeon shooters are calling on the anglers and the 

 fox hunters to join their rally. The bill to suppress pigeon 

 shooting, it is probable, will be urged again this year, 



' ' Woodckapt." — A book on ' 'Woodcraft" has been written 

 by "Nessmuk." It is designed to give practical help to 

 amateurs. It will do more than this, it will open the eyes 

 of the veterans. ' 'Woodcraft" will differ from the average 

 book on camping, for as we have said it is written by ' 'Ness- 

 muk." The Forest and Stream Publishing Company will 

 publish the book in April. 



