Forest and Stream 



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NEW YORK, APRIL 24, 1884. 



( VOL. XXII.— No. 13. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



Off for the Arctic. 



Some Questions. 



Show of Non-Sporting Dogs. 



Intercollegiate Shooting. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



Down the Yukon on a Raft.— x. 



Owling. 



Where the Bung Tree Grows. 

 Natural History. 



A Quail New to the United 

 States Fauna. 



Southern Limit of Quail and 

 Grouse. 



Deer in the Adirondack^. 



Congratulations and Specula- 

 tions. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



Shooting in Cuba. 



Increase of Maine Large Game. 



The Choice of Hunting Rifles. 



The Performance of Shotguns. 



Philadelphia Notes. 

 Camp-Fire Flickerings. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



Black Bass Fishing in Central 

 New York. 



Long vs. Short Fly Rods. 



Little Brooks. 



Dace Fishing. 

 Fishculture. 



Migration of Herrings. 

 The Kennel. 



A Private Field Trial. 



The Kennel. 



Nimrod. 



A Jersev Fox Chase. 



The Kennel Hospital. 



Kennel Management. 



Kennel Notes. 

 Rifle and Traf Shooting. 



The Marlin Repeating Rifle. 



Ignition cf the Powder Charge. 



More Rifle Queries. 



Small Caliber Rifles. 



Range and Gallery. 



The Trap. 



Gun Queries. 



The Duffer Club. 



Boston Gun Club Tournament. 

 Canoeing. 



Cleveland C. C. 



The Galley Fire. 

 Canoe and Camp Cookery. 



The Log Book. 

 The East Coast of Florida.— 

 Cruise of the Alligator. 



A New Canoe Sail. 



The Chart Locker. 

 Winnipiseogee and Merrimack 



That Sneakbox Again. 

 Yachting. 



A Cruising Schooner. 



Opinions Against Facts. 



Great Battles Prospective. 



The Hand of the Bourbons. 



An Old Hand on Deck. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



With its compact type and in its permanently enlarged form, 

 of twenty-eight pages this journal fumislies each weeK 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. 



OFF FOR THE ARCTIC. 



'T^O-DAY one of the vessels of the Arctic expedition sails 

 -■- for the North, to be followed in a short time by the 

 other two which are to assist in the work of rescuing the 

 Greely party. The little fleet starts under favorable 

 auspices, and appears to be in all respects, so far as can be 

 learned, well found in its ships, in its supplies and in its 

 personnel. It will, no doubt, accomplish all that is possible, 

 and we shall not have to record another disgraceful failure 

 like that of Lieut. Garlington's expedition . 



It had been hoped by many of those who have watched the 

 preparations of this rescue party, that some steps might have 

 been taken toward enlisting for each vessel a couple of 

 woodsmen. We have urged time and again that the services 

 of such men would save for explorers many valuable lives 

 and much treasure. Had two such men been with De Long 

 on his disastrous retreat along the Lena Delta, there is little 

 doubt that the whole party would have been saved, instead 

 of miserably starving to death. Food was all that was 

 needed to enable them to reach a settlement, and this food 

 was present in quantity, had there been any one in the party 

 who understood the ways of the wilderness and of game. 

 They passed through a region where ptarmigan were 

 abundant, but had left their shotguns, and knew of no 

 other means of capturing the birds; the idea of traps 

 and snares does not appear to have entered their heads. 

 There were plenty of reindeer in the country through 

 which they marched to their death. They saw and shot at 

 them, and their tracks were frequently seen, but there was 

 no hunter in the party to kill the single deer which in all 

 probability meant life to the hopeless, starving crew; and so 



in the midst of what to a man used to the wilderness would 

 have been plenty, they struggled on a little further, and then 

 one by one they died. The expenditure of a few dollars for 

 the pay and equipments of a single man, such as may be 

 found in any wild section of our country, might have saved 

 all this loss of life. 



That the landsman is a necessary part of any Arctic ex- 

 pedition is perfectly apparent to any one who has traced the 

 history of the various expeditions which have tiied to pene- 

 trate the mysteries of the frozen North. He knows a hund- 

 red secrets about animal life, which help him to sucoeed in 

 his search for food, and can make himself a warm and com- 

 fortable shelter, where the sailor man would freeze to 

 death. 



And why should we not utilize this special knowledge, 

 which can only be acquired by years of labor, and in the 

 stern school of experience? Our Arctic expeditions occa- 

 sionally take along an Esquimau or two, which is eertainly a 

 step in the right direction; but the Esquimau's pluck often 

 gives out just when it is most needed, and then he becomes 

 useless. It is hard to say why such men as we have referred 

 to have never been employed in this most difficult work. 

 Probably the real reason may be found in the inability of a 

 Department to move itself out of a rut until it is absolutely 

 forced to do so. 



With the record of the Jeannette and other sadly unsuc- 

 cessful expeditions before its eyes, it would seem as if the 

 Navy Department would spare no pains to make the present 

 rescue party successful. If the Alert, the Thetis and the 

 Bear had each two men on board who were thoroughly 

 familiar with the lonely, self-reliant life of a trapper and 

 hunter, the prospects for a safe return for the members of the 

 expedition would be much more favorable, and if, without 

 any public announcement of the fact, the services of such 

 men have been secured, the Navy Department is to be given 

 credit for unusual foresight and appreciation of the progress 

 of events. 



This subject we have treated before at considerable length, 

 and for our views upon it we cannot do better than refer our 

 readers back to Forest and Stream of May 10, 1883. We 

 shall all of us watch the progress of the Greely rescue party 

 with anxiety, and hope that before many months the prison- 

 ers in the North may be welcomed back again. 



SHOW OF NON-SPORTING DOGS. 



TN our issue of April 3, a correspondent suggested than an 

 -*- exhibition of non-sporting dogs be held in this city. 

 Since the publication of this call a number of communica- 

 tions have been received, all in favor of inaugurating such 

 an exhibition. 



We suggest to the gentlemen who have interested them- 

 selves in this matter, that they confer with the managers of 

 the Westminster Kennel Club. It is possible that the club 

 might be induced to organize such a show; and if under 

 their control, the success of the enterprise would be assured. 



The public interest in the several non-sporting breeds is 

 increasing at a remarkable pace; witness the crowded non- 

 sporting classes at the bench shows. There is certainly suf- 

 ficient material for an exhibition exclusively made up of 

 these animals. 



The entries for the coming bench show of the Westmin- 

 ster Kennel Club are so full that the capacity of the Madison 

 Square Garden will be taxed to accommodate them all. A 

 less number of entries would provide a more satisfactory ex- 

 hibition. If the popularity of the shows given by this club 

 increases at its present rate, the Westminster managers 

 might find it advantageous to give two exhibitions annually, 

 one of sporting dogs and the other of the non-sporting classes. 

 The former could be given in the spring, and the other in 

 the fall. The public would support two shows of this char- 

 acter; and there is no question that greater satisfaction to 

 visitors and exhibitors would be secured by the added facili- 

 ties such a division of classes would permit. 



Massachusetts Fish and Game Protective Associa- 

 tion.— Following are the officers for 1884-5: President, John 

 Fottler, Jr. ; Vice-Presidents, Hon. Thomas Talbot, Hon. 

 Daniel Needham, Walter M. Brackett, Esq., Charles W. 

 Stevens, Esq., Horace T. Rockwell, Esq., Ivers W. Adams, 

 Esq., Dr. JohnT. Stetson; Treasurer, James R. Reed; Sec- 

 retary, E. S. Tobey, Jr. ; Librarian, John Fottler, Jr. Ex- 

 ecutive Committee — Frederick R. Shattuck, Warren Hap- 

 good, Wm. S. Hills, Walton C. Taft, Edward T. Barker. 

 Committee on Membership— W. M. Brackett, George Mix- 

 ter, B. F. Nichols. 



INTERCOLLEGIATE SHOOTING. 



(~^ UN clubs have been established at several colleges, and 

 ^-* in some instances the members have acquired a very 

 fair degree of skill in trap-shooting. We note with great 

 satisfaction the growing popularity of the sport among col- 

 lege students. As has been said already in these columns, 

 shooting with rifle and shotgun is a recreation worthy of 

 college students, and a form of amusement which one is not 

 likely to throw aside after commencement day. In this it 

 differs essentially from baseball, football, cricket and row- 

 ing. The college student who learns how to use a gun. has 

 found a means of recreation that he may employ in after 

 years. 



We are so thoroughly convinced of the good results likely 

 to follow from increased participation in college shooting, 

 that we are quite willing to do something as a practical en- 

 couragement of it. To that end we propose to offer a $100 

 cup or tropliy as a prize for intercollegiate shooting compe- 

 titions. It is probable, since the college year is already so 

 far advanced, that the tropliy will be given for the next year, 

 beginning in the fall. Further particulars will be shortly 

 announced. 



SOME QUESTIONS. 



EVERYWHERE the game is growing scarcer. We all 

 realize this, and grumble about it. There is a vulgar 

 saying to the effect that "talk is cheap," and, like many 

 another proverb, there is a world of truth in it. We are all 

 of us good at talking about game protection; how many of 

 us have done anything besides talk? Suppose some one 

 were to come around to-morrow soliciting subscriptions for 

 a fund to pay a detective to secure evidence against some 

 individual for killing or selling game out of season, or to 

 pay a lawyer's fees in some game case, how many of us 

 would contribute $10 to such a fund? How many men, 

 among all our readers, who believe that birds should not be 

 shot in spring, have refrained from starting out after snipe 

 or ducks since the birds came on? Has not each one who 

 could take the time for a day's shooting, said to himself, 

 "Every one else will go, and ru} r staying at home will make 

 no difference," and then gone and killed or tried to kill? 



How long is this to continue? Surely, at the rate things 

 are going now, the game cannot last much longer. It looks 

 as though the day were at hand when there will be no shoot- 

 ing grounds open to the public. And who is to blame for 

 all this? No one but those who shoot. With what show of 

 reason can we complain, if twenty years hence, we find that 

 there is nothing for us to go afield for? 



When the forests are gone, and with the forest the game, 

 we shall probably all think that this wholesale destruction 

 might have been avoided, but then it will be too late to seek 

 a remedy. 



Weapons Found in Game. — If a list could be had of all 

 the old weapons and missiles found in the tissues of living 

 animals, and a complete history of them all collected, the 

 record would be an interesting one. Such finds are, we 

 think, much less infrequent than is generally imagined. We 

 have seen a number of them, and many others are on record. 

 Several years ago we saw taken out from beneath the tender- 

 loin of an elk, an old-fashioned round ball from a muzzle- 

 loading rifle. The imprint of the cloth patch was still dis- 

 tinctly visible on it. The arrow head from the swan's breast- 

 bone, figured a short time since in our Natural History 

 columns, has reminded some correspondents of similar finds, 

 both in birds and mammals. "Caballero" sends us from 

 Buffalo, N. Y.j a vertebra?, in the body of which is imbedded 

 the point of an iron arrow head, and asks to what animal 

 the bone belongs. The specimen was picked up in the 

 Nation by a man who was gathering bones for market. The 

 bone is one of the anterior dorsal vertebra? of a young buffalo, 

 probably a two year old, and the arrow head is one of the 

 common iron points which, until within a few years, have 

 been used for hunting by all the tribes of plains indians. 



Shooting Tournaments. — The early summer of 1S84 will 

 be a busy season for the man who lives to attend all the big 

 shooting tournaments. There is nothing upon which we 

 may base a prediction of the number of wild pigeons that 

 will be killed, but it is very certain that the demolition of 

 the "clays" will be unparalleled. 



The Massachusetts Game Bill passed the Senate 

 unanimously, but was lost in the House. Our dispatch says, 

 "Country members advocate poaching." 



