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NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 20, 1884. 
{ VOL, XXU1I.—No. 17. 
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CONTENTS. 
SHA AND River FrsHina, 
Southern Shad Take Bait. 
Echoes from the Tournament, 
EDITORIAL, 
A Question of Instinet. 
Fees for Carrying Dogs. 
THE SPORTSMAN TOURIST, FISHCULTURE. 
In El Mahdi’s Land. The American Fishcultural As- 
Plorida Again.—vit. sociation, 
But itis Different Here. 
NATURAL HISTORY. 
The Cranberry Bear. 
Notes of the Woods and Waters. 
GAME Bac anD Gun. 
Grouse shooting on the Upper 
HE 1 
The Collie Classes. 
The Origin of the Deerhound. 
Robin’s Island Club. 
Th Eastern Field Trials. 
English Kennel Notes.—xyi. 
Mississippi.—t. Kennel Notes. 
A Hawk and its Quarry. Kennel Management. 
Western Big Game. RIFLE AND TRAP SHOOTING. 
How Some People Do It. Range and Gallery. 
Moose Measurements. The Trap. 
Tennessee Game Notes. Best Clay-Pigeon Gun. 
Remarkable Shots, CANOEING. 
Philadelphia Notes. Canoe for Open Water Cruising. 
SEA AND RIVER FISHING. Mohican C. C. 
Experience and Hopes, YACHTING. 
Down the Susquehanna, 
Pickerel Fishing Through Ice, 
Expired Reel Patents. Yachting on Lake Ontario. 
Western Landlocked Salmon. List of Races Sailed 1884, 
Long Island Fish 140 Years Ago. | ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS, 
The Cutters Will Be There, 
From Marblehead to Chicago, 
Withits compact type and in its permanently enlarged form 
of twenty-eight pages this journal furnishes each week a iarger 
amount of first-class matter relating to angling, shooting, the 
kennel, yachting, canoeing, and kindred subjects, then is con- 
tained im all other American publications put together, 
FEES FOR CARRYING DOGS. 
A NUMBER of complaints have reached us recently from 
individuals who have been overcharged by the baggage- 
masters in whose care they were obliged to leave their dogs 
when traveling on the cars. 
This is a matter about which there should be no more 
question than about the fare of a passenger, and the baggage- 
master should have no discretion whatever in the matter of 
fixing the fee. IJtis perfectly right and proper that, under 
the present railroad system in America, a charge should be 
made for transporting dogs. These animals are often in the 
way ina baggage car, and frequently cause the baggage. 
master no little trouble. Moreover, there is a good deal of 
responsibility attaching to their care; they must be moved 
from place to place, and must be watched that they may not 
be injured by heavy pieces of baggage falling on them. All 
this care and trouble should be paid for, and there are few 
men who would be unwilling to pay a fair price for the 
trouble which they make the train hands. But when the 
‘fee demanded for this service is disproportionately large, or 
is demanded in a rough and bullying way, it is natural that 
the owner of the dog should feel aggrieved. 
The fee for transporting a dog should be fixed by the man- 
agers of the road, and it should be unnecessary to ask the 
baggage-master how much itis. This fee should bear a re- 
lation to the distance the animal is to be carried, just as the 
price of a ticket is graded by the number of miles between 
the stations from and to which the passenger is traveling, 
Many railroads have such a schedule for dog fares, and all 
should have it, as well for the protection of the traveling 
public as their own, Fora railroad company does not wish 
to be held responsible for the demands, sometimes extortion- 
ate, of its employes. Wehave no doubt that if this matter 
is brought to the notice of the proper officers of the Dela- 
ware & Hudson Canal Company, it will be remedied. 
We would suggest, moreover, to those who travel with 
dogs that the surliness so often complained of in baggage- 
masters may very likely be due, in part, to the carelessness 
of the very men who make these complaints. Railroad 
men are, as a rule, rather joviai and good-natured than sour 
and ill-conditioned; but they are hard-worked and usually 
busy, and do not always have the time for those courtesies 
of life which so help to lessen the friction of every-day in- 
tercourse between man and man. Probably the average 
baggage-master does not enjoy seeing a dog brought into his 
car. A few pleasant, cheery words will, however, often 
smoothe away this feeling of dissatisfaction, and if he has 
time to chat with the dog-owner, each will often find the 
other a very good fellow. 
Weare all of us too much accustomed to think that we 
ourselves and our own affairs are the only important things 
in this world, and are apt to give very little thought to the 
feelings of others. As a matter of fact, however, a little 
thought and consideration for those with whom we are 
brought in contact will yield us a good return. 
A QUESTION OF INSTINCT. 
a Rees a young terrier who has never before seen a rat 
will shake one on the first opportunity, or that a young 
pointer or setter will often stand at fowls in the yard is so 
well known as to excite no*surprise. It is simply the result 
of inherited instinct coming through many generations which 
have been trained to hunt certain other forms of animal life 
and has become part of the nature of the animals so trained, 
In the case of dogs this is attributed mainly to their superior 
intelligence, and we are surprised when we find analogous 
instances in whaf we usually term the lower animals. 
Perhaps we might readily accept such a development in birds, 
but as we rank the reptiles next below them in intelligence, 
and the fishes still further down, itis with surprise that we 
learn that a fish may carry with it the instincts peculiar to 
its progenitors inhabiting a certain stream only, even when 
it was removed from that stream while yet in the egg. 
It is well known that the shad of the Connecticut River 
take both the fly and the bait, while on no other river in 
America has there been more than an occasional, and 
perhaps an accidental, capture of a shad with hook and line. 
The fact that the shad of the Connecticut River do this is well 
proven, and we have seen hundreds of them taken with the 
fly below the bridge at Holyoke. Anglers on other shad 
rivers haye tried to capture shad in this way and have failed, 
and become skeptical about it, and our columns have con- 
tained many articles on this subject in past years, 
Now ‘comes Dr. Cary, Superintendent of Fisheries of 
Georgia, who says that no shad had ever bean taken with 
the hook on Southern rivers until this year, and that three 
years ago he planted a large lot of fry from the Connecticut 
in a Georgia river, and that the progeny show the instincts 
of their ancestors by taking both fly and bait. The state- 
ment of Dr. Cary will be found in another column, and we 
can only say that we know him personally, and he is a 
careful and reliable man, The extract from his report wilj 
furnish a chapter for some future Darwin, and is a most 
singular case. 
AN IveortTant ConsmERaAtion.—lt is quite common to 
smile at the whim of the old seitler who wanted to move on 
because some one else had ‘tome to settle within a dozen 
miles of him, and so would drive all the game out of the 
cowutry; and the notion that any. one to-day should be goy- 
erned in his choice of a new home by the scarcity or abund- 
ance of the game and fish to be found in the country may 
appear preposterous. Nevertheless itis quite true that this 
very consideration is often taken into account; and if it does 
not actually determine the choice of location, it is at least 
reckoned among the advantages to be gained, or the disad-- 
vantages to be endured. Three instances of this have 
just come to our notice; one of a gentleman who has gone to 
Mexico, and will make his home somewhere in that country, 
provided the game is plenty enough; another of a city 
man who has taken an Arkansas homestead in a 
country, chief among the advantages of which he 
reckons the game and fish, and a third of a Kentucky 
physician, who wants to be congratulated because his new 
home will be in the best quail region of the blue grass 
country. Such cases as theseshould not be confounded with 
those of the folks who are constantly writing to the Fornsr 
AND STREAM to know where they can find a country in 
which they can make their living by shooting for the market. 
“Hunting” anp ‘“‘SHoorine.”—The columns of the 
Forest anpD STRHAM are broad, and itis quite proper that - 
all persons who have opinions to express should be afforded 
the opportunity. Some may regard asa captious critic the — 
correspondent who, in another column, takes exception to 
the ord “hunting” as used in this country to signify the 
pursuit of game. His opinion, we take it, is founded on a 
misapprehension of the origin of the term, and of the way 
in which it has come to be so used. It is not derived from 
nor a corruption of the English term ‘“‘hunting,” meaning 
the pursuit of foxes with horses and hounds, but it is the 
good old word ‘‘hunting,” used by the American pioneers. 
They were not “‘huntsmen,” and did not ride to hounds in 
the hunting field for sport. They were “hunters” who pur- . 
sued game for food, and the savage beast, that they might 
rid the land of it. They never talked about going out 
“shooting,” they went hunting. Nowadays, when we make 
our fathers’ work our recreation, it is perfectly proper that 
we should preserve the good old term, and talk of “going 
hunting.” The expression has a creditable and honorable 
record; and it is much more fitting to maintain it, and to 
continue to use it, than to attempt to supplant it by other 
terms, eyen those which may be more acceptable to our fas- 
tidious cousins across the water. As a matter of fact, it is 
quite common, in this country, to speak of the pursuit of ~ 
birds as ‘‘shooting,” and of the pursuit of large game as 
“hunting,” but this distinction is not universally recognized. 
After all, so long as the game is bagged, it matters little 
whether the gunner calls his sport “‘shooting” or ‘‘hunting,” 
and the choice of terms is of still less consequence to the un- 
fortunate individual who ‘‘hunts” all day for the: birds and 
“shoots” only the fence rail, as he homeward plods his 
weary way. 
REMARKABLE SHOTS.—Some of our correspondents are tell- 
ing of their remarkable shots, where chance has come in to 
supplement their skill. The theme is an interesting one. 
Curious things of this sort have happened to almost every 
person who has had much experience with shooting game. 
We know of one man who has a tremendous reputation as a 
crack shot, and he won his fame wholly by a succession 
of three purely chance shots, one at a quail, which he 
did not see, one at a deer at which he did not knowingly 
aim, and a third at a target, which he hit in the bullseye and 
did not venture to shoot at again. As one writer suggests 
the whole merit in the relations of luck or unlucky shots 
lies in the truthfulness of the narrator. No one wants to 
read the invented stories of such occurrences. It is a very 
poor sort of wit that can manufacture silly stories about 
alleged wonderful shots that were actually never made. 
| There are enough true accounts to be given, if only those 
who have had a wide experience in the field could be induced 
to relate some of the queer happenings. 
WESTERN Bia GAME.—The testimony of a writer, in ouz 
Game Bag and Gun columns, to the diminution of Western 
large game during even so brief a period as one year, is of 
a piece with the testimony of every other intelligent observer 
who has opportunity to see with what rapidity the wild life 
of the plains and mountains is disappearing. The sugges- 
tion that the does of elk and antelope should be specially 
protected by a law forbidding their killing, is a capital one; 
but it is to be feared that, as with the other laws already 
enacted, its enforcement would prove difficult. 
ANOTHER TimMELY Hin7.—The Thanksgiving proclama- 
tions have been issued. It is time to set about the circum- 
vention of that big wild turkey gobbler whose wish-bone 
you have registered a solemn vow to pull one week from 
to-day. To delay is dangerous, for it is just barely possible 
that some one else has his campaign planned against the 
same bird, 
Taw Kereny Gun.—We regret to observe that matter of 
fact, practical and prosaic engineers are manifesting a desire 
to look too closely into the new Keely gun, and are going 
even so far as to insist that the wenderful etheric vapor may 
be after all a delusion and a snare—nothing mere nor less 
than compressed air. 
OvuR READERS will confer a favor by sending us the names 
of such of their friends as are not now among the subscribers 
af the Forest AND Strmam, but who would presumably be 
interested in the paper. 
“‘NEssMUK” will paddle his canoe in Florida waters this 
winter. 
