FOREST AND STRE 
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NEW YORK, DECEMBER 4, 1884. 
VOL. XX111.—No. 19. 
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CONTENTS. 
SEA AND River Fisuine. 
Long-Distance Casting, 
Small Plies. 
FISHCULTURE. 
New York Fish Commission, 
THE KENNEL. 
Concerning Dogs and Clubs. 
English Kennel Notes,—xrx. 
The Mastiff Puppies. 
Fisher’s Island Trials. 
Death of Charles Lincoln. 
Kennel Management. 
Kennel Notes. 
RIFLE AND TRAP SHOOTING, 
Range and Gallery, 
California State Rifle Associa- 
EDITORIAL, 
False Pretenses. 
Importing Foreign Birds. 
Canoes in the South. 
Tue Sportsman Tourist. 
Fur and Feather in Norway. 
NATURAL History. 
Notes of the Woods and Waters. 
Acclimation of Foreign Birds, 
Notes on the Capture of Sea 
Birds. 
GAME BAG AND Gun. 
Pennsylvania Deer and Turkeys, 
Western Massachusetts. 
Deer in the Adirondacks. 
The Wild Swan. 
Experience and Advice. tion, 
Southern Shooting Grounds. The Trap. 
Remarkable Shots. The Clay Pigeon Tournament, 
Maine Deer Law. CANOEING. 
Philadelphia Notes. A Hidden Obstruction. 
SEA AND River FisHinae, 
Landlocked Salmon in Maine. - 
A June Trout, 
Trouting on the Bigosh, 
Taking Shad with the Fly. 
Echoes from the Tournament. 
A Light Bait-Rod. 
Porpoises and Blackfish. 
The Galley Fire. 
Canoe and Camp Cookery. 
YACHTING. 
Ourselves as Others See Us, 
Signals for Unattached Yachts. 
Cruising on Lake Ontario, 
List of Winning Yachts, 1884. 
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
FALSE PRETENSES. 
OR some months advertisements of $15 guns sold by 
Parker & Company of Chambers street, have been 
appearing in a number of newspapers, and we have been 
flooded with questions about these arms and people. The 
name and the location suggested to those unfamiliar with 
such matters the well-known firm of Parker Brothers whose 
factory is at Meriden, Conn., and their place of business in 
this city in Chambers street. 'This so-called Parker & Com- 
pany consisted of Charles R. Parker, of Brooklyn, and one 
Hayden, who has heretofore been connected with various 
cheap jewelry and gift enterprises and who, is alleged, at 
least on one occasion, to have flitted to Europe to escape 
the consequences of some of his business transactions. There 
appears to be no reason to believe that the Mr. Parker whose 
name appeared on the firm heading had any knowledge of 
the questionable use to which it was being put, 
Parker & Company were attempting. to trade on the 
name and reputation of Parker Bros., and as soon as this 
came to the knowledge of that firm, they took steps to put 
an end to the business. An injunction was obtained 
against Parker & Company and their business stopped 
until the case should come up in court. on its merits, 
which will be to-morrow, In the meantime the firm of 
Parker & Company no longer exists, a dissolution notice 
having appeared this week in the daily papers. ; 
Foolish people are no doubt still sending on money to this 
firm, each one expecting to receive in return for his $15 one 
of those wonderful shotguns that kill at one hundred yards. 
A cheap gun isan abomination—not only being itself a 
botched piece of work, but also because it is a source of con- 
stant danger to the man who carries it and to those who are 
nearhim. Where life and limb are in question, it is the 
very poorest economy to try to save a few dollars. It is bet- 
ter that the pocket should suffer a little rather than that the 
head should be lost. Injuries to the former are easily re- 
paired, but no amount of hard work will put a new head on 
aman, or replace an. arm, ora hand, or a finger tha! has 
been blown off. What we want in our arms is safety first, 
then good shooting qualities, and Jast good workmanship and 
finish. No one should expect to receive a safe, strong, 
Weapon without paying a fair price for it, and those who 
propose to buy guns had much better do so from some reli- 
able house, who may not offer such marvellous bargains, but 
whose representations can be relied on. 
We were offered the advertisement of this firm, but at 
once refused to give it a place in our columns on any terms. 
It is very unfortunate that this whole trade in cheap guns 
cannot be put an end to, but we presume that there is no 
hope at.present that this can be done. Inthe meantime, we 
can only advise our readers to shun cheap gun dealers as 
they would the plague. 
CANOES IN THE SOUTH. 
if has already been told in these columns that ‘‘Ness- 
muk’s” famous little canoe, the Sairy Gamp, will be on 
exhibition at New Orleans this winter in the Cotton Cen- 
tennial display; and perhaps so many of the visitors who see 
her graceful lines, may be captivated by them that a canoeing 
interest may be created in the South. It is a grand country 
for the canoeist. Many of the tourists who go South from 
the North in the winter season have found that out. Florida 
waters have been cruised over and over again. But it can 
hardly be said that the merits of the canoe are very well 
understood by southern people. They have magnificent op- 
portunities for the sport, but they have not yet learned to 
profit by these natural advantages. 
The reason may be that they have not found out what a 
useful and pleasurable craft the modern light canoe really is. 
In this, to be sure, that can hardly be said to be behind the 
North, for even in that part of the country, aside from a few 
of the more commonly travelled routes, the canoeist is a rara 
avis, and excites more curiosity than that wonderful com- 
bination of humanity and mechanism, the bicycler, Once 
introduced, howeyer, it will not take long for the sport to 
become popular; and nothing will be more natural asa re- 
sult of the New Orleans exhibition, than a general adop- 
tion of the light canoe as a pleasure craft, on waters where 
now only the clumsy skiff or the ancient dugout is seen. 
IMPORTING FOREIGN BIRDS. 
4 (ie other day attention was called to the supposed fact 
that of all the thousands of migratory quail imported 
into this country and put out in different localities, none had 
survived, or if they had survived none were to be found. 
We have since then seen in a Western Massachusetts paper 
a note from-an anonymous writer, saying that the quail put 
out in one of the towns in that State had survived, and were 
now fulfillmg the purpose for which, of course, they were 
imported, namely, offering themselves as targets for sports- 
mens’ guns. This is important, if true. A well authenti- 
cated record of the capture of the birds would be extremely 
interesting. 
In another column will be found a note from a corre- 
spondent, who has evidently given the subject some thought, 
suggesting one possible element of failure in these attempts 
to introduce foreign birds. He urges that it was a mistake 
to put the birds out in this latitude on the presumption that 
upon the approach of cold weather they would migrate 
south, instead of liberating them in a warmer climate, 
whence by natural increase they would probably find their 
way north. The suggestion is a reasonable one. If other 
attempts are made to bring to America the game and song 
birds of foreign lands, it would be wise to give the southern 
liberation plan a fair trial. It is hardly to be presumed that 
further attempts will be made to attain success in the manner 
already tried and proved futile; but the subject of bird im- 
portation is one which may well engage the attention of 
public-spirited individuals. To deplete and destroy is too 
much the spirit of the age; how to restock the game covers 
is a problem which will by and by surely be solved. 
Encuish Kennet Notms.—The curiosity which is mani- 
fested both in England and America as to the identity of. 
“Lillibulero” is quite amusing. We understand from private 
sources on both sides.of the water, and from the London 
press, that great efforts are being and haye been made to 
learn who the author or authors of these letters is or are, 
and the appeals which come to this office asking the same 
question are really quite touching. We are obliged to return 
to all these anxious querists the same answer, and we are 
sorry to say that some of them do not appear to be satisfied 
with the explanation that publishers are quite without dis- 
cretion when a contributor declines to have his real name 
made public. Perhaps we should have saved ourselves 
some trouble if, at the outset, we had stated that we ourselves 
were ignorant of the contributor’s name, and forwarded all 
our communications to a certain box in the London P, g. 
However, like one of our esteemed contemporaries, we ‘‘con- 
sider a lie the poorest investment possible,” and so we did 
not take that course. The field for conjecture is a broad 
one, and all sorts of men, occupying all sorts of stations, 
have been mentioned by those who are trying to solve the 
problem. Among these are half a dozen editors and as 
many clergymen, besides a great number of people in other 
walks of life. Wedo not think that any one has as yet 
fixed on the real authorr of the notes, and, since they evi- 
dently desire to remain unknown, we shall do what we can 
to preserve their incognito. We hope that nothing which 
we have written above will lead any one to imagine that we 
write these notes ourselves in this office every two weeks, 
gleaning the news from the English journals. A few years 
ago one of the burning questions in the doggy world was, 
“Who was the sire of Croxteth’s dam?” ‘Now it appears to 
be, ‘‘Who is ‘Lillibulero?’” 
OnE-Man PowrEr.—Once in a while there comes in the 
mail a plaint from some game society secretary, whose bur- 
den of sorrow is that, while the membership of his society is 
large, no one seems to want to do any of the work, but all 
try to ‘‘shove it off on to him;’ and coming at last to believe 
himself imposed upon, his remarks are apt to be indignant 
as well as sad. It must be confessed that the words of en- 
couragement we try to write in return are not always very 
comforting. Nothing can comfort such a man, except the 
awakening of activity among his fellow members. And the 
hard-worked secretary knows, as well as the’rest do, that 
this activity cannot be awakened. It is not sleeping; it is 
dead. In the history of game protection in this country, it 
is true in nine cases of every ten that, no matter how long 
may be the club constitutions and the roll of membership 
and no matter how long-winded the other members’ disser- 
tations and expatiations on what ought to be done—when it 
comes to actually doing anything, it is left for one man to 
do, or is not done at all, After a while the one man gets 
tired. 
OnEIDA Lakn.—From Oneida Lake in central New York, 
comes the record of one man who has the pluck to do what 
the people of the State have deputed to him. His name is 
William H. Lindley, and he is one of the State Game Pro- 
tectors. He has been waging a war on the fishermen, who 
defy the law by netting in the lake. His task has not been 
an altogether pleasant one. Not long ago, while Mr, Lind- 
ley, with his steam Jaunch, was taking up nets, he was sur- 
rounded by a hostile flotilla of rowboats, manned by armed 
ruffians, who threatened his life. On another occasion—like 
Adirondack tourists who kill deer in the water—the mob 
threw away their guns, and attacked with oars asclubs. The 
officer’s pluck has carried him through the scrimmages, and 
many nets have been destroyed. Oneida Lake is some 
twenty-seven miles long and seven miles wide. It is a large 
area for one man to look after. Officer Lindley should have 
credit for what he has done, and ought to be provided with 
all needed means of prosecuting his task. 
THANKSGIVING Day SHooTinc.—The marksmen kept up 
the traditions of the day in good style by many a contest of 
skill over range and across trap. Our shooting columns tell 
of a few only of the scores of enjoyable events, and no doubt 
every one who took the sensible exercise of the open field 
found his aim straight and his zest the greater at the sub- 
sequent performance about the dinner table, The old style 
turkey shoot, where the head of the game was used as a 
mark, seems to have given way to the more sensible contest 
where a fixed mark is used. There may be less luck, but 
there is ever so much more skill in a carefully measured 
string target, The day generally was fine, and with the crisp, 
sharp air made the winding up period of the summer’s 
sport entirely satisfactory. The winter of talk and thought 
is now entered upon, and if appearances are not very deceit- 
ful, there is every prospect of a lively season in all kinds of 
marksmanship during the summer of 1885. 
ONE THANKSGIVING.—This is a civilized country—except 
in spots. Every now and then one comes pat upon a heathen. 
A New Jersey correspondent tells us of a man who employed 
the Thanksgiving holiday in the pursuit of hares. He had 
no dog, he did not need one. He armed himself with a 
“scatter-gun” and a card of matches, set the dry grass on 
fire, and as the startled creatures fled from the flames, poured 
his shot into them. It might be well to so amend the exist- 
ing statutes as to make it obligatory upon the proper officials 
to lock such fellows up in jail from sunrise to sunset on oc- 
casions of public holiday. 
