FOREST AND STREAM. 
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NEW YORK, JANUARY 22, 1885. 
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CONTENTS. 
EDITORIAL. FISHOULTURE. 
The Sale of Game. Report of the U.S. Fish Com- 
Forests and Forestry.—y. 
THE SPORTSMAN TOURIST. 
At Anchor. 
Camp Flotsam. 
NaTruRAL History. 
Notes of a Year. 
Some Christmas Bird Notes. 
The Voriicella. | 
The Cranberry Bear. 
Game Bac AND Gun. 
Dueck Shooting on Lake Bister- 
mission. 
| THE KENNEL. 
Beagles for Foxes. 
Dog Show Rules. 
The Collie Classes. 
English Kennel Notes,—xxi1 
New Orleans Dog Show. 
Kennel Management. 
Kennel Notes. 
RIFLE AND TRAP SHOOTING, 
Target Tests. 
Dr. Carver’s Six-Day Shoot. 
Range and Gallery. 
The Trap. 
CANOEING. 
A History of the Snake. 
Knickerbocker C. C, 
YACHTING. 
Put Under the Lee. 
Small Yachts. 
The Cruise of the Falcon Among 
the ‘‘Blue Noses,’ 
Sneakboxes, 
Sail Plan of the Carmelita. 
A Sailor’s Yacht. 
The Length and Sail Area Rule. 
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
PUBLISHERS’ DEPARTMENT, 
ean, 
Abo«t Hunters and a Hunt. 
The Game Dealers. 
Deer in the Adirondacks. 
Game in Manitoba. 
Some Remarkable Shots. 
Westem North Carolina, 
Massachusetts Game Notes. 
Sea AND River FISHING. 
Trouting on the Bigosh. 
Snelling or Gimping Hooks, 
Hooks on Gimp. 
A June Day on the Black River. 
Drag and Click Reels. 
Trout at Meacham Lake. 
FIsHCULTURE. 
Fish for Pennsylyania. 
THH SALH OF GAME. 
| peers dealers ot this city ave attempting to make it appear 
that under the present law they undergo great hard- 
ship. They complain that the season for the sale of game 
isnot sufficient to dispose of what they have on hand, and 
that they incur severe loss because compelled to get rid of 
the game. They profess to be anxious to see the game pro- 
tected, and protest that they observe the several statutes for 
that end, Their complaints, professions and protestations 
are alike unfounded and untrue,’ They are no more sensible 
nor honest than they were in 1859. Then in 4 paper, 
almost similar to that read by Mr, French last week before 
the dealers, was delivered by a gentleman of the same 
name before another meeting of like character. 
What reason is there in the argument that the market is 
glutted with game? It is perfectly within the power of the 
dealers to regulate their receipts of birds and venison, Their 
cry that the game is sent to them and they are compelled to 
receive it, is all bosh. If in the lawful season a commission 
merchant can dispose of only one hundred carcasses of ven- 
ison from a given source, let him advise his correspondent 
not to send two hundred instead, If he can sell only one 
thousand dozens of quail, let him refuse to take two thousand 
dozens. It is a very plain, simple and practicable rule of 
demand and supply. The dealers are not forced to receive 
more game than they want, no more than a pewspaper pub- 
lisher is foreed to take from his paper manufacturer ten 
thousand reams of paper more than he can use. 
The season is now ample for the sale of game lawfully 
sent to market. 
stalls and in the storage rooms of game which has been killed 
unlawfully or shipped unlawfully. The dealers know this. 
They advertise for snared birds, They encourage pot-hun- 
ters to transgress the law by offering to them a better price 
for birds illegally snared than for birds that have been shot. 
The great stores of venison are on hand only because men 
have been induced to evade the laws in shipping it. In fact 
the glut in the market is a glut of contraband goods. The 
plea for an extension of time is a plea for greater license to 
carry on an illicit traffic. While game associations and 
State Legislatures are devising means to suppress the trade 
The glut is caused by the piling up on the. 
of the grouse snarers and the deer butchers, these market 
men are seeking to stimulate that very trade. 
It is a rule perfectly well understood, that an extension of 
the open season for the sale of game means a continued 
killing of game after the date when such killing is forbid- 
den. The sale of game all the year around means that birds 
and deer will be killed all the year around. 
The market dealers’ plea is the plea of the pot-hunter and 
the snarer. 
‘“Nssmok” found his way into the ForEsT aND STREAM 
last week. He was on his way to Florida, and accepted the 
shelter of atin roof during arain storm in the city and 
pending the arrival of the Bucktail canoe. Putting into 
practice the preaching of “Woodcraft,” he was “going 
light.”. The ‘‘ditty-bag” and four jack-knives completed the 
equipment. The hatchet had been stowed in his sea-chest, 
somewhat unfortunately, too, for, lost among the devious 
ways and intricacies of the stairways and hall passages by 
which this office is reached, the old woodsman’s instinct was 
strong to blaze a trail, The muzzleloader, too, was stowed 
in the chest, but we had the pleasure of inspecting the pow- 
der horn, the loading tools and other duffle of the ‘“‘ditty- 
bag,” a receptacle that proved to be wonderfully capacious. 
“Nessmuk” is brimful of mother-wit and wisdom. His story 
magazine is set with a hair-trigger, and never a misfire; and 
St. Paul’s had sounded out the midnight hour long before 
the last “That reminds me” had been told, and the FornstT 
AND STREAM meeting broke up. We take this first oppor- 
tunity of declaring that the portrait in ‘Woodcraft’ is a 
libel; the wrinkles there shown are not to be discovered in 
“Nessmuk’s” countenance, and may they not be put there 
by his Florida cruisings. What the Bucktail skipper finds 
this winter will be toid in our columns. 
THR Carver SHoo?T.—For some reason of no special con- 
sequence, Dr. Carver feit called upon to make a test of en- 
durance in the shooting line, and according to report, and 
more or less accurate scoring, has fired at an immense num- 
ber of small objects thrown up by trained assistants, and 
within six days hit 60,016 of these moving targets. It wasa 
magnificent example of what will power may enable a man 
to accomplish in the way of getting through a great feat. of 
endurance; as a shooting spectacle it was not so great. 
There is not much marksmanship over a range of five yards 
or less, and with everything carefully arranged in advance, 
there was not much of interest on the purely technical side 
of the struggle. It was interesting in many ways; in show- 
ing where the strain of gun handling falls in a Jong pro- 
tracted trial; in drawing the attention of the general pub- 
lic 1o the somewhat neglected subject of snap-shooting, and 
in demonstrating to what accuracy and reliability the art of 
gun-making has advanced. Dr. Carver has indeed capped 
the record for wholesale marksmanship, and it is not at all 
likely that any one will care to add anything to such a per- 
formance, or even to equal it, 
MaAssaceusnmrts Fish AND GAME PROTECTIVE ASSOCI- 
ATIon.—The annual meeting of the society will be held at 
the Parker Jouse, Boston, this evening. These occasions 
are always most pleasant reunions of the New England gen- 
tlemen interested in the preservation of game. ‘Lhe election 
of officers for the current year was held last week and 
resulted as follows: President, Edward A. Samuels; Vice- 
Presidents—Hon. Thomas Talhot, Hon. Daniel Needham, 
Walter M. Brackett, Charles W. Stevens, Horace T. Rock- 
well, John T. Stetson, H. H. Kimball; Treasurer, Frederick 
R. Shattuck; Secretary, Henry J. Thayer; Librarian, John 
Fottler, Jr.; Executive Committee—Charles Levi Woodbury, 
Warren Hapeood) Wm. 8. Hills, Walton C. Taft, Edward 
S. Tobey, Jr., Edward E. Small, John P. Woodbury, Joseph 
W. Smith, John Fottler, Jr., Benjamin F. Nichols, Henry 
C. Litchfield, Charles Whittier. 
Tue TRAP-SHOOTERS are organizing an association, and 
we are assured that the details will be arranged at the New 
Orleans tournament. We notice in the prospectus that 
there is some talk of attempting to combine the interests of 
trap-shooters and dog show clubs. As we have repeatedly 
said, it is a wise course to confine the scope of the proposed 
association to the single sport of trap-shooting. Other move- 
ments have failed because the promoters tried to cover too 
much ground. There is nothing in common between the 
two classes if is proposed to combine. If the trap-shooting 
society succeeds at all, it will find all it can profitably gtgued 
Ai in the shooting interest alone, 
FORESTS AND FORESTRY. 
Y. 
1 Ree our last issue we suggested the heroic measure of the 
resumption by the State of all the remaining forests, 
cutting down the extravagant annual output of twenty bil- 
lion feet of lumber to four billions, the estimated capacity of 
the forests under proper management. ‘This measure we en- 
deavored to support by taking up the position which we 
hold to be unassailable, that the withdrawal from the market 
of the whole or great bulk of this country’s enormous timber 
supply, whether by exhaustion or monopoly of stocks, would 
create such a revolution in the world’s timber markets that 
an advance of twenty dollars a thousand in prices would be 
but the beginning of the rise which might be confidently 
looked for. That the existing forest area under skilled man- 
agement could be maintained permanently stocked, and im- 
proyed while yielding a revenue so large, that after reduc- 
tion of a legitimate interest on the outlay, there would be a 
surplus sufficient to plant up a forest area equal to the last- 
ing requirements of the country. 
If the State were to temporize with the problem until the 
existing standing stock should have been cut out, the neces- 
gary enterprise of planting up seventy million acres of forest 
(the area necessary to insure a return to existing annual 
timber requirements) would be a sorry uphill task. On 
the shortest admissible rotation of seventy years, there 
would be an annual outlay which cannot safely be put at 
below ten millions, accumulating at compound interest to 
the ead of the rotation, with nothing to set off against it but 
the proceeds of the thinnings between the fiftieth and seyen- 
tieth years. But if our suggestion were adopted the first 
outlay of five hundred willions would give a remunerative 
return immediately. If we assume, for purposes af illustra- 
tion, that the curtailment of supplies resulted in an advance 
of ten dollars per thousand only, there would still be a return 
of forty millions annually on the four billions of lumber ex- 
plcited, which, after deducting ten millions for planting up 
fresh forests, would still return a very large interest to the 
treasury; an interest, in fact, so large that the States haying 
forests could advantageously borrow the funds necessary for 
their resumption from the Central Government, or raise 
them on bonds, and still render their forests an important 
source of revenue, while restoring them to their original 
capacity. There is no legerdemain about this, no dreamer’s 
fallacy. The whole argument rests on the indisputable fact 
that in consequence of excessive competition, and the short- 
sightedness of the Government in surrendering its timber 
lands at a nominal price, standing timber is valued at a frac- 
tion of the cost of production. 
The cut of tbis country in pine timber is a very consider- 
able fraction of the world’s cut, and-in excess of the world’s 
available surplus. When the forests of this country shall 
have been eradicated, and the day is drawing near, the supply 
being far short of the demand, sellers will control prices, 
and will certainly fix them ata profit on costs of produc- 
tion, which is about fifteen dollars a thousand for standing 
timber in the European forests on the short rotation of 
seventy years, and for first-class large timber on a long rota- 
tion of a hundred and twenty to a hundred and fifty years the 
costs exceed twenty dollars a thousand, ‘The cost of plant- 
ing a forest is inconsiderable, but swollen by compound 
interest for fifty years before there is any material return 
from thinnings, it amounts to eight or twelve or twenty or 
more times its first cost before the forest comes to the axe. 
Will it pay to grow forests is a very pertinent question 
which may well be considered here. The general reply is 
that many governments have spent hundreds of thousands 
of dollars before they had hundreds of acres of well-stocked 
plantation to show for it, but every State that has taken up 
forest planting has eventually got down to skilled manage- 
ment with economic measures and made it pay. For this, 
as for every other necessary of life, the price is regulated by 
cost of production. In this country labor being higher, cost 
of production will be higher than in Europe, but since 
Europe has no available surplus stock to send us, and no 
available area on which to raise increased stocks, our future 
home prices will be regulated by home costs of production, 
To descend to details, the most perfect and at the same time 
the most costly system of stocking is by nursery-raised plauts, 
and on this method it would be unsafe to figure on less than 
tenortwelve dollarg an acre. The forest should be thinned at 
thirty years, and in this country it is very questionableif the 
small poles thinned out would find a market. Compound 
interest would consequently accumulate on first costs of 
planting, of supervision, on price of land, and on taxes for 
fifty years before there would beany remarkable return from 
thinnings. Reckoning compound interest at five per cent, 
