Forest and Stream 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



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NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 5, 1885. 



j VOL. XXIV.-Ko 2. 



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COtfTEtfTS. 



Editorial. 



Go to the Supervisors. 



Topography of the Yellowstone 

 Park. 



Forest Fires. 



Through Two-Ocean Pass.-n. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



Uncle Lisha's Shop.— vn. 



Camp Flotsam.— xiii. 



Rambles throughNewfoundland 

 Natural. Historv. 



Horns of the Female Caribou, 



Tne Birds of Michigan. 



Is it the Same Bird? 

 Game Bag and Utxn. 



Reynard's Ways. 



An Episode. 



G-ms, Hawks, Prairie Dogs, 

 Wells. 



Maine Lumbermen and Guides. 



Some Remarkable Shots. 



Batterv -Shooting. 



A Score of Hits and Misses. 



Deer in the Adirondack's. 



Tne Dealers and tne Game. 

 Camp Fire Flickering^. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



Snell, Snood, Gimn. 



The Most Killing Flies. 



Sunapee Lake. 



Size and Weight of Black Bass. 



Sea and River Fishing. 



Some Remarkable Catches. 



Talk about Tackle. 



Trout Flies. 

 Fishculture. 



Fishculture as an Industry. 

 The Kennel. 



The Crystal Palace Dog Show. 



New Orleans Dogr Show. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 



Kange and Gallery. 



The Trap. 



New Orl ans Tournament. 



The National Association. 

 Canoeing. 



Knickerbocker C. C. Winter 

 Gamp-Fire. 



The Canoe Meets of 18S5, 



The Eastern Meet, 



The JLake Erie Meet. 



A Cruise Down the St. Joseph 

 River. 



Ballast in Canoes. 

 Yachting. 



The Challenge for the Cup. 



Cruise of the Minx. 



The Buoyancy of Cutters. 



Club Qnar ers and a Policy. 



Windward. 



Yacht Photos. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



FOREST FIRES. 



THE question of preventing fires in the Adirondacks is 

 curiously complicated by the over-production of coarse 

 lumber, which for many years has been going on in Michi- 

 gan, Wisconsin and Minnesota. While there remained in 

 those States within reach of the mills a plenty of logs the 

 business was very lucrative, especially to those who bought 

 their standing timber at the absurdly cheap Government 

 price, because the rapid settlement of the prairies and th« 

 exhaustion of the pine of the Eastern States made an almost 

 limitless demand for good lumber. The tariff of $2 per 

 thousand excluding, or greatly hindering, Canadian compe- 

 tition, the "pine barons" for a time had things their own 

 way and waxed fat. 



But they could not prevent others joining in this intoxi- 

 cating hunt for the last pine tree, and so greatly were the 

 number and capacity of competing mills increased, that 

 even if there had been an inexhaustible supply of good logs, 

 no available market could absorb the enormous supply. But 

 as there was no such supply, before long good logs grew 

 scarce; the quality and price ran down; and it was neces- 

 sary to drive mills all the harder to make them pay. The 

 recent invention of logging railroads — by which good trees 

 growing so far from streams that they could not get them 

 out with teams, are quickly and cheaply conveyed to the 

 mills — has, it is true, helped for a time to keep up the 

 quality. But of course, a forest exhausted by a method 

 which reaches all the good trees in it, is more thoroughly de- 

 nuded in the end. And even this device has not served to 

 keep up the quality and prices. 



The result has been that the market has been gorged with 

 lumber, most of it so poor that it is not fit for anything ex- 

 cept the coarsest uses, and is dear at any price. But after 

 the good pine of the Adirondacks was exhausted, the poorer 

 pine and the spruce and hemlock that remained had to com- 

 pete with this flood of low-grade Western lumber, and yielded 

 so little profit that the lumbermen of that region say that 

 they cannot afford to remove the debris of logging. At the 

 conference held last summer at Saratoga, between the For- 

 est Commission appointed by the Comptroller, and the lum- 

 bermen, few of them would admit, although some did, the in- 



disputable fact that this rubbish must he removed if fires are 

 to be kept out. A similar effort to prove that two and two 

 do not make four, was made at the meeting of the American 

 Forestry Congress, held later in the season at the same 

 place. 



The increasing scarcity and value of good white pine may 

 yet prove the salvation of the Adirondack woods. A com- 

 petent German forester, Secretary Fernow, of the American 

 Forestry Congress, asserts that in all the tracts which have 

 not been burned over, good piuc can easily be produced in 

 abundance in place of the coarser conifers now found there, 

 and that even most of the burned tracts on North Creek, if 

 vigorously taken in hand at once, can bereclothed with valu- 

 able trees. 



Good timber is certain to be scarce and high-priced. The 

 State lands are interspersed all through those belongiug to 

 private parties. If scientific re-afforesting upon a scale large 

 enough to be profitable were commenced on State lands, pri- 

 vate proprietors might be led to adopt the same methods. In 

 that case the North Woods would yield a permauent support 

 to a large population, and at the same time afford the best of 

 hunting, fishing and recreation to the increasing throngs of 

 summer pilgrims. 



GO TO THE SUPERVISORS. 

 TN New York State the Boards of County Supervisors 

 -"*- have authority to make local regulations for the addi- 

 tional protection of game and fish. This authority is vested 

 in them by Chapter .212, Law of 1879, as amended April 25, 

 1884. A correspondent suggests — and a most sensible sug- 

 gestion it is— that those who desire changes in the game laws 

 to suit their local needs, should go to the Supervisors for 

 such changes instead of going to the Legislature. In numer- 

 ous instances this has been done, and local laws have been 

 secured, which might not have been granted at Albany. 



Great bodies move slowly. It is much easier to put a 

 measure through the Board of Supervisors than through the 

 two chambers at Albany. Game law alterations are not there 

 looked on with much favor. Game bills are neglected and 

 lost sight of. Sometimes because of their multiplicity and 

 contradictory provisions they are regarded as nuisances. 

 The Senate and Assembly can be expected to know little of 

 the local needs of the particular section a bill relates to. If 

 the law is enacted at all it is a chance measure. 



But the Supervisors can be made to understand just what 

 is desired ; they can hear and intelligently weigh the evidence 

 for and against the measure; and they are presumed to be 

 personally interested in the matter. 



For local law go to the county Supervisors. 



The Michigan Sparrow Bill.— Representative Barry's 

 bill in the Michigan Legislature, which provides for tbe kill- 

 ing and extermination of the English sparrow, and removes 

 protection from them, has passed the Committee of the 

 Whole, and will undoubtedly become a law. These vermin 

 have multiplied in enormous numbers in Michigan, until 

 they have become au intolerable nuisance in the cities 

 and are beginning to annoy the farmers not a little. The 

 sentimental sympathy aroused by the resolution introduced 

 by Mr. II. B. Roney in the Michigan Sportsmen's Associa- 

 tion five or six years ago, which removed protection, pro- 

 vided extermination, and permitted sparrows to be shot from 

 a trap, has given place to a moie rational view of the ques- 

 tion, as the nuisance has already assumed the proportions 

 then predicted. 



R. H. Keane, known widely as an expert long-range 

 shot and an enthusiastic rifleman, died on Saturday morning 

 last, at the residence of a sister in Lexington, Ky. He was 

 for some years promineut in connection with the small bore 

 practice at Creedmoor, and as a director of the N. R. A. 

 was always in favor of pushing the sport into popular ap- 

 preciation. As president of the Amateur Rifle Club he 

 sent several teams to Canada to meet the Hamilton long- 

 range shooters. It was under his administration that the 

 Bodine team was sent to Dollymount and there defeated the 

 Irish riflemen for the last time in 1880. Mr. Keane was 

 born in Arkansas in. 1845, but for nearly twenty years past 

 had made New York his residence. 



A Deadly Upas Tree, under the branches of which the 

 luckless traveler faints and dies, is the latest invention of 

 the fellow who writes all the lies about Florida. That there 

 are in this country great forests of trees, beneath whose 

 blessed branches are to be found strength in place of weak- 

 ness, health in place of sickness, and peace in place of pain, 

 is no lie, but an every-day certain reality, tested by scores 

 and hundreds. And while the sensational newspaper editor 

 is paying the Florida liar and his tribe to devise new upas 

 horrors for the diseased appetites of his readers, the Forest 

 and Stream is week after week bearing its messages of the 

 pines and balsams. 



The Doos' Record. — Some months ago a correspondent 

 proposed that the dogs should have a roll of honor, wherein 

 should be written each canine golden deed. Last Thnrsday 

 night, on Staten Island, a Newfoundland dog named Jumbo 

 found a man overcome by the cold, summoned assistance 

 and saved the man's life. Jumbo belongs to the Staten 

 Island police force. On the same evening, in New York, a 

 pet dog, Julia, gave a midnight fire alarm to her mistress, 

 Mrs. Maria Pollard, widow of the historian, E. A. Pollard; 

 and roused the tenants of a burning house just in time for 

 them to escape. 



Who Is Responsible?— The game dealers try to make it 

 appear that they are obliged to sit supinely down on their 

 own stalls and take all the game outside parties send to 

 them. We have repeatedly said that it is quite within their 

 power to stop the shipment of game to themselves whenever 

 the stock on hand is as large as can be disposed of in the 

 lawful season. It will be seen by reference to another 

 column that this is precisely the view taken by so experi- 

 enced a gentleman as Mr. Charles E. Whitehead, the counsel 

 of the New York Association. It is the only common- 

 sense view for any one to take. 



Sure Success will crown the effort to get anon-hounding 

 law in New York, provided each reader of this journal, resi- 

 dent in the State, will use his individual influence to that 

 end We hear of letters written to Albany which have 

 elicited favorable re?pouses. Why should not every member 

 of the Senate and every member of tne Assembly receive 

 from some one person or a number of persons iu his district, 

 an expression of opinion on this topic? 



New York State Game Protectors. — We have received 

 several of the reports sent by the game protectors to the Fish 

 Commission. They are valuable documents, inasmuch as 

 thej' show the progress of the work and the state of public 

 opinion. In our next issue we shall give an abstract of these 

 documents. 



"Well, you see, 1 just Went for Him with a Club," 

 as the valiant sportsman said, when he was telling an admir- 

 ing audience how he kdled his big buck in an Adirondack 

 lake. The law ought so to be changed that such fellows 

 cannot "go for" the swimming deer "with clubs." 



Lawful to Shoot Dogs.— If tbe bill against hounding 

 deer in the Adirondacks should be passed, a provision should 

 be made declaring it lawful to shoot all dogs found chasing 

 deer. The guides and Adirondack residents will see to it 

 that such a measure if enforced. 



Michigan Sportsmen's Association.— The annual meet- 

 ing of the Michigan Sportsmen's Association at Lansing, 

 which was to have been held last Tuesday, has been post- 

 poned to next Tuesday, Feb. 10, at 7 o'clock P. M. 



The Press of the State is very geneially in favor of 

 a law forbidding the hounding of deer in New York. See 

 the newspaper comments on the Forest and Stream peti- 

 tion. 



The National Association, which has been talked of, 

 will in all probability lake shape at the International Clay- 

 pigeon Tournament at New Orleans. Something of the plan 

 and purpose of the proposed society is explained in our 

 Trap columns; and our next issue will contain the complete 

 draft of the constitution and by-laws. 



Canadian Sportsmen are complaining because the Gov- 

 ernment leases marsh lands to private clubs instead of suit- 

 ably providing game protection for the general public, 



Rochester, N. Y., has a humane sportsman who advo- 

 cates hounding deer. He thinks that the bucks ought to be 

 killed to prevent them from killing each other. 



The Petitions should be returned to this office at the 

 earliest convenience of those who have them in charge. 



Stop Deer Hounding, and at the same time many deer 

 will be saved from the market-hunter's rifle and club, 



