Forest and Stream. 



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NEW YORK, JUNE 18, 1886. 



j VOL. XXIV.-No. 31. 



i Nos. 39 & 40 Park Row, New York. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



The International Races. 



Fish Legislation. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



The Mountains. 



My Fellow Traveler. 

 Natural History 



The Bite of the Gila Monster. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



Cheyenne to Inyan Kara.— i. 



Brother M. "s Sunday Fox Chase. 



In Carolina Wilds. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



Camps of the Kingfishers. — in. 



Minnesota Fishing. 



What Bait? 



A Trip to Raccoon Straits. 



Bass Nomenclature. 



Snelling Hooks. 



Nash Stream Bog. 



Wax Recipes. 



Porpoise Steak. 



FlSHOELTURE. 



The Porpoise Fishery of Cape 



Hatteras. 

 The Kennel. 

 More dealings with "Wild 



fowler.'' 

 American Cocker Spaniel Club. 

 The Shrewsbury Field Trials. 



Ttrp TvFNNEL 



The English Kennel Club's Field 

 Trials. 



To Form a Collie Club. 



Kennel Notes. 



Kennel Management. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 



Another Curious Bullet. 



Range and Gallery. 



TheCreedmoor Fall Programme 



The Trap. 

 Canoeing. 



Oakland C. C. Races.— May 30. 



Canoeing at Lachine, Canada. 



Club Uniforms at the Meet. 



New Cruising Grounds in Florida 



Merrimack River Canoe Meet. 

 Yachting. 



Genesta and Galatea. 



Boston Y. C, June )3. 



Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C, 

 June 8. 



The Cleveland Death-Trap Cap- 

 size. 



Galatea's First Races. 

 ! New York Y. C. , Jun e 11. 

 j Winthrop Open Races, June 13. 



Stiletto. 



Harlem Y. C. Regatta, June 16. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



catch, kill or expose for sale, or have in his or her possession 

 after the same has been killed, any black bass or striped bass 

 weighing less than one-half pound or less than eight inches 

 in length, from end of snout to end of caudal fin, at any- 

 time. No person shall expose for sale, or have in his or her 

 possession after the same has beeh killed, any black bass, 

 Oswego bass, striped bass or muscalonge, save only from the 

 twentiety day of May to the first day of January." 



It is a small blunder if only the striped bass of the lakes 

 was intended, but a very large one if it was meant to pre- 

 vent the sale of R, lineatm before the twentieth of May, 

 when it is the main supply of the markets during the Lenten 

 season, and comes mainly from States which do not forbid 

 its capture and export, it is on a par with the blunder 

 which exempted the greater part of Long Island from the 

 ttout law, so that a man may go to Suffolk and Queens 

 counties to fish, but is a criminal if he brings his trout home 

 to Brooklyn or New York. It is evident that some intelli- 

 gent supervision should be held over bills relating to fish 

 and fishing before introduction or after passage, or both, 

 and none seems to us so competent as that of Jhe Commis- 

 sioners of Fisheries. 



FISH LEGISLATION. 

 4 S we review the work of the last Legislature of the 

 -^*- State of New York in altering and amending the laws 

 relating to fish and game, we are more than ever confirmed 

 in our previously expressed opinion that the Commissioners 

 of Fisheries should be consulted in some way before any leg- 

 islation affecting fishing or the fisheries is perfected. The 

 average legislator knows little and cares nothing about fish 

 or fishing, and it is seldom that a Governor is familiar with 

 these things. The legislator and the Governor pass away 

 in a few years, but the Commissioners of Fisheries remain. 

 They are anglers, every one of them, keen and observing 

 naturalists, and all possess a knowledge of fishculture. Such 

 are the four gentlemen composing the Board of Fish Com 

 missioners of New York. They have acquired a store of 

 knowledge by years of study and experience that ordinary 

 anglers, legislators and governors do not possess. 



This subject has just been called to mind by a stupid 

 clause in the game law just passed forbidding the capture or 

 sale of striped bass between the 1st of January and the 20th 

 of May. If this clause, which is inserted in a sentence 

 naming several fresh-water fishes, is intended to mean the 

 striped bass of the Great Lakes and of the Mississippi River, 

 Roccus {Morone) chrysops, the white bass of the regions 

 named which is striped, and the R. interrupltis of the Missis- 

 sippi Valley, then we have no comment to make, for the 

 fishes are comparatively rare in Lake Ontario and in our 

 markets. But the striped bass of salt water is in its prime 

 as a table fish in New York city in March and April, during 

 Lent, and comes from North Carolina in quantities of from 

 one to five tons daily. At that time few are caught in New 

 York waters, and the bass is the main dinner fish; shad, 

 mackerel, bluefish, etc., do not become plenty until May, and 

 the question of fish food is an important one. 



We confess to ignorance as to what fish is meant in the 

 law, as the scientific name is not given and there are three 

 fishes known as striped bass, the two named and the R. lin- 

 ealus, the bass par excellence of salt water. The wording of 

 the law is, after designating the waters in which black bass, 

 muscalonge, etc., may be legally caught: "No person shall 



THE DEER HOUNDING LAW. 



THE last bill signed by the Governor of New York was 

 the Curtis bill forbidding the use of hounds for 

 hunting deer. The measure is now a law. Deer bounders 

 of every degree are admonished to take notice and govern 

 themselves accordingly. 



The Adirondack guide may let go his "tail holt," and the 

 kid-gloved "sport" may throw away his club. That style 

 of doe butchery is outlawed. The clubber is relegated to 

 his proper place among candidates for a term in jail. 



This is a great step ahead; it is a victory long fought for 

 and hard won. The Forest and Stream takes no little 

 pride in chronicling this successful issue of the deer hound- 

 ing agitation. 



As a matter of course, there will be wailing in camp. The 

 Wall street broker, whose annual custom it has been to hire 

 a gang of guides and a big pack of hounds and water-kill Ids 

 deer, will not be particularly delighted to lose his gory 

 recreation. The New York city physician, eager to surpass 

 his own infamous record of fifteen deer left to rot in one 

 small lake, will be sorely chagrined to be cheated of his 

 victims. The Albany doctor who labored so strenuously in a 

 bad cause, and tried so hard to defeat the bill for his 

 own selfish and brutal ends, will naturally weep as he reflects 

 that there will be no more swimming fawns for him to 

 overtake and pound to death. Some of the North 

 Woods hotel landlords, who have defended hounding be- 

 cause the hounders brought revenue to their tills, will howl 

 because their business is injured. All these people will 

 make much ado, and will heap maledictions — as they are 

 even now doing — upon the Forest and Stream. 



The new law is in the interest of decency and legitimate 

 sportsmanship and of game protection. If properly exe 

 cuted it will be an untold benefit to the Adirondacks and to 

 the State. 



Now that the new law is on the statute books, let the game 

 protectors see that* it is observed. 



and in advance of the New York sloop. Another week will 

 see the first of the trial races, and enable us to gauge more 

 correctly the strength of the sloops. 



"Sporting Men."— Some months ago we called attention 

 to the distinction between the terms "sporting man" and 

 "sportsman," and on several occasions since then the subject 

 has been recalled to our attention by inquiries from corres- 

 pondents, who were evidently seeking more light that they 

 might instruct their fellows. This is encouraging, since it 

 is highly important that the distinction should be clearly 

 understood. No sportsman cares to be dubbed a sporting 

 man, when the daily papers are constantly chronicling the 

 didoes of that unsavory class. As an example, the Evening 

 Post of this city, in calling attention to the hordes of odious 

 characters who are threatening to ruin Coney Island, said 

 the other day: "Another source of offense and discomfort to 

 respectable persons and families going to Coney Island is the 

 crowd of 'sporting men,' otherwise blacklegs and ruffians, 

 who infest the race-courses and overrun the Island on race 

 days. The worst class of professional gamblers, pickpockets, 

 prize-fighters, make the cars unpleasant for decent people, 

 even if they do not infest the beach. The blasphemous, 

 ruffianly crowd of sharpers, gamblers and other varieties of 

 the 'sporting man' which fill the cars going down and 

 coming back from the races is enough to deter respectable 

 peopie from going to Coney Island at all in the afternoon." 

 The separation of the sportsman from the sporting man is 

 wider than the Atlantic Ocean, and in this year of grace 

 1885, persons who confound the two classes are away behind 

 the times. . 



Assemblyman Htjsted, the Bald Eagle of Westchester, 

 was not so very much of a prophet when he very confidently 

 asserted a fortnight ago that Governor Hill would veto the 

 deer hounding measure. "It is not hounding that is deplet- 

 ing the deer, it is crust-hunting," said Mr. Husted, and with 

 delightful disregard of logic, he added, "Dogging is not 

 doing any harm ; why, when a deer hears a dog three miles 

 off he takes to the water at once. Gen. Curtis and the 

 Forest and Stream are behind the bill, but it will not 

 become a law." As a prophet Mr. Husted had better retire 

 from business. 



TEE INTERNATIONAL RACES. 



COINCIDENT with the trial trip of the Puritan comes 

 the news of the sailing of ,the Galatea for New York, 

 and also of the final decision of the New York Y. C. as to 

 courses and as to Galatea's challenge. From the cabled re- 

 ports Genesta has started under much smaller spars than she 

 has raced with, a change that will by no means improve her 

 as a sea boat when her heavy weight of ballast is considered. 

 Experience tends to show the value of taunt spars for rough 

 water work in boats with heavy lead keels, and in the light 

 of it we must regard Genesta's venture under short sticks as 

 an experiment of doubtful value. Both she and Galatea 

 have not yet shown the form desirable in a champion, and 

 the accounts thus far of the latter are very unfavorable, 

 especially at reaching. The races laid out are sure to in- 

 clude a very large proportion of work off the wind, and in 

 this both Genesta and Galatea have thus far been found 

 wanting, and by no means up to Irex or Marjorie. In the 

 race over the club course reaching is almost sure to predom- 

 inate, while over the triangular course the chances are small 

 for much real windward work, so that the cutter's main 

 chance is in the final race of twenty miles out and back. 

 The Boston yachtsmen are to be commended for the prompt 

 manner in which they have put through their work, the 

 Puritan being ready in good season to allow time for trial, 



Virginia Waking Up. — Twenty-eight indictments have 

 been brought in by a Virginia Grand Jury against individ u- 

 als who have been illegally taking fish from the James River. 

 A Lynchburg correspondent writes that much interest is 

 taken in these cases, for they will be made a test of the val- 

 idity of the law. The Forest and Stream has always 

 maintained that the more tests of this sort the better. It is a 

 poor law that cannot stand such tests, and if the statute is 

 found defective, there will be no difficulty in substituting 

 another that cannot be questioned. 



Dr. Franklin B. Hough, who died at his home in Low- 

 ville, N. Y., last Thursday, was a man with a decided 

 genius for statistics. He was a voluminous writer on the 

 local history of a number of New York towns; and in 1855 

 and 1865 was superintendent of the State census. For a 

 number of years Dr. Hough was chief of the forestry division 

 of the Bureau of Agriculture at Washington, and a number 

 of Government reports bear testimony to his industry as a 

 compiler; his library of forestry works is said to be the finest 

 of its kind in this country. 



The Earliest American Rifles.— Professor Spencer 

 F. Baird, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, is seek- 

 ing to obtain some information about the first manufacture 

 of rifles in this country ; and in another column will be found 

 a note of inquiry from him relating to this subject. Possi- 

 bly the information might be had from some of the historical 

 societies. 



A Believer in Fishculture. — There is one man in 

 New Hampshire who thoroughly believes in the theory and 

 practice of fishculture. He owns a salmon weir in the 

 Penobscot River just below Fort Point, and one day last 

 week he took from the weir more than $100 worth of salmon. 

 Thirty -three of the fish weighed over 400 pounds. 



A New Jersey Woman was sent to the luuatic asylum 

 last week because she had filled her cabin full of dogs, some 

 seventeen in all, of all breeds and colors and in all stages of 

 starvation. The woman was just crazy enough to believe 

 that the possession of twenty dogs would biing her luck. 



Capt. L. A. Beardslee, commanding the TJ. S. S. Pow- 

 hatan, arrived at this port last Monday after an extended 

 cruise on the Spanish Main. The Powhatan will take part 

 in the reception of the Statue of Liberty. 



