Forest and Stream 



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NEW YORK, JUNE 25, 1885. 



t VOL. XXIV.— No. S.2. 



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



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



Adirondack Deer. 



Spring Shooting Abolished. 

 The Sfortsman Tourist. 



In the Forests of New Bruns- 

 wick. 

 Natural History. 



Hybrid Wolves. 



The Birds ot Michigan. 



Polyandry vs. Polygamy. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



Cheyenne to Inyan Kara. — it, 



"Sp'icewood's" Gamekeepers. 



Possession in Close Season. 



Something About Field Scores. 



Spring Grass Plover. 



Bear Dogs. 

 Camp-Fire Flickerings. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



Camps of the Kingfishers.— iv. 



Vermont Bass. 



Large-Mouth and Small-Mouth. 



The Old Reservoir. 



The Striped Bass Law. 

 Fishoulture. 



Results of Planting Whiteflsh in 

 Lake Erie. 



That Potomac Salmon. 

 The Kennel. 



A Dog Party. 



The Kennel. 



English Kennel Notes.— xxxi. 



American Kennel Club. 



The Standard Committee. 



Kennel Notes. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 



Range and Gallery. 



The Western Schutzenfest, 



The Trap. 



N. G. A. Tournament. 



Massachusetts Glass Ball Asso- 

 ciation. 

 Canoeing. 



Rochester C C. 



The Canada Spring Meet. 



Mohican C. C. Sailing Champion- 

 ship. 



A Cruise in a Birch Bark. 



An Outsider's Views on Canoe- 

 ing. 

 Yachting. 



East River Y. C. Annual Regatta 



Dorchester Y. C June If, 



The Cup Racers. 



Hull Y. C. Pennant Races. 



South Boston Y. C. Regatta. 



Captain Richard Brown. 



International Code of Signals. 

 Answers to Correspondents . 

 Publishers' Department. 



ADIRONDACK DEER. 



WHEN we began the discussion of the Adiron dack deer- 

 hounding practice, it was distinctly stated that the 

 discussion would not he permitted to drift into other chan- 

 nels; and accordingly little mention was made of floating, 

 hotel "mutton," crust-hunting and other topics, all import- 

 ant, but irrelevant to the subject in hand. That was the 

 only thing to do if any result were to be obtained. It was 

 the constant endeavor of those who attempted to defend 

 hounding to make it appear that the opponents of water- 

 killing were staunch advocates of January crust-hunting and 

 June floating. In this way they sought to throw dust in the 

 eyes of the Governor, and to preserve their famous clubbing 

 fun. But the square issue was steadily maintained, and the 

 bill was signed. Now if Assemblyman Husted, the editor 

 of the Boonville Herald, the Adirondack landlords, and 

 other friends of the deer, will give us some light on the jack- 

 ing and crusting and hotel "mutton" abuses, we will be re- 

 joiced to have it; and if they can show the proper remedies 

 we shall be equally happy to assist in securing these. More 

 than this, a little practical help toward the right protection 

 of game will be a welcome assurance that our friends are 

 actually sincere in their professions. 



SPRING SHOOTING ABOLISHED. 



A STEP toward the protection of migratory birds passing- 

 north to their breeding grounds has been taken by New 

 York. The text of Section 2 of Chapter 485 of the Laws of 

 1885 reads as follows, the counties designated being Queens 

 and Suffolk, which comprise the shooting along the Atlantic 



Sec. 2. No person shall, in said counties, kill or have in possession 

 any bay snipe, sandpiper, shore bird or plover, from the first day 

 of January to the tenth day of July in any year, or any rail bird, or 

 meadow hen, from the first day of January to the first day of Sep- 

 ember in any year, under a penalty of ten dollars for each bird killed 

 or had in possession. 



Why should there not be such a law for every locality 

 where snipe are now shot in the spring of the year? 



Official Dog Shooters.— Twenty years ago it was the 

 barbarous practice of the Mayor of St. Augustine, Florida, 

 to go armed with a shotgun, at certain seasons of the year, 

 for the purpose of shooting unlicensed dogs. Whenever he 

 encountered one of the unfortunate brutes at large, he 

 "turned loose" a charge of shot at it, and rather appeared 

 to enjoy the agony that ensued. The old Florida town has 

 long since put away such heathenish doings, but the mantle 

 of the dog-shooting Mayor has fallen upon the shoulders of 

 another. Across the East River, and in sight from the 

 eleven-story building which looms up next door to the 

 Forest and Stream, is Long Island City, widely notorious 

 for its ill-government, pool rooms and gambling dens. This 

 Long Island neighbor of the metropolis, and in this present 

 year of grace, has an ordinance directing that all unmuzzled 

 dogs running at large shall be shot. An evening paper re- 

 ports that, the Long Island City policemen are now busily 

 engaged in shooting on sight all vagrant dogs, and much 

 brutality is daily witnessed, many dogs being literally tor- 

 tured to death. There are few men on the police force who 

 could hit a haystack across the street with a revolver, and 

 therefore it is rarely that a dog is put out of his misery until 

 he is finally clubbed to death. On Wednesday afteruoon of 

 last week, Officer Kelly, of Astoria, fired eight bullets at a 

 large black dog which was tied to a lamp post, and then had 

 to beat it to death with a bar of iron. Occasionally a dog 

 escapes with a broken leg. When the Long Island city po- 

 licemen have killed all the dogs there, they might find em- 

 ployment in Naples, where it is the custom to flay dogs alive 

 for the sake of their skins. 



Possession of Game in Close Season.— It has been 

 abundantly demonstrated that the liberty to sell game in the 

 season when it is forbidden to capture it means the killing 

 of that game for the market in the close season. Just as 

 long as the men who hunt for the markets can find dealers 

 to receive their game they will keep on taking it. This is 

 so well understood that the laws of about all the States for- 

 bid the sale of game in the close season. The market 

 dealers are continually working to have such provisions 

 repealed. This has been the effort of the Boston dealers 

 this year. The Massachusetts Legislature had so little 

 gumption that the members of the Senate actually sanctioned 

 the bill asked for by the men who wanted to sell game all 

 the year around. A like bill introduced this year at Albany 

 by the New York marketmen was promptly squelched. In 

 another column is printed a paper prepared by Mr. E. A. 

 Samuels, the president of the Massachusetts Fish and Game 

 Protective Association, show ing the attitude of the various 

 States respecting this subject. 



The Canadian Team. — There seems to be no lack of 

 energy among the volunteers of the Dominion. The cam- 

 paign against the insurgents of the Northwest has been a 

 short, sharp and decisive one. It was carried on by the 

 volunteer or militia forces, and they have not yet returned 

 wholly when we hear of the departure of the team to do 

 peaceful battle with the volunteers of England and Scotland 

 before the Wimbledon butts. It would have been easy to 

 have made this an off year, to have sent over a note of 

 apology that owing to home engagements the absence of the 

 Canadian contingent at the English meeting would have to 

 be overlooked. But the Canadians are not of that sort at all. 

 The more work they do the more they seem capable of 

 doing, and the team should get, if possible, a warmer wel- 

 come than usual when they reach the mother country. 



The Massachusetts Law. —Last week the Massachusetts 

 Legislature adjourned. No new game law passed. The 

 marketmen's bill went through the Senate and the game pro- 

 tectors' bill went through the House; the law remains as 

 before. It was a hard tight, the most bitter of the contests 

 of many years. The feeling of the members was decidedly 

 in favor of the dealers. There was manifested a most dis- 

 couraging lack of common sense and of public spirit when 

 the attention of the Solo us was turned toward the game 

 bills. If the members of the Massachusetts Fish and Game 

 Protective Association had not taken so determined a stand, 

 the dealers would have had things all their own way. 



From His Pdlpit, the Rev. Dr. Talmage, of Brooklyn, 

 is reported to have proclaimed last Sunday, that "every man 

 who went to a pigeon match went straight to hell." If the 

 words are reported correctly the proclamation is rather 

 startling; but then, perhaps Dr. Talmage does not know. 



The Perils of Angling.— An industrious compilation 

 of newspaper paragraphs would show that in the course of 

 twelve months more victims perish in the pursuit of big fish 

 than are blown to atoms by the dynamite cartridges set on 

 the stove to warm. The angler who falls into the water in 

 a fit and drowns and the angler who gets drunk and falls 

 out of his boat or capsizes it and goes to the bottom have 

 already been heard from this season. The angler waylaid 

 by tramps will in due time chronicle his adventures to the 

 thrifty reporter, and then will come the regular annual tale 

 of the little man chased up a tree by a big fish. [Since the 

 foregoing was in type the waylaid fisherman has been heard 

 from. It was on a New York dock, last Sunday. The 

 victim was Anton Cermack, a Bohemian cigarmaker, who 

 was fishing from a canal boat. Three young hoodlums as- 

 saulted him and bore off his fisbline and all his money — ten 

 cents. Before they could be captured the dime had been 

 expended for beer. This is not a very aggravated case, but 

 by the time the Associated Press dispatches of the occurrence 

 have reached the Pacific slope Mr. Cermack will have blos- 

 somed into one of New York's millionaire anglers, his kit 

 will be described as one of Blank's very finest, and the ten 

 cents will have multiplied to a hundred dollars.] 



Barnes of Baxley. — The editor who presides over the 

 local sheet of Baxley, Ga., has been relating his experience 

 in killing quail this spring. He tells it that he went out 

 with one Barnes, "a sportsman," who has a trick of calling 

 up the birds within range. "Having secreted ourselves, he 

 gave the female call, and here one came right straight for us. 

 Sometimes they will come flying and pitch close at your 

 feet. We were out but a short time and we killed five. Mr. 

 Barnes tells us that he generally goes out in his buggy, calls 

 them to him, and kills them at short range." They potted 

 them on the ground, of course. This Georgia editor would 

 do himself credit by sticking to his pencil and handpress, 

 and if he wants to prove himself a real philanthropist, let 

 him find some decent form of amusement for Barnes. 



What Will They Do With the Hounds?— The Adir- 

 ondack guides own hundreds of hounds and mongrels, which 

 have been used in years past to drive deer into the water for 

 lazy sportsmen to shoot or club to death. It has been the 

 practice of some of these dog owners to turn the brutes loose 

 in winter to run down deer on their own account lest they 

 should starve. Now that the use of the dogs is forbidden, it 

 is quite clear that the owners cannot afford to keep them to 

 look at and play with. What is to become of them ? They 

 must be put out of the way ; and we suggest to all North 

 Woods persons interested a study of the various methods of 

 killing a dog humanely. 



Passengers vs. Game Crates.— Some of the officials of 

 Arkansas railroads are blessed with sconce enough to see 

 that passenger tickets are more profitable than the revenue 

 from freight on game killed out of season. The pot-hunters, 

 who in certain sections of that State had in years past an 

 all summer's picnic shipping quail to the Little Rock and 

 St. Louis markets, have been brought up standing by the 

 refusal of the railroads to transport their unlawful plunder. 

 There is nothing beyond good business sense in this, for if 

 there are quail to shoot, sportsmen tourists will travel over 

 the roads to the game country; and what the railroads lose 

 in freight they will more than make up in fares. 



The Maharajah Dhuleef Singh is advertising to sell 

 out. He has 17,000 acres of land in Norfolk, constituting 

 the famous game preserve of Elveden. One of the annual 

 game scores enumerates the season's slaughter of 9,600 

 pheasants, 9,400 partridges, 2,000 hares and 70,000 rabbits. 

 Possibly Mr. M. D. Singh is rattled by his arduous labors in 

 game potting, and very likely he is sick and tired of the busi- 

 ness. It is no wonder that he wants to sell out. 



Wawayanda and Truthful James will fly their flag 

 over Camp Flotsam this summer in the Elysium of Peren- 

 nial Bass, where the balmy breath of the balsam blows on 

 the breeze and the lonely loon's ghostly laughter answers to 

 the weird call of the whippoorwill in the hollow wood. 



Summer Reading. — There are so many harrowing ac 

 counts of murders, assassinations and suicides related at 

 length in the daily press that it is a positive relief to turn 

 from their stifling atmosphere to the ozone-laden pages of 

 the Forest and Stream. 



