Forest and Stream. 



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NEW YORK, JULY 2, 1885. 



< VOL. XXIV— No. 23. 



I Nos. 39 & 40 Park Bow, New York. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



Settled at. Last. 



The Suffolk Short Shrift. 



A Word to Some North Woods 

 Guides. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



A Moonlight Memory. 



The Sparkling Spokane. 

 Natural History. 



Zuni As It Is. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



The Deer Hounding Law. 



Cheyenne to Inyan Kara,- in. 



Firewater. 



The Prairie Chickens. 



The First American Rifles. 



The Red Deer of Killarney. 



A Big B'ar. 

 New Publications. 



Hunting Trips of a Ranchman. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



Hibernation of the Black Bass. 



Newfoundland Seal Fishery. 



Johnnie and J. 



Maine Angling. 



Drum Fishing at Bayside. 



Sea and River Fishing. 

 That Peculiar Twitch. 



FlSHCULTURE. 



New York Oyster Commission. 



Canadian Fishculture. 

 The Kennel. 



Concerning Dogs and Records. 



Kenuel Management. 



Kennel Notes.- 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 



Range and Gallery. 



The Trap. 



The New York Stale Shoot. 



Portland. Oregon. 

 Canoeing. 



How to go to G. indstone Island. 



A Gunning Trip in a t "anoe. 



Canoe Racing at Lachine. 

 ^Rondout C. C. Meet, July i. 

 Yachting. 



Opening Day of Chesapeake Y.C 



Brooklyn Y. C. Annual Regatta. 



Stiletto. 



The Effect of Oil on Waves. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 

 Publishers' Department. 



antlers of the last deer killed shall be reserved to be presented 

 to Senator James Otis as a slight token of gratitude for his 

 deer hounding services at Albany, 



THE SUFFOLK SHORT SHRIFT. 



IN Suffolk county, Long Island, New York, there are pre- 

 sumed to be a few deer, stragglers left over from last 

 season. They owe their existence to the stupidity of those 

 who had planned against them a raid of extermination. 

 These men blundered about the date of the opening of the 

 season, and after they found out their mistake too short a 

 time was left to complete the work of deer eradication. It 

 is not intended that such a stupid blunder shall happen 

 again. A pack of hounds, a charge of buckshot and a short 

 shrift are in waiting for every Suffolk county deer. 



When the bill against deer hounding was in the Senate at 

 Albany, Mr. Otis, mindful of the true interests of his con- 

 stituents, demanded an exception in favor of Suffolk county. 

 It was very properly granted him, for, as we told Gen. 

 Curtis at the time, it was better that the Long Island folks 

 should be given their customary exception than that the 

 progress of the bill should be put in jeopardy. Accordingly 

 the deer of Suffolk county are not included among those 

 which the new law protects from the hounds. The first ten 

 days of October are specified as the time in which it will be 

 lawful, to dog the deer of Long Island. The two Sundays 

 which come in that time are excluded, and the full open 

 season is therefore reduced to eight days. That is a short 

 time in which to complete the work of deer extermination ; 

 but, as has already been explained, these animals are not 

 numerous, and if the Suffolk county sportsmen are properly 

 supported by outsiders, as they hope to be, the campaign 

 will be successful. 



We are advised that, with that generosity which ever marks 

 the sportsman, the Long Island deer hounders invite all 

 their friends in the neighboring counties and States to come 

 down to Suffolk next October and join in the chase. Every 

 man or boy who likes the fun and owns or can borrow a gun 

 is cordially invited to join in the sport on the opening day 

 and stay until it is through. Those who can furnish dogs 

 are urged to bring them; the more the merrier; and if there 

 are not enough deer to go around it is hoped that every 

 hunter will at least be fortunate enough to get a shot. 



We shall take pleasure in frequently recalling to the 

 memory of interested persons this courteous invitation of the 

 Suffolk county sportsmen. They make it open to all with- 

 out a particle of restriction other than the condition that the 



SETTLED AT LAST. 



IN the years 1880 and 1881 a frequent subject of discussion 

 in these columns was the propriety of State game pro- 

 tective societies engaging in the wholesale slaughter of pigeons 

 at the trap. Those discussions provoked much acrimony 

 and engendered toward the Foreht and Stream some enmi- 

 ties which have not been healed. And yet how strange it 

 all seems now. Inveigh against such "game protective" 

 wholesale pigeon tournaments to-day, and who would care 

 a straw? It is a dead issue. The question has been settled. 

 Three things have done it: 1. The wild pigeon supply has 

 been trap-shot to smithereens. 2. Public opinion has come 

 around to the view taken by this jourml in 1881. 3. Good 

 and sufficient substitutes have been provided for the live 

 birds. 



Wild pigeons tire now very scarce, and their netting is ex- 

 pensive. As the cost of pigeons has increased the associations 

 have grown poorer. They can no longer afford to shoot live 

 birds. If birds were still abundant they would not be em- 

 ployed. The sentiment of the day is against it. The Coney 

 Island Tournament of 1881 was the turning point. No body 

 of respectable men would care to submit themselves a second 

 time to the scoring given the New York Association by the 

 press of this city ou the occasion of the Coney Island meet- 

 ing. A great majority of those who approved of and partici. 

 pated in that shooting feel very differently about it now. 



There is no reason whatever for regret that the birds are 

 no longer netted by tens of thousands for such tournaments. 

 It has been demonstrated that there can be just as successful 

 gatherings of trap-shooters without the wild pigeons. Satis- 

 factory artificial targets have been substituted. The compe- 

 tition is just as keen, the same degree of skill is requisite, 

 and the tournaments are even more largely attended. The 

 members of the Massachusetts State Glass-ball Association, 

 who demolished- 7,500 clay -pigeons at their aunual tourna- 

 ment last month, went tiome just as well satisfied as if they 

 had shot at live birds. The meeting of the New York State 

 Association for the Protection of Fish and Game last week 

 was more of a success than it would have been if the mana- 

 gers had li mited the matches to live bird shooting, and the 

 tournament of the National Gun Association at Philadelphia 

 this week will doubtless furnish another example to be cited 

 in this connection. So in all parts of the country trap-shoot- 

 ing is just as much of an institution as ever it was in its 

 palmiest days ; but it is not now necessary, as formerly, to 

 hunt about for an excuse to justify the living sacrifice of 

 wild pigeons. . 



SUMMER WOODCOCK. 



IN this vicinity, yesterday, the first day of July, opened 

 cool and bracing. It was a delightful moruiug for the 

 field, and across the North Kiver, in New Jersey, where the 

 woodcock season was so propitiously ushered in, very many 

 shooters were gladdened by the fair weather as they set out 

 for the covers. They had every reason to anticipate a good 

 day's sport, and we shall doubtless hear that large bags were 

 the order of the day with those who know the habits of the 

 bird and where to find them. 



At this season of the year the woodcock are in excellent 

 condition for the table. They are about two-thirds the size 

 attained by fall, and as every market gunner knows, they 

 form a most dainty dish for the bun vimnl, and bring a good 

 price when smuggled into the New York market. There is 

 good reason to anticipate that the July woodcock shooting 

 in New Jersey will be good. The late spring delayed the 

 northern flight of the birds. Many that, under ordinary 

 conditions, would have gone on further north to breed, were 

 kept in this latitude by the cold weather and eventually bred 

 here, and as a consequence the supply of home bred birds is 

 unusually large. 



But that is no excuse why New Jersey sportsmen should 

 indulge in July woodcock shooting; on the contrary, it af- 

 fords a very good argument for deferring all shooting until 

 the fall. The birds are much more easily and surely bagged 

 now than they would be at the later season, It is quite 

 within the power of sportsmen and market hunters who 

 know the haunts of the birds to thoroughly clean them out 

 before August. ISo birds whatever need be left over, pro- 

 vided the gunners are moderately diligent in their pursuit. 

 And so it will happen that while this year the birds are un- 

 usually plenty, next year there will be no reason to expect 

 anything but the old barren covers again. 



The result would be far different were July woodcock 



shooting abolished. All migratory birds are accustomed to 

 return to the vicinity of the grounds where they were bred 

 to propagate their species. Were these New Jersey birds 

 left until fall, some of them would escape, and in the spring 

 they would come back again to the New Jersey breeding 

 grounds; and by judicious management the localities adven- 

 titiously stocked by the cold spring of 1885 might be made 

 permanent game grounds. 

 July woodcock shooting in New Jersey is very foolish. 



A WORD TO SOME NORTH WOODS GUIDES. 



IT was repeatedly stated in these columns during the prog- 

 ress of the deer hounding bill, that the most intelligent 

 and provident guides of the North Woods were heartily in 

 favor of the proposed law. In this statement we were per- 

 fectly correct. These men did ask for the law ; and now 

 that it has been enacted, they demand its observance, and 

 they call upon the State officials to see that it is enforced and 

 its violators punished. 



But there are many other guides and residents who did 

 not want the law, and who are now inclined to make light 

 of it. They have taken no measures toward disposing of 

 their hounds. The dogs in some localities are as numerous 

 as ever; they have been running loose this spring, chasing 

 deer, and they are running loose now. Their owners, when 

 remonstrated with, reply that the hounding law does not go 

 into effect this year, and they guess it won't amount to much 

 even when it does take effect. The dog owners who talk in 

 that manner are likely to be brought up standing, if the 

 game protectors do their duty. By reference to another 

 page of this journal, where the new law is printed in full, it 

 will be seen that it takes effect immediately. We commend 

 to Adirondack guides and residents and to all other parties 

 concerned a careful study of the new statute. It is very 

 plain. A magistrate will find little difficulty in arriving at 

 a proper construction of its provisions. The most stupid 

 man, whose hounds are now in the woods, can understand it, 

 if some one will read it to him. 



It is intended by those who labored to put this law on the 

 statute books to see that it is enforced. The State game 

 protectors are charged with the duty of detecting violators 

 and bringing them to justice. These officials for the Adir- 

 ondack districts are as follows: 



Fifth District,— Saratoga, Rensselaer, Washington, Warren and town 

 of Indian Lake, Hamilton county, -Seymour C. Armstrong, Weaver- 

 town, Warren county. 



Sixth District.— Essex, Clinton.— John Liberty, Elizabetht own, 

 Essex county. 



Seventh District.— St. Lawrence. Franklin.— Peter R. Leonard, 

 Ogdensburg. 



Eighth District— Fulton, Montgomery, and the towns of Benson, 

 Hope, Wells, Lake Pleasant, Arietta and Morehouse, in Hamilton 

 county, except that portion of Morehouse and Arietta lying north of 

 the south branch of Moose River.— Thomas Bradley, Rockwood, 

 Fulton county. 



Ninth District.— All that part of Lewis lying east of the Black 

 River, and of the west lines of the towns of Diana and Crogan, all that 

 part of Wilmurt, Herkimer county, and of Morehouse and Arietta in 

 Hamilton lying north of the south branch of the Moose River, and 

 all that part of Long Lake in Hamilton county lying west of the east 

 line of great lots numbers 4, 5, 11 and 42.— John L, Brenckerhoff, 

 Booneville. Oneida county. 



Tenth District.— All that part of Oneida county north of the south 

 line of Verona, Rome, Marey and Deerfleld, all of the county of 

 Lewis lying west of the Black River and west of the west lines of 

 Diana and Crogan, and all of the county of Herkimer lying south of 

 the south branch of the. Moose River.— Nathan C, Phelps, Remsen, 

 Oneida county. 



These officers should be notified of all deer law violations. 

 The facts should be given them. Our advice to those North 

 Woods guides who want to see the new law in operation is 

 that they give the game protectors all the aid in their power. 

 The good of the great community of guides demands that the 

 new law be rigidly observed ; and there should be no hesita- 

 tion about giving evidence that will lead to the punishment 

 of offenders. The guides of the Adirondacks who are in 

 favor of the new law are abundantly powerful to put a stop 

 to hounding if they will only exert their influence in that 

 direction, and display a moderate supply of backbone. 



The first important step is to make known the exact pro- 

 visions of the law. Every owner of deer dogs, every guide 

 and every visitor in the North Woods should be made to 

 understand that the use of hounds is unlawful and will be 

 punished. We have prepared a poster containing the law, 

 which will be sent free to any person who will place it in a 

 conspicuous position, and we ask all persons interested to 

 assist first in making the law known, and then in securing 

 its enforcement. 



But ignorance of the law will excuse no man. And not 

 even the plea of ignorance can be argued by the dog owners 

 in the neighborhood of Keene Valley, .Essex county, whose 

 hounds were chasing June deer. 



