Forest and Stream 



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NEW YORK, JULY 16, 1885. 



j VOL. XXIV.— No. 25. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



Try All Methods. 



The Arrangements for the Cup 

 Races. 



The Adirondack Deer. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



In Carolina Wilds.— n. 



The Buektail in Florida.— vm. 

 Natural History. 



The Cock Grouse and Young. 



Some Grouse Queries. 



How a Business Man Looks At It 

 Game Bao and Gun. 



Bear Dogs. 



Confessions of a BuffaioButcher 



Still-Hunting the Grizzly. 



The Game Prospects. 



Some "Remarkable Shots. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



Oil for Fish Lines. 



The ''Striped Bass" Law. 



Camps of the Kingfishers.— vi. 



The Dan River Obstructions. 



Trout in Tuffs Pond. - 

 Fishculture. 



How to Restore Our Trout 

 Streams. 

 The Kennel. 



The Standard Committees, 



The American Mastiff Type. 



The Kennel. 



My Experience with Lance. 



Stud Fees. 



The Pet Pus. 



A Fox Hunt with Beagles. 



Kennel Management. 



Kennel Notes. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 



Range and Gallery. 



The Championship of Ireland. 



Telescopic Rifle Sights. 



The Trap. 

 Canoeing. 



Amateur Boat Building. 



Camp Begulations at Grindstone 

 Island. 



A Cruise on the Tame and Trent 

 Rivers. 



Pittsburgh C. C. Record Cup 

 Race. 



Bayonne C. C. Regatta, 

 Yachting. 



Report of the N. Y. Y. O. C6hv 

 mittee. 



Quebec Yacht Races. 



Beverly Y. C. 



The Arrival of the Stranger. 



Jury or Cruising Rigs. 



The Schooner Race at Boston. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



ought to be ashamed of. "What the deer- clubbing dudes 

 from the city and such guides as their money can corrupt may 

 think of this Boouville casuistry, it is not hard to say, but let 

 us be thankful that there are a large class of Adirondack 

 visitors and a larger class of Adirondack guides who have 

 respect for trie law of tbe land and will obey it. 



More than this, the number of Adirondack guides who 

 welcome the non hounding law, and are anxious to see it 

 strictly enforced, is large enough to carry the day, if each 

 man will do his share. The Adirondack guide owes it to 

 himself and to his fellows to exert all bis iufluence in favor 

 of the law's observance, to discountenance its violations, to 

 report offenses to the protector of the district, and to do his 

 part in seen ring and giving evidence to convict the offender. 



"We will supply to any applicant a printed copy of the 

 deer-hounding law suitable for posting. 



THE ADIRONDACK DEER. 



IT would be some satisfaction to cherish the belief that the 

 editor of the Boonville (N. Y.) Herald was, though 

 densely benighted, nevertheless a well-intentioned friend of 

 game protection. That would excuse his grotesque vagary 

 of arguing that deer ought to be driven into the water and 

 clubbed to death, that they may thereby be saved from being 

 killed at salt-licks or taken in traps. When a person — even 

 an editor — is only ignorant there is yet hope for him. He 

 may be shown the error of his ways, and being enlightened 

 he may be converted. If our erring Boonville brother were 

 misinformed and nothing more, we might be encouraged to 

 attempt the pleasant task of instructing him. After he had 

 sat for a brief season in becoming humility at the feet of the 

 Forest and Stream, he would rise up in the possession of 

 more knowledge about deer and deer hunting than he can 

 ever hope to gain from the sore hotel keepers, who have 

 been bamboozling him into the fancy that clubbing deer in 

 the water is the only proper way to secure venison. But 

 however pleasing it might be to take such a view of his case, 

 ' his own utterances preclude any other conclusion than that 

 he is both ignorant of the merits of the new Adirondack deer 

 law and unblushingly defiant in his attitude toward that 

 statute. We admit the perfect right of any individual to 

 disapprove of a law, but no man who pretends to be an order- 

 loving citizen will openly advocate violations of the law or 

 covertly instigate them by saying "if you do offend they 

 cannot catch you at it." That is substantially what the 

 Boonville editor says when he puts it in this way; 



The law is an absurd one on the face of it. Who is to know 

 by whom a dog is harbored in the wild wilderness, and who can 

 bring evidence that will say that the dog came of his own accord oi- 

 ls owned or harbored by this man? To enforce the law it will take 

 a game constable on every acre of land that lies between Lake George 

 and the St. Lawrence River. Supposing a dog was pursuing a deer 

 and drives him into the water and the deer is killed by parties who 

 know nothing about the dog, are these men to be tried and convicted 

 for hunting with dogs? 



That is the sort of reasoning adopted hj criminals to bol- 

 ster up the commission of every crime in the calendar. Every 

 burglar in the crowded city, who enters a house at midnight, 

 is nerved by the hope that he will not be caught at it. Every 

 horse thief on the frontier is sustained by confidence in his 

 ability to escape Judge Lynch. It is such doctrine as any 

 editor professing to represent the side of order and morality 



TRY ALL METHODS. 



THE constantly increasing scarcity of our game birds, and 

 especially of our quail, makes it imperative that we 

 should do everything in our power to protect them. At all 

 seasons of the year, and at all ages they are exposed to the 

 constant attacks of unrelenting enemies. Among all these, 

 man is incontestably the most destructive. The gunner and 

 the netter do their work after the birds are grown, and so 

 in a certain sense able to take care of themselves, and it is 

 supposed that man protects rather than destroys the helpless 

 young. And yet the farmer, who has in his heart nothing 

 but friendship for the beautiful birds which whistle on his 

 fences in summer and come up in winter to the barnyard to 

 pick up among the straws a few kernels of grain, is at harvest 

 time unwittingly one of the quail's worst enemies. For in 

 the mowing and reaping of his fields at the very season 

 when the eggs are about to hatch, or when the tiny young 

 are first trying their feeble legs and are yet unable to fly, he 

 destroys great multitudes of the little fellows. Often the 

 mowing machine passes over a nest, decapitating the mother 

 bird, and leaving the eggs to spoil, or even if the hen is not 

 killed, she deserts her treasures, as soon as the cover, which 

 protected them and her from intrusive eyes, is cut down. 

 The hoofs of the horses and the heavy wheels of the machines 

 destroy the young of many a brood without the fact being 

 known to any one. In this way each year large numbers of 

 quail are killed, 



A gentleman who had often seen the nests and broods 

 destroyed in this way recently asked us if we could not sug- 

 gest some method by which this havoc could be prevented, 

 at least in his own fields. We suggested to him that if he 

 would have his dogs run through his fields he would at least 

 be able to find the young broods, and perhaps some nests, 

 notwithstanding the popular idea that a sitting bird gives 

 forth no scent. The dogs would trample down a little grass, 

 we suggested, but they might enable him to save a good 

 many quails. What he thought of our suggestion is told in 

 the following note; 



Thanks for the kind information that you gave me last Thursday 

 morning in regard to the finding of quail in the grass lots, to give 

 them protection before the mowing machine entered the field. The 

 mowing machine commenced on one of my grass lots early this 

 morning. After it had been at work some little time the merry notes 

 of little Bob White brought to mind your suggestion, to take the 

 dogs into the field , and if the hen bird was sitting the dogs would poir t, 

 anil then I could leave the grass around the nest, and so not disturb 

 the bird. * 



So I unhooked Quail and Sport, and they hardly entered the field 

 where the machine was making its busy rattle, before Quail froze 

 stiff, and right in front of him on the ground was the hen. She looked 

 as if she had been badly shipwrecked, and lay on one side, with one 

 wing extended as if it was broken. As I approached she fluttered off 

 a little way to attract my attention from the little ones, which were 

 about an inch long and which scattered in all directions. 



I called the dogs off and had not proceeded over one hundred feet 

 in the same field before the clogs again came to a stand. The female 

 bird .jumped but the dogs still continued to point, and on stooping 

 down and parting the grass there sat a little fellow just the size of the 

 ones in the other bunch. I picked him up and took him to the house 

 for the folks to see him, and when their curiosity was satisfied I 

 carried him back to the old bird who had returned to her brood. 



I ordered the machine to the other side of the lot, and I shall watch 

 to-day, and keep the birds out until the grass is all cut. There may 

 have been forty young birds in that lot, and what would have been 

 their fate if I or the dogs had not found them? The machine would 

 have made hash of them, Now they are safe until next fall, when 1 

 should be happy to have you tramp with me after the little beauties. 



A. A. F. 



This is certainly one method by which the farmer, who is 

 also a sportsman, may save for himself or his neighbors a 

 good many birds at a small expense of time and trouble. 



No Correspondents' Cards. — We give no correspond- 

 ents' credentials. No one is authorized to ask any favors 

 from transportation companies on account of the Forest 

 and Stream. 



THE ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE CUP RACES. 



WE give on another page the full report of the commit- 

 tee of arrangements of the New York Yacht Club, 

 containing the correspondence with Mr. .1. Beavor-Webb, 

 representative of Sir Richard Sutton and Lieut. Henn, rela- 

 tive to the coming international races. While some of the 

 letters have been published before, the report gives the 

 negotiations in full, and will be read with interest by the 

 many who are watching daily for Genesta's arrival. Our 

 yachtsmen need feel in no way ashamed of the manner in 

 which the negotiations have been conducted by their repre- 

 sentatives, as the eutire correspondence shows a sportsman- 

 like spirit aud a desire only for a fair race on both sides. The 

 suggestions of the challenging parties have been courteously 

 considered, and in all points but one they have been complied 

 with. The only point on which any discussion has arisen is 

 that of time allowance, the challengers requesting that a 

 mean between the New York Y. C. rule and the Y. R. 

 A. rule" be adopted. After some correspondence tbe com. 

 mittee have decided that the race must be sailed under the 

 New York Y. C. rule, and the other side consented to do 

 so. No previous race can compare with the coming ones 

 in point of interest, the boats are probably more evenly 

 matched than in any of the schooner races, and the differ* 

 ence at the finish is likely to be very little. The questions 

 at stake are not only more important than the issues in 1870 

 and '71, but they are more generally understood by yachts- 

 men, and the results will be studied as never before. Apart 

 from national feeling, there is a still deeper interest in the 

 practical points involved, which it is expected that the races 

 of the two cutters will settle decisively. Under these cir- 

 cumstances it cannot but be gratifying to all to know that 

 on both sides all has been done to secure a fair and equitable 

 test of the merits of the two types of yachts. 



Indian Troubles.— Immediately or remotely seventy- 

 five out of every one hundred Indian outbreaks may be traced 

 to the stuff sold by the sneaking, devilish fiend of a whisky 

 trader; the other twenty-five are due to the outrages per- 

 petrated by thieving agents and lying, cheating land-sharks. 

 Confine the Indian on reservations; starve him; craze him 

 with fire-water; gouge him out of his land ; if he turns shoot 

 him down. The United States has been doing this for a 

 hundred years, and before the end of another century of this 

 extermination, the Indian question will probably be settled. 



The Confession of a Buffalo Butcher, published 

 elsewhere, is a plain recital of a business proceeding. It ia 

 not very delightful reading. The value of the narrative is 

 in its manifest candor. It is one chapter in the history of 

 the destruction of an animal from the face of the earth, and 

 as such it will be useful material for the book which is some 

 time to be written on the extinct animals of the North Amer- 

 ican continent. 



Our Trout Streams. — In our fishcultural columns Mr. 

 J. S. Van Cleef has an article on restoring trout streams. 

 Mr. Vau Cleef is a close and careful observer, and Ms article 

 abounds in practical suggestions which we indorse and 

 commend. We believe with the writer that restocking is 

 not enough to do to restore our streams ; the original con * 

 ditions must also be restored or the brooks will never again 

 swarm with trout as of old. 



Spring Deer.— Florida hunters have been busily and sue 

 cessf ully engaged in deer shooting, and the local editor has 

 just stupidity enough to pat the hunters on the back with 

 sugared words of praise for their prowess. Florida editors 

 ought to be a shade above that sort of thing. By the way, 

 how long will it be before that State will be civilized enough 

 to have a game law ? 



It Was Hardly Fishing.— The papers report that Presi- 

 dent Cleveland went fishing the other day at the Woodmont 

 Rod and Gun Club's ground on the Potomac; but they add 

 that a special telegraph wire was run to the club-house, and 

 a telegraph operator went along with the party. That is a 

 very poor way to go a-fishing, even for the President of the 

 United States. 



Ephraim and Cahoot. — What is the origin of the sobri- 

 quet "Old Ephraim" applied to the grizzly bear? And are 

 not those writers in error who apply the name to the black 

 bear? Also, what is the meaning of the expressions "in 

 cahoot" and "cahoots" which are used in'the South and South- 

 west, and perhaps elsewhere? 



