Forest and Stream. 



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NEW YORK, AUGUST 6, 1888. 



( VOL. XXV.-No. 2. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



Salmon and Salmon Nets. 



A Trajectory Test. 



Weak Knees. 

 The Sportsman Todrist. 



From Toluca South. 



A Day Aboai'd the "Sneak." 



Sport in the Sierras.— ni; 



Ku d jee- Me-Kudjee. 

 Natural Historv. 



The English Sparrow. 



Grouse and Youug Again. 



Quail in Confinement. 

 Camp-Fire Fliokerings. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



Bear Dogs. 



Tennessee Dove Shooting. 

 Over-Sensitive Primei-s. 

 A Bear Suit. 



The St. Louis Convention. 

 Quail in the Hay Field. 

 Sea and River Fishino. 

 Florida Summer Fishing. 

 Bow Pviver Trout. 

 An Awning for Fishing Boats. 

 The "ioughiogheuy. 

 Fly Fishing for Pike Perch. 

 In Knoxville Woods. 



Sea and RrvER Fishing. 

 A Summer Idyl. 

 Southern CaUfornia Sea Fishing 

 The Big Trout Secret. 



FlSHClTLTDRE. 



Mosquitoes Kill Trout. 

 The Kennel. 

 "Wildfowler's" Thievery. 

 Stud Fees. 



The New Setter Standard. 



Philadelphia Pall Dog Show. 



The English Collie Club. 



Kennel Notes. 

 Rifle and Trap SnooTiNa. 



Range and Gallery. 



Western Rifle Association. 



The Trap. 



Red Wiog, Minn. 

 Canoeing. 



The Association Meet. 

 Yachting. 



The "Herald" Steam Yachts. 



Toronto. 



Beverly Y. C. 



Atlantic Y. C. Cruise. 



Toledo Y C, July 28. 



New York Y. C. Cruise. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



out as a desirable place, and except for its present inaccessi- 

 bility no better place could be chosen. The tests will be 

 made over 200 yards, and every precaution will be taken to 

 have every possible element of error carefully eliminated or 

 accurately noted. The present idea is to use the more 

 popular weapons of the various makes and thoroughly test 

 each, using the service ammunition, or rather such as is sold 

 for general use in the various rifles. It is not to be a test of 

 what results may be secured by special rifle, loaded with 

 special cartridges and tired under improbable conditions, as 

 compared with the ordinary surroundings of a man in the 

 field after game at catch shot distances. We hope that our 

 results when tabulated will make a report which will be of 

 value to every rifle owner in the world. 



It is intended to have the tests follow on after the annual 

 fall meeting at Creedmoor. In this way all interference 

 with the preliminary practice of teams preparing for the 

 matches of the fall meeting will be avoided, and ample time 

 will be given for complete discussion of the tests and the 

 offering of hints and suggestions from those having them to 

 make. Such suggestions we cordially invite, and we will 

 open our rifle columns for all who may have them to offer. 



Before the date fixed for the trial we will give full details 

 of the manner of making the tests, the conditions under 

 which they will be conducted and the particular arms to be 

 tested. All who wish may come and witness the trials. The 

 expense connected with them will be borne entirely by the 

 Forest and Stream, and our effort will be that when 

 made they will be under such skillful management as to 

 compel the data reached to be accepted as standard in this 

 department of the art of rifle shooting. 



A TBAJEOTOBY TEST. 

 'T^HE demand is general among riflemen for something 

 ^ definite on the question of trajectories, especially with 

 reference to the rifles of to-day. There has been no end of 

 speculation and wild empyrical writing on this matter, and 

 the pages of every paper devoted to matters of field sport 

 are overladen with letters and communications upon this 

 topic. That it is an important one is evidenced by the de- 

 sire shown by every rifle buyer and rifle owner to get exact 

 data of the particular arm which he may possess and of 

 other arms in comparison with it. Many experiments have 

 been made from time to time by various marksmen, and the 

 details of these tests given in the back volumes of Forest 

 AND Stream; they have been very valuable contributions as 

 far as they went; but they were not complete, especially in 

 the matter of comparative results, and so the whole question 

 is still an open one, ready for the careful and satisfactory 

 answer which can only come from a thorough and well-con- 

 ducted series of tests under well-defined conditions, and 

 managed by experts about whose ability to make an exact 

 report there can be no question. 



Such a series of tests the Forest and Stream proposes 

 to make. Those who have studied the problem most care- 

 fully are the most thoroughly convinced that the time has 

 come for such an effort. The rifle manufacturers make all 

 manner of claims for their respective out-puts, and some of 

 them are so strong that one is tempted to believe that the 

 law of the attraction of gravitation is suspended, while this 

 or that particular rifle is sending out its charges. 



It is with particular reference to hunting rifles that our 

 tests will be undertaken. In military arms the reports of the 

 various examining boards have given a mass of statistics 

 which fully inform us how imperfect those weapons are in the 

 matter of flat trajectory. In hunting arms, however, where 

 more than ever a flat line of fire is most essential in getting 

 killing hits at the varying distances fired over, there is no 

 such collection of figures, and it is this want our trial of arms 

 is intended to supply. 



The matter has been under consideration for some time 

 past, and many of the arrangements have been completed. 

 The trial will be in charge of a gentleman connected with 

 the U. B, Proving Ground at Sandy Hook, where the various 

 tests are so carefully made on large ordnance by the U. S. 

 War Department. The range at Creedmoor has been pointed 



WEAK KNEES. 

 TT is never difficult to find persons perfectly willing to tell 

 in a vague, general way of game and fish law violations, 

 but when it comes to actually giving the proper oflicial defi- 

 nite information for his guidance, that is found to be quite 

 another thing. Most men who pay any attention to game 

 and game seasons, and who see the birds killed out of season, 

 are quite content to write a complaint about it to a local or 

 distant paper, to set up a wail over the evils of the times, 

 and to suggest that "something ought to be done about it." 

 But these same men will not themselves do the first thing to 

 help the game warden detect and punish the offenders. 

 There is an unaccountable hesitation to assume any personal 

 responsibility in the matter. The men who often talk the 

 loudest about the wisdom of game laws and the enormity of 

 the poacher's offense are the very last to give active assist- 

 ance to the execution of the law. All game officials can 

 testify to the truth of this. We are in receipt of constant 

 complaints made by wardens and constables that they are 

 left in the lurch by weak kneed informers, who back out 

 before anything can be accomplished. 



Every man — no matter whether he be a sportsman or not — 

 owes it to the community of which he is a member to give 

 prompt information of game law violations and to render 

 the officials such aid as may be within his power. By and 

 by this simple principle will be understood better than it 

 is now ; and then the game and fish destroyers will not have 

 things all their own way. 



SALMON AND SALMON NETS 

 'T'HE Canadian salmon season has been a very successful 

 one for the anglers on most of the rivers. Many 

 Americans have visited the streams this year, and the reports 

 of their catches are in most cases favorable. The fish have 

 been found in goodly numbers, and for the most of the time 

 the rivers have been in fair condition. 



The numbers of salmon returning to the mouths of these 

 streams are amply sufficient to afford constant sport to the 

 rods, if only their passage were not barred by the obstruct- 

 ing nets. So persistently are the streams netted that the 

 supply of salmon in the upper parts of the stream where 

 they are angled for is constantly diminished. The law re- 

 quires the netters to raise their nets from Saturday night to 

 Monday morning, but this provision is constantly evaded, 

 and the result is that of the salmon caught in the upper 

 waters of some of the streams four out of every five show 

 the marks of the net through which they have forced their 

 way. On a recent expedition of the officials to the netting 

 grounds, early one Sunday morning, the nets were found in 

 the stream contrary to law, and worst of all the Government 

 net was there too. The destruction of these nets was fol- 

 lowed by a marked improvement in the fly-fishing; and a 

 similar sudden increase in the supply followed the destruc- 

 tion of the nets by the breaking away of a boom of logs, 



The time now prescribed for the raising of the nets is too 

 short. Another night, say Wednesday night, should be added. 

 It is very poor economy to give so much of the salmon crop 

 to the net fishermen. The Canadians who derive a revenue 

 from the annual visit of the fly-fishermen, should have more 

 consideration shown them. If the fishing is such as will at. 

 tract an increased number of anglers, these people share in 

 the proportionate gain, and the salmon revenue, though 

 taken from the netters, is by no means lost, but is more 

 widely distributed among the people. It is urged by those 

 who are conversant with the condition of affairs that the 

 Dominion Government make such changes in the present 

 law as shall secure a more suitable division of this revenue. 



FISHING ON SUNDAY. 

 / \ N the occasion of his recent visit to the Woodmont Rod 

 and Gun Club's lodge on the Potomac River-, it was 

 reported in some of the newspapers that the President had 

 gone fishing on the Sabbath ; and straightway a great pother 

 was made over it, which was not allayed until it was dis- 

 covered that the alleged Sunday fishing had not been in- 

 dulged in. The objection of those who criticised the sup- 

 posed sport would have been, however, quite well taken. 

 Whatever a private individual may determine to be proper 

 for himself with respect to Sunday fishing, there is no ques- 

 tion that participation in such an amusement would be 

 improper in a high public official like the President of the 

 United States, who is required to have a due regard for the 

 feelings of the Sabbath-respecting portion of the public he 

 represents. 



What is true of the President is true of those in other of 

 ficial positions and places of influence. Even in such a 

 matter as angling in the backwoods, a man is bound by his 

 position and by the effect of his action, if made known, on 

 others. If there be a law on the statute books forbidding 

 Sunday fisbing, that law should be strictly observed by such 

 men, in no half-hearted manner, but cheerfully and to the 

 letter, that by such respect to its provisions the claims of the 

 statute on others may be enforced. From Canada comes a 

 story of a Sunday fishing law violation by men in high posi- 

 tions, who were detected. One of them. Sir Roderick Cam- 

 eron, of New York, was fined, while the other, a Supreme 

 Court judge, escaped through a technicality. When a 

 Supreme Court judge, because he happens to be in the 

 woods, is willing to violate the statutes, what, pray, is he to 

 expect of humbler folks who have no ermine to keep clean? 



The Ubiquitous Sparrow.— A colony of English spar- 

 rows have their abode in the music stand at Manhattan 

 Beach, Coney Island, where their discordant clatter jars on 

 the nerves of Gilmore's audience at the afternoon concerts. 

 In the midst of the gloom of the ISTew York City Hall, 

 with its funeral draping for the Grant funeral, last Mon- 

 day a nestful of young sparrows in the plaster ornament 

 about the central chandelier in the vestibule were chirping 

 loudly for food. The parent birds apparently feared to 

 enter the place, though a space in the drapings had been 

 left for them. Elsewhere we publish the English sparrow 

 report of the American Ornithological Union. The commit- 

 tee's verdict is against the bird, and it is advised that meas- 

 ures be taken for ridding the land of the pest. 



From the Richelieu to the Tiber.— Mr. W. L. Alden, 

 the newly appointed Consul General to Rome, will sail from 

 this city in the Servia next Saturday. Mr, Alden's appoint- 

 ment, besides giving general satisfaction, is of special in- 

 terest to canoeists, who have reason to feel grateful to that 

 gentleman for his part in introducing and making popular 

 the sport of canoeing in this country. Mr. Alden is the 

 originator of a practical device for long distance cruisers, 

 and the author of several books on canoeing. His canoe has 

 long carried the colors of sunuy Italy, and now that his 

 paddle will be dipped into the tawny flood of Father Tiber, 

 the good wishes of canoeists will go with him. 



An Adirondack Hotel Keeper is reported to have 

 said that he could with $40 buy off the game protector of his 

 district, so that his guests could club hounded deer. This 

 is a pretty cheap price for a game protector, and the land- 

 lord may possibly have a larger contract than he anticipated. 

 But it shows what a law-abiding landlord he is. 



The Perils of Angling.— New angling perils are con- 

 stantly developing. A Buffalo bank bookkeeper was 

 recently reported to be a fugitive defaulter, who had fled to 

 Canada, when the fact was that he was up in Canada fishing, 

 and aa the fish were biting well had ventured tp overstay his 

 time. 



