Forest and Stream 



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NEW YORK, OCTOBER 22, 1885. 



j VOL. XXV.-No. 13. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



The "Forest and Stream" Tra- 

 jecloryTest. 



Senatorial Antlers. 



Deer and Panthers. 



Private Fishciiltimj. 



Indian Education. 



Indians at Work. 

 The Sportsman ToxmisT. 



The Old Hemlock Buck. 



Dr. E. Sterling. 



My First Deer. 

 Natural History. 



The Conical Worm Snake. 



Habits of Crayfish. 



The Nigh thawk. - . 

 Game Bag and Gnu. 



Notions About Shootiug. 



Moose and Deer in Maine. 



The Fox as a Tree Climber. 



In the Bad Lands of Dakota. 



Gun— Call— Grampus. 



On Buzzard's Bay. 



Michigan's Shame. 



Bob White— Quail— PartrWge. 



Nebraska Game Notes. 



Philadelphia Notes. 



With the Bears. 



Adirondack Deer and Hounds, 



The Sportsman's Reverie. 



A Proposed Bear Club. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



An Aagler to his Rod. 



Sea and River Fishin«. 

 May Flies. 



Black Bass Fly- Fishing. 



On Windham Trout Streams. 



FlSHCULTUBE. 



Success of Salmon in the Hudson 



Oyster Problem Actually Solved 

 Thf. Kennkl. 



About Cocker Spaniels. 



Specimen Bricks. 



The California Kennel Club. 



Danbui-y Dog Show. 



The Stafford Dog- Show. 



Beagle.s at Philadelphia. 



Kennel Notes. 



Kennel Management. 

 Rifle ajjd Trap Shootino. 



Range and GaUer>% 



The Trap. 

 Canoeing. 



Why 1 Do Not Race. 



Cruise in a Canvas Tandem. 



Hartford 0. C. Regatta. 



A Race Between a Canoe and a 

 Sharpie. 



Shattemuc C. C. Fall Regatta. 



Mohican C. C. Races. 



A Good Idea, 

 Yaohting. 



Positively the Last Appearance. 



Another Answer to the Question 



Whose Waterloo? 

 Answers to Corrkspondbnts. 



THE FOREST AND STREAM'S TRAJECTORY TEST. 



npHE field work of the trajectory trials having been com- 

 pleted, there only remains the measuring of the eighty 

 or ninety targets, with their accompanying screens, before 

 the figures will be ready for publishing. There will also be 

 some weighing tests on the cartridges used, so that the data 

 will be made entirely satisfactory as to weapons and charges. 

 It is a matter in which the least haste makes the greatest 

 speed, and it is with a special desire to avoid further explan- 

 ation and make our report so thorough and simple that he 

 who runs may read and understand it in every particular 

 that full time has been taken, and no special effort made to 

 rush into print. Mr. Sinclair is now busy working up the 

 figures, applying the vernier measuring steel to every shot 

 mark, and gradually getting the results of the long and ex- 

 pensive tests into shape for our readers. 



SENATORIAL ANTLERS. 

 npHE subservient Suffolk senator missed the antlers after 

 all. His constituents did their best; they did nobly- 

 That the last buck of Long Island routed out by their hounds 

 did not fall to their guns was the shortcoming, not of the 

 Suffolk bounders, but due entirely to the apathy of outsiders. 

 After their repeated and ardent invitations given out to the 

 universe to come down to Long Island and hound deer, the 

 Suffolk county folks naturally expected that men and dogs 

 would be on hand, supplementing the home contingent, and 

 forming a buckshot-belching barrier by which no bewildered 

 buck might bound. But for some inscrutable reason that 

 part of the universe not bounded by the Atlantic Ocean and 

 Long Island Sound, displayed a stupid indifference to this 

 glorious dogging opportunity, and the Suffolk himters were 

 left to their task of extermination unaided. 



They did their best. West Islip mustered forty bounders, 

 and potted its share. Euphonious Ronkonkoma sent out its 

 host, one hundred strong, and to every man a dog. They 

 bagged three deer. They were about to divide these three 



deer among the hundred men, when some one suggested a 

 better plan. The venison was shipped to Marion and the 

 money proceeds were portioned out among the five score. 

 There was not a large share for each one, but the paltry sum 

 appeared tremendous, for it went to men who prefer ten 

 cents made in this way to a dollar earned, and everybody 

 went home happy. Sayville's contingent came to a less 

 amicable settlement over its booty ; the village scored nine 

 deer. Smithtown claims to have secured a fair share; and 

 the South Side Club corralled a number of deer in its large 

 wire-fenced preserve. 



But, after all the anticipation and effort, they did not kill 

 the last deer. This is a disappointment all around. Es- 

 pecially poignant is the regret of the voters of Suffolk, and 

 heavy is the heart of Senator Otis. It will be remembered 

 that when the deer-hounding bill was before the Senate at 

 Albany, last winter, Senator Otis, obedient to the behests of 

 his enlightened Suffolk constituents, with great obstinacy 

 stickled for an exception in favor of that county. This he 

 secured. In return the grateful Islanders were planning to 

 present to the Senator the antlers of the last buck of the Suffolk 

 race. The trophy was to adorn his home — to be a perpetual re- 

 minder of this particular and most valuable pubUc service at 

 Albany ; and to serve as a reassuring pledge between the 

 Senator and the voteis, and the Senator, reclining in his easy 

 chair and ga/ing upon the antlers on the wall, cotild see in 

 them the assured security of a seat in the Senate chamber to 

 be occupied by himself in perpetuity, or so long, at least, as 

 the sweet memory of the great deer drive of 1885 should 

 linger in the Suffolk wilds. The public presentation of such 

 a token of senatorial subserviency would have been an edify- 

 ing spectacle in this age of the world. Let us hope that it 

 is only po-stponed to another season. 



DEER AND PANTHERS. 

 \\I E noted the other day the inadequacy of the bounty 



^ * on panthers iu this State. The reward is not suffi- 

 cient to induce hunters to undertake the arduous pursuit of 

 the beast. The panther is a constant factor iu the destruc- 

 tion of Adirondack deer. ' For the sake of the deer supply 

 the panthers should be systematically pursued and destroyed, 

 and the bounty should )je such as to encourage this. 



Tn Vermont, a few years ago, a number of deer were put 

 out in the mountains, and for their protection a law was 

 passed which jirovided that none should be killed before 

 November, 1880. This time has since been extended to 

 1890, The deer have increased and multiplied. The law 

 has been well observed. We know of but one instance 

 where it -was violated. That was the case of the fox hunters 

 who started a deer on Sutton Mountain, and after a long 

 chase finally killed it. But with the new stock of deer has 

 come a new stock of panthers, and the prospects are that 

 the panthers will prove too much for the deer. The Ver- 

 mont panther bounty is the same as that of New York, $30, 

 This might easily be increased. 



HOPE FOR FLORIDA. 

 ^pHE season wiU soon be here when great numbers of 

 * Northern tourists will betake themselves to Florida, 

 and a good proportion of these pleasure seekers will go armed 

 with shotguns and rifles. The notion has been sedulously 

 promulgated by the hotel and railroad people of 'nat State 

 that the peninsula is one vast jweserve stocked with an inex- 

 haustible supply of game. The average sportsman in Florida 

 has rejoiced in the license to bang away at every animate 

 creatm-e, unhampered by game laws — for the State has no such 

 statute. The result is that, notwithstanding the glowing re- 

 ports in railroad circulars, in many sections of Florida game 

 is extremely scarce. It has been cleared oft' from the face 

 of the country by the continual shooting in season and out 

 of season. 



A game law was once iu force, though only a for brief sea- 

 son. It was speedily repealed through the influence of the cattle 

 herders in the southern and western portion of the State. 

 These men raise cattle for the West Indies. The cattle are 

 for the most part wretched creatures, unfit to eat until they 

 have been transported by steamer to Havana and there fatted 

 for the market. The Florida heiders are themselves wretched 

 creatures in their way. They are too shiftless to fatten beef 

 for their own consumption, too lazy to cultivate the land 

 and raise crops, and too miserly to buy canned goods— 

 the staple food of many Ploridians. They are content 

 with hog-and-hominy and game. They capture game at 

 all seasons and in any way they can get it. They are not 

 squeamish ; they can stomach anything in the way of deer 

 meat— bucks half devoured by ticks and does heavy with 



fawn ; it is all food to them, in spring, summer, autumn and 

 winter. When ttie game law was on the books these people 

 resented it. At their dictation, it was rescinded. The whole 

 State of Florida meekly yielded to their demand. Since then 

 the game has been butchered by residents and strangers. 



Now, however, there is some hope of a reformation. A 

 game club of strong membeisship has been organized in 

 Jacksonville. Suitable legislation will be secured. The 

 change may not be wrought all of a sudden, but there is still 

 sufficient ground for the hope that the .Tacksonville senti- 

 ment may spread to other localities, and in course of time the 

 heathenish practices now current in Flordia may be aban- 

 doned. 



Meanwhile the Florida tourist, instead of making his way 

 through the State in the role of a peripatetic game-slaughter- 

 ing arsenal, might help on the cause by reforming his ways 

 and setting an example for the residents. 



INDIAN EDUCATION 

 'T^HE true way to civilize the Indians is to educate them, 

 This is well understood by those who have made the 

 Indian question a study, and is a truth now generally accept^ 

 ed by all. To be effective and to have lasting results this 

 education must begin in early childhood and must continue 

 until the habits of life are so far formed that the child will 

 not revert to the customs of his race, but will continue in the 

 path in which his steps have been directed by the teachings 

 of the white man. 



Indian children, when early removed from association 

 with the dwellers in the camps, readily adapt themselves to 

 their changed surroundings. They enjoy life as well as 

 ever, keep themselves clean, wear the garb of civilization, 

 and iu general act after the manner of ordinaiy children. 

 They are quick to learn, and take an interest in their work 

 which is quite up to if not beyond that of the average white 

 child. In fact, except for their color, no one would know 

 that they belonged to a different race from ours. 



Experience has .shown that under favorable conditions the 

 Indian is the equal of the average white man in many of the 

 oj-dinary pursuits of life. One of the bravest, most intelli- 

 gent and most learned officers of the army whom we have 

 known, was an Indian, pur sang. And instances are not 

 wanting iu which Indians have attained a high measure of 

 .success in many walks of life. 



It is quite certain that with a white man's training the 

 Indian will make a good citizen. But in order that this 

 may be brought about it is important that the child should 

 be separated very early in life from its uncivilized surround- 

 ings and be brought up among the whites. Since this is 

 the case and is generally acknowledged, it seems strange 

 that so little is being done to fit the Indian children of to-day 

 for future citizenship. There are two or three good schools, 

 like the ones at Hampton and Carlisle, but, except at these, 

 the work of educating the young is but imperfectly per- 

 formed. At many of the agencies there are schools, but 

 they are small, short of funds, and unable to carry on the 

 work, on the large scale which the urgency of the case 

 demands. The education of these children should be carried 

 on in such a way that a majority instead of only a very small 

 fraction should receive the benefits of it. More money is 

 needed for this purpose. Every agency should have a 

 school large enough to accommodate all the children on the 

 reservation. Other schools like those at Hampton and Car- 

 lisle should be established in the East. The children of the 

 Indians should be educated in spite of themselves, if neces- 

 sary. But those children are willing to receive th.e benefits 

 of instruction, and not only they but their parents appreciate 

 that on their education depends the future of the race. 



We may neglect this now. We may save a few millions 

 of dollars to the United States Treasury in the next few 

 years by a parsimonious treatment of this question, but in 

 the years to come it will cost us dear. On the one hand, if 

 we take the course which is clearly the one pointed out by 

 duty and wisdom, we will educate these children — all of them 

 that we can get hold of — and twenty years hence we will 

 have added two or three hundred thousand to the number of 

 our best class of citizens. If we pursue the niggardly policy 

 at present in practice we will still have then as now, two or 

 three hundred thousand savage and semi-savage "wards," 

 who will be a constant source of expense to the Government 

 and of trouble and uneasiness to their neighbors. 



The Prince of Wales as a Vulpicide.— The Prince 

 of Wales has been hunting in Hungary with Count Karolyi, 

 and between them they shot seven foxes. We should be 

 much pleased to learn what the esteemed Illustrated Spm't- 

 ing and DramaMc News thinks of that. 



