Forest and Stream. 



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NEW YORK, DECEMBER 10, 1885. 



( VOL. XXY.— No. SO, 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial, 



Circling at Field Trials. 



The Long Island Deer Supply, 



Cruise of the Coot. 



The Newark Dog Scare. 



To the Walled-In Lakea,— i. 

 The Sportsman Tourist, 



A Shriek from the Branches. 



Florida Routes, 

 Natural History. 



Capture of a Sea Devil. 



Birds and Bonnets. 

 Game Bag and Gira. 



A Vagabond Dog, 



The Adirondack Deer. 



The "Forest and Stream' Tra- 

 jectory Test. 



Hunting the Mountain Goat. 



Loading for Game. 



On an Ohio Dairy Farm. 

 Camp Fire Flickerings. 

 Sea and River Fishino, 



Kingfishers not Jailbirds. 



FtSHOITLTURE, 



Suicide of Trout. 

 The Kennel. 

 Clint's Last Coon. 



The Kennkl. 



The Rough-Coated Russian 

 Greyhound. 



The Laverack Pedigrees. 



New Field Trial Grounds. 



Dog Show Reports. 



Game About Canton. 



The National Field Trials. 



Pacific Coast Field Trials. 



Kennel Notes. 



Kennel Management, 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting, 



Range and GaUery. 



The Trap. 

 Canoeing. 



N, Y. C. C. Challenge Cup. 



Cruise of Aurora and Petrel. 



Wide or Narrow Canoes? 



Canoe Oomph" cations. 



Classification of Sailing Canoes. 

 Yachtinq. 



Cruise of the Coot — 10. 



Chain Cables. 



Corrections in List of Races. 

 A Handy Sporting Launch. 

 Notes from the Delaware. 

 Answers to Cobre.spondekts. 



TRB LONG ISLAND BEER SUPPLY. 

 T^EVEK- of late years very large, the number of deer on 

 Long Island was seriously diminished last autumn by 

 hunting. It seems very clear that unless immediate steps 

 are taken to check the killing of these animals they will soon 

 become extinct here. The popularity of Long Island as a 

 summer resort, and the great increase of its jwpulation dur- 

 ing a portion of the year, has lead to the clearing up and put- 

 ting under cultivation of a large part of the deer range, and 

 as this goes on the traets in which they are found become 

 more restricted and the animals are more easily captured. 



We have advocated and still urge tlie passage of another 

 law providing that for five years it shall not be lawful to 

 hunt deer on Long Island, This would enable the deer to 

 increase again, and at the end of that time a week or ten 

 days" hunting might be permitted each autumn, without any 

 serious risk of immediate extermiuatiou to the deer. 



8uch a measure would be enormou sly aided by the partial 

 stocking with deer of such portions of the east end as are at 

 present unoccupied by these animals. The best information 

 at present attainable gives the range of the deer as from the 

 neighborhood of Islip on the west, to Patchogue on the east, 

 and chiefly along the central portion of the island on the 

 heads of the little streams which run down to the Great 

 South Bay. They are also found as far to the east as Lake- 

 land, on the main branch of the Long Island Railroad. 

 East of this tract there are very extensive regions which are 

 admirably fitted for deer ranges, being overgrown with im- 

 penetrable forests of scrub oak and pine, and which were, 

 until the animals had been exterminated, the home of the 

 deer. Such regions might easily, and at comparatively small 

 expense, be stocked with deer. A buck and three does put 

 down at half a dozen dUfferent places and protected for five 

 years would give a fair stock of deer over this great tract, 

 where now there is not one. 



ISothingof the kind is worth undertakmg or attempting 

 unless a five-year law should be enacted, for no one wishes 

 to pay for putting out deer which will be slaughtered within 

 a year. If the suggestion is worth acting upon, an organised 

 effort must be made tlu'ough the Long Island Senators and 

 Assemblymen to procure the passage of a law guaranteeing 

 immunity to the deer for a term of years. 



GIROLING AT FIELD TRIALS. 



SOME years ago we took occasion to administer a richly 

 deserved rebuke to a field-trial handler for having cir- 

 cled his dog in ahead of another dog, whose point was 

 thereby stolen from him. Because on that occasion a Just 

 penalty was not imposed uxjon the offender, the evil method 

 has been adopted by others on certain occasions; and we 

 have more than once seen the dog that had first found scent 

 of game, perhaps by intelligent and very praiseworthy effort, 

 interfered with by his competitor in a dishonorahle manner. 

 That should not lie tolerated for an instant. 



Rule 18 of the Eastern Field Trials Olub saye: "If an 

 opponent's dog points game, the other dog must not be drawn 

 across him to take the point, but if not l>acking of his own 

 accord he must be brought around behind the backing dog." 



This is well enough so far as it goes, but the rule should 

 be made broader and protect the dog that first finds the 

 scent from interference by his competitor until he can work 

 it out and establish his point, or until the trail is lost. How 

 many sportsmen would go afield the seeond time witli a 

 companion who allowed his dog to crowd ahead of his own 

 dog that was carefully reading out the running bird? 



This has occurred in a public trial, and yet we are told 

 that one object of the trials is to educate the sportsman so 

 that he may be enabled to conduct himself faultlessly afield, 

 ais well as to handle his dog in a proper manner. Aside 

 from the disagreeable features of tlie practice, great harm 

 ensues to the dogs, especially to those of a high-strung, ner- 

 vous temperament, causing them to become unsteady in back- 

 ing and often untrustworthy in reading, especially in a poor 

 day for scent. The evil has grown to be a very serious one, 

 and there is pressing need of reform. We believe that the 

 handlers, one and all, would welcome the abolition of what 

 will, unless promptly checked, become a gross evil, and we 

 know that many of the most prominent supporters of our 

 field trials would gladly see this change inaugurated. 



and backyards. Already the secret poisoning committee has 

 gone to work and several valuable setter.? have been ruth- 

 lessly destroyed. All this could have been avoided. There 

 are hundreds of able physicians in this country capable of 

 inoculating the bitten boys witti the rabical marrow, just as 

 well as M. Pasteur could do. It would therefore have been far 

 more humane to victims, their parents and the public if M. 

 Pasteur had been quietly c^.bled to to send whatever rabical 

 marrow or virus he possessed to this country. His system 

 of treatment is well known here and it could have been fol- 

 lowed out to the letter. The scheme of sending young 

 children on a three-thousand mile journey, when they are 

 already wild with fear, will probably cause the death of sev 

 eral of t hem or cause them to become insane. 



fJRUISE OF THE COOT. 



THE NEWARK BOG SCARE. 

 TJT default of other highly-seasoned newspaper sensations, 

 a mad dog scare does capital service; and for a week 

 past the New York dailies have made specials of the alleged 

 case of hydrophobia in Newark, N. J. On Wednesday of 

 last week, Dec. 2, a large black dog, foaming at the mouth, 

 ran through the streets of Newark, A number of children 

 were bitten by it, and another dog which attacked it was 

 savagely torn. The supposed mad dog finally sprang upon 

 a stoop, and, it is reported, gnashed at a door, breaking off 

 a portion of the moiddingaud grinding the wood to splinters. 

 One man witli a shotgun and another one with an ax finally 

 dispatched the animal. The bitten children were taken to a 

 physician's of&ce, where their wounds were cauterized. The' 

 occurrence created intense excitement. A number of dog 

 owners immediately killed their dogs, which, it was feared, 

 had been bitten by the alleged rabid animal; and seven 

 other dogs, said to have been bitten, have since been sf^cured 

 and are now locked up in the vity .stables pending develop- 

 mfints. The Mayor of the city lost his head a-id issued a 

 proclamation empowering the police to shoot all uumuzzled 

 dogs found running at large. On this principle, it a China- 

 man should commit a murder in Newark the Mayor would 

 probably issue a proclamation calling on the police to hang 

 without delay all other Chiuameu found in the laundries 

 of the city. 



Of the children who were bitten it was determined to 

 send the four most severly wounded to Pasteur in Paris, 

 for the treatment he has so successfuly applied to other 

 ptitients presumably subjected to hydrophobia. The child- 

 ren, in charge of a physician and a nurse, left this port yes- 

 terday, and will proceed with all expedition to Paris. The 

 result of their journey will be awaited with intense interest. 



There is not sufficient proof that the dog which created all 

 this havoc had rabies. The probabilities are that it did not. 

 That may be determined by the developments in the cases of 

 the bitten dogs. There has been much guessing done and it 

 is guessed that the dog was mad. Now it happens to be a 

 fact that ninety-nine out of every hundred dogs that are 

 shot for mad dogs are actually only suffering from harmless 

 fits, produced from a variety of simple causes. 



By thinking .people very much of the action taken by the 

 Newai'k people regarding the dog-bitten unfortunates, 

 must be unhesitatingly condemned. The publicity given to 

 the affair has caused the most unwholesome excitement. 

 There are thousands of nervous persons who have become 

 absolutely terrorized. Many will not ventm-e into the streets. 

 Parents have kept their children at home from school, and 

 the dogs of many careful owners are quarantined in cellars 



''I'^HE opening chapters of Mr. C. P. Kunhardt's account 

 ^ of the "Qruific of the Coot" have awakened so great an 

 iutcrcBt in that expedition, as manifested by inquiries as to 

 its pui'ixise and duration, that a word of explanation regard- 

 ing it may ix) acceptable. Some weeks ago, when Mr. Kun- 

 hardt announced his intention of a voyage of exploration 

 along the Atlantic seaboard, the Eokebt and Stream, fore- 

 seeing the valuable results of such a cruise and appreciating 

 1 ■'^ the rich store of material likely to be developed and 

 ■ ^-^dt's ability to relate his experiences in an enter- 

 "'•cured from him the promise of the series 

 01 '"st have already appeared. 



The crii,. ^'lern waters is undertaken 



with a view to an inside route to 



suitable winter crui&inb, ^ ^-^hts, and the 



opportunities for sailing ami . vast 

 stretches of inland waters which cousti.,. 

 of the sea-girt coasts of Maryland, Virginia au . 

 lina, as well as the channels, scainds and devious pat^. 

 which lie between the marshy lowlands of South Carolina 

 and Georgia and the striqg of sea islands forming a natural 

 breakwater to the swells of the ocean. The Coot will seek 

 to reach the.se regions and possibly extend her voyage to 

 Florida waters during the months of winter. Her skipper 

 assures us that she will sail the entire distance on her own 

 bottom, and be worked in accordance with the precepts of 

 "single-hand" yachting. How she has been fitted especially 

 for that purpose by her crew of one hand has already been told. 



Passing into the Delaware at Trenton, the route will be 

 down the bay to Delaware City, where the short Sassafrass 

 Canal will take the yacht into the headwaters of the Chesa- 

 peake. Thence the course will be plotted to Norfolk, below 

 which the canal into Currituck Sound or North River will 

 float the traveler into the broad inland seas of Albemarle and 

 Currituck. Rivers, reaches and outlying beaches of these 

 sounds are to be exploretl with special regard to the sport 

 they aff^ord and the character of localities alongshore and 

 their peopk. Proceeding southward the Coot will follow 

 up the navigable channels as far as possible, noting all that 

 is of instruction and interest to those who may some day 

 wish to profit by her example. Thus the rigors of a northern 

 winter will be circumvented until the first signs of returning 

 spring move the navigator to turn his vessel's prow home 

 again in search of cooler breezes in high latitudes. 



The log of the cruise, in the columus of Fouest and 

 STRB.-iiM, will be most fascinating reading. 



North Caroltna Field Trials. — Upon the receipt of 

 fuller information respecting the North Carolina field trials, 

 we are very glad to learn that the representations made 

 to us regarding the dissatisfaction alleged to have existed 

 over certain of the decisions may have been exaggerated, 

 We have reason to believe that this dissatisfaction arose in 

 large measure from a misconception of the facts upon vrhich 

 it was founded ; and it is a pleasure to believe that the cir- 

 cumstances as related to us, and upon which a part of our 

 comments were based, were unintentionally colored by our 

 informants. 



BuTGHEits. IN THIS Pakk.— Rcccut advices from the Tel- 

 lowstone National Park state that Assistant Superintendents 

 Wilson and Weimar followed antl captured five hunters in 

 the Paik early last month. They had with them five deer 

 and one elk. The meat and five magagine rifl.es, which the 

 men had, were taken from them, and they were brought iK 

 to the Mammoth Hot Springs, where they were put on trial 

 before the justice, convicted and sentenced to pay fines of 

 |2o each, and fc^ir gnu^ aiiicl. ammunition were. declared 

 forfeited. 



