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00NTENT8. 



Editorial. 



The Adirondack Deer. 



Foreign Game for Long Island. 



Good Buffalo Hunting. 



The Game. 



City and ountry. 



To the Walled-Iu Lakes.— vii. 

 The Sportsman Tourist 



The Gulf Coast of Florida. 



Camp Flotsam — xx. 



Climate of the West. 

 Natural Histoet. 



Bird Protection by the A O. U. 



A Midnight Botanical Expe- 

 dition. 

 Camp Fire Flickerings. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



Adirondack Deer 



Notes from a Winter Camp, 



The Lvman Sight. 



Cold W^eather Camp Bed. 



Central New York. 



Deer in Arkansas, 



"Forest and Stream" Grizzlies. 



New England Game, 



Antelope Hunting. 



To Protect Long Island. 

 Sea and River Fishino. 



Is ic a Matter of Taste? 



Sea and River Fishing. 

 An Ingenious Relation. 

 Game Qualities of the Basses. 

 The Chub as a Game Fish. 

 Protection in Canada. 



FiSHCULTURE. 



Tlie Wisconsin Fish Commission 



Local Movements of the Sal- 

 monidas. 

 The Kennel. 



The A. K. C. Champion Rule. 



Field and Cocker Spaniels. 



The Indianapolis Dog Show. 



The New Haven Dog Show, 



Kennel Management. 



Kennel Notes. 

 Rifle and Trap SHooTma. 



Range and Gallery. 



The Trap. 



How to Hold On Flying Targets. 

 Canoeing. 



The Sneakbox Family,— in. 



Knickerbocker C. C. 



Brooklyn C. C. 

 Yachting. 



Cruise of the Coot — ix. 



The Cruise of the Pilgrim.- iv. 



Yachting Notes. 

 Answers to Corrbspondentb. 



TRE ABIRONBAGK DEER. 

 A MOVEMENT is on foot to secure the repeal of tlie 

 non-hounding law. Unless the friends of the deer 

 rally to support the present statute it is quite probable that 

 the change will be made. The condition of affairs this 

 winter at Albany may be said to be favorable for the success 

 of those who are plotting tlie destruction of what deer are 

 left in the North Woods. Speaker Husted, as our readers 

 have had occasion to learn, is out and out an advocate of 

 deer hounding. He has made up the game law committees 

 in a way favorable to the bounders. The members intrusted 

 with the task of repealing the law are already hard at work 

 pledging the members to vote in favor of their bill when it 

 comes up. Everything goes to show that a well-planned 

 attempt will be made to loose the hounds once more. 



The strongest possible proof of the wisdom of the law is 

 found in the character of the' opposition provoked by its 

 operation for a single season. While all intelligent and 

 unselfish Adirondack residents and visitors are pleased with 

 the measure and rejoice that a period has been put to the 

 disastrous and brutal water-butchery, there is a small class 

 of guides who are the enemies of the law because it tempor- 

 arily reduces their income, and these men are joined by 

 equally improvident hotel keepers and stage drivers, who 

 have in the past depended on the water-butchers' patronage. 

 These men have nothing to offer against the law, except that 

 it does actually do what was intended, namely, protect the 

 game. So they have resorted to misrepresentation and false- 

 hood to bolster up their cause, as, for instance, the grotesque 

 assertion that more deer were killed in 1885 by still-hunting 

 alone than'had been killed in any other recent year by still- 

 hunting and hounding combined. 



The actual dissatisfaction with the law is not widespread 

 nor sliared by a class of men whose knowledge of the subject 

 and honesty of intention give them a claim to consideration. 

 But thers is a possible danger that by their activity they may 

 induce the Legislature to grant their demands and repeal the 

 present law. This scheme must be defeated. We repeat 

 what cannot be too strongly urged, that each friend of the 

 Adirondack deer law must make individual exertion to in- 

 fluence his representative at Albany, if the present wise law 

 is to be maintained. 



We bear of a number of new deer laws wMcb are to l)e io- 



troduced at Albany. Some propose one thing and some an- 

 other. But the evident purpose of each one is to put the 

 hound again on the trail and the boat on the lake. The 

 abolition of jack-hunting would be a capital measure, but 

 it must not be done at the cost of the present non-hounding 

 law. To forbid the marketing of venison would be another 

 most excellent provision, but it must not be made at the sac- 

 rifice of what we have now. To shorten the season is well 

 enough, but to shorten the season and turn the hounds loose 

 is what the bill means. No law which does not forbid hound- 

 ing will be adequate to the needs of the North Woods to-day. 

 Do away with jacking, shorten the season, forbid the killing 

 of deer, stop marketing, but do not legalize hounding and 

 clubbing. 



GOOD BUFFALO HUNTING. 

 A MAN from London, England, came into this office 



^ last week to learn where he should go for good buffalo 

 hunting. He was told to go back five years, which was an- 

 other way of saying that the days of buffalo hunting — good 

 or bad — have gone by. 



An occasional report comes to us of a band of buft'alo hav. 

 ing been seen here or there, but always with the added cau- 

 tion that they are probably not to be found in the locality 

 now, for such and such a party has been after them. 



Practically the buffalo has passed from the realm of zo- 

 ology into that of paleontology ; it now belongs to the domain 

 of the closet naturalist. 



Here is a bare commercial fact which tells the story : Buf- 

 falo robes are now shipped from New York to Fort Benton, 

 where they are sold for |35 and $30 each. 



FOREIGJS GAME FOB BONG ISLAND. 



iT is proposed to introduce hares, pheasants and partridges 

 to the Long Island covers and to restock the island with 

 deer. The country is admirably adapted to such an enter- 

 prise. The success which has attended the introduction of 

 these foreign birds to New Jersey preserves is sufficient en- 

 couragement for a like undertaking on Long Island. The 

 game will undoubtedly thrive there if it can only be pro- 

 tected from destruction by gunners. The first step then is 

 to secure a law providing for the immunity of the imported 

 game. Such a bill was introduced at Albany last Tuesday 

 by Mr. Huntting, of Suffolk county. It is a wise and very 

 necessary measure and should pass without opposition. 

 Until such a law is enacted no one will be found foolish 

 enough to spend money for foreign birds for the first gunner 

 who comes across them to pot. If Mr, Huntting's bill is 

 made a law, there will probably be little diflBculty in secur- 

 ing a subscription large enough to make the importation on 

 a satisfactory scale. 



There ought to he a law of similar character to protect 

 such species of large game as may be introduced into the 

 Adirondacks. 



THE GAME. 

 \ CURIOUS feature of last autumn's shooting was the 

 almost entire lack of a fall flight of woodcock. 

 This was probably due to the fact that there was up to the 

 close of the season no severe frost to drive the birds south, 

 and it is likely that they lingered about their accustomed 

 feeding grounds until after the season had closed. Their 

 passage would then be unnoticed. As noted already, the 

 fowl shooting has been very unsatisfactory up to the present 

 month, owing to the unusually mild weather. But little 

 was done along the southern seaboard until the great freeze 

 which took place about ten days ago. This closed the 

 waters of the Chesapeake and its tributaries, but for a short 

 time made splendid shooting in Currituck Sound. 



The first part of the winter was so mild as to be very 

 favorable for the quail supply. What the effect of the recent 

 cold snap was is not yet fully known, though there is every 

 reason to suppose that the game suffered severely. The 

 extraordinary cold in the South must have been terribly 

 destructive, for the quail of that latitude are not so hardy as 

 the northern birds, and it is probable that great numbers 

 must have perished. In the North the season has been a 

 good one ; there have been so far none of the severe storms 

 nor crusting, which is so surely fatal to the birds. 



Reports which have come to us from a number of widely 

 separated localities indicate that a fair supply of ruffed 

 grouse were left at the end of the season for the next year's 

 supply. The indications are that a number of sections 

 from which of late this bird has been absent, are becoming 

 restocked, and good shooting if once more the rule. This is 

 true of parts of New Englaij^ find it is true of the covers of 

 the Western Reserve, 



CITT AND COUNTRY. 

 1\/rOST of the larger and more influential game associations 

 ■^'-L have their headquarters in the cities and find their 

 chief support there. Their work has to do with the 

 country; and it frequently happens that their efforts are in 

 a large measure hampered, if not entirely thwarted, by the 

 jealousy and misunderstanding of country residents. For 

 example, the Massachusetts Fish and Game Protective 

 Association, as its name implies, has for its field the 

 entire Commonwealth, but they are continually meeting 

 opposition from persons in the country, who are unwilling 

 to believe that the "city fellers" have anything but their own 

 individual and selfish ends in view. Every measure 

 introduced into the Massachusetts Legislature through the 

 efforts of the Association is viewed with suspicion and 

 distrust by the country members, who generally manage to 

 thoroughly misconceive the purpose of the bills and oppose 

 them under the mistaken notion that they are working in 

 the true interepts of their constituents. 



As a matter of fact, city associations and country residents 

 have the same end to attain. What is for the good of one 

 is also for the good of the other. They are mutually depend- 

 ent and it is a great pity that there should be between them 

 this misunderstanding and pulling at cross-purposes, which 

 defeat the interests of all. There should be nothing but 

 harmony between them. Might not this be secured by a 

 system of country membership in the city society? 



Small Bird Destruction.— Elsewhere will be found a 

 report of the organization and purposes of the committee 

 appointed by the American Ornithologists' Union to consider 

 the protection of North American birds. The Union has 

 taken action none too soon. We have repeatedly called at- 

 tention to the magnitude of the destruction of song and 

 insectivorous birds for millinery and decorative purposes, 

 and it is encouraging to see that the subject is beginning to 

 attract the attention it deserves. We hope that the A. O. U. 

 committee will receive in this work the popular support and 

 aid it certainly deserves. 



The Newark Children who went to Paris to be treated 

 by M. Pasteur have returned. What the trip amounted to 

 no one can tell, for it is not known whether the dog which 

 bit them was rabid or not. The probability is that the dog 

 was not mad, and the children had their trip for nothing. 

 Meanwhile the effect of the newspaper hydrophobia sensa- 

 tion is daily proving more monstrous and cruel. Cases of 

 alleged hydrophobia are reported, but they are nothing more 

 than the nervous result of the newspaper hydrophobia agita- 

 tion. For sueh deaths the editors and not the dogs are 

 accountable. 



Game Protector J. L. Brinkerhoff, of the Ninth 

 district, has added his signature to a printed circular alleg- 

 ing that it is impossible to detect the game law offenders. 

 This is exactly the view which was taken by a number of 

 residents of his district last season, with this modification: 

 that it was impossible to stop deer hounding — with Brinker- 

 hoff as game protector. So they hired a special officer of 

 their own, and he did the work. The law may be defective, 

 but it makes a big difference who is charged with its en- 

 forcement. 



They Will Be Powerless Then. — ^By lobbying, schem- 

 ing, trading, misrepresentation and wire-pulling the advo- 

 cates of Adirondack hounding may secure the license to 

 drive deer into the water and butcher them there. After it 

 is all over and the last unhappy animal has been clubbed to 

 death, no amount of lobbying, scheming, trading, misrepre- 

 sentation and wire-pulling will restock the woods. 



State Game Protector Wm. H. Lindley, of Oanastota, 

 has made an excellent record for himself and has won the 

 confidence of the citizens of his district. He is a fearless 

 and efficient officer, and should be reappointed for another 

 year. 



Among the Rare Old Volumes included in the London 

 book sale of Christmas week were Gilbert W^hite's own copy 

 of "Selborne," with numerous autograph letters, and Izaak 

 Walton's "Lives," with MS. corrections by the author. 

 They brought big prices, but then what treasuxes they are. 



Tomahawk Throwing as a winter sport is suggested by 

 a correspondent who thinks that if a war-post be set up iii a 

 barn or hall the average young man of the day will prove 

 joferior to bis red brother io "acciiracy ^pd length of casj," 



