Forest and Stream. 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



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NEW YORK, JULY 29, 1886. 



j VOL. XXVII.-No. 1. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



Prairie ITilres and the Grouse. 



The Boycott in the Woods. 



Return of the Coot. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



Among the Keys. 



Stories of "Ned Buntline." 



A Lame Shoulder. 

 Natural History. 



An Hour mth the Birds. 



Bird Protection. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



Game Preser\nng in Britain. 



Abolish Spring Shooting. 



Foxes and Foxhounds. 



The Prairie Cliiclcens. 



An Impromptu Hunt. 



New York Deer Law. 

 CAMr-FiHE Flickbrings. 

 Sea and Rtveh Fishing. 



.June Trout Fishing in Mich. 



Dobsons. 



A Cast with "Piseco." 

 The Mastigouche Liakes. 

 Trout Eat Trout. 



FiSHCUTURE. 



Transporting Fish in the Brit- 

 ish Isles. 

 The Kennel. 



English Kennel Cluh Dog Show 



Milwaukee Dog Show. 



MastifE Measurements. 



Kennel Notes. 



Kennel Management. 

 RiELE AND Trap Shooting. 



Range and Gallery. 



The Trap. 



The Cincinnati Tournament. 

 Yachting. 

 luterlake Y. O. 

 Empire Y. C. 

 Galatea. 



R; vei ly Y- C. 



Canoeing. 



(xrindstone Again, Aug. 13-37. 



Club and Oilicei-s' Flags. 



A New Folding Centerboard. 



The Coming A. C. A. Meet. 



BrookljTi C. C. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



THE BOYCOTT IN THE WOODS. 



MENTION was recently made in these columns of the 

 organization of some of the Keene Valley, Adiron- 

 dacks, guides into a club for the enforcement of the 

 game laws. The club loroposed to bring to justice one of 

 the local nabobs who was reported to be engaged in un- 

 lawful pursuit of deer. The landlords of hotels in the 

 neighborhood, who should be found among the staunch- 

 est upholders of the law, were incensed at the attitude of 

 the guides' club, and as a method of retahation proposed 

 to prevent its members from obtainuig employment in 

 their usual occupation. Late reports advise us that the 

 deer floater was not caught, though it is to be presumed 

 that the guides still incur the enmity of the boycotting 

 hotel men. 



The methods of the boycott are admirably adapted to 

 serve the ends of lawless Adirondack landlords and vis- 

 itors. By combining their forces they can bring a terrible 

 X)res8ure to bear upon any guide who because of his regard 

 for law and decency hapi^ens to incm* their displeasm^e. 

 They can by simply letting him alone and compelling 

 other folks to let him alone deprive him of his earnings 

 and drive him out of business. The tactics successfully 

 adopted by the Bohemians in the lower quarters of New 

 York in their campaign against obnoxious bakers are 

 found to work well in the woods. 



The principles of the boycott have been accepted by 

 some of the advocates of deer hounding, who see in it a 

 possible means of venting their spleen against the guides 

 and landlords who opposed then- behests at Albany last 

 winter. It has just come to our knowledge that there is 

 a movement on foot among the bounders to injure so far 

 as they may the business of Mr. Charles Fenton, propri- 

 etor of the well-kno-wTi house at Number Four, in the 

 Adk-ondacks. IMr. Fenton was among the first who 

 recognized the necessity of doing away with the dog's, 

 and for years he has been a persistent and deter- 

 mined opponent of hounding. Because he discotxr- 

 aged the practice in former years, and because 

 last year he, his guests and the guides combined 

 in an organized and faithful enforcement of the 

 law, the deer in the vicinity of Number Four have been 

 more abundant than in almost any other part of the North 

 Woods. This visible evidence of the wisdom of abolish- 



ing hounding has naturally confirmed Mr. Fenton's views, 

 and there is to-day in the Adhondacks no more deter- 

 mined advocate of a non-hounding law than he. That 

 such a man, whose hard facts demolished their mis- 

 leading statements before the Legislature, should excite 

 the ire of the clubbers is not to be wondered at; but they 

 predicate of themselves too much importance in their day 

 and generation if they think to boycott Mr. Fenton or any 

 body else. 



RETURN OF THE COOT. 



THE long single-hand cruise of the catboat Coot was 

 brought to a successful close last Sunday, when she 

 dropped anchor off West Brighton, Staten Island. The 

 voyage of the Coot is probably the longest of the kind of 

 which there is any record, and the weather through which 

 she passed was more severe than that experienced by 

 yachtsmen in general, unless engaged in Arctic explor- 

 ation. The distance gone over was sixteen hundred miles. 

 With the exception of the ordinary vicissitudes of hard 

 weather and extreme cold, the trip was accomphshed 

 mthout serious mishap or loss. It demonstrates what 

 can be done in a small boat only twenty -one feet long, 

 providing the master be sufficiently expert in her hand- 

 ling and exercises good judgment. For it was by no 

 means all fak sailing for the Coot, as will appear from 

 the detailed log of her experience, published from time to 

 time in this journal. Upon several occasions the risks 

 forced upon the master of the Coot involved situations 

 which were not only trying but actually critical. It 

 would not be advisable to recommend to every one a 

 similar undertaking, unless equally as well prepared as 

 Mr. Kunhardt to face and overcome the dangers to which 

 a small boat sailed by one man is of necessity exposed, 

 particularly during an inclement season. 



A notable fact, however, is, that despite the hardships 

 and exposiu-e of the voyage, the best of health was enjoyed 

 througn the eiglit montliB of life on board the catboat. 

 A somewhat larger boat, with an additional hand or two, 

 would mitigate the difficulties of a similar cruise greatly, 

 and the Coot having opened the way, it is likely that 

 Avinter voyages to southern waters, in f)ursuit of health, 

 pastime and game will rapidly become popular among the 

 many who are given to sailing small yachts, not suited to 

 work upon the open sea, with the West India Isles as theu- 

 objective goal.^ 



A Buffalo Man was arrested last week for having 

 killed some robins. He put in the plea that he was out of 

 work, his family was starving, and he wanted the robins 

 as' food to sustain life. Investigation showed his story to 

 be true. It was surely an extraordinary way of going 

 about getting something to eat. Such a plea of absolute 

 necessity in mitigation of offenses against the game laws 

 has rarely been heard outside of the woods, where the 

 residents depend largely upon the game supply for their 

 subsistence, and where anglers and campers place them- 

 selves in a position to starve unless they secure some June 

 venison, 



Bluefish.— The fish are still scarce in New York mar- 

 ket, a few coming in from scattering localities, but there 

 is no good fishing at Barnegat nor off Fire Island. Occas- 

 ionally a few are taken at these places, and one boat 

 made a fair catch off Montauk Point, on Monday last, but 

 had sailed a week previous with poor success. A few 

 have been taken on the north shore of Long Island, at 

 Cold Spring Harbor, Oyster Bay and Port Jefferson. 

 These were small fish of about two poimds weight, and as 

 of late years the fish have avoided the north shore this is 

 remarkable. 



There is an Irrepressible Conflict between the 

 shotgun fox hunters and the riders to hounds. Neither 

 can find anything to praise in the practice of the other. 

 The men on horseback are, however, rapidly gaining re- 

 cruits; and fox hunting with hounds and without guns is 

 growing every year. 



The First Sea Serpent Story op the Season was 

 telegraphed over the country last Monday. The creattu-e, 

 seen by a party in camp on Gully Point, Rockport, Mass., 

 was 100ft. in length and as big around as a barrel. 



A Large Proportion of the accidents with fireai-ms 

 reported in the papers happen by reason of the stupidity 

 of individuals who have no business with such weapons. 



PRAIRIE FIRES AND THE GROUSE. 

 "ITTITH the approach of the pinnated grouse shooting 

 * " season we are in receipt of the familiar complaint 

 that the supply of this favorite game bird is sadly less- 

 ened by the practice of burning over the prairie lands. 

 In many sections of the West where, if left to their nat- 

 ural course of development, the wheat crop and the hay 

 crop would mature at the same time, each demanding the 

 attention of the farmer, it is a common practice to burn 

 over the fields in the spring to kiU the new gi-ass. The 

 growth being thus retarded, the hay crop ripens after the 

 wheat has been gathered, and is cut at the convenience 

 of the farmer. 



As the pinnated grouse have nested before the btirning 

 of the grass, it follows that their eggs are destroyed in the 

 conflagration. By this destruction, repeated year after 

 year, the number of the buds is sadly diminished, and in 

 many localities once famous for their excellent pinnated 

 grouse shooting the sportsman now finds fields barren of 

 winged game. This is an agency of game depletion that 

 appears to be without remedy. A farmer cannot reason- 

 ably be asked to crowd together the work of wheat har- 

 vesting and haying that the gunner may enjoy the sport 

 of chicken shooting. The only recoiu'se of the sportsman 

 is to seek new fields of pleasure; and thus it is that there 

 is a constant demand for information about good pinnated 

 grouse shooting grounds. 



To Prosecute Lawbreakers. — ^The proposition, made 

 last week by om- corresjjondent "Ajax," that some of 

 those interested in game i>rotection should contribute a 

 dollar each toward the prosecution of certain violators of 

 the game laws of New Jersey, seems to have met with 

 favor. We have received a number of dollars for this 

 purpose, and are told that others will be forthcoming. 

 Should the contributions reach a respectable sum, matters 

 will at once be put in trim, and sttong efforts will be made 

 to put the law in force in these j)articular cases. If a con- 

 siderable number of sportsmen are sufficiently in teresed in 

 this matter to give the trifling sum suggested by "Ajax," 

 the Forest and Stream will be glad to contribute to this 

 good effort a substantial donation as well as to give time 

 and effort toward making the prosecution sucessful. 

 "Ajax" has assured us that he has abundant propf of the 

 violation to which his letter referred and, he has no 

 doubt of the conviction of the offenders, in case the fimds 

 necessary for lawyers' fees and other expenses shall b» 

 raised, 



A Much Needed Reform. — Why is it that such tourna- 

 ments as the late one at Cincinnati are so poorly attended 

 by amateur shooters? It is because they know they have 

 no chance against professional shooters like Teipel, Stice 

 and a few such men, who carry off 99 per cent, of the 

 purses and prizes, and who are permitted to enter with- 

 out any handicap whatsoever. Why should an amateur 

 shoot agamst a man like Teipel, who makes his living 

 now attending such tournaments? It would be more ad- 

 vantageous for the amateui- to play at a "square" game of 

 faro. Any amateur who will enter against such men 

 proves himself a "sucker" (to use a vulgarism) of the 

 weakest type. But these amatem-s outnumber the pro- 

 fessionals 1,000 to 1. Let them rise in their might and 

 insist on barring such pot-shooters, and thus exterminate 

 the injustice which prevents trap-shooting becoming a 

 most popular outdoor amusement. 



Out of the Depths.— Last Monday, July 26, there was 

 received at this office the March number of the English 

 journal Forestry. On the rumpled, water-stained and 

 still damp wrapper was this note: "P. O., New York, 

 N. Y., July 6, 1886.— This piece is a portion of the mail 

 forwarded from Queenstown, Ireland, per steamer Oregon 

 on March 7, and damaged by the sinking of that vessel off 

 Fire Island on March 14. Recovered from the wreck 

 July 1-4,— Henry G. Pearson, Postmaster." It is to be 

 sincerely regretted that since the publication of the March 

 number of Forestry the -waves of financial misfortune 

 should have engulfed this useful magazine itself. 



Game Preserving in Britain.— Publication of the 

 promised series of papers on this topic is begun to-day. 

 The author— "Moorman"— is well known as a writer on 

 such topics, and his descriptions of the game preserving 

 methods adopted abroad may contain some useful sug-ges- 

 tions for like undertakings in this coujitry. 



