Forest and Stream 



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NEW YORK, JUNE 7, 1888. 



t VOL. XXX..-N0. 20. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



A National Zoological Garden 



British Columbian Fisheries. 



Live and Let Live. 



Grouse, Woodcock and Trout. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



Through Miramichi with Rod 

 and Rifle. — rv. 

 Natural History. 



Snake Bite and its Antidote. 



The Utility of Hawks. 

 Camp-Fire Flickerings. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



A Cruise for Wildfowl. 



New Jersey Law. 



Yellowstone Park Petition. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



The Autocrat of the. Eddy. 



Bobbing for Superior Trout. 



Blooming Grove Park Tourna- 

 ment. 



Angling Notes. 

 Fishoulture. 



American Fisheries Society. 



Commissioner Roosevelt Re- 

 signs. 

 The Kennel. 



Southern Field Trials Club. 



Nights with the Coons. 



Dog Talk. 



The Kennel. 



Washington Dog Show. 



Albany Dog Show. 



Kennel Notes. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 



Range and Gallerv. 



The Bullard Match. 



The Trap. 



Forest and Stream Trophy. 



Philadelphia Tournament. 



New York State Shoot. 



Electrical Trap Pulling. 

 Canoeing. 



Eastern Division Meet. 



A. C. A. Regatta Programme 



Ross Lake Regatta. 



Delaware River Meet. 



Mohican C. C. 



Racing Meet on Schuylkill. 

 Yachting. 



Miramichi Y. C. 



Katrina. 



Quaker City Y. C. 

 Naval Reserve. 

 Memorial Day Races. 

 South Boston Y. C. 

 Fall River Races. 

 Norton Patent Water Ballast. 

 Launch of the Alista. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



LIVE AND LET LIVE. 

 rpHE secretary of the American Kennel Club sent out 

 notice last week that the Baltimore, "Washington 

 and other dog shows were not given ''under the auspices" 

 of the club, and he added that the use of the A. K. C. 

 rules was not sanctioned by it. This may be accepted 

 either as the grotesque pronunciamento of a body which 

 vainly imagines itself to be in control of the doings of 

 dogs and men, or as the wail of a concern which realizes 

 that its assumed authority is being set at nought by dogs 

 independent enough to wag their own tails, and by 

 owners independent enough to show their dogs where 

 they please. Whichever it may be, the notice must have 

 impressed fair-minded readers as having been prompted 

 by a mean and churlish spirit. For we hold it to be self- 

 evident that if the A. K. C. show rules are good for any- 

 thing, the wider their use the better for all concerned. 

 Their usefulness conceded, every show, big or little, on 

 all this wide continent, should be governed by them. 

 The A. K. C. ought itself to be foremost in the endeavor 

 to secure such an uniformity of regulations for all shows. 

 In striving to effect this the club would be doing more 

 efficient service than it can ever accomplish by employ- 

 ing its secretary to pose as a bogey and make faces at 

 certain show managers, as those of Boston, New Haven, 

 Baltimore, Washington, Hornell, and others, as if they 

 were children to be frightened by his facial distortions. 



Another amusing instance of the extreme to which 

 jealousy and a churlish spirit will sometimes drive clubs 

 and men is related in the letter published in our Kennel 

 columns from the president of the new Southern Field 

 Trial Club. The story he tells is that a newspaper man 

 refused to publish anything about this new sportsmen's 

 oi-ganization because of fear that its success might impair 

 the prestige of another association of sportsmen. The 

 mind of a man who acts on such principles must be in an 

 exceedingly curious condition, or perhaps the trouble lies 

 in the heart. Now that Mr. Renfroe has told his story, 

 our well-meant advice to the Chicago little man is to sulk 

 no longer aloof, but to sit up to the table, tuck in his bib, 



and first having eaten his bit of humble pie, join with the 

 others in the feast of good things; and may good fellow- 

 ship reign. 



To live and let live is a sound and beneficent principle 

 for dogs and men. The good of one is the good of all. 

 The success of one means the success of others. All 

 should work together in harmony, one supporting the 

 other, and each rejoicing in the success of all. 



The history of field trials and bench shows in this 

 country gives us an almost uninterrupted increase in the 

 number of annual events, and with this there has been a 

 corresponding growth in the number of entries in the 

 several trials and shows. The more events of this char- 

 acter there are given, the greater is the public interest 

 awakened by them, and a more generous support follows. 

 No club can hope to advance its own interests by pulling 

 down those of others; nor does any club which attempts 

 to do anything of that kind deserve the sympathy and 

 support of fair-minded dog owners. 



A NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL GARDEN. 



A BILL introduced in the Senate by Mr. Beck of Ken- 

 tucky provides for the establishment at Washing- 

 ton of a National Zoological Park, "for the advancement 

 of science and the instruction and recreation of the 

 people." This project is one which has long been talked 

 of by Mr. Goode of the National Museum, and the begin- 

 ning of a zoological collection has already been estab- 

 lished just back of the Smithsonian grounds. In this 

 collection are. a few fine specimens of North American 

 mammals, the most important of which is a superb jaguar 

 from Texas. These animals have been collected chiefly 

 as a study collection for the benefit of the taxidermist 

 who is engaged in mounting specimens for the National 

 Museum, but though so small it attracts quite as much 

 attention as anything on the Museum grounds. 



To this collection will be added the buffalo recently 

 presented to the National Museum by Mr. Blackford, and 

 there is not the slightest doubt that if a National Zoolog- 

 ical Garden or park were to be established at Washington . 

 it would receive generous donations from all parts of 

 the country, and would before long, almost without any 

 cost besides that of the transportation and care of the ani- 

 mals, contain a large and thoroughly typical collection of 

 North American mammals, birds and reptiles. The sur- 

 plus animals which would be constantly coming in could 

 be exchanged with foreign gardens for such exotic species 

 as might be thought desirable. 



The importance of preserving living North American 

 mammals can hardly be overestimated. The buffalo is 

 practically extinct, and the range of the elk has become 

 so contracted in the last few years that it is apparent 

 that the same fate awaits that noble species. There are 

 others that will survive longer, but the people at large 

 know nothing, and never can know, about them unless 

 they shall be brought close to their homes. All these ani- 

 mals should be secured before it is too late, and placed on 

 exhibition where they can be studied by the naturalist 

 and be seen and admired by the people. The United 

 States is perhaps the only great nation on earth that has 

 not a well equipped zoological Collection, and we, who in 

 so many respects lead other nations, should not be behind- 

 hand in our efforts to enlighten and instruct our own 

 people about the animals that are native to the soil. 



If Congress should assent to the establishment of this 

 collection, an admirable site is close at hand, only about 

 two miles from the White House, and is believed to be 

 obtainable for this purpose. 



This matter should receive early and favorable attention 

 from Congress. 



BRITISH COLUMBIAN FISHERIES. 



1XTHILE the fisheries of the Atlantic coast have 

 * ' proved of such enormous value to Canada, scarcely 

 anything is known about those of the North Pacific 

 Ocean. It iB only within the last few years that any 

 interest has been felt in this branch of the natural wealth 

 of British Columbia, and this interest has been confined 

 almost wholly to the salmon canning industry. From 

 very small beginnings this has attained enormous pro- 

 portions, and owing to the careful and efficient work of 

 Mr. Thos. Mowat, the present Commissioner of Fisheries 

 for British Columbia, salmon are now exceedingly abun- 

 dant in the Fraser River and promise to become still 

 more so. 



The increase of the supply of salmon has been, up to 



this time, the chief work of the Commissioner. This 

 was very naturally the first work undertaken because 

 the amount of capital invested in the canneries was 

 largely in excess of that employed in all the other fish- 

 eries put together. 



Mr. Mowat, however, lias not been unmindful of 

 the fact that the deep-sea fisheries are likely to be of 

 more value to the Province than even the salmon can- 

 ning, and he has made efforts to investigate the coast 

 fisheries, with a view to learning more of their probable 

 value. To this end he has consulted with captains of the 

 sealing schooners, who for months at a time are cruising 

 off the coast, and to several he has supplied apparatus 

 for car lying on investigations while absent on their voy- 

 ages. By this means he has acquired a great fund of 

 information, which he now proposes to supplement by 

 more accurate and careful observations conducted by 

 himself. 



All that Mr. Mowat has seen or been able to learn points 

 to the conclusion that the marine fisheries of the North- 

 west Coast are of enormous value, and that from these 

 deep-sea fields may be reaped harvests not less rich than 

 those which for years have been garnered from the North 

 Atlantic. 



Acting on the Commissioner's reports, the Canadian 

 Government has very wisely appropriated the sum of 

 $10,000, to be used in the construction of a steamer 

 especially adapted for the work Mr. Mowat desires to 

 carry on. In many points of construction it will be like 

 the U. S. Fish Commission steamer Albatross. With this 

 steamer Mr. Mowat intends this season to investigate, so 

 far as possible, the deep-sea fisheries and also those 

 of the coast from the mouth of the Fraser River north to 

 the .Naas and the Alaskan boundary. 



It is scarcely possible to overestimate the importance of 

 the work thus about to be undertaken. Its value to the 

 Province of British Columbia cannot fail to be very great, 

 and if the discoveries made are at all in line with what is 

 already known of the fisheries of the Northwest Coast, 

 the finny shoals of these almost unknown waters will 

 attract from the East a population that will do a vast deal 

 toward colonizing with hardy and useful settlers the 

 now sparsely settled coast of British Columbia. 



GROUSE, WOODCOCK AND TROUT. 

 T AST season was notable for the abundant supply of 

 ruffed grouse in different sections of the country; 

 and indications warrant the anticipation of a like plenti- 

 ful supply this year. Trout fishermen in New England 

 report that while on the streams they have flushed un- 

 precedented numbers of grouse. This good news comes 

 from all the New England States, and reports to a like 

 effect have reached us from other sections. 



On the other hand the anglers report an almost total ab- 

 sence of woodcock and their young broods, which in or- 

 dinary seasons are flushed on the trout streams. This, 

 however, does not of necessity imply that the woodcock 

 are fewer than usual, for the spring has been char- 

 acterized by a heavy rainfall, all the streams are full and 

 the woodcock have probably nested on the smaller 

 watercourses and higher up than is their wont. 



The streams have yielded goodly numbers of fish. 

 Anglers have increased so rapidly that waters which, in 

 former years, were fished by only one or two, who carried 

 home big strings, are now whipped by a dozen or a score; 

 each fisherman may be rewarded with a small return, 

 and the fishing may appear to him to have deteriorated, 

 yet the total number of trout taken in a season is often 

 as large to-day as in the past. There are other streams 

 which have been cleaned out with hooks, lime and nets, 

 until not a trout fin remains, nor will there ever be any 

 fishing in them unless they are systematically restocked 

 and let alone until the fry have time to grow. It is a 

 mystery why fishermen do not more often band together 

 to undertake the restoration of these "played out" and 

 profitless trout streams. The expense of restocking is 

 trifling; it is practicable to protect the waters; and the 

 rewards are worth striving for. It is not every fisherman 

 who can afford time and expense to visit distant angling 

 waters; why should not the stay-at-homes have their fun 

 in their own home streams, stocked and preserved by 

 united action? 



By a new law the chief of the Massachusetts district 

 police is directed to detail an officer for duty under the 

 direction of the Commissioners of Inland Fisheries. 



