Forest and Stream. 



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NEW YORK, AUGUST 11, 1887. 



I VOL. XXIX.-No. 3. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



Dog Show Profits. 



Utilize the Streams. 



President, Czar, Angler. 



Snap Shots. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



From the Foot of Mount BroHS. 



In "Porte Crayon's" Footsteps 



Hunting in the Himalayas. 



A New Jersey Surfman. 



Camping on the Eastern Coast 

 Natural History. 



Pond Life. 



Range of Scorpion and Taran- 

 tula. 



Artemis. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



In the Cherokee Strip.— vm. 



German Hare Shooting. 



The Game Laws. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



Salmon of the Dungarvon. 



Washington an Angler. 



The Oxbow. 



Game Notes. 



Sea and River Fishing. 

 Save the Streams. 

 Hunts for Boys Old and Young. 

 Notes on Trout. 



FlSHCULTURE. 



North Carolina Encourage- 

 ment to Shellfish Culture. 

 The Kennel. 

 Waverly Dog Show. 

 Robins Island Club. 

 The Sense of Smell in Dogs. 

 An Afternoon with the Rab- 

 bits. 



Kennel Management. 



Kennel Notes. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 



Range and Gallery. 



TheTrap. 

 Canoeing. 



Notes on the "Western Meet. 

 Yachting. 



The Galatea in America. 



A Cape Cod Catboat. 



New York Y. C. Cruise. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



DOG SHOW PROFITS. 



IT was not so very long ago that a howl went up because 

 a Philadelphia gentleman who was getting up a bench 

 show in that city was suspected of a design to make some 

 money out of the enterprise. The ground then taken by 

 this manager's assailants was that the reaping of profits 

 or a willingness to reap profits from a dog show was 

 shocking evidence of moral depravity. Since that time 

 several shows have made a great deal of money for their 

 projectors, and no unfavorable comment has been made. 

 So far as reaping pecuniary reward is concerned the 

 giving of dog shows is a precarious business. Of the 

 shows of the past year Boston and New York come out 

 ahead. Each put away several thousands of dollars pro- 

 fits. On the other hand the New Jersey show was a 

 dismal failure. In a circular issued with their premium 

 list of the September exhibition the managers state that 

 their three shows given within two years have netted 

 them a loss of $2,800; and the end is not yet, for the club 

 is under contract with the New Jersey Agricultural 

 Society to give more shows in the future. The financial 

 failure or success of a show does not depend upon its 

 management in other respects. The Waverly shows have 

 always been well conduoted and the exhibits have been 

 good in every instance. The trouble has been perhaps in 

 counter attractions. These shows are given in connec- 

 tion -with the State fair; and besides the dogs there are 

 big pumpkins, prize cattle and horse racing to be seen 

 free of charge, and the visitors at a country fair are not 

 the class of men to leave a free exhibiton of horse trot- 

 ting to pay a quarter to look at dogs, not even though the 

 dogs be the finest in the land. This year, that the pros- 

 pective loss may be diminished, the members have decided 

 to make it a diploma show, for which they have as a pre- 

 cedent the successful exhibition given by the Boston club 

 in 1882. Next to a brass and pewter metal show, a diploma 

 show entails a less outlay than any other, and a diploma 

 is likely to be held in higher esteem than one of the 

 medals. It is to be hoped that exhibitors will give the 

 Waverly show liberal support by a full entry, making 

 the diploma there won doubly prized because of the 

 close competition. 



UTILIZE THE STREAMS. 

 A NEBRASKA correspondent makes the sensible BUg- 

 gestion that by a little forethought and wisely, 

 directed enterprise, many streams of the Mississippi Val- 

 ley which under present conditions are for a short period 

 wildly rushing torrents, and dry for the rest of the season, 

 might be converted into regular supplies of useful water 

 through all the year, yielding a supply of valuable fish 

 food, turning mill wheels, and in various other ways 

 adding to the industries and wealth of the community. 

 This is not a novel suggestion, but on the other hand it 

 is one which cannot be too often reiterated and brought 

 to public attention. 



The familiar arguments in support of systematic for- 

 estry and the conservation of woodlands lack force be- 

 cause they are for the most part based upon general 

 principles, the strength of which is not appreciated by 

 the individual, or because they have to do with results to 

 come in a future, which, however near it may be, is yet 

 so remote that the average man gives little thought to it. 

 But in support of this utilization of streams the immedi- 

 ate results obtained carry their own argument. Shift- 

 lessnege gives place to thrift, when thrift sees its reward, 

 and in the improvement of water courses and putting 

 them to some such practical purpose as is here suggested, 

 the rewards are not long deferred. In many per- 

 haps most cases, stream improvement is beyond the 

 control or means of one land owner ; but it is something 

 which can be accomplished by co-operation, or by town- 

 ship or county enterprise. What shall we do to add 

 to the value of our streams ? is a question that ought 

 to be discussed in town meeting in every village and 

 town where unimproved water resources are awaiting 

 development. State fish commissioners will co-operate 

 to stock streams now barren, provided the community 

 will do its share toward rendering the waters fit habita- 

 tions for fish, and maintaining them as such. 



PRESIDENT, CZAR, ANGLER. 

 ri^HE list of illustrious anglers is increasing. Dr. George 

 -L H. Moore, the accomplished librarian of the Lenox 

 Library» a ncl a student of Revolutionary history, has dis- 

 covered that Washington went fishing in his vacations, 

 just as certain of our modern Presidents have done. Dr. 

 Moore's little pamphlet embodying the fruits of his 

 research is printed in another column, and very good 

 reading it is too. Its author takes a just pride in having 

 enrolled the Father of his Country among the Brothers of 

 the Angle; "I am content," he says, "to have been 

 the first to claim for George Washington his rightful 

 place as an angler." The documentary evidence pro- 

 duced is very gratifying, but then no such elaborate 

 searching among unpublished manuscripts was needed 

 to convince the world that the great Washington was 

 an angler; with all his other virtues, he must have been 

 one; it is one of those things that go without the saying. 

 As to President Cleveland's suggestion that Washington 

 did not record the results of his fishing because he shrank 

 from telling a fish-story, that is an untenable assumption; 

 very slight fishing experience would have sufficed to 

 overcome in the mature angler with rod or pole or hand- 

 line any foolish scruples entertained by the youth with 

 the hatchet. Moreover, the distinction between the kind 

 of a lie Washington could not tell and a fish-story was 

 recognized even in those days. 



President or Czar, it is all one, angling has its charms 

 for those who guide the affairs of State. Alexander III. 

 has taken to pike fishing. It appears that not long ago 

 the pike and carp increased so rapidly in the royal ponds 

 that it became necessary to thin them out, and the Czar 

 addressed himself to the task with such devotion that 

 he has come to be a passionate angler, spending hours 

 upon hours on the ponds of Gatchina. He is said to 

 exhibit all the well-known characteristics of the pro- 

 fessional angler. " He is disappointed and moody when 

 the catch is unsatisfactory, and correspondingly elated 

 when he brings home an unusually heavy fish. He en- 

 joys the sport so much that he intends visiting the sea- 

 shore next autumn." 



The Robins Island Club have been very fortunate in 

 securing the services of Mr. H. M. Short to take charge 

 of their preserve. Mr. Short is one of our best field trial 

 handlers, and we have no doubt will fill the position with 

 credit to himself and to the satisfaction of the club. 



SNAP SHOTS. 

 ^pHE shore fishermen of the New Jersey coast are pro- 

 posing the formation of an organization to combat 

 the menhaden men, whom they charge with raining their 

 industry. The new society will be known as "The New 

 Jersey Coast Fishermen's Protective Association." The 

 first thing done will be to memorialize Congress to enact 

 a law, for which a bill has been introduced in a previous 

 session, compelling the menhaden steamers to confine 

 their operations to the deep sea three miles from shore. 

 It is alleged by a well-informed correspondent of the 

 Philadelphia Times that the menhaden fishermen have a 

 strong lobby at Washington to protect their interests. 



One of the stock queries coming into the office about 

 once in a fortnight is usually in this wise: "In a trap 

 match for three prizes, A, B and C tie on 10, E and F on 

 9, and G and H on 8. How are the prizes divided?" The 

 only answer that can be made to this is that it all depends 

 on whether the match was shot under the rules of class- 

 shooting or not. In class-shooting those who tie on the 

 highest score made either divide or shoot off for first; 

 those who tie on second highest score divide or shoot off 

 for second, and so on to the end. It is one of the simplest 

 things in the world to decide in advance whether these 

 rules shall govern a match; and this once decided every- 

 thing will go smoothly. But if this condition is not 

 clearly understood beforehand, and a dispute about the 

 division arises after the shooting, it cannot be decided 

 to the full satisfaction of all concerned. Common sense 

 dictates that in such points there should be an express 

 agreement before the match is shot. Class-shooting is 

 the almost universal rule nowadays. 



In our gun columns will be found two digests of their 

 State game laws prepared by the Massachusetts Fish and 

 Game Protective Association and the Passaic County 

 (New Jersey) Fish and Game Protective Association. We 

 commend these digests as models to other societies of like 

 character in other States. To make the laws known is 

 one of the first and most important things any game pro- 

 tective organization should give attention to. The law 

 will most certainly not be observed if people do not 

 know its provisions, and the degree of ignorance on this 

 subject of open and close seasons which obtains in 

 most communities is discouraging. Without publication 

 of this information in local journals and posting it 

 in public places there is no effective way of dispelling 

 the ignorance. The two societies named publish their 

 digests in pocket form, and these are supplied gratui- 

 tously on application. The Massachusetts Association 

 sent out 4,500 of the circulars and posted in railroad 

 depots, post-offices and other public places 1,100 cloth 

 posters 18x24in. Work of this Sort tells. The expense is 

 trifling, the result, gratifying. 



Hon. John H. Otis, Avho died at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., 

 last week, was one of the olden-time sportsmen. He was 

 born in 1810, served in one of the volunteer companies of 

 militia that went from Charleston to Florida to engage 

 in the Seminole War; and in the leisure intervals of a 

 busy and useful career, found time to gratify his sporting 

 tastes in many different sections of the country. Those 

 tastes were not diminished even in his advanced age, 

 nor did Mr. Otis outlive his esteem of the arm of his 

 youth; as for the breechloader, that might do for others, 

 but as for himself he would have none of it; and he 

 clung to the muzzleloader with all the tenacity of its 

 staunchest advocates. 



Brussels is to have an international exposition in 1888 

 and one department will be devoted to the arms and im- 

 plements of the chase. Guns and ammunition, shooting 

 suits, dog foods and artificial targets are some of the 

 things that American manufacturers might send over in 

 competition for a medal. 



Massachusetts school teachers have been on an excur- 

 sion to the National Park. The result ought to be that 

 Massachusetts will go solid for the Park protection bill 

 when it comes up in the next session of Congress. 



The introduction of the German carp into this country 

 has had the direct result of putting, to practical use 

 numerous ponds which have been heretofore neglected. 



