Forest and Stream 



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NEW YORK, OCTOBER 13, 1887. 



J VOL. XXIX.-No. 12. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



Notes and Comments. 

 The Sports^ian Tourist. 



October (poetry). 



A Bird Huut in Western Ken- 

 tucky. 

 Natural History. 



The Armadilloes. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



Rail at Wilmington. 



October Fifteenth (poetry). 



In the Sawtooth Ran<ze.— III. 



Maine Deer Hunters Hunted. 



Shooting Notes. 



Mississippi Quail. 



Snares vs. Dogs. 



Game Reports. 



North Cnrolina Game Law. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



A Story of Horned Pouts.— n. 



Bass in Shark River Inlet. 



On an Old Time Stream. 



New Jersey Coast Fishing. 



A Rangeley Landlocked Sal- 

 mon. 



FlSHCULTURE. 



Lobster Culture. 



The Kennel. 



Eastern Field Trials Entries. 



Mastiff Type. 



Bristol Dog Show. 



Irish Setter Club's Field Trials 



Kennel Notes. 



Kennel Management. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 



Range and Gallery. 



Massachusetts State Shoot. 



The Trap. 



The Dunellen Tournament. 

 Canoeing. 

 British Canoes of 1887. 

 N. Y. C. C. Fall Regatta. 

 Drifting. 



A. C. A. Executive Committee 

 Meeting. 



Pittsburgh C. C. Regatta. 

 Yachting. 



Revision of the Deed of Gift. 



The Departure of the Visitors. 



Thistle to Windward. 



Which Will You Have? 



From Bay Ridge to Boston. 



Fanita and Ulidia. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



NOTES AND COMMENTS. 



CARIBOU snaring is practiced on quite an extensive 

 scale in the Jacques Cartier district of Quebec. 

 Slipnooses are set in the trails through the thick wind- 

 falls. One trapper secured in this manner seventeen 

 caribou last season, and there is reason to believe that 

 many others were equally successful. The carcasses of 

 caribou taken in this way are abandoned, only the hide 

 being saved. The law forbids this; but the snaring is 

 carried on in remote districts where detection is difficult. 

 It is plain that Canada cannot afford to have her large 

 game destroyed in such a wasteful way. In these days 

 when hosts of sportsmen are more than ready to pay lib- 

 eral sums to transportation companies, guides and others, 

 in quest of large game, it is simply foolishness to sacrifice 

 caribou for the paltry price of their hides. 



The change in the weather is very welcome to the 

 sportsman, not only on account of the greater comfort in 

 the field, but also because it will bring the migratory 

 birds from the north. The woodcock will undoubtedly 

 move rapidly now, notwithstanding that, according to 

 the theories of some of our oldest shooters, the moon is 

 not right. The belief that the birds move when the moon 

 is full is all well enough when the birds do move at such 

 time; but their migration also depends upon weather con- 

 ditions, and if these be unfavorable the wayward wan- 

 derers are wont to take their own time, regardless of 

 lunar phases. Clear, frosty nights, although moonless, 

 impel their southward flight. 



Railroad and steamship companies interested in attract- 

 ing tourists to Alaska have hit upon a variant of the sea 

 serpent story. The numerous skeletons of extinct forms 

 of animal life have given them a hint for the manufacture 

 of a mammoth monster. The tale they tell, by reason of 

 novelty, will be a more potent lure than the venerable 

 serpent story. The Juneau correspondent of a San Fran- 

 cisco paper records the discovery of live mastadonic game 



in the wilds of the Stick Indian country. A native 

 hunter followed the track, which was < 'larger around 

 than a barrel," until he came in sight o" a creature 

 "larger than Post Trader Harper's store," with great 

 shining yellow tusks and a mouth large enough to swal- 

 low a Stick Indian at a single gulp. If the public can 

 swallow the story with equal facility, the lure will lead 

 hosts of ambitious hunters to seek the mastadon preserves, 

 and they will naturally fall back for supplies on the es- 

 tablishment of thrifty Post Trader Harper. 



The Tombs police court officials were greatly interested 

 last Saturday by the advent of Miles and Henry Conklin, 

 two backwoodsmen from the hoop-pole district of John- 

 sontown, on the line of Rockland and Orange counties in 

 this State. They were in charge of Game Protector 

 Godwin, and had a basketful of snared grouse, which 

 they had brought to town to deliver to a game commis- 

 sion house which makes a specialty of such merchandise. 

 Miles and Henry were locked up, and Monday another 

 Conklin, John, joined them, also conducted by Mr. God- 

 win, and bearing thirty snared birds. When they came 

 up before the justices yesterday their quaint ways created 

 much amusement for the Tombs people, and the justice 

 was so touched by their wretchedness that he let each of 

 them off with a fine of $10, and sent them back to their 

 haunts in the woods. 



These men blubbered and whined all the time they 

 were in the Tombs, and abjectly begged to be sent home. 

 The judges naturally took pity on them, but such sym- 

 pathy was misplaced. The Conklins belong to the Rock- 

 land county gang of snarers whose illicit booty has been 

 shipped to their accomplices in the commission business 

 here year after year. Caught and brought to justice here 

 in New York, they are humble enough, but at home in 

 Rockland they show a very different bearing, threatening 

 to shoot any sportsman who has the temerity to break up 

 their snares. Not long ago they procured a coffin and 

 left it on the front stoop of a house as a warning of death 

 to the inmate for his part in destroying their lines of 

 snares. Such members of society hardly deserve leniency 

 when a game protector succeeds in nabbing them. 



The recent experience of Mr. T. V. "Woolrich, of Hali- 

 fax, Nova Scotia, is of interest, because it shows how 

 much a man who is lost in the woods can actually go 

 -through before he succumbs. Mr. Woolrich, who is sixty 

 years old , started out the other day to explore a portion 

 of the Mount Uniacke gold district, lost his way in the 

 bush, and existed on water alone for eleven days. When 

 found he could not articulate. He had succeeded in find- 

 ing the track of the Windsor and Annapolis Railway, and 

 there lay down. Attaching a piece of his shirt to the re- 

 mains of an umbrella, he stuck it in sand as a signal of 

 distress to attract a passing train. This was not noticed 

 until a freight train rescued him after eleven days. 



Were the ordinance which forbids the discharge of 

 firearms within city limits disregarded one would not 

 need to leave New York to look for game. Our occasional 

 correspondent "Canonicus" tells us that last Friday, Oct. 

 7, while in company with a surveying party on the Van 

 Courtland estate in the upper part of the city, he flushed 

 five heavy, strong-winged woodcock. There is more 

 wild life in New York city than careless observers might 

 suspect. A case in point came under our own notice the 

 other day, on the banks of tbe Harlem River, near High 

 Bridge, where we had an opportunity to study some in- 

 teresting peculiarities of serpent locomotion. 



Striped bass appear to be returning to their old haunts 

 in this vicinity. The beneficial results of restricting net 

 fishing have been demonstrated at Shark River Inlet, 

 New Jersey, as noted by a correspondent, and Mr. F. O. 

 DeLuze reports fine bass fishing at Wliitestone, Long 

 Island. 



The English pheasants put out in the Tuxedo Park pre- 

 serves in Rockland county, New York, have spread over 

 the country for ten miles around. There is no law on them 

 now, but one should be supplied, setting apart a proper 

 season for their protection. If only given a chance they 

 will furnish permanent sport. 



The Forest and Stream Decoration Day Trophy prizes 

 have been awarded as follows: The trophy is retained by 

 us to be offered again. The Knoxville and Delhi clubs 

 having tied for it, and the Knoxville club being prevented 

 from shooting off the tie, the value of the trophy was divided 

 between the two clubs, by the agreement of both, $65 go- 

 ing to the Delhi Club and $35 to the Knoxville club. The 

 Fountain (of Norwalk, Conn.), Baltimore, Parkersburg 

 and Wichita clubs divided first money prize; the Solomon 

 City, Kalamazoo and White City clubs divided second; 

 and the Wingohocking and Smith & Wesson clubs third. 



The entries for the Eastern Field Trials to be held at 

 High Point, North Carolina, next month, are more in 

 number than have been made for any trials yet held in 

 this country. There are nine in the champion stakes, 

 fifty-two in the all-aged setter stakes, and twenty-eight 

 in the pointer stakes. The dogs are of good quality, 

 many of them have been run at former trials. The large 

 entry indicates that the tiial will be an unusually inter- 

 esting event. The only thing to be feared is that it may 

 be so large as to be unwieldy and prolonged, particu- 

 larly if the weather be unfavorable as last year. 



Last winter the Legislature of New York appropriated 

 a sum of money to build a fishway in the dam across the 

 Hudson river at Troy. We cannot learn that any steps 

 have been taken to begin this work, and the appropriation 

 will not be available a year from now. The bill was 

 passed by hard work on the part of those anglers who are 

 interested in having the salmon and other fish pass the 

 dam and it is now necessary to stir up those State author- 

 ities who have the authority to do the work. It is evident 

 that some one needs to be reminded that it is time to begin 

 work. 



The Michigan change of woodcock season appears to 

 have been a wise one. Formerly it had been the custom 

 to shoot the birds in July. By a new law this was pro- 

 hibited in the past summer, and the result was a good 

 supply of game in September, when the season opened. 

 This has been the experience elsewhere when summer 

 woodcock have had a chance. The game sought in the 

 later months is strong of wing, plump, and well worth 

 while bringing to bag; not at all like the half -fledged 

 young and ill-conditioned old birds of July and August. 



A new street, which will cut through Trinity Cemetery, 

 will necessitate the removal of the remains of Audubon 

 the naturalist. The street will be named Audubon 

 avenue. It is proposed by the Academy of Science to 

 erect at the head of the avenue a monument in memory 

 of the great ornithologist. 



Dr. Henry G. Piffard has invented a method of taking 

 an instantaneous photograph at night by the flash of 

 powdered magnesium sprinkled on gun cotton. When 

 the invention is fully perfected it will be practicable by 

 one pull of the trigger to photograph a coon at night and 

 bag it too. 



The Connecticut woodchuck supply holds out well. 

 One Bristol farmer has a score of thirty-seven "varmints" 

 trapped this season; and another Bristol man counts 

 twenty -eight notches on his barn door, each notch tally- 

 ing a woodchuck to the good. 



Mr. Henry Folsom, head of the firm of H. & D. Fol- 

 som, gun dealers of this city, died last Monday, at the 

 age of fifty-eight. Mr. Folsom was widely known to 

 users of firearms, and was highly respected by his asso- 

 ciates in the trade. 



Cape May has had a mass meeting to take action on 

 the menhaden fishing, which is claimed to be destructive 

 of food fish. A committee was appointed to wait upon 

 the President and ask him to refer to the subject in bis 

 next message. 



The Esoc Quet hunting party have returned and report 

 a successful campaign. An account of the excursion, 

 written by one of the party, will be given in our next 

 issue. 



