Forest and Stream 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



Tebms, $4 a Year. 10 Cts. a Copy, f 

 Six Months, $2. ( 



NEW YORK, OCTOBER 20, 1887. 



J VOL. XXIX -No. 13. 



I Nos. 39 & 40 Park Row, New York. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 

 The Forest and Stream is the recognized medium of entertain- 

 ment, instruction and information between American sportsmen. 

 Communications on the subject to whudi its pages are devoted are 

 respectfully invited. Anonymous communications will not be re- 

 garded. No name wall be published except with writer's consent. 

 The Editors are not responsible for the views of correspondents. 



AD VERTISEMENTS. 

 Only advertisements of an approved character inserted. Inside 

 pages, nonpareil type, 80 cents per line. Special rates for three, six, 

 and twelve months. Seven words to the line, twelve lines to one 

 inch. Advertisements should be sent in by Saturday previous to 

 issue in which they are to be inserted. Transient advertisements 

 must invariably be accompanied by the money or they will not be 

 inserted. Reading notices $1.00 per line. 



SUBSCRIPTIONS 

 May begin at any time. Subscription price, $4 per year; $3 for six 

 months; to a club of three annual subscribers, three copies for $10; 

 five copies for $16. Remit by express money-order, regi ered letter, 

 money-order, or draft, payable to the Forest and Stream Publishing 

 Company. The paper may be obtained of newsdealers throughout 

 the United States, Canadas and Great Britain. For sale by Pavies 

 & Co., No. 1 Finch Lane, Cornhill, London. General subscription 

 agents for Great Britain. Messrs. Pavies & Co., and Messrs. Samp- 

 son Low, Marston, Searles and Rivington, 188 Fleet street, London, 

 Eng. Foreign subscription price. $5 per year; $2.50 for six months. 

 Address all communications. 



Forest and Stream 1'ublisMng Co. 



Nos. 39 and 40 Park Row. 



New York City. 



CONTENTS. 



Editoriax. 



A Word for the Dog. 



Notes and Comments. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



A Bird Hunt in Western Ken- 

 tucky.— n. 



Esoc Q'uet. 

 Natural History. 



The Manatees. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



An October Bag. 



In the Sawtooth Range.— iv. 



Schultze Gunpowder. 



An Arkansas Outing. 



Shooting Notes. 



Game Notes. 



New York Game Protectors. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 

 In the Land of the Micmacs. 

 Duly Sworn To. 

 Long Island Fishing. 



FlSHCULTURE. 



Lobster Culture. 

 The Kennel. 

 Elmira Dog Show. 



The Kennel. 



"VVooster Dog Show. 



Stafford Dog Show. 



Danbury Dog Show. 



Spaniels for Bench and Field. 



Kennel Notes. 



Kennel Management. 

 Rifle and Trap shooting. 



Range and Gallery. 



The National Encampment. 



The Trap. 



The California Tournament. 

 Canoeing. 



The Seneca in Commission. 



Old-Time Pleasure Boats. 



Sail Plan of the Nottis. 



Canoe Tent. 

 Yachting. 



Which Will You Have? 



The Size of Cup Challengers. 



Jo, An Old-Time Cruise. 



Frame it Broadly. 



The Dinner to Paine and Bur- 



A WORD FOR THE DOG. 



T>ERHAPS he has not been hunted before this season; 

 **■ it may be that he is just off from chain, and not in 

 what one would pronounce field trial condition. His 

 muscles are flabby, his flesh is soft, and long continued 

 work will not only tire him for the present day but will 

 be quite apt to incapacitate him for the next day. Unless 

 old and steady, his spirits will be exuberant, as well as 

 those of his master; and on this account he will be de- 

 serving of quite as much forbearance and patience on 

 his master's part as his master will require of his own 

 conscience. A short preparatory run where there is no 

 game will often tone down a dog under such conditions 

 and fit him for work. 



If one be away from home on a hunting expedition, 

 the first care should be to see that the dog has proper 

 quarters for the night; and the care of him should not be 

 delegated to the hotel servant, but the master should by 

 personal inspection assure himself of the comfort and 

 proper feeding of his dog. For hunting a dog should be 

 fed very sparingly in the morning. Give him a bite or 

 two of your lunch at noon, and let the full meal be given 

 at night after the day's work is finished. A dog will not 

 hunt well on a full stomach, nor will his food digest while 

 he is working in the field. If you have a brace of dogs 

 work them alternately; let one do the hunting while the 

 other is resting at heel. Do not permit a dog to lie in 

 water for any length of time while afield; though an 

 occasional plunge will do no harm. 



The first care upon returning at night should be to 

 examine your dog to see if any harm has befallen him. 

 A slight hand rubbing all over will discover if he has 

 met with any accident from thorns or briers; if any of 

 these are found they cannot be removed too quickly. 

 Special attention should be given to the feet. If these 

 are inflamed and have the appearance of being made 

 tender by his work, they should be bathed in beef brine, 

 which can be procured from any butcher or at almost 

 any farm house. If the skin be much worn, or the foot 

 wounded, vaseline should be applied; and if very badly 

 off, the dog should be laid up until in condition again. 



Here, as elsewhere, an ounce of prevention is worth a 

 pound of cure. Slight attention paid to these matters 

 will insure a dog's good condition, while neglect will 

 often cost dear. 



So much for the physical well-being of our brute field 

 companions. It might be added that their efficiency and 

 good performance will be increased if they have a good 

 example in their masters. Nothing is more conducive to 

 a dog's unsteadiness and fhghtiness than the unsteadiness 

 and flightiness of the human being who is handling him. 

 No man who cannot control himself should attempt to 

 control a dog. 



NOTES AND COMMENTS. 

 A T the Boston meeting of the American Ornithologists' 

 Union, last week, a letter was read from Mr. William 

 Lloyd, of Texas, telling of his observations in the arid 

 region of western Texas to determine what birds indicate 

 proximity to water and at w T hat distance. The observa- 

 tions extend over four years and Mr. Lloyd gives the fol- 

 lowing list "as certainties," with the greatest distance at 

 which each occurs from water: "Cardinal, one mile; 

 warblers (including chat), one mile; vireos, two miles; 

 mocking birds, two and one-half to three and one-half 

 miles; blue grosbeak, the same; orchard oriole, Bullock's 

 oriole, and nonpareil, each tlnee miles; Carolina dove, 

 three to five miles; black-capped titmouse, four miles; 

 Texas cardinal, six miles. This only applies to summer, 

 and will not hold in winter or during migrations." The 

 letter further states that Mr. Lloyd has put the result of 

 his observations to practical use; three times during the 

 past summer he made camp, choosing the locality because 

 seeing certain birds there, and finding the water indicated 

 by their being there. 



The passing of the buffalo is a phase of wild life exter- 

 mination that appeals to the imagination, and scores of 

 writers have treated it from the sentimental standpoint. 

 The passing of the lobster is not nearly so sentimental a 

 topic, and the magazines have given it no attention. 

 Commercially the lobster is of vastly greater importance 

 than the buffalo, and it is going just as surely. The 

 buffalo we can do without; the plains, once their feeding 

 ground, now pasture vast herds of cattle. But there is 

 nothing to take the place of the lobster; when once that 

 is exterminated from the coast by fisherman's greed we 

 cannot restock the waters with a substitute. Why is it 

 not the better plan to limit the catch by wise statutes and 

 their enforcement? What excuse is there for the back- 

 ward step taken in this State last winter when, at the 

 dictation of a saloon keeper, then representing this city 

 in the Legislature, the short-lobster law was repealed, 

 and the gates w r ere opened for the reception and sale in 

 the New York market of "baby" lobsters from Massa- 

 chusetts and Maine? It appears to be much easier to get a 

 good law repealed than a new one enacted at Albany, and 

 there is no doubt enough at stake among the dealers to 

 make it worth their while to insure for themselves con- 

 tinued license to deal in immature lobsters so long as 

 they last. When the mischief has been done and there 

 are no more crustaceans to protect some one will rise up 

 at Albany to go through the farce of legislating for 

 lobsters. 



There are some gunners who have not much else to do 

 the year around except to crack away at whatever game 

 happens to be in season; but the average man of the 

 thousands afield in October is not of this class. Nine out 

 of ten who go shooting are limited to a few days, or at 

 the most a week or two, of sport; they come from office, 

 workshop and counting room, and the chances are ten to 

 one that in their eagerness to make the most of the brief 

 opportunities of their outing, they come in at night in fit 

 condition to realize what a blessed thing it is to be thor- 

 oughly tired out. The fatigue that comes of tramping 

 fields and climbing fences and lugging eight or ten 

 pounds of gun is what the Indians call "good medicine." 



The number of applications received by the Interior 

 Department for permits to hunt in the Indian Territory 

 has been unusually large this season, coming from all over 

 this country, and many from Great Britain. The Depart- 

 ment has also been in receipt of numerous complaints 

 from the Territory, where sportsmen and Indians manage 

 to find something to quarrel about; and as a last recourse 

 Secretary Lamar has decided to issue no more permits. 



There must be a tremendous interest in robin shooting 

 if we are to judge from the number of inquiries at this 

 office about the open season , which will begin Nov. 1 on 

 Staten Island and Long Island. The robin is the favorite 

 game of many New York citizens of foreign descent, who 

 shoot whatever comes along. These gunners have been 

 potting robins and other birds all along, and bringing 

 them over the ferries in the most open and unconcerned 

 manner. Sunday is their favorite day for robin shoot- 

 ing, and it is then that they swarm out into the suburbs 

 of Brooklyn and adjacent towns and make the day 

 hideous with their racket. The Staten Islanders found 

 a partial remedy some years ago in a local law forbid- 

 ding shooting by non-residents except upon payment of 

 a license fee. This plan might be adopted on Long 

 Island with beneficial results so far as this particular 

 abuse is concerned. The end accomplished by such a 

 provision is good, though the constitutionality of the law 

 itself has been questioned. 



In these days stories of new projectiles and new explo- 

 sives come thick and fast. The nations of Europe are 

 eagerly rivaling one another to see which shall equip" 

 itself with the most terrible armaments. The latest re- 

 ported novelty is a gunpowder invented by a Russian 

 chemist. It is called "Sleetover," and its merit is said to 

 be in the peculiar mode of explosion. Says a published 

 account of it, "The peculiarity of the compound is that 

 it explodes by expanding in one direction only, and that 

 the direction in which the projectile is to be carried 

 forward." In other words the Russian inventor has dis- 

 covered a way to overcome and reverse the laws of 

 nature hitherto governing the expansion of gases. Now 

 he ought to devote himself to lifting himself by his boot- 

 straps to the moon. 



Mr. C. C. Goodrich, general agent of the Hartford and 

 New York Transportation Company, has given strict orders 

 to all persons in his employ to refuse to receive any game 

 for transportation from Connecticut; and when Herbert 

 Banning, of Hadlyme, Conn., attempted to ship a box of 

 ruffed grouse to a New York dealer, the box was seized. 

 This stand taken by Agent Goodrich entitles him to the 

 respect and gratitude of the sportsmen of Connecticut; 

 and it is to be hoped that other public carriers will adopt 

 the same attitude toward market hunters. There is an 

 extensive traffic in snared grouse; hundreds of them come 

 to New York; and this will continue until some due pro- 

 vision is made for enforcing the Connecticut statute. 



A Vermont farmer's inquiry about silver foxes brought 

 out responses from a Montreal merchant and a British 

 Columbia fur trader. A Berlin manufacturer's amusing 

 stoiy of the odd ways of German hunters prompted an 

 American lady in Corfu to write of the ways of gunners 

 in Greece. These are by no means extreme examples 

 hinting of the Forest and Stream's breadth of horizon. 

 Its good things come from the remote corners of the earth 

 not less than from nearby American woods and waters. 



One of the members of the Esoc Quet expedition has 

 many wonderful tilings to relate of his experiences and 

 adventures; but nothing on the entire trip appears to have 

 impressed him so much as the naked honesty of his In- 

 dian guide, who, having shot half a dozen times at a deer 

 and missed it, frankly said so, when a "true sportsman" 

 relating such an occurrence would have made at least 

 four of the balls wound the game. 



The air is full of rumors of challenges for the America 

 Cup. Canada, Ireland and Scotland talk of sending 

 competitors. It is not probable that any definite chal- 

 lenge will be received before the revision of the condi- 

 tions shall have been completed. 



The New York Fish Commission has approved the 

 plans for a McDonald fish way at the Troy dam, and it is 

 said that the work of constructing it will be undertaken 

 at once unless high water interferes. 



The Forest and Stream Decoration Day Trophy will 

 be offered again, but under revised conditions, so drawn 

 as to insure a speedier result than before, and avoid the 

 vexatious delay. 



The Virginia Field Sports Association will convene at 

 Richmond next week. 



