Forest and Stream 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



Terms, $4 a Year. 10 Ots. a Copy. ) 



Six Months, $2. f 



NEW YORK, NOVEMBER lO, 1887. 



1 VOL. XXIX.-No. 16. 



1 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 which its pages are devoted are 

 respectfully invited. Anonymous communications will not be re- 

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

 The Editors are not responsible for the views of correspondents. 



ADVERTISEMENTS. 



Only advertisements of an approved character inserted. Inside 

 pages, nonpareil type, 30 cents per line. Special rates for three, si x, 

 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; $2 for six 

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

 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 Davies 

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

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

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

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

 Address all communications, 



Forest and Stream Publishing Co. 



Nos. 39 and 40 Park Row. 



New York City. 



CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



Co-operation. 



New Jersey Non-residents. 



Notes and Comments. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



A Deer Hunt (poem). 



The Open Air. 



A Council of the Senecas. 



Phases of Sport Abroad. 

 Natural History. 



Tree-Climbing Rattlesnakes. 



What is Instiuct? 



The Jack Snipe as a Rustler. 

 Camp-Fire Flickering^. 

 (jAme Bag and Gun. 



Experience with the Birds. 



A Chance at the Antelope. 



Park Notes. 



Old Gates. 



Bruin Finds a Champion. 

 Maryland Ducks. 

 Connecticut Complications. 

 Cape Cod Quail. 

 Deer and Quail. 

 Avis Difflcilis. 

 Testing a Gunbarrel, 

 The Game Campaign. 

 He Has a Bonanza. 

 Game Notes. 



Sea and River Fishing. 



Who Caught the Big Trout. 



On the Gasconade. — I. 



Angling Patents. 



Trouting on Passadumkeag. 



The Upper Dam Trout. 



Salt- Water Notes. 

 Fishculture. 



A Tribute to Professor Baird. 



Propagation of Codfish. 

 The Kennel. 



American Field Trials Entries. 



A Raccoon Hunt. 



Performing Wolves. 



Kennel Notes. 



Kennel Management. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 



Range and Gallerv. 

 Canoeing. 



The Location of the Next Meet. 



Paddling Races. 



Rigs for Sailing and Cruising. 



Proposed Amendments to Con- 

 stitution. 

 Yachting. 



Early Centerboard Boats. 



Montgomery Sailing Club. 



A Winter School of Yachting. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



CO-OPERATION. 

 T N union there is strength; why is not the wisdom of* 

 the old adage more generally adopted in our endeav- 

 ors to conserve the game and fish supply? 



For a pertinent example take the Massachusetts Fish 

 and Game Protective Association, with headquarters at 

 Boston. This is a society of large membership, decided 

 influence and unquestionably high purposes. Yet through 

 the State, among country sportsmen, there is found an 

 undercurrent of distrust and jealousy of this Boston soci- 

 ety, based largely upon the mere fact that it is a Boston, 

 which is to say a city, organization, made up of "city 

 sportsmen."' We have often referred to the supposed or 

 imaginary conflict of interests between city sportsmen 

 and country sportsmen; and have repeatedly endeavored 

 to point out that there should be no such conflict, for 

 what is for the good of one class is in equal measure for 

 the benefit of the other. The distrust and jealousy, how- 

 ever, persist, and by reason of their persistence much of 

 the game and fish protective work undertaken in Massa- 

 chusetts is thwarted and much more that ought to be 

 undertaken is left undone. If city and country repre- 

 sentatives of the cause could join hands in hearty accord 

 aud "pull together' 1 we should soon see a change. 



The Boston men are anxious to secure the active aid of 

 outsiders. As one means of making known the character 

 and purposes of their society, they propose to invite 

 members of country clubs to attend the monthly meet- 

 ings of the Association. It is expected that some of these 

 club members will be present as guests at the next meet- 

 ing on Nov. 21. The acquaintances to be formed in this 

 way can hardly fail of beneficial results, and if with a bet- 

 ter understanding of the common interests and purposes 

 of each, city and country clubs can be induced to work 

 in unison, there will be well-founded hope for speedily 

 accomplishing ends not to be attained by working at log- 

 gerheads. 



There ought to be in every State in this Union an 



association of local clubs, banded together for the express 

 and single purpose of seeing to it that the authorities en- 

 force the laws. Trap-shooting societies will never do 

 this. The old organizations, game protective in principle 

 and trap shooting in practice, have now for the most part 

 died out. They have at least so far disappeared from 

 public gaze as game protectors that new societies, 

 organized to fill their places, could not be re- 

 garded as in any sense rivals or opponents. The 

 way is clear for new State game protective associations; 

 and if those well-intentioned individuals who are 

 working bravely to establish a grand national association 

 will instead of this concentrate their efforts upon the 

 organization of State societies, their labors will not be so 

 surely for naught as they are at present. Co-operation is 

 a capital thing in its way, but compactness and concen- 

 tration are also essentials. A State association made up 

 of town and county clubs can do something besides talk. 

 A national association made up of clubs from all over the 

 country can do nothing but make speeches and pass reso- 

 lutions. And resolutions as game protective cure-alls 

 have had their day. 



NEW JERSEY NON-RESIDENTS. 

 "TVTEW JEESEY has a curious system of treating non- 

 residents who may wish to shoot off a gun within 

 her boundaries. The law says that no person not a resi- 

 dent shall hunt or kill game or catch fish "in this State 

 without complying with the by-laws of the game protec- 

 tive societies organized or to be organized under the laws 

 of this State," and it provides a fine of $50 with the option 

 of lying in jail for violation. This law does not say that 

 a non- resident must join a society. It only says he must 

 "comply with the by-laws." Does that phrase "comply 

 with the by-laws" mean "join the society"? It is so in- 

 terpreted by the societies themselves. They arrest and 

 fine non-residents on that very ground. Joseph Travis, 

 of Philadelphia, was arrested and fined $50 and costs 

 by Justice James Cassidy, of Camden, on the charge of 

 gunning without a license, i. e., a certificate of member- 

 ship in the West Jersey Game Protective Society. 



It is a very carious system. Several persons who have 

 been made to pay up in times past have expressed a 

 determination to carry their cases to higher courts for a 

 decision, but they have always paid their fines and 

 dropped the contest without actually making any test of 

 the law. This is a great pity. A friendly suit to deter- 

 mine the intent of the law, the interpretation to be put 

 upon its wording, and the authority given by it to these 

 societies to seize non-residents and lock them up, would 

 be watched with much interest and might teach some 

 valuable lessons. 



NOTES AND COMMENTS. 

 QUNAPEE LAKE, New Hampshire, has been syste- 

 ^ matically stocked by the fish commissioners, and 

 the fishing is constantly improving. The lake is a beauti- 

 ful body of water, at a high altitude, with charming sur- 

 roundings. Its development as a fishing resort is an 

 excellent example of what might be done with scores 

 of lakes in New England and elsewhere, if public spirit 

 and forethought were to be brought to the task. Sunapee 

 will be one of the famous angling resorts of the near 

 future, and the citizens of the State will reap the benefit 

 in railroad and stage fares, hotel, boat, guide and other 

 revenues. 



We shall begin shortly the publication of a series of 

 papers by Prof. J. W. P. Jenks, of Brown University, re- 

 lating his experiences and adventures during the winter 

 of 1874, while hunting in the Lake Okeechobee region of 

 Florida. That was not so very long ago, but the changes 

 there have been so rapid that the author's account of his 

 wild life with wild game and wild outlaws will be like 

 ancient history to Florida readers. 



An Oxford, Md., company has been organized to pre- 

 pare oysters for shipment abroad by a novel method, 

 which has been recently patented. All there is to it is 

 simply to fasten the shells of a live oyster together so 

 that they cannot open. The oyster and his liquor fill the 

 shell completely, says the inventor; but after being kept 

 out of the water for a time the creature opens its shell ex- 

 pecting to feed, a portion of the liquor is lost, air takes the 

 place of it, and the first stage of decomposition sets in. 

 If the shell be so tightly clamped that no atmospheric 



air can enter, the oyster will subsist on its own juices for 

 a period of sixty or eighty days, and at the end of that 

 time will be in good condition to be eaten. This is not 

 all theory; experiments have proved the success of the 

 method. The new industry of oyster clamping is in full 

 working order at Oxford. Iron wire is employed to fasten 

 the shells, and the firm is filling a large foreign contract. 

 If the process will work with oysters we see no reason 

 why it should not be applied with equal success to clams, 

 and here too the American fishermen who use clams for 

 cod bait may find a hint toward the solution of the bait 

 question. 



Another specimen of amateur photographer's work 

 comes to us from Dr. Henry G. Piffard, of this city, whose 

 invention of a "photographic pistol" for photographing 

 in the dark was recently noted. The method consists in 

 igniting powdered magnesium on gun cotton and taking 

 the instantaneous negative by the flash. Our suggestion 

 that it would be possible by one pull of the trigger to 

 photograph a coon at night and bag it too appears to have 

 prompted Dr. Piffard to produce the portrait, which is 

 that of a darky made with the photographic pistol at 9 

 o'clock P. M. 



Senator John E. Kenna, of West Virginia, is a fox- 

 hunter, fisherman and amateur photographer. He is en- 

 thusiastic in each of these pursuits, and excels in all of 

 them. We are reminded of this by receiving a specimen 

 of his work with the camera. It is a group of fishermen 

 on Howard's Creek, Greenbrier county, West Virginia, 

 in which the excellent portraits are recognized as those 

 of Messrs. A. N. Cheney, W. D. Cleveland and the Sena- 

 tor himself. 



Non-export game laws cut off the market-hunter, but 

 hotel landlords frequently complain that they suffer too 

 because sportsmen will not go shooting where they can- 

 not send their game home or take it home with them. 

 This is in a measure true; several instances have recently 

 come to our notice, where men who had been accustomed 

 to make an annual excursion to certain localities have 

 now given it up for this very reason. 



Memphis, Tenn., is a desirable point to start out from 

 for Southern game. We have information that game of 

 all kinds is unusually abundant this season in the Mis- 

 sissippi River districts reached from Memphis. The 

 facilities for traveling from Memphis to the game regions 

 of Mississippi and Arkansas are as good as possible, 

 afforded by the several radiating lines of railroads and 

 the Mississippi River and tributaries. 



Redditch, England, it is said, turns out 20,000,000 fish- 

 hooks every week. The total of the annual product taxes 

 the imagination. If one is to believe all the talk of re- 

 turning fishermen, a goodly number of these are swal- 

 lowed by "the big ones that got away," but even then, the 

 mystery of what becomes of all the rest is almost as great 

 as that of where all the pins go to. 



Among the good things in store for readers of this 

 journal is a series of sketches relating the experiences of 

 Sam Lovel and his friends in June and autumn camps. 

 It has been intimated to us that before the papers are 

 completed we may hear something of how Uncle Lisha 

 fared out in 'Hio. 



The Audubon Society has not done so much that no 

 more remains for it to do. The membership is not so 

 large that it ought not to be quadrupled. The sentiment 

 against bird destruction is not so universal nor so em- 

 phatic that it needs not to be encouraged. 



"Uncle Lisha's Shop" in book form is just as good read- 

 ing as it was when printed in the Forest and Stream 

 Perhaps better, for it will bear a second reading and im-' 

 prove with it — which is more than can be said for nine- 

 tenths of the books that come from the press. 



The individual heralded as "Jo- Jo, the dog-faced 

 Russian boy," or human Skye terrier, would make a 

 decided sensation at a bench show, and it is surprising 

 that no enterprising managers have had the forethought 

 to secure him. 



Senator Vest is preparing an article on the National 

 Park for the Century, 



