Forest and Stream 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



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NEW YORK, JANUARY 5, 1888. 



I VOL. XXIX.-No. 24. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



Your Money or Your Life. 



Snowshoe Trip in Wonderland 



Culrure of S?a Fish. 



The Rock Climbers.— n. 

 The Sportsman Touuist. 



Sam Lovel's Camps. — iii. 



On the Patera. 

 Natural History. 



Unusual Nesting Sites.— n. 



Grouse and Mallard Plumage. 



A Familiar Grouse. 

 Game Rag and Gun. 



Peleg's Experiences. 



A Hunt for Bob White. 



Elk Hunting in Minnesota. 



The Indian Lake Country. 



Game uear Bismarck. 



A Moruing with the Coots. 



Miscou. 



Field, Marsh and Scrub. 

 Shooting Notes. 

 Sea and RrvFii Fishing. 

 Salmon Lake. 

 The Susquehanna. 



FlSHCULTUItE. 



Restoring the Clyde Fisheries. 

 Shad Hatching in 1837. 

 The Kennel. 

 American Kennel Register. 

 Ru'e No. 2. 



American Field Trials. 

 Kin a. 



Stories of Dogs. 



Kennel Notes. 



Kennel Management. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 



Range and Gallery. 



The Trap. 

 Yachting. 



The Boycott Deed of Gift. 



Hauling Up Deep Yachts. 



The Ten Months Limit. 



Yachting Notes. 

 Canoeing. 



Cruising Canoes at the Meet. 



A Spring Cruise. 



A Class B Racing and Cruising 

 Canoe. 



Answers to Correspondents, 



YOUR MONEY OR YOUR LIFE. 

 T^HIS is the age of "Trusts," of combinations by which 

 the prices of necessary articles are raised for the 

 benefit of those belonging to the "Trust." The people 

 have to pay to enrich these combinations. They have to 

 pay, perhaps each one only an insignificant sum, but they 

 have to pay all the same. Whether it be for their oil or 

 their rubber or their steel or the registration of their 

 dogs, they have to pay. 



Four men representing four kennel clubs recently voted 

 that a kennel club trust should be formed. It was formed 

 and promptly took the dog public of America by the 

 throat, and clapping a figurative six-shooter to its col- 

 lective ear, ordered it to register all dogs in the kennel 

 club's "official" stud book before they can be exhibited 

 at shows held under their rules. The prime mover in 

 this highhanded piece of extortion has announced with a 

 naivete that is quite charming,that the "official" stud book 

 must be made to pay, because the payment of the Kennel 

 Club's bills depends on the success of the stud book. If 

 the creditors of the A. K. C. have to wait for their money 

 until the earnings of the stud book amount to enough to 

 pay their bills, they will wait a long time. The dog men 

 of America are not quite ready to submit to a tax levied 

 in this dictatorial manner. They feel that ninety-nine 

 one-hundredths of them know more about dogs and dog 

 matters in a minute than Mr. Cugle knows in a year, and 

 they are not at all prepared to put their hands in their 

 pockets and pay up simply because certain individuals 

 were foolish enough to guarantee the expenses of a 

 venture which from the start had no prospeots of success, 

 and which has since been edited and managed with so 

 little intelligence. 



So the greater part of the public has laughed in the face 

 of the Kennel Club Trust, and two of the most important 

 kennel clubs have promptly - dissolved all connection with 

 it; a much smaller force is at present occupied in balanc- 

 ing itself on the fence, uncertain whether to come down 

 on the side of the Independents or the "Trust," while a 

 third still smaller remnant, so small that they can readily 

 be counted, are sitting round cursing their stupidity in 

 taking the dog men of America for a pack of weak-kneed 

 fools, whom they could force by blcws and threats to do 

 their bidding. There is every indication that the attempt 

 to force exhibitors into the so-called "offioial" will cause 



such a split in the dog world of America as has never 

 been known. 



It will vastly lesson the attendance and the entries at 

 dog shows held under its rules, and will decrease the in- 

 terest in dogs. Not only will such dog shows lo e money, 

 but the breeders of fine dogs will suffer. As the interest 

 in dog shows falls off, so the demand for young stock will 

 decrease. This will be followed by a fall in prices. 

 Breeders who have invested considerable money in 

 good stock and whose kennels have up to this time 

 been self-supporting or have perhaps even paid a little 

 profit will find themselves running behind. Puppies 

 will accumulate on their hands and so expenses will be 

 increased and breeders will be anxious to get out of a 

 business that is so unprofitable. 



From whatever standpoint it may be viewed the dic- 

 tatorial rule 2, promises nothing but disaster to breeders 

 and to the interests of all who love the dog. These in- 

 terests it is the purpose of Forest and Stream to defend. 

 The jibes and sneers of baffled bulldozers, who see us 

 standing in the way of their schemes for transferring 

 money from the pockets of the public to their own, will 

 not turn us from our course. We have heard such growls 

 too often before. The Forest and Stream has the con- 

 fidence of the dog men of America, and these dog men 

 know that its course is guided solely by what is for 

 their best interests. 



A SNOWSHOE TRIP IN WONDERLAND. 

 \V HAT the Yellowstone Park is in winter has been 

 * * told :n Forest and Stream. If to read about 

 such a trip is delightful, how much more would the trip 

 itself be enjoyed by any one who is fond of the exhilarat- 

 ing sport of snowshoeing ? 



It has been shown by the experience of the Forest and 

 Stream Special Commissioner, who went through the 

 Yellowstone Park last winter, that there is neither danger 

 nor hardship in the trip, and a number of gentlemen who 

 are experts in snowshoe travel have expressed a wish to 

 go through the Park, and have inquired as to the best 

 means of doing so, the possibility of obtaining guides, the 

 accommodations that might be expected at the hotels, 

 and generally as to the outlook for a good time and a 

 pleasant trip. We are glad to reply to such queries. 



If a party of snowshoers should be made up to visit the 

 Park this winter we can put them in the way of going 

 under the most favorable auspices by engaging for them 

 a guide who is well known to us not only as being 

 thoroughly reliable, but as knowing the Park and the 

 haunts of the game as well as any man that can be had; 

 a man whom we ourselves, if we were fortunate enough 

 to have the opportunately to make such a trip, would 

 select as our companion if we could get him. 



The assistants required by a party of snowshoers would 

 of course depend on the number of individuals which 

 composed it. The party would have to carry but little in 

 the way of provisions, for most of their stopping places 

 would be at the hotels, where they could obtain food — 

 not of course delicacies, but good plain campers' "grub." 

 Still, if they at all followed the route taken by the For- 

 est and Stream Commissioner last winter, there would 

 be three or four nights to be spent in camp, perhaps two 

 between the Upper Basin and the Falls and two between 

 the Falls and Yanceys. Their bedding they would of 

 course have to carry. They would need a cook, for the 

 hotels during the winter are not open for the accomoda- 

 tion of visitors, and while they could purchase provisions 

 and be sure of a roof to sleep under, they could expect 

 nothing in the way of service. 



The best time for making such a trip would be during 

 the month of February. The snow effects and ice work 

 are at their best during that month, and the snow is pretty 

 well packed, so that the labor of snowshoeing is much 

 lightened. 



Of the attractions of a snowshoe trip through the Yel- 

 lowstone little need be said here. The graphic letters of 

 our special correspondent, printed las: spring, are fresh 

 in the minds of most of those who take special delight in 

 one of the most delightful of our winter outdoor sports. 



The marvels of the Wonderland in summer have be- 

 come familiar to every one, but perhaps there are ndl 

 half a dozen men alive who have beheld these wonders in 

 winter, have seen the boiling geysers spouting through 

 snow banks, and rivers of hot water cutting out channels 

 through the ice. . A tiip of this kind too enables one to 

 see the finest of America's large game in its home. Elk, 

 antelope, mountain sheep, and rarest of all, buffalo, can 



be seen by those who might go through the Park on 

 snowshoes. 



Altogether the trip must appeal strongly to all those 

 who are fond of ou door life and who are not afraid of a 

 little "roughing it." No one, however, should contem- 

 plate the tiip who is not prepared to take the rough with 

 the smooth and to endure a certain amount of fatigue 

 and cold in exchange for the pleasure of such an excur- 

 sion. 



If all those who would like to make the trip could get 

 away from "business for the length of time required we 

 are sure that a long line of special trains would be needed 

 to transport them over the Northern Pacific Railroad to 

 the borders of the Park. 



Some there may be who have the leisure to take a 

 winter vacation of this kind, and to such we offer our 

 services in making all necessary arrangements for the 

 trip. 



Any inquiries on points connected with this subject 

 should be addressed to us without delay, as if a party 

 starts, it should leave^the East early in February. 



THE CULTURE OF SEA FISH. 

 r PHE fishculturist having mastered the secrets of the 

 fishes of fresh water now begins to turn his attention 

 to the ocean as a broader field where more honors are to 

 be won. Those states which have facilities for work in 

 this field will soon fall into the line indicated by the 

 U. S. Commission and count their eggs by hundreds of 

 millions instead of by thousands. In salt water hatching 

 there are new fishes to work with, whose eggs will require 

 different methods. The inventive fishculturist will be 

 stimulated to an endeavor to master the conditions neces- 

 sary to reproduce the valuable food fishes which supply 

 the markets and furnish cheap food; and thus the useful- 

 ness of his work which has to a great extent been confined 

 to sporting and ornamental fishes, will be widened. 



In addition to the salt water work at Woods Holl, the 

 U. S. Commission has established a hatchery at Ten-Pound 

 Island, off Cape Ann, and several millions of codfish eggs 

 are now being hatched there. The schooner Grampus is 

 now catching spawning fish for the station and it is also 

 proposed to hatch haddock, lobsters, mackerel and halibut, 

 if the eggs of the latter can be obtained. The State of 

 New York has excellent facilities for this work at Cold 

 Spring Harbor and much can be done there toward ex- 

 perimenting with the food fishes of Long Island Sound 

 and the Great South Bay, if the Commissioners will go 

 into it in earnest and devote a portion of their appropri- 

 ation to this important work. So far, a few local salt 

 water fishes, ouch as tomcods and lobsters have been 

 turned out from the hatchery there and there is no reason 

 why bluefish, Spanish mackerel, porgies, and perhaps 

 sheepshead, should not be hatched also. Col. McDonald, 

 Chief of the Division of Fishculture of the IT. S. Commis- 

 sion, is strongly in favor of more extended salt water 

 work but there seems to be need of awakening the dwellers 

 by the sea, and the Fish Commissioners of the Atlantic 

 States, to the needs of stocking the waters, much as there 

 was among the fresh water fishermen twenty years ago. 

 In the light of what has been done in the rivers and lakes 

 it seems singular that there should be any doubt about the 

 benefits of stocking the bays and harbors with the fishes 

 that once were plenty there but which have decreased 

 with the growth of population. Man is a factor in the 

 destruction of sea fishes, the oft-quoted declaration of 

 Prof. Huxley to the contrary notwithstanding, and he 

 can be made a factor in their increase. Once lobsters 

 were plentiful along the rocky shores of Connecticut and 

 Long Island, but they have ceased to be caught there in 

 numbers because of over-fishing. The water is as good 

 as ever, and it only needs to be plentifully stocked. The 

 same may be said of many fishes which once were plenti- 

 ful in the bays, and fish culture will make a great advance 

 when it is intelligently applied to reproducing the fishes 

 which live in the salt waters. 



The Legislatures now in session will have more or less 

 to do with game laws. The New York Legislature may 

 he expected to take the lead in volume of game law tin- 

 kering if not in intelligence of treatment. A game law, 

 prepared by Mr. R. B. Roosevelt and others, will be pre- 

 sented at Albany. We have not been advised whether or 

 not its provisions are to be regarded as intended seriously 

 or as jokes. Ohio laws are to be amended, and a biiLhas 

 been introduced to provide a State game warden, to super- 

 intend the work of county wardens, 



