Forest and Stream. 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



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NEW YORK, APRIL 14, 1887. 



j VOL. XX VTII.-No. 12. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



In the Yellowstone, 



Lumbermen and Game. 



Names. 



Snap Shots. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



Winter in Wonderland. 



Norway Notes. 



Me An Venus and Lyin' Bill. 

 Naturae History. 



Names of a Woodpecker. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



To Fib or Not to Fib (poem). 



Swell Duck Club Etiquette. 



In a Box. 



A Deer in Deep Snow. 



A Maryland Triu. 



Bear Stalking in Canada.— II. 



Experience With California 



Game. 

 Au October Day. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 

 The Brook Trout. 

 New England Trout Streams. 

 "Farmer Brown's Trout." 

 The Click in Reels. 



Fishculture. 



The Salmon. 

 The Kennel. 



The. Boston Dog Show. 



'"Collies at Newark." 



Instinct or Reason? 



Eastern Field Trials Club. 



Pittsburgh Show. 



Kennel Management. 



Kennel Notes. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 



Range and Gallery. 



Fast Day Matches. 



The Trap. 

 Yachting. 



Second Cruise of the Pilgrim. 



Gen. Paine's New Sloop. 



A British Plea for the Center- 

 board. 



The Cup Races. 



Yachtbuilding in Scotland. 



Mayflower and Arrow. 

 Canoeing. 



A Washington C. C. Cruise. 



A Meet on the Passaie. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



THIRTY-TWO PAGES. 



Four pages are added to the usual twenty-eight, and this 

 issue of Forest and Stream consists of thirty-two pages. 



WINTER IN THE YELLOWSTONE. 



WE print this week the second instalment of the 

 report of our Yellowstone Park Midwinter Ex- 

 plorer, which will be found not less interesting than the 

 portion which has appeared before. The story of this 

 trip has already excited a widespread interest, and the 

 thorough appreciation by the press and the public of our 

 success in bringing to light the mysteries of the Yellow- 

 stone Park in winter is most gratifying. In our issue of 

 to-day the wonderful effect of the frost work is described, 

 and the scenes of which our correspondent tells us read 

 more like a fairy tale than the commonplace occurrences 

 of every day life. Each one who reads Mr. Hofer's pen 

 pictures of these marvellous effects of winter's work will 

 envy him his opportunities for beholding these 

 beauties. Since the ice has once been broken and our 

 correspondent has had the pluck and daring to penetrate 

 the Park, no doubt others will follow in his footsteps 

 later. 



Much speculation has been indulged in with regard to 

 the mysterious occurrences for which the Yellowstone 

 Park is so famous, several of which are referred to by Mr. 

 Hofer. For example, a correspondent who has devoted 

 a great deal of anxious thought to the subject of the 

 bottle in the tree, advances the ingenious theory that at 

 the time it was put in position twelve feet above the level 

 of the snow, the whole party was elevated to that extent. 

 This might account for the inscription on the label, and if 

 the hypothesis be correct it opens up a series of interest- 

 ing questions as to the possibilities of 'Fine Old McBrayer." 

 If this fluid possess such lifting power as suggested, it 

 will naturally attract the attention of aeronauts, those 

 who go up in the air in balloons. 



We continue to hear favorable accounts from the Yel- 

 lowstone Park of the game which has wintered there. 

 Jack Baronett, the scout, was sent last month by Captain 

 Harris over to Specimen Ridge to look for bison. He 

 found a herd there, of which he counted eighty, all of the 

 herd not being in sight. 



NAMES. 



A CORRESPONDENT sends us a list of thirty-six 

 names, in different localities applied to a single 

 bird, the golden-winged woodpecker — which "is nothing 

 more nor less than the high-hole," as was oracularly 

 declared the other day by a well-known woodcraftsman, 

 who happened to be in the office when the list came in. 

 The catalogue may appear extraordinary, but there prob- 

 ably are other birds whose names are just as numerous 

 and as varied. 



Mr. Edward Jack, of New Brunswick, recently ex- 

 pressed his surprise at the queer specimens of fish which he 

 found masquerading under the name of trout in Georgia. 

 In Canada the fish would pass for a sucker, but never for a 

 trout, for Canadians think they know what a trout is; 

 yet some of our finical correspondents who stickle for 

 absolutely correct nomenclature, refuse to give this fish 

 its accepted name of brook trout, but call it a charr. 



The game laws ought to be drawn with careful regard 

 to the nomenclature of the species they are intended to 

 protect ; but some of the statutes are woefully deficient 

 in this respect. In the Langbein bill, now before the 

 New York Legislature, a bill which has been through the 

 hands of one of the Fish Commissioners and is understood 

 to be largely his personal work, there is alkxsion to one 

 fish which in the section defining the open seasons is re- 

 ferred to by its commonly accepted name, black bass, and 

 in another section, granting permission to sell, is dubbed 

 "Virginia Chub." This may be a case of stupid careless- 

 ness, or it may be a case of something else. 



LUMBEUMEN AND GAME. 

 'T^HE winter of 1886-7 has been a most favorable sea- 

 son for the wealthy Maine lumbermen who prefer 

 to violate the laws of the land and to feed their crews on 

 game unlawfully killed rather than to put their hands 

 into their pockets and as honest men buy provisions for 

 the camps. Deep snow fell early; an ice crust was 

 formed by the last of December, and the conditions for 

 easy crust-hunting have been maintained ever since then. 

 Proprietors of the lumber camps openly refuse to buy 

 pork at $25 per barrel when they can get moose, caribou 

 and deer meat for the killing; and this winter their hire- 

 lings have made the most of the game supply. The men 

 composing the camps are in many instances Bluenoses of 

 a brutal, ignorant class, who cut under native wages, 

 smuggle many of their supplies, and have no scruples 

 about cutting a moose's throat in the snow crust. 



Taken altogether, the lumbermen probably kill more 

 Maine game than is destroyed by all other means. The 

 midsummer evidences of the slaughter are to be found 

 about the camp sites — hides and bones of moose, deer 

 and caribou. There is no secret about this winter game 

 destruction. A detective could readily secure ample evi- 

 dence to convict. It is to be hoped that some one may 

 be found who has knowledge of the facts and is not 

 scared by the lumbermen's threats to kill informers, to 

 communicate the facts to the authorities. One or two of 

 the scrimping proprietors ought to be made examples of. 

 Instruction judiciously imparted should teach them that 

 the cheapest way to feed their men is, after all, to buy. 

 pork. 



OUR DECORATION DAY TROPHY. 



AS HAS been announced in our Trap columns, we will 

 give a Forest and Stream Decoration Day Trophy, 

 to be competed for on Monday, May 30, by teams of 

 three members of any organized clubs. The trophy is 

 a cup of solid silver, specially manufactured for us at a 

 cost of $100 k by the Whiting Manufacturing Co., of Union 

 Square, New York. It is a piece of work that we are 

 sure will be appreciated by the club which shall be so for- 

 tunate as to win it. 



The conditions of the match are explained elsewhere. 

 Club secretaries are invited to communicate with us re- 

 specting entries, which are now in order. 



We indulge the hope that this friendly contest for the 

 Forest and Stream Trophy may be one of the pleasur- 

 able features of the May anniversary. 



The Forest and Stream's grizzly bears on exhibition 

 at Central Park are daily delighting thousands of visi- 

 tors, some of whom have spent time and money out 

 West trying to catch a glimpse of just such game with- 

 out a cage around it. 



SNAP SHOTS. 

 A MONG the curiosities of game bills this year is one in 

 the New York Legislature relating to salmon. 

 Unless a man reads the newspapers pretty carefully or 

 studies the Forest and Stream, he would not dream 

 that New York was specially concerned with the pro- 

 tection of a fish which has been from time imme- 

 morial a stranger to its waters. The new legislation is very 

 necessary, however, to provide for the Hudson River 

 salmon put in by the United States Fish Commission, 

 If the law is made and enforced, the salmon, it is hoped, 

 may prove a substantial addition to the river resources of 

 the State, just as the moose put out in the North Woods 

 would have been an addition to the forest resources if the 

 law to protect them had protected. It is not so hard to 

 secure these new species as it is to keep them after we 

 once have them, and to guard them from immediate ex- 

 termination at the hands of cupidity. If there were no 

 statute to protect the Hudson salmon, the New York 

 fishermen would serve them in just the way the Connecti- 

 cut fishermen served the salmon of that river. 



The National Rifle Association programme for the 

 Creedmoor meeting, which will begin Sept. 12, will con- 

 sist of sixteen regular matches. The cash prizes sum up 

 $1,374 against the $1,605 of last year, while the trophies 

 are valued at $725, the Tiffany cup adding $75 to the 

 total of last year. Among the general provisions adopted 

 is one requiring ammunition for military rifles to be 

 brought on to the ground ready for use. In all of the 

 matches which have heretofore allowed State model 

 rifles, any rifle will be allowed which has been issued by 

 any State to its National Guard. The division matches 

 for New York militia become under the new order 

 brigade matches. Otherwise there are no important 

 changes from last year's programme. We will print the 

 full programme in an early issue* 



A medical alarmist has delivered himself of the dictum 

 that people who eat game that has been killed by shoot- 

 ing endanger their lives if the meat has been kept for a 

 week or ten days. He has discovered the familiar fact 

 that arsenic is employed in the manufacture of shot; 

 when the shot remains in the flesh of the game it under- 

 goes an oxidization, and there you have two of the dead- 

 liest poisons known — arsenic and oxide of lead. Unless 

 there is some mistake about the doctor's alarming theory, 

 several tens of thousands of people who are alive to-day 

 ought to have died ten or twenty years ago. 



Fly-casting competitions give promise of growing 

 popularity. Albany has a new association, and there is 

 one in Toledo, O., and another in Oakland, Cal. The 

 National Rod and Reel Association's May tournament is 

 already exciting much interest. It would be well if other 

 competitions could be modeled upon that of Central Park. 

 If the conditions and rules were the same in all cases, 

 opportunity would be given to compare the record made. 

 Still further interest would attach to the performances of 

 American and English tournament casters if in certain 

 classes identical rules governed. 



If Sir John Lubbock ever perfects his system of teach- 

 ing dogs to talk, some interesting language will be heard 

 from the over- weight bench show spaniels which their 

 mug-hrxnting owners deliberately starve in order to 

 reduce then- weight; and as it will be a long time yet 

 before dogs will talk intelligently, the Society for the 

 Prevention of Cruelty to Animals may in the interim 

 profitably give its attention to the bench shows. 



Abolition of summer woodcock shooting was one of the 

 steps contemplated by certain citizens of New Jersey at 

 the last session of the Legislature; but the movement 

 failed. The season proposed for all species of game was 

 from Oct. 15 to Dec. 15. Instead of securing any- 

 thing of this kind, members of the game societies had 

 then- hands full to prevent the passage of laws materially 

 reducing the present close season. 



The Ontario law remains unchanged. A vigorous at- 

 tempt was made to rescind the clause forbidding spring 

 shooting, but the Legislature refused to act on it. Public 

 opinion is making in favor of the present law. 



No progress has been made in game law legislation at 

 Albany. 



