Forest and Stream. 



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NEW YORK, MAY 12, 18 8 7. 



) VOL. XXVIII.— No. 16. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



Game in Montana. 



The Farmer's Boy. 



Snap Shots. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



The Old and the New. 



Halcyon Days. — y. 



From Cayenne to Para. 

 Natural History. 



Indios Mansos. 



The Prejudice Against Snakes 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



Jack Rabbits and Antelope. 



Bruin in the Fold. 



Game in the Northwest. 



Notes from Michigan. 



A Deer on the San Pedro. 



Caribou Notes. 



Massachusetts Association. 



California Game Law. 



Montana Game Law. 



New York Game Law. 

 Camp-Fire Flickerings. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



The Fly-Casting Tournament. 



Rocky Mountain Resorts. 



In the Laureutides. 



New York Waters. 



FlSHCULTURE. 



Prospect Park Trout Ponds. 



New Publications. 



Verplank Colvin's Book. 



Fishing Tackle. 

 The Kennel. 



Eastern Field Trials Derby. 



Why Does a Dog Turn Round? 



New York Dog Show. 



Dogs and Judges. 



Kennel Management. 



Kennel Notes. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 



Range and Gallery. 



The Trap. 



Decoration Day Trophy. 



Graham vs. Carver. 



The World's Carnival. 

 Canoeing. 



The Mystery of the North 

 Branch. 



Staten Island and Its Visitors. 



The Hudson River Meet. 

 Yachting. 



Titania. 



Rhode Island Y. C. 

 liaunch of the Thistle. 

 Mayflower and Arrow. 

 Lake Ontario. 



A New Book for Corinthian 

 Sailors. 



Answers to Correspondents. 



THIRTY-TWO PAGES. 

 Pour pages are added to the usual tvienty-elght, and this 

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



THE FARMER'S BOY. 



\ BILL has just been passed by the Massachusetts 

 Legislature to permit the snaring of ruffed grouse 

 by land owners and their families, from Oct. 1 to Jan. t. 

 Several of the Senators spoke in favor of the bill on the 

 ground that the farmer's boy must be protected in his 

 rights; and there was quite a display of codfish eloquence 

 about the constitutional privileges enjoyed by the farmers 

 of Old Massachusetts from earliest Colonial times, and not 

 to be overthrown now in favor of men who want to kill 

 grouse with guns. Much of this talk had evidently been 

 inspired by the suggestions of the Rev. Dr. Barrows, of 

 Eeading, a retired clergyman, who has turned his atten- 

 tion from other fields of labor to busy himself with secur- 

 ing to the farmer's boy the privilege of trapping. 



We have not at hand the figures to show how r many 

 thousands of farmer's boys there are in Massachusetts; 

 but we quite agree that every mother's son of them should 

 have his rights. It is by no means clear, however, that 

 the license to snare ruffed grouse is one of these rights, 

 nor is it any more clear that the farmer's boy is asking 

 for the trapping privilege. The real demand for grouse 

 snaring comes from the professional snarers who snare 

 the birds for market. The professional snarer is one of 

 that class of fellows who do no regular work for a living, 

 but resort to all sorts of lazy shifts to keep themselves 

 alive without honest labor. The market snarer is the 

 man who wants this law, and it is for the market snarer 

 and not for the farmer's boy that the Rev. Dr. Barrows 

 and the members of the Legislature are interesting them- 

 selves when they restore snaring; the true object for 

 which they are striving is to fix the law so that the Bos- 

 ton markets may enjoy unrestricted license to sell the 

 snared grouse of Massachusetts and other States. 



GAME IN MONTANA. 

 fl/T ONTANA is now the best and most accessible hunt- 

 ing ground for big game in all the Western coun- 

 try. The inhabitants of that Territory realize that their 

 game is worth more to them alive and running free over 

 the prairies and the mountains than it ever can be when 

 converted into meat and hides. They are. shrewd and 

 far-seeing enough to understand that as long as there is 

 game to be had, tourists from the East will flock into 

 the Territory, will buy supplies and hire men and outfits, 

 will spend money and make business good in many a 

 little railroad and mountain town. 



Realizing all this a special effort has been made 

 this year by the Bod and Gun Club of Bozeman and 

 by other enlightened citizens to arouse public senti- 

 ment on the question of game protection. The result of 

 this effort is seen in the new Montana game law which 

 we print in another column. This law is satisfactory in 

 many respects, but its passage does not necessarily mean 

 any great change in the methods of game destruction 

 which have been going on for years in Montana, and 

 which have practically exterminated large game in more 

 than one Western State and Territory. To accomplish 

 anything this law must be enforced, and if the Bozeman 

 Gun Club and other public spirited citizens of the Terri- 

 tory will make it their business to see that this is done, 

 they will not only earn for themselves the gratitude of 

 all who are interested in the large game of the West, but 

 will perform a great service for themselves and for 

 Montana. 



SNAP SHOTS. 



I^IDDLEDEEDEEING with game and fish legislation 

 ■ is still the order of the day at Albany. Governor 

 Hill has displayed the alacrity we gave him credit for in 

 signing Park Bow saloon-keeper Finn's short lobster law 

 repeal. Nothing else was to have been expected from a 

 Governor w r ho signed the deer hounding bill and on 

 whom the game and fish clique wire-pullers rely for ap- 

 proval of every vicious measure to further their selfish 

 interests. There was no reason under heaven why the 

 lobster law should have been repealed except that certain 

 dealers in this city, against whom suits for violation of 

 the law were pending, decided that it w^ould be simpler 

 and cheaper to "put up" for the repeal than to stand 

 trial and pay their fines. 



James, the man arrested some time since by Captain 

 Harris for killing game and trapping fur in the Yellow-- 

 stone Park, has been escorted outside the reservation. 

 Is it not a pitiful and humiliating spectacle that a great 

 government like that of the United States should have 

 no means of punishing a man who robs the people of 

 their property ? We owe this disgraceful state of things 

 to the Honorable House of Representatives, elected by 

 the people to take care of the people's interests. As 

 things stand at present, any one can hunt in the Park, 

 and the only penalty is expulsion. 



The managers of the World's Trap Shooting Carnival, 

 at Wellington, near Boston, Mass., are making prepara- 

 tions for a large gathering of shooters. The bruited 

 British- American match will not be shot, as Great Britain 

 has mustered no team to meet the Americans ; but there 

 will be a big time just the same, and if the projectors 

 realize their expectations, the Hub will be enveloped in a 

 pall of gunpowder smoke from Monday morning to Sat- 

 urday night. It is announced that teams desiring to 

 compete for the Forest and Stream Decoration Day 

 Trophy will be provided with the facilities to do so. 



The sport of pigeon flying is assuming vast proportions 

 in this country; it is carried on very much after the man- 

 ner of horse racing; pools are sold on the different birds; 

 the flyers in the air like the flyers on the track have their 

 records; and a multitude of people are interested in the 

 flights. Pigeon racing has come to be a well developed 

 system of gambling. Not infrequently when a homer 

 fails to return to the loft it is found to have been shot by 

 some gunner who might have devoted his ammunition to 

 a better purpose. 



The impulse which sometimes impels an individual 

 about to commit suicide to kill the members of his family 

 before making away with his own life, had a curious 

 illustration in Connecticut last week, when a man shot 

 his favorite dog before shooting himself. 



The National Rod and Reel Association prize ^st is 

 unusually full and the classes are numerous. The class 

 for experts in single-handed fly-casting, where distance 

 alone counts, is always the one on wilich the interest of 

 the visitors centers, and this class has usually been left 

 for the last in order to hold the attendance until the 

 close. In fact the interest in all the fly-casting contests is 

 confined to the trials for distance, as can be seen by the 

 groups watching the distance casting, while at the same 

 time at another point the contestants are competing for 

 delicacy and accuracy with few besides the judges to look 

 at them, and the casters pride themselves on their length 

 of line more than on any other point; and it has often 

 been questioned if distance should not be the only point 

 taken cognizance of in a tournament. We have often 

 thought so, because we find that it is the main thing in 

 the minds of those who cast. When a man has' beaten 

 another by five feet and the judges award him a lower 

 place on the prize list because his rival has more points in 

 either delicacy or accuracy, or both, he often feels a dis- 

 appointment which he may or may not express. As we 

 have before announced, the tournament will take place 

 on Harlem Mere, Central Park, New York city, on Wed- 

 nesday and Thursday, May 25 and 26, and the officers 

 hope to begin at 10 A. M. There will be no postpone- 

 ment on account of weather. 



When a South Sea Island savage, who has had the mis- 

 fortune to fall into the hands of his enemies, notes that 

 his captors are solicitous about his appetite, and realizes 

 that he is taking on fat, his cannibal sense at once tells 

 him that there is to be a feast somewhere in the vicinity, 

 at which, duly fatted, he will be present. In very much 

 the same way, when the spaniel dog Compton Brahmin 

 reluctantly enters upon a course of physic and fasting, 

 his dog sense tells him that there is to be a bench, show 

 at which, duly emaciated, he will be present. 



A Fort Edward, N. Y., jury has disagreed in a case 

 where a man was charged with deer hounding out of 

 season. That the accused was not acquitted must be due 

 to his lawyer's lack of enterprise. It would not have 

 been difficult to subpoena a score oc Dr. Wards, Dennys, 

 Paul Smiths and other like eminent deer sharps for the 

 defense to testify that a deer cannot be hounded out of 

 season. The Hudson River may run up hill, and the 

 Adirondack Mountains themselves dissolve in lava, but a 

 dog follow a, deer hi close season never. 



They do' not put a high value on the life of a game 

 warden in Maine. Graves, the deer-dogger who in cold 

 blood murdered game wardens Niles and Hill, was last 

 Tuesday at Calais found guilty of murder in the second 

 degree, and it will be remembered that his accomplice, 

 Macfarland, was let off without any punishment at all. 

 This looks like a gross miscarriage of justice. The logical 

 result will be the murder of other game wardens if any 

 shall be found brave enough to try to do their duty in 

 enforcing the deer law. 



A correspondent writes to this effect: "Please look up 

 date of paper in which you published New York trout 

 law, as I have a bet on the season and want the number 

 to refer to." We are always glad to give information 

 that will help people, but we are not engaged in the busi- 

 ness of hunting through newspaper files for the purpose 

 of deciding bets. Life is too short. 



The new regulations of the Yellowstone Park, printed 

 in these columns a short time ago, have been posted up 

 in various places in the National Reservation. In future, 

 therefore, no one will be able to plead ignorance of the 

 law as an excuse for any violation of it. For their own 

 protection tourists who purpose visiting the Park during 

 the coming season will do well to study these regulations 

 with care. 



The Massachusetts lobster law is undergoing revision, 

 and by the time the Legislature is through with it, if the 

 designs of those at the bottom of the business succeed, it 

 will be worth very little as a protective measure. The 

 proposed insertion of a clause requiring prosecutor to 

 prove "intent" of lawbreaker will take from the law all 

 its usefulness. 



The Great Dipper points but the Dog Star sets. 



