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1887. 



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j YOL. XXVIIL-No. 20. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



Twenty Cents' Worth of Gold, 

 The Wellington Tournament. 

 Snap Shots. 



The Diamond Hitch.— II. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



Worms versus Fly. 



Concerning Herbert. 

 Natural History. 



Dusky Grouse Gossip. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



The Big Bear of Toby Guzzle. 



Zinc for Rust in Barrels. 



The New York Game Law. 

 Se a and Rtver Fishing. 



The Old Bamboo. 



The Big Pike. 



Notes on the Tournament. 



A Week in the Adiroudacks. 



To Keep Fish Fresh. 



Wheeler as an Angler. 



Maine Waters. 

 Fishcijlture. 



American Fisheries Society. 



The Kennel. 

 Am. Kennel Club Methods. 

 Toy Dog Club. 

 Manitoba Field Trials. 

 A Chase with the Dog Star. 

 Buck. 



Kennel Notes. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 

 Range and Gallery. 

 The Trap. 



Decoration Day Trophy. 



Wellington Shoot. 

 Canoeing. 



Hudson River Meet. 



Wreck of the Restless. 



Eastern Division Meet. 



Canoe Racing on Shrewsbury. 

 Yachting. 



Atlantic Y. C. Regatta. 



Corinthian Y. C. Race. 



Larchuiont Pennant Kegatta. 



Cedar Point Y. C. 



Thistle, I rex and Genesta. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



TWENTY CENTS' WORTH OF GOLD. 



THE "gold medal" offered by the Western Pennsyl- 

 vania Poultry Society contains about 20 cents' 

 worth of that metal. It must not be supposed, however, 

 that it is worth no more than this. To draw such a 

 conclusion would be to do a grave injustice to the persons 

 who offered these medals as prizes. They would cost 

 perhaps $4 or $5 each if ordered in lots of 50. To make 

 the die would perhaps cost $50; there may be $1 profit on 

 each medal, $50 more; gold and labor of electroplating, 

 50 cents each, $25; copper, which composes them, say $2; 

 labor, say $73; total, $200. 



It must be understood, however, that these copper 

 medals did not cost the Western Pennsylvania Poultry 

 Society anything like so much as this, for they already 

 had the die — the one from which the pewter medals of 

 last year were struck— so that really there was to them 

 little expense beyond the copper and the gilding. The 

 number of "gold medals" offered was about forty. We 

 should really like to see the bill for those particular prizes. 

 Would Mr. Gregg have any objection to sending us for 

 the information of exhibitors a certified copy of this item, 

 as also of the charge for the silver medals. 



In manufacturing these medals a circular disc of copper 

 of the proper size is cut out and sent to the electroplater, 

 who gilds it and then puts it in the bath. When it is 

 coated with gold to the amount of 15 or 20 cents' worth, 

 it is taken out, and then put under the die and stamped 

 with the words 



WESTERN PENNA. POULTRY SOCIETY 

 BENCH SHOW. 



This gives it a bright finish and obviates the necessity 

 of polishing, which would be added labor and greatly in- 

 crease the cost of these, already valuable medals. 



We shall be glad to quote rates to any association desir- 

 ing to offer zinc, pewter, brass, copper or lead medals, 

 or other prizes. A liberal discount on large orders. 



We said last week that the directors of the W. P. P. 

 Society were not to blame for the fraud which was 

 practiced on exhibitors, but they cannot escape some 

 measure of responsibility for it, if any of them saw the 

 medals before they were awarded. 



Any man who has an idea of the value of the precious 



metals and of business methods, and who saw these 

 medals before they were awarded, would naturally say 

 to himself that if these medals were of gold they would 

 cost $50 or $60, a sum greater than any show could afford 

 to give, while, if they were not gold, they were a fraud 

 on the exhibiting public. He would then make inquiries, 

 and on learning the price which was paid for the medals, 

 should have protected himself by disavowing the action 

 of the managers of the show. We are not informed as 

 to whether such a course was pursued by any of the 

 directors of the Pittsburgh society. 



To talk merely about Pittsburgh in connection with 

 these base metal trophies is manifestly unjust, if other 

 clubs have been guilty of similar practices. It is reported 

 that at the last meeting of the A. K. C. the Pittsburgh 

 delegate attempted to justify the fraud perpetrated on 

 exhibitors by alleging that the same thing had been 

 done by other clubs. The tit quoque argument never 

 carries any weight, and was particularly silly in this case. 

 It has a certain interest, however, as being the first public 

 announcement that fraudulent medals have been given 

 by other clubs than Pittsburgh. Whispers to this effect 

 have been heard before, but it has been impossible to 

 trace them to a definite and responsible source. The 

 question is one that ought to be settled, and, if exhibitors 

 will assist us, the Forest and Stream will be glad to 

 determine the character of all medals awarded at recent 

 shows, and will have them assayed or tested, free of 

 cost, and then publish the results. Medals sent in for 

 this purpose must be accompanied by an affidavit from 

 the sender, stating at what show the medal was awarded, 

 the date of the show, class, and the name of the dog and 

 dog's owner, but the name of the person sending and the 

 information contained in this statement will be regarded 

 as confidential and will not be made public without the 

 consent of the deponent. 



Medals and statements should be forwarded by regis- 

 tered mail or express. 



It is impossible to foreshadow the action of the A. "K. C t 

 on the subject of the Pittsburgh copper medals. The 

 pewter medal fraud was in effect condoned, the subject 

 being laid on the table, and there seems no reason to sup- 

 pose that the A. K. C. will take any notice of this latest 

 imposition on the dog public. 



Since there is in this country a body of men which is 

 supposed to take charge of bench show and field trial 

 matters, and to see that such competitions are conducted 

 in a clean and creditable manner, it ought not to be left 

 to a newspaper to detect and announce a fraud like the 

 one twice practiced by the Pittsburgh show. It was the 

 plain duty of the A. K. C. to have discovered the decep- 

 tion, investigated it and promptly punished the offense. 

 Instead of doing this it dawdles, temporizes, says that 

 the Pittsburgh club are "good fellows" and lays the matter 

 on the table. 



The American Kennel Club can gain no friends by such 

 a contemptible shilly shally policy. It has never yet 

 done anything to command public respect, and until it is 

 radically changed it never will. Founded on wrong prin- 

 ciples, and originally controlled by schemers, it has been 

 from the beginning incompetent and unworthy of its 

 name. No doubt the intentions of most of its members 

 are excellent, but prejudice has too strong a hold on many 

 of them to permit them to exercise judgment. There 

 must be a change and a speedy one. 



THE WELLINGTON TOURNAMENT. 



FROM the story of the week's shooting at Wellington, 

 Massachusetts, told in our issue of this week, some 

 notion may be formed of the tremendous proportions to 

 which the pastime of trap-shooting has grown. Fifty 

 thousand clay birds of various sorts thrown in the air in- 

 vited a very lively^ bombardment from the small army of 

 marksmen present, and so well was everything managed 

 that there was no utterance of any complaint, no claim 

 that there was any unfair play, nor that everybody did 

 not get a good chance and win according to his merits as 

 shown at the score. This shows that there is no need for 

 anything like the number of complaints which are con- 

 tinually pouring in upon us, asking for decisions upon 

 this or that point, and explaining all manner of difficul- 

 ties which would never have been met had a clear study 

 of the rules been made in advance. 



The shoot shows, too, that the makers of clay birds and 

 artificial targets in any form have so nearly simulated 



the flight of the real bird, or in fact, so far surpassed it, 

 that shooting from a trap is a complete and thorough test 

 of the comparative skill of the men entered for the match. 

 There has been a wonderful improvement in trap and 

 target since Bogardus .came out with his glass ball sub- 

 stitute for the live feathered target. Shooting at the 

 balls soon became monotonous, and long runs of breaks 

 wearied the onlookers. There is nothing of this with 

 the targets of to-day, as seen in the Wellington tourna- 

 ment. These tax the best shot to his best effort, and no 

 pigeon, however wild, however full of flight or doctored 

 by the trapper, could show the "get up and gef? 1 agility of 

 some of the skimming clay saucers as they leave a trap 

 well notched down. 



The story of this big shoot, where the Eastern sports- 

 men so hospitably entertained and so cleverly outshot 

 their Western associates, is particularly interesting when 

 it is put side by side with the columns printed when law 

 and nature combined to put down the shooting of live, 

 birds. It will be recalled how it was proven beyond a 

 doubt to the satisfaction of the old-time trappists, that 

 the flinging aside of the old time H and T trap was sure 

 to be followed by a general flinging aside of guns. Arm- 

 ories, powder-mills and shot towers were all to fall into 

 decay, according to those who wanted the real bird and 

 no make-believe substitute. Well, the big roosts of 

 wild pigeons dwindled away into flitting dozens, 

 the legislators drew up statutes more or less stringent, 

 and the artificial target came naturally to the front 

 and has given to trap-shooting a position in the list of 

 sports which it never had before. Hundreds shoot now 

 where dozens shot a decade ago, and thousands of clay 

 dishes are broken with ease and comfort where before the 

 handling of a few hundred pigeons was a labor for several 

 assistants for weeks before the actual match. The few 

 live birds remaining will find a fitting grave under a heap 

 of flying bits from the shower of clays sent up every day 

 in every part of the country. 



SNAP SHOTS. 



THE articles on "The Diamond Hitch," which we are 

 now publishing, will have an interest for a large 

 class of people. Every man who has traveled with a pack 

 train in the Rocky Mountains, or who ever expects to do 

 so, will read them with pleasure; and to the large class 

 who live among the Mountains and themselves throw the 

 ropes, the papers will prove attractive. Experience has 

 taught many of "Yo's" readers how difficult it is to learn 

 to throw this hitch, but it is far more difficult to explain 

 in words how it ought to be thrown. The author of the 

 series now appearing is the first who has attempted this 

 task, and he is to be congratulated on having set forth the 

 operation so clearly. Criticisms and comments on these 

 papers from old packers will be welcomed by all those 

 interested in the subject. There is a great deal to be said 

 about packing, and few pens have been found to do jus- 

 tice to this and a kindred topic, the Rocky Mountain 

 mule. 



Death loves a shining mark, and in league with him is 

 the young fool who tries to make a man of himself by 

 stuffing a revolver into his hip pocket. One evening of 

 last week E. F. Stoddard, a prominent citizen of Dayton, 

 O., was standing on the second story landing of a stair- 

 way in a hall leading to the street; a young man was 

 passing; from the young man's pocket a revolver fell to 

 the pavement, exploded, and the ballet killed Stoddard. 

 Here were a wife and children left desolate and a com- 

 munity plunged into mourning, all by a pure accident, 

 yet an accident made possible only by this foolish and 

 detestable hip-pocket pistol carrying. 



The comments on "Farmer Brown's Trout," and the 

 incidental discussion of the relations which anglers, 

 shooters and campers sustain toward land-owners, might 

 be made profitable for all concerned if governed by rea- 

 son and genuine feeling. In past years many columns of 

 this journal have been devoted to the endeavor to show 

 that the interests of sportsmen and farmers are identical. 

 There should be no clashing between them; and where 

 differences and difficulties do arise they are due to the 

 unreasonableness of one or both of the parties concerned. 



One of the magazines is publishing a series of articles 

 by different writers on "Books That Have Helped Me." 

 What a series might be written on the helpful influence 

 of the "books in the running brooks." 



