Forest and Stream. 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



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NEW YORK, JUNE 30, 1887. 



I VOL. XXVIII.-Nb. 23. 



1 Nos. 30 & 40 Park Row, New York. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



Dogs in the City. 



Paddle Your Own Canoe. 



Protecting the Birds. 



Snap Shots. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



In the Cherokee Strip.— n. 

 Natural History. 



Sparrows and Insects. 



The Amiable Bullsnake. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



The Cattaraugus Breakers. 



Lyman Meeting House. 



Ducks and Deer. 



Very Wild Turkevs. 



Another Toby Guzzle Bear. 



Lake Winnipeg Duck Grounds 



Powder and Shot. 



A Cougar. 



Rifles and Bullets. 

 Camp-Fire Flickerings. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



A Month Up the Severn. 



Maine Salmon and Trout. 



My Wife's Vacation. 



Salmon and Trout Tackle. 



Albany Fly-Casting Tourna- 

 ment. 



A Catch in the Dark. 



A Formula for Trout Weight. 



Sea and River Fishing. 



June Rise on the Aspetuc. 



Good Striped Bass Fishing. 



The Tournament. 

 Fishculture. 



Fish Preservation by Acids. 

 The Kennel. 



Am. Kennel Club Methods. 



Massachusetts Dog Law. 



The Pewter Medal Frauds. 



Non-Sporting Spaniels. 



Pembroke Disqualification. 



Kennel Management. 



Kennel Notes. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 



The President's Match. 



The Bullard Arms Match. 



Range and Gallery. 



The Trap. 



Lake City Gun Club. 



New Orleans Tournament. 

 Canoeing. 



The Association Meet. 



Royal C. C. Challenge Cup 

 Races. 

 Yachting. 



Eastern Y. C. Regatta. 



"Globe" Open Regatta. 



Yachting Notes. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



PROTECTING THE BIRDS. 



THE interest in bird protection, which last year led 

 to the formation of the Audubon Society, con- 

 tinues to increase, and the publication of the Audubon 

 Magazine has added greatly to this interest. We are told 

 by the Secretary of the Society that on June 30 its books 

 show a registered membership of 36,000. This is just 

 twic3 as many as the Society had Jan. 1 last, showing 

 that in the oix months just past as many members have 

 been added as joined it during the first eleven months of 

 its existence. This is but natural, when it is remembered 

 that each member added to the roll is another missionary 

 ready to preach protection for our useful birds. 



Among farmers a prejudice against crows, hawks and 

 owls still exists, but this feeling is yielding slowly to the 

 efforts which are being made to show that these birds are 

 more beneficial than injurious. It is so much easier to 

 see the evident harm sometimes done by these birds than 

 to estimate the silent, unnoticed services which they are 

 constantly performing for the agriculturist. A number 

 of trained observers are now studying this particular 

 question, and it seems probable that within a year we 

 shall have an amount of evidence on the subject which 

 will convert even the most obstinate enemies of the 

 crows and the owls into their warm partisans. 



Measuring the future by the past, a still greater interest 

 in our birds may be looked for, and as this interest in- 

 creases and the services of the birds to man are more gen- 

 erally appreciated, protection will follow, and on the 

 heels of protection will come the reward to the farmer in 

 increased crops and in many other ways. If the senseless 

 craze for birds in hats has been finally killed, one great 

 motive for destruction will have been removed, and so 

 protection will be made more easy. 



It is difficult to over-estimate the good which the Audu- 

 bon Magazine is accomplishing. It teaches the lesson of 

 kindness, of humanity and of man's best interests in sim- 

 ple, practical fashion, and so entertainingly that the 

 reader is unaware that he is receiving instruction. Its 



essays and stories fascinate young and old alike, and it 

 has attained a success which is quite without precedent. 

 No doubt it has before it a long and profitable career. 



PADDLE YOUR OWN CANOE. 

 "VfOW that 'the annual meet of the American Canoe 

 -L^ Association is in prospect, canoeists are setting 

 their wits to work to devise arrangements for the 

 transportation of their craft to the camp. The average 

 canoe is not an ideal piece of baggage, and while on some 

 of the Eastern railroads managers agree to carry canoes 

 free just as they transport a passenger's trunks, the subor- 

 dinates, who do the handling, look with no favor on the 

 delicate craft committed to their charge. Owners find t 

 advantageous to "soap" the baggage-smasher; for if lib- 

 erally feed, say to the extent of an outlay equal to what 

 the freight or expressage would be, he shows some con- 

 sideration for the canoe and stays his hand. At best, 

 however, a canoe does not fit well with heavy trunks, and 

 the wise canoeist will personally look after his charge 

 when transfers are to be made. It is the safest rule to 

 paddle your own canoe when traveling by rail, lifting it 

 to and from the baggage car yourself. If one feels pecu- 

 liarly philanthropic he may also look out for the canoes 

 of others who happen not to be along to take care of them 

 themselves. 



An instance of this came to our notice last year when 

 two canoeiets from New York were on their way to the 

 meet. In the baggage car along with their own canoes 

 was a heavily-laden craft, whose owner was not on liand 

 to look out for it. The two New Yorkers, prompted by 

 fraternal zeal, hurried to the baggage car at every change, 

 carefully lifted the heavy canoe and put it as carefully in 

 place again; and at length saw it safely through to its 

 destination, where they gave it the final lift and depos- 

 ited it unscratched and unracked on the platform. Then 

 emerged from the smoking car the owner, who tranquilly 

 sauntered up to express gratification that his canoe had 

 come through so nicely. The two philanthropists of the 

 paddle then and there entered into a solemn compact 

 for the future to let every brother paddle his own canoe. 



DOGS IN THE CITY. 



''ITEE New York ordinance relating to dogs prescribes 

 that every dog must be licensed and in public must 

 be fastened to its attendant by a chain not more than 

 four feet in length. Official dog catchers go about with a 

 crate on wheels, capture unlicensed dogs and those which 

 are loose in the streets, and take them to the pound, 

 where, unless redeemed by their owners, they are 

 drowned in the East Eiver. A dog owner, who has evi- 

 dently been a victim of the official dog catcher's zeal, ad- 

 dressed an inquiry on the subject to the Mayor last week, 

 and received the following reply: 



You complain that your dog license does you no good. The an- 

 swer is that it enables you to keep a dog, for without a license he 

 would be seized and killed. With a license he may also be seized 

 and killed, and properly so, if he is not muzzled, or held by a chain 

 not longer than four feet. So far as the latter precaution is con- 

 cerned, I have a case before me to-day in which a dog so chained 

 and held by a boy has bitten a child, whose parents are naturally 

 very greatly distressed. The truth would seem to be that right- 

 minded persons should refrain from keeping dogs in the city. So 

 far as my judgment goes, I would recommend the passage of an 

 ordinance prohibiting the existence of dogs in the city of New 

 York. In the mean time, however, I am doing what I can to keep 

 the dog catchers under proper restraint, but if they should report 

 to me that they had managed to destroy all the dogs, licensed and 

 unlicensed, in the city, I should feel no personal grief. 



To this the owner returned the following retort cour- 

 teous: 



The character of your response to mine of the 21st I naturally 

 anticipated in writing you originally. A man who would deliber- 

 ately endanger the life of car horses, would manufacture as a 

 private citizen tracks he could condemn as Mayor, who would 

 revive dead laws for political reasons, would approve every 

 action calculated to abridge the liberty of the citizen, as you have 

 done. The publication of such a letter as yours of yesterday en- 

 courages thugs and ruffians by the knowledge of your support, 

 just as your previous acts have encouraged our sanctimonious 

 fanatics in the city to hope for absolute despotism under your 

 proselytizing administration. 



The dog question has thus, it will be seen, assumed im- 

 portance as one of the political issues of the day. Prob- 

 ably Mayor Hewitt did not think three times before ex- 

 pressing his opinion on dogs. A discreet politician would 

 have foreseen the strength of the love-me-love-my-dog 

 principle in city elections as everywhere else; and after 

 duly balancing the strength of the dog faction and the 

 anti-dog faction, he would have maintained a secure 

 perch on the fence and written a letter pleasing to both 



sides. As it is now, men in the street <^$8%nd other 

 public places have freely expressed a determination never 

 again to vote for Mr. Hewitt, since he has shown so little 

 respect for their four -legged friends. 



There are two sides to every question ; and there are 

 dogs and dogs. If the number of dogs whose taking off 

 would have given the Mayor satisfaction had been limited 

 by him to say a round ten thousand, few sensible citizens 

 would have found fault with him. The Mayor is a victim 

 of insomnia, has perhaps been kept awake at night by 

 barking dogs, and can speak feelingly on the subject. A 

 man's sleep is certainly of more importance than a dog's 

 bark; and if the two cannot harmonize the bark must be 

 suppressed. The law provides that if two citizens com- 

 plain of a dog as a nuisance the police magistrates may 

 order the canine nui ance abated. 



The newspaper discussion of the dog question has 

 recalled the fact that when Caleb Cushing was in Wash* 

 ington preparing the cp.se of the United States against 

 England in the Alabama claims, the eminent jurist was 

 so disturbed by canine concerts at night, that he was un- 

 able to proceed with his work, and so it came to pass 

 that either the dogs must be suppressed or the Govern- 

 ment lose its $15,000,000. The dogs' owners were pro- 

 ceeded against, and bound over to keep the peace; but 

 the serenades continued, and Mr. Cushing at length set 

 about securing the enactment of laws to abolish dogs en« 

 tirely and drive them out from Washington. Happily or 

 unhappily for that city, the proceeding was interrupted 

 by Mr. Cushing's departure from the city, whose dogs^ have 

 multiplied ten fold since then, and will bay the moon 

 with unabatfed yelp until another Alabama shall compass 

 their ruin. 



SNAP SHOTS. 

 r T^HIS is the time of year when every one who can get 

 away goes fishing, and it has come to be so common 

 for a business man to take a day or a week off, that ab- 

 sence from desk or counter almost presupposes a fishing 

 trip. A Michigan member of the 4 'American colony" of 

 runaway thieves in Montreal had occasion the other day 

 to go to Coaticook, which is only ten miles from the Ver- 

 mont frontier. A detective met him there and explained 

 that the man he had come to see was absent on a fishing 

 excursion, and he offered to drive the defaulter out to the 

 pond. The Michigan man went along, but the route led 

 over into Vermont, where the cunning detective promptly 

 arrested him, and now he takes no interest in angling 

 literature. 



The inter-State commerce law has interfered disastrously 

 with many fishing excursions. Your "true angler," whose 

 pocketbook once bulged out with passes, has bad occasion 

 this season to restrain bis fishing ardor within stricter 

 limits than before; and editors have relief from trie en- 

 terprising geniuses who were formerly eager to "write 

 up" fishing resorts in consideration of railroad passes. In 

 the palmiest days of dead-heading, however, only one 

 sportsman tourist out of a thousand rode free. Eailroads 

 and steamboats have drawn immense revenue from pas- 

 sengers to and from shooting and fishing resorts. 



A Philadelphia family have been poisoned by eating 

 canned salmon. It appears that the salmon was all right 

 when first opened, but it was allowed to stand forty-eight 

 hours exposed to the hot and humid atmosphere, and by 

 that time it was in a condition to poison a whole town, 

 just as any other salmon, canned or uncanned, would 

 have done. As canned goods constitute an important 

 element in the camper's supplies, it is just as well to re- 

 member that canned meats and fish should be eaten when 

 first opened. 



The highest praise a recent obituary writer could give 

 was summed up in these words: "He did more than any 

 other person in this region to improve the breed of sport- 

 ing dogs, and in this connection it is a sad pleasure to 

 repeat that he was so highly esteemed for his conscientious 

 and honest judgment of sporting matters that he was 

 always sought to act as judge of field sports and bench 

 shows, everybody being willing and anxious to have him 

 decide such matters. His decisions were never called in 

 question." 



Men who enter their dogs at field trials and bench 

 shows have a right to look for fair and honest treatment 

 in these affairs just as they look for fair and honest treat- 

 ment in business. 



