Forest and Stream 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



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NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 14, 1889. 



t VOL. XXXII.-No. 4. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



An Index of Circulation. 



Advance.— n. 



Snap Shots. 

 The Sportsman Tourist 



A Month in the Rocky Moun- 

 tains. 

 Natural History. 



Habits of theO'ter. 

 &<■ me Ba'6 and G-hn. 



Puget Sound Game. 



A Hunt in Java. 



Adirondack Deer. 



Grouse Snaring 



Shooting Cmbs of Chicago. 



Game Notes. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



The Hagfish. 



The Trout of Sterling Lake. 



A Bovhood Reminiscence. 



The Steel Rod. 



Tarpon Firhing. 

 FISHCTJLTDBE. 



Colorado Fish Commission. 



New Hampshire Commission. 



Boston Fish Bureau. 



Salmon and Trout, in Ecuador 



A Successful Frog Pond. 

 The Kennel. 



Dog Artists. 



The Kennel. 



Massachusetts Kennel Club, 



The Pittsburgh Show. 



Columbus Dog Show. 



Newbufgb. Dog Show. 



American Kennel Club. 



Fox and Houuds Again; 



Dog Talk. 



Kernel Notes. 



Kennel Management. 

 RiFLi and Trap shooting. 



Range and O-allerv. 



"Tribune" Match of 1889. 



American Shooting Associa- 

 tion. 



The Trap. 



Mak-saw-ba Medal Meet. 



Estimating Trajectory Curves 



Organ— Kleinman. 

 Oanoeing. 



Some Cruising Experiences. 



Tuat Projecting Centerboard. 



The Mernmac Circuit. 

 Yachting. 



West Indian Hurricanes and 

 the March Blizzard. 



Measurement Question on 

 Lake Ontario. 



Steam Launch Cruising. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



DUCK SHOOTING SUPPLEMENT. 

 The next number of the Forest and Stream will contain 

 a four-page supplement containing papers on wildfowl 

 shooting. 



ADVANCE.— II. 



AN English nobleman who was hunting in Newfound- 

 land made it a practice to measure off with a loot 

 rule the salt pork which he gave to his Indian guides for 

 the camp meals; and one day having seen a huge chunk 

 of pork put into the pot to come out again much reduced 

 in size, as pork has a way of doing when boiled, his lord- 

 ship asked the cook, "What has become of all the pork 

 that was put into that pot." 



During the past fifteen years much effort has been 

 made in the cause of game protection and fishoulture, 

 but the result has not been a commensurate reward for 

 the endeavor. The pork that has come out of the pot 

 has been shrivelled and altogether disproportional to 

 what was put in. The discouraging reflection is, that 

 while it is the nature of pork to shriok in cooking, as out- 

 English friend no doubt found out before he emerged to 

 civilization, there are no known natural laws to diminish 

 the results of game and fish conservation efforts. Perverse 

 human nature and ignorance alone are to be credited 

 with setting at nought the intelligent and public-spirited 

 movements which look to the restocking of our waters 

 with fish and the permanent possession of a game supply 

 in our fields and forests. 



There are encouraging indications that these elements 

 of moral and mental hindrance are being overcome. 

 Last week we noted the new order of things in Michigan 

 where, thanks to the persistent efforts of the Michigan 

 Sportsmen's Association, a game and fish warden system 

 has been put into active and effective operation. The 

 long debated question of protection in Michigan may 

 now be considered as settled; public opinion is making 

 in the right direction. 



The report of" the Wisconsin Commissioners of Fisher- 

 iesV nb'w at' hand; give's abundant tes'tlra'ony o'f a cWnge 



of public sentiment, which is to be taken as an evidence 

 of the sound basis of fishculture in that State. More 

 significant than the tabulated exhibit of fish eggs dis- 

 tributed by the Commissioners is their showing of 

 the friendly attitude of the fishermen toward their 

 work. When Wisconsin and the other States border- 

 ing on the Great Lakes set about the enterprise of 

 restocking those waters with food fish, the fisher- 

 men looked upon the work with distrust and skep- 

 ticism. They disbelieved in the practicability of 

 the effort, they were strongly prejudiced against 

 the Commission, and they resented any interference 

 with their business. Like fishermen the world over — 

 taking all the fish they could net whenever and where- 

 ever they could find them — they looked upon restriction 

 as interfering with rights established by usage. This 

 was their attitude in the beginning. The work of stock- 

 ing went on; laws were enforced; time did its work. 

 To-day has come the fruition. "The fi<h merchants," 

 says the report, "who are as intelligent as any class of 

 business men, are strong in the belief that without the 

 aid that has been extended to the industry by our State, 

 the business of taking fish would not and could not be 

 made to pay." They have been converted by the logic 

 of time, as demonstrated by figures. It is a simple sum 

 in arithmetic; Catch of food fish in the Great Lakes: 



For 188ii, 4,924,149 pounds. 



For 1887, 5,541,744 pounds. 



For 1888, 8,780,780 pounds. 



The gain of 1888 over 1887 was 3,239,036 pounds; over 

 1886, 3,756,631 pounds. With such magnificent demon- 

 stration of the result of intelligent fishculture, public 

 support could not be withheld from the workers in the 

 field; prejudice cannot maintain its ground in the face 

 of such statistics. The question of fishculture in Wis- 

 consin is settled. 



AN INDEX OF CIRCULATION. 



THE index of Volume XXXI., which is printed to-day, 

 is more than an ordinary catalogue of what has been 

 published in the twenty-six numbers of the Forest and 

 Stream from August to January. It is an index of the 

 circulation of the paper, as shown by the correspondence 

 contained in its columns. Take that snake-swallowing 

 snake topic, for an example. A Connecticut surveyor 

 wrote to us about the ways of snakes and expressed a 

 disbelief of the habit of mothers swallowing their young, 

 whereupon there poured in the testimony of twenty- 

 three correspondents, in Pennsylvania, Nevada, New 

 York, Iowa, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Tennessee, New 

 Hampshire, California, Illinois and Mississippi, many of 

 them testifying to the fact that they had themselves ob- 

 served the snake swallowing. Here then was a fact in 

 natural history upon which the Forest and Stream 

 collected and has preserved in its pages a store of valu- 

 able testimony. Without its wide circulation the paper 

 could not have done this, nor without a circulation among 

 intelligent readers. 



Just here is one characteristic and peculiar element 

 of interest which Forest and Stream possesses in a 

 degree, we may say, without parallel among other jour- 

 nals. It goes everywhere; what it prints is read and com- 

 mented on; and in this interchange of experience, obser- 

 vation and opinion is supplied an element of value and 

 interest which sets this journal apart from all others. 

 We have often said that what the Forest and Stream is 

 to-day must be in generous measure credited to its reader- 

 contributors. Judicious advertisers take into account 

 both the extent of a paper's circulation and the character 

 of that circulation; these elements are not less worthy 

 of note in making up the estimate of value attached to 

 our reading columns. 



SNAP SHOTS, 

 r P , HE menhaden pirates are making their best fight at 

 * Augusta to get the seining law repealed. If they 

 do, farewell to food fishes in Maine rivers and small bays; 

 farewell to shad, alewives, bass and salmon in the rivers 

 and mackerel on the coast. We know just enough about 

 them to know that they don!t care a farthing what they 

 scoop up in their seines. Maine has had sufficient ex- 

 perience with the menhaden fleet to know better than to 

 yield to their demands; at least there are people on the 

 Kennebec who can enlighten the Legislature, for it was 

 not so many years ago that the menhaden fleet was 

 scooping the Kennteb'e'c, and along with the p'orgies took, 



in barrels upon barrels of shad, and as a "tub to the 

 whale" gave away many shad to the people of the neigh- 

 borhood who went on board their boats. 



Newfoundland is considering an ironclad deer law. The 

 proposition is to require from non-residents of the island 

 a license fee of $100 for deer hunting, and to limit the 

 number of deer killed by each party (not each individ- 

 ual) to five in a season; sportsman and guide are to be 

 required to make oath to the number killed ; and the fine 

 for violating the law will be very heavy. Talk of such 

 vigorous measures ha3 been prompted by the exploit of 

 an Englishman, who is reported to have killed something 

 like a hundred deer in one campaign, leaving them to 

 rot. If this law goes through it will cut off many Ameri- 

 can sportsmen who are looking forward to Newfoundland 

 hunting excursions. It will also circumvent the project 

 of starting a venison cannery in the Province. 



Several correspondents send us the suggestion that the 

 sale of game should be stopped entirely; and one, more 

 aggressive than the rest, proposes a boycott of transpor- 

 tation companies which bring game to market. The sale 

 of game will go on for hundreds of years yet, if there 

 shall be any game left then to sell; it is a waste of ink to 

 advocate the entire abolition of game vending; and as 

 to boycotting, even if that were a legitimate method, it 

 would never be done, for where one person has any 

 thought or care for game protection, there are thousands 

 who know and care nothing about it. 



It is reported from Montana that the Rocky Fork Rail- 

 way, whose route as laid out extends from the Northern 

 Pacific R. R. near Billings to the mining camp known as 

 Cook City, has at last laid its rails across the southern 

 boundary of the Crow reservation, thus removing all 

 doubt about the completion of the work before March 4, 

 1889, when the bill granting right of way across the 

 reservation would have become void by expiration of 

 time. The road will tap the coal banks at a point six 

 miles from the Rock Creek Mines. 



Nevada's mountain sheep having bejsn diminished by 

 hunting in season and out of season, the Virginia City 

 Enterprise suggests that Angora goats be turned out to 

 revert to wildness and take the place of the indigenous 

 mountain game. It is said that some goats which have 

 escaped from the ranches have thrived and demonstrated 

 that the breed can maintain itself; and an Eureka hunter 

 has brought one of them down with his rifle. Some 

 might take kindly to the pursuit of this "mountain mut- 

 ton," but they are not to be found in this generation of 

 American sportsmen. 



Mr. Geo. S. Marsh, late General Passenger Agent of the 

 Milwaukee, Lake Shore and Western Railway, has gone 

 into the Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway as Assistant 

 General Passenger Agent, where he will no doubt interest 

 himself as actively as ever in putting sportsmen on the 

 right track to shooting and fishing grounds. The passenger 

 agent is one of those public-spirited, universal-aid officials 

 who cannot hope for a full reward of their work in this 

 world; and they never perform any service for which 

 more thoroughly grateful appreciation is felt than when 

 they tell one where to go fishing. 



If State legislatures w T ere composed exclusively of men 

 with an average gift of common sense, we never should 

 hear of such bills as that which has been introduced into 

 the New Jersey Legislature by a member named West, 

 authorizing land owners to shoot on sight dogs found on 

 their lands in pursuit of game. New Jersey has some 

 cranky game laws on her books, but surely no one except 

 Mr. West can treat this measure seriously. 



We hope that the series of papers describing the Chi- 

 cago shooting clubs are given the careful reading they 

 deserve, for they touch on many subjects of wide inter- 

 est and application. 



Supposed to have been settled for all time, but now 

 disputed—That saw'dust is injurious to fish; that snaring 

 cleans out the grouse; that trout and bass cannot live 

 together. 



As reported in our trap columns, the American Shoot- 

 ing Association is now fairly launched upon what, let us 

 hope, will be a long career of usefulness and prosperity. 



Maine canoes go to England for use on the Tharjies s 

 where they ar'e growing in popularity*. 



