Forest and Stream. 



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NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 7, 1889. 



I VOL. XXm.-No. 3. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 

 Advance.— I. 



Introduce on of Exotic Game. 



Snap Shots. 

 Thb Sportsman Tourist. 



Bronze Bai ts of Sussex. 

 Natural History. 



Snakes. 

 Camp-Fire Flickerings. 

 Game Bag and y-uN 



Shooting dubs of Chicago. 



Grouse Shooters and Su.irers. 



Rifles for Sma.l Game.— V. 



Notes of a Pot-Hunter. 



Maine Game Exportation. 



Adirondack Deer. 



Man and Other Animals. 



Michigan Game and Fish 

 Wardens. 



Incidents in my Hunting Life. 



Gime in Town. 



Pro B<uio Publico. 



Puttine; oar, Quail. 



Gams- Notes. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



Fish and Pishing m Alaska. -II 



Mysterious Mill pond Monster. 



What a Good Time Jim Had. 



Saibling in Sterling: Lake. 



Open Winter and Fiahiug. 



Seizure of Nets. 

 Fishculture. 



Intei -State Fishery Bill. 



Fishcuhui e in W} oming. 



Fishcuxture. 



Results of Hatching Whlteflsh 

 The Kennel. 



Pittsburgh Bench Show. 



Providence Dog Show. 



Chorea, 



Dog Sense. 



Fox-Terriers and Rabbits. 

 New England Fox Hunting. 

 Dog Talk. 

 Kernel Notes. 

 Kennel Management. 

 LtiixE and Trap shooting. 

 Range and Gallery. 

 The Trap. 



American Shooting Associa- 

 tion. 



Oorry Gun Club. 

 Yachting. 



1889— Yachting— 1889. 



New York Yacht Ra»ing Asso- 

 ciation. 



My Last Sail. 



Builiirg to Length. 



Bu^ldiuK Notes. 

 Canoeing. 



Necken (poetry). 



1889-Canoeintr— 1889. 



A Salt- Water Canoe Kit. 



Canoe and Boat Building for 

 Amateurs. 



Legitimate Cruising Appli- 

 ances. 



Answers to Correspondents. 



THE INTRODUCTION OF EXOTIC GAME. 



A N important enterprise, undertaken at private ex. 

 pense for the public good, should have every pro- 

 tection the public can give it. There is just such an 

 enterprise now seeking protection at the hands of the 

 Massachusetts Legislature. 



Some time ago Mr. Chas. B. Cory, a well known orni- 

 thologist, bought Great Island and Egg IJand. on the 

 Massachusetts coast, for the purpose of establishing a 

 game preserve, where extended experiments might be 

 made in the introduction and propagation of exotic 

 species of birds and mammals. 



Among the species imported were the English phea- 

 sant (Phasianus colchieus), the silver pheasant (Euploca- 

 mus nychthemerus), and the golden pheasant (Thaumalia 

 pieta), also the English partridge (Perdix einerea) and 

 ring pheasants {Phasianus torquatus). Many of these 

 birds, Mr. Cory reports, have been turned loose, while 

 others have been paired, and houses built for them, in 

 which it is hoped they will live and become acclimated, 

 and breed in confinement, The preserves were also 

 stocked with quail and hares, and many quail have gone 

 over to the mainland, and thus supplied the covers there. 

 The island is a harbor for black ducks, which find on its 

 shores a place to rest and feed, thence passing to the 

 ponds on the mainland. There are on Great Island more 

 than one hundred deer in large and small inclosures, and 

 orders have been given for a number of European fallow 

 deer, which it is believed will breed here. 



This enterprise, it is seen, is one which contains ti - e- 

 mendous possibilities. If it can be demonstrated here 

 on Great and Egg islands that foreign game may be suc- 

 cessfully bred, the meaning is that Americans can largely 

 augment their game supply by carrying out-similar en- 

 terprises on a larger scale. As Mr. Cory very reason- 

 ably suggests, it is probable that *'by a comparatively 

 small fc-utfey t4ae vast practically *'i&4 lands of our 



coasts might be made to teem with various kinds of 

 game when now scarcely a living form of animal or 

 birds remains. A little care in protecting our game and 

 the establishment of breeding stations would again give 

 us our woods filled with game and permit the farmer or 

 laborer to have game (in the proper season) on his table 

 of his own killing if he wished it." 



Mr. Cory's experiments are as yet only in their initial 

 stages, but he is already confronted by an obstacle which 

 threa tens to retard if not entirely thwart his purposes. 

 Having bought his islands and imported his game, all at 

 an expense of thousands of dollars, he finds that the one 

 thing wanting is adequate protection from the shotguns 

 and hounds of covetous gunners. The islands have 

 already been invaded by men and dogs which chased 

 and killed a number of the deer; and an attempt is now 

 made to secure such a change in the Massachusetts game 

 law as shall permit further invasions. A bill has been 

 introduced into the Legislature to repeal the law forbid- 

 ding shooting between high and low water marks. 



The result of such a license would be that gunners 

 would invade the shores of preserves like that of Mr. 

 Cory's, and disturb and harass the game. How disas- 

 trous this would be in the case of the Great and Egg 

 islands preserves is shown by the nesting habits of the 

 pheasants there. Many of these birds, as Mr. Cory has 

 found by observation, lay their eggs in February and 

 March; he has seen eggs with snow a few inches from 

 them; the pheasants pair in January, sometimes earlier, 

 and if they are separated or disturbed, they will not 

 breed that year. Many of the pheasants seek the edges 

 of the beaches, possibly finding food among the seaweeds. 

 If these birds are shot at or frightened, they will not 

 breed. 



It is entirely too much to ask that this undertaking^ 

 already having involved so great an outlay, and so 

 promising in its results, shall be ruined because one gun- 

 ner, or one hundred gunners, are eager to gobble up the 

 island game. 



If the law be repealed nothing can prevent the killing, 

 or the disturbance — equally disastrous — of the game; dogs 

 will be landed on the shores to chase and worry the deer, 

 the game harbor will be broken up, and for all this there 

 wall be not one single public benefit in compensation. 



When citizens of a State, animated by public spirit, are 

 moved to undertake experimental enterprises of such 

 economic importance as this one, the very least that a 

 Legislature can do is to afford them protection. If the 

 movers of the bill to permit shore shooting are sin- 

 cere in their declarations, that the measure is intended 

 only to benefit Cape Cod market-shooters, let them so 

 amend the measure as to exempt private and public pre- 

 serves; let them not insist upon the folly, greed and in- 

 justice of opening the shores of Great Island and Egg 

 Island to the vandals. To do that would be a legislative 

 outrage, for which we can conceive of no palliation. 



ADVANCE.— I 



THE report of the Michigan Game and Fish Warden 

 marks an epoch in the history of game protection in 

 that State; and we cannot permit its publication to pass 

 by without recalling the fact that the system now in such 

 active and effective operation is a fruit of the labors of 

 members of the Michigan Sportsmen's Association. Year 

 after year that society fought for the principle that since 

 game protection is a public good, it should be a public 

 concern, taken charge of and carried out by the 

 State. It was a long, tedious and up-hill fight, but 

 they finally won the day; and what they have accom- 

 plished maybe read of all men in Warden Smith's report, 

 in our game columns. And the moral is that the sooner 

 other States cease to depend upon the treasuries and the 

 voluntary individual exertions of game societies, and 

 undertake this work of game protection by paying public 

 officials to enforce the laws, the sooner will they reap 

 the rewards of intelligent action. 



This result in Michigan is only one of the many evi- 

 dences of advance, which may well cheer all workers in 

 the field. The growth and triumph of right public senti 

 ment are no less manifest in Wisconsin. To the situation 

 there we shall recur in our nest issue. 



SNAP SHOTS. 



TTNUSUAL activity prevails among the manufacturers 

 ^ of game and fish laws in various Legislatures this 

 year. New York is always ahead in number and com- 

 plexity of bills; Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, 

 Missouri and others follow, each with a very creditable 

 display. Missouri and New Jersey are discussing the 

 ethics of pigeon shooting. The New Jersey seasons will 

 without doubt be changed; and an attempt will be made 

 to amend the law relating to non residents. One bill pro- 

 vides that for fishing or shooting the stranger must pay a 

 license fee of $22, of which $20 shall go to the county 

 game society. The bill is said to be prompted by opposi- 

 tion to the West Jersey Game Society, which is made up 

 of Philadelphians. The bill authorizes the formation of 

 county societies empowered to stock the covers with game 

 and to provide wardens. 



The charming sketches descriptive of "Sam Lovel's" 

 camp life, written by Mr. Rowland E. Robinson, and 

 published from time to time in this journal, have been 

 collected into a volume entitled "Sam Lovel's Camps, or 

 Uncle Lisha's Friends under Bark and Canvas " There 

 are several added chapters, in the course of which tidings 

 are received from Uncle Lisha in his 'Hio home — or 

 homesickness for the old Vermont hills — and Sam and 

 Huldah are brought to that happy day where, after the 

 fashion of so many heroes and heroines who have de- 

 lighted the world, they are left by the author to live 

 happily forever after. The high excellence of these 

 character studies by Mr. Robinson cannot be over-esti- 

 mated; as faithful studies of the Yankee character and 

 Yankee idiom, of the time and place, they are unap- 

 proachable; and their qualities of accuracy and deep in- 

 sight into the life described are very different from 

 those likely to mark the work of a well-known author 

 who has recently removed from Louisiana to Massachu- 

 setts, and is just now reported to have been on a flying 

 trip down East to secure material for New England dia- 

 lect stories. 



The new Dominion Alliance of game clubs is a prom- 

 ising movement, as described in our game columns. Its 

 scouts will find an abundance of work awaiting their 

 beet efforts. 



The bill to create a Territory of Ocklahoma has passed 

 the House, and in the Senate has been referred to the 

 Committee on Territories. The purpose of this bill is to 

 take away from the Indians land which they purchased 

 and paid for as long ago as the year 1830, and which the 

 United States solemnly covenanted and agreed should be 

 theirs forever, and should not at any "future time, with- 

 out their consent, be included within the territorial 

 limits or the jurisdiction of any State or Territory." 

 Efforts have been made for the past forty years to de- 

 prive the Indians of their rights in this territory; but 

 they have been resisted, and the Government has time 

 and again announced that these lands could not be taken 

 from their present owners except by an utter forfeiture 

 of honor on the part of the United States. It may be 

 hoped that the Senate will consider well before passing 

 this bill whether it is worth while to add to the shame 

 which already attaches to this Government in connec- 

 tion with the Indians. 



Michigan deer hunters have projected a variety of 

 schemes for protecting deer; among them was a plan of 

 fencing in a large territory with wire fencing for a deer 

 breeding park. The latest proposition is embodied in a 

 bill introduced into the Legislature by Mr. Tyrrell, of 

 Jackson, to set apart the island of Bois Blanc, in the 

 Straits of Mackinac, as a deer park; to stock it and pre. 

 serve it for the term of ten years. The island contains 

 23.000 acres, is isolated and in every way well adapted 

 to the purpose. This Michigan undertaking proposed by 

 Mr. Tyrrell is in direct line with Mr. Cory's Massachusetts 

 enterprise. 



The Adirondack deer question is one which interests a 

 vast number of people. We have several communica- 

 tions relating to it and will print them in our next issue. 

 One suggestive indication of the trend of opinion is the 

 fact that some of those who were a few years ago most 

 strenuous in urging the passage of the present law per- 

 mitting hounding now want to see the hounding season 

 shortened. . Facts are stubborn things; all the plausible 

 reasoning in the world cannot make black white, nor 

 prove that hounding Adirondack deer preserves the 

 supply. 



