Forest and Stream. 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



Terms, $i a Year. 10 Cts. a Copt, t 

 Six Months, $2. f 



NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 21, 1889. 



j VOL. XXXII— No. 5. 



I No 318 Broadway, New York. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 

 The Forest and Stream is the recognized jnedium of entertain- 

 ment, instruction and inf ormation between American sportsmen. 

 Communications on the subject to which its pages are devoted are 

 respectfully invited. Anonymous communications will not be re- 

 garded. No name will be published except with writer's consent. 

 The Editors are not responsible for the views of correspondents. 



ADVERTISEMENTS. 

 Only advertisements of an approved character inserted. Inside 

 pages, nonpareil type, 30 cents per line. Special rates for three, six, 

 and twelve months. Seven words to the line, twelve lines to one 

 Inch. Advertisements should be sent in by Saturday previous to 

 issue in which they are to be inserted. Transient advertisements 

 must invariably be accompanied by the money or they will not be 

 Inserted. Beading notices $1.00 per line. 



SUBSCRIPTIONS 

 May begin at any time. Subscription price, $4 per year; $2 for six 

 months; to a club of three annual subscribers, three copies for $10; 

 five copies for §16. Remit by express money-order, registered letter, 

 money-order, or draft, payable to the Forest and Stream Publishing 

 Company. The paper may be obtained of newsdealers throughout 

 the United States, Canadas and Great Britain. For sale by Davies 

 & Co., No. 1 Finch Lane, Cornhill, London. General subscription 

 agents far Great Britain, Messrs. Davies & Co., and Messrs. Samp- 

 son Low, Marston, Searles and Rivington, 188 Fleet street, London, 

 Eng. Brentano's, IT Avenue de POpera, Paris, France, sole Paris 

 agent for sales and subscriptions. Foreign subscription price, $5 

 per year; $2.50 for six months. 



Address all communications _ „ 



Forest and Stream 1*111)118111115 Co. 

 No. 318 Broadway. New York City. 



CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



Our Duck Shooting Supple- 

 ment. 



Open Trap Weather. 



The Maine Deer Law. 



Snap Shots. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



A Month in the Rocky Moun- 

 tains. 

 Natural History. 



Notes on the Caribou. 



The Sooty Grouse. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



Missouri Quail. 



Michigan's Northern Penin- 

 sula. 



Three Days After the Last One 



Pattern and Penetration Tests 



Quail in Maryland. 



The New York Legislature. 



Game in Town. 

 Duck Shooting Supplement: 



A Master of the Art. 



Comfort in Duck Shooting. 



Camping on the Mississippi. 



A Bunk in a Blind. 



North Carolina Waters. 



Old Times about Cnicago. 



Shooting Clubs of Chicago. 

 Camp-Fire Flickerings. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



Jerked Trout. 



Virtues of Mud. 

 • The Steel Rod. 



Carp as Food. 



FlSHCULTURE. 



Sawdust in Streams. 

 Wisconsin Fish Commission. 



The Kennel. 

 New York Dog Show. 

 Chicago Dos Show. 

 Boston Dog Show. 

 Bay City Dog Show. 

 Intelligence of the Beagle. 

 New England Fox Hunting. 

 American Coursing Club's 

 Meet. 



With Hounds on Bruin's Trail 

 Collies at Pittsburgh. 

 Dog Talk. 

 Kennel Notes. 

 Kennel Management. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 

 Range and Gallery. 

 The Cooper-Cashmere Rifle. 

 The Trap. 



Buffalo Tournament. 



Forester Gun Club Tourna- 

 ment. 

 Yachting. 



Music of the Waters. 



Classification by Corrected 

 Length. 



Hints on Yacht Engines and 

 Boilers. 



Bui] ding Notes. 



Ice Yachting. 



Larchmont Y. C. 



Interrational Racing. 

 Canoeing. 



A Cruise in a Dory. 



A New Cruising Organization. 



Atlantic Division, A. C. A. 



A. C. A. Committees for ISSy. 



W. C. A. Executive Committee 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



THE MAINE DEER LAW. 



IT has been reported in these columns that the Maine 

 law relating to deer would probably be amended 

 this year; and measures to that end have been introduced 

 into the Legislature. 



Maine owes her big-game supply to her non,-houn ding- 

 law and to her non-export law. These laws are excel- 

 lent in their working, but they are maintained only in 

 the face of tremendous opposition. Doggers are eager to 

 dog game into the lakes; market-hunters are eager to 

 ship to Boston. Take away these two laws, give the 

 doggers and the market-hunters what they demand; and 

 good-bye to Maine's game interests. If these interests 

 are to be conserved, the market must be cut off; the dogs 

 must be kept out. 



Happily there is little probability that the Legislature 

 will listen to the hungry cries of the enemies of the 

 game; there is too much sterling good sense among the 

 members. The law will hold good, in spite of the assaults 

 upon it. 



A hearing was given by the Committee on Fisheries 

 and Game on Wednesday the 13th. There was a good 

 deal of interest manifested, with a large attendance. 

 From the course of the meeting it is plain that the deer 

 bounders stand no chance whatever, unless they should 

 spring a trap, of which there is little danger. Jonathan 

 Darling was there, and appeared before the committee 

 as an advocate of dog hunting, but if he is backed up 

 by others, they had not the courage to appear before the 

 committee. Darling made no impression on the commit- 

 tee whatever. In fact they began to cross-examine him 

 in a way that came near making him acknowledge him- 

 self to be a law-breaker, and we have reasons for believ- 

 ing that if they had succeeded in making him state 

 before the committee that he had broken the statute in 



regard to hounding deer, the purpose was to have ar- 

 rested him before he left the town. But he hardly dared 

 to criminate himself before the committee. 



It is likely that the committee will report a bill involv- 

 ing the ideas of the Commissioners in regard to a "square 

 non-export law," while at the same time the owner of a 

 moose, deer, or caribou, legally killed in the open sea- 

 son, will be allowed to transport it from the State by 

 proving that he legally killed the venison. On the other 

 hand the.new bill will doubtless put severe penalties in 

 the way of any persons found with moose, deer or caribou 

 not killed by themselves, or any parts thereof, in pos- 

 session, even in the open season. But the law will not 

 prevent the holder from satisfying the magistrate or 

 arresting officer that he purchased the venison to the ex- 

 tent of the full allowance of the law to any one person 

 in any season— that he purchased it for consumption 

 within the State, and not for transportation. In short, 

 the law is likely to be so framed as to permit the real 

 hunter, who legally kills game in the State, to take it 

 home; but the greatest possible restriction will be put 

 upon the forwarding of game to market. 



It is also proposed to put it within the power of the 

 wardens to arrest law breakers on the spot. This feature 

 is designed to do away with the former necessity that the 

 warden should procure a warrant, no matter how far 

 away the magistrate might happen to be. It is altogether 

 likely that the moiety system will be restored, whereby 

 the wardens will get half, or the whole, of the fines. This 

 will restore the interest formerly felt by game wardens 

 in the enforcement of the game laws. The new laws are 

 likely to impose a very heavy fine, or even imprisonment, 

 on the killing of a cow moose at any time. The bill will 

 probably involve the opening of the season for shooting 

 on September 15th and closing it on December 15th, 

 which really gives the same length of open season as 

 under the present law. The lumber people from the 

 eastern part of the State may oppose the opening of any 

 part of September to the hunters, since they fear forest 

 fires, while on the other hand it is urged that September 

 is a very safe month in which to permit the hunter to be 

 abroad, and that under the present law it is already an 

 open month for bird shooting. One of the designs of the 

 new measure will doubtless be to bring the ruffed grouse 

 under better protection, for it has been for some time 

 felt by the best sportsmen that the broods are far too 

 young to be hunted on the first day of September, 

 especially in the northern portions of the State. 



It really looks like good legislation in Maine this winter, 

 and there is not a doubt that it will be reached, un- 

 less the lack of opposition should make the friends of 

 game protection too easy, and hence bad legislation creep 

 in through neglect. 



OPEN TRAP WEATHER. 



WHILE ice syndicates, curlers, ice yachters and pur- 

 veyors of heavy overcoats may find something 

 out of sorts in the manner of weather this land has been 

 treated to during the winter now closing, the trap-shoot- 

 ers may congratulate themselves upon having had an 

 exceptionally fortunate time of it. There has not been a 

 week when a tournament could not have been carried 

 through with success, and clubs have kept up practice 

 uninterruptedly. The result has been that shooters will 

 come to the score at the early spring shoots with nothing 

 in the shape of a winter's rustiness to wear off. And the 

 result of all this inviting weather has been a great im- 

 petus to the already growing boom in the trap-shooting 

 line. Those who furnish the paraphernalia of the trap 

 park have been pushed to their utmost in keeping pace 

 with the demand, and the consumption of powder and 

 shot has been enormous. 



The man who buys a gun is finding out that in place 

 of getting one week's use of it in the course of a year, he 

 may find it an instrument of pleasure during the whole 

 fifty odd weeks if he will but combine trap with field- 

 shooting. One is not a substitute for the other, but 

 rather a complement of it. The first step will be in the 

 formation of small neighborhood clubs for mutual rivalry 

 and enjoyment, and then in time may come trap-shooting 

 rules which will invite honest shooting at tournaments, 

 in place of the present cumbersome rules, fitted only to 

 trap the unwary and assist clever, unscrupulous experts. 



OUR DUCK SHOOTING SUPPLEMENT. 



LAST week we referred to our Index as an indication 

 of the scope and character of that many-sided cor- 

 respondence which keeps up the charm and value of these 

 pages. To-day, as in further exemplification of the re- 

 sources of the Forest and Stream, we publish a supple- 

 ment devoted to the sport of duck shooting. The sketches 

 and communications cover a wide range of country, and 

 experience equally wide. It is one of the curiosities of 

 human nature, this duck hunting passion, and manifests 

 itself in ways utterly incomprehensible to those who 

 have no share in it. A grown man will travel further, 

 toil harder, undergo more hardship, endure more depri- 

 vation, fatigue, physical suffering, to kill a duck than to 

 do anything else under the sun. Whatever possesses a 

 man of years and discretion, and average common sense 

 to tumble out of bed at twelve o'clock midnight, make 

 himself a hot cap of coffee— "breakfast" he calls it— row 

 out to a point on the bay, lie down in a blanket and go to 

 sleep, to hold that vantage ground against all intruders, 

 until the fowl begin to fly, then blaze away, and at last 

 row home with a half-dozen black duck— all this is some- 

 thing that the uninitiated cannot understand. 



But you understand it well enough; and in that under- 

 standing are you more blest than they who turn up their 

 noses at ducks and scoff at duck hunters. 



And if ever you are grateful for anything, it is becom- 

 ing to cherish a sense of gratitude for the possession of 

 those traits by which you do' understand the charms and^ 



SNAP SHOTS. 



A MEMBER of the Wisconsin Legislature named Hill 

 has introduced his little bill. Mr. Hill asks to have 

 it declared "unlawful to hunt any woodcock, quail, part- 

 ridge, pheasant or ruffled grouse, prairie hen or prairie 

 chicken, sharp-tailed grouse or grouse of any other 

 variety, snipe or plover, with dog or dogs."' And if any 

 one is caught hunting with dogs, Mr. Hill wants them 

 fined not less than $20 nor more than $100, or imprisoned 

 in the county jail for not less than one month nor more 

 than six months— very moderate penalties, by the way, 

 for an offense which Mr. Hill evidently looks upon as 

 heinous. Now won't somebody take Mr. Hill out and let 

 him see a dog at work in the field, and so convert him, 

 as Hyperides won over- the Heliasts for his client Phryne. 



They have some odd characters in Connecticut. One 

 is an hermit who lives in an old wolf den and subsists on 

 the game of the vicinity, as one might very well do in 

 any of the New England States if he led a very ascetic 

 life. But the oddest genius is a wooden-headed justice 

 of the peace, of East Windsor Hill, who undertook the 

 "extermination of so-called game" by advertising rewards 

 for game birds and their eggs, from January to October. 

 Upon the appearance of this advertisement the most 

 natural thing in the world happened: the Connecticut 

 Association of Farmers and Sportsmen put detectives on 

 him, traced unlawful booty in his possession, arrested 

 him, and the result is that the enterprising justice of the 

 peace has been fined for his rashness. Take him all in 

 all, he is more of a curiosity than the anchorite of the 

 wolf den. 



California shooters are at odds over the preserve ques- 

 tion. The lands are taken up there to such an extent as 

 to breed dissatisfaction among sportsmen who do not 

 belong to the clubs. The same feeling prevails in many 

 other sections. The old cry raised by "Didymus" years 

 ago, that game preserve clubs partake of the character 

 of monopolists is echoed and reechoed by the outsiders. 

 The controversy has but just begun; in years to come we 

 shall hear more and more of it. 



That enterprising individual who is going to start a 

 frog farm is in nowise discouraged by our reports of the 

 difficulties attending the enterprise. He bobs up serenely 

 now in one newspaper and again in another. We also 

 learn of a scheme for the farming of beavers. 



Restocking depleted ground with quail is carried on 

 more extensively than ever. From many quarters come 

 reports of such effort. This is an altogether sensible 

 method of setting about an improvement of the shooting. 



Nova Scotia farmers have in convention declared the 

 ^^t"h^<ffliiw^r5 the outdoor, wild, open-air life ofS English sparrow a nuisance, and they have declared that 

 marsh and bay, and point and bar. it must. go. 



