Forest and Stream 



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NEW YORK, MARCH 7, 1889. 



I VOL. XXXII.-No. 7. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



Liberty to Carry Home Maine 

 Game. 



Jekyl island Pheasants. 



The National Zoological Park. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



A Month in the Rocky Moun- 

 tains. 

 Natural History. 



Mid- Winter Bird Notes. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



Shooting Clubs of Chicago. 



Chicago and the West. 



Adirondack Deer. 



Missouri Game Wardens. 



A Hunt in India. 



Whitney Safety Hammerless. 



New York Legislature. 



Game Notes. 

 Camp-Fire Flickerings. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



Tuckerton Waters. — n. 



Maine Pickerel. 



Destruction of Illegal Nets. 



Florida Fishing. 



The Menhaden Men. 

 Fishculxure. 



Michigan Fish Commission. 

 The Kennel. 



Troy Dog Show. 



Albany Dog Show. 



Not a Fit Officer. 



Canadian. K. C. Dog Show 

 Rules. 



The Kennel. 



Spaniel Club Sweepstakes. 



To American Pointer Breeders 



American Kennel Register. 



Dog Talk. 



Kennel Notes. 



Kennel Management. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 



Range and Gallerv. 



Rifle Championship Challenge 



The American Military Team 



The Trap. 



Trap Chat. 



Sigler against Lever. 



Flights from all Angles. 



Chicago. 

 Yachting. 



A Cruise in a Dory. 



International Yachting. 



Lights, Buoys, and other Aids 

 to Navigation. 



A New Yacht Racing Associa- 

 tion. 



Electra— A Cruising Steam 

 Launch. 



The Ward Yacht Boiler. 



Building News. 

 Canoeing. 



"Mac" and the Regatta Com- 

 mittee. 



Sliding Seats for Paddling. 



New York C. C. 



Changes in the A. C. A. Rules. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



THE JEKYL ISLAND PHEASANTS. 

 TyC7 E have on several occasions referred to the Jekyl 



* " Island Club, situated near Brunswick, Ga., on the 

 island of that name, and to its great success in the experi- 

 ment of propagating the English pheasant. 



From one of its members now there we learn that 

 preparations are being made to hatch out not less than 

 five thousand birds the coming spring. The club received 

 from England last year seventy-eight birds out of the one 

 hundred shipped, most of which arrived in New York in 

 good order, and were shipped by steamer to Savannah; 

 but owing to the rough handling on the rail between 

 Savannah and Brunswick the principal loss was sus- 

 tained. 



From these seventy-eight birds one thousand young 

 were hatched out by common barnyard hens, as the 

 female pheasant is proverbially a careless and improvi- 

 dent mother, whereas the common hen devotes herself to 

 the care of the young chicks with the same fidelity as if 

 hatched from eggs of her own laying — and probably does 

 not know the difference and does not trouble herself 

 about it. The young pheasants were kept up until nearly 

 full grown and then turned out to shift for themselves. 

 A considerable acreage had, however, been cultivated 

 with various kinds of grain and left unharvested for 

 feed; but the pheasants seemed to prefer the wild food of 

 the island, particularly the small acorns, of which there 

 were an abundance, and they throve well and were 

 healthy. 



It was found that in the hatching a large percentage 

 were cocks, to abate which excess of requirements mem- 

 bers have been allowed to shoot a limited number to 

 each gun this season. They have also shot some quail, 

 which are rapidly multiplying from the four thousand 

 placed on the island last season. 4 



In order to keep up the successful breeding an addi- 

 tional one hundred hen pheasants have recently been 

 ordered from England and are soon to arrive. These will 

 be kept up for laying, and as many more of those turned 

 out will be trapped and kept up for the same purpose. 

 About forty hens last season gave a product of over 

 twelve hundred eggs. At the same ratio the two hun- 

 dred hens should this season furnish six thousand. It 

 will thus be seen that with the present number the club 



will have a matter of six or seven thousand birds another 

 year, a most remarkable and satisfactory result in two 

 years, and thereafter the annual hatching in a wild state 

 will doubtless furnish an ample supply, affording splendid 

 shooting for the members who are so fortunate as to be- 

 long to this desirable club. 



The club has the advantage of owning an island eleven 

 miles long and from one to two miles wide, well wooded 

 and affording splendid cover for the birds. It is a pecu- 

 liarity of the pheasant that it never leaves its original 

 home, its flights being short. Its flight is very swift and 

 the cock being a large bird with a long tail, the sports- 

 men at the island find from experience they get more 

 tail feathers than birds, invariably shooting behind the 

 body and not allowing sufficiently for its swiftness of 

 flight. 



The experience of the Jekyl Island Club proves con- 

 clusively that this rare and splendid bird can be bred 

 and become a new feature in the South, where the 

 climate seems to be admirably adapted to their propaga- 

 tion, and as they are a hardy bird can probably be suc- 

 cessfully raised in a higher latitude. 



The credit of originating the experiment of introducing 

 pheasants on Jekyl is due to its former superintendent, 

 Capt. R. L. Ogden ("Podgers"), with the aid of Henry 

 Hughes, an English game keeper, under whose care the 

 successful hatching of the first brood was accomplished. 



Mr. Pierre Lorillard, who has had considerable experi- 

 ence in raising pheasants at Tuxedo Park, a member of 

 the Jekyl Club, after visiting the island gave it as his 

 opinion that it was a most favorable spot for the raising 

 of this rare bird, which results have justified as correct. 

 In raising pheasants at Tuxedo Mr. Lorillard has had to 

 contend with a severe climate and the pot-hunters who 

 lurk in the vicinity of his grounds, and by baiting the 

 birds outside of the limits manage to secure a good many. 

 This is a vexation and annoyance the Jekyl Club does not 

 have to contend with, owning as it does the whole island, 

 upon which only members and their guests are allowed. 



The cost of the birds with freight and other expenses 

 is almost five dollars per pair, landed in New York. 



We congratulate the club on its success and prospects 

 of soon having the finest game preserve in the country, 

 as aside from pheasants and quail it has also plenty of 

 wild turkeys and deer, all of which are increasing 

 rapidly. 



LIBERTY TO CARRY HOME MAINE GAME. 



THE chief concern in framing non-export game laws 

 is to cut off the traffic in game shipped to market 

 and at the same time to permit sportsman to take home 

 with them the venison or trout they have legitimately 

 killed. If it be found impracticable to cut off market- 

 hunting without depriving the sportsman of Ms privilege, 

 the case is one where the innocent must suffer, and the 

 sportsman must endure his individual and personal de- 

 privation for the good of the public. 



Under the present Maine law, which permits one per- 

 son to export only one moose, two caribou and three deer, 

 sportsmen cannot take their game home, because the 

 courts hold that a railroad or an express is subject to 

 the restriction of the law and cannot carry more than 

 the individual allowance. This is a hardship severely 

 felt by sportsmen who visit the State; and it is one which 

 all agree should be removed if it can be done without 

 throwing open the markets. 



In New York the deer hunter who kills his game in 

 the North Woods is permitted to take it home under cer- 

 tain restrictions, which prescribe that the man who 

 killed the venison must accompany it in person during 

 transportation. A similar provision has been incorpor- 

 ated in the bill reported by the Committee on Fisheries 

 and Game of the Maine Legislature. According to the 

 terms of this bill any one person will be allowed to kill 

 in a season one moose, two caribou and three deer, and 

 having captured his game he may transport it, open to 

 view and properly tagged with his name; and when so 

 transported by a common carrier, being accompanied by 

 the person who killed it, the game "shall be deemed to 

 be in the possession of such person and not in the pos- 

 session of such common carrier." This grants to those 

 who resort to Maine for large game hunting everything 

 they can reasonably ask. It gives the crown to a hunt- 

 ing trip, that gratification found in displaying to friends 

 the proofs of -achievement in the woods. In this con- 

 cession to the . wishes of sportsmen from abroad, we are 



bound to believe, the Maine game commissioners will 

 find a new source of strength, for they will find many 

 active in a hearty support of the law, who have been 

 lukewarm because of the anti-transportation law. 



At the same time the new privileges are so hedged 

 about with prudent conditions that if they are enforced 

 with reasonable vigilance the right conceded to sports- 

 men cannot become a license abused by market-hunters. 

 The Maine Legislature will be acting the part of wisdom 

 should it make every provision for the strict enforcement 

 of the law. 



The other provisions of the bill, briefly summarized, 

 protect cow moose at all times, fix the season for moose 

 (male), deer and caribou from Oct. 1 to Jan. 1, as at 

 present; forbid the use of dogs for hunting this game; 

 forbids possession in close season, but proof may be pro- 

 duced that the game was lawfully acquired in open 

 season; restricts the number of animals killed by one 

 person to one moose, two caribou and three deer; author- 

 izes wardens (who must wear badges) to arrest without 

 process; and gives one-half of fines recovered to the 

 prosecutor. Woodcock and ruffed grouse may be trans- 

 ported from place to place only in possession of the 

 owner. 



These proposed amendments are wise and judicious; we 

 trust that they will have the approval of the Legislature. 



THE NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK. 

 HpHE bill providing for the establishment of a National 

 *• Zoological Garden at Washington was passed by 

 the Fiftieth Congress and has become a law. The sum 

 appropriated was $300,000, which will be amply sufficient 

 for putting the enterprise on a good basis for the start. 



The country and the scientific world at large are to be 

 congratulated upon this. The project of a national 

 zoological collection originated long ago with Prof. 

 Baird; and little by little it has grown, until now, under 

 the able management of Prof. Langley and Mr. Goode, it 

 has become an accomplished fact. Great credit is due to 

 these two gentlemen, as well as to Mr. W. T. Hornaclay, 

 who has actively interested himself in properly present- 

 ing the merits of the project to Congress. 



Too much cannot be said of the value and importance 

 of a zoological park which shall be under Government 

 patronage. We have already pointed out that there 

 should be such a depository for the gathering in of speci- 

 mens of our own indigenous North American mammals, 

 now so rapidly approaching extermination. Add to this 

 the specimens which may readily and will naturally 

 come to us from our consuls in foreign countries, and 

 there is here an opportunity to make a collection which 

 shall even surpass the older gardens of European coun- 

 tries. 



The site already selected for the garden in Washing, 

 ton is said to be the most beautiful for such a purpose in 

 the world. Once established the Washington "Zoo" will 

 be a subject of national pride. 



This is an enterprise in which we have taken special 

 interest; it is one to which in the future we shall expect 

 to give substantial aid through the oifices of Forest and 

 Stream readers who may contribute to the collection. 



That Net Decision. — Last year the Fish and Game 

 Association of Southern Jefferson County, N. Y., called 

 on Protector Steele to seize certain fishing nets unlaw- 

 fully set. Steele did this. The net owners brought suit 

 to recover the value of the nets, and judgment was ren- 

 dered in their favor, on the ground that, although the law 

 called for the summary destruction of the nets, the Legis- 

 lature had exceeded its authority in making such a law, 

 the law was unconstitutional, and was not a defense for 

 the protector. The Association thereupon raised a fund 

 to appeal from this decision, inasmuch as it struck at the 

 heart of protective effort in this special field. They car- 

 ried the case up, and a decision has just been given 

 reversing that of the lower court, and upholding the law. 

 This puts a new phase on the matter. The Associationis 

 deserving of highest credit for its victory. By it the 

 problem of fish protection is simplified. 



Order out of Chaos.— The game laws of the State of 

 New York are in a chaotic condition. A bill, published 

 in another column, has been drawn up, appointing a com- 

 mission of three to codify the laws and put them into intel- 

 ligible shape. This is the soundest and most sensible 

 measure put in at Albany in a long time, and it will be 

 for the good of game protection if it be passed. 



