Forest and Stream. 



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NEW YORK, MARCH 21, 1889. 



I VOL. XXXII.-No. 9. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



Practical Forest Restoration. 



That Adirondack Petition. 



Bits of Talk.— n. 



Importation of Pheasants. 



Snap Shots. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



September on Big Sandy Bay. 



The Yellowstone Park. 

 Natural History. 



Five Davs a Savage. 

 Game Bag and Gun 



Adirondack Forest Protection 



Hunting the Wild Turkey. 



Shooting Clubs of Chicago. 



Wildfowl Notes. 

 Camp- Fire Flickerings. 

 Sea and River Fishinu. 



The Sunset Club.— ii. 



The Protectors and Pirates. 



Sawdust in Streams. 



Trout Fishing through the Ice. 



The Fly-Casting Tournament. 



FlSHCULTURB. 



Oregon Fish Commission. 

 Calico Bass in France. 

 The Kennel. 

 Pniladelphia Dog Show. 

 Worcester Dog Show. 

 Utica Dog Show. 



The Kennel. 

 Keeping Up with the Proces- 

 sion. 



The Super-Sense of Animals. 

 St. Bernard Club. 

 Dog Talk. 

 Kennel Notes. 

 Rlfle and Trap Shooting. 

 Range and Gallery. 

 The Trap. 



Arrangements of Traps. 



Trap Chat. 

 Canoeing. 



About the Lower Bay in a 

 Singlehander. 



Changes in Racing Rules. 



Passaic River Cruise. 



Canoeing and Boating in the 

 Northwest Territory. 



The New R C. C. Rules. 

 Yachting. 



The New York Y. R. A. 



Tbe New Yachts. 



Cruise of the Orinda. 



Measurement and Classifica- 

 tion. 



Cruise of the Leona. 

 The Racing Prospects. 

 Club Elections. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



PRACTICAL FOREST RESTORATION.— III. 



IN the two previous articles, attention was directed to 

 nature's own methods of restoration of wholly or 

 partly denuded forest areas; and to suggestions, firstly, 

 for intelligent cooperation with her, by aiding her in the 

 distribution of seed, and secondly, by controlling results 

 by selection of seed of desired species of timber, to be 

 grown in substitution of those species which would take, 

 or hold possession of the soil, if nature were left to her 

 own unaided efforts. In the present paper we shall treat 

 of artificial methods of creating new forests or restocking 

 denuded ones. The term artificial is employed, because 

 on the method contemplated, the seedling trees having 

 been raised in seed beds, in a nursery, are transplanted 

 into the area they are intended to occupy, either directly 

 from their seed bed, or after one or two transplantings in 

 the nursery. 



The attention which should be given to the culture of 

 the seedlings in the nursery, the number of times they 

 should be transplanted, the space and time allowed for 

 their development, will depend in a great measure upon 

 the conditions of the soil in which they are to be trans- 

 planted.. If the plants are wanted to fill up openings in 

 a forest tract, created by the removal t»f a timber tree 

 here and there, yearling seedlings will do well enough, 

 as far as regards their ability to draw nutriment from the 

 soil under the conditions; but if the soil is already occu- 

 pied with a carpet of young seedlings of another and 

 undesired variety, it will be necessary to plant plants so 

 much stronger and more developed, that they will take 

 the lead of the plants in possession and dominate them. 

 If it is intended to stock up a bare area, yearling seed- 

 lings would be unsuited, although it is possible that in a 

 mellow soil, w T ith a favorable season of alternate showers 

 and sunshine, they may establish themselves and develop 

 so healthily during the spring months that they would 

 pass safely through an average summer and winter; but 

 it is never safe to count on exceptionally favorable cir- 



cumstances, and the plants once spread over a field can- 

 not receive that care and attention which it is possible to 

 bestow upon them in the nursery, or at least a thousand 

 plants in the nursery can be cared for by an outlay of 

 labor which would hardly suffice for half a dozen in the 

 open. 



Plants that have been transplanted two or three times 

 in the nursery, adapt themselves better to the conditions 

 of their new environment, not merely because they are 

 larger, but because at every transplantation there is arrest 

 of growth of the portion of the plant above ground, while 

 all its vital energies are directed to the sending out of 

 fresh rootlets, until in a plant which has been three times 

 transplanted, at intervals of a year, the organs for the 

 absorption of food from the soil are perhaps a thousand 

 times more developed than in a plant taken from the 

 seedling bed at the close of the first year. With such 

 immensely enhanced facilities for the absorption of mois- 

 ture, and consequently of its food in solution from the 

 soil, it will survive exposure to drought, which would be 

 quickly fatal to plants which, haviug few absorptive 

 organs, could not take up moisture as fast as it would be 

 evaporated from its leaves and bark in the sun's rays, and 

 which in the absence of that capacity would rapidly 

 wither and die. 



The important first step in planting a forest being then 

 the raising of nursery stock, a few simple instructions 

 will now be in place: 



Selection of site. There can be no more suitable place 

 for a nursery than an open spot in the forest, caused by 

 the recent removal of one or two big trees, especially if 

 there is water at hand, which maybe utilized at need. 

 In such a spot there is a carpet of dead leaves on the sur- 

 face, covering a soil rich in decomposed humus, which 

 is the proper dressing for trees; there is sufficient shade 

 to maintain the soil moist, with sufficient light to foster 

 the growth of the young seedlings. All that is wanted 

 in excess of this is water in case of protracted drought, 

 and in some regions this is a matter of so much import- 

 ance that all other advantages may be considered as only 

 secondary in comparison with it. The nursery must be 

 made where there is water, and the young plants shaded 

 from the direct rays of the sun at its fiercest, if water 

 and natural shade are not to be found in proximity. The 

 site having been selected, the first steps are the collection 

 of the seed and preparation of the soil . 



The work of destruction will go on there. Successive 

 Legislatures — engrossed in jobs — will shirk their duty in 

 the matter, and the people will blind their eyes to the 

 state of affairs. Then, when the ruin shall have been 

 wrought, and it shall be too late for reparation, the 

 awakening will come. Meanwhile let the public com- 

 fort itself with the thought that the Forestry Commission 

 is catching deer in the Adirondacks for stocking a deer 

 park in the Catskills. If the people of the State of New 

 York will turn out en masse and chase these deer they 

 will be quite oblivious of the railroad invasion and forest 

 destruction of the North Woods, and need feel no worry 

 over the ruin impending. 



IMPORTATION OF PHEASANTS. 

 y\J E learn that the 100 hen pheasants ordered by the 



• * Jekyl Island Club, of which we spoke in a recent 

 article on the propagation of pheasants by this club, have 

 been received at the island without, the loss of a bird. 

 This is most remarkable, considering the season, and it 

 is very encouraging to those contemplating experiments 

 in raising pheasants. We hope it will be tried by others. 

 The next importation by the club will probably be of 

 grouse and partridges from England. 



The Jekyl Club enjoys an exceptional opportunity in 

 owning an entire island, sufficiently extensive to give 

 ample scope and cover for all kinds of game. Our South- 

 ern coast affords very few, if any, other such islands, 

 since the rest are cut up into different ownerships and 

 therefore not attainable. 



The advantages an island presents are many. The 

 game does not leave it. Poachers and pot-hunters can 

 be kept off— the banes of inland tracts where attempts 

 have been made to preserve. Islands are the thing, but 

 unfortunately they are scarce. 



THAT ADIRONDACK PETITION. 

 Wf E publish the text of a petition now circulating to 

 " * the effect that the entire Adirondack wilderness 

 should be acquired by the State. This is not a new pro- 

 position. It was discussed in these columns ten years ago; 

 it has been before the public longer than that. What 

 reasonable hope is there that it will ever get beyond the 

 petition stage? The men sent to Albany nowadays are 

 not the class of men to consider any such proposition 

 seriously unless there be a job in it, and if they did con- 

 sider it and devise measures to carry out the scheme and 

 acquire the North Woods, what reason is there to suppose 

 that in the State administration of that reserve there would 

 not be political jobbery and thievery, in comparison with 

 which ceiling steals would be as grains of sand to boulders? 

 No inspired vision is required to foretell what is going to 

 happen in the future with respect to the North Woods. 



BITS OF TALK.— II. 

 "V7"ES, they say he is a wild fellow, spending all his 

 * father'o money — and you know there is a pile of 

 that. He's up to all sorts of pranks, and he makes it fly 

 fast enough; and they tell some hard stories of his esca- 

 pades. I know he's wild and all that; but see here, did 

 you ever know a real true sportsman, one who's got it in 

 him, 1 mean, to be a bad man ? I never did; and I'll tell 

 you what it is, that young chap is a sportsman, thorough- 

 bred. I've been in camp with him w T eeks at a time, and 

 that's the place to bring a man out for just what he is 

 every time, no fail, you'll find him out there: and I just 

 know that he is a man, through and through, every inch 

 of him. They may say what they please about his 

 pranks and his spending the old man's money, but I've 

 camped with him and I know. He's all right." 



"You are perfectly correct in one thing, but out of 

 bearings on another," replied the Judge. "It is all non- 

 sense to say that a man cannot be a rascal and a true 

 sportsman, if by true sportsman you mean one who has 

 an overmastering passion for the woods and the pursuit 

 of game and fish; my observation teaches me that a man 

 may be so intensely fond of shooting that he will steal a 

 gun to shoot with. But as to finding out what quality a 

 man is, you are quite right, the camp is the place for 

 that." 



SNAP SHOTS. 

 I LLINOIS sportmen are at loggerheads over a measure 

 *- in the Legislature of that State to do away with 

 spring shooting of wildfowl. This is a subject on which 

 there promises to be some lively debate before very much 

 can be accomplished in the way of making new laws. 

 Meanwhile the ducks are on hand in great supply on the 

 waters shot over by Chicago sportsmen, and the boom of 

 the choke bore is heard in the land. 



A lively war is in progress in California between the 

 club men who lease shooting rights on the marshes and 

 the shooters who do not belong to these clubs. The clubs 

 control pretty much all the available shooting country, 

 they are in earnest in defending their grounds from intru- 

 sion by outsiders, and have sought to have the trespass 

 laws amended in their favor. The outsiders, who resent 

 what they claim to be an infringement of their privileges, 

 have banded together in a Sportsman's Protective A ssocia- 

 tion,f or the purpose of maintaining their rights against the 

 aggressions of the club members. The conflict partakes 

 of the nature of a class war, the preserve shooters being 

 stigmatized as patricians and monopolists, and retorting 

 that their opponents are pot-hunters and scoundrels. We 

 have a long communication setting forth the condition 

 of affairs, and it will be published next week. 



Throughout the whole South and now as far north as 

 North Carolina there has been a most unusual scarcity of 

 wildfowl. In places where bags of fifty brace could 

 usually be had not a feather is to be seen this season . 

 There are no ducks in Georgia and Florida. They are 

 not in the extreme South. Is it the effect of the mild 

 winter North? But even that hardly suffices for a reason , 

 as February was a cold month. 



Col. F. S. Pinckney, who died in Jacksonville, Fla., 

 March 19, was a prolific writer on angling topics over the 

 pseudonym "Ben Bent." He was enthusiastic in all that 

 related to his favorite pastime, and enjoyed a wide 

 acquaintance and popularity among his fellows of the 

 craft. # 



This is the time of year when the first bird songs are 

 heard, and you meet men in the street with angling flies 

 in their hat bands. 



