Forest and Stream. 



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NEW YORK, MAY 2, 1889. 



1 VOL. XXXII.-No. 15. 

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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



A Sign of the Times. 



Dogs in War. 



Snap Sboi,s\ 

 Th» Sportsman Tottrist. 



Puget Sound Jottings, 



Ranching m T- xas. 



"Wolves and Other Things. 

 Natttbat, History. 



Five Days a Savage.— IV. 



Scent of Caribou. 



Questions about Chimney 

 Swifts. 



Migration on the Plains. 



Tbe Otter's Habits. 



Habits of tbe Beaver. 

 Gam™ Bag and Gttn. 



A Plea for the Ducks. 



Chicago and the West. 



Tndiausand theNational Park 



California Sportsmen's Rights 



At a Bear's Head. 



A 25-Bore Rifle Needed. 

 Sea ant> RrvFTt Fishing. 



NHV England Trout. 



Fishing near New York.— m. 



A Day a' the Giouper Banks. 



Chicago and the West. 



Curreut River Olub 



California's Fished Out 

 Sir anis. 



Bie 'I rout and Pickerel. 



Salmon i n K nrwegian Seas. 



Maine Angling Piospects. 



Sea and River Fishing. 



Fishing on the West Coast of 

 Florida. 

 Fishcui/ture. 



Virginia Fi-h Commission. 



Tbe Menhaden Industry. 

 The Kennel. 



Dog Show Management. 



American Pox Hunting. 



More Calls for Jack Rabbits. 



Grit. 



Dog Talk. 

 Kennel Notes. 

 Kennel Management. 

 Rifle and Trap shooting. 

 Range and ^allerv. 

 Bullard Rifle Match 

 The Trap. 



Omaha Tournament. 



More, About the Loyd System. 

 Yachting. 



Val kyr e and the America Cup 



Cruise of the Orinda. 



The Right of Luffing. 



Classification by Corrected 

 Lensrth. 



New Yachts of the Year. 



Antediluvian Fallacies. 



Nf w 45-Foot ers. 



A Novel Forty. 

 Canoeing. 



A. C. A Regatta Programme. 



Puritan C. C. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



DOGS IN WAR. 



CUVIER spoke of the domestication of the dog as "the 

 completest, the most singular, and the most useful 

 conquest ever made by man." Yet, when we consider this 

 conqm st, its completeness, and the length of time it has 

 endured , it seems surprising that the uses to which the dog 

 has been put are so few, and that so little advantage has 

 been taken of his wonderful intelligence. We know him 

 chiefly as a guard, as an aid in hunting, as a help to the 

 farmer, and as a beast of burden. In whatever'capacity he 

 is employed, his vigilance and his faithfulness stand him in 

 good stead, while his keen senses and his inherited feral 

 instincts make his use in the pursuits first mentioned 

 well nigh universal. Hunters and herdsmen, civilized 

 and savage, have used the dog from time immemorial to 

 secure their game or to guard their flocks. 



The dog's work as a beast of burden is chiefly among 

 wild races of men, though he is employed as a carrier by 

 smugglers on the frontiers of France and Belgium and 

 Spain. In this service it is said that the smugglers alone 

 employ 100,000 dogs, while the customs officers use a 

 much smaller number in endeavoring to capture leschiem 

 fraudeurs. The latter are trained to carry across the 

 frontier light packs of laces and tobacco, and so high is 

 their education and intelligence that, notwithstanding 

 all the efforts made to intercept them, not more than one 

 in each hundred is captured. Moreover, in this service 

 there seems to have been made in the education of the 

 dog a step quite in advance of anything known hereto- 

 fore. Something like organization has been effected , and 

 the dogs have learned to obey a leader. The loaded 

 animals are sent out in companies, and a dog of presuma- 

 bly high intelligence and training has charge of them. 

 He is encumbered by no pack, his duty being to take the 

 train through in safety. To this end he goes ahead, scouts 

 over the country, and if danger appears, returns to the 



loaded dogs and guides them away from or around it. 

 The others obey his instructions and follow his leadership. 



At the present time the governments of Russia, Aus- 

 tria, Germany and France have training schools for dogs 

 to be used in warfare. Systematic attempts in this 

 direction have been made only recently, though it is true 

 that in this use of dogs there is nothing very new. The 

 old Greeks and Romans used the dog in war. A great 

 dog protected by a coat of mail is pictured on the walls 

 in the buried city of Herculaneum. Corinth is said to 

 have been saved from the enemy who bad landed while 

 the soldiers slept, by a band of fifty dogs, which fought 

 until all but one had been killed and the garrison had 

 been roused. Vegecius speaks of the custom of having 

 dogs sleep in the forts and says that their keen sense of 

 smell enabled them to detect the approach of the enemy, 

 when they would bark and put the garrison on their 

 guard. The historic dog Moustache is a familiar figure 

 in stories of the Napoleonic wars. The dogs in the Indian 

 camps of our own West often gave warning of the pres- 

 ence of horse stealing parties, and in the Arab skirmishes 

 in Algiers dogs did good service for the French troops in 

 finding out the hiding places of the enemy. 



His keen senses, his vigilance, faithfulness and intelli- 

 gence make it certain that the dog could be employed to 

 great advantage in war. He would be efficient as a 

 scout, as a sentinel, as a courier and as a trailer in pur- 

 suit. Perhaps he might be employed as a pack animal, 

 to carry extra ammunition. He would prevent surprises 

 and ambuscades, and would give timely warning of 

 night attacks; would give notice of the presence of spies 

 in the camp. As a messenger he would be inva'uible, 

 traveling faster over almost any country than a man on 

 horseback, and easily able to surmount obstacles that 

 might stop both horse and man. Another use which has 

 been suggested is that of searching out and bringing aid 

 to the wounded after battle. 



The different kinds of service required would of course 

 call for the employment of different breeds of dogs, and 

 probably, if the subject is carefully studied, it will be 

 found that some use can be made of a considerable num- 

 ber of the 189 varieties of domestic clogs which we are 

 told exist. 



The subject is interesting and worthy of the attention 

 of the citizen soldiers of our own country, many of whom 

 would take delight in showing what services dogs can 

 perform in military operations. It would be practicable 

 to train these dogs so that their work might be exhibited 

 during the summer encampments of the regiments of the 

 National Guard, and the work of these intelligent ani- 

 mals would be hardly less interesting than the drill of 

 the troops themselves. 



A SIGN OF THE TIMES. 



LAST week we spoke of the wise action of the Cali- 

 fornia Legislature in authorizing the expenditure of 

 $2,000 in introducing exotic game into that State. We 

 mentioned then a number of successful experiments in 

 this field in the United States and Canada. But Ameri- 

 can enterprise in this direction has not been confined to 

 the continent. In Cuba, the Ever Faithful Isle, steps 

 have been taken toward preserving the native game and 

 introducing species from abroad^ which deserve the 

 strongest words of praise, and ought certainly to be put 

 on record. Some five years ago the Field Sport Club of 

 Havana was organized. Until the present year it has 

 been a close corporation, its membership limited by its 

 constitution to twelve. Now this has been changed to 

 permit the membership to be extended to as many as may 

 be elected by a ma jority vote. The name of the club has 

 been altered to the Sociedad de Caza de la Habana. 



Among the objects of the Association as laid down in 

 its constitution are game preservation, the introduction 

 into the Island of Cuba of new and useful species, and 

 the improvement of the breed of dogs by means of bench 

 shows and field trials. The Society possesses extensive 

 grounds in a beautiful country, and its preserves are well 

 stocked with game, but the game laws of Cuba are not 

 generally respected, and the club has found it uphill work 

 to protect itself from lawless poachers, who prowl around 

 the borders of its grounds, seeking to destroy any unwary 

 and costly exotic that may venture into unprotected 

 territory. 



The first importation of the club consisted of four hun- 

 dred Spanish partridges, of which but thirteen arrived 

 alive upon its grounds. Large flocks of guinea fowl in- 



habit the preserves, but the right to shoot them is limited 

 by the club rules to two each shooting day to each mem- 

 ber. Quail have increased wonderfully on the club 

 grounds, which also contain some very good snipe 

 marshes. It is intended to import certain species of game 

 birds from Mexico, and also to introduce the pinnated 

 grouse of the Southwestern States, where the climate is 

 not very different from that of Cuba. The shooting 

 season in the island is from Oct. 1 to March 1. 



The Sociedad de Caza extends to kindred associations 

 in the United States its greeting, and wishes to establish 

 close relations with them. It is especially desirous of 

 exchanging copies of rules and regulations with other 

 clubs, and wishes to receive copies of the most generally 

 approved game laws. 



This Society is making a gallant fight against lawless- 

 ness in Cuba, and it will receive the heartiest wishes for 

 success from every true sportsman. 



SNAP SHOTS. 



ONE of the recommendations of the New York Forest 

 Commission is the passage of an act to enable the 

 State to receive gifts of land subject to the rights of the 

 grantor to go on cutting out all the valuable timber, after 

 the land shall have been assigned to the State. A more 

 flagrant and unblushing piece of jobbery in a small way 

 was perhaps never suggested by any public official. The 

 lands contemplated in the recommendation are lands 

 that would under any circumstances revert to the State 

 for non payment of taxes after the valuable timber shall 

 have been cut out, and the evident purpose of the bill is 

 to leave the timber with the would-be grantors, but trans- 

 fer the onus of taxation to the State. We have already 

 commented on the suggestions of the Forest Commission 

 that the men who jumped the islands in Lake George 

 and built on them should now be relieved "from their 

 somewhat unfortunate dilemma," and the proposals to 

 allow the State to receive conditional grants of land is 

 e~v idently animated by the same philanthropic spirit. 



Tourists who are promising themselves a trip this sum- 

 mer to the Yellowstone National Park will be interested 

 to learn that among the privileges granted by the Inter- 

 ior Department to one of the lessees is the right to put a 

 steamboat on the Yellowstone Lake. It cannot be denied 

 that the presence of a steamer on this lovely sheet of 

 water will add greatly to the charms of this spot, by many 

 thought to be the most attractive in the whole Park. It 

 will open up to the casual tourist a hundred beautiful 

 bays and interesting hot spring and geyser regions, which 

 he could never see except in this way, and will be an 

 especial boon to the women and children who may travel 

 as far as the lake. We have always felt that the beauties 

 of Yellowstone Lake were far too little known and appre- 

 ciated, and since improvements must come into the Park, 

 it is perhaps as well that a steamer should plow these 

 clear waters. 



The gun with fool attachment has been heard from 

 again; this time in Arkansas. It appears that Mr. John 

 Gurley, a well known citizen, and formerly sheriff of St. 

 Francis county, went out to hunt wild turkeys, and, 

 hiding himself in a patch of tall grass and weeds, began 

 to call. To the call presently came up the gun with a 

 fool neighbor at the other end. Hoping to kill the sup- 

 posed turkey, the gun was fired into the grass, and the 

 ball from a Winchester rifle entered Mr. Gurley 's shoul- 

 der. He will lose his arm if not his life. It is a very old 

 story. No doubt we shall hear it many times again. 



The legal sale of short lobsters in this city while they 

 are protected in certain neighboring States affords a 

 forcible illustration of the harm which is constantly 

 being done by the lack of uniformity in our game and 

 fish laws. It must be very discouraging to earnest and 

 energetic officials in New England, who may do their 

 utmost to enforce the law in their own State, to feel that 

 all their efforts are being frustrated by evil doers, whose 

 infractions of the law are encouraged by an open market 

 for their spoils within easy reach. 



It seems as if the anglers this year had made up their 

 minds that they were going to have all the fish. The 

 various tackle stores report an unusually heavy business, 

 and reports come to us of numbers of men who are spend- 

 ing the holidays of this week on the streams of Long- 

 Island, Sullivan and Delaware counties, and of Pennsyl- 

 vania. We shall look for reports of their success later. 



