Forest and Stream, 



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NEW YORK, MAY 23, 1889. 



i VOL. XXXII.-No. 18. 

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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



Camping and Campers. 



On toe Scream. 



Taxing the Dog. 



Snap Shots. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



Sport in Cape Breton. 



British Columbia Notes. 



Reminiscences of the 

 Raquette. 

 Natural History. 



"Wooachuclis in Trees. 



Massachusetts Bird Notes. 

 Game Bag and (tus, 



Game Law Mill at Albany. 



Cumberland Club Medal. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



Fly-Fishing for Trout. 



The Maine Waters. 



Angling Association of 

 Eastern Pennsylvania. 



Use of ttie German Carp. 



Small Gate a ot Tarpum. 



Potomac items. 



FlSHCULTURE. 



Amtrican Fisheries Society. 

 The Kennel. 

 Some Noted Greyhounds. 

 Reducing the Surplus Dog 



Supply. 

 Smut. 



Frank Francis. 

 New England vs. Southern 

 Fox Hunting. 



The Kennel. 



English Pointer (Jlub Trials. 



Eastern Field Trials Derby. 



Dog Talk. 



Kennel Notes. 



Kennel Management. 

 Rifle and Trap shooting. 



Range and Gallery. 



Partello's Advice to Shooters. 



The Trap. 



Iowa State Shoot. 



The Trenton Sboot. 



Minneapolis Gun Club. 



New York Suburban Shooting 

 Grounds. 



American Association Tour- 

 nament. 



Obio Trap- Shooting League. 

 Canoeing. 



A. C. A. Meet. 



A Passaic River Cruise. 

 Yachting. 



Lord Dunraven and the Deed 

 of Gift. 



Kathleen. 



Tomahawk. 



Lord Dunraven's Letters. 

 The International Marine 



Conference. 

 Cooper'3 Point Corinthian 



Y. C. 

 Valkyrie's Size. 

 Beverly Y. C. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



CAMPING AND CAMPERS. 



OUR contributor "Ibis," who writes his recollections 

 of the Raquette, relates a very common experience 

 when he tells of his disappointment when he found that 

 the companion who had gone into the woods with him 

 could not see things through his spectacles. Every one 

 who has much experience in the field and camp can re- 

 call the occasions when the full enjoyment of his outing 

 was marred by a similar lack of congenial tastes in his 

 companion. 



There are two classes of campers: One is made up of 

 those who plunge into the woods, cross the plains, climb 

 the mountains or seek the shore, because impelled by the 

 fascination such a life has for them; and the other is of 

 those who, without any special taste in that direction, go 

 on an outing because it is the fashion to do so, or because 

 hearing others tell of the joys of camp life they imagine 

 that they too can find in it satisfaction and. blessing. The 

 methods and the moods of these two classes are widely 

 different. Your bom woods lover, no matter what may 

 may be his every day mode of life, plain or luxurious, 

 when he goes into camp goes light, as "Nesmuk" would 

 say. His duffle is selected with a view to absolute neces- 

 sity. His clothing is simple ; his outfit includes only what 

 experience has taught him are the absolute necessities for 

 comfort. 



On the contrary the novice, who is following fashion, 

 follows it with a vengeance and to the bitter end. He 

 studies the sporting goods dealers' catalogues as a woman 

 studies a fashion paper. To demonstrate to the world 

 that he is an old-timer at the business — and it becomes a 

 very serious business with him— he rigs himself out with 

 all the toggery he finds put down in the catalogues, and 

 converts himself as nearly as may be into one of the ideal 

 creatures he sees therein pictured, with boots and leg- 

 gings) sorduroy breeches, hundred-pocketed hunting 

 6t»at) helmet* and A battery of assorted flrtidrms. 



The old hand politely conceals his amusement when 

 he encounters such apparitions in the woods, and, thank 

 heaven, they are never found very far away from the 

 well-traveled trails of the Adirondacks or the Maine 

 woods. These tailor-made sportsmen are they who find 

 no rewards in woods life. To journey is to labor as the 

 knights of old in their burdens of mail; to remain in 

 camp is a bore, because their eyes cannot see the mani- 

 fold beauties of shade and sunshine, their ears are not 

 attuned to catch the illusive harmony of wood and open; 

 they never learn the secrets nature refuses to impart 

 save to her true and loving children. And they come 

 back from the outing either full of honest disgust or 

 bragging about the huge buck killed by their guide and 

 credited to themselves at the expense of their pockets. 

 These novices, fashion-impelled imitators of sportsmen, 

 go in pairs and in bands; they have a notion that the 

 more there are in a party in the woods the better they 

 can enjoy it. They may be right, for their way of 

 camping; but the woodsman understands perfectly well 

 that a single tried companion is enough; and as an 

 Ogdensburg veteran put it the other day, if we could 

 only teach our dog to talk, we would need no other 

 comrade in camp. 



TAXING THE DOG. 



"VfR. MASE'S dog tax bill having passed the New York 

 -L*-*- Legislature has gone to the Governor. It provides 

 for the taxation of dogs over four months old at the rates 

 of $3 for one bitch and $5 for each additional one owned 

 by the same person, and $1 for each dog with $2 for each 

 additional one owned by the same person. It is provided, 

 however, that nothing in the act shall apply "to any dog, 

 bitch or puppy, while same is owned or possessed by any 

 person or persons, association or associations, corporation 

 or corporations in the State engaged in the business of 

 breeding or rearing pedigreed or registered dog stock for 

 the purpose of exhibition under the rules and regula- 

 tions governing the American Kennel Club." This 

 exemption practically gives immunity for the entire 

 race of dogs, for the dog law will doubtless be construed 

 with the latitude of that tariff clause which admits free 

 of duty animals imported for breeding purposes, a clause 

 so elastic that the prodigious Jumbo came in free under 

 it. The effect of the law— if it shall become one— will be 

 no doubt to multiply county fair dog shows, held under 

 American Kennel Club rule, to reduce the multiplicity of 

 the animal designated by the critics as "not a show dog;" 

 and to blazon the name of the American Kennel Club in 

 every remote hamlet over whose barking wards shall be 

 extended the aegis of its benevolent protection. 



The intent of the law is to protect the sheep raisers, 

 and the funds accruing from the taxes are to be devoted 

 to paying for sheep killed by dogs. We hear a great deal 

 said about sheep farmers being compelled to give up 

 thehr industry because of the depredations of dogs; but 

 there is a very solid basis for doubt whether any one who 

 cared to raise sheep was actually compelled to abandon 

 the business because the dogs could not be controlled. 



BY THE STREAM. 



THIS is the angler's best season. Yes, now. It is very 

 well to start out on the opening day when perhaps 

 a couple of inches of snow covers the ground, when the 

 brooks are full of melting ice, and the cold east wind 

 drives the pelting rain through even waterproof cloth- 

 ing, and when your line freezes in the guides. It is 

 pleasant to get the early fish, but it is by no means cer- 

 tain that he who goes out on the opening clay will receive 

 for his labors any recompense more welcome than an 

 attack of bronchitis or even pneumonia. 



It has been said that to fish is not all of fishing, yet he 

 who in the first days of the season braves the elements, 

 goes for fish and for fish alone. At this later date it is quite 

 different. Now the winter is past, the flowers have ap- 

 peared on the earth, the time of singing birds is come. 

 Before him who goes at this season, prodigal Nature 

 spreads out her fairest scenes, summons her sweetest 

 choruses, scatters her choicest perfumes, that he may 

 feel her charms through all his senses. 



If the trout bite well he has a double pleasure; if they 

 refuse his lure he yet goes home with joy in his heart and 

 a memory of his outing which will not soon pass away. 

 For years he will look back to this day 5 and if he can 

 recall the taking of no g:ceat Safe, the thought of the soft* 



ness of the air, of the fragrance of the flowers, of the 

 mellow whistle of the oriole in the elm and the rollicking 

 jingle of the bobolink in the meadow, will stir his heart 

 to faster beating for many a day. Now, if the fish refuse 

 to bite, if the stream is one of the many that were once 

 trout streams, but are so no longer, the angler can stop 

 his fishing, and setting aside his rod, can strive to pry into 

 some of nature's secrets, and to learn the ways of the shy 

 creatures that have their homes along the brookside. 



It is an old tale, but one that is ever new, this story that 

 the bees and the birds and the beasts and the plants tell to 

 the lover of nature. And it is the only story that never 

 tires, never bores one. We can never feel weary when 

 we are close to the heart of our great mother. 



SNAP SHOTS. 



OF the thirty odd fish and game bills introduced into 

 the New York Legislature, less than a baker's dozen 

 found their way beyond the committee rooms. It is just 

 as well that the majority of these measures died where 

 they did, but there were some which should have passed, 

 and might have done so in a less indecent body than the last 

 New York Legislature. One of these measures was the 

 bill creating a special commission to codify all the game 

 and fish laws of the State, reduce them to order and sub- 

 mit to a future legislature a sensible, intelligible, effectual 

 code. It has for years been understood that such a codi- 

 fication was needed; the bill was very wisely drawn, the 

 appointment of such a commission and the accomplish- 

 ing of its labors would put us ten years ahead in game 

 protection, and yet with their jobs and counter jobs the 

 members left it to die in committee. Another bill which 

 failed to pass was that providing for fishways in the 

 upper Hudson, by which the salmon might ascend to 

 their spawning beds. This measure, according to a 

 reported statement by Commissioner Burden, was choked 

 off simply because of party spite; it happened to have 

 been introduced by a member whose party was in the 

 minority, and the faction in power refused to sanction 

 it for that reason alone. It is a lasting shame that party 

 bigotry and mulishness should demand for its gratification 

 the sacrifice of the Hudson's magnificent promise as a 

 salmon stream. 



All who are interested in dogs, but especially those 

 who know anything about greyhounds and coursing, 

 will read with interest the delightful papers now appear- 

 ing in our columns from the pen of Mr. H. W. Hunting- 

 ton. There is, perhaps, no one in this country who has 

 done so much to attract public attention to the grey- 

 hound, and no one who has owned better dogs, and it is 

 only because he resides in the East, where coursing is 

 impracticable, that this gentleman has not run some of the 

 excellent specimens of this breed that he has shown. 

 Now that this noble sport has taken a firm hold in the 

 West, where there are hares and open plains where they 

 can be run, we may look to see a constant development 

 of and an increasing interest in coursing, and with this 

 will come an improvement in our greyhounds. It is 

 quite within the range of possibility that within a few 

 years we may hear of an American-bred clog competing 

 for the Waterloo Cup— perhaps even winning it. 



The stray dog is a recognized factor in most communi- 

 ties, and the recognition usually consists of some scheme 

 to reduce the surplus. There is a variety of modes which 

 have been adopted by different cities for destroying their 

 ownerless dogs; many of these modes have in them much 

 of brutality. The subject has been thought worthy of 

 special investigation; and having collected information 

 respecting the dog laws of towns and cities in several 

 States we shall at once publish them. 



The meeting of the American Fisheries Society at 

 Philadelphia last week was one of the most noteworthy 

 ever held because of the active interest shown by the mem- 

 bers. Taken as an index of the growth of fishculture in 

 popular appreciation the Philadelphia meeting was full 

 of encouragement. 



The hotels in the Yellowstone National Park opened on 

 the 15th instant. The roads are in good condition and a 

 large influx of visitors is expected early in the season. 



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