Forest and Stream. 



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NEW YORK, JUNE 20, 1889. 



I VOL. XXXIL-No. 22. 

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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



Maine Deer Doggers. 



Dams. 



Snap Shots. 



Fur Fisheries of the North- 

 west Seas. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



In Blue Grass Land.— u. 



The Veteran of Panther Leon 

 Islanri. 



Maine Fish and Game. 

 MA.TURAT History. 



Lone Island Birds. 



The Lost River Sucker. 

 Same Bag and Gttn 



Du king from a Catamaran. 



The ArKansas Deer Law. 



Camps on the Little South. 



On the Sault Ste. Marie. 



Rifles fur Small Game. 



The Newfoundland Law. 



Game Notes. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



Fishing near New York. 



Near-by Fi Ling. 



Angling Notes. 



FlSHCTJLTURE, 



The Food , arp. 



The Kennel. 

 Dog Liter. sp Laws. 

 Rational Breeding. 

 Glencairn. 



Indiana Kennel Club Derby. 

 Texas Field Trials. 

 Dog Talk. 

 Kennel Notes. 

 Kennel Management. 

 Rifee ajsd Trap sbootisq. 

 The Team for England. 

 Canadian Wimb'edon Team. 

 Range and Gallery, 

 The Trap. 



American Association Shoot. 



Massachusetts Association. 



Classification, 

 Canoeing. 



lanthe. C. C. Regatta. 



Corinthian Mosquito Fleet. 



Toronto C. C. Notes. 

 Yachting 



New York Y. C. Regatta. 



Seawanhaka C Y. C. Regatta. 



Give the Little Fellows a 

 Chance. 



Now for a Sparmakers' Trust 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



DAMS. 



TF it be remembered tbat only within a short period 

 has any considerable attention been paid to the con- 

 serving of a food fish supply in the inland waters of this 

 country, we need look no further for an explanation of 

 the improvident and foolish methods of damming rivers 

 and streams without making any provision whatever for 

 the ascent of fish to their spawning grounds. So eager 

 have the American people been to exploit the material 

 resources of the land, its forests, mines and agricultural 

 capabilities, that they have gone ahead without thought 

 of what a tremendous waste they were guilty of in re- 

 spect to the wealth of the waters. In this way it has 

 come about that one of the most important questions of 

 the day in connection with our inland fisheries is the 

 provision and maintenance of suitable fishways in the 

 thousands of dams, which now constitute insurmountable 

 barriers to the ascent of fish. 



The laws on our statute books governing this subject 

 are by no means satisfactory. Take New York. Here 

 before a necessary fishway can be constructed it must be 

 made a subject of special legislative enactment. When 

 the Hudson has been stocked with salmon, the next thing 

 in order is found to be the task of getting a bill through 

 the Legislature providing fishways, that the fish may 

 make their way to the spawning grounds. This is equiv- 

 alent to jeopardizing the whole project by the whims, 

 stubbornness and petty peanut trading of the professional 

 politicians who make up the legislative body. There 

 should be no necessity of going to the Legislature for 

 individual fishways where the State is not an owner. 

 The law should be a general one compelling dam proprie- 

 tors to provide the ways whenever called upon to do so 

 by the Fish Commissioners. 



The Illinois law is more sensible than that of New 

 York. It requires all owners of dams to erect suitable 

 fishways, and provides that in case the owners fail to 

 build the fishways after clue notice from the Fi^h Com- 

 missioners, the Commissioners may build and recover 

 from the owners double the cost of so doing. The chief 

 drawback to this system, as found in practice, is that the 

 Commissioners have no funds to pay for the work as it 

 progresses, and cannot therefore carry out the intent of 

 the law without special legislation, or unless the funds 

 are guaranteed to them by outside sources, 

 I Last! year we reported a movement set on foot by the 



Fox River Fish and Game Association, a body organized 

 at Chicago, for the special purpose of supporting the 

 Commissioners in the task of providing fishways iu the 

 Fox River. This river was obstructed by twelve dams 

 impassable by tish; and when the owners refused to build 

 fishways the Commissioners were powerless for want of 

 funds. The Association therefore, as the most wise and 

 practicable step, pledged the necessary financial aid; 

 notice was served on the owners; and at last accounts the 

 evil in this particular case was in a fair way to be righted. 



So far, throughout the country at large,' the fishway 

 problem is not settled ; it is one to which the several 

 Legislatures may profitably give their attention. The 

 expenses of erecting these ascents should be borne by 

 dam owners; individuals should no longer be permitted 

 to practice this imposition on the community. As the 

 enormous value of our waters and the possibility of 

 largely augmenting that value become better under- 

 stood , fishways will multiply and rivers and creeks will 

 more nearly contribute then - full share to the wealth of 

 the country. 



MAINE DEER DOGGERS. 

 HPHE report which comes to us from an intelligent cor- 

 •*- respondent, of lawlessness in tne Nicatous Lake re- 

 gion of Maine, is not at all surprising. That district has 

 long been known as one where the law against dogging 

 deer was systematically derided and set at naught. Deer 

 always have been driven into the lake there and killed in 

 the water, and in all probability they will be killed in 

 that way for years to come. The root of the evil is this, 

 that there are in Boston, New York and other cities men 

 who find satisfaction in going "down to Maine'' and de- 

 fying the game law in this particular respect. They 

 want deer, and they want them in the water, where 

 they can have a dead sure thing of it. In the Nicatous 

 Like district live men who are always ready to take 

 these city fellows' money, if their mongrel hounds can 

 earn it for them by dogging the game into the lake. 

 They are always ready for a job of this sort, and just so 

 long as there are city tourists in Maine willing to pay 

 the natives for deer dogging, the practice will go on. 



An end might be put to it perhaps if the suggestion of 

 our correspondent were acted upon and a warden or a 

 force of wardens were assigned to the region. To arrest 

 and convict the offenders would be no child's play, for 

 there are among them men who have vowed to shoot 

 down the wardens as wardens have been shot before. 

 The enforcement of the non-hounding law in the Nica- 

 tous Lake region is one of the grave problems for the 

 Maine Commissioners to solve: in it theyhaye to cope not 

 alone with the defiant spirit of the natives, but as well 

 with the rascality of Robin Huods from the cities, who 

 seem to find in their hunting added zest if it be in viola- 

 tion of a wise law. 



SNAP SHOTS. 

 \7t7E understand that Captain Boutelle, the new 

 ' * Superintendent of the National Park, is about to 

 start out on a long trip with pack animals to visit remote 

 sections of the Park. It is expected that he will start 

 from the Mammoth Hot Springs, go through the moun- 

 tains to the western boundary line and follow that as 

 nearly as possible south to the Falls River Basin. He will 

 visit the summer range of the buffalo in the Park. This 

 indicates that Captain Boutelle understands that the first 

 thing necessary to an intelligent care of the Park is a 

 knowledge of the region. We have good reasons for 

 stating that Captain Boutelle will take all possible meas- 

 ures not only for the protection of game in the Park, but 

 also, when it is practicable, will lend his influence to as- 

 sist in enforcing the Territorial game laws. The public 

 is to be congratulated on the wisdom and intelligence 

 which seems to be directing affairs in the National Park. 



The posting of trout streams goes on apace, and the 

 questions involved in the custom are coming year by 

 year to have more importance. In the last report of the 

 Wisconsin Commissioners of Fisheries they say that the 

 renting of streams in some parts of the State has become 

 bo common as to make virtually a monopoly of the fish 

 food supply, and the Board will henceforth decline to 

 furnish fry for stocking such waters. In New York 

 many are the bitter disputes over certain streams which 

 have been taken up by clubs to the exclusion of the pub- 

 lie. The same holds true of Connecticut, whence a corre- 



spondent, who has done very much in years past to secure 

 proper game laws and to promote their observance, writes 

 us: "To my mind, one fact is certain: that is, that all 

 fishing for the general public in this State, except in navi- 

 gable waters, is a thing of the past, all good streams and 

 ponds having been taken up by clubs or individuals. I 

 exceedingly regret this state of affairs; it is not right, but 

 cannot be helped, as far as I can see. And what makes 

 it worse is, that it was just at a lime when the general 

 public was beginning to appreciate the game laws and to 

 respect them." 



Human nature is much the same the wide world over. 

 The slave of business here in America, who cannot re- 

 sist the impulse to take to the woods, when the fish are 

 biting, has his counterpart in far off Siberia. In Ken- 

 nan's paper in the June Century describing the Kara 

 penal settlement is a paragraph relating how in early 

 summer, when the convicts of the free command hear 

 the notes of the cuckoo, they run away for a free life in. 

 the forests. The Russian name of the .cuckoo is Kuku- 

 shna; it is called by the convicts General Kukushna; its 

 first call in those northern wastes is a sign tbat summer 

 has come; and those who in response to that note run 

 away are said "to go to General Kukushna for orders." It 

 is stated that no less than 30,000 of these free convicts 

 obey General Kukushna's orders, and live the life of a 

 brodyag, or tramp, in the trackless Siberian wilds. Their 

 period of freedom is short; they are constantly pursued 

 and hunted down by the soldiers, and in the end are 

 compelled to return to their c< nvict life; lut in spite of 

 all this, it is related, they cannot resist the cuckoo's 

 early summer summons. 



In our issue of May 2 we spoke of the work of the 

 Sociedad de Caza, of Havana, Cuba, in introducing exotic 

 species of game birds into that island. The importation 

 of Spanish partridges which we then reported has been 

 followed by another one of chachalacas from Mexico. 

 These promise to constitute a valuable accession to Cuba's 

 game resources; they are strong, hardy birds, easiiy do* 

 mesticated, and will no doubt thrive in their new habitat" 

 The Sociedad has much to contend against, notably the 

 lawless spirit which prevails in Cuba; but a step in ad. 

 vance has already been gained, for the club has secured 

 an order from the Governor of the Province to the officers 

 of the law for the strict enforcement of the close season, 

 and although this will be resisted by all the instincts of 

 the race, the energetic club will no doubt succeed in a 

 comparative degree. 



The floods in Pennsylvania have played havoc with 

 many famous trout streams of the Susquehanna water- 

 shed. Drift and debris have effectually blotted out some 

 of the streams; some have been diverted from their old 

 courses; the channels of others have been scooped out 

 into ditches; and the banks of others are unsightly with 

 driftwood and that dismal desolation which always is 

 left in the path of a flood. Bridges have been swept 

 away, favorite pools filled up, and the ancient, familiar 

 loved scenes destroyed beyond recognition and enjoy- 

 ment, and beyond reward to the angler as well. 



Our trap columns give evidence of the popularity of 

 this form of sport. The increased attendance at tourna- 

 ments, the frequency of club shoots and the multitudes of 

 new clubs constantly springing up all testify to the grow th 

 of trap-shooting of artificial targets. It is doubtful if 

 such popularity could ever have been attained for live 

 bird shooting at the trap, even were the supply of live 

 pigeons sufficient. 



"For shooting, fishing and the enforcement of the game 

 laws." That is the customary formula of a new club's 

 purpose. As a matter of fact the shooting and fishing 

 programme is carried out, but there soon ceases to be any 

 fun in the rest of it; and all the game and fish protected 

 could be stuck into a small headed man's hat. But the 

 formula has the dignity of age, and promoters of new 

 clubs will keep on using it, 



In Australia recently a sale Of thoroughbred horses 

 and greyhounds resulted in larger returns for the dogs 

 than the horses. We have not got so far as that yet in 

 this country, but enthusiastic greyhound fanciers are 

 looking forward to a time when America will be as ad* 

 vaneed as Australia in these matters, 



