Forest and Stream. 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun, 



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NEW YORK, AUGUST 22, 1889. 



I VOL. XXXIII.-No. 5. 

 I No 318 Broadway, New York. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



The Team Abroad. 



The Jekvl island Pheasants. 



Fistieulture in the National 

 Paris. 



Snap Shots. 

 T(j« Sportsman Tourist. 



Hunting Without a Gun. 



Hotel Life in Europe. 

 Camp-Fire Flickkrings. 

 N iTURAL History 



The Woodcock's Whistle. 



The Eared Seals.— nl. 



The Plumed Quail of Arizona. 

 Game 3ag and <+un 



An Outing in Wyoming. 



Maine Game. 



Deer Hunting in Texas. 



Recoil in Breechloaders. 



"Autour de ma Chambre." 



Chicago and the WVst. 



Open Game Seasons. 

 Ssa and River Fishing. 



( -amp? of the Kingfishers.— VI. 



Clr'caso ynrt the West. 

 Fish culture 



U. s. Fish Cornnrssion Work. 



The Kennel. 



The Tail of a Dog. 



Prevention of Rabies. 



The Registration Fee. 



Pendleton Dog Show 



Dog Talk. 



Kennel Notes. 



Kannel Management. 

 Riele and Trap shooting. 



Range and «allerv. 



Minnesota State Shoot. 



The Trap. 



American Shooting Associa- 

 tion. 

 Trau Notes. 

 Yachting. 

 New York Y. C. Cruise. 

 Beverly Y, C. 



The Corinthian Sweepstakes. 



That Naphtha Launch Explo- 

 sion. 



Racing Notes. 

 Canoeing. 



A. C. A Meet 



Pfquot Meet. 

 New Publications. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



THE TEAM ABROAD. 



IN their visit to Great Britain the Massachusetts men 

 achieved success because they deserved, it. They 

 won their way to the front by hard work, and had defeat 

 met them on British soil no one would have been more 

 surprised than the shooting members of this squad. 

 They had the best arms and the best method, and these 

 advantages enabled them to vanquish as good or better 

 men shooting upon home ranges. 



The managing spirit uf the trip had laid out a neat plan 

 of campaign. In a quiet unassuming way he had drawn 

 on matches with several representative shooting corps 

 among the English volunteers. With characteristic 

 Biiti h complacency, the home teams were qu te con- 

 fident of success, and the way in which the Yankee 

 visitors bowled over one aft^r another of the strong 

 teams pitted against them must have very much sur- 

 prised the discomfited ones. 



The scores were not very extraordinarj% no great revo- 

 lution in shooting matters is to follow the trip, but what 

 was done and how it was done ought to set some of those 

 who dominate in shooting c'rcles abroad thinking and 

 acting. It was the adjustable rear sight which helped 

 more than any other one thing, was the confession of the 

 American victors. Will the rules of Wimbledon, at once 

 I so fixed and so complicated, be amended so as to get the 

 ■ best shooting irons into the hands of the men instead of as 

 now, being framed with the seeming one object of seeing 

 how well the men can shoot under the most repressive 

 regulations? 



It is nonsense to say that the sight is not a practical 

 field device. It is the arrangement of a reguLar army 

 officer and has the i- dorsement of every military man. 

 That it has n©t been tried in any deadly campaign is sim- 

 ply because of our luck as a pacific nation. It would not 

 be well for those who advocate the Martini to fall back 

 on its campaign record. 



Perhaps some day, when a few more American teams 

 have iterated and reiterated the lesson, the British may 

 lfearn -tk*s "kna$£ of team coaching in a Way to bring a 



company of fairly good shots up to a total which a group 

 of brilliant shots, each for himself and Old Nick for the 

 aggregate, never can equal. 



The team deserves all the praise which can be put upon 

 them. The discipline was excellent. The work was 

 done in a quiet, effective fashion, without any hurrah 

 effort or claptrap surroundings. The men won good 

 opinions because they deserved them, and, having had a 

 good time, come home again to draw public attention to 

 the fact that it was a Massachusett team, and that not 

 anothpr of these two-score Commonwealths is able to put 

 a similar team in the field. Why not? Because rifle 

 practice is not yet appreciated at its full value, and 

 in many States the Guard is not yet out of its target- 

 company uselessness. 



THE JEKYL ISLAND PHEASANTS. 

 V\7 E have given statistics from time to time of the 

 * ' progress of the pheasant product of the Jekyl 

 Island Club (occupying an island near Brunswick, Geor- 

 gia), and especially of the hatching of the first birds im- 

 ported, seventy -eight, from which were raised, a year ago 

 this last spring, the surprising number of 1,000 birds, all 

 of which arrived at maturity and were turned loose to 

 take care of themselves, which they have done. 



With a view to continuing the experiment of import- 

 ing brood buds, and as a further test of success, the club 

 decided not to take up any of the original birds over the 

 product for hatching purposes, but sent to England again 

 for fresh birds. A coop of fifty were shipped and but one 

 bird was lost. The other forty-nine were landed in 

 healthy condition; and they proceeded immediately to 

 business. The result of this second experiment has been 

 equally gratifying. At last report from the game keeper 

 960 had been hatched, which did not represent the num- 

 ber of eggs laid, which was 1,600, by this small flock of 

 birds. The eggs are placed under the common barnyard 

 hens for hatching and raising. Owing to a scarcity of 

 hens the eggs are not all utilized, and a few were addled 

 by thunderstorms. It will be seen that it was in the 

 possibilities to have raised perhaps 1,200 birds from the 

 49, which would have been a most wonderful product 

 and certainly a very encouraging result. 



The future pheasant shooting of the club is an assured 

 fact, as already there must be, with the raising of this 

 year and last added to the natural work of the wild birds, 

 as many as 2,500 or 8,000 healthy birds on the island with 

 which to open the season. The club contemplate making 

 all preparations another year for setting 5,000 eggs. No 

 wonder membership in the Jekyl Club is so eagerly 

 sought and hard to obtain. 



FISHC ULTURE IN THE NATIONAL PARK. 



THE project of stocking with food fLh certain waters 

 in the National Park which are now barren has often 

 been discussed by some of those most interested in the 

 reservation, and it now seems likely that this matter may 

 really be taken in hand. 



At the solicitation of Captain Boutelle, Col. McDonald, 

 U. S. Commissioner of Fisheries, recently visited the 

 Park, and made an examination of certain of these 

 waters, which he believes can be stocked with game fish 

 to the great advantage of the Park and the public. 



It has long been remarked as a singular fact that the 

 headwaters of one branch of the Snake River— that on 

 which Shoshone and Lewis Lakes are situated— contain 

 no fish above the falls, and the same thing is true of the 

 heads of the Gibbon and Gardiner rivers, above their 

 falls. This fact would suggest that the streams of this 

 region were peopled by migration, but against that theory 

 stands the fact that the waters of Yellowstone River and 

 Lake above the Falls are abundantly supplied with trout. 

 However that may be, it is beyond question that three 

 river systems in this region, together with innumerable 

 lakes, are without fish, while other waters, hardly a 

 stone's throw distant, teem with trout. 



Three species of fish of excellent quality are found in 

 this region. These are the trout, the grayling and a 

 whitefish. The last named, though a good fish, is not 

 nearly so valuable as the two first. It would be an ad 

 mirable thing if trout and grayling could be planted in 

 these' barren waters, but Commissioner McDonald looks 

 at this subject from a broader standpoint, and sees the 

 grand opportunity whioh the Park offers for experiments 

 on the acclimatization of certain species of fish foreign 

 fa these w^terg. He hw expressed Mms'eTf as deBirohs 



of introducing into one of these river systems the brown 

 trout of Europe; the Eastern brook trout might be intro- 

 duced in another, and the grayling in the third; or the 

 brown trout and the grayling might do well together in 

 the same stream, as is the case in European waters. 



It seems altogether likely, providing a fuller examina- 

 tion of the streams shall justify it, that a fish hatchery 

 will before long be established in the Park, and a system- 

 atic effort made to increase the supply and the number 

 of varieties of fish in this most beautiful national pre- 

 serve. The thorough stocking of streams which flow into 

 both Atlantic and Pacific oceans is an important matter, 

 and should be undertaken with as little delay as possible. 

 The project is one which is equally interesting, whether 

 viewed from an economic or from a purely scientific 

 standpoint. 



SNAP SHOTS. 



WE have had occasion more than once to allude to 

 the trait of human nature which makes it so 

 much easier for a man who is cognizant of unlawful 

 shooting and fishing practices, to sit down and write a 

 complaint of them to send to a distant journal, than to do 

 anything practical in the way of punishing the offenders. 

 A Vermont correspondent recently reported in our col- 

 umns that the six-inch trout law of that State was being 

 generally enforced. In response to this some one wrote 

 to him from a town in eastern Vermont, relating that the 

 law was there commonly violated; this informant was 

 urged by him to lay his information before Warden 

 Frank H. Atherton, of Waterbury, who would punish 

 violators. And that was the end of it, as it is in nine 

 cases out of ten. The only moral is, that if a person is 

 unwilling to do his individual part toward enforcing the 

 law, he ought not to complain because others fail to do 

 their part. 



Light on the woodcock and worm question: According to 

 the last Smithsonian report the Hupa Indians, in Hum- 

 boldt county, California, relish angleworms as a delicacy. 

 In the autumn, when the ground has been well soaked by 

 the rains, the Yuki housekeeper takes her "woman stick," 

 a pole 6ft. long and l^in. thick, sharpened and fire-hard- 

 ened at the end; and thrusting this into the ground about 

 a foot in depth, twists it around in every direction, so 

 agitating the earth that the worms come to the Burface 

 in large numbers for a radius of two or three feet, and 

 are scooped up for soup. "Frequently," says the report, 

 "the worms are brought to the surface by the Indians 

 dancing over the ground to make the game uncomfort- 

 able below." The Indians of Round Valley punch a pole 

 as far as possible into the damp earth, work it back and 

 forward, and by pressure drive out the worms, which 

 they eat raw or make into soup. Now, may it not be 

 true that when the woodcock bores for worms it pro- 

 cures them in three ways, by seizing any which it may 

 come upon directly in boring, by agitating the earth by 

 successive borings, thus driving the prey to the surface, 

 and further by the dancing, stamping or beating with 

 the wings described by observers? 



A movement is on foot to go to the New York Legisla- 

 ture at its next session with the plan of converting a por- 

 tion of the Adirondack wilderness into a public park. 

 The rapidity and certainty with which the forest lands 

 are being denuded by lumbermen, and all the choicest 

 hunting, fishing and camping grounds are taken up by 

 individuals and clubs, emphasize the importance of put- 

 ting through the park project at once if it is to be done 

 ever. 



The "camp cure" has proved efficacious in scores of 

 instances. A correspondent whose pseudonym is well 

 known adds as a postscript to a letter: "I then thought, 

 and, I believe, my friends also, that before this time 

 there would have been a dozen fines or so in the Forest 

 and Stream as an obituary notice of 'Kelpie. 1 Camping 

 out saved me." 



Members of the South Fork Club, owners of the Lake 

 Conemaugh dam, have been sued for damages by some 

 of the Johnstown victims, and have expressed a determi- 

 nation to defend the suit. The case will shortly come up 

 in court. The dam, it is said, will be rebuilt on a smaller 

 scale than the former one. 



The fifteenth of August and the first of September 

 mark the opening of a number of game seasons, as given 

 in our Giame Bag and Gup columns, ' 



