Forest and Stream 



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NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 19, 1889. 



i VOL. XXXIII.-No. 9. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial 



Stocking the Yellowstone 

 Park Waters. 



The Orcedmoor Meeting. 



Bits of i'alk.— vi. 



Snap Shots. 

 Tax .Sportsman Tourist. 



The Angler in New Zealand. 



The Bull and the Bear. 

 Natural Historv. 



Nesting of the BlacK Bass. 



TV.uMe- Headed Animal-. 



The Horn-Tail Snake xVgain. 



Birds of Niagara County. 

 G > ME liAG AND GFN 



Pattern and Penetration. 



Squirn 1 Shootfng. 



Boston and Maine. 



Chicago and the West. 



Notes from the Field. 



Pennsylvania Game Galore. 

 S?a and River Fishing. 



Reform m Penns lvania. 



Oamps of the Kingfishers.— x. 



Chicago and the West. 



New Trout of Twin Lakes. 

 Fish culture. 



Fishes Tor the Fish Commis- 

 sion Aquaria. 



The Kennel. 



Toledo D g Show. 



London Dog Show. 



Ottawa Dog Show. 



Coursing at Louisville. 



Gordon Setter Olub. 



A. K. C. Kxpenses. 



Dog Talk. 



Kennel Notes. 



Kennel Management. 

 Biele and Trap shooting. 



Range and Oallerv. 



The Creedmoor Meeting. 



Massachusetts vs. New York. 



Third Brigade R. A. Meet. 



The Trap. 



Rjcky Mountain Tournament 



Al Bandle's T >urney 



Reading Gun Cluo. 

 Yachting 



The Storm on the Coast. 



A Cruise in h. Fifteen- H ooter. 



Is Minerva a Racing Machine? 

 Canoeing. 



Sn ps from Snaps at the '89 

 Meet. 



New York Canoeing. 



N. Y. Atnletic Club's Regatta 

 Answers to Correspondents' 



THE CREEDMOOR MEETING. 

 TT is most unfortunate that the only dispute of the re- 

 •*- cent Creedmoor prize meeting, other than the univer- 

 sal one against the weather, was the sharp ruling on a 

 trivial point, which robbed a State team of the victory 

 that it had actually won. The Massachusetts world- 

 beaters must feel that they were really defeated by the 

 Keystone.marksmen, and the Pennsylvania men are en- 

 titled to all the glory and honor of having proven a match 

 for a team which could not be downed by the best mili- 

 tary shots of England. Still the technically defeated 

 team must temper their indignation with the conviction 

 that it was entirely their own fault that they were caught 

 in such a trap. The time limit rule is a good one. It 

 was needed and badly needed before it was put upon the 

 list of regulations, and it is applicable to all matches at 

 all times. The fact that it had been neglected was no rea- 

 son for the Pennsylvanians to assume that they were not 

 subject to it, aud it is pretty certain that if the executive 

 officer had not applied it in his rough-shod, military man- 

 ner, the Massachusetts men when defeated would have 

 sprung a protest on the same point. Any one who has 

 witnessed a review of the Pennsylvania National- Guard 

 has seen a serviceable looking set of men. That they 

 can shoot as well, the recent Creedmoor meeting shows. 

 The only revenge properly left is not that of sulking in 

 their tents, but the preparation of a good team and the 

 wiping out of the misunderstanding by a good defeat of 

 the Massachusetts men next year. That New York was 

 defeated is universally attributed to the arbitrary 

 fashion in which the team was selected, the team being 

 made up at the will of its captain, instead of by any 

 system of the survival of the fittest. 



If the Massachusetts shooters wish, to complete the 

 series of victories with which they have marked the sea- 

 son, it will be in order for them to pay some attention to 

 the desire of the Twenty-third Brooklyn Regiment for a 

 match on some neutral range. The Seventh, with all its 

 ability and -with all its care devoted to rifle drill, has had 



to give way again and again to this Brooklyn crack body, 

 and if Massachusetts has a really good regiment capable 

 of putting out a team, now is its chance to down the best 

 shooting regiment in the best State Guard in the Union. 

 A neutral range, even that at Springfield in Massachu- 

 setts, would be satisfactory, and there is an abundance of 

 good shooting weather yet before the wind-up of out- 

 door practice for the year 1889. 



STOCKING THE YELLOWSTONE PARK WATERS. 

 T N our issue of Aug. 29 a special correspondent wrote at 

 length of the condition of the National Park waters 

 and of th • project of stocking them with choice food fish 

 by the Government. It is gratifying to learn that Com- 

 missioner McDonald is at once putting this work under 

 way. Dr. D. S. Jordan, of the Indiana University, is 

 going to the Park the latter part of this month, in order 

 to ascertain the precise condition of the streams there 

 with reference to the fishes; and he will make collections 

 of them preliminary to the stocking of those waters by the 

 U. S. Fish Commission. The object of the doctor's visit 

 to the Park at this time is to learn something definite 

 concerning the species already there, and the fitness of 

 the various streams for those with which it is proposed 

 to stock these waters. Mr. Geo. H. H. Moore, in charge 

 of distribution, is in Northville, where he is superintend- 

 ing the loading of one of the transportation cats of the 

 Commission, which is to take 5,000 brook trout, 1,000 

 California trout and 1,000 Loch Leven trout to the Yel- 

 lowstone. Mr. E. R. Lucas will leave the car at the Park, 

 supplied with seines and other equipments necessary to 

 collect and transfer fishes from point to point in the 

 Park. Trout will be transferred to the Gardiner River, 

 and whitefish to the Twin Lakes. 



SNAP SHOTS. 



THE Upper Geyser Basin of the National Park has 

 been subjected to a succession of earthquake shocks, 

 which have stirred the Giant and other passive geysers 

 into activity. The volume of travel to the Park has been 

 very great this year, even to the point of evoking a 

 remonstrance from some of the old timers, whose senti- 

 ments are probably well expressed by one of our corres- 

 pondents when he writes: "I have no further use for 

 the National Park. It has become what Congress set it 

 aside for, a pleasuring ground for the People— with a big 

 P. It is full of men, women and children. Last night I 

 counted seven boats on the lake: camping parties. of 

 women were singing; I heard a baby cry. The country 

 is fairly populous. Doubtless this is a good thing, but I 

 don't want to travel where people are so thick. The 

 Park is too crowded, and I do not mean to visit it again, 

 unless I come in the capacity of a 'tourist.' " 



We trust that the series of papers which the New York 

 Times is publishing, descriptive of the forest stripping 

 carried on by timber thieves in the Adirondacks, will 

 have an attentive reading. The Times writer avers that 

 the forest protection laws are systematically violated, 

 that the lumbermen are cutting State forest without 

 hindrance, that fires are utterly destroying vast tracts of 

 woodland, that hotel men and sportsmen's preserve pro- 

 jectors are unlawfully taking up other tracts, and that 

 the Forest Commission, charged with the care and pro- 

 tection of the woods, is an incompetent and worthless 

 institution. All this, to be sure, was already known, but 

 its reiteration by a powerful metropolitan journal we 

 may hope will call public attention to the necessity of 

 providing some prompt measures of reform. 



Mr. Wakefield's interesting paper on the successful in- 

 troduction of foreign species of fish into New Zealand 

 will be followed next week by another account from the 

 same author relating how the island was stocked with 

 deer carried from Great Britain. The enterprise of the 

 British colonists at the antipodes furnishes a suggestive 

 and useful object lesson in fish and game conservation; 

 and it is one which is quite the reverse of the common 

 story of thoughtless depletion. 



We have received from Mr. W. H. Rogers, late Inspec- 

 tor of Fisheries for Nova Scotia, "The Suppressed Saw- 

 dust Report," made to Hon. C. H. Tupper, Minister of 

 Marine and Fisheries, The report has to do with the 



effect of sawdust on the fish supply, and the evidence 

 presented tends to disprove the generally accepted belief 

 that sawdust in streams is hurtful to fish. We do not 

 know why nor by whom this report was suppressed, but 

 it is very certain that in an inquiry of this importance 

 the only wise course is to hear both sides and to draw 

 conclusions from a consideration of all attainable expe- 

 rience and testimony. Mr. Rogers' report will have fur- 

 ther notice in our fishculture columns. 



Lake Mistassini, whose size was the subject of dis- 

 cussion by Mr. Murray and others in this journal some 

 months ago, has been explored this summer by Prof. 

 J. W. Loudon, of the University of Toronto, and Mr. 

 George S. Macdonald, of the University of Montreal. 

 They report that it is composed of three narrow lakes, 

 two of which lie close together and are connected by 

 many passes, while the third is a little further removed, 

 but still connected by a navigable channel. All of these 

 lakes are almost parallel to each other, and each of them 

 is about 100 miles long. In the light of this report the 

 lake can be called ' ' the mysterious Mistassini " no 

 longer. 



The anti-preserve Sportsmen's Protective Association 

 of California now has a membership of 500. Its purpose 

 is to check the system of leasing tracts of barren land for 

 exclusive shooting privileges, and warning the public off. 



BITS OF TALK. 



VI. — THE EXPENSES OP GOING SHOOTING. 



" TUPITER PLUVIUS ! " he apostrophized as he came 

 in out of the wet. " These are the days when one 

 must carry an umbrella at full-cock and finger on the 

 trigger." 



11 How many partridges did you bring home ?" 



" Sat five days in that little country hotel, wishing it 

 would clear up, and berating myself for not having 

 brought a life-preserver, or pontoon bridge, or diving-bell, 

 or some other appurtenance for ruffed grouse shooting in 

 a flood. Out $37.50, a week's time, and not a feather to 

 show for it." 



" Ready to follow ' Podgers/ and write something for 

 the paper about the expensiveness of a modern outing."' 



" 'Podgers' is sound on that question. He hit the nail 

 square on the head; but he didn't hit it half hard enough. 

 Ic has come to such a pass that the traveler with the fish- 

 ing rod or gun-case is looked on as legitimate prey to be 

 bled and squeezed by everybody, from the baggage man 

 to the backwoods guide, and from the time he sets out 

 until he dodges back into his home again. Look at the 

 Adirondacks. I can recall when one of the pleasures of 

 a trip into the North Woods was to listen to the quaint 

 talk of our honest old guide. We used to think that 

 while the modest sum he asked might pay him, and pay 

 him well, for his time, we still owed him something for 

 the pleasure and satisfaction of his companionship, his 

 knowledge of woodcraft, which appeared to us so won- 

 derful, and his backwoods philosophy. How is it now? 

 The guide, philosopher and friend of those earlier years 

 has disappeared, gone with the deer and forests and the 

 charm of the wilderness itself. And in his place to-day 

 you find a lot of lazy louts, loafing about the hotels and 

 waterways, so-called guides, who lie in wait for new 

 victims, and demand three dollars for every honest half- 

 dollar's worth of bestirring their lazy stumps." 



"You cannot blame them, they have come in with the 

 shoals of summer boarders and with the big hotels, and 

 grown up as a part of the new order of things. The 

 ordinary Adirondack guide of to-day is merely a boat- 

 man, as 'Piseco' once wrote; he rows the ladies and 

 children about the lake for an hour or two, once or twice 

 a day, for which mild labor he receives a full day's pay, 

 and of course when you ask him to put in a full day's 

 work for the same amount, he sneers at you. 



"You must not blame him. It is human nature to 

 get as much pay as possible for as little exertion as 

 possible. The 'guides' of the seashore and inland resorts 

 are not to be blamed. If you want to lay the fault 

 where it belongs, put it on the people who have created 

 this condition of things." 



"Yes, and give a good share of it to the greenhorn 

 who goes into the woods, who cannot catch fish, nor kill 

 game, but who must pretend to do both, and- pays his 

 guide. lavishly to do them for him." 



