Forest and Stream. 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



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NEW YORK, OCTOBER 31, 1889. 



i VOL. XXXin.-No. 15. 

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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



The Adirondack Forests. 

 Field Trials and Field Work. 

 Snap Shots. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 

 En Acadie. 



Old Times in California. 

 Natural History. 



Out-of-Door Papers. 

 Game Bag and gun. 



Mv First Bear. 



Rifle Calibers. 



Pattern and Penetration. 



Chicago and the West. 



A Maine Deer Story. 



Grouse on the Pocono. 



On a Wyoming Ranch. 



Central Illinois. 



Three Deer in Three Shots. 



Our Turkey Hunt. 



The Adirondack Deer Law. 



Game in North Carolina. 



A Delaware State of Affairs. 



A Michigan Deer Country- 

 Idaho Wildfowl. 



Boyhood's Stamping Grounds. 

 Camp Fire Fijckerings. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



Barracuda Fishing at San 

 Diego. 



Lake Tahoe Trout. 



PlSHCULTURE. 



Late Appearance of Shad. 

 The Kennel. 

 Past and Present Condition of 

 the A. K. C. 



The Kennel. 



"Poh Prinneh." 



American Coursing Club. 



Brunswick Fur Club Trials. 



Infection and Oisinfection. 



Coursing Rules. 



The Worcester Fur Company. 



The Muzzle in England. 



The American Kennel Club. 



Transportation to the Field 

 Trials. 



The Gordon Setter Club. 



Dog Talk. 



Kennel Notes. 



Kennel Management. 

 Riele and Trap shooting. 



Range and Gallery. 



Conneciicut State Shoot. 



Capt. Matt Gindele. 



Pennsylvania Shooting. 



The Newark Tournament. 



The Trap. 



Trenton Shoot. 

 Yachting. 



"Down the Beach" in a North- 

 easter. 



Narrow Beam Uuder the New 

 Rules. 



New York Y. C. 

 Canoeing. 



Some More Snips from Snaps 

 at the A. C. A. Meet. 



Along Long Island Sound. 



Compound Centerboards . 



A Dismal Story. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



FIELD TRIALS AND FIELD WORK. 



IT is a common saying of many who are ignorant upon 

 the subject that field trial winners are only good for 

 field trial show, and that they are unfit for the ordinary 

 work such as is expected from every-day dogs. In rare 

 instances this may be the case, but there is no doubt 

 whatever that a very large majority of our field trial 

 cracks are as good dogs for the sportsman to use in the 

 field as can be found. They have demonstrated their 

 ability to do good work quickly, in a stylish manner; and 

 in most cases they are very intelligent and obedient. But, 

 the doubter will say, they cannot keepjup their speed for 

 any length of time, and consequently are worthless for 

 ordinary shooting. Of course it is impossible for them 

 to maintain the phenomenal speed which they ex- 

 hibit at the trials for even half a day; but no one 

 wishes them to do this, since for ordinary field work, 

 except on the prairies, a much more moderate rate will 

 be far more satisfactory. Speed, as is well known, is 

 largely a matter of training, and the course that makes 

 perfect the quarter-horse would break down the four- 

 miler. So it is with dogs in training. As a rule the 

 heats at field trials are comparatively short and the dog 

 is worked accordingly and taught to put forth his best 

 efforts in short spurts, and consequently he is unable to 

 stay the pace for all-day work; but when the same 

 animal is properly trained for continuous work he is as able 

 both to go and to stay as any of his race, and in most 

 cases both his speed and work are superior to those of the 

 much vaunted all-day dogs that we hear so much about. 

 This opinion is not guess-work nor hearsay. "We have 

 often had the pleasure of a day's shooting over field trail 

 winners, and without exception we have found them to 



be intelligent, pleasant companions, as well as killing 

 dogs, and able to do as much and as good work as any 

 animals we have ever seen. 



THE ADIRONDACK FORESTS. 



r pHE Fish Commission of the State of New York is 

 preparing to make a strong stand against the tre- 

 mendous devastation which is being perpetrated in the 

 Adirondack forests. 



Of the three million acres of land and water embraced 

 in the Adirondack forest, the State owns about seven 

 hundred and fifty thousand acres, or about twenty-five 

 per cent, of the whole. A great deal of this land has been 

 in private hands, has been denuded of its most valuable 

 timber, and has again lapsed to the State for arrears of 

 taxes. It is not by any means a compact block, but is 

 distributed irregularly through the whole area, small 

 areas being sometimes surrounded by private holdings, 

 while in other cases the continuity of considerable State 

 tracts is broken by the intervention of small private 

 holdings. 



The Commissioners aim at the gradual resumption of 

 the whole area of the region to be set aside as a great 

 public park for the people of the State, whose right to it 

 should be kept inviolate, and this matter is to be urged 

 upon the Legislature in the annual report of the Commis- 

 sion, with special recommendation for legislation for the 

 establishment of a great public park, rendering the pres- 

 ent scattered area compact and continuous by the pur- 

 chase of the connecting tracts. 



The recommendation of the Commission is not for any 

 considerable outlay at the outset; it proposes to make 

 experimental purchase of small tracts, "and if the ex- 

 periment proved a success other tracts could easily be 

 added from year to year." 



There is nothing experimental about the measure. The 

 whole region as a pleasure resort, as a hunting resort and 

 as a timber-producing reserve is capable of being made 

 the source of a considerable permanent public revenue, 

 and if the State can add to its present holding by pur- 

 chase of adjoining tracts on favorable terms, we have no 

 hesitation in indorsing the language of the Commission- 

 ers when they say: "We believe no investment made 

 by the State could produce greater or better results." 



This is not that Ave see any reasonable hope of the State 

 reserves being prudently and economic illy administered 

 for the next decade or two. There is nothing in forest 

 conservancy for the politicians: but because the character 

 of the Adirondack region is such that if it be once de- 

 nuded of its forests and the soil burnt off it would cost as 

 much to restore an acre as to acquire a hundred acres by 

 purchase to-day, and because looking forward to the 

 future when the price of timber in this country, as in 

 Europe, will have to carry cost of production including 

 interest, and recognizing from the experience of European 

 countries that State control of the forests of a country is 

 an essential feature of their satisfactory administration, 

 we should be glad to see the State secure control of a 

 tract so considerable in area, so desirable as a pleasure 

 and sanitary resort, and capable of being rendered of 

 such vast economic importance, as is the Adirondack 

 region. 



But, alas! this recommendation of the Fish Commis- 

 sion is no new project, and we fear that this eminently 

 respectable body wields no such influence as will result 

 in giving practical effect to its recommendation, in so far 

 as that involves the appropriation of funds for the pur- 

 chase of the two and a quarter millions of acres now in 

 private hands. Our legislators will never do it of their 

 own motion; they must be first urged to it by popular 

 clamor, and for that we must wait until we begin to im- 

 port pine from the Baltic. 



Moreover, it is a mistake to suppose that all the jobbery 

 and corruption of the country must be sought inside of 

 legislative halls. There are some people outside quite 

 capable of putting up a job even on the Legislature itself, 

 and it is not safe to open the public purse and invite these 

 outsiders to come and dip in it. It is only necessary to 

 make it known that the State has decided to secure pos- 

 session of any given tract of land to increase its value 

 many fold. 



Most of the timber dealers in the Adirondacks, after 

 cutting off the spruce and pine from their holdings, are 

 willing to let the land lapse for taxes. It would be many 

 years before they would find pine or spruce on it fit for 

 the axe again, and five years ago the most prudent policy 



for the State appeared to be one of ^masterly inactivity, 

 that is to sit still and wait for the lands to become forfeit. 

 But of late years conditions are being modified, game 

 clubs are securing large tracts and inclosing them for 

 game preserves, and this system now in its infancy is 

 growing with such vigor that forest land promises to in- 

 crease rapidly in value to meet the growing demand. 

 Under these new conditions the best practical direction 

 which could be given to the proposed recommendation of 

 the Commission would be to bring in a bill empowering 

 the Forest Commission or other properly constituted 

 authority to purchase any tract of forest land adjoining 

 lands held by the State at a maximum price to be fixed 

 by the Legislature. The State can certainly afford to 

 pay a3 high a price as a club of sportsmen, and could do 

 so if the possession of the forest involved no higher con- 

 sideration than utilizing it as a game preserve, and rais- 

 ing a revenue by lease or license. 



"We do not build any exalted hopes upon the proposed 

 recommendations of the Fish Commission, but we hail its 

 pronounced interest in the matter as evidence of a grow- 

 ing public sentiment that it is, in the language of their 

 report, "A shame and a disgrace" that this beautiful 

 and economically important region "should be devast- 

 ated and destroyed like the section along the Chateaugay 

 Railroad or the Sacondaga country." 



SNAP SHOTS. 



THE Long Island deer hunting season, which extended 

 from Oct. 1 to Oct. 10, offered an instructive and 

 encouraging instance of the tenacity of our game and 

 the readiness with which the supply may be fostered if 

 only intelligently cared for. The deer range embraces a 

 district of only ten by twenty-five miles, and it is within 

 an hour and a half of New York city. This range has 

 been well protected; hounds discovered running deer out 

 of season have been killed; the local sentiment has been 

 such that no one would dare to show venison illegally 

 killed; and taking it all in all the deer have been practi- 

 cally unmolested. During the nine hunting days of the 

 season seventy-five deer were killed. Sayville hunters 

 scored thirteen, one of them said to have been a ten-year- 

 old buck, which weighed 2251bs. No one knows how 

 many hunters these seventy-five deer gratified and dis- 

 appointed, but one estimate puts the number at between 

 400 and 500 each day, posted along the line of the rail- 

 road, across which the deer passed, when driven by the 

 hounds. One driver averred that he saw twelve deer at 

 one time ahead of his dogs. In the deer range are the 

 preserve of the South Side Sportsmen's Club and that of 

 Mr. Cutting. These properties were harbors of refuge 

 for the pursued game, which seemed instinctively to flee 

 to them; and once on these grounds the asgis of protec- 

 tion was over them. We have already pointed out that 

 such preserved tracts of territory benefit the general 

 public by thus protecting game which does not remain at 

 all times on the territory, but gives sport to the public as 

 well. 



The contents of the Forest and Stream this week 

 afford an index of the wide range and interesting diver- 

 sity of this journal's correspondence, and are not less 

 noteworthy as an indication of the wealth and variety of 

 the game and fish resources at the command of the 

 American sportsman. There are accounts of wildfowl 

 shooting in California and bear hunting in the new State 

 of Washington and salt-water fishing at San Diego. 

 Then leaving the sports of the Pacific coast, one may read 

 of big game hunting amid the Rockies in Wyoming, 

 wildfowl in Idaho, and deer in Montana. Stories are told 

 of rabbit, duck, quail and prairie chicken shooting in 

 Illinois, and deer in Michigan. The East is well repre- 

 sented by chronicles of adventures with the deer in 

 Maine, the elusive grouse among the wilds of Pennsylva- 

 nia, and deer in the Adirondacks of New York. The South 

 is represented by correspondents who report favorably on 

 North Carolina quail grounds, and by a story of wild 

 turkey hunting down in the palmetto swamps of Florida. 

 Taking it all in all, with its records of shooting and fish- 

 ing activities, its hints and suggestions, its friendly dis- 

 cussions, and the happy spirit which pervades all depart- 

 ments, the Forest and Stream furnishes not only an 

 animated picture of American field sports, but also a re- 

 flection of the character and qualities of the men young 

 and old who constitute the great army of outers. 



