Forest and Stream. 



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NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 14, 1889. 



1 VOL. XXXIII.-No. 17. 

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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



One-Man Power. 



The Dai-ling Case. 



Stocking the National Park 

 Waters. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



A Winter in Florida— I. 



Am. Ornithologisis' Union. 

 Natural History. 



Out-of-Door Papers.— TV. 



Captive Giraffes. 



Woodcock in Town. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



Canvasbar-k Ducks, 



My First Cauvasback. 



The Darling Case. 



Chicago and the West. 



Wild Turkeys in New England 



A Bunch of Bear Stories. 



How a "Tarheel" Kills Ducks. 



Chickens in Illinois Cornfields 



An American Game Utopia. 



Aiming Ahead. 



Connecticut Game Market. 



Ontario Incidents. 



Boston Shooters. 



Wadding Cartridges. 



Moose in Quebec. 



Game Notes. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



Angling Notes. 



Fishing Clubs in Canada. 



Her Account of Sea Fishing. 



Notes on Massachusetts Fishes 



The Silver Eel. 



Sea and River Fishing. 

 Maine Trout Sharks. 

 Mooneye or Goldeye. 

 An Incredulous Rhymster. 



FlSHCULTURE, 



Stocking the Yellowstone 

 Park. 



Carp Bent to Texas. 

 The Kennel. 



The A. K. R. Transfer. 



Central Field Trials. 



"Podgers" Talks Dog.— nr. 



Indiana Trials. 



Kennel Notes. 



Kennel Management. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 



Smokeless Powder. 



Range and Gallerv. 



Capital Revolver Work. 



The Trap. 



Williamsport Tournament- 

 Blooming Grove Park. 

 Yachting. 

 Lake Yacht Racing Associa- 

 tion. 



Another Delusion Dispelled. 



Seawanhaka C. Y. C. 



A January Cruise on the 

 Pacific Coast. 



The Maritime Exhibition. 

 Canoeing. 



Brooklyn C. C. 



Compound Centerboards. 



His Kindness "Rewarded." 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



ONE-MAN POWER. 



V*7 E took occasion last week, in commentiug on the 

 * * Anglers' Association of the St. Lawrence, to note 

 that the inception and. performance of that society's 

 work was due in very large measure to the personal activ- 



ty of one individual, Mr. W. W. Byington, and it was 

 pointed out that what was true of the St. Lawrence Asso- 

 ciation was likewise true of other associations working in 

 the field of fish and game protection. 



A conspicuous illustration of the truth of this is found 

 in a New England society which is just now attracting a 

 large share of attention in its own State and elsewhere. 

 The Connecticut Association of Farmers and Sportsmen 

 for the Protection of Game and Fish is the most active 

 and efficient organization of the kind now in existence. 

 The newspapers are constantly giving among their items 

 of current news reports of the society's detection and 

 punishment of law breakers, usually of men who have 

 for years carried on their netting and trapping and 

 other illegal practices without interruption. Yesterday's 

 papers, for example, reported that the Association's 

 detectives had brought to justice one Charles Blackman , 

 of "Woodbury, a market-hunter, who for the past ten 

 years has shipped his hundreds of snared grouse to mar- 

 ket with perfect immunity. He was taken before a 

 justice last Tuesday, pleaded guilty and paid a $29.84 

 fine. One after another of these old offenders are finding 

 their way into court, thanks to the Association detec- 

 tives; and Connecticut communities are gradually waking 

 up to a realizing sense thaat the game laws mean some- 

 thing. The snaring of ruffed grouse cannot be broken 

 up in one year nor in two years; it is an illicit practice 

 which has many ramifications; the trappers are leagued 

 with railroad and steamboat hands and game dealers in 

 Connecticut cities and in New York. But if the Associ- 

 ation gees on as it has begun, the market-hunters will 

 surely find their occupation unprofitable and too hazard- 

 ous to be engaged in with comfort. 



Observers who have followed this work in Connecticut 

 cannot have failed to perceive that the credit for it chiefly 



belongs to Mr. A. C. Collins, who is the president of the 

 Association and the head and front of its aggressive cam- 

 paign against the lawless element. Mr. Collins is demon- 

 strating in his own person the value and efficiency of in- 

 dividual activity. The Connecticut society of the long- 

 name is in effect Mr. Collins. He does the work. And 

 when he shall have reformed the State of Connecticut, 

 we hope some of its neighbors will invite him to take a 

 contract to render like service for them. If there were a 

 Collins in every State in the Union, the outlook for effi- 

 cient execution of our game and fish laws would be much 

 brighter than it is at present. One man who will put 

 his hand to the plow is worth a thousand after-dinner 

 orators. 



THE DARLING CASE. 



SOME further particulars of the Darling case are given 

 in our game columns this week, and it is there sug- 

 gested by our well-informed correspondent "Special" 

 that, in event of defeat in the lower courts, Darling may 

 carry his case up to the higher courts for a final decision 

 as to the constitutionality of the Maine game law. That 

 is surely a course of proceeeding most desirable. Daxling 

 has for years contended, not only in print, but in deed as 

 well, that the State had no constitutional authority to 

 deprive him of the privilege of killing game when and 

 how he chose, nor to forbid him to market bis venison in 

 the Boston markets. He has persisted in dogging deer 

 into Nicatous Lake; and if he has not shipped all his 

 venison to Boston his failure has been due to the vigilance 

 of the game wardens and the refusal of transportation 

 companies to receive the goods. Having thus done so 

 much to set at naught the laws, of which he has com- 

 plained, Darling will now perform a distinct service to 

 the State, if he shall spend his money in testing the con- 

 stitutional character of those laws. 



No apprehension need be entertained of the final out- 

 come of such a test; the statutes which forbid the employ- 

 ment of hounds to drive deer to water butchery, and 

 those which forbid the shipment of game to market, are 

 based on principles of sound public economy; they are 

 quite in keeping with the spirit of the age; and their con- 

 stitutional integrity will be absolutely demonstrated, if 

 Darling shall furnish the opportunity for such a demon- 

 stration. It is to be hoped that his determination will 

 not fail him. 



It must not be forgotten that Nicatous Lake has been 

 the resort of numerous visitors from Boston, New York 

 and elsewhere, who have taken part with Darling in his 

 deer dogging. He has not been without the moral sup- 

 port and substantial backing of that class of people which 

 is made up of reputable business and professional men, 

 who, while to all intents and purposes honest and law- 

 abiding members of society at home, when they go into 

 the woods seem to inhale with the odor of balsam a spirit 

 of contempt for law and decency. If Darling has dogged 

 deer into Nicatous Lake, he has done it because such 

 men paid him to do it. 



This phase of the subject is more worthy of considera- 

 tion than Darling's own attitude toward the law. Dar- 

 ling had for years been doing lawfully certain things, 

 which upon the enactment of new statutes became un- 

 lawful; this meant for him personal hardship and loss; 

 if he rebelled and sought to evade the law and stoutly 

 held out that he would not submit, this was nothing more 

 than other misguided men have done and will con- 

 tinue to do so long as human nature shall remain 

 unchanged. But the city hunters, who have gone 

 into the Maine woods and tempted Darling and 

 others of his ilk to break the law, have done it in 

 pure wantoness; theirs is not the excuse that to obey 

 the law meant for them any personal hardship. They 

 were bound by all the constraints and obligations of their 

 position to set a good example, to encourage to law-re- 

 specting citizenship, and to array themselves, in the 

 woods as when at home, on the side of intelligence, self- 

 respect and good order. If the men who conduct our 

 business enterprises, teach in our schools, contend for the 

 supremacy of legal right in our courts, and preach in our 

 pulpits, aid and abet the unlawful jigging of trout and 

 dogging of deer, what can we expect of the Jock Dar- 

 lings ? Is it not vain to expect from a guide and camp 

 proprietor in the depths of the Maine woods a higher 

 standard of morality than we exact of our merchants and 

 lawyers and doctors and teachers and ministers of the 

 gospel when they visit those woods '? 



STOCKING NATIONAL PARK WATERS. 



TN the early autumn we mentioned the visit to the 

 National Park of Col. M. McDonald, U. S. Fish Com- 

 missioner. Our correspondent's letter spoke of the en- 

 thusiasm felt by Col. McDonald over the opportunities 

 for experiments in fishculture offered by the then barren 

 waters of the Yellowstone Park, and mentioned that the 

 Commissioner had promised that next year he would 

 send out 5,000 Eastern brook trout for the Gardiner River, 

 and other fish for other waters. 



It has proved that these waters did not have to wait 

 even until next year to be stocked. There are now in the 

 middle and west branches of the Gardiner River above 

 the fails 5,000 Eastern brook trout; in the Gibbon River 

 above the Virginia Cascade 1,000 rainbow trout; and in 

 the Firehole River above Keppler's Cascade 1,000 Euro- 

 pean trout. These were all fingerlings, and under the 

 favorable conditions presented by these waters should 

 nearly all reach maturity and spawn. 



Mr. E. R. Lucas of the U. S. Fish Commission has trans- 

 planted from the Madison tributaries to the East Fork of 

 the Gardiner River above the falls the native black-spotted 

 trout of the mountains to the number of 1,000. A large 

 number of whitefish, over 2,000, have been introduced in 

 the Twin Lakes, and about 1,000 as an experiment in the 

 Yellowstone River above the falls. During his sojourn 

 in the Park Mr. Lucas worked very hard, scarcely taking 

 time to eat or sleep, and the results of his labors must be 

 very gratifying to himself, as they certainly are to all 

 who take an interest in the work that he has been doing. 



During the past autumn Professor Jordan and Dr. 

 Gilbert, of the State University of Indiana, have made 

 an extended examination of the waters of the National 

 Park with a view to determining their adaptability to 

 the propagation of fish. These gentlemen are convinced 

 that there is nothing needed except to stock the waters, 

 and that after that the fish may be left to take care of 

 themselves. Professor Jordan has expressed the opinion 

 that the grayling will do well in nearly all the waters of 

 the Park, and believes that the whole reservation might 

 be turned into a great grayling farm. There is no diffi- 

 culty about securing an abundant supply of this superb 

 fish, which is found native in large numbers in some 

 streams on the west side of the Park. 



In our fishcultural columns this week are announced 

 Col. McDonald's plans for the introduction of fry into 

 Park waters next year. It will certainly be delightful 

 to find in Shoshone and Lewis lakes, grand sheets of 

 water as they are, such splendid fish as the landlocked 

 salmon. The turning of whitefish into the Yellowstone 

 River above the falls is an interesting experiment. It 

 may be remembered that this was recommended by a 

 special correspondent last fall in a letter from the Park, 

 on the ground that the whitefish would supply food for 

 the native trout, which appear now to be underfed. At 

 all events, it is well known that the trout of the Yellow- 

 stone River, below the Canon, sometimes run up to six, 

 seven and eight pounds weight, while those caught above 

 the falls rarely exceed a pound and a half, and are often 

 diseased. If enough of these whitefish escape their 

 enemies to spawn, we are inclined to look for a marked 

 alteration in the character of the trout of the Yellowstone 

 Lake. 



The introduction of the brown trout of Europe to these 

 Western waters is another experiment which may be 

 followed by the best results. Salmo fario is destined to 

 become a widely distributed and popular game fish. It 

 is highly thought of wherever it has been introduced. 

 At present it is designated by a clumsy circumlocution 

 and needs a distinctive popular name to identify it every- 

 where. Since we owe its introduction in this country to 

 the courtesy of the Deutsche Fischerei Verein, it might 

 very well be named after the distinguished head of that 

 organization, and be called the Von Behr trout. 



All the conditions in the National Park lead to the con- 

 clusion that the waters there are especially adapted for 

 the propagation of game fish. The waters are cold, clear, 

 ever flowing, and abound in fish food. It must be a mat- 

 ter of general congratulation that, given such favorable 

 natural conditions, Col. McDonald is so intelligent, so 

 thoroughly informed and so energetic as to push on the 

 work of stocking these waters in such a way as to carry 

 out this work to a successful conclusion. It is evident 

 that in a few years we shall have in the National Park 

 the grandest and most diversified sport for anglers to be 

 found anywhere in the world, 



