Forest and Stream. 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



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NEW YORK, JANUARY 9, 1890. 



( VOL. XXim.-No. 25. 

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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



Fishes of Florida Waters. 



The Sportsman's Florida. 



Uniform State Laws Again. 

 Fish of Florida Waters. 

 Florida Days. 



A Florida Retrospect. 



Charlotte Harbor. 



A St. Augustine Hunter. 



A Florida Coast Adventure. 

 Natural History. 



Nesting of the Logeerhead 

 Turtle. 



Hawks that Kill Hens. 

 Game Bao and Gun 



Tramps with a Pocket Rifle. 



Those Cherished Memories. 



Wid Medford. 



Hounders and Still-Hunters. 



A Christmas Misadventure. 



Taxing Guns in New Jersey. 

 Ska and River Fishing. 



Angling Notes. 



Chicago and the West. 



Another Heated Ferrule. 

 Fish culture. 



Trout fi om Curry, Pa. 



The Kennel. 



The Fox- Terriers of To-day. 



Dip and Dash. 



The All-Round Dog. 



Give the American Foxhound s 

 a Place. 



The Reporter. 



Kennel Notes. 



Kennel Management. 

 Riele and Trap shooting. 



flange and Gallerv. 



At CoulraVs in 1889. 



The Trap. 



Elliott's Kansas City Shoot. 



New Year's Day at Newark. 



Watson's Park. 



The Trap-Shooters' Tour. 



Elm City Gun Club. 



Am. Shooting Asso. Dates. 

 Yachting. 



Shamrock. 



Yachting Notes. 

 Canoeing. 



A 15x31J4 Racing Canoe. 



1,500 Miies in an Adirondack 

 Boat. 



Answers to Correspondents. 



UNIFORM STATE LAWS AGAIN. 



AS shown by the reports of its officers at the last an- 

 nual meeting of the Cuvier Club, of Cincinnati, 

 last Saturday evening, the organization is in a prosperous 

 condition, and has made substantial progress in securing 

 the enforcement of the laws by the work of the new 

 game protector, whose convictions secured during the 

 year numbered thirty -five. 



One subject discussed in the report of the trustees was 

 that of a code of laws uniform in adjoining States. 

 This is something that has come up before various soci- 

 eties in different parts of the country and at different 

 periods for lo these many years. Unifoimity of game 

 seasons is conceded to be a most desirable factor in secur- 

 ing protection ; it is urged here and there with enthusi- 

 asm, talked about, written about, hoped for, and never 

 attained. Sometimes sportsmen have gathered in national 

 conventions and discussed the subject for the whole 

 country; again it has been proposed for two or three 

 adjoining States; and, as a matter of fact, there is to-day 

 just as much of diversity and contrariety as ever in the 

 laws of adjacent States. 



The condition of affairs that has prompted the Cuvier 

 Club to give attention to this topic is thus stated in the 

 report read before the meeting: 



* * * The primary object of the club, in suggesting protective 

 legislation, is that all our people may be benefitted by having in 

 the proper season an abundance of the choicest food at prices 

 that bring it within the reach of all. In this connection the de. 

 termination of a proper open season especially for quail becomes 

 important. In Ohio the open season for quail is from the 10th of 

 November to the loth of December, both days inclusive, while in 

 Kentucky, Indiana and Illinois it commences sooner and ends 

 later. It seems that all agree, or should agree, that the open season 

 should be the same in all these States, and perhaps, also, in West 

 Virginia, the difficulty being in fixing satisfactory dates. That 

 these opinions may be reconciled, to the end that we may have a 

 uniform law, it is suggested that the Game Committee of the 

 Ohio Legislature take the inioiative, and invite similar commit- 

 tees of the Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois and West Virginia Legis- 

 latures to a conference. The difficulty of enforcement and the 

 hardship of the Ohio law are in this: Our people are deprived of 

 quail lawfully killed in these States, and in prime condition for 

 the table, because their use is prohibited in Ohio at that time, it 

 being a misdemeanor to have them in possession. That such a 

 uniform law would be in the interest of the legitimate shooter is 

 clear; then he could enjoy friendly hospitality in another State, 

 carry his birds home without concealment and with pardonable 

 pride, speak of his success. 



It is difficult to see how the people of Ohio can be given 



the privilege of a market season for quail unless the 

 open season shall be made te cover more time; Ohio 

 sportsmen we fear cannot hope to have the open seasons in 

 other States shortened to correspond with their own. 

 Indeed if we understand the subject such an extension 

 of the Ohio open season will be the only practicable way 

 to secure anything approaching uniformity. In that 

 event, is uniformity to be counted as a gain, when 

 secured at the expense of protection? 



We take ip that the members of the Cuvier Club are 

 conversant with the condition of the quail supply of their 

 State, and can judge intelligently of the probable effect 

 on it of a longer shooting season. If the extension of 

 the season means less efficacious conservation of Ohio 

 quail, it will be better to keep the dates as they are now. 

 even if the people have to forego their quail. Unless 

 the birds are more abundant in Ohio than in most other 

 sections of the country, the market price will never be so 

 low that the birds can be counted as cheap food for the 

 people. 



THE SPORTSMAN'S FLORIDA. 



IF any evidence were needed to demonstrate the charm 

 Florida possesses for the angler and the sportsman, it 

 would be found, varied and abundaut, in the files of this 

 journal almost from the first number. Not a volume 

 but contains its generous quota of sketches of travel, 

 sport and outdoor life in that favored sunny land. In 

 the earlier years, when many portions of the State were 

 as yet an unknown and practically unexplored wilder- 

 ness, the readers of Forest and Stream followed, with 

 all the interest that attends the pioneers in strange lands, 

 the footsteps of "Fred Beverly" penetrating the Ever- 

 glades, and the shining sail of "Al Fresco's" boat chart- 

 ing the fishing resorts of the west coast. From those 

 early days to the present the southern migration of health 

 and pleasure seekers has been chronicled in these pages. 

 If Florida has been the source of so much that has added 

 to the interest and value of our columns, it is not too 

 much to say as well that this journal in turn has done 

 much for Florida. Multitudes of visitors to the State 

 have been prompted to seek its game resorts and fishing 

 waters because the Forest and Stream has made them 

 known. 



In Florida the material changes of the past ten or fif- 

 teen years have been on a scale possible only in what 

 was practically a frontier State. The past twenty years 

 have virtually witnessed the settlemetit of Florida anew 

 by a population drawn thither from other States. The 

 inrush of new citizens, the building of new towns and 

 cities, the multiplying and extension of railroads, the 

 conversion of vast wilderness tracts from pine and 

 hamak lands into orange groves and farms— all this has 

 greatly changed the face of the country; and the State 

 has ceased to be in many respects the great shooting 

 resort it once was. Nowhere is this more readily 

 observed than on some of the lines of river travel. 

 The great abundance and accessibility of feathered 

 game encountered on the waterways, once made it pos- 

 sible for the cads and cockneys — not in any remotest 

 sense sportsmen — who shot from the moving craft, to 

 slaughter foolishly, wantonly and wastefully, thousands 

 of birds of plume. As time went by and the fusillade 

 has kept up, the birds were destroyed or scared away 

 until the river banks became practically barren of game. 

 Then as the new railroads fortunately diverted the tide 

 of travel away from the rivers, and the haunts of the 

 birds were left unmolested, they multiplied and have in 

 many districts become abundant. The time has gone by 

 when a majority of Florida tourists are equipped with 

 firearms; but those who are seeking legitimate sport 

 with game birds are still to be found in hosts; the game 

 supply is rich; and the tangible rewards of one's outing- 

 are generous. Florida is to-day more than ever before 

 the winter home of the sportsman. 



And more than ever before is it the salt-water fisher- 

 man's Mecca. The fish of Florida waters— their name is 

 legiou — have not been , and give no sign of being in the 

 near future, diminished. Of course in some certain locali- 

 ties the supply has been largely lessened, but as a rule, 

 especially on the West Coast, the fishing is as good to day 

 as it ever was. Each year, as access is made more easy 

 and accommodations are bettered, and the fame of the 

 fishing grows, the number of anglers is larger. The re- 

 nown of the tarpon has gone forth to the end of the earth, 

 and expert masters of the rod from abroad make their 



winter pilgrimage to Charlotte Harbor to win new ang- 

 ling renown by pitting their patience and skill against 

 the caprice and strength of the silver king. Year by 

 year our knowledge of Florida fishing waters and of 

 Florida fish is made more complete; but there is yet a 

 vast amount to be learned; and the Forest and Stream 

 indulges the hope that it may do its fair share in the 

 future, as it has in the past, to increase popular informa- 

 tion on these subjects and to cultivate popular appreci- 

 ation of them. Our old-time contributor "Al Fresco," 

 Dr. C. J. Kenworthy, of Jacksonville, who has already 

 done so much to discover new fishing grounds and to 

 direct his brother anglers to them, has in contemplation 

 new explorations on the lower West Coast; and he has 

 promised to give our readers the results of the trip. 



Year by year less of hardship and more of comfort at- 

 tend the sportsman tourist in Florida. As related else- 

 where by our contributor "F. S. J. C." the resorts of the 

 peninsula, even those most remote, are within two days' 

 travel from Northern cities. It is practicable for those 

 who must limit their absence from business to "take a 

 run down to Florida," without sacrificing very much of 

 their precious time on the way. The State enjoys a con- 

 stantly growing popularity among sportsmen and anglers, 

 and it would be the part of wisdom for Florida's citizens 

 to take the steps so urgently needed to insure a continu- 

 ance of that popularity by adopting judicious game laws. 

 Under the present condition of affairs game is killed all 

 the year around, deer afre shot in proper season and at 

 times when decency and manhood should recoil from 

 murdering the mother doe. Citizens of Florida towns 

 have not yet learned better than to encourage the robbing 

 of mocking-birds' nests by idle boys. Small insectivor- 

 ous birds have no protection; and in St. Augustine, where 

 the native song birds have been largely killed off, some 

 foolish people are actually talking of importing that hor- 

 rible pest, the English sparrow, to fill their places. 



THE FISH OF FLORIDA WATERS. 



IN April of last year the Forest and Stream presented 

 to its readers a very large series of illustrations of 

 the salmon and trout of North America, accompanied by 

 a brief sketch of the distribution and chief characteristics 

 of the species. This effort to please its friends was met 

 with hearty praise and encouraged the idea of occasional 

 supplements of a similar nature. 



To-day we bring together illustrations of twenty-five 

 species of Florida fishes, many of which anglers visiting 

 that State will be pretty certain to meet in their travels. 

 As there is a bewildering variety of fishes in this favored 

 land, certainly not fewer than fifty of which can be 

 caught by the angler, it is manifestly too great an under - 

 taking to group them in one supplement. We have, 

 therefore, selected those that seemed to us the best 

 known, while some others of considerable importance 

 are for the time being necessarily omitted. 



The remarks on the fishes have to do with their com- 

 mon names, distribution, habits, haunts, food and feeding 

 habits, size, reproduction, growth and mode of capture. 



Dr. James A. Henshall, who has in past years contri- 

 buted to our columns more than one entertaining serial 

 descriptive of cruising and fishing in Florida, has en- 

 riched the text of this Forida number to-day out of his 

 varied experience in angling for the fishes discussed. 

 His remarks form the concluding portion of each section, 

 and are set off by quotation marks. 



The excellent figures, it will be observed, are mainly 

 from that rich source of supplies for modern illustrations 

 of fishes "The Fisheries and Fishery Industries of the 

 United States," prepared by the United States Fish Com- 

 mission. _ 



There was involved in Mr. Aldrich's notes on the 

 woodcock, which we published last week, a question 

 much more important than any that relates to the habits 

 of any one bird or of all birds. That problem is of how 

 in this year of grace, 1890, we can cure the diseased 

 mind of one who finds pleasure in shooting mother birds 

 scared from their nests. Perhaps the wisest conclusion 

 would be that there is no hope of ridding a grown man 

 of such depraved tastes; and that effort should be 

 directed to instil nobler sentiments into the souls of the 

 younger generation of shooters. 



.The annual dinner' of the Massachusetts . Fish and 

 Game Protective Association will be held January 30. 



