Forest and Stream. 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



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NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 13, 1890. 



( VOL. XXXIV,-No. 4. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



The New Jersey License Law. 



The Buffalo Bill. 



Snap Shots. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



Up in a Balloon. 

 Natural History. 



Ranee of the White Goat. 



Notes on Pennsylvania Birds. 



Evening Grosbeaks in New 

 York. 

 Jams Bag and Gun. 



A Puma Hunt in New Mexico. 



South Carolina Game. 



Minnesota's Deer Law. 



New York Game Legislation. 



Weight of Grouse. 



Chicago and the West. 



Aiming the Pistol. 

 Camp-Fire Flickering s. 

 Sea and Biyer Fishing. 



On the North Shore.— m. 



Shedding of Teeth in Fishes. 



Angling Notes. 



The Little Giant Rod. 



PlSHOULTURE. 



Mackerel at Cape of Good 

 Hope. 

 The Kennel. 

 Chicago Dog Show. 

 Setters vs. Pointers. 

 English Notes. 

 Dogs of the Day. 

 New York Dog Show. 

 The St. Bernard Club. 

 Baltimore Dog Show. 

 Spaying. 



Kennel Management. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 

 Range and GaUery. 

 The Trap. 



U. S. Cartridge Co.'s Tour. 



An Opinion on Trap-Shooting. 

 Canoeing. 



1,500 Miles in an Adirondack 

 Boat.— vu. 

 Yachting. 



Second Cruise of the Orinda. 



An Auxiliary Naphtha Cruiser 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



THE BUFFALO BILL. 



THE bill alluded to last week as having been intro- 

 duced by Mr. Peters, of Kansas, in the House of 

 Representatives, sets aside for a term of twenty years, 

 four townships in the neutral strip, and four islands in 

 Great Salt Lake, for the purpose of propagating the 

 American bison and other domesticated wild animals, 

 provides that these tracts of land shall be leased to C. J. 

 Jones for the purpose of conducting experiments in 

 domesticating these wild animals and crossing them 

 ,with domestic cattle, and that for ten years no female 

 buffalo or cross-breed shall be sold or disposed of in any 

 way. The bill also appropriates the sum of $30,000 for 

 'the purpose of fencing, building, digging wells and other 

 incidental expenses of preparing the proposed ranch for 

 occupancy and use. 



The probable benefit to the farmers and cattle growers 

 of this country of a buffalo cross on our domestic cattle 

 justifies the Government in taking steps to preserve and 

 propagate the tame bison and in assisting those who are 

 endeavoring to establish a breed of buffalo cattle. 



The Agricultural Department annually distributes gra- 

 tuitously many thousand dollars' worth of seeds among 

 the farmers of the United States, and experiments in tea 

 growing, silk growing and sugar growing have in the 

 past been carried on under its direction at very large 

 cost. 



The Department has furnished plants and information 

 as to conditions and methods favorable to the growth of 

 tea. Attempts at silk culture are encouraged by furnish- 

 ing eggs of the moth, and by purchasing cocoons from 

 which silk is reeled at the Department by expensive ma- 

 chinery. 



When Dr. Loring was Commissioner of Agriculture he 

 offered prizes aggregating, it is understood, over $10,000, 

 for the best results in producing sugar from sorghum: 

 but it is understood that this account was disallowed. 

 However, the Government has committed itself in this 

 direction by liberal appropriations fox experiments con- 



nected with the production of sorghum sugar. In 1885 

 $50,000 was appropriated for this purpose, in 1886 $94,000, 

 and subsequently $50,000. 



It is thus seen that the Government has estab- 

 lished a policy of encouraging experiments in agricul- 

 ture, which seem likely to inure to the benefit of the 

 farmer, although up to the present time its efforts have 

 had to do mainly with plants and their products. There 

 is, however, nothing radically opposed to precedents 

 already established in the attempt to preserve and to 

 engraft on our domestic cattle the hardy blood of their 

 wild congeners. 



The fifth section of Mr. Peters's bill provides for the 

 payment to Mr. Jones of $30,000 for expenses. It may 

 be very seriously questioned whether a bill containing 

 such a provision, i. e., appropriating money to assist one 

 man in his experiments, to the exclusion of all others 

 who are working in the same line, will meet with general 

 favor or ought to be passed. Although Mr. Jones has 

 most of the domesticated buffalo in this country, he does 

 not own them all, and no privileges should be conferred 

 on him in which other owners of buffalo may not share. 



We believe that it may be well to set aside a tract of 

 the public land as a buffalo farm, for it seems clear that 

 the Government should foster buffalo breeding by all 

 means which are legitimate, and it is of the utmost im- 

 portance, for the success of these experiments, that the 

 Jones herd should be kept together. We believe, further, 

 that Mr. Jones alone can manage this breed successfully; 

 but we do not believe that a money appropriation should 

 be made by Congress for the benefit of any single one of 

 the considerable number of men who own buffalo, even 

 when tli at single one has shown so much enterprise and 

 done so much good as Mr. Jones has. 



The breeding of buffalo can be encouraged in some 

 other way. 



THE NEW JERSEY LICENSE LAW. 



WE referred last week to a propose*! new shooting- 

 license law now under consideration by the New 

 Jersey Legislature, but we were in error in respect to the 

 scope of the measure. The text of the bill is before us, 

 and it appears that the scheme is not to impose any tax 

 on residents of New Jersey, but to require a license fee 

 from outsiders visiting the State. The bill provides that 

 any non-resident hunting game or catching trout, with- 

 out first having taken out a license (cost $5), shall be 

 guilty of a misdemeanor and punished by fine of $100 for 

 each offense, or shall go to jail. The licenses will be good 

 for one year in the county where issued. It is further 

 provided that comity game protective societies may be 

 formed, one in each county, each member of which shall 

 be empowed to arrest those who violate this license law 

 or other game laws. The license fees and one-half of all 

 fines are to be turned over to the treasurer of the county 

 association, to be expended in carrying out the objects of 

 the society in restocking game grounds and otherwise. 



The bill then is in the line of making legal the imposi- 

 tion of a tax on non-resident gunners. This tax is no 

 new thing. For years visiting sportsmen have been made 

 to pay a license fee, but as the Forest and Stream has 

 always contended, without warrant of law. The present 

 statute has been used as giving game protective societies 

 power to exact such fees; if it really did that there would 

 be no necessity of the new bill. 



SNAP SHOTS. 



THE first lot of live quail procured by the committee 

 of the Massachusetts Fish and Game Association 

 has been received. The birds came from Alabama and 

 Tennessee, and have been put out in the towns of Fal- 

 mouth, Sandwich, Bourne, Taunton and Hingham. 

 Other lots are on the way from other parts of the State. 

 The committee in charge of the work are Messrs. John 

 Fottler, Sr., Henry J. Thayer, Edward E. Hardy, James 

 Eussell Reed and Outram Bangs. The quail have been 

 put out in localities where the people of the vicinity have 

 promised to protect them. For success in this under- 

 taking the cooperation of land owners and local sports- 

 men is essential. Unless the public-spirited enterprise of 

 the Association is backed up by the people, all the money 

 expended in introducing game will be squandered. As 

 the sportsmen of the towns and counties where game is 

 put out will be directly benefited, they should see to it 

 that the birds are protected and given a chance to multi- 

 ply. There used to be, and perhaps is now, some mis- 



taken prejudice on the part of country dwellers against 

 any sportsmen's organization having its home in a 

 city. Any such feeling must surely be overcome when 

 a society like that of Boston sets about a work like 

 this of stocking the country for the good of all. The 

 results of an undertaking to restock depleted covers, even 

 if only partially successful, will be beneficial because 

 thus bringing close together the sportsman of the city 

 and his fellow sportsman of the country. 



The leaven is working. Every year marks an advance 

 of common sense as applied to the resources of the water. 

 In commenting on a recent case, where one Nat Shields, 

 having been arrested for unlawful fishing on Lake Cham- 

 plain, and having brought suit for false imprisonment 

 against fish warden Atherton, was defeated in one court 

 after another, the Montpelier, Vt., Argus and Patriot 

 declares: "This suit against Mr. Atherton may not have 

 been a conspiracy or a put up job, but it looks very much 

 like it, and the findings of the courts to whom the matter 

 has been submitted for adjudication indicate that they 

 also thought so. But those responsible for bringing this 

 suit against Mr. Atherton builded better than they knew. 

 Doubtless their intention was to obstruct the enforce- 

 ment of the laws protecting fish in Lake Champlain by 

 what would virtually be intimidation of those enforcing 

 them, but the result has been directly the reverse. Every 

 legal step taken by the opponents of these laws from the 

 time of the first enactment upon the subject until to-day 

 has strengthened instead of weakening the statutes upon 

 the subject, and it would seem that the policy of Ver- 

 mont in this regard has become so well settled, both by' 

 legislation and by the decisions of the courts, that there 

 can no longer be any misunderstanding as to what the in- 

 tent of the people is in this regard." 



To the same effect is the report which comes from On- 

 eida Lake, New York, notorious for the persistency of its 

 net fishermen who have defied the laws. Heretofore 

 these men have been encouraged and comforted by a 

 local sentiment strongly in their favor. A change has 

 come. Residents of Cleveland and other towns are wak- 

 ing up to the fact that the fish laws are for the public 

 good and that the unlawful netting is opposed to the pub- 

 lic good; and the natural result is that local sentiment 

 demands the enforcement of the law. It is an old truth 

 that political issues are not always settled by the results of 

 a single campaign. It is equally true that the issue be- 

 tween common sense and foolishness respecting the right 

 use of nature's bounties of field and stream will not be 

 settled by any temporary defeat of protection. The av- 

 erage of intelligence, J^ake the country over, is high; in 

 that rest the hope and the confidence that the reason- 

 ableness of adequate fish and game protection will in 

 time be recognized and approved; and then the laws will 

 be enforced by an overwhelming sentiment sustaining 

 them. 



There are men who would send you seven miles beyond 

 perdition, because you don't think it your duty to do 

 what they think it their duty to do; and it makes no 

 difference how important or unimportant the thing may 

 be, nor whether it has to do with religion, politics or the 

 mode of hunting and killing a fox. 



We have in type to be published next week an interest- 

 ing letter relative to the shooting on Lake Koshkonong, 

 Wis., the laws regulating it, their enforcement and non- 

 enforcement by the warden, and the disputes raging 

 between certain club men and local sportsmem. 



The Rocky Mountain Sportsmen's Association will 

 meet at Denver, Col., June 17; on which occasion it is 

 proposed to have in addition to the trap-shooting a series 

 of discussions of topics relating to game and fish. 



A recent newspaper letter from Newfoundland is 

 headed "The Home of the Big Dog." As a matter of 

 fact Newfoundland is no longer the home of the big 

 dog, unless the correspondent means Leonbergs. 



Mr. A. C. Collins, the indefatigable foe of the grouse 

 snarers and market-hunters of the Nutmeg State, has 

 turned his attention to promoting a Connecticut Trap- 

 Shooters' League. 



