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CONTENTS, 



Editorial. 



Dogs in Massachusetts, 



Snap sh^ts. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



Woe in the Wilderness. 



Antoine Heard From. 

 Natural Distort. 



Robins and Olives. 



Big Bivalves. 



Notts of the Birds. 



Quail in Packs. 

 Game Bag and Gun, 



Pacific Coast Game. 



A Record of Twentv-Seven 

 Shots. 



The Buck we Shot. 



Pattern and Penetration. 



That Nortn Carolina Trip. 



Stocking Massachusetts 

 Cuvt-rs. 



The Winder and the Game. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



On the North Shore.— vr. 



Canadian Fishing Leases. 



Buzzaru's Bay Reiorm. 



A New Snell for Tarpon. 



Angling Waters near New 

 York. 



The Mayor's Crevalle. 

 Kentucky Fish and Game. 

 Random Casts. 

 Nets are a Nuisance. 

 Angling Catalogues. 



Fishculture. 



Sawdu-t m Ontario Streams. 

 The Kennel. 



Chicago Dog Show. 



Rochester Dog Show. 



Boston Dog Show. 



A Singular Case. 



Poila. K. C. Snows and Trials. 



Californ'a Kennel Club. 



Dogs of r.he Da v. 



Eastern Field Trials Club. 



Baltimore Dog Show. 



Spaying. 



Kennel Notes. 



Kennel Management. 

 Rifle and Trap shooting. 



Revolver Scores. 



Range and Gallery. 



The Trap. 



U. S. Cartridge Co.'s Tour. 

 New Orleans Tournament. 

 Chicago vs. Kansas City. 

 Canoeing. 

 1,500 Miies in an Adirondack 



Boat.— xi. 

 Canvas Boats. 



Herald and the Rice Lake 

 Canoe. 

 Yachting. 



R icing Catboat Olivette. 



The Coming Season. 



The Clapham Singlehander. 

 Answers to Correspondents 



DOGS IN MASSACHUSETTS. 



\ PEOPOSED change in the Massachusetts dog law is 

 naturally enough exciting the dog owners of that 

 Commonwealth. The Legislature is asked to so amend 

 the law that the keeping of a dog will be very burden- 

 some for any one, and in fact will be impossible for a 

 large class of the community. Among the changes sug- 

 gested are the following: That the tax on dogs shall be 

 increased, that they shall be kept muzzled the year 

 round, shall be confined to the owner's premises, and 

 that the owner shall give bonds to make good all dam- 

 ages committed by the dog. Such a law would result in 

 one of two things. Either it would be impossible for 

 persons of limited means to keep dogs, or else the law 

 could not be enforced, and would become a dead letter. 

 Neither of these two things is desirable, and no such 

 radical changes in the dog law ought to be made. 



Hearings have been given by the Committee on Agri- 

 culture of the Massachusetts Senate, at which a great 

 deal was said for and against the proposed change in the 

 law. On one side were gathered dog owners and humani- 

 tarians, and members of gun clubs; while opposed to 

 them were a number of people who fear that they, may 

 some time be bitten by dogs, and a few sheep owners. 



The reasons advanced for the radical legislation asked 

 for by the petitioners to the Legislature are two: (1) the 

 danger to life from hydrophobia and (2) the danger to 

 the farmers' flocks from sheep-killing dogs. Neither of 

 these reasons seems a good one. Many of the most in- 

 telligent and best informed members of the medical pro- 

 fession doubt the existence of such a disease as hydro- 

 phobia, though it is not to be denied that death on rare 

 occasions does follow the bite of a dog. There is, how- 

 ever, grave question whether it is ever due directly to 

 such a bite. At all events it is quite certain that death 

 from lightning stroke is much more frequent than from 

 hydrophobia. According to statistics gathered by the 

 Massachusetts State Board of Health there were during 

 he seven years from 1881 to 1889 a total of 65,246 deaths 

 £Om pulmonary and throat diseas^es and only two from 



hydrophobia. The record shows that the widespread 

 popular fear of hydrophobia has no basis in fact, and jus- 

 tifies intelligent men in disregarding it. The injury to 

 the farmers' flocks is cared for under the existing laws 

 of Massachusetts, which provides that the farmer who 

 loses sheep through the ravages of unknown dogs shall 

 be remunerated for his loss from the county treasury. 

 The statute also provides that persons bitten by dogs may 

 collect double damages. 



The changes asked for should never be granted by the 

 Massachusetts Legislature. Humanity, justice and pub- 

 lic policy are all against legislation of this character. 

 To keep dogs muzzled at all seasons and to confine them 

 to the owner ! s premises, would be cruel in the extreme; 

 to increase the tax and oblige the owner to give bonds 

 would be to put it out of the power of the poor man to 

 keep the dog that is the guardian of his home by night 

 and the playfellow of his children by day, while his 

 wealthy neighbor could still have his one deg or twenty. 

 The passage of such a law would be in many cases a vir- 

 tual confiscation of property. Perhaps there is no State 

 in the Union where there are more and better breeding 

 kennels than in Massachusetts. Such a law would ren- 

 der it impossible for them to be kept up in the State. 



It is hardly necessary at this late day to mention the 

 vast usefulness of the dog to man, the many and varied 

 services which he renders in return for his food and care. 

 That dogs sometimes bite and sometimes kill sheep is 

 true, but the injury which they inflict in this way is a 

 thousand times counterbalanced by the services which 

 they render. They are far too useful to the community to 

 be dispensed with, and the proposed change in the law 

 would, if enforced, be equivalent to an edict of destruc- 

 tion. 



SNAP SHOTS. 



/"COMPLAINT has very justly been made by visitors to 

 ^ the National Park of one feature of the coupon 

 ticket system. Heretofore when a passenger started in a 

 stage, be was entitled to one seat in that particular stage, 

 which he could keep during the whole trip of four or five 

 days. If for any reason he desired to stop over at one of 

 the hotels on the route — if he wished for example to re- 

 main twenty -four hours at the Upper Geyser Basin on 

 the chance of seeing an eruption of some one of the larger 

 geysers, if he was tired by the drive, if he was sick — and 

 gave up his seat, it was a matter of some uncertainty 

 when he would be able to proceed on his journey. The 

 regular stages left the Mammoth Hot Springs loaded to 

 their fullest capacity, and for the most part with pas- 

 sengers who wished to make the regular round and re- 

 turn to the Hot Springs. These passengers had paid for 

 their seats, and could not be crowded out of them to 

 make room for the transient, who had stopped over. 

 His only chance of proceeding on his journey was to get 

 a place on an extra stage, if one came along, or to find 

 one that was not full. Not infrequently passengers were 

 in this way detained in one place for days. The next 

 season in the Park will see a change for the better in this 

 respect. The transportation schedule will be so altered, 

 it is promised, that there will be no detentions of this 

 kind, but that any one who enters the Park will be able 

 to stop just where he pleases as long as he cares to, and 

 when he desires to leave can do so. This new arrange- 

 ment for the convenience of the public will be brought 

 about by the running of daily stages from all points in 

 the Park, enabling tourists to travel about with a free- 

 dom hitherto unknown. It will add a vast deal to the 

 comfort of visitors, and will be highly appreciated, 

 especially by those who have had experience of the 

 methods in vogue in the past. 



Mr. John H. Starin, the well-known steamboat owner, 

 has recently imported to this country six pure Galloway 

 cows and one bull, which he proposes to use in experi- 

 ments in breeding buffalo cattle. These Galloways reached 

 this country last December, and after being held in quar- 

 antine for ninety days have now gone to Mr. Starin's 

 place at Fulton ville, Montgomery county, N. Y., where 

 his buffalo are. Mr. Starin's experiments will be in line 

 with those now being carried on by Hon. C. J. Jones, of 

 Kansas. It is believed that the cross between the buffalo 

 and the Galloway will give a superb beef animal, with a 

 splendid robe. It may be added that among the half- 

 breed calves already dropped this spring in Mr. Jones's 

 herd is one half-breed pure Galloway and buffalo heifer, 



which is represented as being a remarkably large and 

 beautiful animal. A report of the season's crop of half- 

 breeds from the Jones herd will be awaited with interest. 



The bill authorizing the New York Forestry Commis- 

 sion to purchase land in the Adirondacks at the rate of 

 $1.50 per acre to the extent of $25,000 has passed both 

 houses. The other bill, to which reference was made in 

 these columns a fortnight ago, proposing to set off a State 

 park and to lease certain choice portions for hotel and 

 residence sites, has gone over, at least for the present. 

 The adoption of the following resolution by the Senate 

 will as we are advised, be concurred in by the Assembly, 

 and the effect will be to defer all legislation relating to 

 the Adirondack forests until another year. The resolu- 

 tion reads: 



Resolved, (if the Assembly concur.) that the Forest Commission 

 be, and herehy is, directed to take into consideration the message 

 of the Governor, addressed to the Legislature, calling attention 

 to the subject of establishing of a 'State park in and about the 

 headwaters of the rivers having their sources in the Adirondacks 

 wilderness, and after thoroughly investigating the possibilities 

 of such an undertaking, to report to the Legislature its conclu- 

 sions thereon, and its recommendations as to the most effective 

 methods to be employed to accomplish that end— either by bill or 

 otherwise— together with any pertinent facts wilhin the knowl- 

 edge of the Commission relating to the general subject of forest 

 preservation or extension; and further to report the number of 

 acres or square miles of land essential to fulfilling the require- 

 ments of a suitable reservation or park, and the probable cost 

 ! hereof, and to repoit also in regard to other subjects referred to 

 in said message of the Governor. 



The subject should not be permitted to drop out of dis- 

 cussion, however. Between the present and the meeting 

 of the next Legislature the people of this State should be 

 fully advised on every phase of the Adirondack forestry 

 problem; the needs of the North Weods should be care- 

 fully considered: the immediate and ultimate effects of 

 proposed methods should be exhaustively studied; and 

 the people should be so informed as to demand of their 

 representatives at Albany prompt, wise and honest deal- 

 ing with this matter. In adopting a scheme for the pre- 

 servation of these priceless possessions the ppople of the 

 State of New York cannot afford to act hastily. What- 

 ever plan is resolved upon should be the fruit of earnest, 

 deliberate and intelligently directed investigation and 

 consideration. If ever there was a question that de- 

 manded for its solution the exercise of wisdom guided by 

 patriotism and lofty motives on the part of the people's 

 representatives this is such an one. In this affair, to sub- 

 ordinate the public good to political interests would be 

 nothing short of a monstrous crime. 



Confusion worse confounded would be the state of 

 affairs if the thirty odd fish and game bills now before 

 the New York Legislature were to become laws. But 

 there is one bill on which effort should be concentrated. 

 That is the one which provides for the codification of 

 present statutes. This is of the utmost importance. It 

 is virtually taking bearings to determine just where we 

 are. Gov. Hill is reported to have declared that he would 

 sign no game or fish bill sent him until the codification 

 bill is passed. There is certainly no good reason why the 

 Legislature should hesitate or delay to approve the meas- 

 ure. It means bringing order out of chaos. 



Capt. F. A. Boutelle, of the First Cavalry, the Superin- 

 tendant of the Yellowstone National Park, has been 

 ordered east by the Secretary of War, and is npw in 

 Washington. •> He will no doubt appear before the Public 

 Land Committee of the House of Representatives when 

 the bill for the protection of the National Park comes up 

 for consideration. Capt. Boutelle confirms the announce- 

 ments, already made in the Forest and Stream, with 

 regard to the abundance of elk in the Park. He speaks, 

 however, of only one bunch of buffalo, numbering about 

 forty-five, seen this season so far. 



Salmon have been seen in the Hudson River this year. 

 One, estimated to weigh lOlbe. or more, was noted on 

 Washington's Birthday, trying to jump a dam near Troy. 

 The work of providing fishways is progressing and will 

 be completed this year. Then the fish can have free 

 passage to their spawning grounds near Glen Falls, 



To meet the demand for space, caused by a great sup- 

 ply of news in the different departments, the present 

 number consists of thirty-two pages. 



