Forest and Stream 



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NEW YORK, JULY 31, 1890. 



j VOL. JCXXV.-No. 2. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



Stray Dogs and the A. K. C. 



The Blueflsh in His Abun- 

 dance. 



Fish for Park Waters. 

 Sportsman Tourist. 



On the Nepeague Shore. 



A Note from "Pacific." 



A Plea for Moderation. 

 Natural History. 



Poison Oak or Poison Ivy. 



Habits of the White Goat. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



New England Game. 



Open Game Seasons. 



Chicago and the West. 



Chinese Pheasants in Amer- 

 ica. 



Jacking Deer in Maine. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



Chicago Bass Waters. 



Black Bass in Delaware River. 



"Jumping" Ba c s. 



Angling Notes. 



Chicago an<l the West. 



Habits of Black Bass. 



The New Iowa Fish Law. 



Big-Mouth and Small-Mouth. 

 Ftshculture. 



The Artificial Breeding of 

 Fisb. 



Trout Culture Again. 



The Kennel. 

 Pedigree of the Mastiff Mont- 

 gomery. 

 Fleas. 



English vs. American Beagles. 

 Is this Dumb Rabies? 

 A. K. C. Affairs. 

 Dogs of the Day. 

 Dog Talk. 

 Detroit Dog Show. 

 Kennel Notes. | f 



Kennel Management. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 

 Range and Gallery. 

 Creedmoor. 

 The Trap. 



St. Louis. 



Brooklyn. 

 Yachting. 



Yachting in Japan. 



New York Y. C. Cruise. 



Beverly Y. C. 

 Canoeing. 



Central Division Meet. 



A Bit of Australian Canoeing. 



Lake St. Louis C. C. Regatta. 



New York C. C. 



American Canoe Association 

 Meet. 



A. C. A. Transportation. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



THE BLUE FISH IN HIS ABUNDANCE. 

 T7ISHERMEN with rod and line or line and squid have 

 -*- amply satisfied themselves by this time that bhiefish 

 have severely scourged the seacoast from North Carolina 

 to Massachusetts, and doubtless further north. Early in 

 July the waters of New Jersey were the scene of their 

 depredations and their undoing for sport and for profit. 

 Everybody knows that tons and tons of these fish have 

 been dumped into markets of New York and Boston, 

 where they quickly produced a glut — as one would ex- 

 pect from such inveterate gluttons. On July 16, lOObbls. 

 of bluefish arrived in Boston from Cape Cod, and on the 

 17th the run continued. It seems but yesterday that 

 we heard of the terrible onslaughts of these piratical 

 hordes by which the beach at Atlantic City was lined 

 with helpless masses of fish, struggling to escape from 

 the destructive jaws of their dreaded enemy, the blue- 

 fish. There was a report that the victims picked up on 

 the sands or scooped out of shallow depths with nets 

 were menhaden; but we are informed by Mr. T. F. Schnei- 

 der, of Washington, D. C, who was on the ground soon 

 after the occurrence, that they were weakfish beyond the 

 possibility of a doubt. This goes to verify a statement, 

 more than once repeated in Forest and Stream, that the 

 bluefish is the great destroyer of food fishes and does not 

 limit his savage attentions to the menhaden. Ale wives, 

 scup, mackerel and every other fish of suitable size serve 

 to dull the edge of his keen appetite. Anchovies, young 

 herring, silversides and the young of all food fishes in his 

 vicinity, are bolted into his capacious maw, beginning 

 with the period in his career when men call him the 

 snapping mackerel. 



"We know little about the babyhood of this rapacious 

 species. The IT. S. Fish Commission has collected exam- 

 ples of one inch or less in length at sea, well off our Mid- 

 dle States, but the embryonic history of the fish is very 

 imperfectly understood. The adult is pelagic and a rover, 



coming suddenly with a great wave of disaster to his con- 

 temporaries, and going without apparent cause into ob- 

 scure retreats, which the eye of science has not yet pene- 

 trated; but whether in bays and sounds of the Western 

 Atlantic, or on the shores of West Africa, or plunging 

 through Indian Seas, the bluefish never changes his re- 

 lentless ferocity, however men may change his name. 

 Therefore, when we hear that vessels are creaking with 

 their burdens of bluefish and that successful fishermen 

 like our friend Schneider, during a brief vacation from 

 columns and arches and building lines, have gathered in 

 hundreds of pounds of these animated chopping machines 

 with a clumsy combination of iron and bone, lead and 

 cotton twine, sometimes baited with a piece of rag, we 

 take courage, look more hopefully into the future, and 

 fall upon our broiled bluefish, alias tailor, with renewed 

 relish. Why should not the bluefish be a choice morsel 

 since he appropriates and assimilates the best of the food 

 fishes which the waters contain ? 



STRAY DOGS AND THE A. K. C. 



THE dog question in any large city is a permanent and 

 a pressing one. Year in and year out the care and 

 control of the thousands of these animals resident within 

 city limits engage the attention of a large number of in- 

 dividuals and entail an expenditure of many thousands 

 of dollars. The matter may be looked at from a dozen 

 various standpoints. A chapter might be written upon 

 the care of dogs in town, another upon the various cru- 

 elties practiced and the measures for their repression; 

 yet again there is the question of the best breeds of dogs 

 for use as house pets and the characteristics of each. But 

 apart from all these is the ever current problem of dis- 

 posing of the stray and worthless curs. In past num- 

 bers Forest and Stream has gone somewhat into the 

 ways and manners of doing this work in various cities, and 

 from these it is easy to gather the conclusion that there 

 is a woful want of any sort of a systematic, sensible style 

 of disposing of the dog condemned as useless to society. 



Here in New York we have daily exhibitions of how 

 not to do it, or rather how to do it in the most brutal 

 and revolting fashion. The dog-catcher is the freebooter 

 of the streets. His presence fills dog owners and dog 

 lovers with dread and disgust; and after all, the work un- 

 dertaken is only half done and at an expense out of all 

 proportion to the results accomplished. It is enough to 

 know that the evil exists, the practical question is how 

 to remedy the present abuses. We find a hint as to the 

 solution of this problem in the work of a dozen societies, 

 organized for a specific line of endeavor. Instances by 

 the dozen will occur to the mind of any reader, where 

 laws and ordinances remained dead letters on the statute 

 book until some society was brought into being, self- 

 charged with the task of the enforcement of this or that 

 part of the code. 



Why not, then, in furtherance of this same plan, have 

 the American Kennel Club take upon itself the task of 

 dog regulation in the metropolis. The plain object of the 

 very proper dog law is the destruction of worthless ani- 

 mals. Who more competent to discriminate upon the 

 fate of a dog than the members and agents of such a 

 club? It is a body of dog lovers, of lovers of good dogs, 

 and able to pick out and condemn those not worthy of 

 life. Then we should hear no more tales of brutal black- 

 mailing, of the persistent worrying of dog admirers 

 which is now going on. The friendless street animal will 

 be removed quietly and effectually, while the really valu- 

 able dog, even though for the moment he may be astray, 

 will not be hurried away or held for ransom. Secretary 

 Vredenburgh would find in the control and direction of 

 such a work in such a city as this a fine outlet for his 

 highly esteemed executive talent and managerial ability. 

 Gradually such innovations will be made in the whole 

 system as will bring it up to the proper requirements of 

 this age. Dog lovers will cooperate with the dog catcher, 

 and the general public will be more than satisfied with 

 a plan which puts just the right person to direct a work 

 for which he is, by training and natural tendencies, emi- 

 nently qualified. The American Kennel Club is pos- 

 sessed of enthusiasm, of knowledge, of means. It has 

 the friends of the dog on its member's list roll and what 

 greater act of friendship could be done to the whole dog 

 world than the decent disposal of dogs deemed unworthy 

 of life. The plain simple issue is: First.— The 

 present method, at least in this city, could not be worse. 

 Second. — The American Kennel Ciub is eminently quali- 



fied to undertake and carry through the work in a fashion 

 satisfactory to all. Third.— Will the American Kennel 

 Club undertake the work and further extent its field in 

 this line of endeavor ? 



There is need of reform in other cities as well. The 

 police of Pittsburgh, Pa., have been disgracing them- 

 selves and humanity by their brutal killing of dogs; little 

 pets were killed almost in child ren's arms, and the offi- 

 cers, fired by the hope of a paltry reward, ran amuck 

 until stopped by the Humane Society. 



FISH FOR PARK WATERS. 

 POOREST AND STREAM has kept it readers informed 

 *- of the progress of the great work in fish planting to 

 be undertaken in the National Park. As is well known 

 to those familiar with this region, there are many lakes 

 and streams which, while apparently in every way suited 

 to support trout and other food fish, are now quite desti- 

 tute of fish life. These waters abound in insect and other 

 fish food. 



Soon after reaching the Park, Captain Boutelle, the 

 Superintendent, who is an enthusiastic angler, learned of 

 these barren waters and made up his mind that they 

 could be utilized. He communicated with Colonel Mc- 

 Donald, the U. S. Fish Commissioner, and when the lat- 

 ter learned the facts of the case they interested him so 

 greatly that he made a visit to the Park, and in company 

 with Captain Boutelle went over a good part of the 

 ground. The results of this visit have already been 

 stated. Last fall a few thousand fry of the Eastern 

 brook trout were planted in the Gardiner River, and 

 these have already attained a length of from 4 to 6in. 

 This is very satisfactory evidence of the possibilities of 

 these barren waters. 



Preliminary to the work of planting the large shipment 

 of fish in these Yellowstone waters was the visit to the 

 Park made last autumn by Messrs. Jordan and Gilbert 

 for the purpose of studying the waters which it is pro- 

 posed to stock and their life. Now Prof. S. A. Forbes, 

 whose work on the food of birds and fishes is well known, 

 and Prof. Edwin Linton, of Washington and Jefferson 

 College, Washington, Pa., have gone to the Park to make 

 collections of the invertebrates occurring in its lakes and 

 rivers, particularly those forming the food of fishes. 

 The principal lakes which will be studied are the Yel- 

 lowstone and Heart in the region now inhabited by trout, 

 and Shoshone and Lewis lakes, which are at present desti- 

 tute of trout. These two gentlemen will be the only natur- 

 alists engaged in that investigation; they will employ ' 

 such helpers as they require at the scene of operations, 

 and will be occupied there about one month. Another 

 very important feature of their work will be the study of 

 the entozoa and other parasites affecting the fishes of the 

 region. After this work is completed Prof. Forbes will 

 take up the same line of investigation in Lake Michigan, 

 where he will have a rich field of study. 



Mr. E. R. Lucas is preparing to start for the Park in 

 advance of the shipment of trout from Northville. He 

 will make arrangements for the movement of the fish 

 promptly upon their arrival at Cinnabar, to which point 

 the car will carry them. Mr. Lucas will also collect 

 whitefish and grayling from the tributaries of the Mad- 

 ison and deposit them in Yellowstone River above the 

 falls, and Yellowstone Lake, near its outlet. Grayling 

 will be planted in the Lava and Tower Creek basins. 



The trout will be forwarded by car No. 2 from North- 

 ville in charge of Mr. Dunnington. They are all finger, 

 lings, and include lake trout, 100,000; von Behr trout, 

 25,000; Loch Leven, 25,000, and brook trout, 25,000. 

 Landlocked salmon were to be sent also, but the young 

 of this species held at Northville failed to do well and the 

 introduction of this fish must be deferred for the present. 

 The lake trout and Loch Levens are intended for Jakes 

 Shoshone and Lewis. The von Behr (S. fario) go to the 

 Fire Hole and the Nez Perces. The brook trout are in- 

 tended for the Gardiner River Basin, which was stocked 

 with this species last summer. The transfer to lakes Sho- 

 shone and Lewis, which are'now destitute of trout, will be 

 made by mule packs, and this has involved the construc- 

 tion of special transfer cans, which will be taken out in 

 the car. 



This is the most important and extensive transfer of 

 trout ever undertaken, with regard to the number of fish 

 and the vast extent of territory to be stocked. The entire 

 work will be prosecuted with the valuable advice and 

 effective co-operation of Capt, Boutelle, Superintendent 

 of the Park. 



