Forest and Stream. 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



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NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 25, 1890. 



f VOL. XXXV.— No. 10. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



A Maine Fnterprise. 

 Tak« th e Bov. 



The Fish Crmmission Investi- 

 gation. 



Tbe Heath (Ten. 

 Sportsman Tourist. 



Trapping Days.— V. 



In Bruin's Stronghold. 



Boston Sportsman's Outings. 

 Natural History. 



Top Heath Hen. 



Collecting or the Seal Islands. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



A Southern Ttxas Game 

 Countrv. 



Calif' rnia Quail. 



Wore -ster sportsmen. 



Some Newfoundland Resorts. 



Game Notes. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



•'Abeo Pise- urn." 



The njuos of t he St. Clair Flats 



Winninish of the Metabeich- 

 ouan. 



Caip nnd Cows. 



Maine Bla/ k Bass. 



R'ver Je«nnotie Trout. 



Antrli> e Notes. 

 Ftshoudture. 



Shad in Alaska. 



The Kennel. 



Pedigree of the Mastiff Du 

 Vernat's L'on. 



Dog Talk from England. 



Dogs of the Day. 



The Manitoba Field Trials. 



Toronto Doe Show. 



London Show. 



Ot awa Show. 



Kennel Notes. 



Kennel Management. 

 Rirus and Trap shooting. 



Range and f^allerv 



Dnyton Sharpshooters. 



The Trap. 



Mand Gun Club. 



Cats-nil Tournament. 



Heeville, Texas. 



Chicago Trans- 



Keystone Rules. 



New Jersey Association. 

 Yachting 



The Oat-S'oip Rahnee. 



Columbia Y. C. 



Rqei- g Notes. 

 Canoeing. 



Racing Rules and Standing 

 Sails. 



Philadelphia C. O. 



Amendment, of A. C. A. Rules. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



A MAINE ENTERPRISE. 



THERE is an organization of sportsmen, anglers, 

 guides and other persons interested, with head- 

 quarters at Rangeley, Me. , under the title of the Franklin 

 County Fish and Game Association. The members are 

 banded together to promote the fishing and hunting 

 interests of that region; and they have gone at it in an 

 eminently sensible and business-like way, by restocking 

 the waters with game fish. Last season, tbe first, they 

 were successful in raising some 40,000 landlocked salmon. 

 This year they propose working on a larger scale, and are 

 planning for putting out a million landlocked salmon and 

 trout. 



The Association is in need of funds, and has issued a 

 call, which we take pleasure in giving mention here, 

 asking for the support of residents and visitors. There 

 is hard common sense in the considerations which the 

 Franklin county people present. Plantings of fish fry, 

 say they, will mean better fishing, which will insure 

 greater satisfaction among summer tourists, whose num- 

 bers will be increased thereby. This will mean more 

 employment for guides, more business for all who have 

 to do with summer travel; increased demand for garden 

 and farm products; and as the visiting sportsmen, 

 charmed by the attractions of Rangeley, Andover and 

 Phillips, become in time permanent summer residents, 

 the values of land will increase, and all local industries 

 will share in the growing p-osperity. This is precisely 

 what has happened in other regions, and such a course of 

 development and prosperity may safely be predicted for 

 any favored fishing locality, whose residents have the 

 business acumen to recognize their advantages and op- 

 portunities. 



The Franklin County Association has made an excel- 

 lent beginning. Thus to present and insist upon the 

 economic profit of wise game and fish conservation is 

 gure to tell to the end. It is a plan of campaign that will 



succeed. The great trouble with most game and fish pro- 

 tective associations is that too great dependence is placed 

 upon the skill of the members in trap shooting. Such 

 societies would do well to note and follow the busintss- 

 like methods of the Franklin County Society. 



The president of the Association is Capt. F. C. Barker, 

 and the secretary is Mr. H. A. Furbish, Rangeley, Me. 

 Membership costs $2 per year, and all funds are devoted 

 to fish propagation and fish and game protection. There 

 should be a large list of non resident members. 



THE FISH COMMISSION INVESTIGATION. 

 HTHE Senate investigation of the United States Fish 

 Commission, which began several months ago, has 

 been closed after taking 600 printed pages of testimony, 

 mainly from persons who were expected to sustain the 

 charges of nepotism and use of public property for priv- 

 ate advantage. While it is probable that the pressure of 

 important bills and the near approach of adjournment 

 will prevent the investigating committee from making a 

 report during the present session, it is well understood 

 that the unseemly attack upon this useful branch of the 

 Government service will simply result in establishing the 

 efficiency of the Commission and the animus of its enemies. 

 The investigation has disclosed just the opposite of what 

 the attacking parties hoped to show. Instead of fraud 

 and incompetence, there is abundant evidence of in- 

 tegrity and increased skill. The Fish Commission can 

 stand such scrutiny without flinching: but the amount of 

 valuable time lost thereby is a very serious matter, and 

 the expense involved in this malicious persecution is an 

 item of no less serious moment. It would strike the 

 average person of intelligence rather forcibly at this 

 juncture that somebody should be made to suffer for this 

 wanton exhibition of petty spite, with all the deplorable 

 consequences involved in its gratification. 



TAKE THE BOY. 



IT is a hopeful indication for the future of field sports 

 that in several recent papei-3 by sportsmen the boy 

 accompanies tbe father in his recreations, to the pleasurt 

 and advantage of both . 



The gray-beard thrills with the delight of long-ago 

 youth if his boy shows a quick eye and wit and a hand 

 prompt to obey both. He is as pleased and proud as tbe 

 youngster himself, if the son gets bird, beast or fish skill- 

 fully and honorably. "With this quick imitator hj his 

 side, he grows punctilious in observing every law laid 

 down by man or by nature concerning the game he seeks, 

 that he may teach by his practice a reverence for such 

 laws and an obedience to them. The "pocket pistol," too. 

 is left behind, if it ever before was thought an essential 

 part of the refreshments. 



From too great familiarity, or from the oppressing 

 cares that added years often lay upon the elder (and that 

 will not stay behind), if unaccompanied by this quick 

 observer, he would pass unnoticed many objects of inter- 

 est and beauty— here a wood duck preened her plumage 

 and left a many-hued feather on the log for token; a 

 water lily, late blooming, gleams under an overhanging 

 water maple; a hawk circles the far-off hilltop; or on a 

 yellow birch a vireo has swung her birch bark basket; a 

 fox has left a chicken's bone or turkey feather on the 

 gray rock where he feasted the night before; a woodcock 

 has twice bored the black mud by the wood road bridge. 



To the boy such companionship brings numberless 

 benefits. One of the best is the surprised feeling swell 

 ing his breast and beaming in his face of the comradeship 

 implied. 



He learns so pleasantly safe and legitimate methods of 

 sportsmanship, that he will not forget to practice them in 

 coming years. For him there will be no careless hand- 

 ling of the gun, no foolhardy feat attempted on the 

 water, no fingerlings in his creel nor unlawful game in 

 his big. 



He learns to love the woods, as by his father's side he 

 steals silently over their sunny slopes to surprise a par- 

 tridge; or as he stands by him, with finger on trigger and 

 heart in throat, under birch or hemlock in October sun- 

 shine, listening to the nearing bugles of the hounds. 

 So, in like manner, he loves the grass-bordered brook, 

 from whose pools the trout leaps to his father's skillful 

 cast, and the broader streams, where bass and salmon 

 play. And mingled with this love of nature and her 

 healthful recreations, there grows a stronger filial affec- 

 tion, not likely to grow less as the years increase. 



FISH FOOD FOR THE PEOPLE. 



A NUMBER of public-spirited gentlemen, among 

 whom are ex-Judge Geo. F. Danforth, Justices 

 Win. Rumsey aDd W. H. Adams, Wm, Purcell, editor of 

 the Rochester Union and Advertiser, ex-Senator George 

 Raines, H. H. "Warner, president of the Anglers' A-socia- 

 tion of the St. Lawrence River, and Chas. B ibeock, pres- 

 ident of the Caledonia Fishing Club, have issued a circu- 

 lar appeal, urging a public movement for the increasing 

 and cheapening of the food fish supply of the State 

 of New York. These gentlemen urge that with proper 

 care the fisheries of Lake Ontario might be so vastly in- 

 creased as to furnish a supply of food which would mate- 

 rially affect the eost of living to tbe people of the State. 

 They point out that New York is far behind O iio, Michi- 

 gan, Illinois, Wisconsin and the Dominion in the work 

 of keeping up a supply of whitefish; and it is urged that 

 the results attained by these other States and by Canada 

 have not only demonstrated the wisdom of their course 

 in systematic food fish culture on a large scale in the 

 waters of the Great Lakes, but have shown with equal 

 emphasis New York's want of wisdom in not giving due 

 attention to similar work. The specific demands to be 

 made for the future in this field are thus detailed: 



First — Regular and liberal yearly appropriations for the 

 special purpose of propagating food fish, and especially of 

 whitefish, in Lake Ontario and other suitable bodies of 

 water of the State. 



Second — Stringent laws against netting or fishing dur- 

 ing spawning season, and on spawning beds. 



Third — Forbidding the use of any net with a smaller 

 mesh than 3^ inches; and the catching and marketing of 

 whitefish of less than two pounds weight; and other fish 

 in proportion. 



Fourth — The appointment of a first-class fi h warden, 

 with enough deputies thoroughly to patrol and protect all 

 the stocked waters of the State, according to law. 



Fifth — Co-operation with the National and Dominion 

 governments. If we show that we will give the money 

 and enforce the laws, we know our own government will 

 co-operate with us in this great and beneficent movement, 



THE HEATH HEN. 



IT is to be hoped that Mr.Wildim Brewster's interesting 

 notes on the heath hen of Martha's Vineyard, pub- 

 lished in our Natural History columns, may have the 

 careful reading merited by them. Here is a valuable 

 <ame bird, which as the remnant of an abundant supply- 

 once tcattered over a wide territory of the Eastern States, 

 nas persisted on a single inland of Missachusetts When 

 one considers the restricted area of the Vineyard cover, 

 and all the agencies which are working to destroy it, the 

 -urvival of the heath hen here is a matter of wonder. 

 It speaks well for the hardiness of the bird and gives 

 abundant assurance that if properly protected and by 

 transplanting given a wider territory, the species might 

 once more be reckoned among the game birds of the 

 East. Mr. Brewster's suggestion that the eu' jtct mijiht 

 well be given attention by the enter prising sportsmen of 

 Boston is well worth consideration. The Massachusetts 

 Association would render a service certain to be appre- 

 ciated, if they would use their influence and their means 

 to protect and increase the stock of heath hens. 



That Adirondack Fawn Outrage.— We have re- 

 ceived full confirmation of. the report given in our issue 

 of Sept. 4, of the fawn killing case on the upper Cha- 

 teaugay Lake in tbe Adirondacks. The so-styled sporls- 

 manwas one J. J. White, of Philadelphia. The testimony 

 given on the trial before Judge C. Richardson, of Lyon 

 Mountain, was that when the fawn, driven by the hounds 

 into the lake, its mother having just been killed on the 

 shore, was rescued by two ladies, these fellows White and 

 Barraby rowed up, and White threatened that unless the 

 fawn were given up to him he wouid shoot it where it 

 was. Having thus terrified the ladies, White seized the 

 fawn by the hindlegs, dragged it out of the boat into his 

 own, and killed it. The paltry fine of $50 paid by White 

 for this proceeding was an inadequate penalty; the fla- 

 grancy of his offense deserved a more fitting punishment. 



MR. Austin Corbin has recently imported a number of 

 wild boars from the Black Forest, and put them out on 

 his extended game preserve in New Hampshire. Other 

 boars have previously been introduced, into New York 

 and New Jersey. 



