Forest and Stream. 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



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NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 6, 1890. 



f VOL. XXXV.-No. 16. 



| No. 318 Broadwat, New York. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



A Rainy Day in Camp. 



New York's Protector. 



Snap Shots. 

 Sportsman Tourist. 



Moose River and the West 

 Branch. 



A Plea for the Cowboy. 

 Natctral History. 



Half Hours in the Sierra 

 Nevada. 



The Lion of Fancy and of Fact 



WoodcOck.Whistle and Worm 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



The Quail (poetry). 



Elk on the Snake River. 



Wild Boars in America. 



On the Plaits of Flanders. 



Woodcock Shooting with a 

 Spaniel. 



Minnesota Game Fields. 



Rifle Aiming at Game. 



An All-Round Sporting Gun. 



Dayton Hunters. 



New Mexico Game Galore. 



Geese in the Devil's Lake 

 Country. 



Nights witli the Coons. 



What Can be Done? 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



Tullibee or Mongrel Whitefish 



Fishing with the "Liitle 

 Giant." 



Vermont Trout. 



Sea and River Fishing. 



Pennsylyania Streams. 



The Golden Trout. 



New York Chief Protector. 

 Ftshculture. 



Transporting and Planting 

 Fisb. 



Wbitefish in Carp Ponds. 

 The Kennel. 

 Dog Chat. 



The St. Bernard Lothario. 

 National Coursing Club Meet. 

 A Plea for the Small Dogs. 

 The National Beagle Field 



Trials. 

 Dogs of the Day. 

 Indiana Kennel Club Trials. 

 Show Fixtures. 

 Kennel Notes. 

 Kennel Management. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting, 

 Range and Gallery. 

 The Trap. 



Cheyenne Flats Shoot. 

 Maplewood. 



Des Moines Tournament. 

 Yachting. 



A Cheap Tender. 



A Sweepstakes for 30-Footers. 



Niels Olsen. 

 Canoeing. 



Tne A. C A. Meet of 1890. 



The Definition of an Amateur. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



NEW YORK'S PROTECTOR. 



THE appointment and the discharge of the State Game 

 and Fish Protectors of New York are vested in the 

 Commissioners of Fisheries. At the last meeting of the 

 Commission Fred P. Drew was removed from the office of 

 Chief Protector and J. Warren Pond, of Malone, was ap- 

 pointed in his place. This step met the disapproval of Com- 

 missioner R. U. Sherman, who thereupon tendered his 

 resignation; and Gov. Hill has appointed as the new Com- 

 missioner Mr. L. D. Huntington, of New Rochelle, who is, 

 we believe, a broker of this city. Gen. Sherman's resigna- 

 tion was made out some eighteen months ago, but was 

 withheld by him at the urgent request of Commissioner 

 Blackford. It is much to be regretted that Gen. Sherman 

 has deemed it necessary to leave the Commission; his de- 

 votion to the work and his activity and intelligent com- 

 prehension of fish and game interests have always made 

 him a most valued member of that body; and we speak 

 for the people of the State when we express the wish 

 that he might have continued in office. 



The removal of Protector Drew appears to have en- 

 countered disapprobation in some parts of the State, and 

 the Utica Fish and Game Protective Association has gone 

 so far as to set in motion a petition asking Governor Hill 

 to interfere for his reinstatement. This action has mani- 

 festly been taken on the hearing of Protector Drew only. 

 "We cannot believe that the Utica Association has in- 

 quired into the matter fully. The Commissioners are not 

 men whom we should expect to remove officials in this 

 way unless convinced that the changes were necessary 

 for the good of the service. They have the very best 

 means of knowing the merits of this case, and it may be 

 assumed that they have acted wisely and justly ; and that 

 the results will show it. It is known that when the 

 Legislature has been in session, Chief Protector Drew, 

 whose office is in Albany, has been more active as a 



lobbyist than as a game and fish protector. If Mr. Pond 

 shall let politics severely alone and attend strictly to the 

 business for which the State pays him his salary, there 

 will be found, even in this one respect alone, sufficient 

 justification for the change. As protector in the fifth 

 district, with headquarters at Malone, Mr. Pond has made 

 an excellent record, and there is every reason to believe 

 that he will fill the higher office in a like satisfactory 

 manner. 



No intelligent person who knows the composition of the 

 Board of Fish Commissioners of this State will for a mo- 

 ment question that it is dominated by a most commend- 

 able public spirit. It has no axes to grind. Its mem- 

 bers are not politicians. They have regard only for the 

 public interest. When they discharge one man and put 

 another in his place, their action must be accepted as 

 what appears to them to be right. And the overwhelm- 

 ing probabilities are that they have acted wisely. 



In the face of such probabilities, it is of the utmost im- 

 portance that a game and fish protective society should 

 take the pains to assure itself beyond all question that 

 the Commissioners have erred, before espousing the 

 cause of a removed official. In the absence of such pre- 

 caution a club might be betrayed into taking action 

 which in the future it would sincerely regret. 



A RAINY DAY IN CAMP. 

 HPHE plans of the camper, like those of other men, 

 "gang aft aglee." The morrow which he proposed 

 to devote to some long-desired hunting or fishing trip, is 

 no more apt to dawn propitiously on him than on the 

 husbandman, the mariner or any other mortal who looks 

 to the weather for special favor. 



On the contrary, instead of the glowing horizon and 

 the glory of the sunburst that should usher in the morn- 

 ing, the slow dawn is quite apt to have the unwelcome 

 accompaniment of rain. 



The hearing, first alert of the drowsy senses, catches 

 the sullen patter of the drops on tent or shanty, their 

 spiteful, hissing fall on the smoldering embers of the 

 camp-fire, and with a waft of damp earth and herbage 

 stealing into his nostrils, the disappointed awakener turns 

 fretfully under his blanket, then crawls forth to have his 

 lingering hope smothered in the veil of rain that blurs the 

 landscape almost to annihilation. 



He mutters anathemas against the weather, then takes 

 the day as it has come to him, for better or for worse. 



First, to make the best of it, he piles high the camp- 

 fire, and dispels with its glow and warmth some cubic feet 

 of gloom and dampness. 



Then he sets about breakfast-making, scurrying forth 

 from shelter to fire, in rapid culinary forays, battling 

 with the smoke, for glimpses of the contents of kettle 

 and pan. His repast is as pungent with smoke as the 

 strong waters of Glenlivat, but if that is valued for its 

 flavor of peat-reek, why should he scorn food for the like 

 quality. 



Then if he delights in petty warfare with the elements, 

 to bide the pelting of the rain, to storm the abattis of wet 

 thickets and suffer the sapping and mining of insidious 

 moisture, he girds up his loins and goes forth with rod or 

 gun, as his desire of conquest may incline him. 



But if he has come to his outing with the intention of 

 pursuing sport with bodily comfort, he is at once assured 

 that this is unattainable under the present conditions of 

 the weather. How then shall he beguile the tediousness 

 of a wet day in camp? 



With books and papers? Nay, if they were not, they 

 should have been left behind in the busy, plodding world 

 that he came here to escape from. He wants nothing 

 here that reminds him of traffic or politics; nothing of 

 history, for now he has only to do with the present; noth- 

 ing of travel, for his concern now is only with the explor- 

 ation of this wild domain. He does not wish to be 

 bothered with fiction, idealized reality is what he desires. 

 Neither does he care for what other men have written of 

 nature. Her book is before him and he may read it from 

 first hands. 



Looking forth from his snug shelter on the circum- 

 scribed landscape, he marvels at the brightness of a 

 distant yellow tree that shines like a living flame through 

 the veil of mist. The blaze of his sputtering camp-fire 

 is not brighter. He notices, as perhaps he never did 

 before, how distinctly the dark ramage of the branches 

 is traced among the brilliant leaves, as if with their 

 autumnal hues they were given transparency. 



Some unfelt waft of the upper air casts aside for a 

 moment the curtain of mist and briefly discloses a moun- 

 tain peak, radiant with all the hues of autumn, and it is 

 as if one were given, as in a dream, a glimpse of the un- 

 discovered country. 



He realizes a dreamy pleasure in watching the waves 

 coming in out of the obscurity and dashing on the shore, 

 or pulsing away in fading leaden lines into the mystery 

 of the wrack. 



In the borders of the mist the ducks revel in the upper 

 and nether wetness, and with uncanny laughter the loon 

 rejoices between his long explorations of the aquatic 

 depths. 



A mink, as heedless of rain as the waterfowl, comes 

 stealing along the shore, thridding the intricacies of 

 driftwood and web of wave-washed tree roots, often 

 peering out in inquisitive examination of the quiet camp. 



Less cautious visitors draw nearer — the friendly chick- 

 adee, hanging from the nearest twig; the nuthatch, 

 sounding his penny trumpet, accompanied by the tap of 

 the woodpecker, as one creeps down, the other up a tree- 

 trunk; the scolding jays, making as noisy protest over 

 human intrusion as if they had just discovered it; a 

 saucy squirrel, scoffing and jeering, till tired of his rail- 

 lery he settles down to quiet nut-rasping under shelter of 

 his tail. 



There are unseen visitors, too— woodmice, astir under 

 cover of the fallen leaves, and, just discernible among 

 the patter of the falling rain and of the squirrels' filings, 

 footfalls unidentified, till a ruffed grouse starts new show- 

 ers from the wet branches in the thunder of his flight. 



Narrowed to the width of tent or shanty front, the 

 background but a pallid shroud of mist, the landscape 

 yet holds much for pleasant study. 



But if the weather-bound camper exhausts this or tires 

 of it, he may turn to gun-cleaning or tackle-mending. If 

 a guide be with him, he can listen to his stories of hunting, 

 fishing and adventure, or learn woodcraft of him and the 

 curious ways of birds and beasts. 



He may fashion birch bark camp ware, dippers, cups 

 and boxes, or whittle a paddle from a smooth-rifted maple. 



If he is of artistic turn, he can pleasantly devote an 

 hour to etching pictures on the white under surface of 

 the fungus that grows on decaying trees, and so provide 

 himself with reminders of this rainy day in camp. 



So with one and another pastime, he whiles away the 

 sunless day, which almost before he has thought of it, 

 merges into the early nightfall, and he is lulled to sleep 

 by the same sound that wakened him, the drip and patter 

 of the rain. 



And when he looks back to these days of outing he may 

 count this, that dawned so unpropitiously, not the least 

 pleasant and profitable among them, and mark with a 

 white stone the rainy day in camp. 



In past years it has been practically impossible to 

 punish game law breakers on Long Island, for local pub- 

 lic sentiment as a rule was in sympathy with the offender, 

 and the justices of the peace, elected at town meetings, 

 have usually either shared this sentiment themselves or 

 have taken due account of it, and let off the trespassers 

 and trout netters and game killers very lightly. Two re- 

 cent cases, however, show a change. The other day Justice 

 Carman, of Sayville, fined a trespasser on the South Side 

 Club's preserves $10 and costs, or about $25 in all; and 

 Justice Hawkins, of Ronkonkoma, imposed a fine of $85 

 on two men who had killed a deer on Sunday, Oct. 19. 

 These cases give promise of a change which has been long 

 needed and will be warmly welcomed. Justices Carman 

 and Hawkins deserve credit for their action in making 

 fish and game laws something else than by-words. 



The New York Fish Commission made a large figure 

 record for the fiscal year ending with September. There 

 were 477 arrests of persons accused of violating the fish 

 and game laws, and of these-396 were convicted and paid 

 fines to the amount of $7,229.56. Among the other cases 

 pending are some which will materially increase the 

 financial showing, among them the case of the Delmon- 

 icos, of this city, who for having served woodcock out of 

 season will be called upon, if convicted — and there is 

 said to be plenty of evidence — something like $600. The 

 illegal nets destroyed by the protectors during the year 

 were valued at $19,696. The fish stocking operations for 

 the period comprised the planting of 4,000,000 lake trout, 

 nearly 4,000,000 whitefish, 2,000,000 shad and other spe- 

 cies, making an aggregate of 40,000,000. 



