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( VOL. XXXV.-No. 17. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 

 SalinonidEo Planted in Yellow- 

 stone Park. 

 A Common Experience. 

 Millions of Shad. 

 New York's Game Protector. 

 Sportsman Tourist. 

 Moose River and the West 



Branch. 

 The Phantom of Nahrnakunta 

 A Bea* jaunt and its Sequel. 

 Natural History. 

 Half Hours in the Sierra 



Nevada. 

 The Lion of Fancy and of Fact 

 Game Bag and Gun. 

 Chicago and the West. 

 Maine Game. 



A South Dakota Game Coun- 

 try. 



Grouse Shooting with a Beagle 



Where Bruin Needs No Pro- 

 tection. 



As Seen by a Pessimist. 



Elk on the Snake River. 



A Word for the Englishman. 



Virginia Field Sports Associa- 

 tion. 



Gelbite Ammunition. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 

 Aureolus. 



Vermont Trout and Perch. 

 "Don't s" for Amateur Tackle 



Makers. 

 The Fresh-Water Drum. 



Sea and River Fishing. 



More About Vermont Trout. 



Blind Fish From a Well. 

 Ftshculture. 



Maine Fishculture. 

 The Kennel. 



Central Field Trial Entries. 



The Gordon Setter Stake. 



Robins Island Club's Field 

 Trials. 



The Pointer Club of America. 

 National Beagle Field Trials. 

 A Day With a Scratch Pack. 

 The Peshall Case. 

 A. K. C. Advisory Committee. 

 Dog Chat. 

 Kennel Notes. 

 Kennel Management. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting 

 Range and Gallery. 

 A Revolver Target. 

 The Trap. 



Mr. Drury Underwood. 



The Dayton Wind-Up. 



Standard-Keystone Target Co 



Cbicago vs. Kansas City. 

 Yachting. 



The America's Cup. 



A New International Chal- 

 lenge Cup. 



The Wrecked Catarina. 

 Canoeing. 



The A.C. A. Meet of 1890. 



The Vote of 1889. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



NEW YORK'S GAME PROTECTOR. 



AT the meeting of the New York Fish Commission 

 last Tuesday, representatives of the Anglers' Asso- 

 ciation of the St. Lawrence River and of the Utica Fish 

 and Game Association were present to protest against the 

 action of the Commissioners in removing Chief Game and 

 Fish Protector Frederick P. Drew. Secretary Thompson 

 of the St. Lawrence Association urged that Mr. Drew's 

 retention in the place was of vital importance to the 

 cause, and that his dismissal meant serious injury to the 

 service. The Commissioners replied that their inside 

 knowledge of the work of the protectors afforded them 

 better means of judging of the efficiency of the several 

 members of the force, and of the wisdom of changes, than 

 could be had by outsiders. In executive session it was 

 resolved by the Commission to retain Major J. W. Pond. 



We believe that the Commissioners and the clubs are 

 actuated by a sincere desire to see the service the best 

 attainable, and while such differences as have arisen in 

 this case are to be deplored, there is yet found in them 

 an assurance of one fact, namely that the public is alive 

 to the importance of game protection, and is watching 

 its conduct with careful scrutiny. This is a condition in 

 the highest degree encouraging. Game and fish conser- 

 vation has become a live issue of the day. 



Now that it has been definitely determined to retain 

 Chief Protector Pond, the Commissioners have a right to 

 ask that he be given the same cooperation and aid that 

 societies and individuals have given his predecessor. 

 Time will tell whether the change has been wise or fool- 

 ish. Let us hope that the work will go on. The situa- 

 tion in this State is full of encouragement. Better the 

 clash ings of factions at odds, if need be, than the dead- 

 alive apathy that in almost every quarter of the country 

 calls no check on game slaughter and fish destruction. 



A COMMON EXPERIENCE. 



"VTOT the keenest of the sportsman's sorrows is a blank 

 day, nor a series of misses, unaccountable or too 

 well accountable to a blundering hand or unsteady 

 nerves, nor adverse weather, nor gun or tackle broken in 

 the midst of a good day's sport, nor perversity of dogs, 

 nor uncongeniality of comradeship, not yet even the 

 sudden cold or the spell of rheumatism that prevents his 

 taking the field on the long allotted day. 



All these may be but for a day. To-morrow may bring 

 game again to haunts to-day untenanted, restore cunning 

 to the awkward hand, steady the nerves, mend the 

 broken implement, make ;the dogs obedient and bring 

 pleasanter comrades or the comfortable lonesomeness of 

 one's own companionship, and to-morrow or next day or 

 next week the cold and rheumatic twinges may have 

 passed into the realms of bygone ills. 



For a year, perhaps for many years, he has yearned for 

 a sight of some beloved haunt, endeared to him by old 

 and cherished associations. 



He fancies that once more among the scenes of his 

 youthful exploits there will return to him something of 

 the boyish ardor, exuberance of spirit and perfect free- 

 dom from care that made the enjoyment of those happy 

 hours so complete. 



He imagines that a draught from the old spring that 

 bubbles up in the shadow of the beeches or from the 

 moss-brimmed basin of the trout brook will rejuvenate 

 him, at least for the moment while its coolness lingers on 

 his palate, as if he quaffed Ponce de Leon's undiscovered 

 fountain. 



He doubts not that in the breath of the old woods he 

 shall once more catch that faint, indescribable, but unfor- 

 gotten aroma, that subtle savor of wildness, that has so 

 long eluded him, sometimes tantalizing his nostrils with 

 a touch, but never quite inhaled since its pungent elixir 

 made the young blood tingle in his veins. 



He has almost come to his own again, his long-lost 

 possession in the sunny realm of youth. It lies just be- 

 yond the hill before him, from whose crest he shall see 

 the nut tree, where he shot his first squirrel, the south- 

 ing slope where the beeches hide the spring, where he 

 astonished himself with the glory of killing his first 

 grouse, and he shall see the glint of the brook flashing 

 down the evergreen dell and creeping among the alder 

 copses. 



He does not expect to find so many squirrels or grouse 

 or trout now as thirty years ago, when a double gun was 

 a wonder, and its possession the unrealized dream of 

 himself and his comrades, and none of them had ever 

 seen jointed rod or artificial fly, and dynamite was un- 

 invented. Yet all the game and fish cannot have been 

 driven from nor exterminated in haunts so congenial 

 and fostering as these by the modern horde of gunners 

 and anglers and by latter day devices of destruction, and 

 he doubts not that he shall find enough to satisfy the 

 tempered ardor of the graybeard. 



Indeed, it is for something better than mere shooting 

 or fishing that he has come so far. One squirrel, flicking 

 the leaves with his downfall, one grouse plunging to earth 

 midway in his thunderous flight, one trout caught as 

 he can catch him, now, will appease his moderate 

 craving for sport, and best and most desired of all, 

 make him, for the nonce, a boy again. He anticipates 

 with quicker heartbeat the thrill of surprised delight 

 that choked him with its fullness when he achieved his 

 first triumph. 



At last the hilltop is gained, but what unfamiliar scene 

 is this which has taken the place of that so cherished in 

 his memory and so longed for? 



Can that naked hillside slanting toward him from the 

 further rim of the valley, forlorn in the desolation of re- 

 cent clearing, be the wooded slope of the other day? Can 

 the poor, unpicturesque thread of water that crawls in 

 feeble attenuation between its shorn, unsightly banks be 

 the wild, free brook whose voice was a continual song, 

 every rod of its amber and silver course, a picture? Even 

 its fringes of willows and alders, useful for their shade 

 and cover, when alive, but cut down, worthless even for 

 fuel, have been swept from its margin by the ruthless 

 besom of destruction, as if everything that could beautify 

 the landscape must be blotted out to fulfill the mission of 

 the spoiler. 



Near it and sucking in frequent draughts from the faint 

 stream is a thirsty and hungry little sawmill, the most 

 obtrusive and most ignoble feature of the landscape, 



whose beauty its remorseless fangs have gnawed away. 

 Every foot of the brook below it is foul with its castings, 

 and the fragments of its continual greedy feasting are 

 thickly strewn far and near. 



Yet it calls to the impoverished hills for more victims, 

 its shriek arousing discordant echoes where once re- 

 sounded the music of the brook, the song of birds, the 

 grouse's drum call and the mellow note of the hound. 



Though sick at heart with the doleful scene, the re- 

 turned exile descends to his harried domain hoping that 

 he may yet find some vestige of its former wealth, but 

 only more disappointments reward his quest, 



Not a trout flashes through the shrunken pools. The 

 once limpid spring is a quagmire among rotting stumps. 

 The rough nakedness of the hillside is clad only with 

 thistles and fireweed, with here and there a patch of 

 blanched dead leaves, dross of the old gold of the beech's 

 ancient autumnal glory. 



Of all he hoped for, nothing is realized and he finds 

 only woeful change, irreparable loss. 



His heart, heavy with sorrow and bursting with im- 

 potent wrath against the ruthless spoiler, he turns his 

 back forever on the desolated scene of his boyhood's 

 sports. 



Alas! That one should ever attempt to retouch the 

 time-faded but beautiful pictures that the memory holds. 



SALMONIDJE PLANTED IN YELLOWSTONE PARK 

 \\T E have noted in these columns the proposed work of 

 * ' the U. S. Fish Commission in stocking the barren 

 waters of the Yellowstone National Park with fishes of 

 the salmon family in 1890. The undertaking was suc- 

 cessfully carried out and the results areas follows: 24,012 

 lake trout were deposited in Shoshone Lake; 12,013 lake 

 trout and 8,350 Loch Leven trout were placed in Lewis 

 Lake; the West Fork of Gardner River received 7,875 

 Eastern brook trout; 9,800 von Behr trout (Salmo fario) 

 were planted in Nez Perces Creek and 10,000 whitefish 

 (Coregomcs williamsoni) where conveyed from Horse 

 Thief Springs, Montana, to the Yellowstone River above 

 the falls. All of the fish were yearlings. The trout were 

 bred at North ville, Michigan, and the whitefish were wild 

 fish. The total number of fish introduced was 70,400, and 

 it is not too much to expect that these will speedily make 

 an impression in their hew habitat. We have already 

 announced the discovery by Professors Forbes and Lin- 

 ton of abundant supplies of food suitable for the Sal- 

 monidm in the waters selected for the experiment. It may 

 not be amiss to remind the officials interested of the pres- 

 ence of the lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) in Henry 

 Lake, Idaho, not far west of the Yellowstone Park. We 

 have seen from this lake some very plump specimens of 

 this species. 



MILLIONS OF SHAD. 

 I^VURING the past summer Commissioner McDonald 

 has repeated the new method of keeping shad in 

 rearing ponds, where they can subsist upon natural food 

 until the dangers of the fry stage no longer threatens 

 them. In a pond of about six acres at Washington, D. C. , 

 large numbers of shad recently hatched were deposited 

 during the months of May and June lsst. The pond was 

 fully stocked with water plants suitable to the develop- 

 ment of the minute crustaceans (Cyclops, Daphnia, etc.) 

 upon which very young shad feed. Here they were kept 

 until the close of last week, when they were liberated 

 and passed out into the Potomac in a dense silvery shoal 

 containing between one million and two millions of young 

 fishes. Well-fed, active and accustomed to seek suitable 

 food , they have entered upon their journey to the sea 

 with the conditions all favorable for their future growth 

 and return when ready for reproduction. This will be, 

 if current theories are correct, in about three or four 

 years. 



The results of rearing shad in this way have been so 

 gratifying, that steps will be taken to stock a much 

 larger pond near the Delaware River at a point conven- 

 ient to the usual scene of hatching operations. It is pro- 

 posed to make a pond of about twenty acres, which ought 

 to accommodate fully five millions of young shad. In this 

 way it will be possible at small expense to rear and lib- 

 erate during every season, a vastly greater number of fish 

 than is represented by the entire catch along the coast, 

 and the shad industry, which now depends entirely upon 

 artificial propagation, will undoubtedly increase in extent 

 and value. 



