Forest and Stream. 



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NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 27, 1890. 



( VOL. XXXV.— No. 19. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



Thanksgiving. 



Salmon for the Hudson. 



On a Runway or in the Water? 



Snap Sh"ts. 

 Thanksgiving Turkey. 



The Turkey Hunter's Educa- 

 tion. 



Calling Gobblers in Texas. 

 Sportsman Tourist. 



Moose River and the West 

 Branch. 

 Natural History. 



Ways of the Woodcock. 



Land Birds at Sea. 



The Chickadee for Public 

 Parks. 



Meeting' of the A. O. U. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



Caribou and Their Ways. 



Virginia Indian Summer Days 



Grouse in Passaic County. 



Swan Lake, 

 f Combined Rifle and Shotgun. 



Boston's Sportsmen. 



Kansas Game Hunters. 



Chinese Pheasant for Vancou- 

 ver. 



Chicago and the West. 

 Ohio Game Fields. 

 Deer at Tim Pond. 

 Notions At'ont Loading. 

 Worcester Fox Hunting. 

 Sea and Rtver b ishing. 

 The Golden Trout. 

 The Conger Eel. 



Sea River and Fishing. 

 A Supposed Hybrid Trout. 

 That Mammoth Carp. 

 Trout Fishing in North Caro- 

 lina. 



Death of Salmon After Spawn- 

 ing. 



Angling Notes. 

 Ftshculture. 



Holding Large Spawning Fish 



The Tench in Missouri. 



American Fisheries Society. 

 The Kennel. 



Eastern Field Trials. 



•Dog Chat. 



Dog Talk. 



Death of a Noted Fielder. 

 Kennel Notes. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 

 flange and Gallery. 

 The Trap. 



Highland Gun Club of Des 

 Moines. 



Watson's Park. 



Chicago— Kansas City. 



The Albany Tournament. 

 Yachting. 



"Pnrtgers" and the American 

 Eagle. 



A Week's Cruise. 

 Canoeing. 



Canoeing in England. 



A- C. A. Executive Committee 

 Meeting. 



Roval C. C. Challenge Cup. 

 Answers to Correspondents 



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THANKSGIVING. 



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DOUBTLESS many a sportsman has bethought him 

 that his Thanksgiving turkey will have a finer 

 flavor if the feast is prefaced by a few hours in the 

 woods, with dog and gun. Meaner fare than this day of 

 bounty furnishes forth is made delicious by such an appe- 

 tizer, and the Thanksgiving feast will be none the worse 

 for it. 



What can be more delicious than the wholesome frag- 

 rance of the fallen leaves? What more invigorating 

 than the breath of the two seasons that we catch, here in 

 the northward shade of a wooded hill the nipping air of 

 winter, there where the southern slope meets the sun the 

 genial warmth of an October day. Here one's footsteps 

 crunch sharply the frozen herbage and the ice-sharded 

 border of a spring's overflow; there splash in thawed 

 pools and rustle softly among the dead leaves. 



The flowers are gone, but they were not brighter than 

 the winter berries and bittersweet that glow around one. 

 The deciduous leaves are fallen and withered, but they 

 were not more beautifual than the delicate tracery of 

 their forsaken branches, and the steadfast foliage of the 

 evergreeng'was never brighter. The song birds are sing- 

 ing in southern woods, but chickadee, nuthatch and wood- 

 pecker are chatty and companionable and keep the woods 

 in heart with a stir of life. 



Then from overhead or underfoot a ruffed grouse 

 booms away into the gray haze of branches, and one 

 hears the whirr and crash of Ms headlong flight long 

 after he is lost to sight, perchance long after the echo 

 of a futile shot has died away. Far off one hears 

 the intermittent discharge of rifles where the shoot- 

 ers are burning powder for their Thanksgiving turkey, 

 and faintly from far away comes the melancholy music 

 of a hound, Then nearer and clearer, then a rustle of 

 velvet-elad feet, and lo, reynard himself, the wildest 

 spirit of the woods, materialises out of the russet indis* 



tinctness and flashes past, with every sense alert. Then 

 the hound goes by, and footstep, voice and echo sink into 

 silence. For silence it is, though the silver tinkle of the 

 brook is in it, and the stir of the last leaf shivering for- 

 saken on its bough, 



In such quietude one may hold heartfelt thanksgiving, 

 feasting full upon a crust and a draught from the icy 

 rivulet, and leave rich viands and costly -wines for the 

 thankless surfeiting of poorer men. 



SALMON FOR THE HUDSON. 

 A LITTLE after midnight of Nov. 20 the U. S. Fish 

 Commission car No. 3 arrived at Troy, N. Y. , with 

 about 10,000 six months old salmon, measuring from 2i 

 to 3in. in length. These were the remainder of an allot- 

 ment of 20,000 salmon given to the State of New York, 

 from the Bucksport station in Maine, in place of the eggs 

 of the Atlantic salmon which were promised to the New 

 York Commission last season, but which could not be 

 furnished because of the scarcity in the supply. The car 

 started from Bucksport with 20,000 fish, but for some 

 unexplained reason great mortality took place as soon as 

 the journey began. Commissioner McDonald, who went 

 to New York personally to oversee the planting of the 

 fish, explains the dying off in this way: The salmon 

 were practically wild fish, and had been accustomed to 

 their liberty. The fright and confinement of the trans- 

 portation tanks were the probable cause of the great mor- 

 tality. The fish were deposited at Troy on the shore of 

 Green Island. Mr. Fred Mather accompanied the car 

 from Bucksport to the place of planting, and Commis- 

 sioner Burden, of Troy, was present when the fish were 

 liberated. 



Col. McDonald, accompanied by Mr. Burden and Mr. 

 Mather, went to Glens Falls, and while there Mr. A. N. 

 Cheney showed them the falls and dams in the vicinity. 

 The Commissioner believes that fish can easily surmount 

 the two falls with the help of two fishways, which can 

 be constructed at a cost of not more than $5,000 each. 



The 10,000 salmon planted were healthy and vigorous, 

 and each one of them is more than the equivalent of a 

 hundred fry. 



Car No. 3, after delivering the salmon at Troy, pro- 

 ceeded to Washington with a number of beautiful salmon 

 and trout for the aquaria. There were eight Atlantic 

 salmon, varying from eight to twenty-seven months old; 

 eighteen landlocked salmon, six of which were thirty-two 

 months old; five brook trout, twenty months old: eight 

 Loch Leven trout, eight months old, and five rainbow 

 trout, twenty months old. All of these arrived in per- 

 fect condition. 



ON A RUNWAY OR IN THE WATER? 



THE most important subject discussed at Albany last 

 week when the fish and game law revision committee 

 gave a hearing, was the hounding of deer in the Adiron- 

 dacks. The sentiment of those present was largely in 

 favor of restricting the hounding season, which is now 

 fifty days, to a shorter period of thirty days, and others 

 spoke in favor of abolishing the practice entirely. Perhaps 

 it is too much to expect that hounding deer in the North 

 Woods will be stopped by law. Those who are most in- 

 fluental in shaping legislation for this region are the hotel 

 proprietors and those who resort to their houses, The 

 hotel proprietors want hounding continued because there 

 are so many pleasure seekers who visit the Adirondacks 

 with the hope of killing a deer by hounding it into the 

 water, but who would never dream of trying to kill a deer 

 on land. If these people cannot hound deer, the hotel 

 men reason, they will not pay board bills in the North 

 Woods. It was stated at the Albany hearing that the 

 hotel custom lost during the year the Curtis non-hound- 

 ing law was in operation amounted to $100,000. If this 

 estimate is not exaggerated, it may fairly be assumed 

 that the hotel men, will see to it that a non-hounding law 

 shall not be enacted; they cannot afford to have the 

 practice prohibited. 



One proposition was to permit hounding but to forbid 

 killing deer in the water. Such laws are in force else- 

 where, or to speak more accurately are dead letters. 



For the enlightenment of those who are familiar with 

 deer hounding as practiced in the South and in other 

 sections, where the game is shot at by hunters as it passes 

 on runways, it should be explained that deer hounding in 

 the northern wilderness of New York means for the most 

 part driving the game into the water where it is killed 



by hunters on the shore or in boats. Scores of men, who 

 lack the skill required to hold the rifle true on a bound- 

 ing buck, can readily enough kill the game in the water 

 provided their magazines hold out or the boatman rows 

 them near enough. Nine- tenths of the deer killed by 

 hounding in the Adirondacks are killed in this way. 



Now the proposal is to let the hounds run the game but 

 to prohibit shooting it when it has taken to water. If 

 such a law were strictly enforced the objections to hound- 

 ing would be in a large measure removed. But it may 

 quite safely be predicted that with such a law, one of two 

 results would follow: The statute would be a dead letter, 

 or if enforced the hotel men would quickly cry out for its 

 repeal. A large proportion of their patrons, for whom 

 the landlords wish to preserve the privilege of hounding, 

 are, as we have said , wholly incapable of killing a deer 

 anywhere else than in the water. If the privilege of 

 water- killing is taken away from them, that will in effect 

 be taking away the privilege of hounding; this class will 

 no longer frequent the Adirondacks, and Mr. Paul Smith 

 and his allies will again appear at Albany asking per* 

 mission for their guests to kill game in the water. 



The American Folk-lore Society. —The second 

 annual meeting of this society will be held in New York 

 city on Friday and Saturday of this week in Room 15, 

 Hamilton Hall, Columbia College, Madison avenue and 

 Forty-ninth street. On Friday there will be three sessions 

 for business and reading of papers; at 10 A. M. the Coun* 

 cil will meet; at 11 o'clock the President, Dr. Daniel G. 

 Brinton, will take the chair, and an address of welcome 

 will be delivered by Prof eesor John S. Newberry, M.D. , 

 LL. D., President of the New York Academy of Sciences. 

 The Council will then present its report to the society: 

 reports of officers and committees will be received and 

 general business will be transacted. At 1 o'clock the 

 session will adjourn and the members are invited to a 

 lunch provided by the local committee. At 2.30 P. M. 

 the society will reassemble for the reading of papers. 

 At 8 P. M, , by invitation of the New York Academy of 

 Sciences a joint meeting of the Folk-lore Society and the 

 Academy will be held in the same hall, at which papers 

 will be read. On Saturday there will be a single session 

 beginning at 10 A. M. The meetings of the society will 

 be open to the public but only members will take part in 

 the business and discussions. 



SNAP SHOTS. 



MR. TO WNSEND COX, Forest Commissioner of New 

 York, reports that the Catskill Game Park, which 

 has been stocked with deer and other game, is proving so 

 successful that it would be a wise measure for the State 

 to acquire the entire township of Denning, in which the 

 park is situated. The territory could probably be bought 

 at a low price, and it is admirably adapted to a fish and 

 game preserve. Mr. Cox proposes to have the penalty for 

 killing deer in the Catskills raised to a fine of $100 or im- 

 prisonment one year; and he says that the public senti- 

 ment of the residents in that region favor such a stringent 

 provision. 



Mr. A. N. Cheney calls our attention to the fact that 

 the New Hampshire law has no provision for protecting 

 the aureolus, the trout of Lake Sunapee, about which 

 there has been so much discussion. The law simply 

 specifies "lake trout, brook or speckled troul;" and proba- 

 bly it was the intention of the Legislature to include 

 all trout in this category. We presume that the reason 

 the aureolus was not specifically mentioned was that it 

 was not then known to be a distinct variety. No time 

 should be lost in remedying this defect of the law. 



An Ohio correspondent, in describing a famous hunting 

 resort, suggests that it would make an ideal game 

 preserve. But why not an ideal region to preserve by 

 the public for pudlic use? Why should every favored 

 locality, where fish or game is to be found, be picked up 

 for a private club? The wiser plan would be to protect 

 the game or fish for the public. By and by we shall have 

 no desirable country outside of game preserves. 



Hotel men at Barnegat and Great Egg Harbor are dis- 

 playing unusual greed even for seaside resort proprietors, 

 if the report which comes to us is true that they are 

 killing sheepshead and other food fishes by dynamite. 

 Unfortunately the New Jersey law has no provision to 

 prevent this business, but it should have immediate 

 attention at Trenton this winter, 



