Forest and Stream. 



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NEW YORK, DECEMBER 4, 1890. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



An Effective Combination. 



Cooperative Protection. 



SDap Shots. 

 Sportsman Tourist. 



Half Hours in the Sierra 

 Navada. 



Near to Nature's Heart. 

 Natural History. 



Note on the Gray Whale. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



Protective Legislation. 



Field Days in Connecticut. 



Deer in Michigan. 



Worcester's Great Fur Hunt. 



Meat We Did Have. 



Public and Preserved. 



Wild Turkeys in the Overflow. 



Boston and Maine. 



A Winter Club. 



Ruffed Grouse in November. 



"A Word for the Englishman" 



Nova Scotia Licenses. 



Chicago and the We3t. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



A Croppie Roost. 



Vermont Fish and Game 

 League. 



Trout Fishing in North Caro- 

 lina. 



Onondaga Anglers' Associa- 

 tion. 



Sea River and Fishing. 

 Bluefish and Spanish Mackerel 

 Pound Fishing in Lake Erie. 

 Small Red Salmon. 

 Ftshculture. 

 Pennsylvania Fisbculture. 

 Restoring the Whitefish. 

 Tropical Fish as a Food Supply 

 The Kennel. 

 Central Field Trials. 

 Dog Chat. 



Eastern Field Trials. 

 Coursing at Merced. 

 Dogs of ihe Day. 

 White Wonder. 

 The Gordon Setter Club. 

 Kennel Notes. 

 Kennel Management. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting 

 Range and Gallery. 

 New York Rifle Club. 

 The Trap. 



The Newark Tournament. 

 Interesting Trap Questions, 

 Chicago— Kansas City. 

 Yachting. 

 France and the America Cup. 

 Clyde Yacht Building. 

 A National Maritime Board. 

 Canoeing. 



The Open Canadian Canoe. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



explorer and sportsman. Not the least noteworthy of the 

 manuscripts in hand to be printed in early issues is one 

 which comprises extracts from a daily diary of hunting 

 experiences years ago in Ohio. It was written by one of the 

 best known sportsmen of that State, and with its pic- 

 tures of the wild scenes of a half -century ago in the Re- 

 serve cannot fail to prove of rare entertainment. 



These are a few only of the many good things in store 

 for the readers of Forest and Stream. 



Readers of Forest and Stream who are contemplating 

 the purchase of books for Christmas presents will do wel- 

 to send at once for a copy of our free illustrated catal 

 logue of publications. 



Good Things to Gome. 



TT is perhaps not too much to say that the most popular 

 writer who ever contributed to the Forest and 

 Stream was "Nessmuk," whose lamented death occurred 

 last spring. We are in little danger of overestimating 

 the gratification that will be caused by the announcement 

 that we have in hand for immediate publication a manu- 

 script written by "Nessmuk," some years ago, and des- 

 criptive of his experiences during a winter's camp life in 

 Michigan. It is entitled 



Still-Hunting— By Nessmuk. 



The narrative is, we think, one of the best things that 

 ever came from his pen; it is distinguished by the terse- 

 ness, shrewdness, humor and suggestiveness that have 

 made his writings famous. The first chapter will be pub- 

 lished next week, and it will run through four numbers. 

 Next week, too, will be given a paper on 



The, American Woodcock, 

 by Gurdon Trumbull, favorably known as the author of 

 that valuable book, "Names and Portraits of Birds which 

 Interest Gunners." For early publication we have 



Ice Fishing in Arctic Alaska, 

 an illustrated article descriptive of the Eskimo methods 

 of taking the little cod of the Polar seas. The recent 

 paper by Alex. M. Reynolds, "A Plea for the Cowboy," 

 was so well received that its author has sent us a supple- 

 ment, entitled, 



Cowboy Reminiscences, 

 which will prove to be of interest quite equal to the first 

 published. Our well-known correspondent "Chasseur" 

 has written for us a lively account of hunting adventures 

 in 



The Great Dismal Swamp, 



l weird region which is ever full of fascination for the 



AN EFFECTIVE COMBINATION. 

 r PHERE is one combination that works. It is that of 

 a live and brave game protector and a public-spir- 

 ited anglers' association. There is such a combination in 

 Syracuse, N. Y. The deputy game protector, Edward 

 Hawn, and the Onondaga Anglers' Association have been 

 working in combination against the fish pirates of Oneida 

 Lake, and some of the results are set forth in the report 

 published in our angling columns to-day. It is a record 

 of which all concerned in making it may well be proud 



The class of men engaged in illegal netting on Oneida 

 Lake had by reason of long immunity grown confident 

 and defiant; and they were so powerful that unaided the 

 State authorities could not cope with them. Sustained 

 by the money and moral support of the Onondaga 

 Anglers' Association, Deputy Hawn has courageously 

 waged a war of extermination upon the nets; «nd he has 

 accomplished so much that unless his resources fail, it is 

 not too much to look for the suppression of this particular 

 form of piracy. 



The Onondaga members deserve the fullest and heartiest 

 public support. Their appeal for funds should not go un- 

 answered. The good work undertaken should not be 

 abandoned for lack of means. 



Deputy Protector Hawn is deserving of all praise for 

 the courage and determination he has shown. He evi- 

 dently has in him the making of an excellent State pro- 

 tector; and we trust that when an opportunity offers he 

 may be promoted. Such men were never more needed 

 than at this moment. 



The Syracuse Times is our authority for the report that 

 the war against the fish pirates of Oneida Lake is still 

 in active progress. There is no hint that the recent 

 change in the office of Chief Game and Fish Protector 

 will cause an abandonment of the campaign ; and those 

 who were apprehensive of the supremacy of the lawless 

 elements on the retirement of Mr. Drew will now, we 

 trust, take heart again. 



CO-OPERATIVE PROTECTION. 

 'T^HE discussion by Mr. Seal in the present issue, of the 

 partial failure of protective legislation, merits care- 

 ful reading by every one interested in the preservation of 

 our fish and game. We know from frequent conversa- 

 tions with the writer of this article that he is heartily in 

 sympathy with all honest efforts to provide and enforce 

 laws for the protectien of the useful inhabitants of the 

 waters, as well as of the fields and forests. A consider- 

 able portion of his time has been devoted to the study of 

 the conditions favorable to such life and to its multipli- 

 cation. Abuses similar to those described by Mr. Seal 

 have fallen under the observation of most of us. 



The nuuiber of violations of our game laws both open 

 and secret is appalling, and the necessity of putting ad- 

 ditional checks upon the injury caused by these destruc- 

 tive agencies should be apparent to every thinking person. 

 It is a humiliating fact that man is one of the worst 

 enemies to the animal life around him. In the role of 

 fisherman his contrivances for the capture of his prey are 

 often so effective in their action as to accomplish the ex- 

 termination of the fish or the abandonment of the fishery 

 through its becoming unprofitable. Illustrations of this 

 will occur to every one who has investigated the subject. 

 The haste and greed to take fish induce men to effect 

 their capture when immature and comparatively value- 

 less, or when emaciated and practically valueless for 

 food, and to intercept them when seeking their spawning 

 beds, with utter disregard of the future supply. 



We agree with Mr. Seal that concert of action is re- 

 quired on the part of all people who are in favor of the 

 rational use and the wise protection of our fish and game. 

 The masses must be brought to the knowledge of the fact 

 that protection is for them, and not only for a few indi- 

 viduals or a class of the community. They have not 

 yet arrived at this knowledgefindeed there are persons 

 charged with the enforcement of the laws who have 



doubts as to the necessity for certain protective legisla- 

 tion. In some localities there is an abundance of law, 

 but a great laxity in its application. 



The want of uniformity in State legislation is another 

 crying evil. We may cite the lower Susquehanna as an 

 example in point, Pennsylvania prohibits the use of fish 

 baskets which prove so destructive to young shad, herring 

 and other fishes in their autumnal migration. This State 

 has spent a good deal of money and devoted considerable 

 time and thought to the introduction of black bass, rock 

 bass, calico bass, crappie, wall-eyed pike and other val- 

 uable species into the Susquehanna, and with the co- 

 operation of Maryland, injurious fishing devices might be 

 entirely removed from the river, with the result of mak- 

 ing it one of the finest fishing streams in the East. Mary- 

 land, however, refuses to co-operate with Pennsylvania, 

 allows fish traps to be used wherever the avarice of the 

 fisherman suggests their location and thus cripples the 

 efficiency of the well directed efforts of the Pennsylvania 

 people. Clearly then we need a better understanding of 

 the aims and results of protective legislation. We want 

 the hearty sympathy of every man who favors obedience 

 to wise laws, whatever may be their object. The wilful 

 destruction of birds and fishes should be looked upon 

 with as much disfavor as theft and arson and should be 

 punished with equal severity. 



SNAP SHOTS. 

 TT would be pleasing to learn that we were misinformed 

 *- regarding a Nova Scotia incident, recently alluded 

 to here, where a magistrate, who happened also to be a 

 hotel keeper, made illegal and unwarrantable discrimina- 

 tion between his patrons and others in the exaction of 

 non-resident license fees for hunting. In a note printed 

 in another column Chief Game Commissioner C. S. Har- 

 rington assures us that such abuse of official prerogatives 

 if brought to light will not be tolerated. It is possible 

 that Commissioner Harrington has been misinformed of 

 the circumstances of the case; he says that the Americans 

 fled the country before the officers could come up with 

 them and that they so dodged their license fees. As we 

 understand it the Americans returned home, feeling that 

 they had been imposed upon by the landlord of the inn 

 who had required payment from them. The root of the 

 trouble appears to have been their ignorance as to what 

 the Nova Scotia law did and did not require. 



Erastus Titus, of this city, who died last week at the 

 age of ninety years, was known to his fellows of the craft 

 as an enthusiastic fisherman, and until he was eighty-six 

 years of age he had made fishing trips to the rivers of 

 Canada. It has never yet been discovered how aged a man 

 must be before he grows too old to go fishing. The taste 

 for fishing may not be more persistent than that for 

 shooting, but because the gentle recreation calls for less 

 physical exertion than to range the covers, we find that 

 men who by reason of the advance of years are compelled 

 to lay aside the gun are apt to take up the rod and reel, 

 and haunt the trout pools. 



In the death of Mr. J. A. Hewlett, who passed away 

 last week, the sportsmen of New York have suffered a 

 severe loss. Mr. Hewlett was president of the Narrows 

 Island Club of North Carolina, and his keen sportsman- 

 ship, his gentleness and invariable courtesy made him 

 greatly beloved by his associates. Mr. Hewlett had long 

 been a resident of Brooklyn, but did business in New 

 York, and and was universally respected and loved by 

 all who knew him. 



We have a letter from our well-informed correspond- 

 dent "Special" setting forth a condition of things in Maine 

 which calls for prompt attention. It is alleged that jack- 

 ing out of season and hounding deer are carried on in 

 Maine to a scandalous extent. This letter will be pub- 

 lished next week. 



Christmas is coming. Would it not be a subject of 

 general congratulations if the warring kennel factions 

 could patch up their differences and unite in the good 

 will of the season ? 



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