FOREST AND STREAM. 



[Dec. 11, 1890. 



less hook on the ice, where he gives one convulsive flap 

 and instantly freezes solid. The elastic whalebone line 

 is thrown off the sticks without tangling and paid out 

 through the hole again for another trial. If fish are not 

 found plenty at the first hole the fisherman shifts his 

 ground until he 'strikes a school.' They are sometimes 

 so plenty that they may be caught as fast as they can be 

 hauled up. One woman will frequently bring in upward 

 of a bushel of little fish— they are generally about 5 or 

 6in. long— from a single day's fishing. This fishing lasts 

 until about the middle of' May, when the ice begins to 

 soften, A good many are also caught along the shore in 

 November in about a foot of water when there are no tide 

 cracks in the ice. At this season the Esquimaux use a 

 little rod about 2ft. long, with a short line and a little 

 ivory squid, at which the fish bite." 



CO-OPERATIVE PROTECTION. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



I read with great interest all your articles on deer 

 hounding and the unsportsmanlike butchery of game. I 

 have observed the course of things regarding these mat- 

 ters for many years and have come to this conclusion. 

 We need an association to propagate right ideas on these 

 subjects, and to develop and direct public intelligence 

 and sentiment regarding them. The work needed would 

 have to be partly the enactment and enforcement of suit- 

 able laws, and partly the education of the American peo- 

 ple. .Neither kind of work would accomplish the object 

 alone. Both are indispensable. It would take money. 

 There would have to be an organization on a simple, sen- 

 sible plan, and an executive committee of intelligent and 

 public-spirited men who would serve without pay. But 

 it would require one man, an agent or secretary, who 

 would devote his time to the work, and he would have 

 to be paid a competent man's salary and some other ex- 

 penses would have to be provided for. 



There are men who believe in the preservation of game 

 who have money. Well, they will have to go about the 

 business in a practical and businesslike way. They must 

 not give all their money to found miserable little colleges 

 where there are too many now. The preservation of our 

 mountain forests and streams, and of their fish and 

 game, is a necessity of civilization, and it is full time 

 that we should set about it seriously. When men become 

 serious about anything they do something besides talk. 

 We shall have to study the art of getting things done 

 here in America. The method of work for all such ob- 

 jects by means of voluntary associations of citizens, with 

 simple arrangements for the diffusion of knowledge and 

 the propagation of ideas, is a natural product of existing 

 conditions. It is sensible and practical, and yields larger- 

 results for the means employed than any other plan that 

 has been tried. J, B. Harrison, 

 New York. 



ANGLING NOTES. 



AN angler complains in one of the weekly sporting 

 papers that American fly tyers copy only English 

 patterns of flies, whereas our natural insects should be 

 imitated instead. 



While undoubtedly many dealers do sell foreign pat- 

 terns almost exclusively, yet some of the manufacturers 

 of flies make up a number of patterns that are copied 

 from our natural insects. Besides which there are very 

 many fancy flies that are exclusively American. 



Among the imitations of our own flies to be had are 

 the following: Bee, Seth-Green or Gen.- Hooker, Beaver- 

 kill, Abbey, queen-of-the-water, great-dun, Cahill, olive- 

 gnat, claret-gnat, sand-dun, dark-coachman, black-fly, 

 yellow-May, orange-miller, orange-black, red-fox, dark- 

 fox, bright-fox, royal-coachman, etc., etc. Among the 

 fancy patterns the famous scarlet-ibis had a wide reputa- 

 tion. Then there are the dark and light-Montreal, Can- 

 ada, blue-jay, Eomeyn, toodle-bug, Roosevelt, Holberton, 

 Tomat-Joe, Lord-Baltimore, Lottie, Brandreth, Beatrice, 

 Imbrie, Rube- Wood and a host of others too numerous to 

 mention. Many of these have proved to be exceedingly 

 lulling. 



Some of the Enlish patterns, such as the grizzly-king, 

 professor, gray and green drakes, hawthorne, alder, coach- 

 man, March-brown, red-spinner, stone and the various 

 hackles have been favorably known for years and have 

 proved to be great killers from Maine to California. 



The list of flies is so great that we doubt if the angler 

 can be benefited by any new designs, and it would be hard 

 to find a natural fly that could not be very nearly dupli- 

 cated in any of our principal tackle stores. 



Scarlet-Ibis. 



NEW YORK GAME PROTECTORS. 

 rpHE regular monthly meeting of the Commissioners of 

 X Fisheries of New York was held last Tuesday, all the 

 Commissioners being present except Mr. Blackford, who 

 has for several weeks been confined to his bed by serious 

 illness. 



Memorials and petitions were received from residents 

 of Syracuse and vicinity asking the appointment of 

 George Crownheart as game protector for the Tenth Dis- 

 trict; and similar claims were preferred by others in favor 

 of Edward Hawn. The Commissioners, however, ex- 

 plained that there was at present no vacancy in that 

 district, F. P. Drew still holding office there; his re- 

 moval from the office of chief game protector did not 

 affect his subordinate position, he had simply been re- 

 tired to the r^nks, and was still protector in the Tenth 

 District, and until he should resign or should be dis- 

 charged for cause, the Commissioners could do nothing 

 toward appointing a successor. 



A synopsis of the reports of the several protectors was 

 presented, from which we take the following: 



Robert Brown, Jr., First District. -"On the 22d of this month I 

 arrested five, men for shooting on Sundav. Their trial was ad- 

 journed to the 4th of December. On the 29t h 1 caught a fellow 

 celling trapped partridges, ac Manhoe, Sufiolk county. Their 

 CJBes will e«me up nest month. - ' 



Willett Kidd, Second Distriet.- l 'Miles Parker paid $59 and 

 costs, Nov. b, to settle a suit commenced aaainst Mm for 

 pollution pt streams. The defendant Parker owns and operates 

 n, saw nv 11 in G later county and ran the sawdust into the stream, 

 ■■'- L; aci.tou j. or p:-jfi:-,]-.;y \v;i :: ''oiLrttse ; i f t>) Ovn.n^e County iSni'f-MF 

 Court on the J one is, im, and resulted as above stated'." 



Matthew Kennedy, Third District-" A suit was commenced in 

 Greene Ootmby .rustics Dour? against William Friend, who is 

 r tZWA 2? h F iT oofms , [ 4$* , 11 d™e* Season, TV. offenses were 



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Peter R. Leonard, Sixth District— On Nov. 8 arrested Abe 

 Davis and Charles Mandigo for illegal fishing. The prisoners 

 were tried in Justice Court, at Pope's Mills, St. Lawrence county, 

 on the 18th, and acquitted. An action for penalty was at once 

 commenced against the parties. Suits were also commenced in 

 St. Lawrence County Sum-erne Court against Samuel Davis and 

 James H. Mandigo for a like offense." 



George Moyer, Seventh District.— "I have five eases to be dis- 

 posed of at the present term of court, which convenes at Lowville, 

 Dec. 1. Further allow me to say that I have not been idle the past 

 two montbs. I have picked up ten cases of violations which I 

 hope to he able to prosecute and report next month." 



Sherman F. Snyder, Ninth District.— "Nov. 13 at Millsburgb, 

 Schoharie county, seized and destroyed an eel rack. It was of 

 little value. Spent several days on Otsego Lake during the month 

 but discovered no new violations." 



Fred. P. Drew, Tenth District.— "Was on duty ten days, four of 

 which was spent in Albany before Codification Commission. 

 Have attended to suits now pending in the counties of Jefferson, 

 Lewis, Herkimer and Oneida." 



Daniel Staring. Eleventh District— "In Jefferson County Justice 

 Court, Nov. 12, David Shannon plead guilty to illegal fishing, and 

 was fined $1*5 and costs, Moiety received §8. Nov. 12, at Clear 

 Lake, Jefferson county seized and desl roved one gill net valued at 

 $10." 



Henry C. Carr, Twelfth District.— "Suits were brought in Cayu- 

 ga County Supreme Court Nov. 6 against Christopher Peterson, 

 Schuyler Peterson, George E. Peterson and George R. Peterson. 

 All charged with spearing trout on the 8th and 13th of November, 

 instant Nov. 29 an action was commenced in Tompkins County 

 Supreme Court against Stephen R. Tones for catching game fish 

 with an eel rack. Seized and destroyed two gill nets on Owasco 

 Lake, three fyke nets on Cayuga Lake and two trap nets on 

 Oneida Lake, of the aggregate value of £250. In the past two 

 months I have eriven all the spare time I had to the waters of 

 Oneida Lake. I have raided every bay and inlet upon that lake 

 and seized many nets and destroyed them. I have commenced 

 several actions in Supreme Court and have many more to com- 

 mence. While doing the work upon that lake through mud and 

 storm, night and day, and threats of violence, who should have 

 the credit? I, with the good help I received from the oarsmen at 

 South Bay, who stood by me in cleaning out the worst gang on 

 the face of the earth." 



John Sheriden, Thirteenth District— "Seized and destroyed 32 

 gill nets as follows: Five at Hammondsport, 4 at Gibsons, Sat 

 Keuk a, 4 at Grove Springs, 3 at Bluff Point, 9 at Haddens Point 

 and 2 at Lewis Point, on Lake Keuka; 1 at Dresden and 2 at Long 

 Point, on Seneca Lake. Aggregate value, $1,673." 



George M. Schwartz, Fourteenth District— "A suit was com- 

 menced in Ontario County Justice Court.Nov. 26,against Dr. Behan 

 for shooting quail illegally. In Monroe County Justice Court, 

 Nov. 29, Charles Loyor was convicted of illegal fishing and fined 

 $8 and costs. Nov. 6, at Irondequoit Bay, seized and destroyed 

 2 gill nets; Nov. 22, 1 fyke net and 3 leaders at Wide Water: Nov. 

 24, at Braddocks Bay, 5 fyke nets and 2 leaders. Total value, $140." 



Charles Ripson, Fifteenth District— "The case of the people 

 against the Buffalo Fish Company was settled Nov. 11, on pay- 

 ment of $50 penalty and $17.50 costs. Moiety received $25. This 

 action was commenced in Erie County Supreme Court on the 29th 

 May, 1890, The complaint charged the company with having in 

 possession and exposing black bass for sale on the 3d day of April, 



With respect to the choice of a candidate to fill the place 

 of ex-protector Bradley (who, by the way , was not reap- 

 pointed at political dictation nor any other), Chief Pro- 

 tector Pond reported that the inquiry on the subject had 

 not yet been completed by him, as his constant attendance 

 had been required at the court terms of Clinton and 

 Franklin counties. 



Large Muscallonge.— Clayton, N. Y. — I inclose a 

 tooth from a muscallonge I caught here last year, also 

 mail you a photograph of the fish and another caught by 

 a friend (Mr. Solon Johnson) on the same day. My fish 

 weighed oOlbs. when I landed him, and on weighing him 

 on my return from camping, four days later, he weighed 

 47 Jibs. The fish was sent to Mr. Blackford, Fulton 

 Market, and exhibited by him several days. I think it 

 was as large a fish as has been brought in from the St. 

 Lawrence.— J. Gra. Frasee. 



A Hybrid Salmon.— One of the State Fish Commis- 

 sioners of Oregon in 1888 crossed the quinnat and blue- 

 back salmon, the former being the largest of the Pacific 

 salmon and the latter next to the smallest. The eggs 

 hatched without difficulty, but all of the embryos were 

 blind. They were kept until the egg sac was absorbed, 

 when all of them died because they could not see the 

 food offered to them. 



Chicago, 111., Dec. 5.— They are catching bait and get- 

 ting ready for the ice fishing up at Fox Lake now. The 

 lake is expected to freeze over and offer a long season 

 this year. This ice fishing destroys more fish in Fox 

 Lake than anything else, and ought to be stopped. The 

 market fishers come from miles around. — E. H. 



ANGLING MEMOBIES.-Of Mr. Samuels's "With Fly-Rod and 

 Camera" Mr. W. A. Brooks writes: "I cannot say too much of it 

 as a specimen of book-making, and the pictures appeal to me 

 strongly. They bring bacjfe a hundred reminiscences from my 

 own experience, and no book in my library will be more highly 

 cherished. Mr. Samuels is a man of probably twice my age, and 

 I only hope that if I live so long I may have as many pleasant 

 days by flood and field to lookback on as he has." 



ABUNDANCE OF YOUNG COD.-Mr. Vinal N. Edwards 

 of Woods Holl, Mass., has communicated to the U. S. Fish 

 Commission the following interesting note on the occurrence 

 of young cod in Vineyard Sound and vicinity: Codfish are 

 very plentiful m Vineyard Sound; some are taken also in 

 Buzzards Bay; they are good fish and weigh from 5 to lOlbs 

 each. One boat went off Nouemessett last Saturday tautogg- 

 ing, and they caught 18 good-sized cod in one hour: they also 

 lost a good many, their hooks being too small. A week ago 

 last Monday, a boat went just outside of Nantucket Bar and 

 drifted 2 hours, and caught 90 cod; this is the first time cod 

 were taken there. All the smackmen from Nantucket 

 booals report young cod very abundant; they never saw the 

 like before. They are reported very common off Cape Cod 

 also; the fishermen all seem to think these are the voun°- cod 

 turned lose by the U. S. Fish Commission. 



,,A : 4 ?, 0P the United States. — A large, handsome map of the 

 United tetates, showing North and South Dakota, mounted and 

 suitable tor office or home use and issued by the Burlington Route 

 will be.furnished responsible parties free on application to the 

 undersigned. Pitying CARDS.-For 13 cents in postage you can 

 obtain a pack of best quality playing cards on application to 



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Fosses akb Seream, Box 3,833, N. Y. city, has deseriptive mus- 

 sed circulars i of W, B. Leffingweli's book\ "Wild Fowl Shoot 

 Ing,'' welch will be mailed free on request, Tke book tetora, 



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A MOOSE PORTRAIT. 



WE have received from Mr. Lucius L. Hubbard, of Boston, a 

 gravnre-etching of a portrait of the American moose, by 

 W. L. Taylor. The plate is 2iXl6in, exclusive of margins, and is 

 intended for framing. Mr. Hubbard writes: "I suppose moose, 

 like other beings, differ a good deal inter sese. They certainly do 

 in their hell and horns. 1 am not surprised then when this man 

 tells me the bell is too scant in my picture, or that man that the 

 ears are not at the proper angle. I have verified both points from 

 nature. My object has been to preserve the moose from the mis- 

 fortune of being idealized, and if this fate shall have been 

 arrested from him I shall feel well repaid." In this he has so far 

 succeeded that although the pictured moose are legion, in books 

 and magazine papers, we recall none so faithful to nature and on 

 the. whole so satisfactory as thatnow before us. In most respects 

 it is beyond criticism: and those who are so fortunate as to possess 

 copies of the reproduction are under obligations to Mr. Hubbard 

 and his artist for the good work they have done. Without intend- 

 ing in the least invidious criticism we suggest, in response to Mr. 

 Hubbard's request, two or three points in which we think the 

 drawing might have been improved. 



The common idea is that a moose stands very much higher at the 

 withers than at the hindquarters, and it is almost invariably so 

 represented in drawings or pictures. As a matter of fact, the 

 difference is very much less than is commonly supposed, and in 

 full grown animals is sometimes scarcely apparent. 



Another feature that strikes one at once upon seeing a moose 

 is the squareness of the rump. The animal has no tail, so to 

 speak, but looks very much as if "sawed off." Has not Mr. 

 Taylor drawn his moose with too much droop to the hindquarters, 

 that is to say, both as to general depression of the entire hind- 

 quarters and the slope that he has given to the rump, which is 

 now arranged something like that of a horse? As to the bell we 

 suppose the animal from which Mr. Taylor made his studies had 

 simply a long tuft depending from the throat, much in the style 

 of a turkey's heard. Such tufts are frequently seen on moose, 

 hut so far as our observation goes, the most of these animals have 

 the pouch extending 6 or Sin. along the neck. Of course where a 

 study is made from life, the animal has to be shown with what- 

 ever sort of hell he happens to have, whether the pouch or the 

 simple, tuft. 



The most noticeable defect, and one which gives to a person 

 who never saw a moose an erroneous impression of his locomo- 

 tive powers, is in the hoofs. The moose is represented as standing 

 on bis heels, and the hoofs are to our notion much larger in pro- 

 portion than any we ever saw on a moose, being rather over one- 

 twelfth of the animal's height at the shoulders. 



Among the measurements of moose, made by our careful corre- 

 spondent Col. Cecil Clay and his brother, Capt. Clay, and sent to 

 us, were the following: 



One moose, height 6ft. 10in., tread of hoof, 5^in. 



One moose, height 6ft., tread of hoof, <%in. 



One moose, height 6ft. Sin., tread of hoof, 5 in. 



One moose, height 6ft. lin., tread of hoof, 5M"i. 

 Showing a tread of hoof running from one-fourteenth to one- 

 sixteenth of the height of the shoulder, with the loaning toward 

 the smaller tread. We suppose Mr. Taylor in making his study 

 from life had for his model an animal in confinement, the hoofs of 

 which were not worn, as are those of a wild moosp, by constant 

 travel. To sec what effeco the feet he has given the animal have 

 in the general impression of the beast, take a sheet of paper and 

 hold it so that its upper edge just covers the hoofs so as to keep 

 them out of sight. Running your eye down the animal's legs, 

 you imagine he is standing on four moderate-sized, firm, well-set 

 hoofs, such as you think ought to belong to that kind of leg; on 

 which an animal could with great facility make remarkable time, 

 especially if he got a whiff of your scent, over anyand every kind 

 of country. Slip the paper down and you will then see what we 

 mean: that he is standing on his heels as though he were trying 

 to imitate a caribou walking on the snow and spreading his toes 

 out so as to us his feet as snowshoes. 



But when all is said, the fact remains that this portrait marks 

 the best effort yet made in picturing the moose as he is found in 

 the forest. 



Mr. Hubbard in his circular says that the moose is the most un- 

 couth and ungainly member of the deer family in the world. That 

 is in a certain sense true. The more wild moose a man sees, the 

 less uncouth he comes to consider the beast, for the latter very 

 well suits the wild and rugged surrounding of the sort of spot in 

 which he is ordinarily found. There is a sort of weird mysterious 

 aspect about him at all times that makes him very interesting. 

 When he takes a notion to travel, he can often do it with so much 

 dexterity as to almost approach grace, and is, perhaps, somewhat 

 disappointing at times to the man hunting. 



All communications must reach us by Tuesday 

 of the week they are to be published; and should 

 be sent as much earlier as may be convenient. 



FIXTURES, 



DOG SHOWS. 



Dec. 30 to Jan. 3, 1891.— First Dog Show of the BUckeve Poultry 

 and Pet Stock Association, at Canton, O. James Sterling, Sec'y, 

 39 North Market street. 



1891. 



Jan. 6 to 9.— Delaware and Susquehanna Poultry and Pet Stock 

 Association, at Binghamton. N. Y. 



Jan. 13 to 17.— Third Annual Dog Show of the South Carolina 

 Poultry and Pet Stock Association, at Charleston, S. C. Benj. 

 Mclnness, Jr., Secretary. 



Jan. 20 to 25.— First Annual Dog Show of the Louisiana Poultry 

 and Pet Stock Association, at New Orleans, La. A. B. Shaw, Sec- 

 retary, Box 1658. 



Jan. 20 to 25 — Dog Show of the Georgia Poultry and Pet Stock 

 Association, at Augusta, Ga. A. H. Yonder lei th, Secretary. 



Jan. 21 to 26.— Dog Show of the Elmira Poultry and Pet Stock 

 Association, at Elmira, N. Y. Carl Hart, Secretary. 



Jan. 27 to 30.— Inaugural Dog Show of the South Carolina Ken- 

 nel Association, at Greenville, S. C. F. F. Capers, Secretary. 



Feb. 21 to 27.— Fifteenth Annual Dog Show of the Westminster 

 Kennel Club, at New York. James Mortimer, Superintendent. 



March 3 to 6.— Second Annual Dog Show of the Maryland Kennel 

 Club, at Baltimore, Md. W. Stewart Diffenderffor, Secretary. 



March 10 to 13.— First Annual Dog Show of the Duquesne Kennel 

 Club, at Pittsburg, Pa. W. E. Littell, Secretary. 



March 16 to 19.— Inaugural Dog Show of the Washington City 

 Kennel Club, at Washington, D. C. 



March 21 to 27.— Second Annual Dog Show of the Massachusetts 

 Kennel Club, Lynn, Mass. D. A. Williams, Secretary. 



March 31 to April 3.— Seventh Annual Dog Show of the New 

 England Kennel Club, at Boston, Mass. E. H. Moore, Secretary. 



April 8 to 11.— Third Annual Dog Show of the Mascoutah Ken- 

 nel Club, at Chicago, 111. John L. Lincoln, Jr.. Secretary. 



April 11 to 17— Fourth Dog Show of the Cleveland Kennel Club, 

 at Cleveland, O. C. M. Munball, Secretary. 



Sept. 1 to 4.— Dog Show of the Youngstown Kennel Club, at 

 Youngstown, O. 



FIELD TRIALS. 



Jan. 19.— Eighth Annual Field Trials of the Pacific Kennel Club, 

 at Bakersfield, Cal. H. H. Briggs, Secretary. 



Feb. 3.— Third Annual Field Trials of the Southern Field Trials 

 Club. T. M. Branny, Secretary, Marietta, Ga. 



CENTRAL FIELD TRIALS. 



POINTER DERBY. 



Second Series {Continued), 



LEXINGTON, N. O, Tuesday, Dec. 2.— I have already 

 given the details of the first day's running at this 

 meeting, and a brief synopsis of this day's work by tele- 

 graph. The morning opened as usual, bright and frosty, 

 getting rather warm during the middle of the day. Birds 

 were quite plentiful in certain localities, so that a fair esti- 

 mate could be formed of the dogs' work, The first brace, 



ZIG ZAG AND TEAT, 

 were put down at 8:18 in high sedge grass, about half a mile 

 out or town. McMurdo handled Zig 2ag, and John White 

 Tray. Wind northeast. Considerable ground waa covered 

 before «ay scent was found when Zig Zag pointed in fence 

 Side, Tcay backed, but nothing cams to it. Both dogs, taen 

 poiRtud,. ob* «*eh *ide o? *fe* iww, Moving mi & hw* 



