Forest and Stream. 



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NEW YORK, JUNE 4, 1891. 



i VOL. XXXVI.-No. 20. 



I No. 318 Beoadwat, New Yobk. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editohial. 



An Adirondack Number. 



Prospects for the Fur Seals. 



Angling Resorts. 



Snap Shots. 

 Sportsman Tourist. 



On the North Shore.— vx. 



"Thalassa, Thalassa!" 

 Natural Histobt. 



On the Teeth of Fishes as a 

 Guide to their Food Habits. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



A Quail Shont in West Texas. 



Cooc Shooting in Ipswich Bay. 



From New Mfxieo. 



Indians and Wildfowl. 



Game Notes. 

 Sea anu River Fishing. 



A Three Weeks' Outing. 



The Castalia Stream.— m. 



NotPS from Kentucky. 



Where to go Fishing. 

 Newfound Lake N. H. 

 Round Mountain Lake. Me. 

 Quimby Pond, Me. 

 A Day at Pico, Vt. 



Odd Aneling Incidents. 



Ou tbe Wiscmsin Brule. 



Angling Notes. 



Fishing in Excelsis. 



FiSHCULTURE. 



American Fisheries Society. 



The Kennel. 



Greyhouuds at Chicago. 



English Pointer Club Field 

 Trials. 



"The Shepherd Dog." 



White Wonder. 



Our Humble Associates. 



Central Field Trial Club Derby 

 Entries. 



Beagle Training. 



Advisory Committee Meeting. 



Gordon Setter Club Meeting. 



Dog Chat. 



Kenuel Notes. 



Kennel Management. 

 RxELB AND Trap Shooting. 



Range and Gallery. 



Revolv^er Cliampionship. 



The Trap. 



Fivp Da\ s at Newark. 



Boiling Spring Fish and Gun 

 Club. 



Chicago Trap Notes. 



Wolstencrof I's Tournament. 

 Yachting. 



Royal Victoria Y. C. Cup. 



Memorial Day, May 30. 



Ameripan Model Y. C. 



The Pequots at Morris Cove. 

 Canoeing. 



Norwalk C. C. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



An Adirondack Number. 



T^HE Forest and Stream of June 18 will be an Adir- 

 ondack Number. It will be filled with papers 

 relating to the difi:erent phases of life in the North 

 Woods, and there will be such variety that all readers, 

 whether visitors to the region or not, will find something 

 to their tastes. Among the contents will be the fol- 

 lowing : 



The Primeval Adirondacks. 



An account of camp life and hunting in the Smith's 

 Lake country. By Raymond G. Hopper. 



Two Weeks at Spruce Lake. 



The experiences of four young fellows under tutelage 

 of a guide. 



Paul Smith's in 1 890. 



A racy picture of life as it is lived at this famous North 

 Woods hostlery. By Fannie B. Merrill. 



The Blazed Trail. 



A story of misadventure. By W. P. Anderson. 



Three Weeks on the Raquette. 



A detailed aocoun t of deer hounding. By Paul Pastnor . 



A Reminiscence of '66. 



Deer hunting incidents recalled by an old hunting 

 poat. By "Senior." 



THE PROSPECTS FOR THE FUR SEALS. 

 T^HE correspondence between the United States and 

 Great Britain has been published within the last few 

 days, and serves to give a notion of the present status of 

 this question. It appears from this correspondence that 

 there is a prospect that a close season may be ordered in 

 the Bering Sea for American and English subjects, except 

 that the North American Commercial Company — the 

 lessees of the islands— shall be permitted to take this year 

 7,500 so-called food skins, which it is claimed must be 

 taken to subsist the natives, and to reimburse the Com- 

 mercial Company for its outlay this year. A bill provid- 

 ing for a close season has been introduced in the British 

 Parliament. 



If an agreement such as this had been reached three 

 months ago, and adequate preparations for its enforce- 

 ment had been mede, it would have received the approval 

 of most of those who desire the protection of the fur 

 seal. It is true that 7,500 male seals can ill be spared 

 from the small herds now at the "rookeries" on the 

 islands, and it is equally true that these seals are not 

 really needed for the support of the natives; neverthe- 

 less the concession of this number to the lessees might 

 well be made if the killing could be limited to that. As 

 matters stand, however, there is no reason to suppose 

 that the destruction of seal life will be so limited. In the 

 first place, the agreement between the two governments 

 is not yet made, and it may take sometime to arrange its 

 details and complete it. In the meantime the Commer- 

 cial Company has received permission to take 60,000 seals 

 this year and the season for killing has already opened at 

 the islands. If orders to limit the catch to 7,500 seals 

 were dispatched to day, they could hardly reach the 

 Pribylov Islands in time to limit the catch to that number. 



In the second place the Bering Sea is now swarming 

 with pelagic sealers, who for weeks have been killing the 

 seals in great numbers, and of these pelagic sealers, those 

 who fly the British flag can hardly be warned to stop 

 their work of destruction except by British authority, 

 conveyed through a British man-of-war. Moreover, if 

 pelagic sealers should be found there in vessels which 

 have a German, or an Italian, or a Japanese register, 

 these cannot be interfered with. 



It will be seen that any agreement which may be made 

 between the Governments of Great Britain and the United 

 States must fail of wholly accomplishing its object on 

 account of the lateness of the season. There has been 

 delay and shilly-shallying over unimportant legal ques- 

 tions on the part of both Governments, and these delays 

 can hardly fail to result in a slaughter of the seals, which 

 in view of their greatly diminished numbers is terrible to 

 contemplate. It is to be hoped that now the agreement 

 may be made without delay, and orders issued at once by 

 both Governments to stop the killing of the seals. 



it. Send us some notes for publication under the fishing 

 resort heading in our angling columns. 



There is another side and a brighter side of the picture. 

 The old resorts are one by one being taken from the 

 public, but intelligent public enterprise in stocking the 

 waters is constantly opening new opportunities. Michi- 

 gan anglers are catching trout to-day in streams where 

 ten years ago they would have found no reward, and 

 where there would be none now but for the work 

 of the Fish Commission. Pennsylvania rivers teem 

 with bass, the result of stocking. New York lakes and 

 brooks tell the same story. By the planting of landlocked 

 salmon New Hampshire is converting her lakes into gold 

 mines. 



And so the record might be extended of State after 

 State, whose angling resources are constantly enlarging. 

 All this means that the extent of public fishing waters is 

 widening, and if the methods that have been proved 

 practicable are followed, who shall deny thatftn a few 

 years the problem which now appears so perplexing shall 

 not have been solved to the satisfaction of all. 



SNAP SHOTS. 

 nPHE New York Herald opened the summer silly season 

 -■- promptly on June 1 with a sensational report of 

 the killing by policemen of seven dogs on the previous 

 day, which it called the "First Day of the Mad Dog 

 Season." These seven animals, the Herald affirmed, were 

 "mad," but not a particle of evidence was given to sup- 

 port such a theory. One dog, described as a cross be- 

 tween a mastiff and a bloodhound, bit a child who tried 

 to play with it, while in spite of the owner's contention 

 that this was not an evidence of madness, the creature 

 was shot by a stupid policeman. Some years ago the 

 Herald made up out of whole cloth a mad dog scare, in- 

 terviewed a lot of fools for their views on hydrophobia, 

 printed hysterical letters from ignorant women, and 

 before abandoning its sensation actually caused the 

 death of numerous victims from fright. The indications 

 afforded by the Herald of last Monday are that metro- 

 politan journalistic enterprise will be turned to the same 

 field of activity this summer. 



ANCLING RESORTS. 



OUR angling columns this week contain mention of 

 many waters where the fisherman may hope to cast 

 his fly with profit. We repeat here a request often made 

 before, that those who have knowledge of resorts for 

 anglers will favor the readers of this journal with such 

 information as may be of practical aid to them. One 

 part of the Forest and Stream's usefulness — and we 

 consider it a very important one — is this constant supply 

 of information for the benefit of the growing hosts of 

 fishermen. 



The tendency of the times is toward taking up and 

 reserving all the best and most accessible waters, and 

 shutting the public out. Hardly a week goes by that we 

 are not asked to take a hand in the organization of a club 

 to buy out somebody's reservation. The average holders 

 of wilderness tracts, who cannot realize upon their pos- 

 sessions in any other way, appear to think that there are 

 multitudes of fishermen and shooters eager to buy up 

 choice sections of the backwoods and at generous prices. 

 A comparatively small proportion of these fish and game 

 bonanzas are ever actually unloaded, but there is no 

 denying the fact that the most desirable tracts are rap- 

 idly passing into private control. 



Under these conditions it is more difficult than ever 

 before for the individual, who has no affiliation with a 

 club, to find good shooting or fishing. We endeavor to 

 do our part toward his guidance by filling our columns 

 with such information as our friends may supply. If 

 you have a good thing, whose value to yourself is not 

 likely to be lessened by its sharing with others, tell us of 



The Forest and Stream grizzly bear in the Central 

 Park menagerie, of this city, 'has developed pronounced 

 sweetness of disposition and an inordinate appetite for 

 peanuts. She thrusts a paw appealingly between the 

 bars of the pit, children place peanuts within the 

 tremendous claws, and she transfers them to her mouth, 

 the whole proceeding being marked by confidence and 

 fearlessness on the child's part and amiability and grati- 

 tude on that of the bear. The danger sign on the bars 

 above is a mockery, and the gentle creature belies the 

 horrtbilis of her name. It need not be added that this 

 journal takes a vast store of pleasure and pride in such a 

 well-behaved grizzly, for whose equal the Rockies might 

 be hunted over in vain. 



A fisherman who always catches his bait minnows by 

 hook and line instead of by net asserts that the fish thus 

 taken are larger and longer lived than those which are 

 netted. In the rush for the bait, runs the theory, the big 

 and strong fellows get there first, and the weak little 

 chaps are crowded out; but on the other hand the big ones 

 escape the net and the little ones are caught. The hook- 

 ing does slight injury or none at all; and the fisherman 

 who hooks his minnows will thus have the most healthy, 

 vigorous and attractive bait. 



At the meeting of the Fisheries Society at Washington 

 last week Capt. J. W. Collins, Chief the Division of Fish 

 and Fisheries, read a paper outlining the plan of the 

 exhibit in this department at the World's Fair in 1893. 

 The promise is that here for the first time the United 

 will adequately display its fishery resources. The full 

 text of Capt. Collins's paper will be printed in our angling 

 columns next week. 



A brief mention in these columns the other day of a 

 proposed memorial of "Nessmuk" has elicited a number 

 of responses, and we shall shortly announce the nature 

 of the undertaking. Meanwhile we would be glad to 

 have the addresses of those who may be specially inter- 

 ested in the matter. 



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