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A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



84 a Year. 10 Cts. a Copy. I 

 Six Months, S3. j 



NEW YORK, JANUARY 14, 1892. 



1 VOL. XXXVIII.-No. 2. 



1 Mo. 318 Broadway, New York. 



CONTENTS, 



Editorial. 



Frostflsh. 

 Snap Shots. 



The Sportsman Tourist. 



Winter Sports in North Carc- 

 i»lina.-iv. 



Natural History. 



frambers Partridge. 

 Cannibal Snakes. 



Came Bag and Gun. 



Two Remarkable Captures. 



Two Men and a Bear. 



A Gun Camerf, 



North Woods Game. 



About Buffalo Grasp. 



A November Afternoon. 



Old Sauk's Good Work. 



Maine Game. 



Again the Jack Rabbits. 



Chicago and the West. 



Quail in Florida. 



New York State Convention. 



A Venerable Bear Hunter. 



Sea and River Fishing. 



Frostflsh. 



Sniggering and Guddling. 

 The Sis-Inch Trout Law. 

 Troutinginthe Cascades,— v. 

 Angling Notes. 

 Chesapeake Bay Fishes. 

 Virginia Trout and Bass. 

 Minnesota Ice Fishing. 

 International Fi^h Laws. 

 Southern Massachusetts "Fish 

 and Game League. 



Sea and River Fishing. 



Salmon Fishing in Canada. 



Fishculture. 



Maryland Pond Culture. 



The Kennel. 



Dog Dosing. „ , 



That Iron-Clad Coursiug Rule 

 Canadian Kennel Club Rules. 

 Field Spaniels and Cocker 



Heads. 

 Charleston Dog Show. 

 Albany Dog Show. 

 National Beagle Club Meeting 

 Brunaw'ck Fur Club Meet. 

 Dog Chat. 

 Kennel Notes. 



Answers to Correspondents. 

 Rifle Range and Gallery. 

 "Forest and Stream" Tourna- 

 ment. 



Trap Shooting. 



Drivers and Twisters. 

 Matches and Meetings. 



Yachting. 



The Corinthian Sweepstakes. 

 Y T achts vs. Sailing Boats. 

 Off Cape Elizabeth. 



Canoeing. 



Small Cruisers. 



A Centerboard for Canoe*. 



Racing Canoe- Yawls. 



Answers to Queries. 



For Prospectus and Advertising Rates see Page 45, 



FROST-FISH. 

 r pHE interesting article on this small whitefi3h by "A. 

 J- N. 0m" which we publish this week, contains a 

 record of the first observations known to us upon the 

 movements and .spawning habits of a widely-distributed 

 but little studied fish. In our brief references to the species 

 we have purposely avoided the use of the name frostflsh, 

 because of its intimate association with a small marine 

 fish of the cod family and, also, on account of the many 

 older common names which have been applied to this 

 Coregonus. In Forest and Stream of March 7, 1889, 

 will be found, in "Answers to Correspondents,' 1 page 145, 

 a short survey of its names and distribution. The state- 

 ment as to its occurrence at Kadiak was based on a mis- 

 understanding of the collector's notes; the fish was found 

 on the peninsula of Alaska, and not on the island. The 

 specimen mentioned by our correspondent was caught 

 "with bait in Roach River, a tributary of Moosebead 

 Lake, about seven miles from the lake." Among the 

 names applied to Coregonus quadrilateralis are the fol- 

 lowing: Round whitefish, Menomonee whitefish, shad- 

 waiter, pilot-fish, chivey, billfish (Connecticut Lakes, 

 N. H.), mackerel. (Newfound Lake, % H.), cucumber 

 fish (Megantic Lake), clearfish (New Hampshire). Ac- 

 cording to Col. Hodge, Chesterfield Lake appears to be 

 its southern limit in New Hampshire. In addition to its 

 value as food for man the round whitefish (or frost-fish) 

 furnishes abundant and wholesome food for the lake 

 trout. 



By reference to the figure of Hoy's whitefish in "Fish 

 ery Industries," plate 197b, it will be observed that the 

 round whitefish belongs to a very different group of 

 whitefishes, namely, the one typified by the lake herring 

 {Coregonus artedi). One of the most striking character- 

 istics of the quadrilateralis is the small number of its 

 gill -rakers; there are only seventeen on the first gill arch. 

 If "A. N, C." noticed parr marks on the fry of this 

 species it would be interesting to record the observation; 

 we have seen them in the young of a closely related 

 whitefish and in the grayling. 



SNAP SHOTS. 



THERE is this peculiarity of a dead-letter law that, 

 though it lie long forgotten, it nevertheless is a 

 potentiality, and is tolerably certain on occasions to be 

 raked up and called into play as a means of gratifying 

 somebody's personal spite. There is in New York a law 

 forbidding fishing on Sunday. But as a matter of fact, 

 taking the State, probably 1C,000 fishermen do fish on 

 every Sunday throughout the fishing season : and no 

 official ever dreams of enforcing the law. Last season, 

 however, the netters of Jamaica Bay, Long Island, 

 caused the arrest and fining of several Sunday fishermen, 

 to "get square" with them for having interfered with 

 illegal net fishing. Now the Sunday fishermen are pre- 

 paring a huge petition to be sent to Albany praying for 

 a repeal of the Sunday fishing prohibition. 



Private advices from Montana tell us of a terrible 

 butchery of elk just north of the line of the Yellowstone 

 Park. It is said that the slaughter is carried on in pure 

 wantonness, not having even the miserable excuse that 

 hides or meat are to be sold. It is stated that men have 

 been seen to shoot elk down and not even take the 

 trouble to go near the carcass, which they could not use 

 as they already had all the meat they could carry. It is 

 an extraordinary thing that no notice is taken of these 

 bold violations of the law in Montana and Wyoming, the 

 two best game sections left in the West. Both States 

 have laws which are good, if enforced, and both have 

 gun clubs and game protective clubs, whose purpose as 

 announced by themselves is the enforcement of these 

 laws. Wyoming has done more in this respect than 

 Montana, and yet the latter State has always before her 

 eyes an impressive object lesson in the shocking destruc- 

 tion of big game which every now and then takes place 

 on the borders of the National Park. Montana enjoys 

 the bad eminence of having exterminated the last of the 

 buffalo. Does she want to repeat that process with the 

 elk? 



At a monthly meeting of the New York Fish Commis- 

 sion, at Albany, last Tuesday, Mr. Huntington was made 

 President to fill the place made vacant by Gov. Hill's 

 ousting of Mr. Blackford. Mr. Hackney, the new com- 

 missioner, is disposed to recognize the grotesqueness of 

 his appointment; declares that he did not seek the office, 

 and good-naturedly admits that he does not know the dif- 

 ference between an eel and a clam, has no interest in fish, 

 and cannot imagine why he was given the office. If Mr. 

 Hackney does not know what he is put into the Commis- 

 sion for, he may learn from an interview with Gov. Hill, 

 printed in the Brooklyn Eagle, that he is expected to 

 blow a political fish horn for the Democratic candidates 

 in campaign times. The Governor told the reporter that 

 he believed Mr. Blackford to be a good man for the place; 

 but Mr. Blackford had voted for Mr. Fassett, the Repub- 

 lican candidate; and this was a Democratic State; and he 

 did not propose to keep Mugwumps in office. We recall 

 no recent instance of a more shameless declaration of 

 pernicious political principles than this. 



The Prince of Wales and eight companions put in less 

 than five hours of pheasant shooting on a recent occasion 

 and secured a bag of 2,236. So much for the incubator 

 system of hatching game birds and the battue system of 

 securing them for market. But one well-educated shot- 

 proof American partridge has more game wrapped up in 

 his feathers than a barnyard full of such English pheas- 

 ants ; and when a man has chased around through the 

 brush for hours after the old bird and finally laid hands 

 on it, he trudges home with a vastly richer store of satis- 

 faction than an average of 49.938 pheasants per hour can 

 ever give the participant in a battue. 



A Capt. DeHaas just back from a gold-hunting trip in 

 Alaska suggests that somebody might make a fortune by 

 starting a cannery for wild geese and ducks at the mouth 

 of the Yukon River, where the fowl congregate in im- 

 mense numbers in the spring of the year. We print this 

 for the edification of the esteemed correspondent who 

 wrote from Paris the other day that he would be glad to 

 see sport with the gun put an end to in America, A few 

 of Capt. De Haas's springtime duck canneries, judiciously 

 established at the right points in the far North, would 

 solve once and forever the spring shooting question. 



The most enthusiastic gunman we have heard recently 

 in praise of his " trusty " was the possessor of a 10-bore, 

 originally of 33 inch barrels, but gradually cut off until 

 with 24 inches it was found to be a perfect wonder for duck 

 shooting. We would like to have for publication in our 

 gun column some notes of practical experience with 

 short-barreled guns. 



One need not go far from New York city for wildfowl 

 when the flight is on. At BeUport, Long Island, sixty- 

 three miles from New York, three shooters from the 

 city, in ten days last fall, killed 509 ducks. One day's 

 score reached 140. 



We take pleasure in presenting this week a foretaste of 

 the good things in store for those interested in American 

 birds. The delightful article on Gambel's quail published 

 in our Natural History columns is from advance sheets of 



the first volume of Captain Bendire's "Life Histories of 

 North American Birds," referred to in these columns some 

 time since. This is the typical game bird of Arizona, 

 where it is extremely abundant. Captain Bend ire writes 

 from a very full personal knowledge of the habits of this 

 species, derived from his long service in", the Territory, 

 and his story of the life of the beautiful bird is charm- 

 ingly told. On more than one occasion we have seen 

 birds of this species in captivity here in the East, the 

 examples having been sent on by our friend, Mr. Herbert 

 Brown, The birds did well in a wire-screened pen ten 

 or twelve feet square, and were beautiful and interesting 

 objects. 



Kennel interests are advancing so rarndly that their 

 adequate presentation calls for a more generous provision 

 to-day than ever before. In our Kennel department we 

 propose to give all the news, and to give it promptly on 

 the dot while it is news. To further this end we have 

 added to our staff Mr. B. Waters of Chicago, whose long 

 experience with field dogs and familiarity with field trials 

 have given him pecitliar qualifications. The acquisition 

 of Mr. Waters will be recognized as an accession of 

 strength. Mr. Waters will remain in Chicago, where he 

 will cooperate with Mr. Hough, and will represent not 

 only the West, but the South and Southwest. While as 

 a matter of fact the Forest and Stream is the most 

 popular sportsman's journal in the West to-day, we do 

 not claim it to be a "Western" paper nor an "Eastern" 

 paper: we are quite content to have it recognized as an 

 unsectional, national, American Forest and Stream. 



Immediately following the last shooting tournament of 

 the New York Association for the Protection of Fish and 

 Game, Gen. D. H. Bruce of Syracuse suggested through 

 our columns a convention of the Association to discuss 

 measures for securing desired legislation. The proposal 

 was seconded by Mr, Horace White. President of the 

 Association; and it is a pleasure to record, as we do on 

 another page, that the project has taken practical shape. 

 A meeting will be held next month, and the names of 

 those who have the matter in charge warrant confidence 

 in the result. 



" Well, the fellow that made that knew what he was. 

 about." was the comment which an experienced cow- 

 puncher made as he passed along Broadway and noticed 

 the Winans trophy in the window of Hartley & Graham, 

 opposite the Forest and Stream office. " It's a real cow- 

 boy on a real pony; and he's got all the fixings right, too. 

 He sits on his broncho as he should and not with bis 

 knees drawn up like an English jockey. His gun seems a 

 trifle long, but he*s got the drop on his man sure enough." 



An Austrian chemist has devised an instrument of 

 defense and offense for wild-beast tamers. The invention 

 consists of a syringe charged with caustic ammonia; one 

 strong squirt of this into the nostrils of any wild beast 

 would, he says, half asphyxiate the animal and render it 

 powerless for sufficient time to enable the tamer to escape 

 from the cage. Supplied with a powerful syringe of this 

 sort, some of our grizzly bear hunters would no longer 

 find it necessary to trap a,nd clog their bears before 

 venturing within range. 



Dr. James A. Henshall has gone to Florida for a six 

 weeks' collecting tour to gather specimens of fishes and 

 other objects for the World's Fair exhibit of the U, S. 

 Fish Commission. 



It all depends upon where you see it. The heading 

 "Woodcock's Puzzling Curves," would mean one thing 

 in a sportman's journal, but in the daily paper it refers to 

 a baseball pitcher. " Great Slaughter" in our gun col- 

 umns would imply big shooting, in the daily it means 

 that dry goods are going " below cost." 



Sports Afield has taken on a magazine form, and now 

 adds convenience of handling to its other attractions. 

 Our bright Denver contemporary is a true child of the 

 West; it brings with it the breezy spirit of Colorado and 

 the Rockies, and is in every way a credit to sportsman's 

 journalism. 



The annual dinner of the Megantic Fish and Game 

 Club will be held in Boston, Hotel Brunswick, Jan. 28. 



