Forest and Stream. 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



Terms, §i A Year. 10 Cts. a Copy, i 

 Six Months, S3. ) 



NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 11, 1892. 



i VOL. XXXVIII.-No. a. 



i No. 318 Broadway, New York. 



CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



Death of Herr von Behr. 

 Ifor the Consideration of Pil- 

 grim?. 

 Military Rifles. 

 Quick Shootirig. 



The Sportsman Tourist. 



The Adirondacks.— ii. 



Natural History. 



The European Bison.— 11. 

 The Killing of a Snake. 

 More About Sharks. 



Game Bag and Gun. 



Notes from the Game Field?. 

 California Notes. 

 Guides and Guided. 

 Worcester's Snow Hunt. 

 Monroe Sportsmen's Associa- 

 tion. 



Sea and River Fishing. 



Trouting in the Cascades.-ix. 

 Large -Mouth and Small - 

 Mouth. 



A Green Hand Among the 



Salmon. 

 Angling Notes. 

 From a Pullman Car. 

 Boston Notes. 



Fishculture. 



Menhaden and Mackerel Fish- 

 eries. 



A Good Stock of Trout. 

 Hybrid Trout in Colorado. 



The Kennel. 



Re the Name Psovoi vs. Barzoi 



The Kennel. 



Canadian Kennel Club Rules. 

 Points and Flushes. 

 Notes and Notions. 

 Baitings. 



Hamilton Kennel Club Meet- 

 ing. 



Hamilton K. C. Members' 

 Show. 



National Beaa-le Club Meeting. 

 Albanv Dog Show. 

 Chicago Dog Show. 

 Southern Field Trials. 

 Dog Chat. 

 Kennel Notes. 



Answers to Correspondents. 

 Canoeing. 

 Down the Mississippi.— in. 

 A. C. A. Regatta, 1«92. 

 Singlehanders. 



Yachting. 



New York Y. R. A. 



The Character of a Mark. 



New York Y. O. 



Philadelphia Y. C. 



Looking Forward. 



Ice Yachting. 



News Notes. 



Rifle Range and Gallery. 



"Forest and Stream" Tourna- 

 ment. 



Trap Shooting. 



Drivers and Twisters. 

 Matches and Meetings. 



Answers to Queries. 



For Prospectus and Advertising Rates see Page 141. 



FOB THE CONSIDERATION OF PILGRIMS. 



THE Pilgrim is very likely a nice boy, quiet, well- 

 bred, kindly— in short, a gentleman. He is intel- 

 ligent, too. pleasant in conversation ; modest, yet eager for 

 information about all the strange things that he sees in 

 the mountains. The plants, the birds, the beasts and the 

 fishes all interest him, and he is delighted to listen to the 

 stories of the oldtimers, and to get them to answer his 

 questions. Besides all this he is willing to do his share 

 of the work, is anxious to help the others when camp is 

 made at night, and to lend a hand at the packing in the 

 morning. So you can see that he is a charming fellow, 

 and yet he sometimes makes himself a thorn in the side 

 of his companions because of his anxiety to be of assist- 

 ance. This makes him suggestive, and a suggestive man, 

 unless his suggestions are backed by the wisdom born of 

 experience, is a nuisance, 



A small pack-train is traveling through an unknown 

 country — forest-clad. Trail there is none; the way is ob- 

 structed here by extensive tracts of down timber, there 

 by ledges, up or down, which horses cannot climb, or, 

 again by roiry swamps, which are impassable. The 

 timber grows thick, so that one can see only a few yards 

 in any direction, no sun shines from the gray sky to give 

 the points of the compass, there is doubt about the water- 

 shed. On this divide head streams which run in two 

 directions. 



The leader rides ahead of the train, endeavoring to 

 pilot the party through the tangled forest and to a good 

 camp, by a route which shall be at once the shortest prac- 

 ticable and at the same time the easiest for the horses. 

 His mind is intent on the difficulties of the way, he is 

 constantly watching for the slightest sign which shall 

 help him to decide the question as to which way he shall 

 next go, whether it will be better to turn to the right or 

 to the left or to keep straight on, to bear away from the 

 watercourse or to cross it. 



To him, keenly observant and pondering these ques- 

 tions, comes the Pilgrim with his suggestions: Are we 

 going right, should we not turn more to the right, or to 

 the left, with much talk and many reasons, which bother 

 and distract his listener, just as a lively conversation might 

 confuse a mathematician who was considering a difficult 

 problem in calculus, 



The leader is a good-natured man. He knows that the 

 boy means well and that it is only his inexperience,which 

 leads him to think that he can give advice which will 

 straighten out the difficulties which are puzzling 

 heads much older than his. He does not speak sharply 

 to the young man but tries to dismiss him with a word; 

 or if his temper is short, perhaps he is a little caustic and 

 asks the boy to take the lead, being willing to teach a 

 lesson even if at some cost to the whole party. 



It is astonishing to see how easily a little gratuitous 

 advice of this kind can make the pleasantest young man 

 unpopular. It is almost as bad as grumbling, which is 

 perhaps the most serious fault that a camp companion 

 pan exhibit. 



There are many ways in which the Pilgrim can make 

 himself obnoxious to the Old Timer, but none, we believe, 

 so certain and so speedy as by proffering unasked for 

 advice about matters of which he knows nothing, but 

 which are a part of the daily life and practice of the men 

 of the mountains. We have heard a Pilgrim, who until 

 the day before had never seen a mule carrying a pack, 

 trying to teach the packers how to throw the diamond 

 hitch. Others, not less self confident— though perhaps 

 now for the first time in the mountains — will direct the 

 guide how to take his pack train along a difficult moun- 

 tain side or through bad down timber, as if the guide 

 were new to the business and they had been cargadors all 

 their lives. And yet these same gentlemen would think 

 it strange if a minister of the gospel should try to teach a 

 lawyer how to draw up his briefs or a stock broker should 

 attempt to write sermons for a priest. 



Ne sutor ultra crepidam, let the cobbler stick to his 

 last. The Pilgrim should remember that he is a pilgrim. 

 If he has hired a guide, let that guide do the work he is 

 paid to perform. What is required of him may be clearly 

 explained and all matters may be thoroughly discussed 

 in advance; but, while he is at work doing his best to 

 accomplish what is very likely a difficult task, do not 

 bother him with your suggestions and advice, which are 

 much more likely to hinder than to help him. By as 

 much as his experience is greater than yours, by so much 

 is his judgment better and his advice more worth fol- 

 lowing. 



DEATH OF HERR VON BEHB. 



ON Jan. 13, Herr von Behr, one'of the most famous fish- 

 culturists of Europe, died at his home in Schmoldow, 

 Germany. Herr von Behr was President of the Deutscher 

 Fischerei Verein, one of the most powerful organizations 

 of its kind in Europe, and was greatly interested in fish- 

 culture both in European countries and the United States. 

 He had numerous correspondents among prominent 

 fishculturists in this country, among them the United 

 States Commissioners of Fisheries, and Mr. E. G. 

 Blackford, of New York. It is to Herr von Behr that we 

 owe the successful introduction of the brown trout into 

 this country, an achievement of which he was very proud. 

 From the original stock received from Herr von Behr 

 and sent to Caledonia Creek, Monroe Green, a few weeks 

 ago, caught a brown trout weighing over lOlbs. This 

 growth was obtained in the seven years which have 

 passed since its introduction. 



Herr von Behr was the author of a very valuable 

 German work on fishculture, entitled "Fischzucht." One 

 of his favorite methods ©f popularizing American fishes 

 among his countrymen was the issuing of small pamph- 

 lets describing the fish and containing illustrations of 

 them. Commissioner McDonald, in recognition of Herr 

 von Behr's services in the introduction of the brown trout, 

 has attached to it Von Behr's name, and at all of the 

 stations of the U. S. Fish Commission the fish is called 

 Von Behr trout. 



YACHT RACING IN 1892. 



AS the beginning of the season draws near, the pros- 

 pects of new yachts in any of the larger classes are 

 rapidly disappearing, the time being short for turning 

 out even a 46-footer in time for the earlier races. "With 

 two notable exceptions, the new craft will be of the 

 smaller sizes, most of them very small. The two excep- 

 tions are the Smith and Gardner schooners, which are 

 likely to give a needed boom to the class, and with Volun- 

 teer, Mayflower and Merlin to make some fine racing. 



Unfortunately the new fleet of 65 ft. schooners and 

 53ft. cutters which is promised each fall, is as far away 

 as ever, and Quickstep must sail alone again in her class, 

 while Clara and Cinderella will continue to represent the 

 53ft. singlestickers. 



The 70ft. class is to all appearances dead; with Sham- 

 rock, Bedouin and Katrina, and in all probability Titania, 

 out of the racing, this fine class will hardly be represent- 

 ed in the races of the year. 



The chief figure in the 46ft. class is the new Wasp. 

 Mr. Rogers' Bristol boat, but the question naturally arises 

 as to what she will race against. A certain amount of in- 

 terest attaches to her first meetings with Gloriana, but 

 it now seems probable that the two will have the field 

 to themselves. The 40-footers and the 30-footers are 

 practically extinct, and it is safe to assume that none of 

 the old 35-footers will dare to start against the new Mor- 

 gan fin-keel. If she should be raced, the new Gardner 



boat now building should make a good mate for the 

 Morgan boat, but it is not certain now that they will 

 come together at all. 



In the East, racing is likely to be hot and exciting only 

 in the 21ft. class, for which half a dozen full-fledged 

 racers are now building, and there is still time for others. 

 About New York the same state of affairs prevails, and 

 such racing as there is will be mainly in the 25ft. S. L. 

 class, between Needle, Smuggler, Nameless and the new 

 Gardner and Herreshoff boats for Messrs. Sanderson and 

 Kersey, with possibly some other new ones. 



Outside then of the largest and smallest classes, the 

 only interest is likely to be in such handicaps and cruis- 

 ing trim races as the clubs -may arrange, and from the 

 number of fast but outbuilt yachts now in commission, 

 these races should be generally popular, both with owners 

 and spectators. 



MILITARY RIFLES. 



A COMPLAINT from General Ordway, of the District 

 of Columbia team, at the last meeting of the 

 Directors of the National Rifle Association, led to a rather 

 novel suggestion. The letter called attention to the 

 manner of loading the Remington State arm used by the 

 Twenty-third New York Regiment team. The bullet 

 was not seated in the shell to a depth sufficient to stand 

 heavy travel. 



There was some basis of fact for the complaint, but not 

 sufficient to explain the defeat, To simplify matters one 

 director suggested that in all future interstate matches 

 Springfield rifles with factory ammunition be required. 



This crude idea was of course rejected. The very ob- 

 ject of Creedmoor and all such ranges is to give a large 

 number of men a chance to see what there is in an arm, 

 to work it over into improvements, and to push forward 

 the whole science and art of shooting. Take New York 

 State for instance; its official arm is not a model weapon 

 according to our later expert notions. It has a big cali- 

 ber and a light barrel; yet by constant study of the why 

 and wherefore of every detail of shooting the better class 

 of shooters have secured nearly perfect results from it. 

 Even though laboring with an inferior tool they have 

 developed into skilled workmen. They have added 

 brains to the official arm. Let every association do the 

 same. Factory ammunition is not perfect, or if this- be 

 not claimed, then the only other possible explanation is 

 that the mover of the one arm idea wished to reduce 

 everybody to the same low level of mediocrity. That is 

 retrogression, not progress. 



SNAP SHOTS. 



TUESDAY, Feb. 23, has been set as the date of trial of 

 Delmonico, of this city, charged with having served 

 woodcock out of season in the summer of 1890. This 

 case has been made notorious from New York to Califor- 

 nia by the mysterious unwillingness of the prosecuting 

 attorneys, Piatt of Westchester and Nicoll of New York, 

 to try it. The offense with which Delmonico is charged 

 is clearly defined in the statute and is one for which 

 numerous smaller fry have paid the penalty; Protector 

 Kidd's evidence is said to be fireproof; and now it only 

 remains for Assistant District Attorney Townsend, who 

 has the case in charge, to prepare and present it in his 

 customary able manner. 



The proposed change in the Massachusetts trout law, 

 to permit in the close season the sale of artificially 

 raised fish, is meeting with decided opposition by the 

 fish commissioners and the Massachusets Fish and Game 

 Association. It is the opinion of those most experienced 

 in the work of enforcing the market provisions of the 

 fish and game laws that the change asked for would 

 render the due protection of wild trout more difficult 

 than ever. 



The notes on the tench, printed last week, were origin- 

 ally prepared at the request of Mr. E. G. Blackford, by 

 whose courtesy we were given the opportunity to present 

 them in the Forest and Stream. 



The petition requesting the Canadian Minister of Fish- 

 eries to grant the salmon rivers more immunity from 

 netting is being extensively signed. Copies of the peti- 

 tion for signature may be had at this office. 



We shall have a full report of the Syracuse convention; 

 the interest in the movement ig not confined to the limits 

 of the State. 



