Forest and Stream. 



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NEW YORK, APRIL 7, 1892. 



( VOL. XXXVIII.-No. 14. 

 I No. 318 Bhoadwat, New Yobk. 



CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



Fish Hatchery in Northern 



New York. 

 Pennsylvania Fish Protective 



Association. 

 Mr.Blaclt ford's Trout Opening 

 Snap Shots. 



The Sportsman Tourist. 



Stories of the Ozark s.— II. 

 FJorida Sports. 



Natural History. 



The Ousel in Oregon. 

 Birds in Central New Brims- 

 wick. 



Seen From My Window. 

 Fishing Crows and Oyster 

 Birds. 



Game Bag and Gun. 



National Economic A'akie of 



Game. 

 After Molly Cottontail. 

 Chicago and the West. 

 A Few Years Back. 

 Spring ShootiDg of Plover. 

 The White Goat. 

 The Forestry Building'. 



Sea and River Fishing. 



With Fly-Rod and Landing 

 Net. 



Through tn Twitchell.-in. 

 Small-Mouth, Red-Eye Gray 



Bass. 

 California Fishing. 

 The Round Whitefish. 

 Winter Pickerel Fishing. 

 Landlocked Salmon in Maine. 

 Indiana Lakes and Streams. 

 Will the Pike County Law 



Stand? 

 Florida Black Bass. 

 Boston Anglers — No ■ th sud 



South. 

 The Tullibee. 



Sea and River Fishing. 



Chicago and the West. 



Fishculture. 



Winter Spawning of Salmon. 

 Pennsylvania Fish Commis- 

 sion. 



The Kennel. 



The Mastiff— Past.Present and 



Future. 

 Points and Flushes. 

 "Wolf Coursing." 

 Boston Dog Show. 

 New England Field Trial Club. 

 Southern Field Trial Grounds. 

 Dog Chat. 



Answers to Correspondents. 

 Canoeing. 

 A. C. A. Prizes. 

 News Notes. 



Yachting. 



Size in Yacht Measurement. 

 Building at Nyack. 

 Model Yachtine. 

 Ancient City Y. C. 

 Designing. 



American Centerboard Sloop. 

 New Jersey Y. C. 

 London S. C. Sailing Exhibi- 

 tion. 

 News Notes. 



Rifle Range and Gallery. 



New Jersey Rifle Shooting. 

 "Forest and Stream" Tourna- 

 ment. 



Trap Shooting. 



Toe Toronto Shooting Glut). 

 Drivers and Twisters. 

 Matches and Meetings. 



Answers to Queries. 



For Prospectus and Advertising Rates see Page 313. 



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PENNSYLVANIA FISH PROTECTIVE ASSOCIA- 

 TION. 



AMONG the powerful organizations of the Keystone 

 State, none is better known for its effective labors 

 in behalf of fish protection and propagation than the one 

 whose name appears above. It was to be expected, there 

 fore, that its reunion in Philadelphia and reception on 

 March 29, to the Pennsylvania Commissioners of Fisheries 

 and other invited guests, including a representative of 

 Forest and Stream, would be attended with feasting, 

 good fellowship and entertaining speeches. The rooms 

 ab 1020 Arch street were far too small to hold the throng, 

 and they were conducted to Wesley Hall, in the adjoin- 

 ing building, which was handsomely decorated for the 

 occasion. Among those present were Messrs. Henry C. 

 Ford and W. L. Powell of the Pennsylvania Fish Com- 

 mission, Frank J. Amsden, of Rochester, N. Y.; Hon. A. 

 G. Green, of Reading; Charles E. Voorhees, of Harris- 

 burg: R. M. Mackay, C. H. Fitzgerald, the Revs. T. Edwin 

 Brown, D.D., R. H. Fulton, D.D., Jacob Todd, D.D., 

 Messrs. Edward F. Hoffman, Thomas Stiles, of Analo- 

 mink, Monroe county; Edwin Hagert, W. H. Burkhardt, 

 J. Penrose Collins, W. J. Sellers, Frederick W. Brown, 

 W. S. Hergesheimer, R. W. Hartley, E. W. Walton, 

 John R- Sypher, Dr. Tarleton H. Bean, of Forest akd 

 Stream and the U. S. Fish Commission, Col. John Gay, 

 of the IT. S. Fish Commission, Sylvanus Garrett, H. O. 

 Wilbur, Mahlon K. Smith, Edwin A. Sellers, W. C. Henry, 

 of Henry ville; W. W. Trompe, of Newark, N. J.; N. H. 

 Carpenter, J. B. Chandler, Jesse N. Baker, of Media, and 

 N. L. Jones, members of the State House of Represen- 

 tatives; Dr. W. W. McClure, Eugene Henry, of Henry - 

 ville; C. T. Colladay, Cyrus S. Detre, W. P. Oglesby, 

 Thomas M. Longcope, John A. Shulze, John A. Walker, 

 of the Reading Railroad Company. 



After those present had done justice to a most substan- 

 tial supper, the president of the association, Mr. A. M. 

 Spangler, delivered a brief address of welcome, and he 

 was followed by Mr. Ford, whose account of the work of 

 the Pennsylvania Fish Commission appears elsewhere in 

 our columns, and by several other speakers, among them 

 Mr. Amsden, Reverend Doctors Fulton and Brown, Jesse 

 N. Baker and Dr. T. H. Bean. The angling reminiscences 

 of the clergymen were highly entertaining. Mr. Amsden 

 noted the growth of fish protective associations in many 

 States as compared with the unsympathetic condition of 

 public sentiment in New York. Mr. Baker warned the 

 Pennsylvania Commissioners of the constant danger to 



their work from lack of appropriations and from the in- 

 troduction of laws allowing destructive fishing, particu- 

 larly as relates to the use of fish traps in streams. He 

 expects that the new fish car will so increase the intro- 

 duction of food and game fish into the rivers as to 

 strengthen the Commission with the public. 



This Protective Association is the mainstay of the 

 State Fish Commission and its influence is felt far and 

 wide. May its membership greatly multiply and its 

 power for good increase until the streams of the Com- 

 monwealth are filled with choice fish and the wisdom of 

 protection is fully recognized. 



MB, BLACKFORD'S TROUT OPENING. 

 r I A HE trout opening display provided by ex- Fish Com- 

 missioner Eugene G. Blackford, in his establishment 

 in the Fulton Market, of this city, has come to be a regular 

 feature of the day so eagerly looked forward to by 

 anglers; and the handsome exhibit of last Friday well re- 

 paid the throngs of pleased visitors who crowded the 

 stalls all day long. The display was, as usual, large and 

 comprehensive, of much variety and beauty: and all the 

 more pleasing because framed in bowers of moss and 

 foliage and flowers, with running waters, and the illusion 

 of sparkling streams. 



The exhibits of speckled trout came from the ponds of 

 the South Side Sportsmen's Club, of Oakdale, Long 

 Island; from Patchogue, Smithtown and other points on 

 the Island; the Wild wood and Old Colony ponds, of Mas- 

 sachusetts; the Troutmere Hatchery, of Wisconsin ; the 

 Troutdale Fish Farm Company, of Arkansas (who sent 

 such a show of big fish as made Mr. Blackford open his 

 eyes); the Tuxedo Club, and James Annin, Jr., of New 

 York; and Joseph Hoxie, of Rhode Island. A consign- 

 ment of Dolly Vardens from the Pacific Coast was 

 belated: but besides the speckled trout shown were rain- 

 bow trout, brown trout from Caledonia, and from the 

 Old Colony ponds some interesting specimens of a cross 

 between the brook and the lake trout. 



It was just after 5 o'clock Friday afternoon, when he 

 reached Fulton Market. He was fagged out and dis- 

 appointed, as any other trout fisherman would have been 

 who had never a fin to show for his opening day expedi- 

 tion. But he was a bit canny, and had come the. long 

 way round, not so much to see the trout display as to 

 buy a fish or two, which, if all went well, he might 

 palm off on a confiding wife and family as convincing 

 evidence of the prolificness of Long Island trout streams 

 and unquestioned trophies of his own skill. He 

 wandered in a dazed and manifestly disappointed way 

 amid the mossy banks on which reposed scores of giant 

 beauties, and between the translucent tanks in which 

 other huge fellows were lazily disporting themselves and 

 showing off their spots as vainly and as self-consciously 

 as so many peacocks. 



There were big fish galore; no doubt about that — mag- 

 nificent specimens from Arkansas notable for their light 

 shades of coloring; long red-bellied monarchs from "Ca- 

 nadian pools; Cape Codders whose sides shone like the 

 Forest and Siream's New Jersey rifle trophy, and 

 heavy-weights from Long Island and Caledonia; but the 

 disappointed angler was evidently hard to please, the 

 more he looked the deeper grew the lines of chagrin on 

 his face. 



"You don't appear to stick to the legal limit of length 

 very closely," said he, when he came to Mr. Blackford. 

 "I don't ! The limit is six inches, is it not?'' 

 "Yes." 



"Well, do you see anything here that looks smaller 

 than thatV" a9ked the ex-Fish Commissioner, waving his 

 hand comprehensively over the two and three and four 

 and five pounders. 



"Oh no. I did not mean that,'" said the disappointed 

 angler. " I was only looking for two or three fish as 

 small as possible, as near six inches as you had them, say 

 pix and an-eighth." 



"What do you want such fingerlings for ? " 



"Well, you see, I meant to take them homeland to tell 

 my wife I caught them myself; and I want her to believe 

 me, you know. She just couldn't do it with these big 

 fellows. She isn't used to them. The children have 

 been brought up on smaller trout. Can't you find me 

 something reasonable, something nearer the limit, some- 

 thing my trustful family can swallow?" 



'Trn sorry that I cannot fit you out." said Mr, Black- 



ford: "but here, take this, and tell her it's the 'big one 

 that got away," about which you've been spinning yarns 

 to her all these years." 



"No," said the disappointed angler, "she would not 

 believe that either, for the fish I've told her about is as 

 big as any four in your whole trout opening." 



And he departed as he had come, to join the innumer- 

 able caravan that wends its way Ashless to its abode at 

 the close of every trout opening day. 



FISH HATCHERY IN NORTHERN NEW YORK. 



IN our columns of July 30 and Aug. 20, 1891, we referred 

 to an appropriation of $20,000 by Congress for the 

 establishment of a great fish hatchery in the St. Lawrence 

 basin and the exploration of the region by Commissioners 

 McDonald and Blackford. No suitable site was found, 

 nor has the U. S. Commissioner yet indicated his dis- 

 covery of a valuable location. The great essentials for 

 the undertaking are cold water and an almost unlimited 

 supply of it. In order to be effective and adequate to the 

 needs of the region, the station must have accommoda- 

 tions for 100,000,000 whitefish eggs and 1,000,000 salmon 

 fry during a season. Haste in making a choice of site 

 may result in serious embarrassment and waste of time 

 and funds. The bill signed by Governor Flower on March 

 10, releasing jurisdiction to the United States over certain 

 lands in the towns of Theresa and Antwerp in Jefferson 

 county for a United States fish hatchery, was doubtless 

 intended to facilitate the work of Commissioner Mc- 

 Donald: but its effect may be to so enhance the value of 

 lands and water rights in the estimation of their owners 

 as to defeat the hopes of its promoters by forcing a 

 selection of a site elsewhere. 



SNAP SHOTS. 

 TN our columns will be found a description by Mr. 



Gilchrist, Inspector of Fisheries of the Northwest 

 Territory, of the singular whitefish known as the tullibee. 

 We believe it is the first satisfactory account of the 

 habits of this whitefish, about which little has appeared 

 since the writings of Dr. Richardson. In Lake Erie the 

 species is called the mongrel whitefish by fishermen who 

 mistake it for a hybrid between the common whitefish 

 and the lake herring. We are indebted to Commissioner 

 McDonald for the fine illustration, which was made from 

 a Manitoba specimen forwarded to the U. S. Fish Com- 

 mission by Mr. Blackford, 



The illustration of the white goat printed on another 

 page is the first really lifelike figure of that curious 

 animal ever published. The picture was taken by Mr. 

 Seward immediately after he had killed the goat, and it 

 had been propped up into the position usually occupied 

 by this animal when lying down. The reproduction 

 shows well the long and narrow face, the head held no 

 higher than the line of the back, and the clumsy bulk of 

 the species. A good idea is given also of the slide rock, 

 on which these creatures spend much of their time. In 

 the posing of the animal figured Mr. Seward had the as- 

 sistance of a hunter who has had a long experience with 

 white goats, having killed a good many and devoted 

 much time to studying their habits. The scene of the 

 photograph is in the St. Mary's Lakes country, on the 

 head of a short stream flowing into Swift Current River, 

 which has been named, by the only persons who have 

 ever been to its head, Canon Creek. It is fed by the 

 waters from glaciers and snowbanks, and tumbles down 

 the northwest slope of Mt. Allen, one of the highest peaks 

 in the region. Mr. Seward is entitled to great credit for 

 the pains which he took to secure this picture. To carry 

 a camera up the steep cliff and along the difficult ledges 

 which had to be passed over before the goat was secured 

 was a task of no little labor and even danger; but the 

 picture which he brought back with him from the moun- 

 tain amply repaid him for his efforts. Moreover, the sat- 

 isfaction of having killed one's first goat is not to be 

 lightly passed over. 



To prevent an undue encroachment of advertisements 

 upon the reading matter this week, we have added four 

 extra pages; and the purchaser of Forest and Stream 

 this week, as every other week, receives for his ten cents 

 a store of woods and waters literature attainable no 

 where else on this "livin' airth," as Uncle Lisha, Qf 

 blessed memory, would have put it, 



