Forest and Stream. 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



Terms, $4 a Year, 10 Gts. a Copy. ) 



Six Months, $3. f 



NEW YORK, APRIL 21, 1892. 



J VOL. XXXVIII.-No. 16. 

 1 No. 318 Broadway, New York. 





Editorial. 



April on the Marshes. 

 Hod and Run aod Camera. 

 You Are Iutf-rested. 

 The Illinois League. 

 Snap Shots. 



The Sportsman Tourist. 



An Experience at Vermillion 



Lake.— in. 

 Syndicating the Adirondacks. 



Natural History. 



Some Southern Field Notes. 

 The Monterey Buffalo. 



Game Bag and Gun. 



Spriner Shooting. 

 The White Swan, 

 Stories of the Ozark g.— it. 

 Protection in New York State. 

 Chicago and the West. 



Sea and River Fishing. 



Curious Florida Fisbes. 

 Canadian Angling Season. 

 Chicago and the West. 

 A New Minnow Bucket 

 Potomac Bass. 

 A Game Sucker. 

 Sale of Fish in Close Season. 

 New England Anglers. 

 Trout Opening in Pennsyl- 

 vania. 



CONTENTS. 



Fishculture. 



Planting Trout Fry. 

 The Kennel. 

 Retrieving at Field Trials. 

 Influence of a Previous Sire. 

 Denver Dog Show. 

 Flaps From the Beaver's Tail. 

 Dog Chat. 



Answers to Correspondents. 



Canoeing. 



The Bed Dragon's Smoker. 

 News Notes. 



Yachting. 



Education of Naval Architects 

 Size vs. Length and Sail Area. 

 Restrictions on Racing. 

 In the Building Yards. 

 Length and Sail Area Rule. 

 Glycera, Five-R,ater. 

 News Notes. 



Rifle Range and Gallery. 



Winan's Trophy at St. Louis. 

 Revolver Championship. 

 "Forest and Stream" Tourna- 

 ment. 



Trap Shooting. 



Tne Staunton Tournament. 

 Drivers and Twisters. 

 Matches and Meetings. 



Answers to Queries. 



For Prospectus and Advertising Rates see Page 389, 



ROD AND GUN AND CAMERA. 

 r ^HE Sportsman Tourist of to-day is an amateur pho- 

 tographer. The camera has a recognized place in 

 the sportsman's outfit. The results of successful snap- 

 shots often constitute the most cherished mementoes of 

 an outing. 



From time to time we have been favored with highly 

 interesting evidences of the skill and success of those 

 who are no less adept with the camera than with rod 

 and gun; and some of the views sent us have been 

 reproduced by the marvelously faithful photo-engraving 

 half-tone process for the benefit of our readers. Notable 

 among these were the group of mule deer, in our "Boy- 

 hood Number," and on April 7 the happily successful 

 picturing of the mountain goat. There must be a rich 

 store of such photographs in the possession of those to 

 whose notice this shall come. If they could be brought 

 together for comparison the collection would supply 

 abundant interest and study. 



As a recognition of the important place of amateur 

 photography in its relation to sports of the field and 

 prairie and mountain and forest and stream, the Forest 

 and Stream offers a series of prizes for meritorious work 

 with the camera. The conditions under which these 

 prizes will be given are in brief as here set forth: 



There will be ten prizes, as follows: First $25, Second 

 $20. Third $15. Fourth $10. Six of $5 each. 



The competition will be open to amateurs only. 



The subjects must relate to Forest and Stream's field 

 — game and fish (alive or dead), shooting and fishing, the 

 camp, campene and camp life, sportsman travel by land 

 or water. 



There is no restriction as to the time when the pictures 

 may have been or may be made — whether in 1892 or in 

 previous years. 



Pictures will be received up to Dec. 31, of this year. 



All work must be original; that is to say, it must not 

 have been submitted in any other competition, nor have 

 been published. 



There are no restrictions as to the make or style of 

 camera, nor as to size of plate. 



A competitor need not be a subscriber of Forest and 

 Stream. 



All photographs will be submitted to a committee, 

 shortly to be announced. In making these awards the 

 judges will be instructed to take into consideration the 

 technical merits of the work as a photograph, its artistic 

 qualities; and other things being equal, the unique and 

 difficult nature of the subject. 



Photographs must be marked only with initials or a 



pseudonym for identification. With each photograph 

 should be given name of sender, title of view, locality, 

 date, and name of camera. 



From time to time we shall reproduce by the half-tone 

 process samples of the work submitted, and should the 

 interest in*F0REST and Stream's Amateur Photography 

 Competition prove to be what is anticipated, we may 

 ask for an expression of opinion by a vote of all our 

 readers after the manner of the successful and famous 

 "Camp Fire Flickering Vote." Such popular vote, how- 

 ever, will be quite distinct from the award by the com- 

 mittee. 



APRIL ON THE MARSHES. 

 r^OWN in the open marshes the lodges of the musk- 

 U rats have gone adrift in the floods; but the un- 

 housed inmates count this a light misfortune, since they 

 may voyage again with heads above water, and go mate- 

 seeking and food-gathering in sunshine and starlight, 

 undimmed by roof of ice. As you see them cutting the 

 smooth surface with long, swift arrowy wakes, coasting 

 the low shore in quest of brown sweethearts and wives, 

 whimpering their plaintive call, you can hardly imagine 

 the clumsy body between that grim head and rudder-like 

 tail capable of such graceful motion. 



The painted wood drake swims above the submerged 

 tree roots; a pair of dusky ducks splash to flight, with a 

 raucous clamor, out of a sedgy cove at your approach; 

 the thronging blackbirds shower liquid melody and hail 

 of discord from the purple-budded maples above you. 

 All around you, from the drift of floating and stranded 

 water weeds, arises the dry, crackling croak of frogs, and 

 from sunny pools the vibrant trill of toads. 



From afar come the watery boom of a bittern, the song 

 of a trapper and the hollow clang of his setting pole 

 dropping athwart the gunwales of his craft, the distant 

 boom of a gun and the echoes rebounding from shore to 

 shore. 



The grateful odor of the warming earth comes to your 

 nostrils; to your ears, from every side, the sounds of 

 spring ; and yet you listen for fuller confirmation of its 

 presence in the long-drawn wail of the plover and the 

 rollicking melody of the bobolink. 



YOU ARE INTERESTED. 



LEGISLATION with regard to the National Park ap- 

 pears to be in a deplorable condition. Messrs. Carey 

 and Warren, Senators from Wyoming, within whose 

 boundaries the reservation lies, care little for the Park, 

 but a great deal for making themselves popular with their 

 constituents. The former has introduced a bill for its 

 protection, a half-way measure which can do little 

 good. Mr. Warren proposes to throw open a good part of 

 the recently established forest preserve to the railways, 

 the tie cutters and the prospectors. Neither of the gentle- 

 men seems as yet to realize that Wyoming has become a 

 State. They still pursue the petty methods of a Territory 

 and of a newly settled country. Senator Vest, who in 

 the past has done such yeoman service for the Park, 

 appears to have withdrawn from the struggle, and his 

 bill is buried — no one knows where. 



In the House things are, if possible, in a worse condi- 

 tion than in the Senate. The Dixon bill, which is the 

 same as Senator Vest's, has made no progress whatever. 

 The Committee on Public Lands has favorably reported 

 the iniquitous measure giving the right of way to the 

 Montana Mineral Eailway to pass through the Park. No 

 one appears to take the slightest interest in the subject, 

 and it is quite likely that by means of selfish bargains 

 and deals some of the bad bills affecting the Park may be 



It. is often said that no measure can pass Congress 

 unless it is backed by money or politics, and the course 

 of the House in regard to the Yellowstone Park bills 

 seems to justify this statement. Behind the Montana 

 Mineral Railway there are a lobby and money. Behind 

 the Park there is neither a lobby nor money— only the 

 people. 



Every citizen of this country is a part owner of the 

 National Park, and these bills which threaten its integ- 

 rity, threaten the rights of all of us, It is the duty of 

 every citizen to protest against these proposed outrages 

 and to let his representative in Congress know that his 

 course with regard to the Park will be watched, 



THE ILLINOIS LEAGUE, 

 TN behalf of the angling fraternity of America, we 

 warmly and heartily congratulate the citizens of 

 Illinois upon the formation of the Illinois State Fish 

 League, the official report of which is contained in our 

 present issue. In plan, purpose, scope and organization 

 the League is admirable. It has before it a work of im- 

 portance and value beyond estimate. The men who have 

 united for accomplishing this work are men of brains, 

 enthusiasm and ability. They have gone about this enter- 

 prise in a way which is full of good portent. The League 

 gives every promise of proving an active, intelligent and 

 constant factor in securing to the people of Illinois those 

 benefits which the fish laws should insure, and will in- 

 sure if enforced. 



The League should have the earnest and active sup- 

 port of the entire community; and in particular of each 

 one of the many hundreds of individuals to whom the 

 officers send this number of the Forest and Stream as 

 their authorized announcement and report. 



SNAP SHOTS. 

 /^VN April 13 the U. S. Fish Commission sent from its 

 ^ Washington headquarters 14,000 fry of the Von Behr 

 or brown trout to small tributaries of Rock Creek, Dis- 

 trict of Columbia, within the boundaries of the proposed 

 National Park. Several thousand of the trout were 

 hatched in Washington from imported German eggs, 

 and the rest were from eggs collected at Northville, 

 Mich. Mr. Donnelly, who superintended the planting, 

 says the first lot were placed about one mile west of 

 Brightwood, a*nd from thence two miles along the course 

 of the stream in little tributaries, free from other fish. 

 He found plenty of holes, about two feet deep, in which 

 the fry settled very comfortably. The trout did not 

 "bank" (or huddle together) much, and soon began to 

 move up stream. As the waters are strictly protected 

 and few fish are found native in the localities stocked, it 

 is thought that good results may follow this experi- 

 mental planting. 



When the Illinois State Sportsmen's Association adopt- 

 ed a new set of trap shooting rules, the full text was 

 wired to Forest and Stream, and published in this 

 journal in advance of all others. To-day we give the 

 official report of the new Illinois Fish League, and this is 

 sent by the League to many hundreds of people in that 

 State. Thus again it is demonstrated that the Forest 

 and Stream is for the West, as well as for the Eist, the 

 newspaper that gives the news. For that matter, the 

 same thing is demonstrated every week in the year, and 

 so far as the West is concerned, has been the rule ever 

 since the acquisition of our bright Chicago staff corres- 

 pondent. Whether an event takes place in Massachusetts 

 or Illinois or Louisiana, Always look for Forest and 

 Stream's report, 



At this writing (Wednesday noon) the New York 

 game bill has just been passed. Orange and Sullivan 

 counties have been added to the list of those in which 

 woodcock shooting will open Aug. 1. Erie, Chautauqua, 

 Cattaraugus and Orleans counties have been exempted 

 from the snipe law. Protection has been removed from 

 hawks. Taking it all in all, the measure is a disgraceful 

 mess, in some sections unintelligible, and as Mr. Gavitt 

 says in another column, it cannot longer be considered 

 the Codification Commission's bill nor the bill indorsed 

 by the sportsmen of the State at Syracuse. 



Whatever may be the effect of the sale of black bass in 

 close time in Massachusetts, it is certain that the pro- 

 posed license to sell cultivated brook trout all the year 

 around will work disastrously to the supply of wild fish. 

 No one is better qualified to judge of this than Mr. 

 Eugene G. Blackford, of Fulton Market, in this city, and 

 Mr. Blackford expresses the opinion that the practical 

 working of the law would be to encourage the sale of 

 wild trout in close season. It would in effect, says Mr, 

 Blackford, take away protection from the wild fish. 



The practical working of a law which permits rabbit 

 shooting in the close season for game birds is stated by a 

 Missouri correspondent in our game columns. In that 

 State, under cover of a pretense of rabbit huating, pot- 

 hunters destroy vast numbers of quail. This is just what 

 may be expected under the proposed New York law, 



