Forest and Stream. 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



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NEW YORK, OCTOBER 15, 1891. 



J VOL. XXXVII.-No. 13. 

 1 No. 318 Bhoadway, New york. 





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CONTENTS. 



EDITOBIAIi. 



October Voices. 



Shall tbe Adirondacks be 

 Stocked? 



Snap Shots. 

 The Sportsman Toxtbist. 



The Summer Girl. 



Freemasonry of Outdoor Life. 

 Natdbal Histoby. 



Birds of the Chehalis Forests. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



Among the Bay Birds in Cur- 

 rituck.— ii. 



Stalking the Drumming 

 Grouse. 



The Ducks in Convention. 



Notes from the Game Fields. 



Pennsylvania Quail Season. 



Ways of the Huffed Grouse. 



Chicago and the West. 



Noosing Deer and Caribou. 



In the Great Woods of Wash- 

 ington. 



The Connecticut Association. 

 Still-Huntiug Deer with Dogs. 

 Among the Wildfowl. 

 A Suffolk County Association. 

 Moose in Nova Scotia, 

 Boston Sportsmen. 

 Sea and Biveb Fishing. 

 Fishing With Trained Cormo- 

 rants.— iv. 

 Trout Injuries. 

 Chicago and the Wesf. 

 Black Bass in James River. 

 The Hemlock Lake Bass. 



Sea and River Fishing. 



Ledge Fishing for Ouinaniche. 



Maine Waters. 



Angling Notes. 

 The Kennel. 



Danbury Dog Show. 



Beaufort's Return to England. 



National Beagle Club Trials. 



International Field Trial Club 

 Entries. 



Our Dog Men in Europe. 



Dog Chat. 



Kennel Notes. 



Answers to Correspondents. 

 Rifle and Tbap Shootihq. 

 Range and GaUerv. 

 The Revolver Championship. 

 The Sj'racuse Tournament. 

 The Ttiird Brigade Shoot. 

 The Trap. 



Washington Rod and Gun 



Club. 

 Chicago Trap'^. 

 New Jersey Trap League. 

 The Rochester Shoot. 

 Yachting. 

 A Sharpie Cruise in Florida. 

 Beverly Y. C. 



New York Yacht Racing Asso- 

 ciation. 



Centerboards. 



Winning Yachts. 

 Canoeing. 



A Centerboard-Keel Canoe. 



Marine and Field Club Race. 

 Answbes to Correspondents. 



OCTOBER VOICES. 



ON the marsh and in the woods one notes in October 

 how few and how lessened in variety since the 

 spring and early summer have become the voices that 

 80 incessantly stirred the atmosphere in those tuneful 

 days. 



Here, where then was heard continually the mating 

 calls of many waterfowl, the booming of the bittern, the 

 muskrat's whimper, the gurgling jangle of the black- 

 birds, ceaseless as the babble of brooks, the resounding 

 chorus of the bullfrogs, twitter of swallows and innu- 

 merable voiced expressions of happy, teeming life, the 

 strained ear catches only the raucous quack of some 

 dusky duck calling its dead or scattered comrades, the 

 startled squaak of a lingering wood duck, the ejaculatory 

 squawk of a rising bittern, the sudden outcry of a rail, 

 alarmed by splash of oar or careless tap of paddle, and 

 perhaps the clatter of a kingfisher, faring with jerky 

 flight along the winding course of his fishing route. 



These only now, witli many intervals of silence, or if 

 the marshes have been much harried by sportsmen, not 

 even one of these, nor aught else to break the silence 

 unless some blundering bumble bee comes droning aboard 

 your craft, him perhaps that you saw in the frosty morn- 

 ing benumbed on the clover blossom where he supped. 



Almost every songster of the woods has departed. Of 

 those that stay or linger, only the chickadee remembers 

 his loTe notes, and rehearses them Isut rarely. The 

 robins tarry at the feast of wild cherries that now hang 

 thick in black racemes among the orange leaves, but few 

 and brief axe the notes of the busy flocks. The tap of the 

 woodpecker is a slow, laborious sound, never the rattling 

 yiQlte that echoed through the woods in mating time, 



and the yelp of the smaller kinds is brief and infrequent, 

 though now and then a great log-cock marks the course 

 of his loping flight with a loud cackle. 



The voices that of tenest strike the ear are the clamor 

 of the crows, the squalling of the jays, the bark of the 

 gray squirrel and the scoffing of his little red cousin, 

 never too busy with his nut rasping toMndulge in an out- 

 burst of cynicism. 



Louder than any of these, not a sound of nature, yet 

 so common to the season that it almost seems one to the 

 accustomed ear, from marsh and woodland bursts the sud- 

 den roar of guns, now deafeningly near, now faintly afar 

 hke a fitful puff of wind. 



As one idling under October skies listens to theselminia- 

 ture thunder-claps, he is apt to guess upon what game 

 the brief storm here and there is breaking. Here in the 

 gaudy upland, was it a ruffed grouse bursting up like a 

 gray rocket through the gorgeous foliage, the bright 

 leaves fl^uttering down like sparks behind him? or was it 

 a hare limping through the yellow tangle of frosted 

 ferne? or a squirrel skulking in the topmost twigs of a 

 nut tree? 



Or there on the broad level of the marsh, where a long 

 moment before the report strikes the ear, one sees the jet 

 of smoke cast up and floating away in a dissolving veil, 

 was it a duck splashing to flight from its sedgy cover? or 

 a rail forced to reluctant wing from his lilypad raft? or a 

 flock of teal following with swift pinions the bends of 

 the channel? or was it a snipe fluttering|out of the rush- 

 shaded ooze and zigzaging away across the sunny marsh? 

 or only a poor heron or lagging bittern? 



Any of these it may have been, but whatever and 

 wherever each sudden boom marked a moment of some 

 one's expectation, some one's satisfaction or disappoint- 

 ment and some thing's sudden pang of death or exulta- 

 tion of escape. 



With or without a gun it is good to be afield or aflood 

 in these glorious days. 



SHALL THE ADIRONDACKS BE STOCKED 

 WITH BASS? 



AT the last meeting of the New York Fish Commission 

 President Blackford reported, as the result of re- 

 cent investigation in the Adirondacks, that pickerel have 

 invaded the Upper and Lower Saranac lakes, where they 

 are rapidly increasing and constitute a serious menace to 

 the trout supply. It is supposed that these fish were in- 

 troduced here maliciously, as other pickerel were some 

 years ago put into Meacham Lake, where the disastrous 

 consequences to the trout fishing are well known. Com- 

 missioner Burden reported that pickerel had been found 

 this year in waters near the Sacandaga hatchery, and he 

 expressed a conviction that it was only a question of 

 time when the entire Adirondack system of connected 

 waterways would be invaded by this predatory species. 



The presence of pickerel means the ruin of angling, for 

 pickerel prey on the trout and will in time exterminate 

 them. Tbe Commissioners have been appealed to to ex- 

 terminate the pickerel. But this is something they are 

 utterly powerless to do. Once introduced into a water, 

 the fish is there to stay; it cannot be exterminated by any 

 known device of man. And more than this, it is ex- 

 tremely improbable that the Commissioners will be will- 

 ing to furnish trout fry for waters cursed by the pickerel 

 pest; for to plant infant trout would only be providing 

 the pickerel with food. 



Confronted by the present deterioration and ultimate 

 destruction of trout fishing attractions in these waters of 

 the Northern Wilderness, some of the persons most 

 nearly interested are seeking a substitute. If the trout 

 must go, the next best thing will be some other game 

 fish; and the species best fitted to maintain itself by a 

 natural modus vivendi in the same waters with pickerel 

 is the black bass. Pickerel and bass observe an armed 

 truce, live and let live, and thrive and increase together. 

 Thus where it is no longer practicable to have trout fish- 

 ing there may be bass fishing. 



In reply to an inquiry by Dr. Samuel B. Ward respect- 

 ing the stocking of the Saranac waters with black bass, 

 President Blackford has cited Sec. 19 of the game law, 

 which provides that no one shall put into the Adirondack 

 waters any fish unless "indigenous to the particular water 

 where placed," except non-preying or non-destructive fish 

 which may supply food for trout. This law clearly rules 

 out the black bass; if we ai-e not in error the enactment 

 of the statute grew out of the indignation which followed 



Seth Green's introduction of black bass into the Eaquette 

 Lake in 1873 to the ruin of the trout fishing. 



While the law is an excellent one, a modification of it 

 might be wise to meet this emergency, and the Fish 

 Commissioners might well be authorized to stock certain 

 designated waters of the Adirondacks with black bass. 

 It is probable that agitation to this end will be undertaken 

 next winter to secure needed legislation. We under- 

 stand that the Fish Commissioners look Avith favor on 

 the project of Adirondack bass stocking; and we would 

 be glad to have -the opinion of others respecting it. 



SNAP SHOTS. 

 T F a life spent among the wildfowl shall count for any- 

 thing, Capt. Edward B. Gallup, of Havre de Grace, 

 Md., is entitled to be heard when he talks on "the duck 

 question." Born on Spesutia Island in Chesapeake Bay, 

 world-famous for its canvasbacks and redheads, and as 

 he tells us raised on birds and fish, he has for mdire than 

 a half-century been familiar with the conditions of 

 Maryland wildfowl grounds. The interpretation of his 

 ingenious dream, printed on another page, is in brief that 

 the ducks are scarce because there are so many gunners 

 in pursuit of them by day and by night, on water and on 

 shore, by methods legal and in ways unlawful, by 

 "sports" and by market-gunners— a destructive host 

 which Maryland's voluminous statutes and hired duck 

 police forces are powerless to cope with. 



Mr. W. H. Pierce's short account of the stocking of 

 Hemlock Lake is a story of honor and dishonor — of honor 

 to the anglers who stocked the lake, and dishonor to the 

 "poachers" who have depleted its waters. If, on general 

 principles, the spearer of breeding fish is doing a mean 

 act, he is guilty of a lower degree of baseness, when the 

 fish he clumsily butchers have been provided by individ- 

 ual enterprise and at private expense for the common 

 advantage and pleasure of the community. To this lower 

 scale the spearing hotel keepers and cottagers of Hem- 

 lock Lake appear to have descended. The story should 

 be read, because in small compass are here seen the 

 working and results of public-spirited and meanly selfish 

 motives in conflict. 



Mr. Henry Loftie, of Syracuse, who has already done 

 so much for the angling interests of Central New York, 

 has offered to give a suitable plot of ground and to raise 

 funds for a hatchery building if the State Fish Commis- 

 sion will conduct the work of pike hatching on Oneida 

 Lake. At the meeting of the Commission last Tuesday 

 Mr. Loftie's proposition was favorably received, and 

 Messrs. Blackford and Burden were appointed a commit- 

 tee to take the matter in charge. At Mr, Loftie's request 

 also a supply of muscalonge will be sent to Oneida Lake. 



Long Island has a new game protective society, pat- 

 terned after the Connecticut association of farmers and 

 sportsmen; and every sportsman who shoots on Long 

 Island should support the movement. The organization 

 of the society is due primarily to the active efforts of 

 Mr. H. B. HoUins, and with him are associated Messrs. 

 Roosevelt, Wagstafl", Moeran, Frazer, and others, whose 

 names afford substantial assurance of success. 



Mr. F. W. Pugsley, of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., has issued 

 a call for a meeting at Cooper Union, in this city, next 

 Thm-sday to form a world's society for the preservation 

 of all species of animal life which are in danger of ex- 

 termination, one proposed line of effort being to establish 

 preserves or parks of refuge, with a view to looking out 

 for the animals and for posterity. 



Maine deer are reported as abundant, and they must be 

 to stand the hunting, which began in May and has been 

 kept up ever since. Hounding is a generally practiced 

 mode; it is done without attempt at concealment. The 

 wardens acquiesce in it. Demoralization appears to be 

 the rule. 



Will some one who knows tell us why Wisconsin has 

 forbidden the use of dogs in grouse shooting? 



Something we have all heard; "You'd orter a been 

 here last week!" 



