Forest and Stream. 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



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NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 5, 1891. 



( VOL. XXXVn.-No. 16, 



I No. 318 BnoADwAY, New York. 



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CONTENTS. 



Bditobial. 



Carp in California. 



Stocking Yellowstone Park 

 Waters. 



Snap Shots. 

 The Spohtsman Tourist. 



Smoke Wreaths. 



Texas Turkeys. 



In New York City Wildwoods. 



The Red Shanty Club. 

 NATtTRAL History. 



The Porcupine. 



"Fate of the Fur Seal." 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



Weapons for Game. 



The Sportsman's Joint. 



Ttie Chatham Association. 



Non-Export Game Laws Up- 

 held. 



Gossip of Game and Guns. 

 North Carolina Game Regions 

 Western Massachusetts Fox 

 Hunt. 



Coons in "Banks's Holler." 

 Chicago and the West. 

 Wild Ricp. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 

 Chicago and the West. 

 The Bay of Quinte Season. 

 Big Trout of the Old Stone 

 Dam. 



The Dams of the Kankakee . 



Sea and River Fishing. 



Long Lake Fishing. 



The Feeding Habits of Sharks. 



North Pond Fishing Rights. 



LT. S. Fish Commission Exhibit 

 Fishcultctre 



Pacific Salmon for the Hudson 

 The Kennel. 



Spaniels Used for Sport.— it. 



The Great Dane. 



New England Field Trials. 



United Slates Field Trials. 



Princess Florence. 



Dog Chat. 



Kennel Notes. 



Answers to Correspondents. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 

 Range and GaUerv. 

 America Again Ahead. 

 The Trap. 



Savannah Tournament. 



Elliott vs Geo. Kleinman. 



Rochester Rod and Gtm Club. 

 Yachting. 



Yacht Racing in 1891.— iii. 



The Running Down of the 

 Amelia. 



Yacht Racing Association. 

 Canoeing. 



Rudder in Paddling Races. 



The Paddle in Sailing Races. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



STOCKING YELLOWSTONE PARK WATERS. 

 TN our columns of Nov. 13, 1890, we announced the 

 planting of 70,400 yearling fish of the salmon fam- 

 ily, by the Fish Commission, in the waters of the National 

 Park. It is gratifying to learn that this experiment, in 

 continuation of the work accomplished in 1889, has been 

 eminently successful. Commissioner McDonald sent 

 Prof. B, W. Evermann to the region last summer to 

 ascertain and report upon the results of the planting, and 

 has received a communication to the effect that speci- 

 mens of brook, Loch Leven, rainbow and black-spotted 

 trout were found in the stocked streams, and all of them 

 in excellent condition, showing that the surroundings 

 are favorable and the future of the fish promising. In- 

 formation was obtained from Mr. Elwood Hofer that he 

 had discovered trout in Nez Perce Creek Oct. 9. These 

 are the Von Behr or^Jbrown trout {Salmo fario). The 

 brook and Loch Leven trout, which were planted in 1889, 

 must have spawned in 1890, for yearling fish of these 

 species were collected by Prof. Evermann. The high 

 temperature and mineral character of the water of Twin 

 Lakes apparently proved fatal to the whitefish brought 

 there from Horse Thief Springs, Montana, and the Yel- 

 lowstone River contingent probably fell victims to the 

 voracious trout which abound in that stream. In the fall 

 of 1890 Shoshone Lake received a plant of about 34,000 

 lake trout from Northville, Mich. , and Lewis Lake was 

 supplied with about 12,000 lake^trout and 3,350 Loch 

 Levens from the same station. The Loch Leven trout 

 were found in goodly numbers in Heron Creek, a tribu- 

 tary of Shoshone Lake, and Mr. Hofer saw trout rise in 

 Shoshone, Oct. 7, about 75 yards from the shore. The 

 evidence of successful planting and of conditions favor- 

 able to the growth and multiplication of trout and salmon 

 in the Park waters is conclusive, and we trust that the 

 work will be regarded as no longer experimental, but 

 practical, and wjll bg pushed with renewed vigor, 



CARP IN CALIFORNIA. 

 l^EA-RLY two decades ago, and five years before the 

 -'-^ United States imported the fish from Germany, 

 Mr. J. A. Poppe placed five small carp in one of his 

 ponds at Sonoma, Cal. Nine months later (May, 1873) 

 his stock had grown to 16in. in length, and 3,000 young 

 were obtained from the first breeding. The fish were 

 sold to farmers throughout the State, and some were 

 shipped to Central America and the Sandwich Islands. 

 The increase of the species, especially in the marsh or 

 "tule" lands, was remarkable, and the demand con- 

 tinued steady. Now a reaction appears to have set in, 

 and a most unjustifiable style and amount of abuse is 

 being heaped upon a really valuable food fish, which has 

 also long held a worthy place among the anglers' favor- 

 ites in countries wherein it was best known. The quali- 

 ties which led to the action of the Government in behalf 

 of carp acclimation were the following: 



1. Fecundity and adaptability to the processes of artifi- 

 cial propagation, 



2. Living largely on a vegetable diet. 



3. Hardiness in all stages of growth. 



4. Adaptability to conditions unfavorable to any equally 

 palatable American fish and to very varied climates. 



o. Rapid growth. 



6. Harmlessness in its relations to other fishes. 



7. Ability to populate waters to their greatest extent. 



8. Good table qualities. 



These properties still exist and no amount of unreason- 

 ing prejudice can alter or reduce them. When we are 

 told that the carp is a kind of sucker and "sucks the roots 

 out of the banks of the ditches, causing the banks to wash 

 out," we are bound to reply that California is noted for 

 the variety and size of its suckers, but the carp is not one 

 of them. The habit referred to is not observed in the 

 carp and the real culprit must be sought in some other 

 direction. It is gravely asserted also that the food of the 

 ducks and other wildfowl is consumed by the carp and 

 the game birds are deserting the marshes in consequence. 

 Again, it is charged that the salmon and trout waters are 

 being invaded and the eggs devoured on the spawning 

 beds. Carp in water having a summer temperature of 

 54 degrees would be about as untimely as oranges on the 

 tundra at Point Barrow, We shall next hear that the 

 carp has utterly destroyed the salmon industry of Alaska 

 and driven the seals out of Bering Sea. As a matter of 

 fact, California has many native fishes of the carp or 

 minnow family, some of which swarm in the irrigating 

 ditches, while others inhabit trout waters, and certain of 

 these are known to be very destructive of eggs. In the 

 Pit and McCloud, for example, may be found a large 

 species of Ptyehoehilus, known as the Sacramento "pike," 

 which is really a giant minnow, growing to a length of 

 5ft, This, or something like it, is probably the fish for 

 whose sins the carp is now suffering in the estimation of 

 many good people of California. Before passing final 

 judgment on the subject, send some of the cold water 

 carp and the burrowing nuisance to some one who knows 

 the fishes of the State for identification. Dr. Jordan, at 

 the Leland Stanford, Jr. University, will settle all doubts 

 for you", and Forest and Stream will take pleasure in 

 aiding investigations of any sort into the habits of fishes. 



SNAP SHOTS. 



WHAT is to be done when a fish which ought not to 

 be caught and which one does not wish to catch, 

 perversely insists upon being captured, whether or no, 

 and actuallylforces itself into one's possession? That was 

 the question that stared Mr. J, U. Gregory, of Quebec, 

 full in the face when he was fishing for trout atTadousac 

 one fine day of the past season, The trout were lawful 

 game, but salmon, in the same waters, forbidden fruit. 

 It was then with a sigh of sincere and unfeigned relief 

 that the angler saw a hooked salmon after a bit of mag- 

 nificent play break away with the hook and parted 

 leader. But satisfaction was changed to dismay when 

 the leaping fish came with one grand vault after another 

 directly for the boat and at last lay stunned and helpless 

 in the canoe. Mr. Gregory promptly solved the problem 

 by regaining his fly, and assisting the fish back into its 

 element, there, like the patriotic orator, to sink or swim, 

 live or die, survive or perish. 



The celebrated North Pond, or Hebron Pond, case has 

 just been settled finally by a decision of the Connecticut 

 Supreme Court, wjiioh Dr, W. M. Hudson sends us and 



we print to-day. The facts in brief are these; North 

 Pond was formerly open to the public, and the people of 

 Hebron were accustomed freely to fish in its waters. 

 Years ago Mr, P. W. Turner, a manufacturer, came into 

 control of the flowage of the pond and of all the land 

 suiTOunding it, whereupon he claimed also to control the 

 fishing, and for twenty years he has succeeded in pre- 

 venting any person's fishing without permission. The 

 residents of Hebron did not surrender without a bitter 

 and prolonged legal fight for what they claimed were their 

 fishing rights in the pond ; and after failing to sustain 

 these rights, they finally appealed to the courts to lay 

 out a highway to the pond, thus giving the public free 

 access to it. The petition was granted, and the highway 

 laid out. Mr. Turner appealed from the finding of the 

 committee, and on the contention that the road through 

 his property to the pond was not a public necessity, 

 carried the case up to the Supreme Court, The decision 

 just handed down reverses previous findings, and sustains 

 Mr, Turner. The case is an involved one, as are most of 

 those wherein riparian rights are involved. 



The British soldier in India who wants to go shooting, 

 is permitted to do so only under a somewhat complex 

 and it might be thought irksome system of regulations. 

 No shooting party may consist of less than three men, 

 and one of the three must be able to talk in the vernacu- 

 lars of the district, but no matter how fluent may be the 

 linguist of the party, they must not converse with any 

 native woman. One of the most important of the restric- 

 tions, as outlined in the Asian, is that which forbids 

 shooting animals regarded by the natives as sacred or 

 entering upon certain sacred localities. There is posted 

 in each barrack room an oflacial list of such animals and 

 places. It is a pity that for the sake of the game sup- 

 ply we have not a liberal number of sacred localities in 

 this country. 



The pith of the decision just rendered by the Connecti- 

 cut Supreme Court, respecting the constitutional charac- 

 ter of the law forbidding the export of game, is con- 

 tained in these words: "It being conceded that the 

 State, under its general police power, may lawfully pro- 

 hibit the killing of the game birds in question it may, of 

 course, control such killing and the times and purposes 

 thereof. It may lawfully enact that they may be killed, 

 and sold and held for sale only for domestic consump- 

 tion. The State in the exercise of its power, instead of 

 prohibiting the killing altogether permits the person 

 killing them to acquire only a qualified right in them, 

 namely, the right to appropriate them to his own use 

 and the right to sell or transport them for domestic use." 



The discovery of one or more wild deer in the woods of 

 eastern Connecticut has awakened considerable excite- 

 ment in the vicinity, and every man and boy possessing 

 a gun is reported to be on the warpath. Whereupon Mr. 

 John H. Gould, of New Haven, suggests that a fund be 

 raised for the purchase of deer to be put out in Connecti- 

 cut woods, where he thinks with protection they will un- 

 doubtedly thrive, multiply, and in the future furnish fun 

 for a host of sportsmen. 



Among the good things in store for Forest and Stream 

 readers will be a series of papers by Mr. Charles Hallock 

 descriptive of the shooting and fishing attractions of the 

 eastern counties of North Carolina. Mr. Hallock sailed 

 via the Old Dominion Line yesterday, for Norfolk, Va,, 

 whence under commission from this journal he will pro- 

 ceed by canal and sound, for an extended tour of observ- 

 ation and investigation, the results of which will be given 

 timely publication. 



The note in our shooting columns of the "battue" of 

 English pheasants at Tuxedo Park the other day has a 

 decidedly foreign flavor and might have been clipped from 

 an English journal. It records a phase of shooting which 

 will be common enough in this country ten years from 

 now, for confirmation of which fore-telling consult Vol. 

 LVII. of the Forest and Stream. 



By the death of John B. Clarke, editor of the Mirror 

 and Farmer, New Hampshire fish and game interests 

 have lost an influential supporter. For many years Mr. 

 Clarke was president of the New Hampshire Fish and 

 Game League, in the work of which he took active 

 part, and to it contributed substantial aid. 



