Forest and Stream. 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



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NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 12, 18 91. 



j VOL. XXXVII.-No. 17. 

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CONTENTS. 



Editohxal. 



Netting Gairdner's Trout. 



"Bob White" in China. 



Snap Shots. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



South Florida. 



la Caribou Land. 

 Natttbal History. 



"Fate of the Fur Seal." 



Feeding Habits of Sharks. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



Oregon Game Grounds. 



The Possum Hunt. 



Worcester Fur Company's 

 Hunt. 



Wild Goose Shooting in Da- 

 kota. 



Our Camp on Horicon. 

 Maine Game. 

 An Old Wood fload. 

 "One of theMistakPs of Moses" 

 Chicago and the West. 

 G'sm.e Notes. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 

 Lampreys. 

 TheCastaliaTrout. 

 Adirondack Fishing Rights. 

 Vermont Fish and Game 



FlSHCULTDRE 



iTeai ling Salmon for Vermont. 

 The Kennel. 

 The Pearl of Pekin Incident. 

 The Massachusetts "Blood- 

 hounds." 

 United Slates Field Trials. 

 Central Field Trial Entries. 

 The Dng is Property in Texas. 

 Beagle Trial Entrips. 

 New England Field Trials. 

 The Canadian Trials, 

 Dog Chat. 

 Kennel Notes. 



Answers to Correspondents. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 



Range and Gallerv. 



New Jersey Rifle Shooting. 



The Ordnance Report. 



The Trap. 



Auburn Gun Club. 



Brooklyn Trap. 

 Yachting. 



Yacht Racing in 1891.— iii. 



Ameincan Model Y. O. 

 Canoeing. 



The Division Renortg. 



Changes in the Racing Rules. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



''BOB WHITE" IN CHINA, 



IN the Mongolian pheasant China has aupijlied us with 

 a new game bird; and now the United States is re- 

 ciprocating by adding an American game bird to the 

 shooting resources of the Flowery Kingdom, Foreign 

 residents of Shanghai, Nankowand Foochoware engaged 

 in the enterprise of introducing American quail for slock- 

 ing the covers near those cities. Mr. J, Ward Hall, sec- 

 retary of the "Bob White" Committee, sends us his report 

 to the members, under date of Sept. 22, 1891. From this 

 it appears that there was contributed for the purpose a fund 

 of $616. Mr. Hall procured in this country 568 birds, which 

 were shipped from Chicago to San Francisco. But owing 

 to over-crowding of the cars, a large majority of the birds 

 perished before reaching the Pacific coast; and when the 

 remnant reached Shanghai only sixty-eight were alive. 

 Of these four died before they could be put out, and the 

 sixty-four survivors were duly turned down, last Febru- 

 ary, in suitable country near Kashing. How they have 

 fared has not been ascertained; but Mr. Hall is so confi- 

 dent of the ultimate success of the undertaking that he 

 proposes to repeat the experiment in March of next year, 

 with 300 pairs of birds from Kansas. The Forest and 

 Stream wishes them good speed. Thus may our gallant 

 bird make his way around the fence rail of the globe, 

 that the American wanderer in far off lands, greeted by 

 Bob White's cheery whistle, shall in fond fancy see again 

 the loved fields which surround his old Kentucky home, 

 or his Kansas home — or any other home so that it be an 

 American home, which is the best home in the world. 



It cannot be said that the Rev. D. T, DeWitt Talmage 

 is remarkably strong on ornithology. Witness, in the 

 New York Observer, his exhortation: "Listen to the 

 voice of the condor, among the Andes, battling with the 

 reindeer." Listen also to the grizzly bears shaking pecan 

 ■ p^uts froiqi l-lie palta trees in Florida. 



NETTING GAIRDNER'S TROUT. 

 i^ALTFORNIA fishermen have been taking the so- 

 ^ called steel-head salmon or Gairdner's trout in 

 violation of law through ignorance of its real character. 

 Section 633 of the Penal Code of the State makes it a mis- 

 demeanor to catch any kind of trout at any time except 

 with hook and line. Misled by the common name steel- 

 head salmon, fishermen netted these fish in salt water in 

 Eel RLver in large numbers, and have been warned by 

 the authorities to discontinue this method of capture 

 under penalty of the law. In om- Trout Supplement of 

 April 4, 1889, the young Gairdner's trout is well illustra- 

 ted, and it would be wise on the part of those interested 

 in the protection of this tine game fish to compare doubt- 

 ful black-spotted trout with this figure. The rainbow, 

 which is more widely known in California, is shown near 

 its relative, the Gairdner's trout. The need of precise 

 information about California trout is made evident by 

 the fact that even the authorities most zealous in the 

 protection and propagation of the valuable species are 

 sometimes at a loss to identify the common kinds. In 

 the excellent paper, for example, of Mr. Wilson, secre- 

 tary of the California Fish Commission, in the Overland 

 Monthly for September, a beautiful cut of the red-throat 

 (Salmo purpuratus or myldss) is named Sahno irideus, 

 which is the rainbow and a very different species. In 

 all matters affecting the protection, preservation and 

 propagation of our choice fishes let us be sure we are 

 right and then go ahead. 



SNAP SHOTS. 



THE Havre de Grace duck shooting has not opened 

 auspiciously this year. The fowl are not yet pres- 

 ent in great abundance. The shoaling of the Susquehanna 

 flats has been more noticeable this season than formerly; 

 in many instances, on the opening day, decoys and boats 

 were aground, with the ebbing tide, in places where form- 

 erly there was abundance of water. Old gunners who 

 have been watching the deposit of sediment and the 

 encroachment of the shoals declare that the time is not 

 far distant when many sections of the flats now famous 

 for duck shooting will become dry land and the ducking 

 boats and decoys will be supplanted by plows and mowing 

 machines. Meanwhile the provident duck hunter is 

 making hay while the sun shines, and the State of Mary- 

 land is collecting $20 license fees for sink-boxes and $5 

 for sneak-boats. 



The brief of Attorney Fiske respecting fishing rights in 

 Adirondack navigable waters (see our angling columns) 

 is only a lawyer's opinion and has not the authority of a 

 decision by the bench. NcTertheless, it appears to be 

 good law, and the point is of interest to a large class of 

 visitors who resort to the Fulton Chain and to other fish- 

 ing waters in the North Woods. A large share of the so- 

 called protection or preserving of large tracts of land 

 and water in the United States and Canadian Provinces 

 is accomplished not by legal means, but by " bluff," and 

 these questions of public rights with respect to shooting 

 and fishing in uninclosed ranges are bound to come up 

 again and again. 



Private enterprise, realizing the profitable nature of the 

 investment, has begun the artificial culture of the salmon. 

 One of the foremost of the packing companies, having 

 an extensive establishment at Karluk, Alaska, where 

 nearly one-half of the salmon brought from the Territory 

 are taken, in March last sent up a fishculturists with a 

 hatchery and all its equij)ments complete. The sum of 

 |5,000 has been expended up to the present time, and the 

 company had 5,000,000 thrifty young red salmon in its 

 ponds at last accounts. The hatchery is located on the 

 Karluk River, and is owned by the Karluk Packing Com- 

 pany. Great credit is due this organization for beginning 

 a work which must benefit others as well as themselves. 



It will be remembered that last March the President by 

 proclamation set aside a tract of land to the south and 

 east of the Yellowstone Park as a forest preserve. The 

 power to create such forest preserves was conferred on 

 the President by an act of Congress approved March 3, 

 and this first reservation contains about 1,500 square 

 miles of territory, most of which is rough timber-covered 

 mountain land. In the original proclamation the boun- 

 daiTies of this tract were not altogether definitely laid 

 dovm, or at all events there arose some question as tp 



just what lands were intended to be covered by the proc- 

 lamation. In order to set at rest any such, doubts, the 

 President issued this fall another proclamation referring 

 to this forest preserve, which is again described in the 

 following words: "All that tract of land situate in the 

 State of Wyoming embraced within the following boun- 

 daries: Beginning at a point on the parallel of forty- 

 four degrees fifty minutes north latitude, where said 

 parallel is intersected by the east boundary of the Yellow- 

 stone National Park, thence due east along said parallel 

 twenty-four and one-half miles; thence due south to the 

 parallel of forty-four degrees north latitude; thence due 

 west along said parallel to its point of intersection with 

 the west boundary of the State of Wyoming; thence due 

 north along said boundary to its intersection with the 

 south boundary of the Yellowstone National Park; thence 

 due east along the south boundary of said Park to the 

 southeast corner thereof; thence due north along the east 

 boundary of said Park to the place of beginning." The 

 proclamation warns all persons against entering or mak- 

 ing settlement on the tract of land described. 



The Vermont Fish and Game League is an institution 

 which means business. Since its organization last Novem- 

 ber it has caused the appointment of temporary fish 

 wardens in 54 towns, has promulgated the game and fish 

 laws, has warned offenders; and where warnings have not 

 sufficed, has substituted prosecutions; and has in various 

 ways promoted the cause of fish and game protection. 

 A recent modification of the League's membership has 

 been adopted, under which clubs may be represented by 

 an individual delegate. We think that the reduction of 

 membership fee from $5 to $3 was a wise one. The 

 members who have worked in behalf of the organization, 

 in particular Secretary Titcomb, are to be felicitated upon 

 the very substantial and enthusiastic character of the 

 League, as shown on the occasion of its first annual 

 gathering last week. 



Quail are very abundant in Ohio this year. There is 

 probably no State where the landowners are more par- 

 ticular with regard to trespass by gunners than in Ohio. 

 Farms are for the most part posted ; and in numberless 

 cases this protection is insisted upon not only against 

 strangers, but against neighbors as well. Many farmers 

 are sportsmen themselves, and preserve their quail for 

 their own sport, and others save the birds for friends 

 from town. While all this makes it difficult for a certain 

 class of gunners to get much shooting, there are few true 

 sportsmen who find any difiiculty in gaining access to all 

 the ground they want. Indeed, there is on the part of 

 sportsmen a strong sentiment in support of strict trespass 

 laws and their rigid enforcement. 



The Helen Keller fund for the maintenance of the little 

 blind mute Tommy Stringer, at the Perkins Institution 

 and Massachusetts School for the Blind, in South Boston, 

 has grown to a total of $1,636.31. Of this sum $350 has 

 already been drawn to pay his expenses; and the re- 

 mainder, $1,286.31, has been deposited with the New 

 England Trust Company, in the name of Mr. Anagnos as 

 trustee, to be drawn as the child's needs may require. 

 The story of how the establishment of this fund grew out 

 of the killing of Helen Keller's mastiff Lioness is a 

 familiar one, but it is an incident of the brighter side of 

 human nature well worth recurring to. 



The Texas Court of Appeals has brought that State into 

 line among those which recognize that a dog is property, 

 for the larceny of which a thief may be punished. Be- 

 fore long this will be recognized everywhere, even in 

 Maine, whose courts, it may be recalled, have classed the 

 dog as ferce. nakirce. The next question for the courts 

 to take up will be the unjust laws and outrageous prac- 

 tices by which unlicensed dogs are officially butchered 

 off-hand in the public streets. Whether good law or bad 

 law, it is barbarism unworthy of this age and a disgrace 

 to the land. 



The Syracuse Standard reports that sportsmen in that 

 neighborhood are up in arms against the game protector 

 because he has announced his intention of enforcing the 

 law against hunting rabbits with ferrets. A curious 

 variety of " sportsmen " they must be. 



If the New York Legislature shall provide for a live 

 fish display at the World's Fair, the Commissioners pro- 

 mise to send from Caledonia a series of specimens which 

 tvrill do credit to tfee fisheultuya). seryice. 



