Forest and Stream 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



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NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 19, 1891. 



( VOL. XXXVII.-No. 18. 



i No. 318 Bboadwat, New Yokk. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editobial. 



November Bays. 



Minnows in Ponds. 



Artificially Reared Trout. 



Snap Shots. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



Winter Sports iu North Caro- 

 lina. — I. 

 Natural History. 



"Fate of the Fur Seal." 



Some Idaho Field Notes. 



Am. Ornithologist's Union. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



Mr. Oidman and the Young 

 Men. 



Ohio Game. 



Three Turkeys at a Shot. 

 Florida Birds of Plume. 

 Song of a Goat Hunter. 

 Misadventures. 

 Spring Shooting. 

 A Compass in the Woods. 

 "Mud Hen" Shooting. 

 Night Shots at a "Boct." 

 Massachusetts Association. 

 Boston and Maine. 

 Wisconsin Ducking. 

 Western Massachusetts Fox 



Hunt. 

 Had a Good Time. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 

 A Larval Conger eel. 

 White Bass Fishing. 



Sea and River Fishing. 

 Fishways. 



A Michigan Bass Water. 



FiSHCULTOBB 



Trout and Salmon in Mexico. 

 The Kennel. 



International Field Trials. 



Eastern Field Trials. 



The Baltimore Suits Settled. 



Massachusetts Siberian Blood- 

 hounds. 



The Pearl of Pekiu Incident. 



Notes and Notion". 



Brunswick Fur Trials. 



Southern Field Trials All- 

 Aged Entries. 



Lord Glover's Pedigree. 



Dog Chat. 



Kennel Notes. 



Answers to Correspondents. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 



Range and GaUerv. 



New Jersey Rifle Shooting. 



The Trap. 



Fulf ord vs. Brewer. 



Auburn Defeats Lyons. 

 Yachting. 



Yacht Racing in 1891.— iv. 



More Letter XVriting. 

 Canoeing. 



The Executive Committee 

 Meeting, 1891. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



NOVEMBER DAYS. 



T N a midsummer sleep one dreams of winter, its cold, 

 its silence and desolation all surrounding him ; then 

 awakes, glad to find himself in the reality of the light and 

 warmth of summer. 



Were we di'eaming yesterday of woods more gorgeous 

 in their leafage than a flower garden in the flush of pro- 

 fusest bloom, so bright with innumerable tints that 

 autumnal blossoms paled beside them as stars at sunrise? 

 Were we dreaming of air soft as in springtime, of the 

 gentle babble of brooks, the carol of bluebirds, the lazy 

 chirp of crickets, and have we suddenly awakened to be 

 confronted by the desolation of naked forests, the more 

 forlorn for the few tattered remnants of gay apparel that 

 flutter in the bleak wind? To hear but the sullen roar of 

 the chill blast and the clash of stripped boughs, the fitful 

 scurry of wind-swept leaves and the raving of swollen 

 streams, swelling and falling as in changing stress of 

 passion, and the heavy leaden patter of rain on roof and 

 sodden leaves and earth? . 



Verily, the swift transition is like a pleasant dream 

 with an unhappy awakening. 



Yet not all November days are dreary. Now the sun 

 shines warm from the steel-blue sky, its eager rays de- 

 vour the rime close on the heels of the retreating shadows, 

 and the north wind sleeps. 



The voice of the brimming stream falls to an even 

 softer cadence, like the murmur of pine forests swept by 

 the light touch of a steady breeze. 



Then the wind breathes softly from the south, and 

 there drifts with it from warmer realms, or arises at its 

 touch from the earth about us, or falls from the atmos- 

 phere of heayeii itself, not smoke, nor haze, but some- 



thing more etherial than these, a visible air, balmy with 

 odors of ripeness as the breath of June with perfume of 

 flowers; and pervading earth and sky, that melt together 

 in it, till the bounds of neither are discernible, and 

 blending all objects in the landscape beyond the near 

 foreground, till nothing is distinct but some golden gleam 

 of sunlit water, bright as the orb that shines upon it. 



Flocks of migrating geese linger on the stubble fields, 

 and some laggard crows flap lazily athwart the sky or 

 perch contentedly upon the naked treetops as if they 

 cared to seek no cUme more genial. 



The brief heavenly beauteousness of Indian summer 

 has fallen upon the earth, a few tranquil days of etherial 

 mildness dropped into the sullen or turbulent border of 

 winter. 



In November days, as in all others, the woods are beau- 

 tiful to the lover of nature and to the sportsman who in 

 their love finds the finer flavor of his pastime. Every 

 marking of the gray trunks, each moss-patch and scale 

 of lichen on them, is shown more'distinctly now in the 

 intercepted light, and the delicate tracery of the bare 

 branches and their netted shadows on the rumpled carpet 

 of the forest floor, have a beauty as distinctive as the 

 fullness of green or frost-tinted leafage and its silhouette 

 of shade. 



No blossom is left in woods or fields, save where in the 

 one the witch-hazel unfolds its unseasonable flowers 

 yellow beneath cold skies, or a pink blossom of herb 

 Robert holds out with modest bravery in a sheltered 

 cranny of the rocks; and where in the other, the ghostly 

 bloom of everlasting rustles above the leafless stalks in 

 the wind-swept pastures. And there are brighter flashes 

 of color in the somber woods where the red winter-berries 

 shine on their leafless stems and the orange and scarlet 

 clusters of the twining bitter-sweet light up the gray 

 trellis of the vagrant climber. 



No sense of loss or sadness oppresses the soul of the 

 axdent sportsman as he ranges the unroofed aisles alert 

 for the wary grouse, the skulking woodcock, full-grown 

 and strong of wing and keen-eyed for every enemy, or 

 the hare flashing his half -donned winter coat among the 

 gray underbrush as he bounds away before the merry 

 chiding of the beagles. The brown monotony of the 

 marshes is pleasant to him as green fields, while the 

 wild duck tarries in the dark pools and the snipe probes 

 the unfrozen patches of ooze. To him all seasons are 

 kind, all days pleasant, wherein he may pursue his sport, 

 though the rain pelt him, chill winds assail him or the 

 summer sun shower upon him its most fervent rays, and 

 in these changeful days of November he finds his full 

 measure of content. 



MINNOWS JA PONDS. 



MANY persons have noticed the remarkable changes 

 which often occur in the life of ponds and streams. 

 In some cases these are readily explained by the influence 

 of settlement, with its necessities and caprices, and their 

 demands upon water-courses and reservoirs. But again 

 there is an element of mystery about some of the trans- 

 formations during a generation. As an illustration, we 

 may refer to a recent conversation with a Forest and 

 Stream correspondent, Mr. S. F. Denton. Near this gen- 

 tleman's home at Wellesley, Mass., there is a small sink 

 hole about 100 feet in diameter, known as School House 

 Pond, During Mr. Denton's boyhood this was full of 

 catfish or horn pouts and contained no other fish. About 

 eight or ten years ago a fishing party, on their return from 

 a trip, had a pail of bait minnows left over. One of them 

 said: "Boys, it's too bad to throw these minnows away; 

 let's put them in School House Pond." Into the pond 

 they went, and to-day the water is filled with them; they 

 can be caught in enormous numbers and are just the size 

 for bait; but Hot a single horn pout nor any other fish ex- 

 cept the minnow is to be found there. Water plants are 

 plentiful and frogs too, but the minnow fills the category 

 of fishes and supplies the neighborhood with bait. These 

 little fish resemble the shad in shape. The same fish 

 abounds in Waban Lake, near Wellesley, and keeps the 

 bass and pickerel so well supplied that it is difficult to 

 catch them with live minnows. As an illustration of their 

 abundance, Mr. Denton remarked that on one occasion, 

 when he and his friends had exhausted their supply of 

 bait, they took up all the captured fish lying in the bottom 

 of the boat, turned them head downward, shook them, 

 and obtained minnows enough in this way tO continue 

 fishing half the afternoon. 



ARTIFICIALLY REARED TROUT. 

 'T^HE Massachusetts law. as most others, forbids the 

 sale of trout in close season. There are in the 

 waters of that State, according to an estimate by Mr. W. 

 S. Gilbert, the successful trout culturist of Plymouth, 

 from 15,000 to 20,0001bs. of artificially reared trout; and 

 persons engaged in the business regard it as a hardship 

 that they are not permitted to market these fish when- 

 ever they might do so to advantage. At the meeting of 

 the Massachusetts Association last week Mr. Gilbert pre- 

 sented the claim of the trout culturists and asked the 

 Association's aid in securing a modification of the law in 

 their favor. 



When the law was enacted, artificially reared trout 

 were an unknown factor. The law was not intended to 

 apply to them. But experience has demonstrated that 

 to protect any species of fish or game its sale in close 

 time must be stopped; and the one point for the board 

 of managers of the Association to consider is whether or 

 not the desired permission to sell cultivated trout may 

 open the way to the sale of wild trout. While the rais- 

 ing of trout for market is an industry which should be 

 given every reasonable encouragement, because of its 

 contribution to the food fish supply, the primary purpose 

 of the statute is to protect the wild fish, and this must be 

 effected, even at the expense of private enterprises. 



Minnesota allows possession and transportation of trout 

 reared in private waters, and prescribes that they must 

 be accompanied with a written statement, signed by the 

 proprietor of the hatchery or waters from which they 

 have been taken. 



SNAP SHOTS. 



''pHE horse show which is now in progress at the Madi- 

 -A- son Square Garden, in this city, and which is proving 

 a great success both financially and otherwise, will con- 

 tinue to the end of the week. The weather for the first 

 two days was unfavorable, but notwithstanding this the 

 attendance was large even on these days. The quality 

 of the exhibits is remarkably good, but it is to be noticed 

 that most of the exhibits are those of pleasure horses, 

 and that work horses do not appear in any numbers. 

 The arrangement of the show is far better than it has 

 ever been before, and it is easy to get about and examine 

 the animals. Never has this show been so fashionable as 

 it is this year, and never has it been so difficult to obtain 

 seats for the most interesting events. Among the exhibi- 

 tors and prize winners may be seen more than one name 

 which is well known in the dog world. 



In response to the Chatham Association's communica- 

 tion respecting spring shooting President Harrison returns 

 a rather non-committal reply; and even if he felt strongly 

 on the subject, we fail to see just what the Pi-esident 

 could do about it. Game legislation is distinctly within 

 the province of the several States; Congress has no juris- 

 diction, and recommendations on the subject would not 

 come within the scope of a message. Another fact is 

 that the tendency of game and fish legislation is in the 

 line of local and special laws, and too many of them; 

 witness the county game laws of the State of Maryland, 

 where President Harrison is just now duck shooting in 

 company with ex -Senator Sewall of New Jersey, 



The latest device in photography is the happy thought 

 of a Vienna genius, who has invented a camera which is 

 attached to a rifle and takes an instantaneous picture 

 when the trigger is pulled. This would be a great thing 

 for the Massachusetts man who had his Maine guides 

 stall a big moose in the deep snow while he first photo- 

 graphed and then deliberately shot it. 



And now it looks as if the proposed stocking of Alaska 

 with reindeer might be accomplished. Dr. Sheldon 

 Jackson, the Government Agent of Education in that 

 Territory, has already imported sixteen reindeer from 

 Siberia, and Capt. M. A. Healy, of the revenue cutter 

 Bear, reports to the Treasury Department that the pro- 

 ject is one worthy of every encouragement. 



This is the season of field trials of pointers and setters 

 on quail, beagles on hares and hounds on foxes run in 

 the good old-fashioned New England style. Every in- 

 dication points to a growing interest in these events. 

 Our full and able reports cause the Kennel to encroach 

 somewhat upon the space usually devoted to other de- 

 partments. 



