Forest and Stream: 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun, 



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NEW YORK, DECEMBER 31, 18 91 



) VOL. XXXVII.-No. 2i, 



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COIfTE^fTS. 



Editorial. 



Tlie Revolver Shoui. 



Impassable Fishways. 



Snap Shots. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



■IiQi IVicbane's Bay Pouj . 



Canoe Recollfcriors 



Iti Maine. Wf ods.— vi. 

 Natural History. 



Summer RoDiia Roosts.— n. 



Wolves iu the Adirondacbs. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



Always Curiy a Compass. 



A Wild Rice Scheme. 



Chicago and the West. 



An Incident of Camp Life. 



Sport in North Carolina. 



As to Limitations. 



Boston Notes 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



The Kingfisbers. 



Trouting in the Cascades. —xti. 



Angling Notes. 



Omndaga Anglers' Associa- 

 tion. 



Ai'tiflciaily Reared Trout. 

 Flshculture. 



Watering tne Nests. 

 Feeding Habits of Whlteiish. 



The Kennel. 

 Floor Oir.y iiennels. 

 Dome-Shaoed Skulls. 

 Barzoi Points. 

 The Pulse of the Dog. 

 Id re Antonio vs. Maid of Kent 

 Great Danes. 

 Psovoi. 



Lord Clover's Pedigree. 

 Gloversville Dog Show. 

 Retrospect. 

 Dog Chat. 

 Kenuel Notes. 



Answers to Correspouciputs. 

 Rifle Range and Gallery. 



Revolvwr Oompeiition. 

 Trap Shooting. 



'•Forest aad Stream" Tourna- 

 ment. 



■ Drivers and Twisters. 

 Yachting. 



Lane JiJne Yachting. 



Thora. 

 Canoeing. 



The Organizdtiou oi Canoe 

 Clubs. 



Cniisine Sueakbox Moccasin. 

 Sliding Oenterhoav'l«. 

 Answers to Queries. 



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THE REVOLVER SHOOT. 



THE revolvei* competition for the Winans trophy is 

 calling out a goodly number of expert shots, and by 

 the time it shall be completed the trial may fairly enough 

 be termed national in its scope. There was at one time a 

 disposition in some quarters to criticise the accepted con- 

 ditions as to distance of firing, but the event has demon- 

 strated the wisdom of the 30yds., selection. As was said 

 by Mr. Conlin , of this city, who has had a long experi- 

 ence with revolver shooters, it is all well enough 

 to talk glibly about fine work at 50yds., but when 

 it comes to getting a list of shooters to compete 

 at that distance, the men are not readily to be 

 found. Fine shooting at 20yds. is in every way a test 

 of skill as exacting as coarser work at the longer range, 

 and as for practical use of the weapon, no one will deny 

 that it is to be employed at the very shortest range in the 

 thickest of hand-to-hand conflicts. An officer mounted 

 would ride up and reserve his fire to the last moment. 

 It is very instructive to have scores made at long ranges 

 on large targets. Such shooting enables estimate to be 

 made of the average aberration of man and arm together, 

 but it is not always practicable to have a 50 or a 100yd- 

 range. Jumping to the other exti'eme, the matter of 

 lijyd. shooting has been so ciphered down, and the scores 

 have been made so close, that the experts ought in self- 

 respect to abandon that distance. All the merit in very 

 close scores has gone with the production of the fine 

 weapons now to be found in every gallery. Double the 

 distance, and both the shooter and his revolver are put to 



more than double test. The time will come when SOyds. 

 shooting will show as fine records as those now on the 

 walls for 13yd8. To hasten that time was one of the con- 

 siderations which led Forest and Stheam to fix that 

 limit for the amateur revolver contests. 



IMPASSABLE FISHWAYS. 



ON Nov. 1.9 we published a communication on fish- 

 ways in which the Holyoke structure was described 

 as a failure because of its faulty construction. This is 

 only one of many similar cases which have come to our 

 knowledge. Inspector J. R, Kinney of the district com- 

 prising the counties of King's, Annapolis, Digby, 

 Yarmouth, Shelburne, Queen's and Ltmenburg in Nova 

 Scotia, in his annual report for 1890 has the following 

 to say about the subject: " Of all the fishways in this 

 district I know of but three or four that are properly 

 cared for. In more than one instance, as I have before 

 pointed out, the fishways have assisted in making the 

 streams non-productive. For instance, take the case of 

 the lower dam on Salmon River, county of Digby, where 

 there is a ' patent ' fish ladder, built entirely below the 

 dam, without any attempt at an auxiliary or wing-dam 

 below. Before the creation of fishways and ladders this 

 stream was a noted salmon stream, but now the salmon 

 and alewives have been ' patented ' out of existence. 

 Happily the lower dam on the Clyde River was so far 

 demolished that fish have now an unobstructed passage, 

 hence the utility or non-utility of the fish way at that 

 dam is no longer a live question, as the structure is per- 

 fectly dry at all times." 



Inspector Robert Hockin of District No. 2, Nova Scotia, 

 comprising seven counties, at the end of 1890 reported 

 as follows concerning fishways: "Upon examination of 

 the fishways in this district I found that of those con- 

 structed fully 90 per cent, were not, at the time of ex- 

 amination, in such a condition as to allow fish to pass 

 within their spawning grounds, and that they were not 

 fulfilling the purpose for which they were intended.'" 



In the report of Mr. Wilmot, Superintendent of Fish- 

 culture in Canada, w^e find the following statement: "The 

 undersigned has been instructed on several occasions 

 to visit and inspect certain fish-ladders in different parts 

 of the country and in every case has found them to be 

 perfectly useless, either from un.*uitability of location or 

 want of proper construction, the eonseqtience of which 

 has been that these passes, which cost considerable sums 

 of money to help sustain the fisheries of the locality, act 

 the reverse way by giving greater facilities to persons to 

 kill the fish at the entrance of these passes, and by 

 squandering the money in the construction of them — 

 thus showing the necessity that exists for adopting the 

 most perfect fish-ladder now known, and compelling the 

 owners of mill dams to put in these passes, under the 

 requirements of the Fisheries Act, section 13. This want 

 of a duly authorized fish-ladder, and the delay in having 

 an efiicient one put in every mill dam or slide, or other 

 obstruction in all of the streams of the country is telling 

 most severely against the keeping up of fish life by the 

 natural as well as the artificial method of reproduction." 



We have presented the above statements in order to 

 show one phase of the fish way problem. Eft'ective fish- 

 ways are in existence and we desire to place on record 

 the results of their introduction. To this end contribu- 

 tions are invited from interested parties everywhere who 

 have opportunity of investigating these important acces- 

 sories to the increase of the fish supply. 



SNAP SHOTS. 



THE fatal "accident" on the Hudson River was caused 

 in just the way that the usual didn't know-it-was- 

 loaded gun "accident" occurs. When the train was 

 brought to a stop a trainman was sent back with his lan- 

 tern to signal trains approaching from the rear. Accord- 

 ing to published reports this trainman took it for granted 

 that the ne.xt train to follow would be a local and would 

 stop at a station; accordingly instead of remaining on the 

 track to signal the train he went into the station; the 

 train proved to be not the local he had expected, but an 

 express, which thundered by and crashed into the train 

 ahead. All because the trainman took it for granted. 

 The as-erage human being who shoots another with a gun 

 he thought empty in the same way takes it for gi-anted 

 that the gun is unloaded. 



So far as close and exciting racing is concerned, the 



year just closing compares poorly with some of those 

 immediately preceding it: there has been no great inter- 

 national race, as in '85, '86 and '87, and even the home 

 races have lacked the excitement that attended the ad- 

 vent of Minerva and Liris in the 40ft. class in 1886. 

 While the many races of the new 46ft. class have afOorded 

 plenty of sport thx'ough the season, the immediate and 

 unqualified success of Gloriaua in the first week of the 

 racing, robbed the following races of all interest and 

 excitement, as it was clear from the first that she was 

 without a dangerous rival. The present year, however, 

 will not be forgotten, but will have a prominent place in 

 yachting history. Just as the year 1851 is remembered 

 as a turning point in yacht designing, the old theory of 

 a full bow and fine run being swept away to be replaced 

 by one radically opposite: so the present year — 1891 — 

 marks a new departure in designing, in eveiy way as 

 notable as the other. Just as the long, fine bow of the 

 America drove out forever the round bluff ends of the 

 old yachts, so has the full waterline of the Gloriana put 

 aside the hollow bows and fine lines of existing yachts. 

 Paradoxical and contradictory as this statement may 

 appear at first sight, its truth will be plain to all who 

 consider the subject carefully. Of the many distinct 

 steps in advance that have been made in naval architec- 

 ture in the forty years between 1851 and 1892, one of the 

 most important is that embodied in the full waterline 

 and buoyant topsides of Gloriana. 



The extinction of the buffalo from the plains of the 

 West has been followed by a disappearance of the buffalo 

 grass M'hich formed the chief subsistence of that animal. 

 In his paper on "English and American Flowers," in the 

 Forhiightly Eevieu-, Prof. A. R. Wallace accounts for 

 the supplanting of buffalo grass by other coarser plants 

 by the theory that "the uniform hardening of the sur- 

 face by the tread of bison, together with the equally reg- 

 ular manuring, favored the growth of this particular 

 form of grasses." 



The interesting photograph of a hunting outfit on the 

 Sawtooth Range, which was reproduced in our issue of 

 Dec. 17, was there wrongly credited to Mr. F. Bracht, of 

 this city. The picture was taken by Mr. F. F. Frisbie, of 

 Detroit, Mich. , and we take much pleasure in giving him 

 the credit due for so excellent a piece of work. Mr. Fris- 

 bie has been fortunate in securing views of camp life and 

 scenery in the wild hunting grounds of the Northwest, 

 and his work demonstrates his skill. 



The New York city salt-water fisherman who resorts 

 to the fishing banks off: the New Jersey coast is of so 

 much importance commercially that he is to have a sea- 

 going steamboat built especially for him. The well- 

 known Capt. Al Foster, who takes tens of thousands of 

 anglers down to the banks eA^ery summer, is building 

 the boat, w^hich will be 325ft. in length, will have three 

 decks, and be provided with devices intended to make 

 salt-water fishing a delight. 



It is expected that in 1893 the Forest and Streak 

 will be a better paper even that it has been in 1891, be- 

 cause we shall have better facilities for gathering the 

 news and better facilities for handling it. No enthusiast 

 interested in the gun, the rod, the dog, the trap, the 

 yacht, the canoe, need look elsewhere for all the news. 

 It will be in the Forest and Stream. 



It would be a consummation devoutly to be wished if 

 some arrangement could be made by Caaiada and the 

 United States to secure adequate protection of the fish in 

 the St. La,wrence River system of waters. 



••Sniggering" is the term used in Great Britain for 

 what we call "jigging," that is catching a fish by jerking 

 a big hook into its body. It is a heathenish practice and 

 deserving of the heathenish names. 



Many a man who cares nothing for shooting and who 

 affects rather to despise your hunting dog is glad enough 

 to share the game that dog helps to provide. 



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