Forest and Stream 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



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NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 8, 1892. 



S VOL. XXXIX.-No. 10. 



I No. 318 Broadway, New York. 



CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



Forest and Stream Supple- 

 ment. 

 A Dogr-Day OiiHook. 

 A Family G-roup. 

 The New Army Rifle. 



The Sportsman Tourist. 



A Camper's Diary. 



The Story of a Cougar Skin. 



Natural History. 



Notes on the Panther. 

 The Panther's Way p. 



Game Bag and Gun. 



Currituck Bay Birds. 

 Ontario Non-Reaideut License 

 Economic Rice Culture. 

 On San Pablo Sloughs. 

 An Adirondack Tableland. 

 Still- Hun ting with a Camera. 

 Elokomon Elk. 

 The Adirondacks. 

 Chicago and the West. 



Sea and River Fishing. 



Fishing Lines. 

 The Nbpigon. 

 Pennsylvania Trouting. 

 Lenawee County Black Bass. 

 Forest and Stream's Postals. 

 HarrisbuTg Bass Fishermen. 

 Susquehanna Bass Scores. 

 Pot. mac Notes. 

 Ouananiche at Ciuquieme 

 Chute. 



The Kennel. 



Should Judges he Their Own 



Oritiop? 

 To Kill Woodchucks. 

 The Manitoba Field Trials. 

 Flaps from the Beaver's Tail. 

 Gordons at the New England 



Field Trials. 

 Grand Rapids Dog Show. 

 Mastiff News from. Peoria. 

 Dog Chat. 



Answers to Correspondents. 

 Yachtingr. 



Lake C dam plain. 

 Royal C^nadian. 

 Rocking Chair Fleet. 

 Cleveland. 



The GJoucester Races. 

 South Boston. 

 New York Y. R. A. 

 Eastern Y, C. 



Canoeing. 



The A. C. A- Meet of 1893. 

 Canoe Rigs in America and 



England. 

 N. Y. C. C. Regatta. 



Rifle Range and Gallery. 



New Army Magazine Rifle. 

 Revolver Scores. 



Trap Shooting. 



Saconri Annual Inters ational. 

 Great Work at New London. 

 Answers to Queries. 



For Prospectus and Advertising Rates see Page v. 



THE FOREST AND STREAM SUPPLEMENT. 



The first one of the portraits of American wild animals 

 is given to- day as an extra sheet supplement of this 

 number. It is Mr. E, E. Thompson's drawing of the 

 Panther. The creature is represented as sighting a deer; 

 and we need not point out that the drawing is full of 

 life and strength. 



Others of the series will be printed as follows: Oct, 6, 

 the Ocelot; Nov. 3, the Canada Lynx; Dec. 1, the Bay 

 Lynx. 



It will be noted, that the present supplement is desig- 

 nated as "Forest and Stream Wild Animal Series.— V." 

 It is the fifth in a series, four of which have from time 

 to time been printed in this journal, and which have 

 been reprinted separately; and the four are sent by mail, 

 postpaid, for the nominal price of 10 cents for the set. 

 They are: Young Mountain Sheep or Bighorn, the 

 Forest and Stream's Grizzly (in the Central Park, New 

 York), American Elk and Group of American Elk. 



TBE NEW ARMY RIFLE. 



The Army Small- Arms Board has made a choice of a 

 new magazine weapon which is likely to create a vast 

 amount of criticism. The mere fact that it is a foreign 

 arm, invented by a European and already in use, will 

 stir up a lot of patriotic resentment in many quarters. It 

 has so long been a cherished American whim that our 

 mechanics could lead the world in inventive skill, and 

 particularly in the line of small-arms, that it comes with 

 somewhat of a shock that a board wearing United 

 States blue should not see everything good in 

 the work of a Yankee inventor, and not quite so 

 much that was excellent in a rifle bearing foreign 

 patent marks. But it should be remembered that a rifle 

 talks an international language; that the whizz of a rifle 

 ball sounds the same in every ear. The choice of a rifle 

 is a sort of mathematical problem, and if the new 

 Danish arm gave the best total its choice followed as a 

 matter of fact. Abroad the hunt for an efliective rifle is 

 intensified very much by the knowledge that others are 

 hunting in the same field, and that when the worst comes 

 to the worst the best hunter is likely to be the sole sur- 

 vivor. An hundred tests and experiments in arms, in 

 ammunition and methods, are made abroad to one trial 

 on this side of the ocean in any of these directions, and it 

 is only natural that success should be theirs when com- 

 petition brings the arms together. 



The new weapon must needs be an ejfcejlent one to 

 gain the place which the Springfield now holds in the 

 fq-yor of the Aniericau. wearers of the hlv\.e, Th^t arfi^ 

 has beeii treated so well and responded sp gucQessf]il}y 

 |;|;at if; l^as gained a very high rank an arm prppi= 



manipulation is it that in such skillful hands as those 

 of our army experts have grown to be, the results have 

 passed far beyond what is reported from the other side. 

 Twenty shots per minute efl;ectually placed can be 

 secured from the Springfield, and yet in a recent test 

 with the Lebel rifle in France, ten soldiers firing at a fig- 

 ure of a file of fifteen men at 300 yds., less than 9 per cent, 

 of hits were recorded, and the average was but 153 shots 

 per man for the ten minutes taken to completely exhaust 

 the strength of the shooters. 



The marksmen of the U. S. Army will excuse the 

 clumsiness of the "K. J.," provided it shoots well. The 

 fighters of the line will accept it if it shows that it is a 

 serviceable lead distributer in a pinch, but it must first of 

 all down the Springfield before the Army affection will 

 turn to it from the present neat trap-door breechloader. 



In the mean time it will be in order for the American 

 inventors to explain what they have been about all these 

 months since the magazine board went into existence in 

 December, 1890. There is no intimation as yet that they 

 have not had a fair field, and that they have not met 

 with success can only be interpreted to mean that their 

 ofl'erings were inferior. 



DOG-DAY OUTLOOK. 

 To ANY one who is interested in dogs and has watched 

 the steady progress and advancement of the different 

 breeds, the present state of kennel affairs must be a pleas- 

 ing one. There is no fictitious boom, but all the time a 

 steady advancement toward a perfection of form and 

 increase in value in the animals we own. While the 

 year 1893 has not, so far, produced any dog more than 

 ordinarily' good, if we except the mastifl" Beaufort's 

 Black Prince, the general excellence is noticeable. The 

 English setter probably holds pride of place as a general 

 favorite, especially with sportsmen, but the St. Bernard 

 is running a good second. Notwithstanding the seri- 

 ous losses incurred by some of our St. Bernard 

 breeders last year, we are pleased to see that far 

 from being disheartened, their kennels contain more 

 of these noble dogs than ever, though we believe the time 

 for paying large prices for English dogs has passed, and 

 home products will receive more attention. Greyhound 

 enthusiasts are very active in the interests of their favor- 

 ites, and the coming coursing meetings are eagerly an- 

 ticipated by devotees of the leash. Somehow we hear 

 very little of the collie as a fashionable dog, but that there 

 is a steady demand we are assured by prominent breed- 

 ers. The Collie Club might do good for this breed if they 

 would exert themselves a little and carry out their pro- 

 posed sheepdog trials. The beagle element is doing good 

 work for the merry little hound, but for the best inter- 

 ests of the work perfect harmony must exist among the 

 workers, and all should put their shoulders to the wheel 

 and make the trials and show in October the success we 

 hope for. 



No one who loves the terrier for his gameness and the 

 sport he affords can but be pleased to see the advance- 

 ment made in bull-terriers, fox-terriers, and especially 

 Dandie Dinmonts and Scotch terriers, as well as the Bed- 

 lingtons, several high class exemplars of these breeds 

 having been imported this year. The quaint little dachs- 

 hund is also bound to take a more prominent place in our 

 shows next year than in the past, and thedift'erent breeds 

 of toy spaniels have received several valuable recruits 

 recently. In common with others who admire the noble 

 mastift' we deplore the fact that, despite a club which 

 claims to have the best interest of the breed at heart, 

 popular interest has dwindled, and though good dogs are 

 raised by several kennels, they are not seen in public to 

 the extent that they should be. 



At no period in the history of "dogdom" in this coun- 

 try have the field trials commanded so much attention as 

 this year. Several new clubs have sprung into existence 

 and every stake so far has met with a gratifying entry. 

 There is only one drawback that we foresee in this— the 

 lack of trainers and handlers. There are good men in 

 the business, but not yet having made public reputations 

 they are to some extent deserted in favor of those who 

 are more popular— as winners. Consequently the latter 

 get more dogs than they can possibly attend to properly, 

 and some one has to stand the eventual loss. 



The only cloud that mars the clear sky in the kennel 

 world is the q,ttitude of one part of the kennel press. 

 a?hat pritipism iq necessary and beneficial we all admit, 



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in hand. Such writings serve no public good— only 

 harm — ^for they deter good men from entering the fancy 

 and frighten others out of it who can be ill spared. Right 

 will assert itself, however, eventually, and such guerilla 

 tactics will meet their own reward. 



A FAMILY GROUP. 



From the crest of a hill, higher than any of its neigh- 

 bors, may be seen the wide prospect of the rolling plain. 

 Near at hand the swells rise one after another in succeed- 

 ing waves which lessen in the distance until at last far 

 away the land seems flat. On the yellow prairie the 

 winding course of a far-off stream is clearly marked by 

 the dark green of the fresh-growing vegetation which 

 stands along its banks. Scattered over the nearer plain 

 are yellow and white moving forms — antelope, feeding 

 or at rest. The wind blows freshly and bends the prairie 

 grass, rattling the seed pods of the tall weeds, and now 

 and then catching up the light dust in miniature whirl- 

 winds— the Indians' ghosts. 



From the crest of this hill a hunter, who should creep 

 up to his position with caution and lie there looking 

 through the grass, would see a pretty sight — a family of 

 antelope. 



The old buck lies' by himself, a little to one side. His 

 head is held low, his eyes are half closed, and his whole 

 attitude speaks of entire security. The task of watching 

 for danger he leaves to bis wives, little dreaming that 

 within easy range is the deadly tube that has so often 

 dealt out death to others of his kind. The does and the 

 young are by themselves, the elders for the most part 

 lying down, while the kids are walking about, feeding 

 and playing. Some of the old does are on their feet, 

 however, now taking a bite of grass or standing perfectly 

 still steadily staring away over the plain at some distant 

 object that they cannot quite make out. Others move 

 about as if seeking a comfortable spot to lie down, and in 

 doing this walk up the hill toward the watcher, who 

 lowers his head still closer to the ground. 



They are all clean cut and graceful figures, but dainti- 

 est and most graceful of all are the little kids. They are 

 old enough now to have lost the stilty ungainliness 

 which marked their earliest youth, and are marvels of 

 lightness, quickness and beauty. As they race about in 

 their play, their light feet seem scarcely to touch the 

 ground and their slender legs move so fast that they can- 

 not be seen. Now and then, as some scent or sound im- 

 perceptible to grosser senses comes to them, they stop and 

 all stand with raised heads and quivering nostrils, while 

 the white hair on the rump of each rises till it stands on 

 end and also seems to expand from side to side. For a 

 moment they stand like tiny statues; then, their suspi- 

 cions allayed, one starts, and then another, till all have 

 resumed their romp. At last tiring of this, some of them 

 lie down close to their dams, while others begin to feed, 

 or, by nosing their mothers or butting them with their 

 tiny heads, try to persuade them to rise and give them 

 suck. 



But if some curious or uneasy old doe walks too far up 

 on the hill and detects the strange form lying there 

 prone upon the ground— in a moment all is changed. The 

 doe makes a few rapid bounds— each antelope is at once 

 upon its feet— the old buck utters his curious barking cry 

 of alarm— and in a close group they bound away. Before 

 they have gone a hundred yards, they stop and turn to 

 look, and now, if the watcher needs meat, is the danger- 

 ous moment for the old buck. If the rifle cracks he may 

 fall never to rise again. 



OUR COLUMBUS NUMBER. 



The Forest and Stream of Oct. aO (the day before the 

 Columbus celebration) will be a special Columbus 

 number. The contents, both text and illustrations, will 

 relate largely to the age of Columbus, and will be as in- 

 teresting as unique. 



Some one suggests that in dubbing our political con- 

 vention halls "wigwams" we are reverting to the usage of 

 savages. Another example of the fantastic use of words 

 is that of "camp" to describe a certain type of Adiron- 

 dack summer home. The so-called camp is often an 

 expensively built and luxuriously furnished establish- 

 ment, as much like a camp as a vestibule train of car? 

 is like a piny- woods Q^xt (ir^wn by a eteer. 



