Forest and Stream 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



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NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JULY 22, 1893. 



( VOL, XLI.— No. 3. 



I No. 318 Broadway, New York. 



CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



What About the Elk ? 

 Game Bird Importation. 

 Snap Shots. 



The Sportsman Tourist. 



Through the Heart of Peru.— i. 

 Natural History. 



Los Clarineros. 



Mourning Warbler in Niagara 

 County, N. T. 



Game Bag and Gun. 



Chicago and the West. 

 The Southern Camp Hunt.— ii. 

 ''Podgers's" Commentaries. 

 Camfi- Hunting in Florida. 



Sea and River Fishing. 



Chicago and the West. 

 ; Oneida Lake. 

 , Canadian Angling Notes. 



Around Blinnesota Lakes. 

 1^ Old Connecticut Salmon Swims. 



Sea Fishing for Sea Bass. 

 FIshculture. 



Plant Yearlings Where Needed. 



The Kennel. 



The Watson-Luse Protest. 

 The American Kennel Club. 

 Kennel Interests in Finland. 



The Kennel. 



Bulldogs or Bull-Terriers. 

 Points and Flushes. 

 Dog Chat. 

 Kennel Notes. 



Answers to Correspondents. 



Yachting. 



Lake Y. R. A. Round. 



New Yachts on Lake Minnetonka 



Queen Mab. 



News Notes. 



Canoeing. 



Canoeing Among the Thousand 



Islands. 

 A. C. A Not«s. 

 The B. C. A. Meet. 

 Atlantic Division Meet. 

 News Notes. 



Rifle Range and Gallery. 



Rifle Notes. 



Trap Shooting. 



The Jersey League. 

 St. Louis Tournament. 

 Parkersburg. 



Niles Gun Club Tournament. 

 Central Gun Club Tournament. 

 Lafayette Tournament. 

 Drivers and Twisters. 

 Answers to Queries. 



For Prospectus and Advertising Rates see Page 70. 



The Forest and Stream is put to press 

 on Tuesdays. Correspondence intended for 

 publication should reach us by Mondays and 

 as much earlier as may be practicable. 



You are invited 



to visit the " Forest and Stream's" 

 exhibit in the Angling Pavilion at 

 the entrance from the main hall 

 of the Fisheries Building, in the 

 World's Fair. 



WHAT ABOUT THE ELK? 



Not many weeks ago we printed a communication from 

 a Eocky Mountain hunter, who lives in an elk country, 

 urging that a stop should be put to the capture of live elk 

 for purposes of domestication. Our correspondent took 

 the ground that for each elk captured for this purpose 

 several others were kUled or driven away. We have just 

 received a private letter from another Eocky Mountain 

 hunter, who lives in an elk country, and this is what he 

 says: "Nothing can save the elk but domestication, and 

 unless measures are taken to capture a number and breed 

 them in confinement, before very long they wOl be as 

 scarce as the buffalo. When I was out this spring I cap- 

 tured one bull elk, for I needed meat, but I killed no more, 

 though I had many opportunities. The snow was from 

 6 to 10ft. deep, yet this elk was in good condition, living 

 on fir and willow branches. If I had the capital I would 

 stock the great plains with animals that will never suffer 

 from the hard winter." 



Here then are two opposite views held by two men, each 

 of whom lives in a game country. Which is right? 



The writer of the letter last quoted goes on to speak of 

 the destruction of elk in his country, instancing the kill- 

 ing of about thirty by one party for bear bait this spring, 

 and of seventy by another last autumn for the skins and 

 hide, and all this in the face of a very stringent game law 

 just passed by Montana. 



We cannot but believe that unless public sentiment 

 shall soon manifest itself more strongly in favor of game 

 protection in the Eocky Mountain States, the large game 

 must ere long be practically exterminated everywhere 

 except in the National Parks and in the forest reserva- 

 tions. 



We have frequently expressed the belief that elk could 

 be profitably reared in domestication. They are very 

 easily kept, but of course would have to be held under 

 fence to be protected fi"om himtei-s. We know of no 

 reason why an adult elk should not at the proper season 

 be worth as much money as a fat steer, and certainly it 

 coiild be reared to maturity with much less danger than a 

 steer. 



We look forward to a time when many of our native 



species of big game shall be domesticated, or at least 

 reared on farms and estates in a condition of semi- 

 domestication. The experiment has been successfully 

 tried with a number of species and we have not yet seen 

 the end of it. 



GAME BIRD IMPORTATION. 



Except in the case of two species, the discussion about 

 the introduction in America of foreign game birds has 

 thus far amounted to very little. Attempts have been 

 made to introduce Exiropean quail, several old world par- 

 tridges, pheasants of various species, black game and 

 capercailzie. Of these the pheasant alone have become 

 firmly established, and that chiefly on the Pacific slope. 



Many will recall the interest that was felt in the 

 wholesale importation of European quail {Coturnix 

 communis) which took place in 1879, mainly through the 

 energy and public spirit of Mr. Horace P. Toby, of Bos- 

 ton, Mass. Some thousands of these little birds were 

 brought over from Sicily, and were distributed among 

 sportsmen and sportsmen's clubs in the United States. 

 The birds were hardy, bore the voyage weU, and when 

 turned out were in good condition. From time to time 

 they were seen, either singly or flocked, and it is certain 

 tliat they bred, for on one or more occasions very young 

 birds were sent to this office for identification. Not- 

 withstanding all this, in the course of a year or two the 

 birds all disappeared, and now it is long since we have 

 heard of the capture of an individual of this species. It 

 was believed by many people that when the winter ap- 

 proached and they began their migration, they flew out 

 to sea, and so perished. Whatever the cause, their intro- 

 duction was a complete failure from the point of view of 

 the gimner. 



With the Asiatic pheasants the case was very different. 

 The birds introduced by Judge Denny on the Pacific 

 coast did wonderfully well, and have spread over all of 

 Oregon and Washington, and are now slowly making 

 their way southward into Cahfornia. Nineteen birds 

 turned loose near Victoria, Vancouver Island, having re- 

 ceived i)rotection for a few years increased to thousands, 

 multiplying to such an extent that they have furnished 

 good shooting near that city for years. 



English pheasants were introduced some years ago at 

 Tuxedo, by Mr. Lorillard, and later at Jekyl Island, and 

 while they did fairly well and to some extent spread over 

 the surrounding country, they cannot be said to have 

 added greatly to the game supply. Within a year or two 

 past a number of gentlemen have experimented, chiefly 

 with Pliasianus torquatus, which has proved itself a most 

 hardy bird, and perfectly well able to withstand the rigors 

 of the winters of northern New York. 



Only in the case of the migratory quail and the 

 pheasants have these experiments in acclimatization been 

 tried on such scale as to offer any hope of success. The 

 introduction of partridges, capercailzie and black game 

 has been by individuals, and these species have failed to 

 gain a foothold. 



Besides the importation of foreign species, efforts have 

 been made to introduce in parts of the East various 

 grouse and quail of the West, and owe Bob White has 

 been taken to Utah, Idaho and California, and has done 

 fairly well. 



With the gx-owth of the preserve system in this countrj' 

 comes the demand for greater abundance and variety of 

 game birds, such as exist in America, in Asia or in 

 Europe. There are enough different kinds of birds to be 

 experimented on, there is land enough on which tbey can 

 be protected, and there are enough people interested to 

 bear easily the expenses of such an importation. 



We should be strongly inclined to recommend that 

 effoi-ts be made to introduce here black game and caper- 

 cailzie, hardy forest-inhabiting species which would not 

 fear the severity of our northern winters and which 

 would have to be protected only from the gunner. Such 

 experiments, if successful, would benefit not alone those 

 individuals who should conti'ol the preserve on which the 

 birds might be turned out. If the introduced species did 

 well and increased in numbers, the overflow from any 

 preserve would soon furnish sport to those who might 

 shoot near its borders; the preserve owners might soon 

 be in a position to distribute eggs or birds to other associa- 

 tions desiring to introduce these birds, and so in the 

 course of a few years a very large niunber of persons 

 might be benefited. 



Of course, at first every thing must be experimental, 



but in view of the enormous sums of money annually 

 spent by those who take their recreation with the gun, 

 and the importance of the matter if success were at- 

 tained, it seems well worth the while of shooting in- 

 dividuals and clubs to carefully consider this whole 

 subject of the introduction of exotic game birds. 



SNAP SHOTS. 



The salmon has not yet fairly been established in the 

 Hudson as a fish for anglers, but already there is bruited 

 a scheme to organize a club of fishermen for the pur- 

 pose of getting sole control of the fishing privileges at 

 MechanicviUe. The reasons given are that under exist- 

 ing conditions some of the salmon now killed are taken 

 in an illegal manner, and that the crowd of fishermen 

 is too great, while the fishermen lack the polish of cul- 

 tivated salmon anglers and fail to observe the ethics of 

 the craft. We suspect that the plan to gobble up the 

 fishing is prompted by some other motive than solicitude 

 concerning the law and the gospel. Both of these may 

 be maintained without sequestrating the fishing for the 

 benefit of a favored few. The Fish Commissioners have 

 an ample, able, efficient and intelligent force of protectors 

 at command, and President Huntington and Chief Pond 

 may be depended upon to see that the law is enforced. 

 The ethics of salmon angling may be inculcated by ad- 

 monition and example. The vast proportion of fisher- 

 men who go to MechanicviUe are now, no doubt, in 

 distressing ignorance of the proprieties, but they may be 

 educated to better things. If the State has spent its 

 money to stock the Hudson with salmon the citizens of 

 the State — and of other States, for that matter — should 

 have what benefit there may be in the result so far as 

 they afford opportunities for angling. 



Attention is called anew to the changed press day. 

 This journal is now put to press on Tuesday instead of 

 Wednesday, of each week. Correspondents sending 

 communications intended for publication should mail 

 them so that they may reach this office by Monday at 

 the latest, and as much earlier as may be practicable. 

 The earlier publication day has been adopted in order 

 that the Forest and Stream's increased army of sub- 

 scribers in the West may receive the paper more promptly. 

 We mean not only to give the Western sportsman and 

 the Eastern sportsman, and the Northern sportsman and 

 the Southern sportsman, the best sportsman's journal, 

 but to give it to all in the week of publication. 



The Scientific AUiEttice of New York — an association of 

 the different scientific societies and clubs which have 

 their headquarters here — has set on foot the project of 

 raising a fund to the memory of the late Dr. Newberry. 

 It is proposed that this be called the John Strong New- 

 berry fund, and that the income of it be used to promote 

 original scientific research in the departments of geology, 

 paleontology, botany and zoology. The fund is to be 

 administered under the direction of the Council of the 

 Alliance, and it is hoped that it may reach the sum of 

 $25,000. 



The Commissioners of Fisheries of New York have been 

 inspecting Oneida Lake with reference to the establish- 

 ment of a fish hatchery; a report of their visit is given by 

 Gen. D. H. Bruce in our fishing columns. Should the 

 Commissioners decide to select a site on Oneida Lake, the 

 selection would not only be fully warranted by the 

 natural advantages, but would be a fitting recognition of 

 the public spirit, enterprise, generous effort and common, 

 sense methods of the anglers of Syracuse and vicinity. 



The claim was made by our Florida contributor "Tar 

 pon" the other day, that John Gomez, of Panther Key, 

 whose porti'ait we published, was the oldest man in 

 America. Gomez was born in 1781, and is now 112 years 

 of age. But the editor of the Walker (la.) News sends us 

 a note of an older person still. Christian Conrad, of Man- 

 chester, Mich. , who reached the age of 114 in May of this 

 year. Of the two the Michigan man holds the record. 



It is worthy of note as a sign of the times that the prize 

 essay at St. John's CoUege, Annapolis, Md., this year, 

 read by Mr. Chas. W. DuvaU, had for its theme the eco- 

 nomic importance of insectivorous birds — a much more 

 lively, timely, sensible and important topic than the 

 greatness of Jufius Csesar or the poetry of Gothe. 



