8 FOREST AND STREAM. tJui^Y 8, 1893. 



points of pointers and setters. I was tempted to ask Mr. 

 Lee about it, but thouglit it better not to ask too much 

 information at one time. However, I know some men 

 who have shot a great deal, yet I firmly believe they can 

 hit more ostriches over a dog's, points than they can hit 

 quail under Uke conditions. Tlie fact that the ostrich 

 does not fly would not make any difl'erence in the results 

 of the sliooting. The ostrich would be a most valuable 

 addition to our list of game birds. For a dog with a poor 

 nose, and a man between whom and his gun there is a 

 grievance, the ostrich would fill a long felt want. 

 Ostriches at $500 apiece would be prize shooting. 



A pyramid of ostrich eggs had a most pleasant sug- 

 gestion of custards and ice creams, but I did not learn 

 whetheT ostrich eggs are good in months which have no 

 r in them or not. There were many hung up for decora- 

 tive purposes. Some were halved, had a pretty landscape 

 painted on them, and were nicely framed or secured to 

 panels. 



By the way, it may not be out of place to mention that 

 in Cape Colony the ostrich is now a domestic bird. The 

 wild ostrich is no longer a factor in furnishing the beauti- 

 ful feathers often seen on three-decker hats at theatres 

 and elsewhere. As an industry, ostrich farming is one of 

 the chief industries of Cape Colony. Previous to 1860, 

 feathers were secured by killing the birds in the wild 

 state. Their destruction was enormous, and if continued 

 meant extinction. In 1866 there were only eighty domes- 

 ticated birds in the Colony, yet 17,5221bs. of feathers were 

 exported. The average yield is estimated at lilbs. per 

 bird. This meaut the destruction of 13,938 birds in one 

 year. Probably many more were wounded. The pursuit 

 was so keen and I'elentless that the birds sought refuge in 

 the interior wilds of the wilderness. In 1854 a number of 

 chicks were captured, but their domestication was not a 

 perfect success. They were sufiiciently tame to be plucked 

 of their feathers, although this was attended with diffi- 

 culty, the birds being almost unmanageable. Their pro- 

 geny was wilder and more difficult to domesticate. It 

 seemed as if the venture was a failure. However, the 

 incubator solved the problem. In 1869 it was introduced. 

 Birds hatched by it were raised by hand and took kindly 

 to domestica,tion. Their ancestral wildness did not there- 

 after appear. Ostrich farming then became an established 

 industry. In 1875 there were 21,751 domesticated ostriches. 

 That year 49,5691bs. of feathers were exported, and five 

 years afterward the exportation of 163,0651bs. of feathers 

 showed how the industry had increased. That exporta- 

 tion was valued at £883,6321bs. In 1882, 253,9541bs, of 

 feathers were exported at great profit, selling for £7 17s. 

 per lb., bringing in a total of £1,993,980, but so many then 

 engaged in the business that over-jproduction resulted, 

 prices fell and ruin came to many in consequence. There 

 is always now a steady demand, notwithstanding the 

 changes and whims of fashion, so that ostrich, farming is 

 on a firm, conservative footing. 



The high prices of 1882 stimulated attempts at this in- 

 dustry in other countries. The exportation of birds and 

 eggs alarmed the home government. A duty of £100 on 

 every bird and £5 on every egg exported was imposed. 

 This step prohibited further, exportation. It is supposed 

 in Cape Colony that that country has an exclusive mo- 

 nopoly of ostrich farming. 



The Angora goat, from wliich is taken the mohair of 

 commerce, is also cultivated. 



Wool was shown in many varieties and qualities. 



A lai-ge case was crowded with mounted specimerus of 

 native birds, bright in color and beautiful in form. 

 The game birds, I regret to say, were neglected in the 

 exhibit, not one being represented. 



A most interesting collection of the native weapons 

 and domestic utensils of the aborigines was shown. The 

 fatal assagai of the Kaffir, bows, poisoned arrows, spears, 

 shields made of hide — a most flimsy protection — rude 

 knives, etc., a most primitive an-ay of force as com- 

 pared to the modern outfit of the white man when 

 equipped for gore. 



The domestic utensils were very few and simple. A 

 gentleman, who is. interested in archaeological conun- 

 drums, told me that the stone implements were precisely 

 similar to ones he had seen on the Pacific coast, used 

 by the aborigines of that section. The rude rock pic- 

 tures were also similar. He is a student in those mat- 

 ters. He said that his studies had proved that primitive 

 man throughout the world had lived in much the same 

 manner under similar conditions. 



This sketch has merely touched on the attractions of 

 the exhibit. In its agricultural features it is most abun- 

 dantly represented. Those who wish to see how people 

 live about 6,300 miles from New York or London can 

 do no better than to visit the Cape Colony exhibit, where 

 they can pass a most profitable half day, and withal a 

 pleasant one. B. Waters. 



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If you have a friend, good and true, whom you 

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 in the year — once every week — why not ask us to see 

 that a Forest and Stream wrapper has his name 

 on it, with your initials in the corner of the address 

 label ? 



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 

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ON EDGEMERE POINT. 



We talked it over five minutes, then it was settled. 

 We would go fishing. Very few fish had been caught, and 

 the chances were against us, 



"A cloudy day for pike," said Brower, the business 

 man, who has caught tarpon South, mascalonge North and 

 everything between, 



"Go anyhow, I'm a mascot," said the ingenue, who was 

 on her vacation. 



So we went. 



A trifle less than fifty miles south of New York city, on 

 the Jersey coast, lies Deal La.ke, a famous spot. We took 

 six rods and gave the actress her selection. With rare 

 good judgment she picked out the 8oz. Prime rod — 

 named by its makers after that veteran and thorough- 

 bred angler, A. C. Prime. With enough Itmch to last 

 three healthy appetites for two days, and a bucket of live 

 minnows, we spread camp — a rubber blanket— on Edge- 

 mere Point, and fished stUl, with six red floats popping 

 out of the water like miniature beacons. The actress 

 made her own cast and did well. It was 10 A.M. 



"We will now prepare to take hfe easy," said Brower, 

 deliberately, as he filled his pipe, "for it's a dead minnow 

 against a pipeful of sinkers that we will not get a strike 

 until 4 o'clock, if we get one then." 



The acti-ess was a bunch of nerves, and she regretted 

 she had not brought field glasses the better to observe the 

 floats. 



In an east wind, with the sun shining brightly, and 

 just as a gang of Italian laborers on the tracks of the Long 

 Branch railroad stopped work for dinner, the red float 

 which buoyed the actress's minnows shot obliquely down- 

 ward and out of sight. 



"Let him eat it up," said Brower, with a tinge of sar- 

 casm in his voice, ' 'and when he has the hook where his 

 suspender buttons ought to grow, reel in and you wiU have 

 caught a catfish." 



I laughed, but the actress declared it was a pike, "A 

 six-year-old call-boy would know it wasn't a misel'able 

 catfish," she said, scornfully. 



She had the rod in her hand, and stood in an attitude 

 for a picture. Her cheeks were red with excitement, and 

 the wind made her blonde curls dance a jig, She braced 

 herself like a feminine Rock of Gibraltar. Then we 

 heard a welcome noise — you've all heard it, and you know 

 how it sends the blood rioting through your veins, 



"Whir-r-r-r-r," it went, while the actrass said, calmly: 



"What did I teU you?" 



In two seconds there were two men on their feet — two 

 excited, advice-giving men who felt not only a trifle 

 ashamed, but a trifle envious as well. 



"Let him run a little!" 



"Now give it to himi" 



The line cut the water at an angle, but there was a firm 

 little hand on the reel and a young woman who knew a 

 thing or two owned the hand. Slowly slie brought the 

 unwilling fish like a mother dragging a boy home to a 

 whipping. Once he made a rush and he was given about 

 twenty feet, but his head Avas twined around again and 

 inside of ten minutes we saw him coming slowly througli 

 the shallow water — the leopard of the lake, 



"Gaff him for me, you big, strong fishermen," she said, 

 and we lifted him in over the snags and up over the dead 

 leaves. There were 81bs, of him there, and he was a pic- 

 ture for a frame as he hung gasping from a low branch 

 of the nearby cedar tree. 



Talk about precedent — it was nowhere. What did the 

 east wind, bright day and noon hour count for when a 

 woman went fishing? 



There were many enjoyable days ahead for us, we 

 thought, as we trudged home astonishing the natives 

 with the monster. 



The enjoyable days amounted to one calendar week. 

 Then a long-haired gentleman launched a big bait box, 

 sharpened at one end like a clamsy wedge. He called it 

 the Bonaventure. 



He put in batteries and a screw, and took people in at 

 the rate of 20 cents a head to sail around the moat beautiful 

 lake ever hedged in by natm-al scenery. Every time this 

 boat makes a tiip it sends volt upon volt of electricity 

 through the water. The fish have ceased to bite, and the 

 angler has turned his back upon his most promising 

 groimd. The Bonaventiue plunges up and down, wheezes 

 and snorts, and the long-haired man gathers in about $1.30 

 a day as the resxflt of his enterprise. 



The lorers of angling have concluded to make at least 

 one good effort to suppress the "bait box," and with Mr, 

 Leonard Huht at the head, it is likely something will be 

 done. 



Deal Lake has been noted for years for its pike. It 

 holds besides a quantity of landlocked striped bass. 

 Specimens as heavy as 141bs, have been taken whfle troU- 

 ing with a phantom minnow. 



But now, unless something is done, vale fishing. 



The actress proposes to jjension the long-haired man. 



B, A, N. 



Bass at Cape Vincent. 



Cape Vincent, N, Y., June 28, — Bass fishing is now in 

 its prime at Cape Vincent. The hotels are all filling up 

 with anglers, and the catches of bass are something un- 

 precedented. Yesterday's catch is only an every-day oc- 

 currence, ilr. Esterbrook, of New York, is in his glory 

 with 444 bass for the last 10 days, 



Mr. and Mrs. Geo. W. Weeks, of Brooklyn, brought in 

 yesterday a sti-ing of 761bs, — several over 31bs. each, 



Mr, Rudolph Keppler, of Wall street, New York, and 

 his son Emil brought in over 501bs, bass, 



A, Sturo, of San Francisco, CaL, had much sport with 

 a 31bs. bass and 401bs, of lesser weight, 



Messrs. J. W, Ege and J. D, Bedle, Jr., of Jersey City, 

 brought in over 601bs, They have had that average all 

 dming the past week. Mr, E. Beadle, of New York city, 

 caught 22 fish, weighing over 381bs, 



Many other fishermen have had equally as good sport. 

 This is by far the beat j)oint for bass fishing on the St. 

 Lawrence I have struck. G. H. A. 



NEW HAMPSHIRE WATERS. 



Manchester, N, H., June 33. — Massabesic Lake, four 

 miles out, is where most of the anglers of this city put in 

 their day or two of boat fisliing each year, as theu- busi- 

 ness wiU aUow. Perch, with an occasional bass or 

 pickerel, is their only reward. Once in a while one who 

 is well posted a-bout the points of the business on that 

 sheet of water will get a string of pickerel or bass, but a 

 large catch of either, in size or number, is rare. Arthur' 

 P. Spiller, as painstaking and persevering an angler aa 

 there is in the world, showed me Wednesday evening a 

 bass that weighed 2*lbs. and a pickerel that tipped the 

 scales at 21bs. , which he had taken that evening from the 

 lake. Pouts have been plentiful there this season and 

 many hundreds have been taken, mostly smaU. 



Lake Sunapee, the alleged home of the black bass, and 

 Newfound Lake, where trout are said to abound; are 

 extending less attraction to our fishermen at this time 

 than they have in years gone by. The facts in regard to 

 both as relating to the average fisherman are, that they 

 have been overestimated as fish reservoirs, and like all 

 good places easy of access, have had theu full quota of 

 fishermen. Whenever any lucky fellow makes a strike 

 of a good sized bass or ti-out, the world, or the best part 

 of it — all of tlie United States — hears of the occurrence 

 through the medium of the newspapers, by the special 

 efforts of the local hotel men, whereas the thousands who 

 visit the "crack" fcjhing grounds of the Granite State 

 with indifferent success, never have their poor luck made 

 known by others, and content themselves by staying 

 away thereafter. While there are good fish at all places, 

 which can be caught at the proper time by those who 

 know how, before one goes to either place expecting im- 

 mense results, he must make allowance for the stories 

 heard about the "big ones" others have captured, and 

 know that fishermen axe not the only liars Mving, as most 

 natives, those in search of shekels in particular, around 

 summer resorts and popiflar fishing groimds, can give the 

 best disciple of Walton a pretty good tussle in spinning 

 jwns. Dr. George H. Fowler ot Bristol, an old school- 

 mate of mine by the way, seems to have all the large fish 

 of the Newfound Lake located; I tliink he watches theu* 

 growth, and holds a mortgage on them, which when he 

 thinks they are of proper size he forecloses and lands 

 them. He takes many large ones each season, and is 

 one among many hundreds who try and axe thus re- 

 warded. 



Lake Winnipiseogee well sustains its reputation and 

 has fmnished Manchester people with many nice trout 

 this summer. The most recent catch was by Mr. J. B. 

 Estey and a party of four, who spent a day on its surface 

 and captured five which weighed in the aggregate 201bs. 

 There seems to be no hmit to the number of finny in- 

 habitants within its depths. 



Dr. J. H. Riedell and Mr. Fred H. Thurston, two 

 thorough sportsmen and ardent fly-fishermen, retm'ned 

 Thm-sday last from an eight days' trip to northern Maine, 

 a Mecca that all New England sportsmen visit whose 

 business, purses, or "pifll" on the raih-oads will sustain 

 and allow. They were disappointed in finding the 

 streams filled with logs and the water far too high for 

 fly-fishing they designed to enjoy, but before retm-ning 

 they managed to get a day's sport on a small pond which 

 yielded a fan- string that would average lib, each, called, 

 by the people there "sma;ll trout." They saw two moose 

 and a large number of deer; so numerous and so often 

 were the latter seen that the visitors ceased to remark 

 their presence. At one time they counted eight, and oU 

 many occasions saw from two to six at once, and they 

 would frequently quietly feed witlfln a couple of rods of 

 the fishermen without fear, a condition of things tliat 

 will radically change when fly time has i^assed and the 

 deer hunter appears on the scene, Pavson, 



ADIRONDACK NOTES. 



Fkom information gathered on a recent trip through the ' 

 southeastern portion of the Adirondacks it would seem 

 that deer are on the Increase all through this section and 

 that the hunting has never been better of recent years 

 than at present. Sections that a few years ago were bar- 

 ren of deer now furnish their quota of game, while in other 

 sections the hunting has been wonderfiilly improved. 

 This condition of affah's, so pleasing from the hunter's' 

 standpoint, ia attributed to two causes: The first and most- 

 important is the improved observance of the game laws,- 

 In this part of the Adu'ondacks it is a rare thing to hear of 

 deer being killed out of season, and pubhc sentiment is 

 decidedly in support of the law. Twenty years ago crust- 

 ing was common, and the entire deer of certain wild local" 

 ities were often skinned out, leaving it an improductiv© 

 wilderness tiU the crop was gradually reci-uited from the 

 neighboring county. Crusters killed sometimes for very 

 wantonness, or again merely to break in a hound pup. The 

 deer were generally so poor at the time of yeai* they could 

 be hunted in this way that their meat was scarcely fit for 

 food. Crusting was probably the most destructive method 

 of hunting to which deer have ever been subjected, but 

 there were maxiy other ways, since rendered illegal, by 

 which the supply was cut down. 



Another cause which in certain sections has operated 

 to largely increase the number of deer, is the establish- 

 ment of private parks or i-eserves, in which hunting is 

 only allowed rmder certain limitations. These parka 

 furnish refuges and breeding places for the deer, and as 

 they increase they gradually wander off into the sur- 

 rounding country. 



The Adirondack Reserve has not allowed hunting on its 

 40,000 acres of land since it came into possession, a period 

 of some seven years, and as a result the hunting in con- 

 tiguous sections has been greatly improved. Hunters 

 living fifteen or twenty miles from the borders of the re- 

 seiwe ascribe a certain i)ortion of the deer increase in their 

 localities to its fostering influence. The land of the re- 

 serve is mostly covered by primeval woods, and in such 

 woods there is not so much food suitable for deer, as a 

 rule, as there is in a country that has been lumbered over. 

 Deer are very fond of young and tender growths, such 

 as spring up in a country that has been recently burned. 

 or lumbered over; and a certain number from the surplus', 

 of the reserve are no doubt constantly wandering away. 



One of the sections that has profited most by better' 

 laws and a better observance of them is the coimtry aroundi 

 Schroon Lake, It is said that last fall 50 odd deer were? 

 killed within a radius of 15 miles from the head of the- 

 lake. To a paity of which Wm. Pickhardt, of New York, 

 who owns a large stock f axm near Scliroon Lake, was a 



