Forest and Stream. 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 13, 1894. 



Terms, $4 a Year. 10 Cts. a Copy. 

 Six Months, $2. 



( VOL. XLII.-No. 2. 



I No. 318 Broadway, New York. 



CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



Looking Forward. 

 Dogs and Men. 

 Fads and Field Sports. 

 New York Supervisors' Laws, 

 f Snap Shots. 



The Sportsman Tourist. 



Danvis Folks.— xx. 



Hunt of the Catawampus Club. 



Changes in the East. 



Natural History. 



Experience with Quail. 

 The Yellow Bear. 

 "Sounding the Alarm." 



Game Bag and Gun. 



A Deer Hunt in New Jersey. 



Cephus Dodge's Two Snots. 



Chicago and the West. 



Notes of a Shooting Trip South. 



An Available Route to Cooke. 



The .22 Short. 



Adirondack Notes. 



Another "Arabian Spike Buck." 



Sea and River Fishing. 



Angling Notes. 

 "Fisherwomen." i 

 Maine Fish and Game Associa- 

 tion. 



Protecting the Headwaters. 

 Maine and Massachusetts. 



Fishculture. 



Th» Coast Fishery Conference. 

 Fishculture and Food Fish. 



Hunting and Coursing. 



Beagle Hunting in England. 

 Coursing in California. 

 American Foxhounds. 



The Kennel. 



The Canadian Kennel Club and 

 the A. K. C. 

 t The Russian Wolfhound. 



Points and Flushes. 



Kennel Notes. 

 {1 Dog Chat. 



Answers to Correspondents. 

 Canoeing. 



Cruise of the Frankie. 



Reform in the A. C. A. 



News Notes. 



Yachting. 



A Summer Cruise to Mackinac. 

 Challenge to American Yachts- 

 men. 



Shifting and Fixed Ballast. 

 News Notes. 

 Rifle Range and Gallery. 



Jerseymen with the Targets. 

 Denver's New Year's Shoot. 

 Rifle Notes. 

 Trap Shooting. 

 Manufacturers' Trap-Shooting 



Association. 

 South Sides' Annual. 

 Record of Climax Club. 

 New Year's Day at Dexter Park. 

 Drivers and Twisters. 



Answers to Queries. 



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. 



LOOKING FORWARD. 



Without seeking to magnify his office, it may be 

 said for an editor who is good for anything, that he 

 is never satisfied with the doing of to-day, but has an 

 eye always to the greater achievements of the future. 

 He takes pride and pleasure in the success of his work, 

 if haply it be succcessful; and contemplates with satis- 

 faction the record of the garnered years; but his gaze 

 is forward, not backward, and he dreams and plans and 

 works for the larger success and the brighter records 

 to be won in the years that are before. 



It has been the good fortune of the editorial staff of 

 the Forest and Stream to have many kind words from 

 old and new readers, expressive of approbation of the 

 volumes, which one after another have had their growth, 

 each one taking on its weekly accretions like the rings of 

 the growing tree trunk in the forest, until there now 

 stand on the office shelves forty-one bound volumes, 

 embracing the endeavor and accomplishment of half 

 as many years. But need it be said that there are antici- 

 pations of yet better things to come, and plannings for 

 volumes yet to outshine those already closed? For the 

 year 1894— this is the ambition of those who are in con- 

 duct of it — the Forest and Stream is more adequately 

 than ever before to fill the requirements of a sportsman's 

 journal. To the attainment of such accomplishing is 

 asked the co-operation of friends and contributors old and 

 new. If the Forest and Stream is to-day the sportsman's 

 favorite journal, it is such because the sportsman himself 

 has made it so. He spoke happily and truly who said that 

 the paper was like more than anything else to a club of 

 congenial fellow sportsmen, who gathered to tell their 

 stories to one another through its columns, to exchange 

 their experiences and to meet and to part with good will 

 and good cheer. 



Is a sportsmen's paper a luxury or a necessity? The 

 fact, that in these hard times when we are all cutting 

 down on luxuries, the subscription list of the Forest and 

 Stream is holding its own, appears to demonstrate that 

 one sportsmen's paper at least is a necessity, or a neces- 

 sary luxury. 



A report of the annual meeting of the New York State 

 Association for the Protection of Fish and Game at Syra- 

 cuse, Jan. 11, will be given in our next issue. 



NEW YORK SUPERVISORS' LAWS. 



There appears to prevail general indefiniteness of in- 

 formation respecting the authority of county supervisors 

 of New York State to enact local game and fish laws, and 

 respecting the relation of such supervisors' enactments to 

 the general game and fish codes of the State. The sec- 

 tion of the general law conferring upon supervisors 

 authority to modify its provisions in their counties is very 

 explicit, and leaves no room for uncertainty . It reads, the 

 italics being ours: 



Powers of Supervisors.— Sec. 273. Boards of supervisors may 

 pass at their annual session such laws and ordinances as shall nffonl 

 additional protection to and further restrictions for the protection oj 

 birds, fish, shell-fish and wild animals, except wild deer, and to pro- 

 hibit the taking and killing of the same, but no such ordinance shall 

 be operative until a duly authenticated copy thereof shall JiaM- 

 been filed in the office of the clerk of the county, and published in tn f 

 papers in such county in which the session laws are published, and 

 filed in the office of the Secretary of State, and it shall be 1 he duty o1 

 the Secretary of State to furnish a copy of such ordinance to tht 

 chief game protector, and to print all such ordinances in the volume 

 of session laws for the current years. No such ordinance shall take 

 effect until the first day of May next after its passage. 



This means that supervisors may not abridge a pre- 

 scribed close season, but may lengthen it; may not 

 authorize any mode of hunting or fishing forbidden l}\ 

 the general law, but may prohibit modes of hunting or 

 fishing which the general law permits. 



County and other local laws adopted under authority 

 conferred by this section are to be interpreted in connec r 

 tion with the general law. Thus, the State law mak< s 

 the. close season for rabbits from January 1 to September 

 1, and does not prohibit the use of ferrets. But in 

 Sullivan county a supervisors' ordinance of 1893, now in 

 force, prohibits the killing of rabbits between September 

 1 and October 1, and forbids the use of ferrets at any 

 time. In Sullivan, then, the general close season, from 

 January 1 to September 1, is extended one month, and 

 covers the term from January 1 to October 1; and ferrets 

 may not lawfully be used even in the open season. 



FADS AND FIELD SPORTS. 



Football— the college athletic fad of the times— is the 

 subject of an interesting discussion in the January Forum. 

 In the course of his paper on the merits and demerits of 

 the game, President Warfield, of Lafayette College, bears 

 noteworthy testimony to the value of field sports. "While 

 I am a strong believer in college athletics," he writes, "I 

 am not at all of the opinion that they are the best form of 

 bodily exercise. I fully agree with the view expressed 

 by Professor Mahaffy in his 'Greek Thought,' that not 

 athletics of the gymnasium and the palcestra, but 'field 

 sports — hunting, shooting, fishing — have produced the 

 finest type of man.' The virtues of horsemanship, shoot- 

 ing and fishing are more akin to mastery of self, and the 

 close relation of man to nature. ' They beget the larger 

 and the broader man. But they require time and money 

 beyond the scope of college life. Even at Oxford, tandem 

 driving has long been reckoned the eighth deadly sin, and 

 fox hunting, which my reverend tutor indulged in each 

 Thursday during the season, came next in the index ex- 

 purgatorius." 



Field sports expensive? Yes, in a degree; yet it will 

 surprise the novice to discover how meagre and trifling is 

 the actual necessary "bed rock" expenditure of money 

 required for his moderate aud reasonable participation in 

 the sports of rod and gun. In these days of perfected 

 appliances, cheap rods, cheap guns, cheap ammunition 

 and cheap camp equipments, a young man of very limited 

 means may count himself among field sportsmen and 

 find the money question by no means a discouraging 

 problem. 



One decided advantage field sports have over other 

 forms of exercise and recreation is that the taste acquired 

 for them in early life is likely to be permanent. Their 

 charms and enticements and zests and rewards do not 

 grow stale as the young man merges into maturity and 

 acquires the ripeness of age. He who in boyhood days 

 takes pleasure in shooting and fishing has found in those 

 pursuits a lifelong heritage of opportunity for health up- 

 building and brain refreshing and spirit mending, such as 

 his less fortunate brothers can never know. 



Compared with these outdoor recreations of abiding 

 virtue, all others are passing fads and violent crazes — 

 violent and passing not only in the life of the individual, 

 but in the favor and participation of the public. One 



form of popular amusement succeeds another, is followed 

 madly for the moment and then is forgotten in the next 

 craze. But the interest in shooting is with its votaries 

 a,s fresh and vigorous as the very woodland itself, which, 

 though it may seem to be dead in the bleakness of 

 winter, is but sleeping quiescent, to put forth new life 

 through all its million sturdy trunks and outstretching 

 arms in the springtime; and the love of fishing, born in 

 the barefoot boy on the home farm, endures with him 

 into old age and persists so long as the heart beats 

 quicker at the sound of the splashing mountain stream, 

 and the senses are pleased by the grateful scent of the 

 wood mould and the flickering of the sunlight on the 

 ino s s. 



If these eprtrfa are manly, and make the youngsters 

 manly, are they not also youthful sports, and do they not 

 make the old man, for the hour at'least, young again! If 

 i-ut'h be the rare and potent virtue attached to field sports 

 —and thousands can testify that this is so — the man 

 who in his college days mltivates a taste for the rod and 

 gun is laying up store for his. renewing in after years some- 

 thing of the gladness of his youth. 



DOGS AND MEN. 



In Lovell's "Panz^ ologicomineralogia" are enumerated 

 all the rare medicinal properties attributed by the ancients 

 to dogs. It would require a more extensive work, and 

 one, too, which should be no less formidable in title, to 

 detail the various physical, mental and moral qualities 

 ascribed to the dog by ancients and moderns. 



An ancient Latin couplet, quoted by one of the story 

 tellers of the Gesta Rumanoruia— that curious collection 

 of moral tales told by the mediaeval monks — runs thus: 



In cano bis Vina, et lingua med'eina, 



Naris i dji utus, amor integer, atque latratus, 



which is to say: "In a dog there are four things: a 

 medicinal tongue, a distinguishing nose, unshaken fidelity 

 and unremitting watchfulness." 



In the quaint homily based on the story we are told that 

 priests ought diligently to cultivate these four canine 

 qualities, first — that their tongue possess the power of a 

 physician in healing the sick in heart; second — as a dog 

 by keenness of scent distinguishes a fox from a hare, a 

 priest by the quickness of his perception in auricular dis- 

 closures should discover their true character; third — as a 

 dog is the most faithful and ready in defense of his 

 master, so priests should show themselves staunch advo- 

 cates of the faith; and fourth — as a dog by barking 

 betrays the approach of thieves, so the faithful priest is 

 the watchdog of the great King. 



It is to be said for this monkish preacher of the Middle 

 Ages, that he had quite as true an insight into dog nature 

 and discovered in canine qualities material for precepts 

 fully as edifying and instructive, as did the English 

 clergyman who some hundreds of years later wrote in his 

 "Divine Songs for the Use of Children," the well known 

 lines: 



Let dogs delight to bark and bite, 

 For God halh made them so. 



For the nature of dogs is like the nature of men, two- 

 sided; and if as Isaac Watts teaches we should learn in 

 infancy to shun the bickering ways of quarrelsome dogs, 

 it is none the less true that we have not yet outgrown the 

 time when we may readily discover, as did the monk, some 

 other canine qualities which are well worthy human 

 emulation. 



A New York man brought suit against another man 

 for having purloined letters addressed to him under an 

 assumed name. The court threw out the case on the 

 ground that when the plaintiff had had recourse to an 

 alias he had put himself outside the protection of the law. 

 There are hotel proprietors in the woods and restaurant 

 purveyors in the town who carry this principle to a 

 further extreme in their close-time traffic in game. 

 They themselves bestow the outlawing alias, and follow- 

 ing the adage, Give a dog a bad name and hang him, 

 they convert venison into "mountain mutton" and quail 

 into "royal birds" and ruffed grouse into "European par. 

 tridges;" and do a brisk trade until the game protector 

 happens along and "rounds them up" in court, where 

 they discover that the penalty for birds out of season is 

 equally as severe, whether the illicit game be dubbed by 

 the fantastic cognomen of "royal birds," or go under its 

 plain, every-day American name of quail. 



