Forest and Stream 
A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 
\ NEW YORK, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1894. 
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J VOL XLHL— No. 9. 
I No. 318 Broadway, New York. 
CONTENTS. 
Editorial. 
Mongolian Pheasants for Middle- 
sex Fells. 
Concerning a Breed of Swine. 
Neigbborliness. 
The Sportsmen's Exposition. 
The Sportsman Tourist" 
Campiag and Tramping in 
Mexico. 
Flannel Shirt Days. 
Natural History. 
Beaver Chippfcgs. 
Siberian Reindeer in Alaska. 
Game Bag and Gun. 
Texas and the Southwest. 
The Four Bears of Bald Moun- 
tain. 
Two Greenhorns Afloat. 
In Nova Scotia Wilds. 
Chicago and the West. 
South Dakota Prairie Chickens. 
Sea and River Fishing. 
Michigan's Favored Waters. 
A Day on the Mooseup. 
Troutiag on Upper Magalloway. 
Angling Notes. 
Canadian Angling Notes. 
New Jersey Coast Fishing. 
Fishculture. 
States Owning Their Tide- Waters 
The Kennel. 
Specialty Olub Secretaries 
The Kennel. 
Kicking and Kickers at Field 
Trials. 
The Paucity of Bench Show 
•Judges 
Gordon Setter Trials. 
Points and Flushes. 
Dog Chat. 
Kennel Answers. 
Beagle Meets. 
Show Beagles as Practical Field 
Dogs. 
Yachting. 
Classification by Sailing Length. 
The Improvement of Measure- 
ment Rules. 
Shrewsbury Y . C. Regatta. 
Club Races. 
Yachting News Notes. 
Canoeing. 
Ottawa C. C. Regatta. 
Toronto C. C. Paddling Cup. 
News Notes. 
Rifle Range and Gallery. 
Newark Shooting Society. 
Plattdeutsche Verein Festival. 
Zettler Rifle Club Festival. 
Club Scores. 
Rifle Notes 
Trap Shooting. 
Wopsononock. 
Pennsylvania Association. 
Drivers and Twisters. 
Answers to Queries. 
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MONGOLIAN PHEASANTS FOR MIDDLESEX FELLS 
Some years ago, ten perhaps, we noted the case of a 
crusty old fellow living not far from the chief city of 
western Massachusetts, who in pique over the law forbid- 
ding the trapping of partridges posted his farm and vowed 
that if he could not trap the birds no "city sports" should 
shoot them. Certain of the town sportsmen, who had 
marked many a grouse in those covers, took this turn of 
affairs sadly to heart; but one of them more sagacious 
than his fellows exhorted the old man to steadfastness in 
his resolution and strong nails in his trespass signs, for 
he had discovered the beautiful truth that a well posted 
farm meant a game refuge, and a game refuge meant an 
overflow into neighboring covers. In this particular case 
the exclusion of shooters from the forbidden premises 
actually did supply good near-by shooting for the several 
seasons during the interregnum of the dog-in-the-manger. 
The experience has been repeated again and again else- 
where. In many a district where game is scarce, to take 
down the signs which read "No shooting here," would 
mean in practical effect to erect others proclaiming "No 
shooting anywhere." What is true of protected private 
lands is true in a larger sense of protected public lands. 
We have taken occasion before this to direct attention 
to the admirable system of public reservations adopted in 
Massachusetts, under which extensive tracts of wild land 
have been set apart for the public. There are already, in 
the neighborhood of Boston, four such reservations, the 
Middlesex Fells of 3,200 acres, the Lynn woods of 2,000- 
acres, the Stony Brook woods of 600 acres, and.the Blue 
Hills reserve of 4,000 acres. A fifth park is to be added 
in Waltham. 
An editorial writer in the Boston Herald points out that 
one highly valuable service which may be rendered by 
these protected domains will be to constitute preserves for 
feathered game. Under the rules firearms, are strictly 
excluded from the reservations. The covers are natur- 
ally adapted to the support of the native birds; grouse and 
quail and woodcock will resort to these harbors, and there 
unmolested increase and thrive and overflow into adja- 
cent territory. Here, too, exotic species will flourish. 
The Lynn woods have already been stocked by the Massa- 
chusetts Fish and Game Protective Association with 
Western grouse; and now there is a project of establishing 
a colony of Mongolian pheasants in the Middlesex Fells. 
These Massachusetts reservations will prove to be 
sources of game supply for all the country around about. 
There should be just such game refuges in every State in 
the Union. They should have been set apart years ago. 
They may be established now. 
NEIGHBOURLINESS. 
The youngster at school considers it unmanly to peach 
on another. Grown to manhood he scorns to inform on the 
neighbor who gobbles his game or hooks the fish out of 
his stream. Read the letter written by a farmer to Sec- 
retary Banks of the Pennsylvania State Sportsmen's As- 
sociation. It pictures precisely the dilemma in which 
many have found themselves when imposed upon by their 
neighbors of pot-hunting proclivities. 
The remedy is not difficult. Organize a local protective 
society, town or county. Employ an attorney for the 
society. Let the club as a club institute suits against 
offenders, and assume responsibility for them. Employ 
an attorney for the society. Have him in his official and 
professional capacity conduct the prosecution. The club 
as a club can bear responsibility from which an individual 
would shrink. The attorney, if a goodlawyrr and worth 
his fee, will be so devoted to his profession that he will 
not hesitate to teach even his next door neighbor that the 
law must be observed. 
This is not theory. It is in brief a statement of the 
practical mode of work adopted by the clubs which have 
been most successful in accomplishing something and 
making their mark. Try it. It is a neighborly way of 
getting the better of an unneighborly neighbor. 
CONCERNING, A BREED OF SWINE. 
"Fish-hog" and "game-hog" — here are two terms which 
are neither euphonious nor refined. There is in them 
none of the art of conveying an unpleasant suggestion 
clothed in alluring guise. They are direct, blunt, harsh, 
homely — vulgar, if you will. Each stands for something 
that cannot be designated in polite terms. A hog is a 
hog the world over; and always has been. There is no 
expression more apt, to describe the selfish, gluttonous, 
wantonly wasteful, hoggish destroyer of game or fish 
than to call him what he is — a hog. The application of 
the term has come naturally into common acceptance. 
It is terse, expressive and not to be mistaken. It has been . 
adopted as filling a long-felt want, fits admirably into the 
colloquial speech of the day, and has come to be a part 
of the language of field and stream. Call a man a game- 
hog or a fish-hog, and you have said more in the one 
word than could be told in a column. 
That we must go to the swine for a name to apply to 
some of those who use rod and gun is not a creditable 
commentary on the field manners of the times; and it is 
a tremendous pity that there should be so many fisher- 
men and so many shooters to whom the ignoble terms 
may be applied with a propriety and deserving beyond 
cavil. For in truth there are game -hogs and fish-hogs 
galore. They go in droves. The woods are full of them. 
There are some shooters and some fishermen, who, 
judged by their works and words, are possessed by an 
indecent mania for killing. They appear to kill purely 
and simply for the sake of doing to death the greatest 
possible number of victims in the shortest possible 
interval of time. They joy in the zest of what they are 
wont to term in language grotesquely bombastic, a 
"battle-royal" with their prey. A battle-royal as 
described by them is discovered to be a fray in which the 
hazard is unequally shared, and the odds are wholly on 
one side. To return from a fishing trip besmeared with 
hlood and staggering under a heavier burden of fish than 
was lugged in by the last battler-royal preceding them is 
the height — or the disgusting depth — of their ambition. 
To out-score in gross weight or number the record holder 
of the hotel piazza is the goal on which is fixed the gaze 
of their piggish vision. Once their inordinate "catch" 
has been spread out for the admiration of foolish men 
and silly women, they have no further concern as to the 
disposition of the fish; hotel kitchen or garden compost 
heap, it is all one to them. They have made their record, 
and rest on their laurels, proud and content, until some 
other fisherman of the same low aims outdoes them in 
slaughter, when envy bids them again fall to. No theory 
to account for the number and greed of the fish-hogs 
abroad in the land would be well founded, which did not 
take into full reckoning the emulation created and stimu- 
lated by the hotel piazza and office fish scores. No true 
account of the fish-hog can be given— when some one 
shall write his natural history— which shall fail to note 
that the creature is not an angler by instinct, nor belongs 
to the anglers' guild,' but is an imitator, a pretender, one 
who practices the craft but lacks the spirit, and because 
wanting in that spirit debases and abuses the practice of 
fishing and brings it into contempt and bad odor. 
We talk and write of the beauties of nature as revealed 
to him who goes afield, of the inspiration one may find 
in the forest and by the stream, of the message whisr 
pered by the pines, sung by the dashing brook, intoned 
by the mighty sea. But speak of these things to some 
men and you speak to dulled unheeding ears. As well tell 
it to the squealing, grunting hog. Such folk hear never 
the pipe of Pan, but ever the song of Circe; and hearing 
they become as swine. 
Fish-hog is a term which has but recently come into the 
colloquialisms of the language; it was unknown in the 
boyhood days of older anglers who are still casting their 
flies. Not that none of the species were abroad then; but 
those were the days of plenty. Fish were many and fish- 
ermen few. Little heed was given to fostering a store 
which no one dreamed would ever be abated. It is only 
of late years, when the problem of maintaining the fish 
supply has been presented so clearly and so imperatively ^ 
that much consideration has been given to the ravages Of 
the wasteful fisherman. No one is ever accused of selfish- 
ness so long as there is enough and to spare for all. 
The designation of hog is growing in frequency. This is 
an indication that the public is alive not only to the exist- 
ence of the wanton fisherman, but to the fact as well that 
his fishing practice is selfish, greedy and unfair to the 
rest of the community. When you call a man a hog, 
it means that you do not like his way. And that means 
that he is not to have his way; but must conform to the 
ways of men. Blunt and homely as it is, then, neither 
euphonious nor refined, the name of the fish-hog is full 
of promise.! He has been found out, recognized, identified^ 
named; and having been found out he will not be toler- 
ated. 
There are restrictions in the fish and game laws of 
many States limiting the number or amount of fish and 
game one may take in a given, time. Such laws are wise 
and necessary, and are growing to be effective. They are 
intended to curb the gluttonous proclivities of the fish and 
game hogs. They are not required for the restraint of 
sportsmen. In such matters your sportsman at heart is 
a law unto himself ; no statute limits his practice afield; 
he is guided and governed by the great unwritten rule of 
taking only what can be used; of sparing, and wasting 
not; of regard for others than himself. 
THE SPORTSMAN'S EXPOSITION. 
The enterprise of an exposition of sportsmen's supplies, 
appurtenances and belongings is taking shape. It will be 
held in the Madison Square Garden of this city some time 
in the early months of next year. 
An informal meeting of those interested was held last 
Monday, to discuss the forming of an association to carry 
the project through. Temporary officers were elected as 
follows: President, Charles Tatham; Secretary, Alfred 
Stetson; Executive Committee, J. A. H Dressel, F. S. 
Webster, Charles Daly, J, von Lengerke, Charles Tatham. 
A meeting for formal organization and election of officers 
will be held in this city Sept. 18. 
The affair is in the hands of responsible people, who 
will carry it through with credit to all interests concerned. 
Celia Thaxter, who died last Monday, was a poet of 
nature, She loved the wild creatures about her home on 
the Isle of v Shoals, studied their ways closely, and wrote 
of them as of familiar friends. Many of her poems re- 
late to the wildfowl, the sea birds and the shore birds. 
When the Audubon Society undertook its work, Mrs. 
Thaxter was one of the first to respond to the call, 
