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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[Mabch 3, 1881 



■ Lutein 



vale-hod, but 

 ihso. In the 

 wilh the Stab 

 and here with 

 beauties" (pardon tl 

 eighteen months old. 

 Seeing was t 



every fish over half a pound was captured. I was there in 

 September last and found that they were malting prepara- 

 tions for netting many pit the best accessible lakes. Lake. 

 Oarplua lias been quite celebrated for its large fish, and has 

 been a favorite resort for many Vermont anglers, Senator 

 Mdinond.s among others, and 1 found that the poachers were 

 preparing to skin it. S. W. GooiutiooK. 



EROOK TKOUT IN &CT3A3SA COUNTY, MICHIGAN. 



[Read hy u o. Kulherford before the Michigan Sportsmen's Asso- 

 elation.] 



DURING the winter of IS77, I,. (A. Rutherford, of Hart, 

 opened n correspondence with J. G. Portruau, of 

 Walervliet, upon the subject of trout growing in Michigan, 

 whitihrcsidte.it in the purchase of a few thousand from (he 

 hatchery of the last named gentleman by a few of the citizens 

 ot Hart, Owing to an accident to Mr. Portmau, the fry 

 were forwarded to Hart in the care of another, and when thev 

 arrived fully one-half were found to be dead, and the bal- 

 ance of them were not to good condition. They were, how- 

 ever, planted in four different streams. This was a mistake. 

 I'.xperience has shown that one plant in large numbers is far 

 better than to divide it up into many small ones. Every one 

 of the plants have been heard from, "but in two instances thev 

 are known to have thriven beyond the most sanguine expecta- 

 tions of those interested. Last, spring (1880) two members of 

 the Hart Club discovered in the largest stream in which they 

 bad planted young fry, showing unmistakably that the trout 

 had not only thriven but had begun to propagate their 

 ipecies. The results of the first plants were carefully 

 more were planted until the spring o"f 

 15 " ic Mr. Portmau had become identified 

 y, accepted an invitation to visit Hart, 

 n eyes beheld one of the "speckled 

 term, but I know of none better) only 

 vhich measured nine inches in length. 

 . , and to believe was to furnish the club 

 with ten thousand fry from the State hatchery. These the 

 club received at New Buffalo, and by dint of unceasing care 

 they wore safely deposited in their new home inOceana. We 

 were yet experimenting and, as usual, the plant was divided 

 and thirteen different streams were honored with their pres- 

 ence. Another mistake was also made in several instancus- 

 l.he try were placed at the head of very small streams and 

 when the winter closed in they had not grown to more than 

 half the length of those in streams where there is a strong 

 volume of water, with holes of one or more feet, in depth. 

 We are forced to the conclusion that iu the smaller brooks 

 the fish cannot pass up and down with I he same ease and 

 consequently do not obtain the same amount, of nourishment. 

 In seven of the places of the last Plant we know thai the re- 

 sult is all that could hi' desired, and we have heard satisfac- 

 tory accounts from two others. In some instances no fish 

 have been seen. Two of the streams in November last, ex- 

 hibited fish four inches in length : they were only eight 

 months old. 



We are of the opinion that trout will flourish in nearly all 

 the streams north of (band River, unless such as are fed In- 

 takes, in which case tile water becomes too warm in summer 

 and it may be ton cold iu winter to suit their dainty tastes 

 Tli,' people of Oeeaua County generally are becomimr deeply 

 interested in this subject and arc giving the club su'b.-lant'uil 

 assistance. There arc, however, a few whom we will Call 

 "pot-hunters" who think it cunning to steal from the 

 streams, thinking that they arc thereby too smart for the 

 club. 



On the question of legislation, we think the law for the 

 protection of game and (ish should lie more stringent. Borne 

 people need to in: punished by imprisonment, as the payment 

 of a fine is no disgrace, but while a discretion is left with the 

 justice of the peace no one will ever go to jail for the viola- 

 tion of Ihi' game law. 



All of the larger si reams of Oceana County formerly 

 abounded with grayling, bill (here is now none seen save in 

 mil! branch of Peutwater River, which runs through Hail. 

 They have been driven from the other hy the use of dams for 

 Hooding iu driving log;. This one stream shall not be sacri- 

 ficed if in the power of the club to prevent. Many are caught 

 every year, but the supply does net perceptibly diminish, 

 and it is noticeable that more small uravling hive been seen 

 last year than ever before. As to the vexed' question, "When 

 do grayling spawn ?" we are not prepared to give any posi- 

 tive information. This, though, we do know, that they were 

 taken every month of the last season with spawn iu every 

 stage of development. 



TIIK COLORADO COMMISSION. 



lb: 



IK, Colorado. Feb. 11. 

 of four bills passed I 



HEREWITH I hand you cot 

 Our Legislative Assembly 

 yesterday, pertaining to iish and fish culture. The measures 

 provoked a most .stubborn opposition and were carried 

 through only l.v per-istent work. They embody really the 

 first effective laws we have ever lad upon the. subject, and 

 make the first decent appropriations which will enable a 

 start in the right direction. 



W. K. Sisty was reappointed Fish Commissioner, as he de- 

 served to be." The passage of the fish bills was due almost 

 entirely to his eltorts. Respectfully, W. N. B. 



The following are Ihc main pouts iu the bills: 



|i shall be the duly of the Governor, immediately upon the 

 taking cll'eet of this act. ami every second year thereafter, by 

 and with tin advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint a 

 person skilled in tish culture and the habits and nature of 

 food fishes, to he .state Pish Commissioner, and who shall 

 hold his office for the term of two years. And said Commis- 

 sioner shall give bond in the sum of five thousand dollars, 

 c mditioncd for the failhful performance of his duties. Said 

 Commissioner shall have supervision id all fisheultural mat- 

 ters of a public: nature and shall receive and provide for the 

 proper 'are and distribution of such food fishes or ova of the 

 same as shall come into the possession of the Slate. He 

 shall determine the necessity for lishways, the location, form 

 ami capacity I hereof, directing their construction and main- 

 tenance. He shall furnish to any person, association or cor- 

 poration owning any lake or reservoir as private property, 

 such stock of fish as they may desire for the purpose of stock- 

 ing such lake or reservoir at the actual cost thereof. The 

 coat thereof to be determined by .-aid Commissioner, All 

 moneys received by the Pish Commissioner from sales of tish 

 as aforesaid shall he returned by liiiu to the State Treasurer 

 to the credit of the general revenue fuud of the State. 



Said Commissioner shall receive a salary of five hundred 



dollars per annum and all expenses actually disbursed by him 

 while necessarily engaged in the service of the State, which 

 said sum so paid for his expenses shall not exceed the sum of 

 five hundred dollars per aonum. The Commissioner shall 

 have power to appoint deputy commissioners throughout the 

 State and remove the same at his pleasure, who shall have 

 full power and authority to enforce the fish laws of this State 

 and prosecute any violators of the same, but such deputy 

 commissioner shall serve without compensation from the 

 State, All accounts under this act to be approved by the 

 Governor. 



The sum of four thousand dollars is hereby appropriated 

 for the purpose of paying the salary and necessary expenses 

 of the State Commissioner during the year commencing July 

 1, 1881, and ending June 30, 1882, in performing the duties 

 required of him by law in relation to the propagation and 

 preservation of food fishes, which sum the State Treasurer 

 shall, from time to time, pay to the said Commissioner on 

 the warrant of the Auditor, as vouchers therefor shall be duly 

 exhibited to said Auditor and approved by the Governor. 



See i ion 2. The further sum of thirty-five hundred dollars 

 is hereby appropriated for the above purposes for the year 

 commencing July 1, 1882, and ending June 30, 1883, to bo 

 audited, paid and allowed in like manner. 



Suction 1. It shall bo the duty of the Governor, withiu 

 thirty days after the passage of this act, to appoint a suitable 

 person, resident of this State, who, with the Governor and 

 Pish Commissioner, shall constitute a board, whose duty it 

 shall be to select and purchase a suitable location for a State 

 establishment for the breeding and propagation of the better 

 class of food fishes adap'ed to the waters of this State and to 

 erect thereon suitable buildings for said purpose at as early a 

 date as possible, 



Answers fa (^orresgondsnts. 



K. B, 0., Homers.— tOt result nt Carver SCOW match see last Issue 



'. Hi:.- :i;i icr. 



•I. W, W., Boston.— The license fee fur non-residents slioollnfr In 

 Nova Srorta Is $50. 



S. A. M , Saginaw,— Prices ot Kemp's hooks have advanced. Exact 

 figures in a few (lays. 



J. P. F., Alta, Iowa —The process you rerer to is probably the hec- 

 tograph, which IS for sale by — 



W. B. 



C. I)., 



, aim 



i. N, V.— VI 



ling of Hie rifle, 

 s not a repeater 

 re of good make 

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■l. II. M., East Sflgl 

 length of Inrrel and wi 

 Ciiy? Alls, Iiliuchl 

 light pull. 



A 1). K, Hvlhginii, 

 robins and a blue bird, 

 btrrtsas in- Bonn as 



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or i in i i'c barrel ni 



Sep I'okkst isn Sthe.u 

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.i Is tisi a in the principal galleries ol your 

 rel, meal., generally Steven, mala-, ren 



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kind ol earpelliigs, nil cloths, nigs, etc., ele., can he sure of fair Meat, 

 mewl at the hands ot 70 in H. Play, Bona & Co., Bjistbn. call or cor- 

 respond with them, and get then prices before, bujlng. It win pay 

 you to try them.— [Adv. 



ivhlili. like all I he FOBS 



eiiairdng le.idmg. Mr. 



Dptuegrovea Mchoilan, Valparaiso, lad. 

 from Rheumatism. Kidney trouble or any 



10,1 new by 11-iie.; Hop hitters Ire Iv. 



t hip. advertisement or .1. Palmer O'Nell, 



a xn Stis.ka.Ws .a Hen Is.. 11 i.' ni., I a raid, iseu- 

 I'Nell'S notice will interest in 



lillidi Iphla. 



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 luadi ■; and In itiem may be 1'Oliad UlG Slllidest Kind Of Olid corniort. 

 -No t aniily circle is complete without them. 



KErOBT OP THE MAINE COMMISSION. 



r piIE report of the Commissioners of Fisheries and Game of tho 

 <*- State of Maine, for the year 1SS0, has boon received and we 

 have made some extracts from' it, in a former number, relating to 

 the game. They report thu t the result, of the year's w ork haB been 

 satisfactory anil an unusual amount of work done. Four large 

 and important nshways have been built on the Penobscot and its 

 tributary branch, the Mattawamkcae. Two have been built on 

 the Kennebec, 0110 at Augusta and one at Watervillo. and one ou 

 the Androscoggin, at Brunswick, where no salmon have been seen 

 above the dam since its erection one hundred years ago. 



.Shad were placed in the Kennebec, and Penobscot and half a mil- 

 lion of whiterish eggs have been received from the U. S. F. C. 



The Commissioners disclaim having more to do with the sport- 

 ing Hide of fish mid K »nic than the fanners have, their duties being 

 to produce food, yet since their appointment there has been an in- 

 crease Of iish which has drawn anglers into the .State who have, 

 left, more money behind them than the value of the Iish takeu, to 

 which they refer as follows : " For tho importance of this travel, 

 its gold-hearing results as compared to our mines, and to our 

 other industrial resources, we must refer vou to om- hotel keepers 

 and our railroad superintendents." 



The run of salmon in tho Penobscot in 187!) was larger than for 

 many years, but the mn of J 880 was larger, .1 fact attributed to 

 artificial culture by Mr. James M. Treat, of Stockton, who owns 

 the large Balmou fisheries at Cape Jellison. There has been a 

 large return of salmon to tho Mattawamkeag, where [they have 

 been shut out for many years, which goes some way toward prov- 

 ing that the fish return to their place of planting, and the Com- 

 missioners, to confirm this, quote from an article by Prof. Henry 

 Youlo Hind on " the egg of the salmon," written for Fours r A,\i> 

 S'liiEAvrin the number for October 7. 1880. 



Salmon have taken the fly on the Penobscot and the Wassatta- 

 quoik, ui spite ol stories afloat that they would not. tho com- 

 missioners having so taken as many as toil in 0110 afternoon. A 

 hotel at the Hunt farm is alreadv 1 in rjeoted and a rush of anglere 

 is predicted over tho railroads to Mftttj&wain&aag and the East 

 branch of the Penobscot, Tho success of salmon restoration is 

 now beyond all cavil an accepted fact, as much as wheat, culture, 

 or any other food product and they say that they eau never again 

 trust to tho natural production of the iish fields for salmon or 

 trout crops. 



Theic dividend of salmon eggs, this year, from Orland, wUl bo 

 330,000, to which Prof. Baird has added 250,0(10, making 580,000. 

 Dividend of land-locked salmon eggs from lirandLnkp stream, is 

 120,000, and thev are promised l.OOO.OOO voung shad for thu 

 Kenueboe and Penobscot, odd, 01 in Michigan 'whiteiish egfjs, nor 

 Kaugeley,) and 50,000 California trout, iSalnui o-ii/co 1 They re- 

 quire a hatching house for the Penobscot, at either Mattawam- 

 keag, Bancroft or Danf'orth. The salmon eggs this year will ho 

 hatched at Bangor, from necessilv. the temperature of tho water 

 at Orland being so high that the tish would he ready fur distribu- 

 tion before the ice was out of the streams. A hatching house has 

 been extemporized at flaneur, in a store on Broad sir. or e.iic" tie- 

 Holly water in the. troughs. ' For the Kennels,, the gafjnou egga 

 will he hatched at the house built for and owned by the Ivinco 

 Bouse- proprietors. Tho total number of fish eggs to be hatehod 

 in Maine this winter will he about. 2,000,000. 



Several hundred salmon taken at Bueksport for purposes of pro- • 

 pagationhave been labelled with platinum tags affixed to the dor- 

 sal tin, a record of each of these salmon lias' been kept, and each 

 tag has a reference number. 



Any one obtaining possession or knowledge, of anv of those 

 marked salmon at any future time i» nquested to send the tag to 

 the Commissionern, or to Q, O. Atkins, F.si|., Bueksport. with such 

 account of it as mav bo possible, and it is hoped bv yearly marking 

 all the ailnll salmon caught and liberated in the 'Penobscot Bivtr 

 to learn more of their habits. 



Besides their desire to obtain a report of everv marked salmon 

 that may be caught in the future, they wish i.speciallv that, when- 

 ever possible, some of these salmon liiav be dclin n d •• ... p. Mi, 

 C. II. Atkins, at Bueksport, to bo placed' in the bleeding esiahji-h. 

 mout at Orland. An extra price will ho paid for those Iish, 



A TEBIIAI'IJ) FARM. 



A FF,W days ago an article clipped from a Washington paper 

 JV appeared in the Reinslvr* giving B description of Senator 

 Dennis's terrapin farm in Maryland, As we have somclhiiig of the. 

 nort to boast of iu the neighborhood of Mobil-, it mav not be 

 amiss to give mir readers a description of. Air. Mujford Dorlon's 

 gre.it terrapin farm at Cedar Point. This projection of land is on 

 the western shore of Mobile Pay. about thirty miles below lliifl 

 oily, and is inhabited prtueipallv bv ovstermen who leap eoldeu 

 harvests from the many beds which furnish nearly ovary oyster 

 brought to the port of Mobile. Mr. Dorlon, who keeps a 'store at 

 this point, has about three acres fenced in with atrong pilings. 

 Lending to this iuclosnre are two canals, one on the bav side and 

 the other on the gulf side, which aupplv with salt water a number 

 of ditches ten feet wide and 100 feet loiig. Tho sand accumulating 

 from tbo excavation of these ditches is thrown on each sido. and 

 lined by the terrapin to ami themselves and lay their eggs in, 

 Which, if counted, would go up in the millions, and can be raked 

 up by the. bushel. Iu the winter season the terrapins remain im- 

 bedded in the mud of the ditches where they stay until spring 

 time, never touching a morsel of food. A Mvtem of sluices en- 

 nblcs Mr. Dorlon to keep the ditches full of salt water, or drain 

 them at pleasure, and ho is not at all dependent on the tido. 



The number of terrapins on the farm, a* can be ascertained and 

 by tho closest calculation, is botwoen 20,000 and 25,000, ami in the 

 course of the next three or font > ears will be something hard to 

 calculate. About MaytMr.Dorionmakcsbispurc.ha.se of terra- 

 pins from the coimtrv people of the Missi.- 

 all he can secure al4:i a do/.en. and that g< 

 8,000 a year added to Ins farm, outside of tli 

 inhabitants of Mississippi and Alabama ' 



the doi 



ni-. 



r that purpose. The dog bail 

 immediately secures it by go: 



lg to the spot where 



ding tho terrapins, which, aa we have said, in only 

 done in tho summer, is about >l per dozen for the season, and the 

 price per dozen in New York haB varied from SIS to -j.S. The 

 food, which consists of crabs and tish, is caught with a soino, iu 

 front of tho farm, and really very little expense is attached !•• the 

 raising of these valuable land tortoises. Mr. Dorlon begin- to 

 ship about Oct. 1, and then on to about May 10. He. generally 



aid thence to New York hv'steau: 

 1. and, had it not been for 11 diMisl- 

 me ago waahed nut Mr. Dorlon's 

 greatest terrapin farm in ihe world. 

 ;et, for there is a ready market for 

 1 Holder. 



nco where a I'nited Stabs Senator 

 later Dennis, of Maryland, as my 



ads hia to Savannah by 

 averaging about 12.000 a 

 runs hnrrienne, which m 

 rami, it would be to-da 

 He call alwavs .diip all hi 

 thessc delicacies.— Mobile 



I have just beard of ai 

 is supported by torrapi: 



information goes, has about twcl 



pond that is fed by aalt water. This pond makes 1 



pin farm probably in the world, and is the Hourct 



come. In it terrapins arc raised for Ihe market. » 



over 12,000 "counts" have been sold from it in 



be noted, for tho benefit of the uninitiated, that 



torrapinovor seven inches iu length, and that '• counts" are Sold 



by number, bringing from *10 to •;i4 a dozen, or about -^1 each. 



In mnrkct they retail for about *20 a doz-m, aud in I ho fashionable 



restaurants are seivedat *1.50 a plate, one terrapin filling about 



three plates. Smaller terrapins are sold at lower figures, but all 



bring good figures, aud are "diamond" hacks in fact as well as in 



name. There are several terrapin ponds iu Muyland, ana they 



grow iu importance as " terrapin stew, Maryland Btyle,' 



ing more and more popular among high livers.— Atlanta, (.Ka.,) 



Constilidwn. 



ml thai 

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