352 



FOREST AND STEEAM. 



[.Tons S, 1881- 



(in, 



or i 

 wjlh 



vol; | 



Be 



Also, 



peas 



Th 



of til 



doi.u 

 ishin 

 food. 



or some lard or a few slices of bflcqru Pln.ce Ebis in oven 

 over over on top. When done, make a brown eravy 



the fat in the pan, and pour over the fish, or eat dn\ if 

 •icier. J> 



(root salad or potato salad can well be eaten with it. 



mashed or fried potatoes, and various vegetables, green 



Mesh or the < arp represents anion}!; fishes the tastiness 

 fowl amojng poultry or the pig among the meat of the. 

 tloated animal, It is savory, aromatie, and also nour- 

 tp fi degree, and carp will become a very valuable fish 



T-R' 



tide. 



of 



Aotow S 



• Rebi— Sy 



. N. Y.— 

 iken their 



I' 



i delightful trips as I enj ryeo" last we 

 makes one mourn wlien he Btorta toward a trout st 

 Central New York, to think that there are now so few of 

 them left, where the beautiful fish are. not so badgered and 

 persecuted that little attraction i9 left for the sportsman. But 

 i know ol cme little brook, fed by numerous springs, that 

 winds in the cool shades of an old wood, or tumbles over 

 shallows and under fallen trees, making innumerable favorj e 

 haunts for the wary H»lj that, not 'many years ago. fairly 

 swarmed in them. That is down in the southern portion of 

 Cortland county. Of course, the little stream is much visited, 

 but I. have never failed of a respectable catch from its pure 

 waters: Mini this year, from the thai vello'.ls backwardness of 

 (he spring, I found it hurl been teas fished than usual at this 

 sei'son. '^o much the better for me, and I passed two days 

 with friends beside its banks in the enioVment thai is known 

 only to the angler and the lover of ^Nature's peaceful 

 scenes. 



Uy the way, I made at that lime my first trial of the new 

 automatic reel, invented and made in this city by -Messrs. 

 Loomis and Plumb. Have you tried it vi-i - 1 think I have 

 seen it advertised in your columns From my limited exper- 

 ience with the new device, 1 can say nothing but good of it. 

 "Vou understand, doubtless, that the entire work of reeling in 

 the line is accomplished by a spring, and Otoe who has not 

 used the reel can hardly imagine the felicity of holdinghis rod, 

 freeing the reel of ihe brake, while au exciting con' est goes 

 on. between the fish and the spring. The least slack line is 

 impossible, and, indeed, all crank drudgery, if I uiav so term 

 it, is done away with, while the enhanced sport rjranains. 1 

 hope to hear from you an editorial expression on this topic. 



York the work of protecting tish and game is more actively 

 prosecuted, perhaps, than anywhere else in the country? So 

 vigorously have the gone constables prosecuted unla-Wfill 

 fishers, thai a wholesome tear of heavy penalties exists, which 

 must work for good. A few nets have been found in our 

 little Onondaga Lake, where those peculiar whitetish breed 

 that arc 80 much c.ovccd, while :i general warfare has opened 

 on Oneida Lake, and several arrests have been made. In 

 ibis connection the Onondaga County Sportsmen's Club has 

 done excellent work. 



(t.'od-bye for three weeks, when I hope to write you from 

 the best bass fishing grounds in the country.— Walton. 



Thout »mi Black Bass — II is not entirely tafe nowa- 

 days to recommend to sportsmen any near-by locality as 

 offering any grUst inducements in the way of trout ii-hing, 

 so diligently Lias nol Only the rod, but. the base ireesuf potf 

 fishermen been Applied to lessening the resources at streams 

 and lakes, But it U safe to say that a day's navel will not 

 take the augler to any fishing grounds win re better sport 

 maybe miraged than that still ofl'ered by the streams of 

 Ulster, Sullivan and Delaware counties, N. Y, and Pike 

 county, Pa. JJllford, Stockwater and Hawley, in the latter 

 Clbnty, ace centres from which start brOoka that still yield 

 good returns to the fly. TbeSawkill, Yamlemark, Raymonds: 

 kill. Di-yuiUns and Adams brook", near the former place; the 

 Sh>liola, Taylor's creek, Beaver brook ami West. Hope btnok, 

 iva tackawaxen; and a number of streams easily found 

 li-m lliwlev, are all good ones. First c'ass accommodations 

 in I lie wi-y of stopping places, guides, Arc, are amply pro- 

 vided. Momicillo, Callicoa, Fallsbury and Morston, in Sul- 

 livan county, am! Ellenville, in Ulster county, are likewise 

 well surrounded by trout SlrCajllt). 



Black bass fishing will open on ,)unc 1 The Delaware 

 liiver ss now acknowledged to be the favorite bass-fishing 

 water within easy reach of Mew York. Six-pounders were 

 taken at Milford, port J> i vis, Pond Eddy, Suohola, Lacka- 

 wnxen and Narrowsburg last season. It is estimated that 

 over 15,000 buss were captured with the hook and hue lie. 

 tween Milfotd arid Narrowsburg during the summer of I88fJ 

 — a distance of forty miles, liesjflea the river, there are oyer 



fifty lakes within from two to eight miles from the above 

 places, stocked with bass, which are daily resorts of lovers of 

 black bass fishing. Norrambuiy, the farthest, distant of the 

 places named, is 122 miles from New York ; Milford and Poit 

 iervls are S8 i Shohola, 107; Lackawaxen, 110, all reached 

 by convenient trains on the Erie Bailway only. 



A Gawk PliOTKOToi*. Speaks.— Ithaca, N. Y.— The con- 

 spiracies which seem to be formed in nearly all sections of 

 the State in violation and in defiance of t lie fish protecting 

 law have, I trust, been at last— if not broken up— at least 

 thwarted in their illegal aims in most, localities 



The result of my investigations last fall and winter, in 

 which 1 succeeded in bringing some well-laid schemes to 

 light, 1 was in ho))e.s would' deer such practices at least in 

 the fisheries of Cayuga Lake. Recent developments, how- 

 ever, show that the rascals are stdl at work, and also that 

 fish piracy is not confined to the lower slums of the 

 community with which the authorities have Heretofore 

 had so much trouble. Respectable, in other respecis law- 

 abiding, citizens are found to carry on the illicit business. 

 At the bead of Cayuga Lake I recently captured and confis- 

 cated two fykes, the property of 1 1 :ii vev Barker. A seine be- 

 longing to cxttame Const able Van Drool was raised in the 

 same locality. In re.-p onge to an appeal ol son: 

 the foot of the Bame lake, 1 went tli 

 igilance discovered twenty-Bevel 



scattered a 

 took posse 

 law 



e and after 



fykefl and one gill-net 

 riea which I immediately 

 The plans of th Be out- 

 .si defy detection. So 

 ■o-i.peraMou of officers and 

 ssavy to bieak them up. Their retreats 

 ■red, and their practices unearthed, and by 

 hi the part of the local officials, I trust that 

 the 'unlawful trade may be eMiugui-died, and the offenders 

 punished as i.hev deserve; 



D. B. Norton, Stale Game Constable, 



id in the vano 



l of and confiscated. 



he deep-laid and id 



general do they appear, that the. i 



citizens alike i 



arc at last disc 



proper vigilan 



Tjtotn-rNO in Ui.stkk and Dki.awaub Coctxtieh-Ncw 

 York, May 23.- JuH returned witli Mr. A. Whitney, of 

 Brooklyn, from Ulster and Delaware counties, on our annual 

 hunting expedition. We fished every day for two weeks, 

 and had it not been for the Bev. James P>eecher, a genial, 

 kind-hearted gentleman whom Mr. Whitney was well ac- 

 quainted with, we would have come home completely dis- 

 gusted. Beecher's Lake was the only place where we could 

 catch any number. .Mr. Whitney and myself caught 224, 

 and only stopped because we had enough. 'Mill Brook, I am 

 afraid, will be a failure this year; water was very low Inst 

 fall. The mink and a few iu;l fishermen look s-11 there was 

 left in the large pools. And the winter, we must, remember, 

 was very hard, the water Freezing to the bottom. Pish, I 

 am told," were frozen in. The. break-up of ice came, and' a 

 great number of trout were killed i.> being da-da-d airainsi. 

 p.; 1<:; and stones before they thawed out. They pit i ibirtj 

 thousand trout in streams at. shandakeii and Big Indian fast 

 Saturday. The people in this locality are waking 8p to the 

 laid thai it is necessary to keep fish i a -streams or city folks 

 will not come their way and leave the mighty dollar. 



We fished Furlough Lake, a lovely spot, four miles from 

 Grant Mills, and owned by Mr. Ward Do Silva, whom we 

 stopped with, and caught, only a lew. bin were satisfied that 

 il is a good place, and when Iron' lake a notion, 1 know 

 one can get all he wants. Go to Arkville on rjlstcraud Dela. 

 ware R. II.. and private conveyance lfi miles to Mr. De 

 Silva.— li. C. Wi>;\ 



Tuotrr is "Wabui.vgton TKtiiirrouY— Spokan Falls \V T 

 May 8. -Trout-fishing has begum To one 

 one-quarter and one-half pound speckled beauties, the privi- 

 lege of taking them varying from one to eight pounds seems 

 immense. Cour d'Alene and Pen d'Oreille lakes and the 

 Spokan River are full of tish, which take the lly at this 

 season very readily. I landed one weighing six "and one- 

 riuarter pounds to-day and several weighing fr.im one and a 

 half to three and a half pounds. I will write you shortly 

 about Ihe country and the manner and WaVOf getting to it.— 



Swallows and Bats Take tiik Fly— Rochester, N. Y.- 

 In your last issue you tell how .1 dm Harris, of this city, was 

 fishing for trout on Annin's preserve, Caledonia Creek, and, 

 although the fish did not take the fly well, he had the novel 

 experience of catching three swallows on his hook, the birds 

 mistaking the small artificial lly tor then- natural rood. The 

 late.Sam. Drake, of this city, one evening had bis fly taken 

 by a hat, aud to his astonished comrade explained that it was 

 probably a cherubim,— Bokkkv. 



W'cisri.KT rut Fi.y-Castixo— Providence, R. I.— In an 

 article on "Quacks and Anglers, - ' you ridicule " Galvanic 

 Wristlet.'' I would say, however, that any one who will try 

 il will find that a good silk elastic wristlet, 2^ inches wide, 

 such as can be ordered of any druggist, will prove an excel- 

 lent support to the wrist, and I for out could not cast but a 

 short lime without mine, which 1 never fail to take when go- 

 ing for a trip. Let fellow-anglers try and report success — 



"Phil." 



Tin-; Craft fob Trolling.— Ocean 

 fishing season may be Said to have > 

 this morning, six fine bass striped, t,l 

 average 8 lbs. I have fished on th 

 Shrewsbury for twenty-five years,: 

 boat that, "pleased me "so much as m; 



canoe. I recommend this canoe to all fishermen, more es- 

 pecially trollers like myself.— G. H. W. 



A Em Stkipeti Bass.— New Kochelle, N. Y.— On the 24th 

 of May Mr. Walter J. Davids caught with a hook and line, 

 using a squid for bait, a striped bass four feel two inches 

 long and weighing fifty-eight pounds: It was taken in Now 

 Rochelle harbor. Long Island Sound, in about twelve El Bt ol 

 water near the village dock.— II. W. M. 



AntRONDACK Teouting— Moira, May 24. — Trout-fishing is 

 just, splendid. Many have been up to the ponds and streams 

 and caughf big strings of them. One man caught thirty 

 pounds alone at the outlet of Meaeham Lake, fast week, 

 The boys continue to shoot the cranes nesting in the swamp 

 below here. There are are hundreds of them.— A. C 



band Lake Rtiieam Salmon, —A correspondent, G. A, 

 I',., writes, under date of May 14, that the salmon fishing 

 (Ohvertf)] at Grand Lake Stream is first rate; fish, large 

 and plcniy. 



—Anglers going from Boston to the Maine trout country 

 have a choice of routes, among them that of the Eastern 

 Railroad, which carries one through a 1 excursion rates, 

 which are noted in our advertising columns. Send to the 

 agent for an excursion list. 



!,H. J„ May 34— th 

 ■eued. I have taken 



Of the North 

 e never had u 

 Bush ton 



1 I Ju- 



no matter wliat your teelfng or aliment Is, Hop Bitters will (Jo you 

 good. Prove It. 



-The beaver is one of those 

 telligenee have been most disc 

 vier. it is well known, used to 

 periments with a beaver taken 

 ally suckled, that the adiniraty 

 preciation of certain laws of nn 

 beavers spring from a blind m 

 unrelieved by the higher facult 

 oner with branches of willo 

 culling up the peeled sic 



ofth 



h earth, pebbh 



beaver in tin 



Cu 



finals' whose instinct and in- 

 cd among naturalists. Ou- 

 monslrato by a series of ex- 

 ien quite young and arlifici- 

 mdustry and intelligent ap- 

 e evinced by the works of 

 ianlcal force— pure instinct, 

 t 'uvier fed his young pris- 

 of which it ate all the bark, 

 pieces, piling tu- 



ns building material, lie. then provided it 

 ad tree branches: thev were ail used by 

 miner peculiar to his species. "This," 

 s blind instinct 



from the trouble which ii. gave, itself, lor it needed no house." 

 Bufl'oii's argument, t.l at solitary thcugh free beavers do not 

 know how to construct, dams, is refuted by ( uviei 

 prisoner, who constructed and built Uls d I 



There are. numerous traits in Ihe beaver's activity that ap- 

 pear incompatible with the argument that only blind instinct 

 moves the little workers. To watch two beavers at work 

 gnawing down a big tret — I have seen them on several occa- 

 sions at work on cottonwoods not infrequently two and two 

 and a half leel in diameter — each worker keeping strictly lo 

 his side, the incision being made with perfect., one [ntgM Say 

 mathematical accuracy, lo bring the tree in its final plunge to 

 the very spot they want it. athwart a creek, or, as an addi- 



tional protection to their dam, a foot or two on the upper 

 side of it, where the danger from the swift current is great- 

 est, is a sight which will probably convince even the most 

 unbelieving, An experiment made on several different occa- 

 sions by me I ells its own tale. 



Coining in the course of my rambles upon quite fresh 

 beaver work, say a moderately big cottonwood tree five or 

 six inches in diameter, standing on' a. slope, and already cut 

 through by them, I would pui my shoulder to it, and, if pos- 

 sible, break it down, so that it fell up the slope in a direction 

 opposite to that, which the heaver evidently intended. Vis- 

 iting the spot, ihe next day, or two days afterward, the tree 

 was invariably lugged round, with the top downhill or 

 athwart Ha- little creek, the foundation work probably of a 

 new dam.- London ffield. 



S§h Xttifure. 



THE CODFISH. 



togetliei 



lion of r 



"Tho 



9pe 



ilitiiiqii 



iat of the I 

 i Fisheries, under tl 

 / Jimnl. has led t 

 Jfonsaj different point 

 been given to the stud 

 pose of gathering del 

 past and present, their 

 Of lato the commercial 

 great ocean fisheries, t 

 aro continually arising 

 northern neighbor re*; 

 particular atten 

 thoroughly acquainted, not 

 these specie?, but also the 

 the extent and n.onov-valii 



"With tin* end in view, h 

 suitable location for the .1 

 osKistants early in July, am 

 subject." 



"The. late James W. Mil 

 in the fall to takn charge c 

 Clark 



of Coni- 

 ■tates. «'6 

 dorvand 

 a, Mass., 

 prdpaga- 



esof the 

 lissioii at 

 ter, Prof. 

 iraiT sta- 



. to tlii 



mg tl 



e coaat, w 





ii" ■■; I- ;e.ion has 



the i 



lore impel 





v -. roithepnr- 



i-.i'i 



neat diatr 

 vittl the cc 



■It Ml- 



re.auvo inmi.j-i-rs 

 jnd thek habits, 

 it l-o Htjled the 

 ed quiMtiouR that 



„ui..i 



im, has It 

 let. wall a 



i'lVde 

 viesv K 



nit aim oar more 

 H,ir Baird to give 



i onlj 



■ aed' 



with the 



lalntsa 



:■;'..■ "■ t,tn :.l 



heir oaptmee and 



1 at 1 



■ac'iy^' 



Tli'eYn 



fasg., astb most 



i' .-d n ith his 



estlgationofthe 



ed - 



.riy 



nana 



toon after to 



Mr. Milner 



obliged to rota 



.. . A little later Air, 

 look after tho interest* of the Oomm: 

 Oapt. n. C. Chester sinieriutended the' 

 the rcmauidi i 



"A4-iucti pipe was hud from the hate 

 harbor at the oud of the Wharf, ami hdj 

 Tho outer end of tljir pipa -.. . . 

 aud inea-e 1 m a hnx. with nire-oloth 

 iiuiiual life of the luub.ai-. The inner er 

 300-gallon tanks, placed in an tlevatei 

 the room, to be used as i-«hfivoirS for tl 

 tpped t 



nerimontK, and Mr. Prank H. 

 hoemplovol' the Conmiinaioii. 

 tend the work luthohatchiug- 

 •nough to eeo the preliminary 



position aud the first Bggs 



to Washington 



called away to 

 in another State, and 

 i the hatchery during 



pom ton peintintbe 

 OW lew-Wfttei' murk. 

 e i" - ■■!' ihe wharf. 



wails 



short iutei 



jath by amallor pipes 



t the building, at a height of i 



•its. to. 



whie 



aided 

 , with 

 iedto 



nip that brought 

 'laiHtant stream, 



: and 187 I 75, p. 3V.) 



put uu alone; the 



with tho faueels I 



lb. i failure of Ihe 

 -. twisted tube at 

 aseeiideil, whilo t 

 ' at abo 



i, thn 







ie with the 

 egging the 

 Itet and a 



the water froi 



the i ] i - -H ri 1 1 1 -.- i 



It was of co 



cessfuuy used 

 hatched; and 

 those in ohaw 

 aflhosive, the 



nHsaiushadl 

 otFish aiidF 

 as likelv to gi 

 hatching-roos 

 tubing." 



After recort 

 verted cone w 

 spiral motion 

 a circle surrov 

 sides of tho ei. 

 screens. Of Clark's hate] 

 li;d-Iie;-. of Mr. Earil's 3es 

 in the water, he Baj - 



" Captain Chester was at. this time i 

 shonld not only give a certain ohangi 

 tiahy keep the sediment from the eggt 

 as the Chester bucket. It eonsista of 

 diameter and 21 inehea deep, with foui 

 V. t niches wide, extending from near t 

 of the top. These and the bottom of i 

 wire-cloth to prevent the eggs Rcom 

 entering. 



"On the outside of the cylinder, air, 

 ing, are placed stripa or pooUets of no, 

 and extending partially over the oper 

 pockets face in opposite direction.-.. _ 5 

 axis tke water ie forced in at the two i 

 the others. 



" Beneath the wire-cloth bottom are four more strips of tin. 

 radiating from the centre, and placed at snch an angle that the 

 rotation of the cylinder forces the water against them, and up 

 tfttrouj.h ueailv lillcd 

 ith that the 



the inflow. 

 u.cn of the 

 >x, the Pergni 

 , through the 



levising 



• to Ihe 



pparatns which 

 a- but alsr par- 

 Hiatus is known 

 der 18 inches in 



openings, each 

 . within 5 inches 



re covered with 



ntlier open- 

 h the tide, 

 ie adjacent 

 itates on its 

 i and out at 



through the u 

 nith eonetant 

 water i 

 being applied f 



uilv 



led to its 



forth through 

 and giving the egga a tei 

 "\Vhen thia apparatus 

 give good results, the 

 troughs placed along the 

 Chester tsucketjB, and fr ■ 

 condncted with a fair i 

 water, the modified clarl 

 might give excellent rest 

 credit of having p.nlialh 

 inventing the th-ht appar, 



■idea of the hatcfcii 

 ■ ttdsdate the hati 



cd for the develoi 



1th of each out- 



placed in a buo 

 thought, to con 

 placed in a lioo 

 iiarbor. The i 

 places averagei 



rot, the power 

 to n horizontal 



ning back and 

 rater changing 



,'and found to 



a apparatus 

 lelougs the 

 ties, and at 

 ing flcating 



of the ood- 

 jatly, being 



ding water 



i out aud 

 red in the 

 a the two 



