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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[Jtot 7, 1881. 



end. make an excellent reel for taking up the line fast, but 

 the great trouble with them is that the" line will run off and 

 get caught somewhere. So in trjiug- to devise a plan to 

 deviate that i rouble, I hit upon the simple one of taking a 

 ipieee. of rather stiff, strong wire, and running it through 

 •the rod, bend it in the form of a. loop over the icel; then 

 when the bolt, has been put through the pole, place the 

 small ring at the end of the wire, over the bolt, and screw 

 the nut down tight on it; that makes the win; lay close to 

 the pole aud brings the large loop of the wire through which 

 the line is to run directly over the reel, but of course it 

 should not quite touch it, and it is thus secured firmly. Now, 

 when used, the line is bourn! to run on the reel, and if by 

 chance slack line gets off, it can be prevented from getting 

 in between the pole and reel by putting a short pin or screw 

 of some kind in the pole at each side of the reel, close to but 

 not quite touching it. Thus, you see, when the wire at tach- 

 auent is used in connection with the reel, it makes a cheap 

 and very good one.— T. A. Lhstkb. 



TO DRIVE AWAY MOSQUITOES. 



"Nepessiquit River, Bathurst, N. B.— I notice in your 

 issue of June 33d, which was forwarded lo me here, some 

 fine desires to know what will prevent mosquitoes biting. 

 Now I have in my camping experience of many years tried a 

 ■dozen presci iptions, finding none of them sure until I came 

 across the following i 



3 oz. Sweet oil, 



1 oz. Carbolic acid. 

 This will swely prevent black flies, mosquitoes, and moose 

 flies from troubling you every time. Let it bn thoroughly 

 applied upon hands, "race, and all exposed parts (rarefully 

 avoiding the eyes) once every half hour, wheu the flies are 

 troublesome, or for the first two or three days, until the skin 

 is filled with it, and after this its application will be necessary 

 only occasionally. Another receipt, equally as efficacious, is -. 



fi parts Sweet oil, 



1 part Creosote, 



1 part Pennyroyal. 

 Either of these are agreeable to use, and in no way injuri- 

 ous to the skin. We have both of these in our camp with 

 us, and all flies keep a safe distance. 



I have with me here upon ray salmon preserve Messrs. 

 Henry and E. Pope Sampson, of New York, and wc are hav- 

 ing fair sport, yet nothing like this part of the rnsguiflceul 

 Salmon River formerly afforded, for the simple reason that 

 the Government does not properly guard it. Yet we hope to 

 take the necessary steps soon to give it the most complete 

 protection, all it needs to make it one of the best in the 

 Dominion. Ivebs W. Adams. 



Tennessee— Nashville, June 28.— From all sections of the 

 State come notices of associations being formed to enforce 

 the protection laws, also of the perceptible increase in the 

 quantity of fish at present in the different streams. Large 

 creels are of common occurrence even in the Cumberland, 

 and the fish in many instances are unusually large. There 

 is a perfect rage on the part of the farmers for fish ponds, 

 and I hear of them being built everywhere. Carp, and game 

 fish have both their patrons, and the private propagation 

 will, therefore, be about equally divided of the two varieties. 

 Co). Geo. P. Akers and a party of five or six intend making 

 an extended visit to "Sycamore," here bass and black perch 

 arc said to be found in" great r umbers and of a size before 

 unknown. C. Hillman, F. Furman, Edgar Jon s, Ed. 

 Hicks, and the two Mr. Thompsons, composing the Wiscon- 

 sin Angling Club, returned this week from their aunual 

 excursion to the Wisconsin lakes.— J. D. H. 



Salmon in Canada.— Rkstigoitohe, July 1st.— But few 

 trout or salmon are being taken here now, although the first 

 week the fishermen put in their nets the catch of salmon 

 was very large. Those taken in the Bay Chaleur would 

 average, so 1 am informed by those who claim to know, 

 twenty-six pounds each. The system that our Canadian 

 Government is pursuiug in leasing our salmon rivers to a 

 few individuals is wrong, and smacks too much of the old 

 feudal times when privileges were only allowed to a few. 

 By doing away with the present system of leasing these 

 rivers and making them open waters to all sportsmen, charg- 

 ing one dollar a" day to each rod, the Government would 

 increase its revenuesderived from this source twenty per cent, 

 or over, saying nothing of the benefits that this country would 

 be sure to receive from the great influx of sportsmen that this 

 would bring here. You will hear more of thiB later. 



Stanstead. 



Pennsylvania TKormse.— I was unable to go up into 

 Maine at I had hoped, aud I had to content myself with near- 

 er spots where the fishing was not sufficiently good to be an 

 object. I spent ten days in the neighborhood of Water Gap, 

 Avery ville and Caudensis, Monroe County, Pa., but only 

 fiBhed two days out of this time. More beautiful streams for 

 trout than there are in these places I have never seen, but 

 they had been all much fished early in the season, and this 

 coupled with the fact they were very high rapid from the in- 

 cessant rains of the previous week made the sport poor.— H. 

 O. 



More Than He Could Digest.— The Hartford, Conn., 

 Times tells the following : "Mr. R. L. Hungerford, of the 

 firm of Williams & Hungerford, while fishing yesterday af- 

 ternoon caught a very large bull-frog, which was evidently 

 Buffering from indigestion* Mr. Huugerford cut the frog 

 open to ascertain the cause and was surprised to find in its 

 stomach a mud turtle nearly two inches long, alive and kick- 

 ing. He brought, the turtle home and to-day it was quite 

 lively in the aquarium in the drug store of the firm." 



The Rods Used at tub Tournament— New York, July 

 3.— I notice in your report of the Fly-Casting Tournament 

 that, with the exception of Mr. Pritchard and Mr. Kryan, 

 the Nichols split bamboo were the rods used. Please add 

 that Mr. Endicott used a split bamboo of his own make, and 

 I one of Conroy's hexagonal split bamboo rods— a rod I 

 have reed over two years, and during which lime it. has 

 caught very many black bass and trout.— W. Holberton. 



Faekau's Rangeley andMooseiiead guide books are very 

 useful compilations of practical information for visitors to 

 these renowned sporting regions. If you are going there do 

 not fail to procure these books of Mr. Farrar. See the ad- 

 verti ement elsewhere. 



Elk Rapids, Mich, ie go much of a fishing place that the 



local paper, the Traverse Bay Progress, chronicles the catch 

 in a whole column of Heine. B;is=, perch and irout are the 

 fish, and the anglers come from all parls of the country to 

 enjoy the sport. 



Wateh-peoof Ferrules.— A new ferrule is advertised in 

 our columns as being water-proof, and therefore it is claimed 

 that the rods on which it is used are more durable in conse- 

 quence. We therefore call attention to the advertisement of 

 William Mills & Son in our issue of to day, in which great 

 lasting qualities are said to be inherent in iods which have 

 this style of ferule. 



The Knell ok the Gkayling. — We read in Ohtff, of De- 

 troit, that "Grayling are being caught in immense num- 

 bers in Northern Michigan, and quantities arrive in Detroit 

 daily. They are delicious eating, and are considered by 

 many better than brook trout. 



Ironwood for Rods. — Hornbeam, or ironwood, is tough, 

 and our correspondent '' Kingfisher" tells in another column 

 how he tried a rod of this wood most severely on Intermedi- 

 ate Lake, Michigan. 



California Teodting.— Allen Springs, Lake County, is 

 said to be an excellent fronting centre. There are good 

 hotel accommodations there. 



Good Ground.— The fishing at Good Ground, Long Island, 

 is said to be good just now. Big flounders, bluefish and 

 striped bass lire the fish to he caught there. Lane's house 

 opened last Saturday. 



Ccttyiiunk: — Bass running 44 to 74 lbs.; two taken June 

 11; water cold; fish not running full yet. More anon.- 



EZEKIEI.. 



Half a Loaf is better than no loaf— as the hoy said when 

 he got half a day off to go fishing. 



gi§h gnliwe. 



BEPOBT OF THE NEW HAMPSHIRE COMMISSION'. 



r PHE New Hampshire Fish Commission report sent to the June 

 -■- session of the Legislature, 1881, records another successful 

 year, although the unprecedented drouth of the paBt summer 

 seriously interfered with the return of the salmon to the head- 

 waters of the Merrimac Biver. Large numbers of salmon entered 

 the river in June, and by the 9th of July the Commission had cap- 

 tured nineteen, weighing from ten to eighteen pounds each, at the 

 hatching house at Plymouth. After that date the water was so 

 low that no more we're taken until Oct. 2, when two more wore 

 eaptured. 



In referring to the "anomalies iu the ran of salmon, and all 

 other migratory fish, for which science ie yet entirely unable to 

 account," the report, cites some well-known facta, hut advances no 

 new theory. It quotes the report of the State hatching house at 

 Plymouth; N. H., to E. A. Bracket*, Commissi >uer of Inland Fish- 

 eries for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In this Mr. 

 Powers gives the following as the number of eggs from nine dif- 

 ferent salmon : Oct. 23. one fish. 10,000 eggs : Oct. 21, three fish, 

 19,000; Oct, 26, two rit.li, 13,000 ; Oct. 31, two fidt, 12,000; Nov. 2, 

 one fish, 6,000 ; total from nine fish, 60,000 eggs. The report of 

 the Superintendent of the Lawrence Fishway, which follows, we 

 gave in our review of the report of the Massachusetts Commia- 



The saibling (Salmo salvdinus), 50,000 eggs of which were sent 

 by the Deutsche Fiseherie Ve.roin to Ptof. Baird and by him to the 

 New Hampshire Commission, were received with a loss of only 

 5,000 eggs from Germany, and were hatched. After correspond- 

 ence with Prof. Band on the subject of the tastes and habits of 

 these strangers, ir was decided to plant them in Newfound Lake, 

 which, from its depth and clear, cold i\ater, seemed to he the 

 proper place, as well as its freedom from predatory fishes. Prof. 

 G, Brown Goode's paper on this fish, prepared for Forest and 

 Stream, is given at length, and covers the ground of thoir rela- 

 tionships and habits. 



Of brook trout 200.000 eggs were taken, and half sent to Massa- 

 chusetts and the remainder batched h?re to be delivered at the 

 hatchery to those applying for them for public waters. Ol the 

 "Wininpesaukee Whitehall,'' or " shad-waitor " (Prosopium qttad- 

 rilateralis), 60,000 eggs were taken and evenly divided with Massa- 

 chusetts. The Commissioners truly remark that in all plantings 

 the larger the plant is the more likeli il is is> be successful, Laud- 

 locked salmon have been seen jumping for dies in lakes where 

 none existed before thoir introduction. Black bass have been 

 taken in Winnipesankee in great numbers, and " the Merrimac 

 and Connecticut rivers are now fidl of them." 



The "Growth of Carp in America," by Mr. Fred Mather, as 

 read before the Central Fishcultunil Society, is given in full, arid 

 an extract from the report of the Massachusetts Fish Commission 

 on the carp, in which Dr. Budolph nesael is quoted, is given. 

 The fish way at Amoskcag Falls was unsatisfactory, and the right 

 for the "Braekett way" bought and will be introduced into the 

 waters of the State. Oue has been built at Fis'herville by the 

 Contoocook Manufacturing Company, and a similar one at HillB- 

 borongh Bridge. 



Tho paper on "Breeding California. Salmon in Fresh Water," by 

 N, K. Fairhank, read before the Central Fishcultural Society, is 

 given m full, and then come reports _on the game, which we will 

 review in another column at a future time. The report as a whole 

 is very creditable, and Bhows that New Hampshire has a live Fish 

 and Game Commission. 



BEPOBT OF THE NEBBASKA COMMISSION. 



THE second annual report of the Fish Commissioners of Nebras- 

 ka, for the year 1880, calls attention to the fact that Mr. N. 

 K. Fairbank has bred tho quinuat salmon iu the fresh waters of 

 Geneva Lake, Wis. Dr. Livingston, of the Nubraska Commission, 

 also relates how a gentleman from Weston, Iowa, caught two of 

 theso fish in one of the branches of the Nisheuabotuue Biver, 

 below the town of Bed Oak. Iowa, in the fall of 1870, one of which 

 weighed eight and the other eleven pounds. Some salmon of this 

 species were planted in Nebraska in 1880, and the Commissioners 

 prophecy their return in four years thereafter. 



Their appropriation was not large enough to afford any means 

 for trial of the land-locked salmon, which they thmk would thrive 

 in their lakes. One hundred and thirty-live German carp were 

 received from Prof. Baird, and they have been retained for breed- 

 ers instead of distributing them. The appropriation given to the 

 Commissioners to work with is small, and has Imsu largely used to 

 build hatcheries and ponds which will help them in future, but has 

 left little margin for work this year, Mneb of their hatching was 

 dono by Messrs, Bommo and Docker, at South Bend, at a nominal 



In letters to the Board, Mr. J. ('. McBride, Pres. Nebraska 

 Sportsmen's Association, writes that salmon have been seen — 

 streams, and that a good-sized eel was for 

 Lincoln recently which no doubt came fron 

 in the Elkhorn Biver a few years ago, in 

 that eels could not live in the Piatt Biver. 

 the fry of the salmon placed in a pond ooi 



the market at 

 i the car of fry wrecked 

 defiance of the theory 

 Mr. Mason writes that 

 ne months before are 



there still and now, Dec. 26th, weigh one-half pound. Other 

 writers bear snoilar testimony. 



THE CONNECTICUT SHELL-FISH COMMISSION.— As wehave 

 announced, the Fish Commission of Conuecticut has a distinct de- 

 partment of shcU-fisheries. The waters are being surveyed and 

 leased for oyster culture, etc. Their office is Boom 10, Insurance 

 Building, New Haven. The Register of that city says : The state 

 board of shell-fish commissioners held a session to-day, July 2d, 

 and voted to assess ten cents an acre on all grants of oyster lands, 

 for the expense of surveying aud making maps. Bills amounting 

 to 114.97 were approved. The clerk was instructed to prepare 

 deeds for the allotment of a number of applicants who have com- 



ied ith the requirements of the law. 



The hoard go to Darien on Wednesday, the 6th, for the purpose 

 of fixing the line between that town and the state of New York. 



THE SHAD HATCHING on the Potomac by the TJ. S. Pish 

 Commission has been a grand success. We have been informed 

 by a gentleman who is in a position to know about the work, 

 although not engaged In It, that Col, McDonald has probably 

 hatched more shad there this Beason with the scows and their 

 steam machinery than have been hatched at aU other places put 

 together. The '" Fish Hawk " has been at Havre de Grace, Md,, 

 and has turned out 16,000,000. Our informant had not the list of 

 plantings, hut heard that Mr. Frank Clark was gone with a ship- 

 ment for the Kansas Commissioners, to be placed in some of the 

 waters of that State. 



LONG ISLAND NOTES.— Mi'. Thomas Clapham. of Boslyn, 

 has hatched, for Mr. Blackford of the New fork Fish Commission, 

 2,500 rainbow trout, which he will placa in some of tho streams, 

 He has also hatched between four and five thousand Maine salmon, 

 Sahno safer, and placed in the streams about Boslyn and Glen 

 Head, as well as l,5t0 quinnat salmon within the paBt four years. 



BEPOBT OF THE PENNSYLVANIA FISH COMMISSION.— 

 We have received the report of this Commission for 1879 and '80. 

 It is so important from a natural history point of view, that we 

 defer its notice for a week or two. It contains "the fishes of 

 Pennsylvania," by Prof. E. D. Cope, with many figures, and is a 

 valuaulo addition to our ichthyological literature. 



Pus fennel. 



FIXTURES. 



pa. 



13 and u, ai PittsDurgh, Pa. uoiitp Trials, field under 



close September 9. Elbridire Met Tiitey,"s.e, t.-jui ■■■. Marri'shuog, l'a.' 



Ocrooer 1, at New York t'liy. Close or entries hc-i-icni field Trials. 



TY; ' i • c i i .ence on Thanksgiving Day. Jacob Pent?., Secretary, p. 



o. Box m, New York City. 



October 4. s 6 and 7, at St. Louts, Mo. St. Louis Kennel Club Third 

 Aiinuai Bench show, diaries Lincoln, Superintendent. 



November*;,, ;.ou:-:,:ci.a state lieUl Trials, r,,,., e5 close November 

 i. Edward oaeii, secretary, Nnv Orleans, La. 



November — , aitlrand Junction. Term., National American Kennel 

 Club's Field Trials. Jos. H. Dew, Secretary, Columbia, Tenn. 



J1Y FIBST CHICKEN SHOOTING. 



1WAS sitting in my office one afternoon in AuguBt, looking over 

 the last number of my Porest anu Stbeam, when I heard 

 soma one drive npand yell, "Oh ! Doc," mid on going to tire door 

 I saw Sam, as he is familiarly called by his friends, sitting in a 

 light, square, boxed wagon, holding with one hand a rather restive 

 span of ponies, and with the other a very restive setter. Now the 

 said setter had fully made up his mind to get out of that wagon 

 and interview my red Irish Leo, that was slowly marching back and 

 forth in front of the door with his " coat tails " dragging on the 

 ground, and inviting master Spot (Sam's dog) or any other dog to 

 tread on them just once. A sharp "Down, charge," accompanied 

 by a suggestive motion of the hand toward a stick lying near, 

 brought him out of hie belligerent attitude at the same time that 

 Sam forced his canine down to the bottom of tho wagon, and put- 

 ting his foot on him to hold him there. Turning to me he said, 

 "Doc , does your finger cramp any ? If it does you had better 

 loud yourself "and traps into this wagon, aud if your cur will be 

 peaceable he can ride too. Go out homo with me, stay over night, 

 and we wdl try thu chickens a hack in the morning. To-morrow 

 is the opening' of the season, aud there are dead loads of them 

 around my place, and not a gun has been fired among them yet, 

 so if you want to try that dog of yours on chickens, it will be a 

 good chance. Wilfyougo?" " Go? of course I will go," '1W ell, 

 hurry up, and don't be all day getting roady." 



A few moments sufficed to pack my hunting suit, cartridges, 

 belt, dog whip, etc., etc., in a valise which I earned out with my 

 gun and stowed away under thB seat. At sight of the gun, both 

 dogs were nearly frantic with delight, and forgot all about their 

 previous pugnacity. After stowing them away in the back part of 

 the wagon I got in myself and off we went. Sam owned a fine 

 farm about eignt miles out of town in a splendid wheat country. 

 A thorough-going fanner, a keen sportsman, he was not exactly 

 the sort of man to encourage shooting out. of season, and poachers 

 and pot hunters gave him a wide berth, but to the friends of all 

 legitimate sport he was hail fellow well met. 



After supper we had a general overhaul in g of aU our traps. 

 Every empty shell was loaded, the guns inspected to see that every- 

 thing was in order. We were, tip betimes next morning, aud had 

 breakfast out of the way by suurise, wheu Sam, who had stopped 

 outside, said, " Oh, Doc, just look here !" On going to the door, 

 he pointed toward a wheat field about three hundred yards from 

 the house, and there was a covey of about twenty chickens that 

 had just sailed over, in the act of alighting in the stubble. 

 "Well, Doe., if tho dogs have had their breakfast, let's start." 



"The dogs have been fed," remarked his wife, "aud hadn't you 

 better take Will along with you and send lum back with the first 

 birds you get, so we can have some lor dinner, that is, if you get 

 any ?" she said, with a sly nod to me. "If we get any !" he re- 

 plied, as he buckled on his cartridge belt and picked up his gun : 

 " what do yon suppose we are going for if it is not to get some? 

 Get a bag and conie on, Will," he said, turning to his twolve-year- 

 old son that was playing with the dogs. The hag was soon got, 

 and calUng Spot and'Leo to heel, we started for tho stubble. Mj 

 dog had never seen a prairie chicken. 1 had in the spring come 

 from the East and brought him with me, and he was as green as 

 myself regarding chicken shooting, although he was good on 

 ruffed grouse, quail and woodcock. Not knowing how he wculd 

 perform among a covey of chickons, when we got into the stubble 

 field 1 fastened a stout check cord, about forty feet long, to his 

 collar, and let it trail. With a sharp word of caution to them, we 

 sent them off. They worked back and forth, quartering the ground 

 in fine stvle. until thev had got nearly to where we had marked 

 down the" brood from "the house, when Leo stopped, raised his 

 head, sniffed the air in the direction of the birds, half pointed, 

 then drew on carefully for a few yards, and then froze stiff, Spot 

 hacking in fine style. "Good for the wild Irishman so far," ex- 

 claimed Sam ; "tie careful, now, and don't let him flush them." 

 I quietly advanced until I got to the end of the check-cord, picked 

 it up, and took a turn around my left hand with it, at the same 

 time hoiding my gunreadv for use. Sam, who quickly oame into 

 position, Baid, "You attend to your dog and take the first two 

 birds that get up, aud I will come in alter." Moving carefully up 

 bebiud the dog with, "Steady, sir; steady !" I had got close to 

 him, when up flew a chicken about ten foot ahead of him, aud was 

 making off in fine style, when I brought my gun to bear on him, 

 and at the report down he came all in a heap. Startled at the 

 shot, two more flushed, one turning off to the left in front of Sam, 

 which I left to his tender mercies and bis Colt, while 1 got night at 

 the other that was going straight away, and knocked it over at 



