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ing'Mr. Green to forward a quantity of salmon trout fry, 
the letter coes on to say 
“For llie last three years we have made it a point to get from 50 to 100 
thousand salmon-trout fry, and see them deposited in our lake, and last 
spring we were rewarded for onr labors by such an abuudauce of troat 
as has not been known here for twenty years. A single flsherman hav¬ 
ing cunghl as runny ns twenty-one in a day, and others caught them in 
lota varying from six to eighteen per day. Snell fishing with hook and 
line, furnished aport which many of us never saw before. Such sub¬ 
stantial evidence ought to convince tie most skeptical, but we have in 
our midst a few who hold lliat artificial propagation of fish is a failure. 
Bui happily there tue enough believers to encourage the good cause and 
help it alone.'' G. A. Fmun:, 
Japan reels Gold Fisrr — We learn from tlie Baltimore 
Sun lliat, Mr. Gillet Gill, has brought to Baltimore from 
Japan,’ some rare specimens of Japanese “king-ging- 
salianna," or gold-silver fish. Mr. Gill, who has been to 
Japan five times, returned a few days since-wilh seventeen 
out of seventy-seven fish with which lie left Japan. They 
were brought to Sau Francisco by steamship, and from 
I here to Baltimore by rail road, tbe latter being the fatal 
pail, of ihe journey to the lish. On tlio steamship they 
were kepi in a lank, hut in the transportation by railroad a 
tin can was used, with perforated top, the eau being sus¬ 
pended by India rubber, and the fish protected by sponges 
inside. Mr G ill had fears I lie altempt would prove entirely 
un.-uiccesslul, and at one lime the fishes were restored to vi¬ 
tality by giving them a liberal supply of Rocky Mountain 
snow. As it was, the havoc among them was considerable, 
u number having died, and twenty small ones were eaten 
up by their big brothers and sisters. 
Tbe survivors are all in vigorous health, and are fed on a 
diet of chopped liver. They are of a deep vermilion color, 
with brilliant hues, alongside of which the gold fish of 
America look pale. Several of the Japs arc'’heautifully 
parti colored gold and silver, a pair of Ihe-c being also rare 
in Japan. They have large silver fan shaped tails, and 
have been named "Mr, and Mrs. He-No.” Mr. Gill thinks 
these are tbe firsl Japanese gold fish brought to ibis coun¬ 
try, and the Japanese commissioners at the centennial have 
made applicalion for litem as part of their exhibition at 
Philadelphia, lie, however, iulends giving them to the 
park commissioners, to be placed in Druid Hill Park for 
culture. The Japanese, who pay much attention to fish 
raisiug, have artificial lakes in their gardens, tastefully or¬ 
namented, in which Ihe gold fish are kept, and are treated 
as pets by tbe family. 
VEGETABLE DIET FOR TROUT. 
V Rutland, Vt., February Util, 1876. 
Editor Forest and Stream:— 
Tile question, whether trout can ho fed on vegetable food, whether 
they- thrive upon it, and are less subject to the diseases incident to con¬ 
finement while fed upon il, are questions ot tact, not of argument. 
Their determination is a matter for Sxi'ciiment, not of dispute. 
Mr. Hale feeds his trout on corn bread. They learn to cat il without 
much diflicully or delay. Nor does the age at which the bread feeding 
is first attempted seem to be material. Last lall he took from Shrews¬ 
bury pond *0 pairs of trout ranging in size from a half pound to a pound 
and a half in weight. They were caught Just before the spawning sea¬ 
son, They are now eating the bread as voraciously as those fed upon 
itforayear or more. True all wild tront caught and confined have to 
be starved into snch a degree of hunger that they will take an unaccus¬ 
tomed food, just as the North Pole voyagers have to be somewhat 
hungry before they will relish blubber or pemmican. So, too, the Labrador 
cows may have some scruples to overcome before they chew with ranch 
gcBtoacud of cod-fish. Dogs are as essentially carniverous as trout, 
yet they will thrive well on com bread, and on that aloue. Trout un¬ 
questionably prefer worms to waffles, and if we bred trout for the great¬ 
est happiness of the trout, we wonld be forced to Teed them on flies and 
grabs and little tront, for these they stein to like llie best. While 
it is unquestionable that they can be made to eat bread as freely 
and voraciously as they will eat liver, aud get into and keep in as good 
condition upon tlio one as on the other, it is also true that they will not 
grow as ratt, or perhaps yield as many eggs upon the vegetable, as 
upon the animal diet. It is also true thai an hundred trout, fed upon 
bread, will produce more meal; for the table than an equal number fed on 
meat; and this for the reason that the vegetarians are healthier. Air. 
Hale hardly ever loses a t rout from the white mould so commonly at¬ 
tacking troat, wounded during the spawning season, or iudeed from any 
disease. In ids ponds the big tront do not eat the little one’s, for tire 
Simple reason, that he is not guilty of the folly of keeping fish of dif¬ 
ferent- sizes in the same tanks. Then again, the bread fed trout are, to 
iny taste, of bet ter flavor than the liver fed ones. 
Mr. Halo has hatched thi-: season the eggs from the bread fed fish, and 
the young appear to present no more abnormities than those hatched from 
the eggs of the wild trout. The importance of the fact, that trout can 
he reared on a vegetable food consists in this: -that in this way the rear¬ 
ing can be done at a money profit, and tliue place the culture of trout a- 
niong the profitable domestic industries. That trout will eat bread does 
pot prevent their being fed with snch animal food as would otherwise be 
wasted. Indeed, i have no doubt that it will be found most prod I able 
to give them a mixed diet. Mr. Hale acts on this idea, for during lire 
fall and winter"hb puts into the lanks, holding the half pound, pound, 
and larger trout, great numbers of little miiinws, such as can lie taken 
to large quantities in the spring holes and pools into which they gather 
for their winter quarters. Ho docs fills chiefly for the reason that the 
minnows, thus obtained area cheaper food than the bread. If they 
could be had at all seasons he would feed them to his tront as far and as 
long as they were cheaper than bread. The feeding of minnows does 
not seem to wean tnem from the vegetable food, indeed, they rush for 
the bread, while the mtnnows arc swarming around them, as eagerly ns 
they rush for the minnows, when these are first thrown into the tanks. 
It is bootless to argue about the matter of trout thriving on a bread 
diet They do so, and any body who will not believe, the statements of 
those who know Mr. Hide's ponds, must continue in their unbelief nn- 
- til they visit them aud see for themselves. It is possible that some of 
your correspondents wonld not believe it there, for “oue convinced 
against his will, Ac." M. Goi.nsniTU, 
Commissioner of Fisheries. 
^ STOCKING THE WILDERNESS. 
Rochester, February 16th, 18 j6. 
Editor Forest and Stream :— 
A, B. Lamberton has gone to the Fnlton Chain of Lakes with some 
fifty thousand young salmon'trout to put in their waters. The Fulton 
Chain region is known as one of the liuui, famoiiB suramerresorts in all 
the wilderness. Headley says of the section: "The Eight lakes 
are connected by stream!, and fmm a group of euipassing beauty. 
They vary, both in size aud shape, each with a different frame¬ 
work of hills, fand the channel is ever from beauty to beauty. 
There they xepose like a bright drain in the forest, the links con- 
iiected by silver hat's. Ton row slowly through One to its outlet, 
and then entering a clear stream overhung with lofty trees, seem 
‘to be suddenly absorbed by the wilderness. At length, however, you 
emerge as from a cavern, and lo! an unlTonbled lake with adits varia¬ 
tions of coasts, timber, mid islands, greets the eye. 
Wallace in his Descriptive Guide appropriately asks, "Where within 
its limits (John Brorvu Tract) can be found a brighter array of glitter¬ 
ing links than the Fnlton Chain? Where a much lovlier sheet than 
Smith's Lake?’’ The Eight Lakes are, moreover, the point of entrance 
to the boat route through tile heart of the wilderness to Paul Smith's 
and Marlin's. There is a good hotel at First Lake, as yon go in, which 
is described by Wallace as large and commodious, containing ample ac¬ 
commodations for one hundred guests, staudlng on a slight elevation 
that slopes to the water. It is twenty-live mites from Boonvillc by 
singe to the Fulton Lakes. Boonville is about forty miles uotth ofTTti- 
ca, and is reached by the Black River Railroad. There are numerous 
smalr lakes and streams in close proximity tollieLuke House, (Arnold's) 
which are well supplied with speckled trout. Air, Lamberton having 
lately bought the 110!el together with a large tract of land, about First 
Lake, is going to stock the waters with brook and salmon trout. The 
tourist and sportsman will find it the Paradise of the Wilderness. The 
fish were obtained from the State Hatching House at Caledonia. A. 
AN ERROR CORRECTED. 
A san Francisco, Cal., Feb. 7th, 1876. 
Editor Forest and Stream :— 
1 feel it right that 1 should correct an error made by me about three 
weeks since ill one of iny communications to your interesting paper re¬ 
garding the planting of Eastern salmon in the Sacramento river, about 
two years ago, by Mr. Livingston Stone. I stated—rather inadvertentty, 
I confess, and without due consideration of the nmttter— that another 
party, whose name was In my mind at Ihe time—Mr. Seth Green—had 
brought with him here, and had put into the Sacramento a quantity of 
these same Eastern lith. This was not the case. It was Mr. Livingston 
Stone who brought out. to tills coast with him, with other fish, 1,000 Sal- 
momfrtr , or Atlantic salmon. I the more regret this my blunder, on ac¬ 
count of the merit or transportation belonging to another party than the 
onennmed. I referred also lo the quantity of young salmon, or grilse, 
which have been caught now for two wiuters at the Oakland Long 
Wharf near this city. I ventured a conjecture that these Balmon were 
probably the result, of Seth Green’s importation of eastern fish, where¬ 
as, of course, if of any person’s introduction from that portion of the 
United States, they were Livingston Stone's. But they have been 
caught in too great abundance-amounting to many thousands—to have 
been all the consequence of Mr. Stone's planting. On the contrary, 
nearly If not quite the whole of this fish bonanza at Oakland, is certain¬ 
ly due to the successful and judicious efforts, for several years past, of 
our worthy State Fish Commissioners, who have planted each year a 
million or more of young salmon, raised on the McClond river, in the 
Sacramento river. Several persons, and practical fishermen, too, thought 
these Oakland or bay salmon diff. rent from the true Sacramento salmon, 
and 1 am Tree to confess that I at one lime became almost, if not 
entirely a convert to that opinion; but time and the beet of jndges have 
now decided the point without any donbt, They are certainly our Sac¬ 
rament" mid Sim Joaquin salmou (wdnnat) and no other. We owe, 
t hen, for our sport at Oakland, to our t ish Commissioners, and probably 
no other parties, unless a fu» of lln-m may lie some of, or the progeny 
of some of Mr. Stone’s importation. 1 write for the purpose of truth in 
such m alters, and I am ul vuvs glad to have any errors f may fall into 
correct'd. E. J. Hooper. 
the Mennel. 
THE KENNEL REGISTER. 
T HE opening of this book of record at our office has 
been received with expressions of approval from 
sportsmen of every suction and we print below a list of 
over forty dogs whose names are already recorded iu its 
pages. With regard to litters, we would say that where 
the dog and bitch and one of the puppies are registered 
we will issue certificates and stud book numbers for tbe 
rest of ihe Jitter without extra charge. We would feel 
obliged if gentlemen sending us pedigrees, or the names 
of dogs for registration, would see lliat color and marks 
are given. The stud book will be most carefully kept, and 
we expect at the close of the year to issue the first volume 
in a haudsome yet economical form. That our conlempo- 
raries approve of our plan will be seen from Ihe following 
extracts. Col. Skinner, tlio veteran Field Editor of Turf, 
Field and Farm, than whom no man in America is belter 
qualified to speak on the dog question, kindly says:— 
"From tlie day when Ihe Beuch Shows of dogs became ml institution 
in this country, tlio necessity Tor a record Of pedigrees, accessible to all 
kennel owners, became apparent; hence we are happy to announce to 
our readers I he opening ot a Kennel Register by our esteemed ctmlem- 
porarv. the Forest and Stream, the programme of which, as given in 
its last issue, we publish below. This is a happy conception of our 
neiehhor, ami we trust our zeal in tile cause or field sports is too sincere 
ro allow any contemptible journalistic jealousy to prevent us from giv¬ 
ing it a hearty support." 
The SporUmtm, which, under the editorship of Messrs. 
Foster & McIntyre, so long identified with the Spirit, and 
-Mr. Whitehead, has Iaken a position in llie front rank of 
sporting literature, gives the Register the following pleasant 
indorsemt nt:— 
••Sporting does have Increased so rapidly, both in value and numbers 
of late veins, and the introduction of some of the best canine blood of 
England into our own kerir.els has given such an impetus to breeding, 
lliat it is quire time that steps were taken to keep a record in the shape 
of a stud book fog registering pedigrees. Our contemporary, Forest 
and Stream line established a keiinol register for this purpose, which 
will be of immense value to breeders, as well as purchasers, of fine dogs, 
more particularly iu the future, as enabling them to establish the lineage 
of their puis. The contents of the book will be published each year in 
the form of a handsome Kennel Stud Book, illustrated with portraits of 
famous dogs. The plan lias our hearty indorsement, and we commend 
t to such Of our readers who may owu fine dogs." 
SETTERS. 
Mr. C’. H. Raj mood's Bride Of the 
Border, Fairy, Rock, Rod, anti 
Mr. oicott'a Flash. 
Col. Granville P. Hawes’ Bonnet 
Carre. 
Mr, Tileston’s Glengarry aud Lon 
Mr Theodore Moiforcl’s Don, May. 
Puss, and Bob. 
Mr. Von Lengerke’sDneh. 
Mr. (i. U. Wild’s Duke. 
Mr. Tbos. Rodman, Jr.'s, Daly 
Dean. 
Mr. A. n. Copeland's Noriih. 
Mr. J. H, J. Doane’s Chios. 
Mr I.. (J. McCloy’s Judy. 
Dr. Strachau's Don II. and Rake. 
Mr. James Gordon Bennett’s Bax\ 
and Gill. 
Mr. C. W. Copeland’s Turk, 
Mr. J'. W, Knox’s Belton and Dim 
pie. 
Mr. Snellenburg’s Sam. 
Mr. Hubart’sEuby. 
Mr. Millet’s Flirt. 
Gen. A. S. Webb's Fritz. 
Dr. W. S. Webb’s Whisky and 
Daisy. 
Mr G do F, Grmt’s Pat. 
Mr. q’Ueston’s Philil. and Meg. 
Mr. George M. V\ hiten’s Dnko. 
Mr. S. B.DiJly’s Ranger imdqueen. 
Dr. Struclian’a Flash and shot. 
Mr. F. W. Steele’s Flake. 
Mr. Benton’s Max. 
Capt. Grafton’s dim and Ned. 
—Mr. F. H. Eleibowei', of Maysviile, Ky., lias sold to 
Mr. D. Bryson, of Memphis, a bitch puppy by Plunkett 
out of liis imported Irish, setter Kitty. 
—While attending the Chicago Bench Show we become 
acquainted with Mr. Jesse Sherwood, of Edina, Knox Co., 
Missouri, an enterprising field sportsman and breeder of 
dogs, who, while at Chicago, secured a number of fine 
dogs, setters and pointers, among which were Czar, the 
pointer which took first prize iu the small pointer class; 
Fanclion, a bitch puppy by Rufus out of Friend, of Bur¬ 
ges’s kennel; red Irish Beauty by Colburn’s Dash and Wad- 
dclls’ Fannie, Irish and Gordon; Fly, a thoroughbred. 
Irish water spaniel hitch, now in pup by Mellroy’s Pat, of 
Janesville, Wisconsin. Also a very fine thorouglibj'od nine 
months old pointer dog, purchased froth a gentleman from 
Chicago. The care Mr. Sherwood is taking in selecting 
stock for his kennel is evidence of his good judgment. 
Stod Docs.— In our columns of advertisements, this 
week, it will be found that Leicester aud Paris, tho splendid 
brace of Field trial sellers, imported by L. H. Smith, Esq., 
of Slrathroy, Canada, imported from Mr. Llewelleu’s ken¬ 
nel, are to be used for stud purposes. We had an opportunity 
ot inspecting those dogs while they were on exhibition at 
the Chicago Bench Show last month,' and can say that 
better specimens of high bred dogs have never come under 
onr observation, and we would suggest the propriety of 
crossing our native stock with such dogs when we have 
the opportunity. 
Operation for Umbilical Hernia.— Dr. W. S. Webb 
operated most successfully, a few days since, on one of 
Whisky’s pups, now three months old, for the radical cure 
of umbilical hernia. It was performed by cutting down 
upon llie hernial sac, reducing the hernia, removing the 
sac of peritoneum, and bringing the sides of tho opeuing 
together by silver sutures. The pup is now entirely well. 
The Pointer “Phil.”— It was generally supposed that 
this fine old pointer, now the property of A. C. Waddell, 
had been imported by the late Col. Sam Colt, of Hartford, 
and many regrets have been expressed by owners of his pro¬ 
geny that he was without a pedigree. A correspondent 
writing to us from Fishkill-on-thc-IIudson, under date of 
February J3tb, asserts lliat Phil has a pedigree, and, more¬ 
over, is a native and not an imported dog. Ilis letter is as 
follows;— 
“Why Col. Sam gave out that ho imported Phil (if he 
did) is more than I can tell, unless taking him from this 
place to Hartford is importing. I will give you a history 
of Phil, and am able and willing to prove what I say. Col. 
Colt bought Phil of John McDowell, whose post-oiliee ad¬ 
dress is Fishkill Landing. Said MeDowell raised and 
broke him. The father of Phil was a dog named Pierce, 
owned by a Mr. Fred Orlhlep, engineer and draughtsman, 
Williamsburg. lie was very dark liver color, aud either 
he or his father was brought from Texas. The mother of 
Phil was a black and white pointer biielt named Sue, whose 
owner’s name I will also ascertain. Phil has two owu 
brother-', owned by the Messrs. Le lloy, of Hew Hamburgh, 
N. Y. G.W.B.” 
Our correspondent promises to make further inquiries 
and give as the result. The advantages of a Kennel Reg¬ 
ister are apparent from this single case. It tlimulales in¬ 
quiry and provokes discussion, tlie result cf which will he 
to clear up many doubtful points in the histories of soino 
of onr celebrated native dogs. 
Aue Does Property?— An Ohio jury has been found to 
declare that they are, and strange to say, Hie members 
thereof have some idea of tlie money value of a good dog. 
A case was decided last week in the Obio Court of Common 
Pleas in which a Mr. Eastham sued one Swinger lo recover 
damages for the killing of a Gordon setter. The report 
says:— 
“The dog, it appears, had wandered away several miles 
from liis owner’s plane of residence, having followed a 
neighbor who was going away some distance on business, 
a winger's defence was that the animal was running at 
large, cunirary lo law; further, that he supposed him to 
be mud, and consequently shot hint. The jury were 
charged that the fact that the dog was away without his 
owner's knowledge or consent, some seven miles, and out 
of sight of the oue keeping or harboring hirn, was no bar 
to a recovery; provided the dog was on the highway going 
in tlie direction of home, or the person he had been fol¬ 
lowing, and was slopped, headed olf and maliciously shot. 
Under ihe Ohio statute dogs arc not taxed so much %rr 
capita, but according to their assessed valuation, The ani¬ 
mal in this case was rated at $100, and the jury, after a 
few minutes’ deliberation, gave tbe plant® a verdict 1‘or 
the amount," 
■ * ■ »■- 
—A very singular circumstance happened to our friend 
Mr. David Byyson, of Memphis, a lew ditj’s since. Ills 
bitch Madge, heavy with pups, was loaned by him to a 
friend under the impression that she would not pup for a 
month. The gentleman took her out limiting, and she 
pointed a quail which bo killed. Madge dropped to Shot, 
but when told to feLch she did not move, aud when the 
gentleman advanced to her, it appeared that she had 
dropped a pup while at charge. He immediately started 
for home, but another pup wus born befuro he reached 
there. Such a case as Ibis never before came under our 
notice, and if there is any grounds for the belief that work¬ 
ing a pregnant bitch is beneficial to her pups, this brace 
should certainly bo possessed of very keen spotting instinct, 
—Field. 
COLORS OF IRISH SETTERS. 
Boston, Musa,, February 15th, 1876, 
1&DITOK ■p'OttTCST ANU STREAM!— 
Probably not one in the whole list of sporting dogs has eanml more 
argument than the garni; Irish setter. Not only over the oeeau, Lu years 
past, has ibis'dog been tlie subject of many letters, but also here, anew 
arc liis merits, color, &c., brought before the notice of sportsmen, in 
your issue of the 10th iList., just at hand, u correspondent cmv.stions 
rather severely ihe opinion of a contemporary of yonrs, and wonld have 
us believe that the pure Irish wetter is of all colors, which ihe writer of 
