April IS, 1883.] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



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The I.atk Dn. George M. Bkakd.— Tin- few Words I 

 gepd to you must not be regarded as an adequate expression 

 of m\ regard tor the man and his untold influence. 1 Have 

 no wOrds to fliake ibe attempt. HSs example as i I pertains 

 in future sportsmen, frotu a guide's memoranda, can Only 

 be reft rrea to, Nat to be forgotten his the days in Ids com- 



?:uiv Lathe Adirbudacks and at Second Connecticut Lake. 

 Kb departure from ' I'ncle Turn's" was like the coining of 

 » storm, and the morning sun after it not more genial than 

 lus countenance as it appeared unexpectedly al ttc east 

 window. His home in your city will tell the story <ti his 

 love. Nature's studies suspended above those of science. 

 Here he had been out with Kangifcr. and returning to 

 Camp bold Up for inspection one of the largest, trout taken 

 in several years. Some one of the party volunteered to 

 weigh it. "Slop; let do man think of estimating my enjoy 

 ment by the number ol pounds of tish taken from nature's 

 preserve, Ned, go there to-morrow With my friend and let 

 liiiii sco what it-mains." His generous nature had reserved 

 the trout for a friend. You thai love the gentle art, when 

 your larder is .supplied with trout from the walcis he loved, 

 and you can sec the ripple? on the shady pools in advance 

 Of the boat, lav down your rod and look in the clear wain. 

 and if you are tempted, while gliding past those waving 

 tins, to" lake om- more, re, all 111- last word- of a brother 

 sportsman and look "Higher, higher."— Ned Noiiton 

 Second Connecticut Late, New Hampshire). 



Bt.ack Bass Fishing he, as Dethojt, —Buffalo, N. V . 



April 7. — In replv to vour inquiry i Send the following as 

 worthy of mention : Take the steamer at the foot of Shelby 

 street, Detroit, Mich., a! 9 A. M A little over two hours' 

 pleasant ride up Detroit River and across Lake St. Clair will 

 land you at the Star Island House, kept by .las. Slocum. 

 Esq. The accommodations there aie good, the Uihle well 



supplied Willi all Hie delicacies of the season, the charges 



are moderate, a good billiard tahle and pianO on the prem- 

 ises, and every attention paid to visitors. The black bass 

 are plenty from the last week in August to the 13th of Octo- 

 ber; the tish arc large and very gamy, averaging three and 

 a half pounds, with now aud then a six or seven pounder. 

 1 think the fish run larger than those at Put-in Bay, or any- 

 place I have vkited, aud it is a noted fact they are un- 

 i ou aled in llavor. 1 always found plenty of bail, such as 

 chub, minnows and crawfish, and good boats with experi- 

 enieii boatmen to place you on the fishing grounds, where, 

 if you have auy knowledge of fishing and good tackle, 1 can 

 see no reason why you cannot take your share of sporl. 

 They have a large 'ice-house well stocked wilh ice. making 

 it easy to ship your friends a share of what you 

 catch, per American Express; no charge for ice orhox. 

 Take it all in all, I know of no place where 1 have had so 

 much sport with so many of the comforts of home. In my 

 next I will say something about the fishing iu Niagara 

 River.— Deei* Trom.ek, 



MAINE Poachehs.— The following extracts from a letter 

 just received from Hon. Henry 0. Stanley. Commissioner 

 of Fisheries and Game for the "State of Maine, will doubt- 

 less be of interest to many of your readers; ". Wearc making 

 life a burden to the poachers in Maine, having done more 

 the last year than ever before. The indictments, of which 

 we have some twenty cases this month, are mostly for kill- 

 ing inoo.se, (leer and caribou out of season. The larger part 

 of the poachers were from out of the State. Mr. Stilwell is 

 ao-ain on the commission with ine. and we are doing our 

 duiv. and meau to protect the fish and game in Maine, and 

 shall go for all violators, be they whom they may, whether 

 gentlemen iif there are any worthy that name), countrymen, 

 loafers or what not. The Legislature has giveu us the 

 means 'and good laws, and the people arc generally with us. 

 Maine is "-oiug to be the banner State for sportsmen and 

 tourists. ~\Vc see the benefits accruing. It is a source of 

 wealth worth cultivating, and money used in protecting her 

 fish and game will reap an abundant harvest every season, 

 and repay manifold lo the industrious, fortunate inhabi- 

 tants of Maine. I love the dear old State! God bless her 

 grand old forests, mountains, hills, lakes and streams!" — 

 Geo. Shepahd Page. 



Ai/moatob Gak Shooting.— Galveston. Texas, March.— 

 Borne days ago while wading along the edges of a strange 

 slouch my attention was attracted by a commotion in the 

 water Closely watching for five or six minutes, I came to 

 the conclusion that it was caused by some large fish, 

 Havinea .shotgun heavily charged, I aimed at what I thought 

 tn be aooul two inches under the spot, and "let drive.'' 

 dist nice 10ft It. caused a commotion at any rate; if a tor- 

 pedo had suddenly exploded 1 don't think the water could 

 have cut "up more. After it had subsided 1 cautiously 

 advanced to see the result of my shot. Judge of my sur- 

 prise when upon reaching the spot I found 1 had killed' three 

 iish known here as alligator gars 1 picked up the smallest 

 (about two feci lone), and earned it ashore, where, alter the 

 closest examination, I laded to discover a single gunshot 

 wound Please tell me if you think concussion killed them 

 1 am sorrv now that 3 did not examine the others.— Nemo. 

 [Fish are often killed by concussion, and this may have 

 been an instance of it.] 



INKOUM VI'ION W \N I L-.l. OoNCKKMNO WniTEFISII —Edit.,)- 



m>m(anit 8trMto: The Ball and game commissioners of New 

 Hampshire will plant a large number of whitefish fry in our 

 waters this spring, and having only a Utile knowledge of 

 the habits of this tish, and thai little was obtaiued from the 

 last -.even voiumesof Fokkst and Stuf.am. my desire for infor- 

 mation and the extent also to which this variety of nan is 

 rlis emulated prompt me to. ask the Forest ABU Stream for 

 such fact- relating lo it as will be of interest and profit to 

 whitetl-h an-def- and culturists— DuakE. [We do not know 

 that the whitefish is angled for; still as it must feed it might 

 take a hook. It is a toothless fish and feeds largely upon 

 small crnstacea at the bottom of deep lakes, whore il remains 

 at all times except when in the streams to spawn. It is on, 

 of the finest of fresh water fishes for the table, but its sport, 

 irjg qualities are unknown. We will be glad of any accounts 

 of its taking the hook. We believe that an occasional one 

 has been tdfcen, but do uot know that it is regularly angler] 

 for anywhere. 



One of the twenty shares of tlie WiUewemoc Club, par $3Sfl lake. 

 club-house, laud, etc., iu Catskills) tor sale for $225. George W. 

 Vuu Sielen, 90 Nassau street, N. Y.—Adv, 



Fi-iiim, in Iowa.— Cedar Rapids. Iowa. April a. — In a 

 recent issue "I.. Is. M." wished information as lo fishing 

 at Spirit Lake or Lake OkOhoji. I have made inquiries 

 from a person well acquainted up there. He says go to Rock 

 Point, about three miles from foot of, and ou Spirit Lake, east 

 side. Good fishing In, pike, perch, pickerel. Croppies and 

 silver bass; some black bass, hut not many. Best time. Mav 



and June. Tackle such a- is generally USUd for black bass, 

 A good many pike-perch arc caught here, but black base are 

 more abundant. Thirty years ago pike-perch were plenty 

 h.-rc. Live minnows are the best bail, bill we used lo catch 

 them with pork; sometime red flannel and pink for bait. 

 Tiny are generally found in or near the edge of a swift cur 

 rent'. Some of them are eight and ten pounds, average about 

 two pounds; gamy fish. — W. 



^islfculture, 



THE MILWAUKEE HATCHERY. 



V REPORTER of the Milwaukee Sentinel has visited the 

 new hatchery of tin- Wisconsin Commission at that 



place, and gives the following account: 



"They are just beginning to wiggle' said Martin E. O'Brien, 

 Superintendent of the Stale Fish Hatch. r> brai.e.h at ih u 



Garten was aUenthclv Etching the jars' oi 'lie- hat'-l'erv in 

 the basement at I he northeast corner ol lie -..real structure. 



asked howthev looked. To those who have nc v.-r visited the 

 Milwaukee branch of the hatchery, and even to tin- who 

 have dropped in occasionally, (be spectacle is one of absorh- 



caD. The hatcher) wasgottmiier way during the last sum- 

 mer's exposition, and the whitefish eggs received shortly 



after are just beginning to hatch Tl ggs are distributed iu 



some seventy lame glass jars arranged on ,. substantial rack 

 in the '-enter of the room, but 1 heir appearance euntiol be 

 described! They MUSI be seen The jars are about fifteen 

 inches high and -ix in diameter. They are filled to within a 

 few inches of the top with se li-ti .-•;..••■ :>l drop- just, about 



'•These are whitefish eggs," explained Mr. O'Hrien. -There 

 KKlofthein altogether -about 200,000 in each jar. 

 They came from Green Bay last November, and as tliis is the 

 onlv hatohcrv in Wise,,.. -in with glass jars, a better view of 

 the" changes is possible than can lie had anywhere else. When 

 the eggs were first put in there was nothing to lie seen about 

 them, but in four weeks or so the eves began to show. The 

 black curling line of the body does not show for three, months. 

 We hatch fully 90 per ceut., w-hich is tenfold more than 

 hatched naturally. One whitefish will spawn in the neighbor- 

 hood of 25,000 eggs, but in the lake or river a great many fail 

 to impregnate, or are eaten by oilier tish. and lost in various 

 ways. These will all he hatched bv -April 15, when the jars 

 will bo filled wilh the eggs of the wall-eyed pik". The pike 

 spawn comes from Saginaw Bay, and one. pike, gives about 

 50,000. They hatch m thirty ita\ s. as the water is warmer." 

 •What is don- with them when hatched.'" 



'•Shipped away to stock different waters through the State. 

 Some orders have been received already for these, subject, of 

 course, to the approval of tfc 



PENNSYLVANIA NOTES. 



TWO gentlemen owning fish ponds in the limits of Phila- 

 delphia county, unknowingly stocked them with German 



iu.)-: plentiful crop of cross breeds inferior !•> the carp a- a 



Philadelphia anglers are still overhauling their tackle, trout 

 flies are being looked over, but nobody as vet has ventured to 

 the mountains: next week will see mam away, your corres- 

 pondent among the number. Rock iish .striped bass) are being 

 taken in the rjrandywine, at Wilmington, with sturgeon roe: 

 the bait is a filthv one, but very taking at this season of the 

 year, when it is the natural food of the rock Iish in the Dola- 

 uare River and tributaries. 



We hope the attempt to stock the 1'erkiomen Creek (which 

 Hows lino the Schuylkill above Philadelphia! with rainbow 

 trout will not be carried out. as the fry willonly furnish food 

 for the black boss, with which the lower portion of the stream 

 abounds. Why cant the rock bass be introduced into the 

 creeks of Philadelphia and Delaware counties? He would 

 readily take the fly in many of these rocky streams, and fur- 

 nish more amusement than the sunfish and catfish, their turn- 

 sole occupauts. Homo. 



PI8HWAYS IK OREGON.— Corvalhs, Ore., March 27. 



We ha v. 

 makers have no 

 The great abun< 

 OUT streams frei 

 a never failing > 



pro v id 



Walla 



Jssion in Oregon, our law 

 importance of such an office. 

 Bt tish in the world in all 

 eeming to them, no doubt, 

 otection or care. But better 

 few genuine lovers of fish 



He 



L-g 



at the fa 



last session, protecting mountai 

 but, as we have so many atrean 

 ocean, in which there are mou 

 trout aud sea trout, that the qt 

 whether the violator of the law 

 trout or a salmon trout, ami a 

 administrators "f justice knows 



itaiu or brook trout, sal 



cation nit 



has taken a gen 



i br 



. dozi 

 e. it will be a 

 i pretty general 

 11 have good re- 



eial 

 Only being 

 • people am 



interests of the State 

 exceeded by the oi 

 slowly waking up to 



THE MINNESt >TA C/OMM iSSION.— The seventh and eighth 

 reports of This commission, for lNSl-g, are at baud. Suitable 

 mention is made of Dr. William Wilson Sweiiev. who died 



runission, as at 

 ir J. Kellogg, 



succeeds him. 



made which f< 

 the two years. 

 Lake Superior 

 and rainbow t 

 approved Man 

 "Carp and Col 



A detailed repi 

 trout, brook trout 



h 11. L878, billow 



THE MICHIGAN COMMISSI! I 

 present organized, consi-t-: . ,f 

 ■ it: l.-sr. l)r. ,loe!C l'arker, 



H. Bis 



lie 



lie 



.Superintendent 



Applications for Iish, and me extuumuuou oi waters, suouiu 

 be made to the superintendent. Reports, papers, aud general 

 business oi the commission should be addressed to the secre- 

 tary, 



ws lately re- 

 u'iment ih pis- 

 establishnient 



SALMON IN AUKTRAUA.-Aiistra 

 eeived gives the result of a very interest i 

 eieuhurc i„ Sir Samuel Wilson's Bah-l 



at Ercildoune. Victoria, a number of young salmon wero 

 hatched from eggs lornme. pan of a -hi p'liieut sent from Eng- 

 land to New Zealand four years ago. A number of these 

 young salmon were placed in a pond, through which a Stream 

 oi waterwae allowed to flow, and prevented from getting- 

 nwav to the sea by grating- at the outlet. These tish are now 

 about seventeen inches in length, and this season one pair 

 bave deposited their ova in an artificial gravel bed at I he en- 



u;. iu- 1.- tie- p"int. These eggs have been batched success- 

 fully, ant :;:.u healthy young salmon hav I n reared, of 



which 300 have been liberated in on.- of the <t suitable 



rivers in \u-tralia for this iWi. b-ing ' i he streams fall- 

 ing from the Australian Alps in (Jippsland. 1 be remainder of 

 the young salmon are retain-.! for observation. This experi- 

 ment, having result., I -uce-ssfullv. lead- to the hope that, the 

 eft. .ri; whi.-h have be.-n made du'riii" 111- last eighteen years 



icd with complete success, and thai the intro- 

 ialmon mav be as cortaiu as is now that of the 

 nd brown trout in Australian rivers. 



NORTH CAROLINA C 

 .fthe Hoard of Agrieull.ui 

 he report, of Mr. S. (I.W. 



ideutof Fisheri 



tin 



anted the 

 the hateh- 

 wer boiler, 

 which the, 



and the 



results ol every haul arc known in time to attend to it. The 

 hatching is done in the McDonald jars with great success, 

 •flu- rainbow trout i- believed t o be adapted to the waters of 



THE AMERICAN FISHCULTUKAL ASSOCIATION.— 

 The date which we gave in a former issue for the next meet- 

 ing of the association has l)een changed, It was not possible 

 to obtain the room at the time named. The meeting will be 

 held in the room of the K.rm-r's Club, Cooper Institute. New 

 York City, on Wednesday and* Thursday, .Time (i and 7. 



THE CALIFORNIA COMMISSION.— Mr. S. R. Throcmor- 

 ton having resigned from the California Fish Commission, Mr. 

 J. Redding has been appointed in his place. 



Ihe Metmel. 



May 



Annual 

 Entries 



FIXTURES. 



BifNcn snows. 



. is.s:t_\y. 

 Madison 



I ha, bill 



I -lull, Fifth Annual Trials, 

 •bv close July I ; for the 

 •if Stake. Nov. 1. W. 1 A. 



t Grand Junction. Tei 



somirmmaation* should be ad- 

 vm PublisMng Ctv„ mul not to 

 from the office, matters of im- 



"AMER1CAN KENNEL REC1STER." 

 'TTHE initial numlier of the Amertcail Kennel Hriiisler, 

 -* published last Tuesday, eoutains the pedigrees p( dogs 

 of various breeds: the Washington and Ottawa prize lists; 

 New York premium list; and National American Kennel 

 Club Derby entries; also editorial articles, "The Use and 

 Abuse of Specials, " and "Champion Classes." 



Entries for the May number of the ftegfetet 'should be in 

 hand as soon as practicable; no entries for that issue will be 

 received later than May 1. 



For terms of subscription, etc., see our advertising pages. 



EASTERN FIELD TRIALS CLUB. 



rpHERE was a meeting of the board of governors of the 

 JL Eastern Field Trials Club Tuesday evening. Letters 

 were read from Mr. Luther Adams, of Boston. M«ss..and Mr. 

 D. C. Berguiitbal, of Indianapolis, Iud.. accepting the invita- 

 tion of the club to act as judges ol th • Held f rials at Hi"h 

 Point next November. The announcement was reo Ived u ftfj 

 gnat satisfaction by all those present. The club and the gen- 

 tlemen who intend running their dogs, as well as the public 

 are to be heartily congratulated on securing the services of 

 gentlemen so eminently capable of deciding upon ih, merits 

 and dements of the performances of thedogsin the field. The 

 third judge ha- not vet i„.,„ announced; we hop* to lie able 



A letter was received from the .--, rdarv of the New Orleans 

 Oun Club, slating that Mr. H. M. Short, of Middleton. Tenu . 

 who was debarred from participating in the trials of the club, 



ted in ounssueof March 15, that w- believed 

 er carefully considering the matter, would 

 .-. and it gives us pleasure to announ.ee that 

 theirg I judgment wasnot mknlaeed. 



at lour general meetings ol the club instead 

 'b year, and that these meetings be held for 

 i-us-mg matters of interest, to the welfare of 

 he promotion Of good fellowship among the 

 members. I n— e mc-uugs will be held on the first Tuesday 

 oi January, April. September and November, except that this 

 year the first meeting will be held on Tuesday evening. Mav 

 8. when the club will enjoy the dinner so long promised 

 Messrs. J. O. Donner. A. K. i;o,l.il,,, v and H. B.Hamilton 

 il d a committee to make arrangements for the 

 dinner, which Is ample assurance thai "il will be good to be 

 mere. It was voted, that members leaving the country tor 

 a len g then ed period should be excused from paying dues while 

 absent. A few resignations were received and some new 

 membors proposed. 



An- i -a'l.ioni ii incut there was a very agreeable social re-union 

 aud congratulations upon the brilliant Future prospects of the 

 . Itib wer- exchanged. lCverylhing promise.- well for the most 



successful raeetine ai High Pomt next November that has 

 yet been held. Assurance is giveu by mauy promineut 

 sportsmen from all sections of tile country that they will be 

 present with their dogs to enjoy the pleasure of the meeting, 

 and to compete for the honors of victory. 



our confid 



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of one be i 



the- ourpos 



thoeluba 



