Ma, 3i 1883.] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



273 



An All-Abockd Rod. — "INrasnmk" lias defied the 

 accepted tenets of the rod makers, and added a fly-tip wlierc 

 the rod ninki re tboogb.1 ii did not belong. He writes: The 

 rod is ready for pickerel, bass Or t i<.ut . oi course, ii i- hot 

 a, perfect fly-rod — art general tod. can. be. Hut il will take, 

 grst, pickerel j second, bass; thiod, catties or bullheads; 

 fourth, trout— either with bail or riv. I take no stock in 

 fly-casting tournaments Dbal care 10 throw more than 

 tweiny-iive feel of line, with five fool leader fjgually much 

 [ess, 5av$ mj own notions ahoyi Hies and "easts." My 

 favorite cast is tail-fly, largo, well-cleansed red angleworm, 

 with bit of white pari* £01 bead, Two t ■••■< above, a red 

 hackle, queen, or royal coachman, according to water and 

 light. Fifty years' experience has proved to me Hen the 

 above tail fly takes three-fourthB of the trout. Red liackle 



IS ne.\l best.— W ItSBMUE. 



Vhe Mmwl 



Tennessee KTotbb. — The glorious and wise law-makers 

 in our Genera] Assembly repudiated oho I. air tkcdebt«, com 

 pounding with the defaulting Slate treasurer, licensed 

 gaiublingnt poker, seven-up and horse racing, and amended 

 the v. n lenient fish laws so as to permit gigging, scinine. 

 trapping, etc , to he carried on at will. Fishing and limn- 

 ing may in- considered dead here foi pears to eomc, and our 

 s])"r!sn'i"ii will - uher have to seek recreation elsewhere, or 

 bum up their tackle and accoutrements, fur they will never 

 need ihi'iii more iu Whati with rational protection, Would 

 be the finest plate for game and fish on the American eonti 

 uent— .1. D. II 



Su.mon i.\ Okivi.on. -Vanoouver Barracks, Apnl 18 - 



Tie.-il; 1 nutohthus far isreported as verj liglit, $1.10 



bi -iiej paid ii\ the canneries for each fish, Four years ago 

 fifty eenis par fish was the price. Few if any salmon reach 

 the Portland market, I was informed yesi&d&y that then.' 

 weiv ;j.-)ii miles of s»1nes stretched in the Columbia River 

 every nigh I except Sundays. Comment i-- unnncessary. 

 T. E. W. 



Books.— Mr. WieStwoqd has written an introduction to 

 the "Secrets of Angling," by John Denny-, which will ac- 

 company B reprint ol' Ihftl poem. Mr. \\. Satchel] will 

 print it, as also a new edition of (he same gentleman's 

 "Chronicle ,,]ii lr CompleteAnglcr." The Orange .lud.l Co. 

 haverejiuhlished the "Scientific Angler," by the late David 

 Foster, with notes by W. 0, Hani,. 



Caiif. ()!■• AVoiims.— Good, lively bait can he made, in the 

 following way: \\ rap up Bome of the common earth wortuS 

 in a piece of carpet Or thick cloth, put tln-m in a box full ol 

 dirl, and leave them for two or three days. Atthucndof 

 that time they will he a bright scarlcl color, and when von 

 open the cloth th<\ will Spring about one half loot in'ile- 

 air. — M. L. 



TheTauimm as Food. — A correspondent writes to know 

 Something Qf the edible qualities Of the tarpum. We have 

 never eaten il. and do not remember to have seen any allu- 

 sion made to its ublc qualities, Il looks like a good, whole 

 sonic tish. and doubtless many persons have eaten il. Who 

 can give us some information on this subject? 



Hot ii-. 10 THE \i-:i'io<iN. --Prince Arthur'- Landing, Lake 

 Superior, April 14, 1883. — In answer in "Angler," r. '<RoUte 

 to Nep'igon," in your last issue, come by way of Duhjth 

 and Prince Arthurs Landing, and lake boat to Nepigon. 

 Good fishing anywhere from' mouth of river up stream - 

 .1. J. OIO. 



Ili.vci; Bass En the POtohtao.— Falling Waters on the 

 Potomac Riyer is said to he a prime, ground' for black bags. 

 This point and all the way up lo WliliaiHsport, on the same 

 stream, I am assured, can't he heat for large, tish.— Homo. 



The Ghauy Bill wns defeated. 



tgisJiatlfttre. 



SALMON FOR THE DELAWARE AND HUDSON. 



LAST week the United States Fish Commission sent a car 

 with iS-VUm salmon fry to the waters of the upper Dela- 

 ware, and the sliipinent is to be followed by another of the 

 same size. Prof. J3aird intends to test the possibility of accli- 

 mating salmon in both tho Delaware and the Hudson, and 

 will send some. :SO0,<Kin salmon from the Cold Spring Harbor 

 hatchery to the. head waters of the latter river in a few 

 weeks. The fish are the Eastern salmon, .S'. salar, the eggs of 

 which came from the salmon breeding works of the United 

 States Fish Commission at Bucksport, Maine. It is well known 

 that the rivers of Connecticut were the southern limit ol the 

 salmon at the discovery; of the couutry. but it is possible that 

 in the Hudson and the Delaware the difficulties in the way ,«' 

 the salmon were merely mechanical. The. falls on these rivers 

 presented a bar to their ascent to tho streams above, which 

 contains insect and crustacean life necessary to the growth of 

 the fry. as well as suitable spawning grounds. By placing the. 

 young in tho trout brooks in the Adirondack re^onlhey 

 should find all the conditions requisite to their growth and 

 descend the river to the sea at the proper time. There seems 

 to be no good reasou why the rivers named may uot become 

 salmon rivers in time, if the stocking is earned on for a few 

 years. The. experiment is comparatively inexpensive and is 

 well worth trying. Should the tish survive and return, they 

 will be captured in the lower portions of the rivers. for the 

 obstructions above forbid their ascent to the brooks. \Y<- 

 shall watch tho trial with great interest, and hope that our 

 readers will report to us any facts which they may hereafter 

 observe that show the presence of salmon in the rivers. Strav 

 salmon have been taken in the Hudson as high as Troy, and a. 

 few years ago some four or live thousand fish were placed in 

 the Delaware and several adults were afterward taken, show- 

 ing that the temperature and chemical conditions of these 

 rivers are not fatal to this fish. 



Senate, has been 

 Mr. Kenna. or Wesf V,r- 

 .'raliiJ.it.in_- him recently, 

 to my friends for it Hut 



"My election to the United 

 satisfaction to me, of course, 

 ginia. to some friends who w 

 "and I, of course, am very g 

 I tell you frankly, g.-ntleme., . 

 Steps of rapiii promotion in my poliiic.il career has given me 

 so much genuine pleasure ns I he fad i lint n.\ honnd pup took 

 the premium at the dog show the other night.'' 



In the will of the late Richard 1 ('Conner, Falls of Sehu\ Ikill, 

 Pa., is a provision to the effect thai 810 a week be paid forthe 

 support of his dog Spot, the remainder of his estate being be- 

 queathed to the German Catholic Society of St, Joseph 



FIXTURES. 



BRNCH SHOWS. 



May S. il. in and 11, 1888.— Westminster Kennel Club. Seventh 



Annual Bench Shew, Madison S.iuar,- (ianlen. New York City. 



Entries dose April S3, Chas. Uneoln .-•■up''. 



FIELD TIM \l.s. 



Ta insure prm 



,i,vAwil In lh<- F. 



individuals, in 



nlimi ioi)imn.iiiiiilii„is shotilil lu-ml- 



•I Stream Publishing ('■■..end nnt to 

 soncc /,,„„ ti„. office mattM's tif im- 



THE NEW YORK SHOW. 



'PUKRI. are, including the puppies, 1,120 en 



1 Westminster Bench Show n.'M week. Thes ( 



distributed a- follows: r.l mis-iris, o:; Si . Urn 



liun.le. a Newfoundlands, 20 mryhounds, 5 dee 



.eh- 



itilian greyhounds, ill in miscellaneous 

 el tan Setters, JohnC Hlggios, 

 rs, pointers and foxhounds, Maj. J. M. 

 mall non-sporting dogs, J. F. Kirk, Esq., 



41-rlIii 



Taylor, Lexi: 



For spanie 



Toronto, Car 



For mastitis. St. Bernards, berghundo, greyuc 

 hounds, daehshunde, and other large non-sport "inc. 

 Watson. I'.-,,.. N,-\v York city. 



For collies and beagles, Dr. J. W. Downey, Xew Market. 

 FredericE county, Md. 



ids, deer 



gs. .James 



FORM AND COLORS OF SETTERS. 

 Editor /•'ores/ and Stream: 



Col. Sluari Tn\ lor condemns the setters and pointers ex- 

 hibited in New' York last, year, because, with many other 

 faults, they were "narrow-chested." Now I want to iuquirc 

 if in thishe speaks In aeeordance »iih the highest standards, 

 for which he professes such deference. "Stoutheuge" says the 

 chest should be ''deep rather than wide." Idstone aavs, "I 

 dislike a wide chest— 1 never saw a fast dog with one." " A nd 

 ..gain. "The dogs that knoek up and refuse to hunt in hot 

 weather are always square-built, wide-chested one-. Tie-,. 



a rail, arc at wax s'lv.idV to gallop and never trot, which is a 

 (lag of distress. Al the lirst trial iu I tic lield ever hold *• * * 

 the worst goer wa- the strongest and squinest dog thore 

 * * * while Dandy, a ragged, narrow dog. hunted bravely 

 hi spite of his 'weak appearance' upon which some of the by- 

 standers insisted." Has the view exjiressed by these author- 

 ities been discarded? 



Col. Taylor also says the dogs at the Sew Vork show of 'K.' 

 were a "wretchedly colored" lot. I wish he would be more 

 specific iu his criticism, and tell us just how their color was 

 faulty. From the catalogue the lT-> entries of English - ot ters 

 may be classified ,'is follows: 



Black and while, blue belton. etc OS 



Black and white, blue belton. with tan 11 



Orange and while, red and white, etc 89 



Lemon and white, lemon belton 16 



Liver, liver and white, liver and tan. etc 1\! 



Black. blacS and tan 3 



Color not given :; 



172 

 Tho colors Col. Taylor particularly ojeets to seem to bo 

 lemon and white and liver and white. There does not appear 

 to have been any preponderance of either. Hv the way, speak- 

 ing of liver color, if he means to sav that he remembers th- 

 time when liver and white was not'a recognized setter c,,|.,r. 

 I think he is mistaken. He speaks of it as a color only for 

 spaniels and pointers. But it is. generally believed thai tie 

 setter is a spaniel. A "setting spaniel" lie was formerly called. 

 Picket. 



BREEDING FOR SEX. 



' pHAT there is a very general desire among breeders of do- 

 X. inestic animals to possess the power of regulating the pro- 

 portional number of the sexes at will is, l think, made evident 

 by letters on the subject, which appear from time to time in 

 your Journal and others devoted to the interest of stock 



Inregnrdto poultry, one tells us thai the more globular- 

 shaped' eggs will produce pullet-chicks and the more oblong 

 cockerels: while another says that ii the eggs are looked 

 through by a strong light, so as to show the position of the 

 seminal clot, a whole clutch of hens maybe secured by re- 

 jecting those eggs showing it in the center, and selecting 

 those wherein its position is at one side. 1 presume we may 

 brush aside both theories as purely fantastical 



In regard to dogs, we are constantly being reminded of the 

 Old, and I ha 1 thought exploded, theory, that the sex of the 

 produce of an alliance depends on the period of oestrum when 

 the alliance takes place— that is that if the embrace is per- 

 mitted during the early days of heat, the whelps will be 

 mostly bitches; if about the middle of the periocf the sexes 

 will be about equal, and if toward the cud nearly all will be 

 male pups. 



In vour American contemporary, Forest axd Strea51 of 

 the Kthult.. a ease is recorded of a litter by the well know, 

 collie Marcus; the dam of the litter having visited him at the 

 commencement of her heat,' the result was nine puppies, all 

 bitches but one. 



I remember some months bank seeing a letter in Hie 

 Journal from the Bey. K. Spencer Tiddeman, recording a 

 somowhat similar result in tl think) more than oac 

 with his Dandle Dimiionts; and nil of your readers must h.u e 

 had instances in support, of the. theory brought under their 

 notice. 



I must say I can place no fnitli in the lheory dependem for 

 support on comparatively isolated facts when I find thai th 

 results are opposed to the largest collect ion- ol [acts ai our 

 disposal. 



for a moment, iie'Yh. !•'.;!!' !.',-' : !!i""i',',' Senteinber^lSBl '"i'i'iTu 

 numberleft my bouse and beaten baol by bl 



reader, will rem, n r ;• - . >..--pi:- . - • , .'. that time, 



their home oe,- 11 pi.-d"lo I he -';..! rr.'.'w-. who had tilled it With 



twined around the leg of one swallow as be left 

 inspection ol the nest, held him suspended for a short time, 



.v.^\ mi impressed the i,,( vyith fear, is I presume, that all, 

 after a short fly round, disappeared, 1 o-.-m to perish. 



But to return to the dog question, it appears to me that to 

 establish the theory, none but moles in the one ease, and re 



but females in the other ease, should be produced; or other- 

 wise the theorists have eoutradietorv fact to deal with whi.-h 

 they will and hard toexplain. 



pfb doubt it would be considered a very convenient thing if 

 we could arrange the comparative number of the sexes at 

 will: but rfear the theorists have in this, as we ore all apt to 

 do in so ninny things, allowed the wish to be father to" the 

 thought. 



Dauy farmers would take very good care to secure g 1 



breeding seasons, if they had ft in their power to secure all 

 qney calves; and. dog breeders, who sell, would take, care to 

 have mostly dogs, and only enoiudi bit. lies to secure what 

 ihcv might consider a mifff ient multapEoatlon of their partic- 



ular 



Fort 



desire th 



minds, n 



and a hil 

 ilsiiutur 

 To con 

 numbers 

 Consider! 

 lost sigh 

 elf, el ,,r 



of the sexes in i 

 ig the figures I 

 ol although I i 



the kind 



i relative 

 which, in 

 Id not be 

 it has any 

 tois, that 



hounds, consisting of 3, 80S males and :;,- 



(but, pranieallv. ;.-, hounds. foxhoUl 

 and some other hound- are excluded) to 

 I.T'.M males and l.''.;.' females, or a fra< 

 excess ofmal is. 



What the proportion mighl be in a sto 

 tinder domestication did unrestricted hit 



sexes prevail we have no ans of provl 



reason for supposing that the proporti. 

 ally altered, What we want is a r.p- In-. 

 [wish now to appeal!,, you. sir. to give 



e-ting events. If 1 n- nil. r rightly. V, 



led 



but ict. I should 

 vith conclusions 



must be great. No doubt in your re. i 

 contemporary, there will be somedup' 

 think, to the. extent to materially int. 

 to be drawn" from the facts re .led 



1 think, too. it would also boot great benefit if we could 

 have statistics, from the heads of your several departments 

 dealing with horses, cattle, sheep, 'swine, rabbits, cage-birds 

 and poultry, as these embrace both the monogamous and 

 polygamous- 



I should be glad to see the opinions and tin- experience of 

 breeders expressed in your columns on this v,rv interesting 

 and important subject, so that by a free Interchange of 

 thought and of acquired knowledge we inav each add to the 

 store of the. other.- -llvtih Unhid in Lin- ,S7 .'„•/.■ Journal. 



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NEW YORK FIRE DOGS. 



[CONCU'DErj FR05I rAf,'B&'.] 



Hf IKE J. McNAMAi: A. driver of Engine No. 83, at 1385 Wesl 



1 i-'i It v -eighth street, owns a nice liille Skve terrier called 

 Sh« is about four years old. She does not run to fires. 



is i u fcanghl lo trip the lever which connects with the 



iuerv thai unhitches the horses and throws open the 

 doors of the engine house and stable. At command the little, 

 flog jumps up and catches a rubber ring in her mouth. The 



the horse- are well Ii ain-d. especially the off-engine horse. In 



the horses and retire to a piace of safely on the stair's. "The 

 horses were hitched to the pole and the men were at their 



dog. wdio was born and brought np'in Ylie serviee.' He is won- 

 derfully intelligent. Jack belongs to Hook and Ladder ( 'om- 

 panyNo.6,at No. 77 Fast Canal street, of which JohnH. 

 ICehoe is foreman. Jack goes to all the hres. and is first to 

 hear the buzz of the telegraph. If up on the third lloor when 

 the call comes he is the lir.-i member of the oompanydtfwn. 

 He never dresses, hut goes to the lire as he is. .lack' always 



usands of persons, and his barking informs them that 

 re is a lire in the district, lie clears the street for the en- 

 :!.ati a man could. Jack is always firs; i„ the 

 •i niglii be looks for the Iheinaii's light, and 

 •n wire the smoke is thick and h" cannot be seen" the men 

 .w heisal...:,i 1,, hearing him she.-z-.-. Il leer i- a lir, an l 

 apparatus does not go ont Jack site down and howls iu 



iietimesthc horses st, 



h', 

 n t 



,i hi- bear! 

 ml he keeps 



11 he gels 1,( 



was broken. 

 on threelegs 



me he j- laid 



'. ; '.i'm'ii 



the cleansiii .' is over. Hut at lir.-s he doc, no' 

 smoke or the heaviest shower baths. Abon 

 wasatlen.lin. i lire in (io'.lsnv.t and fell 



Ml liv 



il"U,c 1 he lie 



the men had 

 Jack is looke 



the 

 Toe smoke became so 

 sck refused lo leave end 

 i out. in domestic life 

 i. He frequent l\ acoin- 

 salwa', s providod wilh 

 annors are refined, So 

 greal favorite, and if all 

 - 'one ot the l..r. >'' and a 

 ler of the first water. II.- sleeps in the dormitory and is 

 irsl. to -lartle tic ui.-n. si, add am of tile men be it the 

 barber shop ii biock «n they always bear Jack's warning hark 



ill time to III li , [i < Hi I ol I he . -'lair on] fco Cfltch I he., op :ia' us as 

 ii runs out 



Of the remarkable ,|.,g.s Ihal have died in thfl : ervicc. HilJ. 

 of luigiue .No i ;. is reiueinlicr. .1 ir. the whole force. Ih-wis 

 a large black mongrel, and originally belonged to Stiatu 

 Senator Handen wn.-n he kept ... bakpr's shop ili bmliou 

 streets between Bl-omue and DolancBJ Btreets One ol the 

 liienieu coaxed Bill away lioin Ins ownei- in 16(59 and he r, 

 maiued with the company until ImSk. wnon he died. He was 

 then buried with much ceremony in the yard back of the 



