520 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



[Jan. 34, 1884, 



imt mi additional Hue over the stake and went on with the 

 fiBliirig. It bad beoa nil fishing nud no catching so far. 

 Pi, vi, i Iv »iv cork disappeared, awl I said to my friend, "1 

 have' a. rock,"" hul n\ fddk turned out to be an cnonnoui 

 eel. 1 gol him into the boat irnd gave him a stub through 



bis spinal column, 

 eaoghl mini In 

 in the mm 



tin re was ii li 

 ■ vind blevj so 



Which 

 11 eel am 



on. 



ted 

 catfish 



effectually. W'c 



'd very umeh. and 



toattompl toWl 

 wed aaauisit it. It 



ldh 



we b'.id let go the Brake and nm before it wc would have 



. fcentotwfelve miles lr.mi home in -a cattail swamp. 



with our ehanca foi getting on u rra firma vary uncertain. 



We lav down in llt> bottom of the bunt for u while, hoping 

 lhai b\ noon the wind would lull, and WCtC very I'mnloita- 

 bli for the time Being. A- there was no lull bv 1 o'clock, 1 

 (K'termined to risk beating ftp. 1 asked my Friend if lie was 

 afraid, knowing lie .could not swim, and as ho said he was 

 not, I gol underway. I. frrst told him to -il. still where i put 

 him. to bold the shecl in hi> hand, and lit go when I told 

 him, not to got liiidui.mdif the boat l ' ' 

 noyau* cushion to use as H llfe-presi 

 mainsail and untying from Hie stake ■ 

 inimite and nwny she bounced. Gfl 

 bl«)w I Wc did not seem to fed ii h 

 stake as we did under way. Twic 



we were over, the wind blew in fu 

 (,uii l< ns n flash. The sens brake al 

 to it, and after makin; 

 The watOI Was ankle 

 drenched to the -kin, 

 been watched with nu 

 and Tlic-mas, a veteran 

 i,.: ■; i,i- large sailboat 

 said be did not think it was possible fi 

 i otic of the times thai 1 went, fishing 

 tuck. 

 Iiai.timoue, Jan. 12. 



ill down. I gave him 

 rver. Putting up the 

 ras but the work of n 

 ■ii < '.•<■-. ;r. how it did 

 1 1 tied to the 

 nr first tack I thought 

 us gusts and came as 

 ivai'us, but l held her 



deep 



Alte 



nil 



iid-c 

 B part 



S both 

 we had 



us io gel up, This 

 nul didn't hnvc good 



E, a. i;. 



'•■Ii; Akiiii k. dor fttaidenl der Vereiuiglen Btaaten von 

 NordnincriUn, ir-t b, ■kanntlich cin passionirtcr Angcltisehcr, 

 der nlij.'.lirliih einfge Fetiat'WQch.qn da/.u bcniiizt. dieseu 

 Sport e'ifrigsl zu bctrelhen. Bs fehlt denn audi keinosiyegs 

 an Aul'iiiiik.-nnikeitcn, die ilnu von vorsehicdenen Seiteii 

 rail l Hi: bsichl mil' rlioati seine Liobhaberei erwiesen werden. 

 So i:bii i l itlii <ii ihm im vorigen J&hre die Angler \un Louis- 

 ville Cine prnohivoll ".'cnrbcilcle Rollc mis Silhcr; licucr 

 empiinjr cr erst vor Kurzcm von Mr. I 



i Kentucky, 

 baron iagelstock, Als > 

 ••■.hi Journalisteu in New 

 • i t ■ < -in i i-i wurde. wclche 

 l',.i,i,|. -ntcn der V.-iviiii 



/.ciclu 

 efiligl n Tagen 



Of Knoll. Gou- 

 schoncn, kost- 

 cinera Kreise 



d.'ibiii. dasg 



bi.'dcut. ndei 



die letztcri 

 ;. Nov. I. Ug 



Stellung die w 



cin ulterer Joui 



illl 



wir niclii— am Unde ist seine Slelluug doch der unscrigen 

 vorzuzioheu." — AUgemoine Sport Zeitung. 



j'.ik: tea Fisues at Fulton Makket.— Mr. Blackford 

 . ed live specimens of tench and gudgeons recently 

 broughl from Prance, lie has also some tine specimens of 

 live rainbow trout from the ponds of the South Side Sports- 

 man's Club of Long Island. These fish are only eighteen 

 months old, and are about ten inches long, and willprob- 

 uhly weigh over a quarter of a pound each. 



JUislfcultme. 



MENHADEN QUESTION. 



March. If vo 



• correspondent -will consult Mr. 

 Fish Market. New York City, be 

 )mf fact* in regard to the spawn- 



Fifth— By looking up the history of ever' 



lr markets it is found that within the last tl 



ive been several periods of plenty mid fan 



arked fluctuations have, happened within tl 



fOr instance, during the winter of 1874 and 



tautog were frozen", but since that time th< 



pi :'iy .1- ever before known. Cod after 1870 



before 1878 they were present in such qui 



Gloucester and Cape Hsnlopen that fishermen 



them, f or the reason they could not get. thri 



cm ] »'i pound for them. Porgies were scarce croi 



!-;:;; nl'lcr !-',:; they put ill an appearance in <|Uanlit 



to an j ever before Known. Sqiieteaguemai 



pics, hi in Nariagansett Bay. mill old men u-il In Ii 



taking them by the boat load on fishing grounds w 



one ha d been to ken fov rears. During lss'73 they mn 



appearance, and while that body was presenl thou 



ions wo,-e let loose after being taken, for the reasoi 



did not pav to ice and ship them to market. The sal 



bo told of mackerel, shad, herrings, s.heepshead, 



striped bass, bul ii is only a waste of time and your 



. go over the whole ground, with each fish, although 



■t be "-ii to lc.ee out the menhaden in the illustra 



about question they were more plenty during L883 



,er found them before. 



Sixth— Providing pains me ever taken to 



to what our food fish feed upon, it will be 



-fourth- oi one 



bar. 



■men by ;u 

 v ill limited 

 ■Vlaiiilv by e: 



what wouli 



been destro 



twenty-fon: 



Tiverton, '. 



s, bonitas and fish of like character 

 menhaden. It is always to be iin- 

 ng of the full grown menhaden. 

 come in from the ocean during the 

 nd squeteague often follow i hem. 

 mown where millions of ban Is. r 

 they were allowed to mow. have 

 lavs in a space of wafer less than 

 Daniel T. Ciuii'ii. 



EUROPEAN SALMON TROUT. 

 Forest mul >7,c«hi; 

 jy of your readers know anything about the Denn 



ut— its habits, etc 



the Den 

 and woi 

 Protease 



Pei 



port of I . s. i 'on- nl at ( open 

 uggeste the idea of obtaining 

 r stocking our "rivers and rivu- 

 brook trout ota few ounces 

 nallvl instead oflf to 30ponnds 

 kinds of trout in Europe (like 

 s trout) which grow very large 





of startu 

 subject. 



The following is the. slip red 



Washington, Jan. 5.— Mr. 

 Consul at Copenhagen, has 

 upon the salmon trout fisheri 

 been received by Secretary i 

 salmon trout occupies a proinn 

 Denmark, Mr. Ryder says, and . 

 fact that although in its primordial state 

 it is found equally well i 

 salmon trout is remarkabl 



of St; 



l.i 



habi 

 port 



It is one of thei 

 m certain limited 

 mri entirely free 



ihaden located for 



ished for 



busu 

 rag&l 



pie n. 



nti who gives his ideas of the menhaden 

 i, pour issu&of Jan. 10 is wide from the facts. 

 -Menhaden don't now, nor never did, occupy the 

 baat 1 1 oi,. .Maine to North Caroline * 

 «• laws, to locate in large bodies 

 i of our coast, leaving the largest 

 eir presence, and in my ten years, or n 

 re fisherman I never saw any menh 

 son between Seaconnet and Cuttyhi 

 ink and Capo Malabar. From 18iM) to 

 .eiweeniia'v Head and Holmes Hole 

 ar and during that timo large quantities of striped 

 in. under my observation, and I caught some with 

 ■ ',■■' '.vhich weighed .12 pounds, but during all that 

 lid not see a menhaden in that vicinity, 

 d— Our coast fish, tautog. squeteague, porgies. cod, 

 el. striped and sua bass, do not feed on menhaden, and 

 er found seeking them for food ; if by chance a school 

 laden should be in the vicinity of large striped bass 

 y thev wood feed on them, but there is no truth in 

 Dry often advanced that striped bass make it their 

 3 to follow and feed on menhaden. For instance, Nar- 

 tt Bay usually, during the bass season, contains 

 jf menhaden and they are usually located between 

 i and Providence, and between Seaconnet and Fall 

 River while the homo of the striped bass is between Seacon- 

 net and Bronton's Reef, but I have yet to learn that they ever 

 left tlieb- regular grounds to feed on menhaden, and 1 have 

 questioned some of the oldest menhaden fishermen if they 

 ever caught a striped bass inside the mouth of Narragausctt 

 Bay in a menhaden seine and they all answer "not one." Our 

 fishermen have uiUen this season between Cape Cod and the 

 capes of the Delaware ten thousand tons of menhaden, and in 

 taking them thev caught one striped bass and less than three 

 tons of bluclish, which is popularly supposed to live on mciihn 



Third— Being in the fresh fish business myself for the last 

 twenty -rive years. 1 can give your correspondent some facts 

 of interest to him. One us, that there is no scarcity of frenh 

 fish ou our coast, and that rhe price paid me during seasons of 

 ISb2 and 1SJ8 for porgies delivered in Philadelphia and New 

 York did not average W/i cents per pound, and for tautog less 

 than two cents with instructions from dealers to send as few 

 as possible. Porgies between the years of 18(17 and 1670 went 

 from 15 cents per barrel to 85 per barrel at wholesale, and the 

 wholesale price in New York and Philadelphia was over six 

 cents per pound. It was then that a crusade was made against 

 trap-usking for the reason, as it was alleged, that they had de- 

 stroyed the porgie, but free fishing had its way, and during 

 1874 porgies madethoir appearance in quantities large enough 

 to suit every one- 



Fourth -Menhaden do not spawn, as is generally supposed, 

 on this coast between April and July, but at sea betweenNov- 



tiine in the bays and river mouths duri 

 and returns, as a rule, to the spot 

 These habits make the fish an object c 

 lovers of piscatorial sport as well as tl 

 The salmon trout, as is well known, is 

 The real salmon fishing, Mr. Ryder < 

 on the island of Bornholm. It is only i 

 a large number of salmon follow in co 

 trout when these, during the brecdii! 

 bays and river mouths, and they are i 

 void and Randus. 

 As a proof that salmon are not dwellers i: 



bays of brackish 



water and broad river mouths, Mr. Ryder states that tliev 

 have never been found with eggs at the time of capture, while 

 the salmon troutevery year seeks these places to deposit their 

 spawn. The real salmon in the breeding season travels north- 

 ward along the Swedish. Finland, Norwegian and Iceland 

 coasts. The salmon trout are unusually fleshy and afford an 

 excellent and nutritious food. The larger llsh, weigh ing Croin 

 16 to 30 pounds, are frequently dried and smoked and passed 

 off in trade as salmon. The smaller trout are ge:. 

 on the spot, in a fresh state, at prices varying from 1? to 80 

 cents per pound. The salmon trout, to use Consul Ryder s ex- 

 pression, generates prodigiously, an ls-pound tish often yield- 

 ing from 12,000 to 14,000 eggs. It grows rapidly, increasing 

 about a pound a year, and travels into the remotest rivers aud 

 rivulets. From this it can be understood why the salmon 

 trout occupies its prominent position m Denmark, not only on 

 accountof the home, market, but also as an article of export. 

 there being a great demand tor it, especially from Germany. 

 Mr. Ryder says that while there has of late years been a 

 marked decline in all descriptions of fish in Denmark waters, 

 this is especially true of tie- salmon trout. Two hundred or 

 300 years ago tish was found in great abundance, and trout of 

 twenty to thirl v pounds weight could be bought for three or 

 four cents each'. The fishermen had to drive round to the pro- 

 vincial towns and the interior of the country to dispose of 

 then - catches. Everv rivulet swarmed with salmon trout, and 

 from October until far into December they could be taken 

 from the banks of rivers by the thousands with nets or hues. 

 Not more than fifty or sixty years ago s 



the Coi 

 ground 

 the Ba 

 the we 



and doclini 



v of the Sk jorn into 



late connect ion with 



bably no ia 



- for"the 

 vera, bul 

 Itself im- 



ah in these small pits, and 

 if allowed unhindered to 

 fill the rivers and rivulets 



out fisheries of Den. ear); 





d spots should be 



abolished and 



• • Stale, a Hoi 



vine coe a 



• in the mmu ii- 



t 1 to Dee 



15— all tn 



ng with nets, 



or the like, 



in the bays, rivei 



v and rivulets 



b pro! ibitei 



I. and the trbul 0s 



d»g Should be 



■ 



[Our read e: 

 trout, win. fa 



iu habits and structure, 

 ua u>, the .1' " 

 variously ca 

 trout, in K 

 latter name 

 Ky.lei 



fail l .- . arried ou,l 

 yeare, the Consul thinks, it nnv be boned thai 

 ies of the kingdom may unco more be filled 



$hotu*d mn confound thjs (Mi with our lake 



often called salmon trout, for ii differs both 



It i- the Ujilino h-n't" of i.oi 



me m thai country. '.■ I 



lots, it is at least, a fertile om 



elenl suggests, lie v.iaial.le fov , 



F'ehrK 

 the U. 



i a hybrid. 



and would] P« our 



md e-.ni 



pillHl-. of 



id m the 

 iey speiwn 



fish has developed into a. winter jpawnsr The} 

 the rainbow trout on Dec. V.', this winter. 



ilie 

 , this 

 ;esof 



Jpfu fennel 



FIXTURES. 



i ■•:< -it :-'HOW8. 

 Aroil — , lSivL— The Cleveland Bench Show Assotiitttloa'a Second 



Heneli Sln'ev. i.'leulcs tgaeeln. Sllp-rialelKtenl C. M. 'Munhall, Scc- 



,. Charles Lincoln, Superintendent. 



A 'n!\v7i' ; '!''i i ..iin.i Dog Shim-.— March 12. 13 and n. 



"n amii, '..ii Kennel i lub.- Beoond Annual Sbtrtv. Horticultural Gar- 

 dens, Toronto, March id, 27 ami 2S\ 



HPH1 



A. K. R. 



KKOSISTER, for tin reglstl 

 with prize listsoj all ghowsund trials), is pub« 

 lisbed every month Entries olaee on ihe i-i. Should lie iu early. 



... ; ,i ,,„ ,-. ..,-ip: ol I ' D» !'•'- 



■: ir.v each entry. No entries 

 inserted unless paid m ad«aace. Soarly subsortpttan Si. uldress 

 "American Keiniel Re-isUT." I'. O. Hon JS32, •'<•'•' V"rk. Niinil.er 

 6t entries alreadj printed 744. 



MASTIFF TEMPERAMENT AND PECULIARITIES. 



Editor Forest andStremn: 



ihethingto narrate ion:. -i,,iie- ,,i 



. aastiffs. 



,l .io ii bo glorify uiv own dogs, but 



' ■ -vatioii- and experiences 



KM™,. 7 *.»:ll 



6uf dogB, I am te 



and "iio,„^t inju 

 in the hopes of Ci 



oiothfli i 



babe mj < : i •• . 



'Idol 



made at Oregaard's Mills, near Manager Bay, that 

 had to go anioag the. peasants to get rid of tlieir ns 



li.-h. In ; 



i ha 



counting for the recent rapid falling off in the supply of sal- 

 mon trout Mr. Kyder -"-' 

 ployruent in other oc 

 lishing: that the ir. 

 proved; that there i 

 tn.ere is a steadily tut 

 of special law^and : 

 cries against wanton 

 id from theso s 



; a larger home consumption, and that 

 reasing demand for export . The al ise.nce 

 egulations for the protection of the rlsh- 

 .va-ie. and the considerable profits real- 

 is in recent years have. Mr. Ryder thinks. 

 induced many persons to take part in the fishing in bays and 

 rivers until it has been reduced to a system of wanton de- 

 struction. In many places during the spawning season trawl- 

 ing nets and other modes of capture are employed, aud every- 

 thing that comes to the nets, large or small, is welcome. Not 

 onlv is there a groat destruction of the young trout, but the 

 larger fish are taken before they have time to deposit their 

 spa via. Thus year by year the supply is diminish* -. . 

 gaam Mills. 18(>(), there were taken 1.S50 pounds ot salmon 

 trout. Iu 187U, ^oii pouudswere taken, and last year the catch 

 fell to only lOS pounds. The same falling off is noticed on the 

 Skjorn River. Strange to say, the salmon trout fisheries thi3 

 year have given a very good result, and it is not improbable, 



i'-O .JIIHll- "III, l.A(,COCJ1^^0 



s and admirers, i o,i I v, 01 

 est I suppose a fancier would 



. ed.' wait 

 me a load of hay, 



... Kn:. lee .. -he. 



ni put the hay 



■ hi had unloaded, but she 



■. -v.- 1- 1 ai him every time hu 



■■:■■• r'oill.il and 



■ 



edge of a shallow i 



umin n 1 behind bin 



. friend Mr. Jam 



oile'v bitch 'S<,ile,|a\.ainlQip80y 

 igation of him and had concluded 

 ok o.u a I. inn- and began to scrape 

 c bii -Ii. flu m -ii- jumped 

 . when lie put av 

 wn. nut kept a sharp watch on 



jfi-chain, aud there sh" lies until alter 

 r charge. 

 .■ar i,\ and out of sight : bul I ho mo- 

 alongside 

 party and 

 tool under. 

 iv lightly stritoug at a girl she had 

 ;sented the iiist attempt b 

 eih; but the fool could not take wnni- 

 u -in- .-:..: -.:ng on him and knocked bun 

 down in a partioiilarlj fine mud hole, and stood over him 

 crowling until the girl calledaim off, and then she growled at 

 The offender '- loi _ 

 her oharaebv their taking a now path, Bui 



■" church audwo a- over 



An old woman had been P 



weeks, and Gipsey had iximc to considol' her a member oi the 

 family - when she ' 



back to eet some ve-'etables. the house e,Ul knowing that Gijj- 

 -eyluevv the old woman -d herfbewayto 



the garden and left her; bui v.-neii '."tip-'.-; 

 tomatoes and putting them iu her basket, the vet- 

 once, growling very, unmistakably. The old) woman WOSt 

 mto the house and reported it to the house girl, who laughed 



She i 



ig aud repeated 



