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by pigeon shooters, sets it upon a flat wooden float six 

 inches square, and pays it out into the river where the 

 current runs swiftly between islands. Having guided it 

 to the desired place where the bass are known to be, he 

 springs the trap with a delicate silk lanyard leading to the 

 shore; the grasshopper is tossed overboard and into the 

 mouth of the expectant fish, and is hauled in, hand over 

 hand, by the hook and line, to which we forgot to say the 

 big grasshopper is made fast. We may as well say here, 

 that in passing the hook through the insect's body, care 

 should be taken not to pinion his wings or impede the 

 action of his legs — we mean the hind legs — the big ones 

 that, give propulsive force, initial velocity and momentum 

 to the leap. This method of fishing is spoken of with high 

 approval, and we know that our leaders will be gratified to 

 have some account from Mr.Massey of his experience with 

 this bait. The only objection to its geueral adaption here, 

 seems to be the scarcity of bait in this section, though we 

 have no doubt that the Acridium giganteum could be im- 

 ported from the west, or at least be induced to migrate this 

 way. 



New Hampshire. — The unusual warmth of the water, it 

 is said, has caused the fishing for black bass to be rather 

 poor in this State. A party recently visited Sunapee Lake, 

 in which bass have been heretofore more abundant than in 

 any other waters of New Hampshire, but returned without 

 any. Some few, weighing from two to three pounds each, 

 have been taken in Massabesic Pond. 



New Jersey.— Kinseys" Ashley House, Barnegat Inlet, 

 August 14th. — There has been a decided improvement in 

 fishing the past week. The sheepshead, for some cause 

 two weeks ago, scattered all over the Bay. Some were 

 taken as far up as the mouth of Forked River; they are 

 now back on their usual feeding grounds, and some good 

 catches have been made. Weakfish are biting good— large 

 catches at the mouth of Forked River and the entrance 

 buoy; they run from f to 2£ pounds. Blackfish and sea 

 bass plenty and good size. JB1 uefish, large schools of Im- 

 pounders, enter the inlet nearly every day on the high 

 water, but do not take the squid well; plenty of 8 pounders 

 outside; also bonitas. August 7th, J. Sexton, Amboy, N. 

 J., 4 sheepshead; Wm. Inman & Son, 18 sheepshead; Joel 

 Ridgway and party, 19 bluefish. August 8th, Capt. Perrine 

 and party, 5(3 blackfish and sea bass; Wm. Round, 12 

 sheepshead; B. V. At wood, Cleveland, Ohio, 49 biackfish; 

 C. Grim, 6 sheepshead. August 9th, T. M. Dixon, Phila- 

 delphia, 19 bluefish; W. E. Evans, Philadelphia, 3 blue- 

 fish, 11 scabass. August 10th, James Cockran, W. D. 

 Graff, D. B. Howell, N. Y , 18 bluefish; G. L. Walters, 

 N. Y.. 34 sea bass. August 11th, S. N. Dixon, 19 bluefish, 

 2 sheepshead. August 12th, J. L. Saunders, 21 bluefish, 

 47 weakfish. August 14th, T. Taylor, Waretown, 21 blue- 

 fish. 



Connecticut— Bridgeport, August 14.— The bass fishing 

 on the Housatonic River is excellent near Bridgeport. 



Huntington. 



—Lewis Smith has caught 60,000 bluefish this year in his 

 weir at Orleans, Cape Ann. 



— Hon. E. H. Kellogg, of Pittsfield, it is said, has caught 

 1,000 trout this season. We wonder what they weighed? 



— A pickerel over two feet long was on exhibition in 

 Salem last week. It was one of a dozen caught at Che- 

 bacco Pond. 



—Late intelligence from Prince Edward Island states 

 that fishing has not been at all a success so far this season. 

 The reports fiom the codfish and mackerel catchers are of 

 a discouraging nature. 



—Six or eight halibut were found attached to the wreck 

 of the S. N. Collimore, lately run down near Nantucket, 

 and afterwards towed into Yarmouth, N. S. It would ap- 

 pear that the wreck, in drifting over the fishing grounds, 

 probably Georges, had come in contact with a trawl. 



Fishing Movements.— The mackerel have struck off 

 shore the past few days, and although the receipts the past 

 week have been fully up to those of the previous week, 

 but few have been caught for two or three days, and the 

 tone of market is well maintained. The number of 

 arrivals reported for the week has been 32, and the re- 

 ceipts about 5,600 barrels. With unfavorable weather for 

 curing, and continued light receipts, Georges codfish have 

 advanced steadily the past four weeks, and it would be 

 difficult to procure lots on the basis of the last transactions, 

 $5 per qtl. The numbei of Georges arrivals for the week 

 has been 43 and of Bank arrivals 7. Receipts of codfish 

 700,000 lbs. Georges, Bank, 301,000. Fresh halibut have 

 been in light receipt, 109,000 lbs., with last sales at 8^ and 

 4i cents. Total fishing arrivals for the week 82.— Gape 

 Ann Advertiser, July 12th. 



— The use of cormorants for fishing purposes, which has 

 been practiced for centuries by the Chinese, who carefully 

 train these birds to deliver their prey uninjured to their 

 masters instead of appropriating it to their own use, and 

 from China and other Oriental countries has recently 

 been brought to England. 



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FISHING THIS SEASON IN CALIFORNIA. 



San Fkancisco, August, 3d. 

 Editor Forest and Stream.:— 



Angling oi bait fishing, ana trolling with the epoon, for salmon and 

 trout, has not been so good up to this time as it was last year in Lakes 

 Merced and Saa Andreas, which are near this city, but in Pilarcitosat a 

 somewhat greater distance the fishing with the fly and troll has been 

 very much better. In the last lake, brook trout only are taken. Theie 

 have been several excursions north to the McCloud,Pitt, and Sacramento 

 rivers by different parties, and the success there with the salmon, com- 

 mon trout, and "Dolly Varden" trout, a new kind, peculiar it seems to 

 that region of country, and highly esteemed for beauty, sport, large size 

 and good qualities for the table, has been capital. The rivers up there 

 mostly run with much force ef current which makes the handling of large 

 salmon quite lively and exciting, and when an angler gets hold of a 

 twenty or twenty-five pound salmon it not only is apt to consume much 

 time— say an hour at least— but puts to considerable trial the sports- 

 man's activity, endurance and muscle, especially, as is generally the 

 case, if he has to handle many of such fish a day. These salmon are said 

 to take pretty well the fly either early or late in the season, but about 

 the middle of the reason, or the months of June or July, they take noth- 

 ing well but salmon roe, and this is rather a troublesome bait to keep on 

 .the hooks, owing chiefly to the swiftness of the current, (running about 



ten miles per hour), and the somewhat shyness of the fish in seizing the 

 bait, al though there is no lack at all in their numerous attempts to grasp 

 it. It is now pretty well settled beyond a doubt that this part of our 

 State, and indeed, nearly all the northern portion of it, is not surpassed, 

 if equalled, for its splendid salmon and trout in any part of the world. 

 In order to reach this paradise for salmon and trout fishers, the angler 

 takes from this city the Northern Pacific Railroad to the town of Red- 

 ding, thence by stage to Siseon's. where every accommodation is found 

 at a reasonable rate. The time taken up in reaching these glorious fish- 

 ing grounds is only two day's. About the 29th of this month my nephew 

 and myself are going to the north fork of the Navarro River in Mendicino 

 county, about thirty-six hour's journey from here, with only one day's 

 staging, to tackle the large species of brook tront which abound there and 

 also to spend a few days in shooting black and cinnamon bears, (grizzly 

 not to our sorrow being scarce) which are quite plentiful, and found 

 feeding on the wild fruits. On our return we shall, as usual, send you 

 an account of our excursion, to add to the histories sent to your valua 

 ble paper from all quarters of the globe concerning the exploits of the 

 ardent devotees of the rod and gun, etc. E. J. Hooper. 

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ANGLING IN MISSOURI. 



St. Lours, Mo., August 1st. 

 Editor Forest and Stream:— 



\fcWe have not many notable lakes and streams for angling in our imme- 

 diate vicinity, as what were really so a few years ago have been pretty 

 thoroughly depleted by market fishermen with seines, nets, etc. Our 

 anglers and law-makers have made no decisive war against these plagues 

 and pests. I believe there is no Fish Commission in our State, and 

 there will probably be no exertion made to amount to anything until the 

 last fish has been taken We have two "so-called" fishing clubs in St. 

 Louis— the Murdock and King's Lake Clubs. I have belonged to the 

 Murdochs since I came to the city, five years ago. The club has been in 

 existence ten years or more, and has had varied fortunes, some years 

 having a goodly number of members, while in other years the member- 

 ship would sink below the requisite number to pay expenses. Our great 

 difficulty has been to selectmen or officers who had interest enough in the 

 success of the club 10 put forth the requisite energy to secure that end. 

 They seem to think and act as though if they went down to the club 

 house once or twice a year, and had a good time, that would be suffi- 

 cient. Hook upon Murdock Lake as being the best fishing water in oar 

 vicinity, and the duck shooting in spring and fall is unsurpassed. We 

 have a membership tttis year so far of about thirty-five. The lake is lo- 

 cated about thirty miles south of St. Louis, and moderately easy of ac- 

 cess. We have a large and comfortable club house with twelve spring 

 beds, and keep a competent and reliable superintendent and cook there 

 the year round As the best grounds are filled with logs and tree tops it 

 is not feasible to use fancy tackle, reels, etc. But with a £,ood strong 

 bamboo or cane pole and hook baited with a live minnow we get gener- 

 ally quite exciting sport. Quietly approaching an old tree top or log 

 in one of our boats, a few yards from the shore, we gently drop in our 

 baited hook and eagerly watch the painted float, when snddeniy it disap- 

 pears, and you find a captured fish struggling to get free. We have not 

 -ong to wait in uncertainty as to whether it is a black bass, dog, cat, or 

 croppy, as in any event you must land your fish as suon as practicable, 

 else it will get entangled under Borne log, limb, or root, and you may 

 lose him. 1 have fished in the waters of many States east, west, north 

 and south, and am ready to give the palm to our lake and its comforta- 

 ble club house. At no point, taking the year round, do I believe more 

 fish can be taken or comfortable quarteis found than at our iake by 

 the bluff. D. L. D. 



PAILS FOR CONVEYING LIVE BAIT. 



v{ Oconomowoc, Wis., August 8th. 



Editor Forest and Stream: — 



In your paper of August 3d I find an inquiry from "F.W.C.," of Bos- 

 ton, in reference to the carrying ©f live bait for bass and other fishing. 

 The difficulty of transporting live minnows any considerable distance 

 and having them alive when we reach our fishing ground has long been a 

 tenons one; but I believe that it has now been entirely overcome by the 

 invention of Mr. J. C. Hitchcock of this place, of the most perfect min- 

 now bucket ever made. This contrivance may be described as follows: 

 It is made of heavy tin, oblong in shape, divided into two general com- 

 partments. One side is made to contain water for the minnows, which 

 are placed in a separate pail made of galvanized iron wire, and dropped 

 into the compartment, over which the cover of one-half of the bucket 

 falls. The water is aerated by means of a simple device consisting of a 

 tin tube, upon which is fixed a hollow rubber ball the compression of the 

 ball forcing the air into the water, thus rendering any change of water 

 unnecessary for any ordinary journey and keeping the fish alive; in 

 this respect the machine is oerfect. I have tried it and I know, having 

 carried from seventy-five to one hundred minnows in a six quart pail for 

 several houis and not losing one. On the other side of the bucket is a 

 compartment made double, in which you place ice sufficient for a whole 

 day in the heat. The melted ice furnishes you- ice cold water all the, 

 lime, and is drawn from a convenient opening in the lower part of the 

 pail. Above the ice is a small tin tray of ample size for your lunch, 

 and containing also a drinking cup. The whole is closed by a cover 

 similar to that on the other side of the bucket, thus making a neat and 

 compact arrangement for the purposes indicated. In one part of the 

 country where we have about forty lakes within a radius of fifteen miles , 

 and when we are constantly traveling from lake to lake to contend with 

 the gamy bass of the west, this article is indispensable. 



Mr. Hitchcock has promised me that he will send one of these buckets 

 to the office of Forest and Stream for the examination of those inter- 

 ested, and that he will shortly place them on sale in New York, and no- 

 tify your readers through the columns of your paper. 



Geo. A. Shufeldt, Jr. 

 "We have received a letter from the inventor of these 

 pails in which he promises to send samples, and says they 

 will cost $4 and $5.— Ed. 



— A comparative trial of hemp and wire hawsers by the 

 British Admiralty as to handiness in working was entirely 

 in favor of the steel wire hawser, and 120 fathoms of 24- 

 inch hemp cable weighs 7 tons 16 cwt., while the same 

 number of fathoms of 8 inch wire cable, which is equal 

 to, it it does not exceed the strength of the other, weighs 

 only 2| tons. Commodore Forbes, of the Eastern Yacht 

 Club, was the first person to suggest steel wire in place of 

 hemp for hawsers, or even the heavy chain cables now in 

 use, and his experiments were reported and commented 

 upon in this journal last year. 



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— If a person swallows any poison whatever, or has fallen 

 into convulsions from having overloaded the stomach, an 

 instantaneous remedy, more efficient and applicable in a 

 large number of cases than half a dozen medicines we can 

 now think of, is a heaping teaspoonful of common salt and 

 as much ground mustard, stirred rapidly in a teacupful of 

 water, warm or cold, and swallowed instantly. It is scarcely 

 down hefore it begins to come up, bringing with it the le- 

 maining contents of the stomach; and lest there be any 

 remnant of poison, however small, let the white of an egg 

 or a teacupful of strong coffee be swallowed as soon as the 

 stomach is quiet; because these veiy common articles nul- 

 lify a larger amount of virulent poisons than any medicines 

 in the shops, • * 



%$ Mmnel. 



THE CENTENNIAL BENCH SHOW. 



As we anticipated and have all along predicted the 

 Bench Show to be held in Philadelphia will far ex- 

 ceed in interest any similar affair ever held in this country. 

 Up to the 12th inst. there had been 412 entries, with many 

 more to come. It will also be seen from the correspond- 

 ences which we publish below, that the Pennsylvania 

 Railroad Company will transport all dogs intended for the 

 Exhibition to and from Philadelphia free of charge, a piece 

 of liberality which will be fully appreciated by sportsmen. 

 If Mr. Landreth will now only have a catalogue carefully 

 prepared containing all the entries, which can be sold to 

 defray expenses of printing, he will leavers nothing more 

 to be wished for: — 

 Editor Forest and Stream:— 



I send you a detailed statement of vhe entries for dogs, which amounts 

 to the grand total of 412, a number that has never been approached by 

 any other show in tbis country, and I am perfectly safe in saying it will 

 reach 500. The classes for setters, which were estimated to reach 150, 

 have swelled up to the magnificent total of 225. Mr. Nuttall, of Ire- 

 land, entering no less than seventeen, including nis celebrated champion 

 bitch May he. Every preparation is being maae for the reception of 

 dogs; stalls are now being built, and everything will be in readiness. Let 

 the sportsmen rally to the front with their entries and make this show 

 accord with the character of the occasion. I also send copy of a letter 

 from the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, which you will oblige by pub- 

 lishing. Buiinet Landreth, Chief of Bureau of Agriculture. 



Pennsylvania Eailroad Co., "| 



Office of the General Baggage Agent, 



32d and Market Street, 

 Philadelphia, August 9th, 1876, J 

 Burnet Landreth, Mq., Chief of Bureau of Agriculture:— 



Dear Siu.— Your letter ol 2d inst. "to our General Manager is referred 

 to me. This Company will furnish free transportation for dogs to and 

 from the Bench Show to bo held early in September. Will you advise 

 me as early as possible from what points on our lines the dogs are prin- 

 cipally expected? and whether the parties in charge of the dogs will 

 have anything to sho.v that the animals are intended for exhibition. Also 

 the earliest date they will commence to come to Philadelphia. 

 (Signed) Yours truly Chas. R. Clement, 



Gen'l. Baggage Agent. 



List of entries in the various classes up to August 12th: — 



Class. Kind. Entries. 



831 Springers I 



b'32 Clumbers 



8J3 Mastiffs 1 



834 St. Bernards 3 



835 Newfoundlands 8 



836 Siberian or Ulm 5 



8 V? Dalmatian or Coach 1 



S38 Sbeep Dogs 13 



839 Bull Doys 6 



8 JO Bull Terriers 10 



84) Fox Terriers 5 



842 Black and Tan Terriers. 5 



843 Skye Terriers fi 



844 Scotch Terriers. 3 



815 Broken haired 1 



816 Dandy Dinmouts 2 



847 Bedlington 



8l8 Toys 4 



849 Pomeranian or Spitz.. . 4 



i-50 Poodles 2 



851 Miscellaneous 19 



Class. Kind. Entries. 



810 Fox Hounds 5 



811 Harriers 4 



812 Beagles 7 



813 Dachshunds 7 



814 Otter Hounds 



815 Greyhounds 3 



816 Scotch Deer Hounds. . . 



817 Bloodhounds 1 



818 Imported Eng. Setters.. 12 



819 Native Englislh Setters.. 128 



820 Imported Irish Setters.. 15 



821 Native Irish Setters 43 



822 Imported Gordon Set- 



ters 1 



8-23 Native Gordon Setters.. 26 



824 Pointers, over 50 1 bs. . . . 8 



815 Pointers, under 50 lbs.. 3? 



826 Retrievers and Chesa- 



peake Dogs 



827 Iiish Water Spaniels... Oj 



628 Retrieving Spaniels 2| 



82S! Cockers 14| 



830 King Charles and Blen- 

 heim 0| 



The gentlemen appointed to act as judges are as fol- 

 lows: — Chas. H. Raymond, Morris Plains, N. Y. ; Col. 

 Skinner, of the Turf, Field and Farm, New York city; E. 

 JVI. Gillespie, Columbia, O. ; John E. Long, Detroit, Michi- 

 gan. Mr. Raymond, however, we fear, will not consent 

 to act, and we are divided in our regrets between losing 

 the services of so distinguished, competent and upright 



a judga, and not seeing his magnificent kennel of dogs. 

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A Wonderful Portuatt. — We have seen seme remark- 

 able dog pictures; we have seen Chinese art abortions, but 

 anything more "fearfully and wonderfully made" than the 

 portrait^?) of Mr. Jerome Marble's Gordon setter Grouse, 

 which appears in the last issue of "the only American Il- 

 lustrated Sporting Paper," the Chicago Field, we have 

 never had the misfortune to look upon. Fortunately we 

 have seen Grouse and have the pleasure of Mr. Marble's 

 acquaintance, and wc therefore hasten to extend to him 

 our warmest sympathies upon what must be the greatest 

 affliction of his life — this horrible caricature upon what is 

 really one of the handsomest Gordon setter dogs in the 



country. 



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— We are in receipt of a letter from Mr. J. W. Knox, of 



Pittsburgh, Pa., in which he. says: "Livy arrived here 



last week in fine order. She is heavy in whelp by Llewel- 



lin's Blue Prince. She is a splendid, large, finely shaped 



bitch, showing strongly the Laverack form with the larger 



size of Dan's stock." She is mostly white, with a black and 



white head, body ticked; she is 22^ inches high." And 



now we have another letter from Mr. Knox, saying: 



"Livy whelped, July 20th, eight beautiful puppies, five 



dogs and three gyps. Livy is by Dan out of Lill I." 

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— Mr. Curt Bower, of Petrolia, Pa., claims the name of 

 Rock for his field trial setter by Belton out of Mr. Knox's 

 Dimple, but as that name is already the property of Mr. 

 Luther Adams's incomparable dog, we suggest to Mr. 

 Bower to select another. 



Remedy for Mange. — Our correspondent Mr. Geo. M. 

 Whitien, writing from North Uxbridge, Mass., says: — 



"I wish to tell you of tne success I have had with a remedy for mange 

 given in No. 15, Vol. VI, by Thomas Burt of Utica, viz. : 1 ounce oil of 

 tar (that should have been written creosote, as oil of tar covers a dozen 

 preparations); 1 ounce lac sulphur; 4 ounces sperm oil. I would say 

 that I have used the above in a very bad case of mange with mos f , happy 

 results, and would recommend it to any one, as it is safe, and if it does 

 not cure it can do no harm. " 



