

FOREST AND STREAM. 



One of these spaniels liad a narrow escape on one oc- 

 casion, Mr. T. nad a cottage in the forest of Dean, Glou- 

 cestershire, where they generally spent the autumn. The 

 forest of Dean is a coal district, and Ihe dog probably, 

 when hunting a rabbit, fell into a coal pit, which fortu- 

 nately was not deep. The whole country was scoured for 

 the lost dog, but to no purpose. The pit was not regu- 

 larly worked, but on the fifth day, some men having de- 

 scended, found the poor animal nearly dead. Yet know- 

 ing to whom he belonged, he was carefully removed, and 

 finally brought to life, when he was restored to his de- 

 lighted mistress, who rewarded the miners handsomely for 

 their trouble. Philip Vibert. 



Perce, October 23d!, 1876. 



BALTIMORE BENCH SHOW. 



Offices of Maryland Poultry and 

 Fanciers' Association, 

 No. 1 Gay Street, Baltimore, Md. 

 Editor Forest and Stream:— 



Having been appointed. Superintendent of this show I write to inform 

 you how matters stand in this Monumental City in regard to the success 

 of the show? Here it is, if in any plac j cf the United States, that is neu- 

 tral ground, to hold a bench show, where all can rest assurred of fair 

 play. Let the West and Canada come with their blue bloods to compete 

 against their Eastern brethren, as I can tell them it will be worth their 

 while. The prizes will be valuable and useful; the highest prize offered 

 will be something very grand. At the present time of writing I do not 

 know the value of it, but it will be open to all comers, blue blood and 

 native alike. J. Addison Smith, Esq. , offers a very valuable double 

 breech-loader for the best native English setter, dog or bitch. Mr. 

 Smith's heart is in the whole undertaking; he is a thorough, whole- 

 souled sportsman, and assisted by Mr. Smythington, Mr. N. Turnbull, 

 Mr. L. R. Cassard, and several other genuine sportsmen, the Bhow can 

 not help but be a success. 



The prizes offered by the Society amount to nearly $1,500 in cash. 

 The specials already donated amount to $1,000. Mr. Smith says they 

 will get another $1,000 yet. The Society have given me fall control to 

 manage the show, and here I wlil not be fettered with any Centennial 

 Commiasiouers. The entries will close on the 20th of December. The 

 date for holding the show has been fixed for the 2d, 3d, 4th and 5th of 

 January, 1877. 



The Association have adopted the "single-handed" ?udge system. 

 The catalogue, stall and tag numbers here will all correspond, and every 

 one making an entry will receive a certificate by return of mail, which 

 must be carefully preserved, as no dog will be allowed to be taken out 

 without clearly identifying him with the certificate. 



Baltimore has added a new impetus to dog shows by its liberality, and 

 for which it confidently expects the support of all breeders and fanciers. 

 Will send you a list of special prizes as they are given; also a full list of 

 prizes given by the Society, as soon as out. Chas. F. Lincoln. 



VALUABLE SPECIAL PRIZES. 



J. Addison Smith Esq., of Baltimore, offers a splendid double-bar- 

 relled breech-loader for the best native English setter, dog or bitch, of 

 any age. 



Messrs. Trimbler & Kletbacker offer a hondsome English leather 

 gun case, with cartridge tray, and will also add a silver plate with name 

 of winner on, suitably engraved, to be given to the best pointer dog for 

 etud purposes, to be shown with not lesB than two of his get. 



J. J. Turner, Jr., Esq., of Baltimore, offers $25 for the best pointer 

 puppy, dog or bitch, under six months old. 



\m mid Oliver 



FISH IN SEASON IN NOVEMBER. 



Black Bass, Wicropterus salmoides; Weakfish, Gynoscion regalis. 



M. nigricans. Bluefish, Pomatomus saltatrix. 



Mascalonge, Esox nobilior. Spanish Mackerel, Cybimn macula- 



Pike or Pickerel, Esoxlucius. tarn. 



Yellow Perch, Ferca Jiavescms. Cero, Cybiitm regale. 



Sea Bass, Sciamops ocettatus. Bonito, Sarda pelamys. 



Striped bass, Boccus lineatus. Kingfish, Menticirrus nebulosus. 

 White Perch, Morone americana. 



Fish in Market. — Fish of all varieties are somewhat 

 scarce in our markets at present, but at the same time the 

 demand is light. We quote: Striped bass 18 to 25 cents per 

 pound; smelts, 25 cents; bluefish, 12^ cents; salmon, (frozen) 

 40 cents; mackerel, 15 to 25 cents each; weakfish, 18 cents 

 per pound; white perch, 15 cents: Spanish mackerel, 75 

 cents; green turtle,' 15 cents; terrapin, $15 per dozen; 

 halibut, 18 cents per pound; frost fish (torn cods), 8 cents; 

 haddock, 8 cents; codfish, 10 cents; blacklist), 15 cents; 

 flounders, 10 cents; sea bass, 20 cents; eels, 18 cents; lob- 

 sters, 10 cents; sheepshead, 20 cents; scollops, $1.50 per 

 gallon; soft clams, 30 to 60 cents per hundred; whitefish, 

 15 cents per pound; pickerel, 20 cents; salmon trout, 15 

 cents; hardshell crabs, $3.50 per 100. 



—The St. Lawrence Advance, published at Chatham, 

 Province of New Brunswick, Canada, by D. G. Smith, 

 Esq., devoles especial attention to Fish Protection and the 

 fisheries of the New Dominion. We find in its columns 

 more information relating to these subjects than in all of 

 the other Canadian papers together. Americans wishing to 

 keep themselves familiar with these matters on the oilier 

 side of the boundary will find it to their advantage to sub- 

 scribe for and read the Advance. Next week we shall pub- 

 lish an abstract of pleas and decisions affecting salmon 

 river leases in Canada prepared by Mr. Smith — Charles 

 Robertson vs Steadman et. al. Steadman claimed lease of 

 Canadian Rivers by Government of Canada ultra vires, and 

 he therefore had a right to fish in any river he chose, pro- 

 vided he did^not trespass on any man's land. Case decided 

 in favor of leasee. 



—The close season for'salmon expired in California on 

 the 1st November, a month or more after the Eastern close 

 season begins. Grilse, or young salmon, are already plen- 

 tiful in San Francisco Bay, averaging about three-fourths 

 of a pound in weight. They are taken with fish cut up for 

 bait. The Pacific Life says these fish have been found in 

 the bay during all this year, having been continually taken 

 in the fishermen's nets and on the smelt lines. We quote 

 from the issue of the 4th instant: — 



"The prospect for good salmon and grilse fishing is pretty 

 good this season. From Pescadero and San Gregorio we 

 learn that these noble denizens of the waters arg coming in 

 from the ocean; the mouths of San Gregorio, gutano and," 

 ?eseadero cieeks being now open to the sea ? ' This ig an 

 rWMsfc taking place rattier early this veir ? but \% v ' 



about the same time last season. The year before these 

 the grilse did not bite much till January and February, It 

 has been asserted that our Sacramento river salmon are in- 

 ferior in flavor and texture to those of the Kennebec or 

 Penobscot salmon in the East. This may possibly be so, 

 but we doubt very much if any one has ever eaten better 

 salmon than a Sacramento salmon, when in first rate con- 

 dition, especially the rather young ones. In the winter or 

 early in the spring, they will be found not inferior to the 

 Eastern salmon. 



"It has been a most reprehensible custom, until within 

 these two or three years past, to market them here at all 

 seasons, and to eat them at all times. This has made them, 

 not only very cheap but inferior; also, taken out of season 

 has been much against their reputation. We all know how 

 much superior their qualities are when in season. Besides, 

 people become satiated with seeing and partakiug of the 

 same fish placed on their tables from day to day. This 

 had the effect, perhaps, of making us suppose our 

 salmon were inferior to the Eastern, which are only eaten 

 for about two monts in the year. The price of them was 

 only five cents a pound. If it had been forty or fifty 

 cents a pound no doubt they would have been more highly 

 thought of. 



— Salmon fishing is all the rage among the fair aristocrats 

 of Great Britain this year. The Earl of March is an invet- 

 erate fisherman, but the Countess surpasses him in the art. 

 Among the heavy fish which the river Spey has this season 

 yielded to her ladyship's rod, is a salmon weighing 27 

 pounds, and grilse weighing from five pounds to nine 

 pounds. Lady Florence Gordon Lennox has followed suit 

 with a salmon of 14^ pounds and some fine grilse; Lady 

 Caroline Gordon Lennox, grilse of eight pounds each; and 

 Lady F. Montague, grilse up to eight pounds. 



Chinese Eel Fishing. — An ingenious device is practiced 

 in Cochin, China, for the capture of eels, which consists in 

 cutting pieces of bamboo as thick as the arm into sections 

 of about three or four feet in length, the divisions of the 

 interior being broken out, with the exception of the one at 

 the end, which forms the bottom of the snare. At the en- 

 trance is placed a slight grating of bamboo, and some bait, 

 either of fish or earth-worms, is introduced into the inte- 

 rior. The bamboo is then laid at a slight Jepth in the mud, 

 and the eels enter the hollow tube, in which they can 

 scarcely move, and cannot turn themselves, and are conse- 

 quently taken captive. The bamboos are taken up every 

 morning, and ihe eel, which holds on very firmly to the in- 

 terior, is pulled out by means of a strong hook. 



—The starfish is said to be making terrible havoc among 

 the Long Island oyster beds. It is estimated that the loss 

 is fifty thousand dollars. Acres of oysters, planted two 

 years ago, are almost worthless. It is hard to make a fair 

 day's wages. 



— Newburyport had a Labrador fleet of 60 schooners, 1 

 brig and 4 sloops in 1817, and a mackerel fleet of 90 

 vessels in 1851. This year her fleet consists of 20 vessels; 

 six baymen, six shore mackerelmen, six shore fishermen 

 arid two vessels in the Labrador business. 



—Smith & Horton, of Eastham, Mass., had a large catch 

 of mackerel in their weirs Friday. One hundred and 

 twenty-five cartloads were taken out, leaving many more to 

 be secured. The whole are estimated at 2,000 barrels, and 

 are said to be large fish. 



— France has 200 fishing stations on the "French Shore" 

 of Newfoundland, where she claims exclusive fishing 

 rights, by treaty with Great Britain. The French fisher- 

 men purchase their bait from the inhabitants of the 

 "South Shore," where the former do not have the right to 

 fish, at an average total cost of some $100,000 a year. 



— Pictou, N. S., is to have a fishing company with a fleet 

 of six vessels and a capital of $42,000. 



-*~The Commissioners of the Fishery Board for Scotland 

 report that a great success was met with for Scotland last 

 year. Though not so abundant as in 1874, the herring 

 fishery was larger in 1875 than in any other year that had 

 proceeded it. The cod and ling fishery yielded larger re- 

 turns than in the previous year. The year was remarkable 

 for the number of barrels of herring branded, which was 

 larger than in any year since the system of brand fees was 

 instituted in 1859, and the collection of fees was the highest 

 on record, its amount (£8,729 16s. 6d.) being more than 

 £100 in excess of that of 1874. 



—The San Francisco papers state that some of the 

 vessels sent to the Ochotsk Seas last spring to engage in 

 codfishery have returned and report a very large catch. 

 The fleet from the Choumagin Islands is a"so nearly all in 

 and from them the reports are equally as favorable. The 

 nine vessels that have come into port bring, in the aggre- 

 gate, 691,000 fish. The fleet of 1875 brought in 504,000 & 



— Detroit freezes half a million lake fish in a season for 

 the southern market. 



Salmon and Change of Weather.— I wonder if it often 

 occurs to old and constant salmon fishers to witness the 

 play of an immense shoal of new-run salmon, revelling in 

 the enjoyment of their first retaste of a fresh water river. 

 To me it was a new and wonderful sight, which I thoroughly 

 enjoyed one soft summer day, on the still wild scenery of 

 Galway, a mile or two above Lough Corrib, on the Clare 

 Galway river, which had just been freshened up with a 

 mild Connemara shower (the fresh euphemism for a down- 

 pour that takes about ten minutes to penetrate the crown 

 of your hat and come out of the heels of your boots), and 

 was" smiling under the genial rays of a bright sun. ' The 

 salmon evidently enjoyed the changing weather, and 

 having indulged in a few playful and delusive rise's, got 

 more and more excited, till they seemed to have gone 

 simply mad; and scarcely less mad were the two fisher- 

 men, whom they had been exciting, decoying, perplexing, 

 and tantalizing for upwards of an hour. The whole reach 

 of the river within view was literally alive with them, now 

 rolling oyer porpoise-like, and showing the whole of 'their 

 ®\\vwy proportions from head to tajl, now ' 



the surface with many a flying-leap, or sprhiein* mZ \ 

 straight into the air, to shake off the sea para^S f rd 

 still cling about them. To say that for an hour or C; 

 constantly threw our flies over many rising fish faintf -? 

 scribes the exciting but unprofitable sport; for our 

 arms ached with the perpetual casts, and we were iitSm 

 exhausted by rushing from rise to rise, but never V*§ 

 would take the fly, or even come out of his play to lonlr 

 it. My companion gave it up in despair like a wise m 

 but I could not tear myself away, and began at last % 

 sheer wantonness to try and hook a leaping fish bv mak'* 

 casts at him or drawiug my line rapidly across hirn wli t 

 to say the least of it, was a novel form of fishing S, 

 play died out at the end of about two hours almost as <* 

 denly as it began, and I have only to add (though I shod' 



do so rather with shame than with pride), that 1" did a 

 the water; and if ever a salmon could possibly beats 2 



ally foul-hook a fine salmon, which threw himself apmi 



my line and got hooked in the back as he fell ao-ain 

 the water; and if ever a salmon could possibly beat a 

 erman in open unobstructed water, that salmon nearly be 

 me. 1 tried the strength of the hold of the hook on tb 

 skin of the salmon after I had landed him, and thou oft 

 gave a strong, steady pull with my whole weight, nelW 

 the fish's flesh nor my tackle would yield to the strain - 

 Correspondence of Land and Water. 

 , [In Canada the Indians have often assured us that it wa 

 useless to cast for salmon when they were leaping an 

 playing in the long reaches of still water, and the thorough 

 test above mentioned seems to prove their correctness an 

 settle the question conclusively. — Ed. F. & S.] 



Angling in Norway.— Norway is endowed with mof 



excellent fish. Besides a large number of small riven 



there are about a dozen large ones; the most beautiful] 



the Angermanelf, fifty miles north of Stockholm, whos 



wealth of water and 'beauty of scenery throw the lihin 



into the shade. It is only in the interior, where endlej 



bogs and countless lakes cover the ground, that traveler 



are often regaled with such fish as perch, whose iusipi 



oily taste becomes wearisome to the tourist long before it i 



set before him on the fourteenth day for the twenty-eight 



time. In the rushing mountain streams and brooks tb. 



most various kinds of salmon abound — the common salmoi 



the salmon-trout, the mountain-trout, etc. Although at th 



time of spawning salmon are easily scared away by floatin * 



boards, they are found in all the great waters of Norwaj' 



though these are covered the whole summer with rafters 



Even the Angermanelf, navigable for six miles up to Nj 



land, and a further nine up to Solleftea by steamer, cod 



tains salmon in plenty, as is" evident from the weir basket 



set everywhere for their capture. But the fish in whic 



Norway is richest is trout. It abounds in the mountai 



ranges of the south, in the Sireaa, the Inisaa, and othe 



waters, rivers and lakes, east of Lorehamm and north o 



Hendeman. They are also found in Hardanger in th 



direction of Bergen. Any one who goes in search of trou 



northward into Stuedal from the well-known mountai; 



town Roraas on the Swedish frontier, will find rich bootv 



to the north of Dovrefjeld, and especially in the district o 



Aune, the fishing is very profitable. But why multipt 



names ? Every little lake in the mountains swarms wit] 



trout, and in every brook and stream these graceful fisi 



may be seen disporting themselves. On the higb.es 



station of Dovre in Hjerkin, at a height of 8,000 feet, 1 sav 



in the kitchen a heap of trout a foot high, which was des 



tined for the mid- day meal of the numerous huntsmen am 



botanists who have their headquarters there, whence the] 



explore the highlands. Ac Skaggestead, in Gudbrauds. 



dalen, where I dined with a somewhat numerous company 



we had the most excellent trout set before us; and I fount 



the same thing at many other places. It cannot surprisi 



us that Norway, the Eldorado of trout fishers, is overrun bi 



angling Britons. We find them near the little lafces in thi 



highlands, at the foot of waterfalls, among rocks ant 



bushes, but oftenest in regions where there are comfort 



able dwellings. They congregate in every Norwegian 



town, whence they can make excursions to the trout 



streams and rivers. One of their favorite haunts anion;; 



the Norwegian valleys is Gudbrandsdalen, where the) 



especially frequent the upper valley and the beautiful dale 



of the Ottaelf. Gudbrandsdalen is twenty-one miles long 



and is traversed by the River Logen. The tourist wlit 



descends from Fogstuen into the valley will observe nolh 



ing remarkable in it at first. But on the other side of the 



village Dovre the mountains close, and the river forces its , 



way, foaming and dashing through the rocky passes and 



over cliffs and stones. Grotesque formations of rock and 



magnificent water falls lend a unique charm to this valley; 



behind the ravine at Laurgaard it widens. The mountains 



which rise on each side have an average height of one or 



two thousand feet, while those beyond average from lour 



to five thousand. Besides the rare beauties of the valley, 



the passion for fishing also attracts the children of Albion 



to Gudbrandsdalen in numbers. They seldom pursue the 



sport singly; generally a whole company may be found 



together. Their remarkable clothing, their boots, which 



are certainly fitted for fishing, and their whole equipment 



cause them to be immediately recognized in the capital. 



When they have found a place suitable for their labors, if 



there is no hindrance in the way, they set to work without 



delay, and indulge their passion with the greatest persever- ■ 



ance. They usually renounce the result of their fishing 



harvest; they give away their booty, and always find 



willing recipients. — London (Society. 



Movements op the Fishing Fleet.— Our mackerel 

 fleet are nearly all in, and a week or two more will wind 

 up the business for the year. The Boston fleet have all 

 hauled np, 27 vessels arriving last week, with a catch ot 

 2,730 barrels. The JProvincetown fleet, thirty vessels, are 

 all in, and the Well-fleet, 40 sail, have hauled up. l ue 

 season is virtually closed, and the stock remaining on the : 

 market is small, with a good prospect of an advance in 

 prices. 



Twenty vessels have arrived at this port the past ion- 

 night from Maine, bringing cargoes of herring and base, 

 which have found a ready sale in this market for ship- 

 ment. This branch of the fishing business promises to De 

 of considerable importance, as Gloucester bids fair to 

 come a large exporting headquarters for fish, which alreacy 

 requires more than her own catch to supply. m ., 



The fishing arrivals the past week have been 6o, as iw- 

 lows: 27 from the Banks, 25 from Georges, 11 irom M) 

 St. Lawrence, 1 from Bay of Islands and 1 from shore 

 mackereling. The receipts have been 945,000 pounoj- 

 Bank codfish, 165,000 pounds, Bank halibut, 4S5,uw 

 pounds, Georges codfish, 9&, 000 pounds, Georges f allDU -J 

 4m barrelp Bay piackf*s# The catch of shorn m 



