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and a third burst brings music from the reel ; but slowly 

 and surely he nears his end, and soon raised in the net, 

 pants his life away, his silvery sides heaving in the sun- 

 light. And so the day wore on; now one, then another, 

 and still again more, while about us could be seen the 

 swirl, and heard the swash of the feeding hundreds. It 

 •was in the midst of this excitement that the Doctor heard 

 a sound coming from the forest, as of a bear rending a log 

 or stump, and left the fish to see whether "his majesty" 

 could be seen. So his canoe was paddled quietly from the 

 fish and when curiosity was satisfied, but no bruin seen, 

 it was dinner time, and all hands rendezvoused at the Point 

 and filled the inner man. The afternoon passed agree- 

 ably, and the descending sun shone aslant on a happy 

 four. How many fish did you catch? Ah! this is our 

 business; we do not propose to admit the public into the 

 secrets of Duck Lake Camp. 



Bear! well, yes; why not end off our trip by getting one. 

 It was a good idea. We knew where was a hound, and 

 we knew that a bear might be found, so it was decided. 

 We took a drink on it — of milk, of course — and turned in. 

 The morrow came in, all- too soon, but Old Bob could 

 never let well enough alone, and insisted wpon disturbing 

 the camp by building a fire. We could stand this disturb- 

 ance if the old sinner hadn't done worse. He clicked the 

 glasses and uncorked a bottle. We could not see him thus 

 °njure himself without remonstrance, and so out we turned 

 o remonstrate, and so we all hands remonstrated each 

 Id his peculiar way. Of course, after such a wakening, we 

 were up for good, and so, in due course, we found our way 

 to the lake, and the dog and our man were put ashore. 

 Soon the canoe separated, and "Old Bob" made tracks for 

 a distant fishing ground. 



Soon "Chief," a young Indian all eyes for game, said 

 'hear," and Old Bob turning saw bruin composedly 

 sitting on the beach surveying. So not to be outdone in 

 politeness, off comes Bob's hat, and "Good morning, old 

 eliow, you're my meat," cheerfully rings out. Bruin, 

 eeliug modest probably at such a situation from a stranger, 

 , urns back intothe foliage. "What me do?" says "Chief." 

 i ut for "Smudge" and the dog as quick as the Lord will 

 let you, says Bob. The canoe flies, Smudge is reached, 

 the dog recalled from his beat, and embarking, all hands 

 proceed to the islands whereon Mr. Bear was left. With 

 hut two guns— one a shot gun— was given to Bob, and he 

 makes for the point of the island where both shores can be 

 seen. Smudge and the dog, and his guide carrying the 

 rifle, land and follow the track. The bear is seen and 

 chased, but the guide cannot get a certain sight and re- 

 frains from shooting, while Smudge keeps "locked-step," 

 ;for being without fire-arms, he is not as much of a bear 

 (hunter as he at first supposed, and preferred to watch the 

 j{ guide rather than to leave for his canoe, for he knew the 

 s bear was making for the beach. Soon a halloo from Bob. 

 The bear has taken to the water. Hoop! hoop! hurra! 

 He has half a mile the start of the canoe, but Chief handles 

 the paddle as only an Indian can, and quickly the distance 

 lessens, and the bear is headed back to where lie first took 

 water. "Shoot! why don't you shoot," implores Chief. 

 Imperturbable Bob thinks it will save work to let bear do 

 his own swimming, so he lays down his gun, and takes up 

 his flies. The first cast the fly hooks in bruin's nose, but 

 is shook out with an angry "swist"; other casts fix in the 

 hair, and bruin frequently turns toward the birch. But 

 the Indian is quick, and easily avoids him, and thus the 

 procession goes on, the bear heading his own funeral, and 

 working hard for the pleasure of his following. When 

 shoal water is reached, Bob fires. The three buckshot 

 penetrated behind the ear, a"nd without a struggle the 

 auiinal dies. Bob takes hold of the ears, and he is dragged 

 ashore. His skin, now in the hands of a taxidermist, will 

 decorate Duck Lake Camp. 



So thus we tapered off our fishing, and as we passed 

 homeward, the skin in a meal bag, and smelling strongly 

 of bear, we felt the heroes that we were. For had we not 

 met the savage denizen of the wilds, and "slewed" him? 

 He had no chance; w r e had all, so we all shot him. Yes, 

 all! The Doctor loaded the shells, or aided in the opera- 

 tion. Smudge owned the gun, Old Bob shot, and St. 

 Louis looked on. Happy hearts! Unfortunately, the ma- 

 jority of our heads are so well polished, that the bears 

 grease will be of no avail. Vfould that we were younger, 

 and were nursing a mustache! Just think! How could — 

 how did we ever succeed in life without this experience? 

 We are heroes— all of us, but especially "Bob." He knows 

 it, and rests under it like a man. He says it was not 

 much of a day for bears either. 



!" May we keep our camp safe from discovery from all but 

 good fellows. May we ever be true sportsmen, and not 

 f'ouly obey the laws of the land, but even those higher laws 

 w Mch correct the desire to do well, with the desire of 

 telling of it, in a modest way to the world, is the desire of 

 one at least of the D. L. C's. E. L. S. 



For Forest and Stream. 

 DEATH OF OLD TEJUNGA* 



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V'E hunted here with old Tejunga and hope beyond 

 the eternal river to camp with him again. In the 

 fountains, at the head of the river wearing his name, the 

 old chief's body and weapons are lying, but his life went 

 °ut as the moon came up, changing the evening into night, 

 a nd changing the shadows under the pines winch had 

 darkened and deepened as the sun went down. A sweet, 

 warm wind came out of the east, moaned in the pines a 



aga means -'Great Grizzly Bear." 



moment or two, then, lightly laden with the old man's 

 breath, flew out in to the night on its way to the West, 

 where his people had gone before. His head drooped on 

 his quiet breast, one hand fell open from a nerveless knee, 

 his white hair drifted into my eyes as I laid the dead at 

 the foot of the rock from which w T e had seen his last sun 

 go down. He believed that his dead beyond the West 

 watched for his coming with the dying sun, and thought 

 that after a night with death he'd pise like a sun, in good 

 hunting ground. The night was bright till the sea fog 

 came to hang a pall on that mountain top and shroud the 

 dead from the moon and stars. I thought that death, like 

 the fog, had come between my friend and me; that the 

 stars still shone in the sky above, only I couldn't see; that 

 the night would pass, and in daylight how thin that fog 

 would be. El Cazador. 



Los Angeles , Gal., November 1st. 



CALIFORNIA FISH CULTURE. 



Editor forest and stream : — 



I enclose a statement of the results of our work in Cal- 

 ifornia this summer. We will observe that we had extra- 

 ordinary success in the transportation of the common eggs. 

 There was not a failure with a single lot, and there was 

 hardly an instance of a loss of over three per cent. 



Very truly yours, Livingston Stone. 



gentleman was an army surgeon under the first Napoleon, 

 and accompanied the grand army in the Bussian campaign, 

 being one of those who had the good fortune to survive 

 the dreadful horrors of the retreat from Moscow, and came 

 to Canada after Napoleon's banishment to Elba. In 1851 

 I remember going to see the Messrs. Boiss-onault, who have 

 a fishing establishment at the mouth of the main Bona- 

 venture river. During my visit, two Indians came down 

 the river with a canoe load of salmon roes, having, ac- 

 cording to their own account, speared no less than eighty- 

 five fish in the [spawning pools for the sake of the roes. 

 The work of extermination was also carried on by the pale 

 faces, but in a different manner; they took nets up the 

 rivers and swept the pools clean, not a fish escaping. 



Perce, November 20th, 1876. Philip Yibert. 

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Commissioners' Reports.— State Fish Commissioners 

 have sadly neglected us this year by not sending their 

 annual reports. Gentlemen : If you wish to have the most 

 use made of the valuable information you furnish, let us 

 see your reports that we may make our customary ab- 

 stracts. We devote more attention and space to Fish 

 Culture than ail other publications in this country 

 together. The matter we have printed within the past 

 four years would, if collected, make a duodecimo volume 

 of 750 pages. This we have ascertained by actual measure- 

 ment, and upon this base our assertion as tc the extent and 

 importance of our work. 



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TABLE OF SA.LMON EGGS DISTRIBUTION PROM THE UNITED STATES SAT/MOX BREEDING STATION IN CALIFORNIA DURING THE SEASON OF 1876. 



Date 



of 



Shipment 



Sept, 21. 

 Sept. 21, 



Consignee. 



No. of 



Condition on arrival as reported by the parties. 

 Coudition on receiving the eggs. 



Sept, 2 

 Oct. 2. 

 Oct. 8. 



Prof. Baird, Cenntennial Grounds. Philadelphia, Pa 



Srste Hatching Honse, Madison, Wisconsin 



Dr. W. A. Pratt, Elgin Illinois 



A. P. Rockwood. Sale Lake Oitv, Utah ^. . 



Lewis C. Starkel, Belleville. Illinois 



T. N. Clark, Northville, Mich. 



Pack Tnonias, Louisville, Ky 



T. 13. Ferguson, Baltimore, Md 



Dr. R. O. Sweeney, St. Paul, Minn 



E. M. Lees. Westport, Conn 



James Duffy, Marietta, Pennsylvania 



E B. Brackett, Winchester. Mass 



S. P. Thompson, Newhope. Backs County, Pa 



M.S. Rodger, Knoxville, Term 



S. Witrnot, Ontario, Canada 



[New York Aquarium, Thirty-fifth st. and Broadway, N. Y. 



Boston Aquarium, 13 West St., Bos-ton, Mass 



Prof. Baird, Centennial Grounds, Philadelphia, Pa 



Sportsman's Club, San Francisco, Cal 



W. II. Cushman, Georgetown, Cal 



A. W. Bushj Honolula. Sandwich Island 



Dr. James Hector, Wellington, New Zealand 



Province of Napier, New Zealand 



Province of Auckland, New Zealand 



Province of Canterbury, New Zealand 



Province of Maryanna, New Zealand 



New York Aquarium, New York 



S B. Ferguson, Baltimore. Maryland 



5,000., 

 100,000.. 

 150 000.. 



50,000., 

 100,000. 

 500,000., 

 200,000. . 

 ,000.000. . 

 300.000., 

 500,000. 

 400,000.. 

 200,000. , 

 106,000. , 

 100,000 , 



10,000. 



50 000., 



10,000. . 



10,000.. 

 300,000.. 

 300,000. . 



30.000. . 



80,000 . . 



80,000 



e o.ooo . 



80.000.. 



80,000.. 



40,000. . 



210,000. . 



Fair. 



Came nicely. 



Not heard from. 



Nine tenths of one per cent. loss. 



In excellent order. 



Two and one-quarter per cent. dead. 



Two and three-quarter per cent dead. 



Better condition than last year. 



In fine condition. 



Less that two per cent. dead. 



In fine condition; very slight loss. 



In good condition. 



Splendid order— less than two per cent, loss. 



Less than one per cent. loss. 



Not heard from. 



Fair condition. 



Arrived in the best condition. 



In good order. 



In fine order. 



Not Heard from. 



Splendid order. 

 Nor heard from. 



SALMON CULTURE 



For Forest and Stream. 

 IN CANADA. 



The successful breeding of salmon in Canada being no 

 longer a matter of doubt, and large sums of money being 

 yearly expended in protecting and increasing this valu- 

 able and important branch of our fisheries, it appears to 

 me that something more is wanted to secure still greater 



benefits. 



Under the present system the young fry arc removed 

 from their nursery to the rivers, when only six weeks old, 

 and are consequently too small to escape the voracity of 

 their numerous enemies. Many thousands are doubtless 

 devoured by the legions of trout, which abound in all our 

 rivers, and on their arrival at the mouth of each estuary 

 another formidable enemy presents itself to bar the passage 

 to the sea — smelts — which are also abundant. They have, 

 no doubt, many other enemies, but the two above named 

 are, I believe, the most formidable. If the young fish 

 were protected for a year, they would then be large and 

 strong, and able to elude their foes. 



If my views are correct, and I believe they are, why not 

 establish breeding ponds on streams on which there are 

 no trout, and there are plenty such in which to deposit the 

 young fry until the following year and then distribute 

 them. There are many streams that I could name, where, 

 by the erection of dams, a depth of twenty to thirty feet 

 of water could be obtained, and in many localities several 

 smaller dams could be erected, creating a series of ponds 

 above the main one. If the freezing of the ponds is likely 

 to be injurious, let the ice be broken daily, and thus give 

 air holes. Could not the dams at the breeding establish- 

 ments &e utilized for this purpose? 



A few thousand dollars devoted to some such experi- 

 ment would, I think, be a wise expenditure, and in the 

 event of failure, these ponds could be advantageously 

 employed for other fish culture. Could not bass, so ex- 

 tensively bred in the United States, be] profitably raised 

 here? 



I do not pretend, by any means, to be Sir Oracle in such 

 matters,. but my suggestions may possibly have a beneficial 

 tendency. The old French proverb, "That fools make 

 fashions, and wise men follow them," may„ apply in this 

 case. I do not know how far my remarks are applicable 

 to the plan adopted in the United States, but I shall be 

 much obliged to any of the many correspondents or readers 

 of Forest and Stream, versed in such matters, if they 

 will kindly publish their experience and correct my errors. 



In years past, the wholesale destruction of salmon by the 

 Indians has been such that they had all but exterminated 

 the species in the Gaspe rivers. The late Dr. La Billois, 

 of Maquasha Point, at the mouth of the Restigouche, once 

 told me, that when he first came to the country, salmon were 

 so plentiful that six or seven schooners were loaded with 

 pickled salmon every season for the Halifax market, This 



White Fish for England.— A large quantity of white 



fish eggs from the Government fish-breeding establishment 



at Sandwich, Ontario, have been sent to England for the. 



purpose of introducing white fish into the waters of Great 



Britain. 



, ♦♦<*» • 



—The salmon ova in the hatching house on the northwest 

 Miramichi, has passed through its first danger — the fall 

 freshet — safely, and is in promising condition. W. H. 

 Venning, Esq., Inspector, has just returned from a visit to 

 tne establishment, and we are gla«l he is enabled to report 

 so favorably. — St. Lawrence Advance, Chatham, N. B., Can- 

 ada, JS r ov. BQth. 



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Salmon in Maryland Waters.— Major Ferguson, fish 

 commissioner, after the successful hatching, at Druid Hill 

 Park, of one million of salmon eggs brought from the St. 

 Cloud River, in Oregon, has commenced the distribution 

 of the small fish in the waters of the State of Maryland. 

 He commenced on the 6th of November, and up to the 22d 

 instant he had distributed 364,000 as follows: 30,000 in the 

 Gunpowder, near Parkton; 25,000 in O wings' creek, a 

 branch of the Monocacy, near Mechanicstown, Western 

 Maryland railroad ; 10,000 in the North branch of the Pa- 

 tapsco, at Tank station; 15,000 in Pike creek, near Wake- 

 field, Western Maryland railroad ; 3,000 in Deer creek, 

 near the Pennsylvania line; 43,000 in the Patuxent, at Sav- 

 age station, Baltimore and Ohio railroad; 48,000 in the 

 Patapsco river, at Sykesville; 58,000 in the north fork of 

 the Patuxent, near Mount Airy; 42,000 in Little Gunpow- 

 der, east of Moncton; 13,000 in the North Branch of the 

 Patapsco, at Tank station; 37,000 in the Antiejam, near 

 Chewsville, and 40,000 in the Conococheague, west of 

 Hagerstown. Since the 22d instant 200,000 of the small 

 fish have been distributed at various points in the waters 

 of the Eastern Shore of Maryland. The fish are carried 

 in large tin cans to the different points, and are deposited 

 in the rivers by the fish commissioner and his assistants. 

 A number of cans were shipped last night by the Baltimore 

 and Ohio railroad. — Baltimore Sun 28th. 



How to Catch Beavers. — We know of scarce any ani- 

 mal possessing more instinct than the beaver. Avery small 

 pond they dam up in such a way as to render approach to 

 their habitations almost impossible. A house is construct- 

 ed of rafts laid across a main beam and covered with bush- 

 es and turf. It is divided into two compartments, one for 

 the animal to dry itself in after coming out of the pond, 

 and another to cat and sleep in. It is entered through a pas- 

 sage way communicating with the outer edge of the pond 

 (but in such a way as not to admit of water entering the 

 house) and about midway between the surface and the bot- 

 tom. On the least indication of danger, he leaves his house 

 by this subterranean passage, and does not rise to the sur- 

 face till far beyond the reach of danger on the other side of 

 the pond. The only plan, therefore, is to cut a number of 

 stakes, drive them closely together in the bottom of the 

 pond and close to the bank; then take the roof off the 

 house, and in some part of the passage way, the family, 

 which consists of three or four, may be found. In this way 

 a man from Nackawick, got four a few days ago.— St. John 

 (JV. B.) Telegraph. ___ as ___ 



Much Sought, but Hard to Find.— The Golden Fleas 

 and the Philosophers Tone, 



