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Qfi —Stuart's Restaurant prize of $20 for the best 

 "P 0, ?u/.h to be shown with not less than two of her 

 won by F^> Columbus Kennel Club, Columbus, 



i __The Mayor of Baltimore's $10 for the best 

 ueake Bay duck dog or bitch, won by Rob, J. J. Tur- 



Wl Baltimore^^^ 



], L Chesapeake Bay Dog.— Not the least interesting 

 1 ence in connection with the Baltimore Bench Show, 

 Whe meeting held at the Carrollton, House to settle the 

 Cms of and make a scale of points for the Chesapeake 

 j) g— the dog par excellence for ducking in those 

 !l «|f rs where great courage and endurance is required; 

 K simply a retriever, but a dog who will face the heaviest 

 j9 or surf; a dog that will scramble over, or, if needs be, 

 Ji^e under ' the heaviest ice. As it appears probable that 

 Aimore will give us each year one of our best Bench 

 !) h ws it was very important that this question should be 

 tied' an( j S ome definite understanding arrived at as to 

 liKhat should be the standing for quality in this noble dog. 

 t'l ooking at it from a general stand point, it seems to us 



omewbat unfortunate that one type should not have been 

 med by which both breeder and exhibitor could be 

 !%erned; but as the dog will probably be more fully rep- 

 uted ' at Baltimore than elsewhere, it may not matter 

 } uc ii In fact, the Committee appointed at the first meet- 



ng bad no easy task. At least two families were repre- 



ented in whose possession the dog, which they claimed as 



he correct type, had been for some generations, and it is 



omewbat to be wondered at, that with a dog of the value 

 ■ >f this one, and the constant use for him, something more 



lefinite with regard to his origin is not known. That his 

 [ ancestors came from the Irish coast appears to be generally 

 Conceded, yet, with the exception of color, we can find 

 i||o trace of any similar Irish breed of dogs, omitting of 

 bourse tbose specimens which, being crossed at a later day, 



possesa some marked characteristic of the water spaniel. 

 ' A meeting having been organized at the suggestion of 

 'the Maryland Poultry and Fanciers' Association, with Dr. 

 ' Rowe, editor of the Chicago Field in the chair, a com- 

 Imittee, consisting of Messrs. John Stewart, O. D. Foulks, 



and J. J. Turner, Jr., was appointed, which, on the follow- 

 ing evening, reported as follows: 

 To the Maryland Poultry and Fanciers' Association: 



The Committee appointed by your Association to grade 

 "Chesapeake Bay Dugs, respectfully report as follows : That 

 J -they have divided the so-called Chesapeake Bay Dogs into 

 'three classes, as follows: First, the Otter dog, class O; 



second, the curly haired dog, class C; third, the straight 

 4 haired dog, class's. The color of class O is a tawny sedge, 

 ! with very short hair. The color of class C is ared brown. 



The color of class S is a red brown. The bitches must 

 ^show the color, and approximate to the general points of 

 it the class to which they belong. In the three classes a 



white spot on the breast is not unusual. Two year old 

 ! « : dogs at each class not to weigh less than eighty pounds, 

 'and bitches of same age sixty five pounds. Measurements 

 j as follows: tfrom foru toe to top of back, 25 inches; from 

 • tip of nose to base of head, 10 inches; girth of body back 

 1 of foreleg, 33 inches; breast, 9 inches; around fore feet, 

 -6 inches; around forearm below shoulder, 7 inches; be- 

 ll tween eyes, 2£ inches; length of ears, 5 inches; from base 



of head to rooi of tail, 35 inches; tail, 16 inches in length; 



aiound muzzle, below eyes, 10 inches. 



POINTS FOR JUDGING. 



Head 15|Coat 



Neck 5 1 Tail . 



Shoulders 10 Feet 



Chest , 15 



Size 5 



Loin 



10 



Legs 10 



Total 100 



—Mr. Theron GL Strong of this city, claims the name of 

 Rab for his setter dog out of Huyler's Nell by Bliven's 

 Jack. The name has become classic, being first given by 

 Br. John Brown in his charming story, "Rab and His 



Friends." 



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-Mr. Max Wenzell claims the name of Doe for his 

 Irish setter bitch puppy by Buck out of Floss, purchased 

 of H. Smith. 



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-On December 19th Mr. Fred H. Hoe's cocker Nellie 

 whelped eight puppies, 6 gvps and two dogs, by his dog 

 Watch. 



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MR. STE&L RETRACTS. 

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Pjermont-on-Hudson, Jan. 4th, 1877. 

 Editor Forest and Stream:— 



In y oar issue of the 21st ult. Mr. Luther Adams takes 

 toe to task, and in the issue of the 28th Mr. Sterling does 

 the same, only more so. I will answer both together and 

 thereby save your valuable space for something more in- 

 teresting ihau any controversy about dog shows. Mr. 

 Adams says I seem jealous that the St. Louis Kennel Club 

 should have taken so many prizes at Field Trials and 

 JJtnch Shows. I can assure Mr. Adams that if they have 

 the best dogs I hope they will continue to win. I am 

 aware that the St. Louis Kennel Club own some of the 

 jmest dogs in this country, and Mr. Adams' Rock would 



iu ard t0 beat even in England . % 



Mr. Sterling says the St. Louis Bench Show was, held 

 under the auspices of the St. Louis Fair Association. The 

 javertisement says that the St. Louis Bench Show would 

 oe beld at the same time as the great Agricultural and 

 ^lecbanical Fair, and on the grounds of the St. Louis 

 ™ Association, and I had been informed that the St. 

 ^ouis Kennel Club managed the Bench Show; but on 

 looking over the Forest and Stream I see in the issue of 

 September 21st a notice that the St. Louis Bench Show 

 would be held under the auspices of the St. Louis Fair 

 ^ssocianon, which notice had escaped my eye, hence my 

 Si ?t * tended no disparagement to exhibitors or judges; 

 nat 1 thought was that it was not the' thing for anas- 

 ociation to manage a show and enter their dogs for eompe- 

 "won . instead of for exhibition only. I hope if the Forest 

 **" btjjeam succeed in interesting the sportsmen of New 

 *or« m a Bench Show that Mr. Adams, Mr. Sterling and 



the gentlemen Mr. Adams names will be judges, for I 

 believe no better men could be found to give a fair^ deci- 

 sion, and hoping the present year may not pass without 

 New York seeing a Bench Show that will rival those of 

 the Crystal Palace in London, I remain, Wm. F. Steel. 



[We are glad to publish Mr. Steel's letter, and we say 

 for the benefit of those who do not know him as well as 

 we do, that he is the last man to willingly do or. say any- 

 thing to hurt the feelings of another, and we are satisfied 

 that his remarks regarding the St. Louis Bench Show were 



written entirely through misapprehension. — Ed.] 

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Hgp°° All letters for this department (and any other) should be ad- 

 dressed to Forest and Stream Publishing Company. See standing 

 notice at head of editorial page. 



\$u und Miiver Mi 



FISH IN SEASON IN JANUARY. 



SOUTHERN WATERS 



Pompano, Trachynotus carolinus. Grouper. Epimphelpus nigrilus. 

 Drum— two species. Family Scicen- Trout, (black bass) Cenlropistris at- 



idce. rarivs. 



Kingfish, Menticirrus nebulosus . Striped bass or Eockfieh, Roccm 

 Sea Bass, Sciamops ocellatus. lineaius. 



Sheepshead, Atckobargus probata- THilorfish, PomatomuB saltatrix. 



cepkalub. Black Bass, Micropte?*us salmoides; 



Snapper, Lutjanus caxxs. M. nigricans. 



Fish in Market. — Most varieties of fish have been 

 scarce duiing the past week, local catches of cod and had- 

 dock being the exceptions. We quote: Striped bass 20 .to 

 25 cents per pound; smelts, 15 to 20 cents; bluefish, 12£ 

 cents; salmon (frozen), 35 cents; mackerel. 25 cents each; 

 shad (southern), 50 cents each; Spanish mackerel, 25 cents 

 per pound; white perch, 15 cents; green turtle, 20 cents; 

 terrapin, $14 per dozen; frostfish, 8 cents per pound; 

 halibut, 20 cents; haddock, 8 cents; codfish, 10 cents; 

 blackfish, 15 cents; flounders, 12£ cents; eels, 18 cents; 

 lobsters, 10 cents; sheepshead, 25 cents; scollops, $1.75 

 per gallon; whitefish, 20 cents per pound; pickerel, 18 

 cents; salmon trout, 20 cents; ciscoes, 10 cents; sunfish, 

 10 cents; yellow perch, 10 cents; hard shell crabs, $4 per 

 100; soft shell crabs, $1 per dozen; red snapper, 15 cents 

 per pound. 



— John Duntoo, writing from Boston, in 1686, describes 

 the fish of that vicinity, among them "basse, salmon, 

 sheepshead, and oysters in great plenty." None of these 

 are found tberc now, although striped bass were sometimes 

 taken from the bridges fifty years ago. 



"GRINDLE" FISHING IN MISSISSIPPI. 



Jackson, Miss., Dec. 30th, 1876. 

 Editor Forest and Stream: — 



I had long been anxious to hook our fisherman's abomi- 

 nation a — "John A. (Jrindle." In July last I was successful. 

 We, Chess and I, started one morning long before sunrise, 

 armed with our fishing tackle, consisting of a dried cane 

 pole fourteen feet long (mine is eleven-sixteenths of an inch 

 thick at the butt), hooks and line, with large goose or 

 swan quill for a float, and a bucketful of minnows caught 

 the day before, and anchored in the river which we have 

 to cross to reach our destination — Lawrence Lake — the 

 dreariest, hardest to find, most god-forsaken place I ever 

 saw; an excellent duck roost at times, and as such much 

 frequented in season . Woe to the poor devil coming away 

 at night who becomes bewildered. It is a mere chance if 

 he finds his way out; usually has to camp out all night. 

 I had no such fears. Chess knows every pond, lake and 

 stick of timber in the woods. "Here is where I killed a 

 turkey; here is where we had five fair cracks at turkeys 

 without getting any. Do you see that little paU-h of 

 cane? Well, there a rattlesnake gave me fair warning the 

 other day, and 1 took it," he said, with a significant look 

 and nod; with such reminiscences he beguiled the way. 



Reaching the lake proper, after wading for a hundred 

 yards in a beaver run, in mud and water up to our knees, 

 we found a water moccasin at the edge with half of a 

 goggle-eyed perch, as large as my hand, protruding from 

 his mouth. Getting a good sized stick, my friend put the 

 moccasin beyond further temptation, and put the fish back 

 in the water, where we found him at our return dead. 



To come back to "John A.," as the fish is usually called 

 here. In going to the upper part of the lake, having had 

 but poor luck, we had to go around a log, over the end of 

 which the limbs of a tree were hanging. To keep clear 

 of them, I pulled the bait close to the boat and lowered my 

 rod. By so doing I trolled the bait, when, suddenly, 

 "hold on, Chess, 1 am hung!" was my exclamation, my 

 impression being that I was hung to a sunken log, but the 

 quivering on my rod told a different tale. I had hooked 

 my first "Grindle." He and I had it. I was obliged to 

 stand up in the boat to give myself any chance with him. 

 The first rush he made he went under the boat, scraping 

 the line ominously. I held on, and the line held. His 

 next rush was for some bushes, from where I turned him, 

 aad the boat shot into clear water; then it was" pull Dick, 

 pull devil!" Three times he ran to get under the boat, 

 and every time I kept him sufficiently near the surface, so 

 that Mr. Grindle went full tilt against the boat with a 

 noise you could hear all over the lake. Twice my frit nd 

 had his hand in his gills to lift him into the boat, having 

 no gaff, and each time the fish broke away in a new rush. 

 The last time my friend tried to lift him into the boat by 

 the line, but the hook snapped. Mr. Grindle was free, 

 and I was mad! "Never mind! you had your fun with 

 him," was my friend's consolation. 



The fish was as long as a man's arm. We thought he 

 weighed from ten to twelve opounds. The only thing they 

 are fit for is fun, and you can have that, for they are the 

 gameist fish we have, being utterly worthless for anything 

 else . I would like to know his name, besides the local one 

 he bears all through this State. Our mutual friend 

 "Guy on" can not give him his place in ichthyology, so I 

 come to you. The Grindle grows to a large size. "Guyon" 

 says a negro caught one weighing twenty-four pounds. 

 Mr. "John A." resembles our black bass more than any 

 other fish, but has a wolfish and snaky appearance, dorsal 



and ventral fin, making, with its eel-like tail, a circuit 

 around the posterior part of its body. Yours, truly, 



Geo. C. Eyrich. 



The fish you mention is, we think, from your description, 

 Amia calm, Linn, known in the northwest as the "dog- 

 fish or "lawyer," the latter name probably from its rapa- 

 cious habits and tenacious grasp. Perhaps, in Mississippi, 

 there may have been an obnoxious lawyer, called John A. 

 Grindle. "He belongs to the order Ganoid, and is the only 

 living representative of the Amiadce. They haVe cycloid 

 scales, non-lobate paired fins, and heterocercal tail." See 

 Huxley, Anatomy of Vertebrated Animals, p. 145. We 

 have met with this fish in many western waters, as well as 

 in those of Florida, but wherever he is found he is a 

 villain, destructive and useless, and the sooner" he vanishes 

 from the world, like the rest of his family, the better. 



Doings op the Fishing Fleet.— Ten fishing arrivals 

 have been reported the past week, two from Newfoundland, 

 four from Grand Menan and Nova Scotia, and four from 

 La Have Banks. The receipts of codfish were 40,000 lbs., 

 and of halibut 16,000 lbs., all from La Have Banks. The 

 shore fleet have done poorly, owing to rough weather, and 

 some of them wtre exposed to great danger in the thick 

 snow storm on Friday afternoon and night. The latest 

 sales of fresh halibut were at 12£ and 8£ cents per pound 

 for white and gray; of codfish and haddock, $1 80 to $2 

 per hundred pounds; of frozen herring, $1.15 to $1.40 per 

 hundred. There is no change of importance to note in 

 other departments of the fish market.— Cape Ann Adi)&i\ 

 User, Jan. 5t7i. 



—The culture of the fig is practicable in Massachusetts, 

 according to the Horticultural Society, and the protection 

 of the trees in winter is an easy matter. Nothing more is 

 necessary than to dig up the trees in autumn and plant 

 them in a cellar, the repetition of this process soon form- 

 ing a mass of fibrous roots, rendering tLeir removal a mat- 

 ter of entire safety, at the same time that it induces fruit- 

 fulness. 



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