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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[OOTOEEE 21, 1880- 



tliis sporting country, and these will be jjublished at an early 

 dale. 



"While Florida stands first as awintcr sporting resort, possi- 

 bly because it has been so mucli talked of, there ;irc many 

 other sections equally as attractive and eiinally rieli in game. 

 Inthel^orthand Soulli Carolinns, Genryiu, Ahiliaiiui, Arl.niiKas, 

 Louisiana, Texas .and in short, tliruughout the yAv>\l' ^.jiilh, 

 are vast tracts where game is alnuularit, and wiicic the sports- 

 man tom-ist may 5nd not only the best of sport Vmi fi benriy 

 ■welcome among a liospitsdile people as well. The rod and 

 gun are passports to good fellow,slii|i tlie woi-ld over, and no 

 one feature of a journal like the FouEsr anu tirr.EA.M is more 

 significant than its chronicles of the warm rcccpliou accorded 

 by the people of one sectioa to their guests from otlier sections. 



REPORT OF THE NEW HAMPSHIRE 

 FISH COMMISSION. 



THE report of the New llanipslure Pish Commission for 

 1880 opens with the statement that .salmon culture in the 

 Pemigewasselt has been a grand success, and that they have 

 talcen over 100,000 eggs from fish which had been artificially 

 hatched from eggs taken from the Pcnoliscot Kiver and jilant- 

 ed in the Pemigcwas.sett, and ■^^•hich had ijassod \ip tlie fish- 

 ways over the dams at, I.owell, Lawrence and Amoskeag. 

 This is indeed a grand success, as the fish are proved not only 

 to live, but have retiu-ued to their native streams to breed. 

 The Commissioners are inclined to think thr.l, the twenty-two 

 &sh taken at Plymouth represent the planting of three differ- 

 ent yeai'S — 1872, '7B and '75— as their weights varied from 

 eight to twenty pounds ; while one which passed their nets 

 was found liclow Livermore Falls with several of his ribs 

 crushed in and broken away from the baeklione — jirobably in 

 attempting to ascend the falls — wliich weighed twenty-eight 

 pounds, and might have been » siu'vivor of earlier attempts at 

 Stocking the river. 



Brook trout have been dfstribiited to many streams, and an 

 iucreased number are expected this j'ear. Land-locked 

 salmon eggs have been received to the luunber of 07,000 as 

 their share of the crop of the joint stock establishment at 

 Grand Lake Stream, in Jlauie. 



The observations at the Lawrence fishway from May 5 to 

 November 1 ai-e interesting. No fish were seen imtil Jlay 9, 

 wlien two "suckers" {CnUiKUimus), and one brook trout were 

 noticed; and on the 13th, alcwives, suckers and two lampreys 

 were seen, and these increased and decreased each day until 

 June 3, when the record says; "Alewives and .suckers run 

 very large ; a few lamper-eels and lln-ee salmon, I en to twelve 

 pounds." (Why camiot our Commissioners set the example of 

 a proper nomenclature, and not call a lamprey a "lamper-eel," 

 when it is not an £fZ at all, nor even distantly related to it?) 

 On the 5th "one shad" is added to tlie previous list, and a 

 black bass also appears ; while the alcwives, sueki.TS, "chubs," 

 etc., keep right along, interspersed with an occa.-iioiuil salmon, 

 lUltil the 30th, when jio salmon are recorded until Anj;ust 37, 

 and again on October 3, making about thirty seen dui-ing the 

 season. 



Commissioner Powers reports to Mr. Braokctt, of Mass. , 

 that 307,500 California Salmon fry were distributed in 

 January as follows: 25,000 to the Contoocook River: 28,000 

 iu Salmon Falls River ; and the remainder in the Pemige- 

 wassett, and that they could be seen until lasi .\iiu:ust any- 

 where in the river ne.ir the hatehing-house, and «<Te then 

 from three to five inrhes long, and very lively and apparently 

 healthy. Twenty-two Atlantic Siilniou {8. mlar') were taken 

 during the season, weighing fi'oni eight to fwenl}'' pounds 

 each, thirteen of Iheni being fi iiuili s, 3 ielding together over 

 100,000 egg.s. Jlr. PoNsers furrla r sa\ ^ . ■■ for over ll,ir|y 

 years not a s.almon pa.ssed up lla I'eihiiiewasselt. Tins i-i the 

 first time— iu this coimtiy. :ii le.i^l- that any considerable 

 quantity of eggs have be^n taken liuin matm'e salmon caught 

 from a dei)leted river ailint ially restocked. The result can- 

 not fail to bo highly gi-atifying to those who have, or have 

 had, the matter in charge, tmd hiis, to a cey,ainty. demon- 

 strated the faith of the few who argued that the rivers ciiuld 

 be restocked to advantage was well foimdeil. Those who 

 have believed it impos.'-Uile must now be convinced that it is 

 not only possible but quite practicable." 



Two thousand eggs ot the California "mountain trout" 

 (Salmo iridfn') were received from Prof. Baird and were 

 haUdied. "What the (Vnnmis.siimers say about fi-bing foi' 

 count is SO plain and to the point that \m' gla(ll_\ gi\e it en- 

 lire. They say : "We must repeal what u'e havi' said before, 

 that the depopulation of our brooks is largely owing to the 

 persistent e;iplure of tlie yearling fi.sh. rrom two to three 

 inches lon^, beiorr they are old enough |o M-piwduie tlnii 

 .sji.-i i' s, by the eoikney fisheruien and eiueles^ l'o\s, ,\ lu' :,!'ii 

 at getting the lal'.;r'^l mnrilier p(.ssilile, ,uid eithei s;i\ , • <f\y, i\ 

 one coin I Is,' or, 'the small fish are the .'.\\eel( st.' Possilily 

 they are to ,my (.u.- who i- tond of ^.ilt jKuk, for these little 

 yearling tiout l.iste ot verv little else when cooked, the .small 

 proportion oi ii.h tia-i or being entwely ovei-whelmed hy (he 

 larger ratio ot tin ■ 1 '-m lk e of hog.^ It may be (hc affinity be- 

 tween the biped and the quackuped which accounts for this 

 lasle." 



It is interesting to note that attention is being paid to the 

 nny-ration of lanqireys, which are lara'ely (aten in New Hamp- 

 shiie and some uli^h^Hlrill^' ,"t..tt.^, Imt \\lii( li are rejected as 

 food iu New York. The report says that this fish "came up 

 the Merrimack as far as Lowell, and Messrs. George Liddle and 

 J, L, BteyeuB, of Manchester, made two trips to Lawrence 



and procvu-ed several huudrcd, -whicli they placed above the 

 Amoskeag dam. They propose to repeat this work next 

 mouth, so that we may reasontibly expeet to see these fish 

 back in numbers in a year or two. though perhajis not in such 

 quantities as when ihey obtained the title of 'Deiryfield 

 beef.'" Anap|viidi\ (ontibi^ an address delivered before 

 the Pish and t^ame Lt ague, April C, JS80, by ex-(!ov. I! ]', 

 Prescott, in which he advocates fishways and protection. A 

 list of the lakes and ponds in the State closes the report. 



BLT-E-Fi,snix<; Anon- Loxr, Isi.,\xd.— Of all limes in the 

 year the bluefi^hing is \r?ually at its best in October and 

 November, and the present season is iis good as in any pre- 

 vious year. Last week the catches were pleiilitnl all around 

 Long Island, and we have no doubt ot their being as go<id iu 

 otiier waters, but we jiersonally know tliaf they were excel- 

 lent off Fire Island, Gardiner'.s J.^land and Long Island 

 Sound, some " fifteen pound' rs " having been ea])tnred in 

 Plum (4ut. Not only is this fisli, which east of New .lersey 

 is a "blue fitdi" and south of there a "tailor," 1 \e(i'diimly 

 plentiful now, as it has been all summer, !nii tli;^ i iiie 

 season for the large ones to ome in. and tii- > 1 . 1 1 

 VI ry best condition attained liT, thih exeilleiit iml 1, 1 

 New "i'orkers can now take Long L-.l:nid R.uli i.ul ,il 1 11 

 Flatbusli avenue, Brooklyn, ^ia tin down-to-mi ferrie.s, or Ijy 

 Thirty-fourth SI n-et fen y to (Treenpoint, aud in a few hours 

 arc lauded in any ]>art of the Island tl.ey may -nish to visit, 

 as the road branches in all direetion.s. Smaller fisb ai'e 

 fouud in Great South B.ay, but the l.-irge ones seldom enter it, 

 and are caught just out.sirie the inlet ; and as the bai, is shal- 

 low and full of "weed" thoM- fishing inside nm.^t lake 

 their fi.sh hychununing, vihieb, )iy tin' ■■,1... i-ib-uio-i s|k.i-|s- 

 manlike ; but if you prefer the sail v, 1 nid rlieii 



outside is the proper place. The ii ^i and 



voracicnis that the smaller ones nevi-i , n. j n ,ie 1 ouipany 

 of tlieir Larger relatives, hence a school will usually contain 

 fish of nearly one size, and when taking "three-pounders" 

 it is seldom that one of twice that si/e is siruek. It is a 

 notable fact that while the other food fishes are decreasing in 

 numbers the blueflsh, Puwato-inux xaltalra; is really increas- 

 ingt and Ijf tj' years ago it was unknown on our shores- 



PKfWSTLVANiA FiJjLD Tbials. — The arrangements for these 

 trials a,]'e now completed, they will be run at the lermimis of 

 the Quarryville R. R., which is about fifteen miles south-east 

 of Lancaster, iu Lancaster ComUy. The grounds have been 

 preserved for several years and quail are very aliundant, be- 

 sides birds will be on hand for sioekiug should there not be 

 a sufficient number fomid on the grounds. The entries to the 

 trials made to the secretary are reported to be nearly full. 



The weather was jierfeet— the monotony was broken by 

 fine thunder-.stornis — but the aforesairl ad"vi rtisement, "llo 

 for Mag:inettiw>tn !" clipped from \ >i o, - 1 j in nn: 

 Jiockel, :.nd, niv ol,]ecf beimc tioiit. I 1 for the 



famous ,iMr "The road is "Ad.ei, not ilc- 



AdaUiS.'" It has lieen rur.sed a good tl , 1 1 .. ,1 :~ane pas- 

 ^cuLa-rs. but for a road that leads to fi.shiu^ll is nneummonly 

 L'Mod. Troni aud turnpikes uie not usually in conjunction, un- 

 h'ss they be trout raised by machinery and fed on liver. Clark's 

 at MagriueLtiw;^ Village is a hospitable inn. The j\Iaganetti- 

 wan is a noble river, Imt dippim; ray hand in it ^Lttlidthe 

 trout question. The water in July and August is too \-urm , 

 ^lay, June and September are the moiUha in which to fish 

 for what I believe fcome oiu' has termed "speckled beauties." 



For a day or two I turned my attention to bass witbgie.t 

 success. There are deer in this region. July is a little eir y 

 to kill deer letrally, lau iu a region wliere the people arc so 

 poor as they a -e in Muskoka the law is lenient. 



When a man has to put a palisade around his cabbage bed 

 to kei|i thedeer out, anil has had no meat iu the house for 

 seven weeks, to look upon a quarter of venison does not make 

 him auiirv. Partridges were also nbmidaut, and, I have no 

 dfinht, more easily dlgesti'd than baeon, I could onlv regret 

 that it was the ck.se season for game. My frieinl, Geo. Rons, 

 can in the proper season show a vi-'it(a- fivini: moooe within 

 t',vo day=' journey from Jlaganr lliwao. 1 know i;f no L^-oue 



X "HO FOB THE iMAGANETTIWAN 1 " 



WE hereabouts are jiersistent fishermen — not a bass iu 

 Fall Creek or White River th:it is not ac(jnaiuted with 

 us by sight ; hut I doubt that luihanapolis will ever liecome a 

 fish uig resort. A year ago I aunoumed that I would never 

 again wet a line in Indiana ; of cour.se I have liroken the 

 resolution. ^Vhen my m it;bbor dons his corduroys and asksme 

 if I "lune any sand," 1 am likely to saj' that T have, and in 

 an hour or so 1 am basking in the sun in the neighborhood of 

 Broad Ripple, hoping for a bass, expecting a goggie-eye and 

 haulintr in a small sunflsh. Ali>n2 in the .spring mj e\eflas 

 riveted by a well-written advertisenu-nt in Fopc-"i and 

 SiKE.iM, headed "Ho for iMairaneitiwan ' ' I ' m1 



"Ualloek's Gazetteer," anil thaT selllid 11 1 



July I was (m the wa\ to Toronto. It is a n 

 the'proper number cou.-.tituliii ■- . imfv i 1' li l,.j.^ _; un 

 spent a great deal ot time ni ■ t 1 Millions, 1 have 



begnn eiirly in the.siiiing to i_ 1 ,i:on and to lire 



the hearts of my friends. II , ^ im succeeded in 



making up a par.y of four and e' ■ n six but it is an uncertain 

 world, fishing is uncertain, fishiniien are uncertain and also 

 the wives of li.shermen. It is a sirkening thing to set the day, 

 make all thinsis ready and find that the elect gentlemen have 

 had a change of mind. A part} ot one e.ui be depended upon ; 

 .so it was that I sat lonely at the 1 Jueen's Hotel, Toronto, and 

 mused on Jliiskoka and the regions lie\ond. 



]Mr. MeGraw, manairerot said hotel, "is a fish. 

 he introduced me to .Mr. .1. JL. a gentleman 



theatre gointr p' 

 bought a "jilia 

 latter pait ot 

 pleasant. A^ ' 

 which wa". Ih.i. I 

 warned th it Jlr. I 



bland in inam 

 1 ided that IK 

 the .bus pie 

 that the hotel 



Slid tliat tW 



■jlir n-li ,iu 

 .111,1 1; 



.pie, and ,1 ^[. and I "po 



^- 1 made toi 



lan's friend. 

 •II laiown to 

 .](d om- is.sues," 

 Ihenoith. The 

 M . \>\ sii iinboat t.i i;o«.seau is 

 I , .imp-, the m..~t iioti, eable ot 

 I I onilortChib." We \\ ere fore- 

 it, the jiroprietor ot the Rosseau House, 

 itedly he is. He is neither chUdbke nor 

 r. but after a two weeks sltiy with him we de- 

 nan in Ontario could have done more to make 

 ant. Having paid my liil] I fttl tree to say 

 : excellent, and 1 know ot no plaee where the 

 rer 'j,( f more for bis mone-\. (_)thcrs have 

 ,biii-i HMip. lb, and 1 believe that is the woid. 

 10I V. Uou nor sniped norsilver. lint black bass, 

 A\." fail.il in llwli-bim; .111,1 1.11 int.i t 



of the c.mitiv imd used iIh 'iM ] i nn ,1, rLli.itile oilI,'- 



■m. It is a trifle misty. Inn 1 1 1. ■. TlieToiouto 



■m is the thin:;. Tlie hone. 1 1 >- 1 1, -• is sc mt. S md 

 and rook is not the proper euvii"nmi nt lor a wirm — he runs 

 too much to skin, although iu one corner of ]\Ir. Pratt''- L'ar- 

 den there is a preserve ^shere the worms aie tolerably t;it : but 

 digs;ing ihem li_v daylight is attended with considerable risk 

 less'iu the absenc'e of the projirietor. The fisliing (of the 

 kind, leaves nothing to be desired. The boats are excellent, 

 lie boatmen expert. There is no use in slating tlic nimiber 

 )f fish that "Webster, uiu' boatman, brought in night after night 

 i-s 1 desire Avhen I T^Tite anyth ng to be bidieved. Tliere is a 

 ■•arieiy uf lakes to visit, enough to consume the days, and at 

 jveiiing one can sit and heai' Angus j^Iorrison, M. P., teU 

 nmscalonge si ories, see the landlord welcome his giiesta, and 

 at night sleep untroubled by mosquito or , 



'ii. ]; 



.ilouU. 

 I\lusk 



bill I ie 

 rod and 

 sj.orl in 

 my eye 



statV til 

 Indi.. 



■:U.s, boal.s, bl 



..U,laj...a.el 



1 i-'iven to the settlers by the govom- 



t Willi y-one year.s, and not liable for 



III I 1 1 I ' o nrach of it, undissolved 



lud, hospitable iu the ex- 



-leat ways. Any sport s- 



II I to remember pleatautly 



iling on chance acquaiiit- 



irUable good fortune. 



. the bass were still biting. 



if water for his elegant 



rlH.anl. Th, re«.,si„, 



th,- vLole lli.u 



R M.i.jaiielliuat,;" till. I ean 



nt lienuid, lamv <_'iiraigb to 



.1 Hi,, n 



rii 111 this regimi. Dep 

 -,.mpmiv, 1 iiavehadri 

 in- to Pratt's, at Ro-s.-aii, 



,1. jr. fishbiL'in tweni\ fi 

 eel.inadv, rteutlviiroppe,l 

 bat. So. Mr. Kilitor. 1 am itkel 

 ■Melon the "II,. f. 

 resi Ibal lli,.a,b(ili. 



.Inlv and Aii-usI ai 

 .'/,e//.^, Jnd. 



M. W. R. 



NOTES ON SOME MARINE] INVERTE- 

 BRATES, 



IN a reconi number of The Aawrkan- Juvrrud of f^ntni'i-, 

 Prof. -A. E. "Verrill gives us some very iutere.stiii-' iioie.s 

 of his observations on several marine forms, madi.. during 

 the past suuujier lU Newport., R. I. 



Prof. Verrill spent a pr.rtion of tbesummeir at New|)ort in 

 connection with his work on the L. S. Fish ConimjSBioii, hnd 

 the discoveries referred to will, no doubt, be published more 

 in detiul in the Fish Commission Report of last summer's 

 work. Perhaps the most interesting of Uiese ohservalioiis is 

 that of the occurrence at IS ewport of two littoral species of 

 Europe*n shells wbicli have not before been recorded (is 

 American. These are Trrinr,i!,i!/r ininmtidfi tmi\ .imimhun 

 yiiiiinuii. IHuinu the laltiT part of July .and in Aiigudt nn- 

 melons specimens of both .speeies were found living among 

 the decaying s,iiv,i.e,l al liiuhw.iler mark on ilie docks at 

 Newport Both }oun_' and full grown .shells -\M.re found 

 here. The two s[.i i-ii -• -v\ere ass.jenti'd with a number of 

 well known North Ameriran genera, such &&Alfi\k<, Anuri- 

 da, Oliei-nfis, I^'gia, Oiflu.tttti and other littoral species. It 

 cannot at present be decided whether these shells have been 

 introduced at Ne\\poii by ship].inn-. or whether they are re- 

 ally indigenous and liave hitherto heeu overlooked. At all 

 events, the opinion is expressed that they axe now well estab- 

 lislie.l iuiialiilants of our shores.^ 



The diffusion of the little sliell TJitnriiw llthn-m lias been 

 noticed before in these eolnnms, and to -(\hat has been said 

 by our correspomleiits Prol. N'cirill adiK s.juie intercHting 

 facts. It is known that Ibis e'cmmon l-Jinipean sjieciea ap- 

 pi.ared fir^t on the 1 oast of ilaine in 1808, though Dr. Daw- 

 son ha.-, stated thai he had collected it at a much earlier date 

 on the shores of Nova Scolia. In 1873 the United Btates 

 Fish ( ommission found it abundant at Saco. Maine, and It 

 was collected sparingly' at Petd^es Island in Casco Bay. In 

 1S7'2 11 was rare at Pr,.\ inentown, Mass., but in 1875 had 

 berome common. Pi of. "\'errill fotmd it abundant at Barn- 

 stable, on the .shoie.s ot Cap.- Cod Bay. At "Wood's Hole, on 

 the southern shores of t ap,- I'o.l, only two specimens were 

 found in 187.'), but in l^ic it wa- common tlrere, and is now 

 very abundant. During hi.st w inter Prof. S. L Bmithfound the 

 first specimen detected as far West as New Haven, and since 

 then other spi-cimens have been taken there by >£r. E. A. 

 .Vndrews and bj'^ Mr. J. H. Kiuerlfiu. H is now very nbimd- 

 aut al N, uport. 



(<i„ui e\ //.(i<t is another invertebrate wMcb Prof. YerrilJ 

 b.mid abundant at Newport. This large aud beautiful a.tu 

 e iilian is to be fomad on rocks aiu1 on the piles of wharves ul 

 lov.' water, and on dead faiells 10 a deptii of tweujy fathoms. 

 It woedd seem to be very local in its distribution, for Prof. 

 "V^errill has never found it at any other locality on om- const. 

 This species grows to a length of four or five indies, and is 

 about au inch in diameter. It is quite translucent, and the 

 internal organs may be seen through the pale greenish or yel- 

 low ish white test. The ai.ertiires are surrounded by a circle 

 of bright lemon yellow, and the ij, elli .ir.' bright red. This 

 species is said by Binney to have hn n first found by Agaasiz 

 at New Bedford, ^lass., and by him named Ascidi'a oscellahi. 

 It is figured in Gould's Invert, of Mass., but not descriUed, 



