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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[July 1, 1880. 



and points below nearly every day. There are no hotel 

 accommodations that I am aware of, at least it is the 

 custom to camp out for long stays, or take luncheon for 

 short ones. There is also, near the dam, Spring Lake. 

 It is parallel with the river and about three-fourths of a 

 mile distant on the east side of the river. It is fed by 

 springs, and connects with the river about two miles 

 above the dam. The water in this lake rises and falls 

 with the river, is al way* cooler than the river, and gen- 

 erally clearer, and is full of bass, perch, crappies, etc., 

 and always affords fine sport. We have never heard of 

 fly-fishing in this section for bass. Everybody uses min- 

 nows. I am reading with much interest the articles of 

 Dr. Henshall, and wish they would come oftener. I am 

 a subscriber to Forest and Stream through the cour- 

 tesy of a friend. When the first numbers came I hadn't 

 time to read them and threw them aside ; finally I took 

 several home from the office, thinking I would look them 

 over out of compliment to my friend. To sum up, I 

 wanted to go a-fishing right away, and I began adding to 

 iny meager supply of tackle, much to the profit of your 

 advertisers. I have a split bamboo from Uoskins on the 

 way, and by the time the water goes down will be ready 

 for" business. I have seen no letters published from this 

 section. Your journal has proved itself powerful enough 

 to interest one who formerly had very little time or fancy 

 for such things. C. B. A. 



We have no doubt that the errors noted in Prof. Lind- 

 en's article were purely inadvertent ; and we take the 

 more pleasure in publishing our correspondent's letter, as 

 the concluding part of it is added testimony to the good 

 inlluenoe of the Forest and Stkkam. 



uric) only to bo found after persistent effort and hunting: through 

 tan snooting grounds for some one to tell you, aud the time so 

 early in the 'lay, that, unless you are on hand the day hefore and 

 1'md the committeeman and thus learn the locality, the chances arc 

 you willarrivo after the contest is over. Hut, says tho managing 

 club, the curries for By-uasOng are SO lew ire cannot afford to 

 waste any time on you. I reply: Not when there is any interest 

 taken by the managers to make the. contest attractive. Oswego, 

 Watertown aud Syracuse tlid'not lack in entries, although the 

 actual value of nil the prises offered in cither did not equal that 

 of a single prize offered in a numhor of shoots. 



At tho present price of tly-vods. so far as money is concerned, a 

 man had better stay at home and buy him one, for it would cost 

 less than to go to a Convention and win one. But a gentleman 

 sportsman, with rod or gun, loves to point to some little souvenir 

 as a trophy of his skill; and 1 venture to say that the "Game 

 Fishes of the United States," as first, prize for fly-casting at tho 

 Seneca Falls Convention, would have drawn more entries thnn 

 all the 850 rods that could have been offered. For tho fly-flalier Is 

 a man who loves to read. Ft.v-Ho 



\ 



A Dead "Rise,"— MiramvM, June 19th.— On Wednes- 

 day (8th inst.) I was fishing at the Ox Bow, Little South- 

 west Miramichi, My companions were Dr. Holden and 

 M. 0. Baillie, of St. John, and Mr. Joyce, of Chatham. 

 The wind blew up stream from an easterly direction, but 

 we were doing fair work with trout of from one-half to 

 three pounds, I struck a two-pounder which showed 

 considerable game, and had played him sufficiently to 

 justify my beaching him, which I proceeded to do. Just 

 as he was within a foot or two of tho shore, however, off 

 he went, leaving on my hook a smelt of ordinary size, 

 but partially digested. On making examination I found 

 that the snielt was firmly hooked about half an inch 

 from the caudal fin. and I had as much trouble in un- 

 hooking it as an ordinary trout would have given me if 

 well hooked. A good many smelts were in the river at 

 the time, and tho trout were feeding upon them. In the 

 case of the one that rose to my lly on this occasion, the 

 smelt had been swallowed as far as possible, and the pro- 

 cess of digestion was going on, the tail of the victim mean- 

 time protruding from its captor's mouth. When the 

 latter rose to take my lly and 1 struck for him, the hook 

 became fastened into the Bmelt as I have described. I 

 havo^ frequently seen smelts, to the number of two or 

 three, thrown from a large trout's mouth when struck 

 heavily or played vigorously after being hooked, but I 

 never before hooked the dead fish when striking at the 

 live one. D. G. S. 



♦ 



Rye Beach Fishing.— New York, June 24th.— Col. 

 Withers, of Rye, while fishing near Rye Beach last 

 Monday, caught fifteen blackfish in about two hours. He 

 says that the fishing has not been so good there during 

 many seasons as it is at present. His largest blackfish 

 on Monday weighed six and a half pounds. It has since 

 been eaten. He presented it to Mr. Minott Mitchell, a 

 gentleman w 11 and favorably known in real estate and 

 petroleum circles, who is summering himself at White 

 Wains this year, where he says he simmers more com- 

 fortably than he would in his city residence. Mr. Mitchell 

 invited some choice spirits to partake of the fish, and 

 they accepted. The writer hereof regrets that ho was 

 not included in the party. Mr. Mitchell has had unusu- 

 ally good luck blackfishing this summer, but nothing 

 like that of his friend, he says. His chief ambition now 

 is to catch a seven pound blackfish for Die purpose of 

 presentation to Col. Withere, T. 



New Brunswick — Boston, Mass., June 33d. — Have 

 just returned from York Co., New Brunswick. Captured 

 six bears and all the trout wanted, in the waters of Cran- 

 berry and Kilburn, Fishing has been good for trout in 

 all "the waters till lately. It needs heavy rains for 

 successful fly-fishing, especially for land-locked salmon. 

 _ Warfield. 



Wisconsin— Applelon, June ISXft.— Bass fishing was 

 never so good on the lower Fox as it is this season. Large 

 strings are taken daily by professionals and non-experts. 

 Roberts' "Resort" is being extensively patronized by 

 parties from Chicago and Milwaukee. Island Park, 

 further up the Lake, has a fine hotel now, and fishing in 

 the adjacent waters is superb. F. 



FLY-CASTING, 



Syracuse, ffeio Teifc, Jane. 1880— Editor Fores? am Stream . - 

 Fishing clubs are being formed throughout the State, and 

 when they are formed they moan business; aud 1 venture lo say 

 that tho labor performed and the money expended for the propa- 

 gation and preservation of Qsh, and the laws enacted through the 

 induence of the Onondaga Fishing Club nlono for the past two 

 years, exceeds that of the State Conventions for the past five 

 years. 



Article Second, of the Constitution of tho State Association 

 leads: " It shall be called tho Now York State Association for the 



i , ,! , tstiOD of fish and Came." Good. But any member of a club 

 who has taken an active part in getting ready for the holding of 

 a State Convention knows that the whole burdeD of the club 

 consists in getting the birds from afar, building coops for t b em, a 

 grand stand upon which to see them shot, suitable grounds for 

 tills purpose, providing conveyances for the shooters and specta- 

 tors, and llaming posters all uvcr the country announcing 

 the great State shoot; while if the club happens to have one 

 member who takes aa Interest in fly-fishing, to him alone is in- 

 trusted the arrangement tor fly-costing. And my experience has 

 been that everything Is sacrificed in the shape of comfort and 

 convenience, to bo near the shooting grounds, oven going so far 

 as to dam up a small brook, rippling through a cow pasture so 

 full of weeds that not twenty feet width of clear water could 

 bu 1'10,'itiva.aTho locality unkuowu to the visiting sportsmen 



igisJt gutter^ 



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v ■Tennessee Shad.— Nashville, Tenn., June 19th.— A 

 shad supposed to be one. of the offspring of those deposi- 

 ted in the Cumberland River a few years ago was caught 

 here the other day, weighing three pounds. Hickory 

 shad are quite common here, and often very abundant. 



J. D. H. 



P{ gmal 



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 Publishing Company, New York." 



Forest and Stream 



MR. DALZIELS LETTER TO THE LIVE STOCK 

 JOURNAL, 



' < TNCUDENTS of the New York Show," is the heading 

 A of Mr. Dalziel's last letter in the Live Stork Jour- 

 nal, under which tho Famous English judge expresses 

 his views of the different classes of disappointed exhib- 

 itors he met with at the New York Show. In referring 

 to the many protests against the judging, Mr. Dalziel 

 writes us below. We deem it best, however, to republish 

 the protests in question, that we may make clear to 

 our readers the two points upon which ho touches in par- 

 ticular. 



The first was submitted to the Board of Appeals, but 

 that body only entertained that part of the protest which 

 referred to the judging of class 40, "Red Irish Setter 

 Dogs." It read as follows:— 



To the Westminster Kernel c 



they i . 

 on the pa 



as follow- 

 prolesl i- 

 llolnbird, 



'rullcmtn :— We, the 

 ow, do respect fully 

 oard of Appeals that. 

 erroneous decisions 

 inhered 



a to thi. 

 , W. H. 



^ and 



ing facts. In jud 

 associated with tl 

 andS. T. .1-1 am n 

 fair-dealing, pai 

 Ihaanovorju, 

 " When the I 

 pointed out that the d 



Irish red and white sell.' 

 then thought, thescb.edu 

 was adminsable. This w; 

 tion of ' Stonehenge ■' in 

 being afterward 

 alone : and the judges, in 

 Of Byron, limn 

 have an extra first prize, 

 dially agreed, 

 this ; it is hei 

 minister Kern 

 fled in giving 

 mended th 



A. f. Tiippan, William Mann. 1 

 .dolph Melson. On the part of the owners 

 olassthan Blofco ill. 



: '• 1 will deal with it by briefly stat- 

 ing this class I had the honor of being 

 i Hon. John H. Wise of Richmond, 

 id, Esq., of Springfield, and two more 

 staking, and. I believe, competent men, 

 ycd withj 



Red Setter class came into the ring I 

 Byron was, I considered, an 

 r. Mr. Wise, read from, as I 

 e, that white it was provided, 

 a really read from the descrip- 

 jondeused form. The mistake 

 >d, the red dogs wore judged 

 pressed with the grand form 

 recommended that he should 

 I to this the Committee cor- 



English reader will be surprised at 

 of everyday occurrence; andtheWest- 

 ■1 Club Committee would have been justi- 

 00 extra prizes had the judges recom- 



I leave the Irish setters with one word to the West- 

 minister Kennel Ciub : — These dogs are not 'Red Irish,' 

 as their catalogue reads, but ' Irish setters,' red or red 

 and white. 



•' Now 1 will deal with the protest in general. As is 

 usual, the Westminister Kennel Club sent outa premium 

 list, with copy of rules and regulations governing the 

 show ; and those who made entry of their dogs knew 

 that they did so under the conditions therein clearly 

 stated. 



" Rule 8 says : — 



" 'The scales of poinm given in Ihe'third edition of the "dogsof 

 the. British Islands," by .1. II. Walsh ( " Stonehenge "), will be used 

 by the Judges, When ».,v.>siu», in judging the dogs.' 



" The meaning of this clearly is that if the judges 

 failed to agree, point-judging according to Stonehenge 

 should be resorted to. 



" At the New York Show no such necessity arose, in 

 the opinion of the judges, whatever disappointed exhib- 

 itors may have thought. 



" Rule 10 says : — 

 '•'The decision of the judges will be Qua! in all cases, except 

 where mistake, fraud, misrepresentation, or collusion can be 

 Shown; In any such case ihe Committee of Appeal must decide 

 all Questions, except those of merit, aud the dog may be re- 

 judged.' 



" Can anything be clearer, and where, I ask, do the 

 protesters find their loerts standi ? 



'■ 1 inclose a full copy of the rules, Mr. Editor, and 

 shall be glad if you will" give your opinion as to whether 

 there exists one' justifying thl-se protesters or the West- 

 minister Kennel UJub'Commiltee in entertaining them; 

 for I bold it was their duly to protect their judges from 

 the insulting charges of unfairness or incompetence, 

 especially when made by persons of whose competency 

 to form an opinion there was no proof. On the, con- 

 trary, in the only instance I had an opportunity I proved 

 the utter incompetency of a protester against tlie awards 

 in spaniels, before the Court of Appeal, puttin« a most 



elementary question on the breed, which he admited his 

 inability to answer." 



The second, was from A. E. Godelfroy, Esq,, which 

 was not acted upon by the Board of Appeals. It was as 

 follows : — 



MR. GODTSJJTROyS 1'ltOTEST. 



ni-:w y on ii, May vith. 

 I ai Westminster ICbssil Club. -Gentlemen:— I beg to pro 



■■■■'. .- i . ■ ii. v.i-ai-d la class 7,. where my bitch Uraunfels was 

 V-i; c-u the second prize. The other dog bus no dew claws, a point 

 -. -i: ii i-. tocordlng to " Stoueheoge" and faro Shaw, as neces- 

 sary as solid white in a hull-terrier. Yours respectfully, 



A. E. GODEFFROY. 



On this Mr. Dalziel writes : "Aud now, one word with 

 Mr. Godeffroy , I will deal only with his objection to my 

 awards in St. Bernards. Mr. Godeffroy objects that I 

 gave first prize to a dog that had no dew-claws. My hav- 

 ing done so would surprise no one in England who has 

 read my frequent protests against the high value put on 

 them. It is pretty well known that. I consider these ap- 

 pendages as useless as they are ugly. Mr. Goddefroy re- 

 fers to ' Stonehenge ' and Vero Shaw ; but great authori- 

 ties as these gentlemen may be, Mr. Godeffroy must 

 learn to know that it is not every judge who will bind 

 himself by their opinions or their crotchets. 



" I believe Mr. Godeffroy has in his kennel the blood 

 of old Champion Tell ; and I should suppose from his 

 protest that he is ignorant of the fact that Tell, like 

 Prince Salms' Courage and many other grand specimens, 

 was as innocent of dew claws as the dog I placed first tin 

 New York. And woidd Mr. Godeffroy be ' surprised to 

 hear' that I have in my possession a letter on the sub- 

 ject from our great naturalist, Darwin, in which he de- 

 scribes dew claws as ' accidental monstrositt es.' 



" As the rules provided only for protests in case of 

 mistake, fraud, misrepresentation, or collusion,' I 

 think an apology is due to my co- judges and myself 

 from the gentlemen who entered and published these 

 protests, who were one and all voluntary exhibitors, 

 having bound themselves by the rules governing the 

 show, and that with all the advantage of knowing be- 

 forehand to whose judgment their animals would be 

 submitted, HUGH DALZIEL. 



The Editor of the Live Stock Journal, in answer to Mr. 

 Dalziel's query, says : " There is nothing in the rules 

 which on this side of tho water would have made such 

 protests admissible. 



WORKING DOGS IN THE MOUNTAIN SWALES FOR 

 SUMMER WOODCOCK SHOOTING. 



IT is in the. swales, on the sides of tho grand old moun- 

 tains, and in the springy basins on the top, where in 

 ordinary seasons the woodcock can be found. The tower- 

 ing mountain, whose knob seems to have been squeezed 

 by the hand of Kuhleborn, the spirit of the stream, from 

 whose fingers the legend tells us that fine rills of water 

 gush forth, is by far the. best, The lofty trees seem to 

 catch from the slowly drifting clouds the water which 

 trickles at our feet, and down whoso steep sides the slope 

 is broken here and there, by level spots on which the 

 springy grass grows high and the waters gently ooze. 

 Here "on these giant steps the woodcock nests and rears her 

 young ; nor does she quit her secluded home for the mea- 

 dow swamps below, unless driven by a protracted drought. 

 Should the season be fairly wet, and frequent summer 

 showers replenish tho tiny rills, tho woodcock and her 

 brood find ample boring ground, and they are not forced 

 to leave the gloomy music of the whip-poor-will for the 

 Still more doleful clinking sound of the rusty cow-bell 

 in the valley pasture lands at the mountain foot. 



It is in these odd crannies, that many a woodcock hides 

 away, and thus escapes from the intrusion of the sport- 

 ing world. If it bail not been for secret spots like these, 

 many of which stifi continue to hold the weird traditions 

 of the past, the woodcock in certain localities would have 

 been utterly exterminated, 



To us the acme of woodcock shooting is in such like 

 places. Of course, there is a deal more hard work in climb- 

 ing the mountain aides, but when the ground is well 

 known, excellent and varied beats can be mapped out 

 for a week's sport, and a good bag at the end is generally 

 the result. There is something exquisitely beautiful in 

 mountain swale shooting, as each nesting place has its 

 own lovely view, and each so entirely different from the 

 other. One may be grandly wild with nothing but a sea 

 of forest trees mounting to the skies, and at the next 

 turning in the bed of the BWate a peep at some lovely 

 cultivated valley framed in on either side with craggs 

 and the darkly" wooded slopes brings one back from 

 thoughts of the outer world. But there is rarely an Eden 

 spot without some drawback, and here it is "again the 

 snake which destroys much of the pleasure of the sport, 

 and frequently in fact deters, from fear, the sportsman al- 

 together from shooting in the fastnesses of the mountains. 

 Therefore, before passing on to the more important work 

 in hand, it may be well to give here the mode of treat- 

 ment should the sportsman or the dog be bitten by a 

 reptile, either the rattlesnake or tho copperhead, com- 

 monly called the " pilot," The absorption of the poiton 

 through the blood is so exceedingly rapid, that it is 

 utterly impossible under any circumstances to remove 

 the whole of the ve mop. In the case of tho man, the 

 cardinal principle is, first cleanse the wound by washing, 

 and if it is of such a character that a slight incision with 

 a knife can be made, let it be dona at once, and the poi- 

 son sucked out by means of the lips. Second, it is nec- 

 essary to sustain the nervous system through the terrible 

 depression which must enevitably insue. This can per- 

 haps most readily be done by free and copious draughts 

 of whiskey, to which, carbonate of ammonia from five 

 to ten grams can be added every fifteen minutes. When 

 quinine can be procured, fifteen or twenty grains every 

 tour hours should be administered in connection with 

 the stimulant, If the carbonate of ammonia is not at 

 hand, use spirits of hartshorn which can be found in al-' 

 most every farmhouse. A test of its strength should 

 however, be made, as it is apt to vary. This is done by J 

 taking a. teaspoouful of pure water, and by dropping the 

 hartshorn into it until the water becomes turbid, its 

 strength can then be tested and the doses thus regulated 

 should in succession be increased. 



When the dog is bitten, lacerate the wound, which 

 cleanse with water, and apply the hartshorn, also giving " 

 whiskey in email doses until the animal cannot stand. 

 Of course it is much better to suck the poiaoa out, and 



