Oct. 5, 1888.] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



193 



may bo the Brest step toward again stocking the waters from 

 ■■ id to the Bav of Funds' with millions ai Co6 Isl OS 



nan, in his search after food 

 and profit . had so a s« lj ispa 



I its rich UvusiuVof food ush. li it hat I) 



civil thai the. siip] tear our shore can be b pi up 



>'■ : i ■ r 1 1 ._■;.■ i_ . ;.■ ■, ,,•..,-...- ,, ■ ,.•! i hat is >-■"■ vnas 



the shore fishery, which It < . owninflfCj frOina few 



cargoes in winter to soil Crozes to 0,000,000 pounds at this 



pon alone bi-d \ ■•■iir. can be douh! ' ■ ■■,-:-,,■-. in: 



government has h-en well paid, and f'rot. Baird - .i.nr i 

 uotaework.-flWoo;,', el/ . ■,.. e...... . . ,,. ....,,, 



THE AMERICAN FISHCULTURAL ASSOCIATION. 



PROCEEDIKOS ELKVKX IB ANNUAL MEETING. 



MATERIALS FOB A HISTORY OF THE SWO&DFISB. 



I'V '.. ultOWN (100DE. 



e\rr, ai OT TTIE SWOBDITSHJ IN THK 5rUI)ITER.ltAjrF.AX. 



VICTOR MEi:\"!l-;:. in his treatise "1/6)3 Grande 



M. 



an 1 i( presei 



modeled '" ' 

 cblhrs, Tibs 

 to meet one 

 tage. of their 

 their lances, 

 itself with vi 

 and eadange 

 it by the hea 

 overcome tl 

 b in .]..; oar 

 fishing to a ii 

 the Bomaus, 

 most import 

 in which the 

 Kad at hex \\- 

 to break th 

 fears some 

 fey rema 

 comes th 

 himfotl 

 for often 

 walls ol I 

 with Inn 

 There i 

 continuii 

 k 



of July i 

 to appro 



eft 



Thi 



edt 



rdlislu 



aasi 



unar a prisoner \ 

 prey of the Usher 

 -i. !r " This do 



>f the 

 ptured those fish in madmagues, 



■;' '.'•:;. .' ''Although he isabte 

 ian, "ho shrinks from it; he 

 aidity counsels him ill; he ends 

 lin the ring of (he net, and be- 

 ll, who with united effort drag 

 uot always occur, to be sure, 

 ouM-bc captor:, fie break, I ::■ 



deep wait tr am 



i ,pi:Uj 







young BWordfis 



to the 



m baa - u - 





Wish weighing 1 





taken, and the 





sured. In the 





fish disappear. 





• i: ■ oc an i 



lev reap 



tone, and rami 



d on the 



"Fisheries ftra also carried on, but with 

 larity, anion- the Liparian Island . near 

 .'itiioruniiv-nols of Xnlazzo. Vlliceri ai 



I'atti and in the wafers ol Sardinia. 



■■The fishery on th" Sicilian and Calul 



iocI of . 



ed on with 

 itlonSLin 



d. and at 



ble by the 

 hung to 

 ;, anil the 

 wies b • 

 , and the 

 ig to the 



captured, aud tkuv 

 "The methods of 



FIXTURES. 



. Field Trials on Quail, near 



FOOD FOR PUPPIES. 



EVERY sportsman has had more or less experience in 

 breeding, or rearing, dogs— talcing it, for granted that 



the-orgaofc 



child, aud 

 oversight a 



a of handiwork, 

 i sensitive young 



ionic! uot lack the 



mast. 1? fe.et high, sunnounto 

 intended to support the lookout,' i 



ho gati 



steps fastened to the mast. The- lookoil 



station 

 gestui- 

 time h 

 he aid* 



ML. 



Attl 

 Is aboi 

 yague 

 Araeri 

 aline 

 meters 



Tw.i 

 brian 



dews tha 



,S ihick 



incuts of the oarsmen. At the proper 

 lading on a uarrow thwart amidships 

 m and performs the otllco of steers- 

 man who strikes the lisb. llis lance 

 ith an iron bead, which, from the 

 anier, appears to resemble closely the 

 is is detachable, and to it is fastened 

 i little finger and 600 feet long (200 



;uards aro also stationed on the shore. On the Cala- 

 >ast they climb upon high rocks and cliffs; on the op- 

 posite shore, where there are none, they stand on a tower, 

 built expressly for this purpose, about 800 feet in height. 



"Everything being arranged, - ' says Spallanzani, "behold tho 

 order of rhe. fishery. When the. two watchmen perched upon 

 the tops of tho rocks or of the mast judge that a swordfish ap- 

 proaches from afar, by the change in the color of the water, at 

 the surface of which he swims, they signal with the hand to the 

 fishermen, who row toward it with their boats, and they do not 

 cease to cry out and to make signs until tho other lookout on 

 the mast of' the boat has perceived the lish and follows it with 

 his oye. At the voice of the latter the boat veers now to the 

 Tight, now to the left, until the lancer, standing at the bow. 

 weapon in hand, catches sight of the fish. Now the lookout 

 descends from his mast, stations himself among the oarsmen, 

 and direct? their movements in accordance with sitrnaJs mven 

 him bv the Lancer; he, seizing a I 

 the fish, often at the distance 

 slackens out the rope, which be i. 

 boat, with the force of all its oa 

 until ho has expended all his stre 

 surface: the fishermen, approachi 

 hook and carry him to the shore, 

 from his wound, strikes the boat i 

 SO the fishermen stand on their gi 

 is large and active." 



The young iish are captured 

 calied putimadams. These are stretched between two boats 

 with lateen sails, moving along, entangling in their meshes 

 everything which they touch. Spallanzani protested vehe- 

 mently against this fishery. It is carried on from October to 

 March. 



Oppian describes a method of capture used in the Mediter- 

 ranean. A bait was fastened with a sliding noose to the line 

 at a distance above the naked hook, and the. whole was so con- 

 trived that when the swordfish seized the bait with its mouth 

 the hook seized it tram behind with great force. This story 

 is declared by writers of the present day to have been fanci- 

 ful and without foundation. 



I am indebted to Mr Frederick "W. True for the following- 

 translation from Prof. Adolfo Targioni Tozzetti's essay on 

 "The Fisheries of Italy," published in 1370 "" 



portunity, strikes 

 Immediately he 

 hands, while the 

 ha wounded fish 

 i lie rises to the 

 him with an iron 

 the fish, furious 

 : with his sword, 

 lly if tho animal 



nets about 300 feet long 



descriptk 



of the 



icthods 



nplo. 



the 



tun 



iries ; 



ited in the Strati.., of Messina, on 

 d Sicily, and among the Eolian 



pro: 



dose 

 '•Two very distinct fis 



the other by night. Th 

 peculiarly constructed j 

 the use of harpoons, or 

 harpoon fishery is ' pros 

 the. coasts of 'Calabria 

 Islands. 



"The fish appear earliest along the coasts of Oalabr 

 tween ffivia, Tamo. Patau, Bagnara, and tsY-iHa, and hi 

 is in these localities that the fishery first begins. It is 

 cuted later in the season on the rkolfian coast, toetw 

 Teresa al Faro. '"kay.zi, Salvatore dei ftroci. and Capo Pale 



"The net Bsherj os/the Calabtrjan coast is carried on r 



lr~l.a 1'esca nei Mar 



ie, ;l . . O 



liana, Esijiisizioin- inter 

 Bpamper 



Swoi-dflsl • : Her; --.-■ 



su. Tiioautho si ite« 

 Mrtved front (ha v.-ni 

 Fstrioli, 



37. A kind of pound E 





M'a of tunnies or 



"The watchman indicates the i.i lyenrents of the fish by cer- 

 tain signals. For instance, ho cries out 'oa ffitsit,' meaning that 

 theiishgoesyouder.ortowa.dll Faro; of •.■<; jusu\ he goes 

 down, that is. toward Messina; or 'ru /<nr<t. he goes out, Or 

 toward Levants ; or sometimes '«i u'terrd 1 , meaning that the 

 fish is swimming toward the Sbxn I . 



"The lookont. at first oboj ■ la, aud then reh tog 



the- boat has approached sufficiently near, the harpooner strlKtiS 

 the fish with his draffinVrii. or harpoon. 



"The draffini'Tii consists of a wDod$fi stall' 1'.' feet loug, 

 furnished with an iron 7 inches in length. The iron has two 

 wings, and is constructed iu such a manner that when it 

 strikes the fish the point enters the flesh and the wings spread 

 in the wonnd p8)., A rope, or prolese, often COO feet or more 

 in length, is fastened to the harpoon head, so that it may be 

 recovered when the lish. weakened by loss of blood, is cap- 

 tured and brought into the boat . 



"A short warp is tied to tho staff of the harpoon, by which 

 when the head is detached it is brought back into the boat. 

 After the tish is struck, the Invito puts back to the station, 

 leaving the chase and capture of the wounded tish to a 

 second boat. Usually he is easily captured, but sometimes 

 by dashing against the boat or by other movements ho man- 

 ages to free himself aud make his escape. 



"A fisherv verv similar to that carried on at the present 

 time was described by I 'olibius, according to Htrabo. more 



Messina given by Oppian (:;'.)) is sonievrhat fanciful and inaccu- 

 rate. but in the last century Spallanzani gave a mor 

 technical description of it (40). Recently the fishery has been 

 accurately described in elegant Latin verse by Vc.r.'rioli |4i). 



3H. This iron resembles closely the. American lily-iron. 



at). Oppiauo. Delia IVsca.i. 



i'\. Spalfanztuil Riafefeialle dueSieilie eee. vol iv.. p. UOS. et seq, 



•it. Vctrieli. X.viiletlsilana.n. Teiples. 1870. 



[TO BE OOXCLI'DEO.] 



^Lmwtt§ to {jjjsomBpandents. 



L. H. H,. Schooler's N. J,— We i 



nu.raes elaiaie'l, sales, etc. For pro] 

 Kenurl Not.e.t. For cost of a iv.-.fi,: 

 you eeution at ime time owned well- 



3 charge for registry of 

 i, see notice at "head of 

 st page. ThegeiHlemaii 



el! ma aevtliing of rhe 



1 think he won in 1B77'. 



:t New York in 1879. He 



\V. JM. R,, Kansas (aty. Mo.-l, Wlia, , 



D.ef. Bellows Falls, A i. — j Can be 

 without using another do- .villi liiein. 

 probable leoKtb of rime i\e, • .■ .o i 

 w!,rt|...-,a in Apiii lie too ycuig tu com 



rabbi U ? 3, liu, th t'.r ■ 



Uies ? 4, Otin you felre me the addres 

 ^ftglW for sale t An?, ; Tea ; bat it 



Id be the color of si well- 

 SUChadog! •■). At what 

 B J polish a pair of ordi- 

 M. 2. A litde white oil 



For long 



d all past 



Will some .• • I •: pli ase aiprcsa his viivvs upon tltis subjects 



Will, ,:,;. ;,:-, ;, „l .: ,:■ l,i guide me, I res -. c ' , he 



still, the aye of six months. Are hounds, and especially 

 beagles, peculiarly' hard to rear? O. W. R 



THE COLOR OF THE 





-OUNDLAND. 



y a protest from 



blacl; and white i: 



Newfoundlands. I question. In 



breed, 

 should 

 It is well ■■: 



or bronze, or 



while tip tot 

 White on tho 

 from Newfot 



nd 1 cc-rtaiulv do 



t think that the pi 





.fked . 



We find the tWO Ncwfoundl 

 represented as black and white, the upper one in 

 Laudseer's "Member of the Royal Humane Soc 

 the lower one hi:- four white gaiters, and white on the head, 

 breast, and shoulders, and tip of the tail. Then there was 

 Neptune, the dog owned bv the York mail coachman in IbMO. 

 who is said to have been marked like the upper pup in Ward's 

 picture, aud who was. whelped on board the ship thai, was 



adlai 

 aye Lo 



got Oil 





when, i 





ported. 





thoueh 





with m 



ich 



to trim ' ' e'i'i 



sS^iSuSpr 1 ' i 



of any one who ha-i wotaatl I MMly blaoS HSWIOVUldlftndl, and to She Kennel Club U Uua 

 i berte*r to rua tbeni with Bb I ah honor for having provided a olasa for other than bl*ol« 



