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FOREST AND STREAM. 



fNov. 16, 1882 



during 'which "dosed time" no shad or other migrator v fish 

 shall lie caUght bv nets, wires [weir*], pounds, or anv other 

 means whatever, neither shall Mich nets, wires [weirs], pound" 

 ■ Lerapp I - . ■ lei . - It in Said livers during said '-closed 



time." i'li, : . i. ol nete or other apparatus for Batching 

 said fish, shall not be tan than flvt b Bbi - 



SBC, V. Be it furthei enacted. That no shad shall he taken 



spawning pi rposes, to carry out, the provisions of this act. 



SEC. VI. Be it further enacted, That any person or persons 

 violating l lie provisions of this Act .shall be guilty of mlsdo- 



i on conviction of the same shall be punished as is 



now provided in section 4,310 of the Code of Georgia, as 

 last revised. 



StEC VI 1. Repealing clause. 



Approved February -'!>, ISTli. 



The Act above riven contemplated a eharaeter and scope of 

 work altogether lieyond the possibilities of the sum of only 

 live hundred dollars, which was directed to bo devoted to the 

 purposes of the Act. My predecessor, Hon. Thomas P. Jaues, 

 in his urst annual report, made after the passago of t he Act, 

 says: 



•'The Legislature, at its last session, passed an Act directing 

 that *500 of the annual appropriation to this Department to 

 used to the purpose of propagating heh in our streams. Im- 

 m'"liaielv after the passage of the Act correspondence was 

 opened with Prof. Spencer F. Baird, U. S. Commissioner of 

 Fisheries, and Mr. Beth Green, Superintendent uf Fisheries 

 for the State of XcwYorfc, in regard to supplying some of 

 our rivers; but it was found that the season was too far ad- 

 vanced to make even a beginning, so that the effort was aban- 

 doned until this tall. Correspondence was reopened last 

 month, with a view to the artificial propagation of shad in 

 several of our streums, but as vet no satisfactory arrange- 

 ni'-uts have been made 



"My wish (ras to establish a hatching station hi Georgia; and 

 tin- Mi Milie-r. the U. s. Deputy Commissioner, thinks would 

 lie the proper plan, but says '$500 is too small an amount to 

 begin with.' He says: 'With the amount you have to use. I 

 sec nothing better than to move California salmon now, or 

 shad nexl summer, from our stations to the rivers v ou wish to 

 supply;' but savs that S500 would only move 00.000 sahuou to 

 our streams, f have, therefore. decided to waa nntll spring, 



Kress makes the necessary appropriation! to b 

 on the Potomac, and to charge only the cost of removing 

 them, since 1 am convinced ih.it tie- small sum at my com-, 

 m.-.nd can be most profitably devoted to the introduction of 

 the largest possible number of this lish into our streams. 

 While Ithink the introduction of 00,000 salmon into our moun- 

 tain streams, at a cost of $500, would eventually prove a good 

 investment for oar people, I have not, deemed it proper to de- 

 vote the whole appropriation to that purpose, especially since 



duetion of shad at the same cost .Mr. James W. Milner. 

 Deputy V. S. Commissioner of Fisheries, who has had large 

 experience in artificial hatching, expresses the opinion that 

 ?:2,->00 is the least amount with which hat chiug stations could 

 be established with a reasonable hope of success. 1 ' 



In the annual report which I had the honor to submit to you 

 for the year 1SS0, in referring to the included report of Super- 

 intendent Cary, 1 took occasion to >-ay : 



"Your attention is respectfully invited to the foregoing re- 

 pot* of Dr. H. H. Cary, Superintendent of ETishertca. and 

 especially to that portion in which he shows the necessity for 

 a reasonable appropriation to can-yon this most important 

 work. At no period in the history of the State have the 

 people manifested so much interest in flshculture. It is a 

 question of vast economic importance to the people of the 

 state, and one well worthy the consideration of tne General 



Saembly-. The present annual appropriation is utterly in- 



adequate to accomplish 



portance of the interests involved." 



These extracts are given in ord, 

 been repeatedly called to the i 

 appropriated from the Treasur 

 quoted, to be expended of 



nensurato with the iin- 



r to show that attention has 

 cenoy of the sum, not 

 t directed, by the Act 

 appropriation for the 

 support of this department. NbtwiJ listatidiiig the inadequacy 

 of the. means provided, the Superintendent, under my 

 direction, has been as active and suooessful as could be 

 reasonably expected of an official working without a salary 

 and with such a small fund for expenses; and quite a num- 

 ber of shad and salmon fry have been released in our streams. 



CARP. 



Though the Act quoted does not make express allusion to. 

 or provision for, the introduction and encouragement of the 

 culture of other than migratory food-fish, a fairly liberal con- 

 struction of its language will also include other lish that give 

 promise of being of economical value to our citizens. In 

 accordance with the -pit it of the Act. therefore. » have 

 directed the Superintendent to give attention to the intro- 

 duction of the German carp as a pond fish promising of im- 

 portant results to domestic lisheulture. I bog to refer to his 

 report, herewith submitted, for dotalls of the work and other 

 matter in this connection. 



In concluding mv remarks under this head it is proper to 

 call your attention to the fact that, so far as I am informed, 

 or can ascertain, the provisions of the. ..\ct (which have been 

 fully set forth! in regard so "closed time" as contained in sec- 

 tions IV. and V., have been utterly disregarded, not a siDgle 

 instance having come to my knowledge of conformity on the 

 part of persons engaged in shad fishing. Nor have I learned 

 of a single case in which the penal provisions of sectiou VI. 

 have been enforced or attempted. The law is a dead letter 

 so far as these prohibitions and regulations are concerned, 

 and the anomaly is presented of an Act of the Legislature re- 

 quiring the inauguration of a system of artificial h.!' nia- of 



dgrato 



}ur people In 



shad and otb 



out an a 



same time 



the fish fr 



used to i .- 



our largo 



natural right to the benefit of tl 



very headwaters of the strean 



before get i in. i,fi-. mile, from 



are in use near the coast. Not 

 tant States send their fishing ve, 

 and ship tin -a-atcirto 

 people derive no benelii whatcv 

 ing the food out of our mouths.' 

 following: 



REPORT ( 



y fish for restocking o 

 priation for the pur) 

 uate legislation for tb 



s-with- 



lol their 



u up the 

 eelmated 



il fill and 

 had that 

 is of dis- 



larkets. so that our State and 



r from them. If is like "tak- 



I beg to refer you to the 



Hon. J. '/'. Scncta 



I herewith subm: 



"While it is 'toll 

 mean,: at the diSpOl 

 tension of the work 

 congratulation tin 

 work, and thai Si 



F sri'EHINTENDENT OK FISHERIES. 



Department of Agriculture, 



Orrii.i; Sn-i- i'.im KMu.NT Kimii.iui: 



La Grange, Ga., Oct. 10, 1883, 



,-i thai the limited 

 las prevented the ex- 

 still it is a matter ol 

 6 been made in the 



thai 



i befo 



al.iin.luiu. food Bupply . 

 CAN C.U'.i;.-- I'lii- 

 ie), el at ion acquired up 

 only about 7(10 had beei 

 and most of these bavin 

 quate drainage, bur, lev 



test their growth. The few examinations made, however, 

 showed a growth of about four pounds per year, The fish 

 ,'■ e named wen the hatchings of 1879 -!,- a^et hatchings 

 east of the Rocky Mountain* n hat hinge of the carp 



, i,e I'.iepai-tm'eut of Agriculture, received 

 and Distributed over 3(700. aad the members of Congress re- 

 ceived and distributed about, as mum- more, making the entire 



lims. and \ A shipment was 



in his mill-pond"; the last of September one was caught and 



weighed, and il was found that in seven months it had taken 



i li of five pounds. That this may not be an oxcep- 



lioreil oase, f will state that other cases of nearly equattyrapid 



fno, and probably the men 



number than this, winch we.i 

 years, ovor the Slate, and -< 

 they have, in every particul 

 placed upon them.' It is hop 

 will be mad. the ;■ 



dateofth ' 



stant: "1 am directed by I'rof. BaJfd to say 

 Q probably supply all applicants for carp 



l hi 



l'"-il OIIS Of IISCI 



of hatching of the carp eggs in our 

 onirics have been propounded to 



the 



Dr. 



onirics nave been propounded to ine on that s 



Rudolph Hessel, a German Bshculturist, and the 



dent of the carp ponds at Washington, states iu the report of 



thcComuii.-oonerof Fish and EraheTieB, Part 4, . 



that tliev hatch in from twelve to sixteen dins. I was mi 



pressed that th-v would hitch much soonarbere Mr. Eman- 



i hook and line, two 

 ec and a half pounds 

 .in in tiie bed of a 

 a of an old pond that 

 as overgrown with 



dear he could readily ob-erve every movement of the fish. 

 On Thursday the i-th. and Friday the H'th, ho gathered eggs 

 from where he had seen the carp spawning, deposited on 

 grass, weeds, etc. : some of the-,- eggs w-r- pUu ,d in a glass 

 vase ahd some in a tin bucket, both flUed with clear water. 

 Tim vase he kept in his dwelling house: the bucket he placed 

 on the branch of a tree in, open air, six feel from the ground. 



Whenhsfound that in both, in the bucket end i-a-v! the 

 egg< were hal.l, ine. On iiiakiinr this discovery h.- went im 

 mediately to the pond from which the eggs were ta 

 with a ba -in could dip up large numbers ol tiny lish. Thai 

 they were scale carp he was Certain, as be kept watch of 

 them for about a month, when they had attained a length of 

 one and a half inches. That the young fish were hatched in 

 from five to si v flays there can be no mistake, as there was no 

 water where he eathered the eges until le<s tlian a week- be- 

 fore o saw the young lish. audit had just risen sufficiently 

 deep to allow the fish to swim around m spawning. Mr. 

 Ilevser Having no thermometer, had no ne-ans of ascertaining 

 the temperature of the water at the time, but bv reference to 

 in-, register, I find the average temperature of the atmos- 

 phere In I ho shade was on the days covering this experiment 



the temperature might be a little lower, and this 

 would approximately indicate the temperature of the water, 

 so that we mav assume with the temperature of the water at 

 about (59 degrees, these aegs hatched in from five, to six days. 



The carp in this latitude usually commence spawning in 

 April. I observed mine this year spawning on the :27th of 

 March; 



California. Salmon— During the fall of last vear an offer 

 was received from Prof. Baird of a large quantity of eggs of 

 the California -ahuon taken from the McCloud River. At 

 first I declined to take them. 03 we had no mean- bq 68i lb- 

 li.-h a hatchery, but the South Carolina C..ii.mis-i.,n kindiv 

 offered to hatch them <rratuitoui.lv at the hatchery at VV.il 

 halla, in that Siai.. . This proposition was gladly accepted, 

 and lie i. -adt was we were enabled 10 plant i:;c.,iiuii salmon 

 fry in the head-waters of the Savannah River. Thin river 

 ,i and the whole plant made there for several 

 reasons, among which was the belief of its best adaptabilii v 

 oi all our streams for this species of lish, and another that 

 all experience has proven thai in restocking barren streams 

 largo plants are the most profitable, as the deoredations are 



the river to the spawning grounds iii the' fall 

 months. They have, a line flavor and take on a rapid trrowth, 



the water of our rivei s prove suitable, they will be a valuable 



acquisition. I h( 9 Beem to be of easy propagation and. very 

 hai.lv A recent letter from Mr. Livingstone Stone, in charge 

 of the hatcheries on the Paciflo slope, shows that notwith- 



r.porl. through the aid of the 

 iled to plant over 1,000,000 of 

 State, dividing Hum between 

 :■ .!,.. ich !Q rivers, These fish 

 il should return to their , pawn- 

 In i he season of 1861 and 1883 

 released in the waters of this 

 n'ssion. The lish of these plant- 

 years, respectively, from each 



leorgia. 



made 



rded to 



Shad.— As stated in my 

 TT. S. Commission I was e 

 shad fry in the waters of I 

 the Oconee, Oonjulgeeand 

 were planted in June, 1880 

 ing grounds next spring (U 

 more or less shad fry w 

 State bv tie- C. S. Fish Co 

 iugs should return in lib 



plain hit. 



Iii all the B e streams there are obstacles to their return, in 

 the obstructions presented by mill-dams. Fish v.a; can be 

 constructed over these dams without injury to the property 

 of the mill owners. This subject should receive the careful 

 attention of the. Legislature. Our in, .in effort should be for 



■lia'.i' as iii e.i'rlv tune it w-i- found tiie natural inhabitant of 



iters of Hie Stat.-. And I wish to empiastee the fact 



.fieinl prooagation that barren waters 



that it is only bj 



can I,.- restored. 



Btlt to Secure 



what New York 

 a proper "closet 

 tective laws, 



se desirable mulls, y?e must do prcpisely 



d overstates have done— establish by kiw 



closed time" and have ciiawted the necessary pro- 



BHUni; ' 



The clear, cold streams in many <x the. upper counties of 

 the Stat.- hit well adapted to the propagation of the brook 

 trout, and it is very desirable, us so in a- our means will per- 

 mit, to stock these streamB. A few experiments have been 

 i. ,., I.- by private individuals in introducing the brook trout 



into these streams, from the opposite side of the Blue Ridge, 

 with nuite encouraging i esuttei 



It is important to impress upon the Legislature Hie neces- 

 sity of a sufficient appropriation to establish hatcheries for 

 the migratory and other food fishes, and to establish carp 

 ponds of sufficient capacity, not only to stock every pond in 

 the State, but to plant them in all the principal streams, as 

 the carp will do remarkably well iu our sluggish rivers. 



An appropriation of one-third of a cent, jicr rrijiitct. of the 

 people of Georgia will enable us to make lish the cheapest 

 food in the Slate, and will take, them from the fist of luxuries 

 and place them iu the reach of all. 



All of which is respectfully subm tted. 



H. H. Cary, Superintendent. 



THE MICHIGAN COMMISSION.-The Fish Commission- 

 ers of Michigan have appointed Mr. Oren M. Chase to to 

 their superintendent in placo of Mr. J. G. Portman, Mr. 

 Chase is a iishculturist of a dozen years' experience, and is a 

 very competent man. He has been iu the employ of the 

 Michigan Commission for the past eight years, and was pre- 

 viously with the New York Commission. His address is 

 Detroit 



ANENT THE ELECTION.-£tftcc»- Forest and SVttsqini It 

 may he of interest to recall the fact mentioned on page -S2i of 

 your seventeenth volume, fn re the dog as pei'sonal property, 

 that the only Judge of tho Court of Appeals who dissented 

 from the conviction of a dog thief was Chas. J. Folger, late 

 candidate for the Governorship of New York State.— Cams 

 Ma.;or-(ity.) 



llw Metmeh 



FIXTURES. 



Bs-.xcir SHOWS. 



January il, 10, mill II, 18KJ.— Merltlen Poultry Asso'-iation Bench 

 Show. Meriileu, Conn. loshua Sllute, Secretary, 1U3 lloliart street, 



Anril ::. I. fl awl IS, 1KNS. Western Pennsylvania Poultry Society's 

 Fifth Annual BencS Snow, Pittsburgh, fa. Entries for the tenon 



SUniv Derl.v. f..r Kiiu-lish setters '-vle-lpe-i "n <r utter March 1,1888, 

 close December 1. 1882. Chas. l.in coin. Stlperiutendent I. E. Stay- 

 ton. Secretary. Allegheny Cily. Pa. 



f'ir.i.l) TPIALS. 

 November 17--J5a8tern Fi-1 1 Trials club Fieltl Trials on Quail, near 

 High Point, N. C. Entries for the IJertv close July !. For the All- 

 Aged ami Meuilicis' Stake. November i. Wnsliingron A. Coster, 



4— Nat 



ma] .' 



ian Kennel Club Field Trials c 



Quail, 



. . Quail. Ojirlmi- 



sas, La. Entries clos" Peee'iiiier II. J. K K.-ieiu-l. S-'eretury, New 

 Uiileiius, La. Entries for die Club Oup close Leceinbei' I. 



N. A. K. C. DERBY ENTRIES. 

 rr\HE following is a complete list of the entries for the 

 J. National American Kculiel Club Derby, to be run at 

 Grand Junction, Teun., upon the completion of the All-Aged 

 Stakes, which commence Dee. ■!. All were whelped in 1SS1. 



I. Rati: 15. Dr. A. P. McKinney, Forest Hill, Term.— 

 Blu.k. white and tan English setter bitch, April 18 (Count 

 Noble-Peep O'Day). 



l*. C'arme J. AYm. B. Gates, Memphis, Tenn.— Black, 

 white and tan Euglish setter bitch, April is it omit Noble- 

 Pesp O'Day). 



:i. Chickasaw. D. Bryson, Memphis, Term.— Black, wliito 

 and tan English setter dog, April 18 (Count Noblo-Peep 

 O'Day). 



4. Blaze. D. C. Sanborn, Howling, Mich.— Liver and white 

 English setter bitch, July 13 (Count Noble-Spark). 



5. Nellie Bet D. C, "Sanborn, Dnwling, Mich.— Black and 

 white English setter bitch. July IS iCount Noble-Nellie). 



0, Count Dad. D. C. Sanborn, Howling, Mich.— Black aud 

 white English setter dog, July I- (Count Nohlc-.Vellie). 



7. Gath. Crawford & Wallace. Memphis, Tenn.— Black, 

 white and tan English setter dog, .April is (Count Noble-Peep 



8. GOOTTESS MAtt.NET. D. C. Sanborn. Dowllng, Mich.— 

 Liver and white English setter bitch, July I." (Count Noble- 

 Spark), 



(). Queen Laverack. J. J. Snellenburg, New Brighton, 

 Pa. — Black, white and tan Euglish setter bitch, May IB (Tory- 

 Meg Merriles). 



10. Minnie I..EE. M. V. Rodgers, New Albany, Miss.— Black 

 and white English setter bitch," Sept. H iBisniark-Nellle). 



II. D.asiiixi! Klcho. C, Spain. Kidgeville. Pa.— Red Irish 



i months lEleho-Noreen). 



12. ROYAL VICTOR. J.M.Taylor, Lexington. Ivy.— Lemon 

 belton English setter dog, April 15 (Racket-Kelp). 



IS. Fan Carlisle. D. C. I'lumb, Niagara. Canada.— Liver 

 and white ticked English setter bitch, Ma y '.'4 (Bill Carlisle- 

 Nell Carlisle). 



11, Mi:i.i.it! E. U". A. I.'.llison, Ortoka, Tenn.— Blue belton 

 English setter bitch, Juno 18 (Bruce-Lit). 



15, Pink B. W. B. Mallory, Memphis, Term.— Black and 

 whine Kimlish setter do;;. May 1:1 II lladstoni --Countess Key). 



111. Prlvce Al. A. H. Moore, Philadelplua. Pa.— White, 

 with lemon ears, English setter dog, April ^i (Leicester-Dodge's 

 Ro 



i;. Prs 



nd whil 



: Wonder R, B. Morgan, Canton, O. — Lemon 

 Inglish settor dog, April 2 (Prairie .Joe-Prairie 



' !-. li;,;i;v Belton. Geo. P. Jones, Florence, Ala.— Black, 

 white and tan English setter bitch. May 8 (Beltou-Brarnble). 



111. COUNTESS A. J. M. Antut, Hickory Valley, Tenn.— 

 Lemon and white English setter bitch, Aug. 10 (Dashing Lion- 



20. Bess A. J. M. Arant. Hickory Valley, Tenn.— Lemon 

 and while English setter bitch. Aug. ' 10 (Dashing Lion- 

 Amada). 



31. Cadda'. A. Branshaw, Dallas, Texas.— Black, white 

 and tan English setter bitch. Aug. "0 (Kake-Phyllis). 



J:.'. tii.KA.M. E. li. Harriv. Boston. Mass.— Black, white and 

 tan English setter bitch, April !» (Dash III. -Countess II. I. 



28. Sim s. A. M. Tucker, Charlestown. Mass.— Black, 

 white and tan English setter dog. July 13 (Hash Ill.-Rhoebe). 



24. Countess May II. Luther Adams, Boston, Mass. I ll« k 

 white and tan Euglish setter bitch, April 12 (Drake-Countess 

 May). 



25. Sybil. Luther Adams, Boston, Mass.— Black, white 

 and tan English setter hitch. Sept. "i (Rake-Roxie). 



26. Greenwich. L. H. Smith, Strathroy, Canada. — Black, 

 white and tan English setter dog, July A (Paris-Dawn). 



27. Danbury News. Herbert Inman, Now York.— Red 



38, Bizora. °J. S. Mcintosh, Pittsburgh, Pa.— Red Irish set- 



:.".). CLiV-'n-K. Chas. Tucker, Stanton, Tenn.— Black, white, 

 mid [an English setter dog, Nov. 22 (Gladstone- Frost). 



30, Stanton. Chas. Tucker, Stanton, Tenn.— Black, -whit 

 and Urn English setter, Nov. 22 (Gladstone-Frost). 



Ill Oliver's Dan, J. H. Kraft. New Albany, Ind.— Block 

 white and tail Euglish setter loi A.U •- I: it • Bossie Lee). 



:;- Kr.M-T's Rakk. J. 11. Kimii, N.u Albany, lad. -Black 

 white and tan Eftpshsettei te-B^eXeB). 



arid 'lemon English setter bitch, July III (Count Noble-Spark). 



34 ELSA. E.E.Hardy, Boston, Mass.— Black, white aud 

 tan Engliah Better bitch, April 12 (Drake-Countess May. I 



