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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[Jan. 4, 13?S. 



MR. W. B. MALLORY'S BLACK AND WHITE ENGLISH SETTER DOO "PINK B." 



Winner of First Prize in both. X. A. K. C. Derby and New Orleans Gun Club Derby, 1883. 



bcrger" pond, which on the second day of »ur visit, was sub- 

 jected to the same process of ffehing as the Maxa pond. We 

 were now destined to witness the injurious influence of other 

 enemies of the carp than the pike. The young carp in this 

 pond were on an average six times as heavy as those cap- 

 tured on the previous day, and the total yield was twice as 

 large as that, of the Maxa pond. The increase in the size of 

 tin- eighteen carp originally placed in the pond was also 

 much greater than that of the carp placed in the Maxa pond; 

 but the tola! number of fish captured t el 1 below the expec- 

 tation. Even during the first haul we were struck 

 with the unusually large number of sticklebacks 

 which were brought up with the carp. Large 

 numbers of these dangerous tellows were boldly pushing 

 their way in the tubs among the pretty golden-yellow young 

 carps, in some eases, it is true also struggling for life, as thev 

 cannot live without fresh air as long as the carp. What 

 damage- was done by these fish of prey, which, by persistent, 

 attacks, even succeed in killing large fish, during one summer, 

 to the young carp of the Dachsberger pond, may be gathered 

 from the circumstance that we onlv captured "2<i,G00 young 

 carp, while in other years as many as 100,000 to 150,000 had 

 been caught every autumn. In stocking the Stettiner Haff 

 such circumstances should be taken into consideration, the 

 recurrence of which may in this case be avoided by simply 

 laying the pond dry and pouring in a solution of lime 

 and water. The average production of a hectare of water 

 may therefore be calculated at 45,000 young carp per annum. 

 In order, therefore, to produce the required number, S2,d00,000 

 of carp in four years, all that would be necessary would be 

 to construct and put in working order about 1'20 hectares of 

 spawning ponds. According to Mr. von dem Bome's former 

 experience, the result would be more favorable. He found 

 that a good spawuing-poud produces em an average 50 n. in to 

 75.00Q young carp per hectare, in one * ear. so thai i . le . 

 ninety* hectares of spawning-ponds would be sufficient fo»toek 

 the Stettiner Half with the required quantity of carp within 

 four years. 



In answer to the question, whether there are near Stettiner 

 Haff places suitable for the construction of such ponds, the 

 administration of forests for that part of the country has re- 

 turned an affirmative answer. In the extensive government 

 forest on the western shores of the Stettiner Haff , between 

 Uckermiinde, Politz. and the Papenwasser. there are a num- 

 ber of marshy places, which as far as their productive),.-^ as 

 forest laud is'concerned, are practically useless. With very 

 little trouble, in many cases by merely eonstructin- a dike 

 with a. pipe for draining t)ff the water, very fine spawning-ponds 

 for carp could easily b" cemstructei in tiie immediate" neigh- 

 borhood of the Stettiner Haff. Onlv nine full y matured carp 

 per hectare, each weighing about four pounds, placed in these 

 ponds in the spring, would in the autumn of every year yield 

 40,000 to •(0,000 young carp per hectare. If one wishes to save 

 the expense of constructing a number of ponds, it will be suffi- 

 cient to commence with one pond, and let the young carp 

 grow large enough to" become spawning carp after three 

 years, and then stock the other ponds with these carp. The 

 transportation of the young carp to the Stettiner Haff could 

 he accomplished by wagons or by trenches leading from the 

 Haflinto the. ponds; and this "should be done every year in 

 ( Ictober. The question arises whether the Haff is suitable f or 

 carp? or if wiud and waves, and the. numerous enemies of the 

 carp, especially the pike, or lack of food, or the salt water 

 from the. Baltic which occasionally enters the outer mouth of 

 the Oder, might injure the carp.' "In reply we would say that 

 the carp lives under the same conditions as the bream, and is 

 everywhere found in its company; and since we find the 

 bream in the. Stettiner Haff, there is not the slightest doubt 

 that the carp can also five in these waters. We must, of 

 course, be prepared to see the Haff pike, that most voracious 

 fish of prey, devour many thousands of the delicate young 

 carp, and the herons, gulls, sea-eagles, and other enemies of 

 carp do their share in destroying the young tlsh. Very prob- 

 ably the most dangerous of all enemies of the carp, man, will 

 capture the young fish beforo they have reached their full 

 Size; but there is no doubt that the flat bottoms of the Haff, 

 which, especially in the west, are rich in the best humus, 



will provide an inexhaustible supply of food for the carp, and 

 afford many excellent places of refuge. Against the fish-of- 

 prey we shall declare open war, and as for man, the fiercest 

 of these enemies of the carp, is concerned, we shall endeavor 

 to limit his power for evil by carrying out a long and often 

 talked of plan, viz: to budd a swift small steamer, which will 

 act as the policeman of the Haff. Millions of voting fish will 

 be furnished for the Haff every year from the safe soawning- 

 ponds, and make up for any l.i.-s'es. Success will surely cro vn 

 these efforts at last, and our waters will again be filled with 

 fish. A successful experiment, liKe the one we have described 

 will soon be imitated in other parts of our country, and our 

 lakes and risers will no longer, as at the present time, when 

 our fi esh-waf.cr isheries have reach, -d the liovesl staiee of 

 their decline, only yield an average annual increase of 3 marks 

 (47 cents) per hectare; but will equal in productiveness the 

 finest and best, cultivated portion of our land, and the income 

 from each hectare of water will be at least twenty times as 

 large as the one mentioned above. Whenever this takes 

 place, our pisciculturists, and among them Mr. von dem Borne 

 with his 1100 acres of water, will be the first to feel the conse- 

 quences of the change, for fish will become much cheaper 

 food. But this riisiutorested man, who has conceived the plan 

 of stocking the Half with carp, will not be influenced by such 

 narrow considerations. The execution of this plan will prove 

 a great blessing to our people, for we shall again see the carp. 

 which has been banished from all tables except those of the 

 rich on account of its high price, grace the table of our middle 

 and poorer classes. 



him to exe- 

 rcply bring- 

 that, is really 

 me all about 



Ihe Mmnel 



FIXTURES. 



BF.NCH SHOWS. 

 March 20. 27 and 25, 1883.— Dominion of Canada Kennel Club Bench 



: ■'"■-■■ ■ .o,. :.,i harlei Lincoln, Superintendent, Detroit, 



Mich. 



April 8. 1. and 5 1883, Western Pennsylvania Poultry Society's 

 Kiflh Annual lienell Show. Pittsburgh, Pa. Entries for "the tench 



Show Derby, for Englisl setters whelped on or after January t. 18.83, 

 close February, i. 1883. ('has. Lincoln Superintendent, C.'B. Elbin, 



May', iH83.— Westminster Kennel Club. Seventh Annual Bench 

 Show. New York Cite. Itobt. Cornell. M Will an. s(.. New YnrkCitv. 



Februarys'0. Jl.u.'a'id S3. 1883. -Gran. I International Bench Show, 

 Washington. DC. Clias Lincoln, Superintendent, Office. Skating 



last winter, and he could do no more than sit 

 receive me. I had a little commission I wantei 

 cute, and while explaining the case, he DM I 

 ing in " Butler's great dog." 'By .love, doctor, 

 the very tiling I wanted to see you about. Tell 

 . ■ i l.i'.' _■■_ 



"Well, sir, Butler's dog— Prince, they called Mm— was the 

 largest dog I have ever seen, and he was also the best shaped 

 big do? I have ever seen. A fine head, nice smooth. .a- In.-i 

 great legs, as straight as a post and as big as my art. t almost, 

 and, for all his size, he was as active as a little terrier. Sovp 

 I have in my time heard a lot of people t„i,|i; ..Loin Me si?,.. ,i 

 dogs and how high they were. I don't know how they meas- 

 ured them, but I think I know how a dog oucht to I 



tired, and now I tell you, sir. this dog Prim ■•■' was the biggest 

 dog I ever saw, and I don't, think there ever has been another 

 as large. Prince stood just thirty-four inches at I he shoul- 

 der." 



"Thirty -four inches, eh;" 



"Yes, sir; not a traction of an inch over that." 

 ''How did you come to know about him. Doctor;" 

 "Didn't you ever hear, sir, that Butler and I took him to 

 Englaud and shown J him before the Queen of En. 

 did. Tell me the whole story. 1 1 



in: . i. li h..l "J 



•'No, I i 

 ji til 



got lots 



r of la 



and tell you 



I" doaS. 



IT well. sir. I'll go back to the be 

 first about Butler. He was a tenchf 

 speak I don't know 

 books too. But he w 

 money out of them. _ 

 out of the common, and one da} as Iv 

 Astor House I saw a man come in with i 

 never seen before. I got talking with t 

 he wanted to sell him, so I went to Butler 

 he .asked ine to find the man. I searched 

 I could get trace of him. and at last I sue.' 

 to Butler. I don't know what bargain tt 

 ler got the dog. and then he engaged me to keep him and Like 

 care of him. Butler said 'I have given more money for this 

 dog than I ever gave for any other, and 1 want you to be 

 careful of him.' By and by Butler said he was going to 

 Europe with him and wanted rue to go with him. I saidr. 



t him 



BUTLER'S SIBERIAN BLOODHOUNDS. 



NE day last week I received a letter from a ration 

 tlenia'n bitten with the passion to become a niernt 

 'fa 



and exhibiting of dogs. I had previous 



a lecture upon the necessity of reslricli; 



or two breeds, and he said he would, bi 



kuew he had an offshoot in the shape . 



boar hound. Ulmer dog or something of 



me if I knew anything about Butler's 



Siberian bloodhounds. ~ 1 had heard a g 



and again of a Wonderful strain bearing that 



which wore s " 



inches at the 



dogs, and I have i 



measure at thirty 



garded as a fable. 



eluded that, as 



weather— I would tramp it down town and visit a few pli 



in re Butler and his dogs. 



Luck favored me at my first call, which was on old Doctor 

 Gardiner, who is now in Seventh avenue, near Seventeenth 

 street. I regret to say that the old ge ntleman has never fully 

 recovered from the severe sickness which prostrated him 



my 



wife would not let m 



e go. 



Ask her.' h 



3 said. 



No, I said. 



1 wc 



uld not eve 





■ that 



At : 



ast he saic" 



, 'I'll a 





you 



' and he dii 



1. 



Butlei 



wtis a 



ways a goo 



1 talke 



'. used fine 



lang 



uage and tv 



as 



a bane 



some 



nan. so so 



uehow 



he talked 



yi IV 



wife over, 



ai 



id off 



Ballet 



and I and 



the do 



; sailed for 



Line 



and. Whe 



n 



we go 





we be°"an 



exhibit 



ng the dog 



thro 



ugh the count 



•y, and Butie 



r who was 



always 



grea 



t ideas, got 



.up 



alare 



r e sign 



represent! 



Ig this 



dog, with 



Whc 



■Tin 



gro in his 



mouth 



and dashing in 

 from him. "Then 

 co Hunter' painted 



he'had 

 in laig 



of othei-s 

 the name. 

 i letters on 



Great Am. 



ri'c 



an Sla 



the 



,ign. Dear 





, how 



the pa 



a ale elided 



le to se 



3 the dog 



to b 



3 sure. la 





ertam 





tst have ha 



1 as ma 



ny as fifty 













ling each. 



By-aud-bye the 













i much that 



Butlei 



received 











el e^ 



• Queen of ] 



'lngla.ii. 



. I went 







a 



four t 



ries le 



Hues 1 



rusgo in. 





. 1 l.i show 



and 

 eight 

 ired a good" many 

 md one to touch a standard 

 so Butler dogs I always re- 

 tire letter referred to, t con- 

 -i bright day— good walking 



idie 



Wei 



of 



Quee 

 dogi 



-.ell 



rod some carriages drove up 

 not know wide], m '■■ 

 of questions. Whether the 

 a native of America.' Whether it was a distinct 

 If they were all as large as this oue .' Whether it 

 was gentle with people, and could be trusted with deer '. 

 I told her just what 1 believed to be true, that he was a good- 

 tempered and kind dog with meu, but could not be trusted 

 with animals. Why) sir, he would go crazy if he saw a goat, 

 and would kill one just, as a terrier would a rat, Butler all 

 this time was talking with a gentleman in sonic foreign 

 language, and I could not understand whet he said. At last 

 the Queen gave me two five pound notes, and they got into 

 the carriages and drove away. This set Butler nearly crazy, 

 and he said now we could sell the dog for any money we 



