Bkptember 8, 1881. 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



113 



i; TIass in MimiTGAN -Ciiand RApids, Mii'b.— Michi- 

 a black nasi will take the lly. I was in the Grand Tra- 

 ighl royal sport I bad with basa as 

 well as trout, I found that any light colored fly, white mil- 

 ler or moth, etc., wag killirg. 1 used a 9-oz. rod, five-line 

 i and three flies, an 1 would frequently have 

 them tilled, wou'tl land two of tener than one. In that clear 

 to a fly from a depth of fifteen n- 

 twenty feet. In the part of the State where our streams are 

 Jess clear and much fished I have had but little success with 



Blai -. !'\- r, CoNNJtonotiT Hartford, Aug. 31.— Ten 

 ■ i j. o the Fish Commissioners of this State put forty 



ice fond near this place. A genth- 



frora Hartford caught three handsome black bass there 

 relay. One weighed live pounds and one ounce, one 

 turned the scales a' three pounds and twelve ounces, and the 

 He of the three was twelve pounds and ten ounces. 

 Tl ' ntleman, Capt. Henry Antlrus, has taken from 



v in rs of this p.md fifteen bus?, aggregating thirty-seven 

 rjc-half pounds. This is the result of the Commission- 

 ers' work. Sportsmen are pleased to think that once more 

 m -' i' , in IjB eaught in the waters of this State. 



V'Hi are doubtless familiar with thHt 

 of turtle whose ordinary habitat iu this latitude is 

 the from ol n restaurant, whore ho is accustomed to sleep 

 with his head on o i if r-box and his calipee exposed to the 

 i . i do not know whether he is commonly found 

 m New Vork Bay. A few mornings since while taking an 

 paddle in my canoe near the Robbins Reef Light I al- 

 most ran down a good-Bized green turtle. He came up just 

 hci ■ if me and so near that 1 could See the markings about 

 his ryes. I should judge that he might have been some two 

 feet long and his bead, which wan f.iirly out of water, was 

 as large as my two lists, which are. not very small. For 

 one I would be glad to know whether the green turtle is of 

 ' ' courrence iu a wild s:ato hereabout.— C. L. N. 



■ Homer, Cortland Co., N. Y.— Some 



nee 1 noticed sn article in your paper upon the subject 



traveling upon dry land from ore stream to another. 



; C time that it Was a "fish story." My views 



. ■■ • he .-. .1. I. si Thursday about 3 p. m., 



warm and sunny day, an eel was killed in a hay field 



On perfectly dry ground aoonl ten rods from a narrow ditch 



W, and forty rods from the river. The 



' av in a direct line for the river. 



for sometime, and finally Killed 



[he ' el Voluntarily leave Hie ditch 



as he taken out by some bird or 



The p. 



■ 



for the 



•ties watched h 

 th a hay fork I 

 overland route, ( 



'; — Si ■::.-■: lllBBK. 



i'iii:.-.\,i:' k !'..-. ■, Notks— Annapolis, Md., Sept. 2.— We 



have had vety line Taylor fishing here, and have caught 



tin u of sixteen to eighteen inches in length and weighing 



. <ight ounces/ They have now gone higher up the 



il we are wa chii •: for '.heir icturn, which will be in 



about a week orten days. They then remain with us until 



The rockflsh and perch seem to have lift our waters, 



afacl due, I believe, 10 the pound-nets and seines. The lal- 



Ihe spring at ihe head of the creeks. 



We need Legislative a lion badly to protect both our fish 



and g e. Should you ever pay a visit to the "Ancient 



City" ii would give, rnc great pleasure to show you around. — 



T.\Ki'-'.r. not Tap.pon. -The query which you raised a 



cerning the spelling of the vulgar name of 



attracted my attention. Your 



u - are v rong in spelling it "tarpon." 



. say, it is spelled "tnrpnni" by Goode, Gill and other 



:■■ : and ii is called " t irpum" iu J5ermudaard in all 



■ re I have heard it spoken, except in a limited 



district of Fiotida. It is so called by Mr. S. C.Clarke, a 



well known Southern angler and writer, see " Camp Life in 



Florida," pp. ii;'>, (!4. Sir. Clarke gets the name from 



Captain Romans, who wrote "A Concise Natural History of 



Florid •," about the year IT?:?. Your correspondent, "At. 



f \ evidently learned the name from some One who 



did not. speak it properly.— T. R. 



Destwjotive li s- Marlboro', N. H. , Sept, 5.— 



y, while Mr. M. Hill, of this place, was out spearing 



Sten Pond, he speared one which measured eighteen 



in. i ,i ipearcd to be full of something and, on 



opening it., Mr lliil found a pickerel measuring seven inches. 



,lle of too spears them near shear, just at the edge of the 



Water, when lie draws Ihe pond down some four feet. Both 



are of the opinion that eels feed on small fish and 



spawn. Is this so •— D. W. T. 



[The eel has long been known to devour spawn in great 

 quantities, as well as small fish, and even its own species. It 

 ..'.■■ a keen nose for a deposit of spawn 

 lv.d in the gravel.] 



A Gkbbs Ti I'm rA Socta Bay. — Last week a green 



lut'tlc weighing sixty pounds was caught in Great South 



I 1 ■■old. ll was laken near the village rf Tiny 



■Shore by Master Herbert Raymond, of Brooklyn, and a lad 



Perry Smith, of Bay Shore, * The boys discovered it near a 



bar and turned it over with a stick. It was in fair 



mi he query was whether it hud followed up the 



•Gulf Siroam and euiered the hay of itsown accord, or whether 



iso of turtle which was on its 



way lo Nev ■ 



ii is awake— Chester, Pa., Sept. a.— We 



i : fishing grounds for perch, rock and catfish to 

 i i i. the Delaware River.— J. Goff. 



Kbpkins, olu popular clam vender, 

 has a noveltv in the way of a clamming clog, tio proficient has hB 

 become iu bis newlv acquired profession that a few davs ago ho 



...■■ i. i r tn tbi "Hats," and caught no less than three 



i . i i i,.. oluru id. »■ time and placing them all in 



one; nu pile. Tbo mod curious part, however, is that he can 



■ , i lor II i id. - . ■• ■: ..i similar to 



a sandal tthe sfeeof a 



■ 

 imm la w* prwuuti 



tgisJfculhtre. 



.ma ink Mvni.i;-. 



5f.:-i.is, Me,, sept. 3. 



ON Wednesday and Thursday of this weuli w< r< 

 pleasant and profitable visit from Hon. E. M. Sfcilwell, wki 

 represents the Fish Commi-ision of Maine. BeoameheretO vlei 

 our beautiful lakes and ponds aud eucourage oijr people iu thei 

 laudable efforts to reatoelt aud protect them from the encroach 

 meats of poachers. 



Mr. Stilwell has served as Fish Commissioner tor nin 

 under Gover 

 By reison • of 



Perh.ii 



years 



tor two. 



Stilwoll i> 

 and mipo 

 tho intric 

 ii,. Pii 

 a work «i 

 taken n 1 

 being m( 

 thev wit 



i, Dingley, Connor, Gareelon and Da 

 a very singular and curious complication which at 

 in the incomprehensible political system of our State 

 mly one Fish Commissioner while the law pre 



the ll. i 

 acting Comn 

 ■tant dnties ai 

 lie Executive 



IP: 



lowed. Mr. Stilwell i 



•ect and 



f 0. Stanley, of Dixliold. But Mr 

 lid performs all of h a hiborioui 





esBful 

 gentleman of rare intelligence, a genial 

 companion, and an interesting conversationalist, lie has made a 

 Ufe study of fiaheulturo and the various branches of the subject 

 and its applicability to the wants and the interests of t'r.c ]■■■■ pil- 

 ot Maine, and he profoundly loves the work an* study which has 

 absorbed tho better part of his years. 



Maine has reason to be proud of those of her men who, like 

 Atkins, Stanley, Smith and Stilwell, have for years battled against 

 an ignorant and narrow public seutiment and who have dared to 

 work for thia cauBO rather than pander to i>r I id for the votes Of 

 poachers. They have had Ihe co.irageto doand perform theirwhole 

 duty, while Bonie of our County Attorneys. Sheriffs and Wardens 

 have cowardly surrendered to the rabble for the sake of votea, and 

 they doHcrve all honor. PisOATon. 



FISHCfJLTUBAL NOTES. 



-pilF, New Jersey FjsU Commissioners invite application from 

 -*- those desiring to stock ponds with black bass. To all suitabl i 

 in' 'lie Waters, the fish are sent free of charge. The distribution 

 will be begun early iu September. From reports received by the 

 Commissioners it seems that there has been a surprising increase 

 in the size and numbers of these' valuable lish wherever they have 

 been sent. Applications are to he made to Major K. J. Anderson, 

 Trenton, giving a general description of the water, the character of 

 the bottom and size of pond. 



Our regret at the retirement of Me. Samuel Webber from ihe 

 New Hampshire Fish Commission is softened by tho fact that Dr. 

 Spalding takes his place. Mr. Webber has been a faithful and 

 eflicient officer, and Dr. Spalding has every qualification to make 

 him the samo 



South Carolina has a winter hatchery in Oconee Co., and a shad 

 hatchery on the Edisto Kivcr in Collotiu Co.. iu charge of Mr. 0. 

 J. Huske 



Ithode Island has a close time on her const from Slay 1 to Aug. 

 1, when all traps, pounds and nets of all descriptions aro to bo 

 closed or forbidden to bo used between Saturday morning at sun- 

 rise and Mondaymoruing sunrise. For the past two years tins ap- 

 plied only to a portion of the coast, but uowoovrra all. The Com- 

 missioners of Inland Fisheries are charged with the dutv of en- 

 forcing this law. They have deputized wardens to attend' to this, 

 and this year it has beou strictly enforced, and the increase of 

 young Hsh in consequence, has been noticeable. Hook and line 

 ii.-hei -men are well pleased with their catch this Benson. 



Tho Michigan commission is now building an additional hatchery 

 for trout, etc., on a tine natural trout stream mar Paris. Mecosta Co. 

 on the line of the Grand Kapida and Indiana Railroad, about sixty 

 miles north of Grand Itapids. Their appropriation for this year is 

 98,000, and for next $7,500. 



The Now Vork commission have not selected a site for the pro- 

 proBed Long Island hatchery, no available site being yet found, 



A GOOD LAKE FOR CARP. 



WK!.s,,,n, Ma?s, Aug. 29, 1881. 

 ATOUR very kind and exhaustive reply to our inquiry about 

 J- stocking our lake in tho issue of June 9 has been thankfully 

 noted. There have been more baas caught thus far this seiison 

 than ever before, and your prediction seems to be verided very 

 early. I have also noticed that my description of tho condition of 

 the lake bus been entirely msuijcieut. especially regarding eaxp 

 Allow me to correct this by saving (hat, that wo do not want to 

 stock for culture or to make a business or it, but for the public 

 benefit, and to introduce this excellent lish— the lake cannot be let 

 Dff. Now the grassy swamps cover not lit tv. but one hundred and 

 fifty acres or more, mo very deep comparatively— two to eight 

 feci— usually with a brook running through them which ia two 

 to four feet deeper, and full of water-plants. They cannot be im- 

 proved for carp. Then, the gravelly aud sandy and rockv bottom 

 of the lake proper extends only to a" certain depth,, say 10 to iS 

 feet beyond this depth— namely, the " holes" are tilled with a fine 

 deep mud, or with a plant called here " pickerel graaa" aud would 

 be just the wintering places for carp, while the above-mentioned 

 swamps would bo just their feeding places in summer. 



Many of my countrymen, with whom I talked over tho carp 

 question, aud who have more or less knowledge of it. agree with 

 me on the fitness of our lake for their introduction. 



The only drawback thai we ace is that the spau 



Professor JBaird may bo all swallow 

 reproduction. ' This, however, must be 

 growth wo are (mite hopeful of success 



I have writteu to Professor baird in 

 but have not hud any answer. I bog, t 

 send us a blank which we wdl fill out a 

 yourissne of July 21. 



;et a cha: 

 I witli the 



get from 

 ofoi 



rfast 



DELAWARE SHAD. 



THE week after the trip of the New Jersey Commissioners, on 

 their annual tour of inspection, this spring, proved to be the 

 best week for the shad fishermen, who made the greatest catch 

 for a quarter of a century. Indeed, the si ason has been the most- 

 profitable one to both in-shore and drift net fishermen iu all that 

 period. The shad have been caught in greater numbers and of 

 larger size, the legitimate result of what the Fish Commiasiouers 

 havo been striving for since their firat organization, viz., a strict 

 observance of the law a-s to tlei weekly clo-i- term from Saturday 

 sunset to twelve o'clock on Sunday night and the prohibition of 

 shad seines between June 10 and July lo below Trenton, nod U- 

 tween June 15 and .Inlv 15 above Trenton, thus enabling the 

 spawuers to reach the quiet waters above bead of tide to deposit 

 then- ova, and. afterward, to return to the sea. whence they would 

 return again the next year, of increased size, to again perform the 

 same duties. The increase in size, as you suggested, wonld result 

 in more vigorous oil'spriug — an earnest of a return continually of 

 large shad, as of old. Fisui.mian. 



CONNECTK 

 Aug. 28.— At tl 

 the State a cub 

 from those lnti 



; lo ITJBLES— Greenwich, Conn., 

 rtermot the Supreme Court of Errors of 

 me up which will attract umeh attention 

 the oyeUr biininwjB, Pnder the law the 



them from depredations. Mr. 



Ii'iii in thia harbor through 

 bis right lo Mr. Geo. W H 

 Mr. Beffman giving cash au 

 meiil. Tho property wus sold 

 a warrantee deed. Mr. Elph 

 the mortgage, and the lego 

 Glohick could not conveyer 



teres appe 



[ll tU» w»ti'« Of the Btnu •■.'I..;:, r|,-. 



p»rf.|*»ib«t»»WMOfc*lfcM»'' 1 "' IwpntMH 



■ terward hi sold 



secured by uiort'.vg" in pay- 

 iinple, and Mr. ELRlllOk gave 

 A Mr. Hoffmann to i'l.reeloso 

 e.-htnplhal Mr. 

 ,-bicli hail been as igncd him 

 lid not own the property, but 

 rpnae of cultivating oystorB, 

 ight, As there are probably 



waters of the State, the decision will be awaited With in- 

 terest. 



TIIK SUFFOLK CO. N. V. FAIR.— Suffolk County, N. Y, 

 Situated on the Eastern oud of Long island, holds its annual fair 

 on October lib, 5th aud Gth at Riverhcad. Wo have remved it- 

 premium list and knowing tho enterprise of its managers from a 

 prolonged visit to its last fail-, we feel certain that it will bo worth 

 while for those iu the vicinity lo attend it. At the last meeting it 

 was intended to have some lectures on lishculture, but owing to 

 aonio misunderstanding they did not come off, This year ai range- 

 mentshavo been made and the following gentlemen will address 

 ingon thesubject of fishculture on the evening of Oct. 

 S Hon It Parnwell Roosevelt and Mr Eugene G. Blackford, of 

 the Newlork Pisb Commission : Mr. Barnei Phillips, Secretary of 

 pic American Fi.-l.cullural Association ; suit Mr. Fred Mather, 

 Assistant to the. I'uled States Pish CommiBsimi and Fishery 

 Editor of Fouestastd Smikam. Premium bats can be obtained 

 from the Secretary, Mr. Nat. W.Foster, of Pivcrhcad. 



CAKP FOB STREAMS. Mr. Thomo^ Hughlett, Fis'i Com- 

 ini.-niouer of Maryland, had a quantity of leather carp, and a 

 considerable number escaped to Mile's (.'reel;, a tributary of Mile's 

 River, which ia salt, while the creek is a little brackish. Three or 

 four have since been eaught, weighing from one and a quarter to 

 two and a quarter pounds, and about fourteen inches long. \S hen 

 they escaped, thev were from two to threo inches in length. They 

 seem to have done so well that he has an idea they would do well 

 iu the rest of our waters, which aro about like the one named, 

 except they" have much more freshwater and are better adapted to 

 them generally. 



\]\t fennel 



FIXTURES. 



BENCH SHOWS. 

 September 21, is and 23, at Franklin, ra., Franklin sportsmen's 



sell House, London 

 December \4, is a 

 i'lo-e December is. 

 lendeni. 



August 3d mil 31, 

 k:i Field Trials se, ( 

 Neligll, .Neb. 



Xlcklen. Sr., Meerei 



ii'-iimer I, at New 



Trials commence on 



London, tint., London nog Show. 



les Lincoln, Superiiiiendcut,"Teoum- 



Fl F.I.I) TIMALS. 

 September I and s, al Norfolk, Neb. Nebras 



'I'll . 



-. held under 



1 Sfe 



ieiv. Entries 



■ II 



crisbtirfc', Pa. 



III : 



1'. - 1. :' HUSplCI a 





„,.i-. .; ■:.. 



November «, Louisiana stare Field Trials. Kiurii-s close 

 1. Uilwaril Udell, Seereliii i . New Orleans., La. 



November—, attsrand Junction, Tenn.. National Anierle 

 Club's Field Trials. Jos. H. Dew, seeretarv, Columbia, Tei 



o\ ember 

 a Kennel 



BREEDING FOR COLOli. 



i.i:.\ rui:iiuF.AU. 



THE anuouncement that for the next Kennel Club dog Hbow tho 

 difference of weight classes will be abolished as regards point- 

 ers, to bo substituted by dasscs for liver and whites aud other 

 than liver and whites, will be read with some interest by breeders 

 of sporting dogs, and also that there are to bo cla.-aea for black, 

 white and tan setters. To «eo innovations of I his sort by the lead- 

 ing authorities i> always Batisfaotory, as the sameness of show 

 catalogues has become tedious, but (he question always deserves 

 great consideration as to the kind of changes that aro tin: most 

 desirable. That pointers have a i-pecisl sort of claim there can be 

 little doubt, as of late the liver and whites have monopolized tho 

 prize lists almost ent rely, and there are some people who think 

 that the beauty of a lemon and white cannot bo surpassed and 

 that black anil white' or black mottled pointers have very great claims 

 for esteem. I do not differ from them much, although 1 must con- 

 fess that my own partiality rests with the liver and whites; but I 

 think the question is worth discussing, even as regards pointers, 

 to see whether radical changes of this sort will be beneficial to the 

 general interest of tho breed. If all exhibitors at shows were in- 

 defatigable breeders and staunch to purity of blood aud uniform- 

 ity, there would be nothing to sav against the principle of giving 

 encouragement to suit every one's tastes, as there would bo no 

 fear of one interest being damaged m any way by another; but, 

 uiifoitunatelv, a very largo class of cxhib'itora do not care in tho 

 least what "they show, and a black animal or a white 

 one has equal charms with them so long as it can 

 win prizes. Now thin sort of exhibiting has no ten- 

 dency whatever to improve any breed of doga, and it is to this 

 point that tho Kenrol Club must look, as their work is to improve 

 and to maintain general breeding. Is tha idea of diversifying 

 classes by color, therefore, altogether free ■ of let- 



ting in a type of exhibitor that might really do harm to the 

 cause by attempting to manufacture tho article for the require- 

 ment '; ' We have our old established breeds, derived from Sources 

 that existed before dog shows, and the beat kennels of to-day are 

 Uiobo that trace to the oldest sorls. A great manv v. ars ago there 

 were kennels of liver and white pointers firnlly established, iu such 

 a wav that it was seldom or never that n ny other color was pro- 

 duced. Later on lemon and whites appeared, probablv bred from 

 hare or loiunn-pied foxhounds, but tho older, as the stron :er and 

 more impressed sort, has lasted tho longest, anil hen, e of late 

 years the preponderance of liver and whites. Tl.eiol::\. 

 staunch breeders of lemon anil whites, aud sonio of the best 



Bybraauing lemon* to lemons, after one or two generations, the 



cessfully, a cross with the livers. My opinion is that it invariably 

 spoils a liver family to cross with a 1. mou-ihai U. 1 would .-av al 

 first— brd that be breeding buck to the livers no gre„t harm is done, 

 excepting that wrong-colored ones will crop no m litters tor u greal 

 many generations. But this is t'esovt of thing that i fear will 

 -nit the new idea of classifying for color, as, of course, the cos- 

 mopolitan showman, w ho*e aim is lo win |.i :-.ei, will bo | I : 

 tho best policy by getting as many different eggs m I is b.'.sket as 



. whites 

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