39, 1881. 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



173 



• / ■ , i , i ■ . - ;■ SI willi some fifty others. They were 1 hen 



[IHBitW" to three inches lum.- — some mirror and some scale 



: me IP. inches in 



BKfenutl a most benuiit'ui frliuw loo. Captain Ashe says 



;noioaa a black bass or channel oat. He of course 



after admiring him sufS- 



HK Did any one else ever before take a carp with the 



ucs is BmottP iJtiii.K. — Putnam County, Sept. 

 The Rev John Eihill, who translated the Bible 

 ndiuri tongue in 1 (103 (while engaged in this won- 

 <|tf(ol"worlP came to the pa-sage, "The mother of Sisera 

 the window and erics! ibroi Pi I tic lattice," etc, 

 Sol taxvina: an Indian word to signify lattice, he went 

 r _,,- n - P- Indians and tiied to describe to them a lattice add 

 |oft»s word from i meaning by explain- 



ing, or whatever ht could, 10 illustrate. 

 mfe f^P ;■ -eable word. Some years 



1 | "'■ Lily "" discovering that the Indians had 

 Li - term lot , ',..../, So "| lie mother of Sisera 

 footed out, at the window mol cried through the eel pot." 

 ^^K&'uupronomicable words in this Indian translation of 

 ibcTJible was, " WutappcsiUukquasuaookwebtunkquoh." 



a. p. w, 



Bass Resort.— For fine black buss and pickerel 

 , Sullivan Co., N. Y., four hours' 

 i 'i : iii", - v, ■'>; excursion, good foi three 



hoard, si per day; boats, 50 cents per day. 

 JbC Dfilmvare River here is clear, cold and rapid, making 

 very gamy urn! their flesh firm and solid. Without 

 a. the Marrowsburg two-pound bass will equal in 

 ui.l gi i. as much sport. on the line, as any four- 

 panad bft9s taken from Greenwood T;4ko or any other slug- 

 gish waters, such an etfect. does the clear spring-like Waters 

 Delaware have tni its fish. The Willoughby 

 licommcudefl as a stopping place for anglers.' 



•■"■ ""■■" UivEt:. The n il.e: rf visitors at Red Rock, 

 in i he books of the Comniis- 

 Jshcrics b up to August 2t), this sea- 



:,. seventeen made no report of 

 id not go up the river at all. The 

 irled by the several parties are : 6^, 

 ei'gge weight of fl-b caught 

 pounds. I think this is hardly as 

 . and the heaviest single fish is not 

 I last year. From an examination 

 ■ !, I infer tint some visit- 

 iii.. r that liiey did not tire much 

 : i catch of three, largest one 

 ■ lUiid. This gentleman is evidently 

 •_ -~u, unused to sportsmanlike stories, 

 would have weighed heavier— in the report, if not 

 ""Jos. lie lias much to learn before he lakes high 

 rafeSi ion of ili -fishers. I would seud his name 

 fur making an invidious distinction. II. 



.. ., h ; 



fSrand 3 lbs. 



ince.l lPi.icrn 



Aiim. 



The. Sacramento Bee says that a gun 

 «»»"™ uy <" Yuma (A. T. ) gunsmith is of his- 

 "'■' "' ;' "Si. i 'mi Of the. bands is a smooth-bore and the 

 KB??' l ' l!l '" |! e of Damascus steel. The sirup 



Y ton l ; s ring and a biyonot is run on 1 , 

 SragDginti P.- -...!'. Upon the gun, engraved in gold, 

 of To:;:.* and the name of General Joseph 

 " '' I " is il golden etigle set into the stock. 



JjjislfcttUttre. 



A l.EPLY 10 A BENIGHTED MAN. 



[H llio British Provi 

 Print tilth- an 



•esthcl 



id I would 

 injui 



'e a few persons who are either 

 esdy ignorant They write all 

 ; Canadian Commissioners of 

 re so short of other niatter that 



man, in this age, otaims that 

 locking it tends to reduce the 

 i as a Simple lunatic who might 



would be lighter if there were 

 we republish a communication 

 MS. Philip Yibert (Mereator), 

 le, New Brunswick : 

 r issue of the 20th tilt., calling 

 ■ion of a Mntapediau Settler— 

 rstitiable attack on the Canadian 

 remind the writer that "Justice 

 v. decency in (jiving them no 



'lag seen Mr. Spurn 



a a position to offer 



erfdei 



"lU'oflh,, 



HP think j ,. „ ,r| 



: ' ■ '■-< CI I, I, ,: | ,., till 

 : "'' i-J «ejcl in lii in 

 I i '/Act. 11 H 



■ tomes it tl.a 



1 "-■■■ et aa the exau 



"""%' Hlltrhr:",.., .- Let 1 



BW'jf rivf-rt tn if, „,,i, 



'.', "-st, o';.;',; ; 



II ,.. I , . . ' 



! I'll! In. 



tor 'Ji Innate run! ili-Ri 

 iJ ' :,J r. oi London, C 



s letters, to which a settler refers, 

 any opinion on the matter in dis- 

 irty-sii years on thiH coast, during 

 lied and written on the Fishery 

 liture on answering a Settler's as- 

 u all important questions "sound 



he is pleased pi term it, is really a 

 .1 F,u K laud. the United States and 

 pie, by adopting similar laws, and 

 mi go to i.lir Island of Jersey, and 



■ . d the once valuable 



ifiil days afforded employment to 

 i:. to IB burthen, and yielded a 

 '■:ne -.Lj.Ouij to C;tn,e,rifi. Where 

 eis. Where ! 



lound nets, and alt othor nets, are 



iiv, is this? I thought that the 



lie Dominion, and I nm uot aware 



i:- allowed <Jll tins coast. As to 



high and mfenty "— I think the 



id to pay for them is a 



ice each lessee pays a guardian, 



■ ape. and the yearly visits of these 



I benefit SonaidBrablB sums are 



■stel 



a consequence 

 Let ns takt 



moD, and his friends ten, 



of not less than $650 or 820 per 



Particularly when the 



nog salmon, and Dr. 

 ; nr lessee of the above river, paid, 



mo I ii dollar for every bird they brought him. 

 ' 'J^ahnon nets are also sot bv the inhabitants «t the 



that 



"S i'- 1 1 inli'SOuher." 

 i destroyed them 

 s, but the " poor 

 ' Indians, who 

 ieshnd they been allowed, 

 g nets up the rivers and 

 f every iish when they go 

 3. I remember going to 

 r early part of September, 



nd tlu 



I can also state as a fact, that a ger 

 the Gaspe Rivers, expended no less than 

 all of which went into the pockets of the 



The next assertion is that, ""Worse I 

 Commissioner, has built breeding lions 

 p-lroyecl the salmon fisheries." An assert 

 so easily proved, and an old proverb 

 absurdity which has not been maintain 

 Destroyed the salmon fisheries— Eh 

 previous to the enactment of the fis! 

 settler," the pot hunter, the lumberm 

 would have exterminated the entire spec 

 Spearing hy torch light— taking herrii 

 sweeping the deep pools at this season ( 

 up to spawn, was the common practic 

 Bonavenfure, about the eud of August c 



18'J.y, when the Messrs. Biesonnanlt had a fishing establishment at 

 the mouth of the river. I was in the house talking to Mr. Ferdi- 

 nand, when Mr. George came in and asked me to go out to see 

 something that would astonish me. 1 followed him to the water's 



_ ■: i if I saw two Indians, aud a large birch canoe filled with 

 salmon roes. I asked the men how many salmon they had de- 

 stroyed, the answer was eighty-six in two nights. I leave tire 

 reader to judge what, may have been the total quantity destroyed 

 m the same manner from the Itestigouche to Cape Chat alone. 



"The poor sickly things Mowat calls young salmon, never come 

 lo anything." Another assertion which I defy a settler to prove 

 In 1878 some thousands of these sickly things 'were transported bv 

 land from (laape Basin to Grand fiiver, aud the men haying rested 

 here during the heat of the day. I took out mx. which Ilsept in a 

 glass globe upward of a month, sud finally removed to a brook. 

 If sickly would they have lived so long in confinement ? 



"Most respectable parties have affidavits to prove they hilled 

 the salmon caught, barreled them up, aud no doubt the Com- 

 missioner shared the plunder." What next? Salmon after spawn- 

 ing are not lit to cat. Even the Indians above alluded to threw 

 the fish into the river. For I suppose these are the iish spoken of. 

 At Gaspe Basin the fish when deprived of their spawn are marked 

 and restored to their native element, and it is a well-established 

 I that numbers of the fish so marked have been caught by the 

 ._ their nets, the years following. So much for 

 the cruelty of the vagabonds as the writer politely terms the 

 Fishery Cthcers. 



The next strange assertion is that " hundreds of thousands of 

 dollars are to be saved by a total repeal of the cursed Fishery Act, 

 which are swallowed up by useless Commissioners, Inspector? rnd 

 Fishery Officers." I have fortunately before me the Fishery 



'-"-". -"".I- en """. ci'.ing ', oVsil..,] i, ■,., ,' ,,i . ; ., ,; , , 



etc., by winch it appears that the total outlav amounts to -S6 - 

 102.55. Collections, -! 3.123.16, thus making the total cost to the 

 country only i}tiG,T39.34 ! 

 Well do I remember whon the law regulating the salmon fisheri 



salmo: 



throughout the United Kingdom first came into force, 

 fishermen abused ali who had anthing to do with its. ei 

 and cursed all aristocratic anglers, for whose boneiit il 

 Salmon was then very scarce aud, but, for th.-. :. b " ■.- -id 

 soon have been a, thing of the past, Jet [mustebnf 

 ignorance of the real state of the ease would have led 

 the hue and cry, but my well-grounded law-abiding j.c 



Ho 



the 



lemeut, 

 i made. 

 would 

 hat my 



eeiples 



prevailed. A few years later meeting an old salmon 'iish' 

 had most loudly donounced the restriction, I asked what he 

 i - il of the law now 1 After going into some details, as to the 

 benefits already derived, ho eoollv 6aid, "Fact is sir- we wer- i set 

 of foolB !" 



Let not a Settler suppose that the writer is one of those who 

 would wield his pen to the prejudice or injury of the poor settler, 

 or any other poor man. On the contrary, Mereator has ever sup- 

 ported right tgaiust might, has boldlv and fearlessly eomliatpd 

 injustice and wrong doing, thereby subjecting himself tothebit- 



. fi.iuivol men m high places— acting on a high and right- 

 minded mother's oft repeated charge, •• lie-member^ that right 



lu conclusion 1 would remind a Matapedian Settler that vaga- 

 bonds, burning up those sinks of iniquity, the breeding houses 

 and return to the primitive mode of the spear and the drift net," 

 savors vastly of Fenian doctrines, of dynamite and infernal 

 machines, which no Christian or right-minded man can oounte- 

 nance or tolerate, and that 



" The Judgment's weak 

 Where prejudice Is strong." 



_ Phij.ii' Vibebt. 



Feres, August 23, 1881. 



F1SHCULTUBAL NOTES. 



Mr HE Ohio Fish Commission has placed a large number of black 

 — bass in the stiennis and iis.s Ptloie .irrr.ue ..sp, ;,, lsr."i 

 twenty million whitefish at the Toledo hatchery and as many more 

 at Sandusky if they can obtain the eggs, which they have prepared 

 to take. The veteran lisheulturist. Judge Potter, has retired from 

 superintending the hatchery at Toledo and Mr. D. V. Howell haB 

 been appointed in his stead. 



The annual report of the American Fishcultural Association has 

 r"t.,ci neon issued. The Secretary, Mr. Barnet Phillips, has it 

 well m hand and most of it in type, but has been waiting for the 

 completion of Prof. Goode's "Epochs m the History of Fishcul- 

 tirre," of which all but the conclusion haB appeared in our col- 

 umns. The delay has been caused by the great pressure of extra 

 work put upon Prof. Goodo this year by the fishery census and the 

 completion of the new National Museum, of which he is Curator. 



Col. Tom Crutchfield, of Chattanooga, Tenn., says that from a 

 few pairs of carp placed in a pond on his farm thousands of young 

 were produced and that within eighteen months they bad grown to 

 an edible size. 



Prof. Baird reports this year's crop of carp as extremely large 

 for their age. Tho carp has evidently had its growth slrmulated 

 by introduction into the warm waters of America, which are of 

 higher temperature in summer than those of Germany. We would 

 not be surprised to learn that some have spawned at a year old. A 

 little evidence points that wav. 



A private letter from Indianapolis says that tho writer recently 

 saw tho carp m the ponds of Mr. Calvin Fletcher, at Spencer. 

 Owen County. They were received from Prof. Baird a year ago 

 last November, when their average length was less than three 

 inches and their weight nothing. Now thev wdl measure twenty 

 inches and weigh six pounds. Mr. Fletcher has some Idack bass 

 of two years old ; some of them are fully two pounds in weight, 

 but the majority are below one pound. 



iYfXTEl;.— Mr. W. Drinker, editor of the 

 tettm. Germany, says in his Fishery Oakn- 

 ion for anglers and fisheulturists, that the 

 ,»nels of fish ponds must be constantly kept 



'iallv removed to afford a 



lurface of the pond, however, should 

 w helps to keep off the extreme cold, 

 should be provided, and these should 

 l not chopped. To protect these from further action of 

 the frost thin poles should be laid athwart them, covered with 

 a thm layer of branches, reeds or rushes. On no account should 

 the air-holes be made above the spot where the fish have congre- 

 gated for the winter, aud the most suitable position for them is at 

 opposite ends of the pond, close to the in and out How. so as to 

 secure a maximum rvration of the water. The air-hoi. 



led daily for signs of the dispersion of the Iish— these are 



amount of light, The 

 be left undisturbed, nh\_ . 

 When the ice bears, air-holei 



discoloration of the water, the appearance on the 

 v, ater beetles and spiders, or fish gasping for air 

 unhoped for signs occur the number of air-holes 

 increased, and a; much cu-eulation as possible eiv 

 f 1 these measures prove unavuUiug, and ' 



ei of thaw, all that Ban be done is t I the 



1 or the fish to other and belter water. All noise 



rface of dead 

 Should these 

 nust be largely 

 n to tho water 

 no immediate 

 oud and truus- 

 n the ice, such 



as that caused by cutting ice [or storage, skating or sledging, is to 

 he avoided, otherwise the fish will bo roused and tempted to rise 

 to the surface, where, in all probabdity, they wdl freeze fast to the 

 ice and die in consequence. 



THE EDINBCEGH FISHEIHES EXHIBITION. 



THE following circular has been reproduced and circulated by 

 the United States Fish Commission, dated Washington, D. C, 

 Aug. 18, 1881. 



IMTEKHA'IIOXAL FlSUElUES EXHIBITION, EniMOUHOU, I 

 22 Eoyal Circus, .1 nly 7, 1881. ( 



Sit: We have the honor to 'inform you that an international 

 fisheries exhibition will be held in Edinburgh in the month of 

 April next. 



The exhibition will be open to exhibitors from all countries, and 

 is intended to include, as far as possible, objects dlustrative of or 

 connected with the fisheries of the world. Such, for example, as*, 

 models, drawings and photographs of boats used in fishing, and of 

 steam engines adapted for fishing boats ; models of fishing-boat 

 harbors and of fishermen's houses : nets, lines and fishing tackle 

 of all kinds, both for the sea and inland waters ; pisci.-uitural appa- 

 ratus ; live fish in tanks; collections of stuffed fish and aquatic 

 birds j life-saving apparatus, fog signals and fights for fishing 

 boatS ; fresh fish, cured aud tinned fish, and preparations for pre- 

 serving Iish ; models of fish passes and ladders and other similar 

 objects. 



We shall esteem it a favor if you will bring under the notice of 

 those engaged in, or connected with, the fisheries iii your country, 

 the fact that such an exhibition will be held here in April next, 

 and if you will also kindly inform us whether you are likely to send 

 lis many contributions. 



An answer to the above may be sent to Archibald Young, Esq., 

 Commissioner of Scotch Salmon Fisheries, 22 Royal Circus, Edin- 

 burgh. We have the honor to bo, your obedient s'ervants, 



Siu I. B. S. Maitla>-o, Bart., 



Wm. skinner, Citv Clerk, Edinburgh. 



F. N. Mis-mis, Secretary to Highland Society. 



AEcniBAim Young, Advocate, Commisssonei of Scotch Salmon 

 Fisheries, 

 Hon. Secretaries to International Fisheries Exhibition, EdinbuiBh. 



FISHCULTTJBE IN SCOTLAND. 



FROM tho book entitled " The Angler's and Slcetcher's Guide to> 

 Scotland," by Archibald Young, noticed in our last issne, we 

 extract the following : " On the south shore of Loch Brora, near 

 lower extremity, there is an establishment belonging to tho 



When I 



'DM the Brora, 

 i doubt of tha 

 xrtificial hatch- 



isks 



Duhe of Sutherland for the artificial hatchir 

 saw it it contained about 340,000 

 Helmsdale, Thnrso and Khine. T 

 groat advantages to be derived fron 

 ing, though its benefits have not as 

 ended in this country as in Canadi 

 Canada tho Colonial Government i 

 an annual expense of £5,1)00, which 

 of eggs and young fry of different I 

 rivers within the last' ten years. Tl 

 in tho United States and the Coram 

 lately drawn up a volume of nearly 

 ject of the propagation of fishes. By the artificial 

 do away, in a great measure, with thi ' 



young fry bred in our rivers m the natural way are exposed, as. we 

 can succeed in raising smolls from at least three-fourths of the vi- 

 talized eggs placed in the breeding troughs, whereas, it these eggs 

 had been oxposed to the dangers of the river, more than throe- 

 fourths of the fry produced from I htm would never have reached 

 the sinolt stage. 



" The breeding troughs used in the establishment on Loch Brora, 

 at the time I visited it, were the ordinary old wooden trough, much 

 more bulky and cumbei some than they need bo. It would be a. 

 great improvement if troughs similar to those used by Sir J. It. H. 

 -Maitlauil in Ins yreai plselelUi .Hal , "1; 'elish or ■, if t I. 'OOeeli J, lion 

 Stirling, were substituted for them, Those troughs are made of 

 carbonized wood, perforated zinc aud glass rods. They take up 

 little room, are light, neat, and convenient, and afford effectual 

 protection against fungus— that great enemy of the pisciculturist." 



SOME FISH COMMISSION BEPORTS WANTED.— On looking 

 over our collection of reports, with a view of having them bound, 

 we miss the following : New York— 1st report, Icdo ; viassaohu- 

 setts— 1st, llth, 11th, 12th. 13!h, 1-tth. Pennsylvania— ls70 ana 

 all before ; also 1872, '7.3, 76. '77 and '78. New" Jersey— 1st. '.2d, 

 3d, 1878. and all since. Wo have reports of Virginia from 1875 to 

 1 878, both inclusive, but none other. Any person having Bpare 

 copios which they wish to put where they'wdl do the most good 

 may send them to this office where they are needed for frequent 

 reference. 



October 

 Ington, li, 



Septern 



Wl* Mattel 



FIXTURES. 



BUNCH SHOWS. 

 10 to 16. National Fair Association Bench Show, Wash- 

 O. H. H. Blackburn, Cor Secretary, 



ier ST. "A, so and so, at London, Out., London Dog Show. 

 v '1 i-i iiie,c.bei 12. Clrae. Lincoln, Superintendent, Teeum- 



FrELD TBIALS. 



October!, at New York Ciiy. Close 01 'entries Eastern Field Trials. 

 Trials iiumxnence nn Tlianksglvir.g Bay. Jacob Pom;:, secretary, P. 



0. Box -274. New York Citv. 



October te, SB, 27 and 38 at Mafiontown, Fayette Co.. Pa., via boat. 

 from Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania Field "'mils. Kirsi Annual Derm. 



" ■-.,,-■• ".n-ii'irgii,Pa.,oo>obi'r ::,. I. I:, siavion, eereurv. 



.-.son, I-. . ■ Ho.'.eal. Field Trials oi iliecnr,,-, lm.l and Olin 

 Club. F'.in. - , I,.-, N ■ mber I. K 1 ■•■>■; ■ .■ . 



November 25, Louisiana Stare Field i nala t utrlee close November 



1. Edward Ode!!, .secretary. New Orleans. La. 



Ueeemoer 5. at i Hand Junction, Tern,., National American Kennel 

 Olub's Field Trials. Jos. H. Dew, Secretary, Columbia, Tenn. 



. — *»-— . 



EYEEETT SMITH'S KENNEL. 



Erlilor forest and, Stream .- 



Whilo at Portland a week or ten days sineo I had the pleasure of 

 meeting Mr. Everett Smith and inspecting bin kennel. 1 have 

 never seen dogs under such perfect command or -.ihiirougb.lv 

 yard-broken. We have aU heard of dogs droneinc to.shot.Jit the 

 rinse of the band, etc., etc. Mr. Smith's aie'u, n.Ierlnllv perfect 

 in this respect, and I was given an eXhibitiofi ot his whistle and 

 signal training. I must confess I have never witnessed such ex- 

 traordinary obedience on the part of setter or pointer iu my life. 

 Gale, a good deep red setter of Mr. Smith's. I admired most of si! 

 his reds; and, if I am not mistaken, his field performance is fully 

 equal to his looks. Cora H.. a mate to t.'ale, gave evidence by her 

 obedience of beings very traotabli bil b in the held, nolivith- 

 Btanding the reputation the Irish seiteio have gamed of being 

 headstrong and self-willed. 



Covert, a young setter, not quite eight months old, a eon of 

 Cora II. , must surely turn out good in the field from the manner 

 fhich he worked nut a scent and obeyed in his mameuvermg 

 the command Of his master. 



I was much taken with a httlo two-vear-old bitch, Cossett, 

 orange and white in color, sired by a sou of Cora I., owned by Mr. 

 Smith, hut now dead, She shows remarkable speed and is a.s 10 



