October 20, 1881.1 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



233 



never carried passengers that ghmibled so little as we did, or 

 were so uniformly polite when the conductor collected our 

 fares. But we had been hass fishing- all day ; u„v, explains 

 it all. Fishermen -aye, Indies, too -th.ii wrehl the rod and 

 line are, as a rule, good-natured and polite. N< ibuk. 



A FISHING CLUB REPORT. 



-TT7E arc under obligations to Mr. Charles !■'. Eiter for the 

 I VV "Log of Eleventh Annual Cruise of the Sccoafl 

 irresbyteriuu Fishing Club, 188L" The club bails from 

 rPhiladelphia, and the trip, on the schooner -'Samuel Apple 

 git," occupied from JulyS to thelS. The cepoil is illus- 

 trated in the most jolly of manners, and the " rtwrp x>J the 

 hotte>m of Delaware Kivcr and bay, compiled from i \| lora- 

 ftions of the c'uli," will no doubt supersede all the s. 

 fcoasl surveys of this portion f ,,„,- ,,]„„,.; A s an instar.ee. 

 fipf the detail we will cite the fact thai "the place where 

 Lane lost his character, 1880," is to be found on do other 

 map, while for places where bugs are plenty it may be ini- 

 .plicitly relied on. 



The by-laws of the Second Presbyterian Fishing Club 

 contain some new points, but we will not pick them out, as 

 .it would iiibull the intelligence ..f our readers to suppose 

 Llhem incapable of this. Tney are therefore given entire I 

 , Article 1. Put up or shut up. 



Article 2. No person shall lie entitled to become a member 

 of this club whose moral character will bear ihe slightest 

 scrutiny. 



Article ■',. No member shall participate in any annual 

 cruise of the club whose constitution requires more than 

 eighteen hours rest out of the twenty-four. 

 Article I. No member shall be allowed to eat anyone meal 

 s, no matter Uow sea-sick he may be. 

 nber fninrl washing his feet, in the dish 

 ided by the president; and in case of a 

 ie expelled forthwith. 

 her wii . shall take more than one dose 

 i cruise sball be compelled to throw up 



s than tb: 

 A rtiele 5. Any m< 

 reans shall be reprint 

 Second offence shall 

 Article Any or 

 rof fish-hooks during a cruise sba 

 (bis rights as a member). 



Article 7. It shall be the duty < 

 to the fullest extent the g ilden 

 do nothing himself that he. can g 



f every nu 

 il anybody 



nber to observe 

 c!ub)-viz., to 



o do for hi in. 



superstition to draw fish to his line, shall be given the grand 



To follow the 2d P.'s up and down the river would be to 

 Rive the entire log, which occupies sixty-seven 12mo pages. 

 A crab race was indulged in on the beach. Each ul&n 

 marked a tiddler crab, and al a signal -sill dropped them into 

 fcbe centre of a ring made in the sand of the beach, and the 

 winning "horse" got over the line first. This oral) race is 

 illustrated, as are many other incidents, and while Out little 

 is said of the fishing, it is evident that the Second Prcsby. 

 fcrian Fishing Club, of Philadelphia, is a very lively party, 

 at least when on their annu d cruise. 



POACHERS IN JAIL. 



OI'R readers have been kept informed of the dedugaor 

 Ili2 lawless gaugs which infest the counties of Onan- 

 daga and Oswego, in Ihe Stole of New yToi'k, and how State 

 Game Protector Dodge, or Prospect, has destroyed their nets 

 and brought some of then) to punishment. -Mr. Did-, and 

 Mr. Geo. Crowuharl, proprietor of the Ocean House at South 

 Bay, on Oneida lake, who has assisted him, have become 

 very unpopular with the scoundrels, ami thc : > lives have 

 been threatened. Game Constable Liudley, of Cinastota, 

 has also incurred their displeasure, and it is said tb 

 [fleeting was recently h id by tin.' p ■■< hi i ■■.. '.Vesi Vienna, 

 at which it wus decided that i.imilcy should die and Crown- 

 hart's buildings should be burned. 



• ih, Lindley and O. E, Messenger went to Lower 

 Somh Bay and started to drag the lake for nets. Whim well 

 put in the lake they heard a signal given from a boat contain- 

 ing several men which had followed them from the bay. 

 The Signal was answered from the other side of the lake, 

 dou another boat containing live men rowed out t 



tu she bods, 

 p to Lindley 

 i matters to arrange 

 Lindley banded his 

 :rn of the boat, and 

 ■ firs! man that put 

 o boats again had a 

 nger, who is an ex- 

 tlled for shore. On 

 . image was 

 md th^fr assailants. 

 on the bank, Mes- 

 upon Lindley 's ap- 

 him be would not 

 hid watched the 

 juncture 



A short conference was bad 

 kwhen all but I wo men got into oik.', and 

 mi.:! told him that if he had any business 

 to do it at once, as his time had come. 

 revolver to Messenger, who sit in Hie stc 

 Wie prepared his rillc, telling them thai tie 

 a foot in lfis boat would be shot. The lw 

 consulialioii, and in the meantime Messci 

 ' pert oarsman, changed places, and the 

 Khe way they were run into several I in 

 Hone. Upon reaching the shore they 

 Iferepared to meet them, formed in li 

 agerwas allowed to pass the line, b 

 oach they drew their revolvers and i 

 ive the spot alive. Agentleman v 

 vholc affair from a hotel near by rap '. 

 3d Ihrew the leader one side, allowing Lindley lo | a is. 

 Soon after this .Mr. Crownhart went to Syracuse and en- 

 «d a complaint against the gang, m is! . 

 [Toad Hollow, just across the hue in Oswego county. On 

 ie 13th the officers were very successful and bfl • 

 the. murderous gang— namely, John Lord. Prank Shaw 

 orgc Watkius, Albert Shaw, William Lancaster, William 

 illips and 0. Phillips. Each man was ironed, after being 

 out of his nice warm bed, and given a place in the 

 ryall. They arrived in Syracuse about i o'clock in the 

 rning. when they were placed in the court house cells. 

 Ige Riegelheld them all to bail in the sum of $600 fccb tc 

 jp the peace. It is probable that sune o[ them will fur- 

 the required bond, but. till that fine wilt occupy a ilun- 

 cell. 



ood Striped Bass _Fi-,jin.,. — Poi the past week there 

 lave been some, large striped bass, or rockfish, in market, 

 some of which have been caught with rod and reel. Mr. B. 

 Phnlon, of New York, sent seven to Blackford & Co., which 

 weighed, in the aggregate, 175 pounds. These fish were all 

 :. in 1 1 mi, at Block Island, with rod and reel. The" finest 

 ; d on Tuesday mornina laat. Thev were also cap- 

 tured with the rod by Samuel W. Gould, 01 Wesl 

 Mass. Of seven fish the smallest weighed twenty-six and 

 Sone-half pounds, with entrails out, and I he three largest 

 Iweiglvd sixty, fifty. eight, and one half and fifty-five one-half 

 pouti. i each, without, their entrails. The pound nets are 

 glso taking great numbers, and the rnnrkets are well supplied 

 ■ i's of largo size. 



itgisfimlhtre. 



now THE DISTILLERIES DE3TKOY THE FISH. 



Obanoe Co., Fla, bag, 15. 

 Bdiloi I'm i v/ nail Stream 



I Hond you the inoloaed letter from a Kentucky paper grapliiaH- 

 ly descriptive of one of the greatest nuisances that now afflicts the 

 Western portion of the United States. Imt the criminality of the 



mt; from '.lie cuttle and hog-puns around tliein. thereby infecting 



are greatly diseased and in many instances are. or should 'he'.' be- 

 yond commercial value. Vet such is the extreme cheapness of 

 this food that it is said that if one-half of the diseased hoga die. 

 which is not. iinfre'piently the case, the profita of the remaining 

 hair make it imite a piolitablo business. And all cattlrt ho fed, it 

 is a well-known fact, are more or lesa diseased and unlit for mar- 

 ket. Yet hundreds and hundreds of tliein are being foisted con- 

 stantly upon dealers and consumers in the North and East This 

 is a subject that most assuredly demands the attention of tho Na- 

 tional Board of Health.— E. B. Miles. 



Miowav, Ky.— For nearly two years tho fish in nearly every 

 stream in the State have been destroyed. Every attem pi at inter- 

 ference in theii behalf bus resulted in the ignominious failure on 

 tho part of the people, and complete triumph of the whisky men. 

 For some years under the auspices of a State Commissioner, the 

 principal at reams of tho State have received new supplies of choice 

 foreign varieties of fishes at considerable expense, and nineh labor- 

 on the pari of the paid servants of the Statu, as well as much that 

 was contributed by private citizens who felt an interest in for- 

 wardiug this great project. 



That tho work has como to naught, and every cent so aDPror-"- 

 ated proven a failure, is--' 

 State Commissioner, or: 

 out the State. By the 



structivo methods of t 

 ginning to grow accustc 

 and the numerous etrei 

 native and foreign varii 





Ihe 



people 



: tin 



itraints of the law. 

 inning to be peopled with choice 

 ve and foreign varieties of splendid tish, and the hopes of the 

 unUsion and its friends were upon the point of being realized, 

 Ubiquitous destroyer put in his work, and the result of years 

 xperience and labor is destroyed root, and branch, from one 

 ■ il the State to the other. The same cry comes from East- 

 Southern and Central Kentucky. 



ie fell worm of the still, not content with its annual roll of 

 no- of human kind, turns loose its fatal poison upon the iu- 

 mt inhabitants of the water, and the double-distilled poison, 

 athe still and tho dead victims of tho water tills the air with 

 noisome vapors for many miles of territory along tho fatal 

 streams, the fruitful agent of sickness and deaih to riparian hold- 



a far 



v tie. 



of poison. I ba 



he banks of the Elk horn 



d dving lish, weighing I'r 



38 of four to five pouuds. 



and disease and disgust 



S the course of tbo etrea 



of our best streams all ov 



3 from Fraukfort that the Kentnck 



;. Fortunately the good Governor r 



feael his eyes and olfactories on this result. When the o 



law was attempted to lie vindicated last year at Lexington, 



"- Judge granted injunctions 



:pit, ' ■ 



miles and miles a!o 

 Llklum h also trus 

 week the report car 

 irupii 



■owdod with 



II each ho 

 . What is 

 the Si 



ised'tiues 



atraged 

 ana ihe 



agam.-t 

 itl-i 



. but within the track of its 

 md the work of death goes 



that '•.-till 



The 



■d.itlllc, 



ilop fattens the 

 lopVknotj bot- 



ure defied and 

 Scea 



dear t 

 fishes, 

 tor, tl 



will he required to repeople the streams with fish. Not only the 

 native kiu.'s will he a long time iu being replaced, but the work of 

 the Commissioner will have to bo done lie novo, if. indeed, it bo 

 worth while to attempt it again. Not another collar ought to tie 

 expended in this way until a proper relief is afforded, and the 

 child's play of stocking streams and then de-droving tho lish 

 should cease. Five hundred thousand dollars are paid annually 

 by the citizens of the State for tish that could an well he produced 

 at home. There is no absolute necessity for running i-tiil slop 

 in tho streams. If whisky must be made, and no other disposition 



can bo i 

 most hi 

 people i 



lade of the slop and tilth fro 



s the laughing-stock of the diatillci 

 oniething be done. 



tie pens than turn our 

 3, then let tho lish and 

 >p the farce of the Fish 

 in i unctions, eto., that 

 end the victims as well 

 In Heaven's name let 

 YieiiM. 



THE INTERNATIONAL F1SHF.RY EXHIBITION AT BERLIN. 



'f'HE report of the Commissioner from Norway on tho Fishery 

 4 Exhibition at Berliu in tssii is at hand.* Itisa ipiarto of 325 

 pages and U plates containing 121 figures. 



.Air. Walieui is not a praaetical lisheulturist, and. therefore, is at 

 some disadvantage in be. report on this portionof the exhibition. 

 tie get.- along fairly well in his illustrations made from implements 

 exhibited, trat iu his descriptions ho docs not do so well, and in 

 those of American invention he certainly could not have obtained 

 his information direct. In iishways ho does much bettor, illua- 

 ro important ones s,nd describing them more per- 



trating the mor 

 f.etly. 

 The portion devoted to boats and implements of captnro is 



■ditablo, although 

 the rather singular Japa 

 of the .-pieudid collectio 

 hihit of the U. S. Nati 

 produetH and fjshpreparatioi 

 voted nmoh attenf 

 aented his countn 

 i ciaj atten 



foods. 



t to the 



itiot help wondering why ho selected 

 ssc hooks for illustration to the neglect 

 of aboriginal and other hooks iu the ex- 

 ial MuKeum. In the department of lish 

 at home. Ho has de- 

 nsities, and repre- 

 ined Exiiibition, and 

 g and preserving lish 



FISHERIES OF THE GREAT LAKES. 



THE Census Bulletin No. 261 gives the statistics of the fisheries 

 of the Clreat Lakes. In this Prof. Goode has arranged the 

 tables iu two sariea, grouping them by States and by lakes. We 

 i :i ii i !■.."-■ '-'. ries A that of 5,050 fishermen who earn a livelihood 

 on th« tk. . Mi . .. Bota furniflhee 35; Wisconsin, 800 : Mlehigan, 

 1.7S1 ; Illinois. 9004 Tndiaua. 52; Ohio. 1,046: P« 



. m 22. fn Series B these men are thus distrib- 



uted among the lakes: Superior, 414; Miohiean. ineradine the 



out with the values of nets and other apparatus, steam tugs, ves- 

 .. b .uses and wharves, fish taken, etc. From the Rnlletin 



v. ii ih.:t the total value of the lislies taken ia all the Oroat 



Lakes for 1879, based on ihe prieeff of fresh tish, was 11,662,900; 



■Den Internationale UskeriiidsMlling | I | lierlii med stl I 



lienayntll i ferskTandstniltttren,saltvanasrlstceiii ' i ■-,-_■ i 'n, ■,.„. i , i-_ .. . - , i - 



'i'.vii'i..i j. eg lera'iiilng. | Mid :j: iei-niuger pan 'U ptmiclier. I At i 



Fredrtl; Jl. \\ U -- i ired •'dstilllngen. | 



: .'.. 'i in . rskBlNslcBrlei-Kirrammiv" I _ I 



vi -I 1 1 ri g - - 'gtrykUerl. | ] 



e . Fiskerlws . 



of which sum the largest yield was from Lake Erie, The yields 

 by hikes were : 



Founds. Pounds. 



Erio 26,1)07.300 Superior ;!.' 



Michigan 2:!,J41,875 Ontario :; n iii.mih, 



Huron and St.Clair.. il.53S,200 

 Tho amounts arrangi d by Status were : 



Ohio 24,924,300 Illinois 2,997,300 



Michigan 2l.ul:l.liiu l> isylvania J. 



uion^iu lojo-t, coo Indiana t.i7:i..- 



Ne« Yi-rk 4,070,000 Jlmnesota 170,01)0 



Of tho values of tho different kinds of hVli taken we learn as 

 foUows : 



Whilelish 77,1,100 " Soft lish" O0.C0O 



Lake trout 221,700 "Ronghfish" 875 



Lake herring 117,10(1 " Coarse fish" 89,023 



Sturgeon flO.SOO •• .Mixed lish'' 50,300 



•• Hard tisi" 182,000 



There are still other taoles 

 a fresh condition, .piantilii 

 smoked, and the uuantities a 

 These are all represent!,,, 

 give a complete and compri I 

 tinhories. Tho work, like a 

 great, care in tabulating so ai 

 tho lakes and States, the < 

 complete idea of the tisherie 



aaquauUtiesaLdvalueaofflSli 



-'- aed'olb 



ho double.: noted. I 



in the state of the lake. 

 I that is dooe. by Mx. foiode, shows 

 to show ai a glance the resources of 

 ipilal invested, and, In fact, gives a 

 of the lake region. 



TnE FOOD OF YOLNG FISHES. 



Till'', investigations of Professor S. A. !■ 

 birds and lishe 

 Especially among hs 



bng ; 



that suckers and othe 

 and not to interfere in 

 enter into direct oonypetitionVith the 

 struggle foi' existence, hy dovouri 

 We learn from his obsefvati 



ito tho food of 

 thrown much light on the subject. 

 a the results been orprJsing. That 

 fed upon Eitlfiini*lriir«. or the Bffl.aU 

 h are ofti u m their smaller stages 

 lation. He has shown eon 

 lis supposed to be entirely harnileBs 

 :th the growth of valuable lishe. 



,d. 



■: latter, 



i tho 



either directly 

 other forms in the same str'ei 

 does no good it does barm, 

 iubabited liv better Bah to a 



affects the 

 in or pond. 



■b adults 

 greatest injur; 

 fessor Forbes 

 Illinois State 1 

 Stueam, does i 

 young of all f: 

 the gars, ealtt 

 Rhi/.opods, etc. 



othe 



specie 

 the fi- 



ll in watei'B 



eg the fOOd 

 tK, but its 



which I'ro- 



mof tho 



'.'. The 



ostraca, 



md the 

 of their 



die! 



•it,.; 



Tho latter forms usually ha 

 chalk of the school-house blaek-board is "mtr 

 niiunte shells, visible only under ti . 



In tbo Proceedings of the Aeadeiuv Of Nai.u 

 delphia, 1881, we find that I>r. Leidy remarked 

 be had received a letter from Jlr. S. A. For 

 young of some of thesuckers have the iutealii. 

 of Difflugia and Arcetta. Later Sir.- Forbes s 

 Some uf the intestinal contents for examination. 



The slide with food from the intestine of tbo large-scaled mul- 

 let. HtyXQStoma nUacrolepidotum, from Mackinaw Creek, contained 

 the following species : 



Difflugia i/lithnin.-in.— Shell of rather coarse Hand, with larger 

 around the mouth ; mostly in the shape of the segment of 



1 Sciences of I'hila- 

 leptember 



. i bat the 

 s packed with tests 

 slides, with 



ival, \ 



ile In 



ilh the 



euts of these a 

 15 to 168 in. in. broad an 

 eud. Six othor species i 

 certainly an interesting 

 hat young suckers should 



nutriment their little storos of protoplas 



3 form. The 

 com 0.18 to millimeters long, 



in. broad atuvil 

 mud, an. I in-. Loidy -aid . " It is 

 ■vatiou oi ;ir. Forbes to diacovor 

 : the rbizopod shells to 'Obtain as 



ty\t Helmet 



FIXTURES. 



BESfATJ shows. 



Seplnmt)er27, 2s, -29 and ii.i, al London, Ont, London Dog Miow. 

 Kmries eiosed September li. (.'has. Lincoln, Superintendent, 'feium- 

 seh House, London, Ont. 



Den nicer 11, !S and Hi, ;il I.nwill. Moss l.nwe;' Dog show. E Utiles 

 close lie. ember c. i lias. A. Andrew, Wesl BOxfbrd, Mass., Superin- 

 tendenl. 



i, 'Payette Co., Ph., \ei boat 

 'rials. First Annual Derby. 



•"■• I. I.'. -I. 'VI ei ivlm v. 



e u.i.i and cam 

 • 

 .■dn. hniiii-iM-:o-;e November 



an: , l.:e 



in., National Amei'ican Kennel 



October W, ZB, •>: 



from I'illstiurgh. 

 Kmries eKwat I'll 



DeCembei s, at UrandJui latlonal Amei'ican 



Club's field Trials. Joh. ii. Dew, •■ cretai i, i.'oim .:.■■., i. nn. 



DOG DEALEI1S. 



"VV E are in constant receipt of < 



ject, principally inquiries 

 siiousibihty of those who advertise i 

 Occasionally we receive a bitter con 

 —or thinks he has— been cheated. 

 remedy to be applied, that will at 



ha/. 



!t:e 



especially vvhei 

 The remedy 

 In all Irans, 



rules of bushic 



ommunications uf-on tliis suh- 

 iia to tho t-tanding and re- 

 uiinals for sale in our columns, 

 plaint from gomo urn who has 

 Now there ia a very hiniplu 

 .iMi eiueh of the 

 e buying and selhug Of dogs, 



; pa 



strungti 



Kea ju 



ictious between buyer and seller, only the idrict 

 £B should obtain. 

 What should we think el a merchant who, 3ceing an advertise- 

 ment of goods by a stranger, should si ml his cheek for the aniom t 

 demanded without first satisfying himself that the advertis-.-r vras 

 thoroughly responsible V JTov. do you suppose his bulnu 

 ould average on such ventures? ffc know that ii.iuy mei, who 



considered sound upon most sill fi 



any one says dog in their pi 



i ue bounds of prud 



oanini paragon, whose perf 



irordi d i dvi f^se 



t ndioushabits and uuiet liv 



j their e 



.aturally tir 



. I ■.;.,, hi ii 

 ,' .. • 

 to seem 



»] tngly described m a 



" Q :ii: j many men ef 

 . feeling Ihe need of 



he field aud, ail uimBed la the 

 ":.•■'" ' world, euii- 



... '. I Ire! 



l too .it", 



i , , ■ ' . : ; ■ ; i 



ways of business, and gun- 



ndi'ugly comply withtl 



to "send ihe money" and •• ttud. 



Ferhapis an idea of what is proper 



to make inquiry as to the reliability of thaadvei'ti I > > 



foeelmg of delicacy, that lead '■ tboi pulou lj iWoiB 



wounding the feohnge or giving oifenHi M ■ .■ oen, 



tan I ''' ~ ■ ' - "■ ■ - 



