FOREST AND STREAM. 



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of Western Pennsylania heading the list with prizes amount- 

 ing to f 100, divided up as follows : For the best setter dog, 

 native or imported, $30; best pointer hitch, native orimported, 

 $30; best setter bitch, native or imported, §20; second best 

 pointer bitch, native orimported, $20. The remaining prizes 

 varied in value from $5 to $10. 



WINNERS. 



Imported English Setter Dog Class— 1st, Belton black 

 •white and tan, by Dash, out of Daisy. Also, special for best 

 setter of any breed, Frank Bowen, Elmsworth, Pa. 



Native English Setter Class— 1st, to champion Lark, orange 

 and white, owned by P. H. Morris, New York; 2d, to Sport, 



liver and white ticked, Mat Miller, Port Perry, Pa.; 3d, , 



• orange and white, Grant Forrester. 



Native English Setter Bitch Class— 1st, Jess, orange and 

 white, Dr. Daly, of Pittsburg, Pa.; 2d, Floss,, orange and 

 white, by Snow, out of Fannie, J. R. Stayton. Pittsburg, Pa.; 

 3d, Moll, orange and white, owned by George Andrews, 

 Pittsburg, Pa. 



Red Irish Dog Class— 1st, Frank, owned by Thomas 

 -Marshall, Jr., of Allegheny, Pa., 2d, Don, all red, by Shot, 

 out of Tan, owned by J. C. Hobaugh, of Greenville, Pa.; no 

 third prize given. 



Red Irish Bitch Class— 1st, T. M. Marshall, Jr. , Allegheny, 

 iPa.; 2d, A Kramer, Pittsburg, Pa. Special for best setter 

 Ibitch of any breed divided between Jess, native English, and 



, red Irish. 



Gordon Dog Class— No prize awarded. 



Gordon Setter Bitch Class— 1st, to , owned by W. H. 



Barnes, Allegheny, Pa. 



Pointer Dog Class— 1st, to Rover, liver, Mr. Tremaine (F. 

 H,), Allegheny City ; 2d, to Button, liver and white, out of 

 Fan, by imported Bob, J. J. Snellenburg, New Brighton, Pa.; 



- 3d, , lemon and white, R. M. Gates, Washington, Pa. 



Pointer Bitch Class— 1st, to Topsy, black, by Old Phila- 

 delphia, out of Nellie, owned by J. J. Snellenburg, New 

 Brighton, Pa.; 2d, Jiver, by Wm. A. Forse, Johnstown, Pa.; 

 3d, Rose, liver and white, Dr. Hosteller, Allegheny, Pa. 



Native English Setter Puppy Class— 1st, Laverack pup 

 'Thunder, by Pride of the Border", out of Fairy II, black and 



White ticked, J. J. Snellenburg, New Brighton, Pa,; 2, , 



.liver and white, by Belton, out of Magnet, Frank Bowen, 



Emsworth, Pa.; 3d, , lemon and white, by Frank, C. 



; Miller, Pittsburg, Pa. 



Red Irish Setter Pups— 1st, Bob, by Rufus II, out of Moll 



sEH, owned by F. H. Tremaine, Alleghany, Pa.; 2d, to , 



'T. Ferguson, McDonald, Pa.; 3d, , R. F. Patterson, 



.Pittsburg, Pa. 



Gordon Setter Pup Class— 1st, Nirnrod, owned by Edward 

 'jBrowne, Allegheny, Pa. 



Pointer Puppy Class— 1st, Fisk, liver, by Button, out of 

 Topsy, J. J. Snellenburg, New Brighton, Pa.; 2d, Romp, 

 ilrver and white, R. M. Gates, Washington, Pa.; 3d, Rapin, 

 2iver and white, by Alex, out of Gazelle, J. M. Lytle. Jr., 

 Pittsburg, Pa. 



In .collies, J. Drake, of Mansfield, Pa., took the prize with 

 Lucy, her puppy also securing an award. W. S. Evans, of Alle- 

 gheny, was also a winner for sheep clogs. The best greyhound 

 was a slut, the property of John Fawcett. The Beaver Valley 

 Kennel Club, of New Brighton, had quite a good collection of 

 dogs. Your correspondent is indebted to Mr. Gregg, the 

 President, and to Mr. Elben, Secretary, for a good deal of 

 •attention. R. A. H. 



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St. Louis Bench Show. — Mr. Charles Lincoln, Superin- 

 tendent of the St. Louis Bench Show, informs us that every- 

 thing is progressing in the most fatisfactory way in St. Louis, 

 and that the prospect is that there will be an excellent show. 

 We learn that Gladstone and Nellie, the field trial performers, 

 will be there, but not for competition. The St. Louis Kennel 

 Club have placed the use of their kennel at the disposal of 

 the committee for any dogs that may arrive before the open- 

 ing of the show. This kennel is situated two miles from the 

 city limits, and Mr. Whitford will see to the dogs. Mr. Dab- 

 ney Carr has been appointed manager of the department for 

 the display of sportsmen's goods. Mr. C. B. Whitford will 

 take under his care all dogs that may be sent by express. He 

 will be provided with competent attendants. It should be 

 borne in mind that entries will close on the 5th of February. 

 The association has obtained special rates for exhibitors, and 

 all express companies offer to bring dogs or goods for exhi- 

 bition at one fare, and return free. 



Judging at the St. Louis Bench Show — Neio York, Jan. 



28. — Editor Forest and Stream : I am glad to see in your last 



issue a letter from "Fair Play," on the judging at St. Louis. 



It is a delicate subject, and I wish to make no reflections, but 



when prizes, such as are proposed at St. Louis, are awarded 



for the " best setter in the show," "best kennel," etc., it is 



due to the gentlemen who have presented these handsome 



prizes that no one should feel but what he had a fair and equal 



chance. Many of our sportsmen who own native dogs, believe 



if no change is made iu the present programme, that they will 



be debarred from securing the valuable trophies. I coincide 



• with your correspondent, and hope the committee will decide 



to have all the judges who have been appointed for the exhi- 



; bition to be present, judge the classes named, and then the 



-.winner will gain a victory worth wearing. Justitia. 



XJaohshunde, not Dachshunds.— A correspondent is good 

 i enough to inform us that we have no right to tack an "s" to 

 Dachshund, when we speak of more than one dog. In German 

 found is singular and liunde is the plural. We stand corrected, 

 and trust future kennel clubs will change the English "s" 

 ito the German "e," and print dachshund for one dog, and 

 •jdachshunde for more than one dog. 



Kussian Setters. — Winclwster, Jan. 20. — Will "Amicus 

 ©aninum " be kind enough to inform your readers upon what 

 page in " Stonehenge " he finds the quotations which he has 

 made in his article on the Russian setter. I have the Lon- 

 d on edition of '73, but have been unable to find any such 

 statements. On the contrary, he puts down the Russian set- 

 ter as a distinct breed, and gives nearly four pages mainly in 

 their fayor as superior to the English setter. See page 103 to 

 107 with illustrations. E, A. B. 



Montreal Hunt Cluis.— At a meeting, Jan. 18, Mr. Craw- 

 ford was re-elected Master and Mr. Hutchins Secretary, 



Name Claimed.— Henry H. Mundy, of Newark, N. J., 

 claims the name of Two-Eyed Sancho for his liver and tan 

 setter pup, ten months old, by T. Forman Taylor's One-eyed 

 Sancho, out of Horace Smith's Gypsie, she by Morford's 

 f SLipman's) Joe out of Ncldcn's Gypsy. 



—Geo. H. Wild, of Red Bank, N. J., claims the name of 

 Pride of Monmouth for his York— Bess red pup, whelped 

 Aug. 33. 77. 



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Bismarck. — O. H. Oertel, of Port Richmond, Staten Island, 

 (Jan. 28, 1878), claim's the name of Bismarck for his setter 

 pup. By Champion Joe out of Bess ; Champion Joe out of 

 Molly, by Moll ; Bess out of Biddy, by Pat. . 

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Puck and Nellie. — Would the owner of these two fine 

 dachshunde, Puck and Nellie, kindly give us his address ? 



Whelps— Newport, M. L, Jan. 24— Mr. J. N. Howard's 

 Daisy, orange and white, 13 puppies— 8 gyps. Daisy was 

 visited by Tom, an Irish setter, a very "fine dog of Mr. 

 Howard's. 



—Messrs. Fisher & Biekerton, of Brooklyn (Jan. 38, 1878), 

 announce that their Gordon setter bitcli Border Lily has 

 whelped, Jan. 25, four (4), all bitches, to H. L. Leonard's 

 Gordon dog, Pride of the Frontier. 



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FISH IN SEASON IN FEBRUARY. 



SOUTHERN WATEES. 



Pompano, Trachynotw carolinus. Grouper, Epinephelpus nigritus . 

 Drum (two species). Family Scice- Trout (black bass), Cetkropristii 

 nidm. atrarius. 



II, JtfenSfciwws nebuMs/ia. Striped Bass, or Kocktish, Roccus 

 ass, Scicenops ucellalus. Hneatiis. 



Sheepstieatl, Archosargtts probata- Tailorfish, Pomatomus saltalrte, 



cephalus. Black Basss, Mittroptems salnuride-': 



Snapper, Lutjanus caxus. M. nigricans. 



Fish in Market— Ret ail Prices. —The schooner Mary and 

 Carrie, Capt. Moser, while fishing off Squan, N. J., last Wed- 

 nesday, caught a shark weighing 300 pounds. An effort was 

 made to bring him in alive for the Aquarium, but he died in 

 coming up the Bay, and was delivered to Blackford, in Ful- 

 ton Market, and was on exhibition for several days. It 

 was what is known as the mackerel porbeagle, Lamna punc- 

 tata. It measured six feet five inches in length. Fish are 

 scarce and prices high. Striped bass, 20 and 25 cents; 

 smelts, 10 to 15; bluefish, 15,; frozen salmon, 35; mackerel, 

 25 ; Southern shad, 75 ; white perch, 15 ; Spanish mackerel, 

 35; green turtle, 20; terrapin, $18 per doz. ; halibut, 16 

 cents ; haddock, 6 ; codfish, 6 to 8 ; blackfish 12i ; Newfound- 

 land herring, 6 ; flounders, 10 ; sea bass, 15 ; eels, 18 ; lob- 

 sters, 10; sheepsheads, 25 ; scallops, $1.50 per gallon; soft 

 clams, 30 to 60 cents per 100; whitefish 18; pickerel, 15; 

 sunfish, 10 ; yellow perch, 8 ; salmon trout, 20 ; black bass : 

 18 ; yellow pike, 12 ; brook pike, 15 ; ciscoes, 10 ; hard crabs, 

 $ 2.50 per 100 ; red snapper, 20 cents. 



& Massachusetts— Medford, Jan. 26.— Success at the pick- 

 erel grounds still unabated. Two fine "weighters" were 

 drawn through the ice Wednesday, each weighing five pounds. 

 Smelt fishing is carried on quite extensively here on the ice of 

 the Mystic River. The fish demand good prices at the Bos- 

 ton markets. Memoir. 



Kentucky— Stanford, Jan. 27.— During the spring: like 

 weather of last month a Green River farmer near here took 

 his favorite rod — from which line and hook are never taken 

 till to be replaced by a new fifteen center — from an out-door 

 chimney corner where it can always be found when not in 

 use, and in three hours captured sixty -four black bass, rang- 

 ing from one-half to four pounds weight. They -were all 

 taken from one large pool below a mill dam. Sucker fishing 

 will now be in order as soon as waters have cleared and the 

 banks have dried. Kentuokian. 



.Ohio— Wilmington, Jan. 21.— Several nice strings of bass 

 have been caught in our small streams recently ; one fish, 22 

 inches long, weighing 5 lbs., which is large for our creek or 

 jumping bass. Hastily and truly yours, "Posted." 



How an Old " Salae " Got Salted ; or, A True Story 

 Verified.— Our friend Charlie Lnbrie (of the firm of Abbey 

 & Irnbrie) was currently reported last summer as having out- 

 done all his former exploits in the taking of salmon on his 

 river in Canada. Rumor attributed some small part of his 

 success to his recently invented flies, which he has dubbed 

 the "gipsey " and the " witch." Last week substantial tes- 

 timony — some solid proof of current quasi fish stories — was 

 brought to us by a messenger in the shape of a fine large sal- 

 mon salted by such a method that by proper freshening and 

 cooking, it came upon the table equal to a fish fresh from his 

 native river. We were not informed what st^le of hook 

 captured this salmon, whether it was " witch " or t'other, 

 but it makes no difference now either to us or the fish. Our 

 thanks are due, all the same, for the toothsome gift . 

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BAITS FOR BASS. 



Editor Forest and Stream : „ 



Without wishing to be considered as coming in the way of my friend, 

 " P. M.," your Hiolunond correspondent, I beg to give, in as brief a par- 

 agraph as possible, my experience in regard to bait for bass flahing. I 

 have read with much interest all that " Splasher " has said on the sub- 

 ject, and, more recently, have seen very interesting extracts from 

 "Glen Fall's" fishing note-book of his experience last season. 



During the latter part of July last I paid my usual visit to the moun- 

 tains of Virginia, where I generally spend a brief sununer vacation in 

 fishing. My headquarters were at Millboro, but the fishing ground was 

 in Jackson River iu the neighborhood of Clifton Forge, one of the most 

 beautiful spots In all the State. The express train leaves Millboro at 5 



a. m. and reaches Clifton Forge before Hnnrise, so 1 was always on the 

 ground in ample time. I carried with me, besides my tackle, a bucket 

 full of branch minnows, such as arc round in the streams thereabout, a 

 supply of worms, grasshoppers and craw fish, small frogs, or toads. I 

 tried sonic of all of 1 .liit> bale, The minnows, as far as I can now remem- 

 ber, never attracted a basg, but I took many yellow perch with them, 

 known there as" yellow blinds. The worms wore also a failure, but the 

 craw fish and frogs never failed. The water was too s wilt for one to use 

 a float, so In place of a stretcher fly I nut on a gnou stout hook and unon 

 it used a craw fish. Above, the stretcher I used a gray fly and above the 

 fly a hook baited with frog. A novel way, it is true, of arranging one's 

 line, but it proved very effective. I never failed to bring home a fair 

 string of bass and fall lish, and sometimes as many as I could carry. 

 The bass would take the frog evenalter it had been dreadfully mutilated 

 by the Us1i and been on the hook for an honr. The river bottom is of 

 slate roelc and the current generally very swift; at some points, however 

 there are beautiful eddies, and there I had on several occasions much 

 sport with bass weighing rrora three to live and a half pouuds. 



But there is one point more to he attended to and 1 will not trespass 

 farther on your space. During my fishing I used two flies that I had 

 procured in New York from one of your advertisers (J. B. Crook & Co.) 

 for shad. I Intended I hem for shad in the James River Falls here at 

 Richmond, hut I was never successful in taking any, so I determined 

 to utilize them, and tried for bass, and they answered admirably. 1 

 thought this fact might be of use to some of my brother anglers. 



E. H. F. 



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GAME IN SEASON IN FEBRUARY. 



Hares, brown and gray. Wild duck, geese, brant, ete. 



FOR FLORIDA. 



Deer, Wild Turkey, Woodcock, Quail, Snipe, Ducks and Wild Fowl. 



" Bay birds " generally, including various species of plover, sand 

 piper, snipe, curlew, oyster-catcher, surf birds, pkalaropes, avoecet- 

 ctc, coming under the group Limicolce, or Shore Birds. 



Rhode Island— Newport, Jan. 21— Very little shooting 

 although weather good for sea fowl. We are to have some 

 live quail distributed on the island this spring. Quantum. 



Rhode Island— Newport, Jan. 28. — Two of our sportsmen 

 shot ten out of eleven Wilson snipe a day or two ago. 



New Jersey— Long Branch, Jan. 26.— There are a great 

 many quail kept over this season, and we shall probably have 

 good shooting next year. e. S. G. 



Pennsylvania— Titusmlle, Jan. 20.— The country here is 

 well adapted to fox hunting, which is a favorite sport. Messrs 

 Webber, Wheelock and Geotchlous are successful hunters' 

 Pheasants and squirrels are abundant in season. We hope 

 through the agency of a recently organized game society to 

 prohibit and so increase the supply of game hereabouts. Laws 

 have heretofore been little heeded. Our sport here is with 

 pheasants, quails, squirrels, rabbits, a few deer and wild cats 7 ! 



G. H. W. 



Tennessee— Memphis, Jan. 16.— Grassy Lake, 50 miles be! 

 low Memphis, in Arkansas, and three miles back from the" 

 Mississippi, is a famous place for duck shooting. .The birds 

 congregate there in vast flocks. Myself and brother in a 

 recent trip there shot 3 deer, 1 bear, 3 wolves, 2 catamounts 

 rLwild turkeys, 23o ducks aud 6 geese. T. M. B. ' 



!{ Kentuoky— Stanford, Jan. 19.— The crop of quail has been 

 the largest in years. Average shots have found a bag of 

 thirty to fifty easily made on any good day, and a neighbor- 

 ing sportsman, who is the reputed heir to Peter Schlemihl's 

 seven-league boots, has brought one hundred to ba°- in a 

 day's shooting over an accomplished blue-blood. Two of our 

 boys were out today three hours, put up fourteen bevies and 

 bagged thirty whilst on a pull between two stations to catch 

 the return train. Our close season will begin 1st proximo 

 and nearly every fowling piece has been "rumphraydized " 

 as " Opodeldoc " expresses "putting in good order," and put 

 away to remain undisturbed till next October, as we have no 

 spring snipe or summer cock shooting— no marshes in the 

 blue grass. Kentuokian. 



Floeida— St. Augustine, Jan. 20.— The yacht "Seminole ' 

 owned by Commodore A. E. Douglass, of the St. A. Y. c' 

 is absent on an expedition to the Halifax river. The party ia 

 composed of Messrs. Douglass, Saville and Blanchard and 

 will spend some weeks shooting and fishing. 



Ohio— Circleoille, Jan. 23.— Have had excellent quail 

 shooting the past season. Some duck shooting on our rivers 

 This game affords most sport in the month of March. G. T*. 



Wilmington, Jan. 21.— The past season has been the most 

 favorable one in the memory of the eldest inhabitant for the 

 rapid increase of quail in this locality. Weather unusually 

 fine during the breeding season, and many second broods • 

 consequence, multitudes of birds. The shooting season was 

 delightful, and those gentlemea holding white cards with the 

 farmers had an actual surfeit of magnificent sport. Our bags 



WPrp. D'finrl fm* o niiitihr.r.nf HaW c-1-i r,,^ v, ™ -1 Offr 1 as\ r..™ ~~& 



■-.j., ,i.u,v*._, uj xji. IIOH.U, iivo nuuia Biiuoimg. uurino- a week's 

 shoot, Mason and Cristy, of Detroit, together bagged nearly 

 400. One of our Munchansens claims to have killed 1 499 

 careful record, those on Sundays not scored. Our sportsmen 

 are endeavoring to have our legislators limit the number to be 

 killed by each sportsman to 1,450, so as to prevent their ex- 

 termination by such prodigies. The stock of birds left over 

 for breeding purposes is simply immense, some farms of 400 

 acres having no less than ten or fifteen bevies of from ten to 

 twenty birds each j and I am reasonably certain that there is 

 not a small farm in Clinton county without one or more 

 bevies. No snow up to this date, and feed and shelter abund 

 ant. If the extremists succeed in passing the law protecting 

 quail for five successive years, the farmers will not grow and 

 gather corn enough to make hominy for their families. 



"Posted." 

 mamaus— Muskegon, Jan. 22.— At the annual meeting of 

 the Muskegon County Sportsman Club, the following officers 

 were elected for 1878 : Alex. Rodgers, President - E F 

 Ehnore, Vice-President; Peter Doran, Secretary, and Herman 

 Voss, Treasurer, lhe club has about thirty members and 

 there are some good shots among them. "Nate." 



California.— Wild pigeons are nocking about Napa fur- 

 mshiug sport, ad libitum for the hunter, but proving verv 

 destructive to the crops of the farmers. J 



—Any body wishing wild pigeons may get them by sending 

 to C. Crittenden, Garrettsville, Ohio, •> ■ s, 



