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FOREST AND STREAM. 



\T£n. 16, 1882. 



Ms\\cnlture. 



THE AMERICAN FISHCULTURAL ASSOCIATION 



\ MEETING of the executive committee of the association 



c 3L was held at the office of Fobe.st ami Stream on Tuesda . 

 the bithinst., to determine the time and place of the next 

 annual meeting, and such other matters as might come beiore 

 it. The following were present: Mr. Bamet I^illips, Secre- 

 tary; Mr, E. OK Blackford, Treasurer: Mr. Fred. Mather, 

 Chairman of Executive Committee, and Mr. James Beukard 

 and Mr. John B. Morgan. A card was received from Mr. 

 James Aunin, of the committee. Stating that his choice of 

 dates would be March 30 and HI. After some discussion it 

 was decided to hold it on Monday and Tuesday, April 3 and 4. 

 Mr. Phillips favored the old place in Fulton Market. Mr. 

 Mather suggested the Cooper Institute, or some other place up 

 town. Mr. Blackford thought that it. should be held in Boston 

 one year. It was too late to consider the latter proposition 

 this year, a,ud a motion by Mr. Phillips that it be held in the 

 rooms of the Fish Mongers' Association, Fulton Market, was 

 carried. 



Mr. Blackford then offered the folio whig: 



Resolved : That the chairman of the executive committee 

 lay the subject of a future place of meeting before the associ- 

 ation before the adjournment of tho next annual meeting, and 

 that he also bring before the meeting the question of institut- 

 ing life memberships. 



Mr. Phillips then reported that while in Washington he saw 

 Prof. Gr. Brown Goode and Dr. Tarletou H. Bean, and that 

 both promised papers. In Philadelphia he met Prof. John A. 

 Ryder, who has been following up the experiments of Dr. 

 Brooks on the development of the oyster, and who promised 

 a paper on the. history and embryology of that mollusk. Mr. 

 BenKard partly- promised a paper to be written bv Mr. Red- 

 mond on trout culture by the South Side Club, and Mr. 

 Mather thought that he might write one on some subject now 

 unsuggested. Adjourned. 



REPORT OF MASSACHUSETTS COMMISSION. 



''pHE Commissioners on Inland Fisheries of the State of 

 _L Massachusetts have just Issued then- sixteenth annual 

 report for the year ending Sep. SO, 1881, which is not as 

 voluminous as some of then- previous ones. It opens with 

 an account of what has been done in the matter of fish- 

 ways, and we learn that surveys and plans for ways 

 over the dams on the Ipswich "River were made, and 

 forwarded to its owners last August. A petition for a i 

 way over the dam owned by John S. Brayton, Swan- 

 sea, was reported unfavorably," because there had been no 

 migratory fish in the river for years, and the selectmen of the 

 town would not agree to re-sto'ck the stream. Other petitions 

 were also declined. Of the Holvoke fish way they say: "In 

 order to protect what little, interest Connecticut has left us in 

 this river, several persons have been employed at different 

 times to look after the Holvoke fish way." It seems that com- 

 plaints were made that certain persons, among them a former 

 superintendent, were, taking fish from the fishway and selling 

 thein. Detectives found that one night fifteen hundred 

 ampjreys were so taken and sent to Connecticut. A report of 

 the fish passing the. fishway at Lawrence, from April 22 to 

 Nov. 1, shows tho following species: Suckers, alewives, 

 lampreys, black bass, chubs, shad, salnion and eels. The num- 

 ber of salmon seen in the daily inspections was T2, by much 

 the largest number yet recorded. These fish nearly all came 

 in one school at the end of June, when 30 of the entire number 

 were seen in two days, no autumn run being seen. Four shad 

 were seen in the way at different times. 



Massachusetts' share of spawn from the Bucksportoestab- 

 lishmcnt was 220,000. Of this number 50,000 were received at 

 the State hatching house, 'Winchester, from which about 

 47,000 young fish were hatched, and deposited in the head 

 waters of the Nashua River. The balance, 170.000, were, for- 

 warded to Plymouth, N. H. This, wdth the portion due that 

 State, togeter with spawn taken at the Plymouth works, 

 swelled the amount to 419,500 eggs, from which 411,000 fish 

 were obtained, and deposited in the head waters of the 

 Merrimack. Notwithstanding the depredations committed 

 on the river last year, and the autumn drought of this year, 

 the run of salmon has been much larger than in any previous | 

 season since the river was reopened. 



Mr. A. H. Powers, commissioner for New Hampshire, and 

 superintendent of the works at Plymouth, under the joint 

 action of the two States, makes the following report: 



Plymouth, N. H. Nov. 15, 1881. 

 To E. A. Braclwtt, Commissioner on Inland Fislieries for 

 the- ComtiwniverjWt of M/tssaeliusetts : 



The sixty thousand eggs mentioned in my last report, 

 obtained from the salmon taken at the hatching-house on the 

 Pemigewasset River, were hatched with a loss of eight per 

 cent. 



In December, 1SS0, and January, 1881, I received 419,500 

 Atlantic salmon eggs from Bucksport, Me. These Were 

 hatched with a loss of 7,533. During the month of May 3( i.noo 

 young salmon were put into the Coutoocook River at. Hills- 

 borough. The remainder of both lots, something over 420,000, 

 were put into the Pemigewasset River, from "one to three 

 miles above Livermore Falls. This year twenty-five salmon 

 have been caught at the hatchery varying in weight from 

 eight to twenty-two pounds. The nets were'" set June 2; the 

 .first salmon was caught June 20; the last Sept. 20. Twelve 

 were females, and from thern we have secured a hundred and 

 twenty-five thousanl eggs, as follows: Oct. IS, from 2 fish. 

 21,000; Oct. 25, from ti fish, 53,000; Oct. 30, from 4 fish, 48,000; 

 total, 126,000. The past summer, like that of 1880, has been a 

 very dry season, and the river has been low the greater part 

 of the time, which in part accounts for my not taking more 

 salmon, as I have no doubt that large numbers came up the 

 Merrimack this season. 



During the low stages of water the salmon have been more 

 or less stopped at Manchester. N. H. Alter the urgent, appeal 

 in 1864, from New Hampshire, charging Massachusetts with 

 depriving her of migratory fish by impassable dams at 

 Lawrence and Lowell, it. was hardly to be. expected that any 

 Obstacle would be allowed in that State to retard the work 

 now being so successfully carried out. It appears that the 

 owners at Manchester have been constructing new mills, and 

 disposing of additional water power, which accounts for the 

 water being below the crest of the dam at a time when most 

 needed for the passage of salmon. 



There is an impression among some of the mill-owners, that. 

 when they have built then - fishway in accordance with the 

 plans furnished them, then- duties cease. This is an error. 

 They are legally bound to remove all ohsho-lrs to the passage, 

 of fish which may have been created by the erection of these 

 dams; for it has been decided bv the .Supreme Court of the 

 United States that the fish have the right of way, and it is a 

 mistake to suppose that enforcing this right is an inter 

 ference with the rights of mill-owners or of corporations. 



Salmon are re-established in the .Merrimack River; and 



NEW JERSEY'S MENHADEN FISHERIES. 



Fthe Senate an important communication was read from 

 United States Senator Sewell in reference to the menha- 

 den fishing on the Jersey coast. Both houses, it is expected, 

 will take vigorous action to prevent a con tin nance of that kind 

 of fishing. The letter of Senator .Sewell reads as follows : 

 Hon. E.J. Anderson. Commissioner of Fisheries of New Jersey: 

 I have, had for some time under consideration the mat- 

 ter of our fishing interest along the Jersey coast, and had 

 about concluded to introduce a bill in Congress prohibiting the 

 further destruction of our fish product by parties from other 

 States. In a recent conversation, howejver, with Professor 

 Baird, of the Smithsonian Institute, w T ho is the recognized au- 

 thority upon the subject, I learned a fact of which I w r as pre- 

 viously not aware— namely, that in the treaty with England 

 upon the fishery question, the citizens of this country are 

 privileged to fish anywhere in Canadian waters. The treaty, 

 being reciprocal, grants the same courtesy to the people of 

 Canada to fish anywhere along our coasts. It is, therefore, 

 impossible to enact a law of the character I intended. It would 

 give the Canadians a monopoly of the fisheries along our coast 

 ■ and woidd likewise, enable the parties engaged in the destruc- 

 tion and damage of our fishing interests by the capture of 

 menhaden for ofl. and fertilizing purposes to take out Canadian 

 registers. 



The State of Maine, through its Legislature, considered the 

 same question for some time, and finally arrived at the conclu- 

 sion to pass an' act prohibiting the catching of fish along her 

 shores with purse nets or other contrivances, and the result has 

 been that, in driving away the different companies engaged in 

 that busmess— principally from Connecticut and Rhode Island 

 —and hi freeing their coast from their operations, there has been 

 an immense increase of this class of fishing along our shores 

 within the past few years. 



I would therefore recommend the State to take action sim- 

 ilar to that of Maine, and. not await the. action of the national 

 government, which cannot be successfully invoked in view of 

 the treafcy I have referred to. The. evil is a crying one and 

 must be suppressed by the best means at hand. The growing 

 popular interest, in the shore line of our State and its magnifi- 

 cent summer resorts has really brought the question up as one 

 of the principal industries hi New Jersey, from which we re- 

 ceive a revenue equal, if not in excess, of that from our man- 

 ufacturing interests. The protection of fish for the use. and 

 amusement of a population of 2.50,000 during the summer 

 months and still increasing is of so much importance that it 

 behooves the State to give it the consideration it deserves, 



W. J. Sewell. 



The letter was referred to a. committee composed of the 

 Senators from the seaboard counties. 



Trenton, N. J. 



AUSTRALIAN FISHCULTURE.— The Zoological Society 

 in New South Wales, who have successfully introduced trout 

 and perch into that part of Australia, have renewed their 

 efforts to introduce salmon, and have applied for and received 

 from the United States Fish Commission two boxes containing 

 40,000 ova. These, after great care and trouble being taken 

 with them, have been safely deposited in hatching boxes at 

 Bowenfels, 



FISHCULTURE IN NEW JERSEY.— At the hatchery of 

 Mrs. J. H. Slack, at Bloomsbury, N. J., there are now 50,000 

 eggs of the California sahnon ready bo distribute in the streams 

 of the State. Prof. Baird has also forwarded to this hatchery 

 95,000 eggs of the Atlantic sahnon, Salmo salar, for the Dela- 

 ware river, and 15,000 eggs of the land-locked salmon for the 

 lakes in the interior part of the State. 



OYSTER LAW OF NEW JERSEY.-A bill has just passed 

 the Legislature of New Jersey, by a vote of 12 to 7, which for- 

 bids all non-residents from gathering, planting or being inter- 

 ested in oysters planted in this State, under a penalty of fine 

 or imprisonment, the former not to be less than $1,000 and 

 the latter not less than a year. 



FIXTURES. 



BENCH SHOWS. 



they have a fair chance, it is only a question of time when 

 thoywill be plenty. Their worth may be estimated by the 

 record of many rivers in Scotlaud and Ireland, very milch 

 smaller than the Merrimack, which bring from eighty to a 

 hundred thousand dollars annual rental. 



A letter ft om Prof. Band to Col. Lyman regarding the 

 establishment of a permanent station at Wood's Hah is given. 

 and it onlv remains for the Massachusetts Legislature to 

 ratify the transfer. The appendices contain: List of com- 

 missioners, list, of ponds leased, partial return of ponds, reports 

 of P. P. Chadwiek and W. H. Foote on the fisheries of the 

 Merrimack and Connecticut rivers, legislation, returns of 

 wen--, seines and gilmets, and tables. 



March 7, 8, 9 and 10— Pittsburgh, Pa., Bench Show. Ohas. Lincoln, 



Superintendent. Entries close Feb. 25. 



April IS, 10, 30 and 21— New York. Sixth Annual Bench Show of the 

 Westminster Kennel Club. Chas. Lincoln, Superintendent. 



May I), 10, 11 and IS— Boston, Mass. Third Bench shov. i if the Massa- 

 chusetts Kennel Club, Edward J. Furster. Secretary; Chas. Lincoln, 

 Superintendent. 



FIELD TRIALS. 



September— National American Kennel Club Field Trials on Prairie 

 L'luekens. Jus H. Dew. Columbia. Teun . Secretary 



December— National American Kennel Club Field Trials on Quail 

 Grand Junction. Tenn. D. Bryson, Memphis, Tenn., Secretary. 



SCENT. 



THAT the nose of the dog is a most wonderful organ no one 

 at aU conversant with the performances of hunting dogs 

 will for a, moment doubt. How marvelous the power that 

 enables the pointer or setter to accurately follow the intricate 

 windings of the trail that was traced by the wandering bird 

 perhaps hours before. How wonderful his ability to follow 

 the footsteps of his master, even through a. crowd, upon the 

 pavements where aU scent, seemingly, must be obliterated by 

 countless other footsteps. How perplexing the fact that he 

 can unerringly follow the track of our horse, driven at speed 

 over the cobble stones or dusty road, and surely find us, 

 although many teams have crossed and recrossed our path. 

 Often have we puzzled our brain in endeavoring to solve, the 

 mystery of this wonderful power, but in vain ; and long ago, 

 like Dundreary, we resolved that " this was a thing that ho 

 fellow could find out." We once saw a brace of dogs "road the 

 trail of n grouse athwart, the effluvium from the carcass of a 

 dead horse, which the wind blew directly in their nostrils, and 

 the heavily laden air reminded us — bv contrast— of the 

 spice-ladeu odors of Araby the blest;" with never a doubt 

 nor fault they followed the bird and came to a staunch 

 point within twenty yards of the odorous mass. We could 

 scarcely believe the evidence of our eves nor place any 

 confidence in the sense of the dogs until, with bated breath, 

 we rushed in and flushed the bird. Wc then and there fore- 

 swore all future, attempts to elucidate the unfathomable mys- 

 tery surrounding the subject, Besides the sense of smell there 

 is still another sense that pertains to the nose of our four- 

 j.ooted friend that appears to be well defined and in constant 

 use. U e refer to the habit which he has of touching wit;i the 

 end of his nose- any object that he may he in doubt about. 

 TV e have often noticed, especially when in' a crowd, that when 

 our dog lost us for a moment he. would upon his return— 

 although assured by our voice and the evidence of his sight, 

 u ndsrne.il — retain his inquisitive look, and would not appear 

 to be perfectly satisfied of our identity until he had touched 

 our baud or some part of our person with his nose. When he 

 meets a companion, or discovers something that he does not 

 quite understand, nothingbut actual contact with his nose 

 will satisfy liis curiosity. We are well convinced that most dogs 

 who have been hunted much on different kinds of game can 

 readily distinguish the difference between them ~ and are 

 never at fault as to the particular kind of bud before them 

 \\ e have owned several dogs that woidd almost unerringly: 

 indicate by their action just what was in the wind, and we 

 have many times changed our shells for something more ap- 

 propriate to the occasion to the manifest improvement of the 



LAVERACK PEDIGREES. 



IN our issue of Feb. 2, we published the letter of Mr, Llewel- 

 lin and "Perplexity, 1 ' together with the comments of 

 "Justice," who appears to be more zealous than correct, at 

 least so far as the color of the get of Pride of the Border is 

 concerned, for it is well known that several of them show the. 

 liver color, although this is by no means conclusive evidence 

 that the color comes from a recent cross with the Edmond 

 Castle strain. 



The following letter from Mr. J. R. Robinson in relation to 

 the matter explains itself and completely refutes the second 

 charge of Mr. Lleweliin. and so far as we can see, the other 

 charges depend mainly upon this, thus leaving Mr. Lleweliin 

 a. very precarious foothold to stand upon before the committee 

 of the Kennel Club. Mr. Robinson writes; 



"I beg to protest againt Mr. P. Lleweliin drawing inferences 

 from letters written by me when he puts a totally different 

 construction on my remarks to what they really meant. I 

 , have never imagined for a moment that my late friend E. 

 ) Laverack crossed his setters, as he told me not once, but re- 

 ! peatedly, just as Mr. Lleweliin acknowledges he told him, 

 that, although he crossed for experiment, he never found it 

 succeed, and consequently he had never kept any of the 

 results. What h;:. did say about Pride of the Border was this: 

 'He has thrown back in color to the Edmond Castle breed,' 

 which has lain dormant in his sort for thirty years. (I will 

 swear, or take any affidavit the committee of the Kennel Club 

 ; may require, that Mr. Laverack stated thirty years), whioh 

 I letters in my possessions will prove. Some may be surprised 

 at such an occurrence; but such results are well known 

 among breeders of various stock, as well as to medical men. 

 As an instance, in foxhound kennels, within recent years a 

 black and tan, of the regular markings of the old talbot, has 

 cropped up in litters, although it is well known such a color 

 could not have been bred to for forty or fifty years. There- 

 fore, it is not unnatural that a liver and white should crop up 

 in Mr. Laverack's breed, although then- general color is blue 

 aad lemon beltons, especially considering the sourco (the 

 spaniel), from which it is believed the setter originated. Ax 

 to Pride's pedigree, Mr. Laverack declares that he was out 

 of his 'old Belle' (handsomer than any,) 'by Fred II. ;' and, 

 as to his stating that Dash was the sire, 'it was undoubtedly a 

 slip of memory; and I am certain that had he been reminded 

 of it he would at once have stated so, and declared Fred II. the 

 sire, which he always did tome, both verbally an I in writ in . 

 Mr. Laverack did not cross his breed in the way suggested by 

 Mr. Lleweliin— in fact, he coidd not. for at the time there had 

 not been a specimen of the Edmond Castle blood for many 

 years, it having- been merged in other families. It is now 

 forty-three years since tho blood was 'infused' into old Moll, 

 and that only once; and she was always, afterwards bred to 

 the dogs as described in the pedigree tables. Hence Pridu, as 

 poor Laverack used to say, 'is as pure and well bred as any' 

 (which his produce clearly prove). I can only add that the 

 north-country people are not even aware of there having been 

 an Edmond Castle breed of setters; so that Mr. P. Lleweliin 

 has clearly discovered a mare's nest. 



"John Rumfobd Robinson." 

 Glen Villa, Ashbrooke Range, Sunderland. 



Mr. Herzberg also has a word to say upon the subject, and 

 makes one or two points which are well taken. His letter is 

 as follows: 

 Editor Forest and Stream : 



A little knowledge of dogs, particularly where that little 

 knowledge is supplemented by boundless prejudice, is certainly 

 a most dangerous thing to the man who uses that knowledge 

 for the edification of men with no ambition to have a breed of 

 setters called after them. 



This thought is brought out by the recent so-called protest. 

 of Mr. R. LI. Pureed Lleweliin, which recently appeared m the 

 English sporting papers and which was extensively copied in 

 this country. 



Before showing how limited is Mr. Llewellin's knowledge of 

 the subject he assumes to enlighten the world about, permit 

 me to thank him for having come out over his own signature, 

 even though that signature indorses glaring errors and pub- 

 lishes to the world the ingratitude of its owner to a d cad friend. 



Last year Mr. Buckle, Mr. Llewellin's kennelman, under 

 the nom deplume, of "Breeder" undertook to edify us as to the 

 merits of his master's dogs and the defects of all others; his 

 efforts at Enghsh grammar and stud book lore showed he was 

 quite as well posted as his employer, who we must now believe 

 inspired him. But though Mr. Lleweliin is quite as competent 

 and fully as bitter as his servant, it is a pleasure to have a 



Erincipal to deal with and to know that, the man's ambition to 

 ave his name attach to a breed of dogs shows totally to the 

 world just what kind of a man he is. 



To answer fully the misstatements of Mir. Lleweliin woidd 

 take more space than I could ask for in one issue of your ex- 

 cellent journal. 



The one great point made by the protestor is in the closing 

 paragraph of liis remarkable document, and reads as follows: 

 •' To a witness I am prepared to call to whom Mr. Laverack 

 stated that Pride of the Border's color (liver and white') . till then 

 unknown in the breed, actually was due to his crossing with the. 

 Edmond Castle Breed." Mr. Buckle did not revise "this sen- 

 tence of his master, or we are sure it would be struBturally 

 more smooth if equally more ungranmtatical, but it is not out 

 purpose to teach Mr. Lleweliin to write decent English but te. 

 get him to tell the truth or to acknowledge that fife misst ■n.-.- 

 ments are the result of ignorance, not prejudice. I might say 

 here that Mr. Laverack— whom Mr. Lleweliin, now that the. 

 former cannot answer back from the grave, attempts to Smirch 

 — certainly knew more about dogs than about men, else he 

 woidd never have dedicated his excellent work "The Setter'' 

 to such a "friend" as Mr. Lleweliin has proven himself to lie de 

 mortius nil nisi bonwm. 



But the "liver and white" is the. point at issue. In the 

 "Kennel Club Calendar and Stud Book,"vol. II. under number 

 42i;u, the following entry appears: 



"Cariowitz— R. LI. Puree]! Llewellin's, Willesbv Hall, Ashby 

 de. la Louch, breeder, owner, whelped 18"/:;. Pedigree: by 

 Pilkington's Dash (No. 13+:i, vol. I.) out of Llewellin's Countess 

 (No. 1485, vol. Li Chief performance. Bedford, first prize." 



When all the other entries have the. ■.■ulors 'riv-n, why did not 

 Mr. Lleweliin give the colors in this case;' 



The presumption is that he had something to conceal, and 

 this bit of subterfuge becomes painfully evident when it is 

 known that Cariowitz is a liver and while dog, as Mr. JflineS 

 H. Goodsell, of New York city, the present owner, will dad! , 

 show to his visitors. Cau Mr. Lleweliin tell lis how it is the. tJ i 

 sire of Cariowitz, Pilkington's Dash, and Iris (Llewj l]i ■'- 

 Countess, both blue beltons, descended from -dr. Laverack's 

 Old Blue Dash and Moll DX, could produce a liver and white 

 dog? Does he mean to tell us that all his own Davaraci < 

 have had an outcross to account for the color? That is t . > 

 only inference that can he drawn from his wdld statement, and 

 it will yet return to plague the originator, for he has in big 

 recklessness folded his own nest. 



If this color is the result of an outcross then Mr. Lie.,. 

 must have known it since. 1873. but during all these years he. 

 has kept silence as to the defect— if such is to be — in* his own 

 dogs. 



We must believe that Mr. Lleweliin knew or did not know 

 of the outcross that, produced the, liver and white Cat lowitz; if 

 he knew then he has willfully deceived the public. If he did 

 not know, where then did he get the recent information that 

 leads him and his unknown w itnesa to find m outeioss in the 

 case of 1'ridc of the Border? But a man who traduces the 



cecal woidd not hesitate for his.ovn petty ends to misrep 



his own stock, and if he has not done so,' it is in order lor him 

 to explain. E. A. HeezBEBCJ. 



Brooklyn, Feb. 8, 1882. 



