Jm/r IS, 1883.] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



471 



More ahad are caught annually in St. John's River, Fla. , and 

 sent abroad; than from any three rivers from Connecticut to 

 tie Potomac River. The. Fish Commission may claim and be 



. government rewarded for stocking our rivers, taut so far 

 as fcne Ouachita River if-- mentioned shad were there before the 



I Igb Coi o mission were born. Doubtless they have sent coals 

 to Newcastle, but ash will swim without the commission. 

 Geo. TV. Laweexce, M. D. 



SOUTHERN FISHES FOR NORTHERN STREAMS. 



IN a previous oornurv-nieation I referred to the fact that the 

 fish commission srs of the North and Northwest are stock- 

 ing suitable with salmon trout and shad, and are 

 overlooking thousands of streams and ponds, where Southern 

 bream and wall-eyed and war-mouthed perch, would proba- 

 bly succeed. These fish will undoubtedly thrive in mill ponds, 

 small ponds, and lakes where nothing but catfish and roach 

 can. If introduced into the depopulated streams and ponds 

 of the North, they would materially increase the food supply, 

 and EUmish sport for the angler, Our fishermen enumerate 

 four distinct species of the bream in this river (the St. Johns). 

 To illustrate how we utilize bream in this State and the size 

 they attain, I append a local from this day's Union news- 

 paper. 



The perch attain aweight of two and three pounds. They 

 will take the fly, mi nnow, or cut bait. They are bold biters, 

 and excellent f.i - 



These fish are excellent for the table, increase very rapidly, 

 and studiously protect their spawn and young. As food and 

 for sport they will not equal the trout or salmon, but they 

 can be reared where the salmon would die. It appears to me 

 that they might be advantageously introduced in many local- 

 ities in the Northern States. 



The paper referred to savs: "Testerdav morning bv in- 

 vitatio 

 wholes 



see tor 

 lot gen 



salesman for E. Vanderpoel. 

 retail fish dealer, we visited his fish house, near 

 Bt, where we beheld a thousand or more of the 

 ttest bream that it has been our good luck to 

 day-, and which were beyond a doubt the best 

 ly of fresh fish that have been brought to Jackson- 



ville this season. Many of these bream would weigh from 

 one to two pounds each, and were reaidly taken by consumers 

 at the usual price— twenty-rive cents per string of "four. They 

 were caught near Georgetown during Monday night, and sent 

 down to the city, where they anived in splendid condition. 

 Fish have not been at all plentiful with our dealers the past 

 few months, but the prospects are good for a large run in our 

 river now, as our fishermen report large quantities of young 

 mullet now in the river, and those taken are in good order — 

 fat and juicy. Our dealers find ready sale for all the fish 



they ship, often receiv 

 are unable to till Manv i 

 nah and Atlanta, where t) 

 ers as fast as they can be 1 

 and shipped last week aboi 

 with quick sale wherever offered. 

 jACKsoNvnvLE. Florida, June IS 



ge orders by telegraph that they 



:es are shippedto Macon, Savan- 



are sold by dealers to consum- 



ded out. Mr. Vanderpoel sold 



t three thousand fish, which met 



Al Fbesco. 



A MEETING OF FISH COMMISSIONERS,-: Huron, 0., 

 June 30, 18853.— We have read with a good deal of pleasure an 

 article in your valuable paper from the pen of Mr. D. Y. 

 Howell. Superintendent of the Fish Hatcheries of Ohio, in re- 

 lation to the woik of the hatcheries of the State during the 

 past year, and noticed particularly his very practical ideas 

 in reference to the demand for the passage of a law for the 

 protection of the supply of Whitehall and trout in ourlakei 

 and we heartily second" his suggestion that a convention of 

 the Fish Commissioners of the different States be called for 

 the purpose of framing a law to be passed bythe Legislatures 

 of all the States bordwrmgonthe great lakes, looking to the 

 interest of all who are interested in the. preservation of the 

 fish referred to.— Wickham & Co., WEIGHT & Co. 



STRIPED BASS FOR THE PACIFIC— Oceanic, N. J., July 



]0.— t. ■''.■'■ 'J- 'id Stream: We have secured 300 bass 



(striped) for the California Fish Commission. The fish are 

 yet in the feeding car, and are in good condition. Think we 

 will take 100 more, and by Thursday the youngsters will be 

 on the way to the Pacific waters. I wiU send Prof. Baird six 

 of the bass fry, three and a quarter inches in length, the 

 smallest yet caught by the commission. The lobster experi- 

 ment was not a success, as they were kept until the fifth day, 

 then died. We'll ship one car eels. — G. H. Wild. 



A TENNESSEE FISHCULTURE COMPANY.— Nashville, 

 Tenn., June 16. 1SS2. — A charter has been applied for estab- 

 lishing a flshculture company in this city. Mr. J. C. Warner 

 who has a small hatchery in Cheatham county will be. manager. 

 The company proposes growing all varieties of fish capable. 

 of being propagated in this climate. Game varieties will re- 

 ceive the greatest attention. The enterprise is one destined 

 to pay handsome profits.— J. D. H. 



fennel 



FIXTURES. 



BENCH SHOWS. 

 April 3, 4, 5 and 6, 1882. Western Pennsylvania Poultry Society's 

 Fifth AnnUa] Bench Show, Pittsburgh, Pa. Entries for the Bench 

 Show Derby, for English : sutlers whelped door after March 1,1882, 

 close December 1. I8&S. Chas. Lincoln, Superintendent, I. R. Stay- 

 ton. Secretary. Allegheny City, Pa. 



FIELD TRIALS. 

 September -1 —National American Kennel Club Field Trials on Prairie 

 Chickens Fairmont, Minn. Entries for the Derby close July 1. for the 

 All-aged, Sept, i. Jos. II. Dew. Columbia, Term., Secretary;. 



November 17 -Eastern Field Trials Club Field Trials on Quail, near 

 High Point, N G, Entries for the Derby close July 1. For the All- 

 Aged and Members" Stake, November 1, F. N. Hall. P. O. Box 881, 

 New York. Secretary. 



December 4— National American Kennel Club Field Trials on Quail, 

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



, r 11— New Orleans Gun Club Field Inals or Quail, Opelou- 

 scember 11. J. K. Renaud, Secretary, New 



SPANIEL JUDGING AT CLEVELAND. 



Editvr Forest and Strea 

 I have much pleasure i 



answering the. letter of "Cocker," 

 e of 20th ult., because, in the first place, 

 are sincerely put for the purpi 

 ml in my position as Secretary of the 

 aiiiel Club, 1 consider it my duty to 

 uble bo. reply to such: and, secondly, a? 

 appointed exhibitor at the Cleveland 

 sion as judge, I am only following out 

 g adopted in connection with that show, 

 h exhibitor showing under me my 



contained 



1 believe his questi 

 tain frig informatio: 

 American Cocker 

 takeooui 



:.., ■•ently a 

 Show, u i 

 thepnucip [all 

 viz.: to explain t 

 reasons for the various a _ 



As there seems bo be considerable misconception as to what 

 the American Cocker Club standard really is, I would trespass 

 on your indulgence to the extent of asking you to publish, 

 along with this letter, our printed description of the points of 

 the cooker, as adopted by the club. While the subject was 

 under discussion bv the. committee appointed bythe el 

 draw up a standard, I expressed my views in writing in some- 

 what greater detail than the committee thought tit to adapt, 

 but the standard accepted by the committee conveys to my 

 mind very much the same ideas I had expressed. The club's 

 standard is as follows: 



"A cocker spaniel must not weigh more than 2Slbs. nor less 

 than ISlbS. 



•'General appearance, symmetry, etc. (value 10). A cocker 

 spaniel should be eminently a well-built, graceful, and active 

 dog, and should show strength without heaviness or clumsi- 

 ness. Any of the spaniel colors is allowable, but beauty of 

 color and marking must be taken info consideration. 



"Head lvalue 15) should be of fair length, muzzle cut off 

 square, tapering gradually from the eye, but not snipey. 

 Skull rising in a graceful curve from the stop, and with the 

 same, outline at the occiput, the curve line being; flatter but 

 still curving at the middle, of the skull. The head should be 

 narrowest at the eyes and broadest at the set-on of ears, and, 

 viewed from the front, the outline between the ears should 

 be a nearly perfect segment of a cirele. The stop is marked 

 aud a. groove nans up" the skull, gradually becoming less ap- 

 parent, till lost about half way to the occiput. This prevents 

 the domed ting Charles' skull, and there should not be the 

 heaviness of the large held spaniel, but a light, graceful, well- 

 balanced head. Jaws level, neither undershot nor pig-jawed, 

 teeth strong, and regular. 



' Eyes (value 5) round and moderately full. They should 

 correspond in color with the coat. 



"Ears (value. 10) lobular, set on low, leather fine, and not 

 extending beyond the nose, well clothed with long silky hair, 

 which must be straight or wavy— no positive curls or ring- 

 lets. 



"Neck and shoulders (value 10).— Neck should be sufficiently 

 long to allow the nose to reach the ground easily; muscular, 

 and running into well-shaped, sloping shoulders. 



"Body (value 15).— Ribs should be well sprung; chest of fail- 

 width and depth; body well ribbed back, short in the coup- 

 ling, flank free, from any tucked up appearance, loin strong. 



"Length (value 8], from tip of nose to root of tail, should be 

 about twice the height at shoulder, rather more than less. 



"Legs and Feet (value 15). — The fore legs should be short, 

 strong in bone and muscle ; straight, neither hent in nor out at 

 elbow; pasterns straight, short, and strong; elbows well let 

 down; the hind legs should be strong, with well-bent stifles; 

 hocks straight, looked at from behind, and near the ground. 

 Feet should be of good size, round, turning neither in nor out, 

 toes not too spreading; the soles should be furnished with 

 hard, horny pads, and" there should be plenty of hah' between 

 the tries. 



"Coat (value. 10) should be abundant, soft and silky, straight 

 or wavy, but without curl ; chest, legs and tail well feathered. 

 There should be no top-knot or curly hair on top of head. 



"Tail (value 5) usually docked, carried nearly level with the 

 back. At work it is carried lower, with a quick nervous 

 action which is characteristic of the breed. 



SCALE OP POIOTS. 



General appearance 10 Length 5 



Head ..- - 15 Legs and feet 15 



Eves 5 Coat 10 



Ears -.10 Tail 5 



Neck and shoulders .10 



Body 15 Total - , 100." 



Perhaps our standard is hardly full enough in description to 

 convey to those who are not "thoroughly acquainted with 

 spaniels an exact idea of our little favorite, but to me, at 

 least, it pictures such a dog as the following: A strong, ac- 

 tive cobby, nimble, little spaniel, full of eager activity, brim- 

 ful of intelligence and desire to please. He should have 

 neither the long head and muzzle of the held spaniel nor the 

 domed head and pug face of the modem King Charles, but a 

 happy medium between the two, if anything, inclining more 

 in the direction of the field spaniel than the chumpy snuffling 

 King Charles or Blenheim, whose heads are simply horrible 

 to the eye of the sportsman. His body should be thick-set 

 and round in barrel, with immense loin power for such a 

 small dog, considerably shorter in the back proportionately 

 than the field spaniel, and his ribs shoukl run well back and 

 have good depth behind. The legs should be short, strong, 

 and straight in front, and behind he should have, muscular 

 quarters and thighs, and clean-made hocks. His ears should 

 be set on low, lobular in shape, of good length in the leather, 

 but not too heavy. His coat, blight, glossy and silky, flat or 

 slightly wavy, of good length and abundant. The" feather 

 on ears, legs," feet, tail and belly should be long and wavy, 

 not curly nor inclined to run into ringlets. His tail, usually 

 docked to enable him to hunt, with convenience, to himself in 

 thick coverts, ought to be an exact index to his character — 

 wanton, irrepressible and ever busy. It ought never to be 

 carried above the level of the back at work. The limit of 

 weight fixed by the club is from eighteen to twenty-eight 

 pounds. For rny own part, I prefer cockers between twenty 

 and twenty-five pounds, but I must confess that of late years 

 I have rarely seen any of this weight that were not useless 

 weeds. 



The cockers that appeared before me at Cleveland in class 

 :>S, although in their way nice-looking and probably useful 

 dogs, did not nearly answer the above description; and it 

 would have been in the highest degree misleading, had I 

 awarded anv prizes to dogs altogether different in type to 

 what the American . Cocker Spaniel Club is designed' to en- 

 courage spaniel breeders to try and resuscitate, viz., the true 

 cocker spaniel, which, from neglect in England and America 

 and the want of concerted action on the part of his disinter- 

 ested admirers, has been gradually mongrelizod into a hun- 

 dred different shapes and styles. 



"Cocker" asks why I did hot judge cockers by Stonehenge's 

 scale of points. Well, I judged field spaniels by Stonehenge , s 

 points, as also I did all the other classes submitted to me, where 

 he gives a scale ; but I know of no other scale of points for the 

 cocker than that adopted by the American C. S. Club, and 

 which is, I think, a very good one, notwithstanding all the 

 objections raised against it. My understanding of that stand- 

 ard is given above, and I cannot well see how some intelligent 

 gentlemen, for whose opinions generally I have the greatest 

 respect, seem to think that it was specially design-red to fit 

 certain recent importations of black field spaniels. Those 

 field spaniels would score a very small total if judged by me 

 under the A. C. S. Club standard. J. F. Kirk. 



Toronto, Canada, July 3, 1 882, 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



"Cocker," of Cleveland, in your issue of the 39th of June, 

 has very properly brought a subject before the public which 

 deserves a thoughtful answer. I, for one member of the 

 American Cocker Spaniel Club, would wish to have my say- 

 on the matter. If he takes Stonehenge as his guide he will 

 find there is not a very great deal of difference in the descrip- 

 tion of the cocker spaniel and the standard accepted by the 

 American Cocker Spaniel Club, except in the description of 

 the head. 



Stonehenge is not very expl: : .nil in his descrip- 



tion as the club, and the only difference that is made by the 

 Ooeker Club standard is that the oceiputal protuberance is 

 flot well marked. Stonehenge says it should be well marked. 

 In this, 1 think, a very little consideration will show that the 

 occiputal protuberance is not -well marked in any of the pres- 

 ent: cocker spaniels, be they liver and white, lemon and white, 

 liver ui' Mack. I have carefully studied this point at all the 

 great shows held lately, and, with one or two exceptions, all 

 the spaniels have had "a round head between the ears. 



If ••Cocker" will read over Stonehenge's description and 

 then that of flic Cocker Club. I think that ho will find that 

 they are very similar, with the exception that in /the Cocker 

 Club's standard the points are more evenly distributed. 

 Stonehenge heaps them up, as fur ins.tauce he gives chest, 

 back and loins 20. The Cocker Club standard has it: Neck 

 and shoulders 10, body 5. Another thing in it, Stonehenge 

 gives 5 points for color"; the standard ignores that, so that the 

 liver and white stand as good a chance as the black. Stone- 

 henge says a brilliant black is preferred. 



The greatest fault I have to find is that the length of the 

 body is not considered enough by breeders. Stonehenge 

 it should be rather more than twice the height at the 

 shoulder; the Cocker standard is just the same. If "Ooeker" 

 would think of this and get the length with a good flat coat 

 on the otherwise perfect cocker, which I dare say he (JWUB, 

 he need not take, a back seat at anv show. These are the two 

 points which I think deserve attention at present, aud if I 

 may add another— give a slightly longer muzzle with 'ess stop 

 at the upper end, cocker breeders in this country need not bo 

 ashamed to show their dogs at anv show in the" world. This 

 :he present. -Vl. B. 



-i big 



do 



Editor Fores 



29, savs: "I su. . 

 henge'a points."" 



i I . .- ■■Cocker," in your issue of June 



>sed that all of the judging was by Stone- 

 Further on. he savs, "1 must confess my ig- 

 norance'of what the standard of t he American Cocker Spaniel 

 Club is." "Cocker" is just the man a lot of us have been look- 

 ing for, and he must have succeeded in finding what we have 

 all missed. We have seen in print the standard of the A. C. 

 S. C, but we have failed as yet to find any points given by 

 Stonehenge. Will "Cocker" kindly favor a number of breed- 

 ers interested in the small spaniel' with Stonehenge's points, 

 which he refers to and leads us to believe he knows all about. 



— SPANlEIi. 



ENGLISH SHOWS AND CLUBS. 



THE article under this heading in our issue of June 8 should 

 have been credited to the Stock Kccjirr instead of the 

 Live Stock Journal. "Sprint" continues his "growls" in the 

 former journal as follows : 



It has just entered my head, that there will certainly be 

 some readers of these criticisms of mine, who look upon them 

 as being written in a captious and fault-finding spirit. I as- 

 sure them that such is not the case in the slightest degree. 

 I merely wish the members of these clubs to see their actions 

 placed before the public just as they are. and, by so doing, 

 enable the clubs to view their proceedings in the same light 

 as outsiders view them. Perhaps they may be open to con- 

 viction, and when convinced they are working on wrong prin- 

 ciples may be induced to mend their ways and rules, in order 

 to keep well with the public and with the advancement and 

 liberality of the times. People nowadays have a nasty habit 

 of thinking for themselves, very unlike what they did twenty 

 years ago, or even fewer, when they were far too apt to take 

 for granted everything that was toid them, especially where 

 doggy matters were concerned. 



The chief failings in the Fox-terrier Club have already been 

 meutioued. and, to my mind, for their counteraction they are 

 such that they require every iota of private influence which 

 each individual member thereof can bring to bear. Were, it 

 not that its members are well known as being above suspicion 

 as to any furtherance of their own private ends, the club 

 would not have survived a year. As it is no headway has 

 been made, and without the support of the Kennel Club and 

 the balance at its bank ers— the latter an all-important adjunct, 

 for it is money that makes the mare to go— the Fox-terrier 

 Club would have very little standing indeed. Has the thought 

 never occurred to its chief supporters that there must be 

 something wrong with its rules and workings which has kept 

 its members' list at so low an ebb, in the face of the increas- 

 ing popularity of the very breed of dog over which it professes 

 to watch with such assiduity? So far as the number of mem- 

 bers is concerned, the St. Bernard Club has far out-distanced it. 

 Yet where one man breeds and exhibits St. Bernards a dozen 

 do the like for fox-terriers. A few -words to this club. To 

 make our club popular and as representative, as it ought to be. 

 I would suggest a revisal of your rules, and a reduction in 

 your admission fee and annual subscriptions. The prizes you 

 offer throw open for competition of all, and avoid everything 

 -which at all savors of chquisrn. Then with some degree of 

 justice and reason, you may hold up your head, and the public 

 will not think it presumption when you proceed to lay down 

 rules for the future governance of your pet terrier, which, by 

 its sprightliness and the excellence of its disposition, ha's 

 become the poptdar idol of the day. 



I am sorry to see that the Collie Club, the Dandie Dinmont 

 Club, and "the Irish Terrier Club, are all following the old 

 lines, the old groove. Before me lies the prize-list of the 

 forthcoming Kennel Club Show-, and it contains particulars 

 of various "special prizes announced to be awarded to the 

 above varieties; but competition is solely restricted to mem- 

 bers of their respective clubs. Can we respect them under 

 such circumstances? or can we admire or agree with the 

 Kennel Club sanctioning and encouraging such an arrange- 

 ment? Certainly not ! We have not to proceed very much 

 further and we shall find the Kennel Club holding an exhi- 

 bition and confining it to its own members! To teh the truth, 

 the more I look into the inner working of these clubs the less 

 satisfied I become. Indeed, I find little good in anv of them, 

 less in the minor ones than in the parent," for such 1 take the 

 Kennel Club to be. "What about the 'scales and points' 

 drawn up and adopted by them.'"' I hear some one say. 

 Nothing very particular. "They are little use in imparting 

 knowledge to the beginner, and none at all to the expert. 

 There is proof enough for this when we look around and see 

 the enormous headway "judging by points" has made since 

 the mode first cropped up ! The subject is pretty nearly worn 

 threadbare, and though it bling a swarm of honey bees in a 

 rage round ray head, and their stings are drea"dful, I must 

 express my opinion that, judging by points, to put it as 

 plainly and pithUy as I can, "is all rot." 



Then, again, we have the valuable prizes given by clubs. 

 These are all very well in their way, but such may be made 

 too valuable, as 'is the case with various produce stakes— to 

 wit, the Fox-terrier Derby. Our shows have not become a. 

 medium for money-making, at all events for exhibitors: and 

 I take it that these enormous prizes cause an unhealthy flush 

 by placing an undue and exaggerated value on any dog win- 

 ning them. Certainly I have seen some animals awarded 

 prizes which were not worth the money they won. Is it right 

 and reasonable, or even honest, that a dog not worth a,4-S 

 note should at one showing be awarded a £30 or a A.T5 prize; 

 Such a case occurs. A novice fancies the dog because it has 

 a prize card over it. and it is strange bow a little bit of con- 

 tiguous pasteboard enhances, to some eyes, the -falue of an 

 animal, and seeing that he has won perhaps £15, estimates 

 his value accordingly, purchases at an enormous figure, and 

 finds when he gets home that lie could have bought a better 

 dog in the neighborhood for one-tenth of the expenditure. 

 The prize, card cannot always be worn by the dog, and his 

 beauty and excellence (?) vanish with the withdrawal of the 

 pasteboard, This is by no means a suppositious case, as some 

 folk know to their cost. 



Again, I find a resemblance to gambling in such stakes as 

 the "Fox-terrier Derby." and, -. shows have kept 

 very free from this gigantic evil, which has dene, and is doing. 

 50 much towards the demoralization of "the turf." No doiibt 

 there will be exhibitors who see these things not in the same 

 light as the writer, and he is always open to conviction, as he 

 hopes his readers are. Some will be, but there are others 

 who "everlastingly persist" iu holding then own ideas and 

 ins, though' they know well enough they are wrong and 

 unsound. Of course] such n<> reasonable or even reasoning 

 being would care to cavil with. A discussion with one of this 

 class would have no other result than a wilful waste of pens, 

 ink, paper, compositor's wages, and all the lit 1 1 

 which are required to produce even a "stickful" of 

 Stock-Keeper. 



DOGS CHEAP.— Mr. E. A. Herzberg offers some good bar- 

 gains in our advertising columns. He wishes to dispose of his 

 dogs before the 1st of August, and has reduced then pi ices to 

 figures that will without doubt accomplish his purpose. 



