Mather therefore made arrangements to go to Michigan to 
procure spawn and grown fish for experiments in propaga¬ 
tion at his breeding establishment at Honeoye Falls, Mew 
York, and investigations were begun early in March to as¬ 
certain the time of spawning. Mr. Fitzhugh made a re- 
connoisance and caught six fish with ova far from maturity. 
It was then argued, upon analogy, that gravid .fish would 
not be so apt to be caught as those less advanced, and that 
the majority might be near spawning after all; and so on 
tlie 25th of March Mr. Mather started on the expedition, 
and the result is told in the very important letter which we 
publish to-day in our department of “Fish Culture.” It is 
to be hoped that earnest hopes will be realized, and that 
this fish may be introduced to this and other States, and 
that it will thrive, and henceforward afford abundant 
amusement to the angler, who will greatly rejoice at this 
valuable addition to the somewhat limited number of our 
game fish. _ _ 
Massachusetts Angler’s Association. —A meeting of 
this association was held in Codman Hall, Boston, on Fri¬ 
day evening, 17th instant, President Ordway in the chair. 
After the preliminary business had been transacted, Walter 
Brackett, Esq., of the Advisory Board, reported the action 
of said board in regard to the illegal taking of smelt, as 
reported at the last meeting, and that they had given notice 
to the chief constable of the State, and received the assur¬ 
ance that everything should be done to prevent further 
seining in the places where it is reported as having taken 
place. They also recommend that the smelt and lobster 
laws, passed this year, be printed and copies distributed 
throughout the State where the law is most likely to be dis¬ 
regarded, with the endorsement of the Association, and 
the following notice appended:—“The executive committee 
of the Massachusetts Angler’s Association hereby give 
notice that the provisions of the above law will be strictly 
enforced, and any person giving information of the viola¬ 
tion of the law will confer a favor by addressing C. Warren 
Gordon, 47 Bromfield street, Boston. All communications 
will be strictly confidential.” The report was accepted. 
The chief constable has caused these notices to be posted 
in all towns interested, and instructed his subordinates to 
faithfully enforce their provisions. Fish dealers in the 
Boston markets were given, at their request, until the Tues¬ 
day following to close their stocks. 
Mr. Brackett called the attention of the members to the 
recent meetings of the fish and game protective associa¬ 
tions in Mew York, and said that it was desirable to have 
tlie co-operation of the Angler’s Association to fix upon a 
.plan of co-operative game and fish laws. 
Baylies Sandford, Esq., reported that the city marshal of 
Fall River had given notice that persons were unlawfully 
taking bass from ponds in that vicinity, and had requested 
information as to the laws affecting the same, which had 
been forwarded him. 
The Advisory Board were empowered to procure suit¬ 
able rooms for the association. 
A Presentation. —On Thursday last, April 16th, the Gat¬ 
ling gun was presented to the Seventy ninth Regiment, 
which most handsome trophy was won by them at Creed- 
moor last October. At 5 o’clock the regiment, under com- 
mand'of Major Laing, marched in front of the City Hall, 
New York, and in presence of the Mayor, had the Mitrail- 
leur handed over to them. The gun was drawn by two fine 
horses and a team of Shetland ponies. The successful team 
of the Seventy-ninth was composed of the following mem 
bers:—Capt. Joseph Ross, Capt. W. C. Clark, Sergt. Cam¬ 
eron, Sergt. Molloy, Privates Robertson, Edington, Keller, 
Dake, Raison, Stephenson, Pyle, and Moore. The score 
made was 199. The Twenty-second Regiment made the 
next best score, 184. 
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Future Opening of the Creedmoor Range. —We are 
pleased to announce that by the 1st of May the range at 
Creedmoor will be in order for rifle practice. We have 
no time to spare, and the range committee have done well 
in getting their grounds in order. We are in receipt of the 
following from Colonel Henry A. Gildersleeve, the secre¬ 
tary of the Mational Rifle Association:— 
Office of the National Rifle Association, ) 
98 Nassau street, New York, April 17, 1874. [ 
The range committee of the National Rifle Association 
announce that the range at Creedmoor is being rapidly put 
in condition, and will be open for practice On May 1st, 
when targets numbered from 10 to 20 will be ready for use. 
-iWe would call particular attention to the series of ar¬ 
ticles entitled “How to Shoot at long Range,” published in 
Forest and Stream. In our issue of to-day the fifth 
paper appears. The method proposed by our able corre¬ 
spondent, T. C. C., of dividing the target into squares,- 
seems to us to be perfectly practical. It will be noticed 
that T. C. C. thinks our chances in the coming interna¬ 
tional match will be somewhat improved by the fact that 
the condition of our atmosphere—its peculiar clearness— 
may throw our Irish friends out of gear. The Irish eight, 
we believe, however, will make good use of the two days’ 
practice allowed them, and will be doubtless wise enough 
to accommodate their sights for the differences of light. 
—Our Philadelphia correspondent, O., who writes so in¬ 
telligently about cricket, may be consider©^ as authority 
in regard to this noble game. Cricket has undoubtedly 
taken stronger root in Philadelphia than any other city in 
the Union. The article by O. will be found to embody the 
philosophy of cricket, and we believe will do much to en¬ 
gender a proper taste for this most manly of all rational 
pastimes. 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
T HE fact of hydrophobia being on the. increase in 
England has been already commented upon by us. 
The case of the death of Mrs. Noyes in New York has been 
.extensively quoted in England, and has somewhat added to 
the excitement. Our English friends are, however, always 
very properly methodical in the management of such serious 
matters, and no doubt the prevalence of rabies in England 
will lead to a very thorough examination of the disease. 
Within the last four months rabies have appeared in 
Cheshire, Yorkshire, Staffordshire, Middlesex, and other 
counties. We notice particularly the case of Earl Fitz- 
will lams’hounds, almost the whole of his pack of young 
hounds having been killed, as they were tainted with 
rabies. The malady does not seem to have yet shown itself 
in London, or in any of the large cities. In the country, 
quite stringent measures have been adopted. We notice in 
conjunction with the many remedies now proposed for 
the cure of hydrophobia one emanating from a French 
authority, which is said to have acted in a most wonderful 
way. A physician attending a patient who had been bitten 
by a mad dog, was accidentally inoculated with the virus. 
Thinking he was sure to die, the French doctor feeling 
some of the symptoms of the horrid madness, determined 
to kill himself, and so made up his mind to smother him¬ 
self in a Russian bath. The result was that his health was 
restored. We only reproduce the story for what it is 
worth, without placing any great reliance in it. We deem 
the fact, however, as worthy of careful investigation, and 
we trust later to be more fully informed in regard to it. 
—We are all more or less familiar with histrionic dogs. 
There is your star dog, who plays the leading part in the 
dog of Montargis, and the Newfoundland, who madly 
plunges from off a pasteboard bridge into a canvas ocean, 
and draws out the drowning child, who is wet with real 
water. We have sometimes thought that if Rip Van 
Winkle could only bring Schneider on the stage, and get 
him as fat as Falstaff in the first act, and as lean as the 
apothecary in the last act, such a dog would add immensely 
to the attractions of the local drama. Our French friends 
are exceedingly realistic in their ideas of scenic develop¬ 
ment. There is now being performed at one of the 
Parisian theatres a piece entitled, Lajeunesse de Louis XIV. 
There is a grand hunting scene in it, and a whole pack of 
hounds are introduced. To the sound of trumpets blown 
by the huntsmen, the dogs yelp in unison. But there is a 
fact combined with dog nature which no amount of train¬ 
ing will oveicome. Instead of holding their tails, like 
plumes, straight up in the air, the acting dogs will drop 
them, and carry them in a distressed way between their 
legs. Some cruel essayist on the subject of “ training dogs 
for the highest walks of the drama,” has proposed to nick 
the dog tails. But all ideas of taking the wag out of a 
dog’s tail is very properly met with the scorn it merits. These 
French dogs, it seems, show little life on the stage, and 
like some unfortunate ballerines, have a disposition to 
singe themselves in the blaze of the foot lights. 
—Societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals are 
fast increasing in numbers. During the last fourteen 
months in England there have been 2,980 convictions. In 
England, Scotland and Wales there are fifty-three societies; 
in Ireland seven; seventy in Germany, Austria, Russia, 
Italy, the Netherlands and Switzerland, and four in France. 
Spain is singular by being the exception, which is a re¬ 
proach to modern civilization. Her protest against general 
humanity, is thrown out by her unceasing adhesion to bull¬ 
fights. 
—Human endurance necessarily gets to loathe that 
constant quotation of “how to teach the young idea how 
to shoot,” but we are forced to give it once more to our 
readers, as very fitting for a novel movement in France. 
We have already asserted, and in a pretty positive way, 
that Americans were more familiar with the use of firearms 
than any other people, and we stated generally the reasons 
for it. In France, the knowledge of how to use firearms 
is rare, save among the richer and more privileged classes. 
Now it has struck the French school authorities; probably 
it was derived in some wav from the Minister of Public 
Instruction, or most certainly had his assent, that if the 
boys going to school in France knew how to strike a bull’s- 
eye with a rifle ball at a fair distance, when the time should 
come, when the threatened cloud should burst, and France 
and Germany would again be pitted against each other, 
the schoolboys of the present time might, in ten years to 
come, have a chance of picking off or potting some Prus¬ 
sian. We notice, then, in our French contemporanq quite 
an important notice given of the rifle shooting of the pupils 
in some of the leading Parisian schools. The Minister of 
War, General du Barail, presented a rifle of honor to the 
best shot among the collegiates, and the Minister of Public 
Instruction gave silver medals. We should be glad if La 
Cha&se Illustree would give us the distance shot at, size of 
target, and fuller particulars. Under careful supervision, 
exactly such contests might be introduced in some of our. 
own public institutions, and the school of Creedmoor might 
be commenced at an early age. 
—Land and Water gives, through a correspondent, notice 
of the sale of a large consignment of prairie chickens in 
Liverpool on or about March the 27th or 28th. The birds 
sold for 3s. 6d. to 4s. 6d. a brace. About 8,000 birds were 
disposed of, and went off like hot cakes. We beg to re¬ 
mark, though we may not be absolutely certain about it, 
that it looks very much as if these birds were killed in 
the United States during the close season, and we would 
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particularly dit'ect the attention of our New Yo.ik Society 
for the Protection of Game to the fact,, On the 1st of 
March the close season for pinnated grouse commences in 
the United States. Dealers who had these birds in New 
York, finding no sale for them, have very probably ship¬ 
ped the prairie chickens during the first or second week of 
March, and they would arrive in England just about the 
time indicated by the Land and Water correspondent. An 
example or so macle of those game dealers shipping these 
birds, or having them on hand after March 1st (for it seems 
to us highly probable, from the date of their being sold in 
Liverpool, that they must have been, as we said before, 
shipped from the United States some time after March 1st), 
would impart a useful and salutary lesson. Of course our 
English friends can know nothing about our game laws, 
and are not responsible for any infringements of them, but 
we feel sure they will give us their hearty approval for our 
efforts in upholding our own enactments in regard to the 
close seasons. 
—Accidents in the hunting fields do come after all. It 
is strange how, regardless of laws governing the probability 
of chances, misfortunes will occur one after another. One 
steamship belonging to a particular line came to grief, and 
in rapid succession two or three more belonging to the 
same company meet the same fate. In England, last week, 
Lord Rossmore and the uaron de Krause died of injuries 
received in the hunting field. 
he MmneJ . 
Laverack: Setters. —We notice with great satisfaction 
the efforts now being made to import true breeds of dogs 
into the United States. Most especially do we congratu¬ 
late ourselves that the idea of making field trials, as the 
only method by which gentlemen can judge of the excel¬ 
lence of their animals, has taken such fast hold. 
We are importing from Mr. Edward Laverack of Eng¬ 
land, for C. H. Raymond Esq., of Morristown, New Jersey, 
two celebrated dogs, which Mr. Laverack is willing to dis¬ 
pose of. One is a lemon and white bitch, two years old, 
hunted over one season in Scotland. Price £100 sterling, 
the other is a five year old dog, who has been hunted four 
seasons. His price was £30 sterling. The first animal is 
we believe, with one single exception the highest priced 
dog ever imported into the United States. Both of these 
setters are nearly related to all the Laverack field trial and 
prize dogs. 
We have not the least doubt that before very long our 
kennel will be represented by the finest dogs that can be 
had in England, and that in a few years their issue will en¬ 
tirely revolutionize the race of setters and pointers in the 
United States; We have casually mentioned the Lave¬ 
rack dogs, as now having been ordered through our inter¬ 
medium, though we have sent for a great many other 
animals from Mr. Macdonna’s kennel, and frqm other 
leading gentlemen’s establishments in England, in fact we 
think for first class animals our demand is somewhat in 
excess of the supply. 
We would most particularly call the attention of our nu¬ 
merous friends to this fact. We do not sell dogs or guns, 
we simply place our American gentlemen in correspond¬ 
ence with leading breeders of dogs and manufacturers of 
arms in England, and their orders pass through our hands 
free of charge * We believe it would be entirely foreign to 
the province of the paper we have the honor of conduct¬ 
ing, did we manage this particular business in any other 
way. If we desired to dp otherwise, we could easily have 
remunerative business flowing through our hands, which we 
deem, however, not legitimate. We have therefore laid it 
down as an inflexible rule, that no commission either from 
buyer or seller can be received by us. In this way our 
skirts must remain perfectly clean, and we will be enabled 
to better appreciate the rights of all parties concerned. Of 
course our personal attention to these matters, entails no 
small amount of care and trouble. Our reward will be the 
perfect confidence which must be engendered between us 
and our numerous friends. This confidence in its fullest 
sense we are already appreciating. This is the only quid 
pro quo a newspaper should care for. We consider we fulfill 
our mission perfectly by giving our readers through the 
Forest and Stream, the results of our long experience. 
ON KENNELLING AND FEEDING DOGS 
NUMBER TWO. 
T HE former portion of this very interesting letter by a 
sportsman signing himself “Old Calabar” in BelVsLife , 
appeared in our journal last week, the remainder next 
issue: 
‘ ‘If you wish to make a first rate yard it should have iron 
railings, about eight feet high all round, but if you do not 
wish to go to that expense, split fir poles will do, or stout 
galvanised netting, if you have iron rails and set on a wall, 
that wall should hot be more than two feet high, but I pre¬ 
fer having no wall at all to the exercise yard. It is a good 
plan in summer to have a covered bench placed in the mid¬ 
dle or on one side of the exercise yard, so constructed that 
the sun cannot get to the animals. This should be made 
to take to pieces, so that you can remove it in wintertime. I 
forgot to mention that the tray or bench in the sleeping house 
ought to have a flap or bars in front to prevent the dogs 
creeping under, which they will do when tired. Nothing 
can be worse for dogs than lying on cold bricks after a hard 
day’s work—it brings on. rheumatism, paralysis, kennel 
lameness, and a host of other diseases that dog flesh is heir 
to. The feeding and water troughs of iron or ware, the 
latter are the best because they are more easily kept clean. 
