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FOREST AND STREAM. 



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mediately and energetically taken up by the State's repre- 

 sentatives in Congress, and Senator Sewell has been untiring 

 in his endeavors to have this alarming evil corrected, and with 

 everv reasonable prospect of success. The hands of these ad- 

 vocates Of fish protection should be held up and strengthened 

 by whatever influence the Anglers' Association of Eastern 

 Pennsylvania can bring- to bear upon the subject. 



It is not necessary to recite the reasons tnat should prompt 

 to such action. They are patent to all who have given the 

 subject even casual consideration. To permit the further 

 wholesale destruction of the menhaden fish on the coast, is 

 simply an invitation to those engaged in such wrong to com- 

 pletely destroy the supply of salt water food fishes which has 

 hitherto found its way to our markets. How seriously that 

 supply has been diminished since menhaden fishing- lias been 



strongly impress this matter upon the attention of the. 

 Association. Action should be prompt, enegetic and decisive 

 Our protest should be made now, and in language that will 

 admit of no misconstruction. 



If it be urged tjh&t we are transcending our sphere of ditty, 

 the answer is that the wrong is not limited by State law or 

 State boundaries. It is national in character,, and hence pro- 

 tests by this Association are not only admissible but should 

 be made by citizens of every State. 



Having thus, in a desultory way, complied with the request 

 of the Association, allow me in my conclusion to tender my 

 congratulations to the members for the encouragement they 

 have thus far received. That the most sanguine anticipations 

 of the founders of the Association have been more than 

 realized, need not be said. The future holds out still stronger 

 inducements than the past, I or the reason that we are gradually 

 becoming more familiar with .the proper methods of dealing 

 with those, who have hitherto displayed such total want of 

 respect for statute law. Perseverance works wonders, and if 

 the energy and determination thathavethus far characterized 

 the proceedings of the. Association are maintained, there are 

 some of us atleast, who' may live to see the day when the 

 streams, not only of our State, but of the whole country, will 

 yield their harvests of food fishes as abundantly as they did 

 years ago, before the spirit of extennination, now so rife, had 

 attained formidable proportions. This hope is strengthened, 

 as far as Pennsylvania is concerned, by the fact that we ate 

 assured that in the future, as in the past, we shall have the 

 hearty co-operation of our own Fish Commissioners, to whom 

 we have been indebted for many courtesies and whose labors 

 in behalf of fishculture and protection have been so damag- 

 ingly interfered with by the parties to whom frequent and 

 special allusion has been made in these pages. A communica- 

 tion from their Secretary, Mr. McCuUough, informs me that 

 they are constantly in receipt of encouraging communications 

 from every part of the State, and that notwithstanding the 

 marked disregard of the fishing laws there is a steady and 

 sure increase. 



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PROPOSED ADIRONDACK HATCHERY. 



THE following bill has been drafted, and will soon be intro- 

 duced into the Legislature of New York, by Mi-. O'Neil, 

 of Franklin Co. There are many good sites for a hatchery in 

 the Adirondacks, and the eggs of native fishes could there be 

 hatched and distributed without much trouble or expense. 

 The following is the proposed bill: 

 An Act to establish a fish hatchery in the Adirondack forest: 



Section 1 The' Treasurer shall pay upon the warrant of the 

 Comptroller to the Commissioners "of Fisheries out of any 

 money not otherwise appropriated, the sum of live thousand 

 dollars for the purpose of establishing a fish hatchery at some 

 convenient point in the Adirondack forest, for the purpose of 

 restocking the lakes and streams of said forest with trout 

 and other fish natural to that locality. 



Sec. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. 



dent, William Parry, Parry P. O., Burlington, N. J.; Vice- 

 President, Henry P. DeGraa-f, Bowery National Bank. New 

 York city; Treasurer, Samuel Wilkins, Sj29 Market street, 

 Philadelphia, Pa.; Secretary, Milton P. kerne, :-W3 Walnut 

 street, Philadelphia, Pa. Directors— Dr. S. T. Davis, Lancas- 

 ter county, Pa. ; Joseph Pyle. West Grove, Chester county, 

 Pa.; George Hamel, Sr., Weldon, Montgomery county, Pa. ; 

 Jeremiah Comfort. Win! Penn, Montgomery county, Pa.; 

 Edwin Tomlinson, Byberrv, Philadelphia, Pa.; William A. 

 "Wood, Pittsgrove, Salem county, N. J.; Amos Ebert, Kirk- 

 wood, Camden county, N. J. : R'ev. J. H. Brakeley, Borden- 

 town, Burlington county, N. J.;E. G. Shortlidge. M. D., Wil- 

 mington, Del. ; George W . Hill, Clayton, Del. The office of the 

 Association is ?>:i:\ Walnut street. It aims to embrace directly 

 and indirectly within its organization every carpculturist in 

 the country/and desires States and local branches organized 

 throughout the country. Its principal object is the dissemin- 

 ation of useful aud reliable information among its members. 

 It will cheerfully co-operate with fish commissions, boards 

 of agriculture, agricultural societies, granges, etc. Wishing 

 to respond, as far as is practicable, to the wants or desires of 

 all engaging in carpculture, it invites all interested to corre- 

 spond freely. 



TIME OF HATCHING CARP EGGS.— In the Bulletin of the 

 United States Fish Commission the following extract from a 

 letter written by Dr. H. H. Gary, Superintendent of Fisheries 

 of Georgia, to Professor Band, appears: "I have, been taking 

 some pains for the past two years to ascertain the period of 

 incubation of the eggs of German carp. A statement in your 

 report for is75-'i'ii that they hatched in from twelve to sixteen 

 days was doubtless based on a lower temperature of water 

 than prevails in this latitude during the hatching season. Last 

 year, with the temperature of the water at about (19 dog., the 

 eggs hatched in abotit five to six days. The present year, with 

 a higher temperature of water, a more carefully conducted 

 experiment has demonstrated that the eggs will hatch in from 

 forty-eight to seventy-two horns. The eggs hatch finely in 

 water at a temperature of 90 deg." 



THE EDIBLE QUALITIES OF CARP. 



IN his forthcoming book entitled "Carp in American Waters" 

 the treatment of the above mooted question is probably 

 foreshadowed by Capt. Peirce, iu the following communication 

 to this paper: 



The. question is indeed a much mooted one. I have given 

 it all practicable investigation. However divergent the views 

 of tishculturists upon other points, all agree to the unequalled 

 edible qualities of the brook trout when taken from its native 

 habitat. Most fishculturists now also agree to its marked 

 deterioration in flavor when artificially cultivated and fed (as 

 is practically compulsory) on slaughter house refuse. 



I was in Boston a few days before last Thanksgiving, which 

 is the "national New England holiday," and was noticing the 

 accumulations of poultry. Of course, the national bird of 

 New- England is the turkey, and, it will be remembered by 

 the. way, that Franklin maintained it should have been the 

 national bird of the country; however, a more gamy one was 

 selected. Well, as I said, I was noticing the poultry. The 

 turkey had all the "posts" of honor, though a large number 

 "wore put to the rack. ' but the Jersey chicken was next. 1 

 was repeatedly inf onned that New Jersey poultry commanded 

 from three to five cents per pound more than any other in 

 Boston markets. Now, Mr. Editor, I have been spending a large 

 portion of the time since the war, in the leading poultry-raising 

 section of New Jersey. Although the matchless climate of 

 that region may have some effect upon the poultry, its chief 

 superiority is attained by the intelligent culture which obtams 

 there (I do not refer to "culchah" but to the treatment of 

 poultry). The Jersey women have entire charge of the 

 poultry, aud "what they don't know about the business, is not 

 worth knowing." The secret of the superior flavor is no 

 secret there. It simply consists in confining the poultry in 

 coops, with slatted floors, raised a foot or two above the 

 earth so that no filth can accumulate. This is done two or 

 three weeks before marketing, and in the meantime they are 

 given only pure, clean food and drink. This changes the 

 entire flavor of the fowl. Of course the dressing of the fowl 

 has also some effect upon the flavor, but the principal factor 

 is its treatment a few weeks previous to marketing. 



Now as to carp. Some of my editorial Mends seem to think 

 me an enthusiastic old crank, because I maintain that good, 

 edible fish can be raised in warm and even filthy waters. I 

 have told you how poultry, raised even in the filthiest barn 



Sards, is, in a comparatively short time, transformed into 

 ealthy and exquisitly flavored food. The same poultry 

 fattened in barn yards and at once killed is not only ill- 

 flavored but positively unhealthy, sometimes fatally so, the 

 same as the rutted grouse is known to be when it has been 

 feeding upon poisonous birds or berries in winter. Now I pro- 

 pose to apply the same system to carp that the Jersey women 

 do to poultry, even to their slaughter. The Jersey women 

 would not have th^ir poultry slaughtered by drowning or 

 otherwise smothering them, nor would I take fish from the 

 water and allow them to smother and die as is generally done 

 with the fish we eat in this country. But, for obvious reasons 

 I must tell part of the story in my' forthcoming book. 



Milton P. P-eiboe, 



PPILADELPHI^ Pa 



THE AMERICAN CARPCULTURAL ASSOCIATION. - 

 An organization with the above title was formed in Philadel- 

 phia, on Feb. 8. The. following officers were elected: Presi- 



IN THE ADIRONDACKS.— The hatchery of the Bisby Club 

 is in complete running order. It has troughs for land-locked 

 salmon, lake trout and brook trout, and has the McDonald 

 jars for the frostfish. The eggs have done remarkably well 

 so far, and notwithstanding the severe cold in that region 

 the spring water has not frozen up, although the air has been 

 80 deg. below zero on two or more occasions, aud the water 

 in the troughs has been steadily at 38 deg. above. The 

 hatching has progressed slowly, with little or no loss after the 

 early pickings, and the fry are expected to be unusually 

 healthy and vigorous. 



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FIXTURES. 



BENCH SHOWS. 



March 4, 5, 6 and 7.— Cincinnati Bench Show, Melodian Hall. En- 

 tries close Feb. 35. Charles Lincoln, Superintendent, care of B. Kit- 

 tredge & Co.. Cincinnati, Ohio. 



March 12, 13 and 14.— New Haven Kennel Club's First Annual Bench 

 Show, Second Regiment Armory. Edward S. Porter. Secretary. Box 

 (i.ii' New Haven, Conn. Entries close March 1. 



March 26, 97 ana 28.— The Dominion Kennel Club's Second Annual 

 Bench Show. Horticultural Gardens. Charles Lincoln, Superinten- 

 dent. C. Greville Harston, Secretary. Toronto. Canada. 



April ;-), 4 aud 5.— The Cleveland Bench Show Association's Second 

 Bench Show. Charles Lincoln, Superintendent. C. M. Munhall, Sec- 

 retarr. Cleveland. Ohio. 



May 6, 7, 8 and 9.— The Westminster Kennel Club's Eighth Annual 

 Bench Show, Madison Square Garden. Entries close April 31. Okas. 

 Lincoln, Superintendent. R. C. Cornell, Secretary, 54 William street, 

 New York. 



A. K. R. 



nnHE AMERICAN KENNEL REGISTER, for the registration of 

 -*- pedigrees, etc. (with prize lists of all shows and trials), is pub 

 lished every month. Entries close on the 1st. Should be in early. 

 Entry blanks sent on receipt of stamped and addressed envelope. 

 Registration fee (25 cents) must accompany each entry. No entries 

 inserted unless paid in advance. Yearly subscription $1. Address 

 "American Kennel Register," P. 0. Box 3838, New York. Number 

 of entries already printed 869. Volume I., bound in cloth, sent 

 postpaid, $1.50. 



EXPERIENCE WITH DOGS. 



THE intelligence of a dog is identical in quality with that of 

 a human being. Were the quantity of intelligence present 

 in the heads of our canine friends, and vocal organs supplied 

 to assist intelligence, we could take our pets into the field and 

 discuss the events of the chase with the same satisfaction we 

 can now with our human brother. 



I have made a companion of a dog for the past twelve years, 

 and my experience teaches me that the same influences which 

 make a child good or bad, dull or bright, also control a dog. 

 My first dog was an English setter, the scrub of a fitter, and 

 he" turned out to be the handsomest and most intelligent of 

 the lot. My next was a pointer, selected for his color from a 

 litter of twelve, and he proved to be the prize dog of the 

 family. My next friend was an Irish setter, Gyp, the last 

 choice of a litter of eight, and she grew up the brightest of the 

 octet. My next was a spaniel of uncertain parentage, selected 

 from a litter because he had a distinguishing mark which 

 would plainly describe him in ease he strayed away, and he 

 took advantage of his bringing up and grew to be a beauty 

 and the envy of my fellow-sportsmen. My next is my present 

 companion, a cross between a spaniel from Burgess's stock 

 and a half-bred Irish setter bitch^ and he, now two years old, 

 surpasses all of his brothers and sisters in beauty and coin- 

 age. Such a uniform experience compels me to conclude that 

 my dogs have been developed, and that my experience will 

 be the experience of others, using the same or similar methods 

 in raising and educating them. 



All the dogs 1 have owned I secured when they were very 

 young. While they were growing I gave them all they could 

 eat, offering them food several times a day. Milk, vegetables, 

 meat, bread, oat and corn bread, and porridge, I never kept 

 them on the chain, but let them romp to their hearts' content. 

 Plenty of food and plenty of exercise gave them form and 

 strength, good constitutions and brave hearts. Then educa- 

 tion commenced when they were two or three months old and 

 continued until they came to dog's estate. First they were 

 taught to charge. Next to retrieve (under the whip), then to 

 find. Next to toho, etc. 



The great avenue to success in teaching a dog well, is to 

 teach one thing at a time. And as soon as the dog is known 

 to understand an order, to always insist upon obedience at 

 whatever cost of time and patience to the teacher, When 

 my dogs have comprehended the idea I have intended to con- 

 vey to them, I have accustomed them to listen for my com- 

 mands by giving them in an ordinary tone of voice, until at 

 length I could carry on quite an extended conversation with 

 thein, I giviug the signs, vocal or otherwise, and they inter- 

 preting by obeying me. 'Constant intercourse of this nature 

 with one who 'is kind to his pupil, who encourages prompt 

 obedience and chides delay or carelessness, will change a cur 

 to a humanized companion, a dolt to a being of intelligence. 



To raise a tine dog, then— feed him often and* abundantly, 



Never put him on the chain, but allow him to romp at will, 

 Teach him early and often, and make a Jesuit of him to the 

 extent that he' may know that his first duty under all cir- 

 cumstances is obedience. The result will be beauty, coura ge, 

 intelligence, affection and a perfect dog. 



I am aware that very few have the time or inclination to 

 raise their dog& in this way, and the result is long pedigrees, 

 and a disappointment for every degree, the dog has departed 

 from the routine I have described. 



Three years ago I took a mangy looking pup— a blue-blooded 

 but insignificant looking scion or Bolus's Bolton— with me into 

 the country to traiD for a friend. He had been reared on a 

 chain and fed by servants, until he was a coward in spirit and 

 appearance. I kept him with me for two months, permitting 

 him to run wild until he had acquired some courage, and then 

 commenced his education. When he was ten months old his 

 master hunted over him and pronounced him a wonder ; and he 

 was. He outran tour old dogs, and the third day out was the 

 only dog out of the six we had on the first day that, would 

 hunt at all. He worked like a major but was slow, because 

 foot-sore. The year following he was as worthless a dog as 

 ever hustled about among a covey of birds, and on several 

 occasions his outraged owner was tempted to bestow upon 

 him the epitaph, "No earthly good." He had hung Upon a 

 chain since Mb experience of the year before. He had for 

 gotten the lesson of all good dogs, 'obedience, and he was out 

 for a frolic. 



Last fall I again took him into the country as an experi- 

 ment. I wanted to explode the idea, if I could, that a dog 

 once spoiled was afterward forever worthless. I knew I had 

 good material to work on. I took my pupil back to first prin- 

 ciples, and taught him to charge when I gave the word under 

 any aud all cii cumstances. I then took him into the field and 

 made him drop when any bird rose so near that I judged he 

 saw it rise. When he dropped to wing nicely I started him in 

 on birds, keeping him close. When he showed he had the 

 faintest trace of birds I made him stop, and held him there for 

 a few minutes to impress upon him that he was hunting for 

 me, and then I would walk up with him until the birds were 

 flushed, dropping him invariably to wing. Two weeks of this 

 work without the gnu and he was as steady as a clock. 

 When I turned him over to his owner he was as hard as a 

 nut and as staunch as an oak. He would instantly turn to 

 the whistle an eighth of a mile away; in fact, he was a good 

 dog again, and like good Indians,' good dogs are very infre- 

 quent. 



To the sportsman who loves a good dog but only has the 

 time to use one a few days in the year, I say secure a pointer; 

 they are slower and steadier than setters and will stand the 

 chain, and'yet do fab" limiting. To such a man setters are of 

 no earthly account. They may be perfect when purchased, 

 but one year upon the chain will ruin them. When taken 

 into the 'field for the first few hours they will chase the wiod 

 and such birds as they may flush in their mad race and then 

 become exhausted, and their hunting fever gone. A setter 

 needs lots of work and constant experience in the field to keep 

 them steady. When hard worked and handled by an experi- 

 enced sportsman, they are far superior to pointers in endur- 

 ance, style, and speed, and it is the very qualities which 

 makes them so valuable when properly handled that makes 

 them worthless when out of form. Hunt 



St. Paul, Minn. 



["Experience with dogs" is just what we want to hear about, 

 and we hope that those who have read "Hunt's" instructive 

 communication, and have anything of their own to offer on 

 this topic will favor us with it. Experience need not have 

 been successful to make its relation useful. The mistakes 

 made in dog training may be quite as instructive as the more 

 successful efforts. Whoever has had an experience with dogs, 

 which may be of service as a guide or warning to other ama- 

 teur trainers, may benefit his fellow men by relating it.] 



THE ROYAL SPORT OF COURSING. 



A GREYHOUND, as he appears in the crowded streets of a 

 city, is by no means, to the average observer, a thing of 

 beauty or grace. There is a lack of animation in his eyes ; his 

 drooping ears impart to his long, slender head an inane ex- 

 pression ; while his canter, or lope, conveys to one who has 

 never seen kim in the field the idea that his speed is legendary 

 or mythical. In fact, his whole make up and appearance, a,s 

 he perhaps quietly trots along the paved street, with head on 

 a line with his body and ears folded close, is extremely disap- 

 pointing to one who has heard of. but never has seen, his 

 animated appearance when in quest of "puss." Come with 

 me, my disgusted friend ; let us see this stupid creature in an- 

 other light. 



Picture, if possible, that same slender greyhound, with head 

 tossed high, delicate ears erected, muscles and cords dis- 

 tended, eyes flashing fire, and you will theu appreciate the 

 wonderful beauty, grace and strength of the greyhound in the 

 field. When I first saw the sight, I at once likened his ex- 

 pression to that of a noble eagle or hawk on the lookout for 

 prey. 



If the reader be a sportsman, a single day with greyhounds, 

 in a country where large California hare are to be found, will 

 fill him with enthusiasm and love for the beautiful, remorse- 

 less flyers. 



I hardly kuow a sport that so quickly entrances a suscepti- 

 ble person as does the exciting sport of coursing. No wonder 

 that in ages past it was, with falconry, the chosen sport of 

 kings and princes and ladies of high degree. 



Suppose we follow an old custom of mine years agone in 

 California, and two or three of us spend a few hours upon the 

 plains with our six or seven dogs. By the way, let me state 

 that the California hare differs from the jack rabbits of Texas 

 and countries east of the Sierra Nevada.s, the California hare 

 being both larger and faster. 



Well, we make our arrangements for to-morrow's "battle 

 royal," and, having fed our hounds, turn in early to bed> 

 for legs will be weary indeed ere this time twenty-four hours. 

 In the morning you can do as you prefer, eat a hearty 

 breakfast or not; as for myself, a cracker or two is enough, 

 for I found by experience some time since that I cotdd walk- 

 further and better and with less fatigue by not overloading 

 beforehand. At length we are off, with the greyhounds running 

 around us. A brisk walk of a mile or two along the level 

 California roads brings us to some fields or countiy where 

 puss is to be found, so we separate some fifty paces apart, and 

 walk ahead, with eyes on the lookout for the first start. Our 

 dogs are all fine fellows— woil experienced; see them as they, 

 with eager, cruel eyes, impatiently await the sight of their 

 devoted prey. We have taken but a few steps when we 

 simultaneously whoop with excitement, for up jumps a brown, 

 long-eared creature that leaps away with bewildering speed. 

 Look ! the black and the blue dogs have seen it ; the others, 

 jumpiug at our cries, also catch the sight and away they go — 

 the hare with a start of full one hundred and fifty yards. Ah, 

 that's the sight you never had before! Look "at the race 

 between the black and the blue. How they pound the earth 

 with their flying feet! Ha! ha! see the briudle come up with 

 the leaders; and the others arc also putting in some fast work. 

 The chase is now a mile away, perhaps further, when we 

 shout with glee as we see the black dog crowding puss so hard 

 that she suddenly darts off at a right angle to her previous 

 course, and we give th-i credit for the first "turn" to the noble 

 black, whose momentum carries him fifty feet beyond the 

 sharp corner made by puss. Now the blue takes up the work. 

 Another ton, and the briudle does his share; and whoop! old 

 black again is leading. Poor puss, your time is short; those 

 cruel hounds keep coming, coining," coming: you turn and 

 turn again, and now, perhaps, have doubled back, and are 

 not forty rods from us. The eager hounds are crowding the 

 quarry hard; the turns are quicker and quicker, one .after an- 



