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hackle, black body, ribbed with silt tinsel and with small 
red tail, 1 have fond most excellent, It has proved itself 
ulmost, 1f not quite, equal tothe coachman, I trust ‘‘Cyr- 
tonyx’ will try it and let us know the result. There is no 
doubt that all Colorado trout show, as a rule, a preference 
for a peacock-bodied fly. Though here my experience 
differs a little from *‘Cyrtonyx,” as I never had any success 
with a black hackle with peacock body, or in fact, with any 
black hackle, save the one I hayce described. However, 1 
have known these trout to refuse a brown hackle, with red, 
yellow or other colored bodies, and to immediately afterward 
take the same fly with a peacock body. Right here 1 must 
confess to being a great crank on the subject of trout and 
bass flies, and I think every kind of fly or bug ever made or 
thought of could be found in some of my books, and though 
many of them get very little use, stilll have found them to 
be all important, as I think if any gentle angler would have 
the patience to go through his fly books, he will often find 
the most unlikely looking fiy will strike the festive trout’s 
appetite when the old standbyes will not raise a ripple, at 
Jeast such has been the experience of SPORT, 
Ontcaso, Ml., Jan. 8, 1885. 
SNELL, SNOOD, GIMP. 
HE above caption gives rise 10 a question that exercises 
many of your readers, and when, a few weeks since, 
your corespondent asked for light on this much-vexed sub- 
ject, I hoped for a full answer from Mr, Wells, or some 
other good angler learned and expericnced in the art. 
But, so far, I have not been gratified. I and my companions 
have spent thought and money on the matter, Why are 
straight shanks marked and tapered ones not marked? 
This question is often asked, and I have not yet heard an 
answer. Cements, with alcohol as a solvent, are sure to 
dissolve. Gutta percha is porous, and thus not impervious to 
water. Wax does not long protect the winding thread from 
moisture—the thread, it is said, then contracts, and when it 
dries expands and no longer holds the snellin place. And so 
difficulties 0 on ad infinitum. Shall we orshall wenot ‘‘singe”’ 
the end of the gut snell? How shall we prevent the wire on 
the gimp from slipping its hold? Who will give us a remedy 
for all this sea of troubles? It is not a small matter, The 
point of contact between a round snelland around, smooth, 
tapered shank is small; but when the gamy bass is in ques- 
tion, we want a sure thing. Dealers, anglers, all ask for 
light; who wil! give it? J. W. T. 
THE RED BAND ON RAINBOW TROUT. 
WV UCH is said about the red-banded trout of the mountain 
ly regions of the McCloud River, California, as if they 
Were a distinct variety of trout from the others, and one 
often hears sportsmen inquire whether they cun catch the 
red-handed trout at a specified place, as if they thought that 
the trout with the red band was not only different, but much 
better than the other trout. Thisis a mistnke. The red 
band is not a mark of a better variety, nor, as far as I have 
been able to learn, a sign of anything in particular except 
age, IJtis a badge of maturity, and that is all. 
It is not found on trout less than a year old, but I think I 
am authorized to say that it is constant or nearly so in very 
old trout. At all events, the absence of the band is not 
known to be a sign of anything except youth. Neither does 
the band, nor the absence of the band, appear to be a mark 
of any special season with the fish, for at all seasons of the 
year, summer and winter, in the spawning season and out of 
the spawning season, when prime and not prime, you will 
find trout with the red band and trout without it, side by 
side and looking otherwise just alike, and this is true of all 
ages and of both sexes, except, as just remarked, with trout 
Jess than a year old, which never have the red band, and 
with very old trout, which, I think, always have it. 
Perhaps it is also safe to say that the older the trout the 
more likely it is 10 have the red band, and the move pro- 
nounced it is likely to be. I may add here that very old 
trout have other distinguishing marks. Their heads and 
shoulders are very large, compared to the rest of their bodies. 
Their bodies are not symmetrical, like those of younger fish, 
but seem to taper almost steadily from the shoulder to the 
caudal fin. Their mouths will open much wider than those 
of young trout, and their tails, when stretched, will be less 
forked; indeed, in very old trout they are almost perfectly 
square or straight-edged when stretched, instead of forked, 
as it isin young fish. Oldfish also have, in general, a gaunt. 
ill-fayored look, and their flesh is usually a dusky white. 
LIvINGsron STONE, 
Tue New York Association FOR THE PROTECTION OF 
FisH AND GAMB had its annual meeting last Monday. It was 
voted to accept an offerfrom Middleton & Co. to compro- 
mise a judgment against them for having speckled trout in 
their posession out of season. The judgment was for §2,000. 
The compromise wasfor $500, provided it be paid before 
Monday next. A discussion ensued over a proposition to 
reduce the initiation fee from $50 to $25. Mr. James Meyer 
thought that the club was in excellent condition. The treas- 
urer had reported $9,041.96 in his possession, and that he 
did not think others should be allowed to come in cheaply 
and enjoy the fruit of their past labor. Mr. Corbin said he 
knew of 100 men who would come inif the fee was reduced, 
The proposition to reduce the fee was laid over, and the fol- 
lowing were re-elected officers to serve for the ensuing year: 
Robert B. Roosevelt, President; B. L. Ludington, Vice- 
President; Thomas N. Cuthbert, Secretary and Treasurer; 
Charles E. Whitehead, Counsel; §, A. Main, Alfred Wag- 
staff and Henry N. Munn, Hxecutive Committee. 
_EAGim’s Nest, Stamford, N. Y.—Mr. A. M. Warner, of 
the club, went fishing through the icé for pickerel and had 
fair success last week, But his best lack was cutting out an 
old tip-up that had been set some two weeks before and for- 
gotten. There was six inches of new ice over it, and under 
it, fast to the line, was a very large pickerel. He had been 
hooked through the upper lip and couldn’t tear loose from 
his anchor. Sam Stevens’s two little sons went out on 
- Odell’s Lake, with the thermometer below zero, and caught 
twenty-eight pounds of pickerel the other day.—Nrp Bunt- 
LINE. 
PRANKLIN & Meganric Rawroap.—l see by the Lewis- 
ton (Me.) Journal and also learn from a private source that 
the Franklin & Megantic Railroad is so nearly completed 
that passenger trains are running to Kingfield. his leaves 
but twenty-seven miles by stage or private team to Smith’s 
farmhouse in Eustis.—J. W- ci 
Wantep.—a00 black bass for stocking purposes. Address Russell 
Thayer, Superintendent, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia,—Adv. 
A Monster Sturcron.—According to the Oakland, Cal., 
Tribune, the head of the largest sturgeon ever caught on the 
Pacific coast is on exhibition at the fsh stall of Camillioni & 
Company, in the city market. The fish in its entirety 
weighed 600 pounds, and the head as it lies on the block 
weighs ninety-four pounds, It is a hideous frontpiece, the 
gape of its mouth stretching twenty-four mches from corner 
to corner, and the space across the back of the head being 
twenty-eight inches at its broadest expansion. Were the 
sturgeon so inclined, being alive and in its native element, 
it could easily swallow the head of a man, and, if his 
Shoulders were not too broad, it might possibly stow the 
greater part of him in its hold, as he measured ten fect from 
snout to tail. This sturgeon, which is a genuine Acipenser 
oryrhynchus, ‘wes captured by Italian fishermen at the 
mouth of the Sacramento River in the shoal water, where 
his efforts to escape from the net were hampered by the 
shoal water. As it was, he broke the net as if it had been a 
yee and broke three ribs of the boat with a lash of 
is tail. 
A REMARKABLE Carcu.—H. Jerolaman, the well-known 
strawberry grower of Hilton, Essex county, N. J., went 
fishing on Tuesday of last week, at Lake Hopatcong. Ar- 
riving there about noon, he put in three lines, attached to 
long poles, at a place called Sharp’s Rock. The hooks were 
baited with small liye fish. After watching them until near 
night, and not getting a bite, although the day was cloudy, 
Jerolaman came to the conclusion that he was as apt to be 
struck by lightning as he was to catch a fish. Leaving his 
lines in the water, he went to his boarding house, and was 
out gunning the next day until near night. Then he went 
to see what luck he had fishing. He found a live wild duck 
fast to one line, to the next line he had a muskrat, and to 
the other line a catfish. He was disappointed then, that he 
did not put in more lines, but he defies any one to catch a 
greater variety upon three lines, 
A Marrer or Moonspine.—Fditor Forest and Stream: Tt 
is with pleasure that I Jearn that the Sultan of Turkey has 
conferred the Order of the Crescent on that genial salmon 
angler, Mr, William J. Florence. Whether it was for his 
excellence in salmon angling, his faithful portrayal of the 
“Hon. Bardwell Slote,” or his diplomatic services, I do not 
know, Ocrtain it is that Florence has the decoration, and 
all who have fished with him or have seen him portray the 
incorruptible senator, in the ‘‘Mighty Dollar,” will, like 
myself, rejoice that he has been thus honored, without 
care whether as angler or actor. Some carping critic may 
say that the Order of the Orescent is all moonshine, but 
eyen so it is then a thing of beauty, therefore a joy forever. 
— PoKE-0’-MoonsHiIne. 
Lishculture. 
A PREPARED FISH FOOD, 
A WRITER in The Angler's Note Book and Naturalists 
: Record (London) makes a suggestion that the flesh of 
fish be prepared for keeping and transportation by converting 
it into meal and then into cakes. The fact that in transport- 
ing fresh fish the greater portion is water and offal is dwelt 
upon, and it seems to us that here might be made some 
applications of the investigations of Prof. W. O. Atwater into 
the nutrients contained in the flesh of different fishes, which 
have appeared in these columns. The nearest attempt at this 
suggested mode of preparing fish is the “boneless codfish” put 
up in America, and which being made into small pieces might 
contain the flesh of other fishes. The writer referred to says: 
‘“* ‘Man cannot sensibly diminish the fish in the sea by all his 
efforts to catch them,’” Such, in effect, were Professor 
Huxley’s words at South Kensington last year, and they are 
for the writer, the sole outcome of the Fisheries Exhibition. 
It is enough. With net and hook then we may gather the 
harvest of the sea without fear of diminishing it, but gather 
as fash as we may, we cannot under present conditions, add 
very much to the food supply of the people. The fishing 
grounds are distant. Fresh fish travels badly. It comes 
more than half water and offal. The cooking of it is an art 
beyond the reach of the poor. Plain boiled, eyen work-house 
paupers, by overwhelming vote, reject. Fish can only be 
rendered palatable by cook or condiment. Burgess and Perry 
are as far from the working classes as garwim and alec from 
the modern Tamisius. The fried fish of the shops is held an 
appetizing viand, but as food, is a luxury, an indulgence. 
Fish dried, smoked, salted, tinned, hardly escapes the same 
category. The humble bloater stands alone. It abounds in 
nutriment and makes with bread a palatable and nourishing 
meal. Tinned salmon perhaps stands next. The rest are 
nowhere. Have we exhausted every means of making fish, 
not simply a shoeing-horn of food, but in itself a cheap article 
of ordinary diet? Scarcely, Let the ancients furnish a hint 
as to the modus, An old author tells us that a people of Syria 
dried and ground their fish into meal, made this meal into 
bread, and thereon fed themselves and their cattle. In 
yarious forms the practice has continued to the present. The 
Spaniards and Portuguese use meal made of the conger, 
sometimes in the shape of porridge; sometimes to thicken 
their soups. Cornwall was once the chief source of the supply. 
With our modern appliances something much better might be 
effected, Can we not have a fish cake or bread—prepared 
where our fish are landed from the sea? The flesh of fish, 
cooked, dried, pounded, mixed with a few simple condiments 
and compressed in biscuit form. Such cakes would travel 
cheaply. They could be retailed without waste or trouble. 
With bread they could be eaten at once like cheese by the 
laborer; soaked and softened by bis wife or child. This would 
really be food—with bread a complete diet—wholesome and 
nourishing. The blending of the different kinds of fish, 
tending to increase the digestibility and nutritiveness and 
flavor of the cakes, and the addition, may be, of farinaceous 
substances, are matters to be determined by experiment. 
Mies possessing adequate appliances, will make the experi- 
ment?’ 
EGGS FOR EUCROPE.—On Saturday Jan. 10, the North 
German Lloyd steamer Salier took out 1,000,000 whitefish eggs 
for Herr von Behr, President of the Deutschen Fischerei Verein, 
Berlin. On Wednesday, 14th, the General Transatlantic 
Company’s. steamer Amerigue took half a million whitefish 
eggs to Inspector Coaz, Berne, Switzerland. On the same day 
the Cunard steamer Gallia took thirty thousand lake trout 
eggs, and a quarter of a million whitefish eggs to the National 
Fishculture Association, South Kensington, London. Atl 
these lots were sent by Prof. §. F. Baird, U. 8. Commissioner 
of Fisheries. They came from the station at Northyille, 
Mich., and were repacked at Cold Spring Harbor, Long 
Island, In each case the steamship companies carried the 
eges free of charge. 
_ No Mepica Examination is reqnired to take out an accident policy 
in the Travelers, of Hartford, Conn., guarantecing a sum of money 
weekly while disabled from accidental injury, and principal sum in 
case of death resulting therefrom—aAdu, 
Che ZHennel, 
FIXTURES, 
BENCH SHOWS, 
Jan, 27, 28, 29 and 80.—Annual Bench Show of the New Brunswick 
Poultry and Pet Stock Association. Mr. H, W. Wisson, Secretary, 
St. Johns, N. B. 
_ Feb, 1 to 11, 1885.—New York Fanciers’ Club, Third Annual Exhibi- 
tion of non-sporting dogs, poultry and pigeons at Madison Square 
Garden, Feb. 1to 11, 1888. 
street, 
Feb. 15, 1885.—Worid’s Exposition Bench Show, New Orleans, La. 
Entries close Jan. 31. 
March 18, 19 and 20, 1885.—Second Annual Show of the New Haven 
Kennel Club. 1B. 8. Porter, Secretary, New Hayen, Conn, 
April 7 to 10, 1885.—First Annual Bench Show N, E. Kennel Club, 
Music Hall, Boston. J, A. Nickerson, Secretary. 159A Tremont street, 
May 5, 6.7 and 8, 1885.—Secona Annual! Bench Show of the Cin- 
cinnati Sportsman's Club, Cincinnafa, O. W. A. Coster, Supt. 
May 13, 14 and 15.—Third Annual Dog Show of the Toronto Dog 
Show Association. W. 58. Jackson, Secretary, Toronto, Ont. 
A. K. R.-SPECIAL NOTICE. 
ps AMBRICAN KENNEL REGISTER, for the registration of 
pedigrees, etc, (with prize lists of all shows and trials), is pub- 
lished eyery Month. Entries close on the ist. Should he in early. 
Entry blanks sent on receipt of slamped and addressed envelope. 
Registration fee (50 cents) must accompany each entry. No entries 
inserted ynless paid in adyance, Yearly subscription $1.50, Address 
“American Kennel Register,’ P. O. Box 2832, New York. Number 
of entries already printed 198'7., 
ENGLISH KENNEL NOTES, 
XXI.— (CONCLUDED), 
N -Y readers willremember that I expressed amused surprise 
at the astuteness of a Mr. Nutt, who, after his fox-terrier 
had been claimed for his catalogue price, removed him in the 
evening, paying the pound deposit, and did not return the 
dog next day, by which he lost a sovereign and saved his dog, 
It struck me as very sharp practice—audi alferam partem— 
it appears that Mr. Nutt instructed the secretary of the show 
to enter his dogs for him. By some mistake one of them was 
catalogued in Mr, Nutt’s daughter’s name. As a challenge 
cup was to be given for the best brace in the show belonging 
to one owner, Mr, Nutt pointed out the mistake, as he wished 
this particular dog to compete. One of the members replied, 
“Oh, that’s all right,” upon which this dog, Pulborough Mimbo, 
was led into the ring, and with his kennel mate won the cup. 
An objection was lodged on the grounds that Jumbo was not 
Mr. Nutt’s property, and Mr. Nutt complains that the com- 
mittee tried the case with closed doors and refused to hear 
him, their decision was disqualification, and Mr, Nutt then, to 
“dish them,” remoyed his dog under the circumstances related. 
The weak part in his defense, however, when he brings it 
before the ‘competent tribunal” will be that he has only oral 
evidence to offer. 
I suppose we may consider this the dead reason, but it is 
not so defunct as to justify the puerile discussion our Field 
has opened its columns to, “Can a dog become imbecile?’ It 
is a compliment in a way to the dogs that we should be ask- 
ing if a state of mind is possible to them that we have long 
been acquainted with in their masters. 
The Live Stock Jowrnal, too, in its futile effort to keep pace 
with the times, has unearthed an old subject that was abso- 
lutely settled and decently buried many years ago, “Dogs 
born with short tails.” Such cases are of frequent occurrence 
in breeds that have been docked for generations, such as 
spaniels and fox-terriers. If the sapient director of that 
journal's literary (!) pages bereally anxious to debate a curious 
possibility of nature, let him open his columns to calculations 
haying for their purpose the showing how long it will take to 
reproduce “‘like and like” by breeding trom a dog with a 
wooden leg. 
No introduction is necessary for a quotation from an 
authority like the British Medical Journal on such an awfully 
interesting subject as hydrophobia; ‘‘Something should be 
done to disabuse the public mind of a groundless, or greatly 
exaggerated terror. It would be amusing if it were not 
grimly sad, to observe, not unfrequently, the insane evidence 
of a purely mimetic morbid state set up by the misery and 
apprehension caused by the consciousness of having been 
bitten by a mad dog. As a matter of sober medical fact, it is 
by no means necessary or inevitable that the bite of a dog 
with rabies should give a man or woman hydrophobia; and if 
the element of fear could be eliminated, it is highly probable 
that the proportion of instances in which the dreaded disease 
supervened from a bite would be greatly reduced.” Cut that 
out my readers and paste it in your scrapbook, you don’t 
know when it may bein your power to comfort, with these 
soothing sentences, a harrassed mind well nigh distranght 
with fear. 
ib appears that the question of champion classes and the 
title of champion has for some time engaged the attention of 
the Kennel Club. A sub-committee was appointed to give the 
subject concentrated attention, and they have issued the fol- 
lowing cireular. It will be obseryed that the Kennel Club 
have acted with usual absence of tact in selecting for their 
mouthpiece a man whose name will for a long time conjure 
up feelings of indignation in the minds of all fair-play loving 
Englishmen. Mr. Percy Heid is the aggressive person who 
took such an unworthy part in the Lochinyar business. It 
was he who, though a member of the Hertford committee, 
exercised his right as a K. C. committeeman to sit in judg- 
ment on the case in which he was one of the defendants. He 
further acquired puke contempt from his bullying and in- 
sulting manner to Mr. Joachirn, whom he endeavored to throw 
out of his line of argument by taunting sneers at his foreign 
nationality. He possibly hopes, with the aid of this circular, 
to earn a little cheap and nasty notoriety. 
[coPy.] 
FErErRInG Bury, Kebredon. 
Sir—The committee of the Kenuel Club having for some 
time had under their considerations the madequacy of the 
present rules qualifying dogs for competition in champion 
classes, and entitling them to be called champions (Rules 15 
and 16, K. C. Code, 1884), have appointed a sub-committee 
to consider the question, with an instruction to obtain thereon 
the opinion of exhibitors generally. The points in which the 
present rules are felt to fail are: J 
Firstly—That owing to so many shows being now held under 
K. G. rules, exhibitors who own dogs good enough to win at 
local shows, but not of the very highest quality, are often de- 
terred from competing, lesb, by winning three first prizes at 
the smaller shows, these should become qualified for compe- 
tition in a champion class in which they have only @ slight 
chance of success; and, rer , 
Secondly—In making the qualification necessary to obtain 
the title of champion too easy, so that dogs of mferior merit 
obtain it. This point is especially noticeable now that so many 
shows provide champion classes on the sweepstake principle, 
in which there is generally little or no competition. The al- 
terations which have been suggested are of two kinds: 
(1} Those which propose that a greater number of prizes 
should be won (e, g., six) before a dog shall be qualified to 
compete in a champion class; and, < 
(2) Those which would distinguish between the larger and 
smaller shows, either (a) by the amount of prize money, (6) 
by the number of classes in the schedule, or (c) by the total 
number of entries ai the show. 
In these cases, of course, only prizes wou at the larger shows — 
ss 
Chas, Harker, Secretary, 62 Cortlandt 
