June 85, 1883. 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



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Caspar Voight, of Sandusky, says: "My catch of whitefish 

 in the past two seasons was as follows. IgSS, from 85 pound- 

 nets, Wt tons; 1884, from 85 pound-nets. 45 tons: 



"I have not bhoiight tnuch about the hatching busmesSj but 

 it iriust do Some good; at least there seems to be an increase 

 in whitofish the past two or three years." 



Simon Schact. of Sa.nduskv. says: "My catch lor the past 

 two seasons is as follows: 1888, 4:i pound-nets, 40 tons whitefish; 

 1881, 48 pound-nets, 50 tons whitefish. 



"I believe the planting Of fry to be a good thing, and the 

 only way the fishing can be kept up. I fear, however, that 

 the* way the gill-uetters are catching them, and going On the 

 breeding grounds and disturbing them while spawning-, will 

 do more harm than the hatcheries can do good. The tisher- 

 men down at Erie and Dunkirk receive the most benefit from 

 the planting, as they fish with gill-nets all summer, and are 

 using small-meshed nets every season on purpose to catch the 

 sniali whitefish." „ ,..,_. 



Lay Brothers, of Sandusky, sav: "Our catch of white fish 

 for the past two seasons was as follows : 1888, from 20 pound- 

 nets, 16 tons; 1884, from 30 pound nets, 26 tons. 



"We think it is plain to see that there is a benefit to be de- 

 rived from the hatcheries, and would like to see as many in 

 operation as there are eggs to fill." 



Dewey & Co., of Toledo, say; "Our catch the past season 

 was rather light. We do not attribute this to a scarcity of 

 Whitefish. but to the unfavorable winds that prevailed on our 

 Monroe coast grounds all the fall until a late date ; then just 

 as the fish began to come on, we bad two severe blows from 

 the west, which drove the fish from the shore, and they did 

 not come back, or, if they did, we did not get them, as our 

 twine was out, ' A „ , „. . . 



' We think the business of planting young Hsu an excellent 

 thing: can sec no reason why it should not be, as every fish 

 planted in that Way is a clear gain, We see no reason why 

 planted fish should not stand as good a cuauce to live and be- 

 come grown fish as those that hatch on the reefa." 



Wm, St. John & Co,, also of Toledo, say: "Our receipts of 

 whitefish for the past two seasons are as follows: 1888, from 

 SO pound-nets, 0,000 pounds; 18-J4, from 45 pound-nets. 18,000 

 pounds: 



"We do not see that fish planting has been of much benefit 

 to this end of the lake, but 1 am informed that great benefits 

 have been realised further doWn. ... 



"We would like to see Congress take holi of the matter and 

 enact a law to control and restrict the fishing with gill-nets; 

 also with sUch long strings of twine. Although we ourselves 

 are fishing 20 and 21 pounds in a string, we would like to see 

 them cut "down to six at most ou main shore, and not more 

 than three off the islands, or any place where there is a nai" 

 row channel. Then the whitefish would have a better chance 

 fco get through to the coast and reef spawning grounds at the 

 head of the lake, which they woUkl do if they were not turned 

 back bv the long strings of twine." 



J. C. & J. H. Davis. Of Toledo, says: "Our Catch of white- 

 fish for the past two seasons was as follows: 1838. six tons, 

 and 1884, from the same number of nets, six and onemalf 

 tons. 



"Do not know that planting of young fish has been of much 

 benefit to us at this end of the lake, but can see no reason why 

 it should not benefit somebody. Certainly, every young fish 

 put in makes cne more chance for a whitefish, as the eggs 

 would be lost if not taken." 



E. Alvord & Son, of Sandusky, says: "Our receipts of 

 whitefish for the past two seasons were: 1883, from fifty-two 

 pound-nets twenty-three tons; 1884, from the same number of 

 nets, thirty and one-half tons. 



"Yes. we think that propagation is a good thing and a great 

 help in adding to the supply of fish in the lake. We think the 

 young frv stand just as good a chanceof becoming full-grown 

 fish as those hatched in the lake. 



"But there ought to be a law to stop fishing with gill-nets, 

 for the reason that down below here, in deep water, where 

 they fish through the summer, it is estimated that at least 

 one-third of thos'e caught in hot weather are mi fit for market, 

 and are thrown away, wliich is an outrage. And then in the 

 fall the gill-nets are set on the spawniog reefs, just when and 

 where the fish should be left undisturbed." 



Bear & Ruth, of Sandusky, state that in 1888 their catch of 

 whitefish from 9 pound-nets was 7% tons, and in 1884, from 11 

 pound-nets, 10 tons. 



"The planting of young fish is undoubtedly of great benefit 

 to the fishing interests. Were it not for this the stock in the 

 lake would rapidly decrease." 



A. Bremiller, of Sandusky, gives the following figures: 

 Catch of whitefish in 40 pound-nets in 1883, 60 tons; in 1884, 69 

 tons, 



1 'I think there is positive proof of the benefit of the hatch- 

 eries, from the fact that during late years, say the last two or 

 three, there have been a great many small fish caught— smaller 

 than ever were caught befoi e the planting was commenced in 

 the lake. Another fact to be taken into account is that the 

 facilities for catching are becoming greater every year, and if 

 the supply had not been kept up in some way, the stock must 

 certainly have decreased, which is not now the case." 



A. J. Gustavus, pound-net fisherman, of Huron, puts it hi 

 this light; "For every inilLon fry planted there are a million 

 more chances for whitefish. i think the greatest results are 

 to come, as the business is not yet old enough for us to expect 

 much benefit." 



E. D, Smith, of Marblehead, says: "1 know the fish-hatch- 

 ing to be a grand thing, for the reason that I have caught 

 thousands of whitefish this season not weighing over a pound 

 to a pound and a half each, and formerly I never caught 

 them. I believe these small fish are some of those planted 

 from the hatcheries " 



Fred Mo trie, of Port Clinton, says: "I fished 6 pounds in the 

 fall of 1883, and 5 in the fall of 1884. Have no record of my 

 whitefish catch for either fall, but know I caught more in 

 1884 than in 1883, perhaps 20 per ceut. more. The hatcheries 

 are undoubtedly a good thing and should be kept up. While 

 the eags are in the jars they are out of the way of sturgeon, 

 suckers, and all tish that live mostly by sucking up spawn; 

 and when the young fish are turned loose they will look out 

 for themselves." 



Felix Courchaine, also of Port Clinton, says: "I did very 

 well the past fall, in fact the fishing was the best it has been 

 for years. I caught 6 tons with 26 gill-nets. 1 have every 

 reason to believe that we are getting results from the plant- 

 ings fremthe hatcheries; and why shouldn't we? The fry 

 planted in this way stand an equal chance with those hatched 

 in the lakes, and as for taking care of tnemselves, I think 

 nature will look out for that. 1 should be sorry indeed to see 

 the hatching of whitefish discontinued." 



F. Perry, a practical gill-netter, of Port Clinton, says: "In 

 the fall of 1883 my catch of whitefish from 19 nets wasjl ton, 

 and in the fail of 1884, from 3? nets, 6 tons — six times the catch 

 of the year previous, with double the nets, on the same 

 grounds. 1 think we are getting great results from the plant- 

 ing of young fish, for before it was commenced whitefish were 

 fast playing out. But now they are becoming more plentiful 

 again, and I know of no cause for it except the planting of the 

 young in large numbers from the hatcheries." 



From ah the places named above, as well as other points on 

 the lake, much more evidence of the same kind might be 

 offered ; but it would be merely a repetition of what has 

 already been given. Accurate data showing the total white- 

 fish catch of the lake for a term of years, or even for one 

 season, would be almost impossible to obtain, from the fact 

 that many fishermen classify their entire catch simply as ' "hard 

 fish," "soft fish" etc., whitefish, of course, being included in 

 the former. The statements, however, cover sufficient grounds 

 to form a reliable basis for conclusions. They show that 

 while there was no perceptible increase the past season in 



the whitefish runs at the extreme west end of the lake, there 

 was a decided increase on the coast and island reefs further 

 down; and a very marked increase in numbers still further 

 down, on the feeding grounds, in deeper water, where gill 

 nets are operated. On the whole, sufficient is shown to prove 

 beyond a doubt that the aggregate catch was gre iter than for 

 several vears, that whitefish are decidedly on the increase in 

 Lake Erie, and that the. increase is simply the legitimate 

 result of the work of the hatcheries. The removal from the 

 lake every year of thousands and hundreds of thousands of 

 adult fish. 'whether taken directly (from the breeding grounds 

 or not (the results are the same) must certainly ere this have 

 caused a very material decrease ra the stock but for the 

 compensation of young from the hatcheries. 



NoRTHVILLE, Micfi. 



THAT POTOMAC SALMON. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



The salmon taken in the Potomac near Glymont was a 

 specimen of the Atlantic salmon [SaJmo safer). We have now 

 the specimen in the National Museum for preservation. It 

 probably came from the plants of lmd-locked salmon which 

 have been made at different times since 1870 in many of the 

 tributaries of the Chesapeake Bay. Twelve thousand five hun- 

 dred were planted by the Virginia Commission in the head- 

 waters of the Shenandoah, aud plants of the same species (to 

 what extent .1 do not know) have also been made in the head- 

 waters of the. Potomac by the Maryland Commission. The 

 specimen taken was probably one of these. 



As you know, it is impossible to distinguish between the 

 land-iocked aud the migratory varieties of Salmo salar. The 

 two would be identical in appearance and characters after 

 having gone to salt water. An undoubted specimen, pre- 

 sumably of this same species, has been taken in York River 

 this season. One weighing eleven pounds was taken in the 

 James River last year; and 1 have reports of the capture of 

 fish presumed to be of this species in the Dan River near Dau- 

 ville. All the streams from which we have reports of the 

 capture of salmon have been stocked with the land-locked 

 variety, but no Penobscot salmon have been planted in these 

 streams, with the exceptiou of the Potomac River itself, in 

 which I believe the Maryland Commission has planted the 

 Penobscot, and the Susquehanna, which was stocked some 

 years ago with this species. M. McD. 



tj. S. Fish Commission, Washington, D. C, June 19. 



THE CRUISE OF THE ALBATROSS.— Editor Forest and 

 Stream.' The Fish Commission steamer Albatross has just 

 made a trip to the Gulf Stream off the coast of New Jersey 

 for the purpose of searching for tileflsh. This, it will bo re- 

 membered, is the tish which was first discovered by the Fish 

 Commission in the summer of 1879, and of which there was 

 then no lack of specimens. But in the spring of 1882 there 

 was an enormous fatality of tilefish, such that many thou- 

 sand acres of water were literally covered with the dead 

 bodies. One of the most careful experts of the Fish Commis- 

 sion, Cant. J. W. Collins, estimated that the number of dead 

 fish reached 14 ; 387,200,000 pounds. A careful examination of 

 the Area formerly inhabited by the tilefish was made by the 

 Albatross a year ago, and again in the late cruise. The result 

 was that after a mo?t earnest effort not a single tilefish could 

 be foUnd. It is feared that it has been exterminated. The 

 Fish Commission has published a pamphlet of 56 pages, illus- 

 trated with a line drawing of the tilefish and a map of that 

 part of the. ocean covered by the dead tilefish at the time of 

 the epidemic. Copies of this pamphlet can be obtained from 

 the U. S. Fish Commissioner at Washington. The Albatross 

 is at present on its way to the Grand Banks off Newfound- 

 land, and will return about the middle of July. The object of 

 the cruise is primarily to examine the fishing banks for cod 

 and other species, as well as to examine unfrequented banks 

 for the purpose of ascertaining: what fish can be taken there. 

 This is a part of a general survey of the ocean fisheries, from 

 which such enormous commercial benefits are derived both 

 by the people of the Dominion and of the United States. The 

 project of capturing a mammoth octopus is only incidental, 

 whereas the newspapers have made it appear that this was 

 the chief object of the cruise. The late cruise of the Albatross 

 in the Gulf of Mexico resulted in the discovery of large fishing 

 grounds for the red snapper and other edible varieties, and has 

 furnished us more information of the fisheries of that region 

 than all heretofore possessed put together. A report of these 

 fisheries is in preparation, and will prove of great value to the 

 fishing industry.— C. W. Smiley. 



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FIXTURES. 



BENCH SHOWS. 



Sept. 22, 23, 24 and 25.— Dog Show of the Milwaukee Exposition As- 

 sociation. John D. Olcott, Superintendent. Milwaukee. Wis. 



Oct. 27. 28 and 29.— Twelfth Uog Show of the Western Pennsylvania 

 Poultry Society, Pittsburgh, P,i. C. B. Elben, Secretary. 

 FIELD TRIALS. 



Nov. 16, 1885.— Seventh Annual Field Trials of the Eastern Field 

 Trials Club, High Point. N. 0. Entries for Derby close May 1. W. 

 A. Coster, Secretary, Flatbush. L. I, 



Dec. 7.- Seventh Annual Field Trials of the National Field Trials 

 Club, Grand Junction. Tenn. Entries for Derby close April 1. B. M. 

 Stephenson, La Grange, Tenn., Secretary. 



A. K. R. -SPECIAL NOTICE. 



THE 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 (50 cents) must accompany each entry. No entries 

 inserted unless paid in advance. Yearly subscription $1.50. Address 

 "Ameiiean Kennel Register,"' P. O. Box 2883, New York. Number 

 of entries already printed 2450. 



A DOG PARTY. 



ONE of our city belles has the dog fever badly. She keeps 

 three or four small dogs and thought that she would 

 give a dog party. So she issued cards upon which was 

 written : 



"The Misses Fox-Terrier, Bull-Terrier, Collie and Beagle, 

 would be pleased to see Miss (or Mr.) .Pointer (Setter, etc., as 

 the breed may have been), at No. — street, Saturday after- 

 noon, March -, 1885, from 3 until 6. E. S. V. P." 



Of course the lady owners were invited also, and it is un- 

 necessary to say that they all came. 



Miss Pug wore a velvet blanket trimmed with old gold 

 braid, Miss Fox-Terrier was dressed in nature's garb only and 

 was escorted by Mr. Poodle, whose white hair was brushed 

 and combed in the latest style, while back of the shoulders he 

 was shaved clean, and his stump of a tail was ornamented by 

 a handsome tuft of wool. Miss Bull-Terrier, one of the hos- 

 te3 ses, had been ailing the day before and was not in the best 

 of moods; but her lack of good nature was amply made up by 

 the happy way that the rest of the hostesses had of making it 

 pleasant. All went on as merry as a marriage bell, and the 

 frolics and tumbles indulged in were laughable to behold. 

 The fox-terrier teased the cocker, the pug wagged his 



curl of a tail and winked at the poodle, who, being 

 somewhat of a dude in his get up, was left 

 rather to himself by the more fun-loving canines. The 

 mastiff succeeded hi upsetting a va.se tided with flowers and 

 spilling the water over the rather rlum-looking pointer, who 

 was talking over the field trials and bench show with the set- 

 ter close to the stand upon which the flowers had stood. This 

 rather disconcerted the pointer, who accused the setter of 

 having upset the water so that his well-groomed coat wout, 

 not look so sleek, and it looked a trifle dusky for the tnomenkl 

 but order was restored and the pointer apologized and re- 

 sumed his conversation with the setter. Meanwhile the Clum- 

 ber, who had been half asleep on the sofa, was rather rudely 

 crowded off by a mischievous imp of a three-quarter breed 

 bull-terrier (commonly known as pit stock) but who would 

 rather tease than fight, but would, if crowded too far, make it 

 very lively for any dog in the room. About an hour and a 

 half was spent in dog sports, after which supper was an- 

 nounced. Then the sport began. Each young lady escorted 

 her pet to his dish and then stepped back to see the sight of 

 fifteen or twenty "httle dai lings" in a circle with "bibs" on 

 eating. Everything was lovely until the hostess's bull-terrier, 

 who had swallowed her supper in somewhat of a hurry, con- 

 cluded that the piece of cake on her neighbor's plate was too 

 good to lose, so reached for it, much to the disgust of the pug, to 

 whom it belonged. Thelittlefox-terrierwantedto take the part 

 of the pug, but after looking at the ivories of her royal nibs con 

 eluded to let out the contract, so the hostess rather uncere- 

 moniously cleaned the plates of her guests, until she reached 

 the "pit stock" who quietly eyed the whole proceeding and 

 seemed to smile as much as to say, "Go it, old gal, but you 

 will get left if you fool with my plate." Evidently her nibs 

 had not observed the smile, for presently she sidled up to the 

 "pit stock" and thinking that he was not looking, or perhaps 

 thinking that he woidd not "quarrel with a lady," reached for 

 a chicken bone that seemed to have been left on purpose. A 

 warning growl was not observed until too late, aud in less 

 than a second the ball opened. Her royal nibs and pit stock 

 were having it hot. The quiet setter tried to stop them, when 

 the pointer who in his heart believed the setter to have been 

 guilty of his recent bath reached for him and away they went 

 at it. The pug took refuge under the sofa, accompanied by 

 the poodle and Clumber, while the balance of the company 

 followed the example set them by the terriers and were 

 having a general "Donnybrook Fair" all over the room. 



The way in which the fair proprietors climbed on top of 

 tables, chaii-s, bookcases, and on to anything handy would 

 make "the boys" smile. As the dance was getting rather seri- 

 ous and tiresome for some of the pets, the lady at whose resi- 

 dence the party was taking place, managed to escape by aside 

 door and called in the coachman, who, with the aid of a club, 

 broke up the dance. After which the "little darlings" were 

 taken to their homes, and as they left the house expressions 

 might be heard which sounded very much like "Nasty httle 

 brute, etc. , etc. " Suffice to say there will not be a series of 

 dog sociables this year. Rosecroft. 



ENGLISH KENNEL NOTES. 



XXXI 



FOR my American readers it will even now not be too 

 late to devote a few lines to the charming show of har- 

 riers at Warwick. Doggy sportsmen are indebted to Mr. 

 Harding Cox for this pleasing variety and innovation in show 

 classes. This gentleman, in addition to giving a special prize, 

 also acted as judge, not only, 1 am happy to say, to his own 

 complete satisfaction, but what is too of some consequence, he 

 was fortunate in gratifying the exhibitors, a feat which is 

 not always to be performed by solely doing your duty or the 

 right thing. 



Mr. Cox being himself a master of harriers and taking great 

 pains to induce men to enter resulted in the brilliant and novel 

 sight that presented itself to the jaded view of the dog show 

 frequenter. The presence of several of the huntsmen and 

 whips lent color to the picture. Mr. Vaughan Pryse and his 

 son, as first whip, both in green, were themselves there to 

 look after their beauties Some of the uninitiated visitoi s ap- 

 peared not a little surprised to see a f*>w of the huntsmen in 

 pink, and I overheard one bank-holiday sportsman gravely in- 

 forming old Jackson, quite a character, that "only fox hunters 

 had the right to wear scarlet, and that green was the color to 

 hunt the hare." -'Maybe you're right, sir," politely and in a 

 dissembling tone, replied the ribstone-eomplexioned old 'un, 

 with a weather eye on his instructor's trouser's pocket, "but 

 some on us has the privilege to, because it's an old custom and 

 there are no foxhounds in our countries." "Which are those?" 

 "Um, let me see, there be the Todmorden, th? Holcornbe, the 

 Rossendale, the Pendle Forest and the Pennistone. Those are 

 about the lot, I think." Besides foxhounds the others who 

 sport pink are those who hunt the stag. 



Jackson's pack, the Holcornbe. which are hunted on foot, 

 besides bemg a very smari set, also contain manv points of in- 

 terest to the student of caniology. There are, I believe, still 

 a few, very few, almost pure southern hounds of the old type 

 about the country. Among the plates published by J ennings 

 in 1885, and referred to in my notes No. 29, is an almost per- 

 fect representation of one; the stern is set on too low and car- 

 ried too gaily, the head is also too short and thick, and these 

 Holcornbe harriers look to be lineally descended from them. 

 The best specimens in the pack have Jong supple ears, curled 

 at the ends and set on very low; the narrow bound head, full 

 flews, give them a noble and blue blood appearance. Their 

 master, Mr. Walter Mncklow, has just cause to be proud of 

 such a kennel. 



No pack presented a more workmanlike effect than Mr. 

 John Greenwood's Todmorden harriers. At a glance one sees 

 that these hounds have been intelligently and carefully bred 

 for their special work in then own country. They have plenty 

 of the Holcornbe blood in them, and to the head and bone of 

 the southern hound they unite the go of the foxhound. Their 

 short backs are an important part of their anatomy, as a 

 loosely constructed hound, long in the couplings, could never 

 climb the hills of the Todmorden hunt The most beautiful in 

 this pack, in fact of the show, was the blue mottle Forrester. 

 In symmetry, build and character, he was perfect and his 

 color is glorious. He stands a nice harrier height, twenty-one 

 inches, on legs straight as a plumb-line to the toes, which just 

 turn in as a hound's should. Bedford is another beauty, and 

 has been much admired by that excellent sportsman, Colonel 

 Starkie. The Brookside, to which an equal tirst was awarded, 

 show too much foxhound for harriers; this was also the im- 

 pression I formed of the Biggleswade, which look like dwarf 

 foxhounds and so must be wanting in harrier character. 

 Prizes were awarded to the Biggleswade, Mr. "Vaughn Pryse's, 

 the Brookside and the Holcornbe. The special for the hunts- 

 man who showed his hounds in the best condition, was ob- 

 tained by John Funnel of the Brookside, the silver horn for 

 the best couple in the show went to Biggleswade. 



I hear that the judge. Mr. H. Cox, has given up the Hamble- 

 den harrier and has taken over the "Old Berkeley," aud I have 

 also heard, which I hope is not true, that he intends to discard 

 the old color and to hunt them in pink. This very famous old 

 pack has always been hunted in canary plush, and it seems a 

 pity, in my conservative mind almost a crime, to give up 

 curious ancieut customs, however trying they may be to the 

 complexion. 



Ah that need be further said of the Warwick show is that 

 the committee cemented the good opinion of exhibitors by a 

 prompt settlement of the prize money. 



Mr. Stark's thoughtless little flutter among the bulldog 

 ranks drew two replies the following week, one from Mr. 

 Sprague, another from the Hon. Secretary of the club, Mr. 

 Pybus-Sellon. Both of these exhibitors very properly repri- 

 manded the fiery httle Celt for the strong language he had em- 



