Oct. 29. 1888 ] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



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Sebaoo Landlocked Sai.mon.— Salmon are just begin- 

 ning to run up tlie brooks in tlie waters of Sebaoo Lake. I 

 saw three handsome fellows on the 19th inst. in a weir in 

 Rogers Brook, North JBridgton, Me. They are being 

 secured to procure their eggs for artificial propagation under 

 the auspices of our B^'ish Commissioners, This is a new en- 

 terprise. The Fish Club of Bridgton Center are building a 

 hatching house, and Mr. John Mead, the fish painter, and 

 Mr. Frank G-ibbs, of Bridgton, are securing the salmon at 

 Rogers and Bear brooks. Last year the salmon began to run 

 up those brooks on Oct 35, this year they seem to start 

 earlier. Our Commissioners think by hatching fifty or one 

 hundred thousand every year they can very much Increase 

 the supply of these beautiful fish in these waters. In Crooked 

 River, which runs into Sebago Lake, there are now running 

 up a large school of landlocked salmon. By protecting these 

 fish in then- spawning season and turning in yearly a largo 

 amount of fry, there is no doubt that they will increase con- 

 tinually and give fine sport to anglers who may visit the.se 

 beautiful waters.— I. G. R. (Bethel, Me.). 



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 ing Co. 



SEBAGO SALMON PLANTING. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



The following special was published in the Boston Herald of 

 Saturday evening, and I have added some facts to it which 1 

 trust will be of intei-esfc. The people of Maine are slowly wak- 

 ing up to the value of fish propagation. But still much has to 

 be done bv private enterprise, as in the case below. The State 

 allows only about .$7,01)0, I believe, for the entire work of the 

 fish and game ooumiission, 



BliiD&tPN, Me.; Oct. 24, 15!85.— Thefo isa liv&ilipvfimbiifc iHtiie dil-'ec- 

 fcibn df flsliciiltufe bn f^ome of the trjbutai-ies of Loli< Lyke, olle df 

 the Sebago chaiil. For somi? time tbis mdtte^r has been of iutprest to 

 Mshet-mell in tbbse parts; and lately Mr; PVank Gibbs, of BridKtoH. has 

 begun the worlt in earnest. His first mote was to t;i't a permit from 

 Ibe Maine Fisli Coni mission to take Falmou for breeiiing purposes. 

 Having obtained thiB he ijext puf iii weii's in Rodf^er's Broolf, the 

 airfield Vvhery tbo niohstcr laikUlocitfld 8aim"?n w^i'e found; of which 

 Ihfe Ha-(ild ha,' !iad previous aceoaut. I5y these weirs fbti .salaion; as 

 theV pass up the streant to brfeed, woiiid be detained.; bi.i,t still.allqwed 



tileiaty of room and svater. The same is to be done in Bear Broolri at 

 be head of the lake; In Harrison. The weirs were put into Rodger's 

 Brook aoout a week ago, but although there were an abundance of 

 large flsb lying on the sandbar just off the mouth of the river, still 

 the weir was empty for several days. "Within the la.st four days the 

 flSh have begnn to come up the stream, and to day there are at least 

 a. doften in the weir. Tbese are all Kish of a pood size, and one of them 

 ^HkIiS at ledst i2 tidundS;, it is 2!H i»che.« in lenKth. As it is quite 

 gaflyfor salmotl to enter these streanis, tho.^ie. nldst Ibterested are 

 gailRuihe of the fi<h thet call foi- before the: rdn is dyer. Tbe 

 ijoaching and wholesale, slaughter of these fish inspawnirig time; that 

 has been Carried oh in fdrmer j-ears. is elf eci daily squelched, .jnst 

 tjft the batik of the streaM oppo-iie tht weir is a wnite tent, and a 

 hlore substantial building is going up near it. The principal occu 

 ijant of this establishment is M"-. Kich, a son o'' J. Gj Rich, the veteran 

 trapper and guide of the Rangeley l egion xi\ years gone by. Mr. R. 

 say8,he has -tfome ttlei-e td t-tay-,^' and that (here "will be ho flsb for 

 i[idachei-s dn that stt-eam this seasdn at least: ' ' 



IE the ab8ve mentibned Ifcreams niay s^eii eveiT?: fafi oiie 

 bjE the. peculiar features df tlie breeding Of , salmon. . Rtidger's 

 Bj-ook is a little stream carrying; only a few inches in depth of 

 water and so small that a man can jump across it at almdst 

 atiy point. And yet at the breeding season the monster sal- 

 illbn wtirk their way upi this, little stream, often with badk fin 

 slnd catidal out of water and belly dragging upon t^e pebbly 

 bbttdm. The Writer saw one of these in November, 1S8S, 

 which was twenty -four inches long and must have weighed 

 eight pounds. A few days after a monster salmon was found 

 near ibe waters of the same brook stranded a,nd dead. It 

 measured SSio. in length, 9in. hi depth, and weighed 251bs. 

 It was a male fish and the booked under jaw was so prom- 

 inent that it was hung over a stick by that means and brought 

 to the village. It is an established fact that the salmon accept 

 of this bttle stream tor a breeding-place in lieu of a larger one, 

 running up into it, as the season comes on, the same as the 

 sea salmon accept of the large rivers. 



In these brooks the salmon have for yeai-s beetl the prey of 

 the most detegtable poachiugj until this Was broken up by the 

 elJortsofthe Maine Fish Colnmiasioners. The salmon bave 

 been Watched and even thrown out of the brooks with picch- 

 forks and left to I'ot or ca.rted olf and salted down. In such 

 streams so large fish are utterly powerless and suffer severely 

 from minks and owls, as well as poachers. The fish seen by 

 the writer in l88o had the back fin stripped, evidently by 

 teeth dr claws, and the Upper half of the caudal fin was gone, 

 -doubtless bitten off. Yet this fish, a female, was alive; had 

 evidently spavyned, dnd Was on her way back to the lake be- 

 low. A few days previous, a bird dog, in quest of partridges, 

 killed a large salmon in the same brook. 



Last year some pubfic^spiritcd gentleman, one of them the 

 eorrespondent who wrote the above for the Herald, took some 

 latgfe salmon, which had evidently bi-ed, placed them in atank 

 of Wat er and carried them back to the lake. They obtained 

 pef mission Of Fish, and Game Wai-flen Mead, of Bridgton, to do 

 this, being fully convinced that the fish would never get back 

 alive, running the gauntlet of so many dangers. It is gratify- 

 ing to learn that so good a movement is on foot for the preser- 

 vation and breeding of these noble fish. It will be remembered 

 chat the Sebago waters have contained landlocked salmon for 

 time immemon".al, and that these there reach a size almost 

 equal to the true Salmo salar. Indeed it has been sugs:ested 

 that the Sebago Lake was once an arm of the sea. As it is to- 

 day, it is a small lake, within easy distance by rail from Port- 

 land, and the home of the most noble landlocked salmon in the 

 world. Its shores are chiefly wooded aud designed some day 

 to be dotted with summer cottages. 



A hatching house is ta progress of completion in tiie base- 

 ment of Che Littlefield mill at Bridgton Center. As soon as a 

 sufficient number of ripe fish are on hand. Commissioner Stan- 

 ley is to be here to assist in the taking of the eggs. The fish, 

 after the eggs are taken, wiU be returned to the lake, and the 

 eggs will be taken to the hatching house. The commissioners 

 wul also furnish 80,000 eggs of sea salmon to this hatctiery to 

 be cared for at the expense of the cominission. After the 

 young fish are through with the hatching process and able to 

 take care of tnemselves, they are nearly all to be retwned to 

 these waters. It is confidently expected that this movement 

 wdll work a great change for the better, as far as the salmon 

 fishing in these waters is concerned. The commissioners of 

 Maine and other States agree that by the natural process of 

 batching, not over five per cent, of the eggs of salmon come to 

 perfection. They are the prey of other fish and of accident to 

 such an extent that the few that come to matmity are a small 

 exception. On the other hand the commissioners claim that 

 by the artificial process as high as 90 per cent, of the eggs 

 have been made to develop into perfect fish. If this is so, and 

 it is stated on the highest authority, the pubhc can hai-dly 

 put too high an estimate on. a work such as that which the 

 parties mentioned have undertaken. A himdred thousand 

 yoimg salmon placed each yeaj- in the streams that flow into 

 the streams of Long Lake would, without doubt, work a revo- 

 lution in the fishing in tUe Sebago waters, and that is just what 

 he gentlemen interested are determined to do. Special, 



CONNECTICUT FISH COMMISSION.— The Commission 

 has, during the past seven months, hatched and planted 

 .5,733,000 young shad, and has distributed 4.50,000. To 1.50 ap- 

 plicants 45,000 yotmg trout have been distidbuted. The Com- 

 mission has hatched 100,000 salmon eggs that were furnished 

 to the State by Prof. S. F. Bau-d, and placed the young fry in 

 the Fannington River. It has, in addition, hatched 30,000 

 Michigan trout eggs presented by Prof. Baircl, and placed 

 them in streams in Hartford county. The number of shad 

 hatched were distributed as follows: In the Connecticut 

 Biver, 2.254,000; m the Housaconic, 1,969,800; in the Thames, 

 882,030, and in the Quinnipiao, 627,300. 



SOLES FOR AMERICA.— Five hundred soles are expected 

 to arrive next Monday as a present to the U. S. Pish Commis- 

 sion from the National Fishculture Association of England. 

 Prof. Baird telegi-aphs to Mr. Blackford that the fish will be 

 sent to Wood's Holl in charge of Mr. Mather. If they arrive 

 in good order they will be kept at Wood's Holl and fed until 

 large enough to spawn. 



CARP FOR DISTRIBUTION. -Mr. E. G. Blackford, of 

 Fulton Market, New York, has just received 5,000 young carp 

 for distribution in New York and neighboring States from the 

 U. S. Fish Commission. The fish are from three to four inches 

 long, and will be distributed in lots of twenty to applicants. 



THE WASHINGTON TERRITORY COMMISSION. -We 

 have just received word that this Commission, which was 

 supposed to have been abolished, is still in existence. The 

 Commissioner is Mr. Albert T. Stream of North Cove, Pacific 

 coimty. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 



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 ing Co. 



FIXTURES. 



BWNOH SHOWS. 



Dec, IS. 1(1, 17 and 18.— First Annual Dog Show of the Western Con- 

 nedtiCUt Poultry. Pigeon and Pet Stock Association. Frank D. Hal 

 let, iSutterintendent, Wlnsted, Oonn. 



April 6, ?, 8 and 9, 1886.— Second Annual Dog Show of the New Eng- 

 land Kennel Club. Jean Grosvenor, Secretary, Boston, M.ass. 



FIELD TRIALS. 



Nov S.— Second Annual Field Trials of the Fisher's Island Olub, for 

 membefs only. Max vVenzel, Secretary, Hoboken, N. J. 



Nov. 9,— first Annual Trials of the Western Field Trials Associa- 

 tion, at Abilene; Kan. Entries close Oct. 15. A. A. Whipple, Secre- 

 tary, Kansas City, Mo. 



Nov. 12-— New Jersey Kennel and Field Trials Club. Field trials for 

 memhers only at Fisher's Island. A. P. Vredenburgb, Secretary, 

 Bergen Point, N. J. 



Nov. J6. 1885.— Seventh Annual Field Trials of the Eastern Field 

 Trials Club, High Point, N. 0. Entries for AH- Aged Stakes close 

 Nov. 1. W. A. Coster, Secretary, Flatbusb, L. I. 



Not^..l7, 18 and 19.— Second Annual Field Trials of the Philadelphia 

 Kennel Club at Bte Ctrande, N. J., for member.s only. Entries close 

 Nov. 1. 



November.— I'ourth Annual Trials of the Robinslsland Club, Robins 

 Island, L. 1., for members onlj^. Wm. H. Force, Secretary. 



Dec. Seventh Annual Field Trials of rho National Field Trials 

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

 Stephenson, La Grange, Tenn., Secretary. 



A. K. R.-SPECIAL NOTICE. 



rpHE AMlililCAN KENKEL REGISTER, for the registration of 

 pedigreeiSj etc; (with prize lists of all shows and trials), is pub 

 ished eVery month. Entries close on the 1st. Should he in early. 

 Entiy blanks seilt dn receipt of stamped and addressed envelope 

 Elegistration fee (.^d cents) must accompany each entry. No entries 

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

 "American Kennel Register," P. 0; Box 3833, New York. Number 

 of entries already printed 3794. 



THE COLLIE FRAUD AT PHILADEljPHIA. 



Editor Fo7-est and Stream: 



In your last week's issue you gave a correct account of the 

 collie kennel prize controversy, and ia the tu-ticle state that "it 

 was the duty of the judge to have seen every dog eutei-ed, and 

 this would have effectually blocked the little game," which is 

 all true; but, as j^ou also state, ''both owners assented," and 

 it being a matter that only directlv concerned tUem, and not 

 supposing that a member of the club, and an M.D. would stoop 

 to win a dog pi'ize by intentional deception, it seemed un- 

 necessarj^ to take the animals down again into the passage- 

 way between the benches, which was the only place I had to 

 judge them. I called from the catalogue the entries of both 

 contestants, to the steward, who had the book showing which 

 dogs had been before me in the regular classes, and he in- 

 formed me the awards of any that each had received. It was 

 his duty to have notified me then that No. 85, So So, was not 

 checked as present. Probably he did not notice it, and hke 

 myself, thought the Sans Souci Kennel was represented by 

 an honor.able gentleman, and so was not so careful ashe other- 

 wise would have been. 



With my experience and acquaintance with such collie ex- 

 hibitors as Messrs. Dennis, Faxon, Burgess, Lindsay and 

 others, whose dogs have been before me. I was not on the 

 lookout for any fraud between those I supposed were gentle- 

 men. I know neither of those I have just mentioned, under 

 the same chcumstance, would have aUo'wed me to look up the 

 entries before saying they could not compete for that special, 

 while this sans souet gentleman not only deceived me at the 

 show, but deliberately wote to me a week after that "So So 

 was not absent, but sick," as extracts from con-espondence 

 with Dt. Hext M. Peny will show. Oct. 12 he wrote r 

 . I inclose slip cut from Sporting Life of this date. Will you please 

 read and give me your opinion of same? I wish your special opinion 

 as to folio wng: "Mr. FeiTy said there was no neces.sity to show the 

 dogs, as he had won so many more prizes. " I hopeyoa will give me 

 your strongest denial of the assertion. I ask it for my personal 

 satisfaction and in case of necessity to show to any friends that may 

 wish to see it. 



This was the fli'st intimation I received that No. 8,5 (So So) 

 was not in her place, and possibly I might not have seen her. 

 1 at once rephed : 



Tbis is certainly iucon-ect. as it was I who suggested that it was 

 unnecess try to take the dogs from the benches again, as the awards 

 in the regular classes would decide the special, and j ou and Mr. Lind- 

 e-ay being present and making no objection, the judge's book was re- 

 ferred to and showed that your kennel, consisting of Ben Nevis, 

 Mavis. Wanda, Daisy and So So, had won two firsts, one second and 

 one third, while Mr. iandsav's kennel, consisting of Rex. Craft, Joe 

 iSettles, Jeannie Nettles, Gem and Portland, had won one second, one 

 third and a commendation ; and of course, not being informed that 

 any of the animals entered for the special were absent, your kennel 

 won. I am sm-prised that I was not told at the time that So So was 

 absent. 



I wrote the last pai-agraph with some reluctance, beheving 

 there must be some mistake, and that So So was there as 

 represented, but desired to draw out some explanation from 

 Dr. Perry. This reply came promptly, dated Oct, 13, as 

 follows: 



Yours in reply to mine of yesterday's date is to hand. 



1 beg leave to state that So So was not absent but sick, and I 

 think I am going to lose her. She was too sick to stand up and every 

 movement gave pain. My man was nursing and doctoring her all 



day, and she remained at the show till Friday, Oct. 9, 9 P. M , with 

 the others of her kennel. The veterinary examined ber and gave me 

 a certificate, etc., to remove her, but on account of the muss made 

 by my enemies I would not remove her even at the risk of death in 

 not doing so. 



After reading the foregoing, I naturally suppossd Dr. Perry 

 would be able to submit any proof necessary to enable the 

 committee to confirm the award to the Sans'Sou'^^i Kennels. 

 On the 1.5th inst., however, 1 received a letter from the secre- 

 tary of the club asking for my recollections regarding the 

 judging for the Kennel Special, and he "hoped I might be 

 able to throw some hght on the subject in question, as to the 

 entry of No. 8.5." 1 rephed. giving him what information I 

 passessed concerning it, and added: "If Sans Souci Kennels 

 had but four dogs there when I judged, of course Lindsay, 

 with his kennel, should have won; and if there has been any 

 misrepresentation, my decision should be revei-sed, and it will 

 please me to have it done." 



I heard nothing more of the aflfau- till Oct. 32, when I re- 

 ceived the following letter: 



PniLADELPmA Kennel Club, Oct. 31, 1885. 

 Mr. A, S. Apgar, New York: 



Dear Sib - Your kind letter was duly received by me. I am sorry, 

 inded, that any question should have arisen about the judging in 

 your clas-^es, and we wanted all the evidence we could get before tak- 

 ing any decided steps: and now, at this late day, Dr. Perry comes 

 forward and says No. 8.5. So So. was not at the show at all when the 

 judging was being done: that the judge (yourself) did not see her. 



We look upon it that Dr. Perry deceived you, leading you to be- 

 lieve his bitch was present, by not .saying differently when you 

 called the numbers over in making the kennel award. 



Our committee met last evening, and from Perry's acknowledg- 

 ment of only having four dogs in the show we decided to give the 

 kennel prize to Mr. Lindsay's kennel, as it could not be won by less 

 than five dogs. 



Our club feel deeply chagrined to think one of our members would 

 attempt to practice such business both upon you and upon aa 

 exhibitor. 



I was sorry not to have met you when you were here, and that we 

 should have had so unpleasant weather. 



I trust our action m regard to this Kennel prize may have vour 

 approval. Very respectfully, E. Uompobt, Sec'y- 



Further comment seems unnecessary, except to state that 

 the action of the committee does meet with my unqualified 

 approbation. A. S. Apgar. 



New York, Oct, 27, 1885. 



Editor Forest and Stream : 



In commenting upon the collie kennel protest at the 

 Philadelphia Kennel Club's late show, in the course of your 

 remarks you say: ' The club took nearly two weeks instead of 

 five minutes to consider the matter," thus implying that the 

 delay of action in the matter could have been avoided. Mr. 

 Lindsay's protest was sustaiued as soon as a special meeting to 

 consider the subject could be called instead of having the mat- 

 ter he over until next stated meeting of the club during first 

 week of November. Never was it intended by the com mittee 

 that aught but justice should be given. Your comments, 

 whether intentionaUy or not, convey the idea that the commit- 

 tee's action was purposely delayed. A Member. 



[Nobody but a highly organized idiot, in good and l egular 

 standmg, would have drawn any such inference from the 

 comments in question.] 



THE BLACK AND TAN COLLIES. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



About a month ago 1 wrote a letter advocating the division 

 of collies into two classes, making a separate one for che black 

 and tan. You kindly gave my article place in your columns. 

 At the same time I wrote a letter to the .^4. K. R. in the 

 October number 1 find the fohowing: "B. A. R. O. If the 

 black and tan colhes are good enough they can win. The 

 ti'ouble is there are very few good ones, and that being the 

 case we cannot advocate a distinction by color which would 

 place them on a par with better dogs. * * * All colhes 

 are judged by the same standard," etc. 



The editor of the 4. X^. R. says truly there are yqtj few 

 good black and tans. But why is this so? Simply because 

 tUey have been bred iadisciimtnately vrith dogs of "ah colors, 

 and so have in such cases lost those distinctions, which are 

 not only then- chief beauty, but which are sufficiently marked 

 to distinguish them from other colors of colhes. 



Now, what do we breed for, that is supxjosing we breed in- 

 telligently ? The main point, 1 take it, is to keep the strain 

 pm'e. For this reason we register our dogs, stud visits and 

 produce, simply that we may know that a dog called a collie 

 is a coUie. JS ext we should breed for beauty. And the only 

 way to do this is to perpetuate prominently beautif id features. 

 There is one beauty marii about a black and tan coiUe which 

 will not be found on any other dog (unless the stra n has been 

 crossed with the black and tan). He has a tan chest. Begin- 

 ning at each shoulder is a frill (formed by the hair on the 

 cnest and body growing in opposite directions, thus forming a 

 curl at the fine of meeting), this friU on each side extends 

 down in a slant, meeting at the center of the chest, just low 

 enough doAvn so that when the dog lowers his head tue point 

 of the frill or curled line is just below his ehm, and in that 

 position looks very pretty as a frame to the face. And the 

 cohie often holds his head so when sitting. 



Now I claim Chat when a strain of black and tan colhes has 

 been kept pure everj'- pup will be black and tan and will have 

 this and other beauty marks (spots over the eye, tan stockuigs, 

 etc.) peculiar to the black and tan. 



If I can show that something is gained by keeping this collie 

 away from other colors, audit cannot be shown that anything 

 is gained by mixing, is not my position well taken that it 

 would be w^U to breed separately ^ For practical purposes is 

 the colfie less useful bec-use he is black and tani Certainly 

 not. Then why not perpetuate him? If the A. K. R. editor 

 is correct, as he undoubtedly is, that good black and tan col- 

 lies are scarce, does not that prove that we are gradually 

 wiping out a beautiful ammal? And how can it be better 

 helped than by making a separate ciass of him? As long as 

 the tawny dog tai^es the pi-izes he is bound to be the stud dog; 

 and owners will send theu- lemales to the champion regard- 

 less of the color of their own females. But maice a separate 

 class, and give us a few black and tan champion stud dogs, 

 and we wih remove the temptation to breed across in color. 

 In nature genei'ally do we not expect the young to resemble 

 the mother? But if a black and tau bitch has a tawny fatner 

 how can we expect a litter aU one color? And does it look 

 like natm'al or intehigent breeding to see sisters and brothers 

 all different? In A. K. R. for October we see in the "Produce 

 Begister": "CoUies. Beauty 111.— Ben Nevis.— Mr. W. S. 

 Powers's Beauty III. (A.K.B,. 2598) whelped eight, two sable 

 dogs, two blacK. and ttm dogs, one white and blacK dog, one 

 sable bitch, one white and biack bitch, one white with black 

 and sable markings." With anj- other dog but the unfortu- 

 nate coUie such a I'esult would be laughed at. This is a good 

 instance of what I asserted abfive. Mr. f owers sent Beauty 

 III., a black and tan, to Ben Nevis, a sable dog, because of the 

 stud dog's reputation ; and of course tmder the present rules 

 such breeding is right enough, only it is one more blow at 

 black and tan stock. And it does not seem to me to be bene- 

 ficial breedmg, because the progeny is not as good as either 

 parent, for this reason: Ben Nevis bred to a sable bitch 

 would probably throw sable puppies, and Beauty 111. (If true 

 black and tan bred) would thi'ow black and tan to a black 

 and tan dog. In other words, you could guess the progeny by 

 the parents. But who would cry to guess at the progeny of 

 any of these puppies? But again I say tmder the pi-esent rules 

 Mr. Powei-s was right to use the best loiown stud dog he cotUd 

 find. 



Now let me show you how the black and tan can be bred. 

 Some yeai*s ago Mr. C. F. Thompson of "Wadley-'s FaUs, 



