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[Nor. 13, 1885. 



ahead. CominiJ- to a strip of shallow water W. ignored it, 

 and althougli it did not look very promising I found it to be 

 one of the best places on the run, and herel secured twenty- 

 three fish, all nice sized trout. From a pool beside a big 

 rock W. landed three beauties in about two minutes; and 

 just below this I caught the two largest caught that day, and 

 they were fine ones too. 



At the mouth of the run, where it empties into the river, 

 we found a party fishing for bass, but they had not been 

 very successful as the stream was muddy from a recent rain. 

 At a pool at the mouth of this run a gentleman a few days 

 before had taken a brook trout weighing about three pounds, 

 a size which is very rarely attained in this section of the 

 countjy. We made a few casts iu the river and took a bass 

 or two; then found a riflie and waded the river. It had 

 been threatening rain for some time and now a furious 

 thunderstorm broke ovei us; but notwithstanding this 

 we sat down on a rock and cleaned our fish, of which 

 we had about 150. We then made our way by a new road 

 over the mountain and finally reached the station, two foot- 

 sore, weary fishermen after a tramp of twelve miles through 

 the mountains. Our shoes, which had been whole and in 

 good condition when we started, were now torn and worn 

 so that they would scarcely stay upon our feet. But, for all 

 this, we felt amply repaid, as we had had a glorious day's 

 sport; and after all we appreciated the fish the more because 

 of the work and skill required to take them. 



At the station we met a gentleman who often fishes this 

 run and he said we had the best string of fish he had ever 

 seen taken there in a single day by two rods. Yough. 



CONNBLLSVILLE, N. Y. 



Pennsylvania Trouttng. — Scrantou, Pa., Nov. 6.— The 

 season throughout the Lackawanna Valley has been most 

 inviting this year. Rod and gun have been favorite means 

 for recreation among the professional gentlemen of (he city, 

 and many of them have been most successful. The trout 

 fishing was all that could have been asked for. I have 

 brought home many fine strings. When the season first 

 opened, Dr. H. and Rev. 8. and myself one fine morning 

 gathered together a good supply of tackle and went out into 

 the mountains about sixteen miles to a stream that was said 

 to contain no trout, for no one seemed to ever have any luck. 

 We came to the remains of an old dam, and at the foot, or 

 rather where the water flowed over, there was a large deep 

 hole. I baited a hook with a very tempting worm and 

 quietly dropped it into the water, and in less than one-half a 

 minute I had a trout that weighed one and a half pounds. 

 We caught five pounds of trout in that one place, and when 

 we went home that night we had twenty-five pounds. Black 

 bass fishing has been the best in five years. Jones Lake has 

 been the favorite fishing ground, and so has Lillie Lake. — 

 W. B. L. 



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CARP IN OHIO. 



Editor Forest and Stream : 



I notice that the numerous correspondents of your paper 

 make very little reference to the raismg of German carp by 

 the fai-mers of this coimtrj^, and yet here m Northern Ohio 

 every farmer who can possibly make an ai-tiflcial pond either 

 by damming or draining, is certain to do so, and nine ponds 

 out of ten will be stocked with carp ; the tenth, perhaps, with 

 black bass. 



A short time stnce I had occasion to visit a farm in Greanga 

 county, whose owner is a large and successful raiser of carp. 

 His mode of operation was as follows. He had dammed up 

 a spring near the house an.'i made a pond covering pei'haps 

 an acre. Prom the Fish Commission at Washington he ob- 

 tained tifty small carp which were duly placed in the pond. 

 These were doing finely when their natural enemies the sun- 

 fish got into their pond in some imexplained manner. The 

 farmer was certain that sunfish originate in the soil of ponds, 

 but of this I am not assured. At any rate they were there 

 and a war of extermination began. The only remedy was 

 to di-ain. off the pond and begin again. When the water was 

 all drawn off, Ume was thickly sprinkled over the bottom. 

 This proved eminently successful, the sunfish leaping out 

 on to the bank ratner "than die in the lune. 



When the pond had filled again the residue of carp, only 

 thirteen in number, were replaced. These were then two 

 years old, the largest weighing a httle over six pounds. He 

 now has a pond brimming over with magnificent carp aU of 

 the first spawning. His pond has alreadv more than paid 

 for itself in the number of fish sold to other farmers. 



The largest now measm-es thirty-four inches in length and 

 are so tame that one can sit in the stern of his boat and by dip- 

 ping a piece of bread in the water attract shoals of fish. They 

 are caught in this way. They are unsurpassed as food and will , 

 I think, in this part of the country, soon crowd out black bass 

 in artificial ponds. Watt. 



Cleveland, O. 



OYSTER AND MUSSEL CULTURE IN ENGLAND.— 

 Charles W. Harding, Esq., ot King's Lynn, Norfolk, has de- 

 voted much time and attention to the culture of both oysters 

 and mussels in England and is an acknowledged authority on 

 the subject. He controls eleven miles of mussel fishery on the 

 coast of Norfolk, and has hatched the European oyster, 

 which is said to be bi-sexual, in an aquarium. He writes us 

 that after the young oyster has left its parent, or parents, it 

 is black, and that the lowest temperature they could be 

 hatched at was 68 degrees, Fahr., wliile at 74 degrees, "over- 

 whelming quantities came off." He further says: -'My waist- 

 coat pocket is 72 degrees Fahr., and I hatchekl thousands in 

 a small bottle containing a stopper, but had no means of keep- 

 ing them ahve afterward. AU ovsters in England are hatched 

 in less specific gravity than 1.025, but the full strength of the 

 water is 1.027 in the Enghsh seas, taut they grow better in water 

 thatislesssaltwhenthey are a few months old." Mr. Hardmg 

 hasrecently patented a contrivance for improving and fattening 

 most molluscs, especially oysters and mussels, and also to protect 

 them from heavy seas. Several of his apparatuses were erect- 

 ed last summer for the Duke of Sutherland on his mussel fish- 

 ery in Loch Fleet, and the manager reports that the mussels 

 grow much faster under this system and thinks they wUl be 

 sizeable for bait hi a htfcle under three yeare, while heretofore 

 they required from five to seven years. 



The Pope and the Larks.— Pope Leo has taken up his 

 favorite Autumn amusement, lark-catching in the Vatican 

 Gardens. According to the description given by the corres- 

 pondent of the Independanc.e Bek/e, this sport S9ems strangely 

 cruel Numbers of fine siuging larks, it is said, are blinded 

 with a red-hot needle, and concealed in cages in a fine lam-el 

 grove, where flocks of larks fly across from seaward during 

 their autumn migration. The blind songsters decoy their 

 fellows by their loud strains, and nets are then deftly dropped 

 over the unlucky bhds attracted. The Pope himself often 

 extricates the birds, and kills them in the approved fashion 

 by crushing their heads betweem thumb and finger. 



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FIXTURES. 



BENCH SHOWS. 

 Dec. 15, 16, 17 and 18,— First Annual Dog Show of the Western Con- 

 necticut Poultry, Pigeon and Pet Stock Association. Frank D. Hal- 

 let, Superintendent. Winsted, Conn. 



Marcii 16. 17, 18 and 19, 1886.— Western Pennsylvania Poultry Soci- 

 ety's Dog Show, at Pittsburgii, Pa. C. B. Elben, Secretary. 



April 6, 7, 8 and 9, 1886.— Second Annual Dog Show of the New Eng- 

 land Kennel Club. Jean Qrosvenor, Secretary, Boston, Mass. 



FIELD TRIALS. 



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

 members only at Fisher's Island. A. P. Vredenburgh, Secretary, 

 Bergen Point, N. J. 



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

 Trials Club, High Point, N. C. Entries for All-Aged Stakes close 

 Nov. 1. W. A. Coster, Secretarv. Flatbush, L. I. 



Nov. 17, 18 and 19.— Second Atinual Field Trials of the Philadelphia 

 Kennel Club at Rio Grande, N. J., for members only. Entries close 

 Nov. 1. 



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. 

 rpHB 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 

 "American Kennel Register," P. O. Box 2833, New York. Number 

 of entries already printed 2908. 



THE ROBINS ISLAND CLUB. 



FOUETH ANNUAL FIELD TKIALS. 



THE field trials of this club began Wednesday morning and 

 terminated at noon on Thm'sday. The weather during 

 the running of the dogs was aU that could have been desired, 

 except for tw^o hours Wednesday morning, when the wind 

 blew hard from the northwest, making hunting the west side 

 of the island coll and unpleasant. Tuesday afternoon quite 

 a number of members and invited guests wended their way 

 to the great quail preserve of the country. Desiring this year 

 to avoid the trouble of hunting birds which, having been 

 hunted for the best jjart of a month, were wild and wary, 

 the time appointed was made as near the exphation of the 

 close season as was practicable. Despite this change the 

 shooting of Monday and Tuesday had aroused the bhds to the 

 coming danger, so that few of them were close-lying, but in 

 nearly every instance got up wild. In the party which 

 arrived at Cutchogue by the evening train were the fol- 

 lowing well-known gentlemen: Hon. Calvin E. Pratt, C. F. 

 Lewis, Col. L, C. Bruce, Gouverneur M. Smith, M.D., A. B. 

 Converse, W. H. Force, A. S. Swan, S. Fleet Speir, M.D., 

 Chauncey Marshall, W. H. Hester. A. T. Plummer, L. H. 

 Billiard, W. L. Pomeroy, J. B. McCue, J. N. Jarvie, S. B. 

 Duryea; and others whose names I cannot recall. The ride 

 from the station was a cold and dreary one, the sail across 

 the bay adding by the piercing air still another chill. When 

 the cliib house was reached a grand fire of white oak logs 

 blazed right merrily upon the hearth stones of the sitting 

 room, making the room most comfortable. Wraps were 

 removed and the genial glow of the hot coals under the hand- 

 irons soon put all in good fellowship, while frank and hearty- 

 conversation filled the echoes of the club's reception place. 



Immediately after adjourament from dinner to the sitting 

 room, an open meeting of the club was held. President Speir 

 in the chair. The Doctor announced the unavoidable absence 

 of Dr. Bridges, who had consented to act as judge. Upon 

 motion, Mr. Pratt was named as judge to fib the vacancy. 

 Messi-s. C. E. Pratt, C. F. Lewis and Leslie C. Bruce judged 

 the competing dogs throughout the trials. The rules of the 

 club allow the members to change the name of enti'y, substi- 

 tuting another dog at any time before the order of running is 

 drawn ; hence our list of Oct. 29 is somewhat incomplete. The 

 competing animals were- 



ALL-AGED STAKES.— SETTEES. 



St. Elmo VI. (Dr. S. Fleet Speir), black, white and tan setter 

 (St. Ehno IV,— Lucy). 



Gout (Dr. S. Fleet Speir), Irish setter (Massey's Duke— Hud- 

 son's bitch). 



Blade of Geass (L. H. BuUard), orange and white setter 

 (St. Elmo iV.— Countess Louise). 



Pride of Robins Island (C. Marshall), orange and white set- 

 ter (pedigree unknown). 



Pkince Hal(J. B. McCue), orange and white setter (St. Elmo 

 — Maida). 



Peed (J. B. McCue), black and ten setter. 

 St. Ives (L. Waterbury), lemon and white setter (St. Elmo 

 — Maida). 



Brighton (S. B. Duryea), black and tan setter (Gypsum— 

 Wrag). 



Count Jack (Jas. N. Jarvie), black and tan setter (Chancel- 

 lor—Fan). 



Davb (H. E. PoUiemus) liver setter (pedigi-ee unknown). 



St. Elmo V. (Dr. S. Fleet Speir), black, white and tan setter 

 (St. Elmo IV.— Countess Louise). 



Dan T. (Dr. S. Fleet Speir), black, white and tan setter (Jesse 

 Gladstone— Chatelaine) . 



Doctor (W. H. Force), black setter (Sid— Fan). 



Romeo (Dr. S. Fleet Speir), Gordon setter. 



POINTERS. 



Bessie (W. H. Force) lemon and white (Sensation — Mine- 

 ola). 



Beau Suffolk (A. S. Swan) lemon and white (Tam O'Shan- 

 ter— Fannie). 



In accordance with the rules of the club Romeo was now 

 selected to run the bye with Prince Hal, so that the order of 

 mnning need not be changed after a start was once had. The 

 drawing resulted as below: 



St. Elmo VI. against Bessie. 



Gout against Beau Suffolk. 



Blade of Grass against Pride of Robins Island. 



Piince Hal against Romeo, 



Fred against. St. Ives. 



Brighton against Count Jack. 



Dave against St. Elmo V. 



Dan T. against Doctor. 



The prizes for the All-Aged Stakes were three iu number, 

 eacti handsome pieces of silversmith's art, fli'st a solid sUver 

 cup, second a handsome silver dog collar of quamt design, 

 third was a dog whistle. 



The entries for the Brace Stakes were: 



Bessie and Force (L. Waterbuiy) pointers. 



Doctor and St. Ives (W. H. Force) setters. 



Pride of Robins Island and Prince Hal (Chauncey Mar- 

 shall) setters. 



General Arthur and St. Elmo VI. (S. Fleet Speir) setters. 



As the trials of the club are run bv a scale of points it is 

 hardly necessary to state that each dog makes his record as 

 he runs, and that two are worked at a time in order to »et 

 through the work quickly. The order of running was as given 

 in list (rf entries, l^'or the Derby originally quite a list of 

 names had been sent in, but disease and ailment incident to 



puppyhood had so reduced the Ifet that only six qualified, and 

 of these, two showed so little knowledge of field work that 

 they were withdrawd almost as soon as put down. They 

 were drawn to run in order as here given: 



DERBT OR PUPPT STAKES. 



Gypsey Queen (L. H. BuUard), blue belton. 



Count Paradox (Geo. B. Sheldon), Irish and English setter. 



Force (L. Waterbury), lemon and white pointer (Vande- 

 vort's Don — Bessie). 



St. Elmo VI. (S. Fleet Speu-), black, white and tan setter 

 (St. Elmo IV.— Lucy). 



Lady Floss (H. J. Cullen), black and tan setter (Pilot— Fan). 



Fred (H. C. Cullen). 



This ended the serious business of the night, and until a late 

 hour the club house ran^ witn song and jest, the Irish anthem 

 of Mary Kelly's Beau bringing dovm the house. It was long 

 past midnight ere the "downy couch" was sought, for some 

 men, hke dogs, when keyed up for play or work seem never 

 to flag or grow weary. "^Scarce had tired heads impressed the 

 pillows with their shape, when loud rang through the halls 

 the rising bell. With many a sigh and long di-awn j^awn the 

 late ones of the night turned to the early birds of the morning. 

 Shai-p 7 was the breakfast time, and the striking clock had 

 hardly chimed the hour when once more rang out the clangor 

 of the bell. The table was surroimded wdth a jolly lot of 

 sport,smen who, with many a jest and jibe, chaffed each other 

 regarding the— to be— victorious canines. At 8 the first brace 

 was called by the judges and the fourth annual trials of the 

 club inaugui-ated. 



ST. ELMO VI. and BESSIE 



were cast oflf to the west of club house and worked southwest 

 over the uneven pastui-e where in 1878 Mr. C. H. Raymond's 

 Lemonade did such great w'ork. At about half the hour Bes- 

 sie pointed, and was neatly backed by St. Elmo. Both dogs 

 roaded on, when quite a number of birds flushed wild some 

 distance ahead of the dogs, aaid flew to the eastward. The 

 dogs were hunted in tfie same direction. St. Elmo soon 

 located them, and was backed by Bessie at command. The 

 work of St. Ehno was of good character, indeed, unusually so 

 considering his age, just eleven months. He soon scored a 

 couple of points. Birds flushed to order, marked down and 

 followed. St. Elmo found them in short order. Excited by 

 the whirr of the rising birds the pup forgot himself for a 

 second, but the second thought checked him at the very verge 

 of a break. Another point was made by St. Elmo which 

 Bessie disregarded ; she roaded up and passing the pup ended 

 the heat by a lovely flush. Dogs taken up after a forty minute 

 run, and the next brace ordered down. 



GOUT AND beau SUFFOLK. 



This heat was soon decided, for both dogs ran wild, showing 

 but little training and not much of natm-al abUity. After a 

 succession of flushes occasioned by too much speed for nose 

 possessed, the brace was ordered up at 10:10. Ot the two the 

 pointer Beau was the better, hunting with fair speed and good 

 style, but with httle hunting "gumx-)tion." (Lrout is a big, 

 stocky dog, red in color, and as a horseman would say with 

 white points. Flushing or rather running pell mell over a big 

 bevy of birds, sending them in every direction, was the direct 

 reason for the destruction of all hope of winning the fond 

 owner may have indulged in. 



BLADE OF GRASS AND PRIDE OF ROBINS ISLAND 



were cast off at 10:1.5, and hunted toward the east bluiE of the 

 island. Finding bu'ds here Pride worked well and hand- 

 somely, scoring point after point, Blade in the meantime act- 

 ing in disorderly fashion. Pride followed southwest to where 

 the birds wens marked down. He soon found them and 

 pointed them in staunch fashion when located. Blade, called 

 up for a back, was out of l each and hearing. Birds were 

 flushed by Judge Pratt, who shot and killed. Judge Bruce fol- 

 lovring suit. Blade now appearing, he was ordered to re- 

 trieve, which he made a mess of. Pride brought in the other 

 bird, but in a faulty manner. Dogs taken up at 10:30. 



At this point St. Elmo VI. was taken in hand to show his 

 quality as a retriever. Told to fstch, he found the dead quail 

 in short order, but only retrieved in fair style. Bessie was 

 then tried. She found the quail, but acted badly, chewing 

 the bird till the bones cracked. Time, 10:40. 



PRINCE HAL AND ROMEO 



were cast oil on the north side of island in the open. Romeo 

 stopped for a moment, Hal backing, though somewhat un- 

 steadily. Recovering himself Romeo roaded along some dis- 

 tance and then circled off. A turn was made to the belt of 

 timber on the north side, and we were hardly in the wood 

 when Judge Pratt flushed a bevy. These were followed to 

 the open. At the timber's edge iJal flushed a bird badly; he 

 seemed lacking in ambition, as if overworked. Having slight 

 chance of capturing even the whistle he was taken up at 11:10, 

 and the fifth brace turned down without loss of time. 



ST. rVES AND FRED 

 werehimtedin open pastures to west of club house, along 

 these in southeily direction, then a sharp tiim to left and 

 through the thin belt of wood clear across the island to its 

 eastern edge. IS^o birds were found in this tramp, but a fair 

 knowledge was obtained of the hunting quality of the dogs in 

 both open and cover. St. Ives was so far ahead in all this 

 that there was no comparison. Turning from the east to the 

 south, both dogs stopped to wing, a big bevy flushing a long 

 way off. These birds were followed, and but short time had 

 elapsed before St. Ives found and located them. Fred came lop- 

 ing along, saw Ives, failed to back, roaded up, passed the Saint 

 and took the scent ahead of the pointing dog. Birds flushed to 

 order. St. Ives steady as a clock, Fred only so at command of 

 handler. Hunting still toward south, many birds got up wild, 

 now and again flying from the limbs of the scrub oaks, going so 

 near hats and heads as to occasion involuntary ''dudang'*^ of 

 the heads ot those under these branches. Moving still toward 

 the south along east side, Fred flushed two singles. St. Ives 

 finally gained a good point, his handler flushed to order, the 

 dog steady to wing. Moving along Fred flushed a large bevy. 

 St. Ives "got on," pointing a close-lying bird in good form. 

 When flushed to oi'der there proved to be two. J udges Pratt 

 and Bruce each credited with a kill. Dogs ordered to re- 

 trieve, did so, but in awfully bungling style. St. Ives, whom 

 the writer has seen do most excellent work, was all "out at 

 elbows," so crude and raw was his performance. Dogs taken 

 up at 12:20 P. M. and the sixth brace turned down. 



BRIGHTON AND COUNT JACK. 



Both Gordons, the first a compact, pony-built animal, though 

 of large size; the last a rangy, loosely-made am'mal, with more 

 than a fair share of legs. Of fair speed and style, Brighton 

 showed by far the better dog. Fifteen minutes' hunting and 

 no birds found, then a halt was called for lunch in picnic 

 style, as the paragraphers have it, "under the shadows of the 

 umbrageous oaks." To say it was enjoyed is to say but little, 

 for men and dogs were worked fast and hard. At the close of 

 the feast the judges, in accordance with the powers given 

 them, ordered up the Gordons as not having merit enough to 

 win. Stfll the writer is of the opinion that it would have 

 been better to have given the dogs an opportunity on birds, 

 certainly the ovraers would have been better pleased. Granted 

 they could not have won against speedier animals, they yet 

 might have shovrn capital quality in the way of nose and 

 breaking had bhds been found, the exceedmg merit in the 

 latter points overcoming the demerits gained in the foraier- 

 named deficiencies. At a quai-ter past 1 a fresh start was 

 made and the seventh brace cast off. This start was at the 

 edge of the woods, which cross the island from west to east 

 on the south side and growing a hundred or so yards from the 

 water's edge. The dogs were 



DAVE AND ST. ELMO V. 



Both these were rattlers in quartering and pace. Dave going 



