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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[Jan. 14, 1886. 



CALIFORNIA TROUT STREAMS. 



I DOUBT if there is any place in the TJ. S. where better 

 trout fishing can be ha'd than in California. But the 

 great drawbacks are in the long distance and the hard road get- 

 ting to the streams. Just before the law was up in this 

 State I went trouting with a chum on the San Gabriel Kiver, 

 which is about fifteen miles to the mouth of the caion from 

 Los Angeles. When one gets to the canon lie must go ten 

 miles up the canon before reaching the good fishing. And 

 what a road ; boulders two and thee feet in circumference 

 often block the tortuous, and hilly way. The only way to 

 get there is to go on horseback from the mouth of tlie cafion. 

 But when you reach the fishing grounds there are abundant 

 fish and a lovely stream. We camped there two weeks. 

 During that time we look 976 trout, all over six inches; we 

 could have caught as many more but could not have used 

 them. I caught over 100 in one day. We also took guns 

 along for the quail, and altogether had a grand lime. 



San Antonio Canon is a good place for trout, and is much 

 more easily reached than San Gabriel. The only way is to 

 go and stay for a week or two at a time. 



This is ""a great place for campers; over 400 tents were on 

 the beach at Santa Monica this year. They made quite a 

 town. C, B. W. 



Los Anoeles, Oal., Dec. S9, 1886, 



CAMPING CLUB RULES. 



FOLLOWING are constitution and by-laws of the Jolly 

 Hunting and Fishing Club of Hites^ Pa. : 

 Article I.— This club shall be known as the Jolly Huntiuf 

 and Fishing Club of Hites, Pa. 



Article II.— Night of Meeting— First and third Monday 

 of each month. 

 Article III.— The dues shall be fifty cents per mouth. 

 Article IV.— Sec. 1. All oflacers shall be elected anuually 

 on the first meeting nigM in June. Sec. 3. jSomiuations for 

 officers shall be made at last stated meetingprevious to night 

 of election. 



Article V.— Sec. 1. It shall be the duty of the President 

 to preside at all meetings of the club, preserve order and 

 enforce the by-laws of the club. He shall decide all questions 

 of order, act as judge of elections and declare the result of 

 the club. He shall sign all orders on the Treasurer for such 

 money as by a vote of the club shall be ordered to be paid. 

 Sec. 2. The President shall, on the last night of the term, 

 appoint a committee of three to audit the accounts of the 

 Secretary and Treasurer, whose duty it shall be to make a 

 financial and statistical report at the next stated meeting. 

 Sec. 8. It shall be the duty of the Vice-President to assist 

 the President, and in his absence preside at the meetings of 

 the club and perform such other duties as are enjoined by 

 the regulations of the club. Sec. 4. It shall be the duty of 

 the Secretary to keep accurate minutes of the meeting of the 

 club; also make a monthly report of each and every member, 

 which report shall be read in open club meeting on the first 

 meeting night of each month. ' Sec. 5. It shall be the duty 

 of the Assistant Secretary to aid the Secretary in the per- 

 formance of his duty, supply his place when absent and per- 

 form such other duties as are enjoined by the by-laws. Sec. 

 6. It shall be the duly of the Treasurer to pay all orders 

 drawn on him attested by the Secretary and none other; he 

 shall receive all money of the club and hold the same until 

 the expiration of his term of office. He shall keep a correct 

 account of all money received and expended, and shall per- 

 form such other duty as may be required of him by the club 

 or his office. Sec. 7. It shall be the duty of the Camp Ser- 

 geants to see that the tents are properly pitched and attended 

 to; see that there is always a siiffieient quantity of provisions 

 and attend to the camp in general. 



Article VI.— Sec. 1. Any officer may be removed from his 

 office for conduct unbecoming his station ; for absenting him- 

 self for three successive meeting nights, unless his absence 

 is satisfactorily accounted for. 



Article VII. — Sec. 1. Every person admitted into this club 

 shall pay the sum of $2 ; also sign the agreement card of the 

 club. 



Article VIII. — Any member of this club who is more than 

 three months in arrears for dues shall consider himself sus- 

 pended until payment of same, if satisfactory to the club 



Article IX.— Sec. 1. No member shall speak more than 

 once on the same subject or motion, until all who desire shall 

 have had an opportunity of being heard; nor more than twice 

 without permission from the chair. While speaking, each 

 member shall designate the person spoken of hy his proper 

 rank and title. Sec. 3. No member shall be internipted 

 while speaking except to call him to order, when he shall 

 ta.ke his seat and the question of order is determined; when 

 if permitted, he may proceed with his remarks. Sec 3. If 

 two or more members rise to speak at the same time the 

 President shall decide who is entitled to the floor. 



Rules. — Article I. — Any member not present at roll call 

 shall be fined the sum of ten cents unless satisfactory excuse 

 be given. 



Article II, — Sec. 1. Any member who shall misbehave in 

 the meetings of the club by disturbing the order or harmony 

 thereof, either by personal, abusive or profane language, or 

 disorderly conduct or who shall refuse obedience to the Pres- 

 ident shall be fined the sum of ten cents. Sec. 2. Any mem- 

 ber or members behaving in a manner unbecoming a gentle- 

 man while in camp or in every day life, shall be fined the 

 sum of one dollar for the first offense; and for the second 

 offense shall, by a two-third vote of members present, be ex- 

 pelled from the club. Sec. 3. No member or members shall 

 be permitted to enter the club room on the Sabbath day. 



Article III. — Sec. 1. No hunting, fishing, playing any kind 

 of games shall be permitted on the Sabbath day, nor sweating 

 or any other immoral conduct while in camp; any member 

 violating this section shall be fined the sum of fifty cents. 

 Sect. 2. Any member known to iudulire in any intoxicating 

 liquors while in camp shall be excluded from the club by a 

 majority of votes of members in camp. Sec. 3. No member 

 or members shall be permitted to do any foraging while in 

 camp under penalty of expulsion from the club by a major- 

 ity of votes of members in camp. 



Towed by a Whale. — The steamship Advance of the 

 United States and Brazil Mail Line, which arrived yesterday 

 from Rio Janeiro, brought six men belonging to the whaling 

 schooner Mary E. Simmons. They were rescued on Dec. 1 

 in an exhausted condition, after having passed two days in 

 an open boat without food or water. The Mary E. Simmons 

 is a New Bedford whaler which late in November was cruis- 

 ing along the South American coast. On the morning of 

 Nov. 39, when the vessel waef off the east end of Pernambuco, 

 a school of whales was sighted, Capt. Manly SQon brought 



his vessel close to the whales and gave the order tt> lower 

 away the boats. The first and second mates got into their 

 boats, and soon each had killed a whale apiece and had fast- 

 ened on to another. As the first mate's boat had been smashed 

 ed a few days before, that officer had taken the boat usually 

 handled by the third mate. Capt. Manly ordered John Praro. 

 the third mate, to take a spare boat and join the first and 

 second mates. Praro took with him five men, and was 

 soon among the whales. Selecting a large one, he buried 

 his harpoon in the back of the monster, which immediately 

 dived under water and started off at a frightful rate of speed, 

 pulling the boat after him. Praro kept the harpoon line 

 fast, and the whale sped on until it was eight or ten miles 

 from the schooner, It then suddenly came up under the 

 boat, which it nearly capsized. The boat filled, but by hur- 

 riedly bailing her out the men kept her from swampinff. The 

 harpoon line was let go, and the oars were lashed'to the 

 boat in order to prevent them from being washed away. The 

 men looked around for the schooner. She was miles away 

 and evidently not following them. The sailors watched anx- 

 iously, and shortly before dark they saw the schooner head- 

 ing toward them. She was, however, proceeding slowly. 

 When darkness settled down over the distant schooner it 

 revealed one of her lights, which seemed to be coming nearer 

 for a while and then appeared to stop. Then it slowly grew 

 smaller and at midnight disappeared. There was neither 

 food nor provisions in the boat, and the next day the men 

 began to suffer from thirst. In their longing for water they 

 scarcely felt the want of food. During the afternoon a sailor 

 named Tony, who appeared to be suffering from thirst, 

 sprang up and began to shout in a delirious manner. He 

 fancied that he saw vessels approaching from all directions. 

 He cried to the people on these phantom crafts to save him. 

 Finally he made a spring as if he would plunge overboard. 

 He was seized by two of his comrades, who threw him down 

 in the bottom of the boat and lashed him there. The poor 

 fellow raved wildly, but he was too weak to free himself 

 from his confinement. No vessel hove in sight that day. 

 Thirst kept the weary men from sleeping, and they lay on 

 their seats listening to the sound of the waves and the cries 

 of their raving shipmate. When at length day broke over 

 the ocean two sails were in sight, although many miles away. 

 One of the vessels proved to be the County of Clare, Capt. 

 McNeil, w^hich picked up the suffering sailors about noon. 

 The boat's crew comprised Third iMate Praro, Manuel Hom- 

 mem, Antonio Perrira, Lawrence Lodreviner, Antonio 

 Manuel Lima, and Alexander (}. Wood. The latter is a 

 Connecticut negro, but the ot hers are Portuguese. The Con- 

 sul at Pernambuco secured passage fur the men on the steam- 

 ship Advance. — 2'imes, Jan. 7. 



The Charms of Rainbow Trout An&llng. — The law 

 now permits fishing for rainbow trout in the State of New 

 York, and to those of our readers who propose to try it this 

 week, we suggest that outside of the three or four pairs of 

 stockings, they draw on a pair of woolen leggings, which 

 will not at all interfere with locomotion. A little practice 

 with snowshoes may be necessary to the novice, but he wiU 

 soon master the art of walking on them. Kerosene is said 

 to be good for frost bites and chilblains, a gallon will be 

 sufficient for the day. A heavy pair of fur gloves are just 

 the thing to use in tying on flies and splicing leaders, while 

 a buffalo skin overcoat will keep the body iu a pleasant 

 glow. The new combination of camp stool and stove will 

 make an agreeable seat, and axes and ice chisels may be 

 found in any hardware store. 



Solace for Zero Weather.— I have taken the Forest 

 AND Streaji for nine years, and have every copy filed away 

 to look over on just such zero weather as it is here to-day. — 

 H. C. N. (Ashburnham, Mass., Jan. 10). 



Address all communications to the Forest and Stream Publish- 

 ing Co. 



HATCHING CODFISH EGGS. 



BY JOHN A. RYDER. 



THE recent practical success in hatching the eggs of the 

 codfish, at the Wood's Hell station of the U. S. Fish 

 Commission, in a very simple apparatiis devised by Capt. H. 

 C. Chester, is my excuse for again asking for a little space in 

 your columns. By the help of this new and exceedingly simple 

 contrivance, the hatching of the very delicate floating egg 

 of the cod becomes as simple, if not a simiiler performance, 

 than the hatching of shad or white-fish eggs, now so exten- 

 sively conducted by the U. S. Fish Commission. By means 



of the new method it is possible to hatch out one hundred 

 milUons of young cod at a cost for apparatus not exceeding 

 one dollar per million embryos. 



During the four seasons of experimental effort in practically 

 solving the problem of cod propagation, not less than lorty 

 foi-ms of apparatus had been devised and operated by differ- 

 ent persons connected with the work. Yet in spite of all this 

 variety of devices, imtil now none have fulfilled the required 

 condition even approximately with such complete sxiccess as 

 the apparatus devised by Capt. Chester, and now to be des- 

 cribed. 



The contrivance is essentially automatic and needs so little 

 attention that one man will readily look after 100,000,000 eggs 

 without any difficulty. As m operation at this moment, it 

 consists of 'a trough 7 feet 6 inches in length, 2 feet in width 

 and 2 feet 4 inches in depth. At about one foot from either 

 end a wooden partition extending within four inches of the 

 bottom is secured. This leaves a space about five feet six 

 inches in length between the partitions, in which six or eight 

 large glass jai-s are supported witli theh mouths downward. 

 TUe jar-b used at Wood's Holl are ordinary cylindrical, tour- 

 gallon glass specimen jars, with a half inch hole drilled in the 

 center of the bottom. The stoppers of the jars are removed 

 and a single thickness of coarse cheese cloth is secured over 

 the mouth with strong twine. The jar is then inverted and 

 lowered into the trough so that the bottom is about even with 

 the top of the trough, and is supported on a rack-work of 

 transvei-se strips nailed to a ledge near the bottom of the 

 trough. Strips nailed across the top of the ti-ough serve to 

 keep the jars upright. , , ^ ^ 



A still better idea of the appai-atus may be gathered from 

 the accompanying figure showmg the device in longitudinal 



vertical section with the ja rs in place. The trough A is filled 

 witii untiltered sea-water through the faucet i, the water ris- 

 ing to the level of the Ime a before the outlet siphon s begins 

 to operate. The siphon will then empty the trough to the fine 

 b when it ceases to flow, the water then slowly rises again to the 

 fine a, and so on repeatedly. It requires ten minutes for the 

 water to nse or faU from the one level to the other, and, since 

 the jars have only a cloth tied over them below, the water 

 rises and faUs to the same extent in them. This very slow 

 and gentle rise and fall of water in the jars and trough has 

 been found sufiicient to aerate the eggs and give them aU the 

 movement they need. 



The majority of the eggs in this contrivance float at the 

 sm-face, some of course remain suspended below tUe surface, 

 but an exceedingly small percentage of the eggs ever sink and 

 die as ha almost all of the other forms of apparatus hitherto 

 used. The result is that the mortahty is probably under 

 five per cent.— a percentage of loss not gi-eater than that ex- 

 perienced in the most successful treatment of shad eggs. 



The freshly fertflized eggs, treated with an abundance of 

 good milt, are introduced through the hole in the center of the 

 bottom ot the jars, by means of a glass funnel. Beyond an 

 occasional siphoning off of the sediment on the bottom of the 

 trough and the cloth covers of the jars the eggs requii-e no 

 attention untfl hatched. 



Heretofore gi-eat mortality has been caused by the use of 

 metal in the construction of the hatcliing vessels and strain- 

 ers. Since the adoption of glass, wood, and cloth as the only 

 materials used in the construction of the hatching apparatus 

 combined with the very gentle movemen t to which the eggs are 

 subjected, complete success has been attained. The embi-yos 

 oscUlate up and down through a space of only five inches, 

 from the level of a to that of 6, and withal so gently that they 

 suffer no shocks or concussions of any land whatever. Capt. 

 Chester's device wdU doubtless be used with great advantage 

 in the propagation of the Spanish mackerel In twenty-four 

 hours the latter would be ready to be set free from the ap- 

 paratus, whereas it requires eleVen or twelve days to hatch 

 the eggs of the cod, w^ith the temperature of the water rang- 

 ing from 45 degrees Fahr. to 48 degrees Fahr. 



Each of the iars, which are 17 inches high by 9 inches in 

 diameter, will hold from one-half to one miUion cod eggs, so 

 that an apparatus of the size shown above would accommo- 

 date from three to eight millions of ova, contained in six to 

 eight jars, the largest number which could be accommodated 

 in a trough of the size of the one here described. 



These experiments show that a violent movement of the 

 eggs of the cod is of no advantage, that such movement is on 

 the contrary injurious, if not mortal, when continuously 

 maintained. The requisite conaitions for successful hatching 

 of this important food-tish having been settled, the great station 

 at Wood's Holl affords unlimited opport.nnities for conduct- 

 ing the work for at least three months of the year, during 

 which time from 500 to 1,000 milUons of eggs might readily be 

 hatched and set free with the help of the new hatching 

 apparatus. 



Wood'.s Holl, Mass., Dec. 21, 1885. 



THE GERMAN FISHERY ASSOCIATIOiV.-lt is with 

 pleasure we note the fact that at a recent session of the Reichs- 

 tag, the Deutsche Fischerci Verein was given an appropri- 

 ation to enable them to carry on their woric. Heretofore tUis 

 Association. of which the renowned Hei-rvon Behi", Schmoldon, 

 is president, has done all its work from funds contributed by 

 its membei-s, and has had no government recognition what- 

 ever. They have stocked lakes and streams, exchanged eggs 

 with America and other lands, and printed theh own repoits 

 of work and discussions. Under their auspices the great 

 International Fisheries Exhibition of 1S80 was held, and they 

 have done a great deal of good work, finding their reward in 

 doing it. The appropriation is not a large one to beigin with, 

 but it is the fact that the German government has begun to 

 take an interest in it. that is cause for congratulation, No 

 doubt the government will be more liberal in futiu-e years as 

 the work increases. 



SOLES ARRIVE FROM ENGLAND. -On Monday last a 

 few soles arrived on the Wbite Star steamer Britannic, being 

 one lot in a system of exchanges between Mr. E. G. Blackford 

 and Mr. T. J. Moore, cm-ator of the Derby Museum at Liver- 

 pool. The fish were so stiff with the cold when they reached 

 Fulton Market, that it was difficidt to tell whether they were 

 alive or dead. They were sent to the State hatchery at Cold 

 Spring Harbor, where, if alive, they will be cared for. 



FISHCULTURE IN TASMANIA.— Several of the favorite 

 fishes of Europe, such as the turbot, sole and brfll, as well as 

 crabs and lobsters, are to be taken to Tasmania, with a view 

 to acclimatize them. The eggs of some of the British fresli 

 water fishes will also be sent there. If they have none of the 

 species mentioned, there is evidently a broad field for fish- 

 culture in thiit land. 



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Did You Ever Hear This Before?— Jo Badger used to tell 

 a good story. It may date back to another "Jo," sumamed 

 Mdler. I ain not going to vouch for the originahty of any 

 story that I did not make up myself, and even then i sboulil 

 expect to unearth it ia some old aliiia mac, or other joker's 

 cemetery. But, Mr. liadser's story, wJiether old or new, 

 always produced ics erfect, Jo would gradually insert him- 

 self into a ci owd of sportsiaen engaged in the popular amuse- 

 ment of proving Ananias to have been but an unsophisticated 

 bungler in his business; and, after listening to their accounts of 

 slaughter wrought among the birds and beasts as to make one 

 wonder that the entire fauna of the I'egion was not exter- 

 minated, he would begui in that easy drawl tUat pertains by 

 right to the aciiuowledged /-acojiteur of tJie corner groceiy: 

 "Speaking of shoutLug, the longest shot ever I made was 

 back in New York State, when I wasn't much more 'a a boy. 

 I'd been used to handlin' a gun some, but nothing to speak of 

 — wasn't considered no kind 'o shot. Well, it was a Sunday 

 mornin'; i happened to look at an old dead tree away off , 

 most as far as 1 coidd see anything. There was one limb left, 

 and a crow was sittin' on it. It was so fai- off that I couldn't 

 'a' seen the crow if he hadn't been black and the old tree so 

 gi-ay. I could just see it was a ci'ow and that's about all. The 

 old shotgun stood behmd the door, loaded, and 1 took it up 

 and, just hi fun pomted it at the crow. I didn't have no more 

 idea o' hitting that crow ttatm I have now o' shootin' you. 

 But, I sighted him, and without thinking what i was a-doin' 

 I pulled the trigger and bang she went. " Here Jo would stoop 

 down, looking for another piece of shingle or somethmg to 

 whittle on : aud .'if tei' a second or so, some impatient auditor 

 would be sure to ask : "Well, d'ye hit 'im?" The sm-pris6 and 

 irmocent look on Jo's face would be a study, as, with the air 

 of one who had utterly forgotten that any denouement was 

 expected, he w'ould slowly aaswer: "Hit 'im? Bless your 

 heart! no ; didn't come within a mile of him!" 



