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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[Feb. 18, 1886. 



who had been up on Sunday, and sometimes the shallow 

 stream filled from bank to bank, with scattered stones stick- 

 ing their heads above tbe water here and there. 



Up the stream I kept, crossing from side to side to take 

 advantage of the beaches, for I was equipped with canvas 

 shoes and long stockings, until I came to a pool perhaps 100 

 yards long and ten wide, with a beach slopiug up from one 

 side and a rocky ledge on the other, with a slight fall at the 

 upper end, where the water came in. Here the foot tracks 

 stopped, but I decided to go on a little further, and soon 

 came to another and higher fall of about twelve or fifteen 

 feet into a deep pool, with steeply sloping rocks on each 

 side. Here I put my rod together, and climbing up on the 

 rock to cast to the foot of the fall, I saw a series of scratches 

 on the rocks leading down to the water, which were the 

 most indubitable marks of Master Bob's boot heels when he 

 made his plunge the week before. 



Gaining a seat on the edge of the rock, my first cast was 

 followed by an instant pull, and before leaving my seat I 

 basketed sixteen trout of from eight to nine inches long each 

 out of that pool. I then determined to look a little further, 

 and climbing up through the brush around the fall, for the 

 rock was impracticable, I found where two streams came 

 together, the one red from the cedar swamp from which it 

 came, the other beautifully cold and clear. Following up 

 the clear one a short distance and only getting a few small 

 fish, which went back to the water again, I looked at my 

 watch and found it was 1 o'clock. 



A fallen birch by the side of the stream furnished a con- 

 venient seat, and my lunch was soon disposed of with the 

 aid of a pocket cup and ''Kingfisher's" beverage, and my 

 footsteps turned down again. Floating my bait before me, 

 for there was no room to cast a fly, it suddenly stopped in 

 mid current just in a rift in the rock where the two streams 

 came together, and a gentle twitch resulted in a vigorous 

 pull, which ended in the addition of a half-pounder to the 

 basket. 



One or two smaller ones were taken from the larger brook, 

 and I then returned to the large pool, where I got but one 

 small one; it had evidently been pretty well cleaned out on 

 Sunday. Then 1 struck back toward the river, keeping al- 

 ways in the water, and floating a line the length of my. rod 

 ahead of me, with a single No. 2 shot on the upper end of 

 the gut, to keep the hooksteady in the swift currents. 



I could usually keep in water not over ankle deep, letting 

 my bait down into the deeper currents and around the big 

 stones and under the fallen logs on the bank; and the fun 

 kept me comfortably busy. 



I had got short of hooks, and when I went dow r n to court 

 had bought a dozen No. 8 Sproats at a country hardware 

 store, and the three bigger fish I hooked ou my way down 

 were lost, hook and all, before they were fairly lifted out of 

 the water, by the tying slipping on the gut. This caused 

 more or less delay, and at 6 o'clock, when I had promised to 

 be back at the river, I had noi got half way there. 



However, my basket, a ten-pound one, was full, literally 

 "jammed full," so that I had to keep my thumb in the open- 

 ing to keep the fish from getting out, as I slipped about over 

 the smooth stones, which were also somewhat slimy and 

 slippery at times; and 1 willingly un jointed my rod and 

 made the best of my way to the river, with a load of trout 

 ranging from two to eight ounces each. 



Wading the river again, tbe wagon was waiting, and I 

 w T as soon back at the Lake House, and enjoying a trout sup- 

 per. I do not know whether I tramped two miles or four; 

 1 only know that 1 had a glorious day, caught as good trout 

 as there were in the brook, and enjoyed it far better than I 

 should have done broiling in a boat, with my legs cramped 

 under me, and holding a hand-line with a minnow on the 

 end of it, waiting for a four-pounder to happen my way. for 

 that is the way, to tell the truth about it, in which many of 

 the big trout we hear about are really taken. Enough for 

 this time. Yon W. 



Chaklestown, N. H. 



CATFISH AS SPORT AND FOOD. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



I have been much interested in reading of the catfish 

 (bullhead) as a food fish in the report on "Adirondack 

 Fishes" and it suggests a little incident. First, however, 1 

 wish to say that I have been greatly interested in that por- 

 tion of the work relating to the Salmonidm. The portion 

 relating to the differences between Salmo and Sakelinus has 

 been particularly instructive to me, as there had been some 

 confusion in rny mind regarding them until I read the des- 

 cription (p. 20) of the difference in shape of the vomer and 

 the arrangement of teeth on that bone. 



But to the bullheads. As for their being better for the 

 table than trout surprised me at first, but on reflection 1 

 think that I must agree with Mr. Mather. I have every 

 summer become tired of trout, but never had a sufficiency 

 of bullheads; to be sure 1 never tried to eat as many of them 

 as I have of trout and therefore have never tired of them, 

 and this reminds me of the incident 1 started to tell. 



While making a trip through the Adirondack 

 wilderness in company with a friend and two guides, we 

 stopped at ' Tke" Kennels.' on Raquette Lake for dinner. 

 My guide, "Ike" Stone, and I, were standing on the wharf 

 quite anxious to get away, when a boat came to the landing 

 rowed by a guide while a gentlemau was seated in the stern. 

 The latter said to a clergyman standing near: "Come 



Brother , get your tackle ready, I've found where we can 



get some splendid fishing. My guide thinks we can catch 

 some bullheads to-day. " My own guide has never gotten over it 

 and speaks of the 1 'splendid fishing" at Raquette Lake every 

 time we meet. That year the trout fishing was not very 

 good, neither was there many black bass taken in that 

 region, and "ike," who is one of the old timers who dislikes 

 the innovation of cottages in the wilderness, had been cast 

 down all the time I was at Raquette, and the "splendid 

 fishing" capped the climax. He never smiled a ^j m ^ ^ 



New "Sobk. Feb. 1. 



Large Pike-Perch.— Randolph, N. Y., Feb. 9.— Mitor 

 Forest and Stream: I send you by United States Express this 

 dav (charges paid), one fish head which please name in your 

 next paper as there is considerable diffeience of opinion here 

 as to what kind of a fish it is. The fifch was speared in the 

 Conewango Creek; none like it ever caught there before 

 The stream has yellow bass, pickerel, or muscallonge, and 

 wall-eyed pike. This fish was 31 inches in length, 8 inches 

 wide and 6 inches thick, and weighed 14f pounds. Yellowish 

 brown, with scales; there were about Hi pounds spawn about 

 half grown.— C. M, fit was a lan>e pike-perch, JStizostidiim 

 vitreum, called also wall-eyed pike, and when Jarge, yellow 

 pike.] 



The Outrage at Ltttle Clear Pond.— Shortly after 

 the nets of the N. Y. Fish Commission— which were set to 

 capture spawning fish— had been cut, the following notice 

 was posted throughout the Adirondack region: "Pledge of 

 Saranac hotel keepers and guides. Saranac Lake, January 

 1, 1886. We, the undersigned, hotel proprietors, guides and 

 residents of the Adirondacks, having learned with regret 

 that some vandal has been committing depredations 

 upon the State Hatchery property at Little Clear Pond, do 

 most heartily condemn such a dastardly outrage, and do 

 pledge ourselves to use every lawful means to briog such per- 

 petrators to speedy and condign punishment: MiloB. Miller, 

 proprietor Saranac Lake House; H. H. Miner, taxidermist; 

 L. Evans, boarding house; John Eyglefield; F. G. Hallock, 

 guide; Geo. W. Musson, guide: Aaron Golchhmitt; R. E. 

 Woodruff, proprietor the Berkeley; Horace Peck; Stephen 

 Merchant; Wm. A. Walton; Dan* McKillip; Geo. E. John- 

 son, guide; R. M. Banker; Edwin Goodell; Aaron Hays, 

 miller; Philip McMannis, guide; John Bergen; Geo. W. 

 Fayzett, guide; Latour & Platto (stage line); F. M. Bull, 

 druggist; A. S. Wright, builder; S. C. Martin; Geo. Neise- 

 reuf Orlando Blood; Ryland Blood; J. P. Blood; Geo. A. 

 Berkley; T. N. Spaulding, merchant; Peter Segun; C. H. 

 Kendall, proprietor Riverside House; James B. Miller, stage 

 line; Andrew J. Baker; Jason Vosburgh; Rant Reynolds; 

 J. A. Morhous; Chas. Manning; Sylvenus Marrou; E. L. 

 Trudeau; B. Woodruff; C. M. Walton; Reuben Reynolds; 

 R. A. Morehous; Joseph B. Lamoy, guide; Edgar Trembley; 

 Thomas Dewey; Z. A. Wilson; John W. Slater, guide; A. 

 W. Dudley, guide; C. F. Wicker; Edwin E. Sumner, guide; 

 Eugene Allen, guide; T. Edmund Krumbholz; Allen Bun- 

 nell; John H. Lunt, guide; George Sweeney, guide; F. H. 

 Bassett; Wm. P. Moody, guide; Wm. Fortain; Thomas 

 Parker, guide; Daniel Ames, lumberman; Charles C. Mc- 

 Caffrey, guide; Leonard Nokes; John Benham, guide; James 

 H. Peek; Millard F. Otis, guide; Fayette Moody, guide; 

 HoseaB. Colbath, guide; H L. Lobdell; E, W. Harrison; 

 Byron P. Ames, guide; Wallace Slater; Dan. Dennedy; 

 Will Manning; M. J. Norton, proprietor Adirondack Cot- 

 tages, Saranac Lake, N. Y. ; Pat Carey; George Washer; A. 

 Parsons, guide; Wm. H. Hinds; Warren J. Slater, guide; 

 Chas. Hays, guide; Lowell Brown, guide; John King, guide; 

 O. M Buutwell; May ne Whitman ; Simeon Torrance, guide; 

 Malcolm Smith; J. D. Alexander, proprietor Alexander 

 House, Saranac Lake; Georse Williams, Jr.; Milton C. 

 Patten; Charles Wilkins; Marshal Brown, guide; Wm. 

 Stearns, guide; Henry Davis, guid •; Jesse Corey, proprietor 

 of Rustic Lodge House, Upper Saranac Lake; Orton O. 

 Terry." 



Large Rainbow Trout.— On Monday last we saw a 

 rainbow trout weigning 5 pounds 14 ounces, at Mr. Black- 

 ford's in Fulton Market. The fish came from the ponds of 

 the South Side Sportsman's Club of Loug Island and was five 

 years old. It had died and was sent for exhibition to show 

 the great growth. The fish was a female and had not yet 

 spawned, but the great mass of eggs which were displayed on 

 a platter looked to be nearly ripe. 



imnel. 



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FIXTURES. 



FIELD TRIALS. 



Nov. 2-2.— Eighth annual field trials of tbe Eastern Field Trials Club, 

 at HiEjh Point, N. C. W. A. Coster, Secretary, Flatbush, Kings 

 county, N. Y. 



DOG SHOWS. 



March 16. 17, IS and 19.— Western Pennsylvania Poultry Society's 

 Dog Show, at Pittsburgh, Pa. C. B. Elben, Secretary. 



March 23. 24 and S5.-First Annual Dog Show of the New Jersey 

 Kennel and Field Trials Club, Newark, N. J. A. P. Vredenburgn , 

 Secretary. Bergen Point. N. J. 



JVIareh*30 to April 2.— Third Anuual Dog Show of the New Haven 

 Kennel Club. S. K Hemingwav, Secretary, New Haven. Conn. 



April 6, 7, 6 and 9.— Second Annual Dos Show of the New England 

 Kennel Club. Edward A. Moseley. Secretary, Boston. Mass. 



April 13, 14, 15 and l(i. First Annual Dog Show of the Hartford 

 Kennel dub. A. C. Collins, Secretary, Hartford, Conn. 



May 4, 5, 6 and 7.— Tenth annual dog show of the Westminster 

 Kennel Club, at Madison Square Garden, New York. James Morti- 

 mer, Superintendent. P. O. Box 1812, New York. 



May 18, 19, 20 and 21.— Third Annual Dog Show of the St. Louis 

 Gun Club, St. Louis, Mo. Geo. Munson, Manager. 



A. K. R. -SPECIAL NOTICE. 



IHE AMERICAN KENNEL REGISTER, for the registration of 

 pedigrees, etc. (with prize lists of aU shows and trials), is pub 

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

 Entry Wanks sent on receipt of stamped and addressed envelope. 

 Registration fee (50 cents) must accompany each entry. No entries 

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

 •American Kennel Register," P. O, Bo- 2832, New York. Number 

 of entries already printed 3333. 



Newport Fish and Game Association. — Newport, R,L, 

 Feb. 13. — At the annual meeting of the above association the 

 following officers were elected for the ensuing year: Presi- 

 dent, J. "P. Cotton; Vice-President, Rev. F. F. Emerson; 

 Secretary, F. H. Wilks; Treasurer, W. H. Hammett; Direc- 

 tors, Thos. Burlingham, W. P Sheffield, Jr., E. S. Ham- 

 mond, S. E. Greene, B, M. Thurston, 



The other day a fish peddler's horse balked on the 

 street and refused to budge an inch. The vender began to 

 belabor the beast with a stick, when an old lady thrust her 

 head out of a window and exclaimed: "Have you no 

 mercy?" "No, ma'am,'' replied the peddler, "nothing but 

 mackerel.'" 



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WORK IN MAINE. — The hatching station at Grand Lakk 

 Stream has a good quantity of eggs of the landlocked salmon. 

 This station, under the charge of Mr. Charles G. Atkins, one 

 of America's best fishculturists, is operated jointly by the 

 State and the United States, each bearing a portion of the 

 expense. The work here is almost entirely with the land- 

 locked salmon, at present there are now in the troughs 50,000 

 eggs tor Moosehead Lake, 25,000 eggs for New York waters, 

 50 000 for New Hampshire and some for Europe and other 

 parts, as well as 200,000 eggs of the sea salmon, the fry from 

 which will be placed in the St. Croix River. At the hatchery 

 at Orland, the United States has a large number 'of eggs of 

 the Penobscot salmon which are developing and will be dis- 

 tributed to State waters. Many have been sent to New York 

 and other places. At the State hatchery at Cold Stream, 

 Enfield, there are now 700,000 eggs of the sea-salmon which 

 will be used to stock the Penobscot. The work iu this State 

 has borne good fruit iu the wav of restoring salmon to the 

 exhausted streams, many having been caught during the last 

 season with the fly, while the nets yielded a supply for the 

 markets far iu advance of the catch during any season for 

 the past twenty-five years. 



A PET BEAR ON A TEAR,— The Ashtabula Record says 

 Some time ago Councilman Manning, agent of the Lake Shore 

 Company at the Harbor, bought a cub bear and kept it near 

 the Harbor depot. On Friday the bear escaped from its con- 

 finement, and going over into the road on the east side of the 

 river proceeded along it until the farm of Albert Fields was 

 reached. Here it turned off, and going to the house, of wtucfi 

 the doors were left open, proceeded to take possession. Mrs. 

 Luce, the wife of the tenant of the farm, was alone m the 

 house, and one can imagine her astonishment and feeling at 

 seeing a half grown bear walk in. The dinner table had not 

 been cleared away, and his bearship at once took control of 

 matters, getting upon the table, and after eatmg everything 

 within his reach demolished most of the dishes Evidently 

 entering heartily into the spirit of demolition, he next tackled 

 a sewing machine, which was soon in ruins, and then chairs, 

 stands and other furniture went down under his paws, until m 

 a short time the interior of the house looked as though it bad 

 been struck by a cyclone. During this time Mrs. Luce was 

 of course, unable to prevent the doings pt Mr. -Brum, and just 

 as she was giving up in despair her husband returned and 

 succeeded in cornering the bear, which, though young and 

 destructively mischievous, was not savage. A visit from a 

 live bear is an extraordinary occurrence tor tins aeotion, and, 

 judging from this one, is not very desirable. 



THE ENGLISH SETTER STANDARD. 



WE have carefully read the standard for the English set- 

 ter submitted by the committee of the American 

 Kennel Club and must say that we are greatly disappointed. 

 We had a higher opinion of the ability and intelligence of the 

 committee men than the result of their labors seems to war- 

 rant. A document of this kind, above all else, should be 

 entirely free from ambiguities and couched in language that 

 is perfectly plain to all. Some portions of the standard are 

 lamentably deficient in this vital point. This is not its worst 

 fault, however, as a strict adherence to some of its provisions 

 would result in serious harm to the animal it professes to 

 serve. Take the first paragraph in the description of the head 

 which we quote: "The skull is of a peculiar character, not so 

 heavy as that of the pointer and without their narrow and 

 marked prominence of the occipital bone. It is narrow or 

 of medium width between the ears, and should have a de- 

 cided brow over the eyes." Stonhenge's standard, from which 

 this is largely quoted, is as follows : ' 'The skull has a character 

 peculiar to itself , somewhat between that of the pointer and 

 cocker spaniel, not so heavy as the former's and larger than 

 the latter's. It is without the prominence of the occipital 

 bone so remarkable in the pointer, is also narrower between 

 the ears, and there is a decided brow over the eyes." It will 

 be observed that Stonhenge says the skull "has a character." 

 The new standard calls for a peculiar skull and we have no 

 doubt that if the requirement called for in the following sen- 

 tences is adopted by the breeder, that the English setter in a 

 few years will not only have a peculiar skull but that it will 

 be without character. Stonehenge says the skull is narrower 

 between the ears than that of the pointer, the new standard 

 calls for a skull "narrow or of medium width." This means 

 less room for brains and is indeed a new departure and a most 

 decided breaking away from the old traditions. If the intelli- 

 gent breeders of the country will consent to revise the charac- 

 teristic head of the English setter by following such a per- 

 nicious course as this points out, we very much mistake their 

 temper. There is no portion of an animal's anatomy so 

 characteristic of its pure breeding as the head: eliminate this 

 characteristic and vou have a mongrel ; reduce the brain room 

 and you have an idiot after a certain limit is passed. We have 

 had 'considerable experience with dogs with narrow heads 

 and almost invariably have found them to be deficient 

 in sense, especially in what is called hunting sense, one 

 of the most necessaiy attributes of the sportsman's com- 

 panion. Many of these dogs are possessed of abundant am- 

 bition to hunt, good noses, and with the pointing instinct 

 strongly developed, but as a rule they cannot be taught to 

 work to the gun ; this of itselt is enough to cond ; nm them, to 

 .say nothing of their lack of intelligence in other matters, A 

 'little further on the new standard says: "The jaws should be 

 jxactly equal in length, a snipe nose or pig jaws, as the 

 ^ceding lower one is called, being greatly agamst its 

 .pctesessor. " Aside from the ambiguity of this sentence it is in- 

 consistent with the demand for a narrow head, as a snipe nose 

 \vjll\lmost surely be the result of this conformation in the 

 English setter. . . 



In addition to the faults noticed m the description of the head 

 there is a painful lack of every necessary information as to 

 the relative value of the different points described. In fact 

 this fault is conspicious in nearly every sentence throughout the 

 work, and a most serious one it is. Even were the new stand- 

 ard perfect in other respects, this fault would render it abso- 

 lutely worthless for practical use, as the collection of words 

 means anything or everything according to the fancy of the 



The description of the neck commences with a very singular 

 statemen t. ' 'The importance of a long lean neck has not been 

 fully realized until quite recently," and then to make the 

 matter doubly sure the statement is repeated by adding, or 

 at all events, there has not been sufficient stress laid upon tbe 

 point" This statement very forcibly strikes us as being 

 diametrically opposed to the facts in the case. Our acquain- 

 tance among breeders and owners during the past forty years 

 has been extensive, and we fail to call to mind a single . individ- 

 ual of them all whose expressed opinion would afford tne com- 

 mittee one particle of ground upon which to base such an 

 assertion. As to the next statement, "Length of neck tends to 

 high-headedness," we refer the reader to the article of Ant- 

 werp" iu Forest ano Stream of Jan. 14, who places the 

 matter in its proper light- He says: 



"Inasmuch as the three upper bones of the forelegs, viz., 

 the shoulder blade, the upper and lower arm, are placed at 

 compensating angles to each other, the greater slope ot 

 shoulder naturally resulting from the altered direction ot : the 

 true ribs also necessitates a less inverse angle at the elbow. 



am at loss to define, except after seeing an individual dog 

 balance w hen in motion. This conformation also increases the 

 apparent length of the neck and facilitates its high carnage. 

 Length of neck alone does not do this, as I can recall many 

 dogs with a very long clean neck, but with a horizontal back 

 to whose bad field form but httle would have been added by 



CU Tnelection devoted^o shoulders and chest is so laboriously 

 studied in its ambiguities and inconsistencies that there is 

 absolutely no tangible ground for intelligent cntiqism, The 

 last sentence, however, has a definite shape and is quite a 

 curiosity in its way, "A longer dog than m present type * 



