April 23, 1886.] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



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April to the first day of September in each year. And such 

 speckled trout, brook trout, landlocked salmon and Califor- 

 nia trout taken in said counties of Queens and Suffolk during 

 the month of April may be had in possession in other coun- 

 ties of the State, but shall not be exposed for sale. In the 

 counties included in the Adirondack preserve, established by 

 Chapter 283 of the laws of 1830, it shall be lawful to catch, 

 expose for sale, and have iu possession after the same has 

 been caught, speckled trout, brook trout and California 

 trout from the first day of May to the fifteenth day of Sep- 

 tember, and salmon trout and landlocked salmon from the 

 first day of May to the first day of October." The engross- 

 ing clerk overlooked the period after the words "shall not 

 be exposed for sale." By omitting to put in that point and 

 by beginning the word ""in" with a small i the law virtually 

 reads, "But such speckled trout," etc., "shall not be exposed 

 for sale in the counties included in the Adirondack preserve." 

 That is to say, the whole intent of the act, so far as prohib- 

 iting the marketing of trout caught in Queens and Suffolk 

 counties within the period during which they are allowed to 

 be caught, is changed to mean that they may be marketed in 

 every county of the State except in the counties of the Adir- 

 ondack region, wherein the State has a preserve. 



Opening op tiie Maine Trotjt Season.— Recent letters 

 from the Androscoggin Lake region in Maine give it as the 

 opinion of the guides that the lakes will clear of ice by May 1 

 or a few days later. This is especially true of Oquossoc or 

 Rangeley Lake. The weather has been unusually warm 

 down there for April, and the guides claim that the ice is 

 rapidly melting. May 1 would be very early for these lakes 

 to clear; the average date for the past eight or ten years has 

 been May 14. There is very much of uncertainty about the 

 matter, however. "When the ice goes the trout season begins, 

 and the event will be hailed by sportsmen ready for the 

 annual fishing trip. Indeed, one or two parties propose 

 to leave Boston a day or two before the telegraph brings the 

 news of departed ice, in order to be on the ground for the 

 first trips of the little steamers to the fishing grounds. — 

 Special. 



Whitefisii and Grayling.— Timber Line, Montana.— 

 Editor Forest and Stream: In the Yellowstone River, and in 

 the Madison, Gal latiu and Jefferson rivers, which unite to 

 form the Missouri, there is a fish which rises to the fly, and 

 which is called the grayling or whiteflsh. An old Scotch- 

 man living in the camp says they are the same fish in every 

 respect which he had caught in Scotland, and were there 

 called the grayling. Last summer I showed some of them 

 to a gentleman from Michigan, who said they were not gray- 

 ling. A day's catch iu the Yellowstone shows about two- 

 thirds trout and one-third "grayling." so called. In the 

 Gallatin the catches average about one-half trout and one- 

 half grayling.— F. M. H. [Both whitefish and grayling are 

 found in these streams. The latter have distinct teeth and a 

 dorsal fin of seventeen to twenty rays. The whitefish have 

 no teeth and a dorsal fin of ten to twelve rays. ] 



Bass Flies — Athens, Pa. — Editor Forest and Stream: I 

 see that some of your readers want to learn how some killing 

 bass flies are made. I will give you a description of my 

 favorites: Dark orange body, with gold tinsel, red and yel- 

 low tail, cinnamon brown hackle, and the rayed feathers of 

 the mallard colored yellow for wings. This I find the most 

 killing fly for all times, dark or bright days, early or late in 

 the season ; that is, in the Susquehanna, Chemung and Clyde 

 rivers, Canandaigua outlet and the lower lakes. My next is 

 all black (crow's wings), hackle black, with silver tinsel, tail 

 black. Next is the hackle fly, which is the same as the first, 

 without any wings. Next is the Reuben Wood and scarlet 

 ibis, with orange body and gold tinsel. I also use the Fer- 

 guson ; but the first one, the yellow one, "takes the cakes." — 

 E. W. Davies. 



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 ing Co. 



THE AMERICAN FISHERIES SOCIETY. 



rf^HE fifteenth annual meeting of the Society was held in the 

 X Palmer House, Chicago, on April 13 and 14, pursuant of 

 a call issued by the executive committee some months previ- 

 ously. During the session there was a fine display of fish and 

 fishculture in the Permanent Exhibition Buildiug, which is 

 situated within a short distance of the Palmer House. This 

 display was made by the United States and the Michigan fish 

 commissions, and by private persons. 



By a coincidence hatching car No. ?! of the United States 

 Commission, in charge of Mr. J. P. Ellis, was at Chicago at 

 the time. It had started from Northville, Mich., on April 11, 

 with three million whitefish fiy in cans, to be planted at 

 Michigan City, Ind., and also three million whitefish eggs in 

 McDonald hatching jars, from the North ville station, to be 

 hatched en route and planted at Waukegan, 111. After plant- 

 ing the whitefish at Michigan City the car was then on its 

 way to Waukegan, and as the fish were not hatched, Mr. Ellis 

 stopped at Chicago to give the society a chance to view the 

 operations of hatching in transit. 



In the building Mr. Frank N. Clark, Superintendent of the 

 U. S. Fish Commission stations at Northville and Alpena, ex- 

 hibited whitefish one and two years old which he had grown 

 from the egg; Loch Leven trout one year old, grown from 

 eggs received from Sir James G. Maitland, Howieton Fishery, 

 Sterling, Scotland, sent as a gift to Professor Baird; grayling, 

 one year old, from eggs taken on the An Sable River, Michi- 

 gan; brown trout, two years old, from eggs presented by Herr 

 Von Behr to Mr. F. Mather and hatched by Mr. Clark, together 

 with fry produced from the same fish; lake or salmon trout 

 fry, rainbow trout, one and two years old; whitefish eggs in 

 process of hatching and fry. 



The Michigan Fish Commission, through its superintendent, 

 Mr. W. D. Marks, exhibited large brook trout from one to two 

 pounds weight, large grayling (wild fish), rainbow trout, land- 

 locked salmon, two years old ; hybrids of lake and brook trout, 

 lake and brook trout fry from their ponds at Paris, and a'so a 

 model of the Shaw hshway. 



A very interesting exhibition of pounds, fykes, gill and 

 pocket nets, with other apparatus for capturing fish were 

 shown by Carpenter & Company, of Chicago. A very hand- 

 some display of fishing tackle, comprising every thing used by 

 the angler, from an expensive salmon outfit dowu to a modest 

 hand line rig, was made by A. G. Spalding & Bros., Chicago 

 and New York. An exhibit of rowboats and sportsmen's 

 boats was made by R. J. Douglas & Compauy, Waukegan, 111. 



The meeting was called to order in the oall-room of the 

 Palmer House, on Tuesday the loth, at 11 A. M., by Vice-Presi- 

 dent Dr. W. M. Hudson, who. not expecting to preside, had 

 not prepared a formal address, as it had been understood that 



Colonel McDonald would be at the meeting. The following 

 letter was read by the secretary: 



Washington, D. C, April 10, 1886. -Sir: I am requested by 

 Col. McDonald to inform you that his baby died this morning, 

 and it will be impossible tor him to attend the meeting of the 

 Fisheries Society, which he exceedingly regrets. I send you 

 by to-day's express a package of papers, minute book, etc. 

 Very respectfully yours, J. J. O'Connor. 



Letters of regret were read from Mr. E. G. Blackford, Mr. 

 A. N. Cheney, Dr. R. E. C. Stearns, W. V. Cox. Geo. Shepard 

 Page and D. H. Fitzhugh. 



The morning attendance being veiy light, Dr. Hudson sug- 

 gested that it would be well to get through with such routine 

 work as was necessary, and leave the reading of papers until 

 the afternoon session, when no doubt the attendance would be 

 better. 



During the meeting the following new members were 

 eleeted : S. P. Bartlett, Quincy, 111. ; J. H. Bissell, Detroit, 

 Mich.; C. C. Hinchman, Detroit, Mich.; Dr. S. C. Adams, 

 Peoria, 111. • Herschel Whitaker, Detroit, Mich. ; Walter D. 

 Marks, Paris, Mich. ; N. K. Fairbank, Chicago ; A. Booth, 

 Chicago ; Dr. E. S. Holmes, Grand Rapids, Mich. ; J. N. 

 Dewey, Toledo ; Dr. R. O. Sweeney, St. Paul ; W. D. Tomlin, 

 Duluth, Minn. ; James Nevin, Madison, Wis. ; Philo Dunning, 

 Madison Wis. 



The chairman gave notice that during the meeting the fol- 

 lowing papers would be read: 



"Oyster Culture," "Smelt Hatching" and "Work at Cold 

 Spring Harbor, New York," by Fred Mather. 



"Fishculture as a Practical Art," by J. H. Bissell. 



"The Michigan Grayling," by Herschel Whitaker. 



"Intentional and Accidental Destruction of Species," by Dr. 

 R. E. C. Stearns. 



"Deep Sea Dredging on the United States Steamer Alba- 

 tross," by F. L. Washburn. 



"Transportation of Fish in the British Islands," by W. V. 

 Cox. 



"History of the Iced Fish and the Frozen Fish Trade of the 

 United States," by A. Howard Clark. 



The following gentlemen were then appointed by the chair 

 as a committee to nominate officers for the coming year, co be 

 elected on the following day. This committee consisted of 

 Messrs. May, of Nebraska; Butler, of Michigan; Bartlett, of 

 Illinois ; Sweeney, of Minnesota, and Downing, of Wisconsin. 



The meeting adjourned until % -M P. M. A full report of the 

 meeting will follow. 



FIXTURES. 



FIELD TRIALS. 



Nov. 8.— Second Annual Field Trials of the Western Field Trials 

 Association, at Abilene, Kan. R. C. Van Horn, Secretary, Kansas 

 City. Mo. 



Nov. 22.— Eighth annual field trials of the Eastern Field Trials Club, 

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

 county, N. Y. 



DOG SHOWS. 



April 27, 28, 29 and 30.— Third Dog Show of the Cleveland Bench 

 Show Association. C. M. Munhall, Secretary, Cleveland. O. 



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

 Kennel Club, at Madison Square Garden, New Yoi-k. 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. 



July 20, 21 , 22 and 23.— Milwaukee Dog Show. John D. Olcott, Man- 

 ager, Milwaukee, Wis. 



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- 

 ished 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. Yearlv subscription 81.50. Address 

 "American Kennel Register," P. O. Boj 2832, New York. Number 

 of entries already printed 3616. 



ENGLISH KENNEL NOTES. 



XXXIV. 



OUR bulldog fancy that quite boiled over has now settled 

 down again. The match between Rustic King and Tom 

 Ball was an event, and recalled the glories of bar-parlors in 

 the neighborhood of St. Martin's Lane. There was never any 

 doubt that the well-known prize-winner would gain the day 

 and at the same time the owner of Tom Ball may be said to 

 have gained his purpose, as for an outlay of railway fares and 

 a £10 note, he succeeded in making an unknown animal the 

 topic of the horn". Three times the amount spent in advertise- 

 ments woidd not have achieved the like. I understand that 

 Tom Ball can be bought for £ 100, I think he is well worth £80. 

 Mr. Lyell never exhibits, he buys on his own judgment and 

 sells for his own profit. He is a straightforward, shrewd and 

 canny Scotchman. Since the match, the bulldog men have 

 prostrated themselves before the new idol. Rustic King rules 

 supreme and has hedged himself with blinding divinity. But 

 for a' that and a' that Crabber can spare him a few points. 



At the late Hanley show an unexpected and undeserved 

 defeat overtook the rural monarch. Tne committee had dis- 

 played more originality than judgrneut in the selection of 

 their judges. Among the same was a certain Mr. Pemberton, 

 not Leigh Pemberton, but a member of the Bulldog Club. 

 This gentlemen is one of those fools of the fancy, who rush in 

 where angels of judgment fear to tread. He "judged from a 

 light-hearted, light-headed point of view that must have been 

 distractingiy comical to his victims. Rustic King and Queen 

 Mab were led before him in the challenge class. He was as 

 polite, as he was shallow so he put the lady first. When the 

 storm burst as it certainly did, the poor weak vacillating 

 judgeling confessed he had made a mistake, he was very 

 'sorry, he chattered, and he wouldn't do it again— boo-hooti. 

 Well, what could a man say more, or a woman for the matter 

 of that? Mr. George Raper was satisfied, Rhadamanthus had 

 stepped down from his seat and grovelled on his stomach for 

 pity, he bad erred and apologized, George was satisfied, voild 

 tout. That is Act L Act II. opens in the Aquarium Terrier 

 Show. The Hanley judge has recovered from his fright and 

 now pluckily protests he never withdrew his award, not he, 

 why should he, he still thought the bitch better than the dog, 

 come now, who's afeard ! These matters crept into print and 

 a befogged editor querulously inquired, "Now which is it, if 

 you please, did my reporter circulate a false account or did 

 Mr. Pemberton really apologize for the award at Hanley?" 

 Until now the judge and reporter remain dumb. Have they 

 been got at? I am sure I can't tell you ; as they say in the law, 

 "My had, this case has beeu settled out of court." One thing 

 can be relied on and that is Mr. Mouse-heart Pemberton will 

 never be asked to perform again. The Bulldog Club's next 

 show is announced to tske place at the Westminster Aquar- 

 ium in tfie summer. Mr. Ellis will judge for the first time. 



The terrier show in the same place was a glowing success. I 

 got there on the second day and could scarcely get to the 

 benches for the crowd of well-dressed, perfumed and gay beau 

 monde. The fox-terriers were a weak lot, somebody picked 

 up a bargin in a first prize wire-hair for £'d0. 1 noticed a 

 couple of gOod mustard dandies, Scotch terriers were not bad 

 but provokingly misjudged by a merryman named Pratt 

 who carried the joke so far as to pluck hairs out of the ex- 

 hibits' back to examine with a microscope — those that had 

 not three prongs at the root he declared belonged to dogs tha^ 1 



were not thoroughbred; after that fooling looking in the dog's 

 mouth to estimate his breeding by the color of his palate is 

 comparatively quite sensible. The Airedales showed up re- 

 markably well. Among them was a very fair second rater 

 entered at £3; from the opening of the show to the closing 

 hour this terrier furnished a deal of hard labor to the frantic 

 clerk in the office, as everybody who saw the price rushed 

 with the speed of a writ-chased debtor to claim the good 

 thing. 



But what a wanderer I am, I hadn't done with Hanley and 

 here I am in the Aquarium ; well, back to Hanley for a few 

 words. When you are in Rome, do as the rum 'uns do— so did 

 the Hanley exhibitors. They went to the circus and stopped 

 the performance, they went into the street and stopped the 

 procession, and generally continued to behave themselves "as 

 sich" with contentment to themselves and to the well expressed 

 contempt of a population not over nice in their manners or 

 appearances. It was playing it a few notes too low down. 



The smouldering ill-feeling against the ubiquitous all vic- 

 torious Mr. S. Boddington at Hanley, burst into a vicious 

 flame. The unbroken successes of his^kenneljhave long soured 

 his rivals and competitors. "He is always on the make," 

 they exclaim, "dogs are not his hobby, he makes a business 

 of them j he's a pot-hunter— look at his prize record ; he's a 

 mug-hunter— look at the sales he effects. Oh, this sort of 

 thing won't do for us, its nothing but 'our Mr. Boddington' 

 who travels for Collie, Collie & Co." Translated this carping 

 reads thusly: Mr. B. has judgment and money, by the ex- 

 ercise of a deal of the first and the outlay of a little of the 

 latter he contrives to secure the best dogs which he wins with 

 and sells to a profit, and there is not one of the grumblers who 

 would not do the same if he got the chance. I don't think the 

 progress of the breed much troubles Mr. Boddington, but I do 

 think he involuntarily advances it all the same by putting 

 decent dogs into circulation. 



His last offense consists of having ' 'picked up" a good dog at 

 a fair price (£50) that was in a subordinate position at the 

 Crystal Palace. At Hanley this dog beat the C. P. winner, 

 The Squire, and the latter's owner, Mr. Charles, made a scene 

 in the ring and swore the dog was lame, but this not the 

 judge, the vet. , nor the onlookers could see. No matter, Mr. 

 Charles who, with Mr. Ashwin and one or two others, is 

 known to subscribe to the mean suspicions of the now in- 

 famous and notorious "collie circular," had kept his envious 

 wrath corked long enough, so he let loose his frothy feelings 

 and soon everybody knew that according to Mr. Charles, his 

 successful opponent, Mr. Boddington, squared judges and made 

 the awards safe over night. Every impartial person who ex- 

 amined Rob Roy MacGregor asserted that the lump on his leg, 

 the effect of an old accident, in noway interfered with his 

 level gait, still Mr. Charles was not to be baulked, he had re- 

 ceived an anonymous telegram from Birmingham "putting 

 him up to it," that Boddington's new dog was lame; so he 

 deposited his sovereign and the Kennel Club have to consider 

 the objection. When I heard of Mr. Charles's passionate 

 charges against his successful opponent, I remarked it was a 

 great pity all this sneering and snarling among men in the 

 same hobby, a pity that the pursuit of pleasure and prizes 

 should thus make bitter enemies of former friends. "Not a 

 bit of it," I was told, "why, I did hear they shook hands before 

 going to lodge an objection against one another." I gazed at 

 the speaker with despairing incredulity. My brain was 

 softening, as George Sims' (Dagonet) lines ran through my 

 head: 



They called one another the vilest of names, 

 They played one another the shubbiest games, 

 They ascribed to each other the meanest of aims— 



But still they were personal friends. 

 They struck one another with poker and tongs, 

 They did one another the cruellest wrongs, 

 They labelled each other in scandalous songs— 



But still they were persona) friends. 

 They stabbed one another with knives in the back, 

 They tried hard to get one another the sack. 

 And each put the 'tecs on the other one's track- 

 But still they were personal friends. 

 Each tore out by handful9 the other one's hair, 

 Each scratched till the other one's cheek-bones were bare, 

 And each made the other one halloo and swear- 

 But still they were personal friends. 

 At last they fell senseless and smothered with gore, 

 The doctor arrived, and said both were no more; 

 They had sent one another to Pluto's warm shore — 

 But still they were personal friends. 



LOLLIBULERO. 



March 27, 1880. 



[TO BE CONTINUED.] 



[Letters from England to be addressed to "Lillibulero," care 

 of Mr. T. Hamblen, 16 The Higher Parade, Leamington.] 



DOG SHOW SECRETARIES AND "SPECIALS." 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



"V. M. H." lately gave some very sound advice on the first 

 of the above subjects, using the late Pittsburgh show as a text, 

 and I feel like enlarging on the same matter. We will all 

 admit that the exhibitor is responsible for the correctness of 

 his entries, that on him rests the onus of seeing that all is in 

 accordance with rule and letter; but does this absolve the sec- 

 retary from all responsibility ? For instance, the premium list 

 clearly sets forth that three wins at shows given "under the 

 auspices of clubs members of the association" are required 

 to qualify for entry in the champion class, and gives a list of 

 clubs members of ' 'this association. " It was painfully evident 

 at Pittsburgh that not the least attention had been paid to 

 this by the authorities; entry after entry appeared on the 

 catalogue that did not show sufficient wins to qualify. In one 

 of the champion fox-terrier classes neither of the competitors 

 were eligible ! 



IN ow, will it be contended that it is simple honesty for a 

 club to take the money for an entry when the entry form 

 plainly shows that the animal is not eligible under then' own 

 rules? and does it help the honesty of the transaction to accept 

 the entry and then shamefully deny their own published rule 

 by refusing the protest that follows, as was done in the St. 

 Bernard puppy class? In other words, are dog show clubs 

 under any obligation of treating exhibitors with common 

 honesty? 



1 was speaking with the brains of the Pittsburgh Club about 

 their folly in so curtly refusing exhibitors their plain rights 

 to a hearing, when he said, "The right thing to have done was 

 to refuse an entry that was wrong, and not to take a man's 

 money and then beat him out of his winnings." "Brains" is 

 nearly always right, and he was not far from it here ; but he 

 fails to recognize the rights that a protesting exhibitor has. 

 I thought there was a purpose to punish Philadelphia exhibi- 

 tors for their upsetting the show last fall; at all events, I heard 

 more complaints from Philadelphians than from all others. 



Your remarks^on specials were to the point, but you might 

 have written a bookjon the ludicrous aspect of the phenom- 

 enon. Just think of an Irish water spaniel winning a cooking 

 stove! I twice noticed a fine, jolly looking gentleman study- 

 ing that wonderfull cooking stove that was stuck up on stilts 

 at the entrance to the show in the most prominent position 

 that could be had. After conjuring over the cause of his deep 

 interest in a very small and common looking stove, I came to 

 the conclusion that he was an old bachelor contemplating 

 matrimony and he was studying up on the matter; but I wa3 

 set right on this before the show closed, by learning that he 

 was an Irish water spaniel fancier; I warrant that he was 



