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FOREST AND STREAM. 



LMay 13, 1886- 



item of news. I am informed on good authority that a com- 

 petent man proposes to iun a stage daily from Kingfleld to 

 Smith's Farm. Smith has been ill, but "Ken is himself 

 again." 



From a recent conversation with one of the efficient Com- 

 missioners of Fish and Game for the good old Pine Tree 

 State, I learn that grand sport is promised to the lovers of 

 salmon fishing at Sebago and on the Penobscot, and when 

 the season opens there will be "no end of fun" for those who 

 like myself gain health and happiness in fighting the gamy 

 black bass in the chain of ponds extending from Monmouth, 

 through Winthrop, Readfield and Mt. Vernon, to Belgrade. 

 Manchester and Gardiner have some of the oldest stocked 

 ponds, but are a little off the line I have named. Maiue has 

 now great wealth in all which attracts a true sportsman. 

 Later on 1 may have something to say of ruffed grouse and 

 large game. ' j. W. T. 



Boston, May 5, 1886. 



NOTES FROM EAGLE'S NEST. 



TO-MORROW signalzes the "trout opening" in this vicin- 

 ity and a hundred rods will bend over the flashing waters 

 of the west branch of the Delaware here, and in over twenty 

 pretty trout streams which are now flashing down our hills 

 close by. For the first time in many years at this date all 

 the snow and ice is gone, the trees are leaving out, the grass 

 is green, the apple trees in blossom and all nature on the 

 broad smile. Where will be my rod to morrow? Resting 

 in its case beside my rifles and shotguns in the armory. Why? 

 Ten weeks will be reached tu-morrow since I have been so 

 near to bliss as I am now, propped up in my invalid chair 

 near the window where I can look out on my green lawn 

 and see the sparkle of my trout brook at the "Pines." Ten 

 weeks of suffering— lingering between life and death— ill fit 

 me for this correspondence, but I can't, let the season pass 

 without a note to the dear old paper which has cheered me 

 even in my darkest hour. I do not know now when I will 

 be able to get nearer to the bright water to listen to the long 

 cherished music of forest and stream. 



And now, I wouldn't "tell tales out of school" if it was 

 not to prove that our streams, repeatedly stocked by two 

 citizens, dead within two years, John Griffin, John Bennett, 

 aDd myself, are strangely full of trout. 



As early as the 10th insfc, Mr. E. S.. one of your subscrib- 

 ers and an evident lover of rod and gun, encouraged by my 

 physician to wink at the law, brought to my sick room six 

 speckhd trout, the largest ten inches long, the smallest six 

 or more inches. It was a four-day feast, yet he caught 

 them within sight of Eagle's Nest and in a twenty-minute 

 tramp from his store. Bless him for thinking I might love 

 to look on a trout, even if unable to enjoy it. Four days' 

 rations were in those trout, anyway. 



And since this the little luck loving schoolboys have sent 

 in to "Old Uncle Ned" proof that the alder rod is as good as 

 the split bamboo, and a red worm as potent as an artificial 

 fly. 



Dell Maynard, while spearing suckers at night, by acci- 1 

 dent struck a beauty trout that weighed one pound and/a 

 quarter and measured near fourteen inches loner. It was sj 

 to cheer and strengthen the invalid. I grieved to see / ™ch 

 glorious yellow meat borne away, but I was too sick loinl. 

 I think "Ned Buntline, Jr.," my little. five-year-old/ ciuld 

 tell a different tale, for he is a chip of the old blpcka and 

 likes to catch fish and eat them, too 



Now, I have got to hold on. I have written as lpn Jas I 

 can hold my pen, and must fall back on my "beam elds," 

 as the captain of the Coot would say. From all I hear-»-and 

 I have many visitors — fishing has not been so promising for 

 years as it is now in Delaware and Sullivan counties. 



E Z. 0. Jubson ("Ned Buntline'' 



Stamford, N. Y., April 31. 



POACHING IN SARATOGA. 



Editor Forest and Stream. 

 The following is from a Saratoga paper of to-day: 

 The Schenectady Gazette has the following, which should 

 engage the attention of our sportsmen: "It is reported that 

 parties are illegally catching black bass in Saratoga comity. 

 What are our game clubs for? What are State protectors of 

 game ar>d fish appointed for? It is about time something was 

 done to stop the wholesale slaughter of black bass in Sara- 

 toga county by men who use spears, nets and other illegal 

 devices to deplete the lakes and streams in that county of 

 black bass. We are informed that parties have a 'rack' built 

 in the rifts of the creek near East Line and are capturing black 

 bass by the wagon. A few arrests and convictions might 

 prove beneficial." Why don't the town game constables look 

 into this matter? 



"Why don't the town game constable look into this mat- 

 ter?" Because it is a well-known fact that in many of the 

 towns of Saratoga county no man can be elected to the office 

 of town game constable unless it is well ascertained that be 

 will wink at infractions of the law. I have heard of one 

 who not only does this, but actually engages in illegal fish 

 ing and shooting. In Saratoga county many trout streams 

 are fished with nets in order to supply the hotels. It is said 

 that in July and August "chicken partridges," the youn w 

 ruffed grouse, are to be found in the ice boxes of the larger 

 hotels. 



And what is to be done about all this? There is no public 

 sentiment against it; it would be next to impossible to pro- 

 cure information or secure a conviction. Each man will say 

 "Well, if I don't do it somebody else will, and I don't see 

 why I should not. And so it goes "on. Meanwhile this devil- 

 born selfishness is cutting away the limb upon which it is 

 sitting, for year by year fish -and game are growing more and 

 more scarce, not because of the destruction of their habitat, 

 but because of the violation of the protective laws by selfish 

 men and the connivance of those whose duty it is to see the 

 laws enforced. M. 



[If the local authorities will do nothing, application should 

 be made to the State game protector of this region. If he can- 

 not or will not act, write to Gen. R. XT. Sherman, who will 

 certainly help you if it be in his power. If the bill to appoint 

 a superintendent of game protectors ever becomes a law and 

 a good man shall be nominated for the place, we may hope 

 that outrages, such as those detailed above, will no longer 

 be practiced openly.] 



Fishing est the Adirondacks. — The Malone Palladium 

 says: "The roads leading from Malone into the wilderness 

 were never better at this season than they are this year, and 

 if first reports indicate anything the waters in this vicinity 

 have not been more amply stocked in recent years with trout 

 eager to reward the efforts of the angler. Many parties from 

 Malone and a few from abroad have already tested rod and 

 reel in the neighboring waters, and from Meacham and 

 Chateaugay Lake in particular come reports of remark 



able catches. Two rods at Meacham have taken in five 

 hours full twenty-five pounds of speckled trout. At Chateau - 

 gny Lake the catches have been made mostly by trolling and 

 the salmon taken have been large both in number and in 

 size. One speckled trout weighing over five pounds has also 

 been caught. 



Trouting in California.— San Francisco, May 1. — 

 Editor Forest and Stream: But few trout have been taken in 

 our streams to date because but few anglers have fished them 

 because of the high water and discoloration. The streams 

 in San Mateo county have not been flooded, and consequently 

 fishing has been good. I went down there last week with a 

 party of three, and we fished Tornilas and San Gregorio 

 creeks and filled our creels. These streams are bushy, and 

 fly fishing is difficult and often impossible. These streams 

 are little visited, and therefore they afford better fishing than 

 those which are better known. I learn that Sulphur Creek, 

 in Sonoma county, promises well, but the best fishing near 

 San Francisco is said to be at Ciystal Springs, where some 

 of our local anglers have distinguished themselves. — San 

 Mateo. 



To Cool Water.— In a recent book of African travel, 

 mention is made of a linen bag used to hold water, which by 

 evaporation becomes ice cold. Could any African traveler 

 explaiu how the bag is made and of what precise material? 

 — X. P. [The principle of cooling water by evaporation is 

 a very familiar one, but we should be glad of any informa- 

 tion as to the particular mode above alluded to. Old army 

 men and campaigners on the plains will remember how often 

 they have cooled water by wetting the felt with which their 

 canteens are covered. So, too, with the porous crockery 

 used in Mexico, South America and India. In the Southern 

 States this method of cooling water is extensively employed.] 



West Canada Cheek. — This once famous trout stream 

 of Herkimer and Hamilton counties, N. Y., still has chances 

 for the angler, owing to repeated stocking by the State and 

 individuals. Mr. John J. Flanagan, president of the St. 

 Lawrence Angler's Association, writes, under date of May 5 

 from the Mountain Home, that trout are biting lively iu the 

 creek and fairly in the lakes. Mr. Flanagan finds Wilmurt 

 Lake too high a climb for his 300 pounds weight, but he has 

 taken several fine trout from the creek. This is a fine stream 

 for both wading and boat fishing, and is easily reached from 

 Herkimer, Prospect or Remsen. Quite a number of anglers 

 are at Ed Wilkinson's, and most of them have done fairly. 



How Got He There?— Odo of the most prominent dairy- 

 men of Orange county, N. Y., has a spring on his farm in 

 which for years he has kept a fine brook trout. The dairy- 

 man is a most upright and conscientious man, jmd was 

 grieved to get the following note from a New York man: 

 "The trout you sent me in one of the caus of milk was very 

 fine, thanks; but wasn't that a queer way to send it?" When 

 the dairyman explains it to bis neighbors that the trout 

 jumped into the can they grin and say, "O, yes," and this is 

 what puzzles him and us. " Perhaps the cow drank the trout, 

 who knows? 



Salmon in the Hudson.— A ten -pound salmon was taken 

 last Monday in Gravesend Bay, by JohnB. Denise, a fisher- 

 man of Coney Island. We saw the fish at Middleton & Car- 

 man's, in Fulton Market, and looked it over carefully to see 

 if there was a brand of "Cold Spring Harbor" on it, but 

 could not discover it. The fi9h no doubt is one planted in 

 the Hudson by order of Prof. Baird and was on its way 

 back. It was labelled "The first salmon from the Hudson 

 and probably the last," but all of the inscription may not be 

 true. 



Massachusetts Trouting. — Ayer, Mass., April 30.— 

 Some trout have been taken in our neighborhood. I am 

 usually quite successful, but have not tried them as yet. 

 Partridges wintered finely about here.— W. F. F. 



FIELD TIUALS. 



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. 



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

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



May 25, 26 and 27.— First D>>e Show of the Ninth Regiment, Wilkes- 

 Pa. W. H Tuck, Secretary, Wilkesbarre, Pa. 



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

 ager, Milwaukee, Wis. 



Sept. 14, 15, 16 aud 17.— First fall dog show of the New Jersey Ken 

 nel Club, Waverly, N. J. A. P. Vredenburg, secretary, Bergen Point, 

 N. J. 



A. K, R.-SPEC1AL NOTICE. 



THE 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. Yearlv subscription $1,50. Address 

 ("American Kennel Register," P. O. Bo-i 2882, New York. Number 

 of entries already printed 3689. 



AMERICAN CARP CULTURAL ASSOCIATION. 



T'HE regular spring meeting of this Association was held at 

 the St. Charles Hotel, in Philadelphia, on Tuesday, the 

 4th inst. Universal regrets were expressed because of the ab- 

 sence, for the first time, of the honored president, Judge 

 Parry, by reason of severe sickness. Dr. J. H. Brakeley pre- 

 sided. The following board of officers were elected for the 

 ensuing year: President, William Parry; Vice-President, Dr. 

 J. H. Brakeley; Secretary, Milton P. Peirce ^Treasurer, Samuel 

 K. Wilkins; Directors— S. T. Davis, Joseph Pyle, Edwin Tom- 

 linson, George Hamel, Sr. , Amos Ebert, Dr. J. H. Brakeley, 

 Dr. E. G. Shortlidge. [The president and secretary are ex- 

 officio directors.] 



An important resolution was passed respecting the establish- 

 ment of a monthly journal. 



Information having been sought by members of various State 

 Legislatures concerning a close time for carp in public waters, 

 and inasmuch as such waters throughout the country are rap- 

 idly becoming stocked with millions of surplus young carp 

 from thousands of ponds, and there being as yet no laws regu- 

 lating the same, it was 



Resolved, That this Association respectfully recommend that 

 the taking of carp in public waters, by any process whatever, 

 be prohibited throughout the Northern States between the last 

 day of March and the first day of October, and in the Southern 

 States for such longer period as experienced carp culturists 

 there may deem necessary, probably with the addition of 

 March and October to the close season. 



A committee was appointed, with Dr. S. T. Davis as chair- 

 man, to make such arrangements as they may deem proper 

 for a carp dinner upon the occasion of the fall meeting in 

 1886. 



The Association desires it more generally known that they 

 are not a company for speculative purposes, but a national 

 organization for the mutual benefit of carp culturists, their 

 only income being derived from membership fees, the same 

 (and much more in addition) being expended for the issue of 

 documents— no person connected with the organization receiv- 

 ing salary or emoluments of any kind. The membership fee 

 is $1, and. any person interested in carp culture may become a 

 member. Milton P. Peirce, Secretary, 



44 North Fourth street, Philadelphia, Pa. 



A GOLD MEDAL.— Pish Commissioner E. G. Blackford 

 was on Saturday morning visited by a delegation of the mem- 

 bers of the Assembly under the leadership of Hon. E. P. Doyle, 

 for the purpose of presenting a gold medal which had been 

 bestowed upon him by the Department of Fishculture of the 

 Lower Seine, France. This medal was sent by the French 

 Government to Governor Hill, and by him placed in the hands 

 of this delegation to present to Mr. Black ford. The inscription 

 on the medal is, "Mr. Blackford, Commissioner of Fisheries 

 of the State of New York,Depar tement D6 La Seine-Inf erieure 

 La Commission de Pisciculture, 30 Novembre, 1865." 



THE NEW YORK FISH COMMISSION. 



A MEETING of the New York Fish Commission was held 

 at the hatching house, Caledonia, on Wednesday, May 

 5. Messrs. R. B. Roosevelt, E. G. Blackford, W. H. Bowman 

 and Gen. Richard IT. Sherman were present. The meeting 

 was called for the purpose of considering the report to the 

 Legislature which has been prepared, and also to inspect some 

 land which adjoins the grounds of the State that have been 

 thought should be purchased in order to get a more conveni- 

 ent entrance to the hatchery. 



The report was read and agreed to, and it will be presented 

 to the Legislature within a few days. It will be larger than 

 any previous one and will be a valuable document, giving de- 

 tails of the work done at all the hatcheries, and will be more 

 than a mere account of waters stocked and a list of shipments 

 of eggs and fry. It was decided that it was inexpedient to 

 purchase the property ad joining the grounds at Caledonia, as 

 the owner demanded too high a price for it. It was also voted 

 to authorize Gen. Sherman to employ a se cretary to the Fish- 

 ery Commission. Reports were received from the different 

 hatcheries, showing a large increase in the work. 



After the business was disposed of, the Commissioners rigged 

 up their rods and tried the wild trout in the strear 

 and took brook trout, brown trout and rainbow troul, 

 were afterward cooked and eaten in the hatchery. tL. 

 inissioners expressed themselves pleased at the condition 

 the hatchery and ponds. 



hmel 



FIXTURES. 



NOTES FROM THE OCCIDENT. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



' Accept my most cordial greetings. My Federal duties hava 

 Prevented me from writing to your journal on many subjects 

 w¥ich interest lovers of good dogs, but I have read its glow- 

 ingVpages every week with real pleasure. This very moment 

 I ana greatly gratified by reading that Beaufort, the grand 

 poiater owned bv my valued friend Mason, has won the cham- 

 pioa ribbon at Newark against Graphic. I never saw the 

 latfer, but consider Beaufort the best large pointer I have 

 seep in many a day. With the exception of one or two minor 

 points he comes nearer to my idea of what a dog of his kind 

 oufht to be tnan any pointer I remember. What those points 

 I will not say, as you may think me too hard to please 

 hypercritical. And Mason will say I want a dog made to 

 [ der! Beaufort is certainly a splendid specimen of the mod- 

 n pointer, and far iu advance of Croxtetii el id omne genus. 

 I am glad Americans are purchasing some of England's best 

 St. Bernards and mastiffs. Merchant Prince must be a noble 

 animal from all I have read of him, and only second to the 

 grandest dog I ever saw and which I persuaded Mr. Hearn to 

 import— Rector. He may not have been perfect as a typical 

 St. Bernard; but his vast size (I measured him 35% inches at 

 shoulder at Crystal Palace, London, in 1881) and majestic car- 

 riage entitled him to be called the king of the canine race. 

 Had I been the happy possessor of much gold and abused silver, 

 Mr. "Fritz" Emmet would never have been a mourner over the 

 grave of that lost love, for Rector would have been mine over 

 and above any dog I ever saw, of any breed, and at no matter 

 how long a price. 



In vain have I endeavored to induce some of our wealthy 

 citizens here to invest in No. 1 specimens of man's most faith- 

 ful friend, the dog. Absolutely in vain have been all my 

 efforts, A man here who will give a few hundreds for a mas- 

 tiff, a St. Bernard, a setter, a pointer, a Newfoundland, or 

 even a greyhound— fond as some of our people are of coursing- 

 is looked upon as fit for Barnum or for an asylum! 



There is some talk of a bench show, but where the dogs are 

 to come from— except from the East - I "dinna ken!" There 

 are some fair setters and greyhounds here, a veiy few notice- 

 able pointers, and so far as I know (and I have pretty accurate 

 knowledge of them) not one mastiff, St. Bernard, Newfound- 

 land, deerhound, field spaniel, bulldog, bull-terrier, (except 

 my Kittie) or type of any other breed which could under a 

 good and conscientious judge win even he. in an established 

 and reputable Eastern bench show. 



I tried to induce some men of means to bring Memnon and 

 Mother Demdike, those two grand greyhounds, out here, the 

 price being quite reasonable. No, not one could be persuaded 

 to touch them. Apropos of greyhounds, I recently induced a 

 friend to purchase of Mr. H. W." Smith, the owner ot Memnon 

 and Mother Demdike, five puppies by Friday Night out of 

 Demdike. They arrived here recently in the most pitiable and 

 filthy condition imaginable. They were almost starved, were 

 so weak they could scarcely stand and the box they were ex- 

 pressed in was not large enough for throe of their size. Such 

 a cruel piece of work on the part of the sender and the ex- 

 pressman of Wells, Fargo & Co. in charge, deserves severst 

 condemnation. It will deter me from ever again inducing any 

 Mend to transport puppies from the East. 



A man who is not kind and considerate, wnere the welfare 

 of our little four-footed friends is concerned, would be pitiless 

 with children at the same tender age. I may be laughed at, 

 but the comfort of my dogs must be guarded with almost as 

 much solicitude as I would extend to human beings. 



There are many lovers of the horse here, revelling in lucre, 

 whom I am trying to interest, too, in fine dogs, and to get 

 them to import the best specimens ' of several breeds. They 

 have fine ''ranches" on which to create kennels. A man who 

 flon't love horses and dogs, and women and children, has got 

 m infernally mean streak in him somewhere, don't you think? 

 Che fact is, people here generally seem to manifest a total in- 

 lifference to good dogs. They display ignorance about them 

 ,hat is really laughable, and appear to think that the man 

 ivho does own them, or knows anything about them, is a queer 

 dud of a fellow anyway. In my opinion a man can show 

 peat brain power, and all kinds of talent, or genius, and yet 

 Inow a thing or two about the canine kingdom. "A man's a 

 man, for all that," don't you agree with me? Out here by the 

 Western Sea you can almost count on your fingers the men 

 who take a real interest in this subject, or who read the papers 



