June 10, 1886.] 



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The Fluttering Fly.— We give herewith a cut of a new 

 fly, invented by Mr. Wakeman Hplberton and patented by 

 Mr. Charles F. Imbrie, of the firm of 

 Abbey & Imbrie, New York. A trlanoe 

 will show that the head of ttie fly is 

 near the bend of the hook instead of at the 

 end of the shank, in fact it is turned com- 

 pletely about. It is claimed that the new 

 fly offers less resistance to the air in cast- 

 ing and more resistance to the water in 

 drawing it in, thereby giving it a flutter- 

 ing, difelike motion, in fact appearing 

 more like a natural insect than the old 

 patterns whose wings close when being 

 drawn through the water. Mr. Holberton 

 the fluttering fly. says of this fly: "While the peculiar flut- 

 pahmtci Ma? nil, is* teriug motion adds very much to its at- 

 tractive qualities, its great merit lies in Us superior hook- 

 ing qualities. A fish cannot nip at the wings or tail, 

 but swallows the hook before any part of the fly. In five 

 days fishing this season I caught sixty-six trout, losing only 

 three that were hooked, an unusual small percentage, as 

 every angler must admit. " 



Hooked in the Gullet. — The fight of a hooked trout 

 depends much on the way in which it is hooked. A Detroit 

 correspondent who sends a drawing of a 17i inch, 2£-pound 

 trout, says: "My brother writes from Muskegon county as 

 follows: 'I inclose a life-size drawing of a sockdollager 

 (trout) that I caught out of the pond near the dam; was just 

 about, to draw up my line and go home when I felt a slight 

 nibble, and drew up promptly but no game. Dropped in 

 again and felt the same, but left the bait (the tail of a min- 

 now) to allow the fish to gorge it ; and sure enough he did, 

 and when I pulled he came to tbe surface with a rush, and 

 Paul, who was standing near, said, 'Brose, you have got a 

 whale this time sure. - ' The hook had caught in his gullet 

 and the strain caused him to keep his mouth open which 

 soon drowned him. He didn't make half the fuss in conse- 

 quence that a smaller one would have done caught in the lip. 

 1 finally drew him up on the shore of the dam, and Paul 

 grabbed the line and flung him out. and you bet we just 

 enjoyed the sight of so fine a fish, the largest caught in the 

 creek so far, and a beauty in shape and color. Since then 

 have caught a few; have taken forty-two in all.' " — 0. J. T. 



Immh 



Another Big Trout.— Mr. Thos. B. Mills, of Wm. 

 Mills &Son, No. 7 Warren street, N. Y., sends the follow- 

 ing communication, describing a large trout just taken "in 

 out of the wet" at Rangley: Oquossoc Angling Association, 

 Indian Rock, Me., Camp Kennebago, June 5, 1»86.— Dr. 

 Charles Haddock, of Beverly, Mass., George Oakes guide, 

 took off Sandy Point, Lake Mooselucmeguntic, a" trout 

 weighing lOf- pounds. The weight was taken nine hours 

 after fish was caught, and must have been at least 11 pounds 

 at time of capture. Length, 28i inches; girth, 16£ inches. — 

 Charles G. White, F. H. Loyell, Thos. A. Perkins, 

 Thos. B. Mills. 



quehann a Bass.— Athens, Pa., June 7.— Bass fishing 

 on the Susquehanua promises to be good here this summer, 

 as they are taking the fly quite readily now as bait is not 

 obtainable yet. The largest bass caught this season weighed 

 4 pounds 9 ounces and was taken by Mr. E. W. Davies on 

 a black fly. A few others have been caught, but none as 

 large as this. "The Six" have just returned from a trouting 

 trip to Pine Creek, Potter county, with a fine mess of trout 

 and all of good size. — P. 



A Salmon Yarn.— Now that the Atlantic coast rivers are 

 being stocked with salmon, the hardy seafarer is gradually 

 turning his inventive faculties from sea serpent yarns to 

 stories of big salmon seen at the mouths of the stocked rivers 

 and in the harbors. Capt. Stud well, of Babylon, L. I., is 

 ahead with a tale of a salmon eight feet long observed last 

 Friday evening in the Great South Bay. 



The Detroit Lake, St. Louis, St. Paul and Minne- 

 apolis Fishing and Shooting Club issues for trie bene- 

 fit of members of the club and their invited guests, round 

 trip tourist tickets from St. Paul or Minneapolis to Detroit 

 and return, good until Oct. 31, following date of sale at 

 rate of $6. 



Club Rules — We have frequent calls for copies of club 

 rules, by-laws and constitutions. Secretaries of gun clubs, 

 angling clubs and game protective associations will oblige us 

 by Bending spare copies of their printed rules, that these may 

 be in turn sent to organizers of new clubs. 



Allen's bow-facing oars, ! 

 m.-Adv. 



i per pair. Fred A. Allen, Monmouth, 



Address all communications to the Forest and Stream Publish- 

 ing C o. 



/ SHAD FOR THE HUDSON, — Two car loads of shad have 

 J been sent from the central hatching station of the TJ . S. Pish 

 Commission at Washington for the Hudson. They were 

 offered to the ISew York Commission and accepted by State 

 Commissioner Blackford. The first lot of 1,000,000 was planted 

 at Troy and the second shipment of 500,000 were put in a Gate- 

 kill. These with the 250, 0U0 from Cold Spring Harbor, planted 

 at Greenbush, makes a total of 1,750,000 already planted. As 

 the shad of the Potomac spawn bef ore those of the Hudson 

 these fry get an earlier start. The New York Commission 

 usually begins hatching about Catskill in June. 



SALMON FOR THE ANDROSCOGGIN. — Belfast, Me., 

 June 3. — The Fish Commissioners of this State have placed 

 one hundred thousand salmon frv in the tributaries of the 

 Androscoggin River. The fry are strong and healthy and 

 promise well. — H. 



FISHWAYS FOR NEW YORK RIVERS. — The Governor 

 of the State of New York has signed the bill providing for 

 fishways in the Schoodic and Mohawk rivers in Montgomery 

 and Schoharie counties. 



The so-called "trout" of South Georgia and Florida is not a 

 trout but a black bass. Our perch are not perch but sun fish. 

 A jack is a pickerel. Catfish are not all catfish ; some of them 

 are bull pouts. Our red-tinned pike is only found in Southern 

 waters and near the Gulf. Our war-mouth perch is a rock 

 bass.— Quitman {Ga.) Free Press, 



FIXTURES. 



FIELD TRIALS. 



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

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

 Citv, 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 8HOW8. 



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

 ager, Milwaukee, Wis. 



Aug. 2i, 25, 26 and 27.— First Annual Dog Show of the Latonia 

 Agricultural Association. Covington, Ky. George H. Hill, Manager, 

 P. O. Box 76, Cincinnati, O. 



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

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

 N. J. 



A. K. R.-SPECIAL NOTICE. 

 npHE 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. Boi 2882, New York. Number 

 of entries already printed 3689. 



IRREGULAR BENCHINGS AT DOG SHOWS, 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



In your report of the recent show held by the W. K. C. your 

 reporter complains of the manner of benching the dogs, those 

 belonging to one exhibitor all together, regardless of class, 

 offering as his objection, the trouble visitors and reporters 

 have in finding certain dogs, the same of the attendant when 

 required to take them into the judging ring. 



It is true this trouble exists to a small extent, but there are 

 greater conveniences to the exhibitor than he mentions, "a few 

 steps in caring for them and the pleasure afforded in seeing 

 them together." 



The time is past when the "intelligent" exhibitor will put his 

 dogs into the show to be cared for and shown by the regularly 

 employed assistants of the club, knowing well the great dis- 

 advantage they will be under in the charge of a stranger, one 

 almost always ignorant of what is fully required of him. ' The 

 feeding, watering, and exercising is not all, particularly a young 

 or inexperienced animal, wants. Then the pulling or kicking into 

 the ring so often seen (the superintendent caunot be every- 

 where at the same time) and placed behind his (the attendant's) 

 legs. We saw Mr. Donner send a well known handler for a 

 bitch that was treated thus at the above show, and she really 

 deserved her he, which, under some hands, would have been 

 overlooked. Then, how many dogs are groomed by the 

 assistants? 



You may say this is foreign to the subject. What is desired 

 to be shown is of much greater importance to the exhibitor 

 than you intimate— to have his dogs together that he may 

 personally (or by ijroxy) groom, feed, water and generally 

 care for them— the unobstructed view of each other, the 

 smelling, an occasional caress; the presence will assist the dogs 

 in enduring their confinement, there will be less noise, less 

 nervous excitement, no fighting round the corners or over 

 tops of the stalls, and last, but not least, far less cause of 

 disease so prevalent and so much feared at shows. I have 

 never had a case (or had one reported me in those I have sold) 

 of distemper from attending the shows, and 1 attribute it in a 

 great measure to training my dogs, young and old, within see- 

 ing and smelling distance of each other. . 



I think this greatly overbalances the slight inconvenience 

 the visitors and the few reporters are put to in finding and 

 comparing certain dogs. For the latter there are ample oppor- 

 tunities in the judging or exercising ring, upon tbe floor, etc., 

 during the four days (it should be three) of the show. 



Doubtless the management you complain of was the result 

 of the gentlemanly superintendent or the club listening to the 

 requests of exhibitors and waiving any desire or pride they 

 may have had to have seen the numbers ran with the cata- 

 logue. 



As an exhibitor, I know its value and am for it all the time; 

 if I cease to exhibit I will not decry it, having "been there." 



Ask the owners of the dogs, from two to six in number, on 

 the open benches in the show, and see if they do not say there 

 is even much more than has been stated above in it, and surely 

 they, as the foundation, should be convenienced as much as 

 possible with consistency. E. W. Jester. 



St. George's, Del. 



Kennels, of Peekskill, N. Y. Last, but not least, the grandest 

 dog that I ever saw (and I have seen quite a number of them) 

 is Truman's Bob T. , sired by Willard's Bob out of Senator Geo. 

 Hearst's imported Kate II. I hav? in my possession a photo- 

 graph of J. A. J. Sprague's champion Brush, which I have 

 shown to a great number of mv friends, and they one and all 

 pronounced it the photograph "of Truman's Bob T. This dog 

 is as intelligent as he is beautiful. Mr. Seott is the owner of 

 three very fine red Irish setters, Jerry, Lena and Pat O'More. 

 Pat O'More is by champion Rory Q'More out of Nora O'More. 

 The above-mentioned are very fine specimens of their breed 

 and were purchased in the East by Mr. R. H. Neil. Chas. B. 

 Keating, the well-known gunsmith and sportsman, is the owner 

 of a very fine Irish setter, sired by Colgate's Pat out of Howe's 

 Gipsy. He is a large and powerful dog. Judge B. Leavesly, 

 of Gilroy, is the owner of a full brother to Truman's Mike T., 

 and there are a great number of the strain owned by R. H. 

 Neil in this State. 



This is as far as my limited knowledge extends of the Irish 

 setters on this coast. In regard to other breeds it will aiford 

 me great pleasure to contribute what little knowledge I have 

 of them to your valuable and interesting paper, from time to 

 time. I desire to inform your readers that we have on this 

 coast the full brothers and sisters of some of the most noted 

 dogs in the United States. 



It is a settled fact that the California Bench Show and Field 

 Trials Club, of San Francisco, will give a bench show, com- 

 mencing on the last week of July next, it is to be hoped that 

 the Colonel will not wander in the future, and if his time is 

 not occupied too much with the arduous duties of his federal 

 office, I would be pleased to have him call around and see my 

 file or the Forest and Stream, when I will endeavor to con- 

 vince him, by the records, that the term innocuous desuetude 

 is rather wrongly implied in his kind and interesting commu- 

 nication to your much read paper. In my next communica- 

 tion I will endeavor to inform your reader's of the quality of 

 pointer stock on the Pacific coast. Vox Populi. 



San Francisco, Cal., May 25. 



DOGS OF THE OCCIDENT. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



Being a constant reader of your valuable paper for the past 

 several years, and deriving great pleasure from reading it, I 

 desire to correct a few misstatements in the interesting com- 

 munication from Col. Stuart Taylor, published in your issue 

 of May 13. He cannot be very well posted on dog matters, 

 nor can he be very well acquainted with many of the dog 

 fanciers or sportsmen on this coast; if he were he would know 

 that your paper has many subscribers here, also that there 

 are many fine bred dogs or various breeds owned by gentle- 

 men in the Far West. The Colonel is known to be an impul- 

 sive man, and without a doubt has rushed into print on the 

 impulse of the moment regardless of facts, of which he could 

 have convinced himself if he had conversed with any of the 

 many gentlemen who take an interest in kennel matters oh 

 this coast. 1 will, with your permission, mention a few of the 

 many noted dogs that are owned here. 



Senator Geo. Hearst imported to this coast the red Irish 

 setter bitch Kate II. (E.K.S.B. 11,552) bred by Capt. J. H. 

 O'Brien, Dublin, Ireland. She is by Sandy, dam, O'Brien's 

 champion Kate. She took first prize at Belfast and Porta- 

 down shows in 1882. She was exhibited at Crystal Palace of 

 1882-'3, and on both occasions was beaten by her mother, 

 champion Kate, the best Irish setter bitch in Great Britain! 

 Mr. C. N. Post, of Sacramento, is the owner of a fine Irish set- 

 ter bitch named Dido, bred by Capt. J. D. Brown, of Missouri 

 Valley, la., one of the prominent breeders of the West. Dido 

 was sired by champion Ben, dam Jessie, by imported Grouse 

 out of imported Gipsy. Dido is a very fine bitch, but is 

 strongly marked with white. A number of fine Irish setters 

 are owned by Mr. A. B. Truman, of this city. The most 

 prominent are Lady Elcho T. (A.K.R. 2777), Mike T, 

 (A.K.R. 2779), Nemo T. and Bob T. Lady Elcho is 

 by champion Elcho out of champion Noreen, and is 

 a full sister to champion Elcho, Jr., a full sister to champion 

 Glencho, half sister to champion Berkley, half sister to cham- 

 pion Brush, half sister to champion Joe, Jr., the most noted 

 dog that ever worked a field. On three different occasions 

 he defeated the king of English setters, Gladstone. Lady Elcho 

 is related to too many noted dogs for me to enumerate. Mike 

 T. is by Nemo out of Nida, Nemo by Larry out of Quail III., 

 Nida by Larry out of Red Bess, Larrfby champion Elcho out 

 of champion Rose. Quail IIL was imported in utero, and is 

 by Red Gauntlet out of Quail II. Red Bess by King Bee out of 

 Fannie. King Bee by imported champion York out of im- 

 ported Banshee. Fannie by champion York out of Gipsy, 

 fhis strain requires no eulogy, as it is well known throughout 

 the dog world. Nemo T. is the sire of Mike T. He was pur- 

 chased by Rev. Dr. Hill, of Salem, Ore., from the Cortland 



THE A. K. C. AMENDMENT. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



At the last meeting of the A. K. C. the following amend- 

 ment was adopted: 



"The champion rule was amended so as to authorize show commit- 

 tees to transfer a dog from open to champi ;n class which had be- 

 come qualined subsequent to the date of closing of entries." 



It does not appear to me that the foregoing amendment 

 could possibly have been discussed in all its different bearings 

 before its adoption by the A. K C. Viewing it now from the 

 standpoint of an exhibitor, it further appears that it will lead 

 to no end of complications and absolute dissatisfaction as well 

 as annoyance both to exhibitor and the club. 



To place the matter as I view it, it will be necessary to illus- 

 trate its workings. Assuming the premises, the case is as fol- 

 lows: I have 6 dogs— 3 bitches and 3 dogs— two of which are 

 already entered in champion classes. I have one dog and one 

 bitch in open classes. I have won first in both open classes at 

 New Haven and Boston, and not until after the entries at the 

 W. K. C. are closed and the week preceding the show do I 

 get advice that my dogs have won each first at Hartford. 

 According to the amendment this throws both open class dogs 

 into the champion classes, so I now have two bitches and two 

 dogs in those classes. 



Now the privilege must be allowed me to withdraw either 

 two of my four dogs in champion classes, refund me my entry 

 fees, change the catalogue now already in the hands of the 

 printer, perhaps in those of the binder; also allow me two 

 more entries in open class, and here change the catalogue 

 again. In the event of not being allowed to withdraw two 

 of my dogs from the champion classes, I am compelled to 

 show the four against my will, thus subjecting my own dogs 

 to be beaten by my own, which I otherwise 'would not 

 permit. 



In addition to this I must keep the two I have at home con- 

 tinually in good show form in order to meet suoh an emer- 

 gency at the very eleventh hour; and since it takes at least 

 six weeks to accomplish this, I must be at the additional ex- 

 pense without any apparent benefit accruing to either myself 

 or my dogs. 



Provision must be made allowing me to withdraw which- 

 ever of my dogs I please from the champion classes into which 

 they have been thrust at a day's notice and also to substitute 

 others in open class. I have now only touched upon the in- 

 terests of the exhibitor who is within a stone's throw of the 

 show at which this amendment will apply; what shall I say 

 of the exhibitor who ships a good dog from St. Louis to Bos- 

 ton, and the owner when the show opens is notified that his 

 dog is thrust into the champion class. He would never have 

 shown against some champions, and here be is defeated with- 

 out a chance of escape. Will he "kick"? Put yourself in his 

 place. In case he is allowed to withdraw his dogs who will 

 defray expenses of carriage, etc. The club? If not wili the 

 exhibitor be satisfied with the change? 



A dog also may be fit to win in open class and yet have no 

 chance against the champion, and to enter would mean posi- 

 tive defeat. Again there are special prizes for dogs in open 

 classes which incentive to win may be suffioient for me to ex- 

 pend additional labor and time in getting my dogs in perfect 

 condition and which I now am barred from competing for, as 

 my other dogs are not in proper form. There are a dozen 

 other reasons why this amendment should be abolished. 



1 trust the A. K. C. at its next meeting will recognize the 

 force of my remarks and arguments and act upon them. 



Common Sense. 



THE BREEDING OF TRINKET. — Editor Forest and 

 Stream: In reply to Mr. Schellhass regarding his beagle bitch 

 Trinket (Flute— Queen), let me say that when his first letter 

 appeared in which he drew my attention to the doubtfulness 

 of the bieeding of my bitch, I immediately sent a reply, which 

 appeared May 25, and which read as follows: "For his note 

 of May 8 concerning my beagle bitch Trinket, allow me to 

 thank Mr. Schellhass for drawing my attention to the matter. 

 My Trinket is the same bitch he alludes to as being advertised 

 some time since by a Pittsfield party. Mr. Schellhass missed 

 a very good chance to procure a first-class fielder for $12. 

 The price asked me for this bitch was $25, and I consider her 

 worth double that as a hunter alone. I shall investigate the 

 correctness of her breeding and inform your readers of the 

 result of my investigation, assuring them at the same time 

 that it was far from my intention to misrepresent anything 

 in connection with my dogs. Should this meet the eye of D. 

 J. Jaquith of Pittsfield, Mass., from whom I purchased Trin- 

 ket, I hope he will see the necessity of explaining the matter." 

 Since then I have investigated the matter to the best of my 

 ability. I wrote to Mr. Elmore, whom Mr. Jaquith gave as 

 the breeder of this bitch. This gentleman seems to kuow 

 nothing of selling or breeding this same bitch. This, together 

 with Mr. Jaquith's failure to reply to any of my letters re- 

 cently written him in regard to tbe full pedigree of the bitch 

 which he had promised to send with her, but failed to do so 

 leads me to believe that the breeding of the bitch has been 

 misrepresented to me, and I am therefore under the circum- 

 stances perfectly willing to withdraw any claims made by me 

 in ignorance of the facts, for this bitch. In regard to my ad- 

 vertising her under tbe name of Trinket, 1 cannot see how 

 any one can construe this as a misrepresentation; besides 

 that. I had sent the copy of my advertisement to the Forest 

 and Stream before I received the copy of Mr, S.'s first letter. 

 —A. C Krtjeger (Wrightsville, Pa.), 



