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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[Sept. 2, 1886. 



SILKWORM GUT. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



We are in receipt of so many inquiries from anglers in 

 regaxd to the prospects of the present crop of Spanish 

 silkworm gilt, that we believe the following ^vill prove 

 interesting to many of yom- readei's: 



The advance of 25 per cent, in the price of gut, which 

 we advised you of last year, was fully maintained in 

 Murcia. The unusually large quantities bought at low 

 figures and held by dealers thi-oughout the world, in con- 

 nection with the very depressed state of trade last season, 

 combined to check any material advance of price in this 

 country and England. Nearly all of the small manufac- 

 turers in Murcia, and several of the largest, seeing that 

 they could not sell their production at cost, shut down to 

 await better times. In addition to this, the season last 

 spring (the most critical period) was very unfavorable. 

 Consequently, almost none but the healthiest and most 

 carefiilly tended worms survived. 



The present situation then is this. The stocks through- 

 out the world are almost entirely exhausted. Trade is 

 improving and there -wdll be a demand for more than the 

 usual supply, while the supply is fully 33J per cent, be- 

 low the average. The quality of the present crop (except 

 in the very hea^^est and the very lightest sizes) is better 

 than usual. The improvement in quality will be equal to 

 an increase of the crop, so that the supply will not prob- 

 ably fall more than 30 per cent, below the average. The 

 demand will be at least 25 per cent, below the average. 

 The knowledge of this has aheady driven the price 25 per 

 cent, above last year's prices in Spain, with no stock here 

 or in Europe to check the advance. There is no room to 

 doubt the correctness of the opinion that prices will ad- 

 vance far beyond present quotations and that before 

 January, 1887, silkworm gut will be worth about double 

 what it was last January. Abbey & Imbrib. 



New York, August 25, 1886. 



TROUTiNa ON Canada Creek.— Rome, N. Y., Aug. 20. 

 At 5 A. M., Aug. 13, I slung my basket over my shoulder 

 and started for my favorite pools of Canada Creek. At 

 about 6 '.SO I opened fire on them with all the line I could 

 safely handle. At 7:15 I had not had a strike, and I con- 

 cluded it Avas not late enough in the day for a fly, and 

 took off my coat and lay down under the large elm tree 

 by the creek. In less than ten minutes I was asleep. 

 When I awoke and looked at my watch it was half past 

 ten and the sun was shining, the clouds had nearly all 

 cleared away and I began whipping the creek with flies 

 again. At noon I had twelve small ones. Then I came 

 to a pond where, on one side, a tree hung over the water, 

 and made a cast directly under the boughs. The flies had 

 scarcely touched the water than — -Avhat a splash! — a trout 

 a foot long was seen in the air. However, he soon dis- 

 covered that he had been deceived, and now and again 

 for about ten minutes he would make breaks, and six 

 times jumped full length out of the water. The banks 

 were at least five feet high everywhere, and there was a 

 question as to how to get the landing net under him. 

 Soon he stopped breathing and I took the line and lifted 

 him out. It was a fib. trout and as broad as a black bass 

 of equal weight. I soon found he was not entirely alone. 

 In less than an hour my basket contained four more that 

 weighed a half pound apiece, besides some smaller ones. 

 At 3:30 I hooked another half-pounder. Although fly- 

 fishing is considered the liighest branch of the art of tak- 

 ing trout, yet I tMnk casting the grasshopper is equally 

 hard. I have had trout raise to grasshoppers when there 

 would be plenty of live ones on the surface of the water. 

 After I caught one more I cleaned my fish and started 

 for home. My six largest weighed exactly SJlbs. My 

 catch for that day, I think, was between twenty-eight 

 and thirty-two.— Will Wasp. 



Black Bass in Maine.— I think a majority of the b^s 



fishermen in this State will say a hearty amen to your 

 remarks on the proposition for ending the close time on 

 black bass May 20, notwithstanding the Augusta Journal 

 sajj-s, "Every wielder of the rod and line is in favor of the 

 change. July 1 is eaa-ly enoiigh to commence the fishing, 

 for even then they have not all finished spawning. The 

 quotation, "Every wielder of the rod and line," contains 

 the keynote to much of the prejudice against the black 

 bass. It is the "rod and line/' minus the reel, which robs 

 the sport of its chief fascination, and so many times sends 

 the would-be angler home empty-handed. Should close 

 time end May 20, then would the pot-fisherman be in his 

 glory, for with his "stick and string" he could meet the 

 bass on theu- spawning beds, and should they not be in a 

 biting mood he would still have left that resort so dear to 

 a fish hog's heart, viz., "grapneling," and after he had 

 "derricked" his boat full of fish he might be happy; but 

 can we afford to give up our future fishing for his de- 

 praved taste?— Black Spot. 



Red Bank, N. J., Aug, 30.— The rock bass of the Chesa- 

 peake Bay are coming down the Susquehanna River. I 

 took 48 Wednesday and Thursday, Aug. 25 and 26, avei'- 

 age weight, 51bs. Fished fom- hours on the 25tli and five 

 hoiu-s on the 26th. Shedder bait. Two to four miles 

 f rom Havre de Grace, on the flats or near by. The bass 

 fishing was the finest I ever had, because no small fish 

 bothered. Strong current, and lost but one fish, this on 

 account of forgetting the landing net. No bait at the 

 head of Chesapeake Bay; water too fresh; take your own 

 bait.— Geo. Wild. 



Sebago Lake, Me., Aug. 20— The Maine Fish Commis- 

 sioners are pushing forward their scheme for taking land- 

 locked salmon eggs this fall from Crooked River, the 

 principal spawning groimd of Sebago waters. One of the 

 best results to be obtained thi-ough these operations will 

 be better protection to the fish than can be afforded in 

 any other way. The spawning beds lying in shelter of 

 heavy woods have afforded the poachers many oppor- 

 tunities. — Blak Spot. 



The Gu ad aloupe Wreck. — Toms River, Ocean County, 

 N. J., Aug. 27.— The sunken steamer Guadaloupe off 

 Barnegat Inlet, was blown uj) by a charge of dynamite a 

 few days ago. Forty-thi-ee dead sheepshead floated in 

 the water after the discharge, — ^Skipper, 



Address all wmmunicxiMons to the Forest and Stream Pub. Co. 



LIST OF FISH COMMISSIONERS AND OFFICERS. 



FOREST AND STREAM presents its annual list of the 

 Commissioners of Fisheries and Fishery Officers of the 

 different Provinces, States and Territories of North Amer- 

 ica, revised and corrected to Sept, 1: 

 The United States— 



Prof. Spencer F. Baird, Washington, D. C. 

 Alabama— 



Col. D. R. Hundley, Madison. 

 Hon. Charles S. G. Doster, Prattville. 

 Arizona— 



J. J. Gosper, Prescott. 

 Richard Rule, Tombstone. 

 J. H. Taggart, Business Manager, Yuma. 

 Arkansas— 



James H. Hornibrook, Little Rock. 

 H. H. Rottaken, Little Rock. 



[These were the officers last year; we have not been 

 able to get replies from them.] 

 California— 



R. H. Buckingham, President, Sacramento. 

 Hon. A. B. Dibble, Secretary and Treasurer, Grass 

 Valley. 



Thos. J. Sherwood, Marysville. 

 CANADA— 



Hon. John Tilton, Deputy Minister of Fisheries, 

 Ottawa, Ont. 

 Province of New Brunswick— 



W. H. Venning, Inspector of Fisheries, St. John. 

 Province of Nova Scotia— 



W. H. Rogers, Inspector, Amherst. 

 A. C. Bertram, Assistant Inspector, North Sydney. 

 Province of Prince Edward's Island— 



J. H. Duvar. Inspector, Alberton. 

 Province of Quebec— 



W. Wakeham, Inspector, T^ower St. Lawrence and 

 Gulf Division, Gasp6 Basin. 

 Province of British Columbia— 



Thos. Mowat, Acting Inspector, New Westminster. 

 Province of Manitoba and Northwest Territories- 

 Alex. McQueen, Inspector, Winnipeg, Man. 

 S. Wilmot, Supt, of Fishculture, Newcastle, Ont. 

 Colorado— 



John Pierce, Denver. 

 Connecticut— 



Dr. Wm. M. Hudson, Hartford. (Term expires Aug. 

 36,1889.) 



Robert G. Pike, Middletown, (Term expires March 

 8, 1889.) 



James A. Bill, Lyme. (Term expires Aug. 26, 1887.) 

 Delaware— 



Enoch Moore, Wilmington. (Term expireB Api-il 33* 

 1887.) 

 Georgia— 



Hon, J. T. Henderson^ Conimissioiier of Agriculture, 

 Atlanta, 



Dr, H. H. Gary, SUpt. of Fisheries, LaGrange. 



(Under the laws of the State these constitute the 

 Board of Fish Commissioners.) 

 ILLINOIS— 



N. K. Fairbank, President, Chicago, 



S. P. Bartlett, Secretary, Quincy. 



Maj. Geo. Breuning, Centralia. 

 Indiana— 



Enos B. Reed, Indianapolis. (Term expires in 1887.) 



lOWA— 



E. D. Carlton, Spirit Lake. 

 Kansas— 



S. Fee, Wamego, Pottawatomie county. 

 Kentucky— 



Wm. Griffith, President, Louisville. 



P. H, Darby, Princeton. 



J ohn B. Walker, Madison ville; 



Hon. C. J. Walton; Munford=vnlle. 



Hon, John A. Steele, Midway. 



W. C. Price, Danville. 



Dr. W. Van Antwerp, Mt. Sterling. 



Hon. J. M. Chambers, Independence, Kenton county. 



A. H. Goble, Catlettsburg. 



J. H. Mallory, Bowling Green. 

 MAINE— 



E. M. Stilwell, Bangor. ) Commissioners of Fish 

 Henry O. Stanley, Dixfield. ) and Game. 



B. W. Counce, Thomaston, Commissioner of Sea and 

 Shore Fisheries. 



MARYLAND— 



G. W. Delawder, Oakland. 



Dr. E. W. Humphries, Salisbury. 

 Massachusetts— 



E. A. Brackett, Winchester. 



F. W. Putnam, Cambridge. 

 E. H. Lathrop, Springfield. 



Michigan— 



Dr. J. C. Parker, Grand Rapids. 



John H. Bissell, Detroit. 



Herschel Whitaker, Detroit. 



(W. D. Marks, Supt., Paris). 



(A. J. Kellogg, Secretary, Detroit). 

 Minnesota— 



1st District — Daniel Cameron, La Crescent. 



2d District— Wm. M. Sweney, M.D., Red Wing. 



3d District — Robt. Ormsby Sweeny, President. St. 

 Paul. 



(S. S. Watkins, Supt., Red Wing), 

 Missouri— 



J. G. W. Steedman, M.D., 2,803 Pine street, St. Louis. 

 Gen. J. L. Smith, Jefferson City. 



H. M. Garliech, St. Joseph. 

 Nebraska— 



W. L. May, Fremont. 



R. R. Livingston, Plattsmouth. 



B. E. B. Kennedy, Omaha. 

 Nevada— 



W. M. Gary, Carson City. 

 New Hampshire— 



George W. Riddle, Manchester. 



E. B. Hodge, Plymouth. 

 John H. Kimball, Marlboro. 

 (E. B. Hodge, Superintendent.) 



New Jersey— 



Richard S. Jenkins, Camden. 

 William Wright, Newark. 



F. M. Ward, Newton. 

 New York— 



Hon. R. Barnwell Roosevelt, President, 17 Nassau 



street. New York. 

 Gen. Richard U. Sherman, Secretary, New Hartford, 



Oneida county. 

 Eugene G. Blackford, Fulton Market, New York. 

 William H. Bowman, Rochester. 

 (Superintendents: Seth Green, Rochester; Fred 



Mather, Cold Spring Harbor; Monroe A, Green, 



Mnmford, Monroe county; F. A. Walters, Bloom- 



ingdale, Essex county.) 

 Secretary: H. H. Thompson, P. 0, Box 35, New York 



city. 



North Carolina— 



(A note from Col. M. McGehee, Raleigh, the former 

 Commissioner, under date of Aug. 9, says: "There 

 is no. Fish Commissioner in the service of this 

 State.") 



Ohio— 



Col. L. A. Harris; President, Cincinnati. 



George Daniels, Sanduskv. 



James Dority, Toledo. 



(Henry Douglass, Snpt., Sandusky.) 



[No information furnished, the names are those of 

 last year.] 

 Pennsylvania— 



J ohn Gay, President, Greensburg. 



H. H. Derr, Secretary, Wilkesbarre. 



Arthur Maginnis, Swift Water, Monroe county. 



A. M. Spangler, Cor. Sec, 512 Commerce street, 

 Philadelphia. 



Aug. Dimcan, Treasurer, Chambersburg, 



Chas. Porter, Corry. 

 Rhode Island— 



John H. Barden, Rockland. 



Henry T. Root, Providence. 



Wm. P, Morton, Providence, 

 South Carolina— 



Hon, A. P. Butler, Columbia, Commissioner of Agri- 

 culture. 

 Tennessee— 



W. W. McDowell, Memphis. 



H. H. Sneed, Chattanooga, 



Edward D. Hicks, Nashville. 

 Vermont— 



Hiram A. Cutting, Lunenburgh. 



Herbert Brainerd, St. Albans. 

 Virginia- 

 Co!. Marshall McDonald, Berry ville. 

 Washington Tekeitoey— 



Albert T. Stream, North Cove, Pacific county 

 West Virginia— 



C. S. White, President, Romney. 



W. A. Manning, Secretary, Talcott. 



F. .J. Baxter, Treasurer, Braxton Court House. 

 (Terms expire June 1, 1889.) 

 Wisconsin- 



The Governor, ex offi.clo. 



Philo Dunning, President, Madison. 



C. L. Valentine, Secretary and Treasurer, .Janesville, 



J, V. Jones, Oshkosh, 



A, V. H. Carpenter, Milwaukee. 



Mark Douglass, Melrose, 



Calvert Spensley, Mineral Point, 



(James Nevin, Superintendent, Madison.) 

 Wyoming Territory- 



Otto Gramm, Laramie. 



[Dr, W. N. Hemt, Cheyenne, is Commissioner for 

 Laramie county, and B. P. Northington, Rawlins, 

 is Commissioner for Carbon county.] 



THE MAINE COMMISSION.— The Fish and Game C§pi= 

 missiOners of Maine are doing godd vrork; Dfeer have ih- 

 cl-eased wonderfully, notwithstanding the last winter waS 

 the most favorable one for crust-hunting in many years. 

 The flsh are also increasing, and angling has been good in 

 many parts. They have 35,000 square miles of temtory 

 under their care, and an appropriation of only $7,i500 to pay 

 wardens and hatch flsh with, or about twenty-one cents per 

 square mile per annum. 



No Medical Examination is required to take out an accident 

 policy in the Travelers, of Hartford, Conn., guaranteeing a sum of 

 money weekly while disabled from accidental injury, and principal 

 sum in case of death resulting therefrom.— ^dv. 



Address all communications to the Forest md Stream Pub^ Co. 



FIXTURES. 



DOG SHOWS. 



Sept. 1 and 3.— First Show of the American Fox-Terrier Club, at 

 Newport, R. I. For fox-terriers exclusively. Fred Hoey, Secretary 

 Box 2017 iSTew York. Entries close Aug. 21. 



Sept. - - • 

 ciation, 



Sept. , - . - , - 



Fair. J. O. Fellows, Superintendent, HornellsviUe. Entries close 

 Sept. 1. 



Sept. U to 16.— Bench Show of Attleboro Farmers' and Mechanics' 

 Association. A. H. Wakeman, Secretary. P. O. Box 14S3, Proxi- 

 dence, R. I. . , , 



Sept. 14 to ir.— First Fall Dog Sliow of the New Jersey Kennel 

 Club, Waverley. A. P. Vredenburg, Secretary, 14 Murray street, 

 New York. Entries close Sept. 1. , . 



Sept. 27 to Oct. 2.— Bench Show of Indiana State Fair Association. 

 J. M. Freeman, SecretaiT, Bicknell, Ind. 



Oct. 5 to 9.— Annual Dog Show of the Danbury Agnqnltural So- 

 ciety. B. C. Lynes, Secretary, Danbury, Conn. ^ , 



Oct. 1.3 and 14.— Third Annual Dog Show of the Stafford Kennel 

 Club. R. S. Hicks, Secretary, Stafford Springs, Conn. _ 



Oct. 19 to 22.— Fifth Annual Dog Show of the New Brnns\vick 

 Kennel Club. H. W. Wilson, Secretary, St. Jolms, N. B. 



FIELD TRIALS. 



Sept. 21.~Field Trials of the Manitoba Field Trials Club. Chas. 

 A. Boxer, Secretary, Box 282, Winnipeg. „ . , 



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

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



NoV. 8?— Third Annual Field Trials of the Fisher's Island Club, at 

 Fisher's Island, N. Y. Max Wenzel, Secretarj-, Hoboken, N. J._ 



Nov. 22.— Eighth Annual Field Trials of the Eastern Field Trials 

 Club, at High Point, N. C. AY. A. Coster, Secretary, Flatbush, 



^^Bec. 6?— Eighth Annual Field Trials of the National Field Trials 

 Club, at Grand Junction, Tenn. 



Dec, 14.— Inaugural Field Trials of the Texas Field Trials Club. 

 For members only. John F. Sharp, Secretary, Marshall, Tex. 



A. K. R.-SPECIAL NOTICE. 



THE AMERICAN KENNEL REGISTER, for the registration 

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

 published 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. Yearly subsci-iption 

 $1.-50. Address "American Kennel Register," P. O. Box 2833, New 

 York, Nimiber of entries already printed 4006. 



THE EASTERN FIELD TRIALS. 



THE eighth annual meeting of the Eastern Field Trials 

 Club, to be held at High Point, N. C, Nov. 18, promises 

 to be the most brilliant one yet held. Many young dogs as 

 well as some that have already made their mark are now at 

 work and the entries will undoubtedly be in excess or those 

 of any year. All who intend running their dogs should bear 

 in mind that the entries close Oct. 1. Quail are reported 

 fairly pleutv on the preserve although some of them are 

 tiuite small". We hope to see this year a largely increased 

 entry for the Members' stake. Every member who o^vns a 

 good dog should enter and run him and lend his influence 

 to make this stake the most importa/nt eyeat of tte meetmg. 



