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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[Nov. 18, 1886. 



Bstance (the model) is lOj^f t. vertically below the "crest" or 



top of the dam. 



The outlet is located veiy near the foot of the waterfall, 

 but so as always to be accessible to the fish and never sub- 

 merged. 



Total length of fishway inside, 78ft. 

 Total width of fishwav inside. 16ft. 



Compartments, 8ft xl3ft., partially divided into chambers 

 of 8ft.x6ft. 



Total elevation overcome, lO^ft. (height from bottom of 

 outlet to top of dam). 



/ THE AMERICAN FISHERIES SOCIETY.— The report 

 / of the proceedings of the last meeting, at Chicago, has been 

 issued to the members and is a printed book of 100 pages. 

 These reports are suitable for binding into volumes when a 

 few have, accumulated. Already there is a demand for the 

 older reports, and the Society docs not own a complete set. 

 It is doubtful if there are more than two entire sets extant, 

 for in the earlier days of the Society, then the Pishctilturists' 

 Associatio7i, there was much carelessness in the matter of 

 preserAong the records both among the members and the 

 officers, and not until Mr. Blaclif ord became the treasttrer 

 was tbeie anv systematic attempt to preserve sets of the 

 proceedings. After much trouble, Mr. Blackford collected 

 a complete set of the reports, but the volume was lost hy 

 the binder. One complete set is owned by Mr. Mather, tlie 

 recording secretary, one of the original niembers, and it. is 

 possible that ^Mr. Stone, ntiso ,wj oxiginai member, has one. 

 The Society 111 w outgrown the limits that it wa.s at first ia- 

 S teiideU to cover and has become a most tisefal body of work- 

 ">^s, whose reports are valuable to all who are interested in 

 nSh matters. 



THE NEW YORK COMMISSION.— At the Caledonia 

 station, in charge of Mr. Monroe A. Green, over 4,000,000 eggs 

 of the late trout are now on the hatching trays. They were 

 j obtained from Lake Huron. The brook trout in the ponds 

 f are spaAvning and are yielding from 20,000 to 50,000 eggs daily, 

 f Mr. Mason has been on Lake Huron after eggs of the white- 

 flsh and has been successful. At the Long Island station 

 Mr. Mather reports that the warm weather has kept back 

 the spawning season and the fish are just beginning to enter 

 thespawniugrac.es. Few adult lish have been kept at Cold 

 Spriiig Harbor, but last season a number of fiw were kept 

 Avhich have grown wonderfully. At the Adirondack station 

 Mr. Walters has over 200,000 eggs of the brook trout and 

 some lake trout, and expected the frost fish to yield eggs at 

 the last report, before the great snow blockade stopped all 

 mails in that region. 



lenmt 



F IXT U RES. 



D0& SHOWS. 



Dec. 1 to 8.— First Dog Show of the Inter-State Poultry and Pet 

 Stock Association, Cairo, 111. A. A. Cowderv, Seeretarv, Cobden. 



lU. - 7 , 



Dec. 15 to 17.— Second Annual Dog Show of the Western Connec- 

 ticut Poultry Association. Frank D. HaHett, Superintendent, 

 Winsterl, Conn. Entries close Dec. 4. 



.Jan. ir to 1887.— Ohio State Ponltry, Pigeon and Pet Stock 

 Association Dog Show, Columbus, O. W. F. Kuell, Superintend- 

 ent, Columbus, O. 



April .5 to 8, 1887.— Third Annual Show of New England Kennel 

 Club, Boston. F. L. Weston, Secretary, Hotel Boylston, Boston, 

 Mass. 



April 13, 1887.— Thirteenth Annual Dog Show of the Western 

 Pennsylvania Potxlti-y Society, at Pittsburgh, Pa. C. B. Elben, 

 Secretary. 



FIELD TRIALS. 



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

 Club, at High Point, N. C. W. A. Coster, Secretary, Flathush, 

 Kings county, N. Y. 



Nov. 23.— Fifth Annual Field Trials of the Bohins Island Club. 

 Eobins Island, L. I. Open to members only. "^j. Wateroury, Sec- 

 retary. 



Dec. 1.— First Annual Field Trials of the Irish Setter Cluh, at 

 Salisbury. N. C. W. Dunphy, Pi'esidcnt. Peekskill, N. Y. 



Dec. 13. -Eighth Annual Field Trials of the National Field Trials 

 Club, at Grrand Junction, Tenu. 



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. 

 'pHE A:MERICAN 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 subscription 

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

 fork. Number of entries already printed 4336. 



FISHER'S ISLAND TRIALS. 



[From a Special Correspondent.] 



rjpHB second annual trials of the Fisher's Island Club were 

 X held Nov. 8. The entries were as follows: 



Meg (Chas. J. Stewart, Jamaica, L. I.), red Irish setter 

 bitch (Chief— Beesy). 



Doc B. (Robert Betty, New York city), orange and white 

 setter dog (Jersey Duke— Topsy). 



Spot (Frank Billings, Cleveland, O.), pointer dog (Donald 

 II. — Caton's Nellie). 



Labv Essex (W. H. Schieffelin, New York city), blue bel- 

 ton setter bitch, 



FLOPac (I. C. Besson, Hoboken, N. J.), Irish setter bitch 

 (Chief— Becky). 



Lady May (H. Pape, Hoboken, N. .1.), blue belton setter 

 bitch (Lofty— Maud Muller). 



Jesse (Ph. Phoenix, New York city), orange and white 

 setter dog. 



Tim, Yoxjbe, Jep.set Beauty, Cat-foot (Ms^x Wenzel, 

 Hoboken, N, J.), Irish setter dogs; Tim (Biz— Hazel), Yoube 

 (Elcho— Rose), Jersey Beauty (Chief— Doe), Cat-foot (Chief- 

 Fashion), 



Mr. McGrinnis's red Irish setter, Mr, Ketcham's Brown 

 Bess, Mr. Holbrook's Dan, Mr. Dunham's Ben and Mr, 

 Reiche's Frank were withdrawn. 



The di'awing for braces resulted as follows: Tim against 

 Florid, Cat-foot again.st Yoube, Jesse against Spot, Meg 

 against Lady May, Jersey Beauty against Lady Essex, Doc 

 B., a bye. 



TIM AjS1> florid. 



Monday morning at 10 A. M. the first brace was cast off 

 immediately after lea^dng the mansion ; they were the red 

 Iiish setter dog Tim, handled by J. T. Miller, and the red 

 Irish setter bitch Florid, handled by Mr. I. C. Besson. Tim, 

 a dog of great speed and pluck, shoAved better style, great 

 speed and two points to the bitch's one throughout the 

 score and he was handled to perfection by Miller. 



cat-eoot and yoube. 



The second brace were again red Irish setters, Cat-foot, a 

 light built yoimg dog of the first season, handled by Miller, 

 aiid Yottbe, the red Irish setter bitch that ran in the same 

 trial last year, handled by her OAvner. Both these heats 

 were rmi in the worst brier patches on the Island, places 



totally unfit to run any dog under judgment, as the 

 cover is almost too thick for the .smallest cocker spaniel. 

 Both dogs were ofteit entirely lost, for neither handler nor 

 judgecould follow them. Cat-foot showed good speed, good 

 breaking, dropiDing to Aving, shot, and on a back and scored 

 4 points with no demerit ; "but the judges did not score him 

 as high as he seemed entitled to, Yoube refused to take the 

 briers, no doubt remembering them from the year before, 

 when she ran her heat with a ftiU milk bag in the same 

 kind of cover. Her handler did not blame her, and says he 

 ,w hunts now and then in a Jersey green brier country, but 

 ^ i^'isher's Island can discount any place he knoAvs. 



MEG AND lady MAY, 



Meg, a red Irish setter bitch, handled 'bj Ivawrence, and 

 Lady May, a handsome black and Avhite English setter bitch, 

 handled by her owner, were the third brace called fo]\ Both 

 went oil with a good gait, Meg the better in style and action, 

 but not up to the Lady, who seemed to ttse almosf, humtlu 

 judgment in looking for birds. She would quarter every 

 likelj^ place and go out of her course even to look into a brier 

 patch or a pond hole, and she did some grand work on the 

 meanest kind of running birds, pointing and reading vsdth 

 great care, on one occasion describing a ring and a horse- 

 shoe, following some running birds, Meg was simply no- 

 Avhere, and wiui a fair memory to fall b;i.i:k ow, it is im^Dos- 

 sible for the writer to recall the instant when Meg made a 

 point at all that ■was a. point. She certainly never held one 

 long enough for any one to see it. In breaking shot and re- 

 fusing to back she was Avell up, but somehow her score was 

 pretty good. Lady May showed by far the licst of any one 

 seen so far and is certainly one of tiie best field dogs of this 

 in cpuntry. 



JESSE AND spot. 

 The next brace called was Jesse, an almost white English 

 setter, handled bj' Lawrence, and Spot, a handsome liver and 

 white small pointer, full of stAde and point, and who took to 

 the briers very pluckily; he was handled by his OAvner, 

 Jesse is a fast dog, very iDcrsevering worker on a trail, but 

 the conditions were very luifavorable to this brace, The 

 wind blowing a gale, they were running in a very exposed 

 place, partly in the sedge grass, and as it was bite in the 

 evening, the birds that had been scattered all the iifterimon 

 were calUn^ all about and flushed wild and were on f lie run 

 in all directions. The pointer scored several false points, the 

 setter always roaded to a iiu.sh .and was wild and unmanage- 

 able, unsteady to shot aud wild as a hawk. During this 

 heat a 101b. English hare ^vas killed by the two handlers and 

 retrieved by the secretary. It was a beauty, 



JERSEY BEAUTY AND LADY ESSEX. 



The following day, at 9 A, M.. the red Irish setter bitch 

 .lersey Beattty, handled by yiiller, and Lady Essex, a blue 

 belton setter bitch, handled by Lawence, were slipped and 

 directed toward North Hill, this was considered the crack 

 brace, and for natural gifts they no doubt are as.nood as any in 

 the club ; but both were wild and showed lack of work and 

 breaking. Beauty is the more stylish and i^ad^' the faster 

 of the two. In nose they are about even. Beauty soou 

 scored a grand point down wind, lieiug very staimch until 

 Lady, called up to back, rushed i)ast her and Ijoth l^reaking 

 in chased the bevy. The handlers were about as wild as 

 the dogs and missed with both barrels, paying no attention 

 to their dogs. It was bad work all arouud. Ttirning back 

 over the hill, the fields of the Fox mansion Avere passed AA'hen 

 from a strip of rag Aveeds a fine English hare jumped in 

 full sight of both dogs and a coursing match, that wouldhave 

 done credit to tAvo Master AfcCJraths, amused the spectators 

 hugely, but the hare, heading for the hill, Avas tumbled over 

 by Lawrence and Miller, Avno showed, in this case, good 

 judgment, for had they not stopped that hare it would seem 

 doubtful whether the game or their dogs would have been 

 seen again that Aveek. The brace was promptly relieved 

 from any fnirther temptation. 



DOC B. AND SPOT. 

 Doc B. , an orange and white setter, handled by Miller, and 

 Spot, the pointer selected to run with the bye, were the last 

 brace of the first .series. The pointer again scored several 

 false points and Doc as many times refused to Ijack. Jersey 

 Beauty called up to back, also left her score on backing a 

 blank. Doc B. , who Avas clearly oil and ueA'er made a point 

 during the Avhole trial was scored away up like Aleg; neither 

 of them merited their place, AAdncb, although it may no be 

 agreeable for the judges to lie t old, a\';is verv- ttnjust to other 

 dogs that did far l)etter Avork on the whoh.'. 



The four best do.gs were considered Lady May, Tim, Doc 

 B,, and Meg, and the running oil for places showed no better 

 work for either Doc B. or Meg, and the heat betAveeu Lady 

 May and Tim Avas cut .short, enough, Lady securing one point 

 on a bcA'y which Tim had passed to Avindward. The judges 

 consulted a moment and the prizes Avere aAvarded in the fol- 

 lowing order: 

 First prize, a cup, to Mr. H. Pape's Lady May. 

 Second prize, the Fisher's Island Cltib cup, to Mr. Max 

 Wenxel's Tim. 



Third prize, a silver mounted dog collar, presented by Mr. 

 Ph. Phoenix, to IVIr. C, J, Stewart's Meg. 

 Fourth prize, in cash, to Mr. Robt. Betty's Doc B. 

 Owing to the fact that a number of members had been 

 shooting the week before the trials on the island, the birds 

 acted very wild, and the high Aviud, which only subsided by 

 Thtirsday, were tv:o causes of a good deal of imsatisfactory 

 work on part of the dogs, and the field trial men hope that 

 another year the season of killing game AA'ill not open until 

 aft.er the' ending of the trials. Fenian, 



WESTERN FIELD TRIALS. 



[From a Special Correspondent,] 



THE second annual trials of the Western Field Trials As- 

 sociation began at Abcline, Kansas, Monday, Nov. _8, 

 Avith a large array of firui dogs : seventeen dogs started in 

 the All- Aged Stake. The start.'ou game was inadc at an early 

 hour, almost too e;irly we fancj' for the nnvtnagers and 

 judges. The grounds 'were from six to eight miles from 

 town and Ave had to set out promptly at 7:30 A. M. In this 

 Avay only was the trial completed during the Aveek. The 

 Association labored under the most embarrassing circum- 

 stances as to birds and grounds. The heaAw snow storms of 

 last winter froze nearly all the quail so that the grounds had 

 to be .stocked. These birds, turned loose, were found to 

 have gathered in that part of the county kno^vn as the Sand 

 Hills, and though quftil were there in fair mmibers, the 

 sand burrs were so bad that it Avas almost an impossibility 

 to get dogs to Avork at all. If enough birds could have been 

 found at other points, the dogs would not have been re- 

 quired to work there. Thca-e is no other place in the country 

 Avhere the burrs are so l)ad as at this particttliu' place, and 

 by another year the owners and handlers of dogs may be 

 assured that there will not be sand burrs Avhere the grounds 

 are selected. During all the week Avith the exception of one 

 day the Aveather Avas fine, only the dryness of ground and 

 grass being objectionable as causing the best dogs to receive 

 as many and sometimes more flushes than points. 



Of the gentlemen selected to judge only Mr. Merriman, of 

 Tennessee, came to the front, Messrs. Poyner aud .Johnson 

 being unavoidably detained. The executive committee se- 

 lected from tho.se present Messrs. A. A. Whipple, of Kansas 

 City, and H. H. Briggs, of S;tn Francisco. These gentlemen 

 were men of mui-li experience, A\-hich, coupled with good 

 judgment, carried the trials through satisfactorily to all ex- 

 cept one or tAvo beaten parties whose luck was against them. 

 There never will l^e a meeting or shoAV of any kind without 

 somebody disagreeing AAuth the judges. There is no harder 



position that a man can fill where there is so little pay or 

 honor as being a judge: it is a sacrifice on the part of any one 

 to accept the position. The Abilene uiemliers did what they 

 cotild to make the stay of their brotlier sjiortsmen pleasant, 

 and they much regretted that birds were not found on better 

 grotmd. A number of good dogs were staried, notably 

 Ltxfra, King Noble, Natalia, Bridgeport, Spot Lielton, Patsey, 

 Cornerstone, and Rod in the All- Aged Stake. At the top of 

 all these came Taifra; she did not have much of a Avalk away 

 AAuth Kiug Noble and Bridgeport, a.iid their defeat was 

 attributed almost entirely to the ward: of backing up the 

 other dogs, AA^hile Lufra makes the grandest backs of any 

 dog put down, and only Cornerstone, the pointer, beaten by 

 Rod for first place, came near equalling ^u■v■. Backing Up 

 another dog eoonts seven under the rules, and a deig mtist b6 

 a good one to lo.se that number of points aud theii y\m OA^ei' 

 dogs like the class shown; . , , ,, . , 



The second [irize tell to the Gastleman Kennel's pointeif 

 dog Rod: Tliat Rod is a good bne will be readily seen by 

 the comijetition he met, as the record of each beat Avill show. 



The dogs that divided third Avere all good ones. At the 

 head comes that grand old dog Bridgei^ort, who Avas the best 

 sharing third last year, Bridgeport was a little out of condi- 

 tion, and had been run too much before the trials. He has a 

 bench show record at St. Louis, and shows that field and 

 bench qualities can lie combined. All Avho saw Cornerstone 

 Avere delighted Avith his long, rangy strides, high head, 

 grand staunch points and backs. i.)'ick T. is a grand dog, 

 and considering that he was so much out of condition, we 

 do not liesitate to pronounce him a good dog. though every- 

 body said he was the homeliest dog there: sickness is no dis- 

 credit. Hod was suffering from tapeworm in its worst form, 

 and the only wonder is he did so well. When he first started 

 in. the race his pace and style Avas so much against him that 

 he did not appear to have any shoAA'', but the longer he was 

 httnted the better he rangecl,"and he proved in nose equal to 

 any dog doAvn. 



THE DERBY. 



The All-Aged Avas not completed until Friday night, the 

 judges being determined to run the dogs a sufficient length 

 of tin^e to know fully AA^hich was best and to give each full 

 opportunity on game, vSaturday morning came on too soou, 

 and the rejiresentatives and owners of the Derby getting to^ 

 gether agreed to suspend the rules of running dOAvn .th6 

 series, and let the ju<lges select the winners after the dogs 

 had been run each a heat; To this the judges readily 

 assented; The Association gaA^e out that they would stay 

 AAuth the dogs another week if necessary: "^nien the puppies 

 hatl all been down* it proved the best thing that could haA'B 

 been done, as during the day only tAvo dogs had showh any 

 superior nieriti namely, Bessie B., winner of first, and Spot 

 Belton, vsdnner of second. 



These dogs w(?re so much ahead that the handlers and 

 spectators all a.ui'eed on them before the judges had an- 

 nounced their decision. Bes.sie B., uext to her sire. King, 

 embodies more natural qualities than any dog .shoAvn, and 

 her courage led her through buns where no old dog Avould 

 go. Very few f attlts can be found Avith her, either as to her 

 form or field i|ualities, and her In-eeding is 1^y King Noble (a 

 noble specimen of the old dog Count Noble) out of Elsie Bel- 

 ton: Elsie B. by Laverack Chief. Her rapid strides and style 

 of hunting Avere an ''eye-opener" to those OAAming pottering 

 dogs said to be fast. Spot Belton cUd some superior work. 

 She has the blood of Laverack Chief, Rake, Phyllis and 

 many other noted ones. The dividers of third, A'iz., Dillsey. 

 Tansey, Traveler and Ruby, Avere fair dogs, but showed that 

 a Aveek's confinement had put them all out of condition. 

 The first three are of same blood as Rod (Meteor— Dell), and 

 were soon put out when they got a sand burr in their feet. 



THE ALL-AGED, 

 NATALIA AND DICK BERWYN 

 were put doAvn at 8:30 A. M. Natalia is a small sized 

 black, white and tan bitch (Gladstone— Donna J.) owned by 

 J. Haj'ward, Jr., of St, Joe, Mo., and handled Ijy the veteran 

 field trial runner and braker, N. B Nesbitt. Dick Ber- 

 wyn is a large black, wliite and fan dog (Dashing Berwyu — 

 Vanity Fair), owned l)y 11. P. Dillon, of Topelia, Kansas, 

 and handled by his trainer, H. (x. Allen, of lancoln, Kansas. 

 The dogs Avere .sent off in grass, Natalia going aAvay at a 

 LiA^ely gait, and Dick nosing the air leisurly as if depending 

 on nose rather than legs to find game, but after a little 

 AA'arming up his pace was increased, though his strides Avere 

 .sluggish as compared to that of Natalia, whose springy 

 jumps were much admired. Dick showed stiffness from 

 some cause and had to carry about ten pounds too much 

 fle.sh, and appeared to be overworked. Natalia Avould have 

 looked better with a few pounds of added flesh. The grass 

 and some tin.iber land Avas drawn blank. By this time Na- 

 talia \vas having a. Avalk-away in speed and style. Presently 

 Dick di-ew and made game, imt no birds found. Sand burrs 

 were encountered that filled the feet of the dogs and had to 

 be cleaned by the handlers. Sent away to try gi-ass again, 

 they found no Ijirds, as these liad not come out from the 

 cornfields. Dick iiointed at the edge of the corn, and Avad- 

 ing into the corn cauglit and letrieved a Avouuded prairie 

 chicken. Judges disraounted and sent the dogs around the 

 edge of the corn, but passing too far from the edge, they 

 failed to find a covey A\-hieh was .ill crward flushed by the 

 Oazcttc reporter. The birds wei'c marked doAvn and dogs 

 sent on where a number of flushes Avere made by judges 

 and spectators, but no points established by dogs. Dick 

 drew in grass and Natalia roaded, but failed to 

 locate. Dick pointed a rabbit and Natalia afterward 

 stopped on the trail. Handler Allen flushed a bird 

 the grass, and after tramping around some time 



the judges flu.shed another near where dogs had passed, 

 showing that birds were lying very close. After a long huut 

 Judge Whipple flushed a bird down wind. Handler Nesbitt 

 got a flush, as did -Judge Briggs, and he was going up AvLnd. 

 Dogs ordered on and gave up the chase on that covey. The 

 reporter losing interest Avas lagging behind chatting 

 Avith Mr. Heath, Avhcn they together fluslied a luiw covey, 

 Avhich flcAV, scatteiing over the haudlei-s and judges. Two 

 of these Avere marked down, Dick going down the fence, 

 made a point, but moved on, and a sickly bird flutterrd 

 away. Dick Avent over the hill aud AA^as found dropped, no 

 birds found, and it A\'as afterAvard ascertained that he had 

 flushed.a covey. Natalia goLnginto grass found and pointed 

 the two marked birds. Nesbitt flushed and killed. Natalia 

 was xmsteady to wing and shot, and was .stopped after one 

 jump by her handler. Sent on to retrieve she did it in fine 

 shape. Dick was dropped by Allen by luotion at one hun- 

 dred vards distance. Sent on Nat.alia soon came to a point 

 and Dick backed, but she mo\^ed on \\'itliout getting a false 

 point. Alf;er going about 100 yards further, the dogs were 

 ordered up at 10:20, and heat given to Natalia, The general 

 result of the heat was that ]:^atalia had much the best of 

 ranging, quartering aud style. She did the only retrieving 

 and pointing, and she made but one. In obedience and dis- 

 position both dogs Avere equal, as was their backing. Ncttalia 

 Avas so much ahead that the race Avas not run until Dick got 

 a point, nor Avas he required to retrieA'e. These same two 

 handlers started dogs in first heat at the trials last year. 



KP.UPP AND DICK B. 

 Krupp is a liver and white pointer dog (Meteor— Dell) 

 OAvned oy the Castleman Kennels, of Trenton, Tenn., and 

 handled bv W. B. Staflord. This dog Avas rtm here last year 

 in the Derby class. Dick B. is a black setter dog (McKinney 

 —Flossy). OA\uied aud handled by J. I. Case, Jr., of Racine, 

 Wisconsin. Dogs sent off at 10:30 A. M. in grass. Krapp 

 made aAvay Avith head up, showing himself a fair ranger, 

 AA-hile Dick Avas not far behind. Going into high grass, 



