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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[May 31, 1888. 



THE AMERICAN FISHERIES SOCIETY. 



SECOND DAY'S PROCEEDINGS. 



THE meeting was called to order at 10 A. M., and Prof. S. 

 A. Forbes, Director of the Illinois State Laboratory of 

 Natural History, read "Notes on the Food of Fishes of the 

 Mississippi Valley," which elicited some discussion on the 

 peculiar manner in which some fishes take their food, and 

 on the finding of fresh water mussel shells which had a hole 

 the size of a half dollar on each side, and on the crunching 

 of shells by some fishes. 



Dr. J. C. Parker read "Observations on the Grayling," in 

 which he showed that this fish was in no immediate danger 

 of extinction, and that it has a wider range in Michigan than 

 is generally known. An inquiry was made for Mr. Daniel 

 H. Fitzhugh, the veteran grayling fisher, who had attended 

 the first day's session, but he had not arrived. 



Mr. Walter D. Marks stated that there were many grayling 

 in Michigan yet, that the extermination had gone on in the 

 Au Sable, made famous by the writings of Norris, Milner, 

 Hallock, Mather, and others who fished there in an early 

 day, because of the driving of logs in that river. These logs 

 are driven in the spriug, when the fish are spawning, or 

 after that event, and they plow up the gravel beds and de- 

 stroy millions of eggs which are there developing. In his 

 labors as Superintendent of the Michigan Fish Commission 

 he could bear witness that while the. grayling may be going 

 from some streams on account of the operations of man it 

 was not true that the fish was in danger of immediate ex- 

 tinction, as has been the case with the buffalo and some 

 land animals, but the destruction has been only on certain 

 rivers, and has not been caused there by fishing but by log- 

 ging. 



Dr. Robert Ormsby Sweeny was down on the programme 

 for a paper on '"Stocking Western Lakes and Streams," but 

 he claimed that he was ignorant that such information had 

 been required of him and he was not prepared to present it 

 in a formal manner. He had no objection to talking on the 

 subject, and said that the work of the Minnesota Fish Com- 

 mission, of which he was a member, had been very success- 

 ful, the failures, if there had been any, were small and of no 

 account, but the successes were so much in excess of any 

 failure that his memory refused to get down to so small a 

 matter. There had been great success in the hatching and 

 planting of brook trout, black bass, and wall-eyed pike; the 

 returns from the fisheries showed that the continuous plants 

 ings had borne fruit and that these fishes have increased 

 through artificial propagation. In Lake Superior the plant- 

 ings of whitefish have borne fruit and the fishermen who op- 

 posed the work at first were now strongly in favor of it. 

 The increased catches have convinced the fishermen that the 

 work of hatching whitefish should be continued. Dr. 

 Sweeny had a theory that it would be well to stock certain 

 points with whitefish and then have no fishing done there 

 for five years, next year take other points and stock them, 

 and so on in a circle. It seemed to him that this would be 

 worth a trial. 



Mr. F. N. Clark asked how the fishermen could be managed. 

 Would they abstain from fishing at certain points at the re- 

 quest of the Commission, or would laws have to be passed 

 to regulate this? Again, would not the fishermen oppose 

 such legislation and render it difficult, if not impossible, to 



firocure itP Take the pound-net men, for instance; at Bass 

 sland there are four or five pounds and the owners would 

 probably object to be deprived of their fishing grounds for a 

 term of years, and in practice it will be found difficult to 

 control the fishermen. 



Dr. Sweeny thought that now, since the fishermen are 

 convinced that fishculture is of value to them, from a busi- 

 ness point, they might be further educated so as to be sensi- 

 ble of their own interests. 



Mr. John H. Bissell inquired how large such reservations 

 should be. 



Dr. Sweeny suggested that reservations of three miles in 

 length by a inile in width would be about the proper size. 



Mr. James Nevin called attention to the fact that whitefish 

 do not always feed whete they spawn, and that a good place 

 to plant the young fish was not ncessarily a good fiishing 

 place. 



Mr. Bissell then read a paper entitled "Co-operation in 

 Fishculture," a portion of which, or rather the gist of it, 

 was given in his remarks at the conference of Fish Commis- 

 sion, reported in Forest and Stream last week. 



Mr, James Nevin, Supt. of the Wisconsin Fish Commis- 

 sion, read a paper on the work done by that Commission, 

 giving the number of fry hatched and distributed. He advo- 

 cated the gathering of lake trout eggs and carefully spread- 

 ing them on the shoal reefs of the lakes intended to be 

 stocked and let them hatch and care for themselves. He 

 gave some statistics of the value of the lake fisheries, as re- 

 ported by the State fish wardens, showing that 12,750 nets 

 valued at $161,860, employed 1,800 men and took nearly four 

 and a half millions of pounds of fish, worth over 8271,000, in 

 a season. The evidences of success in stocking the waters 

 were accumulating daily. 



The secretary read by title a paper on "The Digestibility 

 of Fish," by Prof. W. O. Atwater, Professor of Chemistry 

 in the Wesl cyan University at Middletowu, Conn., the paper 

 had not arrived but was hourly expected. The paper would 

 be a continuation of the valuable work of Prof. Atwater on 

 the digestibility of foods which had been in progress for a 

 number of years, under the auspices of the United States 

 Fish Commission, and which no doubt would be continued 

 by the new Commissioner, who is interested in all that per- 

 tains to the fisheries. The secretary stated that the object of 

 the coming paper was to give a brief outline of the main re- 

 sults of experiments upon the comparative digestibility of the 

 flesh of fishes and lean meat. He hoped to receive the paper 

 in time for a reading, for. as we breed fish for food, we want 

 to know just what value it has, and the onlj' man in America 

 who can tell us that is Prof. Atwater. 



Mr. Fred Mather, a Supt. of the New York Fish Commis- 

 sion, had been put down for a paper on "Work at ColdSping 

 Harbor," the station under his charge, but pleaded, with 

 Dr. Sweeny, that he had not been notified that this was to 

 be expected of him. He detailed the work with the different 

 fishes and said that he had hatched the tomcods in fresh 

 water and had kept them there until the sac was absorbed, 

 and then planted them in brackish water. The experiments 

 with smelt had not brought out any new facts and the 

 limited allowance for his station had not permitted further 

 experiments with saltwater fishes. The work of stocking 

 the Hudson with salmon had been continued by the U. S. 

 Commission, of which he was still one of the assistants, as 

 well as one of the State Superintendents, and that the re- 

 sults had been satisfactory. He had built a new hatchery 

 which he would be pleased to have any of the members visit. 



Mr. S. P. Bartlett, of the Illinois Fish Commission, read a 

 paper on the. carp. It had increased and multiplied in his 

 State, and it had produced tons of food from waters which 

 had produced nothing of value heretofore, and the carp was 

 a great boon to the people in Illinois and other States which 

 had no ocean on their borders from which to draw food. 



The question of the time and place of the next annual 

 meeting then came up and after some discussion it was de- 

 cided to accept the motion of Mr. Henry C. Ford to meet in 

 Philadelphia, where he promised that the Anglers' Associa- 

 tion of Eastern Pennsylvania would see that the necessary 

 arrangements for entertaining the Society would be attended 

 to, Mr, Bissell moved that the next annual meeting of the 



Society be held at Philadelphia on the third Wednesday and 

 Thursday of May, 1889, and it was carried. 



The election of officers for the following year then came 

 up. Mr. Bissell moved that a nominating committee be ap- 

 pointed, as heretofore. Mr. Mather favored nominations in 

 open meetings, because the committee system had not always 

 worked well, as some of the older members knew. On a vote 

 it was decided to appoint a committee and Mr. Bissell moved 

 that Dr. Hudson, Mr. Butler and Mr. Clark be that commit- 

 tee. President May rose above parliamentary usage and ac- 

 cepted the motion, with thanks that he had been relieved 

 from naming the committee, and they went into private ses- 

 sion. The committee recommended the following gentlemen 

 and they were unanimously elected: President, John H. 

 Bissell, Michigan. Vice-President, S. G. Worth. North Caro- 

 lina, Recording Secretary, Fred Mather, New York. Cor- 

 responding Secretary, Henry C. Ford, Pennsylvania. Treas- 

 urer, Eugene G. Blackford, "New York. Executive Commit- 

 tee, Philo Dunning, Chairman, Wisconsin; S. P. Bartlett, 

 Illinois; Dr. R. O. Sweeny, Minnesota; Dr. W. M. Hudson, 

 Connecticut; C. V. Osborn, Ohio; Col. M. McDonald, Wash- 

 ington. D. C; and James V. Long, Pennsylvania. 



The Society then voted thanks as follows: To the Detroit 

 Lodge of Elks. No. 34, for the use of their room. To the 

 Michigan Fish Commission for their efforts in making the 

 meeting a success. To Professors Jordan, Forbes, Atwater, 

 and others for valuable papers from persons not members of 

 the Society. 



The meeting then adjourned until 2 P. M. on the boat 

 which was to take them to the St. Clair Fishing and Shoot- 

 ing Club. A pleasant trip of some twenty-five miles brought 

 the party to the club house, which is on made ground on 

 the St. Clair Flats, and a dinner which was noted for the 

 excellence of its fish was in readiness. The members of the 

 club showed their guests over the extensive house and on 

 the return trip it was voted that the club be an honorary 

 member of the American Fisheries Society and receive its 

 annual reports. 



THE MEETING ON THE BOAT. 

 On calling the meeting to order the report of the treasurer 

 was read and accepted. Dr. Sweeny moved that the treasurer 

 lie authorized to sell the reports but it was argued that as 

 this was all that absent members got for their dues such a 

 course would tend to decrease membership. The motion 

 was lost. 



Dr. Hudson complained that the last report had been de- 

 layed and had only appeared a month before this meeting. 

 Mr. Mather explained that everything was in the printer s 

 hands last August but that there had been no money in the 

 treasury to pay for it. In view of this fact he had asked Mr. 

 Blackford if it would not be well to increase the annual dues 

 from $3 to $5, but the treasurer had said, that the present sum 

 was ample, if the members would pay their dues promptly. 



A long argument was held on the propriety of allowing 

 papers to be printed before they appear in the report, because 

 some editors who never sent a reporter to the meetings, even 

 when held in their own cities, had objected to their jmblica- 

 tion in Fokest and Stream. Finally, on motion of Mr. 

 Bissell, Messrs. Mather, Hudson and Ford were appointed a 

 committee to attend to the publication and to use their judg- 

 ment about selecting a printer and getting the report out at 

 as early a day as possible. They were also to allow such 

 papers to be copied for simultaneous publication in other 

 journals, if it be requested, the expense of copying to be 

 borne by those wishing copies. This committee is'to meet 

 at .Mr. Blackford's, in Fulton Market, on Saturday June 2, 

 at 12 M. 



It was also voted that the printing should be begun by 

 June 1, and that those which are not then on hand shall be 

 omitted, and the meeting adjourned until next year. 



THE OHIO COMMISSION. — A branch hatchery is located 

 at Chagrin Falls, and work on it is to begin at once. Through 

 the efforts of State Fish Commissioner A. C. Williams, as- 

 sisted by the Hon. J. J. Stranahan, a tract of laud has been 

 leased, a mile south of the town, for a period of ten years. 

 The water facilities are excellent, and ponds for black bass 

 and other valuable species will be made. 



F I XT U RES, 



DOG SHOWS. 



Sept. 24 to 27.— Fifth Dog Show at London, Out. O.A.Stone, 

 Superintendent. 



Feb. 19 to 22. 1889.— Thirteenth Animal Show of the Westminster 

 Kennel Club. New York. James Mortimer, Superintendent. 



Feb. 26 to March 1, 1889.— Second Annual Show of the Renssalaer 

 Kennel (Hub, Troy,-N. Y. Alma M. Ide. Secretary. 



FIELD TRIALS. 



Nov. li").— Tenth Annual Field Trials of the Eastern Field Trials 

 Club, at High Point, N. C. (Members' Stake, Nov. 15.) W. A. 

 Coster, Secretary, Saratoga Springs, N. Y. 



Dec. 10.— Second Annual Field Trials of the American Field 

 Trials Club, at West Point, Miss. C. W. Paris, Secretary, Cincin- 

 nati, O.- 



A. K. R.-SPECIAL NOTICE. 

 rpHE 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 subscription 

 $1.50. Address "American Kennel Register," P. O. Box 2832, New 

 York. Number of entries already printed 6391* 



THE SIR COLIN SUBSTITUTION. 



Editor Forest and Streamy 



The above case certainly is the most shocking one that has 

 so far been made public, the most shocking— not that it was 

 worse than one other I remember, but because it was done in 

 the face of the enlightened public sentiment of the last few 

 years, and was not done at a show notoriously indifferent 

 to any and every propriety of common decency or honesty, 

 but at one of the crack shows of the country; nor was it done 

 by a coper, so notorious, that hands were kept off of him far 

 longer than he deserved, simply from the reluctance to 

 tackle so unclean an animal. I' have no knowledge of Mr. 

 Campbell, but I keep a tolerable run of the dirty dozen in 

 dog affairs, and Mr. Campbell was never mentioned as a 

 member of the distinguished body. So here we have it, an 

 exhibitor of good repute exhibits and Avins with a dog that 

 had no more business in'the class than my mastiff Lion. 



The previous cases of this sort that have become public 

 have beeu, first, Mr. Edward Kelly's (now don't go off at half 

 cock at the name) Clover Belle at Cincinnati, in 1884; he 

 entered the bitch, but his kennelman took another and won 

 with it; if my memory is correct Mr. Kelly himself made 

 the matter public, at all events he promptly refunded the 

 prize money without any compulsion. Here the actor in 

 the case was as absolutely innocent of all wrong intent or 

 act as the man in the moon, yet he recognized that there 

 was but one course open to him to act on. 



The second was the case of Mr. W. H. Pierce, at Philadel- 

 phia, in 1884. The Irish setter bitch Reeta was an occupant 

 of his kennel, although owned by another party, Mr, Pierce 



entered her for a kennel prize. I suppose the rules of the 

 Philadelphia Kennel Club were the average ones then in 

 use, which simply provided that dogs must be entered in 

 the name of their bona, fide owner, but great latitude had 

 always been allowed in this matter, and although Reeta was 

 entered in her class as Mr. Pierce's property, he seems to 

 have thought it wise to consult with Charley Lincoln as to 

 her eligibility for a kennel prize. Mark the difference be- 

 tween this and the Sir Colin case: Mr. Pierce had had com- 

 plete control of this bitch, be seems to have done with her 

 mst what he chose, and practically the owner had nothing 

 to do with here movements. Mr. Pierce did not ask the 

 superintendent to allow him to substitute or deceive, but he 

 asked for a construction from the superintendent on certain 

 conditions. Mr. Pierce was disqualified by the Philadel- 

 phia K. C. but the general consensus of dog show authori- 

 ties was that the case was excusable under the doubtful 

 applications of rules at the time, and the disqualification 

 was not sustained. 



The next case was that of Mr. H. M. Perry, who was 

 charged with competing at Philadelphia in 1880 for a kennel 

 prize, with another bitch than the one entered. Although 

 a tolerably recent occurrence, I do not remember the evi- 

 dence clearly enough to state anything about it, except tha.t 

 the A. K. C. most cruelly kept the question of Mr. Perry's 

 disqualification hanging between their heaven and the com- 

 mon earth for an unreasonably long time. 



The last case (previous to that of Sir Colin) was that of 

 Dan O'Shea, who showed a beagle at Pittsburgh in 1887, 

 which was not the one entered, and to make it worse, it was 

 one perfectly well known to the judge. There was no pros- 

 pect that any action would be taken in this case, and the 

 subsequent action of the St. Paul club rendered it needless. 

 Here again the "most lame and impotent conclusion" of 

 the A. K. C. was shown. It was proposed to disqualify the 

 offender for six months! and but for the prompt action of 

 Mr. Cugle in moving that all reference to time be stricken 

 out of the sentence, this most ridiculous punishment would 

 have been all there was of it. 



In the Sir Colin case there is but one mitigating circum- 

 stance; it was simply a deliberate substitution of one dog 

 for another. If Mr. Mortimer and the whole Westminster 

 Kennel Club allow it, what difference would that make? 

 What business have they in the matter? It was not a ques- 

 tion between Mr. Campbell and the W. K. C, but between 

 Mr. C. and the other exhibitors, and the W. K. C. and its 

 officers had no part in it except simply to protect all honest 

 exhibitors. H it is proved that Mr. Mortimer took the part 

 it is said he did, he should be disqualified from all further 

 connection with dog shows; if the W. K. C. authorized it, 

 they should be expelled from the pure and holy A. K. C. 

 However, I for one do not and cannot believe that Mr. 

 Mortimer agreed to this substitution, as Mr. Campbell 

 describes it. I have known him too long for that; he is 

 above such trickery and is too old a hand at shows not to 

 know the wrong of such a proceeding; and while he is a 

 "good fellow" himself, I do not think there is anybody else 

 connected with the W. K. C. show who steers so clear of 

 allowing "good fellows" immunity as such. 



In view of Mr. Campbell's previous good character, it 

 seems probable that he did not realize the enormity of the 

 offeuse he perpetrated, and the innocent way in which he 

 "gives it dead away" makes this view of the case the more 

 likely, but for all of that, I see nothing that the A. K. C. 

 can do, if it wishes to die away decently, but to promptly 

 disqualify Mr. Campbell for an undetermined period. 

 Justice to exhibitors demands that such offenses shall be 

 promptly and relentlessly punished, and no amount of ex- 

 tenuation can relieve a body— supposed to keep a watchful 

 eye on American kennel interests — from this stern necessity. 



Your laying all the blame to the loose and easy ways of 

 doing in kennel matters, will not do. That lazy, nerve- 

 less, cowardly course of action is wholly an A.K.C. idea and 

 practice, the kennel public have passed that long since, and 

 they demand as cleanly and honest dealings in dog show ad- 

 ministration as they do in selling sugar without sand. 

 Just now the English kennel world is torn up over just the 

 same case in a substitution by a certain well known ex- 

 hibitor, fully detailed in The Stock- Keeper. As near as I 

 can understand it, the English Kennel Club hold off from 

 action on this case, owing to some informality in the way it 

 is brought before them. 



All I know of this scandal in any way is from Mr. Camp- 

 bell's letter in Forest and Stream, and 1 simply take the 

 case as he states it himself. There may be some mitigating 

 circumstance that has not yet appeared, and if so, it should 

 be brought forward at once, but as the case stands now, it 

 was simply a deliberate wrong perpetrated on every other 

 exhibitor in the class. The fact that the premium won did 

 not repay expenses incurred is so utterly irrelevant that it 

 seems incomprehensible why it was brought forward. 



W. Wade. 



Huxtox. Pa., May 12. 



[It will be observed from the date that the letter was writ- 

 ten previously to Mr. Mortimer's letter in Forest and 

 Stream, denying the allegations of Mr. Campbell.] 



AMERICAN KENNEL REGISTER. 



FOLLOWING are the numbers of the dogs entered in 

 the May number of the American Kennel Register; 



BEAGLES. 



6203, Spotty, H. A. Merrill. 6204. Turk, A. Vass. 



CHESAPEAKE BAY DOGS. 



6205. Foam, H. N. Munn. 



COLLIES. 



6206. Captain Kid, S. Salisbury. 6211. Laird O'Rippon, J. Wilson. 

 6307. Donald VI1L, S. W. Blue. 0212. Lassie Rippon, J. Wilson. 

 6208. Flora V., L. (). Lemieuse. 0213. Loekie, S. W. Blue. 



6309. Havo, Mr. Williams. 6214. Maud, T. G. Houston. 



6210. Kelpie Rippon, J. Wilson. 6215. Pansy, F. W. Waller* Co. 



FOXHOUNDS. 

 6216. Joe H., C. W. Forbes. 6217. Ned, C. W. Forbes. 



MASTIFFS. 



6218. Danta, C. B. Duncan. 6224. Maida, J. Thompson. 



6219. Greenwood King, Green- 6225. Molly Stark, S. Van Sant- 



wood Mastiff Kennels. voord. 



6220. Hector IV., O. C. Zed. 6226. Mortimer, W, G. Davis. 



6221. Hector V., A. Netter. 6227. Sohrab, H. H. Burden. 



6222. Jess II., Greenwood Mastiff 0228. The Moor, W. P. Rings. 



Kennels. 6220. Trooper, Miss M.Walmslev 



6223. Lion IV., O. Sehultz. 



POINTERS. 



6230. Carrie Fitz P., T. Fitzpat- 6233. Don VI., H. A. Wilson. 



rick. 6334. Juno 11., W. S. Snuler. 



6231. Cato, W. S. Shuler. 6235. Rorv, W. 8. Shuler. 



6232. Dash Iff., W. S. Shuler. 



PUGS. 



6236. Chequasset Thorn, J. H. 6238. Pug, A. D. Learoyd. 



Reed. 6239. Topsy, J. Banghart. 



6237. Chequasset Tzar, I.H.Reed. 



ST. BERNARDS— Rough-Coated. 

 6210. Amigo, Miss M. E.Walker. 6245. Earl C, W. P. Perkins. 



6241. Chequasset Navarre, Mrs. 6246. Lady Star, E.E.Starr. 



M. C. Taylor. 6247. Miss Barney, I. P. Wiser. 



6242. Chequasset Nike, Mrs. M. 6248. Neumond, C. F. Kelly. 



C. Taylor. 6249. Rex S., P. Smith. 



6243. Cora B., A. H. Scott. 6250. Rollo II., M. W. S. Ding- 



6244. Duke of Hampden, T. H. man. 



Pratt. 6251. Trusty, W. Baldwin. 



Smooth-Coatbu. 



6252. Aggie, J. B. Clarke. 6255. Katrina, C. F. Cluett. 



6253. Apollo II., Gra-smere Ken- 6256. Queen Buff, S. Van Sant* 



nels. voord. 



6254. Friar Tuck, T. B. Brooks. 



