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A, Supply pipe. 



THE "THOROUGH" VASE. 

 SCALE, 1 INCH TO THE FOOT. 

 B, Guard cylinder with perforated bottom. C, Standing waste, ground into fixed waste. 



lfldef the cafe of Mr, Seth Green and his no less skillful 

 irother, Monroe A. Green, Mr. Jonathan Mason, who has 

 lately brought the artificial propagation of niuskallonge to 

 &' successful issue, and their trained assistants, millions of 

 brook trorit, of salmon trout, and of whitefish, have been 

 Ihatcbed. From this place they have been distributed to all 

 ' parts of the State and have contributed hundreds of dollars 

 Irn money value to the food production as well as health and 

 I recreation to the citizens. 



I Seeing this success, the Legislature ordered the erection 

 I of other hatcheries. They are now in process of completion, 

 I prominent among them being the one at Cold Spring, on 

 ( Long island, under the charge of Mr. Fred Mather, where, 

 i to the liberality and public spirit of Mr. John D. Jones, the 

 I State is indebted for a free gift of the use of the land and 

 [water requisite for its operations. The results of these 

 I efforts have been apparent everywhere. Lakes and streams 



have been restored: inland fishing is improving; fish are to 

 I be caught where they have not been found for years; shad of 

 I 61bs. weight are so abundant in our markets that those of 

 I three are hardly salable. The yield of the Hudson River 

 f has become greater than was ever known before in its 

 f recorded history, and fishculture is established in nearly 



every State in the Union as a matter of public importance. 

 I feel a justifiable pride in this record, and can now leave 

 i an undertaking in which I have had so long a connection 

 I and so large a part, in safe hands, with the assurance that 

 . my twenty years of work have not been wasted, but have 

 > resulted in a benefit to the community that will be f raitf ul 



and permanent. Yours very respectfully, 



Robert B. Roosevelt. 



This pipe to be perforated about every 4in. with very flue 

 holes, which must be at an angle as shown, the water as it 

 enters ths tub is forced round and round and the fish are in 

 a small trout stream; the food is also kept in suspension by 

 the circular motion. 



The guard cylinder is tacked to the bottom of the tub by 

 a small flange. This cylinder is made with zinc, but the 

 bottom 4in. is perforated zinc, the waste water, dirt, etc, 

 passes through the perforations. 



The standing waste to be l^in. lead pipe, the top slightly 

 bell-mouthed, the bottom soldered to a brass piece with 

 ground face, which fits into a brass fixture standing up lin. 

 from bottom of tub with corresponding ground face. 



In washing out pull up the standing waste and with a 

 feather stir up the bottom of tub and away goes the sedi- 

 ment down the waste. You seldom want to do this with 

 care in feeding * not to give too much at a time. 



Remember that the entire invention depends upon the 

 holes in circulating supply pipe being pierced at the proper 

 angle. 



Reports of the Northern Fisheries Society, of Japan, were 

 shown, and a translation of the headings of the articles read, 

 as was also a letter from the president of that society, Mr. 

 K. Ito, who called attention to some translated extracts 

 from Forest and Stream, and to a portrait of Prof. G. 

 Brown Goode, which adorned one of the reports. 



THE AMERICAN FISHERIES SOCIETY. 



THE Recording Secretary, Mr. Mather, announced that he 

 had received a private letter from Mr. W. Oldham 

 Chambers, Secretary of the National Fishculture Associa- 

 tion of England, dated April 22, 1888, wmich contained some 

 matters of public interest and he would read such portions 

 of it as related to the rearing of fishes. Mr. Chambers says: 

 "I am looking forward to a visit to America, some time, for 

 the express purpose of studying the vast advances you are 

 making in our glorious science. I can conceive no greater 

 treat than to exchange thoughts with my transatlantic 

 friends. I think there is this difference, if I am not mis- 

 taken, in our methods, you devote all your energies to hatch 

 out the greatest quantity of fry and then turn them out in 

 the rivers and lakes, whereas we try to invent means of 

 feeding and rearing them after the sac is absorbed, and then 

 turn them out when they are capable of caring for them- 

 selves. I have never met with anything that approaches my 

 "thorough" system of feeding. You can make a vase to 

 bring up 100, or one large enough for 100,000 with the 

 same ease, and on the same principle. The fish are bound 

 to be on the move and are equally bound to feed, because 

 the food is always held in suspension and has no chance to 

 get to the bottom. I inclose a sketch, to scale similar to 

 one'in my hatchery th at now has 15,000 rainbow trout in it. 

 Oblige me by making one, which you can do at a small cost, 

 and give me an opinion of the result. There is no patent on 

 it, so do what you like with it. Bo careful to follow the 

 lines laid down in the inclosed diagram, especially in the 

 case of the holes in the pipe which must be at the proper 

 angle, for there rests the seeret." 



Mr. Mather said that all his trout were distributed or put 

 out in the rearing ponds and he could not try this method 

 the present year, but it may be worth while for others to do 

 it. In 1880. when on the staff of Prof. G. Brown Goode, in 

 charge of the American department at the fisheries exhibi- 

 tion m Berlin, a gentleman from Baltimore, whose name he 

 had momentarily forgotten, sent some glass models of the 

 Bell and Mather shad hatching cones which were designed 

 to keep the food in suspension, just as the shad eggs are, 

 and some fry were, fed in the cones for a while, but not 

 long enough to test the system of keeping food in suspen- 

 sion, nor to develop any difficulty which might arise from 

 decaying food. 



SPECIFICATIONS OF "THOROUGH" VASE. 

 The outer casing can be an ordinary wooden tub, one 3ft. 

 in diameter will hold 10,000 fry. The supply pipe to be Kin. 

 lead composition, to be fixed %in. away from inside of tub. 



FIXTURES. 



DOG- SHOWS. 



Sept. 11 to 14— First Dos Show of the BulTalo International Fair 

 Association, at Buffalo, N. Y. C. W. Robinson. Secretary. 



Sept. 24 to 27— Finn Dog Show at London, Out. C. A . Stone, 

 Superintendent. 



Feb. 1!) to I .SS! I.— Thirteenth Annual Show of the Westminster 

 Kennel Club, New York. James Mortimer, Superintendent. 



Feb. 2G to March 1, 1889.— Second Annual Show of the ReiiHsabier 

 Kennel Club, Trov, N. Y. Alma M. Ide, Secretary. 1 

 FIELD TRIALS. 



Nov. 19— 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. 

 'pHE 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 2833, New 

 York. Number of entries already printed 629 1. 



THE OYSTER LAW OF NEW YORK.— Mr. E. G. 

 Blackford, Commissioner of Fisheries, calls attention to a 

 sentence in Chap. 584, Laws of New York for 1887, which is 

 important to oystermen, but which has been overlooked. 

 Sec. 1. of this law, after appointing Mr. Blackford to be the 

 sheil-fish commissioner, etc., says: "Said Commissioner 

 shall ascertain the occupants of all lands claimed to be in 

 the possession or occupation of any person or persons, and 

 no grant of lands so occupied or possessed shall be made, 

 except to the actual occupant or possessor thereof, provided 

 said occupant or possessor, within one year from the passage 

 of this act, shall make application for and purchase the 

 same " The act was passed June 16, 1887, therefore the time 

 has nearly expired. We have already published the act, but 

 some of our readers may have overlooked .this important 

 clause. 



FISHWAYS FOR NEW YORK.— Several fishways will 

 be put in the streams in the interior and western part of the 

 State of New York tbis coming summer. They will all be 

 of the McDonald pattern, which has been simplified in con- 

 struction and made cheaper. Since his appointment to the 

 Commissionership Col. McDonald has disassociated himself 

 from all business in connection w T ith fishways, and all this 

 is now in the hands of the McDonald Fish way Company, - the 

 general manager of which is Mr. Frank Blaisdell, and the 

 secretary and treasurer is Mr. S. C. Brown, both of Wash- 

 ington. ' It is expected that work will be begun on several 

 streams next month. 



THE WYOMING COMMISSION— Mr. Louis Miller, of 

 Laramie, is now Commissioner of Fisheries in place of Dr. 

 Otto Gramm, whose term expired. 



REMOYAL. 



The offices of Fokest anu Stream are now at No. 318 Broadway. 



A Diking Car Line to the Pacific Coast.— The completion of the all rail 

 line between Portland, Ore., and San Francisco gives the Pacific coast trav- 

 " an opportunity to patronize the famous Dining Car and Yellowstone 



Park Line, the Northern Pacific Railroad. The sportsman ttay 

 West, whether a lover of the rod or gun, naturally seeks this road, pene- 



irtsman traveling in the 

 v seeks this road, pene- 

 trating as it does the lake park region ol Minnesota, and running through 

 the valleys of such trout streams as the Yellowstone, Gallatin, Hell Gate, 

 Clark's Fork, Spokane, Yakima and Green Rivers, for a distance of fully 

 1,500 miles, as well as lying immediately contiguous to the finest hunting 

 wounds in the United States, viz., The Big Horn, Snowy, Belt, Bitter Root, 

 Coeur D'Alene and Cascade Mountains. Information in regard to this 

 region can De obtained by addressing Chahi.es S. Fee, General Passenger 

 and Ticket Agent. N. P. R. R., St. Paul, Minn.-Adu. 



SOUTHERN FIELD TRIAL CLUB. 



ATLANTA, Ga., May 31.— Editor Forest and Stream: 

 On the 14th day of May, in Chattanooga, Tenn., the 

 Southern Field Trial Club was organized, with thirty-six 

 charter members from the States of Alabama, Arkansas, 

 Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee 

 and Texas. 



An announcement of the organization w r as telegraphed to 

 a Chicago paper, the Tnrf, Field and Farm, the FOKEST 

 AND Stream, and on the same day a draft for $50 was sent 

 to each of these papers to pay for advertising. The two 

 latter papers published our telegram and advertisements, 

 but the Chicago paper did not. 



On the 24th day of May (ten days after), the editor of the 

 Chicago paper wrote Mr. T. M. Brumby, secretary of the 

 Southern Field Trial Club, returning the draft and declin- 

 ing to publish anything for the Southern Field Trial Club, 

 .st ating as a reason that "the chief object of your [Southern 

 Field Trial] Club is to break up the American Field Trial 

 Club." A copy of this letter was also sent to Mr. J. W. 

 Renfroe, president of the Southern Field Trial Club. 



We submit the facts, and ask, Is the Chicago paper an 

 impartial and true sportsman's journal, or the organ of the 

 American Field Trial Club only? 



At Canton, Miss., in 18S4, the "Southern Sportsman's As- 

 sociation" and the "National American Kennel Club" (both 

 field trials clubs) were merged into a new club, called the 

 "National Field Trial Club," with W. B. S battue presi- 

 dent. At Cincinnati, in 1887, the National Field Trial Club 

 was disbanded and a new club formed, called the "Ameri- 

 can Field Trial Club," with W. B. Shattuc president. 

 Since then local clubs have been formed in different sections 

 of the United States, and for some time a movement had 

 been on foot to reorganize the old, or establish a new, 

 Southern Field Trial Club. On the 17th day of April last I 

 wrote to W. B. Shattuc, president of the American Field 

 Trial Club, informing him of this movement, and stated 

 that Mr. Stone, of Chattanooga, and myself, being the only 

 Southern members of the American Field Trial Club (I did 

 not think of Mr. Holliday at the time), thought proper to 

 write bim before joining in the new movement. I also 

 stated in my letter that we knew nothing whatever of his 

 future plans for the American Field Trial Club, except 

 what we saw in his advertisement in a Chicago paper asking 

 for subscriptions to a guaranty fund. I said, further, that it 

 was then nearly May and I saw no announcement had been 

 made as to Derby entries. 



In reply to my latter, under date of April 20, President 

 Shattuc said: "I was not aware there was to be a Southern 

 Field Trial Club organized," and further on, "I do not see 

 why a Southern Field Trial Club should not be a magnifi- 

 cent success," and then he sends me some irrelevant and 

 gratuitous advice as to what kind of persons should and 

 should not compose the club, but not a word did he write as 

 to his future plans. Then in the Chicago paper, April 28, 

 there appeared this notice: "At a special meeting of the 

 American Field Trial Club, held Saturday, April 21, it was 

 decided not to run a Derby this year. Cincinnati, O. C. 

 W. Paris, Secretary." 



This meeting, mark you, was held on the day after Presi- 

 dent Shattuc wrote me, and yet he made no mention what- 

 ever of his plans for the future, nor was either of the South- 

 ern members (only three in number) consulted or notified of 

 that or any subsequent meeting. 



Immediately after the appearance of the card of the secre- 

 tary of the American Field Trial Club announcing that no 

 Derby would be run this year, letters were exchanged be- 

 tween many of the Southern sportsmen calling attention to 

 the matter, 'and it was agreed to meet in Chattanooga on the 

 14th of May, for the purpose of organizing a club, in order 

 that the year should not pass without a field trial, and thus 

 obviate the disappointment natural to those lovers of the 

 sport, and those who have gone to the trouble and expense 

 of raising and preparing their dogs for trials, therefore the 

 meeting was held and the club organized as stated above. 



The 10th of December was agreed upon by those of us who 

 could get together and consult before the meeting, as the 

 time for our trials, but before the day arrived for our organ- 

 ization, there appeared in another number of the Chicago 

 paper a card, that the American Field Trial Club had recon- 

 sidered and named Dec. 10 for their trials to begin. This 

 left us with no other alternative but to set our trial to come 

 off between the closing of the Eastern and commencement 

 of the American trials, or go over into next year, and thus 

 take the rainy season, or go so far into the year that the 

 farmers would be at work. Now, in view of these facts and 

 the vacillation of the American Field Trial Club, we would 

 have been perfectly justifiable in holding to Dec. 10, but in 

 order not to conflict with any other club, we decided upon 

 Dec. 3 (first Monday) and appointed a committee with in- 

 structions to select grounds as near and as accessible as pos- 

 sible to the grounds selected by the American Field Trial 

 Club. In this they have succeeded beyond our most san- 

 guine expectation, and those wishing to patronize both cl ubs 

 can easily do so, as the grounds are only twenty-five miles 

 apart, and four trains a day. 



With the advantageous grounds we have and the great 

 abundance of birds our Setter Stakes can easily be run off 

 in one week, and our Pointer Stakes will not interfere with 

 the American Field Trial Club's Pointer Stakes, and if 

 necessary the Pointer Stakes can be run at the same time, 

 as we have plenty of ground. 



We presume of course there can be none so ignorant or 

 prejudiced as to deny the right of the Southern Field Trial 

 Club to organize and fix a time and place for the trials to 

 suit its own convenience, but as above shown it was its 

 pleasure to exercise these rights with a respectful and cour- 

 teous regard for convenience and appointment of others. 



But, oh for the sin of omission, strange as it may seem, it 

 had not occurred to any of the thirty-six sportsmen present 



