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FOREST AND STREAM, 



[.TfLY 5, 1888. 



feet below its usual level, and many shoals visited by 

 fishermen last season will now be found well out of water. 

 As a sample of the fishing we are now having I am per- 

 mitted to quote the'catohes of two or three of my fellow 

 sportsmen. Mr. J. T. O'Donahue, of New York, arrived 

 here about a week ago, and has not brought in less than 

 thirty fine bass any day since he came. His first day's 

 catch numbered thirty-two, and the largest weighed 4|lbs. 

 J. "W. Mackey, also of New York, went out yesterday 

 afternoon and returned with fifteen small-mouthed bass 

 that averaged 2|lbs. each, J. H. Gay, of Springfield, and 

 Coh Geo. W. Bradley, of Brooklyn, have been equally 

 fortunate. For my part I have found the fishing excel- 

 lent, and see no reason why it should not continue so 

 until the end of the season. 0. J. B. 



Cape Vincent, N. Y., June 28. 



Bluefish and Weakfish in Long Island Sound.— 

 These fish, which have not appeared in Long Island Sound, 

 west of Port Jefferson, for many years, are now being 

 caught in Huntington, Cold Spring and Oyster Bay Har- 

 bors. Every year the young bluefish as big as a man's 

 hand come into these harbors, and also go as far west as 

 Great Neck, but do not return when larger. They are 

 then called " snapping mackerel," and are so abundant 

 in their season that almost any kind of rig will take some, 

 but they do not put in their appearance until the last of 

 summer and early fall. The bluefish and weakfish now 

 in the harbors named are small, one to one and a quarter 

 pounds, but their advent is noteworthy because it is rare. 

 Forty years ago these fish used to frequent the Sound, 

 and fishing for them was good, but for some reason they 

 abandoned it, and the Sound has become the poorest fish- 

 ing water on the Atlantic coast. We can think of but 

 one reason for this state of things. It must be tempera- 

 ture or a, lack of food, the two great causes that would 

 prevent fish from entering such a body of water when 

 they are plenty in its vicinity, and it cannot be the for- 

 mer. It is a matter of rejoicing to the people on the 

 north shore of Long Island that these fish have come in 

 this season. 



Ftshtng in Nkw York Harbor.— The salt-water fish- 

 ing about New York is now near its height, and in about 

 two weeks more promises to be as good as usual. The 

 weakfish are coming into the Lower Bay in schools, and 

 in Gravesend and Prince's bays many fishermen are tak- 

 ing them with lobster and other baits. At the Kills a 

 few have been taken with live bait and also with shrimps, 

 but only the school fish have been captured, and these are 

 the smaller ones, running from one two two pounds. 

 Blackfish and sea bass are also frequent in the Lower 

 Bay, and, on the whole, the fishing is very fair; almost 

 every fisherman has some success, although no large 

 catches are reported yet. 



Tabusintac Fishing Club.— St. John, N. B. — Thos. R. 

 Jones, merchant; John E. Armstrong, barrister; Samuel 

 Hayw-ard, merchant: John W. Gilmor, manager Daily 

 Telegraph; Chas. A. Macdonald, barrister: Thomas Mc- 

 Avity. merchant; Geo. K. McLeod, lumber merchant; all 

 of St. John, in the city and county of St. John; Thos. H. 

 McMillan, barrister; David McLellan, lumber merchant: 

 Jas. C. Robinson, manufacturer, all of Portand, and Thos. 

 G. Loggie, draughtsman, of Fredericton, have been in- 

 corporated as the Tabusintac Fishing Club, with a total 

 capital of $3,000, divided into 15 shares of $200 each. 



"That reminds me." 

 236. 



FROGMOOR, North Carolina.— Our oldest inhabitant 

 can certainly take the cake, for the clear, well-rig- 

 ged, varnished and gilded, article his equal is not to be 

 found this side of grass roots. 



A youth from New Jersey visted this world recently and 

 I trotted out the O. I. for his edification. The shock was 

 too much for him and he has gone home. Without a 

 little show of competition the O. I. will not stretch him- 

 self to the full extent of his genius, so I just started him 

 off with a modest little remark about a man that shot 

 five deer in one morning. He settled back in my rock- 

 ing chair, took his handkerchief out of his hat and wiped 

 his head, and proceeded to give chapter and verse about 

 a man that shot seven — four bucks and three does, or 

 elss three bucks and four does — all stone dead at the first 

 shot, in May or June, 1835, or else it was in October, 

 1834, and it was a flintlock; the first barrel missed fire. 

 His name was either Jonson or Endicott, and his daugh- 

 ter married a man that lived in Rhode Island, a place 

 near the middle of Connecticut, very near all the col- 

 leges. She was so young then that she must be alive 

 now and easy to be found and can tell you exactly them 

 same circumstances to-day. 



At this point he put on his hat and I was afraid he 

 would stop, so I said something about twenty-eight ducks 

 at a shot, but he was ready with seventy-two and their 

 tails dragging on the ground, the pole bent so much be- 

 tween the two friends' hands who staggered under the 

 two ends. 



The Jerseyman thought he had better start for home 

 now, but I said he had better wait and try the fish. My 

 fish story I don't remember, it was such a wee one, and 

 with a grin of pity for my lack of genius the O. I. 

 launched boldly out: "It was in the first part of the 

 summer of 1S26. Shrimps was plenty and me and Major 

 Alten, we says let's go fishing. So we called four of our 

 best boat hands and went down to the sheepshead drop. 

 On the young flood, catfish begun to bite and we kept 

 slinging them overboard and pretty soon there was three 

 or four pretty large sharks playing about the boat. The 

 Major was in the stern and he called my attention to the 

 fact that two of the sharks were much larger than the 

 rest "Now," sais he, "I'm going to wait till they are 

 both on this side of the boat, and then I will give them a 

 fish to scrabble for." Sure enough he did. One shark 

 turned belly up under the water, and the other made a 

 jump out of the water and came down mouth open. 

 Then they commenced to kick about and made such a 

 fuss that we pulled up our anchor and moved a little 

 further off. We couldn't see what was the matter, but 



they seemed to be hitched together Eoniehow. They 

 kept it up about two hours, and at last when they drifted 

 ashore we rowed up to them and found that each one had 

 the other's lower jaw part in his own mouth, and both 

 dead as Julius Caesar. "What became of the catfish?" 

 said the Jerseyman with a wink at me to show that this 

 was a sticker. Not a bit of it though. "They both got 

 the catfish. It was fast between their two jaws and had 

 one stinger fast in each one's tongue." "Beautiful night, 

 ain't it," suggested the now thoroughly abashed Jersey- 

 man, as he sidled toward the front gate. "Nothing much 

 to speak of," rejoined the O. I. "You ought to have 

 seen some of the moonlight nights we used to have here 

 before the war." Hard a-Lee. 



A Dining Car Line to the Pacific Coast.— The 

 completion of the all rail line between Portland, Ore., 

 and San Francisco gives the Pacific coast traveler an op- 

 portunity to patronize the famous Dining Car and Yel- 

 lowstone Park Line, the Northern Pacific Railroad. The 

 sportsman traveling in the West, whether a lover of the 

 rod or gun, naturally seeks this road, penetrating as it 

 does the lake park region of Minnesota, and running 

 through the valleys of such trout streams as the Yellows- 

 stone, Gallatin, Hell Gate, Clark's Fork, Spokane, Yaki- 

 ma and Green Rivers, for the distance of fully 1,500 

 miles, as well as lying immediately contiguous to the 

 finest hunting grounds 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 be obtained by addressing Charles S. Fee, General 

 Passenger and Ticket Agent, N. P. R. R., St. Paul, 

 Minn. — Adv. 



4£tehcnltnn. 



THE OHIO COM MISSION. 



WE have (lie twelfth annual report of the Ohio Fish 

 Commission for 1887. The jurisdiction of the Board 

 covers both fish and game, and the wardens of the different, 

 counties send in concise reports which show that both are 

 more plentiful in all parts of the State than last year, and 

 this the Commissioners attribute to the efficient work of 

 the wardens, who work without compensation, and it is 

 recommended that some law be passed by which these men 

 may secure from their respective counties a sufficient sum 

 to pay them for their, time and labor.^as in many of the 

 counties these officers have spent much time and expended 

 more money than they have received in fees. There is in 

 the fish and game fund in many counties sufficient money 

 to pay the wardens a sum great enough to balance their ex- 

 penses, and as this money has accumulated through their 

 faithfulness it should be allowed to their use. 



In parts of the State the duties of the warden are so 

 arduous that men cannot be secured for the office who will 

 give their attention, and there are now ten less officers than 

 when the last report was made. Uuless some such action is 

 taken it is feared that some of the present wardens will 

 become discouraged and retire from the field, it is also 

 again recommended that a warden for the State be appointed 

 as this would improve the efficiency of the local wardens 

 and the result would pay for the expenditure, as many calls 

 are made for special work, such as getting evidence in places 

 and cases in which the county warden cannot or does not 

 succeed as well as one trained by experience for this special 

 work. Of the fifty-six county wardens all report great im- 

 provement except one. There were 190 arrests, 3b' convic- 

 tions and 34 eases carried up to court. The amount of fines 

 was $863, and 20 nets were confiscated. 



In propagation of fishes there was success in all branches 

 except the brook trout, which were t o be carried through the 

 summer in the ponds of S. B. Smith, in Logan county, but a 

 dry season cut off the supply of water and the fish began to 

 die and were turned out into Mud River. Fifty millions of 

 whitefish had been turned into Lake Erie from the Sandusky 

 hatchery, and at the writing of the report the jar? contained 

 nearly one hundred millions of eggs. The jack-salmon pros- 

 pered fairly well, and a million young eels were transported 

 from Cohoes, N. Y., and planted in the lake. 



Sunt. Henry Douglass submits to the Commissioners his 

 fourth annual report. Lie has endeavored to fill the San- 

 dusky hatchery with the destructive and death-dealing 

 "lake pickerel" ( Esox ?), but fortunately the season was un- 

 favorable and only three million fry were hatched and sent 

 into the streams to destroy better fish. Mr. Douglass says: 

 "It requires about twenty days for hatching and: the work 

 of distributing should begin at once, as the young fish, be- 

 fore they are a week old, will begin devouring each other." 

 Yet he hopes to propagate this engine of destruction whose 

 only food is fish and whose digestion has been compared to 

 the action of fire. He also believes in the introduction of 

 the eel, an animal as destructive as the pickerel and one that 

 renders the life of the trout breeder on Long Island an un- 

 happy one. He reports an unusual supply of whitefish eggs, 

 having secured one hundred millions, and here we rejoice 

 with him that this excellent and harmless fish yields its 

 eggs in profusion, Many carp have been distributed and 

 are doing well in different parts of the State, 



SHAD IN THE HUDSON. 



OF the shad in the Hudson River a writer in the Trov 

 Times recently said: "Fifty years ago the Hudson 

 teemed with shad; shad then sold in this city at §4 per 100, 

 but the reckless catching of them in nets without restraint 

 or protection had at one time about exterminated them. 

 Now no shad are caught here. The same may be said of 

 striped bass and other fish. Through the efforts of the State 

 Fish Commissioners, however, the Hudson has been re- 

 stocked with shad, although through stupidity, all the w-ork 

 done by them has been in the interest of the fishermen upon 

 the river below Catskill, and in such a manner that none of 

 the fish bred reach their best food condition; neither has 

 their propagation been conducted in such a manner as to add 

 to the artificial propagation the important conditions of 

 natural spawning. All the shad hatched by the State Com- 

 mission are set free in the sluggish waters of the Hudson at 

 Catskill Creek instead of being liberated in the more highly 

 aerated waters of the upper Hudson, where during the early 

 stages of their development the conditions and surround- 

 ings would favor a more lusty growth and enable the young 

 fish to better fight the battle of life in their way to the sea. 

 As fish seldom ascend a stream beyond the point where they 

 are bred, the fish artificially propagated and set free at Cats- 

 kill never ascend to their proper spawning grounds, and 

 consequently about all the annual catch consist of shad 

 which are artificially hatched," 



In comment on this, our correspondent, Mr. A. N. Cheney, 

 writes to the same paper on June 3 as follows: 



"It was not until last evening that I noticed in the Times 

 of May 31 the article in regard to shad and salmon which 

 have been planted in the Hudson. I at once mailed the paper 

 to a prominent fishculturist, who has had much to do with 

 stocking the river, so that I have not the article before me, 

 but I can add a little to the subject of which it treats. It is 

 true that the operations of the State Fish Commissioners in 



shad hatching have been confined to thai, part of the Hudson 

 near Catskill and Cast! eton, and of necessity the fry have 

 been turned loose where hatched; but your correspondent 

 has overlooked the work of the United States Fish Commis- 

 sion, which remedies, largely, the matter of which he com- 

 plains, viz.: That the planting of shad fry bv the State are 

 made so far down the Hudson that the vicinity of Albanv 

 and Troy receives little direct benefit therefrom . In 1882 the 

 United States Fish Commission planted 1,000,000 shad fry 

 between Troy and Albany. In 1883 the United States fur- 

 nished a smaller number of fry to the Hudson, and I do not 

 know the place where they were deposited. In 1884 the late 

 Prof. Baircl, then United States Fish Commissioner, Col. 

 Marshal] McDonald, the present Commissioner, and Fred 

 Mather, superintendent of the Cold Spring Harbor hatchery, 

 and assistant to the United States Commission, consulted, 

 and decided that it w r as better to make future plantings of 

 shad fry further up the Hudson, where they would be in less 

 danger from predaceous fishes, find better water and more, 

 abundant food. As a result of this determination I received 

 a wire from Mr. Mather on the 16th of May of the same year, 

 saying he would arrive at this place that evening with a 

 United Stat es Fish Commission car containing 1,500,000 shad 

 fry. Upon their arrival they were deposited half above and 

 half below the falls, and during the succeeding autumn two . 

 fish of this plant, while making their way to salt water, 

 were caught m a mill flume and found to be four inches and 

 four and one-half inches long. May 22, 18S5, 1,250,000 shad 

 fry were planted by the United States Fish Commission in 

 the Hudson, at Mechanicville. May 31. 1886, 1,036,000 shad 

 fry were deposited in the Hudson at Albany from a United 

 States fish car; and Mr. Mather about the same time hatched 

 1.580,000 shad fry, which I feel sure he told me he planted at 

 Troy, although I cannot find a memorandum of it.* I do not 

 yet know where the shad were planted last year, but the 31st 

 of last month Mather received 3,000,000 shad eggs from Wash- 

 ington, which he is now hatching at Cold Spring Harbor 

 station for the Hudson, and I presume, in view of the McDon- 

 ald fishway to be built in Troy dam this year, he will deposit 

 the fry above Troy. As to the salmon,' the United States 

 Fish Commission hatched at Cold Spring Harbor this year 

 440,000 fry. which were planted in the upper Hudson waters. 

 Prom 1882 to 1888, both years inclusive, 2,200,000 Penobscot 

 salmon fry have been planted in the Hudson by the United 

 States Fish Commission. " 



♦The shad to which Mr. Cheney refers were planted from Green 

 Island, opposite Troy. 



Dogs: Their Management and Treatment in Disease. By 

 Afshmont. Price $2. Kennel Record and Account Booh. 

 Price $3. Training vs. Breaking. By X. T. Hammond. 

 Price p. First Lessons in Dog Train im/, with Points of 

 all Breeds. Price cents. 



FIXTURES. 



DOG SHOWS. 



Aug. 27 to 31.— Toledo Dog Show, Toledo, O. H. E, Cook, Super- 

 intend' ut. 



Aug. 30 to Sept. 1.— Third Annual Show of the American Fox- 

 Terrier Club, at Saratoga Springs, N. Y. (including all terriers.) 

 EE. P. Frothiugham, Secretary, 2 Walt street, Hew York. 



Sept. 4 to 7. — Second Annual Dog Show of the Michigan Kennel 

 Club, Detroit, Mich. H. E. Cook. "Superintendent. 



Sept. 11 to 14.— First Dog Show of the Buffalo International Fair 

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



Sept. 24 to 27.— Filth Dog Show at London, Ont. C.A.Stone, 

 Superintendent. 



Sept. 25 to 28.— Second Annual Dog Show of the Bristol Park 

 Agricultural Society, Bristol, Conn. Entries close Sept. 22. C. 

 F. Barnes, Secretary. 



Oct. 9 to 12.— First Dog Show of the Virginia field Sports Asso- 

 ciation, at Richmond, Va. B. H. Grundy, Secretary, Room 28, 

 Kli.-dVr Building. Entries close Oct. 1. 



Feb. 12 to 15, 1889.— Fifth Dug Show of the New Jersey Kennel 

 Club, at Jersey City, N. J. Geo. L. Wilms, Secretary, 142 Monti- 

 cello avenue, .Jersey City, N. J. 



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

 Kennel Club, New York. James Mortimer, Superintendent. 



Feb. 28 to March 1, 1889.— Second Annual Show of the Renssalaer 

 Kennel Club, Troy, N. Y. Alba M. Ide. Secretary. 



March 5 to 8, 1889.— Second Annual Dog Show of the Albany 

 Kennel Club, at Albanv, N. Y. Geo. B, Gallup, Secretary. 



March 12 to 15, 1889.— Second Annual Show of the Fort Schuyler 

 Kennel Club. Utica, N. Y. James W, Dunlop, President. 



March 19 to 22. 1889.— First Annual Dog Show of the Maryland 

 Kennel Club, at Baltimore, Mil. W. S. Diffenderffer, Secretary. 



March 23 to 29. 1889. -First Annual Dog Show of the Massachu- 

 setts Kennel Club, at Lynn, Mass. D. A. Williams, Secretary. 



FIELD TRIALS, 



Sept. 11— Third Annual Field Trials of the Manitoba Field 

 Trials Club. Derby entries close July 1. All-Aged entries Aug. 1. 

 Thos. Johnson, Secretary, Winnipeg, Manitoba. 



Nov. 1.— Second Annual Field Trials of the Indiana Kennel 

 Club, at Bicknell, Ind. P. T. Madison, Secretary, Indianapolis, 

 lnd. 



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. 3.— First Annual Field Trials of the Southern Field Trial 

 Club, at Amory, Miss. T. M. Brumby, Secretary, Chattanooga, 

 Tcuu. 



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

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

 nati, O. 



Jan. 14, 1889.— Sixth Annual Field Trials of the Pacific Coast 

 Field Trial Club, at Bakersfield, Cal. N. P. Sheldon, Secretary, 

 320 Sansome street, San Francisco, Cal. 



COURSING. 



Oct. 15.— Third Annual Meeting of the American Coursing Club 

 at Great Bend, Kau. F. K. Doan, Secretary, 1210 Olive street, St 

 Louis, Mo, 



A. K. R.-SPECIAL NOTICE. 



HPHE 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 6362. 



THE NATIONAL DOG CLUB. 



THFj committee appointed to draft constitution, by-laws 

 and rules for the National Dog Club have submitted the 

 following, and the club will take action upon them at the 

 meeting to be held at the Metropolitan Hotel, New York, 

 on Thursday, July 5, at 12 o'clock: 



CONSTITUTION. 

 ARTICLE I. 



This club shall be kuown as the National Dog CJub. 

 ARTICLE II. 



The object of the club shall be to promote the general im- 

 provement of clogs, dog shows aud dog competitions. 



ARTICLE III. 



Sec. 1. The club shall consist of an unlimited uumber of 

 members, whose election shall be by ballot, and is vested 

 solely in the executive committee— two" black balls to exclude. 



