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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[Jan. 12, 1888. 



THE LOBSTER FISHERIES OF MAINE. —An investiga- 

 tion of thelobster Bsheries of Maine and the effect ot the laws 

 thereon has recently been made by Deputy Labor Commis- 

 sioner Campbell, of that State. He reports that the lobster 

 fishery is an industry that has grown up m the past thirty 

 years. Said a fisherman, "When I first went into the busi- 

 ness in 1853 there were but six smacks running lobsters in 

 Maine waters, four of which were from New London, Conn. 

 These smacks averaged about four men each, live men 

 caught at that time twice the amount of lobsters these five 

 smacks could carry. " From this small industry m 1850 it 

 has grown to such Vast proportion that itnow employs nearly 

 2,000 boats, 40 sail of vessels, and gives employment to over 

 2,000 fishermen, and the transportation smacks in Maine 

 waters employ more than 100 men in freighting or transport- 

 ing lobsters caught in Maine waters. This industry distri- 

 butes in various ways among the fishermen of Maine a gross 

 sum of more than $600,000 annual! y. The business of lobster 

 catching in general requires two men to a boat, with 200 

 traps, at a cost of about $300 for the entire outfit. The 

 greater part of the fishing is carried on in small boats within 

 a short distance of the fishermen's homes. In winter a 

 small number of vessels are employed in deep sea fishing. 



FOREIGN SHIPMENT OF EGGS.— Last week the U. S. 

 Fish Commission sent 90,000 eggs of lake trout to W. Oldham 

 Chambers. Secretary of the N ational Fishculture Association , 

 South Kensington. 'London. They came from the station at 

 Northvilie, Mich., in care of E. G. Blackford, New York. 



THE U. S. FISH COMMISSION.— A bill is now before 

 Congress authorizing the appointment of a Commisioner of 

 Fisheries who shall be well versed in the knowledge of fishes 

 and who shall hold no other office at the same time. His 

 compensation shall be five thousand dollars per year. 



the Mmnel 



Dogs: Their Managemen t and Treatment in Disease. By 

 Ashmont. Price $z. Kennel Record and Account Booh. 

 Price $3. Training vs. Breaking. By S. T. Hammond, 

 Price $1. First Lessons in Dog Training, with Points of 

 all Breeds. Price 25 cents. 



FIXTURES. 



DOG SHOWS. 



Jan. 10, 11, 12 and 13, 1888.-Bench Show of the Ohio Poultry, Pigeon, 

 Kennel and Pet Stock Association, Columbus, O. H. O. Bridge, 

 .Secretary. Columbus, O. 



Jan. 24. to 29.— Augusta, Ga., Richmond County Poultry and Pet 

 Stock. 



Feb. 13 to 17.— First show Fort Schuyler Kennel Club, TJtica, N. 

 Y. E. J. Spencer. Sec. 



Feb. 21 to 24, 1888.— Twelfth Annual Show of the Westminster Ken- 

 nel Club, Madison Square Garden, New York. James Mortimer, 

 Sunerintendent. 



Feb. 28 to March 2.— Show of Philadelphia Kennel Club. W. H. 

 Child, Sec. 



April 3 to 6.— Fourth Annual Dor Show of the New England 

 Kennel Club, at Boston, Mass. J. W. Newman, Secretary. 



FIELD TRIALS. 

 Jan. 16.— Fif th Annual Field Trials of the Pacific Coast Field 

 Trial Club, near Kingsburgh, Cal. N. P. Shelden, .Secretary, 320 

 Sansome street, San Francisco, Cal. 



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 he 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 5708. 



INDIANA FIELD TRIALS. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



At the directors' meeting of the Indiana Kennel Club, held 

 last night in this city, it was decided to open our trials this 

 year to dogs owned in Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Michigan 

 and Illinois. The trials will be held on the club's grounds 

 at Bicknell, Knox county, Ind., and will begin Thursday, 

 Nov. 1, with the Derby, open to all dogs owned in the above 

 named States, born on or after Jan. 1, 1887. The forfeit will 

 be $5, with §10 additional to start. Entries close June 1. 

 The Derby will be followed by the All- Aged Stake, open to 

 all dogs owned in said States that have never won a first 

 prize in any All-Aged Stake in any recognized field trials in 

 America. The fees will he the same as the Derby. Entries 

 close Oct A. The All-Aged Stake will be followed by the 

 Indiana Stake, open to dogs of any age owned in Indiana 

 that have never won a first prize in any recognized field 

 trial in America. Forfeit $5, with $5 additional to fill. 

 Entries close Sept. 1. Any dogs owned in Indiana that are 

 eligible to the Derby can run in the All-Aged Stake, and 

 dogs owned in the other States named, that are eligible to 

 the Derby, can run in the All-Aged Stake. The club decided 

 to make the purses on the sweepstake plan, as we did last 

 year, and which proved entirely satisfactory to all con- 

 cerned. The necessary expense of the trials will be deducted 

 from the entrance money, and the remainder will be divided 

 as follows: Fifty per cent, to first, 25 per cent, to second 

 and two equal thirds of 12V£ per cent. each. 



A new rule was added, penalizing a dog for chasing a 

 rabbit, the same as ehasi ng a bird. We are the first club to 

 adopt this rule. The club's grounds are all that could be 

 desired, and birds will be found in abundance. 



Competent judges will be selected, and every man who 

 favors us with an entry shall have fair treatment. Anv man 

 found hunting or shooting south of the railroad within 

 three miles east, west or south of the hotel, will be debarred 

 from participating in the trials, and any prizes he may have 

 won shall be forfeited to the club. Running rules' entry 

 blanks, etc., are now in the hands of the printer, and will be 

 ready in a few days. My P. O. address is Lock Box 4, this 

 city, and parties writing for rules, entry blanks, etc will 

 please bear this in mind. P. T. Madison, Secretary. 



Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 3. 



D £G Show -We have received the premium 

 ist ol the first annual dog show of the Fort Schuyler 

 Kennel Club, to be held at iftica, N. Y., Feb. 14 to 17 The 

 prize m the champion classes will be a silver medal: in the 

 open classes $10 $5 and diploma, with .$5 and diploma for 

 puppies. The club offers kennel prizes of S10 each for 

 mastiffs, St. Bernards, pointers, English setters, Irish 

 setters, spaniels and collies. The judges are Messrs A A 

 Francis, Rochester, N, Y.. setters and pointers, and Jas" 

 Watson Philadelphia, all other classes. The show Till be 

 ™^ der ^ ^o 5 0t l he Americ an Kennel Club, with the 

 exception of Rule 2, and entries will be accepted whether 

 registered or not. Entries close Feb. 4. The addrew of the 

 secretary is E. J. Spencer, Box 172, Utica, N Y 6 



RULE NUMBER 2. 



THE young man from Hartford, who claims credit for 

 having fugled for the A. K. C. stud book clique, says 

 he made the motion because he thinks the exhibitors ought 

 to chip in 50 cents all around so that the stud book fees may 

 pay the expenses of the American Kennel Club. This may 

 be a perfectly just and reasonable consideration, but it will 

 strike some disinterested lookers on as rather a case ol rub- 

 bing it into the exhibitor. The constituted clubs are per- 

 fectly competent to pay all legitimate expenses ot the 

 American Kennel Club; and what is more they ought to be 

 willing to do this out of the show profits some of them reap 

 from exhibitors. Take the Westminster Kennel Club for 

 instance, which we name because it happens to be the first 

 one to print the compulsory rule in its premium list. The 

 Westminster Kennel Club gives dog shows because there is 

 money in them; or to put it in another way, the club 

 makes money out of its shows, and this element of profit is 

 one without which the shows would not be given. It is 

 generally understood that the Westminster shows are 

 managed by a committee, the members of which, after 

 paying to the club proper a stipulated percentage, divide 

 the profits. The first show was so remunerative that the 

 club made enough to buy its grounds at Babylon: and Mr. 

 Tileston, the show manager, started a paper called The 

 Country with his share of the proceeds. The annual profits 

 of the Westminster shows are believed to have aggregated 

 many thousand dollars. The Westminster Kennel Club, 

 having made these handsome profits from exhibitors, might 

 gracefully pay stud book deficiencies out of its own treasury, 

 if it feels a special interest in the venture. It is most cer- 

 tainly not in good taste for it to demand registration head 

 money from exhibitors, nor does the Hartford fugleman's 

 plea have much weight when he says that the American 

 Kennel Club with such rich members cannot pay its neces- 

 sary expenses. 



When a Western philosopher was engaged in printing 

 his serial, which he called '-False Statements,'" explaining 

 why he had never paid that little loan to the Memphis man, 

 he wrote as follows, in explanation of the Memphis man's 

 mode of reasoning: 



There is therefore no other conclusion than that he measured 

 us by himself and argued: . . ."Now. when I, Bryson, would do 

 such a thing as that, it is nonsense to suppose that Ro we would 

 not do it; therefore Rowe did do it, because I would do it." 



Last week in commenting on the compulsory registration 

 rule he asked: 



One question to the Forest and Stream: Supposing the 

 American Kennel Club hau adopted the A. K. E. as Its "official 

 stud hook, would it have yelled "robbery," "bulldozing," etc., as 

 it does now? We reckon not. 



Now, if this Chicago philosopher's theory, as put forth by 

 him in the Bryson loau case, be true, namely, that one man 

 imputes to another the feelings which he knows he himself 

 would have in like circumstances, it follows, as Die day 

 follows night, that the Chicago man draws his conclusion 

 about the Forest and Stream's attitude in the above con- 

 tingency from his knowledge of the stand he himself would 

 take; that is to say, he believes this journal to be influenced 

 by the same lack of principle he knows that be would be 

 governed by in anything in which he thought there might 

 be a dollar or a dime for himself. By the way, when the 

 wolf assures the sheep that he is grown old and lazy and has 

 lost his taste for mutton, it is a good time for the sheep to 

 be looking out for themselves. 



If any seeker after light, who does not know us, wants to 

 be told whether the Forest and Stream would have been 

 part y to any scheme to compel dog owners to pay us registry 

 tees, we are free to say that when we cannot conduct our 

 publications on fair business principles we will go out of 

 business. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



I have heard a great deal about Rule 2, pro and con, but it 

 would seem to me that in the heat of the controversy t he 

 most important point has been lost sight of, namely, the 

 value of the stud book itself. There is an outburst of indig- 

 nation at the idea that, if owners w'ant to exhibit their dogs, 

 they should be compelled to puttheir handsinto their pocket 

 and, in addition to the regular entry fee, pay out an extra 

 half dollar for the registration of their dogs,' be. they curs of 

 no value or valuable thoroughbreds. 



There is no doubt that if the A. K. C. sees fit to have a 

 stud book of its own, the said body has a perfect right to 

 have one. I have been of that opinion from the veiy begin- 

 ning , and have liberally supported it by registering all my 

 dogs. This was an extra tax on me. for, like many other 

 breeders, I had them already registered in the A.K. Ji., 

 where I still continue to register new ones and puppies, the 

 same as in the A.K.C.S.B., for I look at it from a business 

 point of view, and if on the one hand I help to support both 

 stud books, on the other hand I derive a certain benefit from 

 the publicity thus given to my stock. I have no party feeling 

 in the matter whatever. I am merel y acting as a business man 

 believing that if a buyer or a breeder wants to find some in- 

 formation about my stock it is to my advantage that he 

 should find the information looked for in both the stud 

 books. You perceive from this that I do not find fault with 

 Rule 2 on account of the fifty cents, but because, if enforced, 

 it will lessen the standard of the A.K.C.S.B. It was bad 

 enough thaL for the sake of paying fifty cents, any cur could 

 be registered under the heading of the' breed that he most 

 resembled, but to enforce such registrations is a detriment 

 to the cause of the A. K. C. (though it may be a benefit to 

 its treasury!. 



The A. K. C. is a company of clubs that were organized 

 for the purpose of improving the different breeds of dogs. 

 Now, does Rule 2 work m that direction? No, on the con- 

 trary, I am sure it does not. Let me give you an iustance. 

 At the last Westminster Kennel Club show about a dozen 

 Leonbergs were catalogued with the St, Bernards, and 

 brought, in their respective classes, into the judging ring. 

 Every one of them was turned out by the judge before he 

 commenced judging. And why were they turned out? Be- 

 cause they were mongrels, which are not recognized as a 

 breed, neither in Germany (their native land), nor in Eng- 

 land, nor in Switzerland, and have no claim to the name of 

 St. Bernard. 



According to Rule 2, these dogs would have been previously 

 registered by their owners iu the A.K.C.S.B. under the breed 

 of St. Bernards, and, notice, with pedigree, undoubtedly 

 correct, name of breeder, etc., etc.. and as imported at that 

 A St. Bernard man could tell to a certain extent what kind 

 of stock it is, when he finds it registered, just the same as a 

 mastiff man, a fox-terrier man or a collie man can tell about 

 his own particular breed, but the public at large caunot, and 

 hence the stud book would be quite unintentionally a means 

 of deceiving many, for it would indorse a Leonber'g as a St 

 Bernard. This is no argument for the sake of gaining my 

 point, it is an indisputable fact, a fact which is applicable 

 to all breeds, not to St. Bernards only 



What gives their value to the different herd books, the Jer- 

 sey, the Guernsey, the Dutcb-Friesian, etc ? The [fact that 

 thoroughbreds enly are eligible for registration, and the 

 public knows this. Hence the demand for registered dogs' 

 Poor, simple-minded outsiders, they don't know that Rule 

 2 is going to force in any creature with four legs, a tail at 

 one end a bark at the other; any cur, no matter how 

 wretched, provided his owner thinks enough of him to show 

 him at, may be, some small village show, neld under A K C 

 rules, and is going to place it side by side in the stud book 

 with some valuable dog brought from the other side at great 

 cost, or side by side with some American bred crack 



If Rule 2 provided for the registration of prize winners at 

 the expense of the A. K. C, and for the benefit of dogdom, 

 the club would be true to its cause, but not so with Rule 2 

 as it stands. 



I blame Boston and New Haven for going out of the club. 

 We need such a club as the A. K. C. with Boston and N. H. 

 in it; there is no cause for goiug outside; let the clubs stay 

 in and fight Rule 2 inside. If the A.K.C.S.B. is paying its 

 own way. as some say it does, what do we need the obnoxious 

 compulsory 50 cents for ? If it does not pay but is still 

 wanted, then let the clubs pay for their book, and let its j 

 standard be raised rather than lowered. 



I think that, in view of the fact that only four or live clubs 

 were represented when Rule 2 was proposed and carried, a 

 special meeting should be called for the purpose of recon- 

 sidering the said rule, which I consider to be contrary to the 



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interests of the A. K. C. 

 Arlington, N. J. 



Editor Forest and Stream- 

 It is great fun to whack the head of a fellow who is fight- 

 ing on your side; the effect is so surprising that it gives a 

 zest to the whack. For instance, Mr. Mercer says that the 

 Pittsburgh club is "pretty certain"' to indorse Rule 2. Pray- 

 how does he know that? Did he suppose that was the in- 

 evitable evolution of "pewter medals"? Or that "copper" 

 ones necessarily led to such an end? Or that "100 cents on 

 the dollar" was a hotbed that always sprouted such plants? 

 Or that "solid silver" involved solidity of head that made 

 acceptance of Rule 2 a foregone conclusion? Truly, if such 

 were' his ground, his judgment was reasonable. But alas 



for human judgment! Messrs. and , the brains 



of the Pittsburgh club, both tell me that they are unalter- 

 ably opposed to the rule, as calculated to cut down their 

 entries, and they care more for the number of their entries 

 than for the A. K. C. I think I am abundantly within 

 bounds when I say that if there were a show in Pittsburgh 

 next spring, Rule 2 would be disregarded. You know 



who and are. and if I mistake not, already know 



their ideas, and I am sure you will agree with me, that no 

 men of higher character adorn American kennel affairs. 

 Both are averse, to what I consider a ridiculous degree, to 

 having their names in print, and therefore I do not give 

 them, but you can probably say that you know just the same 

 of them that I know and say. 



I am disappointed, but not surprised at the acceptance of 

 the bulldoze rule by the W. K C; disappointed because I 

 thought they had risen above the narrowness that has so 

 far characterized them, and that they realized that the 

 metropolitan location, which has made their show what it 

 is, imposed on them equal prominence in action, and that they 

 would not longer linger so far in the rear of Boston, New 

 Haven and Philadelphia in enterprise. I am not surprised, 

 as this unfortunate club has never gone in with public 

 opinion if there was a chance to go contrary to it, and it has 

 always been shoved into every forward step it has taken. 

 Of course Beaufort — Patti M. goes for the rule and I will be 

 surprised if Cincinnati does not follow. What Philadelphia 

 will do is a puzzle and I sympathize with them iu their 

 peculiarly complicated position. However, the vitality that 

 shook off the gang that so nearly throttled Philadelphia at 

 its inception can do great things: "Bide a wee." W. WADE. : 

 Rulton, Pa., Jan. 7. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



I am pleased to see the bold, uncompromising position > 

 taken by the Forest and Stream in opposition to the last 

 and most despotic of all the arbitrary rules of the A. K. C. 

 We shall see whether the A. K. C. will kill the rule or the 

 rule kill the. club, If the A. K. C. as a confederate body ; 

 cannot meet or pay its expenses, let it disband and each club l 

 defray its own individual expenses or cease to exist. Let the 

 A. K. C. stop their arbitrary taxation of exhibitors, pay 

 their own expenses and not try to linger through a moribund i 

 existence upon an obnoxious, forced tax levied upon and 

 unwillingly paid even by the few who may lay their pride 

 and self-respect at the club's feet by wearing its dog-collar 

 Rule No, 2 around their necks. I am not a dog fancier. 1 

 have never sold a dog, but have owned many, and am now 

 the owner of one, the winner of two first prizes at the Crys- 

 tal Palace and one in .New York. I shall never exhibit a 

 dog and shall always, if I can, dissuade others from doing i 

 so at any show where Rule No. 2 of the A. K. C. may be i 

 in force. Such, Mr. Editor, are the views of many, and ex- ; 

 pressed by one Member of the American Pet Dog Club, ij 



New York, Jan. 9. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



You ask me what I think of Rule 2. I should hardly J 

 think you need ask any exhibitor such a question, for all I j 

 have met are, like me, decidedly opposed to being.cal led upon •] 

 to chip in a half dollar to help keep the stud book on its j 

 legs. Nearly all of my dogs are already registered in the 1 

 American Kennel Register, while others are in the English ' 

 Stud Book. I supported the A merican Kennel Register 

 because it was the only one being used by the bull-terrier \ 

 breeders, and now if we are to be compelled to register in 

 the club's book, the whole thing must be done over again, i 

 That, however, is a secondary consideration, the objection * 

 being that we know exactly what the idea is in altering the * 

 rule, and if people make such bargains they should father " 

 the law themselves, and not look to exhibitors to do what, is j 

 their own duty. Frank F. Dole 



West Philadelphia, Jan. 9. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



We wish to state most decidedly that our views on the ' 

 subject, which we have held for some time, are those of cor- I 

 dial sympathy with the American Kennel Club, believing, ' 

 as we do, that all breeders should give their assistance to ( 

 that club, in order to draw together the kennel interests of 

 this country and to forward the stud book controlled by the 

 club. We believe Rule 2 is not only a wise one. but neces- 

 sary. Chestnut Hill Kennels. 



Philadelphia, Pa. 



Editor Forest and, Stream.: 



What we need in behalf of exhibitors is protection, not 

 restriction. We have enough restriction now without an 

 extra 50 cents to nay for each exhibit. Better make a rule j 

 compelling all their clubs to deposit the amount of pre- i 

 miums offered previous to opening their shows, thus insur- 

 ing to winning exhibitors their medals and cash prizes. If j 

 the A. K. C. would devote a few minutes of its time at each | 

 meeting to such legislation as that, it would be of some < 

 benefit to exhibitors. J. H. Shepherd. 



New Yosk. 



PUG MEDAL. — Catawissa, Pa., Dec 22.— Editor Forest 

 and Stream: In offering my special prize for the best stud 

 pug under fifteen pounds, two or more, or a litter not under l 

 eight weeks old, must be shown to make him eligible to com- 

 pete for my prize. — Geo. W. Fisher. 



BEAU OF PORTLAND. — The owner of the pointer dog 

 Beau of Portland writes us that the dog was afflicted with 

 ulcer and that he had never seen his handler uutil the be- 

 ginning of the trials at Florence, This will account for his 

 indifferent performance. 



SPANIEL DOG LOST.— The liver-colored spaniel dog 

 Newton Abbot strayed from Bergen Point, N. J., Jan. 3. 

 He weighs 331 bs,, has long ears aud short tail. A reward 

 will be paid for his return to his owner, A, C. Wilmerding, 

 Bergen Point, N. J, 



