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FOREST AND STREAM. 



f June 16, 1887. 



Trouting in Pike County, Pa.— Milford, Pa., June 

 12. — Editor Forest and Stream: The Shohola and Bloom- 

 ing Grove, at the Park, were rather high early last week, 

 and will stand another week's running after this gets 

 into print. I could do nothing with the fly, although 

 cloudy days, but the Avind was east. Others had some 

 success with worms. Came on to Milford, waded Ray- 

 mond's Kill with Charley Mott, who killed six or eight 

 good fish and took fifteen last night, one of twelve inches. 

 I got one of I4lbs. Tried Hamilton's stretch on Sawkill 

 next day, saw plenty but caught few. Last night fished 

 Penny's woods and meadows from 4:30 P. M. to dark. 

 Grot thirty, mostly small, saw no big fish. They took 

 small cowdung, sometimes grisly-king or professor, and 

 yellow-sally in twilight. Tried to cast a few minnows 

 where Vandermark runs into Delaware, but had no suc- 

 cess. Water very clear, but high, no bass taken so far. 

 —Gray John. 



A Catskill Mountain Club. — Judge A. B. Parker, 

 Public Printer Benedict and a score or more of other 

 prominent men in various parts of the country, have 

 formed a club and purchased 600 acres of land at a cost 

 of $1,200 at the base of Slide Mountain, one of the grand- 

 est localities in the Catskill Mountains. Workmen are 

 building a log cabin. Other men are building a dam 

 across a ravine for the purpose of making a pond. This 

 locality is famous for the big fat trout that are caught in 

 the streams. Where the club house is being erected it is 

 a cool spot even in summer, for ice can be found in some 

 of the clefts of the rocks in the dog days. The club house 

 will be ready for occupancy in a week or two. The jur- 

 ists, statesmen and prominent office holders, who, it is 

 expected, will be the guests of the new club, will find not 

 only good fishing, but good hunting and, perhaps, some 

 very lively adventures. 



Fishing at Lake George.— The season is now fairly 

 open at Lake George, and fishing for lake trout has been 

 fairly good. Gen. Lewis L. Arms opened the season two 

 weeks ago and caught ten fish, the smallest of which 

 weighed 61bs. Last week I met your correspondent Mr. 

 A. N. Cheney in company with Judge Ranger and his sou 

 Will, and they reported fine sport, then- catch amounting 

 to 961bs. The largest fish was taken by Judge Ranger 

 and weighed 13£lbs. As I write several parties are about 

 starting for the fishing grounds. — Horicon. 



Salmon in the Hudson.— The Governor has signed the 

 bill providing for a fishway in the dam at Troy, and also 

 the bill protecting salmon throughout the State. The 

 latter law inflicts a penalty of $100 or one hundred days' 

 imprisonment for taking a salmon in any manner except 

 by angling. In case the fine is paid, one-half of it goes to 

 the informer. Salmon are now taken daily about Long 

 Island and in the Hudson River, the results of the con- 

 tinuous plantings by the U. S. Fish Commission. 



The Canadian Trip described in our issue of March 

 31, was taken in the year 1882 instead of in 1886, as some 

 readers, we are advised, have inferred; and the manager's 

 of the Northern and Northwestern railways ask us to say 

 that the date should be taken into consideration in con- 

 nection with the experience of "Homerus" and Ms parly 

 in chartering a special train to speed them on their way. 



Salmon in New Jersey. — New Brunswick, May 31.— 

 A salmon weighing 181bs. was caught in the Raritan 

 River below town to-day.— It was caught in a seine. — A. 

 L. Munndy. 



Salmon in Connecticut.. — A salmon weighing 191bs. 

 was caught in Housatonic River, near Milford, Conn., on 

 Saturday, June 5, in shad nets. 



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WORK AT COLD SPRING HARBOR. 



BY FEED MATHER. 

 [Read before the American Fisheries Society!. 



THE past season has been the most successful one we have 

 had since operations were begun here in 1883. We have 

 turned out more lish than ever before, the figures for 1886 

 footing up to over 6,000,000, while this year the figures are 

 over 9,000,000. There was a decrease in the numbers of salmon 

 hatched and planted, also in trout, but an increase in shad 

 and Adirondack frostfish and other species. 



Salmon.— We received 300,000 eggs from the United States 

 station on the Penobscot River, which hatched in such excel- 

 lent condition that our loss was only about 8,000, which is 

 the best we have ever done; of these fish 50,000 were planted 

 in the Housatonic River, near Kent, New Milford and Falls 

 Village, Conn., 50,000 Were placed in the Salmon River near 

 Albion, Oswego county, N. Y., and the remainder were 

 placed ' in the smaller trout streams on the Upper Hudson 

 near North Creek, Warren county, N. Y., the terminus of 

 the Adirondack Railroad. Mr. J. W. Burdick, General 

 Passenger Agent of the D. and H. Canal Co. at Albany, very 

 kindly gave" us free transportation for cans and men to 

 Albany, and Mr. C. E. Durkee, Superintendent of the Adir- 

 ondack Railroad, offered us the same facilities over his road. 

 Very encouraging accounts of our plantings of salmon in 

 the Hudson are continually coming in. Last year over fifty 

 were taken by different persons and this year we are hearing 

 of captures every day. A letter from Judge Danaher, of 

 Albany, savs that some of the fish have gone above the dam 

 at Troy and it is to be hoped that fish ways will be placed 

 there this year, a bill for that purpose being now before the 

 New York Legislature. One salmon of 28)^lbs. has been 

 taken this spring, just below the dam at Troy, the largest 

 fish of which we have any record of being captured in the 

 Hudson. It has been proved conclusively that the Hudson 

 can be made a salmon river. A bill introduced into the 

 Legislature by Mr. Collins, which provides that no person 

 shall at any time catch salmon in the waters of the State of 

 New York with any device, save that of angling with line or 

 rod. held in the hand and then only from March 1 to Aug. 15 

 in each year, passed both houses and is now in the hands of 

 the Governor. 



Landlocked Salmon.— From 40,000 eggs received from 

 the United States station at Grand Luke Stream, it was de- 

 cided to plant 25,000 in the tributaries of the Hudson River, 

 and the majority of the fish were sent to Mr. A. N. Cheney, 

 of Glens Falls, who placed them in Clendon Brook, a trout 



stream where the sea salmon have done well for several 

 years, while the remainder of the fry were planted in Long 

 Island waters. 



Brook Trout.— We received 90,000 eggs from the New 

 York station at Caledonia, and from these and eggs which 

 we took from our limited number of stock fish, we nave dis- 

 tributed in waters in the State 148,986 fish and fry, and we 

 may say that in all cases where the numbers are given there 

 is no guess work about it. The eggs are counted in a measure 

 and the rest are measured in the same glass, then when they 

 are placed in the hatching troughs, an account is kept of the 

 number of dead eggs and fry taken from each trough, so that 

 we can tell exactly how many fish there should be remain- 

 ing in each compartment. 



Brown Trout. — We received several consignments of the, 

 brown trout, Sa,lmo fario, the common brook trout of 

 Europe, from the Deutchen Fischerei Verein , and also from 

 Herr Max von dem Borne, the well-known fishcultnrist of 

 Berneuchen. These were on account of the United States 

 Fish Commission, and some of the eggs were sent to Michi- 

 gan, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Washington. We hatched 

 and distributed 34,000. 



Loch Leven Trout (Salmo levencns-is).— The eggs of this 

 famous Scotch trout were sent to us by James Gibson Mait- 

 land, Esq., proprietor of the Howietown Fishery at Sterling, 

 Scotland; 24,000 fry were produced from the eggs. 



Rainbow Trout.— From 10,000 eggs sent us from the New 

 York Station, Caledonia, we have 8,000 strong, healthy fry. 



Saibltng (Salmo salvelinm).— This handsome trout, which 

 is a native of the cool lakes of Germany and Bavaria, ami 

 attains a large size, being one of the chars, is a very brilliant 

 fish. I have seen a Specimen of 51bs., a male in breeding 

 dress, in October, which was a brilliant crimson up to and 

 above the lateral line. The eggs of this fish were distributed 

 by the order of the U. S. Fish Commissioner in several 

 States, some going to Virginia, Michigan and Pennsylvania. 

 We sent some fry to Mr. Cheney for Lake George, and have 

 retained some for breeders. 



Whitefish. — From 1,000,000 eggs received from the U. S. 

 station at Northville, Mich., we have planted in Dutchess 

 county, N. Y., and on Long Island over 900,000 fry. 



Fbostfish (Proso-niurn quadrilateraliti) .— This fish, which 

 is found in the Adirondacks, where in Chateaugay Lake it 

 is called "shad," while in Maine and perhaps other places it 

 is variously known as frostfish, shad-waiter, etc. We re- 

 ceived some 250,000 eggs from the New York station at Lake 

 Brandon, and planted 200,000 fry in Dutchess county, N. Y. 



Grayling.— From 10,000 eggs sent to Mr. Blackford from 

 France, we at first thought we could not save a fish, bat we 

 hatched and brought to the point of taking food 350 fry from 

 these eggs. We placed these in a small pond of about 15ft. 

 in diameter and l>£ft. deep, where there was a good flow of 

 water, .but we have" never seen one of the fish since. 



Sunapee Trout.— From Mr. E. B. Hodge, of the New 

 Hampshire Commission, we received 10,000 eggs of the large 

 trout recently discovered there; it is of the Oquassa type, 

 concerning which there has been considerable dispute as to 

 its species. We hatched 3,000 fry which seemed strong and 

 healthy, which we placed m a pond similarly described for 

 the grayling, but we have never been able to see them since. 



White Perch.— We obtained some eggs of these fish from 

 St. John's Lake, near the hatchery, and we also took some 

 by hand from the fish; in all about 10,000 eggs. The eggs 

 are adhesive, and when hiid by the fish are scattered similar 

 to those of the carp. The fry are the smallest of any that I 

 have hatched, and it requires a second look to see them in a 

 small glass aquarium. We tried to retain a few, but we 

 were not successful, as they died shortly after the absorbing 

 of the sac. 



Smelts.— Out of over 4,000,000 eggs we hatched and planted 

 2,000,000, or about 50 per cent., which is as good as we have 

 ever done. I have on two former occasions read papers on 

 the hatching of the fish before yourhonorable body and have 

 nothing new to add. The little smelt carries a great many 

 eggs for its size, from 30,000 to 60,000, or perhaps more, and 

 from 100 ripe females of good size probably 5,000,000 could be 

 obtained. 



Shad. — We received from the United States Commission 

 at Washington over 5,000,000 eggs taken on the Potomac 

 River, packed there and sent to Cold Spring Harbor. From 

 this lot we hatched 2,000,000 fry, the last lot of eggs being a 

 total loss, perhaps because they remained in New York a 

 day and were placed in a refrigerator, for the shad egg will 

 not bear the chilling changes necessary to preserve the eggs 

 of salmon or trout. Of the fry obtained 800,000 were placed 

 in the Hudson River at Albany, and 1,200,000 in Long Island 

 streams, shipments being made to the Nissequogue River, 

 at Smithtown on the north shore of Long Island, and to the 

 Connetquoit River, emptying into the Great South Bay; the 

 planting in the latter river was made at Bridgehampton. 

 The weather was very favorable for hatching and we used 

 only spring water for them, and no time the temperature of 

 the'water fell below fifty-nine degrees. 



Last winter was the third winter we hatched the little 

 tomcod, and we turned out 3,400,000 in the harbor, This lit- 

 tle fish, although not in great demand in the markets, forms 

 an important item in the food supply to the inhabitants of 

 Long Island, especially on the north side, as the boys catch 

 them by hundreds and sell them to the people in the vicinity. 

 Shortly after we began our hatching operations and paid 

 some attention to this fish, Cold Spring, Huntington and 

 Oyster Bay harbors have been literally swarming with little 

 tomcods, which are all credited by the people here to our 

 hatching operations. We made no attempt to hatch codfish 

 because of the condition of our hatchery, m which we could 

 not keep the salt water pipes from freezing; but if we get a 

 new building, as we expect, we will no doubt be able to pro- 

 ceed with the hatchery of the cod, as has been done at Wood's 

 Holl. Last winter, when every salt water pipe froze, we had 

 a portion of our tomcod eggs in jars, and as salt water was 

 not available we tried fresh water, and after hatching them 

 in fresh water, we kept a large number in the fresh water 

 unLil they were ready to take food. No doubt this little fish 

 could be acclimatized in the Great Lakes, and if not valued 

 for food, would be desirable as food for the other fishes, but 

 on Long Island the tomcod is regarded as a very desirable 

 fish, and they are taken from all sizes up to perhaps l^lbs., 

 which is the largest I have ever seen. They resemble the 

 common cod in having three dorsal and two anal fins. 



The following table gives a summary of this year's work: 



Penobscot salmon planted in Hudson River 192,000 



Penobscot salmon planted in Salmon River 50,000 



Penobscot salmon planted in Housatonic River 50,000 



Landlocked salmon planted in Hudson River 25,000 



Landlocked salmon planted in Hatchery Pond 12,000 



Brook trout planted m State waters 148,986 



Brown trout planted in State waters 34,000 



Rainbow trout planted in State waters 8,000 



Loch Leven trout planted in State waters 24,000 



Saibling planted in State waters 5,000 



Whitefish planted in State waters 995,000 



Tomcod planted in Cold Spring Harbor 3,400,000 



Smelt planted in Cold Spring Harbor 2,000,000 



Shad planted in Hudson River and Long Island 2,000,000 



Frostfish (Adirondack) 200,000 



Grayling 350 



Sunapee Lake, N, H, Oquassa trout 3,000 



White perch 10,000 



9,157,336 



COL. McDonald— So far I have found no satisfaction in 

 handling glutinous eggs, and the only real success 1 have 

 met with was with the eggs of the white perch. We had 

 collected some adult fish for Mr. Mather to send to Germany, 



and they were put in a perforated can in the river to keep 

 for a few days ? and on taking it out we found the side of the 

 can coated "with eggs, and sent it to the central station, 

 hardly expecting any results, as we were not certain that the 

 eggs were impregnated. In three or four days a large pro- 

 portion of the eggs hatched; we had given themno attention 

 at all, but simply left them alone. The eggs were evenly 

 distributed on the can, and not hung in masses; now, per- 

 haps as good a thing to do with glutinous eggs is to let them 

 alone. The eggs of the yellow perch are iaid in rows and 

 hung over twigs and are' merely suspended where the eggs 

 hatch without being disturbed. "The catfish also lays gluti- 

 nous eggs, but they are not stuck together; when the female 

 lays them she leaves the male to hover over them. Now it 

 may be that in all our attempts to hatch glutinous eggs we 

 have only tried the same methods which we use in handling 

 eggs which are non-adhesive, and have departed too far from 

 nature in this matter. 



MR. MATHER— You will notice in my report T mention the 

 fact that all the white perch which we tried to keep and feed 

 died. 



Col. McDonald— So did ours, and I would like to hear 

 from Mr. Marks about the "jack salmon," or pike-perch, 

 and w T hat success he has had in hatching the glutinous eggs 

 of this fish. 



Mr. MARKS— We have hatched them for the past two 

 years, and always by separating the eggs and never in any 

 other way. Although it is a long and tedious process to 

 break the adhesive character of the eggs, it is the only way 

 we have ever succeeded. Mr. Nevin has a paper on the 

 hatching of the fish, but I can only say that our method is 

 the same as his. The eggs are taken in the rivers and trans- 

 ported to the hatchery on trays. 



AMERICAN FIELD TRIAL CLUB. 



Regulations and Running Rules— 1887. 



Rule 1. The management of the meetings for the Ann uai 

 Field Trials shall be entrusted to the Board of Control, and 

 the interpretation of all rules governing the Trials lies with 

 them, or with a representative by him appointed. They 

 shall decide upon all matters pertaining to the trials not 

 provided for in these rules. 



R ule 2. For all stakes, the names, pedigrees, ages, colors 

 and distinguishing marks of the dogs shall be detailed in 

 writing to the Secretary of the Club, to be filed at the time 

 of making entry or entries. Any dog's age, markings or 

 pedigree which shall be proven not to correspond with the 

 entry, shall be disqualified, and all the stakes or winnings of 

 such dog shall be forfeited. 



Rule 3. Dogs to be eligible for the American Field Trial 

 Club's Derby must have been whelped on or after the first 

 day of January of the year preceding the trial for which the 

 dogs are nominated. 



Rule 4. The forfeit money must accompany every nomi- 

 nation, and the balance of the entrance fee must be. paid 

 before the drawing. 



Rule 5. Any objection to an entry must be made m writ- 

 ing and addressed to the Secretary of the Club, to be acted 

 upon by the Board of Control, whose decision shall be final. 



RULE 6. Dogs afflicted with any contagious disease, or 

 bitches in season, will not be permitted on the grounds. 



RULE 7. Immediately before the dogs are drawn at any 

 meeting, the time and place of putting down the first brace 

 of dogs on the following morning shall be declared and 

 posted in a conspicuous place. 



Rule 8. All stakes shall be run in the order of the pro- 

 gramme when possible. Should, however, the competitors 

 or their representatives in the various stakes agree otherwise, 

 the order may, with the consent of the Board of Control, or 

 their representatives, be changed. 



Rule 9. Dogs shall be drawn by lots and numbered in the 

 order drawn. The first two dogs so drawn shall run together 

 in the first heat of the series, the next two shall run together 

 in the next heat, and so on in like manner until all the dogs 

 in the series have run in heats. The winners of a series 

 shall run together in like manner in the next series, and so 

 on until only one unbeaten dog remains, which shall be de- 

 clared the winner of first place and prize. 



The last dog beaten by the winner of the first prize shall 

 compete for the second prize with the best of those dogs pre- 

 viously beaten by the winner of the first prize. The winner 

 of this heat shall be declared the winner of second prize. 



The discretion is given to the judges of deciding which is 

 the best of those beaten dogs, in the competition for second, 

 by selection or by running extra heats between them. After 

 the first and second winners are declared, the judges may 

 select the winners of any other prize from any of the remain 

 ing dogs in the stake without further running and without 

 regard to the heats won. 



Changes may be made as hereinafter provided. Any dog 

 absent during the first series for more than twenty minutes 

 after his number is called, in the discretion of the judges, 

 may be disqualified from further competition. 



Rule 10. If two dogs owned or handled by the same per- 

 son should be drawn together in the first or come together 

 in any succeeding series, the second dog so owned or handled 

 shall change places with the first dog not so owned or 

 handled. This change shall be effected in the order of run- 

 ning if possible; if not possible, then in the reverse order of 

 running, If such separation isfound impracticable, the run- 

 ning together of two such dogs may be pei-mitted.fSThe 

 judges shall arrange and announce the order of running in 

 the second and subsequent series before the running of such 

 series is begun. , ^ . 



RULE 11. If in any series of heats there should be a bye, 

 such bye shall run with the winner of the first heat of that 

 series, 'as the first brace of the next series. 



If a dog be withdrawn or fails to appear, the dog drawn to 

 run against such dog shall run with the bye, if there is one, 

 at the end of the series in which the bye occurs, or if three 

 should be more than one withdrawal, the dogs drawn to run 

 against such withdrawn dogs, shall run together in the order 

 of precedence in which they were drawn, hut this shall not 

 be construed to interfere with Rule 17. 



RULE 12. Each dog must be brought up in its proper turn 

 without delay: if absent more than twenty minutes its op- 

 ponent shall be entitled to the heat, subject to Rule 9. 



Rule 13. An owner, his handler, or his deputy may 

 handle a dog during the running of the heats, but it must 

 be one or the other; and when dogs are down an owner must 

 not interfere with his dog in any way, if he has deputed an- 

 other person to handle him. 



Rule 14. The person handling a dog may speak, whistle 

 to and work him by hand as he may deem proper, but he 

 shall be called to order by the judges for making any un- 

 necessary noise, or for any disorderly conduct; and if, after 

 being cautioned, he persists in 3uch noise or disorderly con- 

 duct, they shall order the dog, which he is handling, to be 

 taken up and adjudged out of the stake, or they shall, at 

 their discretion, fine the handler as provided for in Rule 15. 

 An opponent's dog must not be interfered with or excited. 

 In such case an appeal should be made to the judges. 



The privilege is granted handlers to ask the judges for in- 

 formation or explanation that has a direct bearing upon any 

 point at issue; pending such questions the dogs shall not be 

 under judgment. Handlers shall not load their guns until 

 a point has been established. 



Rule 15. The judge or judges shall assess a fine upon any 



