March 21, 1889.] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



do not conflict with the following special rules shall govern: No 

 rod shall be more than lOtt. in length; any reel may be used, hut 

 all easts must be mode from the reel. Ernes shall not be of loss 

 caliber than No. 6 (letter H.) braided silk, nor No. 1 seagrass, or 

 corresponding sizes of other materials, and be of uniform size 

 throughout. "The weight, of the sinker shall not exceed J^oz., to 

 he furnished by the contestants. In casting, but a single hand 

 shall he used. Each contestant shall be allowed five casts for 

 distance, the average of them to count, and five casts for accu- 

 racy. Casts for accuracy to he made at a mark or stake, distant 

 60ft. In casting for accuracy the distance at which the sinker 

 shall tall from the mark shall bo noted at each cast. These dis- 

 tances shall he added together and divided by live. Forty points 

 shall be allowed to him whose averaged aggregate is the lowest. 

 The other contestants shall be awarded lower scores in accord- 

 ance with their comparative excellence. 



Rule 16. Heavy Bass Casting.— Rods shall not exceed Oft. in 

 length and mav he used with both hands. Any reel may be used, 

 hut the line shall be of linen not of less caliber than the trade 

 No. 9, with twelve threads throughout its entire length. The 

 casts shall b3 made from the reel with sinkers not to exceed 

 24£oz., to he furnished by the contestant. Each contestant will 

 be allowed five casts. His casts shall be measured, added aud 

 divided by five, and the result shall constitute his score. No 

 allowance will be made to any contestant for the overrunning or 

 breaking of his line, but the lino may be doubled next to the 

 pinker. 



■Rule 17. Light Bass Casting.— Same rules as in heavy bass cast- 

 ing to appiy, except that the weight of the sinker is not to exceed 

 lj^oz., to he furnished by the coDtestant, and any line of uniform 

 caliber may be used. 



Soxe Missouri Bass.— St. Louis, Mo., March 16. — Four 

 of the largest Oswego or large-mouthed black bass ever 

 seeD by anglers of this city were shown on the floor of 

 'change one clay during the week by Mr. J. "W. Peters. 

 They were caught at Cottonwood Lake, Pemiscot county, 

 this State, about a week ago. One of the fish weighed 

 121bs., another lllbs. 10oz., and the other two a little over 

 lOlbs. The largest measured from end of upper lip to 

 end of tail. 2o|in.; circumference at thickest part, 18-iin.; 

 tail expanded, 9in. The weights and measurements were 

 made oath to by Capt. H. C. West, who measured the 

 fish in the presence of Mr. D. J. Rlanke. Not long since 

 the same gentlemen who brought the above bass to this 

 city had a 41b. croppie, which it is said was also the larg- 

 est ever seen by anybody in this city. Cottonwood Lake 

 is a large inland river slough , which, when the Mississippi 

 River is high, is flooded from the river, and is stocked at 

 such times from the bountiful supply contained in the 

 "Father of Waters." At this season of the year it has no 

 connection with the river. It is now clear, and angling- 

 is said to be at its best right now at the lake. — Unser 

 Fritz. 



Barilett's. — The famous old establishment in the Ad- 

 irondacks, known to so many trout fishermen as Bart- 

 lett's, has been acquired by a club. The hotel, together 

 with all the land on both sides of the Sarauac River for 

 a distance of half a mile from the foot of the Upper 

 Saranac Lake, has been recently purchased by a syndicate 

 composed of R. D. Douglass, Benjamin Douglass, Jr., of 

 R. G. Dun & Co. ; J. J. Broome, E. A. Cruikshank, C. G. 

 Alford and Wm. Riker, Jr. At a preliminary meeting 

 for the organization of the chib, the following were made 

 members m addition to the original purchasers: Theodore 

 Fitch, S. H. Fitch, Charles Rood, Dr. J. R. Romevn, of 

 Keeseville, N. Y.; Clarence Rood, of Buffalo, N. Y.; J. 

 L. Munn, Surrogate of Essex county, N. J., and Thomas 

 P. Fisk. 



Fish in Oyster Shells.— Mr. Evan Lyons, of George- 

 town, D. C, recently found in a fresh oyster shell a small 

 fish which was barely alive. The oysters were bought at 

 a wharf in Washington three or four days previous to 

 opening them. The oyster had evidently been eaten by 

 the fish, the shell being empty and held together by the 

 hinge alone. The fish is a small blenny (Chasmodes 

 bosquianus). It is not uncommon to find this species 

 and also the little goby (Gobiosoma bosci), and even the 

 toad fish (Batrachus iau) in dead oyster shells; but here 

 was apparently a case in which the fish merely sought 

 shelter and was forced to devour its host through hunger. 



Messrs. Abbie & Imbrie have published a large new 

 catalogue of their fishing goods. The volume (for in bulk 

 it certainly deserves to be called such) contains very care- 

 fully-prepared illustrations, showing nearly everything 

 in fac simile; the extraordinary number and excellence 

 of the engravings render its pages invaluable for refer- 

 ence, and hours may be profitably spent in a study of 

 them. We take it that the annual growth of this firm's 

 catalogue is a index of the growth of the fishing interest 

 in this country, with which the No. 18 Vesey street estab- 

 lishment appears to be bound to keep itself abreast. The 

 catalogue is sent on receipt of 25 cents. 



Ice Fishing at Buffalo, N. Y. — Owing to the open 

 winter the season of ice fishing has been a brief one. The 

 local fishermen did not get out on the lake until almost 

 the 1st of February. The fish taken were mostly blue 

 pike and yellow perch, with a few yellow pike. I saw 

 one of the latter that weighed 12^1bs. , probably the best 

 fish of the season. The best catches seem to have been 

 made near the city, but some men have gone daily as far 

 as Point Albino, twelve miles up the lake. The fish are 

 all taken with, hand lines and those contrivances called 

 "tip-ups," minnow being the bait. — E. P. B. 



Frog Chowder.— Bring two quarts of milk to the 

 boiling point. Put in two good sized boiled potatoes 

 sliced up and two onions also sliced. Add four hard 

 boiled eggs finely cut up and the hindlegs of thirty-six 

 frogs. Boil until the meat comes off the bones, then 

 take the chowder off the fire. Add pepper, salt and but- 

 ter to suit the taste. Break crackers into the chowder 

 when about to serve. The quantity will be sufficient for 

 six hungry men. This is said to be one of the most de- 

 licious triumphs of culinary art. 



Migration of Mullet.— Jan. 21, 1889, Mr. Willard 

 Nye, Jr., shot a red-breasted merganser, two miles above 

 Swansboro and about five miles up the White Oak River, 

 North Carolina. In the gullet of the duck he found a 

 mullet lOin. long by actual measurement and another 

 one about 6in. long. The fishermen had not caught any 

 mullets and did not know of their presence. In North 

 Carolina it is quite the thing to shoot your mullet on the 

 wing. " 



Hon. W. W. Thomas, Jr„ the newly appointed Minister 

 to Sweden and Norway, is an enthusiastic angler, and 

 when he formerly filled the same mission, he sent the 

 Forest and Stream some racy accounts of salmon ang- 

 ling in Sweden. We may have the pleasure of hearing 

 from him again. 



tgisljcttlturq. 



OREGON FISH COMMISSION. 



THE first and second annual reports of the State Board of 

 Fish Commissioners of Oregon for 1887 and 1888 have 

 recently been published. During 1887 serious difficulties 

 were encountered in enforcing the law prescribing a close 

 time for the salmon fishing, and the law became almost a 

 dead letter. The salmon run was late, no eggs were obtained 

 until near the close of September, and, because of a. freshet 

 in the Clackamas, few were taken after Nov. 10. One million 

 five hundred thousand eggs were secured, of which ninety 

 per cent, were hatched. The fry absorb the yolk sac in from 

 five to seven weeks. 



The spring pack of salmon on the Columbia River in 188S 

 is placed at 354,000 cases, and the fall pack 25,000. The spring 

 pack was 94,000 cases less than in 1886 in spite of increased 

 gear and a longer fishing season. The streams of Oregon 

 south of the Columbia yielded about 100,000 cases, the largest 

 pack ever made on them. The value or the Columbia River 

 and the Oregon pack was about $2,500,000. The salmon can- 

 ners disbursed nearly SI, 700,000 at home, and the revenue to 

 the State is estimated at $30,000 annually. The weight of 

 fresh salmon consumed and shipped East is calculated at 

 2,000,0001bs. yearly. The number of salmon taken from the 

 Columbia, in 1887 is estimated to be 1,200.000, of which 500,000 

 were from Oregon streams. The total pack of the Pacific 

 coast is placed at 787,000 cases. The canning property of 

 Oregon is valued at $500,000, and the fishing gear at 8700,000. 

 "For propagatiug purposes the Commissioners think a longer 

 close time in the spring would be better, for this reason, the 

 salmon that come early have a better chance of reaching the 

 headwaters, where they can be taken for artificial hatching, 

 or can hatch naturally, while the late salmon often ripen 

 before reaching the spawning grounds, and consequently 

 are an entire loss so far as increasing the supply. ' The 

 funds for the hatchery being insufficient the canners on the 

 Columbia contributed $2,090 toward its maintenance. 



Twenty-nine of the forty canneries on the Columbia begun 

 operations early in April, 1888, and closed July 31, in accord- 

 ance with the law. 



The scarcity of fish caused high prices, yet neither the 

 fishermen nor the canners were benefited thereby. The 

 Commissioners recommend the building of a few hatching 

 stations, to increase the supply of saliuou and reduce prices. 

 Experience shows that greater profits will be realized by all 

 concerned. The greater part of the packers and fishermen 

 being aware that the salmon industry needs protection, ob- 

 served the law very well during 1888. If the law prohibited 

 the common carriers in the State from receiving and trans- 

 porting fresh salmon during the close months of March, 

 August and September it could be more easily enforced. 

 Some difficulty arises from the fact that the law does not 

 specify the different kinds of fish included under the name 

 of salmon; consequently several species are caught during 

 the close times aud the claim is made that they are not sal- 

 mon. The Commissioners recommend that the throwing of 

 sawdust into the Columbia River or its tributaries be pro- 

 hibited. 



As salmon suffer greatly from the attacks of seals and 

 sea lions the destruction of these animals is urged. It is 

 said that a seal, will eat or destroy from 8 to 10 adult sal- 

 mon daily and a sea lion twice as many. The shelldrake 

 and the cormorant eat large numbers of little salmon, and 

 their extermination should be encouraged by giving small 

 bounties for their scalps. 



A longer close time in the spring, from March 1 to April 

 15 should be fixed. . 



An account is given of the methods of fishing and the dif- 

 ferent streams fished; the time of the run of the different 

 salmon is stated. One reprehensible practice at Yaquina is 

 the seining of large quantities of young unmarketable sal- 

 mon along with flounders and herring, and leaving them on 

 the shore to die. 



In the spring of 1887 Mr. R. D. Hume built a cannery at 

 Ellensburg, on Rogue River. His spring pack of that year 

 was about 3,500 cases, and the supply of fish was abundant 

 then in all the streams. 



During the summer he built a small hatchery in connec- 

 tion with the cannery, and obtained about 100,000 salmon 

 eggs, which yielded 50,000 young salmon. He has continued 

 his operations, except for a year or two, planting from 50,000 

 to 150,000 young fish annually, and has probably deposited 

 1,500,000 in 1888. His pack has increased steadily, and for 

 the spring of 1888 it was nearly 12,000 cases. In the mean- 

 time the salmon have decreased greatly in numbers in all 

 other streams of the coast during the same period. 



The Clackamas station was turned over to the IT. S. Fish 

 Commission July 1. 1888, and thus the expense to the State 

 is lessened and the results largely increased. 



More than one-half of the entire catch of salmon in Ore- 

 gon was shipped East. The total pack on the Pacific coast 

 for 1888 is shown in the following table: 



Where packed. No. of cases. "Value. 



Columbia River 372,000 2,434,200 



Streams wholly in Oregon 90,000 483.800 



Washington Territory 75,000 375.000 



California 65,000 390,000 



Alaska 400,000 2,200,000 



M. Bertrand desired to learn whether the calico bass would 

 thrive in impure water. He placed a number of the young 

 in a little pool which received waters full of impurities and 

 of which the temperature rose to above 77 degrees Fahren- 

 heit. In spite of .these unfavorable conditions the bass have 

 prospered and increased rapidly. Individuals which were 

 four-fifths of an inch in April, when they were placed in the 

 pool, measured 3Ji'in. in the following August. 



The calico bass will be an excellen fc addition to our waters, 

 for not only is it very hardy but also very fertile; besides, its 

 rapid growth and the good quality of its flesh make it an 

 altoget her desirable species. This fish will be very service- 

 able as food for the Salmouidae on account of its remarkable 

 fecundity. Its introduction into waters already stocked 

 will cause no inconvenience, for, although it is predaceous, 

 the calico bass has a mouth so small that it can seize only 

 little animals, worms, small crustaceans, etc. 



M. Bertrand, desirous of propagating this very interesting 

 species, placed again this year at the disposal of the mem- 

 bers of the National Acclimatization Society some of the 

 young, These fry will be delivered about the month of April; 

 it is important that persons wishing to obtain them should 

 write without delay. — M. Gilberi Duclos, in Revue des 

 Sciences Naturclles Appliquees, Paris, Jan. 5, 1889, p. 12. 



TROUT CULTURE.— The Howietoun Fishery, in issu- 

 ing the price list for season 1888-89, records one of the cold- 

 est summers experienced since the commencement of the 

 fishery. Yearlings are fully three weeks later than usual. 

 The rearing season, however, has been exceptionally suc- 

 cessful, and fully one hundred and fifty thousand yearlings 

 and twenty-five thousand two year-olds are ready for 

 delivery. A salmon hatched from ova obtained from the 

 Forth District Board in December, 1880, and reared in the 

 ponds, having spawned three seasons, was found in the first 

 week of November this year to be clean. It weighed just 

 under three pounds, was very silvery, with about thirty jet 

 black star-like spots. The flesh cut pink, and the flavor 

 was that of a fish a week iu fresh water. This salmon had 

 been fed exclusively on clams (Pecten) and was a fair speci- 

 men of those still alive at Howietonn of the same spawning. 

 The smolts and grilse which have been bred from these fish 

 are growing more rapidly than their parents, and we hope 

 to show that although the first generation of artificially 

 bred landlocked salmon are usually dwarfed, yet their 

 progeny may attain to the size of Loch Leven trout, viz.: 6 

 to lOlbs. weight. The American landlocked salmon (S. 

 schaqo) have not yet spawned, but a few of the rainbow 

 trout (S. ir Ulcus) spawned in April, and the fry are thriving; 

 the largest iridcus weighed, when three years old, between 

 three and four pounds. The crosses between salmon and 

 trout, and between trout and salmon, are growing at the 

 average rate of Loch Leven trout at Howietoun, The ex- 

 periments in interbreeding these will be continued this 

 season.— Thomas Winder in Hardwicke's Science-Gossip, 

 February, 1880 



lenml 



Total 1,003.000 



British Columbia 170,000 



5,883,000 

 935,000 



Grand total 1,172,000 6,81.8,000 



Shad are reported as becoming plentiful in the Columbia; 

 smelts are caught iu vast numbers in February, and mil- 

 lions of pounds of sturgeon are shipped to Eastern mar- 

 kets annually. Salmon trout and brook trout are so abund- 

 ant that they eat up the eggs and young of the salmon, and 

 the Commissioners hope that the anglers who come from 

 towns and cities will exterminate the trout very soon. 



CALICO BASS IN FRANCE. 



MEM1LE BERTRAND has recently sent to the fishcul- 

 . ture establishment of the Zoological Garden of Accli- 

 matization a number of American silver perch, or calico 

 bass, Pomoxys sparoides, reared in a pond belonging to 

 him in the vicinity of Versailles. 



The reproduction of this species in 1888 was very consider- 

 able, for not only the three-year-old fishes, but those born 

 in 1887, have yielded an enormous number of eggs, from 

 which young bass were developed. The three-year-old fish 

 living in M. Bertrand's pond are now about 7%in. long and 

 2%jn. deep. 



The first spawning fish were imported directly from 

 America. M. Bertrand had twenty-five of them. Only two 

 males and a number of females survived the fatigue of the 

 voyage. 



The spawning of the first year, 1887, yielded more than 500 

 fry, some of which were given to various members of the 

 Acclimatization Society, others were sold. The flesh of the 

 calico bass strongly resembles that of our European perch 

 [Perca fluviatilis] . 



After the spawning of 1888 M. Bertrand estimated that he 

 had many thousands of calico bass. At the spawning sea- 

 son more than a hundred nests have been observed, which 

 were placed in water Sin. deep. Evidently this species loves 

 heat. The localities most sought after for nests were the 

 stone steps descending into the pond. The water being 

 shallow the steps receive the sun's rays, retaining the heat 

 to the advantage of the fishes. The adult fish does not fear 

 the cold. 



FIXTURES- 



DOG SHOWS. 



Ms rch 36 to 29, 1869.— First Annual Dog Show of the Mrss. Ken- 

 nel Club, IijrDE. Mass. D. A. Williams, Secretary. 



March 19 to 22, 1889.— First Annual Show of the Rochester Kennel 

 Club, at Rochester, X. Y. Harry Yates, Secretary. 



April 2 to 5, 1889.— Annual Show of the New England Kennel 

 Club, Boston, Mass. J. W. Newman, Secretary, No. 6 Hamilton 

 Place. 



April 9 to 12.— First Dog Show of the Worcester Kennel Club, at 

 Worcester, Mass. Edward W. Doyle, S i 



Aprils to 12, 1889.— First Annual Dog Show of the Masnoutah 

 Kennel Club, at Chicago. 111. George H. Hill, Supeiintendent, 34 

 Monroe street, Chicago, 111. 



April 16 to 19, 1889 — The Seventh Dog Show of the Philadelphia 

 Kennel Club, at Philadelwnia, Pa- Francis S. Brown. Secretary. 



Mav 22 to 25.— Pacific Kennel Club Show, San Francisco, Cal. 



Sept. 10 to 13.— Sixth Annual Dog Show of the London Kennel 

 Club, at London, Out. C. A. Stone, Manager. 



Feb. 18 to 21, 1890.— Fourteenth Annual Show of the Westminster 

 Kennel Club, Now York. James Mortimer, Superintendent. 

 FIELD TRIALS. 



Nov. i. —Third Annual Field Trials of the Indiana Kennel Club. 

 P. T. Madison, Secretary, Indianapolis, lnd. 



Nov. 18.— Eleventh Animal Field Trials of the Eastern Field 

 Trials Club, at Hi'eh Point, N. C. W. A. Coster, Secretary, Sara- 

 toga Springs, N. Y. 



PHILADELPHIA DOG SHOW. 



THE Philadelphia Kennel Club announces that its pre- 

 mium list will be issued this week for the seventh an- 

 nual bench show, which takes ph»ce in that city on April 16, 

 17, 18 and 19. Entries for this show will close- on April 6, 

 the Saturday following the Boston show. The premium list 

 we are assured is a most complete one, aud in addition to 

 the money prizes there are a number of valuable specials. 

 The club secretary states that when the list is issued exhibi- 

 tors will agree with him that the list of specials has never 

 been equaled. 



The slight delay in issuing the premium list was owing to 

 the desire of the committee to make up a full slate of judges, 

 and they have succeeded in doing so. Their object was to 

 afford exhibitors a change of officials, not an easy matter 

 considering that Philadelphia was the last in a long list of 

 fixtures, but this has been attained, as the following list 

 shows: Mastiffs, Mr. R. Exley; St. Bernards, Newfound- 

 lands, Great Danes, greyhounds, deerhounds, Italian grey- 

 hounds, poodles and miscellaneous, Mr. James Watson; 

 setters, all breeds, Mr. Percy C. Ohl; pointers, Mr. J. H. 

 Phelau; spaniels, Mr. S. R. Hemingway; collies, Dr. A. S. 

 Gray; bulldogs, bull-terriers, black and tan aud toy terriers, 

 Mr.'J. Deville; basset-hounds and dachshuude, Mr. Cornelius 

 Stevenson; fox-terriers, Mr. W. Rutherfurd; pugs and toy 

 spaniels, Dr. M. H. Cryer; Irish, Skye, Yorkshire and "any 

 other breed" terriers, Mr. W. P. Sanderson; beagles, Mr, E. 

 D. Hallett. 



WORCESTER DOG SHOW. 



WORCESTER, March 18.— Ediior Forest and Stream: 

 Since our last letter we have received a large number 

 of special prizes among which is a silver cup for the best 

 American-bred St. Bernard. We now have a very large list 

 of specials, every breed being provided with one or more. 

 We nave added to our premium list §10 for the best kennel 

 of cocker spaniels and the same for field spaniels. We are 

 much gratified at the large number of entries already 

 received, and from all appearances we predict the largest 

 show this season excepting New York and Boston. 



The club also offer a bronze medal for the best stud dog 

 shown with two of his get in the following classes: St. 

 Bernard, mastiff, deerhound, greyhound, pointer, English, 

 Irish and Gordon setters, cocker spaniel, field spaniel, beagle, 

 collie, bulldog, bull-terrier, fox-terrier and pug. 



A friend of the club has just offered $10 for the best bull- 

 terrier dog or bitch, and §5 for the best pug, dog or bitch. 

 The spaniel puppy class has been changed so as to read, $5, 

 first prize; S3, second prize; medal, third prize. 



A friend of the club offers §5 for the best Gordon setter 

 dog which has never won a prize previous to closing of 

 entries of our show, and §5 for best Gordon setter bitch 

 under same conditions. Entries close March 25. No dogs 

 will be received before April 8, at 7 P. M., or after 8 A. $[.. 

 April 9. Feed. W. White, of Bench Show Committee. 



