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Pete T.— Read "Training vs. Breaking." For sale at this office. 

 Price $1. 



W. H., M.D., Ontario.— An advertisement in our columns might 

 find for you a purchaser of the foxes. 



F. W. L., Flushing, N. Y.— No changes were made at the last ses- 

 sion in the laws relating to feathered game in Queens county. 



E. L. B., Fitchburg, Mass.— Vermont ruffed grouse open season 

 will begin Sept. 1. Black bass season in Vermont, from June 1 to 

 Feb. 1. 



R. A. L., Philadelphia.— In treating a dog for tape worm every 

 care should be taken to examine all segments of the parasite 

 which maybe passed, as there can be no cure unless the head has 

 been expelled. 



W. S. M., Yates, Mich.— Cannot discriminiate as to different 

 makes of rifles; there are many good ones for target practice at 

 short distances. 



O.T., Pawtucket, R. I.— Please inform the close time on quail, 

 woodcock and partridges in Massachusetts? Ans. WoodcocK and 

 partridge between Dec. and Sept. 1; quail between Jan. 1 and 

 Oct. 15. 



Dobson, Albany, 1ST. Y.— When was the illustrated article' which 

 Mr. Mather wrote, giving the life history of the dobson, or helgra- 

 mite, published in Forest and Stream ? Ans. in our issue of 

 Sept. 25, 1884. 



A. C. C, Hartford.— Kindly give me the name of the inclosed 

 bug. I found the same a very taking bait for black bass in Ver- 

 mont. The bug is found in trout streams under stones and leaves 



on the bottom of the brook. Ans. It is a larva of a dragon fly 

 (Libelhda), one of the large species, but impossible to identif y spe- 

 cifically. 



R. A. E., Baltimore.— What is the weight of the largest catfish 

 taken in the Mississippi River. Ans. The type specimen of Tota- 

 lurus pondcroxm in the National Museum is 5ft. long and weighed 

 1501bs. We do not find a record of a larger one. 



Subscriber, New York.— What fish can be caught in Greenwood 

 Lake and what bait is used ? Ans. Black bass, pickerel and sun- 

 fish. For the hrst the favorite bait is the dobson or helgramite, 

 which can be bought at the lake, but minnows are also used. For 

 pickerel use live minnows or trolling spoons, and for sunflsh the 

 angleworm, 



Hegeman Boats.— Can any of your readers, or dealers in sports- 

 men's good, inform me through these columns whether one of the 

 old-style, scow-shaped Hegeman canvas folding boats is to be 

 had? They used to be made at Rallston Spa, N. Y. For a clumsy 

 landlubber, in shallow water, they are very good for cluck hunt- 

 ing.— W. (Sacramento). 



Northern Michigan.— A party of three, of which the writer is 

 a member, are contemplating a trip to northern Michigan this 

 fall to camp and "rough it" for about a month, and as we are not 

 acquainted with the country, will some one who has been there 

 tell us which would be the better place to go to for both hunting 

 and fishing, the Upper or Lower Peninsula, and where would be a 

 good place to pitch our tent? Tell us something of Long Lake, 

 9 miles from Alpena; Long Lake, 6 miles from Cheboygan, and 

 Round Lake and Big Manisfiqne Lake, 5 and (>' ;. miles respectively 

 from McMillan. Any information on this subject will be greatly 

 appreciated by Geo. L. Ralston, Howard, Knox county, O. 



S. M. V., Toronto, Ontario.— I want to stock a small lake fed 

 by a spring brook with brook trout, and will esteem it a favor if 

 you will tell me: 1. What is the time to move the fish? 2. Will 

 the last of August or the first week of September be a favorable 

 time? 3. Can they bo successfully carried for 16 miles by wagon 

 over a rough road, or will the jolting affect them? 4. How often 

 ought the water to be changed, and at what temperature kept? 



Ans.— 1. As early as possible before they begin to spawn. 2. Yes, 

 but not later. 3. Yes, the jolting will do no harm if they are not 

 near spawning. 4. No need of change, keen them cool and in 

 motion, but do not overstock the cans. The lower the tempera- 

 ture the better, but do not make sudden changes. 



A. Machest, Jersey City.— 1. Holden, in his "Book of Birds," 

 gives the following instructions for breeding meal worms: "Take 

 an old box or jar, place a quantity of bran, meal, biscuit or bread, 

 a few pieces of leather from an old shoe, and some woollen rags; 

 put in about fifty meals, cover mouth of jar with thick cloth 

 moistened occasionally, and you will soon have thousands." The 

 initial supply of worms may be got from the millers, from dealers 

 in ship biscuits, or of bird dealers. 2. Feed yellow birds on maw 

 seed, canary seed, hemp seed, lettuce seed, thistle seed, etc. If 

 birds are under two years old, the harder seeds should be crushed 

 or moistened. 3. The Newhouse traps are made by the Oneida 

 Community, at Utica, N. Y. i. Send to us for "Taxidermists' 

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C. J. C, Staten Island.— Has an adult salmon ever been caught 

 south of the equator? A friend sa^ s that they are found in the 

 market at Geelong, Australia, but are brought in ice from Europe. 

 Ans. We find in a paper read before the Otago Institute by its 

 secretary, C. E. Arthur, in 1881, the statement that Dr. Campbell 

 and others netted the Cam, a branch of the Waimakariri, in July 

 "1880, and took three quinnat salmon weighing from five to eight 

 pounds. We have no later reports from New Zealand, and none 

 from Australia. Reports of the Otago Acclimatization Society 

 say: (1881) of English and California salmon, introduced from 

 1876 to 1878, there are reports that they have been seen in the 

 Aparima River; (1881) the California salmon has been a partial 

 success in Canterbury, but has failed in Otago. Twenty thousand 

 fry were put in some Canterbury rivers in December, 1876, and in 

 July, 1880, were netted in the Cam by Dr. Campbell. Thus we 

 have it from two authorities that salmon planted south of the 

 equator have lived. 



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