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LIST OF FISH COMMISSIONERS. 



FOREST AND STREAM presents its annual list of the 

 Commissioners of Fisheries and fishery officers of the 

 different Provinces, States and Territories of North America, 

 revised .md corrected to Octi. 15, from direct correspondence. 

 Those marked with a * have faded to answer, and the States 

 so marked are taken from last year's list: 

 The United States— 



Col. Marshall McDonald, Commissioner, Washing- 

 ton, D. C. 



Capt. J. W. Collins, Assistant in Charge of Fisheries 

 Division. 



Bichard Ratlibun, Assistant in Charge of Scientific 

 Inquiry. 



Alabama— 



Col. D. R. Hundley, Madison. 



Hon. Chas. S. G. Doster, Prattville. 

 ApazosrA— 



-J. J. Gosper. Prescott. 



Richard Rule, Tombstone. 



J. H. Taggart, Business Manager, Yuma. 

 Arkansas— 



H. H. Rottaken, President, Little. Rock. 



W. B. Worthen, Secretary, Little Rock. 



J. W. Calloway, Little Rock. 



(This State has' never made an appropriation for fish- 

 culture ) 

 Dominion of Canada— 



Hon. John Tilton, Deputy Minister of Fisheries, 

 Ottawa. 



(Inspectors of Fisheries for the Dominion of Canada, 

 1888: W. H. Rogers, Amherst, N. S.; A. C, Ber- 

 tram, North Svdney, C. B N. S.; W. H. Venning, 

 St. John, N. B.; Wrn. Wakeham, Gasp6 Basin, 

 P. Q.; ,T. H. Duvar, Alberton, P. E. I.: Thomas 

 Mowat, New Westminster, B. C; Alex McQueen, 

 Winnipeg, Man.) 



(Officers m Charge, of Fish Breeding Establishments: 

 S. Wilmot, Superintendent of Fishculture, New- 

 castle. Out ; Chas. Wilmot. officer in charge, New- 

 castle hatchery, Ont.; Wm. Parker, Sandwich, Out.; 

 L. N. Catelli'er, Tadoussac, Q ; Philip Vibert, 

 Gaspe\ Q. ; A. H. Moore, Magog, Q.; Alex Mowat, 

 Ristig'ouche, Matapedia, P. Q.; A. B. Wilmot, 

 Bedford, N. S.; C. A. Fauiuharson, Sydney, N. S.; 

 Isaac Sheasgreen, Miramichi, N. B.; Charles Mc- 

 Cluskev, St. Johu River, Grand Falls. N. B.; Henry 

 Clark, Dunk River, P. I.; Thos. Mowat, B. C. 

 hatchery, New Westminster, B. C.) 

 California— 



Joseph Ron tier, Sacramento. 



J. D Harvey, Los Anpreles. 



(Commissioner T. J. Sherwood resigned March 15, 

 18S8.) 

 Colorado— 



G. F. Whitehead, Denver. 

 Connecticut— 



Dr. Wm. M. Hudson, Hartford. 



Robert G. Pike, Middletown. 



James A. Bill, Lyme 



(The State has no official superintendent, most of the 

 hatching being done by Henry J. Fenton Poquon- 

 nock.) 

 Delaware— 



Charles Schubert, Odessa. 

 Georgia— 



J. H. Henderson, Atalanta. 



(Superintendent, Dr. H. H. Gary, La Grange.) 

 Illinois— 



N. K. Fairbank, President, Chicago. 



S. P. Bartlett, Quincy. 



Geo, Breuuing, Centralia. 

 Indiana— 



Enos B. Reed, Indiauapolis. 



Iowa— 



E. D. Carlton, Spirit Lake. 



(Superintendent, Ole Bjorenson.1 

 Kansas— 



S. Fee, Wamego. 

 Kentucky— 



Wm. Griffith, President, Louisville. 



P. H. Darby. Princeton. 



John B. Walker, Madisonville. 



Hon. C. J. Walton, Munfordville. 



Hon. John A. Steele. Midway. 



W. C. Price, Danville. 



Hon. J. M. Chambers, Independence. 



A. H. Gohle, Catlettsburg. 



J. H. Mallory, Bowling Green. 

 Maine— 



E. M. Stilwell, Bangor. 

 Henry O. Stanley, Dixfleld. 



B, W. Counce, Thomastou, Sea and Shore Fisheries. 

 "Maryland— 



Dr. E. W. Humphries, Salisbury. 



G. W. Delawder, Oakland. 

 Massachusetts — 



E. A. Brackett, Winchester. 



F. W. Putnam, Cambridge. 

 E. H. Lathrop, Springfield. 



Michigan— 



John H. Bissell, Detroit; term expires Jan. 1, 1889. 



Herschel Wnitaker, Detroit; term expires Jan. 1, 1891. 



•Joel C. Parker, M.D., Grand Bapids; term expires 

 Jan. 1, 1893. 



(Superintendent, Walter D. Marks, Paris.) 



(Secretary, Geo. D. Mussey, Detroit.) 



(Treasurer, Wm. A. Butler, Jr., Detroit.) 

 Minnesota— 



William Bird, Fairmount. 



Niles Carpenter, Rushford. 



Robt. Ormsby Sweeny, President, St. Paul. 



(Superintendent, S, S. Watkins. Willow Brook, St. 

 Paul.) 

 Missouri— 



H. M. Garlichs, Chairman, St. Joseph. 

 J. L. Smith, Jefferson City. 



H. C, West, St, Louis. 



A. P. Campbell, Secretary, St. Joseph. 

 (Superintendents: Philip Kopplin, Jr., St. Louis; 



Elias Cottrill. St. Joseph.) 

 Nebraska— 



William L. May, Fremont. 



R. R, Livingston, Plattsmouth. 



B. E. B. Kennedy, Omaha. 

 (Superintendent, M. E. O'Brien, South Bend.) 



*Nevada— 



W. M. Cary, Carson City. 

 New Hampshire— 



Geo. W. Riddle, Manchester. 



Elliott B. Hodge, Plymouth. 



John H. Kimball, Marlborough. 



(Superintendent of Plymouth and Sunapee hatch- 

 eries, Com. E. B. Hodge.) 

 New Jersey— 



William Wright, Newark. 



Frank M. Ward, Newton. 



J. R. Elkinton, Pennsgrove, 



New York 



E. G. Blackford, President. New York, 

 Gen . R, IT. Sherman, New Hartford. 

 Wm. H. Bowman. Rochester. 



A. S. Joline, Tottenville. 

 Henry Burden, Troy. 



(Secretary. E. P. Doyle, room 311, Potter Building, 

 New York city.) 



(Superintendents: Fred Mather, Cold Spring Harbor; 

 Monroe A. Gre-n, Caledonia: James H. Marks, 

 Bloomingdale; E. L. Marks, Fulton Chain, and E. 

 F. Boehm, Mill Creek.) 



(Shellfish Commission: B. G. Blackford, Commis- 

 sioner; William G. Ford, Engineer; J. W. Merserau, 

 Oyster Protector, 80 Fulton Market, New York.) 

 North Carolina— 



Wm. J Griffin, Chairman, Elizabeth City. 



J. B. Watson, Eoglehard. 



Wm. T. Caho, Bayboro. 



Ohio— 



C. Y. Osborn, President, Dayton. 

 A. C. Williams, Secretary, Chagrin Falls. 

 J. C. Hofer, Bell aire. 

 John H. Law, Cincinnati. 

 Hon. Emory D. Potter, Toledo. 

 (Superintendent, Henx-y Douglass, SanduSky.) 

 (Chief Warden, L. K. Buntain, Dayton.) 

 Oregon— 



F. C. Reed, President, Clackamas. 



E. P. Thompson, Portland. 

 R, C. Campbell, Ranier. 

 (Terms expire in February, 1889.) 



Pennsylvania— 



Henry C. Ford, President, 524 Walnut street, Phila- 

 delphia. 



James V. Long, Cor. Secretary, 75 Fifth avenue, 

 Pittsburgh. 



H. C. Domuth, Secretary of Board, Lancaster 



S. B. Stilwell, Scranton. 



A. S. Dickson, Meadville. 



Treasurer, W. L. Powell, Harrisburg. 



(Superintendents: John P. Creveling, AllentOfvn; 

 William Buller, Corry. 

 Rhode Island— 



JohnH. Barden, President, Rockland. 



Henry T. Root, Treasurer, Providence. 



Wm. P. Morton, Secretary, Johnston. 

 South Carolina— 



Hon. A. P. Butler, Columbia. 

 *Tennessee— 



W. W. McDowell, Memphis. 



H. H, Sneed, Chattanooga. 



Edward D. Hicks, Nashville. 



Utah— 



A. Milton Musser. Salt Lake City. 

 Vermont— 



Herbert Brainard, St. Albans. 



F. H. Atherton, Waterburv. 

 Virginia— 



Dr. J. T. Wilkins, Bridgetown. 

 West Virginia— 



C. S. White, President, Romney. 



F J. Baxter, Treasurer, Sutton. 



James H. Miller, Secretary, Hinton. 

 Wisconsin— 



The Governor, ex-offlcio. 



Pnilo Dunning, President, Madison. 



C. L. Valentine, Secretary and Treasurer, Janesville 



Mark Douglas, Melrose, 



A. V. H Carpenter, Milwaukee. 



Calvert Spensley, Mineral Point. 



E. S. Miner, Sturgeon Bay. 



(Superintendent, Jas. Nevin, Madison.) 

 W t yoming Territory- 

 Louis Miller, Laramie. 



NOTES ON THE COMMISSIONS. 



IN connection with our revised list of Fish Commissioners, 

 a few remarks on the Boards, as organized in the differ- 

 ent States, may be of interest. Some of them issue valuable 

 reports while others have not done so, to our knowledge. In 

 some of the States there are liberal appropriations to carry 

 on the work of producing food from the waters, while others 

 do not spend a cent in this direction. Most of the New Eng- 

 land States, where appropriations for this object were first 

 made, long ago realized the benefits to be derived from fish- 

 culture and have liberally encouraged it, while the West, and 

 the Southwest especially, have done little or nothing toward 

 preserving the fishes already in their waters. 



Arkansas is an example of those where a fishcultural mis- 

 sionary is needed to snow its Legislature what has been 

 done to benefit the people of other States, and what could be 

 done there. It appointed a Fish Commission some years 

 ago, but has never given it a dollar to work with, and it is 

 therefore powerless. The Commissioners have been in office 

 for six years and have defrayed all expenses of correspond- 

 ence, etc., from their own funds. They are earnest, able 

 men who would be glad to serve the people if the Represent- 

 atives were awakened to the importance of the work. 



California has done some work and in former years pub- 

 lished reports of it, but of late years we have not seen their 

 records, if any have been printed. 



Canada is alive to the benefits of fishculture and supports 

 it liberally, the yearly reports of work are very interesting 

 and valuable. 



Delaware has a Commission but the question of politics 

 enters into it and destroys its usefulness. Dr. Shortlidge 

 has done much good work as a volunteer superintendent in 

 charge of a hatchery, but we hear that he has resigned. 

 There is some feeling of rivalry between the upper and lower 

 counties which is fatal to the work, as it has engendered bad 

 feeling which we hope will be overcome. 



Illinois has an active Commission and Mr. Bartlett has 

 done much good work in saving the native fishes which are 

 left in pools during the great floods which occur every spring. 

 No artificial hatching is done. 



Indiana has a Commissioner who has done work in pro- 

 secuting offenders against the fishing laws, but the last 

 Legislature neglected to provide him with means to carry 

 on the work. The former appropriations were small, and 

 our remarks about Arkansas are applicable to this State. 



Kentucky is also without means to do any work, although 

 it has a numerous Board of Commissioners. 



Michigan has an active Board and liberal appropriations, 

 and is rapidly; taking rank as one of the foremost of States 

 engaged in fishculture. The Commissioners take a broad 

 view of things and are especially interested in the food fishes, 

 such as the whitefish and the other important lake fishes. 

 It has three hatcheries and is contemplating a scientific 

 survey of the waters with a view to extended work in this 

 direction. 



Minnesota is alive and active in fish propagation and has 

 done much for the people in the way of fish food. 



Nebraska is increasing its work and makes a good showing 

 in fishculture. 



New Jersey does but little although its shad fisheries are 

 capable of development. It also has fishery interests of other 

 kinds which might be developed. A dozen years age much 

 more was done in this State than at present. 



New York has larger appropriations than any other State 

 and has a vigorous Board of Commissioners. It has, how- 

 ever, paid more attention to trout culture than to the more 

 popular food fishes, a condition which may be changed to 

 some extent when the re-organization, now in progress, is 



effected. It has five hatcheries to divide its means among, 

 three of which are in the Adirondacks and are mainly de- 

 voted to trout. The last one established, at Mill Creek, was 

 done by act of Legislature without consulting the Board. 



Ohio is paying great attention to the culture of whitefish 

 in Lake Erie, and has a hatchery at Toledo for this purpose, 



Pennsylvania is hatching whitefish, trout aud wall-eyed 

 pike, and when this State ceases to remove its Com missioiiers 

 for political reasons it will be a step in advance, for no sooner 

 does a Board become familiar with the needs of the State 

 than it is changed. 



Washington Territory has abolished its Commission. 



Wisconsin is doing good work, has an active Board and a 

 new hatchery which is said to be a model one. 



Dogs: ThMr Man agemen t and Trcatmentin Disease. By 

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

 Price $8. Training vs. Breaking. By S. T. Hammond. 

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

 all Breeds. Price 50 cents. 



F I XT URES. 



DOG SHOWS. 



Oct. 23 to 26.— Second Annual Show of the St. Paul and Minne- 

 sota Kennel Club, at St. Paul, Minn. J. E. Stryker, Secretary, 

 Room 08 Globe Building; 



Nov. 6 to 10. — Dog Show of the Richmond County Poultry and 

 Pet Stock Association, in connection with Augusta' National Ex- 

 position at Augusta, Ga. H. Madden, Superintendent. 



Dec. 3 to 8. — Dog Show of the Northern Illinois Poultry and Pet 

 Stock Association, at Rockford, 111. A. H. Ourrier, Secretary. 



Jan. 15 to 19, 1889.— Seven th Annual Dog Show of the Southern 

 Massachusetts Poultry Association, at New Bedford, Mass. F. 

 W. Dean, Secretary. 



Feb. 4 to 7, 1889.— First Annual Dog Show of the Columbus 

 Fanciers' Club at Columbus O. Thos. R. Sparrow, Secretary. 



Feb 12 to 15, 1886.-Frfth Dog Show of the New Jersey Kennel 

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

 cello avenue. Jersey C'tv, N. J. 



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

 Kennel Club. New York. James Mortimer, Superintendent. 



Feb. 26 to March 1, 1S89.— Second Annual Show of the Renssalaer 

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



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

 Kennel Club, at Albany, 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, 18H9.— First Annual Dog Show of the Maryland 

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



March 2(5 to 29, 1889.— First Annual Dog Show of the Massachu- 

 setts K nnel Club, at Lynn, Mass. D. A. Williams, Secretary. 



April 2 to 5, 1889.— First Annual Show of the Rochester Kennel 

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



April 9 to 12, 1889.— First Annual Dog Show of "the Mascoutah 

 Kennel Club, at Chicago. 111. John L. Lincoln, Jr., Secretary. 



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

 Kennel Club, at Philadelphia, Pa. Wm. C. Child, Secretary. 

 FtELD TRIALS. 



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

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

 Ind. 



Nov. 15.— Fifth Annual Field Trials of the Philadelphia Kennel 

 Club, open to members only. Wm. H. Child, Secretary, Phila- 

 delphia, Pa. 



JNov. 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 Sprint's, N. Y. 



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

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

 Teun. 



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. Cat. N. P. Sheldon, Secretary, 

 320 Sansome street San Francisco, Cal. 



COURSING. 



Oct. 23 to 27.— Meeting of the National Ccursing Association, at 

 Hutchinson, Kansas. M. E. A[lison, Manager. 



A. K. R.-SPECIAL NOTICE. 

 T^HE 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 

 81.50. Address "American Kennel Register," P. O. Box 2832, New 

 York. Number of entries already printed 6578 



SHORT-HAIRED NEWFOUNDLAND DOGS. 



Editor Forest ami Stream: 



I read with interest the kennel articles and dog talk in 

 Forest and Stream, but I think I have never seen any 

 notice of the breed of dogs above mentioned. 



Many years ago, while living in Boston, 1 knew a ship- 

 master engaged in the Newfoundland trade; to him I gave 

 an order to buy for me in that island one of the native dogs, 

 and expected to get one of the well-known big, long-haired 

 animals. The captain, however, brought me a female puppy 

 of a smooth, short-haired breed, which he said was con- 

 sidered by gunners in Newfoundland as the best of water 

 dogs. 



When a year old Eanny was about the size of a small 

 pointer, say 18 or 30in., with short black hair on body and 

 tail, the latter straight, ears small and rather pointed, and 

 with a wild and somewhat wolfish eve, like that of an Indian 

 dog. She was rather savage in temper, exeppt to myself, 

 and would fight any dog of either sex. When she was 

 about a year old I took her with me to Chicago, and the first 

 time I had her out duck hunting she brought out my ducks 

 like a trained retriever, though she had never before seen a 

 gun fired. She could swim and dive like an otter, and no 

 crippled bird could escape her. She would dive off the end 

 of the Chicago Pier, and bring up a white object from the 

 bottom in 18 or 20ft. of water. In those days plenty of ducks 

 could be found on the river just outside the village, for 

 Chicago was then little more in 1840. On the river banks 

 lived Irish squatters who kept geese, and the first time I 

 took Pan along the river she attacked a flock of tame geese, 

 killed the gander and brought him to me, and I had to pay 

 the enraged old woman who owned the geese. 



Fanny had a litter of thirteen whelps by a Newfoundland 

 dog of the long-haired breed belonging to me, and I expected 

 great things of them, but when a few weeks old, Eanny and 

 all her young family died of distemper, and I have never 

 seen one of her breed since, nor have Lever met with her 

 equal as a retriever. 



I have often wondered why this breed of dogs has not been 

 brought here for the use of wildfowl shooters; probably they 

 are little known, as I have not seen mention of them in 

 canine literature, except in an English work by Richardson, 

 republished by the Appletons in New York in 1847. Its 

 title is "Dogs, Their Origin and Varieties"— an original and 

 valuable book. Richardson, after describing the large, long- 

 haired dog of Newfoundland, writes: "There is another 

 breed of dog peculiar to Newfoundland, short-coated and 

 'sharp-nosed, an excellent water dog." These, it seems to 

 me, may be the native dogs of the island, as I am not of the 

 school which traces all dogs to a parent wolf, but rather 

 believe with Agassiz in separate creations in different lands. 



S. C. G, 



