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placed were upset and the fish scattered over the ground, 

 -fluttering and floundering. The good woman in charge of 

 the booth or restaurant turned around facing me, and in 

 German, of which I did not understand a word, ga ve me a 

 terrible scolding — at least I judged so from her gestures and 

 angry looks. Sue supposed I had intentionally or carelessly 

 upset the platform, having seen me so intently examining 

 her fish. I Avas innocent but could explain nothing, looked 

 unhappy, and imploring mercy, got out of the crowd as 

 quickly as I could." 



The breeding ponds in Forest Park cover about fifteen 

 acres, and will average about 8ft. in depth. There are 

 something like seven or eight of these ponds of different 

 sizes. One is very deep and is used as a store pond for the 

 stock fish in winter. Only the large fish are kept for stock 

 and some of them are quite large. Bass that weigh 5 and 

 Whs. are quite common. Some of the carp that have been 

 placed in their winter quarters will weigh lClbs. The job 

 of handling these big fellows is no easy one, and fierce was 

 the struggle between them and the men who were engaged 

 in catching them in about 6in. of water which remained in 

 the pond. These battles were useless though, as they were 

 in all instances conquered and finally put in stretchers, in 

 which they were conveyed to their winter quarters. Just 

 how many fish of the different varieties the Commission will 

 have for distribution cannot be determined just now, because 

 all the ponds have not been drained as yet. 



Next Monday the work of separating and counting will be 

 finished and an estimate can then be made of the success of 

 the past season. The superintendent said that he had no 

 fears regarding the carp and croppie, but he expressed his 

 doubts as to the bass, and why they should have fared so 

 badly is a mystery to him, for, he said, we have given them 

 particular attention, more so in fact, than we did to the 

 carp and croppie. Still it may not be as bad as we suppose, 

 and perhaps when we finish with our present work the re- 

 sults may be more promising than we now expect. 



The following circular has just been issued by the Com- 

 missioners: 



All persons in the State of Missouri desiring young Ger- 

 man carp, bass or croppie for private ponds can get them by 

 applying, from Oct. 10 to Nov, 25, to Phil Kopplin, Jr., P.O. 

 Box 699, or to Elias Cottrell. St. Joseph, Mo. Give name, 

 P. O., county, and nearest express office. Cost of can and 

 cartage, §1.25, must be sent in advance. No fish sent C.O.D. 



If you have a fish can send it prepaid, and only twenty- 

 five cents per mail for cartage from ponds to the express 

 office. A five-gallon can will ship safely thirty small "fish. 

 All applicants will be notified in advance of shipment. 



We request all friends to the cause of fish and game pro- 

 tection to notify with full particulars Secretary Campbell 

 of any known violations of the fish and game laws of Mis- 

 souri. 



The following gentlemen arc the present Commissioners: 

 H. M. Garlichs, St. Joseph; J. L. Smith, Jefferson City, and 

 H. C. West, St. Louis. UtfSER Fritz. 



St. Loots, Mo., Oct. 27. 



THE JAPANESE FISHERIES SOCIETY. — It is inter 

 esting to note the progress of fish culture in Japan, and the 

 interest which is being taken in all fishery subjects in that 

 country. Three vears ago the Fisheries Society was formed, 

 and under the presidency of our friend and correspondent, 

 K. Ito, it has made great progress. At the last annual meet- 

 ing of the American Fisheries Society Dr. Sweeny, of the 

 Minnesota Fishery Commission, manifested great interest 

 in one of the monthly reports from Japan, a translation of 

 which was made. We now have the 36th monthly report con- 

 taining articles on a broad range of subjects, among which 

 are: A prize essay on measures to prevent fishermem from 

 absconding or deserting their vessels. A guano-packing 

 mat. Meeting of the American Fisheries Society. Preserving 

 the salmon in the river Nemuro. Price of guano at Hyogo. 

 Fishery markets at Otaru, Hakodate, Shanghai, etc. Her- 

 ring guano. Whale fisheries. Reproductive organs of fish. 

 Temperance needed among fishermen. Profits of seal 

 hunting. Eggs of the bonito. Preservation of fish, and 

 other subjects of interest. The fact that so wide a range of 

 subjects is discussed shows that Japan is already in advance 

 of some European nations in looking after and caring for its 

 fishery interests . 



Dogs: Their Management and Treatment in Disease. By 

 Ashmont. Price .p. Kennel Record and, Account Book, 

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

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

 all Breeds. Price so cents. 



FIXTURES. 



DOG SHOWS. 



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

 Stock Association, at Itockford, 111. A. H. Currier, Secretary. 



Jan. 1 to 1.— Fourth Dog Show of the Meriden Poultry Associ- 

 ation. Joshua Shute, Secretary, No. 430 Pratt street, Meriden, 

 Conn. 



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

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

 W. Dean, Secretary. 



January, last week.— Western Pennsylvania Poultry Society's 

 Fourteenth Annual Show, Pittsburgh, Pa. C. B. Elben, Sec'y. 



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, I860.— Fifth Dog Show of the New Jersey Kennel 

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

 cello avenue, Jersey City, 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, 1889.— Second Annual Show of the Renssalaer 

 Kennel Club, Troy. N. 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 

 Konuel Club, Utica, N. Y. James W. Dunlop, President. 



March 19 to 22, 1889.— First Animal Dog Show of the Maryland 

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



March 20 to 29, 1889.— First Annual Dog Show of the Massachu- 

 setts Kennel 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 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, 1889.— First Annual Dog Show of the Maseoutah 

 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. Win. C, Child, Secretary. 

 FIELD TRIALS. 



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

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

 delphia, Pa. 



Kov. 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 Springs, N. Y. 



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

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

 Tenn. 



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 Bakersfiell, Cab N. P, Sheldon, Secretary, 

 320 Sansome street Sap Francisco, Cab 



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 be in 

 ea,rly. 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 6666. 



PRACTICAL JUDGINC. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



First, please understand, everybody, that I have no inten- 

 tion of taking sides in the discussion between Messrs. Davey 

 and Mason. Whether Mr. Davey 's dog is a wastrel or a 

 world beater, I have not the faintest idea, and wouldn't 

 know if I saw him, But after where he says, "How is it, 

 Mr. Editor, that so many of the practical dog men of the 

 country are wholly incapable of criticising a dog, or esti- 

 mating the value of points when shown to them?" (just 

 after giving me a dig) Mr. Mason states very sound doc- 

 trine, that if carefully acted on would save as much of the 

 interminable wrangles we have as to dog show judging. 

 Dog show judging is of necessity a work of "fancy," and 

 if there is a thing thoroughly unpractical, surely it is 

 "fancy," the very name so implies. Now, while nobody 

 detests the antics and frenzies ot fancy more than Idoorwill 

 go further in fighting them, still it is evident that nothing but 

 fancy can possibly ehterinto the domain of dog show judging. 

 All that can be asked is that fancy shall confine itself within 

 the lines of usefulness in dogs laid'down by the special author- 

 ities of the breed: not that the judge is to decide on the use- 

 fulness of animals submitted to him (for that is a self-evi- 

 dent impossibility), but to strictly carry out the standard 

 of the breed, which is supposed to be— and practically is— 

 founded on the use to which the breed is put. Mr. Wynn 

 long since laid down the sound rule that a judge who al- 

 lowed his individual fancies to lead him away from strict 

 observance of the standard was simply swindling the exhib- 

 itors and the public, and the proposition seems self-evident. 

 But how can the "practical sportsman" or "practical" fox 

 hunter or shepherd claim that his practical knowledge has 

 any part in deciding which dog comes nearest the ideal of 

 perfection laid down in a standard? Doesn't he know per- 

 fectly well that dogs exhibit the highest degree of "practi- 

 cal" excellence, when differing almost as much as though 

 they were of distinct breeds? Take any scratch pack of 

 hounds and you will find the neat, trim, smooth dog as ele- 

 gant as a pointer, and the ragged, rough, "baboon" type, 

 one being fully as good in nose, speed and staying powers as 

 the other. 



Take my hobbies. The best two watchdog mastiffs I ever 

 knew were the cowhooked, shockingly snipy Gipsey, and the 

 neat, symmetrical, short and blunt-headed Wacouta Perse- 

 phone. One would be turned out of a ring and the other 

 would be first, and would the "practical" judge say the 

 decision would be wrong? There is the shaggy, short- 

 coupled, blunt-headed bobtail, Bob, and the smooth-coated, 

 elegant, foxy-headed Dame Judith. It is a narrow squeak 

 which has the most wisdom or usefulness, both being super- 

 lative, and would the "practical" judge put them even? 

 With fear and trembling I mention the name of pointer, 

 lest some "sportsman" mil jump on me for posturing as an 

 authority, but I remember something about Mr. Vandevort's 

 Don, "the hero of many a hard-fought trial in the field, but 

 not up to show form in conformation," and I certainly never 

 heard that the dog's field usefulness was a factor in his show 

 standing. I know that my setter friends used to say that 

 Queen Alice was unbeatable on the bench, but they also said 

 that "Ab's old sow" could knock Alice silly in the field. 



Of course, the advocate of "practical judges" will say that 

 the "practical" judge is not to decide which is best at prac- 

 tical work, but merely to follow such conformation as indi- 

 cates practical value. In the first place, practical value 

 does not follow form; in all animals there are specimens 

 with but few, if any, points indicating high capability, that 

 are tremendous performers. The ragged bag of bones, Dick 

 Andrews, easily held the best thoroughbreds of England 

 safe; that most grotesque of animals, Fisherman, held his 

 own with the best of all England, and although in the same 

 stable (crafty old Parr's) with Leamington, when a big 

 stake was to be pulled off Fisherman did battle for it. From 

 all I have heard and read, it seems certain to me that many 

 great performers in the field and at field trials would be 

 shockingly "left" in a show. Further than this, it will not 

 do to let every "practicaP'man set up his idea of "practical" 

 form. It must be left to the general consensus of admirers 

 of the breed as formulated in a standard, and in this, the 

 judge who relies on his "dog eye" is likely to be more suc- 

 cessful in interpretation than he who has in mind practical 

 performances. 



In fact, all other things being equal, it is likely that the 

 man who uses dogs for actual work will not be as good a 

 judge of their show properties as the one who knows noth- 

 ing practically of their use; for the user of the dog consid- 

 ers other matters than their show points, and will, uncon- 

 sciously perhaps, give too much weight to what his particular 

 hobby is in use, while the "fancy" judge, pure and simple, 

 should know nothing but the standard he judges by, and if 

 honest he allows the standard to take care of itself, never 

 caring whether he is right or wrong, leaving the compilers 

 of the standard to bear the burden of its correctness. Of 

 course this is on the presumption that the fancy judge is not 

 fanatic in his devotion to "fancy," and that he recognizes 

 that fancy is only fashion after all. At the risk of again 

 stirring up my excellent friend "Porcupine," I must again 

 call attention to the preposterous way in which "fancy" 

 stuffs the mouths and eyes of its votaries, so that they do 

 not knoAV how they are eating their own words or see how 

 they are traversing the instructions they are supposed to go 

 by. "Authority" tells us that mastiffs must be square in 

 muzzle, defining "square" in horn-book style as "forming a 

 l'ight angle with upper line of nose," and that "hocks must 

 be bent"; yet "fancy" puts the most frightfully undershot 

 jaws and straightestTof hocks as perfection if the muzzle is 

 short enough, and in collies leads us to the remarkable 

 decision that the puppy type is the correct one, not the fully 

 matured one (I can never forgive "Porcupine" for the mis- 

 chief he did by formulating this doctrine); and this, too, 

 right in the face of a standard which says "skull of moder- 

 ate width," or something to that effect. 



Now I suppose that Messrs. Watson, Mason, etc., will say 

 that standards are abominations, that the only thing is hav- 

 ing the judge "know his work," that he must know what 

 the "real thing" is without any staudard, and must award 

 from the guidance of his own inner consciousness. This is 

 well enough as far as the judge being fitted for his work 

 goes. Many a man who thoroughly knows the type of dog 

 he wants, and at a ring side never misses in his judgment, 

 might be badly rattled when acting in the ring, observed 

 and criticised by many. The good judge must be confident 

 enough to judge as though he were m the middle of a section 

 of land, and the only man on it. His crowning qualifica- 

 tion is to be competent to properly appreciate "quality" and 

 "character;" not to use the words as they are generally used, 

 as a mere bit. of dog show jargon to throw dust in the eyes 

 of disputants of his awards, but to detect and duly estimate 

 the indescribable point of a dog, that is beyond the 

 reach of tapes and scales, the general, harmonious 

 balance of proportions that goes to make up the thor- 

 oughly "good-looking" dog, equivalent to what we call 

 the "line-looking" man. Then he must be so opinionated 



that he is not swerved by dread of "what will Mrs. 

 Grundy say." The effect of this resolute course was shown 

 in England when Mr. Wynn put Beau over The Shah. 

 Mastiff men had been falling down at the feet of The Shah 

 as unbeatable, until it had become a superstition that 

 nothing could beat him. The same was the case with Ilford 

 Cromwell here; he was knocked round as n. g., got vhc.s 

 etc., and was commonly described as "that funny looking 

 dog," until Mr. Mason put him over everything at New 

 Haven, and (unless it may have been condition) the thing 

 that pulled him through must have been quality, as be is 

 not specially strong iu any one point, but good in all, save 

 in eyes. But allowing the necessity of these qualifications 

 in a judge, how is he to be understood unless he confines 

 himself to interpreting a, standard ? One judge puts Alonzo 

 first, the next reverses it and puts Moses first; how are we 

 to decide which is right unless we apply the standard to 

 their awards? Judges will and must differ; it is impossible 

 to form a code by which the novice may learn what is the 

 "right thing" unless there is something put down for him 

 to study aud by which to compare awards. True, his head 

 will swim in endeavoring to fit awards with the standard, 

 but he learns where one judge is competent and the other 

 failing. 



Mastiffs are yet lacking a Moses to lead them out of the 

 desert of fancy, but collies have secured a. prophet to guide 

 them in Mr. Arkwright, who, in addition to showing the 

 folly of "fancy" as applied to collies, adds the forcible advice 

 that "Fancy" aud her devotees confine themselves purely to 

 fancy breeds, those that have no place except as ornaments, 

 and where fancy distinctions may have the fullest range and 

 hurt nobody, but to let useful breeds alone. Let man mil- 

 liners enlarge on the twist of a pug's tail, the amount of 

 "stand in the sun and shiver" of a toy terrier, the length 

 and sheen of a Yorkshire's coat, and the impossibility of 

 determining which is the bead or tail, or exact amount of 

 bulge in a toy spaniel's eyes, but in mercy let them leave 

 mastiffs, collies, working terriers, etc., to the decision of 

 common sense unenlightened by the beams of "fancy." 



On the other hand, let the practical dog man remember 

 that be his dog ever so useful, that does not show that he is 

 typical, i. e., that he is strong in the best points of the breed, 

 and be "Practicability" ever so good a shooter, shepherd, 

 fox hunter or vermin hunter, that gives no necessary conclu- 

 sion that he either knows or cares what the points of his dog 

 are. If a sheepdog user, it is not unlikely that his favorite 

 "shepherd" was "half one dog, other half, two dogs," and 

 precious little does he care for type, pedigree or anything 

 else in the dog that knew the dry cows from the milkers, 

 that rams must not fight, and the difference in the "business 

 ends" of horses and cows, and would call somebody to gather 

 the eggs from a hen's nest, but paid no attention to the nest 

 of a turkey. Doubtless some of you "go shooting" fellows 

 can supply a fitting statement for setters and pointers. 



If "practical" judging is to be the thingj I will go into the 

 ring with my Lion against Minting, audit the judge doesn't 

 give me first there will be such a howling about "useful- 

 ness" as will drown all the barks of a show, be Lion's 

 muzzle ever so snipy and long. 



I rather think that Mr. Fellows has the true idea as to 

 this matter, judging from his last. I take it that the 

 American Spaniel Club has arranged a standard in view of 

 the very best physical requirements for work; that judges 

 have magnified "long and low" to mean "longest and low- 

 est," and that the dogs selected are not up to the mark in 

 usefulness and do not comply with the standard, and the 

 gravamen of his complaint is that the judges set up a 

 "fancy" ideal instead of the "practical" one had in view 

 by spaniel men when they set up their standard. This I 

 gather entirely from the writings of Mr. Fellows, Dr. W. W. 

 Boulton and Mr. Freeman Lloyd, and if I am correct in my 

 inferences, their position is absolutely impregnable. 



W. Wade. 



THE SENSE OF SMELL IN DOGS. 



Editor Forest and. Stream: 



In your paper of Oct. 25, 1888, under the above heading, a 

 case is given of a Clumber following the trail of his master's 

 buggy, and the writer asks. "What scent does he follow up? 

 The horses? The buggy wheels? What?" 



I can cite a case which would seem to show that it was 

 probably the scent of the master, although he was riding in 

 an open buggy. 



Some years ago a man by the name of Mellertwas arrested 

 in this city for shooting another man, Mellert was placed 

 in a horse car and conveyed to jail at a distanse of two miles. 

 The horse car was closed except that the door in the rear end 

 of the car was opened and shut on the way to let other pas- 

 sengers in and out. Mellert was placed in jail and the jail 

 door locked. The next morning his beagle dog was found 

 lying against the jail door. I offered Mellert 8100 for that 

 dog, but he said no money could buy from him such a friend 

 iu distress. Mellert was afterward acquitted upon the 

 theory that the killing was justifiable under the circum- 

 stances; but he was a long while in jail before his trial came 

 off, and his beagle was his constant companion day and 

 night. 



Now this beagle missed his master from home some time 

 after his arrest and the next morning found him in the jail 

 at a distance of two miles, and the dog h ad no doubt that his 

 master was there, because he lay by the jail door sill, and 

 this jail door was not the outer door of the court house, but 

 an inner door. Now what scent did this beagle follow? It 

 must have been the scent of his master, although the feet of 

 that master never touched the earth for a distance of two 

 miles; and he did not ride, in an open buggy, but in a closed 

 horse car. The horse car landed Mellert about three hundred 

 feet from the jail, and from that point to the jail Mellert 

 walked over flag pavements upon the sidewalk, but before 

 his dog came to find him hundreds and perhaps thousands of 

 other people had walked over the same flag sidewalk, and 

 yet his dog found him and was so sure of it that he lay down 

 by the jail door — an inner door in the court house — to receive 

 his master when he came out. It is no wonder that money 

 could not buy such a faithful friend. But what scent did he 

 follow? J. E. Van E. 



Kingston, N. Y., Nov. 5. 



NEW JERSEY KENNEL CLUB. — Editor Forest and 

 Stream: At the meeting of the board of governors of the 

 N. J. K. O, held Nov. 1, at Taylor's Hotel, Jersey City, the 

 bench show committee reported progress; but so far nothing 

 has been decided as to the building in which the show is to 

 be held. It is probable, however, that the Oakland Rink 

 will be selected. It is centrally located and is well known 

 all over Jersey City and the Heights. Mr. Peshall expressed 

 his intention of handing in his resignation at the next meet- 

 ing as delegate to the A. K. C. He is the oldest delegate, 

 and, believing in rotation, wants to make room for another 

 member of the N. J. K. C. He is of opinion that it would be 

 for the good of the A. K. C. if delegates were elected to serve 

 for a stipulated period, not to exceed two years. This would 

 bring new material into the management of the A. K. C. 

 and would help to dispel the impression, existing in the 

 minds of many, that the club is managed by a clique. Mr. 

 Peshall's argument is a sound one, and those present could 

 not help indorsing his views, much as they hate to lose him 

 as their representative.— K. E. H. 



TH AT COONS DO WHICKER I know to be a positive 

 fact, as I have one iu captivity that I heard several times. 

 The coon was not more than four feet from where I was 

 standing at the time. The coon is a young one from this year 

 and was caught last August,— G. R. F. (Pittsburgh, Pa.) 



