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cuts. The portrait of Walton, in the first volume, was 

 tiken direct from the painting by Huysnian in the 

 National Gallery, and that of Cotton, which prefaces the 

 second volume, is from a painting by Sir Peter Lelv. in 

 the possession nf Mrs. Evely Holden of Nuttal Temple. 

 Many new facts concerning Walton's life are given, and 

 the chronicle of the "Com pleat Angler," by Westwood & 

 Satchell, will greatly interest the student. Taking the 

 work as a whole, it reflects great credit not only on the 

 editor and the publishers, but on all who hare "had the 

 smallest part in it. It is truly a superb edition of the 

 great angling classic. 



PROTECTION FOR THE DELAWARE. 



LAST week President Ford, of the Pennsylvania Fish 

 Commission, and President Blackford, of tlie N. Y.- 

 Coaimission, met 1o consider the question of protecting 

 the fUhes in the Delaware Eiver and of having concur- 

 rent legislation in the different States which border on 

 it. It was decided to prepare a new law for this pur- 

 pose, and have it acted upon by the Legislatures of New 

 York. Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware. 



Under the provisions of the proposed law no rock bass 

 nor wall-eyed pike may be taken for two years. The 

 season for black bass will be from June 1 to Jan. 1. and 

 for the fish named no netting will be allowed. Shad 

 may be taken in npts from Dec. 31 to June 15 of each 

 year, and the size of the meshes of the nets will be uni- 

 form in each State. There is no doubt about the wisdom 

 of having the same dates for open and close seasons on 

 one lake or river, no matter bow nianv States it may 

 touch. 



Campixg on the Sturgeon River.— I have just re- 

 turned from my annual hunting and fishing excursion, 

 with the usual resolve to go back to the same grounds 

 next year. For the last five years I have made one of a 

 party whose camp has been pitched at the head of Stur- 

 geon River, about twelve miles from Munising, Michigan; 

 and although there may be happier hunting grounds, we 

 prefer to stick to what we know to be good, rather than 

 go wandering further at the risk of faring worse. There 

 is good deer, bear, pheasant and wild duck shooting; and 

 for fish, there are pike, pickerel, mascalonge and the 

 gamy trout. We were a month in camp, and I scored ten 

 deer to my bag, which I call a fair average; for in past 

 years my score has fallen as low as one, and risen as high 

 as twenty-five. The camp was always well supplied with 

 pheasants — with as many, in fact, as we could eat, and 

 there was no less abundance of fish; as a camping coun- 

 try, too, I do not know what could be more attractive 

 than this country of small streams and lakes, and I should 

 be glad to welcome brother sportsmen to pitch their 

 camps within hail of us. There is a hotel at Munising 

 kept by Hermann Fritz, who charges twenty -five cents 

 a meal, and Julius Gogan, livery man, whirls us into 

 camp in consideration of the sum of five dollars U. S. 

 currency. The country people are courteous, and ready 

 to sell potatoes, which appears to be the only crop grown, 

 and for other supplies it is necessary to send to Point St. 

 Ignace or Marquette. The railway company is very con- 

 siderate, and its officers do their best to make travel on 

 their line a pleasant feature of one's outing. We took our 

 own boat, acted as guides for each other and avoided all 

 unnecessary expenditure, and at the close of our month's 

 trip there was no question about it that we had had our 

 money's worth for our money. — B. A. Hedman, Dayton, 

 Ohio. 



Croppie— Crappie— Croppy— White Perch— Sacri- 

 lee. — The ''croppie" of Northern waters seems to be iden- 

 tical with the "white perch" of Mississippi, and the "sac- 

 rilee" of the Creoles in lower Louisana, It abounds in 

 the still- water lakes of the Mississippi bottom as far south 

 as the Gulf of Mexico. It attains a weight of about three 

 pounds. It is dark green on the back, with silvery sides 

 mottled with green. It is considered our best fresh water 

 fish for the table, but exhibits no game qualities to the 

 sportsman; for, though it takes the bait in a decided man- 

 ner, and usually goes straight downward, it shows little 

 resistance, but comes out very much like a dead chunk. 

 This, with the black bass, constitutes our only game fish 

 in the Mississippi delta, excepting the smaller varieties of 

 bank perch. — Coahoma. [The crappie of the lower Mis- 

 sissippi (Pomoxys annularis) is distinct from the Northern 

 species (P. sparoides), differing from it in its banded sides 

 and absence of reticulations on the fin behind the vent, 

 as well as in the smaller number of spines in the back 

 fin. The name sacrilee is probably equivalent to sac-a- 

 lai, which is usually applied to this form. The white 

 perch of the Mississippi delta we have supposed to be 

 identical with the gaspergou (Aplodinotus grunniens) a 

 fish related to the drum of Atlantic waters.] 



' Large Striped Bass from the Potomac— During 

 the past week a number of extra large striped bass have 

 been sent from the Potomac River to New York markets. 

 One of these fish weighed 731bs., and at least a dozen of 

 them reached to oOlbs. and over, while 30 and 40 pounders 

 which composed the majority, were of small account 

 among the big fellows. Such fish come from the Potomac 

 every year, in early January, and the biggest ones are 

 always female which are full of eggs which would be 

 laid next spring. What thoughts of struggle, from 

 strike to gaff, the above weights will call up to our 

 lriends of the bassiug clubs about Martha's Vineyard, 

 and else v\ here. 



A Flexible Ferrule for Rods.— We have recently 

 seen a newly invented ferrule for fishing rods which is 

 flexible and allows the bending of the ferrule with the 

 rod. It is made in a spiral form and bends in all direc- 

 tions. How it will stand hard work only actual work 

 will determine, but it appeared to act well on the rod 

 which we saw. It is the invention of Thomas Kirker, 

 of Belfast, Ireland, and if it proves to be a good thing no 

 doubt some of our rod makers will introduce it. The 

 ferrules now in use are dead points and if these, new ones 

 overcome this in a satisfactory manner they will prove 

 to be useful. 



Columbus. O., Jan. 12. — At the annual election of the 

 Olentangy Fishing Club, of Columrus, Ohio, the follow- 

 ing officers were elected for the ensuing year; President, 

 SylveBter Condon; Vi:e-President f Valentine Kiefer; 

 Secretary-Treasurer, Albert C. Corrodi; Trustees, Bruce 

 W. Beall, Ervin D. Case, Joseph Wiest. Sergeant at 

 Anns, Peter Zigler,— W. H, English, Cot. Sec'y, 



Macxerel in Nova Scotia in December.— A stnp of 

 mackerel was made at Devil's Island on December 29. 



MENHADEN QIL AND GUANO ASSOCIATION- 



AT the recent meeting of this association in New York 

 city, thefollowing officers were elected: President, D. 

 T. Church, Tiverton, R. I ; Vice-Presidents. Thomas F. 

 Price, of New York, and L. E. B. Dennis, of Maryland; 

 Secretary and Treasurer, Jasper Pryer, No. 156 Maiden Lane, 

 New York; Executive Committee, A. J. Mors», of Maryland, 

 Thomas F. Price, and George F. Tuthill, of New York. 



The secretary gave the following statistics for the past 

 two years: 



1887. 18S8. 



Number of fish caught 333,564,800 404,788,950 



(Gallons of oil 2,273.566 2,051,128 



Tons of crude scrap 5,368 11.436 



Tons of dried scrap 17,262 15,030 



Gallons of oil on hand 694.500 288.640 



Crude scrap on hand, (tons) 2,085 3,3S5 



Dried scrap on hand, (tons) — 



In 30 factories. 8,424 



In 24 factories 4,855 



Sailing vessels 60 42 



Steamers. 50 43 



Men employed 2,499 4,568 



Mr. Pryer called attention to the difference shown above 

 in the proportion of oil to fish in the different years, as 

 proving that the fish of 1888 were not as fat as they should 

 be. The question of restricting the season when' the fish 

 should be caught came up, and it was voted that: "It is the 

 sense of this meeting that there should be no fishing before 

 Julyl." The object is to limit production, and a more 

 stringent resolution for that purpose was adopted last year. 

 Since 1882 there has been a marked decline in the menhaden 

 oil business, owing partially, it is said, to oversupply. 

 Within that time the number of factories in operation on 

 Chesapeake -Bay alone has fallen from 65 to 22 ; and from 

 Maine to Maryland there are less than 50 in operation to-day, 

 so far as they are represented in the Menhaden Oil and 

 Guano Association. Last year the restriction voluntarily 

 put upon the manufacture by the proprietors themselves 

 raised the price of oil to 30 cents, and caused an increase in 

 the price or ammonia scrap. The Maryland men, however, 

 say that their harvest time is in May and June, and they 

 refused to enter into any binding agreement. 



There is an oil made from the grease in wool, which is im- 

 ported into this country and is a rival of menhaden oil, and 

 the association wants the present ad valorem duty on this 

 changed to a specific duty, and have sent a delegation to 

 "Washington to lay the matter before the Senate Finance 

 Committee. 



A resolution was adopted strongly protesting against the 

 law which excludes the purse nets from Raritan Bay, on the 

 ~round that it is a discrimination in favor of sportsmen. 



STOCKING THE PASSAIC RIVER. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



Your readers may be interested to know the success of 

 planting fish in the Upper Passaic. In 1869 I placed thirty- 

 five black bass in the river. Their progeny began to be seen 

 three or four years later. Since then large numbers have 

 been taken annually. They now extend for some thirty 

 miles from the point — Stanley, Morris county — where they 

 were placed. During the past year a very large number 

 were taken with live bait and fly. The largest one reported 

 weighed 5V±lbs. Two years ago I placed 500 mirror and 

 leather carp in the river. At that time they were about two 

 inches in length. Several were takan last year weighing 

 over a pound, and large numbers of them have been seen. 

 They will not only afford food for the black bass, but, 

 without doubt, will furnish exceedingly good table fish for 

 families dwelling along the river. In May, 1888, I received 

 5,000 rainbow and brown trout. They are placed in the 

 river at the same point (Stanley). It is too soon as yet to 

 learn the result, but as these fish will live in similar waters 

 to those of the Passaic, I have no doubt but that a good per 

 centage will give an account of themselves by and by. 



Late in the fall of 1888 I received from Charles Gilchrist, 

 of Port Hope (Out.), a package of wild rice. This was 

 planted in the Passaic with the confident expectation that 

 future crops will be the means of bringing to a stream for- 

 merly noted for its abundance of wild ducks, these valuable 

 game birds. That this is an unusual winter was illustrated 

 by the fact of my plucking two dandelion blossoms on my 

 lawn on New Year's Day, and the catching of a live grass- 

 hopper by my seven-year-old son Ray, who thought surely 

 that spring time must have come with the dandelions and 

 grasshopper, before he could have an opportunity of trying 

 his toboggan on the new toboggan slide. 



Geo. Shepard Page. 



Stanley, X. J., Jan. 11. 



THE INDIANA COMMISSION— Indiana has one Fish 

 Commissioner, Mr. Enos B. Reed, who is also the editor of a 

 weekly paper called The People, published at Indianapolis. 

 In a late issue of that journal the following notice appeared, 

 which speaks for itself: "The Fly Fishermen's Club the 

 other night came to the conclusion that the present Fish 

 Commissioner had not fulfilled his duties satisfactorily and 

 resolved to recommend some one else for the position. The 

 Fly Fishermen's Club is "a ass" and dont know what it is 

 talking about, or what it wants, save its own delectation. 

 It knows that the hands of the present Fish Commissioner 

 have been tied for lack of means, there being no appropria- 

 tion made by the last Legislature. It was also cowardly in 

 the extreme' to discuss that official's merits, he not present, 

 and having been confined to bis bed for the past eight weeks. 

 These fellows are no fishermen — fishermen are true-hearted 

 and generous men who do not malign their betters. The 

 truth is. we suppose, one of the Flies wants to be Fish Com- 

 missioner and takes this method to secure the office, which 

 was given to the present Fish Commissioner a second term 

 without his solicitation. He has doue all he could do to 

 protect the fish, but not the Fly Fishermen, for whom he 

 doesn't care the snap of his finger. ' 



ALASKAN COLLECTIONS OF THE TJ. S. FISH COM- 

 MISSION.— The natural history collections, made for the 

 United States Fish Commission by the party on the steamer 

 Albatross, off the coast of Washintiton Territory and north- 

 ward to Alaska, are now in Washington, to be assorted and 

 forwarded to the specialists, who will prepare reports upon 

 them for the Commission. These objects are contained in 

 about forty cases, and are made up in large part of marine 

 fishes and" invertebrates, among which will dq many i ew 

 and rare forms, as they include the results of the first ex- 

 ploration of the deep waters of the region. 



WINTER WORK OF THE ALBATROSS. — The United 

 States Fish Commission steamer Albatross is now at San 

 Diego, California, from which place her winter explorations 

 will be carried on, southward to the extremity of lower 

 California and northward to San Francisco. Her duties 

 will include the location and investigation of the fishine 

 grounds, with particular reference to the depth of the water 

 and the nature of its inhabitants. In the Gulf of California 

 efforts will be made to determine the results of the frequent 

 attempts to introduce the shad into the great rivers forming 

 its northern tributaries. Lieut. Com. Z L Tanner is in 

 command. The naturalists are Mr. C. H. Townsend and 

 Pmf. Charles H. Gilbert. Mr. Alexander is the fishery ex- 

 pert. 



SHAD CULTURE IN THE WEST.— A lot of 1,000,000 

 young shad were deposited in the Jordan River, near the 

 Utah and Nevada bridge, on June 1, 1887. Asrain on June 

 11, 1888, a car of the U. S Fish Commission carried 2,000,000 

 fry to Battle Creek station, on the Denver and Rio Grande 

 Western, and they were placed in Utah Lake near this point. 

 Several young shad, probably resulting from the plant of 

 1887, have heen caught in the lake recently. One of them 

 measuring 6in. in length and Hgin. deep, is now in the Com- 

 missioner's office. This exHmple is remarkablv deep-bodied 

 and plump for a young shad, and promises weil for the suc- 

 cess on this interesting experiment. 



SHAD IN JANUARY.— Roe shad are reported as being 

 received in Richmond from Pamunky River. Nothing of 

 the kind at this time of the year was ever beard of there 

 before. At this date, Jan. 8, shad from Georgia and Florida 

 are. abundant in Washington markets and selling at 35c. to 

 50c. each. The supply is so great that street peddlers are 

 helping to sell them; in short, there has been practically a 

 glut of these fish, a state of things not before known at this 

 season of the year. 



BRANCH ALEWIVES FROM GEORGIA AND FLOR- 

 IDA. — A small lot of branch alewives were receivedin Wash- 

 ington market Jan. 7, 1S89, a much earlier arrival than usual. 

 The fish season seems uncommonly advanced there, and some 

 of the dealers think it is advancing year by year. 



FIXTURES. 



DOG SHOWS. 



Jan. 15 to 19, 1889.— Seventh Annual Dog Snow 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. 5 to 8, 1889.— First Annual Dog Show of the Columbus 

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



Feb. 7 to 12.— First Annual Show of the Hudson River Poultry, 

 Dog and Pet Stock Association, at Newburgh, N.Y. J. H. Dreven- 

 stedt, Secretary, Waehingtonville, N. Y. 



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 Sbow 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, 1.889.— Second Annual Show of the Fort Schuyler 

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



March 20 to 29, 1889.— First Annual Dog Sbow 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.— First Dog Show of the Worcester Kennel Club, at 

 Worcester, Mass. Edward W. Doyle, Secretary. 



April 9 to 12, 1889.— First Annual Dog Show of the Mas^outah 

 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. 



May 22 to 25.— Pacific Kennel Club Show, San Francisco, OaL 



FIELD TRIALS. 



Noa. 4— Third Annual Field Trials of the Indiana Kennel Club. 

 P. T. Madison, Secretary, Indianapolis, Ind. 



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

 Trials Club, at High Point, N. C. W. A. Coster, Secretary, Sara- 

 toga Springs, N. Y. 



A. K. R.-SPECIAL NOTICE. 



THE 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 3832, New 

 York. Number of entries already printed 6850. 



COMMISSIONER EUGENE G. BLACKFORD, of the 

 New York Fish Commission, has. been "written up" in Jap- 

 anese and nictured by a Japanese artist in the proceedings 

 of the Hokusui Kyohwai, a tishcultural society of Japan, 



THE TROY DOG SHOW. 



WE have received the premium list of the second annual 

 dog show of the Rensselaer Kennel Club, to be held at 

 the Bicycle Rink, Troy, N. Y., Feb. 2ti to March 1. In the 

 challenge classes there will be two prizes, $10 and medal. 

 In the open classes for prominent breeds the prizes are $10, 

 So, and diploma with §5, medal and diploma for puppies. In 

 a few of the less important breeds the prizes are $8, $4 and 

 diploma. When only one class is provided for dogs and 

 bitches the class will be divided by sex when five of each 

 sex are entered. There will also be a class made for any 

 breed not provided for when there are four entries. The 

 club offer kennel prizes of S15 each for mastiffs, St. Ber- 

 nards, bloodhounds, deerhouuds, greyhounds, pointers. 

 English setters, Irish setters, black and tan setters, collies, 

 fox-terriers and pugs; also S10 each for best pair of field 

 spaniels, cocker spaniels and bulldogs. In addition to these, 

 friends of the club will give a large number of valuable 

 specials. The judges so far as appointed are Miss A. H. 

 Whitney, St. Bernards, Newfounlands and pogs. John 

 Davidson, English. Irish and black audtan setters, pointers 

 and foxhounds. C. H. Mason the remaining classes except 

 heagles, which will he judged by a member of the Beagle 

 Club. Entries close Feb. 16. The address of the secretary is 

 Alba M. Ide, Troy, N. Y. 



BALTIMORE DOG SHOW. — Baltimore. Jan. 10 —Editor 

 Forest and Stream: It is with regret that I relinquish the 

 dates claimed by the Maryland Kennel Club. It was our 

 intsntion to have our premium list a direct copy of that of 

 the Westminster Ken Del Club, both in amount and number 

 of premiums, money being already deposited sufficient to 

 cover the amount. Such a premium list would no doubt 

 nttract quite a number of entries, and there not being a 

 building here at present adequate tothedemands we thought 

 it best to w^it until next year, when our much- a ked-of 

 [Exposition Building will be finished: then, with a mam- 

 month hall, a premium list in the front row, and Baltimore 

 hospitality, look out for a -'corker,"— W. Stewart DrFFEX 

 I oWFER, Secretary Maryland Kennel Club. 



