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FOREST AND STREAM. 



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Seattle, Wash., July 26.— t arrived here from San 

 Francisco on the 18th inst., and being a lover of the rod 

 and gun, I immediately sought all the information in 

 relation thereto. Two and one-half miles from the post- 

 office is Lake Union, a beautiful body of water of ten 

 miles area and teeming with trout and whiting, which 

 are being killed in large quantities by sawdust, which is 

 dumped into the lakes by sawmills on the bwkp. There 

 is a wanton destruction of fish and game in this State, 

 and I sincerely wish you to call the attention of the 

 people to this fact. We have many beautiful lakes, 

 rivers and creeks, which in the past were teeming with 

 fish, but what with seining, netting and other unlawful 



Eractices the fish Avill soon be gone. Seattle is rapidly 

 eing rebuilt with brick and stone.— W. P. 0. 



Colorado Fishing. — A friend writes from Denver: 

 The fishing in the Grand River, in Middle Park, was not 

 so good as usual, owing to low water. My best was ljlbs. : 

 of these I landed three all told; but $ and fib. made up 

 the catches as a rule, and lots of sport in it. Some of the 

 members of the United States Fish Commission are on a 

 tour through the State, and it begins to look as though 

 the fishing interest might assume importance. The in- 

 crease in the number of people who go a-fishing is some- 

 thing wonderful. Ten years ago it seemed to exc te old 

 Hunks's anger and disgust, but even old Hunks has got 

 the notion that he has been wasting his life. I found 

 several of him enthusiastic. 



A Handsome Tr'out.— Worcester, Mass., July 31.— 

 Last Wednesday Mr. Fred N. Cook, of this city, took a 

 brook trout whicb excited the admiration of the local 

 fishermen, who examined it with much interest. Be- 

 sidps being an "old lacer" (lib. 9oz), it was pronounced 

 by all who saw it to be one of the most perfect specimens 

 of brook trout it had been their good fortune to see. 

 Perfectly symmetrical in shape, brilliantly marked and 

 handsomely colored, he was indeed a beauty. Mr. Eben 

 Harrington, a local artist who has made quite a reputa- 

 tion bv his fish pictures, will reproduce him in oil.— Hal. 



FISHCULTURE IN NEW HAMPSHIRE. 



THE Boston Journal has published an interesting; account 

 of the new fish hatching station belonging to the States 

 of New Hampshire and Massachusetts, and located about 

 2*4 miles from Holderness. Tne hatchery has room for 

 2,000,000 fish auuually. The troughs are. made of Michigan 

 pine, the inside painted with two coats of a mixture of 

 paraffine varnish and brown oxide of iron and then with two 

 additional coats of the varnish. Brown oxide of iron and 

 oil cover the outside. By this treatment the growth of 

 fun eus is prevented. The egg-screens are 12iu. by 18in. by 

 one inch in depth and contain 6,000 eggs. The wire bottom 

 has 12 wires to the inch for general use and 7 to the inch for 

 salmon eggs. The screens receive several coats of paraffine 

 varnish. The water supply enters a receiver at the end of 

 the room, from which it passes into the troughs through 

 faucets placed about half way up the side of the receiver to 

 secure water as free as possible from vegetable sediment. 

 The eggs are kept in darkness during the period of hatch- 

 ing, which continues from 120 to ISO days according to tem- 

 perature. 



The following young fish were batched during the past 

 season : 



Penobscot salmon » 000,000 



Landlocked salmon 125,000 



Loch Leven trout 30 000 



California trout 40,000 



Brook trout 800.000 



Golden trout (aureolm) 12,000 



Lake trout 200,000 



From eight to twelve weeks were required for developing 

 the fry. The spawning season of the California trout was 

 from March to May; for the other sal monoids the season 

 continued from the Fast week in September to the last week 

 in January. 



Col. Hodge has obtained a fertile hybrid between the 

 saihling and brook trout. This cross has the back mottled 

 as in the brook trout and the parr marks of the saibling on 

 its side. 



The results of restocking streams are very gratifying, the 

 fishermen making the best catches of brook trout known for 

 twenty years. Newfound, Squam and Winnipesaukee lakes 

 are furnishing the largest yield of lake trout recorded. 

 Fish of this species weighing SOlbs. are reported from New- 

 found and Winnipesaukee. The Sunapee Lake hatching 

 station has 75,000 landlocked salmon from eggs of fish native 

 to the lake, also 100,000 biook trout. 140.000 golden trout, 

 10,000 California and 30,000 Loch Leven. All of these will 

 go into Sunapee Lake. The total cost of the Fish Commis- 

 sion work, exclusive of building expenses, was about $3,000. 



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FIXTURES. 



DOG SHOWS. 



Sept. 7 to 11.— First Annual Dog Show of the Brooklyn Kennel 

 Club, at Brooklyn, N. Y. Charles Dieulenian. Secretary. Entries 

 close Aug. 38. 



Sept. 9 to 13.— Dog Show of the Farmers' Lancaster County Fair 

 Association, at Lancaster. Pa. A. A. Herr. Secretary. Entries 

 close 11 A. M., Sept. 9. 



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

 Club, at London, Oat. O. A. Stone, Manager. 



Sept. 10 to 13.— Dog Show of the Central Canada Exhibition As- 

 sociation, at Ottawa, Can. Capt. R. C. W. MacCuaig, Secretary. 

 Entries close Aug. 31. 



Sept. 11 to 13.— First Annual Dog Show of the Toledo Kennel 

 Company, Toledo, O. Chas. E Rowland, Secretary, Box 423. 



Sept. 16 to 19. — Dog Show of the Dominion of Canada Kennel 

 Club, in connection with the Industrial Exposition at Toronto, 

 Canada. Capt. C. Greville Harston, .Secretary. 



Sept. 17 to 20.— Dog Show of the Pet Stock Association at El- 

 mira, N. Y. J. Otis Fellows, Superintendent, Hornellsville, N.Y. 

 Entries close Sept. 7. 



Oot. 7 to 12.— Eighth Annual Dog Show of the Danbury Agri- 

 cultural Society, at Danbury, Conn. B. C. Lynes. Secretary. 



Jan. 27 to Feb. 1, 1890— Dog Show of the Colorado Poultry and 

 Pet Stock Association, at Denver, Col. 



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

 Kennel Club. New York. James Mortimer, Superintendent. 



March 11 to 14, 1S90.— Second Annual Dog' Show of the Rochester 

 Kennel Club, at Rochester, N. Y. Harrv Yates, Secretary. 



March 25 to 28, 1890.— Second Annual Dog Show of the Mass. 

 Kennel Club, Lynn, Mass. D. A. Williams, Secretary. 



April 1 to 4, 1890.— Sixth Annual Dog Show of the New England 

 Kennel Club, at Boston, Mass. J. W. Newman, Secretary. 

 FIELD TRIALS. 



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

 P, T. Madison. Secretary, Indianapolis. Inn". 



Nov. 11.— Inaugural Field Trials of the Canadian Kennel Club, 

 at Chatham, Ont. C. A. Stone, Secretary, London, Ont. 



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. 



Dec. &— Inaugural Field Trials of the Central Field Trial Club, 

 at Lexington, N. C. O. H. Ortell, Secretary, Mill's Building, New 

 York, N. Y. 



Doc. 10.— Second Annual Field Trials of the Southern Field 

 Trial Club, at Amory, Miss. T. M. Brumby, Secretary, Marietta, 

 Ga. 



.fan. 20, 1890.— Seventh Annual Field Trials of the Pacific Coast 

 Field Trial Club at Rakerstield, Cal. H. H. Briggs, Secretary, 313 

 Bush street, San Francisco, Cal, 



Feb. II, 1,890.- Fourth Annual Field Trials of the Texas Field 

 Trial Club, at Marshall, Tex. W. L. Thomas, Secretary. 



COURSING. 



Oct. 9 to 12.— Fall meet of the National Coursing Club at Hutch- 

 inson, Kan. M. E. Allison. Manager. 



Oct. 24.— Annual M<et of the American Coursing Club, at Great 

 Bend, Kan. F. K. Doan, Secretary, St. Louis, Mo. 



THE CROPPING QUESTION. 



BELOW will be. found a report of the discussion of the 

 cropping question at the meeting of the English Ken- 

 nel Club, July 10, for which we are indebted to the Kev in 1 !. 



Mr. Shirley, on rising, said this was a meeting to consider 

 a resolution brought forward by Mr. J. S. Turner on the 

 question of cropping. We all remember that Mr. Turner 

 brought this forward at the general meetitig held at the 

 Alexandra Palace show last February. We considered then 

 that it had not been sufficiently discussed, and it was re- 

 ferred back to a committee, Since then voting papers have 

 been sent out to all members and associates of the Kennel 

 Club, and to all owners and breeders of Great Danes, black 

 and tan terriers, English terriers, Irish terriers, and toy 

 terriers. The result of this had been that the Kennel Club 

 committee now think the question ripe for discussion. 



Mr. J. S, Turner: In introducing this resolution I will 

 not detain you long, as no doubt most of you have, made up 

 your minds upon the subject. I do not know whether this 

 meeting is convened simply to receive the proxies or voting 

 papers which have been sent out, or whether it is to come 

 to a decision by taking the votes of those present; whether, 

 in fact, the Keimel Club is to lead or to follow. Are we to 

 be guided by abstract principles of right and justice, or to 

 truckle to their perversion by misguided men? Any man 

 with a properly equipped conscience can give but one 

 answer— that we should be afraid of nothing that is recom- 

 mended by reason and justice. Cropping is a fraud and a 

 villaiuy which is not intelligible to the ordinary nature- 

 loving mind, and is perpetuated only by thoughtless and 

 selfish interest. Why discountenance plucking coats of 

 wire-haired and Beriliiigton terriers and allow the cropping 

 of ears— in fact put a premium upon the act. Is it logical 

 to condemn one man for improving a fox-terrier's ears, or 

 making a collie's face resemble a picture in the StocJi- 

 Kcc.pcr and allow others to cut and carve their dog's ears as 

 they will. In last month's K&wncl Crazclte appears an 

 apologia by Mr. Arkwright, in which he made no attempt 

 to deny the cruelty, nor did he advance any argument as to 

 the utility of cropping. He contented himself simply with 

 the contemplation of the beautiful, as modified by the art 

 of the cropper. I certainly cannot follow him when he says 

 that the pain of having the ears cut into fancy shapes and 

 being rubbed for several days when still sore is nothing 

 compared with what human beings are subjected to 

 by doctors for abscesses aud other maladies. Surely 

 he has not suffered from a gumboil or else this 

 is not written seriously. He says one class of dogs, 

 Irish terriers, would be improved because they own natu- 

 rally a small, neat car. But this, I think, is against the 

 weight of evidence. A second class, says Mr. Arkwright, 

 Great Danes, would be half spoiled, but would have size 

 and color left. But the third class, bull-terriers, if left 

 with their natural ears, would become so hideous to con- 

 template, that a stolidly impressive being could hardly re- 

 press a shudder. They would most certainly disappear from 

 the face of the earth, destroyed by sentiment of well-mean- 

 ing meddlers. Does Mr. Arkwright mean by this that bull- 

 terriers have nothing to recommend, them but their cropped 

 ears? No color? Well, no! unless it be at the back of the 

 ear and cropping has removed it. No size? No! sans every- 

 thing! Poor bull-terriers! How little did we know that 

 "Auricula et pra?terea nihil" was to be inscrolled on your 

 hatchment! Perhaps a better motto would be "Save me 

 from my friends." For Class III. Mr. Arkwright says that 

 large stiff ears have been a feature of the bull-terrier from 

 the beginning. What beginning? I maintain that large 

 ears are produced by cropping. I should incline to the 

 belief that bull-terriers, being a cross between the bulldog 

 and terrier, have, like most aggressive animals, compara- 

 tively small e*rs; but as the coarsest were selected to cross 

 with . the large ears have become to a great extent fixed as a 

 feature of the breed. The Great Dane Club has passed a 

 very curious resolution, which in effect says we shall have 

 all or none. By this means they hope, Lsuppose, to have 

 none. The members of this club assert, by implication that 

 docking, rounding and cutting off dew-claws are to be con- 

 demned, and eventually they hope to 



Compound for sins they are inclined to 

 By damning tnose they have no mind to. 



Personally 1 have no objection against this sweeping refor- 

 mation, but 1 do not think the doggy world is yet prepared 

 forit, and I cannot see that docking and removing of dew 

 claws are such cruel and useless practices as cropping of ears. 

 I consider that this is a question that calls for some imme- 

 diate action on the part of the Kennel Club, and it is to 

 obtain this end that I propose the resolution. 



Rev. G. F. Lovell: Might I ask Mr. Turner what resolu- 

 tion he proposes to submit to the meeting ? 



Mr. Turner: This question has been mentionedby me several 

 times. I brought it forward at the Kennel Club show held 

 at the Alexandra Palace, and it has been before several 

 committee meetings and adjourned from time to time. The 

 resolution proposed is, "To consider the advisability of 

 taking into consideration the question of cropping." 



Mr. Herbert: I take it that this meeting is to consider 

 whether this question of cropping shall be referred to a 

 committee meeting or not, and that it will not decide the 

 whole matter now. 



Mr. Shirley: I think Mr. Turner's resolution is quite in 

 order, and that it would be impossible for the committee of 

 the club to ignore Mr. Turner's resolution if this meeting 

 passed it. 



Mr. Herbert thought there should be no rule, but that the 

 various specialist clubs should be allowed to follow their 

 own choice in the matter. If members were for cropping 

 let them crop: if they were against it let them stop it. 



Rev. G. F. Lovell was of the same opinion. 



Mi\ Herbert did not consider this meeting was competent 

 to deal with this matter, and he thought, and in fact all 

 Great Dane men thought, and he spoke as representing the 

 Great Dane Club, that this meeting was simply convened 

 for the purpose of considering the advisibility of advising 

 the committee to take into their consideration the question 

 of cropping and not for the purpose of finally disposing of 

 the question. He was distinctly in favor of cropping, and 

 in fact considered it a necessity in Great Danes, as adding 

 to their general appearance and smartness, and that if crop- 

 ping was to be stopped he thought that classes for Great 

 Danes might be dropped. 



Mr. Shirley thought it might be convenient now to state 



the figures and results of the voting papers sent out to the 

 members, associates, and different breeders of Great Danes, 

 black and tans, bull-terriers, toys, Irish terriers and white 

 English terriers, whose names appear in the last three yen rs 

 Kennel Club Stud Book. He said he had gone carefully 

 through these votes and counted them. There were 942 

 papers sent to breeders; 41 were returned through the post, 

 we received 406 answers, and this leaves 495 that have, not, 

 been accounted for. Of these answers, Great Dane men sent 

 in 20, 14 for cropping, 6 against; or rather more than two to 

 one in favor of cropping. Bull-terrier men 41 for cropping, 

 7 against; which is about six to one in favor. Black aud tan 

 terrier men 23 for cropping, 21 against. White English ter- 

 rier men 21 for cropping, 16 against, or a slight majority in 

 favor of the practice; the Irish terrier men were about four 

 to three, or 23 against 17 in favor of cropping; and toy terrier 

 men were a small majority in favor of the practice, 6 in 

 favor, 4 against. Now, as to the members and associates, he 

 did not attach as much importance to their opinion as to 

 that of the breeders, as a good many of them had, perhaps, 

 never bred a dog in their lives; 407 papers were sent to the 

 associates; one was returned, 192 answers received, 214 not 

 accounted for, the great majority of votes were against the 

 practice of cropping; 136 against cropping Great Danes, 46 

 for cropping; bull- terriers, 139 against, 50 in favor; black and 

 tan terriers, 138 against, 46 for; Irish terriers, 159 against, 2S 

 for; toy terriers, 150 against, 36 for. He said that he did not 

 think the uncropped classes provided at this show were a 

 success. The entries in Great Danes were 4, black and tan 

 terriers 9, Irish terriers 9. A good many letters bad been 

 received on the subject, and he thought that the Kennel 

 Club ought to consider the matter, and not again have it 

 postponed. 



Mr. Turner thought the entries in the uncropped classes 

 satisfactory, considering the short time (four months) which 

 has elapsed since the classes had been given, and the ma- 

 jority of breeders had only cropped dogs to exhibit. 



Rev. O'Callaghan: It seems that many of the associates 

 and members are against cropping. 



Mr. R. Herbert wanted to know how many of the gentle- 

 men out of the 136 voting as associates on the. question of 

 cropping Great Danes belonged to the Great Dane Club, or 

 had ever bred one. Mr. Shirley explained that no papers 

 were sent to those associates who received a paper as ex- 

 hibitor of any oue of the breeds affected. 



Mr. Vicary, as frequent judge of Irish terriers, was op- 

 posed to Mr. Turner's resolution. He considered that un- 

 cropped Irish terriers were generally wanting in the "var- 

 mint" expression which should characterize the breed, and 

 that the best dogs were nearly all cropped. Moreover, he 

 did not, admit that a small drop ear is a true characteristic 

 of the breed. 



Mr. J. C. Tinne was in favor of Mr. Turner's resolution. 

 He upheld the practice of removing the dew claws, as he 

 considered it was an act of kindness, and where dogs were 

 kept for working purposes it was a necessity, but he was 

 certainly much opposed to the cropping of ears. 



Rev. G. F. Lovell: The question as I understand is to con- 

 sider the advisability of advising the committee to take 

 into consideration the question of cropping, and for this I 

 am quite prepared to vote, but I certainly do not think that 

 this meeting should finally dispose of the question. I con- 

 sider that cropping is not a cruelty, but it is a saving of 

 great pain to a dog wheu fighting* You must remember 

 that many of our terriers are sent over to India for hunting 

 purposes," and if their ears were not cut this would be one 

 of the first things that the hunted animal would bite, thus 

 causing great, pain to the dog, and spoiling his chances of 

 success. He contended that cropping of ears was only 

 going back to nature, as all the ancient breeds had prick 

 ears. He thought that the Kennel Club would suffer 

 materially if they took Mr. Turner's view of the cropping 

 question, as owners who now cropped their dogs would not 

 show at Kennel Club shows, but would support those that 

 were not held under Kennel Club rules, and this was a sort 

 of thing that he thought the Kenuel Club did not wish to 

 encourage. 



Mr. P. C. Reid said he did not agree, with Mr. Lovell. He 

 had himself tried terriers in India, and had not found that 

 they suffered any extra pain through having natural ears, 

 as while the hunted animal had hold of the ear it would 

 not be able to do any further mischief. He did not quite 

 agree with Mr. Turner's resolution, but he was in favor of 

 discouraging the extensive practice of cropping. 



Mr. Shirley i*ead out the opinions of some of the most 

 prominent breeders who had sent in voting papers, among 

 whom were Messrs. Pratt, Soulter, Buller, Spelman, Hutch- 

 in gs, and others. 



Mr. Herbert: Are we to vote for this question as a whole 

 and settle the matter forever, or have the committee of the 

 Kennel Club power to set aside any decision arrived at by 

 this meeting? 



Mr. Shirley thought they had no such power; they were 

 voting on Mr. Turner's resolution. 



Mr. Reid asked if Mr. Turner could be allowed lo amend 

 his resolution so as to take the breeds separately. Mr. 

 Lovell objected to this, as they had no legal right to* accept 

 an amendment, but were bound by the notice on the paper, 

 although he himself did not understand what they had to 

 vote on. 



Mr. Shirley: I have ruled over and over again that Mr. 

 Turner's resolution is perfectly in order. 



After some further discussion between Mr. Lovell and 

 Mr. Shirley the former gentleman left the committee room. 

 Mr. Shirley now put the question, when there voted: For 

 Mr. Turner's resolution, 10; against, 7: majority, 3. 



Resolution carried. 



TOLEDO DOG SHOW. 



THE premium list of the first annual dog show of the 

 Toledo Kennel Company is ready for distribution. The 

 show will be held in conjunction with the Tri-State Fair 

 at Toledo, O., Sept. 10 to 13. Mr. John Davidson will judge 

 the snorting, and Mr. H. W. Lacy the non-sporting classes. 

 Mr. Geo. H. Hill is the superintendent. The list provides 

 82 classes. Mastiffs, St. Bernards (each variety), English 

 setters, Irish, black and tan setters, cocker spaniels (any 

 color), collies, bulldogs, fox-terriers and pugs, each has on'e 

 challenge class with prize of $10; open, dogs S10 and ¥5, 

 bitches the same, puppies diploma and ribbon. Pointers 

 have a challenge class for each sex, prizes the same as in 

 other classes. In beagles there is one challenge class, with 

 prize of $8, and *8 and $4 in open classes. Great Danes, deer- 

 hounds, greyhounds, foxhounds, field spaniels (an3' color), 

 and Irish water spaniels have two classes each, dog and 

 bitch, with $10 and $5 each. Bull-terriers, two classes, with 

 S8 and fi. Newfoundlands, dachshunde and whippets have 

 one class each with §10 and $5. The remaining breeds have 

 one class each with $8 and $4. Kennel prizes of $15 each are 

 offered for mastiffs, St. Bernards, deerhounds, pointers, 

 English setters and Irish setters. Upward of fifty specials 

 are already offered and more are promised. Entries close 

 Aug. 26. The address of the secretary is C. E. Rowland, 

 Box 423, Toledo, O. 



A LARGE ST. BERNARD PUPPY.— Andover, Mass., 

 JvLly Editor Forest and St ream: One of the St. Ber- 

 nard puppies from my Essex — Mora litter, born March 24, 

 weighed at tour months old just 651bs. He is a smooth-coat 

 and the smallest of the litter. He is not fat but in fine con- 

 dition. He is the property of Mrs. Edward Frothingham of 

 Boston. I have never known a smooth puppy to weigh as 

 much at that age.— E. L. HAis T nv 



