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lake do I know of which once teemed with trout and 

 ' harbored no hostile fish, but where now the trout is only 

 a tradition and the beastly black bass and the snake-eyed 

 pickerel — the miserable fresh-water shark — lord it in- 

 stead. We can get bass and pickerel almost anywhere, 

 not so the trout. 



Let sportsmen everywhere unite to prevent this wretched 

 interference with natural trout waters and to teach the 

 natives the mistake they will make in exchanging ti'out 

 for any other fish that swims. There are two little lakes 

 under the shadow of a Maine mountain which literally 

 swarm with trout. It is a comfort to think of them, to 

 remember my many visits to them and camps in the dense 

 forest beside" them, and to know that there they are in 

 all their wildness and beauty and sure resources of gamy 

 rish whenever I can get away to them again; but my de- 

 light in the mi is always tempered by the fear of the advent 

 of the vandal with the black bass and pickerel. Not even 

 an eel has profaned those waters yet, an 18ft. fall in their 

 outlet stream effectually defending them from that loath- 

 some marauder; but who shall insure them from the 

 greater danger? C. H. Ames. 



A LARGE NEW HAMPSHIRE BASS. 



THIS record of a big bass, caught in Lake Massebesic, 

 New Hampshire, last year, is a tard}^ chronicling; 

 but the note should be put among the data which Forest 

 and Stream is every week and month and year compil- 

 ing and perpetuating for its present and future angling 

 readers. We are indebted to Mr. Walton 0. Taft, of Bos- 

 ton, for the three documents which explain themselves. 



Boston, Sept. 19.— Dear Walton.: Geo. Riddle, our 

 Fish Commissioner, says he saw the newspaper article 

 stating that the bass weighed 71bs. Unfortunately I can- 

 not find copy of Mirror, but I take pleasure in handing 

 you herewith sworn statement of the fishman who 

 weighed the beauty the day after he was caught, lie 

 had been bled, etc., and then showed up 6 Jibs. Trusting 

 this will show that I did not intend to go on record as a 

 fish story teller, I am yours, A. Bunton. 



State of New Hampshire, State Fish and Game 

 Commission, Manchester, N. H., Sept. 18, 1888. — Andrew 

 Bunion, Esq.— Dear Sir: I inclose you sworn statement 

 of Mr. Allen. He says Lawrence caught the bass about 

 dark. As soon as he was caught lie bled him, and the 

 next morning he brought him to Allen's market, where 

 he was weighed, (Ulbs. Lawrence thinks if he had been 

 weighed as soon as he was taken from the water he 

 would have weighed Tibs. This is no fish story, but a 

 reality. Yours truly, George W. Riddle. 



Manchester, N. H.. Sept. 18, 1888.— This certifies that 

 Richard Lawrence, of Manchester, brought to my mar- 

 ket, 1047 Elm street, a very large black bass, which he 

 says was caught by him at Lake Massebesic. I weighed 

 said fish correct, and the weight was 6^1bs. 



Chas. T. Allen. 



State of New Hampshire, Hillsborough, ss.: Person- 

 ally appeared before me Chas. T. Allen, and made oath 

 that the above statement signed by him is true. Sworn 

 to before me Sept. 18, 18S8, George W. Riddle, Justice 

 of the Peace for New Hampshire. 



CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 



STATISTICIANS in the matter of large bass may be 

 interested in a small-mouthed black bass which fs on 

 exhibition, mounted, in the window of the Jenney & 

 Graham Gun Co. here. This is a genuine small-mouth, 

 and its weight is hung up as 71bs. It is a rough and 

 ragged- looking old fish, and was caught in the Fox River 

 at Algonquin by Mr. Alex. McKay. 



Speaking of big bass, Mr. A. G. Spalding lately said to 

 me, "I wish you could do something to stop this big fish 

 business, and not to increase it. We are over-run with 

 big fish. About eight years ago we offered a premium 

 for a big bass — I forget what the weight was to be, but I 

 believe the premium was a $50 outfit. The offer was 

 only made for one year, but it got all over the country, 

 and is going yet. We get fish in here from about every 

 place where there is any water, and by the time they get 

 here they don't always smell good. Every one of these 

 fellows feels injured if he don't get a premium. Now, 

 as we have got to make a living, I want to declare that 

 premium business off. Nothing but the sea serpent goes 

 now." 



Fishing has quieted down for the season. It has been 

 a remarkable fishing; season about this city, both in the 

 number and size of fish taken. There has been good fall 

 mascallonge fishing on Vieux Desert and other waters of 

 Wisconsin. The bass fishing I have tried to set forth 

 slightly heretofore. It has been magnificent. The trout 

 fishing to the north of us has also been good, and it seems 

 that the grayling are not all gone. Mr. Britton, division 

 superintendent of the B. & O. road, took grayling on the 

 Manistee during the past season, and he says he knows 

 where he can get a lot of them next spring. 



' E. Hough. 



HOW TO TREAT THOSE FISH TRAPS. 



PITTSBURG, Pa.. Nov. 13.— Editor Forest and Stream: 

 In your issue of Nov. 7, 1889, on page 312, you publish 

 an article entitled "Fish Protection in Pennsylvania," in 

 which it is stated that the Lancaster county authorities 

 have made a proclamation to destroy the illegal appli- 

 ances in their streams. Will you inform the public why 

 that was done ? And why they proceed under an old law 

 when there is a better and new law for their action ? If 

 they are really interested in protecting then- streams, 

 why do they not put in force the law approved by the 

 Governor of this State on May 2.2, 1889, and found on 

 pages 261 to 271 in Laws of Pennsylvania, 1889 ? Take 

 Sec. 9, page 266, which says: 



"Any fish commissioner, nsh warden, deputy warden, sheriff, 

 deputy sheriff, constable, policeman, or any special officer of this 

 Commonwealth, is hereby authorized to destroy any fish basket, 

 eel weir, fyke net, pound net. shore net, drift net, dip net, wing 

 wall, or wing walls, or any illegal devices named in anv section 

 of this act, and they are hereby authorized to arrest forthwith 

 any person placing, erecting, using or fastening them. Any per- 

 son or persons interfering with any of the above officer? in the 

 discharge of their duties or resisting arrest, shall pay a fine of 

 §100, and be imprisoned three months in the county jail, or shall 

 be subject to both penalties at the discretion of the magistrate or 

 court before, which he or they shall be convicted." 



Do you think any proclamation is needed after reading 



that section ? If there is a fish warden over there, why 

 does he not attend to his duty? If he won't, why is he 

 not removed ? If there is not a fish warden there, why 

 don't they get one ? 



Perhaps I am asking too many questions, but I like to 

 see the fish and game both protected, and when we have 

 the means at hand I cannot understand why they are not 

 used. Under the old law that was the only way to pro- 

 ceed, but now the new law opens up a shorter, better 

 and more effectual method of disposing of those illegal 

 appliances as well as of the offenders themselves. 



Last week our fish warden destroyed over $500 worth 

 of illegal appliances, and he is now watching to take the 

 bodies of the offenders. 



With good, active wardens, the inland streams of 

 Pennsylvania, as well as all other States, will teem with 

 fish, and any person can get a mess of good fish by rod 

 and bine. But the wardens must be upheld and en- 

 couraged, and money enough must be raised to insure 

 them against loss by attending to this work. 



J. Williamson. 



The Fly-Fishers' Club of London will hold its annual 

 dinner Dec. 11. William Senior, so well known to an- 

 glers under his nom deplume of "Red Spinner," and as 

 angling editor of the Field, will preside. 



Florida Fishing is so largely the theme of the " Win- 

 ter in Florida" paper in the Sportsman Tourist, that our 

 angling readers should not overlook it. 



Messrs. S. Allcock & Co., of Redditcb, Eng., were 

 awarded a gold medal at the Paris Exposition for their 

 display of fishing tackle. 



MISSOURI FISH COMMISSION. 



fpHE Missouri State Fish Commission's breeding ponds in 

 A Forest Park are at present being drained for the pur- 

 pose of separating the fish in them. This work is gone 

 through with each fall. All the large or stock fish are 

 placed in deep ponds for protection during the winter, and 

 the small ones are placed in shallow ponds where they can 

 be easily caught for distribution to persons who wish them 

 for stocking private ponds. The Commission breeds crop- 

 pie, bass and German carp. Your correspondent called upon 

 the superintendent a few days ago, but as the work of drain- 

 ing the ponds was not completed the gentleman could not 

 give any facts relative to the success of the past season. 

 Next week the work will be finished and the fish counted 

 and I will send a full report of the season's work. 



Unser Fritz. 



St. Louis, Mo., Nov. 9. 



OREGON FISHING AND FISHCULTURE.— We learn 

 from Mr. Livingston Stone that thousands of anglers have 

 visited the tl, S. Fish Commission station on the Clackamas 

 River, Oregon, since the hatchery was established. Recently 

 none but trout fishermen have been there. All the large 

 trout have been caught out. but small ones contiuue to be 

 taken in some abundance. More than 4,000,000 eggs of the 

 quinnat salmon have been obtained this season and they 

 are still accumulating. 



FIRST SHIPMENT OF CARP. — The first shipment of 

 carp by the D. S. Fish Commission was sent from the 

 Washington station Oct. 16. These will be distributed by 

 one of the cars of the Commission to various points in Ohio, 

 Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, 

 Montana, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Colorado, Utah, 

 Nebraska, Kansas, Arkansas, Indian Territory and Mis- 

 souri. 



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FIXTURES. 



DOG SHOWS. 



Dec. 5 to 7.— First Dog Show of the Continental Kennel Club 

 at Denver, Col. A. L. Weston, Secretary. 



Dec. 9 to 14.— Fourth annual show Northern Uliuois Poultry and 

 Pet Stock Association, Roekford, 111. John Teague, Secretary. 



Jan. 6 to 11, 1890.— Annual Dog Show of the Michigan State 

 Poultry and Pet Stock Association, at Bay City. Mich. W. F. 

 Brace, Secretary. 



Jan. 13 to 18, 1890— First Annual Dog Show of the Georgia Pet 

 Stock and Bench Show Association, at Augusta, Ga. A. H. Von- 

 derleith, Secretary. 



Jan. 27 to Feb. 1, 1890. -Dog Show of the Colorado Poultry anil 

 Pet Stock Association, at Denver, Col. 



Feb, 11 to 11, 1890.— Fourteenth Annual Show of the Westminster 

 Kennel Club, American Institute Building, New York, .lames 

 Mortimer, Superintendent. 



March 11 to 11, 1890. — Second Annual Dog Show of the Rochester 

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



March 18 to 21, 1890.— Show of the Buffalo Kennel Club, Buffalo, 

 N. Y. A. W. Smith. 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. 32.— Eighth Annual Field Trials of the Robins Island Club, 

 for members only. Walter L. Wellington, Secretary, Brooklyn, 

 N. Y. 



Dec. 2.— Inaugural Field Trials of the Central Field Trial Club, 

 at Lexington, N. 0. O. H. Odell, Secretary, Mills Building, New 

 York, N. Y. 



Dec. 16.— Second Annual Field Trials of the Southern Field 

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

 Ga. 



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

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

 Bush street, San Francisco, Cal. 



Jan. 27. 1890.— All-Day Field Trials, at West Point, Miss. F. R. 

 Hitchcock, 14 Broadway, New York, Secretary. 



Feb. 11, lSOO.-Fourth Annual Field Trials of the Texas Field 

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



THE BRUNSWICK FUR CLUB TRIALS. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



As published in your valuable paper, the field trials of the 

 Brunswick Fur Club were run on the Albany Hills, Maine, 

 from Nov. 11 to 15, and I am happy to state were a grand 

 success. These were not only the initial field trials of the 

 club, but the first foxhound field trials ever held in the New 

 England States. Those who have never inaugurated and 

 carried out such trials have no conception of the difficulties 

 encountered at every turn, but the officers of the club being 

 men of enthusiasm and determination, every difficulty van- 

 ished before their efforts, and the first annual field trials of 

 fhe Brunswick Fur Club stand an unqualified achievement. 



The members, attended in goodly numbers and were all 



eager to do everything possible to make the trials what they 

 should be, and when the finals came and the decisions were 

 made they were accepted with a unanimous vote of thanks 

 to the careful, diligent, and upright judges. The judges in 

 the open foxhound and fox beagle classes were Mr. J. A. 

 French, Andover; Mr. Samuel Knight, Brunswick; Mr. 

 Henry Stetson, Brunswick, and Mr. Henry Gerry, South 

 Paris; and in the puppy class Mr. R. D. Perry, Braintree, 

 Mass., and Mr. Samuel Knight, Brunswick. 



The weather was good and foxes proving plentiful, starts 

 were easily made, and splendid runs obtained each day. It 

 was decided that, as the members could only spare a week 

 from the business of life, it would be best to run all the 

 dogs every day, the dogs having the highest averages in the 

 various classes in which they were entered at the end of the 

 trials being the winners. A"purse was put up for each class, 

 to be divided into first, second and third prizes. To give the 

 dogs a good chase and the judges ample opportunity to 

 mark them, it was decided that the fox should not be shot 

 till six hours after the start in the puppy class. 



There are about a hundred hounds in the club's kennels, 

 but the severe tests imposed at the trials caused some own- 

 ers tobe shy, so that twenty-four cracks were entered to bat- 

 tle for the honors. I have hunted with the best packs in 

 Virginia, Maryland, New Hampshire and Maine, and I can 

 unqualifiedly state that 1 never saw a finer field of dogs, 

 either in bench or working points; nor do I believe that any 

 pack could be gotten together in any other part of the coun- 

 try to surpass them. 



The strains represented were Byron, English, Cook, Buck- 

 field, Natial, various crosses between these, and finally the 

 beautiful little beagle pack of Mr. W. N. Walling. It is 

 truly wonderful what diligent and untiring work these 

 little hounds can do, and the plucky manner in which they 

 stood up in such an unequal contest against the best hounds 

 in the country won the admiration of all. The Albany 

 Hills are precipitous and consist largely of ledges and 

 boulders, so that no ground could have been selected better 

 calculated to try the various points of a hound, and especi- 

 ally endurance, so fox hunters will appreciate it when I 

 state that every dog ran to the end of every race, and that 

 for four consecutive days, and were in excellent condition 

 at the end of the trials. 



As the shooting of foxes was prohibited till six hours 

 after the start, only three foxes were killed, but had shoot- 

 ing been allowed at all times, many more would have fallen 

 to the prowess of the members. On one day the dogs scat- 

 tered into four packs, and fotxr foxes were being driven at 

 one time within seeing distance of the center of the hunt. 



The prizes were awarded as follows: 



OPEN DOG CLASS, FOXHOUNDS. 



Hunt'Duj. 



First, Mr. A. M. Gerry's black, white and tan dog Drive. 

 Second. Dr. A. C. Heffenger's black, white and tan dot; 

 Joe Forester. 



Third, Mr. Richard Seely's black and tan dog Bugle. 



Trailltm. 



First, Mr. R. D. Perry's brindle, white and tan dog Jack 

 of Diamonds. 



Second, Dr. F. H. Wilson's spotted aud ticked dog Jeff. 

 Third, Dr. A. C. Heffenger's black, white and tan dog 

 Drive ILL 



Speed. 



First, Mr. A. M. Gerry's black and blue ticked dog Smut. 

 Second, Dr. F. H. Wilson's black, white and tan dog Jim. 

 Third, Gerry and Emmons's black, white and tan bitch 

 Music. 



Endurance. 



First. Mr. L. O. Dennison's spotted and ticked dog Ben 

 Butler. 



Second, Mr. R. D. Perry's tan and ticked dog Major 

 O'Rourke. 



Third, Dr. A. C. Heffenger's black, white and tan dog Joe 

 Forester. 



Barking. 



First, Mr. J. H. Baird's black and tan dog Bey. 

 Second, Mr. L. O. Dennison's spotted and ticked dog Ben 

 Butler. 



Third, Dr. F. H. Wilson's spotted and ticked dog Jeff. 



PUPPY CLASS (LIMITED TO 18 MONTHS). 

 First, Mr. E. L. Toothaker's black and tan dog Bugle. 

 Second. Gerry and Emmons's black, white and tan dog 

 Hunter. 



Third, Mr. E. L. Toothaker's black, white and tan bitch 

 Modest Girl. 



FOX BEAGLE CLASS. 



Fii-^L Mr- W- N. Waiting's black, white and tan bitch 

 Belle Diamond. 



Second, Mr. W. N. Walling's black, white and tan hitch 

 Lucille. 



Third, Mr. W. N. Walling's black, white and tan dug 

 Little Drive. 



The clu b is desirous to have a series of friendly races be- 

 tween four or six hounds of its pack, and the same number 

 from any other pack in the country, and with that end in 

 view appointed Air. R. D. Perry a special delegate to arrange 

 the races with any one who may desire to negotiate. 



It is hoped that another field trial may be held next 

 autumn, when more time can be given and the hounds run 

 in pairs or triplets, thus giving the best possible chance to 

 further judge the qualities of its dogs. 



A. C. Heffenger, Director of the Hunt. 



PHILADELPHIA CLUB TRIALS. 



THE sixth annual trials of the Philadelphia Kennel Club 

 were run at Richland, Va., Nov. 11, 13, 13 and 14, Mr. 

 L. E. Wills judging. The results are summarized as fol- 

 lows: 



W. B. Smith's English setter Ben Hur Franklin (Ike- 

 Led a) beat J. B. Ellison's pointer bitch Bryn Mawr Mona 

 (Bang — Vandalia). 



T. Harrison's Irish setter bitch Victoria (Berkeley — Nora) 

 beat B. Ridgway's English setter bitch Sue (Count Noble- 

 Carrie C). 



F. G. Taylor's English setter bitch Katie Noble (Count- 

 Queen Meg) beat J. H. Winslow's pointer bitch Golden Rod 

 (Beaufort -Zuba). 



B. Ridgway's English setter dog Clipper W. (Dan- 

 Countess Pansy) beat W. B. Smith's English setter dog 

 Don Juan (ike — Leda). 



E. Comfort's English setter bitch Perseverance (Chalkley 

 D.— Cassino G.) beat J. B. Ellison's pointer dog Victor the 

 Blue Stocking (Beaufort— Zuba). 



F. S. Brown's cross-bred setter dog Horace (Trover— Nel- 

 lie) beat Stovell & Thompson's Irish setter bitch Nellie 

 (Elcho— Rose). 



Second Series.— Ben Hur Franklin beat Victoria. Clipper 

 AV. beat Katie Noble. Perseverance beat Horace. 



Third Series.— Clipper W. beat Ben Hur Franklin. Per- 

 severance a bye. 



Final Heat.— Clipper W. beat Perseverance. Katie Noble 

 beat Perseverance for second. Perseverance took third. 



MERLIN HUSCROFT— The English Kennel Gazette con- 

 tributor "Merlin," whostole Dr. Perry's writings and palmed 

 them off as his own, turns out to be Huscroft . This Huscroft 

 is the fellow who started the lie about the Salisbury pedigree. 

 "Our Special Commissioner'' Huscroft stock has dropped 

 several points in the American market. 



