Feb. l£, 1890U 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



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SAN DiEGO FISHES. — We learn from one of our San 

 Diego correspondents, who is thoroughly informed in mat- 

 ters pertaining to fish and fishing, that a change has re- 

 cently taken place in the method of disposing of the market 

 fishes. Before the summer of 1889 each fisherman acted in- 

 dependently and sold bis fish the best way he could. Now 

 all are brought into two markets by a combination of the 

 Portuguese fishermen, and this gives our correspondent 

 opportunity to see everything that comes in. He has, by 

 this new arrangement, been able to describe many new 

 genera and species of San Diego fishes, and every month 

 swells his list. At the present time the fisheries at San 

 Diego Bay are unproductive. A day's catch of two seines 

 about a week aso comprised only three fish. This is ascribed 

 to the wholesale destruction of young fish by the continued 

 use of bag nets of %va. mesh. The Fish Commissioners 

 have not yet taken steps to prevent this slaughter of young 

 fish. During the barracuda season the seiners captured and 

 destroyed thousands of the young of this important species. 

 We are satisfied that if the attention of the president of the 

 California Commission, Mr. Jos. Routier, of Sacramento, 

 be directed to this deplorable destruction of fish, he will 

 find means to stop it. 



PECULIARITIES OF SALMON IN TASMANIA. — The 

 Atlantic salmon (Salmu salor) wasintroducedinto Tasmania 

 from England by Sir Thomas Brady by means of artificially 

 fertilized eggs. Every effort was made to keep the ova 

 separate and prevent hybridization. The young salmon 

 developed from these 'eggs, however, showed marked 

 differences from the young reared in England, not only in 

 color, but also in form. Nearly half of the salmon, although 

 they were constantly kept in the poud, had the dorsal fin 

 spotted and the. adipose dorsal tinged with yellow or orange. 

 These markings are characteristic of the T«smauiau salmon 

 and are usually relied upon to distinguish them from Sdlmo 

 solar in its native waters. "Bull-headed" individuals are 

 common in Tasmania, another point of distinction from 

 the pure Atlantic fish. It is supposed that the waters of 

 Tasmauia contain certain elements which develop peculiar- 

 ities of form and color, and produce these results very quickly 

 in the case of introduced species. Whether or not changes 

 in the essential characters of the species will be accomplished 

 .by this subjection to a new and strange environment re- 

 mains to be'determined by comparison of specimens from 

 the regi ons iuvolved : 



MACKEREL AT CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.— The Prov- 

 Jneetown schooner Alice is now at Cape Town fishing for 

 fmackerel with hook and line. The fish were not found in 

 schools, but in the height of the season they are said to 

 appear in a solid mass. Capt. ('base expects to remain 

 until the season closes in April. He has shipped about 100 

 barrels to the United States. His boats, with three men, 

 .caught 1,200 to 1,500 mackerel each in a day. The captain 

 considers these fish superior to our own shore fish, because 

 their flesh and the lining of the belly cavity are whiter. He 

 jdoes not see much difference in appearance between Cape 

 Town mackerel and those of the United States. We have 

 already expressed the opinion that they will prove to be 

 "thimble eye'' or "chub" mackerel (Scomber imeumatn- 

 filiorus). a species which is common on our coast and also 

 on a part of the California coast. For eating there is very 

 little difference between the two species. The "thimble 

 eye", however, is softer and spoils more readily than the 

 common mackend. 



TROUT PARADISE. — We have already referred to the 

 renown of Colorado as a home for the brook trout (Salee- 

 linus fuatinalix) introduced from the East. The other day 

 we had a new illustration of the adaptability of this State 

 for trout culture, when Mr. W. P. Sauerboff, of the U. S. 

 Fish Commission, who had just returned from the new 

 station of the Commission, uearLeadville, told us that some 

 of Dr. Law's two-year-old trout measure 14in. in length and 

 have furnished as many as 800 eggs. Even the oin. trout 

 yield eggs averaging about 200 in number. Dr. Law has 

 irobably 100,000 to uti nails in his ponds. .At the time Mr. 

 iauerhoff left Leadville the U. S. Commission had obtained 

 570,000 eggs from trout belonging to Dr. Law. 



„. WHITEFISH FOR LAKE ONTARrO.— The first ship- 

 ment of whitefigh frv sent out by the U. S. Fish Commis- 

 sion this season left Washingtou on the night of Feb. 3 for 

 Sacketts Harbor, N. Y. The eggs were received from the 

 Sandusky hatchery about two weeks before the hatching of 

 the fry. This is the earliest shipment ever made and is the 

 result of the unusually warm winter weather. The number 

 of fry was estimated at about 3,000,000. 



EARLY SHAD IN NORTH CAROLINA.— The shad 

 season has opened at Wilmington, N. C, a mouth earlier 

 than usual. It is reported that a few of these fish have 

 appeared also in the Potomac. 



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FIXTURES, 



DOG SHOWS. 



Feb. 11 to 14.— Fourteenth Annual Show of the Westminster 

 Kennel Club, American Institute Building, New York. James 

 ' Mortimer Superintendent- 

 March 4 to 7.— Second Annual Dog Show of the Mascoutah 

 Kennel Club, Chicago, 111. Gto. H. Hill, Superintendent. 175 

 Dearborn street. Entries close Feb. 17. 



March 11 to 14.— Second Annual Dog Show of the Rochester 

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



March 18 to 21.— First Annual Dog Show of the Maryland Ken- 

 nel Club, at Baltimore, Md. W. Stewart Dilfenderlter, &!0 N. 

 Charles street, Secretary. Entries close March 4. 



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

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



April 15 to 18.— Show of the Buffalo Kennel Club. Buffalo, 

 N. Y. A. W. Smith, Secretary. 



FIELD TRIALS. 



Feb. 11.— Fourth Annual Field Trials of the Texas Field 

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



Feb. 3 to 28.— Meet of the Brunswick Fur Club, Great Island, 

 Me, 



Nov. 17.- Twelfth Annual Field Trials of the Eastern Field 

 Trials CJub. W. A. Coster. Saratogo Springs, N. Y., Secretary. 



Dec. 1— Second Annual Field Trials of the Central Field Trials 

 Club, at Lexington, N. C. C. H. Odell, Mills Building, New York, 

 Secretary. 



1891. 



•Jan. 19.— Eighth Annual Field Trials of the Pacific Kennel Club, 

 at Bakersfield, Cal. H. H. Briggs, Secretary. 



Feb. 3.— Third Annual Field Trials of the Southern Field Trials 

 Club. T. M. Brunby, Secretary, Marietta, Ga. 



CHICAGO DOG SHOW. 



nr\EE Mascoutah Kennel Club have made additional classes 

 JL as follows: Foxhound puppies— dogs, 1st §5, 2d medal; 

 bitches the same. Black and tan terriers over Tibs. — dogs 

 $10, So and medal; bitches the same. Several valuable cash 

 specials are offered for foxhounds, and many others will be 

 offered for the di fferent breeds . Intending exhibitors should 

 not forget that entries close Feb. 17. The address of the su- 

 perintendent is Geo. H, Hill, 175 Dearborn street, Chicago,Hl, 



SETTERS VS. POINTERS. 



Editor Forest miH Stream: 



I wish to offer a word of advice to my dear young kins- 

 man who champions the pointer in your issue of Jan. 30. 

 Wake up from your Rip Van Winkie sleep. Subscribe to 

 Forest and Stream at once and get all the back numbers 

 you. can lay your hands on. Throw away your bow and 

 arrows and get a Parker breechloader, 10-bore, (i-pounder, 

 and a dog of the old Sam Scranton strain of Nat and Smut, 

 and see what a revelation awaits. Whv, you are way off. 

 If there ever was a dog got up expressly for a rough aud 

 tumble shooter's especial benefit, that is the setter, first and 

 foremost, all the time. Take my advice aud you will not 

 need to call on Mr. Wise. 



Briefly I state as the result of nearly forty years' shooting 

 experience, that for all-round work the setter'is far and away 

 the best; both dogs require plenty of water, and certain 

 localities may be somewhat advantageous to either dog. 

 Bogardus does not think the pointer a good prairie dog. 

 He might do better in some parts of Virginia, /. c, stubble 

 field, if stubble be not too thick. I shot t wo seasons over an 

 Al Irish setter dog Old Joe, and he was fonder of playing 

 with children than any dog T ever owned. Cast your eye 

 over this list of merits: 



Pointer. 

 More docile, easier 

 trained, does not require 

 re-breaking, better for 

 beginners, probably 

 more cautiaus, fonder of 

 sheep. 



SSttef vs. 

 More style, dash, cour- 

 age, capacity to get over 

 ground, beauty of form, 

 elegance of clothing, en- 

 dures fatigue better daj 

 in and out, better tem- 

 per, more dog sense, 

 more frolicksome, high 

 spirited, unquestionably 

 better water dog, stands 

 heat and cold better. 



Wishing that you may "do works meet for repentance" in 

 the field over good setters, and with kind regards to Ned 

 and Clayt, whom I have not seen since we hunted together 

 with McClellan on tbePeninsula, I remain, yours hopefully, 



Capt. Claytox' 



ENGLISH NOTES. 



I^H-E principal event of the week has been the annual 

 - show of bulldogs, held at Bath, under the auspices of 

 Cyril Jackson, Muir Drew, Beresford-Hope aud Ford, of 

 Swindon. The Bulldog Club has once or twice held a 

 winter show as well as a summer show, aud when three 

 years ago the club in reply to many inquiries stated that 

 it did not see its way to hold a winter snow, Cyril Jackson 

 at once took the matter in hand and got up a show which 

 was an unqualified success. Since then the show has been 

 held annually and has grown tremendously in popularity; 

 in fact it is considered to be the "best and jolliest show" in 

 the United Kingdom, Cyril Jackson is the brother of 

 Arthur Jackson, the well-known judge of bulldogs, black 

 and tans and Schipperkes, and like his brother, is an inde- 

 pendent gentleman with comfortable means. The show 

 which has just beep held provided twelve classes and no less 

 than thirty-seven special prizes of great value were offered, 

 all of them being given by devoted admirers of the British 

 bulldog W. H. Sprague (who used to ow r n Grabber, Wheel 

 of Fortune, Don Pedro and other champions) was the judge 

 selected, and exhibitors showed that they have implicit 

 confidence iu the "Honorable Billy" by supporting the 

 show with an enormous entry. Woodiwiss won in cham- 

 pions, with British Monarch, a brindle that has never been 

 beaten except by Grabber and Rustic King. The latter 

 named is now seldom shown, but whether this is due to his 

 being "all to pieces,*' or to the fact that bulldog men abom- 

 inate the Rustic King type, I cannot say. Grabber, eight 

 years old and as fit as a fiddle, got second, beating Forceps, 

 a little dark brindle, whose chief fault is that he puts his 

 forefeet too close together. Grabber is now owned by Jack 

 Ellis. Old Grabber has passed through a few hands in his 

 time. He was bred by a Birmingham workingman in 1881 

 and made his first bow at Birmingham show a year later, 

 when the late Jack Gurney claimed him for £87.10. Gurney 

 sold him to Sprague for £140, and when that gentleman 

 broke up his kennels, Pemberton, a builder, bought him 

 for £70. The latter named recently has sold out the few 

 dogs he possessed and Jack Ellis purchased Grabber at a 

 figure which has not yet been divulged. 



Champion bitches found Kitty Cole the winner. This 

 bitch is the property of Mull Drew, one of the few gentle- 

 men to be found in the bulldog fancy. She is as "handsome 

 as paint" and Drew is passionately fond of her. because his 

 wife made him a present of Kitty on his birthday. Mrs. 

 Mmr Drew is a capital judge of bulldogs and also of horses. 

 Drew is a member of the Kennel Club committee and is re- 

 cognized by all as a real good fellow. 



Queen Rose, the second in the challenge bitch class, is a 

 brindle that stands too much on her legs to be a champion. 

 She is owned by Lady de Clifford, wife of Lord de Clifford, 

 the oldest baron in the English peerage, the date of the 

 creation of the title being A, D. 1299. Queen Rose cost £150 

 six months ago and she now wears a gild studded collar, 

 value £50. Dryad, third, is a half sister to Kitty Cole, both 

 being by Don Pedro, and is owned by little Logan, son of a 

 wealthy merchant. 



Mrs. Ida Roberts, the wife of a parson, won in heavy dogs 

 with her young Monarch, a son of old champion Monarch. 

 Her dog gets his tail up too high in the ring, and in order 

 to make him keep it down she carries a whip and doesn't 

 she just thrash that tail when no one is looking. Jubilee 

 Monarch got second, a dog with a monkey's face, but a 

 clinking back. Smartt, her owner, is a tobacconist down 

 near the London docks and he is a man who fancies he 

 knows more about the breed than any one in the world. 

 Bill Richardson won third, owned by Tom Symonds. 



Rustic Lass, a daughter of Rustic King, won in heavy- 

 weight bitches, a nasty type, but as this class only contained 

 a lot of duffers she properly won. Bedgebury Lion won in 

 medium-weight dogs. He is the property of P. Beresford- 

 Hope, the son of the philanthropic Beresford-Hope who 

 represented Cambridge. University in the House of Com- 

 mons for many years as a Tory, and who gave over £250,000 

 toward endowing churches. This dog was considered to be 

 likely to lick everything ever seen when he first came out, 

 but alas, like many another wonder, this little fellow has 

 gone oft* very much indeed. His wrinkle is going, and his 

 shoulders are not set on outside his body as a bulldog's 

 should be. I am afraid he will never realize the great things 

 which were anticipated of hiin, and I should think Beres- 

 ford-Hope will be sorry he did not take the £300 offered by 

 an American gentleman when the Lion Was only »iue 

 months old. Hope is, however, a very rich gentleman, so it 

 won't matter very much to him. German Monarch, the 

 second prize winner in this class, is the most promising bull- 

 dog in England to-day. He is own brother to Queen Rose 

 and a rare bred one, and if he goes on improving in the same 

 manner as he has this last six months, will soon makelthe 

 best of the champions "sit up." Fred. Stevens, his owner, 

 is not a very rich man, but still he knQws enough of bull- 

 dogs to refuse £100 for his dog. Romance, got third, a dog 

 tnat is wonderfully well out at shoulders, and with a big 

 head. Dicky Haydon, the owner of Romance, is one of the 

 best sportsmen in England. Falstaff II. got vhc. He be- 

 longs to a man named Shaw, of Ashton-under-Lyne. 



Ruling Passion is owned by Alfred Smith, of the Bon 

 Marche, Brixton. She won first in her class and also got a 

 special or two; she is a worthy daughter of her sire, cham- 



pion Grabber. Snider, second, is a good sort, of the old-fash-"- 

 ioned stamp, the property of E. A. Jackson, brother of A. C. 

 and Cyril, or that ilk. The Graven Image, owned by Cyril, 

 got third, a nice little white bitch with any amount of char- 

 acter about her. Cyril Jackson is noted for giving his dogs 

 outrageous names: for instance, he has had such names as 

 Briton's Boast, Whitened Sepulchre, Precious Ointment, 

 etc. Tomsh, iu this class, got reserve; she is owned by John 

 Ross, one of the best men in England, a good fancier and 

 friend, and one whose pocket is always ready to help the 

 breed. Tomsh is celebrated as being the only liviug off- 

 spring of champion Wheel of Fortune. The special prizes 

 took up a deal of time and the judging was not over until 

 very late. A Lively Lord, 



Lonoost, Jan. 18. 



DOGS OF THE DAV. 



IT is fortunate that Mr. Dift'enderffer prepared us for 

 something modest in the way of prizes at Baltimore. If 

 it was not a first attempt of the new club we might grumble, 

 at the cash offered, but I am sure it is a great deal better to 

 let a club feel its way and see what the citizens of its town 

 will do in the way of gate money before they think of 

 launching out, as some clubs very foolishly: do. in an effort 

 to emulate the W. K. C. with but a fraction of their support 

 at the box office. It comes a little hard on the exhibitor in 

 some classes to pay $3 for a $3 first prize, but he has this one 

 grand consoling cousolation— there is nothing in the Con- 

 stitution of the United States compelling him to enter. I 

 think when it comes down to such small prize money the. 

 class might as well be omitted and let the breed go into the; 

 miscellaneous class, with the stipulation that three dogs of 

 any one breed entered in that class be given a class. I don't 

 believe in letting one or two dogs of a breed of which there 

 are no other representatives, being given so many opportu- 

 nities for adding to a reputation far above their actual mer- 

 its in. most cases. 



The committee announces that 350 entries is the limit, and 

 that the books will be closed when that number is reached. 

 There is no doubt but that the entries will exceed that num- 

 ber, and as the rejection of entries is always unpleasant, I 

 would offer this very simple method of relieving themselves 

 from any implication of favoritism. Keep a day book in 

 which to enter the name of each exhibitor and his number 

 of entries in the order iu which they are received. There 

 will not likely be over 150 exhibitors, so that the work will 

 be very light. This bojk to be open for inspection at any 

 time after the entries close. When there is a likelihood of 

 closing the books before the advertised date, there is no 

 absolute necessity for doing anything beyond taking sub- 

 scriptions, as. they would say in horse racing. A person 

 wishing to enter at Baltimore could now send his check for 

 $15 and cover his right to name five dogs at any time up to 

 the advertised date of closing; or if he even named his en- 

 tries he would have the right of making correction or sub- 

 stitution up to that date. It is well to understand such 

 matters when anything out of the ordinary arises. 



The fact was recorded two weeks ago that the California 

 Kennel Club, of San Francisco, had appointed a committee 

 to confer with the Pacific Kennel Club in regard to amalga- 

 mation, The latter club has done likewise and President; 

 Wilson nam^d Messrs. William Seh.reiber, H. H. Briggs. T. 

 J. O'Keeffe and Clarence A. Hought. If the committees 

 meet at Mr. Schreiber's and appoint Mr. Briggs master of 

 ceremonies, amalgamation is assured beyond a doubt. It 

 was under such niellow surroundings that on the night be- 

 fore the dog show of 1888 closed Mr. Bnges said to me, 

 "Watson, I want to say something to you. You came here 

 in the face of very strong prejudices. We have heard a good 

 deal about you, we said a good deal about you and [with a 

 smile] some of us wrote a good deal about you. You have 

 been here quite long enough for us to say we were mistaken 

 in a good many things, we want you to return home with 

 the knowledge that— well, that we like you, and we want 

 yQU always to remember it." That was the pleasantest 

 of the. countless pleasant features of my en joyable visit to 

 San Francisco. 



I have no desire to enter into any controversy with Mr. 

 Graydon Johnston on the subjpet of coursing. I did not 

 read his previous letter and have no knowledge of what he 

 then said. As to his last, I have written many such, but I 

 never send them to the papers. They are useful as safety 

 valves, and when the extra head of steam is blown off I sit 

 down and write a letter for publication. There are but two 

 things I desire to notice. Mr. Johnson says clog fighing is 

 not a sport. If not that what is it ? What, is prize fighting ? 

 What is rat baiting ? What is a bull fight ? Sports, every 

 one of them, and because we do not consider them reputable 

 it does not alter the case a particle. Then as to betting and 

 gambling, There is as wide a distinction in that as there is 

 between dog fighting and the king of sports, horse racing, 

 every bit as wide. It never occurred to me to find out what - 

 a dictionary said on either subject till this moment, and I 

 find iu the only one I have at hand, Ward & Lock's Stand- 

 ard Derivative Dictionary. Bet, something pledged in con- 

 test, wager, stake. Wager, bet. Gamble, to play for money; - 

 gambling, the act or practice of gaming for money. I do 

 not advance that as any argument at all, because prob- 

 ably other dictionaries do mix'them up. Mr. Johnston 

 referred to dictionaries, I did not. Accepting that gentle- 

 man's theory we are all of us gamblers. I bet M against 

 5510,000 every'six weeks that I will meet with an accident. It 

 is just my "luck to lose all the time, of course. We were 

 going to have a hard winter according to all the prophets, 

 and I bet the coal merchant §1 for five tons of coal that it 

 would be a scorcher. Of course I lost, coal is no dearer than 

 it was last September. There is a good chance for a man to 

 gamble in an overcoat just now if he can keep the moths 

 out of it next summer. This is a "cinch " 



I saw Mr. E. W. Clark, Jr.'s new setter Rod Gem m his 

 box at the railway station a few days ago. He is a black, 

 white and tan, by Roderigo out of Gem, and therefore bred 

 on the lines of those rattling good field dogs, Gath's Mark 

 and Gath's Hope. The opportunity for forming any judg- 

 ment on Rod Gem was too limited, but he looked like a dog 

 of high intelligence and not at all out of the way as to ap- 

 pearance. The Item field trial challenge cup for members 

 of the Philadelphia Kennel Club, has set them all on the 

 still hunt for something to beat Clipper W. with. That 

 cup, by the way, is to be christened by Col. Ridgway this 

 (Tuesday ) evening. The club will also take steps regarding 

 more, convenient and accessible club quarters. The little- 

 meeting room which has been rented for the past three or 

 four years, hasn't attractive powers enough to draw together 

 a quorum for months at a time. There is nothing said on 

 Secretary Brown's official notice of the business to be done 

 of a show for this year. The club lost heavily last year, 

 notwithstanding the' belief at the time t hat money had teeen 

 made. The loss according to some was $1,300, and I have 

 heard it given as high as $1,800. J. W. 



CHICAGO DOG SHOW. — Entries for the Chicago dog 

 show close Feb. 17. The address of the superintendent is 

 Geo. H. Hill, 175 Dearborn street, Chicago, 111. 



RORY' O'MOORE.— The well-known Irish setter Rory 

 O'Moore died Feb. 6, at the ripe, age of 15 years and 5 

 months. 



