MAttPH 13, 1890.1 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



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"been improving. The water of the Upper Trent and of the 

 Otonabee are identical; there is quite as much, if not more, 

 .fishing done upon the former as upon the latter: the pro- 

 tective service is the same upon each, but the Ti'ent is prac- 

 tically free from sawdust, and herein lies the cause of the 

 difference in the fishing. 



Most of us have an idea of how the small-mouth goes to 

 work to propagate its species, how it scoops out a shallow 

 basin in the gravel, in which it deposits its ova, how it 

 watches over them, brushing away any dust that may happen 

 to fall upon them, that they may not be smothered; how, 

 when the fry come out they are led away to a safe place and 

 taught how to pick up their living. How is it in those 

 waters where sawdust has been thrown? The parent fish, 

 feeling the excitement of the breeding season comiug on, 

 starts up the river, seeking a place in which to deposit her 

 spawn; she passes over what wereoncedeep holes, now filled 

 with sawdust and mill refuse generally; the old gravel beds 

 and sand banks, upon which so many millions of her ances- 

 tors had first seen t he light of day, are covered, more or less, 

 with the same stuff, and, as she forces her way through the 

 water she has to meet a fierce storm that beats upon her eyes 

 and face. She at last locates a spot and cleans it out, but 

 fiuds that in spite of her greatest efforts she cannot keep it 

 clear of dust; the eggs are laid, to be covered up i ru mediately. 

 She brushes the sawdust away, it is quickly replaced, many 

 of the eggs are destroyed. Under cover' of the sawdust, 

 which is boiling and settling in every direction, perch, sun- 

 fisb, etc , which are always near, rush in and cany off what 

 they can snatch. The parent generally gives it up and goes 

 away. In the eveut of some of the eggs turning out good, 

 the fry are led away to find that food is scarce, the water 

 plants upon which the little things usually find so much of 

 their food have been smothered out of existence; the stones 

 under which they like to snuggle for shelter from their 

 enemies and from which they pick the minute insect food 

 that is so well suited to their growth, are gone, covered up. 

 Nothing is left but a mass of'sawdust, upon which they 

 can find neither food nor shelter. Crawfish, the favorite 

 food of the bass, are driven out by sawdust, for it fills up all 

 the holes that they so much delight to frequent. The large- 

 mouth fares somewhat better, because it gees far up into the 

 drowned lands and drops its spawn; but this forsaking the 

 river and creek bottoms on "account of the sawdust is the 

 cause of the death of additional millions of the fry of this 

 .fish, which always tak°s place at the time of the subsidence 

 of the water in the early summer, which leaves them 

 stranded in the shallow holes where those that are not eaten 

 by bitterns, herons, etc., are dried up by the sun. 



I have often found sawdust in the stomachs and gills of 

 imaskinonge\ large-mouthed bass and perch, that had evi- 

 dently been taken in while they were in the act of capturing 

 their prey. 1 have found it in the stomachs of fish together 

 with the' partially digested remains of other fish, frogs and 

 insects; and in other cases, with the exception of a small 

 quantity of mucus and the dust, the stomachs were empty. 

 Whether its presence in their stomachs did the fish harm or 

 not I cannot say with certainty, but I am sure that the lodg- 

 ment of a substance of the nature of sawdust in the gills of 

 a fish could not have been conducive to good health, I never 

 found it in the stomachs or gills of suckers or sunfish, ex- 

 cept when I have picked them from the surface of the water 

 where they were lying dead or gasping from the effects of 

 disease or a blow, and had perhaps absorbed the sawdust in 

 their weakness. But again, it was possible that it was the 

 sawdust that produced the disease, or caused the dpath of 

 these fish. Many small creeks, at the heads of which saw- 

 mills have been run, have been almost entirely deserted by 

 the niaskinonge in the spawning season, because of the 

 holes and ponds in which they were wont to carry on their 



mtirely filled up. 

 rtuation that takes place 

 s a dumping ground for 

 1 At first rice beds grew 

 mouths of creeks were 

 of weeds and lilies grew 



courtship and dr 



Have you ever noticed thei 

 in a streaM after it has been 

 mill rubbish for a number oi 

 along irs edge, the small ba 

 filled with the same plant; 



everywhere thst nature gave them a chance; watersoaked 

 logs~ sticks and brush could be seen lying upon the bottom; 

 stones, large and small, roots, the short water grasses and 

 dead leaves were there; upon all of these the youug fry 

 found the food so necessary to their existence. While tney 

 were picking insects, etc. J from under the logs, the large 

 leaves of the water lilies or the slender stem of the wild rice 

 plant, they were comparatively safe from their enemies the 

 sunOsh and the perch, the bittern and the grebe, and others. 

 Look into the same river after sawdust has been thrown 

 into it for a number of years. The rice beds are gone, no 

 more will the duck shooter paddle quietly along and cut 

 down the black duck as it springs into the air with a loud 

 quack; no more will he shove his canoe into the rice and 

 wait for the wood duck as it comes flying along in the dusk 

 of the evening, uttering its plaintive little whistle; neither 

 will the dainty teal come hurtling by, just skimming the 

 cops of the rice, to light a lew yards further on, where in 

 company with black ducks, wood ducks, marsh hens and 

 other waterfowl it. will feed and grow fat upon the starchy 

 grain of the wild rice plant. The weed and lily beds, under 

 which lurked the large-mouthed black bass.'whiie on top 

 basked its favorite tidbit, "mo-rum," the frog; the sunken 

 trunks of trees, in the shadow of which used to lie that 

 tyrant, the maskinong<5; the large rocks and stones and 

 clean gravel beds, where the small-mouth -could nearly 

 always be found and taken in goodly numbers: all are gone. 

 Where there is a little current the bottom looks clean and 

 yellow; where the water is still it is dark and smooth: there 

 is no cover for fish, no food for ducks. In the spring a con- 

 stantly moving mass, after the water lowers, a desert of 

 sawdust, unsightly to the tourist and naturalist, abhorred 

 by the sportsman, cursed by the canoeist, and forsaken and 

 shunned by the fish. 



It is claimed that it would be unfair to compel the mill 

 owners to dispose of the refuse of their mills in some other 

 way thau by throwing it into the water; that by prevent- 

 ing them from using this convenient and inexpensive mode 

 of ridding themselves of their waste material, you would 

 be handicapping, if not ruining, a large and constantly 

 growing industry. It would certainly cost the owners o'f 

 mills something additional to use up their sawdust, other- 

 wise than by allowing it to run into the water, but would it 

 ruin them or even handicap them? If it would, the profits 

 of lumbering have always been cut much finer than most 

 people were aware of. I have known several mill owners 

 in Ontario to build, kilns and burn up all waste, and in 

 other cases they had it all drawn out and deposited far 

 above high water mark, and, strange to say, they seemed 

 to get along about as well as their friends who allowed it 

 to run into the water. I have known millmen to threaten 

 that, if the law against sawdust were enforced, they would 

 be compelled to move their plant elsewhere to avert bank- 

 ruptcy. This happened years ago, but the law was enforced 

 and last year those same mills ; owned by the same men, 

 were in operation upon their original sites, but the sawdust 

 did not go into the water. So faT as the millmen are con- 

 cerned it narrows itself down to a simple question of larger 

 or smaller profits. 



The nation sells its timber lands to tin- lurubai-maii. who 

 is seldom overcharged. He quickly clears it of all its valu- 

 able wood, leaving it bare, the effects of which are shown 

 in the violent freshets in the spring and the lessened volume 

 of water in the summer and fall in our streams. He rushes 

 the logs through to the mill, and to facilitate this 1 'driving" 

 dams are built to back up the water, drowning out tbe 

 beaver and many thousands of acres of good timber and 

 wood, and tuminjz the land into vast swamps. But this 



cannot be helped to any great extent and no one finds fault, 

 but when it comes to the filling up of our lakes, rivers and 

 creeks with mill rubbish, the question uaturally occurs, has 

 no one any rights except the lumberman? With every de- 

 sire to be fair to him, and to acknowledge the benefits that 

 accrue to the country from the lumbering industry, I sub- 

 mit that the rights of the camper, the shooter, the canoeist, 

 the man who catches fish for a livelihood, as well as him 

 who catches them for sport, and last but not the least, the 

 rights of the taxpayer, who in the near future will have to 



Eay for the dredging out of a great many of the rivers, should 

 e respected, and the mill-owners should be compelled to 

 keep their sawdust out of the water. P. C. Gilchrist. 

 Fort Qtf ArpEtiLE, Assinaboia, N. W. T. 



7he MenmL 



PIXTU RES. 



DOG SHOWS. 



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

 nel Club, at Baltimore, Md. W. Stewart Diflenderffer, 220 N. 

 Charles street, Secretary. Entries close March t. 



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. 



Oct. 6 -to 11.— Ninth Annual Dog Show of the Danbury Agricul- 

 tural Society, at Danbury, Conn. B. C. Lynes, Secretarv. 

 FIELD TRIALS. 



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

 Trials Club, at Otterburn Springs, Va. W. A. Coster, Saratogo 

 Springs, N. V., Secretary. 



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

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

 Secretary. 



1891. 



■Ian. 19.— Eighth Auuual Field Trials of the Pacific Kennel Club, 

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



Feb. 2.— Third Annual Field Trials of the Southern Field Trials 

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



CHICAGO DOG SHOW. 



THE secoud annual dog show given under the auspices of 

 the Mascoutah Kennel Club was held in Chicago on 

 March 4 and three following days. Battery "D" had been 

 again selected as the exhibition building, but as tbe entries 

 this year were nearly double last year's, it was impossible 

 to accommodate all the dogs. Arrangements were there- 

 fore made with the proprietors of the adjacent armory and 

 a covered connecting passage way was built between the 

 buildings. This afforded ample floor space for benches and 

 judging rings. The buildings are, however, not very well 

 lighted, the armory being the worse off in this respect, while 

 to make matters worse, the foxhouud display was arranged 

 along the northern side of the building and cut off the light 

 on the only side any could enter except the small windows 

 at tbe top of the high walls. 



The weather, which up to the close of the preceding week 

 had been very genial, took a sudden change, the mercury 

 Hopped to the neighborhood of zero and snow fell off and on 

 all Wednesday and Thursday morning. Notwithstanding 

 this, the attendance was excellent throughout the four days, 

 and notwithstanding the extra outlay the club was put to 

 there will yet be a good balance on the right side. 



The management fell upon the shoulders of Mr. Geo. H. 

 Goodrich, vice-president of the club, and good, broad, able 

 shoulders they proved themselves to be, He was ably sec- 

 onded by MiC Geo. H. Hill, of Madeira, 0„ who acted as 

 superintendent, and the only drawback we noted during our 

 stay was the lack of a sufficient number of attendants to 

 keep the rings full on the judging day, Mr. Mortimer's 

 ring was particularly poorly served, as may be understood 

 when he did not finish his class judging of about 300 dogs 

 before 9 o'clock at night. When the judging rush was over 

 everything went smoothly, the benches were kept clean and 

 their occupants well attended to. It was, perhaps, owing 

 to this apparent lack of help that three crates were over- 

 looked and their occupants not benched in time for the 

 judging. These were the English setter Chautauqua Belle 

 and the wire-haired terriers Billet and Capsicum. In the 

 former case Mr. Davidson re judged the class, giving her 

 third, but Mr. Belmont having left Chicago, he could not 

 do the same with his classes. The committee, therefore, 

 asked Mr. Mortimer to place the missing dogs, and not car- 

 ing to disturb the awards already made, he gave extra first 

 to each of them. It was unfortunate, for they were clear 

 winners. To wind up the misfortunes, we regret to have to 

 chronicle the death of Lady Miles, Mr. E. H. Moore's first 

 prize St. Bernard bitch. She was noticed to be off her feed 

 on Tuesday and every attention was paid to her, but she 

 developed acute pneumonia and died on Friday. It is sup- 

 posed she caught cold on the journey West. 



And now for a bit of pleasanter news. The exhibitors 

 could not fail to note to whom they owed so much atten- 

 tion and such excellent arrangements for the comfort of all, 

 and words of casual comment of an appreciative, nature 

 gradually took shape into something more outspoken, and 

 finally culminated in the signing of the following document 

 by the exhibitors: 



Geo. H. Goodrich, Esq., Vice-President and Manager: AW 

 the undersigned, exhibitors at the second annual show of the 

 Mascoutah Kennel Club, feel it Is proper that we should express 

 to you our appreciation of the manner in which von have 

 conducted the show and the courteous treatment we' have re- 

 ceived from you. It is a source of great pleasure, to us to know 

 that the citizens of Chicago have appreciated your labors and 

 have patronized the show so liberally. In bidding you adieu we 

 carry with us pleasant reminiscences of you and the' sincere hope 

 that we shall meet again next year. 



Resolutions of appreciation did not stop at Vice-Presi- 

 dent Goodrich, however, and Mr. Lang will convey to his 

 German home an attested copy of the following resolution: 



Appreciating the promptness and uuselfishness with winch 

 Hevr Gustav Lang, of Stuttgart, accepted the invitation of the 

 Mascowtah and. Great Dane clubs of Chicago, to attend the bench 

 show, now heiug given under their joint auspices, the German 

 Mastiff or Great Dane Club of America, cordially and emphatic- 

 ally express its entire approval of his services, and recognizes his 

 eminent anility, independence ami strict impartiality in render- 

 ine his awards to this special breed of dogs. It is with grea t sat- 

 isfaction that we recognize in his judgments an indorsement of 

 the rules and points established by this club of the typical 

 Deutsche dogge. W. F. Fox, President. 



W. E. Haoajss, Secretary. 



To come, last of all, to the dogs, and give a general idea 

 of the show. Its claim as the best given west of New York 

 State will not be disputed when the prize list is looked at. 

 In numbers it also holds a similar rank, but there was a 

 noticeable number of absentees, they being much above the 

 usual average. The n on-sport iug classes were good displays 

 with the exception of some of the tail end catalogue breeds 

 Those particularly good were mastiffs, St. Bernards, great 

 Danes and bull-terriers. The sporting breeds may be 



-Chicago, 1890,- may be set down as I credit alike to Organ- 

 izers, managers, extu tutors and the public. With that we 

 will proceed to discuss the awards. 



M A STIFFS— (MR. MOIST tMK'il. 

 Following the well-known path bestrewed with prece- 

 dents the catalogue began with mastiffs, and in the chal- 

 lenge class Alonzo, Sears' Monarch and Moses wnre the 



entries. The decision was in favor of Moses, and properly 

 so, with Sears' Monarch second and Alonzo third. All three 

 were shown in excellent condition. Iu challenge bitches 

 Lady Col ens was alone and she subsequently won the bitch 

 challenge cup. Ten of the dozen dogs entered iu the open 

 class were on hand, andllford Chancellor, first, and Melrose 

 Prince, second, won their New York relative positions over 

 again. Melrose Prince is so round in skull that, good dog 

 as he otherwise is. he is bound to get set back when he 

 meets a good headed one. For third we had a big brindle. 

 Duke of Connaught. He was shown in the roiigh— but 

 enough in the case of a fawn, but still worse when a brindle 

 is the subject of judicial decision— and too low in flesh. 

 There is the making of a good dog here, for his head is on 

 very true lines, and he has the proper mastiff expression; 

 he is also well-built and he is but sixteen months old; we 

 think he will have a future before him when matured. 

 Phdaminou, a very good type of dog, was fourth; aud then 

 came a most indifferent lot. Bitches, as a class, were ahead 

 of the dogs, and it was a close thing indeed between Coun- 

 tess of Dunsmore and Lady Dorothy. Mr. Mortimer fancied 

 that Countess ranked a littler higher, and for third picked 

 out Lady Beatrice, one of Mr. Moore's own breeding. Adele, 

 a big strapping bitch, by no means a bad one in type either, 

 was fourth; and as she was catalogued at .150 she ought to 

 have found a purchaser. The cards wer^e well distributed. 

 In puppies the best dog got third, and there were no bitches 

 shown. 



ST. BERNARDS— (ME. MORTIMER). 



Ben Lomond beat Plinlimmon, Jr. as at New York, but 

 iu challenge bitches we had a change. Miss Whitney placed 

 Lady Wellington and champion Miranda equal first at New 

 York, but Mr. Mortimer gave the blue to Lady Wellington. 

 Your correspondent is not qualified to speak' as to the con- 

 dition of the dogs when at New York, but on this occasion 

 the award was undoubtedly correct. In the open dog class 

 Hesper scored first of course and then came Valens. Like 

 his sire Valentine, he is of an objectionable grav color, his 

 expression^ too severe for a St. Bernard, and he lacks depth 

 of skull and muzzle. Head looks flattened out. A nice 

 built doglotherwise. Marmion has a large well-formed head, 

 but the expression is not quite right. He is straight behind 

 and his tail, short of coat, he would persist in elevating 

 into prominence. A nice colored dog. Casper has the long, 

 plain, Plinlimmon head. He was shown in excellent condi- 

 tion, is a dog of'good size, has lots of bone and is of a lovely 

 color. The best of Chequasset II. is his head, for he is slack 

 in bone and tucked up. The Baron is pinched and fine in 

 muzzle and his eyes are too full. Monte is a heavy-boned 

 dog, weak in muzzle and has a wild look about his eyes. 

 Mac deserved his card. He is a nice dog, barring his crooked 

 forelegs, the result probably of bad rearing. Another New 

 York decision was reversed in the bitch class, Lady Miles 

 this time gaining the verdict over Marion, and the award to 

 our mind was correct. Lady Alice, third, is weak and plain 

 iu face, of good size and color and well built. Corrette was 

 off her bench when we called. The dog puppies were a 

 poor trio, but in bitches there were several above the aver- 

 age. Karemina has a wonderful head and expression for an 

 eight months puppy, heavy bone, excellent legs and feet and 

 the proper coat. Nymph's weak muzzle and wild look 

 would have caused us to place her behind Guess Noble who 

 is another wonderful puppy for her age. 



Victor Joseph led off in the smooths— a walk over— and in 

 bitches Thisbe beat Lola. Only three dogs turned up out of 

 the six entered. First went to Mascot Roval, a large, well- 

 made dog, but lacking in size of muzzle. "Rex Maximus is 

 good in coat, color and size, but his head is too short. Lay- 

 man, houndy in ear. was shown too light. In color he is a 



.patches. Theoisabig, 

 strong bitch ; coat inclined to be wavy and of a dirty color; 

 is also houndy in head. Blancawas the best of the other 

 two. 



The bloodhound classes were drawn blank, and Meadow- 

 thorpe Flora was the only Newfoundland. 



GREAT DANES— (MR. LANG). 



The large pecuniary inducements offered by the Great 

 Dane Club resulted in an entry of fifty-four in the six classes 

 of which the challenge classes had but one each. Mr. Gus- 

 tav Lang, who is said to be an authority on the breed in 

 Germany, was also engaged to judge, and much was ex- 

 pected in the way of educating our exhibitors as to the 

 proper type of this much-named breed. What the result 

 was, from an educational point of view, it is not easy to 

 determine. All the exhibitors were Germans and discussed 

 the awards in their native tongue, of which language your 

 correspondent's knowledge is confined to a limited vocabu- 

 lary of a bibulous nature. It was evident, however, that 

 satisfaction did not reign supreme in that quarter; but it 

 must be recognized that the most fortunate exhibitor, Mr. 

 Ulrich, of Nuremberg, had a better knowledge of the style of 

 dog Mr. Lang affected, and was, therefore, able to send over 

 specimens more- likely to catch the eye of the judge. Mr. 

 Ulrich took first and second in open dogs with Helios ami 

 Hannibal, two well-grown, symmetrical dogs, though both 

 showed defects in hindquarters. Bad behind seems "to be a 

 defect these dogs are liable to with great size. Helios shows 

 a little more of this than Hannibal, Don, third 5 is cheeky 

 and rather weak in muzzle. Pascha is good in body and 

 tail, but strong in head. Altogether the dogs made a strong 

 class, as the number of vhc. cards show. The winning 

 bitch, Nevezel, we admired very much. Excellent in head, 

 most symmetrical in outline and a rich brindle color. We 

 looked for her getting the breed special, which, however, 

 went to Helios. Irene, who got second, is a harleauin, a 

 nice, active, good all-around typical bitch. Nitotiche is 

 strong and short in head, with good body, and especially 

 good behind. Noniega is coarse at both ends and wide 

 in front. Bella had probably her condition to blame for 

 being passed over entirely. The challenge winners were 

 quite outclassed when compared with the other winners. 

 DEERHODNDS— (MR, MORTIMER). 



Robber Chieftain defeated Clansman in dogs, and iu 

 bitches Wanda beat Ramona. a decision we don't agree 

 with. The latter is better in jaw, neck and back, and is a * 

 slightly bigger and longer bitch. 



GREYHOUNDS— (MR . M ORT1MER) . 



Highland Chief had no opposition in the challenge class, 

 tu open dogs the New Y ork awards were changed, Baba- 

 zoun taking first to the second of Master Rich. The judge 

 dwelt a good deal over this decision, but the longer they 

 were in. the ring the more certain was it that the red must 

 win, as he is so much better in neck, shoulders and hind- 

 quarters. At first sight ho is a soft-looking dog. The new 

 dog Conspiiai or came third. He is not what we expected to 

 see. and was properly placed, and Blue Beauty was the only 

 other one possessed of merit iu the class. The bitches were 

 a strong class, and we spotted Fly as the winner. She would 

 have gol the blue undoubtedly but for a broken toe. Her 

 bnild and outline are about perfection, but she is just a 

 little bit on the small side. Miss Rare, the New York win- 

 ner, got first, followed by Lady Olivia, also a stood one. 

 Then came the black Creole Bells and Gipsy in that order 

 with Melodrama reserve. The. five bitches named made a 

 strong class, and every one of the eight shown got a card, 



POLS TERS— (MR. WIN SLOW) . 



The judging of the pointers gave very general satisfaction, 

 the only exception that we heard of or noted being in the 

 case of Pride of Idstone, reserve in the large bitches, who 

 might have been a little higher perhaps. Mr. Winslow, 



