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FOREST AND STREAM, 



[March 20, 1890. 



Here's a Pretty State of Things.— Appleton, Wis., 

 March 8.— Shortly after draining some liquor from the 

 vats at the Kaukana Fiber Company's, at Kaukana. into 

 the tail race, last Thursday, fish began to rise to the top 

 of ibe water, dead, and dozens of them were soon float- 

 ing about. This accounts for the diminution of fish in 

 our river. Time was, not so many years ago, when we 

 had excellent fishing in the lower Fox; but the TJ. S. 

 Government has erected a number of dams along the 

 stream with no provision for fishways; illegal netters 

 carry on operations openly; and the paper and pulp mills 

 (which are growing more numerous all the time) make a 

 sewer of the river. No great wonder fish are scarcer 

 year by year. Is there no remedy? — C. V. Y. 



Wisconsin Fish Laws.— Beloit, Wis.-— I note in one of 

 your recent numoers that some one gives it that we have 

 no laws protect i ve of our game fish. Wisconsin is one of 

 the grandest States in the Union for the lover of the rod, 

 and while we may be careless of enforcing the laws that 

 we have, and might have better, still we have fish laws, 

 and I believe in this locality they are generally observed 

 and respected. For the information of your readers, 

 that they need none of them transgress because of ignor- 

 ance, I inclose same. — Gr. L. W. [The open seasons are: 

 For brook, rainbow and mountain trout, April 15 to Sept. 

 i; Mackinaw (lake) trout, Dec. 1 to Oct. 1: pike (wall- 

 eyed pike), May 1 to April L; pickerel. May i to March 1. 

 black bass, June 1 to March l.J 



Massachusetts Fish Laws. — An act to amend an 

 act to protect the fisheries in the tributaries of Plum 

 Island Bay. — S ctinn two of chapter one hundred and 

 five of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and eighty- 

 seven is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 

 2. The catching of smelts in the waters mentioned in 

 section one, between the fifteenth day of March and the 

 first day of June is hereby prohibited, and whoever sells 

 or offers or exposes for sale or has in his possession a 

 smelt so taken in these waters within said season shall be 

 su'-ject to the same penalties as»are provided in section 

 fifty-seven of chapter ninety-one of the Public Statutes. 

 [Approved Feb. 18, 1890.] 



Onondaga Cod>ty Association. — March 11.— The 

 Anglers' Association of Ooondiga. an organizaiion hav- 

 ing for its o r >j u ct the protection of fish in the waters of 

 Onondaga county from illegal fishing, was organized on 

 March 6, 1890. by the election of Richard W. Jones, Pres- 

 ident; John N. Babe ck, Vice-President; Walter S. Mac- 

 Gregor, Secretary; Charles W. Phelps, Treasurer. The 

 association starts with forty-five members and with flat- 

 tering prospects for a large increase in numbers. Great 

 interest has been manifested in the matter by local fisher- 

 men, and the association hopes to show substantial re- 

 sults m suppressing the operations of the fish pirates. — 

 W. s. MacGregor, Sec. 



Canadian Salmon Leases.— East Orange, N. J., March 

 14.— Editor Forest and Stream: The information that I 

 have been able to obtain as bearing on the recent lease* 

 of fisheries made by the Province of Quebec, is to the 

 eff- ct that in the action taken by the Dominion Govern- 

 ment, they appear to be trying to do what in the Province 

 of New Brunswick proved unsuccessf ul. Riparian owner- 

 ship in the latter Province was fought out years ago, and 

 the Dominion Government was beaten on all points. So it 

 will again be if the present dispute is brouaht to an issue, 

 but no one believes it ever Avill be.— Big Reel. 



Oneida County, N. Y., has a law forbidding the tak- 

 ing of more than lOlbs. of trout by one person at one 

 time. The trouting season in certain waters is from May 

 1 to July»l. It is forbidden to market woodcock or 

 grouse killed in the county. The full text of the law is 

 published by the Utica Msh and Game Protective Asso- 

 ciation, John D. Collins, Secretary. 



Surf Fishing for Striped Bass on the Jersey 

 Coast is the theme of an instructive paper which will be 

 printed in our issue of Aprd 3. 



The Best Fishing Tackle iv the Worm) is to be found at the 

 salesroom ot Tnos. J. Coaro.v. 66 Fulton street. N. Y. See adver- 

 tisement opposite first patce of leading matter, — Adv. 



INDIANA PROTECTIVE EFFORT. 



COL. W. T. DENNIS, State Fish Commissioner of Indi- 

 ana, was in.New Albany several days last week, the 

 guest of the Southern Indiana Fish Protective Association, 

 and on Wednesday evening was given a reception by the Asso- 

 ciation at its headquarters. He made a brief address to the 

 many shooters and anglers present, and made a review of 

 the work done during the past year iu the interest of the 

 protection of fish throughout the State. In the past twelve 

 months 130 fish ladders have been placed at the mill dams 

 in various streams, and arrangements have been completed 

 to place additional ones wherever needed. These fish lad- 

 ders are the invention of Col. Dennis, are simple in construc- 

 tion and cost but $1 per lineal foot. 



Col. Dennis has broken up in a great degree the numerous 

 violations of the law in seining streams, etc.. which was at 

 onetime so detrimental to the increase of the li*h, many 

 fine angling streams having been almost entirely cleared. 

 Arrangements have been made with TJ, S Fish Commis- 

 sioner M'Donald by which all the streams not stocked with 

 small fish last fall will be filled this summer by many car 

 loads, which will be brought from the station at Quincy,Ill. 



On Thursday Col. Dennis went to Seymour and there 

 organized a fish and game protective association, composed 

 of representative citizens. The club starts out under the 

 most favorable auspices. 



The Indiana State Fish Association, which has Col. 

 Dennis as its leader, will hold its summer meeting at 

 Turkey Lake, in Kosciusco county, commencing June 25, 

 and continuing three days. From the enthusiasm now 

 manifested it is probable that all the anglers of Indiana 

 will be in attendance. 



At a meeting of the Southern Indiana Fish Protective 

 Association, held last week at New Albany, Mr. Henry 



R. W. Meyer, clerk of the Floyd Circuit Court, was pre- 

 sented with a fine lancewood fishing rod as a prize for 

 having secured the greatest number of members to that 

 organization. The prize is doubly valuable from the fact 

 that it was given by" the Hon. J. P. Applegate, editor of the 

 Daily Ledger, and an enthusiastic angler, and was the work 

 of the skillful fingers of Mr. George Lyman, the veteran 

 fisherman, who has a summer's record of trout caught in 

 the streams of Wisconsin that has never been beaten. 



The Southern Indiana Fish Protective Association, 

 although of but recent organization, has already accom- 

 plished a great work in interesting the people in protecting 

 and caring for the fish that inhabit the streams. By the 

 efforts of this club two car loads of small fish have been 

 furnished by the TJ. S. Fish Commission and have been 

 placed in the streams near New Albany, insuring fine sport 

 tor the angler next season. It is expected that during the 

 coming summer several more car loads will be deposited in 

 Silver, Knob and Indian creeks and in Blue River. By this 

 means within two or three years the anglers of the three 

 cities at the Ohio Falls can find sport within a few. miles of 

 their homes. 



An important move taken by this Association is that it 

 has made every road supervisor of southern Indiana an 

 honorary member of the organization. The statute of the 

 Hoosier State provides a strict penalty for the violation of 

 the fish and game laws, and the supervisors will immedi- 

 ately report every instance in which the law is ignored. 



C. A. D. 



Louisville, March 17. 



• HERRING FISHERY OF SWEDEN. 



OUR Minister at Stockholm, Hon. W. W. Thomas, Jr., 

 has made a brief but comprehensive report on the her- 

 ring fishery of Sweden, which was revived in 1878 after a 

 period of inaction lasting sixty-eight years. The Province 

 of Bohus, which embraces all the Swedish coast facing the 

 Skagerak, is once more the animated scene of an industry 

 which furnished employment last season to 5,4*36 men, and 

 yielded over a million barrels of herring, valued at $289,079. 



The history of this herring fishery has without doubt a 

 use'ul lesson for us, The fish have always been periodical 

 visitors to this former abode of the vikings. They have 

 come in the autumn for a limited number of years in a 

 period. Th^ir numbers have fluctuated greatly from year 

 to year, and their arrival and departure have been sudden 

 and unexplained, although a formidable array of theories 

 may be found tabulated in the accounts of the herring fish- 

 eries translated for the TJ S. Fish Commission Report of 

 1878 and pubbshed in 1880. We commend these translations 

 to certain American writers on current fishery methods and 

 ask their studious attention also to the following paragraphs 

 from Minister Thomas: 



'"How long will this fishing continue? That no man can 

 say. It may cease any year; the last herring period lasted 

 for only eighteen years The fish appeared on the coast in 

 1793 and continued to return every year up to and including 

 181C. Then they vauished, not appearing again, as we have 

 seen, till after a lapse of sixty-eight years. There is, how- 

 ever, this import mt circumstance to betaken into consid- 

 eration. In the former epoch the herring were more abund- 

 ant than at present. This may indicate that the present 

 period will be of shorter duration than the last. 



"All accounts from the King's tour of inspection, how- 

 ever, agree that the herring are now being taken in large 

 numbers, and that this bounty of the sea is being cast with- 

 out stint in) o the fishers' nets. 



''There is one fact connected with the herring fisheries of 

 Sweden that may be interesting and instructive to the fish- 

 ermen ot" the United States, and that is, that a migratory 

 fish mav reappear in vast schools in his old haunts and along 

 once frequented shores after he has utterly disappeared and 

 been absent for years. It is well known that the menhaden 

 have vanishtd from many waters on the coast of New Eng- 

 land, where once they were so abundant that fleets of small 

 steamers were employed to seine them and transport thern 

 to the factories on shore, where they were reduced to oil and 

 fish-chum. 



"The schools of mackerel swimming along the coast, of 

 the United States, from Cape Hatteras to Maine, are decreas- 

 ing each year with alarming rapidity. The diminution of 

 mackerel in American waters is so great that at least one 

 Yankee skipper has btted out his fishing smack to puisue 

 the mackerel on toe coast of Africa. 



"The parallel to be drawn, therefore, from the fisheries of 

 Sweden is pertinent and encouraging. It shows that the 

 decrease or total disappearance of the menhaden or mack- 

 erel on our coast may not indicate that the number of these 

 fish in the sea is materially lessened, or that they have for- 

 ever forsaken our shores, but that in due time, and in ooe- 

 dience to laws that we, as yet, know nothing of, these 

 migratory fish may reappear and swim along our coast in 

 the vast schools of the good old times." 



LOBSTER CULTURE. 



IN the New Yofk Sun of March 2 we find the following 

 account of lobster culture in Newfoundland: 

 "The superintendent of the codfish hatchery at Dido, New- 

 foundland, says that he met with great success in breeding 

 lobsters. During the months of August, September and 

 October he hatched out 5,000,000 lobster eggs, and liberated 

 the young lobsters in Trinity Bay. This success will doubt- 

 less impart great energy to the Fish Commissioners of the 

 New Englaud States, where, until its accomplishment at 

 Dido, the artificial breeding of lobsters was not considered 

 entirely feasible," 



It is only fair, to state that the United States Government 

 demonstratedTibe practicability of developing lobster eggs 

 in hatching jars four years ago and deposited one million 

 young lobsters in Vineyard Sound and adjacent waters from 

 its station at Wood's Ho'l, Mass. From 1886 to 1889, inclu- 

 sive, more than six millions of eggs were collected at the 

 Wood's Hod station, and the loss in hatching was almost 

 nothing. It is, therefore, untrue, that the recent success in 

 Newfoundland has just established the feasibility of arti- 

 ficial breeding of lobsters; nor was this the first extensive 

 undertaking of the kind. Methods of hatching lohster eggs 

 have been applied for many years by embryologists and fish- 

 culturists in Norway and the United States, and the Govern- 

 ment entered into a practical and satisfactory demonstra- 

 tion of the problem as soon as its permanent marine labor- 

 atory was completed. 



There is no great difficulty in hatching lobster eggs, but 

 there is serious trouble in rearing the young, because suit- 

 able food cannot always be obtained, and the little lobsters 

 are cannibals of the worst type, destroying one another even 

 when living food is furnished them in abundance. 



Forest and Stream, Box 3,832, N. Y. city, has descriptive illus- 

 trated circulars of W. B. Lerfiugwell's book, "Wild Fowl Shoot- 

 ing," which will be mailed free on request. The book is pro- 

 nounced hy "'Nam't." "<Tloan," "Dick Swiveller," "Sybillene" *nd 

 other competent authorities to be the best treatise on the subject 

 extant. 



Names and Portraits op Birds, by Gurdon Trumtmu. a 

 book particularly interesting to gunners, for by its use they can 

 identify without question all the American game birds which 

 they may kill. Cloth, 220 pages, price §3.50. For sale by Forest 

 and Stream. 



FIXTURES. 



DOG SHOWS. 



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

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

 Charles street. Secretary. Entries close March i. 



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. 



May 6 to 9.— Second Annual Dog Show of the Southern Cali- 

 fornia Kennel Club, at Los Angeles. Cal. H. W. Wilson, Super- 

 intendent. 



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

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



FIELD TRIALS. 



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

 Trials Club, at Otterburn Springs, Va. 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 Bakersfieid, Cal. H. H. Briegs, Secretary. 



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

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



ROCHESTER DOG SHOW- 



[Special Report.] 



THE second annual bench show of the Rochester Kennel 

 Club was held on March 11 to 14, at the Washington 

 Rink, in that city. A miserable week of rainy weather 

 must have assuredly made the books balance on the wrong 

 side when reckoning time came, and if this is the case the 

 hearty sympathy of the dog men at large will be extended 

 to that genial and gentlemanly crowd of good fellows that 

 compose the club, for their courtesy and hospitality to 

 visitors aud exhibitors will long be remembered by those 

 who were fortunate enough to be there. 



The total number of entries footed up a93, against 317 last 

 year, while a heavy list of absentees brought this year's 

 catalogue down to 2-39 dogs actually present. Many of these 

 absentees were also entered at the Chicago show, and prob- 

 ably having suffered defeat there, were withdrawn by their 

 owners no doubt, rather than risk defeat again under per- 

 haps the same judge. 



Mr. E. H. Moore's rough St. Bernard bitch Lady Miles 

 was among the absent ones, having died at the Chicago 

 show, and Mr. Watson's crack collie Clipper would have 

 been returned a winner in the challenge class had he not 

 been delayed on the road, he being a whole day overdue. 



We would call the attention of bench show' managers to 

 the fact that, dogs of an ugly temperament, when on exhibi- 

 tion, should be securely barred in on their benches and labeled 

 '•dangerous," and every precaution taken for the public 

 safety, so as to preclude any possibility of these all too fre- 

 quent cases of dog bites at the shows. At this exhinition 

 the rough-coated St. Bernard Hesper repeated his New York 

 exploits by biting a small boy badly through the hand. 

 Those who saw it say that he first caught the boy somewhere 

 about the body and pulled him in, and then when he got 

 him near enough he took a better ''bolt." This was painful 

 and unpleasant for the small boy, but under Dr Gray's 

 good care he came to the show again soon, and was a fre- 

 quent visitor under the "dead-head" system. It is a ques- 

 tion in our mind whether the management could not be 

 held amenable for damages in an instauce of this nature; if 

 so it would be a sad thing for dog shows, and we would ad- 

 vocate every precaution being taken in the future. Hesper, 

 while a grand dog physically, is mentally unreliable and 

 untrustworthy. 



The judging was commenced promptly at 10:10 in the 

 morning and was entirely finished the first day. The follow- 

 ing judges officiated as advertised: Major J. M. Taylor, 

 setters, pointers and foxhounds: Mr. H. W. Lacy, deer- 

 hounds, greyhounds, basset hounds and pugs; Mr. A. C. 

 Wiimerding, all sporting spaniels, Mr. James Mortimer the 

 remaining breeds. Veterinarian, Dr. Albert Drink water. 



MASTIFFS. 



Sears' Monarch and Lady Coleus, both quite up to their 

 New York form, were alone in their respective challenge 

 classes, and of course won. In the open class Ilford Chan- 

 cellor, somewhat throaty, but a large dog of aood propor- 

 tions, won handily from Horace and.Iumbo. In the bitcoes 

 Cambrian Princess with her grand head and body, was not 

 hard pushed for first place. Second went to Countess of 

 Dunsmore. 



ST. BERNARDS. 



In the challenge dog class for rough St. Bernards PlinT 

 limmon, Jr. and Ben Lomond faced theiudge and were 

 again placed as at New York under Miss Whitney, the lat- 

 ter receiving first aud the former second. They require no 

 further comments. In the challenge bitch class the New 

 York fight was again renewed, Lady Wellington and 

 Miranda coming into the ring once more together, and as at 

 Chicago, the former won. The open dog cla«s brought out 

 but three entries, and Hesper was far aud away the best. In 

 bitehes Mr. Crowell's good bitch was rightly placed first, 

 with Corvette second and Lady Madeline vhc* 



In the challenge smooth coat class Victor Joseph had a 

 walkover for dogs, and in the corresponding bitch class 

 Thisbe had the same, she beiDg transferred from Class 8, 

 where she was erroneously entered. In the open dog and 

 bitch classes there were but three entries all told, a poor 

 showing indeed for this handsome breed of dogs, and at one 

 of the prominent shows, too, Cleopatra won rightly in her 



NEWFOUNDLANDS. 

 Prince George was again on top, with a young dog which 

 will have a chance to improve with time, second. 



BLOODHOUNDS AND GREAT DANES. 

 Although these breeds were liberally provided for in the 

 regular classes and with specials, yet not a single entry was 

 recorded. 



DEERHOTJNDS. 



For some reason the only entries in these classes, Mr. 

 Thayer's, did not put in an appearance. 



GREYHOUNDS. 



Old Memnon, gray in muzzle, gone in mouth, and one 

 whose long show career and many honors should win him 

 rest and a place on the retired list, was on hand to claim the 

 prize Fate and the judge were generous, and the prize was 

 awarded. Harmony was alone in the corresponding bitch 

 class. In open dogs, Hazelhurst won over the English dog 

 Conspirator with some points to spare In bitches and 

 puppies the Hornell Club showed up again with the win- 

 ners; in fact they had things just about their own way all 

 through these classes. 



FOXHOUNDS. 



This was an even lot of dogs of the heavy English style. 

 They looked like workers from the word go. Major Taylor 

 had an unenviable task in selecting the winners, but his 

 efforts were crowned with success apparently, as the owner 

 of the pack came to him afterward and informed him that 

 the winner was the fastest dog and the longest winded of 

 the lot, 



