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abdominal walls and can be stripped of their eggs without 

 much pressure; others have thick, tough integuments and 

 belly walls and yield their eggs slowly and with difficulty. 



Ool. Hodge finds that small brook trout spawn later than 

 large ones, sometimes continuing into January. 



There is a good deal of difference in the color of the eggs 

 of brook trout. The large fontinalis of Sunapee Lake have 

 orange eggs, while 

 at Plymouth the 

 eggs of the same 

 species are pale 

 lemon. Col. Hodge 

 attributes this dif- 

 ference to the food. 

 At Sunapee this 

 consists chiefly of 

 smelt, crustaceans e?5|§ 

 and insects, while ^§§| 

 at Plymouth the 

 trout are fed on raw 

 liver and heart and 

 cooked lungs of 

 beef and sheep. At 

 Plyraou t h some 

 wild trout are ob- 

 tained tvery year 



and their eggs are at first orange, but after being fed in the 

 manner described for about two years, they have become 

 lemon-colored. 



Some of the enemies of trout at Plymouth are minks and 

 bullfrogs. The former are troublesome only in fall and 

 winter. A big bullfrog was found at one time withaoin. 

 trout in its stomach. A cat was discovered killing trout at 

 the hatchery in the winter and was caught iu a trap. 



The State' hatchery near Plymouth receives its water sup- 

 ply by gravitation from three springs having a. winter 

 temperature of 31deg., STdeg. and 41deg. Owing to this cir- 

 cumstance it is easy to retard or accelerate the hatching of 

 the eggs by manipulating the watpr supply alone. 



The form of the dip-net in common use for .handling 

 salmon and trout is open to the objection that it causes the 

 death of a large percentage of the fish, amounting in many 

 cases to 25 per cent, of the whole, number. In order to pre- 

 vent this destruction of trout and salmon Col. Hodae has 

 devised a new form of net. which is much wider at the bot- 



TUK BROOK TROUT. 



torn than at the top and allows the fish to He at full length. 

 This reduces the tendency to struggle and injure themselves. 

 For brook trout the hoop is loin, in diameter, the depth o£ 

 the net is 24in., and its width at the bottom is also Min. 

 For the landlocked salmon the hoop is 17in. in diameter, 

 depth 36in., and width of bottom 36in. We can testify from 

 our own observation to the superiority of these nets over 

 those of the usual pattern; they are made by the American 

 Net and Twine Company, of Boston. Mass., from specifica- 

 tions furnished by Col. Hodge. Tim sketches herewith given, 

 on a scale of lin. to 1ft., will sufficiently show the style of 

 the net. The size of the mesh can be regulated to suit the 

 kind offish to be handled: those in use at Plymouth have 

 the lower portion scarcely one-half inch from knot to knot. 



YEARLING LANDLOCKED SALMON. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



Noticing an article in Forest and Stream of Oct. 35, stat- 

 ing the growth of yearling landlocked salmon at Sunapee 

 Lakp, New Hampshire, I am reminded of the experience of 

 the Bisby Club with this fish in their preserve at Bisby 

 Lake, iu Herkimer county. The club hatched at their sfca- 

 tion In this lake in the winter of 1SS9. 15,000 landlocked 

 salmon esgs, which were planted in the lake and into two 

 small soring ponds flowing into it in March following. In 

 June, 1890, only fifteen months after the plant was made, 

 the young fish appeared in both places. They could have 

 been none other than the fry planted the preceding year, 

 as none had been planted there before. These young" fish 

 measured respectively from Sin. tollj^in. in length. Several 

 were taken on the hook ranging between these lengths. 

 Some were, taken with the fly on the surface and several at 

 baited buoys in 20ft. of water. Their appearance was in all 

 specimens but one like adult fish. The color was steel 

 gray on the back, silvery white underneath, with character- 

 istic black spots on the gill covers and sides, but no red 

 spots or transverse bars. I took several of these fish mvself 

 and therefore know what I say respecting them. The facts 

 show the extraordinary adaption of the Adirondack waters 

 to landlocked salmon. R. U. Sherman. 



NEW HAMPSHIRE FISH CULTURE. 



WE paid a flying visit to our friend Col. E. B. Hodge, 

 Fish and Game Commissioner of New Hampshire, 

 recently, and saw the beginning of fishcultural work at Ply- 

 mouth'and Sunapee Lake. At Plymouth the Commissioner 

 had begun taking eggs of the brook trout and a good supply 

 of fertilized eggs were laid down in the hatching house, 

 some of which began to show the eye spots as early as Oct. 

 9. The number of breeding brook trout at Plymouth is very 

 large and their condition highly satisfactory. There are, 

 also, a few Loch Leven trout and a very small number of 

 rainbow at this place. The latter species is reported to be 

 unsatisfactory for New Hampshire waters. The eggs of the 

 brook trout, which have been kept at Plymouth for a period 

 of two years or longer, are usually of a pale lemon color. 

 This Col. Hodge attributes to their food. 



At Sunapee Lake may be seen some of the finest breeding 

 brook trout, in any waters. We saw examples that must 

 have approached 61bs. in weight and the colors of the large 

 males were particularly brilliant. The eggs of the fish at 

 this station are orange colored. Thirteen thousand eggs of 

 brook trout were obtained from four females during our 

 stay: " ,r ' • " Mr i ; 



It was supposed that the golden trout (SalveUn us aureo- 

 las) would be found on its spawning grounds at Loon Island 

 in Sunapee Lake: but a strong and. persistent northwest 

 wind made the water so rough that it would have been 

 almost impossible to see the trout, and it was entirely too 

 stormy to make the attempt. The wind was stranding 

 landlocked smelt in small numbers on the sand beach form- 

 ing the east shore of the lake near the hatching station. 

 One of the. curiosities in the tank is a male golden trout, 

 18in. long, which should weigh not less than 31bs., but 

 probably will not weigh lib., owing to its emaciated condi- 

 tion. It resembles the cod, described to us in Alaska by the 

 superintendent of the salting station at Pirate Cove, which 

 was so thin that "you could read the San Francisco 

 .Bulletin through it." The thickness of the body immedi- 



ately behind the head is only Uiin., and at the root of the 

 ventral fin only lin., diminishing rapidly from this point to 

 the tail. Notwithstanding its emaciation milt was devel- 

 oped and the full breediug colors are present. The lower 

 parts from the head to the tail, but not extending up to the 

 middle of the body, are brilliant orange. The sides have 

 numerous pink spots, which are mostly below the middle 



line. The pectoral, 

 ventral and anal 

 fins, in addition to 

 the usual colors 

 already described in 

 these columns, are 

 beautifully marked 

 with a pinkish 

 tinge. 



A beautiful hybrid 

 between the golden 

 trout and the brook 

 trout has been pro- 

 duced at this sta- 

 tion, and we have 

 taken notes upon 

 specimens three 

 years old, which we 

 will publish later 

 on. On Oct, 13 Col. Hodge took 100,000 brook trout eggs at 

 Plymouth. On the 14th be began work at the Keene hatch- 

 ery, and was to start for Dublin Pond the following day to 

 instruct the men in collecting and handling the eggs of the 

 trout found in that body of water and described in our Trout 

 Supplement under the name of SalvcWuw nr/atsM: From 

 Dublin Poud the Commissioner was to go to Laconia and 

 from thence to Newfound Lake, and afterward to Sunapee 

 Lake, to continue the work with the brook trout and inau- 

 gurate operations with the golden trout and landlocked 

 sahrion if they prove to be. in suitable condition. 



At Plymouth some landlocked salmon in the pond were 

 beginning to act as if about to commence spawning, but 

 work upon them did not begin at that early date. Upward 

 of twenty landlocked salmon were confined in the tanks at 

 Sunapee. some of them very large and stout, and hiostnf 

 the males with the jaws greatly enlarged'. There is a 

 good deal of variation in the shape of the cartilagin- 

 ous tip on the lower jaw of the breeding male. In one 

 example this tip is about «i of an inch in length and pro- 

 jects from the end of the jaw almost at a right angle. In 

 most cases the upper jaw has a deep notch in front to receive 

 the enlarged tip of the mandible, but in one case at least 

 there is no notch and the tip is received in a cavity in the 

 upper jaw which does not extend to the upper surface of the 

 snout 



The condition of fishculture in New Hampshire is most 

 gratifying and the results of the work astonishing, espe- 

 cially when the small amount of the appropriation is con- 

 sidered. 



All communications must reach us by Tuesday 

 of the week they are to be published; and should 

 be sent as much earlier as may be convenient. 



FiXTUSEi 

 DOG SHOWS. 



Dec. 80 to Jan. 3, 1891.— First Dog Show of the Buckeve Poultry 

 . nd Pet Stock Association, at Canton, O. James Sterling, Scc'v 

 59 North Market street. 



1891. 



Jan. 13 to 17.— Third Annual Dog Show of the South Carolina 

 Poultry and Pet Stock Association, at Charleston, S. C. Beni. 

 M'Tnness. Jr., Secretary. 



Jan. 20 to Sn.— First Annual Dog Show of the Louisiana Poultry 

 and Pet Sto-k Association, at New Orleans, La, A. E. Shaw, Sec- 

 retary, Box 11)58. 



Feb. 24 to 27. -Fifteenth Annual Dog Show of the Westminster 

 Kennel Club, at New York. James Mortimer, Superintendent. 



"March 2 to 5.— First Annual Dog Show of the Ducmesne Kennel 

 Club, at Pittsburg, Pa, W. E. Ltttell, Secretary. " 



March -3 to 6.— Second Annual Doa Show of the Mar viand Kennel 

 Club, at Baltimore. Md. W. Stewart Difrenderft'er. Secretary. 



March 2-i to 27.— Second Annual Doe Show ot the Massachusetts 

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



FIELD TRIALS. 



November.— Second Annual Field Trials of the Brunswick Fur 

 Club, at Brunswick, Me. J. H. Baird, Secretarv, Auburndale, 

 Mass. 



Nov. 3.— Fourth Annual Field Trials of the Indiana Kennel 

 Club, at Carlisle, bid. P. T. Madisou. Indianapolis, Ind„ Sec'y. 



Nov. 3.— Second Annual Field Trials of the Canadian Kennel 

 Club. at. Chatham, Out. C. A. Stone, Toronto, Ont., Secretary 



Nov. 4 to 8. -First Beagle Field Trials of the National Beagle 

 Ohio, at Hyannis, Mass. F, W. Chapman, Secretarv, 304 Wash- 

 ington streot, Boston. Mass. 



Nov. 7.— Ninth Annual Field Trials of the Robins Island Club. 

 W. L. Wellington, Secretary, Brooklyu, N. Y. 



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

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

 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. 

 • ; ary. 



1891. 



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

 at Bakersfleld, Cai. H. H. Brings, Secretary. 



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

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



G 



THE AMERICAN COURSING CLUB MEET, 



REAT BEND, Kansas, Oct. 21.— The fifth annual 



meeting of the American Coursing Club was an- 

 nounced to begin to-day, and most of the attendants of the 

 meet are now on hand, but the heavv rains of last night and 

 this morning have necessitated a postponement of the 

 running. Should it clear to-morrow, the grouud will be in 

 all the better condition for running, by reason of the rain. 



At the business meeting held at the Morrison House last 

 evening, little of interest transpired bevond routine matters 

 Mr. D. N. Heizer, president, was in the chair, and Mr. Ira 

 D. Brougher, secretary of the club, was at the desk. In the 

 matter of applications for membership, on motion of Mr. 

 Carney the rules were suspended and the secretary cast the 

 ballots for the following new members: Mr. Cecil Granville 

 Egerton and Mr Johu Russell, both of Ness City, Kas.; Mr 

 Geo. Nichol, of Cable, III; Mr. Fred Hoey, of Long Branch, 

 N. J.: Mr. August Belmont, Jr.. of Hempstead. N. Y : Mr 

 John J. Mannion, of Allegheny, Pa.: Dr. Lewis and G 

 Tandy, of St, Louis, Mo.; Mr. Benj. O'Keif, also of St. Louis. 

 Mo. Dr. Mulford and Mi-. Hasbrook, of Kansas City, were 

 then, on motion of Mr. Carney, elected bv acclamation 

 honorary members of the club. A resolution was adopted that 

 only owners of competing greyhounds or their servants 

 should be permitted to follow the dogs, and that Rule 19, 

 relative to impugning of a judge should be enforced. Messrs! 

 A. C. Schermerhorn, G. N. Moses and C. G. Page were ap- 

 pointed field stewards. The drawings for the order of 

 slipping then went on, an^, the meeting adjourned shortly 

 after 11 P. M. 



The work of both secretary and executive committee has 

 been well carried out, Mi-. Luse, resident member of the 

 committee, deserving abundant credit for his industry. It 

 is announced that the Uhl & Carney ranch, so long known 

 as the running grounds, and doubtless the best natural 

 coursing grounds, taking into consideration the abundance 



of strong hares, in this or any other .country, has been sold 

 to a Kansas City syndicate; possession to be given at an 

 early date. This will not interfere with the runniug this 

 year in any way, and probably will not next year, but it 

 may deprive the club and also Great Bend of Mr. Carney's 

 presence, since business arrangements may take him to some 

 other locality. Mr. Carney's services in the pgst have bee u 

 invaluable, and his standing in the club is such that to miss 

 him at any meet would seem little short of a calamity. 



It should be remarked here that the quality of the grey- 

 hounds brought out this year is far above that of any 

 preceding year. Good blood and better breeding have done 

 their work, and tc-day perhaps the best greyhounds in 

 America are assembled here for the sport of this week. The 

 All-Aged Stakes, however, only show thirty-two entries, 

 and it is a matter of disappointment to record that in the 

 puppy stakes only ten nominations appear, out of all the 

 hue young dogs now coming on in such numbers. 



In the slips there will be some new dogs, and some of the 

 familiar ones will be missed. Mr. Lowe does not enter 

 White Lips, for instance, she now having a. litter, nor shall 

 we see Partera, which never has run here, but was thought 

 a rare good one. It was announced, also, that Trales would 

 not go this year, but he is entered, though, with three or 

 four new and tenderish toenails to trouble him. One sees 

 here now an entirely new type. The big and rangy ones of 

 the first few years are hardly to be seen now. The compact, 

 muscular, smaller dog is recognized in theory and practice 

 to be the better hare courser. Doubtless we 'shall see good 

 sport and merry working at this meetiug. 



Mr. Joseph Holloway, well remembered as the judge of 

 the first meeting of the club, five years ago. will iudgp~this 

 year, and doubtless very acceptably to all. ' Arthur Massey, 

 the old reliable Waukenphast, will do the slipping. 



Mr. M. Phister, of Cincinnati, well known as an enthusi- 

 astic lover and good judge of greyhounds, and importer of 

 some of the best in the country, will be here to-morrow with 

 his wife and child. Mr. Phister has entered into a limited 

 agreement, by which he furnishes to Rookwood-Landseer 

 Kennels for handling, three of his dogs. Nettlefield, Nor- 

 wegian and Belle of Eltham. These dogs will all run here 

 and should be among the best of the imported ones. 



Mr. J. Herbert Watson, of New York, secretary of the 

 Eastern Coursing Club, is present, and as the agent of the 

 new organization, the National Greyhound Club, brings 

 with him an elegant and valuable trophy cup, which will 

 be given to the winner of the All -Aged Stakes. Mr. Watson 

 has with him his imported bitch Dry Time and will run her. 

 German Hopkins, agent for August Belmont. Jr., has also 

 here a remarkably clever-looking imported bitch in Minnie 

 Staton. These, with Mr. Piaster's three, make a splendid 

 group of greyhounds of themselves. Mr. H. C. Lowe has a 

 grand lot of young dogs in his Neversettle— Partera litter. 

 Mr. Heizer has several good ones, aud Mr. Luse has a whole 

 yard full of likely ones to choose from. There will be also 

 a number of Trales puppies entered, and all in all, this 

 meeting will show a lot of dogs quite different from those 

 offered in the crude beginning of the first year's meeting 

 here five years ago. 



Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Page arc here from Illinois. Mr. Page 

 has no dog of his own breeding to run this year, but will 

 join Mr. Lowe in his nominations. Mr. Alfred Haigh is on 

 from Cable, III., with a clever looking couple. Dr. Fon-au 

 non and Mr. Lyon, of Emporia, have some that are npt tn 

 stay well down. Some new and valued men keve also, htp 

 Messrs. John P. Usher, F. L. Webster and S. T. Field, ail of 

 Lawrence. The Great Bend men are all on hand and 

 wide awake as usual. To-day this little Western citv has 

 many of the best greyhounds and some of the bejst grey- 

 hound men of the country within her walls. 



Wednesday. Secoiul Day, Oct. 2$ 

 A heavy fog obscured the country in the morning, so dense 

 that several riders got astray on the flats while riding iu 

 search of the club house. A fairish crowd was on hand to 

 start, and this by evening had grown a large and unruly one. 

 The original package showed its work to some little extent. 

 The dogs went to the slips at 10:30. 

 The first pair down was 



DRY TIME— KING LEAR. 

 Dry Time is the property of Mr. J. H. Watson. She is 

 imported, is by Britain Still ex Haytime, and is a nice look- 

 ing light fawn, though she was scarcely hard enough for 



settle's size. These got oue of Mr. Carney's great white- 

 tails, and the hare left both the dogs. King Lear would not 

 be denied from first to last and set the pace. The bitch, not 

 being in it after three fourths of a mile, King Lear won. 

 I.OBD AlS d'HEBSON — NETTLEFI ELD. 



Mr. 1). C. Luse's Lord McPherson and Rookwood-Laml- 

 seer Kennels' nomination for Mr. Phister, the ridv bitcli 

 Nettlefield, were the next brace in. They got another 1 i e 

 mendous jack that led to the hills and gaveTthem a punish- 

 ing course. They ran across a fence which kept the judge 

 back so much that he could not see all of the course, and he 

 made it an undecided. The hare escaped. 



LORD HOSES GLENDYNE— LIBERTY. 



Mauniou & Halladay's dog Lord Moses Glendyue and Lajwe 

 & Page's bitch Liberty went in. They got the third 

 whitetail, and it led Liberty a punismug race till it 

 escaped in high grass. Moses got enough of it and quit. 

 Liberty won. 



DECK— MAJOR GLENDYNE. 

 Emporia Kennels' dog Deck and M. E. Allison's Major 

 Glendyne. Major was best up, did the. work of four go-bys 

 and was doubling points long before Deck got in. Deck 

 came in stroug and scored. Major was in for a poiut or two. 

 as could be seen from the fence that stopped the judge and 

 riders. Deck then led again to the end. The hare was 

 killed, but by which dog could not be told. Major Glendyne 

 won. 



LINE OP LtTCK — NORWEGIANS 



Low &- Page's Line of Lxick and Rookwood-Landseer's 

 nomination for Mr. Phister, the big and fine looking light 

 brindle Norwegian, half-brother to the great Fullerton. now 

 went down. A jack started close and passed near them. 

 The dogs became excited and the slipper could not hold 

 them. They broke on a short and poor slip, aud the hare 

 was killed within 200 or 300yds., before much work was 

 done or the dogs were really extended. Line of Luck killed 

 on Norwegian's turn. Norwegian won by half a point and 

 was given the course. It would have been better had they 

 been put in again for another test. 



The party now went into the club house for lunch. A 

 trap-shooting tournament was going on at the club house 

 and the grounds appeared lively. 



NETTLEFIELD — LORD MAt'FHERSON. 



After lunch Lord McPherson and Nettlefield went in for 

 another course. Another jack escaped. The coursing was 

 very pretty and even, Nettlefield finally getting the hare 

 from Lord McPherson and showing much merit. He, how- 

 ever, retaliated and led, scoring but little to the hills. Lord 

 McPherson won. 



BELLE OF ELTHAM— LITTLE CLIMBER. 



Rookwood-Landseer Kennels' nomination for Mr. Phister 

 the tidy bitch Belle of Eltham (Jester— Bit of Fashion) and 

 Lowe & Page's Little Climber had four hares up before they 

 got off . The run up was neck and neck, and beautifully 

 done. Belle was perhaps better up in this, Climber, how- 



