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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[Nov. la, 1880, 



Syracuse Anglers' Association. — A brief meeting of 

 the Angler's' Association was held in the rooms of the 

 Business Men's Association last week, at which the good 

 wort which the association has been doing to check the 

 depredation of the fish pirates in Oneida Lake and its 

 tributary waters was talked over in a general way. The 

 association has a record of 108 nets captured and destroyed 

 since Sept. 1. Within the past four weeks it has insti- 

 tuted suits against 16 violators of the game laws. The 

 war on the fish pirates has been carried on by Deputy 

 Sheriff Harrison Hown, of Cicero, working under the 

 directions of the association. All the members of the 

 association speak highly of the business-like, way in which 

 Mr. Hown has gone about this work. The association 

 hired a small steamer and placed it at his disposal, and 

 he has gone np and down the lake day and night dragging 

 for the nets of the illegal fishermen. The association has 

 been considerably agitated the past week by the news of 

 the removal of Chief Game Protector Fred P. Drew, of 

 Washington Mills, and the resignation from the Fish 

 Commission of Hon. R, U. Sherman, of New Hartford. 

 Mr. Drew was removed by the Fish Commission, which 

 has so far seen fit to withhold from the public any reasons 

 for such removal beyond the mere assertion that Mr. 

 Drew was not working to further the best interests of the 

 Commission. Many plain letters upon this have been sent 

 members of the Com mission by prominent anglers of this 

 city, and they propose to get at the bottom facts of the 

 matter, if such a thing is possible. The resignation of 

 Mr. Sherman from the Fish Commission is deeply deplored 

 by the Syracuse anglers. Mr. Sherman is a man of wealth, 

 and he spent large sums of money annually in stocking 

 and protecting the fishing waters of central New York. 

 But notwithstanding these disappointments the Anglers' 

 Association of Syracuse proposes to go right along with 

 the good work of protecting the fish in the waters readily 

 accessible from this city. A petition containing the 

 names of all the prominent citizens in Syracuse will be 

 sent to the Fish Commission this week, praying for the 

 appointment of a game protector in. this city who shall 

 work under the direction of the Anglers' Association. 

 Mr. Drew has been assigned to duty in the Oneida district, 

 where it is thought his efficient services will be of great 

 value to the anglers of this city, as Oneida Lake is in that 

 district. 



Trout and Deer in the Adirondack^. — A veteran 

 correspondent writes: "I should like to meet the game 

 law committee, for I think that after thirty-eight years 

 in the Adirondacks every summer I could give them some 

 points, but you can do it for me. I should for five years 

 stop entirely transportation of deer and trout from the 

 woods comprising the Adirondack section. Also stop 

 buoy fishing, which is almost as destructive to trout grow- 

 ing as set lines. I should increase greatly the penalty on 

 the set line business, and would also greatly increase 

 penalties, both as to the least infringement of laws relat- 

 ing to law breaking as regards trout and deer. Also 

 would add penalty to express companies taking any box 

 out unless they know its contents. Please call attention 

 in your paper to the above suggestions. Of course some, 

 yea many, will decidedly object. I have seen painfully 

 the decrease of trout especially, and think the above 

 simple addition to the laws would save the above game 

 wonderfully." 



Cod Fishing at Bastport, Maine.— It has been many 

 years since the fishing was as good in our harbor as this 

 season. The catches of the past week have been some- 

 thing extraordinary. At high water Saturday there was 

 great sport fishing off some of the wharves. At the In- 

 ternational Wharf Mr. Pine took advantage of a few spare 

 moments and pulled in 25 deep sea cod. At the Govern- 

 ment Wharf men and boys made a great catch, and in 

 fact there was good fishing all along the wharves. What 

 has caused the deep-sea cod to strike in close to the 

 American shore, right in our harbor here, in such im- 

 mense schools, the like of which was never known 

 before, the oldest inhabitant is unable to tell. — The East- 

 port Sentinel, Oct. 29. 



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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. 



Dec. : 



FIXTURES 

 DOG SHOWS. 



) to Jan. 3, 1891.— First, Dog Show of the Buckeye Poultry 



and Pet Stock Associa tion, at Canton, 0. James Sterling, Sec'y, 

 39 North Market strtet. 



1891. 



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

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

 Mclnness, .Jr., Secretary. 



Jan. 20 to 2").— First Annual Dog Show of the Louisiana Poultry 

 a.nd Pet Stock Association, at New Orleans, Da. A. E. Shaw, Sec- 

 retary, Box 1658. 



Jan. 20 to 25.— Dog Show of the Georgia Poultry and Pet Stock 

 Association, at Augusta, Ga. A. H. Vonderleith, Secretary. 



Jan. 21 to 26— Dog Show of the Elmira Poultry and Pet Stock 

 Association, at Elmira. N. Y. Carl Hart, Secretary. 



Jan. 27 to 30.— Inaugural Dog Show of the South Carolina Ken- 

 nel Association, at, Greenville, S. C. F. F. Capers. Secretary. 



Feh. 24 to 27.— Fifteenth Annual Dog Show of the Westminster 

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



March 3 to 6.— Second Annual Dog Show of the Maryland Kennel 

 Club, at Baltimore. Md. W. Stewart Diffenderffer, Secretary. 



March 10 to 13.— First Annual Dog Show of the Duquesne Kennel 

 Club, at, Pittsburg. Pa. W. E. Littell, Secretary. 



March 16 to 19.— Inaugural Dog Show of the Washington Citv 

 Kennel Club, at Washington, D. C. 



March 24 to 27.— Second Annual Dog Show of the Massachusetts 

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



March 31 to April 3.— Seventh Annual Dog Show of the New 

 England Kennel Club, at Boston, Mass. E. H. Moore. Secretary. 



April 1 to 4.— Fourth Dog Show of the Cleveland Kennel Club, 

 at Cleveland, O. C. M. Munhall, Secretary. 



April 8 to 11.— Third Annual Dog Show of the Mascoutah Ken- 

 nel Grab, at Chicago, III. John L. Lincoln, Jr., Secretary. 



Sept. 1 to 4— Dog Show of the Youngstown Kennel Club, at 

 Youngstown, O. 



FIELD TRIALS. 



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

 Trials Club, at Ottcrburn 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 

 Secretary, 



1891. 



Jan. 19. -Eigh th Annual Field Trials of the Pacific Kennel Club, 

 at, Bakersfleld, Gal. H. H. Briggs, Secretary. 

 ™ F t.b. 3.- Thted Annual Field Trials of the 'Southern Field Trials 

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



MAINE FISH CULTURE, 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



In reading your account of the progress of fishculture in 

 New Hampshire, I am led to give a brief account of what 

 we have done on a small scale in Maine, Lake Auburn is 

 m the city of Auburn, and contains about 20,000 acres of 

 clear, pure water, with a maximum depth of 110ft. It is 

 largely fed by springs and has long been known as a favor- 

 ite resort of the brook trout (SahuMnu* fontinaUs) Lar^e 

 quantities of spawning trout have been taken every fall 

 trorn the tributaries and shore spawning beds. No sticcess- 

 iul effort has until this year been made to stop spearing 

 and illegal captures. Through the efforts of our fish corn^ 

 missioner, Mr Henry O. Stanley, and others interested in 

 protecting and stocking this beautiful lake, we have made 

 a beginning which has thus far yielded excellent results 

 We nave organized under the title of the Lake Auburn Fish 

 Protective Association, with a membership of 200. Nine 

 w3K d ° larS beeD , mised }, y P fi ™ te subscription 

 Xr ^ ? t e v, en , l ? tln T^ K l a com <«rtable house built on a 

 tributary to the lake. We have employed three men dur- 

 ing the season thus far, to take care of the trout and pro- 

 vide for the hatching of the eggs. A katchm°- house is 



u« i eg P i We havu uow more than 400 trout and two 

 landlocked salmon in our weirs. 



I was informed last week that'the work of taking the esse 



taken Our salmon arelema'les, A^pS^^te 

 rilize their spawn by milt from Sebago Lak e if we arc not 

 !S*S5^JM» t0 !?*• a male salmo S n. Great [interest has 



ROBINS ISLAND CLUB'S FIELD TRIALS. 



LAST Friday was commenced and finished the ninth 

 annual trials of the club named. Such rapidity in the 

 running of a field trial is something marvelous. The con- 

 ditions were such that it was possible. In no other place 

 at no other trial could such celerity be attained. Three or 

 four things added together made one of the greatest suc- 

 cesses of this ninth annual trials of the clubs. First the 

 weather was of the most charming description. Everything 

 worked in favor of the dogs and their owners. "Skies were 

 clear, the air was cool to frostiness, the scent was stron«- 

 the birds were in greater number than ever before, and tfie 

 dogs themselves, that is the larger number of them, had 

 been worked for sometime by the professional trainer now 

 on the island. C4reatest of all, however, was the system 

 adopted by the Robins Island Club for the government of 

 its field trials. Here the dogs are judged by a scale of 

 points. The dogs are ruu together in braces, not one as 

 agaiust the other, but for the purpose of expediting matters 

 Thus there are no long series of heats in which the winning 

 dogs are run against one another until all are weeded out 

 save one. Here, the moment the allotted time has expired' 

 the dog has finished. The element of luck conies in of 

 course, but t he judges can at their option, mid if they deem 

 it necessary, allow an animal a longer chance to show of 

 what character his field work is. 



Friday evening saw assembled at the club house the more 

 enthusiastic shooting men of the club. First and foremost 

 Dr. S. Meet bpeir, who was the originator of the club- S b' 

 Duryea, who has worked side by side with the Doctor in" all 

 that would help to further the sportsman's interests in club 

 matters W. M. Van Anden, one of the younger men, but 

 heart and soul with anything that tends to the improvement 

 ot Kobms Island as a game preserve. William Stanley a 

 thorough shooting man and dog lover, a member of but few 

 years standing, but ready at any time to help the trials bv 

 making entries and running his dogs. E. W McClave 

 another of the new men, unable to be presen t himself, author- 

 ized Dr Speir to enter and run his setter bitch Josephine. 

 Many of the well known men were absent. Alden S Swan 

 the winner of last year's All- Aged Stakes, with his Irish' 

 setter dog Berkley, was unable to be present. H. W Polhe- 

 mus and Chauncey Marshall, two of the most ardent SDorts- 



TYlpn in f.Vio lief r,f mntMl, n no «™-»~ „x. - .*= , 



Rheuma and Gout (Wm. H. Van Anden), 

 Blue AND Gray (William Stanley). 



IKISH SETTER. 

 Gout (Massey's Duke— Pratt's Daisy), aged. 



DERBY— ENGLISH SETTEE?. 

 NAPOLEON (S. B. Duryea), blue belton (Ned— Lulu), 7mos. 

 Feathers (S. B. Duryea), blue belton (Ned— Maida II.), 

 18m os. 



Tardy Jack (Dr. S. Fleet Speir), orange and white (Ned— 

 Maida II.), 18mos. 



Chump (Irish setter), (pedigree not given), 12mos. 



After these entries had been taken the following letter- 

 was read: 



. New Yohk, Nov. 6. 



Officers of the Robins Island Club: 



Gentlemen— Your committe, appointed for the purchase 

 of field prizes, beg to report as follows: We have sent you 

 to-day by express one solid silver flask and cup, which is to 

 be first prize in the All-Aged Stakes; a leather box for hold- 

 ing shells, to be the second prize; a leather gun case, lined 

 with oak, to be the first prize in the Derby, and a nickle- 

 plated revolver second prize in the same stake. The first 

 prize in the Brace Stakes will be a solid silver coupling 

 chain. This will be a donation from your humble servants. 

 The second prize in the Brace Stakes, a leather gun case. 

 Your committee trusts that you will be pleased with the 

 prizes, some of which will be found inside of the large gun 

 case. We feel neither one of us will be able to be on hand 

 at the trials, but wishing you success and a brilliant future, 

 we remain very respectfully yours, 



Chauncey Marshall, i r < . 

 Alden S. Swan, f Committee. 



The prizes were displayed in the main reception room and 

 were the subject of much admiration. Then followed the 

 drawing for the order of running. It resulted as given 

 below. It must be remembered that the dogs are simply 

 ruu in braces to get through the trials expeditiously. They 

 are not one as against the other, but each dog is judged by 

 his own performance. The drawing was as follows: 



S£ theS^tti W'^^ laadlSd Simon 

 1 ought to IsneH ,m ? h fT' Le wiU d 0 $ 1 he P J om ^- 

 t^leMeW ■3S?tS?^ t, ? ^1 v ,,, eo »*ion with our work 

 SSffiftS C&!^ «? Mr. Wight, who was 

 sciecueu uj iur. btanley to take charge of the work T u ,n 

 unable to give at this time M^tWl^ ^tte^ 

 known by his works, and they are good A G Warni tl 

 Melrose, Mass. _ _ 



some pulmonary trouble, while Bullard, who has been at al- 

 most every trial, was away. Those present, nevertheless 

 made up in enthusiasm what they lacked in numbers. 



Ihe island was reached by the correspondent of the Forest 

 and Stream on Thursday afternoon. The day was fast 

 closing, and as the light waned, man after man came in with 

 his dogs and happy m the possession of a goodly number of 

 birds. Among these fortunate ones were Judge Pratt W 

 M. Van Anden, G. Walter Green, S. B. Duryea, W. Stanley 

 and Dr. Speir. They one and all reported the quail in 

 greater number than ever before, but extremely wild and 

 wary. Judge Pratt had put up some 40 birds, yet never n-ot 

 a point on one all his kills being quick shots as the birds 

 rose wild before him. 



Immediately after dinner and while enjoying the post 

 prandial tobacco, Dr. Speir referred to the illness of 

 Secretary Wellington and askedthat Mr, Jacob Pen tz accent 

 the entries and attend to the drawing of the dogs This 

 was at once acceded to, and in less time than it takes to 

 write rt, the following dogs were entered for competition in 

 the different stakes: 



ALL-AGED STAKES— ENGLISH SETTERS. 



St Elmo IV. (S. Fleet Speir, Brooklyn, N. Y.), black, white 

 and tan (champion St. Elmo— Clio), Syrs. 

 £ Belle Rapier (S. Fleet Speir), blue belton (Count Ra- 

 pier—Dell), 3yrs. 



™ T -^ KD tT* J ^ K (S " FIeefc S P eir) ' oraQ ge and white (Ned— 

 Maida II.), 18mos. 



Belle (W. M Stanley, Englewood, N. J.), blue belton (pedi- 

 gree not given), 4yrs. u 



Fritz SSE ( Tbyrs Stanley) ' black ' ' white and taQ (Count 



iyrs^ (W *' M ' S ^ anle y)> ! blue belton (pedigree not given), 



Ned(S.B. Duryea, Brooklyn, N. Y.), blue belton (Blun- 

 der — I? annie), oyrs. 



Josephine (E. W. McClave, New York citv) black and 

 white (Count Rapier-Dell), 4yrs. ' 



IEISH SETTER. 



Rheuma (Wm. M. Van Anden, Brooklyn, N. Y.), ( Died- 

 nch's Tip-Spovver's Grace), 3yrs. '' ( 



BRACE STAKES— ENGLISH SETTERS- 



Belle Rapier (Dr. s. Fleet Speir), (St. Elmo IV, ), 



the bye dog is run in company with a dog selected from 

 among those at the kennels. 



Brace Stakes.— St, Elmo IV. and Belle Rapier, Gout and 

 Rheuma, Gray and Blue, with the privilege of substituting 

 Bmsse in place of Gray; the latter having much tail action, 

 had whipped it raw for several inches from the tip. 



The Derby.— Chump with Feathers, Tardy Jack with 

 Napoleon. By this time the evening was fast approaching 

 another day; so, mindful of the morrow's work, couches were 

 sought and with them that restful sleep so dear to wearied 

 men. 



The morning dawned clear and beautiful. So heavy had 

 been the fall of dew that it huug drippingly from every 

 twig, from every blade of grass. In a strong light it was 

 white as a November frost. Breakfast was had at an early 

 hour. Rubber boots were in demand, for no leather ever 

 made would prove impervious to the searching quality of 

 that dew. Eight o'clock saw every one on the move and the 

 first brace in coupling, with the trainer, Harry Glessing, in 

 charge. Right well did he see to the bringing up of the 

 dogs. When a brace was ordered up. there he was, ready 

 with the next. In no case was there delay. He seemed to 

 know by instinct when and where to be with the change of 

 dogs. This conduced much to the rapid running of the 

 trials. Never was a better run trial, from start to finish 

 everything moved along like clockwork. 



ALL-AGED STAKES. 

 GRAY AND BELLE RAPIER. 

 These were the two first put down to inaugurate the Ninth 

 Annual Field Trials of the Robins Island Club. W. Stanley 

 handled his Gray, Dr. Speir his Belle. Cast off at 8:35, they 

 were hunted over the open rolling fields to the east of the 

 club house. Nothing found. Reaching the low bluffs at 

 that side, the dogs were sent down to the one hundred acres 

 of tall sedge grass lying under the bluff. Scarce in when 

 Stanley claimed a point for Gray, running up to flush, noth- 

 ing was found. Ordered on, the dogs huntingfrom north to 

 south, Gray again came to a point by the side of a little 

 clump of bushes which rose from the otherwise dead level 

 of the field. Stanley again claimed the point. Ordered to 

 flush the bird, for the second time no bird was found. The 

 sedge field yielding nothing, a move was made along the 

 edge of the bluff where grew a little fringe of low blackberry 

 bushes. After running along this bluff a few rods, Gray 

 pointed stiffly. The party was called up to see the point and 

 Belle was called up for a back. The noise started the birds 

 and they flushed wild, scattering in every direction. Gray 

 steady to wing. Stanley put his guo to his shoulder and 

 pulled hard first one trigger then the other. There came no 

 response, and examination showed the "safety" of his ham- 

 merless had slipped back. On again for a few yards, when 

 a smgle bird flushed some distance ahead of Belle. Bitch 

 steady to wing. Getting to the ice pond a hare bounced 

 from her form and scurried off for safer surroundings. Act- 

 ing on impulse, Dr. Speir shot at it. Both dogs steady to 

 lur and shot. Belle was then hunted along the fringe of 

 woods at the east side; Gray along the bluff or near it on the 

 west, the judges occupying an intermediate position, where 

 the action and working of both dogs could be observed, and 

 the general direction a southerly one. Of the two, the work 

 of Gray was the more stylish. Gray now and then did a bit 

 of reading, but never fairly established a point. The Devil's 

 Kitchen, that place of briars, thorns, water and "cuss words" 

 reached, here Gray roaded in slowly and carefully, came to 

 a pool of water and was lapping it, when up bounded a quail 

 flushing wild to left of dog. Stanley with a quick snap shot 

 killed it. Gray perfectly steady to shot and to wing. 

 Ordered to retrieve, he did so in elegant fashion. Then a 

 move in for a few yards and Gray pointed nicely. Bird 

 flushed but not shot at. Belle had the bad 1 uck of the birds. 

 Dogs taken up at 9:40, having been down an hour and five 

 minutes. 



JOSEPHINE AND NED. 



Josephine, handled by Dr. Speir, for her owner McClave, 

 Ned handled by his owner, S. B. Duryea. No time was lost, 

 lor at 9:4a the dogs were started. Around the thicket of the 

 Devil's cooking apartment to the left, hunting in north- 

 easterly direction. Here Josephine found the birds and 

 pointed staunchly. Ned called up for a back, came along 

 at race-horse speed, caught the scent for himself, dashed 

 past the bitch and jumped a handsome bevy of birds, chas- 

 ing them a few rods, when they flushed. Josephine steady 

 amid all the excitement of flushing, shooting and bad 

 example. Jo' soon got another point. Belle called up fora 

 back, as was also Gray, both did so in handsome fashion. 

 Bird flushed and nicely killed by Dr. Speir, using a little 

 20-gauge gun. Jo' ordered to retrieve, failed. Moving 

 now due south Ned, strong and fast, ran on and put up 

 another nice bunch of birds. He ran after a flying bird, 

 stopped to whistle, turned, ran down the steep 100ft. high 

 bank, took a plunge in the surf, raced back again over the 

 beach, shaking a shower of sparkling drops from his glossy 

 sides as he ran. Up the steep bank he came and dashed 

 away again, as if it all was the greatest fun imaginable. 

 Ned having no chance to win on account of his great speed 

 and want of command, dogs were ordered up at 10:25, having 

 been down 45m. At exactly the half hour the next brace, 

 were taken from the waiting wagon, these were 



BLUE AND RHEUMA. 



Blue, hunted by Stanley, a,n4 Rheuma by Van Anden. 



