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not fail to be appreciated bv all who have occasion to 

 refer to the publications. Mr. J. H. Bissell has contributed 

 articles on "Detroit Wbitefish Station" and Gray ling in 

 Michigan." Mr. Wm. P. Seal discusses the "Desirability 

 of Great Public Aquaria in the United States," and, in con- 

 nection with Mr. John Gay, reviews "The Past and Present 

 of Fishculture," with an inquiry as to what may be doue to 

 further promote and develop the science. Mr. Herschel 



Potter wrote upon the "Origin of Fishculture in the United 

 States." Mr. P. P. B. Hyerson describes an "Experiment in 

 Trout Hatching and Rearing in Arkansas." Dr. T. H. Bean 

 has a paper on "The Alaskan Pishes and their Allies." which 

 is illustrated by twenty-one figures of the species. Dr. J. A. 

 Henshall has an article on "Fish Protection." Dr. R O. 

 Sweeney describes tbe "Spawning and Development of the 

 Siskiwit." 



We miss a table of contents and alphabetical index, as 

 well as the customary discussions of papers, which usually 

 form parts of the published proceedings; but we congratu- 

 late the recording secretary of the Society, Mr. E. P. Doyle, 

 upon the neat and attractive appearance of the nineteenth 

 volume of the Transactions. 



WHITEFISH WORK OF THE U. S. F. O.-The season 

 about closing has been notable for success in collecting eggs, 

 especially in Lake Michigan. The Alpena station, with a 

 capacity of 45,000,000 eggs, is full and eggs will be sent by 

 messenger from there to the new station at Duluth, Min- 

 nesota. At the Put-in-Bpy station, in Lake Erie, about 500 

 jars, holding 150.000 eggs each, have been filled. The station 

 of the Ohio Commission at Sandusky is being filled by the 

 U. S. Couunission with eggs from the vicinity of Toledo and 

 Port Clinton. After the eggs are carried far enough for- 

 ward to bear shipment, many of them will be divided among 

 State Commissioners who have already applied for them: 

 the distribution will include. New York, Wisconsin and 

 some other States having suitable waters. It is evident, that 

 whitefish are abundant and that artificial propagation of 

 this species is bringing the. desired results. 



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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. 



FIXTURES. 



DOG SHOWS. 



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

 and Pet Stock Association, at Canton, O. James Sterling, Sec'v, 

 39 North Market street. 



1891. 



Jan. 6 to 9.— Delaware and Susquehanna Poultry and Pet Stock 

 Association, at Binghamtou, N. Y. 



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

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

 Mfdnness, Jr.. Spcretary. 



Jan. 20 to 25.— First Annual Dog Show of the Louisiana Poultry 

 and Per Sto"k Association, at New Orleans, La. 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 Elniira Poultry and Pet Stock 

 Assoc 5 ation. at Elniira, 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. 



Feb. 2i 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 

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



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

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



March 16 to 19.— Inaugural Dng Show of the Washington City 

 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 Kennal Club, at Boston, Mass. E. H. Moore, Si cretary. 



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

 nel Club, at Chicago, 111. John L. Lincoln, Jr., Secretary. 



April 14 to 17.— Fourth Dog Show of the Cleveland Kennel Club, 

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



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

 Youngstown, O. 



FIELD TRIALS. 

 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, Cal. H. H. Brigas, Secretary. 



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

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



EASTERN FIELD TRIALS, 



THESE trials opened on Thursday, Nov. 13, with the 

 Members' Stake at Otterburn Springs, Amelia Court 

 House, Va. The day was cloudy and continued so throughout 

 the running. Birds were very scarce in the open, the 

 damp weather sending them all to cover. The judges were 

 Messrs, Simon C. Bradley. Greenfield, Coun.; Thos. Johnson, 

 "Winnipeg, Manitoba, and W. W. Titus, Mount Pelis, Miss. 

 The drawing was as follows: 



MEMBERS' STAKE. 

 Miss Monarch (Capt. Chas. Gray), Roy Monarch— Flossy, 

 with 



Guy (Col. Geo. T. Leach), Gladstone's Boy— Lady. 



Gath's Mark (H. Hulman, Jr.), Gath— Gem, 

 vrith 



Annie F. (F. R. Hitchcock), Roderigo— Juno A. 



Fannie M. (H. Hulman, Jr.). Gladstone's Boy— Flame, 



with 



Whitie (Herbert Merriam, Gus Bondhu— Royal Myrtle. 



Betty S. (Highland Kennels), Roderigo— Bo Peep, 

 with 



Jack Modoc (W. A. Coster). 



First Series. 



GUY AND MISS MONARCH. 

 The start was made at 9:30 A. M. in stubble. Guy soon 

 showed himself the best ranger, going off down the edge of 

 fields for a quarter of a mile, working his ground thor- 

 oughly. Half a mile further on Guy hunted through an 

 orchard. Miss Monarch then made game, but nothing 

 found. Birds had left the stubble and gone to hills. Sent 

 on, Miss M. in woods at edge of meadow flushed. Guy fol- 

 lowed the covey and pointed, and birds flushed all around 

 him. He was steady to wing. In heavy weeds and brush 

 Guy got another point on running birds. Guy then roaded 

 to a point, but birds were not flushed, being very wild. 

 Dogs went into a swamp and were ordered up. Sent on in- 

 side of woods in sedge, grass, but no birds being found dogs 

 were ordered up at 10:15. Guy did all the work, was the 

 better ranger and under good control. " Miss Monarch pot- 

 tered and looked to her handler too much. 



OATH'S MARK AND ANNIE F. 

 These two were cast off in open fields at 10:20. Annie 

 started off the faster and ranged in the. open, Gath in the 

 branches, through some weeds, but nothing found. Mark 

 here began to extend himself and hunted through weeds 

 without result. Another half mile was covered when Mark 

 worked in woods through sedge grass, but no birds were 

 found. Annie depended too much on her handler. Further 

 on Mark pointed and three birds were flushed, both steady 

 to wing. Annie then worked back some distance. Here 

 Mark got another point which was not allowed. Hulman, 

 in getting up his dog, flushed another bird, Annie pointed, 

 but flushed. Mark then got a point in good style and AnDie 

 backed. Birds ran, Mark pointed and birds flushed and flew 

 into tall grass, After working through brush Mark pointed 

 again, birds flushed aud dropped three rods away in weeds. 

 Mark then flushed the birds m weeds four feet high. Dogs 

 were then sent to branch where birds were marked, but 

 found nothing. Dogs ordered up at 11:13. Both were fast, 

 but Mark did the best work. 



FANNIE M. AND WHITIE. 

 Sent off at 11:25. Fannie M. showed best speed and made 

 a wide cast in weeds and stubble. Wbitie was slow and 

 pottered along a branch. Sent on through cornfield, Wbitie 

 pointed. Mr. Merriam flushed, Fannie getting up in time 

 to see them go, both dogs steady to wing. Birds scattered 

 in woods and grass. Fannie then scored a flush. Whitie 

 then pointed a single which flushed wild. The work here 

 was too fast and several birds were missed, the judge put- 

 ting up the birds tbe dogs should have pointed. Dogs were or- 

 dered up at 12:10. Fannie did some genuine work, but Wbitie 

 happened on the birds in brush around the cornfield. Fan- 

 nie was the faster, but did not seem at home on the scat- 

 tered birds. She was not used to her owner, Mr. Hulmau, 

 and looked more to her handler who was in a buggy nearby. 

 Lunch was called at 12:15, after wbich 



JACK MODOC AND BETTY S. 

 were put down at 1 o'clock in wet, soggy ground. A covey 

 soon flushed nearthe spectators and scattered. Billy flushed 

 a single, birds had scattered in high broom straw and clogs 

 couldnot locate them. A move was then made for fresh 

 ground where both dogs soon pointed a lot of birds, both 

 steady to wing. Betty made game and Dtiryeaflushed covey. 

 Jack pointed where tbey got up. Betty then poiuted but no 

 bird was found. One bird was theu flushed and Betty get- 

 ting up. dropped to wing. Jack then made a fine point, 

 bird flushed and shot by Mr. Coster. Betty made another 

 point, moved up and came to a point again, bird put up by 

 Mr. Duryea but not shot at. Sent off on new ground Jack 

 soon pointed but moved on and continued roading, getting 

 behind judges and handlers in timber where he was found 

 by reporters, who flushed a bird. Dogs were then taken up, 

 down 45 minutes. Both dogs were fast, but Betty had a 

 little the better of it in this respect. This ended the first 

 series aud all dogs remained in as the judges were not satis- 

 fied with the work done. 



Second Scries. 



GATH'S MARK AND MISS MONARCH. 

 Put down at 2:20 in a corn field— drawn blank. Sent on to 

 clover field Mark went on half a mile or so to some grass 

 and weeds, where he came to a point. Hulman flushed, 

 shot aud killed, Mark steady to wing and shot, and sent on 

 to retrieve, did his duty well. Dogs were theu ordered up 

 at 2:40. Mark showed himself the better dog. The next 

 two, 



OTJY AND WHITIE, 

 were cast off at 2:45 in stubble. Guy flushed some birds but 

 stopped to wing. Guy then pointed in pines and grass; he 

 moved up, but Leach put up the pointed bird. Guy soon 

 made another point, Leach putting up the bird. Guy scored 

 another. Leach flushed, fired aud missed. Guy pointed again 

 on Whitie's track. Whitie then got a point and Guy backed. 

 Merriman flushed but did not shoot. Dogs up at 3:15. Up 

 to this time seven bevies had been found. The next two, 



JACK MODOC AND FANNIE M. 

 were sent off in weeds at 3:27. Neither could range very 

 fast. Tried in wood bottom but no birds found. No points 

 were made, both ranged wide. Ordered up at 8:55, Fannie 

 was lost for five minutes, not being used to her owner, Mr. 

 Hulman. 



ANNIE F. AND BETTY S. 



These two were sent off at 4:05 in high weeds and wet 

 ground. Annie was a little the faster. Annie came to a 

 point which proved to be on a lark. Annie moved on rang- 

 ing finely over a large stubblefield aud then into brown 

 straw and sedge, but found nothing. Returning to stubble 

 she came to a point but nothing was flushed. Dogs were 

 ordered up after a loug heat, no birds having been located. 

 Both dogs were fast and worked ahead without let up, 

 Betty being a bit faster at finish, both deserve credit for 

 ranging and endurance. This ended the running for the 

 day, and a move was made for the hotel. 



Friday. 



OATH'S MARK AND BETTY S. 

 were put down to-day on the Jefferson farm, at 9:03 A. M., 

 in long stubble. Mark roaded in corn, Betty S. down a 

 branch, the latter getting on to a point, Mark backing 

 finely. Birds were put up and both steady to shot. Betty 

 S. then got a point in a fence, moved a little but dropped to 

 order, Mark, ranging off, came up to back. Mark soon 

 made a point and Duryea flushed the bird. Mark then 

 pointed again in leaves and was backed by Betty S. Birds 

 were running then in -the leaves, birds theu flushed and 

 Betty dropped to wing. Moved on to woods when judges 

 consulted and decided to stop in woods. No birds being- 

 found, dogs were ordered up. Mark was the faster, Betty 

 -etting to birds first by chance as she was not so well 

 andled. 



ANNIE F. AND JACK MODOC. 

 Put down at 9:35 in corn stubble. Jack started out with 

 a bad flush and ran into the covev, which scattered in every 

 direction. Mr. Coster whipped him. Then the brush was 

 tried, but dogs did not go where birds were. The stubble 

 was hunted over again, but drawn blank. On edge of stub- 

 ble Jack came to a point, left it, swung round and kept on 

 casting. Annie was brought up here and Jack called off, 

 when they went down side of stubble. Annie seemed to like 

 the open and covered most ground, Jack taking to the 

 edges. Jack came to a staunch point and a rabbit was 

 started. Jack kept pointing, then roaded up and a covey 

 flushed; Jack steady to wing. Annie did not show game. 

 Following covey into briers. Annie pointed, Coster flushed, 

 both dogs steady. Jack then pointed where they got up; 

 both were called off and judges then sent them to woods, but 

 nothing came of it. Sent on, they worked into the cornfield 

 again, Jack made a stauuch point, went on, turned back 

 and pointed again. Annie crossed him and did not make 

 game. Dogs were then called up at 11 o'clock. After some 

 consultation tbe judges decided the awards as follows: 

 Gath's Mark first. Betty S. second, Jack Modoc third. 



head of the club. Those in attendance at the trials include 

 Messrs. Pierre Lorillard, Jr., E. C. Kent, F. R. Hitchcock, 

 H. B. Duryea, Herbert Merriam, H. B. Anderson, E. H. 

 Hyde, Thos. Johnson, J. M. Taylor, W. L. Washington, A. 

 Merriman, A. Morten, R. A. Gray, C. A. Joyce, C. E. Sher- 

 wood, C. Tucker. W. Andrews, W. C. Lindsay. W. B. Mears, 

 L. W. White, John White, W. Tallman, W. ' Brailsford, A. 

 Cameron, W. W. Titus, Wm. Bradley, Frank Richards, J. 

 B. Stoddard, C. E. Buckle, Capt. McMurdo, E. Dexter, B. 

 Waters, J. M. Avent, and Mr. Carroll, of New York, who, 

 it will be remembered, spent some time recently in Africa 

 with the lordly lion and other big game. 



On the grounds, within a short "distance of town, birds 

 were found to be fairly plentiful, and it was therefore pos- 

 sible to get through the two first stakes in good time, On 

 Tuesday the 18th an early start was made to the Glass 

 House. The weather being bright and clear, a little frosty 

 in the early morning hours, but during the day it became 

 quite warm, uncomfortably so for those who had to range 

 far afoot. This may be said of the weather during the whole 

 week, so that the club may consider themselves to have been 

 highly favored by the weather clerk, though the heat iu the 

 middle of the day made it rather hard for the dogs to pick 

 up scent, especially after running some time. 



The Derby stake was concluded Wednesday night, and the 

 decisions made were — 

 being undo 

 Hitchcock's. 



dog, by Jean Va'] Jean out of Princess Helen. J. O. Donner 

 is the breeder. Tory's fine range aud snappy action elicited 

 great admiration from the cognoscenti, and his good train- 

 ing reflected great credit ou his handler, John White, a vet- 

 eran in the business. 



Tapster, the second winner, is a liver and white pointer. 

 He is by King of Kent out of Hops. His sire had already 

 made a reputation for himself as the.sire of the phenomenal 

 young dog Rip Rap, who did such startling work last year. 

 Tory Lieutenant has shown himself one of the best Derby 

 winners that ever ran. being little inferior, if any, to the 

 winner Rip Rap of last year, and Mr. Hitchcock may be 

 proud of the mark he has made with his new love— the Eng- 

 lish setter. 



The judges, Messrs. Duryea, Merriman and Johnsou did 

 their work well, showing at once that they were men of ex- 

 perience and quick decision. The field of spectators was in 

 the main composed of men who are entirely devoted to field 

 sports, thoroughly understanding the requirements neces- 

 sary to carry out the trials in an orderly and proper manner, 

 so that there was little need of a marshal or risk of the 

 judges, handlers or dogs being interfered with iu their work. 



A word of praise for our host, Geo. T. Leacb, and 1 will 

 take the heats in their proper order. It was no small under- 

 taking to provide, at a moment's notice, accommodation 

 and food for forty or fifty hearty men, in such a place as 

 this, but by Tuesday everything was in running order and 

 one cannot speak too highly of the generous table and ex- 

 cellent accommodations provided, tbe lunches in the field 

 being particularly good and welcome, soup piping hot and 

 always on time. 



Tuesday. 

 DERBY STAKE. 

 READY II. AND COYOTE. 

 These two were put down at 8:35 near the Glass House. 

 Ready II., an Irish setter, was handled bv H. B. Anderson, 

 and Coyote, an English setter, by Chas. Barker. Weather 

 bright and cool. In sedge grass a bird flushed, Coyote 

 steady to wing; this worked through, nothing more was 

 found. After working a lot of ground, woods and sedge 

 grass, Ready flushed a covey, then made a point and Coyote 

 backed. Anderson put up birds and both dogs were steady 

 to shot and wing. Ranging back into sedge, Coyote roaded 

 to abird but did not point, bird flushed. Ready then pointed, 

 uobird; Coyote then flushed three birds. Sent on through 

 several fields, Coyote ranging the best, in edge of wheat field 

 Barker walked into birds, near where Coyote was roading. 

 Both dogs then pointed and birds were put up, both steady. 

 Another point by Coyote and the dogs worked through 

 woods and were then ordered up at 0:19. Coyote was the 

 faster and better ranger, and had a little the best in style. 



PAUL BO AND ZIG ZAG. 

 Down at 9:25. Titus handled Paul Bo and Capt. Mc- 

 Murdo Zig Zag. In sedge grass Zig Zag false pointed. 

 Paul then ranged off into weeds and through corn on hill- 

 side and over a lot of ground. Both dogs made game, but 

 nothing came of it. Paul then roaded on edge of 

 woods, passed the birds, which flushed into woods; 

 both dogs steady to wing. Zig Zag then made a point and 

 Paul backed, birds flushed and was a little unsteady. 

 Working on down to the edge of woods and through high 

 sedge grass dogs were ordered up at 10:08. Zig Zag was the 

 faster and better ranger and showed more sense, both equal 

 in style. 



NELLIE BLY AND TAPSTER. 

 Nellie Bly, handled by John A. Hunter, and Tapster by C. 

 E. Buckle, were cast off at 10:15 in bottom. Returning to 

 woods Tapster false pointed. On, Nell pointed in edge of 

 wood, Tapster backed. Sent on to find a covey was flushed; 

 both steady. Tapster then made a point, Buckle fired; dog 

 steady to shot and wing. A single then flushed: both dogs 

 steady. Working on Tapster poiuted where birds had been. 

 Sent on Tapster flushed a single in high grass, then on 

 through sedge grass, when dogs were ordered up at 11 

 o'clock. Nellie Bly showed some fair work, but is not so 

 fast as Tapster, not so wide a ranger. A great deal of 

 ground was covered in this heat with little result. 



DILL AND REVELER. 

 Dill handled by Tucker, Reveler by Frank Richards, were 

 cast off at 11:05. The dogs .worked through several fields to 

 some woods where Dill pointed, nothing found; on in woods, 

 a covey was flushed by a judge, on the same birds Reveler 

 scored a point, then Dill pointed, Tucker shot, and dog steady 

 to shot and wing. Dogs then worked ou through woods 

 where Reveler pointed a single which Richards put up, fired 

 and both dogs steady, then both dogs got a point, moved on 

 and Dill scored another, and Reveler pointed the same birds 

 in pines. Here a reporter put up a bird which dogs had 

 passed. Judges then ordered the handlers to leave the 

 scattered birds and go into the open at 11:40. Dogs worked 

 over the hill through high sedge grass, but nothing being 

 found, the judges ordered dogs up at 11:48. Both dogs were 

 about equal in style and rauge, but no good work was done. 

 We then made for the old school house for lunch. 



RUPERT AND PHCENESS. 

 After lunch Rupert, handled by Avent, and Phceness, by 

 Cameron, were cast off at 1:10 in sedge grass. On into woods 

 Phceness did some roading, then out of woods into high 

 sedge, both dogs ranging well, Rupert the better. Soon 

 after Rupert did some pretty work , coming to a point on a 

 bevy, which was put up by Avent, Rupert steady to shot 

 and wing. Rupert theu pointed fur. On in sedge grass a 

 bird flushed behind Avent. Phceness over a fence made a 

 | point on a covey, which Cameron flushed, Phceness ranged 

 The running of the regular stakes commenced Nov. 18, at on } xU Ru p rt pottered behind. Then Fineness got a point. 

 High Point, N. C, as stated in my account of the Members' an ? m0 7 e ?i,° U 1 t £- a £? ther poiut l y the roadside, aud a single 



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Stake at Otterburn Springs, the scarcity of birds there, and 

 the impossibility of much open work being done, led the, 

 management to pick up stakes and go on the old grounds at 

 this place. It was a wise move aud one the club deserves 

 great praise for making. Extra expense and trouble were 

 incurred, but thig does not daunt the men who are at the 



got up to the left, Phceness steady to wing. Dogs ordered up 

 at 1:57. Phceness under better control and Cameron's good 

 way of handling was much admired. Rupert ranger! wider 

 but was heedless to whistle at times. 



WILLIAM H. AND TORY LIEUTENANT. 

 These t,WP ? Wmm %\ m Wsh ge^er, handled, by Auder, 



