May 28, 1891.] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



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Green River, New Brunswick.— Boston, Mass., May- 

 Si. — Editor Forest and Stream: Will you kincUy let 

 your readers know through your angling notes that 

 Green River, N. B., is leased to the Tobique Salmon 

 Club, and that aU persons Ashing there without proper 

 permit will be prosecuted. In the Sunday edition of the 

 Boston Herald, May 17, there appeared an article with 

 map of the waters in this section of New Brunswick. 

 As sportsmen trusting to the information given in this 

 article may plan a trip up there I wish to forewarn them 

 that the wardens are on the river and it will be j)roperly 

 protected. It is a shame that such ai'tioles are printed 

 snap shot, as many innocent people might spoil a season 

 under such guidance. — E, B. 



Michigan Trout.— Plain well, Mich., May 16.— Our 

 record on trout here this year has been the best for some 

 years, and is so good that I thought it might be interest- 

 ing to your readers. May 1, II. S. Stratton brought homo 

 one weighing lib. 7oz. Slay 3, George and Rudie Gelkey 

 and Charlie Woodhams brought in one of lib. lOoz. May 

 3, Wm. Crispe one of 31b3, 14oz. and one of 2ll3s. 12cz. 

 Then dm-ing the week J. D. Clements brought in one of 

 albs, and one of If lbs., and Chauncey lioose one of 21bs. 

 These all came from the Abrams Creek, about two miles 

 south of here, and are thought to be of the plant of 1879. 

 Quite a number of trout streams in this neighborhood, 

 but no extra large trout caught but these.— J. H. M. 



The Castalia Stream— The third paper of the series, 

 descriptive of the '"Upper Club," will be given next 

 week. 



U. S. FISH COMMISSION WORK. The Fort Washing 

 ton station of the Commission has closed its work shad 

 for the season. The number of eggs collected is 33,445,000. 

 At Havre de Grace, Md., the yield of eggs to May IS was 

 48 747,000. On the Delaware to May 14^^ the number was 

 ii,479,000. From present appearances the output of fry this 

 year will be at least equal to that o£ 1890, which was nearly 

 86 millions. The steamer Fish Hawk is at Crisfleld, Md., 

 engased in hydrographic problems connected with the oyster 

 and awaiting the arrival of the Spanish mackerel, which 

 have not yet entered the Chesapeake. Cold weather and 

 .storms have [jreatly interfered with the shad work and the 

 shad have run more into the small streams than usual, 

 causing smaller catches in the great rivers. 



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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. 



DOS SHOWS. 



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

 Youngsfown, O. 



Sept. 0 to 11.— Fii'st Annual Dog Show of the Hamilton Kennel 

 Oluh. at Hamilton, Ont. 



Sept. 14 to 18.— Toronto Industrial Exhibition Association Third 

 International Dof? Show, at Toronto. C. A. St^ne, Sec'y and Suot. 



Sept. 23 to 2"\— Inaugural Dog Show of the Montreal Exposition 

 Company, at Montreal, Canada. 



FIELD TRIALS. 



Nov. a.— Inaugural Trials of the L'nited States Field Trial Club, 

 at BickneU, Ind. P. T. Madison. Secretary. 



Nov. 18.— Eastern Field Trials Olub'a Thirteenth Annual Trials, 

 at High Point, N. C. Members' Stake Nov. 18. W. A. Cosier, 

 Se' reta.Ty. 



Nnv. 3().-Gentral Field Trial Club's Third Annual Trials, at 

 Lexington, N. C. G. H. Odell, Sec'y. 44 and 46 Wall street, New 

 York city. 



Dec. 14.— Philadelphia Kennel Club's Field Trials. Charles E 

 Connell, Secretary;; 



BEAGLE TRAINING. 



Editor Forest and Strcnin: 



Under this heading "Quester," in an article appearing in 

 your Isstie of May 31, raises some questions that I also 

 would like to see discussed by the older members of the 

 fraternity. 



Referring to the interrogations as they occm-, "Should a 

 beagle be under control?" For my part I would answer 

 yes.' One of my beagle hounds (a bitch) is an excellent 

 hunter and trailer; one of the kind that will do all the hunt- 

 ing for you while you sit on the fence and look on; but 

 should you see a rabbit during this time it would be next to 

 inipossible to call her "on," and to say this is provoking, is 

 putting it mild. As long as she is only a few rods distant 

 and lander my eyes, the usual whistle call meets with fairly 

 prompt response; but when far enough off to be lost to view 

 in the brusti, all calls are of no avail. Thus, only too many 

 instances are l^rought to mind where a dog under control 

 would have greatly added to the interest of the hunt, and 

 often to the size of the bag. This hound was not trained by 

 me. 



Again, following close upon the heels of pussy, the dogs 

 violently giving tongue, is it not gratifying to hear them 

 "bark up" and sigtiify that the game has been run to earth, 

 rather than to have an ominotis silence ensue and feel the 

 uncertainty as to the whereabouts of the quarry? More 

 than once have I tramped across the swamp only' to learn 

 that the dog was simply for the time outwitted or nosing 

 around a hole or stone wall. In the case of a well-trained 

 hound thU silence would have denoted, without alternative, 

 that the game had deluded him, for were it otherwise he 

 would give tongue or "bark up." 



Certain it is that a much harder task is before the trainer 

 who wishes to have his dog well in hand and convey to him 

 by action and voice the different phases in the chase, than 

 to allow him to run at random and hunt at will. Some 

 hou j.ds that the writer has hunted with would keep within 

 convenient distance of their master, occasionally ranging a 

 little further oft but keeping an eye on him; and not only 

 would they watch when he was trying the brush heaps but 

 would themselves give such places particular attention. 

 When not trailing they would quickly respond to call and 

 follow the course of his finger ou the ground with their 

 noses, because they knew from experience that game had 

 been discovered and the hand indicated in what direction it 

 had gone. But all this requires time and patience on the 



Eart of the 1 j'alner, and much practice on the part of the 

 ounds, a 1 I there always will be sportsmen who will diflEer 

 as to what Lonsritntes a well-trained hound. 



In that portion of Connecticut, where the writer is at 

 home, the cotton-tail abounds, but the haunts ate most un- 

 favorable for hunter and hound. The brush is very thick, 

 difficult to get around in and affords numerous hiding 

 places for the game. For this reason your dogs should here 

 be close at hand, as in the coujcse of a day's hunt it is not 



unusual for a person to start quite as many rabbits as the 

 hounds themselves; and the brush being so dense, and a 

 good shot but infrequently to be thought of, it is desirable 

 to have your beagles answer to call at once. However, let 

 US hear fro7n others on this matter. The recent bench shows 

 have demonstrated that the little hound has many friends; 

 no doubt many of these follow the chase, and from them a 

 few words are solicited. Student. 

 Habtfobd, Conn. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



"Quester" asks if beagles should be trained, and wants to 

 know how, etc. It is not at all necessary to train them to 

 range and quarter like pointers and setters, nnr cau he be 

 trained to be under much control. I have hunted with 

 beagles for many years, generally use two and three couples. 

 I tisethem exclusively for hares and rabbits. 1 don't allow 

 them to rim foxes, so they will not leave a rabbit track for a 

 fox, but allow them fuUfreedom to bunt wherever they wish. 

 When I wish to leave one cover for some other, I blow a horn 

 and call them in, which they will coineto, without they arc 

 on track; then if I want them I have to catch them and tie 

 them up tmtil I get them all together. I always use the 

 horn when I want them to come for their food, which asso- 

 ciates something good with the sound of the horn. If ttiey 

 hole up a rabbit they should ol course remain at the hole and 

 give tongue until I come up, and if I have a ferret they will 

 stand some little distance from the hole, under great excite- 

 ment until the rabbit bolts, when it is great fun for them 

 and me. It is very seldom they catch one or that I can shoot 

 one, for my dogs are in danger; thus I ofteu hole up the 

 same rabbit three or four times, and then perhaps lose it. 

 I don't go out for quantity, but for sport. I know many pot- 

 hunters who laugh at me, as they say they can take a ferret 

 and kill twice as many as I do without any dog, by putting 

 the ferret into every hole they find, and when the rabbit 

 comes out, knock it in the head with a club, and think that 

 great sport, 1 do not at all mind sitting on the fence or a 

 log waiting for them to start the rabbit, and when "Quester" 

 gets as old as I am he will take a fence or log frequently. 

 The northern hare gives me the best sport,'"as he never 

 holes. S. P. M. 



Fx. Rowan, Ont. 



NOTES AND NOTIONS. 



I AM somewhat surprised, Mr. Editor, that you should 

 have admittedthe remarkable letters beaded "A Straight- 

 forward Challenge," the more so as 1 understood you to say 

 from the first that you declined the position of stakeholder. 

 Surely it has passed into an axiom that of all conceivable 

 arguments, the financial one is the nioHt utterly weak and 

 vain. In fact you know the opprobrious designation given it, 

 and 1 held you above even countenancing it in any shape. 

 The willingness to support one's opinions by a bet"^isinno 

 sense indicative of anything as to the question at issue, as a 

 stubborn, .self-opinionated man, who cannot see anything 

 but his own side and therefore the very man likely to be 

 wrong, is the one readiest to adopt the "argument." It must 

 be understood that these criticisms apply to no individual 

 (except you, Mr. liditor), as all other parties are entirely un- 

 known to me. 



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There are two perfectly legitimate ways ot settling such 

 differences of opinion as mark the case. One is to agree to 

 meet at specified dog shows, under judges of good repute, 

 and let that settle the question. This is evidently the 

 "straightforward" way of meeting the question, andthe only 

 one entirely free from any objection whatever. But if cir- 

 cumstances'donot permit the adoption of this mode, the next 

 plan in order of propriety is for the loser to bear the expenses 

 that naturally follow a special contest. This plan at least 

 eliminates the "money grubbing" element from the ca.se, 

 although nothing can be meaner than to infer cowardice, or 

 insincei-ity in expressed views, in a party declining such 

 a contest, for while the expense may be a matter of no 

 moment to A, it may be a most serious matter to B. To sum 

 up, nine out often "challenges" are vainglorious boastings, 

 best treated with silent contempt. 



Mr. Moore's purchase of Plinlimmon is a piece of thor- 

 oughly sound jtidgment that all breeders of any kind of dogs 

 would do well to pattern after. The mischief in many 

 breeders' operations is, that the dog himself is more con- 

 .sidered than his procreative powers, and any man, well i"ead 

 in dog lore, can cite many instances of great show dogs' utter 

 failures as getters of good stock, and not a few very in- 

 different ones who founded families of the greatest merit. T 

 cau recall a certain dog. himself the champion of his da v. 

 and the fountain head from whom comes the present type 

 of the breed, who was sired by a very indiJTerent specimen 

 who was palsied from infancy, and two other dogs, almost on 

 a plane with the first one I have in my mind, both of whom 

 were sad cripples and only moderate specimens. But the 

 vital point with all of them was that they demonstrated 

 their ability to get stock of the very highest class, and it is 

 most unfortunate that breeders are so prone to overlook the 

 consideration, above all others the important one to them, 

 what does the dog get? Here is where Mr. Moore's judgment 

 was shown, in securing the very foremost stud dog of his 

 breed, and whether other dogs are better show specimens, is 

 a matter of the very least significance. LTntil they demon- 

 strate that they can average as high in their produce as 

 Plinlimmon has done, their show form or merit goes for 

 very little. I trust that Mr. Moore will continue his display 

 of good judgment by showing Plinlimmon very little. When 

 a dog has so thoroughly shown his value as a stud dog and 

 won glory enough as a show dog. it seems murder to farther 

 task him by showing, thereby risking somewhat his prospects 

 of further value to the breed. 



*** 



No man will have more sympathy in the loss of a dog, than 

 will Mr. Page in his loss of Charles Davis, and in all the 

 ranks of dogmen, none can be found more thoroughly 

 deserving of sympathy, but it is well to point out that the 

 use of wide mesh wove wire for separating dogs, is very dan- 

 gerous. Accidents such as that which happened to Charles 

 Dans are uncommon, but if meshes are even wide enough 

 for dogs to even get a paw through they are dangerous, A 

 dog may very readily break a wire in such a "fence" and the 

 point of the broken wire may puncture a blood vessel, lead- 

 ing to most serious results. Such was once my experience, 

 and learning from it, I immediately changed niy fencing to 

 the closest mesh I could get, with specially heavy wire. 

 Such mesh cloth is not commonly kept in stock, but can 

 easily be procm-ed by specially ordering it, say from Sedge- 

 wick Bros., Richmond, Indiana. The Onlooker. 



One of the pillars of ougdom has gone the way of all dog 

 flesh. Dr. M. H. Cryer's old nhampion Max died April 30. 

 He was one of the foundations of the doctor's successful 

 kennel. Max was whelped July 6, 1883, so that the had 

 reached a rijje old age. His sire was the old champion Rod- 

 erick, dam Dolly. His last appearance we believe was in 

 1889, when he had to put up with second to his son Dude. 

 As a sire he was especially valuable, being responsible for 

 such well knovsTi dogs as champions Dude, Myrtle, Psyche, 

 Sallie and Tim, the sensational winner at New Y'ork in 1890, 

 and is grandsire of champion Bob Ivy. The cause of death 

 was supposed to have been apoplexy, as he was to all appear- 

 ances quite well, though very fat, biit was shortly after found 

 dead. 



EASTERN FIELD TRIALS DERBY ENTRIES. 



THE entries for the Eastern Field Trials Derby closed 

 May 1. with 51 English setters and 17 pointers, making 

 68 in all. This shows a falling off from last year when 83 

 were entered, among them 6 Irish setters, of which breed 

 there will be no representative at this year's trials. All the 

 dogs entered were whelped in 1890. 



ENGLISH SETTEES. 



Monk of Elms (Elmo Kennels'), dog, June 6, 1890 (Monk 

 of Fiirness— Countess Amelia). 



Sanbobk (Joseph H. and John Hunter's), black and white 

 dog, May 22, 1890 (Ben Hill— Daisy Hunter). 



Rod's Rodney (S. F. B. Biddle's), black, white and tan 

 dos. Aug. 11, 1890 (Roderi go— Fannie Gladstone). 



PPwIMA Donna (E. .1. Myers's), blue bel ton bitch, Aug. 4, 

 1890 (Rockingham— Donna). 



CODNT FeaTHEPvSTOne (E. O. Damon's), leuion and white 

 doa. March 3, 1890 (Count Noble— Flounce Gladstone). 



.Ti=;nn;IE F. (B. O. Damon's), black and white bitch, April 3, 

 1890 (Count Noble— Crladstone's Girl). 



Ladt Eveline (Blue Ridge Kennels'), black, white and 

 tan bitch. May 12. 1890 (Oath's Mark— Flame Gladstone). 



Oriole (Blue Ridee Kennels'), black and white bitch, 

 May 12, 1890 (Gath's M=irk— Flame Gladstone). 



Bob Cooper (Blue Ridge Kennels'), chestnut, white and 

 tan do£r, Feb 1S90 (Roi d'Or— Miss Nellie Y.) 



Count ANTia<;o (Chas. P. Stokes's), lemon and white dog, 

 April 1, 1S90 (Count Noble— Gladstone's Givl). 



Lucia (Herbert Mfi-riam's), black and white bitch, April 

 16, 1890 (Roderi go~Royal Myrtle). 



Wus LtTNG (N. T. Harris's), black and white dog, Febru- 

 ary. 1890 (Capt. Bethel— Enid). 



Tort Alice (F. R. Hitchcock's), black, white and tan 

 bitch, Oct, 2.S (,Jean Val .Jean— Mi.ss Thompson). 



LUMMAr K's Noble (Clover Hill Kennels'), Jemoo and white 

 doe. Oct. 7, IMOO (Count Noble— Florence Gladstone). 



Wagtail (O. W. Donner'.s), black, white and tan dog, 

 Feb. 21, 1890 (Roderigo— Belle of Piedmont). 



CeARLEY KIAN (J. M. Avent & Bayard Thayer's), black, 

 white and tan dog. February, 1890 (Roderigo ). 



MAF.CO ( J. M. Avent & Bayard Thayer's), black, white 

 and tan dog, March 12, 1890 (Jean Val .Jean — Lucy). 



AlphONSE (J. M. Avent tfc Bayard Thayer's), black, white 

 and tan dog, Aug. 2, 1890 (Jean Yal Jean— Haydee). 



Cammille (.J. M. Avent & Bayard Thayer's), black, white 

 and tan bitch, Aug. 2, 1890 (Jean Val Jean— Haydee). 



Sappho (Roval Phelps Carroll's), black, white and tan 

 bitch, 1890 (Roderigo— Ollie S.). 



IzA (Royal Phelps Carroll's), black, white and tan bitch, 

 1890 (Roderigo— OUie S.) 



Robespierre (Royal Phelps Carroll's), black, white and 

 tan dog, 1890 (Roderigo-Ollie S.). 



Efe Jay (F. J. U'Connell's), lemon belton dog, April 16, 

 1890 (Dad Wilson— Dashing Flora). 



Lady Elgin (J. I. Case, Jr.'s), black, white and tan bitch, 

 June 26, 1890 (King Noble— Queen Vashti). 



MoNNiE (J. I. Case, Jr.'s), tan and white bitch, June 36, 

 1890 (King Noble— Queen Vashti). 



Jenny Brailsfokd (Thos. Johnson's), black and white 

 bitch. April 27 (Frank Simpson— Jenny Dean). 



Dpchess OF Manitoba (Thos. .Johnson's), black and white 

 ticked bitch, April 26 (Dick Bondhu— Manitoba Belle). 



AMY' ROBSART (Harry Northwood's), lemon and white 

 bitch, April 16 (Dad Wilson— Bohemian Girl). 



Lady Dudley' (Harry North wood's), black and white ticked 

 bitch. March 19 (Gladstone's Boy— Diamond M.). 



Winnie Noble (J. H. Denny's), black and white bitch, 

 April 21 (Count Noble— Fannie). 



Bonnie Kate (J. H. Denny's), black, white and tan bitch, 

 Julv 19 (Gladstone Boy— Ploy W.). 



SiG Gladstone ( J. H. Denny's), black, white and tan dog, 

 March IS (Gladstone Boy— Diamond). 



Booth (B. Ridgway's), black, white and tan dog, March 

 (Kins Noble— Queen Vashti). 



TenNY'SON (B. Ridgeway's), orange and white dog, March 

 (King Noble— Queen Vashti). 



Wux Lung's Sister (S. G. McCartney's), liver, white and 

 ticked bitch, Feb 19 (Capt. Bethel— Enid). 



Hope's Mark (J. M. Lasseter's). black, white and tan dog, 

 Jan. 4 (Gath's Hope— Lady May). 



Hope's Gypsy (J. M. Lasseter's), liver and white ticked 

 bitch, March 39 (Gath's Hope— Dimple). 



AeliNE (J. Shelley Hudson's), lemon and white bitch, 

 April 16 (Dad Wilson— Bohemian Girl). 



CINCINNATUS II. (W. F. Burdell and J. D. Poston's), black, 

 white and tan doe. May (Cincinnatus— Nell S.). 



LATONfA II. (W. F. Burdell and J. D. Poston'.?), black, 

 white and tan bitch, January (Paul Gladstone— Latonia). 



Salvator (N. Wallace's), black, white and tan dog, April 

 II (Rowdy Rod— Pearl Noble). 



Maud Noble (N. Wallace's), black, white and tan bitch, 

 Anril 11 (Rowdy Rod— Pearl Noble). 



LORA (Pierre Lorillard, Jr.'s), black, white and tan bitch, 

 April 1 (Gladstone's Body— Ruby D.). 



Miss Ruby (Pierre Lorillard, Jr.'s), white bitch, April 1 

 (Gladstone's Boy— Ruby D.). 



Virago (Pierre Lorillard, Jr.'s), black, white and tan 

 bitch, Feb. 3 (Rowdy— Liberty). 



HiLBURN (Pierre Lorillard, Jr.'s) lemon and white dog, 

 .Jan. 23 (Ben Hill— Belle of Stanton). 



Palsy (PieiTe Lorillard, Jr.'s), black white and tan bitch, 

 June 20 (Paul Gladstone— Miss Elsie). 



Nat's Girl (F. S. Brown and J. B. Ellison's), black, 

 white and tan bitch. July (Nat Good win— Hazel). 



Nat's Boy (F. S. Brown and J. W. Ellison's), black, 

 white and tan hitch, July (Nat Goodwin— Hazel). 



Ildphonse (J. E. Dager's), (Toledo Blade— Lizzie Glad- 

 stone). 



McMurdo (W. B. Meares's), black, white and tan dog, 

 Feb. 0 (Roi d'Or— Mildred). 



pointers. 



Bannerman II. (Dr. C. E. Michel's), black and white dog, 

 Aug. 1 ( Bannerman— Main-Dell). 



Ban-Dell (Dr. C. E. Michel's), liver and white bitch, Aug. 

 1 (Rannerman— Main-Dell). 



Outcast (Charlottesville Kennels'), liver and white ticked 

 dog. .June 12 (King of Kent— Hops). 



Exile (Charlottesville Kennels'), black and white ticked 

 dog, June 12 (Kin.g of Kent— Hops). 



Kentish Lass (Charlottesville Kennels'), black and white 

 ticked bitch. June 12 (King of Kent— Hops). 



Mainstay (Charlottesville Kennels'), black and white 

 ticked dog. May 31 (Mainspring— Barmaid). 



Black Wonder (.Joseph H. and John A. Hunter's), black 

 dog, Jan. 31 (Ike— Bang Bang's Pride). 



Tory' Squire (F. R. Hitchcock's), liver fand white dog, 

 Sept. 6 (Duke of Hessen— Westminster Ina). 



Tory Viscot^fT (P. R. Hitchcock's), liver and white dog, 

 Sept. 6 (Duke of Hessen— Westminster Ina). 



Tory Duke (P. R. Hitchcock's), liver and white dog, Sept. 

 6 (Duke of Hessen— Westminster Ina). 



Miss Aikos (Beresford Kennels'), black and white bitch,' 

 July (Aikos— Loiie). 



Dauntless (Beresford Kennels'), black and white bitch, 

 Julv (Aikos— Lorle). 



Flockfinder Three (Col. J. P. Purcell's), dog. 



Tall Son of York (Col. J. P. Purcell's), dog. 



SCHOTTISCHE (Col. J. P. Purcell's), bitch. 



Rex (A. J. Latta, Jr.'s), liver and white dog, Jan. 9 (Rqk 

 —Fanny). 



Westminster Dick (Westminster Kennel Club's), liver 

 and white dog,;May 10 (Naso of Kippen— Glauca), 



