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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[JiTNE 35, 1891. 



Watertown, N. Y.— We are catching a few black 

 bass here, I picked up 9 yesterday afternoon in the Oswe- 

 gatchie. Up Black Like, 14 miles south, two boats (three 

 men) are reported catching 72 on Tuesday last with 

 minnows,— Pack Basket, 



OHIO FISH COMMISSION. 



THE Ohio Pish and G-ame Commissloti. consistiHg of Dr. 

 J. A. Henshall, Cincinnati; E. D. Potter, Toledo; J. H. 

 Newton, Newark; W. R. Huntinscton, Cleveland; and Henry 

 Graefe, Sandusky, met at Toledo, Monday, Jane 8. Mr. 

 Graefe is a new member, succeeding C. V. Ostaorn. The 

 board was reorganized, and the following officers were 

 elected; Dr. J. A. Henshall, president; Henry Graefe, secre- 

 tary; Geo. W. Hull, chief warden; Wm. Lanz, superintendent 

 of hatch ei'ies. 



The Avork of the Commission this year has been very satis- 

 factory. In April 40,000,000 young whitefish were deposited 

 in Lake Erie from the Sandusky hatchery, and in May 

 15,000,000 pike-perch were successf ally hatched and planted 

 in the same lake. The superintendent, Mr. Lanz, with his 

 assistants lately yisited Pox Island and Gros He; in Detroit 

 River, obtaining a large quantity of sturgeon eggs, which 

 are now in process of incubation; part of them in floating 

 boxes in Detroit River and part in the hatching jars at the 

 Sandusky hatchery. A great deal of interest is manifested 

 as to the result of these experiments, as the sturgeon is be- 

 coming quite rare and is in great demand. 



A railroad flsh-car is being built for the Commission by 

 the Litchfield Car Company in Illinois. This car will be 

 utilized almost entirely for stocking the interior waters of 

 the State with black bass, rock bass, calico bass, ci'oppies, 

 wall-eyed pike, and other desirable game and food fishes, 

 which'will be obtained from overflowed lagoons and bayous 

 along the Mississippi and Illinois Rivera. 



THE DELAWARE RIVER SHAD.- We have from Col. 

 John Gay, of the U. S. Pish Commission, who has just re- 

 turned from the station at Gloucester City, N. J,, the fol- 

 lowing interesting notes on the shad. As in all the other 

 great shad rivers, the number of eggs obtained for artificial 

 propagation was much smaller than was expected; but more 

 eggs have been deposited naturally in the upper waters 

 than for many years. The shad have ascended more than 

 800 miles and the river has been restored to its normal con- 

 dition, by means of the fishery at Lackawaxen, for the first 

 time since 1823, and is to-day the best shad river in the coun- 

 try. One of the peculiar features of the run in the lower 

 river was the large number of big female shad and the 

 scarcity of maies, followed by a long run up river before 

 spawning. This is attributed to' the low temperature during 

 May. On account of the drought there is nothing but cold 

 spring water flowing into the upper river and the tempera- 

 ture has been very low; the warmer surface water usually 

 supplied by rains was lacking and the anglers have felt the 

 effects of the singular natural conditions. 



PENNSYLVANIA FISH COMMISSION.— Mr. George H. 

 Welshons, the well-known newspaper correspondent, of 

 Pittsburg. Pa., has been appointed a member of the Penn- 

 sylvania Fish Commission, to succeed Mr. J. V. Long. The 

 Commission is now discributing landlocked salmon several 

 months old from the Alleutovvn hatchery. Many thousands 

 of brook trout are yet to be sent out. 



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. 



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

 YoTingst^wn. O. 



Sept. 9 to 11.— First Annuil Dog Show of the Hamilton Kennel 

 Club, at Hamilton, Ont. 



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

 International Dor Show, at Toronto. C. A. Stone, Sec'y and Sunt. 



Sept. 23 to 25.— Inaugural Dog Show of the Montreal Exposition 

 Companv, at Montreal, Canada. 



Sept. 39 to Oct. 1.— Third Annual Dog Show, in connection with 

 the Central Canada Fair, at Ottawa, Ont. Alfred Geddes, Supt. 

 1892. 



Jan. 13 to 14.— Second Annual Dog Show of the South. Carolina 

 Kennel Association, at Columbia, S. C . F. P. Capers, Secretary, 

 Greenville, S. O. 



FIELD TRIALS. 



Nov. 2.— Inaugural Trials of the United States Field Trial Club, 

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



Nov. 18.— Eastern Field Trials Club's Thirteentb Annual Trials, 

 at Higb Point, N, O. Members' Stake Nov. 13. W. A. Coster, 

 SeTetarv. 



Nov. 30.— Central Field Trial Club's Third Annual Trials, at 

 L-xington, N. C. C. H. Odell, Sec'y, 44 and 46 Wall street, New 

 York city. 



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

 Connell, Secretary. 



MASTIFF JUDGES. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



In "Dog Chat" you say that mastiff judges are scarce with 

 us. Permit me to kick. They are only scarce at shows, 

 there being plenty in the country. It goes without saying 

 that Mr. Mason is a tip top judge of the breed, but the 

 American Mastiff Club seems to care for everything more 

 tha,n for good judges of their breed; and a certain show club 

 and certain exhibitors promine7it in the A, K. C. take 

 trouble to advise shows that they will not exhibit if Mr. 

 Mason judges any breed. Mr. Chas. E. Wallaek is an excel- 

 lent judge; I never saw mastiff's better judged than when 

 Mr. Wallaek judged at Newark show, Mr, W. N. Rolinson, 

 of Boston, is a first-class judge; he has known more famous 

 mastiffs of the present and of the older days than any man 

 in America, a nd I can only think of Messrs. Nichols, Han- 

 bury, Mellor and Wynn in England that may have more 

 knowledge of this than Mr. Rolinson, and in addition Mr. 

 Rolinson has the true "dog eye" needed in a judge. Mr. E. 

 H. Moore judged mastiff's with complete satisfaction at 

 Boston this year. No man living has more accurate ideas of 

 mastiffs, or can discern merit and failings quicker, than 

 Arthur Trickett. And Mr. Watson is a good judge of mas- 

 tiffs, although I have not seen his work in that line for so 

 long that I cannot speak as thoroughly of him as of the 

 others; but it is certain that he could not butcher up classes 

 as some pet judges do. 



k For small shows that must have one judge for all, I can 

 point out Mr. John Davidson, who knows a dog thoroughly 

 and cannot go far wrong. "Uncle Dick" knows more than 

 the alphabet about pretty much all breeds of dogs and has 

 the distinction of being the fix-st to put C. O. D. to the 

 front. A knowledge of the innate modesty and love of re- 

 tirement of Ms Majesty, the editor, prevents me from en- 



larging on his abilities. Out West there is Mr. Chas. B. 

 Bann, who has as accurate an idea of mastiffs as anybody I 

 Itnow of. I know be formed the truest estimate of C. O. D. 

 of about any critic I heai-d, noting among other things the 

 overdone merit of her deeply .sunken eyes. Unless I am 

 much rnistaken Mr. George Wilson's knowledge of mastiffs 

 comes in close to his most complete knowledge of grey- 

 hounds, black and tans and collies. My own opinion is that 

 Messrs. Mason, Rolinson, Trickett and Wallaek are the 

 equals of any specialist mastiff" judges in the world. Oh, I 

 assure you, mastiff judges, and good ones, are plenty enou.gh, 

 but as long as some clubs estimate the capacity of a judge 

 to arrive at sound conclusions as one of the least of his 

 merits, his "sassiety" standing or good fellowship with 

 them being the main consideration, we will have the uni- 

 form butcherings that have prevailed at New York for 

 years; and as long as exhibitors vent their petty spite by 

 boycotting a judge, even when they have no intere.st in the 

 breed he judges, we will not see merit to the front until the 

 ''Evil Spirit, Bakbon" is more a pulffic feature. 



W. Wade. 



HtTKrON, Pa., Juue 20. 



[We wrote: "We are notoriously short of good mastiff 

 judges, or at least those who are available."] 



AMERICAN KENNELS.— 1. 



DUNROBIN KENNELS. 



TO one who has been compelled to spend the week at a 

 desk, a run into the fresh air of the country is indeed a 

 treat. The leaves on the trees look greener and the grass 

 seems brighter after a lengthy sojourn in the city. At any 

 rate, these were my thoughts as I rattled along in the cars 

 of the Delaware, Lackawana & Western road up the steep 

 grade to Summit, N. J., in comnany with young Mr. George 

 Shepaxd Page, wlio had invited me to see his kennels. The 

 journey did not seem long— it never does when one meets a 



the wire partition meekly lowered his head between his fore- 

 legs and waited to be scratched. I scratched him, enjoying 

 the novel sensition as much perhaps as the coon, but from 

 dift'erent motives, while Lufi-a looked on in disgust, and 

 elevated her lips with an expression that boded ill for the 

 coon did he venture outside. Sharing the coon's compart- 

 ment is a skunk, whose " vindictiveness" has, happily, been 

 rendered abortive. 



Behind the house and ranged along a dense wood which 

 aft'nrds ample shelter from the sun, are the kennels, a 

 sketch of which, without the runs, appears below. This 

 building has quite a rustic appearance, being built to one- 

 half its height in rough stone, the rest and the roof is of 

 wood covered with bark, the roof overhanging several feet. 

 Inside I found four compartments about 10xl3ft., with 

 cemented floors, which in this weather afford a cool restin.g 

 place for the dogs. About -Sft. from the floor are the sleep- 

 ing benches, which run the length of the kennel, and which 

 can be folded back or not, as desired. A flap door 

 leads into the several yards, each of which is about 

 12x.30ft.; then in turn open into a large room of about half 

 an acre, half of which is dense woodland, affording a cool 

 retreat for the dogs on the hottest dij. The fences are 

 about 6ft. high and composed of large me.sh wire , not large 

 enough for a deerhound's head to slip through, but quite so 

 for a greyhound, as poor Charles Davis found to his cost, 

 leaving Maud Torrington the only greyhound on the place. 

 Along the front of the kennels and divided from the fence 

 by a breadth of 10ft. is a higb outside fence, which was 

 made for a jumping ground, and also affords a double 

 boimdary wall, a useful thing where deerhounds or grey- 

 hounds are kept. 



Maud was in the first compartment, and as she bounded 

 toward us I thought I never saw ber looking so well. As 

 hard as nails and without an ounce of superfluous flesh, she 

 looks fit to run anytime. During the past sea so a, though 

 she was not in as good trim as she might have been, she 

 held her own in the ring with the best of them. Her breed- 

 ing is unknown. She is a handsome, well-made, fawn and 



DUNROBIN DEERHOUND KENNEL. 



man yyith tastes congenial, one who is fond of dogs and 

 horses, for one never seems to tire of talking on such sub- 

 jects. A kennel editor must make himself familiar with 

 what is going on in all breeds of dogs. One moment he 

 may have a call from a man who thinks there is no subject 

 worth discussing but St. Bernards. To this one must he 

 talk knowingly of the Bediveres and Plinlimmons, and 

 enter into all the pros and cons of dewclaws, depth of muz- 

 zle and dark shadings. Tne office boy comes in to say Mr. 

 Highland Chief wishes to see you— this is a greyhound 

 man— and instantly one's thoughts must take the '"curve," 

 and long, lean heads, rib development, and all the other in- 

 tricacies of a greyhound's make up are discussed, along with 

 pedigrees and so forth, that only an expert on the breed is 

 expected to know, and which the poor editor finds hard 

 work to separate in the long list of breeds he is called upon 

 to discuss in the course of a week. This is di.gressing, I 

 know, but it all leads rrp to the subject of our chat— deer- 

 hounds and greyhounds. 



The .spring shows and the awards made by the different 

 judges; guesses at the reasons for their decisions; whether 

 such and such a dog would beget stock likely to in any way 

 equal himself, etc., etc., all came up for discussion. We 

 had just drifted nicely into horses and the anticipated 

 merits of a yearling that Mr. Page has bred, in whose veins 

 ran much Hambletonian blood, and which he is impatient 

 to see between the shafts, when even I heard the bralieman 

 call— Summit. We were quickly seated behind two sturdy 

 looking trotters of Morgan Vilood, who showed their appre- 

 ciation of the excellent roads by bowling along at a fast 

 gait, which quickly carried us over the two and a half miles 

 which separate Stanley, where Mr. Page's home is situated, 

 from the sLalioii. The road has been gradually rising until, 

 when the gates of what has been termed Stanley Park w^ere 

 reached, a^splendid view of the surrounding country can be 

 seen, As we drove up we were greeted by Dunrobin Lufra, 

 who is the only one allowed the privilege of the house. 

 This is a nice dark brindle bitch, by old Dunrobin out of 

 Countess Zina, one of Mr. Thayer's bitches. She has nice 

 body formation, but is rather small-sized; she boasts a 

 pleasing and well-shaped head. She has been bred to Bruar, 

 of whom I shall have something to say further on. 



As my time is limited we make for the kennels at once, 

 and crossing the lawn my attention is drawn to an enclosure 

 in which two rustic looking little htits afford shelter to, in 

 one compartment, some white rabbits, the property of a 

 younger brother of Mr. Page's, and in the other I saw the 

 sharp snout of a coon poked through an open window. After 

 a little whistling his coonship trotted out, and climbing up 



white bitch, and her loin now looks as strong as the pro- 

 verbial "beme." Imported early this year she was shown at 

 Binghamton, winning first, following this up with another 

 first at the National Greyhound Club's show in February, a 

 second at New York, firsts at Baltimore and Pittsburgh 

 quickly followed, and then she was re.serve to Gem of the 

 Season in the challenge class at Boston. 



In the next compartments we found such well-known deer- 

 hounds as Argyle, Duncan, Bruar, Alida and Bevis, all 

 seemingly on the best of terms, though occasionally Duncan 

 and Bruar have a little misunderstanding. I will take them 

 in the order named. Argyle has been seen in public several 

 times. He is by Dunrobin' out of the old bitch Shelloch, and 

 was whelped January, 1889, Mr. Page bred him. Argyle 

 seemed in rugged health, as befits a deerhound. His excel- 

 lent head, chest, loins and legs were very noticeable. Argyle's 

 winnings are second 1S9() and vhc. reserve 1891, at New 

 York. "These dogs have mo.st of them been desciibed in the 

 dift'erent show reports, so that it is needless to go into their 

 good or bad points, as this is not a bench show report but 

 just a little friendly dog chat. Next to claim our attention 

 is Duncan, a fine upstanding dog, with whose points behind 

 the shoulder little fault can be found, and who is exception- 

 ally strong in loin. He was also in good condition. Duncan 

 is about a year older than Argyle, but claims the same 

 parentage. He is not as good in head as Argyle. He won 

 viic. at New Y^'ork last spring. Th en I turned to Bruar II, , who 

 is a new one, and a fairly well-made dog with excellent 

 body, legs and feet, and 'a good head. He is by Bruar 

 was whelped Dec. 33, 1S87, and is by Mr. Edward's Jock out 

 of Duchess of Wellington's Lady Garry; Jock, by Edward's 

 Gunner out of Edward's Dora Belle; Lady Garry, by Momi 

 II. out of Lufra. This dog came from the Uuchess of Well- 

 ington's kennels. He won first and special at Binghamton 

 and third at Pittsburgh, 1891. 



Alida. put her nose in my hand and as I turned to look at 

 her I recognized another of the New York entries. She is 

 also by Dunrobin out of SheUoch and a litter sister to 

 Argyle'. She took reserve at the last New Y'ork show, 

 second at Baltimore, and first at Pittsburgh, 1891. She 

 is just a fair, useful bitch. Bevis, by Chieftain out of 

 Counte-ss Zina, cannot be said to be a credit to his sire, as he 

 does not compare with the others. 



We then tru-ned to the adjoining yard, which contains 

 the puppies and bitches with whelp. This is a large yard, 

 150 by 25ft., which runs well into the cool woods, Here we 

 found three pups by Bruar out of Shelloch. One, a dark 

 brindle, bids fair to have an excellent long head but is not 

 so gb"od in hddy as one Of the others. There were two dogs 



