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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[JULT 2, 1891* 



NEVADA FISHCULTURE. 



£!dUor Forest and Stream 



We have now in our State hatchery some 700,000 fry of the 

 brook trout {SalvcMnus fontinnlis) m a perfectly healthy 

 condition and with extraordinary appetites, requiring them 

 to be fed three times per diem. "We are now distributing 

 them as fast as possible to individuals and stocking public 

 waters. Mr. B. Close, in charge of State hatchery, left here 

 last evening with 130,000 fry for Humbolt River and its 

 tributaries; Carson River and tributaries, LaJie Tahoe and 

 Washoe, have already received their quota. We have some 

 25,000 fry of the landlocked salmon still in the troughs, 

 which will be kept until the fall and then distributed. 



Some two years ago I placed about 1,000 fry of the Macki- 

 naw trout {Salveltnus navuiyciish) in a small stream in the 

 southern part of this State; they are now being heard from 

 in the shape of 3 and 4lb. fish. 



The Sacramento River perch, transplanted some five years 

 ago, are now being taken in Walker Lake in large quanti- 

 ties, affording most excellent sport with fly; fish weighing 

 2 and 31bs. are quite common. 



This fall the Commission, iC feasible, will establish a 

 branch hatcherv at Elko, in the eastern portion of this State, 

 which will have a capacity of 500,000 ova. This hatcheiy 

 will dispense with the transportation of fish from the main 

 hatchery to that portion of the State, which has always been 

 attended with a large percentage of lo.ss; and a greater section 

 where streams are abundaut will be reached and stocked. 



The last session of the Nevada Legislature passed almost 

 an entire new law as regards seasons, illegal fishing, etc. It 

 gives the trout in streams from Oct. 1 to April 1 of each year 

 as a close season; and trout in lakes from Jan. 1 to April 1 

 close season. This is something the State never had before; 

 the former law permitted fishing with hook and line at any 

 season of the year. The measure was vigorou.sly opposed by 

 the market fishermen and a few dealers in trout. Under the 

 new law the Commission hopes to be able, with the assi.st- 

 ance of the various county peace officers, to put a stop to the 

 heretofore wholesale slaughter of trout while ascending 

 rivers on their way to spawning beds. 



The efforts of the Commission to prevent the illegal dump- 

 ing of sawdust and refuse from lumber mills in the Truckee 

 River have been in a measure encouraged, and, with the 

 promised assistance of the Commission of our adjoining 

 State, California, we hope to stop the practice entirely. 



G. T. M. 



Carson City, Nevada. 



HATCHING LAKE STURGEON.— In our issue of June 

 25 we mentioned the experiment by the Ohio Fish Commis- 

 sion with the lake sturgeon in Detroit River. Dr. Henshall, 

 president of the Commission, has since informed us that the 

 jars did not give satisfaction for tliis work, but in the float- 

 ing boxes, used by Superintendent Lanz in Detroit River, 

 between five and six millions of eggs were developed and 

 the fry liberated in the stream. The water seemed to be 

 too warm in the hatchery at Sandusky, and all the eggs 

 sent there died. The expense of this interesting and im- 

 portant experiment was not over $100 Mr. Lanz found no 

 ttilHculty in getting eggs from the females by pressure alone 

 and the breeding fish were returned to the water alive. 



NEBRASKA.— The appointment by Governor Thayer of 

 Joseph H. Blair as a member of the State Fish Commission, 

 to succeed B. E. B. Kennedy, resigned, will meet the ap 

 proval of all who take an interest in flqhculture. Mr. Blair 

 is an angler of wide experience and repute; but with his 

 love for the sport he combines a scientific knowledge of the 

 finny tribe gained from much reading and personal investi- 

 gation. In this Western country those having practical, 

 useful knowledge of the science' of flshculture are rare, 

 hence Governor Thayer's appointment of Mr. Blair is most 

 fortunate. The Commission consists of three members, 

 Mr. Lew May and Mr. T. McBride, of Fremont, being the 

 other two members.— O77ia7io Mercury. 



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 the youngstown Kennel Club, a) 

 Youngstown. O. 



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

 Clab, at HamiltoQ, Ont. 



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

 International Dog Show, at Toronto. O. A. St<'ue, Sec'y and Sunt. 



Sept. 22 to 2n.— Inaugural Dog Show of the Moutreal Exposition 

 Company, at Montreal, Canada. 



Sept. 29 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. F. Capers, Secretary, 

 Greenville, S. C. 



FIELD TRIALS, 



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

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



Nov. 16.— Eastern Field Trials Clnb's Thirteenth Annual Trials, 

 at High Point, N. C. Members' Slake Noa^ 12. W. A. Coster, 



^NovTai?— Central Field Trial Club's Third Annual Trials, at 

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

 York city. 



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

 Connell, Secretary. 



THE ENGLISH BULLDOG CLUB SHOW. 



Mr. C. F. Jackson's rep'ort 

 We have been asked so many times, especially by bulldog 

 men, for some means by which they can form an adequate 

 idea of the different winners on the other side with a view 

 to purchase, that we think such a report as this will no 

 doubt have a good effect and result in additional importa- 

 tions of the dog that some jealous people say is "all broke 

 up" over his own ugliness. Mr, Jackson writes: 



•'1 wish that I couid haveavoided having to decide against 

 either of two such grand specimens as Bedgebury Lion and 

 British Monarch, but I have no doubt that, in selecting 

 Bedgebury Lion for premier position, I chose the dog of the 

 greatest intrinsic merit. In only two respects is B. Monarch 

 better than his antagonist, i. e., in taper of back from 

 shoulders tc stem, viewed from behind, and in the width of 

 underjaw. B. Lion is certainly beefy in his hindquarters; 

 in B. Monarch the frontal eminences are absent, wiiilethey 

 are very pronouaced in B. Lion, whose cushion also is very 

 near the ideal. B, Monarch is very much the wider across 

 the shoulders, but B. Lion is sufficiently so to pass muster 

 as a good bulldog, and to satisfy me. So often as the two dogs 

 ftre allpwed to move with their fnU f reednm in the ring, with 



a view to a comparison with regard to function, the issue 

 can never be in doubt. B. Lion is simply a marvel of activity 

 whereas B. Monarch is markedly slothful andlaeking in en- 

 ergy. I was glad of the opportunity of showing how good 

 a dog I consider Pathfinder by placing him in front of cham- 

 pion D at hoi ite and Romance. Of his overwhelming supe- 

 riority there cannot be a shadow of doubt; he is excellent in 

 shoulders, lay-back and set-up. The others have no point 

 in the superlative. 



Dryad, alone in the heavy-weight challenge bitch class, 

 has certainly a grandly-formed head for a bitch, but I con- 

 sider the shape of her body lacks character to a very great 

 extent. 



In the light weight challenge class for dogs, Grabber 

 came out full of years and honors, and won. If only for the 

 narrowness across his loins, in comparison with the width 

 across his shoulders (which I call taper of body), and for the 

 fire and vivacity with which he shows himself in the ring, 

 he will find a place on the bead roll of fame, so long as there 

 are bulldog fanciers. I preferred Forceps to Don Pedro for sec- 

 ond prize, because Forceps is shorter on leg, has more bone, 

 and is shorter in back; but Don Pedro is certainly better out 

 at shoulder, and has an infinitely better formed" foreface, it 

 being square instead of round, as Forceps' is. Previous to 

 judging them together, I should not have said Enfield Grab- 

 t>er would be the inferior of the four, but, on comparing 

 them, he certainly is, being very flat-sided aud lacking promi- 

 nence of frontal bones, and he is not sufficiently out at shotil- 

 der. He is a dog who has completely upset my early expec- 

 tations of him. 



Ayessha was alone in the challenge class for light-weight 

 bitches. I can see nothing very striking about her. 



Open classes: Dogs over .561bs. weight. — No doubt it is a 

 pity that King Orry has decided black in his coloring; but. 

 as he is 95 per cent, white, what is so small a percentage of 

 undesirable color \a a nog whose head is certainly one of the 

 best formed and finished I ever remember to have seen la 

 any bulldog, let alone a big one! I certainly consider him 

 immeasurably suiserior to anything else in this class. This 

 is more than I can now write about H. M. Stanley, who is 

 wretched iu front of eye, and sadly deficient in much that 

 goes to make a good bulldog. I am now almost sure Jemmy 

 should have beaten him. Aston Lion has a froggy appear- 

 ance. I dou't say he is froggy, but he has the same outline, 

 viewed side face, as Mr. Shirley's Firefly and Mrs. Raby's 

 Lord Arthur, which I consider very objectionable. Boor's 

 Czar struck me in the ring as having a head too small in pro- 

 portion to hi.s body, aud his ears are not carried quite as 

 they should be. Still, I fancy if I could have altered my 

 awards in the calm, after judging. Czar would have gone 

 to third prize. Big bulldogs are so wholly opposed to 

 my fancies, so alien to all I desire in a bulldog, that proba- 

 ably it was only natural that I was not able to satisfy myself 

 as to their respective merits. Rustic Sovereign and Bill 

 Richardson were absent, so I escaped having to pass an opin- 

 ion upon them. Force died on his journey up to this show, 

 which is much to be regretted. I admired him when I last 

 saw him alive. He was certainly much truer to type than 

 most big bulldogs, that is to say, if he weighed 551bs. Big 

 Buffalo Bill I considered the caput morlimm of the show- 

 he IS so far from being an example of the breed that he may 

 almost lie pointed to as a warning of what breeding for size 

 will produce. 



Bitches over 451bs. weight.— Again in this class I am not 

 at all sure that I placed the winners in the right order. The 

 three winners stood out distinctly from the rest of the class, 

 but whether Carrie and Indra should not have beaten Saleni 

 I doubt. Saleni, as she appeared before me, was a complete 

 shock. The sight of one eye was dimmed, her jaws were in 

 a sad state, and she was shrunken iu girth of brisket. Nor 

 was Indra produced in at all blooming condition. In fact, 

 Carrie was the only one of the three shown fit and well. 

 Thev are undoubtedly a grand trio, so that I fancy I ought 

 to have allowed condition more influence in my awards. 



Dogs over 451bs. weight. — This class was unmistakably 

 the best that entered the ring. If six prizes had been offered 

 instead of four, they could all have been awarded to real 

 clinking good bulldogs. When I saw German Monarch and 

 His Lordship on the bench, after judging, it struck me I had 

 gone wrong, so I had them in the viug again, when I am 

 glad to say I was satisfied with my previous decision. His 

 Lordship is shorter in back, lower on leg and altogether 

 more compact than German Monarch, but he requires cushion 

 and bone in front of the eye to make a tip-topper- points 

 that German Monarch is richly endowed with. I admired 

 His Lordship's air of stolid indifference on the bench, and 

 his devil-me-care rolling gait in the ring. Guido, only fourth 

 here, I am prepared to see shortly placed much higher, as he 

 has been bought for a kennel from which he will be shown 

 in a way a bulldog should be. His face and head are very 

 eon-spicuous, being well nigh perfect, but he showed so much 

 daylight under him that I placed him as high as his present 

 form merited. Still, without doubt, he has the making of 

 a really superb bulldog in every inch of him. I admired 

 him so immensely at Manchester, where I first saw him, that 

 I never anticipated he would have to succumb to such a dog 

 as Phnlax. The latter's form can never be improved— his 

 faulty tail must forever handicap him. Bilali is an un- 

 lucky dog, far above the average, and yet with nothing 

 striking to lift him into the front ranks. His head 

 is wide, but not sufliciently deep. Lord Trevor is accurate 

 in conformation, and should play a big part among the 

 ordinary company seen at provincial shows. Holy Friar I 

 discarded for the color of his nose and eyes, conveying, to 

 my mind, a strong suspicion of Dudley. 



Bitches over 351bs. weight.— The quality in this class, I 

 think, was disappointing, I preferred the gray-colored 

 Peek ham Lass, who looks like being a rare bitch to breed 

 from. Armida I once much liked, but I could not form any 

 accurate opinion of her on this occasion, as her face was 

 swollen. She has an ugly tail, but I remember I considered 

 her cheap when claimed at her catalogue price of £-10 at the 

 club's last year's show. I was informed, the day after 

 judging, that no less an accredited authority on the bulldog 

 than Mr. Vero Shaw had stated that he considered Tomsh 

 (placed reserve in this clas.s) was the best specimen, and 

 should have won. Be this as it may, I cannot, by any show- 

 ing, value her, with her long tail and dreadfully long back, 

 higher than I placed her. 



Dogs under 451bs. weight.— Another commendable lot of 

 bulldogs were to be seen in this class. Of the fact that Mor- 

 ris's Prince George scales less than His Lordship, the winner 

 in the previous dog class, Iamsceptical,butl was assured by 

 the secretarv that Prince George qualified to compete in this 

 cla.ss by Mlh. Such being the case, he, of course, smothered 

 the class. " The second prize in this class I gave to Orphan 

 Lad, nor do I in the least repent doing so. He is fair only in 

 face and quite up to average in skull, but his whole charac- 

 ter is very strikingly attractive. That he is deformed in any 

 way I deny; that he unfortunately has a trick of turning his 

 toes in instead of out I admit; and I think be conclusively 

 demonstrated by the freedom with which he moved in the 

 ring that he was no cripple. Hone.st as the intentions of 

 many critics may undoubtedly be, they are full of partiali- 

 ties and prejudices. They enter a show with their verdicts 

 already prepared, and they can no more write dispassion- 

 ately of any dog other than their particular fancy, than 

 can a mother about her own children. Ashton Billy is a 

 very typical light-weight dog. I wish I could have placed 

 him higher than thii-d, which, with Prince George in a 

 heavier class, [ could have done. The appearance for the 

 first time of King Lud in an open class is a valuable addi- 

 tion to the light-weight bulldogs that are exhibited. He is 

 agi-andyeungdogtolookat, buthespoUahis chance whenhe 



moves. Instead of a rolling gait, found with a pear-shaped 

 front, he struts his legs out sideways in walking, so that his 

 feet are further apart than his legs are at their setting on to 

 the shoulders. The black and tan, .Satan II., I rightly (or 

 wrongljT) refused to judge, on account of his color. ~If I had 

 judged him be would probably have had a prcminent posi- 

 tion in my awards, and that would to a certainty have raised 

 a hue and cry. Just in the same way I refiised to judge 

 Dick XL, though I admire his getting, and think him a most 

 useful stud dog. Still his wall-eye and split nostril debar 

 him from any possible chance in an open competition. I 

 rather fancy that in no dog in the show is physical weak- 

 ness and degeneracy of pluck more exemplified than in 

 Tommy Truckle. 



Bitches under 351bs. weight.— It was in this class that I 

 discovered in Nina Fidget the bitch that pleased my eye 

 best in the whole show. Granted that on occasions she can 

 raise her ears almost to prick tbem, itshould be remembered 

 that these ears of hers are wonderfully small and thin, and 

 are more often than not carried rose shape, and were so 

 while she was in the ring. She showed such distinct ex- 

 cellence to any other bitch in the show that I cannot believe 

 her victories came as a surprise to impartial men, who are 

 strict followers of the club's standard. I have no doubt but 

 that if any artist should depict her he may very likely in fut ure 

 jrears be accused (by those who have not seen her) of having- 

 exaggerated her marvellous muscular development and 

 compactness. It seems only fair and proper, therefore, for 

 me to leave it on record that no artist needs to be untruth- 

 ful. Rather, be it remembered, that all he did was to select 

 an animal without a compeer among her own sex so far as 

 typicality is concerned. Magic would have beaten Salvo 

 for third place in this class if she could have moved her 

 hindquarters in the ring. 



NoA^ceDog Class.— This was headed by Orphan Lad and 

 King Lud. Lord Yarmouth, a coarse, undesirable type of 

 dog, was third, and A la Mode, whose skin was in a miser- 

 able plight, fourth. The last-named is small-skulled, but 

 his shoulders are immense, and he struck me as being a 

 good class of dog. 



Novice Bitch Class. — Was not up to average. Bar the 

 winner, there was nothing to make me wish to break the 

 tenth commandment. Ninepins has a nice expression, good 

 stop and lay-back, but she is otherwise faulty all through. 



Dog Puppy Class.— Quite the worst class I can remember 

 ever to have seen at the club's show. 



Bitch Puppy Class.— I cannot describe this as a strong 

 cla.ss for quality, though the entries were fairly numerous 

 (15). I am aware 1 outraged public opinion by placing the 

 diminutive Zohara first, but, as I saw her at-7 months old, 

 she gave distinct promise of making a bitch in every way 

 cut out to compete in the under 351bs. class — in which class, 

 given average luck during the next 12 months, she will take 

 a tremendous amount of beating. Stanford Mary is of nice 

 type and will figure again. Sister Dora was objected to as 

 being over age; she certainly a,ppears so in the catalogue. 

 Habnab, of whom great things were e.xipected by her owner, 

 may develop into a good one. She appears to have plenty 

 of growth about her. 



, Selling Classes.— I failed to discover any brilliant bargains 

 in either of these classes. 



Stud Dog Class.— I placed British Monarch first. From 

 his loins I am confident cannot fail to spring descendants 

 who will, without doubt, worthily perpetuate to generations 

 yet to come the sterling qualities of their renowned ancestor. 



Team Class.— Mr. Etlis, with his glorious team, has 

 seemed, for some time past, to have secured the fee simple 

 of these certainly tangible prizes, but I preferred British 

 Monarch in Mr. Woodiwiss's team so very much more than 

 any dog in Mr. Ellis's team that I gave the first-named the 

 call. 



American Class. — This class, provided for dogs owned by 

 exhibitors residing in "The Hemisphere that owns no 

 King," met with a poor response. They were a sorry lot, 

 bar H. M. Stanley. None of them have ever crossed the At- 

 lantic, and I should question the policy of the club's repeat- 

 ing the experiment another year. 



Special Prizes.— The long list of specials loomed up before 

 me like a bewildering maze that I should have to plod 

 through. These prizes, though they speak volumes for the 

 hon accord existing among members of the club in giving 

 them, and the enei'gy of the secretary in collecting them, are 

 growing impracticable. I know they are the panacea gen- 

 erally prescribed to make any show a success, aud thottgh it 

 may appear incongruous for one who has been responsible 

 for the issue of four schedules, certainly not deficient in 

 specials, I have grave fears, unless, perchance, some wtiole- 

 some corrective to this modern spirit is devised, that an in- 

 nocent hobby for a man of moderate means may be lowered 

 into an ill organized scramble, a competition for kudos into 

 a mere lust for lucre. 



I will take this opportunity of saying that there are many 

 devoted to the breed laiuhitores iemporis acti, who think 

 we might go back with advantage to the old style of light- 

 weight bulldogs, which a certain school of fanciers have 

 done their best .to render obsolete. Though bulldogs have 

 been longer recognized in F,ngland as a dtstinct l)reed than 

 any other dog, it is nevertheless in this breed only that di.s- 

 parity in weight is allowed so wide a scope, and for no good 

 or sufficient reason, but simply as evidence of a schism in the 

 theory of breeding them which not only strikes doggy men, 

 but breeders of every other animal, as an anomaly. Yet 

 after several years of apathy on this point among members 

 of this club, in which an ancient breed has been al I but ruined 

 by fabulous legends and gross superstitions, I hoxje there are 

 now indicarions of the dawn of better times. May it be Mr. 

 Sprague's high privilege — above even all the other useful 

 things he has done for this club — ^to reunite breeders by 

 lessening the extremes in weight and giving them a more 

 definite size as a standard to breed to. 



In conclusion, I have to tender my sincere thanks to Mr. 

 Sprague tor having rendered me every assistance in his 

 power in unravelling the complex conditions under which 

 many of the specials were offered, some being as mystic as 

 the writing on the wall to the Assyrian Monarch. Also I 

 feel very grateful to Mr. Smart, who most kindly acted as 

 ring steward from start to finish, and who marshalled the 

 dogs into the ring very promptly." Cyril F. W. Jackson. 



SHY BREEDERS. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



A few weeks ago you gave Vero Shaw's account, from the 

 London Stock-Keeper, of bleeding a bitch that had missed 

 to several different dogs, the restilt being a litter of pups. 

 As you then said you would be glad to have accounts of suc- 

 cessful experiments, I now give my experience. Some years 

 ago 1 owned a collie bitch, which I had served at her second 

 heat. She then had seven puppies. The next time she was 

 served she missed; I tried her again with a similar result. 

 I then consult-ed "Stonehenge," and he advised me to get her 

 in as low condition as pos.sible, to dose her well with salts, 

 and to take three or tour ounces of blood from her before 

 service, by opening a vein in the neck. I accordi ngly did so, 

 and the result wasa litter of eight. The next time I thought 

 that she would probably breed all right and only kept ner 

 as thin as possible, but it was no use, so when .she came in 

 again I purged her well with salts, but did not bleed her, 

 and this time she proved in whelp. After this I had always 

 to dose her well for a day or two before service, otherwise she 

 would invariably miss, but I never found it necessary to 

 bleed her again. I may add ^.hat each time she visited a dif- 

 ferent dog. JB. BAEDOE Elliott. 



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