Jan. 21, 1892.] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



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A MONTANA FISH HATCHERY. 



WE have previously referred to Hie explorations made 

 for Commissioner McDonald last summer in the 

 Yellowstone National Park and vicinity by Prof. B. W. 

 Evermnnu. We learn that the report upon this investiga- 

 tion, which is a very interesting document, will soon be 

 transmitted to Congress. The Commissioner, in a recent 

 letter to Senator Power, expressed his preference for a site 

 near the National Park! and mentioned several very avail- 

 able sites for a hatchery, among them Deer Lodge, on the 

 Cottonwood; Child's Ranch, near Helena; Missoula, on the 

 Rattlesnake; Bottler's Springs, between Bozemau and Cin- 

 nabar", and Davies Spring, four miles from Bozeman. Horse- 

 thief Springs would furnish an ideal site if it were accessi- 

 ble by rail. Bottler's Springs and Davies Spring are avail- 

 able localities. 



POLITICS AND FISH HATCHING. — "Personally my 

 relations with Mr. Blackford have beeu friendly. He was 

 a member of the State Commission seven years while I was 

 Governor. He was a hold over aud evinced a desire to re- 

 tain the office, which is an honorary one. One or two years 

 after I became Governor charges were made against him. I 

 believe it was charged that he used his positiou as Commis- 

 sioner for the purpose of benefiting his business as a fish 

 dealer. Other charges were made, which I investigated. 

 While there was perhaps some truth in a few of them, still 

 I did not think enough had been disclosed to warrant his 

 removal. He wanted to hang on to the office. My only 

 reason for removing Mr. Blackford was because of his sup- 

 port of Mr. Fassottas a candidate for Governor against Mr. 

 Fiower. I did not, consider the other charges made against 

 him. I reiterate that my sole reason for removing him was 

 because he was conspicuous in his support of Mr. Fassett, 

 the Republican candidate for Governor. I do not believe 

 that mugwumpery of his kind should be encouraged". — Ex- 

 Gov. David B. Hill to Brooklyn Eagle Correspondent, 

 Jan. 4- 



NEW YORK FISH COMMISSION.— Messrs. Hunting- 

 ton, Joline and Hackney met at Albany Jan. 12 and reor- 

 ganized the Commission by electing Mr. Huntington as 

 president and Mr. Hackney as oyster commissioner in the 

 place of Mr. Eugene Blackford. The supervision of hatch- 

 eries at Little Clear Pond and the Fulton Lakes was 

 assigned to Mr. Hackney. 



THE FISH COMMISSION SCHOONER GRAMPUS will 

 be repaired and refitted at Essex, Mass., by Arthur D. Story. 

 The changes will include new sails and parts of the rigging, 

 new water tanks and general repairs to the hull. The 

 vessel is already swift, but after the contemplated changes 

 it is expected that her speed will be increased by at least a 

 h al f k not. 



Dogs: Tlieir Management and Treatment in Disease. By 

 Ashmont. Price $2. Kennel Record and Account Booh. 

 Price '43. Training vs. Breaking. By S. T. Hammond. 

 Price $1. First Lessons in Dog Training, with Points of 

 all Breeds. Price BO cents. 



FIXTURES. 



(For fuller details sec issue of Jan. 7.) 

 DOG SHOWS. 

 Jan. ~'l to 2"i.— Eluiira, N. Y. O. A. Bowman, See' v. 

 Feb. 9 to 12.— Chicago, 111. John L. Lincoln, Jr.. Sec' v. 

 Ktdl\ Hi to 19.— Jackson. Mich. Chess, H. Ruul, Sec'y. 

 Feb. 2fi to 2fi. — New York. James Mortimer, Supt. 

 Moxeh I to -i— Philadelphia, Pa. F. S. Brown, Sec'y. 

 March K to 11.— Washington, D. C. F. S.Webater, T3f* Rhvav.X.V. 

 March 15 to 18 — Pittsburgh, Pa. VV. E. Littell. Sec'v. 

 April 7 to 10 —Boston, Mass. 15. H. Moo'-e, Sec'y. 

 April 20 to 33. — Los Angeles, Osd. 0. A. Sumner, Sec'y. 

 Al ay A to 7.— San Francisco, Gal. Frank J. Silvey, Sec'y. 

 FIELD TRIALS. 

 - -. — .Southern Field Trials, New Albany, Miss. 



RE THE NAME PSOVOI VS. BARZOI, 



Editor Forest and, Stream: 



You will excuse my necessarily not immediate answer, 

 given the distance between Merv and New York, to T. 

 Colin's letter in your issue of Nov. 1:.', 



It is very kind of him to strike from tiie very beginning 

 the "authority" keynote, as it is the only means of making 

 people believe in the soundness of his assertions, for his 

 'long residence in Russia" has not done much toward im- 

 proving his knowledge of Russian etymology in general, 

 and Russian doggy language in particular. I will humbly 

 risk a few lines to the presentation of facts as they are, and 

 stubborn things they are. I had to make just the same re- 

 mark on "E G.'s" most misleading contributions re the 

 Russian coursing hound in the Shooting Times, and you 

 will remember that he based his information on his resi- 

 dence in some part of Russia and referred to some queer- 

 sounding titled official of German make-up as the authority 

 on the subject. 



T. Colin asserts that the "name barzoi is not applied to 

 any coursing dog." It will not harm him to learn that the 

 word "borzyi," "'barzoi'," is an adjective, and its literal 

 meaning is fleet, swift; in ancient legends aud songs it is 

 iqually applied both to horses and dogs; there is even an 

 adverb "bai'zo" (out of use in modern Russian), meaning 

 swiftly. There exists a substantive "bozzofrissetz," quick 

 writer, originating from the days when the printing press 

 was uot yet invented and when quick writers were held in 

 high esteem; in modern Russian this word is used in a de- 

 risive sense. Nowadays, as I have stated already, the ad- 

 jective "barzof" is used to design any coursing hound of 

 any breed. It is exactly the same case as with'the Persian 

 word "tazyi," fleet, swift, which in modern Persian par- 

 lance, though used as an adjective applied to horses, more 

 generally designs, in the sense of a substantive, the oriental 

 coursing; hound. So much for the etymology of the term 

 "barzoi," I presume it is sufficiently clear from the above 

 that this term has had a general sense and that at present it 

 is a generic adjective; I presume, too, that the above demon- 

 strates conclusively that T. Colin had no sound foundation 

 whatever to style this term an "old and established name" 

 for the Russian coursing breed. The term "barzovaty'i"— 

 greyhouudlike— is not seldom used to design a greyhound- 

 like build of body— as a defect— in pointers, setters/trailing 

 hounds and — sometimes (.seldom)— hor?es. 



T.Colin asserts again that the tPrm'Psovoi" is too vague, 

 as it may apply to any dog. No, T. Colin, it is not. It is a 

 term officially adopted by the leading Imperial Russian so- 

 eiety forthe protection of sports to desiga the breed recently 

 introduced in America. If T. Colin has not forgotten Rus 

 si m let him read in the November issue for 1891 of PriroOri. 

 and Okhnta, the leading Russian periodical for sp it the 

 official account of the aufeu mn coursing meeting at M osco jt, 

 and he will see that the coursing breeds entered for eompe- 

 tition are designated therein as • Psovoi" and "English" 

 (the greyhound); let him read iu the January issue for 1 8)1 

 of Journal Okhoty, a periodical, edited by the authority of 



the Grimes lot. Mr. A. Korsh, a protocol of the meeting of 

 coursing men in Moscow, signed by this very same A. Korsh, 

 secretary of this meeting, wherein the breed to which be- 

 long Krilutt, Zlooeem, Pagooba and other dogs imported in 

 America, is designated as "Psovoi." Possibly t his may ma Ice 

 him change his opinion as to the "vagueness" of the term 

 aforesaid. I hope the readers of FohKS'r AXD Strr AM will 

 see from the above that when I proposed to change the 

 erroneously adopted term "Barzoi" for the right one, 

 "Psovoi," it was only in a desire to establish unity of ter- 

 minology for this breed throughout the kennel world. A 

 pointer is called a pointer in America , England and Russia; 

 a setter is a setter anywhere; so it is but right that a 

 | 'Psovoi'' dog, a breed essentially Russian, should be a 

 "Psovoi" in America too, and there is no reason why this 

 name should be ehaugeel for any other one, or still worse the 

 perfectly vague term "barzoi" adopted instead, though this 

 latter term might suit the ends of the "sharp business" 

 people wbom I have already once alluded to. 



T. Colin says again, that "the 'barzois' themselves are 

 distinguished as 'goosfcopsovoi.' or thick-coated, and 'chis- 

 topsovoi,' or smooth coated, so it is evident that the shorter 

 word, 'Psovoi,' alone cannot be used to designate them." 

 Well, that isan inference that sounds seemingly logical, but 

 is drawn freely from T. Colin's own brain, and that, tarn 

 afraid, hardly gives a reliable source of sound information 

 on the subject. 



In Russian parlance. "T. Colin has heard the bell, but 

 where it, is he cauuot tell." "Barzois," as a generic name 

 for coursing dogs, are distinguished not only as "Goosto- 

 psovoi" and "Chistopsovoi" (by the way, both these terms 

 are obsolete, the "Goostopsovoi" being'practically extinct, 

 and the "Chistopsovoi, not a breed in itself, but a cross be- 

 tween the "Goostopsovoi" and any smooth-coated breed, 

 never having beeu a particular favorite with our coursing 

 men and almost extinct at present), but as well as "Khort" 

 (greyhound), "Crimean," "Gorski" (Caucasian), "Kurdine," 

 Tazyi" (the Asiatic coursing dog), etc. Now, the "Goos- 

 topsovoi" breed being practically extinct (whatever Mr. 

 Kareieff and others may assert to the contrary), the cours- 

 ing men of the Imperial society resolved to adopt forthe 

 Russian coursing breed, as it exists, the name of "Psovoi," 

 and got up a standard of points accordingly. This was de- 

 creed some ten or twelve years ago, and that is the reason 

 why in every Russian periodical the Russian coursing breed 

 is termed "Psovoi," as I have demonstrated in the beginning 

 of the present letter. If any of your readers want to know 

 the etymological reasons of this terminology, I am at their 

 disposition: but to launch again in a discussion of this kind 

 as I have done re the term "barzois," would be really 

 rather too hard on people. So you see that T. Colin's rea- 

 soning em "shorts" arid "longs" of the "Psovoi" question is 

 one solely and purely drawn from his own brain, anel I sup- 

 pose you Americans mean business, and what you want is 

 real reliable information to the point, and not the kind of 

 goods dished up by T. Colin and consorts. Speaking of in- 

 formation, I think the person who has signed "Kathleen 

 Newcastle" a letter in the Slock- Keeper of Oct. 30, 1891, has 

 about the soundest ideas on the breed that have yet ap- 

 peared in English and American sporting periodicals. 



Lirttt. G. Tarntoo.sk r. 



1*1 ''].-, 91, Fort Meiiv, Tmnbcaspian Province, Russia. 



xi r. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



In your issue of Dec. 30, uuder the title of "Psovoi," ap- 

 pears a mass of falsehoods, taken from some letters written 

 by some unknown "authority" in Russia, that in justice to 

 ail parties I am compelled to correct. 



Now, I presume the author is the same self-constituted 

 authority who proposed changing the name of the Borzoi 

 (pronounced Barzoi, the first o having the sound of a, as in 

 father) to Psovoi, which is against the common and well- 

 established usage, and betrays his great ignorance of his 

 native language. 



Borzoi, as a general adjective, means fleet or speedy, anei 

 in Russia is specially applied to this one breed of dogs, thus 

 describing them. Now, pioss (spelled pess) means dogs, 

 generally speaking, anel its adjective is psovoi — that is in 

 connection with a noun, sometning relating to a dog. In 

 this Avay, for an example: Gustopsovoy, which means a 

 thick or' rough -coated dog. All this has' been stated before 

 often enough and is pretty well known, and why, therefore, 

 eloes this vagary come up again of calling a breed of nogs 

 Psovoi, which word only means doggy or currish? Such a 

 name does not specialize any breed, besides being extremely 

 ridiculous, and certainly has none of the descriptiveness of 

 the rightf ul and acknowledged name Borzoi. This same 

 person, without any knowleelge of what he is writing about, 

 claims that the dogs Mr. Hacke recently imported were not 

 purchased from the. Grand Duke George Michael ovitch, of 

 St. Petersburg, Russia, aud that they did not comprise his 

 hunting kennel of Borzois. 



I am surprised, Mr. Editor, that you -would publish such 

 an imputation as is implierl in his letter upon the reputa- 

 tion anel character of persons with whom you are not even 

 acquainted, without first verifying the truthfulness of them. 

 It surely is not in keeping with the high character for fair- 

 ness and veracity that your paper has always justly been 

 accredited with. 



If you had seen the official documents sworn to before Mr. 

 H. G. Mackie, the British Pro- Consul, and Mr, .1. M. Craw- 

 ford, U. S Consul-Geueral, which 1 have in my possession, 

 you would not have published this imputation.' I shall not 

 enter into the details of the purchase uor the reasons of the 

 Grand Duke selling his kennels at this time, but shall senel 

 you such a mass of affidavits for publication that will settle 

 the matter beyond any controversy. 



As to the writer of the letter "being in touch with the 

 Russian kennel" world and having never heard of Mr. A. J. 

 Rousseau, is absurd. Mr. Rousseau, besieles being the gen- 

 eral manager of Sprat ts Patent, Russia, a company that is 

 chartered for $2,000,000, and who supply the whole Russian 

 army with biscuits aud crackers besides making dog bis- 

 cuits, has been judging dogs at the Russian dog shows for 

 years, even to the last show in St. Petersburg, during 1891, 

 where he judged twelve classes. Yet that well-informed, 

 truthful man, in "touch with the Russian keunel" world, 

 never heard of him. J. B. Geimes. 



PUG BITCH FRISK. — Philadelphia, Pa.— Editor Forest 

 and Stream: In your show report of the Gloversville show 

 you have my pug Frisk as having won first prize in puppy 

 class, whereas she won first in open bitch class. As sne is 5 

 years old I could not easily pass her off as a puppy, and 

 again there was no puppy class provided in the premium 

 list. Will you kindly make this correction in your next 

 issue to avoid giviug me trouble in the future. — Jacob 

 Beombach, Proprietor Diamond Kennel?. 



Pointers are in Demand. 



Mr. Sam. Berry 5 of 132 Bridge street, Brooklyn, 

 ran a 4-line advertisement of Pointers, in the 

 " Forest and Stream," three times, and got 75 

 answers. The advertisement went in two other 

 times with wrong- a.ddress (our fault), and pre- 

 sumably another 75 answers went astray. Mr. 

 Berry did not sell 75 Pointers, but he sold all he 

 had. The market is evidently good ; and the 

 surest way to reach it is through our advertis- 

 ing columns, Have you Pointers to sell? 



NOTES AND NOTIONS. 



\ SINGULAR illustration of the. diseased state of mind 

 that grows up iu connection with canine matters is 

 shown in the recent letter of Mr. Tracy on the "Antonio- 

 Maid of Kent" matter, in Mr. Tracy's solemn production as 

 part of his ease, of the statement that the handler of one dog 

 knew where birds were located, and but for his inability to 

 handle his doer, he would have directed his dog to this spot. 

 Now wheu the only use of field dogs is to show the hunter 

 where the game is, the reversal of the respective functions 

 ot flu; two is most amusing, aud a continuation of this train 

 of reasoning would result in a race of field dogs whose merit 

 would be the comprehension of the handler's instructions as 

 to location of birds. 



Mr. L. P. C. Astley is ouotedin the Christmas number of 

 the Fanciers' journal to the effect that " character " is 

 impossible of definition in its application to dogs. Some- 

 time since I came across the following definition, which 

 seems to me, very clear anel comprehensive: " Character 

 is the possession of the marked features of a breed to a high 

 degree and in harmonious proportions"— which might be 

 improved by the cjualification, " or if there is a departure 

 from any marked characteristic of the breed, this departure 

 must not affect the general harmony of the animal's propor- 

 tions." Examples to which this definition applies well, 

 may be found in the greyhound Memnou. the collie Roslyn 

 Dolly, the fox-terrier Richmond Olive and the mastiff Cau- 

 tion's Own Daughter, either looks thoroughly " the * * 

 all over," the cnialification I append to original definition 

 covering the lack of size in the mastiff named. 



In a Western paper appears an article charging that cer- 

 tain judges were in bad form in judging dogs they had 

 either bred or sold, and to this, an editorial comment is ap- 

 pended, saying, among other things, that the judge who 

 would decline to judge dogs on such grounds would be 

 writing himself down a moral coward! This astonishing 

 declaration strikingly illustrates the deformity of mind 

 many dog men exhibit, I by no means say that a judge is 

 ceusurable for judging dogs he has had an interest in; iu 

 these days of rapid and frecpaent elog ownership, such a 

 principle would seriously cut down our list of judges ; but 

 when our jurisprudence has established it, that a judge of 

 our courts ought not to sit as judge on a case that he Is or 

 has been interested in, even if only as previous counsel, the 

 statement that our law judges constitute themselves moral 

 cowarels every day is both astounding anel silly, "not the less 

 astounding for being silly, uor the less silly for being 

 astounding" (vide " Major Bran drum "). I presume that 

 the weight of the London Field as an authority of " sports- 

 manship " will not be denied any where, aud while I think 

 it sets the mark a little too high as regards the propriety of 

 judges passing on dogs that they have had interests in, still 

 the moral souoeluess of its views cannot be disputed, 

 whether the staff of that paper be " moral cowards " or not. 

 ■■ 



The suggestion by "The Onlooker" that plain facts would 

 form an'appropriate finis to the pyrotechnics of the Lord 

 Clover matter, has certainly received due attention. May 

 the writer congratulate the parties to this encounter for ha v- 

 ing done, at the last, what I trust they will pardon my say- 

 ing would have best been done at first? for I take it for 

 granted that no one now has any doubts as to which side of 

 the dispute was in the right. Tue Onlookee. 



PHILADELPHIA KENNEL CLUB MEETING. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



The annual meeting of the Philadelphia Kennel Club was 

 held Jan. (i, and the following officers were electee! for the 

 ensuing year: President, Francis S. Brown; Vice-President, 

 Col. B. Ridgway: Secretary, Francis G. Taylor; Treasurer, 

 S. Murray Mitchell. 



After the election of the board of trustees anel the officers 

 named, the eutesti on was brought before the club whether 

 or not a bench show should be held, In view of the finan- 

 cial loss sustained by the members from previous shows it 

 was deemed inadvisable to hold one this year. 



The difficulty encountered was not in the obtaining of a 

 sufficient number of entries to insure the success of the 

 show, but rather from the lack of opportunity of those in 

 t crested to devote the time necessary to its management. 

 Theie did not seem to be a sufficient number ot people in- 

 terested in the show to warrant the holding of one. 



The subject of held trials was next taken up. It was pro- 

 posed that the Philadelphia Kennel Club throw open its 

 trials to the world, it being the desire of the in em hers of 

 the club that its field trials he a credit to its organization 

 and compare favorably with the other trials in the estima 

 tion of the sportsmen of this country. 



The proposal awoke the liveliest interest even in the non- 

 sporting or bench-show members, anel it was unanimously 

 decided to throw the field trials open to the world, making 

 such special inducements to the members as to secure their 

 presence at the trials, anil thereby retain that good fellow 

 ship which has always made their meetings so attractive iu 

 the past. 



It was decided that two e>pen stakes shoulel be given, viz., 

 an All-Age and a Derby, with generous purses and such 

 inducements as will induce the owners and handlers to en- 

 ter their dogs in the field trials of the Philadelphia Kennel 

 Club, anel the assurance of a jolly good time such as is not 

 to be had at any other trials held in this country. There 

 have been received the most encouraging expressions of ap- 

 proval and support from many of the most influential own- 

 ers and handlers in the country; and the financial support 

 guaranteed by the members of the club is amply sufficient 

 to insure the success of the undertaking. 



We make our start with lots of friends aud, we trust, no 

 enemies, and to the owners and handlers who are not ac- 

 ejuainted with the club, we make an earnest appeal likewise 

 for support, assuring them that the trials, in quality, will 

 be second to uone, with the certainty of a joliy good time in 

 addition. 



The money value of the purses and more specific informa- 

 tion and details will be announced later on. 



Feakcis G. Tayloe, Secretary. 



IRISH SETTER CLUB MEETING.— Philadelphia, Pa. 

 — Bdiior Forest and Stream: The Irish Setter Club will 

 hold its annual meeting in New York on Wednesday, Feb. 

 34, at 3 o'clock P. M., on the second day of the Westminster 

 Kennel Club's show, in the show building. Election of 

 officers, appointment of committees, and other matters of 

 interest wiil require attention. The treasurer also begs to 

 announce that the following additional contributions to the 

 field trial fund were received after his last s'atement: $25 

 from Dr. Rowe and $25 from the Seminole Kennels. — G. G. 

 Davis, Sec'y and Treas. 



BULL TERRIER WHITE WOJSIDER AGAIN— Boston, 

 Mass.— Editor Forest and, stream: Some time ago a man 

 in Canada wrote to your paper and had published in the 

 same an article stating that he had bought the bull-terrier 

 White Wonder (A.K C S B. 17,028) from me, etc. I wish to 

 say the article is f-dse, as White Wonder is still in my pos- 

 session anel lias never been out of it since 1 imported him 

 from England two years ago. It looks to me very much like 

 an advertising scheme, anel if so, it is a small way for a man 

 to advert ise,-H, H. HAKUis, 



