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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[March 24, 1898, 



camps each season will enter an emphatic protest against 

 the change. 



Information in regard to these camps may be obtained 

 of E. G. S. Ricker, Portland, Maine, and all arrange- 

 ments for guides, transportation, board, etc., may be 

 made by addressing Charles Colby, Colebrook, N. H. I 

 shall doubtless find other items of information of interest 

 to the readers of Forest and Stream from this point 

 later on. 



Still another enterprise in which Colebrook is greatly 

 interested is the building of a fine summer hotel on Lom- 

 bard Hill overlooking the village. Colebrook is destined 

 to become a famous summer resort, and it is perfectly 

 proper that it should: for nowhere in the State can there 

 be found more beautiful scenery or finer drives, at the 

 same time possessing attractions for the sportsman unap- 

 proached by any other summer resort' in New Hampshire, 

 becaii3e of the close proximity of the best hunting and 

 fishing in New England. Rob. 



CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 



[From a Staff Correspondent. 1 



\\I ATJ WANSE E CLUB, of Turkey Lake, northern 

 n Indiana, is building a $25,000 club house. This is 

 a fishing and summer club more especially, and its loca- 

 tion is described as delightful. This is rather around the 

 bend of Lake Michigan's foot, and not many of our an- 

 glers get over that way, though it is very probable that 

 by not doing so they miss some of the best bass fishing 

 in Indiana, which is a most blissfully bassf ul State, take 

 it all in all, of this northwestern portion of the State. 

 Commissioner Dennis in his admirable report for the past 

 year says the following : 



''The system of lakes in northwestern Indiana is a 

 very striking characteristic in the topography of Indiana, 

 It is entirely safe to say that there are in the counties of 

 Steuben, Dekalb, Lagrange, Noble and Kosciusko more 

 than one thousand lakes, having an area of ten acres or 

 over. There are by actual enumeration three hundred 

 and twelve lakes in Noble county, with an area of five 

 acres or more, in every one of which nearly all the vari- 

 eties of our best fish are found and in almost all black 

 bass abound. 



" These lakes occupy the highest grounds in the State, 

 geographically, and seem to have been huddled together 

 there in the corner of the State as if to keep them out of 

 harm's way. It is worthy of remark that not a single 

 lake is found south of the Wabash or in that part of the 

 State occupied by our river system." 



Of the streams of his State Mr. Dennis says a few words 

 which may serve as pointers: 



"While the rivers of Indiana are not to any great ex- 

 tent navigable, yet their length and the volume of their 

 sparkling waters constitute them as among the finest in 

 the world for fish production. 



"The Wabash, White River, Kankakee, St. Joseph, 

 Elkhart and Tippecanoe in the north, with Whitewater, 

 Bine River, Flat Rock, Clifty and Driftwood in the 

 south, and the east fork of White River and its tributar- 

 ies in the southwest, make up a net-work of fine run- 

 ning streams, which drain a stretch of country not ex- 

 celled in all the attributes of fertility of soil, wealth of 

 improvements or intelligence of population. 



"All these rivers and streams and all their tributaries 

 and sources are inhabited by the bass family and are 

 adapted to their unlimited production." 



Then Mr. Dennis gives some figures: 



"Indiana has 33,800 square miles or 21,632,000 acres. 

 One and one-half per cent, of this amount would reach 

 319,000 acres, and it is certainly a conservative proposi- 

 tion to assume that one and one-half per cent, of the area 

 of the State is covered with water. 



"The logic of these figures is simply this. The waters 

 of Indiana have a capacity for producing annually 

 600,000,000 of pounds, of fish food, and are exclusively 

 under the guardianship and control of the General As- 

 sembly. 



If one-half of the natural production of our waters 

 should be utilized every year, and rating the value at 

 five cents per pound, it would, equal $15,000,000. This 

 princely annuity can be secured to the people of our 

 State by an expenditure of $5,000 annually under a wise 

 and careful administration of salutary laws." 



That should be something worth working for. This is 

 the simple method simply and plainly recommended for 

 that work by the commissioner: 



"Protection should consist in restricting the taking of 

 fish to hook and line alone. The streams should be kept 

 pure by making it unlawful to allow the flow or escape 

 into any lake, river or running streams of any and all 

 tubstances injurious to animal life." 



We should not leave Mr. Dennis's report without a word 

 to show the difficulty of the Indiana work when he took 

 hold of it. Speaking of the general lawlessness which 

 prevailed and the manner in which it was regarded, he 

 remarks : 



"This unfortunate state of affairs continued during 

 the period from 1881 up to 1889, eight years, and came 

 near depopulating the running streams of the State, 

 while in the lakes where these murderous accessories 

 could not be brought into use the deadly spear or gig 

 was made to do its fated work. The consequence was 

 that this long course of destruction left all our waters in 

 a depleted condition, and, which was far worse, it left 

 the country full of nets, trap3, etc., in the hands of par- 

 ties who became imbued with the idea that the laws 

 were powerless, -and who, by long practice, had become 

 experts in capturing fish and emboldened to persist 

 therein. Added to this was the unfortunate fact that the 

 first Fish Commissioner, in his first annual report of 1883, 

 says, page 6: 'At present I incline to the belief that the 

 Commissioner should not be connected with any system 

 of protection.' This official announcement gave additional 

 encouragement to the law-breakers and brought forth an 

 increased crop of depredations." 



Naturally such an announcement would. But it is a 

 comfort to say that Indiana doesn't have that sort of a 

 Commissioner now. They give him $1,000 to cover 

 salary and expenses. Magnificent liberality ! Magnificent 

 judgment ! 



April 1 draws near, opening day on trout in many 

 waters. The season on trout in Wisconsin opens April 

 15, closes Sept. 1, The trout season in Michigan opens 

 May 1, closes Sept. 1, for both peninsulas; Minnesota 

 trout season opens April 1, closes Oct. 1. 



The hook and line bass season in Wisconsin opens April 



15 and closes Sept. 1. For Michigan the law reads: "No 

 person shall catch or take any muskallonge, or any black, 

 strawberry, green or white bass, by any means whatever, 

 except by hook and line, from any lake, river or stream, 

 from the first day of March in each year to the first of 

 July following thereafter." This, I presume, means that 

 bass have no protection against hook and line in Michi- 

 gan. Illinois, Indiana and Minnesota have no close sea- 

 son for hook and line on bass. Iowa hook and line season 

 on bass opens May 15, closes Nov. 1. 



Mr. W. C. Thomas, of Sheboygan Falls, Wis., spent 

 some time in this city this week. Mr. Thomas is a trout 

 fisher, and promises to direct me to good fishing for that 

 wily animal away south of the places in Wisconsin where 

 most of the trout angling is done. 



Mr. A. M. Fuller, president of English Lake Club, is a 

 persistent and successful angler with bait or fly. He 

 made six trips to Gogebic last year, held high record for 

 the season, 92 pounds of bass in one day, no fish less than 

 2 pounds. 



To-day I saw a pretty instance of the zeal and ingenu- 

 ity of the genuine angler and lover of fine tackle. In 

 company of Mr. A. Hirth, of Spaldings' Chicago house, 

 I went out to see the outfit of Mr. S. D. Thompson, which 

 I have previously mentioned as being perhaps the finest 

 in the city. Mr. Thompson has a trunk which is a very 

 magician's box. He took all his articles down to the 

 trunk maker, and the trunk was built around the articles, 

 each piece having its own snug and perfect case. Six 

 tine Kosmic rods in cases, a 20-gauge Scott Premier and 

 a Marlin. 22 lay in view in the upper tray, and below that 

 and above it, came tier on tier carrying everything an 

 angler or camper could need, from a flannel shirt to a 

 fine file, from a Ferguson lamp to a frog bucket, and so 

 on, ranging through the entire gamut of angling para- 

 phernalia, so far as that is known. If there is a single 

 implement known to angling which Mr. Thompson has 

 not in his trunk, and in a separate nest at that, I should 

 be glad to hear of it by way of curiosity. This wonder- 

 ful trunk is about 4ft. long* made of raw hide, and when 

 packed weighs about 300 pounds. 



"I leave this at my central camp," said Mr. Thompson, 

 "and it's so heavy nobody can steal it." Then he showed 

 us one of Comstock's Protean tents and a compact cook- 

 ing outfit of his own get-up, "When I want to go any- 

 where on a side trip," said he, "I just take this light stuff 

 along and I'm all right. My boat is decked over just far 

 enough to take in the tent, blankets and plunder', and I 

 can sail her to any corner of the lake I want to visit, and 

 stay as long as I like." Mr. Thompson's boat was made 

 by the Detroit Boat Works, on their canvas-lined system, 

 and is a beauty, 15ft. long, made to .sail or row. Mr. 

 Thompson's favorite stamping ground is Lake Gogebic, 

 and he takes into that lately wild country appliances 

 which should certainly astonish the natives! His outfit 

 is all of the best, and I never realized so fully before how 

 good the best is in these days of modern equipment. "I 

 just like to fool around with these things," said he, "odd 

 times, whether I'm out fishing or not. I take 'em all out 

 and then I put 'em all back again." E. Bough, 



FROSTFISH OR CHIVEY. 



THOSE who have read Mr. Cheney's article on the 

 frostfisb, in our issue of Jan. 14, will recall the fact 

 that the same fish is known in Maine as the chivey. Prof. 

 Leslie A. Lee, who put us in the way of getting this infor- 

 mation, also induced Mr. Dennis M. Cole to send us more 

 recent items on the chivey as it now ajopears. Mr. Cole, 

 writing from Farmington, says the fish is being taken in 

 a pond there, with the hook only, through the ice. It is 

 not seen at any other time of the year as far as he can 

 learn. The spawning has not been observed. It is known 

 that the fish occurs in deep parts of the lake during the 

 summer months, since it is found in the stomachs of lake 

 trout or togue and black bass. 



While we are upon this subject it may be as well to say 

 that we now know three very distinct kinds of small 

 whitefish which are called frostfish. Two of these are 

 native in Adirondack lakes, the frostfish of Mr. Cheney's 

 interesting article and the Labrador whitefish, which is 

 sometimes styled whiting and Musquaw River whitefish — 

 an inhabitant of cold, clear lakes of the Adirondacksand 

 White Mountains, the great lake region; and extending 

 northeastward to Labrador. The third frostfish is Hoy's 

 whitefish of western New York lakes, and deep waters of 

 lakes Michigan, Ontario, and neighboring lakes. We 

 mention this fact to show the need of caution, in observ- 

 ing the habitB of any one of the frostfish, lest a mistake 

 occur in identifying the fish. Hoy's whitefish is figured 

 on Plate 197b of the Fishery Industries, U. S., Sec. I., 

 from a specimen about 9in. long, collected at Seneca Lake, 

 N. Y. 



Salmon in Oregon.— Ashland, Ore,, March 10.— The 

 annual migration of the salmon trout has begun, and 

 although the season is closed until April 1, small boys 

 and men are gigging them whenever they can see one. 

 The salmon run has also begun, and reports tell of the 

 fish quite a distance up the Columbia. Officials have 

 been very lax of late years, and the law has been badly 

 warped ; but it is proposed this year to punish every vio- 

 lator who can be spotted. Mountain trout are found in 

 almost every stream, and if I'm here the first of April I 

 propose to call on them. Plenty of Dolly Varden and 

 rainbow trout over east of the Cascades, but only the 

 black-spotted here. — O. O. S. 



Shad Fly-Fishing.— West Point, Va. — I have seen the 

 shad take fly in James River, Va. I had that pleasure on 

 one occasion when I was in the boat with Capt. Eastman, 

 commodore of the ironclad Ajax, at that time stationed 

 at Lower Brandon. From wnat I remember he used a 

 fly of medium size and rather a bright color and a 13oz. 

 split-bamboo rod. We were out about one hour and 

 caught five, I think, large roe shad. He said the roe- 

 shad took the fly much better than the bucks. I hope 

 this may be of some value to our friend. — J. V. Sharp. 



WASHINGTON, D. C, March 13.— Alewives and suckers 

 are taken daily in the Eastern Branch of the Potomac River 

 and white and yellow perch are beginning to take the hook. 

 The TJ. S. Fish Commission will no longer hatch shad at 

 Fort Washington, but has leased a shore at Bryan's Point 

 and will prepare at once for the season's work. Four mil- 

 lion whitefish eggs are now at the Central Station of the 

 Commission and will be shipped to Saekett's Harbor. X. Y., 

 hatched out in a week or two and planted in Lake Ontario. 

 — B. 



SEA SALMON BREEDING WITHOUT GOING 

 TO SEA. 



AT the Craig's Brook Station of the U. S. Fish Commis- 

 sion the rearing of Atlantic salmon in artificial ponds 

 has been carried on continuously since the spring of 1888, 

 and while the hulk of .each year's brood has been liberated 

 before reaching the age of one year, a few have been retained 

 until the present time. The salmon hatched in 1888 are now 

 nearly four years old. They are kept in a small pond with 

 only about two feet of water, and have been feed on artificial 

 food of various kinds. Their growth has undoubtedly been 

 slower than would have been the case had they been allowed 

 to go to sea at the usual age. Probably none of them exceed 

 2>£lbs. in weight; yet they have already developed spawn 

 and milt, and several of them yielded well. Developed eggs 

 in November, 1891, being then three years and seven months 

 old. 



The eggs were nearly of the usual size for Atlantic, salmon 

 (not so large as in the landlocked variety), but very pale in 

 color— more so than any other salmon eggs that I ever saw. 

 This paleness gives the impression of weakness; but they are 

 now nearly ready to hatch, and the embryos appear to be 

 about as well developed as those obtained from salmon that 

 came from the sea last summer. 



It is proposed to carefully rear the fish obtained from these, 

 eggs, and the phenomena that they exhibit during their 

 growth and development cannot fail to be interesting. 



Chas. G. Atkins. 



Makch, 1893. 



Dogs: Their Management and Treatment In Disease. By 

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

 Price $3. Training vs. Breaking. By S. T. Hammond. 

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

 all Breeds. Price SO cents. 



F I XTU RES. 



DOG SHOWS. 



April 5 to 8.— Seventh Annual Dog Show of the New England 

 Kennel Club, at Boston. Mass. C. Steadman Hanks. Sec'y. 



April 13 to 16.— Third Annual Do? Show of the Continental 

 Kennel Club, at Denver, Col. R. W. Isenthal, Sec'y. 



April 20 to 23.— Fourth Annual Dog Show of the Southern Cali- 

 fornia Kennel Club,.at Los Angeles, Cab C. A. Sumner, Sec'y. 



May 4 to 7.— Annual Dog Show of the California Kennel Club, 

 at San Francisco Cal. Frank J. Silvey. Sec'y. 



Sept. 12 to 16.— Fourth Annual Dog Show of the Toronto In- 

 dustrial Exhibition Association, at Toronto, Canada. C. A 

 Stone, Sec'y. 



PITTSBURGH DOG SHOW. 



THE Pittsburgh show, which opened March 15 and closed 

 on the 19th, must be counted a distinct success, notwith- 

 standing weather, which would have disheartened almost 

 any other committee but that of New York. Last week's 

 Forest and Stream contained particulars of the opening 

 of the show, but space and distance forbade giving the names 

 of many who were present. Among the prominent breeders 

 and fanciers noticed were: Charles C. Cook, J. B. Lewis, 

 Chas. and W. S. Diffenderffer. J. Sheubrookes, Ed Booth, 

 John Marshall, Thos. Blake, A. V. Bradrick, C, G. Stoddard, 

 B. F. Seitner, T. G. Davey, John Hawkes, Chas. Klocke, 

 John Fawcett, Joe Lewis, Frank Windholz, James Morti- 

 mer, Frank Dole, Harry Northwood, John Brett, Fred 

 Pastre, W. L Washington, W. N. Kuhns. E. A. Woodward, 

 J. C. Mahler, Al Eberhart, Donald Monroe, R. Stickey, 

 George, Thomas and Ben Lewis, H. A. Spracklin, Joe 

 Meyers, W. Conners, Harry L. Goodman, John Naylor, F. 

 A. Howard, Ed Probert, and, of course, the judges, Miss 

 Whitney, George Raper and John Davidson, and the press 

 was represented by Major J. M.Taylor, Hi ldebranrl Fitzgerald, 

 E. Bardoe Elliott, and the writer. Pointers, setters, bull- 

 terriers and fox-terriers led the quality in the show. Other 

 comments will be found in "Dog Chat." The judging was on 

 the whole well done and there was little grumbling, 



MASTIFFS (Judge, Geo. Raper).— With the exception of 

 one or two notable specimens there was not much quality 

 present. Elkson and Moses were placed as named in chal- 

 lenge dogs, the former beating in skull, body and condition. 

 Menglada was alone in bitches. The open class dogs were 

 only moderate animals; Jefferson, the winner, carries his 

 ears badly but has a fair head, in which he beats Major Sel- 

 lers, second; he is also a good-sized dog, feet and hind parts 

 could be better, and he shows too much dewlap. Major Sel- 

 lers is rather long-headed, a little short in loin but good in 

 forelegs and an active mover. The well-known Pharaoh 

 Queen won in bitches over Miss Beaufort, from the same 

 kennel; it was a near thing, for in head only does Pharaoh 

 Queen beat the other, Miss Beaufort being much better in 

 chest, legs, body and quarters. Grace, third, is too fat and 

 has small pretensions to type, long weak muzzle, and is 

 light in bone, and ears carried badly. Flirt, he , has poorly 

 carried ears, is snipy in muzzle and was shown heavy in 

 whelp. Mr. Cook showed two dog pups and quite a fair 

 one in Rodger, the winner, but his second winner, McKin- 

 ley, 1 thought had a more typical head, hut he loses so much 

 in size to his little brother that the decision cannot be ca- 

 villed at. Raymond, he, is but a plain one. A bitch puppy 

 not deserving of recognition finished the list. Mr. Cook 

 won the kennel prize and Elkson took care of two of the 

 Mastiff Club cups and Meoglada the other. 



St. Bernards (Judge, 31iss A. H. Whitney).— There were 

 two or three well-known kennels represented, but the bulk 

 of the dogs on exhibition were not up to first-class form. 

 To begin with there were no challenge roughs out. In open 

 dogs the best was Aristocrat, getting his coat and improv- 

 ing in condition all the time. Comte was placed as at 

 Washington and looked if anything better; he is a handy 

 little dog. The well-known Othello came third; he has a 

 typical head and is well-marked, and it was a feather in 

 Comte's cap to beat him. Willand, reserve, has a fair head, 

 though not muzzle enough, nice coat and bone. Tristan G., 

 vbc.anold Rochester and Buffalo acquaintance, has im- 

 proved, filled out more and shows lots of quality, muzzle 

 would do with more depth, but skull markings, bone and 

 body are good. Sir Melvale was well-entitled to bis three 

 letters; he was at Washington last week. Only five turned 

 up in the female division, the order being as usual, Lady 

 Gladwyn, Altonette and Helen Terry, all belonging to the 

 Duchess Kennels, who had a good innings at this show. 

 Quinta Lomond, vhc, has a pleasing head and expression, 

 though a trifle long, with a blaze that looks as if it had 

 been painted, so symmetrical is it, body too light. Gladys, 

 c, is a snipy, leggy, altogether-weedy specimen. Sir Mel- 

 vale was alone in the dog pup class. 



Father and son competed in the smooth challenge class, 

 Victor Joseph being out for specials only, Ch. Hector had 

 little difficulty in beating his son Lord Hector in size, bone, 

 head, and pretty nearly everything except his bark, in which 

 they were identical ; the old dog afterward beat Aristocrat, 

 Victor Joseph, and others for best dog in the show. Em- 

 press of Contoocook stood alone in all her glory in the next 

 class, and afterwards was considered the best St. Bernard 

 in the show, though Lady Gladwyn runs her very close, as 

 she beats her in several essential points. The typical Mascot 

 Royal won somewhat easily from Keystone Mars, better be- 

 hind and excelling in head properties, the latter is good in 



