April 14, 1S98.] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



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heavy wood and stone dams. This is most satisfactorily ac- 

 complished by buUding the fishway on a parallel line with 

 and against the lower face of the dam, and running on same 

 grade as above until the top is reached, where a turn at 

 right angles is made through or over the top of the dam. 

 The whole is constructed in crib and covered in such a way 

 as to be as strong as the dam itself, light being admitted 

 from the lower side. 



On extra high obstructions it is found very effective and 

 economical to construct as above to half the height of dam, 

 then make a direct turn tipon itself, reaching the top 

 directly over the entrance below. This makes a staunch 

 and model structure and saves great expense in timber, etc. 

 At the turn of this fishway is a square flume, into which 

 the upper part empties, and from which the lower part gets 

 its supply of water— which always remains at the same 

 depth as the water at the upper entrance, and may be con- 

 sidered almost still water. Thus is provided a "half-way 

 house" for the fish, in which they are known to congregate 

 in large nnmbers. This same mode of construction is some- 

 times used against the wall of the mill feeder, with the en- 

 trance for the fish at base of dam, the fishway running down 

 stream to half its height, then reversing, delivering the fish 

 directly over or through top of dam, or over the feeder wall, 

 where they pass th-rough the gates to the river above. 



All of the above applications are of superior merit for the 

 accommodation of all kinds of fish, but to overcome certain 

 conditions sometimes met with, another mode of application 

 is used, which is also doing good work. It is as follows: 

 Two fishways placed side by side with a channel from 7ft. 

 to 13f t. wide between, discharging a strong and far-reaching 

 current, which the fish are sure to find and ascend until the 

 force becomes too great for further progress, when they 

 drop out at either side into the inviting streams from the 

 fishways, of which they at once take advantage and pro- 

 ceed on nature's mission to their spawning beds above. 



As to the interior construction, it is very simple and en- 

 tirely devoid of all "Chinese-puzzle" principles, which break 

 up the stream into little eddies, with no direct current for 

 the fish to follow. It gives a stream of sufficient volume to 

 accommodate the largest salmon, and at the same time so 

 easy in^its descent that the most sluggish fish'.has no dif- 

 ficulty in passing through. That the current is easy and the 

 course direct, is proven by the fact that a man can go 

 through from bottom to top, without difficulty, as was done 

 by workmen on the fishway at Mechanicville, N. Y., against 

 a full head of water, encountering many fish of different 

 species on the way. 



It will be seen by the foregoing brief outlines, that the 

 Rogers fishway covers all of the many conditions esseutial 

 t o success, all of which have been gained by hard labor and 

 practical experiment, simple theory not having entered into 

 the researches. 



As to the "measurable success" of which Mr. McDonald 

 speaks, it is only necessary to say that if increasing the 

 catch of fish on a small stream (the Clyde, in Nova Scotia), 

 salmon, from 350 to 3,7501bs., alewives, from 35 to 450 bar- 

 rels per annum, in a very few years; increasing the catch of 

 salmon on the Gaspereaux River, in Nova Scotia, from 300 

 to 2,0001bs, alewives, from 8 barrels to 1,800 barrels per 

 annum; passing salmon and all other fish over the 16 and 

 12ft. dams at Mechanicville and Northumberland on the 

 Hudson; passing shad and other fish over the dam at Lack- 

 awaxen, on the Delaware, to the waters above, where they 

 are caught in quantities; passing alewives and shad over a 

 natural fall of 60ft., as at St. George, New Brunswick; pass- 

 ing salmon and shad over dams' too numerous to name 

 here, I ask if these few citations from many of like nature, 

 do not bespeak success immeasurable, wha.t then is success? 



The greatest novelty claimed for this fishway is its strik- 

 ing simplicity, which enables it to be located in any place 

 and under all conditions, being invariably ice and freshet 

 proof. In overcoming natural falls it may be twisted around 

 cliffs and rocks, without in the least disturbing the interior 

 arrangement or affecting the perfect and easy current, 

 which, no matter what leugth the fishway may be, runs no 

 faster at the bottom than at the top. W. H. Rogers. 



AMHERST, N. S. 



MINNESOTA FISHWAYS -About twenty owners of 

 dams on Cannon, Chippewa, Fish Hook, Pomme de Terre 

 and Zumbro rivers, in Minnesota, have been notified by 

 Game Warden Stetson to put in fishways or suffer the pen- 

 alty for violation of the law. He gives them from thirty to 

 sixty days' time to complete the work. The Shaw fishway 

 is the model adopted and its cost is said to be trifling. This 

 way consists of a series of rectangular compartments ar- 

 ranged spirally at different levels and varying in number 

 with the height of the dam. The width of the opening in 

 each compartment is about one-fourth the length of the box. 

 The amount of water introduced from the dam is regulated 

 by a gate in the top compartment. The designer, B. F. 

 Shaw, was formerly Commissioner of Fisheries of Iowa, and 

 probably first undertook, the rescue of food and game fishes 

 from sloughs and ponds in the Mississippi basin. Persons 

 who know of dams without fishways are asked to notify the 

 State Fish and Game Commission of which Dr. R. O. 

 Sweeney, Sr. , at Duluth , is president. 



F I XTU RES. 



DOG SHOWS. 



April 13 to 16.— Third Annual Dog Show of the Continenta 

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



April 20 to 33.— Fourth Aimual Dog Show of the Southern Cali- 

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



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

 at San Francisco Ca.1. Fran* J. Silvey. Sec'y. 



Sept. 6 to 9. — Second Annual Dog Show of the Hamilton Kenne 

 Club, at Hamilton, Canada. A. D. Stewart, 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. 



FIELD TRIAL". 

 Nov. 8.— Second Annual Trials of the New Euglaud Field Trials 

 Club, at Assonet, Mass. Geo. E. Stickney, Sec'y. 



NATIONAL BEAGLE CLUB. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



An executive meeeting was held at 266 Washington street, 

 Boston, Mass., April 1. 



President Chapman, Vice-President B. S. Turpin, and W. 

 S. Clark, W. A. Power and R. Y. Jamieson were present. 



Minutes of executive meeting held Feb. 6, 1892, read and 

 approved. The president reported his interview with the 

 Bench Show Committee of the N. E. K. C. while acting as a 

 committee of one, and it was voted that the special as printed 

 in the N. E. K. C. catalogue be approved. 



Vice-President Turpin reported in relation to auditing of 

 the club's book to Jan. 1, 1892, in fulfilment of a vote of the 

 club. A misconstruction of the vote of the club by the sec- 

 retary delayed the fulfilment of the vote, and he read two 

 letters from secretary and treasurer, who held that the 

 club's books should not go out of his possession, and that 

 nothing in the vote of the executive committee so instructed 

 him, and he therefore respectfully declined to send books 

 out of his possession until such vote therefor was taken. He 

 furthermore invited Mr. Turpin to his house to audit the 

 books or would bring'them to any meeting of the club. In 



relation to above it was resolved that Mr. Turpin be sent the 

 books, papers, vouchers, etc., by express. The same to be 

 returned by express one week from date of receipt. No re- 

 port from committee on constitution. Report of committee 

 on running rules was read by Mr. Turpin, who acted in 

 place of the chairman, he being absent, and the report was 

 accepted. Meeting adjourned. 



The regular quarterly meeting of the N. B. C. was held at 

 Mechanics' Hall, April 7. President Chapman called the 

 meeting to order at 8:15. Minutes read and approved. 

 Treasurer's report to April 1, 1892: Total receipts from all 

 sources, 195.91; total expenditures. $23.73; balance in treas- 

 nrer's hands, $72.18. Voted that report be accepted. Com- 

 munications read and filed. 



The following communication from Mr. F. C. Phoebus was 

 read and on motion was referred: 



Boston, April 7.— Gentlemen of the National Beagle Club— As 

 unfortunate circumstances prevent me from being present at 

 your meeting to-night, which fact I earuestly and seriously 

 regret, I feel it my duty to address y«u not only for the purpose 

 of expressing such regrets, but at the same time to express an 

 opinion on a certain matter which will no doubt come before you, 

 v'z., raising the standard of measurement, and changing the 

 value of certain points in scaling our little favorite, the beagle 

 Imund, who in times past, not only contributed to our pleasure in 

 the field, but has often loaded our game bags in a manner most 

 surprising. 



I am of the. opinion that our present standard of fifteen inches 

 should be raised to sixteen inches. Beagles seldom exceed the 

 latter height, while many do exceed the present standard, and 

 often the choicest puppies of the litter, as they Teach their 

 growth, become piactically useless for banch show purposes, 

 though sym metrical in form, and perfect specimens of the beagle 

 types, yet they jiressed the standard too strong, and must be ruled 

 out or suffer disqualification. There is no question but that this 

 idea is becoming a firmly fixed one. Nothing in universal nature 

 is actually a fixed fact. Though certain laws governing sucb 

 nature may seem to be fixed, changes are constantly taking place. 



But I do not care to trace an argument increasing the standard 

 of * his class of dogs through all the realms of natural causes, but 

 suffice it to sav, it is a subject upon which we can harmoniously 

 act, inasmuch as those of us favoring the small dog have asked 

 for and obtained permission to increase the original standard 

 from 12 to 13in. We who favor the larger dog can reasonably ex- 

 p P ct that they will assist us in pressing our claim to an added 

 inch in our choice, which, to keep the proportion of the ore vi- 

 ously existing standard proportionate, should really be 16J4in. I 

 recall distinctly, though then not a member, that when the mat- 

 ter of increasing the standard of the 12m. beagle to 13in. was 

 brought up, I suggested that three-quarters of an inch be given 

 to the smaller type, while a whole inch be given to the 15in. class, 

 merely to preserve the proportionate difference. 



Beirjg honorable gentlemen, and members of the same club, we 

 are compelled to admit that consistency, as regards this matter 

 of measurements in the different beagle classes, loses none of her 

 virtues or prestige as a jewel. Then let U3 adopt this extra inch 

 rule; by so doing, our many visiting friends at our various enter- 

 taining displays cannot be barred from seeing such members of 

 this class on the bench as are now relegated alone to the field, 

 though almost perfect in symmetry, grace of actionand qualifica- 

 tion to attract attention and call forth admiration. 



On the second proposition, viz , Points of scaling: As sucb 

 scale exists to-day. the head of the beagle is given 35 points— more 

 than one-third of the entire value of the whole dog. While I de- 

 sire that our beagle should have exclusively beagle type, as to 

 head, that fact can b<=> just as well expressed in its full value by 25 

 as by 35, giving the 10 points so taken to the running gear, viz., 

 legs, feet and hindquarters, which, with the prestige of another 

 inch at shoulder, would give better form for tbe bench, and sub- 

 stance competent to stay in the chase; besides increasing his will, 

 desire and ability, for many repetitions when each preceding chase 

 was over. 



During my experience of 18 years in breeding and handling 

 beagles, the best specimens of the dog for field quality and general 

 appearance were from 15in. full to 15f£ full— viz., "Punch" and 

 "Saad." winners in Washington, D. C, in 1882; "Old Racer," 

 Dorsey's "Mars," Phoebus "Caesar,' 1 and hosts of others, all di=>- 

 aualified under the present standard, though never beaten in the 

 field. It may never be my privilege to participate in any of the 

 events which will arise under your management, yet I am none 

 t be less deeply interested in the improvement in this breed of 

 sporting dogs, who, when in full cry after the fleet Mollie, stir the 

 most lethargic soul into activity as the chase goes by, and stand 

 enraptured at the many-noted tongu e s. 



Perchance, in the future state of existence, these grand favor- 

 ites may be our companions. If so, when free from care and 

 worriment, injury or anxiety, we can condone the present Buf- 

 feting and denials in view of the opportunity then before us. 



Let me, in conclusion, thank the gentlemen of this club, for 

 courtesies extended to me during my sojourn here, and should my 

 health improve, I shall hail with gladness the time when Boston's 

 dog show day again dawns. Truly yours, F. 0. Phoebus. 



Mr. James T. Flannelly, 444 Hanover street, Boston, 

 elected to membership. 



Voted, that running rules be adopted as read, and follow- 

 ing amendment be added: Entries: Rule 3, Sec. 3.— Entries 

 shall be mailed to the secretary in sealed printed envelopes 

 (to be mailed with entry blanks) indorsed Field Trial Entries. 

 All entries so received to be opened and acted upon at an 

 executive committee meeting. 



Voted, that where the N. B. C. offer a special prize, 

 whether it be cash or silver or whatever the prize may be, 

 said special prize be sent to Bench Show Committee, pre- 

 vious to opening of show, and any such prize not awarded 

 be returned to club. Messrs. Brooking, Clark, Turpin and 

 Butter in affirmative; Messrs. Power and Jamieson in neg- 

 ative. 



That copy of standard of N. B. C. be sent to whoever may 

 be the accepted judge at every show. That Mr. Phoebus' 

 letter be published over his own name in connection with 

 report of this meeting. That $5 for best dog and 85 for best 

 bitch be donated to the Toronto bench show, open to mem- 

 bers of N. B. C. only. That a sufficient number of copies of 

 the running rules be printed. Meeting adjourned. 



H. V. Jamieson, Secretary. 



"SPECTROSCOPIC" JUDGING. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



Your covert dig at me, by connecting my mention of the 

 "Spectral" incident with the "Moses" slander on me, is 

 most unkind. I had a good reason for giving the real facts 

 as to "Spectral" illusions in an English, instead of in an 

 American paper: it made a good running mate for that 

 incident of the "led in" black and white pointer. Perhaps 

 you may think that it is only a piece of "Moses" for me to 

 be concerned in how setters are judged, but if so, you are 

 wrong. Setters, as such, have no earthly interest to me, 

 but as a lover of dogs and dog shows, it does interest me 

 that no breed shall be judged, year after year, in a way to 

 arouse storms of ridicule and scorn. The disappointed' ex- 

 hibitor will always be with us, and the judge who is always 

 right will never visit us, but the snarlings of the dis- 

 appointed exhibitor and the frank and honest differences of 

 opinion, are immensely different in results from the wrath- 

 ful indignation that has been provoked by the English 

 setter and pointer judgings at New York show for many 

 years. The "disappointed" is accepted as an inevitable 

 nuisance, and the honest differences of opinion are vastly 

 beneficial, but the almost invariable butcherings we have 

 had for several years, and the contempt thereby engendered 

 for dogs, dog men and dog shows in geueral, is most mis- 

 chievous. Surely it is not necessary to go into any argu- 

 ment to prove these propositions. W. WAde, 



Hulton, Pa., A pril 9. 



MT. WASHINGTON KENNELS. -Pittsburgh, Pa.- 

 Editor Forest and Stream: Please state that Joe Lewis has 

 ceased to be my kennel manager, and that I have secured 

 Vern. E. Wallace, of Waynesburg, Greene county, Pa., to 

 manage and handle my dogs in the future; and all the dogs 

 have been removed to Waynesburg, where the kennels are 

 now situated.— Mt. Washington Kenitels (S. L. Boggs, 

 Proprietor). 



POINTS AND FLUSHES. 



CHICAGO, April 9.— The celebrated prize-winning Eng- 

 lish setters Cineinnatus and Toledo Blade will be in- 

 cluded in the kennel partnership of Messrs. Dager & Osthaus, 

 so that the interests of these two gentlemen in kennel 

 matters are now jointly identical. 



Col. Cody's greyhounds, which were presented to him by 

 Col. North, have been resting in the Leland Hotel stables, 

 this city, this week, during their owner's sojourn here. 



The recent wolf-killing match, which ended so ridiculously 

 on the plains of Colorado, has done more to injure the interest 

 of the Barzoi in his struggle for popularity in this country 

 than the care of years can remedy. If a scheme had been de- 

 vised to ruin the Barzoi's reputation and cast complete dis- 

 credit on his wolf-killing capabilities, it would probably have 

 fallen short of the late match in planning effectiveness and 

 execution. To make good fighters, a long and varied experi- 

 ence is necesary for the dogs to learn how to fight wolves. 

 They must know the most effective manner of attack, fight- 

 ing as individuals or as teams; and they must as a matter of 

 course know how to evade attack. 



Mr. E. Hough, Western correspondent of Forest and 

 Stream, made a very accurate forecast of the outcome of 

 this match in his communication to Forest and Stream of 

 Feb. 25, under the caption of "Chicago and the West." He 

 wrote as follows: "Mr. Roger Williams, who will be one of 

 the judges in the forthcoming wolf race between the Eastern 

 Barzoi and the Western greyhounds or deerhounds, raises 

 an interesting question when he asks whether 'wolf means 

 coyote, and if not, where shall any better sort of wolf be 

 found ? Western Kansas is suggested. There are plenty of 

 coyotes there, but no gray wolves, unless one by mere chance 

 passes through. On the cattle ranges of the Indian Nations 

 the grays have been hunted and poisoned so systematically 

 that they are hard to find. If that now celebrated race is to 

 be decided on a genuine gray wolf basis, the hunt will have 

 to go to a cattle country, and that means either Texas or 

 Montana., the former probably the better country in practi- 

 cal features, though inconvenient for the owner of the West- 

 ern dog who lives in Montana. Tf they jump a regular gray, 

 either a Texas loper wolf or a Montana timber, the contest, 

 will be easy of judging if only two dogs are slipped, and the. 

 owner would do well to take a basket along to carry back 

 the fragments. Even a big coyote will make a good fight 

 with twice that many good dogs. 



"It would be pleasant to see this wolf race deferred until 

 it has grown to larger proportions. It is a long way to 

 Montana to see three or four runs. If some of the older 

 wolf hunters of Kansas, Mr. Luse, for instance, should be- 

 come interested, and a few of the old wolf dogs of the grey- 

 hound packs be gotten together, we would have a great, 

 meeting of genuine sport, new and exciting in its variety. 

 Greyhounds will go to a wolf ahead of either the Russian 

 wolfhounds or the deerhounds, and if the better class of ex- 

 perienced wolf-dogs of greyhound breed can now be found, 

 they should win in such a contest. The greyhound Yonder 

 He Goes, which is named as one of the dogs Mr. McDougall 

 will enter against the Barzoi, is of recent experience, if any, 

 in wolf killing. In Kansas, before Mr. Luse sold him to 

 Montana, we knew him as fairly fast only, a little crafty on 

 jacks, but a tremendous stayer. He could run all day ap- 

 parently. If he has since then been killing wolves, big 

 wolves, gray wolves 5 he is the dog to pit against the wolf- 

 hounds. If not, he is simply an unknown factor. The dog 

 which will actually run into and close with a big wolf is a 

 very different animal from the one whose owner thinks he 

 would do so if he had a chance. Two dogs will have a seri- 

 ous time with a gray wolf. 



"I have at my table a fine gray wolf skin, 6ft. Sin. in length, 

 given me by Mr. D. R. Streeter, whose cattle range is just 

 below Kiowa, on the line of the Cherokee Strip. Two grey- 

 hounds ran into and threw this wolf, but he rose and was 

 fairly dragging them both, one on each side, when Mr. 

 Streeter ended the fight with a pistol shot, not wanting to 

 see his dogs cut up. These dogs were a blue and a red fawn 

 greyhound, either of which would weigh over 701bs., I 

 should think, the largest greyhounds I ever saw. Wolf 

 hunting, if the quarry be the gray wolf, is wild sport 

 enough to make the blood tingle. I should like to see this 

 contest, if it were so handled that a number of good dogs 

 could compete in a practical country, where something 

 larger than coyotes can be found. But I shall not care to 

 see less than four dogs slipped on a gray, for less would not 

 render the fight equal to a point less than cruelty to good 

 servants." 



Mr. Hough's practical experience in hunting big game 

 and animals in the West through many seasons, and his 

 knowledge of the fighting powers of both dogs and wolves, 

 derived from personal observation, enabled him to predict 

 the result to a certainty. It was also mentioned in these 

 columns that the high altitude of Montana as compared 

 with that of Pittsburgh, would affect the Barzois' wind and 

 endurance if they were not giveu time to become aecli- 

 mat 1 d. In the match to kill a gray wolf inside of fifteen 

 minutes, both showed pluck, judging from the reports of 

 the matter, but both were forced to quit, presumably from 

 exhaustion, as it is stated that both were exhausted. 

 Briefly, all the dogs had no proper training in hunting 

 wolves, a gray wolf is too formidable for two dogs to kill, 

 the Barzois were not acclimated, and none appeared to be 

 naturally endowed with the pluck which is ascribed to its 

 breed. 



In the West the greyhound is the favorite for big game 

 hunting, and, indeed, the experience of hunters seems to 

 justify this preference. The killing powers of 'a team of 

 good greyhounds is something most formidable. Mr. H. 

 C. Lowe, of Lawrence, Kan., has a strain of greyhounds 

 which in size, strength and courage are admirably qualified 

 as big game hunters. Last year Master Peter (Lord Never- 

 settle— Partera), with four of the Neversettle— White Lips 

 litter, killed a large gray wolf, the skin of which was 

 mounted and can now be seen at the Kansas State 

 University. Mr. M. E. Allison, of Hutchinson, Kan., had a 

 famous pack of greyhounds which would not hesitate to 

 tackle wolves, bears or any large animal, and in the words 

 of a sportsman who had seen them hunt, "A wildcat was 

 pie for them." Mr. D. C. Luse, of Great Bend, Kan., has 

 also had great experience in wolf killing with his grey- 

 hounds. Both these gentlemen could write most instruc- 

 tively on this subject and inform the public just what the 

 greyhound's capabilities are in this matter. 1 think that 

 the greyhounds, now bred with a view to coursing, are 

 lighter in weight and smaller in size than those formerly 

 used for large game hunting. 



Mr. George La Rue, secretary of the Pointer Club, was in 

 this city on the 8th inst. From here he goes to Minneapolis. 



From letters received I learn that the weather has been 

 very bad in the South, snow, severe storms and unsettled 

 weather obstructing the work of the dog trainers seriously. 

 The best part of the training season is now over for this 

 spring, so that there will soon be a lull in training till the 

 summer work begins, when several dozen more winners will 

 be in order. B. Waters. 



Mr. F. H. Perry tells us that the Des Moines (la.) Poultry 

 and Pet Stock Association will hold a bench and poultry- 

 show the second week in Jauuary, 1893. A first-class man 

 will judge each department. 



"He isn't a very pwetty dog," said Freddie, "but he fol- 

 lows me every wheah, you know." "Indeed?" returned 

 Freddie's broker. "What do you suppose makes him do it, 

 affection or curiosity?" — Washington Star, 



