April S3, 1898.] 



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WORLD'S FAIR FISHES. 



A FEW days since we had the pleasure of looking 

 over the ca^ts being nrppared by the Denton 

 brothers for the IT. 8, Fish Commission exhibit at the 

 World's Foir. As already noted in this paper Dr. Hen- 

 shall has made a co llection of the beautiful fishes of the 

 Gulf of Mexico at Key West. These fishes have for the 

 most part reached here in very fine condition, both as to 

 preservation of color and n>sb, and the artist has had as 

 opportunity not often afforded for the work of reproduc- 

 ing the form and color of these beautiful tropical fishes. 

 This exhibition will be one of the richest treats of the 

 kind that the anglers of America, or the whole world, 

 have ever seen. All the game fishes, as well as those that 

 are remarkable for form, coloration or habit, from the 

 diminutive spa-horse to the giant jewfish and tarpum, are 

 faithfully copied. Fresh from ihe easel is a beautiful 

 specimen of the tarpum, life-like as can be, the opal- 

 escent reflections showing as plainly as when the fi^h was 

 first taken from its native element. Weight 12 libs., 

 length 6ft. Sin. 



Dr. Heushall secured this tarpum in a ground net, and 

 experienced no little difficulty in getting it ashore, the 

 sea being up and the fiUh. hard to keep from slipping 

 overboard; besides, the uncomfortable presence of a 

 large stingray kept the men from lending assistance. On 

 the easels of the artists are now a jewfish of about Tolbs. 

 and atilefiih of lolbs. The latter is a beautiful fish, its 

 coloration giving rise to the common name. The sudden 

 appearance and "disappearance of this fish stand forth 

 among the most remarkable occurrences of recent years. 

 Since its disappearance the vessels of the Fish Commis- 

 sion have searched for it, and fishermen have been on 

 the lookout fortilefisb, but they are absent. A red snap- 

 per of about lolba. wtiaht is also especially good. A 

 species of scorpatna (a eculpiu-b'ke fish, whose dorsal 

 spines, in tropical waters, inflict painful poisonous 

 wounde) was received from Dr. Henshall, and has been 

 cast by Mr. Danton. The colors of this fish were simply 

 gorgeous — resembling mosaic tiling on the body, while 

 the under parts of the pectoral fins were rich, velvety 

 black and gold. 



Salmon from two oceans, trout of America and Europe, 

 besides whitefish, grayling, shad, carp, striped bass, 

 black bass, sunfisb, perch, weakfish, kingfisb, croiker^ 

 channel bass, she* pmead, mackerel and pompano, a very 

 fine fpecimf n of the fishing-frog or angler, the curious 

 batfisn, smeltfisb, box or trunkhsh, besides many kinds 

 of sharks, rayB and skates, have all been cast and are 

 now being colored. The whole number of casts made by 

 Messrs. Denton for thf Fair up to date is 302: of these b2 

 are already painted. There are also four figures repre- 

 senting fishermen attending to their work in boats. No 

 effort will be spared to exhibit these subjects in a most 

 attractive manner, and the public can rely on the genial 

 Captain Collins and his corps of able assistants for a 

 most instructive and interesting display of fishery pro- 

 ducts and appliances. 



In handling large numbers of specimens Mr. S. F. Den- 

 ton observes that fishes kept in cold storage, at a tem- 

 perature of 18% retaiathe colors wonderfully well. Those 

 kept several weeks have as bright a pattern of coloration 

 at the end of that time as when first put in. This is of 

 great value to the artist who would faithfully portray 

 such animals. Bon. 



Not all of Fishing to Fish.— A Danbury youth 

 went trout fishing the other day and ventured to drop a 

 sly line into a posted brook. Soon the approaching figure 

 of the owner loomed up in the distance, and the Dinbury 

 youth knew he had been seen. He took incontinently to 

 the bushes, where he ep°nt a very miserable two hours in 

 hiding and caught a C( Id (hat kept him two days in bed. 

 Meanwhile the terrible owner, who was not the owner at 

 all. had sought a similar refuge at sight of the original 

 culprit, and not until his teeth ehattered like a type- 

 writer did he venture to leave the friendly but damp 

 shelter and slink away from the scpne. He was an 

 elderly man, and his share in the day's eport resulted in a 

 four days' rheumatic limp. — Boston Transcript, 



Nkw Berne, N. C, April 9.— Nine-pound weakfish or 

 sea trout were brought into market to-day from New 

 River Cceek, which is hrackish water. These fish have 

 been exceedingly abundant outside the beach and in the 

 sounds all winter long since the middle of November, but 

 will soon disappear, going northward. They will strike 

 the New Jersey coast bv June first. Ju3t now they are 

 heavy with spawn. Old fishermen say they "spawn in 

 the rivers like shad, herring and striped bass, but as most 

 rivers are of limited capacity, I have always wondered 

 where the millions of fish of sundry kinds which are 

 manifestly barred out of the rivers for want of room, 

 could posbibly be served. Quien sabe? — Charles Hal- 

 lock. 



Lake Champ lain Fish are protected during their 

 spawning season by the laws of New York and Vermont; 

 but early in the spring some of the spawning fish push 

 their way northward into the portion of the lake lying 

 within the Canadian borders and there they are attacked 

 by dynami'p and seines and destroyed by thousands. The 

 people of Vermont are especially, and very naturally in- 

 dignant over the opportunity thus given to foreigners to 

 destroy valuable fish which" they can not lawfully take 

 even for home use. The pike i< one of the fish which is 

 ruthlessly destroyed in the Canadian portion of the lake. 



New Hampshire Notes. —The trout law is "off," and 

 local sportsmen are making the best of their privilege. A 

 number have visited Diamond Pond, and report the suc- 

 cess as greater than usual. A crew have commenced on 

 the new buildings at Second Lake, and will erect a 3f< 

 story building, 24x45, with wide piazza, full length, 

 There is a quantity of ice in the lakes, but this is rapidly 

 passing out. Filming will commence there by the twen 

 tieth of May.— Halford. 



HousATOjSic Trout. —Falls Village, Conn., April 16. — 

 The black bass have almost entirely deserted the Housa- 

 tonic and the result that many trout are being caught 

 below the Housatonic Falls. Lock Call, a veteran angler, 

 caught eleven weighing lOJlbs. in le^s than two hours, 

 Artist Mundry sent them to a New York friend as the 

 finest catch ever known here. — J. B. B. 



Pennsylvania Trohting.— Scranton, Pa,— Notwith- 

 standing the cold and disagreeable weather on opening 

 day (April 15), th* anglers of this [ lace turned out in good 

 force, and sued eded in taking a fair number of trout. 

 There are plenty of fish and sorne very fine ones were 

 caught, especially in the Roaring Brook. Messrs. Come- 

 gys, Ke zer, Marsh, Lorenz and others, were among the 

 most fortunate, both as to number and size of fish. — 

 Scales. 



Trout Near New York. 



We have secured, fnr the p'ivate information of the readers of 

 Forest asd Stream, "knowledge of a number of streams and 

 lakes easily acce-oioJe. from t His city, where wo believe that good 

 fish'ng for tn and black bass may be had. The information, 

 much of which comes from private sources, we are not at liberty 

 to print. bvj f we shall be glad to furnish it without charge to anv 

 reaierof Forest and Stream who will apply for it, either per- 

 sonally or by leitier, 



World's Fair Fishes —Mr. T K. Bruner, of the North 

 Carolina State Board of Agriculture and a member of 

 the World's Fair Commission, is vis- i ting Anoca. N. C, 

 and other points, for the purpose of collecting fishes to 

 be included in the State exhibit. These are to be pre- 

 served by the Davidson process. 



Early Tautoo, New Bedford, Mass.— A fair-sized 

 tautog was caught eff tb^ bridge at this place, April 9, 

 which is quite early. — W. Nye. 



The Inventor of the minnow bucket described last 

 week, suggests that the eyeholes should be eyeleted. 



Thk Test You Wahi.- If you need a new tent for your camp- 

 ins trip i bis summer, it will p^y you to investigate the "Protean 

 Tent," elsewhere advertised in tliese columns. It is far better 

 for the purpose than any other tent, and will add much to the 

 pleasure and comfort of your outing.— Ado. 



THE AMERICAN FISHERIES SOCIETY. 



THE twenty-first annual meeting of the American Fish- 

 eries Society will be held Wednesday and Thursday. 

 May 25 and 2(3. at the Holland House, Thirtieth street and 

 Fifth avenue, New Yoek city. 



The first day's meeting will commence at 10 o'clock. An 

 interesting programme has been arranged and many im- 

 portant matters affecting fisbculture will be di=cnssed. 



May 25. a dinner will be given the visiting delegates by 

 the New York Society for the Protection of Game; and on 

 May 26, the members of the Society will enjoy the hospi- 

 tality of the South Side Club, at their preserves on Long 

 Island. 



The following gentlemen, prominent iu fishi ng and game 

 circles, have consented to act as a cntnmittep on local enter- 

 tainment: Hon. Robert B. Roosevelt, Hon. L. D. Hunting- 

 ton, Judge Henry W Bookstaver, Charles F. Imbrie. Rolarjd 

 Redmond, WakVman Holberton, Col. Allred Waestaflf, 

 Charles E. Whitehead, Robert B. Lawrence and Fred 

 Mather. Edward P. Doyle, Sec'y. 



COD HATCHING AND PL ANTING. — At th e G-l ou cester, 

 Mass., station of the U S Fish Commission the batoning 

 season closed with an ou ' nut of 27 000,000 cod fry and 3,000 000 

 pollock, an increase of 8,000,000 over any previous season. The 

 experiment of liberating cod fry in Squam Pond, where they 

 will be protected from most of their enemies and placed 

 under conditions favorable to their development, was con- 

 cluded alter 4,700,000 young fish had been liberated. 



WHITE PERCH have long been desired by fish culturists 

 in Germany, and various small lots have been shipped from 

 the United States, bat with scant results. Nine fish were 

 forwarded. April 11, from Cold Spring Harbor, New York, 

 in three cans. These colossal movements must be discon- 

 tinued or the price of white perch stocks will soon rule 

 them out of the market. 



LAKE TROUT FRY, about two inches long, were 

 planted in Otsego Lake by the New York Commission. The 

 consignment numbered 100,000, and was sent to Mr. A, W. 

 Thayer, of Cooperstown, April 10. 



found. 



F I XT U RES. 



DOG SHOWS. 



May 4 to 7 —Annual Dog Show of the Cab'fornia Kennel Club, 

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



Aug. 31 to Sept. 3.- Second Annual Dog Show of t>>e ^lue Grass 

 Kennel Clu>\ at Lexington, Kv- Rxger William", Sec'y. 



S=pt. 6 'o 9.— Second Annual Dns* Stiow of the Hamilton Keauel 

 Club, at Hamilton, Canada. A. D. Stewart, 9e< 'y. 



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

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

 Stone, Sec'y. 



FIELD TRIAL/ 5 . 

 Kov. H— Second Annual Trials r»f the New England Field Trials 

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



CORRECT TYPE OF PSOVOIS. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



In Mr. Lacy's report of the late Boston show he generously 

 gave considerable space to his comments on the two types 

 of Barzois, or, as they must now be called, Psovois, shown, 

 and rightly, for now is the time, if ever, when it should be 

 settled which is the, right type, or rather which is the best 

 for American breeders to import and accept as standard. 



As far as can be learned there is absolutely no staudard 

 for Psovois in Russia: each breeder has his pack, and as they 

 are kept at their country places far apart from each other, 

 each breeder freed s for his own use solely and to a certain 

 extent has a tyo p of his own; moreover, as there are no large 

 dog shows in Russia as in England and America, the breed- 

 ers are not brought, together. At the last show of sporting 

 dogs held in St. Petersburg, March 18 to 22, only a few 

 Psovois were shown. Such being the case, it is now in the 

 hands of the English and American breeders to establish a 

 standard and type of their own. 



Only one thing seems to be certain in regard to the Rus- 

 sian hounds, ana that is, that they must be fleet enough to 

 run down a wolf, and a pack of them must be strong and 

 courageous enough to pull him to pieces. Surely if there is 

 a use a dog can be pat to, every one. must acknowledge that 

 it is best that he should be so made up iu body and brain to 

 accomplish the same. 



While this breed of dogs may be of only ornamental use 



in the East, it is in the West that they will find their true 

 place, and it is for the West that we must bi-ped. 



In the open class at Boston I was called upon to judge 

 Argoss, L°pk hoi and Napoleon; and any novice looking at 

 them would at once see that the former was of entirely 

 different type from the two latter. Argoss is a large, power- 

 fully made, black and tan dog, with a rather short, flat 

 coat, fair head with a trifle sour expression, mouth level 

 and teeth strong, neck rather small, shoulders well muscled 

 and rightly placed, forearms straight, running into strong 

 pasterns and perfect feet. His chest drops well to his 

 elbows and his ribs are not ouly w T ell sprung but run well 

 back to his coupling; his back is not very much arched, but 

 bis coupling is wonderfully strong, so strong in fact that I 

 could rest my entire weight upon him. His hips are well 

 spread, quarters well made up of strong, hard muscle, and 

 his stifles, hocks and feet are perfect. 



One is at once impressed when looking at him that he is 

 made not only to run but also for holding, he would be able 

 to exert a tremendous amount of power in shaking or pull- 

 ing a wolf. He is essentially a workman and shows it in 

 every move. 



Leek hoi is by far the most beautiful and aristocratic look- 

 ing of the two, and his long white coat, set off with light 

 brindle markings, at once demand your attention; he is also 

 a large dog, and in head and expression is much superior to 

 Argoss, neck fairly strong, shoulders set close together, not 

 heavily muscled, forelegs and feet perfect. We now come 

 to his chest, and ribs. Most of us have been taught to believe 

 that unless a dog had well-sprung ribs he could not run well 

 and stay; but in place of well-sprung ribs on Leekhoi we 

 find them fl-tt, and, as his chest is deep, he may be what is 

 called fish-sided, even the shoi-t ribs next bis coupling are 

 flat. Can a dog with this conformation run and keep run- 

 ning, have we been breeding dogs on the wrong idea, and do 

 they breathe up and down rather than across? Surely, if we 

 accept the above conformation, we have been off the right 

 track. Leekhoi's back is very much "sickled" from the 

 withers to the hips, his coupling is very small, so small, in 

 fact, that I could almost inclose it in the span of my two 

 hands, his hips are close together, stifles rather straight, 

 quarters made up of flat long muscles, feet good. As he 

 moves around you are at once attracted by his majestic ap- 

 pearance and lofty mien, but he is all in all a drawing-room 

 dog, not a dog for a long hard run. 



You now have the two types. Napoleon is of the Leekhoi 

 type but not so large, while Svodka, Mr. Hauks's winning 

 bitch, is entirely on the Argoss type, straight-backed, arched 

 ribs, strong coupling; which is right, or rather, which shall, 

 we make right? Shall we make a breed that cm be classed 

 as sporting dogs and have a use, or shall we have a breed 

 that, while they are perhaps the most beautiful of all doss, 

 have no use in the field. The Argoss type is dangerously 

 near the deerhound type, while the Leekhoi is {very distinctive. 



I write this as I wish to see the breed started right. I have 

 never owned a Psovoi but may later, but have owned, how- 

 ever, a number of greyhounds, and it is from the study of 

 them that I have become interested in the Psovoi. Let the 

 different breeders write their views on the matter and have 

 the matter settled by the Psovoi, Deerhound and Greyhound 

 clubs. 



The first meeting of the Borzoi Club of Great Britain, of 

 which G. R. Krehl is treasurer and the Duke of Newcastle 

 president, was held the other day at the Albemarle Hotel. 

 While they made up no standard, they offered a number of 

 specials to be competed for at the coming Kennel Club show, 

 possibly from them we can obtain some information that 

 would be useful.' Harry W. Smith. 



"Worcester, Mass, April 23, 



PSOVOI NOT BORZOI. 



THROUGH the kindness of Messrs, Wade and Hunting- 

 ton we are enabled to publish further proof that Psovoi 

 is the recognized name of the dogs we know as Russian 

 wolfhounds: 



National Greyhound, Club: 



Gentlemen— -In reference to the name of Borzoi and Pso- 

 voi, allow me to say a few words which I can sustain by the 

 authority of the journal called "Imperial Society for the 

 Breeding of Hunting and Trade Animals and of the Regular 

 Hunt," of January and February, 1891. 



The word Borzoi is used for any kind of hunting dog— i. e. t 

 as a general and not individual name, as page 131 of Febru- 

 ary number will show, where under that heading are in- 

 cluded the English greyhounds, also the "Psovoi." The 

 name of Borzoi in this same journal is many and many times 

 used, but only as a general name for all breeds. The Dame 

 of "Psovoi," on the contrary, is only used for one certain 

 breed, as the two pictures in January, 1891. will show. Both 

 of them are called "Psovoi," and not "Borzoi," as claimed 

 by certain parties, which means that the name "Psovoi" is 

 not a name given to dogs in general, but to the certain, dis- 

 tinct breed known here as Russian wolfhounds. Also the 

 deliberations of the "Society of the Hunters with Psovoi" 

 show that the name is used to designate a breed which they 

 tried to improve, and which they matched against the Eng- 

 lish greyhound on coursing grounds especially built for that 

 purpose. They never once speak about the "Borzoi." but 

 always about the "Psovoi," and only use the name of Barzoi 

 as a general name for the Russian's different breeds of hunt- 

 ing dogs, as also for the English. 



There were individual purses and prizes— i. e., medals— 

 not for "Borzoi" but for "Psovoi." as the picture of second 

 dog on page 131 of February, 1891. will show, where "Ata- 

 man, property of Mr. N. Boldarieff," took the large silver 

 medal. Now, this same dog appears between pages 32 and 

 33 in the January edition, where, under his picture, are the 

 following words: "Ataman, Psovoi, male dog." Also, 

 there appears on the frontispiece, ''Metschka, the Psovoi 

 bitch." The word Borzoi means dog; the word Borz-iya- 

 sabaka means greyhound; Borziatnik means keeper of hunt- 

 ing dogs. Inasmuch as at the meeting of the Imperial Soci- 

 ety this breed of dog was called by Mr. Boldarieff, president, 

 Mr. KorocL, secretary, Chleboff, Sorochtin and others not 

 Borzoi but invariably Psovoi, there can be no further ques- 

 tion as to the proper name of this breed. Further, the Im- 

 perial Society proposed to give prizes to the following 

 breeds: 1. Psovoi. 2, Greyhounds. 3. Sporting dogs. There 

 is also an account on page 150 of the Imperial Gazette of 

 matches between English greyhounds and Psovoi. 



Geohg von dee Osten Sacken. 

 KuHiiANn, Ru ssia. 



BLACK AND TANS AT PITTSBURGH. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



Dr. Foote says that Broomfield Madge was shown in bet- 

 ter condition than ever before in this country. 



Does be mean by that that she was narrower in front? 

 Admitting that she was in poor condition at New York, 

 she is wide in front and has been ever since she came to 

 America. Forest and Stream renort of Toronto show, 

 1890, at which she made her first appearance in America, 

 described her as being heavy and loaded in shoulders and 

 wide in front. 



In Mr. Raper's report of New York show, he mentioned 

 several dogs that might have been placed better hut for 

 condition. He did not say this of Madge, but said Louie 

 won with "consummate ease," and that Madge had gone 

 wide in front. As he mentions this defect alone, the 

 inference is that this is what boat her. Black and tans of 

 her age do not often grow narrower in front, though we 

 have heard of a fox-terrier that "fined down in skull." 



A. W. Smith. 



