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FOREST AND STREAM, 



[June S, 1893. 



"FOREST AND STREAM" PHOTOGRAPHS 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



From No. 1, Vol. I., I have read the Foeest and 

 Stream, and have never misaed reading a single copy. 

 If I were away from home for any length of time, the 

 first evening at home my good wife would say, "You will 

 find the copies of Foeest and Stream on your desk." 

 My boys were both too young to read, but the pictures 

 on the outside always intereted them. I read the stories 

 to them; and on Friday nights the first thing after sup- 

 per was, "Here is the Foeest and Stream, now Pop read 

 to us;" and if my business engagements were such that I 

 could not, they were disappointed; they were soon old 

 enough to read for themselves, and I can assure you that 

 the paper has always been a great source of pleasure to 

 us all. Many changes have taken place since I read that 

 first copy, and many of the writers whose articles we 

 loved to read have been called to their long homes; but 

 others have tahen their places, and your paper still stands 

 first with us as a sportsman's paper. 



Last week you gave us a pleasant surprise. They say 

 that I am a crank on dogs, guns, game protection and 

 everything pertaining to sportsmen ; but if there is any- 

 thing that I am more cranky on than another it is photo- 

 graphs of hunting, fishing and game pictures, and when 

 I read your offer to amateurs for pictures, I said to the 

 boys, "Let me read to you the Forest and Stream's 

 offer." When I finished reading we had three cheers for 

 Forest and Stream and their offer, and the following 

 resolution was unanimously adopted: 



"Resolved; that it is the opinion of this family (includ- 

 ing both setter dogs) that the Forest and Stream always 

 has been and is to-day the best sportsman's family paper 

 of the United States, and in this last movement to get 

 pictures of hunting and fishing scenes they will give us 

 an actual view of what we have had to accept heretofore 

 from description alone, and we believe it will be a great 

 success." 



I have a set of pictures taken by an amateur: "A Day 

 with the Quail," another may give us "Our Camp in the 

 Rockies." another, "One Day with the Ducks" or "Two 

 Hours with Jacksnipe on Indian River," etc., and in this 

 way North, South, East and West can be represented and 

 brought together and we can see the faces and pictures of 

 our brother sportsmen in all parts of the country. 



I am no photographer, am not advertising any ones 

 pictures, but will give $5, so that you can make the num- 

 ber seven that will receive $5 each, or I will give this 

 amount to the man sending the largest and best picture 

 of a camp where deer have been shot and hung up; or 

 one year's sub3bription of Forest and Stream to the 

 person (not now a subscriber) who sends the best picture 

 of two or more woodcock held by the feet in the hand; 

 the judges you select can decide* who shall receive my 

 offer and you can select either of the above propositions. 



I have just read Orin Belknap on "Our Paper," and 

 with him So say we all of us. ' H. 



Hudson, N. Y. 



CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 



By a Staff Correspondent.'] 



Chicago, III., May 21. — The sporting situation doe3 not 

 improve, so far as the weather is concerned. The season 

 of phenomenally high water continues, and the almost 

 daily rainfall allows no definite prediction of better days. 

 The Kankakee River below Valparaiso is four miles wide. 

 The Tippecanoe is out of its banks. The Fox River still 

 rages. The Illinois is only under control. The Des 

 Moines River has been on a destructive flood. The Floyd 

 River, in western Iowa, has destroyed thirty lives. The 

 farming lands of the Mississippi and Missouri valleys are 

 half under water, and the ravages of their flooded tribu- 

 taries fill columns of the despatches. At Wabash, Ind., 

 it has rained every day, without exception, for thirty 

 days. A heavy snow storm raged all over northern 

 Minnesota day before yesterday. Snow also fell over a 

 large portion of Wisconsin. Sioux City, Iowa, in addi- 

 tion to her disaster by the flooded Floyd River, was 

 yesterday visited by a blizzard of snow and wind. The 

 elements have gone mad. The effect of all this upon the 

 sports of the field may be well understood. 



To the north of us, in the trout country, the rains have 

 not been so bad, though the fishing is not yet good. Fifty 

 miles to the north, in the Fox Lake country, the water is 

 beginning to fall. Some bass fishing will be possible this 

 week. Catches of a dozen or so big-mouth bass, on frog, 

 have been made, almost altogether in the shallows of the 

 overflow. 



In the Kankakee River, near Davis, Ind., the natives 

 are spearing large buffalo fish, a fish almost unknown 

 there for years, The nets and dams are now unavailing, 

 and the run up from the Illinois and Mississippi is unim- 

 peded. 



Mr. Durham, of Momence, thought that by the close of 

 the week the fishing would be good at that point. It is a 

 singular feature of the Kankakee that no matter how 

 high it gets, it does not become discolored, at least in the 

 rocky bed near Momence. At its highest stage it is only 

 stained a clear coffee color. It is far muddier when it is 

 lower, the reverse of the ordinary state of affairs. When 

 the river is low it drains the muddy ditches into its chan- 

 nels. It has no channel or chief current when high. 



Mr. S. D. Thompson, up at Gogebic Lake, writes that 

 on last Thursday he caught 901bs. of bass. The fish are 

 taking minnow, frog and spoon. 



Johnson, the old rancher on the headwaters of the 

 Little Oconto, forty miles west of Ellis Junction, in Wis- 

 consin, writes that one day this week he took 2101bs. of 

 bass to his own rod in a lake near his place. Bass and 

 trout fishing are near by at this point. 



It is to Johnson's ranch that Fred Taylor annually 

 takes his small army of trout fishing friends. This great 

 party will start Monday next, and will this year be com- 

 posed of the following gentlemen: Messrs. F. P. Taylor, 

 W. A. Barton, J. F. Whiting, W. P. Mussey, John Matter, 

 John Hubbard, W, G. Payson, Frank Arrowsuiith, and 

 perhaps another one or two who may get ready in time. 

 This party will kill 3,000 trout at least. They have word 

 that the water is in good shape and the trout rising. 

 This is 250 miles north. 



The following highly encouraging word comes from 

 Mr. Borders, the attorney who watched the cases grow- 

 ing out of the raid of the Kankakee Association on the 

 netters near English Lake. This is the last of the offend- 

 ers, and the fight is over for the time in that locality. 

 No one need tell the Kankakee Association that practical 



protection is an iridescent dream. The letter reads briefly 

 thus: 



" Winamac, Ind., May 17.— Auge, the Stark county man 

 caught in our Kankakee raid, to-day pleaded guilty in the 

 Stark Circuit Court, and agrees to pay the costs, quit 

 illegal fishing and permit us to burn his nets. We have 

 about 100 of his nets. He is going back to farming. 



"Our river has been and is yet very high, too high for 

 boat-fishing or fly-fishing; if it does not rain enough to 

 raise it again I think about June 10 will be our time to 

 fish a few days, How will that strike you? 



"B. Borders." 



The Chicago Fly-Casting Club met Thursday last at the 

 Lakeside restaurant for a pleasant lunch. "There were 

 present fifteen members and three visitors. The follow- 

 ing were elected new members: Messrs. J. P. Whidden, 

 R. S. Peal, Wm. Walsh, W. Y. Miller. The executive 

 committee reported arrangements made with the South 

 and West Park boards by which any member will be per- 

 mitted to practice on the park lakes. It was decided that 

 a monthly lunch, under charge of the entertainment com- 

 mittee, be made a feature of the club, the lunch to be 

 followed by the regular "fly cast" at the park lakes. The 

 next lunch is set for 3 P.M., May 26, and should the 

 weather prove favorable, a pleasant season of practice 

 will follow at Washington Park. This was the plan for 

 Thursday last, but the rain prevented, A transportation 

 committee, Messrs. Strell, Antoine and Milner, was ap- 

 pointed. Mr. Autoine takes the place of Mr. Opdyke, 

 resigned, on the entertainment committee. The club 

 now has on hand $112 90. It is not without the possible 

 that a preserve-owning organization will grow out of 

 this body. The membership at present is constituted as 

 follows: 



Chas. Antoine, Geo. W. Stull, C. E, Kenyon, Henry 



F. Aiken, A H. Harryman, Oswald von Lengerke, J. M. 

 Clark, W. H. Babcock, Geo. A. Murrell, E. E, Wilkinson, 

 J. S. Rossiter, S. C. Hayes, A. J. Merritt, W. G. Baker, 

 A. Rossiter, R S. Ireland. R. S, Boyd, W, Y. Brunton, 

 A. W, Roth, V. Ware, J. K, Adams, Frank B. Davidson, 

 H. R, Sanning. C. P. Stivers, A. E. Raze, W. A. Brooks, 

 C. A. Burton, R. H. Opdyke, W. G. Allen, H. S. Conard, 



G. E. Milner, Robert Rae, Jr., Geo. A. Otis, John Chris- 

 tian. W. Krockp, Charles F. Johnson, H. Liphardt, H. 

 M. Dunn, Wm. Herrick. M. C. Farr, W. E. Wills, O. B. 

 Arnold. J. K. McGill. J. J. Parker, H. D. Willie, F. H. 

 Roots, R. A. Shailer, R, B. Miller, R. C. Moore, E. F. 

 Daniels, Chas. Laughridge, G B. Townsend, H, S. Stan- 

 ton, A. P. White. Dr. A. W. Hoyt, A. Marshall, Dr. 

 Henry Mayer, G. C. Crause, W. H. Tyler. J, V. Ridge- 

 wav,W. Q. Hannahs, Chas. Lundquist, J. P. Whidden, R. 

 S. Peall, Wm. H. Walsh, W, Y. Miller. 



Gov. G. W. Peck, of Wisconsin, and famous as the 

 author of "Peck's Bad Boy," was in town this week, and 

 engaged in a friendly conversation with Mr. Hirth, the 

 able and amiable enthusiast of Spaldings' tackle counter. 



"How far' did you ever cast a fly, Mr. Hirth?" asked 

 Governor Peck. "They tell me you are an expert." 



"Well, said Mr. Hirth, "to tei'l the vehy truth, Goveh- 

 nor, I never weally and actually cast a fly, authentic 

 measurement, oveh 94iyds. — not authentie'ly, no, seh, 

 not oveh 94! yds." 



Governor Peck blushed and went back to Milwaukee. 



Ei Hough. 



St. Louis Notes. 



St. Louis, May 20.— This is the season of the year when 

 anglers should be at work, but no fishing has been done 

 to amount to anything this spring on account of high 

 water. All the various fishing resorts are flooded, and in 

 a number of cases the club houses are deep in the water. 

 In this city a number of gun clubs' houses have been 

 washed away. The sloughs, lakes and small streams 

 have been swept by terrible currents, and the anglers 

 will find all their old pet places gone, and new ones 'will 

 have to be found. Anglers, however, pretend that when 

 the water goes down there will be better sport than for a 

 long time, as the high water has enabled the fish to pass 

 into all the desirable fishing places. At this writing the 

 floods continues to increase and the bottom lands along 

 the Mississippi is one vast sheet of swiftly flowing water. 

 — Aberdeen. 



AMERICAN FISHERIES SOCIETY. 



After the close of our last report the reading of Mr. 

 Seal's paper on trout culture was continued, and this was 

 followed by a spirited discussion, to which we shall recur 

 when the articles on trout rearing appear in our columns. 



The afternoon session on May 25 was devoted almost en- 

 tirely to the reading and discussion of papers, but as we 

 shall publish them in due season it will be necessary only to 

 mention their titles: 



"Rearing Fish for Distribution," by Frank N. Clark: 

 "Planting Fry vs. Planting Fiugerlings," by Jas. F. Nevins; 

 "Planting Trout as Fry or Yearlings," by Fred Mather; 

 "Planting Yearlings vs. Planting Fry," by Herschel Whit- 

 aker; "Salmon Planting in Nova Scotia," by W. H. Rogers; 

 "Artificially Reared Trout," by W. L. Gilbert; "State Con- 

 trol for State Fisheries " by Hoyt Post; "History of Fish- 

 culture." by Raveret Wattel (abstract only); "Fishways," 

 by W. H. Rogers; "The Susquehanna; its Past, Present and 

 Future," by A. F. Clapp; "The American Salmon and other 

 Food Fishes," by Dr. Bushrod W. James; "A National Park 

 for the Preservation of our Salmon," by Livingston Stone; 

 "Early History of the Fisheries on the Great Lakes," by 

 Herschel Whitaker (title oDly); "Impregnating Eggs of the 

 Rainbow Trout," by W. F. Page (title only). 



The committee on nominations presented the following 

 names of officers for the ensuing year, all of whom were 

 unanimously elected: President, Herschel Whitaker; Vice- 

 President. Fred Mather; Treasurer, Henry C. Ford; Record- 

 ing Secretary, E. P. Doyle; Corresponding Secretary, Tarle- 

 tonH. Bean; Executive Committee, H. H. Gary, W. H.Bow- 

 man, L. Streuber, W. M. Hudson, N. K. Fairbank. C. V. 

 Osborn, D. V. Porter. 



During the session the following telegram from an absent 

 member was read: "Del Monte, Cal. — Large shad very 

 abundant, selling from eight to ten cents each. Hurrah for 

 fishculture. — Blacrford." It is appropriate that Mr. 

 Blackford, who has worked so long and faithfully iu be- 

 half of fishculture, should have seen one of its greatest 

 triumphs, especially since the State of California called 

 upon one of his countrymen to make the first attempt to 

 transport shad from the East. A telegram was received 

 also from Capi. J. W. Collins, inviting the Society to hold 

 its next annual meeting in the Fisheries Building at Chi- 

 cago. The Michigan authori ties also offered the use of their 

 assembly room for the meeting. On motion of Mr. Doyle it 



was decided to hold the 1893 sessions in Chicago, and the 

 arrangements, including selection of the place of meeting, 

 were left to a committee, which was appointed by Chairman 

 Parker. 



A motion of Mr. Huntington looking toward the drafting 

 of resolutions in memory of a deceased member, Geo. Shep- 

 ard Page, was carried and referred to a committee. 



The reading of papers was not conclud ;d when the hour 

 arrived for the dinner tendered to non-resident members of 

 the Fisheries Society by the New York Society for the Pro- 

 tection of Game, and several articles were heard only by their 

 titles, but will be planted in the Transactions later on. 



The banquet was a delightful affair in every way, thanks 

 to the good taste of the entertainers and the skill of their 

 presiding officer, Mr. Robert B. Roosevelt, whose address of 

 welcome was responded to by Dr. Parker on behalf of the 

 Fisheries Society, Herschel Whitaker for the Michigan 

 Fish Commission, and Dr. T. H. Bean, of Forest xsd 

 Stream, as a representative of the U. S. Fish Commission. 

 Mr. Chas. E. Whitehead, Dr. Bradley, Roland Redmoud, 

 Frank J. Amsden, C. F. Orvis and many others answered to 

 Mr. Roosevelt's call for expressions of opinions on live topics 

 connected with fish and fishing. 



Thursday was passed chiefly in the inspection of the beau- 

 tiful preserves of the South Side Sportsmen's Club, near 

 Oakdale, Long Island. Here we have seen one of the most 

 notable collections of living brook and rainbow trout iu ex- 

 istence. The Society enjoyed a collation at the club house 

 and finished its business sessions before returning to New 

 York. The subject of State control of State fisheries was 

 revived and warmly discussed. The Commissioner of Fish- 

 eries, Hon. Marshall McDonald, entered into the debate 

 upon the proposition to abolish the meuhaden industry and 

 showed how serious a blow would be inflicted upon agricul- 

 ture and the commercial fisheries if such a measure were 

 carried out. State, control of fisheries within the State is 

 tenable and should produce good results, but fishery on the 

 high seas when resulting in great industries are to be treated 

 carefully, wisely, and with due regard for the importance, 

 not only of the fisheries themselves, but of their relations to 

 other forms of activity and to questions of international 

 policy. 



F I XTU RES. 



DOG SHOWS. 



Aug. 31 to Sept. 3.- Second Annual Dog Show of the Hi ue Grass 

 Kennel Club, at Lexington, Ky. Roger Williams, Sec'y. 



Sept. 6 to 9.— Second Annual Dog Snow of the Hamilton Kennel 

 Club. at. Hamilton, Canada. A. D. Stewart, Ser'y. 



Sept. (5 to 9.— Rochester Kennel Club, at Rochester, N.Y. Dr. O. 

 S. Bamhpr, Sec'y. 



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

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

 Stone, Sec'y. 



Sept. 20 to 23.— Western Michigan Kennel Club, at Grand Rapids, 

 Mich. H. Dale, Adams, Galesburg, Mich., Superintendent. 



Sept. 27 to 30.— Dog Show at Ottawa, Can. Alfred Geddes, Sec'y. 



Oct. 25 to 28.— Omaha Kennel Club, at Omaha, Neb. E. L, 

 Marston, Sec'y. 



FIELD TRIALS. 



Sept. 6.— Manitoba Field Trials, at Morris, Man. A. Holloway, 

 Winnipeg, Man., Sec'y. 



Mov. 7.— International Field Trials Ulul>, third annual trials, at 

 Chatham. Ont. Amateur Stake, Nov. 7. Open Slakes, Nov. 8. 

 W. B. Well*, Sec'y. 



Nov. 7.— United States Field Trials, at Eliziibetlitnwn, Ivy. P. 

 T. Madison, Indianapolis, lad., Sec'y. 



Nov. 8.— New England Field Trials, at Atssouot, Mass. Geo. E. 

 Stick nev, Newburyport, Maw., Sec'y. 



Nov. II.— Fourth Annual Trials of the Brunswick Fur Club, at 

 Princeton, Mass. .1. H. Balrd, Sec'y. 



Nov. 15.— American Field Trials, at Columbus, Ind. W. J. Beck, 

 Sec'y. 



Nov. 21.— Eastern Field Trial Club Trials, at High Point. N. C. 

 W. A. Coster, Sec'y. 



Nov. 28.-Philadelphia Kennel Club Trials, at High Point, N. C. 

 F. G. Taylor, Sec'y. 



Dec. 5.— Central Field Trials, at Lexington, N. C. Col. Odell, 

 Sec'y. 



THE BEAGLE STANDARD. 



Editor Foresi and Stream: 



As a preliminary I want to say that when I made before 

 the National Beagle Club, at Boston, the proposition to 

 change tue standard of the larger class of beagles frotn 15 

 to Run. I had no personal motive, though Mr. Ashburner 

 throws out the imputation that said proposition was based 

 on such grounds. 



While I usually have decided views on any subject with 

 which I am familiar, and sometimes express them, perhaps, 

 more forcibly than elegantly, I venture the assertion that 

 none of my many acquaintances can support an accusation 

 based upon such motives; besides, if I know myself, and I 

 think I do, I have never been afflicted with that pecu liar 

 and terrible disease commonly known as "big head,'' which 

 gcturted me with a desire to run things exclusively my own 

 way. Neither have I known any one interested in beagles 

 to be so afflicted since the reorganization of the National 

 Beagle Club. 



No one denies the ability of thegeutlemen comprising the 

 committee that fixed the standard of the different classes at 

 12 and 15in., and for Mr. Ashburuer's edification as a future 

 historical reference, f will say, and I am sure Dr. L. H. 

 Twaddell and Mr. Elmore will bear me out in the assertion, 

 that the same committee established another fact, viz., that 

 there should be three inches difference in these classes. 



Let me ask. How did Mr. Ashburner act on the proposi- 

 tion to change the diminutive class to 13in.y Did he then 

 see and feel the sacredness of this act of said committee? I 

 have been informed that there was no opposition to this 

 change further than some suggestions bearing on the present 

 subject. Now here is a precedent to goveru the actions of 

 the Beagle Club They changed the standard of one class, 

 why can they not change the standard of the other and have 

 the' difference of measurements as the original committee 

 designed? We are not antagonizing the action of that gen- 

 tlemanly committee. On theotherhand, we are supporting, 

 or rather trying to restore it to its original standing. 

 Neither am I individually talking for dogs of the Somerset 

 Kennel, because there are but three over loin., and should 

 the standard be raised, none of them would appear on the 

 bench. I'll namethem: Mist, 15J^, by Goodwood ex Rattler; 

 Ecstacy, 15^, by a son of Tony Weller, and Lady, l.V..', by 

 Little Duke. But I do know of dogs in every State from 

 Maine to Virginia, probably not all owned by kennels, but 

 in many instances kept by gentlemen of business, who 

 would show at the various events and thus increase the 

 interest in such displays by making entries in both 

 bench shows and field trials. Perhaps I should not have 

 said that; there may be somewhere a "Beagle Trust" 

 whose object is to keep down the supply, as weil as to retard 

 the advancement of the fitting of the dog for the conditions 

 which the nature of the ground of this country requires, as 

 compared with pack hunting iu the older countries. 



I have known one man to say: "There are too many classes 

 at the field trials." In reviewing the report of those trials, 

 he should have said: "There were too many entries." W^hy 

 does the gentleman say "If we commence to alter the stand- 

 ard" etc., when the change haB already taken place? What 

 does the change show? Simply this: Dogs which could not 



