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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[Xvti. 6, 1891' 



AMERICAN FISHERIES SOCIETY. 



EMtoT Forest and Stream: 



At the twentieth annual tneeting of the American Fish- 

 eries Society, held in Washington, May 27 and 28, these 

 resohitions were adopted providing for the appointment of 

 a committee to take the necessaiy steps tn inci-ease the 

 membership and widen and extend the influence of the 

 Society: 



Resolved, That all anglers and members of fish and game 

 protective organizations, and all persons who feel an interest 

 in the fish and fisheries of the United States, be and are 

 hereby cordially invited to become members of the Ameri- 

 can Fisheries Society, and to lend their aid and co-operation 

 in carrying out the objects of said Society; and be it fur- 



JResol/ved,, That the above resolution, be published in all 

 papers and periodicals devoted to the interests of fish and 

 fishermen; also that a circular letter embodj-ing the said 

 resolution be printed and sent to members of the Society for 

 distrihntion. 



Resolved, That a committee be appointed to carry oiat the 

 provisions of the report. 



Those persons who desire to join the Society can send their 

 applications to either member of the committee, or to Ed- 

 ward P. Doyle, secretary. With its membership enlarged 

 and its influence broadened, the Society can do great work 

 for the fisheries interests of the country, and assist materi- 

 ally the organizations, private, State or uational, having 

 these interests in charge. The influence that a large society 

 of this kind, powerful through organization and numbers, 

 can exert in securing and enforcing protective fish legisla- 

 tion, will be especially valuable, and do much toward secur- 

 ing the laudable objects of its founders. 



Additional application blanks can be obtained from either 

 member of the committee whose names are signed below. 



James A. Henshall, Washington, D. C. 



TAELETOK H. Bean, Washington, D. C. 



Edward P. Doxle, New York. N. Y. 



YEARLINGS VS. FRY.— I was glad to see that our 

 American contemporary, Forest and Stream, agrees with 

 the views respecting fry and yearlings, which have more 

 than once been put forward in this column, and in other 

 parts of the paper. "It seems." says the writer of some 

 angling notes in the American journal, "to be the universal 

 opinion of those who have had experience in restocking 

 trout water that 100 yearlings will improve a pond or stream 

 more than 10,000 fry. The only way fry seem to thrive is by 

 placing them in tiny trickling springs, where it is impossi- 

 ble for their enemies to follow them or see them, or else to 

 keep them in little artificial ponds where they can be fed 

 and protected until able to look out tor themselves." I am 

 inclined to take exception to the word "little" in the fore- 

 going paragraph, for our experience in England rather tends 

 to show that fry get on better in deep ponds than in shallow 

 ones. This can, I think, be explained thus: The water in a 

 shallow pond rapidly rises in temperature in summer and 

 the fry get weakly and die. The water, too, must be con- 

 stantly changing its temperature with every change of heat 

 and cold in the air. In a deep pond the temperature is 

 more equable. I have recently had the misfortune to lose a 

 pond full of fry owing to the supply of water being cut off 

 for a week. Tbe water in the pond sunk to about a foot, its 

 temperature rapidly rose and the little fish all died one fine 

 dav. In another pond where a slight trickle of water con- 

 tinued to run no fish died so far as I could see. In rivers 

 trout fry are usually found on the shallows, and so it might 

 be argued that they thrive best in shallow water. This 

 they may do, provided there is as great a flow of water as 

 there is in a river. But we never get such a flow of water 

 into our ponds, therefore it has been found necessary to 

 make the ponds deep. In other words it comes to this: If 

 there is a great abundance of flowing water the fry will 

 thrive in shallows, but if the supply is limited and has to 

 be economized the ponds must be deep.— TemjjZar, in Lon- 

 don Fishing Gazette. 



Mmml 



All communications must reach us by Tuesday 

 of the week they are to be published; and should 

 be sent as much earlier as may be convenient. 



F I XTU RES. 



DOG SHOWS. 



Sep*-.. 1 to 4.— Second AnTuiBl Dog Show of the Kingston Kennel 

 Club, at Kingston, Ont. H. C. Oorhett, Secretary. 



Sept. i to 4.— Dog Show of the Youngstowa Kennel Club, at 

 YoungstnvvTi. O. 



Sept. 8 to 11.— First Annual Dog Show of the Hamilton Kennel 

 Club, at Hamilton, Ont. 



Sept. 14 to 18.— Toronto Industrial Exhibition Association Third 

 Internationa! Dog Show, at Toronto. C. A. Stnne, Sec'y and Sunt. 



Sept. 23 to 25.— Inaugural International Dog Show of the Mon- 

 treal Exposition Company, at, Montreal, Canada. Entries close 

 Sent. 8 J. S Robcr'son, Secretary. 



Sepi. 29 10 Oct. 1.— Third Annual Dog Show, in connection with 

 the Central Canada Fair, at Ottawa, Ont. Alfred Geddes, Supt. 

 1893. 



Jan. 13 to 14.— Second Annual Dog Show of the South Carolina 

 Kennel Association, at Columbia, 8. C. F. F. Capisrs, Secretary, 

 Greenville, S. C. 



FIELD TRIALS. 



j^ov, 3.— Inaugural Trials of the United States Field Trial Club, 

 at Bicknell, Ind. P. T. Madison, Secretary. 



Nov. 16.— Eastern Field Trials Club's Thirteenth Annual Trials, 

 at High Point, N. C. Members' Stake Nov. 13. W. A. Coster. 



^Vov.^2Z-Irisli Setter Club's Field Trials, at High Point, N. C. 

 G. G. Da-ris, Secretary, Philadelphia, Pa. 



N.'V. 23.— Gordon Sutler Club's Field Trials, at High Point, N. 

 O. L. A Vflu Z mrit, Secre ary, Yonkors, N. Y. 



N^v. 30.— Geniral Field Trial Club's Third Annual Trials, at 

 Lexington, N. C. C. H. Odell, Sec'y, 44 and 46 Wall street. New 

 York city. 



Dec. 14.-^Philadelphia Kennel Club's Field Trials. Charles E 

 Connell, Secretary. 



THE BLUE RIDGE KENNELS. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



Last week I made a trip along the line of the Richmond 

 and Danville R. R., stopping at the beautifully located and 

 enterprising city of Charlottesville, and from there to Cul- 

 pepper, from which point a pleasant ride brought me face to 

 face with Col. P. Henry O'Bannon, well known as the man- 

 ager and one-thu'd owner of the famous Blue Ridge Ken 

 nels of English setters. One has but to grasp the Colonel's 

 hand, meet his estimable better half, and stand before his 

 sideboard to know that he is welcome. If ever you are in 

 the vicinity of the Piedmont country and don't stop and see 

 the Colonel and his family, and look over the grand collec- 

 tion of dogs, you'll have cause to regret it. Knowing that 

 many of your readers are interested in the progress of the 

 English setter, and that few if any of them will ever have 

 the pleasure I have had in spending a day at the Blue Ridge 

 Kennels, 1 will, with yomr permission^ endeavor to inf drm 



them concerning what I think will be readily acknowledged 

 to be the leading collection of brood bitches that this laud 

 can produce. 



There are comparatively only a small number of bitches 

 that are field trial winners, and with few exceptions they 

 are centered now at the Blue Ridge Kennels. For years past 

 all kinds of bitches have been bred to the best dogs, their 

 owners expecting them to throw phenomenal youngsters. 

 That many have been mistaken time has proven. The time 

 is now at band when purchasers will inquire as strictly into 

 the field qualities and tue breeding of the dams as they 

 have into that of the dog. 



To this end I call their attention to what I found at this 

 kennel. There are winners and producers of winners, viz.; 



Est;her, first in Members' Stake, Indiana trials of '89 and 

 dam of Lilly Bureess, a double winner, and of Reveler and 

 Jubilee, last year's winners. She is now nursing a litter by 

 the same sire that produced the aforesaid — G-ath's Mark, 



Belle of Piedmood hss lately been transferred from her 

 old home at Charlottesville. Though showing some of the 

 marks of age, she is yet able to produce pups that will, 

 like herself, win field trial honors. Belle started twice, 

 winning second each time. She is the dam of some very 

 promising bitches that belong to this kennel. 



Lilly Burgess, by Gath's Mark — Esther, was purchased 

 after she had followed ber Derby win witli that of the All- 

 Aged Stake in consecutive years at Bicknell, Ind., trials, 

 where Prince Lucifer was second. She has just weaned a 

 beautiful litter by Dan Gladstone, showing her to be a pro- 

 lific and valuable' brood bitch. 



Mollie Belton has not yet arrived from her Milwaukee 

 home; but when it is remembered that she is the dam of 

 Bohemian Girl, that is fame enough for her record as a 

 breeder. 



Fanny M., known as the phenomenal winner of the South- 

 ern '89 Derby, going through under the heat system without 

 a single error. Since that time she has not added additional 

 honors either as a winner or as a dam: yet she wall not 

 disappoint her owners when put to the test. 



Princess Belton comes nearer a perfect bench show winner 

 than any of those yet mentioned, She is perfect in color and 

 marking, and will stand a deal of showing. As a producer 

 she is well to the front. Dr. John A. Hartraan, of Latrobe, 

 Pa., has three out of one litter that are "corkers." Albert's 

 Duchess won in great shape the Philadelphia Kennel Club's 

 Derby last year, and Albert's Nellie got so far along in the 

 last spring circuit as to be in the cbnllenge class. Another 

 sister is reported as being even better in form. 



Rod's Belle, by Roderigo— Belle of Piedmont, was heavy 

 in whelp to Mark, and being of fine form and good in the 

 field, the puppies no doubt will be heard from. She was 

 fltted for the trials last year, but did not start. 



Gossip, a sister to Belle. You will remember that she 

 was one of the first brace started in the Central Derby last 

 fall, and I have a distinct recollection that she made as good 

 a showing as some of those that were kept in for the second 

 series. She has filled out and improved since then, and 

 should be shown on the bench. She has not been bred, and 

 there are hopes of her winning in the All-Aged Stake this 

 year. 



Rosa I found out in the country attending to maternal 

 duties. Her five puppies by Mark will no doubt equal, if 

 not excel, their famous brother R.everdy. Rosa is one of 

 the Colonel's old "stand-bys" when he wants to shoot quail. 



Tempest has not been much heard of in late years to my 

 knowledge, but being of .superb breeding, Count Noble- 

 Lit, the three puppies that I saw by Pegbld are the coming 

 champions for field trial honors. 



Olivet, by Count Noble— Ruby's G-irl, is also the perfec- 

 tion of breeding, as Ruby's Girl is by Gladstone— Ruby II, 

 She has not yet been developed as a field trialer nor a brood 

 bitch, but mark this. Keep your eyes on her. 



Ijondress is the only Derby entry that I found not in the 

 hands of her trainer. She will be sent away soon. She is 

 finely bred, by Roi d'Or out of Belle of Piedmont, and if she 

 keeps in good form will be likely to get into the money. 

 Again watch her when she gets oh the bench. Another year 

 will show her a well developed bitch. 



Ightaeld Sophie— Now here is something new and worthy 

 of notice. Mr. Bu<-kle selected herattheHeywood-Lonsdale 

 kennels for her breeding and field qualities. She is of 

 much the same type «s Ion, and being due to whelp by him, 

 will throw puppies that will dt^velop into animals that are 

 of such a different breed of English setters as to make it 

 an experiment to cross them with the inbred dogs that 

 are now the popular ones. 



Canadian Queen was not at the kennel. She has her 

 "hands full" taking care of her litter by Cincinnatus. I 

 remember her when Mr. Pabst purchasedher at the Chicago 

 show, and she is a fine specimen. 



Princess Joy, by Gath's Joy, and Miss Nelly Y., by Gath's 

 Hope, are two good young hitches that are worthy of atten- 

 tion, as their sires are brothers to the old dog champion 

 Gath's Mark. Princess Joy is about weaning a fine litter of 

 eight black, white and tana, by Dau Gladstone, that stamp 

 her as the right kind to have in a kennel where this color is 

 the fashion. "Tne stud dogs are well known both to you and 

 the public, and it is enough to mention that they will now 

 be given a better opportunity than ever before to show their 

 worth, as they will not only have the best bitches, but their 

 get will be pushed to the front. 



These three gentlemen have the money, the grit, the love 

 of sport and the business ability to push forward. As all 

 business transactions will be through Col. O'Bannon, this 

 is proof that honorable treatment will in all cases be expe- 

 rienced. A Rambler. 



BEAGLE TRAINING. 



Editor Forest and Streain: 



I have been reading with interest and some amusement 

 the articles that have appeared from time to time in your 

 excellent paper regarding beagle training. The one ap- 

 pearing in your issue of Jnly 30, by Mr. Geo. F. Reed, strikes 

 me very favorably. He has my idea exactly as to what a 

 hunting beagle should be. 



I want no beagle that can be called from a good warm 

 trail, nor do I want one that expects me to follow close on 

 his heels to help him out should bunny be a bit cunning 

 and turn short corners. If I must start the quarry I may as 

 well .shoot at him when he starts, as I would a game bird. 



I take my beagles to the place where I have some likeli- 

 hood of finding 'rabbits, turn them loose, and let them do 

 all the hunting. If 1 see the r.ibbit and shoot and mi,ss, I 

 whoop to the dogs and put them on where I last saw the 

 game. I always do this to teach them to come to the gun. 

 But I don't teach them to charge, quarter, heel and drop to 

 shot. etc. I hunt with beagles for pleasure, and I can assure 

 you it would be no pleasure for me if I had to do all the 

 hunting, starting and give orders to from six to twelve 

 beagles all at one time— no. it would be too much like work, 

 and I was born just a bit tired. 



I expect to show up at the field trials to be held at Nanuet 

 in November, and in all probability my dogs will get pegged 

 back simply because they are not under control, and per- 

 haps because there are better hunters; still, like Mr. Reed, I 

 think I have as good beagles as the next man. 



In one of your contemporaries some party tells us that, in 

 training his beagles, he "rushes to starting point and 

 follows right on trail, close to their heels, etc." Now, that's 

 all very well, but if he can follow "close on the heels" of 

 my hunting pack for two hours, or one hour, he can make 

 more money as a pedestrian in six months than he can out 

 of dogs in twenty years. 0, S. WixoM. 



COVEET, N. Y. 



IMPERFECT TEETH DEVELOPMENT, 



Editor Forest anid Stream: 



I am sure all readers must welcome the accounts of the 

 kennels you visit as published in Forest And StkeAM, 

 since they are both instructive and admirable in style ana 

 spirit. 



You mentioned, in writing of the Swiss Mountain Ken- 

 nels last week, a St. Bernard with undeveloped teeth._ This 

 has interesting scientific and practical bearings. As is well 

 known, horned cattle lack the upper cutting (incisor) teeth, 

 yet in the foetus, teeth in an undtvelooed condition exjst. 

 This is an extreme case of arrested development. Dentists 

 tell us that human beings, especially in cities, tend to a 

 late appearance, and in many cases a total absence of the 

 last molar ("wisdom tooth") and even some of the incisors. 

 All St. Bernards have relatively small teeth, and most of 

 the show dogs of the day when still iu th^ir prime, have 

 the front teeth broken oft" or worn down to an extpnt not 

 common in most other breeds. How is this to be explained? 

 On two grounds principally: First — Too rapid and exten- 

 tive growth, with excessive development of skull, and sec- 

 ond, lack of stamina. 



At present the desire to get giant St. Bernards amounts 

 almost to a craze. Judges, especially in England, seem to 

 be ready to condone great faults of legs, movement, etc., 

 provided a dog is immense, well marked and has a "grand 

 bead " Darwin long ago called attention to "correlated 

 growth." The excess of skull development, especially, has 

 perhaps something to do with defective teeth, hut whether 

 that be so or not the growth of the booy sysfct-m is so rapid 

 in St. Bernards under the forcing system in vogue, that it 

 must needs be superficial, hence the defective legs, and, we 

 may add, teeth, so common, especially in the largest dogs. 

 Unnatural conditions of life and excessive use of the brain 

 explain in part defects of teeth in modern man. As 1 under- 

 stand the subject of growth and development, whenever It 

 is forced, i. e., greater than is natural, or than would take 

 place under ordinary healthy conditions, oxir St Bernard 

 rearing must be all wrong. And as I endeavored to show in 

 a letter that was published in this paper on April 2, our 

 notions of bench show conditions can be greatly modified 

 for the better^ if we are to have thoroughly vigorous and 

 disease-resisting dogs. 



Certain breed-* should be "massive," but this ought to be 

 attained by shape and not by a mass of fat. In other words, 

 to render dogs massive by sluggish habits and e.xces3 of food 

 is to pave the way for disea.se, because such dogs cannot 

 have stamnia. 1 am still of opinion that my detinition of 

 bench show condition, as given in the letter rel'crrpd to 

 above, is correct. Dogs arc in bench show condirion when 

 they are physically able to do a moderate amount of the 

 work for which thej' are intended. All beside is of minor 

 importance. Now some of our St. Bernards, mastiffs, etc., 

 are not able to walk a few miles with ease, much le.ss trot or 

 gallop. Is there any reason for surprise that animals kept 

 in such condition do not live out half their days? Who is 

 responsible for this state of things? I am afraid it must be 

 set down to both breeders and judges. This mattpr of breed- 

 ing for giant size is at the root of the whole evil. 1 wish, 

 las a friend of the breed and of the dog in all his varieties, 

 that the St. Bni-nard Club would take this up. It is the 

 most vital .subject they can handle. If they will so legislate 

 that it will be ea.sy for judges to give the prizes to the best 

 dogs above a minimum weight, or that weight shall not 

 count for very much, we shall soon be on the way to better 

 things. WESLEY Mills, M.D. 



MONTRBAr.. Canada, 



PAINLESS DEATH. 



Editor Forest and Stream-: 



I observe that you copy the StocTt-Keeper's recipe for the 

 painless killing of dogs, and from personal experience am 

 at a loss to understand how chloroform can l)e preferred for 

 the purpose to prussic aci<l. 'Iho first dog 1 used the former 

 on was a young Clumber that had a crooked tail which re- 

 quired cutting. The chloroform was arl tti in istered by a 

 medical friend, and there can be no doubt of his h iving done 

 it properly. It took all my strength (and 1 am no pigmy) 

 to hold that pup down. He bit my hand b idly and howled 

 so loudly that he could have been heani fully half a mile. 

 Chloroform was by no meons stinted in this case. 



Next rime chloroform was used by an expex-ienced "vet" to 

 kill a spaniel. He administered it in the proper way and 

 left the dog for dead in the stable. A coiaple of hours after 

 the "dead" dog was chewing abonf. Again he was dosed, and 

 this time there was to be ho mistake, but he managed to 

 crawl half way home nevertheless. They shot him after 

 this. 



The foregoing is only one of numerous in-stances of the 

 failure of chloroform to really aff-cfi dogs that have come 

 under my observation. Prussic acid I have never known to 

 fail, even when dogs of the largest size were the victims. 

 As soon as the fluid entered the mouth the dogs were as 

 dead as if electrocuted. I think the best and most painless 

 manner of killing is as follows; Take a piece of meat of a 

 size wnich the dog will swallow without biting; hollow the 

 inside and fill with a sufficiency of the acid thickened with 

 wheat flour, and sew np the aperture. When digestion sets 

 in and the poison touches the coating of the .stomach, the 

 dog is instantly dead, literally not knowing "what struck 

 him." 



By the way, I may mention in connection with the past 

 greyhound squabble, that iu compliance with the request of 

 the owner, in the pre,sence of the Ottawa bench show com- 

 mittee, I measured the mouth of the dog Sir Ijauncelot and 

 found his upper jaw to project a scant quarter of an inch. 

 Thus Mr. Lacy and others are entirely wrong iu stating him 

 to be overshot one inch. Clumbek. 



Ottawa, Canada. 



NOTES AND NOTIONS. 



IN a Western pape^-Mr. A. A. Bogen mentions a somewhat 

 ordinary instance of the homing instinct in a dog, ask- 

 ing if this instance does not show a higher reasoning power 

 in dogs than we commonly admit. By no means. The 

 homing faculty is entirely independent of reasoning power 

 or intelligence. The animal possessing it in the most 

 marked degree is the cat, one of the lowest in intelligence 

 of the domestic animals; homers are rather the exception 

 among dog,s, while they are the rule among cats. All do- 

 mestic animals seem to possess this quality iu a greater or 

 lesser degree, but of course those manifesting a love for 

 home, sh(3w it the most frequently, The whole matter is 

 involved in most profound obscurity, no attempt having 

 been made to expltin it other than the suggestion of a 

 physiciaCn in Philadelphia, that the department of the brain 

 known as the pineal gland, for which no use has ever been 

 found, may be the source of this instinct. All ordinary 

 senses fail as explaining this peculiar faculty, as dogs have 

 been taken away from home, shut out from all opportun- 

 ities for seeing on the journey and to stop every avenue by 

 which they might trace their way back, they were chloro- 

 formed into complete insensibility, yet they found their 

 way home just as though no obstacles whatever to this had 

 been interposed. 



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I cannot see why there should be any particular doubt of 

 the story you give of the spaniel stealing a dust brush to 

 replace the one it demolished and was whipped for so doing. 

 It is only an instance of the power of association in dogs, 

 really the foundation of all theu- intelligence. This spaniel 



