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FOREST AND STREAM. 



tt)BC. 3, 1891« 



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THE KANKAKEE FISHWAYS. 



HOLYOKE, Mass., Nov. 30.— Editor Forest and Stream: 

 I concur with Mr. Hough that the flshway law of 

 Illinois should be enforced so long as it is a law, and the 

 Wilmington Water Power Co., recognizing the right of the 

 Legislature to enact .such a law, has constructed the fish- 

 way over the large dam in the Kankakee. The laws should 

 be obeyed, whether we believe them right or wrong. Pri- 

 vate opinion must not stand against piiblic acts; but is it 

 uureasonable to criticise the wisdom of the law makers, 

 when they j)ermit Chicago to eropty its foul sewage down 

 the Des Plaiues and the Illinois rivers, cau.sing an eiJectual 

 bar to the passage of fish from what Mr. Hough claims 

 to be the main breeding grounds of that system of rivers 

 and yet compel mill owners to be at the expense of open- 

 ing their dams for the passage of fish which cannot reach 

 them? 



I can perhaps appreciate the supposed benefits to bederived 

 from fishways on streams open to the passage of salmon, 

 shad, sea trout, sturgeon or aii^'^ otfap; anadromous fish that 

 periodically leave the oicean and pusb on up rivers for the 

 purpose of depositing their spawn, Imt I do claim that they 

 are of little if any benefit to rivers like the Kankakee. 

 It I do not believe that an efficient fish way can be a cheap 

 one also. A. cheap structure can be built up which one fish 

 out of a million can struggle up, but one large enough to 

 allow an easy passage for the larger portion of fish which 

 inay approach a dam will cost much money and be expen- 

 sive to maintain. Our Holyoke fishway is co.stly, but it is 

 not efficient. It is really valueless for the purpose intended. 

 Its entrance, as one of your correspondents suggests, is quite 

 a distance down stream, but of necessity that must be so, 

 for it would he impracticable to bring' the mouth of the 

 structure within the whirlpools caused by the water falling 

 from a height of 30ft. 



I have no controver.sy with your correspondent Mr. Hough . 

 He seems to have faithfully and conscienfcioixsly worked for 

 the fishways along the river, but when he longed for the 

 day that the Wilmington dams might be removed in hopes 

 that a few fish misrht run the river more freely, it seemed to 

 me that he considered more the sport of a few anglers than 

 he did the material prosperity of the dwellers in that beau- 

 tiful valley. Those dams and canals and lock.s with their 

 necessary adjuncts, which he wrote so flippantly about (as I 

 felt), cost nearly six hundred thousand dollars, and surely 

 the owners of that property have some rights that all should 

 be willing to respect. 



The flshway over the Wilmington dam has been completed, 

 I believe, to the satisfaction of the Fish Commissioners. I 

 trust that it may prove of use to the people of the State of 

 Illinois, but I fear that none now living will ever be able to 

 ascertain any benefit to the fisheries of Momence that cau 

 justly be attribnted to it. E. S. Waters. 



MAINE FISH HATCHING. 



THE season is proving more difficult for the obtaining of 

 landlocked salmon and trout eggs than was at first sup 

 posed it might. Actual cold weather has come on without 

 rise enough of water in the streams tributary to the princi- 

 pal trout and salmon lakes in New England to enable the 

 fish to reach their usual spawning beds. The Maine Com- 

 missioners have had to net their landlocked salmon at Edes 

 Falls, tributary to the Sebago waters, for the reason that the 

 fish could not get up to the weirs. There was not water 

 enough for them to ascend. The Commissioners have 

 scarcely taken above 800,000 eggs where they reasonably ex- 

 pected to get 1,500,000. And they are in a quandary as to how 

 they can begin to fill their obligations and the dcsii-es of 

 others for restocking. The eggs of the sea salmon taken at 

 the Government hatcheries at Orland, Me., this fall will not 

 come up to half of the number expected. Low water has 

 prevented the paz-ent salmon from reaching their usual 

 breeding haunts, and the people interested in the hatch- 

 eries have failed of finding them. The Lake Au- 

 burn (Me.) Fish Protective Association has completed 

 its spawn taking work for the season. The society has been 

 more successful than its neighbors in the same State, and 

 has done much better than might have been expected, con- 

 sidering that the fish have not been able to run up the brook 

 as usual. Trout have been seen at the mouth of the princi- 

 pal spawning stream with their back fins out of water, and 

 in this position they have been netted aud taken for breeding 

 purposes. This season 400,000 eggs have been taken, where 

 twice that number were hoped for. But the record compares 

 well with the previous season, when 425,000 eggs were ob- 

 tained. Nearly 100 trout were taken that were worth de- 

 taining for breeding purposes, andnearly all of these weighed 

 over 2lbs. They went back into the lake last week, ap- 

 parently none the worse for the process of having been 

 stripped. At Rangeley the success of the association there 

 is not yet reported. It should be good, since the resources 

 of that region are greater than almost anywhere in the State. 

 The streams are larger, and the trout and salmon are large 

 enough to yield a greater number of eggs. Special. 



Dogs: Their Management and Treatment in Disease. By 

 Ashmont. Price Kennel Record and Account Book. 

 Price $3. Training vs. Breaking. By S. T. Hamm.ond. 

 Price $1. Mrst Lessons in Dog Training, with Points o^ 

 all Breeds. Price SO cents. 



F I XTU RES. 



DOG SHOWS. 



Dec. i to 8.— Sixth Annual Dog .Show of the Northern Illinois 

 Poultry and Pet Stock Association, at Roekford, III. 



Dec. 10 to 14.— Inaugural Dog Show of The Freeport Poultry and 

 Pet Stock Association, at Freeport, III. T. E. Taylor, Seo'y. 



Dec. 30 to Jan. 2.— Fourth Annual Dog Show of the Mohawk 

 Valley Poultry and Kennel Club, at Gloversville, N. Y. F. B. 

 Zimmer, Sec'y. 



1892. 



Jan. 5 to 8,— Tlie New York and New England Poultrv and Ken- 

 nel Club's Dog Show, at Albany. N. Y. W. C. House, Port Plain, 

 N. Y.. Sec'y. 



Jan. 5 to 9.— Annual Dog Show of the South Oamliaa Poultry 

 and Pet Stock Association, at CharlestoH, S. C. Benj. Mclnness, 

 Sec'y. 



Jan. 13 to 16.— Second Annual Dog Show of the South Carolina 

 Kennel Association, at Columbia, S. C . F. P. Capers, Secretary 

 G-reenville. S. C. 



Jan. SI to 2.5.— Second Annual Dog Show of the Elmua Poultry 

 and Pet Stock Association, at Elmira, N. Y. C. A. Bowman, Seo. 



Feb. 9 to 12.— Fourth Annual Dog Show of the Mascoutah Ken- 

 nel Club, at Chicago. 111. John L. Lincoln, Jr., Sec'y. 



Feb. 16 to 19.— Second Annual Show of the Central City Kennel, 

 Jackson, Mich. Chas. H. Rnhl, Sec'y. 



Feb. 23 to 26.— Sixteenth Annual Dog Show of the Westminster 

 Kennel Club, at New York. James Mortimer, Supt. 



March 1 to 4.— Dog Show of the Philadelphia Kennel Oluh. at 

 Philadelphia, Pa. F. S. Brown, Sec'v. 



March 8 to 11.— Washington City Kennel Club. Washington, D. 

 C. Fred. S. Webster, Sec'y, 738 Broadway, New York. 



March 15 to 18.— Second Annual Dog Show of the Duquesne 

 Kennel Club, at Pittsburgh, Pa. W. E. Littell. Sec'y. 



April 7 to 10.— Seventh Annual Dog Show of the New England 

 Kennel Club, at Boston, Mass. E. H. Moore, Sec'y. 



April 30 to 23.— Fourth Annual Dog Show of the Southern Cali- 

 fornia Kennel Club, at Los Angeles, Gal. C. A. Sumuer, Sec'y. 



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

 at San Francisco, Cal. H. L. Miller. Sec'y. 



FIELD TRIALS, 

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

 Connell, Secretary. 



1893. 



Jan. 10.— Second Annual Trials of the Bexar Field Trial Club, 

 at San Antonio, Texas. G-. A. Ohabot, Sec'v'. Amateurs only. 



Jan. 18.— Trials of the Pacific Field Trial Club, at Bakerafield, 

 Cal. J. M. Kilgarif. Sec'y. 



^, .-Fourth Annual Field Trials of the Southern EieldTrials 



Club, at New Albany, Miss. T. M. Brumby, Sec'y. 



IRISH SETTER CLUB'S TRIALS. 



rHESE trials, which commenced on Nov. 23 and were 

 concluded Nov. 25, must be conceded to have been a 

 great success, the work of some of the dogs in the stakes 

 being quite equal to and surpassing many of the performers 

 iu the other trials. Of course, as a class, there is much to be 

 done yet to bring them to the point to which their ardent 

 admirers would like to see them, but I am confident, placed 

 in the hands of men who thoroughly under.stanrl their pro- 

 fession, the Irish setter can and will take a prominent part 

 in future trials. It remains with the breeders, however, to 

 do their share, by careful breeding to good field performers 



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Paxico and Pearl's Fan. 

 United States Field Trials. 



and trained dogs. Let the bitches while in whelp be hunted, 

 and the same intelligence be devoted to their interests as has 

 been the cause of the prominence that the English setter 

 holds, and there is no cause why the Irish setter men should 

 despair. The presence of two such enthusiastic Irish setter 

 men as Drs. Wm. Jarvis aud G. G. Davis added greatly to 

 the interest of the trials. On the vice-president, Dr. Rowe, de- 

 volved the arrangements of the trials, and everything passed 

 ofl^ very smoothly; Major Taylor, Luke White and J. B. Stod- 

 dard giving general satisfaction. In the first series each 

 brace was given long opportunity to show what was in them, 

 and there was no hun-y at any part of the meeting. It was 

 the expressed opinion of all present that the Irish Setter 

 Club should follow up the good work, and next year I hope 

 the entries will be doubled; and with .so many men coming 

 into the breed just now there is no reason why they should 

 not every one lend a helping hand, either with their money 

 or their dogs. 



High Poist, N. C, Monday, Nov. 33.— It was a dreary out- 

 look this morning when we opened our shutters. The rain 

 was coming down in torrents and the wind blew almost a 

 hun-icane. Every one had settled that this was a most un- 

 called for damper on the Irish Setter Club to commence 

 with; but suddenly it cleared up, and the sun coming out it 

 was decided to start after lunch. This would allow the 



ChAS. BARKER AND PROMOTION. 



United States Field Trials. 



ground time to dry out a little, as the wind was still very 

 high. The judges appointed were Major J. M. Taylor, Luke 

 White and J. B. Stoddard. The start was at the Blair farm, 

 and the first brace in 



The Deebt, 



Maid of BoestaLL— SqtjAW, were sent off at 1 :26 in a 

 large grass and sedge field. Maid of Borstall (Inchiqxiin— 

 Onota Belle) was handled by T. M. Aldrich and Squaw 

 (Darragh Pat— Ruby Glencho) by H. B. Anderson. The 

 start was not productive of much incident, neither dog 

 ranging far from handlers, though Squaw was the better 

 ranger of the two. They both turn too much to handlers, 

 being afraid to launch but very far on their own account. 

 After going some time Maid pointed near woods, and Squaw 

 coming in in front made a hesitating point, as birds flashed 

 wild. Then two more birds were flushed. Going into the 

 cover after these birds, nothing wag done, though singles 

 flushed wild. Very slow work in the cover. Out into open 

 fields again in sedge by a plum thicket. Squaw roaded to a 

 point on a bevy, which Anderson put up; dog steadv to shot 

 andwing. TheninhighsedgeMaidflushedasingle. Squaw, a 

 bit further on, pointed a single very nicely, Maid backing to 

 order. Some more reading b> Squaw to a flr tree, where she 

 pointed, but broke point and nothing found, and the heat 

 closed at 2:20. Most of the time the dogs did not range 

 more than 20 or 30yds. from handler, though Squaw made a 

 fair cast or two now and then, and was much the best on 

 bird work. 



Leigh Done VI.— Pinglas.— Leigh Done VI, (Fly— Betsy 

 Leigh), a lightly-made dog, was handled by Mathies. Fing- , 



las, an importation from Mr. O'Callahan's kennels, brought 

 over by Mr. S. L. Boggs this last summer and sold by him 

 to Mr. Bishop, is by Fingal III,— Aveline, and W. T. Irwin 

 had charge of him. Pat down in sedge grass Finglas started 

 off well, but Leigh seemed to have no idea of range, trotting 

 most of the time round his handler. Going up hill Leigh 

 made game in an uncertain manner, stopped and Fingal 

 backed capitally to one side, but Leigh moved on and noth- 

 ing found. Through the sedge, in which Finglas seemed 

 hardly at home, we passed into pine woods, Finglas making 

 rings around the others, but flushed when he struck the 

 birds. He evidently is not accustomed to cover work and 

 high grass. In pines a single flushed wild, and Finglas 

 coming up stopped as another single rose just in front of 

 him, and it looked like a flush; he was steady to wing. 

 Then out of woods in sedge, near other corn, Mr. Bradley's 

 horse flushed a large bevy at the edge. These birds were iol- 

 lowed, but dogs did nothing more, and ordered up at 3:37. 

 Finglas ranged out fairly well, but seemed bothered when 

 the ground was not open; he hunted out the likely places, 

 and with a little training on this ground he would no doubt 

 do much better, as he has good action. His long journey 

 from Kansas, with only a day's rest, may have affected him, 

 as he has a reputation on the other side as being an excellent 

 field dog under English conditions of field work. Leigh Done 

 VI. will not go further into the stake. 



Elcho's Maid— Colerajne.— This was expected to be a 

 good heat, as George Grav thinks a good deal of his entry, 

 Elcho's Maid (champion Elcho, Jr.— Maid), and Coleraine is 

 well known tihrough her excellent work in the English 

 trials last spring. She is a litter sister to Finglas. It 

 must be said that she has not been herself since she arrived 

 not long since f-om England, she being seventeen days on 

 the water, and has never eaten a good square meal since 

 she arrived, has seen very few quail and was an entire 

 stranger to this style of country, her only work here being 

 in the Oklahoma country. Starting at 3:39 Geo. E. Gray 

 handled his ovra bitch and W. T. Irvpin handled Coleraine. 

 Both started off iu good style and quite refreshed our 

 spirits after the slow pottering work of some the others. 

 In sedge Coleraine was the first to score, pointing stylishly 

 on a bevy which flew into the woods as handler flushed, 

 Maid bncked fairly aud they were steady to Irwin's flush. 

 Both dogs then got points' on singles in high sedge, and 

 were steady to shot aud wiug. Along the pine woods 

 Colerfiine seemed hardly to understand this high sedge 

 business; afraid of losing her handler. Going into pines 

 after flushed birds Maid, under a pine tree, rnade a point 

 and as Gray went up to flush she moved on bat stopped as 



MH. HtTNTBIt AND BtACK WONDER. 



After winning Pointer AU-Aged at Bicknell, Ind. 



bird flu-shed just in front of her. Coleraine backed nicely. 

 Then Coleraine dropped to a bevy side of woods, Maid com- 

 ing in iu front. Both ranged busily and with much judg- 

 ment here. Alongside a brook Maid theu pointed' and 

 Coleraine honored it. Higher up Coleraine pointed some 

 single birds which flashed wild and then she flushed one, 

 but was steady to wing. Dogs were then called up at I 

 o'clock. Coleraicebad a little advantage on birds, showing 

 a good nose. Both ranged out well and at good .speed. By 

 far the best heat so far. 



Rose of Clakemont— Bessie Mavolikxeen.— Rose of 

 Claremont (Clareniont Patsey— Nino) was under the guid- 

 ance of Geo. McClin, and Bessie Mavourneen (champion 

 Tim— Currer Belle III ) was handled by E. T. Matbias. 

 They were cast off at 4:06 ju.st outside of some woods, but 

 neither started ott" with much vim. Starting with a flush 

 near pines the birds went into cover. After quartering 

 several fields at a slow rate, neither dog ranging out at all. 

 Rose made game but moved on. and the bird she should 

 have nailed flushed to one side, a yard or so away, aud wind 

 was right for scent. Out of woods Rose rather' blinked as 

 she pointed a bevy, but was steady to flush. Dogs ordered 

 up at 4:37. Neither ranges out at all, the handlers could 

 find almost as many birds alone, as the dogs trotted along 

 in front of them most of the time. 



PfiiDE OE Patsey— Adonis.— The former, by Claremont 

 Patsey — Nino, was handled by Geo. A. McClin, and Adonis 

 (champion Tim— Currer Belle III.) by F. .1. Schuyler. Down 

 at 4i:'d% Neither got oft" at all fast in the ragweed. It was 

 not long before Pride almost walked on top of a bevy which 

 flushed when stopping to wing, both acting fairly .steady. 

 Then by a fallen tree in woods both pointed a single and 

 were steady to flush. Just before getting out of woods both 

 dogs either stopped just on or flushed .some single birds, 

 trees too dense to see. It was in manj' cases difBcuIt to tell 

 one red dog from the other. Then both made casts round a 

 single which flushed wild, in fact several got up that the 

 dogs should have scored on, but their nasal organs seemed 

 detici'^nt in a bird dog's most requisite faculty. ' Ordered up 

 at 5:09, near the Model farm. Neither showed much hunt 

 and will be retired from the Stake. In justice to Adonis I 

 may say that his education has only just commenced, for he 

 is only ten months old. 



Nugget a Bye.— This bitch (Redfern- Gyp.sy Maid) was 

 handled by her owner H. B, Anderson. Sae was put down 

 at 5:15 toward home, as dark was drawing on apace. She 

 ranged out fast and wide, compared to the others, and on 

 hillside went up to a bevy in good style, aud was steady to 

 wing. Birds flew into woods and were followed, but we did 

 not come up to them, though Nugget hunted round at a 

 merry rate. Out of woods in sedge she pointed a single, 

 which a judge flushed as he came out of woods. Then she 

 did a pretty piece of work, dropping to a point at speed, she 

 moved on as handler came up and, making a east, she located 

 the bevy, pointed, and was steady to Anderson's flush and 



