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what astonished baggage master that that outfit was 

 going to Wadena. He grinned, but said nothing, and 

 it went. At Wadena the dr&yman took us and our out- 

 fit to the Northern Pacific depot, and at my request the 

 baggage ma.n checked every article for us and then said, 

 "Gentlemen, if you want any more ice to put on those 

 fish there is the icehouse, help yourselves." Jack opened 

 his eyes a,nd said, "Is the millenium dawning?" "No," 

 I replied, "it is only the diflference in the management 

 of the two roads." "Great is the difference," quoth he. 

 We were home in time for supper, and so ended a trip 

 replete with pleasure and pleasing memories. The pic- 

 ture of Whippoorwill Camp and the many incidents con- 

 nected therewith, with .Jack filling foreground, middle- 

 round, and deeply shading the background, is one that 

 shall ever fondly cherish. Mykon GopIJiy. 



DBTHorr CiTT, Minn; ^ 



"Where am I at?" 



The types make me blush and have brought the laugh on 

 me. In the recent article, "A Side Issue, but no Trout," 

 Ely is located in northwestern Minnesota when it is in the 

 northeastern; there is no Nesaba Range, but Mesaba, 

 and no river called American between Dukith and Ash- 

 land, but one named Amnicon, This last mistake, with 

 locating Ely in the northwest, might arouse a suspicion 

 that I was in a condition similar to that of a deer hunter 

 Stephens and I met in Wisconsin last fall, who said, 

 "I've hunted in the mountains in oF Missoury lots, and 

 never bad no trouble, but I never saw such a country as 

 this. I don't know where I am half the time." This 

 was spoken with that drawl characteristic of some local- 

 ities, and taken in connection with the dejected attitude 

 of the man, made it very funny, and we've laughed over 

 it many times since, as many a reader will laugh over 

 the mistakes in q uestion. Myr Ok Cooley. 



CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 



Chicago, 111., Aug. 5.— Our vigorous young organiza- 

 tion, the Chicago Fly-Casting Club, used very good judg- 

 ment when, through the advice of its energetic secretary, 

 Mr. F, B. Davidson, who knew whereof he spoke, it se- 

 cvired special rates over the C. & E. I. road to the bass 

 waters at Momence. The Kankakee River, from that point 

 on down for miles, affords about as good fly-fishing for 

 bass as any water within twice the distance. Even the 

 tyro members of the club have benefitted by the late 

 practice meets, and it is to be presumed will now go after 

 the practical application of the acquired knowledge. 

 That's different again. 



The Kankakee has for ten days been clearing up and 

 has offered some little fishing. The Fox has been in much 

 better shape, and below McHenry some nice catches have 

 been made on the fly. There are some waters where 

 black bass will take the fly, and some where they won't. 

 The Fox below McHenry and the Kankakee below Mo- 

 mence are two places where they will. 



Mr. John F. Randall writes me from St. Louis, that 

 himself and a few friends are about to organize a society 

 for the protection of fish, with membership largely from 

 St. Louis and Alton. He says "our work is all in the 

 future." It is to be hoped it will not stay there. Much 

 actual and practical good can result from intelligent and 

 determined work in fish protection. Fish protection is a 

 much easier problem than game protection. We can not 

 have too many societies of purposes similar to the above, 

 and all success should be prayed this one. 



Mr. George E. Cole, easily the first man in the West in 

 matters of fish protection, "has given himself a vacation, 

 and is now with his family in the East, at Long Branch, 

 where he will remain for several v^eeks. Let no one step 

 needlessly on a clam now at Lang Branch. 



It was grim, ghastly retribution which last week over- 

 took that Maryland man who was dynamiting fish in 

 Worton Creek and was hoist by his own petard. The 

 dispatches say that his body was blown to fragments, his 

 shoulder blade being driven into the body of the friend 

 who sa,t behind him. This is horrible enough, and too 

 horrible to point a moral. 



I never saw dynamite used under water but once, and 

 that was at Lake Marie last summer, when searchers 

 were endeavoring to raise the body of a boy who had 

 been drowned, Contrary to my expectations, there was 

 no great volume of water thrown up, only a sort of boil- 

 ing ridge a few inches high. At each explosion vce could 

 feel a sharp, ringing clink along the bottom of the boat, 

 such as you will hear when a charge of shot strikes a 

 board. The boats retired only a short distance for each 

 shot. The charges did not raise the body, but destroyed 

 a number of fish. In the Maryland case it was different. 

 Dynamiting fish has become altogether too common a 

 method of destruction even in the sections where blast- 

 ing or mining is not common. It is justly censurable as 

 about the lowest form of low-down ways to kill fish. 



At Green Lake, Wis., last Sunday, three ladies and 

 two gentlemen got into a small clinker boat to cross the 

 lake to attend church. The ladies raised their umbrellas 

 as sails. The boat went over. Arthur Bennett, of Chi- 

 cago, being a good swimmer, saved the lives of two of 

 the ladies. The third, Mrs, Hollister, was drowned, 



Mr. R, K, Hitchens, of this city, is resident agent for 

 an Eastern firm, and he does nearly all his fishing in New 

 Brunswick, scorning Western trout and bass for the glo- 

 rious sport with the sea trout. He has fished for the big 

 brook trout of Lake Superior near Marquette, and de- 

 clares that they look identically the same to him as the 

 sea trout of New Brunswick. Mr. Hitchens says that be- 

 fore he came West he had never seen any free-reel bait- 

 casting, and he still prefers the fly. For the latter he 

 will find greater use in New Brunswick than here, where 

 the range of fly-fishing waters is restricted. E, HouGH, 



Ocean Grove Bass. 



Mr. a. a. Brower, of Philadelphia, who has a sum- 

 mer cottage at Ocean Grove, on the New Jersey coast, is 

 an enthusiastic and successful fisherman. Recently he 

 took, fishing from the Ocean Grove pier, a 14ibs. bass, 

 the largest fish of the season. 



The Favobite Line.— Tbe Shenandoah Valley route to the 

 South, comprised ol the Norfolk & Western and East Tennessee, 

 Vireun'a & Georgia Railways, Is the sportsman's favorite line. 

 "The Washington & Chattanooga Limited," which is a Bolid ves- 

 tibuled fast fivine; train, eoneisting of Pullman, drawing mom, 

 sleeping cars, day coaches and Pullman dining oars, leave Wasb- 

 jugton 11:15 P. M. every day in the year, arriving Chattanooga 

 6:45 nest afternoon, making close connection for all Southern 

 points. Mr. B. W. Wbenn, General Passenger and Ticket Agent, 

 E. T., V. & G. R'y. Knoxville Tenu., will furnish free any infor- 

 mation desired, -Adv. 



LAKE ONTARIO FISHERIES. 



The movement of the Cheaper Food Pish Association of 

 New York, of which Judge Danforth is the president, was a 

 very timely one, as now demonstrated by the late census 

 returns of the fisheries on the Great Lakes. The decline of 

 the industry on Lake Ontario in the last decade is certainly 

 worthy of attention. In 1880 the number of fishermen was 

 587, in 1890 398, a decrease of .189. The capital invested in 

 1880 was $54,050. and in 1890 147,716, a decrease of m,33i. 

 Number of nets in 1880 34, and in 1880 173, an increase of 138. 

 The value of the fish in 1880 was $159,700, and in 1890 $85,481, 

 a decrease of $74,260, almost 50 percent. The number of 

 pounds of fish taken in 1880 was 3,640,000, and in 1890 2,691,- 

 94.6, a decrease of 948,054, and on close examination this 

 catch of fish in 1890 discloses the fact that more than half 

 of it was an inferior fish — the herring. The number of 

 pounds of lake trout taken in 1880 was .569,700, and in 1890 

 6,500, a decrease of .563,200. The number of whitefi-h taken 

 in 1880 was 1.064,000, and in 1890 it was 23,383, a decrease of 

 1,040,617. What makes this decline more marked is the fact 

 that on the other great lakes during the same period there 

 has been a decided improvement. The number of fishermen 

 in 1880 was 3,906, and in 1890 6,498, an increase of 2,592. The 

 capital invested in 1880 was $1,291,925, and in 1890 S2,785,243, 

 being an increase of $1,493,318. The number of nets in 1880 

 was 1,466, and in 1890 3.659, an increase of 2.193. The value 

 of the fish in 1880 was $1,493,200, and in 1890 $2,.530.353, an in- 

 of 11,037,153. The total number of pounds of fish taken in 

 1880 was 65,102,000, in 1890 114.393,622, an increase of 49,391,- 

 622. The number of pounds of lake trout taken in 1880 was 

 6.234,900, and in 1890 11,195,131, an increase of 4,961,231. 

 Whitefish in 1880 20,399,900, and in 1890 15,.303,10.5, a decrease 

 of 5,096,795. 



Superintendent Porter, in commenting on the above 

 figures, gives credit for the condition of things in the upper 

 lakes to the work of the Michigan, Ohio and United States 

 Fish Commissioners; that their planting in those waters 

 has been the preservation of the industry, and had the i\kv,- 

 State Fish Commissioners been awake and done their duty, 

 the industry of our great lake would never have been in 

 the condition in which it is. 



The movement of Judge Danforth and his associates has 

 been productive of one good thing, it has aroused the atten- 

 tion of the LT. S. Fish Commission, and an appropriation 

 has been secured for the establishment of a hatchery on 

 Lake Ontario, and work will be commenced on it this sea- 

 son. There has been some planting of whitefish in ijake 

 Ontario in a small way by both New York State and the IT. 

 S. Government, but not safiicient to make any visible effect. 

 Such work, to be elJective, must be done on a very large 

 scale. From 1882 to 1891 the United States has planted in 

 Lake Ontario 45 000,000 of whitefish; in 1877 to 1890 Canada 

 has planted in Lake Ontario 34,000,040. In 1877 to 1890 New 

 York State planted less than 7,000,000 in Lake Ontario. We 

 have more to say on this subject at a later date. 



Western New York. 



POINTS AND FLUSHES. 



Chicago, Aug. 6.— While the matter of retrieving at field 

 trials bas been quite thoroughly discussed from every stand- 

 point, there has been one argument brought forward by the 

 advocates of it, which is most ungenerous and false, and 

 which has been allowed to pass unanswered. It has, in sub- 

 stance, been stated that professional trainers were opposed 

 to retrieving at field trials for the selfish reason that its 

 abolishment woitld save them the time and labor necessary 

 to teach and perfect the accomplishment. To me this ap- 

 pears most gratuitously unjust. With no data whatever 

 except the suspicions wbich exist in their own minds, they 

 present their surmises as existing facts. The writers who 

 hold these views ignore the fact that the sentiment in favor 

 of abolishing retrieving at field trials was not the result of 

 demand ou the part of field trial handlers alone. It was the 

 result of the experience and knowledge of practical men who 

 had made field trials a study. The measure had been con- 

 sidered many months by the E. F. T. C. before any action 

 was taken on it. The correctness of the measure in abolish- 

 ing it was not questioned by the majority; but the popular 

 sentiment in favor of retrieving, by men w^hose personal 

 field trial experience was little or nothing, was something 

 to be considered. It was a matter which had been most 

 carefully determined before many recent writers had given 

 it a thought. 



Even if the professional trainers had all argued against it 

 — which they have not — it does not follow by any means that 

 some man who disagreed with them would be justified in 

 concluding that they did it for seLQsh purposes, much less 

 in publishing his conjecture as a fact. Who would be more 

 competent to give sounder opinions on the subject than the 

 professional trainers? Having given an opinion, why 

 should some man at a distance impute selfish motives to 

 them, with no other proof to advance than thevaporings of 

 his uncharitable imagination? Few professions can pro- 

 duce such a uniformly intelligent and reliable body of men 

 outside of the learned iDrofessions as the dog trainers o£ 

 America. It is only fair to assiime, what is the fact, that 

 they are interested in advancing their calling in every hon- 

 orable way, not in obstructing its growth or lowering its 

 standing. 



That the imputation of insincerity on their part in oppos- 

 sing retrieving at field trials is groundless, is shown by the 

 fact that all trainers concede the utility ot retrieving in 

 actual shooting. As all trainers break dogs in the manner 

 required by their employers, the doings at field trials have 

 no bearing on the matter. The trainer trains the dog accord- 

 ing to its owner's wishes. But some men are supernaturally 

 wise in discovering serious nothings. Their minds are so 

 constituted that they abandon the fair consideration of the 

 facts presented and search for dishonorable or selfish mo- 

 tives. It is gratifying to note that such writers are narrow 

 and feeble in fair argument. As a matter of fact if the field 

 trial retrieving of the past were taken as a standard it could 

 do no harm to abolish it both in trials and in field shooting. 



Ranging. 



I have received some most interesting letters of late on 

 the subject of ranging and its properties, and I find that 

 there is a keen appreciation of its true merits. It is a fact 

 that there is much more in it than an exhibition of rapid 

 scurrying over large fields or getting lost for an hour, more 

 or less. One paragraph deals with the senseless exaggeration 

 indulged in by ultra enthusiasts who strive to paint the sky 

 in brighter tints. I would like to give the writer's name so 

 that his words would carry the weight which his skill, ex- 

 perience and popularity have deservedly won, but as such 

 would be against his wishes, I can only quote some of the 

 interesting sayings. He says: '*I cannot think about some 

 of the ideas I have heard put forth without feeling inclined 

 to be sarcastic. 'Killing pace' always amuses me. Who is 

 to be killed? I suppose the dog is to try and kill himself, 

 All these foolish sort of ideas wottld be of no consequence if 

 it was not that some of our judges are possibly influenced ' 



by them, and consequently a fool dog tha.t gallops like fury, 

 if he only bas luck enough to stumble on a good point now 

 and again, is put before one that hunts from start to finish." 



Speaking of fast dogs which performed indifferently as 

 workers on birds, he says: "Off their noses, of course! 

 That is the ever-ready excuse of owners whose dogs hunt 

 the wrong way. I believe that there are not many all- 

 around, high-class dogs whelped, not many good ones come 

 by chance breeding. (I mean such as are bred by men who 

 can only gue.=s what dogs to breed together.) One must 

 know the character of the dogs in every i-espect, in one's 

 kennel, and for as many generations i3ack as possible, 

 before one can establish and keep up a good strain. Noth- 

 ing but close observation for a number of years will do it, 

 and that too by one who is quick to detect the faults of his 

 own dogs. I askf d Mr. (a famous breeder and hand- 



ler from boyhood, and now ripe in age and knowledge) if 

 dogs were better now than they were when he was a boy. 

 He said no, but that there were more of them. If a man 

 can turn out one or two really good dogs every year he is 

 doing well, I think. What we try to find are dogs that go 

 as hard as they possibly can hunt^ not run, much of which 

 depends on their style of working. Ones which have good 

 noses, high courage, fine tempers, lots of intelligence, en- 

 durance, style, etc., and no faults which cannot be cured. 

 When we get a puppy of that sort, or even approaching to 

 it, we expect to train him so that he will show off his good 

 qualities at the trials. If another dog does not do as clean 

 work we feel inclined to kick if he is put over our dog 

 because he goes faster, our dog not being too slow. If he 

 does as clean work and goes faster too, then it is all right," 



False Pointing-. 



On the stibject of false pointing he says; 'A well broken, 

 experienced dog with a good nose will not false point at all. 

 He may stop for a moment or two, but he will never stop on 

 larks. If a well broken dog, with a good nose, a dog which 

 uses his nose in the right way, makes a flush, or a bird 

 flushes, you may be sure it is not the dog's fault. No man 

 living can fairly say that a flush is excusable or otherwise, 

 but he can soon tell where there is plenty of game whether 

 a dog is a flusher or not. Some strange scent, some unusual 

 disturbance of the atmosphere, may for the moment have 

 destroyed the scent, but no well broken dog flushes on pur- 

 pose." 



Dr. J. Frank Perry, the famous litterateur and foremost 

 writer on canine matters in this country, is now the owner 

 of the copyright, plates, books, etc., of "Modern Training, 

 Handling and Kennel Management." This work on train- 

 ing has been most generously conceded to be the best one 

 before the public. Dr. Perry bas, forthcoming, works on the 

 diseases of dogs, conditioning, etc., which will add greatly 

 to the literature on these subjects. B. Waters. 



NEW ENGLAND F. s,T. CLUB DERBY ENTRIES. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



The entries for the Derby closed Aug. 1, and the following 

 satisfactory entry has been received. The total, 30, includes 

 4 pointers, 25 English setters and 1 Gordon setter. All these 

 were whelped in 1891. 



POINTERS. 



Dash A. (George W. Lovell, Middleborough, Ma.ss.), liver 

 and white dog 'champion King of Kent— Lass of Kent), 

 July 4. 



Wild Lily (George W. Lovell, Middleborough, Mass.), 

 liver and white bitch (champion King of Kent— Lass of 

 Kent), July 4. 



Bud of Kent (A. M. Tucker, Lexington, Mass.), liver and 

 white dog (King of;Kent— Vickery's Daisy Bang Bang), 

 Aug. 2.5, 



Queen of Kent II. (G. A, Vickery, Lexington, Mass.), 

 black and white ticked bitch (champion King of Kent— 

 Vickery's Daisy), Aug. 25. 



ENGLISH SETTEES. 



DASH B. (Edward Brooks, Hyde .Park, Mass.), black, white 

 and tan dog (Gloster — Movis), Sept. 1. 



Geouse B, (Edward Brooks, Hyde Park, Mass.), black, 

 white and tan dog (G-loster — Movisl, Sept. 1. 



Boss (Edward Brooks, Hyde Park, Mass.), black, white 

 and tan dog (Jean Val Jean — Mamie A,), Oct. 23. 



Rod's Chaff (E O. Damon, Northampton. Mass.), black, 

 white and tan dog (Roderigo — Gladstone's Girl), March 3. 



Rod's Mirth (E. O. Damon, Northampton, Mass.), white 

 black and tan bitch (Roderigo— Gladstone's Girl). March S. 



Count Beekshiee (F. W, Whitlock, Great Barrington, 

 Mass.), blackjWhite and tan ticked dog (The Corsair— Bona), 

 June 3. 



Princess "Polly (P. W, Whitlock, Great Barrington, 

 Mass.), black and white ticked bitch (Rod's Whim — James' 

 Lassie), Dec. 29. 



Tennessee Vandal (Oakland Farm Kennels, Taunton, 

 Mass.), black, white and tan dog (The Corsair— Effle Hill), 

 Jan. 19. 



Tennessee Girl (Oakland Farm Kennels, Taunton, 

 Mass.), black, white and tan bitch (The Corsair— Efiie Hill), 

 Jan. 12. 



BARRETT (W. B. Poster, Brockton, Mass.), orange and 

 white dog (Duke of Gloucester— Belle of Brockton). May . 6 



PuNCK P (W. B. Foster, Brockton, Mass.), black and 

 white.dog (Duke of Gloucester— Belle of Brockton), May 6^ 



Rot Kent .*:(Cohannet Kennels, E. Taunton, Mass.), blue 

 belton dog (Kent II.— Fedora Laverack), Feb. 25. 



NANNETTE (Cohannet Kennels, Taunton, Mass ), black, 

 white and tan bitch (The Corsair— Eflie Hill), Jan. 19. 



Bradley (D. A. Goodwin, Jr., Newburyport, Mass.), 

 black and white dog (Rowdy Rod— Breeze Gates), July 4. 



Albert's Daisy (Dr. James E. Hair, Bridgeport, Conn.), 

 white and orange bitch (Albert's Garry— Fanny San Roy), 

 Feb. 7. 



Rose Gladstone (V, L. Bossa, New Canaan, Conn.), 

 black, white and tan bitch (Dan Gladstone— Belton's Prin- 

 cess), April 10. 



Mark's Lady (J. L. Wells, Attleboro, Mass.), orange 

 belton bitch (champion Gath'sMark— Jessie Noble), Sept. 10. 



Roy Wilson (Noyes Billings, Dodgeville, Mass.), white, 

 black and tan dog (Dad Wilson, .Jr.- Bessie Roy), Sept. 6. 



Matador (Rosecroft Kennels, New Haven, Conn.), black 

 and white dog (Grover — Forest Dora), August. 



Pang (H. C. French, Northampton, Mass.), black and 

 tan dog (Paxtang— Mamie), May 15. 



Rowdy Roy (A. M. Tucker, Lexington, Mass.), black, 

 white and tan ticked dog (Roderigo— Field's Vic), Aug. 25. 



Rod Belton ( Willard W. Lewis, Rockland. Mass.), black, 

 white and tan dog (Count Roderigo— Bessie Roy), Jan. 14. 



Druid Noble (Agawam Kennels, Ipswich, Mass.), black 

 and white dog (Count Noble's Boy— Model Bondhu), Feb- 

 ruary. 



Damon C. (Hampton Kennels, Hampton, Conn.), lemon 

 and white dog (The Corsair — Bona), June 3. 



Nellie G. (H. Rudolph Sack, Lymansville, R. I.), black, 

 white and tan bitch (Breeze Gladstone— Lady Snowflake), 

 Sept. 19. 



GORDON settees. 

 Gypsy (Hampton Kennels, Hampton, Conn.), black and 

 tan bitch (Clarke's Jake— Daisy M.), -January. 



E. Knight Sperey, Sec'y. 



"From Nearly Every State." 



Dextbb, Me., Aug. 1.— Editor Forest and Stream: From the 

 small ad. in your paper offering the portraits of my pointer, Duke 

 of Dexter, 1 have had orders from nearly every State in the 

 Union, and "still they come." OhAS. D. Robbkts, 



