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FOREST AND STREAM. 



tAuG. 25, 1893. 



Forest and Stream's 



^1 Fishing: Postals. 



"DROP US A LINE" ON A POSTAL CARD. 



F.ishing News, Place to Catch Pish. Fish Caught, 

 Pishing Incidents. 



Boston, Aug. 20.— Editor Forest'and Stream : When 

 you announced your special expedition for the investi- 

 gation of the fishing resources of Salt River I hailed the 

 enterprise and looked forward to a report on a stream 

 which I once came near visiting' and investigating on 

 my own account; but, behold! Your Salt River is not 

 my Salt Eiver, and I never before heard of yours and 

 you betray no knowled?-e of mine. Now who knows but 

 there are other Salt Rivers yet to be heard from and all 

 equally well worthy of attention? Will the enterprise of 

 Forest and Stream not make the investigation com- 

 plete? My Salt River is in Arizona and its valley is 

 asserted to be the very best fruit-producing region on 

 parth, and this is said by thof=!e who know southern 

 California and New Mexico. But what is its volume? 

 Are its waters inhabited by fishes and, if so, of what 

 kinds? Who has explored it from mouth to source? I 

 have a faith that my Salt River is larger and more in- 

 teresting, and worthy of exploration, if not larger, than 

 the Blue Grass Country stream. There must be readers 

 of Forest and Stream who know all bout the Arizona 

 river and who will champion it. If not let the Forest 

 AND Stream commissioner explore it at once. 



C. H, Ames. 



♦ 



East Hebron, N. H., Aug. 19 —1 have been on New- 

 found Lake every day for one month and have only 

 caught pickprel and perch. Salmon trout, for which this 

 lake is so noted in tlie spring, seem to he rather shy at 

 this time of year, Mr. Fowler, of Bristol, N. H., caught 

 one, weight lOlbs., the early part of this month, and this 

 is the only one caught since last May. It seems strange 

 they do not take hold at this time of year. This is a 

 beautiful sheet of water surrounded by the Green Moun- 

 tains, and Mr, J. W. Sanborn, our landlord, keeps a good 

 house, and I can recommend this place to any one. I 

 first saw account of Mr. Sanborn and Newfound Lake in 

 the Forest and Stream. I do not regret the trip. Of 

 course the salmon trout fishing is a great disappointment, 

 but I am satisfied the spring is the time to come. I left 

 New York city in the height of grand bluefishing and 

 intend to return in time to catch these bulldogs of the 

 ocean before they leave. H C, W 



♦ 



Goshen, Mass., Aug. 19.— Yesterday I brought in three 

 fine pickerel from Damon's Pond, caught with the Enter- 

 prise luminous spoon, which were cooked by mine hostess 

 of the Highland House, and seemed to have the merit of 

 being boneless. Perhaps it was in the cooking. Least- 

 wise there were no bones to bother, and the flavor was 

 inimitable and superior to brook trout, the water being 

 clear and pure and the food choice and abundant. There 

 have been o,000 picnickers and'.fisbermen at Damon's 

 Pond this season. It is a lovely spot, 



Chas. Hallook, 



♦ 



Lake View House, Vermont, Aug. 30.— The baas fish- 

 ■ ing j"8t all any one could ask for, for July and August 

 10 to 50 bass per boat. Better than at anv time during 

 the past five years'. Dr. McNeil, of Npw Haven, caught 

 . to-day 49 after 4 P, M. One catch of 14 .iveraged Silbs. 



H. L. Samson. 



♦ 



Perth AmUdY, N. J., Aug, 23.— The fishing in Raritan 

 Bay near Perth Amboy is poor. Even porgies are scarce, 

 as well as weakfish, and the bluefish have disappeared. 



K. 



♦ 



MuNcy, Pa., Aug. 19.— Two large German carp were 

 taken in Muncy Dam a few days ago. The largest 

 weighed Idlbs., the other 10 or 12. M. E. J. 



BUZZARD'S BAY. 



On almost any pleasant afternoon in August one may 

 find this delightful bay, with its myriads of coves and 

 harbors, studded with fishing craft of almost every de- 

 scription. Yet the abundance of fish in these waters is to 

 many lovers of salt-water angling comparatively un- 

 known. Our fellow fishermen from the Middle Atlantic 

 or the Southern States, who happen to be visiting the 

 New England coast during a portion of the summer 

 months, could find no better sport than to try a day's fish- 

 ing on Buzzard's Bay. 



As I have already intimated, many varieties of flsh 

 exist here. Perhaps the most exciting sport is the blue- 

 fishmg. There are, however, other kinds of fish nearly, 

 if not quite, as gamy as the bluefish; namely; the tautog 

 or blackfish and the rock bass, also the little "snapper" 

 (or young bluefish), which is so highly prized on the shores 

 of Long Island, and which has achieved a deserved repu- 

 tation for its gaminess, has recently made its appearance 

 in large numbers along the shores of Mattapoisett and the 

 neighboring villages on the coast. The most common 

 fish, however, throughout the bay is the scup or porgy, a 

 species doubtless familiar to most readers of Forest and 

 Stream. The flounder and squiteague, too, are rather 

 plentiful in the deeper parts of the bay, while those who 

 are eager for a more uncommon and rather more excit- 

 ing sort of fishing can try their luck at dogflshing. I 

 myself have lately landed several of these "small sharks," 

 averaging somewhat over 251bs. apiece approximately. 



Andrew Oliver, Jr. 



A Curious Capture. 



The following fish story comes from Brewerton, N. Y., 

 on Oneida Lake, and is vouched for by reliable parties 

 who witnessed the occurrence. Edward Bell, an oars- 

 man who takes parties after fish, was trolling for large 

 lake pickerel one day this month, and succe(ided in hook- 

 ing a large fish. He had him near the boat when the 

 monster made a lunge and either out or broke the copper 

 wire Ime and got away, 



Our friend Edward was ready to dive in after the fish, 

 but thought it would avail him nothing. In despair he 

 looked over the side of the boat, and lo and behold what 

 he saw— the pickerel on his back struggling in his death 

 agony. Bell made an effort to secure the flsh, but again 

 lost sight of him for fully 10 minutes. The party scanned 

 the water closely and were at length rewarded by seeing 

 the flsh come to the surface again, when he was with 

 difficulty gotten into the boat with the aid of a pole and 

 two hooks. The fish choked to death with the spoon 

 hook. When the party returned they weighed bim and 

 found he tipped the scales at Yilbs. S. B. M. 



F I XTU RES. 



DOG SHOWS. 



Sept. 13 to 16.— Fourth Annual Dog Show of the Toronto In- 

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

 Stone, Sfic'v. 



Sept. 19 to 23. -Third Annual Dog Show of the Kingston Kennel 

 Club, at KinestoTi. Canada H. O. Bate?, Sec'y. 



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

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



Sept. 26 to 30.— Root ester Kennel Club, at Rochester, N. Y, Dr. 

 O. S Bamber, Sec'y. 



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



Oct. 35 to 28.— Omaha Kennel Club, at Omaha, Neb, E. L. 

 Mnrston. Sec' v. 



Nov. 23 to 25,— Brooklyn. H. W. Huntington, Sec'y, 148 South 

 Eighth street. 



1893. 



Jan. 5.— Gloversville, N. Y. F. B. Zimmer, Sec'y. 

 Feb. 31 to 22.— Westminster Kennel Club, New York city. Jas. 

 Mortimer, Supt. 

 June 13 to 17.— World's Fair, Chicago. 

 Sept. 7 to lO.-Hamilton, Ontario. A. D. Stewart, Sec'y. 



FIELD TRIALS. 



Aug. 31.— Manitoba Field Trials, at Morris, Man. A. HoUoway, 

 Winnipeg, Man., Sec'y. 



Sept. 5.— Northwestern Field Trials Club, at Morris. Man. Thos. 

 JohnsoTi, Winnipeg, Man.. Sec'v. 



Oct. 25.— Third Annual Field Trials of the National Beagle Club, 

 at Nanupt, N. Y, Bench show of the club Oct. 24. H. Y. Jamie- 

 son, Seo'y. 



ISov. 7.— International Field Trials Club, third annual trials, at 

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

 W. B. Wells, Sec'y. 



N"v. 7.— United States Field Trials, at Elizabethtown, Ky. P 

 T. Madisor, Indianapolis. Ind.. Sec'y. 



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

 Knight Sperry, New Haven, Conn., Sec'y. 



Nov. 14.— Fourth Annual Trials of the'Brunswick Fur Club, at 

 Princeton, Mass. J. H. Baird. 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, Serj'v. 

 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. Ode 11 



Seo'y. 



Dec. 19.— Irish Setter Field Trials, at Lexington, N. C. Dr G 



G. Davis, Philadelphia, Pa., Sec'y. 



1893. 



January.— Pacitic Coast Field Trials, at BakeravllIe, C»]. J M. 

 Ki'garif, Sec'y. 



Feb S.-Southern Field Trials, at New Albany, Miss. T. M. 

 Brumby. Sec'y. 



REMEMBER, entries close for Toronto Sept. 1. 



POINTS AND FLUSHES. 



Chicago, Aug. 20.— In a letter dated Aug. 17, Mr. W T 

 Hunter, of Wheatland, N. D., writes me that birds are very 

 plentiful at Morris, Man., where the trials of the North- 

 western Field Trials Ciub and Manitoba Field Trials Club 

 will Ije run. The trials of the latter commence on Aug 31 

 those of the former on Sept. 5. Mr. Hunter also mentions 

 that there is a favorable outlook for a successful trial. 



The best route from St. Paul, Minn., is by the way of the 

 Great Northern Railway to Gretna, thence by the way of 

 the Canadian Pacific to Morris, which is but a short distance 

 from the boundary of North Dakota, in a section where 

 prairie chickens are said to be in great numbers. 



Tne Exposition Dog Show. 



The entry blanks for the dog show of the World's Colum- 

 bian Exposition have full information of all requirements 

 printed on them so that any one who contemplates exhibit- 

 ing need only send for entry blanks to obtain all needed 

 information. The entry fee, $1.50, is small, too small in 

 fact, to give reasonable assurance of sufficient money to 

 defray the expenses of benching, feeding and expenses of 

 caretaking. If a dog offered for entry is not exhibited the 

 entry fee will he retiirued. This is a very unwise provision 

 inasmuch as the management will incur the expense of 

 arranging for the showing of many dogs which will be 

 entered, but which will not be shown. The management 

 will thus incur a direct expense for such dogs, with no 

 compensation whatever in return. It is only just that an 

 exhibitor should forfeit his entry fee if he does not show 

 his dog. It is possible that, with such a small entry fee re- 

 quired and not forfeited by non-appearance, a large number 

 of dogs will be entered without any intention of beino- 

 shown, the mere advertising being an inducement when i't 

 can be gotten gratuitously. 



Coursing and Field Trials. 



The famous coursing judge, Mr. John Grace, of San Fran- 

 cisco, in a pleasant and interesting letter to this office men- 

 tions, among other things, that coursing holds its popu'larit v 

 undiminished in California, and also that some of the 

 coursing there this season was very fine. Referring to 

 the delightful climate, he says that dogs can be run without 

 injury almost every day in the year, the weather conditions 

 and temperature are so favorable. With all the attractions 

 of the noble sport, he says that the love of fine horses and 

 horse racing is so widespread that it obstructs the growth 

 of coursing. However, a steady, natural growth is undoubt- 

 edly more permanent and better for the beet interests of the 

 hreed than a boom for a season, violent for the time being 

 and ending in failure or neglect. 



The constant gain made in coursing interests, from the 

 Atlantic to the Pacific, indicates the intrinsic merits of the 

 sport and its power to interest the people, auguring most 

 favorably for its continued prosperity and permanency. 



It is gratifying to know that the growth is not confined to 

 the greyhound interests, but is.general in all branches of field 

 sports in which dogs are factors. 



There are ten field trials arranged for setters and pointers, 

 and one for beagles to be ran in the coming fall and winter 

 this year, nearly all of which are liberally supported. 



If these events multiply and the doggy interest grows as 

 steadily as the signs of the times Indicate, they will have 

 beeome so large and important, five years hence, that the 

 doggy fancier of that time will look back upon the present; 

 &H very crude and hardly out of the stage of infancy. The 

 kennel writers of that period vrill be individually faultless, if 

 faults there be, it will always he the other fellow who has 

 them. But it is %o be hoped that vindictiveuess will not 



then pass current for candor, envy pass for enthusiasm; im- 

 pertinence for wit; avarice for zeal, and the improvement 

 of the dog a cloak for ill nature. 



Major J. M. Taylor made a hasty visit to Chicago yester- 

 day and to-day. He is hard at work putting the finishing 

 toitches on his forthcoming Tpvork, "Bench Show and Field 

 Trial Records and Standards of Dogs of America." He 

 expects that the first edition will be in print by the middle 

 of next month. 



I have received from the West End Kennels, of San An- 

 tonio, a catalogue of the dogs of their kennel. Manitoba 

 Frisk heads the list in the setters, and Trinket's Chipf, Jr., 

 holds the first place in pointers. B. WAtbes. 



PSOVOIS. 



THEOuaH the kindness of Mr. Wade we are enabled to 

 pubhsh several translations from a late issue of the Russian 

 periodical, Journal of tlie Hunt, and if further proof was 

 needed that the Russians speak of these Borzois as Psovoi.?, 

 the following free translations amply show that the latter 

 IS the correct name. The following letter is of interest, and 

 Mr. Kapegeff's visit next year is sure to create a sensation, 

 but we fear that he will be disappointed if he expects to 

 present any wolf coursing. We have thought best not to in- 

 terfere with the translator's phraseology in any way, as 

 there are many words which, if we altered them, might 

 spoil the meaning the writer wishes to convey. 



SALE ASTD PUECHASE OF DOGS. 



"We hear that during the late show in Tambor, Mr. Bolda- 

 reff bought from S. S. Kapejeff these Psovie-Borzie. From 

 the same breeder were bought, by Baron Shteingel, during 

 show in Kieff, nine dogs. Duchess of Newcastle's Psovoi 

 male dog Golnbz was bought in England from Mr, Knorr 

 being from Mr. Bal jtzoffi. W. N. Tschebischeff bought from 

 Mr. Ozepoff the male Psovoi Lebedj, son of Sudarok, of Mr 

 W. P. Chleboff's breed, and Aspid, of Baljtzoff's. On the 

 last auction, being held after the coursing of Kolomjaschki 

 and m the Riding Academy of the NikolajefE Palace, the 

 dogs did not sell very fast, even when the prices were very 

 low— from 3 to 200 roubles. Even the 3-roubIe dog Avas not 

 worth the money, as the breed was something abnormal— 

 the father an English greyhound, the mother the first best 

 cross hreed of a Psovoi with a Crimean dog. 



Many of those dogs were bought by Mr. Scheremetieflf, 

 among them not a had male dog, Bavladaja, for 300 roubles 

 Mr. Rousseau also bought several dogs, but cheap ones, as 

 one for 7 roubles and another for 6. All these dogs will cer- 

 tainly go to America, which country Mr. Rousseau i/imn - 

 datC8 'With ivoriMess (refnse) hunting dogs. 



LETTER TO THE EECACTION. 



Most Honored. Editor: 



Having read just now in your esteemed journal of the piti- 

 ful fate of oitr Psovie, which met them in America on their 

 trials, I cannot pass it in silence, as it hurts my hunter's 

 heart too much. The Americans cannot judge our dogs as 

 our blooded and in particular wicked dogs do not reach 

 thein often, because those people whom they vharne with 

 me purchase of our doqs^ iriu not pay the money which 

 they are worth avco rd -/w ai Hies. Mr. RnusKemi 

 amd others buy in (I /i, , jr, roubles and even for 



(>' rouMes, trunHport whole hcrth of ilw.m, and certainl/u 

 make a pile of money. For a good wicked dog, in particu- 

 lar now, when there are very few blooded and sportive doga 

 left, we ourselves pay up to a thousand roubles. Not long 

 ago I was offered by one of those Americans 300 roubles for 

 bitches in whelp. Naturally I also could get dogs for 

 such a price, but I don't wish to compromise my breed par- 

 ticularly in selling, by deceiving people, but a blooded bitch 

 cannot be sold for less than 3,000 roubles apiece. It is to be 

 supposed that not one honest hunter will sell for less. I am 

 going to the fair in Chicago and shall bring with me a full 

 Russian hunt, six leash of Bori^ie and ten of hounds and 

 also shall take with me wolves, and shall try to show how 

 our Russian dogs take them. If the Americans don't trust 

 our wolves they may pub their own in. Even if it is not ac- 

 cording to our rules that the dogs should kill the wolf, still 

 if the Americms like, I shall show it to them. Three dogs 

 easily kill a young wolf; even should he tear himself away 

 several times, he will be left on the spot. Now when in 

 Germany and America there are formed societies of lovers 

 of the Russian Psovoi ; many solid huuters by us sacriflce 

 large sums of money for the formation of such societies " 



S. S. Kapejeff, 



FLAPS FROM THE BEAVER'S TAIL. 



ToKONTO, Cau.— Mr. "Andy" Laidlaw is down to judge 

 spaniels at Kingston. 



You or I made a "break" in the dates of meetings in last 

 week's "Flaps." The Eox-Terrier Club meeting is called 

 for Monday and not Tuesday, as therein announced. 



The Toronto Humane Society also use those little water 

 troughs, and they can now be seen all over the city. They 

 are given without charge to any person who agrees to place 

 them outside the house or store door and keep them filled 

 with fresh, clean water. They are neat in appearance, bein^- 

 made of iron, standing on short legs and painted. The 

 name of the society appears in raised letters. 



Mr. W. A. Haskell, formerly of Kingston, is now in Bos- 

 ton, where he has gone into business. 



Several applications for entry at the World's Fair have 

 already heen received at the office of the Ontario Commis- 

 sion. Among others are 10 St, Bernards from S. P Glass 

 London; 8 spaniels from J. F. Kirk; 4 greyhounds from c' 

 E Ireson; 4 spaniels, P. J. Keating; 4 fox terriers from h' 

 O, Bennett, all of Toronto. The Woodland Kennels, Wood- 

 stock, have sent in no less than 18 applications; Mr. Curtis 

 Simcoe, 8 spaniels. Mr. John Campbell, Guelph, hopes to 

 send a kennel of Newfoundlands. Several spifiller entries 



have also heen received. 



H. B. DosovAN. 



OTTAWA DOG SHOW. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



A meeting of the bench show committee was held on the 

 3d inst. Mr. W. B. Palmer, of Woodstock, Ont., who gave 

 so much satisfaction last year, will again judge the spaniel?. 

 The other judges will be announced later on. The Dominion 

 and Canadian Express Companies will carry dogs at regular 

 rates to the show and return them free. The Canadian 

 Pacific and Grand Trunk Railways will carry dogs at 

 regular excess baggage rates and return them free, but ex- 

 hibitors must be furnished with certificates (which will be 

 mailed to every exhibitor with entry tickets) to be filled up 

 at starting point by the agent. The top row of benches, 

 which were so objectionable last year, have been removed 

 which leaves only 230, and when that number has been re- 

 ceived the entries will be closed. It is therefore to be hoped 

 that intending exhibitors will take the hint and make 

 their enti'iea early, as a number had to be refused last 

 year. Tne committee are now busy collecting specials, 

 which will be announced later through the papers. 



Ai^FEEO aepDES, Sec'y and Supt. 



