April 20, 1893.J 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



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Waterloo Fish Protective Association. 



"Waterloo, la., April 1. — The Waterloo Anglers' Oiub 

 I lias merged into the Waterloo Fish Protective Associa- 

 j tion, which starts in with an active membership of fifty- 

 i five, which will be increased by at least a score more. 

 At a meeting held April 4 the following officers were 

 elected: President, C. F. Fowler; Vice-President, Geo. 

 B. Rowell; Secretary, J. C. Hartman; Treasurer, W. R. 

 French. A per capita assessment of $2 was levied and 

 the executive committee empowered to employ two 

 wardens to watch the Cedar River and other streams 

 wiihm the coianty. This has been done and the first 

 fruits was the arrest of a man Saturday for killing a 

 pickerel. The fellow paid $1485 for bis fish. We pay 

 tbe men we have employed $10 per week each, and one 

 of them has been vested with j)olice authority, so that he 

 can arrest a violator on the spot. The club proposes to 

 see that the fish laws are strictly enforced and wiU also 

 co-operate with Fish Commissioner Griggs in restocking 

 the Cedar each year. Clark. 



Might Develop Into a Kekoskee Story. 



Stuart, Iowa, March 20.— I am a reader of your Forest 

 AND Stream, and 1 have not seen anything in it like my 

 experience. This winter has been an extra cold one, and 

 as the ponds and rivers have been frozen about 3ft. thick 

 for two or three months, the fish have had no air. On the 

 pond I saw a big fish close to the edge, where the ice was 

 thin. I took a club, broke the ice where he was, and 

 reached under and pulled out three fairly good-sized fish. 

 I made the hole bigger, took a fence board, put the board 

 in tlie water and swished the water. It dragged the fish 

 out from under the ice. When one would come out I 

 woidd put my hand under him and pull him out. If I 

 dropped one it would stay where it dropped and I would 

 reach under and get him again. I got 52 that way in 

 about two hours. In the night I would go over with a 

 lantern. The fish, little and big, would be up at that hole 

 getting au-. I got about 200 in three days. F. H. G. 



Pere Marquette Waters. 



Saginaw, Mich.— The first of May I expect to be on 

 Kenne Creek with the rest of the boys for trout. The 

 Pere Marquette Club, owners of the above stream, hatched 

 on our own premises this winter over 50,000 trout, and the 

 water is literally alive with wild fry as weU. There being 

 I so much food, they thrive wonderfully. In fact, the fish 

 ■ that have hatched naturally (otherwise the wild fish) are 

 about double the length of those that we hatched arti- 

 ficially. I wUl have a record for you showing the loss in 

 hatching and planting, for we counted the eggs in, counted 

 the young fry out into our nursery, and will from there 

 count the yearlings as we j)ut them into the stream, so 

 we will have "a tab" on the whole thing. 



This is the kind of weather, such as that, when in the 

 olden times, as a boy, I used to have my eyes peeled for 

 wild pigeons, but it has been many years since a flock has 

 been seen. M. 



Buzzard's Bay Fisheries. 



A BILL sent to the Governor by the Massachusetts Legis- 

 lature provides that, "No traps, weirs, pounds, yards or 

 stationary apparatus of any kind for the taking of fish 

 shall be set, used or maintained in the waters of Buz- 

 zard's Bay, or any harbor, cove or bight thereof, and the 

 mayor and aldermen of cities, and the selectmen of to'wns 

 bordering on said bay, shall have no power or authority 

 to grant hcenses to construct fish weirs, or to set, use or 

 maintain any other stationary apparatus for the taking 

 of fish in the waters of said bay, or any harbor, cove or 

 bight thereof; but nothing herein contained shall be con- 

 strued to forbid or make unlawful the maintaining of 

 traps, pounds or Aveirs under licenses heretofore granted 

 in accordance with Sec. 70 in Chap. 91 of the Pubhc 

 Statutes mitil the expiration_of_^the_terms for which said 

 licenses were granted." 



Finland Fishing. 



Dr. Oscar Nordqvist, referring to our account of 

 angling in Finland, published March 9, reminds us that 

 the saibling has never been taken by rod and Ime within 

 his knowledge. Tlie pike-perch, also, is not strictly a 

 game fish in that country, although it is sometimes taken 

 by bait or the spoon. The common European ide is the 

 only variety of its kind in Fioland and is one of the 

 gamest of the fishes. The golden variety, so well known 

 in the United States as an emigrant from Europe, does 

 not occur in Finland. 



Dr. Nordqvist is now studying Canadian fisheries and 

 will soon leave Canada for the World's Fair. 



The Grande Batiscan. 



Mr. W. p. Greenough, who advertises fishing privileges 

 on the Grande Batiscan River in Quebec, has long been a 

 contributor to Forest and Stream, and if any one inter- 

 ested desires to know something more of the waters in 

 point, we suggest a reading of Mr. Greenough's account 

 of "Another Explanation" in our issue of Nov. 24, 1892. 



Sullivan County Waters. 



Liberty Falls, N. Y. — ^The noted Mongaup trout stream 

 is the best stream for trout fishing in Sulfivan coimtj'. 

 For pickerel Stevens Lake, miles, is excelled by none. 



E. A. G. 



The Pennsylvania Railroad Co.'s Personally Con- 

 ducted Tours to Washington, D. C. 



No city in the Ignited States gives so much in return for a review of 

 its buildings and surrounding-s as Washington, and the month of May 

 ■being the most deUghiCul of all months in which to visit the National 

 Capital, the Peiiusylvauia Railroad Company, with its usual f^^resight, 

 has arrangeil for two personiilly conducted tours to leave New York 

 on May 4 and 2o respectively, under the escort of a tourist agent and 

 chaperon, each tour to include a period of three days. Tickets, in- 

 cluding transportation, meals en route and hotel accommodations, 

 only :513-50 from New York, and proportionately low rates from all 

 other stations. Application for infoi-uiation and itineraries should be 

 made to the Pennsylvania Raikoad Ticket Agents, or Tourist Agent 

 at No. 849 Broadway, New York, or No. 860 Fulton street, Brooklyn. 

 —Adv. 



Fishculture History. 



Editor Forest and StTeam: 



4 In your issue of March 3, under the heading "Trout Cul- 

 ture," Mr. Milton P. Peirce gives some advice on the subject 

 in which he claims to have "several years' more experience 

 upon the subject than any other American," Within the 

 past few years Mr. Peirce has made this assertion several 

 times, but none of the older fishcultiirists know of his early 

 work. The records show that Di-. Garlick began trout 

 culture in 1853, Ainsworth in 1859, Norris about 1863, Green 

 in 186i, Stone in 1866, Mather in 1868, while Slack, Collins 

 and other pioneers followed close after. Hon. Emory D. 

 Potter, the friend of Dr. Garlick, never heard of Mr. Peirce 

 until a few years ago, and none of the men named, who are 

 all living except Mes.srs, Norris, Green and Slack, knew of 

 any fishcultural work done by Mr. Peirce until he began 

 carp culture some time after ISTS. It is in order for Mr, 

 Peirce to place himself right on this question, and show 

 when and %vhere he preceded the gentlemen named and 

 where the records of his work are to be found. 



That careful writer and patient investigator. Prof. G. 

 Brown Goode, makes no mention of Mr. Peirce iu "Epochs 

 in the History of Fish Culture," published in Trans. Ameri- 

 can Fish Cultural Association, 18S1; nor does Prof. Malmgren 

 mention Mr. Peirce among American pioneers in fishculture 

 in his history of the art in all countries, published in the 

 Bulletin of the U. S. Fish Commission, 1883. 



Mr. Peirce should, not for himself alone, but for the cor- 

 rection of history, give the facts, with the dates and author- 

 ities, showing his work in the field of fishculture, and then 

 he will be accorded the place he vaguely claims as the eldest 

 living American fishculturist. But, as he has not been en- 

 gaged ui trout culture for many years past, it is difficult to 

 understand how he has had ''several years more experience," 

 etc. He is best known to the fishculture world as one who 

 has decried trout culture iu most all forms, in spite of the 

 progress and the continued extensions of this branch of w^ork 

 from Maine to California, and who has also decried carp 

 culture, except when carried on under his own perfected 

 system. 



While I confess ignorance of the labors of Mr. Peirce in 

 fishculture, although somewhat familiar with the history of 

 the subject, no doubt he will make this all clear and show 

 that I have overlooked some records and am not as familiar 

 with the subject as I should be. The historians of fishcul- 

 ture have not assigned Mr. Peirce the place he claims and it 

 is to be hoped that he will put such evidence before the histor- 

 ians of the future that his proper place among the early 

 workers in the field of fishculture will be satisfactorily estab- 

 Ushed, even at this late day. Historicus. 



The Best Line to Denver 



From either Chicago or St. Louis is the Burlington route. Only one 

 night on the road. Daily vestibuled trains, with Pullman sleepers, re- 

 clining chair cars (seats free) and Burlington route dining cars. — Adv. 



Bicycle Sundries. 



Thk Bridgeport Gun Implement Co. are in a position to manufacture 

 bicycle sundries of every description. If you have a new patented 

 article which you desire to have manufactm'ed, correspond witn them. 

 Address all letters to the Bridgeport Gun Implement Co., 31.S Broad- 

 way, New York. — Adv. 



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Communimtiom for publicaUon relating to husimss 

 should he addressed to the Forest and Stream Pub. Co. If 

 addressed to an indivLdual they will be subject to delay in 

 that individual's absence. 



FIXTURES. 



DOG SHOWS. 



April 19 to 22.— Fifth Annual Dog Show, at Los Angeles, Cal. C. A. 



May s'to 6.— Pacific Kennel Club, at San Francisco, Cal. Horace W. 

 Orear, Sec'y- 



May 80 to June 2. — American Pet Dog Club, Lexox Lyceum, New 

 York. Marion E. Bannister, Sec'y. 



June 13 to 17.— World's Fair, Chicago. W. I. Buchanan, Chief Dept. 

 of Agriculture. 



I JAug. 30 to Sept. 3. — Blue Grass Kennel Club, at Lexington, Ky. Mr. 

 Roger Wilhams, Sec'y. 



Sept. 5 to 8.— Hamilton Kennel Club. A. D. Stewart, Sec'y. 



Sept. 11 to 15.— Toronto, Canada. C, A. Stone. Sec'y. 



FIELD TRIALS. 



Nov. 7.— International Field Trials. W. B. Wells, Sec'y, Chatham, 

 Out. 



Nov. 15.— American Field Trial Club trials, at Carlisle, Ind. W. J. 

 Beck, Sec'y, Columbus. Ind. 



Nov. 20.— Eastern Field Trial Club's Trials, at High Point, N. C. 

 Members' Stake Nov. 16, W. A. Coster, Sec'y. 



Vote for a Clean Paper. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



I desire to enter my protest against such matter as is con- 

 stantly being given space in one paper or another treating on 

 the supposed misdoings of others. 



The most of such stuff and vileness ,is entered under a 

 ■/10371 de ptU7/ic, but iu some in.stances sufiicient redeeming 

 manhood is maintained and the writer makes himself known. 



Such goods as we have of late been measuring by the yard 

 has in my estimation only one real purpose to serve, i. e., to 

 cover or avert suspicion of the writer's own misdoings. 



When a man is pure and honest he does not usually devote 

 his time to discovering who is impure and dishonest. He 

 rather shuns the latter class. "Bhds of a feather flock to- 

 gether" is very fittingly applied here. 



Among so-called dog men I firmly believe there are a suffi- 

 cient number to be a majority that are true and loyal sports- 

 men, and I am vain enough to believe I belong in that cate- 

 gory. 



The point I wish to reach is, why does this majority tolerate 

 the objectionable minority that is constantly backbiting and 

 haggling and spitting and scratching, making the sport a 

 nuisance instead of a pleasure and pastime to true sports- 

 men? 



Why would it not be a good scheme to establish and print 

 a sheet at the expense of loyal fanciers and breeders for the 

 express purpose of absorbing all such nasty stuff and there- 

 by keep our legitimate papers that we take home clean and 

 pure and fit for members of our families to read. 



I think it is high time that a firm stand be taken on this 

 subject now, and would urge that those in the majority will 

 express their candid views and rely upon the protection given 

 to honorable men by honorable papers. H, L. Kreuder. 



Naitoet, N. Y., April 11. 



[We thought it was about time that some one of standing 

 in the kennel world called a halt on the "mud-sfinging 

 trusts." If a man is so hard-headed that he doesn't know 

 when he knocks that member against a stonewall somebody 

 should be kind enough to tell him of it and so prevent a 

 funeral. The Forest and Stream feels secure in its posi- 

 tion and the course it has marked out, and that it has gained 

 the confidence and esteem of the best men in the fancy is ex- 



emplified by the above letter, wdiich we know only voices the 

 sentiment of a large community of dog men. As a matter 

 of fact the kennel columns of Forest and Stream are made 

 up of material matter by human beings, for human beings. 

 There are bipeds with disturbed vision who never see any- 

 thing unless it is an error, mistake, slip, lamus linguce, or 

 inadvertence. A thousand and one good things are not only, 

 unappreciated and unnoticed, but actually and absolutely 

 unrecognizable by them. They have not the capacity to see 

 the good; they are blind as bats to excellence. They can 

 recognize and enjoy only the fallible. They gloat over an 

 unimportant misstatement, joy over trivial errors, and are 

 satiated beyond the telling with bliss at a comma turned up- 

 side down. And, bless them, they think themselves bom 

 into the world with a holy mission to cry out m lamentation 

 —not so say blackguardism, at the hopelessness of the condi- 

 tion of the man who lets the comma go inverted. They don 

 the sackcloth, spread on the ashes, cry out to put the flags 

 of the nation at half mast, and wade chin deep into a morass 

 of lamentation because the Forest and Stream kennel 

 editor said a dog's tail was carried 49% degrees when it was 

 only 49><. If they actually excited in others the millionth 

 part of the intense pain they themselves seem to undergo 

 over this portion of a degree, the kennel world would go out 

 in the blackness of oblivion and our kennels would be 

 draped with crape.] • 



The N. B. C. Trials. 



The energetic president of the National Beagle Club has 

 sent the following prospectus to the members for their ap- 

 ^3roval. Mr. Kreuder has personally labored with this ques- 

 ^;ion, and that he has evolved a very fair schedule must be 

 admitted. After the last trials Forest and Stream advo- 

 cated a champion class or classes, and now that there are so 

 many first prize winners of previous trials such competitions 

 can well be held and open competition be restricted to those 

 that have not as yet attained premier honors. Mr. Kreudfer 

 has submitted this pro.spectus now that members may state 

 their views, so that at the next meeting^f the club the mat- 

 ter can be settled intelligently and in ilccordance with the 

 views of the majority. The classes proposed are: 



Open Class A.— For dogs and bitches, all ages, 15in. and imder, that 

 have not been placed first in any class at field trials held by N. B. C. 



Open Class B.— For dogs and bitches, all ages, 13in. and under, that 

 have not been placed first in any class at field trials held by N. B. C. 



Derby Class C.— For dogs and bitches, 15in. and under, whelped on 

 or after Jan. 1, 1892. 



Champion Class D.— For dogs and bitches, all ages, 15in. and over 

 13in., having been placed fii-st in any class at field trials held by N.B.C 



Champion Class E.— For dogs and bitches, all ages, 13iu. and under 

 havmg been placed first in any class at field trials held by N. B, C. 



Absolute Winner Class F.— For first prize winners only of classes D 

 and E. 



Conditions.— Class A.— Entries close Oct. 5, 1893. Fee to start, $10, 

 of which $3 forfeit must accompany entry, and balance to be paid 

 prior to starting of class. First prize, $00; second prize, $40; thu-d 

 prize, $20. 



Class B.— Entries close Oct. 5, 1893. Fee to start, $7, of which $2 

 forfeit must accompany entry, and balance to be paid prior to start- 

 ing of class. First prize, $30; second prize, $20; third prize, f 10. 



Class C— Entries close Oct. 5, 1893. Fee to start f5, of which $2 

 forfeit must accompany entry, and balance to be paid prior to start- 

 mg of class. First prize, $20, second prize, $10. 



Class D.— Entries close Oct. 5, 1893, for dogs and bitches having been 

 placed first at trials of 1890, 1891, 1892 or 1893, held by N. B. 0. Fee to 

 start, $10, of which $5 forfeit must accompany entry. For first prize 

 winners of class A or C entries close during trials and before stai-ting 

 of class. Fee to start, $10, which must be paid prior to starting of 

 class. First prize, 40 per cent. ; second prize, 30 per cent; third prize, 

 20 per cent. 



Class E.— Entries close Oct. 5. 1893, for dogs and bitches havmg been 

 placed first at trials of 1890, 1891. 1893 or 1893, held by N. B. C. Fee to 

 start, $10, of which $5 forfeit must accompany entry. For first prize 

 winners of class B or 0 entries close dm-ing trials. Fee to start $10, 

 which must be paid before st^irting of class. First prize, 40 per cent. ; 

 second prize, 30 per cent. ; thu'd prize, 20 per cent. 



Class F.— Entries close after classes D and E have been run off. No 

 entrance fee. The winner to receive the club medal and title as ab- 

 solute winner of 1893 trials. It is understood that making entries for 

 this class shall he optional with owners or representatives of dogs 

 eligible for competition. Unless two or more entries are made the 

 class shall be declared off. All entries shall be measured by field trial 

 committee before starting class A. Judges shall have power to with- 

 hold any prize for want of mei-it. No dog show. Trials to begin 10 

 A. M., Oct. 23, 1893. 



We scarcely think that with the champion classes an abso- 

 lute winner class is requisite or desirable. The title of 

 champion for each division of height should be sufficient, as 

 so many "ultra" winners will make confusion when the 

 lucky owners do their advertising. Believing that open dis- 

 cussion is good for the cause we shall be pleased to publish 

 any further suggestions that the beagle men may think fit 

 to bring forward. Beagle men generally, we imagine, will 

 be pleased to do away with the bench show part of the trials. 

 It is unnecessary and a waste of time. 



Death of Bloodhound Belhus, Jr. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



My English bloodhound Belhus, Jr., is dead. Pneumonia 

 earned him off after two days of illness, in spite of the fact 

 that I had the best veterinary surgeon in Washington and 

 did everything possible to save him. Dear Belhus would 

 try to speak to me and ask for relief, which I was unable to 

 give; and during his sickness his intelligence was almost 

 human, and so pathetic that it brought tears to the eyes of 

 all who witnessed his sufferings. 



He was undoubtedly the finest dog around Washington, 

 and he leaves many who will miss him. If Belhus, Jr., was 

 a fair sample of the English bloodhound in disposition, then 

 brother sportsmen, I can tell you that they are truly a 

 noble breed of dogs in every respect. Kind and affec- 

 tionate and wonderfully intelfigent. During the year that 

 I owned Belhus I never heard him even so much as growl at 

 a living thing, man or beast. He was a splendid trailer, and 

 many pleasant runs have I had with him, sending a boy out 

 with perhaps forty-five minutes' start, then following the 

 dog on horseback. 



1 feel that never again can I love a dog as I loved him. I 

 am heart-broken, and do not think a nobler or better dog 

 ever lived. After winning one more first prize he would 

 have entered the challenge class, there being only one dog, 

 Victor, who could win over him. 



I donated his body to the U. S. Kational Museum, where 

 it is now being mounted and prepared for Lsending^mth the 

 Government exhibitlto the World's Fair. 



Geo. F. Pollock. 



Washington, D. C, April Ifi. 



The Pet Dog ClutaHShow. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



The American Pet Dog Club held its monthly meeting at 

 the residence of the president on Wednesday evening last 

 and selected a partial list of judges, which included Messrs. 

 James Mortimer, Charles H. Mason, Dr. Cryer and Harry 

 Lacy. No allotment of classes was made, as it is intended 

 that the most competent corps of judges ever selected for 

 such a show shall be chosen and that there shall not be any 

 reason for hurrying over the classes, as at some New York 

 shows in the past. It is expected that many pets of great 

 excellence that have never been on exhibition before will be 

 at this show, for upward of a hundred promises have been 

 received. These, with those owned by members of the clubi 

 a strong detachment of Boston terriers, cocker spaniels and 

 other dogs generally used as household pets, will probably 

 make uplin entry beyond the capacity of the Lenox Lyceum, 

 where the show is to be given on May 30, 31, June 1 and 2. 



E. H. M, 



