Mat 5, 1894.J 



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ened so as to enable the occupants to see more clearly into 

 the water below. 



"The tackle is extremely light, the hooks, which are 

 quite small, and two or three in number, being attached 

 about a foot apart to the main line with a bit of ordinary 

 gut. The baits in vogue are of many sorts — bread crumbs, 

 bits of beef or angle worm, the common house fly, small 

 cockroaches or other bugs, and pellets of wheat flour 

 mixed with cotton or flax, but chiefly, most successfully 

 and most unaccountably, a tiny bright shiner, either 

 living or dead, or a small portion of it. 



"Two lines are generally used, one with the bait lying 

 on the bottom and the other with the baits kept moving 

 in plain sight near the surface, where the fish are dis- 

 tinctly seen. And, singularly enough, it is in this last 

 way that probably nine-tenths of all the catches have 

 been made." 



Mr. Phinney stated that the fish bite equally well by 

 day or night, and that tiny rock bass were once found in 

 the stomach. Inspector F. C. Gilchrist reported the dis- 

 covery of a young burbot in a whitefish stomach. J. E. 

 B. Van Cleave, the well known Chicago angler, has never 

 seen the Miltona Lake whitefish caught with a hook, but 

 perhaps no one has tried in that lake the plan above set 

 forth. 



Conewango Creek Cripples. 



For several years I have noticed numbers of dead and 

 crippled fish in Conewango Creek, Pa. Some seemed to 

 be partly paralyzed, swimming around close to shore on 

 one side, others stone blind, the eyes being literally eaten 

 out of the sockets. This I believe is caused by the poison- 

 ous acids cast into the waters by the oil refineries and 

 chemical works. The fish principally affected seem to be 

 soft fish, such as suckers, mullet and shiners, though 

 rock bass and an occasional black bass are found. The 

 acid or whatever it is seems to have the effect of turning 

 them white, or part white, giving them a queer appear- 

 ance. Anybody crossing any of the bridges over the 

 Allegheny or Conewango and seeing the quantity of oil on 

 the water would naturally wonder how fish can live in it. 

 They do, but it must certainly be at a cost to their num- 

 bers. W. Gr. S. O. 



Success in Stocking with Bass. 



I HAVE been looking over a few of the past numbers of 

 Forest and Stream this evening, and in doing so ran across 

 the article relative to transporting fish alive, which appeared 

 in Mr. Cheney's "Angling Notes" several weeks ago. I 

 have always been very much interested in what he has to say 

 and quite frequently experiences of my own are brought to 

 mind. The article referred to is a case in point. While my 

 experience in transporting fish has been somewhat limited, I 

 think that I have learned something, and perhaps what I 

 have to say may be of interest to others. 



Last J uly a few of us thought that the fishing in some of 

 the ponds in this vicinity could be improved by stocking 

 them with black bass. The fishing is heavy in all the ponds 

 around "Worcester, and as they are nonprotected, the native 

 fish have to a very considerable degree been caught out. 

 From our experience with bass we are convinced that once 

 introduced into a lake it is practically impossible to entirely 

 destroy the fishing, if legitimate methods are employed. So 

 we decided to try the experiment. The first question that 

 confronted us was how to transport the fish from one pond 

 to another. And after many ways had been considered and 

 set aside, we finally hit upon a plan which proved to be en- 

 tirely successful. We procured a sugar barrel that was 

 watertight and filled it about one-third full of water, to pre- 

 vent the water from slopping over the top, and also to prevent 

 too much agitation. We took the head of the barrel, fastened 

 the thin pieces of which it was made together with cleats 

 and allowed it to float on top of the water in the barrel. In 

 this way we transported 200 bass, about 20 at a time, and lost 

 only one, which was injured when caught. They were carted 

 about three miles over a rough road. 



My experience has been that great care must be used in 

 transporting fish not to change the water too often, as a 

 slight change in temperature will sometimes kill many if 

 not all of them. I remember going on a fishing trip to New 

 Hampshire several years ago with a party of friends. We 

 took along with us about 300 shiners for bait. The fish were 

 in the baggage car aud were doing well, but we thought that 

 perhaps the water ought to be changed occasionally; so at 

 one of the stations we refilled the can with water from the 

 water tank, and in less than an hour nearly half the fish were 

 dead. The water from the tank was probably several degrees 

 colder than the water in which we were transporting the 

 fish, and it killed them. 



My experience in stocking streams with trout and salmon 

 fry has not been encouraging. I presume I have planted one 

 hundred thousand trout fry in the streams in this vicinity iu 

 the last few years, and as yet have seen no good come of it. 

 Ten years ago several of the fishermen in this vicinity placed 

 60,000 landlocked salmon fry in two of the lakes near here, 

 where the chances for their doing well were apparently good.' 

 But we have yet to hear of the capture of the first salmon. I 

 believe that the only proper way to stock streams or lakes is 

 to place in them fish at least a year old, and I think this is 

 the opinion of most of the anglers in this section of Massa- 

 chusetts at least. If any of your readers can throw more 

 light upon this subject I wish they would do so, as I think 

 we have much to learn yet as to the proper methods to be 

 employed in stocking our lakes and streams. 



Gray Hackle. 



Worcester, Mass. 



New York Game Laws. 



The omnibus bill sent to the Governor by the New York Legislature, 

 which adjourned last week, prescribes the following close seasons: 

 Deer in Sullivan county, Nov. l-Oct. 1. 



Black and gray squirrels, hares and rabbits, Jan. 1-Sept. 1, except in 

 Cattarauerus county; and Aug. 15-March 15 id St. Lawrence, Franklin, 

 Essex, Clinton, Lewis, Warren, Hamilton, Herkimer, Jefferson, Mon- 

 roe, Chemung, Richmond, Fulton, Seneca, Ontario, Wayne and 

 Oneida. Ferrets are forbidden in Onondaga and Orange counties. 



Wildfowl, March 1-Sept. 1. On the Hudson River and tributaries 

 south of the Troy dam May 1-Sept. 1. Mongolian pheasants pro- 

 tected for I hree years. 



Trout, Sept. 1-April 1, in Lake George and in Lewis, St. Lawrence, 

 Franklin, Fulton. Clinton, Essex, Warren, Hamilton, Herkimer and 

 Saratoga counties, Sept. 1-April 15. 



Black bass. Jan. 1-May 31. Pickerel, wall-eyed pike, in St. Lawrence 

 River, Jan. 1-May 30. 



Up to the time of our going to press (May 1) the bill had not been 

 Signed. 



A NEW-SUBSCRIBER OFFER. 



A bona fide new subscriber sending us $5 will receive for that sum 

 the Forest and Stream one year (price $4) and a set of Zimmerman's 

 famous "Ducking Scenes" fprice $5)— a $9 value for $5. 



This offer is to new subscribers only. It does not apply to renewal*. 



For $3 a bona fide new subscriber for six months will receive the 

 Forest and Stream during that time and a copy of Dr.. Van Fleet's 

 handsome work, "Bird Portrait* for the Young" (the price of whlob 

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PUBLISHER'S DEPARTMENT. 



Mr. Walter Wellman, who is organizing a North Pole expedition, 

 writes to Spratts Patent, from Liege, Belgium, as follows: "On 

 inquiry here we find that your Patent Meat Fibrine Vegetable Dog 

 Cakes and Cod Liver Oil Dog Cakes are superior to anything we can 

 get for the large pack of Belgium draft dogs which we are taking on 

 to the Arctics. 1 ' 



The Baltimore & Ohio R. R. Company issue an attractive little cir- 

 cular "Where to Find Game," which sjives information compiled from 

 reports of B. & O. agents as to the kinds of fish and game to be found 

 at different points along the road, the character of the country, names 

 of streams, hotel rates, livery and guides' charges, etc. It may be 

 had for the asking. 



The illustrated circular of the Natchaug Silk Company giving the 

 award of prizes for last year and particulars for the '94 competition 

 for $325 in gold will interest all fishermen. It is worth noting that 

 among the letters from last year's prize winners and competitors, 

 which are here published, Forest and Steram is mentioned ma.ny 

 times, while no other journal is named even once. As the competi- 

 tion was advertised generally and extensively this fact is of telling 

 significance and offers one more proof of Forest and Stream's value 

 as an advertising medium. 



The Syracuse Arms Company have put upon the market a hammer- 

 less gun which possesses a number of new and interesting features, 

 and which, when it becomes better known, will no doubt prove very 

 popular with sportsmen. Its simplicity of construction and the fact 

 that all its parts are interchangeable, are strong points in its favor. 

 The gun can be taken apart and assem hied without the use of any 

 other tool than a screw driver. The entire locking mechanism is hung 

 on two pins, and the hammer and the cocking device are all one piece. 

 Mr. Hollenheck, the iu venter, claims that he is the first to successfully 

 apply the system of interchangeability of parts to the manufacture of 

 high-grade shotguns. 



Messrs. C. C. Abel & Co.. of New York, who are sole agents in the 

 United States for C. G. Van Tubergen, Jr., of Haarlem, Holland, send 

 price lists of flower roots on application. 



Mr. Thos. Hunter, the big and popular president of the Hunter Arms 

 Co., made a flying trip as far South as Raltimoro recently, and received 

 a number of orders for the L C Smith gun, He reports that dealers 

 are not stocking up to aDy great extent as yet, but that individual 

 sportsmen are buying. 



Vol I., No. 1 of the Baker Gun Quarterly has come to hand. It is 

 an admirably written and arranged little paper, and full of meat 

 regarding the Baker hammerless and hammer guns. The publishers 

 state as their objects iu issuing the paper as follows: To collect and 

 publish experiences of practical gun men. To carefully note all ques- 

 tions that arise affecting the making and selling of guns. To do what 

 we can toward educating people in an intelligent use of guns and 

 toward strengthening the interests of legitimate sport generally. 



The Wm, Malcolm Telescope Company, of Syracuse, have sent rifle 

 telescopes for hunting and target work all over the known world. 



The Burgess Gun Company have centrally located offices in the Erie 

 County Savings Bank Building. The factory is in the north end of the 

 city and is best reached by trains of the Belt Line Railroad which 

 leave from the New York Central Station and which are operated 

 by the Central Railroad Company. This Belt Line railroad beats the 

 New York elevated roads for cheapness, carrying passengers entirely 

 around the city, a distance of fifteen miles, for a single five cent fare. 

 Its trains land passengers directly iu front of the Burgess Gun Com- 

 pany's factory, giving them en route a view of Lake Erie and the 

 upper Niagara The factory is a three story and basement brick 

 building, well supplied with the best modern machinery for turning 

 out a perfectly finished gun. Last week a representative of Forest 

 and Stream was shown over the building by Mr. 0. A. Damon, and 

 also had the pleasure oE firing one of the repeating shotguns, which 

 worked like a charm. The Burgess Gun Company make a specialty 

 of turning out special guns with one or more barrels to suit the needs 

 of individual sportsmen. They have turned out guns bored for bali or 

 buckshot, and are constantly experimenting for special charges. 

 Their expert is at present perfecting a new device for ejecting in the 

 possible contingency of misfire. The device now in use seems to 

 answer the purpose admirabty, and may be retained after the other 

 device has been given a trial. The Burgess Gun has won many friend?; 

 and has a bright future iu store. 



I asked Dan Cupid t'other day 



What made him so surprising fair. 



"My Ma-M'am Venus," he replied, 



"Keeps Packer's Tar Soap at her side, 



And scrubs me everywhere." — Adv. 



The Hazard Powder Company has moved from its old office at 63 

 Pine street, to new and more commodious quarters in the Continental 

 Life Insurance Building, 44, 46 and 43 Cedar street. 



Two Spring Tours to Washington, D. C. 



On Thursday, May 3, and Thursday, May 84, the Pennsylvania Rail- 

 road Company will run two delightful spring tours to the National 

 Capital. These are what are called three-day trips, and embody all 

 the advantages of an inexpensive trip, as well as an excellent oppor- 

 tunity for seeing the beautiful city of Washington under the most 

 favorable circumstances. The rate from New York, $13, and from 

 Philadelphia and Wilmington, $11, carries with it transportation in a 

 special train of Pennsylvania Railroad standard coaches, accompanied 

 by experienced tourist agent and chaperon, who aid the tourist very 

 materially in their journeying in and about the city of Washington, 

 and hotel accommodations at the best of Washington's hostelries. 

 The special I rain will leave New York 11:00 A. M., and Philadelphia at 

 1:50 P. M., arriving at destination in time for supper. Returning, the 

 special train will leave the Capital City for home on the Saturday fol- 

 lowing. Descriptive itineraries of Washington and its beautiful sur- 

 roundings may be procured upon application to the tourist depart- 

 ment of the Pennsylvania Railroad, 119B Broadway, New York, or 333 

 South Fourth street, or to the Pennsylvania Railroad ticket agents. 

 Apply for space on these tours at once.— Adv. 



F FXTU RES. 



DOG SHOWS. 



May 1 to 4.— Special show of St. Bernard, Collie, Spaniel and Fox- 

 Terrier clubs, in connection with the Hempstead Farm show, Madison 

 Square Garden. 



May 9 to 12.— Louisville Kennel Club, at Louisville. Ky. St. Marc M. 

 Munday, Sec'y. 



May 30 to June 2.— Alameda County Sportsmen's Association, at 

 Oakland, California. 



Sept. 10 to 14.— Toronto Industrial Exhibition Association, at 

 Toronto. C. A. Stone. Sec'y. 



Sept. 18 to 21.— Rhode Island State Fair Association, at Cranston. R. 

 I. W. W. Dexter, Sec'y. 



FIELD TRIALS. 



Sept. 5.— Manitoba Field Trials Club, at Morris. Man. R. J. Gallaug 

 her, Winnipeg, Sec'y. 



Nov. 5.— Uuited States Field Trial Club, at Bicknell, Ind. P. T. 

 Madison, Indianapolis, Ind., Sec'y. 



Nov. 6.— International Field Trials, at Chatham, Ont. W. B Wells 

 Sec'y. 



Nov. 33— Eastern Field Trials Club, at Newton, N. C. W. A. Coster, 

 Saratoga, N. Y.. Sec'y. 



Nov. 33.— Philadelphia Kennel Club, at Newton, N. O. Dr. G. D. B 

 Darby, Philadelphia, Pa., Sec'y. 



Flaps from the Beaver's Tail. 



Toronto, Can.— After a good deal of pressure Mr. Robert 

 McEwen, the well-known collie breeder, has consented to 

 judge this breed at the next Industrial Exhibition. A better- 

 choice could not be made. 



Mr. George Douglas has bought Mr. Luckwell's interest in 

 Black Duke, and also several bitches. Mr. Luckwell for the 

 present retires. 



Mr. Laidlaw will attend the Specialty Show with a big 

 string of sixteen to twenty, among them a brace of eye 

 openers in the way of reds, which no one has yet seen. 



Mr. Stone has bought an interest in the second prize 

 Toronto local English setter bitch Sultana, aDd will use her 

 in the International Derby. She looks like a goer and a 

 stayer. H. B. Donovan. I 



Spaniel Judging. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



Allow me space through your columns to thank our 

 worthy friend Mr. Fellows for his lesson to spaniel breeders 

 at the Boston show. That it will be a benefit to them I do 

 not doubt, most decidedly not in the way he intended, but on 

 the lines of the old saying, "Out of evil much good may 

 come." Reports that have reached- me from alf quarters 

 confirm my own opinion formed previous to the show that it 

 would have been a treat for any lover of this favorite breed 

 to have seen the wild scramble for ribbons and letters which 

 I am told took place at the Bostonshow. The most grateful 

 piece of news which has reached me is contained in a letter 

 from a prominent member of the Spaniel Club and reads as 

 follows: 



"How I do wish you could have seen the perspiration pour- 

 ing down our worthy judge's face when he separated 

 Othello and Jay Kay in the challenge class aud dropped the 

 fragile, toyish, toes-turned-out, long-and-low Middy between 

 two such typical specimens, both of whom, judged by the 

 new standard of weight before all, easily disposed of this 

 miserable little dog. How I do wish you could have seen 

 the close fight for first honors between Adam and Woodland 

 Prince, the judge found the type so similar, weight, leg, 

 length of body, head and every other point so equal that he 

 even went so far (so they say) as to decide the point by giving 

 it to the dog with the most coat, but even this was impos- 

 sible, for on counting the hairs each had the same number 

 (I forget the figure). Equal first was the verdict, the judge 

 forgetting that he could have easily settled it by taking the 

 two dogs to the scales, where one having a heavier collar on 

 than the other, weight must have told in his favor. 



"Jumie IV. came third in this class, not the Detroit or 

 New York Jumie, but another Jumie not so good in head, 

 longer in barrel and shorter on the leg, being the nearest ap- 

 proach to the equal firsts, and not wishing to depart from 

 the new standard of 'weight before all,' the judge after care- 

 ful examination decided to put him over King Raven, Jr., 

 who beats him in size, weight and length of leg, the standard 

 of excellence and quality recognized by J. Otis Fellows & 

 Company, the famous firm of 'Working Dog Makers' and 

 'Type Annihiiators.' Jumie weighed 201bs. 'Consistency 

 thou art a jewel.' Then we come to poor Rideau Reine, win- 

 ner of two firsts nnder Mr. Wilmerding, one second in a 

 strong class under Mr. Mason, first in a fair class under Mr. 

 Oldham. Alas for the rarity of human charity! What right 

 had she to dare enter the lists in a class in which there were 

 actually four dogs who weighed all the way from % to Slbs. 

 heavier than she did. Enter the verdict not serve her right, 

 but serve her owner right for such ignorance of the new 

 standard, 'weight before all."' 



From the above I gather things must have been pretty 

 lively at Boston, and the above is only a sample of what my 

 mail contains thes" nice days. Another runs as follows: 



"Best thing in the whole show was the judging for best 

 brace of spaniels. Fred Kirby led in Fiske's dogs Fashion 

 and I Say, and was so surprised when he was handed the 

 ribbon that he grabbed up a dog under each arm and made a 

 bolt for the gate, not knowing where the lightning would 

 strike. The gate being closed he cleared the fence at a 

 bound. Some people here are cruel enough to say Fred has 

 not stopped running yet." 



Very entertaining all this, but far from instructive. Take 

 the case of Rideau Reine 



Granted that Mr. Wilmerding went wrong at New York 

 in the open cocker dog class, I have heard nobody criticise 

 his awards in the open bitch class. 



Granted that Mr. Oldham gave the war-worn Novel sec- 

 ond over I Say, at New York, 1893, I have not heard any 

 body question the award to Rideau at Philadelphia. 



Granted that Mr. Mason recognized a Dudley-nosed bull- 

 dog at Philadelphia, I have never heard anybody say he did 

 not know a cocker. Are breeders and exhibitors going to 

 continue supporting a man who never wearies of striking at 

 their best interests; who boasts of having once bred a really 

 good cocker, Velda, but who at Boston evidently forgot 

 what she was like, for he almost ignored a bitch there who 

 is built exactly on the same lines. Perhaps our worthy 

 friend Mr. Wilmerding will now see the renson I felt con- 

 strained to come ont so severely on some of his awards at 

 New York. 



I would not for the world say or do anything beyond hon- 

 estly criticising his error in setting a lead to the "Loitering" 

 add Hornellsville cranks, who, as I once wrote before in your 

 columns, "pick the breed they know least about to write 

 most about." Will Mr. Wilmerding indorse Mr. Fellows's 

 judging at Boston ? Far from it. I feel confident that if he 

 went into the ring to-morrow he would judge better than 

 ever he did before. To get at the real root of this evil of 

 crooked legs, let us look more to the breeding. Why 

 will not breeders use more care in selecting? If your bitch 

 is a good one, but bad in front, do not select a good dog with 

 the same faults. If you cannot conveniently secure the 

 services of a good dog straight in front, at least secure 

 even a moderate specimen if he has good front legs. The 

 principal aim of breeders should now be the front leg of the 

 cocker and field spaniel. Let us use every effort to eradi- 

 cate the evil of the crooked front, and I am certain if the 

 principal cocker kennels will never breed a crooked leg bitch 

 to a crooked leg dog and vice versa, the time will not be far 

 distant when this most desirable end will be reached. If 

 reds come with good front legs, why should blacks not have 

 them? If your reds come from blacks, now breed your reds 

 to black, and so on. Put forth every effort, spaniel breeders, 

 and let us see what the result will be. 



The specialty show has now arrived and the spaniel entry 

 is a good one. It will be very interesting to note what type 

 of cocker Mr. Oldham will consider the best to climb up th e 

 side of a house, or to turn a double somersault from the to 

 of a hill in a very rough country. SOLPS. 



The Best Spaniel for Field Work? 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



Through your columns purchasers ask and receive advice. 

 I never asked any when I bought a dog and got a pointer, 

 and now after three years' work I find for our heavy timber 

 aud thick brush that they or setters are not the dog for our 

 shooting. Now, what kind of a dog shall I buy— cocker, field 

 or Clumber spaniel? 



I have corresponded with several breeders as to their stock 

 and each one gives a long list of prize winnings. Only one 

 recommends a dog as coming from first-class hunting stock. 

 It may be that tho-e finely bred dogs— dogs bred down or up 

 to a certain s andard once had an ancestor that knew how to 

 find a bird. But hasn't the instinct lain dormant so long that 

 it is almost extinct? 



However, dog men have their standard and go by it. 



Now, I advise all intending purchasers of a hunting dog 

 for birds— when the cover is heavy and when a dog will be 

 out of sight three-fourths of the time as a necessity, to buy— 

 what? Not a pointer or setter, but a spaniel. Which should 

 it be? 



Why is it that the stud dogs of to-day are only recom- 

 mended from the fact of their winning prizes at dog shows 

 Does a sportsman want a dog as a sire from the fact the said 

 sire boasts of many prizes at exhibitions? Spaniel. 



In the report of pointer light-weight dogs at Boston th 

 criticism should rear! "Chancellor second," etc., and "Ridg 

 view Donald, third, faulty in brow and muzzle," and the la 

 ter is not from the same kennel as Ridgeview Tenny. Th 

 awards were correctly given in the prize list. 



