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the facts they can in regard to their acts and actions in order 
to determine whether the regulations imposed by the Fish 
Commissioners arj observed and followed and to what extent 
they are violated. 
0. W. SMITH, Chairman of Law Committee. 
provisions of this section by the person, corporation, associa- 
tion or company, owning, using, having or harboring such dog 
or bitch. 
Section 3. All Acts and parts of Acts inconsistent with this 
Act are hereby repealed. 
This Act shall take effect immediately. 
genml 
Game and Fish in Minnesota. 
St. Paul, Minn., March 16, 1895.— Editor Forest and Stream: 
The subject tha.t is engrossing Minnesota sportsmen's attention 
just now is the non-spring shooting bill that has just passed the 
House. At this writing it seems certain to pass tbe Senate, and 
to become a lavv, though there is some outside opposition; 
mostly because it is a new venture in the Northwest, and so 
many gunners haven't the right understanding of the benefits 
we claim will accrue if it is allowed to go into operation. 
On the 14th the Pioneer Press editorially writes against the 
bill, and this has elicited a strong defense by practical sports 
men. The Pioneer Press deals with these subjects fairly, and 
the pros and cons receive equal recognition. 
We contend that the migration of wild ducks to the far North 
is not because more advantageous localities for feeding and 
breeding purposes are open to them there, but that because of 
incessant hunting here, they are obliged to move on to find 
places of rest and safety. When the Northward flight from 
the Gulf begins, the most natural route is up the Mississippi 
Valley. The constaut gunning along the line drives them 
farther and farther North. While ducks are migratory by 
nature, the migration ceases when they arrive at places of 
safety. Heretofore they have not been able to find this to any 
extent even in Minnesota. Yet nowhere in the Northwest are 
more or better lakes for feeding and breeding purposes than 
this State affords. That ducks will remain here is demon- 
strated by the fact that on several private preserves — some 
within a short distance of St. Paul— where spring shooting is 
not indulged in, they have come in and bred; and in the fall the 
lakes are fairly alive with ducks, particularly mallards and 
teal. There certainly is no real advantage to be gained by 
shooting ducks in the spring. 
They are lean and feverish, and but poor eating at best. A 
pair of ducks killed in the spring means a flock of ducks less 
in the fall. With all our natural advantages, if spring shoot- 
ing is prohibited in the spring, and in the fall, before the time 
for the Southward flight, ducks will extend their migration no 
farther, the quantity and quality of ducks that may be killed 
here will satisfy the most ardent spring gunner that non-spring 
shooting is best. He can enjoy a season far longer than the 
two seasons as they now stand, and in place of lean, feverish 
birds in the spring, and small flocks and hurried flights in the 
fall, he can pick bis birds from large and well-fed flocks. 
Another provision of our game bill is in House File No. 380, 
which is a substitute for various other bills. I can do no better 
than quote from a private letter from a gentleman who is an 
ideal sportsman: 
"This bill contains on page five, a provision prohibiting the 
catching of game fisb for market purposes. My notion is that 
the best way to preserve our game fish is to stop the pot hunt- 
ing of Shem. It is of little consequence for the State to spend 
$20,000 in propagating these fish if they are to be cleaned out of 
the lakes as soon as they reach a suitable size, by the pot hunt- 
ers, and sold for a mere song upon the market. 
"For illustration, I am credibly informed that one fish com- 
pany alone took, last year, out of a little lake say, north of 
Duiuth, nearly twentv tons of black bass. What it would cost 
the State of Minnesota to replace these fish and have them 
reach a catchable size, would probably represent a sum of 
huudreds if not thousands of dollars. 
"Of my personal knowledge I know that nearly fifteen tons 
of game fish were taken out of two lakes in Wright county last 
season, largely by parties who came here from Texas and Iowa, 
and who simply cleaned the lakes out to pay their outing 
expenses. Our first step in the direction of preserving our 
game is to protect them, and our most dangerous foe is the pot 
hunter." 
In the last few days the Legislature of North and South 
Dakota, have passed game bills that practically conform to the 
Minnesota statute. The whole Northwest is alive on the sub- 
ject of protection and preservation of game. 
Our own movement for a voluntary auxiliary game and fish 
protective association is advancing rapidly. A meeting is 
called for Monday, the 18th, at which a large number of our 
citizens will be present, when an organization committee will 
be named to push the movement. WM. L. TUCKER. 
St. Paul, Minn., March 23, 1895.— Editor Forest and Stream: 
At the election of officers of the State Board of Game and Fish 
Commissioners on Thursday, W. A. Timberlake, St. Paul, 
was re-elected President; wm. Bird, Fairniount, Vice-Presi- 
dent; A. F. Ferris, Brainerd, Treasurer; Fred Von Baumbach, 
Alexandria, Secretary, and S. F. Pullerton, Duiuth, Executive 
Agent. 
That the election was wholly voluntary, the sprotsmen of the 
State will not believe. That this Board has now been pulled 
into the political arena, is very evident. But the changes are 
now made, and it is the Board to do the work for the next few 
years. So, whether satisfactory or unsatisfactory, the interests 
are too great to allow to go by default, and the true sportsmen ' 
of the State must and will continue their efforts to assist in the 
work. When the new voluntary auxiliary association can be 
completed, a very potent factor will enter the field. 
We nave this suggestion to make. The work outlined by Mr. 
Andrews should be continued by Mr. Fullerton; and to the 
Board and Executive Officer we would say that they could not 
do better than endeavor to secure the services of Mr. Andrews 
for a short time, if by any possibility he could be induced to 
devote any further attention to these interests, after having 
been so abused of late. His experience and information on 
these subjects would certainly be very valuable at this time, 
and Mr. Fullerton can win the highest regard of sportsmen if 
he continues this work on these lines. 
From a personal standpoint Mr. Fullerton will be a very 
acceptable officer, and so should feel just as free as his prede- 
cessor to call upon the sportsmen for any assistance they can 
render. We will cjrtainly decry the movement to antagonize 
his administration. WM. L. TUCKER, 
A Non-Hounding Bill for New York. 
A bill recently introduced in the New York Legislature by 
Mr. W. W. Niles, of New York city, reads as follows: 
"An act to amend Chapter 488 of the Laws of 1893, entitled, 
"An act for the protection, preservation and propagation of 
birds, fish and wild animals in the State of New York, and the 
different couuties thereof." 
The People of the State of New York, represented in the 
Senate and Assembly do enact as follows: 
Section 1. Section 42 of said Act is hereby amended to read as 
follows: 
Section 43. No fawn or female deer shall be hunted, caught 
or killed at any time in this State, nor any part thereof be 
possessed at any "time; tbe possession of the carcass of any such 
fawn or female deer or any part thereof shall be deemed prima 
facie evidence of a violation of this section by the possessor. 
Section 2. Section 4A] of said Act is hereby amended so as to 
read as follows : 
Section 44. Hounding. No person, corporation, association 
or company shall hunt, pursue or kill any deer in this State 
with any dog or bitch at any time. If any dog or bitch shall 
be found hunting, pursuing or killing any deer or running at 
large in the forests of this State where deer inhabit, it shall be 
deemed prima facie evidence of the violation of the foregoing 
Niagara County Anglers' Club- 
Lockporb,' March 21. — The Niagara County Anglers' Club, 
with the first evidences ;of spring, which are unusually tardy 
this yeai'j has awakened to activity. It has accompbshed much 
already in the way of increasing the fish supply in county 
waters, and its plans are all made for an unusually interesting 
campaign. Within the last week the club has planted 4,00C.- 
000, white fish from the Caledonia Platcheries in Lake Ontario. 
At the annual meeting recently held, these officers were 
chosen: 
President Hon. John F. Little ; Vice-President, George 
Moody; Secretary, Frederick K. Sweet; Treasurer, Geo. W. 
Weaver. The question of the annual tournament was in- 
formally discussed and the sentiment seemed to favor the 
Thousand Islands as the battle ground in J une. 
The club last week deposited 2,000,000 white flsh fry two 
miles out of Wilson harbor, Lake Ontario and the same number 
in Olcott harbor this week, Tuesday. Mr. Walzer, of the 
hatcheries, who accompanied the tiny fish, promised the banner 
club of the State 1,000.000 more white fish fry, and tbe same 
number of black bass, to be planted at Olcott. The bass cannot 
be obtained until sometime in June, he said. Salmon trout fry 
are a minus quantity in the Caledonia tanks this year. 
The planting of the little fish in the stormy waters is an .inter- 
esting occurrence, and the event attracted hundreds of people 
from all over the country to Olcott last Tuesday. The f i y 
were but two and a half days' old, and about the size of pins, 
but with larger heads than that important article of domestic 
econonry. 
All the members of the Anglers' Club Committee could not 
get away and there were some substitutions. In the party 
from here were: President John F. Little, Jerome E, Emerson, 
GBorge Emerson, C. L. Nicholls, and Tunis Outwater. 
THE OLCOTT DELEGATION. 
The citizens of Olcott, headed by Mayor William Henry Lock- 
wood, responded nobly to the call for volunteers to assist in the 
planting. The fry came in 96 cans, which held from 12 to 115 
gallons each. The tiny fish, only two or three days old, were 
lively as crickets w r hen the car stopped at the R. W. & O. R. 
R. depot, Newfane station. 
The cans were loaded on wagons and drawn to the west pier 
in the Olcott harbor, The men furnishing teams were James 
Rose, Samuel Lockwood, Thomas Plain. John Myers, Newell 
Clicknor, Eugene Halstead, William Everts, Charles Carigan, 
Fred Rockwell, Silas Nobles. Those who assisted in the work 
were: The Hon. William H. Lockwood, James L. Lockwood, 
William H. Tenbrook, Andrew J. Leonard, Nelson Shaver, 
John Babcock, Edward Moore, Sheba Stout, Peter Drake, Dan 
Shaver. The boatmen were: S. W, Lockwood, Cyrus Brown, 
James A. Martin, Fred Martin, Archy Kline, Frank Shaver, 
Jr., Edward Burns, William Nobles, William Drinkwalter. 
A BARRIER OF ICE. 
A disappointment, was in store for Superintendent Walzer, of 
the Caledonia Hatcheries. The plan was to plant the fry out 
in the lake, two miles at least, to avoid the perch and other 
game fish that would capture the little fellows. The wind from 
the north drove the ice in shore and made it impossible for the 
boats to push through and out into the lake. The best that 
could be done was to commit the fry to the waters of the lake 
off the west pier. The swift cm-rent would carry them out into 
the lake, and the conditions were such yesterday that it is 
believed that the little new comers were troubled very little if 
at all by the voracious perch. 
Superintendent Walzer, who came along with the fry from 
the State hatcheries, said before summer they would plant at 
least. 40, 000,000 white fish in Lake Ontario. He thought that 
another car load could be sent to the Anglers' Club before 
April 1. Their black bass did not come until some time m June, 
and he hoped to furnish the club a half million or more at that 
time. 
MAYOR LOCKWOOD'S WELCOME. 
Mayor Lockwood delivered a forcible and graceful address 
of welcome to the piscatorial pilgrims from the Caledonia 
tanks. 
A large number of Olcott citizens applied for member- 
ship, to be voted on at the next meeting. 
FIXTURES. 
BENCH SHOWS. 
How Our Neighbors Do. 
Newburgh, N. Y., March 18.— Apropos of your article upon re- 
moving game and fish protectors, I think the United States might 
take a leaf out of the book of their neighbor, Canada. These game 
guardians (I speak of the Northwest, where I was a resident some 
years) are appointed more for their aptitude for the work, being 
generally sportsmen of good standing, the question of political 
belief not being even asked, and the appointment being ostensibly 
for life, pending good conduct and efficiency. 
I also came across another institution on the Canada Pacific, 
Which met with my unqualified- approval in the transportation of 
dogs on that line. I got on board the train at the Rockies, and 
my dog was checked as extra baggage, with a charge of §7.50 to 
Montreal, which was the sum total of all I had to pay, and my 
dog went with me andjiad my personal supervision. I felt I had 
paid my dues and was comfortable, and 1 met with great civilitv 
and kindness from all the train hands, and I do not think the 
charge was high for the distance. It saved me the uncertainty of 
mind, the constant tipping and tne incivility from trainbands, 
which one meets sometimes out here. 
In contrast to the above, let me cite another instance. When 
coming away from the South, I was obliged to let my wife come 
ahead of me, and she brought the same dog with her, and got 
along as far as Cfiattanooga, on the E. T. V. & G. There, about 
five minutes before the departure of the train, the dog was nut off, 
and the official insisted on its being expressed, which compeL'ed 
its being crated. A box was obtained, and the dog expressed in a, 
package about half big enough, and arrived at Newburgb two 
days after my wife, famished for water and food, and cramped 
almost to death. The charges from Chattanooga were $9 for one- 
third the distance. Next time I go South tbe steamboat lines will 
carry myself and dog. as they also know how to treat us both. 
G. N. BARKER. 
The Indiana Five- Year Quail Prohibition. 
"We learn to-day from good authority that the bill to prohibit 
tbe killing of quail in Indiana for the term of five years has not 
yet passed, and perhaps will not, but it will take quick work or 
we may as well give away our dogs and guns and be done 
with it. 
It is the duty of every sportsman whose eyes fall on this to 
sit right down and write Capt. A. J. McCutchan at Indianap- 
olis and beg him not only to work for the bill to stop the sale of 
game, but to sit down on the bill to stop the killing of quail for 
five years. The bill of Mr. I. Walter Sharp covers the case. 
That is the bill that Senator McCutchan and Representatives 
Kamp and Holloway should endorse. — LOUISVILLE 
TRIBUNE, Feb. 22. 
April 9 to 13.— Pittsburgh— Duquesne K. C. W. E. Littel, Sec'y. 
April 16 to 19— Boston— New England Kennel Club. D. E. Love- 
aT April°17'to 20. Los Angeles— Sou thern Cal. Kennel Club. Dr. 
R. J. Withers, Sec. 
April 35 and 26.— Toronto, Canada— Toronto Kennel Club. W. 
P. Eraser, Hon'y. Sec. - ..^ • ^, . 
May 8 to 11— San Erancisco. Cal.— Pacific Kennel Club. Howard 
Vernon, Sec'y, San Francisco. 
Oct. 8 to 11.— Danbury, Conn.— Danbury Agricultural Society 
G. L. Rundle, Sec'v. 
FIELD TRIALS. 
Sept- 2.— Continental Field Trials Club's chicken trials at 
P. T. Madison, Sec'y, Indianapolis, Ind, 
Sept. 10— Morris, Man.— Manitoba E. T. C, John Wootton, 
Sec'y, Manitou. 
Nov. 5.— Chatham, Ont.— International F. T. Club. W. B.Wells 
Sec'y. 
Nov. 18.— Eastern P. T. Club, at Newton, N. C. W. A. Coster, 
Sec'y. Saratoga Springs, N. Y. 
Nov. 28.-TrialsA. U. S. F. T. Club at Newton, N.C. W. B 
Stafford, Sec'y, Trenton, Tenn. 
POINTS AND FLUSHES. 
New York Legislature. 
There is nothing new to report with regard to legislation at 
Albany this week, except that the bill to consolidate the Eish and 
Forestry Commissions has passed the Senate. 
All of the game bi'ls are held back awaiting the action of the 
Senate Game Committee on its Omnibus bill. The committee 
will probably consider the bill and give a public hearing on it 
some day this week. 
STANCHNESS, 
Some months ago, I received a letter from a well-known field 
trial handler, one whose thorough knowledge of field trial com- 
petition and related ma,tters is conceded bv ail. wherein he 
touched upon the matter of staunchness, as required in a field 
trial competition of the present day. 
Concerning it he writes: "I am quite surprised that a judge 
should consider that following the handler in to a flush is 
unsteadiness on the part of the dog. Nothing, in my judg- 
ment, is more disgustingly imbecile in a dog than when he 
remains standing on a point while his handler beats out the 
country forty feet in front, and twenty to each side of him 
trying to flush a bird. It appears to me that there could be no 
greater illustration of inaccuracy in locating than such a per- 
formance. 
"I understand it that the purpose of a dog is to locate and 
point the birds, and I do not know of a more useful position for 
a dog than behind his handler when he is going in to flush. I 
do not understand how such an act can be considered as 
unsteadiness." 
There was a time, not long ago, when I thought differently 
from Mr. Titus, but later developments in field trial competi- 
tion convinces me that his opinion is correct. His objections 
to the usage, which governs staunchness on point in compe- 
tition, are well taken. Still, it is only within a recent period 
that in this connection the weakness of field trial usage has 
become plainly manifest, as a result of some abuses whicn have 
crept in, and which seem to be growing greater with each 
succeeding trial. 
As the theory of staunchnesss was originally considered and 
applied, it was not far from correct, though never wholly so. 
Nevertheless, the abuses which have been practiced, never 
could have gained a foothold had the judges been properly 
observant in guarding against them. 
In theory, it seems perfectly correct to assume that a doe 
would make either a true point or a false point, and that the 
handler should walk ahead and flush the birds at a proper 
distance if the point be a true one, or that he should find 
nothing if the point be false, all of which theoretically seem so 
simple that there could be no possibility of a misunderstanding 
or an error, much more an abuse of it. 
In practice, however, it is far from being so simple a matter. 
First of all there are very few dogs, comparatively, which will 
point their birds correctly; that is to say, ones which will draw 
or road with accuracy and self-reliance, stopping on point at 
the proper distance from them. The larger part of the field 
trial dogs are faulty in these qualities. They road hesitatingly 
on a hot trail and look to the handler for prompting and assist- 
ance. Many of them point at too great a distance from their 
birds, an act considered by some sportsmen as being surely 
indicative of a keen nose, on the assumption that such a doe is 
pointing by the body scent, though it is well known that many 
dogs will point on the foot scent, many yards from the birds, 
and require constant urging to make them advance to the 
proper place to point. 
As to how the handler can determine when the dog has at 
last reached the proper place, it is easily explained. The 
handler knows his dog thoroughly. All the acts and certain 
expressions of the dog have certain meaning. Every dog has 
certain methods of roading or seeking, differing more or less 
from those of every other dog, and which by use become 
habitual. 
A dog, pointing on footscent, never points so rigidly as when 
pointing on the body scent. As he makes point after point in 
his advances to the birds, he becomes more and more rigid, 
feathers more and his eyes become more lustrous and fixed, his 
attitude then being what tbe enthuisastic writers would mis- 
takenly term cataleptic. The trainer, from having observed 
many repetitions of the act, knows just when the dog is on a 
true point, and he can juggle his dog foward so deftly and 
quietly by a low note on the whistle, or click of his tongue, 
that no one other than an expert would observe that it was 
really the trainer who was furnishing the ideas and impulse to 
the dog. 
There are dogs which will point on any SGent, as there are 
dogs which will point without any apparent reason for it. The 
dog which will point on a true scent, but will not locate his 
birds accurately, is the most difficult one to judge. But tnere 
is onB infallible circumstance by which the judge can rate the 
dog's ability in this connection, namely, if the handler is con- 
stantly coaching and helping his dog to locate the birds, that 
dog is an inferior performer. He has a defective brain. As to 
their handling, dogs may be, in a way, _ divided into three 
classes, those which are deficient in brains or interest and 
require the assistance of their handlers in all of the details 
of their work; those which will do some parts of their work 
accurately and correctly, but which require more or less 
assistance from their handlers in other parts, and those which 
are capable, self-reliant, and skillful, ani can work correctly on 
their own judgment. 
Field trial judges have never made a sufficient distinction in 
these matters. If a dog was helped a great deal, so long as it 
was done smoothly and good results were obtained, it was 
accepted as a good performance, and I have even heard such 
work referred to as being high class. No dog is a high class 
performer, which can not perform well without the assistance 
of his handler in such parts of the work as are strictly within 
a good dog's powers and within what is required for good work 
to the gun afield. 
* Judges have accepted results at trials without giving proper 
heed as to the manner in which they were obtained. The point 
work of a handler and his dog, having the semblance of good 
work, was often accepted as equal to that of the independent 
dog. Separate these two classes of dogs from their handlers, 
so that each, in strange hands, would have to depend upon its 
own resources, the indeDendent dogs would not vary in work- 
ing up to their standard, while the others would drop from their 
sham standard to their true level, that of the mediocre. 
Returning now to the consideration of staunchness on point 
