June i, 189S.] 
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Trout Fishing on the Beaverkill. 
Lew Beach, Sullivan County, N. Y., May 25.— The 
"Mountain Villa Hotel" is reached by the way of Ontario 
& Western Railroad, stopping off at Livingstone Manor, 
thence by stage, a distance occupying a two hours' drive. 
Our party, consisting of H. B. Waring, 0. H. Eowland 
and the writer, arrived here during the early part of the 
week, and although the fishing is far from being 
phenomena], yet we have caught as many trout as any 
party of reasonable fishermen could possibly desire. 
The Beaverkill affords exceptionally fine opportunities 
for casting the fly, being a broad stream and readliy 
waded. 
The trout are at present taken principally by artificial 
flies, the coachman, queen-of-the-water and Beaver- 
kill. Our catch averages daily, for a few hours' fishing, 
about fifty trout; although the majority of them are not 
so very large, yet we have landed some very fine large 
ones. 
Our hotel proprietor is a congenial and popular land- 
lord, the house has a capacity for fifty guests and the table 
is excellent. 
The writer takes the liberty of writing to the FOREST 
and Stream, thinking perhaps that some of its many de- 
voted readers may be glad to know where they can get 
good fishing, and at a place so situated that it can be 
reached with comfort and little expense. 
For scenery and clear bracing air this section cannot be 
excelled. John T. Waring, Jr. 
Pennsylvania Trout Streams. 
There are three good trouting places in Monroe county, 
Pa., which I have not seen mentioned. These are Mrs. 
Maginnis, Swiftwater; Henry (there are two houses here 
both kept by the Henrys, I can't recall their first names), 
at Henryville; T. H. Stites, Analomink— all in Monroe 
county, Pa. The stations for each of these in order 
named are Forks, Henryville and Spragueville. All 
these places are reached by a short drive from the station. 
The two former are on the west branch of Brodhead's 
Creek, while Stites's is at the junction of the east and 
west branches of the same stream. Any one going to 
any of these places would be well taken care of and would 
have fair chance for sport. The fly-fishing varies as it 
does everywhere else. Maginnis's and Sites's I can speak 
of from personal experience, and two finer trout streams 
as they are at Stites's would be hard to get. The streams 
are all within stone's throw of the houses named. D. 
Crab Packing in North Carolina. 
Newberne, N. C. — The crabs are caught around More- 
head and Beaufort and packed in Newberne, from whence 
they are shipped. One man can catch eight barrels in ten 
hours on these grounds, whereas in Lynnhaven Bay and 
around Norfolk, in Virginia, where the chief source of 
supply has been hitherto, a barrel a day per man has been 
regarded as a good catch. The crabs are caught on trot 
lines 450ft. long, stretched from stake to stake in the 
sounds, each line having 300 baited snoods placed 18in. 
apart. When a line is lilted by a man in a boat about one 
snood in five will yield a crab. Good hands can catch 
about thirty barrels in a week and make good wages. 
This location is said to be the most prolific on the whole 
coast at this season, and as early as January. In summer 
they can be taken in abundance anywhere. C. H. 
A Michigan Netter Punished. 
Matt Thomas, one of the men arrested last week through 
the efforts of Henry L. Avery, deputy game warden at 
large for illegally fishing with nets in Lake St. Clair, was 
tried on Monday at Mt. Clemens and convicted. He was 
fined $25, with the alternative of thirty days in jail. Pros- 
ecuting Attorney Wickes was assisted in the case by Lin- 
coln Avery, of Port Huron. There are now in possession 
of the officers about $1,200 worth of nets belonging to the 
men arrested last week, which are being held until the 
trials of all the men have been held, when they will 
probably be destroyed. — Port Huron Times. 
"Two at a Cast." 
Mr. Thomas Sedgwick Steele's well-known trout paint- 
ing "Two at a Cast" has been reproduced by the Prang 
people in colors faithful to the original, and the work is 
admirable. The copy iu Forest and Stream's exhibit at 
the Sportsmen's Exposition attracted much attention. 
We can supply it, as is noted in our advertising columns. 
Time's Changes. 
Godfrey, 111.— I have fished with rod, reel, flies and 
artificial bait for years; and have cast flies on many North- 
ern lakes before they were known to many. To-day some 
of those places are watering resorts. Have dragged my 
canoe over the very ground that to-day is covered by 
hotels and summer houses. But more anon. C. 
Jlmwerp to (H/orrespendqnts. 
| |Wild Rice, Bridgeport, Pa.— What do wild ducks like to feed on the 
best, wild celery or wild rice? Where can I obtain either of the seeds? 
What time of the year must I plant it, and how should it be planted? 
Ans. They like both, but the wild rice is the most practicable of intro- 
duction. You may obtain *rf!d rice seed (in season) from Chas. Gil- 
christ, Port Hope, Ontario; R. Valentine, Janesville, Wis.; Northrup, 
Braslin & Goodwin Co., Minneapolis, Minn. And wild celery may be 
had from W. W. Wentworth, Fort Atkinson, Wis., or E. D. Sturte- 
vant, Bordentown, N. J. In the Forest and Stream of Aug. 25. 1892, 
Mr. E. E. Thompson concludes au illustrated paper on wild rice with 
these practical points; "Wild rice is very prolific and grows annually 
on the same grounds, requiring no care to cultivate. Id will grow 
well in almost any water that has a muddy bottom, is not too cold, 
and has not a strong current and is not more than 8ft. deep. It will 
succeed in any of the Middle States and Northwest as far as latitude 
50 s . Rice has been found doing well on prairie sloughs of Minnesota, 
the water of which is tinctured more or less with alkali; it has been 
successfully introduced into many of the salt marshes of the Hudson 
River and Long Island, and it grows well in fresh water marshes and 
on the banks of slow-running streams. The proper time for sowing 
the seeds is immediately after it is gathered ripe, i. e , in September. 
The plant is hardy, prolific and aggressive, and usually more than 
maintains a footing once established. Its failure to grow in sj many 
cases is due to the fact that the seed has been impaired by too long 
keeping, and in a number of cases the seed used has been threshed by 
the Indians, who scorch the grain to facilitate the operation. A few 
months seems sufficient to destroy the vital germ, so that, though 
spring sowing has succeeded in some few cases, the trial of winter 
storage is usually too much for this delicate grain." 
C, Godfrey, 111.— Can a reservoir, after being stocked by the Govern- 
ment, be leased to private parties, while the public is prohibited from 
fishing except upon payment of a fee? Ans. The laws of some States 
now forbid such a thing, but there is no provision in the Illinois law 
affecting it. 
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Trout for the Big Horn. 
SHEEiDAN,"Wyo.— Supt. S. E. Land has put a plant of 50,000 
trout in Dome Lake. The fish were in transit from the State 
hatchery forty-eight hours and the distance traveled from 
Laramie to Sheridan, Wyoming, by way of Grand Island, 
Nebraska, was 1,000 miles. On the arrival of the train a 
team of four horses was in waiting and the fish were taken a 
distance of thirty-five miles up the Big Horn Mountain to 
snow line and planted at midnight in Dome Lake. Out of 
the lot of 50,000 trout not a dozen were lost. Mr. Land says: 
"The stocking of this mountain lake summer resort with 
these red-spotted, fine-scaled, dark-colored, speckled beau- 
ties is a commendable enterprise of the Dome Lake Com- 
pany, and one that the people of Sheridan county and of 
this State will appreciate in the near future. The location 
where the fish were planted is one of the finest iu the Rocky 
Mountains, for the reason that the waters of West Fork or 
Goose Creek run directly through the lake, furnishing an 
abundant supply of natural food to support fish life. The 
blood heat of this cold-water fish is 45° and the temperature 
of water in this stream and lake is at all times of the year at 
45°, with a slight variation of 5° colder iu the winter."— 
Sheridan Journal. 
Our Michigan Review. 
We are surprised to note that the Detroit Evening Journal 
of May 21 copies verbatim et literatim the excellent review 
of the Michigan State Fish Commission, written by our De- 
troit correspondent "Keuka," without crediting the same 
to this journal. Of course it is very gratifying to have our 
articles copied by other journals, and they are quite at their 
service, but it is always an added pleasure when journalistic 
courtesy prompts a proper acknowledgment. In this case 
the wholesale appropriation of our contributor's carefully 
prepared resume as original matter by the Journal led to 
repetition of two or three errors, which occurred in setting 
up the article in the Forest and Stream, one a glaring 
blunder, in which the number of whitefish planted in Michi- 
gan waters in the years 1893-94 was stated to be 290,900 in- 
stead of 290,900,000, which were the correct figures. There 
were other minor errors, all, however, innocently reproduced 
by our Detroit contemporary. We are willing to put the 
most charitable construction on the matter and charge the 
omission to inadvertence or — the office cat. 
FIXTURES. 
BENCH SHOWS. 
Sept. 9 to 13.— Industrial Exhibition Association's annual bench 
show, Toronto, Ont. C. A. Stone, Sec'y and Sup't. 
Sept. 17-20.— Orange county Fair Bench Show, Newburgn, N. Y 
Robert Johnson, Sec'y. 
Sept. 24 to 27.— New England Kennel Club's second annual fox- 
terrier show, Boston, Mass. D. E. Loveland. Sec'y. 
Oct. 8-11.— Danbury, Conn.— Danbury Agrisultural Society. G. L 
Rundle, Sec'y. 
FIELD TRIALS. 
Sept. 2.— Continental Field Trials Club's chicken trials at Morris, 
Man. P. T. Madison, Sec'y, Indianapolis. Ind. 
Sept. 10— Morris, Man.— Manitoba F. T. C. John Wootton, Sec'y, 
Manitou. 
Nov. 5.— Chatham, Ont.— International F. T. Club. W.B.Wells Sec'v 
Nov. 7.— Newton, N. C— U. S. Field Trial Club's Trials A. W. B* 
Stafford, Sec'y, Trenton, Tenn. 
Nov. 11.— Hempstead, L I.— National Beagle Club of America, fifth 
annual trials. Geo. W. Rogers, Sec'y, New York. 
Nov. 18.— Eastern F. T. Club, at Newton, N. C. W. A. Coster 
Sec'y, Saratoga Springs, N. Y. 
Nov. 25.— Continental Field Trials Club's quail trials at Newton. 
P. T. Madison, Sec'y, Indianapolis, Ind. 
Oct. 29.— New England Field Trial Club, at Assonet, Mass. S. R 
Sharp, Sec'y. 
DOGLY FRIENDS. 
It is unfortunately true that many earnest and stead- 
fast dog fanciers have business interests to look after si x 
days each week of this workaday world. 
"While they love the dog for his good qualities, such love 
is not their sole mission on earth. In the large cities the 
business pressure is intense. Men in professional life are 
in particular subject to constant exactions of time and at- 
tention by their clients. The office of a business man is 
seldom a place of diversion or recreation. Withal, it 
seems strange that Smith — let us call him Smith, though 
that is not his name— who will not tolerate anything but 
business in his pwn office, will call at Jones's office, drop 
into a chair and talk dog, or fish, or gun, or horse, till 
everybody is tired and life is one vast monotony. 
It matters not that customers or clients come in to 
transact their affairs. It matters not that they may be 
reticent in the presence of a third party, or that that they 
have private business to transact which they considered 
undesirable or against their interests for a third party to 
hear. It matters not that clients cut their interviews 
short or are ill at ease, or that there is a tense constraint 
in the routine of the office, Smith is charged so full of 
the lore of the horse, dog, fish, canoe, gun, etc., that he 
waits patiently for the to him interruption to pass and 
then he dawdles and talks and talks, picking up the most 
inconsequent trifles for lengthy remarks and discourses, 
harking back often to subjects already worn threadbare 
by his tireless tongue; and thus each long hour after hour 
of his mental drooling goes on in his friend Jone's business 
hours and office. 
The lawyer, the doctor, the blacksmith, real estate man, 
the merchant, in short, the professional man in general, 
have all to contend with the bore in some form in their 
business, yet the bore in nearly every instance is most 
sensitive to improper interruptions in his own bus ! ness. 
These thoughts occurred to me after witnessing a visit 
of a dog fancier to a friend in his business office, in St. 
Louis. The friend's name was Smith. He was busily 
engaged talking with a client when Jones enters .The 
latter shakes hands effusively and saye: 
"I'm awfully glad to see you, old man! Haven't had 
time to have a chat with you in a month. Anything 
new? Been fishing yet? Heard that the bass were plenty 
and biting like all possessed. But I came in to tell you 
about my new dog, a pointer. He's got the best pedi- 
gree in the country. I brought it over for you to look at. 
See there! Sixty generations. There's the blood of Bow 
and Foust and Croxteth and Sensation, and Eip Rap and 
Kent Elgin and Meteor and Tom, Dick and Harry. Now, 
I'd like to know where that pedigree can be beaten. Got 
the dog cheap, too. His owner got in debt and had to 
have the money, He wouldn't have sold me this dog, 
Duke of Bow of Faust of St. Louis, but for thai circum- 
stance. Don't you like his name? I think it a nice 
name. It gives the idea of such blue blood. He's broken 
first rate. His owner told me that he pointed," 
"Pardon me," said the client, rising to go, "I'll call and 
see you, Mr. Smith, some other time about that matter 
we were speaking of. I have an engagement which now 
demands my attention. Good day, gentlemen." 
"Good day!" 
"Good day!" 
"As I was saying when interrupted," resumed Jones, 
"Duke of Bow of Faust of St. Louis, pointed a bevy of 
quails when he was a month old and he never needed any 
training at all, working naturally to the gun from the be- 
ginning and retrieving his birds as well as the best re- 
trievers broken by expert trainers. My wife says that she 
had heard Tom Brown had said to a mutual friend that 
that dog, Duke of Bow of Faust of St. Louis, was about the 
best bench show dog in this country, bar none, and you 
know that what Tom don't know about bench shows isn't 
worth bothering about. He is conceded to be " 
Here a client entered, and after the conventional greet- 
ing he showed some hesitancy of manner and gazed fur- 
tively at Jones once or twice. Then came a number of 
desultory remarks on the weather, Coxey's army and the 
fall of office rents. The client was sparring for time, and 
plainly waiting for Jones to finish up his business and go, 
so that he could go on with his own affairs without the 
intrusion of a third party. Jones settles himself comfort- 
ably and his manner indicates that he is there to stay and 
wait. As the constraint grew apace there was labor in 
the conversation, and Smith, to relieve it, introduced 
Jones to his client. Then the conversation soon picks up 
and proceeds naturally and with some animation. 
At last Jones says to the client, "Are you interested in 
dogs?" 
"Not very much," is the reply, "though I like them." 
"Well, if you could see my new dog," says Jones, "you 
could not help owning one yourself. I was just telling 
my friend Smith about him when you came in. Smith is 
an old friend of mine and likes dogs as well as I do my- 
self. I came over purposely to tell abouthim this morn- 
ing. I brought his pedigree along. Perhaps you would 
like to look at it. Sixty generations, you perceive, trac- 
ing to well-known kennels which bred dogs pure for 300 
years. If you have time, I will be delighted to take you 
out to look at him. Beautifully marked! Rich liver and 
white. Great bench show dog and — what! You are not 
going, Mr. Client?" 
"Yes, I find that I already have overstayed my limit, 
but the conversation was so charming that I had no con- 
sciousness of the passage of time. That little matter of 
business, Mr. Smith, can wait a week or so now just as 
well as not. Anyway, I will not have time for it sooner. 
Good day, Mr. Smith. Good day, Mr. Jones." 
"Good-by." 
Jones then seemed fresher. The forenoon is gone. 
Smith invites Jones to lunch. Jones accepts. Smith is 
edified with more talk about Duke of fine ancestry and 
residence, and Jones returns to the office with him. He 
talks dog another hour. Then he rises and says: 
"Well, Smithsey, old boy, I'll have to be going. I hope 
I haven't annoyed you. I know you like dogs, and I was 
sure that you would be interested in Duke. I'll sell you 
a puppy cheap if you want one, though they are not for 
sale. I must say good-by for the present. Come and 
see me." 
They shake hands, and Jones takes two steps, stops, and 
says: 
"Oht I forgot about the fishing. There seems to be 
good prospects for the season. I meant to have told you 
about my new split-bamboo rod. I remember how 
pleased you were with yours last season." 
Jones edges to the chair, drops into it again and stops 
another hour. Smith talks cheerfully, but his heart is 
heavy. Jones makes his adieu four times, with four 
handshakes duly attached thereto, and with long, dreary 
conversational pilgrimages between. At last he went. 
B. Waters. 
The Bulldog Club. 
Rochester, N. Y, May 18.— Having been quite ill since 
the Pittsburg show, I have not seen until recently the 
edition of tho Kennel News containing Mr. Watson's New 
York letters, in which he refers to the formation of the 
Bull-Terrier Club of America. In his endeavors to convey 
the idea that Mr. Dole was elected President in spite of 
the opposition of some "gang," Mr. Watson places Mr. 
Dole in the position of needing someone to save him from 
his friends. I presume that as I am responsible for calling 
the meeting I might be regarded as one of the "gang," 
but 1 will state that I am in very good company, as I was 
in communication with all the bull-terrier fanciers in the 
country, who were all unanimous as to the necessity of a 
bull-terrier club;— this was the "gang" that elected Mr. 
Dole president, which was done upon my motion. 
Personally, I have nothing to lose or gain in the success 
of the club, which is a certainty, as its future now depends 
upon a class of people interested who will make it as 
strong as any specialty club in the country, despite the 
many efforts to throw cold water upon it since its incip- 
iency. The officers of the Club for the year are men who 
have been successful in their business careers, and who 
have time and means to devote to the interests of the 
Club. So far I have gained nothing but a whole lot of 
abuse and loss of time and money, but I have accomplished 
what my friends requested. W. J. HlGGINSON. 
New England Kennel Club. 
Boston, Mass.— At a meeting of this club, held May 15 
the following was unanimously adopted: 
"Whereas, Dr. C. A. Lougest has lost the mastiff Beau- 
fort Prince and Mr. Martin Fallon has been allowed to 
retain it, be it 
"Resolved, That the vote of the A. K C. passed Feb. 21, 
1895, in relation to this case, is hereby indorsed, and that 
this club extends to Dr. Lougest its sympathy for his great 
loss of so valuable a dog; and does hereby instruct its 
bench show committee not to receive either the entry of 
Beaufort Prince or any of his get after July 15, 1895, until 
this dog becomes the property of Dr. Lougast." 
D. E. Lov eland, Sec'y. 
A Champion Stake. 
Steward, Miun.— Editor Forest and Stream: The 
champion stake proposed by W. W. Titu3 in your issue of 
May 11 is one much needed. Being in favor of the pro- 
posed organization, I hope to see all field trial handlers 
take an active part in making the stake a success. 
Frank Richards. 
