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FOREST AND STREAM. 
the panels. For a long time it was not known tliat "Wal- 
ton had married twice, but it was finally discovered that 
he had married for his first wife Rachel Floud on the date 
given on the recently discovered chest. The reviewers 
have received this last edition of Walton with praise on 
both sides of the Atlantic, and particular emphasis is given 
to the illustrations. 
At the end of the volume is an angler's calendar, com- 
piled by Mr. Hi Regan. Mr. Marston thinks this calendar 
shouid be revised, because in it the lamented Charles 
Kingsley is killed ofi'in 1860, when he was alive for fifteen 
years after, and a reviewer on this side objects to the cal- 
endar simply because the immortal George Washington 
has Jan. 11 assigned to him as a birthday instead of Feb. 
22, which day we celebrate in America as his birthday. 
A. N. Cheney. 
NEW HAMPSHIRE HATCHERIES. 
From an address before t>ie Hillsboroueh County Association, by 
Commissioner F. L. Hughes. 
The State is operating at the present time eleven hatcb- 
eiies, located, one each, as follows: Colebrook, Llvermore 
Falls, 7\sh]aud, Meredith, Newfound Lake, Laconia, Con- 
way, New Durham, Manchester, Keene and Suoapee Lake. 
At the Colebrook hatchery about 400,000 brook trout eggs 
were laid down from the parent trout, located on the plant, 
which are hatching out finely. This hatchery, located as it 
is, is very convenient about stocking the northern part of 
the vState. 
The Livermore Falls hatchery contains about 200,000 
brook trout and 20,000 Loch Leven trout. After purchasing 
Massachusetts's interest in this hatchery la.st year we made 
some necessary repairs about the tanks and ponds, in which 
we were obliged to move the parent trout from one place to 
another, and "for that reason the trout did not give us the 
usual amount of eggs. This plant is very much run down. 
Dvuing the past two years of joint ownership neither party 
lelt like expending much time or money in making needed 
repairs. It is situated on leased land, and if suitable arrange- 
ments can not be made with the owners as to rental, an 
attempt will be made by the Commissioners, through the 
Governor and Council, to condemn the land, under an act 
passed by the last session of the Legislature, 
The Ashland hatchery contains 150.000 lake trout, 50,000 
brook trout and 10,000 landlocked salmon, which will be 
placed in Squam lakes and local streams. 
Meredith natchery contains 50,000 brook trout and 150,000 
lake trout. This is a fine plant, and with small expense 
could be arranged so as to rear fingerlings, as it has one of 
the finest spring streams of water in the State, which would 
maintain quite a large number of parent brook trout. 
At Newfound Lake we have the best arranged and most 
cf-mmodious hatchery in the State. The building was built 
last fall at an expense of about $2,000. We laid down at 
this hatchery last fall 1,800,000 lake trout eggs, 150,000 sal- 
mon eggs, all taken from the waters of this lake. We have 
transferred from this plant to others in the State about one- 
half the eyed eggs to be distributed over the Slate. By this 
arrangement we were enabled to bring the eggs forward to 
the eyed state, and not be obliged to keep five other plants 
in operation during the winter, thereby saving the State sev- 
eral hundred dollars. 
The Laconia hatchery contains about 700.000 lake trout, 
100,000 salmon, 350,000 brook trout and 50,000 rainbow 
trout. This is the best point for distribution in the whole 
system, being, as it is, only five minutes" walk from the sta- 
tion, and has a never-failing water supply. 
The New Durham and Conway hatcheries contain each 
150,000 lake trout and 100,000 brook trout. 
The Keene hatchery contains 150,000 lake trout and 
175,000 brook trout. 
The Sunapee station contains about 60,000 iSalmon, 100,000 
aureolus and 75,000 brook trout eggs. 
As will be seen, the hatcheries are well distributed over 
the State, and greatly aid us in the transportation of fry to 
different points in the sections in which they are located. 
No doubt the work might be done in a much less number of 
hatcheries and save some expense, but as long as the plants 
are in existence no one in the locality in which they are situ- 
ated wants them abandoned, and for the better accommoda- 
tion of the Commissioners in making ihe distributton we 
have kept them all in operation a part of the season. 
The Commissioners are of the opinion that one-fourth of 
the fry kept till they were fingerlings and then planted would 
be worth many times more than the whole amount planted 
as fry, and with this end in view have decided to try and 
rear some during the coming season, if suitable arrange- 
ments can be made before the fry have to be planted ; if not, 
we shall provide such feeding stations during the coming 
season and stock them from nest year's supply of fry. It is 
the experience of those who studied the results that this is 
the best way by far for stocking lake and pond waters, but 
with the limited funds at our command we have not felt 
justified in making the outlay necessary for such an under- 
taking. 
The State has hatclied millions of fry in the past ten years, 
and many waters where they have been placed show good 
results, while in others the show is not as good, particularly 
so in Newfound and Squam lakes. In the former, at a low 
estimate, during the past eight years 4,000,000 fry have been 
planted, and the results are far from satisfactory, and for 
such waters we are strongly of the opinion that fingerlings 
would show much better results. 
The hatcheries are all in good condition and a credit to 
the State, and if filled to anywhere near their capacity would 
furnish all the lake and brook trout fry we would want; and 
we are in hopes in the near future to be able to furnish more 
of that best and gamest fishj the landlocked salmon. This 
last variety is not plenty yet by any means, but is largely on 
the increase at Newfound Lake, We apphed to the United 
States Commission for 100,000 landlocked salmon and got 
5,000, which was all they could spare us. L^nited States Com- 
missioner Titcomb told us he did not think the United States 
Commission had 100,000 salmon eggs on hand Dec. 1, 1896 
The question is how to get the best results with oui" fry. 
We know that we have plenty of hatcheries, and that they 
produce large quantities of fry, and that they have been well 
and judiciously planted, and. as I said before, in some waters 
show good results ; for example, within the past five years 
lake trout have been introduced into Stinson Lake, and in 
the past two winters it is considered only a fair day's work 
to take fifteen to twenty-five trout for one man, while some 
have taken douWe that number in a single day. In both 
cases the planting of the fry at Stinson and Newfound 
IjKes was the same. 
The subject of fishculture is one of continual interest and 
importance. All measures pertaining to it were most care- 
fully looked after during the recent session of the Legisla- 
ture, and it is a matter of congratulation that not an act 
asked for in protection of fish and game was denied us, but, 
on the contrary, nearly all seemed to take that deep interest 
which the subject demanded and promptly passed such bills 
as the commitiees on fish and game reported, so that we were 
enabled to get olir laws into shape and have them printed 
and distributed on the floor of the House before adjournment. 
CANADIAN ANGLING NOTES* 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
I know from the number of letters that I have received from 
friends and fellow fishermen in the United States within the 
last few days that any number of American anglers are in- 
terested in the early disappearance of the now rapidly- 
decreasing banks of snow in Canadian forests, and in the 
subsidence of much of the snow watei from our inland lakes, 
and the streams which form their outlets. I confess to a 
kindred sentiment myself, and hope that none of my corre- 
spondents will believe me unsympathetic or lacking in a dis- 
position to oblige because I have not yet replied to their in- 
quiries as to the probable date of the opening of the trout 
fishing season in Canada. I am neither a prophet nor the 
son of a prophet, and the indications are not yet forthcoming 
that justify the tendering of any advice as to the earliest fish- 
ing that this season will offer in the northern part of the 
Province of Quebec. We have a hght snowstorm in pro- 
gress as I write, and though wheels have made their appear- 
ance upon a few of our most used cil;y streets, there are still 
more sleighs than carriages in use in town, and in the coun- 
try the STiow roads are pretty good. From Lake St. .lohn 
1 hear that the roads across the ice are still good, though in 
the neighborhood of Quebec the ice on the streams is quite 
rotten, and crossicg in vehicles quite dangerous. On refer- 
• ence to my last year's diary I find that the season is now 
about as far advanced as it was a year ago, and unless the 
weather for the next fortnight or three weeks should prove 
unusually backward, the trout ought to be rising by the 30th 
and perhaps by the loth of May, On this point 1 hope to 
be able to speak more definitely a week or two later. 
Among the clubs that will be represented in the Lake St. 
.John district about as soon as the spring fishing is announced 
are the Metabetchouan, the Springfield, the Tourilli, the 
Triton and the Nonamtutn, Mr, Geo. E, Hart, of Water- 
bury, who is usually one of the earliest anglers on Lac des 
Commissaires, will probably cast his first flies this season 
away from Connecticut, on the Triton Club tract. This 
club has had a remarkably large accession to its member- 
ship of late, especially since it has leased the whole of the 
hunting rights on its territory, as well as the fishing. 
Mr. J. P. Elton, of Waterbury, has sold out of the No- 
namtum Club and purchased a share of the St Marguerite 
Salmon Club. Salmon waters cost money in Canada now. 
The fishing rights of the Moisie were recently purchased 
by Messrs. Hope, of Montreal, and Veasey Bosweli, of 
Quebec. Report places the price paid therefor at $30,000. 
Many inquiries are made here for salmon fishing privi- 
leges, and some recent purchases are admitted to be as much 
for speculation as for anything else; and a pretty safe specu- 
lation it seems to be, I learn that several lessees of fishing 
rights from the Provincial Government, apprehensive of keen 
competition at the general sale of all these privileges, which 
will take place in a year or two, for another term of ten 
years, are making private arrangements for the extension of 
their leases. This has already been effected by some of the 
larger clubs, but only on the condition insisted upon by the 
Government of a substantial advance upon the amount of 
present leases. 
Mr, Elton expects to have another tussle with ouananiche 
this year, and another gentleman who is looking forward to 
the same sport is Mr. William A. Macleod, of Boston, a 
member of the Megantic Fish and Game Club, who was 
here this week on business connected with the Department 
of Fish and Game The feature of the ouananiche season 
this year is likely, from the number of inquiries received, to 
f e the presence at Lake St. .John of an increased number of 
English anglers. 
The new English "Encyclopedia of Sport" has ordered 
an article on ouananiche fishing from my friend and fellow 
angler Lieut -Cob Andrew C. P. Haggard, D. S. 0., whose 
contributions on the sport in the cohimns of the London 
Field have done much to familiarize it to English sportsmen. 
E, T. D, Chambers. 
Quebec, Canada, April 10. 
•NEW HAMPSHIRE FISH AND GAME 
INTERESTS. 
Chaelestows!-, N. H., April 13. — Editor Forest and 
Stream: When I sent you for the Oame Laim in Brief a, few 
days since the last revised edition of the New Hampshire 
laws, I had not time to call your attention to the changes 
made by the last Legislature, nor to the manner in which 
they were made; and as they may give some useful hints to 
the' lawmakers of other States, 1 will now comment upon 
them. 
In the first place, the people wisely elected two of the 
members of the Fish and Game Commission to the State Legis- 
lature; in the second, the presiding officers of the two bodies 
composing it made these Commissioners chairmen of the re- 
spective committees on fish and game legislation, so that 
Commissioner Wentworth was chairman of that body in the 
Senate, and Commissioner Hughes in the House. This in- 
sured us against any unwise laws, and secured some very 
wise amendments to the old code. To begin with the game, 
the open season for all upland shooting begins Sept. 15. It 
closes for deer on Dec. 15, and for ruffed grouse, woodcock, 
squirrels and all game, except hares and rabbits, on Jan. 1. 
flares, rabbits and muskrats may be shot until April 1. 
Killing of moose and caribou is entirely prohibited until 
1901, and also of deer, except in the three upper counties of 
Carroll, Grafton and Coos. 
Jacking, snaring, trapping or hounding deer are strictly 
proQibiteu in the whole State. 
These amendments do away with summer shooting and 
give the young birds and squirrels a chance to get their full 
growth. It has been a long fight to get it, but we hope it 
will stay now. 
The open season for lake trout and "winninish" is from 
April 15 to Sept. 15; that for brook trout, from May 1 until 
Sept. 1, except that they may be taken in the lakes of the 
above three named counties until Sept. 15, the same as the 
lake trout, and as the two species are found in the same 
waters it would be very diiBcult to have two close seasons. 
The close season on black bass is from April 80 June 15 ; 
that on fiike and pickerel, from April 1 to June 1. Ca^^ehing 
brook tjout/or sale is prohibited under a penalty of $300. 
Many lakes and waters in different parts of the S ate 
which have been stocked with trout, ba?8 or "winninish" 
have been closed against "fishing through the ice," and the 
Commissioners have been empowered to close any other such 
waters against such fishing for a period of not over five 
years on reasonable petition of the inhabitants of the towns 
in which such waters may be situated. These make the 
principal changes, and appear to leave our game laws iri 
such form that they will need no further changes for many 
years. 
1 am happy to say that I believe that respect for and ob- 
servance of the la^s increases annually, and that the heavy 
penalty imposed on market fishing may frighten such fel- 
lows as the one who was caught robbing the hatching brooks 
at Sunapee Lake to sell the trout to a Lowell restaurant. He 
was a fit companion for the man who killed the bison in the 
Yellowstone Park. The civilized world has no use for such 
people, and wo^W be the better if they could be shut up in 
prison. VoN W. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
The legislative session of 1897 has been a grand-'oneiin 
promoting the interests of fish and game in New Hamp- 
shire, and it is due largely to the sportsmen being organized. 
In the late fall the Pish and Game Commissioners invited 
delegates from each of the fish and game protective associa- 
tions in the Stale (and there is one in about; every county) to 
meet them at Concord and decide upon what legislation to 
ask for. They were well represented in both the House and 
Senate, and through the untjring efforts of Commissioner 
Wentworth, chairman of the Fish and Gime Committee of 
the Senate, and Commissioner Hughes, chairman of the 
House Committee, and the never failing assistance of Frank 
Battles, of Concord, they were able to secure all legislation 
mapped out by the conference. As Mayor Clarke, of Man- 
chester, remarked at the Hillsborough Cjunty Fish and 
Game Protective Association banquet the other day, "We 
ought not to ask for any more fish and game legislation for 
six years at least." It is just as important to have representa- 
tive men there to prevent legislation that we do not want as 
to secure what we do want. W., Jk. 
MASSACHUSETTS AND MAINE. 
Boston, April 17, — Monday, the 19lh, is a legal holiday 
in this State, and many of the trout fishermen will again try 
the pools and bag brooks on the Cape. Yesterday was 
Good Friday, and the Chamber of Commerce adjourned 
over, leaving a chance for some of the boys to try the trout 
streams and preserves. At Byfield, Tarbox and Bailey were 
out the othtr day, but the water was high and they look 
only two or three trout. E H. Wakefield, Jr., and K. O. 
Harding were down to Wakefield's preserve again, over 
Saturday and Sunday. They got a snowstorm on Sunday 
and could not fish at all. But early Monday the weather 
cleared and they got a dozen trout before leaving for home. 
At this writing the ice has not left Sebago Lake, and the 
salmon fishermen here are some of them disappointed, be- 
cause they had intended to spend the holiday Inere. The ice 
is still in Lake Auburn, while in trout lakes further north 
the ice is as sohd as it has been any time for the winter. 
The trout fishermen will have to be patient awhile longer. 
The guides estimate that the ice wdl leave Moosehead about 
the middle of May. Estimaces are various as to the clearing 
of the Rangeleys. They almost always clear a couple of 
days later than Moosehead. 
The Rangeley lakes have cleared of ice on the following 
dates during the past .seventeen years. The figures are all 
from a record kept by me, and published year by year in the 
FoKEST AND Stkeam. About all the Maine papers are now 
claiming the item, but their files will show. One paper 
claiming the item had never vp&de mention of, it up to live 
years ago. 
18^9 April 30 
)^90. ..May '9 
18j1 May 10 
IS'ta May 4 
1893 May SO 
1«04 May .3 
189.7 ...May 6 
1896 May 7 
lawr 
ISSO May 7 
1 81 May 9 
1SH<J May Vi 
IbSV May 14 
18S4 May 13 
Wib , May 15 
18:6. May 3 
1-87 , May 16 
1888 May ai 
If reports in the daily papers are true, the Maine Fish and 
Game Commissioners are not very sanguine concerning the 
new code of fish and game laws. A Lewiston, Me., special 
to the Boston Herald says that the Hon. L T. Carlton said : 
"That he feared that the Maine Game and Fish Commis- 
sioners, of which board he is chairman, will experience 
much trouble on account of a blunder in the game laws 
made in the last hours of the Legislature by the engrossing 
clerk. It was the original intention of the game commis- 
sioners to have the open season on moose begin Oct. 15. 
Through the efforts of counsel employed by the guides, and 
for no other reason except to please them, it was decided to 
have the open season on moose begin Oct, 1. This was done 
to pacify the guides, who say that moo-e cannot be called 
after Oct. 15. The bill, with this change, passed the House 
and Senate, and then the blunder mentioned was made by 
the engrossing clerk, changing the open season from Oct. 1 
to the 15th of that month." 
The guides are greatly incensed over what they consider a 
trick, and this, in conjunction with the registration law, has 
served to put them in a high heat. They say that they will 
not register. I know of one or two letters from well-known 
guides to sportsmen here in Boston, telling their patrons to 
come down the same as ever^ that they shall not register; that 
the J' shall guide the same as ever, and will make out no returns. 
In the Rangeley and Dead River regiocs, the guides are 
down on registration. The report mentioned above says 
that more than 100 guides in the Moosehead Lake region 
have organized themselves and taken an oath that they will 
not register. 
I have a letter from a guide, asking me what to do about 
registering. The letter is written in the interest of one or 
two other guides, as well as the writer. I shall advise them 
to register — to comply with the law. If it is obnoxious and 
unreasonable, as I now think it is, look out that it is re- 
pealed at the next session ot tne Legislature of that State. 
SpectaIi. 
Dead River Region Trout. 
Dead Rivee, Me., April 14. — Who says there is not good 
trout fishing in the Dead River Region? A party of three 
on April iS, at Otter Pond, near the Ledge House and 
cabins, Dead River, caught in fotu' hours' fishing 880 trout. 
J. G. H. 
