Siift. 13, 1899.1 
FOREST AND S'mfilAM. 
2B1 
The Old Home Haunts. 
There's a sound that rings in my ears to-day, 
That echoes in vague refrain. 
The ripple of water o'er smooth washed clay 
Where the wall-eyed pike and the black bass play, 
That makes me yearn, in a quiet way, 
For my old fly-rod again. 
. Back to the old home haunts again, 
Back where the clear lake lies; 
Back through the woods' 
Where the blackbird broods, 
Back to my rod and flies. 
T'm longing to paddle the boat to-day, 
Throught water-logged grass and reeds; 
Where the muskrat swims and the cat-tails sway . 
Where the air is cool and the mist is gray ; 
Where ripples dance in the same old way, 
Under the tangled weeds. 
Back on the old oak log again, 
Back by the crystal brook; 
Back to the bait 
And the silent wait, 
Back to my line and hook. 
I wish I could wade by the water's edge, 
Where the fallen leaves drift by; 
Just to see, in the shadow of the ledge. 
How dark forms glide, like a woodman's wedge. 
Through driftwood piles and the coarse niarsh sedge, 
And to hear the bittern cry. 
Back where the tadpoles shift and sink, 
Back where the bullfrogs sob; 
Back just to float 
In the leaky boat, 
Back to my dripping bob. 
Fxzttfres. 
BENCH SHOWS. 
Sept. 19-21.— Rutland, Vt.— Vermont Kennel Club's inauguraiJ 
show. 
Oct. 2-6.— Dallas, Tex.— Texas Kennel Club's second annoaS 
bench show. Sydney Smith, Sec'y. 
Oct. 3-6.— Danbury, Conn.— Danbury Agricultural Society's eight- 
eenth annual show. G. M. Rundle, Sec'y. 
Oct. 10-13.— Providence, R. I.— Rhode Island State -Fair Asso- 
ciation. E. M. Oldham, Supt. 
Nov. 15-18.— Philadelphia, Pa.— The Philadelphia Dog Show As- 
sociation's first annual bench show. Marcel A. Viti, Sec'y. 
Nov. 29-Dec. 1.— New York.— American Pet Dog Club's show. 
S. C. Hodge, Supt. 
FIELD TRIALS. 
Oct. 23.— National Beagle Club's tenth annual trials. G. Mifflin 
Wharton, Sec'y. 
Oct. 25. — Haipton, Conn. — Connecticut field trials. John K. 
Bassett, Sec'y, ^ew Haven. 
Oct. 31.— Greene Co., Pa. — ^The Monongahela Valley Game and 
Fish Protective Association's fifth annual field trial. A. C. Peter- 
son Sec'y. 
Nov. 7.— Washington C. H., O.— Ohio Field Trial Club's trials. 
C. E. Baughn, Sec'y, 
Nov. 8-9. — Lakeview, Micb. — Michigan Field Trial" Association's 
second annual trials. E. Rice, Sec'y. 
Nov. 12.— Bicknell Ind.— Independent Field Trial Club's first 
Annual trials. George D. Maxfield, Sec'y. 
Nov. 14.— Chatham, Ont.— International Field 'Cnal Club's tenth 
annual trials. W. B. Wells, Hon. Sec'y. 
Nov. 14-17. — Carmichaels, Pa. — Central Beagle Club's fourth an- 
nual trials. T. W. Simpson, Sec'y. 
Nov. 17.— Newton, N. C— Eastern Field Tnal Club's twenty- 
first annual trials. Simon C. Bradley, Sec'y. 
Nov. 21. — Lawrenceville, 111. — Illinois Field Trial Association's 
inaugural trials. O. W. Ferguson, Sec'y. 
Nov. 28. , Mo. — Missouri Field Trial Association's third 
annual trials. L. S. Eddins, Sec'y. 
Dec. 8.— Newton, N. C— Continental Field Trial Club's trialsr 
^hos. Sturges, Sec y. 
1900. 
Jan. 22.— West Point, Miss.— United States Field Trial Club's 
annual trials. W. B, Stafford, Sec'y. 
Feb. 5. — Greenville, Ala. — ^Alabama Field Trial Club's fourth an- 
nual trials. T. H. Spencer, Sec'y. 
Tbe Rangfeley Lake Screen* 
Boston^ Sept. 16. — The newly organized Rangeley 
Angling Association gave a dinner in honor of the Maine 
Fish and Game Commissioners, at Rangeley, on Mon- 
day. Messrs. Carleton. Stanley and Oak were present. 
The primary object of the meeting seems to have been 
a hearing before the Commissioners in regard to screen- 
ing the outlet of Rangeley Lake, to prevent the fish from 
going down into the other lakes of the chain. It will be 
remembered that Rangeley Lake is the uppermost of the 
five larger lakes of the Rangeley system. For a long 
time most of tlie restocking, with trout and salmon, done 
by the State, through the Conmiissioners, has been in 
Rangeley Lake. The Commmissioners have repeated!}' 
stated that they put the fry into Rangeley Lake on the 
theory that the mature fish would distribute themselves 
in the lakes below. Under the same theory there is a 
law of the State requiring fishways at ever}' dam. The 
law of fish migration, so far as understood, is that tlie 
parent fish seek the uppermost waters to breed, and 
that the young go down as they grow. Rangeley Lake 
interests have for a long time been jealous because of 
the fact, or possibility, that the lakes below were getting 
some of their fish ; that is, fish hatched by their in- 
dividual association as put in by the State. Hence comes 
the petition to the Commmissioners for the screen and 
the hearing. Report says: "There being no opposition, 
the Commissioners grant the request of the petitioners. ' 
"There being no opposition!" A gentleman interested 
in the lakes below says that he knew nothing about the 
hearing, and he is ready to guarantee that others knew 
nothing about it. The president of the dinner occasion, 
after the Commisioners had reported their decision, said 
that $1,000 ought to be raised then and there to pay for 
that screen; and about $500 was actually raised. 
Special. 
The First California Salmon Caught in the 
St» Lawrence River. 
Cape Vincent, N. Y., Sept. 11. — Editor Forest and 
Stream: The first full-grown California salmon ever 
known to have been taken in the upper St. Lawrence was 
caught by Mr. Arthur C. Gardner, of Cape Vincent, N. Y., 
yesterday afternoon, Sept. 10. The fish was caught 
trolling with a common pickerel spoon bait, not far 
from the freight house of the R., W. & O. R. R. at 
Cape Vincent village. It weighed loj^lbs., and measured 
27in. in length and i65^in. around the body. Its stomach 
was full, containing a fish of the shad family Sin. long, 
and two minnows, which were too much decomposed to 
be identified. The fish was in prime condition and ap- 
peared to be in perfect health. It was a very handsome 
specimen. 
The United States Fish Commission has planted Cali- 
fornia salmon in very considerable numbers along the 
Atlantic coast in the vicinity of the mouth of the St. 
Lawrence, and has also planted several millions in Lake 
Ontario. It is consequentlj* a question, and a very in- 
teresting one, whether the individual just caught came 
up the St. Lawrence from the ocean or came down from 
Lake Ontario. 
It is an established fact that the stomach of the Cali- 
fornia salmon begins to shrink when the fish leaves the 
salt water on its way up the fresh-water rivers to de- 
posit its spawn, and soon becomes incapable of receiving 
food. No California salmon that had been to the ocean 
was ever found 300 miles above tide water, as this fish 
was, with any food of any size in its stomach, or with 
its stomach in normal condition. The fact then that the 
stomach of this fish of Mr. Gardner's was in normal 
condition and full of food seems to indicate that it 
came from Lake Ontario and not from the ocean. 
The- village of Cape Vincent is situated at the head of 
the Thousand Islands of the St. Lawrence, where the 
waters of Lake Ontario, narrowing at this point, form 
the St. Lawrence River. 
The scientific name of the California salmon is On- 
corhinchus tshawytscha. Livingston Stone. 
Carp in California. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
Under the above heading is a note in the Sept. 9 issue of 
Forest and Stream that does great injustice to the Cali- 
jfornia fishery authorities and conveys an entirely erro- 
neous idea regarding the carp. Your correspondent says : 
"The most successful effort at propagation yet noticeable 
in the State has been the supplying of the Sacramento 
River with carp and catfish. * * * The carp are good 
for hog feed and fertilization, but other fish have other 
various virtues that most people would prefer." 
The eft'orts of the California Fish Commission to in- 
crease the fishery resources of the State by the intro- 
duction of non-native species have not been equaled by 
those of any other commission. Why should your corre- 
spondent mention only the carp and the catfish as the 
principal acclimatized fishes, ignoring the phenomenal suc- 
cess M'hich has attended the introduction of the black 
basses, various trouts, the striped bass, the shad and 
other fishes? 
With regard to the food value of the carp, there are 
few fish that are not "good for hog feed"; but the im- 
plication that carp are fit only for such purpose is wholly 
imaginarv. As is well known, the carp is one of the most 
extensively eaten fishes in the United States, the annual 
sales being upward of 5,ooo,ooolbs. In California the carp 
is not in much favor as a food fish, but the catch for 
market in the past decade has been over i.ooo.ooolbs., 
with a value to the fishermen of more than $20,000. The 
sales in San Francisco alone during that period were over 
Soo.ooolbs., according to official reports. Perhaps the 
chief value of the carp in California is that it is the prin- 
cipal, and at times the exclusive food of the introduced 
striped bass, which is af. abundant . in l;he Sacremento 
basin as in any iocality on the Atlantic coast 
S. M H. 
Washington, D, C ^ 
Mr. F. L. Wright stjids us from Geneva, O . a photo- 
graph showdng the result of one day's hunt iti Hartsgrove, 
O.. hj which they shot forty squirrels. 
Oh, it's just like this on each thisty day, 
It's always the same old pain 
That struggles and pulls in the same old way 
To carry me off for a little stay 
By the waters' edge, in sticky clay, 
To fish in the falling rain. 
Back to my long black rubber boots, 
Back to the old patched coat; 
Back t*o my rod 
And the breath of God — 
Home — and my leaky boat. 
— F. Colburn Clarke in Scribner's. 
Tarpon and Shark. 
J. Morris and Loren Hill (guide) had a peculiar ex- 
perience with a tarpon and an immense shark near Punta 
Gorda. While they were playing a very large tarpon a 
shark came ud and bit a half-moon weighing about lolbs. 
out of the tarpon's belly. This killed the tarpon, but 
before it could be gaffed and pulled in the shark took out 
another half-moon a size larger. As they were hauling 
the tarpon aboard the shark bit off the tail, equaling one- 
third the length and about one-fourth the weight of the 
fish. The part that was left weighed i64lbs. They beat 
the shark over the head with the oars. The fish would 
have been a record breaker, and would have weighed 
about 22olbs. The scales were preserved and measured 
yA'ni. by 43^in. — Savannah News. 
Parasites in Fish. 
New York. — Editor Forest and Stream: I have fished 
more or less summers in New Hampshire lakes, and 
have found a large per cent, of black bass taken weighing 
lib. or more infested by tape worms. It has spoiled my 
appetite for black bass, though some people eat the afflicted 
fish just the same. I should be glad to know if this is 
something common to the fish or peculiar to the locality: 
rf such fish are a safe article of food, and if there is not 
danger in drinking the water of the lakes where they live. 
R. D. M. 
New Hampshire's Dry Brooks, 
Charlestown, N. H.— Sept. 12.— Lovely autumn 
weather up here, but the country completely "dried up." 
The trout have suffered severely. There will be few left 
in some of the brooks. Von W. 
NOTICE. 
The New York Clearing House has adopted new regulations 
go\erning the collection of checks and drafts on banks outside of 
the city. This entails a collection expense on those who receive 
such checks. Our patrons are requested, therefore, in making 
their remittances to send postal or express money order, postage 
stamps, or check or draft on a N-^w Vork city banK or other New 
Vork current funds. iLL ii - 
A 6ft alligator crawled out of the little lake at the south end of 
Central Park, New York, Thursday, and badly frightened the 
women and children in the vicinity, some of whom imagined 
that it was a sea serpent. They were reassured, however, by one 
of the attendants, who explained that it was only a pet alligator, 
which somebody had gotten tired of and had surreptitiously slipped 
into the lake as the best means of getting rid of it. Every effort 
to catch the 'gator when it comes out of the lake for a promenade 
has proved a failure, and the Central Park authorities now propose 
to go fishing for it. Giving inconvenient and undesirable "pets" 
to city parks is a favorite method of disposing of animals that have 
become '"elephants" on the hands of the owners. But the keepers 
and guardians of municipal menageries have long since cut their 
eye teeth with regard to such matters and have learned to beware 
these Greeks bringing gifts. How the owner of the New York 
'gator managed to smuggle his 6ft. pet into Central Park lake 
without detection it is difiicuU to understand, unless he paid some 
of ihi' atiendanrs handsomelv for the privilege. — Baltimore Sun, 
A former Sul>ari — so runs the story— oifered a goiden bali for 
lying. Many lied to^ him, but the Suiian replied that he could 
himself lie better. Finally an aged man^ from Angora appeared 
before him with a large jar oa his shoulders "Your father," he 
said, "borroved a jar like this full of gold from inv father, and 
said' that you would repay the gold to his son " "Impossible," 
said the Sultan. "It the story be true," replied the pilgrim, "pay 
vour father's debt; if impossible, I have won the ^Iden ball." The 
^ultaa at once awarded him the prize,— London Truth. 
Manitoba Field Trials Club's Trials 
As has been the case at nearly every trial held at Morris, 
Man., birds were plentiful, although there was much less 
available land, the encroachments or agriculture resulting 
in larger and larger areas of wheat field where once 
was open prairie and good chicken ground. 
Handlers and dogs had ample time to rest and prepare 
for the contest, there bing a good interval of time since 
the trials at La Salle were concluded. 
The dogs were given good opportunities for competi- 
tion, birds being plentiful enough for that purpose. The 
grass was very heavy in places, which added to the labor 
of the dog's work and also made a difficulty for the 
judges, as in the heavy grass the dogs were hard to see; 
but the sections where the cover was less heavy were kept 
to as much as possible. 
Among the visitors was Mr. James L. Breese, of New 
York, who years ago was an active member of the East- 
ern Field Trials Club. There were also Major J. M. Tay- 
lor, of New York; C. E. Buckle, of Charlottesville, Va, : 
S. C. Bradley, of Greenfield Hill, Conn.; J. M. Avent and 
D. E. Rose, of Tennessee; A. S. Code. A. C. Reed, E. 
Hamber, W. C Lee. J. Lemon and W. C. Denison. of 
Winnipeg; J. Wootten and W. C. ElHs of Manitou, Man.; 
E. H. White, W. S. Cottingham and Miss Blanche Cot- 
tingham, of Brandon, Man., and Mr. Flynn, of San Fran- 
cisco. 
The judging was done by Mr. W. W. Titus, of West 
Point, Miss., who has had much experience in the mat- 
ters of field trials, and he gave gratifying satisfaction to 
the competitors. 
The Deffey. 
There was a good support in the way of entries, and 
consequently there was a good trial. The Derby had 
twelve starters, the All-Age had twenty-one. The quality 
of the dogs was also of a good grade. 
The Charlottesville F. T. Kennels' 1. and w. pointer 
dog Mahdi (Tippoo — Queen of Kent), C. E. Buckle, 
handler, with E. H. White's b., w. and ticked English set- 
ter bitch Manitoba Prairie Bird (Brighton Monk— -Mani- 
toba Belle), Wm. Pickering, handler. 
John Wootton's b. and w. English setter dog Star 
Bondhu (Dick Bondhu II. — Bonnie Lit), owner, handler, 
with D. E. Rose's (agt.) 1. and w. pointer dog Brant 
(Von Gull— Baby Ruth), D. E. Rose, handler. 
W. Gould Brokaw's 1. and w. pointer dog Fairview 
Tom (Sir Walter— Van's Pride), R. Storey, handler, 
with the Charlottesville F. T. Kennels" 1. and w. pointer 
dog Dervish (Tippoo— Queen of Kent). C. E. Buckle, 
handler. 
W. Gould Brokaw's b. and w. English setter bitch Mis- 
fortune ( -Queen), R. Storey, handler, with Avent 
& Duryea's b., w, and t. English setter bitch Sioux 
(Count Gladstone IV.— Hester Prynne), J. M. Avent, 
handler. 
Avent & Duryea's b., w. and t. En^ish setter bitch Ute 
(Count Gladstone IV.— Hester Prynne), J, M. Avent, 
handler, with D. E. Rose's (agt) b., w. and t. English set- 
ter bitch Minnie W. (Dude B.— Miss Bessie), D. E. Rose, 
handler. 
D. E. Rose's (agt.) b., w. and t. English setter Bona 
(Tony Boy — Christina), D. E. Rose, handler, with Avent 
& Duryea's b.. w. and t. English setter dog Victor (Val 
Lit — Maid of the MbonX J. M. Avent, handler. 
First Round. 
Mahdi and Manitoba Prairie Bird began the competi- 
tion, commencing at 7:35 in the morning. The range of 
both was irregular and lacking in methodical judgment. 
They worked well to the gun, however, and both had 
good speed. Bird first made a point and nothing could 
be found to it. Sent on, she made a finished piece of work 
on a covey, locating and pointing it steadily and behaving 
well to wing Mahdi riiade a bad showing on birds, first 
flushing a covey and then several singles, with an inclina- 
tion toward unsteadiness. 
Star Bondhu and Brant carne next. They were cast 
r.tt at 8:16. Each flushed a part of a bevy as a starter. 
They were narrow rangers and showed poor judgment in 
beating out their ground. Brant was steadying to a point 
