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require, to Jas. McKee, Jr., Edwards street, Land Co., N. Y. 
they will receive by return mail some nice fresh roots. Should 
a car-load be desired, I think it could be furnished on short 
notice and on very reasonable terms. I think, however, par- 
ities would display wisdom by hunting up some other remedy 
for their dogs before stocking their land with this grass. 
Very respectfully, D. C. McKee. 
Uuptukb in Puppies. — Mr. M. P. McKoon, of Franklin, 
©el. Oo., N. Y., the well known breeder of cocker spaniels, 
writes us as follows : 
“I saw in the last issue of your paper inquiries as to what 
to do for ruptured puppies. Physic the pup and then feed on 
light liquid food for four or five weeks. After physicking 
shave the hair about the rupture and apply a sticking plaster, 
and in eight cases in ten the pup. will get well and sound.’ 
Ned.— N ed, the property of W. H. Pierce, of Peekskill, 
has claims for beauty and size. Ned is out of pure Uilder- 
sleeve Flora, by One-eyed Sancho, and is two years old. His 
dimensions are as follows: Height at shoulder, 23in.; from 
itip of nose to root of tail, 46$in.; around chest, 83m.; length 
■of head 11 tin.; eurs from tip to tip, lflin. In ordinary con- 
dition he weighs 791bs.; carries a very high head and is pure 
white with orange and white ears and three small orange spots 
on body ; has black eyes and nose, and is beautifully feathered; 
hair straight and wavy. Ned has never been exhibited in 
public, but is called by every one who has seen him a remark- 
ably fine animal. 
Visits— Brooklyn, March 13, 1878.— Fisher & Bickerton' 
ced Irish setter bitch, Belle Mead, has visited Dr.Wm. Jarvi 
rhampion Elcho. 
Pocahontas — Rob Roy.— Mr. II . II. Winslow’s (Kokomos, 
lud ) Pocohoutas, by Rock out of Dora, visited by Mr. Bur- 
ges’ Champion Rob lloy, on the 12th inst. 
much earlier than usual, and the catch indicates a good sup- 
ply . — Capo Ann Advertiser, April 19. 
Connecticut — The troutlng season in Connecticut opened 
brilliantly on the 15th, and the anglers were out bright and 
early on the streams that brighten tho iron-rusted .mountains 
about old Salisbury. The Lakevillean9 were out in full force, 
and there were more big fishers on More Brook than big trout 
to comfort them, though it is saiil that Dan Ashman caught 
150, some weighing a half pound, and we can guess what sort 
of fingerlings the other sum were. Arthur W. Benson, the 
veterau angler from Brooklyn, was also about. Our resident 
artist, Sherman Pease, caught forty-two nice ones, in the 
upper part of More Brook, that filled his 91b* creel, and he 
didn't fish but half a day at that. He reports that the brook 
is alive with young trout (last fall’s spawning), and that tho 
fishing was not so good for many years as now. The 10,000 
lnnd-locked salmon placed in the Twin Lakes, or streams that 
enter them, are as lively as griggs, and take the feed wo throw 
to them daily like veterans, as they are bound to be. 
Druid O'Salisbury. 
RnoDE Island— Newport, April 20. — Scup are now taken 
in the bay. Coot. 
A String of Trout.— If we cannot go ourselves and cast 
our lines iu the rippling waters and catch our trout, at least 
our friends do not forget us. Wo have then to thank Mr. W. 
Holbertou, of No. 117 Fulton st., for a dozen very handsome 
trout caught by him on Saturday last in Long Island waters. 
Adirondaoks. Trout fishing i9 now good at the Eddy, 
Number Four, and in Crooked Lake. 
— Chas. E. Cunningham, of Boston, claims the name of 
‘Marius for his lemon and white English setter dog pup, by 
*Gen. Ely’s Speed out of Mr. Hardy’s Daisy. 
and |jf iter fishing. 
FISH IN SEASON IN APRIL. 
Speckled Trout — Salmo /ontinalU. Land-locked Salmon— Sal-mo yloven. 
v White Perch.— 
FLIES FOR APRIL. 
Black Gnat, or Midge. — No. 13.— Body and feet black, wings 
8l DAnK al CLARET Gnat.— N o. 13.— Body dark claret, feet black, 
^Buio^Olaret Gnat.— No. 13,-Body bright claret, mixed with 
red fox face, feet ginger, winge of one Bex hyaline, the other ocher- 
°* Gray Gnat.— No. 13.— Body dark fox, mixed with dark claret, 
feet crav, wings hyaline. , . . _ .. 
Dark Fox.— Nos. 10 or 11.— Body and feet dark fox, mixed with 
lemon colored mohair, winge subhyaline, tail three fibres of dark 
^Man’s Fly.— Noe. 9 and 10,-Body and feet, hare's ear 
and yellow mixed, winge slightly mottled gray, tad the mottle or 
lh OLrvE d G-Nyr. — No. 13.— Body dark olive, mixed with bright 
Cla S Fox.— ^08.' io'and 'll^-Ikidy fox cub face, mixed with yel- 
low, feet red (chicken red), wiDgs pale gray or eubhyaline, tail 
mottled feather wood duck. ..... . , 
Bright Fox.— Nos. 10 and 11.— Body and feet brightest part of 
the fox, mixed with yellow, wings brightest hyaline, t«U pale yel- 
10 Blaok Hackled Fly?— Nob. 9 and S.-Body orange, ribbed with, 
gold tinsel, hackle blaok wings, tail of the American partridge. 
GENERAL FLIES. 
Iris— No. 8.— A haokle fly, ribbed with silver tinsel, body hackle, 
8.— Body peacock herls, hacklo black 
““ORA? Palmer. -No. 8. -Bodv peacock lierl, dark gray hackle. 
Professor. — Nos. 8 and 9.-Body bright yellow, feet golden 
brown, wings wood duck and mallard, dyed yellow, mixed, tail scar- 
^OuEEN of THE Water.— Nob. 8 and 9.— A liaokled fly ; body 
orange ribbed with gold tinsel, hackle chicken red, wings bright 
mnt.tle of the mallard. , , , , , 
Grizzly King. -Nos. 8 and 9.-A hackly fly ; body greon, haokle 
dark gray, tail Hoavlet ibis, wings mottled feather of tho pin-taiL 
Fish in Market— Retail Prioes.— 1 The new arrivals at 
Fulton Market this week have been sea bas3, blueflsh, weak- 
fish and kingflsh. Mackerel are very large and abundant, 
ghad not plentiful, those from the Connecticut River being 
very scarce and the prices high. The most remarkable speci- 
men wo have seen for a long time was an odd looking creature, 
brought in by the mackerel fishermen, who explained that it 
Tiad been caught in their nets. It turned out to be a fine speci- 
men of the tree-climbing iguana, which hud been procured 
from a South American ship. The reptile, when we examined 
him, had that woe-begone, down-in-tbe-mouth look of the 
hungry tramp, far from home and in a strange land. We 
■may in future look for weekly quotations of fresh iguana, 
just in from South America. Our quotations are as follows : 
Striped bass, 20 cents ; large do., 15 ; smelts, 10; blue fish, 
18; frozen salmon, 25; green do., 75; mackerel, large, 15; 
do. small, 10 ; Southern shad, 30 ; native, 40 ; Connecti- 
cut River, 00; weakflsli, 15; white perch, 15 ; Spanish mack- 
erel, 35; green turtle, 12; halibut, 121; haddock, 6; cod- 
fish, heads off, 0; do., heads on, 5; black -fish, large, 15 ; 
small do, 10; porgies, 15; sea boss, 20; eels, large, 
dressed, 18 ; lobsters, live, 8 ; do., boiled, 10 ; slieepsheads, 
20- turbot, 20; scallops, $1.50 per gallon; soft clams, per 
100,30; do., large, GO ; whitefish, 15; pickerel, 15; salmon 
trout, 18 ; Long Island brook trout, $1 ; hard .crabs, per 
100, $3 ; soft crabs, per dozen, $1.75. 
Movements of the Fishing Fleet.— Receipts of halibut 
quite liberal ; 13 Bank arrivals with 585,000 lbs. Georges 
fleet bring in light fares ; arrivals for the week being 18, and 
receipts 100,000 lbs. Mackerel have put in an appearance 
Greenwood Lake Association.— The Greenwood Lake 
Association, having purchased the property of the Greenwood 
Lake Sportsman's Club, now possess one of tho most beautiful 
and accessible sites for a club house iu tho vicinity of New 
York City. It proposes to erect a substantial building on the 
shore of the Lake for the accommodation of its members. 
The house is to be 40x22ft., with a’kitcheu aud servants’ 
quarters #n the rear, and connected with the main building by 
a covered passage way. The club has a membership of about 
twenty-five, the .trustees being C. Olcott, A. L. Roe and N. 
C. Cooke, to whom parties desiring memberships are respect- 
fully referred. 
Camping Out on Barnegat. — Mr.JQ. V. Kiuscy, of the 
Ashland House, Barnegat, N. J. , has made arrangements to 
provide visitors this*comiug fishing season with tents for camp- 
iog out. When the Barnegat waters abound with blueflsh Mr. 
Kinsey’s tents will be well patronized. The fun will begin 
some time in J une. 
Ashley House, Barnegat Inlet, April 23.— First blackflsh of 
the season caught to-day. O. Parker took fifteen in one alack 
water. 
Pennsylvania — Bradford, April 20.— Trout are very plenty 
here, catches of from 100 to 300 are made every day ; the fish 
run small, few over 1 pound. Tuna. 
Angling About Philadelphia.— The Philadelphia Sun. 
day Post has opened a “Rod, Reel and Buskcl " column, 
which is filled with fresh, newsy and original piscatorial 
news From it we*learn that large chub are biting freely at 
Spread Eagle Station on the Bound Brook Railroad ; Camden 
anglers catch catfish, eels and perch at Knickerbocker wharf, 
foot of Market street ; Vine street wharf, for large catfish ; 
Federal street wharf, in the railroad depot, catfish, eels and 
perch. Newton Creek, on tho Haddonfleld pike, is a favorite 
place for catching sunfish, perch and roach, the usual bait 
being the red worm. Fly fishermen, go to the Riffles at and 
below the Darby Creek dam— rockflsb, perch, sunfish aud 
chub The fishing at Young Womanstown, mouth of Young 
Woman’s Creek, and up the stream, is within convenient dis- 
tance for the Philadelphians, and has been often extolled by 
us. 
White Perch Taking the Fly.— J ust now, andtfuring the 
greater part of next month, the white perch (Morons amcri- 
cana) will be on their spawning beds. Along .the shoals of 
the Delaware River, and especially iu the Potomac among the 
rocks, which extend from Ead's Mills to Little Falls, a mile 
or more, are famous spawning beds, and there the finest kind 
of fly fishing is enjoyed in the spring. The white perch also 
takes the fly in early, fall, although it is strictly a ground 
feeder and a bottom fish. It is a marine species, feeding on 
minnow, crab and peeler crayfish. The veteran John Krider, 
of Philadelphia, says : 
“ In reference to the white perch taking the fly : At Better- 
ton the fishing there is in deep water, from twenty-five to 
thirty feet deep, and they will not rise to the fly ; hut aloDg 
shoals of the Delaware River and sluice gates, my friends 
have often taken them with the fly in the months of August 
and September. We have been making a white fly, imitating 
a grub ; also ‘a red fly, which has proved very successful. 
The fly has also been used for chub or fall fish." 
Mr. Petrie, a well-known angler in Washington, D. C., 
were the black bass. Our misprint was due to pure careless- 
ness on the part of tho writer, and he deserves a reprimand. 
We thank our brother editor for calling our alteution to it, 
and we hopo E. ’1’. 1\, of Washington, whoso address is mif- 
laid, will note tho correction. For full description of the 
pike-perch uud Us locul Bynonyms see “ Hallock’s Sports- 
man's Gazetteer," pages 272 and 319-23 . — Ed. 1 
Tennessee — Columbia, April 20. — The past week has been 
a lively one for anglers amt fish. Eight parties have gone 
from here to the many trout streams, ami met with Success. 
One party went to Swan Creek, aud fished for a Germau sil- 
ver reel. The following score shows who won : Ed. Hill, 40; 
C. L. Gordon, 23 ; A. M. Hughes, Jr.. 9 ; G. P. Webster 
39 ; Mr. Wheat, 20 ; II. P. Webster. 7. The largest weighed 
3 jibs. A purty at Lick Greek caught 00 ; another, at Tennes- 
see River caught about 200, the largest, a cattish, lfllhs., sev- 
eral trout, G.Jlbs. Mr. Horsley, editor Herald and Mail, was 
one of this party. He is a true disciple of old Izaak. A 
party from Ml. Ploasaut, after three days’ fishing on Big Big- 
beo, returned with 00 trout, largest, 4}lbs. A garfish, weigh- 
in£ lClbs. and measuring 4ft. 4in. in length, aud ft cal nan, 
weighing 40ihs., were tftken from ft trot-lino in tho river 
here last week. A friend and myself, in two clays' fishing ou 
Buffalo Creek, returned with 75 trout and pike. Vai,. 
Louisiana— /xiA-a Charles, April 10. -Piscatorial sports aro 
splendid ; plenty trout ami other fish caught lu our lake. 
W . M. 
Michigan — Detroit, April 20. Perch fishing never better 
tliun now. Jno. Loy caught a siring that weighed 394 pounds 
in about four hours this morning, some of them would weigh 
14 pound each. In the morning when I come up town 1 
meet hoys and men with poles of every Imaginable shape on 
their way down to the copper docks. Druid. 
Onto — PainesvilU, April lO.-Somo baas being caught in 
Grand River. Thero would bo excellent fishing wore it not 
for unlawful pounds and nets at the mouth. 
says : • 
“ I have caught thousands of them here at the Long Bridge 
•with a fly iu imitation of a “miller." I make or dress them 
mv 9 elf with a common white hen’s feather, with a little 
white or yellow worsted for a body. About dusk and after 
dark is the best time. You must draw the fly slowly along 
the edge of the water where the fish are supposed to be. n 
will not do to make the fly dance on the top as for trout nsn- 
io 2 but just sink about an inch below the water and keep 
moving. I fish with three flies, but seldom get more than 
two fish. Hook very small, with plenty of feathers on wing. 
"Susquehanna Salmon— In your reply to E. T. 1 ., Wash- 
ington, D. C., asking about Bpecies of salmon in busquelianna 
at Harrisburg, you say they are the blac/c bass. This is in- 
correct. They are the pike-perch or wall-eyed pike. Please 
mad# correction next week. A. r. Clapp, 
Sptg. Ed. Sunbury Gazette. 
We did not need to be informed by the editor of the Sun- 
bury Gazette that the so-called Susquehanna salmon are the 
pike-perch or wall-eyed pike, though our types did say they 
Kilby's Catalogue.— We would recommend our friends 
in th# Provinces to send to Mr. R. II. Kilby, of Montreal, for 
bis catalogues. These pamphlets arc gottou up In excellent 
style (there are three of them), and they run through th# 
whole sorics of sportsmen's goods. Nothing is wanting. If 
Canadian fishermen cannot find at Kilby’s what they want 
they must be Indeed hard to please. All cricketing Imple- 
ments are included in tho catalogues. 
One Luoey Plucky Man. — Mr. Chas. F. Orvis, of Man- 
chester, Vt., says : “ I never was so busy before. Have more 
than I can do. My San Francisco trade is far beyond my ex- 
pectations. I am about enlarging my works so as to bo able 
to HU orders more promptly. I think the Forest and Stream 
has done much to contributo to my prosperity, for which I am 
very thankful." 
Wind-fish.— Several correspondents in this State have kindly 
replied to our inquiries for information ns to what is locally 
known in this State ns tho “wind-fish," or “win-fish." 
It is also called a chub, but is in reality one of the Snlmomdes 
known as Argyrosamus artedi (Gill), and nearly allied to tho 
Coregoni. It is known popularly as the lake herring. Mr. 
O. Van Brunt, of Poughkeepsie, says : 
“The win-fish (not wind-fish) is found iu the strenms empty- 
ing into the Hudson* more especially Wallkill, I' mhkill Creek, 
Wappingers, and although possessing all the characteristics of 
the ordinary chub of the North, they are slimmer ’, whiter 
scaled, more vigorous, frequent swift waters, and afford 
better sport, and are belter eating than the chub P r °P®^ 
They rarely reach one pound in weight, although occasion- 
ally they are caught over this weight in a large stream like the 
Wallkill. They” average n few ounces. Catching tins fish 
with a grasshopper for bait in tho Fishkill Creek was tho 
delight of my boyish days." 
Mr. J. W. Griggs, of Paterson, N. J., says the flab Is 
known os the whitefish in the northern part of that State. Ho 
does not know why it should be called “ wind -fish." Never 
heard it so called until lost Hummer, when lie was at Ramapo 
River, Rockland County, N. Y., at which time he took them 
weighing two pounds ; lias heard of weighing os high as tlirce 
pounds. [An extraordinary fiBh.— F.n.] He says: 
"They rise well to a liy on a dark day, and fight very 
pluckilyf The best lly iu summer is a whito ninth, or any 
white tty. The best bait fur them is called dough halt, 
being white cotton kneaded into wheat dough. It ^ory 
and very taking. These fish aro sometimes taken in 
lakes ’ I caught one in Lorrilard's Lake, in Orange Cminty, 
lust August, weighing one and a Half pounds. I w “ 
for black bass, and was bailing with black crickets. They 
bite well, also, on white grubs." 
Here, also, ia a very interesting letter from G. S. Vr.n 
Sicklcn, editor of Bysshe and Bysihing : 
New York, March 30, 1ST*. 
Wlnd-flsU appears to he a local name lu Orange County, N.Y. I ueror 
heard It used^elBOwhcre, hut the ash Is ». chub 
mft n V tt .n or fifteen years ago In tho headwaters of N. Q. Willis 
■■ M'oodna * Creek, In Cornwall, when throwing a fly for ^ “ 
2KTS SSSiS. and Montreal fly. Prohab.y on others gruMhop- 
Inoatchlng grasshoppers for the next .lay’s flBhlng. The sight of half 
L dotn of us hopplog urojnd ,n the meadow in frontof tho house used 
^r^^iorS'grasshopper. Is before the dew Is off ,u the 
morning, when you will Uud me nimble Insect, numb and still, and 
easily taken. Another good way la to coax a lady, with ample Ormo- 
nde and white skirt, to walk over fresh cut stubble, or a new mown 
fleld wh ue you revolve around her an l pick off the hopper-, which 
seem to be attracted by the whiteness. Hoppers, you know, always go 
for the light, and the best way to keep them, after you have caught 
thorn, is in a dredging box. Cat a square hols la the rlru of tho cover, 
and another in the lop of the cup part, turn the cover till tho two hole* 
