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VOL. XXXII. No. 22 
WHOLE No. 1348. 
[Entered accorcUna to Act of Congress, in tlie year 1876. by the Rural Publishing company. In the ofiiqe of the L'trurian of Congress at Washington.] 
aud game ia from “ Farm Talks ” in the New 
Hampshire Mirror and Farmer : 
We want fish protected, hut we want a 
different protection from what tho present 
law gives. As it is now, your sportsmen, 
and that means loafers in general, get all the 
benefit of the law, and of course the farmers 
aud land owners don’t feel just right about 
it. What we want is to have it established 
that fish are property and that the man who 
raises or protects them owns them. What I 
mean is this j—We need a law which makes 
land-owners the owners of fish raised on 
their land ; that is, if I own all the land 
under and around a pond all the fish in that 
pond should belong to me, aud if a dozen 
of us own it then the fish should beloug to all 
of us, and anybody who takes them without 
our leave should be punished just us much 
as if ho stole our sheep or our corn. Then 
there would be some object for us to have 
fish protected but now we who own the land 
and could, if we would, have the Jaw exe¬ 
cuted, have no peculiar interest in it. I am 
satisfied that with the right law all our fish 
ponds and eomo of our game swamps might 
be made profitable. As was said in the 
The following sensible statement of wha t ^ M irrior a while ago, we get a great deal of 
i needed in the way of laws protecting Lw^^fuoney out of our summer boardei3, and 
about the first thing a city man asks when 
he comes or writes to enquire about board¬ 
ing is whether there is good fishing near by ; 
and don’t you see if I could say to them, 
that poud and that trout brook belongs to 
me and nobody can fish in either without my 
permit, that I could fill my house every 
summer 1 But my neighbor would growl, 
you suy, because he would get no boarders. 
Suppose he does. lie might growl, too, be¬ 
cause my house stands on a bill and his in a 
valley, but that wouldn’t be any reason why 
i should uiiive down into the swamp and let 
him into my house. If he needs a fish pond 
let him buy it, just as t bought mine, and 
don’t ask mo to open my gates and bars and 
have my grass and grain trodden down, 
simply that his boarders may faro as well as 
mine. What is mine is mine and I want it, 
for I don’t love my neighbor as myself and I 
don’t love his boarders as well as l do him. 
A few years ago there was just the same 
foolish talk about berries being common 
properly chat is now about fish, and if a 
farmer objected to a orowd of strangers 
trampling dofvn his grass and stealing liis 
berries, they called him an old skinflint ; 
but it’s pretty well understood here now 
that berrils are private, property. 
coat rather inclined to be fine ; but still he is 
a grand dog, aud ( here is no doubt but Leo 
was one of the lions of the Show in more 
senses than one.” 
On showing the portrait of “Leo” to a 
friend, with the remark that we believed 
in Shepherd, Newfoundland and Setter dogs 
—the guardians of sheep, protectors uud ro* 
cuers of humans, and assistants of sportsmen 
—but were not in favor of whiffets and 
sheep-killers, he replied :—" Well, some dogs, 
a few, do good ; but so many do harm and 
are nuisances, that I would give a thousand 
dollars to have the entire canine race anni¬ 
hilated.” 
Another friend, to whom we have just 
read the above, volunteers the sage and sug¬ 
gestive remark that Good dogs are well 
enough, but dogs are generally so bad that 
it would be better to have none.” After 
which, adhering to our preference for Shep¬ 
herd, Newfoundland aud Setter dogs, we 
submit the matter to our readers without 
further discussion. 
A PRIZE NEWFOUNDLAND DOG, 
The admirers of the caniae race—and there 
are many in this country, judging from the 
recent vote of the people of Ohio against 
taxing dogs—will be pleaned to see the ac¬ 
companying portrait of “Leo,” the model 
Newfoundland dog that was awarded the 
first prize in his class at the recent Dog 
Show in Nottingham, England. The London 
“ Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic NewB,” 
from which our engraving is transferred, in 
it3 report of the Nottingham Show—which, 
by the way, comprised CIO entries of dogs of 
eight different braeds-gives prominence to 
the portrait of L?o, and says:—“ Class 13 
(Newfoundland) introduced to us a marvel¬ 
ously-large dog, called Leo, bred and exhib¬ 
ited by Mr. W. Coats of North Shields. For 
a dog of Ills stature Leo is extremely sym¬ 
metrical ; but we must Lake exception to the 
lower part of his head, which has the ap¬ 
pearance more of a retriever than of a New¬ 
foundland dog,: his ears, too, arc a trifle 
large, even for his immense frame, and his 
GAME LAWS 
