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FOREST AND STREAM 
This club maintains an artificial pond in which 
they propagate young fry and fingerlings, re¬ 
ceived from the State and Federal governments, 
until of a sufficient size to be placed in Pleasant 
Lake, at Elkins. The club members are indebted 
to Commissioner Beal for furnishing the small 
fish for this purpose. It is understood to be 
Commissioner Beal's policy that those sections 
of the State which are disposed to help them¬ 
selves in propagating fish and caring for fish 
furnished by the State should be given all the 
aid that is possible in their endeavors. 
Another subject which was discussed at the 
meeting was the evident lack of deputies and 
detectives properly to protect the fish and game 
Interests, and it was thought that more money 
should be appropriated for this purpose. 
INDELIBLE DOG BRANDING. 
New York, June 15th, 1914. 
Editor, Forest and Stream, City: 
Dear Sir.—I want the help of Forest and 
Stream to accomplish a great reform that will be 
welcomed by the legions of people who love 
man’s best friend, the thoroughbred dog. 
The writing of this letter is prompted by the 
following circumstance that happened two days 
ago at Babylon, L. I. 
A gentleman living there was fortunate enough 
to raise an exceptionally fine litter of Airedale 
Terriers, born in early March. Several experts 
agreed upon one dog as being the best of the 
litter. Two days ago the enclosure was entered 
and this one dog was stolen. Not two dogs or 
three dogs; but this one that gave promise of 
being a great dog. The selection could only have 
been made by a connoiseur of the breed, and this 
dog with a faked pedigree (probably attributed 
to one of the present champions) and a dimin¬ 
ished age, will undoubtedly be winning blue rib¬ 
bons at coming dog shows. 
And the owner has no redress; no way to pre¬ 
vent the fruition of the theft. 
But there is a way to prevent such a thing, 
and I want Forest and Stream to find the prac¬ 
tical way to apply the remedy. 
Let every breeder of a thoroughbred dog upon 
registering him with the A. K. C. mark his 
registered number upon the skin of the under¬ 
body in some indelible manner. 
If some method of doing this could be found, 
a great many abuses would be prevented and the 
owner of a thoroughbred dog need no longer 
fear thieves. Some device which would permit 
the A. K. C. to give with each registration cer¬ 
tificate the indelible number to affix to the dog, 
would be ideal. 
If Forest and Stream c an discover the practical 
way to do this, I predict that the A. K. C. in a 
short time will require all dogs benched to be 
plainly and distinctly branded with their regis¬ 
tered number. 
EDWIN MAIN POST. 
DOGS CAN BE MARKED. 
Albany, June 12, 1914. 
Editor Forest and Stream- 
I have your letter of June 9th in reference to 
branding dogs for identification. I note your 
suggestions in reference to method of marking 
and rather question the feasibility of using nitrate 
of silver as you suggest. 
I am not sure but a tattoo method might be 
more effective and less likely to prove objection¬ 
able for humane reasons. There is at the present 
time a method of marking cattle in the ear by the 
use of tattoo mark which is quite effective. The 
instruments for this purpose were put on the 
market by F. R. Stevens of Geneva, N. Y., for 
marking larger animals and I see no reason 
why they could not be made applicable to dogs 
also. 
There is also in use among some of the horse 
owners, particularly in New York City, an elec¬ 
tric pencil arrangement which indelibly writes on 
the skin any number or inscription wanted. This 
has been used on the inner side of the lower lip 
of the horse with success. I am unable to give you 
the name and address of the concern that is man¬ 
ufacturing this latter instrument, but expect to 
have it shortly, as a representative called at this 
office recently with a view of getting this De¬ 
partment to adopt this method. If you are inter¬ 
ested in this particular matter "I shall be glad to 
send you the address of the concern as soon as 
it becomes known to me. 
While I have not given the subject much 
thought I am of the impression that the tattooing 
scheme would be more satisfactory than branding 
or even the use of the electric pencil. 
Regretting that I cannot give you a more 
satisfactory reply and assuring you that I shall 
be glad to furnish further information if it comes 
to me, I am, 
J. G. WILLS, 
Chief Veterinarian. 
ROD & REEL CLUB OF NEW BEDFORD. 
New Bedford, Mass., June 6, 1914. 
The fly-casting contest held by the New Bed¬ 
ford Rod and Reel club at Buttonwood park to¬ 
day was a great success from every point of 
view. A large gallery watched the events. A 
heavy wind interfered with scores. 
The contest included'three events, casting for 
distance, casting for accuracy, and bait casting 
for distance. In the distance casting event S. O. 
Davis acted as timekeeper and A. L. Simmons as 
referee. 
In the distance casting match Dr. William H. 
Thayer cast the fly 67 feet, Dr. Lester F. Potter 
68 feet and Edwin R. King, 55 feet. Dr. Garry 
DeN. Hough in “warming up’’ put the fly 60 feet, 
but his best cast was 58% feet. Owing to the 
heavy wind Dr. William G. Potter cast only 42 
feet. Mr. Chapman, who is the holder of a gold 
medal for accurate casting from the National 
Fisherman’s association, cast the fly 87 feet. 
Four times he cast beyond the 8o-foot mark. 
Three disk targets at 30, 40 and 50 feet for 
accuracy resulted as follows: 
Mr. King 98 1-3 per cent.. Dr. Hough 97 8-15 
per cent., Dr. Thayer 98 3-5 per cent., and Dr. 
Lester F. Potter 97 4-5 per cent. Following this 
match a wonderful exhibition of accurate cast¬ 
ing was given by Mr. Chapman. 
The last event was a bait casting contest. Dr. 
Hough won with a distance of no feet, Dr. 
Thayer was second with 103 feet. 
FLY CASTING FOR DISTANCE. 
1st. 
Dr. L. F. Potter 
68 ft. 
2nd. 
Dr. W. H. Thayer 
67 ft. 
3rd. 
Dr. Garry De N. Hough 
58% ft. 
FLY CASTING FOR ACCURACY. 
1st. Dr. W. H. Thayer 98 3-5 p. c. 
2nd. E. R. King 98 1-3 p. c. 
3rd. Dr. L. F. Potter 97 4-5 p. c. 
BAIT CASTING DISTANCE. 
1st. L. D. Chapman, Average 5 Casts, 92 ft. 
2nd. Dr. W. H. Thayer, Average 5 Casts, 87 ft. 
3rd. Dr. Garry DeN. Hough, Average 5 Casts, 
78 ft. 
SURF CASTING. 
1st. Edward R. Slocum, Average 5 Casts, 128 ft. 
2nd. Dr. Wm. G. Potter, Average 5 Casts 114 ft. 
ST. LOUIS FLY AND BAIT CASTING CLUB. 
The St. Louis Fly and Bait Casting Club will 
hold a tournament, June 14th, at 9 A. M., in 
Forest Park, foot of Art Hill. Following events 
will be cast: 
% Oz. Accuracy— 
% Oz. Distance—• 
% Oz. Accuracy—Fishing Tackle— 
% Oz. Distance— “ 
Fly Accuracy— 
Fly Distance—- 
Visitors Welcome. 
H. J. STEINMESCH, 
Secretary. 
CASTING 
ON ROCKS 
LAKE. 
Below are 
scores 
made June 
7th at Rock’s 
Lake, probably the 
last time we 
will enjoy the 
hospitality of 
this 
true angler : 
and casting en- 
thusiast. We 
hope, 
however, to 
have our new 
maltese cross 
“pool 
1” ready for 
a big time on 
the “4th.” 
% oz. Acc. 
% oz. Acc. 
Meier . 
. 99-2 
98.4 
McLean .... 
. 99 
99 
Anderson ... 
. 99 
96.4 
Bramhall . .. 
.98.9 
Doyle . 
. 98 
98.9 
Robirds . 
. 98 
97.8 
Crittenden .. 
. 97-6 
97.6 
Clark . 
. 97-5 
97.2 
Rock . 
. 974 
98.3 
Kerner . 
. 97-4 
97-5 
McCoy . 
.96.9 
94-9 
Wilson . 
.96.6 
98.2 
Cheny . 
97.8 
Harris . 
98 
Moad . 
. 95-9 
97.2 
LaBoce . 
. 94-2 
97-3 
Parker. 
96.8 
Motley . 
96.8 
NEW JERSEY FISHING. 
Madison, N. J., June 7. 
When James C. Bellingham, a former game 
warden, stocked Still Brook here last fall he 
did not know whether or not the trout would 
do well, but investigation shows that the fry 
have grown to a length of eight inches. Charles 
Brannick made a catch of ten nice fish there 
last week. 
The brook, a new one to trout fishermen, runs 
through the thickest kind of underbrush and is 
exceedingly hard to fish. 
With the closing of the season for the dis¬ 
tribution of trout in New Jersey streams about 
the middle of June, the State trout hatchery at 
Hackettstown, N. J., will enjoy the distinction 
of not only surpassing in success all other similar 
