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James I. Johnson, of Raleigh, who is widely 
known among sportsmen, says that in almost 
every case the disease brought death. It at¬ 
tacked the best dogs and did not usually trouble 
low-class ones. The result is that not a few 
sad-hearted sportsmen have lost their dogs. The 
disease killed bird dogs and hounds specia ly 
and Dr. James R. Rogers, whose hunting place, 
Lake Mishew, six miles from Raleigh, is well 
known, lost some fine foxhounds, but has enough 
left to make a good pack. Dr. Rogers takes a 
great deal of pleasure in entertaining sportsmen 
at this place and also at Raleigh. 
Dr. John J. Mills, of Pleasant Valley, N. Y., 
who in years past has done a lot of hunting and 
who is one of the Forest and Stream chi.dren, 
has leased for the winter Pine Ridge, the coun¬ 
try home of Henry E. Litchford, the president 
of the Chamber of Commerce, this place being 
six miles from Raleigh and in the midst of a 
delightful country, where shooting grounds lie 
all about. Fred. A. Olds. 
Accidents. 
Milford, Conn., Nov. 16 .—Editor Forest and 
Stream: Forest and Stream’s advice to keep 
an eye on the gun did not do any good in this 
case. Kenneth E. Smith, son of G. Frank Smith, 
with a comrade shooting squirrels, wounded one 
and then used the butt of his hammerless for a 
club to finish the squirrel. The gun was dis¬ 
charged and blew a hole through his thigh close 
to the hip, making a fearful wound. Will hun¬ 
ters ever learn that a gun is not a club and 
dangerous at all times? 
Harvey H. Hammond, game warden at Mil¬ 
ford, found a buck deer lying dead in an open 
field. The warden skinned the deer wh'.ch was 
yet warm and found no traces of any gun 
wounds or bruises. The State warden ordered 
the meat buried, as it might have been poisoned. 
This makes the third deer killed in the last year, 
and the second one in that vicinity, the other 
being shot and the antlers broken off. F. S. D. 
New Publications. 
The Cruise of the Snaric, by Jack London. 
Decorated cloth, 340 pages, illustrated, $2 
net. New York, The Macmillan Company. 
A few years ago the author, accompanied by 
his wife and a small crew, set out to cruise 
around the world in a small boat. The start 
was made from San Francisco, and the voyage 
ended in the Solomon Islands. London went to 
Australia for medical treatment. All hands had 
suffered from fever and various ailments ere 
the expedition was abandoned. London says it 
was a happy voyage, and indeed the narrative is 
in the main one that may be read with pleasure 
and profit. As for the rest, it might well have 
been omitted, for it is of no interest to anyone 
but the author, and possibly his companions. In 
the first place, the yacht was all wrong; it leaked, 
its auxiliary engine and its fittings worthless, 
and pages are devoted to condemnation of every¬ 
body and everything connected with its build¬ 
ing, its equipment, and the long-delayed start. 
Foreign readers will gain the erroneous impres¬ 
sion that Pacific coast shipwrights and machin¬ 
ists know nothing of small boat building. In 
short, the book is padded with matter that does 
not furnish good reading. On the other hand, 
the illustrations are rather good, but the book 
in the main is disappointing. 
Australasian Fly-Casting Championship. 
One of the Sydney papers which has been 
sent us contains the following account of the 
fly-casting tournament: 
The final event in the Australasian fly-casting 
championship tournament was contested at Cen¬ 
tennial Park on Saturday afternoon under hard¬ 
ly favorable weather conditions. There was a 
stiffish breeze blowing from behind, and a Lttle 
to the right of the competitors, rather more than 
was pleasant, for the line was frequently blown 
out of bounds, and in many cases the best ef¬ 
forts of the contestants were thrown away. In 
this competition, wet-fly casting for distance, the 
competitor has to cast his fly between two float¬ 
ing lines 12 feet apart. Should the line touch the 
water or any obstacle behind the competitor, no 
score to be allowed. H. J. Solomon was the first 
to compete, and cast beautifully, his back cast¬ 
ing being particularly fine. He lifted at times 
as much as no feet of line, which was by no 
means an easy performance, considering the 
wind. His best cast was 120 feet 2 inches. In 
last year’s championship Mr. Solomon’s best was 
100 feet 4 inches and, although his performance 
of Saturday was a very great improvement, it 
was still far short of what he has been doing 
in practice, as only last week he dropped his fly 
time after time at 130 to 135 feet. C. H. Gorrick 
came next, and without any apparent effort, es¬ 
tablished a new Australasian record, his casting 
being exceptionally clean. He came off the punt 
some minutes before his time was up, being 
satisfied with his achievement. His longest cast 
was 129 feet 9 inches. H. K. Anderson fol¬ 
lowed, and put in a few fairly good casts, but 
was unfortunate in getting his line caught in 
the fixtures on the punt, making a nasty tangle, 
which required some minutes to straighten. The 
wind seemed to get hold of his line and drive 
it down behind, causing a number of “no casts.’’ 
His best cast was 117 feet 1 inch. J. Scoular 
then faced the judge and worked very hard, lift¬ 
ing a long line and making very clean back casts, 
but did not succeed in reaching the 100 foot 
mark. Dr. H. L. Maitland, who up till now held 
the Australasian long distance championship with 
i2g feet iji inches, was next to compete. His 
casting was very consistent in the neighborhood 
of 120 feet, and at times he lifted as much as 
112 feet of line off the water. His best cast was 
124 feet 9 inches. H. J. Ackland cast next, in 
his usual good style, handling his line very nice¬ 
ly, particularly his back cast, his line being 
thrown high in the air. He would have done 
much better had he kept up his rod point in 
the forward cast. As it was, the line fell on 
the water before the full benefit had been ob¬ 
tained from the shoot; his best was 103 feet. 
H. O. Chidgey was last to compete: his style was 
vigorous, and his back casting very fine, indeed. 
Several times the wind blew his line out of 
bounds. He made the very commendable score 
of 120 feet 7 inches. In the second round H. J. 
Solomon was unable to improve his former per¬ 
formance, and no one having beaten him, Mr. 
Gorrick did not compete again. H. K. Ander¬ 
son added three inches to his total, making 117 
feet 4 inches. Dr. H. L. Maitland raised his 
score to 126 feet 6 inches and H. J. Ackland 
improved by 3 feet 7 inches, reaching 106 feet 
7 inches. The final figures were: 
C. H. Gorrick, 129 feet 9 inches (5 points in 
the aggregate), longest cast 1910 championship 
109 feet 7 inches, first; Dr. H. L. Maitland, 126 
feet 6 inches (4 points in the aggregate), longest 
cast 1910 championship 113 feet 3 inches, second; 
H. O. Chidgey, 120 feet 7 inches (3 points in 
the aggregate), third; LI. J. Solomon, 120 feet 
2 inches (2 points in the aggregate), longest cast 
1910 championship 100 feet 4 inches, fourth; H. 
K. Anderson, 117 feet 4 inches (1 point in the 
aggregate), longest cast 1910 championship 108 
feet 7 inches, fifth. 
Fry Planting Not Favored. 
Commissioner N. R. Buller, of the Pennsyl¬ 
vania Department of Fisheries, has issued the 
following statement: 
With the growth of population comes not only 
the pollution of streams, but an increasing de¬ 
mand for food supply. When the first settlers 
came to Pennsylvania there was one person to 
take fish; in these days the number is multiplied 
many times. With the drain upon the streams 
for fish and the multiplication of destructive de¬ 
vices, the normal increase of the fish in the 
streams fails to keep up the fish supply. Science 
has shown that by artificial propagation the num¬ 
ber of eggs hatched and grown to a plantable 
size is many times that of natural propagation 
where the eggs and young fish are exposed to 
so many enemies. Hence arose in the United 
States Government and in the States the depart¬ 
ments for the ’artificial propagation of fish, and 
from the work of these departments experience 
shows that much success has been attained in 
increasing the number of fish in the waters. 
One of the most notable evidences of this is 
in the whitefish in Lake Erie where only a few 
years ago the fish supply had become so de¬ 
pleted that the whitefish were not considered 
worth fishing for. By the efforts of the United 
States and State departments in propagating 
these fish, the supply in Lake Erie has been so 
.much increased that not only has whitefish, be¬ 
come profitable for the fishermen, but it is fur¬ 
nishing the people with a very valuable food 
supply. 
The Department of Fisheries of Pennsylvania 
had its original conception in a commission which 
did valuable work for a number of years until 
1903, when the commission was succeeded by the 
department. The work of the department is to 
supplement the work of natural propagation so 
much that the fish supply in the waters of the 
Commonwealth shall be so supplemented that 
this valuable food supply shall once more be¬ 
come an important factor in the economy of 
the State. To accomplish this work it is the 
desire of the department to bring the hatcheries 
to the highest state of efficiency, and to be able 
to raise such a number of fish that the people 
of the State will appreciate the fact that the 
