Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-08-28


tion to stop the quarrel about the handi-
Gaping rule, and it has done SO. 1t has
returned the State Agricultural Society its
5000, and viii now conduct the tourna-
ment of September on its own account. In
doing this il has done we'll The members
have acted in a manly spirit, and there are
none who can deny them the credit of
sincere desire to advance sporting interests
on this coast. The club will have its shoot
in Agricultural Park on Tuesday, Wednes-
day and Thursday of Fair week. We trust
the gentlemen who protested against the
Foresters rule and appeared before the
State Board and asked for the 5000 to be
given to a committee to aid in State
shoot viii 90 on and succeed We sincerely
desire their success, and will do all that IS
proper to aid it, and we feel confident that
the EoresterS will not be backward III the
matter either There are sharpshooters
enough, expert wing shots IN plenty, to
have both matches full, and even then
both together viii not equal in numbers
some of the great Eastern tournaments.
BY all means, gentlemen, go on, both OF
you, Forester's and independents alike,
and let US have such a volley Of good shots
IN Fair week as has not yet been seen upon
the coast. By the way, that viii be the
right time in which to form the State Asso
citation. Why not hold meeting to issue
a call and take preliminary steps, say
on Thursday night OF Fair week?
Carr. CULTURE IN. EURoPE.-In Europe
many thousand acres of artificial water are
to be found In these enormous quantities
of carp are bred. Some of these ponds, or
rather lakes, have an extent OF about l, 600
to .. 900 acres. They are provided with 81
gantic dams, many of them sixty feet high
By these the water IS closed in, into broad
vallies, containing no other fish than carp
from four to five pounds in weight. II we
consider the size of these lake-ll ponds,
surrounded by enormous dams which are
overgrown with oak trees 100 to 800 years
old, series of three and more of these lakes
being not uncommon, then we can form
some idea as to the remuneratlveness OF
these establishments. particularly IN BO-
hernia. The standard establishment with
regard to the most extensive business
transactions is found in Austria. The
Prince of Schwarzenberg possesses more
than $50 ponds of large size, the smallest
having about ten acres, the largest 2,000
acres water extent. We find many vii
lagos where ponds of 30 to 200 and more
acres are maintained at the expense of the
community. The carp likes above every
thing else vegetable matter such as
cabbage. lettuce boiled potatoes, corn,
turnips, pumpkins melons, etc. The re-
fuse OF malt from breweries and distilleries
is also very good food for carp ; and where
ever such refuse can be had it should be
given to the fish. The small pisciculturst,
having pond of perhaps one or two acres
near his house, will often be able to feed
his fish on refuse, as he viii always nave it
fresh from the kitchen and stable. Pond
carp are accustomed to other food than
the river-carp. The former confne
themselves 10 worms, Larvae, and
plants, while those living in streams
find all sorts of animal and vegetable
refuse these latter can also stand great
amount of food, as the current naturally
makes them take more exercise, thus in
creasing their appetite 1t is different with
the pond-earp; If you give 1t too much
food, it will not take any more than Is nee
.essary to satisfy its hunger; the remnants
will remain at the bottom, ana if their
quantity be considerable, they will spoil
the water. If these remnants are chiefly
animal refuse, as flesh or blood, fungi will
grow on them, and will then produce, as
with the salmon and trout, diseases OF the
~.
sometimes internal diseases.
THE DESTRUCTION OF GAME FooD.-So
long as America continued In the occupa-
ton of the aborigines, the order OF nature
was apparently but little disturbed. The
buffalo and deer, the wild fowl and turkeys
furnished abundant food to the savages
without serious encroachment upon the
fertility of nature. In savage life there
L
destruction of the natural means of sup
port. 1t was reserved for the civilized
white man to carry on wanton war
against the bounty of nature, and to kill
and destroy, without thought or study OF
those imperative laws under which nature
holds in trust the food supply of man. |
From the first settlement of the country
the process of Graduating and annihilating
the useful animals, birds and fishes natural |
to the country, has been carried on with |
an energy and success but too characteristic
of the Saxon race. Large tracts of land have
been entirely depopulated OF their animals
and useful birds. The buffalo on his
native plains has become an object of rare
curiosity. Deer are limited to the re-
moter mountain ranges or extensive tracts
of barren woods. The wild fowl which
swarmed in New England during the first
settlement of the country, and for long
time afterwards, have almost disappeared.
The last wild turkey was killed IN Massa-
chusetts nearly half century ago. There
is probably no sportsman living who has
killed a grouse on Martha's Vineyard, the
last refuge in the northeast OF that most
valuable bird. Plover still migrate, though
In diminished numbers, from their breed
places in the far north to their winter
homes in the south, but they carefully
avoid the northeastern coasts No one IN
this generation has seen a wild swan
alighting on the waters OF Massachusetts.
They once abounded there. Even the
wild geese find no resting.place here, but
are expelled as if they were tramps and
vagabonds. Il William Minot, in Interna-
tional Review for August, 1880.
STEEPLEcHAsING.- the Sportsman we
find the following; J. S. Cattanach, the
owner of Judith and other steeplechase
horses, said q cordially welcome the
proposition to raise the standard of weights
IN hurdle races and steeplechases, and also
to set up obstacles IN place of the present
ridiculous hurdles and fences sufficiently
difficult to make the contests interesting as
spectacles to the sightseers, as well as cal
culated to give us a class OF bold and capa-
BILE Jumpers. / am satisfied that owners
Of horses viii probably, without single
exception, be in favor of an Immediate
adoption of the suggestion. AS the case
now stands we have lot of lads riding
over timber who are not cross-country
horsemen at all, while men who are good
horsemen, but have, unfortunately for
themselves, made flesh too fast, are CON-
PEELED to stand down on account of the low
scale on which the weights in races are adj !
justed. Personally l am in favor of
fixing the lowest weight to be carried by
any animal in these races at 100 pounds,
and the highest $50 pounds. We should
then, I know, be still 10 pounds below
the English scale, which is formed on a
limit OF l40 pounds, but at present l am
inclined to think that the scale / suggest
would meet the case. The so pounds diff |