Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-04-14

extensively under cultivation and their
natural food thereby lessened, and the
streams are more cleared of their shelter
ng brush margins, which afforded them
protection and hiding, especially during
breeding season. The law, meantime, has
been in their favor, but has not been OBJ
served, and now that it has been changed,
they will stand even less show for main
| tanning presence with us.
There are come anomalies in the devel-
| opment of salmon which are not as yet well
understood. A writer in "Black woods
| Magazine" presents in an interesting way
these pecullarities. How is it that in two
| eggs deposited by the same fish zone be-
comes smolt and seeks salt water twelve
months earlier than fish born from the
other egg?" Or, to put it in another way,
"of the same brood one moiety has re.
manned in the ponds from the date of
Matching as parr, weighing probably an
ounce, while the other meiety, having az
tanned to the scales of the smolt, have gene
| off to the sea and have returned as grilse
of the average weight of six pounds.
The trout fishing season in New York
opened April LIST. A few sportsmen cast
their flies, but the great body of the anglers,
who are already on the ground, awaited
until Monday. The streams ON Long
Island inhabited by the inuy favorites are
mostly owned by the moneyed men of New
York, who, it is estimated, have 81 900, 600
invested in front runs. Among Tire per-
sons controlling these streams are William
81. Vanderbilt, Austin Corbin, George
Lorillard, August Belmont, William Floyd
Jones, Mr.. Wagstaff, Mr.. Sutton, Judge
Smith, Mr.. Southland, Mr.. Phelps and Mr..
Irne.
British pigeon.shooters, it is reported,
are already turning their attention to sub.
| stitutes for live birds at the traps. The
gyrating clay pigeons meet with the most
favor on account of their swift and erratic
flight, and because their breaking to pieces
when struck by the shot not only gives in
slant and indisputable evidence of their
being struck, but affords pleasurable ex-
element moreover, the fragments are not
injurious to cattle and barefooted boys, as
is the case with the splinters of glass balls.
Pigeon shooting from the trap has been
abolished in England. This is the enter
ing wedge toward the prohibition of
hunting with the gun and the final exclu-
sion from the field of all sports. "This
toting gun and tramping over the
fields all day is duced bore anyhow, you
know"
Wisconsin sportsmen, like those of Cali
fornia, are troubled with want of CO.
operation in having game laws or an
effective system of game protection adopted,
and, as in our own State, they have en-
gagged in much talk, and no effective move
ment has been made in the proper direc-
ton.
The Pacific Coast Kennel Club will hold
bench show in San francisco, commenc.
ing April 9th and ending May Sd. Sew
eral fine dogs will be exhibited from Sac
ramento, among them being Messrs. Post
and Chipman's Irish settlers.
An international gun trial will take
place about the l4ta or 18th of November
next. Grounds near New York city have
been selected for the purpose. The con.
test will be principally between the ham
mer and hammerless guns.
Trout-fshing in New Zealand already
affords excellent sport, the newcomers
having been introduced from Europe into
| the island. Trout of six and a quarter
pounds are now common. They rise readily
to the fly.
The Belgian Academy offers prize of
! 5000 for the best treatise on the destruc.
ton of fishes by the pollution of rivers.
| Those competing for the prize must send
ia their work before October, 1855
Levi Davis, of Forestville, Cal, recently
| drew the water from one of his small fish
ponds, of less than one-quarter of an acre
in area, and found over 10. 900 carp. He
asks, How is that for fishing p
A salmon whitefsh weighing 60 pounds
was received in Milwaukee one day last
week. It was caught at Escanaba. A
6-pound whitefish was taken out of its
stomach.
A crowd of Brandon, Miss, boys went
out hunting rabbits recently, and bagged
ninety.five. They set fire to an old sedge
field and shot them as they ran out.
The Manistique, Mich, Pioneer accuses
one j. D. Garnett of going out and killing
deer with a pitchfork.
Queen Victoria will open in person the
International Fish Exhibition at South
Kensington next month.
Deer hunting is favorite sport of some
of the young ladies of Centerville, Tenn.
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