Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-04-28
FORREST AND STREAM.


the fish in the great lakes at the East By
the recent storms, and large numbers o
dead fish have been found on the shores.
Deer are plentiful on the mountain slopes
of San Louis Obispo. A lad has taker
over fifty pelts in the interval from las
fall The way to make deer plentiful fol
every body is for verybody to obey tn,
laws Pacific Life.
City Forester Doogue, of Boston, says
that during his six years in office ne never
caught European sparrow eating a cater
| pillar, and, what is worse, native birds
have been driven from the Common by the
pugnacious foreigners.
The Greek fishermen who were arrested
Sunday morning for fishing between the
hours of midnight Saturday and noon Sun
day were acquitted in Judge Cox's Court
on Friday night. They were fishing fol
founders and not for salmon Vallejo
Chronicle.
The Reno Gazette says that the other day
man caught sixty pounds OF trout al
Glendale with hook and line. Some Of
them were very large. At the same time
an Indian caught twice as many with q
spear. This ought to be stopped Indian
or no Indian.
On the % ult. the Colusa Spertsmen'i
Club was organized at that place, with the
following officers for the ensuing year
President, Geo. w. Bassford Vice Presi
dent, W.. B. Dejarnett; Treasurer, G. R.
Cutter; Secretary, Robert Murdoc Stew
ard, r. Jameson. The club ID in excellent
hands, and we wish it success. Bassford is
just the man to be at its head.
At the recent election of officers of the
Grass Valley Sportsmen's Club, the follow.
ing were chosen NJ. Byrne, ST., PIesi.
dent; Nj. P. Stone, Vice President Geo.
Fletcher, Secretary Henry Scadden, Jr.,
Treasurer l. w. Hays, Jr., w. r. Bird
and S. G. Hare, Directors. l. w. Hays
and Geo. Fletcher were elected as delegates
to the State Association, which meets at
GilroY on the Sd of May,
A pond for raising carp has recently been
made by the Bennett Brothers on their
farm three miles southeast of Oroville, and
stocked with two-year. old fish from Theo-
dore Fischer's hatchery, near Oregon City.
There are a large number of farmers in va
rious parts of the State constructing carp
ponds and the raising of this delicious fish
viii soon be far more common than at
present, as it combines pleasursble en-
ployment with that of assured profit.
VIM. Proud. the gardener of Rancho
Chico, says the Chico Enterprise, tells us a
nice story of deer's leap. He had fenced
off part of the park, and the grass had
grown so well within the inclosure as to
tempt the deer to raid upon it, which they
did Mr. Proud came upon them in their
marauding excursion and drove them out.
They jumped the fence easily, and one of
them at a leap, straightforward and not
side ways, landed on the other side TWEEN
ty four feet from track to track, over a
fige-foot fence.
In answer to Constant Reader, Sac
ramento, California. the american Field
gives answer to question as follows
The Pacific Coast Kennel Club have
made classes for field trial settlers,
Llewellin settlers and Laverack set
tiers, at their show to be held the last of
this month. Please state the exact blood
limitations of the field trials. Also, is
there any difference between the field trial
and Llewellin settlers Ans.-There is no
difference between the field trial and Lew.
ellin settlers. Dogs which were once known
as field trial settlers are now known as
Llewellins notably, Leicester, Dart, Druid,
Drake, Doll, Dimple, Queen Nab, the Lei
cester-Darts, and in fact all the early i'm
portations of this strain and their progeny.
There has been an effort to make distinc-
ton between the so.called field trial and
LIewellin strains, but no satisfactory line
can be drawn, since no reasonable defini-
ton can be given by which they can be d.
vided ia two separate groups.
The Marchese Csrrega owns park near
Parma, says the Pail Mall Gazette, in which
he rears pheasants. One day last autumn
Signor SAM, walking near the park, saw a
pheasant rise and fired at it. The bird fell
within the park and he left it there. Two
or three days later Signor SAM, who ap-
pears to have been in luck, repeated the
experiment, and this time the bird fell
into the road Signor SAM picked it up
and was at once confronted by a keeper,
who summoned him, notwithstanding that
he offered to give up the spoil. TIE case
has just been tried, giving occasion for very
long and very subtle arguments. Is a
pheasant domestic animal? If 30, does
it never cease to become a domestic ami
NAL? Does it not become public property
when it flies across high road? As public
property is not any one justified in shoot
ing it? Any way, was not Signor SAM
acting in good faith when ne shot this par
ticular bird Who was to prove that if
left to itself it would have returned to the
Marchese Carrega? And SO on. The trial
lasted all one day, and finally the magis-
trate pronounced that a pheasant leaving it's
breeding place or preservereturns ipso facto
to it's natural condition of wild animal,
and may therefore be shot by any one who
comes across 1t.
The following very charming bit of nat
ural poetry as coming from the mouth of a
rough fisherman of Narragansett Pier is
worthy of record. 1t occurs in the report
of the United States Fish Commission, and
was elected by Professor Baird in answer
to the question, "Did they 1.-THE sque-
teaguel come much earlier than usual to
Point Judith this year ?" The fisherman
replied about the same. They ex-
pected them in February and got the seine
ready They had them in the water in
March. always judge by the dandelions !;
when I see the first dandelion the soup
comes in. l watch the buds, and when the
buds are swelled full then our traps go in.
When the dandelion goes out of bloom and
runs to seed the soup are gone. That is
true one year with another, though they
vary every season. l am guided by the
blossoms of other kinds of plants for other
fish. When high blackberries are in bloom
we catch striped bass that weigh from
twelve to twenty pounds when the blue
violets are in blossom-they come early
YOU can catch the small scoos. bass. That
has always been my rule. That has been
handed down by my forefathers. There
is something quite pretty in the idea of a
Fisherman taking his cue from flowers and
berries-a floral calendar, as it were. Mr..
Frederick w. True, commenting on this
testimony, which be publishes in Notes and
Queries. calls it "the folklore of flowers"
The Society for the Prevention of Cru.
city to animals, of Cincinnati, recently
caused the arrest of Charles Eckert, men,
Der of the club, for shooting live pigeons
from the trap. A great interest has been
felt in the result of the trial, as the sports
men Of that CITY had decided to give grand