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HUNTING, FISHING AND SPORT. tana] year British fishing tackle manufacturers exported nearly four million dollars- worth of rods, baits and general angling tool to foreign countries. and in 1818 goods of the same kind of the value of 83.080.885. Of the latter amount goods worth .-885.075 went to British possessions and 81,040 W to foreign countries. Ben man is a most charming place, and a paradise for tin- BM fisherman. The grant charm a tout fishing ia Bermuda is that you never know What Mill are likely to hook. There ai" hundred.-. .1 varieties of fish, all of most brilliant colors, and they sre mostly creat fighters, and expert at diving for the rocks and cutting the tackle. Tie- "humpback." er Pacific, salmon has Ix-come acclimatized to waters outside the Pacific — in certain American rivers in eastern Maine, including the Deny* and Pembroke. The fish have spawned and eggs bare also been obtained from captured ftsn which had run up those rivers to breed. The humpback goes to the sea much earlier in life than the Atlantic salmon, and is said to die whin it has attained the age of two years. Psi ranching oa Prince Edward Island. Canadian province, i- growing, and it is estimated that about 5.000 will be shipiK-d from Chai lestown-Ihis spring. The prices range from ,000 each for silver fox skins down to S10 fur the cheapest reds. Ranchers are giving up the breeding of the cheaper grades of faxes, as they cist Jus I as much to feed as the others, and domesticated nii-. are now a rarity. Numbers of farmers are starting small fox ranches. An English angler, writing of the voracity of j. ike. relates this incident: "Here is an experience 1 had wh n fishiug the Rennet, below Newbury, a few years ago. I caught a pike weighing 1! pounds 2 ounces It was a Inn fish, and ir. first-rate condition. A post mortem examination reveWled the presence in the stomach of the remains i f a pig. probably a newly born inc. The head, neck and fore-quarters were more or less completely digested except for tin- bones. The hind quarters had hardly been affected at all by digestion. SO that identificati n I I the specimen was easy."
