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ANCIERS* JOURNAL 



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POULTRY EXCHANGE. 



Vol. I. 



PHILADELPHIA, JUNE 11, 1874. 



No. 24. 



MR. MACDONA'S SETTER, "RANGER." 



The field trials at Shrewsbury just past will give interest 

 to the above portrait of Ranger, one of the most extraordi- 

 nary Setters that has yet been brought out at field trials, and 

 whose pedigree goes far to show that a good " show-bench " 

 pedigree and good field performances are by no means so in- 

 compatible as some would-be authorities would have us be- 

 lieve. He was bred by Rev. C. Macdona, by his Quince II, 

 from his Judy, and was whelped in July, 1872 ; he and his 

 own sister, Vagnol, also the property of Hh-$raerl«fta^!je*iffg : 

 the only two that survived out of a very promisi 



Ranger was first brought out as a puppy at the Spring Trials 

 at Shrewsbury, 1873, when he and Mr. Statter's Rob Roy 

 were put down together, when unfortunately being put out 

 by Rob Roy's starting a hare, both gave chase, Ranger show- 

 ing most extraordinary speed, but coming into call immedi- 

 ately, whilst Rob Roy did not turn up until the shades of 

 evening closed in. This unfortunate commencement of a 

 field trial of course threw tbem both out of the stake; but 

 lookers-on at the trial saw in the then puppy a dog of great 

 promise, and one that would be sure to make his mark, a 

 rtMt'hg«¥5SRS£#&#hen, in the following month of August, 

 jshed every one by his grand style of going, and his 



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