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accurate scent at the great Grouse Field Trials at Bala, when 

 he won the first prize, beating all the Setters that ran against 

 him, including all the cracks of the year — Mr. Purcell Lle- 

 wellin's, Mr. Lloyd Price's, and Mr. Statter's best dogs. 

 He won also the first stakes in the braces, along with his 

 kennel companion, Squire, and a picture of this part of the 

 proceedings was engraved in the Graphic the week following, 

 representing Ranger backed by Squire. This wonderful 

 performance on grouse was, if possible, excelled by his work 

 at the field trial held in the following month on the property 

 of Colonel Tomlin, M.P., near Ipswich, upon partridge, 

 where he lowered the flag of other cracks, including Mr. 

 Barclay Field's representatives. His performances as a field 

 trial dog were so far above what is generally witnessed at 

 field trials, that his spirited owner, along with Mr. Lloyd 

 Price, the owner of Bella, felt justified in challenging the 

 Americans to an international match, inasmuch as they 

 owned the two champion field dogs of England — Banger 

 amongst the Setters, and Bella amongst the Pointers. This 

 challenge has been accepted in an equally spirited manner 

 by the American nation, and Sir "Watkin W. Wynn, of 

 Wynnstay, has most liberally placed his vast shootings in 

 Wales at the disposal of the committee of the Kennel Club, 

 of which H. B. H. the Prince of Wales is patron, for the 

 international match. Messrs. Guion & Co., the owners of 

 the transatlantic line of steamers, called, after their name, 

 the Guion Line, have also been carried away with their 

 patriotic enthusiasm in the matter, and offered, through Mr. 

 Macdona, a first-class passage to Europe and back to the rep- 

 resentatives of the American nation and their dogs, and also 

 to the representatives of the English nation (to be selected 

 by the Kennel Club), for the return match on American 

 ground next year. Nothing can be pleasanter than the 

 genial cordiality with which this international match is 

 taken up on both sides of the Atlantic. The American peo- 

 ple are a thoroughly sporting community, and the warmth 

 with which they have entered into this international contest 

 is only equalled by the enthusiasm that was manifested by 

 them when they so pluckily sent over their Harvard crew. 



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|_ Lort's Sal 



| Frank. 



i Flash. 



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 t Lort's Darkie J glesea's Breed. 



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Banger, it will thus be seen, comes of prize stock on both 

 sides. His owner's Setter, Quince II, won the champion 

 prize at Birmingham in 1872; Bake, 1st Birmingham, 1864; 

 Countess, 2d Birmingham, 1863 ; Grouse, 2d Birmingham, 

 1863; Nell, champion Birmingham, 1864-65; Bess, 1st Bir- 

 mingham, 1864 ; Bake divided the championship with Byron 

 at Birmingham, 1865; Countess won 2d Birmingham, 1863; 

 2d Birmingham, 1864, 2d Leeds, 1865, 1st Birmingham, 

 1865 ; Bess won 1st Birmingham, 1865. 



Banger and Bella are generally, supposed to be the brace 

 that the Kennel Club will select to contend for the honor of 

 England. Banger is a white and black dog, with slight tan, 



inherited from his granddam, Countess, who was a black and 

 tan bitch. He was originally broken by Dicker, breaker to 

 Mr. Assheton Smith, Vagnol, and afterwards handled by 

 Hallam and Pugsley ; but like all dogs of good blood and 

 pedigree, he needed little breaking. From the above pedi- 

 gree it will be seen he combines all the best strains of prize 

 blood on both sides; his grandsire, Bake, and granddam, 

 Countess, being both prize winners at the great National 

 Dog Show, held annually at Birmingham. We believe he is 

 at the service of the public for this year at the kennels, Hil- 

 bre House, West Kirby, for stud purposes — kennels that have 

 sent forth to the public the following field trial winners: 

 Plunket, sold to Mr. Purcell Llewellin for £150; Dick, sold 

 to Mr. Assheton Smith for £80; Squire, Music, and Doll, 

 all well-known winners. 



Mr. Macdona has had the honor of presenting several 

 Setters of the same strain to the Prince of Wales. — Fanciers' 

 Gazette. 



(For Fanciers' Journal.) 



A WORD TO G. P. BTJRNHAM, ESQ. 



Sir: Following your example, I would like to say a few 

 words to you ; and if in anything I say what I cannot make 

 good, I will only be too happy to acknowledge it. I have 

 read, with much interest, your adverse criticisms on the new 

 standard, and the doings of the N. P. A., and while agree- 

 ing with you in some points, I am heartily tired of the 

 lengthened war you are now carrying on. An old adage 

 says, " Those who live in glass houses should not throw 

 stones ;" and certainly of all men in the fancy, you ought to 

 be the last to show up the failings of others. You did your 

 utmost to stamp out the chicken fancy, twenty years ago, in 

 the most practical way, by sending to intending purchasers 

 portraits of fowls you never possessed, as pictures of your 

 "imported stock;" you kept ten varieties of fowls, all pure 

 bred, your circular stated, but which you afterwards confessed 

 (or gave it as your conviction), were all produced from white 

 hens and a black cock, of the " Shanghai " tribe. All this 

 you admit in that noted compound, "The History of the 

 Hen Fever." 



Now, forsooth, you come forward as the friend of the 

 poultry interest, to proclaim the shortcomings of the Buffalo 

 Convention. One glaring mistake they certainly made, in 

 not sending a guard of honor to Melrose for you ; paying 

 your expenses to Buffalo, making you President of the Con- 

 vention, and then issuing the standard, with your portrait 

 inclosed, as " the great pioneer " and friend of the poultry 

 interest. Then it would have been all right, and your 

 smooth tongue and ready wit would have devised a way to 

 keep the disaffected quiet: the one dollar would then never 

 be grudged for the pamphlet. 



When you published your " New Poultry Book," in 1871, 

 I supposed you gave it to the fancy at a little over expenses, 

 just to " help the cause along." There is nothing in it, but 

 a rehash of those who had written before you, the same old 

 crudities and descriptions repeated, with no practical infor- 

 mation in regard to selection and matching for definite 

 points, and yet that work was offered at $2.00. Why do you 

 not ask some poultry journal office to keep it on sale for you? 



Oh, no! You "have no axe to grind." You, as you say, 

 " feathered your nest long ago," and do not want to make any- 

 thing. You do not want to sell any more of your " Imported 

 .Coch ins," that will breed all colors, by turns. The fact is, 

 you know.your course would be short, and if poultry jour- 



