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FOREST AlND STREAM. 



Sometimes, when the secretion of bile has been checked, the 

 skin and white of the eyes become stained yellow from the 

 presence of bile. When this symptom accompanies distem- 

 per it is almost invariably fatal. 



Malignant Distemper may follow any of the other kinds or 

 be sudden in its attack. Generally ell the dangerous affec- 

 tions ot the brain, bowels, or liver, mentioned above, appear, 

 and a stage of prostration is reached in which the dog is un- 

 able to stand up, his appwite is entirely gone, his gums, 

 teeth and tongue are coated with a black fur, and his breath is 

 highly offensive. Sometimes a very peculiar symptom ap- 

 pears—an eruption of the skin, consisting of purple spots or 

 of bladders varying in size from a pea to half a hen's egg, 

 and containing matter stained with blood. It is not, however, 

 taken by itself, an unf avoratile sign. The above descriptions 

 of symptoms are mainly from " Stonehenge's " new work. 



It should bo borne in mind that the peculiarity of distem- 

 per, particularly when it appears in a malignant form, is the 

 rapidity with which the dog loses Btrenglh and flesh, and thu 

 marked characteristic enables it to be distinguished, in most 

 caseB, from colds or disorders of a more harmless type. 



As a general treatment, " Stonehenge " recommends in the 

 early stages a mild dose of aperient medicine, such as castor 

 oil and syrup of poppies in equal proportions, or, if the liver 

 is not acting, calomel and jalap. After the early stage has 

 gone by, give nothing in the shape of medicine, but keep the 

 kennel dry, clean and airy, but warm. Change the litter fre- 

 quently, and avoid exercise till the cough and running at the 

 eyes have entirely ceased. The diet should be nourishing 

 broths thickened, when there is dianhcei, with flour, rice or 

 arrowroot ; or, if the bowels are confined, with oatmeal. 1 

 there is little water passed, give every night (as a drench) five 

 or six grains of nitre, with half a teaspoonful of sweet spirits 

 of nitre. The same authority recommends a seton to the 

 back part of the neck for head distemper. 



As Chorea or Palsy very frequently follows distemper, it 

 may be well to say that it may be best treated by a change ol 

 air and by giving from 3 grs. to 5 grs. of sulphate of zinc in a 

 pill every dny. 



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HOUNDING DEER WITH DOGS. 



WE approve of the use of dogs in hunting deer, and feel 

 quite willing to indorse the position taken by our corres 

 pondent below. According to intelligent observation and ex- 

 perience, this method does not drive the deer out of the country. 

 Deer are something like 6hiep in their habits, and we well know 

 that a colley picks out and separates a single sheep from a flock 

 without creating more than a temporary flurry, while a sheep- 

 killing dog, or dogs, may wee and worry a flock until they 

 have killed off a dozen without driving the sheep fur away. 

 The bulk of the flucK scatter and scuny off when pressed by 

 the dogs, leaving the victimized and unlucky to their fate, 

 and afterward call to each other and reunite. We see no 

 more objection to the use of dogs in hunting deer than in 

 coursing hares or running foxes; indeed, if they wtre not 

 used the price of venison would rise in the markets. 



But although we believe that dogs can be used in hunting 

 deer without all the terrible consequences that are appre- 

 hended or predicted by some writers, still, as the laws of vari- 

 ous States make the use of dogs a siatutory offense, and as 

 those laws are passed for the purpose of protecting deer at a 

 time when running them with dogs really is a crime, we be- 

 lieve in theii enforcement. The time to which we allude is 

 when a heavy fall of snow is covered with a light crust, 

 which, while readily supporting a dag, or a man on snow-shoes, 

 breaks under the weight and pointed hoofs of a deer, and 

 causes him to fall an easy victim. This mode of hunting is 

 really not sport, as there is as absencp of that element, or sen- 

 timent, if it may so be called, which gives the animal a reason- 

 able chauce for its life. 



Huuting deer with dogs is followed in every country where 

 the deer is found or the spurt practiced. In England there 

 are regular packs of staghounds, which, even to this day, are 

 used to hunt the wild deer on Exmoor, and a half tamed one 

 turued from a cart in districts where the wild deer is extinct. 

 Even in Scotland the deerhound is used, although only for 

 cha3ing wounded deer, the nature of the country preventing 

 their oeing used in any other way, the deer being usually 

 stalked or driven. 



Bangor, Me. 

 Mb. Editor: 



ThiB method of hunting deer does not drive them out of the 

 wintry, according to my experience. 



Most hounds, when they find a deer's track that they can scent. 

 will commence barking, and increase as they gat nearer the 

 deer ; and the hunter can tell when the deer is started by the 

 barking of his dog. Sometimes there are several deer together, 

 and they will stand and listen to the dog as ho oomoa nearer, uu - 

 til he gets within a few rods of them j then they will run, but keep 

 slopping to see if the dog means them : and where there is more 

 than one they soon get separated, and the dog is after only one 

 Tub rest will soon stop and care no more for the dog. The one 

 he keeps after, and as soon as he finds that the dog means him and 

 he gets warm and wibhea to get away ;rom his pursuer, he starts 

 for a stream or lake, and runs into the water or swims until the 

 dog loses the track. Then the deer cares no mora about the dag. 

 I know these facta by watching them in tho open land, where I 

 could see both deer aud djg, and by following them where I could 

 trark tliem on auow. 



I have aeon tbem let the dog keep very close to them for the 

 first miles and in twenty minutes after he would be a mile ahead 

 of the dog. 

 Oar friend " Rip lisp" is mistaken about oar gams law being en- 



forced in Maine, and aa it is now it is a hard matter to enforce it. 

 The Una Is to be oollaoted the same as a oivil dabt, an! wo have 

 thousands of men in Maine that no fines could be collected from, 

 and no one wishes to try. So lhay feel at liberty to do as they 

 choose, and thousands of deer have been killed when nearly worth- 

 less ; and all that I ever know of out deer warden of Brngor 

 doing was to take deer from persouB that ho had no right to. 



When the first game law was made in this State, our woods 

 were full of deer and moose, and would be now if there bad 

 been good laws and well enforced. Deer are quite plenty now, 

 and we may kill all we cm with dogs in the fall, and they will 

 increase if let alone in winter, after the enow gets deep ; but tho 

 jaw will never he enforoed until the hunters do it, and they never 

 will until the taw is obanged. 



Mr. J. Soott is nf the opinion that hunting with dogs makes 

 them wilder. I can't agree wi.h him. I hunted one fall on the 

 Matawamkeag River with dogs, and as soon &* first snows foil 

 Mr. E. MoLane, a still hunter, went over the Banie ground to 

 kill deer, and made the mist successful hunt that he ever made, 

 even when deer were more plenty, and before dogs had been 

 used in those parts ; and 1 have often taken the same ground to 

 still hunt on that I used my dogs on before tho snow fell. I have 

 always noticed that tho opener the growth the wilder the deer 

 were. I was hunting in Michigan up the Ausable River, above 

 where any hound had ever hunted, and on what they called tho 

 plains— and deor on those plains were tha wildest that I ever 

 saw them anywhere ; and only a few miles from there, where the 

 woods were thick, deer wore very tamo. They always seem to 

 mo to be at home when thoy aro in thick wooks, but when out in 

 open land aro always on the look-out, and when started seldom 

 stop until they reach thicker cover. 



In still hunting on bare ground, there are a great many deer 

 totally lost ; say about one-tkird get wounded and die. Still 

 hunters seldom or never wait for any hotter chance, but shoot at 

 whatever part they see first, and the consequence ia that a great 

 many get away afterwards and die j and what thoy do get are 

 often cut up badly and dressed in the woods, and sacked out, aa 

 we call it, and get all dirt, etc. The hardest work I ever did was 

 to still hunt deer and moose, and get them out. 



I have made up my mind a long time ago that the best law we 

 can have would be to let ua hunt from the middle of September to 

 the middle of December, and in auy way we chose. Then have 

 a fine or imprisonment, and have the law enforced, and we shall 

 always have plenty of deer, etc. J. Darling. 



THE IMPROVED NEWFOUNDLAND OR 

 LEON BERG DOGS. 



A PARAGRAPH is going the round of the papers, origi- 

 nating, we believe, with the Boston Tra-eeller, relative 

 to the introduction into Newfoundland of the Leonberg dogs, 

 which, it is supposed, will arrest the threatened extinction of 

 the Newfoundland deg, or at leastioBtllute a new and perhaps 

 more valuable strain. That this is not news will be seen from 

 the following extract which we reprint from the issue of 

 Forest add Stream of July 5, 1877 : 



Improving tub Newfoundland Breed of Dogs.— It will 

 be interesting to lovers of dogs to know thtuHerr VonKruzen 

 the eminent German naturalist, when recently passiDg 

 through Newfoundland, presented Governor Glover with 

 three very valuable young dogs of the celebrated Leonberg 

 (Wirtemberg) breed. These annimals are almost world-re- 

 nowned for their size, beauty, sagacity and fidelity. They 

 are an improved breed, resulting from crossing the .Newfound- 

 land dog with the renowned St. Bernard dogs aud the fine 

 Pyrenese race. These dogs are the favorites of emperors, 

 kings aud rich nobility, and fetch a price as high as from £50 

 t>» .£100 sterling. The Prince ot Wales possesses one of them. 

 Our valued correspondent. Rev. M. Harvey, to whom we are 

 indebted for this information, says : " The tine race of New- 

 foundland dogs is almost extinct here ; but, thanks to Herr 

 Ver Kruzen, we shall now possess a far superior breed of dogs, 

 which, in the course of time, may bee me uf much value to 

 the country, as fine dogs are prized all over the world. He 

 recommends that in time they be crosstdwith the Newfound- 

 laud dogs, the finest that can be met with. He obtained 

 the>-e due clogs fr m Count E Beg, who bieeds them They 

 were brought all the way from the borders of Switzerland. 

 At pre.-ent they aie but two months uld, so that no progeny 

 can be had for two and a half yearn. They are placed in 

 charge uf a peison who understands the management ot dogs, 

 and he is furnished will written instructions regarding their 

 i ceding and general treatment." 



The Tennessee Field Tuiais— Nashville, Nov. 1, 1878.— 

 Preparations are going on most favorably for the coming field 

 trials, to be held here the 2d of December. Clarke Pritchett, 

 Esq , the able Secretary of the Tennessee Sportsman's Asso- 

 ciation, is and has been actively employed in corresponding 

 with breeders and sporting men in all parts of the country, 

 and he is satisfied that the attendance will he much larger than 

 at any previous meeting. A number of handsome prizes will 

 be awarded, amounting in all to $1,000. Quite a number oi 

 manufacturers of, aud dealers in. sporting goods have made 

 donations of articles to be shot for, and a number will exhibit 

 sporting goods in a place to be prepared for them in the city 

 during the we<-k the tournament lasts. Notably among them 

 are the Bridgeport Union Metallic Co., St. Louis Patent Shell 

 Co.. Brown & Hilder, St. Louis ; Thompson & Co., of New 

 York, aud Parker Bros., gun makers. The latter donated a 

 gun (value $125), to be shot for. A firm in Casenubia, N. 

 Y., donate two glass ball traps as a prize for the best glnss 

 ball shot. The Held trials will take place at the Belle Meade 

 Farm, belonging to General Harding, and where birds are 

 very abundant. But to doubly insure good sport the associa- 

 tion have turned loose on the farm a large number of birds in 

 addition to those already there, and have placed a keeper on 

 the premises to preitect them, Some of the intended partici- 

 pators in the trials have hlrtady anived with their dogs, aud 

 Mr. D. C. Sanborn, of Baltimore, Mich., is expected today 

 with his kennel, consisting of Neihe, Dan, Btrathroy, Tem- 

 pest, and a full brother to Nellie. He will go to Kiceville in 

 this State to prepare his dogs for the contest. The printed 

 programme will be ready for- distribution early next week. 

 The largest prize is the one given for the puppy stakes. This 

 is for $800. J- D. H. 



From Mr. Davidson Again.— Editor Forest and Stream, 

 and Hod and Own. ; By this week's issue, November 2, of 

 Chicago Field- I notice its editor is waiting to hear what the 

 judges have to say in reference to his accusation of fraud Rt 

 the Minnesota Field Tri-ls. By referring to Forest and 

 Stream / jjd Rod and Gun of October 81, he can see what 1 

 have to say, and I will now add that whoever he has ref- 

 erence to in regard to changing his score in the Nursery 

 btakes I do not know. My score is In my rossession now 

 and was never out of it, and the editor of the Chicago Field 

 never saw it. The scale of points in the Nursery Stakes were 

 taken from Mr.Wbitford's score, of which fact Thave positive 

 proof _ In the puppy and champion stakes the scale of points 

 were taken from my scores, and in the case of Jet, winner of 

 second prize in the champion stakes, the Chicago Field is 

 wrong on points of merit, and the Forest and Stream 

 correct, but a point, out of the way with a native is nothing 

 for the Chicago Fit-Id. The conversation, as stafd by him to 

 have taken place at the figuring up of Tempest's scote, I deny. 

 and have proof that no such conversation took place. I defy 

 the editor of tbe Chicago Field to show any evidence of fraud 

 in Tempest's winning second place in the Nursery Stakes at 

 the Minnesota field trials, and I further defy him to show a 

 single case of fraud at any bench show in my decisions as 

 judge, unless he considers it fraud to differ from "him in opinion 

 or wish. If he can show any, let us have them. Disappointed 

 contestants can usually find Tedress for wrongs by proving 

 a sufficient cause of fraud to warrant such redress. Such is 

 the case in other contests, and 1 imagine the same rule would 

 apply to field trials and bench shows So show up your evi- 

 dence, but I objecHo be tried by a judge without authority, 

 who is both evidence and judge, and renders a verdict before 

 the case goes to trial. Hoping you will excuse me for again 

 trespassing on your columns, I am yours truly, 



Monroe, Nov. 2, 1878. John Davidson. 



Massachusetts Kennel Club Dog Snow.— At a meeting 

 of this club, held on the 31st ult., it was decided to hold the 

 second annual bench show in Boston, on May 6, 7, S and 9, 

 187D. The following gentlemen will form the Exhibition 

 Committee: T. T. Sawyer, Jr.; Jnp. FoUler, Jr.; J. B.Bor- 

 land, J. B. Greenougb, James F. Curtis and Edward E. 

 Hardy. 



National American Kennel Cuts, — In consequence of 

 the abandonment of the Baltimoie Field Trials the meeting 

 of the kennel Club, appoinled at Baltimore November 8 cur- 

 rent, will be further adjourned to meet at Nashville, Tenn., at 

 the Maxwell House December 2 next. Aud a meeting of said 

 club is hereby called at that time and place. 



E. H. LiTHiiOP, Pres. N. A. K. O. 



TriE Wioekd Flea Retdrneth.— And now a correspondent, 

 moved by the many paragraphs regardiug fleas which have 

 appeared in our columns, writes to say that Persian insect 

 powder is sure death to fleas. Perhaps our correspondent is 

 not aware that the basis, at least, of all insect destroyers is 

 this same Persian powder. But according to our experience 

 its effects are hut flee-ting, and the fleas, although driven off, 

 return again. If used on house dogs it is very likely to trans- 

 fer the fleas from the dog to the carpets, whence they make 

 raids on thinly-clad persons, and in summer time increase and 

 multiply to an alarming extent. What is wanted is something 

 that will keep fleas from getting on a dog. 



Names Claimed— Mr. Edward R. Taller, of this city, 

 claims the name of JenDy for a red and white Irish setter 

 bitch puppy, by Wengel's Jack, out of his Doe. 



— A correspondent writes from Indianapolis, Indiana, that 

 there is a regular organized gang of dog thieves in that city. 

 He has had no less than five dogs stolen from him, and some 

 of his neighbors have fared almost as badly. It is supposed 

 that the dogs are run off into Illinois. A vigilance com- 

 mittee would be in order. 



— Mr. Luther Adams, of Boston, has been added to the 

 committee of the Massachusetts Kennel Club appointed to 

 look out for the game laws. 



foodknd, igxrm nnd %mimu 



TRANSPLANTING TREES. 



FOB transplanting trees the late fall is the best season. 

 Vegetation is never absolutely at reBt. During the 

 months of winter trees are constantly adding to the points of 

 their rocts. If they be transplanted in the fall these now 

 rootlets are formed in readiness to take advantage of the first 

 spriDg showers. We republish from the London Journal oj 

 Forestry the following excellent direction for the method of 

 transplanting and subsequent care of the tree: 



1. Selection.— la making this the transplanter will be guided 

 by circumstances of soil, situation, and the purposes for 

 which such trees are recpiired. If he be fortunate enough to 

 command a soil which combines with the adbesiveuess of the 

 aluminous the friability of the silicious, he may remove into 

 it almost any tree he likes without much previous pre- 

 paration. And if his soil be naturally loose and deep, 

 containing a fair percentage of carbonate of lime and some 

 alumina, he has all the chemical elements necessary to insure 

 success. . 



As a rule no tree of considerable size should ever be chosen 

 for a poorer soil than the one from which it was taken. For 

 li"bt sandy soils nothing is better adapted than the birch, 

 sweet chestnut, sycamore, beech and lime: while foi those 

 of a heavier texture he may choose the oak, elm, ash, spruce, 

 silver flr etc. Much, however, may be done by a liberal use 

 of composts, by drainage, trenching, etc., to adapt soils to 

 the trees required to be planted. 



As the principal objects of transplanting are the attainment 



