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to mutter sncli phrases as tlie.se: "Very handsome dog, in- 

 deed; never saw any Handsomer. As you say, they are too 

 fresh; they want Work; but really they ate'splendid ttni- 

 .' 'I ! I ■ Iiereas, in your heart of hearts, you wish the dogs 

 were at Jericho. 



The fact is. sei toa much encourae/ed to 



range wide now-a-days; and to that fact may be attributed 

 a trreat deal of their unsteadiness. I once met a well 

 known breaker at work with his pupils, and I said to him, 

 "You let you dogs go too far from voit: they are virtually 

 now out of youif control." "I know it," he replied, "hut 

 ilic Lents will have them so; T must, do as T am bid." 



Now, no dog ought to be allowed to range freely until 



one be sure of his being being peril ctTj B h tinder any 



ordinary circumstances; and in all Held trials 1 would have. 

 Hie slower but safer doe placed decisively and immediately 

 above his unless and flashy companion. War? this to be 

 Mid the breakers' compelled to break their dogs 

 in that wise, depend upon it setting dogs would soon 

 in as general a use as they were in the times of 

 our fathers. As it is, their uses are not known thoroughly 

 by a large percentage of our voting shooters of the period. 

 Some of these have never heard of pointers and setters 

 being employed tor any other game but grouse and part- 

 ridges [ eratrl th ce, their legitimate 

 quarry in those countries where these birds are abundant; 

 but at the same time 1 would beg to say that a good all- 

 round pointer or setter is not to be despi=ed. I have had 



ither breed that I could take out shooting ani 

 where, no matter over what ground and on what game— 

 from a quail to a mallow — they would find Hie birds and 

 keep i hem all there, and that "is what I etnplo ' 



: and really useful dogs. This cannot be 



id o lie dogs kept exclusively for grouse or 



They may be very good' on these birds, but grouse 

 anil partridges, una frequently shot-over manor, soon bC- 

 coine sc. iree. and then I he (logs maybe left at home, for 

 they are of no use whatsoever Tor anything else. In fact, 

 they are not employed for anything else, because it is sup- 



1" 



and bag, to a brilliant galloper 



and prevent me from baggin * 



me to do so. Of course, field 



SO to speak, must, ha 



■s — ('. ,'.. slow- dogi 

 tsmen, and among these I 

 I ihould always prefer, 

 that would make me shoot 

 that would Hush everything, 

 nything, instead of helping 

 trials, being public ejthlbi- 

 -ae ranging pel 



all that is sensible. 





ilil :! en, in tl" 

 must not be asked; 

 the staunchness o1 j iunj logs, - - siacl long rang- 

 ing from the old performers only, and allow the youngsters 

 to tie kept more steadily within their keeper's control? We 

 should not See, then, well i ched exhibitions as one may 

 have seen at some of the late trials, when dogs after dogs 

 flushed all they came upon, never even attempting to draw 



: siil'i, hut fell to chasing fur and feather indis- 

 criminately—from a rat to a hare, and from a sparrow to a 



-whenever the chance offered itself, and seemed, 

 moreover, delighted with the fun. Such outbreaks are not 



'o witness, and one cannot help endorsing the 



loudlv expressed opinions of some of the bystander?; 



'•Weil, if these are the pick of the basket, and the erSnu 



Ottng pointers and setters of the day, 



is! be the others?- I m ■' 6 



notice in the Turf, Field and Firm, thai Mr 

 Shorter, writing from Canton, Ohio, issues the following 

 challenge: — • 



"I will match Jock against any setter in the world for 



the amount, mentioned in my challenge (SoOli); dogs to he 

 hunted according ■ published by Fouest and 



Stream. .Match to take place in Ohio, at any time during 

 the month of November; the dogs to be hunted together. 

 1 to hum uiv dog; the party accepting the challenge to 

 hunt his dog. Each party to pick a judge, they to select a 

 referee. The dogs to hunt for one week, a: the raid ol 

 which the dog scoring the highest number of points to 

 win the match." 



This is another acknowledgment that some of our best 

 practical field sportsmen do wish to allow points for re- 

 Irieving in field trials. 



ghat (§un mid §ifle, 



GAME IN SEASON FOR OCTOBER. 



Moose. Ahes MalcMs. Snipe and Kay Birds. Willees. 



Elk or Wapiti, (..'nut (:ana-l>.ii--t<. Cu-ibou. Vnt-n-i-: l;.i„i t io 1 



Wild I'iseoos. 

 iVmlertlie header "iia 



]:<•.<; ..r Rice birds, DotickCmyx onjz 

 Wild Duck. Geese, Brant, fie. 

 1-un in tieagQTtf'tveean-onnj 



ipn 



lid do well to nrn'i'l' /A. ;...■•'...- » i'ii '/.■ lair 



O'll i"li['-rs HOi'l'l UO K'-U IU riUimif Ui'll'^'i.' *-■- " rn ■"< i'ii' ■ •" '"•" «r- 



ipentlrr. Stales for constant reference. uthtrwise, our attemoU in am it tlu m 

 ■mill only create confusion ■ 1 



Game in Mabk»t.— Ruffed grouse quite plenty, and in 

 line condition, worth §1 50. Pinnated grouse scarcoi ^ 

 selling at $1 50. Bay birds of all kinds in nice order ; 

 plentiful. Meadow hens are in prime'order. Rice birds 

 1at as butler, coming in from the rice fields of Georgia. 



— Wild ducks, a few bunches of teal and some sprigtails, 

 have made their appearance on the coast of New Jersey. 

 On October 16th the annual duck hunt takes place at Bar- 

 negat Bay, and the. gunners are getting ready. 



—Our friend Col, Bruce, of Turf, Field, & Firm, tried 

 his gun on the. snipe at Barnegal last Saturday and bagged 

 a dozen, but could'nt stop for more, as the mosquitoes drove 

 him off. 



New Terse?.— Bh Mtfar, 28.'A.— I Ihear of 



brown backs, .yellow legs, aud snipe being killed on the 



meadows, but not in very great numbers. To-day I 

 took a walk in woods and" started pheasants, some half 

 a dozen, and saw three flocks of quail. Yesterday I noticed 

 a small flock of wild pigeons Hying over. A Biiick. 



Adirondackb. — 3ftid Lake Country, "Oftain of Jtends, ' 

 Sept, 20. — "Howling Wilderness" is a term well applied >.o 

 to this section of the north woods, for a bleaker, lower, 

 flatter and more ragged country is hardly to be seen. No 

 wonder that there were plenty of wolves here hut a few- 

 years ago, and no wonder that moose Iovei 

 Mud Lake, for in such n flat, marshy spot, no one would 

 trouble them. In June and July the tuneful 

 must have it all his own way; they must swarm in there 

 by myriads. In those months -and the fore part of August 

 deer are very plenty and can he seen most any time of the 

 day feeding arouud the shores, and trout can be taken in 

 every stream. But though deer are so plenty and can be 

 started almost anywhere now with dogs, still there is so 

 much water to run to, both river and pond, that a deer 

 escapes five times out of six, and though you near plenty 

 of "bugling" vou don't gel so much venison. I have made 

 several "sketches in oil of landscape and camp, and brush 

 and palette have, been kept busy. The other i 

 Reynolds and Charley Hickok, guides for some gi n [en en 

 hunting in conjunction with us," went out jacking, lulled 

 no Jeer, but l.aiuged a bear almost full glow:., and we have 

 bid bi fi -uaks for a change in our bill of tare to vary that 

 of venison and trout. The weather is remarkably warm 

 for the season. We have had three days of storm aud hope 

 now to have some finer weather. AVe have as lie ■ 

 ground as I ever camped on, here at b i -oil I'.etd. 1 write 

 this watching with my guide Hank Swinger upon Third 

 Pond. hoping" a big buc'k will come in. There, I bear the 

 dons up towards the east, a faint bay, but coining nearer 

 and nearer, and so, in baste, adieu ! " C. C. Maiikhaji. 



—From our Chicago office we have the following reports 

 under date, of September 26th: 



luv.-A.— C. s. Squiers and G. C. Sherman, with their 

 ladies, have just, returned from the vicinity of Mason City, 

 Iowa, where they have been for a week's hunt, and report 

 large numbers of chickens, more plentiful than usual, Very 

 wild, requiring quick work and long shots. The e oil; 

 men hunted in the afternoon and killed ovel 30Q birds, ovi [ 

 one dog, not including a number of era, ies reese" due! , 

 and a " raccoon"; one crane having been silled 

 Sherman at a distance of 150 paces. Quail very scarce. 

 Mr. Sherman reports a party of twelve, from New York, 

 near Bret, Iowa, in a palace car, with all its comforts, hav- 

 ing extraordinary success. So far, this parly lias shipped 

 over 800 chickens. They have some fine eastern dogs, 

 which are attracting a great deal of attention. Messrs. Ab- 

 ner and Edward Price,' "Doe" Bgleston, and some other 

 sportsmen, have had fair success on tin- Calumet, at. duck 

 Shooting, bagging from 12 to 20 cacti per day. Do not 

 tl. ink they wilt be as plenty on this ground as in former 



WiBCOKsra.— H. J. Edwards, on a short trip in Wis- 

 consin, killed 13 teal ducks with both barrels, 10 with the 

 first and 3 with second. Ducks are numerous in Wisconsin 

 this year. 



Indiana.— R. W. Stafford had fair success at Crown 

 Point and Lowell, Indiana, shooting chickens part of the 

 day only, killing from thirty to forty each over one dog. 

 Found most of them in the grass and stubble, very few in 

 the corn fields. Quail scarce. 



Missouri— Dan Cherry, of Luray, Mo., says he has 

 done only one day's good work on chickens so tar tin- sea- 

 son, having killed" 40 over a young dog. in the morning and 

 evening. Tie has given your correspondent a pn in in- 

 vitation to come; promising to teach him how to shoot 

 quail, on October lsl, as he never saw them so plentiful. 



Northern Missouri and Southern Iowa are the places for 

 quail: Northern Iowa and Southern Minnesota for chick- 

 ens. 



Misfiormr.r-.flaiMMiaZ, Sept.. 20.— Sportsmen can have, all 

 the °'rouse shooting they want out here now, and probably 

 for tile next ten days; that is, if the birds do not pack by 

 that time. I shall'start for Kansas early next fffli I 



Iowa.— Redfidd, Dallas Co., Sept. 25.— Chicken shooting 

 is splendid now. Ducks here by thousands. Open on 

 quail October 1st. Lots of them here. All shipping of 

 game birds for profit is forbidden by our new game law, 

 also all killing except by shooting. If it is enforced Iowa 

 :. ill .o,h with game iii a few years. O. H. H. 



WISCONSIN.— Moiitello, Sept. 23.— Pucka way Lake is the 

 most famous locality for duck shooting in Wisconsin. I 

 enclose an outline map of the vicinity, hoping you may 



make use of it, for the benefit of sportsmen wishing to visit 



ii. At the head of this lake, and on its east iu. 



may be seen the. club bouse of the Puckaway Club, which 

 meets annually at this lake for their duck shooting. Grand 

 River, which winds its way south from the I ox River, ia 

 one of the favorite haunts of mallards, as also are the 

 numerous sloughs and rice fields bordering on the lake. _ As 

 the Grand River nears its head it is difficult of m rigatiOrl, 

 but the splendid shooting more than repays for this. 

 Taken as a whole, the vicinity is unsurpassed in this State. 

 . Fued Pond. 



CANADA. —Sept, 35.— The reports n-narding the fur are 

 neither better or worse than usual, but. i he woods are re- 

 ported to be full of deer. A large quantity of venison and 

 li-h are now being eaiucht. Every week a wagon load is 

 being brought into" Halihurlon. The venison this year is 

 extra fat. Partridges are plenty in Huliburtoii, and 

 feathered game, of all kinds abounds at and about. Burling- 

 ton Beach. 



—The St. Augustine (Fla.) Press reflects severely upon 

 the practice employed tn that vicinity of Killing ba-, birds 

 by "shining" them with reflecting lights. It says.— 



One n'o-ht last week, a small parly of sportsmen went 

 down to the "Bird Bank," opposite the light house. They 

 were provided with a simple reflecting lamp. The birds 

 beeame so confused that, they actually flew into 111. II I 

 After slaughtering about thirty, among which viae the 

 brown anrf while-wing curlew, they ceased from Mir r 

 in amazement at the effect of the light. They report Ilea; 

 the birds came all around and about them— like chickens 

 v. lien called to feed. 



—The Grand Rapids Shooting Club of Michigan held a 

 pie oon .-hoot on September 23d, and the champion gold 

 medal was won by H. Hascall, killing 14 out of 16 birds. 



— On Saturday, October 3d, a shooting match at pigeons 

 will take place at Fort Lee between Gen. Edward Jardine 

 and A. E. Chamberlin, for a wager at 25 birds each, 21 

 yards, rise 80 yards boundary, usual rules; at the conclu- 

 sion of which, Sydney Smith and Addison Ware (neither of 

 whom have ever shot from a trap), will try their hand at 10 

 birds each — the prize to be a beautiful hatchet. 



—The following are the scores at Gus Jaubert's Pigeon 

 Tournament, shot at Lexington, Ky., on September 22d, 

 23d, and 24th, according to the Hunter's Club rules, 10 

 birds each, sweepstakes, §5 entrance, five double rises, 18 

 yards rise; 



Upon To/i'.Xiiiii, 



f.i South It I" n it n n|j W Kldd 



J H Kerr 10 O-.l 10 in II BUI II Mann, 



E Werk in 11 11 11 11 



L Trotter 01 11 10 a) ii 7]S W Bag? 



J W Ferguson... .11 11 11 11 11 10|Joel t'.i--; 



RTcrrill.... '.'.'..'.',". 10 It 10 10 II 



Score, Total 



ii on in 11 10 6 



. .11 11 01 10 ll 8 



. a) 11 11 10 11 8 



..10 11 11 11 11 9 



..HI 10 Ot 00 10 4 



.11 II 11 11 10 9 



.11 11 11 10 00 7 



.11 :i n io ii o 



..11 10 11 1100 7 



F J Sooth. 

 E Werk. ... 



..11 11 11 IC A Kenicj 10 Withdrs 



.00 10 Withdr'n RClun-cIl 01 



.11 II II 



H N Sheftrmati ..tl 10 n n l 



J ii Kt: 10 10 10 11 1' 



•J Eiong 01 ii 11 10 1 



•s at t 



SCO e, Tata! 



.11 11 11 11 10 9 



. 11 10 11 10 11 8 



11 10 11 11 11 9 



., 11 11-4 11 



Sherman 11 11-4 11 



Werk (XI 



Ties on eight at ;il yards rise. 

 Lone-.... 1110-3 11 ll)-:| 11 11-1 11 Chinch.. .11 10-H 11 01-3 11 11-4 11 



01-8 

 Long 11 10-3 11 11-1, Church 10 11-3 11 10-3 



Sweepstake, ten single hirds, 21 yards rise 



Score. 

 J W Ferguson 1 1 I I 1 1 1 I I 



•I EI. a ■■_' 1 I 1 1 1 I 1 1 11 



E Werli I I 1 I a I 1 l 1 



,1 II Kerr 1 110 111111 



ESmitb I 1 1 1 10100 1 



...10 1 1 10 110 1 



T.l South 1 i I 1 t 1 1 1 1 1 



1111011111 



Ties nf ten at 88 jr 



J E Long 1 1 1 1 



T J South 1 1 1 1 



R Church 1 1111 



Score. Total 



!l .Ino Allien 0001 00 i 1 3 



10 A Hiiakii^.. .1110 1 1 111 II 8 



s I! Church 1111111111 10 



(i .J W Kidd 1 (100 1 00 I 1 1 5 



; csoich. ...liililllil 10 



- I! Tmill 1 111101111 9 



in i. Trottet 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 10 



Bagg .... 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 : 1 1 10 



rd- e 



..11111 

 .11111 



.11111 



S W Bs«>g... 

 Ties at 31 yards. 



Long II Month 01 1 



mi-.m I 1 ■ STrotUtt Ill S 



Church Ill 3 D»-g 10 



MU-l HATCIH— SBOONO DAT. 



SWeepatfttees, $10 entrance, live double birds at. -21 yards rise, class 



shooting. 



Score Total, Saoxe. Tola! 



TJSmilh ...II 11 11 11 11 lOJEtoug. ...It ID 11 10 11 8 



HXSiioman...ll 11 11 11 li 10 C' south 11 11 11 11 ll 10 



JWFerguson .11 n 11 n 10 y.R '.'inireii tl n ll ll 10 9 



£ Werk . ..10 ll 10 11 10 i L rrottei - .. .11 it 10 11 H 9 



JMTaylor 1. 11 11 II 11 10|C Woodford. . . . 11 10 10 10 1! 7 



J H Kerr II 11 11 01 11 1 



Ties on ten birds at a3 yards, ibree pairs birds, 



TJSoarh 111111 B|C South 10 



iiiem 10 l. J Tit Taylor 



Ties on nine at 33 yawj^riee, three pairs birds. 

 SW Ferguson ll ii in-5 ll 01 00-3 R Church.-., 11 10 11-5 10 11 U-3 



d H Kerr 10 11 11-5 11 11 01-8! 11 



"o \L Trotter U 11 ln-fi 10 11 H-l 



SECON1J MATCH — SECOND TJAV. 



Sweep-Kikes, J10 eiuranCe. sis single bird- at SO yards rise. 



Score. total! ScOM. Total 



iillll 6 J W FerL-uson... 010111 4 



5 r JSoulh 11110 4 



As. Werk 11110 4 



t 3 W Kidd 10 110 3 



j\j Wno.ii'ord 111111 6 



2 J lIKivr 111111 6 



H K Sherman 

 H Choate.... 



B el.ro.ii 



E Ti 111. 



H i : 





111101 

 .... 111111 



11110 



11110 



1 1 



11111 



Ties of six at 31 ys 



irds each. 



Fifty double birds, 8100 a side. 



j, Trotter 10 10 11 to 11 11 HIT J South 11 11 11 10 10 11 01 



n ii ii it it it 10 ii ll ll n it ti in ii il Ii it B mi mi 



11 11 11 11 10 U 11-43 | li 11 11 01 10 11-14 



■ peep tat - at three paha bird-. 3: yards rise, $10 entrance, best 

 score to take the money. 



T J South 10 10 10 SEWerk 10 00 1 



HN Sherman 10 10 11 WE Wade 10 11 00 8 



Second Sweepstake, $10 entrance, T>est score to take the money, at 31 



yards rise. 

 EWerk 0110 IH N Sherman..! 1 It 10-5 11 11 



JELonk'.".'.'..;iOUl(M CSoulh 1110 11-5 10 



R Church 10 10 



Third Sweep, .'in . atranoe bl 9l scire two-thirds money, second the bal- 

 .,,,,-, . r ingle - io.i. 1 1 | mil ■ rise, miss and go out, 



EWerk ™t T J South 1 I 1 1 1 I 1 



.IE Long 1 11111 till! N Sherman out 



Sweepstakes ;)l si?: single birds, miss and go out, 31 yards rise. 



ipjgoutb " iE Werk till) 



,1 VV M'l'l 'LTrottcr 



H -■; ■ ,,m Mi.ii, : ' : -""iii '-' 



IFLoii" ■ -10 'JHK.lt 1111 4 



KCtc^:.;.".'.... iTIIeaeh . .1-10 3 



Kerr won, and this ended J aubi I perit, which was all BWBep- 



hankssto the Burner's Club fm kindness. Kt. 



THE KENTUCKY STATE SPORTSMEN'S 

 ASSOCIATION. 



Lexington, Kt., Sept. 34. 



Editui; Pokes! \-;u Stream:— 



The Convention of Kentucky Sportsmen met on Sep- 

 tember 32d at the. Phtenix Hotel, pursuant to n call issued 

 Lev the Hunters' Club of Lexinstou, Ky., and was called to 

 order by 11 V Thornton, President of the Hunter's Club, 

 , pointed J. M. Taylor and G. R. Bell temporary 

 Secretaries. Mr. Thornton on takinsr the ehair staled the 

 object for which the Convention was called, and expressed 

 tiie desire that at the next meeting the numbers would 

 not only be increased, but that the purpose aud Ihe object 

 of the meeting would be seen and felt. 



The cliairman appointed the following committee on cre- 

 dentials: Canlain II. Brown, C. A. Kenny, Thomas 

 II Maniien, James Hedges. Dr. William Pryor, and J. M. 

 Taylor. Tile committee reported the following delegates 

 with proper credentials, and recommended that any repre- 

 sentative 01 other clubs or counties he admitted to seats in 

 the Convention: 



Hunters' Club, ot Lesington— Jere. Morton, Joseph 

 Dudes, Col. W. R. Fleming, Dr. B. VV. Dudley, Major J. 



