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FOEEST AND STREAM 



Points fob Judging Bktterb at AmbbicaS Bencii 

 Shows —There are no doubt nt this time in the United 

 Btates quite n number of purely hrod setters of both the 

 Irish and Gordon breeds, cither imported directly from 

 Europe or the progeny of animals brought to this country, 

 whose pedigrees can be given for at least two or three gen- 

 erations, many of which will be entered for award on this 

 side of the water. For the reason that these breeds nave 

 distinctive characteristics, wc advise thatthe English points 

 of judging for both be taken at exhibitions of our own, 

 which will be found to differ from those followed at the 

 display of the Tennessee Stale Sportsmen's Association at 

 Memphis, October 7th, where both the best, setter and 

 pointer, it appears, were judged by the one scale of points. 

 A setter is not necessarily a Gordon, because he is of black 

 and tan color; nor an Irish, because he is red, although we 

 should pronounce them as having decidedly such blood if 

 this was the case; both might have had dams of far differ- 

 eat shade of coat than themselves, being Gordon and Irish 

 alone in color; in shape and other points, just the reverse. 

 At Mineola the great dog that took the prize, under the 

 class of setters of any other breed, was a perfect black and 

 tan. Colburn's Dash, entered by Mr. A. C. Waddell, of 

 Newton, N. J., in very many characteristics a perfect 

 Gordon in appearance, is still a cross, if we are informed cor- 

 rectly, of last mentioned breed; and the red Irish, and a 

 truly tine stock and field dog. 



We hiive but three, classes of setters displayed at any 

 Bench Show— the Gordon, the Irish and the settei of any 

 other breed, (we might have said four, if any pure Rus- 

 sians do exist even in their oivu country,) for are not the 

 Blue Bellon's, the Macdonna's, the Lewellin's, and the 

 Lavarack's made up by judicious crossings of the first two? 

 Therefore, all of these latter mentioned must come under 

 the head of setters of any breed. 



The London Kenncll Club adopt this system of classifi- 

 cation, and we must say it is the only method that we can 

 go by in our shows, us far as we ean see. 



Mange in Dogs. — The surest preventative of mange in 

 dogs is a clean and comfortable kennel, where the bed is 

 changed at least once a week during the season when straw 

 is needed for warmth, and in milder weather where pine 

 shavings are used and removed as often. 



We have noticed that when growing puppies are com- 

 pelled to sleep in damp and dark places mange frequently 

 appears on them before they attain twelve months of age, 

 and we advise those having setters and pointers to raise to 

 allow them plenty of pure air and sun light, for this malady 

 once established is difficult to cure. 



The following formula we have taken from Mayhew's 

 management of dogs, as being an admirable remedy for this 

 skin disease, having known of its being used with great 

 success: — 



Uny. resin i — As much as you please to take. 



Sub — Enough to make the ointment very thick. 



OL Jump — Enough to make the unguent of a proper con- 

 sistency, but not too thin. 



Apply this once a day, thoroughly rubbing it in, and 

 wash it off the day following, repeating the dressing until the 

 dog has been dressed three times and washed thrice, when 

 the ointment can be discontinued, again using it only when 

 the dog shows a return of the disease. 



This receipt is by no means a cleanly ono, and necessarily 

 keeps dog and master some distance apart; a simpler 

 remedy, however, when the case is a mild one, will be found 

 by rubbing into the dog's skin a decoction of white oak 

 bark and alum and letting it dry in. 



Irish Setters. — A dog show was held recently in Dub- 

 lin which was very successful in every way, but especially 

 in its display of that magnificent type of the hunting dog, 

 the red Irish setter. A correspondent, who notes keenly, 

 writes that the best dog was a. splendid animal. Describ- 

 ing him he says that "he has a grand long face, nearty, if 

 not quite, an inch longer than anything else in the class; 

 his ears are good and hang well, his nose is mahogany- 

 colored, his red is as good as can be bred, his legs are good, 

 and so are his feet; he has a grand loin, his hair is straight, 

 and his stern is grand, being beautifully carried, and with 

 the nice comb fringe so much admired. Had he a darker 

 eye he would bo perfect. The second prize dog is a line 

 fellow, beautifully feathered on legs and body, but his tail 

 has not so good a style of feathering as the first, being 

 rather more like a sheep-dog's brush than a setter's flag; 

 moreover, he has a vile temper. The third prize is a 

 brother of the former, but younger. He is in the same 

 style, but is shorter in head, aud has a black nose, which 

 Dr. Stone would have us to believe is the correct color; but 

 it is the first time I have ever heard it mooted as a f/nod 

 point. The same gentleman tried very hard to make me 

 believe that red and white is the correct color for an Irish 

 setter, but I am not quite convinced on thai point yet." 

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A Canine Milkek. — A gentleman residing in Dorches- 

 ter, Mass., Barzilla Paine, Esq., owns a large dog of the 

 St. Bernard species, also a cow, from which to obtain milk 

 for family use. Until subsequent to a period some three or 

 four weeks ago the cow gave four or five quarts daily, she 

 having begun to dry up, when suddenly the quantity was 

 reduced to about two quarts without any apparent cause. 

 The reason was net discovereduntil Thursday last, (Thanks- 

 giving Day,) when the cow was found in the afternoon, 

 quietly lying at rest, chewing her cud, in the field, where 

 Bhe had been turned to graze, and beside her lay the dog, 

 stretched out in a most comfortable position, busily engaged 

 in sucking the milk from her teats. It was then noticed that 



l be dog had displayed considerable tact in taking advan- 

 tage of like daily opportunities, he being always at home 

 at morning, noon and night, when his master was there, 

 but had not, made allowance for a holiday, and was there- 

 fore discovered, which will in future cut off his rations in 

 that quarter. Are not like instances of a dog turning milk 

 maid rare? 



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—The kennel at the Jardin d'Acclimatation of Paris has 

 been enriched by the addition of some of the finest, strains 

 of English staghounds, foxhounds, harriers, beagles and 

 retrievers, and these close the magnificient, collection of 

 hunting dogs kept in the Garden. All members of the 

 canine race useful to man are now represented there, and 

 as the best blood only is selected the people have an oppor- 

 tunity of becoming acquainted with the higher class of 

 dogs, and from these they learn what the best types should 

 be; and of course this must have a most salutary effect on 

 the improvement of the race. 



—One of the most interesting exhibitions of dog, held in 

 the British Kingdom for many a day, was the great national 

 trial of sheep dogs, which came off at Garth Gooch, Bala, 

 recently. The intelligence displayed by the animals was 

 most, extraordinary, and so effective as to receive the loud 

 applause of the numerous spectators in attendance. 



— The Providence Journal relates the following stories:— 

 A dog belonging to Mr. P. Riley, of Knightsvillc, R. I., 

 having discovered his master's house on fire I lie other morn- 

 ing, ran up to where the children slept and tried to awake 

 them by barking and jumping on their bed. Failing in 

 ibis he ran to ihe room of the elder son aud seizing him by 

 (he ear aroused him so that he screamed loudly. " His crv 

 awake the father, and the dog led him to the fire, which lie 

 succeeded in extinguishing ere it had made much head- 

 way. 



Michael Conley, of Providence, has four greyhounds 

 which saved a "man's life last week. This person was 

 engaged in making an excavation when the earth fell on 

 him, and covered him up. The dogs being near when the 

 accident occurred, commenced scratching and yelping, and 

 this being noticed, assistance was soon at hand to lake the 

 man front his tomb ere death had visited him. 



A Faithful Doa. — Wednesday afternoon a half-drunken 

 man named Croy, living in Canada, was wandering around 

 the Potomac, accompanied by a big dog, and having lots of 

 money. Yesterday morning he was found in an alley, 

 sleeping a drunken sleep, aud his dog was keeping watch 

 over him ami would allow no one to come neat until the 

 man shook off his sleep. The dog had been slabbed twice 

 with a knife, and there were two extra hats in the alley, 

 showing that thieves had come to rob the man and that the 

 doc had fought them off.— Detroit Free Press. 



THE WEBSTER SETTERS. 



Pomfret Centre, Conn., November S3, 1874. 

 Editor FoBErT and Stream:— 



1 read with much interest the account given in yonr issne of the 24th of 

 hist March, by "Veritas," about the Webster dogs Hake, and Ku li.-l. 

 and though I hnvc never chanced to sec Rake, I think I can enlighten 

 •■Venus" somewhat as to what became of Rachel; at least that she did 

 not cue, as Tie Bays, without Further issue. I know very little.of thocir. 

 cwnstancee attending their importation. The story circulaied nt the 

 time Wfla, that they were a present from the Duke of Devonshire to Mr. 

 W.I,-,:, i . 1 find by my record (for it has long been my practice to keep 

 a record of the bin li and pedigrees of all tile dogs I breed, and they are 

 by no means few) that in the Fail of 1847, my friend iiuninglon Anthony, 

 o£ Providence, E. 1., (who was also an intimate Sporting friend of Mr. 

 Webster's) Bent mo Rachel to keep and breed a tiller of puppies from. 

 t kept her through, one i-'all and Winter, and returned her to Mr. Ali- 

 mony ihe following- spring, and what became of her afterwards [am un- 

 able to eay. «*ihe dropped a litter of pups at my place in January, I84Si 

 by a fine, brown setter dog, called Phil, owned by Stephen A Packer, of 

 Packersville. Conn, Of ibis litter only two aogpups were saved. [ 

 . I l'aeker had the other. Mine dica before he was old enough 

 to break. Friend Packer broke his, and 1 afierwards sold him to the late 

 Wm N. (irei.-n, of Worcester, Moss. Previous to Rachel's coming into 



my possess) she was brerl to a ftno liver and white setter owned by 



Mr. BdWftrcl Harvey, or Providence, ft. I., and I broke n bileh of this lit- 

 ter for Mr. Henry Tnurber. formerly of Providence, it. 1., and late of 

 Putnam, Conn. This bileh was the very image of old Rachel. Mr. 

 Thinner afterwards Bold her to Eden Perrin, then Of West ltillingty, 

 i. ',iiiii.. !>nt now Of Qltteyvllle, it. I. t purchased her of Mr. Perrm for 

 tton. Robert I!. Roosevelt, of New York, aud ivhjle with me 1 bred this 

 uitoh, named Set, toStejiheo A, Packet?* dog Eml; the result was two 

 li,,-,, ends oitcb pup, all liver and white. One do«, culled stow, l broke 



i-'.-.i. ill, -ii "f West Killini'Jy, Ciii.u., but now .it' St. Paul, Minn. The 

 Bitot 1 , i!l,-,l Zip, and kept her myself, and from tier nearly all my 

 present dogs have descended, and they cany her bipod, in-a greater or 



■ ,;,■,■■ .ninny of iheiu still retaining one-eighth to one-sixth ol old 

 R ohcl'i blood. 1 do not mention this because I think so highly oj 



i M ) Of Rachel, or of her stock. I regret to say that my expari ince 



with old Rachel in the held dies not correspond nt all with that ol 

 ;,i or Mr. Blunt, i have hunted her, and had her in ,, i, ,11, ,, 

 till Held orj roffedgrouso, qnail and woodcock, and have seen her tlush 

 bird after bird > Itho it ■ ■ - o attempting to make a point, and i never saw 

 her mulct lint one point, and that was on a bevy of quail, and she did 

 that. in a very indifferent manner. I have seen her repeatedly, day after 



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Pedigrees. — W« have some English and American pedi- 

 grees of great interest to sportsmen, which we shall publish 

 nest week. 



Men and Bivtr Mi 



FISH IN SEASON IN DECEMBER. 



Striped Bass, Itoccus Hnentvi , Wcakfish. 



Trout (black ba«si. 

 Drum [two species) 

 English. 

 Striped Bass. 



Sheepshead. 

 TaUorfisb. 

 Set) Bass. 



Fish in Market.— -Fresh mackerel and codfish fire now 

 for sale; the former at 18 cents, one of which, the largest we 

 ever saw weighed four pounds. Smelts from the Penob- 

 scot River in Maine are abundant. Price 25 cents per 

 pound. Liye codfish brings from 8 to 10 cents per pound; 

 halibut very scarce, 25 cents ; white fish abundant at 18 . 

 cents ; scollops are becoming scarce, $1 50 per gallon ; 

 green turtle is also very rare at 20 cents per pound ; a fair 

 supply of terrapin is on hand, but these creatures bring 

 $12 per dozen "counts." Lobsters from Massachusetts 

 are comparatively abundant at 10 cents per pound ; and 

 hard shell crabs are numerous enough to supply all de- 

 mand at $3 50 per 100. 



— Most of the fishing fleets have returned home, so the 

 ports at which they belong are crowded with masts. 



— The oyster trade in Baltimore has had a very remark- 

 able increase within a few days, the sales having doubled 

 those of any pievious time. 



The herring fishery has been very successfully prose- 

 cuted from Ipswich the past month. 



The Portsmouth Chronicle says that Mr. Charles H. 

 Wallace recently caught otT the Shoals, while alone in his 

 whaleboat, 2,180 pounds of cod— the largest single cu'eh of 

 Hit: season. The crew of schooner "Light of Home" 

 caught 230 cwt. of fish during one nitdlt recently, not far 

 from the same locality. Squid fishing has become a lucra- 

 tive employment at Provincetown. Owners of bankers are 

 buying them for from 40 cents to 50 cents ft hundred. Two 

 men can easily catch on a hook made for the purpose 1,300 

 or 1,400 a day. 



Schooner "Willie B. Wilbur took with the hook 20 bar- 

 rels of fine mackerel off Race Point on Monday of last 

 week. — Gape Ann Advertiser, Nov. 28th. 



— An att entive correspondent, Mr. C. W. Stevens, of 

 Boston, who was recently in Milwaukee, has sent us a large 

 pebble and the accompanying note which follows. The 

 pebble is creased so as to receive the bight of a cord around 

 its centre: 



Milwaukee, November 19, 18*4. 

 Mn. SVBAENS:- 



The stone presented yon to-day, weighing three-quarters of a pound, is 

 an anchor stone from a gill net which is set in the bottom of Lake Mich- 

 igan, in 300 to 500 feet of water, it was taken from ihe stomach of the 

 trout (Mackinaw) you saw to-day in our fish room. There was also 

 taken from the same trout a herring about eight inches loug, and a dog 

 fish about twelve inches long. They are a very voracious flsh, and beef 

 bones, corn cobs, and other refuse, thrown them from vessels are often 

 found in them. The tront above mentioned weighed, when dressed, 39 

 pounds. Very respectfully your?, Grees J. Laxgworthy. 



Commenting upon the foregoing, our correspondent in- 

 forms us that these anchor stones have not been in use for 

 several yeats, and if .Air. Langvvoi'thy's supposition is cor- 

 rect — that, in lowering the net the stone became detached, 

 and Sir Trout, thinking it a nutritious morsel, gobbled it- 

 then he must have carried it around for quite a lengthy 

 period. 



A Whale Feast. — The Washington Sunday Herald con- 

 tains the following natty description of a whale feast, in 

 which many friends of the Foxiest and Stream partici- 

 pated: 



Among those present were Professors S. F. Baird, United 

 States Fish Commissioner, and his assistant, Prof essor Jas . 

 A. Milner; Br. Erail Bessels, of Polaris fame; Dr. Gill, the 

 eminent ichthyologist; Professor G. B. Goode, Dr. W. H. 

 Holmes, W. H. Jackson, the well known scenic photo- 

 grapher; Professor Henry W. Elliott, the naturalist, who 

 has become an authority "in the habits of Ihe seal and wal- 

 rus; G. Beihler, the engineer; J. T. Gardiner, the well 

 known geographer; Professor He.in, of Pennsylvania; Dr. 

 Klliotl CoUL-s, I' S. A. :Dr Endlii'li, the gL-ok^isf, ni.d a 

 number of others well known in the scientific world. Pro- 

 fessor Baird presided, aud dispensed the broiled meals, 

 while Dr. Endlich and Professor Miller, respectively, served 

 the roast and broiled dishes of whale. The fish was a young 

 whale of the species known as "black fish," and was 

 caught off Block Island a short time since, and sent to 

 Professor Baird, carefully packed in ice, and arrived in a 

 complete stale of preservation, While Mr. Palmer, the 

 well known taxidermist and artist attached to the Smith- 

 sonian, was engaged in making a plaster east of the speci- 

 men, a discussion rose among several of the scientists as 

 to the value of the whale as a food fish, and on the spur of 

 the moment it was decided to prepare a feast and send forth 

 among the highways to liud adventurous, inquiring men to 

 meet and eat a portion, A little delay -was occasioned 

 in the vain endeavor to find some one who knew how to 

 say "grace before incut," and tin; guests were asked for a 

 preference. All being helped, the first few mouthfulls 

 were taken in silence and meditatively, and then opinions 

 as to the taste of the flesh were in order. This developed 

 the remarkable fact, that the little party comprised men 

 who had visited not only every portion of "our own country, 

 bul nt -.itdi, every portion of the globe. Professor Baird 

 thought his broiled whale tasted like beer liver. Di: Cones 

 thought it tasied Strongly like seal meat, but this brought 

 mil three of the party who knew all about that oily dainty. 

 Professor Elliott knew better than that, but inclined to 

 think that it resembled walrus meat in the Fall, when that 

 mammal had been living on roots and sea weed, aud ex- 

 plained that the same meat, killed in the Spring when the 

 nniicul had been living on tish and seals, tasted strong and 

 oily. Dr. Bessels agreed with Elliott and the other seal- 

 eaters, and thought "it tasted like plain beef. Dr. Endlich 

 thought it similar to panlher meat; Dr. Gil) had eateu 

 grizzly hear meat, and thought the dish before him was 

 like it; he seemed to like it, and took three pieces. Prof. 

 Milner volunteered the remark that it tasted good anyhow, 

 but Professor Goodc thought the remark was u personal 



