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lish pointers, and cannot be present in the setter without 

 tailing strongly of pointer blood either remote or near, no 

 muter how well-feathered or long coated lie may he. The 

 furrowed nose is so marked n characteristic of the Spanish 

 pointer that it is the last to be removed in a breed of setters 

 where such a cross has been allowed, and notwithstanding 

 the dog may be a superlative one in the field, and we may 

 say with almost all the pointer bred out of him, atill the 

 cleft is an unmistakable proof that his ancestors, one side 

 or the other, were oE Castiiian blood. A double nose, as 

 it is called, does not necessarily prove that the dog has bet- 

 ter scenting powers than one having a single nose, and it J 

 has been amusing to us to see the value set upon an animal j 

 having the malformation, and the arguments brought j 

 i of his double acuteness of smell. No doubt the ! 

 old Spanish pointer had a very sensitive nose and was | 

 noted in this respect, but the furrow added nothing to the ; 

 superiority, for a dog can be fully as good without it. j 



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PRExiujjrs to be Offered for Doos at Poui.tkt j 

 Shows.— Mr. Joseph M. Wade, Editor and Proprietor of 

 the J5itl«'»>:'8 Journal and Poultry Exchange, of Philadel- 

 phia, kindly informs us that the Western Pennsylvania 

 Poultry Society, at their last meeting, decided to offer 

 special premiums to the amount of $800 for the best dogs 

 of different classes to be exhibited at their coming show; 

 also a silver medal, value §10, and that many of these 

 specials are ^'30 each. Tiie Michigan State Poultry Asso- 

 ciation likewise invite tiie owners of finely bred sporting 

 ami other fancy dogs to enter their animals for exhibition 

 nt the display of the society to take place at Detroit, Jan. 

 14th to 21st, 1875. We "are glad to notice the marked 

 interest there is being taken iu the improvement of our 

 breeds of dogs in the United States, and the above informa- 

 tion received from Mr. Wade — who is not only an expert iu 

 the poultry iine but a good judge of canine flesh— plainly 

 shows that before long Ave shall be having annual Bench 

 Shows in every prominent city in the United States. 



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" — Tho Prince and Princess of \\ T ales are very generous 

 In their donations to dog shows; and they exhibit one or 

 two animals in each of the higher classes besides. 



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PO OR DAS H ! 



CtrrcuuGUE, Suffolk Co., Dec. It, 1871. 

 Editor Fuiibst and Stream:— 

 Will you bo kind enough to communicate to the sportsmen of America 

 it , or nry great ami good doe Da-h, who died the 9tli Dec. 1374, of 

 disgust, and who t am afraid, like tho Clays, Wc.bsisrs and Everetts, has 

 left no Issue to perpetuate his great name ? I took him out oil Saturday 

 to look for quail over a piece of ground recommended to mo as being 

 aide -.villi Wida. We hunted the best pan of ll.e day without ever strik- 

 tug the trail of a quail. We v.-eut back to our wa.-on. I put the old dog 

 ta sad wo returned borne. Toward evening, as Is my custom, I called 

 Da-h to Come and take a walk, which he understood as well as you do Ihe 

 tiund of your dinner bell, He was very reluctant in obeying, which I 

 . a:, h.i came in me gaudy. I said tea 

 ffiead of mine wh.i stood by me, that the dog has made up his mind 

 never to hunt any more, and it's the last time I snail ever take him out. 

 Simfta/ and Monday he gradual!; grew weaker, and ou Wednesday he 

 breamed liis last. The last look he L-ave me was indicative of Ihe disease 

 lie died of. lie concluded that if Long I-laud » as to he my hunting 

 ground for the future he could he of no earthly use 



expense and an encumber-once) an l he died wituoui 



1 take this method of informing my friend? of my loss t 

 inquiry: '-How is Dash?" which, to me at present, i 

 agreeable, By raentioulug the same iu your next week' 

 oblige, tour friend, - W. Sot 



AH dog fanciers will understand the nature and depth of 

 5|r. Rodman's affliction, and admire the philosophy with 

 which he endures it all.— Ed. 



r pang. 

 nd all further 

 anything but 

 sbuc you will 

 c Kodma: 



A. useful dog collar. 



Guakbv, Conn., December 7. 1874. 

 EniTon FoHEaT ANDSrrtSOt:— 



Having beoo troubled oy doga with lar^e neck and email heads, pulling 

 the collar over their necks whan chained up [unless tlio collar was buck- 

 lud so to he uncomfortable) J contrived the enclose.! collar to prevent the 

 diilicnliy, aud it work* perfectly. Vou will see that the collar Is loose, 

 except when tho dog Is pultiug on the chain, then tt tightens about three 

 tncnes, but not enough to choke, as it is Bel loose uhen not strained. By 

 tying Iu the other ring it operates like any collar. Norman Eljioke. 

 fanciers to Whom we have shown this seem to 

 ill |{ • very clever contrivance. — En. 



GAME IN SEA SON FO R DECEMBER. 



Moose Ifeaj Male/Lit, Caribou, T<irunr(w EoMffiftr. 



■•■■■< Canadmilf. Ifed l>eer. r,„ ),••■< rur/iliiunut. 

 Hares, brown andgrav. Unail. Urlw i'iiv"" ■ 



I i , ■...;.,. I'iniiated Grouse, Telrao Oufildo. 



Woodcock ■:,■:■:.:. Wild Duck. Ueese, Brant. &c. 



Rutted Grouse, 'J'cirwj unlbeiltl ! ■ 



Gvireis MatiKET.— Game is unusually abundant this 

 t and nearly all species are represented. Wild geese 

 are cooling in "from Virginia, the greater portion being 

 r i:i Cobb's Island, on the Eastern shore. They retail 

 at $3 50 per brace. Ducts are very plentiful and range 

 enty-nve cents per brace for teal to £3 ."id per brace 

 for canvass backs. Wild turkeys are" coming in as rapidly 

 as required; they briug twenty-live cents per pound. Can- 

 adian hares bring fifty cents per brace; Connecticut rabbits 

 bring the same price, but English hares are wort 

 brace. English pheasants bring $3 pur brace, but at this 



tin letni II it Yellow-legged snipe are worth 



$2 50 per dozen— that is the large kind. No plover, Eng- 

 lish snipe or worjiicock can now he found, all having 

 wended their way southward. 



WDACK.3.— A mislaid letter, which is old now, 

 being dated Nov. Glh, contains some genera! information 

 which will be useful iu the future, 



"If any of the rcadua ftf FoitEST AND Sh'UE.VM ask where 



to go for duck, send them to Vergennes. The Stevens 

 House is the most comfortable hotel in the county, and 

 they will tlntl boatmen lo take them down the breek to 

 "Devil Creek," where they will find black ducks and teal, 

 and in fact all kind of duck in great quantities. We had a 

 poor hunt at the Ausahle Lakes; drove plenty of deer, but 

 they would not run well, or they would'nt .swim, and that 

 is an item for FoitEST and Sthkam. All over the woods 

 this year, the story is that, deer are very plenty, hut. they 

 can not often be driven into deep water where they have 

 to swim. No one can account for it, but it was so' at tho 

 Sarnnae, and Lake Placid, and various places. Usually in 

 October they go at once for deep water." 



New Jersey*, Barnegai In'ci, Dec. 9.— We have got lliem 

 at last. We are in the height of our ambition; cold 

 weather and full tides have done it. On Monday Joel 

 Ridgway killed 7 brant, 4 ducks; on Tuesday J. \V~. Kin- 

 sey, S. Soper and 8. Inman, on Clam Island, bagged 'JO 

 brant, 7 geese, 8 ducks; Joel Ridgway, 8. Pen-in and John 

 Soper, on High Bar, 2 geese, 18 bran!, 14 ducks. 



Pennsylvania.— f lumbar;/, Dec. 7 7/, 1874.— Rabbits arc 

 shot by -scores at the present time, and instances of parties 

 of two or three shooting from twelve lo tliirtv in a single- 

 day, can be truthfully cited. We are sorry" to say that 

 sportsmen are shooting all our partridges in "this section, 

 and we would recommend thai the law restrict such 

 a cotidemnablc course. Large game is non cut amongst us, 

 while the disciples of Izaak Walton can also not gratify 

 their desires for "sport." O. D. S, 



A veteran hunter in Bedford county, hist week shot 

 his one hundredth deer. Hears, wildcats and other 

 varmints are reported to. be quite numeroas in the 

 woods. 



Maryland. — Tame Pigeons are dying off very rapidly 

 in Maryhtud, some peculiar disease having attacked them. 



NoitTft Carolina. — Greensboro, in Guilford county, 

 North Carolina, is the centre of a game country, which is 

 resorted to by sportsmen from Europe as well as from the 

 States. Wis "have Ihe authority of a local paper for stating 

 that from 175,000 to 200,000 quails are shipped every Fail 

 to northern markets. 



Fi.oiuda. — New Smyrna, Dec. 9. — Ducks and deer in 

 abundance, and mullet by the acre. SlieepsUea.il are now 

 being caught in great quantities. 



Rabbits are so plentiful in Bronson that the pigs there 

 go out and catch one when they want a square meal. 

 Wild ducks are very abundant and sell at twenty-five cents 

 each. Deer are plenty in the mountain districts. Onrex- 

 changes note the killing of a great many of the fleet-looted 

 animals. 



X Texas. — They have large game in Texas, which is not 

 pleasant to encounter. A Texas paper now before us men- 

 lions a lion having been shot near Dallas that weighed 510 

 pounds and measured seven feet in length. The same- 

 paper records a desperate fight between a cougar and a set- 

 tler's family living on the bank of the Clear Fork of the 

 Brazos River. The cougar eutered their cabin and seized 

 an infant from its cradle. The parents objected, and got 

 two shots into the beast, but the door getting closed during 

 the fracas, the combatants were brought to very close 

 quarters, the cougar "leaping from side to side of the room, 

 upsetting the chairs, tables, and other furniture, at the 

 same time uttering the most' terrific screams imaginable. 

 At hist Mr. Selman got hold of another gun and shot it 

 through behind the shoulders. It then jumped at the fire, 

 grabbing its mouth full of live coals, and stood there and 

 growled until Mr. Selman opened the door, and Mr. lL'vii 

 took it by the tail and dragged it out into the yard, where 

 it died. It measured eleven feet nine inches in length." 



—A Southern paper offers the following advice to its 

 readers: "For sport go to Texas." They have panthers 

 there thirteen feet long and exceedingly vigorous: and if 

 you have no sport, the panthers certainly will." 



Wisconsin.— Montcllo, Dm-. lOr/t, 1874.— Wisconsin has 

 had a genuine fox chase within her borders, aud appear- 

 ances seem favorable to have many more of the same 

 sort. Mr. Samuel Ellis, of Eau Claire, who owns a pack of 

 ten fox hounds, was the getter up of the chase, and un- 

 doubtedly this successful hutit Yviil stimulate lovers of tiie 

 chase lo "further efforts toward organizing a club . In this 

 instance the hounds struck a trail in the town of Pleas- 

 ant Valley, and after an exciting chase of two and one half 

 miles was driven lo his hole and there unearthed and 

 killed. Foxes are abundant in that section, and a rich 

 harvest of. sport awaits these fox hunters. Rabbits are 

 plenty near Montello, and your correspondent occasionally 

 bags a few by way of variety. Grouse are also compara- 

 tive plenty, though wild, and by due care for their protec- 

 tion excellent sport will be had" next season. Eked. 



Illinois.— Captain f!ogardus has been doing some heavy 

 work receullv among the quails and chickens. He sent 

 Messrs, Overton and Moiiahaii, of Park Row, New York, 

 223 quail and seventy-eight chickens last week. 



Westkiin Game.— The markets of St. Louis are glutted 

 willi game, as high as 50,000 pounds arriving some days. 

 Wild turkeys bring only sixty cents a piece; venison can 

 lie purchased for three cents per pound, ducks for %i 50 or 

 $2 per dozen, grou=e $1 per dozen, quail from forty to fitly 

 cents, and squirrel from twenty-five to thirty cents pu- 

 dozen. This is cheap enough, so that game is actually 

 cheaper than the most ordinary foods. 



—A pigeon shooting handicap will take place on Satnr 

 day next at Jerome Park for a valuable cup, the gift of 

 Mr. James Gordon Bennett. There are already some forty- 

 live entries. 



—Mr. George Mansui' of the Dexter Park, Chicago, will 

 give u shooting tournament free to all, at his place, com- 

 mencing the 38th Of December and terminating the third of 

 January. The participants will be divided into various 

 grades, and the shooting will be sweepstake matches. 



—A grand shooting match will come off at the grounds 

 of the Chiouso Gun Club on the 19th instant. Amateurs 

 only will be permitted to participate. 



—Mr. Rand, the President of ihe Hannibal, Missouri, Club 

 was presented with a handsome leather medal the other 

 evening for not scoring & point In the annual hunt of his 

 club. 



—Fox, stag, otter find hare hunting is now at its height 

 iu England, Ireland and Scotland, The fields are very 

 large, so it would seem that I his noble, sport is becoming 

 mcu'e popular instead of sinking into decadence. Courtier 

 an I peasant attend it Yvith the same eml.usiasm. 



CmoAOO, Ii-i-, December iO-h. ISM. 

 Editor Fokbsi and Stream:— 



Two of ihe members of the Kenni.-ott Club— Armor Price and .1 J 

 BlClllmau-wc.it to Tom SUl-5'-, grounds, the other day with a uuml.tr of 

 iheir friends to contest for tho --buck lie id - gold medd. The following 

 is the score. Ton single and flyedpnble risaseach. I. Stags, referece. 

 - , _. , Single. Double. 



J. J. Mi inman I 1 I 1 1 I I 1 1— n 11 11 10 11 11- 9 



Abl.rr Pri.r 111111111 1—10 11 11 11 11 11—10 



Total for Kleinman, 18; f nr Price, 80. 



A four handed thatch followed, with this result:— 



AbnerPrioe 1 11111111 1-10 



T.Swgg 1 11111111 1—10 



Total 



T. V>'_ Wilmatth. _ . 

 J. J. Kteiuman 



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Mr. Price killincr lib thirty straight, all considered, makes 11 the Ircsl 

 shootiog il.i, tca.-on. *„>? 

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—At a stated me, ting of the Philadelphia Sportsman's 

 Association, on December the 2d, 1874, Ihe following 

 officers were elected to till their respective positions for the 

 ensuing year:— President, Bernard A. Hoopes; Vice-Presi- 

 dent, Franklin C. Jones; Treasurer, Annesley N. Morion, 

 Secretary, Horace I!. Pearson; Aassistant-Se'iretary, W. R. 

 Knight. Board of Directors— Jno. C. Johnson^ John B 

 Sartori, Clement S. Phillips, William II. Gumbos, Martin 

 Thourou. 



CiiEKDMoou.— The range tit Crcedmoor will be kept open 

 this Winter lo enable the members of the Amateur Club lo 

 practice whenever they desire. 



—All shooting matclics seem lo be over for tho present 

 season in the Atlantic States, but in California they are 

 prepared to keep them going during the Winter. 



— A Ride Club is to be organized in New Haven to be 

 composed of members in and out of the National Guard. A 

 meeting was held Thursday evening for the purpose of or- 

 ganizing. 



AnotheK Rifle Club. — Mount Vernon, New York, has 

 now an organized ride club under the name of The Ameri- 

 can Rifle Association. At the last meeting Col. John T. 

 Underbill was unanimously elected President, Mr. Whit- 

 taker, Vice President, Alfred Starr, Treasurer, and Geo. 

 O. Starr, Secretary. The following Board of Directors was 

 chosen: Major Geo. G. DeWitt, Jr., Edward Gay, Captain 

 Charles J. Chatfield, Hon. Theodore Pine, Captain John T. 

 Coburn, Dr. George Gill, Lieut. Col. Henry Hnss, Hon. 

 Charles M. Schiefferin and Aulay W. Peck. The first 

 prize meeting will be held Christmas Day at Mager's 

 Range. There will be a military and sportsman 

 The range will open for practice on Saturdays. We un- 

 derstand that about three hundred dollars worth of prizes- 

 has been given to be shot for. 



—Tho Franklin Rifle Club of Hartford has for members 

 besides the employes at Colt's Armory, several of ths Na- 

 tional Guard and well known citizens who are interested in 

 rifle practice. General Hawley, Col. Clapp, Asst. Surg. 

 Bullock and others are enrolled among its members, while 

 Mr. G. W. Yale, the line long range marksman and mem- 

 ber of the American team, is an old member. — Knapsack. 



—The Summer Light Guard of San Francisco who chal- 

 lenged any military "team" in the United States to shoot 

 against them at 200 and 000 yards, held their semi-annual 

 match 011 the 20th ult., a day characterized as one of alter- 

 nate cloud, sunshine ami drifting fog. Forty rive mem- 

 bers were present. They were divided into three classes, 

 the best shots being put 'in the lirst-class. The first-class 

 Aral five shots at 20b and 500 yards respectively, for the 

 prize, a handsome gold badge, which was won by Serg't 

 G. H. Strong, who scored sixteen points out of a possi- 

 ble tweniv.al 200 yards, and seventeen points outof twenty 

 at 300 var'ds. The gold badge for the second and third 

 class was won by Edwa'-d J. Smith, who scored two cen- 

 tres and a bullseye at 150 yards, firing three shots. The 

 bring was conducted under the Crcedmoor rules, and was 

 excellent. 



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PLAIN QUESTIONS FOR SPORTSMEN. 



Unite.-. toKEs-r jsn Stuk.ui;— 



I would ask is there any real satfefactiou In Shooting the Will p p 



(EuRlisli snipe) during tho Spring Uuhl, knowing at the same time Uiey 

 arc on their nay to their iucudins ground*, and that the -eggs in the fe- 

 males are far towards bei..^ developed! Should not our game law a pro-. 

 tect them at this time ? 



Are -vte not working against our own jatere*6s In shouting wild fowl 

 daring the SprlnS, Jn destroying ihe source from which Klttl' I tie 



10 abolish Slimmer woo 

 It is staled in the •• 

 Ridgwujyhat the wild) 

 aesling eady fnthe Spi 

 itgportsmonlikB toeno. 

 time theyaiv RBitnEr! 

 formed for the protectif 

 iirgs than by killing tho 

 hatching 1 their yonng? 



:xperience [.roved to most eportsiuen tho need 



r.i. hi KnrUi Amerlea," by l'.ai.d. Brewer* 

 , .a in.' Bevccal broods iti « season; commences 

 g aad continues until late in ihe ttuinmer. la 

 rage the trapping of i-.-a-i pigeons during ttaa 



ul gftniO) set a b-tter example at their nieer- 

 audsof birds that are caught while engagofl iu 

 Check Conn. 



THE PEABODY RIFLE. 



Fa 



Emror. I-'oKK.vr asi. Stkeam:— 



I cauno; let a squib in your e; 



protest, I i-.n-r lo > our notice ol 



u KivEin Mass., December -I, 1S74. 



paper of Deo. 3 pass wiihout a 

 jour notice of experiments with the. P,ahody ntlc. 

 of a p. rtyofih.ee, all armed with Peabody Bportmg 

 rifles. -lo c-ilib.e, «le>. in It*", ni.ile atrip from San Vrauci.-co iierona 

 Nevada, Utah, Idaho, and into Montana as far as l'u.i tlenlon, thence 

 down the Missouri to Omaha. Though inexperienced rifle 



.„• om.-we ivach.d Hie Mi-»ouii«e found no gnus whiih 

 could coml arc with ouw, eliherin knocking oft the heads of 

 .'ci *e or :n killing buffalo and amelope at long range. Both 111 ncninny 

 ami penetiution Ihe Foaa idj ha- no rival nan,.,.; rifles. Al IU) yards rl c 

 id •..( an antelope. Ar.i >> yard*, Prof. 

 , the Brooklyn Polytechnic) rifle sent n hull alter 

 a retreating buffalo cow, which. ?t liking her just fo.waid of the hip, tho 

 la.,\-- . to It ou 11 1" 1 shoulder. 



at he had forg .lien bis practice, the. writer, two Wei ks ago 

 today tiied hi* rid.: on broad bills ut rJeacaimei Point, and the first shot 

 tool; •)..■ nr.nn 1:0. e.-.H for a fine bird, sitting one hundred yards a«ay 

 ,, . r ,, ,. .,., ! :,ai who think the l\-aWy kicks so a; 



not to shoot well, that they citli-r lire too .mush powder, or hold the cam 

 on their arm, inste id of shoulder, as i-o many do; further, say yrm knew 



■ne three Peabod;sthat can. shoot, then yon ■ 

 will And them toryou. 



