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FOREST AJNTD STREAM. 



Eabtkbm Field Trials.— We have received from J. 

 Smith, Esq., of Baltimore, the following letter 

 from Cap! J no. M. Taylor, relative to proposed Field 

 Trials iu thai vicinity. There is no reason -why mi eh Hit 

 Event should not be held next fall, and indeed we are in- 

 formed that the mallei is HOW in hand, and a programme 

 shortly lo be issued. That U would ho a success in the 

 hands of the gentlemen who have recently given so ex- 

 cellent a Bench Show we have no doubt, and the entries 

 would be larger than for any previous event of the same 

 icier 1 — 



Bellefonte, Va., February lib, 1877. 

 J. ApDrspN Smith, Esq. s— 

 ****** * * * * * * 



hi there any chance Of making a common cause, or com- 

 bination of the sportsmen of Maryland, Delaware and Vir- 

 ginia, to unite iu a society lo inaugurate Field Trials this 

 doming fall? It is conceded by ail that the late show of 

 dogs ai Baltimore was ibe best ever held in America, and 

 would it not be as well to add "Field Trials" to your 

 ' i uccessful association? The pigeon fanciers would 

 not complain, as Ihey would have a grand opportunity of 

 i he performances of the ''homers," and could 



£ time to time during Ihe trials lest time and speed in 



flying the birds, and so carry the news to the press, which 

 would create a sensation both at. home and abroad, showing 

 the usefulness of the earlier pigeon when many miles from 

 graph 



i need sent cely say lo you or the gentlemen who take 

 this important matter in Itand, that f shall only be too 

 pleased to give my time, and what influence I may possess 

 fiee. I would also he glad to see Lincoln, the Manager. 

 [I i i in in does not understand the preliminaries at pres- 

 ent, but if he will come and stay with me a week, 1 will 

 do all ill my power lo make him the master of the art of 

 "Field Trials," as in my opinion be is Ihe best executiveon 



The situation of the dog trials, whether held in either of 



:i es, would g'ive the sportsmen of Mew York, 



Phil iiia, Boston, Baltimore, Richmond, and other 



ii s, an opportunity to show the dogs in the field. 



1 inces from these large and wealthy commercial 



cities to the ponds are comparatively short, "therefore the 



railroad fares for sportsmen trains and dogs would not, act 



as an excuse or as a prohibition to the 'entries. Where 



persons have to travel one thousand miles with the dogs 



and trainers, unless representing a club or society of 



gentlemen, they undoubtedly look at the cost. Mr. JN. I. 



McCrculy, the President of the Old Dominion Line of 



, en informed he that he would make a concession 



IU Hevp York to Petersburg, also along the 



route. 



In Richmond aud Norfolk there arc influential Spoils- 

 • nibs, both of which 1 am certain could be rebedon 

 lor their heat ly co operation. In Delaware there are many 

 gentlemen, who take a lively interest in dogs, etc., one of 

 Which 1 believe was the originator of the' "Gildersleevc 

 Block of stters." Do not be behind liana in tlus uew and 

 1 - isant pastime. It only wants somebody to start it, aud 

 then the trials will go ahead like your dog "Rowdy." 

 With icind regards, I am your sincerely, 



Joun M, Taylor, 



Dublin Dog Snow.— This show was opened on the 

 Dooming of the 24th January at the Dublin Exhibition 

 Palace, under the auspices of the Royal National Dog 

 BhOW Society of Ireland. The entries "numbered 037, and 

 the show was on the whole a success. Mr. Lort was ihe 

 only English judge, the others being Messrs. P., Gr, Ridg- 

 ffay, I). Bellamy, Joseph Taylor, J. J. Pirn, W. G. Merry, 

 and Whytc. Single-handed judging was the order of the 

 day, and as the judges had very spacious rings to compare 

 Ihe competitors in, they had great facilities in arriving at 

 correct decisions. One thing was, however, against them 

 —the paucity of keepers to lead the dogs, and the want of 

 ring stewards to regulate and keep order. 



The exhibition had the patronage of H. R. H. Prince 

 Arthur, Duke of Connaught, as president, his Grace the 

 Duke of Marlborough, aud bis Grace ihe Duke of Aber- 

 coru being vice presidents. Prince Arthur presented a 

 very handsome shield for competition in the Irish setter 

 olaeses, which trophy was won by a very tine young doe, 

 the properly of Mr, W. if. Lispcamb. 



The following arc the prize animals ir the sporting 

 classes :— 



Poisxi-Rf •-. — Dogs— 1st, .1. S. Skidmore (Iiomp); id. J. G. Cronyu 

 (GlflUeej Highlyco in ided J. like, 2 , Pontfl and Bean). J. C. WU- 

 eou (Bounce), and T. W. Webber (Scamp). Com. — W. Fkz?immon? 



; ■ '•. U. O'Frrrall (Bob in. Bitches— 1st, ,J. Pike {Queen)! ad, 



■ ■ etl . I ggie) Com -J. K. Kogerson (Jnno), Capt. R. B. 

 ,an<lF Moore (Sappho. 



a Hi \<~ Darin— 1st, and Duke of Connanght's. W. II. 



i ..liana llrad, !, Uil. Miss E. Donnelly (Bravo), 3d, T. M. llil- 



lianl iDnlii). ll:ehcnm.— J. Simpson (Pat), It. F. Hamilton (Knfua), 

 <■ . laiompam O oting Dash), and .VI, Daly (Star 11). Com.-YV. J. C'or- 



ii ;l (lull; l\i,Vv. Hay, nit ..,,1,0, M. Bury (Don), F. Moore (Rake), 



Vv.U. iVo.utry (Bruzsuj. I'. Ryan (Carlo), A. ,1. llcivd (Dash). II. Pattl- 

 son (Play), am T. j; . (/'H, iiiy (Grousea Bitches— 1st. J. H. O'Brien 



i ,,...,':.' H S Mi 'n.»> ™->- m 



I'orbett'cZelU 



0. Moi 



1 1 ; 1 1 ■]. M. 



L. Faulkiner fLilv), 

 A. It. Wallace I Kbo- 

 ulier (Lotty), ruxi 14 

 inntou (Chi 

 rditb (lioek), J T. 

 "' ), and W. 



Sit 



J J. 



1 ! -H. L. Moloch (Baffle), J. T. Iticln.rdson 



(Bellu), It, Murray (Lucy) G. P. Gray (Rake., and A. Fernet (Venus) 

 1. 1'. Townjey (Hover). 



—Mr. L. W. White's (of Bridgeport, Ct.) liver and while 

 inoiilid pointer hitch was visited by Case's Morn on the 

 •lad inst, The bitch is well-bred, of large size, and finely 

 her photograph already adorns our kennel depart- 

 ment. (.Use's Mom, while and lemon in color, was im- 

 ported in utero by Ex-Gov. Sprague, of Rhode Island, and 

 is now in the kennel of S. S. Pease, of this city. From 

 this union a tine litter should he expected . 



Saglnay, Eiok.ii Sjk.w.— This show is a fair one for Ihe 



■■ . ■ ■ <■• I ' iribei over fifty, anil comprise 



id uo.ls The English setters are not well 



■I resi uiai The jtish are a fail lot; pointers are poor 



I 

 ■idtlceutdogs Oreyhoii,,g> and .-Icc'rhuiwls fttfl 



good. Terriers, especially the black and tan, are good. 

 A splendid bull bitch is exhibited The awards will be 

 made tomorrow, c Lincoln, of Detroit, is Judge, etc. 

 Mr A. Ferguson, the President, and Dr. J. H. Cowell,',the. 

 Secretary, are very attentive in their duties. 



COB RESPONDENT. 



WAS IT WORMS, MEDICINE OR DIS- 

 TEMPER? 



Editor Fouest and Stream:— 



The spirit whiclt actuated Dr. H. C. Carey in report- 

 ing his unsuccessful case of canine therapeutics, in yoio u- 

 sue of Jan. 25th, is most commendable, since it is often those 

 very unsuccessful cases that give us most instruction, 

 which alas! the sportsman, as well as Ihe veterinarian, are 

 too apt lo withhold from the fashionable tact, that success 

 is the magic word that every one of us like lo see slmprint- 

 ed on our efforts, whether it be with the. trusty breech 

 loader, standing behind our fiue blooded "Dandy," thrilled 

 from center to peripbey by the sudden whirr of the quickly 

 rising quail, or with saddened and anxious heart watching 

 the distressing symptoms of our faithful suffering ''Dandy," 

 with an earnest hope to read aright the disease of our dumb 

 friend, that we may, with never failing (?) nostrum, or 

 rational remedy carefully applied, restore him to health. 

 lam more constrained to give my views in the cause of 

 poor dead Dandy, as well as the living Dash, Sport, or 

 Rake, from the fact that 1 feel especially invited, as one of 

 the "some olber correspondents," to put in my oar, and 

 hence 1 beg leave to offer the opinion that Dandy died of 

 an adquamie form of distemper, taking the Doctor's history 

 of the case upon which lo form an opinion. 



The presence of the worms was a consistent, thin expul- 

 sion, partly the result of the anthelmintic effect of the calo- 

 mel and santonine, and partly due to their once poisoned 

 and relaxed state in common with the poisoned condition 

 of the divine secretions of poor Dandy himself. 



Worms in the dog, like worms in the bowels of human 

 beings, rarely, if ever, prove fatal to the patients, especially 

 in ten day's illness. There is scarcely a young dog in ex- 

 istence, or a young human being either, that has not. with- 

 in the alimentary canal, worms, more or less in number, 

 so that iu brief, they nearly all "have worms." 



The certificate Of death, Mr. Editor, of Dandy, which 

 you suggest, of "loo much medicine," can scarcely hold 

 good, since the doses were moderate, and entirely' safe for 

 a setter of ordinary s'v/m, but rather let your verdict be, 

 that Dandy did not get enough of the right kind of medi- 

 cine early, viz., quinine iu specific and sustaining doses, say 

 three to live grains, two or three times a day, controlling 

 the bent's action to about 100 in a minute by carefully 

 guarded doses of tincture aconite, say one drop every 

 three hours. The pulsations of the heart being counted 

 hy means of the h'ngers applied ovei the lower part of the 

 dog's eiicsi between ribs. 



1 don't regard quinine as a specific in distemper, but iu 

 this case it would admirably answer the purpose of 

 counteracting the overwhelming of the dog's vital powers, 

 by the distemper poison. 



Distemper is a specific disease, of protean forms, and may 

 attack a dog with worms, and so affect the parasites and 

 secretions of the patient as to cause their expulsion. 



It is also a disease that exerts a powerful poison upon 

 the vital functions of the animal, and has a predilection for 

 exerting its poisonous influence upjn mucous membrane. 

 Generally that being the nasal aud respiratory organs, but 

 also at times, apparently avoiding these mucous passages. 

 and spending its violence upon the mucous membrane of 

 the bowels and causing death by poison, depression aud 

 exhaustion of the vital functions of the animal. 



Santonine may bo regarded as entirely reliable as a ver- 

 mifuge for dogs, and perfectly safe in the proportion of 

 from one to two grains to every twenty to fifty pounds of 

 dog, the drug to be administerd night and morning. Areca 

 nut, is undoubtedly an active vermifuge, but more irrita- 

 ting, and certainly "less safe than santonine 



South Fork, 



"We cannot agree with our correspondent, (hat Areca 

 nut is less safe than santonine; on the contrary, we believe 

 just the opposite to be the case, and in this connection the 

 following paragraph which we find in the Druggitts Circu- 

 lar, may be read with interest. It is headed "Dangers 

 from Santonine." — 



"In using santonine, it is well to bear iu mind that com 

 paratively small doses have produced convulsions of some- 

 what grave character. A German paper lately reported a 

 case in which poisonous effects were produced in a child 

 two years old by the ingestion of so small a dose as a grain 

 and a half. Convulsions commenced iu the face and ex- 

 tended to the extremities, while the respiratory action was 

 greatly impeded. Under warm baths, enemata, and arti- 

 ficial respiration, the patient recovered. The physician in 

 charge of the case then instituted a series of experiments 

 on the lower animals, and found that chloral and ether in- 

 halation controlled the convulsions produced by santonine. 

 He naturally argues that the same treatment should be pur- 

 sued in the human subject when a poisonous dote is 

 taken." 



Santonine for Worms — "I do not accept as true your 

 assumption, that my pup Dandy died of too "much medi- 

 cine." 1 do believe, however, that areca nut or any other 

 remedy that would have secured the expulsion of the"worms 

 at the time the first ones were discharged had been admin- 

 istered, that, his life would have been saved. With the repu- 

 tation thatit has acquired through the Forest and Stream 

 if areca nut had been at luiud at this stage of Lhe ease I 

 should certainly have administered it instead of the calomel 

 and turpentine. While 1 was waiting for you to send it lo 

 me I read up on anthelmintics and found that santonine 

 took the lead of all other articles for the destruction of 

 worms, and I administered it with the results named in the 

 two cases I sent you for publication 



I do not desire to be regarded as urging objections to 

 areca nut further than this; so far as 1 know it is not gener- 

 ally kept by apothecaries, and before it can be procured 

 from New York, some acute cases of disease produced by 

 worms might, prove fatal. On the other hand santonine is 

 kept by aimoM, every druggist, is easy of administration, 

 and certain in its action. II, G Cake.), 



Indianapolis, Feb 1st, 1877- 



Due of the principal re, recommend areca 



fop, for wo | because we 6' I 



extend beyond the mere expulsion of worms. It is an ex- 

 i I and acts as & Stimulant, or, so to speak, con- 

 dition powder; and when worms are merely suspected, not 

 known positively to exist, the dose of castor oil which fol- 

 lows the areca nut, may iu itself be the best remedy which 

 could be given,— tin. 



«■» 



DR. WEBB ON DISTEMPER. 



NEW Youk, Feb. 1th, 1877 

 Editor Forest and Stream:— 



You have asked me for a short and concise, article upon 

 "Distemper and bow to treat it," I cannot give what you 

 ask nor do 1 believe any man ran. Especially when you 

 consider that Ihe article will be read aud used by men who 

 have little or no experience in medicine, or in diagnostica- 

 ting diseases. Then I do not think there is such a disease 

 as distemper. To be sure, my experience has not been so 

 very large, but such as it has* been during the past three or 

 four years, combined with my knowledge of medicine, has 

 failed to convince me of its existence. 1 lnvo treated each 

 year very many cases of so called distemper, and in every 

 case I have been aide to diagnose a, distinct disease, and on- 

 ly through ignorance had the owners thrown aside the pro- 

 per name and given it a uew one, "Distemper;" and from 

 the promisucous manner in which the word m used, to des- 

 signate almost every 111 that dog is heir to, arises trreat con- 

 fusion and oftentimes serious harm; and it. appears lo me 

 that unless used properly it had better be dropped eutirely, 

 for at present it signifies nothing, unless it be that the ani- 

 mal is sick. I have found Pneumonia lo be the most com- 

 mon desease among dogs, where medical skill is called into 

 requisition, and second in importance is intestinal colic and 

 purging, I have lost but two dogs during the past, three 

 years, one from pneumonia and one from inflammation of 

 the bowels, and both of them I treated, so to speak, by 

 letter, never having seen the animals. Pneumonia generally 

 exhibits itself in the same manner as it does in man, there 

 is a chill or chilly sensation; the dog shivers, is dumpy and 

 sleepy, aud yet very restless and unable to sleep. " The 

 breathing is quickened, likewise the pulse, the nose is hot 

 and the eyes bloodshot. Soon the nose and eyes discharge 

 a thick purulent matter; a sharp, dry cough "is beard, and 

 now and then a teaspoon t'u] or 80 of greenish mat l er is 

 vomited from the stomach. As the dog improves the vom- 

 iting is less frequent, the discharge from the eyes and nose 

 ceases, and all the organs return to their normal state. 

 These symptoms are all present iu a severe case, and in 

 many slight atl teks some of them will be wanting or present 

 onty in a slight degree. 



When I have made up my mind that a dog has pneumo- 

 nia, I give twenty grains of calomel in powder dry on the 

 back of the tongue, and commence immediately with four 

 grains of quinine four limes every 21 hours, provided the 

 tlog is one year old. Should I he calomel move him too fredy , 

 give thirty drops tinet. opium in 3 ounces of starch water as 

 an enema, aft ivei age, Until the evacuations are less 



frequent. To those who prefer it, in place of calomel, give 

 four grains of blue mass every .alternate day until two or 

 three doses are taken, or, three compound earthartie pills 

 first day. I prefer the calomel, though 1 acknowledge the 

 dog then needs to be more carefully watched. The dose 

 Ol calomel may, to some unaccustomed to its use seem very- 

 large, but I have given ten grains of calomel with excellent 

 results to a puppy three mouths old. During the course of 

 Ihe disease the animal needs to be kept iu a iraim, dry com- 

 fnrt, iMe place, and nourished with strong soups, beef tea, 

 milk, bread, etc. Should the pain become very severe one 

 grain of opium in pill will relieve it. When the breathing 

 is labored and rapid, half teaspoorrfu) of the comp. syrup 

 of squills every lour hours until vomiting is ptodueed, will 

 afford immense relief. The urine may- become scanty aud 

 high colored ; a leaspoonful of the bcsl sweet spirits of nitre, 

 repeated will in most cases change the quantity and quality 

 of the secretion. The disease may last from oue week 10 

 six weeks. 1 have rarely, however, seen it last more than 

 three. I would advise any man having a valuable dog 

 showing signs of Ihe disease to consult at once the best, 

 physician in the place. Al some future dale I will givu 

 you a few lines ou linestiual colic, and inflammation of the 

 bowels, which I hope may be of service to your readers. 

 W. S. Webb, M. D. 





^nchting and boating. 



high' water. FOB THE WEEK. 





VaU. 



Boston. 



New Tork. 



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Yachtlng Fete at St. Augustuve, Fla.— The. St. Au- 

 gustine Press of Ftb. 3d, gives the following description of 

 a novel aquatic eutertaiuuieut which will bear imitation 

 iu other waters:— 



"The arrangements for an Aquatic Concert at, full moon, 

 appear lo have been carefully and even elaboralely, though 

 quietly made by a number of liberal gentlemen, consisting 

 of military and naval officers, in connection with the ever 

 active aud enterprising managers of the St. Augustine 

 Yacht Club, which is chiefly composed of wealthy gentle- 

 men who Winter regularly at this place. 



"Promptly at half past seven o'clock the fleet of beauti- 

 ful yachts lying around the wharf were seen to commence a 

 series of well conceited movements. The admirable baud of 

 the 5th Artillery quietly took seats in one of the larger 3'achls, 

 aud with their silver instruments, glided off lo ihe U. S. 

 Coast Survey Steamer Bache, A line of yachts was then 

 formed in the offing, immediately iu front of Chi 

 decked in all the colors of the rainbow with lighted Chinese 

 lanterns. A number of blazing rockets andltoman caudles 

 called the party together, and goon the main body of the 

 fleet, filled Willi ladies aud gentlemen, began to move off 

 in order, and to circle round the Steamer, while citizens 

 aqd others ppt -actively participating tilled ihe wharf ami 

 lined the shore. 



"Just as the circle was completed a, cannon shot from on 

 Bache, announced Ihe opening of thi 

 ..'Utmeei.h 



