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Frank II. and Jersey Duke were examined separately from 

 bead to foot, were paced around by their handlers, and finally 

 brought together side by Bide. There an apparently animated 

 discussion took place, accompanied by aa much gesticulation 

 as would have become on excited Italian. Then pencils were 

 brought out, and after much figuring Duke was declared the 

 winner." This beautiful essay closed by saying.- "Did you 

 ever hear of such nonsense ?" No, 1 never did ; for Frank II. 

 was over one hundred and fifty miles from New York at the 

 time, and was not at the exhibition. Tim clearly shows their 

 criticisms to be a " sort of catalogue criticism." They also, 

 in speaking of the champion pointer .Snapshot, say "he was 

 a long way off of first rale condition. " Of this the public can 

 judge. The dog was in sueh poor condition that Mr. Edmund 

 Orgill bred his celebrated champion Rose to him during the 

 exhibition. Elf, the third prize bitch, also was served by 

 him, and Mr. Van Wageuen has arranged and agreed to breed 

 his first prize Duchess to this same poor old dog, who has 

 now retired from the show ring, standing, as he does, at the 

 head. More concerning this will follow from 



Snapshot. 



Pabkkb Bros. Prize— Editor Forest and Stream : 1 have 

 just received the " Parker gun," donated as a special prize to 

 the recent N. Y. Bench Show by the Darker Bros., and won 

 by St. Elmo. The gun is a 12 bore, 28-inch, 71bs. Goz., of 

 Parkers' best make, and is the equal of any gun I have yet 

 seen, both in beauty of finish and quality of materials. It 

 has already been examined by several experts, and they all 

 agree in pronouncing it "as good as a gun can be." I may 

 mention, as an evidence of the liberal spirit with which the 

 Parker Bros, encourage bench shows, that although the nomi 

 nal value of the prize offered was $200, this gun is actually 

 worth $300. S. Fmiit SriBK. 



103 Montague street, UrooJdyn, iV. 1'., April 24, 1879. 



— The recent dog exhibition at G'dmore's Garden, in New 

 York city, probably furnished the finest collection of dogs 

 ever brought together in the world ; it was certainly the liuest 

 ever seen on this continent. — Christian Union. 



A Retrieving Greyhound— Belleville,, Ont., April 19. — 

 As a contribution to the discussion auent greyhounds as re- 

 trievers, I may state that, when on a visit to England in 

 180G-7, my cousin, Leopold S. Rowland, owned a greyhound, 

 Lucy, which retrieved all the hares she killed; and not only 

 that, but she was as good to shoot partridges over as an ordi- 

 nary pointer or setter, This I know, having shot over her at 

 different times. She ranged very close, and on finding birds 

 was as steady as a veteran. Lest you might think from these 

 facts that Lucy was a lurcher, or at alt events not purely 

 bred, I state the further facts that, she was from the kennels of 

 Mr. James Elliott, of Lawberton, was between four and 

 five years old at that time, and after her then owner gave 

 her to a farmer named Brown, she was the principal prize at 

 a minor coursing meeting, beating some excellent young dogs. 

 This barbarian, Brown, gave poor Lucy six severe runs on 

 bis own and a neighbor's farm in one day, over hilly, stony 

 ground and in frosty weather. The magnificent animal killed 

 six hares on that day, retrieved them all, though much both- 

 ered by the farm collies; but she was afterward almost 

 worthless. Lucy never "ran cunning," and was in all re- 

 spects as fine a greyhound as I ever saw. In color she was a 

 fawn, without white ; her feet were perfection ; rather below 

 the average size; one of the mildest dispositions ever seen, 

 and almost perfect in shape, as defined in the old rhyme— 

 "Would that 1 had such another." B. 



west of tlie Hudson River, ami are only desirous that their dogs shall 

 be affoided every opportunity of acquiring a thorough training, which 

 cannot tie accomplished without the use of the gun. ] know parties 

 who have no other visible means of support than that ot hoarding, 

 breukmg nml training dogs, and, in the language of dog shows, are V. 

 11, O. for their skill, both by the owners and press. These men 

 (90-caUed) figure prominently at shows, and assume a high-toned 

 " cognomen," and talk dog by the acre. I know further wherein some 

 of tliose "noted » dog trainers, being faithful to their trust, and deeply 

 isctentlous, both in season and out of teaeon, have been made to lee 

 the terrors of Jersey Justice fur kiuiug game over those dogaontot 



on, and J believe that Ihe penallieadldnoteomeoutol thotrtuuer's 

 pocket, while a trip to the city twice a week with a neat traveling bag 



lie arm would seem hardly necessary so far us "carrying reports 

 and collecting board money " is concerned. Perhaps Hie sable cook in 

 the gentleruau'a kitchen can answer I submit Ihe case to the jury 

 without Bumming up, and relying upon "our paper" and the sound 

 principles of the Editor, I leave him to be the .iu''ge, and charge the 

 Jury plainly as to hew far an owner of a dog, who knowingly places 

 one in the hands ot h notorious violator of the law to be trained and 

 handled, can be relied upon for support In any effort to maintain even 

 present laws ; also In what degree he differs fiom the violator who la 

 arrested and punished. Kebcck, 



Tun Foxes of Great Bkitain, — The question of the fox- 

 supply is of great moment to Britishers. When the railroads 

 were built over the island it was feared by the pursuers of the 

 wily Reynard that his race would be lessened in the land. 

 The owuers of packs and stables have, however, of late years 

 taken heart again, for it is found that there are now as many 

 foxes in the country as there were fifty years ago. 



—Mr. W. H. Pierce, of Peckskill, NY. , has had the misfor- 

 tune to lose his fine setter puppy Royal Pomp, winner of 

 second prize iu class 30 at the late Westminster Kennel Olub 

 bench show. Royal Pomp was out of Herzberg's Kate II. 

 by Pride of the Border," and was very promising. 



—Mr. C. W. Bassford's red Irish setter bitch Gypsey, win- 

 ner of third prize at last New York show, has been bred to 

 the champion red Irish setter Rory O'Moore. 



—Mr. Geo. H. Hitchcock's setter bitch Fly was bred on the 

 1st hist, to Mr. Luther Adams' field trial champion Drake. 



—The imported red L'ish setter bitch Rose (Palmerston- 

 Flora), belonging to Dr. Win. Jarvis, of Claremout, N. II., 

 whelped, on the 20th inst., eight all red puppies — five dogs 

 and three hitches— sired by champion Eleho. The puppies 

 are strong and plump, and perfect beauties. 



— The English setter bitch Zita, owned by Mr. Wm. Vie, 

 of St. Louis, has whelped eight puppies, sired by champion 

 France. 



—Mr. Joseph T. Allyn, of Norfolk, Va., claims the name 

 of Prince- Eleho for his red Irish fetter dog pup by Mr. W. 

 H. Jarvis' champion Eleho out of Mr. E. J. Bobbins' Bridget- 

 Plunket (champion Plunket-Dennison's Stella). 



— Mr. Wm, W. Johnson, of N. Y., claims the name Beu 

 Butler for his red Irish setter by Dr. Jarvis' Dick out of May. 



— Dr J. R. Housel, of Watsontown, Pa., claims the name 

 While Duke for his setter dog puppy by his Jim out of Dot. 



—Ethan All'm, of Pomfret, Conn., has entered a pair of 

 puppies of his justly celebrated strain of dogs for the Boston 

 Bench Show. 



fcig and §tm. 



MAY IS A CLOSE MONTH FOR GAME, 



I''ot- Forest and Stream and Rod and Gun. 

 A RHYME OF THE GUN. 



See the Ancient with ins gun ! 

 Clumsy gun t 

 flow he plies Hie greasy ramrod as he thinks he's having Inn ! 

 When he has, with toil and trouble, 



Crowned the nipple with a cap, 



Kee him plodding through the stubble. 



Till he might have had a double 



Shot— but both the barrels snap ; 



Aud his inward wrath he nurses at the gun, gun, gun, 



Or consoles himself with curses at the un-, nu-, uu- 



Kellable, exasperating gun. 



See the Modern with hia gun ! 

 Greener gun ! 

 Quick he breaks It at the middle, loads it, and the thing is done. 

 Mark bim in hia dainty dory, 

 Having superhuman luck ; 

 Watch him bathe himself in glory 

 As he lights his pipe before he 

 Knocks his ninety-seventh duck, 

 Which of course he's sure to cover with his gun, gun, gun, 

 His hammerless, inimitable, un-, un-, uu- 

 Approachable ideal of a gun. 



BAD FOR THE BREAKERS. 



Editor Fobest and Stbeam : 



I have read with pleasure and profit the articles on " Game Laws 

 and Protection," and sincerely hope your efforts may be crowned with 

 success j ana in this connection let me point ont one source whence 

 we nave a right to expect better things than have been evidenced 

 of lute years, viz., from our sporting men. It isa well-Itnown fact that 

 many of our Hew York friends have their doga boarded and trained 



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an occasional bear, jack-rabbits ami hares, and a great variety 

 of leathered game. The lakes contaiu bass, pickerel, pikes 

 and whitefish, and in the rivers arc catfish and sturgeon. 



Ifalloe/c, KiUwn Co., April 20. — Never hereabouts at any 

 time before have I seen so many grouse. They arc now hav- 

 ing their spring frolic, and anywhere along the St. P. & P. 

 R. It., between Glyndon and Pembina, you may see them 

 from the cars as yon pass along, in large flocks, playing, 

 strutting about, aud fighting as fiercely as ever a brace of 

 game fowls. They are all sharp-tails. J. S. 



—Several young rail (Sora) have been shot within a few 

 days on the meadows near Philadelphia. According to Wil- 

 son and Bartram, rail wore often seen in the month of June 

 on the borders of the Delaware and Schuylkill Rivers, and 

 the latter found their nests in tussocks of grass, containing 

 four or five dirty, whitish-colored eggs. The appearance of 

 rail at this soason has been quite unusual here on the Dela- 

 ware of late years. 



—Mr. It. V. R. Schuyler (Schuyler, Hartley & Graham,) 

 has just returned from a visit to Missouri, where he had good 

 opportunities to put to a practical test the qualities of the 

 Parker -440 breech-loader. He took with him one of the 

 12-gauge guns with two sets of barrels— of 7J and 8^tbs. — 

 and now returns a verdict that this Parker is a stronger 

 shooter and as handsome a gun as any in his private armory 

 of sixteen capital guns. The Parker Bros, make their lami- 

 nated barrels themselves, barrels being for the most part 

 manufactured abroad by two or three firms of repute and long 

 standing. 



New Hampshire — Ashland, April 12.— At a meeting of 

 the prominent sportsmen of this place held to-day, the Ash- 

 laud Gun Club was organized, and the following officers 

 elected for the ensuing year ■ President, E. P. Warner ; Cor- 

 responding and Recording Secretary, J. G. Morrison; Treas- 

 urer, A. S. Clark. We have some splendid shots in ihe club, 

 and we expect some fine scores will be made later, Mason. 



MASSAorrnsBTTS— Plymouth Co., April 25.— I report the 



best two weeks gunning that we have had for a Ions time. 

 On the 18th the wind was at sixty miles an hour during the 

 forenoon, and from thirty -eight to forty-five the rest of ihe 

 day. This was too much for ducks, and the rocks and all the 

 iulets along the shore were just swarmed with thera. Thou- 

 sands don't express it. We used G drams powder, Joz. No. 3 

 chilled shot. I can mention two good shots made that day- 

 one, out of seven geese five were shot down, three dead and 

 two crippled } and six ducks, with one barrel, dead, with a 

 10-gauge, lOlhs. choke, which is just the gun for a high wind. 

 Would like to see a muzzle-loader worked in t\ve wind and 

 rain that day. Woodcock plenty about here breeding, and 

 some snipe on the fresh meadows. S. K., Jit. 



Cbntbat, New Yobk Spobtsmen.— The Central New York 

 Sportsmen's Club held its twentieth annual meeting at the 

 Butterfield House last week. Among the subjects of im- 

 portance discussed was the bill for the preservation of game 

 presented to the legislature by Senator Wagstaff. Its pro- 

 visions were generally approved, and upon "motion Senator 

 Good win was requested to urge its passu g<\ The following 

 Officers were elected : President, D. G. Ray ; Vice-Presidents, 

 J. J. Flanagan, I. C. Mcintosh, John D. Kernan; Prosecut- 

 ing Attorney, Scott Lord, Jr.; Secretary, Capt. Harvey D. 

 Talcott ; Treasurer, W. Jerome Green. Delegates to State 

 Convention— Chas. W. Hutchinson, J. J. Flanagan, W. M. 

 Storrs, Dr. Charles W, Shapley. 



Pennsylvania— Bellevernon, April 21.— We had but few 

 quail left after our severe winter. A few flocks I fed during 

 the very severe weather were nearly all taken by hawks. 

 Hawks soon find the places where quail are fed and play sad 

 havoc with them. T. L. D. 



Minnesota,— There is abundance of game and fish in Otter 

 Tail County, red deer ; in the northern and eastern portions 



Work and Tlay in Louisiana.— Abbeville, Termili&n 

 Parish, La., April!.— Editor Forest and Stream: The im- 

 mense flocks of geese and ducks that feed on our marshes each 

 winter have now gone to their nesting -grounds in the fat- 

 North, and the glorious woodcock and most of the snipe 

 family also have, departed and left us disconsolate. The 

 plovers aud sandpipers with a few black ducks are about all 

 ha feathered game that remain to us. But now cometh 

 u ye fysshe " to make glad the heart. The sun-perch and the 

 'striped and black bass arc abundant, and down on the Ver- 

 milion Bay are plenty of crabs, oysters, redfish, mullet, drum, 

 sheepshead, etc., to cheer our disconsolate hearts. It is true 

 Bob White is here in force, but we do not call him game at 

 this season of the year, he is one of the family, and we -would 

 its soon think of shooting one of our children as Bob White. 

 A Texas correspondent has asked the question, " How many 

 degrees of cold will the orange tree stand f" I will in reply 

 give a little of my experience on the subject. 1 have ob- 

 served the growth, habits aud diseases of the' orange in South- 

 ern Jjouisiana for fourteen years. Last winter was the coldest 

 winter experienced here for many years. On Monday morn- 

 ing, Jan. 6, 1870, the thermometer at Abbeville stood at 18° 

 Fah., which was the coldest of the whole winter by several 

 degrees. I thought the young orange trees were surely all 

 killed ; but, strange to say, it never hurt them in the least, 

 and the young trees, as well as the old ones, never looked bet- 

 ter than at present 1 have seen the trees injured and even 

 killed when the thermometer stood at 28°, but now the trees 

 appear benefited by the freeze. It greatly depends on the 

 clouds and other circumstances, how much cold the orange 

 will bear. Southern and southwestern Louisiana, all along 

 the Gulf Coast, is a good orange country. People in their 

 rush to Florida to raise oranges overlook SW. Louisiana, 

 which is equally good for oranges, and besides much better 

 for everything else, than Florida. The soil of Florida for the 

 most part is poor. 1 know the swamps and river bottoms and 

 hammocks are rich, but the greater part of the inhabitable 

 portion is of inferior soil. Here the entire country is good, 

 not only for oranges, but for sugar cane, rice, cotton, corn, 

 grazing or anything else. Here the fig, the pear, the peach, 

 the plum, the grape will all flourish along with the orange. 

 The land is cheap and fertile (mostly prairie), and the sea 

 breeze tempers the heat so that the climate is delightful. Here 

 is a refuge where the man of small means, or of no means at 

 all, may find constant employment at remunerative wages, or 

 may cultivate his own acres in oranges or other fruit, as he 

 likes. Here is an abundance of game and fish for the lover 

 of rod and gun. Here the good from all lands will be wel- 

 come. Should any of your readers wish to inquire further, I 

 will, on receipt of ihcir request with three cent stamp for re- 

 ply postage, take pleasure in answering their questions. 



W. W. Edwards. 



Michigan Notes— Editor Forest and Stream : Capt. Molt, 

 who came down from the Flats the other day, and was in a 

 great hurry to get back, said ducks were very plenty. Got! 

 Stanten and J. V. D. Eldridge have been above the Flats for 

 two weeks playing freeze-out. The game is played, so they 

 say, by getting frozen in with no way of getting out— no 

 shooting, lots of swearing and very little to eat. So they bet 

 on outstaying one another on the ice, and Golf says they 

 would draw cuts in the morning to see who should try first, 

 and he says Eldridge won all his money — nineteen cents — by 

 getting the first watch, as they called it, when he would place 

 himself on a cake of ice and sit there all day, giving GofI no 

 chance, often sitting so loug as to melt a hole through. But 

 this may be a hunter's yarn. E. H. Gillman has been on a 

 grand hunt at the Big Eight Marsh. The party consisted of 

 Gillman, Jackson, Nichols and Colburn— all first class shots 

 —and Ed. reports three hundred and eighty-seven ducks aud 

 a white muskrat. Ed. took me three miles to see this white 

 rat. C. A. Mack says he intends to get his shooting clothes 

 on this season. Charley is a good shot. I was giving Mr. 

 George Gillman a lit tie sketch of Texas shooting, when ho 

 gave me the old familiar "Is that so?" aud taking my arm 

 lead me into his private room and said : " Now don't give 

 this to the papers?' I said I would not, and he then showed 

 me what he was doing iu the way of keeping his end up 

 with the shooters. He has a great notion of coon hunting, 

 and you should see the outfit he has— a flint-lock musket (he 

 wants something he can feel when it goes off;, a buckskin 

 suit (from the buck that Jordeue killed), and a bearskin robe 

 (from the bear that Ed. killed). Then he has the trap that 

 be got at the dog show. It is a glass ball trap*, but George 

 has it so arranged that he can throw a coon up with it (when 

 he gets one to throw up). Then his dogs. He keeps his 

 kennel iu the cellar, and I think the dog men have imposed 

 on him a little on the coon dog, for he has a variety of them, 

 and all kinds and a dors, from the " yaller " dog to the New- 

 foundland. He dotes on the ''yaller" dog that James Gari- 

 niff sent him, and says O. is a coon-hunter and knows what 

 a coon dog is. George is to pay $100 for him, providing 

 he will catch a coon, and ,1. C. says if the dog catches one 

 lie will give $200 for him. By the way, I hear that Mr. J. C. 

 is at Walpole Island after snipe. At the last match of the 

 Pacific Gun Club Mr. .John Demars carried off the medul with 

 a clean score. He shot against C. M. Welsh, B. Gillman, J. 

 Stenten, A. Gore, N. Williams, J. Kent and one other gentle- 

 man for ihe $50 prize. They shot until dark, and adjourned 

 to Mr. Gore's for a frog supper, agreeing to settle it by giving 

 it to the one eating the most frogs, ard the winner to pay for 

 the supper. They ate frogs till Gore claimed the fifty were 

 used up, and he refused to give them more till he knew who 

 was going to settle the bill ; so they quit, and Gore got the 

 .850, By the way, Gore has a frog pond, where he claims he 

 raises them at the rate of 170 dozen frogs a week, and the 

 boys say you cau go to his house any time aud see frogs run- 

 ning ad over it, Twice a day he exhibits his trained frogs, 

 and offers to mutch '.ham against any amateur billiard player 

 for $100 a side, 50 points, Irish carom. Good Box. 



Detroit. 



No TrtEsrAssDCG— Editor Forest and Stream : Mr. Shepard 

 lives in the Monongahela Valley ; he is a very particular sort 

 of a man and allows no hunting on his farm. Mr. Clarkson, 

 a large coal operator, is very fond of a squirrel hunt, and one 

 day, EOme years ago, when out squirrel hunting, wandered, 



