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—The London Builder recommends people who trans- 

 plant trees to mark the north side of each tree with red 

 chalk before it is taken up, and replace it in its natural 

 position. A larger proportion will then live, as in ignor- 

 ing this law of nature transplanted trees generally perish. 

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LOCATION FOR FLORIDA SETTLERS, 



Pensacola, Fla., December 31st, 1ST5. 

 Editob Forest and Stream:— 



I am much gratired at the course Forest and Stream is taking to- 

 ward building up my adopted State. I am warmly interested also in see- 

 ingit filled up with an enterprising and prosperous class of settlers. Ihave 

 no lands lor sale, so my advice is entirely disinterested. My service of a 

 year and a balf in the cavalry on the St. Johns, living for two years at 

 Stark, after the war, during the latter of which I rode horseback four times 

 between that place and Sarasota, each time over a different route, and 

 still later, the constant cruising m which I was employed betwen Cedar 

 Keys and Charlotte Harbor, have given me unusual opportunities to 

 look the State over, and with this extensive experience I do not hesitate 

 to advise settlers to seek a location on the Gulf Coast, in preference to 

 St. Johns. The lands are better, many excellent sites are still open for 

 homesteading, and it is healthier. The only advantage they have upon 

 the St. Johns is that communication with New York is more frequent, 

 but that is an advantage which the gulf side will soon possess also, as 

 steamers are constantly being added which can run into the hundreds of 

 little inlets and harbors with which the whole coast is thickly studded . 

 Vegetation is a fortnight earlier on the gulf side, at the same latitude as 

 on the Atlantic. Besides we never have those cold damp northeast 

 storms here. Our "northers" are always dry. Should anyone wish 

 for more explicit information, about any particular locality, I shall be 

 pleased to give it if in my power. E. B. Staples. 



3b Mmneh 



'OLD GROUSE." 



WE are frequently asked the question, whether the 

 double nose in the setter is an indication of impure 

 blood; and recently, in looking over the answers to cor- 

 respondents in the Chicago Field, we find it is there stated 

 that the double nose is an evidence of impure breeding, 

 and that such dogs should be looked upon with suspicion. 

 We wonder sometimes that Old Grouse can lie quietly in 

 his grave while such things are said and written. Who 

 was Old Grouse? Let us say that many of the most skill- 

 ful field sportsmen in New Jersey, and in other sections of 

 the country, will never forget the old fellow; and for the 

 information of the younger breeders and shooters of the 

 day, we will endeavor to give something of his history. 



In the year 1838, while shooting with a friend in the vi- 

 cinity of Lambertsville, Hunterdon County, N. J., we 

 were informed that a Mr. Taylor, a cabinet maker and 

 turner of that place (now residing in Trenton) was using 

 dog power upon Ms turning lathe, and that one of the 

 dogs he had used for a long time was a setter. We called 

 upon Mr. Taylor at his place of business, where we found 

 upon the wheel two large-sized dogs of mongrel breed, and 

 a full-sized, heavy moulded, liver and white double-nosed 

 setter, the liver color in some places shading to something 

 of a tan color; legs, indistinctly ticked; head, rather short; 

 eyes, rather light, but exceedingly bright; ears, well set; 

 tail, straight; back, short; and legs and feet good, and al- 

 together presenting the appearance of a well-bred, service- 

 able setter. Upon inquiring of Mr. T. where the dog came 

 from, he stated that about four years before that time the 

 dog was picked up astray somewhere on the line of the 

 Camden and Amboy Railroad, near Camden, and given to 

 him, and that he had worked him all that time on his 

 wheel; that during the time he had found that other kinds 

 of: dogs he had worked with him would not last over two 

 years, but that the setter (Grouse) showed no sign of wear- 

 ing out, but that he, having worked so faithfully 

 for so long a term, he was anxious to let him up 

 and give him to any one in exchange for any kind of stout 

 dog to take his place on the tread-mill. This exchange 

 was soon made, and Grouse fortunately fell into the hands 

 of a good sportsman, and very soon gained the reputa- 

 tion of being a wonderfully good, staunch, well-broken 

 dog of great endurance. During the next few years he 

 changed hands repeatedly, and was much used for stock 

 purposes. When Grouse was supposed to be eight or nine 

 years old we had a day's shooting over him near Lawrence- 

 ville. 1ST. J., with his then owner, Judge Holmes Stout, 

 and Mr. A. P. Lanning, of Mercer County, N. J. Both 

 gentlemen are still living, and no doubt well remember 

 how splendidly Old Grouse did his work that day. Some 

 time after that Old Grouse became the property of the late 

 John Hutchinson, of Mercer County, N. J., who was a 

 breeder, breaker, and large dealer in setters and pointers, 

 and some of the older sportsmen will remember the adver- 

 tisements of Mr. Hutchinson in the Spirit of tlie Times dur- 

 ing Wm. T. Porter's time, when Mr. H. always advertised 

 his dogs as being of the Old Grouse stock. 



The old dog lived to an unusual age, and was supposed 

 to be not less than seventeen years old when he died. We 

 very frequently shot over him, and bred to him while he 

 was in Mr. Hutchinson's hands; and when he was twelve 

 or fourteen years of age it took an extra good dog to beat 

 him, and now it would be hard to convince us that any 

 dog ever produced better dogs than were the descendants 

 of Old Grouse, very many of which passed through our 

 hands. Among those we now remember as being wonder- 

 ful dogs of their day were— Chief Justice Beasley's Rolla, 

 Maj, Robert Stockton's Hal, Mr. H. Van Schaick's Hal, 

 Mr. R. A. Drake's Arch, Cane, and Cone; J. J. Seitzinger's 

 Sancho, Hal, Dash, and Mack; Mr. Theo. Morford's Glen, 

 besides a host of others which we have forgotten, but just 

 such dogs as any good practical shooter would desire. We 

 doubt if a better strain of dogs ever lived than they, and 

 this opinion, we feel confident, will be sustained by the 



sportsmen above mentioned, and by many others who have 

 shot over the descendants of Old Grouse. 



Most of the old dog's pups partook of his peculiarity — 

 the double nose — but none of them ever showed any thing 

 of the pointer in their coat or appearance. But even if 

 Old Grouse did get his double nose from pointer cross, 

 (which we very much doubt), was not all the pointer bred 

 out of his descendants years ago? If not, what consti- 

 tutes a pure setter? And then, again, the question arises, 

 Who knows to any certainty that the double nose origina- 

 ted with the pointer? For many years, not only we, but 

 many of our shooting friends, had great faith in double- 

 nosed setters; but time and close observation convinced 

 us that there was nothing gained by that peculiarity, but 

 that it was when the nose was much divided, rather a 

 fault, as such dogs, while working, were often injured by 

 briers and rough grass passing through the crease. Con- 

 sequently we crossed the Old Grouse strain with imported 

 bitches and the Gildersleeve strain, in order to get rid of 

 the trouble; and if there are any more intelligent, more 

 stylish-looking, more industrious, and more lasting dogs 

 than those we have bred from such stock, we would go a 

 long way to see them. 



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Worms in thji Heart.— There is a remarkable disease 

 which attacks all sporting dogs taken from England to 

 China, for which neither cause or remedy has, as yet, been 

 assigned. In a recent issue of the London Field a corres- 

 pondent, in describing a shooting trip to the country back 

 of Shanghae, mentions the death of one of his dogs. Upon 

 opening the body he found the cause to be that curse to 

 sporting dogs in China — worms in the heart. The aorta 

 was found to be choked by a mass of thin white worms, 

 and the left ventricle was filled with clotted blood. The 

 Editor of the Field remarks in a foot note that about four 

 years ago he received from Japan the heart of a dog, 

 choke full of worms, which in appearance much resem- 

 bled a tangled mass of 'fine twine. He submitted the spec- 

 imen to Dr. Cobbold, who pronounced the parasites to be 

 Spiro-ptem sanguinolenta, particulars of which he had given 

 in a paper published in the "Proceedings of the Linnean 

 Society" for 1875. It is believed that no remedy is known 

 for the disease, which appears to be very common in dogs 

 in China and Japan, but unknown elsewhere. Whether 

 the areca nut, which is so effectual in removing worms 

 from the intestines, would reach in its action the heart, is 

 questionable; but, if administered in time, it might pos- 

 sibly touch the origin of the disease. The experiment 

 would be at least worth a trial. 



Home for Lost Dogs. — According to the London 

 Times there is a Home for Lost Dogs, which has been re- 

 cently enlarged by the addition of accommodations for 

 150 or 200 more dogs. The average number of inmates is 

 400, which are well fed and supplied with water. A dog 

 is kept three days, and if not claimed in that time is sold. 

 The cost of the buildings is £4,000, or $20,000— a most ex- 

 cellent institution. Who has not witnessed the intense 

 suffering caused to a dog by the loss of his master? Dar- 

 win, in answer to the argument against his development 

 theory that man differs from the brute in that he has a re- 

 ligious sentiment, answered by saying that a dog's vener- 

 ation for his master closely resembles a religious sentiment, 

 and th at his master is to him a divinity. 

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Trap for Sheep-Killing Dogs. — An Indiana man has 

 furnished the Agriculturist with a model of a trap for 

 catching sheep-killing dogs, which consists of a small pen 

 eight feet square, to be made in the field where sheep are 

 pastured, and fenced in tightly. The pen is divided into 

 two parts, so arranged that when the dog rushes in to get 

 at the sheep, confined in one partition, he is made a pris- 

 oner in the other, while the other pen is opened and the 

 sheep liberated. This may be a very good plan; but if our 

 farmers, who are also wool growers, will pay some atten- 

 tion to importing collies, they will find no more trouble 

 from mutton-eating curs, and save the wages of one man 

 in addition. 



A Correction. — In our last issue we printed an inter- 

 esting letter from that veteran sportsman, Ethan Allin, of 

 Pomfret Centre, Ct., on food for large kennels. The 

 types, however, made an error in the twentieth line of the 

 article, by substituting "canned meat," for cooked meat, 

 which quite changed the sense and force of the argument. 



— Dr. Webb's "Whiskey" will not go to Chicago. Her 

 very promising family require all of her attention. 

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The Alexandria Palace Dog Show.— Closely follow- 

 ing the bench show of dogs at Birmingham was one at the 

 above favorite place of exhibition, given under the man- 

 agement of the Kennel Club. Our contemporary, the 

 Fancier's Gazette, thus discourses of the setters, which were 

 nearly as well represented as they -were at Birmingham :— 



"The English Champion Dog Class rested between 

 Bandit and Rock, two remarkably good specimens of the 

 pure Laverack breed; the former is remarkable for his fine 

 symmetry, great depth, and big bone; Rock is quite his 

 equal in all but bone and size, and beats him in color, Ban- 

 dit being white and liver. In the Open Dog.Class, in which 

 first went, very rightly, to Mr. Bowers' Rock II, a youth- 

 ful son of champion Rock and Lillywhite, by Fred II, 

 out of Lort's Sal, by Withington Frank out of. Flask . 

 Rock very much resembles his sire, being much after the 

 same pattern, but possessing in no small measure just 

 those very properties in which old Rock is so deficient; 

 the old dog. lacks bone, size, and substance, this is not so 

 with Mr. Bowers' dog, and when we look at the magnifi- 



cent texture of his coat, his pleasing Laverack color, his 

 make, shape, and sweetness of expression, we fail to see 

 how he could be improved. We understand he will be 

 forthwith prepared for the Field Trial Derby. Second 

 fell to the lot of Mr. Wardlaw Reid's Rothay, by Pilking- 

 ton's Dash, out of a sister of the world-renowned Sam ; he 

 is a red and white — pure Laverack, of course — and a good, 

 shapely dog. Mr. Hennings was well third with his black 

 and white puppy, Nob, a promising son of his Rock and 

 and Blanch. First in the bitches was awarded to a white, 

 black, and ticked Laverack, bred by Mr. Macdona, and 

 showing wonderful quality — if any thing, too much — in 

 other words she shows but too plainly the effects of in- 

 breeding; her coat is not exactly first-class, but her carcass, 

 frame, and loins are very nice — by no means inferior to 

 the Prince's bitch. Mr. Macdona's beautiful blood-like 

 Peracame second; she does her breeder, Mrs. Geo. Lowe, 

 great honor. Mr. Hemming's Liz, placed third, is full of 

 beauty, and blood-like. Mr. Bowers was unsuccessful 

 with a very grand young bitch called Bessie I, own sister 

 (same litter) to Pera, and which it is rumored will prove a 

 star at field trials. 



"Black and tans were somewhat better than at Birming- 

 ham. Mr. Coath's Lang stood alone in the Champion Dog 

 Class, while the bitches^proved a blank altogether. In the 

 Open Dogs, Mr. Coath's Blossom (bred by Rev. J. C. Mac- 

 dona) had a remarkably easy win; he is a dog that shows 

 himself wonderfully well, his carriage and corky action 

 being quite equal to his extraordinary richness of color and 

 exuberance of feather. Floss, the Birmingham winner, 

 repeated her victory by coming first in the bitches; she is 

 so good that it is impossible for the judges to get away 

 from her; her fine symmetry, depth of color, and length 

 of feather are alone sufficient to make their mark, but be- 

 yond these she possesses a deal of that true Gordon char- 

 acter that has been to a considerable extent lost. 



"Irish setters did not bring out such an extraordinary 

 lotas were at Birmingham. The champion Palmerston 

 was again to the front, with Mr. Macdona's Shirley, or one 

 of his Shirleys, second ; for he exhibited a brace bearing 

 the same name second. In Irish Bitches tbe judging was 

 a series of errors from end to end. Mr. Gordon Mactlaffie 

 showed his champion Mina, by champion Palmerston, and 

 a very fair bitch called Bella. Mina never looked fitter, 

 and yet — 'tell it not in Gath'— the judges spotted Bella to 

 win, and left her kennel companion without even a com- 

 mendation. Maybe, not a patch on Mina, was placed 

 second." 



Brookeville, Kansas, Jan. 4th, 1876. 

 Editor Forest and Stream:— 



I am greatly interested in E. A.'s mode of feeding dogs 

 so that they shall be free from distemper. Hope he will 

 not forget to tell us soon, as I have two setter pups grow- 

 ing up, and I wish, if possible, that they may come up to 

 doghood without having distemper. I raise every year one 

 or two dogs, but, so far, all of them have had distemper; 

 I have never lost one with it. My setter bitch, Juno, 

 dropped, Nov. 17th, 1875, a litter of twelve pups, all alive 

 and doing finely. Who can beat that? L. C. W. 



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QUOTATIONS FROM C. G. GUNTHBB'S SONS. 



BEAR— Northern, according to size and quality, prime $10 00a$15 00 



Southern and Northern yearlings, prime 5 00 a 10 00 



BEAVER— Northern, per skin, parchment, according to 



size and color. . „ ....... 2 50 a 3 50 



Western, according to size and color, prime 1 50 a I 2 50 



Southern, and ordinary, per skin, according to size, 



prime 50 a 100 



BADGER-Prime 020 a 050 



CAT— Wild, Northern and Eastern States, cased, prime.. . 50 a 60 



Wild, Southern and Western, prime 40 a 50 



House, ordinary, if large, prime. 05 a 08 



House, black, furred, prime. 15 a 25 



FISHER— Northern and Eastern, acco'ding to size and 



color, prime : 7 00 a 12 00 



Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Western, ditto, prime 5 00 a 8 00 



Southern, ditto, prime 3 00 a 5 00 



FOX--Silver, ditto.prime 15 00 a 50 00 



Cross, Northern and Eastern, ditto, prime 3 00 a 5 00 



Red, Northern and Eastern, ditto, prime 1 50 a 1 65 



Red, S. Penn , N. J., and N. Ohio, ditto prime... . .. 1 25 a 1 50 



Red, Southern a»d Western, ditto, prime 75 a 1 00 



Grey, Northern and Eastern, cased, ditto, prime 75 a 1 00 



Grey, Southern and Western, ditto, prime 50 a 60 



Grey, Southern and Western, ditto, open, prime 40 a 50 



Kitt, ditto, prime 30a 50 



LYNX— Ditto, prime 100a 2 00 



MARTIN— States, ditto, prime. 150 a 2 00 



MINK— New York and New England, ditto, prime. 3 00 a 4 00 



Canada, Michigan, and Minnesota, ditto, prime, ..... 2 00 a 3 00 



S. New York, N. J., Penn., and Ohio, ditto, prime. . 1 00 a 1 50 



Md., Va., Ky., Ind., Wis., and Iowa, ditto, prime. .. 75 a 1 25 



Missouri:, and all Southern, ditto, prime 50 a 75 



MTJSKRAT-N. New York, and Eastern, Spring. 00 a 00 



Western, including Penn. and Ohio, Spring. 00 a 00 



Northern and Eastern, Fall and Winter 25 a 2? 



Western, including Penn. and Ohio, Winter 20 a 23 



Southern, prime 15 a 20 



Southern, Winter and Fall.. ,. 12a 15 



OTTER— Northern. Eastern, and Northwestern, according 



to size and color, prime 10 00 a 12 00 



Penn., N. J., Ohio, and Western, prime.... 8 00 a 10 00 



Ky., Md., Na., Kansas, and vicinity, prime 6 00 a 8 00 



North Carolina, prime 4 00 a 6 00 



South Carolina and Georgia, prime 2 00 a 4 00 



OPOSSUM— Northern, cased, prime 18 a 30 



Southern and open Northern, prime 12 a 15 



RACCOON- -Mich., N. Ind., N. Ohio, Indian handled, 



dark, according to size and color, prime. 80 a 1 00 



111., Iowa, Wis., and Minn., prime.... 50 a 65 



New York and Eastern States andN. Penn., prime. . 65 a 75 



N. J., S. Penn.. 111., Mo., Neb. and Kan., prime. .. 40 a 50 



Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky and Tenn., prime.. .. 30 a 40 



N. and S. Car., Ga.. Ark., Florida and Ala., prime. 15 a 25 



RABBITS— Prime cased 02 a 103 



SKUNKS -Prime black, I. , cased . 00 a 1 30 



Prime black, I., open , 00 a 100 



Prime black, i white streak, If . , cased 00 a 80 



Prime black. I- white streak, II., open 00 a 50 



Prime whole fetreaked III. and IV 15 a 20 



Prime scabs 00 a 03 



WOLF SKINS— Mountain, large. 2 00 a 3 00 



Prairie, average age, prime skins 75 a 125 



J^g^ There will be no change in our fur quotations until the middle of 



January. 



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— The duty paid by the Alaska Commercial Company 



under their lease of 1870 is $17,480 for rental of the islands 

 of St. Paul and St. George, and $1,057,709 as taxes on seal 

 skins; the latter is less by $16,458 than the tax that should 

 have been pud had 100,000 skins been taken each year 



since 1870, or in other words 6,2G9 fewer skins have been 

 shipped than the lease permitted nearly every year. In ad- 

 dition to the seals killed by the company for the skins* 

 12,000 are killed annually under the direction of the Gov- 

 erament agents to supply the natives with food. 



