150 



FOREST AIND STREAM. 



rSBPTBMBER 88, 1880. 



of July, by Mr. Charles A. Hull, of Brooklyn, N. Y. 

 The hook was f.-istened in the upper part of the mouth, 

 and there was no indications of any soreness or disposi- 

 tion to fester, as would have been the case with any of 

 our warni-blooded, air-breathiug animals. 



"With the exception of the two small trout taken 

 while Mr. Cameron was getting the boat, all of these fish 

 came from tlie same spot, and when they were brought 

 upon the talile, soine of tlieiu hud perfectly white flesh, 

 wliile other.s were a deep .salmon color, and I should like 

 very much tu lia.\e some one t,'ive the reason for this 

 difference in tlio color of tlie meat. I hardly think that 

 the difi'eveiiee in tlie color of tlie bottom of the stream, 

 and a ditrerence in food can account for it. 



After a pleasant night's sleep, entirely free from iinis- 

 quetos, Saturday niurning oa,u:e, clear and warm. W'e 

 ateour last breakfast, aettled onr cxceediuglv moderate 

 bill, and witli g^od wishes from ail, we drove four miles 

 to Saranac I.rikc. thence down the Saranac River to 

 Franklin Falls, then to French's for dinner, and a couple 

 of hours' rest, and then home n little before 5 o'olock, 

 where we fiiinid every tiling well, except that we had 

 carelessly shtU. onr bird dog in the paxlor the night before 

 we started, and he literally tore into shreds a set of ele- 

 gant lace cnrtans, given to my wife this spring. 



It is well we did not discover the loss before we left, as 

 it would at least have marred our trip, and doubtless the 

 servants think it lucky for them, that we, and not they, 

 are respon.sible for the damage. Should any of your 

 readers really wish a little reasonable fly-fishing, " Mr. 

 Cameron would be glad to see them, and unless their ex- 

 perience should be very different from ours, he will suc- 

 ceed in making tliem regret tlie necessity of having to 

 leave, sncli rare sport, and such pleasant "gen. roiis eiiler- 

 tainmenls. GBORGti ("ii.uinoN, 



GAaiK IN SEASON IN SEPTEMBEB.' 



,k Tlilhiluli II 



Moose, -Ucf amoimna 

 Oauboo, Hnnuifor uinlicm 

 Elk or wapiti ( eiviUy ninadtiihw 

 Red or \ iiginia def r (. Mryon- 



Squirrels-icd bl uli ind (f id\ 

 n and j.i u 

 L l.irl, D h himi/i 



Heed i 



orj/ziuiioiiN 

 ■Witdtu kt\ Milu 

 PintmlKi nouvG 



^lupaiii 



ill piK.lSrtllt, Bil 



WoodKu 

 Blaolt lir 



kijnaliui'ta /iW'i tn n 

 loiig-liili.d euiltw ^uinnnw 



1 .11 ll'.tV.nc'm LBluollKk ^l,,,, 

 M/.IM)ltM, /. 



Kcrt bica--ted sulpc ImntLlici 



17(1 iihampJni uwiii^ 

 Kcd hacked biudninei, oi ox- 



bud Tniwnainniuina 

 Ou it iiiaibled godHit, oi mar- 



liu Limosa H l<ui 

 Wi\ht,Jiitari)i>.sniui,n}matu- 

 Ta'tlpi, Totanu^ mitnn >/t,i/< l'^ 

 \ titow-shanks, Totaiuc^ Ihu ipix 



Kutttd gioust 



iiiim umht litis 

 Quail or partridge, Oiliji ciiam 



Sora.iail, ronana cm nhna 



*Thi-, onumti nion lb geneial, and is m conflict n itt manj of 

 ttie Stat-' Uu s 



"Da,v birds" g-enerally, iaoludinjf various speoios of plover, 

 sandpiper, snipe, curlew, oystei-catcher, surf bird, phalaropes, 

 avooeta, etc., cojinng under the group Mmdcnte, or shore birds. 

 -Many States permit prairie fowl (pinnated gri'ouse) shootitiif alter 

 Aug. 15th. 



— We beg the considerate indulgence of nuniei'ou.s cor- 

 respondents whose timely favors are unavoidably laid 

 over this week. 



MK. SQUIRES ON "DLTTMAR POWDER." 



New York, Sept. inih. 

 Editor Forest and Stream ;— 



It would seem that it would be the part of wisdom, on 

 the part of the Dittmar Powder Manufacturing Com- 

 pany to seek rather to avoid controversy with me than 

 to invite it, because they must know that in the end this 

 course will be fatal to them. Their atteanpt to divert at- 

 tention from the real matters at issue by i)er8onalitio8 

 will not work in this case, and so I leave all tliat and 

 come directly to the only question in which you and all 

 sportsmen are interested, la "Dittmar Sporting Powder" 

 safe? Not wlietlier it is as good as, or better than, black 

 powder ; not -whether one man haa made an attempt to 

 impair its eilicieucy bv careless loading ; not whether it 

 is made by Carl Dittmar in 1875 or 18Ta or I8s0; 

 not whether it is taken out of a red can with a strip of 

 ,paper over the toji, or .-i lil:u:-lc one witli two lahels pasted 

 on the sides, These are net what we want to prove. 

 The question is, Is "Ditlmar Sporting Powder'' a safe 

 compound to use iii guns 'i 



I have many letters in my possession which record ac- 

 cidents of the most deplorable kind with this powder. 

 And just here it should be understood tliaf the letters of 

 complaint about this powder which hay found their 

 way into the sporting papers are but a tithe of the wliole 

 number of such letters received by the manufacturers. I 

 have in my possession more than one hundred such let- 

 ters from responsible parties, and if you wisli I can fur- 

 nish them to you for publication. Here is one account 

 sent to me by the cashier of a large Pennsylvania bank — 

 a man of respectability and character. He says :— 



"I saw a gun burst to smithereens by three' and a half 

 drachms of Dittmar Pow der. The fiarrels were com- 

 pletely torn from tlie stock, and the. breech of the 

 right barrel for three or four inolies burst and curled 

 completely over the other. The sliooter made a mi- 

 raculous escape from serious injury. The gun was not 

 an old one, and was by a good and well known American 

 maker. I must confess I am afraid to use Dittmar. The 

 powder was new and not the first kind introduced to the 

 public." 



This is but one of the great many recorded terrible ex- 

 plosions that have taken place, and yet there may bo but 

 one chaige that acts thus from among aU the "charges 

 from one and the same can ; all the rest working well, 

 or else showing too little strength, The Dittmar people 

 told Dr. Nash that his powder, as tested by them, snowed 

 even inferior stiength compared with their standard. 



Kow, why is it that the result of one charge of "Ditt- 

 mar Sportmg Powder" is nothing, and the result of the 

 next charge a shattered gun, physical suffering for 

 months, and bodily deformity, ruining the practice of 

 your profession and staring you in the face all through 

 your lifeV 



A word aa to myself : For more than a year I was de- 

 ceived in reference to this compound, and recommended 

 and sold it. For another year I have simply in public 



kept silence regarding it. because, while I knew its fre- 

 quent <lisastrous results, 1 did not know enough of the 

 principles of its action to assume the responsibility of do- 

 ing more. But now and from henceforth I am no longer 

 in the remotest degree to be held responsible. With the 

 present manufactnie 1 Jiave nothing to do ; mv interest 

 ia hi the powder made by Mr. Dittmar and turned over 

 by him to the conT]jany with which I was connected, to 

 be sold by them. And 1 warn every man who is not 

 fully prepared at any moment to part with his favorite 

 gun and his hand, or jjerhaps his Hfe, to let that "Ditt- 

 mar Powder" alone. _ Henry C. Squires. 



;Gamjj Notes.— Rail shoothig has been unusually 

 good this season iji Connecticut. There was a great 

 llighl of birds between the 5th and 10th, and many were 

 killed. Besides the scores already published in Foeest 

 AND ,Stiie.\,m, we have recently heard of others that de- 

 serve mention. Two New Haven gentlemen, during 

 three days, are said to have killed at Essex, Conn., over 

 1,100 birds. One day's score for one of the party was 348 

 birds in the tide with but one gun. . . . The pW^r shoot- 

 ing this season in iNova Scotia has not been as good as 

 usual, tlie eonntrv lieiiig too dry. . . .There was a large 

 flight ul golden plover on t he Elizabethtown and Newark 

 meadows, in New .Tersey, week before last, and many 

 good bags are said to have been made, . , .The mettdow's 

 about Pine Brook, N, J., are loo dry for snipe as yet. A 

 three days' storm is needed. . . .Mr. Wells, of Chatham, 

 Out., has been having u'loderate shooting on the St. Clair 

 flats. . , .Quail are reported very plenty at East Hamp- 

 ton, Long Island. Ask for Charles E. Homans; he 

 knows the ground. . . .Few woodcock as yet have been 

 shot, in ni.irthern New Jersey. The countiy ia as dry as 

 a oMp. 



♦ 



Old Fktends Afield. —" Gnido " has been in the field 

 again, and the local paper has this item : Major S. R. 

 Cruse, Judge S. P. Walker, H, B. McComb, W. A. Wheat- 

 ley and D, H. I'oston have returned, bronzed and muscu- 

 lar, from the Sioux Valley, Western Minnesota, where 

 they I'aggtd 1,-r.uO prairie gi'ouse, 100 ducks and five 

 mulo eaied rabbits. 



(tUn^mitu Wanted.— Our Dubuque, Iowa, correspon- 

 cU nr ^M itt = that there is a fine opening in tliat city for a 

 ur t 1 1 iH^ „unsmith. The population is 35,000 ; there are 

 tw.i fchoutnig clubs, and plenty of work for the right 

 man \\ e v, ill gladly bring the proper parties into com- 

 mumcation. 



HoRNLLLSi ILLE, N. Y. , Sept. 30Ot.— TheHomell Sports- 

 man's Club, now on their fifteenth auiiual camp at Silver 

 Lake, are having good success. "John." 



New JLlibEY.— Vijiceulown, Sejjt. ntlt.—You deserve 

 much commendation for t he honest efforts you are mak- 

 ing in behalf of the sporting fraternity. I have just re- 

 turned from a trip after reed and rail birds. From the 

 indications at present we shall bag a number of quail this 

 season. 



♦ 



VEKMoN'r SHOOTiNit,— P/((/'te67r?Y/, N. y., Sept. ith.— 

 I have just returned from a trip to the Willow Bay 

 House, West Milton, \t. 1 bagged in four days, shoot- 

 ing about four honrs a day, twenty-one ditcks. They 

 were tetil, black and woodducks. In the middle of the 

 day gentlemen can sjiend their lime partTidge or wood- 

 cock hunting, both birds being very plentiful in the 

 neighborliood. Good board and use of boats and decoys, 

 $7 a week. T. B. J. 



I ♦ 



Eldred, Sullivau Count]/, K. Y,, Sept. aOf/i..— Part- 

 ridge and pigeons are unusually plenty here this season. 



J. M. B. 



SHOOTING MATCHES. 



Capital City Gun Club.— Tr(i«7ii)ii;(<:iii, D. C, Stpt. lat/i.— There 

 were hut three ooutestantselioolirii} lor the gold medal Saturday. 

 The result was as follows, Card Lrap, scroened, 20 Kliaa balls 

 taob:- 



E. L, Mills, !« yards. ... 20 | N. H.Wadsworth-ifO .vardB. .. 



E.M.MoLeod 22 yards.... 171 E. 



SEnAUA, Mo-, Sept. 14(h.— The'.SfidaUa Bhootinij: Club had 

 regular mcetliijf on t-ai arday, Uept . 11th ; SO glass halls, 21 yards 

 rise ; eeore as lollows, lirst 10 :- 



Trader lOiiKiiJlKiO-l I Hnueton . ,1011110011-7 



Pamerlue 1111011 IJO-8 | Kumm 01Jltll001()-.5 



Second 10:— 



Trader 0101111111-8 I Houston 1010111010-6 



Pamerlee.. . .-,....1011100111— 7 | Kumm OOIOIUOOI— 5 



This club Is hut reoentlyorKanized. Next Saturday there will 

 be a arst prize offered. Occident. 



VmoiNiA.— The Winohester Gun Club shotagain onthe7th,aud 

 made the foUowing score at 20 bIbeb balls, 18 yards, from Card's 

 rotary trap :- 



C.B.Pox 



--- ---, 18 



Dr. Miller 



. . ..13 



W. H.Ganinur 



20 



J.D. SympsoD 



M 



A. R.SplKir 



IB 



•J. ■Vy.Payuter,,- 



-.16 



J, V. Merlou 



14 







J. D. Reese 



18 



Total 



145 



Jas. Robciii^oii 



14 







Aloon'.,iuin Gun Club, -Seyf. 3(!.— .Shooting for a gold badge 

 at clut) crooinlH, Weebawken, N. J., !» halls,,') Bogardus traps, 18 

 yardsii.se; Hill 18. Eekstine 20, Breuuer 8, Montgomery 15, Male 

 13, Ooesseauecker 7, Hanna 17, Longhery 13, Murphy 8, Lundle 16, 

 Simpsons, Auldl4, Keller 11. The membera afterward partioi- 

 pared in pigeon shooting, 21 yards rise: Murphy 6, Callerv 3, 

 Shunstilh,^, Auld.S, Boesaennecker 3, Keller 4, Brenner 3, Loug- 

 hery 4, Tyler 4, Hannao. Male 5, Moylan 4, Simpson 4, Hill 5. 



H. M.B. 



FOUiJTAiN GcN Club.— The Fountain Gun Club, whiob holds 

 the three State Association prizes, wou at Seneca Falls, has taken 

 time by the forelock and begun a training tor the contest nest 

 year. One of the members of the club has given a $100 Parker 

 12-gauge gun, made expressly for the occasion, to be contended 

 for In moDthly contests. The first match came ott last week, 

 'R'edneaday, nearly StXl persons being present, and 137 members 

 shooting. The conditious wuro 7 birds each, H. and T. plunge 

 traps, handicap rise, SO yards bouudary. State As ociatlon rules. 

 The iiiii,iorily of tiieshoolers wiibdiow on nilBsing a bird. The 

 result of the contest wsis: ticventeen lillled 7ulraighl, 13 killed 6, 

 Ukilled a, n killed 4, 9 Jiille.l:l.;^t klUed2,2" .ailed I and24 mlBacd 

 the first bird. The ties on 7 each were Iheu shot oil, miasand out, 

 and the shooting, wuieli commoneed at 11 o'clock, was not con- 

 cluded uoiil it was too dark to 886 any but light colored birds, ' 



there fortunately being enough of such birds to be picked out. 

 In all cases where the shooting was by aubatitnte, the rise was 

 that of the shooter. The iollowlng are the details of the ties of 7 

 shot off :— 



B. Cross, Dr. Talbot, ^^S ] 1 1 1 , f'^f" 



F,H. CorrtM.BayliB) 37, 1 ] 1 ] 1 1 6 



5^- 4;,.^'"'^,''^ 2^ 11110 4 



Dr. Willard go 1110 3 



H. nowfi(Dr.')alhot) 80 1110 3 



H Goodwin (Dr. Telbot) .,.30 1110 3 



G. A. OhappeU .,, %■, : 1 n g 



H. Cross (E. H Madison) 30 1 1 3 



L. Itadlp 27 i 1 2 



M.Baylis 27 1 1 



SB Haz.flrd 81 1 1 



H. Alteiibnuidt 25 10 ] 



Fountain Gun Club (O. Wingert)--. 30 1 1 



H.Hedeman U 



J. Bohling 26 



A HunlertC .-Wingortj ., 30 (I 



C. ChappelUL. H. Smith) 27 



Heferee, Mr. A. Crook. Time of shoot, seven hours and forty 



minutes. 



As the afternoon progressed, the shooters made up what they 

 called the Ughtnmg squad, composed of Messrs, ChapucU, Wing- 

 ert, Madison, Baylis, Tidbot, Dr. Willurd and otlier^-, Abel Crook, 

 Esq., acting as referee, who insisted that the shnoti;rs should all 

 take their seats on benclieg, withammunitiuii rt'a.iy, and if a man 

 failed to be present at the acorc, be lost his bin] , The result was 

 that it was almost like .shnoilrig double liird?, mniiy limes two 

 bird.') dropping at a time. Sevenieen rncii aboi out llieir score in 

 49 minutes, with only two plunge traps to shoot at and every 

 man handicapped from 26 to 30 yards. 



pTiJ Mmmiy 



— Address all comitmnications to " Forest and Stream 

 Publishing Company, NeiD York." 



FIXTURES. 



Pennsylvania State Agriuullurial Society Inleruatioual CoUoy 

 Trials. Fhilttdclpbiu, Sept. SiHIi, 2]si, ZM. :Md, 2tlh and 2Dth. Dr. 

 L. A. Twadrtell.Supfrinit-rubrii, i.f iij;il,<, Philndclpliia, D. W, 

 Seiler and Elbridgc -Mui It.iikey, Si ,jr,_.i;uics, 1'. S, A. yociciy, Har- 

 risburg. Pa, 



Montreal Poultry, lioii- iind Vet Siock -■\fBof iaiion, Montreal 

 Canada, Sept, 2Jst. li-'d and X':i. KiUrles elosc Sept. Ill U. J. H, Cay- 

 ford, P. O. Box 1 KJS, Mon treat. 



Nebraska State Sportsmen's .^asociatioii Field Trials. Mllford. 

 Nebraska, Sept. 30tb and Oc. 1st and 3d. Kutrics close Sept. 2lith. 

 S. H. Harley, Secretary, Lincoln, Neb. 



St. Louis Kennel Club, St. iKiuieMo., Oct. 5th, Bth, 7th and 8th. 



JST" Entries close Sept. 27th. Chas. H. Turner, Secretary, St. 

 Louis, Mo. 



Peunsylvauia State Field Trials Associalion Trials, Lancaster, 

 Pa., Oct. 26£h, .27 th, i8th,and ailth. J. K, Staytou, Secretary, Pitta - 

 burg. Pa. 



Natioeal American Kennel Club's Second Annual Field Trials. 

 Vincennes, Tud., Nov. 1.5th. Chas, De Kongt, Becretarv, 51 Broad 

 street. New York 



Eastern Field Trials Club's Second Annual Trials, Hobins island 

 Peoonie Bay, L. I., Nov. !39. Jacob Pentz, Secretary, New Xork. 



CRITICISING JUDGES. 



THE disappoiiiteil e.xbibitor is a linrd mau to deal 

 witli. He roincs to the ,=how conlirlent of victory,, 

 and when defeated dilates with euertjy upon tlie incoui- 

 pelence of the judges : and for the sake of pacifying hiiu 

 his frieni.ls agi'ee with hint that he certainly has the best 

 dog hi the class. Of such a stamp is the writer of the 

 following letter to tlie Torontopa.per8 :— . 



Su- : Would you permit me to make a few remarks on 

 the late dog show at the present Rxliibitinn, I should 

 have done so before, but have been waiting in the hope 

 that a more competent pen than my i-'wn would have 

 drawn attention to the glaring iiicoiiipctfiiee ot stime of 

 the .so-called judges. At present I will only in.stance two 

 cases, although I am prepared with ninny iniire, and I 

 take these two as they were the oiiew ui_\ attention was 

 fust drawn to. 



My first case is that of two Yorkshire terriers (adogand 

 a bitch), shown by a well-known resident of To) onto. 

 The dog was imported from England, ami w as a very tine 

 specimen of its class. The bitch Vi! .(t.'h ter- 



rier (bred in Canada), and by the il dog: 



but, oh 1 sapient judge, why .shoul-i 1 in any 



way noticed the dog and yet elect lIh- oinii ;i:; :i lecipifent 

 of a second prize, unless it wab from a stroug auil must 

 loyal di-slike to seeiug your country ."ecoiul in anything 'f 

 But oven in cases like this, I would humbly .suggest that 

 loyidty should give place to justice. I now come to a 

 still more reniarktdjle case. A very fine rough-coated 

 St. Bernard bitch, off color (she was classed among the 

 mastiffs last year), was looked upuu with contempt. 

 From the face of the judge there appeared to be a vague 

 uncertainty and remarkable indecision as to what she 

 really was. There was no doubt he had come to the con- 

 clusion that she was a bitch, Imt as to what kind of a bitch 

 she really %vas .seemed to be too much for him. But, 

 glancing" at his list, and comparing the other two anim- 

 als in the same class with her, no resemblance was ob- 

 served. I know for a fact that this bitch was of Ku,ss, 

 out of Mont Blanc, and that her own brother gained the 

 first prize atthegretitflogshowatBinningliaju. England, 

 in 1875. 



I would like to instance many other cases, but a re- 

 gard for the feelings of the judges, and an unwilling- 

 ness to occupy more of your valuable space prevent ine. 

 Yours, etc., a"Demoralized Dog Amuikeu, 



Toronto, Sept. Vith. 



There is no attempt made to show that the judge made 

 any error in placing dogs in front of the Yorkshire ter- 

 riers as they are called, nor in the case of the St. Ber- 

 nard either. It is only the vague fault-finding commu- 

 nication of a disappointed exhibitor, who has only made 

 matters worse for himself by proving himself capable 

 of asserting untruths. The terriers which he calls York- 

 shire, were eshibited in "Class 3'3, rough terriers, other 

 than Yorkshire." A nice thing that to enter dogs in the 

 wrong class, and then find fault with the judge. But 

 the joke comes iu when he says the bitch was otit of a 

 Scotch terrier ; ft pretty stamp of Yorkshire terriei- that, 

 We now come to a still more remarkable case. .The 

 letter writer proves his igaorance of dog sbow rules, and 



