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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[April 1, 1880. 



Massachusetts Kknnf.i, Club.— This organization was 

 incorporated Dec. 12th, 1877, at Boston. The following 

 are the names and addresses of its officers for the present 

 year: President, J. Fottler, Jr., Esq., 26 South Market 

 street ; Vice-Presidents, F. B. Grreenougfa, M. D., and J. 

 P. Curtis. Esq.; Treasurer, T. T. Sawyer, Jr., Esq., 7 

 Exchange Place ; Secretary, Edward J. Forster, M. D., 

 22 Monument Square. 



New York Boa Show.— A special prize of a gold-neck 

 chain, manufactured bv Tiffany & Co.. valued at $50, 

 has been offered by II. W. Livingston, Esq., No. 133 West 

 Forty-second street, for the best pointer or setter (dog or 

 bitch) of any strain owned and exhibited by a lady. No 

 entry fee for special prizes. 



♦ 



Salt tor Distemper.— Indianapolis, Ind., March 23d. 

 In your issue of June 30th, 1878, you published, with ed- 

 itorial comments thereon, a letter from a gentleman in 

 India to a friend in Ireland, giving the former's experi- 

 ence in using salt as a cure for distemper in dogs. I have 

 been a close reader of your excellent paper for years, but 

 overlooked this at the time of its publication, or I should 

 have added my testimony before this. Permit me to say 

 to the numerous readers of the Forest and Stream that 

 common table salt is almost an unfailing remedy for this 

 so-called terrible disease. I say "almost," in order to be 

 on the safe side, as it might fail, although I never knew 

 it to do so, and I have used it numerous times, and know 

 many other gentlemen whose experience has been the 

 same as mine"". I have never used Epsom salts in connec- 

 tion with the common salt, and doubt the advisabililty 

 of so doing. Mv mode of administering the dose has 

 been to make a bolus about as large as a walnut, 

 composed of beef suet and salt. This is easier for 

 the dog to swallow than clear salt, and does not cause 

 a burning and painful sensation in the throat and stom- 

 ach. Three doses I have found sufficient to effect a 

 cure of distemper in anv stage. This simple and effec- 

 tive remedy will not find favor with that class of men 

 who base their claims to superior knowledge of the dog 

 on the knowing manner in which they dose him with 

 drugs, regardless of the dictates of common sense and 

 good judgement. Neither will it be adopted by that other 

 class, including good men like "Citizen Von Cuiln," 

 whose writings Oil distemper would "shingle a meeting- 

 house." But" to those gentlemen of simple habits, who 

 are satisfied with a good thing when they find it, regard- 

 less of whether it is backed by the opinions of scientific 

 men, I recommend it, and assure them that if I owned 

 the most valuable dog hi America to-day, and he was 

 afflicted with distemper in any stage, I would give him 

 the dose mentioned above, and go to bed satisfied that in 

 the morning I would find him on the high road to re- 

 covery, and restoration to power health and power. 



HOOSIER. 



Bred.— June-Bow— St. Louis Kennel Club's June has been bred 

 to Bow. 



Queen-Bow— Mr. W. H. Linn's (Decatur, 111.) Queen to Bow. 



Clite-Dnsh— Mr. Charles T. Brawnell's (Mount Pleasant Kennel, 

 New Bedford, Mass.) Gordon setter bitch Clite, to his prize-win- 

 ning setter dog Dash. 



Mmtd-Ziath— Mr. Charles Browncll's (Mount Pleasant Kennel, 

 Now Bedford, Mass.) Gordon setter bitch Maud to his Dash. 



Names Claimed— Blue Beard— Mr. J. C. Bishop, of Monson, 

 Me., claims the name of Blue Beard for his blue and tan fox- 

 hound, whelped June 12th, 1870, out of Littlefield and Bishop's 

 Fan, by DBase. This puppy, with mate, bad eight foxes killed in 

 front of them this winter, and on March 17th, the first time Blue 

 Beard was run alone, he caught and killed an old fox after a 

 three hours' chase— uot so bad for a youngster nine months old. 



Prairie Star— Mr. C. O. Brigham, of Toledo, 0., claims the name 

 of Prairie Star for lemon and white dog puppy, by Afton, out of 

 Prairie Queen, received from the kennels of Mr. G. H. Whitman' 

 of Chicago, 111. 



Van— Mr. Garrett Roach, of this city, claims the name of Van 

 for white pointer dog out of his Queen II., by Sensation. 



Ray and Rip Van Tn?)Mc— Mr. Henry Pape, of Hoboken, N. J., 

 claims the names of Ray and Bip Van Winkle for a pair of red 

 Irish setter puppies, whelped Sept. 7th, 1879, nnd purchased from 

 Mr. Max Wenzel, of Hoboken, N. J. They are by Lincoln & 

 Hellyar's Arlington, out of Mr. Wenzel's Doe. 



LiUy—Mr. J. H. Bauman, Tappahanuoek, Va., claims the name 

 of Lilly for pure Laverock setter bitch pup, out or Princess 

 Nellie, by Carlowitz. 



Whelps.— Zanha— Mr. W. H. Gotting's (of this city) dasohnnde 

 bitch whelped on March 1st six puppies, by Mr. William Scheely's 

 Dan. 



present at any of the national meetings it should have sufficient 

 interest in the general upbuilding of the gentle pastime in our 

 land to give so much support to the organization which is strug- 

 gling to bring archery to the measure of success in this country, 

 to which Its merits entitle it. There are, however, very Tew soci- 

 eties in which there is not some members who are ambitious to 

 join the great host of skilled archers who naturally gravitate to 

 the annual meetings of the National Association, and Tor the sake 

 of theso members the society ought to attach itself- It cannot 

 surely be the cause of any society remaining out, because ot fnfl 

 mere pittance of cost, and one cannot well conceive any real 

 objection that could lie urged against a general coalition of all 



isuH will bo 

 iDIe that the 

 - objections 

 archers out- 





ut the 



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THE AIM AND 



VALUE OF THE 

 ASSOCIATION. 



""^The Sporting Dog and Held Trial Club (Limited) has 

 sold within the last fortnight a pointer dog to Hungary, 

 £50 • a pointer bitch to Scotland, .€25 ; a fox terrier m 

 EiK-itu-Hi. £50, and a brace of Gordon setters to America 

 for*£225— in all £350 for five dogs, being an average of 

 £70 each. ^ 



One Way to Cure the Mangb.— Coudersport, Pa., 

 March 22d.— I will give you a recipe for the mange, al- 

 though it may not be new to you. Our tannery man has 

 a very fine Newfoundland dog, and, wdien he was seven 

 months old he had. I think, the worst case of mange I 

 ever saw. He tried several prescriptions, but the dog 

 kept growing worse, and finally, as a last resort, he com- 

 menced bathing him in the tan-vat, every day, In a 

 very short time he was completely cured ; since then he 

 has cured three cases. ». P. O. 



We cannot recommend this treatment as a specific 

 remedy, no matter how successful the cures may have 

 been as above described — . 



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"A Flea in His Ear."— Munfordville, Ky., March 2-1 r/i. 

 —1 notice that correspondents often write to you asking 

 what they must do for their dogs which are constantly 

 shaking their heads and flapping their ears. Frequently 

 yOU answer, saying, that they have canker, and giving 

 them a prescription. Now while they may have a sore 

 in the head, sometimes a flea may have crawled into the 

 dog's ear and may be crawling around. I have relieved 

 rnyddgs instantly by washing out the ear with a little 

 warm soap-suds, whic h brings out the fle a. Hart. 



KENNEL NOTES. 



COBHECTtos.-PM/rhe-An absurd typographical error having 

 appeared under this head In last week's issue, we republish notice 

 corrected--Mr. William M.TIIeston's English setter bitch Psyche 

 (Col Fernley's Frank-Rhoda) whelped on 10th inst., at West- 

 minster Kennel Club Kennels, Babylon, L. I., five puppies (two 

 dogs and two bitches living); sired by Mr. Goflefflroy's Decimal 

 Dash. Psycho was imported in ufero, and her dam Bhoda is litter 

 Bister to Mr. Macdona's celebrated dog Banger. 



Fairy's whelps were sired by Mr. Tileston's Clumbor spaniel 

 Trimbush, not Trembuck, as printed. 



Zill Is the property of Edward J. Forster, M. D., Secretary of the 

 M. K. C, of Boston, not of th e Massa chusscts Kennel Club. 



Sales -Fan-Mr. Garrett Roach, of this oity, has sold his white 

 pointer dog Van to Mr. H. Courtenay, of Milwaukee, Wis. 



Tme and Mona-Ur. A. H. Moore, of Philadelphia has pur- 

 chased of Mr G. Jamison the black and tan setters Duke and 

 Mona, for importation to America.-Ths Lire Stock Journal. 



ThcCon-tlostLittcr-Mr, J.B. Harrington of Buffalo, N. Y 

 has disposed of his Con-Floss litter of cocker spaniel ■ P»N»«. 

 whelped Feb. 6th, as follows : To William D. Southard, ^™' 

 N Y , a dog; to George H. Van Vlcck. Buffalo, N. T., a dog to 

 F ed Masten Bufa'o, N. Y., n bitch , to Dr. Wygant Pecksk. N 

 Y ■, bitch ■ presented to William M.Tileston, New 1 ork, a bitch ; 

 presenteJ to ChaS. Battcy, Buffalo, N. V.. a dog dor ilse of Me). 



S( , r i;,l,l.Mai« FU8pfeS.-:Mr. Henry W. Livingston.New York, 

 h -urcbaeed from Mr. U. W. Durgin, Bangor, Me., three Llewel- 

 in t, i er bitch puppies. b.V Lelaps (150, N. A. K. C. S. B.), out of 



*bjgrljght ( 515, N. A. K. C. S. BJ. 



^bBWii-Mr I J Jordan, Winchester, Va., has lost bytyphoid 

 fpunonla 'his pointer dog pup Consul (Orgill's Bush-Livingston's 



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THE most important event iu the annals of American archery 

 for the season of 1880 will be the meeting of the National 

 Archery Association, at Buffalo, N. Y., on the 13th, 14th and 15th 

 days of July. For some unexplained reason, the idea has pre- 

 vailed among Eastern societies that the National Association was 

 to be a Western organization, and managed in the interest or 

 Western clubs. Perhaps such a supposition may have arisen 

 from the fact that the first great meeting was held at Chicago, 

 and the Executive Committee was, for the season of 1879, com- 

 posed mostly or Chicago archers. The reason why the first meet- 

 ing was held at Chicago, was simply from the- fact that that city 

 offered greater inducements than any other, and necessarily the 

 Executive Committee must be largely composed of archers who 

 reside at the city where the meeting is to bo- held. When Buffalo 

 was chosen as the place for the meeting of 1880, a majority of the 

 members of the Executive Committee were chosen from Buffalo 

 toxophilites. No one can know how necessary this is who has 

 not borne a part of the burdens of the arrangement, of such a 

 meeting. The aim, the only aim, of the National Association is 

 to build up archery into one great, innocent, healthful and ex- 

 hilerating pastime of America, wherein cultured and refined 

 ladies and gentlemen may combine pleasantassociation with that 

 honest emulation wherein archery hasno rival. The founders of 

 the Association have done much good work, and by the ceaseless 

 labor given to the cause have built up the Association into a 

 powerful and compact society. No pastime can ever he firmly 

 fixed and successfully practiced In any land until the societies 

 unite themselves in such a central general organization. 



Archery " flourished," according to all writers, throughout 

 G rent Britain from 1795 to 1841, every county having powerful 

 clubs— one uniformed and drilled society having eight hundred 

 members. During that time they had no National Association, 

 and Hansard tells us with pride of that " incomparable bowman'' 

 Anderson, who actually once succeeded in getting a score of 31 

 hits, 135 score, with 75 shots, at 100 yards '. He further tells us that 

 at a match shot between three of the best clubs in England one 

 archer succeeded in getting 70 hits out of 810 shots, at 100 yards ! 

 So archery stood for those fifty years preceding the founding of 

 the Grand National Archery Society iu the year 1844. Within ten 

 years after its inaugural meeting there were three hundred 

 gentlemen iu England who would easily have beaten the " incom- 

 parable bowman" with a ten per cent, discount. Archery at once 

 began to be practiced upon correct principles. It was studied 

 scientifically. Ladies joined in the matchless spot t, and while at 

 the first meeting there was no lady competitor, yet in the year 

 ISlKl there were ninety-nine Dianas contesting for the national 

 medal ut Bath, and since that date about the same number have 

 annually paid ten dollars forthe pleasure of competing with their 

 rivals drawn together from the four quarters of the kingdom. 

 Even forty-four Tjrave-hearted ladies faced the tempest that 

 raged throughout the two days of the meeting on Doncaster Moor 

 in 1877. While in 1819 Mrs. Calvert won the lady champion's medal 

 with a score of 161 at the Double National Bound or 96 arrows at 

 60 yards and 48 arrows at 50 yards, yet in 1873 Mrs. Hornif.low 

 carried off the same emblem at tho same round with a score of 

 761. While a score equal to 442 pain ts won the gentleman's medal 

 at tho first meeting, yet in the year 1857 Horace A. Ford bore off 

 the trophy with a score of 1,251. 



Mr. FoTd truthfully says that this amazing advance in archery 

 was due to the formation of the National Archery Society. Not 

 only was this advance noticeable in a few archers, but the mass 

 of shooters so greatly improved that in the year 1857 the average 

 of the twenty best scores at the national meeting was 674, or fifty 

 points higher than the score of our champion at Chicago, and 133 

 points higher than tho score of the first English champion. Such 

 a result could never have been approached by the desultory prac- 

 tice of archery by societies without the guiding hand and tempt- 

 ing prizes of the National Association. So deeply has the love of 

 the annual meetings of the National Association grown in Great 

 Britain, that it is one great event in the history of each season, 

 although three other great gatherings of archers occur euch year 

 —at Leamingtcn, at the Crystal Palace and at Tcignmouth. 



In America the founders of the National Association have 

 freely expended their time and money to make the pastime a fix- 

 ture in the hearts of the American people. They desire that every 

 society, regardless of its locality, its number of members, or the 

 degree of skill they may possess, shall be enrolled in the ranks of 

 the National Association. The cost of admission— S10 for each 

 club-is very small, and for the first year there is no other cost. 

 After Ihe first your the only cost is the annual dues of $1 from 

 each male member of the club. If a society does not expect to be 



the societies in the United Slates. No doubt such a r 

 reached in future years, but it seems oeriaiidy desin 

 day may bo as soon as possible. I have heard man; 

 urged, imil have received hundreds of letters from 

 side of the association in which objections were m 

 features of tho national meetings and the plan of coi 

 association, but none of tho objections urged were 

 anything more than some mere technicality or some . 

 ory of the writer or speaker, and 1 aava yet to hear 

 from a lady. Let me beg of the lady archers thrr. 

 country that they use their potent influence to bring their sev- 

 eral societies mlo the National Association. The Eastern Arch- 

 ery Association, the Pacific Coast Association and Ihe several 

 State associations are in the tight direction. They will do won- 

 ders toward building up tho pastime, and if they will crown their 

 labors with the addition of their several societies to the roll of 

 the National Association, they can rest assured or tho lasting 

 memory and gratitude of the archers of coming years. They 

 Should prosorve their own organization and annually hold their 

 great meetings.as the English associations have done at Leaming- 

 ton. Telgumouth and the Crystal Palace ; but once in every year 

 they should meet at the great " gathering of the clans" and con- 

 test for the highest honors that archery can give. 



If the writer has one unselfish feeling it is that the greatest 

 good may come to the (neatest number of oi 

 archers, and to that end he has given more tii 

 he would oaro to mention here, and if he no 

 guage strong euough to impress deeply upon 

 archer the duty of assisting those who arc wi 

 the cause of archery, his assistance, and sup] 

 society to at once join the National Association, the writer would 

 be glad indeed to speak it. Feeling so deeply and o i ' 

 upon the subject, he can only say to archers generally that, the 

 welfare Of the cause depends more upon such a general attrac- 

 tion to the central organization than upou all other questions 

 agitated in archery councils. Before the 1st of May every society 

 in the country should attach itself to the National Association, 

 and have at least one representative at the Butfalu meeting. 



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New Yokk vs. North Side.— According to a notice in our last 

 issue, a team of this club shot a match with tho North Side Arch- 

 cry Club, Of, Chicago, at their hall, last Saturday evening, March 

 27th. Notwithstanding the stale of the weather quile a number 

 of visitors, besides a lull attendance of the club members, were 

 on hnud, and enjoyed watching the team as they shot. is arel 

 ery is a sport that needs almost undivided attention upon tho 

 part of those shooting, besides its being necessary that one should 

 feel perfectly well, or ot herwise must run the risk of making low 

 senn's, -.v.. i ferret the indisposition of both Mrs. Dr. De Luna and Mr. 

 Sutton— 1 he former, generally making the highest scores among 

 the ladies, reeling so badly us to almost determine to stop shoot- 

 ing at tho last, round. While not malting any excuses for tho 

 shooting, it seems as though, to test two teams, the conditions of 

 light, etc., should be equal. Thought Saturday evening seemed 

 to plav the New York team false. 



Tho following are the scores of the New York team ; distance, 



30 yards ; 90 arrows :— 



1st .Round. 2dEmind. 3d Bound. Jnfo. Total. 



MissE.T. Morton 113 113 158 K 412 



Mrs. Ur.DrL.iaa US 



.las. W. Auteti, Jr 178 



S.8. Bopor 



W. N. Eraser 



John W. Sutton.. 



~857 BIB 833 5C0 3,606 



BROOKLYN.— An interesting private match was indulged in by 



the well-known archers, G. F. B. Pearsall and Capt. Host, both of 



the B. A. ('., a few evenings since, at the range of the former, 



which resulted as follows ; terms, 90 arrows, 30 yards :— 



J Ws. Total, 



Pearsall W 190 210 192 m 



Hoot - 90 ?Q8 I'.KJ I'.Hl 588 



Mr. Pearsall being the victor by 10 points. CajU, Hoyt made 

 three golds in succession at two ends. That is right-keep up the 

 pract Ice at short range until you can got out to tho long ranges in 

 the Park. 



Multnomah Arcbert Club. -Portland, Oregon, March 18th — 

 The love for archery has reached this for-distant land, and there 

 are those here who will some day claim at least an honorable men- 

 liou in thceolumnsof your paper among American archers. We 

 take the liberty to ask of you a mention of our club and of the 

 best score of one or its members in your valuable paper. Our 

 club was formed late lust fall with twelve members, under the 

 name ot the "Multnomah Archery Club." On March 2d. Dr. 

 Henry, shooting three rounds of 30 arrows at 40 yards, made in 

 the first .round, 182 ; second round, 183 ; and in the IJjjrd nnuicl 

 208. Total, 572. His average for the last fire clays, shooting 



31 rounds, 31 arrows, each at. 00 yards, has he-en til 3-7 to the round 



J. U.S. 

 IlAJXOiS-nigMand Park, March 22d.-Our archers here are im- 

 proving daily. O.W.Kyle, Esq., is gaining day by day, and will 

 roll up a good average this month. Wish I could say the same 

 ot Skokie. 







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Machine-Made Bowlers, Wicket Keepers Asp Toko-Stcps.— 

 A new invention has recently been produced in England by a Mr. 

 Jeff cry. It is yeleped the "Fag." It has been Interviewed b.v 

 Alfred Shaw, who is " or the opinion that it will bo ini a 



cricket," and the Specialties of the machine ; 1 



follows : 1. Itwill return halls to bowler. 2. It. will pick up and 

 return shooters. 3. A bowler can practice during winter and keep 

 his form secret. 4. A batsman can practice without the incon- 

 venience of going back to the net to return balls. 6. 1 1 

 expensive, fi. un wheels it can be moved. 7. AtftJ 

 underneath to store crleSet goods. 8. Though a ball may hit the 

 stump "dead on," it will he returned. 9. The rtUage carpenter 

 can make it. 10. Another game for the playground of a school. 

 Thus this automaton wicket-keeper and long-slop has been 

 puffed into notice, but. like the ramuus chess Players nf the tal- 

 ented Mlllzel.it. is evidenllv to be worked off on the public by a 





