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National American Kennel Cu b Field Trials.— 
Mr. E. C. Sterling. President of the N. A. K. C.. writes 
us that Petoka, Illinois, on the line of Illinois Central Rail¬ 
road, between Yandalia and Sandoval, has been selected 
as the spot for holding the Club Field Trials. The date is 
November 24th proximo. 
The programme for the approaching Field Trials has 
been arranged, and is now officially announced : 
First Annual Field Trials of the N. A. K. Club, will be 
held at Potoka, Marion Co,, Ills., on the Illinois Central 
Railroad, hetween Vandalia and Sandoval, commencing 
November 24th, 1879. 
Puppy stake, $300; to be paid infull. For pointers and 
setters under eighteen months. First prize, $150; second 
prize, $100 : third prize, $50. Entrance, $15, with $10 for¬ 
feit. Free for all stake, $500 : to be paid in full. Open 
to all. First prize, $250 ; second prize, $150 ; third prize. 
$100. Entrance, $25, with $10 forfeit. Brace stake $350; 
to be paid in full. For braoos—first prize, $150 ; second 
prize, $75; third, $25, Entrance, $25, with $10 forfeit. 
All entries close November 24th, at 7 a.m. Trials to be 
run daily, on quail, commencing at 8 a.m.. and continu¬ 
ing till 5 p.m. unless interrupted by rain, and to he run 
under the National American Kennel Club Field Trial 
rules. Judges : Theodore Morford, Newton, N. J.; E. F. 
Stoddard, Dayton, Ohio: Capt. Pat Henry, Clarks¬ 
ville, Tenn. 
The ground selected is tirst olass ; there are two hotels 
in Potoka ; ample facilities for reaching the trials which 
will be run very near town; location central and easily 
reached from all directions. The people are hospitable 
and will welcome sportsmen, and the trials will be a suc¬ 
cess. Jno. W. Mohson, Esq. 
Mancie Cure. — A reliable mange cure is what all own¬ 
ers of dogs have been long looking for. We believe it has 
been found in the article put up by Mr. H. C. Glover, of 
the Imperial Kennels at Tom’s River, N. J,, and sold by 
Messrs. Conroy, Bissett &. Malleson of this city. We are 
familiar with the ingredients composing this remedy, and 
know them from practical experience to be the most ef¬ 
fective for the purpose designed. See the advertisement. 
Another Good Dog.—E ditor Forest and Sti-eam 
I see in your valuable paper so many articles relative to 
good dogs that I am prompted to send you a few notes of 
one of our good dogs. His name is Ma ck, and when the 
present owner came into possession of him was about two 
years old. He is very large-honed, heavy, orange and 
white in color, with a, large, intelligent eye, black mouth 
and nose, pendant lips and finely feathered limbs. I shall 
never forget the first time I hunted with him. We found 
a covey of quail in a corn field, and as they would not 
lie for him he cautiously backed out, made a long circuit 
and came upon them from another quarter. This turned 
the birds toward ns, and as soon as he scented them he 
stopped, when we flushed and shot a good number. I 
have often seen him stand a bird in a bush heap, and if 
we made no move to flush it he would back out and 
stand from the opposite side. This he would not do if 
we were at a distance. We were once shooting quail iu 
a thick woods when one lit in a field near a small gully. 
When Mack came upon the trail he stopped, and soon 
making a circuit went out a few yards, stopped again, 
went through the same performance and passed on. This 
he did seven times. I suppose the bird bad run a few 
yards, then sat down, ran again a few yards, sat down 
again, &e.: and there leaving a very much warmer scent. 
Not once did he stand the second time at the same place 
until he reached the end of this gully, where after stop¬ 
ping as usual he backed out, came to us from the oppo¬ 
site quarter and stood again. "There’s the bird now." 
Sure enough, out flew the quail, only to return to terra 
flrma in a. very demolished condition. Is this instinct or 
reason V I have a pup from tliis dog, and on several occa¬ 
sions have l seen him do this same act. I do not like it, 
but admire the old and young dog’s actions, and think 
if the young one inherit one thing from his sire, he surely 
will others. The old dog has a comical way of turning 
around—just like a cat trying to catch its tail—whenever 
he wants anything or is pleased, and this my young dog 
does whenever I go to feed him or get ready for a day’s 
gunning. Those are two traits I think he. inherited from 
his sire. 
On one occasion when out hunting Mack strayed from 
the party and could not be found. They called and whis¬ 
tled and presently heard him bark, only a few rods from 
them. They soon found him, and he was standing on a 
flock of quail that had just commenced to run away 
through the bushes. I suppose the birds remained quiet 
until they heard the shouting and whistling near them, 
and when they were moving off the dog barked. I have 
often seen him do this when the birds were running and 
we were at a distance. He once stopped, and raising bis 
hindleg beside a bush in a very different position than 
setters generally do when standing game, stood thus un¬ 
til his owner and companion came from considerable dis¬ 
tance and flushed two quail near him. Thus I could re¬ 
late many curious and actual occurrences, but I do not 
wish to t tax you too much. This dog has no pedigree. 
Yet I think he would take first in a field trial. 
P. Hulsizer. 
Bloomsbury , A. J., Oct. 20th. 
Dogs on the Jersey Meadows. — While paddling 
down a water course to reach the open water, two snipe, 
flushed at some distance, were seen approaching, and as 
they passed the mouth of the creek one fell to Harry’s 
gun and one to mine; the dog jumping from the boat 
swam toward them to retrieve, and not wishing to make 
two journeys he just took one bird in his mouth and 
worked it as far back as possible; then swam toward the 
other, and catching it tenderly with his front teeth, 
brought both to the boa! without in the least mouthing 
or injuring them in any way. This wonderful dog was 
the well-known red Irish setter Bill-E, late At, sired by 
Conroy's imported red Irish Setter Buck, out; of Uncle 
Tom Jerome, imported i ud Irish setter bitch Nellie, she 
by a red Irish setter bred in the County of Meath, Ireland. 
out of Mr. H. Ja,ffray’s Irish setter bitch Minx, A few 
days ago this dog was put down after two crack Jersey 
meadow dogs had hunted the meadows without finding 
game. When, lie—the red Irish setter Bill-E—covered 
the same meadow passed over by the above dog, five 
snipe were killed to bis points. Uncle Tom. 
Boss OF THE Fox TERRIER YOUNG SPORT.— Will yOU 
he kind enough to ask your readers to keep a look out for 
the above dog ? He was lost from the kennels of Mr. Kaye 
just before the St. Louis Show, and is valued very' highly 
by his owner. All sportsmen will confer a favor on Mr. 
Fox by keeping a look out for him. Chas. Lincoln. 
—Mr.W. Fitch's (Kingston) red Irish setter bitch Queen 
Bess, and Mr, S. L, Pettit’s (New York) hitch Beezie, of 
the same breed, have been bred to Mr. W. N. CoUender’s 
(Albany) champion red Irish setter Rory O’Moore.. 
—The black setter bitch, Flora, owned by Mr. G. Con- 
uatos, of, we believe, Detroit, Mich., whelped on the 18th 
iust. eight puppies, sired by same owners Jet. 
—Mr. L. F. Whitman, of Detroit, has bred his setter 
bitch Fly to his Ra ttler. 
—We. shall feel very much obliged if correspondents in 
sending us breeding items will state the breed of dogs 
regarding which they are writing. We are obliged to 
leave several notices of this description imprinted for 
want of tlus-ireformation. 
—Mr. J. Higgins' (Wilmington, Del..) Champion Eng¬ 
lish setter bitch, Petrel, has been bred to Mr. H. W. 
Ganse’s Carlowitz: also Mr. Emlen Hewes’ White Rose to 
Cariwitz, 
DOGS IN ENGLAND AND AMERICA. 
T HERE was at least one feature at the dog showsheld 
in this city that struck the English judges, the Rev. 
Mr. Macdona and Mr. Wm. Lort, with surprise. We al¬ 
lude to the number of setters and pointers exhibited. 
And now another English sportsman bears witness to 
the remarkable number of dogs of the above-mentioned 
breeds bred and shot over in this country. In writing to 
the PdU Mall Gazette from Virginia, Mr. Bradley says :— 
11 The United States, if they are not now, must shortly 
be the headquarters of the pointer and the setter. The 
number of sportsmen who shoot over dogs, the number 
of dogs hunted and the extent of ground over which they 
are annually used in the British islands, even now sink 
into insignificance when compared with the correspond¬ 
ing figures on this continent. The cause is self-evident. 
Iu England the pointer and the setter are necessary only 
for the first few days or so of grouse-shooting, a useful 
adjunct for partridge-shooting in certain localities, and 
valuable on certain kinds of snipe-ground, with the 
fast-ebbing sentiment of the older portion of the sporting 
world to retard their total disuse. With the exception 
of the New England States, Now York and Pennsy lvania, 
where neither the quail nor the prairie-hen are found in 
sufficient numbers to save them from being made excep¬ 
tions, the “ bird-dog" is universally necessary, universally- 
appreciated and unfailingly regarded as the most impor¬ 
tant element in a sportsman’s outfit." 
We do not understand why, unless from ignorance, 
Mr. Bradley should have made the exceptions he has, for 
certainly in the States he has mentioned pointers and set¬ 
ters are used, relatively, as much as in any other. And 
it might be not inaptly argued that the scarcer the birds 
the better the dog required to find them. 
Mr, Bradley writes so pleasantly regarding American 
sport and sportsmen that we cannot refrain from quoting 
further from him. He says :— 
*' The creme tie la crime of American wing-shooting be¬ 
ing as a rule very hard work and the severest test of 
sporting qualities, both in the matter of endurance, 
Btraight-holding and the management of dogs, chokes off 
many a quasi-sportsman who in England would loaf 
through a day in the turnips or the coverts like a well- 
drilled private, but without an idea in his head regarding 
the science of the sport. How many of the rising gener¬ 
ation of English sportsmen know anything at all about 
a setter—their points or their management in the field? 
I think I am right in saying that a general idea prevails 
in our tight little island that we are beyond comparison 
pre-eminent in matters pertaining to guns a,nd dogs. A 
thorough acquaintance with this country would give the 
holders of such an opinion a severe shock. I am not 
speaking now of the manufacturers of the one or the 
breeders of the other, for in both matters America owes 
everything to England—but of the men who use them. 
••Leaving out of the question the great army of big- 
game hunters that numbers in its ranks men of every 
class and every State—from the wealthy sportsmen of 
the Eastern cities who spend their annual holiday at their 
hunt-club lodges in the wilds of Maine or the Adiron- 
dacks, or light up with their camp-fires the lonely gorges 
of the Alleghanies, to the half savage rangers of the far 
West—leaving this, the old traditional sport of the coun¬ 
try, out of the question and confining our remarks solely 
to the two principal branches of wing-shooting’—quail and 
prairie-hen—let us take a cursory glance at the popular¬ 
ity they enjoy. The number of sporting clubs that of 
late years have sprung into existence—clubs for the pur¬ 
pose of bringing sportsmen together, preserving game, 
and restocking both fields and streams—is marvelous. 
There are city clubs, village clubs, and county clubs all 
through the Eastern and Southern States innumerable, 
not to speak of State associations and establishmen is for 
the breeding and importation of high-bred setters and 
pointers. A glance at Mr. Halloek's admirable paper, 
Forest and Stream, would, I think, surprise most Eng¬ 
lishmen : though owing to the size and sectional divi¬ 
sions of the country It could give but a faint idea of the 
growing strength of transatlantic sporting interests. 
The principal quail-shooting grounds lor Eastern sports¬ 
men aro Maryland, Virginia arid North Carolina ; anu the 
15th of Oct. is a day eagerly looked forward to by all 
lovers of the gun. The forests aro resplendent in all the 
glory of autumnal tints; the dreamy, sunny haze of the 
Indian summer hangs over the wjde sweeping stubble 
fields, now knee-deep in weeds and wild grass ; the air is 
crisp, the birds are generally strong and well-grown, aud 
afford, I think, better shooting than an English partridge, 
whose place they occupy in this country, for several rea¬ 
sons. To begin with, they fly faster, and being smaller, 
are by universal agreement much harder to stop. Again, 
the coveys scatter more readily and afford far more sin¬ 
gle-bird shooting; moreover, they will on being flushed 
frequently fly to the woods, which latter being usually 
devoid of underbrush, a continuation of snap shots of 
every imaginable kind ensues, which puts to the severest, 
test the steadiness of both men and dogs, giving a zest 
and a variety to the day’s sport, which some people think 
is wanting in England.” 
OUR LONDON LETTER. 
Editor Forest and Stream .-— 
An American from Philadelphia, who has been doing 
Em-ope. did me the honor of calling on me the other day 
on his way hack. I was pleased to see a man from beyond 
the herring pond, and am proud to say that he, too, was 
pleased with all my little arrangements. But this Ameri¬ 
can, who looked every inch a gentleman, as well as a re- 
E ublican, told me that when I visited the land of his 
irth, as X hope to next spring, I should see “a great 
country." I do not doubt it. 1 have always been an ad¬ 
mirer of your institutions, but still I am not happy ; and 
herein lieth my present grief—namely and to wit: Be¬ 
fore me lies a schedule of your St. Louis Dog Show, and 
woe is me for the meagreness of the prizes offered for the 
non-sporting classes. Have you no admiration in that 
happy land of yours for the princely St. Bernard, the 
kingly mastiff or noble Newfoundland, to say nothing of 
the grand old English bulldog and the dare devil null 
terrier. It would seem not. Is the love of canine flesh 
becoming extinct in Yankee-land, or is it henceforth to 
be confined to sporting-dogs and nothing else? I siu- 
cerely hope not. 
But why not get up an international dog show, which 
shall be one,not in name only, but in reality? Only offer 
us the temptation of prizes, which shall go some little 
way towards reimbursing us for the loss of the time and 
money spent en voyage, and see if we don't bring out a 
team of the champion dogs of England whiph shall as¬ 
tonish you. The breeds with which I should propose 
opening your optics in the non-sporting classes would be 
mastiffs, St. Barnards, Newfoundlands, Scotch collies, 
Danish ulrners, bulldogs, bull terriers, pugs, Yorkies, 
maltese, Blenheims and King Charlies. Against these 
America wouldn’t have the ghost of a. chance ; nor would 
she against our bloodhounds. I scratch my head, though, 
when I think of pointers; and as to setters, my friend Mr, 
Lort tells me, in his earnest, energetic manner, you beat 
us hollow. Granted as regards many breeds of setters, 
but I will not give in as regards the Irish setter. The Rev. 
R. Gallaghan, R. N., has bred these beauties for years. 
He had a pair at Cirencester Dog Show that would lick 
all creation. By the way, this gentlemen was the breeder 
of Plunket and likewise Rover, although the Hon. D, 
Plunket gets that credit. Tliis is a fact which may not 
be generally known to your readers. Plunket, as you 
know, was not only a great breeder, but a celebrated field 
dog, and as to Rover, he was the dog selected by Stone¬ 
henge for lus book, as being the typical Irish setter. 
I may tell you that Newfoundlands are being much 
neglected iu this country. There are few breeders, and 
many of the judges do not understand them. Nicholls 
does, and Lort, and perhaps a few others ; but I have seen 
the Rev. G, Hodson at Portsmouth put a flat-coated re¬ 
triever over a celebrated champion bitch, while Idstone 
at Exeter gave first prize to a huge hulking retriever 
with—just listen—a curly coat! Fact, sir. German 
dachshunds are one of the rages at present in our tight 
little island. I must not here begin to speak their praises 
or I shall occupy more of your valuable space than you 
could afford. But I really hope they are also becoming 
fashionable in America. They deserve to be. 
Our show season is nearly over, but there are still two 
or three big ones to come, such as Bristol, the Alexandra 
and Brighton. This last is to be a very loud affair. All 
the world will be there and bis missus with him 
The cross of the canine Legion of Honor is, I hear, to 
be presented to Sirs. H., of bloodhound notoriety, and 
fair owner of Don, for gallantry displayed in front of 
the enemy. Mrs. II. may be described otherwise than on 
the police sheets, where she was styled “ a fashionably 
attired lady of prepossessing appearance." She is tall, 
well furnished, good in forearm and bone, and with a 
greatly admired—by judges and reporters —tout ensemble. 
A dog show without, this lady’s bust would be as incom¬ 
plete as one minus King Don’s hat. The tale is this : The 
lady in question, after waiting for three-quarters of an 
hour for an exit ticket—a fact which doesn’t throw much 
lustre on the gallantry of Birkenheadites—concluded she 
would leave without one. Marching onwards—blood¬ 
hounds and Dandie in front, lead-laden whip in her right 
hand—she was opposed by an all-too-warlike bobby. That 
functionary, about three seconds afterwards, had good 
reason to wish he hadn’t got up at all that morning. So 
effectually was the whip laid aoout his shoulders that he 
was fain to roar for assistance. The plaintive appeal 
brought bobby No. 2 to the rescue. Bobby N. 2 shared 
precisely the same fate. Mrs. H. showered her blows 
like wintry rain ; even the sergeant himself came in for 
his dose. So the three policemen had a hot time of it, for 
it seems noses were broken, watches smashed, and the 
sergeant’s teeth dashed.down his throat like summer hail. 
Aura for this little pastime Mrs. H. was mulcted in the 
sum of eighty shillings; but she seems to have gotten 
more than four pounds’ worth of fun out of the three 
policemen. Great blame is attached to the crowd of male 
Birkenheadites who merely stood around and laughed 
Had a tow more policemen rushed to the scene of action, 
and two or threedozenof toe aboriginees joined them, the 
probability is that toev- would have mastered even toe 
fair owner of Dou. When the result of toe court martial 
was carried to the mansion house of the Rev. G. H. he is 
reported to have shed tears, pulled his own hair, and 
headed a penny subscription with a silver sixpence, and 
did what he was never known to do in his life before— 
took a glass of grog. Et sic transit gloria mundi —ao 
passed away that gallorious Monday. 
Your broad and welcome Bheet comes to hand every 
Wednesday, j I greatly enjoy reading some qf the sport- 
