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FOREST AND STREAM. 



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FIXTURES. 



1882. 



BENCH SHOWS. 

 Terre Haute, lud., Fifth Annual Bench Sliow. J. 



rotuj, N. B, Second Annual Bench Show. H. 

 ion Show. Chas. Lincoln Superlnten- 



January 



B. Harris 



.i-jnu irj 



Maich 7. I'll tsnmgj Pa. 

 dent. 



FIELD TRIALS. 

 September. National American liennel flub Field Trials on Prairie 

 , Chlekeus. Jos. II. Dew, coimnbla, Temi., Secretary. 



December. National American Kennel Club Field Trials on Quail, 

 Grand Junction, Tenn. D. Brysou, Memphis, Tenn., Secretary. 



YANKEE. 



BY JEROME BUKNKTT. 

 r\ ONCERN 1NG dogs— you ought to know 

 ^ The pointer we call Yankee ; 



He's smart and sharp and full ot " go," 

 And never dull nor cranky. 



Bring forlh the gun, ho leaps to lite 



In all his proud elation ; 

 He's eager tor the joyous strife, 



The soul ot animation. 



Say but the word, he's right with you, 

 Whate'cr the wind or weather, 



He'll take the. Held and work It through, 

 And never miss a teather. 



And when he strikes the subtle trail, 

 You'll watch him every minute, 



His action shows he cannot fall, 

 Because his soul Is In It* 



Then when the steady point Is made, 



The climax he intended, 

 NO workmen better knows his trade— 



'Tls art and nature blended. 

 'the rigid form, the foot upraised, 



The breast that's gently swelling, 

 The beaming eye so often praised, 



of rarest sport are telling. 



A picture tls, here rudely done, 



(j[ wondrous combination, 

 A pose of grace, that e'er has won 



Our greatest admiration. 



It tells of one that's true and tried, 



As friend we hive no clearer; 

 WUate'er may come, whate'er betide, 



No love can be slncercr. 



He's taught us much thai, men receive 

 Their doubt with faith to leaven, 



For knowing him we can believe 

 That good dogs go to heaven. 



TRAINING VS. BREAKING. 



IN TEN PUBIS— OH AP. TI.— CONTINUED. 



SHOULD you desire that your dog become proficient in 

 the fancy department of this accomplishment, there is no 

 end to the tricks that you may teach him ; but until he is 

 fairly proficient in bringing his bit of meat and ball, you 

 should confine your practice strict ly to these; for although 

 he may understand you and readily bring anything that you 

 may ask him to, you will find it the better way to go slow 

 and sure, ever bearing in mind that anything that is worth 

 your while to teach him, should be taught in a thorough 

 manner, that he may not forget it should it happen lhat he 

 should go a few days without beiog called upon to perform 



We like our dog to carry, as well a9 to fetch, and deliver 

 his bird to our companion who has shot it ; and we wish him 

 so well trained thai he will carry any article and lay it down 

 at the word " drop'' in any place lhat we may designate. 

 This he may be taught to do understandingly if you pursue 

 the proper course with him. To teach him this, you will re- 

 quire an assistant, who should be one of your own family, or 

 some one that the dog is well acquainted with. When you 

 give the first lesson, your assistant should be a few feet from 

 you. Calling your pupil to you, give him his ball and bid 

 him " carry" it, at the same time motioning with your hand 

 in ihe direction that he is to go. Your a'-sistant should not 

 say a word, but should merely hold out his hand for the ball, 

 and when the dog delivers it, I e should praise and pet him a 

 little, while you should make make much of him, and if he 

 has performed the task in a pleasing manner, reward him 

 with a bit of meat. After a few lessons of this kind, the dis- 

 tance can be gradually increased and he will soon carry as 

 far as he can see your assistant. If Ihere is any difficulty in 

 getting him started right, let your assistant take the ball and 

 stud him to you, until he understands what is wanted, which 

 he will do after a few lessons. Of course, you have told him 

 to "drop" every time that be delivers anything to you, and as 

 he knows the meaning of the word, it will be an easy task to 

 teach him to lay down his ball or bit of meat in any place 

 that vou really wish him to. In order that he may learn to 

 do this in a. proper manner and readily drop his burden at 

 the word, and instantly leave it without regret and come to 

 you, we will commence at the beginning and give him th.- 

 order for tlie first time when he is close to us, and with our 

 hand extended as if to take it. As soon as he opens his 

 mouth the hand should be instantly removed and the article 

 allowed to drop on the ground. At once praise and pet him 

 and give him to understand that this is all right. On no ac- 

 count must you pick up the article or he may be led to think 

 that he should have delivered it into your hand as usual, nor 

 should you allow him to pick it up, but at once call him 

 away and interest him with something else. This will be 

 enough for the first lesson. This should be repeated until 

 he appears lo understand what is required, before you at- 

 tempt to increase Ihe distance. Your pupil must be made 

 to understand that when he hears the order to drop he must 

 instantly lose his hold, and leaving the article, at once obey 

 whatever signal you may give him. You should so teach 

 him that when coining in with anything that you have or- 

 dered him to bring lie will at the word drop it and wheel at 

 the motion of the hand iu any direction that you may indi- 

 cate. You will derive no little benefit from this accom- 



plishment should you ever get in a " hot corner " on a duck 

 pass, and not only Bave yourself much worry, but also spare 

 your dog much labor, by bidding him drop his dead bird and 

 first secure the wounded one, which may make good its es- 

 cape unless attended to at once. The same thing often oc- 

 curs in quail shooting, and many birds are lost that might be 

 brought to bag, did your d >g hut understand this fancy 

 training. 



The careful reader will readily understand that our so- 

 called " fancy training" is in reality not so useless as Bome 

 would-be critics would have us believe ; but is a part of our 

 system whereby we not only bring out our pupil a "killing" 

 dog but we make of him an intelligent companion andelevate 

 him to our own sphere, as it were, and by the wonderful de- 

 velopment of his reasoning faculties we not only greatly in- 

 crease his capacity for intelligently entering into the enjoy- 

 ment of the ever changing phases of our woodland sports, but 

 we greatly add to our own pleasure in witnessing the mar- 

 velous manifestations of reason and intelligence that he will 

 display in his encounters with some wary patriarch of the 

 forest, whose tricks and subterfuges will outvie the wily 

 8trategems of a Tallyrand. 



There are many things that you can readily teach your 

 pupil after you once get him fairly started on the road, for 

 the more you teach him and Ihe inore pains you take with 

 him the more readily will he understand what you wish. 

 You must use great caution when you begin teaching him to 

 bring anything that is new to him ; and be very sure that he 

 will understand your orders before you issue them. This 

 point is worthy your careful consideration and you should 

 strive to make yourself perfectly understood at oil times. 

 This you can easily do by closely watching his disposition 

 and the workings of his mind as he performs bis tasks, bome 

 dogs are possessed of remarkable reasoning faculties and ap- 

 pear intuitively to understand just what you wish, while others 

 are slow to learn and require more time to develop their 

 latent powers. From personal experience we are well satis- 

 fied that the former requires to the full as much painstaking, 

 careful handling as the latter in order to perfect his educa- 

 tion, and make of him a steady, reliable dog. Therefore, un- 

 less you wish to see exemplified the truth of the old saying 

 " quick learned, quick forgotten," go slow, and be very sure 

 that every step in each lesson is well learned before yon 

 advance any further. You should never ask your dog to 

 bring anything that will tax his powers tooseverely, especially 

 should this rule be observed until his education is complete. 

 Your judgment will tell you better than to bid him bring 

 the crossbar or a piece of custard pie ; you should likewise 

 refrain from asking him to bring you anything that is hard 

 or bulky, at least until he has arrived at maturity and is well 

 established in all his lessons. Many good retrievers are 

 ruined by allowing them to bring articles that they are 

 obliged to grasp hard in order to hold on to. For this reason 

 we never allow our dog to bring our knife nor anything of the 

 kind, for just so sure as this is allowed just so sure will the 

 dog acquire the habit of pinching his birds. 



We once owned one of the best retrievers that we ever 

 saw. In an evil hour we bade him carry into the house 

 the earthen plate from which he had eaten his dinner. 

 After this it became the regular thing for him to do at every 

 meal, but also that dainty, delicate mouth, which had been 

 our pride and boast, was gone forever, and after this every bird 

 that he brought that was not stone dead, would show the 

 marks of his teeth. We are well aware that there is a great 

 difference in dogs in this respect, and that we occasionally 

 see one that will bring anything that he can drag along and 

 at the same time he will hardly ruffle a feather of a strug- 

 gling bird ; but for fear that you may not possess such a para- 

 gon we advise you to be very careful about trying any ex- 

 periments that may ruin your dog, especially when there is 

 no practical benefit, to be derived lhat is at all commensurate 

 with the risk that you run. Your hat and gloves and slip- 

 pers, you can safely allow him to bring you, and it will take 

 but little time to teach him this if you carefully follow the 

 instructions that we have given. You can even teach him 

 by constant practice to distinguish between them so that 

 when you send him for either one he will make no mistake, 

 but, understanding your order, bring Ihe ariicle you wish. 

 In order to teach him this you should first accustom him to 

 bring each article and at the same time to take pains to teach 

 him its name. Take, for instance, your hat, and after plac- 

 ing it in his mouth, bid him " bring the hat," and be sure 

 to use the same language every lime lhat you practice him 

 at this. 'Ihe same course should be pursued with the gloves 

 or any other article that you may wish. After he has had 

 practice enough to bring readily the article desired you can 

 place several articles close together. Put your hat and gloves 

 with his ball aud other light articles, then order him to bring 

 the hat, should he pick it up at the first trial, as he is very 

 likely to do, yon must praise and pet him, and as you talk 

 to him you should speak the word "hut "in order to im- 

 press upon his memory the meaning of the word. This 

 should be done iu an intelligent manner, perhaps by saying 

 he " is a good dog to bring the hat," just as you would talk 

 to a boy. Should he pick up his ball, or any other article, 

 at once tell him to "drop," and repeat the order for the hat, 

 and do not allow him to bring you anything else- After he 

 brings the hat readily every time, you can change to some- 

 thing else, your gloves for instance; but until he has learned 

 the meaning of the words and brings the articles readily, do 

 not place the hat ucar tliem, nor where he can see it, as it 

 may confuse him. When he has become accustomed lo the 

 gloves you can place the hat with them and be will soon un- 

 derstand which to bring. This course should be pursued 

 with each article, and in a short time he will understand the 

 meaning of the words; and when you send him for any ar- 

 ticle that you have thus taught him the name of, he will 

 seldom make a mistake. While teaching your pupil to re- 

 trive, you should never allow yourself to become careless, 

 nor let him do this work in a slovenly manner. Always in- 

 sist upou a perfect performance of his task, for if he is once 

 alio wed to depart from the accustomed manner that you have 

 taught bini he is sure to get the impression that this is right 

 and pleasiug to you, and you will have a harder task to set 

 him right than you would to have kept him straight 

 in the first place j and worse than this, he will be 

 be very liable to become confused and fail to understand 

 just what you want; therefore, firmly insist upou implicit 

 obedience'to your ordosr, and uever allow yourself to deviate 

 one iota from Ihe course that you have marked out. 



We have ever found that all intelligent dogs are very prone 

 to look to their masters for guidance andinstinctively to 

 take their cue from them as to their behavior. You should 

 take every advautage of this trait, and by cod and collected 

 behavior, underfill circumstances, striv: to impart to your 

 pupil a steadiness that will ever be to you a source of pride. 



This trait is especially lo be cultivated when trying to 

 make a careful, tender-mouthed retriever. You should 

 always handle with the greatest care any article that you are 

 teaching him to bring. There appears to be something in 

 the careful manner in which you handle the object lhat is 

 potent to impress upon his mind a corresponding carefulness 

 in taking hold of it that is KOt apparent when l>.e object is 

 roughly thrown upon the ground ; aud we have frequently 

 taken psins to go, and with ostentatious care lay the article 

 down instead of throwing it, aud have in this way succeeded 

 in obtaining the best of results, especially when our dog was 

 a little inclined to be rough or hard-mouthed. 



There is one rule that we have carefully observed for many 

 years, and we can assure you that it is well worthy your con- 

 sideration. We never allow a pup to retrieve a bird his first 

 season, until we bave first handled it, and found that it was 

 stone dead. Yeu should allow him to point it for a short 

 time and then daintily pick it up ; and, after smoothing out 

 Ihe feathers very carefully, lay it down in front of him, 

 taking care that he can see your every motion. Now retreat 

 a few steps and very quietly bid him "bring dead." By 

 pursuing this course you will improve, not only his mouth, 

 but his steadiness as well ; and also give. him a chance to be- 

 come acquainted with the difference in the scent between a 

 live and a dead bird; and so render him less liable to make a 

 mistake by pouncing upon a close-lying bird that chances to 

 be near where he has marked the dead bird down. 



Having intimated in the first chapter that we are in favor 

 of using the whip when it is nealtd, we will briefly explain. 

 As we have before stated we never use the whip until our 

 pupil's education is complete, and there is no occasion to re- 

 sort to it even then, unless our orders are willfully disobeyed. • 

 When we find that our pupil is willful, aud deliberately re- 

 fuses to perform his task, we seek occasion to give him a 

 lesson that he will never forget. We are very careful to 

 select an occasion for punishment when the order disobeyed 

 is of a passive character, like To ho or Charge, as better re- 

 sults are obtained than when the command is of an active 

 nature. Provided with a heavy whip, we lake the oppor- 

 tunity when our pupil is very much engaged about, something 

 lhat will be pretty sure to cause him to disobey, and give 

 him the order to Charge. If we are positive lhat he plainly 

 understands and willfully refuses to obey, we instantly lake 

 him by the collar in such a manner that he cannot bite nor 

 break away, and repeating the order, strike him once with 

 all our force. Retaining our hold, we calmly wait without 

 speaking, long enough to slowly count ten. We then repeat 

 the order and blow simultaneously. This we continue until 

 our judgment tells us that he has had enough. You may 

 depend upon it that a dozen blows thus administered will ac- 

 complish more in the way of reform lhan a hundred 

 thrashings as generally indicted, for your pupil not only 

 knows why he is punished but he has plenty of time between 

 the strokes to reason it all out, and he will surely conic to the 

 conclusion that you really want him to charge when you give 

 the order; and that Ihe best thing that he can do is to in- 

 stantly obey. Unless he is uncommon)}' stubborn, you will 

 find that one or two such whippings will last him hislifetime. 

 You must be ver}' careful to issue your c mmands in your 

 ordinary tone of voice ; and on no account must you display 

 the least sign of anger or impatience ; and as soon as you are 

 through with the punishment you must speak a few kindly 

 words to him in order to let him understand that you are 

 still his lovicg friend. As soon as he recovers a little, you 

 ~h' u?d repeat your order, which he will at once obey, when 

 you must pet and praise him without stint, thus indellibly 

 impressing upon his mind that the way of the canine trans- 

 gressor is hard aud that obedience will bring a sure reward. 

 We very much dislike to punish a dog ; but if this has lo be 

 done, we greatly prefer that the lesson should be given before 

 we take him into the field, as the knowledge thus imparted 

 may prevent the necessity of resorting to this extreme when 

 among the birds. 



GEKJIAN HUNTING DOGS. 



New Yonit. Dec. 22, 1881. 

 Editor Forest and Ulrearn : 



I saw in your paper of the 10th Dec. a short description or the 

 German dachshund, the schwelsshund, and Iheir use. Thinking 

 it of interest to some of your many readers I will give a abort 

 description of the dogs used iu Germany for sporting pm poses. 



The English setter and pointer are used as well as iu the United 

 States, but you will find very few retrievers. There are in Ger- 

 many two similar breeds of dogs used for partridge, pheasant, 

 snipe, woodcock and other shooting, called kurz hanrigi >•,', uituher 

 \aMti md (smooth-haired) and fang haarigBr (teutxeher jagdhund 

 (Ions-haired). The former is very like the English pointer, with 

 which ho shares the derivation from the old Spanish pointer, but 

 much stronger in his whole make up. The English heavy pointers, 

 which are much in fashion now, are, however, almost as strong as 

 they are, and the well known champiou Wagg, winner of many 

 prizes at English and German dog shows, who was considered in 

 England a typical dog of his race, looked Vjtt'yrnuoh like a German 

 smooth-haired tagdhund. The color of these sinoolli-haired dogs 

 is liver, white and liver, or whito aud black. Of the long-haired 

 dogs, liver, white and liver, red, cr black and whito. They have 

 coarser hair than the English setters. Both kindE are Used for 

 the same purposes. They will, if of a good breed, point as well 

 as any English pointer or setter, and range as speedy as they do, 

 bnt are very obedient to their handler. Ibis id of Speeia I Evan 

 tage when in Bearch of pheasant or woodcock iu a thick cover, 

 where, to order, they will only range a short dutance from their 

 handler. Both kinds are extremely good retrievers. Thej are 

 very hardy, and can do their work in very warm weathei , needing 

 very little water in comparison to the English setters ann pointers; 

 The long-haired tadghuud will also do the worl; of the water 

 spaniel, for be is very fond of going into the wain 

 tremely good swimmer, and cares little for bitter cold weather, or 

 even the ice covering the surface, but will go into the water I 

 where you send hiru to stir up some wild ducks hidden iu the 

 reeds, or to retrieve a wounded or dead bud. Both kinds Kill sit 

 during a battue motionlesB at your feet, without attenq.'.j 

 follow the passing game, but when ordered will retrieve anything 

 they can carry, or kill a wounded fox. I have seen BOme of the 

 smooth-haired kind, which are a little stroi ,; m ;i i k.ins, re- 

 trieve largo old hares, carrving thcni at I nil J I t or h ha mile. 

 Thoy will follow you when stalking on deer, going iu the meet 

 cautious manner, avoiding any noiso which would frighten away 

 the deer, and, if properly broken, wdl not run aftoi Mi er 



you have shot. I saw some of these dogb long employed iu the 

 forests doing also the work nf the. eehweisahnnd, following the coM 

 blood of a deer. But this quality isftmnd] . • ddoni, and only 

 if the dogs are used for a long time in the forests, They are ex- 

 tremely courageous, and will defend their master against uuy 

 assault), be it by men or boasts, wild boars or any other animal". 

 Notwithstanding this they are of a very gentle nature, when nqt 

 provoked, ami are gotid playmates for children. During the last 

 fifteen years the German breeds have been much nfixad with 



English blood, hut for the last live years liii.rl, i u I done to 



keep the old German races pure.' One club at Hauuovoi 

 pecially, called " Virgin 2»'- Vki-kIJuii'I dtr tin whmam hi U ■ 



