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Henry M., Port Huron, Mich.— What is me meaning- of the word 

 Fauna, which IB used so often in your paper; is it the same zaFlora! 

 Ans. No. The word is derived from Faunus, a rural deity of the 

 Ramans. ThC Fawta of any district or country, embraces their entire 

 natural history, though it is frequently used to designate the animals 



.hi b rtta alone. 



W.B. L. Jr., Lawtonville, South Carolina —Please let me know if 



you cau give me a recipe for curing- mange in a dog. Ans. Of some 



mare skin diseases wtiteh afflict, dogs, all are known under the 



, name of Mange, which is about as comprehensive as the word 



1Y\ er. I f yot can give us an intelligent description of the eruption, etc., 



we can prescribe. 



F. B, T\, Cleveland, O.— Will you please inform me if there Is any 

 piper published on Hie subject of stock raising, and where I can pro- 

 cure one? 2. Do you think the Winchester repeating ride would be a 

 good gun to take to Texas ? Ans. 1. The Country Gentleman, published 

 at Albany, N. Y , or American Agriculturist, lills the bill as well as any 

 American paper. 2. Yes. 



I. G. Peck, Sanilac Co., Mich.— Both barrels of my gun occasionally 

 go oft at once when I pull trie right hand trigger. What shall 1 do to it.T 

 Ans. The second barrel is discharged by the jar of the explosion of the 

 first. Take to a gunsmith who will file the tumbler of the left lock suf- 

 ficiently to make the catch perfect. If yon have any mechanical genius 

 at all, you could remedy it yourself. 



Chti.i, Polo, 111.— Can you tell me a good receipt for Chill sauce. Ans. 

 Twelve ripe tomatoes, four ripe peppers, two onions, three cupfulls of 

 vinegar, two tablesp:ionsfnl of cinnamon, two tablespoonsful of salt; 

 chop t lie peppers and onions fine, and add the tomatoes; cook together 

 slowly one hour. It is not necessary to chop the tomatoes if ripe, as 

 they m ill cook soft and thus mix well. 



O. L., Auburn, N. Y.— I want to go to either St. Clair Flats or Long 

 Point this week for ducks. Will you Kindly tell me which of the two 

 ,i aces you consider the best this year and what a permit to shoot at 

 en li er place cost- aud to whom to apply for it? Ans. Go to St. Clair 

 Flats. No permits are needed except on Walpole Island. You will get 

 full particulars at the Star Island House. 



D. M. Y., Norristown, Pa.— Some weeks ago, in looking over some 

 paper, I saw an advertisement of an appliance of some kind for copy- 

 ing manuscript. It is claimed to enable the user to make, say 600 



copies, aud was recommended, especially, for circulars, business let- 

 ters, etc. Ans. Edison's Eelctric Pen. Pull partcultars may be had by 

 addressing Thos. A. Edison, Newark. N. J. 



,T. K., Buffalo.— As the bores of double-barreled guns are farther 

 apart at the breech than at the muzzle, it would seem to Indicate that 

 the line of Arc from each barrel must cross that of the other, yet such, I 

 beiieve, is not the case. How is this accounted for ? Ans. The lines of 

 lire intersect at a certain distance from the muzzle, depending sonm 

 what on the size and arrangement of barrels. 



C. E. 0., Hanover, Me.— How can I change a light gun stock to a dark 

 color, nearly black? Ans. Scrape off the varnish and stain. If you 

 will stain with a hot, saturated solution of permanganate of potash, you 

 will have a black walnut stock that will defy the inspection of any but 

 the best of experts. Make several applications, drying each one ; last 

 of all wash well with cold water, then varnish. 



A. R. R., Elk Rapids, Mich.— I have a puppy nine months old that is 

 running at the eyes, the lids being much inflamed; seems all right 

 ot herwise. W hat can I do for him ? Ans. Bathe the eyes with the fol- 

 io wing: Sugar of lead 4 grs., wine of opium 1 drachm, glyoerine >£ 

 drachm, rose water enough to make one ounce. Mix and filter until 

 clear. If it enters into the eye, all the better. 



E. B. P., Lakeville, Conn.— 1. Did the Ameran Team load at the muz- 

 zle or at the breech? 2. Do they load the shell and put the ball down 

 from the muzzle? 3. How does the Ballard Rifle have one-half less 

 recoil than any other with the same twist? Ans. 1. Loaded at the 

 breech ? 2. No. Major Futon used so to do, but we are not aware tiia 

 any of the last team did so. 3. We do not know that it has. 



J. N. M., Charleston, West Va.— Will you please give me 

 I lie nature of some, reliable work on ornithology? 2 Are there 

 two under-lever actions for breech-loading guns? Ans. Wilson's 

 and Audubon's are standard works, but " Baird, Brewer & Ridgeway's 

 North American Birds ""is fine newest and most reliable work out. 2. 

 The Lefechaux, the bide-snap, and Parker, are all under-lever actions. 



PiTTSBtjKGTt— The greatest diameter obtainable with six strips of the 

 Malacca cane is 6-18 of an inch— too small, certainly, for an eleven foot 

 rod. Is that cane generally used in rod making? If not, what is the 

 proper kind and where can it be had? Ans. The Calcutta bamboo is 

 chiefly used by the best rod maker-". For two columns of information 

 as to how to manufacture these rods, see Forest and Stream of March 



36, 18TB. 



• 

 Rob Rot, New York City —Do you know any one who has a Rob Roy 

 eauoc for sale cheap, or which he would pent at reasonable rates? 

 Ans. We know of none. The boats aro built by J. H, Rushton, Can- 

 ton, N. ST. ; Waters .V. Balch, Troy, N. Y\; aud Mr. Jar-vis, Wat kins, N. 

 Y.; and cost, when new, from $75 to $100. Perhaps the writer of the 

 canoe article, in another column, might give you the desired infor- 

 I ion. 



F. S., Boston.— I have a highly bredjpointer that when he is lying 

 down, in doors or out, trembles, or shivers much, as a human being does 

 when cold or chilly. His nose is cold, feeds well, and to me seems in 

 perteet health- Have you any idea as to the cause ? What can I put 

 on bis feet !o keep him from getting foot sore? Ans. Your description 

 is too meagre. For tender feet bathe in a weak solution of salt and 

 alum. 



MAKFreim & Massie, Chillicothe, Ohio.—" The Dittmar powder is all 

 right, provided used in a certain way," to our inquiry in regard to same, 

 .caves us in about the same fix you found us. Can't you give us, in 

 yonr next issue, an idea as to how it should be used? Ans. Send to 

 Carl Dittmar, Neponset, Mass., for one of his cu-culars of instruction 

 how to use the piiwder. You will find it in full in Hallock's " Sports- 

 man's Gazetteer." 



II. S.i West Phlladephia.— Dog has epileptic convulsions when over 

 exercised. Ans; Place on low diet, and give fluid extract of triticum 

 repea.% one drachm every four hours, Pay strict attention to cleanli- 

 ness, etc., giving moderate exercise. Use also the following: Solid 

 extract Of oolycinth eonip., 60 grains S solid extract of nnx vomica, 10 

 grains; solid extract of belladonna, 5 grains. Mix, and make twenty- 

 tive pills. Give one at night. 



C. S., New York. -1. At what age is a well bred pointer dog unfit for 

 breaking-.' 2. Is a dog three years of age too old to break? 3. Is the 

 areca mit good for tape worm in clogs, and would It hurt, a dog should 

 he not have worms, as I may in istake the symptoms? What is a dose? 

 Ans. 1. Not until upward of one year of age. '2. Yes, generally. 3. 

 Areca nut produces a severe inflammation of the bowels, and hence 

 should be used only as a dernier resort. Dose, twenty grams for an 

 adult dog. 



J. A. r., Williamsport,Pa.— 1. Is the bass bait advertised in the F. 

 and 8. considered good? 2, Is it nearly us good as the genuine hel- 

 gramite which it represents? 3. Are crafts as good as minnow? 4.1 

 am going to order an extra, set of gun barrels expressly for heavy cover 

 shooting. Will yon give yonr opinion as to how many pellets should 

 they put; in 30 in. diameter circle at iwenty yards? Ans. 1 . Yes. 2. Ts 

 said to be. 3. Oftentimes better. 4, Depends upon the size of shot, and 

 the amount used. 



C. W. B., Westboro, Mass,— 1. Is the Restigouche region of New 

 Brunswick a good trapping region ? 2. Is lumbering carried on about 

 the head waters of the river? 3. Are Virginia deer fouud in that 

 region? 4. How often do the mails arrive at the Grand Falls, on the 

 St. John's River 7 Ans. 1. Yes, excellent for beaver, mink, sables, etc. 



2. No, not at the head waters, but at least for eighty miles above the 

 month. The river is 127 miles long. 8. No deer, only moose and cari- 

 bou. 4. Daily mail. 



H. A. K., Clyde, Michigan.— Can you inform me who was the inventor 

 of the stocking-frame ? Ans. William Lee, M. A., Fellow of St. John's 

 College, Cambridge, England, invented' the stocking-frame in 3599. 

 Tradition ascribes the origin of his Inventiou to a pique he had taken 

 against a townswoman, and who gained her livelihood by knitting 

 stockings, m order to depreciate her employment. It is said that he 

 worked for Queen Elizabeth, and not only manufactured stockings In 

 his frame, but waistcoats, etc. 



A. 0.,New York.— 1. Which of two bullets would give the greater 

 shock to a wild beast— No. 1, 44 calibre, 200 grams, flat front, propelled 

 by 40 grains of powder ; No. 2, 40 calibre, 290 grams, pointed, propelled 

 by 50 grains of powder. 2. Would a barrel of only is inches belong 

 enough to give a bullet the proper veloolty for doing its work thor- 

 oughly at short range ? 3. Would a large revolver, with shoulder at- 

 a chment and throwing an explosive budet of 44 or 45 calibre, be better 

 than a rifle on account of the rapidity of fire? Ans. 1. No. I. 2. No. 

 3. We should prefer the rifle. 



J. H., Boston.— 1. Is the sugar of lead and alum solution for water- 

 proofing a tent detrimental to health? 2. Is it practicable to have a 

 rifle barrel to go inside the barrel of a ten bore;breech-loadiug shot-gun, 

 to use at pleasure ? if so how large will it be safe to have the calibre ? 

 3. In the " Gazetteer" after the names of the trout flies for each month 

 are figures, what do they denote ? 4. How would the artificial Dobson 

 advertised in the F. and S. do for bass in Florida? is there anything 

 of that nature there? Ans. 1. No. 2. Yes, consult your gunsmith as 

 to calibre. 3. Size of the fly. 4. Yes. 



. Tar Heel, Wilmington, N. C— Setter pup fourteen months old ; lame 

 In left fore-leg. Holds leg, when standing, with foot barely touch- 

 ing the ground. Limps when walking or running. Apparently no 

 pain— no swelling, no bruise, apparently. First noticed lameness on 

 returning from a hunt. I am sat is fled that there is no thorn or briar in 

 foot or leg. Slight shaking or tremulous movement of the leg occasion- 

 ally, when foot is resting very lightly on the floor or ground. Ans. 

 Look for sinus in claw. Better make another examination for thorn, 

 examining carefully between the pads of the foot. 



M. H. C, Clarksville, Tenn.— Our club sowed in our ponds, last, fall 

 and tills spring, five bushels of wild rice; we could not learn that a 

 plant was produced, and the seeds may have been roasted before they 

 were sent us. The last Forest and Stream speaks of the wild celery 

 in Lake K03hkonong, Wis. ; perhaps such would" succeed here. It pro- 

 duces seeds, I suppose. Can yon put us in the way of procuring them ? 

 Ans. Fred. Pond, of Montello, Wis , will tell yon all about Lake Kosh- 

 konong and its wild celery. Why will not our old correspondent gratify 

 many readers by communicating his knowledge through our columns ? 



Dalton, Pittsfteld, Mass.— With a rifle— barrel-chambered for a long 

 straight shell and. patched ball, shell '1% inches long and the ball pro- 

 jecting an inch more— could reliable shooting at. shorter ranges be de- 

 pended upon by using shells of \y, or 1 inch long, with naked lubri- 

 cated bullets corresponding in size to the charge of powder burnt ? 2. 

 Will one turn in 10 inches give any greater recoil than one in 30? 3. 

 Is the relative accuracy affected in either case, and if so, what twist on 

 a 6 to 9 lb. barrel of .44 bore, would give the most accurate results? 

 Ans. 1. No. 2. It should. 3. Other things being equal to a certain 

 point, the greater the twist, the greater the accuracy. 



Mac, Brookville, Ind.— My setter dog has a wart, or something similar 

 to the same, growing from under the left upper eye-lid. It protrdues 

 about one-eigth of an inch, and is the same in diameter, and has a 

 wart-like appearance. The base of the same extends underneath the 

 eye-lid a full quarter of an inch. Had not noticed anything of the 

 kind troubling him till a few days ago. Hi3 general health is good. 

 Please tell me what is best to do for him. Ans. Take him to a surgeon 

 aud have it dissected oat. To remove with scissors will probably be of 

 little use, it being likely to return. It can be removed by other methods, 

 but they would be dangerous in the bauds of non -professional men. 



F. W. C, Boston.— Fishing uujuick waters below the dam at Ship 

 Pond, Eliotsville, Me., last month, 1 caught a fish with all the color* 

 and markings of a land-locked salmon, and in addition, the bright red 

 spots of a brooft trout, it was about 6 inches in length with bright sil- 

 very scales under, and black on the back, with bars or scollops down 

 into the light. Was it the young of a land-locked or sea salmon, or a 

 hybrid? Ans. Your fish was unquestionably a smolt, or second year 

 salmon. By next summer, he will have made his first visit to the sea, 

 and return weighing live to nine pounds. We congratulate your fish 

 culturlsts on their success in introducing the salmon into your part of 

 the State.. 



J. B. C„ Albany.— Please prescribe for my dog. He is nine weeks 

 old, scratches himself a great deal and sheds a little hair he had. Sores 

 on him, but I have used carbolic soap and he is better. Eyes good; 

 doeB not sleep well ; he shakes and trembles most all the time; bowels 

 are very bad, they arc so loose it is almost clear water ; color black aud 

 sometimes light brown. He has nothing to eat but milk, bread, potatoes 

 and a very little cooked meat. He plays around lively about half ol the 

 day, but breathes hard and drinks a good deal of water. Ans. Leptau- 

 drinl grain, sulphate of ciuchonoida 1 grain, podopltyllin % grain three 

 times a#lay. ' Also liquor ArsenecalU el Hudrargii lod. 3 drops In water 

 morning and evening. Feed on oat meal and lean fresh meat well 

 cooked. 



Fleas, Brooklyn.— I have a setter pup, nine months old, that is 

 troubled terribly with fleas. If they are killed off, they return as soon 

 as he goes to his kennel. His kennel, a large box with no bedding, 

 Is scalded and washed out once a week, and is in the back yard, next 

 the house in the corner. Ans. Bund linu a new kennel and have all the 

 cracks painted up. Whitewash every week, or give a coating of tur- 

 pentine alter flushing well with hot water. Give him pine shavlugs to 

 He upon, which change often. Baise kennel from ground three or four 

 inches, and place in rl tfereut locality. Perfect attention to cleaalmess 

 and hygiene of keDuel will keep out fleas. 1'se powdered flowering 

 pyrethruni to eradicate fleas from dog, and Juniper Tar Soap (Ho- 

 garth's) to wash him with. 



GRBEM, City.— Will you prescribe for my Better? Age. about four 

 ears; food, table scraps; medicine, none; eye, bright, but rather sad; 



coat, hatr dropping; tongue, dry; condition, quite thin, no bloating- 

 respiration, natural ; bowels, free, but;, have not. been able to see them ' 

 urine, more free than natural; appetite, variable; I cannot give tem- 

 perature; kennel, has the ran of the honse and large yard, can go out 

 when he pleases and come in, steeps In a large, airy room. He has just 

 come in from the country yesterday, where he has been since June 

 Vomits very frequently after drinking, sometimes after eating, ir I 

 could make an appointment with your Doctor, I would like to'doso. 

 Ans. Squibh's sweet spirits of nitre, 2 ounces; fluid extract of triticum 

 repens, one ounce. Dose, a teaspoonful three times a day in water 

 The Doctor may bq seen at this office at any lime. 



J. H. p., Augusta, Me.— 1. Should the bottom of a rudder for a sail- 

 boat be on a line with the bottom of the keel? I claim that it should 

 but a boat builder tells me that it should be rounded off on the after 

 edge, as he says that the rudder takes effect on the water line only, and 

 that the back lower corner makes more drag without doing any good. 

 Which Is right ? 2. Plei se give me a recipe for getting a durable dark 

 blue and black on a gun barrel without heat ? 3. Is there any chart of 

 the coast of Maine that is not very expensive? 4. Is there any kero- 

 sene stove made that is safe and convenient for camp use? All that I 

 have seen are too heavy or take up too mnch room. Ans. 1st. The 

 boat builder is correct. 2d. Gun barrels cannot be blued without heat. 

 3d. Yea. The V. S. Coast Survey reports can usually be bought for a 

 mere nothing in old book stores , 4th. All that we have seen are either 

 too heavy or too awkward to carry. 



G. H., Philadelphia.— I own a small cocker spaniel bitch about a year 

 and a half old ; I have fed her, since she was three months old, on In- 

 dian meal mush with liver chopped fine cooked in it. Recently I took 

 her for a walk, and when a mile from home she fell on the pavement 

 and commenced kicking and choking with a slight frothing at the 

 mouth, and a cramped appearance of her limbs, almost immediately 

 she commenced yelping and barking and broke away and ran for sev- 

 eral squares, when I lost her. On my return I found she had been 

 home some time, and that immediately on her arrival she curled up and 

 fell asleep ; she appeared very weak and nervous for several days! I 

 dosed her with raw linseed oil, as her breath was very offensive." Can 

 you tell what ailed her ? Ans. The dog had epileptic convulsions, prob- 

 ably due to the feeding of Indian meal. Feed on oat-meal, and <nve 

 her 6 grains of the following powder three times a day : Rhubarb, pow- 

 dered, 6 drs. ; powdered white castile soap, 2 drs. ; leptandrlu and 

 powdered cubebs, of each one drachm. Incorporate thoroughly and 

 pass through a very fine seivgt 



D. K., Syracuse.— Will you please inform me in regard to a fish found 

 in the Seneca River, known as the white bass or sheepshead. It was 

 my fortune to take from the Seneca River, near Jordan, last Friday, 

 one of these fish weighing seventeen pounds, and, having an idea quite 

 prevalent hereabouts, that they were only fit for a compost heap, I dis- 

 posed of it to a lad, fishing near, for four black bass. There seems to be 

 a difference of opinion as to the fish, some asserting that he frequents 

 reefs and stony and gravelly bottoms, and, when properly cooked, is 

 decidedly palatable and a different fish from the sheepshead. Is there 

 a species of fish found in the Seneca River known as white bass ? And 

 if it is also called sheepshead, and is the same fish found in Lake Erie 

 and called by that name ? Wo have the sliver bass with a dark stripe 

 on the side, an entirely different variety. Ans. There is a fish found 

 in the Seneca River and lake, and, in fact, in most all of the interior 

 lakes of New York known as the white bass or white perch, and by 

 some as a sheepshead ; this is the Corvina oscula of DeKay, and is es- 

 teemed as food by many, though somewhat dry and tasteless. The 

 sheepshead of the Great Lakes, or Malasheganay, is the Corvina rich- 

 ardsonii of Cuv. and Val., an entirely different fish, and is considered 

 inedible by whites, though Indians like it. A peculiarity of it is, that 

 the longer it is cooked, the tougher and more leathery it becomes. 

 Your white bass is fouud in Lake Erie, and Is sometimes known as 

 sheepshead in those waters. 



F. A. T., Pittsburgh, Pa.-My red Irish Gordon setter bitch, six 

 months old, has had a bloody dysentry for a month, and all that f can do 

 I cannot stop It. Nearly every passage is soft and streaked with blood ; 

 sometimes a jelly-like substance passes her. She is quite thin, audi 

 would like to stop it, if possible. She averages six or seven passages 

 every twenty-four hours ; she urinates very often, the fluid being of a 

 white color. She eats little or nothing in the morning, but at noon and 

 night has a good appetite. Her kennel is In my back yard, clean, dry 

 and warm— another dog, similarly situated, thrives splendidly. She has 

 daily exercise around the parks and commons ; her coat is glossy gener- 

 ally, but sticks up in one or two places ; eyes are bright ; belly slightly 

 drawn up behind the breast-bone; her breath has that sickly smell 

 which yon will understand without description. Her treatment has 

 been— first, areca nut for worms— no perceptible good results; next, 

 laudanum and ether, five drops each, three times dally— passages a 

 little harder but same amount of blood ; next, fluid extract of ergot, 

 ten drops, twice daily, and cod liver oil, a tablespoonful three times 

 daily— on this she fattened, but no abatement of blood; lam now giv- 

 ing ipecac, ten grains, three times daily— passages still bloody. As she 

 cannot touch meal, 1 am feeding her on boiled beef or mutton alone, 

 in moderate quantities. Ans. Your description is satisfactory! We 

 wish all were equal to it, We suspect the areca nut to be at the bottom 

 of the trouble. Give the following three times a clay: Quinine, 12 

 grains; cubebs, 16 grains; leptandrin, 13 grams; white Castile soap, 4 

 grains ; rhubarb, 6 grains ; ciystals of nitrate of silver, powdered,' l 

 grain; solid extract of conium, a grains. Mix, and make twelve pills. 

 Dose, one pill three times a day. Give also, Boudault's wine of pepsin,' 

 a.teaspoonf ul every four hours, and use Iodoform supposotories. 



The Wedd as.— Several interesting papers lave been real, 

 before tbe scientific societies of Great Britain regarding this 

 interesting tribe of men, inhabitants of Ceylon. The. deduc- 

 tions to be drawn are, that tbe Weddas still depend upon 

 bows and arrows for their subsistence, and that they pass their 

 lives in the forests, without dwellings or any system of civili- 

 zation. There is an entire absence of implements among 

 them, even stone or flint, indicating a state of barbarism be- 

 low that of the mound builders of America. They have no 

 means of procuring fire other than by friction of two pieces of 

 wood, and the use of water in ablution is unknown. The in- 

 tellectual capacity of the race, too, is extremely low, as they 

 are unable to count, do not distinguish between colors and 

 are totally devoid of any moral or religious sentiment. Mr. 

 Hartshorn declares these people are incapable of mirth or Bor- 

 row, and that they are noteworthy as being the only race in 

 existence that speaks the Aryan language. Mr. Clark corrob- 

 orates the fact of their being a truly aboriginal people, but 

 holds that the use of tbe Aryan tongue is no positive evidence 

 that they are Aryans, though he believes them closely allied. ' 

 Undoubtedly further research regarding this peculiar race, 

 will throw important bght upon the sci s cf evolution and 

 philology. 



