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FOREST AND STREAM. 



ClasB — Best pointer dog, any size, imported or native, for 

 Btud purposes, to be Bhown with two of his get, 

 handsome silver plate, donated by B. Mead & Co., 

 Jewelers, St. Louia , 50 



Class —Best pointer bitch, any Bize, imported or native, to 

 be shown with two of her progeny, a fine oil paint- 

 ing, sporting scene, painted for the purpose, donat- 

 ed by George J. Mack, St. Louis 50 



Class —Best native English setter dog, a handsome silver 

 cup, donated by F. O. de Luz, agent for Spratt's 

 Patent, London 25 



Class — Best English setter dog, imported or native, for 

 Btud purposes, to be shown with two of his get, 

 handsome eiiver plate, donated by L. Bauman & 

 Co., Jewellers, St. Louis 50 



Class — Best English setter bitch, imported or native, to be 

 shown with two of her progeny, two prizes, viz., 

 2,000 paper Bhells, presented by St. Louis Patent 

 Shell Co., value 820, and one case fine powder, pre- 

 sented by Lafliii & Band Powder Co., value, $20, 

 total value 4 



Class —Best Irish setter dog, imported or native, for stud 

 purposes, to be shown with two of his get, hand- 

 some silver wine stand with three decanters, donat- 

 ed by J. P. Capelle, Jeweler, St. Louis 50 



Class —Best Irish setter bitch, imported or native, to be 

 shown with two of her progenv, a handsome Eng- 

 lish gun case, presented by H. Folsom & Co., St. 



Louis 40 



Class —Best Irish setter dog or bitch, imported or native, 



special— not yet named. 

 Class —Best English setter dog or bitch, imported or na- 

 tive, a fine gold watch, presented by Mormod Jac- 



caid & Co. , Jewelers, St. Louis 100 



Claea —Best Gordon or black and tan setter dog, imported 

 or native, for stud purposes, to be shown with two 

 of his get, a handsome silver wine stand, presented 



by a member of the association 40 



Class —Beat Gordon or black and tan setter biteh, imported 

 or native, to be shown with two of her progeny, a 

 set of sporting works, presented by St. Louis Book 



& News Co 25 



Class —Best native Irish setter dog or bitch, a handsome 



silver cup, presented by a member of the assoc'n. . 25 

 Class — BeBt native setter pup, dog or bitch, of any strain, 

 under ono year old, a fine shooting suit, presented 



by W. H. Holabird, Sportsman's Clothier 25 



Class —Best Irish water spaniel, dog or bitch, fine silver 



cup, presented by a member of the association 25 



Olaas —Best Irish water spaniel, dog or bitch, the get of 

 Sin bad or King of the Rivers, a fine silver cup, pre- 

 sented by J. H. Whitman. Chicago 20 



For the second best, as above, another cup, same 



donor 10 



(Mr. Whitman's dogs not to compete in this class.) 

 Class —Beet Chesapeake Bay dog or bitch, short or long- 

 haired, a complete rubber suit, presented by Geo. B. 



Thomson, agent Goodyear Rubber Co 25 



Class —Best Beagle dog or bitcb, a fine silve cup, given by 



a member of the association 25 



Class —Best couple of foxhounds, a set of Frank Forrester's 

 ■works, given by the Gray & Baker Book and Sta- 

 tionery Co., St. Louis 20 



Class —Best fox terrier, dog or bitch, Havana cigars, given 



by Girard & Stickney, Cigar Dealers, St. Louis 25 



Class —Best black and tan terrier, dog or bitch, large size, 

 a fine silk umbrella, donated by John W. Loader, 



Hatter, St. Louis 15 



Class —Best black and tan terrier, dog br bitch, small size] 

 one dozen fine white shirts made to order of win- 

 ner, donated by Geo. T. Fowler, dealer in Gents' 



Furnishing Goods, Fort Wayne, Ind 42 



Class —Best Yorkshire terrier, dog or bitcb, a fine siik hat 

 to order of winner, donated by M. J. Steinberg, 



Hatter, St. Louis ,' iq 



Class —Best shepherd dog or bitch, smooth or rough spe- 

 cial—not named. 

 A number of other specials are to be added to the above list. 

 division 4— spoetsmen's goods. 

 ClaBS 1— Best breech-loading double-barreled shot-gun of 

 any maker, convenience and strength of action and 

 general workmanship considered, a handsome gold 

 medal of the association, suitably engraved cash 



value .' _ 25 



Class 2— Best gun, as above, of American make ...... ." . '. . . .' 25 



Class 3— Best gun, as above, any maker, not to cost over 



$250 retail, silver medal 20 



ClasB 4— Best gun, as above, any maker, not to 'cost 'over 



$150 retail, Bilver medal 20 



Class 5— Beat gun, as above, any maker, not' io'cost over 



$100 retail, eiiver medal 20 



Class 6— Best gun, as above, any maker, not to cost over $50 



retail, silver medal 10 



Tflass 7— Bast target rifle, as above, any maker,' silver medai' 20 

 Class 8— Best sporting rifle, aa above, any maker, silver 



medal ' 20 



Class 9— Beat Bhooting suit, coat, pants," vest' and hat or 

 cap, convenience and quality of goods considered, 



Bilver medal 10 



Class 10— Best Bhooting suit, as above, not to coat over $25 



silver medal ' 10 



Olasa 11— Beat hunting boat, convenience, strength and 



lightness considered, silver medal 10 



Class 12— Best fishing boat, as above, silver medal. . " " io 

 Clasa 13— Best Hunting boots, adapted for field use, silver 



medal j0 



Class 14— Best display of fishing tacklo, silver med'aV. ... .'.'.'. 10 

 Clasa 15— Best fishing rod for general use, strength, light- 

 ness and workmanship considered, silver medal 10 

 C ass 16— Best specimen of taxidermist's work, silver medal'. 10 

 ClaBB 17— Best display of taxidermist's work, birds and ani- 



Massachusetts Kennel Club — Boston, Jan. 7, 1878. — 

 I understand the Bench Show of the Massachusetts Kennel 

 Club is to be given in the building lately occupied by Jordan, 

 .Marsh & Co., for their wholesale store. Should this building 

 be used, it will necessitate having the Exhibition on different 

 stories. The location is admirable, being directly in the 

 heart of the city. There is eveiy reason to believe that we 

 can have a grand Exhibition of Dogs. The names of the 

 gentlemen connected with the Club will be a guarantee to 

 sportsmen that everything will be conducted in the most 

 honorable manner. Hub. 



Schnapps and Gretchen.— Dr. Twaddell's thoroughbred 

 Dachsunds Schnapps and Mein Gretchen have become the 

 properly of Dr. E. L, Tvvedeau, of Saranac Lake. Besides 

 prizes at other shows, these two dogs took first and second 

 prizes at Philadelphia, against a very strong field. 



mals, silver"medal.. 



All the medals provided for in Division 4 are made to the order 

 Of the Association in a very handsome style, and cost their face 

 value, the bills for which will be shown. 

 Clasa 13— For the best general display of fire-arms, including 

 sportsmen's goods of all kinda, a handsome gold 

 medal, suitably engraved .. 95 



MR. LINCOLN AS SUP'T. OF THE BOS- 

 TON BENCH SHOW, 



Detroit, Mich, Jan. 5, 1S7S. 

 Editor .Forest and Stream and Rod akd Gun : 



Str-I have recetvoa my appointment as Superintendent for Boston 

 Bench Show, heM under the auspices or the Massachusetts Kennel 

 Club, to take place during the last ten days In March, dates not deOiiite- 

 ly fixed. I)i-. Poster, the Secretary, writes me they intend giving the 

 show upon a Brat-class scale. Everting will be done for the care and 

 comfort of tnedogs, and one of the most liberal piize Hats ever yet 

 given will be offered. The merchants or Boston and other sportsmen 

 will give liberal special prize*. They hope to receive the heaity sup- 

 port of all true sportsmen, and assure them m return the allow will he 

 given as a genuine sportsmen's show. 



YourStTUlj, CHAS. LINCOLN. 



[We congratulate our Boston friends in having secured Mr. 

 Lincoln's most valuable services.— Ed.] 



— Mr. J. K. Schuyler's (Bloomsburg, Pa.,) Irish red setter 

 bitch Zoe (Plunket-Moya) whelped on the 5th nine, all dark 

 red puppies (4 dogs and 5 bitches), sired by Dr. Jarvis' Cham- 

 pion Elcho. 



Carrie.— W. T. Irwin's Carrie has whelped seven— two 

 dogs and five bitches (one bitch has since died. ) They are 

 all black and tan. Sire, Sherwood's Champion Rupert. 



0#mf Jlfcij and %mu 



GAME IN SEASON IN JANUARY. 



Hares, brown and gray. Wild duck, geese, brant, etc. 



FOR FLORIDA. 



Deer, Wild Turkey, Woodcock, Quail, Snipe, Ducks and Wild 1 



Bay birds" generally, including various species of plover, sand 

 piper, snipe, curlew, oyster-catcher, surf birds, phalaropes, avocets 

 etc-, coming under the group Limioolce, or Shore Birds, 



CAPTAIN A. H. BOGARDUS' "WONDER 

 FUL FEAT. 



5,000 Glass Balls Broken in 480 Minutes 35 Seconds. 



Rusa and her Progeny. — Rusa, belonging to Mr. William 

 Vic, of St. Louis, has a litter of ten, five dogs and bitches. 

 Rusa's progeny is sired by the champion dog France. 



Westminster Kennel Club.— The office of the Westmin- 

 ster Kennel Club will, after this week, be at 22 "West 32d st. 



— Capt. Foster, of Leesburg, Virginia, has recently sold one 

 of Kirby's puppies (a gyp) for the handsome sum of $500. 



The City Dog Licenses for 1877. — The annual report of 

 the Permit Bureau for 1877 shows that 11,991 licenses to 

 keep dogs were issued in that year. Each license at $2 gives 

 the city some $23,882— that is, providing the city gets the 

 whole of the money, which is pretty good for the dogs. As 

 to the civic classification of the dogs who paid license, the 

 worst possible mess has been made of it. What may be a 

 box-dog, a beehill dog, a duff dog, a gallup dog and a Laver- 

 ack? 



Detroit Dog Show.— This proposed exhibition is indefi- 

 nitely postponed. 



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Gypsie.— J. McWhorter (Canton, Mo.,) has sold to "W. T. 

 Irwin, Topeka, Kansas, his black and tan Gordon bitch Gyp- 

 sie. She was bred by Dr. Vandersmith, of Lancaster, Pa., 

 out of Jennie by Tom. They are from Mr. Tilley's stock and 

 are believed to be as good Gordon stock as can be found in 

 America. Dr. Vandersmith has a standing offer to hunt Jen- 

 nie on quail against any clog in America. Gypsie is of medi- 

 um size, has speed and good style. She will be two years 

 old in February. Has had one litter of pups by Champion 

 Rupert, which are very promising. She will be bred to Ru- 

 pert again. Her brother Duke won second at last St. Louis 

 show. 



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Canine Pluck. — In the contest between the " natives " and 

 the "blue bloods" at the Nashville field trials, the most con- 

 spicuous of the former was "Joe, Jr.," by Jarvis " Elcho," 

 out of Campbell's "Buck, Jr.," who won first in the cham- 

 pion stake, and second in the Dupont Powder Company 

 stake. This magnificent dog was just recovering from the 

 distemper, from the effects of which his right eye was closed, 

 and around the eye was a raw space, as large as the palm of 

 the hand. It is easy to conceive the exquisite tortures to 

 which this poor dog was exposed in making his way through 

 the dense cover in which he was hunted, but it is not so easy 

 to conceive the wonderful pluck which enabled him to come 

 out twice a victor under such suffering. F. G. S. 



The A8hcroft Kennel Club.— This club, of Bridgeport, 

 Conn., have elected the following officers for the year ensuing : 

 B. B. Case, President; S. B. Hayes, W. A. Sharp, Vice-Presi- 

 dents ; S. S. Pease, Secretary ; Theo. Courtright, Treasurer ; 

 B. H. Case, S. B. Hayes, S. S. Pease, Excutive Committee. 

 The object of this club is to study and improve the breed of 

 dogs known as setters and pointers for sporting purposes, to 

 breed, board, own, hue, sell, train and exhibit the same. 

 The management of the club is under the control of the Ex- 

 ecutive Committee, they having power to fill all vacancies, to 

 appoint an exhibition committee which is to have charge of 

 all bench shows, the appointing of judges, etc. A resolution 

 was passed requesting the Executive Committee to ascertain 

 the practicability of holding a bench show the week succeed- 

 ing the bench show of the Westminster Kennel Club, New 

 Vork City. 



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To Cure a Dog from Tearing Clothes.— Editor Forest 

 and Stream andRod and Gun — Noticing in your issue of Dec. 

 6 that some one wants to know how to break a dog from tear- 

 ing clothes when on a clothes' line, I will tell you the experi- 

 ence of a friend. This friend's clog would get at the clothes, 

 and, as he had a great deal of affection for his dog, he con- 

 cluded to get rid of actually whipping the dog. Watching the 

 dog as he jumped at the line, he struck the dog with a good 

 broom-brush, and hit him on the rump. The dog let the 

 clothes alone. The next time the wash was hung out the dog 

 acted as if he wanted to be at his old tricks. Finally he tried 

 it again, when the brush of the broom was again used. The 

 dog cleared out after that, and until now I am told that the 

 dog does not fancy the looks of a broom. This friend has 

 decided ideas against whipping a dog until he has tried other 

 means. A Constant Reader. 



A most remarkable exhibition of human skill, pluck and 

 endurance, was successfully accomplished on Thursday last 

 at Gilmore's Garden. The programme was as follows : 



"Gilmore's Garden. N. Y., Thursday, January 3, 1878— 

 Match $2,500 a side ; Captain A. H. Bogardus to break 5 000 

 glass balls in 500 consecutive minutes ; the balls to be sprun"- 

 from two or more traps at about 18 yards rise ; to be broken 

 in the air to count, and only one ball to be sprung at a lime • 

 . Bogardus to use one gun with two sets of barrels, a and to load 

 his own gun, unless the weapon shall break or give out." 



In the solution of a complex problem of this character 

 some of the factors are worthy of particular mention. Putting 

 aside for the moment the well known skill of Captain Bogar- 

 dus under ordinary circumstances, the ordeal this wonderful 

 shot had to go through was immense. Suppose^ we analyze 

 the exact number of movements called into play, in order that 

 a double-barreled, breech-loading fowling-piece shall be 

 loaded and discharged. Firstly, the barrels had to be un- 

 locked. Two movements are necessary to insert the cart- 

 ridges, one movement to close the barrel. Two movements 

 in cocking; one to bring the gun to the shoulder. Two 

 movements to draw the triggers, and two movements to draw 

 out the exploded cartridges. Here are eleven positive move- 

 ments. Of course there are several other major and minor 

 physical exertions which might be cited. As a margin has 

 to be allowed for misses of the balls and miss-fires, we may 

 multiply 5,300 by 11, in order to get at all the movements 

 necessary, which gives, with the changing of barrels, a result 

 of fully 60,000 motions. Let any one repeat incessantly 

 60,000 movements, and some idea may be arrived at of the 

 physical strength necessary in order to accomplish the feat. 

 Now, when one remembers the recoil of a gun, and the im- 

 pression left on the shoulder, 5,300 rounds fired by one pair 

 of hands, each with an impact of 42 lbs. received by the body 

 makes, in the aggregate, an enormous strain. The movement' 

 to overcome the recoil on the part of Captain Rogardus is 

 quite automatic, but to the careful observer the consciousness 

 that he braced himself at every discharge was curiously evi- 

 dent, when his gun miss-fired. Then the shooter would fall 

 forward for a second, and instantly recover himself. Rut 

 though skill was of course the predominant thought on the 

 part of the spectators, when directed towards Captain Bogar- 

 dus, gunsmiths, cartridge manufacturers, and makers of 

 special powders had great interest in the trial this match whb 

 sure to provoke. Five thousand three hundred consecutive 

 discharges from two pairs of barrels was a heavy test. If the 

 gun gave out the match might be lost, for a new gun might 

 have not quite suited the shooter. The cartridges, too, might 

 have been imperfect as to primer, or the wood powder used 

 non-explosive, or without sufficient power. Finally, the 

 traps employed during eight hours might not have been effi- 

 cient. Suffice to say that all worked quite well. The misses 

 on the part of the Captain were insignificant, and though the 

 miss-fires were numerous, neither of them had any effect on 

 the issue of the contest. As to the miss-fires, it may be pos 

 itively asserted, both on the part of Captain Bogardus and 

 from our own inspection, that the fault did not lie with the 

 cartridges of the IT. M. C. Co. The gun used by Captain Bo- 

 gardus, an admirable one, having been used some fifty thou- 

 sand times, the plungers had been slightly worn, and did not 

 strike deep enough into the cartridge, as the rnis 8 -fi re 

 shells showed but slight indentations, and when the cart- 

 ridges were used a second time they always exploded. 

 Of course^ though Captain Bogardus has as much, practi- 

 cal experience in guns as any one in the world, 'he was 

 for once at fault. A word in regard to the powder used. The 

 explosive compound was the Dittmar powder. It would 

 have been impossible to use black powder, in the close space 

 of Gilmore's Garden, on account of Hie dense smoke it would 

 have caused, and, as much as anything else, because of the 

 heating of the barrels. As a strong and effective explosive 

 the crucial experiment made with it on the occasion suffici- 

 ently demonstrates the excellence of the Dittmar powder 

 We are positive that the headachy influence which the Ditt- 

 mar powder is said to induce has no just foundation. Hav- 

 ing been for some hours in close proximity to the shooter we 

 felt no inconvenience. 



Now, as to the description of the Captain and his method 

 of shooting. Capt. Bogardus is a magnificent specimen of a 

 human being. He is some five feet eleven inches in height and 

 weighs 225 pounds. His frame is large and massive, and he 

 has enormous brawn and muscle. Without any apparent 

 rapidity of movement, never flurried, not the least mechani- 

 cal in movement, his shooting has something slightly auto- 

 matic about it, Watch him change a barrel which his coach has 

 put on the table for him. In two— three— seconds the old bar- 

 rel is taken out, and in three seconds more the new, clean bar- 



