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FOREST AND STREAM. 
Edgings around beds and walks should be kept neatly 
cut, and no grass or weeds allowed to grow on the paths. 
Paths .—If any new paths or drives are needed make at 
once, and use plenty of broken stone as a foundation, and 
finish with gravel. 
Annuals .—Sow as soon as the ground becomes warm—at 
least by the middle of the month. Keep the beds clear of 
weeds. 
Perennials should be sown in a separate bed from the an¬ 
nuals. Sow seed of those now coming into flower as soon 
as ripe. 
Balbs .—Set out gladiolus, tiger-flower, and lily bulbs in 
rich soil. Tuberoses do best if planted in pots and started 
in the house before setting out. 
Climbers .—Sow seeds of sweet pea, cypress vine, morn¬ 
ing glory, etc., where a screen is needed and for covering 
trellises. 
Dahlias started in the house may be planted out now, and 
as soon as they commence their growth they must be tied 
to stakes. 
Do not put all the greenhouse plants out of doors, as is 
sometimes done, but keep the house looking well the year 
round. This can easily be done if a little pains is taken 
with shading .—American Agriculturist. 
Wlie Mmttel. 
THE ENGLISH FIELD TRIAL CON¬ 
TROVERSY AND INTERNATIONAL 
POINTER AND SETTER CHALLENGE. 
W E publish the following letter at the request of the 
Rev. J. Gumming Macdona. At the same time we 
know nothing of the merits of the case beyond what we 
have read in our various sporting contemporaries, nor can 
we interfere or be the medium for printing any disputes 
that may arise among sportsmen on the other side of the 
water. Mr. Macdona is mistaken when he states that we 
refused to print it on the ground that it would give our 
friends here a wrong impression of the high-toned English 
sportsman, and most likely prove prejudicial to the interests 
we advocate. We must most respectfully decline to print 
any more correspondence on this matter, which has been so 
thoroughly ventilated by the English press. 
The latter portion of Mr. Macdona’s letter will be found 
extremely interesting, owing to the liberality and hospital¬ 
ity of the challenge. The Rector, with the consent of the 
Kennel Club of England, is using his utmost endeavors in 
the interest of true sport to revive the International Field 
Trial Match between English and American bred pointers 
and setters. We fear, however, that it will be impossible 
for us to induce any of our field sportsmen to take their 
dogs over to England first; for reasons we have frequently 
given in this journal: 
To repeat, 1st. The debatable theory as to the voyage 
injuring the nose or scent of the dog. 
21. At English Field Trials they allow no points for re¬ 
trieving, which would be one of our strongest points. 
3d. The superiority of the English professional dog- 
breaker, as most of our animals are trained by the owners. 
4cli. As we have had no field trials at present, except 
some informality over snipe at Pine Brook, where most of 
the dogs that entered had been trained and broken, it 
would be impossible to select representative dogs of 
America, as almost every field sportsman owning a pointer 
or setter very naturally thinks that he has the best dog. If 
any gentleman thinks there is a chance for his dogs to win 
or make a good show in England, this would be a good op¬ 
portunity to test his pluck and the merits of his animals. 
The Rector of Cheadle is evidently so much in earnest to 
bring about a field trial contest between American and 
English dogs, that he has authorized us to state that pro¬ 
visions have been made by him for two passages and ac¬ 
commodation for two or more brace of dogs providing the 
American sportsman will consent to go to England. 
That the English bred dogs, as a class, are superior for 
nose, staunchness, ranging, and retrieving in the field, we 
beg leave to dispute. That they may be better under the 
command of the English handler or worker, we are inclined 
to admit. If Mr. Gf. Macdona, who is now the owner of 
the Rector’s kennel of dogs, and who is well acquainted 
with our country and its field sportsmen, will kindly con¬ 
sent to bring over here first a brace or two of pointers and 
setters, so as to initiate us in the laws and usage in practice 
at English field trials, we will guarantee to find him a num¬ 
ber of gentlemen who will enter their dogs in a sweepstake 
field trial, over quail in the buckwheat and bush, or pin¬ 
nated grouse in the open or prairie:— 
Hilbre House, West Kirby, j 
Cheshire, Eng. j 
Editor Forest and Stream:— 
Yonr leading article of February 7th upon the International Dog Trial 
has only been brought under my notice to-day. I am sure you are in the 
true interest of sport, that nothing but an upright and honorable course 
should be adopted in the matter of this match; and as most flagrant mis¬ 
representations have been made to you in Mr. Llewellen’s and his break¬ 
er’s letters, I venture to send you a few lines in reply. Readers of the 
JFteM newspaper (our hignest authority upon field sports in England) 
know well that every effort on my part was made to bring Mr. Llewellen 
to “the scratch,” and to arrange for a field trial between us. The Mar¬ 
quis of Huntley most kindly placed his estate at Aboyne, in Scotland, at 
my disposal for the match, to come off in the second week of August 
next, and kindly consented to act as judge in my behalf. I offered to 
refer the arrangement of the details to the Kennel Clnb of England (of 
which H. R. H. Prince of Wales is Patron). This Mr. Llewellen de¬ 
clined. I then named five gentlemen of well known standing in the 
sporting world. He refused also to accept their decisions; but having 
selected one out of the number to act on his behalf, I wrote and informed 
him that I was prepared to name my brace, and gave him a week to name 
his. I had no reply and concluded he would not go on with it, so I 
mated the dogs. The correspondence was sent to Bell's Life last week, 
to which I refer yonr readers. One word more about this arcades 
umbo, Mr. Llewellen and his breaker. The real source of their chagrin 
and peevishness is their having been beaten in the field so often by Mr. 
Price and myself . hinc illce lacrymce. “iselleV and “Ranger” have 
beaten all the cracks. Mr. Llewellen cannot forgive me for so often 
beating him, nor for having bred so many grand setters and pointers, 
winners at field trials and on the show bench. He is indebted to Mr. 
Laverack, Mr. Statter and myself for all the good he has in his kennel. 
It was I that sold him Plunket for £150 sterling. He bought Countess 
and Nellie from Mr. Laverack and Dick and Dan from Mr. Statter, and 
with all that a long purse can do for a man he has not yet been able to 
face us m the field With dogs of his own breeding. This is where the 
shoe pinches. Since I sold him Plnnket I have beaten him at the Maynol 
Field Trial with a young Irish setter bitch, “Music,” who was first in 
the puppy stakes 1872. Since then I gave him a crushing defeat at the 
great trials on grouse, at the Bala Field Trials last August, with my 
world-renowned setter dog Ranger, bred by myself. This was too great 
a sin to be forgiven, hence his long letters of grumbling and snarling 
ad nauseam to the papers, until the public were sick of them, and the 
Field refused to insert any more. The letter of his breaKer, Buckle, 
which you published, is nothing short of a gross insult to the dignity of 
the press, both in Europe and America. The covert sneer and insult 
conveyed by the words “Mr. Price knowi hospitality will serve where a 
bribe would be rejected with scorn, and so he invited the reporters of the 
sporting papers to his houses” is beneath contempt, knowing the source 
from whence it came. It is perfectly true that Mr. Lloyd Price, in the 
exercise of that princely hospitality which as squire of half the county of 
Merionthshire, he could so well dispense, invited the chief editor of the 
Field and other members of the press as gentlemen and sportsmen, to be 
his guests at his house during the field trials. That gentlemen of their 
position and character and representing papers of the greatest import¬ 
ance and respectability should be charged with such a gross breach of 
the conventional rules of the Fourth Estate, is, I contend, not only an 
unpardonable insult to our press here, but that you should be requested 
to publish so great a libel, is an insult to the press of America. 
I am still sanguine that American sportsmen will accept our challenge 
in the spirit in which it was made, to send over to us two brace of dogs 
next August to run against dogs named by our kennel clubs. I have 
made arrangements with Messrs. Guion & Co. of the well known line of 
Gron steamers between New York and Liverpool, to secure too first- 
class passages for two sportsmen, selected to represent America; also 
accommodation for two brace of dogs. We will return the compliment 
and visit you next year with our dogs. In the meantime you and Amer¬ 
ica;', gentlemen may rely upon our honor to treat your representatives 
with all the fairness, hospitality and courtesy in our power to extend. 
J. Cummins Macdona. 
P. S.—In Mr. Laverack s letter to you he makes a mistake when he 
states “Ranger has three-fourths Laverack blood in him.” Mr. Laver¬ 
ack, like myself and other large breeders, relies upon his own judgment 
in the selection of different crosses to keep up cur peculiar strain. I 
yield to no one—not even to Mr. Laverack—the pre-eminence. The 
Macdona setter has won and is bound to win in any trial where great 
speed, capital nose and lasting endurance is to be obtained. I adjoin a 
correct pedigree of Ranger. This letter must be considered a final ans¬ 
wer to Mr. Llewellen. J. Cumming Macdona. 
Macdona ( I Laverack’s Rock. I Garthe’s Major. I Major’s 
Quince II j Jones’ Quin f Jones’ Madge. j Moll. j Moll. 
(Lort’s Dip. / Lort's Shot. ( 
f j Lort’s Darkie. f 
Ranger ) Quince, Quince II, Madge, Major, Rake, Countess, Ben, 
whelped >Bess, Nell, were all champion prize winners at the Birming- 
July 1872. ) ham National Dog Shows from 1863 to 1869. 
Macdona lHackett’s Rake. ( Grouse, Ilackett s. 
Judy j Calver’s Countess [ Nell, Hackett’s. 
( Ben. I Burdett’s Brougham. ) Rake, 
f Bess. f I - Nell. 
SNAKE- BITTEN DOGS. 
Jackson, Miss., May 8,187L 
Editor Forest and Stream:— 
Never having seen anything published in regard to proper treatment 
of a dog bitten by a venomous snake, to elicit the same I give you my 
experience below, and would like for your hunter naturalists to give rea¬ 
sons why it is that a dog. being bitten by a venomous snake, never or 
very rarely dies. So, at least. I am assured by reliable parties, they not 
having recourse to any remedy whatever, but simply let the dog alone. 
The incident which causes this letter occurred March 3d, my last hunt 
of the season. We had hunted the whole morning, bagging a few snipe, 
but finding only one small covey of partridges in the woods. After 
luncheon we rode into a large fleid bordered by a strip of bottom land; 
through this rau a rivulet into which emptied a drain overgrown with 
briers out of the field. It was on this drain my dog Dash came to a 
stand. Riding back some distance to a sapling to tie my horse, the covey 
flushed, though Dash was fully twenty yards from them and had stopped 
where I had cautioned him to “heed” when riding away from him. Only 
two birds of that covey were flushed on the drain, the balance had scat¬ 
tered along the rivulet, which I was about to jump as Dash was on the 
other side, when my companion called my attention to an immense 
number of tadpoles in a hole of the little watercourse. That delay 
saved me from being bitten, for Dash had come to a point at a thick 
clump of sedgegrass; not a steady point, but the action that is usual with 
him when he first winds game. He slightly wags his tail. As I jumped 
across to kick up the supposed bird. Dash gave a yelp and made a 
backward spring, falling in doir.g so. My first impression was that a 
wasp of some kind had stung him. I was quickly undeceived, my friend 
shooting the aggressor, a water moccasin about thirty inches in length, 
as he tried to make his escape, gliding out of the grass into the water. 
The serpent was nearly shot in two, but showed us he was ready for 
battle yet, so wounded we left him. Then I looked at Dash. Two tiny 
streams of blood were running from just back of his nose; the hemor¬ 
rhage soon ceased, the wounds being closed by an excessive swelling 
which spread over the whole head and lower part of the neck, the latter 
being the last to subside. The swelling increased rapidly, with a yellow 
foam, assuming at one time a vivid green color, running both from 
mouth and nostrils, the dog meanwhile seemed barely able to keep bis 
legs, had a sleepy look, head hanging listlessly, with inclination to lie 
down, and it seemed as if he would have given up but for my voice en¬ 
couraging him, not only to follow us, but keep up with our horses. 
The remedy was the next thing; whisky, that old reputed antidote 
against snakebites we did not have with ns, nor had they any at the 
next farmhouse, but they produced some saleratus on my friend’s in¬ 
quiry, which he plastered on the wounds and gave him a tablespoonful 
dissolved in water internally. I was willing to have anything done in 
the hope of relieving ray four-footed companion. On. reaching town one 
of our resident physicians, whom we .met, told me to use aromatic spirits 
of ammonia on the wounds and to give a small dose internally; the aro¬ 
matic because the application had to be made so near the nostrils. The 
swelling reached its maximum the following day, but had not entirely 
subsided in a week. The dog kept his kennel for several days, coming 
out only to eat. He now seems to be as well as ever. 
Now what is there in a dog to counteract the poison of a serpent like 
the moccasin, whose bite is supposed to be of a deadly nature ? Fat can 
not come in in this case, for my puppy was bitten in a place where there 
is the least amount of fat; veins must have been struck by the fangs of 
the snake to judge by the profuse hemorrhage. 
In conclusion, I would ask you why Fred Beverly, in his very interest¬ 
ing account of his travels in Florida, uses the word “hammock,” where I 
think he means “hummock?” Geo. C. E. 
[1. Possibly Professor Goode, of the Smithsonian, who is well read on 
“snaix,” can solve the problem. 2. “Hammock” is the word in use m 
Florida.— Ed.] __ 
—M. Francois Ubassy lias challenged Albert Gamier to 
play him a match game of billiards of 1,000 points up for 
$500 aside, according to the champion cup rules. He 
■wishes the contest to come off as soon as possible, as he in¬ 
tends sailing for Europe at an early date. 
hitiomil | fnfiimes. 
Secretaries and friends of Athletic. Base-Ball, Cricket and 
door Clubs will kindly mail their contributions not later than Mondr, 
each week. 
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—On May 5tli the championship season was opened 
upon the Union Grounds, Brooklyn, the first content 
being between the Atlantic and Baltimore clubs. It rained 
in the morning, and the patrons of the game thinking no 
contest could take place did not go over. But the Haiti 
moreans began play with their opponents at 4:20 P M 
and the Atlantics opened their batteries on the veteran’ 
with such effect that the close of the seventh inning saw 
the “Canaries” nearly dead birds by the score of 24 to 3 
a worse defeat than they had sustained at the hands of the 
Philadelphians the day before. The next day the Baltf 
mores encountered the Mutuals on the same field the 
ground being in good condition and about a thousand 
people present, which number would have been more than 
doubled had the tariff been in accordance with the times 
and 25 cents instead of half a dollar. On this occasion the 
Mutuals found it difficult to defeat the Baltimores, as the 
appended score shows:— 
Mutuals—0 0 113 110 1—8 
Baltimore—0 1 0 2 0 0 0 1 1 —5 
Umpire, Dehlman. Time 2:40. Earned runs, Mutuals 3 
Baltimores 1. ’ 
On May 8 tli the Athletics visited Brooklyn for the first 
time this season, and played a model game with the 
Atlantics, the contest occupying but an hour and a half and 
being played with but two errors on the Athletic side and 
seven on the part of the Atlantics. The score of runs each 
inning was as follows:— 
Atlantic—0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0—2 
Athletic—0 0 0 0 2 1 0 2 0—5 
Umpire, Coney. Earned runs, 2 to 2. 
The Mutual and Athletic game of the day following was 
in striking contrast to this match, the gentlemanly deport¬ 
ment and quiet earnest play of the Atlantic and" Athletic 
match being offset by a regular old-time growling and 
fault-finding contest between the Mutuals and Athletics 
The game, too, occupied nearly three hours. It 
was given away almost in the first two innings by the 
errors the Athletics committed. The score of runs each 
inning shows the play:— 
Mutual—3 1 0 0 2 0 0 2 0—8. 
Athletic—0 0 0 0 3 0 1 0 1—5. 
Umpire, Dehlman. Earned runs, Mutual 6 , Athletic 1 . 
The above were the local professional games of the week, 
—A singular game was played on May 6 th, on wliich'occa* 
sion the amateur Fly Aways caught the Atlantics napping 
and defeated the professionals at the Capitoline Grounds by 
12 .to 11. The Atlantics had the game in their hands in the 
ninth innings by a score of 11 to 6 , but hs the Fly Aways 
had the last innings, the latter got in six runs on one base 
but could not win the game, important errors by Pearce, 
Ferguson and Chapman losing them the game. 
—Out of town last week the Bostons defeated the Balti¬ 
mores by 14 to 0 and 28 to 7. The Hartfords also beat the 
Baltimores badly, and the Athletics the Pliiladelphias, the 
latter by 7 to 1. The full record of professional games 
from May 5 to May 10 is as follows:— 
May 5—Atlantic vs. Baltimore, at Brooklyn, 24 to 3 . 
May 5—Hartford vs. Athletic, at Hartfoid, 10 to 9. 
May 6 —Mutuals vs. Baltimore, at Brooklyn, 8 to 5. 
May G—Boston vs. Athletic, at Boston, 10 to 4. 
May G—Hartford vs. Yale, at New Haven, 6 to 4. 
May 6 —Chicago vs. St. Louis Red Stockiugs, at Chi 
cago, 14 to 7. 
May 6 —Philadelphia vs. Eureka, at Philadelphia, 17 to 8 . 
May 7—Fly Aways vs. Atlantic, at Brooklyn, 12 to 11. 
May 7—Hartford vs. Baltimore, at Hartford, 21 to 2 . 
May 7—Athletic vs. Philadelphia, at Philadelphia, 7tol. 
May 7—Alert vs. Arlington, at South Orange, 27 lo 7. 
May 7—Chicago vs. Red Stockings, at Chicago, 26 to 1. 
May 8 —Chicago vs. Red Stockings, at Chicago, 8 to 3. 
May 8 —Athletic vs. Atlantic, at Brooklyn, 5 to 2. 
May 8 —Boston vs. Baltimore, at Boston, 14 to 0. 
May 8 —Philadelphia vs. Princeton College at Prince¬ 
ton, 15 to 7. 
May 9—Boston vs. Baltimore, at Boston, 28 to 7. 
May 9—Mutual vs. Athletic, at Brooklyn, 8 to 5. 
May 9—Hartford vs. Trinity College, at Hartfoid, 27 to 2. 
May 9—Philadelphia vs. Collins, at Philadelphia, 23 to 0. 
—The Nameless amateurs of Brooklyn went to New 
Brunswick on iVIay 9th and were cordially received by the 
students of Rutger’s College, who took them out on their 
field and tried to show them how to play base ball, hut 
the Brooklyn youths had been there so often before that 
they turned the tables on the college youths, and taught 
their hosts a lesson to the tune of 17^to 4. The score was 
as follows: 
Nameless —2 2 2 6 1 0 3 1 0—17. 
Rutgers—3 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0—4. 
The New York Fly Aways the same day took a trip 
Eastward to show the Yales how they beat the Atlantics. 
The collegians met them at Hamilton Park, New Haven, 
and kindly cared for the Yorkers, and finally took them 
into camp by a score of 15 to 5. The Fly Aways returned 
to town very quietly, and since then Malone has not been 
seen. At any rate no report of the defeat appeared in any 
of the local journals. 
—On Saturday the Nassau club of Brooklyn defeated 
the Rosedales at Prospect Park by a score of 13 to 5. A 
good game. 
—The St. George’s Cricket Club opened the season by 
playing a match on their grounds at Hoboken yesterday. 
The Union Club of Philadelphia will play a match with 
the St. George’s on the 20th and 21 st of May on the grounds 
of the latter club. 
—We are requested by Mr. Satlierthwait and several 
members of the St. George Cricket Club of New York to 
publish the following: 
All cricketers in the United States and Canada are 
hereby cautioned against a person calling himself Henry 
Temple, but whose real mime is Billington. He was 
captain of the St. Louis Eleven that visited Canada and 
Eastern States last fall, and in this way became acquainted 
with many prominent cricketers. 
During the month of March he succeeded in swindling 
