of the invigorating and manly sport of woodcock and quail 
hunting, and, as a consequence, setters and pointers of the 
finest breeds are eagerly sought, well cared for, and highly 
prized. The nature of these splendid animals demands reg¬ 
ular exercise, and the inconvenience and annoyance of 
muzzling one, two, or more every night and morning, as 
they are permitted to run around the block for this pur¬ 
pose, are greater than would be supposed by those who 
are not obliged to conform to so senseless a requisition. 
An ordinance directing policemen simply to dispose of the 
curs that prowl about the streets, evidently ownerless and 
uncared for, and rigidly enforced, would afford precisely 
the same security to the public, without entailing discom¬ 
fiture upon gentlemen who are necessitated to give their 
harmless and generally well-trained animals the daily ex¬ 
ercise which their nervous, sensitive systems exact. In 
truth, there are few owners of hunting dogs who would not 
joyfully pay an annual tax if by such means the muzzling 
abomination could be forever abolished. 
E . S. Carman. 
_We paid a visit last week to the kennel of E. S. Car¬ 
man, Esq., near Hackensack, 1ST. J., the author of “Pointer 
and Setter,” which, we believe, is the only work on the dog 
written by an American and published in our country. Mr. 
Carman’s theory in crossing the pointer and setter, and 
then mating the setter with their progeny, or “dropper,” is 
a bad one for several reasons. This system has been tried 
by almosi every theoretical dog-breaker in England and 
signally failed. It is true that once ip a hundred times the 
crossing of these two distinct animals has produced a fair 
sportsman’s dog, but. there is not one instance on record 
where this intermixing of the blood of the pointer and 
setter, and again breeding to their progeny, has ever de¬ 
veloped a breeder's dog. As regards symmetry, action, 
style, and make, they are totally deficient, and would not 
take a third class prize on any show bench in the world. 
Supposing this twenty-five per cent, pointer and seventy- 
five per cent, setter did produce a fair all round dog, the 
consequences to the field sportsmen of America would be 
disastrous and ruinous, inasmuch as pot hunters and mar¬ 
ket gunners, who shoot at all and every season, would then 
amalgamate Jim’s pointer with Bob’s setter, and mate the 
progeny;, whereas now the only safeguard we have got 
against this fearful miscegenation is the difficulty for Jim 
to find a first class pointer bitch to breed with his pointer 
dog, or vice versa. It is a known fact that if a pot hunter 
or a sly gunner can pick up a dog with a drop of pure blood 
in him, they make the most of it by coaxing, whipping, 
and everlasting companionship. Moreover, if this system 
of breeding is carried out over the country we would be 
worse than overrun with countless mongrels, that even now 
may be seen in any village street from Maine to California. 
Mr. Carman’s practice in training and breaking his dogs 
is evidently an excellent system. The process is one wholly 
induced by kindness—the sound of a pleasant voice, some 
determination, and constant watching, care, feeding, and 
friendship; and from what we saw of their performance 
we should judge they might do well over game. House¬ 
breaking and yard breaking is all very well in its way as a 
primary school to briug out the dormant instinct in a young 
dog,, but if these dogs are not regularly shot over, and es¬ 
pecially if their ancestors have not been marked perform¬ 
ers in the field over game, they are very apt to forget all 
that has been taught them. 
Mr. Carman is a gentleman who understands the hand¬ 
ling, training, and working of dogs thoroughly, but we 
would respectfully suggest to him to give up this myste¬ 
rious theory of breeding with the Anglo-Saxon and the 
Chinese in order to produce a superior animal in symmetry, 
brain, and courage, and procure a first class English pointer 
or setter and a good field American setter, and he would 
then have, in our opinion, the best strain of dogs in the 
world. 
We are sorry we cannot agree with Mr. Carman in his 
system of breeding pointers and setters, but trust we can 
agree to disagree, and take this opportunity of thanking 
him for the kind manner in which he entertained us and 
showed us over his floral paradise. 
FOOD FOR DOGS. 
Philadelphia, Penn., May 10,1874. 
Editor Forest and Stream:— 
Can you inform me if there is prepared in this country, or imported 
from abroad, any article of dog food which is wholesome and nourishing 
and put up expressly for use when on hunting excursions? There are 
two or three English preparations of the kind, called “dog biscuits,” but 
after many inquiries among sportsmen and dealers in sportsmens’ sup¬ 
plies in regard to them, I have been unable to obtain any information. 
A preparation of beef and oatmeal, or cornmeal, in a condensed form, 
made to keep in any climate and put up in packages of five, ten, fifteen 
aud twenty-five pounds each, ready for transportation, is a great desider¬ 
atum among many sportsmen. On several occasions, when on the prai¬ 
ries of Iowa, grouse shooting, in very sparsely settled portions of the 
State, I have been sorely annoyed at the unwillingness and inability of 
persons at whose houses I have been stopping to furnish sufficient food 
and the proper kind for my dogs. Any person who will-introduce in this 
country such an article of dog food as referred to,will confer a great ben 
efit to both the dog and his master. If you are unable to give me that> 
information will you be so kind as to publish my inquiry in your paper in 
some form, in hopes that it will bring it from some one of your many 
readers? Benj. W. R. 
[Spratt’s dog biscuits. We believe they have no agents in America.— 
Ed.] 
DOG SHOWS. 
Editor Forest and Stream:— 
In Great Britain, for a number of years past, agricultural societies have 
teen adding to their displays of finely bred horseo, cattle, sheep, &e., a 
regular department for dogs in their-faira, and the exhibitions have 
proven so attractive as to be beyond doubt a great adjunct and source of 
revenue to the yearly meetings. The Pennsylvania State Agricultural 
FOREST AND STREAM. -. 231 
Society will give their fair next October, at Suffolk Park, Philadelphia, 
and should by all means open just such a department and inaugurate a 
grand Pennsylvania Dog Show. A great revival, as it were, has lately 
taken place on the subject of well-bred hunting dogs, and it will greatly 
benefit the cause to initiate a well conducted exhibition of this kind, and 
in Philadelphia alone enough fine animals can be found to make a splen¬ 
did display. 
The Agricultural Society should confer with the Philadelphia Sports¬ 
mens’Club, the protector of game, as well as insectiverous birds of the 
State, and I have no doubt would meet with hearty co-operation, for the 
latter association is active, energetic, and already has nearly three 
hundred members, and but two or three years in existence. The present 
game law framed by the society is of great benefit to the farmer, and it 
is but natural that the two associations should work in harmony in the 
matter of a dog show. 
A committee of the Philadelphia Sportsmens’ Club could advise the 
Agricultural Society as to arranging of the several classes of animals 
and the premiums therefor, and such an interest would be taken in the 
cause as to make the success beyond a doubt. An addition of this de¬ 
scription to the fair in October at Suffolk Park, Philadelphia, would at¬ 
tract sportsmen from all parts of the United States. “Homo.” 
,<Prr j§orsq nt\d thq ^ont[se. 
—The Prospect Park Trotting Association held the first 
important race of the season on May 15th. The Associa¬ 
tion had offered a special purse of $2,000 for a race of mile 
heats, best three in five, between the well-known trotting 
mare American Girl, in harness, the pacing horse Copper- 
bottom, in harness, and the roan gelding Walter, with a 
running mate, to wagon. American Girl won the two first 
heats, but the pacer Copperbottom was two much for the 
mare, winning the race easily. A match for $200, mile 
heats, best three in five in harness, between J. L. Ander¬ 
son’s Kiki in harness, and Barney Kelly to wagon. Kiki 
who was the favorite, won easily. 
—The American Jockey Club have announced the weights 
for the two handicaps to be run at the June meeting on 
Jerome Park course. In the Fordham Stakes, a dash of 
one mile and a quarter Mr. Sanford’s two horses, Preakness 
and Mate are awarded the top weight viz. 125 pounds and 
123 pounds respectively. Tubman is weighted at 120 
pounds, his stable companion at 114 pounds, a-d the four- 
year-old Survivor and Strachino at 112 pounds each; Boas¬ 
ter has 110 pounds; Artist and Business, 107 pounds; Tom 
Boston and Stanford, 106 pounds; .Western Star and Fel- 
lowcraft, 105 pounds; Catesby, Minnie Mac, Mildew, and 
Gray Planet, each 104 pounds; Lizzie Lucas, War Reel, 
and Wizard, 102 pounds each; Milton, St. George, Sallie 
Watson, Long Branch, Periwinkle, Cariboo, and Oakland, 
100 pounds each; Galway, ninety-eight pounds; King 
Philip, ninety-four pounds; Mary Constant, ninety-three 
pounds; Yaultress, Brigand, Egypt, and Valentine, ninety 
pounds each; the Etta Shipper filly, eiglity-seven and a 
half pounds; and Mr. Cameron’s two Warminster fillies 
eighty-two pounds each, being the lowest weight. In the 
Jocky Club Handicap, two miles, Mr. Sanford’s Monar¬ 
chist and Preakness having respectively 124 pounds, and 
120 pounds. The lowest weight is eighty-two pounds, im¬ 
posed on the Lady Sprang filly by Warminster. The ac¬ 
ceptances by owners of these different weights will be pub¬ 
lished next week. 
—The Kentucky Association closed their meeting at Lex¬ 
ington on May 16th. Everybody came to see Tom Bowling, 
the famous horse, run, but he only galloped and won 
easily. The first race was for the Consolation Purse, mile 
heats, for beaten horses, only two started, viz., Boyd’s Nel¬ 
lie Grim and Grinstead’s Lexington colt, which was won 
by Nellie Grim in 1:52L The second race was for a purse 
of $700 for all ages, a dash of thro e miles. There were 
four entries, H. P. McGrath’s b. c. Tom Bowling, four 
years old, 104 pounds; T. J. Megibben’s b. f. Passion, four 
years old; H. P. McGrath’s blk. m. Lucy Jackson, aged, 
111 pounds; R. Colston’s Kate Vance. Tom Bowling won 
the race in the commonest of canters in 5:361-. 
—The Maryland Jockey Club meeting begins at Balti¬ 
more on the Pimlico course Tuesday May 26th, continuing 
on the 27th, 28th and 29th with four races each day. 
—The Mystic Park races closed on May 15th, the atten¬ 
dance was immense, and the races well contested. George 
Maynard won the purse of $150, for horses that have never 
beaten 2:50; best three in five, in harness. Flora Belle won 
the purse of $250, for horses that have never beaten 2:34. 
— There are some queer little idiosyncrasies which 
coaching must develop in the drivers. Notable among 
coachmen was Sam Weller’s glorious father, and 
some of our California drivers are full of strange, cranky 
notions. Land and Water tells us of a driver called Collier 
who fifty years ago drove the “Flying Machine.” He 
seems to have been a naturalist of an experimental charac¬ 
ter. It was his ambition to run over a duck, and he in¬ 
formed a friend who often rode on the box seat “ that he 
had all his life been trying to run over a duck, but had not 
been able to accomplish this feat of Jehuship. He had 
more than once (he said, when in vein, we suppose, man¬ 
aged to pin one, as it were, by the tail, but some how or 
other the creature invariably contrived to waddle off un¬ 
hurt with the loss of a few feathers.” We think it is some¬ 
where in that cleverest of books, the “Autocrat of the 
Breakfast Table,” where Oliver Wendell Holmes explains 
how difficult it is to run over a live dog. Now, we do not 
suppose for a moment that the most distinguished of our 
American humorists and authors ever tried absolutely by 
delicate manoeuveringto run over a dog; but it might be in¬ 
teresting for Doctor Holmes to know that a duck exhibits 
precisely the same amount of miraculous wriggle and 
dodge and squirm at the approach of a wheel that, a dog 
does. 
Jpf (^onicxyondcnf^. 
We shall endeavor m this department to impart and hope to receive 
such information as may be of service to amateur and professional sports¬ 
men. We will cheerfully answer all reasonable questions that fall within 
the scope of this paper, designating localities for good hunting, fish 
ing, and trapping, and giving advice and instructions as to outfits, im 
plements, routes, distances, seasons, expenses, remedies, traits, species 
governing rules, etc. All branches of the spoilsman's craft will receive 
attention. Anonymous Communications not Noticed. 
F. W. C., Patterson, N. J-—Will answer in our next issue. 
E. R., New York.—Which Beaver Kill and Wallkill stream do you 
mean, there are so many? 
C. H. C., Brooklyn.—What kind of fish can be caught in Coney Island 
creek in the months of May and June, and what is the best bait? Bass; 
shrimp, crab and minnows. 
E. G., New York.—What kind of fish is to be caught in Lake Cham¬ 
plain and Otter Creek, in Vermont? Ans. Wbitefish, black bass, pike, 
lake trout, &c,, in Lake Champlain, and trout in Otter Creek. 
Bluefish. —You tell us to go to Barnegat for bluefish.. What place 
shall we stop at? Ans. Watertown, N. J. Southern R. R. From thence 
it is only a short run across the bay to the inlet, where yachts and board¬ 
ing can be found. 
Reader, Boston.—Can you inform me where to find a description of 
Mount Desert Island, Me., giving a full account of the objects of inter¬ 
est? Ans. Ask Osgood for “Costa’s Mt. Desert,” published some two 
years since. 
Beaver, Bald Mountain, N. Y.—Illustrated Handbook of Rifle Shoot 
ing, by A. Lord Russell, is published in Toronto, Canada. Could not 
tell you price. Suppose not more than $1.50. Gerard, the Lion Killer 
we can send yon. Price $1.25. 
E. H. B., Cornwall on Hudson.—Where can I procure a good American 
setter, and what would be the price if trained; also, what do you think 
of J. Lang & Sons’ breech-loading shot guns? Ans. Write to Horace 
Smith, 266 South Fourth street, Philadelphia. The Lang gun is one of 
the best that is made. 
W. S. W., Fort Wayne, Ind.—I am in need of a good setter pup and 
wish you to refer me to responsible parties that keep them for sale. I 
am not particular in regard to color, but would like to have as pure 
stock as possible, and obiige a subscriber? Ans. Write to Horace Smith. 
266 South Fourth street, Philadelphia. 
O. H. H., Rcdfield, Iowa.—Please state what size shot and whose make 
were used in the trial of the Remington shot gun, also if the numbers in 
the column headed average pattern, denote the number of pellets put in 
the target? Ans. Standard No. 7. The number of pellets were put into 
the 8-inch bullseye. 
New Subscriber, N. Y.—Can you inform me if there are any trou? 
streams which are public on the north or south side of Long Island, and 
in Westchester, also their location? Ans. Bronx is the only stream in 
Westchester, much fished, but a few trout left. Public streams on Long 
Island are the New Bridge, Cedar Swamp and Massapiqua Creeks. Take 
South Side R. R. to Oyster Bay. Good hotel kept by Powers. 
W. W. S., New York.—I am in possession of a six year old thorough¬ 
bred trotting horse. He has always been driven with blinders. Would 
it be dangerous to drive him without them. Do you advise blinders? 
Ans. Tell your man to lead him three or four times without blinders and 
see how he acts. If it does not scare him to see everything that is going 
on, you might drive him on a quiet road first. 
Dog Cart, New York.—Can you please oblige me with your definition 
of the terms Tandem, String, Spike, and Four-in-hand teams? Ans. 
Tandem—one horse in the shafts and one leader in the traces, at length. 
String—one horse in the shafts and two or more leaders ahead of each 
other in traces. Spike—two in the shafts and one ahead. Four-in hand 
—two in the shafts and two leaders ahead in traces. 
R. W. A., New Haven.—I have a setter pup six months old that I 
would like broken. Can yon inform me through your paper who to 
send to? I would like some one as near New Haven as can be found. 
Am willing to pay to have him thoroughly broken. I have also a setter 
dog that is two years old, rather headstrong, wants to range off quite a 
distance, has a splendid nose. Can I do anything to keep him? Ans. 
Write to O. H. Lombard, North Woodstock, Mass. 
V. L B., St. Louis.—There are no hotel accommodations nearer the 
Twin Lakes than Salisbury, six miles west, or Canaan, four miles east, 
though there are private houses near the shores that take in transient 
visitors for love or money—mostly money. Trains on the Conn. West¬ 
ern Railroad pass and repass many times a day, stopping at the station 
on flag, and at Chapinville regularly. From the Grand Central to this 
station through tickets can be bought via Harlem, $2.80, four hours, or 
Housatonic, at $3, an hour or two longer time. 
J. M. W., Philadelphia.—Will you inform me how to fasten the min¬ 
now on the hook when fishing for perch? Ans. Put your hook through 
its mouth and out of the gills and fasten into the top part of the back, or 
simply pass the hook into the shoulders. A minnow will live in this 
way for a considerable time and swim naturally. Q,. Also, how to use 
roe for bait so that it will resist the action of the water? Ans. Place a 
portion as big as a marble into a little bag of mosquito netting and tie it 
to the hook. 
Mount Pleasant, Sing Sing.—What is the expense of a two months’ 
trip to Colorado from Chicago, and what are the average expenses per 
diem? Ans. Six dollars per day. 3. Can cartridges for a breech-load¬ 
ing shot gun be procured in the large cities of Colorado without sending 
east for them? Ans. Yes. 3, Will not a trip to the Yellowstone Val¬ 
ley be rendered dangerous this summer by the hostilities of the Indians? 
Ans. Must take the chances. 4. Would hunting within twenty miles 
of Denver be attended with danger from Indians? Ans. No. 5, What 
is the railroad fare from Chicago to Denver, and what route is most con¬ 
venient? Ans. Union Pacific Railroad. 6. What outfit is necessary 
for two months’ hunting in Colorado? Ans. They will fit you out at 
Denver; go light. 
United States Signal Office, ) 
New Smyrna, Fla. May 3, 1874. \ 
Editor Forest and Stream:— 
Herewith please find the meterological records as furnished the War 
Department for the month of April. Latitude 29 degrees 02 minutes: 
longitude 80 degrees 54 minutes. Very truly yours, 
Maj. Geo. J. Alden. 
7 
A.M. 
2 l 
P. M. 1 
9 
P. M. 
Mean. 
A. M. 
2 
P. M 
9 
P.M. 
Mc'n 
1 
78 
89 
70 
79 
17 
68 
80 
70 
72 
2 
70 
80 
68 
72 2 
18 
76 
86 
75 
79 
3 
62 
64 
59 
61 2 
19 
78 
88 
74 
80 
4 
66 
72 
67 
68 
20 
77 
94 
78 
83 
5 
71 
73 
69 
71 
21 
79 
84 
74 
79 
6 
70 
77 
72 
73 
22 
76 
88 
76 
80 
7 
74 
89 
73 
78 2 
23 
77 
91 
78 
82 
8 
76 
89 
78 
81 
1 24 
80 
88 
75 
81 
9 
79 
91 
68 
79 1 
( 25 
78 
80 
66 
74 
10 
68 
75 
62 
68 
26 
64 
74 
65 
67 2 
11 
61 
66 
62 
63 
27 
72 
88 
76 
78 2 
12 
68 
72 
68 
69 1 
28 
72 
86 
74 
77 1 
13 
73 
77 
69 
73 
29 
64 
70 
62 
65 1 
14 
73 
83 
70 I 
75 1 
30 1 
64 
72 
64 
02 2 
15 
74 
84 
74 
77 
16 
77 
86 
76 
79 2 
Sum. 
2165 
2436 
2112 
Mean. 
72 5 j 
81 6 
70 12 
—A Yale student has written a twelve verse poem en¬ 
titled, “We kissed each other by the sea.” “Well what of 
it?” asks a Western journalist; “the seaside is no better for 
such practice than any other locality. In fact we have 
put in some very sweet work of that kind on a tow path of 
a canal m our time, but did not -say anything about it in 
print.” 
