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FOREST AND STREAM 
HYDROPHOBIA. 
Washington, D. C., June 5,1874. 
Editor Forest and Stream:— 
I see by the copy of your paper, of June 4th, that under the heading, 
“Hydrophobia,” you allude to the fact t^at Land and Water has copied 
an article of mine on that subject and state the treatment which I 
employ, viz.: “Probing the wound thoroughly, treating with nitrate of 
silver, and poulticing.” This is a mistake, as you wiil see by referring 
to your issue of April 16th. In the article in question I recommend the 
following plan, and see no reason as yet to modify my opinion: The 
bitten parts should be carefully excised, (cut out,) if not involving blood 
vessels, carefully washed with warm water and fuming nitric acid applied 
for two days in succession. I do not mean constantly for two days, but 
simply two applications made. I condemn emphatically the application 
of nitrate of silver or lunar caustic for the reason already stated by one of 
our most eminent surgeons. Professor Joseph Pancoast, “that this salt 
decomposes tooTapidly in contact with animal tissue to make a deep and 
penetrating impression. Fermented poultices should be used for a num¬ 
ber of days after the acid is applied. In cases where the bites are deep 
seated they should be washed out with a small sponge, containing warm 
water and ammonia, or a solution of chloride of zinc, after which the 
acid may be applied. Believing this explanation a sufficient excuse for 
its length owing to the great importance to all of us of this subject, 
I am very truly yours, H. C. Yarrow. 
—We have received a very good target, made by a mem 
ber of the New Orleans Rifle Club. The target is 19£ 
inches in diameter and made up of concentric rings one- 
half inch in width. The bullseye is 5f inches in diameter, 
(white,) surrounded by a black ring 13^ inches in diameter, 
then follows the white rings to make up the total diameter. 
Each shot counts from 20 in the centre, diminishing by one 
to the circumference. Total made by the iriflemen, 554. 
The distance was 605 feet. The weight of the rifle was 17^- 
pounds, muzzle loader, with patent muzzle, and all the 50 
shots were fired in 63 minutes, the shooter measuring each 
charge of powder from a canister, loading and wiping out 
rifle after each discharge,. and having to walk a distance of 
ten feet to a loading table and ten feet back to the firing 
point. This shooting, then, is very fair, under the circum¬ 
stances, as the firing must have been rapid, taking into con¬ 
sideration the time necessary tb walk some 1,000 feet or 
more, and to load, clean, aim and discharge the piece. 
ARRANGING A RIFLE TEAM. 
DISFIGURING OF SETTERS BY TAILING. 
Editor Forest and Stream:— 
How often we see beautifully formed aud gracefully actioned setters 
totally disfigured by the cutting of their tails? Nothing adds more to 
the beauty of a dog’s movement than that vigorous lashing of the tail, as 
he ranges in advance of his master, and'a setter can become as rigid in 
this portion of the body when on a stand, be it cropped or not. 
It has lately come to my knowledge that an ardent sportsman, and 
withal a capital fellow, who had imported two very fine Macdona setters 
at a great expense, cut the tail of one of them, the beautiful flag of a 
handsome setter. Alas! why did nature give the poor thing a tail to be 
cutoff? Our medical sportsman would have as soon cut the tresses of a 
beautiful lady as to have deprived the setter of her ornament. I fear 
the cropping has been done at too great an age, and a square stump, 
blunt and clumsy, will be the result. I fancy I can see Kirby’s canine 
friends and admirers in caucus, vowing vengeance, for Kirby is worthy 
of admiration, and is no doubt the finest one of bred bitches in America 
to-day. Ah! Doctor, a fatal mistake; seek the lost portion of the tail and 
splice it. I have heard of the wonderful performance of your new dogs 
on snipe, at Troy. Truly you have a pair of gems. “Homo.” 
y mn and 
JUNE IS A CLOSE MONTH FOR GAME. 
Details of pigeon shooting and scwes of rifle matches , and other interest¬ 
ing matter, should be mailed so as to reach this office on Tuesday morning 
in each week. _ _ 
The following letter from the “Game and Inland Fishery 
Protection Society” of Nova Scotia, has lain upon our table 
for several days, together with the enclosure to which it 
refers. The letter containing the rejoinder to Mr. 
Wliitcher’s communication to us will occupy a column and 
a half of Forest and Stream, but we shall print it next 
week, that both sides may have a hearing, lest we be 
charged with unfair partiality.. No doubt the society 
recently organized is in earnest in its purposes to protect 
the game and fish of Nova Scotia, as are the present consti¬ 
tuted officers appointed by the Dominion Government, and 
we feel that a combination c f efforts will accomplish in¬ 
creased good. But the real question at issue, as we view 
it, with some personal knowledge of its merits, is whether 
the Province shall control its own fisheries, etc., or whether 
the General Government shall do it. In the former event 
is involved the removal of Mr. Yenning, who is at present 
Inspector both of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, and 
the appointment of a special officer for Nova Scotia alone. 
Some personal as well as political feeling enters into its 
composition ; but as we are not recognized as the mouth¬ 
piece of the Canadians, it does not become us to enter into 
the controversy further than to insist that whatever results 
shall inure to .the suceess of the avowed object in view, 
which is the protection of the game and fish. 
Halifax, N. S., May 25, 1874. 
Editor Forest and Stream :— 
Sir: I inclose you a letter which appeared in this day’s 
issue of the Morning Chronicle , of this city, in reply to one 
from the pen of W. F. Whitcher, Esq., Deputy Minister 
Marine and Fisheries, which originally appeared in your 
paper, and have to request the favor of your inserting it. 
I agree with you that the work of a Fishery Commis¬ 
sioner and his deputies, when properly performed, is 
arduous and laborious, and I do not think he should be 
annoyed by unnecessary complaints of a general character; 
but that is no reason why well grounded charges of neglect 
and inefficiency should not be investigated, and remedies 
suggested by those acquainted with the circumstances 
should not be applied. 
I have endeavored to put the case of the present state o£ 
the Nova Scotian rivers before the public as strongly as 
possible consistent with the facts, and I can assure you 
that the picture is not overdrawn. I wish you could spare 
time from your editorial labors to take a run down here, 
and you would see for yourself the statj of affairs, and 
then I think you would not be so ready to endorse the 
sneering allusions of the Deputy Minister of Marine and 
Fisheries to the attempts of our society to remedy a serious 
public grievance. 
I have been waiting until our new game laws were out 
of the hands of the printer, to send you a copy, together 
with our bye-laws and constitution, which I shall be able 
to do in a few days. 
I shall be happy at all times to furnish you with any in¬ 
formation respecting our game animals or birds, which I 
think will interest your readers. I am, yours truly, 
Fitz. Cochran, 
Secretary Game and Inland Fishery P. Society. 
—Some time since a bill was presented in the House of 
Representatives, the object of which was to restrict the 
killing of bison or buffalo on the plains. What became of 
this humane measure we have not been able to ascertain.— 
Bergh's Animal Kingdom. 
[See Forest aot» Stream, page 1.84, No. 12, Yol. 2], 
The following contribution from a distinguished Cana¬ 
dian rifleman will be found of great interest, and doubtless 
Colonel Wingate, or whoever has the American team in 
charge, will study this most important matter—of arrang¬ 
ing the men to the best advantage. 
Editor Forest and Stream:— 
Noticing your numerous contributions on Rifle Shooting, in the inter¬ 
est of the noble science I venture to contribute my mite, not as to shoot¬ 
ing, but to placing the men in a team. Many men who shoot in matches 
are not aware how much depends on men being well placed. I for many 
years had much to do with rifle shooting, especially team shooting, and 
venture to offer a few suggestions for the benefit of the eight or six who 
are to shoot against the Irish team. I^et your team elect their steadiest 
shot and the man in whom they have most confluence, leader. Let him 
always fire first and be a sort of pilot. Make him register the difference 
in elevation and windage of all the rifles in his team, so as at once, when 
he has hit the target, and is confident of having been steady when he 
fired he can put the man following him on the bullseye. Place a thor¬ 
oughly reliable man next him,so that if by any accident the leader misses, 
the second man may do his duty. Keep the oldest and coolest shot for 
last, and second to last another good man, putting the less certain men 
in the middle. Many a match have I won by placing my men thus, and 
often have I seen matches lost by putting nervous men at the tail end of 
a squad. Unsteady men are often much steadied by having confidence 
in the man behind them. I had the pleasure of taking Colonel Wingate 
over our ranges some two jears ago, and I have no doubt he remembers 
some of the shooting at 1,000 yards, made, if I remember rightly, by 
Shunar of Melbourne. Your men have their work cut out to beat the 
Irish team, and unless they kill them with kindness I fear tfcey can 
scarcely do it. Hoping the match will be a close one and that the best 
men will win, I am, yours faithfully, Royal. 
PIGEON AND RA.BBIT SHOOTING IN 
PARIS, FRANCE. 
St. Louis, May 25,1874. 
Editor Forest and Stream:— 
The Tir ol Gastine Rennett, near the Bois de Boulogne (1851) was the 
fashionable resort of th & creme de la creme of that most creamy place,Paris. 
There, during the belle saison (autumn), the crack shots congregated and 
shot for prizes. It maj be interesting to your many readers to know 
how it was done, and may point out a plan of getting up a shooting 
ground for that kind of sport somewhat in advance of our primitive way. 
At the Tir, not only was prize shooting carried on, but at other times 
practice was afforded youngsters under the instruction of a teacher how 
to shoot on the wing or on the run. The grounds, probably five or ten 
acres in extent, were enclosed by a high stone wall. Near the entrance, 
midway on the ground, was erected a neat pagoda sort of building fifteen 
by twenty feet, the front open. In this building were racks for guns, a 
loading table, (muzzle-loaders only were used then) in the rear a refresh¬ 
ment table, presided over by a dame de comptoir, who also attended the 
financial department, and during the firing kept the score, having for 
that purpose a seat sufficiently elevated to overlook the field. On the 
racks were guns of the best French and English makers, for the use of 
which the ammunition, birds, or rabbits, and the loading by an expert, 
always there for that purpose, a certain amount was paid. At the oppo¬ 
site end to the pagoda, to the right hand corner of the enclosure, were 
large dove cotes surmounted by large wire cages, and on top of these 
smaller trap cages to which the birds that escaped from the shooters 
generally flew and were thus secured. 
In front of the pagoda were seats for the company and shooters. A 
paved walk about twenty feet long led to the firing stand, at intervals 
were stations marked for handicapping, the regulation distance 31 me¬ 
tres. Five ground traps were used, five metres apart. Upon the shoot¬ 
er’s name being called, the puller handed him a bag in which were five 
small balls numbered from 1 to 5, from which he took one or two, single 
or double birds. These balls were handed to the puller without inspec¬ 
tion from the shooter. The strings from the traps were also numbered 
from 1 to 5. As the puller was located some distance behind the shoot¬ 
er he had no knowledge of the trap to # be sprung. Under the traps was 
what might be called an arched cellar for the use of the trappers and 
cages of live birds. The traps were handled and the birds placed in them 
from under, consequently the trappers and birds were out of sight and 
out of the way, and no time lost in furnishing the birds. In single bird 
shooting both barrels were allowed; if a miss with the first a kill with 
the second counted fair. 
For rabbit shooting there were several openings or burrows from the 
surface leading to a common center in the underground chamber, from 
which bunny was started at the tap of the bell from the puller. I.con¬ 
fess it was jolly fun to see the cotton tails popping out of the ground, 
one or two at a time, and see hovv easy it was to miss them, and the ex¬ 
citement of our French cousins thereupon. The marksmanship, con¬ 
sidering the distance, was generally good, and on some occasions I have 
seen 24 out of 25 birds killed. Perdrix. 
Editor Forest and Stream:— 
Detroit, June 4, 1874. 
I enclose you herewith score of a little sweep shot, June 1, under the 
following rules:—30 yards rise, 80 yards boundary, ground traps, 20 birds 
each, $20 entrance, divided in two prizes. 
Fisher ....011001011010 
111101 11 . 
Eldndge...0 1 1 000011 011 
1 1 1 1 1 000 . 
Canniff.. ..1 11111101100 
10 101011 . 
Long. 
...000 1 1 1 1 1 11 
1 
13 
11110 
11 11. 
16 
Gilman.. 
..10101101111 
1 
11 
0 1111 
100 . 
14 
Hinsdale. 
.110110 1110 0 
1 
14 
0 0 111 
111 . 
14 
First prize taken by J. E. Long. Ties shot off at 3 birds same distance. 
Canniff.1 0 1—21 Hinsdale.l 1 l—3 
Gilman...1 1 1—31 
Second tie shot off same distance, first miss out. 
Gilman. 0 Hinsdale.. l 
Hinsdale winner second prize. J. E. L. 
[We are not aware that any member of any recognized club in this 
country or abroad has ever equalled the above shooang; distance, 30 
yards rise, from ground traps, 20 birds each, Mr. Jno. E. Long killing 12 
straight birds in succession, and in all 16 out of 20, We should like to 
hear if this shooting has over been 
FISH IN SEASON IN JUNE. 
Salmon, Salmo Salar. 
Trout, Salmofontinalis 
Land-locked Salmon, Salmo gloveri 
Black Bass, micropterus salmoides, 
Striped Bass, Eoccus lineatus. 
Bluefish, temnodon saltator. 
Salmon trout, Salmo con finis. 
Shad, Alosa. 
Michigan Grayling, ThymaUus tricolor 
micropterus nigricans. 
Sea trout, Salmo immaculatus 
Weakfish. 
—The treasures of the deep are displayed on Fulton 
market slabs this week in wonderful profusion. Sheeps- 
liead, which have been coming from the southward 
hitherto, put in for Long Island on Tuesday last, and 1,000 
pounds were caught in the vicinity of Babylon, some of 
them eight pounders. Sheepsheads at this time of the 
year generally bring 30 cents a pound, but are now selling 
at 20 cents. Bluefish are being caught most every where 
and are running up to a handsome weight of eight to ten 
pounds—which is big for the early fish. In August they 
will turn the scale at 14 pounds. Spanish mackerel are 
coming in splendid order from Norfolk; where the catch 
us to quality and quantity never has been better. They 
are worth some 35 cents a pound. As they work up fur¬ 
ther North they will improve. The usual weight is about 
two pounds. They may be expected in our latitude about 
the close of this month—perhaps sooner, if the warm 
weather only holds. Striped bass, the fisherman’s delight, 
are here; no secret about the locality. The fishermen who 
fisli for a living, are catching them and sending them in 
fiom off the coast of Rhode Island. May be a line thrown 
in somewhere off the rocky eoast from Westerly to Newport, 
and properly addressed, would, be responded to, by a noble 
fellow; for what we saw in Fulton market, just from the 
Sound steamer, weighed from 5 pounds up to 35 pounds. 
It is quite likely that the striphd bas& will be m abundance 
this year. Shad have presented themselves in excellent 
quantity this year, and of fine flavor; they are now on the 
wane, coming chiefly from the Connecticut river. Mack¬ 
erel are abundant, and of better quality than were last 
reported, and we hear they are now going straight to their 
more extreme Northern grounds. Weak fish ( squeteague ) are 
so plenty, from Long Island, and New Jersey—as to be 
had almost for the asking. 
Now, it is extremely hard on the crab, generally an 
exceedingly aggressive and hard fellow, that he should be 
obliged to put on his soft shell, and make himself the 
most harmless of creatures, and the most delicate of 
morsels to eat, all for a beggaily $1 a dozen, when he 
ought to fetch at least $1.50 to $2. But so it is. The soft 
crabs are coming from Chesapeake Bay and from Squan 
River en masse. Of baby lobsters from Maine there are 
less on the market. Some noble blue backs from Cape 
Cod, 8 and 10 pounders, with claws large and strong 
enough to grapple up'the submarine cable, are on the fisli 
stands. Green tu’rtle are plenty too, coming from Indian 
River, and an alderman could gorge himself with fat turtle 
at 18 cents a pound. We cannot fall back on that novel 
phrase, “we told you so,” in regard to salmon. Wetliouglit 
they would be much cheaper, but alas ! they are not. The 
king of the fisli is slow—decidedly slow—this year, and re¬ 
fuses to be cut up into steaks at less than 45 to 50 cents a 
pound. Next week, however, we live in hope of his being 
“three shilling,” and in July lie must be 25 cents, or how 
could the gents at Saratoga exist ? Some fine salmon are 
coming from the Miramichi. A good many handsome 
fisli, not very large, 7 to 10 pounds, are arriving from the 
Penobscot. We can add the plural s this time to Pompino, 
as we saw four of them on Mr. Blackford’s stand on Wed¬ 
nesday. There is no doubt the range of the fish is more 
northerly than was thought, and the reason why they are 
caught is that fishermen now know what a delicacy they 
are. More moon fisli have put in an appearance, and with 
them a curious kind of a fish—the crab eater—De Kay’s 
Blacate Atlantica , some two or three specimens of which 
we saw. We were delighted, too, to notice a noble gar, 
some threeTeet and a half long. We have his head now 
before us, and though his long jaws are covered with teeth, 
and not exactly pretty to look at, their mechanism is beau¬ 
tiful. Both upper and lower jaws work. The lo’VYer jaw 
lias undoubtedly a voluntar^motion, the upper an involun¬ 
tary one. A beautiful cam on the upper jaw fits into the 
lower one. The upper one being hinged when the lower 
one is thrown down^the upper one moves. The jaws of a 
gar fish may be lovely to look at on our desk, but must be 
very hard on the fish he catches in the water. 
—Here is a note from Dr. Kenworthy, Barnegat, dated 
June 6th;— 
“Have been here for two days. Strange to say, large 
blue fish have not entered the bay. First time they have 
missed. Thursday caught 68 small blue fish weighing 170 
lbs. The day after took 71 weighing 183 lbs. Fishing 
very poor.” 
We should call this very fair fishing. 
—A nice little salmon, fourteen inches long, supposing 
that the fishway at Augusta dam, in the Kennebec, was 
already built—as it ought to have been long ago—tried to 
get through last Saturday week, but not succeeding was 
caught by an Augusta fisherman, on a hook baited for perch. 
Old fishermen say this is the first instance on record of river 
salmon taking bait, and it is a curiosity on that account. 
—Several young salmon have been seined off the mouth 
of the Merrimac, in Mass., recently. 
—A letter from Maine says that “the ice did not move 
out of the Rangely Lakes until the 29th of May. The logs 
will have three weeks to run through from the upper lake, 
after which there will be fine fishing, although w© have 
