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ments. He doubts, however, whether they can be brought 
to maturity, and is afraid that the winter will kill them. 
M. Tissandier in speaking of their many wonderful traits, 
which resemble the chimpanzee, cites Buff on’s chimpanzee, 
which always offered his arm to visitors, and Jeffries’orang¬ 
outang which always washed out his own cage with a 
towel; and Brehm tells of another orang-outang on 
board ship which lit the fire, and watched the bread when 
baking.” What a funny theory that was, we noticed 
sometime ago, which emanated in France, to wit: That it 
was the enlarged or amplified effects of speech, and its 
development into a language, which alone divided a man 
from a monkey, and that at one time the best speaking 
monkeys by the theory of selection, left out in the cold 
less talkative portions of their race, and so after a while 
man was brought from out of the animal neck. So much 
for gab! 
—Mr. W. B. Tegetmeir of the Field, states that young 
pheasants are dying in England. He accounts for it from 
the fact of improper feeding, as it has been the fashion 
lately to give the young birds food highly spiced. This 
excellent authority says: “the employment of these condi¬ 
ments for young pheasants or fowls I cannot but regard as 
about as sensible as feeding an infant upon highly-spiced 
curries. ” 
doubt as to the real scale, you can at onoe solve it by 
placing a small portion of the leaf under a microscope. 
You will find him a little round fellow, totally unlike all 
others, and always on the under side of the leaf. As a 
remedy, have used a decoction of quinine chips—also, a 
brush dipped in whale oil soap. In plant houses, thor¬ 
oughly ventilated, they seldom appear. I have used a 
wash made from half pound of pulverized hen manure, 
quarter pound of flour of sulphur, mixed in warm water— 
the above to two pails of water, carefully applied with a 
rose jet syringe at night. This with me has proved a 
quietus, only two applications being necessary. O. Q. 
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Marshes Made Productive. —The experiment made 
at Marshfield and Scituate by which a large amount of 
marsh land has been brought under cultivation by the erec¬ 
tion of dykes promises to realize the brightest anticipations 
of those who were active in reclaiming the salt marsh and 
transforming it into soil adapted to the cultivation of veget¬ 
ables, etc., etc. A crop of herdsgrass is now growing, 
samples of which were exhibited to several prominent 
agriculturists, which will yield three and a half to four tons 
per acre. In a few years it is anticipated that a large quan¬ 
tity of vegetables will be raised for the use of the Boston 
market .—Boston Journal. 
—It is an admitted fact in Japan and China that the 
older the tree the better the tea. The shrubs which supply 
the nobles of Japan with their favorite beverage are said to 
be in many instances 500 y ears old.— Land, and Water. 
—One of our friends has just shown us a pretty white 
bird, caught last week at Setauket, Long Island. It was of 
a whitish plumage, with a tinge of lemon on the primaries. 
We pronounce it to be a gray kingbird, Tyrannus JDomi- 
eenus, common in the West Indies and Florida, sometimes 
seen in the Carolinas, and exceedingly rare to find in this 
section of country, though noticed sometimes as far north 
as Massachusetts. (See Coues’ North American Birds.) 
THE RARA AVIS. 
Editor Forest and Stream 
Will you, or some of the readers of Forest and Stream, 
inform me what bird makes its nest and lays its eggs under 
water. In hunting for the eggs of the water hen or coot, I 
have often found a bunch of lake moss about an inch out of 
water. On opening this would be found from five to seven 
eggs of a dirty white color, about the size of a quail’s. 
Yours, truly, Pioneer. 
Nicasio , Gal ., July 6 th, 1874. 
CENTRAL PARK MENAGERIE. 
Department op Public Parks, / 
New York, July 19, 1874. j 
Animals received at Central Park Menagerie for the week ending 
July 18,1874. 
Seven Porto Rico Pigeons, Columba corensis. Hah. West Indies. Pre¬ 
sented by Mr. Henry Beste. 
One Woodchuck, Arctomys monax. Presented by Mr. W. W. Arnold. 
One Peacock, Pavo Gnstata. Presented by Mr. D. Messmore. 
One Raven, Corvus carnivorus. 
One Yak, Bos gnmnims. Hab. Tibet. Bred in the Menagerie. 
—In some countries frogs are used as barometers—the 
species employed for this purpose is the green tree frog. 
They are placed in tall glass bottles with little wooden lad¬ 
ders, to the top of which they always climb in fine weather, 
and descend at the approach of bad weather. This is a 
cheap and highly interesting weather glass where the green 
tree frog is to be procured in its natural state .—Science 
Gossip. 
hodland, Wawn and (Barden. 
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
F. Willis, Bergen, N. J.—“What will kill the cabbage 
worm V” This pest of our gardens, a species of Pieris rapce, 
has long been well known, and very troublesome to our 
gardeners in many portions of different States. This 
season it has been quite abundant. The butterfly lays its 
eggs about June, and sometimes earlier. We have used 
successfully damaged salt, dirty, and which was obtained 
for a few cents per bushel from storehouses destroyed by 
fire. Applied in small quantities around the plant, upon 
the top of the ground and hoed in, it acts as a dead shot to 
the cabbage worm, and is a good fertilizer also. I have 
used with unfailing success, without a single failure, 
“Gould’s Fertilizer,’’ applied as above. The fertilizer is- 
sure, safe, and never fails. O. Q. 
Emma G. Rowe, New York.—“I grow good plants, but I 
find frequently my pots filled with large worms which clog 
my plants and almost kill them. Please tell me how I can 
rid myself of them ?” By boiling the earth before potting 
your plants, will be found a certain remedy for earth worms 
and insect life contained in ova. Watering with a decoc- 
■fion, one gill to three pints of water, of “Gould’s Fertili 
zer,” will surely kill and expel all worms, and carbolic 
water will also prove the bane to hundreds of insects 
beside worms, if carefully applied. Use fifteen to twenty 
drops of carbolic to one quart of water, and pour over your 
earth in the pots. Where worms are known to be present 
we always take our plants out, especially the rose plants, 
and wash the roots in a weak solution of one pint of good 
soap 3uds water, and replace again. O. Q. 
Mary May, North Andover, Mass.—The plant, of which 
you send a “leaf and flower,” is the Lapsana Communis, 
or “nipplewort,” quite common in some parts of this State, 
it is sometimes called “Swine’s Cress”—is a branched plant 
of some two to three feet high, with regular rays of yellow 
leaves. It may be transplanted. We have a fine cluster of 
it now growing in our garden filled with its golden blos¬ 
soms. Blooms from July to October. You can transplant 
A safely at almost any time. O. Q. 
Charles Clinton, Buffalo, N. Y.—On old and neglected 
plants you most commonly find the scale insect. Some 
Plants, as the oleander, the caper tree, and sometimes cur¬ 
rants are troubled with them. There are several insects 
that prey upon flowers and plants, as well as small fruits, 
that closely resemble the scale insect ; but if you have any 
he Mennel. 
THE RAYMOND-LAVERACKS. 
F AIRY and Pride of the Border, two magnificent speci¬ 
mens of the setter, imported by us from Mr. Laver- 
ack for C. H. Raymond, Esq., of Morristown, N. J., arrived* 
on Tuesday, the 14th, in the Inman steamer City of 
Brooklyn, in as fine condition as could possibly be desired. 
As before mentioned, Fairy is a lemon and white Belton, 
two years old, own sister to Fred. IV. A lithograph of this 
dog appears in Mr. Laverack’s book on “ The Setter.” 
Mr. Laverack, in a recent letter to us, says, ‘ ‘ I shot over 
her all last season in Scotland, and consider her as good as 
any I ever had at all species of game, as purely bred and 
remarkably handsome. I sold her sister, Nellie, to Llewellen 
for 100 guineas. Pride of the Border is liver and white. I. 
have shot over him four seasons; he is now five years old, 
very good on all kinds of game found here, steady as can 
be, either single or double. He is very well bred, being 
out of my favorite blue bitch, old Belle, by Fred. II; he 
strains back thirty years to the old Edmond Castle breed, as 
good as mine. I kept him in order to breed back with my 
own, and now am using a blue dog, a son of his, out of 
blue Nellie. He will get blues, lemon whites and some 
liver and whites. 
The price paid for Fairy Was over $600, and landed here 
she has cost $650. The two of them stand Mr. Raymond 
in not far short of $1,000. Large as the sum may seem to 
some of our readers, we still consider them well worth the 
amount. And to show how highly Fairy is appreciated in 
England, Mr. Laverack refused, just previous to her being 
shipped, £200 for her, also several offers from other parties 
in this country. She is in whelp to Blue Prince, a son of 
Pride of the Border. Blue Prince took the second prize at 
the recent Crystal Palace Show in the English open class. 
They are the only pure Laverack’s, with the exception of 
Dr. Gautier’s Ruby, in this country. 
BelVs Life, in speaking of these dogs, says : 
“ The setters formed one of the grand features of the 
show, a collection of 119, comprising nearly all the crack 
dogs in the country, never being exhibited before at one 
time. In the English class there were five champions, and 
notwithstanding that Mr. Laverack’s old Dash is 13i years 
old, there could be no question about the judging being 
right, for if the old dog has gone a bit in his quarters, this 
is just the weak place amongst his younger competitors. 
Mr. Jones’ Rap, the last year’s winner at the Crystal Palace 
and Birmingham, being a beautiful and forehanded dog, 
but he is not so good behind, and he wants the curve of 
the thigh so remarkable in Dash. It is a fine finish up for 
Mr. Laverack’s grand old dog, who was looking as fresh as 
paint, for undoubtedly Dash has done more for the “ setter 
stud” than any dog that has ever breathed. As the sire of 
Bruce, Countess, Nellie, Sam, Garth’s Daisy, Victor Pilk- 
ington’s Dash and a lot of others, counted to be the Jbest 
dogs of their day. Further honors awaited the old veteran, 
as a son of his, Mr. Hemming’s Rock, a sweet dog to look 
over landed the English open class, with Blue Prince from 
Mr. Laverack’s kennel, a very clever shaped one, second 
grandson of old Dash, being by Pride of the Border out of 
Nellie.” 
JYe have urged upon Raymond how absolutely necessary 
it is by no means to allow either the dog or bitch to be 
mated with anything except of the purest lineage and breed, 
and would advise him not to cross either of his animals 
with any other, unless they can show positively some 
Laverack blood, and so carry out the additional name of 
the breed, the Raymond-Laveracks. 
These splendid specimens of the highly bred, inter-bred, 
inter-crossed, bred back, educated setters will be on exhibi¬ 
tion at the office of this journal, as soon as they have re¬ 
covered from their long sea voyage, due notice of which 
will be given in these columns. 
The following letter is the only commission we have 
received, or require from any of our friends, for placing 
them in communication with breeders of dogs, or manufac¬ 
turers of guns. 
Fox Farm, Morris Plains, N. J., } 
July 18, 1874. \ 
Editor Forest and Stream 
It gives me much pleasure to inform you that Fairy and 
i 
Pride of the Border reached New York last evening on the 
City of Brooklyn. 
Mr. Laverack himself very kindly brought them to 
Liverpool, packed in fine roomy hampers. They received 
the best of care during the voyage, and arrived in splendid 
condition. 
Permit me now to assure you of my sincere thanks for 
your kindness and courtesy in arranging the correspondence 
with Mr. Laverack, which has obtained for me these valu¬ 
able setters. But for your promptness and attention I 
should have failed to secure them. 
It will not be prudent for several weeks to bring Fairy to 
your office as we have arranged ; but I shall be gratified to 
have you run over here the latter part of next week, by 
which time, in addition to Fairy and Pride, I hope to sub¬ 
mit to your critical inspeetion the first litter of pure Laver¬ 
ack setter puppies born in America. 
With renewed assurances of my appreciation of your 
friendly services, I am very truly yours, 
Charles H. Raymond. 
A Field Trial Match. —Public performance in the 
forests and on the streams is the only true criterion of the 
sportsman and angler. Our correspondent, “Mohawk,” 
has matched his red Irish setter, Dan, against “ Gopher’s” 
orange and white bitch Belle. The match is for $100 a 
side on snipe, to take place at Pine Brook, N. J., and to 
be run under the Forest and Stream’s field trial rules, as 
published by us on April 9th, 1874. Both parties has 
naturally great confidence in their animals, but as Dan has 
a very high reputation, being considered by many field 
sportsmen second to no dog on snipe, with the exception of 
his sire, old Dash, the odds are slightly in his favor. 
Gopher’s Belle is well bred on both sides, and we ' under¬ 
stand is working well on woodcock. The match will create 
much interest among field sportsmen, as both gentlemen 
are known as graphic delineators of the dog, gun and 
poultry, in several of our prominent journals. We trust that 
the day is not far distant when that wliicli we have so 
urgently advocated, field trials, will be as thoroughly es¬ 
tablished here as in England. Then gentlemen will have 
an opportunity of testing the superiority of their dogs for a 
small entrance fee, without the necessity of resorting to 
private trials in order to determine the always much vexed 
question—whose is the best ? The amount of benefit to 
field sportsmeh and their breed of dogs is beyond estimate. 
To insure success some other place than Pine Brook will 
have to be selected, as it may do well for a private match 
like the above, but not for a large entry field trial. We 
are glad that this match has been made, and hope it will 
lead to the establishment of other field trials, so that there 
will not be so many magnificent animals who have per¬ 
formed such extraordinary wonders in private. In our 
' next issue we shall treat the subject more fully, and pub¬ 
lish for the first time in America, the Quail field tria. 
stakes for setters and pointers, the Puppy stakes on Snipe, 
and the All-aged stakes for Setters, also submit a proposition 
for the immediate consummation of this much to be desired 
object. 
Personal. —We have lately received letters from “Old 
Calabar,” and Mr. Teasdale-Buckeil, of England, containing 
personal criticisms of members of the Kennel Club of 
England and other gentlemen dog breeders. We have re¬ 
peatedly stated in these columns that we cannot afford 
space, nor do we wish our journal to become a paper to 
discuss personal grievances. At the same time we shall be 
glad to afford space to any gentleman in England or at 
home willing to favor us with practical information about 
the breeding of field dogs, whether they are “Idslone’s,” 
Laverack’s, Macdona’s, “ Old Calabar’s,” Price’s, Llewel- 
len’s, or any other breed. 
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Dod Muzzle. —We are pleased to recommend to our 
numerous friends, owners of dogs, the new patent automatic 
dog muzzle, invented by W. T. & J. Mersereau, of 62 Duane 
street. The muzzle is made of galvanised wire, light and 
easy of removal. By an ingenious spring attachment the 
animal can open his mouth, drink, pant, &c., without caus 
ing him the slightest worry or inconvenience. We agree 
with Mr. Berg when he says “ it is the most humane inven¬ 
tion of the age.” 
—The appointment of regular officials to catch the 
vagrant dogs in New York,.is a step in the proper direction. 
The fifty cents heretofore paid to vagabonds for stealing 
dogs, will be the emolument of the duly authorized dog- 
catchers. Two hundred dogs were killed last week. In 
Brooklyn dogs are shot on sight by policemen, if they are 
found straying. This is a dangerous practice, and it is a 
wonder some human being has not been killed yet. The 
mad-dog scare, like other mental epidemics, is gradually 
passing away. 
—Believing that, no matter how calmly we might dis¬ 
cuss the question of Rabies and Hydrophobia, it would 
only add oil to the flames, we have for some time abstained 
from discussing these subjects. We still repeat, incise 
deeply, when bitten use fuming nitric acid, or if not ob¬ 
tainable, lunar caustic, and favor the discharge by poul 
ticing. We notice the use of ligatures, as proposed by us, 
as coming into vogue. 
—Philadelphia kills her useless dogs by the use of car¬ 
bonic acid and carbonic oxide. The former smothers, but 
the latter gas kills outright. The gasses are simply made 
by burning charcoal and turning • the fumes into a close* 
chamber. In less than ten minutes all the dogs are dead. 
