191 
Fishing in Princess Bay. 
PRTNCESS Bay, Staten Island, N. Y., Aug. 26.— The fish- 
ing here is excellent— the best it has- been for five or six 
■ years. Anybody can go out and bring in thirty to one hun- 
dred weakflsb, besides lots of sea porgies, snappers (young 
bluefish), and oftentimes bluefish weighing from 3 to 41bs. 
which will give a man a good tussle and sometimes cairy 
away his tackle^ A. L. H. 
'h^ Mmnel 
FIXTURES. 
FIELD TRIALS. 
Sept. 6,-Maiiitoba Field Trials Club. Utorris, Man. 
Sept. 7.— Northwestern Field Trial Clob's Champion Stake, Morris 
Man. 
Oct. 25.— Brunswck Fur Clnb's ninth annual trials, 
Nov, l.r-Dixie Red Fox Club's third annual meet. Waverly, Miss 
Nov. 1.— New England Beagle Club's trials, Oxford, Mass. 
Nov. 2.— Monongahela Valley Game and Fish iTotective Associ- 
ation's trials, Greene county. Pa. 
Nov. 8.- Union Field Trials Club's trials, Carlisle, Ind. 
Nov. 9.— Central Beagle Club's trials. SLarpsburg, Pa. 
Nov, 9,— Peninsular Field Trial Club's trials, L'^amington, Ont 
Nov. 15.— E F. T. Club's trials, Newton, N. C. 
Nov. 16.— International Field Trials Club's eighth annual trials 
Chatham, Ont. ' ' 
Nov. 22.— U. S. F. T. Club's aututnn trials. 
1898. 
Jan. 10.— U. S. P. T Club's winter trials, West Point, Miss. 
Jan, 17.— Continental F. T. Club's trials, New Albany, Miss. 
SCHOOLING THE DOG.— XII. 
The remarks on pointing in previous papers should make 
clear that any attempt to traiu a dog to stanchness before he 
has had some experience on birds is wasted efl'ort. There is 
no arbitrary juncture at which to begin "the training to 
stanchness. The circumstances and judgment of the trainer 
must be the sole gindes in the matter. Ilowevtr, it may be 
said that in a general way, when the dog has learned to 
readily distinguish, the scent of birds, and can locate them 
more or less readily, the trainer may begin to teach proper 
stanchness. 
It is a mistake to permit the dog to become habitually 
riotous. While such may add to his enthusiasm and indus- 
try, it makes a great deal of unnecessary, extta labor in 
schooling him. 
Again, the dog's disposition should be taken into consid- 
eration. If he is timorous and shows indecision, he should 
be permitted to have much more freedom than if headstrong 
and riotous. 
As remarked before, the dog. in time, learns methods of 
capture by drawing and pointing which admirably serve his 
own purpose. The trainer purposes to so control the dog's 
efforts that they will serve the purpose of the shooter. His 
first efforts to establish stanchness will have no perceptible 
effects on the dog's manner of work. He will be quite as 
riotous, and likely will recognise the trainer as a disturbing, 
obstructive element and will seek to evade him accordingly, 
although still working out his own plans. But perseverance 
on the part of the trainer will gradually bring the dog to 
submission. 
• A timid dog, or even one of an ordinary, mild disposition, 
tnay require gentle schooling, gradually inducting him into 
what is required. By experience and the ob ervation of the 
application of means to ends, dogs of a deferential disposi- 
tion may readily accept working to the gun, iostead of 
working independently for their own pleasure and profit. 
However the case may be, the trainer should note it and 
govern the schooling accordingly. His judgment should de- 
termine whether mildness or severity "are required. This 
juncture will try his patience, persistence and art, 
The headstrong, riotous dog, which never ceases so long as 
there is a hope of flushing or chasing, generally needs pun- 
ishment to make him properly stanch. KindneBS should be 
observed at all other times 
He is, peihaps, so desperately intent on the pursuit that a 
few whippings do not serve to check him in the least, though 
they may make him wary of his trainer. He may be quite 
as riotous when punished, and also he may refuse to come 
near his trainer when ordered to come in. In such case, 
put a check cord on him, and also if need be a spike collar! 
"When he rushes on the birds the trainer then has a means to 
hold him directly in check. This part should not be done 
two violently, nor overdone. 
Remember that a dog can be broken from pursuing any- 
thing. The same method employed to break him from pur- 
suing sheep, rabbits, chickens, etc,, will break him from 
pursuing birds. The purpose is to maintain bis interest in 
the pursuit of birds, but at the same time have a heedful 
consideration of the purposes of his trainer. With the 
punishment properly applied as to time and quantity 
he will draw on the birds, but will be fearful of tlushing 
them. If he is punished so much that the pursuit either 
ceases to be a pleasure to him or seems to him to be a for- 
bidden act, he refuses to draw to the birds and avoids them. 
He is then what is technically termed a blinker. If the 
trainer has been so unfortunate as to bring this about, he has 
much more to overcome than before he began the training at 
first. He is absolutely powerless to teach anything further 
till the dog voluntarily resumes hunting, which may be a 
matter of days or weeks, even if the most liberal opportuni- 
ties are offered When a dog has acquired the habit of blink- 
ing it is better to put him in other hands. His teacher is so 
associated with birds and painfulness, that it requires a long 
time for his memory and confidence to properly readjust to 
the desired conditions, all of which goes to show the need of 
careful judgment in teaching. 
When the dog will show a hesitancy as he draws near the 
birds, the trainer should impress on him th^ need- of great 
caution. He affects the greatest caution in his own manner, 
and every motion forward, deliberately taken, expresses the 
greatest concern to avoid flushing. He keeps his eye con- 
stantly on the dog, and his slightest movement forward is 
instantly checked, either by raising the hand and looking 
sternly at him, or by giving him a word of caution; if he 
break in"in spite of all this effort on the part of the trainer, 
the whip should be applied accordinglv as he needs it. 
always keeping in mind that more than is" needed may Vrjng 
on disaster— that is, blinking. 
If the birds flush and fly Avfiv, tbf* iralner auoald give no 
thought to them. The 0.';^ aoj^ld ne taken to the place 
whereby; shaaiu nave remained, and there kept till his pur- 
pose Cu ^uisue Is entirely given up. 
i'ae great obstruction to correct training at this juncture, 
18 that the average amateur trainer is far keener to shoot and 
kill than the dog is to pursue. The trainer is excited, shoots, 
breaks shot, and then riotously attempts to control the dog— 
the last act of all, instead of it being his first act, and giving 
it, moreover, undivided attention. 'He is then really teach- 
ing the dog bad tricks. He adds to the dog's excitement, sets 
a bad example which the dog is naturally ready to capy, and 
adds greatly to the task of training. 
The dog "is readily sympathetic in such matters. If the 
^ trainer will start out quickly and excitedly in an open field 
when there is no game birds near, the dog will charge 
eagerly and excitedly about, looking keenly for the object 
he imagini s is to be pursued. If the trainer, when on game, 
cannot control himself, he cannot expect to control his dog; 
nor should the dog be given a beating for what the trainer 
led him into. 
Some dogs may take to pointing quite readily. If the in- 
stinct is strongly developed and the dog is of a deferential 
disposition, stanchness may be established with very little 
effort. With such dogs the ti ainer should avoid insisting on 
more stanchness than is necessary. If they are rigidly re- 
quired to stand stanchly they may point too far away from 
their birds, or may stand stanchly after the birds have run 
away from the point, or may acquire a general over- cautious- 
ness which is more harmful and annoying than would be 
more decision and accuracy, even if some errors resulted 
therefrom. 
Taking pointers as a class, they point much more readily 
than setters, and have the mstiact more uniformly present 
one dog with another. They arc also much easier "taught to 
back, and indeed they sometimes will back in preference to 
pointing if running with a confident, resolute competitor. It 
. is a very faulty trait in comrelilion, since the resolute dog 
is making all the showing as a finder, though his competitor 
if working alone, might show equal or greater ability. 
The matter of teaching a dog stanchness on point is gen- 
erally a work of weeks before it is properly completed. He 
not only must learn that he is not to flush the bird , but he 
must have the experience necessary to learn the shooter's 
purpose, and how to so direct his effort as best to subserve 
the interests of the gun. It the dog is rattle-headed, or 
naturally idiotic, or entirely deficient in any love for his 
trainer, he may never get past the perfunctory stage. The 
matter of brains and good intention are quite as important 
factors on his part as they are on the part of his teacher. 
Beenaed Watees. 
FIELD TRIALS AND FIELD TRIAL 
JUDGES.- IV. 
In our last paper on this subject the need of keeping the 
dogs and handlers on a consecutive course was touched 
upon. In laying out a course for a certain heat, it must not 
only be laid out with reference to giving the two dogs im- 
mediataly concerned a good consecutive course, but it must 
be with a view to giving such course and at the same 
time giving it with reference to other courses fur other 
dogs. 
Field trial clubs rent their grounds, and have a certain de- 
fined territory in which they have all the needed rights. 
G-enerally, the grounds' are ample for the needed purpose; 
but it does not require much thought to perceive that if they 
were worked irregularly back and forth, or the choice 
parts worked out first, that either the dogs which run 
later would have to cross courses already worked out 
and where the birds consequently were disturbed or 
scattered or driven out, or they would have to work on the 
poorest remaining ground. The judge, therefore, must ap- 
proximately apportion his ground to be used for the day's 
competition so that each brace will have a trial on unworked 
ground, and the choice and bad parts of the ground be 
equitably divided so that the brace will have chances as 
near alike as intelligent effort will make possible. With all 
this effort there will be many features of the competition 
which the judge must take into account and which will need 
to be adjusted by hiOiself. For instance, one dog in one heat 
might point three bevies within 100yds. ; he receives the en- 
comiums of the spectators. Another dog might work intel- 
ligently and industriously throughout his heat and not find a 
bird; in one case the fine showing was due to the accidental 
advantage that there were three bevies to point, and in the 
other that there were no birds at all. All these things the 
green judge has to learn. The trained judge has them at his 
fingerc' ends. 
Besides thus laying out the courses for each beat, he must 
keep the handlers and dogs going to take the best working 
advantage of the course without any sudden turnings here 
and. there, or any indecision which results in a general let- 
ting down of effort. The next greatest atfllction in the way 
of a judge who is intent on being everywhere at the same 
time, right or wrong, is the one who has no idea of going 
anywhere. He doesn't know where to go; he is weak and 
indecisive, and the competition lags and drags in conse- 
quence. A man who is judging, yet who doesn't quite 
know what is to be judged or how it is to be done, would 
best stay elsewhere than in the judge's saddle. 
By keeping his course planned out a half mile or mile 
ahead, or still further if need be, the competent judge will 
avoid pocketing the trials in big fields surrounded with wire 
fences, or between swamps, or on the banks of a river, or 
wherever there is a possibility of doing so. He takes bridges, 
fords, gateways, so that they all come in proper sequence in 
the course, if he plans aright; if he doesn't, he may use half 
the time riding back over ground to adjust his thoughtless- 
ness, his oversight and his incompetency. 
He, if he is skillful, directs the wagons containing the 
waiting dogs to be sent to a designated place, where he fore- 
casts that the heat will end, there to await its ending; and he 
makes his estimates so accurately that the course, the time 
and the opportunities, as he has combined and planned them, 
make a successful trial between the two dogs in the heat'. 
He knows that to attain like or better results he will have to 
use more ground with less opportunities from working it in 
the late morning and midday hours than he will either in 
morning or evening, owdng to the difference in temperature, 
scenting conditions and habits of the birds. He makes his 
estimates so skillfully as to time, opportunities and area of 
ground as he has planned them, that he generally makes a 
successful trial of each brace of dogs, and has some definite 
data on which to form his conclusions. He keeps in mind 
what each individual dog does from heat to heat, so that he 
may accurately know which dogs to reject and which to re- 
tain. He has also a fairly accurate knowledge of the relative 
merits of the good ones kept in the competition. If he is 
alert, competent, and attentive to his duties, there is no ques- 
tion in his mind as to the direction to be taken, the place to 
await the ending of a heat, the time approximately at whicli 
certain dogs will be called to compete; nor is there any ml 
ing on any part of the competition, but what he can answer 
promptly and accurately. 
Every few minutes there will be Something or other snb^ 
mitted to him to rule upon, and if he is incompetent he can- 
not conceal it. His indecision makes itself manifest, and if 
he rules wrong his error makes it still more manifest. If he 
rules so as to mar the equity of the competition— which he 
can easily do— he provokes dissatisfaction. Tlie more iii- 
competent he is the more ruling he will be called on to dpy 
for bis own errors beget troubles and disarrangements. 
The would be judge may bo bravely impartial and 
promptly energetic when talking imformally over imaginary 
trials in his circle of friends around the fireside, but when 
confronted with men who are sternly in earnest and each 
party thinks he or they are right, the matter has an entirely 
different aspect. Many a man is a moral coward under such 
circumstances, and shows pitiful weakness and indecision. 
He is then in a constant state of unpleasant apprehension, 
and feels not only that he doesn't know just wnat should 
be done, but that there are many eyes on him keenly 
observing that he doesn't know what to do a'n"d 
that they know he knows that he doesn't know. 
After a judge's first trial is over he confesses, that he 
knew very little about it in a useful, practical way 
w hen he began. The ready judgment, which as a spectator 
who saw but little but ventured on great conclusions, is from 
him gone forever. He knows that a man at the rear never 
can form any just conclusions excepting as between the very 
best and the worst dogs; ones whose general class qualities 
are so widely distinct that a close watching of details is un- 
necessary, A man who is but a few yards behind the judges 
will lose much of the work ; for a horseman passing in front 
of hlra will obscure and hide a large field, and in cover, 2 or 
3yds. to the rear makes a great difference in what one can 
see of the dogs' work and what one cannot see. The green 
judge, with his furious riding out of place; his entire ignor- 
ance of planning a course; his change of mind 
with every passing circumstance; his close atten- 
tion to irrelevant details or incidents of the heat; 
his unskillfulnesg: in bringing out the best effort of the 
dogs and the gpieral hitching and lack of coordination, 
mark the green judge before he is well started. When he 
has run a series through, he doesn't know which dogs are 
the best; for, as he has run them in a broken, fussy way, 
they have all run much alike. He has managed to keep the 
dogs broken up in their work, and managed to keep himself 
largely out of place by galloping more or less furiously after 
such dog as disappeared for a moment from sight, this act 
being much to the alarm of the dog's handler, who knows 
that a dog trained to range to a man on horseback will cast 
still further away under such circumstances, and generally 
much wider than he will range to a man afoot. 
Brunswick Fur Club. 
RoxBURY, Mass.— It has been deemed advisable to change 
the date of the coming foxhound field trials of the Brunswick 
Fur Club from the week of Ost. 24 to that of Oct. 17. The 
Derby will be run on Tuesday, Oct. 19, and the AH Age 
Stake on the three following days. Interest in these trials. la 
widespread and the outlook for a week of splendid sport was 
never better. Further particulars will be given in. the 
FoEEST AND STREAM at an early date, and the secretarj 
will be glad to answer inquiries at any time. 
Bradford S. Ttjrpin, Sec'y^ 
fOINTS AND FLUSHES. 
Under date of Aug. 21 Mr. Thomas Johnson writes us as 
follows: "I enclose a clipping from to day's Winnipeg Free 
Press, from which you will note the Western Canada Ken- 
nel Club intend holding trials again this year. 'The entries 
for the field trials of the Western Canada Kennel Club are 
coming in rapidly, and that the trials will be a success now 
only depends on the will of the clerk of the weather. Some 
doubt is held as to whether birds are sufiiciently plentiful at 
the Glenlea grounds, where the trials were at first to have 
been held, and it may be found necessary to change to La 
Salle, where good accommodation can be had and always 
plenty of birds. The committee are now investigating the 
different grounds, and will be in a position to announce their 
selection definitely early in the week. Mr. Frank Richards, 
the well known American handler, has kinaly consented to 
act as judge. Dogs winning a first or second place are eligi- 
ble to compete for the valuable champion cup "of the North- 
west Field Trials' Club to be run for at Morris in the week 
commencing Sept. 6. A capital chance for the Irish setter 
men to show the capabiUties of their dogs is in the 
fact that in these trials the Irish Setter Club of America offer 
a special priz a of |25 for the Irish setter first winning first or 
second place in any club's stakes. As the Western Canada's 
trials come first this season, the Irish setter men should make 
a good try for the coveted prize. A meeting of all interested 
will be held at the Clarendon Hotel on Monday next at 8:30 
P. M. Entries close Thursday, Aug. 2S, and may be made 
on application to W. H. Thomp.son, Hon. Secretary, Cus- 
toms House, Winnipeg.' Although this club is amateur in 
the best sense of the term, its membership is composed of 
the most influential men we have here, and sterling sports- 
men. It was thought that the Northwestern Club should 
not recognize them in its champion event, but we decided 
we were out for the encouragement and development of field 
dogs, and we should offer all the encouragement in our 
power to such organizations, as we fee;! that to such clubs — 
who are the primary of semi-professional clubs — and where, 
we shall eventually draw members who will supersede those: 
who are always willing for new blood to take a hand in, 
keeping up the strength of more matured field trial organiza- 
tions. " 
A meeting of the American Spaniel Club was held on Fri- 
day, Aug. 20, at No. 13 West Eighteenth street, New York. 
Upon motion the action of the executive committee of July 
16, 1897, in suspending absolutely Messrs. R. Toon and C. 
Thomas from membership in the club, was approved; and, 
further, the executive committee was directed to call the 
attention of the secretary of the American Kennel Club to 
certain violations of the rules by the said Toon and Thopias, 
and to request him to proceed in the matter. The executive 
committee was authorized, in the event of the American Ken- 
nel Club changing the terms of the various classes, to alter 
tfie terms of the Spaniel Club's classifications so as to con- 
form to the A. K. C. requirements. The question of the 
definition of the term "parti-colored spaniels" was dis- 
cussed, Bud the executive committee was requested to define 
this term. 
With his .letter advlfling us of the changed date of the 
