320 
Don, WC Clark. Dog pup, Dash. Charloa W Smith, Jr, bitch 
pop. Bess. W Tallman. Watcbemoket B I. Rotters Na- 
P Black and Tan, or Black, White and Tan 
tive or imported- Dog, Don, Lvman MU oxford.' H c, 
^Pomters 501bs and over- Sam, L P Day, Weatborougb. V h o, 
Rake II J ’\V Coffin, Providonco, R I ; King, M G Fuller. H o, 
Mack, F Hoyle Bitch, Kit, H S Hall. V h c, Fly, E It Howe. 
H pointere ^ndf/ 601 ba -Fritz, J Hayden Greene, ^ h c. BIac. 
Dr J H Wright, Natick. H o, Don, B W Prentice. Bitch, Dolly, 
T Horrigan. Brighton. V h o, Nellie, Melvin Hoyt. 
Pointer Puppies— Shot, Cbaa Alleu. V h c, Snyder, E It Howe. 
Bulldogs— Billy, A1 Watts, Boston. 
Bull Torriers-Bitch, Sting, Matthew Gay. Boefcm. V 
Daisy, Jerome F Hale, Boston ; No HO, entered by Tliacher God- 
dard, Boston. H o, Kate, L M Rand Aiion 
Cocker Spaniels-Grip. V h o, No 130, entered by Cbaa Allen. 
II o, No 141. entered by Frank Brophy. v . 
• Foxhounds -Sport and Diamond, H Bamsdoll, Natiok. V h c, 
Zack and mate, same owner. . _ . „ w u „ 
Beagle Hounds— Jack, Willie T Bngbam, W eat Boylston. V h o, 
SaDcbo, A1 Walts. 
Fox Terriera— Turk, A1 Watte. . 
Pug"— Char oy, George Walton, Boston. V h c, Punoh, A1 
Walts. H c. Toby, Thatcher Goddard, Boston. 
Poodles — Pedro, L M Rand. . nil. 
BUck and T«n Terriers— Rocket, Cliarles Allen. V bo, Fido, 
Cbarlos E Haven. H c, Daisy. John Flugibbons South Boston. 
King Charles Spaniels— Charley, Mrs S K Hindley. Vlic, Lady, 
“Teat bUtive Ited or Red and White Setter Stud Dog— Diok, Dana 
^Esquimaux Doge-Ned, George H Wood, West Boylston. V b o, 
Button, A C Lombard. H o, Emperor, .1 B Small. 
Italian Greyhounds— Snyder, Charles B Dennis, Fitchburg 
V Dalmatian or Coach Dogs— Rex, W M Plaisted. V h c, Nod, 
Charles Allen. H c, Sport, Oacar Foote, Reading. _ 
Skve Terriers— Snyder, George H Whitney. H o, Sdver, George 
Walton, Boston ; Jeff. M Garrity ; Ginger, Cbarlos T Pratt, Mill- 
bnrv. V h c. Topsv, M P Goff, South Boston. 
Yorkshire Terriers-Rsgs. J A Coudy. V h o, Dot, F S Waitt, 
Boston. H 0 , Fan, M P Goff. South Boston. 
Field Spaniels - Conrad. C F Mann. V h c, Rover H Weal y 
Miscellaneous Class— Felix. St Bernard and Newfoundland, en- 
tered by H M Goddard, Millbury. _ , 
Retrieving Spaniels— Sport, R M Waterman, Athol. V h 0. 
bitch, Norah, T M Larnard, Worcester. H o, Nameless, H G 
Reed, Worcester. 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
to control, but when he did come down you might ^ 
bottom dollar that the game was tliar But how ok l Banko 
could tell the difference between a dead bird that he was enew 
ing up— for it was one of bis bad tricks— and a live one on the 
ground, has always been one of the unaccoun tables to „ 
“ OffB OF THE GANG. 
An Enraged Hen Goes kor a Poppy.— From time to time 
questions have been put to us how to cure puppies of chasing 
chickens. A correspondent in Princeton sends us the follow- 
ing amusing incident-a lesson, in faot, with a moral : 
•• I have two setter puppies, neither of \yhicb, I venture to 
say will ever chase a chicken. I was strolling about the place 
playing with the puppies, when, in our perambidations. we 
encountered a hen with her chicks. (I may here mention that 
I keep only pure game fowls, as I find them by far the most 
thrifty and healthy). Well, with the natural inquisitiveness of 
puppies, one of my gentlemen proceeded to investigate the 
chicks, who incontinently scuttled off into the grass. In far 
less time, however, than it took them to disappear, the enraged 
mamma was straddling that unfortunate puppy, belaboring 
him with her wings, clawing him all over the hack, and peck- 
ing away at the top of his head like a wood-pecker on a hollow 
limb. The whole thing did not lost a minute, but a more 
chopfallen puppy never came out of a scrimmage. 1 be other 
effected a masterly retreat between my legs as soon as hostili- 
ties commenced, from which * coign of vantage ’ lie surveyed 
i he total rout of his brother with inteuse interest, and his head 
very much on one side. Now, if either of those puppies is 
guilty in maturer years of chasing chickens, I am very much 
mistaken. AIoral-To prevent dogs from chasing fowl keep a 
game hen or two. W. J. Slidell. 
The National American Kennel Club Meeting.— 1 The 
book of Mr. Burges, so long in hand, it was reported was 
now nearly ready for press. Without having transuded any 
business worthy of special mention, the club appointed a 
committee, consisting of Messrs. L. H. Smith, John Davidson 
and C. B. Whitford to draw up a series of rules to regulate 
Field Trials, which should be presented on the 8th of No- 
vember next at Baltimore. 
A New Kennel.— M. P. Noel has established a kennel at 
Milhurn, N. J. The kennel will be known by the name of 
the “ Kenilworth Kennel,” which may be hard on the ro- 
mance, but admirable for a dog nursery. Mr. Noel will have 
leading stock, and doubtlessly we may look for a fine race of 
dogs, as emulating from Kenilworth. 
BEAR DOGS- 
In reply to some inquiries made by us in regard to a bear 
dog, a correspondent kindly furnishes us with tome facts as 
to the character of the dog. If to the sagacity of the collie 
the weight and courage of a bulldog could be adder!, as our 
correspondent suggests, very possibly a good dog could be 
had. In such hunting camps as we have seen, bear dogs, as 
shown to us, seemed to he a mixture of all kinds— in fact, of 
no particular breed at all. We would refer our readers to a 
capital article, “Two Bear Stories," commenced in our last 
issue, which describes the method of attacking a bear by a 
dog: 
Visits. — Rusa by imported Statue, May 12, St. Louis. 
New York, May 22 — Joseph H. Dew's Fanny Kean; 
Leicester— Dart to Gladstone. L. H. Smith, Mersey, Lei- 
cester— Dart to Gladstone. 
§ium §ttg and §un. 
MAY IS A CLOSE MONTH FOR GAME. 
Game in Market— Retail Pbioes, Podltbt and Game— G ame. 
Wilson Snipe, $2.60 per dozen; plover, $3 per dozen; bay birds, 
large, $2.60 per dozen; email do, 20 oents ; wild pigeons, flights, 
$1; stall fed do, 91.50 ; Philadelphia squabs, $2.25; wild do, 
Editor Forest and Stream : 
There is no breed of bear dogs in this immediate vicinity. 
A friend <>f mine— Palmer— who lives iu the Saginaw region, 
and hunts there, owns a splendid dog. I talked with him on 
the subject, and he told me the dog was half shepherd and 
bull The dog is a still hunter— that is, he gives tongue only 
when he doses with or trees the bear. Palmer says this is 
better than if the dog gave tongue when first striking the 
trail, as it does not alarm the bear and scare other game that 
might happen to he in the vicinity. The same authority in- 
forms me that to make a dog a good one for bears there is as 
much in training as in breed, provided the dog has courage to 
take hold of a bear, but if not, he is not worth breaking for 
bear. A small hear is the best to commence with, as he gene- 
rally runs, and the dog will he more sure to bite him behind 
and tree him. A large hear is more apt to stand ground and 
fight, and should the dog attack him in front, the chances are 
that the dog will soon be a “ still hunter." There is another 
dug here of the same breed, and only a pup (and very lame all 
the time), yet, with his first bear he took him behind, and 
made it lively for bruin for a few minutes. The bear, how- 
ever, escaped. I mention this to show that shepherd and bull 
is a good cross. There is a hear dog in Crawford County, 
eire shepherd, dam pointer and Scotch terrier, weighing about 
twenty five or thirty pounds, which hunted two years ago 
successfully, bis master, with the dog, scoring fourteen beari 
t«i bis opponent's one in a Tew weeks’ hunting match. I don’t 
know if the other party hunted with a dog. No hunter uses 
more than one dog here, and I know of none for sale. 
Respectfully yours, C. Murphy. 
Otsego Ivdke , May 15, 1878. 
How Dogs Fight.— Two dogs that had always run to-' 
gether peacefully— one a hound belonging to A. A. Bills, and 
the bulldog owned by L. F. Bills— ran a rabbit into the wall 
on David's Hill, and by some means got to quarreling, and a 
terrible fight ensued. They were heard in the afternoon, and 
as they did not reach home at six o'clock, the owner of the 
hound went to find it. The dogs lay about six feet apart, 
facing each other, exhausted by loss of blood, and neither 
could sianri. They were buried in one grave .— A mherst (N. 
II.) CaJrinet. 
Discriminating in Scent.— A correspondent in South Car- 
olina sends us the following interesting pointB on this much 
discussed subject : 
75 cents. 
Poultry.— Philadelphia and Bucks County dry pioked chickens, 
26 ceDts per pound ; do fowls, 18 cents ; do turkeys, 18 cents ; do 
ducks, 18 oents ; do geese, 18 ; State and Western chickens, 16 
cents ; do turkeys, 16 cents ; do fowls, 18 cents ; capons, 40 
cents ; spring chickens 20 to 36 cents. 
Massachusetts— Salem, May 21. — On a recent trip from 
Salem to Amesbury, stopping at Ipswich, Rowley and West 
Newbury, the birds seen and shot were some robin, snipe, 
winters, butter-heads, jacks, curlew, peeps and ring-necks. 
The peeps were very plenty some days at Ipswich. Also 
6hot old squasvsand loons; 6aw oue good flock of sheldrakes. 
Most of the birds were seen last of last week and first of the 
present week. “ Quawks” or night ln-rons are increasing in 
numbers rapidly. Eagle Hill slough and the road to same is 
much dryer than commonly. R. L. N. 
Fountain Gun Club.— The following officers have been 
elected: Pres. , Charles F. Fiske ; Vice-Pres., Abel Crook; 
Sec., Arthur P. Curlin; Treas., Henry G. Miller; Trustees, 
Hugh Goodwin, William Cleaver, John Hanley, F. W. Hausen, 
and John Randolph. The club is in a very flourishing con- 
dition at present. One prominent feature, and worthy of 
imitation, is the prohibition of betting or wagering in any way 
whatever. 
New Jeb6ey— Stanley, May 23.— A letter just received 
from Byron, Franklin Co., Maine, from one of the best guides 
it was ever my good fortune to know (Stephen Taylor) gives 
information which it may be deemed of sufficient interest to 
fill a place in the columns of your valuable journal. He 
says: “ My brother Austin writes me from Hartford, Me., 
that he saw a woodcock on her nest. When she flew she 
made a sharp whistling sound with her wings. When on the 
nest she did not stir, not even so much as wink. There were 
fi'ur eggs about the size of a partridge’s ; color, a pale yellow, 
covered with brown blotches." It must be unusually early 
form-sting woodcock in Northern Maine. Hecontinues; "Iwas 
fortunnte enough to trap a hear this week. I think he was two 
years old. He had a splendid skin." Mr. Taylor and his 
brother-in-law, Addison Young, are famous bear hunters. 
They have killed 39 in the past nine years. One enormous 
fellow ihey followed eleven days in the dead of winter, with 
the thermometer below zero all the time. But they took that 
bear’s carcass on a hand sled, over mountain, through forest 
and valley to Byron. It netted $40. 
Geo. Shepard Page. 
“ In one of your back copies an article headed “ Discrim- 
inating Scent" attmeted my attention, and while I can in- 
dorse the statement of your correspondent, it has been, and is 
still, a mystery to me. In my experience, which is a long one, 
I have known und seen one dog, and only one, while bringing 
in a dead bird, to come to a full and steady point on a single 
live bird, and not on a covey, as your correspondent re- 
ports. And more than once have I seen the said dog (old 
Bauko) the property of my lamented old bunting companion 
Joab Mosley, of AikeD. South Carolina, perform to us the 
same wonderful feat. Banko was a pointer of medium nose 
and steady goer, but had some very mean tricks, and was hard 
Kinney'* Ashley House , Bamegal Inlet, May 25.— Bay birds 
quite plentiful.' William Middleton (schooner yacht Sans 
Soucie) hugged 50 on the 23d and 30 on the 24tb. Samuel 
Lard, F Schober and brother, Philadelphia, bagged 390 in 
three days. B. 
Virginia— Chincoteague Island. —Mr. Isaac Hinckley, Pres- 
ident of the Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad, and a party 
of friends have just returned from Chincoteague Island, where 
they report having had magnificent sport. Mr. Diston and 
friends, of Philadelphia, bagged some 1,300 in less than a 
week's shooting. The Old Dominion Line of steamers should 
have their hands full wheu this kind of racket is going on. for 
it carries passengers almost to the very grounds by means of 
its railway connections in Accomac. 
A West Virginia Park — A gentleman from West Vir- 
ginia has for sale a tract of 31,000 acres of unimproved land, 
well* stocked with bears, panthers, deer, turkeys, pheasants, 
etc., and containing some fine trout streams. He wishes to 
dispose of it to a sportsmen’s club, in which he will himself 
take a large share. Further particulars may he had by ad- 
dressing this office. 
Tennessee— Nashville, May 23.— The prospects for a great 
many partridges (quail) were never better than now, there 
being great numbers of old birds, and they have long since 
mated. The woods are full of squirrels, so I learn from sev- 
eral sources. 
Minnesota — Owatonna, May 20.— Prairie chicken pros- 
pects unusually fine. Hotie some of our triends will give^ us 
a call. Can assure them fine sport. J. P. E. 
Sleepy Eye, May 23.— The prairies are teaming with curlew, 
both straight and Bide hill ; golden, sandy and upland plover, 
the latter so tame that we drive within ten feet of pairs fre- 
quently A few geese are breeding in the sloughs, aud I have 
found several ducks’ nests with seven or eight egg e each. I 
have seen hut one snipe this year, and the sand hills are not so 
plenty as they are south of here. Vbrd Mont. 
Nobles County, May 20.— A young man killed five wolves 
near Worthington last week. We have right here at our 
doors the Okabcena Lakes, in which fishing is pretty good. 
R. E. Duoaiqne. 
Idaho— Camp Caw D'Alene, May 8.— Our bag for the 
past week, without counting fish, consists of one very large 
gray (timber) wolf, one otter, with pelt in good trim, and one 
panther, 7ft. 2in. Monmouth. 
A CARD. 
New Yobk, May 28, 1878. 
To my Friends ami the Sporting Public in General : 
Before leaving for England, where I trust to compete with 
the leading English shots, where I also hope to be able to up- 
hold the American name, I would like to call the attention of 
the general public to my traps and glass balls. I have made 
the fullest arrangements with my agents for the continuation 
of my business, and there will he constantly held in hand, 
ready for orders, a large assortment of traps and balls. I 
hereby forbid all makers or dealers of glass halls and traps 
from infringing on my patents, and agents for selling the 
same, as I shall prosecute any one trespassing on my vested 
rights. ' A. H. Booakdus. 
Thb Parker Gun at the State Convention.— Among 
the prizes most highly valued by members of the Sports- 
men’s Association for many years past have been the guns 
presented by Messrs. Parker Brothers, of Meriden, Conn. 
The gun donated by them to the tournament just closed, os a 
first prize in the double bird contest, was one of the finest. aDd 
is valued at $300. It was won by Mr. George J. Marsh, of 
the Forester Club of Buffalo. A large proporliou of the 
guns used at this tournament were of this well known make. 
Ten prizes were won by sportsmen using the Parker gun, 
among them were first prizes in three contests and the special 
prize offered by the Forest and Stream for the best aver- 
age. — Ado. 
Laminated Steel and Damascus Gun Barrels. — In 
your impression of April 11th, you answer a correspondent on 
the above under an error which I feel assured you will correct 
by the publication of this short letter. You confound “Dam- 
ascus," which is half steel and half iron, with the inferior 
quality of metal composed solely of iron, but which is techni- 
cally always called “ stub-Damascus." The term “Damascus" 
applies solely to barrels composed of one-half of Bteel scraps, 
old springs, etc., and the other half of the finest, iron, such as 
old horseshoe nails. “ Laminated steel" is composed of 52 
per cent, of such steel and 48 per cent, of Buch iron. The 
manipulation of the metal is somewhat different, the laminated 
steel being left more in plates, hence its name. The Damas- 
cus is much better worked out into an endless coDgeries of 
circular fibres, eliminating all foreign matter which is apt to 
lodge between the lamina. The cast of the barrels is identi- 
cally the same, but the use of the Damascus by all the best 
gunmakere, men to whom the prime cost of the raw material 
is as hut dust in the balance compared with final results, has 
long ago settled the question of its superiority over laminated 
steel. The latter was for instance found wanting when some 
years ago many breech loaders were converted from “pin " to 
“ central" fire, and had to undergo a new proof. The per- 
centage of bursts at proof were greatly in excess in the lami- 
nated steel, which is also apt to fly to pieces in very cold 
weather. Yours, etc., J. D. Dougali,. 
Express Rifle Oflke, 59 St. James st., London. 
[We take great pleasure in publishing Mr. Dougall’s letter, 
though we are not conscious of having made any error, that is 
as to the materials from which barrels arc made, as understood 
in the United States and supported by some strong English 
authorities. We are not so fully satisfied as to the greater ex- 
cellence of Damascus over laminated steel for gun barrels. 
Mr. Greener, and quite a number of leading English gun 
builders, affirm that laminated steel is the stronger and 
tougher material of the two. They insist that although fre- 
quent working of the metal removes impurities, that the 
fibres of the metal are weakened by twisting. Mr. Greener 
says ; ‘ ‘ Laminated steel barrels are the most suitable for 
choke-bore guns, and more tenacious than Damascus, and 
therefore resist the repeated strain of heavy charges better. 
They will be found more durable and to lead less thau barrels 
of softer material." What we believe is, that though theoret- 
ically there may be some difference, practically, for all ordi- 
nary purposes, Damascus and laminated steel are on a par. — 
Ed.] 
The National Convention.— The Luzerne County Sports- 
men's Club, of Wilkesbarre, Pa., cordially invite all delegates 
to the National Convention, June 11, to provide themselves 
with gun, etc., for pigeon-shooting. The Luzerne Club pro- 
pose to entertain the visiting sportsmen with a free shooting 
tournament on the 12th. 
