FOREST AND STREAM, 
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be given. I oared In 18 T 0 all of a baton of alx grey bound popples, six 
weeks old, which, when placed In my hands, were nearly skeletons. 
Yours ever slnoerely, B. W. B. 
DOGS ON RAILROADS. 
We agitated some time ago the question of transportation 
*of dogs on railroads. We are more positive than ever that a 
regular tariff of charges should be made, and that animals 
should not be left to the tender mercies of baggage-musters. 
Now, before.the fall shooting commences the mutter should 
be settled. A correspondent who has been mulcted writes us 
follows : 
§anu; §;ig mid §mu 
JUNE IS A CLOSE MONTH FOR GAME 
Game m Market — Retail Prices, Poultry and Game — Game 
— Wilson Snipe, f 3 per dozen ; wild pigeons, flights, 81- 
fed do, 81.75; Philadelphia squabs, 82.50; wild doll. 
Poultry.— Philadelphia and Bucke County dry picked chioken*, 
22 cents per pound ; do fowls, 16 cents ; do turkeys, 1C cents • 
do duoke, 30 j do geese, 16 ; State and Wostom ohickons, 15 , 
do turkeys, 15 cents; do fowls, 16; spring chiokens 20 to 
30 coots. 
PIGEON MATCHES. 
How to Prepare Scores.— To insure insertiou in current 
issues of this paper, scores should be sent so as to reach us on 
Tuesday, and earlier if possible. These particulars should bo 
given and these only : Place, date, name of club, name of 
competition, kiud of trap uud balls used, distance of rise, 
boundary, rules governing, and weather. Scores are valueless 
without these. 
• An asterisk tlgnllles dean out of bounds. 
Reports of many Hbooting matches crowded over un- 
til next week. 
Editor Forest aud Stream : 
I think a small space in your valuable paper can be well 
occupied by calling attention to a matter in which most sports- 
men are interested, particularly if they travel with thoir dogs 
upon the railroads of the country. The way we are bled by 
railroad employees, if we are so unfortunate as to have a dog 
along, is outrageous and impoverishing. I traveled with a dog 
from here to Florida last winter, and was compelled to pay, 
of course, whatever was demanded. The Lake Shore has the 
matter in the best shape, and if other roads would adopt the 
same rule a person could then deal with a responsible and 
known party. You are required upon this road to go to the 
baggage-room before putting your dog upon the car, pay for 
him us for extra bhggage, get a receipt showing the amount 
paid, and the destination. This is delivered up to the bag- 
gageman in the car where you take your dog, and there is no 
chaffering about the matter. fGood ! Ed. F. and S.] All 
sorts of prices may be demanded by the baggage-masters upon 
other roads. From Toledo to St. Louis, one night's ride, I 
paid $3.50. This ought to have entitled my dog to a berth in 
the sleeper. Many times in the night I was called upon when 
asleep by the vigilant baggageman, when the route was upon 
short lines of roads, for pay, as he would leave the train be- 
fore morniDg. $1.50, $2 or $2.50 were sums frequently de- 
manded for a few hours' ride for the dog in the baggage car. 
Sometimes when I went to feed and water him I would find 
him chamed, where be was in great danger from trunks and 
baggage falling upon him. One time I found him tied in a car 
beside a hogshead of fresh shad, packed in ice, the floor of 
the car covered with water and slime from the fish. No 
chance for the poor fellow to lie down, and too slippery for 
him to btand up, with danger of catching cold, and for that 
ride of eighty miles I was charged $1.50. From Baldwin to 
Jacksonville, Fla., where we rode in a freight car, and our 
party had our baggage for seats, tweuty-t wo miles, the gentle- 
manly conductor c- urged for the dog fifty cents — over two 
cents per mile. Of course he returned the amount collected 
at the end of the route to the company. I wish that railroad 
officials who manage these things would take the matter in 
hand. Either do os the Lake Shore people do— collect the 
fare themselves, or if they give dog’s fare to their employees 
as perquisites — fix a reasonable compensation, and not allow 
their patrons to be extorted from in this matter as they are. 
I do not write these lines believing that I shall ever travel 
with another dog South. I never will, unless he has rabies, 
and I wish to get rid of him. The climate, water and food 
down there will use up any Northern dog. He -loses his 
vitality for wont of hia fine fresh air aud water, and does not 
like sweet potato skins, and cold palmetto cabbage for regular 
diet ; and such was offered my dog in Florida. 
Erie, Pa., June 10, 1878. H S. 
Westminster Kennel Club Stock fob Sale.— As fine 
stock as was ever produced in the country is now offered for 
sale by a gentleman directly connected with the Westminster 
Kennel Club. Such choice pointer puppies as those bred 
from Sensation and Daisy II and from Mr. OrgiU’s Flake out 
of Lilly can be had. The progeny of Whisky by Sleaford is 
also offered. For further particulars see advertisement. 
Such a chance is rarely met with. 
Hunting Notes— Columbia, Tenn., June 8.— A gentleman 
liviDg near here, better versed in farming than fox chasing, 
borrowed a trained hound to run with his young dogs and 
teach them how to hunt. He carried old Blue home and 
locked him up in the smoke house, which had several hams 
hanging therein. Imagine his dismay upon opening the door 
next morning and finding Blue like u frog that had swallowed 
a handful of shot. His hams, oh, where were they ? He 
now contends that a hound's appetite is unlimited. The tor- 
nado that swept over this coumry a few weeks ago made 
such havoc among our forests that fox hunting is almost im- 
possible, owing to the fulleu timber. There is one fox, how- 
ever, that has been chased two or three times a week for the 
past year, and still remains free. He will give good run for 
the dogs, and when blowed, will run into a crevice of rocks 
on the river bank, where he is safe. He has been chased so 
much, taking nearly the same course every time, that he is 
known as “ the trained fox.” Val. 
Name Claimed. — Mr. John H. Meyer claims the name of 
Srmler for his lemon and white pointer pup, out of the West- 
minster Kennel Club May, by Sensation ; May by Dr. Corco- 
ran’s Bess. 
Name Claimed— Dart.— R. T. Greene, of Jersey City, N. 
J-, claims the name of Dart for his liver and white cocker 
spaniel, whelped Oct. 27, 1877, out of Walker’s Witch and 
Princess, June 14, 1878. 
Visits.— C hampion bitch Grace to Theo. Morfhrd’s Quail, 
of Newton, N. J. 
—Max & Wenzels Doe to their Irish setter Jack. 
Summer on Long Island.— The Long Island Railroad pub- 
lishes a valuable little pamphlet, giving a very full list of the 
summer resorts on LoDg Island. Routes, accommodation and 
all desirable information may here be found. 
Oazekovu, N. Y., Jane 13, 1S78. 
Editor Forest and Stream : 
I bad serious thoughts of asking yon to take out my adv. , but have 
found a young man who Is quite clever with the pen, and think he will 
be able to answer all the lnqnlrles oaused by the same, which will be no 
•mail Job, as every mall brings a good many letters. W. H. C. 
Rhode Island — Newport, June 12. — Woodcock are reported 
plenty on their breeding grounds. T. J. F. F. 
Pennsylvania Pigeons. — A correspondent sends us an 
timate of the number of pigeons sent from points in Pen 
sylvania to New York, Boston and other cities : From She 
field, 1,100 barrels, 700 crates; Kune, 300 barrels, 150 crates 
Tionesta, 115J barrels, 39 crates ; Tidioute, 110 barrels, 20 
crates ; Hickory, 48 barrels, 0 crates ; Ridgway, 20 barrels 
0 crates. Averaging 350 dead birds to the barrel and 75 live 
birds to the crate, this amounts to a total of more thuu 050,000. 
This is probably the largest shipment from one roost ever 
recorded for Pennsylvania. 
Tennessee — Columbia, June 14.— A larger number of quail 
this year thau usual. We have heard of a great many ne 9 ts 
being broken up by cutting grain. One gentleman destroyed 
three nests, averaging twenty eggs each. As a general thing, 
farmers here try to prevent the nests being disturbed. 
Val. 
Texas— Corprn Christi, June 8.— Quail are abundant— from 
one to two weeks of age. This is the first brood. We 
frequently find whole bevies of the young birds dead and 
lying in a bunch. Can you or any of your readers account 
for that ? Chickens are dying with cholera quite extensively. 
Can the disease have attacked the young broods of quail ? or 
can it be that some poisonous weed is doing the mischief ? 
There is an animal found on these prairies called by the Mexi- 
cans “cainpo mucho.” It is the size of the caterpillar and 
resembles it somewhat ; is green in color, and when eaten by 
cattle while grazing is fatally poisonous. Could such an animal, 
of the same nature, but small enough to be captured by the 
young quail, be the cause of the extensive mortality which 
exists amoDg them ? Shilvah. 
Minnesota— HoTcan, June 10.— We have just returned 
from a trip over the Southern Minnesota Railway, aud find 
the prospects for fall shooting unusually good. Along the 
Eastern division of the road, among the hills and bluffs, quail 
and partridge were never more abundant, but farmers report- 
ed deer very scarce. Along the “ west end,” the prairie di- 
vision of the road, chickens were seen in large numbers, and 
plover and jack snipe reported plenty, and, comparatively 
speaking, but little hunted. Ducks were seen in small num- 
bers. Fine Shot. 
Sport in Kansas —Mr. Editor: I trust that a few lines 
from this part, of what wa9 once called the Great American 
Desert, will interest it3 readers. Abilene, the county seat of 
Dickinson County, was once noted far and near as the great 
shipping point of Texas cattle, and was one of the hardest 
towns on the line of the K. P.; but now all is changed, and 
with a population of some two thousand, good schools and 
churches, we have what is called one of the best towns along 
the road. The prairies are now covered with waving fields of 
grain, which at the present lime bid fair to make one of the 
best crops we ever have had. But what I wanted to spet*k of 
was the game. In the fall we have fine quail shooling. The 
birds are found along the many small streams. All streams 
here have high and steep banks, which are usually covered 
with close underbrush and trees. To shoot quail in such a 
place requires a keen eye and quick shot, but often by good 
management we are enabled to run the birds out into the 
open field, and then with a 9teady dog it i9 fine sport. The 
past winter, a very open one, with but little snow or severe 
weather, almost insures plenty of quail and chicken next fall. 
The duck shooting is nothing to brag of. We have but little 
low or marshy land and few ponds. Still we are able to bag 
a few mallards and teal along the river every fall and spring. 
We sometimes have good shooting at geese and brant on the 
wheat fields. The usual method of hunting them is to drive 
up in a buggy, and when they rise pour in your BB. It is 
impossible to approach them on foot, as they are usually 
found on' level fields ; they do not seem to mind a buggy. 
In the spring, from about April 1 for two weeks, we have 
the upland plover to try our guns on. They are hunted in 
much the same manner as I have described for geese, and it is 
no unusual thing for a party of two or three to drive out and 
in two or three hours return with forty to fifty. In nearly all 
flocks of plover you find a few sickle bill curlew. Within 
the last few weeks the shootists of this place have purchased 
a Bogardus glass ball trap, and we have a little weekly prac 
tice to keep our hands in until Aug. 1, when the close season 
for prairie chicken will be off, and which time we wait with 
impatience. There has been so much written about chicken 
shooting out West, and Mr. Hallock has given such a good 
description of it in his letters, that I will only say this : To 
those who have never tried it, come out aDd see how it i9 
yourself. Some may say, “It must be hot work.” My 
friend, we walk but little. Comfortably seated in a buggy or 
spring wagon, with dog ranging ahead on the stubble or grass, 
we get out when he winds the birds, and then after all are 
flushed, in again and follow up until the dog finds those that 
got away from the gun, or another covey. This way of hunt- 
ing, and the fact that there is almost always a good breeze 
blowing, makes it about as pleasant to shoot chickens as to do 
anything else in August. The fact is, that if a man loves a 
dog and gun, and the dog works well and the chickens are 
plenty, he has little time to think about the weather. Don't 
forget a keg of water for the dogs, for they will need it. 
Also, a good long rest at noon if it is an all-day hunt. The 
expense of chicken hunting is light. Horses and double- 
sealed spring wagon, with driver, can he had at any of the 
towns along the K. P. at from four to five dollars. Some of 
the finest chicken grounds iu the West can be found along the 
line of the Kansas- Pacific. All the members of the club I sent 
for F. andS. for are much pleased with the paper, and say 
they could not get along without it. And now, Mr. Editor, 
if you will come out on or after August 1 we will shoulder 
our Parker and help you shoot some chickens. Dibioo. 
Abilene, May 22, 1878. 
Canada— .M°> it r «af, June 16 —Match between A. Bonneville, 10 birds, 
,, yds., SO yds. houudury, Montreal Gun Club rules, aud It. Blackwood. 
10 g.aas balm, is yds , Palau's rules : 
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same day — Side shoot; SI yds; t.0 yda boundary; Montreal Club 
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Onondao Co. Club.— M atch Syracuse, Juno 14, lor gold medal; 9 
doublo rises 18 ydi ; 6 singles at 91 yds ; ties shot oil at *0 yds : 
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Fred W Deeaz 11 lo 11-6 1 1 0 l 1-4-9 
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Ed Crouch 11 11 01—6 10 0 1 0—9—7 
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George Ladder 10 11 10—4 1111 1-6-9 
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Ties on Ore— 31 yds : 
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George Lather 1 1 1 1 1 l 1 — I Ed Alirnn 0 1 I 1 1 1 1—0 
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Club.— M atch at Oswags, Jane 7, tt 18 birds each, 
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Newark Gun Club— SaiurJay, June 15.— At 25 Kay’s piaster bolls ; 
at 2u yds.; Coster, 14 ; Uouert, 14 ; Duston, 17 ; Kay, 16 ; Leroy, IT. 
Sixteen jards-Brelntall, 17; Miller, 7. Brelntall won the shoot off. 
Sbmpkr Fmjx Club— Philadelphia, Pa., June 10.— 18 yards rise, 80 
glass balls, Bogardus screened trap aud rules : 
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Ties— H Wright, 2; C T Smith, 1; E Young, 1. 
A Risino Shot.— C >arles Mariden, ot Pbllidelphla, Is ten yeara of 
nge, and some of Ills friends want to see If there Is any lioy now In the 
United States under fourteen who can beat nlm breaking glass balls. 
It Is proposed that lonv-llve glum balls shall be ahoi a 1 . Of this i, ilf- 
leen lulls are to be pulled from a trap by anybody, tlftecn more to be 
pulled by the frlouds of the boy, and fifteen of the balls to be pitched, 
all the balls to oo thrown away from the shooters. Address Jountban 
Murtdeu, care of T. Haywood, 82 Laurel sireot, Philadelphia. 
Illinois State Association.— The Ufih annual tournament of the 
Illinois sporiHoieu opened at Singlet .n Park, Qulouy, Juuo 11, and con- 
tinued three day*. The several mutches were as follows : 
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