1875 
4rl 
A fhallciise to Droppers. 
Mempuis, Tenx., April 3. 
I hereby challenge any dropner, irrespective of age or 
sex, to a field trial of nine consecutive hours, for one 
hundred and fifty dollars a side, fifty dollars forfeit, 
play or pay, to be run at Tennessee Field Trials, 1875, 
to their rules, and the day before their trials. My entry 
will be a setter from the keunel of Geo. W Campbell, 
Maury County, Tenn., the dropper can be from anj’ 
kennel in the world, “ Guido’s” and Mr. Burbanks’ not 
excepted. Dogs to be named at the post. The fifty dol- 
lars forfeit is now in the hands of P. H. Bryson, Presi- 
dent Tenn. Sportsmen’s Asso.,228 Main St., Memphis, 
Tenn., and will remain there Sixty days after the publi- 
cation of this challenge If not accepted by that time 
it will be withdrawn. N. Y. 
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A Gn.\ND Pigeon j hooting Tocrn.\ment will be 
held at Toledo, Ohio, pril 20 and 21. First day; three 
cash prizes of $100, $iO, $50. Second day: six cash 
prizes of $80, $50, $40, $30, $20, $15, six best shots to 
take prizes. Sweepstake shooting every mornmg. 
Shooting from Parker plunge traps. Entrance mone}' 
to fill purse, one half entrance over the purse’s to be ad- 
ded to the prizes equal per cent. Ohio State Sportsmen’s 
Association rules to govern. Ten single birds each. 
Entrance fee $10. Professionals barred. Street-cars 
run to the ground. Jas. Moore, Z. C. Pheatt, Wm. 
Hall, Managers. 
The N. Y. State Bench Show. — The New York 
State Bench show which takes place at the next meeting 
of the “ New York State Association for the Preserva- 
tion of Fish and Game ” at Waterton, June next, prom- 
ises under Mohawk’s management to be very good 
The prizes which will be offered will be well worth 
competing for and the number of dogs competing will 
doubtless be very large. 
The Rhode Island Game and Fish Association 
have elected the-following officers: President, Rev. F. 
H. Hemperly; Vi;e Presidents, Dr. P. S Redfiild. 
Aaron Peirce, Capt. Ed. Hammond, S. S. Foss, Dr. P. 
E. Day; Sec., W. B. Grover; Treas., C. F. Pope; Advo- 
cate, Hon. E. C. Clark; Managing Board, N. F. Root, 
B. C. Allen, G. W. Burlingame, J. H. Barden, Newton 
Dexter, A. A. Saunders, M. D., Fred Drown, W. E. 
Faber, W. P. Morton. 
Lieut. Gen. Sherid.\n is an active member of a 
sportsmen’s association in Peterborough, Ontario, 
which is now striving to awaken an interest for the 
preservation of Canadian Game. 
The Plymouth, Mich., Sporting Club have elected 
officers as follows: President. John M. "Ward; V. Presi- 
dents, Wm. M. Wherry, Ira E. Kinyon; Sec., Oscar A. 
Frazer; Treas., Michael Connor; Ex. Com., Fred A. 
Smith, Albert Durfee, Carmon Root, Thomas Whipple, 
Martin Kin 3 ’on. 
The Evansville, Ind., Sportsmen’s Club has elected 
the following named officers to serve during the present 
year: Pres., John S. Avery; V. Pres., Henry Huber; 
Rec. Sec., James Swanson, Jr.; Cor. Sec. Otto Schnak- 
enburg; Treas., John Klauss;lEx. Com.,C. A. McCutch- 
an, RobRunge, T. Bates, Wm. Weidner, Chas. Thar- 
ling. 
The Monroe County, N. Y. Sportsmen’s Club 
have selected delegates to the State Sportsmen’s Con- 
vention, as follows: A. B. Lamherton, W. J. Babcock, 
E. B. Pope, W. M. Ely, and H. J, Babcock, At the 
meeting of the club trout and salmon fishing were dis- 
cussed. President A. B. Lamherton made some interesk 
ing remarks on the subject. 

The Ohio legislature has passed a law for repressing 
accidents from the careless handling of fire-arms. Nine- 
tenths of the accidents that happen from fire arms are 
because there is a fool behind the gun. Frank Fores- 
ter tells a good story which he gives as a fact, about an 
idiotic individual who attempting to draw' a ramrod 
with his teeth set off the trigger with his toe. The 
Ohio law' makes it penal for any one to Duint a gun at 
another, and for a gun discharged even without injury 
at another the penalty is heavier. The common law' 
makes a demonstration of assault without any actual 
injuries an offence, but this wholesome legal fiction has 
fallen into disuse. We rejoice to see people brought to 
judgment for 'acts of silliness that imperil others. 
XATiOWL SHORTSIIE.V’S <0\VE\T!0.\— 
tLHVELA.M), 0., JIXE 8, 187 j. 
We propose to give a list of delegates from the 
various State Associations to the National Convention 
to be held at Cleveland in June next. To this end we re- 
quest the Secretarj' of each State Association to forward 
us names of delegates as, and when, they maj- be ap- 
pointed. We have occasionally received letters disclos- 
ing mistaken views us to the nature and objects of the 
National organization. We are very sure that all intel- 
ligent sportsmen who take anj’ pains to enquire into the 
subject will not have anj’ hesitation in giving their 
hearty support to both the National and the State Asso- 
ciations, of which the National is com])osed. To re- 
move anj' doubts, however, we give the following ex- 
tract from the proceedings of the National at Niagara 
in September last: 
Ee-wlced, That its precedent is, first, the protection of 
game and fish in all the Slates and Territories, by pro- 
curing the passage in each State, and in the Congress of 
the United Slates, of uniform co-operation and consis- 
tent laws, slrictlj’ prohibiting their iestruction during 
the brte ling, nesting and spawning seasons, and rea- 
•sonable lime preceding and following the same. Pro- 
hibiting ihe capture and destruction of ceitain species 
of game birds in nets and traps during anj' and all .sea- 
sons; prohibiting the catching and destruction of fish, 
in the now navigable lakes and streams, with nets or by 
means of chemicals; prohibiting the obstructing of the 
free passage of fish by nets across such streams, and by 
the creation of fish-dams and traps; atid to procure the 
passage of such other aud further legislation as may be 
necessary aud proper for the full accomiili-hment of our 
purpose; second, through subordinate organizations, to 
insure a rigid enforcement of all the game and fish pro- 
tection laws now or hereafter to be enacted; third, to 
secure b}’ and through proper legislation the right of 
property in useful hunting dogs, making them, when 
stolen, the subjeet of larceny, or when wantonly killed 
or maimed the subject of a misdemeanor; foiirih, to 
secure, through and by proper legislation, the passage 
of laws prohibiting at any time and se:ison the killing 
or destruction of all song and non-game birds; to or- 
ganize and consolidate under our State jurisdiction, 
game and fish protective clubs or associations in each 
State and Territory, to act under the jurisdiction of the 
National Association, in securing and enforcing proper 
protective legislation. 
liesohed. That all naturalists, fi.sh culturists, and 
Sportsmen generally in those States having no associ 
ations be, and are hereby, earnestly requested without 
delay to organize local clubs theiein, to form State As- 
sociations ui\der the jurisdiction of the National Asso- 
ciation, and that all State organisations note exMing and 
operating be and are solicited to become members of this As- 
sociation, so that by unity of action throughout the land 
we may accomplish and perpetuate the great reform 
designed and desired. 
list op delegates. 
Connecticut. — H. J. Boughlon, Waterbury; W. F 
Pa-ker, West iferitlen; A. G Hobbs, Biidgeport; Henry 
B. Harrison, New Haven; F. W. Russell, Hartford. 
Illinois. — W. F. Milligan, Chicago; Hon. S. P 
Hopkins, Palatine; Abner Price, Chicago; Dr. M'. A 
Pratt, Elgin; Jno. L. Pratt, Sycamore. 
M.yss.ycHUSETTs. — John Boyden, M’orcester; Luthei 
Adams, Boston; Hon. E H. l..athrop, Spiingfield; Geo 
Delano, New Bedford; T. L. Siurievanf, Framingham 
Wisconsin. — H. N. Sherman, Beloit: S. S. Wood 
ward, Watertown; A. F. Lund, Madi.son; F. W. AUood 
ward, Eau Claire; C. W. Henning, AVaupun. 
Ohio. — Buckeye Club, AVarren. — AA'. D. Phelps. AA'. 
D. Birchard, S. C. Iddings, Geo. North, and F. Freeman. 
COMIMJ ST-lTE^ioXYEXTIOXS. 
A’ermont Association for the Protection of Fish and 
Game will meet in April. AA’'e are not apprised of the 
day. 
New York Association for the Protection of Fish and 
Game will hold its next annual meeting at AA'atertown, 
N. Y. Day not yet announced. 
Ohio State Sportstneu’s Association, will hold its an- 
nual meeting in Cleveland on the 8th June next. 
Kentucky' Stale Sportsmen’s Association will hold its 
first annual meeting at Paris, Ky., Alay 18. 
AYe request early notice of all meetings. 
C.vnadians are as much troubled with international 
as we are with inter-state pot-hunters and dealers. 
Over the border thousauds of prairie chickens are ex- 
posed for sale without a shot ntarK on them, all netted 
and strangled. But nothing can be done there because 
there is no law. Just in the same way as our market- 
men tell us that fish and game offered for sale out of 
season came from Canada. 
The Chicago Field publishes an abusive letter from 
AAT. C. McCarty, the “big hunt” imin, calling the editor 
a lying whelp and a uuserable yin [mp, and threat- 
ening to pull the editor’s nose ai G ;o :uaK.'' nim swallow 
his words and the paper on which they arc printed. 
Wounds from Derrs .\nt!crs. 
I desire to add a case w inch came under my observa- 
lion, which will corroborate Judge Caton’s statement 
touchine the absence of poison in deers antlers. One 
of my keepers was attacked by an Axis deer, and had 
the antler run into his thigh, making a wound six 
inches in depth. He was sent to the hospital, and in two 
weeks after discharged cured. In this case the keeper 
had not y'outh to assist in his recovery, as he was a man 
about fifty years of age. It is now some three years 
since the accident occurred, and no ill effects have fol- 
low'ed. AV. A. Conklin, 
Director C. P. Menagerie, N. Y. 
The New' York Association for the Protection of 
Game met on Monday evening at Delmonico’s, Mr. 
Royal Phelps in the chair, and Mr. Thos. A. Cuthbert, 
Secretary. A large list of the violations of the law 
was brought before the Society', including the names of 
well known dealers and restaurant keepers. After dis- 
cussion some discontinuances of suits were ordered on 
pay'mentof costs, while Air. Palmer argued that the con- 
viction of well known men and prominent dealers 
should be in all cases pressed. The Secretary reported 
breaches of law in selling venison, and also in killing 
ducks between sundown and sunrise. The Executive 
Committee were instructed to procure a law prohibiting 
snaring and netting even on a party’s own land. The 
Society exhibits great activity and public spirit, and if 
all other societies were as lively game preservation 
would be an accomplished fact. 
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IsA.YC AIcLell.an prunes his wings for a spring 
tlight and gives us an ode on Rod and Gun. 
Capt. Bogardes is piloting a party of Philadel- 
phians over the plains. 
The New Zealand Moa — A report is publUbed in an Auckland 
newspaper of October 3, of the finding of two live moas at Brown* 
ing Pass, New Zealand. The story runs that one R. K. M. Smyth, 
on September 26, while hunting, saw his dog set off suddenly at a 
great pace, barking furiously. lie followed, and soon saw two 
large birds, one of gigantic height, the other smaller. Seeing the 
dog getting the worst of the fight, Smyth ran back and called hie 
mate to assist him. They got a leather rope, and, under shelter of a 
small patch of bush, got behind the larger bird and rooed it in the 
first cast. He then took a turn round a birch tree with the rope. 
The large bird did not show fight to any great extent, aud the 
smaller one remained quietly by it. After this they had very little 
trouble to secure the legs of the large bird, and they left it fastened 
to the tree for two days, the young one making no effort to leave its 
mother. With the assistance of some shepherds the old bird was 
taken to the camp, the young one following. The old bird Is eight 
feet high, and the young one five feet. In view of the shameless in- 
ventions to which our own newspapers are prone, we can afford to 
wait for better information. It is generally believed that the moas 
are extinct, but there is a faint hope among naturalists that the 
great bird may yet survive among the unexplored mountains of the 
interior. 
A Right and Left. — Whilst Mr. Houston was duck-shooting 
in Suthcrlandshire, England, he made a rather curious right and 
left shot. He was sailing in a small boat before a smart breeze, 
when a seal and a duck both came into sight at the same time. One 
barrel of the gun being rifled and the other smooth, he gave the seal 
the former and the duck as it rose the latter, killing both of them. 
The seal proved to be of the great grey or Arctic species, measured 
seven feet in length, about the same in circumference and weighed 
' vur 20 stone. 
Aabrow Escape.— a hunter passing through a thick wood in the 
neighborhood of Nancy, France, with his gun at full cock, was sud- 
denly charged by a iffonstrous boar, which knocked him down and 
attempted lo gore him, when its tusk caught in the trigger guard by 
which the gun was discharged. Thoroughly frightened, the brute 
dashed off and was shot by the hunter's companion who was at the 
time but a short distance off. For once did the dangerous habit of 
carrying a gun at full cock save its owner's life. On the con- 
trary, how many has it not destroyed. 
Disease in Grouse.— Mr. Andrew Wilson, lecturer on compara- 
tive anatomy in the Edinburgh University, at a recen- meeting of 
the Edinburgh Medico-Cheringical Society, read a paper on the 
grouse disease, the result of observations made by him on birds, 
which had died from it. He believed the disease to be epidemic and 
to be of an acute infiamatory type specially affecting the respiratory 
organ, analogous to pleuro-piiuemonia in cattle. He did not be- 
lieve in the theory of parasitism, since it failed to explain all cases, 
and moreover, because in many birds that had died from the disease 
only a very luodeiate and usual amount of parositic infestation was 
present. 
The Chinese commissioner, Mr. Laisun, who resides in Spring- 
field, Mass., says that fish culture in China is a part of the business 
of agriculture. Every man in that country who owns a piece of land 
where water can be had. slocks it with fish, the better qualities for 
eating, and some coarse species which he speaks of. are used for 
fertilising the soil ; they grow so large and are so prolific in their 
propagation as to furnish each farmer a large proportion of his ma- 
nures for crops that require phosphates especially. 
A CIRCULAR fox hunt took place near Alliance, Pa., recently. 
Six foxes were chased up and four caught. Aboat 1,500 men were 
engaged in the hunt. * 
A National Field trial will come off at Shrewsbury, England. 
The Duke of Westminister, president. 
