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August 14, 1875. 
8UERIES AJSB ANSWERS. 
G. C. W.» Ithaca. — Can a do^ that has been beaten at an English 
field trial enter again so as to secure another chance for the same 
prize? Axs.— No. Once beaten, he is disposed of for the trial. 
R. F. W., Kingston. — I hare a valuable pnp that in my absence 
broke his leg. No care was taken of it. and the limb is now quite 
crooked Can anything be done to straighten it? Axs. — Not if the 
boees have become thoronghly united. 
B. — Can you tell me what L« good for stripping feet: my setters are 
in a bad way. their feet being so bad they can scarcely walk? Axs. 
—Keep them in a stable with clean boards, and wash their feet sev- 
eral Times a day with salt and water or vinegar and water. 
Fish Cot-ttrist. Oil City. — I have on my place a number of fine 
springs, which I think can be enlarged into ponds, and be made fine 
fish preserves. How large should a pond be to contain two hundred 
trout of half a pound weight? What would such fish cost, and where 
can I get them? Axs.— Write to Seth Green, Rochester, N. Y., for 
full information. 
X. Y. Z., Canton. — How many eggs do woodcock lay. and how 
many birds will a pair of birds raise in a season? Axs. — They lay 
from two to four. A pair of birds, if the first brood is drowned or 
killed off early, ^nU quite frequently raise a second brood, but when 
no accident occurs, we are inclined to think these birds never breed 
a second time. 
DRrns.— What mnst be put in shot to make a gun kill good? 2. 
What will prevent a slot from getting in heat? Ans. 1. — We don’t 
nnderstand the question. With a proper load at a proper distance, 
if you hit yon kill. If your shot he too light, it will wound but not 
kill. You can put nothing in it. 2.— .^paying a slut will prevent her 
getting in heat. 
Perch. — Which is the beet bait for catching perch? How can I 
keep shrimpalive for several days? Axs. 1. — Any good trout fly will 
dc, but the white miller, made by Abbey & Imbrie, is best at this 
season. 2.— Very difficult to answer. If near salt water, a shrimp 
car is best: but to carry inland, pack them in dry sawdu.-at. Cannot 
be kept more than two or three days. 
Emert.— 1. In having a muzzle-loading gun rehored for close 
shooting, what kind of boring would you recommend, the choke bore 
or the old style of boring. 2. Will choke boring make a gun recoil 
more than other boring. Aks. — The choke bore shoots closer and 
harder than any other system np to a certain point. We think ij 
probable that choke bore does increase the recoil. 
Beaumont. — Is there any magnifier that could be n.«ed on a rifle 
for ordinary limiting, one easily and quickly detaohed and replaced? 
2 What do I nnderstand by a rifle chambered for a short and long 
cartridge? 3. Are Remington’s made this wav? 4. How far ought a 
40 cal. Rem. 50 grs. powder shoot accurately. Axs. — 1. No. 2. Can 
use 44 or 38 long and extra cartridge. 3. Yes. 4. .300 yards. 
Axs. — Milton, Pa. We used the Persian Powder for theder»trnc- 
tioD of fleas in our dogs with only partial success. Talking over the 
matter with onr dm^st the other day, “he didn't know bnt that 
* Whale Oil Soap’ would be good.*' We gave it a trial and are bold 
to say it beats the world. A perfect specific, and no injury to the 
dog. in fact cleanses him nicely. Dissolve a half-tablespoonfnl in 
pint of warm water and wa-*h the dog thoroughly .let remain on for half 
hour then wash off. and we guarantee the death of that lot of fleas. 
Gtpset.— I have a setter pup partly broken which I have just 
brought down to the city. When walking out with him evenings he 
points, and stands as staunch as an old dog. on every “ cat” he can 
spy. Is there any harm in letting him do this, or should he be en- 
couraged? He is from excellent stock. Has never been worked on 
birds yet. but frequently points on “ sparrowa.” Axs.— We take 
even.* question submitted to ns as a*ked in good faith, however tri. 
vial it may seem. We should not encourage to point on cals or other 
animals not game. Oat chasing is not desirable in a pointer or setter 
whatever it may be in a terrier. 
S. L.. Washington.— I ’hink of going to some place on Narragansett 
Bav for a few weeks. Can I find good fishing and sport there? Axs. 
—Yon cannot find a more delightful point for a summer trip. The 
fishing is fair, and the bay one of the mo<x beautiful in this conntry. 
A nnmber of well-know'n shore resorts will afford you plenty of life 
and company, or you can get board in some of the small towns along 
the bay, on either side, at reasonable rates, where you can fish and 
sail at your pleasure. 
Colnmbus.— Two military companies here wish to use the sam 
targets a.s are used by the State National Guards of New York, so as 
we can compare our shooting with theirs. If yon will in the next 
issne publish a full description of the targets, style of marking, and 
every thing pertaining to them, you yvill confer a favor upon many 
of your subscribers, who would like to compare their shooting with 
that of companies' reporting through yonr best and most valuable of 
sporting papers. Please state thickness of target and the best sort of 
iron? Axs. — If you keep a file of yonr paper you will find a complete 
statement of the subject in last volume. 
C. L, H. — In yonr answer to J. P., of Titusyille. No. 03, Ron axd 
Gux. yon say Hazzard's No. 4 powder is the best. Which do you 
mean, the No. 4 dnck shoot, or electric No. 4? How is powder 
mea.«ared. by bulk measure or by weight, and what weight troy or 
averdupois? Do(^ a tw enty-eight-inch barrel shot-gun do as good 
shooting as a longer. Please answer throngh Ron axd Grx. 1 am 
a constant reader of yonr paper which T get of my newsdealer every 
Monday, and is the most eagerly looked for of all my reading 
matter. Axs. — 1. Like the old bishop who had a choice of living, we 
would say take both — avordupois. 2. Lengt^ of barrel gives in- 
creased accuracy: the exact length Jis very much a mailer of taste: 
though obviously excessive length must diminish the force. 
Cobb. — 1. When is the best time of the year to hunt successfully 
prairie chicken? 2. The best month for snipe. dack.<. brant, quail 
or prairie chicken when they lay the best for the dog. and when the 
best bag can be made. 3. I want to go this year, and want to go 
somewhere in the West for a three weeks' shooL which is the best 
State, and the best place, and best time? Axs. 1.— September and 
October, 2.— October and November for snipe and quail; November. 
December, March and April for dnck and brandt. Iowa. Dlinois. 
Wisconsin. Missouri or Kansas, either afford good fields for that 
kind of game. Our Chicago manager is thoroughly posted on hunt- 
ing grounds, and by calling on him when you go West he will give 
yon the de.«ired information. 
Giebad.— I think of cultivating trout on land of my own, and wish 
to ask you what means are nocessaiy in order to keep them in good 
health. Should have them in a small brook, where they spawn at 
the present time. Will they have to be protected by artificial means 
during the winter; and if so, how? Also, what means are necessary 
in order to protect them from being fished by other persons? Axs. 
You have asked us for the whole science of fiish culture in a few 
words. Seth Green and A. Collins have several times given informa- 
tion in our columns. The young fish must he fed and cared for un- 
til they are large enough to go into the streams. Once on their own 
resources in the stream, they can support themselves in moderate 
numbers: bnt if there are more fish than food supplies, they will 
have to be fed artificially. No one has a right to trespas.® on your 
land to catch fish any more than to pick pears. A wire netting at 
either end of yonr part of the stream will prevent the fish getting out. 
H. W., Po'keepsie. — 1. I saw some time since in some of the Eng 
lish sporting papers that a certain family has what is claimed to be 
a sure cure for hydrophobia, and that the secret has been presen ed 
in this family for a number of generations. Do you place any confi- 
dence in the assertion? 2. What is considered the best treatment 
for this disease, both in men and animals? Ax«.— 1. We recollect a 
statement of the nature yon mention, hot im,agine the virtues of the 
specific are very much overrated, as any person having such an in- 
valuable remedy would find it greatly for his advantage to make it 
generally known to the public. 2. The only safe treatment is prompt 
excision and cauterization, followed by poultice. One of onr cor- 
respondents, a prominent army surgeon, recommends fuming nitne 
acid as the best cautery: bnt this must he applied by an experienced 
person, in order to prevent too extensive destruction of the fleshy 
tissue. We consider this treatment equally efficacions with man or 
brute: but in the latter, unless the animals are very valuable, it is 
better to destroy them at once than run any risk in attempting to 
effect a cure. 
Albert C., Great Barrington. — I not'ce that most of the writers 
on dogs prefer the setter to the pointer, on the ground that the latter 
cannot endnre as much as the former. Now I have a number of 
friends, prominent business men, who do not agree with this view, 
and say that their pointers can work as long as the best setters. 
Please give us your opinion on this point and yonr reasons for it. 
Axs.— We greatly prefer the setter. We have seen both dogs thor- 
onghly tried, and know that, as a rale, pointers cannot last with 
setters on general game and in all kinds of work. The gentlemen 
who advocate pointers are generally business men, whose opportu- 
nities for shooting are limited to brief expeditions once or twice a 
year, who go then to places ea.«^y of access to both themselves and 
their doge. Then, because their pointers are able to do and work 
well, they fall into the error of thinking them capable of work any- 
where. A month of heavy cover work the latter part of November 
or December, after the frosts have hardened the thorns, would soon 
tell a different story, and show the inferiority of the pointer as com- 
pared ^vith the setter. 
B. E. W., Trenton. — By what right does the Legislature prohibit 
my trapping birds on my own land? If I own the land, I own the 
birds on it. and I cannot see why I have not a-* much right to kill 
them at any time and iu any manner I please as I have to slaughter 
a sheep or a cow? .\X8.— Many men think as yon do, bnt all are 
mistaken as to ownership in the same. All wild game belongs equally 
to every citizen, and it is the duty of the State to protect the birds 
from extermination. The fact that the birds are on your land does 
not give you any absolute ownership in them. They may have been 
on another man s land yesterday, or may be to-morrow. Thb^ ability 
to mnrder is what precludes individual ownership. If you huild a pre- 
serve so as to inclose the birds, and prevent their passing away from 
your premises the year round, and if you feed and maintain them, 
you thus become actual owner of them. But even then it is probable 
yon could not offer them for sale, as the law forbids that specific act 
also. No human law can be absolutely perfect, and the only object 
of law-makers is to frame statutes which will benefit the greater part 
of the community and protect iU rights. The game law has jnst 
this effect, and though you may think it does you injustice, the lark 
of such a law would be a far greater injustice to the public at larse. 
Life Beneath the Waxes. 
Soon afterward I ivorked down -nto the Gnlf of Mexico. The first 
coral I raised was in Catoche. Knocking round about there I heard 
of the Joss of the schooner Foam. The first mate and three men got 
saved, bnt the captain, his daughter and three men got lost. I slnng 
ronnd to see if she could be raised. After we’d spent the best part 
of the week, we sailed over her and dropped anchor. It was a lovely 
Sunday morning when we struck her. She lay in sixty feel of water, 
on a bottom as white as the moon. Looking dow*n I could see her 
leaning over on one side upon the coral reef. When I got down to 
her I saw she’d tom a great gap in the reef when she ran against it. 
The mainmast was gone, and hang by the fore: I clambered up: I 
saw whole shoals of fish playing in and out of the hatches. First I 
went to look for the bodies, for I never like to work while there's 
any of them about. Finding the foreca.st!e empty, I went to the two 
little state cabins. It was rather dark, and I had to feel in the lower 
bnnks. There was nothing in the first, and in the other the door 
was locked. I pried it open, and shot back the lock with my adz. It 
flew open, and out something fell right against me. I fell at once it 
was the woman’s body. I was not exactly frightened, bnt it shook 
me rather. I .slang it from me, and went out into the light a bit un- 
til I had got hold of myself. Then I turned and brought her out — 
poor thing! She’d been very pretty, and as I carried her in my arms 
with her white face nestling against my shoulder, she seemed as if 
she was only sleeping. I made her fast to the line as carefully as I 
could to send her np. and the fish played about as if they were soirj* 
she was going. At last I gave the signal, and she went slowly up. 
her hair floating round her head like a pillow of golden seaweed. 
That was the only body I found there, and I managed after to raise 
considerable of the cargo. 
One of my expeditions was among the silver banks of the Antilles, 
the loveliest place I ever saw, where the white coral grows into cn- 
rioQs tree-like shapes. As I stepped along the bottom, it seemed as 
if I were in a frosted forest. Here and there trailed long fronds of 
green and crimson seaweed. Silver-bellied fish fia<-hed about among 
the deep brown and pnrple sea ferns, which rose high a.s my head. 
Far as I could see all round in the transparent water were different 
colored leaves, and on the floor piles of .«hells so bright in color that 
it seemed as if I had stumbled on a place where they kept a stock of 
broken rainbows. I conld not w ork for a bit, and had a quarter de- 
termination to sit down a while and wait for a mermaid. I guess if 
those sea girls live anywhere they select that spot. After walking 
the inside out of half an hour I thought I had belter go to work and 
blast for treasure. A little bit on from where I sat were the remains 
of a treasure ship. It was a Britisher. I thiok, and corals had formed 
all about what was left of her. The coral on the bottom and round 
her showed black spots. That meant a deposit of either iron or sil- 
ver. I made fairly good hauls every time I went down, and sold one 
piece I found to Bamum, of New York. 
After I left there I had a curious adventure with a shark. I was 
do^^*n on a nasty rock bottom. A man never feels comfortable on 
them; he can’t tell what big creature may be hiding under the huge 
quarter-deck seajleaves which grow there. The first part of the time I 
was visited by a porcupine fish, which kept stickingitsqoills np and 
bobbing in front of lv helmet. Soon after I saw a big shadow fall 
across me. and looking np there was an infernal shark playing about 
my tubing. It makes you feel chilly in the back when they're 
about. He came down to me slick as I looked np. I made at bim. 
and he sheared off. For an hour he worked at it, till I could stand 
it no longer. If you can keep your head level, it’s all right, and 
you're pretty safe if they’re not on yon sharp. This ngly brute was 
twenty feet long. I shonld think, for when I lay down all my length on 
the bottom, he stretched a considerable way ahead of me, and I could 
see him beyond my feet. Then I waited. They must turn over to 
bite, and my lying down bothered him. He swam over me three 
or fonr times, and then skulked off to a big thicket of seaweed to 
consider. I knew he’d come back when he settled his mind. It 
seemed a long time waiting for him. At last he came viciously over 
me. but, like the time before, too far from my arms. The next time 
I had my chance, and ripped him with my knife as neatly as I conld. 
A sliark always remembers he's got bnsiness somewhere else when 
he's cut, so off this fellow goes. It is a curious thing, too, that all 
the sharks about will follow in the trail he leaves. I got on my 
bands and knees, and as he swam off I noticed four shadows slip 
after him. I saw no more that time. They d’d not like my com- 
pany.— Captoiw Boi/ti/on in tJu G^nlleman's Magazine. 
The shad fisheries on the Hudson this year are an unprecedented 
succesjj. At one point, this season, the fishermen took 6.000 in 
twelve hours, where, a few years ago, 600 was considered a large 
haul. 
ADVEBTISEMEI^TS. 
Three dollars per inch. Discount on pennanent advertisements. 
Wants and Exchanges. 
Adtebtiskhexts under this head are inserted at 25 cents for two 
lines. Send money with order. 
WESTERS SHOOTING— Book finely illustrated— only 25 cents. 
Address Bbo. Spobtsmav, Box 394, Sedalia. Mo. 
LR'E PIGEONS, for trap shooting, constantly on hand. CInhs 
supplied at short notice. 
Address, E. T. Mabtin, 475 W. Hnron St., Chicago. 
WILE EXCHANGE— $30 worth of miscellaneous sporting works 
for a good Setter or Pointer Dog. .\ddre.ss THEO OBRTG. SO Broad- . 
way. New York city. j 
FOR S.ALE — A very nice Springer Spaniel bitch, nearly six months | 
old. Price $15. Address JI. P. McKOON. Franklin, Delaware Co., J 
N. Y'. ! 
FOR SALE.— Two beautiful black and tan bitches, two months 
old, from Qneen Bess, 2d. and sired by the celebrated Drake dog of 
Stoughton. For particulars address Basssett <fc Thompson, Fox- 
boro, Mass. Box 163. 
FOSTER MOTHER WANTED.— .\ny one having a Bitch suitable 
as above to whelp about 1.5th August. wUl find a purchaser at a rea- 
sonable figure, by addressing Legoe. this office. 
FOR SALE. — -A liver and white pointer Bitch. 14 months old. well 
house-broken. g(K>d retriever, bright and intelligent, from flrst^ilass > 
native stock. For further partlcnlars address L. J. Gaines, West j 
Meriden, Conn. j 
FOR SALK.— Eight beantifnl black and tan Gordon setter pops. j 
from Qneen Bess, prononneed as handsome a bitch as can be found 
in America: sired by the Gordon dog Pette, owned by Nesbitt of * 
Cambridge. For particnlars as to price, address Bassett & Thoxp- t 
SON, Foxboro, Mass. Box 163, ' 
AN IRISH GORDON PUP, seven months old, Ang. 19, 1(175 (red), | 
by E. F. Stoddard's (Dayton, Ohio), “Mar" (“Mar" by “ Plnnket”), 
out of Stoddard's “Duchess” (by “Ranger"). Pedigree furnished. 
For further particnlars, address 
L. J. Gaines, 
West Meriden, Conn. 
FOR SALE— -A fine Laverack Setter, imported stock (blue Ben- 
ton), well trained. Theodore Meter, 318 Eighth street, Jersey 
City. 
A FIRST-CLASS Allen breech-loader, 10 gauge, bnt little used: 20 
steel shells; cost $150— to exchange for a first-class foot-power 
lathe, with slide rest and tools. Address Rod and Gun. | 
SEND STAMP to A. J. Colburn, 31 Boylston street. Boston. 
Mass., for price-list of special bargains in Stuffed Birds, Animals. 
Ac. Some showy specimens, fit for gnnsmith's'windows, cheap. 
Also, new reduced price-list of Birds and Animals Eyes. 
FOR SALE.— Eight fine bred pointer pups, single or in pairs, 
seven weeks old, two black ones, very choice ; Seth Green’s stock. . 
Must be soldatonceas the bitch is going toNewTork in a few weeks. ; | 
Address Chas. C. Clement, with Geo. E. Wilson, Manchester. N.H. ^ 
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