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or two doses of Jamaica ginger. At one time I 
gave him one-fourth teaspoonful of black 
pepper. 
Just what checked his bowels I do not know. 
I never did get his bowels checked until I cut 
his food down to one egg a day and gave that 
at different times, and gave but little sulphur 
that day. Beginning on the following day 
after I got his bowels checked, I gave him a 
teaspoonful of ground beef, raw, about three 
times a day, and one egg. I would mix with 
the beef about a grain of table salt. I increased 
his food very slowly, knowing that a relapse 
would doubtless mean death. 
I was not so anxious to save this particular 
dog, but the reason I gave his case such close 
attention was that I might from this experience 
learn how to treat the other man’s dogs and 
dogs I hope to own, if they became similarly 
affected. Every case that I have lost since 1 
learned anything about treating the disease has 
been lost on account of my inability to control 
the bowels. Had I been at home during the 
day, I could perhaps have handled the case 
much better. 
I do not believe anything we give the dogs 
will stop that bloody flow' until the sulphur, or 
some other remedy, has time to purify the 
blood; and it is necessary for this bowel trouble 
to run its course to a certain extent. Yet it 
not eventually controlled, the death of the dog 
will be the result. If we have no desire to im¬ 
mediately check the bowels, bismuth, or some 
other preparation to reline the bowels, should 
be given during the day. 
You may think I have covered much ground 
trying to tell you how I treated this dog, and 
that I have a very poor way of expressing my¬ 
self. If I understood medical terms, or was a 
trained nurse, I might put my statements into 
language that would be better appreciated by 
you. I do not know what success you would 
have in following my suggestions, ‘but I would 
be very glad to have you try the above-men¬ 
tioned treatment. Handling a dog with black 
tongue is a job almost equal to that of handling 
a case of typhoid. 
In conclusion, I want to emphasize the sul¬ 
phur cure. I believe that, without mangifera 
and echinacea, I can now cure nearly every 
case by using the sulphur more freely than I did 
at first, supplemented with boric acid, bismuth, 
and the like, preceded by calomel and oil. A 
friend of mine, ex-Sheriff Jennings, Lebanon, 
Tenn., says that he lost his entire pack one 
year from black tongue. The next year he had 
another pack, but the same season of the year 
the black tongue developed. He began the sul¬ 
phur treatment, preceded by calomel and oil, 
followed by a tablespoonful of sulphur twfice a 
day, and did not lose a single case. His dogs 
w'ere affected exactly like mine. I am sure that 
sulphur is a preventive, else I would have more 
than one case in my kennel when the disease 
once develops. It has never developed in my 
kennels during the winter. I believe if one will 
give his dogs sulphur twice a week during the 
summer months, black tongue will not develop 
in his kennels. 
I understand that black tongue is a Southern 
disease, and that the veterinary doctors 
throughout the South admit that they have but 
little success in handling it. Some pronounce 
it dumb rabies, and say there is no cure for it. 
Yet I know that I have cured several cases, and 
believe that, if properly handled, nearly every 
case can be cured. 
I have not the money to contribute to this 
cause that Rockefeller gave for hookworm ex¬ 
perimenting. But if anything I have said helps 
the dogs to the extent that I believe Rocke¬ 
feller’s hookworm contribution is going to do 
for man, I shall feel amply repaid. 
John F. Draughon. 
Duck Food. 
New Orleans, June 30.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: The Game Commission is preparing to 
plant large quantities of wild celery roots and 
fox-tail grass seed on the tract of about 15.000 
acres in Vermilion parish near Vermilion Bay, 
which has been given to the State by Mr. Mc- 
Illhenny and Mr. Ward for a duck and game 
preserve. Mr. Miller says that ducks, geese and 
brant are very fond of wild celery and fox-tail 
grass, and he hopes it will draw them by the 
thousands to the place next fall and winter. 
The preserve will be strictly guarded and no 
one will be allowed to hunt or kill any of the 
ducks or other birds. A portion of it will be 
used by deer. 
The Crescent City Gun and Rod Club held its 
eighth aniversary dinner Sunday, at Chef Men- 
teur, and a large number participated. Refresh¬ 
ments were served in abundance and several 
talks were made informally and a good time 
was had by every one present. The club is 
noted for its hospitality. L. Weiland is Presi¬ 
dent, and W. Brandt Vice-President. There 
were a number of guests. 
The Game Commission has received blanks 
for the hunters’ licenses for 1911-1912, dated 
June 1, and will distribute them to the various 
sheriffs over the State. The hunting season 
does not open until fall, but the law requires 
the licenses to date from June 1 of each year. 
A sportsman’s license costs $1.00, the market 
hunters’ license $10, and the license for the non¬ 
resident $15. 
Petitions have been received by the Game 
Commission from various portions of the State 
asking that an effort be made to rid the streams 
of thick growths of hyacinths. The streams near 
Napoleonville are so thickly grown with the 
hyacinth that it is almost impossible to get a 
small motor boat through them and navigation 
is practically stopped in places. It is also said 
that these hyacinths kill the fish and are in¬ 
imical to spawning. The Game Commission 
has had this problem before it for a long while, 
and while it is admitted the hyacinth presents 
many difficulties, still they can be destroyed, but 
it will take a large expenditure of money. The 
commission has not been in a position financially 
to carry on the hyacinth crusade systematically. 
F. G. G. 
New York Legislature. 
Albany, N. Y., July 3. — Editor Forest and 
Stream: Governor Dix has signed these bills: 
Senator Fiero’s, in relation to hooking suckers 
in Ulster county. 
Assemblyman Brereton’s, extending to the 
towns of Queensbury, Warren county and Hop- 
kinton, St. Lawrence county, the prohibition 
against fires to clear lands. 
Assemblyman Brereton’s, providing that perch 
may be taken through the ice by angling in Lake 
George at any time, and pike perch from June 
16 to Dec. 31, inclusive. 
Assemblyman Cosad’s, relative to the open 
season for lake trout and the use of nets in 
Seneca Lake. 
Assemblyman Evans’, relative to the open sea¬ 
son for deer in the town of Neversink, Sullivan 
county. 
Assemblyman Gurnett’s, making the open sea¬ 
son for trout in Seneca and Cayuga lakes from 
April 16 to Sept. 21. 
Assemblyman Wende’s, providing that mullets, 
carp, muckers and dogfish may be speared in the 
waters of Lake Erie from March 1 to May 15, 
both inclusive. 
Assemblyman Cheney's, prohibiting the taking 
by any person of more than five squirrels in one 
day in Cattaraugus county and making numerous 
changes regarding the open season for various 
kinds of fish in that county. 
The Governor has vetoed Senator Platt’s bill, 
amending the forest, fish and game law in rela¬ 
tion to the open season for fishing in Lake Keuka. 
Governor Dix has signed Senator Bayne's bill 
relative to the sale of game, the open season for 
birds and the storage of fish and game in the 
close season. 
The Senate has passed these bills: 
Assemblyman Gurnett’s, re.ative to taking fish 
with set lines in Schuyler county. 
Assemblyman Wende’s, relative to spearing 
non-game fish in Lake Erie and its tributaries. 
Assemblyman T. K. Smith’s, prohibiting the 
taking of male pheasants in the towns of Parish, 
West Monroe and Amboy, Oswego county. 
Assemblyman Cheney’s, prohibiting the taking 
of more than five squirrels in one day in Catta¬ 
raugus county. 
The Assembly has passed these bills: 
Senator Roosevelt's, providing that there shall 
be no open season for quail in Dutchess or 
Ulster county until 1916. 
Senator Roosevelt’s, changing the open season 
for hares and rabbits in Richmond and Wyoming 
counties, and relative to the hunting of hares 
and habbits with ferrets in certain counties. 
Senator Emerson’s, prohibiting the taking of 
more than thirty pounds of fish in one day in 
Lake George by one boat. 
Senator Roosevelt’s bill, in relation to actions 
for penalties to costs and to the appropriation 
of lands and to the pollution of streams. E.C.C. 
No Monopoly. 
This section has no monopoly of the English 
sparrow nuisance, says the Boston Transcript. 
Kansas is now making a vigorous crusade against 
it. In one of his essays, Charles Lamb refers 
to the treasurer of the “Old Benchers of the 
Inner Temple,” who included in his account: 
“Item, disbursed Mr. Allen, the gardener, twenty 
shillings for stuff to poison the sparrows, by 
my order.” This was disallowed, but it showed 
the reputation of the little feathered outlaw, 
even in that day. Perhaps had the importers 
of these undesirable birds been closer readers of 
the English c’assics, we might have escaped these 
present unpleasant associations. 
All the game laws of the United States and 
Canada, revised to date and nozu in force, are 
given in the Game Lazos in Brief. See adv. 
