Nov. 4, 1911.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
697 
Y OU know mallards—wisest and wariest of all 
ducks- Solomons of the air. You can’t knock 
down mallards with a paddle nor can you get them 
with a gun that plasters its shots all over the face 
of creation. 
A mallard shot is generally a long shot, and long 
shots require a hard-shooting, close-shooting gun. 
That’s why the long-headed man who goes to a 
mallard country takes a Lefever. When he swings 
it on a tow'ering pair of mallards he does not ques¬ 
tion the result. He know it— 
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the scent, which he sniffs well before he shows 
himself. 
"Of course the hunter generally calls when 
there is little or no breeze stirring, but for that 
very reason the bull is doubly on his guard and 
approaches very carefully and gingerly. What 
old hunter has not been surprised to see sud¬ 
denly before him on the bog the great animal 
for whose coming he had listened for so care¬ 
fully the last hour? 
“Now listen to me: A moose stands much 
more chance for his life when being called than 
he does after yarding. The reason is that at 
this later period the moose are not particularly 
on their guard. I knew a duffer once who was 
going along through a big grove, not thinking of 
much of anything. The wind was in his face 
and the first thing he knew a big bull got up 
right in front of him, the direction of the strong 
wind preventing the animal from hearing or 
smelling the hunter who had just to cock his 
rifle and down the bull in his tracks. 
“Now according to the Camp Kit rules that 
fellow would be entitled to an honor, while if 
he had outwitted that bull in calling time by a 
display of woodsmanship and knowledge of the 
animal’s habits and imitation of its various cal’s 
and whines and bellows, the Camp Kit Club 
would have had nothing but censure for him. 
Ridiculous, my boy, ridiculous. Go tell that to 
the marines, but not to your Uncle Ned. 
“But then you can still hunt in calling time 
if you like. You locate the bull by making him 
answer you. and then sta’k him. And let me 
tell you that’s more sportsmanlike than doing the 
same thing in yarding time, because it’s much 
harder since the moose are more suspicious.”-—- 
Pittsburgh Post. 
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Fixtures. 
DOG SHOWS. 
Nov. 7.—Bulldog Club of America, New York City. 
E. K. Austin, Sec’y. 
Nov. 9-12.—San Antonio Kennel Club, San Antonio, Tex. 
Nov. 12.—National Beagle Club of America, Shadwell, 
Va. C. R. Stevenson, Sec’y. 
Dec. 1-2.—Toy Spaniel Club of America, New York 
City. Mrs. H. S. Morris, Sec’y. 
Dec. 12-13.—French Bulldog Club of New England, Bos¬ 
ton, Mass.. Walter Burgess, Sec’y. 
1912. 
Jan. 26-27.—Lynn (Mass.) Kennel Club. W. Rolfe, Sec’y. 
Feb. 6-9.—Fanciers’ Association of Indiana, Indianapo¬ 
lis, Ind. C. R. Milhous, Sec’y. 
Feb. 12-15.—Westminster Kennel Club, New York City. 
William Rauch, Chairman. 
Feb. 20-23.—New England Kennel Club, Boston, Mass. 
R. C. Storey, Sec’y. 
FIELD TRIALS. 
Nov. 2.—Seventh American Field Futurity, Hutsonville, 
Ill. 
Nov. 6.—Independent Field Trial Club, Hutsonville, III. 
All-Aged entries close Oct. 1. S. H. Socwell, Sec’y, 
1636 Park avenue, Indianapolis, Ind. 
Nov. 20.—Pointer Club of America, Barber, N. C. W. 
C. Root, Sec’y. 
Second week in November.—Orange County Field Trial 
Club, Middletown, N. Y. C. C. Haines, Sec’y. 
Nov. 21.—International Field Trial Club, Ruthven, Ont. 
W. B. Wells, Sec’y. 
Nov. 23.—Delaware Setter and Pointer Club. H B. 
Lyman, Sec’y. 
Nov. 27.—Continental Field Trial Club, Waynesboro, Ga. 
John White, Sec’y. 
Dec. 4.—Georgia Field Trial Association, Waynesboro, 
Ga. Entries to Derby and All-Age stakes close 
Oct. 15. Tracy Mackenzie, Sec’y, Waynesboro, Ga. 
Dec. 11.—Southern Field Trial Club, Letohatchie, Ala. 
J. H. Wallace, Jr., Sec’y. 
Dec. 18.—Kentucky Field Trial Club, Letohatchie, Ala 
All-Age entries close Oct. 15. S. W. Linebaueh" 
Sec’y, Russellville, Ky. 
1912. 
First week in January.—Eastern Field Trial Club, Cotton 
Plant, Miss. S. C. Bradley, Sec’y. 
Jan. 7.—United States Field Trial Club. W. B. Staf¬ 
ford, Sec’y. 
Jan. 14.—National Field Trial Championship Associa¬ 
tion. W. B. Stafford, Sec’y. 
BEAGLE TRIALS. 
Nov % 9.—National Beagle Club of America, Shadwell, 
Va. C. R. Stephenson, Sec’y. 
Conditioning Hunting Dogs 
By TODD RUSSELL 
D URING the long months of the closed sea¬ 
son the bird dog, which enjoys the priv¬ 
ileges of his master’s house, leads a happy 
and a lazy life, and as a result lie suffers from 
the effects of too much luxury when he is first 
put at his work in the fall. His feet are tender, 
his muscles are soft, his endurance small, and 
usually his nose is not in the best of condition. 
Even dogs that get a small amount of daily ex¬ 
ercise need a couple of weeks of hard and 
regular work if they are to show their best per¬ 
formance at the opening of the shooting season. 
in all conditioning of animais for physical ex¬ 
ertion, the most important thing is regularity of 
feeding and exercise. This can only be accom¬ 
plished with a dog by fastening him in his kennel 
and keeping him there or on the chain when he 
is not being put through the daily routine of 
work. 
The first thing to be done is to give a thor¬ 
ough treatement with a good vermifuge, admin¬ 
istered after a twenty-four-hour fast. Then do 
no more drugging of any sort and arrange to 
have the dog taken for a run of a couple of 
miles, morning and evening, for a week until his 
feet harden up and the pads commence to 
thicken. While idle, the protecting surface of 
the pads grows thin and too much rough going 
at the start will produce sore feet and decided 
lameness. The treatment for this is by wash¬ 
ing in warm water and the application of a solu¬ 
tion of chloride of zinc, two grains to the ounce 
of water. Absorbent cotton shou’d be saturated 
with this solution and then bound upon the foot 
with a bit of cloth tied above the paw. A muzzle 
may be necessary to keep the dog from tearing- 
off these compresses, but if they can be kept on 
for a couple of hours at a time, the effect is 
soon evident. Another treatment for sore feet 
much in favor among owners of hounds is to 
cover the pads with pine tar and then powder 
with fuller’s earth. 
Rheumatism may cause another form of lame¬ 
ness, not to be confused with sore feet. Salol 
in ten grain doses four times a day is a specific. 
After every run the feet should be careful’y 
examined for cuts or other injuries which yield 
easily to simple treatment if taken at once. 
Feeding is a most important matter. All dogs 
allowed to roam at will about the house and yard 
get too much to eat both because of an excess 
of kindness unon the part of the members of 
the family and because there are many scraps 
and tid-bits to be quietly picked up. An over¬ 
fed dog may not show much external fat, but 
the fatty tissue accumulates about the heart and 
does much to reduce the powers of endurance. 
It must eventually be worked off, but let the 
first step be to reduce the feed to one meal a 
day, given at night and consisting of at least one- 
half meat. Nothing is better as a regular diet 
than the common dog biscuit well broken and 
mixed with the soup and scraps boiled from a 
beef head. In a large kennel where many dogs 
were fed the most satisfactory diet during the 
working season was found to be broken well- 
baked whole wheat bread, cooked very hard 
and well covered with a rich gravy made from 
one of the prepared dog meats, for which diet 
a ration of finely chopped raw meat was occas¬ 
ionally substituted. Corn meal, so largely fed 
in the South, is a most unsatisfactory diet for 
dogs. It has too many heating qualities, fails to 
build muscle and tends to increase susceptibility 
to skin diseases. Feed your dog all he wants at 
one time and remove the dish the moment he is 
through. Do not leave untouched scraps in the 
kennel. If the dog, by too prolonged pamper¬ 
ing has become such a dainty feeder that only 
the choicest bits of meat appeal to him, insist 
all the more strenuously on his becoming friendly 
to the coarser diet by avoiding the presence of 
anything but soaked biscuit in his pan and 
jirompt'y removing what he is too good to touch. 
In a day or two the matter will take on a dif¬ 
ferent aspect and he will be greedy for Ins 
regular ration. In the meantime the fasting will 
be of distinct benefit to him. 
At some cheaply run kennels one may often 
see working dogs during the hunting season fed 
on nothing but corn meal mush or bread. It 
is small wonder they are of little account in the 
field, and when forced out to their work, potter 
about in a listless and ineffective wav. If your 
own dog goes South with you this fall, see what 
he is fed. and when and how, and have these 
things right if you want results. 
As rapidly as the dog can stand it, his work 
on the road should be increased until he is run¬ 
ning easily as much as thirty miles a day. Taken 
out behind a horse or vehicle this amount of 
work is easily given, but in no instance should 
he be forced to ruw after he commences to lose 
vim and dash. The field trial handler, in de¬ 
veloping his doe- for sneed alone, puts him down 
for short periods, taking him up the moment a 
