FOREST AND STREAM 
741 
SAFETY FIRST 
You hear it everywhere. The 
Safety is one of the superior 
points of the “Gun that Blocks 
the Sears.” The Safety which 
makes accidental discharge 
impossible. 
ESTABLISHED 1853 
N. R. DAVIS & SONS, b °* 7 ° 7 > Assonet, Mass. 
day at the New Rochelle Yacht Club’s traps in 
the regular weekly shoot on Harrison’s Island. 
He proved high gun for the day by breaking 86 
out of his possible 125 clay birds, H. S. Bullock 
being second with 83 and A. L. Burns, a visitor, 
third, with 82 to his credit. Granbery was also 
the winner of the io-“bird” scratch shoot, and 
in the 25-“bird” optional sweepstakes he won 
a'fter shooting off a tie of 24 with C. C. Moore. 
Nine men competed in this match, and ten in 
the shoot for the Monthly Cup, in which B. R. 
Stoddard and C. A. Marsland each won a leg 
by breaking 25 bluerocks each on their handicaps 
of 2 and 7, respectively. Legs for the Accumula¬ 
tion Cup were won by E. P. Currier and C. A. 
Marsland, both of whom broke 25 on handicap 
of 7 - - 
DANIEL BOONE GUN CLUB. 
C. Kite Misses Only Two in Fifty. 
Marthasville, Mo., November 26, 1914. 
Following are scores made at a shoot given by 
the Daniel Boone Gun Club, November 26: 
Shot At 
Broke 
C. Kite . 
48 
E. Suhre . 
48 
G. Lichtenberg . 
. 50 
47 
T. Ahmann . 
. 50 
47 
T. Mutert . 
. 50 
43 
W. Karrap . 
23 
J. Wyatt . 
21 
L. Suhre . 
20 
Flo. Mutert . 
l 6 
F. Koelling . 
14 
E. Riske . 
5 
AT DANIEL BOONE 
ON THE 
21st. 
Marthasville, Mo., November 27, 1914. 
Shot At 
Broke 
E. Suhre . 
.... 40 
36 
C. Kite . 
,... 40 
35 
G. Lichtenberg . 
.... 40 
34 
O. Duebbert . 
.... 40 
33 
H. Duebbert . 
.... 40 
32 
L. Struebbe . 
.... 40 
30 
T. Akmann . 
28 
Flo. Mutert . 
.... 40 
28 
J. Mutert . 
.... 40 
24 
T. Wyatt . 
18 
E. Riske . 
.... 30 
18 
F. Koelling . 
14 
Ed. Luetkemeyer . 
6 
R. Gardyne . 
4 
OSSINING GUN 
CLUB. 
Geo. S. Jenkins Becomes 
a Trap 
Shooter. 
Ossining, N. Y., November 28, 1914. 
Scores herewith were made at the regular bi¬ 
weekly shoot of the Ossining Gun Club to-day. 
The attendance was good, considering the 
Thanksgiving Day tournament was held only 
two days past. Geo. S. Jenkins made his initial 
bow to-day as a clay bird smasher, and was 
surprised at the number of ways one can miss 
the elusive clays. E. F. Ball, a member of the 
top-notch team of this 
negotiated 8 in a string 
club of 
of ten. 
six 
years ago, 
Events 
I 
2 
3 
4 5 
Clays 
10 
10 
10 
25 10 
C. G. Blandford . 
9 
10 
24 10 
T. C. Barlow . 
6 
8 
16 
E. F. Ball . 
.... 8 
.. 
E. Byington, Jr. 
3 
6 
3 
Dr. C. W. Farr . 
.... 8 
8 
8 
20 
G. S. Jenkins . 
Edw. Pratt . 
. . 
.. 2 
5 
20 
Dr. R. T. Wren . 
8 
20 7 
F. Blandford . 
C. 
G. B.V 
.. 2 
Captain. 
OTTER HUNTING IN GREAT BRITAIN. 
(Continued from page 716.) 
punishment. After being severely reprimanded 
for “rioting,” the lash was applied and the dog 
warned to behave in the future. 
I shall never forget the expression of that 
dog’s face while sitting alone in mid-stream list¬ 
ening to the huntsman and with the accusing 
pack as spectators. The dog’s facial expression 
was intensely human; it was the very embodi¬ 
ment of utter forlornness; but it was extremely 
ludicrous. 
Captain Thompson’s noted pack, includes 
Planter, Cruiser, Barrister, Rattler and Gallant, 
a quintet of otter hounds, whose breed and 
prowess would be hard to equal. Savage though 
the pack is when rounding up an otter, yet 
withal it is as gentle as a lamb. In fact the 
whole pack to a hound, pours out its canine 
love upon a black mountain sheep, which Scott 
took pity upon and hand-raised, when “Billy’s” 
mother died soon after the lamb was born. Billy 
has now grown to sheep’s estate and in kennels 
is always to be found playing and romping with 
the hounds. 
In Kennels. 
Apart from the actual training of the dogs, 
the feeding, housing and care of this pack, en¬ 
tails much arduous labor. When it is realized 
that each dog consumes one and a half pounds of 
cooked food per diem; weekly is given a bath 
in disinfecting fluid, and has to be segregated 
in a hospital and specially fed and treated when 
sick, it readily can be understood that the keep¬ 
ing of a pack of otter hounds is an expensive 
.hobby, no matter how wealthy is the owner. 
Otter hounds are fed once daily, in the eve¬ 
ning. The food consists of boiled bran, dog 
biscuits and vegetables. Three times a week 
meat soup is mixed with the food as an addi¬ 
tional relish and a slight change of diet. The 
food is cooked in huge iron cauldrons and placed 
hot in long troughs down the middle of the 
cement lined dining room. Buckets of water 
or soup are then mixed with the food, until 
a consistency of gruel is attained. 
The dogs are admitted, one kennel at a time. 
As the fox-hounds eat four times as quickly as 
the otter hounds and other members of the 
pack, they usually have first whack at the troughs. 
Directly the troughs become empty, the call 
“back to kennels” is responded to with alacrity. 
The utmost cleanliness prevails. No dog is 
allowed to put its paws in the food, neither 
is bullying tolerated. Any dog which tries to 
hog a compartment to itself, is at once called 
upon to share its portion with another canine; 
failure to comply with such a request, the greedy 
one is at once dismissed from the dining room. 
The males are kept in separate kennels from 
the females and are fed separately. The man¬ 
ner in which the two sexes eat is very notice¬ 
able. The males, in their eagerness to begin 
their dinner, rush pellmell into the dining room, 
barking and jostling each other like a crowd 
of people at a bargain counter. Not so the 
females of the pack. These approach the troughs 
in a very sedate manner and surround the food 
quietly, without any fuss or crowding. 
Male otter hounds weigh on an average about 
80 pounds, while the females weigh about 10 
pounds less. At the hospital, dogs are treated 
for canker, jaundice, distemper, pneumonia and 
other canine diseases. The wire-hair terriers at¬ 
tached to the pack are the life and soul of 
the kennels. To enliven the arduous duties of 
huntsman Scott, these latter dogs give exhibi¬ 
tions of rat catching. 
So keen are these little fellows to capture the 
wily rodent that, often they will follow a rat 
up the kitchen chimney to emerge later with 
the dead rat, and looking as black as old nick 
himself, being covered from head to foot in a 
thick coat of soot. 
WHITE PLAINS GUN CLUB. 
H. O. Allyn Wins Distance Handicap. 
Fifteen shooters faced the traps at the White 
Plains Gun Club at the regular club shoot held 
at the club grounds, Gedney Farms, White Plains, 
N. Y., on Saturday afternoon, November 28. 
Two sets of traps were used which afforded some 
time between events for the members to ex¬ 
change hunting experiences, experienced during 
the past few weeks while the hunting season was 
on. Mr. and Mrs. F. F. Rodgers, who have just 
returned from a hunting trip had some interest¬ 
ing experiences to relate. Due to the number 
