FOREST AND STREAM. 
[March g , 1907. 
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DAN KIDNEY <21 SON, West De Pere, Wis. 
Builders of fine Pleasure and Hunting Boats, Canoes, 
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Shipbuilding (& Repair Co. 
PORT WASHINGTON, L. I. 
NEW YORK 
Building Motor Boats and 
Managing Gasolene Engines 
are discussed in the book 
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Field, Cover aivd Trap Shooting. 
By Captain Adam H. Bogardus Champion Wing Shot 
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fowl; Breeding and Breaking of Dogs. Cloth, 444 
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“Field Cover and Trap Shooting” is a book of instruc¬ 
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scope of the book—a work of nearly 500 pages—is shows 
by this list of chapters: „. . , r „„„„ 
Guns and Their Proper Charges. Pinnated Grouse 
Shooting. Late Pinnated Grouse Shooting. Quail 
Shooting. Shooting the Woodcock. The Snipe and 
Snipe Shooting. Golden Plover Curlew and Gray 
Plover Wild Ducks and Western Duck Shooting. Wild 
Ge6se, Cranes and Swans. Wild Turkey and Deer Shoot¬ 
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—Breeding and Breaking. Pigeon Shooting—Trap-Shoot¬ 
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RETRIEVERS. 
Writers in various papers noted recently are 
predicting that the practice of having pointers 
and setters dO' the retrieving will soon be obso- 
ete. They set forth the idea that at least two 
dogs should be taken to the field, a pointer or 
setter to do the bird work and a spaniel or 
straight-bred retriever to follow at heel for the 
purpose of finding. The theory on which these 
writers base their arguments is that many other¬ 
wise valuable dogs are hacked badly by holding 
them up to retrieve dead birds. 
In many .cases this is very true, especially so 
'or a young dog who dislikes to • be held up to 
unit dead, comments a correspondent in an ex¬ 
change. Possibly the field trials have been more 
to blame than anything else for putting the ban 
on retrieving. In field trials the dog is ex¬ 
pected to do only one thing—hunt and find birds 
staunchly—and the faster he does this_ and the 
greater amount covered in proportion will be his 
chance of gaining place. But the average man, 
who gets only a few- birds each year, or rather 
a few days to hunt in, wants birds; he not only 
wants a dog that will find birds, but find the 
dead birds also and retrieve them. 
It is a matter of great convenience to have 
a good dead bird finder and retriever combined, 
for the colors of birds, even in open fields, blend 
so closely with the surrounding herbage that it 
is an extremely difficult matter to find a bird 
unassisted by a dog, even when one thinks he 
aas marked the spot carefully. You may hunt 
and hunt and vow persistently that he fell just 
where you said he did, but careful search fails 
to reward your efforts with the bird. How many 
times have you been certain that you killed your 
bird instantly only to have the dog show that 
you were wrong? Sometimes a fast-flying bird, 
whose wing is suddenly shattered by shot, drops 
as though he is perfectly dead and when you go 
to find him both you and the dog have a busy 
time trying to capture a swift-running cripple. 
Another occasion when a retriever is invalu¬ 
able is after a bird seems to be merely feathered; 
you watch carefully his flight and he hustles off 
to cover a quarter of a mile away, when he sud¬ 
denly drops into a rank growth of blackberry and 
green briar, almost impenetrable by man. Elad 
you not a retriever the chances are the bird 
would be lost. Many a miry hole forms the 
resting place for a dead bird, so that when one 
considers the necessity of having a retriever, we 
hope it will never become a fault in a dog to 
find for his master.—New London Day. 
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