May 13, 1911. ] 
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TO CURE A GUNSHY DOG. 
Many ways of curing a gunshy dog are pre¬ 
scribed, but, alas! in vain, and valuable dogs 
are shot owing to this apparently incurable 
fault. Some years ago I had two valuable 
young setters trained by a keeper ready for the 
first of September. But it occurred to me to 
try how they would stand fire; so I asked my 
man to bring them out into a field, which they 
seemed to quarter well, whereupon I fired a 
shot, after which No. 1 looked round and slunk 
away, and No. 2 soon followed suit. After this 
we tried the effect of firing a few shots near 
their kennel, with the effect of making them 
still more gunshy. Then we tried leading them 
out, and while I fired a few shots at a distance, 
the man had to pat and coax them, while the 
dogs crouched and shuddered. Then I hit upon 
the. plan of chaining one to a strong old dog 
which reveled in the sound of the gun as the 
sweetest music, not caring to drop to shot, but 
rather to look out for crippled birds, as soon as 
the shot was fired. The young setter crouched 
trembling, but the old dog dragged him, nolens 
volens, turning round to the youngster, inspir¬ 
ing him with his own feeling of delight. This 
was repeated after some half-dozen light 
charges, when the youngster gradually seemed 
to forget his gunshyness and to follow his 
senior, and soon to imbibe the delight of the 
old dog. The same process was tried with good 
effect on the other youngster, and after two 
more lessons the young setters were quite cured, 
and lost all their gunshyness, and after their 
experience of the first of September both young 
dogs worked well together. By this plan I have 
never failed to cure any dogs of gunshyness. I 
have generally commenced by firing caps on a 
pistol or muzzleloader at some distance from 
the dog, followed by light charges, always chain¬ 
ing the gunshy dog to an older dog, that de¬ 
lighted in the reports of a gun, the older dog 
being powerful enough to hold the younger and 
to drag him along. Some dogs, of course, 
require more painstaking than others; but if 
chained to a good-tempered retriever and thus 
obliged to witness another dog working, they 
may be cured.—Shooting Times. 
SPARE THE CROW. 
Here is a defense of the crow that will in¬ 
terest the friends of that comical and intelligent 
bird: An Iowa man says in one of the papers 
that an article in that paper headed “Death to 
the Crow,’’ does injustice to the crow and com¬ 
plains of the Legislature for killing a bill offer¬ 
ing a bounty for killing that good friend of the 
farmer. 
Any farmer that has cultivated the acquaint¬ 
ance of the crew and studied his habits as I 
have cannot fail to commend the Legislature 
for killing the bill. I grant that he is mischiev¬ 
ous, will eat corn and, possibly, like boys, some¬ 
times raid a Muscatine melon patch, though I 
have raised crows and melons on the same 
block and never caught them (the crows) at it. 
My crow seemed to enjoy helping me cultivate 
the vines and harvest the melons by taking the 
insects and worms I disturbed, but he paid no 
attention to the melons. He was not only an 
insect and worm eater, but the equal of any 
cat as a mouser. On one occasion when I re¬ 
moved a board lying on the ground about a rod 
from the barn, a mouse ran from under it to¬ 
ward the barn. The crow was sitting on a tree 
five rods away and thirty feet above the ground. 
That mouse never reached the barn, the crow 
landed on him before he got there. Since then 
I have often seen crows while flying over fields, 
especially recently harvested grain fields or 
meadows, suddenly dart to the ground and rise 
again with something in their beaks, which I 
believe was a mouse, carry it to some perch and 
devour it. 
If Iowa was deprived of her crows it is more 
than probable that field mice would multiply so 
fast that in a few years they would become an 
intolerable pest, seriously injuring the crops and 
destroying the bumblebee nests. Without 
bumblebees to fertilize the clover blossoms 
there would be no clover seed. 
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