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AND POULTRY EXCHANGE. 
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the tail measures fourteen inches. It usually weighs be- 
tween twenty and twenty-five pounds, though an instance 
of the otter weighing forty pounds is mentioned by Mr. 
Bell. JAMES S. BartEy, M.D. 

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HOW SHEPHERD DOGS ARE TRAINED. 
You may go over the plains and hills of southern Cali- 
fornia for miles and see thousands of sheep, but not a man 
to watch them. Around each flock or band of, say, a thous- 
and sheep, are half a dozen dogs, of a peculiar breed; 
dogs whose progenitors were imported from the sheep pas- 
tures of the Old World. These dogs take the entire care of 
the sheep, drive them out to pasture in the morning, keep 
them from straying during the day, and bring them home 
at night. They have inherited a talent for keeping sheep ; 
but the shepherds do not depend wholly on that. They 
cultivate it in this way, so at least the old shepherds say : 
When a lamb is born it is taken away from the mother 
sheep before she has seen it, and a puppy put in its place. 
The sheep suckles the puppy and learns to love it. When 
the puppy grows old enough to eat meat it is fed in the 
morning and sent out with the sheep. It stays with them 
because it is accustomed to be with its mother, but it cannot 
feed with them. As they get full, the dog gets hungry. 
At length, impatient to return, where it hopes to get another 
piece of meat, it begins to tease and worry its mother, and 
finally starts her toward home, the other sheep follow, and 
thus the whole flock is brought in. If the dog brings the 
sheep. home too soon, or comes without them, he gets no 
supper, or is punished in some other way. Hence he soon 
learns when to come, and to see to it that none of his charge 
are left behind. These animals are trained by taking ad- 
vantage of their instincts and appetites. 


EXHIBITION OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA 
POULTRY SOCIETY. 
(Continued from page 108, No. 7.) 
Black B. R. Game Fowls. 
Ist premium, John H. Flagler, McKeesport, Pa. 
Black B. R. Game Chickens. 
Ist premium, John H. Flagler. 
2d premium, John H. Flagler. 
3d premium, John H. Flagler. 
Houdan Chicks. 
Ist premium, B. M. Kelso. 
2d premium, A. A. Miller. 
3d premium, B. M. Kelso. 
Golden-Spangled Hamburg Fowls. 
2d premium, Robert Henderson. 
Silver-Spangled Hamburg Fowls. 
2d premium, J. S. Halverstadt, Lectonia, Ohio. 
3d premium, Thomas McKee. 
Silver-Spangled Hamburg Chicks. 
1st premium, A. A. Miller. 
3d premium, Charles Flodding. 
Silver-Pencilled Hamburg Fowls. 
2d premium, Robert Henderson. 
Silver-Pencilled Hamburg Chicks. 
3d premium, A. A. Miller. 
Golden-Pencilled Hamburg Chicks. 
1st premium, Jos. Bamford. 
2d premium, Jos. Bamford. 
3d premium, A. A. Miller. 

Golden-Pencilled Hamburg Fowls. 
Ist premium, Jos. Bamford. 
2d premium, A. A. Miller. 
3d premium, C. A. Stevens, Pittsburgh, Pa. 
B. B. R. Game Bantams. 
Ist premium, C. Reinhart. 
2d premium, C. B. Elben. 
3d premium, C. A. Stevens, Pittsburgh, Pa. 
Gold-Laced Sebright Bantam Fowls. 
Ist premium, Robert Henderson. 
Gold-Laced Sebright Bantam Chicks. 
Ist premium, George Will. 
2d premium, G. W. Snaman. 
Black African Bantam Chicks. 
Ist premium, C. B. Elben. 
Duck Wing Games. 
Ist premium, Samuel Cameron. 
Blue Games. 
1st premium, James Winterbottom, Texas, Pa. 
Baltimore Top-knot Games. 
Ist premiums, G. W. Evans. 
White Pile Games. 
1st premium, S. Cameron. 
Heathwood Game Fowls. 
lst premium, Peter Snyder, Pittsburgh, Pa. 
Dominique Game Fowls. 
1st premium, Samuel Cameron. 
Cross Bred Games. 
lst premium, Samuel Cameron. 
Black Spanish. 
1st premium, George Will. 
White Leghorn Chickens. 
Ist premium, R. W. Shipman, Allegheny City, Pa. 
. Silver Polish Fowls. : 
Ist premium, Charles Flodding. 
2d premium, EH, 8. Isom. 
Silver Polish Chickens. 
1st premium, F. 8. Isom. 
2d premium, EK. 8. Isom. 
Golden-Spangled Polish Fowls. 
1st premium, Fred. Schackhardt, Oakdale, Pa. 
Golden-Spangled Polish Chicks. 
Ist premium, Charles Flodding. 
Creveceur Fowls. 
1st premium, Charles Flodding. 
Houdan Fowls. 
Ist premium, Charles Flodding. 
2d premium, B. M. Kelso, Noblestown, Pa. 
3d premium, A. A. Miller. 
White Bantam Fowls. 
Ist premium, Harry Teese. 
2d premium, Harry Teese. 
Bronze Turkeys. 
Cook. 
Miller. 
Wild Turkeys. 
. Cook. 
White Turkeys. 
. Cook. 
. Miller. 
EIR 
lst premium, S. 
EA 
2d premium, A. 
Ist premium, 8. 
1st premium, 8. 
2d premium, A. 
Toulouse Geese. 
. Cook. 
Ist premium, S. 
. Miller. 
2d premium, A. 
