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accurate scent at the great Grouse Field Trials at Bala, when 
he won the first prize, beating all the Setters that ran against 
him, including all the cracks of the year—Mr. Purcell Lle- 
wellin’s, Mr. Lloyd Price’s, and Mr. Statter’s best dogs. 
He won also the first stakes in the braces, along with his 
kennel companion, Squire, and a picture of this part of the 
proceedings was engraved in the Graphic the week following, 
representing Ranger backed by Squire. This wonderful 
performance on grouse was, if possible, excelled by his work 
at the field trial held in the following month on the property 
of Colonel Tomlin, M.P., near Ipswich, upon partridge, 
where he lowered the flag of other cracks, including Mr. 
Barclay Field’s representatives. His performances as a field 
trial dog were so far above what is generally witnessed at 
field trials, that his spirited owner, along with Mr. Lloyd 
Price, the owner of Bella, felt justified in challenging the 
Americans to an international match, inasmuch as they 
owned the two champion field dogs of England—Ranger 
amongst the Setters, and Bella amongst the Pointers. This 
challenge has been accepted in an equally spirited manner 
by the American nation, and Sir Watkin W. Wynn, of 
Wynnstay, has most liberally placed his vast shootings in 
Wales at the disposal of the committee of the Kennel Club, 
of which H. R. H. the Prince of Wales is patron, for the | 
international match. Messrs. Guion & Co., the owners of 
the transatlantic line of steamers, called, after their name, 
the Guion Line, have also been carried away with their 
patriotic enthusiasm in the matter, and offered, through Mr. 
Macdona, a first-class passage to Europe and back to the rep- 
resentatives of the American nation and their dogs, and also 
to the representatives of the English nation (to be selected 
by the Kennel Club), for the return match on American 
ground next year. Nothing can be pleasanter than the 
genial cordiality with which this international match is 
taken up on both sides of the Atlantic. The American peo- 
ple are a thoroughly sporting community, and the warmth 
with which they have entered into this international contest 
is only equalled by the enthusiasm that was manifested by 
them when they so pluckily sent over their Harvard crew. 
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Ranger, it will thus be seen, comes of prize stock on both 
sides. His owner’s Setter, Quince II, won the champion 
prize at Birmingham in 1872; Rake, 1st Birmingham, 1864; 
Countess, 2d Birmingham, 1863; Grouse, 2d Birmingham, 
1863; Nell, champion Birmingham, 1864-65; Bess, Ist Bir- 
mingham, 1864; Rake divided the championship with Byron 
at Birmingham, 1865; Countess won 2d Birmingham, 1863; 
2d Birmingham, 1864, 2d Leeds, 1865, 1st Birmingham, 
1865; Bess won 1st Birmingham, 1865. 
Ranger and Bella are generally supposed to be the brace 
that the Kennel Club will select to contend for the honor of 
England. Ranger is a white and black dog, with slight tan, 

inherited from his granddam, Countess, who was a black and 
tan bitch. He was originally broken by Dicker, breaker to 
Mr. Assheton Smith, Vagnol, and afterwards handled by 
Hallam and Pugsley; but like all dogs of good blood and 
pedigree, he needed little breaking. From the above pedi- 
gree it will be seen he combines all the best strains of prize 
blood on both sides; his grandsire, Rake, and granddam, 
Countess, being both prize winners at the great National 
Dog Show, held annually at Birmingham. We believe he is 
at the service of the public for this year at the kennels, Hil- 
bre House, West Kirby, for stud purposes—kennels that have 
sent forth to the public the following field trial winners: 
Plunket, sold to Mr. Purcell Llewellin for £150; Dick, sold 
to Mr. Assheton Smith for £80; Squire, Music, and Doll, 
all well-known winners. 5 
Mr. Macdona has had the honor of presenting several 
Setters of the same strain to the Prince of Wales.— Fanciers’ 
Gazette. 
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(For Fanciers’ Journal.) 
A WORD TO G. P. BURNHAM, ESQ. 
Srir: Following your example, I would like to say a few 
words to you; and if in anything I say what I cannot make 
good, I will only be too happy to acknowledge it. I have 
read, with much interest, your adverse criticisms on the new 
standard, and the doings of the N. P. A., and while agree- 
ing with you in some points, I am heartily tired of the 
lengthened war you are now carrying on. An old adage 
says, ‘‘Those who live in glass houses should not throw 
stones ;’’ and certainly of all men in the fancy, you ought to 
be the last to show up the failings of others. You did your 
utmost to stamp out the chicken fancy, twenty years ago, in 
the most practical way, by sending to intending purchasers 
portraits of fowls you never possessed, as pictures of your 
‘‘imported stock ;’’ you kept ten varieties of fowls, all pure 
bred, your circular stated, but which you afterwards confessed 
(or gave it as your conviction), were all produced from white 
hens and a black cock, of the ‘‘Shanghai”’ tribe. All this 
you admit in that noted compound, ‘‘The History of the 
Hen Fever.” 
Now, forsooth, you come forward as the friend of the 
poultry interest, to proclaim the shortcomings of the Buffalo 
Convention. One glaring mistake they certainly made, in 
not sending a guard of honor to Melrose for you; paying 
your expenses to Buffalo, making you President of the Con- 
vention, and then issuing the standard, with your portrait 
inclosed, as ‘the great pioneer” and friend of the poultry 
interest. Then it would have been all right, and your 
smooth tongue and ready wit would have devised a way to 
keep the disaffected quiet: the one dollar would then never 
be grudged for the pamphlet. 
When you published your “* New Poultry Book,” in 1871, 
I supposed you gave it to the fancy at a little over expenses, 
just to “help the cause along.’”’ There is nothing in it, but 
a rehash of those who had written before you, the same old 
crudities and descriptions repeated, with no practical infor- 
mation in regard to selection and matching for definite — 
points, and yet that work was offered at $2.00. Why do you 
not ask some poultry journal office to keep it on sale for you? 
Oh, no! You “have no axe to grind.”’ You, as you say, 
‘‘ feathered your nest long ago,’’ and do not want to make any- 
thing. You do not want to sell any more of your ‘‘ Imported 
Cochins,”’ that will breed all colors, by turns. The fact is, 
you know your course would be short, and if poultry jour- 
