Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1856-08-09

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YOU may commence shooting the grouse,
or prairie chicken, on the 18th day Of
July, day somewhat too early, we
think, in most parts Of the State, but
not as early as many pot hunters make !
a practice Of shooting. We want to
say word or SO about what your pre-
parations ought to be, if you can afford
them, SO that you may not only do the
thing up handsomely for yourself, but
may also be able to accommodate any
friend who has not the ability to fit out
in tip top style.
You viii of course drive two horses
in the field, and two good solid animals
of good speed and endurance and
abundant strength, so that they may be
able to carry you and your friends and
dogs over a great deal Of country by
day, and take you back at evening to
your place of repose and your supper
at brisk pace. You want your wagon
fitted up with a long box, plenty Of
room for dogs in it, and refrigerator,
box with double sides and cover, filed
between with powdered charcoal, and
in the centre of box metallic cylin-
der, with hole in the top like the man
hole of steamboat boiler, lightly
covered. This cylinder is to be sur
rounded byice, and in it you may put
your lunch at going out, and as you
come into the wagon, with birds, you
can put them in it, so that they will
not only be kept in perfect order, even
for days if you choose, but by having
a spare box of the same kind, you can
send them by railroad, almost any
where you please, to the News Office at
Milwaukee if you choose, or any other
such place where they will be more apt
to be distributed to those who can enjoy
it on account of their having tastes
and afinitiea with the true sportsman.
You also want two brace Of dogs,
at least, well broken dogs, too, true
over their birds, notpotterers over dead
secrets, good retrieyers, and dogs of
decent manners and liberal education.
They want to be in good condition,
too, at the outset of the season, and
well fed daily during the whole season,
whether you shoot over them daily, or
every other day, or only twice week
But one brace viii not do to hunt with
more than six hours day, if you do
go out daily, and even then you must
save them all the running you can,
and keep water in your wagon, if possi-
bic, to give them often; and further,
you must, when you can, go out of
your way to give them a chance to
wallow in some pond, brook or horse
trough.
To be in condition, they are not to
be as fat as a prize OK, or to have the
flesh run off their bones. They want
to be well exercised daily, from this
time to the time of taking the field,
and well fed, too, with good, wholesome,
clean food, so that they do not look
either gaunt and hollow, or round and
fat.
You want, also, place under one
of your wagon seats in which you can
lock up supply of spare ammunition,
Overcoats, dog whips, waterproof
capes, &C., if you deem fit to carry
them, or even spare gun or rife, which
latter is sometimes wanted in the fall
for deer, geese, or brandt, and occa-
sionally, perhaps, for sand hill lcrane.
You want, also, a proof cover
for the gun you carry, slowed away in
the same box, with a box or two OF
matches segars, etc.
Now, with this fit out, friend with
you, and a man to drive slowly when
you take the field, keeping you in sight
and, as often as possible, relieving you
of your birds, you will find your equip
age all you want, particularly if We
add rug for the dogs to lie on.
Now, word as to the dogs. Mucf
has been said as to the comparative
merits of the setter and pointer. Boil
are excellent dogs, if properly educated
the pointer is easiest to break, and fol-
that reason often the greatest faYorite
but the setter we consider equally goot
when properly broke, and when th,
weather is cool enough. But in our no
4 Augusts, he is unable to cope with tn,
pointer, especially when, as is mostly
the case, We are obliged tohunt wher'
water is not to be obtained every. hal
hour, so that he can wallow sufficiently
!, to cool of. The pointer is best fo
I great heats, but when the weather i
cool enough, or you hunt by the sid
of water course, it is a matter of in
e difference, which you use, so that be b
= which he may, he is thoroughly broker
to stand over his birds, to drop at tn
report of a gun, until ordered on, t
range well, but not so wide as to b
lost to sight, and to find his birds afte
they are dead, even of he does no
. retrive.
A great deal depends upon the car
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