Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-02-21

full as a game of cricket is to humankind.
Weakly puppies do well with little soup
every day-only do not put salt in it, as
Z the salines dissolved IN the meat are
enough. Make this soup from raw bones
broken fine and boiled for not less
than ten hours, and thieken it with pea
flour or wheaton -four, adding little bone
meal. These damp dews are very blight
ing to young pups, and soak through their
coats almost as badly as rain. Dry them
well when you see them damp, and If they
are sucking do not let the mother get
damp either. Tarpaulins can in week or
two be bought in the country for an old
song, as the farmers will have done with
them, and will rather sell than let them
rot BY the way, it is often difficult to get
sick dogs to touch beef tea. Here is one
they VIII often lap when they will take
nothing else: A pound of minced beef or
fresh horse-fesh is stepped for an hour and
a half in two pints of water, five drops of
muriatic acid and pinch or two of salt;
then press through sieve, and the residue
may be boiled for any other dog. The
soup should be given cold. Surplus and
fallen apples may be boiled with sufficient
sugar or treacle, and placed in jars in the
usual way. A little of this in the dogs
or puppies food through the winter, when
vegetables are scarce, will be found valu-
able.
PUPPIES the practice of allowing pup
pies under twelve months of age to com
pete for so called nursery stakes seems to
be going out of favor. Several eminent
breeders, who have given their views on
the subject, denounce it as not only use
less as test of merit, but harmful to the
future development of the puppies by over
working them. Neither is it an interest
ing sight to see young puppies at work al
ter the Older dogs, either singly or IN
braces, have finished their contest for the
championship. Contests for nursery stakes,
therefore, being prejudicial to the dog and
uninteresting to the spectator should be
abolished. The only proper stakes, in the
opinion of competent judges are for pup
pies, braces and free-for- LIE II. Gil
man.
PROFESSOR DAVID S. JORDAN, of the
United States Fish Commission, while at
Santa Barbara, was fortunate enough to
secure specimen of the ground shark, or
Cephalocyiiium latjceps. The name, says
the Press, signifies the arge-headed, broad
headed shark. Until within the last few
weeks the fish was supposed to be found
only on the coast of Van Dieman's Land
and but three specimens were in the pos
session of any of the great museums of
natural history. One was captured by
Professor Jordan at Wilmington, and was
considered a great prize. Since coming
here the Professor has secured eight fine
specimens, showing that the fish is quite
plentiful here, and that the habitat OF the
species is not confined to the Antarctic
Seas, as was supposed
A CHALLENGE Fl. Bogardus has
challenged C. A. Loud to shoot for $500
side from traps to benamed by Loud, Loud
to use three of the Bogardus traps, and
adds: "0r | will shoot him a match from
three of my traps, both to use .the same
traps, and let him shoot at $50 glass balls
to my 1000. The match to come off in
any large city that we can mutually agree
upon. Now, all Mr.. Loud has to do, if
these propositions are acceptable, is to for
ward $780, as forfeit, to your office, and
will cover it, and the balance of the money
to be put up on the ground ON the day of
shooting"
TRAP SHOOTING. -The Enos bill to pro-
hibit trap-shooting is simply farcical. Why
not prevent duck-shooting? Ten times
more ducks are shot on the water than
pigeons from traps. They are both food
birds. Is it more cruel to shoot pigeon
from trap than from perch or on the
wing? Certainly not The Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in
New York, after thorough inquiry, came to
the conclusion that there is 10 reason for
prohibiting trap-shooting. Trap-shooting
teaches the hunter accuracy, and thus, in
reality, lessons the pain incident to hunting.
FIsHCULTURE IN OHIO The hatchery
at Toledo under charge of Hon. E. ID. Pot
ter is reported to be one of the finest in
the country. There are now in the troughs
1000 000 white-f fish eggs, 10000 brook
trout eggs and so, 600 schoodic, or land
locked salmon eggs, and something over
100000 young quinnat salmon ready for
planting. Our informant who visited it
last week tells us that the temperature of
the water there has averaged 40, against
"a last winter, which will probably bring
the Matching nearly month earlier.
SHEEPMEN on the plains of Kern county
are making loud complaints of the increase
in the stock of coyotes. One of them
dragged dead carcass, making a circle of
halt mile around his camp, then put
pieces of poisoned meat on sticks about
foot long, stuck in the ground along the
trail of the carcass, and waited for morn
ing. At daylight he counted fourteen
dead coyotes, most of which did not get
more than five PAGES from the stakes.
THE Folsom tournament, Westinghouse
Birthday, will be a fine affair. Shooting
will begin at 10 A. NJ, and will be at
twelve single birds, twenty-on yards rise,
no larger than II gauge to be permitted.
Entries will be limited to thirty, at So
each, and the entrance money is to be re-
turned in the way of cash prizes, ranging
from so upward.
FoALs.-J. H. Shorthouse. NJ. Ill. D.,
in communication to Belts Life condemns
the present craze in England for early foals
and IN advocacy of return to the old sys-
tenn by which the age of horses was counted
from the lst of May, contends that the
present system is insensate, and has not
single point to be urged in its favor.
CARP put into ponds by the Fish Com
missioners recently have been seen and ap-
pear to be thriving, 1t viii be two years
before the product of these fish can be
scattered by the Commissioners into all
the warm rivers and sloughs in the interior
OF the State.
LAND-LocKED SALMoN.-E. NJ. Stillwell,
Of the Maine Fish Commission, has placed
%, 900 eggs of this fisn in the new hatchery
at Moosehead Lake, a gift from the United
States Fish Commission.
STANTON, the bicycle rider, wants to
come to California to engage in a six-days'
spin. He proposes to induce several fine
bicychsts to accompany him.
WHITNEY, of last years 0mahas, is to
take Noian's place as pitcher for the
Knickerbockers in the spring season of
base ball.
A BLACK BEAR has been shot near the
Centenela, Los Angeles county, which
weighed ], 200 pounds.
A BILL is proposed to prevent coursing
during the breeding season OF the hare.