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To use the proper medicines in the very beginning is the 

 most important, no doubt; and when I notice a puppy's 

 stools come of a gray clay color, calomel, in five to six grain 

 doses, has always the desired effect of regulating the bowels. 

 The patient should have special care, warm quarters, should 

 be kept quiet, should be fed better than usual, but a less 

 quantity; and in case of failing appetite you should use first 

 some qiiinine. especially if the patient be feverish, and some- 

 times, in very high fever, tincture of aconite, in one or two 

 drop doses, as well as five to ten drops of Fowler's solution 

 of arsenic for a short time, as an alterative. 



Yet, with all due care and attempts at half-way scientific 

 treatment, I' must admit that there is a good dear of "Dutch 

 luck" in pulling a puppy through a bad case of distemper, 

 and having him prove sound afterward. In cases where 

 the puppy is not permanently cured, he would be better 

 dead than to suffer for years, or for life, with chorea; it is 

 but an act of mercy to chloroform him. I am not so san- 

 guine in regard to curing distemper as I was ten years ago. 



For breaking young dogs for the field, I usually engage 

 the se vices of a specialist in that line. My youngsters are 

 rarely handled before they are a year old, and over dis- 

 temper, when they are sent south with a professional 

 trainer. 



Below, the standard of the Irish Setter Club of America 

 is given. It does not suit us all; but when it was adopted, 

 all questions were fully discussed, and the points varying 

 from the English standard are those in which our American 

 dogs required improvement. , 



STANDARD AND POINTS OF JUDGING THE RED IRISH SETTER. 



ADOPTED BY THE IRISH SETTER CLUB OF THE UNITED STATES, JULY, 1886. 



Head 10 Tail 8 



Eyes 5 Coat and feather 8 



Ears 5 Color 8 



Neck 5 Size, style, and general appearance 14 



Body 15 



Shoulders, fore legs, and feet 12 Total 100 



Hind legs 10 



Head should be long and lean. The skull oval (from ear 



