Management of Shows 65 



in which the numbers appear and the dogs' numbers can be quickly checked 

 off on that. The board to which the checked record is affixed can be hung 

 at the ring side to be referred to at once for an absentee. The dogs can 

 also be checked out in the same way by striking a different-coloured mark 

 through the number. 



An attendant should have charge of dogs arriving by express prior to 

 the opening day, in order to have them watered, fed and exercised. As to 

 the work of feeding, and attending to the cleaning of the building, that is very 

 well understood everywhere. Still there are several ways in vogue. That 

 at Boston to our mind is much the best plan. One person has entire charge 

 of the feeding. He has a trolley on which there are a supply of clean 

 dishes and a large tub of food. Starting at number one he goes through 

 the entire show with remarkable celerity. He has a long slip of paper on 

 which are put down the numbers of all dogs the owners of which prefer to 

 feed their dogs themselves. Two men go with him, and as one pulls the trol- 

 ley the other fills the dishes and puts them in the stalls, the work being done 

 at a slow walking pace down one side of an aisle and back on the other side. 

 By the time the last dog has his feed-dish, it is time to start at the beginning 

 again and take up the used dishes and untouched food. No dishes con- 

 taining food are in this way allowed to remain in the stalls or under the 

 benches. 



The plan followed at some shows to curtain the benches below the 

 line of stalls is a bad one, and at one I attended recently everything was 

 thrown or swept under the curtain and left throughout the time the show 

 lasted. It was no wonder that the last two days the help was kept busy 

 sprinkling the aisles with disinfectant! Clean the stalls out every morning, 

 put in clean straw, sweep the aisles as frequently as there is any need, and 

 at least twice a day, taking all sweepings outside the show-room imme- 

 diately. Get a disinfectant that is not worse than the original smell, and use 

 it no more than is necessary. The broom is the thing to employ as far as 

 possible in place of disinfectants. 



Little need be said about the conduct of the ring, for the superintendent, 

 if no one else, will know that judges' books and stewards' books are necessary 

 and should be prepared beforehand. The outside steward, if there are 

 two, should use a catalogue in preference to the numbered slips from the 

 stewards' book. The catalogue can be worked from with a better under- 

 standing than the mere numbered slip. At far too many of our shows one 



