i86 The Dog Book 



Champion Fred Elcho, son of Champion Duke Elcho, by Champion Elcho 

 Jr. Fred Elcho's dam was Red Rose, by Champion Biz out of that beau- 

 tiful bitch Champion Lady Clare. From this mating I got Currer Ruth, 

 now five and a half years old. I also bred Loo to Signal and have Currer 

 Del of that litter, and her I bred to Fred Elcho, and I now have three puppies 

 in the South a year and a half old. These are not broken yet but they 

 will be this fall, and from what I saw of their fun and frolic when South 

 recently I feel sure that they will turn out well. 



"What I am desirous of making the main point in breeding now is 

 earlier development in work; to begin earlier and have their education 

 completed sooner. I think I have got good field dogs as a foundation, for 

 Loo won first in the Irish Setter Trials in 1895 and the Members' Stakes 

 at both the Philadelphia Kennel Club Trials of 1895 and the Eastern Field 

 Trials of 1896. Currer Bell IIL was also a winner of first at the Irish 

 Club Trials of 1893. I ran Currer Ruth at the Continental Trials of 1902, 

 and hoped for better success in the Members' Stakes than I had. However, 

 Field and Fancy paid her the compliment of saying: 'Dr. Davis is to be 

 congratulated on having in Ruth a really good Irish setter.' One difficulty 

 Irish setter men have to encounter is that there is not the choice of stud 

 dogs English setter and pointer men are favoured with, and we have to 

 feel our way along." 



Good Dogs for a Poor Game District 



Both Dr. Jarvis and Dr. Davis do the most of their shooting in the 

 South, where game is plentiful, but in the immediate neighbourhood of New 

 York it is a diff^erent thing, and it takes a good dog to find anything, where 

 there is so little to find. A near neighbour, Mr. B. L. Clements, of Hacken- 

 sack, has been an Irish setter man for many years now and has bred them 

 for several generations. English setters of great reputation have been 

 brought from New York and elsewhere to try out these reds, but victory 

 has always been with the home talent. One of his dogs, Iceberg, was sent 

 South a few seasons ago and four hundred and five quail were shot to his 

 points in ten days. On snipe he is really a wonderful dog, and to these 

 Irish setters fall quite a respectable bag of woodcock and quail in the sea- 

 son. Somewhat doubting the probability of seeing any woodcock so close 

 to home, we at first laughed at the idea suggested by Mr. Clements one day 



