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twenty field and 107 cocker spaniels, a total of 135 dogs in twenty-nine 

 classes. Duplicate entries, not in vogue in 1890, raised the total entry in 

 spaniels to a paying basis this year, but it will be seen that the large spaniels 

 have by no means increased in number in keeping with the cockers. 



The entry at New York in 1890 shows upon what lines we were even 

 then breeding field spaniels and the close connection they had with cockers. 

 The challenge dog class had two of Mr. Willey's imported Newton Abbots, 

 Don and Laddie, both field-spaniel bred, and Black Prince, Mr. A. C. 

 Wilmerding's well-known winner, by Benedict out of a Canadian-bred 

 cocker bitch named Madcap. There was no entry in challenge bitches, 

 but in open dogs, black, there was a new dog named Baron imported by 

 Mr. G. W. Folsom, from Mr. Spurgin's kennel. This was a beautiful 

 quality dog, and he won easily from Bolus, a dog of whose breeding we can 

 say nothing. In the class for black bitches were three bred by Mr. D. S. 

 Hammond, and by Newton Abbot Darkie out of Bertie, a bitch of mixed 

 cocker breeding. Two others were shown in this class, one by the cocker 

 Young Obo, out of a Jacobs field spaniel bitch, and the other of cocker 

 breeding on both sides. In the open class for liver-coloured spaniels 

 Mr. Payne. won with his imported Nevrton Abbot Skipper; second going 

 to a brother of Bolus, already mentioned, and third to a Canadian of cocker 

 breeding. Two black and tans were in front in the next class, by Glen- 

 cairn out of Lady Abbot, and therefore straight bred. Third to Adonis, 

 by the cocker Hornell Mikado. It will thus be seen that the native field 

 spaniels were still being bred very much as they had been in England ten 

 to fifteen years before. 



But while use was being made of cockers in this manner, the same 

 breeding was not at all useful in the cocker classes, for the only two so bred, 

 shown by Mr. Willey, gained only commendations. We believe we are 

 correct in saying that the reason this breeder resorted to the field-spaniel 

 blood was because he was even at that early date aware that the cockers 

 were becoming smaller, and he endeavoured by the field-spaniel cross to 

 keep up their size. But he told us that he did not like it, and what else 

 he might have done in the same direction was put a stop to by his soon 

 afterward having to give up in a great measure his breeding operations. 



With the dropping out of Mr. Jacobs and the increasing prominence 

 of Mr. Woolland's kennel in England, we naturally find a similar shift on 

 the part of American buyers. Mr. Kirk secured Bridford Ruby, a bitch 



