186 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 III. 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.” 
Goop Docs ror 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 different 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 
