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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 Newton 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 
blcod 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 
