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is to starve them until they are -willing to eat scraps or mush. 

 The use of vegetables as valuable articles of dog diet is also 

 too much neglected. Mange, and other kindred diseases of 

 the akin and blood, would be much less common if vegetables 

 were fed more. They possess anti-scorbutic qualities of a 

 high order. Dogs soon become very fond of boiled cabbage, 

 and there is nothing more healthy. Even scraps from the 

 table should be boiled before being fed. We once had one of 

 those rare individuals, a cook who took a real interest in our 

 dogs, and who was willing to exert herself for their benefit 

 without being driven to it. This model of a cook had an iron 

 pot on purpose for the dogs, into which the table scraps were 

 all thrown. Every second or third day it wa3 put on the fire 

 with sufficient water, and, when thoroughly boiled, the mess 

 was thickened with corn meal. This when cold could be cut, 

 with a knife, and was very palatable. "Stonehenge" gives 

 the proportion of meat which a dog should be allowed as ten 

 per cent. Bones are excellent, as they prevent an accumula- 

 tion of tartar on the teeth and promote a secretion of saliva. 

 Young puppies, of course, must have milk, but this should 

 invariably be boiled and, at first, thickened with flour to the 

 consistency of cream. When oat meal is fed it sometimes 

 causes a looseness of the bowels, in which case the quantity 

 should be diminished and other food given. If the bowels 

 are constipated, oat meal is the best thing to feed, but it 

 should always be thoroughly boiled to bring out its nutritious 



qualities. 



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Fleas.— We have heard of more complaints than usual 

 this year from owners of dogs of the superabundance of fleas. 

 The usiial remedies against these pests appear to have failed, 

 and there are great outcries for a panacea. Flea powder, in- 

 stead of being " sure death," appears only to have bothered 

 the fleas a little. But in a majority of cases it is not properly 

 applied. We know of one instance in which a family wero 

 actually compelled to leave their house on account of fleas. 

 A pet dog, whose coat had become infested with the vermin, 

 was thoroughly rubbed with insect powder in the house, the 

 result of which was that the fleas took refuge in the carpets, 

 from which they could not be dislodged until the carpets had 

 been taken up, well shaken and treated with naphtha. When 

 insect powder is to be used it should be rubbed in the dog's 

 hair while at some distance from his kennel, and a good wash- 

 ing afterward would do no harm and perhaps remove the fleas 

 which had not been reached by the powder. When fleas get 

 a foothold in the house it is sometimes difficult to get rid of 

 them, and the following account of the experience of a cor- 

 respondent of the London Field may be of value : 



No one but those- who have known what a plague of fleas 

 is can realize it. Two cases have come under my observation, 

 both caused by the dirty people left in charge of the empty 

 houses, and confined to the one or two rooms occupied by 

 them. The rooms were cleared and washed with all sorts of 

 soaps without avail, insect powder freely sprinkled— and this 

 certainly destroys them if it reaches them — but they seemed 

 to smell it, and take refuge under the boards. I put white 

 paper across the middle of one of the rooms, and on returning 

 in a few minutes and standing on it, some hundreds of fleas 

 came from under the boards, I presume smelling blood, and 

 I could both see and hear them hopping about on the paper. 

 My opinion was asked as to whether the nuisance was suffi- 

 cient to terminate the tenancy, but as a last resource, broad 

 strips of strong brown paper were pasted across the cracks m 

 the floor, and every crack covered— not one must be left, or 

 it will be labor lost This effectually and immediately ended 

 the nuisance, and the same plan being adopted in the second 

 case I refer to, the result was the same. The trouble is great, 

 no doubt, but the nuisance is greater, and fleas multiply 

 rapidly. 



¥m F.LE a. Powder Ln,i ukk Dogs ? — A correspondent writes 

 from Peoria, 111., under date of October 2, 1878, as follows : 

 " I noticed in issue of September 26 an article in which the 

 writer was not certain whether to lay the cause of his dog's 

 sickness to the use of the powder or to the chain of coinci- 

 dents which he stated. I would corroborate partially his ex- 

 perience with the use of the powder. I have a setter biich 

 puppy, three months old. Twice within the past three or 

 four months 1 have used the powder on her. I sprinkled it 

 on, using a small pepper-box, and rubbing the powder well 

 into the hair. On each occasion, within ten or fifteen minutes 

 after using, she has been taken with violent vomiting. She 

 showed no other signs of any other sickness in both instances, 

 her bowels being easy and regular. In both cases, as soon as 

 the vomiting had ceased, I gave her all the milk she would 

 drink, and it seemed to help her, for she commenced playing 

 at once, the same as usual. I think there is no question but 

 what the powder made her sick. Following the idea up, I 

 went to a friend of mine, who is a druggist, and got a copy 'of 

 the thirteenth edition of the ' United Slates Dispensatory,' by 

 Wood & Bache, and found out that pyre-thrum earnattm and 

 ■pyrethrum roseum was used a gre-it deal in the Caucasus upon 

 insects which are apt to infest the person of man and animals, 

 as well as bedding and sleeping apartments. It acts Very de- 

 structively, first stupefying and then killing them. It does 

 not appear to be poisonous to man, though it is said to cause 

 some confusion of head to those who sleep in close apartments 

 where much of it is used. The demands for the powder have 

 much increased of late, and it is said to be adultorated with 

 the leaves and stems of the plant. The powder I used was as 

 above, being known in plain English as Persian or Caucasian 

 insect powder. So fully have I concluded .that it was the 

 powder that made her sick, that I have decitled to use no 

 more of it, for it seems very feasible to me that if the fumes 

 of it are strong enough to affect a human being that it must 

 certainly be strong enough to affect a puppy, and especially 

 so as she is liable to get more or less of it in her mouth when 

 trying to work the fleas from off the body. I hope to hear of 

 the experience of others through your columns before long, 

 and have no doubt but what 1 have said may have the desired 

 effect. F. 0. 



An iMWiKATioNAi Dog Show.— The following letter from 

 Mr. Hugh Dalziel, a gentleman well known in connection 

 with sporting topic*, mora particularly as regards dogs, appears 



in the current issue of the London Field. We consider the 

 projsct feasible, and will do what we can to co-operate with 



1 pro a iters. If a satisfactory arrangement could he made 

 with one of the steamship companies, we have no doubt that 

 some dogs would be sent from here : 



8ib — Since the Royal Agricultural Society have arranged 

 to hold their next annual show in London, and to give to it in 

 some respects an international character, several sportsmen and 

 other gentlemen who take an interest in dogs have spoken to 

 me of the desirability of arranging au exhibition of dogs of 

 international scope, to be held on the same dates as the Royal 

 Agricultural Society's meeting. 



v that such a scheme, carried out in a liberal spirit, 

 and worked by a committee of practical men, would meet 

 with very general support in this country; and I have no 

 doubt that our French and other Continental neighbors 

 would reciprocate the compliment paid by so many English 

 exhibitors to their dog shows by exhibiting at ours ; and even 

 our American cousins, who are now "going" for dog shown 

 with great ardor, would doubtless he represented. 



1 am quite aware of the numerous difficulties in the way 

 of carrying out successfully a proposition so extensive in it's 

 designs ; but where there are no obstacles to overcome there 

 is no honor, and rarely any good to be gained ; and my faith 

 in the power of Englishmen, combined and working for a 

 common object, to do anything and everything, possible and 

 impossible, is almost infinite. 



My own opinion is that the Kennel Club is the best organi- 

 zation, or should at least form the nucleus of any organi- 

 zation, for carrying out the scheme I have broached. Thank- 

 ing you, in anticipation, for the insertion of this letter, which 

 is written at the request of several friends, and with a view to 

 call out the opinions of others willing to aid in making the 

 project a practical success, I will conclude by saying that, 

 should the idea meet with general approval, and an influential 

 committee be formed, I will gladly give my services on the 

 working committee. Hugh Daxzibl. 



Thornton Heath, Croydon. 



Birmingham Dog Show. — The annual dog show at Bir- 

 mingham, England, is probably looked uoon as the most im- 

 portant of any held in Great Britain, not" that the entries are 

 larger, for the number is usually limited to one- thousand, and 

 the shows of the KeBnel Club at the Crystal Palace and Alex- 

 andra Palace generally greatly exceed these figures iu the 

 number of exhibits. The Birmingham show, however, is 

 about the oldest established of any, and competition seems 

 closer there than in most other places. The dates fixed for 

 this year's show are December 2d, 3d, 4th and 5th. The 

 judging will take place on Saturday, 30th November. The 

 prize list is much the same as in previous years, a number of 

 cups being given by various manufacturers and tradesmen, 

 and Messrs. Spratt, dog biscuit manufacturers, give a special 

 prize of a silver cup, value £25, for the best bloodhound, 

 deerhound, greyhound, pointer, setter or retriever ; and Mr. 

 R. LI. Pureed Llewellin gives a silver cup, value il'O, for the 

 handsomest dog or bitch in the show used with the gun, com- 

 petition confined to pointers, setters, retrievers, and all span- 

 iels except fancy spaniels. The dogs will this year, for the 

 first time, be fed on Spratt's patent dog biscuits. Entries 

 close on 1st November, to Mr.- George Beach, Athenaeum 

 Buildings, Temple Row, Birmingham. 



"English Kennel Clitb Dos Show.— The twelfth dog 

 show of the English Kennel Club will be held at the Alex- 

 andra Palace, near London, on December 12th, 13th, 14th 

 and 16th. It seems a little remarkable that a Sunday should 

 be allowed to intervene between the last two days of the 

 show, but the club is rather noted for eccentric movements of 

 Uis kind. The dates fixed are a week later than those on 

 which the Birmingham show is to be held. 



Blood Will Tell. — A correspondent writes us from St. 

 Paul, Minnesota, that a few days since he took his Gordon 

 setter out for the first time and, without any education at all, 

 he went to work like an old stager, and our friend shot twenty 

 five prairie chickens over him in just two hours' time. This- 

 we must confess, is something remarkable, although we know 

 of a Gordon setter puppy, who, at seven months old, had 

 more than 100 birds killed over her points. The puppy in 

 this case scarcely required any field breaking. Young point- 

 ers sometimes take to field work almost naturally, and, as a 

 rule, are much more easily broken than setters. 



— Mr. L. W. Holman, of Worcester, Mass., is owner of a 

 Gordon setter bitch, whose traiuing appears to have been 

 brought to perfection. She points at the command, stiffening 

 her tail and raising one foot, carries lighted cigars and pipes, 

 picks up small coins, etc., and does it all with a sweet smile. 

 While we believe that, as a rule, trick dogs are never of much 

 use in the field, yet Gypsey is said to work remarkably well 

 on game. She is well bred, being by Mr. Lathrop's Dick out 

 of St. Kilda, through whom she traces back to Idstone's cele- 

 brated Kent. 



Names Claimed. — Mr. Derwent H. Smith, of this city, 

 claims the name of Dash for his pointer dog pup, bred by 

 Mr. Walker, of Sheufiehl, England, got by Don, out of 

 champion Lady, No. 1,192, K. C, S. B,; Don by Corporal 

 out of Fan, Corporal by General out of Helen, and Fan by 

 Bumper out of Veuus II. Also the Dame of Buff for his 

 pointer bitch pup, by Mr. Thorpe Bartram's Special out of his 

 Belie. Both puppies imported by Ss. Denmark at the be- 

 ginning of September last. 



Sept. 17.— Mr. George E. Poyneer, of Clinton, Iowa, claims 

 the name of Gowrie for his Chesapeake Bay retriever dog, 

 whelped February 17, 1878, presented him by his friend Geo. 

 W. Kierstead, of Laporte, lnd., out of his Nellie by his Sun- 

 day, 



—Mr. D. P. Boswortb, of this city, claims the name of 

 Clare for his liver and white cocker bitch, whelped October 

 -1th, 1877, by Dr. .Morris' Nimrod, out of J. C. DowUng's 

 imported Gypsie, Clare is now in whelp to Mr. Golf's 

 Dan ly. 



—Mr. Theodora Meyer, of Jersey City, claims the name of 



Lady for his liver and white pointer biloh puppy, whelped 



' Aug, I. Sire, Austin's Sam ; dam, Davis' Fan. 



Breeding Notes.— Mr, S. B. Dilley's Countess Royal, 

 winner of first prize and special, with Royal Fan, for best 

 brace at St. Paul, litter sister to champion Ranger, was, on 

 September 98, bred to Ihe St. Louis Kennel Club's champion 

 Bow. Something extra should be looked for, as this combines 

 the blood of two of the most celebrated strains of pointers 

 now in the United States. 



—Mr. Theo. Meyer's pointor, Nell,' by Oumminga' Don, 

 out of Davis' Fan, was bred on the 5th inst. to Mr. Cosgrove's 

 imported dog, Sport. 



—Mr. G. H. Goodrich, of Toledo, Ohio, has bred his setter 

 bitch, Nellie, to Mr. Demuth'a Dash. 



—Mr. J. It. Schuyler, of Bloomsburg, Pa., has bred his 

 red Irish setter Nell II. (Piunket-Ne'l) to champion Elcho 

 (Sept, 21). 



Leiokbtkr-Daht.— Dr. L. H. Smith's Dart has whelped 

 nine puppies to Leicester. 



—The lemon and while pointer bitch Psyche IT., byCal 

 out of Psyche (winner of the first prize at the last New York 

 Dog Show), has whelped a litter of ten puppies, six dog and 

 four bitches, sired, by Sensation. Psyche II., is the property 

 of Mr. F. H. Fuller, of Springfield, Mass. 



—Mr. G. H. Goodrich, of Toledo, Ohio, has made the fol- 

 lowing sales: Black and tan setter bitch, Tama, to D. S. 

 Wilbur, Iowa. Black and white and ticked setter bitch 

 (no name) Demuth's Dash, out of his Nellie, to EC. W. White, 

 Yanktown, Dakota Territory. Both purchasers are highly 

 pleased with their docs. Mr. Goodrich has received from O. 

 flerbeck, La Crosse, Wis., the bitch Cerise, of Royal Duke, 

 out of Queen Mux Flora. She is now in training and doing 

 well. 



—Mr. G. E. Osborn, of New Haven, advertises for sale his 

 red Irish setter bitch Dew, of imported stock. Dew traces 

 back to the celebrated stock of the Marquis of Waterford, 

 and from her pedigree, we should imagine, would make a 

 capital brood bitch. 



—Mr. S. B. Dilley has sold his Rough (Ranger-Minnesota), 

 pointer pup, to J. C. Meloy, Hastings ; Hanger III., Ranger- 

 Queen pup, to F. H. Rockwell ; a Ranger-Dolly pup to John 

 Schrink, of Toledo; Ranger-Fleet pups to Dr L. C/Gould, 

 Lake City, Minn.; Ansley Grey, Bismark-Dakota ;" and a 

 Queen-Ranger bitch pup to Chas. Scott, Lake Elmo, Minn. 



Death. — Dr. Edward J. Forster, Boston, lost his Gordon 

 setter pup Argyle (Allison's Reuben— Tawger's Nellie), Oct. 

 3, 1878, from meningitis following distemper. 



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CAN THE RACING CUTTER CRUISE? 



AN impression is abroad that however well adapted as a 

 racer in the short chop of the English Channel, the 

 British racing cutter is but a poor cruiser, a wet, dangerous 

 and unwholesome diver, always on her side, half awash, with 

 seas tumbling in over the bows and washing out over the 

 taffrail. This is one of a number of popular misapprehensions 

 which we deem it necessary to clear up, so thai in coming 

 days the amateur may be in position to judge intelligently for 

 himself as to the kind of craft he wants and not remain at the 

 mercy of his builder's prejudices or predilections. This Is 

 what the London Field says concerning the modern racing 

 cutter of Great Britaiu : " So far from racing yachts being 

 unable to encounter bad weather and to keep the sea it is 

 notorious that no weather prevents them shifting ports and 

 they go out and make passages when the owner of the cruiser 

 would as soon think of 'shooting the falls' in a 'sailing 

 canoe,' as trusting himself out in his old bos with rotten 

 spars, threadbare canvas, and threshed-out gear. Only last 

 summer the Jullanar came out of Kingstown in a hard breeze 

 of wind— magnified by the 'cruisers' into a irale— and steed 

 sea, and forced a passage round the Land's End to Falmouth 

 under trysail, and actually beat the Dublin and Falmouth 

 steamer by hours, although the wind was a regular muzzier 

 Twenty years' experience has taught us that for comfort' 

 safety and expedition in making passages there is nothing 

 like the racing yacht. The fact is that a good and successful 

 racing cutter is necessarily the best cruiser, and the "half- 

 tide-rock" and 'all-lead-aud-wings' metaphors are nothing 

 but the weak sarcasms of a scared landsman. A modern 

 cruising yacht— built as such— has now usually a lead keel, 

 iron floors, and generally some lead ballast ; and the reason 

 for this is simply that experience has taught those who really 

 know what a yacht is and can account for her behavior that 

 she is all the better tor them. When, some thirty years ago, 

 we turned the 'cod's head and mackerel's tail' end for end' 

 every one was delighted to find that in a head sea the long 

 bow, instead of pitching twice into the same hole, would 

 smash through the combers without stopping, and we imagine 

 that no amount of drawing-room criticism will restore the V 

 bow.' 1 



Testimony of so clear and positive a nature, eomin°- from 

 such a source, it will be difficult indeed to gainsay or even to 

 set aside; it should certainly go far to relieve the public mind 

 of the false impression now in vogue concerning the cruisine 

 abilities of the cutter, vwrewng. Murid, N. Y. Y. c with 

 40ft. od load-line and 9ft. beam, has been knocklng'about 

 the Eastern coast- all season, and has given the most thorough 

 satisfaction. Instead of beiDg a diver, she is a far abler and 

 easier craft at tea than any sloop, and bears out to the 

 fullest extent the testimony in the cutter's favor quoted 

 from the Field above. It is not our object in these few 

 hues to hold up the cutter to our readers' admiration, but 

 simply to correct some popular misconceptions conoer in/* 



