FOREST AND STREAM 



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— Dr. Wm. Jams, of Claremont, N H., owner of cham- 

 pion Elcho, has presented to Mr. Alex. Pope, Jr., author of 

 "Upland Game Birds," etc., an Elcho-Kose puppy, which ia 

 said to be remarkably handsome. By the way, Mr. Pope 

 will be in this city next week and would like to make studies 

 of some celebrated dogs. 



—Mr. H. Lyman Biugbam, of San Antonio, Texas, claims 

 the name of Don for his Irish setter puppy, whelped May 14, 

 oat of Rosalind (kennel name Nellie), Ranger-Floss, by 

 Bronte, bred by L.|H. Smith. Also the name of Rod for B red 

 Irish Better puppy whelped July 4, out of Carrie I., by St. 

 Louis Kennel Club Berkley. 



—Mr. Malcolm Greene, of Boston, claims the name of Doc- 

 tor for his red Irish setter puppy by champion Elcbo out of 

 Mr. J. Fottler Jr.'s Eileen. 



—Mr. W. H. Barnard, of Wilmington, N. 0., claims the 

 name Carolina Duke for a black and white St. Cloud-Dream 

 pup. purchased of E. P. Welsh, York, Pa. St. Cloud is by 

 Rob Roy. 



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—The Irish setter bitch Vic, owned by Mr. Charles Colt, of 

 Greenville, Penn., whelped on the M inst. eight puppies— five 

 dogs and three bitches— to Major Hess' Gordon setter Judge. 

 The puppies are all black and tan. 



—Mr. A. S. Guild's (Lowell, Mass.) native English setter 

 Belle (Cod man's dog Nellie- Fay stock) whelped, Nov. 29, 

 two dogs and four bitches, sired by George A. Thayer's Daniel 

 Webster, winner of first prize native English class, Massachu- 

 setts Kennel Club Bench Show, 1878. 



—The red Irish setter bitch Nell II. (Plunket-Nell), owned 

 by Mr. J. K. Schuyler, of Bloomsburg, Pa., whelped, Novem- 

 ber 23, eight puppies— five dogs and three bitches— sired by 

 Elcho. 



—The fox terrier Vixen, the property of Al. Watts, of Bos- 

 ton, whelped to his Turk (Rag-Vanity), December 2, 1878, 

 four pups— two dogs and.two bitches. Turk was first prize 



winner at Boston in "78. 



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THE DOGS I HAVE OWNED AND THE 



DOGS 1 HAVE KNOWN-NO. 1, 



BY FODGEBS. 



AN early education was with dogs, having, as it were, 

 teen brought up with them, my first recollections dat- 

 ing to a period when old— then young— Lion and myself 

 rolled together on the rug in front of an old-fashioned lire- 

 place of a winter's evening, two unsophisticated, happy 

 young pups, little caring for or heeding the admonitions not 

 to roll into the fire, doing it so often that a screen had to be 

 improvised to save Lion's tail aud my hoad from being done 

 to a turn. Lion and myself formed then and there an undy- 

 ing friendship, encouraged by the sober nod of approval of 

 old Betsy (Lion's mother) and smilingly approved by my 

 own, inasmuch as it kept me from other mischief ; while old 

 Sport, a black and white foxhound, looked on with grave face 

 from his corner, being of a serious turn of mind and some- 

 what lethargic in habits— a lazy dog, as he was denominated. 

 But when my father took down the old curly maple-stocked 

 rifle, with its improved lock, having been, after much deliber- 

 ation and many misgivings, sent to New York to be convert- 

 ed from a flint-lock to a percussion, the copper caps affording 

 me much amusement as I threw them into the flre— and, by 

 the same token, got nicely warmed for it, the associations in 

 my mind being a combination of rattan and caps ; I say, 

 when that much revered rifle was taken down from the 

 crotches over the mantel preparatory to being overhauled, 

 then you should see Master Sport. He whined ; his tail was 

 as rigid as an iron bar ; his eye flashed, and every nerve and 

 muscle came in play. He was all excitement and action. He 

 saw in the note of preparation a day in the woods— a run for 

 deer. Old Betsy would rouse up and be no less excited, 

 While Lion and self looked on and wondered, looking at each 

 other inquiringly. Lion would answer my inquiry with a 

 short, quick bark, a spasmodic movement of the tail, which, 

 trunslaled, meant, and I understood him as well as if he 

 talked, "Hang me! if I know what is the matter with ma 

 and the old governor (Sport). Just see 'em!" As Lion and 

 I grew older we came to know more about it— especially 

 when I was promoted to an old-fashioned smooth-bore and 

 the responsibility of putting the dogs out— and a merry time 

 I had of it, with those three dogs in a leash (why not a leash 

 of three as well as two, critical reader?). Once on top of 

 Cold Mountain, bordering on the banks of the Susquehanna, 

 not very far from Otsego Lake, my work began, and espe- 

 cially after the dogs once caught scent. 1 generally accom- 

 panied them for the first half-mile in a spread eagle position, 

 being "snaked " through bushes, dry brush, pine limbs, pro- 

 jecting knots of falling trees, vainly endeavoring all the while 

 to release the dogs, who were tearing frantically along, and 

 only when choked down and nearly suffocated did they let 

 me get near enough to cut the straps and " let 'em go," while 

 I sat down on a log to recover breath and wipe the blood 

 from my lacerated hands and face and contemplate the rem- 

 nant of my clothes ; then to follow the trail back to the place 

 I dropped the old smooth-bore, and, according to instructions, 

 I then trotted off a couple of miles, may be five, to a station 

 or " runway," generally the most unlikely one for a deer 

 ever to put in au appearance. But I remember on one occa- 

 sion, having laid the old rifle down. I was pleasurably occupied 

 in paddling my naked feet in the cool waters of the creek, 

 when I was startled to hear a splash, and looking up saw a 

 doe stopping to drink not len yards distant, and after slaking 

 her thirst, raised her head, looked at me a moment, then 

 catching the sound of old Lion's voice and the more subdued 

 tones of old Bet and Sport, she pricked up her ears, snorted 

 and bouuded away as I sat stupidly gazing after her, never 

 once thinking of my rifle, which was twenty yards away. I 

 did not mention it when reaching home, but my governor was 

 not a man to be fooled. He knew the habits of the deer too 

 well and the direction of the dogs, that the deer must have 

 gone down through the canyon where I was stationed. 



It required a wholu year of industrious attention to the 

 worms on the early corn, bug hunting in the cantelope and 

 water melon patch, and kindling wood splitting to eradicate 

 the disgrace before I was allowed to place a hand on any gun 



in the house, an especial hardship in the wild pigeon season, 

 when I groaned in spirit not to be able to hie me to the 

 freshly cleared and newly sowed ground or the wheat 

 stubble, i be dry limbs of the old deadlrees showing big flocks 

 fit the blue beauties waiting lor me, and the old single-barreled 

 fowling-jifiee, that was at least thirty-eight inches long in the 

 barrel and w ; as religiously supposed by every boy in the town 

 to be a dead certainty for a pigeon ot crow on the highest 

 luanch of the tallest pine tree in the country, and with a 

 charge of niue buckshot was death to a deer a half mile away. 

 How well 1 remember its old, dark, time-stained stock and 

 hickory ramrod, and the pounds of tow for wadding that I 

 have shot away in it. Ammunition was a more serious matter 

 as boys in those days did not rejoice m an allowance to be 

 able to chink veritable gold coin and buy velocipedes at 

 twenty-live dollars each as in these heinous days. Our coins 

 were copper,aml our ammunition generally obtained by raids on 

 eggs, putting away a few at a time until accumulating suffi- 

 cient to constituted respectable negotiation at the village store 

 in barter for powder and shot. My rather being a lawyer, ran 

 muchly to legal company : and 1 can remember with what 

 awe I peeped in at the window or half-open door and contem- 

 plated the highly-brushed, straigbt-up white hair of Chan- 

 cellor Kent, De Wilt Clinton and Judge Livingston, the latter 

 a relative whom 1 revered toan extent to render easy any such 

 thing as to be washed and scrubbed to a presentable de- 

 gree with a prospect of being introduced ; and shaking hands 

 with a real live governor tilled my soul with awe ; rash 

 promises of weeding garden, splitting cords of wood and being 

 otherwise and generally "good," barely got me clear of that 

 dreaded ceremouv. Once a year these old buffers gathered at 

 my father's house for their week's deer hunt, aud then the 

 whole village quit business and devoted their time to these 

 honored guests. Such game dinners aud such fun and laugh- 

 ter over their wine as these old boys had. Huge roasts of 

 venison garnished the ends of the table as my father sharpened 

 the carver. Good appetites, gained by a day in the woods, 

 made all draw their chairs closer, and then followed stories 

 and jokes, and the dignity of the bench, the gubernatorial 

 chair was thrown aside— they were boys again as they had 

 been in their younger days, companions at school and as law 

 students. We boys peeped in aud wondered. But what of 

 the dogs, 1 fancy you say, what has this to do with it ? Much; 

 for it was always a rule that when they came limping home 

 hours after the hunt was over, their often sore feet were washed, 

 their thirsty souls refreshed, and rugs laid for them before 

 the flre in the dining-room, and they dined with their equals— 

 the best blood of the land. I have seen the kind-hearted old 

 Chancellor call Lion to his chair at the table, pat him on the 

 head, and call him " Good old dog, bravo old dog," and give 

 him the choicest morsel from his plate ; while old Sport laid 

 his head on the knee of Governor Clinton and received his pats 

 on the head with a dignity and air of equality that only blood 

 truly gives, be it in man or dog. And now comes the sad 

 duty of chronicling tho end of these beloved members of the 

 family. 



Old Bess died a peaceful death of old age. Sport met his 

 death at the hands of an old curmudgeon of a farmer, who 

 charged him with going for his sheep while the dog was 

 searching for the scent he had lost as the deer dashed through 

 a field of scattered sheep. The man ran into his house, got 

 his gun, and shot the dog, who, though seriously wounded, 

 dragged himself homo to' die. Loving hands nursed him, 

 which he would lick in gratitude and appreciation, and when 

 at last death put an end to his sufferings, the house was 

 hushed and not a face appeared, nor was there a dry eye in it. 

 We buried him at the roots of the old old elm in the garden, 

 and planted a climbing rose over his grave, which, when 1 

 last saw it, had twined itself with its thousand supple arms 

 around the old tree nearly to its uppermost branches, and 

 yearly does it shower its white leaves on the old dog's grave, 

 the one as fresh in my memory as the other in its verdure. 



That farmer, what of him V Listen to the deserved fate of 

 a man that kills a good dog. Old Chloe, our superannuated 

 old family nurse and cook, limped three miles to the man's 

 house to harrow up his soul with mild curses, i. e., prognosti- 

 cations that no child would be born to him, no good come to 

 him, his crops would be blasted and his sheep all die. My 

 father mounted his horse and rode over to notify him that he 

 should commence legal proceedings, and then sat down and 

 wrote to the owner of the farm which the man leased. That 

 farmer's misfortunes fell thick and fast. First he married, 

 and that trouble did not end there, for his wife thrashed him 

 as a daily pastime, and then the superior attractions of the 

 village shoemaker were too much for her and she ran off with 

 him, taking most of the tangible effects of number one. Then 

 his sheep died, the lease of the farm was cancelled, then he 

 took to drinking, and coming home one night, drunk as usual, 

 drove off an embankment and broke his neck. Thus did an 

 incensed Providence remove a man who wilfully killed a 

 good dog. We boys wrote ou his tombstone : " This is the 

 man that killed old Sport," and nobody ever obliterated it. 



Old Lion, when the family broke up, went to live with the 

 old nurse, and together they lived a life of ease and quietness, 

 growing old and fat together, until one day they both died 

 peacefully, honored and respected. And thus ended the dogs 

 and dog days of my youth, dear old companions of the Bunny 

 days of childhood. 



For Forest unci Stream and Rod and Gun. 

 CANINE SKIN DISEASES— ECZEMA. 



BY MOHICAN. 



OF all the diseases of the skin which afflict dogs this is 

 the most common. It assumes many very different 

 forms— in fact, by studying it we can see almost every vari- 

 ety of lesion found upon the skin : at one time the integu- 

 ment is found dry and scaly, at another moist and watery, 

 and still again pus, or matter, exudes, which, drying, forms 

 cruBts aod scabs, it is only quite recently that these various 

 appearances have been recognized as different phases of the 

 same disease. The most concise and intelligent definition is 

 that given by Prof. Duhring : 



"Eczema is an inflammatory, acute or chronic non-conta- 

 gious disease nt the skin, characterized at its commencement 

 by the appearance cither of erythema (redness), papules (pim- 

 ples), uesicles or pustules, or a combination of these lesions, 

 accompanied by initiation (thickening of the skin) and itch- 

 ing, terminating either in discharge with the formation of 

 crusts or in the production of scales." 



The cause of this trouble may be an hereditary disposition 

 - to it j it may be the accompaniment of dyspepsia, the condi- 

 tion of the "blood found in gout or rheumatism, the latter, 

 being a common complaint with old dogs, is favorable to its 

 development. It may be produced by the external applica- 

 tion of various drugs— as mercury, sulphur and turpentine- 



used for the extermination of fleas. Irritants generally, as 

 strong soap, the presence of parasites, sudden changes of 

 temperature, will often be found the primary cause of an 

 eczema. 



When it is clearly understood that the causes are thus varied, 

 and that any irritation of the skin is liable to be followed by 

 an eczema, the confusion which exists and persists in calling 

 almost all skin diseases mange is hardly to be wondered at, 

 for true nmnge is due to either an animal or vegetable para- 

 site, the irritation of whose presence often calls out a second- 

 ary eczema. 



Eczema is not contagious unless the disease is caused as 

 just stated, when, of course, the transference of the paraBite 

 might be followed by a similar eruption. Of the four vari- 

 eties of mange, that caused by the vegetahle parasite— the 

 IriMpliyUm- fungus — is the only one which is commonly seen. 

 This is the form known unscientifically as dry or scruffy 

 mange, and is rarely accompanied by an eczema, unless per- 

 sistent scratching has been indulged in. We can thereto c 

 safely say, in most cases of skin diseases, where matter, 

 crusts and scabs arc present, that we have eczema and not 

 mange. 



When more than one dog is afflicted, or there is any sus- 

 picion of contagion, a careful search should be made for the 

 presence of a parasite before treatment is begun. 



[For information as to searching for the parasites and the 

 subject of mange generally, we refer to a somewhat extended 

 article of ours printed in the Country.'} 



Wc will, however, simply state the " shingled " appearance 

 of the hair in lined tonsurans or cup-shaped crusts in favas 

 are generally diagnostically characteristic of theaa two forma 

 of mange. 



Treatment— The cause, if known, should be removed, a 

 rheumatic dog should be treated for his rheumatism, dyspepsia 

 should be overcome by change of diet, and due judicious use of 

 tonics, and the system generally brought as near par as possi 

 ble. 



The very many forms which this disease assumes renders it 

 veiy difficult to offer any plan of treatment equally applica- 

 ble to them all without writing an entire chapter, if not a full 

 book, instead of a newspaper article. 



Crusts and scabs should be carefully removed by first soak- 

 ing with oil and then using castile soap. All dirt and other 

 extraneous matters should be carefully removed, cleanliness 

 being of the greatest importance iu attempting a cure; 



If the parts are moist, secretion still going on, the following 

 applied at. night after washing may be useful, allowing it to 

 dry on : Zinci oxide, 10 grammes ; glycerine, 10 grammes ; 

 liquoris rhimbi subaestales, 6 grammes ; arjuse calcis ad, 200 

 grammes. Mix. Use as a lotion. 



The best " all round " remedy is without doubt the oxide of 

 ziuc ointment applied once or twice a day. The objection to 

 its use being its greasy character, as it is soon rubbed ofl and 

 soils the kennel. Should a week's careful trial of the fore- 

 going fail to show any marked improvement in the disease, we 

 should advise consulting a regular physician and ask him to 

 treat the dog in the same manner as he would a human being. 



We advise going to a regular physician rather than to a 

 veterinarian, for we believe that as yet the latter have given 

 but little attention to diseases of the skin. 



|FBOK OTJB SPECIAL REFOBTER.J 



TENNESSEE FIELD TRIALS. 



Nashville, Dec. 5,1878. 



As was announced, the Field Trials, under the rules of the 

 Tennessee Sportsmen's Association, began on Monday, tho 2d, at 

 Belle Meade, the farm of Gen. W. G. Harding, about six miles 

 from this city. The place had been closely preserved during the 

 fall, and in addition about 600 quail had been turned loose to 

 doubly insure good sport. Great interest was felt in these trials 

 by aporteinen in all parts of the countrv, and in oonscquonoe the 

 attendance ia larger and tho number of dogs greater than at any 

 former meeting of tho Association. There are at least 50 dogs 

 hero, almost all the different kennel clubs are represented , besides 

 a large number of amateur sportsmen. 



The NrJiiS-EBY Stakes, for puppies under 18 months old, closed 

 with eleven entries. The whole of Monday wa3 occupied with 

 them, the race not being finished when 5 p. k. arrived. The 

 weather was bright, but the stormy weather of the preceding 

 days had oaused the birds to lie very close, and take refuge in the 

 woods and thick covers, so that they were hard to find, and hence 

 rendered tho work very slow. Tuesday morning was cloudy and 

 cold with considerable wind, which was very unfavorable, though 

 by 10 o'clock the puppy BtakeB wore decided in favor of Pearl, with 

 Fannie, 2d, and Dan, 3d. 



Pcrrv Stakes. 



Prutrte Hose... 



Jennie 



Lass O'Gowtv.. 



Dan 



Fannie 



Pearl 



Coin 



BrecKenridge.. 

 LormaXloon... 



Belle 



Quido 



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The falling to malce points is called by Uio rales " Lost Opportnnl- 



sold to Mr. John 



ties, 



Pearl, the winner, Is out of Daisy by Lake. She v 

 Nichols, of Syracuse, N. Y., for $200. 



The Champion SiAKES^-For this there were 21 entries, mould- 

 ing some of the finoBt dogs in the country, such as Gladstone, 

 Bow, Jet, Joe Jr., Buck Jr., Drake, Whip, Nellie, Lincoln and 

 Romeo. The first two dogs cast off were Erin and St. Elmo. 

 They woraed for at least an hour before finding birds, Erin 

 flushed one, which, according to rules, was marked against him. 

 His owner became so augrv at this that he withdrew him, bnt 

 after some time he claimed that he did not know that any change 

 had been made in the rules with regard to flushes, aud asked to be 

 allowed to put down bis dog again with the mark of demerit to re- 

 main against him. The judges agreed to allow him to do so. 

 While this question was being discussed Mr. Adams' dog Drake 

 was called and cast off. Drake is a handsome white dog with 

 black and tan spots. Ho was not lone in finding birds, and made 

 two fine points iu a few minutes, He finally scored 5 and was 

 taken up. St. Elmo, at this time, was without a single point, and 

 penalized with two false onus, his owner therefore withdrew him. 

 Erin was then put down for the second time, and St. Elmo was 

 r*laoedby Mr. Bryson'a Whip. Whip is also a white and black 



