Oct. 26, 1883-1 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



251 



he look a& if a cam or anything else would scare him? I don't 

 think be would run unless it was after a peck of oats or a load 

 of hay." 



''Look, the dog" are leathering and soon will flush the birds, 

 ami if you wiil drive slow perhaps I can bag a hird or tiWO, 

 You are sure that your horse is not afraid of a tun? Steady ! 

 Now look at that' old dog bow careful she 

 anil away goes a handsome covey and the g 

 ■ an. But what isthe troultl 

 is going like the wind, and 1 can just mat 



In en to try and stop this heap of bone! 

 shoot right our of nay wagon for?" The old 



onto 'i with a gate, and both of t: 

 upon terra (irma ouee more. After lookiu 



tug; that nothing is broken, uiv friem 



was to ire; 'm harness, which he found i 



n .,..■■,,, , ., i, . ,,, 1 ■• ■- ■ 



i wonder you did not shoot the ho tini 



(twos nothing unusual far ma, as [shotai 

 me a chance. The dogs are returning, each h 



next business 

 right. '■Well. 

 r I ever see'd! 

 ned him that 

 ivay, only give 

 ing a bird, and 



us nothing is b 



oken, I 



think we had better try it again. 



"Nor, much; I'll 1 



8 darned 



if you shall ride any further with 



.in .- 







am lei'l 





iil i - it tor "snooting right out of 



the ■wagon.'" Si 





td .u my stopping place, and as I 



count my 'si da 





ven, makiiig twenty-eight grouse in 



twndioMejil f 





satined that my bag will convince 



| 





. birds can be killed with those new- 



- 



1, 





al, last, and if vou ever saw a man 



•!: •-! -t fallen i 





>Btage driver, when I made known 



to him the numb 





s killed during my two days' hunt. 



-IVhII, I swan! i 



vho'd a tl 



Blight it : never knew so manv birds 



Killed in two da\ 



r be •!" 



v. 01 1st What the boys would say 



now ii. i 



v Jove! I 



on'l want to five. me adog, do vou?" 



Noon finds in- ii' 





v IS it. Mr. W . have the I--- failed 



all thel.ir.: 





n ■" "U eii, about all, i "i"- ii. 



perlmi-- 





'.•'elaopany' .f one offfle 



boys, trhoi 



- 1 i E •-' 



u'c. lie wants to see how the dogs 



work. Soon 

 ,-ie_ bird. Th 



J*** 



-e. found, and I bring down a~quar- 

 •e worked down and soon we are. 

 :i number were missed; they flushed 





• bunted 



with curs in the early fall. Before 

 making thirty-five the total count 

 ng I took the train for home. 



Beau. 



ClAremic-t. Se\ 





re. 



CONSISTENCY. 



'■nrr.sl and .SYieoai.' 

 Allow mo. through your impartial and valuable medium, 



i i I i-eph to one of thi 



i in ever been m " 

 long ago, I wrote tha 

 and bad. feet could st 



in nisi: I o- the editor 



ad. In 



nding stateme: 



ts which 



S folic 



W e 



Id"',.;; 



a model for tin- bench; he ti 



Jg which did net: but he is o 



,- field, and lieiiijj 





We 



log 



toil i og b 



is ,1 ■ ,vre ,. in awei 



lias a ven > 



r- - En, 



eld be idle! 

 which it appeared 

 sajne source Bui 

 lihoseol votu-reade 

 llOW 9J1U Lioid qual 

 a means of proven 

 they i idincertaii 



, deal of 



Mr.Magoa 



■minor last. 

 troutid, and 



ho 



that he 



when he finally 

 tug ilog of his owi 

 gust, 



The foot- note r 

 beginner is accept* 

 is right, and there 

 is follows; 



dog with SMCb a el 



practical Bsperteiu 

 iupporftid in it by i 



iu this eomitai , « li 

 ■dou , st dogs he ba 

 tort, cue I- in 

 his sUccc--, :i, a gn 

 with sucii s 

 '•We hav 



o such a foot-nore in the paper in 

 listing is the evidence from the 

 courtesy I hope to place before 



re endeavoring to procure bench 

 ibincd. a few facts, which may be 

 in from being led away by what 

 The old fancier believes just as 

 t dogs as he knows to be trite and 

 00 frequently supposes that every 

 about dogs than he does himself, 

 r, just the reverse. He swallows 

 st fictitious matter, until he finds 

 a e. icabination of conflicting state- 

 D use any of them to advantage, 

 endeavors to procure a good look- 

 , and gives the matter up in dis- 



i looks very plausible, and by the 



•rij. statement, and I an 

 tc ■ iftilfil dd trial handlen 

 iiat Croxteth is one of tht 

 ad, but that he has beei 

 lirds, and therefore owe: 



held Or 



Thi- senilis rather tut , 



• 01 May 7, 1881, ooiitai 

 was placed third, behind r 

 with him about as a. caudle 

 C'ro i iii is a thoroughbro 



in ,. I be like urai 



heir.-..' and a cob. Croxteth' 



s fact, Be ihis 



FY< 



eth) 



upai 



a to ste 

 with the 

 omparlson between a race 

 and neck are exceedingly 

 an't a big dog havens good 

 is shoulders, legs and quar- 

 tets are capoai. aim m- no e lau. set on high, is indication of 



his good breeding. 1 ' Phewinne'r on tins occasion was Rap, 

 in . ,w!io knows the importance to a sporting dog 



i Ji i d.iii and feet, very properly discarded this over- 



■ - issue of April ;.",'. 1 --.'. the same paper which "never" 

 held Croxteth upas a model for the bench, gave him "mnety- 



tve" point i III il t p issil le UKJ . a bei Ml -how dog, and 



best points i n rh -Mew. and yet "we never held Croxteth op 

 as a n 10 del lor the bench." Tin's is consistency, for which be- 

 ginners pay a long price 



"tig that Croxteth is not 



"JM i 1 . Ma ii iu i- iflso 



■ I i el cannot la 



once inform 



e down in 

 in the loiii." Of cou__. 

 cbeet and a slack loin i; 



- (ApTiJ v:t 18S3, page •_>*>), "Croxteth 

 niddle of the baos. and is a trifle slack 



!•■ i- the Usual accessory to a shallow 

 I weak back, which faults, added to 



that of "si day feet," make a dog 'not a laster,' and "not" 



fast. Th : gen which says 1 

 This is oonsisteni ■ .n . ■■ 



Now, Mr. I dil or, a di e □ 

 coal ei lor amis bi a i i I ■. pi 

 icgooi .i In mosi t --' ni taJ 



no matter how good he uuj 



worth - peoimen either f 



- eiiest, Kan, legs an 

 If Croxt, ih is "not" fault v 

 tVI i- held hi: ' 



ih. 



up 



i wrong proves me to be right. 



id head, ears, neck, 

 ield dog, for he may 

 Hired for work. But 

 neck, etc., he is but a 

 r held if deficient in 



)iU and feet, how is it 



i reliai can! lace on tatemi ■ ts ■ liich do uotorigi- 



■ : i i athoril \ 



I have judged L'roxteth carefully for my own information, 



and I scored him sixty-eight points out of a possible hundred, 

 and although a well-known authority says I gave him a little 

 more than ho is worth, I think him fairly entitled to sixty- 

 eight points. Chak-les H. Mason. 

 New York. (Jet. 2tt, 



THE ST. JOHN DOC SHOW, 



! Editor Forest and Stream: 



1 The number of entries in the. St. John dog show v 

 the following classes: Collies. 24; bull-terriers. 



. 12 



: Sci 



re 165, in 

 II: Sieve 

 . 8: Irish 



mastiffs, 



ikid 



Besides 



these were, several litters of pups. I do not know _. 

 of the entries came to the exhibition, but certainly not more 

 than half. I interviewed one of the judges, who flatly refused 

 to furnish me with any information save the prize list, giving 

 the very logical reason, "I don't care to," and I am indebted 

 w one of the gentlemanly assistants of the secretary for access 

 to the entry book. The' judges were all local men. Messrs. 

 L. Cd. Abuon. of B.olhesav, X B , J. H. MacLarew and Dr. D. 

 E. Bernman. of Kt .Tohh. who doubtless did the best they 

 could. 



There was no distinction as to sex, dogs and latches com- 

 peting in the same class. The prizes were $2 for first, and SI 

 tor second. Below is a full list of awards: 



BULL-lEEEIEBS.-lst, Alex. Blaine fdoefK&l. Mr. PatterjSOB ttioff). 

 rcr-pres.— 1st, W. Smith. 



SKYE TEKKIEP.S.-lst and '2d, G. Saunderson (dog and bitch i. 



BLACK AND TAN TfiltRlERS,— 1st, Samuel Chipman. Jr. idogi. 



SCOTCH TERRIERS.— 1st. Benj. Budge idege Pcppies,— 1st, Dr. 

 Reed. 



IRISH TERRIERS,— 1-t, Lawrence Donovan idogi. 



YORKSHlHi TERKIEI.S.-lsi. C. Id. Bu.-tin idOKd Sd.T.H. Vf*Ugh: 

 idogi. PrpriES.-l.sl , 1-7,-ves JIcBritie; 3d, Wilson Bros. 



PUGS.-lst. James Crifflth (dog); 2d, Frank MeUuire (bitch). Pup- 

 pies.— 1st, Frank McGwire ulogl, 



POODLES.— 1st, .Mrs. Alborne (hitch). 



NEWFOUND LAXDS.— 1st, 0, W. Moore (dog! : 2d,Wi it. Miller itlog). 

 Puppies.— 1st, 0. E. Reynolds (dog). 



nFERHOENDS.-lst. J. A. S. Berrymau (hitch); 2d, A. SI. Mage, 

 (bitch). Poppies.— 1st. D. E. Berryman (bitch). 



POINTERS. -1st. D. St. s. Smith (dog); 2d, J. C. Johnstone (bitch), 



IRISH SETTERS.— 1st. ST. L. Shinier (Jogi: 2d. 1'. B. Ellis i bitch i. 

 PrepiES-tst, A. E. Halslead (dog): SS, R. SI. Gibson (dog). 



ENGLISH SETTERS.— 1st, L. J. Almon idog); 2d, Herbert Inman 

 eloc). pypi'ir.s-isi, Edward Harrison (dog). 



GORDON SETTERS.— 1st, Hugh Dinsmore fdog). 



WATirR SPANIELS.— 1st. B R. Patchell Idogl, 



OLDMBEE SPANTELS-lst, Thomas Matsi Ipfne (dog 



FIELD SPANIELS.— 1st, Henry French (dog); 2d, Alex. MeCrea 



FnXHOESJDS.— 1st. Jonn Slaviu- (dog); 2d, Hugh Dinsmore ibitchl. 

 Puppies.— 1st, Hugh Dinsmore (clog). 



FOX-TERRIERS.-lst, J. G. Jones (bitch): 2d, H. A. Price (bitch). 



COLLIES.— 1st. J. Damery (dog); 2d, F. SV. Kaye (dog). Puppies.— 

 1st, A. J Bena I bitch); 2d, G. Sanderson (dog). 



HOUGH-COATED ST. BERNARDS. -1st, L. A. Vaughn (dogi; 2d. 

 John Friel [bitch and puppiesi. Puppies.— 1st, John Thompson i dog i; 

 2d. Henry SVhite (dog). L. I. Fi.oweb. 



SPORT IN THE OLD DOMINION. 



BY NED BUXTLtNE. 



STAND with me, good reader, especially you who loveth 

 ... gallant horse and a staunch hound. And ye who hold 

 honor' a bold cavalier, or in s r our holy heart's purest desire, 

 brave and fair lad}'. 



On View Tree peak, the crest of the beautiful native moun- 

 tain, 1 stood on a fair October morn. The rosy tints of the 

 rising sun gilded the far off crests of the B'lue Ridge, the 

 breath of a northwest zephyr stirred the leaves above my head 

 as • ■'.-■: ' 1 1 ■!■ 1 1 lie, eja ■ eme-i sir ] la :i :-' ■ . ■. i 



Near the resilience of C. E. F. Payne, master of the Warren- 

 ton hounds, a noble pack, I saw gathered full thirty ladies 

 and gentlemen, all eager for the sport about to open. 



In the foreground eighteen hounds coupled, ready for the 

 start. In the rear, prancing horses, ridden by riders who 

 well knew what was before them. 



Soon the column dashed up the Waterloo pike, a road once 

 all too lainiliar to Gregg and his cavalry, but better known 

 bv the ehivralic hero of Horse, Stuart, who died too'early— for 

 none better oyer wore a plume. 



A mile, till the Hurxtnall Bottom was reached— a right- 

 wheel, and over a, five-rail fence without a falter, everv one 

 of the party, save two, were seen. 



The two— t will not name them, for they were not of 

 "ours"— waited for a little help, and when the fence was down 

 they weal through the gap. 



Now the dogs were uncoupled and soon seen ranging for a 

 trail. Ten, twenty, thirty minutes here and there, then the 

 best of the pack, old Eagle, gave tongue. And right under 

 the noses of horse' and, hounds up sprung the largest, swiftest 

 fox of the season. 



In a second, as the shout '-tally-ho" rose from the lips of 

 Major Hohnan, every rider spurred for the front, the ladies 

 abreast with the foremost. 



lile, then through tangled thick- 

 ky heights, the race ran entirely 

 n sight, Lhcn hidden, often well 

 . le, the club ran that fox for two 

 hours — the music of the hounds never ceasing, but growing 

 fainter and fainter as the pace told on wind and muscle. 



Never better fox ran, or was better followed. In two hours 

 near twenty miles of ground was covered, and then iu a wood 

 roadway, in plain sight of View Tree, the fox was necked by 

 old Eagle with only two dogs in, to back him— one of them 

 owned by Mr. Ashlev who was in fourth at the death. 



The first to reach the scene was Jas. K. iladdox on Black 

 Maria, next Major Hohnan on his pet mare, third Charley 

 Payne the banker, fourth Mr. Ashley, fifth Miss Josie Scott 

 .1 Rtdimond, a lbveh lady, and most daring rider, sixth Mrs, 

 Win. Spilmah, equally daring. 



The names oi the other ladles I did 



The "brush" wa 

 by all. 



It was a noble and gallant ride, so far the best of the season. 



May it bo my happy lot to chronicle more of the same kind, 

 with no accident to cloud the beauty of the scene. 



Mr. Kartell made one of the boldest leaps of the day, a high 

 stone wall and ditch among trees, which few riders would 

 have attempted. I have not learned yet what company he 

 insures his life in, but if lie rides often as he did that day,' the 

 company can prepare to pay up. 



The weather here is now glorioles. Clear and ciisp, but no 

 frost, no fogs, no chilling winds to reach the marrow. 



So mote it continue. 



Now over open fields for a n 

 ets, along rude ravines, up rot 

 around the mountain. Now i 

 up, but dropping 



irn — hope they 

 i to Miss Scott, and the honors felt 



NORTH CAROLINA DOGS.— Speaking of the projected 

 trip of the Eastern Field Trials Club of the North with loo 

 dogs North Carolina in Noyemi.fr. the WUmington Star 

 bin.- J He.-, says: "Weoan name six North Carolinians, who 

 can take' their home-bred dogs, and beat any twelve of the 

 Eastern Field Trials Club." 



THE KENNEL HOSPITAL. 



cadses of disease. -Continued. 

 [N the last article I referred to those causes which predispose 

 _l. dogs to disease. I shttll now consider those causes which 

 directly produce disease, and which may be powerful enough 

 to act without any predisposition, but which act with greater 

 certainly and effect when any of the conditions I have noticed 

 have rendered the animal less able to withstand their infiu- 



Meelomiral Causes.— Little need be said of such obvious 

 causes as blows, tears, cuts. etc. They produce, direct injury 

 to the part. Not. so clear are some of the injuries indicted by 

 the animal itself, which eh her a Iter or di-'gnise cxi-tiie., disease. 

 Scratching may altei the appearance oi a .dan ■Cease, and 

 licking may cause a simple wound to become much a; 

 va'ted. Collars, chains, and clothing have often an injurious 

 effect. A dog tugging at his chain "may cause a sore throat. 

 A loose collar in certain conditions of the skin produces abra- 

 sions and loss of hair. 



Poisons.— These we. need only mention, as they will be after- 

 ward considered in detail. One poison affeetiug dogs has been 

 little noticed— that of anthrax, a disease, of cattle and sheep, 

 which may contaminate water and food as well as lie directty 

 conveyed in the flesh of diseased animals. One or two Very 

 sudden and fatal outbreaks in ken uels of hounds are certainly 

 traceable to this cause— cases in which violent symptoms of 

 irritant poisoning have been observed, but in which a chemical 

 analysis has shown no mineral noisou 



Heat and Cold.— Considered as exciting causes of disease, 

 these are uot definite but comparative conditions. They, are 

 simply certain ranges of temperature much above or below 

 the regular warmth of the air. An animal living in a regular 

 temperature of atldeg. would not be injuriously affected try a 

 change to one of ladeg,, but had it been used to one of 

 i'Odeg., then a sudden fallto 45deg. would be very likely to 

 cause disease. It is the sudden transition from one." ex- 

 treme to another which is productive of mischief. Great 

 extremes of heat or cold will, of course, cause direct iujuiy 

 to a part. Cold below freezing point or a, heat above leudeg. 

 causes direct injury to the part with which it comes in contact, 

 but this is an uncommon event. What we wish to explain is, 

 how an animal catches cold— how cold may cause inflamma- 

 tion of lungs or a common catarrh, or, it may be, an inflam- 

 mation of bver or bowels. Minute blood-vessels are found iu 

 every part of the skin and in the lining membrane of the 

 nose, wind-pipe, and lungs. Like all other blood-vessels, 

 they are influenced by changes of tempcraUire— heat expand- 

 ing them and cold contracting them. V\ lihin certain limits this 

 action may be quite healths'. The one condition is naturally 

 followed by the. other— reaction takes place— in other words, 

 the contraction is followed by expansion, and me versa. If, 

 however, these processes be too often and too rapidlv repeated, 

 or they are carried to great extremes, reaction fails and the 

 circulation is interfered with, If. for instance, the membranes 

 Of the uose arc exposed to the warm temperature of a heated 

 room, and then exposed to th;' cold air out of doors, violent, 

 reaction takes place and a cold in the. head is the result. Or 

 again, if an animal takes violent exercise, causing great acti\ - 

 ity in the lungs, and lhcn be exposed iu a -tationai , condition 

 to cold, the vessels of the skin are contracted, the blood {a 

 driven into the internal organs and the lungs arc, unable to re- 

 gain their normal state; iiillaoimatioii of lungs is the result. 

 If by cold acting upon the skin the blood be driven to the in- 

 ternal organs, and some predisposing cause has weakened the 

 liver or bowels— such as previous disease — we may expect 

 those organs to suffer from irregularities in the circuiation of 

 blood through them, and to become inflamed. Cold is not in- 

 jurious so long as a steady reaction takes place. Heat, when 

 excessive, sometimes causes direct disease, such as sun-stroke: 

 andit not uncommonly determines the Rdvent of fits 



Parasdcs are a common cause of disease iu dogs. On the. 

 skin we find lice, fleas and ticks, visible lo the naked eye. By 

 fhe aid of the microscope we detect smaller creatures, which 

 cause different kinds of skin disease. All of these animal 

 parasites increase bv breeding on the animal, the next genera- 

 tion being in all respects similar to then' parents, in that rare 

 disease of dogs, ringworm, we find a vegetable parasite, a kind 

 of fungus which grows in the skin und hair, causing disease. 



The internal pa 



llfe-n 



the 



they must pass into the I 

 ' there to underl 



i quite 



fit 



knowledge of thes 

 portant, as no prevent 

 are able to follow the 

 Contagion,— This a ; 

 it depends the sproa 

 most important diseas 

 are those capable,,; j 



eased 



...n i I. 



•:i if I 



v ,,] 



imalf w 



lule in 



the ability to spread 



throii/h 



the ah 



euce i 



u the l 



■■lei 



•e of 



the eon 





eases 



belle" 



"lie 



fhm 



iroapab 



e of gi 



ease. 



That 



OlM 



till! 







may 



be so 



■j 



t as 



to lie 



•anle-.l 



by tl 



le wii 



d; 



but- 



it is st 



ill a 











ee Wh 



.t is th 



It ha 



s beei 



ca 



led 



a seed 



or a 



organ 



ism. 



i'ha 





is on oi 



E ' -I-. 



just 



IS see 



is i 



r gcrim 



It 



dorm 

 by d 



mt for 



it h 



nder 



s's'il 



mte tun 

 ■ by chc 



e; it m 



svhich are the 

 emarkable peculiarity, inasmuch 

 ir numbers within the animal. 

 Tom one dog to another, are in- 

 io complete then- life history, 

 n Which we find them in the dog. 

 of a totally different kind of itui- 

 ■ of development and growth in a 

 it of the mature specimen. Our 

 l- e-e-v in i - tplete bnl mostlm- 

 •asurcs can be effectual until we 



to a healthy 

 I he poison 



bv different 



,u. be! lie 

 V distinction 



Hue- (list a,-.,-,- 

 Its St Di de, 



il!!-- ■.--.- Ill, 



II v no differ- 

 ilial in both 

 specific ibs- 

 u< -..,. i 

 are earned, 

 i though a 

 ; substances 

 eriainly an 

 ir- behaving 

 on, remain 

 ■ ; ^ ~"^ ; 



of 'growth. 

 ssion to the 



-erm oror- 



temper causes distemper) aildao-other compl 6; the poison 



of rabies produces rallies, and not any other forai of disease. 

 This is as certain a-, that oats 'will produce' a crop dfoate, or 



barley a crop of barley. The latent 

 contagious poison is that time \ " ' 

 cess to the blood and the first s 

 the animal. This period varies i 

 present. " 



time r 

 It is 



ed by I 



generally 



equ 



isease caused by it in 

 ent diseases, but is al- 



f incubation, t, . i tie 



nethod of infection in 

 each case of run.:..; . ...-_■ coming under our notice, but 

 there are cases in which tins cannot he done; consequently 



some people ignore the a .. nu fa : which apply with- 



out doubt to H5 per cent, of cases, and imagine that because 5 

 peTi it i ... cannot b rac- 1 t'.c-.o.h e\erv stage, that 

 they must differ in ori-iu trom the others. They 

 fa'.l back upon a theory that such cases are due r.o spon 

 : ition, ana may possibly be due to fortuitous 

 .e ■ eiie i oauiscuoiisii upon the animal. It woidd be 



just as logical to state that mushrooms, thistles, or u 

 at times developed spontaneously without seed or germs, 



