FOREST AND STREAM. 



It is as a sire that Dasli proves the great excellence of 

 his breeding, and his get are most highly prized by their 

 owners. His whelps out of Dr. 8trachan's Belle are in 

 possession of Messrs. Sewell, Staples, Van Vechten, 

 Strachan, Yanderhoff, and Shipman. He was twice bred 

 to Raymond's Djype, and the strains "nicked" happily. 

 Some of the product are owned by Messrs. Foote and 

 Whitney, of Morristown, Waldo, of New York, and Capt. 

 Taylor, of Virginia. From Bess Mr. Saltus has had a line 

 litter, some of which are held by Judge Pratt, of Brook- 

 lyn, Dr. Crane, of Newark, N. J., and Mr. James, of New 

 Hampshire. 



Mr. Tilly's Flirt, sister to Romp and Rake, is in whelp to 

 Dash, as is also Mr. Saltus' imported Irish bitch Lill HI., 

 she by Shamrock, lately sold to the King of Italy, and her 

 dam was Kathleen, by Barton's Larry, out of Lill II. by 

 Cooper's Ranger. She is a first-class prize winner. 



Dash is just in his prime, four years old, and may he 

 live long and go down famous to a famed posterity. 

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The Centennial.— We are requested by Mr. Burnet 

 Landreth, Chief of the Bureau of Agriculture, to advise 

 our readers that he will attend the Bench Show of dogs, to 

 be held at Newark on the 26th February next, for the pur- 

 pose of conferring with sportsmen as to the exhibition of 

 dogs to be held in connection with the Centennial. In the 

 mean time, as there are many sportsmen at a distance who 

 will be unable to be present at Newark, we gladly place 

 out columns at their disposal for a discussion of this mat- 

 ter, believing that by this means we shall learn the general 

 sentiment of sportsmen as to how this great event should 

 be conducted. One leading importer and breeder suggests 

 a Field Trial, and afterwards a Bench Show, including as a 

 distinct feature one of the stud dogs and brood bitches in 

 which a pedigree of at least five generations shall be re- 

 quired, and in which performances and progeny shall be 

 considered, and progeny shown, as well as other records, if 

 they have any. This will let in all classes, "blue," and 

 "red" blood, foreign and domestic. It would not be a 

 bad idea to have some of the judges appointed from 

 abroad. We think, in spite of the views of some of our 

 well-known kennel critics, that the visitors would admit 

 that we had some good dogs as well as horses native to 



this country. 



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—Mr. J. J. SaelJenburg, of New Brighton, has an 



orange and white pup out of Brook's Bismarck; dam, 



H. Hess' Gildersleeve; bitch, Flora, which, for his age, 



(nine months on January 22d), is an uncommonly large 



dog, being 26| inches at shoulder, 30 inches around chest, 



and 46 inches from tip of nose to root of tail; his head is 



9£ inches in length, and he weighs 68 pounds. 



«^**. 



Cockers.— Mr. S J. Bestor's, of Hartford, Conn., im- 

 ported cocker spaniel bitch Juliette has a fine litter of 

 eight whelps, sired by Hon. F. W. Russell's imported Snip. 

 This, we believe, is the fourth litter Juliette has presented 

 her owner siuce her importation in 1873, and we are in- 

 for:) ed that Mr. Bestor finds ready purchasers for the 

 whelps from his sportsmen friends. 



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Still Another.— The Rhode Island Poultry Society 



will hold a Bench Show of dogs on February 11th and 



12th in Howard Hall, Providence, the entries being cou- 



fiiied to pointers and setters, and also to dogs owned in the 



State, This show is held at the suggestion of the Rhode 



Island State Association for the Protection of Fish and 



Game, and is only a prelude to what may be done another 



year. 



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— The fine Irish biteh Bess, byAjax's Dash, out of Dr. 



Strachan's Belle, winner of first prize at Watertown, and 



owned by T. A. Diilenderffer of Lancaster, Pa., has visited 



Plunket. As Bess has a reputation as a field performer, 



second to none in that vicinity, the produce should be 



first-class. 



— Mr. Jesse Sherwood, of Edina, Mo , has lost his fine 



setter Jack, from the effects of poison. Jack was well 



known throughout that section of the country as a fine 



field performer. He unfortunately got hold of some 



poison put out for sheep-killing dogs, and paid the penalty 



of anothers sins. 



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DISTEMPER IN DOGS. 



Jackson, Mich., January 24th, 1876. 

 Editor Forest and Stream:— 



I have bred, raised, and broken dogs for the past sixteen years, and I 

 will tell you how I have treated distemper for the past twelve years with 

 almost miraculous success, never having lost but one case, and that when 

 the animal had small-pox as well. When I see the first symptoms of the 

 approaching disease, I give a mild physic, such as olive oil, from one to 

 four ounces, according to the size and strength of the patient. In a great 

 many cases this, with a good comfortable kennel, and light but nourish- 

 food, will be a'l sufficient; the food being a porridge of oat meal and 

 plenty of good rich milk. A fter a lap*e of two days, if you see no im- 

 provement in the condition of your patient, clip the hair off close from 

 within a quarter of an inch of the end of the animal's nose to well up be- 

 tween the eyes. Then take a porous plaster and after having cut it to fit. 

 the spot, from which you have removed the hair, put on a thick coating 

 of shoemaker's wa,x £8 the preparation on the face of the plaster will not 

 atick where there is a particle of hair. Put this plaster on as hot as the 

 animal can bear it. After it has been on for a day or two pick the holes 

 clear with an awl, or any other small pointed instrument; if this does 

 not do its work in, say two or three days, then I give from four to twelve 

 grains arsenic, according to the size of the dog. Ten or twelve hours 

 after having given the arsenic, give phybic as above. You need not be 

 airraid of giving too much, as I think it would be impossible to kill a. 

 dog with this poison, as it acts directly on the disease. Any one observ- 

 ing its action will notice that if the discharge of mucous from the nose 

 and eyes be yellow, or even black, before the arsenic is administered, it 

 will become white in from ten to twelve hours after the arsenic is given. 



Canine. 

 [We would advise caution in the use of arsenic, as we 

 have in mind a case wherein this poison was recommended 

 by a contemporary, and we believe the bill for the value 

 of that dog still remains unsettled. — Ed ] 



THE GREAT CHICAGO BENCH SHOW, 



THE greatest Bench Show ever held in this country is 

 a thing of the past. The three hundred dogs are 

 scattered again to their various kennels, exhibitors, satis- 

 fied and disappointed, are once more at their homes, and 

 the great Exposition building no longer resounds with bark 

 and yelp. The portion of the building assigned to the 

 dogs was the art gallery, arranged with small stalls for each 

 dog with bed3 of sawdust and hay, and with railings to 

 keep visitors at a respectful distance. The feature of the 

 exhibition, as far as the prizes were concerned, was the 

 magnificent cup presented by this paper, and manufac- 

 tured for us by the Meriden Brittania Company. This was 

 offered for the best display of sporting dogs or bitches of 

 any one breed and variety by one exhibitor. The judges 

 appointed to award the cup, Messrs. P. H. Bryson, of 

 Memphis, John Davidson of Monroe, Mich., E. Sterling, 

 St. Louis, E. O. Greenwood, of Cincinnati, and M. Cope- 

 land, of Boston, decided that it was impossible to de- 

 termine between the excellent families exhibited, and the 

 cup would therefore have reverted to the association, but 

 after a consultation between the judges and exhibitors it 

 was decided to present the cup to Mr. J. H. Whitman, not 

 only on account of the excellence of his family of Irish 

 water spaniels, but also for his untiring exertions in making 

 the show a success. 



On Tuesday morning of the 24th January we reached 

 the building appropriated for the Bench Show. Before we 

 left home we felt convinced that the enterprising citizens 

 of Chicago who had tbe matter in hand were capable of 

 carrying out anything they would undertake, and then, too, 

 we are well acquainted with Mr. J. H. Whitman, a skillful 

 energetic field sportsman and breeder of fine dogs, with 

 whom we had about two weeks' grouse, duck, and snipe 

 shooting last autumn in Wisconsin, and who had worked 

 faithfully for many weeks in behalf of this" Bench Show. 

 We went there especially to see a great show, but our an- 

 ticipations were by no meaus equal to Ihe reality, as it was 

 far ahead of anything of the kind ever gotten up in this 

 country. We found upon our arrival two hundred entries 

 had been made, and during the day about one hundred 

 more fine dogs were added to the catalogue. And what 

 astonished us mostly was the vast array of stylish thorough- 

 bred looking dogs, and so very few which could be railed 

 indifferent. Nearly every dog on exhibition showed evi- 

 dence of careful breeding, and we were agreeably disap- 

 pointed in finding such a splendid array of imported set- 

 ters, having within the past year or two met with so 

 many inferior dogs sent out from England and Ireland. 

 But, when we come to look over those entered by Mr. 

 Luther Adams, of Boston, Mr. C. II. Raymond, of 1ST. J., 

 Mr. Turner, of St. Louis, Mr. Smith, of Strathroy, Canada, 

 Mr. Knox, of Pittsburg, Mr. Bruges, of Kentucky, and 

 many others, we found a large number of full sized, 

 well-formed stylish dogs; yet, in our opinion, there was a 

 very large number of American bred setters on exhibition 

 quite equal in all respects to their illustrious contempora- 

 ries from abroad. 



In regard to pointers, let us say that before we saw those 

 on exhibition at the great show we began to feel that they 

 were depreciating in this country. Many years ago, when 

 we did most of our shooting in central and northern New 

 Jersey, and Pennsylvania, we did much shooting over 

 pointers, having at that time a strain of full sized, rugged, 

 well-formed handsome dogs. But when game became 

 scarce in those localities we were obliged, in order to find 

 game, to go to other sections of the country, and since 

 then we have done much shooting in Delaware, Maryland, 

 and in the southern parts of New Jersey where the cat- 

 brier, and other rough cover abounds, such as no pointer 

 will continue to face day after day; consequently we were 

 obliged to give up pointers, and make the breeding of 

 setters a specialty. And then, too, we found that setters 

 were taking the place of pointers in nearly all sections of 

 the country, and consequently, of late years, the old- 

 fashioned, serviceable, stylish pointers are rarely met with. 

 But in this exhibition quite a number of extra fine point- 

 ers, both of the large and small classes were entered, and 

 those entered by Mr. S. B. Dilley, of Lake City, Minn , 

 and many others were quite equal to any we have seen. 

 Among the entries of small pointers, under 50 pounds in 

 weight, was Lilly, a very beautiful specimen from the ken- 

 nel of W. A. Wheally, Esq., of Memphis, Tenn., illus- 

 trated in our paper a few weeks since, which we think 

 was worthy of the first premium of her class, but all 

 judges cannot see alike, and said bitch took third premium. 

 There was, however, an array of extra fine pointer bitches 

 from other sections of the country. Besides acting as one 

 of the judges of the classes of large and small pointers, 

 we also acted as one of the judges of Russian setters, and 

 five or six specimens were on exhibition, but our experi- 

 ence with this strain of setters has been limited, never 

 having met with but three or four, and shot over but one, 

 and that one was no better than the usual run of American, 

 English, or Irish setters; yet if we intended to shoot in a 

 section of the country where grizzly bears and panthers 

 abo nd we would secure a Russian setter, as their appear- 

 ance indicates their ability to whip their weight in wild- 

 cats. 



For some unaccountable reason the documents forwarded 

 us from Chicago containing the list of entries, awards, 

 etc, have not come to hand, although up to Monday the 

 latter had not all been reported. We shall give in our 

 next what is omitted in this. The prizes awarded, as far 

 as received, are as follows, a portion of the report of 



which we copy from our contemporary, the Chicago. 



Field:— 



Bitch. Premium, Cup. Value, $35. Offered by proprietors Tremont 

 House, conv-r Lake and Dearborn streets. Second best. Cud t<>v 

 Third beet, $10. ' y ' * ' 



Judges— Messrs. E. F. Stoddard, John Davidson, and C. H. Turner 



Dogs— 7 Entries'— 1st. Rock, entered by Luther Adams, Boston- 

 breeder, R. Grath, England. Rock is a magnificent lemon and white 

 dog, with the finest head we ever saw. He is of the true Field Trial 

 blood, being by Barclay Field's Bruce out of Grath's (now Llewellin's) 

 Daisy. 



2d. Leicester, entered by L H. Smith, of Strathroy, Canada; breeder 

 Mr. Llewellin. A very elegant lemon and white dog, with immense chest 

 and shoulders, but rather loose loin. He is also of tbe Field Trial 

 breed, and got by Llewellin's Dan out of Llewellin's Lill 2d. 



3d. Paris. Eutered by L. H. Smith, of Strathroy, Canada. Imported 

 in vltero from the Llewellin kennel. Paris is a blue Belton Field Trial 

 by Leicester out of Smith's Dart. He has a fine head, but a heaw 

 body. J 



Bitches— 6 Entries.— 1st. Queen Mab. Entered by Arnold Burges, Maye- 

 viile, Ky.; breeder, Mr. Llewellin. Mab is 17 months old, black, white 

 and tan, very finely formed, and hard to fault. Her blood is of tbe most 

 celebrated prize winning strain, she being by Llewellin's Dan out of 

 Llewellin's Nelly. 



2. Dart. Entered by L. H. Smith, Strathroy, Canada; breeder, Mr. 

 Llewellin. She is a blu* Belton Field Trial bitch, very fine in form and 

 quality, by Llewellin's Prince out of Llewellin's (now Adams) Dora. 



3, Victress. Entered by L. 11. Smith, Strathroy, Canada; breeder, 

 Mr. Lavtrack. Avery fine lemon Belton, of the true Laverack type. 

 She is full sister to the celebrated bitches Countess and Nelly, being by 

 Laverack's Dash, 2d out of Laverack's Moll 3d. 



Class 2.— Imported Red, or Red and White Irish betters, or their 

 Progeny, over one year old. For best dog. Premium, Cup. Value, 

 $35.00. Offered by Arnold Burges, Maysville, Ky. Second best, Cup' 

 $25.00; Third best, $10.00 Judges— E. Orgill, Luther Adams, John 

 Knox. 



Dogs. — 9 Entries— 1st prize, Elcho; entered by Chas. Turner, St. 

 Louis. A very fine, richly colored dog, lately imported by his owner. 

 He was the second prize winner at the late Dublin show. Pedigree not 

 reported. 2d, Erin, entered by rhas, Turner, which has a decided black 

 tinge. Pedigree not reported. 3d, Rufus; entered by Arnold Burges, 

 Maysville, Ky.; breeder, Capt. Trench, Ireland. 



Bitches— § Entries— 1st, Lou 2d; entered by Chas. Turner, St. Louis/ 

 Pedigree not reported. 2d. Ruby 2d; entered by Gen. Dncat, Chicago. 

 Pedigree not reported. 3d, Rose, entered by Chas. Turner, St. Louis. 

 Pedigree not reported. 



Class 3.— Imported Black and Tan Gordon Setters, or their Progeny. 

 For best dog over one year. Premium Cup. Value, $35.00. Offered 

 by Proprietors Matteson House, Corner Wabash avenue and Jsck.-ou 

 street, Chicago. Second best, Cup, $25 00; Third best $10. 0d.. For best 

 bitch, Premium, Cup. Vriue, $35.00. Offered by Proprietors Gardner 

 House, corner Michigan avenue and Jackson ritreet, Chicago. Second 

 best, Cup, $25.00; Third best, $10,00. The following received the prizes: 

 Nora, owned by A. F. Copeland, of Boston, was awarded first prize as 

 best bilch; Shot, owned by D. T. Elston, Chicago, second prize. Mike, 

 owneJ by D. T, Elston. third prize, as best dog. 



Class 4.— Native English Setters. For best dog. over one year old. 

 Premium, Cup. Value, $35.00. Offered by E. C. Waller, ?4 Washing- 

 ton street, Chicago. Second best, Cup, $25.00; Thud test #10 CO. For 

 best bitch. Premium, Cup. Value, $35.00. Offered by Proj.rie;ois 

 Tremont House, corner Lake and Dearborn streets, Chicago. Second 

 best, Cup, $15.00; Third best $10,00. Sport, owned by H. J. Edwards, 

 Chicago, the first prize Don, owned by F. G. Sheldon. Hudson, Micii., 

 second, and Spot, owned by H. J. Edwards, third. The bitch owned by 

 John Dason, Monroe, Micb., first prize; Belle, owned by J. B. Welch, 

 Hudson, Mich., second, and Gipsy, owned by H. J. Edwards, Chicago. 

 third. 



Class 5. Native Black and Tan Setters (called Gordons).— First prize 

 cup for dogs (offered by Commercial Hotel) awarded to Dash, owned by 

 John Davidson, Monroe, Mich. 



Third prize for dogs a.vardedto Max, owned by Geo. B. Dougan. 

 Richmond. Ind. 



/Same Class and Breed. — First prize cup for bitches (offered by Clias. 

 E. Felton, Chicago) awarded to Belle, owned by Benjamin Cornwell, No. 

 41 '! hirty-ninth street, Chicaga. 



Second prize cup for bitches, awarded to Lulu, owned by Benjfcmin 

 Cm well, as above. 



Third for prize bitches awarded to Flora, owned by George B. Dou- 

 gan, Richmond, Ind. 



Class ti. Native Red or Red and white Irish Setters, (called Irish set- 

 ters). — First piize cup for dogs (offered by Sherman House, Chicago) a- 

 warded to Ponto, owned by Rictiard Valentine, Janesville, Wis. 



Second prize cup for dogs awarded to Patsey, owned by William P. 

 Hamson, Geneva, 111. 



Third prize cup for dogs awarded to Trent, owned by W. A. Miller, 

 New Buffalo, Mich. 



Same Clat-sand Breed— Second prize cup for bitches awarded to Fan- 

 nie, owned by Alexander White, No. 884 West Madison street Chicago. 



Class 9. Irish Wa er-spaniel.— First prize cup for dogs (offered by 

 Charles H. Turner, St. Louis, Mo.) awarded to Sinbad, owned by J. H. 

 Whitman, Chicago. 



Second prize cup awarded to Bruce, owned by Charles H. Turner, St. 



Third prize for dogs awarded to Pat, owned by Charles H. Turner, St. 

 Louis. 



Same Class and Breed- First prize cup for bitches (offered by J. H. 

 Whitman, Chicago,) awarded to Queen, owned by J. H. Whitman, 



Second prize cup for bitches awarded to Liffey, owned by J. H. Whit- 

 Third prize for bitches awarded to Bridget, owned by J. H. Whittman, 



Class'io. Cocker Spaniels (dog or bitch).— First prize cup (offerred by 

 Chicago Gun Club) awarded to bitch Nell, owned by E. T. Martin, No. 

 43 Clark street, Chicago. 



Second prize cup awarded to bitch Queen, owned by J. W. Munson, 



Third piize awarded to dog King, owned by J. W. Munson, St. Louis. 



I Class ;2 Black Retrievers.— First prize cup (offered by W. F. Milli- 



tan Chicago) awarded to Jet, owned oy W. F. Milligan, Chicago. 



Class 13 Retrieving Srauiels, other than pure Irish.— First prize 



cup (offered by Keunicott Club, Chicago) awarded to dog Sclineidtr, 



owned by F. A. bowe, Chicago. 

 Second prize cup awarded to bitch Vic, owned by Robert Burt, Braid- 

 Third prize awarded to dog Charlie, owned by J. J. Gillespie, No. 48 



Soutb Clark street, Chicago. . 



Class 15. English Beatles.— First prize enp (offered by Southern 



Sportxmar.) awarded to entry by Charles H. Turner, St. Louis. 



-^Third prize awarded to entry by Charles 11. Turner, St. Louis. 

 Class 16 English Greyhounds and Scotcb Deerhounds.— First prize 



cup awarded to entry bv E. O. Greenwood, Cincinnati. 

 Second prize awarded to Dexter, owned by G. C. McLean, Janesville. 



Wi - con si n. 

 Third prize awarded to Fleet, owned by Gen. D. S. Stanley, Detroit, 



Class 17. Newfoundland* and St. Bernards.— First prize cup awarded 

 to Bross, owned by Joseph Hervey, Oak Park, 111. 



Second rrize awarded ro fcidelity, owned by the Fidelity Safe Deposi- 

 tory, No, 143 Randolph street. 



Third prize awarded to Carlo, owned by J. A. Kauffman, No. 39? W. 

 Chicago avenue, Chicago. * * . ~ a v. to- 



Class 20. Shepherd Dogs.— First prize awarded to Dan, owned by W. 

 F Milligan, Caicago. ' . . . , " 



S coud prize awarded to Shep, owned by S. H. Wood, Union Stock 



Thiid prize awarded to Sheppy, owned by N. A. Paaren, No. 650 Wa- 

 bash avenue. . ■' h rij j- . 

 Class 21. Pomeranian or Spitz.— First prize awarded to Cuff, owne* 

 bv S. G. Myers, Geneva, 111. _ , _ 

 "Third prize awaided to Julia, owned by W. S. Eden, Tnmont House 



*Olass 2°5 P * Pointer Pup under one vear.— First prize cup awarded to 

 Da.-h, owned by Stephen R Lilly, Lake City, Minn 

 Second prize awaided to Don, owned by R. M. Baker and J. C. Hatch, 



Third prize awarded to Joe, owned by B. A. Turtle, 112 Loomis St., 



ClI?s2> Irish Wafer Spaniel Pup under one year old.— First prize 

 cup awarded to entry by J. H. Whitman, Chicago. 



Second prize awarded to King of the River, owned by J. H. Edwards, 

 364 Lake street. Chicago. 



Thud prize awarded to entry by J. H. Whitman, Chicago 



Class 28 English Setter bitch (over one year old) with two of her 

 pups (under one year old).-Special prize (offered by Chicago Field) 

 awarded to Fairy and two pups.owned by C. H. Raymond, Morris Plains, 



Class 2«* Irish Setter Bitch with two pnps (under one year old). - 

 Special prize awarded to Gypsey and pups, owned by J. H. Whitman, 



* Cl5s'29. Pointer Bitch (over one year old) with two of her pups (less 

 than one year old).-Special prize cup (offered by Rod ana Vim,JS. x .; 



