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FIXTURES. 



BENCH SHOWS. 



Jan. 19, 20 and 91,— Aunnal Exbibittonriiiid Beaeh Show of the 

 French Creek Valley Poultry and Pet Btock Association. A. L. 

 Braden, Secretar.v. ' . , . « ^. n ^.t 



Jail 'J6 27 2>i i!9 and 30.— Fourth annnal dog show ot the Southern 

 Ma>saclui.set,Ls Poallry Association, at Fall River, Mass. R. G. 

 Mosher, Secretary, „ „ , _ 



Feb y, !) and 10.— Fourth annual exliibitiou of the New \ork Fan- 

 ciers ciuh, at Madison Square Garden, New York. Chas. Harker, 

 gpcretary, Covtlaudt street. . „ ... 



March Hi. 17. IH and 19.— Western Pennsylvania Poultry Society's 

 Dop- Show, at Pittshm-Kh. Pa,. 0. B. Elben, Secretary. 



March 123. 24 and ;35.-First Annual Dofr Show of the New Jersey 

 Kennel and Field Trials Club, Newark, N. J. A. P. A^redenburgn, 

 Secretary. Bergen Point. N. J. 



March HO to April 2.— Third Annual Dog Show of the New Haven 

 Kennel Club. S, K Hcmiugway, Seoretar.y, New Haven, Conn. 



April 6. 7. 8 and !).— Second Annual Dog Show of the New England 

 Kennei Club. Edward A. JVIoseley, Secretary, Boston. Mass. 



April 14, 15 and 16, First Annual Dog Show of the Hartford Kennel 

 Club. A. C. Collins, Secretary, Hartford, Conn. 



A. K. R.-SPECIAL NOTICE. 



THE AMERICAN KENNEL REGISTER, for the registration of 

 pedigrees, etc. (with prize hsts of all shows and trials), is pub 

 lished ever.y month. Entries close on the 1st. Should be in early. 

 Entry blanks sent on receipt of stamped and addressed envelope. 

 Registration fee (50 cents) must accompany each entry. No entries 

 inserted unless paid in advance. Yearlv subscription $1..50. Address 

 "American Kennel Register," P. O. Boj* 2883, New York. Number 

 of entries already prfaited 3 1 85. 



THE A. K. C. CHAMPION RULE. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



Is there not a trifling Inconsisteucy in Mr. Wade's produc- 

 tion in your issue of Jan. 7? The amendments which he calls 

 the "Sensation" amendments ai-e no more than what he ad- 

 vocates iu that letter? It strikes me as a httle odd that he 

 shoitld advocate the preparation of "a hst of shows in the past 

 conspicuous by good management, good judging and good 

 classes, and let them count for champion honors;" and yet 

 when I suggest the recognition of the three clubs most con- 

 spicuous in the past for just such cfualities, that he should 

 impugn my motives. 



There was no American Kennel Club in 1877, but I have 

 heard that the Massachusetts, the Baltimore, the St. Louis 

 and the Westminster Kennel Clubs agreed to adopt the same 

 rules, and that the rules thus jointly passed have, with trifling 

 alterations, prevailed tUl to-day, or at least tOI the forming 

 of the American Kemiel Club. 



These clubs were the leaders of the pioneers in bench show 

 mattei's in America, and to their joint action and the spirit of 

 friendliness and amity that existed between them is due 

 much of the success of such matters in this countrjr to-day. 

 Three of them have practically gone out of existence, biit l 

 see no reason why the tiifling tribute to their memory that a 

 recognition of their awards implies should not be accorded 

 them. 



When the A. K. C. was formed I advocated the recognition 

 of such shows as had formerly appeared in the W. K. C. list, 

 for the reason that up to that time as far as I know, no ques- 

 tion had been raised as to the appropriateness of their selec- 

 tion. I went fm'tner and asked that several of the most 

 prominent English shows be included. I had no particular 

 dog in mind, but I thought that an aged animal that had won 

 in his youth should not be turned back to contend with the 

 younger and newer comers. A three-win rule would have 

 kept from the champion class all these accidental brutes that 

 had jiimped into the champion class through the inferioi-ity of 

 the class thev had won in, or throiigh the Incompetence of a 

 judge, and I have seen no reason to change my views since. 

 'My views, however, were not indorsed by the majority of the 

 meeting, and the nuich criticised champion rule was adopted. 



If Mr. Wade would forget for a moment that Sensation ex- 

 isted I believe he would a.gree with me that the amendment 

 I proposed was a .step in the right direction and should have 

 been carried. "^Vhy, he goes mtich further than I did and ad- 

 vocates the recognition of every show that had good judges, 

 etc. A line mess that woidd get us into. Has he ever heard 

 that shows were held not many years ago at Miueola, Spring- 

 field, Watertown, Syracuse, St. Paul, and many more places 

 besides, not bad shows in their day, and where the judging 

 gave at least equal satisfaction with that we have since seen 

 at more pretentious and better exhibitions? Who, if his rule 

 wei'e adopted, would weigh such in the balance? The sugges- 

 tion Ls absurd, at least impracticable. Suppose a show held 

 at Podtink. The jtidges in half of the classes were men of 

 standing and knowledge, in the balance of no position and of 

 dense ignorance. Shall that show be recognized or would he 

 divide the classes according to the judges? If good manage- 

 ment, classes and judging be all required, how many shows 

 would reach the standard? No, Mi". Wade's suggestion is not 

 a feasible one, and tin a better plan is forthcommg I shall con- 

 tinue to advocate the recognition of all importa-nt shows held 

 under the auspices of a club in good standing before the form- 

 ation of the A.K.C. , the awards of the membei-s of the A. K. C. 

 and none others (unless, perhaps, some of the principal English 

 ones), thou.gh the result would be that several private shows 

 of real merit like Washington would be left out. 



Elliot Smth. 



FIELD AND COCKER SPANIELS. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



Some time ago you pubhshed a letter signed "Cave Canum'' 

 asking the question whether a cooker, winner in the cham- 

 pion class, if he became over weight, would go in the cham- 

 pion class for field spaniels, or have to go in the open class and 

 work his way up again. It seems to me that this question in- 

 volves a still more important one, and that is, should a dog 

 which is capable of winning champion honors as a cocker, be 

 considered worthy of honors in the field spaniel class? It is 

 certain that the rage for blacks has not worked unmixed good 

 by any means, and that the American Spaniel Club's stan- 

 dard allows a loop hole through which dwarfed field spaniels 

 can creep into the cocker class, that is, allowing that there is 

 any fundamental difference between the two. 



Any division by weight alone must fad in its object, for 

 typical cockers will occasionally appear, of moi-e than the 

 specified weight, in spite of all the standards ever laid down, 

 and at the same time dogs of the field spaniel type vvQl occa- 

 sionally be found under the limit, wliich, if shown as field 

 spaniels will be protested under weight, and if as cockers as 

 not of cocker type, but in the words of Boss Tweed, what are 

 yon going to do about it? It is, or should be, admitted that 

 there is a distinction of type between the two, but either this 

 distinction is not made plain enough by the A. S. C's. stan- 

 dard or judges have not followed the standard very closely in 

 their awards. The former is this much true that a muzzle 

 "tapering gradually from the eye" (I don't know whether 

 this is the exact wording, but it is the sense of the passage) is 

 called for. Every dog's miizzle tapera a little, that is, is nar- 

 rowei' at the end than vrtiere it leaves the skull, and I think 

 the allusion to it a mistake. It makes it possible for ovraers of 

 sharp-muzzled cockers to say,. "Wellj the standard calls for a 



tapering muzzle !" and I do not think this was the mtention of 

 the club. The model taken was the head of an English setter, 

 that is a good-hoadod English setter, only that the muzzle 

 should be shorter, but unfortunately, this is not stated in the 

 standard, and the attempted description of such a head, pa.rtj 

 by part, is not a complete success — so little so, that a small 

 field spaniel can be nearly correct, .since the only distinction 

 made is that "there should not be the heaviness of the field 

 spaniel," which (the mere heaviness) might and in fact would 

 most probably be almost entirely absent in the head of a 

 small, dwarfed .specimen. 



An evidence that this difficulty exists is found m the fact 

 that Pluto (O bo II.— Critic) won 'in the open class for field 

 spaniels at the Philadelphia October show, a dog of thirty or 

 thirty-one pounds weight (and perhaps more) but of as good 

 cocker type as any black I know. His dam Critic is another 

 of the same kind,' of good cocker type, a producer of dogs of 

 good type, and yet shown and awarded prizes as a field span- 

 iel. Is not this 'rather absurd? 



A weight Umit is all right enough as far as it goes, tor it will 

 not do to allow dogs to be called cockers which are as big as 

 mastiffs, but I claim that if there is any difference in type, 

 coekex-s should not be allowed to win iu the field spaniel class, 

 simply because they are twenty-eight pounds, or field spaniels 

 in the cocker class," because they are under that weight. If 

 there is not a difference, "Cave Canum's" suggestion should be 

 taken, the standard thi'own to the winds, and the breeds 

 divided as bulldogs and pointers are— spaniels over and un- 

 der twenty-eight pounds. If this is done, no great harm will 

 result, any more than has already resulted from the field 

 spaniel cross, which has certainly been used by most breeders, 

 to get color, substance, length and other desirable points. 

 Fashion has already condemned the sharp muzzle type, both 

 in cockers and field spaniels, and rightly, for it is a most na- 

 spaniellike formation. I doubt very much whether the field 

 spaniels showing it would be considered good specimens in 

 England. It is certain that Newton Abbot Lady has not a 

 "chisel-face," yet she is considered a very good field spaniel- 

 and more certain still that the brothers in blood and 

 sister of Benedict, which did not come to America, had 

 much blunter, squarer muzzles than he has. Those who re- 

 luember that Enghsh breeders do not usually sell the choice 

 of their yoimg stock to foreign buyers , will perhaps under- 

 stand how this is. 



To conclude, the American Spaniel Club have a task before 

 them, on the performance of which will depend the estima- 

 tion in which they are held by the general public and the 

 interests of the breeds they patronize, and that is, either to 

 define strictly the difference between these two breeds and 

 insist on the disquaUfication of specimens of either which are 

 ineligible for their own class on account of size, or to decide 

 that there is no difference, and take measures accordingly. 

 Let us know where we stand. Raven. 



Greenville, N. J., Jan. 11, 1886. 



THE INDIANAPOLIS DOG SHOW. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



Considering the season of the year and the inexperience of 

 the managers of the Central Indiana Poultry Association in 

 dog shows, then- show here was quite a success. There 

 were about fifty dogs on the benches, Ibesidos several litters of 

 puppies, and a great many parties expressed rsgret at not 

 having brought more in. In all probability they will have a 

 much larger show next year. The quality was only fair, with 

 three notable exceptions in the puppy classes for Irish setters, 

 mastiffs and rough-coated St. Bernards. The puppy in the 

 last class also won in the open class and can hold his own in 

 exceedingly good company. The judging was performed by 

 Mr. T. B. Dorsey, of EUicott City, Mai-yland. 



AWARDS. 



ENGLISH SETTERS.— Oo(/s; 1st, S. H. Socurie's Change; 3d, W. 

 T. Christian, ,Ir.'s. Colonel. Bitches: 1st, C. Valentine's Lucy V.; 2d, 

 H. Bradshaw'.s Flora Glen, Puppies— Do^s.- 1st, A. Bradshaw's 

 Tramp Glen. Bitches: 1st, E. G. Clark's Kate H. 



IRISH SETTERS.— 2)ot?s; lat, H. A . Comstock's Royal C. ; 2d, TJ. S. 

 Kennel Club's Dude. Bitches; 1st and 2d, U. S. Kennel Club's FHpper 

 and Dimple. Puppies: 1st, J, M. Freeman's Grace Glencno; 3d, M. 

 Bowman's Joe. 



GORDON SETTERS.— j5#e/ie.s.- 1st, M, B. Hitchcock's Rose. Pup- 

 pies: 1st, M. B. Hitchcock's Harry. 



POINTERS.— 7)0!/s; 1st, G. Seifert's Dan; 2d, C. M. Foster's Spot. 

 BtHe/ies; 1st. N. Lanty's Queen; 2d. A. Edmund's Queen. Puppies: 

 1st, H. Coburn. Jr.'s, Tom; 2d, BL R. WiUiams's Topsy H, 



BLACK SPANIELS.— 1st, B. D. Walcott's Gnardo. 



GREYHOUNDS.— 1st, W. F. Christian, Jr.'s, unnamed. 



MASTIFFS.— i>oc/s ajiri Bitches: No entries. Puppies.— 1st, G, E. 

 Townley's Ashmont Victor; 3d. K. M. Hood's Duff. 



ST. BERNARDS.— RouGH-CoATBn -Dof/.s.- 1st, W. H. Talbot's Ra- 

 jah; also 1st in puppy class. Bitches: No entries. Smooth-Coated 

 —Dogs and Bitches: No entries. Puppies -1st, Mrs. M. D. Lyfer's 

 Romeo. 



NEWFOUNDLANDS.— BrtcAes; 1st, T. Lewis's Creo. 

 COLLIES.- J5^*c7(-e.s.- 1st, L. Haag's Nellie Pride; 8d, W. Haag's 

 Frank Belle. 



TERRIERS.— Ron&H-HAiRED—Do.Ofs.- 1st, withheld ; 2d, T. Lewis's 

 Fret. SKYiss—Dogs: 1st, Mrs. A. Borland's Major, Yobrshires— 

 Dogs; 1st, E. Morrison's Grail. 



VUGS.— Dogs: 1st, withheld; 2d, W. C. Dickson's Punch. Bitches; 

 1st, E. L. McKee's Trust; 2d, E. Zoller's Nellie. 



MISCELLANEOUS.— 1st, J. W. W. Sanman's Nippy; Sd, George 

 Vandyke's Tuft. B. K. 



THE NEW HAVEN DOG SHOW. 



THE third annual dog show of the New Haven Kennel Club, 

 to beheld at New Haven, Conn., March 30 to April 2, 

 wiU undoubtedly prove to be the best given by the club. The 

 premium list will be liberal, and the management have the 

 confidence of exhibitors. A large entry hst may confidently 

 be looked for. A new departure will be made in the care of 

 the dogs; the feeding being inti'usted to Spi-atts Patent, who 

 will undoubted^ put forth their best eft'orts to please the ex- 

 hibitors as this is their first attempt in this country, though 

 tiiey have had large experience in England. The manage- 

 ment have been very fortunate in the selection of judges, se- 

 lecting gentlemen whose reputation for ability and honesty is 

 such as should insure fuU classes. The list of judges with the 

 classes assigned to each, is as follows: 

 Setters and pointers— Mr. John Davidson, Monroe, Mich. 

 (Greyhounds, deerhounds, spaniels, mastiffs, Newfoundlands, 

 buU-ten-iei's, Yorkshire and toy terriers, toy spaniels and Ital- 

 ian greyhounds— Mr. C. H. Mason, Bay Ridge, L. I. 

 Foxhounds and beagles— Mr. L, C. Sloan, Philadelphia, Pa. 

 Basset hounds, dachshund, St. Bernards, "collies, bulldogs, 

 fox terriers, poodles, black and tan and otixer terriers— Mr. 

 E,. H. Barlow, Philadelphia, Pa. 

 Miscellaneous— Messrs. Mason and Barlow. 



EXPRESSAGE ON DOGS.— Wellsville, N. Y., Jan. 1.5.— 

 Editor Forest and Stream: Some months ago I wi'ote you of 

 the difficulties and expense attending shipping dogs over the 

 lines of the United States Express Company. You pubhshed 

 my letter, together with the release which the agents of that 

 company compelled the shipx^er to sign before accej)ting the 

 dogs for shipment. But the United States Express Company 

 to-day carries dogs at regular freight rates— just one-half 

 their former rates. I believe this rate applies to breeders 

 only, but the buyer derives the same benefit as the breeder. 

 This is one step in the right direction. — Burr Hollis. 



SENSATION.— The Westminster Kennel Club have pre- 

 sented then- well-known pointer dog Sensation to Mr. Robt. 

 C. Cornell. 



MERCHANT TRWCK.— Editor Forest and Stream: The 

 Americans seem to go in for big dogs, they bought the giant St. 

 Bernard E,ector, and now they have notbeen beaten off by a stiff 

 price and have bought Merchant Prince. Rector may be said 

 to have been the biggest dog ever known, being .35 inches at 

 the shoulder, and Merchant Prince is only one inch less. To 

 convey an idea of what this means, supposing he entered into 

 one's room, he woidd considerably, at the shoulder, overtop 

 the dining room table, and his head carried high would be on 

 a level with our mantel piece, and his weight 190 lbs. just as 

 heavy as a big Yorkshire farmer. The spirited purchaser of 

 this grand dog, Mr, E. Moore of Boston, is to be congratulated, 

 for Merchant Prince will be sure to leave his mark for all 

 future time upon the giant i-ace of Yankee St. Bernards yet to 

 come, for as a stud dog he combines the direct blood of our 

 two oldest champions, Barry and Bayard. He is only two 

 years nine months old and has won over twenty prizes, or an 

 average of one in a fortnight all through the year. In Jan- 

 uary he took fij'st and cup, at Crystal Palace; in June first 

 Glasgow; in July first, Dai'lingtoh; in August first at Bangor 

 and special, beating Bayard ; in December, first Birminghain, 

 and the same month he cx'owned all by taking ffi'st and cup in 

 the open class at the last St. Bernard Club show, and this we 

 consider a wonderful feat, because it was admitted on all 

 hands that there never was such a collection of high class 

 dogs brought together. We bid our noble friend adieu, and 

 much luck to his new owner, in the new country. We will 

 not say that we shall never look on his hke again, for such are 

 the strides made by St. Bei'nard breeders in England that 

 they go on from excellence to greater excellence, and no 

 sooner does one champion vanish from the scene but another 

 gi-ander and more beautiful steps into his place.— Sydney W. 

 Smith (79 York Road, Leeds, Yorkshire, England), 



HOW TO APPROACH A DOG.— "Dan Browne," who is 

 probably "Seneca," says in the Rahway, N. J.. Advocate: 

 Mad dogs are scarcer than hens' teeth, aiid always have been. 

 1 have doctored and bred dogs, hundreds of them, and have 

 been sent for perhaps a dozen times to see a real simon-pure 

 mad dog. The first question I would put to the dog's owner 

 would be, "Does the dog froth at the mouth?" Each owner 

 invariably replied in the affirmative, and would manifest the 

 utmost concern when I thereupon walked straight up to the 

 animal, let it smell my hand, and then loosened its collar or 

 removed its muzzle as the case might be. A mad dog never 

 froths at the mouth, but nearly every man, woman and child 

 in the world believes to the contrary. And the worst of it is, 

 that the belief has become so rooted thi'ough its constant 

 repetition by ignorant persons, that it is weU nigh impossible 

 to make people believe otherwise. A man who signed his 

 name with an "M. D." after it not long ago wrote to a New 

 York journal about his adventure with a mad dog, which ho 

 saw coming along a country road at great speed. The "M. 

 D." took to his heels when the dog got near, and as the dog im 

 mediately changed its course and pursued the fiightened doc 

 tor, he therefore immediately concluded the dog had rabies 

 and managed to shoot it with a revolver. Now if this poor 

 foolish "M. D." had only possessed sense enough to stand 

 stock stOl in his tracks, or to walk along quietly minding his 

 own business, the dog would have passed without taking the 

 shghtest notice of the man. I have handled strange dogs a 

 good deal in my life, and I have yet to receive my first bite 

 from one of them. Walk up to a strange dog as you would to 

 a strange man, as if you wanted to talk to him about the 

 weather, and he won't bite you; but sneak up to him as 

 though you are in imminent fear that his intentions are dis- 

 honorable, and the strange dog, if he is ugly, will nab you in a 

 jiffy — and you deseiwe to be nabbed. Turn your back and 

 scuttle away and the dog wiU cliase you; but walk right up 

 to him as if you had as much right there as he — not tJtireat- 

 eningly, however— and he wiU not molest you, no matter how 

 ugly his disposition. 



KENNEL NOTE BLANKS.— For the convenience of those 

 persons who have occasion to use a number of our Kennel 

 Note blanks, we have prepared a special series of 200 blanks 

 of each class, bound in convenient form, and so arranged that 

 a duphcate of each blank sent us may be kept by the sender 

 for his own futui'e convenient reference. These j)ads wiU be 

 sent on receipt of 30 cents, including postage. 



DEATH OF RABY TYRANT.— Hillside Kennels, Jan. 17.— 

 Editor Forest and Stream: I had the misfortune to lose 

 Raby Tyrant to-day. He got through the wire fence into the 

 deerhounds' yard and caught Lance by the thi-oat, The 

 others cut him to pieces in a few seconds. I feel as if I had 

 lost an old friend.— Bayard Thayer. 



THE NEW YORK FANCIERS' SHOW.— The entries for 

 the New York Fanciers' dog show close on Tuesday next. 

 The managers will spare no pains to make this department of 

 then' annual shows as successful as those devoted to other ex- 

 lubits, and it is to be hoped that exhibitors will second their 

 efforts by a liberal entry. 



WANDA T.— Hoboken, N. J., Jan. Vd.— Editor Forest and 

 Stream: My cocker spaniel bitch Wanda T. has been booked 

 under a wrong pedigree. She is by Don instead of Col. Stubbs. 

 — B. F. Thomas. 



KENNEL NOTES. 



KENNEL NOTE BLANKS.— For the convenience of breeders we 

 have prepared a series of blanks for "Names Claimed," "Whelps," 

 "Bred" and "Sales." All Kennel Notes must be sent to us on these 

 blanks, which will be forwarded to any address on receipt of 

 stamped and directed envelope. Send for a set of them. 



NAMES CLAIMED. 

 Notes must be sent on the Prepared Blanks. 



Compton. As a prefls to the names of all spaniels owned and bred 

 byArthm'E. Rendle, the following: in particular: Champion Comp- 

 ton Brahmin, Compton Gladys, Compton Bedouin, Compton Zelda 

 and Compton Sheila. 



Belle Meade. By Coffin, Zimmer & Co., Glens Falls, N, Y., for 

 orange tawny and white St. Bernard bitch, whelped Oct. 7, 1885, by 

 Czar (Don— Gretchen) out of Laone (A.K.R. 2416). 



Donna. By Shaw & Bates, CHnton, Mass., for fawn mastiff bitch, 

 whelped Nov. ir, 1885, by Agrippa (A.K.R. 449) out of Delph Viva 

 (A.K.R. 1432). 



Dorcas. By Shaw & Bates, Clinton, Mass., for fawn mastiff bitch, 

 whelped Nov. 17, 1885, hy Agrippa (A.K.R. 449) out of Delph Viva 

 (A.K.R. 1432). 



Diiva. By Sliaw & Bates, Clinton, Mass., for fawn mastiff bitch, 

 whelped Nov. 17, 1885, by Agrippa (A.K.R. 449) out of Delph Viva 

 (A.K.R. 1432). 



Mna Stubbs. By A. P. Hausmann, Binghamtou, N. Y., for chest- 

 nut and tan cocker spaniel bitch, whelped Nov. 15. 1884, b.y Colonel 

 Stubbs (Captain— Flirt) out of Daisy Coon (Racer— Nellie C). 



Flossy Stubbs. By A. F. Hausmann, Bingham ton, N. Y., for liver 

 and T^hite ticked cocker spaniel bitch, whelped Nov. 15. 1B84, by Col. 

 Stubbs (Captain— Flirt) out of Daisy Coon (Racer— Nelly C). 



Hilda. By A. F. Hausmann, Binghaniton, N Y., for black cocker 

 spaniel bitch, whelped May 4, 1885, by Obo, Jr, (Obo— NelUe) out of 

 Beauty W. (Obo IL— Lofty). 



Putnam. By F. C. Moore, Ashtabula, O., for white and black Eng:- 

 lish setter dog, whelped Sept. 11, 1885, by Pride of Dixie (Gladstone- 

 Countess Druid) out of Prue (Perfection— imported Beaut.y). 



Don of Di.cie. By P. C. Jloore, Ashtabula, O,, for black and white 

 and ticked Engliish setter dog, whelped Sept. II, 1S85, by Pride of 

 Dixie (Gladstone— Countess Druid) out of Prue (Perfection— imported 

 Beautv. 



DichJ. Bv F. C. Moore. Ashtabula, O., for white and chestnut 

 ticked English setter dog, whelped Sept. 11, 1885, by Pride of Dixie 

 (Gladstone-Countess Druid) out of Prue (Perfection— hnported 

 Beauty). 



Marry Obo. By A. F. Hausmann, Binghamtou, N. V., for black 



