July 7, 1887.] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



sioners think that it is an indigenous fish and not the result 

 of a small plant of blueback trout from Maine, made in 



it is recommended that an appropriation for a branch 

 hatchery on Lake Winnepesaukee and for repairs and en- 

 largement at Sunapee and Plymouth be made. 



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Address all communications to the Forest and Stream rub. Cu 



FIXTURES. 



DOG SHOWS. 



Sept. 1 to 3.— Inaugural Dog Show of the Pacific Kennel Club, at 

 San Francisco, Cal. J. E. Watson, Secretary, 816 Sacramento 

 street. San Francisco, Cal. 



Kept, 7 and ft- Second Show of the Fox-Terrier Club, Newport, 

 R. C. Entries dose Aug. 24. F. Hoey, Sec, Long Branch, N. J. 



Sept. 12 to 17.— First Show St. Paul and Minnesota Kennel Club, 

 St, Paul, Minn. W. OS. Whitehead, Secretary. 



Sept. 20 to 23.- Wisconsin Kennel Club's Annual Show, Mil- 

 waukee, Wis. R. D. Whitehead, Manager. . 



Oct, 12 and l3.-Stftfford Kennel Club Show, Stafford Springs, 

 Conn. R, S. Hicks, Secretary. 



FIELD TRIALS. 



Sept. C— Manitoba Field Trials Club Field Trials. Derby entries 

 will close July 1; all-aged entries Aug. 1. Secretary, Hubert Gait, 

 Winnipeg, Manitoba. . 



Nov. 7.— Third Annual Field Trials of the Western Field Trials 

 Association. R, C. Van Horn, Secretary, Kansas City, Mo. 



Nov, 21.— Ninth Annual Field Trials of the Eastern Field Trials 

 Club, at High Point, N. C. W. A. Coster, Secretary, Flatbush, 

 Kings County, N. Y. 



December.— First Annual Field Trials of the American Field 

 Trials Club, at Florence, Ala. C, W. Paris, Secretary, Cincinnati, 

 O. 



A. K. R.-SPECIAL NOTICE. 



THE AMERICAN KENNEL REGISTER, for the registration 

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

 published every 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. Yearly subscription 

 $1.50. Address "American Kennel Register," P. O. Bos 2332, New 

 York. Number of entries already printed 5 123. 



THE DOG FOR BIG GAME. 



IN passing all our cataine families in review it is sometimes 

 very difficult to adapt a use for the majority, although 

 there might be a flourish to commence with, say, the bulldog. 

 "We might have read about it or imagined it, that this old 

 English breed was useful to add in pluck and stamina to 

 degenerated sorts. Then it might be well to consider who 

 has tried it for the last quarter of a century, and the mind 

 is not impressed with a sense of what is useful when at- 

 tention is turned to mastiffs, St. Bernards, Great Danes, 

 Newfoundlands, or even bloodhounds. Highly ornamental 

 they are, it must be admitted, and grand companions, but 

 for praotical use what can be said of them:- 1 There is a great 

 deal of sport for Englishmen in all climes, and every year 

 fresh fields open up for the rifle and shotgun in distant 

 shores; but with small exceptions very little work is found 

 for dogs, and for big game nothing that belongs to our re- 

 cognized valuable sorts have as yet been requisitioned. 

 Every sort of bunting that depends on the nose is beet per- 

 formed by the foxhound, excepting, of course, working for 

 feather, when the pointer or setter is the requirement all 

 over the world. But a great many sportsmen to my know- 

 ledge have puzzled over the question of what would be the 

 best dogs for India or Africa to pull down the largest species 

 of deer and antelope, or to attack any of the feline tribe be- 

 low the status of the lion and tiger. I have been interrogat- 

 ed a great many times on this subject, and have discussed 

 the mastiff in believing him to be too slow for any sort of 

 attack on a lively, active animal even if brought to close 

 quarters. But how could a mastiff be got into action? as 

 he could not travel fast enough to get there, A bloodhound 

 would hang on a line far too long to be of much use even 

 with deer in a jungle country; and the deerhound or the 

 largest-sized greyhound is not powerful enough for elk or 

 some of the other big deer tribes, and not fierce enough to 

 tackle big beasts of a carnivorous nature. It is a puzzle al- 

 together,' as what is wanted is the weight and power of the 

 mastiff combined with the speed of the greyhound and the 

 nose and aptitude for order of the foxhound. If any one 

 could breed such an ideal sort of animal as I am drawing 

 a sportsman could start on the trail of any beast, run him 

 to his lair by nose, stop his dog or the pack if the position 

 was too strong, or run down by view if the occasion offered. 



I thought a good deal about the Great Dane when that 

 breed became popular in England, but several conversations 

 vntih those more conversant with the breed than I am gave 

 me but a poor idea of their scenting powers, and suggested 

 also that when once roused to tackle anything there would 

 be no getting them off. In fact, that in their disposition to 

 go in for attack and hold they are bull-terriers on a big scale. 

 Now, there is no greater nuisance than a bull-terrier in 

 mimic sort of warfare, such as with badger or fox, as they 

 are always attacking at the wrong moment, and in their ex- 

 citement will often worry their comrades. They are the 

 exact counterparts of a foxhound, as in full chase this hound 

 can be stopped, and they can be so steadied that in running 

 right into their quarry they can, when in numbers or singly, 

 be checked instantaneously. This is one very important 

 quality to be observed, aud one it might be very difficult to 

 secure in a Great Dane or any dog akin to him. The deer- 

 hound is more manageable, and from that source there is 

 something important to lie gained besides pace and activity, 

 but nothing in nose. The lurcher teaches us the greatest 

 lessons in these crosses— as the most killing poacher's dog is 

 the cross between the greyhound and setter. In this com- 

 bination is nose, pace, and an aptitude to be trained to hand, 

 and there is nothing radical about the greyhound that 

 would make him an impossibility to train in anyway. By 

 this means, therefore, two sorts that might fairly amalga- 

 mate are brought together, and a result for a purpose is ob- 

 tained. I am rather dubious about the Great Dane and 

 deerhound without other elements in the composition, but 

 for real service something should be tried, as I will now 

 explain. 



During the last six years several Englishmen and Ameri- 

 cans have settled under the Canadian Government on prairie 

 lands that stretched away for many miles from the foot of 

 the Rocky Mountains. There have been two millions and a 

 half of acres let out in ranches during the last six years, 

 and there are now more than sixty settlements or ranche 

 farms in these districts. The mountains which divide this 

 country from British Columbia are well stocked with deer 

 of various kinds, and in what may be called bigger game 

 still for the sportsman's rifle, bear and wolf . I have had a 

 journey related to me very lately by one who walked over 

 these mountains, and the wolves were in packs around him, 

 kept off only by the fires he made during one particular 

 night that was very perilous. These wolves come down and 

 bother the settlers', not as yet in packs, but one now and 

 again by himself harboring in the timber tracts or woods 



that are maintained for fuel and building materials, and 

 coming out to pounce on a straggling colt or a calf that may 

 offer him an opportunity. A ranche owner who has lived 

 out there five years, and who is going out there again next 

 month, assures me that these wolves would show splendid 

 sport if the right sort of dog could be devised to run them. 

 There are two sorts of wolves, he. says— the bigger and the 

 lesser— and the latter sort, he quite believes, might be bowled 

 over by a brace of large-sized greyhounds; but tbe big ones 

 are another matter altogether, and he considers, and I expect 

 rightly, too, that one would beat a pack of foxhounds from 

 any ranche in a straight line to the mountains. This would 

 be' from fifteen to twenty-five miles on an average, but a 

 wolf travels very fast in a swinging sort of gait, and he 

 never tires. Hounds running on his line, therefore, would 

 be very likely beaten, excepting they were almost upon his 

 back at start. My informant says that what they want is a 

 very fast, stout hound, that would put his nose down if 

 wanted, but one that could be lifted without any trouble, as 

 a w olf is very quick in leaving his lair, aud might be two 

 miles off, though iu view on open prairie, and then the plan 

 would be to race to' him on horses, to get the hounds in view. 

 That stage reached, the hounds should be nearly as even in 

 their stride as a brace of greyhounds, as the wolf always 

 turns round and snaps as he runs, or would boldly attack a 

 single hound and do the latter no end of damage; but four 

 big, powerful hounds should bowl him over like a rabbit, 

 and pin him before he could do much harm. It is considered 

 that there should be four hounds at least for this business, 

 but two couples would be still better. And now will any 

 reader of the. Gazette do more than I can do in giving this 

 ranche owner— or, I may say, all the ranche owners— the 

 correct advice as to how such hounds as are required should 

 be bred? _ 



It is really a trial test for the Irish Wolfhound Club. Can 

 that body bring out the genuine article for the requirements 

 I do not feel quite sure of the cross that has been already 

 tried between the Great Dane and the deerhound for reasons 

 I have given above; but still it might be tried, as certainly 

 there are qualities in the Great Dane that might befit him 

 as an opponent for the wolf. Personally I am rather in- 

 clined toward raising up the old-fashioned stag hound from 

 the foxhound source, and, at any rate, I think the. foxhound 

 element must be introduced. I am assured that, provided 

 the required hound could be found, there would be a great 

 demand for his services throughout all the ranche districts, 

 as. besides wolves, deer come down from the mountains and 

 settle on the farms at most times of the year, and would 

 show great sport before powerful hounds. I will undertake 

 to introduce my informant to any one who feels interested 

 in this subject, and I should very much like to see some good 

 spring from it, or from our large canine breeds, as at present 

 their "want of practical use is a great slur upon their 

 characters— " Lcnthcrhead" in Kennel Gazette. 



HOUNDS AND THEIR ATROCITIES. 



MEN, as a rule, adore hounds: certainly a fox hunter. 

 But the woman that likes them is hard to be found, 

 and few there be that tolerate them even. 



From my earliest infancy I have always heard the call 

 "Shut the door or the hounds will get in. " There is nothing 

 they will not eat and nothing they will not dare to get it. 

 They were continually plundering, even with all the care to 

 shut them out. To steal seems to be an instinct with them, 

 Even when thev are well taken care of they will steal every 

 chance thev get. Stolen things are always sweeter to them, 

 it seems. What I am going to tell will sound like a fable, 

 certainly great exaggeration; but it is all honest fact. 



I have often known them to scratch ash cakes out of the 

 fire and eat them— seen them do it myself. Several times 

 they took pieces of meat out of the boiling pot and. carried 

 them off— sometimes out of the pot hanging over an open 

 fire on an old-fashioned crane, and sometimes out of the 

 boilers on the stove. We have a puppy now that gets up on 

 the stove and takes off the cooking bread. How they do 

 them I cannot imagine, but they do all these things. Many 

 and many a jar of milk have they destroyed, and several 

 times when the mouths of the jars were small they got their 

 heads bung, and, not being able to get them out, smashed 

 the jars to pieces, but went around for several days with a 

 collar of jar around their necks. Once one of them put his 

 head in the coffee pot, and this being tin, could not break it, 

 and could not get it out, so went around banging and bang- 

 ing in vain. Some one saw him and cut it off. 



One summer, when we had no ice, I found that the bottom 

 of mv flower pit was very cool, and kept the butter and milk 

 nicely, so we put it there, and all went well till one day one 

 of the hounds, Hollo by name, a famous, or rather infamous 

 rogue, nosed it out, and actually broke, several panes of glass, 

 went down and ate it up, regardless of my feelings in having 

 my flowers smashed up, as well as butter and milk gone. 

 We thought we'd not be conquered by a hound, so sunk a 

 box, put a chain on it and tied it down with a leather string 

 and moved my flowers back out of his way should he go 

 down again. 'lie did so, and gnawed at the leather string 

 till he untied it, and again butter and milk disappeared. 

 We were still unconquered though, and this time, in ad- 

 dition to fastening the box more securely, we put a tremen- 

 dous rock on it to weight it down. Dite as the night came 

 he went down, and I know not but that he would finally 

 have taken the rock off had not my brother heard the bump 

 bump of his moving the rock, aud at once suspected the 



hound it was. This same wretch took a whole ham out of a 

 safe which 1 kept iu the porch in the summer time, and 

 which was locked. He caught the door in his teeth and 

 shook it backward and forward till he opened it. It had 

 been very dry for some time and the door had shrunk and I 

 had not noticed it. I would not have known how he got it 

 open had I not seen him after this trying to open it again. 

 When that same dog was a puppy he ate up a young brood 

 of fourteen turkeys at one meal. Several severe whippings 

 broke him of turkey eating, but to the day of his departure 

 from us he was always stealing, and in a way to surprise us. 

 All hounds are thievish, but he was the worst I ever saw. 

 They would go all around my flower garden hunting for a 

 loose paling, and when they found one off they would rip it 

 and then go in and make their beds among my flowers. This 

 was in the summer time, w T hen they wanted a cool and soft 

 bed at the same time. 



They would often get in the hen houses, and there would 

 be no eggs left when they left you may be sure, I have had 

 them to destroy Ave or six settings of hens' eggs at one time, 

 and they just ready to hatch, too. Sometimes they would 

 scratch a hole underneath and go in, and sometimes rip off 

 a loose plank. You can't always be thinking of hounds, 

 even though you know them well, they seem to be always 

 ready to take advantage of any forgetfulness on your part. 



These are only a few instances of their atrocities, samples 

 of which I have endured all my life, and am afraid will for 

 the rest of it. 



Now I have told of how mean they are, I must tell of the 

 sagacity of one and how he saved me from being torn to 

 pieces perhaps, certainly badly hurt. I was on a visit to one 

 of my little cousins, and had on one of her dresses, when my 

 father came for me accompanied by his pack of twelve hounds. 

 I started across the yard never thinking of the dogs attack- 

 ing me, for they were used to me and I to them, but the pack 

 came dashing at me, Lizzie and Alp in the lead, and they un- 

 usually large hounds. My father was almost paralyzed with 

 horror when he saw the attack, and these two large and 



fierce dogs in the lead, but what was his delight and as- 

 tonishment to see Alp jump up and catch Lizzie by the, back 

 of the neck and pull her off just as she was springing on me. 

 He of all the pack recognized me in spite of the dress my 

 cousin had been wearing. I was too young to recollect how 

 I fell, I only recollect their rushing at me and Alp's noble 

 couduct, and my father's screaming and running toward me. 

 This same dog' at hog-killing time would not allow one of 

 the negro men, who was very thievish, go near a hog by 

 himself. He just followed this man Henry around, and if he. 

 dared to touch a hog, unless some one else was by, he would 

 show his teeth and growl at him so that he was afraid and 

 let go the hog. This dog was one in a thousand though you 

 may say, for I never knew another like him. 



Fox hunting is a healthful and delightful amusement to 

 those that like it, and it is all very well for those to keep 

 hounds who can afford it and who will keep the dogs in ken- 

 nels as they do in England and at the North, too, now, I 

 have heard. But it certainly is very trying to the ladies of 

 a household to have to be ever on the watch to keep out the 

 hounds. A gentleman told me once, that on one occasion 

 when he returned home, after a visit of some weeks, he was 

 surprised to see his dogs looking so well and thanked his 

 wife for taking such good care of them, and she then con- 

 fessed that she had given them arsenic hoping to kill them, 

 but thev would not die. He told her that that was the best 

 thing she could have done for them. I could not and would 

 not poison them, though, under any circumstances— pests 

 though they are. N. C. 



DOGS IN STUD. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



Owners of stud dpgs who do not advertise have no idea of 

 the many stud fees they lose by not having their dogs in the 

 kennel columns of sportsmen's journals. 



Some dogs are not placed before the public because there 

 are better ones in stud. This is a mistake; our country is 

 large, and the average breeder w ill send his bitch to the 

 nearest stud dog be knows of. 



Within a week two gentlemen have borrowed my FOREST 

 and Stream to get addresses of dogs at stud. One a York- 

 shire terrier man, the other an owner of a Great Dane, The 

 former found one advertisement, but the distance was too 

 great to send his bitch; the latter found no Great Danes iu 

 the stud at all. 



It has always been a wonder to me why the A uteri en n 

 Kennel Register has not been patronized more freely by 

 owners of dogs in stud. It is the breeders' journal; they all 

 scan its contents carefully and file it for future reference. 

 A stud-dog directory there would reach the very men who 

 would want this information, the rates are cheap, and I 

 found it brought me more fees than any other journal. 

 Strange as it may appear to some, there are gentlemen who 

 do not take weekly kennel papers, subscribing for the Amer- 

 ican Kennel Register alone. 



The advantage of registering dogs in the American Ken- 

 nel Register is too well known among breeders for me to 

 write of it. It is a guarantee of the honesty of the breeders, 

 aud the majority of purchasers now insist that the dogs they 

 buy be registered in this responsible and reliable paper. 



It is great pleasure to us breeders who are most interested 

 in the American Kennel Register to'w. it holding its own 

 without any apparent effort, while the "kill 'em quick 1 ' 

 organ is rapidly nearing its end, in spite of the reiterated 

 assertion that it is published in the interests of the dog. 



Victor M. Haldeman. 



AMERICAN KENNEL CLUB METHODS. 



Editor Forest and Stream : 



"VVacouta," in his commendable article on "The Pewter 

 Medal Frauds," says: "It might be interesting to know who 

 were the many who went to Mr. Elbeii and asked that they 

 be given medals instead of money." 



I was one of the men who expressed my preference for a 

 medal; but when I saw them exhibited in the show case, it 

 required but a hasty glance to cause me to change my mind, 

 and take the "100 cents on the dollar." 



It is my opinion that the present president of the A. K . G. 

 is as great an impediment to the success of the club as was 

 Major Taylor, and unless an impartial man is soon put into 

 the' presidential chair the club will certainly go to pieces. 



The'mK.C. since it organization has been run by a clique 

 of "friends," abusing the proxy business, a few have con- 

 trolled the majority. Of course, it was Mr. Drake's "friend- 

 ship for Mr. Munhall" that led him to open the Beaufort — 

 Patti M. case, and their dislike to Mr. Mason was sufficient 

 reason for certain men to vent their spleen upon him. 



As apparently there are few honorable men interested in 

 dogs. wbuM it not be well to swear delegates to, and officers 

 of, the A. K. C. ? While the Forest and Stream is the ex- 

 ponent of all that is just and right, we can still hope it may 

 yet be able to cleanse this Augeas stable of the kennel 

 World. Victor M. Haldeman. 



FISHING DOGS— J. N. McConnell of Crawfordsville, 

 Bid,, is the owner of a dog that he values veiy highly. It is 

 a full-blooded Scotch shepherd, about one year old. It seems 

 to understand every word that is spoken to it. Among its 

 many accomplishments is that of being an expert fisherman. 

 The "clog will take a position in a drift in a small stream 

 running near Mr. McConnell's house, and by making a racket 

 will scare the fish out into the winter where he can see them. 

 Then, diving suddenly, he will bring a fish up in his mouth. 

 This operation he will repeat until he catches as many as he 

 wants. Spectators on the bank in no wise embarrass him in 

 his piscatorial pursuit, The dog is very fond of the fish, and 

 eats all that he catches. That is the only objection to the 

 whole proceedings, as his owner thinks that he could supply 

 his table with fresh fish all the year round if the dog could 

 only be taught to retrieve, and he will give him a few lessons 

 in that art. So says the Cincinnati Enquirer^ and com- 

 menting on it a correspondent writes: There is a water 

 spaniel at Minnetonka Lake, owned by Mr. Whital we be- 

 lieve, which catches frogs at infinitum along the shores of 

 the lake. If they jump into the water it makes no difference, 

 he will catch them all the same. If they get beyond his 

 depth, he dives; and if once he gets on the track of one, he 

 never leaves him until he has him in his mouth. He can get 

 you all the bass and pickerel bait you want. 



THE ST. PAUL SHOW.— St. Paul and Minnesota Ken- 

 nel Club, St. Paul, Minn., June 21.— Editor Forest evnd 

 Stream : We beg to inform you that we have engaged Mr, 

 Chas. Weil, the Secretary of the Michigan Kennel Club as 

 Superintendent for our coming bench show, which fact 

 should assure exhibitors that they and their exhibits will be 

 properly taken care of, when coming out here. We have also 

 secured one of the best halls in the city and shall be ready 

 to mail our premium lists, which we try to make as liberal 

 as possible, on or about July 10. Our entries close Sept. 1.— 

 St. Paul and Minnesota Kennel Club (W. G. Whitehead, 

 Sec'y). 



FOX-TERRIEB, SHOW.— The second annual bench show 

 of the Fox-terrier Club wall be held at Newport, R. I., Sept. 

 7 and 8. Entries will close Aug. 24. The secretary's address 

 is F. Hoey, Long Branch, N. J. 



DOGS AND MUSIC— Will the editor or some reader of 

 the Forest and Stream give a reason why a dog howls so 

 piteously when a harmonica is played or a dinner bell rung? 

 — D. S. W\ (Portland, Ind.). 



