Jan. 24, 1889.] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



JPi? fennel 



FIXTURES. 



DOG SHOWS. 



January, last week.— Western Pennsylvania Poultry .Society's 

 fourteenth Annual Show, Pittsburgh, Pa. 0. B. Blfien, Hec'y. 



Feh. 5 to M. 1889.— First Annual Doe: Show of the Columbus 

 Fanciers' Club at Columbus 0. Trios, R. Smrn.w, Secretary. 



Feb. 7 to 12,-First Annual Show of the F.u Ison River Poultry, 

 Dog and Pet Stock Association, at Newburgli. N.Y. J. H. Dreven- 

 stedt. Secretary. Washington ville, N. Y. , „„ 



Feh. 19 to 32, 1889— Thirteenth Annual Show ot 1 he W estminstcr 

 Kennel Club, New York, .tamos Mortimer, Superi ntendent. 



Feh. 36 to March 1, 1889— Second Annual Show of the Renssalaer 

 Kennel Club, Troy, N. Y. Alba M. ide. Secretary. 



March 5 to 8, 1889,— Second Annual Dog Show ot tho Albany 

 Kennel Club, at Albany, N. Y. Geo. 13. Gallup, Secretary. 



March 13 to 15, 1889.— Second Annual Show of the Fort Schuyler 

 Kennel Club Utica, N. Y. James W. Dunlop, President. 



March 26 to 29. 1889.— First Annual Dog Show of the Massachu- 

 setts Kennel Ohih, at Lynn, Mass. D. A. Williams, Secretary. 



March 19 to 22, 1889.— First Annual Show- of the Rochester Kennel 

 Club, at Rochester, ST. Y. Harry Yates, Secretary. 



April 2 to 5, 1889,-Annual Show of the New England Kennel 

 Club. Boston, Mass. J. W. Newman, Secretary, No. 6 Hamilton 

 Place, 



April 9 to 12.— First Dog Show of the Worcester Kennel Club, at 

 Worcester, Mass. Edward W. Doyle, Secretary. 



April 9 to 12, 1889.— First Annual Dog Show of the Masioutah 

 Kennel Club, at Chicago. 111. John L. Lincoln, Jr., Secretary. 



April 16 to 19, 1889— The Seventh Dog Show of the Philadelphia 

 Kennel Club, at Philadelphia. Pa, Wm. C. Child, Secretary. 



May 22 to 35.— Pacific Kennel Club Show, Sn.u Francisco, Cal. 

 FIELD TRIALS. 



Nov. 4.— Third Annual Field Trials of the Iudiana Kennel Club. 

 P. T. Madison, Secretary, Indianapolis, Ind. 



Nov. 18.— Eleventh Annual Field Trials of the Eastern 1 ield 

 Trials Club, at High Point, N. C. W. A. Coster, Secretary, Sara- 

 toga S priDgs, N. Y. 



OLD WORLD KENNEL TOPICS. 



LBy vnr Special Cor respondents 



LONDON. Jan. 5.— This being tbe first week of the year, 

 we are apt to look back on the sports and pastimes of the 

 old year now passed into history. On the whole, that term 

 has 'been a good one, and some of the richest stakes ever 

 offered have been competed for by the best of horses, and so 

 far as regards the kennel world things look better than ever 

 they have, if we take high prices as a criterion. I think 

 that such will be generally accepted as a guiding star and 

 a finger post to the advancement made in the year that has 

 just drawn to— here in London— a, foggy, sloppy close. 



The year commenced well with the sale of the rough 

 collie Caraetacus, which will be remembered as the excite- 

 ment of the Liverpool show. Then some ot hers made good 

 prices, as did several in the fox-terrier line. But all these 

 great figures were eclipsed with the sale of the St. Bernard 

 champion Plinlimmou at #5,000. Every one was sorry over 

 that magnificent dog leaving the country, and as much 

 regretted when they learned that he was not to be exhibited 

 again or the public given the service of him. That such a 

 splendid example of his breed should be allowed to exist in 

 a country whei'e the art of breeding high class stock is 

 making such vast strides, without being geta table to those 

 with means, is regretable, and must be keenly felt by your- 

 selves. Greyhounds have also fetched great prices, in fact, 

 more than ever before. 



The shooting season has been an open one, but at first 

 opened badly, because of the backwardness of the harvest. 

 The very wet summer which we had gone through half 

 drowned the partridges, and many nests were deserted or 

 the eggs addled or washed away by the continual down, 

 pour. Again, the advance made in farming implements is 

 making sad havoc among game which build their nests upon 

 the ground, or shelter their young in the standing hay or 

 corn. The modern mowing machine and reaper account for 

 myriads of birds annually, aud it must be recorded that 

 partridges are becoming' in numbers here smaller and 

 lamentably less. 



Really the only open places now where the rattle of the 

 mower is not to be heard in June and July is the wilds of 

 Scotland. Wales aud Ireland. These moors are extensively 

 patronized, and the shooting in many cases realizes more 

 money than if the land were Under grass or cereals. Fabu- 

 lous prices are given for these moors, and on some of them 

 the game is so scarce, that the lessee has to purchase game 

 even to make presents to his friends, to prevent them think- 

 ing him mean. Still they have their short holiday, and it 

 wears off a lot of the cobwebs that gather around a mau's 

 system whose time is taken up in a busy city or parliamen- 

 tary life. 



Many people here make a handsome income out of teams 

 of setter's which they let out to persons taking the moors. 

 Every one more or less benefits by this system, for a sports- 

 man would be greatly out of pocket in keeping a large team 

 of dogs over the year simply for a week or two's shooting. 

 To qualify this I must, state that a brace of setters or pointers 

 are generally knocked up in an hour or less over the moors, 

 for they are so rough, and very often a team of ten or twelve 

 brace have to be used in one day. 



The Christmas holidays having been on, kennel affairs 

 have been quiet here, and only a few small shows have taken 

 place since Birmingham, where public judging took place 

 for the first time since the National show was started. Some 

 now prefer the private adjudications, but I think the ma- 

 jority are in favor of the new course taken by the executive. 

 Unfortunately the space is so limited at Birmingham that 

 the rings are' necessarily exceedingly small, and the conse- 

 quence was that very many mistakes were made, and many 

 of the awards were severely criticised by those calculated to 

 know, viz., the representatives of the different journals. 



What is known as "type" in animals is fast becoming 

 universally known here, and it is astonishing how the aver- 

 age Britisher can at once tell a good horse or a dog from a 

 bad one. One hears lads nowadays talk about the points of 

 this or that animal with the eloquence or rather the confi- 

 dence of an octogenarian, so numerous are the exhibitions 

 which tend to improve the different breeds of animals and 

 birds. All this is a good sign of the times, for so long as 

 there are all these young folks springing up in the way they 

 should go, so long will prices remain high, and breeders of 

 really good stock be in pocket, 



Fox Bunting here so far this season has been successful, 

 and there have been very many good runs, the season being 

 an open one. Day after day we have had more or less " a 

 southerly wind and a cloudy sky," which all know "pro- 

 claims it a hunting morn." Foxes are fairly plentiful, but 

 the fields are hardly so large as they were some years ago, 

 when Melton Mowbray, Market Har borough and other 

 hunting centers actually reeked in the fashion and wealth 

 of the country. Such is not the case now; the depression 

 among agriculturists has told its tale, for many of our 

 greatest and hardest riders draw their incomes from the 

 sons of the soil, and when the sinews of war become 

 slack the same is bound to be felt, and by no one greater 

 than our large landed proprietors, nearly all of whom wor- 

 ship the glorious institution of the chase. 



Collies still retain their high standard of excellence, and 

 vie with St. Bernards in popularity. A dog that has been 

 steadily coming forward to the front rank is Maney Trefoil, 

 a son of The Squire aud Scotch Pearl. This dog is not far 

 from being the best collie in England, aud is an exceedingly 

 handsome dark sable with a huge white frill and other 

 markings. He is undoubtedly a wonderful dog, and with- 

 out being disrespectful— in fact, I mean to be complimentary 

 —to his owner, Mr. H. C. White, he is a most perfect "fla,t- 

 oatcher." His way, manners and exceeding good looks 



make him now at shows what poor old Charlemagne used 

 to be, and all the caresses of the crowd fall on the grandson 

 of tbe illustrious old champion. Maney Trefoil, therefore, 

 may some day upset previous decisions. 



John B. Evans, whose name appears iu our obituary 

 notices this week, was a man to whom I must pay a passing 

 tribute as a sound judge of an animal, and a sensible critic, 

 of a dog. H is eud was painfully sudden, for a fortnight or 

 so ago we were haviug a loug chat on live stock in general. 

 He was thoroughly practical and had had great experience 

 as an ostrich farmer in South Africa. Not long ago T a few 

 weeks— he wrote over his initials a most, amusing article on 

 the absurd notions of the London populace ou the qualifica- 

 tion of our show bloodhounds to track criminals in this 

 great metropolis. He po-poohed the idea, aud gave experi- 

 ences of his own hounds, which he kept to frighten the 

 Ka ffirs away from his kraals. He said that the bloodhound 

 as he now is was a complete failure even on Kaffirs, natur- 

 ally stronger in scent than the usual run of mankind. Some 

 gentlemen interested in the bloodhound boom then sought 

 out the deceased and a trial was arranged by Mr. W. K. 

 Taunton and a prominent breeder of goats, Mr. Holmes 

 Pegler. and the laughable way that Mr. Evans related the 

 farce that followed was humorous iu the extreme, aud 

 hardly demonstrated that his opinion bad been altered. 



A prominent member of our kennel circle, is seriously ill, 

 and but faint hopes are entertained for his recovery. The 

 Earl of Warwick, a somewhat peculiar nobleman iu his 

 way, has of late years been breeding black field spaniels ex- 

 tensively. He also exhibits a t to any of the leading shows, 

 and has got on fairlv well, though not by any means to the 

 top of the tree. He is a great patron ot the popular War- 

 wick show, when a large proportion of the persons visiting 

 that exhibition make it a point of going over one of the 

 finest old castles in the country. Considerable anxiety is 

 felt for this nobleman, whose retiring manner has almost 

 amounted to foolishness. 



I have seen it reported that short backs in field spauiels 

 were discarded at the late Birmingham show. This is in- 

 correct; but such was really the case in cocker spaniels, 

 which the true admirer of the cocker must be glad to see. 

 This long-backed cocker spaniel business had unfortunately 

 been too" long a foolish and insensible fashion; indeed for 

 the matter of that the long-backed field spaniel is an 

 anomaly, for as he is at present built, as a working dog he is 

 next to useless. Those who breed the long and low field 

 spaniel know fully well how difficult it is to get them to 

 the useless fashion. It is much easier to breed them higher 

 on the. leg and shorter in the body, but "Fancy" says other- 

 wise. I wonder what we should think of breeders of hack- 

 ney cobs if they showed US animals that, required six legs 

 instead of four. The move, therefore, in Birmingham was 

 a common sense one aud iu the right direction, and what is 

 sauce for the goose should be sauce for the gander, and if, 

 as it is acknowledged, that cocker or working s| laniels should 

 be short in back, then why should the field spaniel not fol 

 low suit'.' Are our sportsmen deteriorating in walking and 

 staying powers that we have to breed slow dogs for them 

 to keep up with? 



I am afraid that we are going to ha ve the whole of the 

 well-worn Laverack setter question over again. We often 

 hear that this, that and the other dog is denounced as uot a 

 Laverack by Mr. Robinson, who says he acts in accordance 

 with an expressed wish of the late Mr. Laverack. Among 

 other dogs that have been "snubbed" by Mr. Robinson is 

 the Monk of Fu mess, without a doubt the. best-looking 

 setter in the world to-day, and probably one that could 

 swamp anything of Mr. Laverock's production. At last 

 breeders of setters have had their ire aroused at Mr. Robin- 

 son's strictures on their dogs as "cross-bred s," and have 

 plainly thrown down the gaunt let to the. champion of the 

 so-called Laveracks. 



Public coursing is, I think, on the increase here in the 

 same ratio that the old private meetings are deteriorating. 

 The public coursing is all a gambling game with very little 

 sport in it. Of course I must except that excellent meeting 

 at Altcar, where the great stakes, the Waterloo cup, are run 

 for. The hares there on the low-lying land are stout and 

 robust, while the big jumps that they give the greyhounds 

 over the dykes try the dogs' loins aud stamina. But a lot of 

 these now "fashionable inclosed meetings are utterly devoid 

 of the healthy, original sport of coursing, where a man 

 stretched his limbs and opened his lungs walking up the 

 swift, free puss. Through these inclosed meetings in the 

 neighborhood of large towns many have taken up with the 

 pastime who are as ignorant of the real sport as it is possi- 

 ble to imagine. 



You will at New York show 7 see some very good black and 

 tan terriers, which have been just shipped to Dr. Foote, of 

 New York city. These are some of the very best strain in 

 England, and consist of Meersbrook Maiden. Meersbrook 

 Girl and Meersbrook Billy. The first-named bitch is a very 

 good one, a light-weight of most excellent quality, in fact 

 she has beaten everything of note in the country, The 

 others are also sterling ones, and should make their way. 

 Messrs. Hill and Ashton, from whom the trio were pur- 

 chased, own a well-known winning keunel at Sheffield. 

 They are, however, giving up and selling out, to effect a 

 dissolution of pai'tnership, and therefore Mr. Foote's pur- 

 chase happened just at the right moment. 



Mr. David Baillie of Meadowthorpe Kennels, Lexington, 

 Kentucky, has also been over buying some fresh stock. A 

 couple of St. Bernard bitches are among the lot now on 

 their way. Lily is an eleven and a half months puppy by 

 St. Gothard — Saffron, and Lady Abbotts, a granddaughter 

 of old champion Monk, should'do some good. In four weeks 

 from now she. is due to whelp to a very nice young dog, 

 Glencairn, the winner at Hamburg, the Peoples Palace, 

 (London) and Woodstock. This bitch came from Mr. Cun- 

 ningham of Kensington . an enthusiast, in St. Bernards, but 

 not a regular exhibitor. He prefers to study his dogs in his 

 own kennel rather than send them to shows where he is 

 unable to attend personally. His keunel is a good one, aud 

 his only drawback has been a singular misfortune with 

 kennelraen; more or less not up to the work, and thereby he 

 has had very many severe losses with valuable litters. 



Two collie bitches from Mr. Robert Chapman's Glenborg 

 kenuel will join Mr. Terry's Hempstead keunel team. These 

 bitches are good strong ones with plenty of substance, and 

 thought to be suitable for Bendigo crossing. Both are in 

 whelp to Napoleon and Young Squire, respectively. Napo- 

 leon has won several prizes here, and Y^oung Squire, as his 

 name denotes, is a son of The Squire, and therefore a grand- 

 son to that beautiful collie, champion Charlemagne. Tmere 

 is a, chance of getting some good stock out of these bitches 

 before they are bred to Bendigo. Another dog, a Skye ter- 

 rier, will join the Meadowthorpe lot. He is a good young 

 dark blue dog, by Dunbar, aud Baillie thinks him up to 

 form. I have not seen him, hence cannot pass an opinion. 

 The Meadowthorpe manager was also in search of a basset 

 hound and a wire-hair fox-terrier, but whetherhe was suited 

 or uot I am unable to inform readers in this issue. 



Wayvake. 



THE ST. BERNARD CLUB.— The annual meeting of 

 this club will be held Tuesday evening, Feb. 19, 1889, at 6 

 P. M,, at the Westminster Kennel Club show, Madisou 

 Square Garden, New Y"ork city. 'The election of officers for 

 the ensuing year and other important, business will come 

 before the meeting. A full attendance is desired. A special 

 meeting of the Board of Governors of the St. Bernard Club 

 is called for 10 A. M., Feb. 19, to pass on the large number 

 of applications for membership now coming in. — LORENZO 

 Daniels, Cor. Sec. 



SALISBURY'S PEDIGREE. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



The Stock-Keeper of Dec. 28, 1888, gives this further evi- 

 dence to convince the, rascals who concocted and circulated 

 the report that Carr sold Salisbury to me without a pedigree 

 and always said the dog had no pedigree: 



"Last week we commented upon the reckless charge that 

 has beenlaunchedagainstMr. C. H. Mason, who is accused of 

 having concocted a pedigree for the mastiff Salisbury, after 

 purchasing that dog from a mau named Carr, who is re- 

 ported to have said that it had no pedigree. We exposed 

 the hollowness of the charge by showing that Carr himself 

 entered the dog for the Birmingham show with the very 

 pedigree Mr. Mason is said to have invented. Thanks to a 



ill itijueiiia ou<n .join.-,,/....., , «. "•■>- ' " w , . •, Vi , — 



hibited at the Darlington show, held m Woodside Park on 

 July 21 aud 25, 1H79, nearly five months before the Birming- 

 ham exhibition. These are the particulars of the entry: 



Class 70, Mastiffs— Dogs or bitches.— Champion class.— Best, US . 



No. 576. Carr, Thomas. Leo, fawn, 30 months. By Monarch- 

 Duchess. 150gs. 



"Mr. Mark Bcaufoy's Nero (0,3Tb) competed in the Hame 

 class and won the pri ze. The j udge was Mr. Edward Nichols, 

 who probably remembers the occasion." 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



Mr. Huscroft, the Chicago paper's ageut and 'Special 

 Commissioner," at 19 Fleet street, Loudon, Eugland, prints 

 the following lukewarm apology for having stated as a fact 

 that "Mr." Carr refused to give a pedigree with Salisbtiry 

 when he sold the dog to me: 



"I find that I was in error in stating recently, with refer- 

 ence to the mastiff Salisbury, that when the breeder sold 

 the dog he declined to supply a pedigree. The Birmingham 

 catalogue of 1879, which records the sale, actually gives a 

 pedigreo containing some of the names mentioned in my 

 note, as being the basis of the more extended pedigree given 

 in the Stud Book. I much regret this inaccuracy in my 

 note." 



The trap that Mr. Huscroft has been caught in ought to 

 be a means of teaching him that one cannot always do with 

 impunity the dirty work of an unprincipled employer, and 

 that it is dangerous and unwise for a comparative novice in 

 dog matters to write of things which were not in his day. 



Chas. H. Mason. 



New Yukk, Jan. 2l> 



THE LONG ISLAND RABBIT BAITING. 



f"|"VH'E following nore has been sent to ns by Mr. August 

 JL Belmont, Jr.; 

 Editor Forest and Stream.: 



I have followed your various comments upon the Hemp- 

 stead Coursing Club's sport. I recognize your indisputable 

 right to your opinions, but I cannot refrain from protesting 

 against your description of what you call the Hempstead 

 mode of* rabbit killing in your last issue. You evidently 

 have been misinformed, and are unwittingly neither fair nor 

 just. 



In the first place, you leave it to be inferred that the rabbit 

 has a start of but 25 to 30yds., whereas he usually has from 

 40 to 75yds., as circumstances permit. You say the purpose 

 is to determine the relative speed of the terriers, measured 

 by the time it takes to catch the rabbit, the first dog to reach 

 the rabbit wins. You cannot, as a sporting journal, be 

 ignorant of tho English National rules of coursing, and as 

 the Hempstead Coursing Club's meetings are governed in 

 every particular by these rules, the above is an erroneous 

 presentation of the intent of the course. The contest is be- 

 tween the terriers and measured by their dexterity in chas- 

 ing, turning, and only perhaps lulling the rabbit. It may 

 and does happen that the terrier killing does not always 

 win the course, and a course, according to the rules; may bl- 

 and is sometimes decided where uokill takes place at all, the 

 rabbit either escaping through superiority of speed or by 

 the terriers being unsighted. I quote the H. C. C. rule re 

 specting the kill:" 



(c.) The Kill.— Two points, or in a descending scale, in propor- 

 tion to the degree of merit displayed in the kill-, which may be of 

 no value. 



(e.) 27ic Merits "f CI Kill must be estimated according to whether 

 a fox-terrier by his own superior dash and skill bears tho rabbit, 

 whether he picks her up through any little accidental circum- 

 stances favoring him, or whether she is turned into his mouth, as 

 it were, by the other fox-terrier. 



As a terrier may during the course score mox-e than two 

 points over his adversary, it follows that if the adversary 

 kills, as may and is often the case, by having the rabbit tur- 

 ned into him, he cannot win eveu though he obtain the full 

 score of two points for the kill. 



In other words, you describe the sport as a simple race be- 

 tween two terriers* after a fleeing rabbit, the one running 

 the fastest andkillingjbeing the winner, and that no rabbits 

 ever escape. The kill is really only an incident and not an 

 indispensable feature. 1 have seen quite a number escape, 

 and the chances of escape will be greatly increased nexi 

 season by various improvements in the conduct of the sport, 

 which I understand the club is contemplating. I have seen 

 all the H. C. C.'s meetings and think the sport very inter- 

 esting and capable of creditable development. It should be 

 given the same chance and fair play which other kindred 

 sports receive by permitting it to be judged on its merits, 

 and I know the Fol'.nsx and STREAM will always be the first 

 to do this. C, G, J. Finn, M. D. 



Hempstead, L. I., Jan. 15. 



THE NATIONAL DOG CLUB. 



Editor Forest eviid Stream: 



Will you kindly note the following: At tbe executive com- 

 mittee meeting of the National Dog Club, held Oct. 15, 1888, 

 it was voted: "That hereafter at all bench shows there shall 

 be appointees of the executive committee of the National 

 Dog Club to take charge of the dogs of those of the club's 

 members who are unable to attend: to see that such dogs are 

 properly 7 benched, fed, watered, groomed, brought before 

 the judges, etc., and at the end of the show to superintend 

 their reshipment. The expense of such service to be borne 

 by the National Dog Club. " 



Members of the N. D. C. desirous of having their dogs 

 attended to as above noted will kindly advise me, so that an 

 ample provision may be made for their requirements. 



H. W. HUNTINGNTON, Sec. 



It8 South Eighth Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



ST. BERNARD PUPPY MEASUREMENTS.- Glens 

 Falls, N. Y., Jan. 21,— Edi tor Forest and Stream: In your 

 issue of Jan. 3, a subscriber desires the measurements ot our 

 St. Bernard puppy Princelimmon. While we consider that 

 the measurements of a puppy are very hard to ascertain at 

 all accurately, yet will give them as nearly as possible, taken 

 the 10th, when the puppy was four months old; Height at 

 shoulder, 22> 3 ln. Nose to stop, Jin. Stop to occiput, Sin. 

 Occiput to set on of tail, 81in. Length of tail, 20iu. Chest, 

 31in. Loin, 27in. Arm, 0>^in, Muzzle, 14in. Skull, 18in. 

 Weight, 701bs. This puppy is in good growing condition 

 and takes a great amount of exercise every day. Taking his 

 gain of 201bs. duriug last month as a fair 'estimate for this 

 month, he would woi.gh 901 bs. at five months old, beating 

 the weight of the Mt. Sion I II. puppy by Gibs, at same age. 

 I —HALFWAY BEOOK KKKNELB. 



