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FOREST AND STREAM, 



[March 13, 1890. 



A SINGULAR CASE. 



JOONTON, N. J., Feb. 28.— Editor Forest and Strann: I 

 send you the promised report of the veterinary surgeon 

 •who pulled the Gordon setters through. Theirs was" the 

 most remarkable case of rapid sloughing that I have ever 

 seen on any animal tissue. The dog was first noticed lick- 

 ing his foot on Tuesday. Jan. 28: at that time nothing more 

 ■was observed than a pronounced redness between the toes. 

 By the following noon necrosis of the bones of the foot had 

 distinctly set in, and hy Thursday mgrning the destruction 

 of the tissues had involved the veins and the arteries to 

 such au extent that serious hemorrhage supervened, and 

 within twenty four hours after the tissues had been severely 

 cauterized to stop the bleeding, the same bleeding recurred 

 from the progressive sloughing of the parts. Wherever the 

 pns from the foot touched— on the nose, ear and several 

 places on the other leg— the same rapid destruction of tissues 

 set in, and the bitch (having been incautiously placed in the 

 vicinity of the dog) was attacked in the same way; first on 

 the foot and then on other parts of the body. What was it? 



W. T. BARNARD. 



REPORT. 



On the 31st day of January last I was called in to see a 

 dog (one of a pair of imported Gordon setters) belonging to 

 I)r. Barnard, ol Boonton, N. J. He had a peculiar con- 

 dition of one foot, namely, a necrosis of the tissue between 

 the digits and also of the phalanges themselves. The 

 digital arteries and veins were exposed and continuous 

 hemorrhage going on. The exudate was of a purulent form, 

 • also there were several spots on the opposite leg about the 

 lower region of the tibia similar in character, evidently 

 caused by contact with the other foot. I cauterized the 

 arteries and dressed the foot with an antiseptic dressing*. 

 On calling the next day I found the necrosis had extended 

 upward and violent hemorrhage was again going on. I again 

 cauterizpd and applied a very strong antiseptic and was 

 gratified the next day in finding very little hemorrhage. 

 About this time its mate (a bitch) was noticed to have a 

 small sore between the digits, which was at once dressed 

 antiseptic-ally, but the disease increased in severity and ex- 

 tended to two of the other feet, but after two weeks gradu- 

 ally succumbed to treatment. The dog in the meanwhile 

 kept getting worse, high fever, necrosis rapid, accompanied 

 with gangrene, but not extending upward; would not 

 notice any one or eat anything, and the prognosis was very 

 unfavorable, I stimulated the dog every four hours with 

 milk punches eggs, etc., and on the sixth day a change for 

 the better took place, and ever since then he has heen im- 

 proving and is now nearly recovered, though minus three 

 digits. The bitch is well. I used on the dog externally a 

 solution of HG. CL,, and flowers of sulphur, and internally 

 calcium sulphite, following later with iron. The bitch was 

 treated with a solution of creosote and flowers of sulphur 

 externally, and jabarandi internally, but owing to h^r con- 

 dition (heavy in pup) I stopped the jabarandi and gave 

 calcium sulphite and iron. The exudate showed, under the 

 microscope, an innumerable amount of bacilli, in character 

 black rods of about equal size and length unbroken. The 

 cells were very active and had great amoebic movement, in 

 fact such progression is rarely or never seen. I diagnosed 

 it as a case of pywrnia, the external cause being some irri- 

 tant, but as none could be accounted for I was and am still 

 at a loss to account for such activity in the necrosis. I 

 showed the case to several eminent veterinary surgeons in 

 New York, who all agree wi*h me thatit was a very peculiar 

 and interesting case. The dogs are an exceptionally fine 

 pair and were imported by the owner at a great expense. 



R. L. Teuton, V. S., N. Y. V. C. 



PHILADELPHIA K. C. SHOWS AND TRIALS. 



Editor Forest a nd Slreamt 



Mr. Jas. Watson misquotes me in your valuable paper. 

 He quotes me as saying that the Philadelphia Kennel Club 

 ''would henceforth eschew dog shows." If he had taken 

 the trouble to refer to my article, which he should have 

 done before quoting me, he would have seen that what I did 

 state was "there will be no bench show held by the Phila- 

 delphia Kennel Club this year." I made this statement for 

 the benefit of a uumber of exhibitors, who have made 

 inquiry through the sporting journals. The statement that 

 Mr. Watson would make me responsible for would be com- 

 mitting the club to a policy for which I have no authority. 

 As I have said, bench shows held in Philadelphia have not 

 proved a success financially. The club has now a largely 

 increased membership, there has been an infusion of a new 

 life, so to speak, in its menage, and it would not greatly 

 surprise me that when the matter of holding a rousing big 

 show in this city next spring is taken up it would receive 

 favorable consideration. 



Much of the ''Kennel Vendetta" business, which Mr. 

 Watson himself so strongly condemns, might be largely 

 avoided if writers of his ability were more careful in their 

 statements. D t )g men are proverbially contentious, and 

 nothing so quickly incenses a dog man as to be misquoted. 



I fully agree with Mr. Watson that an improvement was 

 to be, d'-sired m the field trials held several years ago. Each 

 year marks an improvement in the club's trials. The im- 

 provement in last year's trials over those of two years ago 

 gave to the club a decided impetus. This is due to the 

 quality of the dogs run and the nature of the grouud upon 

 which the trials were held. Birds were more plentiful 

 The scarcity of birds has been the stumbling block. 



The difficulty that the club has labored under in past 

 years has been in securing grounds that were well stocked 

 with game and within easy distance of Philadelphia. You 

 see, the majority of the club's members are men in active 

 business pursuits, who can allot to recreation of this sort 

 just sn many days. Now if this time which they hope to 

 pass pleasantly in the field is materially shortened by several 

 days railroading, they simply refuse to attend. Therefore, 

 as it is upon the attendance of members and the number of 

 dogs entered that the success of the meeting depends, it be- 

 hooves the management to secure the best grounds possible 

 within a radius of a given number of miles. The matter of 

 securing new grounds was taken up and discussed at the 

 meeting held March i in the club's new quarters; the result 

 of the discussion was the appointment of a committee of 

 four active members, with power to secure the most avail- 

 able grounds for the next trials. Widewater, Va., where 

 the trials were held last November, is regarded very favor- 

 able; there are, however, objections to Widewater. It is 

 doubtful whether Col. Waller, our kind and attentive host, 

 can accommodate the large number that have expressed 

 their intentions of being present this year; there is a limit 

 to the capabilities of his roomy and hospitable mansion. 



At Widewater the birds were not sufficiently plentiful, 

 that the abilities of the puppies in running the Derby Stake 

 might be thoroughly tested, while the fields are large and 

 the cover plentiful, there are hills that have to be climbed. 

 When running the Members' Stake the birds seemed fully 

 alive to the fact that they were being hunted by tenderfoot 

 sportsmen, and when flushed would go like cannon balls 

 for cover on the hillside, and climbing the hills after the 

 dogs cut the members' wind and started their profanity. 

 If accommodations cannot be secured for an increased at- 

 tendance at Widewater, most likely new grounds will be 

 selected. 



When the quality of the following dogs, who will all run 

 this year, is taken into consideration, may we not look for- 

 ward to a very successful meeting:- Dogs like Gath's Mark, 

 Breeze Gladstone, Tempest, Bob H., Katie Noble, Clipper 

 W., Peseverance, Rod-Gem, Ezra Noble, San Roy, Jr., et al.. 

 all field trial performers. These dogs have all been educated 



by celebrated handlers in the South. In addition to those 

 mentioned there are a number of young dogs of great 



& r0 iS" B /^ Br : 5 avis has a ver y like, y litfcl e bitch in List 

 Noble (Count Noble— Pate Gladstone). Francis S. Brown, 

 shortly after the death of the field trial winner Nom. was 

 .presented by the parents of the late I. Norris Cochrane, 

 i-sq., with two very promising puppies. One of these little 

 aristocrats is a daughter of Nora, by Ben Hill; the other is 

 a dog sired by Paul Gladstone out of the great Bohemian 

 trirl. Dr. J. A. Hartman has a very promising entry in 

 Rosa Gath (Gath's Joy— Rosa). Francis G. Taylor. 



CALIFORNIA KENNEL CLUB. 



Editor Forest, a nd Stream: 



■ A 0 la,, ge meeting of the California Kennel Club was held 

 in han Francisco, Cab, on Feb. 27, at which Hon. J. B. 

 Lewis presided and Wm. G. Cue was secretary. The com- 

 mittee which was appointed to confer with the Pacific Ken- 

 nel Club made a report, and stated the terms on which the 

 Pacific Kennel Club desired to consolidate: That both clubs 

 should unite under the name of the Pacific Kennel Club- 

 that the present officers, constitution and by-laws of the 

 Pacific Kennel Club, as they now are, should be accepted 

 and govern the new club; that the California Club should 

 assume half of the indebtedness of the Pacific Kennel Club, 

 which is between 8400 and S500 for unpaid prizes won at their 

 last bench show in May, 1889. 



On motion of James'Sumner the report was received, and 

 the committee, consisting of J. B. Lewis, A. B. Truman, J. 

 B. Martin and John M. Crane, was discharged. 



Thos. Higgs moved that the terms be not accepted, and 

 the motion was seconded by W. G. O'llara. All of the 

 members present were opposed to the terms offered by the 

 Pacific Club, and it appeared to be the unanimous opinion 

 that the only terms which would be aceptable to the club 

 were as follows: That the California Kennel Club should 

 name first and third vice-presidents; that the executive com- 

 mittee should consist of sixteen members, eight from each 

 club; that they should not assume any indebtedness of the 

 Pacific Club; that the funds now in the treasury of the CaU- 

 fornia Kennel Club should be placed in the hands of a 

 responsible person and should be used for no purpose other 

 than giving a bench show; that the name of the new club 

 should be the California-Pacific Kennel Club, or a new 

 name, and that the constitution and by-laws be revised to 

 conform with the constitution and by-laws of the American 

 Kennel Club. W, G. Ciik, Sec. C. K. C. 



DOGS OF THE DAY. 



THAT sterling good bull bitch Britomartis died on the 

 Thursday after New York show, Heald finding her 

 dead in her kennel on makiug his morning rounds. He tells 

 me the cause must have been colic, judging from the wav 

 she was lying. Britomartis was bred by Mr. Lyell, of 

 Dundee, Scotland, and was by that grand dog Monarch'out 

 of Penzie. I forget whether Mr. Benjamin, of London, 

 showed her first or not, but it was in his name anyway that 

 she made her fame. This was about the end of Mr. "Ulster" 

 Benjamin's exhibiting career, for his business at Ulster 

 House, coupled with some papers he was dabbling with 

 took up bis time. I heard early of Britomartis being in the 

 market, but that she was a non-breeder. I so advised Mr. 

 Thayer, and for that reason he did not buy her when 1 could 

 have got her for £80. The Livingston Brothers bought her 

 from Mr. Benjamin and showed her at Boston, where Mr 

 Thayer bought her, as she could beat anything he had The 

 price was along one, but Mr. Thayer once refused an oppor- 

 tunity to get well out of the deal. The Boston gentleman 

 who imported that sensational dog Tom Ball, offered Sl.OOO 

 for "Writ," which was declined, as there were a lot of shows 

 ahead. Tom Ball caught distemper the first time he was 

 shown at Boston, and died from the disease, so the si 000 

 offer was never renewed. Her brother Robinson Crusoe 

 will soon follow to the happy hunting grounds, and when 

 he goes Mr. Thayer'.* connection with the breed will termin- 

 ate, except as judge, in which capacity we are to have the 

 pleasure of seeing him at Boston next month. 



I am advised that the smooth-coated St. Bernard dn^ 

 Watch has been purchased for America, from Mr .T. F 

 Smith, of Sheffield, Eng. The new home of Watch will be 

 in Ohio and St. Bernard men can start guessing where he 

 will be domiciled. This dog, from all that has appeared 

 about him in print, is an uncommonly good one, and he 

 comes at a good time for breeders with Hector and Victor 

 Joseph bitches coming on. 



Mr. E. H. Moore has had the misfortune to lose his St. 

 Bernard bitch Lady Miles. She was off her feed on Tuesdav 

 at Chicago, and when Mr. Crowell and 1 were at her bench 

 on Wednesday, talking over her position and that of his 

 bitch Mauon, she was a very sick dog. Later in the day I 

 heard Mr. Moore's man in consultation with Dr. Glover 

 about the patient, but their efforts proved unavailing and 

 she succumbed to pneumonia on Friday. In speaking of 

 the merits of the two bitches, Mr. Crowell said that it 

 would always be a matter of opinion as to which should 

 lead. Miss Whitney had placed them one way at New York 

 and Mr, Mortimer another at Chicago. It is a pleasure to 

 have an exhibitor talk that way when defeated in place of 

 '■kicking." and when he does win he gets congratulations 

 which are worth having and are not mere lip service, 



I commend to the attention of the editor of Forest and ' 

 Stream the letter of Mr. H. T. Payne, of Los Angeles 

 which appears in the Breeder and Sportsman of March I. 

 It is a letter which merits republication here so that ali 

 may understand the case of the Southern California Kennel 

 Club as against the American Kennel Club. If the A. K. C. 

 delegates get an opportunity of reading Mr. Pavne's state- 

 ment there will be an end to the objection to the recognition 

 of awards at the Los Angeles show. The opposition" had a 

 very narrow majority last time a reconsideration was asked 

 for, and when Mr. Payne's statements are substantiated at 

 the next meeting they will have nothing to say. In the first 

 place the decision of the A. K. C. was fundamentally 

 wrong— the club erred, if any one did so, and the penalty of 

 non-recognition is visited upon the unoffending exhibitors 

 while the club is not even reprimanded. Secondlv, accord- 

 ing to Mr. Payne's statement, the blame for non-compliance 

 with the rules rests at 44 Broadway, and not Los Angeles. 

 Thirdly, the head and front of the offending was the print- 

 ing of the A. K. JR. numbers, and it will puzzle any one to 

 iiud a rule forbidding that. I think it was said that the 

 committee passed such a rule, but it will be time enough to 

 consider that rule when it has been shown that the bodv 

 passing it had any legal right to do so. These points only 

 require elucidation to gain a reversal of the former decision, 

 and the Los Angeles is to blame for not placing the full 

 facts before the A. K. C. The delegates decided upon the 

 statements made to them, and if these were ex parte it was 

 the fault of the California Club. 



It isramusiug to note how some kennel editors display 

 their ignorance of the alphabet of the business. One of your 

 contemporaries relieved itself of an editorial opinion that 

 the title of champion was earned too easily, and goes on to 

 say, "The small shows are becoming so numerous that it is 

 easy for a second or third class dog, by being confined to 

 competition at these shows, to win the three times necessary 

 to have the right to wear the title," and then it makes a 

 suggastiou of surpassing brilliancy— that is for the man who 



wrote it. Of course, any one who knows anything about 

 dog shows knows that a dog has to win four open class firsts 

 and then three challenge class firsts to get the prefix ''cham- 

 pion." Another editor who ought to have known better 

 patted number one on the back and quoted the article with- 

 out noticing the blunders. If those theorists think it is 

 easy to get a champion let them start in now with a second 

 rate dog of a breed in which there is any competition and 

 they will find that it is the toughest job they ever tried to 

 get him a champion. It is odds of ten to one against the 

 dog living long enough to be a champion. Take collies for 

 instance I doubt if there was more than one champion 

 created last year. This year there has been one already and 

 there is not likely to be another till 1891. 



A leading victim of distemper contracted at the New York 

 show was the Hempstead Farm's collie Hempstead Ben 

 winner of the trophy, sweepstakes and other prizes. This 

 was a very promising puppy, and it was extremely hard 

 luck to lose the best of the bunch. I understand that the 

 others in the kennel that contracted the disease are all fully 

 recovered, but it was doubtless the fact of distemper bein«- 

 in the kennel that kept the Hempstead exhibit away from 

 Chicago. 



Some time in September last a writer over the name of 

 Merlin" was guilty of gross plagiarism in cribbing, with 

 neither credit nor quotation marks, from an article bv "Ash- 

 mont ' In the current number of the English Kennel 

 Lrazette appears this tardy acknowledgement of the expos- 

 ure: '-The omission to credit Dr. Perry with authorship 

 was quite inadvertent, and I gladly tender him my sincere 

 acknowledgmen ts, not only for the one paragraph, which I 

 used, but for his many and valuable contributions to this 

 journal, and to our literature generally." As the crib was 

 a good deal more than "one paragraph," as shown by Mr. 

 wade's letter at the time, the above confession reminds one 

 of the plea that the baby was only a very little one. Can it 

 have been caused by the letter I wrote to the secretary of the 

 Kennel Club, I wonder, and when am I to receive an acknowl- 

 edgment of that epistle? J. W". 



EASTERN FIELD TRIALS CLUB. 



AT a meeting of the Eastern Field Trials Club, March II 

 it was decided to incrpase the money in the Derby and 

 All-Aged Stakes for 1890. The purse in'the Derby will be 

 S900, with #500 to first, §250 to second and $150 to third, with 

 the $100 cup to the breeder of the winner. There will be 

 only one All-Aged Stake this year for all pointers and set- 

 ters that have not won first in any open stakes run in this 

 country. The purse is for the same amount and divided the 

 same as the Derby. The Members and Champion Stakes 

 will be the same as last year 



Messrs. Geo. W. Ewing, Fort Wayne, Ind. and W. Hay 

 Bockes, Saratoga Springs were proposed as members A 

 letter from John White states, that he has drawn the new 

 grounds of the club at Otterburn Springs, Va., and found 

 birds fully as plentiful as they were in North Carol ina. The 

 committee on rules will have them ready for CublfcatiOTJ in 

 a few days. 



BATIMORE DOG SHOW. 



BALTIMORE, March 10.— Editor Forest and Stream- 

 Herewith I send you a list of t he (ntries for our com- 

 ing dog show, 318 in all. Mastiffs 13, St. Bernards 2(>, New 

 foundland 1, great Danes 6, deerhounds i, greyhounds 6 

 pointers 10, English setters 27, Irish setters 2:3, Gordon set- 

 ters 12, foxhounds 30, Chesapeake Bay dogs 17, cocker span- 

 iels 9, collies 31, poodls 1, bulldogs 7,' bull-terriers 7, da^bs- 

 hundei. beagles 11, fox-terriers 22, Irish, Sk ye, Yorkshire 



and toy terriers 1 each, pugs 16, tov spaniels 2, Italian grey- 

 nd 1, Mexican hairless 3, Siberian wolfhound i, miscel- 



bounc 



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laneous 6. Express companies will return dogs free to orig- 

 inal shippers when regular rate has been prepaid one way 

 Pennsylvania and Baltimore and Ohio: "Not more than 

 thuee dogs carried free in baggage cars at ownerisrisk. when 

 accompanied by owners or caretaker?, on presentation of 

 identification papers."— W. Stewart Dcttendeefes, Bec'y 



SPAYING, 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



Apropos to the. letters in regard to spaying, let me add a 

 mite for both sides of the questions. I have in mind two 

 beagle bitches on which the operation was performed when 

 they were six months old They are both Al dogs, keen of 

 scent, long-winded and good leaders. Also a cross-bred 

 bitch which promised to be fine, but after she was spayed 

 was irritable, spiritless and solitary in her habits. She w^as 

 finally given to a man who thought he could cure her de- 

 fects, but at last accounts she was just the same. It seems 

 to me that it is a very two-sided question. For my part I 

 would never have it done, as with a little care one can watch 

 his dog while in season. Q. Jate. 



Smith's Mills, Pa., March 1. 



DEATH OF ZORA.— Vineland, N. J., March ^.-Editor 

 F'orest and Stream: The lovers and breeders of St. Bernards 

 in America will probably think me deserving of their 

 sincere sympathy when told of the circumstances attending 

 the loss of my bitch Zora (A.K.Pv, C.S99) on Feb. 25 last She 

 was in whelp by Ben Hur (A.K.R. 6727) and her litter was 

 due between Feb. 25 and March 5. She had been remark- 

 ably strong, active and well up to the afternoon of the 2±th, 

 not having known a sick day since her breeding, though 

 the remarkable development of her size told me she must 

 have an unusually iarge litter. On the day last mentioned 

 she began to show difficulty in breathing, refused food and 

 had a period of sharp distress, foaming slightly at the 

 mouth after taking the last food she swallowed. I called 

 in Dr. Elton, a veterinary surgeon residing here on that 

 occasion, and he did what he could to relieve her. I thought 

 at the time that the trouble was caused by the pressure of 

 the litter, and was in hopes that labor would begin soon 

 enough to relieve her. I do not think she was able to lie 

 down that night at all, but she seemed easier and had no 

 more foaming at the mouth and nothing approaching a tit 

 The next morning I thought her better and visited her at 

 short intervals, remaining longer with her than I was absent 

 from her. About 3 P. M. I had to go into the house. When 

 I left her there was no sign of increased distress but at 

 about 3:20 we found her lying about four feet from her nest 

 dead. I sent for Dr. Elton immediately, and when certain 

 that she could not be brought back to life, we made an 

 autopsy. We took from her nineteen pups, perfectly 

 formed, but all dead. Eleven were males and eight females- 

 fourteen of the ni were beautifully marked, with blaze, 

 collar, tip of tail, breast, belly and feet white and the rest 

 that brownish black which ripens into rich mahogany ov 

 orange. Neither the surgeon nor myself have the slightest 

 doubt that the pressure of this unexampled litter upon the 

 thoracic cavity of the bitch had interfered with the anion 

 of the heart, causing death the instant it bore upon thai 

 organ. I may state finally that while Zora was in ^ood 

 flesh she was not fat nor overfed. Has a larger litter than 

 this ever been known > It was her first litter and she wan 

 but two years of age on Feb. 11 last. Luckily for the state 

 of our own feelings we had not become quite as mueh at- 

 tracted to Zora ms to our other female St. Bernards, but as 

 it is there has been a gloom iu the house that only the true 

 lover of dogs knows anything about.— Tract Gori.fi 



