March 27, 1890.] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



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Mr. Stretch's kennels?" "It will not belong before they do, 

 and to give breeders a chance to get the blood their fees will 

 be reduced very considerably from now until they go. Char- 

 leroi is a dog that should have been used much more li ber- 

 ally, as I am sure you will say after having seen his puppies 

 which came out ttiis year." 



"Christopher has got some good puppies." "Yes, there is 

 Strathcathro Ralph, that did so well at Birmingham. He 

 was then but a puppy, and there is always a chance about a 

 young dog dtveloping rightly. It is safe, 1 think, to bny 

 developing dogs in the long run. Ralph was at Liverpool, 

 too, but he was not in such good coat then. Mr. Campbell 

 works his dogs in Scotland, and when they meet the Eng- 

 lish exhibitors' dogs they meet something always shown to 

 the best advantage." 



Another addition to the Chestnut Hill Kennels is the 

 bitch Purity, dam of Lady Muriel, Portington Squire and 

 Sir J umbo, and she has been bred to Christopher, 



Here are a few notes sent on to me from Baltimore. 

 Reference is made in the report of that show to a mix up in 

 the awards in the foxhound classes. Well, after Mr. Mort- 

 imer had left for New York Mr. Jester entered protest 

 against the English dogs awarded prizes in the American 

 foxhound class. The committee sustained the protest. 

 There seems to be some difficulty, however, about how the 

 prizes are to be awarded. 



On Thursday Mr. Dift'enderfer said that enough had been 

 taken at the door to pay all expenses, 



Plinlimmon, Jr., who was sick on his arrival, pnlled 

 through all right. It was said that Mr. Sears has a *:3,500 

 customer for this dbg at Boston. 



Quite a number of sales were reported. Mr. Diffeuderfer 

 sold the St. Bernard puppy Wenona for $50: Dr. Downey 

 the deerhound Thora II. for $75; Mr. J. H. Hall the St. 

 Bernard Marquis of Stafford at catalogue price, $400; and 

 Mr. George IT. Elder disposed of several collie puppies. 



Mr. Wade, in writing of the mastiffs at Chicago, mentions 

 Ashmont Nero, the sire of Duke of Connaught, and my 

 having once weighed him at a year old, when he scaled 

 1901bs. I think he was thirteen months old then. I never 

 saw such a monstrosity iu my life. He so outmastiff ed any- 

 thing I had ever seen or have seen since, that I said to Mr. 

 Mason afterward, "I don't know what you could do with 

 him if you had to judge him." He had not matured in 

 head, but such width of chest, such immense bone, length 

 and strength of back, and such loins, I never saw on any 

 dog. He was a bit low on the leg, but of course he had still 

 time to grow. The weight was absolutely correct, as I tested 

 the scales. He had cinnamon markings, like his dam's sire. 

 Duke of Connaught is a brindle, and that raises a little 

 doubt in my mind as to his sire being the dog Mr. Wade 

 speaks of, Ashmont Nero died before he was two years old, 

 of some liver complaint, according to what Dr. Perry was 

 told; and it occurs to me that Duke of Connaught is too 

 young a dog to have bean sired by him, I have not the 

 Chicago catalogue by me as I write, so can only draw Mr. 

 Wade's attention to this point. 



I had a note last week about certain criticisms which had 

 been made about reiudging classes at Chicago to rectify 

 oversights made by the show employees. An instance of a 

 different character occurred at Rochester. My dog Clipper 

 was shipped early on Monday morning from Lee, Mass., aud 

 if not at Rochester on Monday night should have been there 

 by Tuesday morning. He turned up at the show on Wed 

 uesday rooming, too late for the judging. Ben Lewis tells 

 me that he drew Dr. Gray's attention to the dog, and upon 

 the case being brought before the committee they very 

 courteously and kindly asked Mr. Mortimer to judge the 

 dog, there being no other in the class. Tt is a thing 1 could 

 not, have asked for, because the committee would have 

 every right to decline such a request, and 1 fully appreciate 

 this voluntary act on their part. I would further advise 

 Mr. Yates that Clipper did not reach Lee on the return 

 jouruey till Tuesday night, aud he must surely have been 

 shipped from Rochester on Saturday. Will he kindly reply. 



SPAYING. 



Editor Forest ami Stream: 



From time to time I have read with much amusement in 

 your very excellent journal ancient and stereotyped articles 

 on the surgical operation ovariotomy, commonly known 

 as spaying, and I must say that my observations and exper- 

 i mentations are as opposite from yours and several others 

 whose letters you have published, as the antipodes. Asa 

 physician and surgeon I first performed the operation of 

 ovariotomy on youug bitches for the simple purpose of 

 watching the effect from a physiological standpoint. Later, 

 Kb the solicitation of some of my sportsman friends, I per- 

 formed the operation on valuable puppies, pointers, English 

 and Irish setters and spaniels. I have also operated on 

 mastiff and St. Bernard puppies, collies and "strange yaller 

 bitches," and never in all my close observations on the re- 

 sults of these operations have I seen any of the pernicious 

 effects that you are pleased to mention, aud the aforesaid 

 observations have not been made on one or two isolated 

 operations, but on nearly one huudred cases. 



You speak of the operation as cruel. If it is done under 

 an anaesthetic, with all the antiseptic precautions in vogue 

 at the present day, there is no cruelty about it. The incision 

 should be small, hot more than one inch in length in the 

 median line, half way between the umbilicus and the pubic 

 bones. The ovaries should be carefully drawn to the open- 

 ing and cleanly dissected out with a curved scissors. The 

 cut surface should then be sponged with a bichloride of 

 mercury solution and returned to the abdominal cavity; no 

 ligatures should be used. The incision in the abdominal 

 wall is then closed with carbolized cat gut sutures. The 

 puppy awakens from the etherization and soon after laps 

 milk, and on the following day plays with the rest of the 

 litter, if there be any, as though nothing had happened. 

 The best time for the ovariotomy is from the tenth to the 

 twelfth week. That is the better age. 



One of your contributors, Mr. H. S. Pitkin, of Hartford, 

 Conn., speaks of the operation as being unnatural. If we 

 should ask why, he might give a woman's only answer, 

 "Because." I should like to ask the gentleman on what 

 particular experience or observation he bases his state- 

 ment. From his own confession he never knew the nature 

 of the operation, nor has he seen any of its effects, therefore 

 he is in no condition to pass judgment. If we should follow 

 out his argument we might say that it was unnatural and 

 cruel to emasculate a stallion and that he is injured thereby, 

 yet all know that in the gelding we have a superior animal 

 for domestic uses, made superior by castration. I cannot 

 understand why the presence or absence of ovaries have 

 anything to do with thememory. reason, judgment, volition 

 or the special sense of smell in the female canine. Women 

 who have had both ovaries removed for some diseased con- 

 dition are not less intelligent or more irritable, neither do 

 they necessarily "grow fat," nor are they more susceptible 

 to "catch cold." Why would it not be as consistent for 

 some one to attribute the fault of being gun shy in the ca- 

 nine to spaying and attempt to prove that only spayed 

 bitches are gun shy. Allow me to say iu conclusion that 

 the above statements are made from facts deduced from a 

 careful and close study of the operation and its effects. And 

 jf there is a bitch that has no intelligence or nose after an ova- • 



riotomy it will be safe to wager that she had none of these 

 quali ties before. C. E. Fbitts, M.D. 



Hudson, N. y. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



I have read in your edition of Feb. Kl, an article setting 

 forth your very possitive objections to spaying bitches, and 

 the reasons offered seem in the. main well founded. There 

 must be exceptions, however, to this possibly general rule 

 laid down by you, and I beg to call your attention to t.nd 

 put, on record with you two cases, which I now have under 

 my eye. Mr. C. C. Henderson, of this city, is the owner of 

 a young pointer bitch, a beautiful animal and very smart. 

 She was whelped about the last of February, 1889,' and at 

 the first sign or indication of oestrum in September, she was 

 spayed by Dr. H. B. Moore, of Gordon, 16 miles south of 

 this city. She was apparently entirely recovered from the 

 effects of the operation in four or five days. In November 

 she was put in charge of a trainer— Mr. Blunt— and at the 

 end of the season, which closed on the 1st instant, she was 

 returned to her owner almost "a perfect dog." She is well 

 trained, very intelligent and the most biddable clog of her 

 age I have ever seen. The only difference apparent up to 

 the present, which may be attributed to the fact that she is 

 "a spayed bitch," is "her obesity, but trainer Blunt has 

 demonstrated in her case that het' fat can be worked off and 

 kept in abeyance very easily. She is very industrious, works 

 bard and retrieves without fault. During the last week of 

 the season she performed a feat that was indeed pleasing to 

 all who witnessed it and one that is new among dogs of her 

 age. She was sent after a "winged" bird; she found it aud 

 was returning with it held tenderly yet firmly between her 

 jaws, when she suddenly turned her head and neck to a 

 position at almost right angle with her body and came to a 

 dead stand. The bird was flushed and killed, and though 

 the hunters had some distance to walk, aud the bird in her 

 mouth became more restless and tried to free itself, she re- 

 mained stauuch until ordered in. I simply mention these 

 things to show that Nellie Gage is a fair subject on which 

 to test the results of spaying. The second case need not be 

 gone over. She is a full sister and of the same litter as the 

 one just described, and is owned by Dr. Moore. 



Now as to the inhumanity and cruelty of the practice, 

 Dr. Moore, a leading physician, denies. He says he has 

 spayed quite a number and never had one to squirm or cry 

 out during the operation. They are always placed in an- 

 aesthf sis before the operation is begun, and he claims that 

 the majority of them suffer little inconvenience from the 

 wound thereafter He also insists that he has never known 

 a bitch of his spaying to give the least indication of coming 

 in season. 



If I do not trespass on your space too far, let me give you 

 the testimony of another man, Hezekiah L. Cash, of this 

 city, an old fox and deer hunter. He says he has owned a 

 great many spayed bitches, and they were always his best 

 dogs — ever ready and the most tireless. He has only han- 

 dled hounds. He tells me that the fleetest and most reliable 

 pack he over owned was composed of seven spayed bitches 

 and three dogs. He owned the pack several years, and not 

 until several of them became too old for hard service did he 

 break the pack. 



I am anxious for the truth in this matter, and shall scru- 

 pulously watch the two young subjects mentioned above 

 and will let your readers know the result. Gkombeck. 



Akkadelphia, Ark. 



[The article upon spaying, to which our correspondents 

 take exception, is a statement of our personal experience in 

 the matter for more than forty year*, during which time 

 we have carefully noted the results in scores of cases that 

 have come under our observation, only to become more and 

 more confirmed in our belief that the practice was entirely 

 wrong. While in some of the cases that have been brought 

 to our notice the work may have been done by unskillful 

 hands, iu many of them the operation was performed by 

 surgeons and veterinarians who were skilled iu their pro- 

 fession aud who presumably made no mistake. From some 

 cause the experience of our correspandents has been differ- 

 ent from our own iu the results obtaiued. Let us hear from 

 others.] 



BOSTON DOG SHOW ENTRIES.— The entries for the 

 dog show to be held at Boston next week number 737, 

 divided among the different breeds as follows: Mastiffs 22, 

 St. Bernards 65, bloodhounds 3, great Danes 17, Newfound- 

 lands 1, deerhounds 14, greyhounds 14, Chesapeake Bays 1, 

 pointers SO, English setters 34, Irish setters 52, Gordon 

 setters #5, spaniels 37, beagles 27, dachshunde 3, foxhounds 

 16, collies 45, poodles !), bulldogs 17, bull -terriers 28, round- 

 headed 24, fox-terriers 80, Scotch terriers 3, Irish terriers 19, 

 Dandies I, black and tans 11, Skyes 4, Yorkshires 22, pugs 

 13, King Charles spaniels 10, Blenheims 7, schipperkes 6, 

 Mexican hairless I, miscellaneous 18. 



ST. LOUIS COURSING CLUB.— St. Louis, Mo., March 

 22. — iSd&b&T Forest, and Stream: Lovers of the sport in this 

 city have organized a coursing club, having iu view the 

 giviug of a meet at the St. Louis Fair Grounds, about the 

 middle of May. Mr. Allison, of Hutchinson, Kan., was 

 here last week for the purpose of looking over the ground 

 and also to give the local club's managers a few pointers on 

 how to conduct the affair. The hares to be used will be 

 brought from Kansas and none but local dogs will take 

 part in the meet. The affair is to run four days, divided 

 into two stakes. Mr. Allison, Dr, G. Irwin Royce and D. C. 

 Luce will be here to manage the meet.— Unsee Fritz. 



CHICAGO, March 17.— Editor Forest and. Stream: The 

 Mascoutah Kennel Club wishes to express to you its thanks 

 for the valuable assistance rendered them by your paper in 

 making tkeir show just concluded such a success. We fully 

 realize the importance of the work done and can but express 

 our appreciation of the kindly interest and good will ex- 

 tended to us by you and your staff. We shall always remem- 

 ber your efforts with pleasure, and wish it were possible 

 to reciprocate.— G. H. Goodrich, Chairman Bench Show 

 Committee. 



KENNEL NOTES. 



Notes must be sent on prepared blanks, which are fur- 

 nished free on receipt of stamped and addressed envelope 

 of large letter size. Sets of 300 of any one form, bound for 

 retaining duplicates, are sent for 30 cents. 



NAMES CLAIMED. 



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Duke of Vrbaiui, Pickaway and Ouuntess Foulk. ByB. C. Van 

 Heyde, Urbana, O., for red Irish setters, two dogs and one bitch, 

 whelped Feb. 22, lSttO, by Michael Angelo (Lee Grouse— Delia) out 

 of My Dot (Vance's Cap— Gipsey Queen). 



Bazzle. By M. Flvuu, Jr., Bristol, R. I., for red Irish setter dng, 

 whelped Jan. 28, 1890, by Grip (Glencho— Lady Edith) out of Sheila 

 (Jim-Nell II.). 



Vurtigem II. and Stella. By E- Lever, Philadelphia, Pa., for 

 black and tan terrier dog and bitch, whelped Sept. 20, 1889, by 

 champion Vortigern (champion Viper— Gipsey) out of Lucy (Ben- 

 Fortune), 



BRED. 



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Ida J— Pomp. E. P. Jennings's (Urbana, O.) pointer bitch Ida 

 J. {Greek— Queen A.) to B C. Van Heyde's Pi mp (Glendale- 

 Vixen), March 14. 



Fair Inez— Rash. F. C. Nims's (Painesville, O.) put; bitch Fair 

 Inez (Zango— Nellie) to A. E. Pitts's Kash (Bradford Ruby— Lady 

 Cloudy), Jan. 2. 



Mena II.— Ted Laveraek. C. A. Ives's (Bridgeport, Conn.) Eng- 

 lish setter bitch Mena II. (Belthus— Daisy) to Warwick Kennels' 

 Ned Laveraek ^Perfection — Lit Laveraek), March 5. 



Lillian B — Hair's Belton, E. K. Sperry's (New Haven, Conn.) 

 English setter bitch Lillian B. (Druid— Frolic Bond hu) to War- 

 wick Kennels' Hair's Belton (Yale Belton— Polly Blue), March 17. 



Lendime— Ned Laveraek. Win, Knott's (Stamford, Conn.) Eng- 

 lish setter bitch Lendime (Glen— Frisk) to Warwick Kennels' Ned 

 Laveraek (Perfection — Lit Laveraek), Feb. 17. 



Winnie Bake— Beverdi/. Dr. L. M. Thompson's (Mahanoy City, 

 Pa.) English setter hitch Winnie Bake (Count Rake -Winnie 

 Davis) to P. H. O'Bannon's Reverdy (Gath's Mark— Rosa), Feb. 14. 



Elchoeen Jessiii — Larry 8. C. Smith's (Philadelphia, Pa.) Irish 

 setter bitch Elchoeen Jessie (Elcbo. Jr.— Pequot Jessie) to E. 

 Maher's Larry S. (Chief— Luray), Feb. 0. 



Bed Rose— Sarslicld. W. B. Rogers's (Jefferson. Pa.) Irish setter 

 bitch Red Rose (Biz— Lady Clare) to Kildare Kennels' Sarsfleld 

 (Garryowen— Ourrer Bell II.), March 21. 



Lady Flora— Tim. I. H. Roberts's (Philadelphia, Pa.) Irish set- 

 ter hitch Lady Flora (Begorrah— Leigh Doane) to M. Weuzel's 

 Tim (Biz— Hazel), Feb. 26. 



Belle,— Tim. Jae. L. Cart's (Orange, N. J.) Irish setter bitch 

 Belle (Chief ) to Max Wenzel's Tim (Biz— Hazel), Feb. 20. 



Belle-Tim. I. H. Hitchcock's (Sing Sing, N. V.) Irish setter 

 bitch Belle (Glencho— Tara) to Max Wenzel's Tim (Biz— Hazel), 

 March 13. 



Dimple— Lubo. Forest Kennels' (Groton, N. Y.) cocker spaniel 

 bitch Dimple ( rflack Duck— Bijou) to their Lnbo (Obo Jim— Ritleau 

 Lou), March 19. 



WHELPS. 



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Fair Inez. F. C. Nims's (Painesville. O.) pug bitch Fair Inez 

 (Zango— Nellie), March 9, five (two dogs), by A. E. Pitts's Kash 

 (Bradford Ruby— Lady Cloudy). 



Base S. Learnerd Kennels' (Hudson, N. Y.) fox-terrier bitch 

 RoseS. (Luke— Nora), March 18, five (four dogs), by F. A. Stupple- 

 been's Hillside Tarquin. 



SALES. 



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Bannerman— Desdemona whelps. Black, white and tan beagle 

 dogs, whelped Jan. 2, 1890, bv F. W. Chapman, Melrose, Mass., one 

 each to KuehJ & Prefountain, Manistee, Mich.; A, E. Perry. De- 

 troit, Mich., and Wru, Vaisey, Toronto, Can. 



Syrian, Black, white and tan beagle bitch, whelped Jan. 2, 1890, 

 by champion Bannerman out of Desdemona, by F. W. Chapman, 

 Melrose, Mass., to Kuehl & Prefountain, Manistee, Mich. 



Bannerman. White and lemon beagle dog, whelped November, 

 188:2, by March boy out of Dewdrop, by E. C. Barrett, Boston, 

 Mass., to F. W, Chapman, Me Rose, Mass. 



Restless, Black, white and tan beagle clog, whelped Jan. 2, 1890, 

 by champion Bannerman out of Desdemona. by F. W. Chapman, 

 Meh-ose, Mass., to O. H. Clapp, Carnpello, Mass. 



Hair's Belton. Black, white and tan English se tter dot,', whelped 

 Dec. 5, 1885, by Yale Belton out of Polly Blue, by Warwick Ken- 

 nels, Bridgeport, Conn., to Fred W. Shaw, Forest, Ont. 



Bazzle. Red Irish setter dog, whelped Jan. 28, 1890, by Grip out 

 of Sheila, by John W. Gale, Providence, R. I., to M. Flynn, Jr., 

 Bristol, R. t 



Luho. Black cocker spaniel dog. whelped Jan. 15, 1888, by Obo, 

 Jr., out of Rideau Lou, by E. O. Living, Ottawa, Ont ., to Forest 

 Kennels, Groton, N. Y. 



Boxer, Kit, Falka and Krminic. White bull-terriers, one dog 

 and three bitches, whelped Oct. 11, 1889, by Rusher out of Bertha, 

 by Mrs. John Whittaker, Philadelphia, Pa., to Edward Lever, 

 same place. 



Sandy. Wheaten Irish terrier bitch, whelped Aug. 23, 1888, by 

 Dennis out of Sandyeroft Vim, by John J. Campbell, Philadelphia, 

 Pa„ to Edward, Lever, same place. 



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