April 17, 1890.1 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



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FIXTURES. 



DOG SHOWS. 



April 15 to 18.— Show of the Buffalo Kennel Club, Buffalo, 

 N. Y. A . W. Smith. Secretary. 



April 23 to 26.— First Due Show of the Schenectady Kennel Club, 

 at Schenectady. N. T. G. A. Rosa, Secretary. 



Mav 6 to n.-Seeond Annual Dog Show of the Southern Cali- 

 fornia Kennel Club, at Los Angeles, Cal. H. W. Wilson, Super- 

 intendent. ■ ■ 



Sept. 9 to 12 — Second Annual Dcg Show of the Toledo Kennel 

 Company, at Toledo, O. C. K. Rowland, Secretary. 



Sept. 23 to 26.— Second Annual Dog Show of the CeDtral Canada 

 Exhibition Association, at Ottawa. Alfred Geddes, Chairmau 

 Committee. ... 



Oct. 6 to 11.— Ninth Annual Dog Show of the Danbury Agricul- 

 tural Society, at Danbury Conn. B. C. Lynes, Secretary. 

 FIELD TRIALS. 



Nov. 17.— Twelfth Annual Field Trials of the Eastern Field 

 Trials Club, at Otterburn Springs, Va. W. A. Coster, Saratogo 

 Springs, N. Y.. Secretary. 



Dec. 1— Second Annual Field Trials of the Central Field Trials 

 Club, at Lexington, N. C. C. H. Odell, Mills Building, New York, 

 Secretary. 



1891. 



Jan. 19.— Eighth Annual Field Trials of the Pacific Kennel Club, 

 at Baker6fleld, Cal. H. II. Brings, Secretary. 



Feb. 2.— Third Annual Field Trials of the Southern Field Trials 

 Club. T. M. Brunby, Secretary, Marietta, Ga. 



EASTERN FIELD TRIALS CLUB RULES. 



FOLLOWING are the regulations, rules for running and 

 instructions to judges for the Eastern field trials of 



1890; 



RULE 1. The management of the meetings for the annual 

 field trials shall be intrusted to the governors of the club, 

 and with them lies the interpretation of all rules. They 

 shall decide upon all matters not provided for in these rules. 



Rule 2. The judge or judges shall be selected by the 

 governors, and their names shall be publicly announced as 

 soon as possible after their selection. When a judge is pre- 

 vented from attending a meeting or finishing it, the gov- 

 ernors shall appoint a substitute. 



RULE 3. For all stakes, the names, pedigrees, ages, colors 

 and distinguishing marks of the dogs shall be detailed in 

 •waiting to the secretary of the club, to be filed at time of 

 making entry or entries. Any dog's age, marking or pedi- 

 gree which shall be proved not to correspond with the eutry 

 shall be disqualified, and all such dogs' stakes or winnings 

 shall be forfeited. 



RULE 4. The forfeit money must accompany every nom- 

 ination, and the balauce of the entrance fee must be paid 

 before the drawing. 



RULE 5. The governors may refuse any entry they may 

 think proper to exclude; and no person who has been found, 

 to the satisfaction of the governors, to have misconducted 

 himself iu any manner in connection with dogs, dog shows 

 or dog trials, or who is a defaulter for either stakes or for- 

 feits in connection with either thereof, or for money due 

 under an arrangement for division of winnings, or for pen- 

 alties for infraction of rules, or for any payment required 

 by a decision of the club, shall be allowed to compete in any 

 trials that may be held under the auspices of the Eastern 

 Field Trials Club. 



RULE 6. Any objections to an entry must be made in 

 writing addressed to the secretary of the club, and will be 

 acted on by the governors, whose decision shall be final. 



Rule 7. Immediately before the dogs are drawn at any 

 meeting the time and place of putting down the first brace 

 of dogs on the following morning shall be declared and 

 posted in a conspicuous place. 



Rule 8. All stakes shall be run in the order of the pro- 

 gramme when possible. Should, however, the competitors 

 or their representatives in the various stakes- agree other- 

 wise, the order may. with consent of the governors, be 

 changed. 



Rule 0. Dogs shall be drawn by lot, and numbered iu 

 the order drawn. Each dog shall run in the first series as a 

 brace with the next available dog in that order. After the 

 first series has been run through, the judges shall announce 

 which dogs they wish to see run again, and order of running 

 them. Discretion is given the judges to run the dogs as 

 often and in what order they think best, until they are 

 satisfied which are the best dogs; but they may announce 

 the winners any time after the second series, provided the 

 first and second prize winners shall have run together. Any 

 dog absent during the first series for more than twenty 

 minutes after his number is called shall be disqualified 

 from further competition. 



Rule 10, If two dogs owned or handled by the same per- 

 son should come together in the first series, the second dog 

 so owned or handled shall change places with the first dog 

 not so owned or handled. This change shall be effected in 

 the order of running if possible; if not possible, then in the 

 reverse order of running. If such separation is found to be 

 impracticable, or without benefit, the running together of 

 two such dogs may be permitted. 



RULE 11. The bye-dog in any series shall run with a dog 

 selected by the judges or alone as they may direct. 



Rule 12. Each dbg must be brought up in its proper turn 

 without delay; if absent more than twenty minutes it may 

 be disqualified, at the discretion of the judges. Subject to 

 rule 9. 



RULE 13. An owner, his handler or his deputy, may hunt 

 a dbg. but it must be one or the other; and when dogs are 

 down' an owner must not interfere with his dog if he has 

 deputied another person to handle and hunt him. In Mem- 

 bers' Stake every member must handle his own dog. 



RULE 14. The person handling and hunting a dog may 

 speak, whistle to and work him by hand as he may deem 

 proper, but he shall be called to order by the judges for 

 making any unnecessary noise, or for any disorderly con- 

 duct; and if after being cautioned he persists in such noise 

 or disorderly conduct, they shall order the dog to be taken 

 up and adjudged out of the stake. An opponent's dog must 

 not be interfered with or excited. In such case an appeal 

 should be made to the judges. 



RULE 15. If an opponent's dog points game, the dog must 

 not be drawn across him to take the point, but if not back- 

 ing of his own accord he must be brought around behind 

 the pointing dog. Dogs must be hunted together, and their 

 handlers must walk within a reasonable distance of one 

 another. 



Rule 16. If a dog be withdrawn, with the consent of the 

 governing committee on the ground, from a stake on the 

 field or at any time during the holding of a trial, its owner 

 or his deputy having authority, shall notify in writing, 

 with his name attached, the secretary or one of the govern- 

 ors of the club. If the dog delongs to either oi any of those 

 officials, the notice must be handed to one of the others. 

 No owner or handler shall be permitted to withdraw his 

 dog or dogs from a stake on the field or at any other time 

 during the progress of a trial, without the consent of the 

 governing committee on the grounds: any such owner or 

 handler withdrawing his dog or dogs, without the consent 

 of the governing committee on the grounds, may be de- 

 barred from any future trials, or be penalized at the dis- 

 cretion of the club. 



RULE 17. If any person openly impugns the actions or 

 decisions of the judge or judges, or otherwise annoys them 

 during the progress of a trial, he may be debarred from 

 future participation in the trials, and ordered off the 

 grounds. 



Rule 18. No person other than the judge, judges or re- 

 porters will be permitted to accompany the handlers of dogs 

 competing iu any heat, except owners of such dogs running 

 in charge of a handler or deputy, and they shall be per- 

 mitted to accompany the stewards until the finish of 

 such heat, when they shall retire until their dogs again 

 come into competition. Two persons are prohibited from 

 working one dog. If from any cause the handler of 

 a running dog is disabled to such an extent that he 

 cannot shoot, upon his request to the judge or judges, 

 he may select some person to shoot for him, and the 

 judges ^may in any case require handlers running dogs to go 

 through minutely the evolution of shooting either a blank 

 or shotted cartridge over any and every established point, 

 upon being ordered to flush a bird. The handlers of the 

 two dogs shall go together as if it were a brace of dogs, and 

 hunt said brace or braces in the trials as in ordinary shoot- 

 ing, so that the dogs shall be on an equality as to ground, 

 opportunities for finding, etc. Spectators shall not be 

 allowed nearer the handlers of dogs running than 75yds. at 

 the rear. The. privilege is granted handlers to ask the 

 judges for information or explanation that has a direct 

 bearing upon any poiut at issue: pending such questions the 

 dogs shall not be uuder judgment. Dogs afflicted with any 

 contagious disease, or bitches in season, or unduly attract- 

 ing the attention of the competing dog, will not be permit- 

 ted on the grounds. Handlers shall not load their guns 

 until a point is established. 



Rule 19. Should the. owner of a dog or his representative 

 induce the. owner or representative of another dog to with- 

 draw such dog for consideration or bribe of any nature what- 

 soever, all prizes won by either shall be forfeited upon the 

 facts being satisfactorily proved to the governors. If, how- 

 ever, either dog be withdrawn without consideration, from 

 lameness, injuries, or from any cause clearly affecting his 

 chance of winning, the other dog may be declared the win- 

 ner, on the facts of the case being clearly proved to the sat- 

 isfaction of the judge or judges. 



When more than two dogs remain at the end of a stake, 

 which is not run out, stakes shall be divided; and in case of 

 a division between three or more dogs, of which two or more 

 belong to the same owner, these latter shall be held to take 

 equal shares of the total amount won by their owners, and 

 iu the division the terms of any arrangements to divide win- 

 nings must be declared to the secretary. 



R ule 20. All protests, when practicable, except as here- 

 inbefore provided, must be made and delivered to the secre- 

 tary of the club, or in case of his absence, to the president 

 of 'the club, or in case of his absence, to a member of the 

 governing committee at or before midnight of the date of 

 running of final heat. 



TO OWNERS AND HANDLERS. 



In issuing the revised rules in conformity with the spot- 

 ting system, the club has these principles which it wishes to 

 bring forward: 



1. That each and every trial is simply a trial in the true 

 sense of the word, and not a competition in which the num- 

 ber of points made by either dog will necessarily count in 

 his favor. The club desires handlers competing at their 

 trials to show their dogs to the best advantage and not 

 hustle for points on scattered birds, assuring them that each 

 dog will be given a thorough test, both as to his finding and 

 pointing qualities. 



2. That the judges will give greater credit to the dogs 

 showing the best natural qualities, it being the desire of the 

 club to have the best dogs placed to the front irrespective of 

 the luck which is supposed to attend competitions of this 

 nature. The judges will be requested to give more atten- 

 tion to a dog's natural finding qualities than has been done 

 in the past years, and the time saved by weeding out the 

 poorer dogs iu the first series, will enable them to thor- 

 oughly test the best dogs in each stake. 



3. In doing away with a scale of points expressed numeri- 

 cally, the club desires to inform the public, as nearly 

 as possible, what standard the dogs competing at their 

 trials will be judged under. The judges will be re- 

 quested to place to the front dogs showing the best 

 natural qualities, viz., intelligent ranging, desire to find 

 birds independently, bird sense and nose, or expressed in 

 fewer words, dogs showing the greatest ability and desire to 

 find birds. All dogs must be thoroughly broken as a mat- 

 ter of course. Handlers will be given time to let a dog 

 finish his cast before being ordered in a new direction. 

 Under the new method of selecting the winners, it is hoped 

 and expected that the question of luck will be entirely 

 eliminated, and the first, second and third best dogs will be 

 surely and accurately placed in accordance with their merits. 



INSTRUCTION TO JUDGES. 



The judges shall give each brace in first series at least 

 forty-five minutes and shall order up the dogs as soon there- 

 after as they have determined which is the better. 



Pointing fur, feather, reptile or scent of game birds, if the 

 judges deem the same excusable, shall not be considered a 

 false point. 



The judges shall give a dog ample opportunity to discover 

 whether he is on a true point. 



No assistance shall be given by the handler to enable a 

 dog to discover whether he is on a false point. 



The judges are requested to avoid as far as possible hold- 

 ing a dog so long on a poiut for the purpose of securing a 

 back or otherwise, as to enable the birds to run. Dogs 

 should be brought up to back only when opportunity offers, 

 without interfering with the pointing dog, and a dog draw- 

 ing on or pointing game shall be afforded ample opportunity 

 to locate the game, it being left to the discretion of the 

 judges to direct the opposing dog to be held in check. 



Should a dog be held an unreasonable time upon a point 

 he should not be penalized for a resultant fault. 



The number of times a dog points, backs, etc., shall not 

 necessarily give him the preference, but the judges shall con- 

 sider the' quality of the performance rather than the fre- 

 quency of the occurrence. 



In order to prevent handlers rushing or unduly exciting 

 the dogs, discretion is given the judges to try each dog of a 

 brace separately on single birds, the competing dog being 

 kept at heel. 



Backing— The judges are requested to give no credit for 

 backing unless it appears to be voluntary. 



Ranging— The judges are requested to jrive greater 

 credit to the dog that maintains the most killing range 

 throughout, viz., wide or close, as the necessity of the case 

 requires, 1 



Obedience and disposition.— The judges are requested to 

 give greater credit to the dog that w^orks promptly, without 

 noise or severity, and is obedient, prompt, cheerful and 

 easily handled. 



Bird sense— The judges are requested to give greater 

 credit to a dog that shows the greatest bird sense. Bird 

 sense is shown in a dog by his desire to hunt for birds, his 

 selection of likely places to hunt in, his method of hunting 

 the places, his industry in staying out at his work, and 

 his skill in handling and pointing the birds after he finds 

 them. 



DEMERIT. 



False pointing, breaking in, breaking shot, chasing. — 

 These faults shall be gauged by the judges in their discre- 

 tion. The second chase, however, loses any further oppor- 

 tunity of competition in •the stake. 



DEFINITIONS. 



Breaking in— la where a dog through imperfect breaking, 

 or from excitement, leaves his position when the birds rise, 

 whether the. gnu ts fired, or not, and start* to ••lia«se, bur 



stops within a few feet from where he started of his own 

 accord or by command. 



Breaking shot— Is where a dog runs in when a shot is fired 

 with the intention of getting to the bird and does not stop 

 promptly at command. 



Chasing— Is where a dog follows the bird, either when a 

 gun is fired or not, to any extent to be beyond control of his 

 handler for the time being. 



Following is a list of the stakes and order of runniug: 



MEMBERS' STAKE. 

 Thursday, Nov. 13, 1890.— Three prizes: First, #100; second, 

 $75; third, $50; or cups of the same value. Each member 

 allowed one entry free, S10 for each additional entry. 



DERBT. 



Monday, Nov. 17, 1890.— For all setter or pointer pups 

 whelped 'on or after Jan. 1, 1889. Three purses: First prize, 

 •$500; second, §250; third, $150, and breeder's cup, value $100, 

 to breeder of winner of Derby. Forfeit $10 and $20 additional 

 to fill. Entries close May 1, 1890. 



ALL-AGED SETTER AND POINTER STAKE. 

 Open to all setters and pointers that have never won a first 

 prize in an all-aged open stake at any recognized field trial 

 in America. First prize, $500; second, $250; third, $150. For- 

 feit $10 and $20 additional to fill. Entries close Oct. 1, 1890. 



CHAMPION STAKE. 



Open only to winners of all -aged open stakes at recog- 

 nized field trials in America. Entries close Oct. 1, 1890, ex- 

 cepting those dogs that win after date of closing stakes, 

 which are eligible to enter on night previous to running. 

 Forfeit $10 and $15 additional to fill. The club adds $100 to 

 entrance money and the American Field adds a clip, value 

 $100. All entries must be filled at 9 P. M. on night previous 

 to running of stake. 



All correspondence addressed to Washington A. Coster, 

 Secretary and Treasurer, Saratoga Springs, N. Y. 



DOGS OF ANY DAY. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



Several letters received on the subject of my comments on 

 the Ogdensburg dog killing, suggest to me that there is a 

 very unhealthy state of mind among dog owners as to the 

 duty they owe the public, and the rights that the public 

 have against dogs and their owners. I yield to no man in 

 love of my dogs, and I know that no man's dogs love him 

 more than mine do me, but I know that many most esti- 

 mable persons detest dogs, not for any particular reason 

 either, but just because they are dogs. That 1 cannot 

 understand such a feeling in no measure lessens it, nor does 

 it raise any presumption against the reasonableness of the 

 possessors of such feelings. It is just one characteristic of 

 theirs, that they have as much right to as I have to my 

 love, of dogs. They have no right to go out of their way to 

 molest my dogs because they hate the race, I have no right 

 to allow my dogs to annoy them because I love dogs. 



Now it seems to me the bounden duty of every dog owner 

 to take the utmost care that his dogs do not roam at large, 

 even if they do no more than frighten or annoy otners; 

 above all, when dogs become common vagrants, poking into 

 every swill barrel in the neighborhood, killing chickens, 

 stealing food, defiling goods exposed on the street, etc., then 

 the owner who knows these faults of his dog, and allows 

 them to stray abroad, becomes the same nuisance that his 

 dog is, and I hold that the sufferer by such vagrant dogs 

 does a duty to the public when he sues for and collects his 

 damages from the owner of the offending dog. So with the 

 farmer be-devilled with that plague of dudelefcs from the 

 cities, rampaging over his farms without asking permission 

 banging away as though it was a Fourth of July celebra- 

 tion, is entitled to the thanks of the community when he 

 procures the arrest and punishment of the offenders. But 

 here is the rub to either sufferer; how is he to secure even the 

 arrest of the offender ? If it is the store-keeper whose goods 

 are defiled, how is he to learn who owns the dog ? If it is 

 the outraged farmer, how is he to learn even the name of 

 the trespassers ? Should he attempt it, the chances are that 

 he meets with revilings for his pains. Now r , considering all 

 this, wherein is the man wrong who shoots the dog? I 

 wouldn't do it, I happen to love dogs, every one I come 

 across takes to me, and I confess a weakness to the dog, be 

 it the veriest cur who looks up at me and wags its tail , but 

 then I know many other folks hate them as much as I love 

 them, and when justly enraged why haven't they a right to 

 take vengeance on the cause of their wrath? My advice, 

 and what I strive to practice is, love your dogs, make them 

 your friends, lavish all the care on them you can, but don't 

 let them annoy your neighbors. 



I have but one comment to make on the Ogdensburg kill- 

 ing; the man who gives the one-twelfth part of his annual 

 income to the relief of the Johnstown sufferers may shoot a 

 dog a day before I will call him a "brute." 



Isn't there another great and' very stupid piece of rot in 

 the use of that phrase "a thorough sportsman?" It is used 

 as though being very fond of sport and being an adept at it, 

 is prima facie evidence of excellence of character. Now, 

 doesn't everybody know of some of the greatest scoundrels 

 who ever existed who "fill this bill?" I remember at an 

 A.K.C. meeting one genius objected to Mr. Mason's quanti- 

 fications as a dog judge because "he is no sportsman," im- 

 plying knowledge as an attendant on going shooting! The 

 very vilest beast I know of standing on two legs uses the 

 term very frequently. Of course there are sportsmen who 

 are an honor to the human race. The one man before whose 

 gray hair I am always tempted to uncover my head is— or 

 was— a most ardent sportsman, and broke his health down 

 in the Kankakee marshes after wild ducks. Brother Peshall 

 is one of my most honored friends. "Old Dominion," who 

 has been in the dog selling business for many years, and 

 whose firmest friends are those he sold to (as severe a test of 

 character as can be imagined), is another, and has been a 

 sportsman from his cradle, but good conscience alive! it is 

 their being men from their boots up, and if they didn't 

 know a gun from a toadstool or a dog from a donkey, they 

 would be none the less honored. 



We need many doses of practical common sense as to our 

 views as to dogs. Read the article "Recent Progress in Sur- 

 gery" in Harper's Monthly for October, 1889, and wonder 

 how there can be such a thing as an anti-vivisectionist. 

 Consider what a horrible fate hydrophobia is, and can you 

 comprehend how there can be opposition to sensible plans 

 for suppression of rabies? The results to the human ra-e of 

 vivisection have been so far-reaching and of such inestima- 

 ble value that had they required the sacrifice of a thousand 

 dogs a day, even in extreme suffering, the end far more than 

 justifies the means used. Of course, such a case as the hor- 

 rible tortures of dogs in Jersey City, where the object sought 

 was only expert evidence to use m law suits, was utterly 

 damnable, the end being utterly insignificant as compared 

 with the torture used. So it all boils down after all to a 

 weighing of the results, and the sooner persons interested 

 in dogs themselves boil down to this view of their privileges 

 the better for all. W, Wade. 



Hclton, Pa., April 1. 



IRISH SETTER CLUB MEETING.— A meeting of he 

 Irish Setter Club will be held at the rooms of the A. K. C. 

 No. 44 Broadway, on Saturday. April 19, at 4 o'clock P M 

 Business of much importance demands ft. full attendance of 

 members,— Max Wenzel, Seo'y. 



