June 13, 1890.1 



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is very apt to cause diarrhoea. The stomach or tripe should 

 be thoroughly washed aud cleaned before being put into the 

 boiler. As soon as it becomes known that you have a ken- 

 nel of dogs the farmers will bring you every now and then 

 a horse, cow or sheep that has broken a leg or met with some 

 other accident necessitating its being killed, in cold weather 

 this will form a valuable and cheap addition to kennel fare, 

 as it can be kept for a long time. Even in the summer, if 

 you will take the trouble to salt the meat down, it will come 

 in very useful when it happens that you are disappointed in 

 getting the customary supply from the butcher. Never under 

 any circumstances feed your* dogs on the flesh of an animal 

 that has died from disease of any kind. In regard to horse 

 flesh I want to give a word of caution. Be very careful 

 how you use it. When fed fresh and in the same quantity 

 as beef it will cause dogs unaccustomed to its use to scour 

 badly, and their evacuations will have a very disagreeable 

 odor aud in color and consistency resemble tar. I always 

 use it very sparingly, never feeding more than one-half of 

 the weight that I would beef, and in addition take the pre- 

 caution of keeping it four five days before feeding it. 



FISH AS BOG FOOD. 



In some sections of the country heads, etc., of sturgeon, 

 dog sharks, etc., can be had cheaply. There is no better 

 animal food for dogs, and as they can be bought for a song, 

 they should take the place of meat in a great measure. 



PKESRRVED MEATS AND FISH. 



When the kennels are so situated that it is impossible to 

 procure a regular supply of fresh meat, it is necessary to 

 substitute animal food that has been preserved by heat or 

 pickling. Desiccated meat (meat meal) can be bought from 

 dealers in fertilizers. It consists principally of the flesh of 

 horses, but is none the less valuable for that. Even if the 

 flesh of animals which have died from disease is mingled 

 with it, the great heat to which it is subjected in the process 

 of desiccation kills all the disease germs. This ground flesh 

 is The meat ingredient of nearly all dog biscuit. Beef and 

 pork scraps, often called "cracklings," can be bought 

 cheaply. Before being used they should be soaked at least 

 twenty-four hours, otherwise it will take too long to cook 

 them in the boiler. Pickled pork that is a little "off," 

 salted beef not up to the standard, fly-blown hams, shoul- 

 ders, bacou and dried beef can sometimes be had for a trifle, 

 while rusted fish and smoked fish not fit for human food are 

 always to be found by th^se who will search for them among 

 the grocers. These are all useful, and if soaked twenty-four 

 hours, aud the water changed two or thi'ee times, and then 

 put in the boiler with a peck of broken charcoal, they will 

 come out sweet, and be much relished by the dogs. This 

 ends the list of all the. available animal food I know of. 



DOG VEGETABLE FOODS. 



Df course the dog should be fed on something besides 

 animal food. In fact, not over one quarter (in weight) of 

 his fare should be of this sort. 



The best of suitable vegetable food is as good for a dog as 

 for a man, and with both, bread stands at the top. If there 

 is no baker in your vicinity you can readily arrange for a 

 supply to be shipped regularly in bags from the"~nearest 

 city. Of course we are speaking of stale bread, which can 

 be had at prices ranging from 25 to 80 cents per barrel. A 

 two bushel bag will hold a barrel. In hot and muggy 

 weather you should have the baker to cut the bread into 

 slices and thoroughly dry it in his oven, otherwise it will 

 mould, often within 24 hours. Ship biscuit (hard tack) are 

 not expensive, aud if placed in a dry place they will keep in- 

 definitely. It is always best to have a barrel of these for a 

 case of emergency. Broken crackers and cakas can some- 

 times be bought low. 



Flour of good enough quality for dogs can be bought at 

 prices varying from §2.50 to $3.50 per barrel. Corn meal is 

 valuable iu winter, but we advise you to use it very spar- 

 ingly during the summer, as it is apt to cause skin trouble. 

 Coarse oatmeal, while comparatively expensive, is one of 

 the most valuable cereals that can be fed to does. Broken 

 rice, damaged peas, beans, etc., are very valuable dog foods, 

 and can be bought cheaply. Linseed and flaxseed meal are 

 very fattening aud make glossy coats, but they should be 

 fed ouly very sparingly and not oftener than once a week. 

 When I feed either I use a teaspoonful of meal for each dog, 

 putting it into the boiler and cooking it with the regular 

 food. 



GKEEN VEGETABLES. 



Green vegetables are very useful at all times of year, but 

 especially so iu the spring. There are scarcelv'any that 

 cannot be fed with beneficial results. 

 Onions and onion tops are excellent. In the spring of the 

 ear, when you will need them most, sprouted onions can be 

 ought by the barrel at almost any price you choose to offer. 

 Cabbages are cheap and good. 1 know the owner of a large 

 kennel who every fall buys several thousand soft cabbages, 

 for which he pays 85 to §10 per thousand, and puts them in 

 pits so as to secure a sure supply of green vegetables for his 

 dogs during the winter. Beets, mangles and turnips are 

 about the cheapest sort of vegetable food I know of. Spin- 

 ach and kale too are cheap and wholesome. In the fall it is 

 always advisable Jo lay in a supply of white aud sweet pota- 

 toes. The smalLsize of the former, known as hog potatoes, 

 can be bought at ten or fifteen cents per bushel, and are just 

 as valuable for dog food as if they cost four times 'the 

 money. The unmarketable sweet potatoes in the sections 

 where they are grown can be had just as cheaply. I have 

 fed my clogs cooked apples, and they relish them! Carrots 

 and parsnips are two other cheap sort of vegetables. I have 

 never used pumpkin or squash, but I should think they 

 would be most excellent, especially the former, if fed to 

 growing puppies, on account of their well-known anti-worm 

 properties. 



MILK. 



Of course the puppies must have milk, but where the 

 kennels are situated in a dairying country audit can be had 

 cheaply, milk is one of the best possible things a grown dog 

 can have for a change. Skimmed, sour or in clabber, it is 

 all equally relished and beneficial. Dogs can soon be taught 

 to drink buttermilk, aud puppies that have it two or three 

 times a week seldom are troubled with worms. If you are 

 near a creamery you can procure it very cheaply. 



This closes the list of cheap aud available raw materials 

 for kennel fare. Some time, soon, I will tell you how to 

 prepare and serve them. 



THE MARYLAND CLUB DELEGATE. — Editor ForcM 

 and Stream: When I said last week that Mr. Peshall's 

 credentials from the Maryland Kennel Club were "evidentlv 

 insufficient" I did so on the strength of the reports of the 

 A.K.C. meeting. Since then, having seen the copies of the 

 original paper, my statement must be qualified. In a body 

 that really and honestly does what the A. K. C. pretends to 

 do— considers the welfare of American dogdom in general • 

 iu a word, the A. K. C. of Mr. Elliot Smith or Mr. AV. H. 

 Child— such a paper would have been accepted as fully suf- 

 ficient; but I can see how in the present personal A. K. 

 C, existing for the gratification of personal piques, the nar- 

 row technicality that the Maryland K. C. could only be 

 represented by its original delegate until that delegate re- 

 signed, could have been used as a shunt to get rid of "a dis- 

 agreeable person,'' and with due respect to the Maryland 

 Club, I still think: it would have been less intolerable for the 

 meeting to have done this, than to adopt the course thev 

 did.— W. Wade (Hulton Pa,, June 6). 



DOGS OF THE DAY. 



THE stories respecting the destruction of the Radnor 

 Hunt foxhounds telegraphed from Philadelphia on 

 Saturdav evening had moi*e truth about them than is 

 usually the case, when rabies is the subject on which the 

 daily reporter exercises his imagination and his pencil. 

 The story appeared only in The Call on Saturday afternoon, 

 Mr. Ed. Cole, of that japer, beiug the lucky man to stumble 

 across the "good story." I have known Mr. Cole ever since 

 I came to the city of Brotherly Love, and to use oue of his 

 own expressions, "what he says goes." He is one of the 

 somewhat limited number of reporters who do not handicap 

 the truth by a load of fiction. As by the time T7i-e Call 

 story was out it was impossible to see the master of the 

 hunt, Mr. Cbas. E. Mather, all the local Sunday, aud the 

 New York papers had only Mr. Cole's plain statement of 

 facts to go by and were thus happily confined to the truth. 



To-day (Monday) I called upon Mr. Mather, and he gave 

 me a few additional particulars. The. hound that started 

 the trouble at the kennel was a native bitch which as long 

 ago as last March was bitten when out hunting. Before 

 she died she ran amuck through the kennel. After her 

 death another bitch showed symptoms of having the disease, 

 and it was then that a new kennel man took charge, Frank 

 Smith, who had taken hold the week after New York show, 

 only remaining a month. Mr. Mather consulted the book 

 authorities on the subject of rabies, and found that he had 

 samples of both dumb and acute rabies. Matters went 

 along from bad to worse, the English hounds showed that 

 they had not escaped, and after more than half the pack of 

 thirty couples had succumbed to the disease, it was decided 

 that nothing but complete annihilation of the entire pack 

 would do. Under the direction of Dr. Rush C. Huidekoper, 

 formerly dean of the veterinary department of the Univers- 

 ity of Pennsylvania, a powerful poison was mixed with the 

 hounds' food, and soon all was over. Not a dog on the place 

 was left alive, terriers and pets all suffering alike. Happily 

 no one was bitten at the kennels, and from the time of the 

 first attack but one dog got away from the kennels. That 

 was an old dog which was kept to run with the puppies. He 

 never was known to stray away ; but when left out one day 

 by himself to let him nibble a bit of grass he started off. He 

 was pursued on horseback and run down after an eighteen- 

 mile chase, which distance he covered in two hours. When 

 caught he was at once shot. Mr. Mather said that the 

 marked symptoms in the great majoritv of the cases was 

 the desire to bite things, nothing that could be destroyed 

 being safe from their teeth. 



Within half an hour of leaving Mr. Mather I ran across 

 Frank Smith. Frank is well known to exhibitors as a hand- 

 ler of Philadelphia dogs, though he did not follow the shows 

 this year. He said he did not know anything about the 

 bitch having been bitten when out hunting, but that about 

 a week before he left the kennel she was acting strangely. 

 She. wanted to fight every dog in the kennel. The bitches 

 she did not touch so far as he noticed. The next day she 

 was worse, and he got so tired leaving some work he was 

 doing and going to the kennel to stop" the fighting that he 

 finally got a lead, put it on her collar and took her to the 

 house, where he fastened her to the staircase. Within two 

 hours he found her dead, but she had meanwhile gnawed 

 great chunks out of the woodwork below the stairs. Smith 

 further told me that she would rush at the biggest dogs in 

 the kennel and kuock them over with ease and then tear 

 and bite at the body. He noticed this particularly, because 

 these American hounds always fight at the head. When 

 any of the English dogs got against the iron railing which 

 separated the kennels the bitch would go for them too, bit- 

 ing between the bars. 



"How was it that you wrote Mr. Mather that the bitch 

 died in a fit?" I asked. "Well, I did not want to put in 

 writing exactly what I had begun to think was the real 

 cause of her death. I did not think it wise, not knowing 

 who might get the news. When Mr. Mather came out to 

 the kennels, I told him that although I had never seen a 

 case of rabies in my life, I had come to the conclusion that, 

 the bitch had died from it. Before I left the kennels, an- 

 other bitch was beginning to act strangely, and I told the 

 new kennel man, who took my place, about her. I don't 

 know anything more after that. We had 68 dogs all told at 

 the kennels." 



I made on effort to see Dr. Huidekoper, but did not suc- 

 ceed, but I hope to be more successful to-morrow (Tuesday). 

 I must say that seems to be a very clear case of rabies judg- 

 ing by what both Mr. Mather and Frank Smith say, and 

 Dr. Huidekoper's action in advising the destruction of all 

 the survivors further strengthens it. 



On Tuesday evening I found Dr. Huidekoper at home and 

 heard all he could tell me about the mad dogs. Dr. Huide- 

 koper was ouly at the kennels on the occasion of his advis- 

 ing that the thirty dogs still living be destroyed. None of 

 them then showed any symptoms of rabies, but matters had 

 come to such a pass that it was unsafe to take any risk with 

 them. "There can be no question, taking the statements of 

 those who saw the dogs, Mr. Mather and his kennel man, 

 that this was a clear case of rabies," said Dr. Huidekoper. 

 "I did not see one of the mad dogs. I have heard about the 

 trouble, and I was promised one of them, but when the next 

 one had it I was unfortunately at Boston, and as a party 

 was going out to the kennels it was decided to destroy the 

 animal to stop his howling." 



I drew Dr. Huidekoper's attention to the statement of 

 Namquoit regarding the epidemic down East, which Nam- 

 quoit thought might be dumb rabies. For answer I got the 

 information that in the Doctor's practice he had had more 

 cases of dumb rabies than the other, probably in the ratio of 

 three out of five or even five out of seven. Dogs affected 

 with dumb rabies eaunot bite nor chew things up. ' 'A dog 

 looks as if he had a bone in his throat and cannot shut his 

 mouth when he has dumb rabies. In fact people bringing 

 such dogs to me almost invariably in describing the case 

 say they thought the dog had a bone in his throat." It is 

 therefore pretty evident that the Canadian and Eastern 

 cases are some form of rabies other than dumb. 



Regarding the biting at the body, spoken of by Frank 

 Smith, Dr. Huidekoper said: "The disease is dementia, 

 and such things are to be expected. A man brought a dog 

 to me oue day on a string. I saw from the look of the dog 

 that he had rabies. The man told me that the dog would 

 sneak behind him and try to bite him, and every time he 

 turned and faced the dog it would lie down, ouly 'to sneak 

 away and get behind him again." 



Mr. Mather had said to me that in Delaware county in this 

 State there was a good deal of rabips. I asked Dr. Huide- 

 koper if he could verify this, and he said that he had heard 

 that there had been cases there for some time past. 



The Maryland Kennel Club held its meeting last week, 

 and its secretary was instructed to write to the A.K.C. sec- 

 retary and get from him official information in regard to the 

 treatment of the Maryland Kennel Club delegate at the 

 meeting of May 22. A special meeting of the Md. K. C. has 

 been called for July 10 to take up the case. From what I 

 learn as to the feeling of the majority of the members I 



gather that a vigorous protest will emanate from the Monu- 

 mental City. 



For. a year or two the New Jersey Kennel Club has not 

 been in a very flourishing condition, members dropping off 

 or being dropped for failure to respond to the call of the 

 treasurer. Within the past few weeks, however, there, has 

 been quite a revival among the old members, and already I 

 hear murmurings about a show, some say this fall, some 

 say next spring, and the location is anywhere east of the 

 Orange xMountains and west of the Hudson. The N. J. K. C. 

 was a real live organization at one time, but got hard knocks 

 at its Newark and Waverly shows, and dropped out of the 

 business. 



This reminds me that I have quite unintentionally hurt 

 the feelings of one of the best of the many good Jerseymeu. 

 the Spaniel Club president, by giving a portion of a letter 

 which was meant as a return for the compliment of my 

 making inquiry after his health and not for me as a news- 

 paper correspondent. The trouble is not with me, but with 

 the popularity of the S. C. president. John Jones, for in- 

 stance, might have broken every bone in his body and tide- 

 phoned the consequences across the Styx without a line 

 appearing regarding his troubles, but we all wanted to know, 

 you know, and it would have been cruel not to have drawn 

 upon the personal letter for the benefit of the many who 

 were still in the dark as to cause and effect. 



Mr. Secretary Vredenburgh has gone a-fishing. If he 

 doesn't catch anything while away, I understand he will 

 when he gets back, but there is no occasion for him to hurrv 

 home. 



Your always interesting correspondent "Namquoit" said 

 a week or two since that I had erred in saying a certain St. 

 Bernard was not American-bred. If "Namquoit" will refer 

 to what I wrote he will find that I was asking for informa- 

 tion and not giving any opinion. Miss Whitney, in her re- 

 port of New York show, said— I quote from memory: " 



having been born in this country, aud therefore American- 

 bred." To this I responded by saying that the A. K. C. had 

 not got beyond saying that the produce of a bitch sent 

 abroad to be bred and whelped in this country was Arneri- 

 canbred. "Namquoit" now says that the dam of the St. 

 Bernard in question was owned by an American before she 

 was bred, and the puppy was therefore American-bred under 

 the St. Bernard Club rules. Perhaps the St. Bernard Club 

 has a rule as elastic as that, but I do not think it is within 

 the province of any one club to frame such a rule, for the 

 reason that, uniformity is essential in such things, and the 

 A. K. C. is the one to make a rule for all. Some members, 

 at least of the collie club committee, held the opinion that 

 Clipper was not American-bred, and forthat reason , although 

 opposed to my own individual opinion, I did not show 

 him as such. At the last Philadelphia show, and while I 

 was engaged elsewhere in judging, Mr. Carswell. quite un- 

 known to me, took Clipper into the ring for an American- 

 bred prize. Wheu he so told me I said I doubted his getting 

 it, as I knew Mr. Shotwell had a year or two before said 

 such clogs as he were ineligible. No protest was made, as £ 

 had expected, and not wishing to miss the opportunity of 

 getting the point decided by the highest authority, I asked 

 the Philadelphia Club to accept my protest and refer the 

 matter direct to the A. K. C„ so as to go before that body 

 without the prejudice of a decision on its part. This was 

 kindly done, and the full facts were given to the A. K. C. 

 Mr. Anthony at once said that in place of throwing obstacles 

 in the way of an owner sending a bitch to England or any- 

 where else to be bred, he should have every latitude possible 

 and be commended for going to such expense for the purpose 

 of improving the breed. I had had a previous litter out of 

 the same bitch, but she had been bred before coming over, 

 and I have never had any idea that they could be classed as 

 American-bred. I think "Namquoit" will agree with me 

 that there is a clear margin of difference between the two 

 cases, and if the dam of the St, Bernard was never in this 

 country, but was simply bought in England and bred there 

 before being shipped, I do not think her resulting litter is 

 Am erican-bred . 



Mr. Mayhew has written a long letter to a contemporary 

 regarding a decision of the A. K. C. at its last meeting re- 

 garding the disposition of a prize belonging to the St. 

 Bernard Club. He does not hold with the decision, but he 

 has failed to obtain the full facts of the case. We were de- 

 ciding upon a stated case which precluded investigation. 

 The St. Bernard Club gave, the facts and asked for an opin- 

 ion. The facts were that a prize open to members only had 

 been awarded to a dog owned by the wife of a member, and 

 the St. Bernard Club had decided that the dog was not eli- 

 gible. The question submitted was whether the prize could 

 now be awarded to another competitor, no reserve number 

 having been given, or did it revert to the donor. The A. K. 

 C. decided that the cup could not be given to another com- 

 petitor in the absence of a reserve, and naturally it reverted 

 i;o the St. Bernard Club. 



Mr. Mayhew draws attention to a case in which he was 

 interested in England, when a judge was subsequently 

 written to for a second award, his first winner being dis- 

 qualified. Such a course is not admissible, for a judge 

 ceases to be such when a show is brought to a close. ' It is 

 analogous to a racing judge, having placed three horses, 

 one of which is subsequently disqualified. He cannot then 

 place a third. His term of office is over and the vacaucy 

 cannot be filled. Mr. Mayhew also quotes the case of Poly- 

 phemus, the one-eyed St. Bernard at Edinburgh show. In 

 this case, however, the judge, Mr. Siduey Smith, changed 

 his award before he had left the ring. 1 judge from what 

 Mr. Mayhew says that when the case was taken to court it 

 was there ruled that the first award must stand. It must 

 be understood, however, that there was no question as to 

 the eligibility of Polyphemus, nor was there any deception 

 on the part of the owner. The judge was supposed to have 

 been aware of the defect in the dog': if he was not he did not 

 exercise much care in examining the dog. This legal decis- 

 ion, therefore, does not touch the St. Bernard Club case. 

 Another case quoted is that of a collie dog shown as a bitch 

 aud awarded a prize. By some meaus the judge found out 

 his error before the show was over and advised the commit- 

 tee to change the award. Here again we have the clear fact 

 of the animal's ineligibility. 



Clashing dates will come to the front again this fall when 

 on Sept. 2 to 5 we have the Detroit, Youugstown and Wil- 

 mington shows. With exhibitions given in connection with 

 fairs this is unavoidable, aud we can ouly make the best 

 of it. 



Iu view of the fuss made abotit the Maryland Kennel 

 Club delegate at the. last meeting of the A. K. C. I would 

 draw attention to an announcement made in the Gazette 

 since to hand. In the list of members and delegates appears 

 "Maryland Kennel Club. Delegate, Alexander Brown, Bal- 

 timore, Md." J. W. 



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