June a, 1892,] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



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win in the 15in. class are now prominent winners in the 13in. 

 class, since that was changed from I21n. 



Now tbere are dogs ineligible to the larger class, by reason 

 of % to K' n -> that if this change was made, could come in 

 and "make us all weep." Then we could see again Ralph 

 W. I think, by that good little show dog Royal Krueger, 

 reinstated to the position he forfeited only by reason of be- 

 ing slightly over 15in. Were it not for that be could have 

 won a place in tbe class. The fact that this class is kept at 

 15in. is an injustice to many owners, true sporting gentle- 

 men, as well as to the dogs, fine specimens though they are. 

 "Bradley" seems to tb ink, when he says, "Not one beagle 

 has been made eligible" etc., that it is commendable to keep 

 good dogs out and^tbus keep the classes reduced in numbers. 

 Our idea is to have a fair representation of beagles, some- 

 tbiug to fight against at the shows; something to run 

 against in the field and to bring to the show ring, dogs that 

 furnish abundant sport, in the field: dogs that start their 

 own game, and drive, drive all the time, hustling it to its 

 turning and back again until killed or driven' to earth, 

 where it can remain for the time and furnish sport another 

 day. 



As to the progeny of large dogs exceeding a new standard 

 I'll say no! There is a limit at which an increase of size 

 will and does stop, and when that limit is reached we 

 have a uniformity in conformation which cannot or never 

 has been secured by breeding from dwarfs and culls. Look, 

 at tbe other types of hounds. Can the foxhound, in which 

 size and strength are necessary, be made or grown large by 

 breeding from the largest? The same applies to the blood- 

 hound. Select any foxhound or bloodhound which has 

 from some cause been stunted. Should it be a female it 

 will produce back to the original size of its kind, or if a 

 male its nrogenv will conform in size to its breed. 



I have bred l-l%in. beagle dogs to loj^in. beagle bitches 

 and in no instance has the produce or any of them exceeded 

 an average of the sire a.nd dam, not once but many times. 

 On the other hand, I have bred 13 to 13Xiu. dogs to like 

 bitches and seven-tenths of the produce exceeded either sire 

 or dam. Possibly I could have prevented it by stinting 

 food, etc , in puppyhood, but that is cruelty to animals and 

 against principle. Let us take one instance and we can find 

 many. Damper, owned by Mr. Crane, of Dorset, Eng., was 

 9in. high, his son Barrister was a. lOin. dog, whose son 

 Marchboy was llin.; another remove and we have Banner- 

 man 11%; still another remove brings Royal Krueger 12%, 

 while Ralph W., by Royal Krueger, was disqualified at New 

 York for being over loin. Rierht here 1 want to say Ralph 

 W. was one of the grandest beagles I had met for a long 

 time, a dog of substance and seeming ability to work. I 

 said then, "It is a shame that such dogs should be rejected 

 merely because they were a trifle over 15in." I'll guarantee 

 Ralph W.'s progeny did not follow the course of his prede- 

 cessors and add other inches to their stature. The limit of 

 the breed had been reached in him, as an individual, and 

 would remain approximating his measurement. 



There are scores of his kind that do not appear at the 

 shows for the same reason. They are purely-bred beagles in 

 every sense of the word; all generally field dogs of high order 

 and fit to ornament the beagle ring at any kennel club show. 

 It is such dogs as this that I want to see have the privilege 

 of competing for the prizes both on the bench and at the 

 field trials, and I am not alone, by any manner of means in 

 this matter. It has been talked of by many, and no doubt 

 would have been discussed at the meeting of the Beagle Club 

 at Boston during the show, but as I happened to be unable 

 to attend said meeting and sent a letter hastily written 

 heaving on the subject, it was deemed that the embodying of 

 that letter in the report would be sufficient to introduce it 

 to tbe. general members of the club. 



I know it is entirely out. of place to think that all men can 

 be taught fen hold like opinions. Neither do I deem this a 

 wordy war between parties who favor tbe larger beagle and 

 those who pi-efer the smaller one. But this I will say; each 

 Glass has a standard provided; such as favor the smaller 

 class, to be brief, found out they could not, or did not, nor 

 can they breed to it uniformly, so they asked for and re- 

 ceived an added inch, and members of the club who favored 

 the larger class voted to accord it. Even now such 

 breeders' show in both classes, and in many instances litter 

 brothers are shown in the different classes, while the 

 breeders of the larger dogs are confined for their exhibit to 

 a margin of 2in., possibly, excepting a freak now and then 

 in a litter. 



Now, to compensate the breeders of the larger class, we 

 shall continue to ask for the privilege, of competing with 

 such dogs as are well, grandly and purely bred, but now 

 obscure, because of a fraction of an inch added to their 

 stature. 



In conclusion I will only say to friend "Bradley," let us 

 have the three inches difference aceorded us by the original 

 committee, and we will guarantee to ask for no more until 

 the owners of the smaller class again encroach upon our 

 territory and as it were usurp our field, which is not in ac- 

 cordance with a principal doctrine of American statesman- 

 ship which prohibitsthe U. S. from acquiring property with- 

 out just compensation. In this matter all we want is to uphold 

 the original committee who formed the standards, first by 

 determining what the difference should be between the 

 classes, and then fixing each on the basis of that difference. 



P. C. Phoebus. 



RKnNAHTisviijLE, N. J., May 16. 



FLAPS FROM THE BEAVER'S TAIL. 



In Toronto for some years we have been chafing under an 

 exorbitant license fee for bitches, t. e., five dollars. The 

 Toronto Kennel Club took the matter up and appointed a 

 committee consisting of Messrs. J. G. Mitchener, H. J, Hill 

 and J. C. Morgan to interview the city fathers and license 

 department. The committee's work has been crowned with 

 success and now the city solicitor has been instructed to 

 prepare a by-law embodying the following: §10 for a ken- 

 nel of pure bred dogs, $2 for each pure bred bitch and $1 for 

 each pure bred dog. These fees are quite in reason, especi 

 ally that for a kennel, which enables an owner of a number 

 of dogs to license all at the nominal charge of $10. An im- 

 portant clause is that all dogs to become entitled to these 

 favors must be registered with the Canadian Kennel Club 

 and the certificates of registration must be produced at the 

 time the license is taken out. Bitches not eligible for regis- 

 tration will be charged the old fee of $5 per annum. 



Mr. A. J. Groves tells me he was offered and refused $35Q 

 for the second prize St. Bernard puppy at the late Toronto 

 local show. Mr. Geo. Hastings, of Deer Park, Toronto, is 

 the would-be purchaser. 



At a meeting of the Toronto Kennel Club a cordial vote of 

 thanks was tendered the "license committee" for the efforts 

 on the club's behalf. It was decided to add a corresponding 

 secretary to the list of officers, whose chief duty shall be to 

 solicit the writing of papers by breeders other than members 

 of the club, no matter where residing, to be read at the 

 monthly club meetings and filed foT reference and instruc- 

 tion. By this means it is thought considerable good can be 

 done and the interchange of ideas indulged in, in a maun or 

 otherwise impossible. A request will be made of the In- 

 dustrial Bench Show Committee that the delegates from the 

 club be recognized and added to the committee. 



H. B. Donovan. 



Dr. James E. Hair, of Bridgeport, Conn., is importing the 

 English setter Roy of Coleshill from Mr. Bulled's kennel. 



DOG CHAT. 



"Who can wonder that Englishmen are such thorough dog 

 fanciers and that they surpass any other nation in breeding 

 high class dogs, when even the poorest workingmen are 

 imbued with the true spirit in wishing to breed only pure- 

 bred stock. In British Fancier we are told of a society in 

 Oldham, Lancashire, which is run on the co-operative prin- 

 ciple in a similar manner to the building associations with 

 which we are so familiar in this_ country. Now that well- 

 bred dogs command such prohibitive prices it is almost im- 

 possible for workingmen from their hard earned limited 

 means to spare enough to satisfy their tastes in this direc- 

 tion. This association has therefore sprung into being and 

 is called the "Oldham Workingmen's Canine Society." 

 The members pay 25 cents a week till their subscription 

 amounts to $2.50 in our money, when the member may, if he 

 chooses, purchase any dog he desires through the society, 

 which will advance the remaiuder of the money and be 

 repaid by installments; but no dog is to be purchased with- 

 out a pedigree, nor without the society being fully satisfied 

 that the animal has every chance to produce something of 

 note. With such unlimited sources to draw upon it is no 

 wonder that England can turnjout the best specimens of 

 every known breed. 



The following is the text of that section of the cir- 

 cular issued by the Secretary of the Treasury May 2, 1892, 

 which applies to the importation of dogs to this country : 



"It having been ascertained that animals which are cross- 

 bred, and others with unknown pedigrees, have been record- 

 ed in certain registers, with tbe sole object of making them 

 eligible for free entry into the Uoited States, and as parag- 

 raph 482 of tbe act of October 1, 1890, provides that no animal 

 shall be admitted free unless pure bred of a recognized 

 breed, the. object of the law being, in the opinion of this 

 department and the Department of Agriculture, to exclude 

 from free entry animals not absolutely and strictly pure 

 bred, it is hereby directed that on and after June 1, 1S92, no 

 animal which is brought into the United States from foreign 

 countries for breeding purposes shall be admitted free of 

 duty unless the importer furnishes a certificate of the record 

 and pedigree in the form hereafter given, showing that the 

 animal is pure bred and admitted to full registry in a book 

 of record established for that breed ; that both its sire and 

 dam were likewise recorded in a book of record established 

 for the same breed ; and that there have been four successive 

 top crosses by recorded sires of that breed on the side of the 

 dam, together with the affidavit of the owner, agent, or 

 importer that such animal is the identical animal described 

 in said certificate of record and pedigree." 



Kennel affairs in Ireland in spite of the absence of 

 home rule are looking up. The Irish Kennel Associa- 

 tion has just been formed to advance tbe interests of 

 dogs and their owners. The Irish Collie Club was also 

 formed during the Dublin show. 



A question has cropped up in connection with the pro- 

 posed changes in the E. K. C. rules that, when decided, may 

 form a precedent for action in this country. It is proposed 

 to make a rule that will allow an exhibitor, should the 

 judge advertised to pass on the classes in which he enters his 

 dogs be unable to officiate, to use his own discretion as to 

 whether he will show under the substitute appointed by the 

 committee and whether he shall be allowed to take bis dog 

 home or not. There is a good deal to be said on both sides of 

 the question, though it does not affect our shows so much as 

 those on the other side, for we have hardly reached that 

 stage in the game when we must consult the judge's likes or 

 dislikes of different types before deciding upon which dogs 

 to show, except perhaps in the case of setters, English more 

 especially. 



The magistrates of Toulouse in France, reports the London 

 Standard, are about to have a case brought under their 

 notice which it will tax their discernment and legal wisdom 

 to decide. It originated with a curious incident, which 

 occurred, we read, a short time ago in the refreshment rooms 

 of the Toulouse Railway terminus. A customer, having 

 finished his breakfast at the table dlwte, drew a hundred 

 franc note from his pocket and tendered it to the waiter. 

 Tbe latter being a little too far off to reach it, an obliging 

 neighbor took it. with the object of passing it on to the 

 waiter. Accidentally, however, he let it fall into a sauce 

 tureen that was being handed round at the same moment. 

 Another gentleman picked it out of this receptacle, holding 

 the sauced banknote delicately by the corner. Before he 

 could give it to the waiter, a large dog, smelling the sauce, 

 seized the note and swallowed it. All the witnesses of tbe 

 incident went to the Police Commissary's office, the passen- 

 ger to whom the note belonged demanding the dog should 

 be killed, so that he might recover his money. The dog's 

 master, however, objected that the animal was worth far 

 more than a hundred francs, and the matter was left in sus- 

 pense till the following day. By a singular coincidence, in 

 the course of the night the dog, taken with some sudden ill- 

 ness, died. The carcass was opened, but no trace of the 

 banknote was visible. The magistrates of Toulouse have 

 been called upon to decide who ought to sustain the loss of 

 the banknote. 



A correspondent to the Asian gives the following account 

 of a greyhound which seems to have been equal to tackling 

 either a leopard or a lungoor: "A ch'cumstance which I 

 should say was an uncommon one in the annals of shikar, 

 happened the other day. A gentleman while out shootiDg 

 in the Eastern Dun in a canebrake started a leopard and 

 cub. Among his dogs that were beating was a powerful 

 English greyhound. This dog drove off the leopard and 

 killed the cub. This same dog also killed a very powerful 

 lungoor (grey monkev), one of the largest size, standing 

 fully 3ft. 9in. or 4ft. One of the spaniels had cut this lun- 

 goor off from the tree for which it was making, and it 

 turned upon the dog and bit it in the neck very severely, its 

 tusks being as large as a small leopard's. It then tried to 

 strangle the dog, when the greyhound came to the rescue. 

 It caught the lungoor by the nape of the neck, and with one 

 crunch killed it." 



In our business columns will be noticed several new ad- 

 vertisements this week, among those having dogs for sale 

 are : Samuel H. Null, collies, foxhounds and beagles ; J. B. 

 Blossom, choice Gordon setters ; Fieles & Bro., pointers, 

 setters and rabbit dogs ; Sunset kennels, Irish setter pups ; 

 J. M. I'ronefield. Jr., well bred English setter pups ; C. A. 

 Paetzel, choice pointer puppies. At stud : Shoquoquon 

 kennels' great Dane Pedro. 



We regret to hear of the Seminole kennels' loss of their 

 noted collie Roslyn Conway, which died from pneumonia. 

 Conway was a full brother of Weilesbourne Charlie and 

 was one of those unfortunates that just missed by a few 

 hairs being a crack-a-jack. 



Wire haired foxterners are becoming more popular ; Mr. 

 R. Lyons of Staten Island is importing some more. Among 

 them is Raby Tyro, by Carlisle Tyro ex Quantock Nettle, 

 that is said to be a good one. 



Nearly all the breeders of high class dogs are putting forth 

 every effort to breed something good for the World's Fair 

 show next year, and Mr. Paetzel of Hope, Ind., intends to 

 have something of merit if judicious mating counts for 

 anything. His pointers Maud N and Huntress have lately 

 had fine litters, one by Ossian and the other by Trinket's 

 Bang, and on May 15 Busy Croxteth was bred to King of 

 Kent. Mr. Paetzel has also added the dog Nutwood (19235) 

 by 0 =sian out of Nellie E, to his kennel. Nutwood won 3d 

 in the Indiana field trials, 1890, and will run trhis fall in the 

 All- Age stake of the United States field trials 



We have received tbe constitution and bye-laws of the 

 new American Field Trial Club which has it headquarters 

 at Columbus, Ind., where their first trials will be run, 

 beginning Nov. 21. None but members stakes will be run, 

 and the membership fee is $5, There will be a Derby for 

 dogs whelped on or after Jan. 1, 1891, and a Puppy stake for 

 dogs whelped on or after Nov. 24, 1891. Setters and pointers 

 will run separately with an absolute winner race in each 

 stake, for which the prize in the All-Age is a S100 cup, in the 

 Derby a $75 cup, and Puppy stake a cup valued $50. In the 

 different stakes tbe regular prizes will be a percentage of 

 i he entry fees, first prize, 50 per cent., second prize, 25 per 

 cent.., and third, 15 per cent. Derby entries close Aug. 1; 

 All age, Sept. 1 ; Puppy, Nov. I, 1892. 



There will be a meeting of the American Pet Dog Club at 

 129 East 16ch street, New York City, on Wednesday, June 8, 

 at 2:30 p.m. We are asked, on the authority of the secretary 



of this club, to deny that the American Pet Dog Club 

 intends holding any show in November at the Madison 

 Square Garden. Miss Bannister adds : " I do not know who 

 has circulated the report nor for what purpose." Our in- 

 formation came from one who attended the last meeting of 

 the club and naturally we supposed such information to be 

 reliable. 



Everyone has heard of the trotting dog Doc and his owner 

 and driver Willie Ketchum, but few in New Yorkhavehadan 

 opportunity to see this marvellously speedy dog on the toot- 

 ing track, Doc is now attending the meeting at Fleetwood 

 Park and should have trotted against a pony on Monday 

 last, but the S. P. C. A. people put a stop to it. It was not 

 stated wherein the cruelty lay, possibly it was on account 

 of the pony as Doc was allowed to give an exhibition trot 

 which showed him possessed of a marvellous turu of speed 

 aud a true trotting gait. Hemay be matched to-day against 

 a 19 hand horse that has trotted in 2:25. 



The following specials have been donated to the Indus- 

 trial Exhibition Association's bench show of dogs to be held 

 at the City of Toronto,' Sept. 12 to 16, which promises to be 

 superior in every particular to the former successful shows 

 held in tbe Queen City. The National Beagle Club offers 

 $5 for best dog and -55 for best bitch exhibited by a member of 

 that club. The Collie Club of America offer a silver medal 

 and also $20 for the best American bred collie under two 

 years of age exhibited by a member of that club, also a 

 bronze medal for the best collie in the novice class (if no no- 

 vice class, then in puppy class,) exhibited by a member of 

 the Collie Club. The American Spaniel Club offer the fol- 

 lowing handsome specials : Silver cup, value $100. for the 

 best field spaniel ; silver cup, value $100, for the best cocker 

 spaniel ; George H. W hitehead trophy, value §25, for best 

 cocker stud dog and two of his get ; S10 in cash for best ken- 

 nel of field spaniels, not less than four, and $10 in cash for 

 the best kennel of cockers, not less than four. 



Mr. James H. Watson, who has so pluckily upheld the 

 coursing honor of our Eastern greyhounds by running his 

 dogs at the meetings at Great Bend, Kan., and Merced, Cal., 

 does not intend to let defeat dampen his ardor. He intends 

 running both Drytime aud Royal Crest in the All Age stakes 

 at Great Bend and possibly at Merced next fall. It will be 

 remembered that Drytime was sent to England and bred to 

 Biunaby, and contrary to Mr. Whiton's provoking expe- 

 rience the bitch had nine pups, all of which she raised, and 

 they are now in the country. On our asking Mr. Watson i 

 he intended sending any of them to Great Bend he answered 

 in the affirmative, but added that he was unable to deter- 

 mine which to send, as they were the most even lot of young- 

 sters he ever saw, and it was impossible to pick out oue as 

 being speedier than the others. This litter affords any one 

 who would like to run a greyhound in the Great Bend Der- 

 by, but who has not good enough material in his kennel, 

 the chance to nominate one of these pups and run it in 

 his own name. Mr. Watson will pursue the plan that should 

 have been tried before and send his dogs out West in July, 

 so as to be properly seasoned by the time the meeting comes 

 off. In view of this. Royal Crest, that did so well last year, 

 shoula be able to bring a prize East this year, as it was'only 

 the want of condition that stopped him in the Derby last Oc- 

 tober. Mr. Watson will attend the meetings, and it is again 

 proposed that a special car be secured to Great Bend, and 

 surely there should be enough lovers of the leash in this 

 part of the country willing to go, so as to secure the reduced 

 rate of §50 for return trip. 



The pointer bitch Ruby VII. sailed last Saturday for Eng- 

 land, there to remain till she is bred to either Naso of Stras- 

 burgh or Naso of Upton. The litter she had by the former 

 dog is said to be doing well and to be of unusual merit, so 

 much so that though having numerous opportunities to 

 sell the Anglo-American Kennel will keep them till grown. 

 They will be sent to a farm near Moosehead Lake, Me., to 

 run all summer. Few people who have been accustomed to 

 seeing Thomas "messing" round the Yorkshires with a 

 pearl-backed comb and brush know that he is well up as a 

 trainer of pointers and setters, having done a good deal of it 

 in Scotland before he came over here, so perhaps we shall 

 yet see "George" with a string of "high classers" at the N. 

 E. K. C. trials in the near future. 



We are sorry to hear that Mr. John Moorehead, Jr., the 

 owner of the crack bull terrier Streatham Monarch, has lost 

 his noted bitch Queen Bendigo. Through an injury received 

 three weeks ago she died last Wednesday week in parturi- 

 tion. A post mortem showed eight fine pups, five dogs 

 and three bitches by Streatham Monarch. 



The Philadelphia Kennel Club's large Derby entry 

 shows conclusively that in throwing their stakes open to all 

 they made no mistake, as their entries are drawn from the 

 principal kennels in the country. At one bound they have 

 taken a foremost position. The judges selected are men 

 thoroughly familiar with this branch of field sport, and their 

 decisions should command respect. 



The wire-haired fox terriers Brittle and Vic Broom, owned 

 by Mr. R. F. Mayhew, are now at the Rochelle kennels, 

 where Brittle will be at stud. Brittle is well known to all 

 fox terrier men, as his career on tbe other side was quite a 

 noted sue. Vic Broom is also a prize winner, and is sister to 

 champion Miss Miggs, for whom Lord Lonsdale paid $1,075, 

 and also to champion Mischief and champion Gladys Broom. 

 She is now nursing three puppies by Brittle. Dr. Foote has 

 the "wire hair" fever too, and is now negotiating for a bitch 

 in England which he will get over in whelp and expects to 

 have a team of these smart terriers to show through the fall 

 circuit. By the way, Dr. Foote, on his farm, has a large 

 pond where the dogs take a swim, and the other day Brittle 

 narrowly escaped a "wet" death. Swimming round with 

 Sultan, the black aud tan, they picked up a quarrel instead 

 of the stick that was thrown tb them and sailed in. Sultan 

 got a neck hold and held Brittle under the water for fully 

 two minutes, when Dr. Foote, to save him, had to wade into 

 the water to a depth of five feet and carry both dogs to 



