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pvoA'ed bitch since the spring, and though her face has a 

 suspicion of ''disb,'' still it is a beautiful one, and much 

 like her more celebrated sister's, bufc if she has not been 

 favored with quite so perfect an outlirie, she luckily has the 

 much desired black points. She is the same breeding as 

 C. O. D., sire, Ilford Caution: dam, Tjiuly Dorothy, but was 

 whelped May 5, 1S90, and in these two Mr. Whitney has a 

 pair of valualjle brood bitches, for their quality i.s intense. 

 Miss Caution wou .stver;il priv.js last spring, and in the late 

 Canadiau circuit, h mi now th^^t C- O, D. is ii\ the challenge 

 clas.? seexns to hEive the open classes next year at her mercy. 

 ThiH iiuislitid ttie maivi building, and entering the pa.ssage 



Railroad runs now, but which formerly were the grounds 

 and gardens of the house in which Mr. Whitney was born. 

 ■Leaving the kennels I passed a sul)stantial lool^ing house 

 where Mr. Pritcbard is to have his rooms so that he can 

 sleep with one eye on his clia)-ges. 



There uo lacli: of room for exercising the dogs without 

 going oil' the estate, tor across the road from the kennels are 

 two targe fields of al.)out three acres that run down to the 

 river, Hei-e are kept two Alderney cows, the kennel pony, 

 and the buck-board, to which is attached an arrangement of 

 cross bars, so that several dogs can he chained behind a.nd 

 taken out for exercise, a rather laKy man's arrangement, birt 



LADY DUKOTHY AND CARDINAL BEAUFOKT. 

 Owned by Mr, James W. Whitney, Rochester, N. Y. 



which runs the length of the extension to the main kennel, 

 sort, long, I found eight more kennels which open into the 

 alleyway. These have runs about 10ft. wide by 12r)ft. in 

 length, extending to the road, with plenty of grass to roll 

 round in. In these runs there was hardly as much shade as 

 I would like to see; shade is a sine nun noii in a kennel, and 

 especial] y for mastiffs aad other large breeds. The kennels 

 ill this building have divided doors, opening top or bottom, 

 and the floors are cemented, with a slope so that water 

 passes off into the main diTiin to the river. The partitions 

 between the kennels are 10ft. high, of solid boarding. In 

 the third compartment a grand old winner and handsome 

 mastiiS raised herself lazily from her comfortable couch— 

 Ijady Coleus. She is now about in her prime, a little over 

 five years old. Her sire is the noted champion Beaufort and 

 dam Vistala. Her breeding is, therefore, superb. Her list 

 of wi nnings is just one succession of firsts, and the only bitch 

 that can rub her uncomfortably is C O. D., as Cambrian 

 Princess has about passed her limit mark. Of course this 

 bitch was a winner on the other side before she was imported 

 by Mr. E. H. Moore iu 1888. I am not aware that she has 

 produced any pups, and more the pity, as she is grandly 

 built for breeding. Massive in head, with a nice expression, 

 she shows lots of quality, is very deep-chested and large of 

 bone. Then I came upon another matron, liady Pamelia, 

 one of champion Mioting's get out of Be.ss (11,783). She was 

 ■wbelped April 12, 1888. She has an excellent body and front, 

 is .short-faced, but hardly massive enough. This bitch was 

 in whelp to the late Horace, who had died shortly before 

 my visit to the kennel, and this is the only bitch that was 

 in whelp to him; and as Horace was a bigger dog than IL 

 ford Chancellor, some good-sized progeny are now, I hope,, 

 trying to run round the kennel. Lady Pamelia was shown 

 once, in Boston in 1888, when she won a S35 siiecial. 



By this time I could not but admire friend Pritchard's 

 arrangement of the kennel, as my interest was kept at 

 fever heat all the time and I had not seen the best yet— but 

 we were coming to it when he opened the next pen, which 

 proved to be the quarters of the Sultan of the harem, charn- 

 pion Ilford Ctiancellor, and as such was wearing an insignia 

 of ofi&ce in a fine silver studded collar. I never saw him look- 

 ing better, and I am sure no one would even dream at that 

 time of his early demise. I have so recently in a late is.sue 

 of this paper, in" commenting on his death, given particu- 

 lars both of his breeding and his wimiings that it is no use 

 repeating them here; but to show what a good dog he was I 

 may remark that at the Crystal Palace show in 1888, under 

 Dr. Turner, he beat such dogs as Hotspur, Victor Hugo, 

 Admiral, Prince of Wales and Montgomery for the challenge 

 prize. lie was another importation of Mr. Moore's in 1889, 

 and from this gentleman Mr. Whitney purchased him. He 

 was the sire of Ilford Cato, Chocolate Girl, Coral, Ilford, 

 ilford Conciuest, Ilford Chorister, and he was just begin- 

 ning to make his mark as a sire iu this country. Some of 

 his litters were very large, of more than ordinary promise, 

 and next year may see some of his stock iu the prize lists of 

 the shows. With this dog was a young bitch pup, by cham- 

 pion Beaufort out of Gerda, bred by Mr. Wincheli and ])ur- 

 chasedbythe Flour City Kennels from Mr. Thomp,son, of 

 Washington. This bitch is quite well made, good bone and 

 body and nice head, and will no doubt be seen to good 

 advantage at future shows. She will be about 1.5moe. old 

 now. 



Oar tour of inspection conchided with the batlrroom at the 

 end of the building with its tubs and other wa.shing iDara- 



Shernalia. The ventilation and light in this building has 

 een well arranged and the total absence of smell in any of 

 the kennels was very noticeable. The dogs lie on pine shav- 

 ings in summer, and this gives the keunel a pleasant odor, 

 besides being death on fleas. Behind the main building is a 

 sma.ll place used as an ice house for storing meat, of which 

 a good deal is used in the food, and judging by the looks of 

 the dogs, Mr. Pritchard's home-made recipes must be appre- 

 ciated by his canine charges, In entering the kennels from 

 the i-oad one passes through an old-tasf)ioned garden of half 

 an acre in extent with lots of shade from numerous quince, 

 apple and otluar fruit trees. This will be utilized for four 

 kennel runs from a new kennel which will contain the stud 

 dogs. A capital plan, as these should never, if possible, fxj 

 kept in the same briilding with the bitches for very obvious 

 reasons. Nothing )jut bitches and pups will l»e housed iji 

 the buildings I have described above. Behind this plot of 

 ground is another large inclosure where the bitches are 

 turned in to have a run. Overlooking the kennels is a high 

 embankment, on the top of which the Ttome & Watertowu 



friend Pritcbard, like most of u.«, has a "bone in bis back," 

 as the .saying goes. Here is also a windmill pump, that 

 supplies the kennels with water. Further down the road is 

 another tract of ground, used now as a vegetable garden, 

 which Mr. Whitney -will turn into a half-mile track for his 

 trotters to be jo.gged on. 



The pangs of hunger by this time began to make them- 

 selves manifest, so turning once more to the busy haunts of 

 trade, I found Mr, Whitney in an atmosphere of "wheat 

 futures," and while waiting for him I might here remark 

 that a fondne,ss for dogs is no passing whim of Mr, Whitney: 



country I sincerely trust that another year there will be uo 

 such cause for complaint. After a pleasant lunch at Mr. 

 Whitney's residence, a meal made bright by the presence of . 

 Mrs. Whitney, 1 visited the stables bediind the housej which 

 contain .some' live, or six very nice trotters, one of which ha.s 

 shown a 2-M gait; this is a half sister of Monbars, the 

 noted two-year-old trotter, and will ere this be now in the 

 hands of the noted Budd Doble, who will bring out of her 

 whatever record-smasbing pace there is in her. _ As we 

 jumped into the perfectly appointed sidebar behind two 

 lovely young mares f asked the owner why his fancy leaned 

 so much to the tenderer sex in his trotters. "Why," he 

 ansvv'ered, 'dame a luirse nud he's done for, lame a ma,re 

 and you still can use her for breeding purposes." Some 

 people may call that hor.se sense, and I'll agree with them. 

 Anyhow, I bad a uu:).'it charming drive to Oriental Beach, 

 and jogging quietly home in time for dinner several hours 

 were spent till ti-.ain time in plea.sant chat that was not "all 

 dog." H. W. li. 



LORD CLOVER'S PEDIGREE. 



Edito r Fovcs-A a nd SI ren in: 



Inasmuch as your corre3pondent*"Onlooker" pronounces 

 the Lord Clover matter still iu a half baked condition tor 

 lack of evidence, it may be well to outline the testimony 

 still in my possession. 



First of' all 1 have a number of English for sale lists, stud 

 cards, cidHlo.Hiuis, ei c, All of them aidedate this Lord Clover 

 turmoil and all of Lhem coni;nin strong corroborative tes- 

 timony in favui- oi' tht- rHvligroL- under di:Hcussion. They 

 show the breeding of Mi-, Proctor's Hosalind jnst as clearly 

 as the stud book, also ttiafc of Mt-. Hartley's Lady A^ara, Mr. 

 Talland's TiOla, Captain Openshaw's Linden. Mr. Proctor's 

 Lothair, Mr. Houlker's Haughty Nellie and Haughty I)ais:y, 

 Mr. Kilvert's Cestrian Psyche aud other.^. All of these ani- 

 mals have the blood of Ijord Clovei-'s dam and maternal 

 grauddam. Little Dorrit, in their veins iu greater or less de- 

 gree, and the documents descriptive of them show unequiv- 

 ocally that their owners think as I do. They one and all 

 make out the sanie case as that with which Dr. Cryeris con- 

 fronted. More than that 1 hfive the direct testimony of a 

 number of well known l-'luglish breeders, and there is not a 

 single point of difference or a conflicting stateaient through- 

 out, Mr. Hoiilker, the present secretary of the English Pug 

 Club, owns Lorrl Clover's sire. He formerly owned all of 

 Lord Clover's litter brothers and .sisters, together with his 

 younger sister Hau.ghty Nellie, aud a dozen others of the 

 .same strain. Mr, Houlker wrote me that there was not "a 

 shadow of a doubt" as to the integrity of the pedigree with 

 which everybody but Dr. Cryer accredits Lord Clover. The 

 stud cards of Lihdon, a litter brother of Lord Clover, and of 

 Mr. Proctor's Lothair, another full brother of the dog, show 

 the same thing. -Joseph Openshaw, who ownsLindon,wrote 

 me that the pedigree was unimpeachable. Mr. Kilvert's 

 Cestiian Psyche won three firsts at the Agricultural Hall 

 this year and was first also in open class bitches at Birming- 

 ham last month. Her pedigree in»volves all that I affirm of 

 Lord Clover's. The challenge cla.ss bitch Lola was bred by 

 Mrs. Britain, who also bred Champion Little Count and 

 Little Countess. Lola is by Lord Clover's brother Lothair 

 and her pedigree is so given by her owner. Lady Candy- 

 tuft, winner of first at Bristol and at Birmingham this year 

 is by Lord Clover himself ex Lady Clematis. Her owner, the 

 Rev. Dicker, assured me long ago that the pedigree I sub- 

 mitteil to him. was authentic. I can show over the signa- 

 tures of these breeders and of others a condition of aft'airs 

 that no incomplete stud book entry will set aside. Dr. 

 Cryer's blunder was simply a failure to disdinguish between 

 things that differ. He probably understands now that 



THE LATE OHAJVIPION 

 Owned by Mr. James W. 



he has been an ardent lover of mastitts for upward of fifteen 

 years, but until he purchased Horace, by champion Minting 

 but of Duchess, he had no idea of indulging in a kennel of 

 prize-winning stock. It was not till the winter of 189()-91 

 thHt the opportunity arose, through Mr. Moore's intention 

 to devote all his energies to St. Bernards, that Mr. Whitney 

 was able to lay the foundation of the liiie kennel he now 

 has, by purchasing such dogs as Ilford Chancellor, Lady 

 Coleus", Lady Dorothy, Caution's 0v,tl Daughtei-, Miss 

 Caution, etc., aud .-it once stepping to the top of the tree. Iu 

 Mr. Pritch-ru-d he has an able manager, one whose training 

 has been principally with m-astifi's, first in the Winlawu 

 Kennels aud then with Mrs, Grant. 



The kennel has had little opportunity yet to rear much 

 young stock, but for the ,Q:ood of the mastiffs bred in thig 



ILFORD CHANCELLOR. 

 Whitney, Rochester, N. T. 



omission is not necessarily prohibition. In one entry, tha^ 

 of Lord Clover himself, the stud book fails to carry out the 

 schedule of the dog's lineage to completion. In place of 

 tracing it elsewhere. Dr. Cryer appears to have fiown to the 

 seemingly not very distasteful conclusion that Lord Clover 

 was not ■ as well bred as some folks imagined. This is the 

 way it looks at least to a man up a tree. In any event there 

 does not appear to be a scrap of evidence other than the 

 omis.sion just mentioned to conflict with the fact that this 

 dog was bred by Mr, Goulding, not Mr. Chatterton, and that 

 his dam, Nellie, was bred by Mr. Proctor out of Little Dor- 

 rit, Little Dorrit by Max ex Midge. If Dr. Cryer will table 

 his cards I will cheerfully match facilities with him so far 

 as this one case is involved. Thos. L BALLANTINE;. 



Pkobia, 111. 



