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FOREST AND STREAM. 



,Dec. 22, 1893. 



TBEMONT rau a bye. He was started at 1. His range 

 ■was but moderately wide at the be?t, and often it was ignite 

 close. Ee beat oiU. his ground well, but often wasted time 

 by working the same grouad over more than once. Betimf^s 

 he returned to his haudler to gftt orders. He was prettily 

 broken, a bit overbroken ia so far that he would return fur 

 Instruction when he should remain out at worfe. He pointed 

 in beautiful style, some of his poses being magnificent, ff 

 be got clos« to bis birds, however, be drooped on point. He 

 was over cautious and pointed oq footsceat among scattered 

 birds sometimes. He made about eighteen single bird points. 

 Many of these he made quickly and nicely, vet be missed 

 maoy opportunities among scattered birds. Birds were out 

 feedins on the stubbles neirly all the afternoon, so that the 

 conditions favored easy finding. Nearly every bevy was 

 pointed witnin lOOyds. of the handler. He made three 

 flushes, and stopped too much on scents, although then he 

 moved on, generally without any assistance. He found ten 

 bevies. Had he be^n down wicn some of the other dogs in 

 the stake, he would hive h-id very little showing, as they 

 would bave ranged outside of hiraand picked up the greater 

 part of the points. 



FKIDAY. 



The weither was fogsry and cloudy, the signs being favor- 

 able for either good or bad weather, accordingly as one was 

 pleased to prndict. Some s-iid that the sun would dispel the 

 fog and the weather would be good. All took their rain 

 coats Hlone, bowever, even those who thought that there 

 would be no rain. 



Second Series. 



There were six dogs reserved to run In the second series, 

 lb was a good selection. Tremont, however, had run poorly 

 as compared to the others, but having run alone it was no 

 more tban fair to run him In company. 



LORA AND Bettye S. were started at S-M. Soon after 

 staruug the handlers were cautioned by the judges against 

 using any unnecessary noise, JVIr. Tucker having ob- 

 jected to ylr. Avent's whistling. Bettye in the open field 

 pointed a bevy. Lora in coming up to back, caught scent 

 quite a distance away and drew with great rapidity to a 

 point. Both were steady. Tbe birds were not followed. 

 Lora pointed a bevy in sedge. Bettye made three points in 

 succession, to which nothing was found. Lora pointed a 

 soarrow. Sent on Lora pointed the bevy accurately, while 

 Bettye 40yds. away pointed the footscent. The heat was 

 now runumg at a lively rate, the handlers riding in a fox 

 trot, and all bowling along merrily— too fast, bowever. for 

 bird hunnng, and not fnst enough for fox hunting. Each 

 pointed the scattered birds. Lora pointed a single in pines. 

 Bettye at the same time pointed at the same place, but 

 abandoned the point. L^p at 9:56. The heat was a good 

 one. Both ranged wide and fast. Lora was the better 

 ranger, the more finished worker and had better judgment 

 and finding aiiilities. She was also a more skillful per- 

 former on birds in every particular. Bettye worked far be- 

 low h''r form of 1 he first beat. 



HAKCJy C. ASD OliNANDO were started at 10:07. Orlando 

 pointed a bevy in open sedge. On the scattered birds, lioth 

 were found on a point on a single bird, or Harry backed. 

 Sent on, Harry soon pointed a single nicely. In woods, 

 Harry flushed a single and Orlando pointed one. Harry 

 pomted a bird whicb flushed wild. Olando pointed a bird, 

 after which he pointed twice and nofhing was found 

 Working on scattered birds of a bevy flushed by the judges, 

 Orlando made two point5;3nothing,found. Harry pbioied a 

 single nicely in open sedge. Up at 11:04. The last part of 

 the heat was run in the rain. 



The judges decided to p istpone further running for the 

 time being. There was no good reason for so doing, as it 

 bad stoiiped riiniug. The weather was butlitlile worse than 

 it had been all the morning, end better than it was part of 

 the time, inasmuch as it was not raining. An early lunch 

 was eaten. There was then some spf-culation about the 

 weather. The judges consulted with owners and handlers 

 Tuere appeared to be a disposition to please everybody in so 

 far as running or not running at once was concerned. The 

 proper way was to either go on and run the trials or go to 

 town. Diwdling about was not running a field trial. The 

 judges weretheonestodecide whether the running should or 

 shou d not be suspended. Oace open theqaestion of weather 

 to the pleasure of owners and handlers and no man is so wise 

 as to foreciSt the time when a trial would be run or ended. 

 Moreover, some of the running had been in worse weather. 

 It was understood that Capt, McVlurdo was i-eady to run 

 with Bip Rap and Mr. Bryson would prefer better' weather 

 for Trf-mont. The judges finally decided to run the dog.s. 

 After getting about a mile into the fields, the weather thick- 

 ened. The ju'lges consulted then and announced that the 

 running for the ddy was ended. This was shortly after 2. 

 A steady rain set in .soon after the start for home was made. 



SATURDAY. 



The weather was cloudy, damp and slightly foggy. The 

 heavy rains nad saturated the soil. The grounds were 

 soft and in places muddy. Bird.s, however, were not diffi 

 cult to find 



K.IP Rap akd Tkemont began at 9:46. Rip, standing in 

 the open, pointrd a bevy in a thicket. Tremont backed 

 Both were steady to shot. The bird^ were foUwed. Tremont 

 made two points on single thrds. Rip made a good point on 

 tbe scattered birds. Rip pointed a single in open sedge; a 

 moment afterward Tremont pointed the same bird. JSext 

 Rip flushed some scattered birds. Rip made two points on 

 scattered birds. Next he pointed a bevy in open sedge. In, 

 the open Rip stopped to wing on a bevy he flushed in some 

 thin weeds. Taking a circle in the field and coming back 

 in the open on this bevy. Rip struck the trail and pointed 

 tbe birds, Tremont joining in the point. The heat ended at 

 10:44. Rip was the better ranger, though his ranee was 

 irregular, sometimes narrow and sometimes fairly wide 

 He WHS the better finder. Tremont had a narrow range and 

 p irt of the time followed Rip. Each was steady to shot 

 and wing. 



Lora A^iD ORL.\>i DO began the fl^nal heat at 10:57. Both 

 ranged wide and f »st, Lora showing better judgment She 

 was "off her nose" app-irently, as her point; work was far 

 below tnat of her previous heats. Among some scattered 

 birds each sscured a point on single birds. Lora pointed in 

 a thicket; nothing found. Next, Orlando in the open o-ot 

 two points on sineles ; Ijora one. Orlando pointed in a 

 thi .'ket ; nothing found. A bevy was seen to pass in woods 

 No one knew what flushed it.. Lnra pointed a single whinli 

 flushed wild in woods. She then pointed foot scent Or- 

 lando pointed a bevy m a cornfield. Avent was ordered to 

 wait, hut he flushtd the bevy before Lora could be got in 

 Lora pomted lu sedge; nothing found. At the same time 

 Oflar do pomted, then moved on and flushed the singlebird 

 Orlando poiuttd seattered birds. Lora had not seen the 

 bevy when flushed from Orlando's point, therefore was at a 

 disa-ivantage in working on the scattered birds la the 

 open Orlando pointed a bevy in weeds. Lora, about one 

 nuodred yards away in weeds, pointed a bevy at the same 

 time. The judaes thereafter consulted six minutes The 

 doas were aa^in sent on. Lora roaded in the open to a good 

 point on a sinale. Orlando at tbe same time pointed a lark 

 ;nH"f?''^^J^ pomted ; nothing f- und L^ra flushed a bird 

 at 13-3.5^ another which Orlando had barely pointed. Up 



viV'u^T ^^'^ ^'^^^ Orlando had given Lora a sound beating. 

 He had not done sa He bad beaten her in thi.s heat, but 

 P° ^ V'"-^*^'L'^'^ ina. giu. Moreover, the work in her ure- 



thaV nf ohIh'"'^ "t''^'' "^fV^ ^"^'^ ^'^^^^ <ilas8 than 

 vn&l of oijaoao. Loi'a at her best can give him ft souoa 



beating when he is at bis best, judging from the class of 

 work done in the stake by each dog. Lora carries herself in 

 an easy, graceful manner, although she could be improved 

 in style. Oilando runs with a low head, his tail carried 

 straight nut behind and almost motionless. He, however, 

 points in good style generally. His manner of working is 

 inferior to that of Lira, He did a large amount of single 

 bird work in his first heat, but that was largely a matter of 

 large onportunity and having a. lame competitor. 

 The judges, however, got through a long trial with most 



CORA. 



Absolute winner AU-Age State, Central Field Trials, mz. 

 Owned by Pierre IioriUatd, Jr., Tuxedo Park, N. Y. 



commendable diligence. They handled the competion skil- 

 fully. They were constantly alert. Thev were not stamneded 

 a single time by any emotional crv of "Point, judges! " and 

 very little of it was attempted. The audible soliloquy of a 

 few handlers in explaining thelarge numberof things which 

 might be to a point which had proved barren, might have 



liAn OB' BUSH. 

 Winner A 11- Ago Polutei' Staky, Central Pielrt Trials, l!j93. 

 Owned liy J. L. Adams, Louisville, Ky. 



been left out, for it did no good. It might be profitable for 

 those handlers, who deign to explain any doubtlul work to 

 the judges, to learn that they are simply wasting their time 

 to no purpose, aside from the implication which the ex- 

 planation of the work carries whatit — that is, the imolication 

 that the judges can not comprehend the work. In short, 

 the management and judging was far ahead of that of past 

 years. B. WATERS. 



MANITOBA FIELD TRIALS CLUB, 



We must remind our Manitobau friends that in future, to 

 insure the accounts of the club's doings finding place in 

 these columns, said reports must bf forvearded in due sea- 

 son, and not after they have app^^ared in other papers. 



We are informed that the annual meeting of the Manitoba 

 Field Trials Club was he'd Mondav evening, U^c. 3, at the 

 Clarendon Hotel, Winnipeg, and was a great success, being 

 lAi'gely attended. After the usual routine business had 

 been disposed of, the election of officers was proceeded with: 



,., „ , , , — , managing 



commirtee, D. Hope, P. Hors'-y and Alex. Clarke; auditors, 

 D. H. Telford and T. L. Peters. 



A hearty vote of thanks was tendered to the retiring of- 

 ficers for the very successful manner in which they had con- 

 ducted the business of the club during tbe year, and for the 

 very promising condition in which its affairs now stand 



The events for next season are to consist of an Amateur 

 Stake, open to dogs owned iu Manitoba and the Northwest 

 Territorii^s only, and handled by amateurs, winners of pre- 

 vious events barred; the Derby and All-Aged S^ake. The 

 prizes for open events to be divided as follows: 60 per cent 

 to first, 25 per cent, to second and 15 per cent, to third. 



The date for holding the trials was not: fixed, owing to au 

 intimation received by the secretary-treasurer that anew 

 club was about to be organized in northern Dakota. If that 

 proposition is carried into effect, and we earnestly hope it 

 may. It is very desirable that both clubs should work har- 

 mOTiously together. It was considered advisable in view of 

 this 1 4,ct not to fix upon a dare until they had a further re- 

 port from their American friends. 



The advisability of holding the trials of the club at a 

 point further west was discussed and laid over to come ud 

 later. Twenty new members were duly elected. There was 

 a strong feeling manifested among those present that the 



MASTIFFS AT BROOKLYN. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



In Mr. Wade's criticism of tbe mastiffs he judged at the 

 last Brooklyn dog show, he speaks of the bitches thus : 

 "Bitches— The class was all bad in head, distinctions being 

 in degree. First, a big roomy bitch on short legs, good 

 skull, f -lir ears, muzzle too long and lacking in depth but 

 square." 



Take her as he sees her, what is there about her to recom- 

 mend? Does she amount to anything? Then he says, "The 

 second, Bass's Princess, an immense bitch, good all over ex- 

 cept in muzzle, higher legs than desirable, hut her muzzle 

 is execrable, not merely too long, but shockingly overshot ; 

 a mastiff may have a longer muzzle than hers andstill be 

 typical of the breed." 



When he says that Boss's Princess is overshot in the least 

 he is much mistaken, in fact "shockingly mistaken." On 

 that point it is not a matter of opinion of what he think? or 

 what 1 think. He is no more correct in that than he would 

 be were he to say she is all blacK or all blue in color; one 

 would be as evident to an observer as the other. But when 

 he says her muzzle is execrable, that is a matter of opinion ; 

 he cm call it anything he chooses. She is simply old type 

 in muzzle, as good or better than three-fourths of the mas- 

 tiffs in Americi, and better than a maj ority of the prize 

 dogs a few years ago. The b°st thing about the first prize 

 winner seems to be her skull according to his report, but 

 the skull of Boss's Princess measured four inches more 

 around than she did as measured, after the awards were 

 made, by Mr. Geo. Glazier. If the bitches were scored by 

 points it is my belief tnat the second prize winner would 

 score thirty points more than any in the class. Had she 

 been benched by the side of any other dog save Black Prince 

 her one solitary defect would not have been so apparent. 

 What sort of ashow would the other bitches have made in 

 her place? To use the expressfon of many, Mr. Wade's 

 awards in the bitch class were "peculiar," to say the lea.st. 



As Mr. Wade, in his many letters, is such a "stickler" for 

 good movers and most generously offers prizes for such here 

 and in England (my hitch Girda, the dam of Black Prince, 

 won the five pounds be offered in England, and Boss's Prin- 

 cess the $10 he ofl'ered at the Brooklyn show), he is particu- 

 larly down on all unsoundness— cow-hocked dogs and the 

 like. The "peculiar" part comes in when the two bitches 

 are compared together, the second prize winner getting the 

 prize for the best moving ma.stiff in the show. Avery correct 

 idea can be formed of tbe first prize bitch by reading what 

 the critics say in the different papers. "The winner had 

 lost her fat to some extent and thus looked b^■tter, but though 

 she has a better type of head than Boss's Princess, in no 

 other point is she her .'uperior or at all her equal: much 

 smaller, inferior in action, .slightly cow-hocked, open feet, 

 not so well made in body," and "the winner is very raoder- 

 Jte, faulty in head, good in body, none too good in hocks. 

 Boss's Princess, second is a vc y large upstanding, good-bodied 

 bitch and a vdry active mover, has a good skull but weak 

 muzzle, lacks character in head, still she oiiiiht to bave won 

 as she beats tbe winner so in si/.e, legs and feet, and neither 

 are good in head." I consider her as many others do, one of 

 the best all around bitches that has been shown. I do not 

 deny but what she has an old fashioned type of head, I will 

 say she is my ideal of a mastiff" save iu muzzle, just such a 

 one as I hope to show some time with the muzzle of Black 

 Prince. 



Boss's Princess was weighed by the biggage master at 

 tbe Grand Central Depot wnen Icime home from the show; 

 she weighed ISSibs. Sbe stands 'iiia. stick measure, at tbe 

 shoulder; is 77in. long and in girth she measures 40io. tight: 

 correct in color, perfect markings witn a sm«ll jet bhick ear 

 and jet black muzzle. P'^rfection is not often reached even 

 Aith the best material. We hope, we anticipate. 



J. L. WiNCHELl.. 



Fair Haven, Vf., Dec. 15. 



NATURAL FOODS. 



We are enabled, through Dr. Perry's kindness, to give 

 some further extracts from his coming book, "Kennel 

 Secrets." 



"In giving raw meat," says "Ashmont," "there are cer- 

 tain precautions to ba observed which are well worth con- 

 sidering here. Tbe dog commonly 'bolts' tbe food placed 

 before him largely because there is little if any necessity for 

 him to do otherwise, but accustom him to foods which re- 

 quire mastication and the assistance of the saliva, and he 

 soon shows that he has sense— or instinct— enough to know 

 that he must chew them before he swallows them. In feed- 

 ing raw meat the facts are often ignored that dogs have 

 teetn for cutting and tearing, and that if the same are indus- 

 triously used on this food it will be converted into a form 

 favorable for digestion. As a consequence the erroneous 

 practice of giving it to them in pieces but little smaller than 

 the fist is a common one; and to this can be attributed many 

 of the digestive disturbances of which breeders have occa- 

 sionally complained and for which thej'' have blamed their 

 food. 



"It ought not to be necessary to urge that raw meat for 

 dogs, old and young, that are fairly healthy and hive good , 

 sound teeth should when possible be put before them in a 

 form which mil make it necessary for them to cut, te;ir and 

 crush it before it can be swallowed; or in other words, it 

 should be in verj' large pieces, and preferably attached to 

 bones of good .size. And when it cannot be obtained in suit- 

 able form it should be cut into small pieces or crushed with 

 a mallet before it is fed out; orif intended for puppies or for 

 the sick it should be minced or scraped." 



A good many people have an idea that raw meat afl'ects 

 the dog's scenting powers Commenting on this "Ashmont" 

 remarks: "Where this food is given intelligently its effect 

 upon the secen ting powers is transitory merely and limited 

 solely to the period of active digestion. In other words, 

 after he has eaten his fill of meat, for two or three hours his 

 sense of smell is less keen, but as soon as digestion is well 

 advanced it is restored and just as powerful as before eat- 

 ing. And it can safely be said that a sporting dog might 

 be allowed meat from puppyhood until incapacitated by 

 age, and bis 'nose' would not in the slightest degree fall 

 off in consequence of bis diet. But meat will injure this 

 sense if it is given out of proportion to the amount of work 

 or exercise, for then the dog is sure to become feverisl-i and 

 his nose must fail him as well as his general health. And 

 where such failure has occurred in consequence of meat it 

 has been invariably due to the lack of judgment on the part 

 of the owners— they giving too much of .his food and too 

 little exercise," 



"Ashmont" now goes on to lay down rules for feeding 

 dogs of the diffrtrent breeds, from the smallest to the largest, 

 and under the various conditions of life. Hestates definitely 

 the proportions of meat, vegetables and starches required, 

 and tne influences which should modify them, how these 

 foods must be prepared, the quantity to be given at each 

 meal, the requisite number of feedings, etc., etc. In fact, 

 he gives accurate diet tables for Yorkshires as well as St. 

 Bernards, and of what each meal of the day should consist, 

 and in covering this va t territory he starts with puppies 

 about leaving their mother, and remains with them until 

 after they are matured, and even continues on with thf dog 

 in the stud and the bitch in whelp, leaMng absolutely no 

 room for speculation, but making clear every point and turn. 



Mr. H. L. Kreuder has sold the noted beagle ohampioj) 

 Racer. Jr., to Mr, SI, Gerry Roberts, of Reii BmK N. T. ' 



