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FOREST AND STREAM. 



LJULY 15, l8iiiJ. 



DOG CHAT. 



Foxhound and Bloodhound Match. 



It is to be hoped tbat the proposed match between a native 

 foxhound and English bloodhound to show that the former 

 is quite the equal of the latter as a man trailer will not be 

 allowed to fall through owing to inaction on either side. We 

 are firmly convinced from observation that the foxhound 

 will be found to be the equal of the bloodhound in trailing 

 the boot, in fact there are trained hounds now used for that 

 purpose. We have known setters and a fox-terrier to do the 

 same thing, though it must be said that In these cases the 

 person trailed was well-known to the dogs. Mr. Wade, who 

 takes the foxhound end of the match, is on a still-hunt for 

 his champion, and we believe that no definite arrangement 

 Las yet been made. Dr. Longest, on whose estate the match, 

 if it comes to anything, will probably take place, tells us that 

 he_ has over 500 acres of woodland at Mt. Vernon, and his 

 neighbors have given him full permission to hunt over their 

 grounds, so that there would be more than 1,000 acres at the 

 disposal of the competitors. Dr. Longest, in a letter to us. 

 fctates that he is not aware of any bloodhound in this country 

 specially trained for this work, so that it would be necessary 

 to send to England for a bloodhound or spend considerable 

 time in training one over here. We certainly under.-tood 

 that Mr. Winchell has several bloodhounds tbat are good 

 man-trailers. If the match comes off Dr. Longest will allow 

 his Belhus to join in the hunt if necessary. Such a trial is 

 sure to prove very interesting, and we trust nothing will oc- 

 cur to prevent it, especially as Dr. Lougest, if the match 

 takes place on his estate, gives all sportsmen a cordial invi- 

 tation to take part. 



Collie Ears. 



A writer in the English Stockr-Keeper some time since, 

 signing himself "Every Day Collie," remarked, when speak- 

 ing of the long, clean head and small, semi-erect ears, that 

 "Ihe latter is possibly the greatest improvement that has 

 been mJide in the coUie for many years. Good ears have been 

 " - . . • - ygj. with any cer- 



greatly valued, and very 

 iiguuij uuu iix uiic raue tu uutam good heads and ears, we 

 now find flue, long, weak heads and prick ears. I have very 

 carefully examined many winners during the year, and have 

 reason to think many_ of them are prick-eared dogs faked. 

 Several have been weighted until entering the show ring; 

 some have glue on when shown; others, it is plain to see, 

 have been tampered with; have no hair on inside of ear or 

 ears, as the case may require. They may keep in position 

 just while the judging lasts; see them a very few hours later; 

 you are astonished. Should the show last two or three days, 

 you find they are prick-eared dogs, when it is plain to see 

 what has been done. Why not disqualify these dogs, and 

 award prizes to those shown in their natural state?" 



To Guarantee Prize Money. 

 The English Kennel Club, alarmed at the frequency of 

 delinquent shows in the matter of paying prizes have, ac- 

 cording to Stuck-Keeper, Eng., made oiit a form which must 

 be signed by the principal officers of the show committees 

 intending to hold shows under E. K. C. rules. In this form 

 we find that committees must undertake before receiving 

 any dogs, to have their show benches properly disinfected to 

 the satisfaction of the regularly appointed veterinary surgeon 

 and, further that the whole of the prize money shall be paid 

 within a reasonable time after the closing of the show. Six 

 of the principal members of the committee must sign this 

 guarantee, and if any member holds a public appointment, 

 such as mayor, etc., such particulars must also be stated, 

 with the name. This is a good move and will certainly do 

 much toward restoring confidence, nnd will do away with 

 "shyster" shows held under cover of E. K. G. rules. 



Gerda II. 



Dr. Lougest's mastiff bitch Gerda II. whelped July 3 a litter 

 of 8 pups to Mr. Winchell's Beaufort's Black Prince. This 

 would not be remarkable in itself, but taken in considera- 

 tion of the fact that this makes the third liiter within 12 

 months, it stamps matron Gerda as a prolific treasure. On 



XDEAL GREAT DANE DOG. 



July 12, 1892, she whelped her first litter to^' Dr. Lougest's 

 dog Igleside Maximilian; second litter Dec. 25, 1892, to the 

 same dog, and now this last litter. Dr. Lougest's dogs are 

 all in capital health, "Thanks," he remarks, "to the ft-esh air 

 and green fields of Mt. Vernon." This is cheap kennel food 

 and we recommend it in large doses at this time of the 

 year. 



burgh an opportunity to deny the rumors we asked him to 

 state his side of the case. He was unwilling at first to give 

 the subject sufficient importance, but eventually said the 

 sum of $3,802paid to lawyers was incurred only through the 

 Gallup suits for libel against the A. K, C. officials and also 

 in protecting the associate members when Mr. Peshall served 

 them with summonses to answer several suits that Mr. Pesh- 

 all intended to bring, but which have not yet come trial. 

 Included in this sum were the expenses incurred in preparing 

 the: r defense and obtaining a history of the complainant, 

 which the club has now in its possession. Mr. Vredenburgh 

 further states that any member of the advisory committee°is 

 entitled to see the vouchers, etc., for this bill now in the pos- 

 session of the A. K. C. 



Closing of Field Trial Entries. 



There is some dissatisfaction expressed among field trial 

 men on account of clubs postponing the original date of 

 closing of entries. There is certainly some cause for com- 

 plaint for it does not seem fair that one owner should make 

 his entries in good faith on July 1, and then find that if he 

 had held off he would have had until September 1, to make 



it is proposed, for it is under lather novel conditions. The 

 match arises through the question as to which is the supe- 

 rior mover, Dockleaf or King Orrey. This is to be settled by 

 avraUs of ten miles. The match as it stands at pre.=ent 

 strikes us as little less than cruelty; five miles will probably 

 be found quite sufficient for both under the best conditions 

 of weather and roads. 



Miss Caution. 



In regard to the important question as to Miss Caution's 

 disability or otherwise it may be of interest to know that J. 

 F. Pritchard, who had charge of Mr. Whitney's kennels of 

 which Miss Caution was some time an inmatp, tells us that 

 they never had any trouble in breeding Miss Caution: the 

 only trouble, and a serious one, was that no litters resulted 

 from the mating. The treatment that this bitch has now 

 undergone will, however, we hope, overcome this difficulty, 

 and a promising litter from her make its appearance in the 

 Peoria kennel. 



The A. K. C. and Lawyers' Fees. 



It has been intimated from time to time that included in 

 the bill of $3,802 paid by the A. K, C. as lawyers' expenses 

 was the expense that Secretary Vredenburgh. as Mr. Vre- 

 denburgh, incurred in the suit for libel against Mr. Peshall. 

 Had this expense been included in this payment of 13,802, it 

 would have been an imposition on the American Kennel 

 Club, especially after its president in open meeting stated 

 that none of this expense should fall on the club, as it was a 

 private suit, etc., etc. With a view to giving Mr. Vreden- 



NOT CORRECT TYPE. 



"A faulty liead, In Wurttemberg callFd by tlie nickname 'Berliner'. The 

 frontal bones. are higher than the occiput; lack of proportion 

 in skull and muzzle; eye too large, etc." 



up his list. One prominent owner, feeling the injury that 

 has been done him by postponement, has determined to 

 cancel the entries he made before July 1, and the club hav- 

 ing broken faith would, we believe, not be justified in re- 

 taining the money paid for these entries. 



In the case of a man who enters six dogs, not knowing 

 until some months later which of them will be qualified to 

 compete, it works a serious injustice. Another owner who 

 has not been so punctual may by the latter date know just 

 what his dog can do and enter accordingly, thus effecting 

 a saving of many dollars. This practice if persisted in will 

 surely be detrimental to large entries in the Derbies espe- 

 cially, for when entries close promptly, say May or June 1, 

 not a fifth of the dogs entered fill their engagement, but the 

 club is so much to the good on the original forfeits. Dogs 

 that fill do not by any means pay for the stakes offered. 



Yorkshires. 



Mr. P. H. Coombs, known to the fancy as an old breeder 

 of Yorkshire terriers, intended to fill the place of Bradford 

 Harry, which died lately, by purchasing another good show 

 and stock dog, but now he is almost out of the breed, having 

 concluded to sell his Merry Duchess to Messrs. Barnes Bros., 

 Wellsville, N. Y. , together with a daughter of hers by cham- 

 pion Bradford Harry. This purchase will give considerable 

 strength and value to the Wellsville kennel, which already 

 contains a son of champion Ted and some other fashionable 

 blood. In Merry Duchess they get a daughter of Banks' 

 Royal by the famous Old Royal, and in the puppy they get ' 

 the value of champion Bradford Harry with two distinct 

 crosses to Huddersfield Ben. | 



Postpone the World's Fair Show. | 



We understand that at the advisory committee meeting i 

 of the A. K. C, called by President Belmont, it was resolved 

 that the president of the A. K. C. be instructed to communi- I 

 cate with the World's Fair management suggesting that 

 the show, conflicting with dates claimed by a club a mem- 

 ber of the A. K. C. be postponed till October. Dogmen all 

 over the country will, we feel assured, pray that this resolu- 

 tion may have the desired effect. If Mr. Buchanan wishes his 

 show to be the success it should be he will listen to the call 

 for postponement, and in the meantime ascertain how many 

 more of the judges on his list are not willing to serve. 



Apropos of the above we may be allowed to correct the 

 wilful misstatement of our Philadelphia contemporary 

 which we can only attribute to the effects of the heated 

 term through which we are at present passing. For its in- 

 formation we may remark that Forest akd Steeam con- 

 siilts the interests of the dogmen. and if we, through con- 

 tact with dogmen, find that their interests are not suffi- 

 ciently consulted we do not hesitate to so inform personally 

 the proper authorities who have it in their power to con-ect. 

 Finding that there was a feeling that the World's Fair show 

 should be held in October we went to Mr. Vredenburgh on 

 Tuesday, June 27, and brought the fact to his notice and 

 represented that, as the A. K. C. was the only body Mr. 

 Buchanan seemed willing to pay attention to, why not call 

 an advisory committee meeting. Mr. Vredenburgh en- 

 tirely agreed with our suggestion and asked us to inform 

 Mr. A. D. Lewis, acting secretary, as we were on the way to 

 the A. K. C. office, that he would like to see him, intending 

 to instruct him to ask President Belmont to call a meeting. 

 This was done and afterward a raeeting was called with the 

 result as stated, and in our issue of June 29 appeared the 

 suggestion as made to Mr. Vredenburgh. It could not 

 possibly come out before but it was quite early enough to be 

 ahead of any other paper, and has influenced our contem- 

 porary to again misrepresent the facts. 



Handlers' Methods. 



A merciful man is merciful to his dogs. On reading the 

 account of the cruelty of which handler Maclin, of Bick- 

 nell, Ind., has been guilty we are reminded very forcibly 

 of what led us to speak of the dift'erent behavior of dogs to 

 their handlers at the Bicknell trials in 1891, We had then 

 in mind the cowering, cringing manner in which this 

 handler's dogs behaved when approaching him, and which 

 convincingly showed that the rod of iron hung low in this 

 kennel. 



Novel Bulldog Match. 



Another bulldog match will take place shortly, or rather 



Not True. 



The Portland (Me.) Express, in speaking of Miss Whitney 

 and her ability as a judge of St. Bernards, etc , gets along 

 very weU and complimentarilj; until it say.s: "In attire Misa 

 Whitney is just a trifle 'mannish.'" Those who know this 

 genial, womanly woman will bear us out in the statement 

 that few women, nowadays, show less cause for such an ac^ 

 cusation. 



More Bulldogs. 

 Mr. Gillmore, of New York, Stock-Keeper says, has pur 

 chased the bulldogs Cameron and Reve Royal, and will 

 bring them over in August. 



Bonnet. 



Mr. A. A. MacDonald has purchased the wire-hair fox- 

 terrier Bonnet from Mr. W. Brodie and she will be mated with 

 his new dog, Dark Eye. 



St. Augustine, the recently imported smooth-coated St. 

 Bernard, is now at Mr. Bousfield's kennels at Bay City, 

 Mich., and is looking well and improving rapidly. Robert 

 Davison, who came over with St. Augustine, 'is now in 

 charge of the kennels. Mr. Davison is said to have had con- 

 siderable experience with St. Bernard,s, having been for some 

 time in Mr. Rotheram Cecil's kennels in England under the 

 tutelage of Lewis Pugh, well known in his special sphere. 

 Mr. Bousfield has built new kennels, which are well situ- 

 ated in lots of exercising room and with two acres of shade. 

 He intends to extend the buildings shortly, so that the ken- 

 nel will be able to take dogs to board and condition for shows^ 

 and this part will be entirely in Davison's charge. 



After the Brooklyn show Dr. W. F. Kenny, an enthusiastic 

 Irish terrier breeder of Providence, R. I., purchased Crib, the 

 winner in open dogs. On May 30 his Irish terriers Cathelene 

 and Belle of Shannon were safely delivered of twelve pups 

 between them, by Crib. Four of these were born without 

 tails, a concession to docldng that must have surprised the 

 Doctor no little. According to the Providence Journal, on 

 two of the pups there is no semblance of a taU; on the others 

 a small bunch appears where the tail should be. 



The English Stock-Keeper of June 2 has this to say: "The 

 American Kennel Club is oft'ered some extremely wholesome 

 advice in Forest and Stream of May 18. From simply fol- 

 lowing the history of the club in the columns of our trans- 

 atlantic contemporaries we should be inclined to think the 

 words of warning are timely, and so evidently well meant as 

 to merit attention." 



We distinctly characterize as untrue a statement in our 

 Philadelphia contemporary regarding Mr. Wade and the 

 Brooklyn show. We have never vet knowingly broken con- 

 fidence on any news matter confided to us with the proviso 

 "not for publication," and this rule has sometimes worked 

 to our detriment. In this instance there was no secrecy that 

 we are aware of. We simply "happened" on the news, like 

 so many of the good things that FoBEST AND Stream gets 

 hold of and knows how and when to use. 



The St. Bernai-d bitch Sabitha, that Mr. Patterson bred 

 to Sir Herbert and afterward shipped to Mr. Alex. Alkinan, 

 Redondo Beach, Cal., whelped May 22, eleven pups, six of 

 which are dogs. All are doing well and are likely to help 

 the good cause along the Pacific coast. 



The St. Bernard Kay, probably better known to the pub- 

 lic than most prize winners, because he was owned by the 

 wife of President Cleveland, died last week from the effects 

 of being tapped for ascites. This operation, which took 

 place at the Harvard veterinary school, where the dog had 

 been sent for treatment, consists in the insertion of a tube 

 into the abdomen, permitting the accumulated fluid to 



IDEAL GREAT DANE BITCH, 



e.scape. The operation is a very simple and easy one, re- 

 ctuiring the administration of only a small amount'of ether, 

 just enough to render hira partly unsconcious. The'dog was 

 very weak after the operation and finally succumbed July 

 6. It is said there are only two known cases of recovery in 

 dogs after this operation. 



United States Commissioner Allen's St. Bernard dog Pope 

 by champion Valentine out of Venus, died last month and 

 his owner thought so much of the dog that he could not bear 

 to see it buried in the ordinary manner in which dead dogs- 

 in a city are disposed of. He therefore had a neat casket 

 built and in this the remains of Pope were shipped to Bur- 

 lington, Vt., where Mr. Allen has his country seat, and here 

 among the hills of Vermont, under the shade of a spreading 

 tree and a small monument, Pope awaits a dog millennium. 



Many of thehills about Pittsburgh are pierced by horizontal 

 shafts leading to the rich deposits of coal. In these shafts a 

 race of hardy dogs are employed as beasts of burden. A- 

 team of two dogs is generally used to drag a little car loaded, 

 with coal on the narrow gauge tramway. 



TheCapt. J. M. Taylor, spoken of as judging at the W.'K. C. 

 show in 1877 is not the well-known setter judge of the present 

 day, as was supposed at the time we wrote "Twenty Years 

 of Bench Shows" in our issue of June 29. 



We bespeak a welcome among dogmen on the other side- 

 of the water for Mr. A. D. Stewart, of Hamilton. Out., who 

 sailed for Europe on July 1. Fanciers will find the secretary 

 of the Hamilton K. C. a thorough lover of a dog and a good, 

 all-round man into the bargain. 



