Oct. 38, 1893.] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



871 



DOG CHAT. 



The Irish Setter Trials. 



All field sportsmen, whether English setter men, pointer 

 men or others, wiU regret that the efforts of the Irish Setter 

 Club in trying to show what the Irish setter can do in the 

 field do not meet with better resj)onse. Six entries for a 

 Derby seems almost ridiculous. Still, as Dr. Davis tells us, 

 there is some excuse for this. Messrs. Perry and Hamilton 

 lost their five Derby entries through McLin's dastcirdly 

 work. Mr. Bishop, always a mainstay where Irish setters 

 were concerned, was compelled through ill health to dispose 

 of his kennel, and, adds the energetic secretary, "hard times, 

 lack of time on my part, and the lack of interest o,n the part 



ment is that now the dam and granddam feed each other's 

 lots indiscriminately. 



Instead of saying that the news of Bedgebury Lion's death 

 "reaches us from New Jersey county,^' it would perhaps 

 have been more correct in the Stocli-Keeper (Eng.) to have 

 given FOEEST AND Stream the credit, as the news appeared 

 in this paper alone. For three weeks previously it was 

 known to only the owners, kennelman and Forest and 

 Stream. 



The story comes from Camilla that John Joiner and sev- 

 eral others were out hixntiug some time ago when Mr. Join- 

 er's dog fell into an old well. It was not known at the time 

 where the dog was, and no hunt was made for him, Mr. 

 Joiner thinking he would come home in a short time. 



10, THE WINNING ST. BEENAED AT CHICAGO AND LEXINGTON, KY., 



of the owners of eligible puppies will, I suppose, account for 

 the poor showing." The All-Age Stake, we are pleased to 

 note, promises better. Irish setters hold their own in Eng- 

 lish trials in mixed competition, and the owners of Irish 

 setters here are alone to blame for the poor showing of their 

 breed. The dogs have shown they can do good work, all 

 they need is more attention on the part of the best trainers, 

 and this will be accomplished when a trainer finds that it is 

 as much to his interest to get the Irish setter to the front as 

 it has been to place the English setter in the prominent 

 position it now occupies. 



U. S. Trials at BIckneli. 



The number of entries in the U. S. Field Trials Club's All- 

 Age Stake produces a peculiar result, one that is without 

 precedent in this country. That the pointer entry should be 

 equal to the English setter marks an advance in which 

 pointer men should take especial pride. The club's enterprise 

 and daring in holding two trials in one season seem to have 

 struck the public fancy, and we trust that their conduct of 

 the trials will be such that they will always merit the good 

 opinion they now seem to hold among field trial men. The 

 outlook for successful trials at Bicknell seems very bright, 

 Mr. Madison informkig us on his return from Bicknell that 

 they will have plenty of birds. He found seven large bevies 

 on 200 acres. 



Mr. E. O. Damon, whose interest in kennel affairs has 

 hitherto leaned toward setters, has purchased fi-om Hon. 

 John S. Wise the young pointer Soult II., by Robert Le 

 Diable out of Pomps, by Romeo out of Nebula. Romeo is a 

 son of Graphic a,nd Seph G. , and Nebula a daughter of Meteor 

 and Beulah, so his breeding is sans reproche. This young 

 dog combines, we are told, high class bench form with ex- 

 ceptional speed, and as Mr. Damon's ambition tends toward 

 the sort of dogs known as "high class" and not "plug hunt- 

 ers" he intends to develop and run Soult in the U. S. trials 

 for pointers at Grand Junction, Miss. Mr. Damon is now 

 looking out for a light weight dog that is a field trial winner 

 and also a winner at the best shows in England. This blend- 

 ing of merit may be difficult to find, still we applaud Mr. 

 Damon's resolve, and trust he will be successful. 



Bulldog Stud Book. 



We have received copies of "Bulldog Pedigrees," which is 

 a list of all known bulldogs and their reputed ancestors com- 

 plete to Aug. 1, 1892, by Messrs. Cyril F. W. Jackson and E. 

 H. Bowers. This is a volume which no bulldog breeder 

 should be without. The names of almost 6,000 bulldogs are 

 indexed in this volume, comprising the particulars of every 

 bulldog registered at the English Kennel Club since registra- 

 tion was required 13 years ago; of every bulldog exhibited at 

 auy one of the Kennel Club's 36 shows, at the 30 shows held 

 at Birmingham and at the 19 Bulldog Club shows, as well as 

 of most bulldogs exhibited at less important shows. It also 

 contains the particulars of every ancestor entering into the 

 pedigrees of any of these dogs. The price of the work is 

 $3.75, and can be obtained from this office. 



Surrey Janet Arrives. 



Mr. H. W. Smith tells us that Cribbage is now in perfect 

 health, and the same may be said of his other wire-hair fox- 

 terrier importation, Surrey Janet, which arrived on the Paris 

 last week, through Spratts Patent. The advent of these two 

 crack wire-hairs should be followed by both an increase of 

 interest in the breed and a general iniproveuient ia the home 

 bred stock. Surrey Janet about a week before she sailed 

 visited Carlisle Tack, and the result of this union should en- 

 hance the value of Mr. Smith's kennel. Imported so soon 

 after mating, there should be no danger of losing the litter, 

 as has happened so frequently before when shipment has 

 been delayed. 



The Maternal Instinct Strong. 



A carious incident is related by Stock-Keeper (Eng.), about 

 two St. Bernard bitches in the kennels of Mr. F. Stewart 

 Sandeman, Stanley, N. B. "A 17mos. St. Bernard bitch had 

 a litter of six puppies. Shortly after they were born, whilst 

 the mother was away from the litter for a little while, the 

 grandmother of the puppies, who had not had a litter since 

 the mother was born, went to the pups and commenced 

 suckling them, her milk ha^ang returned. When the mother 

 came back there was a fight for possession, but the old dame 

 would not give way, and eventually for the sake of peace, 

 she received three' of the puppies "which she continued to 

 j|Tickle, A further development in this dual family arrange- 



Bighteen days after the dog was lost Mr. Joiner was out 

 hunting again and heard his dog howl. At first it was hard 

 to locate the sound, but the dog was finally discovered in an 

 old dry well, where he had been for eighteen days without 

 food or water. The dog was drawn to the surface, and is 

 now as well as ever. 



Important. 



Our friends seems to forget that Forest and Stream goes 

 to press on Tuesday now instead of Wednesday, and all com- 

 munications intended for insertion in "Dog Chat" or other 

 columns in this department should reach us not later than 

 Monday. Such letters should be marked "Kennel," so that 

 they may be opened in the kennel editor's absence at shows, 

 field trials, etc., and the news be published in proper season. 



Business. 



To insure prompt attention, all communications of a busi- 

 ness nature should be addressed to the Forest and Stream 

 Pub. Co. When sent to members of the staff, who are fre- 

 quently absent fi'om the office, considerable delay occurs 

 before "such business is attended to. In the case of advertise- 

 ments especially would we draw the attention of our friends 

 to this fact; also, to insure insertion in the current week's 

 issue advertisements should reach us not later than Monday 

 morning, and Saturday would be still better. 



Akron, O., Will Hold a Show. 



The Northern Ohio Pet Stock and Kennel Association 

 claim the dates Dec. 20 to 23 for their dog show at Akron, O. 



the country assisted greatly to pull him through the trying 

 ordeal which he has just passed. He is now at home, and 

 with good care is gaining rapidly. "I hope soon to be out, 

 and with a foot that won't get cold hope to be myself again." 

 And this wish we know his friends will echo, 



A Time for Everything. 



Mr. A. W. Smith, of Buffalo, known to the fancy as an en- 

 thusiastic black and tan terrier fancier, thinks his business 

 demands all his time and he cannot afford to devote any more 

 time to dogs, etc. In informing us of this decision, he re- 

 marks that as he cannot keep out of dogs if he reads the 

 Forest and Stream, he must give it up. This is one of the 

 things we can never understand. Are we returning to the 

 old days when the iron bands of business held men so chained 

 to the desk that no moment could be spared for relaxation in 

 the wav of sport? We see no reason why a man cannot de- 

 vote sufficient time to his business, and still, if his inclina- 

 tion tends that way, take pleasure in the companion.ahip of a 

 few dogs. Mr. Krueger probably travels further during the 

 week than any man in the fancy, still he finds time to return 

 home at the end of the week and take the pleasure that a 

 large kennel of beagles affords him. Take Augitst Belmont, 

 for instance, Thos. H. Terry, Clarence Rathbone, H. W. 

 Smith, C. S. Hanks, L. C. Whiton, H. W. Huntington, J. H. 

 Winslovv — we could name a score-^all men who are "up to 

 their ears" in business, as the saying goes; still they find 

 time to devote more or less attention to breeding dogs and 

 presumably derive benefit from it. Pleasure should not in- 

 terfere with business, nor should we let business interfere 

 with our pleasure when the time is up; and the Forest AND 

 Stream exists just to show and teach men how they can best 

 employ such leisure time as they have in a way that will 

 bi'ing them the health to better bear the chains of that busi- 

 ness they seem so devoted to. Our apologies are perhaps due 

 to Mr. Smith in using his case to point a moral, but this is 

 how the thing strtick us when we read his letter of resigna- 

 tion. 



Messrs. Luckwell & Douglass have sold the red cocker 

 spaniel Gold Ring to Mr. H. Herbertson, of Detroit, Mich. 



Fits or Hydrophobia. 



No better example of the ignorance through which_ the 

 poor dog is made to suffer can be advanced than that given 

 by a correspondent in our query column. He describes very 

 intelligently the symptoms which led him to suppose his dog 

 had hydrophobia, and the dog paid for the mistake with his 

 life. Such a fit as this dog seems to have had is familiar in 

 different degree to those who have kept large kennels of 

 dogs. There is little doubt but that the fit was caused by 

 worms, and the dog no more had hydrophobia than the 

 nearest gate post. Some cold water thrown on the back of 

 the head at its juncture with the spinal column would, as is 

 usually the case, have quieted the pup, and a dose or two 

 of bromide and afterward treatment for worms would pro- 

 bably have saved to Mr. H. C. DeP. a useful member of the 

 English setter family. Of such happenings as this are the 

 mad dog scares of our cities generally manufactured. 



Mr. Tulk Selling .Out. 



We trust that the desire of Mr. W. J. Tulk, Mr. Stewart's 

 able coadjutor in his duties as secretary of the Hamilton 

 Kennel Club, to sell out his kennel does not mean a desertion 

 of the fancy altogether, but simply to make room for some- 

 thing better. Last Monday he sold his greyhound Master 

 Memnon, well known in Canada, to Shirley Stewart, of 

 Toronto; and also a black dog pup by champion The Scaven- 

 ger out of Bed of Stones, to A. Eraser, of Ottawa. The same 

 day Mr. Tulk shipped a brace of cockers to Mr. W. H. Mc- 

 Cord, of Omaha, Neb., a red bitch by champion Red Roland 

 out of Golden Duchess and a black dog by champion Red 

 Jacket out of Topsy. These he had purchased previously 

 from Mr. W. B. Palmer, of Woodstock. 



We have received a picture of the champion cup won by 

 Mr. Thos. Johnson at the Northwestern field trials. The 

 trophy seems to be quite a work of art. At the base is a 

 model of an English setter on point, and this is surmounted 

 by a handsome vase. Chickens are also represented on the 

 base of the trophy, and the handle of the cover of the vase 

 represents the Manitoba game bird. It is a handsome trophy 

 and Mr. Johnson should feel proud in claiming it. 



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A winner of the National Greyhound Club's medal in- 

 alres: "Did the custom authorities admit the English pro- 



THE WINNING KENNEL OF FOXHOUNDS, AT LEXINGTON, KY. 

 Owned by the Strodes Valley Kennel Club, Winchester, Ky. 



The association intended holding its show in February next 

 but changed their plans at their la.st meeting. Mr. H. A. 

 Peck, Mr. John A. Logan, Jr.'s, late kennel manager, is the 

 secretary. 



In its issue of Oct. 7 the Toronto Glohc published several 

 pictures of winning dogs at: the late Toronto show. They 

 are half tones and are better than anything of the kind yet 

 published in a daily paper, and reflect great credit on the 

 manipulator of the camera, in this case a lady, Mrs. M. G. 

 Bowman. The Irish setter Tim occupies the place of honor, 

 surrounded by collie Wellesbourne Charlie, bulldog Lady 

 Winnie, gi-eat Dane Lord Wolverton, bull-terriers Edgewood 

 Robin and Katherine Mavourneen, Scotch terrier Tiree, St. 

 Bernard Lord Dante. English setter The Sultan, beagle 

 Royal Krueger, and mastiff Lady Coleus. Such illu.strations 

 are educative and worth a cartload of the pen and ink abor- 

 tions one generally finds in the newspapers. 



The fair owner of the Mount Zion Kennels, Mrs. J. M. 

 Nicholson, of Albany, has been following the fashion of late 

 and reducing her stock, but reports prices at panic rates. 



Mr, Munhall, whose distressing accident we chronicled 

 some time since, writes us that the great number of letters 

 he received from his many sportsmen friends throughout 



duction.^f so, what are the medals like and when are they 

 to be distributed to the long-waiting owners of the lucky 

 dogs?" We understood from the secretary and so stated 

 some time since that the medals had been received by the 

 club and that they had been sent to the winners. 



Mr. R. B. Morgan is located at Humboldt, Tenn., with his 

 string of dogs, and tells us that he has never seen such a 

 large crop of quail in Tennessee as he finds this year. 



On the front page of British Fander^s issue of Oct. 13, 

 which we find on our de.ska coupleof days sooner than usual, 

 is a capital picture of a fox-terrier. Oakham Veracity is the 

 dog's name. He was lately claimed by Mrs. E. Lawrence, a 

 lady residing in Wales, at -S500. This fair fancier has not 

 been at all shy in her bargains, for previously to this she had 

 given -SI, 000 for Rowton Warrant, an evidence of pluck and 

 enterprise not usually found among fanciers of the fair sex. 

 In the above journal's notice of Oakham A^eracity we also 

 find something which can be indor.sed by experiences over 

 here. We have not so many fanciers among the fair sex as 

 one could \vish, but the sentiment expressed by our contem- 

 porary is equally applicable on this side of the water: "The 

 fancy nowadays, fortunately, is rich in the possession of a 

 large sprinkling of the fair sex, which fact we cannot but 

 regard as an unmixed blessing, for the softening influence of 



