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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Oct. 27, 1894. 
DOG CHAT. 
Produce Stakes. 
It is a recognized fact among breeders of dogs that the 
Produce Stake is the most popular competition that can be 
instituted, whether by a specialty club or a private kennel. 
Mr. J. E. Thayer was among the first to institute such a 
stake by giving yearly $100 at Boston show for the best fox- 
terrier pup sired by one of his noted terriers, Mr. H. H. 
Hunnewell, Jr., has elaborated this idea and is now offering 
a series of annual produce stakes that will carry the com- 
petition into 1897. Instead of giving a lump sum to the 
winner, he has made an appreciable change by dividing the 
, stake into several prizes and by sex, a very commendable and 
much fairer arrangement. The 1895 stake will be for the 
progeny of his stud dogs sired between Sept. 1, 1894, and 
April 1, 1895, and this is to be competed for at the N. E. K. C. 
fall terrier show, and in case the club does not repeat its 
terrier show next year, the competition will be postponed 
until the Boston show of 1896. The prizes will be $25 and $15 
each for dogs and bitches. The 1896 Produce Stakes will be 
for the progeny of his stud dogs sired between Sept. 1, 1894, 
and April 1, 1895, and will be decided at the N. E. K. C. fall 
terrier show in 1896, or failing such a show, at some show to 
be decided upon later. This stake is divided into $30 and $20 
for dogs and the same for bitches. The 1897 stake will be 
worth $150, divided into $35, 825, $10 and $5 for dogs and the 
same for the frailer sex, and is to be competed for by terriers 
sired in 1895 subsequent to April 1 of that year, at either the 
N. E. K. C. fall terrier show or the regular Boston show of 
1897. 
Mr. Hunnewell is looking still further ahead and an- 
nounces that after 1897 will come the Annual Grand 
Produce Stakes value $150; prizes to be distributed as in 
1897. In 1898 the competition will be for those sired in 1896; 
in 1899 for 1897 dogs and so on. Thus it will be noticed that 
the progeny sired up to April 1, 1896, will be eligible for two 
valuable stakes. The only conditions are that the entries 
shall also be entered in the regular classes at the different 
shows and they be sired by the Hill Hurst stud dogs. To 
compete for these stakes, breeders are not asked to breed to 
inferior suid dogs, but on the contrary to stud terriers that 
are recognized as some of the choicest in the country both in 
brown poodles and wire-haired fox-terriers. 
Outside of the question of advertising, these produce stakes 
conducted on such lines as indicated above will serve to im- 
prove the breed of fox-teriiers or other dogs in America, as 
with moderate stud fees and the chance of winning them 
back, small breeders will be induced toseek better blood and 
not be so apt to use the dog that comes the handiest, which 
latter failing is in great part the cause of many breeds not 
showing that all-round improvement the presence of good 
stnd dogs would lead one to expect. We have always 
advocated that greater attention should be paid by breeders 
to blood lines and not so much to winnings, still at the same 
time breeders should pay even more attention to good pro- 
ducers and the nicking of the strains. 
"Sandy" in the English Field gives his opinion of what 
the Skye terrier should be and holds the modern show ter- 
rier as totally unlike what the old-time terrier is or was. He 
calls the former Lothian terriers. In describing a strain of 
the old stock he says: "They were small dogs, ranging be- 
tween 12ib.s. and 161bs. in weight; bitches, say, about 21bs. 
less; almost invariably drop-eared, the ears small and pointed 
and clothed with soft hair; no long locks hanging down like 
a weeping ash, as seen on the ears of the Clydesdale and 
Lothian dogs; coat of moderate length, say, from 4in. to oin. 
on the body, wiry in texture; eyes dark hazel, bright and ex- 
pressive; head not large, muzzle rather short and strong, to 
hold the grip tenaciously; legs strong and short in propor- 
tion to length of body; tail short and bushy, carried low. 
Usual colors, reddish-yellow and dark or light gray; the 
muzzle, tips of ears and end of tail should be of a darker hue 
than the body color." The modern show dog is thus raked 
over and not without some truth: "On the other hand, these 
Lothian terriers we see on the show benches are large and 
heavy looking dogs, say from 121bs. to 2olbs. in weight — 
some I could name appear even heavier — their heads are 
large for the size of the body; ears (unlike the Skye) are 
almost always pricked, and donkey like in size and shape, 
with long hair nanging down like a weeping ash; coat alto- 
gether out of keeping with terrier character, say from 8in. 
to lOin. in length, probably derived from a cross with the 
Russian poodle; tad rather long and badly carried, often 
seen curled over the dog's back, poodle-like." In answering 
his own question "What constitutes a Skye terrier?" his re- 
ply is briefly, "A wee rough-coated, long-backed, short- 
legged, quaint-looking doggie, Highland bred or of High- 
laud descent, being a sine qua now," 
Dogmen are seldom surprised at anything their dogs may 
do, but the following is certainly unique: "The following 
account of the 'vagaries of a dachshund' may be worthy of 
record in the columns of your paper. He has been in the 
habit of disappearing for lengthened periods, extending at 
times to hours, and was at last discovered by the gardener 
lying in front of, with nose and forepaws close to, the nest of 
some wild bees in the ground, to which he had evidently 
tracked the insects; he kills and eats the bees as they arrive, 
presumably laden with honey. After he has destroyed them 
all tie proceeds to dig up the combs, which he likewise de- 
vours; it is almost needless to say that the old dog has be- 
come extremely fat, and his coat is exceedingly sleek, doubt- 
ie.-s uwing to his meliphaguic diet. — W. Henderson, Major 
(Tharto, A. &.), in the Field. 
Lieut. Peat y, who is now in the artcic regions, in a letter to 
Gen. L J. Wistar, President of the Academy of Natural 
Sciences, says that owing to the intense cold and wind expe- 
rienced on the inland ice in his attempt to cross to Independ- 
ence Bay, his pack of Eskimo dogs were practically de- 
stroyed, some ol them freeziug to death, and others were ren- 
dered helpless aud dually inducing in his pack the piblocto 
or dog madness of that region. His experience has taught 
him that the human animal can be so clothed and fed as to 
be unaffected by any degree of cold. What he needs now is 
an exhaustive study of the Eskimo dog and his needs under 
the most try ing circumstances. Here is a case where corn- 
meal cakes might be used to advantage; they are heating 
enough, anyhow. 
We sympathize with the owner of the foxhound Daisy, 
wiuner of first at the Rhode Island show this year. Dr. 
Thurber, in telling of the shocking death of this bitch, says: 
"It is the same old story of the tired dog returning home and 
run down by the diabolical motorman of an electric car. 
The mangled animal dragged herself into a vacant lot at the 
side oi the track, where she lay from 10 A. M. until 4 P. M., 
with both hindlegs torn off- The car passed and repassed 
all this time, aud neither the motorman nor conductor noti- 
fied the owner or any body else, although the bitch's collar 
had the owner's name thereon. A lady who happened to be 
attracted by the actions of her own dog, toot the pains to 
followit, and therelound theiujured one. Daisy was ordered 
to be shot by her owner, Mr. Thatcher, of East Providence. 
The end is not yet." 
When the average motorman of a trolley car holds the life 
of a human being in such light regard that scarcely a day 
passes but that either the death of or severe iuj ury to some- 
one is not related, it seems hopeless to expect these men to 
keep an eye open for a mere dog. Owners of valuable dogs, 
valuable either intrinsically or from associations, as we have 
repeatedly pointed out, should, in cities especially, exercise 
better surveillance over their dogs. Probably more valuable 
dogs have been lost during the past three years through 
being run over by almost noiseless moving electric and cable 
cars than by any other cause. Owners are as a rule careless 
about their dogs unless they own a large kennel and until 
their duty is brought home to them in some such sudden 
manner as the above case indicates they will continue to let 
dogs wander whither they will. An ounce of prevention is 
better than a pound of cure and that is why we again draw 
attention to the duty which a dog owner owes to himself, 
his dog and the community at large. 
New York has its McLin in the form of a man by the name 
of Hurley, who has just been sent to the Island for one month 
for starving a lot of dogs that were either owned by him or 
in his charge. The man lived in a cellar basement and kept 
his dogs in noisome cellar vaults. Complain ts were made by 
the neighbors, and finally President Haines's (of the S. P. C. 
A.) attention was called to the affair, about the middle of 
July. An officer who was sent to the place found a dozen 
dog3 in various stages of starvation and disease. The man 
tried to bluff the officer in several ways, and the latter becom- 
ing exasperated, forced his way into the man's rooms; dp 
dogs were found there, but in another cellar beyond an 
emaciated bull-terrier was found; then in some vaults fur- 
ther hidden from the light, the officer found a Skye terrier 
and a fox-terrier. Determined to seek further, he came 
across a subcellar, but before he could get into this "hole of 
Calcutta," Hurley grappled with him and a rough and 
tumble scrimmage ensued; a bystander interfering, the offi- 
cer was enabled to open the door, when a terrible sight met 
his eye. Eight dogs, chiefly terriers and spaniels, were found 
in a wretched condition. The officer seized an emaciated 
greyhound that, according to a portrait in the New York 
Sun, must have been a most pathetic object. It was nothing 
but skin and bone. The dog was photographed and sent to 
a "vet ," and on the strength of the photo and the "vet. 's" 
evidence a warrant was issued for Hurley's arrest. The dogs 
were taken in charge by the S. P. C. A. and are now on a fair 
road to recovery. There is no clue to their ownership nor is 
Hurley's object known for keeping the dogs in such a terri- 
ble condition. In the photograph of the greyhouiid, the dog 
was shown so thin that he appeared little more than a skele- 
ton partly covered with skin. Flesh there was apparently 
none, and the bones in places were bare; the neck was cov- 
ered with mange. One photo taken by the society suggests 
a mounted mummy in a museum, the ridges of the vertebrse 
showing as though connected only by wires, for the skin was 
so shrunken it does uot appear in tne picture. One month 
seems little enough time to give this man for reflection. 
Reckless Disinfecting. 
Mrs. Williams, who owned the late champion, Old Bur- 
gundy, a \e Skye terrier, raises an interesting question in 
accounting for the death of her dog and the sickness of her 
other dogs since Toronto show. She thinks they were poi- 
soned by the Phenyle powder used at the show, which was 
indiscriminately and too generously thrown into every dog's 
stall. As this stuff contains a good deal of carbolic, the 
idea is that the dogs were made sick or poisoned by absorp- 
tion and through breathing the fine powder. She adds: "My 
other dogs since their return from the show have not been in 
right health at all, and before none of them ever ailed a 
day. After a lot of trouble I managed to get Buccaneer 
and Fanbar into their usual health, but at present 
my fine old fashioned bitch Phumps lies very weakly. I 
feel certain they have suffered from blood-poisoning, as the 
symptoms of all have been the same. I have attended many 
shows in England and never before had a sick dog after a 
show. I saw several dogs at Toronto show looking very 
sickly and 1 knew one gentleman whose dog turned sick quite 
suddenly, and the careless way in which the disinfecting 
powder was used, I quite believe did all the damage." 
There is such a thing as being killed with kindness, and we 
have had occasion several times to draw attention to the 
haphazard manner in which disinfecting powders and 
liquids are thrown around at some of our shows. 
Too often this necessary part of a dog show's 
detail is left to the tender mercies of one of the attendants, 
who probably knows as much about cause and effect in dis- 
infectants as the nearest post. Those who have occasion to 
stay long in dog show buildings know the irritating effect 
some of these disinfectants have on the throat and nasal 
passages, and the poor dogs who are compelled to breathe 
this atmosphere for four days and nights must surely suffer. 
In the Chicago Tribune we find that Justice Bradwell 
took a step in the right direction in the case of the Illinois 
Humane Society against two women who were accused of 
gross cruelty to an Esquimaux dog owned by a Mrs. Mack. 
According to the owner's story the dog was not only a pet 
but on account of the breed was valued at $500. The defen- 
dants, July 6, decoyed her dog into their house, swathed its 
tail in cotton cloth, saturated it witn kerosene oil, and set it 
on lire, having in the meantime removed it to the street and 
pointed its head to the south. The poor tortured animal ran 
in the direction of Washington street, where, the firemen in 
the engine house near the corner turned out and extinguished 
the flames. The dog was fatally injured and had to be 
killed a day or two ago, but it was taken to the Justice's 
office last week for him to see before continuing the case. 
The outrage was proved by many witnesses, and, there 
being no defense, the Justice inflicted a fine of $100 on each 
of the defendants. There have been several cases of gross 
cruelty to dogs in Chicago during the past summer, but we 
believe this is the first conviction. A sojourn in Joliet 
prison would have been a more fitting punisnment. 
The following yarn has penetrated even to the Emerald 
Isle and the Irish Sportsman: "A New York girl, who 
found herself a penniless orphan, after having lived in lux- 
ury, obtained the means of malcing a good livelihood by 
combing, brushing and exercising the dogs of her acquaint- 
ances for a dollar a week each. Others folio wed herexample, 
and it is now said that there are over a hundred young 
women in New York who make a very snug income in this 
way. They wash the faces and paws of the pet dogs, brush 
and comb them, give them their breakfast, and then take 
them for an hour's constitutional." How nice. 
Bloodhounds, or so-called bloodhounds, are being used to 
good purpose in these days of train robberies and bank 
nold-ups. At a place near Indianapolis, Ind., last week, a 
bank was rilled and the robbers decamped to the hills. 
Dogs were used in their pursuit. One of the robbers was 
badly wounded and tried to hide, but the hounds nosed him 
out aud he is now a prisoner. We should say that it would 
be one of the first duties of the new Bloodhound Club to 
communicate with bomeof these western and southern sher- 
iffs aud place the real bloodhounds in their charge to be 
used for man trailing. The hounds' old functions would be 
kept up and if their superiority to the native hound is 
proved, as many claim, a great incentive would be given to 
a grand old breed that is scarcely appreciated as itshould be. 
On the controversy over the correct carriage of collie ears 
Hugh Dalziel has this to say in a letter to the BrUistu 
Fancier: "Whatever 'the consensus of expert opinion' may 
be, nature does not place the collie's ears right on the top of 
the head, as shown in so many of the otherwise admirable 
portraits you have published. How modern expert opinion 
justifies the forward drop of the tips of the ears, with their 
base apparently growing out of the occiput, I have yet to 
learn. Of course 'fanciers' may cultivate whatever abnor- 
malities they please. So full of shapes is fancy that it alone 
is highly fantastical, but some of the prize winners of late 
years are a libel on the Scottish collie." And Segusian this 
week bears out our remarks in last week's Forest and 
Stream when he says: "How many noted prize winners can 
be named who were at one time prick-eared? The carriage 
of ear 'drop forward' is as artificial as the 'modern notions' 
that we see promulgated in some English papers, and it is 
about time Scotsmen were speaking up and stopping this 
blether." 
This is only what we might expect from our esteemed and 
just contemporary: 
When we recently drew our American contemporaries' attention to 
their awkward babit of naming journals in Roman letters instead of 
italics, we omitted to except Forest and Stream, which invariably 
follows the English custom. — Stock-Keeper QEng ) 
Mr. J. L. Winchell, the mastiff and bloodhound breeder, 
has been staying in New York for a few days, and of course 
dropped in to have a dog chat. He told us that the blood- 
hound fancy is making great strides in popularity, and that 
he cannot raise puppies to fill the demand. The Southern 
and Western sheriffs are beginning to take more interest in 
the breed as man trailers, and recently Mr. Winchell sold 
two pairs that will be trained for this purpose in Kentucky. 
We had a talk about small ears and other funny points in 
mastiffs, but this will keep for another time, when we tackle 
that question as to whether a mastiff's ears can be too small. 
Mr. Wiuchell recently sent us a picture of Burgundy, the 
bloodhound, that Mr. Brough said was the best he ever saw 
or expectpd to see again. From the picture he must have 
been a beautiful and noble animal. The popular idea is that 
bloodhound puppies are difficult to raise, delicate, and so on. 
Mr. Winchell in telling his experience said that they require 
constant care and attention and good food, but that, like 
turkeys, when once well started they were hardy dogs. He 
has raised ten out of a litter of eleven born last March, and 
they promise to be very good ones. As to the bloodhound's 
reported viciousness, he treats that as all mooushine, the 
ODly time he ever saw any bloodhound cross was when some 
one blew into old Victor's face and he resented it — and we 
don't blame him. 
Those who read Mr. Stoddard's letter in another column, 
wherein he takes exception to Mr. Wells's statement that 
Tick Boy chased in the Manitoba field trials, will recognize 
the sportsmanlike tone in which it is written. The change 
from the usual blustering know-all-better-than-the-judge 
style of those letters that come to us after the field trials, is 
. so welcome that we cannot refrain from calling attention to 
it. The tyro in field trial work will also derive instruction 
from its perusal, as it shows how carefully each movement 
of the dogs should be weighed and the deductions from their 
actions be made, not forgetting a point which is so often 
lost sight of in field work — the point from which the wiud 
comes. 
Mr. Edward Booth writes us from his home in Hull, Eng- 
land, that the dog world over there seems very quiet, but 
there are as many good dogs as ever, especially in St. Ber- 
nards. After a trip to Hamburg and Berlin, Germany, he 
expects to visit the Kennel Club show at the Crystal Palace, 
London, and promises Forest and Stream a few impres- 
sions of the show that are sure to be interesting. He closes 
his letter with the news of the death on Oct. 2 of Mr. Mark 
Gretton, the veteran Skye terrier fancier of Hull. He at one 
time owned the famous drop-eared Skye champion Sam. 
The terrier show, with an entry of 244, must have ex- 
ceeded the most sanguiue anticipations of its promoters and 
we trust that the tnterprise of the N. E. K. C. will meet 
with its reward iu a "gate" of large dimensions, and that 
the clerk of the weather will be in his best mood. The num- 
ber of entries in each breed is as follows: Bull-terriers 14, 
Boston terriers 22, fox-terriers 123, Dandie Dinmont terriers 
10, Bedlington terriers 2, Scottish terriers 43, Irish terriers 
23, black aud tan terriers 4, Skye terriers 2, Yorkshire terriers 
1; total 244. Fox-terriers naturally are the strongest classes, 
and it is safe to say that competition will be very strong. 
Classes 22a and 22c have been divided both by r sex and coat, 
and class 22b by sex, owing to the liberal support in these 
classes. 
Mr. T. Farrer Rackham, of East Orange, N. J., is doing 
the Southern circuit of poultry shows, several of which have 
added a dog department to their attractions. There is to be 
a show at Macon, Ga , Nov. 6 .to 18, and Mr, Rackham will 
judge all classes, as he did at Richmond (Va.j show, which 
took place Oct. 9 to 14. 
Albany is becoming quite a busy center of dogdom, and 
Mr. T. S. Bellin has been particularly active lately. He has 
just sold to Mr. Frank F. Dole the latelyimported tmll-terrier 
dog Greenhill Nunthorpe, E. K. C. S. B. (37112), winner of 
eight first prizes during the past two years at the principal 
shows in England. To Mr. T. S. Craig, Albany, N. Y., Mr. 
Bellin has sold another bull-terrier recently imported This 
is Amazement, winner second Birmingham, first St. Helens, 
third Liverpool and other prizes. Mr. A. A. ivlacdonald, of 
Toronto, Ont , also purchased from Mr. Belliu the wire-haired 
fox-terrier bitch Carlisle Jess, of Cribbage, Tack and Picker- 
ing Nailer blood. Mr. Bellin also intends to stir up the Irish 
terrier fancy a bit, for he has imported the young Irish ter- 
rier Marion Shamruck b,> Ballyfolly, by Ben IV. (late Bump- 
tious Ben) dam Brighteye, litter sister to champion Brickbat. 
Marton Shamrock has won thirteen prizes and specials at 
seven shows in England, beating the well-known Firefly, 
Heywood Conn, Tornada, Red Enamel, Baron Dunluce, etc. 
The Scottish Kennel . Club show has just taken place at 
Edinburgh. There were about 1,500 entries, and the quality 
is said to have been excellent. 
Another bulldog match is on the tapis. This one is ex- 
pected to be between Mr. Geo. Raper's much-criticised and 
much belauded Rustic Phenomenon and another heavy, Mr. 
Oliver's Save Monarch. This dog is 31bs. under the stipu- 
lated 551bs. and this constitutes tne difference between the 
owners at present. 
Dr. Lougest's son-in-law has been over in England some 
time picking up some new bloodhounds for the Doctor. He 
will alBO bring back a bloodhound bitch that has been in 
training for a year and of whom great things are expected as 
a man trailer. 
Mr. "Dick" Merrill, the noted trap shot of Milwaukee, has 
just returned from a two weeks' hunt in North Dakota. He 
had good sport in finding chijkens and grouse in good num 
bers, but tne duck shooting was not up to the mark, owing 
to the extreme dryness of the season. He writes: "I wish 
you could have been out with me and I would have given 
you some sport with the grouse over Paul Bo." (Paul Bo, it 
must be remembered won his spurs at the Central Trials in 
'91, when he beat Maid^of Kent for the absolute winner's race 
in the All-Age Stake.) "I have some very promising young- 
sters sired by him out of a Count Noble bitch, and they are 
to go for next year's Derby. I also have a "fine Strideaway — 
Hope II. pup, and will soon send him away to be prepared 
