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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Deo. 15, 1894. 
POINTS AND FLUSHES. 
[By a Staff Correspondent.} 
I NOTICED in our bright contemporary, Sports Afield, a 
most interesting article on the scenting powers of the dog, 
written by the sound and practical writer Mr. J. B. Stod- 
dard. It is specially apropos at this time when breeders 
heed but little other than pedigree and black, white and tan 
color as the standards to breed to. Who ever heard a 
breeder ask if the sire was physically strong, sound and in- 
telligent? But to return. Mr. Stoddard, in his article 
entitled "Brains vs. Nose," writes as follows: 
During a conversation at the Manitoba field trials, Capt. McMurdo 
remarked to me that it was his opinion that there was not so much 
difference in the noses of dogs as in the brains behind them— the lat- 
ter organ being the directing power. 
This has long been my own opinion, One of the first dogs trained 
by me, some years ago, was one of the best I ever saw, and yet I had 
ample evidence that his nose was not of the best. The dog's intelli- 
fence. however, was such that he made what was really a poor organ 
o better service than a dog with less intelligence could possibly have 
done. 
One often hears the remark made of a dog that he has too much 
nose. Nothing is further from the truth, He has too little brain or 
the convolutions are not deep enough — the dog simply lacks intelli- 
gence to use his smelling power, and a nose less keen would handicap 
him the more. It is the dog's nose which tells him that he is crossing 
the trail of game, but it is his intelligence which informs him whether 
he is in close proximity to the game or not, whether he is following a 
back trail, and how to make his casts in order to locate the quarry. 
Tou will frequently hear the remark, "He is a great finding 
dog 1 '— the other dog may run faster and range wider, but number one 
finds nearly all the game. Simply another illustration of brains. The 
finding dog has the better quality of brain matter; he is enabled to 
concentrate his mind on his work for a greater length of time, and the 
results are a larger number of birds pointed. 
How very important it is, then, in selecting breeding stock, to know 
just what we are doing? Breed for brains; an animal with it can be 
educated, but without it very little can be expected. The country is- 
overrun with dogs bred from a brother or sister of some noted dog. 
The fact is advertised and made much of that "Dude is a full brother 
to champion Worker," and people who are novices in breeding or who 
do not stop to think, are induced to breed to, or buy stock from, a dog 
that may be intrinsically worthless. 
There is another side to this question that is very often overlooked 
In the rush to get something related to some celebrated dog, viz,, the 
dam's side. The mother I consider the most important factor in 
breeding; she undoubtedly has more to do with the character and 
quality of the offspring than the sire; she brings them into the world 
and cares for them tor several weeks, and the puppies learn a great 
deal from her; so it follows that, if the bitch is a level-headed, quiet, 
sensible dog, the puppies will partake of the same characteristics. 
In breeding for intelligence — which means power to direct the nose in 
finding game — we should not, as a matter of course, overlook the 
other important factors in a dog's make-up— form, constitution, size, 
etc. It is said that dogs come in all shapes, but it has been my 
observation that most, good ones are of good physical formation, and 
nearly all are of medium size. The constitution is of great import- 
ance, as, without the ability to withstand fatigue, the dog is of very 
little value. 
It is to be regretted that Mr. Stoddard does nor write more 
for the instruction of sportsmen than he does. It is not gen- 
erally known that he was a student in medicine and has a 
vast fund of general knowledge to draw on. A close and in- 
telligent observer, he draws true conclusions. If such prac- 
tical men as he would but write on the live subjects of sport- 
ing matters, it would do much toward dispelling many false 
theories connected with them. 
Those Slaughtered Eskimo Dcgs. 
From a personal letter from Mr. Thomas Johnson of Win- 
nipeg I take the following spirited excerpt. It is good, both 
for its earnest denunciation of the killing of the team of 
Eskimo dogs for the trivial purpose of exhibiting it and for 
the spirit of poesy which he infuses into his writings. He 
says: 
I was pleased to read your pertinent remarks re the de- 
stroying of the Eskimo dogs by the Manitoba Government 
for exhibition purposes at the World's Fair. It was a das- 
tardly, brutal and inhuman act. 
"'When you consider what useful dogs they are — in fact 
they are thought more of than horses in the far North— the 
act will be regretted by those who have a spark of sympathy 
in their composition. Read Capt. Butler's "Winter Journey 
in the Wild NorthLands with Dogs." Read of his dog Oerg- 
Vola which he renamed "Untiring." He not only pulls him 
all day but when night comes you find him — 
"There, stretched upon tne snowdrift, 
Before the pine log's glare. 
Thy master's couch and supper 
With welcome thou wilt share. 
To rest. Unless some prowling wolf 
Should keep thee watchful still, 
While lonely through the midnight sounds 
His wail upon the hill.' 
"When such a dog acts as a beast of burden in the day 
and at night protects his master from the attacks of wild, 
animals and Bhows in many wayswhat a wonderful creature 
he is, does it not seem cruel to think his end — poison — for 
exhibition purposes. 
"But Capt. Butler, who traveled in that land of stillness 
so little known even to-day, a land with rivers 2,000 miles in 
length, with lakes said to be as large, if not larger, than any 
on, this continent except Lake Superior; with forests yet 
untouched, as large as Europe; with thousands of miles of 
the richest land on this earth and 400,000 square miles of 
sterile, treeless wilds wherein the musk-ox is plentiful and 
caribou are in countless thousands, a land that in a portion 
of the year knows no night; and yet to-day, with the excep- 
tion of one break of less than 200 miles, yon can buy a ticket 
and travel by steam from any part of the world — and who 
can wonder that after a dog had shared with him the vicissi- 
tudes of such a trip, that he exclaimed: 
'Old dog, they say thou hast no life 
Beyond this earth of ours, 
That toil and truth give thee no place 
Amidst Elysian bowers. 
'Ah well, e'en so, /look for thee 
When all our danger's past, 
That on some hearth-rug far at home 
Thou'lt rest thy limbs at last'." 
Gleason's Mange] Dip. 
When in Dakota I saw a barrel filled with Gleason's mange 
dip. It was so highly commended that I obtained the recipe. 
The dog is soused bodily into the dip. Mr. W. W. Titus gave 
it to me as follows: 
"Take one can Lewis's lye. Put it into a gallon stone jar. 
Add two cupf uls of soft water, using the empty lye cup for a 
measure. 
"Have ready 41bs. of flour of sulphur. Add to the lye solu- 
tion enough to make it the consistency of thick mortar. 
"Have a barrel one-half to two-thirds full of soft water. 
Pour into it the sulphur-lye mixture. 
"If the mange is severe and needs heroic treatment, add 
12oz. of sulphurous acid to the bath. 
"Renew every ten days throughout. Dash old mixture 
about infected places." 
There was a good attendance of trainers at the E. F. T. 
Club's trials. Many" of them will be in the competition again 
in January and February. 
Mr. Horace Smith, Monroe, N. C, returned to his home 
and expects to be in evidence at the trials in Mississippi. 
That will be his debut in the West. 
Mr, Luke White returns to Thomasville, N. C, where he 
will train during the winter. 
Messrs. Rose, Avent and Tucker returned to their homes in 
Tennessee. 
Mr. J. B. Stoddard will remain at Newton, N. C, for a 
while, then may take a flight southward, where game is 
abundant and the weather is good. He has room in his ken- 
nel for a dog or two to train this winter. 
Mr. John White returned to Thomasville. 
Newton Notes. 
Several sportsmen remained after the trials to enjoy the 
quail shooting in the vicinity of Newton. The shooting 
thereabouts is really all that any one could desire. However, 
the land owners are not always so obliging as one could wish. 
Still, if the sportsman was one of the land owners, he might 
view the question from the same standpoint as the land 
owner. There is really no just cause of complaint when the 
land owner wants to kill the birds himself or doesn't want 
them killed at all. Nevertheless there was abundant ground 
left over which sportsmen could kill and miss to their heart's 
content. 
Prof. Osthaus remained at Newton to shoot during a few 
days. He was also at work on some portraits of Mr. Loril- 
lard's dogs, and the portraits are marvels of artistic skill. 
He had finished a portrait, too, of Sandy Gladstone, for Mr. 
S. Murray Mitchell. I was fortunate in seeing the photo- 
graph of , one of Prof. Osthaus's paintings, a kennel scene, 
representing the dogs grouped about the gate at which on 
the outside was the kennel man. Each dog had a most 
realistic individuality and character. One or two younger 
dogs were all eagerness and had their forefeet against the 
kennel gate, while the older dogs stood looking on sedately, 
knowing that the visit of the kennel man had no special im- 
portance. It is a Southern scene as shown by the trees laden 
with Spanish moss, Mr. Fred. A. Hodgman, of New York, 
also remained to shoot after . the trials. Messrs. Wm. H. 
Schieffelin and Wm. Jay Schieffelin, of New York, arrived 
on Friday, after the trials, to enjoy the shooting. 
The Selling Stake. 
Objections have been made to the test of the dogs in the 
Selling Stake as follows: 
That, as it purported to be for shooting dogs, the test was 
not made on a shooting basis. 
That the dogs were not shot over as in actual shooting. 
That birds were not killed over them and consequently the 
dogs were not tested in retrieving. 
That the dogs were not worked alone, as in actual shooting. 
That the whole test was competitive, and not a test for 
practical service. 
I present the objections for such consideration as they may 
merit. 
Following is the form of the certificate: 
EASTERN FIELD TRIALS 189 . 
This is to certify, that the 
sire...... dam, 
years old, Registered No... , while running in the 
EASTERN SELLING STAKE 
showed the necessary qualities of a good shooting dog. 
Owner, Handler,..,., 
Judges Pres. 
, Sec'y. 
If the Selling Stake is adopted as a permanent field trial 
feature, it seems to me that, to carry out more fully the 
intent of the stake, the club should amplify its scope so that 
the dogs when running would be subject to every-day shoot- 
ing conditions. It is, moreover, reasonable to assume that 
greater interest would be excited in it if sportsmen who 
contemplated purchasing were, in a general way, invited to 
be present and to shoot over such dogs as pleased their 
fancy. 
A Selling Stake is not of much interest if no buyers are 
present, and buyers will not be present if there are no induce- 
ments for them above the commonplace. B. WATERS. 
Brighton Tobe and International Field Trials. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
In your report of the International field trials held at 
Mitchell's Bay, Ont., your reporter seems to have seen 
things differently from the judges. It might not be out of 
place to state things briefly as they saw them, in some of the 
heats he particularly refers to, in which Brighton Tobe was 
concerned, as it is not at all unuatural for a person who 
has a brother running dogs to feel rather favorably toward 
them. 
Tobe was first put down with Toledo Bee. After beating 
out a slashing they were cast over a fence into a cornfield, 
Tobe having decidedly the best of it in range, speed and 
quartering, and roaded and pointed a covey well inside the 
fence. On being flushed the birds scattered over the fence 
into another slashing and were immediately followed. This 
was the most difficult piece of ground any dogs were worked 
on during the trials on account of so many brush piles and 
fallen timber. Here Tobe pointed birds successively, and in 
one instance while pointing in a brush pile Toledo Bee swung 
around the end of a log beside where he was pointing, and 
the birds flushed. Next heat Tobe went down with Cleo- 
patra. After ranging out a cornfield they were cast into 
a piece of woods. Cleo immediately pointed a ruffed grouse, 
Tobe backing steadily. On going through the woods to a 
large stubble field Tobe was held till Cleo, who was still in 
the woods, could be brought up. On being cast off Tobe at 
once showed his great superiority in speed, dash, ranging, 
quartering and independence of getting out and staying out. 
On the edge of a field both dogs were puzzling on a hot scent 
when birds flushed, caused, I imagined, by the people who 
were very close to the dogs. The birds flew back into the 
woods from where we had just come, and were followed on 
the opposite side of the woods. Cleo flushed a bevy, and 
shortly afterward another bird flushed suspiciously near her. 
Tobe next pointed by a brush pile by which lay a large log. 
On coming up to the pile Cleo flushed a bird, then went on 
and flushed two more within a few yards of the first, Tobe 
remaining still until ordered on. They were soon afterward 
ordered up. Where Tobe flushed a bird in the heat I am at 
a loss to know, as neither of the other judges nor myself saw 
it. I saw a bird get up in some weeds outside in the field, 
but no dog was near it to flush it. Tobe was in the weeds 
and I imagined it got up by the noise he made going through, 
as it was driven in there some time previous and had become 
restless. My opportunity for seeing this was quite equal to 
any one. 
Luke and Dock were then put down in the same field Tobe 
and Cleo had been brought from. Both went off well, Luke 
the faster and going wider; nothing more was found in the 
fields, and returning to the woods Luke pointed a covey very 
well, Dock backing steadily. On the birds being flushed their 
direction was taken, but after a diligent search none were 
pointed, though this was neither an extensive nor a thick 
piece of woods, and two, at least, if not three bevies had been 
driven into it. On leaving the woods two more fields were 
tried, both dogs going well, Luke the best, but nothing was 
found and they were taken up. In the heat between Luke and 
Dash Antonia, the birds found were in what had one time 
been a sluice, the bottom of which was now dry and sparsely 
covered with very short grass, the sides only having a 
fringing of weeds not exceeding a few yards in width in 
many places; in this place Luke held a point well whilo 
Dash went in after first pointing the covey. Several of th 
birds on being flushed went a short distance only, droppin 
into the fringe of weeds; here Luke made two more points 
on single birds. We thought the side of the sluice on which 
those points were made, owing to the narrow, slight fringe 
just affording a shelter for the birds, the easiest to find point 
birds in of any place where the dogs were run during the 
trials, and that was proved by later visits to the same spot 
with other dogs. Whereas the place where Tobe made his 
single points, equally as many, was the hardest place the dogs 
were put in during the trials. How singular that points 
made by Dock in the same slashing should be so mentioned 
over those made by Tobe in the same place on birds that had 
been followed directly after being flushed outside? 
On being put down for the final run off Tobe showed so 
much superiority over Luke in dash, speed, ranging and in- 
dependence as to be a very poor companion for the latter, 
which had simply met what we thought a superior dog to 
himself in almost every quality, and we fail to see wherein 
Luke's opportunity for finding birds was not in every way 
quite equal to that of Tobe. So far as Nellie and Dock were 
concerned, I did not think a prettier brace ran at the trials 
than Nellie and Beppo's Maid. Maid's work in the same slash- 
ing as Dock's was not excelled for style and ranging by any- 
thing done at the trials; their behavior and manner of quar- 
tering out a field with good speed left little to be desired, 
and it was only by superior dash and range— their other 
qualities being so nearly equal — that Nellie finally got the 
verdict. It was a most unfavorable day for pointers and 
Maid became a little chilled from the wet, rank weeds 
toward the end of the heat, and did not go out as well as her 
competitor, who showed more dash and range. 
John Davidson. 
Monroe, Mich., Nov. 18_ 
Editor Forest and Stream; 
I cannot refrain from taking exception to your report of 
the International field trials. Though I am opposed to 
newspaper controversies in general I think it would be doing 
an injustice to your readers, the dogs and their owners if 
your report was passed by without comment. There seems 
to be a somewhat unwholesome desire pervading your report 
to enshrine one or two dogs in a halo of glory and criticise 
others too severely and unjustly. In the first place, your 
report of the heat between my own bitch Monk's Fanny and 
Cleopatra states that the latter having started off with "her 
usual joyful vivacity" (omitting to state, however, any- 
thing about her running in to her handler, though she 
surely did it frequently enough to have attracted your re- 
porter's attention), and "nailed a brace under a log" that 
Fanny when brought up to back refused, which is utterly 
untrue, as Fanny backed promptly the instant she saw 
Cleopatra on point and she was credited with a back by the 
judges. Your reporter must therefore be either willfully 
stating what he knows to be untrue or he has adopted the 
suggestion of some interested person (who has evidently 
little regard for the truth) as to what transpired, he not 
having seen the same himself. 
In describing the heat between Cleopatra and Brighton 
Tobe in the second series, your reporter also evinces a very 
strong desire to condone the offenses and is much more 
lenient in commenting on the work than he would be, I 
venture to say, had some other dogs in the same stake made 
as many mistakes. I watched this heat myself with a good 
deal of interest, and I must say I think Cleopatra did not 
distinguish herself very hugely, but on the contrary, made 
more repeated flushes and her performance on birds was 
more discreditable than that of any dog in the stake; and 
yet your reporter deals very gently with her and is very 
lukewarm in his praise of Tobe's work, which was really a 
high-class performance, far excelling that of any dog in the 
stake. Your report says that Cleopatra nailed a grouse in 
good style, but strange to say never mentions that Cleopatra 
jumped at the bird and pulled a mouthful of feathers oat of 
him, and yet another reporter evidently saw the little episode 
and thought it worthy of comment. Tobe did not flush a 
single, as your report says, while Cleopatra ran right on top 
of a single (shortly after she roaded and ran in on a bevy) 
that your reporter evidently did not attach much import- 
ance to, though she ran right on top of the bird in an open 
wheatfield and the bird got up within a foot of her nose. 
Your reporter then undertakes to tell the judges that they 
erred in placing Tobe over Luke, and that they should have 
been reversed. Now, Mr. Editor, while Luke impressed me 
as quite a good dog and deserving the place he got, he is not 
in the same class with the winner at all; he cannot compare 
with Tobe in speed, he cannot go fast enough to make Tobe 
extend himself, nor was there any dog in the stake that can 
force Tobe out. As to Tobe's quartering, I think it was all 
that could be desired; he ranged fast and very wide, and, 
moreover, was obedient to every signal from his handler, 
answering promptly and cheerfully every call that was made 
on him, which is more than can be said of some other dogs in 
the stake. I failed to see the doubtful work your reporter 
imputes to Tobe or notice that his range was erratic. The 
bevy that Cleopatra flushed and he says Tobe should have 
pointed, Tobe was never close enough to have pointed, he 
having been cast to the left by hi3 handler; so surely this was 
not one of his missed opportunities. Your report credits 
Tobe with a flush he did not make, but your synopsis of the 
heat does not mention when it occurred. 
There are other inaccuracies in your report, but I dislike to 
prolong this discussion or further encroach upon your valu- 
able space. I could not help thinking, however, your 
reporter is prejudiced, evidently having a much keener 
appreciation of the virtues of Cleopatra and Luke than the 
judges or any one else, and that it would be doing an injus- 
tice to other competitors and to your readers, who would 
surely draw erroneous conclusions, taking your reporter as a 
criterion, as to the merits of the dogs, and would be at a loss 
to reconcile your report with that of others if your report 
should pass without comment. It is, I think, a coincidence 
worthy of note that both Cleopatra and Luke, who appear to 
be such prime favorites with your reporter, both belong to 
one man — Mr. Wells. 
It only remains for me to say that the remarks I have made 
regarding Tobe's running were prompted purely by a desire 
to see him get full credit for his laurels and wipe out, if pos- 
sible, the injustice your report has done to one of the best, if 
not the very best, dogs .that has ever honored our country. 
I thank you for your valuable space. 
H. Marshall Greydon. 
London, Ont., N ov. 23, 
United States Field Trials Club Meeting. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
The annual meeting of the IT. S. F. Club for the purpose of 
electing a board of governors and the transaction of such 
other business as may legally come before it, will be held at 
AVest Point, Miss., Wednesday evening, Jan. 23, 1895. Mem- 
bers who will not be able to attend will please send their 
proxy to me, naming the member whom they desire to rep- 
resent them. P. T. Madison, Sec.-Treas. 
Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. 8. 
Champion Old Burgundy. 
Dear Old Burgundy, king of Slrye dog racel 
"Tis hard to lose thee, hard to fill thy place, 
My faithful friend! yea, prized at every show, 
I weep for thee, and strive to bear the blow, 
No more shah I entwine thy silken hair 
Or comb thy glossy coat with tender care, 
No more in England wilt thou gain repute, 
My champion I almost human— though a brute! 
Charlottesville, Va. Mrs. E. M. Williams, 
