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was at length wisely concluded to adopt all the recommenda- 
tions in toto, on the basis that they were 1 all good things, which 
wouldn't need any pushing along. One phrase of these resolu- 
tions, taken up by Mr. R. S. Mott, was the nearest approach to 
national action if anything offered. Mr. Mott's motion was 
to the effect that the executive committee should be instructed 
to take the necessary steps to memoralize Congress to take 
action in accordance with the suggestions of the recommenda- 
tions adopted. This was made of record. Several letters from 
absent State officers were read. There was much aimless dis- 
cussion, as is usual in such meetings, but the intentions of those 
present were no doubt siucere for the most part. We could well 
report that such meetings must so often take on the phase of a 
debating school, when so much remains to be done by way of 
practical work. State Warden Blow, of Illinois, talked at 
leugtk upon theoretical and practical phases of protection. 
E. Hough. 
he MetmeL 
FIXTURES. 
DOG SHOWS. 
Feb 19 to 22— New Yobe.— W. K., C, Jas. Mortimer. Supt. 
Feb. 26 to March 1— Detboit,— City of tne Straits K. O, J. w. Garri- 
son, Sec'y. 
Marcli 5 to 8— CHIOAGO.— Mascoutah K. O, J. L. Lincoln. Sec'y. 
March 12 to 15— Denver.— Western T£. C. Co., E. 'f . Weiant, Sec'y. 
May 7 to 10.— SAN Francisco, CaL— Pacific Kennel Cluh. 
FIELD TRIALS. 
Jan. 14. — Salinas, Gal.— Pacific Coast F. T. 0. 
Jan. 21.— West Point. Miss.— United States F. T. 0.. Trials B., P. T. 
Madison, Sec'y. 
Feb. -6.— NEW ALBANY, Miss.— Southern E. T. C, T. M. Brumby, 
Marietta, Ga., Sec'y. 
Sept. iu. — MOBBIS, Man.— Manitoba F. T. C, John Woolton, Manitou, 
Sec'y. 
The Specialty Clubs and the W.iK. C. Show. 
The different specialty clubs which make a point of doing 
their best for the W. K. O. Show have again provided a valuable 
and varied list of specials. The Mastiff Club sets forth an array 
of plate and medals valuedat over $900, and the club's generosity 
Bhould. meet with a better response from exhibitors than is 
usually the case. The St. Bernard Club donates the usual silver 
medals, and their offerings, considering the importance and 
popularity of the breed, pale considerably by comparison- with 
other clubs which, though not so well taken care of in the 
regular prize list nor so generally popular, are much more 
enterprising and generous. 
* The Westminster Challenge cup, which Mr. Moore has won 
twice, and which if he wins once more he can claim as his 
personal property, is not offered in the premium list, nor are 
the ReralO, medals, which lapses, may, we trust, be merely the 
result of oversight. The new Bloodhound Club makes its bow 
with an encouraging list, their handsome challenge trophy being 
supplemented by gold medals which follow the winners in the 
regular classes. The two Great Dane Clubs have done nothing 
so far, and the National Greyhound Club does not seem to be in 
a generous mood, not even one of their handsome medals being 
put up. 
Considering the popularity and importance in every way of 
the pointer, and setter breeds, one would expect to find the clubs 
that are intended to help these breeds, represented by an array 
of specials second to none, and it would seem that, if the Pointer 
Englishand IriBh Setter clubs are not willing to do more than 
they are doing now they had better dissolve and give way to 
individual effort as in past years, wheu valuable specials were 
offered by iriends ot the breeds which gave rise to no end of 
friendly competition and excited interest. The Gordon Setter 
Club.with its very limited resources, and considering the position 
of the Gordon in public favor, deserves credit for its efforts, for 
six specials of $5 each are provided besides a $100 silver vase. 
"Hoav are the mighty fallen I" one cannot help exclaiming 
when, on turning to the first catalogue of the W. K, C. Show, we 
find special prizes given by lovers of the pointer and setter 
aggregating iu value over $1,500, and most of these prizes had 
no string attached but were won out and out at the first try. We 
understand, of course, that pointers and setters at that time 
were the most important breeds, but does not the present 
interest in the breeds as shown by the special lists prove the 
splendid enterprise of the owners of the non-sporting breeds and 
the decadence of such enterprise on the part of the pointer and 
setter men. For instance, there waB not a special offered for 
mastiffs, St. Bernards, bulldogs, spaniels, collies or fox terriers 
at the show in 1877. The Spaniel Club, as usual, comes well to 
the front with prizes valued at $365. The Collie Club, with its 
trophies and cups valued at $650, not to mention the Stud Dog 
medal and the valuable annual sweepstakes, shows that this 
breed is well taken cure of. Then the Bulldog Club, which 
really has done so much for the breed it fosters, puts up an 
array of trophies valued at $650 in addition to the handsome 
club medals. The youug Boston Terrier Club offers four $5 
specials, open to all, as well as a $10 special confined to club 
competition. 
Although the Fox Ferrier Club does not announce its 
specials in the premium list, this healthy and vigorous club will 
be sure to have lots of work provided for the judge when the 
catalogue is published. The different rough terrier breeds seem 
to be content with the W. K. C. $20 kennel prize, but friends of 
tlieBe breeds, who should amalgamate and form a Terrier Club will 
probably put up something for their pets before the show opens. 
The Pet Dog Club seems to be resting on its oars as far as the 
premium list is concerned. Dachshunds depend upon the 
Manice Challenge Cup, value $250, and the W. K. C. Kennel 
prize, and a piece of silver plate is the extent of the Beagle Club's 
offering, but this club generally distributes its favors to other 
shows during the season. From the foregoing it will be seen 
there is ample food for thought on the subject of specialty clubs 
and their value to the breeds they represent. 
The A. K. C. and Its Disqualified Members. 
At the last A. K. C. meeting, notice was given by Mr. Wat- 
son, of a proposed rule that would prescribe disqualification 
by the A. K. C. for exhibitors who happened to exhibit dogs at 
shows where an exhibitor disqualified by the A. K. C. was 
allowed to compete. While the A. K. C. evidently had some 
such rule in mind in order to make their penalty of disqualifica- 
tion more severely felt by the unlucky one that had incurred it, 
such wholesale and uncalled-for legislation struck them as too 
general. The committee on rules met subsequently and dis- 
cussed the question in all its phases, but could come to no 
definite decision until the secretary proposed the following rule, 
which was unanimously adopted by the committee, subject, of 
course, to its endorsement by the delegates to the A. K. C. : 
to be begtjlation IX. 
"In the event of any persons or club, not a member of the American 
Kennel Club, holding a ■now at whioh the entry of any person not 
eligible to make entries at American Kennel Club Bhows is accepted or 
who may be permitted to show dogs or act as agent for any other 
exhibitor, and officiate in any capacity at the ehow, every person 
officially connected with such show shall at once be suspended by 
order of the president and deprived of all privileges of the American 
Kennel Club, pending the holding of the next meeting of the Executive 
or Advisory Committees, at which meeting the committee must either 
remove the suspension or impose a penalty of disqualification for such 
period as they may deolde upon." 
One can quite understand that those'in power in A. K. C. 
affairs desire to make their penalty of disqualification as far 
reaching as possible, still the question naturally arises, what 
business has the A. K. C. to ihteref ere with men who give a 
show outside of their jurisdiction? If this rule becomes an A. 
K, C. law, a person disqualified by the A. K. C. cannot even 
handle a dog at any show held in America. It would be well 
for the A. K. C. to consider carefully every phase of this ques- 
tion before making such a sweeping and arbitrary rule. The 
A. K, C. practically controls all the principal shows held in 
this country from Maine to California, and in them uo dis- 
qualified exhibitors may participate iu auy capacity. 
Is this penalty not severe enough without seeking to render 
innocent meu liable for another mau's A. K. C. crimes? In 
the event of passing this rule, the A. K. C. will have to keep 
track of all the entries at shows held iu the country, but the 
disqualified exhibitors can easily get around the difficulty by 
showing their dogs in another name. But outside of this con- 
tingeucy, the rule, while better than the oiij first proposed, is 
arbitrary and uncalled for. There are several small shows 
given in this country by Fair Associations and other people 
who hpve no idea of or affinity with A. K. C. jurisdiction, and 
over whom the A. EL. C. can have no control whatever and 
therefore what business has the A, K. O. to seek to bring these 
people into disrepute, as a sentence of disqualification would in 
a sense? Let the A. K. C. be content to legislate for its own 
members and let the other part of the world jog along as it 
may. Even the English Eenuel Club has not sought to extend 
its arbitrary powers in this direction and if the A. K. C. is well 
advised they will let well enough alone. The question arises in 
this connection whether shows _have the power to refuse any 
entry when accompanied by the proper fees. This new rule 
may be, aimed at the Toronto Fair Association, which last 
year allowed an A. K. C. disqualified exhibitor to compete at 
their show. On the committee of this show are meu who are 
valuable in the fancy and against whom there is no breath of 
suspicion of wrong doing, still if this rule passes these men, 
who are personally every bit as worthy of the confidence of 
their fellow fanciers as the President of the A. K. C- himself, if 
they allow this disqualified exhibitor to compete at their next 
show, will be branded as wrong doers and their names will be 
included in the black list that is sent to every A. K. C. show 
committee on application. The proposed rule should be killed 
at the first opportunity. 
The W. K. C. Premium L&st. 
The advance sheets of the W. K. C. premium Jist were received 
too late last week to admit of extended notice. The lists are 
now in the mail and we find that in the aggregate there is about 
tiie same amount of money offered as in 1891, but the classificd- 
tion is enlarged from 215 to 238 classes. While some of the 
breeds suffer a reduction in prize money, additional classes 
have been provided in the more important, or rather, popular 
breeds. Nearly all the breeds have challenge classes, with prizes 
of $15, $10 and $6, but in many of the principal breeds the first 
prize last year was $20. Those breeds having $15 and $10 in 
challenge, and $20, $10 and $5 in open classes are mastiffs, St. 
Bernards, pointers, setters, collies and smooth fox-terriers. The 
breeds that get $15 and $10 in challenge, and $15, $10 and $5 in 
open classes are field and cocker spaniels, poodles,, deerhounds, 
greyhounds, Russian wolfhounds, English and American fox- 
hounds, beagles, wire fox-terriers, Irish, blackand tan, Bedling- 
tou, Scottish, Skye, and Yorkshire terriers and Italian grey- 
hounds. Mastitis do not get a novice class this year, but &t. 
Bernards have the same full classification as last year. New- 
foundlands are cut down to one class. Bloodhounds, great 
Danes and Kussian wolfhounds have puppy classes added, but 
greyhounds will have to be content with one class for the young- 
sters. Gordon setters have a much larger classification this 
year, puppy and novice classes being divided and a field trial 
class added. In spaniels, Irish water and Clumbers have their 
classes divided, field spaniels are cut in puppy and novice classes, 
but two more important classes are given to cockers to make up 
for this. Bough collies, while sharing in the reduction in chal- 
lenge prizes, have a new veteran class provided for dogs and 
bitches over five years, with prizes of $15^' $40 and $5. Two new 
classes are for dogs and bitches under two years, whioh should 
meet with much indorsement from the collie men. Poodles do 
not fare so well this year, corded and curlies go together in the 
challenge class and the puppy sexes must also compete. together. 
Bulldogs secure divided classes in puppy and novices, which 
add $30 to the prize money over last year; in bull-terriers there 
is no change. Boston terriers fare much better this year, as 
they have separate classes lor sex and are divided by weight. 
The beagle classification it not altered with the exception of the 
field trial class, which is cut $10. Smooth fox-terriers have a 
new veteran class added for terriers over five years old that is 
sure to bring out the old boys, while wires get an additional 
puppy class. Black and tans fare the sam*> as iu 1891. Irish ter- 
riers are cut down to the level of other roughs with three open 
class prizes instead of four and $10 less. Other roughs the same 
as in '94, excepting Scottish, whose classification is doubled, in 
keeping with the growing influence of the breed. Classes for 
the American breds and puppies are added, which means an 
extra outlay of $90. Yorkshires are cut one challenge class, 
and wisely so. Toys and pugs are not altered, but toy spaniels 
are pretty much huddled together. One challenge class for all 
breeds and the other breeds have one class each, which repre- 
sents a saving of half tho money given in 1891. Of course this 
will not please the owners of these pets but then it is difficult to 
please every one and it must be remembered the W. E. C. have 
to pay the bills. A new class is made for Schipperkes and Italian 
greyhounds get the same as last year. 
In most of the breeds the W. K. C. gives $20 kennel prizes. 
Spratts Co. will attend to the commissariat, and may be de- 
pended upon to bench in their usual artistic manner ; while to 
Sanitas Co. will beintrusled the task of purifying the air. 
The entries close on Feb. i, and as before, it will cost $5 to 
enter a dog. Intending exhibitors should bear in mind thateu- 
trles must this year be sent to Mr. James Mortimer at 59 Lib- 
erty street, room 2. Premium lists can be secured at this office. 
International Field Trials. 
Monroe, Mich., Jan 7.— Editor Forest and Stream: In your 
issue of Jan. 5, appears a letter from Mr. W. B. AVells, wherein 
he states that in a letter of mine I had something to say about 
his dogs and himself. If he was the reporter for your paper at 
the International Field Trials then I had something to say 
about him, — if he was not the reporter I said nothing about 
him. By referring to my letter his name does not appear in it. 
I cannot see any reason why a judge or judges, who are accused 
of placing dogs wrongly are not entitled to say anything in their 
own defense. Mr. Wells must have changed his mind since last 
year when he contended that the rules aid not require that the 
first and second dogs to run together and Cleopatra got first, 
without running against Tobe, who won second. Mi-. Davey 
did not insist upon his rights, when asked what he meant to do 
in the matter, Mr. Wells arguing he was correct iu his construc- 
tion of the rules. If 1 was prejudiced in favor of Tobe this year 
because of his running back to my old strain, why was 1 not 
prejudiced last year also, when he only got second without an 
opportuuity of being put down with the winner of first. 
Whatever Mr. Lacy and Mr. Stoddara thought of the treat- 
ment Luke got last year was not asked by the judges — but 
notice Mr. Stoddard, who is a practical and experienced handler 
of dogs, did not agree with Mr. Wells in a decision given by the 
latter in the Northwest last September. If Mr. Stoddard was 
correct in one instance, is he not likely to be correct iu another ? 
Mr. Wells' experience does not confirm my comparison of the 
grounds run over by Tobe and Luke, but think I have bagged 
more varieties of grouse and more woodcock and quail, over 
pointers, setters and spaniels, than Mr. Wells ever saw alive, 
aud have run dogs over a greater and more diversified territory 
than he ever saw, excepting when he might be examining a 
map, and I make no admission to the contrary in the Tobe- 
Cleopatra heat. 
Where Cleo did her good work I fail to see. iShe did make 
one point on quail in her two heats, and her wretched work on 
birds was done on what Mr. Wells claims the most easy ground 
for a dog to find and point birds on. She got them out of the 
brush pile wheu she came up to where Tobe was^pointing, with 
out the. necessity of pulling orteariug the pile to pieces. Just 
a little time previously four dogs were tried in those woods, and 
Tobe was the only dog of the four that got a poiut on the scat- 
tered birds. One covey was flushed outside in the stubble when 
Tobe a.nd Cleo were down, Cleo flushed a covey later on the 
opposite side of the woods, and Luke pointed a covey soon after- 
ward near the centre of the woods. Those birds which were 
flushed outside went directly into the woods, and those Luke 
pointed were not seen to leave the woods, so if they were not 
there they must have either gone into the ground, or evapor- 
ated, and as Luke could neither find them, nor the boles they 
had gone into, they must have taken the latter course. Where 
there is a might not be, there is often a might. The four 
minutes heat Mr. Wells speaks of between Tobe and Luke in 
the small field, the judges' notes give as teu minutes, and one of 
the largest fields run over during the trials, and certainly one of 
the best for a dog to show his range, speed, quartering and 
style of going, indeed it was so large Luke never found the 
outside of it. When ready to be put down, Tobe was held until 
Luke had obeyed those calls of nature Mr. Wells mentions, and 
they were sent off as evenly as a brace of greyhounds from the 
slips in a coursing field, but before Luke was half way across 
the field, Tobe was racing down the fence on the opposite side, 
when the former returned to his handler, only- to be urged out 
again and showed quite an iuaifference about getting away at 
all. A dog going out from his handler and keeping out until 
signaled or called iu, who points his birds steadily, allowing the 
shooter to walk leisurely and quietly up to him aud flush the 
birds, is more likely to create a favorable impression than one 
who is frequently returning to his handler and requiring urging 
to keep him out aud when he does point has to be reached in the 
most speedy manner possible. I dou't think that a dog which 
goes off like an overjoyed collie before a butcher's cart, only 
to return and go similarly out again when ordered on, can be 
considered very proficient in quartering. Where Mr. Wells got 
his information about my opinion of Toledo Blade is a mystery 
to me, unless it comes through his gift of imagination. I under- 
stand, however, that he has bred or contemplates breeding to 
Tobe; if such is the case, he may get a little more independence 
into his kennel aud reach a poiut that the records show the 
Campbells left off at (with natives) and later Manitoba Frisk, 
who has the same native blood in his pedigree as Tobe. As I 
never turn over a trusty, tried friend for a doubtful new one, I 
hoep to retain as far as possible, the same strain until I am 
convinced I have seen a better, or until I become unfit to use a 
dog. John Davidson. 
POINTS AND FLUSHES. 
{From a Staff Correspondent.] 
During the recent field trials iu North Carolina, Mr. Loril- 
lard made some remarks on the couditiouiug of dogs, and. on 
the dissatisfaction of owners who were not entirely practical, 
which impressed me as being very sound. He referred 
particularly to instances were an owner sent a nice fat dog to a 
handler to be educated, and the dog afterward was returned 
thin in flesh and with a rough surface. Many owners under 
these circumstances at once conclude that the dog has been half 
starved aud ill-treated. They do not know that a dog at work 
must be thin in flesh and hard in muscle, and that, when work- 
ing in brush and brier, in grass and in mud, in rain aud in sun- 
shine, a smooth coat is an impossibility. Mi-. Lorfllard further 
mentioned that similar beliefs were prevalent among horse 
owners who were nob practically experienced. They sent 
smooth, rounded horses to the traiuer, which were returned in 
thin flesh, affording the owner ground for conclusion that 
neglect and starvation had been his horse's lot. 
There is no doubt of the truth of the foregoing, although 
there is also no doubt but what dogs have beeu ill-treated too. 
Of that there is no question. But many times owners have 
felt aggrieved at the conditions of their dogs after a season's 
work, when there was no just cause for grievance. 
A dog, then fleshy, is in much worse condition for work than 
one which is half starved, and also is in much worse condition 
physically, aside from all considerations of work. The fleshy 
dog is think in wind, indolent, or at least incapable of more 
than a few minutes of exertion, which is followed by great dis- 
tress aud exhaustion. 
Owing to the inability of such dog to work more than a few 
minutes at a time, it requires many day r s and sometimes weeks, 
to work off the fat, tone up the degenerated tissues, strengthen 
the thick wind and restore the powers of endurance. A fat 
habit of body is sometimes made permanent if of loug duration, 
and it is impossible to get the dog out of his habits of indolence. 
He will not or cannot work enough to reduce his flesh. He is 
predisposed to disease, for, like all carnivorous animals, his 
natural condition is thinness of flesh. His natural habits of life 
are those of constant activity. Indolence and fatness invite 
disease and shorten his life. It is no kindness to feed a dog 
more than the wants of his system demand. A master who 
overfeeds his dog may be kind but he is thoughtless. He is kind 
from his own standpoint of what he requires himself, but he is 
unkind wheu he applies his own standard to the needs of the 
dog. Man can eat three meals a day, with one or two extra 
ones thrown in on occasion. The dog is fully supplied with one 
meal a day. He is a carnivorous animal, and therefore requires 
a generous proportion of meat iu his diet. He thrives well on a 
straight meat diet, all authorities to the contrary notwithstand- 
ing. The error in feeding meat, as in feeding in general, is in 
giving it too often. Once a day is sufficient. Gluttony in man 
or dog can not end beneficially. It is true that the dog will eat 
vegetable food, but he eats it from necessity-, not from choice. 
In a mixed diet containing meat, he always picks out the "meat 
first when he can do so. After all, the centuries of domestica- 
tion with its enforced vegetable diet, have not changed the 
natural craving of the dog for a meat diet. His teeth, digestive 
organs, instincts and natural cravings, have not been changed. 
However long he may be in the confinement of a city, he shows 
his rejoicings by r capering about and barking joyously when 
taken into the freedom of the country^ and at first sight he will 
chase a rabbit fiercely^ all of which indicate that he is not a 
vegetable eater from choice. B. Waters. 
New Orleans. 
The True Type of Skye Terrier. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
I am somewhat curious to know if j^ou have been taking 
notice of the correspondence in the English Stocks-Keeper be- 
tween our best Skye terrier judge, Mr, James Pratt and others 
regarding the true type of Skye. Mr. Pratt holds that those 
which are now shown on the English bench are not Skyes at all, 
but are what he calls "Lothian Terriers," and that they have 
robbed the genuine Skyes of their birthrignb. If this be the 
case I am sorry for fanciers who are overstocked with so-called 
"Lothian Terriers," both in the States and in England, and I 
think it is a great pity tha.t Mr. Pratt did not open up this sub- 
ject loug ago instead of judging and recognizing "Lothian 
Terriers, 7 - as Skyes (when really he did not think them Skyes) 
and thus allowing; and encouraging fanciers to go on producing 
what he calls the wrong sort. I am glad to say that I am 
fortunate enough to have both types and can thus please the 
fancy of differept judges. 
Mr. Pratt, 1 believe, intends bringing out some Skyes shortly, 
which he calls the true type, as he wishes to teach fanciers what 
Skyes really ought to be and I am wondering very much if thay 
will be the produce of my bitch "Phumps," which he got from 
me for a time until he had a litter or two irom her, after which 
I got her back again. This bitch won first prize at Toronto 
show and is the dain of my grand little terrier, ".Buccaneer." 
I may mention that wheu in England I first showed this bitch 
at Maiden show, Mr. Pratt judging. He was so struck with 
