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Class 39-Black and Tan or Setter Poppies, under 6 months— 
Bitches — Best, $10 ; second, silver medal. 
Cla-s 40— Champion Rod or Rod and White Setters— Dogs— See 
Regulation No. IX— Best, 860. . 
Class 41— Champion Red or Rod aud White 8otters— Bitches— 
See Regulation No. IX— Beat, $6<>. 
Class 42-Rod or Red and White Setters— Dogs— Best, $50 ; sec- 
ond. $25; third, $16. _ .. 
Class 43-Red or Red and White Setters— Bitches-Best, $50 ; 
secord, $25; third, $15. . 
Class 44 Red or Red and Whito Setter Puppies, over 6 months 
— Dogs— Best, $15 ; second, silver medal. 
Class 45 Red or Rod and Whito Setter Puppies, over C months 
—Bitches— Best, $15 ; second, silver medal. 
Class 46— Bed or Red and White Setter Puppies, under 6 months 
—Dogs— Best, $10 ; second, silver medal. 
Class 47— Red or Red and White Setter Puppies, nnder 6 monthB 
— Bitches — Best, $10; second, silver medal. 
Class 48 — Chesapeake Bay Dogs — Best, $20 ; second, $10. 
Class 49— Chesapeake Bay Bitches— Best, $20 ; second, $10. 
Class 50 — Irish Water Spaniels — Dogs— Best, $20; second, $10; 
third, silver medal. 
Class 61— Irish Water Spaniels— Bitches— Beet, $20 ; second, 
$10; third, silver medal. 
Class 52— Retrieving Spaniels, other than pure Irish— Dogs— 
Best, $20 ; second, silver medal. 
Class 53— Retrieving Spaniels, other than pure Irish— Bitches- 
Best, $20 ; second, silver medal. 
Class 64 — Clumber Spaniels— Dogs or Bitches— Best, $20 ; sec- 
ond, $10; third, silver medal. 
Class 55— Cocker Spaniels— Doge— Best, $20 ; second, $10 ; 
third, silver medaL 
Class 56— Cooker Spaniels— Bitches— Best, $20 ; second, $10 ; 
third, silver medal. 
Class 67— Cooker Spaniels, Poppies, Dogs or Bitches-Best, $10; 
second, silver medal. 
Class 58— Field Spaniels, not otherwise mentioned— Dogs- -Best, 
$20 ; second, silver medaL 
Class 59— Field Spaniels, not otherwise mentioned — Bitches- 
Best, $20 ; second, Silver medal. 
Class 60 — Foxhounds, Dogs or Bitches— Beat oouple, $25 ; eeo- 
ond, $10 ; third, silver medaL 
Claes 61— Harriers, Doga or Bitches-Best oonple, $20 ; second, 
$10. 
Class 62 — Beagles, Doge or Bitches-Best, $20; seoond, $15; 
third, silver medal. 
Class 63— Dasohnnde — Doga — Best, $20 ; seoond, $10 ; third, 
silver medal. 
Class 64— Dasohnnde— Bitches— Best, $20 ; seoond, $10 ; third, 
silver medal. 
Class 65— Fox Terriers — Doga— Best, $20 ; seoond, $10 ; third, 
silver medal. 
Claes 66— Fox Terriers— Bitches— Best, $20 ; seoond, $10 ; 
third, silver medal. 
Claes 67 — Fox Terrier Puppies— Doge — Best, $10 ; second, sil- 
ver medal . 
Class 68— Fox Terrier Puppies— Bitches— Beet, $10 ; second, sil- 
ver medal. 
Claes 69— Collies— Dogs— Best, $15 ; second, $10 ; third, silver 
medal; 
Class 70 — Collies— Bitches — Best, $15; second, $10; third, sil- 
ver medal . 
Class 71 — Collie Poppies — Dog or Bitch— Best, $10 ; second, sil- 
ver medal . 
Claes 72— Dalmatian or Coach Doge or Bitches-Best, $15 ; sec- 
ond, silver medal. 
Class 73 — Bull Dogs or Bitches — Best, $20 ; second, $10 ; third, 
silver medal. 
Class 74— Bull Terriers, Dogs or Bitches — Best, $20 ; second, 
$10 ; third, silver medal. 
Class 75— Boll Terrier Poppies, Dogs or Bitches-Best, $10 ; 
seoond, silver medal. 
Class 76— Skye Terriers -Dogs— Best, $20 ; seoond, silver 
medal. 
Class 77 — Skye Terriers — Bitches-Best, $20 ; second silver 
medal. 
Class 78 — Pugs — Dogs — Best, $20 ; second, $10 ; third, silver 
medal. 
Class 79— Pngs— Bitches— Best, $20 ; second, $10 ; third, silver 
medal. 
Class 80— Png Puppies, Dogs or Bitches-Best, $10 ; second, 
silver medal . 
Class 81— Scotch Terriers, Dogs or Bitches— Best, $15 ; seoond, 
silver medaL 
Class 82— Black and Tan Terriers, Dogs or Bitches-Best, $16 ; 
second, silver medal. 
Class 83 — Dandy Dinmont Terriers, Dogs or Bitches-Best, $15; 
seoond, silver medal. 
Claes 84 — Yorkshire Terriers, blue and tan, over 6 lbs, Dog or 
Bitch — Best, $20 ; second, $10 ; third, silver medal. 
Class 85 — Yorkshire Terriers, blue and tan, not exceeding 5 lbs, 
Dog or Bitch— Best, $20 ; second. $10 ; third, silver medal. 
Claes 86— Toy Terriers, other than Yorkshire, blue aud tan ter- 
riers, Doge or Bitches— Beet, $15 ; second, silver medal. 
Claes 87 — Blenheim Spaniels, Doge or Bitches — Beet, $16 ; sec- 
ond, silver medal . 
Class 88 — King Charles Spaniels, Doge or Bitches — Best, $16 ; 
second, silver medal. 
Class 89 — Japanese Spaniels, Doga and Bitchoa— Best, $10 ; sec- 
ond, silver medal. 
Class 90— Italian Greyhounds, Doga or Bitches — Best, $16 ; sec- 
ond, silver medal. 
Owing to a want of space, the managers can only receive 940 
dogs, and the entries will olose as soon as the above nnmber is 
completed. As this rule will positively be enforced, exhibitors are 
requested to send in their entries at the earliest possible moment. 
— Mr. Chas. Lincoln, Supt. of the coming New York Dog 
Show at Gilmore’s Garden, in May, informs us that his 
headquarters during the exhibition will be at the Ashland 
House, on Fourth Avenue, which is within three blocks of 
the Garden. The Ashland is one of those good houses that 
are deserving, and the rates are very reasonable, either on the 
European plan or table de hole, and the proprietor is a genial 
sportsman. 
In Regard to Bench Shows . — Editor Forest and Stream: 
The Boston Bench 8how of Dogs suggests several matters that 
are of considerable importance to all breeders of thoroughbred 
dogs. First comes this question, “ How shall the classes be 
divided in future bench shows ?’’ Have we any right to claim 
a separate class for native setters or pointers? If we have 
separate classes for native dogs, is it not a tacit acknowledge- 
ment that our pointers and setters are inferior to English 
pointers or setters ? If this is the case, which I for one do 
not believe, it is high time that we should know just where 
we stand, and the only way to improve our dogs is to put 
them in direct competition with other and better dogs of the 
same breed. If our dogs are equal, or even better, than im 
ported dogs, then there is no reason for any native class, 
ana the sooner it is abolished in all American Bench 
Shows the better. Let us at once throw down the gauntlet to 
all the world, and enter our best d>>gs against the best any 
other country can produce. By careful breedingof short-horns 
in this State, it is well-known that English buyprs have given 
enormous prices for stock to go back to the country from 
which they were originally brought, and thiB is what will 
happen before many years are over in regard to sporting dogs. 
There are many breeders like Mr. Smith, of Strathroy ; Mr. 
Godeffroy, of Guymard, and Mr. Tilly, of Long Island, to say 
nothing of the various kennel clubs whoare making a specialty 
of setters and'pointers, taking every care in selecting the best 
bitches to breed from, and buying the best native or imported 
stud dogs. This can have but one result, and that is to pro- 
duce a class of dogs that are fit to compete for any prize either 
here or in Europe. Under such circumstances, where is the 
use then of a native class? There is another matter of mmor 
importance suggested by the Boston show, which would tend 
very much to increase the interest not only of exhibitors but 
the outside public, and that is, that during judging, the num- 
ber of the class being judged should be displayed in a con- 
spicuous manner, and the winners announced in the same 
way; similar, indeed, to the number of the winning horses at 
a race-course. This would not only give exhibitors a chance 
to have their dogs ready for the next class to be judged, but 
would tend to concentrate the interest of all the visitors on 
the winning dogs. I would conclude by saying that from ex- 
perience at the New York and Boston Bench Shows, I would 
suggest that some other food be supplied for the dogs, as dog 
biscuits, for those dogs that are not accustomed to them, 
have the effect of scouring altogether too much. Yours respect 
fully, John E. J. Grainger. 
New York, March 29, 1878. 
Art at the Boston Bench Show. — We gave in our last 
Issue but a few words in regard to the really fine collection of 
pictures which graced the walls of the building in which the 
Massachusetts Kennel Club held their exhibition. Mr. 
Walter M. Brackett, who as an artist in fish, has really no 
equal either at home or abroad, exhibited there his wonderful 
series of pictures, “The Rise,” “The Leap,” “The Last 
Struggle,” and “ Landed." These four companion pictures 
arc as a poem, the epic, in fact, of the moat beautiful of all 
fish. There is the dash, the boldness of the gamest of fish, 
as he takes the lure, the swift plunge, the lightning dash 
of the salmon as he is struck, and, lastly, the quiet repose of 
the king of fish, as, lustrous like frosted silver with the 
gleams of the opal, he lies passive on the shore. There are 
many things to be considered in pictures of this character. 
Your artist may, if he pleases, portray his subject, as a dead 
salmon lying recumbent in the fish-dealers’ stand, and it may 
be a good work of still art, but to Mr. Brackett the credit be- 
longs of having caught with his pencil those various phases of 
life and action in fish with which the angler is so cognizant. 
Of course, Mr. Brackett is well known for his prowess as a 
6almon fisherman, or how otherwise could he have drawn and 
colored these fish? How often must the artist have had 
f irinted in his brain the exact similitude of how a salmon 
eaped for the fly, or how, when he had the hook, with a whirl 
and plunge, as fast as a rifle shot, as swift as an eagle, he flew 
with whirring line and rattling reel from the deep pool away 
down the stream below. We often have endeavored to explain 
what difference there must necessarily exist in the apprecia- 
tion of such works of art. Your ichthyologist wants exactly 
so many spine9 ia dorsal, and if he cannot count them he is 
not satisfied. But it is the better cognizance of what is natu- 
ral, idealized by art, which gives the ODly perfect illusion. 
Just such capital traits does Mr. Brackett possess. A visit to 
this artist’s atelier was a source of great pleasure to U9. Here 
were studies of salmon and trout from far distant streams in 
Maine or the provinces, which were perfect in drawing and 
color. The impressioDsmade on visitors when they 6ee such 
pictures vary so much. Your Philistine connoisseur, when he 
looks at a fine salmon has his digestive organs mostly called 
into play. “ How a slice of such a fellow would taste— say, 
cooked with green peas.” To another of a less physical tem- 
perament, it brings the thought of rushing waters, of drip- 
ping rocks, of shady forests, fragrant with resinous odors, and 
the excitement of the long cast, and then the silver ingot, 
which, like a bolt, springs upward from the dark, talent pool. 
In the collection were also exhibited two pictures of Mr. A. 
L. Brackett, a woodcock and partridge, which, for color of 
plumage and that peculiarly fluffiness of feather, were very ex- 
cellent. There are numerous painters of dogs in Boston, 
whose works should be better appreciated in New York. Mr. 
T. Hinckley, Mr. W. J. Hays and Mr. F. W. Rogers had 
umerous pictures of dogs of great merit. A study of two 
setters by Mr. Rogers is a vigorous bit of work, and was 
especially admired by many exhibitors. Mr. Gaston Fay’s 
“ Bull-Dozer” was a clever production of this well-known 
illustrator. 
Discrimination in Soent.— There seems to be little doubt 
that by the sense of smell alone the dog exercises the faculty 
of discrimination for which in man that of sight is needed. 
Who that has hunted much over pointer or setter broken to re- 
trieve has not frequently enjoyed the pleasure of seeing the 
live bird pointed by a dog, who, while on the point, still held 
the dead one in his mouth. With the effluvium of the latter 
streaming up his nostrils he yet detects the propinquity of 
the former by the scent alone, and yet how similar must be 
the smell ! Some may say the dog has pointed the living 
bird by sight, but I think not, for most retrievers will seize, 
or attempt to seize, a bird the moment it is visible. I have 
6een a dog draw on and poiDt a bevy of quail near the carcass 
of a dead horse when the stench for rods around was disgust- 
ingly offensive, and yet his nose enabled him to distinguish 
the presence of game. I was hunting once with two well- 
known physicians of this city, when one of them shot at and 
wounded a snipe. The dog went to retrieve it ; it fluttered 
on a yard or two beyoDd him, and he was eagerly bent upon 
recovering it, when suddenly he turned and pointed a bevy of 
quail thirty feet distant, leaving the wounded snipe till wo 
had flushed and fired into the former, when, of his own accord, 
he returned and retrieved it. Most sportsmen who have 
hunted several kinds of game over one dog and have become 
familiar with his style, can tell by his action and attitude 
what game is before him. I would like to hear, through the 
columns of your valuable paper, if you have not numerous 
correspondents who agree with me upon this subject. 
Charleston, S. C., April , 1878. J. H. H. 
Bear Dogs.— O ur cognizance of what a bear dog is is that 
he is a mixed animal, with a good dash of hound and a pre- 
dominance of bull dog. On the frontier where the offscour- 
ings of whiles and Indians are found, such a breed of dog 
exists, made up possibly of a dozen different kinds of animal. 
They are fairly fast and have no end of courage, and some 
three to six dogs are used in hunting bruin. Such doge will 
go for a bear aqd fight him regardless of wounds. Now a 
correapondent of this paper wauts some information about 
dogs proper for tracking bear. Will some of our friends in 
Maine or in the Provincea give us briefly what they know 
about bear dogs, and where one or two good ones may be 
had? 
Mississippi Dog Law. — A bill was passed in the Mississip- 
i Legislature, at its last session, making it a fekmy to steal a 
og. This may put a stop to the wholesale dog stealing form- 
erly practiced. Guyon. 
For Distemper.— We are always glad to publish the expe- 
rience of others in their treatment of sick dogB. The fumi- 
gation of tar and burnt feathers, mentioned by our corres- 
pondent, Mr. G. Lyman Appleton, Bryan Grovo, Ga.. we can 
ourselves indorse : 
‘ ‘ My dogs— eight hounds, one pointer and a Gordon setter- 
have had distemper, and I not only have not lost a dog, but 
only one was seriously sick. I tried this receipt with the 
above result : When dog is first taken, give one pod of red 
pepper ; this is all. Six of the dogs were young, and I am 
satisfied from past experience that bad it not been for the 
pepper I should have lost some of them. In two of the worst 
cases I smoked the dogs with tar and feathers to stimulate 
discharge from the nose ; the others did not require it. 
Every dog was well in two weeks from attack, coat bright 
and discharge gone, also cough. I gave the pepper as I 
would a pill ; common red pepper, pod dried. I hope some 
one will try this and see bow it works. I have lost several 
dogs by distemper, and had one lose all use of one hind-leg, 
and used many remedies, but was sure of none until now. 
Tns Muirkirk Kennel.— The following- named doge be- 
long to the Muirkirk (Maryland) Kennel. — [Sec advertisement. 
“Ponto, four years, liver, got by Milo, dam Juno; Bragg, 
lemon and white, own brother to Tell, winner of first premium 
for native pointers, at New York, May. 1877; Dash, liver and 
white, whelped Aug., 1877, got by Ponto, out of Ginger ; 
Bob, four years, liver, got by Don, out of Meg. Bitches— 
Ginger, four years, liver, got by Don, out of Meg ; Kate, 
lemon ticked, one year old, got by Sensation, out of A. 
Dodge’s liver bitch, Dolly ; Meg, black, six months old, got 
by Captain Nicholson’s Meg, out of Allen Dodges Dolly. 
Ginger whelped, April 1, 1878, nine pups, four liver dogs, one 
liver and white dog, and four liver bitches. 
Fox Hunting. — Columbia, Tenn., March 30.— S. M. Mat- 
thews and several other gentlemen started a large red fox at 
dark last night with ten hounds. They kept up the chase all 
night. Reynard finally gave them the slip by Bwimming the 
river ; two dogs followed but soon returned. Val. 
Maryland Fox Chasing.— T he members of the Elkridge 
Fox Hunting Club and their invited guests, a party of thirty, 
had a most exciting run in Anne Arundel County, last Satur- 
day. Tbaymoor. 
—Edward Lohmau, of New York, claims the names of 
Erwin and Quail III. for dog and bitch puppies out of his im- 
ported Irish setter bitch, Quail II., by Redgauntlet. 
Vest Good Doos For Salk.— We call particular attention 
to an advertisement of the "Westminster Kennel Club. This 
leading kennel, being desirous of making a draft, will sell 
some of the choicest of their pointer stock. The progeny of 
so well known a dog as Sensation with Whiskey for dam, ought 
to be in demand. Any one wishing a dog for the field or to 
breed ought not to overlook this chance. 
A Very Good Pointer.— Mr. E. S. Wanmaker, of Pascack, 
N. J., the well known breaker, has a remarkably fine pointer 
puppy, which he offers for sale. As the pedigree of the dog 
is well known, we should suppose it would find a ready pur- 
chaser. 
CARD. 
Ttie letters received at this office addretsed to “ T. W. 3 In reply 
to advertisement offering Stafford for sale, have been lo t. If the 
writers will duplicate their letters they will be promptly attended to 
Address T. W* 8 -> office- 
$am<i §*g and $ttn: 
GAME IN SEASON IN APRIL. 
Wild ducks, geese, brant, eto. 
Game in Market— Retail Prices, Poultry and Game — 
Game — Canvas back duck, per pair, $1.25; red head ducks, 
$1.00; brentgeese, $1.25; mallard ducks, 75 cents; black ducks, 
75 ; widgeon ducks, 40 ; broad bill ducks, 50 ; teal duoks, 40 ; 
Wilson snipe, per doz., $1.50; plover, $1.50 ; bay birds, large 
and small, 75 cents; wild pigeons, flights, $1.50 ; stall fed, 
$2 ; Philadelphia squabs, $3.00. 
Poultry— Philadelphia and Bucks County dry picked chick- 
ens, per pound, 25 cents ; do.-, fowls, 18; do., turkeys, 18 ; 
do., ducks, 20; do., geese, 15; State aud Western chickens, 
15; do., turkeys, 15; do., fowls, 12; do., ducks, 1(1; 
capons, 40; slips, 30; spring chickens, per pair, $1.50- to 
$ 2 . 00 . 
New Hampshire— Warner, April 8.— For four days ii has 
been cloudy and cool continually. March 14tli— Saw purple 
finch ; from 20th to April 1st, ducks, woodcock, peewee, fox 
sparrow and probably hermit thrushes in the woods, as they 
usually arive early. April 1st — Cow birds ; 5th, heard first 
frogs. A young collector brought in a very fine specimen of 
Bonassa milberli, and 18 do. Brephos infans. We accept these 
at least as harbingers of warmer days. P. minor is reported 
more than usually abundant, and is cutting antics on earth 
and in air. 7th— Grass finch. M. C. H. 
Wild Pigeons.— Great numbers of wild pigeons are being 
slaughtered in the vicinity of Petoskey, Mich. 
