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New York Bench Show.— The entries for the coming 
Bhow in this city are fast coming in, and there is every reason 
to believe that the exhibition of dogs will exceed in interest 
the initial show of the Westminster Kennel Club. Premium 
lists and entry blanks may be obtained of Chas. Lincoln, 
Sup’t, 33 Murray 6treet. 
A Correction.— In our notice of the Muirkirk Kennel, of 
Prince George's, Maryland, the printers turned Captain 
Nicholson's Nig into Meg. N-i-g is the way the dog spells his 
. name. 
MR. BERGH ON HYDROPHOBIA. 
Hardly crediting that Mr. Bergh was no believer in hy- 
drophobia, we addressed a letter on this subject to the Presi- 
dent of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, 
and we have been favored with a reply. It seems that Mr. 
Bergh is quite skeptical in regard to hydrophobia. We may 
remark that there are still some very intelligent people who 
do not believe in Jeuner nor inoculation from small pox. Of 
course, we cannot agree with Mr. Bergh or his authority, 
Professor Maschka. The diagnosis of hydrophobia, as most 
lucidly explained by Sir Thomas Watson, differs from tetanus, 
We do not thiuk “ that the mind is master of tbe situation.’. 
How can Mr. Bergh explain the case of one death from hy- 
drophobia in New York, the patient being a child between 
two and three years? (Forest and Stream, Vol. IX. p. 437.): 
Editor Forest and Stbeam: ... 
In response to your polite inquiry “whether it is true that 
I am a disbeliever in hydrophobia as a specific disease,” my 
answer is that I am so. and for the following, among other 
reasons. Professor Maschka, who is at the head of the Uni- 
versity of Prague, and is an acknowledged authority all over 
Europe, declares that all the symptoms ascribed to hydropho- 
bia are to be met with in various other diseases, and that 
many persons suffering from apparent hydrophobia have never 
been bitten by any animal at all! He therefore concludes 
that it is not a specific disease, but only one occuring under 
certain conditions incident to various diseases. Buckmuller 
and Lorinser shared his opinion that it is a nervous disease, 
resembling tetanus ; that it may follow an injury as well as 
occur without any previous injury or bite. Stadthagan treat- 
ed twelve persons who had been bitten by dogs supposed to 
be mad. Of this number only one showed signs of sickness, 
and recovered. Cramer relates that, in the year 1853, in 
Hamburg, 100 persons were bitten by so called rabid dogs, 
and that only one died of symptoms of hydrophobia. Loris- 
ner, of Vienna, successfully proves that no specific disease is 
produced in man from the bile of a mad dog. Even inocula- 
tion has failed to establish the contagion theory'. Hartwig 
cites 137 dogs bitten by rabid dogs, and of all these, only six 
died with symptoms of hydrophobia, while the rest remained 
perfectly well. According to Buckmuller, after extensive 
experiments in inoculation, entirely different symptoms, such 
as nervous fevers, catarrhal fevers, inflammation of the lungs, 
etc. ensued, and inoculation with the blood of dogs supposed 
to be rabid showed no ill effect whatever! On the other 
hand however, cases of assumed hydrophobia have occurred, 
produced by wounds of the most trivial nature, such as a 
scratch with an iron nail, hardly drawing blood. Maschka 
relates a case of a man who died of a slight scratch upon bis 
nose from the paw of a dog. Yet this case, after a carefully 
conducted post mortem examination, gave no other indications 
than such as tetanus reveals. ' r ,, 
The sum of all this is that the mind is master of the situa- 
tion and if the theory recently advanced by a surgeon of this 
c ity!_viz , “morbid impulse”— be correct, then it follows 
that the mind is parent, not only of all moral disorders, but 
physical as well. If the fellow who knocks you down and 
takes away your watch acts only in obedience to a “ morbid 
impulse " for the acquisition of timepieces, is not the same 
organ capable of generating hydrophobia or cholera as well? 
Respectfully, Henry Bergh, Pres t. 
MANGE. 
— the latter often used for sheep — is that they both discolor 
the hair, and have a disagreeable odor. Professor Gamgee 
gives the following formula: creCsote, 1J parts; spirits of 
wine, 15 parls; water, 11 to 14 parts. Apply twice or thrice, 
with intervals of a day or two. In using tobacco care must 
be taken. The decoction of tobacco is made by pouring ~o 
to 30 parts of hot water over one of leaf. Immerse a dog in 
this from five to ten minutes, not more , and apply warm. A 
stronger decoction, say one part from 5 to 10, will poison nn 
ox. T We have seen a large dog killed from ignorance in using 
a decoction of tobacco for maDge, though properly managed 
as to quantity of tobacco used and time of both wo have 
seen excellent cures. -E d.] This preparation is to be rccom- 
I mended on account of its cheapness. Stavesacre seed {Del- 
phinium staphisagria.) digested in olive oil — 1 of seeds, 8 ot 
1 oil— at a temperature of 100 deg. Farenheit, is good to apply 
on pet house dogs, as it has no smell and does not color the 
hair. Of the preparations of mercury, blue mercurial oint- 
ment and the green iodide are commonly used. Both should 
be used cautiously, as by being absorbed salivation may take 
plnce. They are best employed when small spots are affected. 
[We have seen a dog paralyzed in all his limbs from an igno- 
rant use of blue ointment.— E d.] As constant irritation re- 
duces the dog, certain tonics are necessary. Arsenical liquor 
in five drop doses three times a day have good effect, also 
sulphate of quinine in 3 to 5 grain doses. Laxatives may be 
necessary, such as a dose of castor oil. Exercise should not 
be forgotten. A bed of pine sawdust has been recommended, 
but this may have the effect of causing the dust to stick to the 
sores on the dog and to cake. Pine shavings are just as good. 
No matter what may be the material used in bedding, it should 
be changed twice a week and the old beddiDg burned. All 
kennels that diseased dogs are housed in should be washed 
with lime containing carbolic acid, in the proportion of a pint 
of common brown acid to a bucketful of whitewash. For at 
least a month after a dog has had mange in a certain ^ kennel, 
this kennel should be freb of occupants. 
{To be continued.) 
istered to selected victims, and the vindictive could then at 
his pleasure pain you where it was most painful. 
T. G. T. of Gaston. 
P. 8. — I take this occasion to state to the Hon. Jno. E. Kenna. 
of the H. of R., from West Virginia, to whom I had promised 
a pair of puppies by Driver out of Bell, that I cannot comply 
to the full extent of that promise. But that driver was put 
up with Aggy, a splendid young Byron slut, not well tested 
in the chase yet, and he Bhall have a pair from her. 
T. G. T. 
ROCKET. 
F ROM a most thorough paper in the Veterinary Journal, 
due to Dr. J. A- Nunn, we make the following con- 
densed abstract : Mange is divided into three kinds— Scabies 
or Scurvy Mange, Follicular Mange and Red Mange. Red 
Mange.— The first symptoms are itchiness and uneasiness, 
followed by the formation of minute pimples resembling flea- 
bites- The first two stages are not often seen in practice. 
The second stage is likely to be mistaken for the Eczema ru - 
brum, which is a non-parasitic disease- Red points are found 
under abdomen, inside of thighs, and when skin is thinly 
coated. Uneasiness shown in feeding or drinking, from itch- 
ing, is nearly always diagnostic. There is a rapid loss of hair, 
chiefly on back, ears and neck. The pimples burst, either by 
•the dogs breaking them or naturally. The exudation of these 
pimples drying forms crusts that attain a certain thickness. 
Bran-like scales or scurf accumulate on the upper eyelids. In 
old cases hair is matted in tangles. Red points spread rapidly, 
the parasites being conveyed by the claws. All these symp- 
tomWre only helps in the diagnosis, for it is only the micro- 
scope which absolutely determines the disease. The atari or 
parasite, are not easy to find, whereas, in man, with itch, or 
scabieB the human atari are found, in dogs it is more diffi- 
cult Treatment— Wash the dog with soil soap and warm 
water and scrub with a soft brush. Break down accumula- 
tion of scales with the thumb nail ; wash so as to soften skin 
so as to allow better action of medicament to be employed. 
Character of dog must be taken into consideration wheu oint- 
ments, salves or preparations are used. With long-haired 
dogs shaving may be necessary, if not by a razor, with shears. 
Most common dressing is sulphur and lard, which is sufficient, 
nrovided the whole of the affected parts are dressed so that 
none of the aciri escape. Blight quantities of caustic potash 
or soda (we should prefer the latter— Ed.) would be useful 
in breaking down the scales- Sulphur ointment has the 
decided advantage of beiDg harmless in case the dog licks 
it which invariably happens- A dip made of glycerine and 
carbolic acid might be found useful, but it should be remem- 
bered that with some animals other than sheep it has a fatal 
effect. The objection to creosote, with decoctions of tobacco, 
A valuable cocker spaniel, owned by C. E. Scott, editor of the Rod 
and Gun column of the Bucks Co. Gazette, Pa., was run over and killed 
last week by the cars at Bristol, Pa. 
It was only a dog, they said, not worth making a fuss 
about. Aye, it was only a dog, but a dog possessed of a 
higher order of intelligence than some men whom I have met. 
It was the work of a moment, when my old sporting friend 
rang the bell and sent word to me that my dog had been cut 
in two by the cars, to leap from the bed and hurriedly dress 
and run to the depot. There upon the bank, a cruel cut 
through bone and muscle evincing the nature of his death, 
was Rocket. Truer blood never coursed through vems than 
could be traced in him back through long pedigree. What 
though it was all native. The little tuft of while on the back 
of his head, the long silky feather from legs and stern had 
marked in like manner his ancestors for over thirty years to 
my own knowledge. Rocket was a cocker-spaniel, bred by Wil- 
liam Rhile and brought to me two years ago by Ben Mortonby 
from the Neck, that part of Philadelphia where the true 
cocker is known, kept and loved. Careful training and faith- 
ful nursing through the diseases incident to puppykood, had 
brought him to such condition that he was looked upon as the 
boss railbird and woodcock dog of the section. Nor was this his 
only qualification. Better watchdog never lived. Often too 
has he been deputized as watcher over the baby as she sat 
lied into her low chair. Never tiring, the spaniel would 
fetch back and place in her hand the playthings which she 
delighted to throw to the farther part of the room, and after- 
ward pick up and carry each one out to the basket in the din- 
ing room where they were kept. Wheu she slept he sat by 
the cradle, and at the slightest stir would raise his paw and 
gently rock it. Did the women folks like him ? Well, if 
you had heard the difference of tone when Snipe, the big 
orange and white setter, came lumbering in from that which 
was used when Rocket lightly stepped in the door, you would 
have placed the odds on the spaniel, lie was the only one of 
his kind that I ever knew to stand rail birds. Not that he 
stood them as a setter stands, but when he scented them in 
the tussocks there was always a backward look for the gun 
and a patient waiting for the master before the plunge was 
made. How he got out that night, or why he attempted to 
cross the track in the face of the swift rolling wheels of the 
express, is a mystery. It may have been that life was to him, 
as to many, full of toil and trouble, from which he sought re- 
lease, or ifr might have been that a tramp had enticed him 
away and Ins hurried flight homeward was intercepted by the 
train. Suffice it that the children mourned him and his 
master was compelled to content himself with useless re- 
grets. 
To-night, as I look down from my desk at the rug where 
he was wont to curl himself as I sat writing through the long 
evenings, I miss him. Kickers and cuffers of dogs may 6neer, 
but the man who cannot love a gentle spaniel, brimful of 
affection for its master, has no heart in him. Sigma. 
Bristol , Pa. 
Fox Strategy. — Back here in tho country, about all the 
winter sport we have is fox hunting with gun and hounds. 
I want to tell you about an old fox that bothered me a good 
deal last fall. I used to start her in about the same pluce 
every time, and no matter how good the following, the dogs 
would lose her. 1 knew that they did not run her in, as 1 
could tell by their feet that they had not been digging. She 
used to take a straight line and lead the dogs right out of my 
hearing, and that would be the Inst I knew of them. I found 
at last it was no use, so when they started her 1 would start 
for home. I made up my mind to know about it when snow 
came, but it was a long time before I could stnrt her on a 
snow. Finally one fine morning the dogs raised her. There 
had been a fall of about two inches of moist snow in tho 
night, and I knew Madam Reynard would have to work te 
get away. She soon led the dogs out ol hearing, but I took 
the track, bound to know where she went, to if it took a 
week. Well, I followed on about three miles till I came to 
the brook. Here, somewhere, must be where she slips them 
think I. But no; she kept on down the brook, which is 
about twenty to thirty feet wide, for half a mile or rriore, past 
several bridges. She had taken every wall that the wind had 
blown the snow from on her way, and had got some ways 
ahead of the dogs. But walling it didn’t amount to much, 
only she gained a little on the dogs, and gave her more time 
for her finishing stroke. For the last half mile she had kept 
within a foot or two of the bank of the brook, with long 
jumps, till she came to a long still stretch of water about 
three feet deep. Here she came down to a trot or walk 
and turned off from the brook again toward a loDg wall upon 
the side hill, which the wind had blown the snow from, and 
here the dogs were at work, first one way and then another. 
I took the wall and followed it a quarter of a mile or so, find- 
ing a track once in a while where a little snow hung on the 
wall, till I came to where there was a long stretch that was 
not blown off and no tracks over it. Then I went the other 
way, but I could not find where she had left. Finally 
I had to give it up and started for home. Following 
along back on the track, something made me get down on my 
knees and examine the track. Then I began to see how it 
was— she had gone up and down that wall for a blind. 
Finally she came back, and taking her old track to the wall, 
and stepping in it every time till she came to the brook. Just 
here a small maple not more than three inches through hud 
blown partly across the stream— she had jumped into the top 
of this and crossed on the body of it. She must have had 
this in view all the time, as she had turned toward it when 
she went along first, and had not made a long leap between it 
and the wall, for she knew that she could not strike into a 
jumping track as nicely as she could into a fine trotting track. 
I called up the dogs, went back to the bridge down the other 
side, and in five minutes had her up again, but she had prob- 
ably wet herself 6omc in crossing, and in a few minutes ran 
into a large burrow. I was bound to have her, so I went to 
a farm house and borrowed a steel trap and thought I had her 
sure, but she beat me then, for there was an outlet that I did 
not find, and she got away as she deserved to. I have not 
started her since, and she has deserted the burrow. 
ASHBORNnAM. 
HOUNDS POISONED. 
April 18, 1878. 
Editor Forest and Stream : 
Some fiend has again commenced his work of destruction of 
my pack of hounds by a poison which soon carries off its vic- 
tims. Driver, by Watchman, out of Mischief, full sister of 
the peerless Vanity, as my estimable friend Pious Jeemes 
called her, is the first sacrifice. Last year, in the midst of the 
hunting season, some of my choice hounds met the same fate. 
Four of them, with Watchman at the bead, were first-class 
red fox dogs. Driver was a special favorite. His color was a 
beautiful blue speckle, his hair short and as smooth as that of 
a pointer. His form was compact and strongly knit together; 
but what was best of all was his action and style, well sup- 
ported by uoflaggiog energy. He was a perfect representative 
of the Byron stock. The loss of Driver has sickened me, and 
in my present mood would sell out to a purchaser worthy to 
follow such a pack os its master. I consequently invite an 
immediate correspondence on the subject from the owners or 
proprietors of kennels. There is no guarding against this de- 
scription of warfare on hounds. They will prowl at night, 
and in the day if kenneled at night. To kennel them from 
season' lo season, night and day, would impair their vigor 
and health. Apart from this, the inconvenience and trouble 
are too great lor general practice. It is a very easy matter in 
this section to destroy whole packs by a judicious distribution 
of some deadly poison. If hounds he kenneled at night, they 
will then prowl in the day. The poison could then be admin- 
Turkoman Greyhounds.— The Jardin d’Acclimatation has 
lately been enriched (wc learn from La Nature) with three 
Turkoman greyhounds of great beauty, the first specimens 
imported into Europe. The animals are known in the country 
under the name of Tazi, and are employed in catching hares, 
like the Slough i in Algeria and the greyhounds in Persia. 
They are of noble aspect, and have great strength of muscle ; 
their head is remarkably long and delicate in form. The hair 4 
on the body is short, but the ears (which are very large) are 
covered with long, silken hair. Their legs are also covered 
with well developed hair, and the contrast of this with the 
upper smooth part of the body is surprising at first sight, tho 
dogs appearing as if they had large waving pantaloons, or 
reminding one of some kinds of fowl. One of the three 
dogs was obtained from the Kirghises of Emba, the two others 
at Samarkand (and by M. de Ujfalvy). We believe that it 
is among this breed that, as mentioned by Hamilton Smith, 
the stop greyhound is found so trained, that When a whole 
pack of them is in pursuit of a doubling hare, a stick thrown 
before it instantly produces a general halt, and one only is 
then signalled out to pursue the game- 
What a Bear Dog Is.— A Montreal correspondent, who 
ought to know, thus defines the characteristics of a bear dog, 
as recognized in his section,: 
“It is no easy matter to furnish particulars of dog9 suitable 
to assist in the capture of the brown bear. Such dogs, so far 
as I know, are of a nondescript class, laying no claim to blue 
blood. They should possess courage, but tempered by a con- 
siderable amount of discrection, and a becoming degree of 
respect for their own personal safety. This toning down, 
however, sheuld not be done at the expense of vivacity. A 
too tenacious dog would be apt to end his career in the em- 
brace of his bearship. A sustained and sprightly skirmishing 
attack in the rear generally ends in Master Bruin forming the 
natural conclusion that he can rid himself of all this annoy- 
ance by climbing a tree. When aloft he calmly surveys his tor- 
mentors until the rifle arrives to complete the work the dogs 
commenced. An approved cross is that between a foxhound 
and Scotch terrier, recrosseil by a collie. I am sorry I cannot 
at present put your friend in Maine in the way of procuring 
such a dog. Conseuvat or. 
Montreal, April 8, 1878. 
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Quitch Grass.— A gentleman farmer’s opinion on quitch 
grass is given boldly below : 
Corning, April 19, 1878. 
Editor Forest and Stream : 
I regret to say that I have half an acre stocked with a most 
luxuriant crop of quitch grass. I vainly tried to eradicate it 
for several years, removing loads of roots each year, hut it 
only seemed to improve the crop. Should any of your pa- 
trons desire a stoclx, and can’t get seed, by mailing, say 25 
1 cents for packing, in addition to postage on the amount thoy 
