Edited by JOHN GILMER SPEED 
The purpose of this department is to give advice to those who have country or suburban places as to the purchase, keep 
and treatment of Horses, Cows, Dogs, Poultry, etc. Careful attention will be given each inquiry, the letter and answer 
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House Dogs 
I DO not know of any dogs pure in type that are 
not lilt to be house-dogs. But I do feel with 
absolute seriousness that no one living in a city 
should keep any kind of a dog. To keep a dog in the 
city is a hardship to the dog, and an inde¬ 
cency to the people y ho lice in the neigh- jk 
horhood where such dogs are kept. It 
happens that my city home is in the 
neighborhood of Gramercy Park; and 
pretty nearly every time that 1 go 
out early in the morning w ith par¬ 
ticularly well-varnished hoots I am 
compelled to become defied in the 
interests of some house-dogs car¬ 
ried out on leash and miserable in 
their captivity. I think the large 
cities should have ordinances pre- 
\enting the keeping of dogs within 
their precincts. I do not think that 
this applies in the least to villages 
and small country ton ns. A dog must 
have a proper kind of run, and what¬ 
ever be his breed, he cannot have that 
run in any great city. On general prin¬ 
ciples, 1 should say that a short- 
haired dog is a better house-dog than 
one with long hair. He is easier to 
keep clean, and freer of fleas and other vermin. If 
it were given to me to have one dog only I should he 
m great doubt as to which 1 should select. Should 
it be a fox-terrier ^ Should it be an Airedale r Should 
it be an Irish terrier Or a collie I am sure I 
don’t know'. But I do know that every gentleman 
Griffon Eruxelloise, Peggy 
Kingcote Kennels, C^reenfield, Mass. 
having a country place should have one or more 
dogs; without them, a country place would be quite 
incomplete. 
Now take the fox-terriers — they are the most 
gentlemanlike dogs that we know anything 
I about. I hey are descended from the Ital¬ 
ian greyhound and the English terrier. 
Originally they were used in the hunt¬ 
ing-held to harrie a fox when the fox¬ 
hounds were in fault. Eor a long 
time, however, they ha\e become 
too slow to keep up with fox¬ 
hounds, and their only purpose 
has been to serve as house-dog 
and companion. 
Let me say right here that I 
have no purpose in this article of 
writing an essay upon the genesis 
of the dog. Anyone who cares to 
know about that subject may by 
reading the article in the Encyclopae¬ 
dia Britannica learn more than I know' 
on the subject. I have said that I did 
not know which dog I should choose, 
if I had only one dog to select. 
The fashionable dog at this mo¬ 
ment seems to be the Boston 
terrier. And a very admirable little dog it is. He has 
gentleness, hdelity, and just enough courage to make 
him worthy as a friend and companion. He is a short- 
haired dog, and easily kept clean, so I do not wonder 
that he should be popular. The same thing might 
be said in regard to bulldogs and bull terriers. 
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