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The American Dog 
(Continued from page 56) 
an “upstart,” but his friends reply 
proudly that he is the only dog whose 
pedigree can be traced back right to 
the very beginning. There is cer¬ 
tainty, not speculation, about the ori¬ 
gin of the American dog. The be¬ 
ginning was something less than fifty 
years ago. If this seems a short 
enough time in which to establish a 
new breed, we must remember that 
fifty years means twenty dog genera¬ 
tions, the same as seven centuries in 
mankind. The test of a thorough¬ 
bred animal is that it possesses 
certain well marked characteristics 
which it transmits to its offspring, or, 
in other words, the ability to breed 
true to type. The Boston terrier has 
done this for twenty years. 
The breed originated in and 
around Boston as a cross between the 
English bulldog and the English bull 
terrier. The original specimens of 
this cross-bred stock were imported 
from the other side, and some of 
these dogs possessed marked indi¬ 
viduality. These characteristics have 
become the points of the breed. 
The progenitor of the whole Bos¬ 
ton terrier race was an imported dog 
known to fame as Hooper’s Judge. 
He was a leggy dog, but resembled 
his bulldog ancestors in head points, 
though he was level-mouthed. He 
weighed about thirty-two pounds and 
in color was dark brindle, with even 
white markings. Little is known of 
his early history save that he was 
imported by William O’Brien, of 
Boston, who sold him to Robert C. 
Hooper. To Judge was bred the 
white colored Burnett’s Gyp. She 
weighed but twenty pounds. Their 
son was Well's Eph, a cobby, well- 
marked brindle dog with a blocky 
head and even mouth, who weighed 
about twenty-two pounds. Eph was 
the sire of Bernard’s Tom, and it 
was this dog who laid the foundation 
of the family fortune. He was the 
first to boast a short, screw tail, and 
he set his descendants the example 
of great popularity, for it is said that 
he was the best known and the best 
liked dog in the whole of Boston. 
Tom was a big improvement over his 
sire and grandsire. He did not have 
their fine markings, hut he was a 
trappy, clean-cut little chap. His nu¬ 
merous sons and daughters usually 
favored him strongly, and he is cred¬ 
ited with the small size, the screw 
tail, and the alert terrier type of the 
breed to-day. 
There were, of course, other early 
heroes not of this strain. The Jack 
Reed dog and the Perry dog, Kelly’s 
Brick and O’Brien’s Ben were the 
most famous of these celebrities. All 
of these were imported animals. 
There is a strong sporting flavor in 
their names. The Jack Reed dog and 
Kelly’s Brick! These are redolent of 
the Georgian days of badger dig¬ 
gings and cocking mains, of rat-kill¬ 
ing contests and dog fights, and, in¬ 
deed, Brick is even to-day remem¬ 
bered a “very fierce little white dog.” 
Naturally, the famous old fighting 
cross, bulldog and terrier, produced 
dogs of pluck and spirit, but in fifty 
generations the Boston has been re¬ 
fined and the fighting strain clarified. 
He is still plucky, but he is not a 
fighting dog. 
In the early days the Bostons were 
shown in the same classes with the 
bull terriers. Later they came to be 
known as “round head hull terriers,” 
and in 1891 their friends asked to 
have them recognized as thorough¬ 
breds and entered in the Stud Book 
as American bull terriers. It was not 
till 1895, after having three times re¬ 
peated this petition, that they were 
recognized under the name of Bos¬ 
ton terriers. The memory of the old 
names is persistent, and many people 
still miscall them Boston Bulls. 
Though there is bulldog blood in 
their veins, they are more of the 
terrier type, and this “hull” is a mis¬ 
nomer. 
The Table Test for the Vegetable Garden 
(Continued from page 22) 
Spinach. This runs to seed very 
quickly in hot weather. A good plan 
is to depend upon Swiss chard, or a 
large leafed variety of mustard for 
“greens” after the first sowing of 
spinach is used up; but the “New 
Zealand” spinach will furnish leaves 
for greens throughout the season. 
Squash. There are usually too 
many summer squashes and too few 
winter ones. For a very small gar¬ 
den, plant Fordhook or Delicata 
which are used for both purposes. 
The latter may be had in bush form, 
which takes up still less room. Where 
there is space enough for both kinds, 
two or three hills of white scalloped 
and two or three of Summer Crook- 
neck will furnish squash enough un¬ 
til one of the fall sorts (Delicious 
and Sim’s Blue Hubbard are of par¬ 
ticularly fine quality) are ready. Four 
to a dozen hills, as space permits, of 
the winter varieties will be none too 
many, as the fruit can be kept until 
spring in cold storage. 
Tomatoes. The plants are often 
set out all at one time and of one 
variety, with the consequence that a 
great deal of the fruit is wasted, and 
during the four to six weeks of late 
fall the table is without tomatoes en¬ 
tirely, when there should be plenty. 
For a long season’s supply, buy or 
grow half a dozen pot plants of 
Bonny Best Early, or of some other 
good, early variety. Set these out 
early; they may be planted a week 
or two before danger of frost is over, 
if you will cover them up at night— 
not a very difficult task for six plants. 
Later, about the middle of May, set 
out six or twelve of a main crop 
variety such as Matchless, Stone, 
Globe, Dwarf Stone or Dwarf Giant, 
if you do not wish to take them up. 
And again, at the third planting 
(about the middle of June), set out 
half a dozen or a dozen of the same 
kind (these plants you can start 
yourself) in a sheltered position, at 
about the same time you set out the 
first plants, to furnish a supply for 
later fall and for ripening after frost. 
This will give many more, tomatoes 
than will be required for the tabic, 
but they are one of the best fruits 
for preserving, either ripe or green. 
While they can be grown either way, 
it is always best to stake them, as it 
saves room and gives better fruit. 
Turnips. If you are fond of these, 
make a very small planting at each of 
the first three plantings. For the late 
fall and winter supply, the seeds may 
be put in at the third planting, toward 
the end of June, but it will be better 
to delay it until the middle of July; 
they will then not grow so large and 
be of finer quality for both table and 
keeping. 
While these calculations are for the 
small garden—say for four people— 
the same method of reasoning can lie 
used in figuring out what you will 
need for larger gardens. 
