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Kennel. 
Spratt’s Puppy Biscuits 
Spratt’s Piain Puppy Meal 
THE STANDARD WEANING FOOD 
Spratt’s Pepsinated Puppy Meal 
FOR DELICATE PUPPIES 
None genuine unless stamped thus X 
Send stamp for “Dog Culture” 
SPRATT’S PATENT LIMITED 
Factory and Chief Offices at NEWARK. N. J. 
SELL YOUR DOGS 
By adverlising them in the Sunday 
NEW YORK HERALD 
Each week a special page is devoted to news and gossip 
of interest to breeders, exhibitors and owners of dogs, 
poultry, etc., written by recognized experts. 
This page is a clearing house for buyer and seller. 
Results are sure. 
Advertisements are placed on the page with the news, 
and reach both the professional and amateur dog lover 
and bird fancier. 
Advertising rate, 30c. per agate line. 
Further information on request. 
NEW YURK HERALD - - - - NEW YORK CITY 
Book on Dog Diseases 
AND HOW TO FEED. 
AsMpSS' Mailed FREE to any address by the author. 
H. CLAY GLOVER, D. V. S. 
118 W. 31st Street NEW YORK 
Pointer Bitch For Sale Cheap. 
Midkiff Blondie, all white, with liver markings on head, 
2 V 2 years old; sired by Ch. Devonshire Maxim out of 
Westlake Lass. Blondie won first limit and first open 
at Allentown, 1911, only time shown. Has repeatedly been 
seen pointing grouse while being exercised, but has not 
been handled, so is unspoiled. Owing’ to overcrowded 
conditi.-Dn in our kennels, we will sacrifice for $40. 
MIDKIFF KENNELS, Dallas, Pa. 
FOR SALE. 
Champion Lake Dell Damsel and Endcliffe Briarwood 
(English name. Fountain Ranger), both winners and 
world beaters. Address DR. L. C. TONEY, 204 Curriei 
Block, Los Angeles, Cal. 
DOGS FOR SALE. 
Do you want to buy a dog or pup of any kind? If so, 
send for list and prices of all varieties. Always on hand. 
OXFORD KENNELS, 
35 North Ninth St., Philadelphia, Pa. 
FOR SALE—DOGS. 
Setters and Pointers, trained on quail, grouse and chicken. 
Foxhounds, trained on fox, cat, wolf, deer and rabbit. 
Coon Hounds, trained on coon, bear, skunk, opossum and 
squirrel. Shipped on trial. Also puppies, bitches in 
whelp and stud dogs. 50-page illustrated catalogue. 
Five cents, stamps. 
BLUE GRASS FARM KENNELS, Berry, Ky. 
EDWIN D. WASHBURNE CHARLES W. HOLTON 
Edwin D. Washburne & Co. 
IMPORTERS OF DIAMONDS 
-and- 
MAKERS OF FINE JEWELRY 
7 Maiden Lane S^ew York 
We are here to give experienced personal attention to all 
who call, whether your errand be relative to a simple 
job on watch, or jewelry, or eyeglasses, or to select a 
diamond necklace or rare jewel. 
Kernel DeparUmeimiL 
Dog Show Dates. 
April 3-5.—Maryland Kennel Club and Animal Refuge 
Association, Baltimore. George F. Foley, Supt. 
Entries close March 18. 
April 5.—St. Louis Collie Club Show at St. Louis, Mo. 
G. P'. Sudhoff, Sec’y. 
April 10-12.—Washington Kennel Club, Washington, D.C. 
George F. Foley, Supt. Entries close March 25. 
April 11-12.—Lawrence Kennel Clulj, Lawrence, Mass. 
Paul O. Pipping, Sec’y. 
April 15-17.—Norfolk-Portsmouth Kennel Association, at 
Norfolk, Va. S. E. Tillett, Sec’y. 
April 18-19.—French Bulldog Club, at Astor Hotel, New 
York. O. P". Vedder, Sec’y. 
May 30.—Long Island Kennel Club, at Brighton Beach, 
L. I. A. A. Post, Sec’y. 
May 31.—Wissahickon Kennel Club All Terrier Show at 
Philadelphia, Pa. J. S. Price, Jr., Sec’y. 
June 7.—Nassau County Kennel Club, at Belmont Park, 
L. I. E. H. Berendsohn, Sec’y. 
Sept. 9.—San Mateo Kennel Club, San Mateo, Cal. 
Irving C. Ackerman, Sec’y. 
Sept. 12.—Lenox Kennel Club, Lenox, Mass. Miss M. 
Brigham, Supt., North Grafton, Mass. 
October.—Fourth American Beagle Stake, American Field 
Publishing Companw Chicago. 
Oct. 21.—Pennsylvania Field Trial Club. J. B. Sansom, 
Sec’y. 
Oct. 23-25.—Colorado Kennel Club, Denver, Col. F. R. 
Dutton, Sec’y. 
Nov. 24.—(Continental Field Trial Club, Waynesboro, Ga. 
John White, Sec’y. 
Dec. 1.—Georgia Field Trial Association, Waynesboro, 
Ga. S. G. Story, Sec’y. 
The Bulldog Breeders Association 
of America. 
The association ■will hold its sixth open show 
in New York city—the venue to be announced 
shortly—on Saturday, May 31. 
Allison M. Lederer, whose e.xtensively ex¬ 
hibited Inwall Kennels are well known, has kind¬ 
ly consented to judge. 
The Bench Show Committee in charge fol¬ 
lows: C. R. Wood, Chairman; B. H. Berend¬ 
sohn, Secretary and Treasurer; Walter Murray, 
P. Seixas and E. P. Hinds. 
And this, then—and of course—is the “per 
usual” appeal to you for support, based upon 
nothing newer, nothing more surprising and 
nothing better than your pride in the associa¬ 
tion, which by now must have become an in- 
grown habit with every one of you. 
Someone said of us: “No specialty club ever 
set the hot pace the Breeders set.” There is no 
denying it; and if we’ve maintained it, it is be¬ 
cause, when the word came to "Hit it up,” there 
was always the strength and the spirit in every 
one of us for another spurt. 
We want specials first, and then the entry. 
W’e shall depart from our usual practice this 
time, and this will be the only letter you will 
receive on the subject. There will be no “fol- 
low-np.” There will be no need of any. 
All specials, or the promise of them, must 
be sent to Dr. E. H. Berendsohn, 204 Berkley 
Place, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
It is earnestly urged that where it is pos¬ 
sible, all specials be offered by April 15 and be 
given or sent to Dr. Berendsohn at least a 
week before the show. 
Abr.\m D. Gillette, Secretary. 
The power of advertising in a publication 
is measured by the strength of its hold upon its 
readers. Do you know of any medium in closer 
touch with its readers than Forest and Stream ? 
You’ll find in inquiries received through the 
advertising columns of Forest and Stream an 
earnest interest in your goods that “half-clinches” 
the sale. 
Brief of the National Association 
of Audubon Societies. 
(Submitted to the Ways and Means Committee of the 
House of Representatives, Washington, D. C.. on 
Jan. 30, 1913.) 
The National Association of Audubon So¬ 
cieties urgently recommends the amendment of 
Paragraph 438 of the tariff act, relating to 
feathers and downs so as to prohibit the impor¬ 
tation of plumage of our native birds of the 
United States including aigrettes. We ask for 
this change: 
Amend Schedule N, Sec. 438, to read as 
follows: 
Feathers and downs of all kinds, including 
bird skins or parts thereof with the feathers on, 
crude or not dressed, colored, or otherwise ad¬ 
vanced or manufactured in any manner, not 
specially provided for in this section, twenty per 
centum ad valorem; when drsesed, colored or 
otherwise advanced or manufactured in any man¬ 
ner, including quilts of down and other manu¬ 
factures of down, and also dressed and finished 
birds suitable for millinery ornaments, and arti¬ 
ficial or ornamental feathers, fruits, grains, 
leaves, flowers and stems or parts thereof, of 
whatever material composed, not specially pro¬ 
vided for in this section, sixty per centum ad 
valorem; proinded, that the importation of plum¬ 
age of native zvild birds of the United States 
or of plumage indistinguishable from that of 
our natwe zvild birds, including aigrettes, crude 
or manufactured, is hereby prohibited except for 
scientidc purposes. . . . 
We ask this on the following grounds: 
1. That a number of the species are now 
approaching extinction. 
2. That the birds are of great economic 
value. 
3. That the traffic in such plumage is Illegal 
in many States. 
4. That the plumage trade is destructive, 
barbarous and unnecessary. 
5. That the loss of revenue can readily be 
made up from other sources. 
1. The demand for plumage for wild birds 
for millinery purposes during the past twenty 
years has grown to enormous proportions. In 
the effort to supply the market, the woods, fields 
and sea coasts of the United States have been 
combed systematically by plume hunters. Breeding 
colonies and rookeries in the tropics from Aus¬ 
tralia to Venezuela and the most distant islands 
in the Pacific ocean have been devastated by 
the emissaries of the plume trade. The traffic 
in the United States has caused the practical 
extinction of some of the most beautiful birds 
including egrets, the least tern, and locally of 
several other species. Breeding colonies of cer- 
t?’n sea l irds have been practically annihilated 
aiong the coasts of New Jersey and Virginia. 
The egrets formerly found in every State in 
the Union with half a dozen exceptions are now 
restricted to a comparatively few isolated 
colonies in the Southern States, and a few wan¬ 
dering individuals which occasionally stray north¬ 
ward to visit the haunts where they were for¬ 
merly abundant. 
2. The value of insectivorous and seed-eat¬ 
ing native birds is too well known to need de¬ 
tailed exposition in this connection. The eco¬ 
nomic value of the egrets and other species of 
plume birds is not generally appreciated. Re¬ 
cent investigations in Florida by a representative 
of the National Association of Audubon Socie- 
Swiss and American Watches 
