Oct. 12 , 1912 
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Kennel. 
Book on Dog Diseases 
AND HOW TO FEED. 
Mailed FREE to any address by the author. 
H. CLAY GLOVER, D.V. S. 
118 W. 31st Street NEW YORK 
OWNERS OF KENNELS AND REGISTERED 
DOGS who desire their names to appear in the 1913 
Breeders’ and Exhibitors’ Guide Book and Directory 
are requested to send for blanks (no charge). 
C. S. R. Co., P. O. Box 1028, New York City. 
Beagle and Rabbit Hounds.—Thoroughly trained and ex¬ 
perienced hunters. Not gunshy. Satisfaction guaranteed 
Puppies all ages. LEWIS MILLER, West Chester, Pa 
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“The Trail of the ‘Bull Dog’ ” 
By Charles G. Percival, M. D. 
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the World Have Lived, Departed and Left No History Within 
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dents of his two years’ automobile trip into all parts of 
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their gastronomic capacity in the days of youth. 
“Vireos, warblers, woodpeckers, nuthatches 
and thrushes are all famous destroyers of in¬ 
sect life which preys upon fruit and vegetables. 
The nighthawk and certain of the shore birds 
are known to be fond of mosquitoes, which 
should commend them to the esteem of man¬ 
kind. The writer once watched a pewee capture 
sixteen flying insects in a minute and on an¬ 
other occasion saw a yellow-billed cuckoo eat 
nineteen tent caterpillars in a space of five 
minutes. Two hundred and seventy-three eggs 
of the cankerworm have been found in the 
stomach of one chickadee, and the golden- 
crowned kinglet is a veritable Nemesis to the 
troublesome plant lice. 
“The farmer seems to feel that the annual 
supply of grass and weeds which persists among 
his growing crops calls for his most strenuous 
exertions. Were it not, however, for the thou¬ 
sands of pairs of little bright eyes which in the 
fall and winter are seeking so industriously for 
the weed seed out in the dreary brown fields 
his labors would surely be greatly increased. 
One of the Government collectors shot a dove 
in Kentucky which was found to contain over 
9.000 weed seeds. The dove probably filled 
its crop at least three times that day. These 
27.000 seeds if left to sprout the following 
spring would have produced more weeds than 
the average farmhand could hoe down in a day. 
“The writer once estimated the amount of 
weed seed annually destroyed by tree sparrows 
m Iowa. Upon the basis of a fourth of an 
ounce eaten daily by each bird and supposing 
that the birds average ten to the square mile, 
there would be a total of 875 tons consumed by 
this one species in a single season. And even 
these figures certainly fall far short of the 
reality. 
“The school teachers at Knoxville, the sum¬ 
mer morning above mentioned, were members 
of a group of earnest men and women whose 
lives were dedicated to the training of children. 
For nine months they had been in the class 
room meeting the petty trials and annoyances 
incident to their life work. Now during the 
few brief weeks of their vacation instead of 
spending the time in idleness they were eagerly 
seeking additional knowledge. 
“The subject of the systematic instruction 
of school children in bird study on a careful 
scientific basis really, had its origin in May, 
1910 , when Mrs. Russell Sage sent to the Na¬ 
tional Association of Audubon Societies checks 
for $ 5,500 with which to inaugurate a plan of 
bird study in the Southern schools. She de¬ 
sired that a special effort should be made to 
arouse interest in the protection of the robin, 
which in the Southern States was at that time 
almost universally regarded as a gome bird 
whose most useful office was performed when 
served in a potpie. 
“Bird study, it is true, was at that time 
taught in many city schools, but usually the 
subject was given but slight space in the cur¬ 
riculum and there existed generally accessible 
to teachers but indifferently prepared material. 
A working plan was at once developed whereby 
literature, colored pictures of birds and the 
Audubon button should be supplied to all the 
pupils in a school who enrolled themselves as 
members of an Audubon class. Each member 
was required to pay a nominal fee, which, 
however, in no sense covered the cost of the 
material received in return. During the school 
year which followed the matter was brought to 
the attention of many of the Southern teachers 
and over 500 Junior Audubon Societies resulted 
with an enrolment of more than 10,000 children. 
“So successful did this experiment prove 
that the Audubon workers agreed that it was 
highly desirable to extend this same system 
into the schools of the Northern States. The 
fall of 1911 therefore saw plans well under way 
for a much increased scope of work. During 
the school year which closed the last of June, 
1912 , the National Association of Audubon So¬ 
cieties at a cost of $ 13,000 enrolled 29,369 
school children under the standard bearing the 
inscription ‘Protect the Birds.’ In supplying 
these pupils and their instructors with the 
necessary pictures, leaflets and outline draw¬ 
ings of birds for coloring over 1 , 000,000 pieces 
of printed information were distributed. Pupils 
have taken hold of this bird study with a zest. 
Many a dull or inattentive boy who had been 
a despair to his teacher and parents responded 
to this real nature teaching.” 
ESKIMO DOG FARM. 
At Grove Park, one of the suburbs of 
London, Mrs. Scott conducts a very interesting 
dog farm. Her specialty is Eskimo dogs, which 
she breeds and trains for the market. The 
market is not very large, but it is sufficient to 
make it worth her while to raise and train the 
best possible Eskimo dogs. It is not the or¬ 
dinary dog market. It is the market for 
Eskimo dogs which are trained for Arctic ex¬ 
ploration. 
If you decide to make a journey to one of 
the poles, you know that Eskimo dogs are ab¬ 
solutely essential. You can get good Eskimo 
dogs in Greenland or in Alaska. But the good 
dogs in Greenland may not be exported ex¬ 
cept by special permission of the Danish Gov¬ 
ernment, and the dogs in Alaska are not so 
good. One trouble with ordinary Eskimo dogs 
is that they have no breeding and no discipline. 
They will obey the master with whom they 
have been brought up, but when they start 
after fish or other game even their master can 
control them only by the exercise of brute 
force. For the purposes of your exploration 
you need dogs that will obey orders given by 
Kennel. 
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BARGAINS IN EXPERIENCED SHOOTING DOGS:— 
Pointers of finest breeding and registered: Noted winning 
dog, Theodore T., won 11 times on bench. Sire, field trial 
winner. No. 1 stud dog, fit to head kennel; staunch to 
point and back; steady hunter: a bird finder, $80.00. Is 6 
years old, white and black. Black bitch, 2 years old, by 
noted Champion Nicholas R., dandy worker and bird 
finder, No. 1 brood bitch, $70.00. White and liver bitch, 
2 years old, by noted Champion Tingo’s Boy, No. 1 brood 
bitch and nice worker, $55.00. Puppies, 3 months old, by 
Champion Nicholas R. Just dandies, will make winners, 
$20.00 each. Write me for pedigree. 
CHAS. A. PAETZEL, Box S, Hope, Ind. 
AIREDALE TERRIERS 
The Ideal Sportsmen’s Dog for game hunting of any 
kind. We have puppies for sale from $25 each, bred 
from the greatest English and American bred specimens. 
Also brood bitches in whelp. Champion Red Raven at 
stud, fee $25. Two successive years winner for best 
Airedale at Madison Square Garden, New York. 
ELMHURST FARM KENNELS 
5900 Jackson Avenue, Kansas City, Mo. 
DOGS FOR SALE. 
Do you want to buy a dog or pup of any kind? If *o, 
send for list and prices of all varieties. Always on hand. 
OXFORD KENNELS, 
35 North Ninth St., Philadelphia, Pa. 
AIREDALES 
Illuminator and Briarwood’s Puppies. Champion bitch, 
Lake Dell Damsel, in my kennels. Prices reasonable. 
TONEY-AIREZONE KENNELS, 
Phoenix, Ariz., and Los Angeles, Cal. 
FOR SALE —An English Setter Dog, one year old. 
Color, black, white and tan. Registered pedigree. For 
particulars address J. H. STEELE, 
Ellington, Conn. 
a white man, dogs that are broken to the 
harness and are not afraid of work, dogs that 
have learned team work. 
It is this kind of dog that Mrs. Scott raises 
for the market. Her kennels have only pure 
blooded animals of carefully selected stock, and 
from earliest puppyhood she trains them in how 
to eat and how to work. When she gets 
through with an Eskimo dog the animal is not 
nearly so ferocious as one that just “growed 
up” in the surroundings of an Eskimo village. 
They adapt themselves quickly to new 
masters and they have acquired good eating 
manners, so that they are not so likely to at¬ 
tack the cupboard or fresh game. Mrs. Scott 
feeds her animals no meat except pemmican and 
dried fish brought from Norway; a large part 
of the diet is a specially prepared biscuit. She 
has supplied trained dogs for a number of 
Arctic and Antarctic expeditions.—Scientific 
American. 
MASTODON SKELETON FOUND. 
The skeleton of a mastodon has been found 
by Leaman Hawley, near Malahide, Out. The 
bones have not all been dug out yet. The ribs 
measure five feet in length. The vertebrae joints 
are as big as a small sized frying-pan. The up¬ 
right bones from the vertebrae joints measure 
from eight inches to sixteen inches in length. 
One tooth has been unearthed which weighed 
four pounds and is fourteen inches around. The 
skeleton was found on the banks of a ravine. — 
New York Sun. 
