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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Oct. 7, 1911. 
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Fixtures. 
DOG SHOWS. 
Oct. 12.—South Dakota Kennel Club, Sioux Falls, S. D. 
Oct. 12-14.—Alameda County Kennel Club, Oakland, Cal. 
T. R. Collins, Sec’y. 
Oct. 12.—Lenox Kennel Club, Lenox, Mass. H. H. 
Peace, Sec’y. 
Oct. 14.—Duquesne Kennel Club of Western Pennsyl¬ 
vania, Sewickley Heights, Pa. R. W. Kenney, Sec’y. 
Oct. 19-22.—Texas Kennel Club, Dallas, Tex. Sydney 
Smith, Sec’y. 
Oct. 30.—Western Beagle Club, Bass Lake, Ind. A. W. 
Cates, Sec’y. 
Nov. 1-2.—Norfolk-Portsmouth Kennel Club, Norfolk, 
Ya. S. E. Tillitt, Sec’y. 
Nov. 7.—Bulldog Club of America, New York City. 
E. K. Austin, Sec’y. 
Nov. 9-12.—San Antonio Kennel Club, San Antonio, Tex. 
Nov. 12.—National Beagle Club of America, Shadwell, 
Va. C. R. Stevenson, Sec’y. 
Dec. 1-2.—Toy Spaniel Club of America, New York 
City. Mrs. H. S. Morris, Sec’y. 
Dec. 12-13.—French Bulldog Club of New England, Bos¬ 
ton, Mass.. Walter Burgess, Sec’y. 
1912. 
Jan. 26-27.—Lynn (Mass.) Kennel Club. W. Rolfe, Sec’y. 
Feb. 6-9.—Fanciers’ Association of Indiana, Indianapo¬ 
lis, Ind. C. R. Milhous, Sec’y. 
Feb. 12-15.—Westminster Kennel Club, New York City. 
William Rauch, Chairman. 
Feb. 20-23.—New England Kennel Club, Boston, Mass. 
R. C. Storey, Sec’y. 
FIELD TRIALS. 
Eighth American Field Futurity, for pointer and setter 
bitches bred on or after Oct. 30, 1910. Nominations 
of dams close Oct. 29, 1911. Nominations must be 
made within thirty days after bitches have been bred. 
Oct. 24.—Connecticut Field Trial Club, Hampton, Conn. 
C. H. Gillette, Sec’y, Hartford, Conn. 
Oct. 24.—Hoosier Field Trial Club, Carlisle, Ind. W. L. 
Ilornbuckle, Asst. Sec’y. 
Oct. 30.—Central States Field Trial Association, Hamil¬ 
ton, O. L. G. Haverland, Sec’y. 
Training the Hunting Dog for the 
Field and Field Trials. 
General Principles. 
Dog training, considered as an art, has no mys¬ 
teries, no insurmountable obstacles, no short cuts 
to success. It is a result of the patient school¬ 
ing of the dog in manner analogous to that em¬ 
ployed in the schooling of the child, with the 
distinction, however, that the former is prepared 
with a special view to a limited servitude when 
used in the pursuit of game. 
In the furtherance of this purpose, man, by 
certain methods, simply diverts the efforts of the 
dog to his own service. 
Once that his prey is found, man has great 
powers of destruction, but as compared to the 
dog, lie is distinctly inferior as a finder. By 
concerted action, man and dog can find and cap¬ 
ture much more than either could if working in¬ 
dependently. 
In his search for prey the dog’s purpose is 
distinctly selfish, as is man’s, but being much 
inferior he, when man so^ wills it, must needs 
take the position of servant. However, his pleas¬ 
ure in the pursuit is so great that, even if de¬ 
nied possession after the prey is captured, there 
is still sufficient incentive to satisfy his self-in¬ 
terest; therefore he generally is content to ex¬ 
ercise his best hunting effort for the pleasure he 
feels with some hopes to share in the fruits. 
The dog is gregarious by nature, and prefers 
to hunt in packs, but the concerted action of 
the pack, in the effort to capture its prey, is not 
the manner best adapted to the requirements of 
the sportsman, although there are certain analo- 
Nov. 2.—Seventh American Field Futurity, Hutsonville, 
Ill. 
Nov. 6.—Independent Field Trial Club, Hutsonville, Ill. 
All-Aged entries close Oct. 1. S. H. Socwell, Sec’y, 
1636 Park avenue, Indianapolis, Ind. 
Nov. 20.—Pointer Club of America, Barber, N. C. W. 
C. Root, Sec’y. 
Second week in November.—Orange County Field Trial 
. Club, Middletown, N. Y. C. C. Haines, Sec’y. 
Nov. 21.—International Field Trial Club, Ruthven, Ont. 
W. B. Wells, Sec’y. 
Nov. 23.—Delaware Setter and Pointer Club. II. B. 
Lyman, Sec’y. 
Nov. 27.—Continental Field Trial Club, Waynesboro, Ga. 
John White, Sec’y. 
Dec. 4.—Georgia Field Trial Association, Waynesboro, 
Ga. Entries to Derby and All-Age stakes close 
Oct. 15. Tracy Mackenzie, Sec’y, Waynesboro, Ga. 
Dec. 11.-- -Southern Field Trial Club, Letohatchie, Ala. 
J. H. Wallace, Jr., Sec’y. 
Dec. 18.—Kentucky Field Trial Club, Letohatchie, Ala. 
All-Age entries close Oct. 15. S. W. Linebaugh, 
Sec’y, Russellville, Ky. 
1912. 
First week in January.—Eastern Field Trial Club, Cotton 
Plant, Miss. S. C. Bradley, Sec'y. 
Jan. 7.—United States Field Trial Club. W. B. Staf¬ 
ford, Sec’y. 
Jan. 14.—National Field Trial Championship Associa¬ 
tion. W. B. Stafford, Sec’y. 
BEAGLE TRIALS. 
Third American Field Beagle Stake, for beagles bred on 
or after Oct. 30, 1910. Nominations must be made 
within thirty days after bitches have been bred. 
Oct. 23.—Second American Field Beagle Stake, New 
Stanton, Pa., in conjunction with the Central Beagle 
Club’s trials. Entries close Oct. 2. 
Oct. 24.—Central Beagle Club, New Stanton, Pa. Chas. 
Meyer, Sec’y. 
Oct. 30.—New England Beagle Club, Ashland, Mass. 
A. D. Fiske, Sec’y. 
Oct. 30.—Western Beagle Club, Bass Lake, Ind. A. W. 
Cates, Sec’y. 
Nov. 9.—National Beagle Club of America, Shadwell, 
Ya. C. R. Stephenson, Sec’y. 
gies to it inasmuch as in the pack life the dog 
may, in the efforts of a common purpose, recog¬ 
nize and defer more or less to a leader. While 
this characteristic to hunt in company is of value 
to the sportsman, the manner of its exercise to 
best serve his purpose must be subjected to much 
modification and restriction in many of its parts. 
When working to the gun the dog must take a 
place so distinctly secondary that it is that of a 
servant. 
To suppress or restrict his inclination to take 
the leading part so far as it is against the best 
interests of the gun, and to school him in other 
special knowledge for its advantage, constitute 
an education called training or breaking. 
The art of dog training is acquired by intelli¬ 
gent study and practice, as proficiency in any 
other art is acquired. All who have the time, 
talent and industry may become skillful dog 
trainers, as a'l who have these qualifications may 
become skillful in any other accomplishment, 
trade or profession. But in the education of 
boys and girls and men and women, there is no 
educational system which compensates for ignor¬ 
ance and inefficiency if deeply grounded on the 
part of the teacher, nor for incapacity if shown 
on the part of the pupil. There must, on the one 
hand, be the ability to learn how to convey knowl¬ 
edge, and on the other the ability to receive it, 
else there can be no proper progress. 
The mental capacity of the dog and the knowl¬ 
edge necessary to serve him throughout his life 
are infinitely less than those which are necessary 
to man. Nevertheless his manner of acquiring 
knowledge is in a way similar to the manner em¬ 
ployed by man in that respect. 
Some years ago, when the ability to train a dog 
was so rare that it was the realm of the marvel¬ 
ous, it by many people was considered as a 
“gift,” a something of capability conferred by 
nature, therefore coming to the trainer quite in¬ 
dependent of experience. At the present day 
sportsmen have no faith in the skill of him 
whose knowledge is held to be innate from birth. 
On the other hand, any system set forth as hav¬ 
ing some inherent virtue, whereby a dog may 
be trained quickly and thoroughly regardless of 
his capacity to receive training or his trainer’s 
capacity to give it, denotes that the advocate of 
such system is ignorant concerning it or else is 
not overscrupulous as to the manner of treat¬ 
ing it. 
While this work will fully set forth a descrip¬ 
tion of the natural qualities of the dog, their 
relation to field work, and the best manner of 
diverting them from the dog’s own purposes to 
those of the sportsman, success in the applica¬ 
tion of its teachings depends entirely on the 
trainer himself. 
Some natural capability on the trainer’s part 
with some experience to supplement it is essen¬ 
tial before any substantial progress as a teacher 
is reasonably to be expected. The mere reading 
of a work on dog training and some hit-or-miss 
attempts at applying its precepts do not con¬ 
stitute an education in the art. An accom¬ 
plished dog trainer is not the product of some 
hours of reading with a few more hours of 
trouble with a dog added thereto. 
He who acquires the art must acquaint him¬ 
self with dog nature, with the details of practical 
field work as they relate to setters and pointers, 
and, to a reasonable degree, with the manner of 
imparting knowledge to a creature so much 
lower in the scale of intelligence than himself. 
He, furthermore, must specially school himself 
in the quality of self-restraint, for, in the at¬ 
tempt to govern man or dog, it is essential that 
the governor of others should learn to govern 
himself. However good the instruction may be 
in itself, it in no wise compensates for the in¬ 
efficiency consequent to ill temper if the latter 
be exhibited. In short, no treatise can do more 
than set forth what should be done and what 
should not be done. 
As to the natural qualifications of a trainer 
in dog as in all other branches of human effort, 
there are men who are eminently efficient and 
men who are incompetent. Apart from these 
extremes, the average man may attain the use¬ 
ful, practical efficiency as a trainer. To deter¬ 
mine whether he can train or not, it is necessary 
to make the attempt, for without such trial he 
cannot know definitely anything concerning his 
ability. 
However good may be any instruction in re¬ 
spect to conducting the dog’s education for the 
service of the gun, from the foregoing remarks 
it is clear that the matters of patience, industry, 
perseverance, good temper and talent lie with 
the trainer himself. Incidentally, it may be re¬ 
marked in respect to patience and good temper 
that no one can train dogs successfully without 
them, or, at least a partial equivalent in perse¬ 
verance and self-control, yet while they are prime 
requisites, they are oftenest the least observed 
by the impetuous amateur. 
Hurry and harshness always seriously retard 
the dog’s education instead of advancing it. In 
most instances the beginner gives the dog an 
order, then hastily proceeds in a conversational 
