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FOREST AND STREAM 
March 23, 1912 
The Foxhound and Game. 
East Northfield, Mass., Feb. 21.— Editor 
Forest and Stream and to ivJiom this may con¬ 
cern: In regard to the scarcity of our small 
game. The ruffed grouse especially and other 
small game in this section and the greater part 
of New England have been growing scarce for 
the past ten years, while vermin has increased. 
In this State during the past ten years foxes 
have increased tremendously, and even the 
wildcats are becoming more numerous. Eight 
wildcats have been shot in this town and 
vicinity within a year. This is the kind of 
vermin that is destroying our game, both winter 
and summer. 
Hunters who have been in the woods dur¬ 
ing the summer months have found broods of 
partridges, but when the hunting season opens 
they are not to be found. What has become of 
them? For the past five or six years I have 
been in the woods during July and August, and 
have come upon broods of young partridges 
without the mother bird. It did not require 
much effort to catch them, for they were half 
starved and no doubt died before the hunting 
season opened. In my opinion the old birds 
were caught by some of their natural enemies 
while trying to protect their young. 
During the winter months it has been a com¬ 
mon thing to find places in the snow where 
partridges have been killed by foxes. Three 
years ago I invited Mr. Forbush, the State or¬ 
nithologist, to visit this town and to see the 
places in the snow where three different par¬ 
tridges had been killed by foxes. Mr. Forbush 
could not come at the time, so I had a photo¬ 
graph taken of the spot in the snow where the 
partridges had been killed and I sent a picture 
to him. A year ago last May, Mr. Forbush 
found it convenient to come to this place. He 
came for the purpose of examining two fox 
burrows which contained partridge feathers. 
Some of these feathers came off an August 
bird—that is, off a young bird. 
There is nothing which has brought this 
trouble about—that is, the increasing of different 
kinds of vermin which is so destructive to our 
upland game birds—so much as the deer law 
has. This law for quite a number of years, in 
different sections of New England, has been 
the cause of bringing foxhunting to a standstill. 
In town after town, and even in townships it is 
almost impossible to find a trained foxhound 
anywhere. No one cares to train a dog unless 
he can use him. 
The hound was the only dog which protected 
our game years ago. These dogs held the 
wildcat, the lynx and other vermin in check, 
and they are the only dogs to-day which are 
able to protect our small game. Hundreds of 
hunters would have used these noble dogs, and 
our small game would have been protected, had 
it not been for the deer laws. 
There is not one farmer in fifty who wants 
the deer on his land, and if there is any one 
who does, he should put the deer behind a fence, 
and not have all the small game destroyed by 
\ ermin, and thus lose the sport that is to be 
had with a hunting dog. 
No representative should put in the way an 
obstacle in the shape of a law to prevent any¬ 
one from hunting with a hound during the 
hunting season, for these dogs have done a 
great deal in protecting our small game. 
Anson O. Howard. 
Associated Specialty Shows of New York 
The personnel of the association was made 
finally complete when the Collie Club “came 
back’’ and into the fold last week. This makes 
six strong specialty clubs who will give six sepa¬ 
rate shows on May 4, at the Twelfth Regiment 
Armory at Sixty-second street and Columbus 
avenue. New York. The six clubs are: The 
Russian Wolfhound Club, The Collie Club, The 
Dachshund Club, The Boston Terrier Club of 
New York, The Airedale Club of Long Island 
and Bulldog Breeders’ Association of America. 
The judges chosen so far are: James Morti¬ 
mer, for wolfhounds; Fred Wendland, of Chi¬ 
cago, for dachshunde; George F. Parker, for 
Bostons; and W. E. Baker, Jr., of Tanglewood 
fame, for Airedales. We hape to announce the 
collie and bulldog judges next week. 
Each club is offering unusual and generous 
classifications with golden increment to inciner¬ 
ate. The Russians are offering ribbons through¬ 
out a liberal classification for an entry fee of 
$1, but their specials are arranged to provide 
generous cash prizes to winners of every class: 
$2.50 to the winner, $i to second, while winners’ 
class will be rewarded with $5 first and $2.50 re¬ 
serve. The collies will pose in thirty-three 
classes, with prizes of $10, $5, $3 in classes eligi¬ 
ble to winners with a $3 entry fee, and a $2 
entry fee and prizes of $5, $3, $i for all other 
classes. The dachshunde will brush the saw¬ 
dust in forty-one classes, entry fee $i and prize 
money $3, $2, $i with four winners’ classes, two 
for black and tans, two for reds. Boston ter¬ 
riers will be sent on their way rejoicing through 
an extended schedule for an entry fee of $2 
and prize money at $5, $), $2 a throw. The Aire¬ 
dales will tug at the lead in numerous classes at 
$3 a class for special cash prizes so arranged 
that a winner will take home the price of a new 
dog nearly. There will be team and brace 
classes for this live breed, the winner to get the 
entry fee; also an American bred puppy sweep- 
stakes with a $3 entry fee. Exhibitors may nomi¬ 
nate any number of puppies, the winner to re¬ 
ceive the total entry money. The Airedale Club 
of America, of New York, of Long Island and 
the Western Airedale Club are supporting their 
breed handsomely. Bulldogs will roll through 
twenty-nine classes at $3, $2, $i a class for a $i 
entry fee except in the brace, team, American- 
bred brace and team and brace bred by exhibitor, 
whose winners will be rewarded by a generous 
percentage of the entry fees. As an innovation 
there will be a maiden class for dogs and bitches 
who have never won a prize at an A. K. C. show 
or a show of the breeders, and a consolation 
class for dogs and bitches who do not win i, 
2, 3, 4 at this show, for which no entry fee will 
be charged and ribbons be the reward. 
The premium lists will be in the mails by 
April I and every club is eagerly awaiting their 
appearance with a fine toothed comb poised and 
ready to get the biggest entry of their breeds 
ever put down. 
Premium lists and full information concern- , 
ing the catalogue may be had from George F. 
Foley, superintendent, Landsdowne, Pa. 
Kennel. 
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FINEST QUALITY-PRICES REASONABLE 
We have purchased the entire output of Kennels 
from the makers of the famous “Trusweve,” and to 
move them quickly have reduced the price of the 
bestselling size from $15.00 to $12.50. We 
have arranged with the following firms to supply 
them at the same prices as ourselves. 
VON LENGERKE & DETMOLD - - - New York, N. Y. 
KENNEDY BROS. ARMS CO..St. Paul, Minn. 
IVER JOHNSON SPORTING GOODS CO.. Boston, Mass. 
E. J. KOENIG’S SONS.Newark, N. J. 
Our special circular will tell why the “Trusweve” 
is the strongest, most sanitary and humane dog 
crate made. May we send you one ? 
Prices in 
New York, 
St. Paul, 
Boston 
or Newark 
For 
No. 
Length 
Height 
Width 
Each 
Dogs 
1 
24iii. 
19in. 
17m. 
$10.00 
Dogs 
3 
36in. 
27m. 
21 in. 
12.50 
Puppies 2P 
ISin. 
12in. 
12m. 
5.00 
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U. S. Agents **Mullerite** Powder. 
15 & 17 Warren Street - - NEW YORK 
Chesapeake Bay Dogs. 
Beautiful bitch of the rare breed for sale. Winner 
of second prize. Westminster Kennel Club show, 
$50. Reg. F. D. S. B. Also dog and bitch by 
Tescas from above, $25 each. Untrained, but in¬ 
telligent. See illustrations this issue. Full pedi¬ 
gree and particulars from BOGOTA KENNELS, 
Bogota, N. J. 11 
AIREDALES—Puppies of all ages and grades. From cham- 
g ion stock and from the best blood in the world. Endcliife 
riarwood and Champion Lake Dell Damsel are in my kennels. 
The latter has a litter of 9 beautiful pups, whelped Nov. 2, by 
champion Illuminator, winner of over 200 firsts. Grown bitches 
and puppies to sell. Write to Dr. L. C. Toney, Mesa, Ariz.; 
or Toney-Aire-Zone-Kennels. 
The Pocket Kennel Record 
Morocco. Price, 50 cents. 
The “Pocket Kennel Record’ is, as its name implies, a 
handy book for the immediate record of all events and 
transactions which take place away from home, intended 
to relieve the owner from the risk of trusting any 
important matter to his memory. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
