FANCIERS’ 
JOURNAL 
AND 
POULTRY EXCHANGE. 


Vous, I. 
PHILADELPHIA, SEPTEMBER 10, 1874. 
Noo 37. 


THOROUGHBRED ANIMALS FOR SUBURBAN 
RESIDENCES. 
THE MASTIFF. 
(Continued from page 562.) 
by the arm and led him without harm to the kitchen door, 
released him there, and mounted guard over him and de- 
tained him till she saw how he was received. I think the two 
anecdotes I related of my bitch Jersey will even surpass the 
above in intelligence and sagacity. It is truly astonishing 
what these dogs are capable of under proper training; and 
it was with no little hesitation I related in my former arti- 
cle the two instances of Jersey’s intellectual acumen, fearing 
I might be considered guilty of exaggeration. 
I now come to the pedigree of my mastiff dog Sherry and 
my mastiff bitch Jersey. The dog and bitch are each 18 
months old, 18th Jan., 1874. They are the grandson, son 
and daughter of Lord Waldegrave’s celebrated dog Turk, by 
different mothers. Frank Robinson purchased Turk for 
£450. He was one of a celebrated litter bred by Miss Ag- 
lionnsby, of Esthwaite, Hawkshead, North Lancashire, and 
has won innumerable prizes. Jersey is by Pluto, the son 
of Turk, bred by Mr. Robinson, who sold the former to E. 
Delafield Smith, Esq., and the bitch Venus. Turk and his 
sire King, ‘‘are the most celebrated dogs in England.”’? Mr. 
F. Heinzman writes of Venus that she is by Turk, out of 
Ornakeuss by the celebrated Yorkshire Ornaker, winner of 
more than thirty-five first premiums. My dog Sherry is 
also, as I have stated, from celebrated parentage. Mr. Lukey, 
of Morden, Surrey, in 1835 bought of George White, of 
Knightsbridge, a mastiff bitch for £40 from the Duke of 
Devonshire’s stud. He says: ‘‘I bred from her, with a 
fawn black-muzzled dog, Turk, the property of the late 
Lord Waldegrave, a splendid, high-couraged dog ; and with 
great interest and considerable cost I obtained the use of 
‘ Pluto,’ the Marquis of Hertford’s well-known mastiff dog, 
considered by judges the finest and best bred dog of his day, 
and valued immensely by the Marquis. I have not had any 
other cross but the Turk and Pluto breed, having kept 
bitches from one and dogs from the other. Wallace, the 
grandsire of my present dog Wallace, was an immense ani- 
mal, standing 33 inches at the shoulder, 50 inches round the 
body, and weighed 172 pounds. The Nepaulese Princes 
bought a brother and sister at eight months old and gave 
£105 for them. The late Pasha of Egypt for five successive 
years had two pair of whelps sent Spring and Autumn from 
Southampton.”’ 
“« Jersey” is one of the finest bred and marked bitches I 
have ever seen or had any knowledge of; she has a rich 
black muzzle and head, and the black extends down her 
breast and forelegs and strongly interspersed along the back. 
She is considerably larger than her mother, is very kind 
and gentle, and sometimes shows great pluck and sagacity. 
Sherry” is a beautiful fellow, with no mixture of black on 

the body, taller, but not so long as Jersey; has a fine large 
head, but not so fully and so densely marked with black; is 
kind, but not so social—more reserved in his deportment, 
less courteous towards strangers, and has the habit of look- 
ing them very steadily in the eye without any recognition, 
and seems to act as if they had no business with him. The 
head of a mastiff should be massive, with a broad and flat 
forehead ; flews deep; face short, with a square muzzle, not 
tapering toward the point of the nose; teeth level, but some- 
times there is a slight projection of the lower ones; ears 
small, thin, and totally pendant, lying close to the cheek, 
though set on further back than in the hound, pointer, and 
setter; eyes small, but mild and intelligent in expression, 
and should be set wide apart; neck muscular, with the head 
well set into it, showing a light prominence at the upper 
point of junction ; it should be short and free from throat- 
ness; body very large, with deep and wide chest, well ribbed 
up and a powerful loim; legs straight, with great bone; feet 
round and close; coat short and tail fine, but not too much 
tapered, and with a very slight indication of roughness; it 
should be carried low, except when the dog is excited. Color 
most to be desired is fallow (fawn) with black muzzle, and 
the richer the black the better; next to this comes the brin- 
dle, then red with black muzzle, or black; sometimes there 
is considerable admixture of white, but this is not desirable. 
Height from 29 to 31 inches in the dog, and even more if a 
fine symmetry can be obtained; bitches are two or three 
inches longer. A dog standing 29 inches high ought to 
weigh, in good condition (not fat), from 120 to 130 pounds. 
I measured the dog and bitch this morning. The dog 
measures in height 283 inches; length to tail 454 inches; 
tail 18 inches ; 63 inches from point of nose to end of tail, or 
5 feet 3 inches; head from tip of nose to crown of head, 10 
inches, and 20 inches around. 
The bitch: Height, 28 inches; length, 48 inches; tail, 18 
inches, or 5 feet 6 inches; head, from top of nose to crown 
of head, 10 inches, and around, 20 inches. I. V. W. 
GREENVILLE, N. J. 
A DISAFFECTED ‘‘WORLD” THAT REQUIRES 
DISINFECTING. 
AFrvreErR the meeting of the Executive Committee of the 
American Poultry Association, held at the Metropolitan 
Hotel, in the city of New York, July 23d, the editor of the 
Poultry World seems to have gone home in a dangerous con- 
dition. If the report is reliable, he commenced backing 
himself up in a small corner of his paper, and began to snarl, 
show his teeth, and romp around most fearfully. In fact, 
he shows all the symptoms of a person affected with rabies. 
The dog-days and the canine excitement in New York was 
too much for our worldly friend. He informs us, that by 
the time his next paper comes out again, he will demonstrate 
to us that he is stark mad. If we inquire into the origin of 
this terrible malady affecting our friend of the World, we 

