Title: Fancier's journal, vol. 5 Piano rtf Piihlication: Phila.. Pa, Copyright Date: July, 1890 - December, 1890 Master Negative Storage Number: MNS# PSt SNPaAg245.5 FILMED WHOLE OR IN PART FROM A COPY BORROWED FROM: National Agricultural Library Volume 5 July, 1890- December, 1890 t y 52751 3^y^ VOI^. 5, NO. 1. \ \VHOL.K NO., «8.) PHILADELPHIA, JULY 5, 1890. ( PEIt ANNUM, fS.OO. \ SINGLE COl'Y, 8o. CO to 0£ ]^ THE NIGHTINGALE (Lifesize). THK FANCIERS- JOURNAL. IN THE STUD. y^w ''"^'""T"* «>««rfarf HMder Ih is heading at th* toUo-un«K ,ates. Onfinch, singU insertion. $, Jo; S^.4o/<„ Ih, month: Sis Jo, three months; ttSJbi- stx months, and Sso for the year. *'oj<^ D ICK IN THE STUD. V jor SIX months, ami tso for the year. IN THE STUD. ..r^'^yf' ''"""'>"' i^if' I'd under this heading at £j*^/;»tv //,*'■ '""';'^■ ''■« ^'^ '*'"- months; fiS Jot siA months, and $50 for the year. QwiVEtER IRISH SETTKR 18410.) SETTERS & POINTERS C^^^^'ON GORDON SETTER OF AMERICA, DESMOND II I LITTLE BOY nl,^.'.""tL "'■'''■ J'^llK'ish ami American chain- pions Winner at Toledo of special "Best soort- W?,n,°Jf ".V'^''°>^" ^'^ Jol"> Davidson ju'dge Winner at Cincinnati o( Mjecial, "Best setter or polii or sl.iddoB. that is tfie sire of the greatest number of prixeu in ners." Winner of FORTV (Kid hrsts and specials, under judges : Major J. M. Taylor, IJr. Jarvis. Mr. Tallman, . Mr. MIkkuis, etc. Mr. V. C. Stcrlinjf. Shown l)y Mr. B V. I.ewis Stud lee \i^ for a limited number of bitches WAVKKI.Y KKNNKI,S IJULV 5, ,890 THE KENNEL. .^'^'''^"''"^'"'i i«ifrted under this heading a CHESTNUT HILL KENNELS. VOL. 5. NO. I.] Mr. John Davidson. Mr. Tracy, WIMHER FIRST. CHALLENGE CLASS, HEW YORK, 1890, BKATING Blarney, Tim, Oerald, Chief and Desmond II. NOW IN STUD AT CHICAGO. For term., extended pediKii«= ,nd full list of winnings ad- dress GEO. H. COVERT (Owner), 177 State Street, Chicago, III. 5O-I0I JRISn SKTTKR AT STUD. nHmriUN bLAKNbY FHK, I25. ENGLISH SETTER, ROD GEM (RODKrEGO— GEM.) FEE. $25. B. F. LEWIS, Box 13, ^''^ Merion P. O., Pa. v^Jr^A t "t'= '"■'^ ^y '**^- K. OCallaghan, hi?,?L wi "y i^'^'*^.*-™"'* " This doK com- wV., fi ."' **^''* "'"1 ^""^ show qualities. He field fn^i^"^! '" i,''^ "f*'^ «' the^Philadelphia Phil r? l?^/"''°"'*"^l*"c'' has won. first, R^h-i; '''""c..''''*'i J''''y- fi"^"'. Albany; first Rochester 18M and first, challenge classV Phila^ delphia 1889. stud fee. $35. ^ ' SIR TATTON B^'iH''?"7''y.**''^^"*'""-B'-"e of Kumess. K^ J """'^I"^ special at Philadelphia, iSHo first and special at London, Ont., 1889, and win- wl ^*°f^?V' ^"5? '^"P* '" England. This dog 18 a woncfcrful performer in the field. Fee, $35. DASHING KENT Same pedigrree as Sir Tatton. A young dog oj great promise; excellent in the field. Vee, $25. CARLTON PERO By Sir Tatton— Princess Charlotte II. Winner of numerous prizes in punpy classes in England last year and winner of second prize, puppy A grand dog in the field. Fee, $25. GAMBOL Pointer, full brother to Woolton Game by Gough —Larkspur. A superb field dog. Fee, $25. J^}^y!'^^^°7f^ bitches sent to us to be served ™il^ pSiiT^' °\ exi.ense. Terms cash in ad- ^uSS^. ?'"^"" "."t proving in whelp will be en- titled to free service. I titra"'^"''*^ pedigrees and stud cards on applica- East End Kennel Club, Carb W. H. Weiss, *^"9< Bethlehem, Pa. Ji^s by Beaumont otTt of Ch "npi"^ «i'"'>^t;,?,'.'*^ ''y Champion Pilot out of Co" ite^s BEAUMONT KENNELS, 65-68 ,5y West 34th St., New York. KOR SALE Collies & Irish Terriers abS;*e feT '?!fl,?e's"^f """""^ °' P"PP'" °f CHRISTOPHER, CHAMPION SCOTILLA, CHAMPION THE SQUIRE, MANEY TREFOIL AND R08LYN WILKES. •^^rfi™'."!'""'!'^ ^J°^ bitches (in whelp) and ^r™da Trn^y""" '"""" °"' "'^ Champion We have also for sale at our English kennels ^^veral good collie bitches in whefp to Christo* PRICES I150 TO $250 (delivered). P INTER IN STUD. yORKSHIRK TOY TERRIER AT STUD. BRADFORD HARRY. wiij^e^,^'^^SKS"?:'iHo^%e^^*^^i-r^^ Yorkshire in America." Two photographs from free ^'ueri!.'; . ''^'"'"'^'^ Pjlig^ee an^'^in'.Un ™ free. Reliable young stock for sale. UV-.C ^ ^ ^- "• COOMBS, 50-75 I Exchange Block, Bangor, Me. TEMPEST. I *.h^rt UnlV^^* *''" ^^ KENNELS FOR A CH. BEAUFORT, leteaUi:i!^;sr.tt.ISr^nch^''„Td''rs mr^.V""'".'"' '''^« '"'^'- P'"^^ him th" best mastiff ever known He is the sire of more and S?n^HffK''"f *V'"7J' '»"" "" othe" living Mastiff brec* Nearly 200 dogs of nearly all breeds are offered for kale. Now is the time of year to buy good dogs cheap I ist mailed on application ^ '^^ ' " 63-tf ASSOCIATED FANCIERS, 140 S. 8th St., Phila., Pa. poiNTER IN STUD. LEBANON gT. BERNARD AT STUD. THE PRIZE WINNER ALPINE CHIEF (9736) Kondi'r^S c"''„'"''*^V"','." ' ,l?7fi5) ; Red Boy by s*in!s Tuik-Belion^!' ^"" <** ** » '^"' "^ ^""^ Bred by Herr Tuchschmid, Switzerland. FEE $40. Address j. h. GAULT, 60-72 f.aul and Adams St., Phlln., Pa. Irish Setter at Stud. SCOTLAND CHIEF, (A. K. C. S. B. 14357) (Kelsey-s Red II-Le.ster» Champion Maud II). Winner of 2d at Cincinnati, iSyo. (His first ai>- pearanoe at any show ) -y" v i>» nrsi ai>- lio""Kxf«Idi.H'^'' """'*'" o*" approved bitches. Jio. Extended pedigree on application. SEMINOLE KENNELS, **"'' Chestnut Hill, Phila., Pa. THE KENNEL. TABLE OP CONTENTS. Pngc. BY TIM— PEG. RECORD: Divided fourth Eastern Field Trials, 1888; winner of second Eastern Field Trials and first at Central Field Trials, 1H89. VV.n, $50. Lebanon Kennels, ^^^ LEBANON, PA. JRISH SETTERS AT STID ST. CLOUD (12,131) CH. KI.CIIO NOKI-KN GLENMAR I (13.426) CH. <;lencho-mavoi;rneen. f .u"'''*)'^'' ''Y^''^ above dogs. Ch Elcho Ir and I others for sale. ST. CLOUD KENNe/,S. 62tf Tremonl. N. V. Fox Terriers. PUPPIES AND YOUNG BITCHES for ii;ile from celebrated sires and pri/.c-wiiiiiiiig dams yiLLsiDE Kennels, 53 104 LANCASTER, MASS. Fixtures. I>^ Shows. Field Trials, Poultrv and Pigeon Shows, and Courting The Kennel. Current Reports .... Kiti-Pooul Cats 12 Cage Birds and Pets. The Nightingale's Song .... ,, By the Way., . '•' Our Illustration. '3 Snakes.. .*.... ... 13 Monkeys (continued}!. ....'.'. J? *3 .8 .8 .8 . 8 •9 • 9 . 10 . 10 10 . II . II . II . It L' ^ i i THE FANCIERS' JOURNAL. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY. At ii South Third St., I'iiilauklphia, Pa., By the FflNciERS' Publishing %q. SUBSCRIPTION RATES iIN ADVANCE): S2.50 PER ANNUM. CLUBS OF FIVE OR MORE, $2.00 EACH PER YEAR. Foreig^n Subecriptlons, 128. ADVERTISINQ RATES: CLASStPiBD Advkhtising, without display, two cents per word for every iu.sertioii. SritD AND Brkkdkhk' Cards, Ii.jo per inch for single insertion. $,s. 40 fur one month, $15 for three months, $28 for six months and I50 per year. Disi-LAVRD Advertising, $3 per inch for first and $2 per inch for subsequent insertions. Advertisements must reach us by Thursday to insure insertion in the current week. Make all remittances payable and ad- dress all coniniiDiications to Fanciers' Publishing Co., Philadelphia, Pa. P. O. Box. yi6. Entered at the Philadelphia Post Office as Second ^Class Matter. PHILADELPHIA. PA., JULY 5, 1890. Subscription Agents Wanted We wish to appoint an agent in every town iu the United Stales and Canada to solicit subscriptions for The Fanciers' Journal. A liberal ca.sh cotnniission is offered on all new subscriptions. Write for terms to agents. > FIXTURES. Dog Shows. Sept. 2-4— Midland Central Fair Association Bench Show, Kingston, Ont., Canada. C. H. Corbett, superintendent; R. W. Meek, secretary. Sept. 2-s.— Wilmington Fair Association Bench Show. T. D. Brown, secretary, Wilmington, Del. Sept. 2-5— Michigan Kennel Club, Detroit. Mich. M. V. B. Saunders, secretary. Sept. 9 to 12.— Toledo Kennel Club, Toledo, O. . Charles E. Rowland, secretary. Sept. 15-19.— Second International Dog Show of the Industri.il Exhibition Association, at To- ronto. Canada. C. A. Stone, secretary. Sept. 23-26.— Central Canada P^xhibition A.sso- ciation. at Ottawa. Canada. Alfred Geddes, chairman. Oct. 6-9. — Ninth annual dog show of the Dan- bury Agricultural Society, at Danbury, Conn., B. C. Lynes, secretary. Field Trials. Nov. 3. — Fourth annual field trials of the Indi- ana Kennel Club at Carlisle, Ind., P. T. Madison, Indianapolis, Ind., secretary. Nov. 10— Second annual field trials of the Canadian Kennel Club, at Chatham. Ont., C. A. Stone, Toronto, Out., secretary. Nov. 17.— Twelfth annual field trials of the Pastern Field Trials Club, aKJtterbnrn Springs, Va. W. A. Coster. Saratoga Springs. N. Y.. sec- retary. Dec. I.— Second annual field trials of the Cen- tral Field Trials Club, at Lexington, N. C. C. H. Odcll, Mills Building, New York, secretary. Dec, 15.— Philadelphia Kennel Club's seventh annual field trials at Deatotisville, Va. 1«J>1. Jan, 19.— Eighth aiiiiunl field trials cf the Pa- cific Kennel Club, at Uakersfield. Cal. H. H. Briggs, secretary. Feb. 2.— Third annual field trials of the South- ern Field Trials Club. T. M. Brunby. .secretary, Marietta. Ga. Coni-sliijU'. Oct. 21-25. — Hifth annual meet of the American Coursing Club, at Great Bend, Kan. I. D. Brougher, secretary. Poultry ami Pl^oon iShows Sept. 1-6.— Wilmington Fair Association Poul- try and Bird Department. T.D.Brown, .secre- tary, Wilmington, Del. Sept. K-i 2. —Burlington County, N. J., Poultry Association. T. Farrer Kackham, secretary, East Orange. N. J. Sept. 29-Oct. 3,— Inter-State Fair Association, Trenton. N, J., Poultry, Pigeons and Pets De- partment. Franklyn Dye. superintendent. Nov. S- 12.— Southern Exposition. Montgomery, Ala., Poultry Department. T. Farrer Kackham, superintendent, F^sl Orange, N. J. Jan. 13-17.— International Exhibition of the South Carolina Poultry and Pet Slock Associa- tion nt Charleston, S. C. Benjamin Mclnnis, Jr., secretarv. H. A. Bridge, superintendant. Aug. 2fi-Sept. 5— Detroit International Fair ami Exhibition Association, Detroit. E. W. Cottrell, secretary. • Sept. i-i2.-F:iniira Inter-State Fair. Mr. George W. Robinson, secretary. Sept. 0-20.— Buffalo International Pair. Mr. Charles W. Robinson, secretary. Sept. 22-27,— Indiana State Fair. Alex Heron, secretary. Dec. 9-16.— Northern Illinois Poultry and Pet Stock Association, Rockford. A. H. Currier, secretary. Dec. 10-12.- Brockton Poultry and Pet Stock Association. Brockton. Mass. William F. Bond, secretary. Box 795. Dec. 23-26.— p^astern Middlesex Poultrv Asso- ciation, Stoneham, Mass. Mr. G. W. Cormack, secretary. Dec. 30,-Jan. 6 —Illinois State Poultry Associa- tion, Peoria. J. W. Burton, secretary. Jan. 23-16. Mohawk Valley Poultrv and Pet Stock Association. Amsterdam, N. Y.' Mr. Wil- liam C. House, secretary, Freys Bush, N. Y. THE KENNEL. CURRENT REPORTS. I thought it but a friendly part to tell you What strange reports are currenfhere in town. — The Spanish Student. Mr. Vredenburgh has chosen an inop- portune moment to prefer charges against Mr. Peshall. It has already been stated in the kennel papers that the former gentleman and his friends on the Advisory Committee have adopted this means of getting rid of Mr. Peshall. • « « We regret exceedingly that A. K. C. affairs are in this state, and we believe that such things would not have come to pass had diplomatic courtesy existed at headquarters. « • * The most unfortunate part of this con- troversy is the incalculable harm it will work iu our kennel world. Maryland and other clubs, ostracised by selfish majorities, will form a circuit of shows and ignore the A. K. C. entirely. Our note stating that Mr. R. F. May- hew is no longer with Turf, Field and Farm was crowded out last week. Doggy friends can now find him at the office of the Sporting World, 16 Spruce Street, New York. * « We are sorry to learn that Dr. Alex- ander Glass was severely kicked by a horse a few days since. His clinical lectures will be missed. We hope only for a short time, however. In the neighborhooe disqualified under the new rules. » « » Mr. C. A. Stone writes: "The premium lists of the Industri.il Exhibition Associ- ation's second grand international bench show of dogs, to be held in the city of Toronto, Canada, Septetnlier 15 to ly. are now ready and can \>e had by applying to the secretary. A new building two hundred feet long by one hundred feet wide and costing fHuutj is being erected sjjecially for the show. A large numl)er of enquiries regarding the show are already coming in, and it promises to be the largest and most important ever held in the Dominion. The Toronto ex- hibition is annually visited by over two hundred and fifty thousand people, and the majority will undoubtedly watit to see the caliines." » • Mr. h. A. Rice writes: "My little daughter and my Irish setter Shamrock were sitting on my door step yesterday afternoon when a boy named Ryon at- tempted to strike the dog with a stick. Shamrock, like a true Irishman, resented the insult and bit the boy. Sooner than have any trouble with the Ryon people I had the dog killed at the Refuge for -.» . . f^~. * Shamrock was a valuable stud dog, and we think Mr. Rice made a great mistake in having him put out of the way. * Mr. James F. Hall's rough-coated St. Bernard bitch has lately paid a visit across the water to Dr. Robert's Cham- pion Pouf * « The American Stock-Keeper will here- after appear weekly. It's as progressive as the typical Yankee. Peregrine's con- tributions to this paper have taken well with its readers. ♦ • « We understand, says the Stock-Keeper, that Mr. R. McEwen, of Alloway Lodge, Byron, Ontario, has purchased from Mr. L. P. C. Astley, Scent, by Sefton— Min- nie, a young brother of the Champion Metchley Wonder. This is a very nice young dog, with the head of the strain, plenty of bone, a gooeaks of accidents to the dogs en route or their dying at the kennels soon after arrival. Of course under those circum- stances the man keeping the boarding kennel could not be held responsible. In all ca.ses. however, he should l)e made prove that it was from no lack of care or vigilance on his part that the animal was hurt or died. There is no excuse whatever for allowing a dog to escape and become lost while it is under your charge. It is simply a proof of groM negligence. ♦ » « On this subject Fanciers' Gazette says this week : "A discussion is going on in America on a subject which is of great itiiixirlaiice to dog-breeders. Mrs. Grant sent one of her dogs on a visit to the kennels of Mr. Emken, from which it escHfjed in consequence, as Mrs. Grant states, of its not being properly taken care of This opens up the question of liability for damages under such circum- stances against owners of stud dogs, which, if alloweeen in- [JULV 5, 1890 jured) and its human eyes were gray and piercing. The third had a blue-ticked beagle Ixxly and a beautiful blonde mous- tache. The last had the body of a St. Bernard (the hind legs were the straight- est I ever saw), and in its human mouth was a horn which looked very familiar to me. Most of the human-headed canines ap- peared to be parched for thirst. Moved by pity I went to a fountain from which a stream of water was jrushing and filled some pans with the cooling liquid. I offered it to several, but they all refused to drink and made a barking noi.se that sounded like " Milk." Dashing the pan to the floor in my anger at their ingratitude, they one and all set up such a terrible barking and howling that I awoke to hear a pounding on my bed-room door. "Wake up, Filz, for gracious sake! There is a man out front with a wagon load of dogs, and he insists upon leaving them here. Wake up ! wake up ! " I recognized Aunt Bess' voice. Dress- ing as quickly as possible, I rushed down stairs. Sure enough, before the front gate was a big two-horse wagon belonging to Adams Express Company, piled up with boxes of dogs. They were raising a terrible row, and the neighbors who were just returning from church were gathered m groups on the sidewalk curi- ously watching the strange scene. " What the d 1 does this mean .> " I shouted to the driver. "Is your name Mr. Fitz-PootUe ?" he inquired. "Yes." "You're goin' to run the dog show wot comes off next week ?" "Yes." "Well, I've orders from headquarters to unload this lot of dogs at your house Where I'll put 'em, out here or take 'eni 'round back ?" "This dog show isn't to be held here and if you take a Iwx off that wagon I'll get a pistol and blow out your brains Whose infernal stupidity is this, anv- how?" ^ "I reckon nobody's to blame, it's only force of circu mstan ces, " he repl ied "I'll tell you all about it if you'll just keep your temper." As I uiu not know what else to do I told him to proceed and get through as quickly as possible, and haul that whelp- ing load away. Here is his story : "You see, sir. the express office is next door to a MethwJist church. To-day's Sunday, ain't it ? Well, they're holding a revival meeting there, and when the choir started in this morning to sing these here dogs that had come on Satur- day night's trains joined in. Sich a howlin' vou never heard. The meetin' folks paid no attention to it at first but every tune a brother or si.ster would shout "Amen" every dog would bark. Patience at last ceased to lie even a Christian virtue they stopped the services till the sexton could hunt up the company's superin- tendent. "He came to the office as mad as a hornet and told me to hitch up the horses to the wagon, load in the dogs and take 'em to the. hall, and if I couldn't get in there to bring 'em down to you I'urthermore he told me if you wouldn't receive them to dump the hull load inter -the river. You see. sir, the company don t propose to take any chances of gettm' sued for distnrbin' religious services. I've been to the hall and can't get in. and I've got to obey orders and deliver these dogs som' ares. Now where shall I put them off. front or back ? ... ?*"'.^^*^'*'"''' ^^^^^ man," I answered Uke them to the hall. I have the key and will let you in. Only drive out of this neighborhood as (juickly as possible In the excitement of the moment I jumped on the seat beside him. Taking the whip I gave the horses a lash and they went down the street on a dead run But, alas, we had to pass the house of my l>e8t girl, and she was sitting on the front porch. She looked at tub in open- eyed wonder as I .lashed by, an.l when I calle.l that night she had gone to church with another fellow. How bitterly then I cursed the exhibi- tors who ignored the rules printed in the front of the premium list (which .lis- tinctly stated in black type : "No dogs will fje receivelicateody is connected by nerves with the regulating Ixxly, the brain. If then, we have injury to some of the cells of the brain, we get injury or disease in certain portions of the body which are regulate.l by that portion of the brain Again, if we get mischief in certain por- tions of the body, we may get mischief in the brain, l)ecause the nerve terminations in the cells of that portion of the Ixxly l)ecoine affected, an.l in this manner the nerves lea.ling back to the brain, and eventually i)erh.-ips to the brain itself, may suffer ; an.l in conclusion, if the sijinal cord be cut near the brain, the whole machine ceases to work, because " tlie controlling power is destroyed. [to be continued.] VOL. 5, NO. I.] I THE FANCIERS JOURNAI^^ Couldn't Stand the Suspense. The following amusing ancedote ap- peared in a contemporary: "Why did you shoot the mnn'sdog?" asked the justice of a western .settlement. •He says he was perfectly quiet and never dis- turbed anyone." •Well, noksthat were presented to him and had signe.l the statement. He ha.l fonii.l that the accounts had been added up correctly, but that he could not give me any of the items, and that he was there only a short time." In fact, from his conversation I soon .liscovered that he knew less alxjut the accounts than I did. I then stated to him that as he was the delegate of the N. J. K. C, and as it had been stated that delegates could get those items, or information regarding the books of the A. K. C, I would write a letter to the secretary of the A. K. C, stating what I wanted, and then get him to also write a letter, endorsing my request. This was agree.l to and I sat .lown at Mr. Wilmerding's desk and wrote this letter : New York, February 18, 1890. A. P. Vredenbi^r<;h, Esq., Secretary A. K. C. Will you kindly give me the items thiil go to make tip the sum of $1228 balance on hand as ap pears m your repksand that he had gone oyer them. I asked him if he had looked at the vouchers, etc., and he said no. I then told him that I would leave the letter as it was, as the accounts had not been audited, and that he, in answer to it, could state just -what he had done. So far as Mr. La Rue, the other mem- ber of this committee, is concerned, I will say that I have had several conver- sations with him since he signed that re- jK)rt, and I found from his conversations that he was not present with Mr. Wil- merding and Major Taylor, but went to the office of the A. K. C. by himself and ma.le his examination of the books that were presented to him by the treasurer. I also asked him if he had gone over the vouchers, etc., and had audited the ac- counts, and his reply was, no. I asked him if he could give me those items, and he said "No." I recollect reading a letter written by Mr. La Rue in which he stated, substan- tially, "that he had looked over the books an.l the statement submitted to him for his examination," and I now affirm that the accounts have never been audited by any committee. The salad was prepared by Mr. Vredenburgh on the .lay this so-called Auditing Committee was appointed, for I find in the Kennel Gazette for December, 1889, in the re- port made by Mr. Vredenburgh, the fol- lowing : The secretary suggested that he should make out his statement for the year 1889 for publica- tion, and that the Chair appoint a committee who would endorse on the bottom of his account that they had examined his accounts and found This committee evidently ate that salad, and from their card I should judge that it had soured upon their stomachs. That the officers of the A. K. C. imposed upon the committee is evident for the reason that the salad, which is now nau- seating them, Was garnished with the private books or accounts which were kept by Mr. Lewis, under his exhaustive contract with the Stud-Book Committee ; that is, if they .li.l not inform this com- mittee of the facts regarding that con- tract. Peshall. Jersey City, June 27, 1890. Mr. Vredenbnrach Prefers Chanres AKHinat Mr. Pcwiiall. f American Kennel Club. Office OF-< Araeri<»n Kennel Gazette. (American Kennel Club Stud-Book. 44 and 46 Broadway. New York, June 27, 1890. Mr. Chakles J. Peshall. Jersey City, N. J. Dear Sir : I beg to forward vou hen^ with a copy of the charges and specifications preferred against you, and to advi.se you that a meeting of the Advisory Committee has been orderea for Wednesday, July 2, 1890, at 1,30 P. M., to be held at the office of the club for the purpose of considering said charges, I am instructed by the committee to inform you that all the books and papers l>elonging to the club will be in the cu.stocK' of said cx>mmittee, and that you will be afforded the privilege of (minting out such items that you may find in support of your accusations, as published iti the sporting papers of June 19-21, 1.S90, The com- mittee will afford you every facility you desire in conducting your defense. Yours, etc, A. P. Vredenburgh, Secretary. THE CHARGES. (■American Kennel Club. Office of < American Kennel Gazette, (American Kennel Club Stud-Book. 44 and 46 Broadway. \. V. VRKDENDt'R.JH, Secretary, vs. Charles J, Peshall. CHAR.iK I. That Charles J. Peshall did circulate and continue to circulate, false, malicious and libelous letters calculated to impair the authority and usefulness or the American Kennel Club and its publications, and to in- jure my reputation and .standing as an officer of said club. Specification — In that he caused to be published in the Forest and Stream, June 19, iHgo; Turf, Field and Fiirm, June 19. 1890: Ameri- can Field, June 21, 1890, a letter signed by himself containing false statements regara- ing the management and financial condition of the club. Charge II. That Charles J. Peshall wilfully vio- lated RuU 22, of the rules governing l)ench shows as adopted May, 1887. Specification— \n that he exhibited a dog at a show held under A. K. C. rules in his own name as owner, at which time said dog was not his property. Charge III. That Charles J. Peshall wilfully violated Rule 25 of the rules governing bench shows, as adopted December 6, 1888. Specification — In that he misrepresented the value of a dog at the time of making a sale. Specification — In thit he conspired with one John N. Lewis to give a fictitious value to a dog, for the purpose of enabling said Lewis to oflersaia dog for sale, at a price t>eyond its real value. The subscriber believes that he can substantiate the above charges, and would ask for a sentence of }>ermanent disquali- fication against said Charles J. Peshall. (Signed,) A. P. VREDENBintOH, Secretary. THE SPECIAL PRIZE FOR PUGS. Editor Fanciers' Journal. Sir : I think it's about time for me to say something as to the much-talked of special kennel prize for the best four pugs, which was won — fair and square — at the late Cincinnati Bench Show by the Eberhart Pug Kennels. Your item in issue of June 2 1 , wherein you say that "Dr. Cryer will protest this award," tends to mislead. You state that "the prize not being in the judges' book, was not awarded by Mr. Mortimer, etc., and that after he left, the management gave it to the Eberhart Pug Kennels." You have lieen misin- formed. The prize zvas in Mr. Morti- mer's book, being the only one on the first page, and it was awarded by Mr. James Mortimer himself to the Eberhart Kennels. These are the plain facts of the case, as the book will show. I was ring steward for Mr. Mortimer, and while assisting him in that capacity in awarding the specials the mommg of the second day of the show, I saw him write it down in the book, Eberhart Ken- nels. I said to him then, "much obliged, Mr. Mortimer." He re^^lied "L)cn** mention it, my boy." Now here you have it straight, the whole thing in a nut shell. Mr. Mortimer's reputation as a judge and of knowing just what he is doing, is so well known to us all that further com- ment is unnecessary. Dr. Cryer has pro- tested the award, and the Cincinnati Kennel Club decided that the award must stand as made at a meeting called to act on this matter Monday, June 23, 1890. I will only add that it seems funny that every time the Eberhart Pug Kennels have made a win there has been someone to do some "kicking." This is getting monotonous. Yours for a square deal, Al. G. Eberhart, Manager Eberhart Pug Kennels. KEmwnEN (Champion Plinlimmon — L«dy Linton), to Dr. Roberts' Champion PoiTF (Garnet— Bo- Peep), May 31. F. OWKNS' Gordon seller bitch MAt'D, to Beaumont Kennels' Champion Beai;mont, June 14. GEORGE H. COVERT'S Irish setter bitch Lone Star Queen (8467), to his Dick Swiveler (8410), June 23, GEORGE H, COVERT'S Irish settler bitch Glidelia (15,9,^6), to his Dick Swivelbk (8410), June 9. GEORGE H. COVERTS Irish setter bitch Lit- tle Nell (3951). to his Dick Swivelbk (8410), June 19. WHKLPS. M. H. MILLS' Irish setter bitch Stella IV (B. 20.485), whelped June 19, 1890, eleven, seven dogs, to George H. Covert's Dick Swiveler (8410). T. J. TYRRELL'S fox terrier bitch New Forest R1188ETT (New Forest Rustic — Gay), whelped June 27, nine, six dogs, to Tblforo (Cham- pion Raby Mixer— Temptation). He Washed the Dishes. "I say, stranger," said a cottage ur- chin to a Yankee pedlar, "don't whistle that 'ere dog away." "Why, he ain't no use no how ; he'a too ugly." "Oh, but he saves heaps of work." "How?" "Why, he licks the plates and dishes clean so that they never wants washing, and mother says she would not part with him no how, for out new dog hain't got used to mustard yet." THE FANCIERS' JOURNAL. LJULY 5, 1890 SPARKS FROM BRITTLE'S PEN. Interestin)^ Facts and Fancies Culled from the DogRv World. Special Correspondence Fanciers' Journal. Things (doggy, I mean,) are surely reaching a climax. No sooner do the papers publish Mr. Peshall's manifesta- tion than the next week's issues contain a total refutal not only from Mr. Vredeu- burgh, but the Auditing Committee as well. The air is too overcharged ; some- thing must go bang, but what it will l>e time, the devourer of all things, will alone show. Mr. Vredenburgh's last Bcntence i-elatiug to preferring charges against Mr. Peshall and asking his per- manent disqualification is somewhat of a puzzle to me. What is he to be dis(juali- fied for ? Because he has accused Mr. Vredenburgh and others of^uot exactly cooking the accounts to the A. K. C.'s loss, but of manipulating them to the latter's advantage ? Or because his per- sonal allusions to Mr. Vredenburgh are not correct ? Or what ? If either of the first two are to be preferred, they are surely very slender grounds with which to place a gentleman on an equality with fraud, dishonesty and thieving, which I take it are the three components generally attached to those who are "ruled off." I can quite understand Mr. Vredenburgh and others feeling sore at Mr. Peshall's continual harping on the account busi- ness, as well as persistently claiming cer- tain inaccuracies, which are probably not true, but this can give no reason for an attempt to brand an ultra opponent with such a disgraceful stigma. Such a course, if the A. K. C. are un- wiac cuiiugli iw linien io, i.s not only ex- ceeding all rights of the liljerty of the subject, hut is practically laying down a precedent which, literally interpreted, would say : "All ye who hold not with our methods and doubt them shall be adjudged fit only to rank with the basest criminals." Were one in Russia this would be all very well, but emanat- ing as it does from a country which boasts of "freedom," it transforms the emblem into a mockery. Personally I have never agreed with Mr. Peshall or his actions with relation to the A. K. C.'s debit and credit balance. It had too much the appearance of seiz- ing an opportunity to fight the "person- nel" of the A. K. C. Also, many months back when he first commenced this crusade he was assured with an em- phasis which was equivalent to "the as- surer's word of honor," that his surniists were entirely wrong. This should have satisfied him ; but, no, the thing had be- come so deeply rooted in his mind that I verily l)elieve if .\menca's whole popula- tion had told him he was on a wrong tack, he would have still maintained his views to be correct. The whole business had become part of himself, and for the past few months it has held him in liond- age as much as opium does a Cliiiianiaii ; morphine a fiend of its designation, and drink the many who are its slave. Con- sidering this and knowing with what persistency he was capable of continuing his accusations, the A. K. C. would probably have saved an immense amount of bickering, ink slinging and whatnot if they had satiated his mania by giving way to it and allowing him to go into the most minute details. It would jicrhaps have l>een without precedent, nor would it probably have l>een acting strictly up to the letter of its constitution, but it vould have been a diplomatic move, and one that would have effectually pre- vented all these undesirable crimina- tions. The A. K. C, though it may not agree with me, cannot afford to i>ut its foot on Mr. Peshall any more than the public allow the A. K. C. to shik into oblivion. The latter is very improbable, whilst the fornicr at pre.sent looks probable. By saying "the A. K. C. cannot afford" I do not mean it in the way of a threat, but simply that Mr. Peshall's ultra views are as desirable for its welfare as are the ex- treme radicals a necessity in any govern- ment. They both act as propellers, and force the less headstrong to move a little quicker than they otherwise would do. Again it must be remembered the A. K. C. is only past cutting its front teeth, and has not nearly approached that time when the tooth of wisdom shows sighs of being perfected. There- fore due allowance must be made for its little exhibitions of temper and indiscre- tions, and here it is that Mr. Peshall could have used his judgment to advant- age, instead of wasting his time in dol- lars and cents, and the why and where- fore of their expenditure and incoming. However, no matter how aggravating and I may say blindly rash in his assertions Mr. Peshall may have been, it will be a far wiser course, as well as having a more salutary effect, if Mr. Vredenburgh lets the subject rest with his letters, thereby leaving it with the public to judge just how many of Mr. Peshall's assertions are valuable and how many are not. For if the committee of the A. K. C. listens to his charges, whatever they may be, one of two things musl happen, either Mr. Peshall's acquittal, or condem- nation. In the one Mr. Vredenburgh will to a certain extent receive a rebuff, which is most undesirable. In the other the A. K. C. will be accused of cliquism, which is equally as undesirable. So that, take it all in all, it would be the better policy to let the matter drop un- less the whole thing is brought before "a general meeting." to my mind the "beau ideal." They were not foxhound type. In fact, many of the winners I have seen have been of the "type " which Kugland ad- mires, and which America does also, but the latter gives it a "misnomer," and calls it foxhound, when it is no such thing. On the other hand, seeing what a stick- ler Hiliemia is for foxhound type, I will take the beagle that won the cup for the Ijest at New York— Storm. Is he like a foxhound, or anything else, in head, character and expression that Hibemia ever saw ? I trow not. Can Hibernia or any other fair-minded man feel proud of such a specimen carrying off such honors ? I hope not ! And without wishing to be personal as regards Mr. Schellhass, or hurting the feelings of Storm's owner, in my humble opinion he was about the worst in the class. Nor can such an as- sertion be classified as that of English ideas when there were certainly four ex- hibits coinciding with them, ' 'and in the challenge class," so that the four must have won somewhere, and that noi in England under an English judge. There- fore how can one reconcile the fact that beagles win in this country that are "English type," and yet, according to popular ideas, nol English type. The fact is, judges — at least those I have seen — give first as a rule to the P^nglish type, and flatter themselves they are going in quite another direction and one that has been created by themselves, and the truth is, they are unable to distinguish between foxhound characteristics and those of a real beagle. No, Hibernia, the standard, with one exception, is all right, but the application of it, in many cases, is all wrong. The exception is re- lating to the feet, in which it is laid down they can be "harelike in form." Such a feature to me would lie an abhorrence, and I think it would to most people. Hibernia's letter last week in answer to my remarks about beagles requires a few explanations from me. In the first place I would like to speak about the fox- hound type, which Hibernia lays such store by. Of course all honnd-s— fox- hounds, harriers and l)eagles — resemble one another in color, and, to an inexpe- rienced eye, type ; also all domestic ani- mals used for a similar purpose, to one in which speed, strength and hardihood are required, have practically the same ana- tomical construction. Therefore in shape and make the beagle is a miniature fox- hound, harrier or bloodhound, for do they not all recjuire sufficient strength of bone to carry them ; good, oblique shoul- ders ; capacious, well-sprung ribs ; pow- erful loin, etc. ? So that in this respect, or, as most people would put it, "gen- eral appearance," there can l)e no specific difference except in size. But in head there is a difference, and as I have heard the type I admire called that of the "southern hound," southern hound it shall be. Nor do American breeders really disagree with me, if one is to judge by many of the hounds winning here, except that they fail to make any •listiiiction of a " tyjie," which seems to me apart from that of " fox-hound." At New York I admired Trinket— putting on one side her evident infirmity — and was told when all right she carried all before her. She is not of " foxhound " type. Then there were two oHier champions (names forgotten) whose expression was to Hibernia's With regard to Hibernia's remark about Ringwood not getting a "c" ac- cording to the American standard, I must differ from him, for I firmly be- lieve if he were judged according to such a rotten system that he would come out of the ordeal with flying colors. Also I fail to see in what particular Blue Belle II resembles a bloodhound any more than does any other beagle ; in fact, I am sure she is very far from it. Con- cerning Ringwootl's not having a pedi- gree this is l)ecoming (juite a chestnut in this country. Hibernia says ; "Does anyone know of a collie, etc., whose breeding is unknown ?" Certainly. Champion Melody, and I believe Pick- mere, whose picture appeared a short time back in the English Stock-Keeper. Also two champion wire-haired fox ter- riers, both of whom have won the Fifly- guinea Cup, viz., Briggs, who was one of the best ever shown, and Brusier, of whom his owners are justly proud. I have yet to see the dog who, possessing no pedigree, but having "true type and character," that was not a good-bred one. The whys and wherefores would take up too much of my present letter, no matter how much I would like to enter into them. After answering Hibernia's allu- sion about getting new blood I will give beagles a rest. As far as I have seen Sir Martein Lloyd has the purest and most reliable strain in England, so if Hibernia or any other breeder is desirous of im- porting fresh stock, his are the kennels I would advise them to go to. :*v j^ j} j^ .-%>« Meersbrook Maiden made her first ap- pearance in England since her departure from here at a small show at Thome, in the North of P^ngland. It was a success- ful one, though, unfortunately, marred by the fact that it was a bloodless vic- tory. I want to compliment you on the article which appeared in two of your issues on ferrets. It was certainly a long way the best I have seen. With regard to iodide of potass, for distemper in these little animals, "l had cajoled myself I was the only man who had tried it, and with great success in the bargain, but I also ad- ministered two drops of Fowler's solution of arsenic twice a day. This I stated some months back in the Turf, Field and Farm, and it is the only treatment I ever discovered to have any beneficial effect. In fact the form in which distemper at- tacks these "critters " resembles so much the most dangerous in dogs that I have always resolved to give the same treatment in their case when I again have a kennel. It was refreshing to see a par. in last week's Turf, Field and Farm stating that paper would no longer publish the many letters in which owners did nothing but "puff" their own dogs and abuse others. It is quite time this thing ceased, as who the deuce wants to know what Sarsfield can do and what he cannot — on paper — as well as the hundreds of other moderate specimens that have gained a wide repu- tation by this means. BRiTTLii. A COLLIE YARN. From the Stock-Keeper. - -1.. . ^ . ^,.v, .,..4,,^ «».»Cv.%tv/i.v» 111 yoiif paper about the sagacity, instinct, etc., of dogs, so I thought the following might interest your readers, and collie men in particular. I heard the story told after dinner by a North-country parson, who said he believed the story was true, and I really think he did. A farmer living just over the boarder in Scotland came down to Yorkshire to visit a friend, taking with him a collie bitch. A few een favorite hounds, and there can Ix; little doubt from illustrations in old manuscripts that coursing was an .Anglo- Saxon pastime, and that the hounds there depicted in the leash in couples were slipped at game very much as greyhounds always have l)een. For a long time after the Norman conquest we know nothing of coursing, though there are frequent incidental allusions to the greyhound and his high repute, but principally as distinctive of the rank and grandeur of his possessor. A greyhound was of the most highly prized of gifts in times when the custom of making presents was an important point in social ceremony. It was an : ^\ c ..:*- ...:*t. i.,.i:.,.. — -i -.-:*t. .i,- capc\.tni lavvjiitv: n ilii laiticn ami Willi Liic clergy. In the old metrical romance of "Sir Eglainore" a Princess tells the knight that she would, as an especial mark of her favor, give him a greyhound, so swift in deer coursing that nothing could escape him : "Sir, if you be on hunting bound, I shall give you a gcKxl greyhound That is dun as n doe. For as I am true gentlewoman. There was never deer that he at ran That might escape him fro." While among the gifts the King of Hun- gary promises his daughter in the "Squyer of lowe Degre" is "A lese of her hounds with her to strake." We find Richard I giving to Henry de Grey, of Co«lnor, permission to hunt the hare in any lands belonging to the crown, and probably this refers to coursing, especially as we know that King John had a large stud of greyhounds which he used ill hare-coursing. It was in the reign of Ker, to lead three greyhounds when the King went into fiascony, so long as a f)air of shoes, valued at 4 pence, sliould ast him. THE DOG WAS CROSS-EYED. From the Shooting Times. "Is that dog of yours good for any- thing ?" he askeil of the publican, as he motioned to a canine that lay behind the bar. "Is he ? Von just lay your hand on my shoulder and utter a whoo." The man did so, and the dog sprang up and bit bis owner in the leg and gracefully retired. "How do you account for that ?" asked the inquir<'r, as a general laugh went round. "Hang it, I had forgotten that he was cross-eyeil I" was the reply, "I ought to have put my hand on your shoulder and veiled." Drown Did the dog eal up nun h ivheu he got into the pantry ' Mrs. Brown' Yes , everything hut the dog bis- cuit.—Harper's Bazar. guC(3E55FUL pUPPY HeSRINCS. Megson in the Canine World. Upon so important and momentous a subject — to all dogdom in point of fact — it may, to beginners at any rate, l>e inter- esting to offer the experience and advice of one like myself, who has been par- ticularly successful in this matter. One of the great secrets of the puppy's successful career depends greatly on the condition of the dam at the time of whelping, plain and careful feeding dur- ing the last month of pregnancy is es- sential, as excess of food or indulgence in luxurious diet will cause the mother's milk to be too rich, and numbers of the offspring die because they have not suf- ficient strength to draw the milk which at first is glutinous. The bitch should also be allowed continual but gentle ex- ercise during the week prior to whelping, and a most important consideration is that the Ixiwels be regulated with a mild apperient, such as buckthorne or castor ; oil a few days before she is due to whelp. I The mother often does lietter when her time arrives if left to nature, though it is ' always wise to watch her attentively, es- I pecially with the first litter, as a young I bitch is often wild and puppyish, and in her excitement will be very liable to crush some of the little ones. My own plan has always been ' to take away the first pnp as soon as the second one arrives, and so on with the next until all are lK>rn, leaving only one with the mother. I place them in a small basket lined with hay or flannel near to a fire, and when the event is over prepare a comfortable lied and bring all the pups back, which by this time have got nicely dry and fairly strong. They do not neces- sarily require nourishment for five or six hours after birth, but it is a good plan to draw a little of the milk from the dam l)efore the pups are allowed to commence sucking. .Sometimes they are obstinate which case the mouth should be opened aiul the teat placed within, when the youngster will generally suck freely, and for a few days all goes smoothly. AI)OHt the third or fourth day a change often takes place, and the anxious fan- cier will notice one or two of his pups getting smaller than the rest, and, utter- ing a pitiful cry, refuse to take the moth- er's milk. The result is that they grad- ually sink and die. This is owing to the dieting of the dam ; the broth she has had may possibly have been too greasy, or she may have been fed injudiciously, and the frail state of the weaker pups has rendered the weakened state of their digestive organs unable to cope with the impurities of the mother's milk. The diet I always use the first week is boiled bread and milk or groat gruel, boiled sheep's head and mutton broth. Spratt's puppy food boiled with milk is also in- valuable for the bitch, and is a great milk producer. I have often l)een asked the earliest age a bitch should be bred from, and my experience is that if she protluces young before she is a year old the progeny are generally weak, and the mother has not so much milk at this age as one older, and should never l)e allowed to rear more than four puppies. A bitch three years old or upwards will rear six to eight pups well, but if there are more than seven puppies in a litter, I always procure a foster^nother. When the pups are a fortnight old I give the dam more meat, and mix bread with the broth, but never allow her to have dog biscuits, as the meal they con- tain is too relaxing, and the bitch lie- comes overheated. At three weeks old I begin to feed the little ones, commenc- ing with Sjiratl's ptippy food, boiled, with milk, twice a day, and I know of nothing so successful ; from this time they liegin to grow fast, ami at a month f)ld I take the mother from them, entirely during the day time, and at six weeks old Ihc pups should In' weaned, and fed three times a clay as follows : Morning, boile PIGEONS. NOTES IN PASSING. It is difficult at this time of the year to keep chicks growing and healthy. The warm weather has an enervating effect upon them, besides it induces diarrhoea and other hot weather complaints. [JULY 5. 1890 « * « When young chickens are troubled with diarrhoea it is generally because their food has been allowed to sour, and their drinking vessels to become foul. During the warm weather great care must be exerciseii to prevent this trouble, for perfect cleanliness is absolutely neces- sary to prevent disease. youngsters new ground, plow the old yard up, or sjiade the ])lace over so as to give your chicks new earth. It will do much in preventing gapes. * * • Hens are likely to forsake their broods now about sundown and retire to a cool perch in the coop, therefore they should be confined in small coops. The old figure A, bottomless Ijoxe.s, with slats nailed across the front for ventilation are the ' handiest, cheapest and alK>ut the best. • « These coops during the e kept out. A trap which appears crowded with six or eight rats is found some mornings to hokl fifteen. Thev are turned into cages containing weasels and minks. The latter will kill a rat abso- lutely almost Ijefore one can see it. so rapid are its movements. The wea.sels are a trifle slower, but none of the rats escape them. » • Percy Shock says: "A hen which lias laid consecutively over thirty double- yolk eggs is owned by Edwin I'idler, of Marietta, Pa. Recently that lieu wound up its consecutive work by depositing two soft-ehfll vflVc Ti>i» ;•• ' worth having." It is Shocking how this Fidler draws the long Ixjw. EGQ IMPREGNATION. « « "Profits m Poultry" gives a remedy which we have never tried. It says the worms can be destroyed by putting the chicks in a box, covering the top with a piece of muslin and dusting fine lime through the cloth. The chicks breathe the lime, and as it comes in contact witli the worms, these let go of the mem- branes, and are dislodged by the cough- ing and sneezing of the chicks. » * • An experienced poultry man writes : "Pure, strong insect powder I believe to be as good for gapes as anything which can »)e given in the way of 'medicine.' This powder, when pure and unadulter- ated, it is well known, is sure death to all forms of insect life. Where chicks are running with hens, put all together ill a tolerably tight box at night and give them a thorough elieve that the whole litter of eggs is affected it is a better plan, m changing hens from one male to another, to do it at the close of a litter of eggs, but we are satisfied that after the fifth egg. after the change is made, the chicks would, in nineteen cases out of twenty, be the progeny of the as- showeH. From many exj)eriiiients which I have seen reported, and from iiiv own exjieri- ence, it seems that if a heti is with the male at the right time a whole clutch of eggs is impregnated, for the eggs will show the effects of a certain Inrd from two to three weeks after separation, so that before that time it would not l>e safe to calculate on the eggs from another cock. sociate sire." ProfeBsor A. .1. Cook. ^ By careful experimentation I fouud in rearing about one hundreeen proved. There is a class of people who say that we have enough breeds of poultry as it is, without making any fresh ones. The Aniencans, however, have not paid any heed to murmuriiigs, but have kept j)ace with the times, and have brought out some breeds of poultry which have been much appre- cialetl, not only in .\nierica. 1)Ut through- out the world, and perliai)S more in this England of ours than in any other j):irt of the globe. The Plymuurh Rock orig- inated in America, and no breed has held such a reputation as a useful fowl all through England as the Plymouth Rocks. The Americans saw that tliey went well, and thev soon had another for us, viz., the Wyandotte. This breed has taken fairly well, and has been much improved since its arrival in England ; but what the Americans believe to be perfection the English object to. They think that a good yellow skin is the liest for table fowls to possess, whereas Eng- lish customers like to see a nice white skin on fowls, especially when they have to go through the markets. I may mention here that I have had many years' experience in crossing fowls, and I have tried as many as fifty crosses in a year, for the purpose of testing which cross is the most suited to various circumsUnces. I used to have birds at different parts of the country, so as to enable me to try experiments with the various breeds and their crosses, and this I did for many years, but had not at that time the least idea of publishing the re- sult The idea did not enter mv head until after I had had twenty years'of ex- perience in this line. I commenced very young. To try so many crosses I had, of course, to use pure varieties of almost every breed, and in doing so I had a fair opportunity to judge which were the best pure breeds. I have found good layers of every breed, and I have never yet kept any breed of fowls some of which did not lay all through the winter months. In this way I proved that the laving powers of the fowls are not so much regulated by the breed as by the strain . I found the Plymouth Rock stood at the head of the list (for laying and table (jualities combined) for some years, but an idea occurred to me that I could improve even on this. I will mention (i) how I did it, and (2) why. I believed that a better all-round fowl could be produced for laving and table purposes, and which would at the same time suit the public. I found out (by visiting many exhibitions and poultry yards) that some liked the Minorca fowls, but that their white- shelled eggs and big combs (which so soon get frost-bitten) were drawbacks to them. Then others fancied the Lang- shan, but did not like the feathers on their legs. Some had a fancy for the black rocks, but as they were only sports from the speckleegan to breed I started with four pens of birds so that I might have unrelated strains to avoid in-breeding, and then I only kept those which were the type which I had in my mind's eye. It is only by careful selection that a good bird or animal can be produced. This breed has lieen before the public for three and a half years, and they have made such rapid .strides that they have increased and spread over the country with woneak, very broad breast, and long breast bone ; flesh white, plumage black throughout, with a spleiKiid green sheen. The cocks have long tails, with very fine hangers (feathers) at the side of the tail. They have a numl)er of these feathers, which give the birds a very graceful appearance. The tail should lie carried well back, not straight up ; the legs are black, and free from any tint of yellow, a little red, how- ever, not l)eing objectionable ; four toes on each foot. The feet should be white underneath. The hens should in every way correspond with the male bird, ex- cept that tJie comb is smaller. If it is evenly serrated and straight, it may fall a little to one side. The tail, of course, is smalleoultry paper is prefer- able to local newspapers. VOL. 5, NO. .1] INDIAN GAMES. The Single and Double Lacing Dis- cussed by a Non-partisan. By J. H. DREVENSTEDT. The Wyandotte cock Dandy Pat, illus- trated in Thk Journal the other week, is a remarkable show bird. He has won at every show in the last two years, scor- ing from 90 to 92^ points, and at one show went even higher, but Mr. Felch's score of 90 points, although a low one, is about the value most judges have placed on this bird. It is a good score for an old bird, as Wyandotte males sel- dom score as high in the second as in the first year. Dandy Pat is an exception, as, like good wine, he improves with age. At New York last February he looked better than he did a year ago at New- burgh, and the carefnl judging of Mr. Bridge gave him a higher score. He is one of the most symmetrical birds I ever saw, and I have bred Wyandottes since their first appearance. The bird has a good lK)dy and less daylight l)etween the shanks than most birds. But the legs as shown in the illustration are too short, and breast and fluff too prominent. The color defects, although appearing in every section, are not sufficiently glaring to de- mand a heavy coat and such gootl all- round features are seldom found in one bird OB ptuuuituceu as in Dandy Pat. —0:0 — A most remarkable Wyandotte cock was exhibited by Mr. F. T. Underbill at New York last winter. He was on exhi- bition only and did not compete, hence was unnoticed except by the Wyandotte cranks. I was struck by the splendid symmetry of the bird and the surpassing hackle and saddle. The latter were as near perfect as I ever saw. This bird looks a sure winner, "out fails in perhaps the finest section— the plumage of the breast. The feathers were not laced but a solid black, with a slight edging of gray. Yet with this important defect the bird is a hard one to l)eat in a show room. Cheap eggs, cheap fowls and cheap papers make cheaj) breeders. Thorough- bred fowls and eggs cannot l>e produced cheaply ; neither can thoroughbred horses, cattle, dogs or swine. Yet the breeders of the latter invariably select those papers to advertise in which furni.sh the thoroughbred buyers. In such papers first-class stock will find buyers at good prices. There is still too much leniency in judging Wyandottes. A fewof our judges pass a solid wing bar with a trifling cut or no cut at all, when the standard dis- tinctly calls for double bar. The solid dark Brahma bar may be proper enough in a breeding bird, but in a show bird it is out of place. It is, however, easier to breed, and this accounts for its popularity in seme quarters. — 0:0 — The breeders of Indian games who have had plenty of stock for sale as well as abundant eggs to dispose of, have enjoyed an "air-tight cinch" on the pockets of American fanciers. One firm alone had inquiries numbering some- thing like 1500 during the past three months. Eggs have l)een scarce at f to per setting, and birds .sold readily at #25 each. I met a P'renchman recently. He was highly interested in poultry, and in ans- wer to several- questions relative to French poultry answered as follows: "Ze French people are a nation of gour- mands and ze French poultry is grand. Ze take and feex up ze fowls much better than in this countree. Ze skin is white and transparent. Ah ! ze French know how to fix it (with a wink). WA .' bien, it is fine to ze eye and (smacking hxs lips) splendid for ze stomach." Well, that's the whole story in a nutshell why French poultry is so superior. It is "feexed" up. Much of our poultry goes to market in a how-come-you-so condi- tion and even the saffron-hued skin and shanks often fail to tempt the buyer. Quality tells in the sale of all products, and the man or woman who caters to the l)est trade will reap a substantial lienefit. The race of gourmands is increasing in this conntry and our national escutcheon, ' j>urk and beans, wiii have to t>e hauled down in the future. The French cuisine is marvellous, and its adoption in this country is substantially assured, and with it comes less demand for inferior pro- duce but an increased demand for qual- ity. — 0:0 — The quality and weight of a broiler chicken does not depend so nmch on the breed as from tbe individual specimens bred from. This fact is patent to those who have bred and observed thorough bred chickens. Certain females will pro- duce larger and more vigorous chickens, and whenever such can be selected in sufficient num»>ers the l)est results will be obtained. The severe culling the French breeds have been subjected to accounts in a measure for the uniformity in the breeds of France. I have noticed this in Houdan and La Fleche chickens. What has caused this immense boom ? Grantmg that the Inflian game possesses great intrinsic value, it nevertheless would never have reached its i)resent position without the very liberal expen- diture of printer's ink. This is a good One lot of Plymouth Rock chickens entrusted to a hen and given free range was weighed when ten weeks old. All were in perfect health but the eggs were not from one hen and probably repre- sented the entire flock of ten hens. The l)est cockerel weighed a trifle over two and a half pounds, the next best was a pullet weighing two and a (juarter pounds, the rest ranged from two pounds down to one and a quarter pounds. When broilers are worth over thirty cents per pound it is easily apparent that the profit depends largely on the proper selection of individual specimens for breeding pnrjwses. J. H. Drkvknstkdt. —At this season the importance of affording poultry easy access to pure water is too often overlooked. On many farms, in fact, the hens arc left to find water wherever they ran, and are often obliged to drink from contaminated pools, etc., that is pretty sure to brnig on I diseases. I was very nmch interested in Mr. BaV)cock's explanation of the V-shaped markings which he attributed to Indian game females and which Mr. Crocker criticised. Mr. Ral>cock's plea for both double and single lacing is also extremely interesting and timely. Being one of the committee appointed to formulate a standard, I will briefly advance my ideas. I do this reluctantly as I am still groping in the dark, not having had a proper op- portunity to study the breed as thor- oughly as I would like. Having no birds to sell, nor any particular strain to boom, I hope Hiy remarks will prove disinter- ested. The first specimens of Indian games I saw at Buffalo in 1889, but owing to the rough usage of the birds en route from England, they looked bad and did not inspire me to any large degree oC en- thusiasm. I gave them a cold glance. A few months after that a set of feathers plucked from the most famous hen in England was sent to me. I was instructed to have these feathers photographed and engraved, which I did, and the elegant photo-engraving was published in nearly all of our poultry papers. These feathers were a revelation to me. They were ex- quisitely beautiful. The ground color was a rich bay and every feather was dis- tinctly pencilled or laced by a deep lus- trous black. The latter was double, i. e., a parallel band or lacing followed the lines of the outer lacing. In one of the winjj feathers the' lacing was triple. I iianiiieii and aUniirert««i<->n from Mr. J. Frayn gave me birds, ten of which had single lacing, etc.," should read "two of wliich had single lacing." .\s I was endeavoring to show that but a small minority of ray birds were single- laced, this is a very material error and ought to l*e corrected. Trusting that you will publish this brief note, I remain. Very respectfully, H. S. Baiicock. POULTRY NOTES. — This month many breeders begin to cull their young stock. — Some people are inclined to consider white poultry delicate. They are not. They stand our cold climate just as well as the dark-pluinaged fowls. — Look carefully after your fowls and growing chicks • provide shade and plenty of fresh water ; keep the young chicks v,rowing ; don't starve or half feed them. — On some large seed farms, where a sj>ecialty is made of raising garden seeds, large flocks of guinea fowls are kept. Guineas are great rangers and insect ae- stroyers, and, as they do no scratching of any account, they are valuable aids to the seedsmen. —The hen always alights on the top of the fence liefore going over. To prevent her from finding a lodging place on the fence stretch a wirealx)ut six inches from the top of the fence and on a line with the top. by fastening a strip to the inside of each post for that purpose. The wire should be on the inside of the fence, par- allel with the top and six inches from it. When a hen attempts to flv over she strikes the wire and is thrown back. —Just al)OHt this time the farmer who has no garden gates, or who keeps chick- ens that are half feout 360 miles out from Sandy Hook, he lib- erated six birds owned by Charles E. Doane, and James Ingrain, all of Plainfield, N. J., three, two and one respectively. There has been quite a number of races in the past few years, liberated from coasting steaniers,but this is the first attempt from an ocean steamship, outward bound, for Federation record. Each bird carried a message written on fine paper placed around the leg in a small rubber pouch. The first arrived was to the lofl of Charles E. Doane, at 4.40 P.M., same day and reported to Race Secretary by certified telegram, making an average speed of alx)ut irjfX) yards per minute and carrying »he following message : Stkamship Aijkania, June 28, 9 P. M. Wc had a fine sail down the bay. The Man- hattan Athletic Club tug followed us, snorting and t(H)ting. We passed the Uinbria l>ound for New York. I^ Normandie is beating us. We gent off postal by pilot. Sailors amused us to- night by their games. The sunset was worth the trip ; moon to-night is elegant, and everytxidy on deck enjoying it. Slight rolls beginning ; no seasickness ; birds will be loosed at 6 V. M. sharp. Weather promises to be fine; plenty of good company ou board ; thank Mr Pierson and Mr. Brower for the flowers, Hope the Y. M. C. A. building is under way. Oirls are de- lighted. We are in winter suits to-night. Yours, Wm. D. Murray. This message was immediately handed to the mother and family of Mr. Murray, who were delighted to receive word from their folks from such a lon^f distance on the ocean. The bird is a fine B. C. C, whose grandmother was imported from Antwerj). He is al>out three years old and has never been flown further than New Haven to Plainfield, a distance of atiout 100 miles. The second arrival was at daybreak the next morning, which brought the following message : Stkamsimi- Aurania, June 29. Birds all released at 6 A. M., nearly on time. Weather clear ; sea smooth ; each bird counter- marked and carrying message. Yesterday the sail down the bay was delightful. Sunset was beautiful and moon fine. Mr. Thresher and Mr. McCann are good companions. We passed many ships ; but La Normandie is beating us. Gus and Min are enjoying every minute. My room-mate is congenial, ship is comfortable and passengers all pleasant. Our first night at sea was a good one. Not a soul sick. The oiily trouble was the heat. This morning opens beautiful. We are now under full sail and going finely. Goodbye. Love to all. William D. Mtrrav. * * * Another arrival is reported to the loft of Charles E. Doane at 6.15 P. M., June 30 — three home out of six. • ♦ » Mr. John C. Hunt's last arrival from the 400-niile Concourse was Sunday morn- ing last, carrying the following message : If this bird reaches its loft, will the owner please inform Wni. Casey, 117 North Schroeder Street, Baltimore. Md. I have had it a week. It flew in at my window. I took it to the Sun office and they said that they would publish it, but did not. May it reach its loft in safety and the owner inform me. William Casby. Mr. Hunt was fortunate his bird fell into the hands of a gentleman and non- fancier. Usually all's fish that comes to the net wjth the Baltimore fancy. The latest experiments made with car- rier pigeons in connection with various European armies show that the normal velocity of the carrier in calm weather and for a short distance is alK)Ut 12 10 yards a minute. With a very strong wind in the direction of the flight, a bird has reached 1980 yards a minute. • « » Little Rhody, owned by Mr. J. A. Boutelle, Providence, R. I., arrived at its liberating station in South Carolina, 775 miles from home, and is ready for the start when the weather is suitable. « « # The Lawrence, Mass., birds will be flown for record for the first this season from 200 miles. » » The birds of Theo. P. Green, of Wood- bury, N. J., that begin thfir journeys for record this week, ended training with a fly from Washington, D. C, last Satur- day. The start was by Mr. T. B. Joslin, at 7.40 A. M. The returns were all of the flight together at 10.50. The distance, 120 miles, having been covered in three hours and ten minutes. The average speed was about nil yards per minute. ♦ • • W. W. Pouting, writing to Poultry, says : "I have read in your valuable paper of people having large eggs from homers, but have not heard of anyone having two eggs in one day. I have a blue checkered homer hen that laid her first egg vSunday, then to-day (Tuesday) she laid two, but unfortunately one was broken, owing to thinness of shell, other- wise it was perfect. The Hub Olub. The birds of the Hub Club, Boston, were liberated in their first journey for reconl of the season Sunday. The start was intended for Saturday, but the weather being unfavorable the birds were not let go. The entry was John Hicks, of AHston, 2 ; George Gouhl, of Newton ville, 7 (two of them of 1890 hatch) ; C. Kussmaul, of Forest Hills, 3, antl Henry Wagner, of Roslindale, 7. The start was at 8 o'clock from East vSyracuse, N. Y. The Ijest time to each loft, so far as reported, was Gould's 363 at 2.20 P.M., distance 251.3 miles, average speed, 1005 yards per minute, and Kussmaul's 105 at 3.25 P. M., elong- iuj; to thai species of birds wiiich I have found very suitable is bread crumbs t Scotch oat cake) broken very fine, but other bread crumbs do, I have used both separate and mixed, say to half a teacup- ful bread crumbs add about two tea- spoonfuls ants' eggs, mix up with water to a soft paste. I add also a pinch of sharp grit, a mealworm now and again, as well as very lean meat or ox liver cut very fine. I have tried milk instead of water, but prefer the latter, the milk be- ing so apt to become sour ; sourness, I need not add, being highly injurious. So much for the fooerience, however, is required to rear birds successfully. Under the ten- der mercies of some the poor things only live a day or two, and die sometimes in great agony. Cold, I am sure, in many cases brings on cramp or such like when the birds are very young, while others suffer from some disorder of the lowels, brought on no doubt from unsuitable food or the indiscriminate use of proper food. The droppings get thick and chalky, at other times tougl; and slimy, and in both cases does not leave the vent easy, but causes inconvenience to the bird and filth to accumulate, and usually death follows. — Within a dozen years our geese, ducks and turkeys have largely increased in size. — Filth is a foundation of part if not all diseases, and the poultry yard is not exempt. — I'Vom large sized geese nearly three- fourths of a pound of feathers may be bad annually. ORIGIN OF "WYANDOTTES. No One Knows "When, Why or How They Originated. Editor Fanciers' Journal. Sir: I notice The Fanciers' Journal last week gives us the same old theory re- garding the origin of Wyandottes as has Ijeen going the rounds for several years, viz., that they were produced by a cross between a dark Brahma and a silver spangled Hamburg. Possibly this is the case, but all efforts to trace their origin have been wholly fruitless. All the evi- dence we have is circumstantial ; all guess work. Repeated efforts have been made to find the fountain head, but all in vain, As long ago as the year 1868 a neighbor of mine residing in Oneida County,where I then lived, bred them, and at that time I made an effort to trace their origin, and every line that I followed became oblit- erated before I found its source. The last man always said : "I don't know anything at>out it," and this is the experi- ence of everyone of the many who have tried to solve the problem. The writer has spent considerable time on this question, not only in years long past but recently, and it is safe to say that this supposed origin of the Wyan- dotte has not a shadow of foundation in fact. No one knows anything atK>ut it except what he sees in the makeup of the bird. The fowl is a valuable one, and the fact that no one knows when, where or hotv it originated will not de- tract from its merits. J. Y. BlCKNBtl.. Buffalo, June 30. ODDS AND ENDS. — It costs no more to feed and care for a flock of well-bred fowls than it does for common stock. — Feed all the onion scraps left from the table or kitchen to the poultry that is confined, also radish tops and parings; they are seasonable food for the fowls. — Never set a hen that is incliiie has been steady it has not l)een attended with a great blow. First the silvers, then the whites, then the gohlens, then the blacks — and so thoroughly have they engrafted themselves on the hearts of the fancy that every year spreads their territory, and every year brings them new cham- pions. The white IMvmouth Rocks are also meeting with gnat favor. They are said to be by some writers hardier and l)etter in every way than the barred va- riety, and we have every rea.son to l)elieve that they will continue to grow in uni- versal favor. — M. K. Hoyer. Clean Water for Fowls. Wooflen troughs are excellent for hold- ing the drinking vvater for fo>»ls, but there is one thing to \ie guarded av;ain.st. and that is, they will l)ecome filthy and slimy. In such ca,ses they should be cleaned with soap and warm water, rinsed and refilled. The drinking water is of\en contaminated by a diseased fowl, and this endangers the health of the others, but more so when the troughs are un- clean. Drinking fountains are not easily cleaned, but they should ')e well scalded with hot soapsuds occa'^ionally. What Do You Keep Poultry For Some farmers ignore profits in keeping hens. They want simply enough to sup- ply their table with eggs and broilers. Others aim for profit as well. Market poultry is the foundation of the poultry business, as pork is the foundation of the fancy breeds of hogs. Like any other business, it requires knowledge and ex- perience. One who is without experience should try a small numl)er, learn to care for them and study the wants and charac- teristics of each fowl. He will then Ije able to increase his flock. Pleasure is a secondary aim if the aim is to make a business of poultry keeping. Every farmer should keep a few fowls ; they can be cared for with little attention, when a large flock always means work to the owner. — A. A. Koup Cannot be Cured. The writer has maintained for years that roup could not be entirely eradi- cated from the system. We may appar- ently cure the fowl, but the system is left weakened, and very little exposure will bring on the dreaded disease again. Dur- ing the past year we made a number of experiments on this score, and have lieen fully satisfied that it is impossible to ef- fect a positive cure. We can heal up a cold in the head, dislemjier, or any of the forerunners of roup, but when the fearful disease sets in the fowl is ruined forever. Our plan is when roup has once estab- lished itself chop off the head, and burn or bury the carcass. There is no profit in a sick chicken, besides there is too much dangepof a spread of the disease. Prevention is far better than cure, and the only way of preventing disaster is a quii-k use of the hati-het. We have tried every method known, and have given the best of care, yet not a single bird have we brought back to the rugged constitu- tion it had before being sick. "Preven- tion" is a greater art than "cure," l)e- cause it tells a man that certain condi- tions are dangerous and we must avoid them to steer clear of the ultimate re- sults.— M. K. Beyer. FeocUny: Voun^ Chleks. "Give young chicks fresh milk scalded with its weight e given cracked corn and wheat screenings also. Too much soft food is not wholesome for them. Clucks prefer dry food, ami it serves the purpose better and entails less labor in preparation. Corn bread alone is insufficient, but it may be improved when dipped in milk. — Kami and Fire- side. The L.yre-BIi-d. The lyre-bird is a native of Australia. He can not only imitate the notes of all other birds, but also nearly every sound made by man. Settlers are often de- ceived by him. and many amusing stor- ies are told. .Sometimes a man working- on his clearing hears some1)ody choj)- ping wood a short distance away, and a dog barking at his heels. He goes in search of the nitruder, and finds afler a long walk that the lyre-bird has been making game of him. A man using a cross cut saw hears somel)ody doing tlie same thing, and after searching unsuc- cessfully for him, discovers that it is the bird. An KsrPT Tester. To make an egg tester to use with a common lamp, take a pasteboard box about seven inches by six inches wide and six inches deep. Cut a hole in the bottom big enough to fit the large part of the lamp chimney, add a hole op- posite in the top just large enough to let the top of the chimney through. Next cut a hole about the shape of an egg, but rather smaller, in one end so that it will be opposite to the lamp flame when the tester is slipped over the chimney. Now cover the l)Ox outside with any dull black cloth, so that no light can get through, and you are ready for business. Light the lamp, place the tester in posi- tion, anolished marble doorstep that has just Ijeen scrubed till it has a surface of glass. She will scratch on it, although it is all she can do to stand on its treach- erous surface with all claws set. and then with exultant clucks affect to j)ick up in rapid succession a soft-shell grub, an angle-worm, stall-fed and four inches long, a couple of Iduepoint beetles and a shedder lacfy-bug. Then she will walk away, casting ujK)n you a glance of the most hyiwcritical contentment and sat- isfaction, as one who had years of famili- arity with man. the cat yet retains many of its wild instincts, fre(juently taking to the woods and there bringing up its V iittlig. Hliil ui H lew ^ciicidtUiiia "CCulii- ing as \Mid. savage and destructive as the genuine wild cat, for which these de- scendants of domestic animals are often mistaken. — Ralph W. Seiss. l*lyniouths ami Leghorns. A lady who seems well posted on the the chicken business says : "One would think that the size of a fowl would be some index to his appetite, but I really believe a Leghorn weighing three or four pounds will consume twice as much food in the course of a day as a Plymouth of seven or eight. The lively little brownies lake such a wonderful amount of exercise, they can fly like birds, and spend their whole time, when not on the nest, poking their inquisitive little bills into every- thing, searching, no doubt, for that va- riety of food which their great egg-pro- duction demands. Stjll, I think, they are prompteecome what is termed a non-sitter, yet when domesti- cated on the farm, given a wide range, and not fed on stimulating, egg-produc- ing foods, the hens will gradually return to their original habits. I have never allowed a pure Leghorn to sit, though they sometimes show ;i great desire to do .so, but many of the hall-breeds make ex- cellent brootlers and mothers." Weanlnjf Clilekens. The Grange Bulletin has this para- graph : "Unless for some special reason there is no advantage in having hens wean their chickens too young. They will make a healthier, thriftier growth with the hens to keep them than if they are turned out loo young to lookout for themselves. .And especially so when all are allowed to run out and pick up the best pari of their living." This idea of chickens l)eing turned out "to lookout for themselves" is something that is sel- dom practiced. In the past chickens were raised only by the natural process and the care of tluni was accorded to the mother who was always provided with suitable focHl, and in such cases the natural instinct of the mother is employed in the abandonment by herself of the chickens which are then cared for, fooe- lieve'»pellows. A so- lution of the powder possesses the same qualities as the dried material. Pyrethrum is best when fresh, and in buying it is to be remembered that pow- der not kept in air-tight receptacles is not worth using. — Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station. A New Cross. Experiments are about l)eing made to cross Indian game cockerels on Brahma hens, says Mr. Boyer. It will be a good one for table qualities. The excellent traits in the Brahma will be greatly in- creased by those of the Indian game. The same would come from the use of Cochin hens. A cro.ss of Indian game on Ply- mouth Rock would also be gooe hushed at night ? Why sing in the sunlight only ? Love loves when 'tis dark, as when 'tis bright, Nor ceaseth because 'tis lonely." BY THE -WAY. A singular incident, says the Stock- Keeper, is to be witnessed on the farm of Mr. Frederick Kirklaud, of .Soinerby, England. A cat has been found suckling three kittens and a young rat, and the rodent is quite at home with the young felines, the mother taking an equal inter- est in all her family, natural and adopted. One of our contemporaries, in an allu- sion to this incident, humorously com- mended the foresight of the cat in thus providing for her young when other food sources should fail. OUR ILLUSTRATION. The Beautiful and Sweet Songster of the Nigrht. The Nightingale (Anglo-Saxon Nighte- gale ; literally " singer of the night "), is justly celebrated beyond all other Euro- powers, which, during some weeks after its return from its winter-cjuarters in the South, it exercises at all hours of the day and night. In confinement they sing a longer perioe which she sent to Procne, and the two sisters then con- trived a horrible revenge for the infi- delity of Tereus by killing and serving to him at table his son Itys. Thereupon the gods interposed, changing Tereus into a hootw*o Procne into « s'.va^''^"* and Philomela into a nightingale, while Itys was restored to life as a pheasant, and Pandion (who had died of grief at his daughter's dishonor) as a bird of prey. Snakes. "Speaking of snakes," said an ama- teur naturalist, "but for man's insane prejudice against them they would be found to lie not only intelligent, but ex- tremely sociable. When I was a boy I lived at Sheppard's Park, N. Y. Near by was a goml stream well stocked with fish. Whenever I caught a mess — which was very often— my father used to insist that I clean and scale them at a distance from the house, aud my habit was to thus pre- pare the day's catch on the banks of the stream before returning home. One day while thus engaged a large blacksnake appeared from under a huge rock near by, and, approachinjj me, made a delib- erate meal on the discarded portions of the fish. He then retired. The next day he came again, and after that he fell into the habit of waiting for me. The spot where I moored the dingy from which I angled was the one selected by me for cleaning the fish, and after a few days of familiar friendship, Mr. Blacksnake ven- tured into the dingy and went a fishing with me. After that he liecame my regular companion, but many genera- tions of oppression had made' him sus- picious of^my race, and if I made a vio- lent motion he was over the side in a second and swimming ashore for dear life like an animatea cork.screw. On such occasions I invariably found him waiting for me with an appetite sharpened 'by his bath. "I do not know how intimate we might have become, but for the sad sequel which cut short his earthly career. One day I was called away, and during my absence two neighbors repaired to the bank of the stream with the intention of doing a little fishing from the dingy. As they approached it a large blacksnake wriggled up to them in a confidential manner. While one of them was almost paralyzed with fright, the other raisendon Zoological Gardens which is in three ways remarkable. To Ijegin with, it is the first fully adult specimen which has lived in Europe ; secondly, it differs from all previously known ones by its carnivorous habits. It will greedily seize and devour small birds, whereas such apes were previously supposed to be naturally vegetarians only. But it is, in the third place, most remarkable for the tricks it has acquired. It will .sepa- rately pick up from the ground, place in its mouth, aud then present in one bunch, two, three, four or five straws, as may be demanded of it, or only one. It has dis- tinctly associated the several sounds of these numbers with corresponding groups of picked-up straws. It will also, on commond, pass a straw through a large or s lall hole in the fastening of its cage or through a particular intersuace of its wire netting. It will also, when so hid, put objects into its keeper's pocket, play various odd tricks with boy visitors, and howl horribly when told to sing. A great contrast to the African chim- panzee is presented by the third anthro- poid form of ape, the Asiatic orang. It IS red instead of blackish in color, and its arms are so long that they reach to the ankle when the animal stands erect, iiu.-. It laiciy, II ever, does spontaneously. It walks resting on its knuckles and the outer ed^es of its feet, their soles being turned inward. Thus resting on its hands,it uses its arms as a pair of crutches swinging the boelly, like an image of Gau- tam.i, we might fancy that the mind of some esoteric Buddhist was imprisoned within the apish body, incapable of making its latest existence known and mutely contemplating the longed-for Nirvana. The orang is found nowhere in the world except in Sumatra and Borneo, and even there only in lowland humid forests, which supply it at once with shelter and the vegetable food it loves. A solitary and |)eaceful animal, it is or- dinarily very slow aud deliberate in its movements. Nevertheless, when attacked, it can defend itself with alacrity and ef- fect, as the following anecdote (from Wallace's "Malay Archipelago") will show : "A few miles down the river there is a Dyak house, and the inhabitants saw a large orang feeding on the young shoots of a palm by the riverside. On lieing observed he retreated toward the jungle, which was close by, and a num- ber of the men, armed with spears and choppers, ran out to intercept him. The man who was in front tried to run his spear through the animal's boehind. The body is bare where it rests on the ground in a sitting posture, and the hardened naked patches of skin thus situated are spoken of as ischiatic callosities, on ac- count of the bones (ischia) which they in- vest. In possessing these callosities they agree with all the other monkeys of the Olil World, save the gorilla, chimpanzee, and orang, which have them not. Neither have any American apes, which more de- corous than their transatlantic brethren, have their region of the Iwdy copiously clothed with hair. Leaving now the anthropoid apes, with which alone we have been hitherto occu- pied, we find when we pass to the next group of monkeys a remarkably different aspect and a very different fonn of body. The limbs are nearly of equal length, but the arms are now the shorter ones, so that a quadrupedal mode of progression on the ground is natural to them. Nevertheless, they are arboreal animals, and both adroit climbers and dexterous jumpers. They are aided in keeping their balance during their movements by the possession of a long tail . The first group of these monkeys is one which is found only in central and southeastern Asia, and consists of many species which also have their headquar- ters in the Indian Archipelago. They are not very often seen in captivity save that well-known kind, the entellus monkey or hounaman, which is an ob- ject of such religious veneration on the part of the Hindoos. It has a coat of whitish hair, but a jet-black face, and once seen is not likely to be forgotten. The largest and by far the most singular species of the group, however, has never been seen alive in F'urope. It is ex- clusively a native of Borneo, where it can hardly be common, since, though it «4 'TME FANCifi^RS* JOURNAL. [JULV 5. 1890 was figured and described by Huffon in 1789, it has found its way to no menagerie, not even the enterprising Mr. Baruum having ever obtained a specimen. This very remarkable beast is the kahan or proboscis monkey, which differs from every other ape in having»a long, project- ing nose', like that of the Squire of Don Quixote's rival knight, which so aston- ished honest Sancho Panza. Two fine stuflFed specimens of this creature are to be seen in the British Museum, one young, the other adult. The young of this sjjecies instead of having a nose similar to the adult save as regards size, have it relatively, much shorter, and also turned upward. A zealous and learned Lazarist missionary, a Frenchman, the Rev. Father David, has made many im- portant zoological discoveries in central Asia. There, high up in the cold forests of Moupin, in Thibit, he found an ape clothed with dense fur suitable for its frigid abode. It lives in a region where frost and snow last several months in the year, and where it has little to eat but the shoots and twigs of trees. Never- theless, this ape, livinjj in a region so re- mote from Borneo, with its hot, humid forests, is very like the young form of the proboscis monkey. It differs from the latter, however, in having a nose turned up to the highest possible degree, on which account its describer, Professor Alphonse Milne Edwards, named it "the monkey of Roxailana," in honor of that "tip-tilted" imperial beauty. The Indian monkeys, which in general structure are most like the kahan and the entellus, are closely resembled by the species of an African group, the members of which are called colobi. These African apes have had a too fatal popularity, the glossy coats of their well-clothed skins having been for a time the favorite ma- terial for ladies' muffs, the well-known monkey muffs. Several species of colobi are very notable for their wonderfully handsome fur, fringes or tippets of long white hair accompanying a general livery of the deepest V)lack. Their Indian allies have very feebly developed thumbs, but the colobi are remarkable for having no tVintnhs at all A specimen presenting his condition of hand may well seem to a non-scientific observer as one accidentally or purposely mutilated. We recollect a few years ago having our attention ar- rested by two very fine specimens of this genus which we found mounted in a taxi- dermist's window in London. To our surprise we observed that they had thumbs, and so we at once entered the shop, and asked to be allowed to inspect them. We then found that artificial thumbs had been sewed on, and the pro- prietor of the shop admitted that he had had this done to restore the specimens to what he supposed must have be«n their natural conaition ! It is often assumed that wild animals escape most of the evils to which civilized human flesh is heir. 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It affords us much pleasure to publish this communication from President Bel- mont, and while we consider the above straightforward denial of chicanery suffi- cient, still when we add that Mr. Watson kindly called upin us yesterday and stated that he and Dr. Perry made a thorough examination of all the books and found Mr. Vredenburgh's accounts to be entirely straight and regular, it conclusively puts an end to Mr. Peshall's I of ofo*«iAtiia cm#) ortrvar^nt fnntci It will .j^b.W^.*«^&A fc»> .AAA ..A h«B.^— -...'- .__._. .. ..... also be seen from Mr. Wilmerding's letter on another page that the commit- tee of which he was a member did ex- amine the accounts and found them cor- rect. That Mr. Peshall was sincere in his belief that the books were wrong we do not doubt, but this belief was not suffi- cient grounds to make the statements, which having been made and now proven false, cannot but reflect upon their author. At the special meeting of the Advisory Committee of the A. K. C, held last week, the following gentlemen were present : Messrs. Perry, Terry, Wise, Anthony and Belmont. Mr. Peshall was not present. His letter declining to appear, published elsewhere, was read. The charges served upon Mr. Peshall were printed in last week's issue. I'rom Forest and Stream we learn that the committee declined to recognize Mr. Peshall's claim of unconstitutionality as to its composition and jurisdiction. The three charges were then voted upon. On the first charge Messrs. Wise and Perry voted that they could not consider the charge. Mr. Belmont refused to vote on the ground that this was a personal mat- ter. The vote being a tie it was lost. It was voted to take up the second charge, whereupon, on motion of Mr. Belmont, it was deferred until the coiimiittee could assure itself that it had jurisdic- tion. » « Charge three was then taken up. Mr. Vredenburg stated that after the alleged sale of the dog Nick of Naso, Mr. I'eshall hail come into the office of the A. K, C. and had exhibited to him a note for |i(joo, which he asserted he had received from Mr. John N. Lewis in payment for the dog. Mr. Vredenburgh told Mr. Peshall he understood Lewis had pre- viously owned an interest in the dog, which Mr. Peshall denied. Mr. A. D. Lewis was present when this conversation took place and corroborated Mr. Vreden- burgh's account of it. Mr. Vredenburgh further stated that in proceedings insti- tuted by one Ralph to recover the sum of 1 1000 from Mr. Peshall, Mr. Peshall had stated in a deposition that Messrs. Livesly, Lewis and himself had owned the dog. The other two gentlemen not having paid their share of the purcha.se, Mr. Peshall took the dog b^k and had subsequently sold it to Lewis for the J 1 000 note which Mr. Lewis had never intended to pay, nor Mr. Peshall ex- pected paid, it being given in order that the dog might have a fictitious price put upon it. Mr. J. H. Elliott, the attorney who was engaged in the action to recover the |iax3 from Mr. Peshall in behalf of Mr. Ralph, corroborated Mr. Vreden- burgh's statement. He also stated that the so-called deposition by Mr. Peshall, quoted by Mr. Vredenburgh, had never been signed by Mr. Peshall. « After the the testimony was taken the following resolutions were adopted : Resolved, That it is the sense of this com- mitted that it should decline to act upon the charges this day presented by A. P. Vredenburgh, secretary, against C. J. Peshall. Resolved, "That it is the unanimous sense of this committee that the recent publications made by Mr. Peshall in the sporting journals concerning the American Kennel Club and its secretary, Mr. A. P. Vredenburgh, are unjust, untrue and libellous. Resolved, That the secretary of this club be authorized and directed to exhibit the books and accounts and vouchers of this club to any dele- gate member of this club at any time. AbSOi^V CU, k.\. niJO^.w in the integrity and veracity of the secretary of this club. Resolved, That the conduct and language of Mr. Peshall in the controversy, out of which these charges arose, have l>een in our opinion so extraordinary and outrageous as to make us se- riously doubt whether he is in possession of his normal faculties. Resolved, That the proceedings this day had and the evidence this day taken be submitted to the American Kennel Club for such action as it may seem best. » * We are sorry to hear that Dr. Cryer has lost his prize-winning pug dog Nap. He died suddenly last Sunday night. « • * B. F. Lewis has bought the well- known Irish water spaniel Patsy O'Con- nor from Joe Lewis. Ben was the first man that took Patsy into the ring for a prize. It was several years ago, at Cleveland. * » * The Stock-Keeper has for a frontis- piece this week a portrait of Mr. Mitchell Harrison's collie Wellsbourne Charlie. • * It is runtored that Dr. H. Clay Glover will judge dogs at the Charleston show of the South Carolina Poultry and Pet Stock Association. « • Mr. W. W. Titus writes : "I regret to have to inform you of the loss of my English setter bitch Gill Gorham. She died on the 25th ultimo. She was three years old, by Count Noble— Mollie Belton, litter sister to the famous Bohemian Girl. I had bred her to Dr. Rowe's Peg Jim by Cambridge — Marchioness Peg, and she was due to whelp on the 8th inst." » « * The two English setter clubs have con- solidated. A meeting l)etween Major Taylor, representing the new club, and Mr. F. W. Whitlock, president of the other club, was held at the Quincy House, Boston. July 1, which resulted in the consolidation of tlic two clubs, as follows : We, the undersigned, as meinVjers rep- resenting Conference Committee of the English Setter Cluli of .\nicrica and the English Setter Club, agree to unite as one club to l>e kiiovMi as the English Set- ter Club, with the following officers for the year 1890 : President— Pierre Lorillard. Jr. First Vice-President- J. Tredwell Richards. Second Vice-President— F. W. Whitlock. Secretary— Percy C. OhI, Treasurer— Dr. If. Clay Glover. Executive Committee — In addition to the above named officers. Major J. M. Taylor, T, H. Terry, J. C. Long, J. A. Graham, P. H. Bryson, J. E. Dagar, Wilson Fisk, W. A. Power. It is hereby agreed that after the pay- ment of all debts incurred by each club the net balance shall tie paid to the treas- urer of the united club, and all memljers now in good standing in either club shall be receivetl as such in the united club. ^.Signed) F. W. Whitlock, J. M. Taylor. A prominent Irish setter man, one who is not afraid to run his dogs in field trials, writes : " I am awaiting patiently to see some of the great reds come out this fall. So much has been said about their merits that it is due to the public that an actual demonstration l>e mailc." • • • The third annual Derby of the South- ern Field Trial Club will he run at New Albany, Miss., commencing on Monday, February 2, 1891. It is open to all set- ters and pointers whelped on or after January 1, 1889. The competition, which will be on quail, will l)e governed by the rules of the club. The grounds selected have a reputation for containing an abundance of birds, and being well adapted (or field trials ; therefore the change of grounds will prove of benefit. The prizes are very liberal, being I400 to first, I250 to second and |2oo to third. Entries close on August i. ♦•♦ Mr. Washington A. Coster, secretary E. F. T. C, writes: "I wish to announce to the public that Messrs. F. I. Stone, of Chattanooga, Tenn.; Colonel Arthur Mer- riman, of Memphis Tenn., and H. B. Duryea, of Red Bank, N. J., have been, written to requesting them to act as judges at the Eastern Field Trials Club's meeting, to be held at Ottenbum Springs, Amelia County, Va., in November, and the aforesaid gentletnen have signified their acceotance." • * "To get into the money at the field trials of this country," says the American correspondent to the Stock-Keeper, "a dog must possess the following quali- fications : In the first place he must be thoroughly broken and under perfect control, so that he will dejiend more on his haiiiller than himself Speed is the main naiiiral quality, and this must be combined with style. He must have a fair nose, but not be too keen scented. If he is he will be cautious and slacken down before he has run close enough into the birds. Our trials are every year becoming more like ijuail coursing than ordinary field hunting. Last winter I was talking to the owner of a winner of first place in the I>erby at one of last year's trials. The gentleman was about to go South on a three months' hunting trip. 'Of course,' said I, 'you will take the Derby winner wtth you?' 'You don't take me for a fool,' he answered. 'I don't want to spoil his speed, nor do 1 care about wearing my legs off to keep up with him. No, he stays with his handler. I will take Jim and Bess along.' " ao THE [KANCIERS* JOURNAL. [JULY 12, 1890 VOL. 5, NO. 2.] THE FANCIERS JOURNAL. ai FITZ-POODLE'S DOGGY EXPERIENCES Selecting Attendants and the Free Pass Fiend. BV HIBERNIA. Z. On the Monday after the quiet Sunday which I wrote about last week, I moved my headquarters from the club rooms to the hall. The benching was furnished by Spratts Patent, and under the direction of Billy Tallman it was put up methodically and expecHtiously, so I had no trouble on that score. The selection of attendants was a source of great annoyance. Every club member had some one or two persons to recom- mend. All of these were supposed to be poor and deserving, and would be glad of an opportunity to work from 7 o'clock in the morning until 11 o'clock at night to earn the munificent sum of one and a half dollars per day. I had arranged to meet all of these would-be aspirants for the honor of wait- ing on high-bred dogs early jn the morning in a room which I had selected for my own private office. I had calcu- lated that the show would require fifteen attendants, and there were by actual count seventy -eight applicants. To test their fitness to handle dogs I had bor- rowed a vicious-looking bull dog from one of our meml)ers and chained him in- side a closet in the corner of the office. The men were brought into me one at a liuic. The first comer was in Irishman. Said I : ''You want a job as attendant at the dog show ?" "I don't know phat a'tendant is to do sur, but I want wurk." I explained to him what his duties would be — to report at 7 in the morning, to put fresh t)edding under the dogs, sweep out his aisle, sprinkle sawdust along the benches, fill the pans with fresh water, watch around all day to see that the stalls were clean and in his spare moments exercise the do^ under his charge. When I had finished he asked : "An* is thot all?" "All I can think of at present, but you must cheerfully do any other duties that you are called upon to perform." "An' phat's the pay?" "One dollar and a half per day." "Well, sur, I'm afraid the wurk is too aisy fur a man phat's used to carryin' the hod, so I won't take the job. But you tell Mr. Stovell, the man phat recom- mended me to come here, an(f told me the job would Ije the softest I ever had, thot the next toime he wants me to vote fur his candidate in my ward, to stay away j.fj -■ - - on him." from me, because I'll loikely put a head The indignant Irishman marched scorn- fully out and a see held them would sn rrowd the hall that it would be impossible for those who paid for their tickets at the box office to squeeze into the hall. So I made myself very unpopular by limiting the number of members' free tickets to five to each. Then there was a species of free pass fiends that before this show I never knew existed. Here is a description of the type: It's a fellow you have been introduced to some time, but you have forgotten when or where, and the acquaintance has been kept up by a nod of recognition as you pass him on the street. You can not remember even his name. He pops in on you the first day of the show and ex- claims : "Why, Mr. Fitz- Poodle, how do you do ! I didn't know you were managing this dog show." Then he inquires about your health, your family and the prospective success of the show. After occupying about fifteen minutes of your time on general subjects, he says : "By the bye, I've some influential friends on the papers, and I think I can get you many valuable notices ; in fact, I sometimes for amusement write up things myself, and from friendship for you I'll see personally that this show is well taken care of." Then he adds: "If you have a couple of tickets to spare I'll be obliged." He never looks you in the eyes, and you can readily see that he is making a request which he knows he has no right to expect will l)e granted. The first one got the tickets, but the rest did not. They all "sang the same tune" with but slight variations. I saw their object — to use their speaking ac- quaintance with me to the extent of securing free tickets for the show. Nearly all the local dogs were benched by Monday night. Many of them were brought without chains and some with- out collars, but their owners willingly Ixjught these necessities to the encourage- ment and profit of a man who paid the club for the privilege of selling such articles. Many of the out-of-town entries, too, had arrived, and most of them in good shape. Some owners, however, had for- gotten to prepay express charges and others neglected to tag their dogs cor- rectly, but such trifling matters were but petty annoyances. . AMERICAN SPANIEL CLUB. Minutes of the Annual Meeting'-'The Treasurer's Report. To the Members of the American Spaniel Club. Gkntlkmkn : Herewith I beg to hand you the minutes of the annual meeting of the American Spaniel Club, held at the American Institute Rink, February 12, 1890 ; also the treasurer's report, show- ing the finances of the club. It will be seen that the club has made good progress during the past year in many ways. Our classifications and judges have been generally accepted by the most important shows throughout the circuit ; the state of our finances has been improved, and we have Ijecome a member of the American Kennel Club, with an energetic delegate who represents us at all meetings and carefully guards the best interests of our club. Several valuable cups have been offered for competition by the club, open to its members only, which promise to awaken a healthful interest amongst the breeders, and altogether the prospects for the fnture look even brighter, if possible, than in the past. Very respectfully, Gkorge H. Whitehead, Secretary. A. Clinton Wilmerding, President. minutes of the annual meeting. The annual meeting of the American Spaniel Club was held at the American Institute Rink, New York, February 12, 1890. Present — Messrs. J. P. Willey, Jas. Watson, Andrew Laidlaw, George H. Bush, H. M. Oldham, Edwin H. Morris, George H. Whitehead, J. Otis Fellows, William West, W T. Payne and A. C. Wilmerding. Represented by Proxy — F. W. Kitchel, William Barnes and F. H. F. Mercer. Mr. Watson in the chair. Regularly moved and seconded that the minutes of the last annual meeting be approved as printed and distributed. Moved and carried that the treasurer's rej)ort be accepte79.»4 Stationary and printing $22.25 Postage 6.30 Telegram 25 Expenses to committee meeting . 2.00 Dues to American Kennel Club 1890 10.00 40.80 Balanceon hand $139.04 William West, Treasurer. Philadelphia, May 26, 1890. ENGLISH SETTER WILD RAKE SOLD. Editor Fanciers' Journal. Sir: I have sold to Mr. G. F.Clark, St. Georges, Delaware, my English setter dog Wild Rake (12,453) by' old imported Rake — Madame Llewellin ; she by Rake — Roxie, which throws the strongest combination of the Duke-Phoebe blood into Wild Rake than any dog living that I know of. Wild Rake weighs about fifty-five pounds, and is a dog of remarkable bone and muscle and has a well-formed body of fine proportions. In fact, so great is the harmony of the above, and so com- pactly is he made that on hrst glance no one would take him for a large dog, but on closer inspection his depth of ohest, strong loins and tremendous forearm you notice are those of a large dog and as you run your eye carefully over him it becomes apparent that he is a large dog of such perfect proportions that at first glance he appeared small. Wild Rake has not been used extensively in the stud, but his puppies have l)een uni- formly good, not only in field quality but also in appearance. His puppies all possess the great amount of stamina com- mon to the Rake blood. Mr. Clark has a kennel well known in the east and in- tends to head it with Wild Rake, and I suppose will also offer his services to the. puolic at a moderate fee. While I was owner of the dog I re- ceived many letters from parties that had bred to him re(juesting me to inform them whenever a change of ownership occurred that they might know where to send their bitches. I take this method of answering all, the owner ot Wild Rake and his address being given above. Yours truly, W. W. TiTUS. ENTRIES FOR THE DERBY. Fonr Additional Dobs Entered In the Kastem Field Trials. Editor Fanciers' Journal. Sir: Mr. George T. Hodgson, Athens, Ga., one of the members of the Eastern Field Trial Club, wrote me just before the closing of the Eastern Field Trial Derby not to let him or his four dogs be closed out ; that he was going away and would give me particulars on return. Not see- ing his name or dogs in published list, he at once wrote, senmng names of dogs as below: Bi.ACK Jack.— Black and white English setter dog (Paul Gladstone — Bohemian Girl), June, i8f^. Dave W.— Orange and white English setter dog Gath's Mark— Daisy F), July, 1889. Hal. — Liver and white English setter dog (Gath's Mark— Daisy F.), July, 1889. Tricksey— Orange and white English .setter bitch, Gath's .Mark— Daisy F), July, 1889. Washington A. Coster, Secretary, Saratoga Springs, June 25. ! MR. PESHALL'S REPLY. He Declines to Appear Before the Advis- or)' Committee of the A. K. C. Mr. a. P. Vredenburgh, Secretary American Kennel Club. Dear Sir: I beg to acknowledge your letter dated June 27, 1890, wherein you enclose charges and specifications made against me and entitled. "A. P. Vreden- burgh, secretary, vs. Charles J. Peshall," which charges are made by you as secre- tary and so attested. You have failed to enclose me a copy of a resolution authorizing you, as secre- tary of the A. K, C, to prefer said charges or any charges against me. Per- mit me to say that without such direction I fail to find either in the constitution or rules of the A. K. C. any authority for you as secretary to prefer charges against a meml^er of the club. Therefore I am constrained to believe that in this matter you have not only exceeded your author- ity, but you are prostituting your office for the purpose of directing the attention of the dog men and breeders of this country from the published charges that I have made against the clique manage- ment of the A. K. C. I am confident that there has not been a meeting of the A. K. C. held since the publication of the articles by me, to which you have re- ferred in your so-called charges. You notify me to appear before the Advisory Committee of the American Kennel Club. I do not recognize that there is any such committee having a constitutional existence. I find nothing whatever respecting an advisory commit- tee in the constitution or rules of the American Kennel Club as in force De- cember 6, 1887. The constitution and rules as then in force have never been altered. As you may learn by reference to the American Kennel Gazette, Januar> , 1890, still holds good, and that constitution provides neither for an anvisory commit- tee, nor for a Kennel Gazette, nor for associate members ; nor does it anywhere exempt the treasurer of the A. K. C. from giving a detailed statement of the items that go to make up that entry of I1228.28. . This Advisory Committee has no power whatever to act and no authority what- ever to try any person, and if they did so it would be at their own individual peril and subject them to an action by any one feeling agrieved. Again, at least four of the members of this so-called Advisory Committee are affected by the charges which you claim I have made, and at least four of them would l)e used as witnesses upon the trial involving said issues. I am willing to appear l>efore the American Kennel Club at any time and substantiate all the charges that I have made against the management. The charges you make in regard to my violation of the rules are simply ridicu- lous and untrue in every particular. These being my views, I must respectfully de- cline to accept your kind invitation to appear before the so-called Advisory Committee on Wednesday afternoon next. Very respectfully, C. J. Peshall. Jersey City, N. J., July 7, 1890. ANIMAL RENEGADES. eci utiii 1.>„K- 1 ruary 23, 1888, by the Executive Com- mittee ; but, as the Kennel Gazette rightly states, the Executive Committee had no power to amend the constitution or rules of the American Kennel Club. That power was by the constitution vested in the club alone. Consequently, as the Gazette states, the amendments, which purported to have been adopted by the Executive Committee, were null and void. Again on December 6, 1888, and on December 19, 1889, further amendments to the constitution and rules were adopted by the Executive Commit- tee, but these likewise, as the Gazette states, were unconstitutional and void. I find upon examination that it is Rule 25 which provides : "Any person mav prefer charges against any other person before the American Kennel Club, provided said charges be in writing, and they shall be heard at the first oppor- tunity by the Advisory Committee, from whose decision, however, an appeal may be taken to the full Executive Commit- tee." But this is one of these rules which are null and void, never having been adopted by the club, but by the Executive Committee. As the Kennel Gazette of January, 1890, reports : A "special meeting of the club" was held January 10, to ratify the amend- ments adopted by the Executive Com- mittee as noted above. This was under Article XI, adopted May, 1887. This constitution may be revises in particular, do not absorb my attention to any great degree. When I was asked to examine the A. K. C. books I did so from a sense of duty, devoting considerable time (about two or three hours) of a busy afternoon to it, and as I ol)8erved before, did not expect to be called upon for data by anylKxly. Hence when Mr. Peshall called upon me so many times, buttonholing me in my office during business hours and har- anguing me by the half hour at thP time, I have no doubt that I got up that stereo- typed answer for him, "1 non't know," which after all seems to have been what he was seeking. I am entirely unbiased in the matter of this dispute with the Kennel Club, and am more than sorry that things should be as they are, but still asseverate most emphatically that our committee did ex- amine the accounts and that said accounts are absolutely correct in every particular. A. Clinton Wilmerding. New York, July 7, 1890. Interesting Traits of Nature—Charac- teristics of the Wild Dog. Felix L. Oswald in "Zoological Sketches." A singular character-trait of all animal renegades is their hostility towards their servile relatives. Travelers on the Rio Grande have to be very careful in picket- ing their saddle-horses, for if they stray into the prairie thev are sure to be "mobbed" and cruelly kicked by the wild mustangs. A Bokhara courier, it appears, would rather meet a panther than a troop of wild camels ; the mere sight of the gaunt monsters will frighten a dromedarj' out of its wits, and, unless the rider has much gunpowder to waste, the renegades, in spite of their timidity, come nearer and nearer, the cows stretch- ing their long necks inquisitively, while the old males prance around with snorts that leave no doubt of their evil inten- tions. This rancor seems to be aggravated by a sort of esprit de corps, for in private life wild and tame beasts of the same species agree well enough and even pair, volun- tary alliances between a dog and a fe- male dingo, wild and tame hogs, mares and mustangs, etc. , are by no means rare, but en masse their cast antagonism promptly asserts itself; just as a man may be the bosom friend of a partisan whose greeting in a public assembly he would hesitate to acknowledge ; during the fever-heat of our sectional feud more than one dweller in Dixie thought it his duty to ku-klux his own brother. The only animal I ever saw literally torn into shreds was a Mexican butcher-dog that had followed us ocross the Bolson de Mapimi, the rocky plateau between the plain of Durango and the Valley of the Rio Grande. The dog's owner, a poor Chinaco. had tried hard to sell him, but finally decamped with my partner's sad- dle-blanket, leaving his mastiff in lieu of payment ; and, in accordance with a queer but well-known law of human nature, the poor quadruped then became the target of retributive attacks both verbal and practical ; but, apparently mistaking our tent-wagon for the lurk- ing-place of his missing master, he fol- lowed us with the resignation of a martyr. The Bolson is a ravinous country, and on the day after the Chinaco's departure we passed a precipitous gully at a place where a broken wheel and a lot of scat- tered boards marked the scene of a re- cent accident. It looked like a slippery place, and, sure enough, down in the gully some forty feet below the road lay the carcass of a big mule, half buried in debris and surrounded by a swarm of tramp dogs. Thev had just begun their feast, and most of them were evidently in need of it ; there were about twenty of them, two of the youngsters with a faint resemblance to half-grown shep- herd dogs, but all the rest of a more than wolfish leanness. Famine never reduces the body of a wolf beyond a certain point ; his chest bones make him look stout in spite of his starved belly ; but the skeleton of a dog seems to shrink together with his Ixjwels ; some of the tramps in the gully looked as if their ribs had been strajjped back upon their backbones — "all legs and spme," like spider monkeys. The shrinking of the lips had barred their teeth and gave them an unspeakably savage appearance whenever they leered at us with their deep-set eyes. Some- thing or other seemed to excite them, and, looking around, I saw our friend the mastiff standing at the very edge of the ravine and looking down with a sort of pensive interest. "That's what folks come to who loose their masters," he might think to himself as he gazed upon the hungry tramps. But, while he gazed, one of the muleteers approached him from behind, lifted his foot, and in the next moment the mastiff's reflections were cut short by a kick that sent him head over heels through the air into the abyss below. What we call presence of mind is often nothing but an instinctive impulse — one of those instincts which a mortal danger awakens even in the human soul. Dogs are half human, guided partly by prin- ciples and prejudices, but in critical mo- ments they act rightly from intuition. When the mastiff landed in the gully he picked himself up and stood still, rigidly still, facing the tramps, who had scat- tered in every direction, but now gath- ered around him with ominous looks. They approached within ten or twelve yards and then came to a halt, watching the intruder with a steadfast gaze, si- lently, and with a gradual contraction of their haunches, like panthers crouching for a spring. Where the first movement is sure to be a signal of attack, even great strategists somehow prefer to let the enemy strike the first blow and thus betray his tactics — "forewarned, fore- armed"— but circumstances are apt to disconcert such plans. A thing not larger than a hazelnut, a pebble thrown from the top of the rock, made the mas- tiff start just for a moment, but in that moment the pack leaped upon him with a simultaneous rush, and two seconds after the sound of cracking bones an- nounced the end of the unequal struggle. They had borne him down at the nrst onset, and when they finally dragged him into the open gully 1 do not believe that there was an unbroken joint in his ' body. Three of the big tramps had done most of the killing, but now the whole pack laid hold, and in less time than it takes me to write the words they had torn him into pieces, not in the conven- tional but in the literal sense of the word — limb from limb and rib from rib — with a fury and a rage of destructiveness which plainly showed that hunger had nothing to do with their motives. It was evidently an act of revenge, provoked proximately by his unceremonious in- trusion, but chiefly, without doubt, by the odium inmdit^, the pariah's deep- seated and long-cherished hatred of the privileged caste whose representative had dared to beard them in their den. What right had he to wax fat while they starved — to fatten in the service of the arch-usurper of all the good things of this earth and then mock the leanness of virtuous liberals? "La mart sans phrase.'" THE CINCINNATI PUG SPECIAL. The Full ClronmstanoeM Under Which It AVas A^varded. Editor Fanciers' Jourkal. Sir : In reply to Mr. Eberhart, permit me to state that if, as he says, "the prize was in the judge's book — I saw him write it down to the Eberhart Kennels," all I can say is that I wrote it under the impression that I was awarding the special prize for the best kennel of four pugs owned by a resident of Cincinnati. I recollect Mr. Eberhart thanking me, saying, "much obliged, Mr. Mortimer," which I took as a pleasantry, and, reply- ing in the same jocular strain, said, "Don't mention it, my l)oy," for I con- sidered the prize a cast-iron bound one on which he as the only exhibitor from Cincinnati had the tightest kind of a cinch. I hadn't the remotest idea that I was awarding an open special, neither did I know such a prize had been offered by had the Cincinnati Club. Mr. Eberhart, who very kindly acted as my ring steward, will bear me out when I say that neither his nor Dr. Cryer's pugs were brought into the ring to be judged for any special kennel prize. For any act of negligence or careless- ness on my part I offer a sincere apology to Messrs. Cryer, Eberhart and the Cin- cinnati Bench Show Committee individu- ally and collectively, but I most posi- tively deny that I wittingly awarded the open special prize for the best kennel of pugs to the Eberhart Kennel or to any other kennel. Yours respectfully, James Mortimer. Babylon, L. I.. July 5. Otherwise Engaged. From Puck. Tramp— Will that dog bite ? Farmer— Yes; but I can't spare blm now. You'll have to go somirwhere else. I want him to keep the hens out of the garden. — Man is ofteD fonder of his dogs than he it of his kin, but then • dog can never contest • wilU 2a THE F^ANCIERS' JOURNAL. LJULY 12, 1890 SPARKS FROM BRITTLE'S PEN. Interesting Pacts and Fancies Culled from the Doggy World. special Correspoudence Fancikrs' Journal. I don't know whether readers of this paper look upon the attitude taken by the A. K. C, or, I should say, Mr. Vre- denburgh against Mr. Peshall, in the same light as I do, but for my part it seems to be of a serious nature, and one likely to lead America's kennel world into a most undesirable conflict. With this premise I trust no further explana- tion is necessary for what may seem to many an irksome harping on this sub- ject. By this time it will have become widely known that Mr. Peshall was sum- moned to attend a meeting of the Ad- visory, Executive, or whatever the com- mittee is called, to look into the charges laid against him by the secretary, Thurs- day, July 3, Ijeing the day fixed for the trial. The suddenness of this move must have taken everj-one by surprise, nor did I even know the date was so near at hand until the day before. The charges as published appear to me more in the light of " curios " than the soberly seri- ous infringements they are supposed to prefer, and it is hard to believe that any constitution would entertain with solemn gravity the apparent thinness of such a case. However, the committee, whatever its exact denomination may be, met in all seriousness, being composed of Messrs. Terry, Belmont, Anthony, Dr. Perry and the Hon. J. Wise. The question of libellous statements was, I believe, quashed, Mr. Belmont not voting on any oooastnn either with ret/ord to this Or any other subject. Then came the charge of misrepresentation with regard to the pointer Naso Peshall, about which opinions were equally divided, Messrs. Terry and Anthony considering it of sufficient gravity for disqualification, and Dr. Perry and the Hon. Wise being of a different opinion, so that it was decided to lay it before the general meeting of the A. K. C. or the Executive Commit- tee, or whatever the more extensive meeting is, and until then the matter remains in obeyance. With regard to the Naso Peshall busi- ness, there are two things which have struck me as being inconsistent. The first is concerning the proprietorship in which he was entered. It appears the entry was made in the name of the "Naso Kennels" (C. J. Peshall), whereas, John Lewis had a third or some such share in the dog. This occurred in 1887, and ac- cording to the rules then in vogue, an ob- jection must be lodged within twenty- four hours of the last day of the show. It is now, say, three years since the "fraudulency" was perpetrated, and I do not think at that time there was any other rule negativing the time as stipu- lated above, but supposing there were It is only now Mr. Vredeuburgh has discovered this flagrant breach of the rules ? It is fair to presume not. It is also fair to suppose he has known it for some time. Therefore, allowing his present charge to l}e presented from purely disinterested and non-personal motives, has he acted in an honorable manner toward his employers — the A. K. C. — by concealing these stupendous irregularities for even a day ? I am of course crediting Mr. Vredeuburgh with having preferred the charge on a strictly conscientious and moral basis, he having no other motive than that of studiously preserving the welfare of the body which he serves. If, on the other hand, he feels Mr. Peshall has been doing him a grievous injury in his capacity as secre- tary, is it not the duty of the A. K. C, and noi the individual, to protect its ser- vants ? The "et tu quoque" principle to which Mr. Vredeuburgh has resorted, will never have the effect he desires amongst the outside public, and for this reason I feel confitlent when the "three- year-old" charge is brought before a more "universal" tribunal, it will be dis- missed w ith costs, if such were possible. The next incident, which is beyond my power of comprehension, is the "fic- titious value" business. Without going into the details of the transaction be- tween the accused and John Lewis, it (the accusation) can have no other ap- pearance, than that of a drowning man snatching at a feather by which to buoy himself up. No matter whether Peshall and John Lewis did conspire to catch some "unsophisticated being" (which, by-the-bye, is highly improbable), it can only be surmised on Mr. Vredenburgh's part. He can not possibly show con- clusively that such was the case, and when the fact stares him in the face that John Ivcwis still has the dog and looks like keeping him, it places such an ac- cusation on a par with what he (Mr. Vredeuburgh) describes Mr. Peshall's charges to be — libellous, untrue, defama- tory and all the other words embodying such meaning. No ; this thing is getting to be "too much of the 'you're another' style" to be looked at in a sober light, and as Mr. Peshall has gained a distinct anvantage by this undiplomatic step on the secretary's part, he will be very fool- ish if he does not moderate the policy which has been the cause of such an ad- vantage. Again, if Mr. Peshall's share in the conspiracy to get a false value for the pointer warrants his being hauled over the coals, what has John Lewis done that he should get off scot free ? Didn't he have the dog? Hasn't he still got him ? And if anyone offered him for sale, is not John Lewis the more likely to do so ? Bah ! It is the most wishy-washy affair I ever came across, and gives, I am sorry to say, such proof positive of a desire amongst those in authority to " rule the roost," that it is in sorry accordance with the objects for which they were ap- pointed. I have spoken— as Julius Ctesar, or any other great man would say. How different is the effect of the same opinion given by two different beings. I see the English papers are profusely re- ferring to an article in the English Ken- nel Gazette concerning specialist judges, said article advocating the recognition of men not necessarily members. It is some months since I advocated the same policy in this paper, but it required a greater light than I to rouse the English scribes to a ferment over such a suggestion. If it is Merlin who has stirred such a feeling I shall know from whence he got his ideas, but if it is "s'm'other man" I can- not do anything but suppose they (the English scril)e) are hard up for news now, whereas there was a plentiful supply of it when I was grinding away at the sul> ject. As I previously asserted, the utter rottenness of all specialty clubs has been in the fact that most of them have been brought into existence for the sole pur- pose of gratifying the vanity of four or five men in order that they might lie placed before the world as judges of a certain breed, as this was probably the only means by which they could soar to the dignity of a judge of dogs, by Jove. In taking the list of appointed judges for any one specialty body, how many of these propounders of what are the essen- tial requisites in a good specimen would an average-minded man recognize as pos- sessing sufficient knowledge to undertake the task of awarding prizes ? Few ; "mighty few." Vet, they themselves don't think so, and probably look upon me either as an incurable lunatic, or else think it is a case of .sour grapes, but wild horses will never make me look upon a "specialist" judge in any other light than that of the rankest imposter and a class of beings whose occupation in life was cut out for wheeling peram- bulators and looking after the children whilst the "Missus" was out. This is about all their brain capacity is capable of grasping, but I suppose as long as dog shows exist the general public must suffer such an infliction. To enumerate the farcical performances of these "self- styled " judges would not only be out of place, but would also be following too closely in the footsteps of the egotistical Mephisto, but a very fair sample of their capabilities was made manifest at the last New York show, a recurrence of which would be enough to ruin any man's liver. But avaunt such thoughts. Let us pray their rope is not so verv long — that they must hang themselves some day. I tee in my par. about curing distemper in ferrets iodide of potass, is stated to be the remedy. How I could have written thi<* ^ crr»r»n tiAttQ ritiltr kn owp, for it is, or should be, chlorate of potass. What effect iodide would have I know not, but I am aware of the efficacy of the other. [We have mailed Brittle his par. of last week wherein he plainly wrote iodide of potass., and the mistake is his. — Ed.] The frequency with which Russian wolf-hounds are being alluded to in the various papers reminds me of an episode relating to their Irish confreres. It will be remembered the latter received a big boom in England some three or four years ago. At one of the shows where this boom was receiving a lot of atten- tion the following conversation is said to have been overheard : Friend of imjjecunious exhibitor. — "But what the devil's the use of reviving this breed when there are no wolves to drive away." Impecunious exhibitor. — "My dear fel- low, that's just where you're wrong. 'They keep the wolf from the door' in a most determined manner I can tell you." .\nother cocktail. Curtain. Brittle. I.NUIAXA PUPPY STAKES. Editor FancieRvS' Journau. Sir : At the earnest request of many of its patrons, the Indiana Kennel Club has decided to give a pujjpy stake for dogs born on or after October i, 1889. This stake will begin Thursday, October 30. The purse will be the entrance money less the expenses ; forfeit, $5, with $\o additional to start. Divided, 50 per cent to first, 30 per cent to second, and 20 per cent to third. Entries will close August I. Entry blanks are now ready. Yours truly, P. T. Madison, Secretary. INDIANAI'OLIS, Ind., July 5, 1890. —An Htlieator aiul a dog oiigaKed in a fight in Florida and the latlpr came out victorious kill- ing the 'gator. FROM MR. WADE. What He Says ItegardlnK Mr. l>eHliull and the A. K. C Editor Fanciers' Journal. Sir : Again has the American Kennel Club manifested its unfortunate mania for degrading itself in the public's esti- mation in the "trial" or attempt to "try" Mr. Peshall. i purposely eschew all such suppositions as to the motives lead- ing the actors in this serio comic drama. Motives are among the things that "no fellow can find out," but did kennel his- tory in America ever present so degrad- ing a piece of ruthless arrogance and blind confidence that the public will be ever tolerant ? Here is a notice served on Mr. Peshall, dated June 27, requiring him to appear before his judges and accusers on July 2. He is accused of low, dirty cheating, con- spiring, in fact, and for his defense he must produce certain other parties, how easily accessible I do not know. It is fair to presume that in the ordinary course Mr. Peshall got this notice on Sat- urday, June 28 ; next day being Sunday, it must l>e counted out. He must appear on Wednesday morning, so he is given Saturday, Monday and Tuesday to stir round and get his witnesses in shape ! There are many good lawyers among doggy men, Messrs. Smith, Wise and others, and I would ask them how such a hasty pudding as this would be regarded in our courts? One of the gentlemen I name is a mem- ber of the court that tries Mr. Peshall. I would ask him how he relishes donning the judicial ermine in such high pressure proceedings? Then if there is one prin- ciple of law (is it law ? or equity ? or what?) that the layman most heartily lielievesin it, is that no judge or jury may sit in judgment in a case wherein they are personally biased ; this is a fixed and reco{jnized principle 500 years old ; vet here is Mr Peshall recmireH in on. pear before a court, a majority of whom have just voted that he is a "Persona In- grata" to them ! There is an old axiom as to the wisdom of suing the devil and holding court Ijelow ; would Mr. Peshall be any wiser in appearing before this modern Vehmegericht ? From his pre- vious history I cannot but believe that there is one member of the court who voted aye in the "Persona Ingarta" drama, who will not bow to this extra- ordinary and scandalous proceeding. I write this at the very hour this court is to convene, and do not consider what the verdict may, or may not be, and I ask every honest American dog lover to think carefully and soberly over this as- tonishing affair, putting aside all pre- vious opinions at all concerning the points at issue, and make up his mind to such action as he deems wisest and just. Yours truly, W. Wade. HuLTON, Pa., July 2, 1890. CONSTAXTINOPLE'S DOGS. What a Great Harvest It WoulU Be for Our Dog-catchers. A correspondent of the Chicago Tribune writes the following concerning the dogs of the Turkish capital : The streets are crowded with a motley mass of people, Turks and Greeks, Syrians and Egypt- ians, and dogs — 300,000 of them, we are told, and they are on the increase every year. No one owns them, no one pets them, although many feed them, and you will often see them prowling around a pile of refuse thrown out for their bene- fit or lying in the middle of the street and on the sidewalks, where you step over them and around them and some- times on them with impunity, for they are very good natured and quiet, except after nightfall when their privacy is in- truded upon by one of their kind. These dogs live in wards, and as the English- man's house is his castle, so a Turkish dog's ward is his fort, and woe to the strange canine found near it at night, and woe to the tired tourist when a bat- tle between the invaders and invaded is going on. I have heard such a battle and know whereof I write. VOL. 5. NO. 2.] THE FANCIER©' JOURNAL. a3 Our Illustration. THE GREYHOUND CHAMPION BAI.KIS. WlhlNER OF OVER FORTY PRIZES. •Tis truly said that those things which jump quickly into popular favor are sel- dom of long duration, while those of slow progress are infinitely more lasting, in fact, never seem to lose their charm. This can be truly said to apply to the fancies of men for dogs. All the various breeds except greyhounds quickly ab- sorbed the attention of breedei-s and ex- hibitors, while greyhounds were sadly neglected, but those who owned speci- mens of the breed felt their day would come. And so it has ; come not simply for a decade, but to stay with us and be "a joy forever." Why this most grace- ful and fleet of all the canine family should have been neglected so long is ac- countable for only in that coursing had not yet gained a strong foothold among us. Now we have three coursing clubs and one specialty club devoted entirely to the greyhound family, and with these working all in harmony, the star of this breed is surely in the a.scendant, and we trust will never set. Grand specimens are being bred as well as imported by men who admire the dog for its useful- ness as well as its beautiful outlines. The bulky nondescript animals that ten years ago took first prizes at our dog shows and in the field were considered uncomparable would to-day, if placed beside our cracks, be unnoticed. In fact, no one would take them as a gift. It has been uphill work to get recogni- tion for our dogs, but the constant breed- ing and importation of a few fanciers have produced the desired results, and we now have some dogs native bred that would win in any show in England, the home of the breed. Rare good ones have been bred here and we know of some youngsters if they live will take a deal of beating l)efore they take a back seat. F^oremost among our greyhound men is Mr. H. W. Huntington, of 148 South Eighth Street, Brooklyn, N. Y., who certainly has imported as many dogs as any man in America, and surely has bred more prize winners, having bred Haw- thorne Belle, Harlequin, Hazelhurst and Harmony, all of champion fame and winners of over forty prizes, besides such winning dogs as The Bard, Highland Guard, Highland Laddie, Highland Lassie and a score of others. New aspirants are constantly springing up since the grand advancement has been made, and ere two years have passed we will have as fine dogs and as of royal blood as can be found the world over. Such enthusiasts as Messrs.C. S. Wixom, George Shepherd Page, Montgomery Phister, N. Q. Pope, y. Von Kumniul, H. C. Lowe, I). C. Luce, C. L. Griffiths, J. H. Watson and L. C. Whiton are en- larging their kennels and adding new blood, and soon the rivalry will be greater in greyhounds than in any other breed. Tliis will stimulate more V)reeding and importing, and with Messrs. Phister and Page's recent importation we may look for a grand display next year. The recent enclosed coursing meets held in St. Louis, Louisville, Kansas City and St. Joseph have aroused such an admiration lor the dog that nothing can diminish it, and orders go flying to breeders for the best and truest blood ob- |[i tainable. The purity of the sport and the alwolute freedom from all junketing have found a generous response in every "I true sportsman's heart and have at once liimade it both popular and alluring. The frontispiece of this week's issue is Mr. Huntington's famous Champion Balkis, winner of over forty prizes on the bench and four coursing stakes. He is without doubt the best stud dog in Amer- ica, having sired half a score of notable winners. The criticism of him is from "Our Prize Dogs," by Mr. C. H. Mason, and is as follows: "Eyes and ears l)etter than the average. ♦ * ♦ Neck of good length, well arched and exceed- ingly muscular. Splendid legs and feet. No man could wish for better. Chest deep. * * * I..oin unusually hard, well turned, and showing great muscular development. Quarters very fine, the legs being truly formed and tremendously powerful. Hocks strong, clean and well bent. • • * We cannot see how any judge could over- look his wonderful quarters and superb legs and feet. Balkis comes of racing stock, on l)oth sides, and his sire, Clyto. is one of the stoutest and most resolute dogs that has ever been sent from the slips. Jle won twenty-oue out of twenty- three courses, losing the two by accidents. Balkis is the fac-simile of his sire— in fact we have ■ever seen two dogs that were more alike. For a rasping trial, over a stiff country, give us the sturdy sou of Clyto, and old Primrose (another good one), and our neighbor over the way may take the remainder." Balkis is by Clyft's Clyto out of Prim- rose, by Christ Church out of Pansy. Clyto is by Caleb Garth out of Clytie. The new National Greyhound Club is a live and strong one, and it is bringing the breed it represents to the very fore and will keep it there beyond all ques- tion. The officers as well as members are enthusiasts in every sense of the word, and each is using his influence with his friend and neighbor to so direct his mating or purchasing that the good of it all will be felt throughout the fancy. Unpedigreed dogs are now nearly value- less, the one aim being to secure "blue bloods," and so improve by each breed- ing of the bitches. WHO WROTE IT? FIELD TRIALS. Entries For the Philadelphia Kennel Club's Derby. The entries for the Philadelphia Ken- nel Club's Derby, t) be run December 15, at Deatonsville, Amelia County, Va., closed July i, with eighteen nominations as follows : KNOLISH SETTERS. Ai-i>ERT's Duchess.— White, black and tan bitch (Warwick Albert— Princess Belton(, whelped February M, 1889 ; John A. Hartman. BKVERt.v.— Black, white and tan dog (Roi d'Or— Mildred), whelped Pebruafy. 1889; Francis G. Taylor. Buster.— Black, white and tan dog (King Noble —Cricket), whelped March, i88g ; B. Ridgway. Clementine. — Black, white and tan bitch (Ezra Noble— Cornelia G), whelped October 2, 1889 ; Lawrence Shuster, Jr. JEAN.— Black, white and tan bitch (Fritt— Hazel), whelped October 8, 1889; John B. Ellison. Larry Noble.- Orange and white dog (Eire Noble— Cornelia O.), whelped Octol)er 2. 1889; HildebraudFitigerald. LiTCV Noble.— Black, white and tan bitch (Count Noble— Alphonsine), whelped 1889 ; W. B. Smith. Madoe.— Bitch (Gun— Victoria), whelped Sep- temt>er u. 1889; George Fox. Old Smed.— Black and white dog (Eira Noble — Cornelia G.), whelped October 2, 1889; Law- rence Shuster, Jr. Peo Woffingto.n.— Black, white and tan bitch (Ben Hill— Nora), whelped March 17, 1890; Francis S. Brown. . — Orange and while dog {Htra. Noble- Cornelia O.), whelped October 2, 1889; Ger- hard Schreiber. IRISH setters. Sparkle.— Red bitch (Desmond II— Lorraine), whelped April 30, 1889; G. G. Davis. POINTERS. Beai'TY-spot.— Liver and white bitch (Half-and- Half— Favette), whelped July 4,1889:1. W. M. Cardeza. Bessie Item.— Orange and white bitch (Gambol — Mollie R.). whelt)ed January 19, 1890; Hildebrand Fitzgerald. Bon Toland.— Dog (Victor the Blue Stocking- Charlotte Corday), whelped October 12, 1889; John B F^llison. Duchess of Hessen. — Liver and white bitch (Duke of Hessen- Duchess of Waterloo), whelped July, i«H9 ; J. H. Winslow. Jack Ellison.— Liver and white dog (Victor the Blue Stocking- -Charlotte Corday), whelped October 12, 1889; J. H Winslow. London. — Dog (Beaumont ), whelped October, 1889 ; George Fox. IN MEMORY. Never again shall his leaping welcome Greet me when coming at eventide ; Never again shall his glancing footfall Range the fallow from side to side. Under the rain drops, under the snowflakes, Down in a narrow and darksome bed ; Safe from sorrow or fear or loving, Lieth my beautiful still and dead. Mouth of silver and skin of satin, Foot as fleet as an arrow's flight, Statue still at the call of "steady," Eyes as clear as the stars at night. Laughing breadths of the yellow stubble. Now shall rustle to alien tread, And rabbits run in the dew dim clover Safe, for my beautiful lieth dead. "Only a dog !" do you say. Sir Critic ? Only a dog, but as truth I prize The truest love I have won in living, Lay in the deeps of his limpid eyes. Frosts of winter nor heat of summer Could make him fail if my footsteps led, And memory holds in its treasur casket The name of my darling that lieth dead. DOGS AND THEIR HABITAT. —She : "I didn't hear anything of father's dog. He held his peace to-night, didn't he?" He: "Yes-, his piece of my eight-dollar trou- sers." A Story from Mr. Stanley's Book About a Fox Terrier. From the New York Tribune. There is a pathetic dog story in Mr. Stanley's book. He took with him from the Congo to the Nyanza a fox terrier. Randy lx>re the fatigue of the terrible march through the tropical forest remark- ably well. He assisted in foraging for game, and on one occasion distinguished himself by capturing a fine guinea fowl when the officers were ou the lowest pos- sible rations. He was the pet of the ex- pedition. When Mr. Stanley left Fort Bodo to return westward to the Congo in search of the rear column he left the dog behind him with the garrison. Poor Randy could not understand that he had been mercifully spared the fatigue of a journey of a thousand miles. He only knew that he had been separated from his master. From the hour of Mr. Stanley's departure he moped and per- sistently refused food. The attentions of the officers were inadequate compensa- tion for the loss of his master. He could not be coaxed to eat anything, however savory. He pined and languished, and on the third day died of a broken heart. That is a tale which servts to prove that dogs are worth the risk of an occa- sional hydrophobia scare. From their intelligence, fidelity and development of affections hardly distinguishable from human feelings dogs were designed to be trusted companions of merciful and sym- pathetic men ; but so strong is the force of unreasoning prejudice and of morbid fear of one of the rarest diseases that one-half the community, even in a humane and civilized country, always seems impatient to take up arms against them. Two or three times in the course of a year the journals of this town con- tain accounts of what are widely heralded as fatal cases of genuine hydrophobia. Even if the diagnosis of medical ex- perts in these cases be accurate and scientific — and this is a most elastic con- cession to credulity — the percentage for a centre of population of over 3,500,000 served by the local press is so low as to demonstrate that the disease is phenom- enally rare and that there is no ground for public panic on the subject. Yet, whenever one of these exceedingly in- frequent cases occurs the newspapers bristle with letters from timorous men and nervous women, demanding a general slaughter of house and street dogs and accusing those who hartwr and make pets of poor brutes of criminal indiffer- ence to human life. These unusual cases are famous adver- tisements for the specialists of the Pasteur school, for, under the influence of public excitement, slight wounds, instead of be- ing washed with salt water and vinegar and at once put out of mind, are scientifi- cally treated and recorded as so-called "hydrophobia cures." If the enemies of dogs are unreason- able in their prejudices and morbid appre- hensions, so also are the friends of the faithful and companionable brutes in their ignorance and infatuation respect- ing the requirements of nature and habitat. There is a popular theory that a dog, because he is the companion of man, can live and thrive wherever his master may be. This is surely a mis- take. A dog's habitat is the open coun- try, where he can get the exercise and liberty which nature designed him to have. A dog that is shut up in a city house or cellar and restricted to the range of a tiny backyard — and in a flat denied even that meagre privilege — is not in his natural habitat. An airing under chain and with muzzle for a half hour on the sidewalks does not answer the require- ments of his being. There are thousands of city dogs petted and overfed by indulgent masters that are mercilessly treated in this respect. They belong in the suburbs and the open country, aud not in the over- crowded and strictly policed town. Their masters would resent the insinuation that they are anything but kind and merciful in their treatment of their pets, but it is essentially cruel and merciless to take a dog out of his habitat. The in- difference to the poor brute's welfare is almost wanton when it involves his im- prisonment in a flat where there is no range even of a back-yard. Every dog, and especially an overfed do^, needs grass. It is nature's medicine instinct- ively taken. Those who deprive their pets, not only of liberty, exercise, but also of their wholesome medicine, may seem to be kind and indulgent, but they are either ignorant or unreasonable. KENlS^EIi REGISTER. We make no charge for entries in this column ; all we ask is that registration be made in the following form. Write plainly. VISITS. W. W. TITUS' English setter bitch Flora M. (Don Gladstone— Margo) to San Roy (Count Noble— Spark) May 6, 1890. W W. TITUS' English setter bitch Daisy Hope (Gath's Hope— Daisy F.) to Rid Glad- stone (Roderigo— Pet Gladstone) May 22, 1890. W W. TITUS' English setter bitch Amorbt (Casaio— Allie James) to Wild Rake (Rake— Madame Llewellin), June 9, 1890. F. H. PERRY'S (Des Moines, la.) Iri.sh setter bitch Nino to Elcho. Jr., June 24, 1890. W. W. TITUS' English setter bitch Fannib Gladltone (Gladstone— Florence I to RoD- ERioo, June 8, 1890. EBERHART PUG KENNELS' pug bitch Ladv Thora (1315) to their Bradford Rpby II (9720), July 3, 1890. MRS. R. STRAUSS' pug bitch RcBY S. to Ebcr- hart Pug Kennels^ Kberhart'8 Cashier (13901) June 30. 1890. THOMAS HEEVEY'S Irish setter bitch Daisy to F. L. Cheney's Henmore Shamrock (Muskerry- Avoca), June 4 and 5, 1890. SALES. EBERHART Pt;G KENNELS (Cincinnati, O.) have sold, July i, 1800. pug dog Sir Loris II (Sir Loris— East Lake Virgie), whelped April 3, 1890, to Mrs. H. McGibbons, Sioux City, la. WHELPS. COL. CLIPPERTON'S Irish terrier bitch Erin, whelped July 6, six puppies, two dogs, to Lewis & Jarrett's BrRNSiDE. F. L. CHENEY'S Irish setter bitch BizRBENA (Nimrod— Bizorah), whelpee lifted, and a large vein which will be seen underneath freely opened, after which hold the bird's head under a cold water tap for a few minutes. It is just po.ssible it may recover; if so, feed sparingly on soft food only for a few days. In over-fed hens this disease usually occurs during the exertion of laying ; if, therefore, a laying hen be found dead upon the nest, let the owner at once examme the remainder, and should they appear in too hieh condition reduce their allowance of food accord- ingly. Loss of feathers is almost always caused either by want of green food or having no dust bath. Let these wants, there- fore, be properly supplied, removing the fowls'if possible to a grass run. For local application we would recommend mer- curial ointment, but we ourselves prefer an unguent composed of sulphur and creosote. Nothing, however, will bring the feathers before the next moult. Roup is always caused by wet or verj- cold winds. It begins with a common cold and terminates in an offensive dis- charge from the nostrils and eyes, often hanging in froth about those organs. It is most highly contagious, the disea.se being, as we believe, communicated by the sickly fowl's beak contaminating the drinking water ; therefore let all fowls affected by it be at once put bv them- seh-es and have a separate water vessel. Keep them warm and feed with meal only, mixed with hot ale instead of water. Feed on oat meal mixed with ale and green food unlimited. Wash the head with tepid water, and give daily one grain sulphate of copper. We prefer the above. Roup runs its course rapidly, and in a week the bird will either be almost well or so nearly dead that it had better be killed at once. It is the worst disease of poultry, and to be dreaded accordingly. Fortunately the symptoms are specific and the treatment equally so. Pip is no disease and demands no treatment, l)eing only analagous to a "foul tongue" in human beings. Cure the roup, or bad digestion, or whatever else be the real evil, and the thickening of the tongue will come all right. Fowls sometimes waste away without any ap- parent disorder. In such cases a tea- spoonful of cod-liver oil per day will often be found a most efficacious remedy. Scouring or diarrhoea is caused by too abundant use of relaxed food. Cayenne pepper or chalk, or lK>th, mixed with meal or boiled rice will check the complaint. Leg weakness is generally caused by the size and weight of the body being more than the legs can bear. It is shown by the bird resting on the first joint. Being entirely the result of weak- ness, the best treatment is that which gives a general strength and stamina to the sufferer. Tincture of iron, say five drops to a saucer of water, must 1)€ given. — Ohio Farmer. Fhnciers' yaRNs. "lu the old time."— My Annuity. From Poultry. Day dreams are generally said to be pleasant. One sits in the twilight think- ing and thinking, until the present l>e- cotpes hazy, when in a pensive reverie of half- waking dream the far away bygone and nearly forgotten past gradually takes form, as it were, and stands again re- vealed as though but the action of to- day. The mind somehow wanders back to old times ; buried past events passing others of more recent date in "leaps and bounds." Things of yesterday, last week, months only ago are forced from their hold on memory to make room for lost and forgotten hours and days of fifty to sixty years since, and again we see, or seem to see, the occurrences of these in all their freshness and detail. Scenes, forms, aye, and the very words then uttered, rest before the eye and ear as clearly or as audibly as then, and. yet possibly if we tried our utmost to reniem- Ijer certain facts they would utterly elude our mental grasp. But half an hour ago sitting in restful pose with closed eyes, such like visions were mine. The past of five and fifty years ago became the present. At that time I had a few pigeons, poultry, rab- bits, etc. M}' neighbor next door was an old fancier of all, besides keeping many cage birds. These in summer were hung in numbers around his bedroom window except the larger kinds, which piped or sang melodiously from beneath a lattice outhouse built for their reception, and that of a cat to protect them from mice and rats. My pigeons were tumblers, t1lo^t1v fiv. ing blaclc baldheads, which soared to a great height, and when so flying would turn quickly, looking in the meanwhile more like flashes of light than pigeons in flight. My old fancier friend and myself watched them often and often, and although it is nearly sixty years since, I can .see now his delighted expression as bird after bird turned over without falling from its place. But the time came when I wanted a change of birds. He advo- cated yellow dragons and knew of some very good, but after a while it was settled the new-comers should be mottled trum- peters. I think it was a heavy time with him when he helped to carry my bald- heads to a dealer in I.,ock's Fields, and the trumpeters were brought home, well colored, nice birds, and they trumpeted roundly, fully and musically, quite a different en vocci to the present strain, nothing alike either in size, rose or leg feathering, but their cooing propensities were loud and continuous. After a while these were let out and all went well, but in a few days, to my aston- ishment, my black baldheads all returned. There was a "battle royal," a struggle for possession. Sometimes the trumpeters won, and then the baldheads. At last I secured the latter and took them back to "the dealer," who had Iwught them, and offered them to him. Not he. No, not a bit of it. He didn't know who bought them of him. He had sold them and wouldn't have them again at any price, nor as a gift. So I went further away to another merchant in pigeons. "Yes, they were pretty and clean cut." What did I want for them? "Well," said I, "not so much as I wish to be rid of them' and they are not mine. I have sold them once and they have come home again." •"Have you?" said he. "Well you are stupid when you say they are not yours. Whose are they, then?" "Why," said I, "I don't know." "And I don't care," said he, and he Iwught them. About three weeks after I heard a great noise in my pigeon shed, and thinking it was a cat hadgot in, I ran out with a stick to drive it away. On opening the door and rushing in, I saw, net a cat, but my old black baldheads had returned, and matters were serious between them and the trumpeters — two broken eggs laid on the ground, and one small young bird, and a baldhead was "pulling" at another. In a few minutes the new comers were safely lodged in a rabbit VOL. 5. NO. 2.] THE FANCIERS' JOURNAL. 25 hutch, and there was then much musical rejoicing from the trumpeters left in po.ssession. My old friend "next door" counselled to "sell them further away ;" so the following morning found me on my way to Mr. Raysdon. a dealer near St. George's Church in the Boro'. The worthy man was at home. I told him that the birds had been sold twice. "Have they ?" said he. "Well, sir, you see there is birds as is 'a sort of annuity;' and I should say these is of that there breed." "But," said I, "it is not right to keep selling them." "Isn't it though," said he, "I say sell 'em agin and agin, we all does it, anyhow I'll buy 'em." So I left "my annuity." .Some time after while talking to my fancier friend and neighl>or, he looked up at the house, and with much glee said, "Why there are two of the old bald- heads back." .\nd true it was, and in less than five minutes I had them trapped and secured." "Well." said I, "this time there are but two. " In a few days I took these to Kent Street (neither of the former buyers would even look at them). I again related my story. "Well." said Mr. Runciman, "What fools people are to let such birds out. I'd bet a guinea" (Mr. Runcimon was a truthful man. so he added), "that is if I had one, that you may sell them fifty times, and each tune they'll come back." "I really hope not," said I, "and please, if you sell them, will you kiukly ask the ad- dress of the buyer?" "Not I, not I," said he, "I should just have enough to do to take down 'the housing' of all my cus- tomers. No ! not a bit of it," and with many a gurgling laugh as he put his pur- chase into a pen, he ilisjointly said, "They'll — Ije — home — a— fore — you, un- less you run." There had been a strange cat prowling about some time, so I kept my birds in, tied up the "bolt wires," and covered tlie drop hole, and otherwise closed my trap to prevent accie. Some people think it strange that the cockerel should thus come mis- marked, but it is a frequent occurrence that when two black breeds are mated together, their progeny will throw red feathers in their hackles and saddles. The rosecomb Orpington cock should be black throughout, with a splendid green gloss upon the plumage, broad in the breast, and with a nice flowing tail. POULTRY GOSSIP. Items of lutorest for Both llreedur and C'onBunier. Special Correspondence. Doctors, lawyers, chemists and poultry editors are deep iu the oyster shell con- troversy. The carlx>nate of lime in the oyster shells seems to be the bone of con- tention. The opponents of oyster shells say it is insoluble, while the advocates of shells say it is soluble. Deep into the inner recesses of the hen do they delve, and the amount of acids necessary to catch that measly lime for the egg shell is be- wildering. The amount of knowledge displayed by men never before suspected of being chemists or scientists is sur- prising ; in fact, one hardly recognizes even the former style of the writers — it is so different. It is extremely difficult for doctors to correctly explain some of the assimilative processes of the human organs, then how much more difficult must it be to explain the functions of our dumb animals. We do not believe oyster shells to be absolutely necessary, but from the weight of evidence presented by its advocates it seems perfectly reasonable to assume that the carbonate of lime is assimilated. — 0:0 — Mr. James Rankin, a practical author- ity, positively asserts that oyster shells are digested, and claims to have found pieces of shell incorporated in the egg shell. He claims that his ducks will lay far better when supplied with shells. Grant- ing that this may lie the case with Mr. Rankin's ducks, it is nevertheless contra- dicted by the experience of others, who never feed any shells whatever. But the feed and surroundings play an important part in the matter. Mr. Rankin raises thousands of ducks, and requires a large flock of laying birds. The latter we be- lieve he* pens up. He lielieves in corn also as a principal food, and the well- known deficiency of lime in this grain would make the feeding of foods richer in lime necessary, but Mr. Raukin feeds the shells to supply this want of lime, with the success above stated. size as the Orpingtons eggs produced in a year does not vary, the quality of the flesh is equal, and also the fowls' appearance, except that they differ in the matter of their combs. Many people, I find, have an idea that the rose- comb variety have black Hamburg blood in them, but this is altogether a mistake. About fifteen years ago there were some Langshans imported into England with rosecombs. These were mated with Langshans with the orthodox single comb, but many of the progeny came with rosecombs. No notice was taken of this, and many were killed and eaten. Fortunately I got hold of a few, and bred from them, and I bought as many as I could about the country, until I had a nice flock together. Then I crossed them in the same manner as I had done to get the single comb variety, using the rosecomb Langshan instead of the others. I wish my readers to understand that The weight of I carried well back, black beak well curved, dark or hazel eye, the former preferred, and a neat rosecomb, closely fitted to the head, with a short spike at the back, red face and ear-lobes, black legs with white toenails, four toes on each foot, sole of the foot should be white. The hen should match the male bird in all pointi, only the comb and tail are smaller. The chickens are very hardy, and can be brought up in small runs, and often then lay at six months old. No one that has tried them is disappointed with them, as they fill the egg basket when the snow is on the ground. Years ago we never heard of oyster shells or bone meal, and even to-day there are very successful poultry raisers who never feed either. They invariably allow their hens full range, and under such conditions it is a waste of money to buy oyster shells. We have bought hun- dreds of eggs when we were in the egg business of neighboring farmers and poultry raisers, but seldom found a place where shells were fed. In our own ex- perience, although we usually supply the shells, we cannot state positively that the lime in the shells is assimilated. We have fed no shells for months, and found no difference in the results, and all oor fowls were yarded. A cardinal principle in our feeding rations always has been bran. The latter, in our estimation, is the most indispensable egg food we have. — During the warm weather the chick- ens will do much better if kept out of doors altogether. They then liecome hard- ened,and grow more thriftily than if they are shut up at night in hot, musty houses. Those that average larger than the others should be accommodated with roosting places or huddling coops at night, apart from the smaller broods, lest in tneir scrambling for warm shelter they tread upon and injure or destroy the younger birds.— New York Mail and Express. It has been claimed that clover will supply the lime necessary to an egg shell most easily. We fed clover till a year ago, when a change of residence prevented our securing it. We fed a straight grain ration consisting of bran, oats and com ground together with wheat, corn or buckwheat as a night ration. From November to F^ebruary we fed no shells, but after that supplied the latter. There was no difference in the results as far as we could detect, and we will posi- tively assert that we received more egg» this season than last season when we fed -fi a6 XHR FANCIBRQ' JOURNAL [JULY 12, 1890 clover. As we keep a record of what our fowls do, we can easily detect whether certain fowls influenced egg production or not We have known instances where whole wheat was fed exclusively to a flock of Brahmas with splendid results. The safest guide in feeding chickens is the experience of successful poultrymen. — 0:0 — This brings up the experiences of cat- tle breeders. Bone meal has often been recommended as a cure for abortion in cows. It is on the supposition that the foetus of the calf prematurely born is de- ficient in bone or deficient in other par- ticulars attributed to the foods, and th^ir lack of the elements necessary for the growth of the ftietus. Bone meal has been recommended as a remedy for sofl- shelled eggs and for leg weakness in chickens. In every instance we believe it will fail to accomplish what is claimed for it. In milch cows where "slinking of calves" is most prevalent, the forcing for large yiield of milk without consider- ing the growing calf is enough to pro- duce the trouble. In hens the soft- shelled eggs are due to diseased condi- tions of the egg organs, and weak-legged chickens have been forced either in too high heat or fed too strongly. In an ex- tended experience with cattle and poultry we fed bran and oats after many various trials as the safest foods for all growing stock, and found the abortion in cattle, and the leg weakness in chickens an un- known quantity provided the sanitary conditions were perfect. We have seen chickens forced by artificial means in a high temperature become weak in the legs and also enjoyed the spectacle of seeing them stufl°ed with green ground bone again without success. ciers are born, not made. It is easy enough to treat the breeding of fancy poultry lightly, and the very men who believe it a very simple affair would fail signally if compelled to produce first- class stock themselves. But such men would want to do the teaching. The poultry farm, the show room and the poultry press will be found to be the best teachers. Science is a great thing, but the laws of nature are supreme. The whole secret in feeding lies in following the* laws of nature and studying the animals under our care. — 0:0— Attention was called to the fact that hot weather produces diarrhoea in young chicks in last week's Journal. The best way to prevent it is to provide grass, shade and pure water . A simple remedy for diarrhoea is boiled milk. This latter is used almost exclusively in France. It is to l>e regretted that the South Carolina Poultry and Pet Stock Associa- tion should have split up into factions. It seems that one wing of the association was dissatisfied with the management of the old association, and formed a new organization, assuming the name of the old one, and at the same time applying to the state officials to have it incorpo- rated. The old association, not being in- corporated, is making a strong fight to prevent the "other fellows" from using the old name, and a lively new.spaper fight is the result. The new association will hold its show in Greenville, S. C, next February, and was included in the southern circuit. The old association with the help of the Greenville contingent expected to make the Charleston show next January a memorable one, as it was confidently expected that the A. P. A. would meet there. The unfortunate dissensions among our southern friends is calculated to injure the prospects down there, and it is to be hoped that an amicable settlement will be arrived at. It is patent to all who have watched the course of members of the A. P. A. that it is an almost universal desire to see the next meeting held in the South. J. H. Drevenstedt. T±ija oi'.ajNmu fowIj. An old breeder speaking of gapes stated that where many chickens are affected to place them in closed rooms and fumigate with carbolic acid. The latter is poured on live coal held on a shovel or in an iron vessel. It knocks the gape worms out completely. Prevention, however, is the best. In gape infested localities plowing of the soil in the fall will help matters, especially if a lil)eral supply of air slaked lime is used in the chicken coops and sprinkled on the fresh soil in the spring. —0:0 — E. P. Cloud, the well-known poultry- man and editor of the brilliant and spicy little Poultry News, wants a college started for educating people in judging, scoring, mating and breeding of fowls ; also teaching them capon izing, feeding, etc. The best college. Brother Cloud, is on the poultry farm, and the practical ex- perience gained is the best teacher. \Ve have plenty of men who preach well enough on poultry topics, but very few who have made a practical success of the business. Our agricultural colleges could combine poultry raising in all its details in the curiculum of studies, but the science of breeding fancy poultry can scarcely be taught mechanically. Fan- A Ohloken That Shows but Little Disposition to Sit. From the Stock-Keeper. In the first place, before I say anything about the Spanish fowl as fancy or show birds, I should like to say what I think of them as a thoroughly useful and profit- able breed, more especially for those who keep a few birds for the sake of having genuine new-laid eggs, and who have not a large space at their command in which to keep them. I mean those who live in town, or the suburbs of large towns. The complaint is so often heard of people who have started poultry for that purpose, that after their birds have laid a few eggs their maternal feelings have been so strongly and unplea.santly de- veloped that they ignore all other con- siderations, and simply represent so many living incubators, and squat alx>ut like bundles of feathers, to the infinite disgust of their owners, who have neither the will nor accommodation to rear chickens. I would, therefore, strongly recommend those who have a limited space, and who are fond of a new-laid egg for breakfast, to keep Spanish fowls, as they bear confinement well, very sel- dom show any disposition to sit, and are most prolific layers of fine large eggs — yes, "all fine and large" will well express it — and at the beginning of the year many fanciers will l)e glad to sell their birds which are deficient in show points for a few shilling each. These birds will be found to lav well, look well and give no more trouble than a lot of mongrels, the color of their plumage beiiij^ well suited for close con finemeut and the smoke and smuts of a large town or city. The only thing they require and must have is a good dry house and to be fairly well fed ; they are by no means large eaters, considering the quantity of eggs they lay. Morning and evening is quite often enough to feed them, though they do not turn their beaks up at a few house scraps in the middle of the day. For the above rea- sons I would strongly recommend them as a most profitable breed to keep. As a show or exhibition fowl they are perhaps the only kind that can be' suc- cessfully bred, kept and exhibited by anyone who has only a limited space at his command. I think that some home hobby is a very good thing for anyone, young or old, to have. Change of occu- pation, like change of air or change of diet, keeps both body and mind in a healthy condition and often prevents unhealthy thoughts and habits taking possession of us. I shall with pleasure endeavor to assist those who may feel disposed to start in this particular hobby and give them the result of my e.xperience, extending over thirty years, during which time I have kept this variety, for Spanish were mv first and only love (I mean in the poul- try fancy), but I shall not carry out the words of the nigger nreaclier who, before he coininenced his sermon, was very fond of repeating these lines : THE FANCIER AND THE MARKET POULTRYMAN. BY J. H. DREVENSTEDT. Come all of you who have disaming. Lisen to the voice of larning;, While I discourse, as is my wont, 'Bout what I know (in sotto voice), and what I don't. When a young man is about to get married he very wisely and naturally be- gins to think about the kind of house he shall take his wife home to, and so I would advise the Spanish fancies to be very particular in starting with the proper conveniences for keeping this breed, for on this will depend much of his after success or failure. Each one will, of course, modify my suggestions to suit their own circumstances. I shall give what I consider actually necessary and describe their uses as I go on. Two good-sized sheds, not less than ten feet bv ten feet, or equivalent, and six feet high if you can, with as large a wired run as you can give to each, but if they are next to each other, thev must have a Iwarded partition at least two feet high to prevent the birds seeing each other. If one or both of the sides are brickwork, have these rouifhly painted so as to leave as few holes and crannies as possible to harbor insects. I would also have the bottom concreted and done over with Portland cement and made quite smooth. This will, if well done, keep out rats, mice and other vermin, and have it well lime-whited with good hot lime, in which put plenty of oil or grease to prevent it easily rubbing off. In the warmest of these sheds, and at the warmest side, have .some pens about two feet square, and not less than three feet high, if higher so much the better, but the bottom of these pens should be about three feet off the ground, so that the space could be made into one or more runs if required. One or two smaller sheds, about six feet by four feet, covered, but with open runs the size of which must be according to the space at command, will be found very useful. Do not have the doors too small, and at the bottom of each of the enclosed sheds, just inside the door, have a mov- able slip, about six inches wide, to slide in and out ; this will keep in the gravel earth or grit at the bottom, and you can slip it out when you are cleaning the pens. Have movable slides to connect the sheds and runs — mind, not too small — eighteen inches high, and to work over a little puUy and cord, so that you can easih- open or close them, have all your wire netting sparrow proof, for those lit- tle chaps have good appetites, and don't wait for a formal invitation, and Ije sure the roof is thoroughly watertight. In all the enclosed houses grit of some kind — dry mould, or fine gravel, or some of each mixed is a good thing, but mind it's thoroughly dry. .\s regards nests for laying and perches, you will, of course, use your own judgment, and put them in the most convenient places. — Keep down the surplus stock. Market all not needed. — A collie dog and a terrier are indis- pensable on a poultry farm ; the former to keep off the chicken thieves, the latter the rats. —Feeding hens are very fastidious and any attempts at experiments in color feeding are speedily resented. There is plenty of time for getting color into birds if you start when they are two or three months old. A controversy is Ijeing carried on in several poultry journals relative to the fanciers vs. the market poultrymen. One journal which represents the fan- ciers states that "market poultrymen have no business with or fraternal feelings for fancy poultrymen." This ruses the ire of the champion of the market poultry- man, and he immediately pulls the house to pieces which the other fellow built. He claims that one is necessary to the other, and in a broad sense this is true, as most breeds depend for their popu- larity with the masses on their economic or practical qualities. But the masses buy thoroughbred stock only for practi- cal purposes as a rule, and seldom hang themselves by diving deep into their pockets in order to buy a real fancy bird. They are really breeders of thorough- bred stock — nothing else— and their sales are to breeders, like themselves, and farmers. There is, however, one class of true fanciers, men by nature qualified to study and find pleasure in thoroughbred fowls, who care more for the feathers than the flesh and eggs. This cla,ss, although not as numerous as the breeders, is, however, the class that buys and pays the prices for fine birds. Like the owner of thoroughbred race horses, the true fancier of fowls cares only for the possession of the best. There are hundreds of farmers who breed horses, and many breed thnrnngVihrpH trotters, or race horses, we will say. Does the sale of these animals depend on their every-tlay qualities? If it did, every- day prices would rule — as they do in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred. It is only the production of a colt of phenom- enal speed that brings the price. The breeder of coaching horses must produce surpassing style and beauty to secure the highest price. A noted instance is the case of Robert Bonner. The thousands of dollars expended by that true lover of horse flesh was to gratify his fancy. The thousands of dollars expended by Pierre Lorillard and other turfmen was to gratify their fancv and ambition. It is only the rich and thoroughbred fanciers of horse flesh that can and will breed and purchase fancy thoroughbreds. So with dogs. Does the payment of |2ooo for a collie signify that his practical qualities are worth so much ? No ; it is the hobby or the fancy of the purchaser that induces him to pay for the quality of the coat, the hean, frill, etc. He wants the best regardless of the price. It is true that hundreds of collies are sold to farmers and breeders as work dogs, but at what price ? Five to ten dollars each. There is the same condition existing in the sale of thoroughbred poultry. Ad- vertisers in poultry papers know this. If you cater to the breeders and market poultrymen it is your surplus stock which you can sell at fair figures, but the choice high-scoring fowl must find a pur- chaser among the true fancier. No one would suspect Captain Heaton, the famous breeder of games, of catering to market poultrymen. His birds are bred to win at the shows, and no fancier of games cares a fig for anything except the station and the plumage. No breeder or market poultryman would pay I250 for a single bird. It is the thoroughbred fancier who will spend a small fortune to secure the beat. We have in this country rich and enthusiastic fanciers whose chief delight is to secure the finest birds. This class must be supplied, but it is only from fanciers who make a specialty of producing exhibition birds that they se- cure their stock. Breeding fancy fowls is a high art, al- though there are individuals who believe it simplicity itself. This is on a par with laymen, who alway.s lielieve they can do better in running a paper or expound VOL. 5. NO. 2,] XHE FANCIERS' JOURNAL. 37 { ing the laws than the skilled editors and lawyers. One of the most successful breeders of Brahmas only accomplished his purpose of breeding the most perfect specimens by hard study and years of experiment. This fancier never did things by guess work. We remember an instance which will show the character of the man who breeds for "points." Having occasion to take out his pocket book in a store where poultry supplies were kept, the fancier was startled to find that a slip of paper had ey^aped from the pocket book, and was lost among the boxes and coops of the store. After a long search the paper was found. "Not for |iooo would I have lost that slip," remarked the fancier. That slip was a record of his matings of the past five years, and that is the man who wins the premiums. He is a fancier only, and market poultry is as foreign to him as hair is on a frog. The high prices paid for games, ban- tams and Indian games have l)een due to feathers only. The good quality of the Indian games as table fowls opens a market for the culls and cheaper grade of birds. The famous Indian game hen of Whitfield valued at 100 or more pounds sterling is a fancv fowl only. It would make precious little difference whether she laid ten eggs or io(j. While we be- lieve that the breeding of thoroughbred stock is dependent to a certain extent on the market poultrymen, it is neverthe- less true that the genuine fancier has nothing in common with the latter. He lives ill a world of his own, and the com- mercial value of the eggs his pets lay or their value when in the butchers' stalls disturbs him not in the least. THE MT. HOLLY PAIR. the fact Liberal Premiums Offered and a Very Large Entry Looked for. Editor Fanciers' Journal. Sir: Will you kindly allow me space in your paper to make known ent of the poultry, pigeon and pet stock department of the Mount Holly Fair, it will give me pleasure to answer any questions relating to it. I will guarantee that any birds entrusted to my care will receive my best attention. This is the forty-fourth annual exhibit, and the poultry department ranks as one of the best, if not the best, in this state. Last year its entries numbered looo, and with the liberal premiums offered by the association at their coming show, which takes place September 8 to 12, if the entries do not exceed that number I shall be greatly disappointed. The association spares no expense for the safety and comfort of the birds, pro- viding feed, attendant and night watch- man free of charge to the exhibitor. Premiums are offered for nearly all kinds of fowls and are as follows: For best pair of fowl (cock and hen), ist prize, |2 ; 2d prize, |i. For best pair of chicks (cockerel and pullet), ist prize, Jt2 ; 2d prize, $\. Prizes ranging from $1 to |io are offered on incubators, l)rooders, coops and feed hoppers. I shall be pleased to mail a premium list with every entry blank and informa- tion upon receipt of a letter from any in- tending exhibitor desiring one. Yours very truly, T. Farrek Rackham, Superintendent. East Orange, N. J., July 2. — If your hens lay soft-shelled eggs it is an indication that there is a lack of lime in their food. They should have ground oyster shells or bone, with a change of food. If neither is handy, put lime in their drinking water. However, soft-shelled eggs may be laid from other causes than from a lack of lime. It is often due from the cause of hens Ijeiug too fat, or lack of proper exercise. In such cases they should be fed on grass during the day and given a small quantity of oats at night, giving them plenty of litter to work and scratch in. It is the poor condition of hen houses, improper care and over-fat that cause manv of the difficulties in poultry raising and in pro- ducing eggs. — National Stockman. PIGEON FLYING. ON THE WING. The birds of Mr. Michael Burks, of Readville, Mass., being flown for record, were liberated in this city at nineteen minutes past 7 o'clock Sunday morning. The first return was the Silver, reg., 58 M. B., at five minutes past 3 o'clock. The air line distance is 262,'^ miles, the average speed 1003 yards per minute. * The George W. Childs prize held since the season opened by Little Nell's journey of 428>nd placed the figures for the day's work at 452)4^ miles. * « * The eight birds concerned in this jour- ney were counterniarked and shipped ten days ago, and, in the meantime, have Ijeen waiting, shut up in their traveling basket, for favorable weather. The wonder is not that they were late, but that they were able to travel at all. The start was at 5.35 P. M. Tuesday. The returns reported by wire were : Twining's reg. 136, in at 7.4S P. M.; certified at 8.03 P. M.; distance 452'4' miles ; average speed, 933 yards per minute. Cadwallader's Adam. reg. 18, in at 7.50 P. M.; certified at 8 P. M. ; distance, 452^ miles; average speed, 930 yards per minute. « • * The red checker cock Little Rhody, owned by Mi. J. A. j>Outciic, oi 1 rovi- dence, R. I., that was lilierated in Green- ville, S. C, on the morning of Thursday, July 3, was found in its home loft at noon on Monday, having come in during the morning. The airline distance is 760.7 miles, and the time from liberating to finding four and one-fourth days. The distance is the greatest from which a bird has returned since 1887, and the greatest ever made by a Rhode Island bird. »% The best journey of the season from 200 miles was flown Wednesday from Orange, Va., to Woodbury, N. J., by the twenty-eight birds of T. P. Green that returned in the journey from Washington a week ago. The start was at ten minutes to 9 o'clock. The first returning were fourteen together at 1.45 P. M., the first passing the wires into the loft thirty sec- onds later. The air line distance covered is 196 miles; the average speed 11 68 yards per minute. » » The following birds were to have been liberated on Thursday : The second eight of the Messrs. Twining and Cadwalader, to fly from Concord, N. C, and the twenty-eight of Mr. Theo. P. Green, of Woodbury, N. J., that are to fly from Danville, Va., 315 miles. Birds sent away on that day were those of the Messrs. John R. Hunsburger and W. P. Denagre, of Chestnut Hill, Pa. Their start will be at Charlotte, N. C, to-day. * » ♦ The birds Butler and Bellview, owned by Messrs. Frank Lane and John McFad- den respectively, of the Virtue Club, were shipped Wednesday evening for libera- ting from a station in Florida that will give sufficient distance to break the record of Red Whizzer and China Bill from Pensacola to this city, 940 miles, made in i886. Butler has made the jour- ney from 528 miles, but Bellview has flown only from 325 miles. * » • Mr. Lane Wednesday reported arrival at home of Shamrock from the start in the 528 miles journey, June 17. The bird in the meantime had been a visitor to Bowling Green, Va., This gives Mr. Lane all of his entry of five birds at home excepting Polly, now waiting with clipped wings in Baltimore to be re- turned by express. « • Mr. Cadwallader, of Yardley, Pa., re- ports two other returns from the start in Concord on Tuesday, making four of the eight sent at home, two with same day records. * » Reg. 303, of the John Blood loft, lib- erated in Concord, N. C, June 17, has been a prisoner in Lauraville, Md., since the evening of that day. Its whereabouts were made known to Dr. E. G. Darling, of that town, who at once coinmnnicated with its friends, and negotiations for its ransom will be entered upon. THE CONCOURSE RACES. The Last One Flown Wednesday Results Very Satisfactory. From our Special Correspondent. The last of the great concourse races came to a conclusion July 9. There were a series of four races from 200, 300, 400 and 500 miles, and the results have been highly satisfactory to all concerned, and has demonstrated that the condition of wind and atmosphere can not be equal only to sections, and have no doubt in the future that some system will Philadelphia, the charts showing the winds to be south all the wav up and past New York, all interested in this race fully expected to have a bird home the day of liberation, but the nearest approach to it was the loft of Messrs Williams and Goodby, Providence, R. I., at 4.40 A. M. and 4.55 A. M. respectively. Time taken when the telegraph mes- sage was filed. The following were at home July 8: a. h. H. J. Williams, Providence, R. 1 5.1^ Wifliam H. Goodby. Providence, R. I . . . . 5.30 William Bennert, Newark, N. J 3.4J W. L. Spaugehl, Brooklyn, N.Y 6.1a C. A. Mnhr, Newark, N J 6.4a J. D. Munro, Philadelphia 7.90 A. H. Kruge, Germantown, Pa 7.3a B. Holder, Newark, N.J 8.10 E. K. Tucker, Eliiabeth, N. J 9.30 B. Hlwell, Irving^on, N. J 9.30 George R. Callaghan, Angora 9.35 John Shepherd, Angora 0.35 Eli Morton, Newark, N. J 10.00 J. Eberle, Philadelphia ii.ss J. C. Conley, Philadelphia George H. Bowerman, Ne> la.iS Newark, N. J 12.4S - J — *^A <.»..u .... MWfcaVTAA their races separate and distinct for diplomas and special prizes under one management. The entries for this race from Philadelphia were : p. D. Krouse 6 J. Eberle 4 W. C. Glory .S Geo. R. Callaghan.. . 1 Kendall. H. Kendall 3 Join G. Hunt .... 2 W. S. Torkington . . 5 J. C. Conley 6 George T. Morgan. 5 Dan Kane 2 J. A. Stovell I Geo. Hornberger. . . 2 Wm. Hunter 2 John Diggle 2 R. I,. Hayes 3 A. Gordon 1 L. Schreiber i James Work • 5 E. S. Devlin ...... i John Shepherd. ... 3 P. F. Suyder 2 G. H. Goldbeck ... 2 J. Curran i H, Heinrich 1 James Boyd 1 John Love i A. H. Kniger 4 William Uarnaves. . i C. Hub 3 L. Hub 3 F. Rogers 2 Wm. Dounton 2 C. Adams 4 J. D. Munro . . . . 4 H. Walker 2 C. A. Mahr 3 B. Holder 2 Ben Hlwell 6 Thos. Bonerman. . . 5 J. Fischer 2 W. B. Garrabrant. . . 5 Eli Morton 3 William Bennert. . . 3 Entries from Brooklyn, Jersey City, New York, Newark, N. J., Plainfield, Keyport and Elizabeth, N. J., were : I,. W. Spangehl . . . ti K. Aken 3 John Cadoo 3 W. E. Johnson 6 S. l.,amberton .... 6 J. H. Doane 3 F. R. Stevens 3 E. K. Tucker 3 W. A. Higgins 2 J. R. Husson 5 Total from Philadelphia, 92 birds, and 76 from other sections, making a grand total of 168 birds. D. S. Rogers, a fancier of this city, started from Philadelphia July i and visited all the four liberating points, and after carefully instructing each liberator he adjourned to Charlotte, N. C, where he could be in close communication with B. H. Bronson, the U. S. Signal Officer, and there await a favorable day for the loosing of all birds at the same moment. It came on July 7, the Signal Officer and Mr. Rogers both being up at 4 A. M., as also were the telegraph operators at Lynchburg, Va.; Statesville, N. C, and Spartanburg, S. C, Plainfield, Elizabeth and Keyport birds being at Charlotte. To the former three places this message was sent shortly after 4 o'clock: "What are your weather conditions?" The reply being satisfactory, they were again wired to start all birds at 5 A. M. sharp, which was acted upon. The weather was clear and the wind south at all starting points except Lynchburg, Va. There the wind was southwest. At the Signal Office in John G. Hunt, Philadelphia 1.30 George Uoruberger, Philadelphia, two birds hie- fore 2 P. M. Later in the day there were over fifty birds reported home, while on July 9, which is the last day for record from 500 miles, about twenty-five more arrivals were heard from. Advices from States- ville, N. C, says the birds circled there for about seven minutes and then left, flying in a northerly direction and the wind changed shortly after the start to southwest and remained there until night. The start was from the top of the First National Bank and was witnessed by Ex-Congressman W. M. Robbins and a number of other prominent gentlemen of that place. From Spartanburg, S. C, we learn after making one or two circles they left, going directly to the north. A few min- utes later about one-third of them re- turned,' coming from the northeast and after flying around for about ten minutes they left, going northeast. At about noon a silver cock, 4249, belonging to Mr. William Hunter, returned and re- mained about the yard until night, when it went to roost on the window of the lib- erator's house. Mr. J. D. Steen. who caught it as he also did a blue bird, marked 725, that refused to leave the basket. Both birds are being held by Mr. Steen and are at the disposal of the owner. The following is an article clipped from the Shreveport Times in refer- ence to the liberation of eight birds owned by the Quaker City Club: AN INTERESTING EVENT. Last week Mr. G. H. Wilson, sergeant of the signal service corps, of this city, received from the Quaker City Homing Club of Philadelphia, seven homing pigeons. The object in sending these noted birds here was to beat the longest known record of 1041 miles, the distance now essayed being over 1200 miles, and being under the auspices of Federation of American Homing Pigeon Fanciers, No. 11 15 South Fifteenth Street, Philadelphia Pa. These birds were evidently selected for their powers of endurance, rapidity of flight and record. They were lieautiful speci- mens of the homing pigeon, strong, large and powerful. The morning was bright, clear and pleasant, with every atmospheric condition indicative of a propitious t>eginning for this remarkable jour- ney. Quite a large number of citizens, among them several l.idies. a.ssembled on the roof of the government biiililinijr early Sunday morning to witness the inception of what, if successful, will prove the most memorable experiment in the history of the intelligent carrier pigeon. At 6 o'clock Mr. Wilson opened the trap of the cage. They all gathered under the opening in a cluster. One sprang on top and, as if by a preconcerted signal at 6.03 the little flock arose, up and out of the cage and were away. Their flight at first was almost due north, with a slight deviation eastward. After partially doubling several times, but never backward or in a circle, they were lost to view in an undevialing course due northeast, in the exact line of their final des- tination. Much wonder was expressed at the in- telligent instinct which led the birds to at once select the proper course. Great interest is manifested here to learn the result of the long journey of these l)eautiful birds of rapid flight. However, no news has been heard from them up to date. Mr. A. F. Stofer liberated a number of birds at Orange, Courthouse, Va., July 8, for the Peekskill Homing Club, who are competing for a 300-mile record. Re- ports of arrivals not received up to going to press. A bird bearing a seamless band, marked Z. 1217, came to the loft of J. W. Booth, 2419 Trenton Avenue, Philadelphia, and is at the disposal of the owner. Messrs. Garrabrant and Bennert, of Newark, are not satisfied yet. They wish to ship 600 miles and over. A number of the Buffalo fanciers fly from Circle ville, .Ohio, for Federation record. ."■^ 1 1 a8 THK KANCIKRS' JOTJRNAI^. tJULY 12, 1890 , SCRAPPLE. Baisiner Duoks— Vermin and Poul- try—Roots for Poultry. Disinfectants. The followiug extracts are from the pens of fanciers both on this and the other side of the water, K'^ing their ex- periences in raising, feeding and caring for all kinds of poultry, pigeons and pet stock, and elicit the careful perusal of the readers of The Fancikrs' Journai.. Itoots for Poultry. The value of roots for the poultry stock for a winter food is hy the general farmer neither appreciated nor under- stood. During winter the lack of some kind of green food is one of the principal reasons why the hens do not lay. No matter how elaborate their bill of fare may be, unless the green element is in some form supplied them, their rations for egg production will be iucomplete. Roots are excellent for winter feeding, an ' as they can be so easily stored and kept, there is no excuse for not having a good supply put away for feeding* the bens. What roots are best ? All are good ; turnips, mangel wur7.e1s, rutabagas, beets and carrots. Perhaps it would be greatly preferable to sow some of each, as the more varied the diet of green or root food given the poultry the beiter the results. Now is just the season to put in these root crops for the poultry, as they should be put in a little earlier than when designed for table use, as the larger the growth the Ijetter. These root crops during winter may be utilized to great advantage in several ways. They may >je crushed and given to the ])oultry anti susp>ended on an elevation alxtut even with their heads, which will afford them healthful exercise while pecking at *i .-t-1 - they will mash up into a fine pulp readily, ane of any avail, as its effects soon die out ; but the addition of crude carlwlic acid gives a lasting quality and strength. Crude petroleum is an excel- lent disinfectant alone ; but using it to dilute carbolic acid is the most econom- ical whv of utilizing the acid. The mix- ture may be sprayed about walls, shelves, etc., and the perches may be coated with an old brush. These fluids leave a riark yellow stain on the walls, etc., kerosene | leaves but little stain, and for the same purpose it is cleaner. The best way to use it is with a pair of spraying liellows which will send it all over tlie building in a fine spray, driving it into every comer. When the color is not objec- tionable a little cabolic acid may l)e added to make it more effective. No one who ha^ anything at stake in iKe poultry need be told of the benefits of a liberal use of these articles ; they drive away disease, lice and the perch mites, and secure to the fowls an endurable ex- istence.— H. Hales. MullKiiant Catarrh In Poultry. Malignant catarrh or roup is a disease in which the head swells, the throat, nostrils and eyes are inflamed and sup- purate freely, discharging a feted acrid matter, which is greatly infectious. The cause is contagion or blood poisoning from some local inflammation. The treatment is to wash the head with solu- tion of one dram of chloride of zinc or carbolic acid in a quart of water ; to give each fowl a teaspoonful of a solution of one dram of chlorate of potash in a tea- cupful of water. Separate all the sick fowls from the flock and dust the floor where they are kept with chloride of lime. Keep the fowl house clean and use chloride of lime there freely, anil give a dram of chlorate of potash dis- solved in some mush once a clay to every dozen fowls as a preventive. — W. R. A. Redcaps. What must be regarded as a variety of the Hamburg is the redcap, though it has never come into the regular list of our domestic fowls. This is due to the fact that it is only to be found in one or two districts, namely, Yorkshire and Derbyshire, chiefly in the latter, for it is overshadowed in Yorkshire by its finer and handsomer brethren. The redcap is undoubtedly h golden -spangled Ham- burg as found before the latter breed had been produced in its present state of perfection. They can not compare with them in V)cauty. but are much larger, and while quite as prolific, lay larger eggs. They are also very hardy, capital winter layers, aud make excellent table fowls. In color of plumage they are very similar to the golden-spangled Hamburg, but the spangling is not nearly so regular or the plumage so rich. The most prominent feature in this breed is the comb, which is very large. It is of the rose character, but developed very greatly, and in some cases hangs right over to one side, giving the bird a very coarse appearance. But for this fact, I am sure the redcap would have be- come more popular." as it is probably the best laying fowl known, both as to the size of the eggs and the number. A corre- spondent of one of the poultry papers re- cently stated that he had known hens of this breed to lay upwards of 200 eggs per year. But the apfjearance of the comb is so much against it that even this pro- lificacy is not sufficient to overcome it in the minds of poultry keepers. The va- riety is most to be found in Derbyshire, as already stated, and at some of the shows held in that county and the ad- joining district of Hallamshire, of which Sheffield is the capital, classes for the redcap are provided. — Stephen Beale. I>lirei*ent Hiveds. In an experiment in England for the purpose of determining the daily amount of food consumed by different breeds of fowls, the following was the result : Ozs. (grains. Dorkings 6 ^91 Games 4 275 Buff Cochins 17 296 L.angshans 7 31 Dominiques 4 .y6 Browti Leghorns 4 J98 Hamburg.s ... 4 120 Polish 4 28 Guinea Fowls 4 iSj It will be seen that the buff Cochins ate nuuh more than any of the other breeds, and to show the increase of weight in proportion to food consumed, it may l)e stated that each gained daily as follows for twentv davs : Egg8 Grams, per year. Dorkings 138 130 Games 93 100 Hnflr Cfvhin* ,,,,.,,,,. 77 !!«, I.angshans , mj. 115 Dominiques 92 110 Brown Leghorns 107 190 Hamlnirgs 92 zv) Polish 46 98 Guineas — 75 It will l)e noticed that the Hamljurgs gave the largest number of eggs, and the brown Iveghorns next, but the Dorkings and Langshans made the largest daily gain in growth, while the Cochins, though consuming enormously of food, did not show its effects either in eggs or the first twenty days' growth. Taking the three highest for weight at six months, the following was the result : Dorkings weighed ten pounds one ounce and 685 grains. Buff Cochins weighed nine pounds thirteen and one-half ounces. Langshans weighed ten pounds five ounces and 437 grains. The greatest gain was made by the Langshans, but for the food allowed, the Dorkings are en- titled to the honor. — From the Culti- vator. IIa>vk Fenders. Cart in large piles of brush, and after laying a low frame throw on the branches. Under this the chickens can run when hawks are around. In SnmmMCtime plant morning glories and honey suckles so as to twine through the brush, and a very pretty mound of flowers will stand, in acldition to your fender. They will last several years, and also serve in winter, when the snow is deep, except under the fenders. — G. P. A C-iinniiiK Blue Jay. Investigating everything in the room is one of my bird's greatest pleasures, and most attractive of all he finds the drawer of my desk, on the edge of which he stands, delighted and bewildered by the variety before him. Great would be the havoc if I were not there ; and the curious thing about it he will pull things over carelessly, with one eye on me, to see if I object. If, on touching some particular thing, he sees that I do not approve — and he recognizes my senti- ment as quickly as a bright child would — that thing, and that only, he will have. At once he snatches it aud flies away across the room, and I may chase him in vain. He regards it as a frolic got up for his amusement, and no child ever equaled him in dotlging ; he cannot be driven, and if cornered he uses his wings. I simply put my wits against his, follow him about till he has to drop his load to breathe, when a sudden start sends him off, and I secure it. If I cover up any- thing, he knows at once it is some for- bidden treasure, and devotes all his energy and cunning, which are great, to uncovering and possessing himself of it. He oj)ens any box by delivering sharp blows under the edge of the cover, atul hides my postage stamps in books and magazines. — Atlantic Monthly. Treating: Roup. Turpentine is not the thing to wash "swelled-head fowls." I recommend warm salt water wash, and at times warm whiskey, weakened with water, and eye and head carefully bathed ; also, a few drops inwardly will revive drooping spirits. The hardest case of roup in the world can l)e cured with red pepper, sul- phate of iron, salt and water and whiskey. Leave the pills and tonics alone and use the above articles, at the same time be- ing practical in their use. — G. P. The Chleks Dylnjir. Every spring and summer the com- plaints come that the chicks, despite the best of care, are dying, and the query follows : "What shall I do ?" It is hard to advise — perhaps improper food ; {jer- haps no shade ; perhaps allowed to be caught in the rain ; perhaps allowed out iu the grass before the sun dries up the dew ; perhaps a too small range ; perhaps irregularly fed ; perhaps lice ! There are many causes. We have had considerable difficulty in hatching this spring, but have lost very few of what were hatched. We feed several times a day ; we do not forget a liberal amount of green food ; we give a free run over our entire farm ; we have sevciai liUiidicii liccs aUu uusiica on our place to afford shade ; we watch the approaching storms, and see that the young stock do not get wet ; in short, we use every precaution, and we are con- tinually on the look-out. Perhaps that is why we are raising our chicks. We have several rules and they work well : 1 . We feed corn, oats and wheat ground fine, to which is added a handful of meat scraps, the whole scalded and mixed to a crumbly state with bran. This for the feed during the morning. In the after- noon we gjve oats, com and wheat in a drj' state. A liberal supply of green food is given them daily. 2. We give the chicks all the fresh air possible. After the grass is dry we turn them out, and it is surprising how full their crops are by night. We keep forc- ing them ahead on good, sound ground, and we are more than gratified with our success. We lose some — some are hatched very weak ; some catch cold or get bowel troubles while the balance of the clutch are hardy ; but our loss has l)eeii very small this year. Before you get wonder- ing what is the matter see that every re- quirement is fulfilled. — M. K. Boyer. O.vster Shells Neeelieve, Momotus brasiliensis. It is an extremely striking though not very brilliantly col- ored bird, al>oul the size of a jay, with a long tail ; its brightest color, a most beautiful blue, forms a band round the crown of its head, which is black, and there are smaller patches on its cheeks ; it has a bold, bright eye, the iris of which is red. Its tail, however, is without doubt its most noticeable feature, not so much from its length and color, as from the extraordinary habit the bird jiossesses, especiallv, it wOuld seem, when excited, of swinging it from side to side after the manner and with the regularity of the pendulum of a clock, occasionallv vary- ing the monotony of the proceeding by jerking it straight up over its back— an odd habit, calculated to attract the atten- tion of the least observant. The mot-mot's tail has the further jieculiarity that the two middle feathers, which are longer than the others, are racket-shaped at the end — that is to say, that for about an inch the feather is per- fect, and then for another inch, or rather more, the shaft is entirely denuded of web. This peculiarity has given rise to some controversy, one side contending that it is natural, while the other avers that it is artificial, being caused by the bird itself. Waterton first drew attention to the fact that the bird acted as its own barber, and descril)ed the process as fol- lows : "This bird (the mot-mot, or houtou as he called it ) seems to suppose that its beauty can be increased by trimming the tail, which undergoes the same operation as one's hair in a barber's shop, only with this difference, that it uses its own b««k, above will not do to feed just now." You must have time, as all the attention that the most careful can give falls far short of the parents whose work one pretends to do. As a first attempt I should suggest a jackdaw. If minus of song they have many queer ways to recommend them as a pet. In this case more lean meat should be given. Jack is not easily put about ; he will stretch up his neck, open his broad bill with red lining and yellow edge, and swallow with a will just like posting letters. Try a magpie next. More shy to com- mence with than the former, requires feeding oftener. does not care to take so much at a time. It has also a more restless disposition. It will sometimes leave the nest prepared for it, and by cold and over-exercise brings on an entire failure of the use of its legs. The thrush I have next found hardiest, more so than the blackbird or starling ; the latter I have found the most delicate of the group. Any of them are easily reared, however, if the rearer has a strong love for them, which will induce him to keep them warm and clean. Do not overload but feed often, once an hour at least. The heart must be with the work, and how grand to see a thrush perched on the finger giving its cry of pleasure with outstretched wings vibrating, and taking its morsel with appparent satis- faction. I may add that the thrush, of all the birds mentioned, requires the as- sistance of its foster parents the longest, and I have found that others while com- mencing to pick for themselves, to induce them to do so with more spirit they would wait for y ju to stir amongst their food. I noticed this particularly with eight young starlings I had. When I stirred their food they ale, when I stopped so did they, every one of them. But I might be asked, what is the birds given their food with ? A spoon, of course, made from a piece of wood, such as a pen handle made flat at one end, the sharp edges taken off so as not to hurt the bird. Wash your spoon, too, very carefully as well as your dishes, and watch every movement of your young family. I know people by the score who would like to rear a starling, and I say no wonder, they are great favorites of mine, but they say it is impossible to do so ; but when asked what they feed on, in- variably the answer is oatmeal and water. They also believe strongly in the stupid notion of cutting the tongue to make them talk, but cannot tell me where or how to cut. MONKEYS. Conclusion of the Interesting His- tory of the Different Species. [CONTINUKD.] With the ljal)oons, we end the series of Old World forms. In America we can find nothing which at all closely resem- bles them. It has been suggested that the howling monkeys, the largest in bulk, may be taken as the representatives in the New World of the baboons of the Old, but we know nothing which really war- rants the suggestion, either in their or- ganization, or their habits. Instead of rock dwellers and being quadrupedal in locomotion, howling monkeys are ex- tremely arboreal, being one of those groups which, as before observed, are furnished with a perfectly prehensile tail. As their name implies, they are most noted for their prodigious cries, which are said to be sometimes almost deafen- ing. A curious modification of structure goes with this portentous clamor. At the root of the tongue in ourselves, and iu beasts generally, is a small, solid, transversely extended bone. In these apes the bone in question is of enormous Feeding Young Canaries. Take the flight feather of a common fowl (goose quills are too large) ; cut off the hollow part and fit a piece of wood the size and length of a piece of quill. Fill the quill three parts with e^g food nicely moistened (or chewed in the mouth is better still), insert end of piece of wood in upper part. Take the quill between the middle fingers, the portion to be inserted in the bird's mouth to pro- ject through the back of the fingers, plac- ing the ball of the thumb on the piece of wood, insert the other end of the quill in the bird's mouth well back over the tongue ; press the wood through the quill with the ball of the thumb and the bird's crop is filled at once without any trouble. I have found this by far the easiest plan for feeding young birds. — Newlyn. size, being a great bony bladder with very thin walls. There can l)e little doubt but that the resonance of their voice is enormously augmented by this l)ony drum. In captivity, howling mon- keys seem sullen and morose, and, though not petulant, have not that gentle amiability which is to be found among the next group of American apes, the spider monkeys. These latter are no less wonderfully adapted for tree life, while they are more active, and seem to represent to a certain extent in the New World the long-armed apes of the Old, although thej^ are very slow animals compared with the gibbons. Ix)ng arms they have indeed, and also legs, whence their name, but the former do^ not predominate over the latter at all, as in the gibbons. So powerful is the grip of the spider monkey's prehensile tail, and so dexterous is its use of it, that not only can the animal's whole body be sustained hanging by means of it, but it even serves as a fifth hand, grasping and bringing to the mouth or paws objects otherwise out of reach. Tneir prehen- sion in some other respects is singularly defective, as they alone among American monkeys resemble the colobi of Africa, in having no thumbs, or only a minute rudiment of one. They have no cheek pouches, nor has any other New World ape, and none of them (as has been al- ready mentioned) has ischiatic callosi- ties. Certain monkeys known as woolly monkeys closely resemble those just de- scribed, save that they have well-devel- oped thumbs. Next comes the group composed of those commonest and most frequently seen of the New World apes, the sapa- jous, already referred to as being so much in request for tricks and exhibitions. They are considerably smaller in size than the spider or howling monkeys, and make good pets, grinning with the most curious grimaces and uttering flute-like sounds when responding to caresses or endearments. They are very numerous, and there are probably at least some twenty different species, though they vary so remarkably in color that their real number is by no means satisfactorily determined. It is possible that in the sapajous and in the howling monkeys are the groups of animals where new species are now in actual process of for- mation. That careful naturalist. Dr. Reng- ger, managed to obtain some rare oppor- tunities of observing these watchful, timid animals in Paraguary, which is about their southern boundary. There they pa.ss their lives almost constantly in trees, which they only quit to drink at some spring or stream, or to forage in some tempting field of maize. Sleeping at night between conveniently branching twigs, they pass the day ranging from tree to tree in search of*^ fmit. buds, in- sects, honey, or for some ne9t|s eggs or callow brood, going about in family groups of from five to ten individuals. On one occasion a large troop approached him while he was hidden from their ob- servation. First came an old male, pass- ing from one tree's summit to another and keeping a careful lookout in all di- rections. He was followed by about a dozen others of both sexes, three of the females carrying a young one on the back or under the arm. One monkey quickly espying a neighboring orange tree covered with ripe fruit, with a loud cry sprang upon it, followed by all the others, who immediately fell to work, some remaining on it to enjoy their feast, while others retreated to adjoining trees, there to enjoy in quiet the booty they had secured. The sapajous are to bie found in every menagerie, and if one happens to be observed in proximity to one of the Asiatic or African monkeys, the characteristic difference in the coun- tenances of Old and New World species will be at once apparent. In those of the Old World the nose is not only (save in the proboscis monkeys) very small, but also very narrow, its nostrils being in close proximity. In the sapajou ana the New World form, however, the nose is remarkably broad, the two nostrils being widely separated. In leaving the sapa- jous we bid adieu to the groups furnished with prehensile tails, and come upon a very different set of forms, which ter- minates the order of apes. First we may notice the group of monkeys of about the size of sapajous, aud known as sakis. They are somewhat widely spread over the South American continent, but are nowhere very abund- ant, living in pairs, alone, or accom- panied by their young They are gentle, timid animals, which sleep much by day and go abroad at night, thus escaping the persecution they would otherwise suflFer from the oppressive and more active and powerful sapajous. Sakis are seldom seen alive in captivity, but several of them are very singular in appearance. One is known as the "capuchin," on ac- count of its brown color and long beard ; while another kind, also provided with a beard, has, on account of its fine black color, been called the satanic saki. Another species is black, with a white head, while another has its pate com- pletely bald. This last mentioned kind agrees with some others in having a very short tail . In this they ditter not only from the other sakis, but 'from all the rest of the monkeys in America, every one of which is provided with an elongated caudal appendage. One of these excep- tional apes has the tail not only ex- tremely short, but furnished with long hair, so that it forms a prominent ball which would serve as an excellent "dress improver," were there only a dress to improve. It inhabits the upper part of the enormous valley of the Amazon. The young traveler, Deville, whose premature death was a sad loss to science, tells us that a specimen of this species which he capturetl had the frequent habit of rising spontaneously and walking erect, and that it soon learned to drink from a glaaa held in iU hand, drinking regularly twice a day. It was very fond of milk, bananas and sweetmeats, but had, unlike "Happy Jerry," a horror of tobacco, snatching a cigar from the mouth of anyone who sent smoke toward it and grinding it on the ground. When several bananas were given it, it held one with its hands and the rest with iU feet. It was gentle and affectionate to its master and some others, and liked to lick their hands or face ; but it was very hostile to a young Indian, and when in a passion would rub its hands together with extreme rapidity. The douroucoulis, or night apes, are, as their name implies, truly nocturnal animals, passing the whole day rolled up, asleep, within some hollow tree. Their great eyes, which are said to be luminous at night, seem to suffer much from strong daylight. Humboldt, who kept one for five months, tells us that it slept regularly for from between sometime after dawn (at 9 o'clock at the latest) till 7 in the evening. At night they are as active as other apes are by day, and will make a great npise with their cries. They are reported to be exemplary monogamists. We have more than once spoken of those graceful little animals, the squirrel monkeys, or "saimiris." They are slender in form, with pretty rounded faces and long heads, which contain more brains, in proportion to their bulk, than does the skull of man himself. Their brilliant coloring also makes them at- tractive, and they are said to be affec- tionate and sensitive as well as gentle, their eyes filling with tears if treated harshly. They are greedy pursuers of iuMcts, and have a somewhat singular THK FANCI^Ra* JOtjteNAt^. [JULV 12, 1890 taste, as spiders, which they are very dexterous in catching, are their supreme delight. The last set of monkeys we have to enumerate is one which differs greatlv from all those hitherto brietly noticed. It is composed of the marmosets, or ouistitis, a very numerous group of very small animals exclusively confined to the warmer parts of America. All the monkeys hitherto noticed have had nails, which, though more convex and pointed than those of man, are nevertheless sub- stantially like his. The marmosets, however, have all their fingers and toes provided with long pointed claws, with the single exception of the nail of each great toe, which is flattened like our own. All the monkeys hitherto noticed, except the colobi and spider monkeys, whicn have no thumb at all, have a thumb which is more or less opposable to the fingers, although very imperfectly in the American forms. The thumbs of the marmosets, however, are not op- posable at all. The monkeys hitherto noticed, whether they have two or three wisdom teeth on either side of each jaw, all agree with us in having three g^rind- ers, which have milk predecessors, and are technically known as premolars. But the marmosets alone have only two such on either side of either jaw. Various species of this pigmy group, each about the size of a squirrel, or even smaller, are remarkable for the beauty of their furry coat. Thus the "marileina," or silky marmoset, is clothed with fur of a golden yellow, that of the head and shoulders being long and forming a sort of mane. The pmcha has the haii of the head greatly elongated. Another kind has a dark bidy, while the hands and feet are clothed with bright red hair. Several species have a long tuft of hair projecting outward from either side of the head. We have compared these animals with squirrels as regards their size, but they may be similarly compared with respect to their movements among trees, to which they cling with their sharp-pointed claws, just as squirrels do. But though the^ thii? re*eHiil?l^ squirrels ss *'^ ♦Vi<»i»- mode of motion, their activity is by no means so great. They live in small troops, feeding on fruit and insects, which, like the saimiris.they eat greedily. They are very delicate in constitution, so that when brought into northern climes they generally live but a short time. Nevertheless, they breed occasionally in Europe, and bring forth as many as three at a birth, while all the other apes habit- ually bring forth but one. The father shares, at least sometimes, the mother's parental cares with great amiability, tak- mg the young ones from her and carry- ing them about, when she is fatigued, till they need another supply of food. With this notice of the marmosets, ends our brief review of the entire group of apes, an order of animals consisting, as we have said, of two sections, each made up of the various subordinate groups which have now been enumerated and briefly noticed. Considered as one whole, the ape order ranges through the warmer parts of the earth, from Gibraltar and northern China to the Cape of Good Hope and the island ofc,Timor, in the Old World, and from 23° north latitude to about 30° south latitude in the New World. Individuals of the entellus mon- key group have been seen near Simla at an altitude of 11,000 feet. Some of the localities richest in monkeys are islands, as Ceylon, Borneo, Sumatra, Java, Fer- nando Po, and Trinidad. There are, however, certain islands which seem eminently well suited to support a large ape population. There are apes, nevertheless, conspicuous by their absence. Such are Madagascar, New Guinea and the West Indies. Moreover, no ape is found even in the most tropical or best- wooded parts of Australia. It is the more remarkable that no ape should be found in the great island of Madagascar, so rich in forests, seeing that it is the special home of those beasts, before referred to, named lemurs, which have generally lieen supposed to l)e very closely related to the apes. In one or two of the West Indian islands monkeys have been introduced and have run wild, showing that they could very well have lived there had they been able to enter the Antilles without the aid of man. Trinidad is not a West Indian island. It is a detached portion of the South American continent. As to past time, we have as y«t, so far as we know, no certain evidence of the existence of apes antecedent to the miocene periossums have feet with opposable great toes, and yet no one supposes that there is even the faintest special affinity between an ape and an opossum. In brain structure and in the more in- timate processes of reproduction (gener- ally deemed a valuable test of aflSnity) the af>es and lemurs stand far apart, and on the principles of evolution we are con- vinced that there can be no close rela- tionship between them, although it has been hastily assumed that lemurs were the direct ancestors of apes. Apes in the present day stand, as it were, in a sort of zoological island, and we have no clear evidence indicating from what neighbor- ing strand they may be conceived to have entered upon it. Their origin thus still remains wrapped in mystery. 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Lewis Wright. . Poultry for the Many Plantagenet . . . Poultry Doctor. J. K. Diehl Poultiy Culture. I. K. Felch Sixteen Years Experience in Artificial Poultry Raising. James Rankin .... Standard' for Poultry. Am. Poultry Asso. • The Philosophy of Judging. By Babcock. Felch* Lee. The Game Fowl. Cooper . Poultry for the people. Coinyns Fancy Poultry, Part I ; Breeding and Feed- ing. Comyns RABBITS. Practical Rabbit Keeper. Cuniculus . . . Rabbits for Exhibition, Pleasure and Mar- ket. R. O. Edwards MISCELLANEOUS. All About Ferrets and Rats Sure Pop. . Cats ; Their Points and Classification (illus- trated) Ferrets; Their Breeding and Working. . . The Art of Training Animals ; paper ; il- lu.strated Glimpses of Animal Life ; the Habits and Intelligence of Animals •50 5.00 •50 •30 .50 9'oo 1.50 •50 2.00 •50 • 25 1.50 • »5 t.oo I.oo 5.00 ■50 •50 1.50 '•25 •>5 2.00 50 .50 1.50 THE GAME FOWL MONTHLY Is an illustrated magazine devoted lo game and game bantams. All progressive fanciers read it. Annual subscription price, $1.00; single number, 10 cents. Address C. L. Francisco, Sayre, Pa. PIGEON NEWS. Subscribe for The American Columbarian, Buf- falo. N. Y. It has the largest circulation and is the best advertising iiipdiuin of any paper in America devoted exclusively to high^lass, fancy and homing pigeons. Only fifty cants a ysar. THE •PRACTICAL PIGEQN- "KEEPER" BY LEWIS WRIGHT. FIFTH EDITION; -60 ILLUSTRATIONS PRICE $1.50 CONTENTS: chapter I.— The Pigeon Lofl.— Importance of Proper Space. — Plans Tor a Moderate Loft. — Loft in the Roof of a House. — Internal Fitting of Lofl. —Various Breeding Arrangements. — Perches. Chapter II.— Food and Feeding— Why Food Differs in Winter and Summer.— Proper Diet for Pigeons.— Quantity a Pigeon Eats. — Hoppers — Green Food. —Fountains. — Salt Cat. Chapter III. — Breeding and General Manage- ment.— The Sexes in Pigeons. — Mating. — Settling in the Loft.— Nest Pans— Insect Vermin.— Sit- ting.—Hatching.— Holding a Pigeon. — Shifting. — The Squeakers— Nurses or Feeders.- Artificial Feeding. — Moulting . Chapter IV. — Pedigree Breeding.— What Is a Strain ? — Tendency to Transmit Features to Pos- terity—Accumulation of .such Tendencies. — In- breeding and Crossing. — Effects of Selection. — Comparison with the Haphazard Process. — Ne- cessity of Keeping up a Connective Chain.— Prac- tical Mode of Procedure — This Method Followed by All Practical Fanciers. Chapter V.— Exhibiting Pigeons.— Necessity ol Exhibition in Some Form. — Columbarian Society Shows. — Boxes and Baskets —Washing. — Various Means of Improving the Appearance of Pigeons. Chapter VL— Carriers. Chapter VII.— Dragoons. Chapter VIII.— Barbs. Chapter IX.— Short-faced Tumblers.— Almonds and Tneir Origin.— Kites, Agates and Splashes. — Mottles, Baldheads and Beards. Chapter X.— Common and Performing Tum- blers.—Origin of Tumbling.— Oriental Rollers.— Training of Flying Tumblers. Chapter XI. — Pouters. — Pigmy Pouters. Chapter XII.— Fantails. Chapter XIII.— Jacobins. Chapter XIV. —Frilled Pigeons.— Owls, Turblts, Turbiteens, Satinettes, Blondinettes, Vizors. Chapter XV.— Exhibition Antwerps. Chapter XVI.- Magpies, Runts Chapter XVI. — Trumpeters, Archangels, Nuns, lie! Chapter XVII.— Eastern Toy Pigeons, Capu- chins, Damascenes, Swifts, Scandaroons, Indian Pigeons. Chapter XVIII.— Miscellaneous '^oys. Priests, Frillbacks, Florentines, Swallows, Brun.swicks, I^etz Pigeons, Fairies or Fairy Swallows, Shields, Crescents, Starlings. Fire Pigeons or Firebacks, Ice Pigeons, Hyacinths. Victorias, Porcelains, Suabians, Helmets, Spots. Chapter XIX.— Homing Pigeons.— Modenese Flying Pigeons. Chapter XX. — Disease of Pigeons. "J' Sent prepaid hy mail from this office on re- ceipt 0/ price. -ADDRESS- FANCIERS' PUBLISHING COMPANY, 32 South Thlnl Sti-eet, PHILADELPHIA, PENNA. VOt. 5. fiO. a.] Trie FANCIERS' jOtJRNAL. 3« MISCELLANEOUS. I^EG BANDS FOR ALL VARIETIES OF PIGEONS Seamless, for youngsters, every band regis- tered, each 2Hc. Open bands for old birds, each ic. In ordering name the variety of pigeon on which the band is to be used. SEND FOR SAMPLE. MRS. E. S. STARR. Box 295. Philadelphia, Pa. INCUBATORS. Prairie State Incubator i< THE BEST ENGLISH PAPER IS THE STOCK-KEEPER AND FANCIERS' CHRONICLE, For all news and information concerning DOGS, POULTRY, PIGEONS, RABBITS, CAGE-BIRDS, AC. It is the recognized English organ on these sub- jects, and enjoys the largest circulation of any pa- per of its class. American breeders will find the best English slock advertised in its columns. ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION, »a. 15, Office: 139 & 140 Fleet St., E. C, I^ndon, England. Twenty-seven ist premi- ums awarded at the leading shows including first at the 1890 show, New York City, for best incubator in show room. This was the great- est incubator contest in the world. Send for our large catalogue. Address G. A. McFETRIDGE, General Agent, Compass ville, 63-tf Chester Co., Pa. DOGS. Advertisements without display instrttd uniUr this heading /or s cents per vmrdfor each insertion. Great Danes. GERMAN DOGGK (Great Dane) bitches, one of them in whelp, and stud dog, all im- ported pri»e winners. Also puppies for sale on account of sickness in family and for want of room. J. H. H. Maenner, 404 S. Paca Street, Baltimore, Md. 69-70 Irtoh Terriers. FR SALE.— Some fine young pups by Roslyn Dennis. Address Chestnut Hill Keanels, Chestnut Hill. PhUadelphia. -Irish POULTRY. Advertisements without display inserted under this heading for 2 cents per word for each insertion Various. T^ LECTROTYPES of any variety of Fowl* aup- plied at low prices. The Fanciers' Publiah- n tug Co., 32 South Third St., Philadelphia. DlPLOPwIAS -FOR- PIGEON • FLYERS PUBLICATIONS. ^l?e |tomir\^ €xcJ?an|e. A monthly magazine of information concern- ing the breeding, care and training of Homing Pigeons. The official journal of The Federa- lion of American Homing Pigeon Fanciers." $1 per year. Address HOMING EXCHANGE PUBLISHING CO., GERMANTOWN, PA. AMERICAN KENNEIi CL.UB terrier bitch not over l8 build. Addreaa B., Box 916, Philadelphia. Pa. 62-tf WANTED lbs., hard coat, racy King Charles Spaniels. ,-*RANK P. SMITH, 2622 North Fifth Street. H Philadelphia, has for sale a thoroughbred King Charles spaniel. 67-tf Poodles. FR SALE.— Black French poodle pup«, from imported dogs. Very handsome and can be easily trained to do any number of tricks. Price $25. Address T. A. Snider, Cincin- nati, Ohio. 67-70 PRINTING estimates given for circulars, cards, letter ahceU, bill heads, price lists, sched- irtcs, labels, lags, etc. The Fanciers' Pub- liahlng Co.. 32 South Third St., Philade phU. Pa. ANTED.— Thoroughbred black Spanish cock. Give price delivered in German- town. P. D. Qm Box 9i6,Fhitadelphia. w PIGEONS. Advertisements without display inserted undet this heading for 2 cents per word for each insertion. Blondinettes. B IRDS of the above variety lor sale at all times. Bunting Hankins,Bordcntown, N. J. 50-75 Pass. FOR SALE.— Daughter of Champion Dude; just bred to a son of Cryer's Othello. Also a fine bitch pup. Chequasset Kennels, Stud B OOK. Lancaster, Mass. 67tf -FOR THE USE OF- Club Secretariea. IN RED AND BLUE WITH NAME OF CLUB IN GOLD mosphere, start, entry, name and sex of bird. ^11 •^....*:«.**i«..u Blanks for registering in the official Stud Book will be mailed on application. THE AMERICAN KENNEL GAZEUE. the official monthly publication of the club, con- tains the judges' reports and certified prize lists of the different shows. Stud Book registrations and numbers of each month's entries and all kennel news of an official character. Subscrip- tion, two dollars per annum. Secretary American Kennel Olub, Nos. 44 and 46 Broadway, New York. PUPPIES by the famous Champion Kash (10592)— Nun Nicer (14134) These are little beauties and are full brothers to the first prize winner at Baltimore, 1890. Prices rea- sonable. Address, Seminole Kennels, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Pa. 68-69 Sxctaange. LS. CLARK, No tjos Girard Avenue, Phila^ delphia. Pa. .will exchange homing pigeon* * for owls, turbits, blondinettes or satinettes. 66-69 Fantails. WHITE FANS ONLY. Some grand birds for sale very low for circular, ville, Ind. Bred for thirty yeara. very low. Send Frank M. Gilbert, Evan»- 62-tf Jaooblns. Setters. D Irish 1:^ distance, speed and age. In lots of 50 or less, $2.50 ; $2.00. Address each additional 50, Fanciers' Publishing Co., 32 SOUTH THIRD STREET. PHILADELPHIA, PENNA. THE KENNEL. c Fox Terriers. PUPPIES AND YOUNG for sale from celebrated prize-winning dams . . BITCHES sires and ■yiLLSlDE HbNNELS, 53-«04 LANCASTER, MASS. ESTABLJSIIED 1874, THE FANCIERS' GAZETTE, A Weekly Journal Devoted to Dogs, Poultry, Pig- eons, Rabbits, Cats, Cavies and Cage Birds. Articles by the Leading Authorities. Letters and Notes on Current Subjects. Prompt and Re- liable Reports. Queries Answered by Specialists. Illustrations by Best Artists. Only Penny Journal Dealing with All the Fancies. Terms of Subscriptions (payable in advance): One year, post free, United States and Canada, $2.10. Address Post-Office Orders and communications to the Fanciers' Gazette, Limited, 54 to 57 Impe rial Buildings, Ludgate Circus, London, E. C, England. ERBY ENTRIES. Also some young setter puppies out of bench show winners and field dogs. For illustrated circular ad- dress F. H. Perry, Des Moines, Iowa. 69-71 X^OR SALE.— Sam C. by King Noble— Cricket, winner third. Setter Derby Central field trials. 1^9. Address H. Clay Glover, 1293 Id way, New York City. 55-tf to five months old. sired by Champion Elcho, Jr.. and Champion Tim ; out of thoroughbred bitches. Verv fine specimens. Will sell at Address, Philadel- 68 -6q Broadway, New York City. I RISH SETTER PUPPIES from three low prices as we are overstocked. Seminole Kennels. Chestnut Hill, nhiA Pa. TW. TUUGLB, Columbus, and breeder of Jacobins. Ga. Importer 50-106 Owls. B IRD8 of the above variety for aale at all times. Bunting Hankins, Bordentown, N. J. 50-75 Parior Peribnnlns Ttunblers. B IRDS of the above variety for sale at all times. Bunting Hankins, Bordentown, N. J- 50-75 Satinettes. BIRDS of the above variety tor sale at ^1 times. Bunting HanUna, Boraentown, N. J. 50-75 Swallows. THREE RED IRISH SETTER BITCHES, whelped July, 1889; all of dark color, up to show form and promise to make unusually good fielders. Pedigree of the best. Price, $25 each. Associated Fanciers. 140 S. 8th St., Philadelphia, Pa. 69-it St. Bernards. FOR SALE— Beautiful pups, low. Also two bitches; one rough, one smooth; lately bred to imported dogs. Chequasset Ken- nels, Lancaster, Ma.ss. 65-tf ENTHON KENNELS, Phocnixville, Pa., breeders and importers of St. Bernards. 67-118 G. A. PICK, 1300 N. Washington Street, Bam- more, Mn., breeder of Swallows only, of all colors, with and without white bars, plain snip and full head. He is a true fancier, keeps pigeons for pleasure only. Imported his sto^ of birds, and has steadily im- proved them until he has now as fine a stock as can be found. Tumblers. M Terriers. M R. OWENS, successor to Kerl>y, 137 8. 8th Street, Philadelphia, Pa., has the finest Sky, Yorkshire and King Charles terriers. Also all other breeds for sale. 69-73 DOGS. Advertisements without display inserted under this heading for 3 cents per word for each insertion Bloodhounds. FOR SALE.— A choice litter whelped February 2 by Belhus— Rosemary. J. L. Winchell, Pair Haven, Vt. Dogs for Sale If you want to buy kind write to the a googs, eight varieties game fowls, white Plymouth Rocks, silver Wy- andottes. Mammoth light Brahmas and Pekin ducks. All stock shipped extra light by special express rates and guaran- t^d correct. a 69-70 O. GABRIEL, Allentown, Pa., will sell five pairs of good fantails in solid black and gure white. Alao two pairs of Jacobins, reeding; pen of Part. Cochins and Ham monton incubator. Write. 69-lf PRINTING estimates riven for circulars, cards, letter sheets, bill heads, price lists, sched- ules, labels, tags, etc. The Fanciers' Pub- lishing Co., 32 South Third St., Phitadel- phia r J- "K Ix>p Rabbits. FR SALE — Imported stock, winner* of many first prizes in England. Ears meas- ure 24 by 6 inches. These rabbits are ex tra large and the best Stahrer, 119 Abbott St. in the world. Fred , Lawrence, Mass. a 69-70 Wild Animals. PRAIRIE WOLVES, prairie dogs, deer, foxes, owls, Angora kids, raccoons, oposaoms, CM. Scott, Arkan- Mexican burros, etc. sas City, Kansas. 69-72 Artists and Enirravers. Mlnorcas. GEORGE n. NORTHUP, importer, exporter and breeder Send for black minorca cir- cular containing list of cups and prizes won ■ also catalogue of other leading varie- tlea. Eggs of best quality for fair price. Racevil^, Washington Co., N. Y. 58- tf SPECIAL engravings made from photographs of dogs. The Fanciers' Publishing Co., 52 South Third St., Philadelphia. PRINTING estimates given for Circulars, Cards. Letter Sheets, Bill Heads, Price Lists, Sched ules. Labels, Tags, etc. The Fanciers' Pub- lishing Co., 3a South Third St., Philadel- phia. WE HAVE arranged with Schreiber tk Sons, who are acknowledged to be the oest animal photographers in America whereby we are able to make special lemis for our subacribers who wantphotograph'^ of their dosa. The Panders' PubHahuiK Co., y South Thixd M., PhUadelphia, Pa 3^ rHK F^ANCIERS- JOUI^NAU [JUlvY 12, 1890 Homing Pigeons CHIEFTAIN, Wue checker cock, 81 1 miles. DAN WILLIAMS, blue checker cock JIMMY C, red checker cock MURIAL, blue checker hen MISS WILLIAMS, blue checker hen LOTTIE, blue checker hen BLACK BESS, black checker hen . . Orders for youngsters of I890 will be booked now. JAMES A. STOVELL, 10 South Broad Street, Philadelphia, Pa. PARROTS! PARROTS! Just Out ...„ PRICE 50C. The American Pigeon Standard AS AOOPTKD BY THE AMERICAN COLUMBARIAN ASSOCIATION, Containing a Complete DESCRfPTiON of the Recognized Varieties of Pigeons. CHARLES TAULMAN, Editor. Seut prepaid by mail from this office on re- ceipt of price. WITHOUT A SINGLE EXCEPTION THE LARGEST STORE IN AMERICA DEVOTED EXCLUSIVELY TO DRY GOODS. ^JUST ARRIVED A LARGE LOT OF YOUNG CUBAN PARROTS! AT $5.00 EACH. WARRANTED TO I EARN TO TALK. Young Mexican Grey African Parrots AND ALL OTHER FANCY CAGE BIRDS, FINE BRED FOWLS, FANCY PIGEONS. &c., &c., &c. SEND FOR OUR NEW DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE H. V^. VAHLE, 309 Market Street and 46 N. 9th Street, PHILADELPHIA. .180 TO THE FANCIERS' PUBLISHING COMPANY. NO. 32 SOUTH THIRD STREET. PHILADELPHIA. Enclosed find Two Dollars and Fifty Cents for which send "The Fanciers' Journal" for One Year. NAME- ADDRESS White, Diack, Red and Yellow pANTAIL PIGEONS. Ko Other Variety. $10.00 a piir unlt<^ ... Cru«he«l Flint, CrushcNl Oyster Shells, - 100 SOO 30O 200 3.00 3.00 S.OO 8.00 Send for our New Price List and Samples. "aII orders shipped promply by freight on receipt of price. C. II. DEMPWOIvF «fe CO., 42^.1 York Chemical Works, York, Pa. B. F. I^EWIS, HANDLER OF DOGS. Is ready to take dogs to condition for the De- troit Show. ELM STATION, M-TS Montgomtrjr Co., Pa. DOG - DISEASES Mailed (gratis) by the author, H. CLAY GLOVER, Veterinary' Surpreon, 58-70 1893 BROADWAY. XEW YOUK. Bd-ward S. Schmid, Successor to Louis Schmid & Sons, Dealer in SINGING BIRDS, BIRD FOOD AND GAGES. FISH, AQUARIUMS AND FISH FOOD, PIGEONS OF ALL KINDS FOR SALE. Send for illustrated catalogue and price list No. 317 Twelth Street, N. W. Washington, D. C. ffistor^ and Description MEDFORD FANCY GOODS CO., J4-75 44 & 46 DiJANB St., N. Y. I. BREMER, PRES. & TREAS. We manufacture ten thou- sand styles of dog collars, har- nesses, lucks, leads, brushes, combs, bells, couplings.blank- et.H, whips and baskets for dogs. Write for catalogue A. -WITH- l^eminiscences -OF THE- HIVE YOU LICE ""^'^XVilTi'iM* loif-. ».mu.i». i.iiriwA.-. l^.^tl.,.VHl,llllBI,,<.;l»; a dliiln- rwt.inl.lr.iii iHiiKoliiMi,. lbi.li H iiiaki-»!(lK«lii. \'TWft\. RotkiiiKham^'niilirv Farm. rro,n.. « MfitH, No. Epplns, N. H. flw). g. I1..W. (■fPM, Aift. .s, ml f..r cirt-ular 0/ Vln, Puultry, Uuga atui Slrawlwii} |>laiiU. ...FOX TERRIER.. BY HawboN LiEE, EDITOR "THE FIELD." Illustations by Arthur Wardlb. Skcond Edition. Price PosTPAin, $1.50. ADDRESS THIS OFFICE. My homers are tested as record birds and as parents of birds with records from 500, 52s and 700 miles. I have fifty pairs of well "matrd birds from the above stock of 1889 hatch for sale. Also youngsters with Sporting Life bands. Ciiii give a clear pedigree. Send for Price List. 44-95 SPRAHS PATENT DOG CAKES The Best and Cheapest Dog Food in the Market. **• Beware of worthless imitations, same shape, and see that each cake is stamped: DOG SOAP, Certain death to fleas, and MEDICINES for all canine diseases. "COMMON SENSE OF DOG DOCTORING," (Post free, 28c.). Spratta Patent Challenge Poultry Meal THE GREATEST EGG-PRODUCING FOOD. TTie most .Vutritious and nij^esliblf Food for Imv- ing Hens and for getltng all kinds n/ htulliy into Show Condition. Poultry in confined runs thrive wonderfully on it. ITnequaled for rearing Early Chickens. Spratts Patent PIGEON FOOD. Reduces the usual heavy morlalitv in rearing H.incy Pigeons. Poultry Medicines and Soap. Roup Paste per box . . 50 cents Condition Paste per box . . 50 cents Cure for Gapes per bottle 50 cents Poultry and Pigeon Soap . per cake . 25 cents Order from your dealer. Full particulars from 8PRATTS PATKXT (America), LIMIT'D, »39-UJ East j6th St., New York City. 44^ von. «, NO. 3. 1 whoijE no., to.; PHILADELPHIA, JULY 19, 1890 PEIl ANNUM. 98. SO. SINGL.K COPY, So. INDIAN GAMES. 34 THE FANCIERS' JOURNAL. tJULV 19, 1890 VOL. 5, NO. 3] XHK KANCIKRO' JOURNAL. 35 IN THE STUD. AdvertisemeHUiHstrted under thts heading at the toUowing rates: One inch, single insertion, Sijo; Pi.4o/or the month; tis Jo^ '*''" fonths; US for Hx months, and tso/or the year. ICK s WIVELER IN THE ST^JD^ Advertisements inserted under this heading at the following rates: One inch, single insertion, t'-so; $$.40 for the month; $1$ for three months; ta for six months, and Sso for the year. SETTERS & POINTERS DESMOND II IRISH SETTER <8410.) DICK 8WIVELER. WIMHER FIRST, CHALLENGE CLASS, MEW YORK, 1890, BEATING Blarney, Tim, Gerald, Chief and Desmond II. IN THE STUDi. Advertisements inserted under this heading at the following rates: One inch, single insertion. Si-5o; ts-4o for the month; Jts for three months; US for six months, and tso for the year. QHAMPION GORDON SETTER OF AMERICA. LITTLE BOY THE KENNEL. Advertisements inserted under this heading a, the following rates: One inch, single inserttont St .so; Ss .40 for the month; S'S for three months uS for SIX months, and tso for the year. CHESTNUT HILL KENNELS. winner over Knglish and American cham- pions. Winner at Toledo of special, "Best sport- ing dog in show," Mr. John Davidson judge. Winner at Cincinnati of special, "Best setter or pointer stud dog, that is the sire of the greatest number of prize winners." Winner of FORTY odd firsts and specials, under judges : Major J. M. Taylor, Dr. Jarvis. Mr. Tallman, Mr. E. C. Mr. John Davidson. Mr. Tracy, Mr. Higgins, etc. Sterling. NOW IN STUD AT CHICAGO. For terras, extended pedign'= Watch Dogs 3» The Dog in Humane Literature 3" Amcrinn Kennel Club 3f Sparks from "Brittle's" Pen 38 Poultry and Pigeons. Notes in Passing 4° Single and Double Lacing 40 Poultry Gossip 4' Light or Dark Plumage 4' Origin of the Indian Game 4» Rearing Turkeys 4» Pigeon Flying. On the Wing 43 Concourse News 43 Blue Checker Cock Found 43 Quick Aerial Flyers 43 Neponset River Homing Club 43 SCBAI'PLE. Indian Game vs. India Game 44 Green Food 44 Young Turkeys 44 The Farmer's Best Friends 44 Anconas 44 Eggs by Weight 44 Moisture Needed 44 French Broilers 44 Perches 44 The Prejudice Fading 44 Nests for Turkeys 44 Artificial Eggs 44 Cage Birds and Pkts. By the Way 45 The Starling 45 Two Bird Stories 45 Money in Canaries 45 Rabbit Keeping 45 Handling Rabbits 45 PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY. AT 32 South Third St., Philadelphia, Pa., By the PflNCiERS' Publishing (Jo. SUBSCRIPTION RATES (IN ADVANCE): $2.50 PER ANNUM. CLUBS OF FIVE OR MORE, $2.00 EACH PER YEAR. Foreign Subscriptions, 128. ADVERTISING RATES: CLA8.SIPIBD Advertising, without display, two cents tier word for every insertion. Stud and Breeders' Cards, $1.50 P" »"ch for single insertion; J5.40 for one month, $15 for three months, $28 for six months and $50 per year. DISPLAYED Advertising, $3 per inch for first and $2 per inch for subsequent insertions. Advertisements must reach us by Thursday to insure insertion in the current week. Make all remittances payable and ad- dress all communicatious to Fanciers' Publishing Co., Philadelphia, Pa. P. O. Box, 916. Our Illustration. We present this week an illustration of a pair of Indian games, owned by Messrs. Frayn and Bowman, of Elmira, N. Y. Both birds are well-known prize winners, havinj^ won first and gold cup special prizes two years in succession at the Crystal Palace shows, first Birming- ham and the Dairy, and all the leading shows in England. They will be for- warded from England to Mr. Bowman next month, and will make their first public appearance at the Interstate Fair Poultry Show at Elmira, N. Y., in Sep- tember. Entered at the Pfiiladelphia Post Office as Second Class Matter. PHILADELPHIA, PA., JULY 19, 1890. THE KENNEL. CURRENT REPORTS. FIXTURES. DojjT Shows. Sept. 2-4.— Midland Central Fair Association Bench Show, Kingston. Out., Canada. C. H. Corbelt. secretary. Sept. 2-5.— Wilmington Fair Association Bench Show. T. D. Brown, secretary, Wilmington, Del . Sept. 2-.S.— Michigan Kennel Club, Detroit. Mich. Ml V. B. Saunders, .secretary. Sept. 9 to 12.— Toledo Kennel Club, Toledo, Q_ f^l,orl,»o V WowlntiH fi*»rretnrv Sept. 15-19.— Second International Dog Show of the Industrial Exhibition Association, at To- ronto, Canada. C. A. Stone, secretary. Sept. 23-26. — Central Canada Exhibition Asso- ciation, at Ottawa, Canada. Alfred Geddes, chairman. Oct. 6-9.— Ninth annual dog show of the Dan- bury Agricultural Society, at Daiibury. Conh., B. C. Lynes, secretary. Field Trials. Nov. 3. — Fourth annual field trials of the Indi- ana Kennel Club. at Carlisle, Ind.. P. T. Madison, Indianapolis, Ind., secretary. Nov. 10. — Second annual field trials of the Canadian Kennel Club, at Chatham, Out., C. A. Stone, Toronto, Ont., secretary. Nov. 17.— Twelfth annual field trials of the Eastern Field Trials Club, at Otterburn Springs, Va. W. A. Coster, Saratoga Springs, N. V., sec- retary. Dec. I.— Second annual field trials of the Cen- tral Field Trials Club, at Lexington, N. C. C. H. Odell, Mills Building, New York, secretary. Dec. 15.— Philadelphia Kennel Club's seventh annual field trials at Deatonsville, Va. 18'Jl. Jan. 19.— Eighth annual field trials cf the cific Kennel Club, at Bakersfield, Cal. H. Pa- H. Briggs, secretary. Feb. 2.— Third I I annual field trials of the South- ern Field Trials Club. T. M. Brunby, secretary. Marietta, Ga. Cuiii'sliig. Oct. ai-25. — Fifth annual meet of the American Coursing Club, at Great Bend, Kan. I. D. Brougher, secretary. Poiiltr^V' ami Pljjfcon Shows Aug. 26-Sept. 5.— Detroit International Fair and Exhibition Association, Detroit. E. W. CottrcU, secretary. Sept. 1-12.— F;imira Inter-State Fair. Mr. George W. KoViinson. secretary. Sept. 1-6. — Wilmington Fair Association Poul- try and Bird Department. T. I). Brown, secre- tary, Wilmington, Del. Sept. »-i 2. —Burlington County, N. J., Poultry Association. T. Farrer Rackhani, secretary, F;ast Orange, N. J. Sept. 9-20.— Buffalo Intrrnational Fair. Mr. Charles W. Robinson, secretary. Sept. 22-27.— Indiana State Fair. Alex Heron, secretary. Sept. 22-27.— Central Canada Fair, Ottawa, Canada. Alfred Ge•>.«.€».« n»v, «.iass auu JUUge it over," I reply. "All right, but, as a personal favor, plea.'^e do not mention this thing. I wouldn't have the papers to get hold of it for the world." "Where's the secretary ?" More trouble. The steward of Ring No. 2 pours a grievous tale in my ear. "Say, Fitz-Poodle, I'm in a pretty pickle. The judge got rattled, and I guess I did, too. In looking over his book I find he has only awarded first, second and third prize in all his classes.'' "Well, call him back and have him award the letters." "That's the trouble. He slapped his book on the table when he got through and said he would make a break for his train. He is gone now, and I don't l)e- lieve a team of horses could pull him back. The exhibitors are raising Cain." "If that is the case, things will have to stand as they are," I reply, and hurry away to answer the now familiar call of "Where's the secretary ?" The trouble in this ring is soon ex- plained to me. A local exhibitor, not satisfied with the decisions, has issued a challenge to whip both the judge and the steward. He has chained his dog to the railing and, with coat off, is sUnding in that attitude known to the sporting community as "come on." I go up to him and try to passify him, but he says : "111 wallup you, too, if you give me any of yer jaw." So I send for a police officer and have him ejected from the hall. I allow him to take his dog with him without exacting the five-dollar penalty. "Wliere's the secretary ?" I now begin to feel as if I am on a six days' go-as-you-please walking match. Hurrying to the last summons I find a middle-aged woman in tears in the ring. I inquire what the trouble is and the judge and steward make mysterious signs, placing their hands on their mouths, etc. , which I inteqjret as meaning for me to "shut up." But their warning comes too late. The woman breaks out afresh and sobbed : "It-s-s too-0-0 ba-d-d. The judg-e-e never-r-r-r looked at my dog-g-g but onc-e-e-e, and he-e-e-s much hand- than all the res-t-t-t of the ring, so the judging can go on, I invite her into my office, where she can weep 111 private to her heart's content. This invitation she scornfully refused, and after a few more deep-drawn sobs walks out of the ring, awakening the sympathy of the crowd, which Ijy this time has gathered around the ring. Of course all the lookers-on think I am a brute. A LETTER FROM IDAHO. ("elebratluB the Fou rth— Xot<»8 on Dogn, I'lfftMiuH and Game. From an Occasional Correspondent. C(EIR D'AtKNE, Idaho, July 6. As the National Day has again come and gone, and the hurry and bustle which usually precede and accompany it is over, I find that I have a leisure hour to de- vote to Thk R\ncikrs' Journal, in my opinion the best sporting paper published in the United States. The Fourth was a great day in Coeur D' Alene. The streets, lawns and commons were literally crowded with men, women and children, and the lake, as far as the eye could observe, was alive with lx>ats of every description. Besides the usual trains, two specials with niue coaches each, crowded with excursionists from all parts of Washington, Oregon and Idaho, contriI)uted to our picnic. The day was spent in dancing, boat riding, horse racing and other sports, and ended with a grand display of fireworks. This place is attracting more attention as a summer resort and a sporting field than any other locality in the northwest. Although our little city is still in its in- fancy, one can find any kind of sport here. Here you will see lofts of finely bred carriers and homers and coops of Irish red and blue clipper games, besides ken- nels of setters, pointers and greyhounds. Fox and deerhounds are very numerous. T. P. Dickey, one of our live saloonists. will accommodate one with a cock fight at any time. He keeps the Irish red and blue clippers. He secured his stock in Kentucky and Arkansas. Your humble servant has a loft of fine carriers which he uses when out on a camp hunt. They are of the same stock that is used by the military at Fort Sherman, Idaho, in the Signal Service Department. The open season on chickens, par- tridges and grouse commences on the 15th, which day is anxiously awaited by the boys. Chickens and partridges are more numerous than ever, the coveys are much larger and average from twelve to eighteen. Bear and deer are more plentiful than usual. The ranchers near town complain that they cannot raise garden "sass" on account of the deer, and huckle Ijcrrying parties claim that bruin infests every huckle berry thicket in Kootenai County. The Coeur D'Alene Rod and Gnu Club has ordered three gold medals to be given in revolver, rifle and shotgun contests. A member is re(|uired to make the high- est score three times l)efore either be- comes his proi)erty. Trouting is still lively followed by the delighted tourists who stop here, and a great many of our speckled l)eauties are sent to Spokane Falls and neighboring cities. With another invitation to any brother sport to visit us and share our pleasures, I remain very respectfully, R. K. McFarland. ^VAXCH noos. ART OF TRfllNING THEM. WHAT BREED IS BEST ADAPTED TO WARD OFF INTRUDERS. some-r-r-r .... I try my I,est to soothe her, but it is of I This indiscriminate slaughter no avail. At last, m order to get her out | surd as it is cruel. — The war cry raised against dogs as a cla,ss because there is such a thing as hydrophobia is about as sensible as to propose the abolition of railroads becau.se there are so many accidents. To those fond of dogs there is a comradeship in their society that otliers cannot imagine, and a man may often look in vain froni his own kind for the forgiving love and patient loyalty he gets from a dog. They are vigilant and faithful guardians, inac- cessible to a bribe where their masters' interests are concerned, and to condemn them for the vicious and i)ariahs of their race is downright ungrateful. A child leases or tortures a poor ers of which break into our privacy and despoil us, frequently destroying or injuring where they cannot steal. After such an unconscionably long pro- logue let me get to business by at once turning back the hand of time till it points to March 8, 1889, and call the at- tention of yourself and readers to Thk Fancikr.s' Journal of that date, and particularly to an article on page 149 bearing the title which heads this letter. Some who read this will say I am mak- ing a fuss about very little, but truly I do not own much to make a fuss alwut, and must e'en take the letter care of the little I have. Besides, the sin of the sinner is none the less sin liecause the theft is small— nay, on the contrary, how often do we see that thieves on the wholesale scale are applauded and promoted to great honors, whilst the tatterdemalion who appropriates a frozen turnip to stay the gnawings of a hungry belly gets four- teen days on the treadmill to teach him the distinction between meum and teum. Parson Nathan made it very clear to King David— adulterer, murderer, liar, thief— that to steal one ewe lamb of I'riah the Hittite wa,s, if anything, worse than if he had "lifted" a whole herd belonging to the rich ; and which to be sure any "Highland shentlemaus"— of a century ago — would have done, and been "fery proud of it too, wliatefer." Revenous a ttos moiilons. Yes, and to to the point. The article you reprcwluced in your issue of March 8, and honorably credited by you to the Dublin Farmers' Gazette (it appeared in that journal of April, 1887) is a disgraceful crib, a piracy from Part II, "Breaking and Training Dogs," bv "Pathfinder" and myself, and published in 1885 by L. Upcott Gill, 170 Strand, London. I wrote Part II of that book, and, writing from memory, I be lieve I left the MSS. with the publisher when I sailed for New York in the spring of 1885, to judge at the Westminster Kennel Club's show, and that the book was published during my absence in America. The petty pilferer may after the lape of so long a time have »)een hugging him- self in assurance of safety from exposure, and if so, it proves he has l)een no dili- gent student of your poet I/ongfellow, who expresses an everlasting truth more beautifully than the story of Nemesis : "Though the mills of God grinA slowly, Yet they grind exceeding small." If you will kindly print in opposite and corresponding columns the following, your readers will see my justification for the .strong terms of opprobrium I have used towards the pilferer. The book I mav say is solely the property of the publisher, and I have drawn his attention to the fraud. Fioni Training Dogs, Pari II. By Hugh Dal- zifl. Piihliiheii hy A. f'pcott Gill, 170 Strand, Litndon, iH&s- Page 171. If, as is sup- posed, the dog was first used by man when he was, as yet, himself a purely predatory ani- mal, it is equally prob- able that as soon as man began to own prop- erty in flocks and herds, or even his first rude dwellin^place,the dog's instinctive impulse to defend these against all intruders would be quicklyappreciated and encouraged. • ***•« In the chase his nose, speed and courage had . been utilized ; in the wars consequent on the struggle for life the dog's fierceness of at- tack, his fearle.ssness and determination with the ready power of dis- criminaiing between friend and enemy made him a powerful ally and a foe to be feared by man, as yet all but un- armed ; and when man had himself advanced further toward civiliza- tion, the dog, also ad- vancing, found scope for his energies in the protection of the family und their stock in a manner milder than war, yet sufficiently ar- duous and requiring courage as well as watchfulness against depredators, both men and wild beasts. From Training Dogs, page ITJ. Many people content themselves with getting a dog of a breed they are told are "gix)d guards " The animal is chained up in a damp dismal corner of a yard, and if he barks enough, and makes attempts to break from his chain, the owner is satisfied. Indeed manv persons desire such (logs to be ferocious, so as to terri- fy all trespassers ; but such animals are poor substitutes for well- trained watch dogs. Ferocity and good sense do not go to- gether. * * t High courage which is a nobler quality, and is compatahle with culti- vated mental faculties, .stands them in twtter stead. The inaslifT may be taken as the typical canis defemitr. His size and apparent strength together with his loud, deep voice make him an awe to evil-doers. * • » A watch dog should be a rearming animal, and not a senseless barker at every noise he hears. • * • There are cases where a watch dog must be chained ; but he can never be anything ap- proaching to a perfect guard ; frequently such a dog contracts the hab- it of rushing to the end ofhis chain at everyone who passes him. • * * This habit is often en- couraged, and the ani- mal's temper is soured by mischievous anil thoughtless people, when they think them- selves safe. From the Dublin Far- mrr's Gazrtle, April g, iSSj. Reproducfd in " Thf Fanciers Journal" March X, iSijo. "When- man began to have property in nocks and herds, or even his first rude hut to live in, he would quickly appre- ciate his faithfiil com- panion's instinctive im- pulse to defend and guard his master's pro- perty." • * « * "The fierceness of his attack and his ready power of discrimina- tion between friend and foe made him a power- ful ally, and as an ene- my one to be feared. "When man, there- fore, advanced in civili- /.uiiuii inc dog woulti naturally advance as well, so that the scope of his energies was found in the protection of his master's family and stock, which, al- thoiij^h not requiring the fierceness of his at- tacks in war, still need- ed a large amount of courage and watchful- ness against enemies " From "Tlu Fanciers' Journal," page 149. "Many people • • * contenting themselves with an animal they are told 'is a good guard.' "The dog is tnen tak- en home, chained up in the back premises, and if he barks and lugs at his chain the owner is quite content, think he has got a watch dog at la.st. * * * Many are quite satisfied if the poor brute terri- fies all trespassers. * * • Kerocily in a watch dog is not needed, but high courage which is a nobler quality and com- pntable with cultivated mental faculties, is. "The mastiff may safely be taken as tbe tj'pical tttni.s dr/'cnsot, for owing to his size and strength, together with his loud deep voice he is a terror to evil- doers." "A watch do^ must be a rea.soning animal and not a stupiil cur, to hark senselessly at all and everything. A dog that is continually chainerl can never he a perfect guard, as he gets fretted with being fastened up, and he gets into the habit of rushing to the end of his chain at any- body that approaches. "Many think this is a sign that the dog is a capital watch, and actu- ally encourage him in such practices " From Training Dogs, page 17^. Dogs chained run a greater risk of l>eing neglected than those that are loose and can, in many ways, make their wants known. Nothing but absolute necessity would induce me to keep a dog of any kind constantly on the chain. i » « * * * * Dlge 174. It is an es- sential preliminary les- .son in the training of the guard or defender that he should promptly come to your call and lie down when bid. Karly in his training take .something — if an article you have carried about or handled a good deal, it will be better— and place it carefully down, calling the dog's attention to it ; point to it admonishiiigly. using such words as "take care." "guard it," but keep to one form of giving your order. Walk away from him, and get somewhere that you may know when he deserts his charge. If he does so, at once go to him, or call hini, and with stern, disap- proving voice — but not blusterin^ly or so as to confuse him— scold him and take him back, and again make him lie down by the article, and repeat this process until he perceives your wisli ana obeys. With this obedience comes a danger, for if the lesson is made too severe, and if he is kept on guard too long he will be disgusted with his work. From Training Dogs, | page 17^. The giiarding of a single article has an excellent eflfect on the dog and gives him a distinct idea of pro- tection as a duty ; • * * it also leads him to take all his master's property under his care. ****** It is well known that many dogs that would not offer the slightest objection to the ap- proach of a well-e kept constantly on the chain." "He must be prompt in coming to your call, and lie down immedi- ately he is ordereil. In one'of the first lessons something should be placed on the ground that the owner has car- ried about with him or has handled for some lime, calling the dog's attention to it, and making him lie on it, pointing to it, and cau- tioning nim with such words as "guard it," "take care of it," etc. It is necessary to be careful that one form of order is used, so as not to confuse the dog." ****** "The trainer should go away and hide be- hind something, so that he may see whether the dog deserts his charge. If so take him back, speaking sternly to him, so that he may know that he is being scolded and has done wrong. Make him lie down again and repeat the lesson till he under- stands and obeys. "Care must l>e taken that the lesson is not too severe, and that he is not kept too long on guard, otherwise he will become disgusted with his work." I From " The Fanciers' Journal," page rig. — "When he has learned to guard a certain arti- cle it gives him a dis- tinct idea of protection and soon leads him to take all his master's property under his care/' • • • » "One thing we never could exactly u n d e r- staiid is. why so many dogs have such an an- tipathy to lieggars or ragged people. We have never known it taueht, and all who have had to do with dogs will have noticed this dislike. It may be, and probably is, that generally such characters approach in a stealthy manner, and the dog, being a keen observer, sees there is something wrong and so challenges. Watch dogs showing such dis- like should be encour- aged, but at the same time a firm restraint .should he kept upon them lest they get too savage." But I think I can hear you, Mr. Editor, say somewhat tersely, "Hold ; enough," and truly I do not wonder if I have wearied you and your readers, and al- though I might go on, I think I have quoted at sufficient length to show the tortuous slimy track of one of these para- sites of the kennel who steal brains they can make but poor use of I am yours truly, Hugh Dawikl. The Do^ in Humane Literature. George T. Angell in Our Dumb Animals. Every now and then we get a letter from one of those unfortunate i>eopIe who would he glad to have all the dogs exterminated. To such we would saj-. you might as well attempt to strike out the tlospel of St. John trom the New Testament as the songs, stories and pictures of the dog from our humane literature. The world has settled that matter long ago, and through the ages the dog will occupy a high place in the regard and affection of millions of human be- ings. AMERICAN KENNEL CLUB. Financial Condition of the Organiza- tion and Its Gazette. Editor Fanciers' Journal. Sir : During the past year communi- cations have from time to time appeared in the columns of the sporting press con- taining reflections upon the management of the American Kennel Club and grave doubts as to the financial soundness of that organization. Occasionally denials have come from officials of the club, but, unfortunately they have been too general to fully refute the statemetits which drew them out, many of which had an air of truth, and doubtless carried conviction to those who only look up»on the surface of things. As an officer of the A. K. C. I consider it right and proper for me to put before the breeders of this country certain facts with which I am conversant, that they may l.)e able to judge understandingly whether or not the affairs of the A. K. C. are rightly conducted, and •whether it is prosperous or on the verge of insolvency, as some have intimated ; also, to throw light uix)n certain seeming discrepancies in the financial reports of the club. Those who know me will need no assur- ance that in writing this I am actuated purely by a sense of duty and a love of fair play. The affairs of men connected with the A. K. C. do not concern me ; it is to the club only that I owe allegiance. I shall study to be as concise as possible, and leave speculation to others. At the last meeting of the Advisory Committee in New York I examined the lx)oks of the treasurer, Mr. Vredenburgh, with the purpose of determining whether his reported statement made early in 1890 was a true one or not. Here I will aa\' tliot frvmsiHprina tVn» onmmiinir'ationQ already alluded to, there was some rea- son to suspect that the accounts had been "juggled," or that by connivance some friend of the club had managed to swell its funds by about $1000. To be more explicit, considering the published state- ments, it certainly seemed possible for Mr. Belmont to have entered into an ar- rangement with Mr. Lewis by which the latter was to renounce his claim to the profits from the Stud-Book of nearly |iooo, and leave the same in the treasury, to be made good by Mr. Belmont. In other words, there was a possible chance that Mr. Belmont desired to make the A. K. C. a present of about |iooo, and was forced to trickery and fraud to ac- complish his benevolent purpose. With this far-fetched theory in mind I went over the treasurer's accounts. I found that January 11, 1889, the A. K. C. had a balance on hand from receipts of club dues only to the amount of I285.39. In the Stud-Book account on that date there was a balance of I942.89 from re- ceipts of its income only. These sums added together constitute the balance on hand, "from all sources," ^1228.28, which was duly reported in the January number of the Kennel Gazette. It appeared that it had been the cus- tom of the treasurer to report at the A. K. C. meetings solely his orim accounts as treasurer of that club, which were en- tirely distinct and separate from Stud- Book income. To report the latter was the duty of the Stud-Book Committee. On January ii, 1889, /or the first time Mr. Vredenburgh included in his report to the A. K. C. the receipts in the Stud- Book department. This J942.89 explains the sudden and considerable increase in the funds of the A. K. C, and nearly that sum was supposed to have Ijeen donated surreptitiously by the president. Now, in Februarj' numljer, same ■year, of the Kennel Gazette, we find reported a balance of $333.45. This is but a con- tinuation of Mr. Vredenburgh's account as treasurer, carried on to February 16, 1889 ; and it included further receipts from dues and prefix fees, also expenses incurred. This amount was combined with the receipts from all sources ; hence his two reports at the annual meeting. It appears that Mr. Vredenburgh was in charge of the Stud-Book sixteen months, for which he received a salary of |iioo, or |68,75 per month. Mr. Lewis, it seems, did not take the book on speculation, as has been frequently stateer year. I have this morning received from Mr. Vredenburgh the following statement : The A. K. C. has at this date, January 9, a balance on hand of |2 14 1.35. The total liabilities are I178.09. Few of the assets of the club can be estimated. The furni- ture of the office is worth alx>ut |ii2o. There are bound volumes of the Stud- Book, which, if sold at the regular price --and it is very likely that they some time will be — would bring over |iooo. There are also files of the Gazette, other Srinted matter, electrotypes, artist's rawings of dr^, etc., which may bring liioo, and they might bring near f 1000. A word as to the Gazette. The treas- urer informs me that it has cost for the last six months I983.34 to print, bind, wrap and mail, together with all other expenses of every description. For the same period the receipts have been J1071.60. During the next six months the expenses will probably be about the same as the first ; very likely they will be a trifle less. There is now due the Gazette for advertisements J1257.97, bill for which have been sent out this week. This sum, if paid, will defray all expenses for the balance of the year, and r»rrtKaKlv 1*»«va a morcrin of riAorlv €inn t - - ' J .-- — -#■,- -J »-../- profit, without considering any other in- come. And now to the end. On January i, 1887, the A. K. C. had a capital of less than $100. It has bought the Kennel Register, for which it paid the sum of I50Q. It has never received any financial aid — has had only its legitimate income — and to-day has a cash balance of nearly I2200. During the present year the Ga- zette is ahead of its expenses ; and prob- ably at the end of 1890 it will have a balance on the right side of $200 or $300. The foregoing statements I submit, without comment, to all interested in the affairs of the A. K. C. The books of the club are open to all delegates, and if there is anyone who (juestions what I have written he can easily reach the truth. J. Frank Perry. Boston, July 9, 1890. The "Advernary" Coniniltte« of the American Kennel Club. Editor Fanciers' Journal. Sir : The rules of the American Ken- nel Club have again perpetrated one of those gigantic blunders, yes, monstrous crimes, that seem mile-stones in their daily walks, and illustrate far more clearly than words can the hollowness of their claim that they are acting for the good of the general public, and shows that after all their own personal feelings and wishes guide them. The initiation of the impeachment proceedings against Mr. Peshall was bad enough, but the mode of carrying them out was tenfold worse. Just look at it. The secretary, as such, brings charges against Mr. Peshall, first, for having written injurious public letters against the club, and sec- ondly— still as secretary — that Mr. Peshall has been guilty of very discred- itable deceit and conspiracy to defratid. Now I hold that it wa-s entirely within the scope of the secretary's duties to bring the first charge. Whether there is any express warrant for it in constitu- tion, rules or by-laws does not matter. It seems to me that such a right inheres in every boer, the end of the table as well as ourselves was not only graced but enter- tained by and with the presence of Brother Wiuslow. In this conversation Brother Watson unfolded to me the en- velope which contained thereon the fig- ures made and income given by Mr. Vredenburgh, of the A. K. C. accounts from January 2 to 11, 1889, amounting to |i22 and some odd cents. In this conver- sation I might have said the month of June, but I evidently intended the month of May, as will appear from the following taken from my letter of June 20, 1890 : "Mr. Lewis was to assume the duties of editor of the Stud-Book, was to compile the pedigrees, and do all the work as editor of the SHid-llook. He was to publish the Stud-Book quarterly, was to t>av all tne bills and expenses thereof, as well as one-half the office rent, and for his services he was to receive the entire receipts coming into the office, as well as the proceeds of the sale of the book. If after paying all of these bills there was nothing left. Mr. Lewis agreed that he would make no claim upon the American Ken- nel Club. This was substantially our contract, and it was faithfully, honestly and efficiently car- ried out. At the meeting of the American Ken- nel Club, which was held May S, ili88. the Stud- Book Committee reported tfiis change to the club, and at the same meeting Mr. Vreaeuburgh made his report as treasurer, .showing the bal- ance on hand in the American Kennel Club to be the sura of JiaS.oi. After this Mr. Vreden- burgh went to Europe, and he returned on Mon- day, Decemt>er 3." Consequently there is no point to be made in the first contradiction made by Mr. Watson in his letter to Forest and Stream in the last issue. In reply to his second contradiction I will say that I was chairman of the Stud- Book Committee, and at the meeting in May, 1888, the change made by Mr. Tredenburgh's resignation as editor of the Stud-Book, and the appointment of Mr. Ieconie a convert to the views expressed by Brother Watson and become thoroughly con- vinced of my error in this matter, not only that thereby I might be enabled to offer a sufficient apology for the grievous wrong that I have done this A. K. C. management, but that I could convince not only myself but the Advisory Com- mittee that I had regained my normal condition. Will Mr. Vredenburgh publish over his own signature the itemized ex- pense account for the j'ear ending De- cember 31, 188S, the itemized receipts for the some period, and then give us the items to make up "Peshall's gig" — 12-28-28 — and not only thereby oblige a host of dog men throughout the country, but a captious critic ? Will Mr. Vreden- burgh kindly give us the figures ? Pkshall. Jersey City, N. J., July 12. Editor Fanciers' Journal. Sir : It is really unfortunate that the delegate of the New Jersey Kennel Club should be drawn into a controversy over the A. K. C. finances, but I do not think that by his letter in your last issue he makes his side of the ca,se any stronger. At the meeting of the Executive Com- mittee of the A. K. C, held December 19, 1889, the following motion offered by the delegate of the Southern Field Trials Club was carried : " In order to comply with the sugges- tions made by Mr. Watson and Mr. Vre- denburgh, I will add to my motion that, l>efore publication an auditing committee consisting of Messrs. A. C. Wilmerding, Major Taylor and !•'. B. Fay be appointed to audit the accounts. I name these gentlemen because they are ex-officio, and I ask that they be apjK)iiited to audit the accounts, and to state whether they have been correctly kept, i;tc." If the New Jersey delegate will read the above motion, and then recall the certificate, with the word " only " italicized, ap- pended to the A. K. C. statement for the year i88q. and signed by him. I think he will find one reason for his unfortunate position, and if the secretary-treasurer of the A. K. C. referred others, as he did me, to the Auditing Committee for in- formation concerning his accounts, the delegate may find another reason. A short time after the A. K. C. account for 1889 appeared I called on the secre- tary-treasurer for some information. He answered one or two immaterial questions relative to his accounts. On my putting a further question his manner quite changed. He told me he didn't propose being catechised, didn't know that I had any standing there, and finally referred me to the Auditing Committee. On February 17, 1890, the New Jersey delegate wrote down at my dictation some six or seven items of the A. K. C. ac- counts, of which I told him I would like to get in full, or such information as I could. He replied : "I will see if I can get them for you," and on my calling on him later the same day he said to me : "They won't give them." On this same day, February 17, 1890, the New Jersey delegate, according to a letter written by the secretary-treasurer of the A. K. C. examined the books of that club. I do not think it would necessitate a member of the Auditing Committee being a sta- tistican or a walking vocabulary to carry in his mind for a few hours a few figures, or if it was necessary for a member of the said committee to be a statistican or a walking vocabulary to do so, why did not the New Jersey delegate, who is neither one nor the other, make a memo- randum of them. The New Jersey dele- gate says in his letter : "I did as re- quested. * * *" Will the New Jersey (lelegate state what he was requested to do in this matter, and who it was that made the request, also if he did examine the Iwoks of the A. K. C. on February 17, 1890. I want to know the items that make a total of I365.64, the expenses of the Ken- nel Gazette from January 1 1 to February 16, 1889, as appears in one of the treas- urer's reports ; also the items of receipt and items of expenditure of the secretary- treasurer of the A. K. C. from December 5, 1888, to January 11, 1889, l)oth dates inclusive. Will the New Jersey delegate give me any part or all of the above asked (or in- formation ? L. LiVESBY. jRRflEY City, N. J., July 10, 1889. VOL. 5. NO. 3 ] XHE FANCIERS* JOURNAL. 39 SPARKS FROM BRITTLE'S PEN. Interesting Facts and Fancies Culled from the Doggy World. Special Correspondence Fanciers' Journal. The "cause celebre " — Vredenburgh vs. Peshall— looks as if the whole thing will end in smoke, for which let us return thanks— if it does. Also, Mr. Belmont's letter last week should now put to rest all disquieting doubts in Mr. Peshall's mind as to the way the finances have been worked. If it doesn't, then the sym- pathies of all right thinking men must be on the side of the president and chair- man of the committee (just which com- mittee I won't compromise myself by nomenclature), and the advantage which Mr. Peshall has gained will be irretriev- ably lost, though I do hope and trust we have heard the last of all this bicker- ing concerning the A. K. C. debit and credit balance. It may be an all-absorb- ing topic to those who devote themselves to the study of "political economy," but, " dimme," what can it matter where the A. K. C. gets its money from, as long as it gets it. Therefore, if the ultra mem- ber does continue to harp on this subject, let all good doggy men band together and draw lots as to which of them shall under- take the task of annihilating him. That his death may be a speedy and painless one is the best 1 can wish him under the circumstances. The lot of the canine scribe in England may be a busy one at this time of the year, but it is more than can be said of his confrere on this side. News ! Items ! ! What are they ? Where are they ? Answer echoeth "at the bottom of the sea." What would happen to different papers were not Irish setters infinitely the superi- ors of all other dogs in the field, every- where and anywhere but just where their superiority should undergo the test I know not How you, Mr. Editor, must thank Providence that it has still permitted a fair percentage of inflated windy personages to remain on this earth, and how stuck Irish setters must always l)e on themselves at this time of the year, when no other breed can get in a word edgeways. Thank gooe(ore him, and his grandfather as well, the most gun-shy brute that ever stepped. It is all very well for Mr. to offer to back his dog for J2,- 000,000 again.st my Champion , as he knows full well it cannot be accepted, as my dog is already 20 years old, and never having yet been seen working except by my sisters, ray cousins and my aunts, it is not likely I shall run him in public now. Yes, much as I regret it, it is impos- sible for me to give the pubic even one chance of ever seeing the most perfect field dog as ever was, wipe up the earth with such potterers as Roderigo, Rowdy Rod, Roger, Toledo Blade, etc., but I willl>et$ioo,ooo(forfeit of one cent enclosed) that his great, great grandson, if he is out of ray champion bitch's great, great, great gran- daughter, will beat, within eighteen months after he is Ixjrn, anything that such a notoriety seeker as Mr. can narae. Kindly acknowl- edge receipt of one cent starap. Yours truly, , Proprietor of the Blow-Their-Own-Trumpet Ken- nels. Such are the interesting items which one gathers from the doggy journals. In fact, // the champion of the Long-winded Kennels had not had a stye in his eye, or »/he had been a little different to that which he really is, and ;/the proprietor's aunt had been a man she would have been his uncle, then, and only then, would the sun have been enforced to re- volve around the earth, and until the ifs are completed, the Long-winded Kennels' champion must remain an or'nin'ry critter, and the long-winded 'un him- self a very or'nin'ry circumstance in this unappreciative world. I To the Editor: Bear Sir ; I must again apologiie for tren- passing on your valuable space (how valuable The notification from Thames His Tattler, regarding the unsophisticated lady and her Italian greyhound, being cajoled into objccuug, icujiUus uic of the piece of pleasantry on L. P. C. Astley's part, which worked so effectually — in fact, too effectually — on a poor, thor- oughly earnest and lone lorn maiden at one of the terrier shows at the Aquarium. The said maiden — she must have been thirty, with dead cod-like eyes, and bleached carrot-colored hair — exhibited a colossal fox terrier possessing besides size and other defects a sweet liver-col- ored nose, which was somewhat in unison with the "maiding's" hair. Mr. Astley was far too gallant to dismiss such a cu- riosity with rash abruptness, so after gazing long and mournfully he heaved three deep sighs, and thus exclaimed to himself in a stage whisper : "What a pity ! Oh, what a shame ! ! " Owneress. — "What's a pity, please, Mr. Judge?" L. P. C. A. — "Why, you've entered your dog in the wrong class. He should have been in the Dudley -nosed terriet class." Owneress. — "Is that so? But there is no such class." L. P. C. A.— "What, madam? Do you mean to tell me these people have not provided a class for Dudley-nosed ter- riers ? I'll resign my duties at once. I'll have no more to do with such an in- justice, for that dog is the best Dudley- nosed terrier I ever saw in my life ; he's simply perfect." At this moment Cruft and the committee rushed in and, kneel- ing, begged his judgeship to continue his duties, vowing never to neglect such a grand breed again. Astley was appeased and continued. But the lady, alas, had been so impressed with what he had said, that, borrowing a chair, the poor thing sat by her pet's side for three whole days and never ceased telling everyone who came near how the judge would have given her dog first if he had been entered in the right class, and how en- raged he was that the breed had been so neglected. I often think of that poor woman with her awful pale red hair, and her still more dreadful looking terrier, and wonder if she ever went to another show. Maybe her champion died, thus leaving his mistress in blissful ignorance of the imposition. The following also may not be out of place. It was at one of the big shows that a gentleman exhibited two blood- hounds, the only competitors in their class, they being awarded first and sec- ond. A well-known character in doggy circles was officiating as vet., and on the second day three or four of the "bloods" went to him clamoring against the dread- ful mangey state of the said bloodhounds. The vet. was never so happy as when acting in an official capacity, and will- ingly offered to examine said hounds, for here was an opportunity to show off his "eras ignorance" again. He looked them all over, with great fussing and ostentations, but was fain to confess they seemed all right, when a voice from the back ground said : "Smell them, man ; smell them," which the idiot immediatelv did, at once pronouncing them in an al- most incurable state, and much to the surprise of everyone ordered them from the show, which meant forfeiting all prizes, money, etc. This was going further than anyone had intended, but like all ignorant people the vet. had com- promised himself and wild horses wouldn't alter his decision. So that owing to a bit of thoughtless fun two dogs were disqual- ified and the owner bereft of his winnings. I will not give the name of the vet., as he is still the cause of many bits of amusement in English doggy circles, and is quite an oddity in his way. living wonders they have for sale, etc., I would respectfully beg to refrain from continuing to do so, as I am not an ad- vertising agent, nor am I a believer in the wholesale free notice which is given to every individual who chooses to run dogs as he would a second-hand clothes shop, and if they only knew what con- tempt I feel for them I think I would be the last person on whom they would waste stationery and postage. This is one of my cranks, and as long as I am what I am I intend to continually harp on this cold blood bartering of dogs as if they were so many boxes of soap, or so many ounces of tea. The man who keeps dogs for their own sake will always have my heartiest sympathies, but he who only keeps them for what he can make out of them will always be looked upon as my greatest enemy, and a mean con- temptible one at that. How seriously you took the "iodide," Mr. FMitor. I never for one moment considered you or the printer's devil had perpetrated the error. I am entirely to blame, but where, oh where, is the copy you said you had sent, and where, oh where, are the last two numbers of The Fanciers' Journal. Have you sent them via Hong Kong, or Hulton, Pa., or where ? I would like to see a copy — sometimes. Brittle. A DIVING HOUND. I have only just now had the opportu- nity of reading J. W.'s letter in last week's Forest and Stream concerning the much debated |iooo. Surely after its publication we shall now hear no more of the A. K. C.'s lavish expenditure. What a mare's nest Mr. Peshall has been boom- ing all this time, and how he must regret having filled such an amount of space in all the weekly papers. Truly has his been a wasted life for the past six months. The curtain has now fallen on a most fitting tableau for this domestic comedy. I see Meersbrook Maiden won in a mixed class at Belfast ; Leed's Elect, a white English with whom I fell in love two years ago, getting third to her ; the black and tan who took second I don't know. Dr. Foote also informs me that Me Too is suffering from skin trouble, and that he is now, for the first time in his life, legitimately hairless, no "ton- sorial" operation being necessary to present him in this perfect state of nudity. George Thomas, who took the much- rannrtt aont-e ftic <>n«^<. I.i.,< - second time within a few hours without varying more or less in his figures, con- sequently of what value is such a card ? ♦ » * Defeated exhibitors of the present day should certainly possess intelligence enough to see why and how they were Ijcaten ; with the numerous publications devoted to poultry these persons can readily learn all alwut the particular va- riety they breed, and if they cannot dis- tinguish the various good points and de- fects, in their own and other's fowls, they have no business attempting to breed exhibition stock, which can only be done by a bom fancier and an intelligent student as well. ♦ » The Bulletin is unnecessarily solicitous about the defeated and disappointed ex- hibitor. He will very quickly discover the reasons for his defeat, and if he is true to himself and his fancy he will take his reverses philosophically and renew his determination to Ijeat the winner the next time they meet. • « • Mr. P. Passmore, of Northampton, England, a well-known Jacobin fancier, died the 24th of last month, after a short illness. the front. The list of menil)ers includes some of the best and most noted fanciers of this country, men who will spare neither trouble nor expense to elevate the breed. A fair-sized boom may Ije ex- pected in buff Cochins in the future. There is no use denying that they are the aristocrats of the Asiatics. SINGLE AND DOUBLE LACING. » * * • * The American Buff Cochin Club has decl»reoth will cause serious trouble in the future. Judges will have their prefer- ences under such circumstances, and a premium won by single-laced birds under the eye of one judge may prove worthless under the eye of a judge who advocates douV)le lacing. It seems tome that the fact that the golden and silver Polish have l)een bred .....I i,.A^^A r„_ t . I , . . . ''•"^ .; ""6«-^" »«J' JV.C11S i»y a. siuiKiani wnicn admits two styles of markings, lacing and spangling, more distinct and differ- ent than single and double lacing, with- out causing serious trouble, is a complete answer to the first of these assertions. If this can be done, as it has, with the Polish, there is no apparent reason, cer- tainly none has yet been advanced, why something similar cannot be done with the Indian game. I have yet to learn of a single case where this flexibility in the Polish standard has caused the slightest trouble. The second statement arraigns the honesty of the judges. It says in effect that if two styles of lacings are allowed to compete on an equality the judges will not obey the require- ments of the standard, but will follow their own private preferences. I am not prepared to believe this, but if it be true It IS not an argument against such a standard, but an indictment against such judges. But have they done so with the Polish fowl ? And if they have not, why is it to be supjwsed they will with the Indian game ? Mr. Drevenstedt is certainly mistaken m supposing that the double-laced birds are the more iliflicult to breed. He says : "They realize the difficulties in obtaining the double lacing in perfection, and know the task is a hard one, but the ulti- mate reward is the production of their ideal. With single-laced birds less diffi- culty will Ije experienced and a larger nnmlier of possible show birds would re- sult." If Mr. Drevenstedt had had much experience in breeding Indian games, which he does not profess to have, he never would have written these sentences. The truth is just the reverse. The single-laced birds are vastly more difficult to produce than the double-laced ones. I make this statement as a breeder who had bred winning birds be- fore Mr. Drevenstedt saw the Whitfield birds at Buffalo, N. Y.. which were sub- sequently purchased by Sharp & Co. In the first trio I imported from England there was one hen with single lacing. From that trio in two years' breeding I produced only one pullet with single lacing, all of the.others being double- laced. If the Indian Game Club wishes to make a standard as difficult as possi- ble it will not make one requiring double- lacing, but one which shall demand , single lacing only. Such « utendard | would give Indian game breeders all the difficulties they wished to contend with, and a handsome surplus which would re- quire additional legislation to reduce. I think I see a compromise ground upon which the advocates of single and double lacing can meet. Let the stand- ard describe the features, as I have sug- gested, with one or more distinct lacings of black, antl then add that when two specimens have an equal score and one is single and the other double-laced, the preference shall be given to the double- laced specimen, and in awards for prizes the prize shall lie given to this bird. If such a compromise is made the ultimate result will be that double-laced birds will fill our shows and the yards of the breed- ers. Inasmuch as the double-laced birds are the easiest to breed, and as the single- laced hens will produce a majority of pullets with double lacing, in a short time, without resorting to the sunimarj' method of getting rid of the single-laced birds by a rigid standard, the single-laced birds would disappear, and that, too, without giving their owners any chance to complain that they had been unjustly dealt with and that the standard was an injurious one. And now a few words as to combs. Many strains of Indian games have coinljs which are "anything but beautiful," but this is not true of all strains. Mo.st of the birds shown at New York, and from which Mr. Drevenstedt obtained his opinions al>out the combs, would have retjuired to \te cut from three to five points on a valuation of ten points for comb. But I have bred cockerels which would not have required a cut of more than one and a half points on comb. The comb of the Indian game can and ought to be improved. The que.stion of how to do this must be considered by the makers of its standard. It seems to me that this can l)e accomplished by giving preference to undubbed birds over dubljed birds. But to do this, as probably the club would not be ready to disqualify the dubljed cocks as is practically done in England by some judges, the standard must be so made that the undubbed birds stand the better chance of winning. This can t)e done by making two scales of points, in which little valuation is given to the dubbed bird's comb and the extra points are placed on sections most likely to Ije defective and heavily cut, while a greater value is given to the comb of the undubtied birds and a smaller value to some section or sections where defects are most likely to occu». This plan is objectionable, perhaps, because of the two scales of points which must be kept in view in judging the two classes of birds. The objection is a real but not a serious one to a judge who con- scientiously follows the percentage sys- tem of making cuts, and does not place, as I fear some do, an arbitrary value upon specific defects. Another and perhaps the better method would be to place a handicap of from one to three points upon tliose birds where the scissors had taken the place of the breeder's art. If a dubl)ed bird to tie an undubljed one had to score from one to three points more ; if, for example a dubr)ed bird had to score 93 to tie an undubljed one which scored 90, the undubbed ones would have some chance of winning, and if the value of the comb was not i)laced at to points, defective combs woulij rapiilly disappear and better ones would take their place. It is also possible that by reducing the number of jwiiits to three or four for comb and then giving an uiidubl)ed bird a preference on an equal score over a dublx:d one the same result would be more slowly but as surely obtained. For dubbed birds but a small valuation for comb certainly ought to l)e given, for mere manual dexterity in trimming ought not to count much in the score. Look- ing at (he birds as dubbed, Mr. Dreven- 9t«tlt was right in saying that I placed too high a valuation upon the comb. But the mischief with this point of view is that the females, which are the more numerous class, are not dubl>ed, and per- fection of comb ought to count some- thing more than three points with them. These are matters worthy of serious attention by the Indian Game Club, and especially by its committee upon a stand- ard for the breed. I sincerely hope that whatever standard is adopted by the club, it will be the one best adapted to advance the interests of this fowl. If it will do that, it is the standard which has my heartiest support. H. S. Babcock. VOL. 5, NO. 3] XHE FANCIERS* JOURNAI^. 41 POULTRY GOSSIP. Items of Interest for Both Breeder and Consumer. Special Correspondence. The Pekin duck is un(juestionably the favorite water fowl. The Rouen duck has always been considered the heaviest and finest of all ducks, but notwithstand- ing the handsome tilumage and useful qualities it possesses, the Pekin has forged ahead in late years, and bids fair to exceed it in weight in the future. The winning pair of Pekins at New York last February weighed twenty-one and a half pounds. Mr. F. Rowland, of Woodbridge, N. J., who raised this famous pair, told me that he will place a pair in the ring weighing twenty-four pounds next win- ter. A letter received from him recently says : "My Pekins are doing very well. I weighed a pair yesterday (July 1) that were hatched April 19 ; the largest weighed six pounds thirteen ounces, the other weighed six pounds five ounces, making thirteen pounds two ounces for the pair. There is no mistake about the age or weight of these ducklings." These ducks it will l>e seen are only seventy- three days old, and if they keep on doing well there will be a surprise in the way of Pekins next winter. We never heard of Rouen ducks that exceeded twenty pounds to the pair in this country, but in F^ngland it is claimed that twenty-two pounds have Ijeen reconled for a pair of Roneiis. Bulmch. the California insect powder, is far superior to the imi)orted article. It is made from the flowers only, and not the whole plant ground up, as is the case with fbe other. The fresh rron is now ready, but it seems hard to procure. Ex- periments made recently show that it is sure death to hen lice, fleas and potato bugs, even when diluted considerably. It should be advertised more extensively, as its merits certainly demand its uni- versal use. "Annie Roouey" Cloud, of Pennsyl- vania, is the witty oracle of the Poultry News. He is driving his quill vigor- ously, and in the July issue of his paper "hoists his petard" as follows : "Conipariston judging vs. score card is tieing agitated in all the poultry papers. As the season is warm now, some hot air must necessarily be blown off. After a while cool breezes will blow and the discu.ssion will get tired and tuck its head snugly under its wing and peacefully slum- ber during the winter, to come forth again in the spring when the ground hog makes its ap- pearance." No, Annie ; like Banquo's ghost, "it will not down." Breeders are seriously considering the comparison judging, and while they "blow hot" in favor of it, they will also make it pretty cold for the score card. The latter has its virtues, but its vices are getting too well under- stood. — 0:0 — Wanted — a true description of the color of a barred Plymouth Rock. I. K. Felch, who formerly described it as "a stone color," now calls the dark bars an "in- digo blue." Correctly speaking, there is no such color as blue in domestic poul- try. I have several feathers from one of the finest barred hens ever exhibited, but cannot discover a trace of blue or indigo blue. To describe the feathers as black and white would be literally true, but the effect nevertheless is a bluish grey when viewed at a distance. of introducing this new breed is con- cerned. It is a speculation pure and simple, and from the originator's own pen we learn that it is a very new ])reed. The rose-combed Orpington then must be extremely fresh. The breed was got- ten up to sell, which is legitimate enough when there is really a breed to sell, but cross-bred birds can be found in this country at fifteen cents per pound. Our information regarding this breed conies from a gentleman who visited the yanls of the originator in England for the ex- press purpose of buyirtg Orpingtons. He was thoroughly disappointed in the latter, and stated to us that there was nothing uniform about the look of the birds. The JoiTRNAL of last week quotes me as being antagonistic to the Orpington fowl. This is true as far as the method In reading Mr. Cook's article one can plainly see the attempt to push these b'rds ahead of all other breeds. It is a transparent dodge to catch the usual dollar. They are so immensely superior to other varieties that alx)ut the only thing we can do is to invest at once and buy a few. The black Java is one of the best fowls we have, and the single- combed Orpington could scarcely t>e mentioned in the same breath with that thoroughbred fowl. The assertion that the rose-combed Orpington fills a place of its own is erroneous, as we have a black Wyandotte in this country which will fully equal the Orpington in useful qualities, and surpass it in breeding qualities. The black Wyandotte is a true sport — not a cross. — 0:0— In bolstering up the excessive good qualities of the Orpington the originator makes some very queer statements. He says : "Take Minorcas, for instance, which have red or otherwise bad ear loljes. They are usually the finest birds and lay before their more perfect sis- ters." This will surprise many breeders who pin their faith on white ear-loljed birds as layers. The great records made by Hamburgs, Leghorns and Andalusians as egg-producers would, according to the a1x)ve statement, be vastly improved if the white ear lobes were bred out The whole statement is a trifle thin. He goes on to say : "Black Rocks frequently lay a month or six weeks before the speckled birds, and they grow into the finest shaped birds also." This is an- other surprise. Close observer that Mr. Cook, but Plymouth Rock breeders will smile at the as.sertioii. It reminds me of the statement made by a friend who bought some white Rocks. He claimed that they laid "way ahead of the barred," V)ut subsequently found out that he was breeding a cross-bred Leghorn-Brahma instead of a white Rock. The most radical statement made is that "Langshans that come clean on the leg are also the best layers." Anything to boom the clean-legged, black, reed Orpington will answer the fertile- brained originator. The feathers on the legs of birds have nothing to do with laying eggs. If so we had better discard all feather-legged breeds. Taking the standard of the Orpington by the articles that appeared in Thk Journai.,, I am in- clined to think the breed (?) has been praised just a little too much. — 0:0 — The I'nited States census, recently completed, was exf>ected to furnish some very valuable statistics regarding the immense extent of our poultry business. Judging by the work of several census enumerators in New Jersey a great many fowls have lieen "counted out." The fact is a hen is such a trivial thing that she seldom receives the attention she de- serves. Ducks have fared Ijetter. One of the New Jersey enumerators has filed his blanks and filled them out with great care. He reports one lady as jxissessing a duck that lays just two eggs every day. As this lady has but one duck, and her statements are i)erfectly reliable, the credit must go to the United States Governuient for discovering the duck that laj's two eggs daily. Mr. Ross A. Smith, of Charleston, in speaking of the advantages of the South to the poultryman, remarks in the South- ern Fancier : " Ducks will lay here from November on ; will they do so in the the North ? Who ever heard of putting ducks on the market in January and February?" To the first question I will say that there is no trouble to get ducks in laying condition before November in in the North. I have known many cases where ducks started to lay in Septemljer. It all depends on the handling and feed- ing. Ducks have lieeii seut to the market as early as February, but there is not the demand for them at that time as later on. Spring chickens and spring ducks usu- ally do best after Easter as regards prices. Eggs in the North are usually very high during the fall and winter, so it pays best to sell them. When eggs are cheap is the time to set them . There is considerable fuss made over "how to pack eggs for hatching." It is a very simple affair, but some must ex- haust their scientific knowledge in stat- ing the whys and wherefores of this highly mysterious business of packing eggs. One writer went so far as to recommentl cushions made of springs to avoid jarring on the cars during transit. Another places his eggs in certain jjosi- tions, and uses only certain packing materials. I have seen a great many different egg packages, and often can read the breeder's character in his method of shipping eggs. The careful^ methodical man will certainly send a package that reflects his methods. The careless man trusts to the patent egg packages, and the express company to supply what he lacks. Those who have had a taste of the great care the express companies take will hesitate to accept the latter as a proper guardian of a valu- able basket of eggs. The safest and liest package I ever used, and one in use by many old breeders, is the basket. I wrap all eggs in paper, and then pack them snugly in a bed of fine excelsior, using plenty of the latter. Such a basket is light, but a trifle more bulky thfin a l)ox, but it is absolutely safe dur- ing transit. Having received and shipped hundreds of eggs by this method I have yet to find or hear of a broken one when proper care had been taken in packing. The excelsior is elastic, and the jarring cannot be serious, as we have had splen- did hatches from eggs shipped in this manner over a long distance. There are several good patent egg packages on the market which facilitate the packing somewhat, but the principle is the same as in the method given above. — 0:0— Poultry editors are apt to get in strange places. One recently found himself in a church. He was, however, more inter- ested in solving the mystery of certain theories than in the sermon ; in fact, he was absent-minded. t*he worthy minis- ter's good words failed to arouse the erring brother, but when the reverend gentleman came to the following sen- tence : ♦ * * "From dust to dust," our editor jumped up and cried : "That's it ! give 'em a dust bath, but put in some Persian insect jwwder, it'll kjjl the lice every time. Sample package sent pre- paid only twenty-five cents." In the California CacklerC. R. Harker, in an interesting article, calls attention to the fact that yellow legs in chickens are dei>endcnt somewhat on the soil, and ^ves as his reason that chickens raised on grass always have bright yellow legs, and those on barren sandy soils are just the reverse. While we believe that rich grassy land proers i and 2 are quite common, tiumber i usually proving to be pullets, while number 2 are generally cockerels. These are the usual colors, so far as my experience goes. Numl)er 3 I am not familiar with, {personally, never having hatched such a chicken, but of number 4 I have hatcheil two, one of them proving to be an exquisite bird in shape, and almost jet black in color, with some purple markings, while the other ^.-.<«.r* *40«%^K. Ulnr^l- K*.* «V E*k> »* V4€k*ak L^av^fvaa, .a^^aa*, tva^4V,^, aykav fairly marked specimens, both proving to be pullets. This irregularity in the color of chick- ens points to a union of different colors in the making of the fowl. The Indian game, I believe, and have all along be- lieve ', was of a mixed origin, although not a few leading English fanciers have held to its absolute purity. Still its mixed origin was suspected by some, and it was believed that the Malay had something to do with it. The following extract from an article in a recent numl>er of the Fanciers' Gazette, of London, will, per- haps serve to clear up this mystery and assist us iu explaining some matters about the breeding of this fowl which hereto- fore have seemed inexplicable : "Mr. Frayn has l>een a breeder of In- dian game ever since he was a boy, fol- lowing in the footsteps of his father, and his experience of more than thirty years" — mark this those who think the Indian game a new-fangled notion, a breed with- out a history — "makes him one of the oldest fanciers of this variety living. In his earlier days it was a short, squabby fowl, ginger in color. The great change which has come over the breed is due to crossing with the rich-plumaged black Indian game, and not to Malay blood, as many aver. About sixteen years ago Mr. Frayn began to pav attention to the markings of the femnles. He owned one famous hen, which was ten years old when she died, and to her influence is attributable the great improvement in the direction named, her blooestowed noon them. After that they will take care of them- selves. There are no birds more hardy when once ihey have iheir feaihers than turkeys. So hardy are they that they will roost in the open in any weather. My stock turkeys, all through the severe winter and spring, preferred to roost in the open, not a bit of covering over them, merely a pole in the run to sit upon, and they have kept perfectly healthy and commenced laying earlier than any I know of. At this time of the year also it is im- portant, to those who have only a few stock birds, that they should be managed properly, or otherwise many of the eggs will be unfertile. When there are only two or three or four henS to one male bird, he should only l)e allowed to run in for al)out an hour every day or two, or three times a week will lie quite sufficient ; if more, he is apt to injure the hens, and many of the eggs are liable to be un- fertile. When turkeys come on broody, and eggs are required for sitting or for sale, ordinary sitting hens should lie sat upon turkey eggs. Put aliout ten turkey eggs under one hen ; but if the hen is large and the eggs are small, more can l)e put under; but if it is the other way about, the hen small and the eggs extra large, not more than seven or eight should l>e given them. Always put one egg too few rather than one too many. The eggs should be tested at the eigth d.iy to see if they are fertile. Shouhl any of them prove unfertile, the silling can be made up with hen's eggs, which should be taken warm from the nest where they are laid, and then they will hatch out at the same time as the turkeys. If they are taken out of the nest warm, just as soon as the hen has laid them, then they will hatch in twenty days, and the turkeys usually come out on the twenty-eighth day. When they are first hatched it is well lo let them have a little hard-boiled egg chopped fine, and stale bread crumbs. The second day it is well to mix a little pepper or mustard, the latter I prefer, with the stale bread crunilis, or a few pieces of chopped onions or leeks ; dan- delions or waterrresses chopjied up fine are also very good things for them. I do not think that anything lacks h«at so much as a young turkey, therefore they want something of a very hot nature with their food. After they are two days old always give them a little poultry powder mixed with their meal — biscuit meal or oatmeal. They should not lie allowed much water, and it is well to mix their food with skim milk where it can l>e obtainee taken to keep them down. — It will often be an advantage to let poultry that are kept confined run out an hour every evening. — By feeding the guineas iu the poultry house they can be trained to roost and lay there. The roost should have a washing with coal oil at least once a week iu hot weather. — With the exception of the young poultry, it is hardly necessary to feed more than once a day now ; and if this is given at night it will be a standing in- ducement for them to come home. — Dry oats and cracked corn, half and half, with plenty of green vegetable food during the summer season is a good healthy diet. These are nourishing but not fattening, and if the birds can have good grass or pasture range also, they will thrive excellently well upon such allowance. VOL. 5. NO. 3] XHR FANCIERS* JOURNAI^. 43 PIGEON FLYING. ON THE WING. Herman Alliers, a bird dealer of 153 Broome vStreet, New York City, was arrested and placed under I500 bail for examination because a number of stolen homing pigeons were found in his place. The birds were identified by marks on their wings. # « » Twenty-eight birds of Mr. Theo. P. Green, of Woodbury, N. J., were liber- ated in Danville, Va., at seventeen min- utes past 6 o'clock on the morning of the 14th. The only returns at evening were four together at 4.57 P. M. The airline distance is 316.5 miles ; the average speed 870.8 yards per minute. The birds had a hard day's work, as the wind was blow- ing strong against them, giving them a long journey around, unless they faced it, which is not at all likely. When they entered their loft they were scarcely able to raise themselves to their perches. The next journey will be from 425 miles. • • » The three hen pigeons, True Blue, Dolly Varden and the Maid of the Mill, owned by John Diggle, of this city, were liberated in Montgomery, Ala., at half- past 5 o'clock A.M., Central time, Tues- day. The airline distance to be covered is al)out 875 miles. Only two of the three birds left Evergreen, the two going away out of sight at once, the third being too ill to travel and returned to the basket. Up to the time of going to press we had not heard of their arrival home. The last journey by airline of the three birds was from Charlotte, N. C, alx)ut 450 miles » » The record to break which this journey is undertaken is the best by a pigeon from over 600 miles, and was made in 1886. The entry in the race was nine birds, all owned in Newark, four by W. Bennert, two each by W. B. Garrabrants and A. P. Baldwin, and one by C. Mink, Jr. The start was from Montgomery, Ala., the morning of July 18. The first return was Seargent Dunne, of Mr. Ben- nert, found in the loft at noon of the 22d. Time out, four and one-half days. Dis- tance, 885 miles. The next best journey for the record was that to Providence, R. I., last week, when the 750 miles were covered iu about the same time. • » » Mr. Fred Bowers, of Fall River, Mass., reports the birds Dusky and Right Bower as arriving home on the 15th inst., from the start in Buffalo, N. Y., the morning of the 6th inst., one at half-past 3 and the other at 7 o'clock. Mr. Bowers says : "There is just about enough of this season left for them to make one more journey, so let that be from 650 miles," The station for this will probably be Detroit., Mich. Mr. 5. A. Boutelle, of Providence, R. I., not content with the journey of his bird Gladstone from 750 miles, asks for a sta- tion for his bird Wagner that will give 1060 miles distance. The bird is ready for the start and will be sent away as soon as arrangements can be made. « » ♦ The two homing pigeons, Bellview and Butler, owned by the Messrs. John Mc- Fadden and Frank Lane, of the Virtue Club, of this city, were liberated in Pen- sacola, Fla., at ten minutes after 8 o'clock Monday morning. The distance (air line) to be covered is 945}^ miles. The record to be beaten is that of Red Wizzer and China Bill, made in 1885, the only record for distance of over 530 miles ever made to a Philadelphia loft, and the best for distance by a male pigeon excepting that of Alabama and Montgomery of 1054 miles to Fa'l River, Mass. In that journey the entry was : McGaughey, three ; Paul Krouse and Charles Hensel, two each ; J. A. Wimer, P. W. Murphy and R. L. Hayes, one each. The start was at 7.30 A. M. on July 21, 1885. The first return was the Red Wizzer of R. L. Hayes, found in the loft at 7.15 A. M. on August 2. Time out, eleven days twen- ty-three and one-half hours. Its traveling that year, including that journey, was over 2600 miles. The bird is now alive and well in the Hayes loft, on Berks street, and it is agreed if its record is beaten by either of the Virtue birds, it, with a brass band, will do honors to the victor. The second and only other re- turn in the journey, was China Bill, owiied by Charles Hensel, which was found in its loft on August 9. **• Of the Virtue birds, Butler returned from 528 miles as its last station, but Bellview has been iu only the two jour- neys, one of 200 and one 325 miles. Butler in his last journey made quite a visit at a Baltimore loft, and it is pre- dicted by those who know the ways of the homing pigeon that it will stop at the same place on its way home in this journey, and by so doing lose time and be beaten by Bellview. CONCOURSE NEW^S. The Late Arrivals in the Recent Concourse Race. Hrom our Special Correspondent. Out of the 168 birds shipped to the 500- miles stations in the recent Concourse race, seventy-three birds returned by the third day (which is the limit to receive record). Many more came in too late. Ferate«l in Tampa, Fla., at five minutes of 6 A. M. Tuesday. The birds are McCuiioch and ivady Wash- ington, of John Diggle's loft. * » # A homing pigeon owned by Patrick F^lynn, Lowell, Mass., was set at liberty at Valley Field Post Office Tuesday morn- ing at 6.15 o'clock, and arrived there on Wednesday morning at 8 o'clock, flying a distance of between 600 and 700 miles in a little more than twenty-six hours. vShe lost in that time five ounces of her weight, which is accounted for by the extreme heat of the day. A Pigeon Beats a Mail Train. Between Dover and London some time ago a race was run by an express train and a carrier pigeon. The race took place between the Continental mail ex- press train and a carrier pigeon, convey- ing an urgent document for the French police. The rails, carriages and engine of the express train were, as might l)e expected, of the best possible construc- tion for power and speed. The pigeon, which was known as a "Belgian voyag- eur," was tossed through the railway car- riage window by a French official as the train left the Admiralty Pier, the wind being west and the atmosphere hazy. The train had made more than a mile V)efore the poor bird decided which direc- tion to take. It circled up in the air, rising all the time in wider rings, while the train, which made no stop, was speeding along at the rate of sixty miles an hour, and the railway officials were ready to lay any odds on their train. But the race was not to the strong, for a tele- gram nnnounced the arrival of the bird twenty minutes ))efore the trtin was heard of — Ivondon Telegraph. in this vicinity, will make a visit to a number of the West Philadelphia loft. Mr. A. M. Wood, of the Belmont Hom- ing Club, is building a handsome loft at his new residence, 4910 Baltimore Ave- nue, designed by John G. Hunt, of the same club. Mr. John G. Hunt's " Slasher" has re- turned from his Washington trip with a new growth of wing. John says he is a first diploma bird next year. Mr. John Shepherd's B. C. X. 2181 re- turned from the 400-niile station with a good part of his wing cut. He was not in fit condition to go the 500 miles. George R. Callaghan, after critically surveying the wing, pronounces it the work of "no fancier." Mr. Callaghan 's first season's result is a 500-miler home early on the morning of the second day. James Boyd, of the Star Club, flys a bird 500 miles for the first time and gains first club honors. What has become of John Love's old timers ? Dan Kane reports his first arrival from 500 miles too late for record. Mr. Hargraves, of the Fanciers' Club of Germantown, Pa., is desirous of send- ing one or two birds to Shreveport, La., 1 150 miles, to take a crack at the record of Montgomery and Alabama. Anyone wishing to enter one or more birds for this race can do so by corresponding with Mr. Hargraves, 84 Mehl Street, Germantown, Pa. He ships Monday evening, July 21. Henry J. Williams, of Providence, is after Soo-mile honors. The number of 500 mile record birds to the various lofts are : QUICK AERIAL FLYERS. "What the Crack Homing PlsreonB Have Done This Year. The innovation which the Federation of American Homing Pigeon Fanciers introduced this year, usually known as concourse races, meets with unlimited approval of all sportsmen connected with the association. Under the new rule the country has t>een divided into sections, and the sections again into dis- tricts. Atmospheric and climatic condi- ditions make it necessary that some of the sections located in the Northwestern, Northern and New England States should hold their races at a later date than the Southern and Middle States sec- tions. In the latter, the date for the Concourse races has been fixed by the Federation, and, although there have been different liberation stations for the several districts, the day of liberation, if not the hour, has l)een the same for all. Where in former years the liVjerator simply wired the time of start, he also includes now in his despatch a descrip- tion of the weather, direction and ve- locity of the wind, and anything else that mijfht influence the flight of the plucky little birds. There has been, of course, much heart- burning over shattered hopes, lost pets, and vanished victories, and one of^ the most aflSicted clubs iu the country has been the Brooklyn Homing Club, which was organized only last January. They have met with misfortune after misfor- tune, and the lofls of some of the old fanciers belonging to the organization have sustained such severe losses that they are considerably crippled at present. The Philadelphia district carried off all the honors in the 2ao-mile race, while the 300rfniles went to Newark, Brooklyn and Jersey City. For the 400 miles honors were pretty evenly divided, — New York Sun. Transfers of Stock. Mr. J. W. Allen, Needham, Mass., has transferred from his loft to loft of Mr. W. H. Perkins, Watertown, Mass., i pair blacks, I pair duns, 2 pair whites, i pair blue booted fantails, also, i pair yellow Jacobins. p. W. Kroune J John Shepherd (Ont- of them H band) CVeorgc HoriihtrRer . . 2 George R. Call.Tg!ian . i James Worth 2 O. I,. Goldbeck .... I William Hargraves . . i William Doiinton . . . i J. C. Conley 2 W. S. Torkington ... 1 W. C. Geary 3 I,. W. Spangehl .... 6 n Rllwell I William Bennert ... 3 C. A. Mahr I R. K. Hayes 3 3 J. Kberle 2 I,. Schrieber I A. H. Kruger 4 J. V. Munroe 3 C Hub 2 Charles Adams 2 John G. Hunt .... 2 James A. Stovell . . . 1 H. Kendall I B. Holder 2 Thomas Bowerraan. . 3 K. Morton i W. B. Garrabraut. . . 5 J. R. Hus.son a John I'"ischer i Blue Checker Cock Pound, Editor Fanciers' Joihinal. Sir : I have a blue checker cock which came to my premises four weeks ago. He is stamped on wing T, (646 or 464) and marked N. 2097. I always write to the owner of a bird when I can find out to whom to write. In regard to this 646 or 464, 1 do not remem- ber which it was, as I pulled the feather out, so would like to near from any of your readers who can give me informa- tion as to the owner of it. * Yours respectfully, Samitei, T. Miller, 707 South Broad Street, Trenton, N. J. July 12, 1890. Pa Aa has a seamless band Importations. Per steamship Nova Scotian, from the loft of John Tanner, England, to that of Charles J. Tanner, Cincinnati, O. : One pair blue wing turbits, one strawberry turbit cock, one red wing turbit hen, one black wing turbit hen, one pair silver English owls. Neponset River Homing Club. Editor F'anciers' Journal. Sir : The second meeting of the N. R. H. C, of Milton, Mass., was held July 7. It is in a very prosperous condition, raising many youngsters from which they expect good results in the fall races. Its birds are from the best strains in the United States. The officers are : President, Charles Karcher ; vice-president, Alfred Karcher • treasurer, Charles Moulton ; secretary and race reporter, Wilbur C. Littlefield. In our local trials the birds have shown extraordinary good results, and it is ex- pected they will still keep it up. Yours respectfully, Wilbur C. Littlefield, Secretary. Subscription Agents Wanted We wish to appoint an agent in every town in the United States and Canada to solicit subscriptions for Thk Fanciers' Journal. A liberal cash commission is oflFered on all new iuhscriptions. Write for terms to agents. 44 THE FANCIERS' JOURNAL. [JULY 19. 1890 SCRAPPLE. Indian Oame va. India Oame. Younff Turkeys— The Farmer's Best Friends— Green Food. The follmving extracts arc from the pens 0/ fanciers both on this ami the other side of the water, xii'ing their experi- ences in raising, feeding and caring for all kinds of poultry, pigeons and pet stock, and elicit the careful perusal of the readers of The Fancikrs' Journal. // is the desire in these columns to give the experiences of all true fanciers, and we therefore invite contributions from every- one who has anything to say pertaining to poultry, pigeons and fancy stock. Indian Game vs. India Game. Quite a mistake is made in confounding tlie Indian game witli the India game. The latter is a pit breed from the West Indies, generally shipped to America from Calcutta, while the Indian, so-called, is a table breed from England. What is known in this country as the India breed has been imported within the last half dozen years and is yet very scarce and hard to procure even at fancy prices. These fowls are said to l>e terrific fighters, with no end to wind and endurance. The India games come in all or nearly all of the game colors, usually red, either black breasted red, dark red or brown red, and generally yellow in shanks. These fowls stand lower than the Indian exhibition game or Maylav, with more drooping wings. The distinguishing feature of the India is the eye and head. No other game has an eye like the India, a regular eagle eye, %^ry "daw" and piercmg, with a peculiar, cruel expres- sion. The India is a large game fowl, thniich tint «r> nliinin ami haTi\ in ViqikI as the varieties mentioned. It takes a good pit game of the common kind to stand long l)efore an India. — Ohio Poul- try Journal. Green Food. Nothing counts so fast in the growth and health of l)oth old and young chick- ens as green food ; aiul no kind of greens are so beneficial as young, tender, rye, when about two or three inches high. If you have any spare room at all be sure to sow it in rye, and let the chicks have a harvest. You will notice the thrift at once, and you will more than once thank yourself for the little labor and expense you spent. Chopped up lettuce, c^jbage, onion tops, and other tender gieeus are vpluable at all times. Don't miss this important part of the feed.— M. K. Boyer. Younu Tiirlteys. Turkeys, when fully matured, can probably stand more extremes of heat and cold than any other kind of poultry ; but, on the other hand, it is very difficult to bring the young turkeys to this state of maturity. In breeding young turkeys eggs should not lie usee given to them in the soft food, and as much vegetables as they want. Dampness is fatal to young turkeys, and they should not be allowed to run around in the wet grans or be out in showers. Turkeys thrive l>est when given their liberty and not kept in confinement; hut even when allowed to run around they should be watched carefully. They will pick up a great many insects, but if these are scarce, choppeest friends. Their natural food, to a large extent, is composed of insects injurious to the fields and gardens. To have a swarm of hungry birds constantly about the farm, ever on the alert for all kinds of insects, is a great advantage. Some birds destroy hundreds of insects daily, and the work of such birds for just one day iti spring prevents thesubsetjuent increase of all those insects that are de- stroyed. Since insects increase with marvelous rapidity, the destruction of a large number in spring, when the birds find little else to eat, means far less in- sects during the year than there would be were it not for the destruction thus effected. In some instances the birds have been nearly exterminated in certain .sections by the work of bird-shooting matches, or in other ways, and the result has been an enormous increase of destruc- tive insects, which made the inhabitants glad to welcome back the birds. Every farmer and gardener should take a little trouble to induce the birds to build their nests about their premi.ses, by putting up bird houses in the trees, or otherwise provide bird nesting places, so as to have the aid of their services in destroying insects. — H. Reynolds. Aneonas. The Anconas, which were heralded as a new breed, are in reality an oi(i one. There are several strains in this country, and lieing dubious about the breeding qualities of the Anconas I secured some eggs from the liest strain, through a third party. The chicks are certainly fine, and as uniform in color as any I ever had of any breed. They resemble the Houdans except in being without the protuberance about the head. The original flock I saw were marked like Houdans, had gootl sized single combs, white earlol>es and yellow legs. The yellow in the legs, however, needs look- ing after, as many specimens show up a dingy black and yellow. They lay fine sized white eggs and appear to l)e quite hardy. I give the above in justice to the breed, and will add that I have no eggs for sale nor shall I breed the birds. I simply test all breeds as they come along to verify the reports of the introducers. In this respect the Ancona has not l)een misrepresented and will prove a decided acquisition. — ^J. H. Drevenstedt. Egjfs by WelRht. Perhaps the time will come when eggs will be sold by weight. It is the only fair way, for there is such a variety of sizes that often there might be a vast difference in the weight of two dozen of eggs. If eggs are ever sold by weight it will be the means of bringing to the front some breeds of poultry whose merits are not as bighly appreciated now as they deserve. It is a noted fact that there are tlK)se en- gaged in egg culture that prefer hens that lay small eggs and they give two reasons for it, namely, they can get no more for larger eggs in the general market, and l)elieve a hen that lays a small egg does tiot necessarily consume as nmch food as a hen that lays large eggs. The last is mere theory, which facts can do qway with The crossing of common fowls with many of the pure breeds will invariably result in securing a progeny that will jay larger eggs than the common ones did, and there need be no increase in the amount of food given. The following figures will give an idea of the comparative sizes of eggs laid by pure breeds : The I'rench breeds, Houdans, La Fleche and Creve Coeur, lay large eggs, averaging seven to the pound. The writer has had Houdans that laid eggs that averaged six to the pound ; light Hrahmas, .seven to the pound ; dark Rrahmas, Cochins and Langshans, eight to the pound ; Plymouth Rocks, Wyandottes and white Leghorns, eight to the i>onnd ; other Iveghorns, nine to the pound ; while-face black Spanish, seven to the pound ; Minorcas and Javas, eight to the |)ound ; games and Hambnrgs, Polish and Doniini(|ues, nine to the pound game bantams, sixteen to the |)oinid Sebright bantams, fourteen to the j)ound guineas, eleven to the pound. Some writers give the numl)er of eggs each breed will lay in a year, bnt that is de- pendent ntore on the care, feeest selling chickens he gets to-day arc the white skin, dark legged ones. After the public once l)e- comes acquainted "with the fine table qualities of the Langshans, La F'leche and other white skin fowls, they will be more in demand in the markets. A yel- low skin bird certainly looks attractive, and that is the reason they have been commanding such a big sale. Nests for Turkeys. A barrel laid on its side in a secluded place, with a stone on each side to sup- port it, makes a good place for a turkey to lay in. Cover the top with an old piece of oil cloth. This will keep out the rain. The inside should be nicely white- of damp earth, then straw or hay over that shaped as a nest, making an invit- ing place for the turkey to dejwsit her eggs. It sometimes is well with a broody hen to take and put her in for a day or so ; she will become ac(juaiiited with the new surroundings provided and settle right down to business. On account of their shyness turkeys are hard to manage, preferring a fence corner to any nest you could give them. This is the old way of letting them run their affairs, but we don't approve of it. — New York Mail and Express. Artificial Kk«s. It has been said that the Americans manufactured their eggs. The fact has been confirmed, and here are the details of this singular industry (states a French authority). It comprises four operations — the making up of the yolk, the white, the pellicle and the shell. The yolk is a mixture of maize, flour, wheaten starch, oil and other ingredients. It is poured when in a state of thick paste into the opening of a machine that gives it a rounded form. Then the yolk presses into another compartment, where it is surrounded by the white, which is com- posed of albumen, as in the natural egg. This new li(juid consolidates itself, and by a peculiar rotary movement a.ssumcs an oval shape. The egg is next passed into a receptacle calleil the skiij ma- chine ; there it is surrounded with a slender pellicle. Finally it passes into the sheller, where it receives its outer envelope — that is to say, a shell of gyp- sum a little thicker than the natural shell. It is then placed on the drying plates, where the shell becomes hard- ened at once, while the interior concretes rapidly. The result has all the appear- ances of the actual egg. We are assured that the supply of these eggs cannot meet the demand for them. They are nearly all taken by two wholesale firms in New York. These eggs are, besides l)eing altogether inoffensive, as sub- stantial and wholesome as hens' eggs. They never spoil, anil are more conveni- ent for being carried about than are those eggs laid by the>'ulgar natural process. — The yueenslander. VOL. 5. NO. 3] XHE FANCIERS' :fOURNAL. 4^ CAGE . BIRDS ♦ AND ♦ PETS. BY THE WAY. Raising canaries is not only a pleasant occupation for the housewife, but can be made very profitable as well, and young girls can easily earn their pin money by following out the few suggestions given in an article in the next column. Above all cleanliness should l)e observed, for nothing helps to ward off disease so much as constant attention to the wants of the bird and the care of the cage. Every time you feed see that the bird's dish is well cleaned and never put the same footl in twice. Birds are just as dainty as human beings, and who relishes sitting down to the same table twice without the dishes are washed and everything look- ing fresh and clean ? •** Rabbit-keeping is another occupation that can be carried on successfully and profitably if the right means are em- ployed. Rabbits soon l>ecome tame and make very agreeable pets, but must not lie handled too much by the children or they will soon die. They must not l)e allowed too much freedom, especially if there are any dogs or cats in the neigh- borhood, as they soon make short work of any stray "bunnies" they chance to meet. ■ 9 ' ■ THE STARIilNO. A Very Good Imitator — Charac- teristics of the Bird. The starling becomes exceedingly tame in the chamber, is very tractable and cunning, and in this quality may be compared with the dog. He is always cheerful and lively, speeesides, scarcely any white s|)ots on the fore- head, cheeks, throat and abdomen. There are several varieties of this bird, as, indeed, is the case with those birds which are caught in large numbers — the white starling, the checkered starling, the white-headed starling, those that are white on the body anil black only on the head and the ashy-grey starlings. — George J. Barnesby. Two Bird Stories. On one dark afternoon the telegraph ojjerators rattling away at the keys in the Western Union office in New Haven, Conn., suddenly heard a rustling over- head, and glancing about saw a sparrow, which having come in through the open window was swiftly skimming about the high-ceiled room. Then came a great crash of thunder, jarring heavily under the foundations of the buiMing, and the little bird with a frightened "peep," fluttered down on the sounder at W. J. Shephan's desk. Mr. Sheehan picked up the sparrow and held it in his hand until the fury of the tempest had some- what abated, then took it to the window and released it. But the bird would not go out into the storm, and, after hesi- tating on the window ledge for an instant, returned to the operator, climbing on his shoulder and .nestling against his face. Finally he threw the sparrow far out of doors and hastily shut the window, but it came back and pecked at the window panes. On another evening a big night hawk flew into the German Lutheran Church in New Haven while Professor J. E. Whittecker, of Rochester, was lecturing on "The Follies and Foibles of Modern Life," and for fifteen minutes excitement reigned. A night hawk is a blundering creature in its flight, and as the wide- winged bird darted back and forth in the sanctuary in great sweeps and circles just above the audience, its spotted piilioii!> gicauiiug apcclic-iikc a» il hummed through the air, women screamed and darted about the pews, and finally the lecturer had to stop talking for fifteen minutes. Everyone was afraid of the bird, for as it skimmed along the gallery front and shot among the heads of the people, once passing so close to the face of Professor Whittecker it fairly took the words of his text out of his mouth, it went with the speed of a rocket, and it seemed it must go slam- bang into somebody or something in its dizzy turns. Once a wise man shouted : "Catch that bird !" and the profound ad- vice set the congregation to laughing. Finally the hawk, in a random dash, ac- ciileiitally scouted through a window, and then the lecture went on again. Money in Canaries. One gooil way for a girl to earn her own pin money is to raise canaries. Good singers always bring good prices, and even the jioor ones are worth something. There is considerable amusement, too, to be derived from the care of birds by one who is fond of pets, and the cost is next to nothing after the parent birds and a cage are once purchased. The rules for .success are simple. A big roomy cage, a wide", shallow nest and cleanliness are requisites. Paper spread on the floor of the cage, sprinkled with sand, is easily removed and renewed. A bird of light color is best mated with one of darker hue, or the offspring will look either washeil out or too dingy. If the male canary is a good singer, a cross with a linnet will produce the liest results. Iered that rabbits vary much in disposition as well as in race, and it is very conducive to success- ful breeding to keep such as are quiet and tractable. Some does absolutely like to lie fondled, will allow themselves to be caught without attempting to es- cape, will squat on the ground when their owner approaches to stroke them, and will submit to be carried about in the arms as quietly as a doll, while others will run away like wild things in a court, and if distur1)ed in the privacy- of their hutch will squeak, grunt, scratch and kick their litter about to the destruction of their nest, if they happen to have one. If, after the foregoing caution, it be still determined to begin with a stock of full-grown animals, the points to be in- sisted on are, in the doe, teats visibly in a healthy and natural state, plump and swelled with milk if the term of preg- nancy is advanced or she has alreac^ littered ; the head with reference to the length of the muzzle and the breadth and development of the occiput, should form a sort of wedge ; ears long, broad and fine ; chest expanded ; legs strong, and wide apart. As far as profit and fecun- dity are concerned, a doe ought to bring forth not less than eight at each birth on an average. If she constantly produces less it will be advisable to change her, even although she may be young and in good health ; for it is ah acknowledged fact that all individuals are not equally suited for production . The buck is at his best from one to five years of age ; the doe from eight months to four years ; of course care will be taken to see that they are not pot- bellied. Hard and well-pelleted dung is a certain indication of gootl health. It would be very convenient if there were unfailing signs, as in oxen, sheep and horses, by which the exact age of a rab- bit up to a given {jeriod could be ascer- tained ; but all that Mn be done is, to distinguish vaguely an old one from a young one. The least equivocal symp- toms of old age are, the general solidity and thickness of the skeleton, especially at the joints, as far as they can be felt by handling ; the development of the Jielly to a considerable amount of obesity ; and finally, the length and thickness of the nails. Breeding does, when kept in hutches, are much better each in a hutch to her- self than inhabiting one common dwell- ing, however roomy it may be. When a number of does live in the same butch the consequences are sometimes quite as unfortunate as if the buck were in com- pany with them. If the doe kindles, and leaves her little ones a moment to feed, the other does immediately crowd around the nest through an instinct of curiosity, peep inlo it, and not seldom disturb it with their paws. The mother rushes up to drive the other does away ; a battle ensues ; and half the little rabbits are either killed or wounded for life. The pregnant does which take part in these skirmishes generally suffer alwrtion in consequence of their excitement and the blows which they give and receive in the combat. Their owner may read the Riot Act afterwards, but the mischief is done. — E. S. Delamer. Handling Rabbits. Rabbits are sometimes injured by be- ing handled clumsily. The proper way to take hold of them is to grasp the ears with the right hand and to support the rump with the left. To seize them by the leg is jpt to dislocate a limb, especi- ally in the case of creatures that are shy ; an injudicious grip around the neck or the iKMly may prove unexpecteilly and suddenly fatal by injurv to the verte- bra;, compression of the lungs or break- ing of the riljs ; a hasty clutch at the tail may cause the fur of that ornamental menil)er to come off in one piece and sjwil the animal's beauty for life. The instantaneous way in which an adroit hand will Icill a rabbit, apparently by the merest touch, gives a forcible hint of the caution we should use in allowing a favorite animal to l>e captured and pulled alx)ut by inexperienced persons. For does with young, the greatest tenderness is indispensable. — E. S. Delamer. 46 XHE F^ANCIERS' JOURNAL. [JULY 19, 1890 BUPP OOOHIN CLUB. Ckjnatitutlon and By-La-wre — OflB- oers for 1890. To the Members of the Ameriian Buff Cochin Club. Dkar Sir : The annual meeting of the American Buff Cochin Club was held at the American Institute Building, New York City, February 22, 1890. Fifteen new members were admitted and the fol- lowing officers were elected for 1890 : Presidknt — Charles H. Crosby. Vick-Prisidents — Philander Wil- liams, Charles H. Johnson, Robert Col- gate, T. F. McGrew, Jr., Newton Adams and Charles Feldman. Skcrrtary — G. P. Reynaud. Treasurer— J. H. L. Todd. Executive Committee — M. A. Sprouts, M. M. Connor, Frank C. Hare, William F. M. Smith, E. J. Sanderson, George E. Peer and F. W. Gaylor. Delay in making report of meeting was caused by instructions received then to make a poll by mail of all the members of the club as to the advisability of changing the name of the American Cochin Club in order to include all va- rieties of Cochins. Poles closed June I, a majority voting to retain the olcf name. I would now beg to appeal to all those interested in Buff Cochins for assistance and co-operation in pushing this to the head of all specialty clubs. Send in two dollars for initiation fee and annual dues or one dollar for dues if you are a member, and send also as much as your liberality may suggest, to make up a fund for special prizes to be offered at three of the principal shows of the coming season. Send also your views as to where and when the club should hold its atinual meet- ing and the place and mode of offering its specials. Concerted action now, backed by suffi- cient liberality in specials, will create a Vfcnotn i*' Pi>ff« «pch R^ no oth^r brscd or variety ever experienced. Remember tnat your home paper is your best friend. Support it by your subscription and lil>eral ads. Please act at once and address G. P. Reynaud, Secretary, 3 Bowling Green, New York City. The following is the constitution and by-laws of the club : constitution. Art. I. This organization shall be known as the American Buff Cochin Club. ART. II. The object of this club shall be the improvement and advancement of the buff Cochin fowl. The offering of such special prizes as will be deemed ad- visable. The appointment of competent judges. In fact, to carefully guard the interest of the buff Cochin fowl in America. Art. III. The active officers of the club shall consist of a president, six vice- presidents, a secret»ry and treasurer, and an executive committee of seven, whose term of office shall continue for one year, and who shall be elected at the annual meetings of the club. Art. IV. The meetings of this club shall be held at such time and place as the Executive Committee may elect. Art. V. The members of this club shall consist of all who shall receive a two- thirds vote of members present at a meet- ing of the club, or are approved of by the Executive Committee, and the pay- ment of |i membership fee, and |i an- nual dues thereafter. ~~ Art. VI. The officers of the club shall be elected at the time and place of the annual meetings of the club, except in case of resignation, suspension or death, when the office" so made vacant shall be filled by appointment by the Executive Committee, said appointment to continue until the next annual meeting of the club. Art. VII. Any member of this club being proven dishonest in his dealings, or of falsely representing his stock, may be expelled l)y a two-thirds vote of the members present at any regular meeting. Art. VIII. No alteration or amend- ment shall be made to this constitution except in writing, and then not to be acted upon until the next regular meet- ing after it has been presented, and can only be carried by a two-thirds vole of the members present. BY-I.AWS. Art. I. The president shall preside at all meetings of the club or Executive Committee. Art. II. The vice-presidents, in the order of their election, shall preside in the absence of the president from any meeting of the club. Art. III. The secretary shall keep the minutes of all meetings of the club, and conduct its corresjiondeuce. He shall receive all moneys belonging to the club and turn them over to the treasurer, and receive his receipt for the same. Art. IV. The treasurer shall receive from the secretary all moneys belonging to the club, and give a receipt for the same. He shall also disburse all moneys upon a voucher signed by the president, which shall serve as his receipt for the same. Art. V. The Executive Committee shall pass upon all applications for mem- bership not made at the regular meeting of the club, and have charge of such other matters as may be submitted to them. Art. VI. Any member one year in arrears shall not be entitled to vote. If he is in arrears he shall be suspended, and can only l)e restored by a two-thirds vote of the members present, and pay- ment of all arrears. order of business. 1. Calling to order. 2. Reading minutes of previous meet- ing. 3. Application for ineinbership. 4. Report of committees. 5. Election of officers. 6. Unfinished business. 7. New business. OKKICKRS for 1890. President.— Chas. H. Crosby, Bridge- port, Conn. Vice-Presidents. — Philander Wil- liams, Taunton, Mass.; Charles H. lohu- son, Rushville, Ind.; Robert Colgate. New York City; T. F. McGrew, Jr., Springfield, 111,; Newton Adams, Utica, N. Y., and Charles Feldman, Hagers- town, Md. Secretary.— G. P. Reynaud, 3 Bowl- ing Green, New York City. Treasurer.— T. H. L. Todd, New York City. Executive Committee. — M. A. Spruots, Carlisle, Pa.; M. M. Connor. Ada, Ohio ; Franc C. Hare, Whitby, Can- ada ; William F. M. Smith, Pine Hill, N. Y.; E.J. Sauuderson, Waltharn, Mass.; George E. Peer, Rochester, N. Y., and F. W. Gaylor, Quogue, L. I. A GOOD POULTRY HOUSE. Thoroughbred Poultry Should, of Course, Have "Warm Quarters. If you keep thoroughbred poultry, you of course should have a warm house for them, but if this is your trial year do not invest too much. There are as many nice ways to build a poultry house as you can read about. The most sensible one is the plainest inside ; if you want fixings, hang a few fixtures ou the wall. The most convenient jwultry house I ever saw, excepting those costing hun- dreds of dollars, was in H . It was for two different breeds, and at that time, August I, contained some thirty or thirty- five birds. The buililing was about thirty-two feet long, eight feet wide and seven and one-half feet high in front, facing southeast, four and one-half feet rear. It had four pens, two for breeders and two for surplus stock. The feed boxes, etc., were in the first pen ; run eight by twenty-five feet. The nests were in empty cheese boxes, thoroughly cleaned once a week. Roosts were small saw horses, legs well apart, with trays underneath, which were cleaned every other day. Each pen has its dust box. Fixing nests and roosts is where we fool ourselves by nailing them fast, or in any way fastening them to tiie building. Another point of interest in this build- ing was the light. Most writers say "give lots of sunlight, put the south side all ^lass." 1 think differently. If you let in sunlight and warmth in the day- time, you cannot help letting in cold at night ; therefore do not put in too much glass. In the eight-foot front these windows were about four by four feet. Unless you have double glass do not put in much. This hou.se had no "nice long narrow hallway ;" each pen was siinply slats and a door lietween them. The floors were kepi well sprinkled with coal ashes or sand and cut straw. The feed was scattered around and in this way the poultry could get exercise in getting it. When you go into a poultry house and have to f>eep through the grates, it seems like a prison, dull and gloomy, Ijut when you can go into a pen of birds, take one up, go to the window without going through the prison door, examine it, then let it go, it is much better than the hall- way plan. Therefore build plain or fancy if you wish, but think of the cleanliness necessary to have healthy poultry. I have been into farmer's hen houses that were cleaned only once a year. Would it be possible for any living thing to be healthy in such filth ? Every farmer who keeps poultry should take care of the house and keep it as clean as the horse bam. What fanner takes pride in owning a fine horse ? What man that keeps jjoultry is not proud of a flock of full blcKxls ?" How he likes to talk about their laying or how nice a meal they make, but when asked how much care they get, he has little to say only that "the woman enjoys itaking care of them, so he lets her." It is seldom "the woman" does not see to the little chickens and feeding. Here is the trial of their lives, the first four or six weeks, and a woman who likes poul- try is the best hand. Careful, easy and watchful, she soon has them so that they will climb about her without fear. How many women have the pleasure of being in their poultry houses on a stormy day ? Any why not ? — Cultivator and Country Gentleman. BOOKS FOR FANCIERS. 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Also some young Irish setter puppies out of bench show winners and field dogs. For illustrated circular ad- dress F. H. Perry, Des Moines, Iowa. 69-71 FOR SALE —Sam C. by King Noble— Cricket, winner third. Setter Derby Central field trials, 1889. Address H. Clay Glover, 1233 Broadway, New York City. 55-tf^ IRISH SETTER PUPPIES from three to five months old. sired by Champion Elcho, Jr., and Champion Tim ; out of thoroughbred bitches. Very fine specimens. Will sell at low prices as we are overstocked. Address, Seminole Kennels, Chestnut Hill, Philadel- phia, Fa. 00-09 St. Bernards. Y^OR SALE — Beautiful pups, low. Also two bitches ; one rough, one smooth ; lately bred to imported dogs. Chequasset Ken- nels, Lancaster, Mass. 65-tf ENTHON KENNELS, Phoenixville, Pa., breeders and importers of St. Bernards. 67-118 Terriers. M ON ACCOUNT of the owner going abroad will sell fox terrier dog Tony by Reckoner Lady Mixture, twelve months old, very game and perfectly house broken. Ad- dress A. M. 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The Fanciers' Publish- ing; Co., 32 South Third St., Philadel- phia, Pa. kEDIGREE Blanks for four generations at 10 cents per dozen, or 75 cents per 100. Ex- tended four page Blanks, 5 cents each, or 50 cents per aozeii, mailed postpaid. The Fanciers' Publishing Co., 32 South Third St., Philadelphia, Pa. POULTRY. Advertisements without display inserted under this heading for 1 cents per word for each insertion. Incnbators. THE Thermostatic Incubator, a strictly first- class machine in every particular. Auto- matic ill the regulation of the heat, moisture supply and ventilation. Highest recom- mendations from users. Send for descript- ive circular free. Jas. U- Warner, 19 Park Place, New York City. 50-76 POULTRY. Advertisements without display inserted under this heading for » cents per word for each insertion Mlnoroas. GEORGE H. NORTHUP, importer, exporter and breeder. Send for black minorca cir- cular containing list of cups and prizes won; also catalogue of other leading varie- ties. Eggs of best quality for fair price. Racevil^, Washington Co., N. Y. s8-t<° VartouB. ELECTROTYPES of any variety of Fowls sup- plied at low prices. The Fanciers' Publisn- Ing Co., 32 South Third St., Philadelphia. FINTING estimates given for circulars, cards, letter sheets, bill heads, price lists, sched- ules labels, lags, etc. 'The Fanciers' Pub- lishing Co., 32 South Third St., Philade phia, Pa. SEND TWENTY-FIVE CENTS for book en- titled Amateur's Duck Raising, 55 pages. The beat lKX)k for beginners ever written. C. R. Bridges, No., New Salem, Mass. 71-72 PIGEONS. Advertisements without display inserted undet this heading for t cents per word for each insertion Blondinettes. B IRDS of the atx>ve variety lor sale at all times. Bunting Hmnkins^ordentown, N. J. Si>-7S Fantails. w KITE FANS ONLY. Bred for thirty years. Some grand birds for sale very low. Send for circular. Frank M. Gilbert, Svans- ville, Ind. 6j-tf Jaooblns. TW. TUGGLE, Columbus, ^ and breeder of Jacobins. Ga. Importer 30-106 Owls. B IRDS of the above variety for sale at all times. Bunting Hankins, Boraentown, N. J. 50-75 B Parlor ' PerformlnK Tumblers. IRDS of the above variety for sale at all times. Bunting Hankins, Boraentown, N. J. 50-75 Satinettes. BIRDS of the above variety tor sale at all times. Bunting Hankins, Boraentown, N. J. 50-75 S'wallows. GA. PICK, 1300 N. Washington Street, Balti- more, Md., breeder of Swallows only, of all * colors, with and without white bars plain snip and full head. He is a true fancier keeps pigeons for pleasure only. Imported his stock of birds, and has steadily im- proved them until he has now as fine a stock as can be found. Tomblers. CHARLES LIENHARD. 438 W. Court Street. Cincinnati, O., breeder of flying tumblers and Birmingham rollers exclusively. 86 Varlons. A' LL KINDS of birds and animaU. Big Bird Store, Cleveland, O. Wilson's 96 FRED H. HYDE, Lock Box 523, Poultney, Vt., breeder of Morgan horses, Ayreshira cattle, bull terrier dogs, eight varieties game fowls, white Plymouth Rocks, silver Wy- andottes. Mammoth light Brahmas and Pekin ducks. All stock shipped extra light by special express rates and guaran- teed correct. a 69-70 PRINTING estimatesgiven for circulars, cards, letter sheets, bill heads, price lists, sched- ules labels, tags, etc. The Fanciers' Pub- lishing Co., 32 South Third St., Philadel- phia, Pa. liop Babbits. FR SALE — Imported stock, winners of many first prizes in England. Ears meas- ure 24 by 6 inches. These rabbits are ex- tra large and the best in the world. Fred Stahrer, 119 Abbott St., Lawrence, Mass. a 69-70 "Wild Animals. 1 PRAIRIE WOLVES, prairie dogs, deer, foxes, owls. Angora kids, raccoons, opossoms, Mexican burros, etc. CM. Scott, Arkan- sas City, Kansas. 69-73 Artists and Envravers. SPECIAL engravings made from photographs of (logs. The Fanciers' Publishing Co., \i South Third St., Philadelphia. PRINTING estimates given for Circulars, Cards. Letter Sheets, Bill Heads, Price Lists, Sched- ules, Labels, Tags, etc. The Fanciers' Pub- lishing «:o., 32 South Third St., Philadel- phia. WE HAVE arranged with Schreiber & Sons, who are acknowledged to be the nest animal photographers in America whereby we are able to make special terms for our subscribers who wsiit photographs of their dogs. The Fanciers Pubhsliing Co., 32 South Third St., Pblladelphia, Pa. 48 HE FANCIERS' JOURNAL. tJUtV 19. 1890 CJ-i Homing Pigeons CHIEFTAIN, blue checker cock, 811 mile*. DAN WILLIAMS, blue checker cock. JIMMY C, red checker cock MU RIAL, blue checker hen MISS WILLIAMS, blue checker hen. LOTTIK, blue checker hen BLACK BKSS. black checker hen . . J ^ Orders for youngsters of 1890 will be booked now. JAMES A. STOVELL, 10 South. Broad Street, Philadelphia, Pa. PARROTS! PARROTS! JUST ARRIVED A LARGE LOT OF YOUIVQ iCUBAN PARROTS: AT $5.00 EACH. WARRANTKO TO LKARN TO TALK. Young Mexican Grey African Parrots AND ALL OTHER FINE BRED FOWLS, FANCY PIGEONS. Ac, Ac, Ac. SEND FOR OUR NEW DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE H. y^. VAHLE, 3og Market Street and 46 N. 9th Street, PHILADELPHIA. 25-76 White, Black, Red and Yellow p AN TAIL PIGEONS. No otlier Variety. $10.00 a pair und up. Qiiallly not eioplleil. Halii'fiu'tiou giiarsii- toi'fl. H.C. NORTON, {Jpriiiantowii, Pa. FOR POULTRY. J USX Out. • • « * • •****•«**•«« PRICE 500. 1 The American Pigeon Standard AS ADOPTKD BV THK AMERICAN COLUMBARIAN ASSOCIATION, Containing a Complete Desckiption op the Rkcoj'.nizei) Varieties of Ph-.kons. CHARLES TAULMAN, Editor. Sent prepaid by mail from thin office on re- ceipt of price. 180 TO THE FANCIERS' PUBLISHING COMPANY. NO. 32 SOUTH THIRD STREET. PHILADELPHIA. Enclosed find Tmo Dollars and Fiiiy Cents for which send "The Fanciers' Journal" for One Year. NAME ADDRESS ,. THR SPORTSMEIV'S Honn Moal, - Uraiiiiliitotl Hone, " lOO (Jrountl lli^at Hcraps, - - - ■' 1(K» C^Blcltfl, -..-•' 8(M) CmfiheWAY, NEW YOKK. MEDFORD FANCY GOODS CO., Send (or our New Price List and Samples. All ortlers shipped promply by freight on receipt of price. C. It. DKMPWOI.F & CO., 43-93 York Chemical Worlw, York, I*a. B. F. LEWIS, HANDLER OF DOGS. Is ready to take dof(s to condition for the De- troit Show. KLM STATION, H-n Montgomery Co., Pa. 44 & 46 DUANK St., N. Y. I. BREMER, PRES. A TREA8. Wi- iiianuracture ten thou- sand .styles of dog collars, har- nesses, l(x;ks, leads, brushes, combs, bt-Ils, couplines.blank- ets. wbips and baskets for dogs Write for catalogue A. By B. WATERS. Is invaluable to every owner of a doff. It tells you how 10 train a een trainer to Louis Schniid & Sons, Dealer in SINGING BIRDS, BIRD FOOD AND GAGES. FISH, AQUARIUMS AND FISH FOOD. PIGEONS OF ALL KINDS FOR SALE. Send for illustrated cntaloguc and price list. No. 317 Twelth Street, N. W. Washington, 1). C. j+istory and Description »4-75 SPECIAL LIST IMO. 12 Is now out. It contains the names of many cele- brated champion dogs and bitches now offered lor sale for tne first time. Nearly 20o dogs of nearly all breeds are offered for sale. Now is the time of year to buy good dogs cheap. List mailed on api)licali<)ii. ASSOCIATED FANCIERS, 63-tf 140 S. 8th St., Phila., Fa. -WITH- WITHOUT A SINGLE EXCEPTION THE LARGEST STORE IN AMERICA DEVOTED EXCLUSIVELY TO DRY GOODS. SmWBME I CLOMEB MARKET. EIGHTH and FILBERT STS.. P111I^ADEL.PHIA, 1-A. THEO. P. GREEN, Woodbury, N. J. Homing Pigeons a Specialty Secure. •Irtii L^iItU TH fc-O. l^eminiscences My homers are tested as record birds and as parents of birds with records from 500, 525 and 700 miles. I have fifty pairs of well-inateil birds from the above stock of 1889 hatch for sale. Also youngsters with Sjwrting Life bauds. Can give a clear pedigree. Send lor Price List. 44-95 -OF THE- ..FOX TERRIER... BY P{flWt)ON IjEE, EDITOR "THK FIELD." Illustations by Arthur Wardlk. Second Edition. Price Postpaid, $1.50. ADDRESS THIS OFFICE. SPRATTS PATENT DOG CAKES The Best and Cheapest Dog Food in the Market. *9-Beware of worthless imitations, same shape, and see that each cake is stamped: DOG SOAP, Certain death to fleas, and MEDICINES f'"' <>" canine diseases. "COMMON SENSE OF DOG DOCTORING," (Post free, 28c.). Spratts Patent Challenge Poultry Meal THE oreatf:st ec.c producinc; food. T/ie mnst Nnhiliniis and Digestible Fomi for Ijiy- ing Hens and for getting all kinds of Diultty into Show Condition. Poultry in confined runs thrive loonderfully on it. Unec|ualc(l fur rearing Early Chickens. Sprtitt» Ratent PIGEON FOOD. Reduces the usual heavy mortality in rearing Fancy Pigeons. Poultry Medicines and Soap. Roup Paste per l>ox . . 50 cents Conuition Paste per l>ox . . 50 cents Cure for (Japes per Ixjltle 50 cents Poultry and Pigeon Soap . per cake 25 cents Order from your dealer. Full particulars Irom SPRATTS PATKNT (America), l,IMIT»r>, 339-345 East s6tta St., New York City. 44-69 VOL. S, NO. 4. 1 ., 71.; WIIOL-K NO PHILADELPHIA, JULY 26, 1890. PER ANNUM, »8.60. SINOUB COPY, So. I ^Bnttlr^S^iiK^^B^HKSB^^H^^^fl^^^^l j^^§|^^|^^^j|^B hmhbh |HflHVHM&^^H^HHB^HI^pktfjfi0WK>_.S;^ ^ '^V fll^^jC3HR^n^^^^^^^Hv.i; ||||||M|j||||H|H ^ ^•T^fKU^.IB^^^ifi f^BB^/BH^mmmtiKliKS^ H^ ' -wV^iiwS^' ■■ppPil^H 1^. 4, 1^ L_mi ^ IH^rav ' 1 CHAMPION COLLIE, MANEY TREFOIL. so THE FANCIERS' JOURNAL. [JULY 26. 1890 BENCH SHOWS. 82500.00 TORONTO PRIZES BENCH SHOWS^ $2500.00 BXHIHITION. INUTJSTRIAL SECOf/D GRAND INTERNATIONAL BENCH SHOW OF TO BE HEI-D AT TORONTO, CANADA, SEPTEMBER 15, 16, 17, 18 AND 19. ENTRIES CLOSE SEPTEMBER 3. For Premium Lists, etf., apply to DOGS, IN THE STUD. Advertisements inserted under this keadtng at the following rates: One inch, single insertion, ti.w; $5.40 for the month; $/s for three months; $iS for six motfths, and Sio for the year. BETTERS & pomTERS IN THE STUD. Advertisements inserted under this heading a, the following rates: One inch, single inserliont t'-SO; ts-40 for the month; fts for three months |W for SIX months, and ttso for th4 year. DESMOND II 71-76 C. A. STONE, Secrbtarv anu Suherintendent, Toronto. WILMINGTON AGRICULTURAL AND INDUSTRIAL ASSOCIATION. FIRST DOG bHOW FIRST DOG SHOW FAIR GROUNDS, WILMINGTON, DEL, SEPTEMBER 2 TO 5, 1890. ENTRIKS CLOSE AUGUST 21. FEE, $2.00. Fop Premium Lists, etc., apply to FRANK R. CARSWELL, Superintendent, 101 "WEST SIXTH ST., "Wilminerton, Del. Also POULTR/, PIGEON and BIRD EXHIBITION. 71-75 Red Irish setter, bred by Rev F.ii^land, by Hrisco— Grouse II R. O'CaUaghau, Thi.s dog com- )y Y . _ bines liolh field and bench show qualities He ~ " at the Philadelphia , first, first, IN THE STUD. AdverUsements inserted under this heading at the following rates: One inch, single insertion, J/ Jo; U 40 for the month: Sis Jor three months; $28 for M months, and $sofor the year. D ICK IN THE STUD. Advertisements inserted under this heading at the following rates: One inch, single insertion, $'.50; $5.40 for the month; t'S for three months; tis for six months, and fyt for the year. S WIVELER IRISH SETTER (8410.) DICK 8WIVELER. WmMER FIRST. CHALLENGE CLASS, NEW YORK, 1890, BEATING Blarney, Tim, Gerald, Chief and Desmond II. IRISH SETTERS AT STUD. ST. CLOUD (12,131) CH. ELCHO— NORKEN. GLENMAR (13,426) CH. GUENCHO— MAVOURNEEN. Puppies by the above dogs, Ch. Elcho Jr. and others for sale. ST. CLOUD KENNELS, 62tf Tremont. N. Y. won first prize in the Derbv at the P! field trials 1888, and on the fiench has won, Philadelphia; first, Troy; first, Albany; Rochester, 1888 and first, challenge class, PhiU- delphia 1889. Stud fee, $35. SIR TATTON English setter by Sir Allister— Belle of Furness. Record; First and siwcial at Philadelphia, 1889; first and special at London, Ont., 1889, and win- ner of 40 prizes and cups in England. This dog is a wonderful performer in the field. Fee, $35. DASHING KENT Same pedigree as sir Tatton. A young dog o< great promise; excellent in the field. Fee, $25. CARLTON PERO By Sir Tatton— Princess Charlotte II. of n QHAMPION GORDON SETTER OF AMERICA, LITTLE BOY winner over English and American cham- pions. Winner at Toledo of special, "Best sport- ing dog in show," Mr. John Davidson judge. Winner at Cincinnati of special, "Best setter or pointer stud dog, that is the sire of the greatest number of prize winners." Winner of FORTY odd firsts and specials, under judges : Major J M. Taylor Dr. Jarvis, Mr. Tallman, Mr. E Mr. John Davidson, racy. Mr. T Mr. Higg'ins, etc, C. Sterling. Lewis, Shown by Mr. B. F. Stud fee $25 for a limited number of bitches. WAVERLY KENNELS, JOHN SANDERSON, care Dr. DiXon, 70-75 58th St. and Elmwood Ave., Phila. puppy dition. SCOTCH COLLIE, ROSLYN DANDY AT STUD. sired by the famous champion, SCOTILLA (7379), Out of Cora II (11640), and winner of ist at Cincinnati, 1890. (His first appearance at any show.) FKK, ----- 915 To approved bitches. SEMINOLE KENNEIvS. 68-7J Chestnut Hill, Phila., Pa. Winner umerous prizes in puppy classes in England last year ana winner of second prize, class, at I,,ondon, Ont., when out of con A grand dog in the field. Fee, $25. GAMBOL Pointer, full brother to Woolton Game by Gough —Larkspur. A superb field dog. Fee, J25. All approved bitches sent to us to be served will be kept free of expense. Terms cash in ad- vance. Bitches not proving in whelp will be en- titled to free service. Extended pedigrees and stud cards on applica- tion. EAST END KENNEL CLUB, Care W, H. Weiss, 43-9,1 Bbtblbbem, Pa. T SHALL HAVE AT MY KENNELS FOR A I short time CH. BEAUFORT, The property of Mr. W. K. Taunton. Champion Beaufort's winnings on the show bench and his record as a stud dog have proved him the best mastiff ever known. He is the sire of more and greater prize winners than all others living. Mastiff breeders should make the most of this frand dog while here. Photographs 25 cents, tud fee $75. J.WINCHELL, 55-^06 FAIRHAVEN, Vt. IRISH SETTER AT STUD. CHAMPION BLARNEY FEE, J25. ENGLISH SETTER, ROD GEM (RODEREGO— GEM.) FEE. $25- B. F. LEWIS, Box 13, 53-78 Merion P. O., Fa. pNGLISH SETTER AT STUD. GATH'S MARK. (4771) None but approved bitches accepted, card and particulars address For stud Pedigrees Printed -IN- ATTRACTIVE FORM AT MODERATE PRICES. AT THIS OFFICE. 67-79 J. B. STODDARD, CONCORD, N. C. NOW IN STUD AT CHICAGO. For terms, extended pedigree ind full list of winnings ad- dress GEO. H. COVERT (Owner), 177 State Street, Chicago, III. 50-101 Irish Setter at Stud, SCOTLAND CHIEF, (A. K. C. S. B. 14357) (Kelsey's Red II— Lester's Champion Maud II). (His first ap- bitches. R' OUGH-COATED ST. BERNARD CASPER Plinlimmon npio El K. C. S. B. 14443. pedigree: (Grand Sire, Pilgrim, 14067 13793 Sire, Champion ^y^°\Grand Dam, Bessie Dam, Effie FEB r Grand Sire, Merchant Prince, 14742 Grand Dam, Chloris. Winner of 2d at Cincinnati, 1890. pearance at any show.) Fee to a limited number of at Jio. Extende*! pedigree on application. 68-71 SEMINOLE KENNELS, Chestnut Hill, Phila., Pa. JOINTER IN STUD. pNGLISH PUG AT STUD. HAYSEED (11,807) Douglass II— Rose, by Champion Bradford Ruby. FEE ■ - - HIVE DOLLARS. SEMINOLE KENNELS, 70-73 Chestnut Hill, Phila., Pa. LEBANON FORTY DOLLARS. PENINSULAR KENNELS, LEANDER TICHENOR, Manacer. CHELSEA ....-■ MICH. BY TIM— PEG. RECORD. Divide KINGCRAFT. FINE PEDIGREE. WEIGHT, FORTY LBS. FEE, $10. Photcxjraphs Fii-tv Cents. Address E. F. Doty, 7itf 47 Wellington Place, Toronto, Canada. u ORKSHIRE TOY TERRIER AT STUD. BRADFORD HARRY. iRll winner. Described in show rejiorts as "best Yorkshire in America." Two photographs from life, 50 cents. Extended pedigree and winnings free. Reliable young stock for sale. P. H. COOMBS, 50-7J I Exchange Block, Bangor, Me. TABLE OF CONTENTS. Page. Fixtures. Dog Shows, Field Trials, Poultrv and Pigeon Shows, and Coursing 51 The Kennel. Current Reports S' Our Illustration 51 Fitz-Poo!ilng. Oct. 21-25.— Fifth annual meet of the American Coursing Club, at Great Bend, Kan. I. D. Brougher, secretary. Poultry and Pljfeon 8ho\VH Aug. 26-Sept. 5.— Detroit International Fair and Exhibition Association, Detroit. E. W. Cottrell, secretary. Sept. 1-12.— Elinira Inter-State Fair. Mr. George W. Robinson, secretary. Sept. 1-6. — Wilmington Fair Association Poul- try and Bird Department. T.D.Brown, secre- tary, Wilinington. Del. Sept. H-ij.— nurlingtoii County, N. J, Poultry Association. T. Farrer Rackham, secretary. East Orange, N. J. Sept. 9-20.— Buffalo International Fair. Mr. Charles W. Robinson ."secretary. Sept. 22-27.— Indiana State Fair. Alex Heron, secretary. Sept. 22-27.— Central Canada Fair, Ottawa, Canada. Alfred Geddes, chairman. Sept. 29-Oct. 3.— Inter-State Fair Association, Trenton. N. J , Poultry, Pigeons and Pets De- partment. Pranklyn Dye, superintendent. Nov. S- 1 2.— Southern Exposition, Montgomery, Ala , Poultry Department. T. Farrer Rackham, superintendent. East Orange, N. J. Jail. 13-17.— International Exhibition of the South Carolina Poultry and Pet Stock Associa- tion at Charleston, S. C. Benjamin Mclnnis, Jr.. secretary. H. A. Bridge, superintendant. Dec. 9-16.— Northern Illinois Poultry and Pet Stock Association, Rockford. A. H. Currier, secretary. Dec. ib-12.— Brockton Poultry and Pet Stock Association, Brockton, Mass. William F. Bond, secretary. Box 795. Dec. 23-26— Eastern Middlesex Poultrv Asso- ciation, Stoneham, Mass. Mr. <;. W. Cormack, secrelary. Dec. 3o.-Jau. 6.— Illinois State Poultry Associa- tion, Peoria. J. W. Burton, secretary. Jan. 23-16. Muhawk Valley Poultry and Pet Stock Association, Amsterdam, N. Y. Mr. Wil- liam C. House, secretary, Freys Bush, N. Y. Our Illustration. The collie Maney Trefoil, whelped July 25, 1887, was bred by Mr. H. C. While. He is by that grand old dog The Squire, whom he much resembles in color and quality, out of Scotch Pearl, a very nice bitch by Champion Rutlantl. Maney Trefoil was imported by the Chestnut Hill Kennels in March, 1888, after having won the Collie Club Chal- lenge Trophy, beating his sire and Metch- ley Wonder. He was shown at Boston, Chicago and Philadelphia in the same year, winning first prize on each occa- sion. Mr. Harrison has been holding him in the back ground in order to give his young dogs a chance to win, but this fall, however, Maney Trefoil will be seen on the bench again in heavier coat than ever before ; he is considered the heaviest coated collie alive. In color he is a very rich dark sable, with broad, white collar, white legs, feet and tip of tail. He has a perfect coat of great length, excellent texture and very dense. His ears are very small and well carried, expressigu good, splendid legs and feet, and a grand body. As a sire Maney Trefoil has proven his ability, several high-class puppies having already been thrown to him. fearless farmer, and, though it makes a great noise in the neighliorhood, yet it is a prompt and sure remedy for the dog nuisance — the shot gun." We are aston- ished that the American Agriculturist should suggest such a cruel and cowardly way of getting rid of marauding dogs. You have no more right to shoot tres- passing dogs than you have to put a load of shot into the cows or pigs that break into your cornfield, or the chickens that scratch up your garden. There is a legal remedy for all these petty annoyances, and an influential journal like the American Agriculturist should so inform its read- ers, instead of recommending a method which would certainly get its adopter into serious trouble. THE KENNEL. CURRENT REPORTS. I thought it but a friendly part to tell you What strange reports are current here in town. —ne Spanish Student. Mr. C. A. Stone, secretary and superin- tendent, informs us that a meeting of the Toronto Industrial Exhibition Dog Show Committee was held this week when ar- rangements were completed for the show- to be held from the 15th to the 19th of September next. There were present Mr. J. Wilson in the chair, Messrs. J. Massey, John Maughan, J. G. Mitchener, H. B. Donovan, C. H. Nelson and C. A. Stone, secretary and superintendent. It was decided to add the following extra cash specials to those already pub- lished for the best kennel of four or more owned by one exhibitor or kennel : Mastiffs, |20 ; St. Bernards, |20 ; Irish setters, Jis ; greyhounds, $15, blood- hounds, f2S ; English setters, I15 ; cock- ers, |i5 ; collies, I15 ; bull dogs, I15 ; pugs, 115 ; fox terriers, $15 ; Great Danes, $15 ; Gordons, I15, and a lover of the greyhound has donated a silver cup for the best greyhound dog or bitch ownee homeless, or which have l)een abandoned by their owners, or which frequent any particular place in the dis- trict where the Society could send and take them away. Miss Adele Biddle, vice-president of the Society, says : "Often a dog lingers in the same neigh- borhood, either waiting for his master or from some other cause, for a long time, ucaiiy cvciyuw^y \.»»*»..*|^ ...... ^..^^ ..v.... their doors, until from hunger or fatigue he begins to get sick or becomes so wild that no one can approach him. Officers who perceive animals shut up in empty houses should inform the Society." ••• The German Mastiff or Great Dane Club of America has ptiblished a "Mono- graph of the German Mastiff or Great Dane dogs." It consists of eighty-two pages, and is embellished by the portraits of thirteen dogs. The book is compiled by the club's president, W. F. Fox, and it contains all the latest information re- garding the breed, together with the points adopted by the German, English and American clubs. No one intereeted in this breed can afford to be without the book, nor is any canine library complete that has not a copy on the shelves. « * * Why the German ma.stiff, or better, the Deutsche dogge, should have l>een called the Great Dane is beyond our compre- hension, for it is quite a German breed, and even now seems scarcely known in Denmark and none have been imported from that country. Germany has been their home for centuries and for that rea- son they should have a German name. • • ♦ "Espan" objects to our republishing articles written by prominent fanciers for the FInglish journals. In this "Espan" differs from a large majority of our read- ers, who much prefer reading essays written by competent persons rather than letters from dog dealers who fill the reading columns of our kennel papers with misleading accounts of the animals they have for sale. This free reading notice racket is being worked to death. • « • James Thompson, secretary pro tern of the Maryland Kennel Club, writes : "A special meeting of the Maryland Kennel Club was held on July 10 to take action on the treatment of our delegate by the American Kennel Club at their meeting of May 22, and the following resolution was passed : Resolved, That the American Kennel Ctuh be censured for refusing to receive our delegate at their meeting of May 22, he being furnished with proper credentials by the Maryland Kennel Club. « « • W. L. Washington spent a few hours in town this week. We are sorry we were not about when he dropped in to see us. .% Probably some of our readers can answer R. E. McFarland, who asks : "!• there any way of putting up pheasants or other birds so as to preserve them for winter use .'' I kill a great many during the summer and fall, and the question has often occurred to me that there ought to be some method of keepuig them in brine." •♦♦ Regarding the article on the "Origin of the Dog," published on another page, we think that it is now pretty well proved that the domestic dog had its wild proto- type. Mr. Boule has shown that ani- mals having affinities with the dogs ex- isted in France in the Miocene epoch, and that the yuarternary epoch had species with those identical of to-day. This makes it difficult to admit, as has often been done, that our races of domestic dogs are all modifications of their cogeners, the wolves and jackals. * • • Ofthe six Ru.ssian greyhound puppies by Krilut, out of Elsie, shipped the Hor- ficU-Harniniiy-Victor Kennels (Messrs. Fellows, Wixom and Wade), Mr. H. W. Huntington, announces the arrival of five. He speaks highly of their playful and affectionate disposition. • ♦ Secretaries of bench shows to be held in Septemljer should have their premium lists out ere this, not five weeks before the entries are to close. Be lively now, gentlemen. » • • The New York Times is responsible for the following novel way to suMue dogs : A gentleman who has had a good deal of experience in the management of dogs says that the most vicious brute can be concjuered quickly by any powerful odor especially a pungent odor like am- monia. He tells how he once won a wager on handling a dog that few per- sons could approach. It was in a little town in Canada. The conversation be- ing on the subject of dogs, the proprietor of the inn where he was stopping laid a wager that his visitor could not put his hands upon a dog chained up in the back yard. 'All right,' said the visitor, 'but as a matter of precaution for the protection of my hands I will go up stairs and put ou a pair of gloves.' 'I put on a pair of old buckskin gloves,' says the old gentleman, in telling the story, 'and saturated the right hand with ammonia. We then went out to the dog. At my approach he rushed from his kennel with open mouth. As soon as he got within reach I thrust out my right hand. Instead of biting it he turned tail and ran into his kennel. Then I went to the kennel, and putting my hand inside, made him come out again . The secret ofthe matter is that a dog can't bite with- out drawing in his breath, and as he does so he inhales the ammonia, which par- tially suffocates him and sulxlues for the time being his biting propensity. vSome dogs maybe subdued with cologne." Notes in pass sa THE FANCIERS' JOURNAl^. [JULY 26, 1890 FITZ-POODLE'S DOGGY EXPERIENCES THE PEOPLE WHO PROTEST. BV HIBERNIA. XII. A secrelary-superintemlent- who dies during his term of office should be can- onized. No martyr of old suffered more torture than this much-abused individual during the same length of time. In the first place he should be at the hall before any one else and see that the at- tendants do the cleaning up in a satis- factory manner. He must look under the benches to find if any rubbish is there and pry into the stalls to be sure that no lazy attendant has put in new bedding without first removing the old. Then he must remain ujitil every one except the watchman leaves the hall for the night. All the visitors and exhibitors consider him an attendant distinguished from the rest simply by his blue ribbon stamped in gold with the word "Superintendent." Everybody expects him to attend to all their wishes in the most courteous and expeditious manner. To make his lot more miserable, the aflemoon of judging day or next morn- ing he is beseiged by the people with protests. Here is my experience in this line : A local exhibitor enters the oflSce in a high state of excitement. " Is this the Secretary ? " "Yes, sir?" " 1 want to protest the judging Ju the Yorkshire terrier dog class." " Kindly put your objections on pa- per." He takes a sheet of paper and writes the following : " 1 protest the decisions of the judge in the Yorkshire terrier dog class ou the grounds that it is unfair and that the dog Charlie (his dog) was awarded 'c,' whereas he ought to have had ' first.' " "That won't do," I answer, after look- mg over the protest, and then read him the rules of the A. K. C. in the catalogue regarding protests. "The whole show is a swindle," he shouts, tearing up the protest, and goes stamping out of the room. Then in comes Mr. Green, an old ex- hibitor of bull terriers, with a protest Against the first prize winner in that class on account of deafness. It is drawn up properly and has the necessarj- five-dol- lar note pinned to the back. I file it away. No sooner had Green gone than Black, another exhibitor in the same class, comes with a protest on similar grounds against Green's dog, who has won second prize. I say : "Look here. Black, your dog, winner of first, is protested by Green for the same reason that you have brought against his." "The infernal scoundrel," shouts Black. "Now don't you think you had better see him and get him to withdraw his pro- test and you withdraw yours. The judge has informed me that although lie was not notified of it 'officially,' he is satisfied that the two dogs are deaf, and if these protests are acted upon by the club the result will be that both your dog and Green's will be disqualified." Exit Black to hunt up Green to com- promise the matter. I have hardly finished my breakfast, which has been brought to me from a near-by restaurant, when in steps White, an exhibitor of fox terriers. He says : "I want to protest the winner of first prize in the fox terrier dog class." "On what grounds?" "His ears have l)een 'faked.' " "How?" "Well, before the dog was taken in the ring they were weighted dowu with lead, stolen a couple of owner has just case in which a which was fastened to them by wax. They were carried beautifully during the judging, but if you will go look at him now on the bench his ears stick up like a prick-eared skye's." "Was the lead ou the ears when he was judged ?" "Of course not." "Then that is not faking, and your pro- test won't stand." "What the d 1 is faking?" I reply : "Faking, my dear sir, is the using of artificial means to better a dog's 'points' in such a bungling manner that the fraud is easily seen by anyone." "Then if the job is so cleverly done that it cannot be perceived, it is not faking?" "Kxactly so." "Humph ! I believe you're right," and out he goes, and another "protester" comes in. "I want to protest the award of first prize in the collie puppy class," he says. "For what reason ?" "The judge gave him first prize and then lx)ught him." "That is bad form," I reply, "but not sufficient grounds for a protest." Then in rushes another local exhibitor. "I want to file a protest against the first prize winner in the Newfoundland class on the grounds that it is not the bona fide property of the man in whose name it is entered." "State your case." "Well, the dog was months ago and the claimed it." This certainly was a protest will hold good, so I write it out and get the five dollars to pin on the back of it. Before I have time to file this protest, a little bald-headed man in a high state of excitement rushes in the office and drops into a chair. "Well, sir," I inquire suavely, "what can I do for you?" "It's an outrage," he shouts. "What's an outrage ?" "I'he whole dog show. I have been living in this neighborhood for the past ten years and we are all quiet law-abiding citizens, and I know we have never done anything to merit such an infliction as we are now suffering." "What's the trouble ?" "You would soon know what the trouble is if you had to eat and sleep within a square of this hall. Why the stench from the dogs is something ter- rible. It is so strong that you can actually see it and it hangs over the neighborhood like a London fog. Not a soul in the block has been able eat since the show began ; everything tastes of dog. The few milk men that have ven- tured to serve us have had to dump the contents of t.heir cans in the gutter after leaving the neighborhood so impregnated does it become with the vile odor. " I tell you, sir, we won't stand it. We are going to get out an injunction to have the show stopped. Why, none of us have slept for nights. I, personally, have gone to bed with cotton in lx)th ears and even then cannot keep out the noise the dogs make. If I do get into a doze I have troubled dreams in which I imagine that Pluto's three-headed dog is making mincemeat of my throat and legs. Every one who has a country relation has gone to pay them a visit. I have none, so I've got to stay home, but I'm going to get out an injunction." I reason with him and endeavor to get him to give up his determination, but he will not listen. Being fully aware that if he applies for an injunction it will most likely be granted and the show stopped, as a last resort I say : " You do not look well. A little fresh air would undoubtedly be of great benefit to you. Suppose the club pays your ex- penses to the seashore until Saturday. Would you go and drop the injunc- tion ? " "Yes, I will do this, but only because you have treated me so courteou.sly." And so this matter is settled. FIELD TRIAL TRAINING. How to Overcome the Bad Habit Gun-Shyness in the Dor. of BY LUKE W. WHITE. Awnings for Kennel Yards. From the Dog Owners' Annual. These are spread by some in summer to shelter the dogs from the heat of the sun, or from the rnin. The idea is a gootl one. A ■waterproof awning may be manufactured for a few j>ence by sewing a few biscuit bags together, and well tarring them over. [continued.] I do not believe that any young dog can be shot over the first time game is flushed before him without danger of frightening and making him game shy, gun-shy, or both. There is great dis- parity in young dogs with regard to the effects of their early experience under the gun and on game. Some that are bold ill all other places begin quite cowardly on game, and absolutely break down at the report of the gun, while others that appeared naturally timid Ijefore going into the field go to work with surprising pluck and stand the gun from the outset. While these facts appear to indicate that gun-shyness and game-shyness are inherited faults, yet I claim they are not, and further- more I say that any dog may be made shy, and this fault can always be pre- vented if the handler knows how and can secure an opportunity to do it. Now the question arises. Do competent handlers always avoid or ward off shyness in their dogs ? I answer no, because no handler is so capable as to immediately understand at all times and under all circumstances the conditions which effect his pupil's work on game and under the gun. If a handler has had a puppy a sufficient time before he undertakes to work him on game and has fortified him against nervous shock by making him familiar with noise and excitement, then it is more than probable he will have no trouble with him on account of the game .t «... :r «. - 1 .. „* 1 — -i 4: 01 tile gUli, UUL ii 11c uao u\j\, uau kiutc and opportunity to so prepare his dog I say he is then always in danger of bad effects from his first experience. By using proper precaution the danger of shyness is greatly lessened, in fact, almost entirely avoided. I find it a very good plan to have my puppy lead on a chain a safe distance from the gun, and when I flush game over my trained dogs, then bring up the youngster and let him work on tne old scent a little time. If I have a dead bird I always let him put his nose to it, but when he attempts to bite it I stop him by holding him, saying "Ho!" but I never under any circum- stances strike him a blow when he first goes on game no matter how badly he acts. In this way I excite and make the youngster eager for his work. I then let him go and hunt, always encouraging him to go out instead of pottering on old scent, which he is generally apt to do. When he finds game the first time I allow him to handle it as he pleases. If he flushes and chases the game I stand still and await his return with my trained dog to a charge. When he returns I bring him in to me, put him to a charge or steady him to "ho," patting and en- couraging him gently at the same time. After a short time I let him go again and repeat this performance every time he comes on game. I never shoot over a puppy until he has seen game in this way several times, and when I do shoot I content myself with one shot each lesson for several suc- cessive trials. When I see he is entirely fearless of this one shot I soon give him two, then three and so on till all danger of shyness has passed. Do not imagine that because a young dog will stand one shot without showing fear that he will surely stand two or more. Many times I have seen a puppy show no fear at all of the first or even the second shot and yet become terribly gun-shy from "blaz- ing away" over him. When your dog once becomes con- firmed in gun-shyness or game-shyness there is but one course to pursue that I am aware of if you wish to cure him of his fault. Never shoot over him at all until he has l)ecome deeply interested in hunting. Let him find birds several times l)efore you shoot, and when you do shoot let it be but one shot, of wooc A puppy, iL IS aiG lOiigcr wappy aiiCt playful ; if an old dog, it is, as the saying goes, no longer itself. If it be a puppy, in all probability you will have to make acquaintance with distemper ; if an old dog, it is probably a cold, which may run on to bronchitis, pleurisy, or pneu- monia. In everyone of them there is a tendency to running at the nose and at the eyes. As a rule, the nose is hot and dry, the patient shivers, there is fever and accompanying languor and thirst, there is an increased hurry in the breath, hoarseness, cough, expectoration and an increased beat of the pulse. WHAT THEY DENOTE. Running at the nose . . } f i. A Cold. Running at the eyes . Nose hot autl dry . . . Sneezing Shivering Fever Thirst Languor Hoarseness Rapid pulse Impeded respiration . Hurriee abundant all round, though shorter in front so as to give only a rough appearance ; below the hocks the hindlegs must l>e smooth in front, but feathered behind down to the feet. Color.— A very rich pure liver ; white ou chest objectionable. General Appearance.— That of a smart, up- standing, strongly-built, but not leggy, dog, com- bining great intelligence and endurance with a bold and dashing eagerness of temperament. —Veast: I understand you've bought a dog to keep burglars away ' Crinisoiibeak; Yes. Yeast: You are not troubled any more at night then, I suppose? Crirosonbeak: Only by the dog. —He (sympathetically): I am sorry to hear of the death of your dog". What was the matter with him ' She: I am sure I don't know. Poor Fido was such a dear, and we did set everything by him. He: Well, perhaps, he ate some of it.— Harvard Lampoon. TRAINING FIELD TRIAL DOGS Some Good Suggestions From a Cor- respondent on the Subject. Editor Fanciers' Journal. Sir : In your editorial notes of July 1 2 you (}Uote from the American corre- spondent of the English Stock-Keeper the qualities necessary to be possessed by a field trial winner. It is said that "he must be thoroughly broken and under perfect control, so that he will de- pend ntore on his handler than himself." What does this mean ? I take it to mean that the dog must be so trained that when his handler sees an opportunity to gain a point by a bit of sharp practice, the dog is ready and willing to second his efforts either by embarrassing his opponent and interfering with his work or else rushing in and depriving him of the credit due for a good performance. The handlers are often just as much interested in a dog's winning as the owner, and it is the province of the judges to see that both contestants have a fair chance to demon- strate the capabilities of their dogs. Stealing points and interfering with the opponent's dog either by whistling, howl- ing or other noisy demonstrations should certainly be ruled out. The trials have been established to demonstrate the field qualities of the dogs, and if they degenerate into a scramble of the hand- lers, it is the judges that are to blame. "Speed is the main natural qualitj', and this must be combined with style." How much speed is sought for in field trial dogs ? Is it that of the greyhound ? Is it desirable to encourage such a type of bird dog? I believe not. A quail doj^, I hold, should have a good, steady gallop that he wiii keep up continuously. He should also have enough chest room and substance to stand the hard work he will be subjected to bj- an exacting master. The fine thin-skinned pointers of to-day are said not to be as serviceable animals for the hunter as the larger raw- boned natives of the past decade ; so that while a certain amount of speed is essential and a potterer above all to be avoided, still are we not carrying it to excess? Ifit keeps up we will soon be compelled to treat our pointers and set- ters like the whippets are treated — dieted, fed only at fixed intervals, kept muzzled at other times, never allowed to go out without a blanket and all such foolish- ness. No ! it is just as necessary to a hunting dog that he be able to keep him- self in a serviceable condition with com- Earatively little care as it is that he should e able to run like a racehorse for one or two hours of the day. Style is another overrated quality. What is style, anyway ? It seems to me to consist mainly in a dog's making con- tinual false points and eternally wagging his tail. It IS hard enough to breed in- dustrious workers that will hunt all day and do their work satisfactorily without wasting our efforts on the color of the dog's coat and the manner in which he shapes his tail. Beauty is well enough for the show bench, but it is the way a dog does his work that should be consid- ered in the field. .\ Gordon setter man once said to me : "We have the speed and we have the nose, but what we want is the style." What hope is there for the Gordon setter if his admirers breed in that line ? Then again it is said: "He must have a fair noise, but not be too keen-scented. If he is he will be cautious and slacken down before he has run close enough into the birds." This is another interesting point. Can a dog be too keen-scented ? Can he have too good a nose ? Certainly not. It is the way a dog handles his birds that makes him good or bad. The better a dog's nose is, just so much the greater advantage he has in finding the birds. I have heard an Irish setter breeder argue that it is lack of nose that causes the English setter and pointer to make so many false points. He said that they were unable to distinguish when the birds were in front of them and when not. No ! we want a dog with the best nose possible ; one that will catch the faintest scent and follow it up quickly until he has the birds pinned in front of him and then make his point and hold it. Your article concludes with the statement that when a man went for a hunt he preferred to take a couple of steady workers along that he could keep up with rather than to wear himself out trying to follow his field trial winner. This IS a direct admission that an excess of speed is encouraged by our present trials. This is not just. Because it is the custom in some parts of the South to hunt on horseback it is no more a rea- son that the speed desirable in such hunting be made the standard than it is to require a steady, close ranging dog because such are most useful in hunting in the hills and coverts of our northern states. Such speed and ranging as are exhibited at our trials the English would be very apt to characterize as rambling. Personally I lielieve that thev are right in ttiis, and that a dog should never go beyond the range of his handler's whistle. A dog to be tiseful in hunting does not require to go farther away than this, and he does not need to go faster than he can be followed with comfort by bis master afoot. Pheasant. ORIGIN OF THE DOG. A Bit of History That May Throw Some LlRht on This Sabjeot. From the Live Stock Journal. The origin of the dog is wrapped up in so much obscurity that it has com- pletely baffled the researches of the most famous naturalists from the earliest period. Many suggestions have been made as to the source whence it has been derived. Upon this "point Darwin says : "Some authors believe that all the breeds of dogs have descended from the wolf, or frcm the jackal, or from an un- known or extinct species. Others again believe, and this of late has been the fovnritp tenet tbat t>i#»v Viave At^act^nAt^A -— " — • ^ - -^ — ■- from several species, extinct or recent, more or less commingled together. We shall probably never be able to ascertain their origin with certainty. Remains have been found in the later tertiary de- posits more like those of a large dog than a wolf, which favors the belief of De Blainville that our dogs are the descend- ants of a single extinct species. On the other hand, some authors go so far as to assert that every chief domestic breed must have had its wild prototype. This latter view is extremely improbable. It allows nothing for variation ; it passes over the almost monstrous character of some of the breeds, and it almost neces- sarily assumes that a large number of species have become extinct since man domesticated the dog, whereas we see that wild members of the dog family are exterminated by human agency with much difficulty. Even so recently as in 1710 the wolf existed in so small an island as Ireland. The great naturalist inclined to the belief that the various breeds of the domestic dog are descended from several wild species. The dog is a member of the family Canida, which in- cludes not only the dog, but also their near allies, the foxes, wolves and jackals. Cuvier's classification, which is founded on natural laws, is divided into three sections, as follows : First, matins, which are characterized by the head, being more or less elongated, with the parietal bones insensibly ap- proaching each other. In this section are included half reclaimed dogs, such as the dingo, the dhole, which hunt in packs, and domesticated dogs hunting singly or in packs, using the eye in preference to the nose, such as deer- hounds, greyhounds, etc. Second^ spaniels, the characteristics of which are that the head is moderately elongated, with the parietal bones not approaching each other, but diverging so as to enlarge the forehead and cavity of the brain. In this section are included Eastoral dogs, water dogs, fowlers and ounds. Third, house dogs, the muzzles in which are more or less shortened, the skull high, the frontal sinuses consider- able, and the cranium smaller than in the two former groups. This section in- cludes such dogs as are solely employed, in the defense of man or his property, such as the mastiff, ball dog, etc. 54 THE FANCIERS* JOURNAI^. LJULY 26. 1890 SPARKS FROM BRITTLES PEN. Interesting Facts and Fancies Culled from the Doggy World. special Corre»pondenc« Famcibiib' Journal. MWhy should Blemton Rubicon contiuu- ally be compelled to uuderKO the false allu- sions as to the position Mr. Pirn awarded him at the Midland Show at Birmingham, as well as the scattering remarks Mr. Pim did not write about him in the English Kennel Gazette. Those who on this side have once or twice flaunted the "I told you so" in different weeklies with regard to this dog's defects would give their supreme knowledge a far greater semblance of work did they not always bring in Mr. Pirn's opinion of the dog in order to corroborate that "they had told you so." The fact is that Rubicon was either on his way home or had arrived when Mr. Pim judged at Birmingham, so that the position held by the dog under him, as well as the gentleman's criticism is a purely imaginary occurrence emanat- ing from a none too correct observance of facts. Henceforth, I trust, Mr. Pim no matter how much he may regret it, will not be included as an English judge who substantiated the "I told you so" division on his side. It is also to t)e hoped that Rubicon has survived the dis- closures as regards his real worthlessness and that his owner has not yet consigned him to the bucket. "Peshall Redivious." This in last week's issue would have been a fit " heading," and this week a welcome one would be " Peshall Defmnctus." Only a a weet ag" I was congratulating myself, the A. K. C, Mr. Peshall and the doggy world in general, that at last one would have a cessation from the ceaseless accu- sations hurled at the I1228 credit balance of the A. K. C. But, no ! Up bobs the accuser again, like a dunder-headed fly who will persist in lighting on a partic- ular spot on your bald head when you are anxious to go to sleep. That I am wholly with the A. K. C. now goes with- out saying. In fact I feel so exasperated at Mr. Peshall'* obstinacy, not only ob- stinacy, but, in my humble opinion, d— n bad form, that th« M>oner "w«,"i. e., those interested in doggy affairs, give a cold shoulder to all his charges and simply treat them as so much waste paper, the quicker will Mr. Peshall start on some other defect in the A. K. C.'s machinery, and i/he hits on a real flaw, so much the better ; if not, no harm can be done. The assurance of Mr. Beliaont should kavc been more than ample, and I am sorry to see Mr. Peshall taking a course anything but a gentlemanly one. It is hard to think so, and still harder is it to write so, but the fact remains, by his re- currences to the subject of a week ago. A man, no matter who he may be, makes a public assertion, and if bis past actions give no reason to doubt his word, it is offering uncalled for insult to fly in the face of what he proclaims to be true, and this is what Mr. Peshall has done and is doing. Gooilness knows none could feel more relucUnce to write in this strain than I do, but the president of the A. K. C., as long as he remains so, has a right to expect credence given to what official statements he considers proper to pub- lish. Furthermore, it must not be for- gotten, even if Mr. Belmont ouce forgot it himself, that he as president of the A. K. C. has not the lil>erty of expressing himself in print that he would have were he a private individual. Every accusa- tion made against him or the A. K. C. must be met with reserve and silence. He in his position is more powerless to defend himself against any slurs which private individuals might choose to cast upon him than the veriest dummy who could not write his name. Therefore knowing this, and no one knows it better than Mr. Peshall, is he acting in a fair and open manner by eschewing without even a passing allusion the positive de- nial which Mr. Belmont as president deemed necessary to publicly sUte ? I trow not, aud the only action which Mr. Peshall could take now to redeem him- self with all right-thinking men would l)e to openly acknowledge how unbecom- ing is the position he has taken in the last week. Mr. Belmont may not have performed the functions of president with a wholly impartial hand, but certain it is he has never nearly approached these limits which would warrant anyone in totally ignoring his word, aud when a man hold- ing this position is treated in this way he must either be a totally unfit person for any community, or else his accuser must have buried all ideas of common decency before entering on such a course. Again, two blacks do not make a white, and because Mr. Vredenburgh, through the A. K. C, overstepped the bounds of liberty and freedom, that is no earthly reason why Mr. Peshall should take the unl>ecoming position he has done. The more one looks into it the more regret- Uble it is, and Mr. Peshall from having scored a distinct advantage, has now put the boot on the other leg by forcing peo- ple who were willing to uphold him— in reason— to forsake his cause. In the po- sition in which Mr. Belmont is now placed, it is to be hoped that everyone who wishes to uphold the welfare and dignity of the A. K. C. will realize how extremely awkward and harrassing is his at the present moment, aud the less countenance one gives in future to the unjust claims made by Mr. Peshall the sooner will he realize he is pursuirg a more than unreasonable course. >=?!!?« With regard to Mr. Peshall repesent- ing the Maryland Kennel Club it would be in bad taste on my part at present to venture any opinion. That they (the Maryland Kennel Club) should feel the A. K. C.'s previous treatment a rebuff is but human, but this latest action of theirs is one which I think both they and the A. K. C. will regret in the future, even not forgetting they have a perfect right to appoint whom they choose. At all events, their present stand does not seem likely to mend matters much. The three versions of Mr. Lewis' salary given by himself, Messrs. Perry and Schellhass in the Forest and vStream are about as conflicting as they make 'em. Not one of the three gentlemen seems to exactly know on what conditions Mr. Lewis edited the Stud-Book, and the latter, who should be the most interested, does not even recollect how much he really did receive. All this opens out a new field for Mr. Peshall's keenness for dollars and cents, which offers a subject that can in no way impugn the veracity of Mr. Belmont's statement. That Mr. Lewis should know how much he received for the work he undertook goes without saying, and that he has endeavored to avoid stating just exactly what the pay- ment was, seems more than probable. However, others more able than I will undoubtedly discuss this extremely in- tricate triangular puzzle, so that for the present I will leave it to the care of those who are more conversed in the inside workings of the A. K. C. I hear Mr. Harry Twyford, brother to the well-known owner of the fox terrier Pitcher, and breeder of Dominie, Ebro, Enchantment and other good ones, is re- turning to England on business for a few months, and if anyone should have doggy importations coming over about the time of his return, he would be only too glad to give an eye to them. The apathy with which beagle men have treated Hibemia's letters in the Forest and Stream has caused a just re- buke in last week's issue from that gen- tleman, and in future he will probably feel more inclined to let beagles take care of themselves. There are one or two re- marks of his to which I would like to draw attention. The first concerns that " never-to- be-agreed - upon " property, "type." Hibemia, like many others, falls into the mistake of supposing that it is possible to have universal agree- ment on this point. This will never be, either in beagles or any other breed, and those who have mixed much with doggy men whose opinions are really worth hav- ing, cannot but fail to have been struck with the great difference which exists in this respect. In speaking thus I do not mean to say Hil)erniahas not mixed with those whose respective ideas are worth listening to, but this country is of such vast expanse, and fanciers are so widely separated that no man can have the op- portunity on this side of continually con- versing with authorities, as he has in England. Were it possible to thoroughly determine the beau ideal which men #f repute have conjured in their mind's eye, hardly two would be found to en- tirely agree, so that this divergence of type is not confined to beagles, but to every breed. Hibemia bewails the various type of hounds which win on the bench here. Is it not the same with every breed ? Take fox terriers — can any rea-sonable comparison be made between Rachel and New Forest Ethel? Then again, take the four challenge class dogs of to-day, viz., Lucifer, Raby Mixer, Dusky Trap and Rubicon. Does either one resemble the other in "type?" No, Hiljernia ; weep not over this variety of opinion. Beagles are not the only breed to which diversity of type is confined. And if uni- versal agreement was arrived at, bench shows would have been a thing of the past long ago. cal specimen, I hope (as far as my ideas are concerned) there are some who do not consider him a specimen whose charac- teristics should be perpetuated. I may be wrong, entirely so, but such are my "sentimens." Then this judging by standard is all poppy cock, for a man who is capable of having ideas of his own would be a perfect ninny if he were going to bind himself to a definite course prescribed by men for whom he may not have the slightest regard. Nor could anyone whose judgment was really worth having bind himself to be ruled by ideas which I repeat again may be the outcome of minds far inferior to his own. If a man who acted in a judicial capacity were compelled to abide by other's ruling, an automatic machine would be just as com- petent to fulfill the duties required. As far as judging to a standard, I will ask Hibemia what standard? There is no such thing, for that which he insists on being "standard" is simply a proclama- tion drawn up by a few men who have of course done so to meet their own ideas, and the first desideratum in a judge is lieyond doubt "individuality." Do away with this and his selections cease to be original. I don't know whether Mr. Wade's wolf-hound puppies have ar rived yet, but a letter from the other side tells me they are very promising and have grand bone, legs aud feet, aud as my inforaiant knows what he is talking about, this communication is highly sat- isfactory. His remarks on Elsie are not so flattering, so I will refrain from quot- ing his opinion of her. I have just received Mr. Rawdon Lee's l)ook on the collie and sheep dog, which with only a casual glance is certainly the best that has yet lieen published. The pictures and vignettes are capitally done by the well-known artist, Mr. Wardle. The frontispiece represents Old Cockie and Charlemange— both being excellent representations of the two dogs. Then the picture of Metchley Wonder and Great Alne Douglass is another good effort on Mr. Wardle's part, but I cer- tainly wouldn't recognize the bob-tail Sir Cavendish. I have not yet had time to study the book thoroughly, aud hope next week to have more to say about it, but the subject has undoubtedly been treated in a thoroughly exhaustive man- ner and is a volume in which all lovers of the breeds will l)e interested. Brittle. •^-♦— SYMPTOMS OF RABIES. Another error over which Hibemia seems to fall is in coupling the character of the southern hound with that of the bloodhound. In this he is entirely wrong, and he would be convinced of this fact had he seen the hounds which Mr. Rey- nolds Ray pro«v p<.i 1 ..... t..... state of likely to be affected. The state of the weather when the whelps are bom and durinj^ the first three or four months of their lives has an immense influence on their future stoutness, usefulness, and soundness. Under the most favorable con- ditions the litter consist of seven or eight — nearly twice as many have been known, but this is a misfortune. A young bitch will bring up aljout four puppies comfort- ably to herself and with benefit to them. If she is 3 or 4 years old she may bring up five, but much depends upon whether she is a good milker and a good mother. How the breeder is to make his choice which to leave with her and which to take is a matter which must l)e left to his dis- cretion, ImU if the puppies are from es- pecially goml parents on both sides it is desirable to get a sheepdog or spaniel wet-nurse to bring up three or four of the puppies l)eyond those which the mother is capable of suckling. Masters usually have prejudices about color, preferring generally (lark hounds to light. The mother's prejudices are not safe guides, as she may devote herself chiefly to the weakest of her progeny. An idea prevails that light-colored hounds have weak constitutions, and some suppose them to l)e worse tempered than their darker brethren ; but this is a baseless theory, for some of the stoutest and l)est hounds ever seen have been light colored. The points of a whelp can, however, be but faintly discerned if they can be per- ceived at all, so that on the whole color must be the guide. The mother should suckle her whelps for six or seven weeks according as her milk lasts. When weaned their food should l»e the best oatmeal (neither bar- ley nor wheat should ever be given to hounds), and dog biscuit, mixed in cow's or goat's milk, with just enough soup — horse-flesh soup — to make it warm. This should be given them twice a day, and in addition, for the first few days after they cease to suckle, alxjul half a pound of parboiled horse-flesh chopped up into mince. When two months old this meat may be given them raw. It is desirable that the puppies should be l)orn in Feb- ruary. The young things thrive in the early spring as they do at no other time of year, and experience shows that pup- pies so born grow into the best hounds. When the mother is alx>ut to whelp she is taken at Badminton to the bitch and puppy houses. The kennel at the back of each little run closes with a door divided into two parts, over the bottom half of which the mother can easily pass to and from her puppies. Gates shut in each run, so that the little creatures can not stray, and the roof comes right over so as to afford shelter. The divisions Ijetween the half dozen little yards are movable, and thus the puppies can have a fair- sized run if the divisions are taken away. The mother can be shut in if necessary, ventilation being provided over every door. That a good bed and an abundant supply of footl must be given to the mother is too obvious to need explana- tion. About May, when three or (our months old — the period must be judged by the growth and condition of the animals — puppies are ready to be sent to their walks, where they remain to l>e tended at the discretion of their temporary mas- ters till the following spring. Those that find quarters at a dairy farm are well placed, but during this year of their lives the puppies are usually well cared for. Often, indeed, they return to their ken- nels as fat as pigs going to market, and this is bad ; a few are perhaps on the other hand thin and poor, owing to the ignorance or carelessness of those with whom they have lieen living, and such puppies are generally very shy and wild. Their childhood is now over, and the serious business of life begins. They must be brought by degrees to be as other hounds are ; but as different pup- pies have been differently treated during the past year at their various homes, some are much longer than others l)efore they accept the food and discipline of the ken- nel. Puppies often take to kennel footl at once, others are some ilays, occasion- ally some weeks, before they eat with relish. The food supplied to them is much the same as that which they had when they were first weaned. Putting milk on the top of the food in the trough will often induce those who do not take kindly to their new table of dietary to lay it up. They are to be fed twice a day at first, good appetite, the delicate feeders l>eing drawn in for a few mouthfuls a second time. It is very necessary to consider these delicate feeders, which are to be found in all establishments. Even when they have begun to work they will digest their food better, and consequently be better, if they are fed twice a day. Coarse oatmeal some twelve months old is the only proper grain for hounds. One great reason for keeping the pup- pies temperate in the matter of diet and for giving them due exercise on their re- turn to the kennel, is that distemper, the curse of all kennels, is likely soon to at- tack them. It is far better that they should have it now than some months hence. In all probability if they escape for the time being, the disease will take them in the following February when they are in good work, aud then they have it, as a rule, much more severely. If they do not die the master loses their work for the rest of the season, and they are thrown back, so that it is more con- venient to get it over. The severity and even the nature of distemper varies so much from year to year that it is impossible to suggest any specific cure. One year it attacks the lungs, and is then very fatal, particularly if the yellows ( jaundice) is a symptom. Another year it goes to the head, when blindness, violent bleedings at the nose, discharge of matter, and other troubles ensue. Distemper occasionally affects the limbs with fearful twitcliings, from which in some cases the hounds never recover. Distemper appears to be especially fatal to the finest, strongest, and l)est hounds. Sucking puppies, if attacked, are hardly ever known to survive. The master is powerless to avoid the disease. Many people vaccinati- their hounds as a pre- ventive, but though few sane men doubt the efficacy of vaccination as a safeguard against small-pox, it can have no effect against distemper in a hound, a disease of a totally different character. Mr. F. Gil- lard, huntsman to the Duke of Rutland, at Belvoir, has compounded a medicine which is perhaps as good as any that can lie used, but it will be found much more eft'icaciuus in some seasons than in others on account of the various methofls in which hounds are affected in different years. Origin hnd yoMS OF THE ^T. gBRNflRt). itkanslated prom professor "Thierleben DER Alpenwelt' Fanciers' Journal.] TSCHUDl'S ' FOR The In the opinion of some the St. Bernard originated from a cross between the Eng- lish bull dog and the Spanish wachtel- hund. More reliable authorities, how- ever, trace its origin to a Danish bull dog, which the Count Mazzini brought with him from some northern country, crossed with a Wallis shepherd dog. The St. Bernards are quite large, thick- set and very strong dogs ; they are of rare intelligence and extraordinarj' faith- fulness. Their coat is of medium length, the color a reddish brown and white ; they generally have a white dish, white nose and white frill. The home of these noble animals is the Hospice of the St. Bernard, 7680 feet above the level of the sea, where the winter lasts eight or nine months, and the thermometer drops as low as 44° be- low zero. Water freezes there in the morning and evening during the summer months, and there are hardly ten days of perfectly clear weather, i. e., without storm or snow flurries or fog. It is only in summer that the snow falls in large flakes, in winter it generally takes the form of dry, small ice crystals, which are so minute that they drift in through the smalle.st crevice, and this snow is often heaped up to the height of twenty to thirty feet near the Hospice, covering up all paths and ravines. Crossing the old pass, which has lieen accomplished in olden times by different armies, is devoid of danger only in the summer, and then only in perfectly clear weather. In stormy weather and during the long winter it is both difficult and dangerous. Every year lives are lost on this mountain, and the bodies of the vic- tims are preserved and exhibited in a special morgue. The greatest danger when traveling at such an elevation and exposed to the extreme cold is from be- ing overtaken by sleep. The tendency to sleep is so strong in this atmosphere that people have been found in an up- right position, with hand and leg lifted as though alx)ut to step forward, in which movement they were overcome by sleep and froze to death. Without the efforts and the assistance of the good monks of Hospice, the Pass of the St. Bernard could be crossed only during a few months of the year. Since the eighth century these monks devote themselves to the care and rescue of travellers. They shelter and feed annu- ally from 16,000 to 20,000 persons at a cost of 50,000 francs for which they never ac- cept any pay. They can shelter at one time a few hundred persons, if necessary. The most remarkable feature, however, is the regular "guard" that is sent out to assist travellers, and which are faithfully helped by the famous dogs of this region. During the unfavor- able seasons two dogs start out every morning ; one old, reliable and well- trained, and a younger one, its assist- ant, which is undergoing its course of training. They go down the Pass both on the Swiss and Italian side, for a dis- tance of three hours, as far dovra as the lowest places of shelter, never swerving from their path, and showing, by their heavy tracks the way to many a wanderer. Should they meet a traveller they greet him pleasantly and offer their services. Those that are tired and cold they try to resuscitate by licking their hands and faces, and there is an instance on record when they brought back to con.sciousness in this way a person overcome by cold and fatigue". Tracks of strayed wander- ers they follow up, new avalanches they examine carefully, and dig away persist- ently if they find that some poor traveller has thus been buried under the snow. If they arc unsuccessful in restoring a person to life, they hasten back to the Hospice, and by their howls call the monks to accompany them to the spot. Even without t>eing reminded by the dogs, however, the monks go out in very stormy weather taking with them all necessary appliances to dig out, revive and trans- port ai^ lost wanderer they may find. The dogs accompany them, and are sent out in all directions to scour the sur- rounding country. The number of lives saved by these faithful and intelligent dogs is great, and a careful record is kept of it in the annals of the Hospice. The most famous dog of this race was Barry, who saved more than forty lives. When he saw a snow storm or fog approaching no power could retain him in the convent. Barking and sniffing around he searched again and again the most dangerous places. Dur- ing his twelve years of service at the hospice he accomplished wonderful feats. The "pet" story told is how he once found in an icy grotto a lost and half frozen chill, which had just succumbed to the fatal sleep. He immediately b^an to lick and warm it until it awoke ; then he coaxed it to sit on his back and hold on to his neck, and thus he carried his burden triumphantly to the convent. He died in 1815, and is exhibited in the Museum at Bern. The race of St. Bernards was several times in danger of dying out. In a heavy snow storm in the year 1812 all the in- mates of the Convent, and all the dogs, including the bitches, which are gener- ally left at home, had to go out on duty, and the latter all perished. After many years of experiments in crossing the male dogs with Newfoundland bitches they succeeded in procuring one bitch that reverted back perfectly to the orig- inal type. In 1850 the monks found themselves again in the same predica- ment. An attempt to train Newfound- land dogs proved unsuccessful, owing to their long coat, whict proved a serious hindrance in snow storms. A careful and intelligent breeder near Bern finally succeeded in securing from dogs descend- ing directly and indirectly from those used originally at the Convent a strain that closely resembled the old race of dogs, amongst them specimens that were very much like the famous Barry. They received the "old tnedsl Bt th^ Pori« Ex- position in 1867, and one of this strain is doing such efficient work at the Convent that It is considered on« of the best dogs of the Hospice. L. B. KENNEL. REGISTER. We make no charge for entries in this column; all we ask is that registration be made in the following form. Write plainly. SALES. FRANK STANORTH, Portland, Me., Bold July lo. pointer bitch White Pawn (Grafton— Graphic Zitta), to J. H. Winslow, Philadel- phia, Pa. FRANK STANFRRTH (Portland, Me.,) has sold toJ.H. Winslow the pointer bitch White Fawn (Grafton— Zitta), July i, 1890. EBERHART PUO KENNELS (Cincinnati. O.,) sold, July 17, iSyo, pug bitch Zaka (Champion Kash— Lady Thunnan), whelped May 3, 1890, to James Bowden, New York. Mamie B., pug bitch, same litter, to aame person. WHELPS. W. STEWART DIFFENDERFFER'S roug:h- coated St. Bernard bitch Hlopwin (16,708) whelped July i, eight, four dogs, by Cham- pion Hesper. W. STEWART DIFFENDERFFER'S rough- coated St. Bernard bitch Lakmb (6573^ whelped July i, six, four dogs, by Imported Pilgrim. W. STEWART DIFFENDERFFER'S rough- coated St. Bernard bitch Duchess whelped July 5, eleven, .seven dogs, by Lord Hector. JOHN ROGGES' English setter bitch Princess Lilly (Temi)e»t— Lill), whelped July 14, seven, three dogs, to Champion Rockingham. VISITS. W. STEWART DIFFENDERFFER'S smooth- coatef food is the lazy man's method of feeding, and is not only expensive l>ecau8e it induces the hens to eat at all hours of the day, but it causes them to fatten and liecome subject to disease, thus diminishing the supply of eggs. When feeding the hens with grain let it he scattered wide, which not only prevents the greedy hens from se- curing more than their share, but com- pels all to hunt for it, thereby taking exercise and remaining in l»etter condi- tion for laying. — Field and Farm. — If ducks are to be kept in limited areas they may be fed all kinds of green food. In fact as the duck is quite a gor- mand it does not restrict itself to any particular diet, and the various weeds may be made to serve a valuable pur- pose as food for ducks. The well-known pigweed is quite a delicacy with ducks, and purslane, dandelion, all kinds of grass, and even young weeds that would be rejected when matured, will be eaten. It will pay to feed ducks on green food principally. At this season they jieed lint little grain, especially if they are not laying. — New York Mail and Express. TESTING EQQS. How to Tell an Unfertile Eergr from One That Is Fertile. From the Feathered World. Testing the eggs is of importance, as we are able to set two or three hens at a time, when neither eggs for sitting nor sitting hens are over plentiful. Still, forewarned is forearmed, and as many of our readers have doubtless got their incubators to work our hints may be use- ful to them too. Many people are under the impression that it is possible to tell a fertile from an unfertile eggs even before it has been set at all. We constantly meet where purchasers of eggs for hatch- ing write angry letters to the vendors, implying that they have been defrauded, l)ecause some or all the eggs sent them were unfertile. It is only by experiment in setting some of them himself that it is possible for a vendor to know whether the eggs from a particular hen or pen of birds is likely to produce a good per- centage of chickens. There is, of course, a presumption that from a pen of birds properly mated up there will be a fair percentage of chickens, but it is a pre- sumption which may prove to be errone- ous. The Aylesbury duckers, we believe, sell eggs for hatching guaranteed to be fertile. They have by long experience in egg testing, become so skilled as to be able to discern the embryo duckling when only twenty-four hours or so of the period of incubation has elapsed. They set the eggs for the necessary period, test them, and can then pick out the fertile ones and guarantee their fertility. At this early stage the hatching process can l)e suspended without fear of harm, and the eggs cau even be sent a journey without any additional risk to that incurred by eggs which have not l)een incubated at all. The object of testing eggs is to ascer- tain as soon as possible whether or not they are fertile, so that the unfertile ones may be removed and their places filleth eyes limited, by the American contrivance, might find his hair on fire Ijefore he quite knew that he was in such close proximity to the light used for the testing. A CLEAR EGG. The test used will, or should, disclose that the egg is clear, or, in other words, unfertile, fertde or addled. The appear- ance presented by a clear egg is simj)ly that of a semi-opaque fluid of uniform, or almost uniform, consistency. If a very bright light is used there will be a slightly darker patch indicating the po- sition of the yolk. The best way to learn what a clear egg looks like is to experi- ment with a few newly laid eggs. A white egg is much more transparent in its shell than a yellow one, and again, It 1 .1 .. 1 -. - ^-1 -1 _ -^ .,:ii £>uiiic sii^iiLi^ ui nccpi__y uifiuicii c);>;;» win be found to have light spots all over their shells when examined. These vari- ous apj)earances of newly laid eggs can readily be learned by a few ex])eriinents and the sure knowledge of them saves much trouble in testing eggs during incu- bation. Eggs which upon being tested are found to l)e clear, are those which either contain no true ovum or germ — having been laid by a barren hen — or those which, although containing an ovum or germ, yet have not had that germ fertilized. A clear egg remains unaltered throughout the jirocess of incubation except in vo far as it may Ije- come musty or stale through the influ- ence of the high temperature to which it is subjected.- A clear egg, after merely a week's incubation, is (|uite up to the average eating quality of what are known as market eggs — not fit perhaps for break- fast, but fit enough for cooking purposes. We prefer to keep them for the chicken's footl during the first day or two, but there is really no reason why they should not be used for human food. A FERTILE EGO. A fertile egg, when tested about the eighth day, presents a very different ap- pearance to an unfertile one. About three parts of it are (juitc opaque, and do not allow any rays of light to pass through. The degree of development differs a good deal, some eggs being quite opaque at the eighth day, while others are not more than half so. It may be that the embryo has developed four or five dl for young beginners to try to do too much, and they shoidd at first confine their efforts to removing the clear eggs, merely marking those as to which they are doubtful for a second ex- amination. If by the fourteenth day they still present the same cloudy ap- pearance, they may be removed. AN ADDLED EGG. An egg is frequently said to be addled when it would more proi)erly be descril)ed as rotten. A genuine rotten egg is one in which the process of development of VOL. 5. NO. 4-] THE FANCIERS' JOURNAL. 57 -wr ' the embryo itself has proceeded for a few days and it has then died. The heat of the hatchinjj process causes decompo- sition to speedily set in ; foul gases are generated, and in the end, such eggs sometimes burst, with results disastrous to the nest if they happen to be in it, or still more disastrous to the poultry keeper if he happens to have one of them in his hand at the time of the ex- plosion. An addled egg, on the con- trary, is one in which, to the l)est of our belief, there is no true development of the germ or embryo at all, but merely a false development of the membrane sur- rounding the germ. Blood vessels are formed, but as there is no proper circula- tion set up these vessels soon become ruptured, and a line of blood, usually in an oval form, becomes attached to the lining membrane of the shell. Such eggs can readily be detected at the time of testing ami shou'd be rejected. EARLY TESTING. We have referred to the Aylesbury duckers testing the eggs at a very early- period. With a little experience the fertile can readily be distinguished from the unfertile after forty-eight hours' in- cubation. By that time the germ will have so far developed th.tt, together with its surrounding membrane, it is atx)ut the size of a threepenny-piece. This circular spot is a little darker than the rest of the egg and floats close to the shell at the upper side of the egg when it is held horizontally. Now this spot is not easily seen when the egg is at rest ; but, if the egg l)e held between the forefinger and thumb of the right hand, in the manner we have descril)ed above, in a fairly hori- zontal position, in front of a strong light, and then pressed with the points of the thumb and forefinger of the left hand, and sharply (but not violently) twisted round a little, the top being twisted to- wards the eye of the operator, the circu- lar spot, or embryo, will readily be seen as it floats back to the top of the egg. Try this first with a white-shelled egg, as difficulty in seeing the embryo. With a strong light, and a knowledge of what to look for, even dark-brown eggs may he successfully tested in this way. SWIMMING THE EGG. About the eighteenth day of incuba- tion another method of testing may be adopted. A vessel of water of a temper- ature of 104° or thereabouts and large enough to hold a sitting of eggs floating on its surface should be got ready. A soft dry towel should also be at hand. The eggs are then taken from under the hen and put Ixjdily in the water. It is best to do this, not when the hen is off to feed, but in the evening, leaving the hen sitting on the nest. It is best also to use a vessel with straight sides, as the eggs are liable to be moved by touching the sides of a sloping vessel. It is need- ful, too, that the vessel be placed either on the ground or on a solid or steady foundation of some kind. The accuracy of the test depends on the stillness of the water. As soon as the commotion caused by placing the eggs in the water has calmed down it will (if there are live chicks in any of the eggs) l)e noticed that some of the eggs bob al>out in a curious way. This is caused by the movement of the living chicks in the shell shifting the centre of gravity of the egg and consequently its floating position in the water. If'^ the movement is strong the chicken is strong too. If there is any movement at all the chicken is living. It does not follow be- cause an egg sinks that there is a dead chicken in it. Those which float very high out of the water are more likely to l)e dead than those that sink. As soon as an egg moves it should be carefully lifted out so as to disturb the water as little as possible, lightly dried and placed under the hen. In very dry weather it is better not to dry the eggs, but to put them damp under the hen, but eggs should never be put damp into an incubator. Those eggs which do not move in five minutes can be tested further by examining them with a light. If found to be partly clear they may be rejected. If they seem full and quite dark it is best to give them a chance under the hen, as there may be some little life in them. POULTRY GOSSIP. Items of Iiitoreat for Both Breeder and Consumer. Special Correspondence. The show season is approaching, and the premium lists will soon l>e flying "o'er the land." One feature, and it is a decid- edly bad one, in our premium lists is the special premiums consisting of eggs, con- dition powders, etc., offered in addition to the regular prizes. These specials are usually given by some of the smaller breeders and dealers in poultry supplies. They are oflen won by men who don't care a picayune for either eggs or con- dition powders, and simply serve as an advertisement for the donors. Cash, cups and articles of intrinsic value may be legitimate, but the sole aim of the true fancier is to obtain the much coveted ribbons. The latter are worth more to him than all the silver plate and cash. Our poultry associations with very few exceptions, are not self-sustaining, and the liberal premiums they offer act as a nail in their coffins. It is certainly time that reform was instituted in our show methods, or the whole thing will go to the " deminition bow-wows." Another unwholesome feature is offer- ing premiums for "the largest display of fowls." This brings in the man who has a little of everything, and where everything is a little less than nothing in intrinsic value. There is enough poor stock in the regular classes without fill- ing the show room up with " a large dis- play " consisting of the scum of the poul- try yards. There should be a change in the methods of awarding premiums to incu- bators and brooders at poultry shows. Giving premiums to an incubator hatch- ing the largest percentage during the ex- hibition is a farce. Eighty to ninety-five per cent hatched in a machine at a show proves nothing. Eggs are set in such large numbers, frequently under hens also, that the final testing prior to the day of hatching leaves in only the eggs most likely to hatch. It is of course difficult to start an incubator two or three weeks prior to the show unless the building could be secured for a period of three or four weeks, and even then the hatches would prove nothing. Prizes given to incubators in operation are well enough, as it is the attraction at the show, but the best incubator should be judged by practical experts as to its con- struction, simplicity of operation, econo- my of running and the proper supply of moisture, etc. Brooders should lie judged in the same manner. Too often premiums go to toy machines and brooders. Incu- bators and brooders are not toys, but practical machines, and the great point is to find out the simplest, most econom- ical and safest methods of hatching and brooding. There are men well qualified to give an intelligent opinion and an un- biased judgment on such exhibits, pro- vided a standard is fixed for them to judge by. Some of the awards on incu- bators and brooders during the la.st three years have caused no little dissatisfaction. This was not due so much to any favorit- ism of the judges, but more to their in- competency. —0:0 — I have often thought that all disquali- fications for color should be abolished. It seems to me that the latter encourage dishonesty in the show room, as exhibi- tors will often do what they can to hide a defect that, if seen, would debar the bird from winning a premium. A heavy cut would be better in such sections where these defects exist. I have seen brown Leghorns and black Langshans disquali- fied for a very small amount of white in the plumage that were far superior to birds that won liecause of the absence of this defect, or because the shrewd ex- hibitor removed it. I have seen Lang- shans exhibited whose wings looked as if they had struck against a wire fence, there was so much of the web missing. One of the best brown Leghorn cockerels of 1889 was disqualified for having a small feather tipjied with white. Is there justice in such requirements of the standard ? Hardly. It will deteriorate the breed more to compel the entire ab- sence of white or gray than to allow it as a serious defect. In golden Wyandottes no mention is made of white or gray in plumage, aud yet the breed is full of it, and in black-breasted red games nothing is said aljout white or gray in plumage. This seems to me inconsistent. The Brown Leghorn Club, organized last winter with Mr. James Forsyth, of Owego, N. Y., as president, and E. A. Pierce, of Indianapolis, Ind., as secre- tary, should, as soon as the club is large enough, discuss the brown Leghorn standard and seek to remedy whatever existing inconsistencies there may be in the present one. This will facilitate the work at the next revision of the stand- ard made by the A. P. A. I should think that the disqualifying clause of game standard, excepting the part relating to dubbing, could l)e equally well applied to the Leghorn, making a crooked breast a disfnialification also if deemed neopRsnrv. \ In solid black fowls, like the La Fleche, Langshans, Javas and Minorcas, white in the primaries, although a serious defect, should not disqualify. Speaking of La F'leche reminds me that the wonder- ful thoroughbred character of the bird was never secured by disqualifying for white in the plumage. If this had been done the race would have degenerated. I have bred La Fleche fowls of late more for study than anything else, and find frequently that the finest and heaviest birds must go to the block simply because of a little white in plumage. Here is a race of fowls bred for utility, and yet our disqualifying clauses would injure the breed seriously except in a show room sense. A silver grey Dorking is disquali- fied for having white feathers in the breast. This often throws out the finest plumaged birds, unless the exhibitor is dishonest and plucks the white feathers. The above suggestions may not meet the approval of some breeders and judges, but I am satisfied that there are many who look at this question in the same light as I do. — 0:0 — It has been rumored that A. C. Hawkins has 1000 hens on " his farm at Atco, N. J. " Investigation has failed to find the farm. The only extensive establish- ment at Acto is the Dun barton Poultry Farm. This is a very huge affair and it is claimed is controlled by a company with headquarters in Philadelphia. A great many thousand dollars have found their way Atcoward, and the immense array of poultry houses scattered over 150 acres are the result. What the ultimate pur- pose of this large concern may be is still in doubt, as a Sphinx-like silence is pre- served by the managers as to their plans. If Mr. Hawkins is in any way interested in this company it is safe to say that he would have announced the fact in a sub- stantial way. — 0:0 — Mr. Hawkins is perhaps one of the few men qualified to make a large establish- ment pay. This he has demonstrated practically on his own farm at Lancaster, Mass. Mr. Hawkins is .shrewd and a very hard worker. vSentiment counts very little in his business dealings. Theories he has very little to do with, and depends entirely on what he has found practically to be "a bread-winner." Notwithstanding the large number of chickens he raises annually, Mr. Haw- kins uses the old hen exclusively. He has tried incubators and brooders, and discarded them. Those who know Mr. Hawkins will no doubt look upon his op- position to artificial methods as'very sig- nificant. Whether the incubator can re- place the hen completely in raiiting of thoroughbred fowls is a very mooted question. — 0:0 — I. K. Felch and Mr. B. N. Pierce, the two veteran poultry judges, must "argy" or be unhappy. In the June Fanciers' Gazette Brother Pierce takes Uncle Isaac to task for his opposition to a tariff on eggs, and thinks we should take all the benefits our Government will allow us. This is true enough, but nevertheless Mr. Felch is right when he says : "This tax is a sop thrown to the agriculturist to secure his vote." Throwing all political feeling aside, we will wager that if a tariff of five cents per dozen be imposed on all foreign eggs, not one cent will reach the pockets of the producers. Be- sides, high prices are only governed by the freshness of the eggs. If our farmers wnnld nrnHiirp «trirt1v r«»1iohl»» oorrra ' ' ■ -> "- -oo-> there would be no trouble in getting big prices. Having been in the egg business I know whereof I speak when I state that the hardest thing to obtain in the country is a strictly fresh egg. I have paid five to ten cents per dozen above market price to secure such, but invari- ably had to depend upon the professional poultry raiser for prime and reliable stock. I overheard the following con- versation regarding a tariff on eggs : Egg Buyer. — "Mr. B., have you any eggs to-day?" Mr. B. — "No ; the pesky hens ain't laying. Anyhow the price of eggs is too low. We must put a tax on the foreign product." Egg Dealer. — "Well, I will pay you five cents per dozen more — the amount it is proposed to tax foreign eggs — for all the fresh eggs you can let tne have." Mr. B. — "But I have not got any. Guess we will have to buy some for Our own use. What do you charge for a dozen ?" Egg Dealer. — "Thirty-five cents." Mr. B.— "Whew ! that's five cente more than at the stores. I don't want any." Egg Dealer.— "Well, Mr. B., I put a tax on of five cents per dozen on the price, as you wanted it. Thought I'd see how you liked it. You know that's the way the tariff will work. I pull the strings, old man. Good bye." J. H. Drevenstedt. — The goslings should now be beyond the assistance of the poultry man, and given plenty of room to help themselves in the stubble field. They will in this manner secure all the food they wish and grow rapidly. They eat nearly all kinds of weeds and grass, aud will come up at night well satisfied and well fed. They will need no assistance until two weeks before marketing, when they should have a mei>s of scalded cornmeal morning and night, which will make them very fat. — New York Mail and Express. 58 THE FANCIKRS' JOURNAL, [JULY 26, 1890 gcoRiNG VS. 3uDaiNa BY (JOMPHRISON. BY J. H. DREVENSTEDT. Scoring fowls is an American inven- tion, and I. K. Felch enjoys the distinc- tion of being the "father of the score card," as well as having done more than any other man to establish it as the proper method of "taking a bird's measure." During the past few years, however, there is a disposition among many breeders to try judging by comparison. This natu- rally meets with decided objection from such veteran judges as B. N. Pierce, G. O. Brown, I. K. Felch, and even the lively Brother Zimmer objects. "Zim" thinks judging by comparison is "Hing- lish, you know," and that a few English btteders in this country are at the bottom of it One of the foremost American breeders of Brahnias was the first to ad- vocate judging by comparison. We refer to Mr. George Purdue. The Game Club we believe favors it also, and our friend Zimmer goes as far as to say in the Fan- ciers' Review that "there are, however, two classes I think which could be judged very satisfactorily and successfully by comparison, viz., the games and game bantams, as their most valuable quali- ties can more readily be seen than most breeds, and undercolor in most breeds of games and game bantams is considered of little value comparatively. Consequently a man who knows what goes to make up a valuable game bird could come very close to judging the winner by comparison, as he could at once see which had the best surface color, the best station and length of legs, the broaucsi shouiuer>, cioschi iail, snori- est wings, shortest, neatest hackle, long- est head, strongest l>eak and hardest feathers. But even if they were judged by comparison, the weight in bantams should be valued as highly as if scored." Well, "what's sauce for the goose is sauce for gander." Why not extend the list ? The great objection the advocates of the score card make is that the sur- face color only can be judged. Now what is to hinder a judge from looking at the under color the same as if he scored the birds ? We do not speak of the open judging at fall shows where birds are often not removed from the coops, but re- fer to a system of judging that demands a close, critical examination of the birds. Judging by comparison certainly does this as well as scoring. A judge of ex- perience can award premiums more rap- idly by comparison than by scoring. The Buffalo show, 1889, and the New York show, 1890, closed l)efore the scor- ing was completed, and the army of judges present was insufficient to do the work. How long does it take an ex- perienced judge to pick out the liest dog, cow, horse or fowl by comparison in the respective classes ? Does not the judge have an ideal, and will not the latter in- fluence his judgment ? Let a judge cast his eye on a bird that fills his idesil, and, score or no score, the bird stands a very fair chance of winning. Must he score twenty birds to find the winner when he knows in his mind which bird approxi- mates closest to his ideal ? The argument is made that there can be no uniformity among judges by the comparison method. Is there more by the scoring system ? G. O. Brown says : "There is a wonderful uniformity now in scoring of our prominent judges, but with the compari.son system no rules can be formulatea that would insure a like uniformity." F. B. Zimmer is supposed to be more liberal and says : "One man may score a bird at one show 93, another man at the same show would probably score the same bird 94 'j, and both be honest in their opinions. It always has and always will tie so. It will be the same if judge*! by comparison. A and B show birds at one show and A wins first ; at the next show with another judge B wins. The birds arc very nenrlv equal, not over one point difference if they had tieen scored by both men. A difference of opinion is what did the work at both shows, and it would have been the same if judged by either method." H. S. Babcock says : " Uniformity of judging is desirable ; there is too little now, but there would lie less if judging by comparison were the practice." So we see the doctors agree to disagree. B. N. Pierce in the Fanciers' Gazette can- didly admits that " neither is the scoring system to lie condemned l)ecause fowls do not score twice alike. It would be a rare specimen which could Iw kept in con- dition to score the same, week in and week out — it is not impossible but quite uncommon." Why should there l)e less uniformity than in t'other niethoenent as being advertised and its score card if signed by an intelligent judge helps to sell the specimens." This is true no doubt, but buying birds on their scores is not always a satisfac- tory proceeding. In many instances it leads to positive dissatisfaction, as the score may lie high and the bird totally unsuitable to the purchaser. The best breeders either buy at the shows or de- scribe what they want. The score is no consideration with them. Did anyone ever hear of cows, horses or dogs sold on their scores? A case happened last year where one Brahma breeder sold to another breeder a cockerel with a score of 92^ by one of the best judges in this country. The score card an(l the judge's name was the incentive. Vet the bird was returned and another bird sent that scored four points less which gave satisfaction. Does the score help matters in such a case ? The best thing to do is never to buy a t :, 1 .- 1. 1. . . .1- 1 :. . : r /■. n * Ulltl WllllUUL LllC vicrsi:! ipLlUli 111 mil. 1 had score cards of pullets .sent to me in order to furnish a cockerel to mate with them. It was imf>ossible to do so, as not a line was written to convey what the pullets were like in color. The score card certainly gave the cuts in each sec- tion, but Greek would have been as in- telligible to me. Mr. Felch further says : "Comparison judging will give the best birds in surface merit, and lead judges to foster hobbies. In Brahnias, in compari- son judging one has only to find out what the judge's hobby is to win. I knew a man so carried away with color in the neck of Brahnias that all one would have to do to win under him would be to secure a perfect neck hackle. It would be the most beautiful to him." This seems rather too radical. There are hobbies in judging Brahmas by the score system, and nothing on earth will prevent the judge having his hobby, or ideal in other words. A good judge has no business to look at only one section, whether judging by either methods, for his final decision. It is true that judg- ing by comparison will introtluce more special judges, and this meets with ob- jection by Messrs. Pierce and Felch. ffhe latter, as well as other old "all round" judges, are in a minority. It is not everyone who can judge all breeds, and special judges must sooner or later l)e encouraged. This will not interfere with the employment of "all round" judges. The latter no doubt can do as well as specialty judges, but the fart remains that the extjert and successful brceed I500, and other places have put in their proportion of the capital stock. There can be no doubt that the first show, which will be given next February during the session of the United States Court here will be a great success. CANADIAN NEWS. Interesting Gossip About the Doings of Fanciers in That Country. Krom Our Special Correspondent. Mr. A. J. Groves, Toronto, has just re- turned from Fc disease. In nearly all rases of gapes it occurs from feeding chicks in filthy places. — New York Mau and Express. VdL. 5. NO. 4] THE FANCIERS' JOURNAI^. 59 PIGEON FLYING. ON THE WINQ. In replying to the editorial of the Baltimore Fancier in reference to our statement that "usually all's fish that comes to the net of the Baltimore fancy," we cannot understand why it should have stirred up the indignation of the fanciers of that city. By the fanciers we understand them to be the genuine fanciers and honorable gentlemen who would not stoop to cut the wing or otherwise seek to retain the gamey little homer, who after buffeting with adverse winds or storm, seeks food and shelter for the night in one of the many Baltimore lofts. Our remarks were directed at those would-be fanciers — unfortunately they are quite numerous in Baltimore — who during the flying sea- son capture and retain every homer that can be enticed into their lofts. In some cases these persons can be induced to give the birds up, as the following article from the Homing Exchange for July will show : HUMAN PIGEON HAWKS. Brooklyn, N. Y., June 11, 1890. EUITOR HXCHANOE. Dear Sir : Last Sunday the Brooklyn Homing Club had its club race from Washington, D. C, and owing to the high winds some of the birds got astray. I am in receipt of several communi- cations from parties stating that they have in possession niy birds. Among the letters is one wliich I herewith enclose, and which speaks for itself. I think it would be well to publish it in the Exchange and thereby let the homing fancy know who these "pigeon hawks" are. Fraternally, C. Detrick, Brooklyn Club. Baltimore, June 9. 1R90. Ukak Sir : I take pleasure to tniorin you that a red checker Antwerp is now in my possession, bearing the following name and address : C. Detrick, 27 Boerum Place, Brooklyn, N. Y., and band containing number and initial X 4929. Please state reward given and all expenses of freight paid by you. Address H. Williams. Cor. Saratoga and Howard Sts., (Answer prompt.) Baltimore, Md. • • « Again we find in the Philadelphia Item under the head of pigeon flying, about June 9 or 10, the following : "The greatest evil pigeon flyers have to contend against is the imprisonment of birds that stop to rest, or for food, or for any other reason, in strange lofts. Baltimore and Washington lofls have been for years the caravansaries for birds owned to the northeast, but it is only of late that the owner's rights have received any considera- tion at the hands of the southern fanciers. The Washington Federation had the returning of visitors as one of the objects of its existence." • • « This is the class of Baltimore fanciers to which our remarks referred, for as we have already said no fancier in the true meaning of the word would detain a stranger at his loft. We heard some very harsh criticism during the old bird Con- course races on these would-be fanciers of Baltimore, and since the F'anciers' edi- torial, apparently in defense of these per- sons, we have received two letters from Baltimore gentlemen who regretted that our remarks were only too true. • • « The Fancier intimates that there are dishonest men in the fancy in this city. We do not doubt it, for only two weeks since we made a dishonest man disgorge money he had wrongfully retained ; in- stead of trying to shield trixters and thieves we will endeavor to expose them, and either make them honest or drive them out of the fancy. We advise the editor of the Fancier to do likewise. « » » The eight birds of the Messrs. E. W. Twining and A. J. Cadwallader, of Yardley, Pa., were liberated in Concord, N. C, at ten minutes of 6 o'clock 17th iust. The returns were two Cadwallader and two Twining at 5.42 P. M. But "time" in pigeon flying is not when birds arrive, but when they pass the wire into the loft. This the Twinings did after a seven minutes' wait, at 5.49 P. M., giving an average speed for the 452 miles of 1 106.8 yards per minute. The first Cadwallader entered its loft eleven minutes later, at 6 o'clock, its speed at these figures being 1090 yards per min- ute. The distance lieing greatest in the day this season, gives the Yardley birds a fresh hold upon the George W. Childs prize. ♦ « * The birds Butler and Bellview, of the Virtue Club, liberated in Pensacola on the 14th inst., have not yet returned. Two days after their liberation the two birds were still together and spent the night at Shellmound, Marion County, Tenn., and the next morning they took wing towards the South. Shellmound is only 300 miles, or a half vlay's journey from Pensacola, but lies to the west of the Appalachian range, whereas the home of the birds is to the east of it. « • « The homing faculty directed the flight to the northeast, but the mountain ranges were an inseparable barrier, inasmuch as the pigeon cannot sustain itself in the air at a height to overtop them. The birds, no doubt, proceeded two days' journey along the range, then finding themselves lost, so to say, acted as others have been known to do under similar circumstances, recovered the course to the starting point to make a new beginning. The two birds having kept together through three days will doubtless return together, if at all, unless one or the other meets with an ac- cident or is held prisoner when it seeks shelter. * « # The birds of Theodore P. Green still wait for favorable weather in Concord, N. C. There has been but one week since the last of May, when the season opened, in which there have not l)eeii birds wait- ing in Concord for favorable weather, or one lot arriving the day others were lib- erated. « » ♦ The second lot of Theodore P. Green's birds, of Woodbury, N. J., will be coun- terniarked and shipped for their first journey for record. The start was to be on Thursday, or the first favorable day after, for Orauge, Va., 195 miles. » « • The French Minister of War lately offered a prize for the swiftest bird in a flight from Perigueux to Paris, 310 miles. There were 2746 entries, and the winner did the distance in seven hours and thirty-four minutes. * • A carrier pigeon, bearing a mes.sage written from some vessel, from A. Ross to Mrs. A. Ross, Annapolis, Md., under date of June 26, flew on Ijoard the schooner Fleur de Lis, Captain Duffy, at 4 P. M., July II, when twenty-seven miles off No Man's Land. The bird ap- peared to be nearly dead, but has re- covered. ■ * ■ — It is quite an item from now on to provide good ventilation at night in order to have the fowls comfortably healthy. But be careful to avoid draughts. — I'Yom now on it will not be advisable to keep any of the hens .setting too long. One hatch should be sufficient. It is bad enough in cooler weather. PIGEON PLYINQ NE-WS. TRAINING HOMERS. Mr. Hub Loses His Homer While Com- peting in the Concourse Race. From our Special Correspondent Charles Hub, of Philadelphia, shipped his H 1866, R. C. C, to Spartanburg, S. C, to fly in the Concourse race. The bird was hatcheil in March, and on May 30 competed in the 200 mile race and made excellent time. It was jumped from 200 to 500, and on July 10 (four days after being liberated) it arrived at Cox Station, Ind., which is al)out sixty miles south of Odentoii, Md., and from the correspondence Mr. Hub had with a gentleman from that place he learns that some boys crippled it with stones, when Mr. J. W. Newboy, of Cox Station, took the bird away from the boys, and, finding the owner's name on the wing, wrote him as to its disposal, saying the bird was wounded, and that his wife was doing everything possible to bring the bird round again. However, the bird died two days later. Mr. Newboy took off the seamless band and countermark and mailed them to Mr. Hub, wilh a photo- graph of the dead pigeon. Mr. Newboy IS not a pigeon fancier. However, he has tame crows, a jay, a couple of mocking birds and a cat, which are all very do- mesticated and live very happily to- gether, and he is now looking out for a magpie. Mr. Hub has promised to send him a pair of young homers. If I were New- bury I should keep my eye on that cat. It is very unfortunate the bird was wounded, as no doubt it would have reached its loft, which would be no mean performance for an H band. Mr. R. L. Hayes reports his H band home the second day. Mr. P. W. Krouse is erroneously credited with the same in last week's issue. A homing pigeon with a seamless band & Bro., with the address indistinct, flew into the window of Mr. W. S. Hoffman, 653 North Eighth Street, during the wind storm of July 17. Pigeon Flying in Detroit. Editor Fanciers' Journal. Last Sunday six birds belonging to C. H. Gale and four lielonging to C. Wag- ner flew from North Manchester, Ind., 170 miles. The start was at 9.31 and the returns were : Gale three at 2.36, Wag- ner two at 2.43, two of Mr. Gales, arriving nine minutes after the first birds and the remaining straggled in during the day. The day was clear, but wind from north- east was nearly dead against the little fellows, who were (juite exhausted and worn out with their battle against the breeze. I see in the last issue of The Journal that Mr. F'red Bowers intends sending Dusty and Right Bower here for their last journey this season. I should like very much to know when they come, as our boys would like to see the eastern visitors and do them honor. Cyclone. Detroit, Mich., July 22, 1890. — Goose feathers should lie kept sepa- rate from the duck and chicken feathers. They sell for the highest price. — In selling young poultry now, select out some of tjfie earliest and best, es- pecially hens, for breeding next year. — Turkeys must be pushed while the weather is pleasant if they are to be made ready for market early in the fall. — Rub the top of the head and under each wing of the voung poultry with lard and kerosene mixed well together. — Plant some sunflowers now. They will make an excellent feed for fall and winter. Grow them in drills. — It rarely pays to set eggs for hatch- ing much after the ist of June. The weather is too hot to give a good start to grow. — Do not feeird fly separately from the same places ; now increase the distance to say two miles and repeat. If the birds home with confidence, and take their bearings readily, increase to five miles, and from there on increasing jumps of ten to twenty miles, till fifty miles is reached. The birds should now be well on the road, and should jump fifty miles in as near an air line as possible, either singly or in company, and should home well. Avoid flying among mountains as much as possible, and never fly in a fog. Another point, "and don't you forget it," train your birds to enter the loft as soon as they return, for the time in a race is taken from the time of start till the bird enters the loft ; not the time it alights on the roof ; and it is decidedly aggravating to have one's first return sit on the roof for eight or ten minutes, while the timer sits holding his watch and watching the precious minutes ^oby. To train birds to enter lofts quickly is not so easy as would appear. In the first place the entrance must be convenient, and so situated that an unruly old cock on the inside cannot guard it and keep out intruders. Next, always feetl your birds inside, and never before flying. By this I don't mean to half starve your birds, Vmt leave nothing in the hoppers over night, so that in the morning they will want a breakfast ; after each fly give a few grains of hempseed as a relish and prize to the first birds that enter, and after a race have a few grains for the birds as they come in. In shipping birds long dis- tances feed should be provided^ but should be so placed as to allow the lib- erator to remove it the night before, or at least several hours before he flies the birds. It is needless to say water should be provided, and accessiMfe to the birds at all times. Always have birds started early. After 12, even in loo-mile flies, will mean delays and possibly losses, and sometimes of the best birds, too. It is not all play with homers by any means. The fancier who intends to make a suc- cessful memlier of the Homing Club must work for it. These directions are simply for the training ; he has the breeding and care of his breeders and youngsters to look after, which is as important a mat- ter as training, and should l)e as care- fully and systematically undertaken. — The California Cacklei. 6o XHK KANCIKRS' JOURNAL. [JULY 26. 1890 SCRAPPLE. Profitable Poultry — Oaringr for Pigreons— Rue for Cholera. Fertillzlngr Eer^s. The following extracts are from the pens of fanciers tioth on this and the other side of the water, gii'ing their experi- ences in raising, feeding and caring for all kinds of poultry, pigeons and pet stock, and elicit the careful perusal of the readers of ThkVascw.v.s' }ovv.^s\^,. It is the desire in these columns to give the experiences of all true fanciers, and we therefore invite contributions from ei'ery- one who has anything to say pertaining to poultry, pigeons and fancy stock. Profitable Powlti-y. There is money to be made in chick- ens, but beginners cannot expect to get rich at it for the first year or two. Usual- ly it takes that length of time to learn the first lessons thoroughly of poultry raising. A great many young people go into this branch of fam> work, imagin- ing it is easy compared with other depart- ments of farm labor, and that it pays bet- ter and sooner. Such impressions are likely to be followed by disappointments. The successful poultryman needs capital to begin with ; plenty of grass and wood- land ; a thorough knowledge of his busi- ness, and then the willingness to work indefatigably at it. Poultry raising is now divided into two general branches. One man makes a special business of raising nothing but fancy fowls for the market, while another breeds the common stock. There is no doubt but fancy fowls pay l)etter than rais- ing the ordinary birds that have no great name and good points. There is quite a demand for fancy birds for breeding, and even in the ordinary markets of our city they command high prices. As a rule their meat is of sui>erior flavor and ten- derness, and like canvas-back ducks, they are sought after by the epicures. Their eggs for breeding purposes frequently sell for licveral dollars a dozen, which, if there is a steady market for them would make the business a very paying one. But breeding fancy j)oultry has its discourage- ments and drawbacks, too. The field is a limited one, and is nearly full now of active competitors. Longer study and experience with birds are demanded, and great care and vigilance in tending them. They bear less neglect than other fowl. By ordinary or conmion stock I do not mean poor breeds of fowl, nor mongrels ; but the practical, everyday breeds, which go about their business to lay eggs and fatten up well for the markets without strutting around to show their " fancy " feathers and shapes. Many kinds of breeds are inchuled in this list, anetter in wanner climates, although the double-comb vari- eties will lay-better than the single in cold weather. As soon as the comb of a Leghorn is frozen it ceases to lay. If the fowls are raised for the markets the Plymouth Rocks carry a double recom- mendation with them. They are good layers, and have a fine uniform apf)ear- ance when dressed for shipment. The Brahams and Cochins are so slow of growth that many do not like to raise them for the market, but they make handsome fowls when fully matured. In selecting breeds for profit those should bf chosen which are peculiarly adapted to any particular section of the country, cousiaerations being taken into the ques- tion as to their fitness for market, time of maturity, hardiness, laying qualities and disposition. This is but the first step in raising poultry for profit, and a most important one. — Practical Farmer. Riie for Cholera. My first experience with rue for cholera was several years ago. The disease ap- peared in my place and in others in the neighlwrhood. Many fowls died and some lay to all appearances nearly deiid, lying on their sides with closed eyes. I picked up some and left a few others. I chopped up rue leaves in some oatmeal gruel and added a few drof^s of diluted carbolic acid (white) and jwured a few spoonfuls down their throats, and, to my surprise, every bird so treated recovered in three or four days ; while the ones left never moved. I have applied the same remedy to many fowls belonging to my neighbors with the same results, and feel satisfied that it is a sure cure and preventive. Every Western and Southern farmer should have it, as they are most troubled with this complaint, and this remedy costs next to nothing. I should have stated that each bird was laid in a box, with clean straw, and carlx)late of lime was dusted into the box, until the bird was able to get up of its own aceord. Be careful that the carbolic acid is not too strong, the carbolate should just taste of it. — Henry Hales. Fertlllzinp: Kkk**- Although somewhat out of season it may not be amiss to say a few words al)out a matter that so few poultry raisers seem to know so little about. It has not received the attention in this country that the subject deserves, and we can assure our readers that it is a deep study, and we have much to learn yet. It has been asserted by .some writers that a single visit of a turkey cock to a hen will fertilize her eg^s the entire sea- son. We have liieil lliis, aiis of breae cleaned out thoroughly with warm water and or- dinary yellow soap, applied with a small soft brush, and subsequently thoroughly rinsed out. In the case of the eye-cere, a small piece of sponge is perhaps the most con- venient weapon, and the soap should not lie allowed to find its way into the eyes themselves. If the washing is neglected when required, the dirt will form into hard dry scabs 1)etween the folds of the skin, and a yellow cankery looking sub- stance will also frequently be found. The former very oflen occurs immediately under the eye, where they become a fruitful source of sprouts by pressing the cere out of shape, and a bird was sent to us for an opinion only the other day which proved to be a case in point. Both hands are required free play to carry out the alx)ve proceedings sat- isfactorily, and a second operator is there- fore desirable. Wattles should, of course, not l)e washed within some days of the birds l)eing sent to a shoiv, as they re- quire some time to recover their natural bloom, and the same remark also applies to the hard eye-cere of the dragon. Feather Katinjuc. This annoying and unnatural practice is another habit formed under confine- ment of the fowls, and seems to arise from a want of grass and exercise. It is generally prevented by good care and giving grain, meat, shells, bone, and veg- etables in variety. The habit may lie checked by giving finely cut, well cured rowen hay, and also by keeping con- stantly liefore them a small bundle of corn fodder, renewing as often as the tender leaves are stripped from the stalks. Another and more severe remedy, as a last resort, is to pare down the sharp edges of the beak of the offender, so it learn that a sort of bit has been invented to keep slightly open the beak, but have not tried its merits. — W. N. Chleken Feed. I expect to extend my chicken interest. During the past twelve years I have re- alized over \vio per cent profit. I had on March 10 about 425 laying hens, am getting 235 to 250 eggs per day, and I get 22 cents per dozen wholesale for the eggs, realizing over $^ a day. The food costs not quite f\ a day. The fowls are confined most of the time in their houses through the winter. As to the mode of feeding : Every day I boil half a bushel of small iX)tatoes, mash them and mix meal and middlings with them, adding some ground tone, a little charcoal and cayenne pepper. I soak over night about four quarts of pork scraps, boil them up in the morning and mix the whole mess together, mak- ing a large tubful in all, and give it warm the first thing. I then cut up fine over a bushel of clover hay ; put it in a i)arrel, pour over it a kettle of Injiling water, cover with bags until it steams ; at noon I mix in a little middlings and serve it warm. The birds soon eat it up clean. One hour before sundown I give them wheat, oats, corn and buckwheat, thrown in a lot of cut hay, so that they have to scratch lively for the grain. In every house a dust bath, oyster shells and gravel are placed. Just now alxiut nil one man can do is to attend to them. The buildings are cleaned out twice a week. — A.J. in Rural New Yorker. Preveiitliijf lleiis< from Slttliipr, As the breaking up of broody hens is oflen a matter of annoyance and incon- venience, I should like to give my method which has proved very effective, without resortiug to any of the cruel methods in use. I have a raised pen with a slat lx)t- tom, just wide enough apart so thev can stand comfortably, and feed nothing but oats. As it is the over-supply of fat that causes the hen to want to sit in the first I place, the most sensible plan is to reduce her weight and thus cure her broody in clinations, and get her in good condition for laving at the same time. Three or four days' confinement under such con- ditions usually suffice to cure the most persistent sitter. And I should like to say that in case hens get too fat to lay, which often happens, a diet of oats is the best ration for reducing them to laying form.— E. H. S. A Goose Story from the South. "When I was in Alabama, l)etween Porter's Gap and Millerville," said a gentleman living in Atlanta, "I came to a country place where a man was driving ten or twelve geese from a branch toward a cotton patch. 'For Heaven's sake,' said I, 'what is it you have on the necks of those geese ?' 'Those are gourds, full of water. I drive these geese into that cotten patch and keep" them there all day weeding out the cotton. There is no water in the cotton patch, and I have to give them water in this way to keep them there.' 'But how do they get the water out of those gourds under their necks ?' They drink out of each other's gourds. Each gourd has an opening in the side so that another goose can put his bill into the gourd and drink. If you will stay here long enough you will see it your- self.' I waited there half a day to see that performance, and finally I saw it. The geese did just as the man said they would. When a goose got thirsty he walked up to his neighbor and cooly drank out of the gourd on his neck." — Atlanta Journal. Bxhlbltlnsr Poultry. The time for county and state agricul- tural fairs is approaching, at which poultry form an interesting feature. Only a very few years ago the fowls sent to such fairs were of a poor, miserable char- acter ; such a lot of shabby mongrels as to attract no attention. In fact, most of them were sent by young folks who wanted a free ticket to the fair. Now, some of our Ijest birds are sent and in large numbers, and have become quite an in- teresting department of our agricultural di.splays. Those who intend to exhibit must look out in time to get their stock in condition — not to fatten them, except in the case of market fowls, but to see that they are properly cared for and get good food, and are not cooped up with birds that disfigure their plumage. Get them as tame as possible by little atten- tions. Thin out the poorest birds and send nothing but such stock as will be a credit to the exhibitor. — Henry Hales. Qiiafi In Fowl's Xests. They have a breed of (juail in Ohio which lay more eggs than they can hatch; and call on the neighbors. The Ashta- bula Sentinel gives this encouraging re- port : "Joe Hamilton told us last week that his boys found a turkey's nest with several turkey eggs in it and fifteen quail eggs. The turkey was sitting on the whole lot, and father and mother quail were standing near her, apparently watch- ing an opportunity to get a chance at the sitting business themselves. Royal Edson, who was standing by and heard the story, related one quite similar. He sold a pair of guineas to a neighlx»r. A few days ago they found the nest with one guinea egg and fifteen or eighteen (juail eggs. NiimlKM* of liens to a Cock. Of Asiatics, six to ten ; of games, I.^g- horns, Houdaiis, .Spanish, and the smaller creeds, ten to twenty. All breeding cocks should lie strong and vigorous. When eggs fail to hatch, the cock is invariably blamed, which is not necessarily the case. Too few hens with the cock, want of exercise, oxtrfeeding, overfattening, are all certain and prolific causes of ster- ility. IJutch llabl>it. The characteristic markings of the Dutch rabbit are the white streak or blaze up the face, the collar round the body behind and without touching the forelegs, which should be white, and the white tips on the hind feet. The most popular colors are black and white, blue and white, grev and white and tortoise- shell, VOL. S. NO. 4] XHB FANCIERS' JOURNAL. dz V CAGE . BIRDS ♦ AND • PETS. PUTS I HAVE HAD. Strange Animals That an English Globe-trotter Has Owned. From the New York Tribune. Children as a rule do not fear animals, and dogs that are usually savage will fre- quently not only play with but most jealously guard their baby friends. Cats, too, love to purr round a youngster. My first recollections of living are wrapped up with a cat. He was a Persian, long of fur and of stately mien, that purred and romped with me when I was a small boy. There was also Spot, the terrier that my father had brought from England, and between these two there existed an armed neutrality. Spot had been early trained by several sound whippings to know that Gulbadau, the Persian, was none of his quarry. He might chase the pariah cat that came poaching around, and either kill it or whine "for the touch of a vanished cat, or the sound of a purr that is still," but the Persian he had to hold sacred. The cat might have made a record in history, for, with the faithful of the household, it found refuge in the Resi- dency of Lucknow during the Indian mutiny, but, owing to its errant habits, had to be tied up, and then, "to suit some private ends, went mad." Spot sur- vived, and for a time was a hero, until one day it returned to bark and snarl at a leopard that crossed a road near Mis- souri, in Bengal. The leopard went away partly satisfied with a tid-bit of a pampered pet. Spot was missing. My next pet was a mongoose or ichneu- mon, one of the ferret type. Savage as f!«»nr1e a very good plan to allow some of the fowls to roost in the trees or on the fences. —In shipping young poultry at this time see that they are well watered and fed l)efore cooping and do not crowd too many into the coojjs. — Hens that are set from now on .should have their nests made on the ground or have a fresh sod of earth turned upside down in the bottom of the nests. —If you want to be up with the times in all matters pertaining to dog, poultry, pigeons and pet stock you cannot do bet- ter than suljscribe for The Fanciers' Journal. H. H. Stoddard .... , ^. .- r-ewis Wright. 50 pUtes of prize birds and other engravings. . . Capons aud Caponizing. George Q Dow Domestic Poultry. Saunders . Duck Culture. Rankin .... Poultry Book. W. B. Tegetmeier. ored illustrations; woodc son Weir. , cuts. 32 col- By Harri- .50 500 •50 .30 •50 Stephen Beale 9'oo ■SO •50 2.00 •50 ■25 1.50 •25 I.OO 14 THE BEST ENGLISH PAPER IS THE STOCKKEEPER" AND FANCIERS' CHRONICLE, For all news and information concerning DOGS, POULTRY. PIGEONS. UABHITS, <;A0K-BIK1).S, AC. It is the recognized English organ on these sub- jects, and enjoys the Largest circulaticmofany pa- per of Its class. Anurican breeders will find the best English stock advertiseii in its columns ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION, |U1, IS, CO'""'"* nngiZl '^' * '^° ""'"' **'•• *«• *^' ^°'*°''' Profitable Poultry Keeping. Poultry Yard. Miss Watts. Practical Poultry Keeper. Lewis Wright Poultry for the Many Plantagenet Poultry Doctor. J. E. Diehl Poultiy Culture. I. K. Felch. .".',"."'" Sixteen Years Experience in Artificial Poultry Raising. James Rniikin . Standard for Poultry. Am. Poultry Asso • ^•jf ■''!?'li'*"''''>'°'^-'"''8ring. By Babcoc'k, Felch St Lee ' , , The Game Fowl. Cooper , < Poultry for the people. Comyns Fancy Poultry, Part I ; Breeding and Feed- ing. Comyns RABBITS. Practical Rabbit Keeper. Cuniculus . Rabbits for Exhibition, Pleasure and Mar- ket. R. O. Edwards MISCKLLANKOUS. All About Ferrets and Rats. Sure Pop Cats ; Their Points and Classification (illus- trated) Ferrets; Their Breeding aiid Working. The Art of Training Animals; paper- il- lustrated Glimpses of Animal Life ;' the Habits and Intelligence of Animals .50 .50 1.50 '25 • '5 2.00 50 •50 1.50 Chapter X. — Common and Performing Tum- blers.—Origin of Tumbling.— Oriental Rollers.— Training of Flying Tumblers. Chapter XL— Pouters.— Pigmy Pouters. Chapter XII.— Pantails. Chapter XIII.— Jacobins. Chapter XIV.— Frilled Pigeons.- Owls, Turbits, Turbiteens, Satinettes, Blondinettes, Vizors. Chapter XV.— Exhibition Antwerps. Chapter XVI —Trumpeters, Archangels, Nuns, Magpies, Runts. Chapter XVII.— Eastern Toy Pigeons, Capu- chins, Damascenes, Swifts, Scandaroons, Indian Pigeons. Chapter XVIII.— Miscellaneous Toys, Priests, Frillbacks, Florentines, Swallows Hrunswicks' Letz Pigeons, Fairies or Fairy Swallows, Shields' Crescents, Starlings, Fire Pigeons or Firebacksl Ice Pigeons, Hyacinths, Victorias, Porcelains Suabians, Helmets, Spots. Chapter XIX.— Homing Flying Pigeons. Pigeons.— Modenese Chapter XX.— Disease of Pigeons. THE GAME FOWL MONTHLY Is an illustrated magazine devoted to game and game bantams. All progressive fanciers read it Annual subscription price, |i.oo; single number 10 cents. Address C. L. Francisco, Sayre Pa PIGEON NEWS. Subscribe for 7»c American Columbarian, Buf- falo, N. Y. It has the largest circulation and is the best advertising iiicdium of America devoted exclusivel and homing pigeons. ly to high-class' fancy Only ^" *t* Sent prepaid h\ ceipt 0/ price. mail from this office on re- -ADDRESS- any paper _" ' IBS, fancy fifty cents a year. I FANCIERS' PUBLISHING COMPANY. 33 South ThliMl Sti-eot, PHILADELPHIA, PENNA. t 1 VOL. 5, NO. 4^] TMK F'ANCIBRS' JOURNAL. 63 MISCELLANEOUS. LEG BANDS FOR ALL VARIETIES OF PIGEONS Seamless, for youngsters, every band regis- tered, each 2^c. Open bands for old birds, each ic. In ordering name the variety of pigeon on which the band is to lie used. SKNI) FOK SAMPLE. MRS. E. S. STARR, Box .(95, Philadelphia, Pa. THE KENNEL. qFox Terriers. PUPPIES AND YOUNG BITCHES for sale from celebrated sires and prize-winning dams yiLLSlDE HENNELS, 53-104 LANCASTER, MASS. CHESTNUT HILL KENNELS.!!! FOR SALE Collies & Irish Terriers We have for sale a large number of puppies of above breeds. Collies by CHRISTOPHER, CHAMPION SCOTILLA, CHAMPION THE SQUIRE, MANEY TREFOIL AND ROSLYN WILKES. Several valuable brood hitches (in whelp) and some first-class Irish terriers out of Champion Breda Tiney. . *^ We have also for sale at our English kennels several good collie bitches in whefp to Christo- pher. PRICES I150 TO $250 (delivered). ADDRESS CHESTNUT HILL KENNELS, 74 Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia. Dogs for Sale ^^=^ If you want to buy a good dog of any kind write to the O^OODBURY KENNELS, CITY OFFICE, 135 S. 8Tn STREET Philadelphia, Pa. Dogs boarded and treated for all diseases. Rates reasonable. Satisfaction guaratced. 63-114 WORM POWDER FOR DOGS. |i by maU. MOORE BROS , Albany, N. Y. INCUBATORS. Prairie §tafe Incubator Twenty-seven ist premi- ums awarded at the leading shows including first at the 1890 show, New York City, for best incubator in show room. This was the great- est incubator contest in the world. Send for our large catalogue. Address G. A. McFETKIDGE, General Agent, Compassville, 6j tf Chester Co., Pa. PUBLICATIONS. 'P^^e .pomir\^ 6xcl?an|e. A monthly magazine of information concern- ing the breeding, care and training of Homing Pigeons. The official journal of "The Federa- tion of American Homing Pigeon Fanciers." $1 per year. Address HOMING EXCHANGE PUBLISHING CO., GERMANTOWN, PA. AMERICAN KENNEL CLUB S"""^^ B OOK, Blanks for registering in the official Stud Book will be mailed on application. THE AMERICAN KENNEL GAZEUE. the official monthly publication of the club, con- tains the Judges' reports and certified prize lists of the different shows. Stud Book registrations and numbers of e.ich month's entries and all kennel news of an official character. Subscrip- tion, two dollars per annum. Secretary American Kennel Club, Nos. 44 and 46 Broadway, New York. ESTABLISHED 1874, THE FANCIERS' GAZETTE, A Weekly Journal Devoted to Dogs, Poultry, Pig- eons, Rabbits, Cats, Cavies and Cage Birds. Articles by the I.,eading Authorities. I.,ettera and Notes on Current Subjects. Prompt and Re- liable Reports. Queries Answered by Specialists. Illustrations by Best Artists. Only Penny Journal Dealing with All the Fancies. Terms of Subscriptions (payable in advance): One year, post free. United States and Canada, f2.10. Address Post-office Orders and communications \.o\.\\c Fanciers' Ca*^«^, Limited, S4 to 57 Impe- rial Buildings, Ludgate Circus, Lomlon, E. C. F^ngland. OlHLOAdAS -FOR- PIGEON • FLYERS -FOR THE USE OF- Club Secretaries. IN RED AND BLUE WITH NAME OF CLUB IN GOLD Giving space for all particulars of station, at- mosphere, start, entry, distance, speed and age, name and sex of bird. In lots of 50 or less, la.jo ; each additional 50, $2.00. Address Fanciers' Publishing Co., 32 SOUTH THIRD STREET, PHILADELPHIA, PENNA. DOGS. Advertisements without display inserted under this heading Jor t cents per word for each insertion. BIoodlioiiudH. FOR SALE.— A choice litter whelped February 2 by Belhu/i — Rosemary. J. I,. Winchell, Fair Haven, Vt. Col Ilea. FOR SALE.— Young stock ftxim prize win- iiine blood. Prices reasonable. F. R Cars- well, Wilmington, Del. 64-tf RDERS BOOKED for collie pups bred as follows: By Metchley Wonder out of Ros- lyn Primrose, by Champion Scotilla out of Champion Flurry III, by The Squire out of Roslyn Clara, by The S Send lor oiir New Price List and Samples. All orders shipped proinply by freight on receipt of price. C. II. DEMPWOLF & CO., 42-93 York Chemical Works, York, Pa. #» PAMPHLET ON DOG - DISEASES Mailed (gratis) by the author, H. CLAY GLOVER, Veterlnarj' S«rjvarci S. Schmid, Successor to Louis Schraid & Sons, Dealer in SINGING BIRDS, BIRD FOOD AND CAGES. FISH, AQUARIUMS AND FISH FOOD. PIGEONS OF ALL KINDS FOR SALE. Send for illustrated catalogue and price list. No. 317 Twelth Street, N. W. Washington, D. C. STRAWBRIDGE & CLOMEB MARKET. EIGHTH and FILBERT STS.. PIIIIiADEL.PHIA, PA. ■f+isfor^ and Description -WITH- l^eminiscences -OF THE- ..FOX TERRIER.. BY I^awDON liEE, EDITOR "THE FIELD." Illustations by Arthur Wardle. Second Edition. Prick Postpaid, $1.30. ADDRESS THIS OFFICE. THEO. P. GREEN, Woodbury, N. J. Homing Pigeons a Specialty 1^, ONLY ONE QUALITY —OP- BREEDING STOCK and that the BEST \,,^ Money can <» ^ Secure. I J 1 I 1 , I . 1 1 I M 1 .1 J. My homers are tested as record birds and as parents of birds with records from 500, ,S25 and 700 miles. I have fifty pairs of well-mated birds from the above stock of 1889 hatch for sale. Also youngsters with Sporting Life bands. Can give a clear pedigree. Send for Price List. 44-95 SPRAPTS PATENT DOG CAKES The Best and Cheapest Dog Food in the Market. *»'BeTmre of worthless imitations, same shape, and see that each cake is stamped: DOG SOAP, Certain death to fleas, an, NO. 5. 1 WIIOLJC NO., Ti. f PHILADELPHIA, AUGUST 2, 1890. PER ANNUM, 9S. SO. SINGLE COPY, 60. PLYMOUTH ROCKS, "MAPLEWOOD IV" AND MATES. 66 THE FANCIERS' JOURNAI^. [AUG. 2. 1890 BENCH SHOWS. BENCH SHOWS. 82600.00 PRIZES S2600.00 Toronto inuustrial exhibition. second grand INTERNATIONAL BENCH SHOW OF DOGS, TO BK HKl,U AT TORONTO, CANADA, SEPTEMBER 15, 16, 17, 18 AND 19. ENTRIES CLOSE SEPTEMBER 3. l"or Premtum Lista, eU-., apply to C. A. STONE, 71-76 SECRKTAHY and SUI'EKlNTKNlJENT, TorOUto. WILMINGTON AGRICULTURAL AND INDUSTRIAL ASSOCIATION. FIRST DOG SHOW- FIRST DOG SHOW FAIR GROUNDS, WILMINGTON, DEL, SEPTEMBER 2 TO 5, 1890. ENTRIE8 CXOHK AUGU8T 21. FEE, f2.00. For Premium Llstft, etc., apply to FRANK R. CARSWELL, Superintendent. 101 -WEST SIXTH ST., Wilmington, Del. Also POULTRY, PIGEON and BIRD EXHIBITION. 71-75 IN THE STUD. Advertisemenls insetted utuUr th is heading at the following rates: One inch, single insertion, frjo; tf.fo/or the month; ti5 Jor three months; $28/or SIX months, and Sso/or the year. K IN THE STUD. Advertisements inserted under this heading at the folUrwing rates: One inch, single insertion, $'■5": $5-4" fo*' the month; $is for three months; fiS for six months, and f^o for the year. ILLARNEY @ ■ ^ t-lNIN «//?£ BRED IRIiiH SETTERS EXCLUSIVELY (IM- PORTED AND DOMESTIC). JRISH SETTRRS AT STUD. ST. CLOUD (11,131) CH. HI.CHO— NORKKN. GLENMAR (13,426) CH. GMCNCHO— MAVOURNEKN. Puppies by the above dog.s, Ch. KIcho Jr. and others for sale. ST. CI.OUD KENNELS. 62lf Tremoiit. N. Y. DICK 8WIVELER. NOTED DOGS AT STUD : DICK SWIVELER, winner of first challcnKe prize, New York show, 1890 ; also first and special prizes all over the United SUtes. FEE $50. RED RIVER GLENCHO, Winner first and special prizes, St. Paul show, 1887 and i8«8 (only times shown). FEE $25, GARRYOWEN IV, imp. Grandson of the great Chamckin Gakrvowbn "the hero of the benches of Europe." FEE $25. To a limited number of bitches of approved breeding. Extended Pedigrees of each sent on applica- tion. Extra choice Irish puppies by the great DiCK SwiVKLER for sale at reasonable prices. GEO. H. COVERT (Prop.), KlI^KAUNEY KKNXKI.,S, So-ioi 177 State Street, Chicaoo, III. poiNTEK IN STUD. LEBANON BY TIM— PEG. RECORD: Divided fourth Eastern Field Trials, 1888; winner of second Eastern Field Trials and first at Central Field Trials, 1889. FEE, $50. Lebanon Kennels, lebanon, pa. 479H J^OUGH-COATED ST. BERNARD IN THE STUD. Advertisements inserted under this heading at the following tales: (hie inch, single insettion, $i.So; $5.40 for the month; fs /"'' three months; fi8 for six months, and Sjo for the year. ^^^CASPER— ^ A. K. C. S. B. 1444J. PEDIGREE: Sire, Champion f '^'''""' ''^''■'- P»irrim, 14067 Plinlimmon, E. 150501 ^ .„ „ . r • o o (Grand Oam, Beafixe. 13793 {Grand Sire, Merchant Prince, 1474J Grand Dam. Chloris. FEE : : FORTY DOLLARS. I RISK SETTER AT STUD. PENINSULAR KENNELS. I.KANDKK TICHF.NOR, Manaciek. CHELSEA MICH. CHAMPION BLARNEY FKK, $25 ENGLISH SETTER, ROD GEM (RODERIGO— GEM ) FEE, $25. B. F. LEWIS, Box 13, 53-78 Merion P. O, Pa. PNGI.ISH SETTER AT STUD. GATH'S MARK. (4771) None but approved bitches accepted. For stud card and particulars address SETTERS & POmTERS DESMOND II 67-79 J. B. STODDARD, CONCORD, N. C Red Irish setter, bred by Rev. R. O'Callaghan, Ftngland, by Fri.sco — Grouse II. This dog com- bines both held and bench show qualities. He won first prize in the Ucibv at the Philadelphia field trials 1H8S, and on the fcench has won, hrst, Philadelphia; first, Troy; first, Albany; first, Rochester, 1888 and first, challenge class, Phila- delphia 1889. Stud fee, $35. SIR TATTON English setter by Sir AUister — Belle of Furness. Record: First and .special at Philadelphia, 1S89; first and special at London, Onl., i88g, and win- ner of 40 prizes and cups in England. This dog is a wonderful jierfornier in the field. Fee, J35. DASHING KENT Same pedigree as Sir Tatton. A young dog of great promise; excellent in the field. Fee, $25. CARLTON PERO By Sir Tatton — Princess Charlotte II. Winner of numerous prizes in punpy classes in F^ngland last year and winner of .second prize, puppy class, at London, Out., when out uf condition. A grand dog in the field. Fee, J25. GAMBOL Pointer, full brother to Woolton Game by Gough — Larkspur. A superb field dog. Fee, |J5. All approved bitches sent to us to be served will J>e kept free of expense. Terms cash in ad- vance. Bitches not proving in whelp will be en- titled to free service. Extended pedigrees and stud cards on applica- tion. EAST END KENNEL CLUB, Care W. H. Weiss, 43-94 Bethlehem, Pa. E NGLISH PUG AT STUD HAYSEED (ii,8o7> Douglass II— Rose, by Champion Bradford Ruby. FEE - - - FIVE DOLLARS. SEMINOLE KENNELS, 70-73 Chestnut Hill, Phila., Pa. f mportf;d wiiitf; bull tf;rrier AT STl'D-^— .KINGCRAFT. FINE PEDIGREE. WKK.HT, FORTY LBS. FEE, $10. Photooraphs Fifty Cents. Address E. F. Doty, 7itf 47 Wellington Place, Toronto, Canada. IN THE STUD. Advertisements inserted under this heading a, the following rates: One inch, single insert ion t Si. so; $5.40 for the month; Sj.S for three months SlS for SIX months, and tin for the year. QHAMPION GORDON SETTER OF AMERICA, LITTLE BOY winner over English and Ainerii-aii cliani- pious. Winner at Toledo of special. "Best sport- ing dog in show," Mr. John Davidson judge. Winner at Cincinnati of special, "Best setter or pointer stud dog, that is the sire of the greatest iiiinibeiorprizt winners." Winner of FORTY Olid firsts and specials, under judges : Major J. M. Taylor, Mr. John Davidson. l>r. Jarvis, Mr. Tracy. Mr. Tallnian, Mr. Higgins, etc. Mr. v.. C. Sterling. Shown by Mr. B F. Lewis. Stiiil fee $25 for a limited number of bitches. WAVEKLY KENNELS, JOHN SANDERSON, care Dr. Dixon, 70-75 S'*!!' St. and Elm wood Ave., Phila. T SHALL HAVE AT MY KENNELS FOR A t short time CH. BEAUFORT, The propertj; of Mr. W. K. Taunton. Champion Beaufort's winnings on the show bench and his record as a stud dog have proved him the best mastiff ever known. He is the sire of more and greater prize winners than all others living. Mastiff breeders should make the most of this grand dog while here. Photographs 25 cents. Stud fee $75. J. WINCHELL, 55-'o6 FAIRHAVEN, Vt. JJORKSHIKK lOY IKKKIER .\T SlUI). CH. BRADFORD HARRY. The celebrated Kiiglish and .•Vniericaii prize winner. Described in show reports as "best Yorkshire in America." Two photographs from life, 50 cents. Extended pedigree and winnings free. A first-class show ct. 6-9.— Ninth annual dog show of the Dan- bury Agricultural Society, at Danbiiry. Conn., B. C. Lynes. secretary. Feb. 24-27.— Westminster Kennel Club. New York City. James Mortimer, superintendent. Field Trials. Nov. 3.— Fourth annual field trials of the Indi- ana Kennel Club, at Carlisle, Ind., P. T. Madison, Indianapolis, Ind., secretary Nov. 10— Second annual fielil trials of the Canadian Kennel Club, at Chatham. Out . C A. Stone. Toronto, Out., secretary. Nov. 17.— Twelfth annual iielil trials of the Eastern Field Trials Club, atOtterbiirn Springs, Va. W. A. Coster. Saratoga Springs, N. Y.. sec- retary. Dec. I.— Second annual field trials of the Cen- tral Field Trials Club, at Lexington. N. C. C. H. Odell, Mills Hiiildiiig, New York, secretary. Dec. 15.— Philadelphia Kennel Club's seventh annual field trials at Deatonsville. Va 1801. Ian. 19.— Eighth annual field trials r.f the Pa- cific Kennel Club, at Bakersfield, Cal. H H Uriggs, secretary. Feb. 2.— Third annual fielil trials of the South- ern Field Trials Club. T. .M. Brunby, secretary Marietta, Ga. Coiii-sliiif. Oci. 21-25.— Fifth annual meet of the American C.nirsiiig Club, at Great Bend, Kan. I. D Brougher, secretary. Poultry and Pigeon Nh<»vs .\ug. 26-Sept. 5.— Detroit International Fair and Exhibition Association, Detroit. E W Cottrell, secretary. Sept. 1-12.— Elniiia Interstate Iriir. Mr. George W. Kobinson. secretary. Sept, 1-6— Wilmington Fair Association Poul- try and Bird Department. T. D. Hrowii secre- tary, Wilmington. Del. Sept. H-12 — Itiirlington County, N J Poultry Association. T, F.irrer Rackham, secretary Ka.st Orange, N, J. Sept, 9-20,— Iliiffalo International Fair. Mr. Charles W. Robin.son, secretary. Sept. 12-20— Kansas State Fair, Topeka, Kan K. G. Moon, secretary. Sept. 22-27.- Indiana State Fair. .■Vlex Heron secretary. Sept. 22-27.— Central Canada Fair, Ottawa Ciiuida Alfred Geddes, chairman. Sept 27-Ocl 2— Inter slate Fair, Memphis, Tenn. N. C. Perkins, Jr., secretary Sept, 2v-Ocl. 3 —Inter State Fair Association, Irenton, N J,, Poultry, Pigeons and Pets De- partment, Franklyn Dye, superintendent Nov. 8-12.- -Southern Exposition, Montgomery, Ala., Poultry Department. T. Farrer Rackham, superintendent. East Orange. N, J, Dec, 9-16,— Northern Illinois Poultry and Pet Stock Association, Rockford. A. H. Currier, secretary. Dec, 10-12, — Brockton Poultry and Pet Stock Association, Brockton, Mass, William F,' Bond, secretary. Box 795, Dec, 2,(-26. — F^astern Middles(fx Poultry Asso- ciation, Sloneham, Mass, .Mr, G. W. Corniack, secreiary. Dec. 30.-Jan. 6.— Illinois State Poultry Associa- tion, Peoria. J. W. Burton, secretary. Jan. 13-17.— International Exhibition of the South Carolina Poultry and Pet Stelittling the gf>od (jiialities of the other breeds. Yes, Brittle, the Irish dog is the under one in the fight, aiilack and tan ter- riers has arrived. They are Br(x>mfield Como, Brmfielefore he has ponited them. For this act I always refuse to shoot, bring the dog back a yard or two, steady and keep him to "ho" for a few seconds. If this does not eventually stop him and you have to resort to the whip— except m cases where dogs have been alloweil or encouraged to flush for the gun — you may make up your mind that your dog will never make a fit candidate for field trial honors. The idea which some sceptics regarding the merits of field trial dogs entertain that the latter are not staunch, or at least that staunchness is not sufficiently tested at field trials, is most erroneous. To win a irial, or even a heat, requires a perfectly staunch dog. Nowhere is staunchness, and steadiness, too, more severely testeetler, however, to prevent a dog from chasing than to dej)end ujkju correcting him for so doing. This may generally be done by going to him quietly when on ])oint or back and securing him by the collar. If the birds do not flush get an a.ssistant to flush them. The puppy will uiidoul>tedly try to dash after them. Hold him firmly, talk to and steady him. Do this every op- portuuitv you get, and your dog, if he is any goout I never now use severity with puppies. I try to mould their habits and I attribute such faults as the a1>ove more to ignorance than to bad intentions. With regard to checking and curbing I will say no more. I have not, by any means, said all that might Ite said on this subject, but I will have to depend on the good judgment, tact and ability of my readers tor a great deal. Therefore, I will let experience suggest to them such details as I have omitted. A word now about developing the natural instinct for ranging in our pupil and I will have done. It is a great and general mistake to suppose that all fast dogs are good rangers, or that they should necessarily be such on account of their speed. A dog may be the l>e8t of movers and the poorest of rangers. Speed is certainly a very valuable adjunct to range, and it is not at all as difficult to develop good ranging powers in a good, fast mover as it is to do so in a poor, slow running dog, even where the natural ranging sense is equal. Yet I claim that ranging power is located in the head. The legs only furnish the means of exercising that power. Lack of ambition, Iwd feet, poor legs, weak loins, etc., each tend and sometimes all combine to prevent a dog from exercising his ranging faculty, but without this brain faculty no dog can be a good ranger. A dog of good heart and going j>ower is of course pretty certain to go to tlie extreme limit of his ability, and proper handling and experience will doubtless greiitly improve his range, but unless power of location is a natural at- tribute of his mind, he will always be re- luctant about going away from his haniller. I believe that ranging po\\ei is natural to all field dogs, although it is suppressed in many families of them. Dogs that are allowed to run at large generntion after generation always make good rangers unless they are spoiled in their training, whereas those that are kenneled and never allowed to go out of sight on their own account lose almost all locating faculty. To develop the natural ranging capa- bility of your dog then, give him every possible opportunity to exercise his pow- ers unrestrained. Let him get away on his own account and come back without the aid of the whistle. Be careful, how- ever, not to practice your puppy by los- ing him on purpose to let him find you. 'rt-.*- i.:..-i -,r :-„ 1 «t,„ .,.,., ^ xiiis xkiLi\i ui cvci^iac iiiu^ Aiavi. bii\. oppo- site effect. He may fail to locate you and then be more than ever afraid to leave you afterwards. Instead of this let your effort t>e to prevent the puppy from getting astray. At first keep a straight regular course through the field if practicable to do so. Make no short or pu7.zling turns away from the direction he thinks you are moving in. Be very consistent, fair and honest with him. Keep track of him and make it plain to him where you are, but do not interfere with him too much or call him too often ; in fact, never do so at all without goo ♦ ■ ESKIMO DOGS. What a Famous Traveler Has to Say Alxiut the Falthrnl /VnlnuilH. During his wonderful sledge journey from Hudson's Bay to the Arctic Ocean, Frederick Schwatka had abundant oppor- tunity to learn the habits and the dispo- sition of the Eskimo dog. He started out with sixty of them, using them to draw the sledges, and only nineteen were alive when he returned to Hudson's Hay. The others had died, mostly of starvation. He says : They were through all this horrible time perfect respecters of their human allies, aneriority to be claimed by one of these breeds over the other for shooting pur- poses, some averring that the pointer can always beat the setter in the hot days which are oflen to be met with in Sep- teml)er, and when water is not easily to be got at ; whilst others consider that the setter is better able to range amongst the heather and on rough ground, l)esides which, from its thicker coat, it is able to withstand rain with less inconvenience. Almost all, however, admit that the pointer holds a slight advantage when at work on stubble and cultivated grouml. No greater authority on sporting dogs exists than Mr. William Ivort, the well- known and much respected judge. In the "Book of the Dog" he tells us that Mattingley and Webb Edge did for the pointer what Lavarack did for the setter, and Mr. Moore, of Appleby, was one of the most successful in raising the breed to the t)osition it now holds. Later on, Mr. Whitehouse took up the breed, and has probably bred more good pointers than any f>ther person liefore or since. Fol- lowing Mr. Whitehouse came Mr. Lloyd Price, who for several years was quite at the top of the tree with, amongst other gocnl performers, his grand dog Wagg, who as a prize winner has probably dis- tanced any pointer which has ever been put on the show l)euch. His l)eauti- ful bitch Belle also gaine«l the repu- tation of l)eing one of the very l)est field trial animals that ever had been brought out, she having on one oc- casion scored the full number of points at a field trial meeting. Mr. S. Price is another gentleman whose as.sociations with the breed date back several years. His name will always be remembered as the breeder of Bang and Belle of Bow, besides a long string of other fine dogs. Mr. E. C. Norrish has also lieen most successful in breeding and exhibiting, his best dog being Graphic, who was iasi year sold 10 an American buyer at a long figure. Having no great length of coat to cover up weak points, the pointer, like the greyhound, must be specially well formed. In appearance it is gay, showing plenty of quality, combined with substance. The head is long, with rather prominent frontal l)ones, showing a stop below the eyes, which are medium size, dark hazel in color in liver and black and white and lighter in lemon and white, with intelli- gent expression. The muzzle is rather wide, with a fair amount of lip, the nose being liver, flesh colored or black accord- i)ig to the body color of the dog. The ears hang flat to the side of the head, set rather low and moderately long. The neck is slightly arched, clean beneath and lengthy, throaliness l)eing a most ob- jectionable feature, the shoulders sloping as those of all animals which are expected to gallop fast must be, and there must also be plenty of heart room with depth of chest, the loin muscular and strong with racing-like quarters, the muscle .showing well down the thighs. The stern is set well up and is rather fine and carried from the Ijody and not at all feathered. The forelegs come out straight from the shoulders and are well set up on compact feet, the hind being well l)ent at the hocks. Liver and white and lemon white are the most fancied colors, but black and white is much sought after by many admirers of the breed. In olden days many pointers were to lie seen all liver or all black, but their place has now been taken by those of the before-named colors. ■ • « • A Renegade Dog. From Sports Afield. History furnishes many instances of men who hnve renounced civilizntion nnil joined ■saviige tribes ; hut Cecjrge Cnhlwcll.of I)e Ueque, in northwestern Colornilo, hns 11 lurit inns in the wiiy or n renegiide dog. This dog has spent nearly a year with the wolves on the range, and was induced to return to civilized life only alter lieiiiK caught in a liear trap. lie still carries a lame ffKit as a memento of his siivage life. He is a fine-louking animal of the shepherd breed, and is one of the best cattle dogs in that part of the country. — "Why do you keep that dog's tail tied up ?" "Because it gives me such a chill when he wags it '."—Shooting Times. VOL. 5, NO. 51 THE FANCIERS' JOURNAL. 09 SPARKS FROM BRITTLE'S PEN. Interesting Facts and Fancies Culled from the Doggy World. special Correspondence Panciers' Journal. Have readers seen the two insects which last week's American Field pro- duces by Jkiud permission of the Ameri- can Kennel Gazette ? If not I hope they will lje advised by me and refrain from doing so, unless jim-jams, jumps and blood-curdling nightmares will l>e con- sidered a pleasant variation from one's onlinary routine in life. Mr. Winchell, in his explanatory article on these curios, does not deny that they are exact repre- sentations of two mummified cats which were discovered intact amongst those shipped to England recently ; in fact, he makes no reference whatever to this in- teresting incident, but endeavors to palm them off as pictures of the two blood- hounds. Duchess of Ripple anil Rose- marj', and as Mr. Muss-Arnolt, the artist, countenances this pleasantry, both gen- tlemen must be accredited with the little joke, but at the same time I would warn readers that the original jiictures of the bloodhounds were lost in transmission, and Mr. Arnolt, not having time to exe- cute duplicates, the mummified cats were substituted. So rumor hath it. In his article Mr. Winchell tells us, as does Jesse, that somewhere alwut the year one bloodhounds were used by Monks on Mt. Vesuvius or Mt. ^^Ctna for driving off unchaste jn-rsons, but on one of them, making no distinction l>e- tween an unchaste Monk and an unchaste ordinarv l>einn, Ihev were discardetl. He also tells us breeders in England could lie counted on one hand, and those here on one finger. This is not to be wondered at if modern representatives of the breed still possess the same attributes as their ancestors of Mt. Vesuvius or Mt. .rl^tna fame. In fact, after this announcement doggy men will no doubt fight shy of approaching this — as Mr. Winchell puts it — self-confident, commanding and kingly breed, and there should lie a diffi- culty in finding anyone l>old enough to appear in the judging ring. Here is the "eureka" for the A. K. C. No longer will they be compelled to delilierate among themselves as to the fitness of the man who enters their portals. All they have to do is to buy a bloodhound and there you are, don't you know, though there would be every likelihood of the A. K. C. being compelled to follow in the footsteps of the Mt. /Etna fathers, for the chances are a hundred to one some over- zealous hound would prevent many of the chosen from attending to the affairs of state — iloggy, of course. All these dollars and cents, and where did you get that ha— excuse me, balance business has evidently so affected Wm. Wade, of Hulton, Pa., that he has been forced to return to the revival— for posi- tively not the la.st occasion by the one billionth— of mastiffs, and tlipsey, who has long rested in peace or quiet, is drag- ged out tooth and nail. I have no desire to rub W. W., of Hulton, Pa., the wrong way, but a little friendly bickering on our own account would be quite refreshing in these days of particularly vindictive mosquitoes, suffocatingly sultry weather and tedious prolongation of the agony of how Mr. Vredenburgh had |i22 odd one month (January^ and J1200 odd the next. I don't know if Mr. Wade has cxjieri- cnced the tenacity with which a mos- quito will pursue his victim, never rest- ing until he has secured his (the victim's not the 'squito's) gore, but if Gipsey pur- sued her inclinations in the same deter- mined spirit, I don't wonder at her owner singing pteans after she hath departed. That Gipsey was a domestic wonder I will not dispute, but that she was as ugly as sin in a show point of view, it is dol- lars to doughnuts. It is also the same rate of otlds that, were she living to day, the public would still be in ignorance of her existence, for I never knew one of the much-lauded "has beens" that amounted to a row of pins ; that is, those who were too precious to risk the evils of a bench show. No; in spite of the fart that Mr. Wade is sure to assert to the contrary, Gipsey's image as it was is not as it is. for after a lapse of years and con- tinual reiterations her beauties must have become magnified into those of a Cam- brian Princess. 1 don't know if Mr. Wade takes mental note of the many scribes who are forever inflicting some special favorite's traits on the public's susceptibilities, but if so, does he chuckle at their egotism, or does he fume ? He must do one or the other sure. In writing thus I do not mean to infer W. W. has the monopoly, for there is one can give him a long, long start ; to wit, the j>reternatural excellencies of Laura B., and without a word of exag- geration I haven't i)icked up a doggy pai)er fiir the la.st two months without Laura B.'s name appearing in nearly every column. Laura B. is all very well in her way, as is her owner in his, but a little oC lioth goes a precious long way. OW.NKK'S KKHKAIN. There's none .so fair, The' she's carroty hair. As I.aura n. Yes ! Laura B. But I declare, And positively swear, Laura B d — d, Laura B A — d. Till- aliove is not, perhaps, in the same "dignified friendly style" with which her owner is modest enough to say he an- swereefore Mr. Astley sold him I had him at my kennels; in fact, he went from my place to be shipped, so that I should know something alxjut the dog. That he was a rank bad one is all nonsense, as he had an excellent expres- sion, good bone, more than decent legs and feet ; he was a nice size with lots of style, anuiiefore each guest. The man who occupied the seat of honor at the head of the Uble was Mr. Highbreeze, the most popular memlier of the club, whose jovial and smooth shaven face was well known to every fancier of prominence in the land. After the oysters, the soup, the fish, the cnires, llic fowl ttiid the utsstrl had disappeared and all the glasses had l)eeu taken away except the ones in which a succession of flashing bubbles arose from a light amber fluitl and every person that smoked had lighted a cigar or cigarette, Mr. Highbreeze arose and said : "Brethren of the doggy world, in be- half of the meinl>ers of our club, I wel- come you to our city. This is the last show of the circuit " "Thank God ! " groaned an inerhaps, who fail To see it in tiuite this light ; But when the fur flies I hail rather be The outside dog in the fight. "I know there are dogs, most generous dogs. Who think it quite the thing To take the part of the tjottom dog, .\nd go yelping into the ring I care not "a pin what the world iiiav say In regard to the wrong or the rigfit. My money goes, as well as my «fjng, For the dog that keeps out of the fight ' All the visitors bt-gan to look at one an- other wonderingly, and one of them shouted "Next." In response to which another fellow recited : THE DOG THAT 'LIGHTS ON TOP. "They may sing, who will, of the outside dog. Or the under dog, if they chot>se ; 1 tell you the dog that alights on top — Who knows how his chances to u.se— Who gets there fairly, ami stays there, too, Keepiiig ever in view the right, Unmindful of everything else save fair play. Is the dog for nie' in the fight. "For, observe, thereare bones worth fighting for. And the valiant do^ 'sails in,' At risk of getting a nip or a scratch, For which he cares not a pin. .\nd though there be nlaiiy who fail to view A fair contest in this same light- Still, fly the fur, or fly it not. Give me the top dog in the fight. "I've seen and heard of the 'liberal dogs," Who, as a general thing. Will assume the part of the under dog, When venturing into the ring : But I've found they're sure. when the fight is done, To side with the victor— pop ! And, be the chance-winner in right or wrong, "They yell for the dog that's on top. "I've sailed in the North, I've been thro' the South, I have travel'd East and West ; I have known the worst beaten— I've seen Rare triumphs rewarding the best ; But, in the assault I've heard of, or know. Aimed at brain, at pelt, or at crop. In the end I notice, we're pronest to shout For the dog that alights on top. " Everybody roared "Broo," Hurrah ! Hear! Hear! and one man wanted to know "When the poetry mill would cease grinding." Aiitither individual immedi- ately pojJped up with : "Gentlemen, we have heard all alwut the under dog, the outside dog, and the dog that lights on top. Now I'll give my sentiments regarding THE UPPER DOG. "You may sing of your dog, your under dog, Or vour outside dog in a fight ; I go for the dog, the boUI, brave dog. That's up on th' top, in the right. .\nd giving his wag. in a pleasant way. He knowingly feels he is right : He 'sails forth in' with all his force— The upper dog in the fight. "Where will you find a dog of sense. When he knows that he is right. Will stand off afar, as the war goes on. And not help th' just in the fight ? Or. where'U yon find a dog of strength In the cause of truth to delight. That'll give right up and sneakinglybe The under dog in the fight. "You know that the world, the wide, wide world, Always frowns on the lean ami the light ; If vou're up on the top. with truth on your side. You're the be.st dogthen. in the fight. But if under you go, or standoff aloof, Your name and your fame gets a blight ; The wide, wide world will truly say, Shame on that dog in the fight ! "I know there are dogs, mean, sneaking pups. Who say thev'Il leave you alone ; But, as the figfu goes on, they'll sneak right in And steal from both the bone. I know there are dogs, big, ugly curs, That fall under to^et out of sight. But in truth and in right give me the dog. The upper dog in the fight ' After he liatl finished a well-known club member said : "The gentleman has just taken the sentiments out of my mouth, but as mine are somewhat of a variation on his, I'll give them anyhow. He recitetl : THE TOP DOG. "Who cares a cuss for under dog When there's a dog on top .' Man's sympathy is for success, He lets the luckless drop : Anil olleii will he give a kick At any slender prop. The under dog may think is sure Reverses for to stop. "There is no use for men to talk Of what is wrong or right. In this vain world the dog which wins. By virtue of his might. Is he for whom all men will shout From morning until night. Because he always proves himself The top dog in the fight, "So at ♦lini, Tray, but stav on lop. And shake the scoundrel well, What business has the filthy cur .■Mong our street to smell ? Have at him, boy, dcm't let him go, Till you his hopes dispel. And I will bet you ten to one The crowd for yon will yell. This was as much as the guests could stand and the dinner party broke up in great confusion. KEXNKr^ llEeeii at work on sheep, as such rear puppies much better than animals which leati an indolent life. This fact points to the supposition that the cause of so many high-bred bitches experiencing so much difficulty in partu- rition is due to the confined state in which the^' are kept, and the artificial way in which they are fed. The breeder must be guided by the ap- pearance of the mother as to how many foster mothers will be required. Some large dogs are so prolific that they will oc- casionally multiply to the extent of eigh- teen at a litter, t)ut thirteen or fourteen are by no means an uncommon tiumljer. 01. 11 « t. » ..^....i.. l.r. '^r <.v«.-.>'-.«'/1«««n**«> merit, or the bitch herself a prize-winner, the value of each puppy will t)e in pro- portion to that of its dam, it is, there- fore, the more necessary that precaution should be taken to provide proper suste- nance for them. Six is the most that should be left with the mother if fast growth and speedy development are in- despensable, and the remainder must lie relegated to one, two, or three nurses according to their capabilities to perform the office. When size is not a consider- ation, a larger number may be left with the dam. Bringing up puppies tiy hand has occasionally lieen trieil with more or less success, but, under the most favor- able circumstances, the result is not worth the trouble. Once having settled the puppies on their respective nurses, they can remain undisturbed for three weeks, as, if healthy, they will thrive on the mother's milk, provided she is fed three times a a day on nourishing food. This should be comj>osed of a farinaceous nature, mixed with strong broth and a little meat, to keep up her strength, and to enable her to stand the drain upon her constitu- tion during the remainder of the tima that the puppies require her support. It is important to remeiiiiier that when the puppies can crawl about the mother should not be fed in their presence, as, unnatural as it may seem, she will often growl at, and has sometimes t)eeii known to kill, her offspring. At three weeks old the little ones should be taught to lap by putting their noses in a pan of milk, at the same time passing the contents to their mouths with the finger. Goats' milk is preferable to cows' ; but if not obtainable, the latter must be diluted with one-third water. Both must l)e scalded, and given about the temperature of the mother's milk. A week later it may l)e thickened with corn flour, which may be continued till they are six weeks old, this food being given four times a day. The period for weaning having now arrived, it is advisable that more substan- tial diet be given, in onler to tempt the puppies to fill themselves. The broth from a bullock's head, which has been well boiled, thickened, with corn flour, will supply this purpose ; or, better still, that of a sheep's head, as all dogs thrive on mutton better than on any other meat. The mother should be taken quite away, and not allowed either to see or VOL. 5. NO. 5 ] THE FANCIERS' JOURNAL. 71 hear the puppies, or she will strain every effort to get to them, when, if successful, her stale milk will most certainly upset them, and their continued worrying will induce her to throw tip food that she has eaten, which is (juite unsuitetl to their delicate digestion. A mild aj)erient should l)e given to the mother when first taken away ; her diet shoule held at Ivlmira, N. Y., September i to 12. The poultry and pigeon department is pro- vided for as usual, Ijesides quite a num- ber of special prizes have been donated. Chamijions of the score caril have re- ceived another ilefeat, for the birds at this show will l»e judged by comparison. * » * Our Western readers should send for a copy of the Kansas State Fair premium list, a copy of which we have just re- ceived. The poultry department is under the care of Mr. C. H. Rhoiles. » ■ .\ very important omission in both the above premium lists is that the judges are not announced. Judges should be secureuth Carolina Poultry and Pet Stock A.ssociation, with its principal place of business at Charleston. S. C, and with a membership of nearly .seven hundreers. With these remarks we have only to request our friends to remember the distinction we have made in our title, and to address us as "The South Carolina Poultry and Pet Stock Associa- tion (not incorporated), at Charleston, South Carolina. Ross A. Smith, President. Advocates of the score card fear that if it be abandoned the standard will suffer. Apparently all have not the same rever- ential veneration for the standard, ami one of the iconoclasts, Mr. Grant Parish, writes the Countjy Gentleman about "Our Transitory 'Standard' " as follows : •'The .^uiericaii Poultry Association has met and aose — to produce fine eggs and meat. The large incubator houses near Paris use eggs from fowls raised and bred on their own farms. There is no guesswork about it. In this country everything goes with a rush, especially the broiler business. Money is invested with a lavish hand, expensive buildings go up, a large array of incu- bators are procured and i)erhaps a man- ager hired to take charge of the estab- lishment. Kverything is figured out on on the age and surroundings of the chick- ens. W'ith an unlimited grass run and plenty of shade, crackeil corn will I>e found one of the best and most econom- ical foooth is so abundant that the in- ferior ears and tomatoes could be profit- ably fed to fowls. The health of man and beast depends largely in hot weather on a vegetable diet. Some men live on excuses. This ap- plies most charmingly to those individu- ! paper a»ouglit wherever an egg exists. All kinds are dumped together and j)laced in the machines. The hatches, instead of being ninety per cent, dwindle down to less than thirty per cent often- times. The chicks fail to do well in the brooders and at the time when chickens ' tl>e»r faults, the same as other breeds, are high the supply at Mr. Novice's ''"^ the cannabalislic traits of these Ivng- yards is low. He finds plenty of cripples Hsh Rocks are certainly not prevalent in Hammonton has startled the world fre- quently, but just now enjoj's the posses- sion of two living freaks of nature. They are two one-legged chickens, a cockerel and a pullet. Both were hatched in the ^me nest, and each minus a leg. They hop around cheerfully, and seem to enjoy life. They have been dubbed anti- scratchers. The party who owns the "freaks" has refii»e«< fa* for them, but also in his flock and pcrhaj)s blames his manager, and discharges him. The latter has some of the money ; the car])enters, feed dealers and incubator men have the balance and Mr. Novice has the experi- ence. This is a very old story, but true. The broiler business is no sugar trust. There is more of the bitter than the sweet to it, ami only the most cautious, economical and intelligent management will secure success. — :o: — ThK JoiRNAt. of last week contains a little note which states that corn should not 1>e rese the breeders of the other varie- ties will not change the names of their fowls ; suppose that they still continue to sell a smaller and less useful and less ornamental fowl as an Indiati game ; suppose the public buvs this smaller and less valuable fowl and' from its qualities judges the whole Indian game class ; how have we gained anything and how has the public fared ? It certainly will be a misfortune to have the Indian game judged by these inferior fowls, and it as- suredly will be equally a misfortune for the public to buy such fowls for the genuine breed. As one of the objects of the American Indian Game Club is to protect the public, will it not be likely to fail, at least to some extent, in accom- plishing this object, unless it changes the name ol the breed ? And as another of its objects is to protect the breeders, w ill it not also fail in furnishing full protection if it adopts a name under which verv different fowls can I* legitimated *old ' If I am correct in supposing that it is desirable to have the name changed, then it becomes important to consider what the change shall be. The petition sug- gests two names, Cornish game and Cor- nish Indian game. The first name has an advantage in being shorter. It is a name which correctly represents the geographi- cal locality in which the fowl was brought to its present state of perfection. It is a name that is sometimes used in Eng- land, although there the plain term Indian game is most fretiuently used, but Cor- nish game and Cornish Indian game are also employed. Concerning this breed Mr. Edward Brown, I-'. L. S., editor of the Fanciers' Cazette (London, England) says : "There has l)een brought into prominence of late a variety known as Indian game, in who.se interest a club has recently l)een formed. The name is a misnomer, for though the original birds came from India, they have been crossed * * *, and it would lie much l)etter if, as has been suggested, they were called 'Cornish ganie.' " Mr. Clarke, however, objects to this term as being quite as bad as the one now in common use, for he says if we should adopt it "we should come in conflict with the Cornish Ilenny game, a variety very much older than the Cornish Indian, and one that is lietter known among game breeders." This objection should have due weight given to it, though I do not think it very seri- ous, as the Henny games would nndoubt- eeardcd golden Polish, silver spangled Hamburg, black- breasted red game and the like. This objection aside, the name Cornish Indian game is a very exact and accurate one. The fowl is a game which originated in and was imported from India, and which was perfected in Cornwall, England. Its history appears in this name, and the name is sufficient protection to the pub- lic, so far as a name can lie, for it will prevent the s&le of other Indian games as Cornish Indian games unless the seller is an outright and downright fraud ; against such no name can be a protec- tion. Whether the name is changed to Cor- nish or Cornish Indian game is not verv material to me. Were it not for accom- plishing the objects of the club, protect- ing the public and the breeders, I should be opposed to anj' change of name. I like the sound of Indian game far better than Cornish or Cornish Indian game, but the gratification of a musical ear is of far less importance than the prevention of fraud, and a bungling name with protec- tion to the public is l)elter than the most euphonious designation with the defraud- ing of innocent buyers. H. S. Babcock. P. S. — If Indian game breeders who see this article would write to the secre- tary of the Indian Game Club whether or not they are in favor of a change of name, and if in favor of a change would designate their preference, it would greatly facili- tate matters. They could authorize the secretary to add their name to the peti- tion or record them as opposed to any change. h. s. u. above receiving goo)est of feed. Dam- agefl grain or fermented soft food is dan- gerous, and is apt to produce • disease akin to cholera. THE POUTER. A Pig'eon TVhose Beauty Depends Altogether on One Point. Hrom the Fanciers' Gazette. Of the four standanl varieties of pigeons there is not one whose beauty so entirely dejiends iij>oii perfect symmetry as tlie pouter. The carrier may be slightly thick in Heck so long as it has length of face, stoutness of l>euk and projierly developed and placed l)eak and eye wattle. The almond tumbler may lie imperfect in spangling if it has height of brow and width of skull, with a neat little Ijeak and good carriage. The barb may be minus the full flights and lengthy tail which give it so much character, or slightly high on leg if the head proper- ties are correct, but the whole beauty of the pouter is destroyed if it is defective in one point. In fact, like the most deli- cate piece of mechanical workmanship, every fitting must l)e perfect in its bear- ings. Those who can carry their memories back to upwards of a quarter of a century ago, before the Crystal Palace in London could boast of its great annual .show, will rememl^er the deformity in the shape of a blue pied cock which reigned supreme as the result of the highest art in breed- ing pouters, and with which Mr. Thack- eray, then a prominent exhibitor, car- riefl the fancy by storm, a creature shaped like a boat set on two pegs with a head and l)ody that a runt might be proud of ; a monstrosity in every sense of the word compared with the finest specimens of the present day. The pouter fancy at the period we speak of was at a very low ebb in Eng- land, the idea with most breeders evi- dently being to produce quantity rather than (juality, but there were some very fan biiu.s liiudeii away in the country, conspicuous amongst which were those of Mr. Bult, who never could be induced to exhibit his stock. It was about this time that, owing to the death of that gentleman, his pouters l)ecame distri- buted, and a few energetic fanciers set to work to improve the breed by introduc- ing some of the Scottish strains, with the result that the pouter has ever since been improving in elegance of shape and style. The canny vScot has always l>een famed for his pouters, whether of high or low degree, and there were high old times at Glasgow in days gone by, when Mr. Ure, of Dundee ; Mr. Wallace, of Glasgow ; Mr. Montgomery, of Belfast ; Mr. Smith,' of Halifax ; Mr. Huie and Mr. Matthew .Stuart, of Glasj^ow, and others used to exhibit their birds. But, alas ! time has made a gap in the party, and of those named only the first and last-named re- main to tell the story. To the society formed by these gentlemen the pouter fancy owes much of its prosperity, for they set the ball rolling by introducing competition, and although the annual meetings at Gla.sgow soon came to an end, others have taken their place. For some reason unexplained pigeon shows at Glasgow and Edinburgh have never been successful from a monetary point of view, which is the more ex- traordinary, as in the neighboring towns these meetings have been annually held where a fine display of pouters has been seen, but nothing has ever come up to the show which took place in the Gymnasium at Ixlingburgh some fifteen ye'ars ago, when all the best birds from England, Scotland and Ireland were pre-sent to compete for a valuable silver cup which was given for the winner of the largest number of points. This valu- able trophy was won by Mr. R. Fulton, but not without a struggle with Captain Norman Hill. This was the only time that 500 pouters have been exhib'itetl at one time ; the fact that out of 9CX) pigeons of all varieties 500 were pouters is evi- dence of the interest taken in that breed of I loo in Scotland. There are a few pouter fanciers still left who will remem- ber the fun we had with Jemmie McCul- lock and his yellow pied cock — how a hoax was played upon him after the show had closed, that it had been claimed for /50, after his having said that it could not be bought for love nor money. McCullock had a bad time of it that night. Bobbie F'ulton, too, came in for a share of the hoaxing, for a report was set about that a conspiracy was on foot by which he was not to win any prizes. Poor Rid- peth, who was one of tte judges, with Mr. V. Gresham and Mr. P. H. Jones, had a hand in this, but he had not lonr to enjoy his joke, for, picture of health though he then was, he died soon after returning home from the show. The ten years that had elapsed from the time we first spoke of and the Edin- burgh show had wrought wonders in the pouter, for even now it would l>e difficult to find a lot of 500 l)etter than that which was exhibited on that occasion. Still, there has been an advance, but rather at the expense of length of limb and feather, the prevailing fault at the present time Ijeing that many of the most perfect birds are too small. It is the same with large breeds of pigeons as with animals ; it is more easy to get correct symmetry in small specimens than in large. At the same time there are a select few pouters which are superior to anything that has been seen before. It is a remarkable fact that, notwith- standing the large nunilier of people who breed pouters, there are very few who really know a good bird when they see one, and a still less numljer who under- stand how to breed one, most of the celebrities of the day having come into life more by acciden{ than judgment. In matching up for breeding the early his- tory of the parents should lie known, in order that some idea may be formed as to the color and markings that may be expected, for pouters do not always re- produce their offspring the same color that they are themselves ; and as to markings, a pair which are perfectly marked only occasionally throw a young one like themselves, unless they have been bred from correctly marked birds for several generations, and this is seldom the case. The tendency to protluce too much white is very strong in the pouter, more particularly on the pinion ; it is there- fore advisable that one of the parents should have only slight pinion markings, iiiiccui luut icciuicia aic sumcieiu ana these high up, so as to avoid any chance of getting wings that are bishoped ; in fact, rather solid markings throughout must be chosen on one side if perfect bib, moon and pinion-markings are to be looked for. The covering of the limbs is a feature that has to be taken into con- sideration when matting. Many of the best stock pouters are heavily flagged on legs and toes, so much so that no amount of trimming will make them fit for the show pen, it is therefore necessary to use them with birds whose legs are closely feathered in order that stocking limbs may be obtained. It is in the order of things that the mother takes upon her- self the more onerous part in breeding. For this reason she should possess rather more substance than the father, who can- not be too slender in build. It will be always found that the most satisfactory results are secured when the quality is on the side of the sire, and the substance on that of the dam. [TO BE CONTINUBD.] Western Mass. Poultry Association Editor Fanciers' Jourwal. Sir : The above association has elected the following officers : President, Colonel R.J. Hamilton, Springfield ; treasurer, E. A. Howe, Brightwood ; recording sec- retary, F. K. Foulds, Springfield ; corre- sponding secretary, S. W.Craig, Spring- field ; Executive Committee, W. A. Hatch, O. B. Deane, A. W. Gardiner, Spring- field ; W. L. Hanchett, Westfield ; J. K. Merrill, Holyoke. The association will hold its show at City Hall, Springfield, Mass., December 17, 18, 19 and 20, 1890. The officers are live men and propose to make it the biggest show ever held in this section, they are making arrangements for five thousand birds, besides pigeons and pet stock. The thing is already l>eginning to boom. S.W.Craig, Corresponding Secretary. Springfield, Mass. — The slow feathering fowls are usually the hardiest, as the drain on the system occasioned by quick feathering does not weaken them. It is indicative of hardi- n«>«». 74 THE FANCIERS' JOURNAL [ AUG.. 2, 1890 OROP-BOUND FOW^LS. The Cause and Cure Described by a Thorousrh Poultryman. W. Cook in Poultry. This is a very important subject. Fowls are very liable to it, not only through overfeeding, but from the stuff" they pick up and eat, which they should not. There are several things which may be avoided, where people only keep a few fowls, to prevent their birds from being crop-bound. It occurs tnore freejuently perhaps with those who live in towns and who have a ganlen than with those living in the country. I have often seen people pull up a little bunch of long grass that was growing on their garden path and throw it in to the poultry. When these pieces are thrown in to the birds they are almost sure to pick them up, and this is one thing which causes a stoppage in the crop. A number of pieces of long grass, as soon as the fowls swallow them, become a hard sulwtance when put in a small compass, especially when it is very coarse grass. It gets over the passage leading to the gizzard, and stops the food from passing, conse- quently irritation is set up at once in the crop, and the birds become very thirsty. They drink a lot of water, which causes the crop to be heavy, and the weight of the crop makes the skin break away from the body. The crop falls so that the liottom of the latter is much lower than the outlet leading into the gizzard, and when the crop drops once, it naturally keeps getting worse and worse l>ecause it can not empty itself The round ball of grass remains in the crop for weeks, and in course of time In- comes very sour, and a very disagreeable smell comes from it. The hens may still keep laying, as when the crop is fallen the heavy bulk is sunk away from the passage leading into the gizzard, and the food can still pass, hut in such cases many of the eggs which the hens lay have a nasty taste, or in some cases a musty smell. Viecause the food in the crop gets sour, as it never empties itself properly. Poultry people often wonder why their eggs taste musty, and this is one cause for it. There are several other things which are liable to block up the passage of the crop. Bacon rind very frecjuently docs it. When the housewife has l)een cut- ting a piece of bacon there is often a rind at one end, perhaps three-quarters of an inch wide, while the other end of the rind may be only an eighth of an inch wide, so that really it is like a three- cornered piece. vSuch a piece is almost sure to stop up the passage leading to the gizzard. It gets fast in the passage, and nothing will move it unless an in- cision is made. I often have post- mortems sent to me with the bacon rind fast in the passage. I do not object to giving iKjultry bacon rind, but it shoule wide pieces, .\nother dangerous thing for fowls is little pieces of sharp tone splintered —that is to say, poultry people often knock up l>one for the birds themselves, which is a very fine thing for them if prope'rly done, but in some cases there are little sharp splinters from the Ixine, and if these are allowed to pass the birds will often swallow them, and that also sets up inflammation in the crop. After they are swallowed they often lay in the crop a long time, and in some cases prick right through the latter, just in the same way as a needle would. Sharp fish bones will serve them in the same wav, though the latter are also a verv good thing for fowls if they are either cut into small pieces or smashed up, but when the birds swallow them two or three inches long it often causes a stoppage in their crops. Where poultry people have only a few birds, and the refuse from the house is given them, it is not much trouble to pick out the large fish bones, or anything which is liable to block up the passage of the crop. 1 aUvays preach the doctrine, " Prevention is better than cure." Referring again to the long grass, it is very easy to cut it. If you get a handful of long grass and lay it on a board, with a sharp knife enough could be cut up in al)out five minutes for too birds. Hold the grass tight in the left hand, and it will cut very easily. It should not l)e cut more than al)OUt half or three-quarters of an inch long, especially if it is coarse. (ira,ss from a lawn that has been mowed with a machine is splendid for them ; though it is often more than an inch long, it is generally, very fine. Many jieople cut cabbage leaves up for their binls, the stem of the leaves l>eing very large they cut them up in three-cornered pieces. When they are cut up in this way they often cause a stoppage in the crop. When the stems are given to the fowls thev should be cut up in narrow strips, not thick pieces, Ijecause the bird's swallow is much larger than the passage leading into the gizzard. Sometimes when fowls are short of sharp grit they will swallow large stones or pieces of coal, which will cause a stoppage. If a fowl has a stoppage through the food not be- ing digested properly, two teaspoonfuls of salad oil and half a teasi>oonful of Epsom salts will often clear the passage, but when it does not, an incision in the crop should l)e made, and the hard or solid substance should be removed. When poultry first shows signs of a stop- page in the crop it should be seen to at once. Whenever a hen is noticed to stretch her neck as though she was trying to swallow something, or rather when she has got something which appears to be in her throat, and she cannot get it any further, she should be picked up at once and the oil and Kpsom salts given to her. When they are allowed to goon so long that the crop falls very low there is not the slight- est danger of opening the latter if it is done properly, and it is a very easy opera- tion ; very often the fowl does not make one struggle or kick the whole of the time. I find the best way to open the crop is to lay the hen on her back on a table and let a second person hold their hands over the legs, keeping them -*..-, .t. ...1 I — 1..*.4^) !»*».- i,,c* ♦#.» U«>«>f-« tli^irH atlct\-Ut»i ,n.iii»»*» »*,-., j»«..fc »" .-^*^ down, so that she has no power to kick against anything. The second person should also help to hold the feathers on one side of the crop. The feathers should l>e damped a little with clean water, if not they are likely to 1>e in the -way. Look for the blood' veins in the crop and avoid them as much as possible. The incision should be made from one to one and a half inches long, that is in the outer skin, according to the sul^stance there is in the crop. The hole in the under skin may be made rather smaller than the other. In the case of long grass l)eing in it should be twisted round like a hay band, a little at a time, with the thumb and finj^er, gradually pulling at the same time as you twist. If it cannot be done this way the handle of a teaspoon is best. I mention laying the hen upon a table to make an incision in the crop, but when the latter is being emptied it is l)est to let her lay on the left knee of the opera- tor, so that she can be tipped on the slant. A pail or ImjwI shouUl l)e placed underneath to catch the contents, so that they can be well examined after- wards. The ojierator must 1)e very care- ful in making the incision in the crop, and before the knife or lance is taken out it should have the handle of a spoon or something to put inside the crop ; if not, they may turn round, and it is a difficult maCter to find the incision again without giving the bird a lot of pain. The crop must be kept steady and in one position all the time. .\fter the croji is well cleanedo ut the wound should be wipetl carefully, and it there is blood 011 it, it is best to wash if off with a sponge and a little tepid water, so that it is nice and clean outside. If this is not done the hen is apt to pluck the feathers out of her breast in trying to clean them, as the contents often dry 011 the feathers. A fine needle should then l)e use(l with a piece of silk threail. Tie a knot in the end of the thread so that the first stitch does not pull through. Should the crop be very large a piece can lie rut out of it, or better still stitched up— that is to say, fold a little piece over to make it smaller. Stitch it in that way, and the crop will take no harm. In an incision an inch long I usually take about six stitches, .\ftcr the incision made in the crop is sewn up, and the thread cut off, put a little oil on the wound, so that it runs nicely round the crop between the two skins. This will prevent any irritation; then sew the outer skin in the same way, but take care that none of the feathers get pulled in with the stitches. Put a little oil or vaseline on the stitches, and pour almost half a teaspoon - ful of salad oil down the bird's throat, which will help to heal the insiile of the crop. Some people wash the crop out l)e- fore it is sewn up, but I never find that necessary. The less you wet the bird's feathers the l)etter. After the operation is over they should have a little bread soaked in cold water, and a few grains of corn. They will usually eat as soon as they are put on their feet. They should be kept in a coop or place by themselves for about two davs, so that they cannot run to drink. If they are let drink the water is apt to penetrate where the inci- sion is made. If they are kept on soaked bread and a little hard corn for alx)ut three or four days no harm comes of the operation. I have not lost a single bird by this operation. , The Indian Games. F. Rowland, the New Jersey duck king, has been making some experiments with the Indian games and Plymouth Rocks. He put part Indian game and part Plymouth Rock eggs under a hen and had a good hatch. Hoth breeds were raised together and right along from the start the games kept way ahead of the Rocks. There is no disputing the fact the Indian games are grand birds and have come to stay. — Germantown Tele- grapli- _^. The African Bantam. The African bantam is one of the handsomest as well as one of the most interesting varieties of the bantam class. With its neat rose comb, its small, per- fectlv white and flat ear-lobes, its fine Hamburg shape, and Itj^ iridescent black plumage, it never fails to attract atten- tion wherever it is shown. Its admirers are many and its champion legion. Withal it commands a good price for fine specimens. It is (juite largely bred and deserves all the popularity which it en- joys.— American Poultry Yard. A Duck That Steers With a Rudder From thf Baltiiiiore Sun. Mr. James Stewart of the York road, opposite Guilford, yesterday exhibited at the Sun office a white Pekiu duck with four feet. It is two weeks old, and bids fair to live. The duckling uses one of its many legs as a rudder when swim- ming. POULTRY NOTES. — Hay will generate vermin more (juickly than straw. — Now is a good time to separate the males from the females. — Cannot you allow the hens a few hours free run each day ? — Thoroughness in detail is what counts in poultry raising. In dosing poultry, remember that one- tenth the dose given to a man is sufficient for a fowl. — The man that does not provide shade and plenty of fresh water these hot days is henrtless. — A small seed j)epper Ijoiled in a (juart of water, and while scalding hot, poured over sufficient meal to make a mush that will drop from the spoon, and to which is alut!!e of the artist, his name and address shall accompany the sketches submitted. The envelopes containing the nom-de-plumes will be opened in the presence of all the conn>etitors or their represenatives at the annual meeting of the A. P. A. in 1892 at which meeting the awards will be made public. All sketches submitted, whether deemed worthy a prize or not, shall, immediately on their receipt by the committee, become the property of the A. P. A. All sketches must be in the hands of the committee previous to the annual A. P. A. meeting in 1S91. Com- petitors are requested, although com- pliance is at the option of the competi- tors, to forward to E. R. Spaulding, of Jaflfrey, N. H., secretary of the commit- tee, each sketch as completed. It is also recjuested that sketches of the varieties be made in the same order as they ap- pear in the American Standard of Per- fection. Should but two artists compete and the committee deem the work of neither worthy of the first prize, the committee reserves the right to withhold the same. The committee also n.'serves the right of extending the time of closing the com- petition beyond the annual A. P. A. meeting in 1891, if in the judgment of the committee the l>est interests of the A. P. A. are served by so doing. The committee especiallv desires the co-operatiou of all the specialty clubs, as, under the resolutions empowering this committee to act, it must, before report- ing any sketch to the A. P. A. as ap- proved, submit the same to the specialty club interested in the variety. It is patent to all that 'l)etter results await the union of the moneys to be de- voted to the purchase of cuts by clubs with the prize money now offered by the A. P. A. "In union is strength." The committee particularly invites dis- cussion of this subject in the "iwultry press" and will feel under obligations for advice from any fancier. Trusting the response to our efforts may be worthy of the cause we a«lvocate and that the sum off^ered by the A. P. A. mav prompt all our artists to put their best foot fore- most and place the American Standard of Perfection on a plane with the most artistic productions of the age, we re- main, very respectftilly, Ja.mks E. Whitk, John ]•:. Dikhi., R. R. SPAr.DiNO, C. A. Swret, P. H. SCUDUKR. PIGEON FLYING. ON THE WING. The birds of Theo. P. Green, of Wood- bury, N. J., are doing very creditable work, and last week made the best aver- age speed of the .season, outside of the Concourse races. Fifteen of his birds were liberated at Orange, Va., at 9 A. M., two returned together at 1.39 P. M. The air line distance covered was 194 miles ; average speed, 1218 yards per minute. Only two of the fifteen birds were lost in this fly. Mr. ('ireen on Wednesday shipped a basket of birds to be lil)erated at Dan- ville, Va., distance to home, 316 miles. ♦ « * The two birds Dusky and Right Bow- ers, of Fred. Bowers, Fall River, Mass., were liberated in Owa.ssa, Mich., Tues- day morning at thirteen minutes past 6 o'clock. The distance to home is 671 miles. This is the first time eastern flyers have l)een lilierated beyond Can- ada, but, barring accident, it is believed the birds will arrive at home. The record to be beaten is "the best from over 550 miles from the West," that is, 640 miles in twenty-one days, made by Garfield at the very beginning of American flying. * « • Two lots of birds are now out for the George W. Childs prize, one of five birds owned by E. W. Twining, of Yardley, Pa., are at Greer's Depot, S. C, distance, 535 miles. The other lot of seven birds owned by Henry Wagner and one bird owned by Charles Kussmaul, lK)th of Roslindale, Mass., are at Waterford, Ont., distance, 540 miles. Both lots are await- ing favorable weather. • • « F. M. Gillwrt, Evansville, Ind., has just received another lot of grand fans to aers present : L. W. Spangehl, Brook- lyn, N. Y. ; William Verrinder, Jr., Jersey City, N. J. ; A. M. Wood, James Work, J. C. Conley, Philadelphia, Pa. ; Messrs. W. Bennert, Newark, N. J. ; F. K. Rogers, G. T. Morgan, Philadelphia, Pa., present by invitation. Diplomas were recommended to the following winners in the 20(j-mile race (provided the distances were verified): J. W. Markley ist, James Roberts ad, J. I). Munro 3d, P. F. Bolay 4th, F. K. Rogers 5th. In the 3ot)-mile race to W. B. Garra- brauts 1st, T. F. Pittinger 2d. J. R. Hus- son 3d, John Ballard 4tti, H. Walker 5th. In the 4cK)-mile race to W. E. Johnson ist, L. W. Spangehl 2d, B. Elwell 3d, J. C. Conley 4th, C. A. Mahr. Jr., 5th. In the 50f)-niile race to H. J. Williams 1st, W. H. Goodbv 2(1, Win. Bennert 3d, L. W. Spangehl 4th, C. A. Mahr, Jr., 5th. h. W. Spangehl objected to awarding the first diploma to W. V.. Johnson, Key- port, N. J., on account of the distance beinj^ but 388.14, and apjiealed to the Ex- ecutive Committee. Moved by Mr. Verrinder, seconded by Mr. Spangehl, that all returns entitled to Federation record be prepared for publica- tion iu the official paper, the same to give registered number, owner, distance, time of arrival, average speed, etc. Carried. Moved and seconded that a young bird race from 200 miles l)e arranged for Sat- urday, October 4. Moved and seconded that a vote of thanks be extended to Mir. D. S. Rogers for his able management as convoyer in the 500-mile race. Carried. (Signed) Geo. T. Morgan, Secretary. A regularly calletl meeting of the Ex- ecutive Committee was held at the Race Secretary's office, 1 115 South Fifteenth Street, Philadelphia, at 3 P. M., July 28, President John .Shepherd in the chair ; L. W. Spangehl, second vice president ; J. C. Conley, race secretary ; William Verrinder, secretary and treasurer ; George T. Morgan, Paul W. Krouse. The rejjorl ni the Concourse Ctunmiltee was read and the following recommendations adopteil : L. W. Spangehl moved, P. W. Krouse, seconded, that the recommendations of the Concourse Committee, awarding di- pl.jnias for the 2fx), 3cxj and 5a>inile races, be accepted ; carried. P. W. Krouse moved, J. C. Conley, seconded, that the recommendations of the Con- course Committee in the 400 mile race, awarding first diploma to W. Iv Johnson, be accejjted ; Conley, Morgan, Krouse voting in the affirmative, .Spangehl in the negative ; carried. The recommendation of the Concourse Committee for a 200- nnle young bird race, to be flown Octol)er 4, unanimously adopted. Moved and seconded that the recommendations of the Concourse Committee suggesting that a full report of all returns entitled to Fed- eration records be prepared by the Race Secretary ; carried. A vote of thanks was extended to the Committee on Ex- press Rates for valuable services ren- dered in securing so favorable a reduction of rates on transportation of birds for lib- eration ; carried. Moved and seconded that the .baskets containing birds flying for I'"ederation record be sealed, as heretofore, at start, and said seals no/ be broken until the time 0/ liberation. Carried. Moved and sec- onded that the action of the Executive Committee at the January meeting with reference to the issue of seamless bands be reconsidereil. Carried. The original motion was now taken up, "that seam- less bands be- issued to I"eo Miles— I. J. R. Husiion 30.00 2. H.Walker 10.00 3. William Bennert 5.00 400 Mii.es— I. U. W. Sipanifehl 50.00 J. Benjamin Elwell 10.00 3. J. C. Conley 5.00 In the 500-mile race no award could lie made as there were no returns the same day. The committee also appropriated J25 toward the expenses of the convoyer in the 500-niile race, and I30 for the young bird race. STRAYING HOMERS. Why Homers Are Detained— A Lit- tle Courtesy Would Obvi- ate the Difficulty. Editor Fanciers' Journal. Sir : There seems to be something of "a tempest in a teapot" stirred up about a few worthless, so railed, homers. The amount of indignation (!) caused here by j'our quotation may have been the cause of the recent hot spell of weather, but it is unlikely ; hardly of sufficient gravity. There is more than one side to every question ; there is to this one. We cut from a paper here an "adv." from a Philadelphia homing fancier giving num- bers of pigeons lost, and stating that "a rea.sonable price" would be given for them. When the bird, that .seems to be the casus belli, came into the loft of the younjr boy, H. Williams, he supposed he was doing the owner a kindness in noti- fying him and supposed that he also might be willing to pay -a reasonable re- ward, but instead of a {K>lite acknowl- edgment, asking for the liberation of the bird, what might be called an offensive postal was sent him to the effect that "he ought to let it go, as any respectable fan- cier would do, and that he ought not to ask for any reward as there was none." No word of thanks whatever. As he had Ixjught birds at other times and liberated them, having l)een promised rewards, and never receiving them, and this l)eing the experience of others, it is scarcelv to be wondered at that no trouble will be taken here even to waste stamps reporting birds that the owners do not value at a good word, or liberate such birds if caught trespassing. We know now of a pair of banded birds that have been in the open Joft of a fan- cier for more than a month ; now have young and fly all about, but do not go home. Another homing fancier found a marked bird in his loft and notified the owner, receiving his thanks and request to liberate after feeding and resting. This was done and the return home of the bird stated. This same bird has several times since visited the loft here, making a so- cial call, but what good is such a bird in a close race ? Last summer we found a bird with band marked T. P. G.; do not remember number ; countermarked 32 South Third Street. After feeding the bird a day or two we liberated it and wrote a postal to an ac(iuaintance in Philadelphia to call at the number given and notify them. This bird went south from our resi- dence towards Baltimore, it remaining very doubtful if it went home. In conclusion, would it not be better to impress on everyone in this connec- tion that a little civility would always have better results tliHU calling opprobri- ous name.s ? Yours ti uly, Thomas W. Hooper. Baltimore, July 26, 1890. 76 THK FANCIKRS' JOURNAI^. [AUG. 2, 1890- SCRAPPLE. The Arffus Pheasant — Bggrs Food— The Frifirate Bird as a Carrier. as The following extracts arc from the pens of fanciers both on this and the other side of the water, giving their experi- ences in raising, feeding and caring for alt kinds of poultry, pigeons and pet stock, and elicit the careful perusal of the readers of The Fanciers' Journal. // is the desire in these columns to give the experiences of all true fanciers, and 7ve therefore invite contributions from every- one who has anything to say pertaining to pcmltry, pigeons and fancy stock. The Arjfus Phettsiiiit. In Sumatra the Argus occupies the place held in Java by the peacock, which, seen in its native wiklness, is unsurpassed for brilliancy of color and decorative ap- pendages, but its ornamentation is too gaudy for long contemplatiou, while in the case of the Argus pheasant one may admire feather by feather, and the same feather again and again, and daily see new beauties. The tail of the peacock is formed by a great development of the upper tail coverts, while that of the Argus pheasant is formed chiefly by an enormous elongation of the two tail quills and of the secondary wing feath- ers, no two of which are exactly the same, and the closer thev are examined the greater is seen to be the extreme chasteness of their markings, and their rich, varied and harmonious coloring. When alarmed the Argus escapes by running through the thick scrub when the brilliancy of its plumage, by be- ing gathered close al>out Jts Ixxly, is quite concealed. Till I had observed it at a later period I was not aware of its habit of making a large circus some ten feet to twelve feet in diameter in the forest, which it clears of every leaf and twig and branch, till the ground is per- fectly swept, and garnished. On the margin of this circus there is invariably a projecting branch or high, arched root, at a lew feet elevation alK)ve the ground, on which the female bird takes its place, while in the ring the male — the male birds alone possess great decoration — shows off all his magnificence for the gratification and pleasure of his consort, and to exalt himself in her eyes. It is a strange fact that when the male bird has been caught — these birds are much trapped by the natives, their excessive shyness making it impossible to shoot them — the female invariably returns to the same circus with a new mate, even if two or three times in succession her lord should be caught. The female bird is rarely caught, owing to her flying to her roost when approaching the circus, while the great winged males walk into the ring, which the native skillfully barri- cades all round, except the one sjjot where he sets his snare. — H. O. Forbes. The Frigate Blnl as a Carrier. Dr. Tnnier, of the London Missionary Society, has the following in his book on "Samoa :" "Funafuti, or Kllice Island, lat. 8 deg. 29 min. S.. long. 179 deg. 12 min E. When I visited the group in 1876 I found that the Samoan native pastors on four of the islands were in the habit of corresponding by means of carrier Frigate birds. While I was in the pastor's home on Funafuti, on a Sun- day afternoon, a bird arrived with a note from another pastor on Nukufetau, sixty miles distant. It was a foolscap 8vo. leaf, dated on the Friday, done up inside a light piece of reed, plugged up with a bit of cloth, and attachen to the wing of the bird. In former times the natives sent pearl shell fish hooks by Frigate birds from island to island. I observed that they had them as pets on perches at a number of islands in this Ellice group, fed them on fish, and when there was a favorable wind, the creatures had an in- stinctive curiosity to go and visit another island, where, on looking down, thev saw a perch, and hence our Samoan pastors, when they were located there, found an ocean postal service all ready to their hand !" It is not quite clear, from the forego- ing, if the Frigate bird is domesticable, and after being sent from its home, like a homing pigeon, returns to its domicile on iit)eration. The time mentioned (two days) is long for what would occupy a gooe so employed. Some time lately I saw it mentioned that the raven could be used as a mes- senger or homing bird, and that some of them were actually so employed in F'rance or Germany. — J. C. L. Buff Cochins. This grand old breed seems to be growing more popular every day, and deservedly so too. Too much cannot l)e said alx)ut the excellence of this variety. There is no breed that is more thorough- bred, or that is more ardently admired by the fraternity in general, and considering them from a standpoint of utility, they fill the bill splenuidly. They are re- markable winter layers, and excellent for the table ; the .secret of their great popu- larity is l)ecause of their sui)eriority. The American Buff Cochin Club is doing much to advance them, and the secretary of the club says he will have them at the head of the list liefore long. If you are not satisfied with your present breed, try the old and reliable buff Cochin ; you won't be disappointed. — J. H. L. Toout three dozen of ordinary hens' eggs, do not de- serve the eulogy given to them by cer- tain travelers, who, when they wrote about them, were in all probability hard pressed by hunger. The substance of the egg is without consistence — so much so that if an ome- lette is made with it, it would fall to pieces. Under these circumstances, the natives and colonists only employ them for ordinary purposes, such as for pastry. — l,ive Stock Journal. How to Ilegin Poultry Keeping. The safe rule to follow in starting in the poultry business, as in any other pur- suit, is to know what you want. Never mind what any interested person has to say about some particular variety of fowls. Make your own investigation — go to his yards, look over his different varieties ; read up on the subject — and know what you are doing. And then yon can go ahead and make j'our selection with a rea.soiiable prospect of success. Get the breeest, though there are many other good breeds that would go in this class. One thing that must 1^ re- membered is that every one must suit his own individual taste and purposes. After having decided upon the breed or breeds to keep, the next question that conies up is where to procure the stock ? Get it of some reliable, well-known fan- cier who has a reputation at stake. You have then the guarantee of good stock, and, even if it does cost a little more, you have the foundation of success. It is particularly true in the poultry business that the lowest priced is the dearest in the end. — W. M. Bamiim in American Agriculturist. Curious Feat of a Jackdaw. One of my sons possesses a tame jack- daw, taken from the nest last year, which has developed into a most precocious and tricky bird. His latest achievement is to perch on the garden wall, from whence he can survey the proceedings of a num- Ijer of small children from some neigh- boring cottages, who amuse themselves by erecting buildings of broken bricks on a piece of waste ground adjoining the garden. Jack watches until the building is nearly completed, when, uttering two or three croaks, he swoops down from the garden wall and alights within a few yards, amidst a fusillade of hats, stones, etc. Heedlessof these missiles, he hops along towards the children in a sidelong fashion, with ruffled feathers and trailing wings ; then suddenly makes a dash at their bare legs, which he pecks most vigorously, and soon puts the owners to flight. He then demolishes the building, the children meanwhile standing some distance off and watching the work of de- struction with lamentations. Jack hav- ing demolished the fort to his satisfac- tion, darts out again, causing a regular stampede amongst the juveniles, pecking the calves of their legs and biting the tips of their ears ; and if any attempt is made to strike him, he clings pertinaci- ously to their hands, "back downwards," <^'KK"'K »*^ their fingers with his beak. Having driven the enemy from the field, he flies back to the garden wall, from whence he again looks down on the va- cated ruins, uttering loud cries of "Jack ! Jack !" After all, there is no harm in the bird. He leads a dull and monotonous life, and cannot resist having a frolic. Mj' groom, who first called my attention to Jack's curious freak, assured me that the storming of the fort was "as good as a Punch and Judy show any day." Many more of Jack's amusing tricks could be related, for he is a bird wiser in his generation than any who have gone l)efore him within our ex- perience.— ^Janies Carter. PljTnouth Rocks. There is no fowl in existence better adapted to general use than the Plymouth Rock, but there has l)een such a con- tamination in the breed, and so much in-breeding, that the bird has been fairly slaughtered. To see an ideal blue-barred Plymouth Rock in the show pen, and the average specimen on the farm, we meet two different styles and qualities. It is a pity that more care has not Ijeen taken of this American breed. It has stooerately lifted out each slice, threw it on the floor and then proceeded to bathe in the water left in the dish.— Olive Thorne Miller in the Home-Maker. The American Goshawk. Of rather slender build, when full grown, a hawk of this sort measures from twenty to twenty-four inches in length. It is bluish slate-color alwve, below white, crossed with many zigzag slate-colored lines. Though more nu- merous in the mountains of the far West and in the British ptissessions, the gos- hawk is not uiuomnion in our northern- niQst states in fall and winter, and occa- sioiially even builds its nests in that region. It loves the woods, and is oftener met in the shasorbed in the fogs through which it essays to penetrate, after all leaves the world of practical men not much the brighter for its faint spasmodic flicker. The fact is that the occupation of bird breeding is now in so many hands, ama- teur and for the purpose of trade, that there is no system which has been threshed out with any other result than that there is no royal road to success in respect to securing numbers of young birds — not in the nest merely, but on the wing in the flight cag^ Hatching results can be calculated with tolerable pre- cision ; the real difficulties begin after- wards. Of course, it can be shown, on paper, that these difliiculties ought not to be ; and with every shoal and quicksand pwinted out, by avoiding them and navi- gating according to the sailing directions, the ship is certain to arrive safely in harl)or, all of which would be very useful ifluc ccitaiuly wcic uoL as likely to turn out shipwreck as anything else. ' We have been led into this train of thought through reading from time to time in various serials, a lot of matter on canary breeding and feeding in which, in some instances, the results of very limited experience are made the basis of systems for entirely new departures in the business of breeding. Success is guaranteed, or corresponding failures re- sulting from following some old-estab- lished plan are made the ground of argu- ment against its adoption, each in reality being merely a relation of some episodes in the history of every breeder of long standing, who knows well that under identical conditions and management failure is as likely to lie the result of a season's work as success may have on a previous occasion crowned it. We have in our mind two breeding rooms in which, so far as this season has progressed, widely different results have been obtained. One is a model room, well situated as to aspect, fitted up with commotlious cages and every appliance a lengthened exjierience can suggest as necessary, and, what is of greater conse- quence still, a breeding stock of unusual excellence, whether as regards the (quality of the birds or robust health. In this room were reareetter than put up a pair of two for the boys. And not only for them. Most hou.ses have a song canary or two in them, attended to by other hands than boys'. These are great pets. For the song cage sulistitute a neat brewling cage, and give each bird a mate — yellow if the cock be buff (that is a dull whitish color, as distinct from the brighter shade known as yellow), and vice versa — and we are very sure which will prove the greatest source of pleasure. We do not, as a rule, advocate the use of appliances of any kind which to a practical hand are regarded as toys, but there are certain conditions under which such things become necessary. The man whose poultry are accustomed to wander where they will and forage for themselves, sleeping on the branches of trees or under a cart shed, is disposed to look upon neatly-built poultry houses, portable runs and all that sort of thing as merely playthings. They are necessities and valuable arrangements to suit par- ticular circumstances. So a multuni in parvo breeding cage, which is living room, breeding room, nursery, flight cage, moulting cage and perhaps a great many more other things all in one, may be looked upon by those who have no use for such a thing as a complicated toy and nothing else. It is nothing of the kind, and to any who may be disposed to put up a pair, but may not know just what appliances to select and what reject, we say you could not do better than pur- chase such a cage. It is reasonable in price, and can be had of any wire-worker or cage maker. Nest boxes of one description or another and material will accompany the cage, and therefore we need not in this place go into the merits of tin, wood, earthenware, basket or any other par- ticular sort of nest. Make the best use of what is supplied or what you may have. Feed your birds on sound white canary seed, with occasionally a little light brown small summer rape — not the large No. 6 size shot sold as black canary seed. Now and then give a little hemp- seed, either sprinkled on the bottom of the cage or on the top of the ordinary seed — not mixed with it, or the birds will throw a great portion out in lookinj^ for the hemp ; and, do as one will, some small quantity of seed and chaflF will find its way from the cage to the carpet be- neath. Give plenty of green food. Chickweed, groundsel, lettuce, water- cress and dandelion are all good. Is it necessary to say, let fooegan to be impatient for the return of the hour when she might enjoy it. She would invite her master to the garden by drumming upon his knee and by a look of such expression as it was not possible to misinterpret. If this did not ininie<1iately succeeidently understanding the birds' fondness for angle-worms, she col- lects a number of the same and buries them in the ground. She then hides nearby, and when the birds alight to secure their coveted morsel, she springs from her ooncealment and pounces upon them. 78 XHE FANCIBRS* JOURNAIv. [AUO. 2, 1890 HYPNOTISING FOTVLS. A Question Whether It Oan Be Done Successfully. From Poultry. This is proverbially rare. Have we not the authority of the wise man as to there being nothing new umler the sun ? Still the correspondent of the Spectator— who recently imparted the results of his hyp- notical experinieuts on a hen, his aim being to induce her to incubate certain eggs by way of experiment— may fairly lay claim to an unusual amount of originality. Was the hen selected for her lack of innate will-power, as is the human subject for similar demonstra- tions ' or was the choice of a subject so amenable to suggestions merely a happy inspiration ? Was she a barndoor fowl of vagrant tendencies? or a carefully se- lected and tended specimen whose innate impulses from early chickenhood had been trained and modified, and led in the way they should go ? These and many other questions are prompted by curiosity. There is no doubt in the operator's mind apparently of the suc- cess of the experiment ; nevertheless the subject (hen ) seems to have rebelled by day, doubtless when the hypnotiser was absent, and to have refused to care for the chicks she had been deluded into hatching by suggestion. Probably she thought her share of the work was suf- ficiently done, and that the suggeslor might look after the result of the ex- periment. Whether the chicks were hypnotised into caring for themselves the deponent sayeth not. Perhaps they went the way of most exjjeriments — the latter a word of potent to living creatures when they are ui the power of the ex- perimenter. Is the tb""'^*'* "f man exerting will power capable of transmission to the lower animals ? We assume a higher in- telligence, yet transmit our orders and wishes to animals by our own code of language, which took us years of child- hood to master ; many of these less-gifted intelligences manifest flashes of compre- hension of our self-elected code of com- munication. Is the true link of command and influence the skeleton of language — forcible thought — transmitted by the hypnotic art ? The speculation is an interesting one. Any casual lover of animals must have noticed how differently they observe strangers ; to some they appear to take a fancy, to others they evince dislike, without apparent reason as far as human critical -powers advance. Possibly, even probably, arguing from the known laws of compensation, cut off from much that elicits our own powers of intelligence in a civilized age, their's are develop>ed in ways experienced by us. Does innate will f>ower, exercised perhaps almost un- consciously, tend to explain the wonder- ful success such men as Rarey, the horse tamer, and others have shown in subdu- ing to their will the most apparently un- tamable animals ? Should this be so, will would seem to act on less highly pitched intelligences more quickly and airectly when compacted into forcible thought, which is transmitted by some inexplicable process, than when manifested in the or- ainary form of languat^e. Probably as each grain of sand on the shore reacts by friction on its neighlwr- ing atoms, as each tree in a forest visibly afreets the shape of the surrounding trees though not touching them, so the gift of influence or will power, exerted either consciously or unconsciously by the in- dividual and frequently granted to react on other individuals without the medium of speech being employed, may not ter- minate there, but may be the most potent link to establish connection between the so-calliMi dumb creatures and ourselves. But to return to our hen. The ex{)eri- ment of inducing her to sit by hypnotic suggestion is certainly interesting, inas- much as it seems to have partially suc- ceeded. But there is also a practical side to this remarkable occurrence — it is claimed that the hen laid regularly while sitting ! There is hope for the jioultry farmer if the hen which up to now re- fused to do more than one thing at once, now listens to "the voice," or rather "the will," of the thrifty "charmer" and con- sents to undertake two at one and the same time ! The pros{)ect is an enticing one. Instead of "100 per cent by practi- cal poultry farming" we shall now see "200 per cent by hypnotic poultry farm- ing" on all the railway Ixiokstalls, and suggestors having properly learned the art of clear suggestion to the denizens of the poultry yard will be at a premium. Unfortunately there are sundry scraps and remnants of passages read long ago in various treatises on incubation that recur to memory and tend to discount this brilliant prospect. M. Kenioine stated many years ago that many hens would sit if kept con- fined in a small space with nothing visi- ble but the nest and eggs. We have tried the experiment, but it did not prove a success. Probably the hen did not reach the desired point of desperate ennue, which causes prisoners to do anything to while away the time. Then an infallible receipt for awaking a desire to incubate in a hen, in the olden days, was the plucking off" of the under feathers and the rubbing the denuded skin with stinging nettles. Like many ancient receipts, the treatment may have been gootl, but is too heroic. We have never seen it tried. Both these niethoeen tried ere now. Probably many of your readers have seen the curious effect a chalk line rapidly ilrawn on a dark surface procak touching the wood, the line is «lrawn rapidly away from the bird, starting from the point of tiie beak, at the same time all hold on the bird is released. It will, however, remain a long time in the same position staring at the chalked line. Unfortu- nately we cannot tell if this immovability is produced by the novelty of the sight or by the shock of surprise experienced in a rational bird's brain at the folly of such an experiment. It is, however, quite devoid of bad consequences to the subject, who at the first slight noise awakes with a start and quits contempla- tion for active life as soon as possible. This experiment is sometimes termed an hypnotic one ; it lacks, however, the recommendation of utility claimed by the discoverer for the hypnotically in- duced incubative tendencies manifested by this sensitive hen. Tune may place both facts in the class of natural curiosi- ties, unaccountable, and also of slight practical value. Many facts however, are but the casual links in a chain of con- nected, though unknown, evolution, that strike most visably on our vision. 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Washington Street, Balti- , Md., breeder of Swallows only, of all s, with and without white bars plain and full head. He is a true fancier, Tumblers. CHARLES LIENHARD, 438 Vt. Court Street, Cincinnati, O., breeder of flying tumblers and Birmingham rollers exclusively. 86 Varlons. LL KINDS of birds and animals. Wilson's ^ Big Bird Store, Cleveland, O. 96 K GUIS HEPBURN, Carlisle, Pa. for cheap fancy pigeons. Wnte him 72-it PRINTING estimates given forcirculars, cards, letter sheets, bill heads, price lists, sched- ules, labels, tags, etc. The Fanciers' Pub- lishing Co., 33 South Third St., Philadel- phia, Pa. Wild Animals. pRAIRIE WOLVES, prairie dogs, deer, foxes, ' owls, Angora kids, raccoons, oposaoms, Mexican burros, etc. C. M. Scott, Arkan- sas City, Kansas. 69-72 Artists and Engrravers. kR I NTING estimates given for Circulars, Cards Letter Sheets. Bill Heads, Price Lists, Sched- ules, Labels, Tags, etc. The Fanciers' Pub- lishing Co., 32 South Third St., Philadel- phia. E HAVE arranged with Schreiber Hl Sons, who are acknowledged to be the best animal photogrsphcrs in America whereby we are able to make special terms for our subscribers who want photc^raphs of their dogs. The Fanciers' Publishing Co., 3a South Third St., Philadelphia, Pa. w 8o XHK FANCIERS' JOURNAL. [AUG. a, 1890 Homing Pigeons y CHIEFTAIN, blue checker cock, 811 miles. DAN WILUAMS, blue checker cock. JIMMV C, red checker cock MURIAL, blue checker hen MISS WILLIAMS, blue checker heu. LOTTIE, blue checker hen BLACK BESS, black checker hen . . J gg Orders for youngsters of 1890 will be booked now. JAMES A. STOVELL, 10 South Broad Street, Philadelphia, Pa. PARROTS! PARROTS! JUST ARRIVRI) A LARGE IDT OF YOUNQ BCUBAN PARROTS- AT $5.00 EACH. WARRANTED TO LEARN TO TALK. Young Mexican Grey African Parrots AND ALL OTHBK FANCY CAGE BIRDS, FINE BRED FOWLS li-ANCY PIGEONS. Ac, Sec, ftc. SEND FOR OUR NEW DESCRIPTIVE CA TALOGUE H. W. VAHLE. 309 Market Street and 46 N. 9th Street, PHILADELPHIA. 25-76 White, Blaek, Red and Yellow pANTAIL PIGEONS. No Other Variety. $10.00 a pair JusT^ Out. •*•••••••*•» PRICE 50C. ^ The American Pigeon Standard AS ADOPTED BY TUB AMERICAN COLUMBARIAN ASSOCIATION, Containing a Complete Description of the Recoonizkh Varieties of Pi .'i. 9fM» '^.(M> ii 8(>0 «.(>(> Send lor our New Price Liol and Saniplen. All orderanhippcl promply by IreiKht on receipt of price. <;. II. OKMI'WOI.F ACO., 4a 93 York (lienitoal Works, Vi>rk, I*a. HANDLER OF DOGS. I* ready to take dogs to condition for the De- troit Show. ELM STATION, H-75 Montffomeiy Co., Pa. ♦> PAMPHLET ON DOG - DISEASES M-iiUtl (Kratis) liy the autlior, H. CLAY GLOVER, Vot^^rlnai-j' Sii r«:o<>n, 7i-fi3 isewa imoAUWAY. nkw yohk. Send for CIRCULARS Modern Training, Handling, and Kennel Management Bv B WATERS. Is invaluable to every owner ot a dog. It tells you how to train a dog properly, and how to handle a dog after it has been trained in n way so plain that all can comprehend. PRICE $3.50. Address Fanciers' PnWisliiiis Coinpauy, 3a S. Third St.. Philadclphin, Pa. EdNvard S. Schmid, Successor to I.,ouiH Schmid & Sons. Denier in SINGING BIROS, BIRO FOOD AND CAGES. FISH, AQUARIUMS AND FISH FOOD. Pir.EONS OH ALL KINDS FOR SALE. Send for illustrated catnLiRue and price list. No. 317 Twellh Street, N. W. Wnshinuton, D. C. OAMK HANTAMH. Dr. Wm. Crawford Johnson, Frederick, Md. ^istory and Description WITH — l^eminiscences OF THE ...FOX TERRIER... BY HflWE)ON bEE, EDITOR "THE FIELD." lllustations by Arthur Wardle. Second Edition. Price Postpaid, $1.50. ADDRESS THIS OFFICE. WITHOUT A SINGLE EXCEPTION THE LARGEST STORE IN AMERICA DEVOTED EXCLUSIVELY TO DRY GOODS. SmWBEIDGE & CLOTHE MARKET. EIGHTH and FILBERT 8TS., rillLADELPHLA., PA. THEO. P. GREEN, Woodbury, N. J. Homing Figeons a Specialty I H E:.0. My honiCTK are leste■' xll canine diseases. "COMMON SENSE OF DOG DOCTOKINr.," (Post free, aSc.). Sprattw F*atent Challenge Poultry Meal THE r.RKATKST ECC. PRODUCINC. FOOD. * Thf mosi .Viitritinus and fhf;fslifili- FiHni for Imv- ing ///"Its iittil fill gfllini; all kiinh uf Mnilh V I'lio .SVi/i.v ( 'oHthtiitn. Poultry in confined runs thrive vtionderfully on it. Une(r, Champion {Grand Sire, Pilgrim, 14067 Plinlimmon, E isoso 1 ^ ^ ,., -^^ (Cr^onrfZJaiw, Bessie, 13793 JRISH SETTER AT STUD. CHAMPION BLARNEY FEE, »25- ENGLISH SETTER, ROD GEM (RODERIGO-GEM.) FEE. |J5. B. F. LRWIS, Box 13, .•a-T* M«Tioii P. O.. Pa. ( Grand Sire, < Merchant Prince, 14742 (Orand Dam, Chloris. Dam, Effie . FEB : : FORTY DOLLARS. PENINSULAR KENNELS, I.EANUKK TICHENOR, Manager, CHELSEA MICH. 69-tf gJNGI.lSH SETTER AT STUD. GATH'S MARK. (4771) None hut approved bitches accepted. For stud card and particularN address 67-79 J. B. STODDARD, CONCORD, N. C. IN THE STUD. AdverHsements inserted under this heading at the following rales: One inch, single insertion, t'.w; fs-4o /<» the month; f'S for thtee months; $28 for six months, and fio for the year. SETTERS & POINTERS DESMOND 11 Red Irish setter, bred by Rev. R. O'Callaghau, England, by Friscw-Grouse II. This dog com- bines both field and bench show qualities. He won first prize in the Derbv at the Philadelphia field trials 1888, and on the bench has won, first, Philadelphia; first Troy; first, Albany; first, Rochester, 188S and first, challenge class, Phila- delphia 1889. Stud fee, I35. SIR TATTON English setter by Sir AUistei- Belle of Furuess. Record: First and special at Philadelphia, 1889; first and special at Loudon, Onl., 1889, and win- ner of 40 prizes and cups in England. This dog- is a wonilerful i>ei former in the field. Fee, J35. DASHING KENT Same pedigree as Sir Tatton. A vouug dog ot great promise; excellent in the field. Fee, I25. CARLTON PERO By Sir Tatton -Princess Charlotte II. Winner of numerous prizes in puppy cla.sses in England last year and winner ol^ second prize, puppy class, at Loudon, Out., when out of condition. A grand dog in the field. Fee, $25. GAMBOL Pointer, full brother to Wooltun Game by Gough — I^arkapur. A superb field dog. Fee, I25. All approved bitches sent to us to be served will be kept free of expense. Terms cash in ad- vance. Bitches not proving in whelp will be en- titled to free ser\'ice. Extended pedigrees and stud cards on applica- tion. EAST END KENNEL CLUB, Care W. H. Wkiss, 43-^ Bethlehem, Pa. gNGUSH PUG AT STUD. HAYSEED (11,807) Douglass II— Rose, by Champion Bradford Ruby. FEE - - - FIVE DOLLARS. SEMINOLE KENNELS, 70-73 Che.stnut Hill, Phila., Pa. JMPORTED WHITE BULL TERRIER AT STUD KINGCRAFT. FINE PEDIGREE. WEIGHT, FORTY LBS. FEE, $10. Protooraphs Fifty Cents. Address E. K. Doty, 7itf 47 Wellington Place, Toronto, Canada. T SHALL HAVE AT MY KENNELS FOR A * short time CH. BEAUFORT, Ihe properly of Mr. W. K. Taunton. Champion Beaufort's winiririgs on the show bench and his record as a stud clog have proved him the t)est mastiff ever known. He is the sire of more and greater prize winners than all others living Mastiff breeders should make the most of this grand dog while here. Photographs 2S cents Stud fee $75. J. WINCHELL, FAIRHAVEN. Vt. 55-106 nORKSHlRE TOY TERRIER AT STUD. CH. BRADFORD HARRY. The celebrated Enclish and American prize winner. Described in show rejwrts as "best Yorkshire in America. ■ Two photographs from lite, 50 cents. Extended pedigree and winnings free. A first-class show dog for sale, P. H. COOMBS, 50-75 I Exchange Block, Bangor, Me. IN THE STUD. Advertisements inserted under this heading a, the following rates: One inch, single insertiont ti.50; t5-40 for the month; $13 for three months tM for SIX months, and Sio for the year. ^HAMPION GORDON SETTER OF AMERICA, LITTLE BOY Winner over English and American cham- pions. Winner at Toledo of special, "Best sport- ing dog in show," Mr. John Davidson judge. Winner at Cincinnati of special, "Best setter or pointer stud dog, that is the sire of the greatest number of prize winners." Winner of FORTY odd firsts and specials, under judges : Major J M. Taylor, Mr. John Davidson. Dr. Jarvis, Mr. Tracy, Mr. Tallman, Mr. Higgins. etc. Mr. E C. Sterling. Shown by Mr B F. Lewis. Stud fee J25 for a limited numtier of bitches. WAVER LY KENNELS, JOHN SANDERSON, care Dr. Dixon, 70 75 58th St. and Elmwood Ave., Ffaila. SPECIAL LIST KO. 12 Is now out. It contains the names of many cele- brated champion dogs and bitches now offered tor sale for the first time. Nearly 200 dogs of nearly all breeds are offered for sale. Now is the time of year to buy good dogs cheap. List mailed on application. ASSOCIATED FANCIERS, 63-tf 140 S. 8th St., Phila., Pa. MEDFORD FANCY GOODS CO. WmM 14-75 44 & 46 DUANE St., N. Y. I. BREMER, PRES. A TREAS. We manufacture ten thou- sand styles of dog collars, har- ne8.ses, locks, leads, brushes, combs, bells, couplings, blank- ets, whips and baskets for dogs. Write lor catalogue A. pifiQ Chesters, Berkshires, Polauds. Fox riuOi Hounds, Beagles, CoUie.s, Setters. W.GIB- b«jNs is. Mr G. W. Cormack, secreiary. Dec. 30. -Jan. 6. — Illinois State Poultry Associa- tion. Peoria. J. W. Burton, secretary. Jan. 1-6. — Southern Michigan Poultry and Pet Stock Association, Mouroe, Mich. EHiot O. Grosvenor, secretary. Jan. 13-17,— International Exhibition of the South Carolina Poultry and Pet Stock Associa- tion (not incorporated) at Charleston, S. C. Ben- jamin Mclnnis, Jr., secretary. H. A. Bridge, su- perintendent. Jan, 23-16. Mohawk Valley Poultry and Pet Stock Association, Amsterdam, N. Y. Mr. Wil- liam C. House, secretary, Freys Bush, N. Y. Gordon Setter Club. They will take place early in October, and game unit be shot over the dogs Our Illustration. Mrs. P. Senn's King Charles spaniel Romeo, whose portrait we give this week, has a grand short and square muzzle, as a glance at the picture will demonstrate. His expression is excellent and his eyes beautiful. He weighs about eight and one-half pounds and is quite a typical specimen of the breed. Romeo, bree as follows : Miss Anna Whitney takes St. Bernards, Newfoundlands and pugs ; Major Taylor will have setters, pointers, beagles, Amer- ican and shaggy foxhounds. Mr. Morti- mer has been assigned mastiffs, Great Danes, bull dogs, bull terriers, fox ter- riers, collies, greyhounds, deerhouuds, wolf-hounds, bloodhounds, English fox- hounds and Chesapeake Bay dogs. Dr. Charles M. Nelles makes his debut as the judge of cocker and field spaniels, and Mr. J. F. Kirk looks after the remaining varieties. « « « I thought it but a friendly part to tell you What strange reports are current here in town. — The Spanish Student. "About the A. K. C. muddle as I look at It," writes j. Utis Fellows, "it is of very little consequence whether Mr. Peshall's theory as to Mr. Belmont put- ting money in is true or not. The most important thing is to know if the ofl&cers of the A. K. C. have administered it as the Congress of American dogdom, or as their private affair." • * * The Michigan Kennel Club has added an additional rule, Rule 15, which reads as follows : XV, Any exhibitor conducting himself in a manner unbecoming a gentleman, by appearing in the judges' ring or in the t>ench show building in an intoxicated condition, or by using profane and boisterous language, or by attempting to abuse or insult one of the judges, shall forfeit all prizes won by his dogs at this show. • • Rule 25 in the A. K. C. rules covers the same ground, and licsides an exhibitor who makes an exhibition of himself is not generally a prize winner, and conse- quently the Michigan club rule will hardly lie of any weight as far as he is concerned. * « » Rule 25, which says : "Any person who has been guilty of misconduct of any kind in connection with dogs, dog shows, etc.," is all that is necessary, if it would only l)e stringently enforced. It is the duty of the show stewards, we think, to see that judges in the ring are not insulted by disappointed exhibitors in an intoxicated condition. Manj' jtidges, Mr. John Davidson for example, will not make the necessary complaint, and therefore ring stewards should pro- tect the judges by reporting these people immediately to their show committee. It strikes us there is entirely too much of this "talking back" allowed at our shows now. ♦% Gordon setter trials, says Shooting Times, are being organized by the French Secretary M. V. B. Saunders, of the Michigan Kennel Club, writes : "We ex- pected to be able to announce in this week's sporting journals a full list of the special prizes to be offered by the Michi- gan Kennel Club at its show beginning September 2, but the committees ap- pointed to solicit special prizes have met with such unqualified success, and our citizens have responded so liberally to our demand for specials that we hope to make our special prize list equal to that offered by our club in 1887, which has neven been excelled by any club in America. It is now almost certain that, aside from the specials offered on single- specimens in various classes, our club will offer kennel prizes on the following breeds : For the best kennel of four mastiffs, Great Danes, rough-coated St. Bernards, smooth-coated St. Bernards, deerhouuds. greyhounds, Siberian wolf- hounds, pointers, English setters, Irish setters, Gordon setters, Chesapeake Bay dogs, Irish water spaniels, cocker spaniels, collies, poodles, bull dogs, bull terriers, lieagles, fox terriers, black and tan terriers, over seven pounds ; pugs, Italian greyhounds, bloodhounds ; tiest pack of English foxhounds, not less than six ; best pack of American foxhounds, not less than six ; )>est pack of shaggy foxhounds, not less than six. The follow- ing changes and corrections have been made : Owing to the large classes of non-sporting dogs assigned Mr. James Mortimer to judge, the classes of Chesa- peake Bay dogs have, at his request, l)een taken from his list and will be judged by Major J. M. Taylor. A challenge class has been made for both dog and bitch black and tan terriers over seven pounds. Entries are already coming in very lib- erally, and everything promises a big show." Mr. Carswell, secretary of the Wil- mington 1,I>;1.) bench show, writes us that the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com- pany and the Wilmington and Northern Railroad Company will carry three dogs to one person when accompanied by the owner or care-taker in baggage car, at owner's risk. He adds that, should the entries so warrant, the Wilmington Bench Show will divide the dog and bitch classes according to sex. « « There is an impression abroad that the Wilmington show will 1>e held in tents. It is not so, the show will be in one of the large permanent buildings. The l)ench- ing will be like the Boston show, except- ing there will Ix: wire partitions dividing the stalls. It should slso be retneinl)ereoctor ! • » • San Francisco dogs, according to the F^xauiiner, of that city, have selected a particular house, beneath which they crawl when their time arrives to die. Twenty-six carcasses have been removed from beneath the old house already, in- cluding dogs of all degrees, from the l)eautiful and intelligent setter to the measly little terrier who yelped his fare- well to earth in the presence of scores of hif. dead and lietter kind. While Judge Gay, of Chicago, wa« eating breakfast the other day, he heard a howl of distress from his pet Scotch terrier, and, hurrying out of doors, found the dog in the hands of dog catchers. The Judge at once made a decree that promptly set the canine free, anil ac- companied it with the extra judicial opinion in vigorous and fluent terms alKUit dog catchers in general. If hizzoner had been a layman it would have cost him about $2.50 to accomplish the same result. vot. 5. i*o. e.1 XHR FANCIERS' JOURNAI^. «* 84 l^HE FANCIERS' JOURNAI^. [AUG. 9, 1890 ^hii^^^d^i^^aaM PITZ-POODLE'S DOGOY EXPERIENCES 11 SOME QUEER CHARACTERS BV HIBERNIA. iiv. tt is remarkable what strange fatality attaches to exhibitors' season tickets. A large number of them are lost on the first or second day of a show, and by a strange coincidence are always found by the friends of the losers. Some exhibitors are so unfortunate as to lose their tickets at every show of the circuit. People whose names on a commercial note or on a pedigree would pass current anywhere will go to the secretary of the show and tell him that they have lost their tickets and would like duplicates, when in fact they have g^ven them away to friends only a few minutes liefore. Some exhibitors I know of, members of church and who scorn to tell a lie, will whip the devil around the stump by say- ing they cannot find their tickets (and for a very good reason, because they have given them away) and would like dupli- cates. One individual is in the habit of closing his eyes and then telling a friend, "Now, I have dropped my ticket on the floor ; you find it before I open my peepers." A secretary who goes about a show with his ears free from wax will often hear conversation like the following : "I say, Smith, lend me your ticket for a minute." "What for ?" "Why, I've got a friend outside that wants to come into the show." "If he ticket is handed to Smith ; he takes it out to his friend and the box office is fifty cents poorer. Another familiar pterson at a dog show is the man who comes into the office twenty times a day to inquire if there is a letter for him. He has never been known to receive any, auody has made a mistake, and I believe it's myself. If you will kindly cash another check for me I'll go home. Next time I come here I will try to bring enough money to last, but I thought that it was such a quiet place I would not need much." With this the overworked gentleman shakes the secretary by the hand, and as he closes the door he utters the now familiar refrain : "Slow town, eh ?" While walking along the aisles a secre- tary will occasionally see a group en- gaged in earnest conversation before a stall containing adog marked "P'orsale." The party generally consists of .a gentle- man, lady and a child, and the owner or handler of the dog. He will overhear a dialogue something like the following : Genti,km.\n : "Well, my dear, what do you think of him ?" Lady : "He certainly is handsome enough. But are you sure he has no vicious traits, because I would not have Gertie bitten for the world." OwNKR : "Why, madam, the dog was lirou^ht up among children. At home the little ones harness him to a wagon, and the baby has cut his teeth by bitiug on his tail." Child : "Oh, papa, do buy him." Gentleman : "The dog I think will suit, and I do not object to the price, but if I buy I must have him at once, as we are not residents of this city and go away to-day." "Handler : "I think I can arrange that." A few minutes later the owner of the dog hunts the secretary up. Says he : "I'm sorry, sir, but mv dog number so and so, is very sick and I want to get him out of the show." "You will have to see the veterinary and get a certificate of sickness from him." In a short time the man comes back with a proper certificate and, although very much astonished, the secretary coun- tersigns it, but remark : "Don't you think it bad policy to sell a sick dog ? The man winks with one eye, but says nothing. The veterinary is hunted up and asked : "Whj the thunder did you give Jones a certificate that his dog was sick ?" "Because the dog is sick. He has dis- temper and ought to be out of the show. "Why, doctor, the dog ten minutes ago was as lively as a cricket. Jones sold him on condition that he would get him out of the show and deliver him to-day." The secretary is mad and so is the vet. and they enter into a loud dispute. He considers ihe secretary a fool and the secretary thinks he has accepted a bribe. Later it is discovered that Jones has taken the vet. to the stall of a dog of the same kind as his which has pronounced symptoms of distemper, gets a certificate, alters the number and takes out his own dog on it. Of course he should be dis- qualified, but the secretary does not be- cause he does not think he would relish the jibes of the boys if publicity is given to the affair. The vet. is of the same opinion. There are always a number of members in every club giving a show who come into the box office twenty times a day to inquire how many tickets have been sold. After getting this information they usually enter into a lengthy conversation about the show being given too late or too early in the season to be a financial success. The ticket-seller, bothered by them, makes mistakes in giving change and sells half tickets to men weighing 200 and more pounds, and full tickets to boys in Knickerbockers. — The doggerels put into the mouths of different doggy men in last weeks "Kx- periences" were not original with either them or myself. They appeared some ten years ago in a paper with which I was connected, and I used them simply l)e- cause I thought them most appropriate to the present stale of doggy affairs. If I knew the writers' names I would be only too glad to give them proper credit, but I don't. — Sprains in dogs should be treated in the same way as with human lieiiigs. The dog should be kept perfectly quiet, have hot fomentations applieench show form may, as nearly as f>ossib1e, conform to the requirements of actual work in the field. 2. To select persons whose names shall be suggestetl to the management of the different bench shows as judges of Eng- lish setters at such shows. 3. To take such action as the interests of this breed may require in suggesting or approving or disapproving the names of persons to act as judges at the differ- ent field trials. 4. To offer Knglish setter prizes at such bench shows as shall adopt the standard of type prescribed by this club and who shall select judges from a list of names approved by the club. 5. To offer prizes at field trials under such restrictions and conditions as the club may deem advisable. 6. To take such measures as may be deemed advisable to secure legislation and to maintain legal proceedings for the protection of dogs, or to secure the title and interest of owners therein, or for such other and germane purposes as experi- ence may demonstrate to be needed in the interests of owners. 7. To undertake and advance any meas- iir^« which it? th** ^'id*'Tne mailed to members of ihe committee by the Sec- retary at least three weeks before said meeting, together with notice that the amendment will be submitted at a meet- ing to be held at a time and place men- tioned in the notice. All meml)ers of the Executive Committee and all officers of the club shall be members of the club. ARTICLE VII. The officers of the club and the other members of the Executive Committee shall be elected at the annual meeting of the memliers by secret ballot, and shall hold office for the term of one year and thereafter, until their successors are elected, except that the first Executive Committee and the first officers of the Club shall be elected at the first meeting, and &hall hold office until the first an- nual meeting, and until their successors are elected. The first meeting of mem- bers shall be held on the 24th day of June, 1890, and the regular annual meet- ing shall be held in the City of New York on some day in February, March, or April, of each year to be fixed, together with the place of meeting, by the Ex- ecutive Committee at least six weeks be- fore the day of the meeting. The Secre- tary shall give one month's notice of the time and place of meeting to each mem- ber by mail at his last known post office address. The Executive Committee shall have power to call such special and extra meetings of meml>ers as they may deem needed for the proper transaction of busi- ness upon such reasonable notice to mem- bers as the committee may prescribe. The President must call a special meeting when requested in writing thereto by five members, for some day within one month from rect-ipt of the request, of which meeting three weeks' notice by mail shall be sent to each member at his last known post office address. ARTICLE VIII. The first meeting of the Execntive Committee shall l>e be held on the nth day of July, 1890. Regular meetings of the Executive Committee shall be held quarterly, on the first Thursday of January, April, July and October ; and special meetings shall be held at any time by direction of the Pres- ident, or upon the written request of five meml)ers of the club, upon two weeks' notice by mail, at the last known post office address of the members of the com- mittee, respectively. Adjourned meetings shall be deemed continuations of the meeting adjourned, and no additional notice of such adjourned meeting need be given unless the Executive Committee shall specially direct. ARTICLE IX. Any meml)er shall have the right to be represented at any meeting of the club by proxy, duly authenticated, as provided by the by-laws. The proxy shall only be given to, and can only be used by, and voted upon by a member of the club, and a person, not a member, shall not be permitted to represent any member by virtue of a proxy or other wise. No single metnl>er at any meeting of the club shall be permitted to represent or vote upon more than five proxies. Absent members may also vote on any question which they expect will come before the club by sending their vote in writing by registered letter through the mails to the Secretary in seasonable time for the meeting, and the same shall be read at the meeting by the Secretary, and If tiie vote be definitely expresse*'slo« of the constitution, a larger vote is required. The action of the quorum shall, how- ever, be subject to review in certain cases in the manner hereinafter pre- »C)'iJ)ed. Ill Cdse dily jiltiilljfei- 01 the HxettitiVt l^oHiiliiltefci Hlid d*it§ liot rfttetid -iTetied Hieetin^, ot anj- par- ticular proceetlings or motions thereat, Shalt be submitted for the action of the entire committee, and if the request shall actually have been received prior to the tittle appointed for holding the Uleet- jtig, thtii utltl iu that event tilt Hctioii of iiife (iiiot-util sllall be subject to fetlew, fiH(i tH apptHVai or disapproval by tile fcn- tire comttiitlce. If a majority of the entire committee are present at the meeting, and vote in favor of the action taken at the meeting, then such action shall be final In any feVerit, arid no fttrlhef subtiiisslott of re- view thereof shall be allo^^td. flut if a ^ftjoritv.Of thfeeritirt cohfiifiltee do hot vols at 'this iileethi^ iH fatbf Of ijie ri<;tion taken at the meeting, theh tile SeCrttary, in accordance with the request contained in the notice, shall, within five days from the date of said meeting, send a tran- ncript of the minutes of the whole meet- lhj(, of of the mirtiltes felatinf! to the iJaHitulat UtotiWil of- proPeediuK, itt re- spect to which the aeliou of the ehlire fcdntiriittee is desired, tO each riiemlifer of the ExettltiVfe fc'onlniittee not present at IHfi Hlt>Vt!f)t( at hita 1d«l WHrlwii addFoOa by mad, acconlpamed by a Written notice, that the action irieutionbd ill the miriutes is submitted td hint for approval of dis- Hpivfdvdl, (iiid tHetetibbit .the ftteiilber io ijolihed shnll be eiititled to Seild to tile Secretary, by niail, his Writteil vote, or Votes, upon the question stated iti the niinutes, and the vote, or votes, so sent, If actually delivered to the Secretary's address by mail, within three weeks from Ihe date of said meeting, shall bfe fe- corded a*. Votfes npoll the qutistiod with im pallie fOfee and effect as if the mettl- Ijer had attended the meeting and voted in perspn, Th? l?ttQr shall be filed and preserved for lefereuce. If the non-attending members who shall Vote agaltlst the action of the meeting on 1 my Mnl)jeCt, (thall, with the attending Hletllbers who Voted against such action i*t the iileeting, cotls'titute a majority of i\\t6: ^iitlrt» comitiillee, Iheh the action of the meeting shall be annulled alld of no effect ; but otherwise it shall be deemed flpproVed; and shall beconle ojierative at the eilipifrttian of three weeks frOnl the uateof the tiieetiiifj. A review of the action of any lileetitlg hiay also be had in like manner, upon the request of any member w ho voted against the action taken, and who may desire to have the question submitted to the entire committee. Such request must l)e made immediately after the vote is announced, and a reasonable opportunity for such request shall be afforded by the presid- ing officer. The request shall be voted iu the minutes of the meeting as part of the proceedings. The same- proceer shall be |5, rtfid the atfnital dues shall lie fa for each cMleflclrff ftatr ; irittfatiofi fee pay- able at time of liecOftfiiiJt »f y«e'nl)er, and duKpavable iji advatlce at tiufe Of tie- ctittlmgi inetiih^r; aiid thereafter on the first day of January? If< i>a'cli .v^erfr., When any j>erson shall be aHd refe'ain in arrears upon any indebtedness to the club for a period of more than sixty days after HOtiCe requesting payment has been mailed to liilh hf the Treasurer, he may lie dropped froth the foll by the Execu- ii^k totfiiijitt^Cj and hi^ membership forthwith shall U^sk attq dt,terihine. When, for any reason, the i;#ecntive Committee shall deem that the interests of tile club will be protected or advanced by terminating the membership of any memtjer of the club and dropping his hahfe ff-Otii the foil ot the club, they may take, stich attidti bV a three-fottrths vote of thJ; fctitlre tottittittee, the Vote to be given either ill {^iboH bi ih wrtting by mail ; and the person stt depfJ^ed of memliership shall not be entitled to any hearing, nor shall the committee be re- quired to aMsign any reason for their ac- tioil: The powers conferred bv this pro- vision afe aistlret»onar>- and (fo not de- Eend lipoti any misCofiduct of the mem- er, nqr require that anv charges ."thall The tJietlitiVe Coiiittiiliee nieif also by a two-thirds vote, either in pefsoli Of iu writing by mail, suspend or expel any meniber froili niembefship for such term as they thihk iifOpei- fbf ahv mliooks and papers of his office, subject to inspection of members on order of the Executive Committee. And no member shall be entitled to such inspec- tion except upon order of the Executive Committee. The Secfetafy shall also per- form such other duties- as lifaylje assigned to him by the President and Executive Committee. TREASURER. vSec. 4. The Treaanrer shall receive all fees and dues from uieml)ef8, as well a." other moneys coming to the club, keep an acCotiMt'of all the receipts and ex- pendittffes by the club, and a separate ac- count with each frtettlber ; pay all bills approved, and make all purchases di- rected by the EJxecutive Committee. All bills or claims against the club shall Ije first audited and approved by the Execu- tive Committee before the Treasurer shall pay the same, and no bills shall be paid unless so audited. He shall make a writteh report to the tjxeeutive Commit- tee ii^htTieul*atlon of Time Before Doatli Kiisuos In True Hydrophobia. Dr. Hanimonc] in North Americon Review. It may l>e laid down in the very l)e- ginning of our consideration of the sub- ject that the victim of false hydrophobia can only have those symptoms of which he has knowledge. I'nfortuuately, the real disease has received so much notice from newspapers and other popular pub- lications that a tolerably correct knowl- edge of its phenomena has been acquired by the laity. Hence, we find that the picture ordinarily presented by the un- conscious simulator is, at least to cursory observation, not unlike the real affection. There are, however, great differences, which the educated physician will not fail to detect, and which will enable him to do what has never Iwen yet done with real hydrophobia — cure the patient. Hydrophobia never originates, in the human subject at least, except by inocu- lation from a rabid animal, and death always occurs iu four or five days after the development of the disease. A case of so-called hvdrophobia came under my notice in which it was stated that the patient had been bitten some three months previously by a dog undoubtedly hydro- phobic. I inquired as to what had be- CANADIA.^ NEWS. luterestlnK Gossip About IXtfgm, Poul«^ try and Various Gamer., Special Correspondence. Toronto, August 5. — I have not long" since returned to the city from a month's fishing in the vicinity e held in Septemtjer, there will be ample scope for the inferior one to come out on top, and if she does, another record will have been established. More beagle ! I cannot help it, and those who have nothing in common with the breed will I hope defer questioning my sanity until I can assure theni the fit has left me. A letter in Forest and Stream signed "l/outre" again alludes to the southern and bloodhound type as be- ing identical, at least the writer leads one to suppose that is his opinon. Again let me reiterate the}' are most decidedly not, and had I my Boston catalogue handy, I could give you the name of a hound shown in the foxhound class that was distinctly southern in type, and were any- one to see it, the difference would at once be apparent. There is no such thing as bloodhound type in beagles and if anyone does come across such a speci- men they can l)et their bottom dollar it has an admixture of Bassett. I have no desire to assume the role of dictating what is a beagle and what is not. There are hundreds more competent than I, but the more confident I am that everyone is going for the same thing uiuler a differ- ent name. I should gather from what has been published lately that the ac- knowledged beagle type on this side is wrongly termed "foxhound," but it has Ijeen customary to do so, therefore cus- tom has led breeders to call that which is not foxhoimd foxhound. It may be of interest to those who admire beagles, especially of the colossal stamp, to quote what Youatt has to say on the subject. He says : " The origin of this dimin- utive hound is somewhat obscure. There is evidently much of the harrier and of the old southern connected with a considerable decrease of size and speee room for the V ^^^■&ta.3i\y»« \j% ^A,\. tatAo^b, aAav.a*«*f4 cxiiv. Lliat of smell — and for the reverberation of the sound, so peculiarly pleasant in this dog." Jesse has also a good deal to say about this little hound, but as it is prac- tically the same as Youatt, I will refrain from inflicting more dry bones on your readers. At all events, everj- old authority agrees in the fact that they should Ije small, with wide skulls, and short but blunt muzzles, which I think advocates of " foxhound " type will admit does not resemble that hound one little bit, but, on the other hand, follows pretty closely on the lines of the south- ern, and in future 1 trust correspondents will not run away with the idea because my opinion of beagle type favors that of the southern hound that it must neces- sarily be "bloodhound," which are two totally different things. An article in last week's Forest and Stream on the abuse of dog snatchers in New York touches a question which should exert all lovers of dogs to enforce some measures by which such inhumani- ties shall cease. The atrocities to which dogs are subjected in most of the big cities, or for the matter of that, in nearly all parts of the country, are what one mif^ht expect in the most imcivilized parts of Central Africa, but in a Christian country, and one of (he greatest in this world, one expects to lose sight of the barbarian. That an educated and intel- ligent race of people should submit their most faithful of all friends, the dog, to such a free system of abuse brands them with such a stigma of disgrace as would put to shame the lowest race on the face of the earth. As a nation prospers, so should its benevolence increase. Yet with America's prosperity, are dogs treated as living things capable of the deepest and most lasting love ? Are they treated as the most sensitive of all creatures ; ever anxious to please, ever willing to devote their lives? No, I think not, when one reads of the brutalities coun- tenanced by the authorities, who, as long as they permit them, stamp them- selves as competent only to act as turn- keys in a Turkish prison. The Forest and Stream advocates the A. K. C. taking upon itself the protection of dogs in New York City, and confines itself to discussing the treatment to that city, but would it not l>e possible to frame laws suitable for all the big towns ? As regards the A. K. C. looking after the New York dogs, I would have thought such a course would come more under the scope of the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, but of course it is quite feasible for the A. K. C. to espouse such a cause, though it is highly improb- able it would consider this to be one of the objects for which it was formed. In fact, I can hanlly agree with the Forest and Stream in considering the A. K. C. to be the proper body to undertake such a project, but it certainly would Ije acting within its constitution were it to advocate legislative measures by which dogs should receive more consideration from the Government, or the municipal authorities (whichever body has the man- agement of such affairs). The rottenness of the present system lies in the fact that under it dogs are not treated as property, though I believe legally they are consid- ered so. Therefore, in insisting upon a more stringent law in this respect the A. K. C. would only be doing what should be expected of them, but in seeing them carried out they could have no more power than any other self-constituted body. With regard to the destruction of mongrels the Forest and Stream makes a distinction between them and well- bred dogs. Again I must differ. A mongrel is a dog just as much as any bench show champion. He has the same instincts, feelings and thoughts ; is just as fond of life and as capable of render- ing or receiving affections. Why he who is not responsible for his existence any more than the full-blown champion should be maltreated whilst the other is to be pampered, I fail to see. If the A. K. C. or any other hotly is to oppose the present dastardly ill-usage of our dogs, it cannot make fish of one and flesh of another. It is simply upholding the rights of the genus "dog," and if it com- mences to make distinctions the good cause in which it is fighting loses that dignity which is so desirable. At all events, there is one thing certain, and that is, the urgent necessity of somebody and another awakening to the fact that dogs in America are in due need of pro- tection, and the sooner such disgraceful practices are suppressed the sooner will a nation V)e relieved of one of its most disgraceful abuses, and it now remains to be seen whether the A. K. C. has suffi- cient "go" in it to take up this subject, tooth and nail, and never relinquish it until dogs have received some humane consideration from the authorities. Now is its opportunity to more than popular- ize itself Will it make the attempt ? Brittlk. Asthma in Dogs. From the Dog Owners' Annual. This disease, in dogs, is very similar to that which attacks the human being, and is usually caused by an accumulation of fat about the heart, the consequence of over-feeding, or by a frequent distension of the stomach, so that its capacity increases, and n morbid or depraveook on precisely the same terms as did Mr. Vredeuburgh and drew the same remuneration as he did up to February i, i8Sy, after which date I drew a stated salary. A. D. Lewis. I do not Ijelieve that there is any sen- sible or intelligent dog man or breee made in the following form. Write plainly. VISITS L. OARDNER'S (Mt. Vernon, N. \.) pointer bitch Miss Freetiom (Pilate— Fair^' U). to his DritE OK Veknon (filendale— Spot'lessK June 26, 1S90. C. H. WIN.SHir'S (Bar Harbor, Me.) pointer bitch BosKtE to L. Gardner's DrKE of Vek- non (tllendale— Spotless). July 26. 1S90. P. H COOMBS (Bangor, Me^ Yorkshire terrier bilrh MvRRV Ditcmk^u (\'aiiititr Uov.fll r,i*«.>t to hi.s Champion BKAf)KORi)"HAHRV (Craw- ahaw's Bruce— Seal's Lady). July 11. 1S90. J. K. DOIOHERTY'S collie bitch Cki/.z-.r (11,658) to his Boss (i2,6s.s). June 4, 1890, J. W. M. CARDKZAS pointer bitch Dkvoxsiiirf. Coi'NTESs to his David of Delphos, July 27, 189"- SALES. KBERHART PUG KENNELS (Cincinn.iti, O.) sold July 2,1, iSoo, pug bitch Ocken Loris (Sir Loris— East Lake Virgie), whelped April .1, 1890, to James Howden, New York City. JOSEPH WEAVER, Philadelphia, Pa., has sold Yorkshire terrier bitch Nellie (Leo ), whelped March 4, iSgn, to William Walter! Philadelphia. Pa. J. E. DOUGHERTY, Lotus, Iml., sold, June 17, black and tan collie dog pup bv Wattie (11,633)— Zella (ii.fiq'') to W. Hartzog," Elkhart Ind. Also black, white and tan bitch litter to same person. Also black, while and tan bitch puppy by Boss (12,656)— Griiitie (i 1,658). to S. B. Strout. Ever green, Ala., July 25. Also sable and white bitch puppy, same litter to A. R. Talbott, Qiiakertown. Ind. ALSt) a black and tan dog pup by Boss (12 6';6) -Nellie D.), to A. W. Crigler, Wilaon, Ind." WHELPS. GALAXY KENNELS' St. Bernard bitch Prin- cess .\i.ma, whelped June 28, sixteen puppies, eight dogs, to E. B. Sears' Hksprr. GALAXY KENNELS' St. Bernard bitch Psyche, whelped July 14, ten puppies, four dogs, to E. B. Sears' Pli.nlim.mon, Jr. G.G. D.WIS' Irish setter bitch Ci-rrer Bell II (Scarsfield— Maud ID, whelped July jy. thir- teen, one dog. to Max WeiiwI's Champion Tl.M. NAMES CLAIMED. EBERHART PUG KENNELS (Cincinnati, O.) claim the name of DtiSKY Bob for pug dog whelped May 13, 1890, by Champion Kash— Nun Nicer. puppy, same Diseases of the Bye. From the Dog Owners' Annual. The eyes of the dog are subject to in- flammatory attacks, induced in most cases by violent exertion, by exposure to wind, or by eat- ing too much animal food. If from the latter cause, the cure will be much more difficult than if from cither of the precding. Remedy— Keep the ilog on a goo — t,-ui.. »t.„ n — • .1 . t « tyjtrtktrty \.tl\, 1113V vioga wclc LttKCIi 111 pil- falls, traps and snares formed for the capture of deer and other wild animals on which the hunter had to live. Such as might prove with young would be pre- served, in which case their progeny would gradually liecome domesticated, and as they yielded to future discipline would prove u.seful, not only in the chase but in giving notice of the atiproach of enemies of their owners, or of their own- ers' flocks. In the wilds of Northeast Australia at the present day, as I am informed by a recent traveler there. Dr. Lumholz, the natives, who employ the dingo in their hunting, never capture the adult animal, which will not breed in confinement (so they allege), but search for a litter of puppies, which they find in crevices in the rocks, or in hollows at the base of tree trunks, and bring them up by hand. Thev gradually Ijecome familiar and obedient, and, since they hunt by scent, soon become useful in the chase. Dr. Lumholz, however, remarked that they do not long remain with their masters, for as soon as the inclination of pairing comes on (which with wild dogs happens only once a year) they betake themselves to the wilds, never to return. Thus their owners are compelled to seek for fresh puppies to reclaim and educate and keep as long as they can. It is evident, then, that the dog, which we now know in such a great variety of forms, has not always been domesticated, but has, at a very remote period, l)een re- claimed by man's agency from a feral state. The means employed to capture it I have just indicated. I^et us now consider the question of origin. Whence have arisen the numerous and remarkably different breeds which are now scattered all over the world ? Can it be possible that they have originated from the one wild prototype, whose de- scendants by transjjortation to different climates, and forced existence under altered conditions of life, have in the course of countless generations l)ecome so modified as to assume the appearance which they now present ? Or are we to believe that more than one wild ancestor has contributed to the formation of the various existing breeds, the variations presented by the wild types being still further increased by the hybridization of their progeny ? Their variability, their universal commixture, the perfect fer- tility of the produce of the most widely separated varieties, are arguments in favor of their Ijeing only one species. On the other hand, the remarkable difference Ijetween some of the varieties is the argu- ment chiefly relied on for the plurality of stock. As there is sufficient evidence to show that the dog existed in a domes- ticated state in pre-historic times, neither history nor tradition enables us to solve with certainty the question of origin — a question upon which so much difference of opinion prevails that it is doubtful whether it will ever be satisfactorily settled. I propose therefore to consider, first, what was the appearance presented by some of the earliest known forms of the domestic dog amongst different nations ; secondly, what are the existing wild 8}iecie« of dog from which it is lx)th pos- sibly and probable they descend ; and. thirdly, how far a knowledge of these ex- isting wild types, and their geographical distribntion, will enaVile us to classify the various moecause unknown to the Romans, it is nevertheless at the present time more curious than useful : ENGLISH E DOGGES. (Tcrrar. Houude V Harrier. ( Bloudhounde. {Gasehounde. Grehounde. Levjuer. Tumbler. Hawking and Fowling {Spaniel. Setter. Water spaniel. Wife ti«n- O { Delicate \ Spaniel gentle. ( Shepherdes doi Country i Maative, or I e a meeting of the association at i P. M., August 13, in the Hotel Penn, Reading, Pa. A full at- tendance is earnestly desired, and we hope all niem)>ers will try and be there at the appointed time. Persons desirous of joining should send in their applications, with two references to the secretary, whofee address is Procopson, Chester County, Pa. « * The fees art- very moderate, being but ^1 to join, and |li yearly dues. The ob- ject of this association is to encourage and promote impiovcnient in the breed- mg and management of poultry, pigeons and game, and the preservation and pro- tection of the latter. For this latter rea- son alone every man in the state who is interested in our game birds should give his money and name to further the good work of protecting the game from total extermination. Biddy Bedott in the American Stock- Keeper agrees with us that the old scor- ing system must go in favor of judging by comparison. She writes : "The judg- ing at the New York show will be done by comparison. What will the 'time' judges say to that ? We feel this is a move in the right direction and will prove more satisfactory than the scoring sys- tem. It will also lessen the expense of judging the show, an!! this remark was made : "I never sell a a bird on its score, but after I have sold it I will score the bird and send the pur- chaser its card." Still societies will em- ploy judges to score birds and send ex- hibitors the cards. For what .> To help crowd a false representation on the amateur purchaser, and bring the whole fancy into disrepute. The card has had its "speculative boom ;" the time has gone by when the score card will lie of advantage to the seller ; all are now fully aware that scor- ing ninety per cent of all birds exhibited, within five one-hundredths of each other, is getting the business down too fine for its prosperity. Opinions based on score card judging treat bad defects so lightly that great de- velopments get no credit, hence it is not an educator but a detriment to progress. What progress has been made has been due to the brains of the breeders, not to the score card. The very name of a score card gives nine out of ten such breeders the cold chills. Comparison is the only way by which one bird can be put above another and progress be determined. Bring the birds in question together and what is the result ? The judge compares each section in comparison with the best developed section in the class ; in doing this he studies symmetry, color and pen- ciling, each section by comparison, and does so intelligently ; all of which not only does the breeder justice, but edu- cates the judge. It maybe presumptu- ous on my p»art to insinuate that judges need educating, but as a breeut Plymouth Rocks, or what his namesake, the sedate J. H. Thompson, Jr., has to say on the same subject. That old veteran, C. C. Montague, could tell us much that is practical and useful about the poultry business and his pets — the rose-coml)ed brown Leghorns. — :o:— The agricultural fairs in late years have given poultry exhibits well-deserved recognition. The premiums are lilieral, as a rule, and the accommodations for the fowls superior. Trenton has enlarged its poultry building, so it is reported, and bids fair to have an immense exhibit. Mt. Holly is on deck again,, and its poul- try department has been well advertised by the superintendent, T. Farrer Rack- ham. Waverly, N. J., and Wilmington, Del., will as usual have large exhibits, and the "l)oys" will have plenty of plums to pick. — 0:0 — It is, however, the worst season of the year to show poultry, and a premium won has only a local significance. Old fowls might as well be barred out, unless re- spectably dressed in new plumage, or with enough of the old plumage left to guide the judge in making his awards. It is a pity that such shows cannot be held later in the season. regular poultrj- exhibitions later in the season, and March is suggested as the best month. In my opinion this will in- terfere too much with the breeding sea- son, which usually begins in February. Birds in the show i)en need considerable time to recover from its effects, and if March is to be the banner month for shows in the future, the breee hatched eariy. The liest chickens I have this season were hatched in March. The hot, dry, sandy soils, and aljsence of grass in this part of the world after May is not calculated to grow chickens as well as earlier in the season. Splendid chickens are raised here in winter, and Hammonton certainly has no objection to early hatched chickens. In the snowbound North, however, May and June are preferable. After all the season of the .shows should be regulated by the climate to a certain extent. — 0:0 — A Hibernian friend of mine heard that Buff Cochins were good layers, and hav- ing an eye for beauty and utility both, besides plenty of money, he invested in a fine pen. Meeting him some months after his purchase I inquired how the Cochins were «loing. "Oh ! my, me boy, they are dandies ; splendid layers ! They lay them so fast, by gorrah, that thev ate them all up. I don't blame them ; its too heavy a drain on the system." — 0:0 — The amusing pastime of making a slate of officers to serve the A» P. A. next year is very popular at present. Nominations are in order for president and secretary, atid from present indications there is no lack of nominating material. There is, however, considerable time vet before thinking of nominating new candidates, and the inevitable result will l)e that the 'Tis said that dogs and chickens do not harmonize well together. From a fancier's standpoint this is far from true. A lover of thoroughbred fowls is apt to appreciate thoroughbred dogs as well. Mr. G. W. Pressey, of Hammonton, N. J., the well- known manufacturer of incubators and brooilers, became interested in Langshans years ago, and the same influence that made him discard ordinary poultry taught him to appreciate a thoroughbred dog. He now possesses a fine sable collie bitch that was entered for the Futurity Stakes of next season. She was bred at Ford- hook Farm and is out of imported Frisk by Fordhook Squire. As this is Mr. Pressey's first venture, he starts out well. — 0:0 — be it of dogs or fowls, is to start out well. The very best is the cheapest. In dogs pedigree amounts to much ; in fowls it docs not amount to anything, although some would have us believe that a pedi- gree lxK)k is indispensable. The breeder's brains are the pedigree books of his fowls. However, if a breeder wishes to fish for suckers let him label his stock as follows : "Plymouth Rocks— sire, McGinty, 2999; dam, Annie Rooney, 3330, registered in A. P. R. P. B." He will get plenty of bites. houses. One gentleman was so imbued with this idea of having things warm and comfortable that he followed the high heat plan faithfully. He was a careful man, and fed his chickens in the best possible manner, had the top heat hot water pipe system, kept the doors closed so "chickies" wouldn't catch cold, and did all he could to give the latter a sound, theoretical and practical existence. Out of every ioc» chicks hatched 100 existed long enough to go to market. A brooder house and a theory are for sale. ^0:0 — I have two barred Plymouth Rock chickens that sutler from a disea.se strange to me, and which some reader of The JotiRNAMnay be able to explain. One has a large extension of the lower jaw reaching to the throat, the other has a pair of shanks that are puffed up to an abnoraial size. Both cases resemble blood poisoning, but the color of combs and wattles hardly indicate sufficiently any sign of ill health otherwise. If any veterinarian or chicken doctor wishes to experiment on the aljove chickens I will cheerfully donate them for such a pur- pose. J. H. DREVKN.STKDT. "The American people like to be hum- bugged," is a common remark. Well ! if pedigreeing fowls and selling powders consi.stingof bone meal, charcoal, linseed meal and cayenne pepper at fifty cents per pound is not humbugging the Ameri- can people, what is? Our experiment stations in the different states could ren- der no better service to the fraternity than by analizing these so-called con- dition powders for poultry, cattle and dogs, and giving their commercial value, the same as is done with commercial fer- tilizers. Such proceedings would prick a few bubbles, but prove of value in more ways than one. — 0:0— It was hot enough one day last week to hatch eggs in the shade. I had a hen just come off her nest with a good brood of chickens. Hen and chickens were both placed in a shed where the tem- perature registered about 95° to 100°. (It was the coolest place that day.) The hen tried to hover those chickens, but they refused her warm embrace, and serenely squatted and panted on the floor. Those chickens felt the heat fully as much as I did, and the conclusion was forcibly impressed upon me that no arti- ficial brooder should have over 90° of heat. I know there are some who advocate a THE POUTER. The Second Paper on Breeding and Rearing Them. [continued.] Pouters are among the most unsatis- factory of all pigeons to breed, if they are to be depended upon to rear their own young ; for in every stage, from the laying of the eggs to the youngsters com iiig out of the nest, difficulties arise. The eggs from a pair when the cock is a big blower, are very often unfertile. Then they are clumsy and destroy more eggs than they hatch, more particularly if they are heavily flagged ; aud if they do hatch, they more often crush the little ones to death than not. Furthermore, if they get through the sitting and feed off their soft meat, they generally fill their young ones with wind instead of corn ; and this is not all, for having got through the preliminary stages, and the young having begun to get nicely feathered, the breeders' hopes are banished by finding they have lost the use of their legs, and this happens generally to those that prom- ise to have the longest limbs. When this is the case, they may l)e got up again by judicious treatment, but their limbs are invariably — we may say always wide when they are full grown. The plan to adopt under these circumstances is to mix some cod liver oil with flour to a substance that can he made into pills, half a dozen or more of which may Ije given daily, at the same time feeding them with soaked beans or peas ; this can be done very e ecn given. The best way to feed young pout- ers at this age is from the mouth, but there is a knack in doing this which is difficult to attain, so that recourse is gen- erally had to hand-feeding. By passing the back of the neck of the bin! Ix-tween the third and fourth fingers of the hand with the palm upwards, the first finger and thumb can be placed on either side of the l>eak and the mouth opened ; then with the right hand pass the soaked l>eans or peas down the gullet. To this style of feeding the young ones soon become accustomed, aiid if not roughlv handled will open their mouths themselves, and high heat for brooders and brooder suck the corn down, when guide.l with the fingers. Young pigeons, after they are a fortnight old, can be reared in this way without tlie aid of their parents, but then water must be given, and also a little grit with the food. There is no difficulty in getting them to drink, for they will suck the water as soon as their beaks are placed in contact with it. Few breeders attempt to rear pouters without the aid of feeders, for the reasons which we have already stated. To be successful with pouters plenty of room must be available— overcrowding has been the cause of disaster in many pigeon lofts. All birds as well as animals must breathe pure air if they are ex- pected to do well ; and this they cannot do when they are too closely packed to- gether ; not only do they suffer in their health from this cause, but they interfere with each other in every conceivable manner. All lofts in which pouters are kept should lie well ventilated, for they are naturally hardy birds, and do not suffer from cold, provided the loft is free from draughts. There is a musty smell about improperly ventilated pigeon lofts which cannot lie mistaken, and this is fatal to pouters, whose chief delight in life is in drawing into their crops large quantities of air. Pouters are expensive to keep by com- parison with many other breeds of pigeons, for it takes ten birds to produce two pairs of young ones, namely, two pairs of pouters and three pairs of feed- ers ; for to make success tolerably sure one and a half times as many foster parents must be kept as pouters. The plan to adopt with the feeders is to change the eggs as soon as they are laid ; It IS therefore necessary to have a pair ready, for it is not safe to leave an egg with the pouters, even for a night ; for one egg spoilt, where very high-cla.ss birds are kept, may mean the best pro- duction of the season. In the event of the pouters laying before the feeders it is better to chance their breaking them rather than to take the eggs away, as pigeons' eggs seldom hatch if tbev'ar* kept for more than a day or two. " The pouters should be allowesolutely perfect bird of any breed or variety. Bnt I fail to see how the lack of ateolute per- fection in double-laced birds is proof that they are not more easily bred than single-laced ones. Do not our Wyan- dottes show pencilling in the centres of the feathers ? Are these single-laced birds perfect? Do not the Sebright bantams also show great imperfections in mark- ings, and they are single-laced ? The single-laced feather is as difficult a feather to produce in perfection as the doui>le- laced, and single laced birds are vastly more difficult to obtain in Indian games than those with double lacing. Mr. Drevenstedt further says : "Mr. Babcock errs when he savs that I 'arraign the honesty of the judges' if the latter should have their personal preferences. * * * Even with Mr. Babcock 's con» promise clause the single-laced bird in the eyes of some will always be the hand- somer, and consequently score higher than a first class and equally meritorious double-laced Nrd." Please note the itali- cized words. The italics are mine. In this statement Mr. Drevenstedt has unconsciously fallen into an error and confounded two systems of judging fowls, comparison and scoring. In comparison the birds are compared with one another, and the one Vhich looks the handsomer is awarded the prize, but in scoring the birds are not compared with one another, but with the requirements of the stand- ard. No question of which is the hand- somer or what are his preferences con- cerns the judge. Consequently, if he knows how to score fowls, his preferences for any style of marking will not affect his score. If the standard allows birds with single and double lacing to compete together the judge, when he comes to a single laced bird, does not ask himself is this a handsomer bird than one with double lacing, but how perfect are the ground color and the lacings ; if perfect, they cannot be cut ; if imperfect, they are THE FANCIERS' JOURNAL. to be cut according to the percentage of their departure, not from his ideal, but from the requirements of the standard. And when a double-laced bird is met the process is gone through with in the same way. And so I reassert that to state that if a bird looks handsomer with a given style of lacing, if the judge pre- fers that styte of lacing, and because of this fact gives the bird a higher score, is to "arraign the honesty of the judge" or to impugn his competency. If Mr. Drevenstedt had not written that reply hastily and had thought out the logical result of his statement, he would never have made it, for such a statement is tantamount to asserting cither that the judge will allow his per- sonal preferences to over-ride the plain requirements of the standard, or that he has not learned how to apply the stand- ard. Neither of these statements would so capable a judge as Mr. Drevenstedt make intentionally or inferentially if he had jjiven sufficient thought to the logical implications of his words. I would not call attention to this matter were it not necessary to show that the objection raised by Mr. Drevenstedt in allowing both styles of markings, is one in form onl)' and not in substance. In conclusion I wish to quote with ap- proval the concluding sentence of Mr. Drevenste«kv.ik^\a wasv J>^< ■U\\\ in a vessel of water they sank to the l)ottom as if they had just been laid. One was lioiled hard the next day, and looked exactly like a fresh egg. The other two were kept three days longer where they were exposed to the air in a warm room. When broken these were found to l)e spoiled, the white and yelk being mingled together in a fluid mass. This experiment seems to show that eggs can be preserved for an indefinite period in an airtight receptacle, but that they will spoil very soon on exposure to the air. — Rural New Yorker. Ornamental Fow^ls. Many, nay, nearly all, of the varieties classed as ornamental fowls have a de- cidedly practical side. The game is beautiful, but it is also a good layer and excellent for the table ; the Hamburg is exquisite in form aneen bred from a Sonnerat cock and domestic hens. Last season at the Zoological Gardens numerous half-bred birds reared from gallus stanleyi, and in former years many were bred from a single specimen of gal- lus furcatus. There is no doubt that the several wild galli will interbreeil and pro- duce fertile offspring as readily as do the corresponding and closely allied pheas- ants, in which the three species, the Chinese, the versicolor and the Colchi- can, have lieconie so mixed, that pure birds are rarer than mongrels. I have no doubt in my own mind that the wild Galli have intermixed in not a few instances, and perhaps through not a few centuries, in producing our domesti- cated breeds. But it is with regard to the eastern Asiatic type of fowl (absurdly known as Cochins and Brahmas) that niy doubts as to the descent from the gallus ferru- gineus are strongest. We have in the Cochin a fowl so differ- ent from the ordinary domestic birds that, when first introduced, the most ridiculous lej^ends were current respect- ing it. Putting the.se on one side, we have a bird with many structural pecu- liarities that could hardly have been in- duced by domestication. Thus the long axis of the occipital foramen in the Cochin is perpendicular, in our old breeds horizontal, a difference that could never have l)een bred for, and which it is diffi- cult to see could l)e co-relative with any other change. The same may l>e said re- specting the deep sulcus or groove up the centre of the frontal bone. The extraordinary diminution in the size of the flight feathers and that of the pectoral muscles could hardly have been the result of human selection and care- ful breeding, as the value of the birds as articles of food is considerably lessened tiy the absence of flesh on the breast. Nor is the extreme abundance of fluffy soft body feathers character likely to be desiderated in a fowl. The vastly in- creased size may have been a matter of selection, although, as the inhabitants of Shanghai feed their poultry but scan- tily, and, according to Mr. Fortune mainly on paddy or unhusked rice, it is not easy to see how the size of the breed was ob- tained if, as generally surmised, it arose from the little jungle fowl. Taking all these facts into consider- ation, I am induced to believe that the birds of the cochin type did not descend from the same species as our game fowl. It may be asked what bird I would sug- gest as the origin of these eastern Asiatic breeds. In reply I would suggest the possibility, or even probability, of their being descended from some easily cap- tured and readily domesticated short- winged species that may have entirely pas.sed into a state of domestication, as has the camel and horse. I .see no in- herent improbability in this suggestion, nor any fatal objection to the theory I have advanced. The Rupicola. Deep in the forests of Guiana lives a bird rarely seen by travelers, but one of the most beautiful of its kind. It is the Rupicola, or Cock of the Rock. Right royally is he clad in a suit of orange with a splendid fan-shaped crest. The female has to content herself with plainer and less gorgeous apparel. Few are the explorers who have watched this beauti- ful bird, but one has brought us marvel- ous tales of the home life, and none more curious than those of its balls. We will let him describe it in his own words : "A troo]) of these bi-aiitiful birds was celebrating its dances on tlie smooth sur- face of a rock ; about a score of them were seated on the branches as spectators while one of the male birds, with proud self-con fidenee, and spreading tail and wings, was dancing on the rock. He scratched the ground or leaped vertically into the air, continuing these salutatory movements until be was tired, when an- other male took his place. The females meanwhile looked on attentively and applauded the performance with lauda- tory c.ies." The Indians lie in wait with their blowpijHfs near the places where they are known to dance ami when the half has begun, easily shoot several of the spectators with the poisoned arrows before the rest take the alarm. — L. N. J. POULTRY NOTES. — Do not neglect to furnish fowls the little essentials, such as lime, gravel, meat, clean water, plenty of green food, dust bath, etc. When this is faithfully carried out your egg l>asket ought to be full. — Imligeslioii is often mistaken for cholera. The cause is too much concen- trated food and a lack of gritty material. The cholera may always \m distinguished by the intense thirst which accompanies it, while the bird suffering with indiges- tion simply niojies and appears droopy. The best remedy is to withhold all footl for a few ecause they can be cooked in a short time, and second, be- cause there are more of them in a bushel, which permits the hens to eat them more easily, as well as prevents the domineer- ing hens frtmi nionoi>oliziiig more than their share. Small jjotatoes are not salable in market, but the poultryman can get a ^ood price for them by convert- ing them into meat and eggs. By keep- ing hens there is no reason for wasting anything, as turnips, small potatoes, cab- bage leaves and many weeilscan be made serviceable as food. Special Notice. Where this paragraph is marked, note that the pai)er is sent you for examina- tion. If interesting we should be ])1eased to receive your subscription. THE PBKIN BANTAM. The Blue-leggred Fowl That Onoe Reigned Supreme. H. S. BatKOCk in Poultry and Pets. Has the last word been said about this lovely little pagan .' Do the writers no longer praise it, and are its admirers growing rare ? Or has the topic Ijecome stale and the readers of the poultry press weary of hearing praises sung in its honor ? I doubt if any of these questions can be answered in the affirmative. I can hardly conceive why they should, for its claims are so many that it can never grow stale, its variety is infinite (almost), and "none name it but to praise." There are not a few breeders who re- gret that the year 1890 has arrived, for now those little beauties that scored 95 and 96 points, even with their blue legs, are disqualified. It seemed hard to have it so. I argued as l)est I could to pre- vent it when the standard was revised, but it was so voted. Blue legs must go. And yet the wise breeder will not kill all of his blue-legged Pekins at once, unless he has a good stock of yellow-legged ones. Those exquisite pullets that were veri- table nuggets of pure gold can still lie profitably used by the breeder. I^et him save them but mate them to a yellow- legged male. The majority of the pro- duce will probably be willow-legged, and willow legs do not disqualify ; some will be white, some yellow, perhaps, and some blue. If, however, the breeder has a sufficient number of yellow-legged birds, then he will be wise to discard those with blue-legs, for he does not care to breed any di.squalified specimens. But it will l)e the height of folly for a breeder of Pekin bantams to breed from blue- ieggeu birds on l>ot»i sules, for then he willbut perpetuate a strain of disquali- fied binls. The call is now for pure buff birds. The dark red cocks, which were once the rule, are no longer in demand. They are not desired, nor are they desirable. A rich deep buff, from stem to stern, is my ideal. I prefer the tail to be of the same shade, and hope that when next the standaad is icvised the description of the tail will l>e changed. A strict interpre- tation of the present standard will cause our finest birds to be cut one-half to one point on tail, and place a black-tailed bird ahead of the most perfectly devel- oped buff or light chestnut. The same fault, if it be a fault, as I think it is, is found in the standard of the buff Cochin and I doubt if there is a buff Cochin breeder in the country who would give nearly so much for a black-tailed buff as he would for one whose tail was a rich deep buff without a particle of black in it. Another change which I hope to see when next the standard is revised is the dropping of the term Pekin and calling tlie bantam what it is, a buff Cochin. This was a matter of little moment -al- though we have Pekin ducks, and when a man talks about his Pekins you need to be informed whether he means ducks or bantams— this, I say, was a matter of little moment when there was but one Cochin bantam, but when we have, as we now do have, four flistinct varieties, the class ought to l)e correctly named Cochin tjrahmas and the varieties described bv their colors as buff, partridge, black and white. And all these varieties ought to be ad- mitted to the standard. They were not ready for admission when the standard was revised, and it would not have l)een wise to admit them then, but they are rapidly approaching such a degree of perfection that their admission will be desirable at the next revision. Three years more of careful breeding will do much towards perfecting them. Their greatest failing to-day is in size, and in three years the size can l)e reduced below disoualifying weights. Even now the best birds could compete under standard weights, I think. I^Iwercto be asked what is the most to r>e f readed in brce.ling Pekin bantams win^ T^-'' ^^'^''' ^«P^^i«lly i" the wings This IS a common fault, as I nave found in judging even exhibition 91 birds presumed to be the best specimens produced by the breeders. I have for- tunately, had little trouble with it, even in breeding pure golden buff birds. I have now an old cock, a beautiful shade of buff, with not a tinge of black on him, and his plumajje is absolutely free from white. The wings, where white is most commonly found, retain the rich buff color from root to tip. But he has that rich golden under-color, without which white is likely to be found, or if not white then black. Many of our best birds have some black on their wings, but this I care le.ss al)out than I do for the white, for the black is easily found in connection with a deep rich buff, while the white is the accompaniment of a faded buff. The one denotes strength, the other weakness of color. I have already intimated in a previous article that the partridge Cochin was my favorite feather-footed bantam, but when I stand by the fence and see the par- tridges on one side and the buffs on the other, I am in some such stale of mind as the lover who sang " How happy I could be with either, were t'other dear charmer away." Buff, a rich, deep, golden buff, is one of the most beautiful colors upon a fowl. I do not wonder that breeders of Buff Cochins become so attached to their fowls. If they are miserly, they can see in them the hues of bullion ; if poetical, they can but think they have stolen the rol)e of the afternoon sky ; and if neither miserly nor jioetical, they see a color rich in hue, that neither sun nor shade robs of its beauty, that wears well the whole season through, a color that is entirely consistent with the yellowest skin and legs, and well fitted for a prac- tical as well as an ornamental fowl. I like the Pekin bantam. I like its color, its shape, its adornmenU, its charming wajs. It lays well and as a setter is without a successful rival. When manufacturers can produce an incubator and brooder that will hatch and rear as large a percentage of chickens as a Pekin bantem, I shall wish one of each. I »je- lieve the Pekin bantam is a profitable fowl, but whether it is or not. in a wcu- niary sense, it is highly ornamental", and gives large dividends of pleasure, and that makes it worth keeping and worthy of its long array of admirers. Silkies. Silkies may be classed as purely fancy poultry, having little but their unique appearance to recommend them. Instead of feathers they are covered with an abundance of white silky hair ; the wing and tail quills also lieing hung with long silky fringe. The skin and legs are blue, the face and comb a deep purple color, earlol)es l>eing slightly tinged with white. The best specimens have five toes and are feathered on the legs. The plumage should be pure white. The cock should have a full prominent breast ; neck medium size ; hackle very full, flowing well round the shoulders and on the back ; saddle square, and ris- ing upwards to the tail, which should gradually rise a few inches and then droop over. The comb is double, but is wider than long, having a lumpy appearance, with scarcely any points on the top. It should lie well on the front of the head, and l)ehind it should be a spur or crest of feathers projecting straight out, about two inches in length. The weight of the cock averages about four pounds. The hen is rather small in proportion, weigh- ing only about two and a half pounds. She is very square and compactly built, breast being full and round, neck rather short, saddle square and well cushioned, tail almost buried in fluff, which is very abundant, and a very fine head. From the top of the head should rise a small globular crest. The general style and shape are very attractive. I consider silkies hardy. The chickens are easily reared, and generally very true to their parents. They are very moder- ate layers, but capital setters. — F. Wragg. The Tiirbit. The turbit I consider is the chief of the so-called "toy" varieties. The principal point of the turbit is the head. This should be as massive as }K>ssible ; the forehead should 1^ broad between the eyes. I think one and one-eighth inches is the best attained as yet, but this may be incorrect. The crown must be round lx)th ways, from eye to eye and back to front, and the eye in the centre A pe- culiarity of the turbit is that for all colors its eye is dull. The peak should be high, so that if you look straight in the face of a bird you see the peak rise above the crown of the head. In crested birds the crest should be as long as possible. Bnt gooil birds of this type are seldom seen now. The beak is another important point. A thick short l>eak, making a semi-circle from the back ot the head to the front, gives the finishing touch to an ideal l)eak. Then closely connected with the beak is the gullet. This should start as near the point of the l)eak as pf>ssible, and be full, that is of good depth. The next point is the frill. This is the prettiest part of the bird. It is formed by the feathers growing cross-ways from a split tlown the centre of the breast. It should l)e profuse, Ixfginuing near the foot of the gullet and extending to the foot of the breast, getting fuller as it goes down. The color must be sound. Blues and silvers have the extra points of the bars, and if these be kitey the bird is spoilt. The whole apjjearance of the bird should be neat, small and short. It should hold its head erect, so that a line drawn perpendicularly to the ground touches the point of the beak and the breast. As to breeding, blues may be bred to- gether with the occasional intermixture of silver blood to keep the color light. As before mentioned, great care must be taken to keep the bars from getting kitey. I would never, unless forced to, or even blacks Breed a black with a rich red or yellow, and the progeny will be good reds or yellows and blacks, with now and again an off color. The off col- ors are very useful for breeding, as you may mate them with blacks, reds or yel- lows, according as they are bred, and, as a rule, you will get birds of the parent color. There is another variety appear- ing now, the white turbit. It looks well, but might as justly be termed a peaked owl. In judging I think if a blue and a black, lx)th good in color, arc equal in other points, preference should lie given the blue, as it has the extra point of the bars on its wings. w. r. g. PIGEON FLYING. ON THE WING. The event of the week was the break- ing of the American record for more than 525 and less than 890 miles by the hom- ing pigeon Dusky, owned by Fred. Bowers.of Fall River, Mass. On July 28, at thirteen minutes past 6 o'clock, two birds, Dusky and Right Bowers, both owned by Mr. Bowers, were liberated in Owasso, Mich. Dusky was reported at home on the ^^ist at 4.01 P. M., covering the 671 miles in two and three-quarter days. The best previous record was heKl by the bird GarfieUl, which made 640 miles in twenty- one days. » * • Eddie H. and Walter N., two of the three Twining birds, liberated in Orange, Va., 225 miles from home, have returned. The first named passed the wires of the home loft at i o'clock on the second day, and the second at 4 o'clock. The third, John S., arrived home the afternoon of the third day. The next trial against the record will be by four lots of Boston birds from Wal- ford, Out. The distance is 535 miles. The birds are now at their station, and awaiting for favorable weather to make the start. — There is quite a difference in the breeds of ducks. A Pekin can be made to weigh five pounds when ten weeks old, while the common puddle-duck will only weigh three pouiidB when a year old. Breeds make the profit or loss as well as the food. Golden Wyandottee. Probably the most popular new breed which this country has produced is the golden Wyandotte. It has found great favor in England and on the Continent. Golden Wyandottes, when well bred, are very handsome. With me they are ex- tremely hardy, splenditl layers of large brown eggs, and considerably more active foragers than most of the heavier breeds. The chickens, when first hatched, have lieen rather more delicate than I like, but this drawback may be confined to the strain I am breeding, as new breeds are often bred in-and-in too much. Others report them as gootl layers and hardy. A golden Wyandotte male should have a well laced breast, the centers being a rich bay with lustrous black lacing. The hackle and saddle should l)e golden bay, with black stripes ; wing bars reddish bay, and secondaries golden bay when folded, with a wing bar of golden bay and black extending across the wing ; tail, black ; shanks, yellow. The hen is beautifully laced, each feather having a golden bay center with a lustrous black lacing.— j! II. Drevenstedt. The Hub Hominer Olub. Fifteen birds owned by Messrs. Gould, Hicks, Kussmaul and Wagner, of the Hub Club, Boston, were liberated in Watford, Lambton County, Ontario, at five minutes of 6 o'clock, central stand- ard, on the 1st. in coninetitinn for tb? George W. Childs prize for 1890, offered for beating the record for distance in the day of 526,'4 miles, from St. Thomas, Out., to Boston, Mass., in 11 hours, 25 minutes, made a year ago yesterday. The birds are owned as follows : H. Wagner, 7; C. Kussmaul, i; (Red Ben- nie); John Hicks, 2 ; G. W. Gould, 5 (two of them hatched this year and wearing the '90 band). The birds were shipped in two lots, those of the Messrs. Wagner and Kussmaul having l)een eleven days in their baskets, and the others for seven days. There were no returns reported before we went to press. Bellvieiv Homing Olub. Philadelphia has a new club, the Bell- view, and one that promises to give the Virtue Club a tussle to hold the honors. Each of the lofts represented in the membership holds an average of thirty- birds of as good stock as can be bought or bred. The club was organized August I, with these officers for the ensuing year : President, William Adams ; secretary, George S. Gilmore ; treasurer and race secretary, L. A. Mehler. All of the lofts are located in the vicinity of Eighteenth Street and Columbia Avenue. Other members are H. Skelton and T. T. Mather. The club has organized for work next year, but will probably fly for the speed prize this season with birds of this year from 200 miles. — The duck will eat all the chopped purslain and pig-weed it can get,while rag- weed is not rejected. It will greedily eat chopped pear vines in preference to clover or grass, and the tops of Ijeets, turnips, parsnips or carrots make excellent food lor them. To properly keep ducks at the least expense they shoubf be fed but little if any grain at this season, and made to do the work of scavengers. Mr. BowerB' Dusky. F^DiTOR Fanciers' Journal. Sir: I wish through the columns of The Journal to thank Mr. C. H. Gale, of Detroit, Mich., for the excellent care bestowed upon my two birds, Dusky and Right Bower, while in Detroit en route to Owosso. Mr. Gale kinwith bread crumbs and «flerw<*nU scraps from the table with bread made of coarse flour and johnnycake. I have found the extra trouble of baking bread and tXiitn cake pay.s well in the good st«rt it gives the young birds. TljeoM adage, "Well l)e- euB is half done," is true in poultry rais- ing as nmch as in other business. The bread is made with yeast sponge, to which some "drippings" or "shortening" of beef or pork is adileil to make it Tender or more nutritious. The «)ru bread is made with buttermilk as in old-fashioned johnnycakf. Altoul eight tea cups of •of commeal, one cup of "shortening," ihalf a teftspoon of salt, two teaspoons (or •enough to make sweetl of saleratus, but- 'termilk sufficient to make a batter easily poureeLtc\\\\\%i Chickens In WliiteK A subscriber of the S'lin At Llilterville, Md., writes : "I W4hl to try and raise early spriVig chickens this winter. I in- teUd to raise them in the incubator in the house until they are I)artly gtowtl, and then I want to pt»t iWm out. I have an idea of Htaki'rig the house under ground and \)utting glass over the top of it." The best plan would be, if our corre- s{x>ndent has a situation where there i« a sleep sloj>e to the south, to dig out Ihe space requiretl for a building, throwing the dirt on the lower hillside. \Vheh thip spai-e is thus dug oUt, A stohte bt- Wick wall laid in ceitieht snoljld be put up on the tww shlw aiid liack, having the wall al iVife reaf sufficiently high so that when the roof is put on there would lie Slope enough to run the w;fttV?r oHf. The walls should of c'ouVst; hie built so that the sides would Ate'6 sloj)e to corresponeen properl,v put Mp, the stock in it will not Ije afftseled by even pretty severe cold i^ealher. A sash may l)e also placed in the roof, and where it is desired to have an incu- bator in the building a sash would be in- dispensable, for to insure as uniform a degree of temperature as possible it would be necessary to hax-e a partition run across and keep the incubators on the further inside room, and this sky- light would furnish the necessary light. When a jierson has had experience in nmning an incubator he or she will find it requires \-ent- little time or attention, but until this experience has been gained it will be quite necessary to watch it closely. People should not launch out extensively until they have tried an in- culMtor with a few eggs in it. Some men have no trouble the first time they use incubators, while others do not seein able to grasp the situation at all, and the more they try the less success they meet with. It is easy enough to hatch the chickens o»it in winter, but not so easy to raise them, as they must be furnished with a method of artificial brofxling known as brootlers. — Baltimore Sun. Hotip. I have had some trouble with roup this severe winter, and have used as one of the difierenl remedies, onion water, which I make by boiling cut onions in •water, and using the water in mixing feeer should selet-t his liest-laying hens as breed'ers, as there is no question but that Iht layihg qualities of the stock can be improved greatly in this way, and when fresh blood is introduced it should be oft the female side, and only hens known to bte excellent layers should lie sele«ted. ill breeding every thitd generation is oflen enough to infu.se iresh blood into tjic flock." We wish we could make, from personal experience, so positive a statement aS the above. It is singular that so little is known about this tnaltev. Altnost ahy poultryman will sav : "Why, yes> bf course, Inylng mirtlit(es Can be sttstaitted and improved by prtjpef selection ahd breeding," but nobody seems able to gi,ye any exact figures lo prove it. Thfe R. Mi Y. is trying a little txpteritileht irt this line, as we have befoi-e ihdicated. We haVe ohe hen, of no particular breed, that lays more eggs than any other two that we have. We have crossed her with cocks of five different breeds and have hatched all of her eggs that we possibly could. Unfortunately most of her chick- ens are roosters, but there are enough pullets to enable us to test the theory. We want to know if those pullets will show their mother's ability to lay a great many eggs, and whether there' will be any difference in the laying powers of the pullets 'from the different cocks. We shall also try to see if the sons of this hen are of any value in producing superior laying stock. Several parties have convinced themselves that much can be done l)y proper selection of laying stock, but we need accurate and long- continued experiments to determine these points. It does not seem to us likely that the advice contained in the above item, to introduce fresh blood only on the female side, is sound. There seems no good reason why, in this case, the brother should not be as valuable as his sister. With our present knowledge we would jircfer one of our young roosters, that we know has a good laving mother, to a thoroughbre8sible, choose a spot which will give a wall as one side of the enclosure, and en- deavor to clothe this with a thick growth 94 XHE FANCIERS' JOURNAL^. [AUG. 9, 1890 of ivy. In the enclosure one or two small thick-set spruces, uutler which the birds can hide and dust themselves, a rugged old tree root, and some good fir roosting poles one and one-half inches in diameter must be provided. It is much preferable to provide the aviary with a well-glazed glass roof, which must be whitewashed upon the inside, so as to render it opaque. Furthermore, the birds require to be kept free from all an- noyance and fright. They are most timid, and any person or animal passing or prowling round the aviary at night is certain to cause great alarm to the feath- ered inhabitants. To prevent this, light canvas hangings, not necessarily reach- ing to the roof, are sometimes necessary of adoption, in order to save the birds from being frightened, which leads to their excited and rapid flying and rush- ing about the aviary, with but too evi- dent damage to their apptearance and health, as under the circumstances they are very liable to seriously injure them- selves. As regards their general mode of breed- ing ana rearing I need say but little. The treatment necessary differs imma- terially from that incidental to the hand- rearing of the coumion pheasant. The eggs laid will vary in number from one to three dozen, according to the age of the bird laying, but both old and young seem to have a propensity — which I have occasionally remarked in nearly all pheasants — of pecking at and breaking their eggs when laid, consequently it is necessary to watch them closely at laying time and remove the eggs speedily. The young are extremely hardy and grow to maturity very quickly. They require close and regular feeding upon the usual lines for hand-reared pheasants and are particularly free from the usual diseases, such as gapes, cramp and the like, to which youthful pheasant flesh is heir. All these facts T)eiug borne in mind, the reasons for the not more general adoption of the golden pheasant as a fancy pheasant are scarcely apparent. Such a beautiful, such a gorgeous bird, 60 easily reared and so adapted for keep- ing in confinement should commend it- self to all sorts and conditions of men interested in rural life. that the squirrel has a bushy tail and tips hurt him he begins to eat somelhinc that SQUIRRELS AND DORMICE. From the New York Mail and Express. The common or red squirrel is one of the liveliest and most attractive of our wild creatures. He belongs to the wood, and although he makes very short excur- sions now and then into the pastures without, yet he never strays away far from a tree or trees. He will, however, cross a road, from one hedge to another, in order to get the hazel nuts ; or he may visit a meadow where trees are dotted about, to get some of the good things to be found there. And he will scratch truffles up, aud make a meal of them. He is not always after beechnuts when you see him busy under the Ijeech trees. I have been watching the squirrel and his ways for some months lately, and have found him to be a very interesting little fellow. A very early 'riser he is ; directly the sun is up he gets his break- fast. You may see whole families of squirrels in the course of a morning's stroll through the woods and plantations where they are not molested. To a prac- ticed eye and ear squirrels betray their whereabouts l)efore they are actually vis- ible. For one thing, you will see one or two scales of a fir-cone fall, which tells you the little animal is eating the seeogs; illustrated . . '. Typical Dogs; portraits from life of 31 prize dogs; ni leather 7 ,„ Vouatt on the Dog ''^ Bob, the Spotted Terrier. With 50 Illuslra tions. by Harrison Weir . . Cloth .'..'.■.'..■ CAUK BIRDS. Canary Birds. Paper cover . Cloth •75 1.00 "•35 3.50 1.35 >-35 5.00 a-50 2-75 ■as 3.50 •50 • 75 Canaries and Cage Birds. Blackston, Sways- land and Witiier. 56 colored plates and other illustrations . •50 •75 5.00 Pig- Chamlwr and Cage Birds. Bechstein. New Wition Native Song Birds George J. Barnesby Cage and Singing Birds. Adams The Canary. (;. J. Barnesby ' PIGEONS. Book of Pigeons, tudlow, Candea and others. 50 colored plates, showing differ- ent varieties of pigeons and numerous wood cuts ton Register, for fancy aiid homing' eons, 100 pages. By Dr. t. S. Clark . Practical Pigeon Keeper, tewis Wright Pigeon Standard (new) .... Pigeon Book. W. B. Tegetintier . Pigeons and Rabbits. Delamer POVI.TRV. An Kgg Farm. H. H. Stoddard . . Book of Poultry, tewis Wright. 50 plates of prize birds and other engravings. Capons and Caponizing, George Q. Dow Domestic Poultry. Saunders .... Dnck Culture. Rankin . . Poultry Book. W. B. Tcgetmeier'. '3^ raj- ore»iid regis- tered, each 354c. Open bands for old birds, each ic. In ordering name the variety of pigeon on which the band is to be used. SENn FOR SAMPLE. MRS B. S STARR. Box 395, Philaijklphia, Pa. 95 INCUBATORS. Prairie Sfafe Incubafor THE KENNEL. Fox Terriers. PUPPIES AND YOUNG BITCHES for sale from celebrated sires and prize-winning dams IJiiiLsiDE "Kennels, S3-'04 LANCASTER, MASS. Twenty-seven ist premi- ums awarded at the leading sliows including first at the 1890 show. New York City, for best incubator iu show room. This was the great- est incubator contest in the world. Send for our large catalogue. Address G. A. McFETRIDGE, General Agent, Compassville, 6j-lf Chester Co., Pa. DOGS. AdvertiumenU without display inurttd umttr IMts heading Jor 2 cents per word for each insertion. Bloodhounds. FOR SALE —A choice litter whelped February i by Belhus-Rosemary. J. L. Winchelf, Fair Haven, Vt. Colllea. IMPROVEO EXCELSIOR INCUBATOR drmla In auccAMf 111 operation. OuanuitMd to batoh laiver peRMnta«e of CertlU egn ^BUCATIONS. ^J?e ffomiril €xc}?an|e. A monthly magazine of information concern- ing the breeding, care and training of Homing Pigeons. The official journal of 'The Federa- tion of American Homing Pigeon Fancieis " Ji per year. Address ' HOMING EXCHANGE PUBLISHING CO., GERMANTOWN, PA. r^R SALE. Young stock Prices rea Wilmington, Del. from £^ ning blood Prices reasonable well, o prize wiu- F. R Cars- tf RDERS BOOKED for collie pups bred as follows: By Metchley Wonder out of Ros- lyn Primro.se, by Champion Scolilla out of Champion Flurry IU, by The Squire out of Roslyn Clara, by The Squire out of Roslyn Gaylasb, by Champion Scotilla out of Young Meg, by Charleroi II out of Cora II by Maiiey Trefoil out of tuella, by Ma'ney rretoil out of Metchley Surprise. Address Chestnut Hill Kennels', Philadelphia, Pa. Dandle Dlanioutti. POULTRY. AdvtrHsemenU without dUplay inserUd under Ihts heading for s cents per word for each insertion Inonbatorw. THE Thermostatic Incubator, a strictly first- class machine in every particular. Auto- matic in the regulation of the heat, moisture supply and ventilation. Highest recom- mendations from users. Send for descriut- ive circular free. /as. E. Warner, 19 p,?k Place, New York City. 50-76 Various. P '' nnX?*^'^^'''*^'^- "^ ""Z variety of Fowl. »up. *^ plied at low prices. The Fanciers' PublUh- ing Co , j2 South Third St., Philadelphia. b W E ARE NOW booking orders for pups from our great p'ize winners. Reineni ber we have the only kennel in America containing nothing but imported prize winners. I^ookoiit Kennels, Box 022 Chat- tanooga, Tenn. p '^1.^3 I>o« Trainers. CHESTNUT HILL KENNELS. KOR SALE Collies & Irish Terriers AMERICAN KEIOTEL, CLITB Stud gooK. Blanks for registering in the official Stud Book will be maile.i.ii iiujiiihiy publication ot the club con- tains the Judges' reports and certified prize' lists ol the diflereiit shows. Stud Book registrations and numbers of each month's entries and all kennel news of an official character. Sub.scritj- tion, two dollars per annum. Secretary American Kennel Club, Nos. 44 .-iiid 46 Broadway, New York. D i°9*J'5*yi^? "'■ prepared for field trials. ' J. B. Stoddard; Concord, N. C. 69-tf Irish Terriers. FOR 8ALK— Some fine youngpups by Roslyn Dennis. Address Chestnut Hill Kennels, Chealnut Hill, Philadelphia English MaMtllT^. FOR SALE- English mastiff, registered, light fawn, one year old Also one Irisn setter pup. Will sell cheap. Address I. Hof mann, 44 Main Street, Cincinnati, o. 73-74 THREE CHOICE thoroughbred English mastiff puppies, six months old, sired by Bourbon Prince (13,323) Cheap. J. 1/ Barbee, Miilersburg, Ky. 7J.73 l*olnters. )R1NTING estimates given forcircuUrs, cards letter sheets, bill heads, price lists Khed u es label., lags, etc Tfe Fanrie^s^P^: lishing Co., ja South Third St., PhiUde )EDIt;REE Blanks lor four generations at 10 cents i,er dozen, or 75 cents per 100. Ex- tended four page Blanks, j cents each, 0^50 cents per dozen, mailed postpaid The Phfudlfphi^l'^a':'"*^'^" •^^'^"'"^''^'* St. PIGEONS. /i^l'!:^'*^"^ »»:<*»»/ display inserted nndet this heading for e cenUper word for auh insertimi Blondlnettes. B iIRDS of the above variety for sale at all > times. Bunting Hankins.Bordentowu, N. J. 50-75 Fantalls. ».^^ have for sale a large number of puppies of above breeds. Collies by ^ Fpies 01 CHRISTOPHER, CHAMPION SCOTILLA, CHAMPION THE SQUIRE, MANEY TREFOIL AND ROSLYN WILKES. somrfiri.!.l'""'i'^^''°.~"?*"'*'"' ('" whflp)and ^rSla Tmey '' "■"" "''^"'' °"' °^ Chai/pion We have also for sale at our Knelish kennels ^eraIgoo,l collie bitches in whelp to ChS PRICES I150 TO J250 (delivered). ADDRESS CHESTNUT HILL KENNELS, ^* Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia. ESTABLISITED 1874, THE FANCIERS' GAZETTE, A Weekly Journal Devoted to Dogs, Poultry Pig- eons, Rabbits, Cats, Cavies and Cage Birds. Articles by the teading Authorities, tetters and Notes on Current Subjects. Prompt and Re liable Reports. Queries Answered by Specialists. Illu.strntions by Best Artists. Only Penny Journal Dealing with All the Fancies. Terms of Subscriptions (payable in advance)- One year, post free, Unite*: — 1 $20 ; bitches, J15. A. H. Craig, Randolph and Jefferson Sts., Philadelphia, Pa 71-74 "nJ^-J** TRAIN POINTERS AND SET- n ' • ..,^'**''35 cents, postpaid. P. t. Bevan, Ulah P. C, N. C. '^ *^ 71-72 PlI«S. H W KITE FANS ONLY. Bred for thirty year.. Some grand bird, for sale very low Send for circular. Frank M. Gilbert. Evans- nlle, Ind. 'J^t^'^ Jacobins. > W TUtlGtE. Columbus, Ga. Importer . and breeder of Jacobin.. 56^06 Owls. FOR SAtE— Daughter of Champion Dude juslbrwl to a son of Cryer's Othello Also a fane bitch pup. ChequasMt Kennels, Lancaster, Mau. g^tf Setters. F •R SALE.— Sam C. by King Noble— Cricket winner third. Setter Derby Central field trials, 1889. Address H. Clay Glover laqt Broadway, New York City. SS-tr St. Bernards. BARGAINS IN BITCHES, of all ages. Sir Herbert, litter brother of famous Alton at stud. Chequasset Kennels, I^ncasl'er Mass. ■'i-tf ' P°'*rhi''.J'^,7iw*',"% 'J.V."„°':j?"I'.P*",»>,y White t T-)IRD8of theabove variety for sale at atl «tm.. XJ "uniing Hankius, Bordentown, N. J.' " '" 50-75 GKO. W ECKERT. Allentown, Pa., to make room for Orientals will sell his owls of alt color, including priae winners. 71^ Parlor Performlnc Tnmblora. BIRDS of the above variety for sale bt alt times Bunting Hankius, Bordentown, N. J. 50-75 8atln«tte«. B BunUng Hankins, Bordentown, N. J. 50-75 Swallows. DIPLOMAS Dogs for Sale kinr;rile"to\he""^ '^ ^"^ ''°« °^ «"> 0€)OODBURY KENNELS, CITY OFFICE. 135 S. 8th STREET Philadki.phia, Pa. mm Dogs boarded and treated for all diseases. Rates rea«>nable. Satisfaction guarateed. 63-114 -FOR- lA/ORM POWDER , ' FOR DOGS. »■ by mad. MOORE BROS., Albany, N. Y. PIGEON • FLYERS FOR THE USE OF Club Secretaries. IN RED AND BLUE WITH NAME OF CLUB IN GOLD Giving space for all particulars of station at- mosphere, start, entry, disUnce, speed and aire name and sex of bird. '* ' In lots of so or less, $2.50 ; each additional so >2.oo. Address ^' Fanciers' Publishing Co., 32 SOUTH THIRD STREET. PHILADELPHIA, PENNA. M Chief (16,028)— tady Floris (12,469)" They have splendid heads, extra large Iwme and long coat of fine color. Their sire is an -l**"? "."edogand grand.son of Plinlimmon 1 heir dam, I^dy Floris, is a spleiidi.l bitch well known to breeders, she being dam of Nora of Addiewell, tady Abbess, Gair- first New York, 1S90 ; granddam of I^dy Floris HI, Young Plinlimmon and I.,ady tiving ston, Mr. Moore's late importation There are four dogs and four bitches. For full particulars and prices address John Mar- shall, Gair Kennels, Troy, N. Y. i73-tf ENTHON KENNEI.^, Phcenixville, Pa breeders and importers of St. Bernards. 67-118 Various. A ^^^» PpG .WHISTLE. The londert and shrillest whistle ever invented. Somethinir entirely new. Mailed on receipt of it cents. Fanciers' Publishing Companv « South Third Street, Philadelphia, Pa. ELRCTROTYPES of any variety of Pigeons sunnUed at low prices. The Fanciers' Pub- lishing Co., 3a South Third St., Philadel- phia. Pa. EF. DALY, 47 Wellington Place, Toronto ^ Canada, breeder of black red games Heat- on's aiKl Matthews' .itraiiis. Also carrier pigeons. Hedley Fulton's and others. High- class exhibition birds lor sale. 73 tf MR. OWENS, successor to Kerby, 137 s. 8th Street, Philadelphia, Pa., has the finest Sky and Yorkshire terriers and King Charles spaniels. Also all other breeds for Mie. 69.75 PEDIGREES carefully revised to insure cor- rectness, and printed in an attractive form at moderate prices. The Fanciers' Fublish- ing Co., 32 South Third St., Philadel- phia, Pa. ' * "^"l^J '?" ^ Washington Street, Balti- r, more, Md. breeder of Swallows only, of all colors, with and without while bars. pUin snip and full head. He is a true fancier keeps pieeons tor pleasure only. Imported his stfx:k of birds, and has steadily li proved them until he has now as fine stock as can be found. im- Tamblera. CHARLES LIENHARD. 438 W. Court Street Cincinnati, O., brenler o« flying tumblers and Birmingham rollers exclusively. 86 Various. A LL KINDS of birds and animals. WilMm's ^ Big Bird Store, Cleveland, O. ,6 LOT OF FANCY PIGEONS for sale cheap all together or singly. John T. BrewMer Birmingkam, Conn. 73.75 ' jRINTING estimates given for circulars cards letter sheets, bill heads price lists, sched- ules, labels, tags, etc. The Fanciers' Pub- lishing Co., 32 South Third St., Philadel- phia, Pa. Wild Animals. >RAIRIE WOLVES, prairie dogs, deer, foxea owls. Angora kids, raccoon., opoMoms' Mexican burros, etc. CM. Scott, Arkan- sas City, Kansas. 69-72 I-«3 1893 BROADWAY, NEW YOllK. iM&G^lIthai'a % s HANDLER OF DOGS. Is ready to take dogs to condition for the De- troit Show. ELM STATION, H-7J Montgomery Co., Pa, PRICE $2.50. Address Fanciers' Pnliiisliing CompaBy, 3a S. Third St., Philadelphia, Pa. Edward S. Schmid, Successor to I^uis Schmid & Sons, Dealer in SINGING BIRDS, BIRO FOOD AND CAGES. FISH, AQUARIUMS AND FISH FOOD, PIGEONS OF ALL KINDS FOR SALE. Send for illustrated catalogue and price list No. 317 Twcllh Street, N. W. Washington, D. C. My homers are tested as record birds and a^ parents of birds with records from 500 525 and 700 miles. I have filly pairs of well-mated " birds Irom the above stock of 1889 hatch for sale. Also young.sters with Sporting Life bands. Can give a clear pedigree. Send for Price List. 44-95 |tistory and Description Ft aiND roR ciRcuL«n«. Th« Pantherapcan Company, N«w York. BERKSHIRE PIGS, For pctligreed stock (all ages, both sexes), lit. Bernard Dogs, Light Hrahmns, CaponiiiinH Tools Strawberry Plants, address (;HO. O IJOW ' 73-3wm North Kpping, N. H GAME BANTAMS. Dr. Wm. Crawford Johnson, Frederick, Md. -WITH- l^eminiscences OF THE ...FOX TERRIER... BY HflWDON IjEE, EDITOR "THE FIELD." Illustations by Arthur Wardle. Second Edition. Price Postpaid, $1.50. ADDRESS THIS OFFICE. SPRATTS PATENT DOG CAKES The Best and Cheapest Dog Food in the Market. f^ Beware of worthless imitations, same shape, and see that each cake is stamped: DOG SOAP, Certain death to fleas, and MEDICINES for all canine diseases. •COMMON SENSE OF DOG DOCTORING " (Post free, j8c.). ' ^-PS,*JI?pt*Jr^F-.^"*'-LENGE POULTRY MEAL. JHK GRKATKST KGG-PRODUCINO FOOD Thf most .Xulritioiis ami DigfslihU Fixni for Ijxy- ing Hftn and for gftting all kinds of h\)ullry into Slioiu Condition. Poultry in confined runs thrive ivonderfully on it. Unequaled for rearing Early Chickens. SPRATTS PATENT PIGEON FOOD. Reduces the usual heavy mortality in rearing Kancv Pigeons. Poultry Medicines and Soap. Roup Paste per box .. 50 cents Condition Paste per box . . 50 cents Cure for Gapes per bottle 50 cents Poultry and Pigeon Soap . i)er cake '25 cents cSlrt'JiSS'JC""''^**''"- •^"" particulars irora SPRATTS PATENT (Amerira), LIMIT'D. 239-245 East .56th St., New York City. 44-69 SHORTHAND MORAN, Ann Arhor lars. It will pay you. Vou can earn 97S.(Kk per month as n short- hand writer. Learn at home. Address S. A. Mich., for full particu- PIGEON NEWS. Subscribe for rhr Amrtican Columharian, Buf- falo, N. Y. It has the largest circulation and is the best advertising niediuin of any paper in America devoted exclusively to high claaa, fancy and homing pigeons. Only fifty cents a year. vol.,. 5, NO. 7. ) WUOLK NO., 74.; PHILADELPHIA, AUGUST 16, 1890 PKR ANNUM, as. SO. SINGLES copy; «o. ENGLISH SETTER FIELD TRIAL WINNER ROGER, 98 THE FANCIERS' JOURNAL. [AUG. 16. 1890 BENCH SHOWS. 82500.00 PRIZES BENCH SHOWS. $2500.00 TORONTO INOUSTRIAI. EXHIBITION. SECOMD GRAMD INTERNATIONAL BENCH SHOW OF DOGS, TO BE HKIvI> AT TORONTO, CANADA. SEPTEMBER 15, 16, 17, 18 AlVD 19. ENTRIES CLOSE SEPTEMBER 3. For Premium Lists, etc*., apply to 71-76 C. A. STONE, SECKKTARV and SirPEKINTKNDtNT, TorOlltO. WILMINGTON AGRICULTURAL AND INDUSTRIAL ASSOCIATION. FIRST DOG SHOW- FIRST DOG SHOW FAIR GROUNDS, WILMINGTON, DEL, SEPTEMBER 2^ TO 5, 1890. ENTRIES CVLOSE*AUGU8T 21. FEE, ^2.00. For Premium LlHtH, etc., apply to FRANK R. CARSWELL, Superintendent 101 WEST SIXTH ST., Wilmington, Del. Also POULTRY, PIGEON and BIRD EXHIBITION. 71-75 IN THE STUD. IN THE STUD. Advertisrmenls inserted under this heading at the Advertisements inserted under this heading at following rates: One inch, single insertion, tijo; ■ the following rates: One inch single insertion $^^for the month; SJi Jor three months; $j8/or ti^o; $5.40 for the monlh; $is for three months'- stx months, and tsofor the year. tiS for six months, and fco for the year K ILLARNEY |^b.NNt.L:3 PURE BRED IRI6H SEUERS EXCLUSIVELY (IM- PORTED AND DOMESTICJ. JRI8H SETTERS AT STUD. ST. CLOUD (12,131) CH. ErXHO— NOREEN. GLENMAR (13,426) CH. OLENCHO— MAVOURNEEN. Puppies by the above dogs. Ch. Elcho Jr. and others for sale. ST. CLOUD KENNEIvS. 62"' Treniont. N. Y. DICK SWiVELER. NOTED DOGS AT STUD: DICK SWIVELER, Winner of first challeiiKc priic, New York show, 1890; also first and special prizes all over the United States. FEE $50. RED RIVER GLEIVICHO, Winner first and special prizes, St. Paul show 1887 and i8S,S (only times shown). FEE $25, GARRYO WEN IV, imp. Grandson of the great Champion Garxvowkn "the hero of the benches of Europe." FEE $26. To a limited number of bitches of approved breediiij{. Extended redixrccs of each sent on applica- tion. Extra choice Irish puppies hy the great Dick SWIVELKR for sale at reasonable prices. GEO. H. COVERT (Prop), KTLLAUNEY KENNEUS, 50-101 177 State Street, Chicago, III. )OINTER IN 8TCD. LEBANON BY TIM— PEG. RECORD: Divided fourth Eastern Field Trials, 1888; winner of second Eastern Field Trials and first at Central Field Trials, 1889. FEE, too. Lebanon Kennels, lebanon, pa. 47-9« JJOUGH-COATED ST. BERNARD -at STIJI ^^CASPER--— A. K. C. S. B. 14442. PEDIGKBE: Sire. Champion f Grand Sire, Pilgrim, 14067 Plinlimmon, E.15050I ^ ._ „ , j-j" J Grand Dam, Bessie, 13793 (Grand Sire, Dam, Effie . . . . -i Merchant I'rince, 14741 (Grand Dam, Chloris. FEE : : FORTY DOLLARS. JRI8H SETTER AT STUD. CHAMPION BLARNEY PEE, »25 ENGLISH SETTER, ROD GEM (RODERIGO— GEM.) FEE, J»s. B. F. LEWIS, Box 13, 53-7* Merion P. O., Pa. PENINSULAR KENNELS, I.EANDEK TICHENOR, Mana<;kr. CHELSEA MICH. 69-tf gNGMSH SETTER AT STUD. GATH'S MARK. (4771) None but approved bitches accepted. For stud card and particulars address J. E. STODDARD, 67-79 CONCORD, N. C. IN THE STUD. Advertisements insetted under this heading at the following rates: One inch, single insertion. ti-SO; ii.40 for the month; fii for three months; fiS for six months, and Sso for the year. SETTERS & POINTERS DESMOND It Red Irish setter, bred by Rev. R. O'Callaghan, England, by Frisco— Grouse II. This dog com- bines Ixjth field and tieiich show qualities. He won first prize in the Derby at the Philadelphia field trials 1888, and on the bench has won, first, Philadelphia; first, Troy; first, Albany; first, Rochester. i8S,S and first, challenge class, Phila- delphia 1889. Stud fee, I35. SIR TATTON English setter by Sir A Mister- Belle of Furness. Record: First and special at Philadelphia, 1.S89; first and special at London, Out., iS,S9, and win- ner of 40 prizes and cups in England. This dog is a wonderful performer in the field. Fee, I35. DASHING KENT Same pedigree as Sir Tatton. A young dog of great promise; excellent in the field. Fee, $25. CARLTON PERO By Sir Tatton— Princess Charlotte n. Winner of numerous prizes in piippy cla.sses in England last year and winner of second prize, puppy class, at London. Ont., when out of condition. A grand dog in the field. Fee, $25. GAMBOL Pointer, full brother to Woollon Game by Gough — L«ik.»pui, Asupcib uem dug. Fee, ^25. All approved bitches sent to us to be served will be kept free of expense. Terms cash in ad- vance. Bitches not proving in whelp will be en- titled to free service. Extended pedigrees and stud cards on applica- tion. EAST END KENNEL CLUB, g^RE W. H. Weiss, 43-94 Bbthlehem, Pa. HE NOTED ENGLISH SETTER. T ROGER (8252), by ColNT NOHLE— gi-EEN MEO. The great field trial and l)ench show winner Winner of the Free-forAlI Stake of |i(xw. Central Field Trial, 1889, defeating the Memphis St Avent Kennels' celebrated setters Chance and Rowdy Rod. and the noted pointers Roger Williams and Lebanon. Fee fso. THE MODEL POINTER, nUKK OK VERNON (11038), by Glendalb— Spotless, White and liver ticked, magnificent in form, car- riage and movement ; thoroughly broken afield, and a stayer. A big winner on the bench. Fee $50. Address JOHN H. DAVIS, 74-75 F.astchester, N. Y. JMPORTED WHITE BULL TERRIER AT STII) KINGCRAFT. FINE PEDIGREE. WEIGHT, FORTY LBS. FEE, $10. PHOTOGRAfllH FlKTV CE.NTS. ADDRESS E. F. Ooty, 7itf 47 Wellington Place, Toronto, Canada. T SHALL HAVE AT MV KENNELS FOR A ' short time CH. BEAUFORT, Ihe properly of Mr. W. K. Taunton. Champion Heanfort's winnings on the show bench and his record as a stud dog have proved him the best mastiff ever known. He is the sire of more and greater prize winners than all others living Mastiff breeders should make the most of this grand dog while here. Photographs as cents Stud fee $75. J WINCHELL, 55-106 FAIRHAVEN, Vt. IN THE STUD. Adverliumenls insetted under this heading a. the following rates: One inch, single inset tiont ti-io; fs-4'> f"*' '** month; $is for three months tax for SIX wtonihs, and tso for Ike year. QHAMPION GORDON SETTER OF AMERICA, LITTLE BOY winner over English and American cham- pions. Winner at Toledo of special. "Best sport- ing dog in show," Mr, John Davidson judge. Winner at Cincinnati of succial, "Best setter or pointer stud dog, that is the sire of the greatest number of prize winners." Winner of FORTY odd firsts and specials, under judges : Major J. M. Taylor, Mr. John Davidson. Dr. Jarvis, Mr. Tracy, Mr. Tallman, Mr. Higgins. etc. Mr, E, C. Sterling, Shown by Mr. B F Lewis. Stud fee |J5 for a limited number of bitches. WAVERLY KENNELS, JOHN SANDERSON, care Dr. Dixon, 70-75 .sSth St. and Elmwood Ave., Phila. MORKSHIRE TOY TERRIER AT STUD. CH. BRADFORD HARRY. The celebrated English and American prize winner. Describe*! in show reports as "best Yorkshire in America," Two photographs from life. 50 cents. Extended pedigree and winnings free. A first-class show dog for sale, P. H. COOMBS. 50-75 I Exchange Block, Bangor. Me. SPECIAL LIST NO. 12 Is now out. It contains the names of maiiv cele brated champion dogs and bitches now .offered lor sale for the first lime. Nearly 200 dogs of nearly all breeds are offered for sale. Now is the time of year to buv good dogs cheap. List mailed on application. ASSOCIATED FAHCIERS, 63-tf 140 S. 8lh SI., Phlla,, Pa, JPedigrees Printed. IN "ATTRACTIVE FORM- AT MODERATE PRICES. AT THIS OKF^ICE. PinC Cherter*. Berkshires, Polands. Fox riuO, Hounds, Beagles, Collies, Setters, W. GIB- BONS A CO..W, Chester Pa. Send sUmp for cir. TABLE OP CONTENTS. „ Page Fixtures. Do^ Shows, Field Trials, Poultry and Pigeon Shows, and Coursing 99 The Kennkl. Current Reports gg Our Illustration ! ! 99 Fitz-Poodlc'B Doggy Experiences. . ." .' 100 Diseases of the Dog (continueoon ....', 108 The Duclair Buck .108 Breeding Menl worms ....'. '108 Fancy and Market Poultry ..'.'.'.'..'.'. io» Cagr Birds and Pkts. By the Way , I he Scotch Fancv Canary .... ion About Bats. , , . ,1? Pigeons and Pets 110 The Grashopper Mimic ! . ! i ! 110 VOL. 5. NO. 7] XHE FANCIERS' JOURNAI^. 99 THE FANCMS' JOOENAL. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY. At 32 South Third St., Philadelphia. Pa., By the PflNciERS' Publishing %o. SUBSCRIPTION RATES (IN ADVANOB): $2.50 PER ANNUM. CLUBS OF FIVE OR MORE, $2.00 EACH PER YEAR. Foreigrn Subscriptions, 12s. ADVERTISING RATES: Classified Advertising, without di.splay.two cents per word for every insertion. Stud and Breeders' Cards, I1.50 per inch for single insertion; $5.40 for one month, )is for three months, $28 for six months and ^o per vear. 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Box 795, Dec, 10-17.— Fifth annual .show of the Central Poultry Association, Richmond, Ind, J. O. Myers, secretai^. Dec. 23-26.— Eastern Middlesex Poultry Asso- ciation, Stoneham, Mass. Mr. G. W. Cormack, secretary. Dec. 3o.-Jan, 6,— Illinois State Poultry Associa- tion. Peoria, J, W, Burton, secretary, Jan. 1-6,— Southern Michigan Poultry and Pel Stock Association, Moiirof, Mich. EHiot O. Grosvenor. secretary, Jan, 13-17,— International Exhibition of the South Carolina Poultrv and Pet Stock Associa- tion (not incorporated') at Charleston, S, C, Ben- jamin Mclnnis. Jr , secretary. H. A, Bridge, su- perintendent, Jan, 23-16, Mohawk Valley Poultry and Pet Stock Association, Amsterdam, N. Y. Mr, Wil- liam C. House, secretary, Freys Bush, N. Y. as possible to enable the secretary to complete his arrangements. « « ♦ i?ivrmTni?C5 Dog Shews. Sept. 2-4,— Midland Central Fair Association Bench Show, Kingston, Ont., Canatla. C, H. Corbett, secretary. Sept. 2-5.— Wilmington Fair Association Bench Show. T. D. Brown, secretary, Wilmington Del. " Sept. 2-5.— Michigan Kennel Club, Detroit, Mich. M. V. B. Saunders, secretary '■ ■ - - ^j-j Our Illustration. Our frontispiece this week is the well- known white, black and tan Enfjlish set- ter dog Roger (8252). Roger is probably the best all-round English setter dog in America, as his record will show. His winnings on the bench are as follows : Second at New York, third at Boston, first at New Haven, first at BufTalo and second at Richnioml in 1888 ; second aud special at New York, 1889, and second at New York, 1890. In field trials he divided fourth prize in the All-aged Setter Stake, Eastern Field Trials, 1888 ; won third in the All-aged Setter Stakes, Central Field Trials, 1889 ; first prize (Jiooo) in the Free-for-all Stake. Central Field Trials, 1S89. defeating the Memphis and Avent Kennels' celebrated setters Chance and Rowdy Rod, and the noted pointers Roger Williams and Lebanon. In the last stake Roger was handir.inned witb a etrancr* Vioti>1lo.- Mr. Aldrich, his trainer, meeting with an accident, became disabled. As a sire Roger is a great success, transmitting to his progeny his grand form and field qualities, his puppies de- veloping into field dogs very young. Rawdon Lee, in his new book on the "Collie or Sheep Dog," gives the follow- ing derivation of the word collie : "But what is a collie ? asks my readers, and why the name, and why not the older one of shepherd's dog? The derivation of this same word has excited the curi- osity of many writers, leading them into the troubles of research with about as much result as has been reached as to the origin of the dog itself Until within recent years the word collie was used in conjunction with the word dog, thus your friend owned a collie dog or a Scotch collie dog, as the case might be. A collie dogwasju.st a dog used iti connection with a 'collie,' a variety of sheep common to Scotland, and while the Dictionary of Husbandry, published in 1743, spelling it colley, describes as 'such sheep as have black faces ami legs. The wool of these sheep is very harsh with hairs, and not so while as other sheep.' Shakespeare uses the word collie in one or two places, with a similar meaning of blackened or darkened, thus in the first scene of the first act of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' Lysander speaks to Hermia thus : Brief as the lightning in the collied night, and in 'Othello' the passage occurs : Having my beat judgment collied. « Sept. 15-19.- Second Internationaf Dog Show of the Industrial Exhibition Association, at To- ronto, Canada. C. A. Stone, secretary. Sept. 23-26.— Central Canada Exhibition Asso- ciation, at Ottawa, Canada. Alfred Geddes chairman. Oct. 6-9.— Ninth annual dog show of the Dan- bury Agricultural Society, at Danbury, Conn., B. C. Lynes. secretarv. Feb. 24-27— Westminster Kennel Club, New York City. James Mortimer, superintendent. Field Trials. Jtov. 3.— Fourth annual field trials of the Indi- ana Kennel Club at Cariisle, Ind., P. T. Madison Indianapolis. Ind., secretary. Nov. 10— Second annual field trials of the Canadian Kennel Club, at Chatham, Ont., C. A Stone. Toronto, Ont,, secretary, Nov. 17,— Twemh annual field trials of the Eastern Field Trials Club, atotterburn Springs, va. W. A. Coster, Saratoga Springs, N, Y,, scc- . ^^,\ VrSf'"'* annual field trials of the Cen- tral Field Trials Club, at Lexington, N. C C H. Odell, Mills Building, New York, secretary- "«: '5 --.Philadelphia Kennel Club's seventh annual field trials at Deatonsville, Va. 18»1. Jan i9.-F,ighth annual field trials cf the Pa- cific Kennel Club, at Bakersfield, Cal. H H Bnggs, secretary. ,r!! wi i.rJ^*'^,^ annual field trials of the South- Mar^tta Ga ''* " B'^"n»>y, secretary, Coiirslnj^. r^.i*'"'5A7?!''**' annual meet of the American Coursing Club, at Great Bend, Kan. I. D. Brougher, secretary. Poultry and Pljjrooii iSliows n«H"*i ^.??P' 5-Detroit International Fair Tv?!, •^""'•"H"" Association, Detroit. E. W. coitrcU. secretary. u/'^JP'i f-'^— Kl'iiira Inter State Fair. Mr, George W, Robinson, secretary. trvtnVl '1^,7^.""''"'^'°" '■■"•'^ Association Poul- arv Wi?^^f,. V^f'T'".'^"'- ■T- ^ B™*". «~re- lary. Wilniington, Del, Sept, S-12.— Burlington County N I Poultrv E^^TiVrge N^" J '••""" •^-''^«"'' '•--"-y Ch^r^U?v"R-;;a'nM^^'eIa"r;"""" ""''■ "" K./^Mi^.rs^c'^^'.r;^'"'*^*'""' "^•^p"'"'' •^"" sw^r""^^ "'"''''""' ^'""^ •'"''■• ^^" "f™"' Cm^L ^Af?rZi^^"V?' ^r?'^^ ""'^ Ottawa, «».!. *"^"lfie a stomach de- rangement. 2. Toothache. ,1. Canker. Distemper. DI.STI NGUISHING SY.MPTOM.S. If from any cause the