The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-04-13
Junior Order of United American
Mechanics.
DoGGIES' HEALTH RESORT.
A Farm in Camden County Which Is Do
voted to Canine Cultivation.

A Farm in Camden County Which Is Do
voted to Canine Cultivation.
CAMDEN, April IL, 1890. Camden
county can boat of having the finest dog
breeding farm in the world. This claim
is better understood hundreds and thou
sands of miles away than by the average
Camden county resident. To enlighten
this home ignorance as we'll as to
satisfy an individual curiosity,
reporter paid q visit the other day
to this remarkable canine colony
Two miles from Berlin, on the Camden
& Atlantic Railroad almost at the lower
edge of Camden county, on The crest of
the water shed where Big Timber Greek,
flowing westward TO the Delaware, and
Egg Harbor River, trending eastward to
the Atlantic, have their sources in placid
ponds fed by unfaiiing springs, is the
location of the only establishment in the
world where the experiment of breeding
blooded dogs OF every species, of keeping
boarding house for healthy animals and
conducting hospital for sick ones has
been developed into a success
AT THE FARM
A typical jersey country road leads
from the slumbering, pretty little village
of Berlin out to the farm OF the Associat-
ed Fanciers, the most successful dog
Il
Leading spirit of the business, whose
greeting has a warmth and heartiness
about it that puts the visitor at ease at
once, is Howard Ireland, for
merly successful newspaper man, and
now known all over the country for the
success he has achieved as a breeder of
blooded dogs.
The farm is seyenty-seven acres in ex-
tent. The canine colony dwells in rows
upon rows of little houses, five and six
feet nigh, all painted white and enclosed
and shut OFF into sub divisions by great
wire net fence.
Here, basking in the warm spring sun
shine. or sleeping in their kennels, or at
play in the enclosures, are nearly three
hundred dogs and puppies of all shapes
and sizes and of all the more valuable
breeds There is no room for ours or nom
descript dogs on the Associated Fanclers'
farm, unless sent to be boarded or treated
by some Infatuated owner who is willing
to pay well for the care of pet.
A CANINE CHORUS.
The noise when the entire colony starts
in to bark at one and the same time is
utterly indescribable. A vicious looking
tiger mastiff--a tall, thin, 1.-THE dog, with
prodigious fangs, a white and black
spotted coat and queer greenish eyeballs--
strikes his sharp yelping note and the
roar follows from every one Of the dimin-
utive houses, ranging from the Snappy
treble of the small hounds to the
diapason of the deep chested St. Bel
nards, mastiffs and Newfoundlands.
A DOG TO BEWARE OF.
II wouldn't like to go near him my
self" says Mr.. Ireland, referring to the
tiger mastiff. He is simply untamable
but he is only one member of the type
which includes the Timers and Great
Danes. The tiger mastiff is the albino
phenomenon of the Great Danes. He is
IL fnh lie hf1f
contrary to the human aIbino, he is
splendidly muscular and a determined
fighter.
TWO BIG FELLOWS.
Perhaps the dog which holds the
highest place in public favor" continued
Mr.. Ireland. is the roligh-coated St.
Bernard. Here is q, magnificent speci-
men," A gigantic beast walked to the
railing of his pen and licked the hand ex-
tended TO him. This is Celtic Rector,
the only living son Of Giant Rector the
dog for which Actor Joe Emmett paid
a. 600. St. Bernards are all the more in
favor because they are being constantly
improved
AS finely proportioned Newfoundland
leaped out into the exercise ground of ten
acres Mr. Ireland described him as dog
with a history.
who hes won twenty-seyen prizes and has
never been beaten.
EVOLUTION OF THE BULL DOG.
s'The Baron, this English bull terrier,
used to win first prize wherever he was
shown until he was withdrawn from the
bench. Hundreds of years ago the Eng
lish cultivated a certain type Of dog for
bull batting In the public ring, from
whence comes the name.
.sIn order that the dog should be able to
take grip on the nose of bull he was
bred with an undershot jaw That Is, with