Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1876 — Valuable Dogs. [ARTICLE]

Valuable Dogs.

According to one of the oldest dog fanciers in New York the rarest and most valuable dogs in that city are full-blooded bloodhounds and bulldogs. Deerhounds —thin, long, rough-haired dogs—are also scarce, and are worth, when full-grown, from SIOO to S2OO apiece. Foxhounds are worth from $25 to SSO, harriers from S2O to S3O, greyhounds from sls to $25, German beagles from sls to S2O. Italian greyhounds, which were the first pct dogs ladies nad in this country, were at one time worth as high as $lO apiece, but nqwJhaving gone out of fashion, sell for much less. At present the greatest demand is for Gordon setters, a breed of dogs which comes from the kennels of the Duke of Gordon in Scotland, and when of proper color-pure black-and-tan—bring from SIOO to SSOO apiece. Next to them come the red Irish setters, which sell for SSO apiece, and the English orange and white, which are quoted somewhat cheaper. Spaniels are not so fashionable as setters, and sell at a lower figure. The Clumber, or land spaniels, sell from $25 to SSO apiece, the brown water spaniels at sls apiece. Cocker spaniels sometimes bring as high as S6O, and King Charles spaniels as high as S2OO. Pointers are not favorites in this country, for forests are too thick for them and the brush tears their skins, which are not coated as heavily as the setters or cockers. The double-nosed or Spanish pointers are worth all the way up to SSOO apiece. Besides the game dogs, Siberian bloodhounds, Pomeranian wolf-dogs, and Dane dogs are all sold in New York. One of the latter, thirty-four inches high, was recently disposed of for $750. St. Bernard dogs are quoted at from $l5O to S2OO apiece, and white bull terriers, for fighting purposes, at S2OO. Fox terriers and Dandie pinmot terriers bring from $lO to $25 apiece. Skye ter tiers, black-and-tan terriers and English pugs are all ladies’ dogs. The latter sell from SIOO up, the former often bring $l5O. For a black-and-tan of extraordinary small size a New York lady recently paid S7OO. The animal weighed just two pounds and ten ounces.— Philadelphia ledger. ~ T r This year’s yield of rice in South Carolina ana Georgia was 75,000 tierces, or about five per cent more than any crop since the war.