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Show CROPPING OFF DOGS' EARS A Question That Is Continually Discussed Dis-cussed by Fanciers. Tribune Special Sporting Service. NEW YORK. Jan. 6. The question of cropping the ears of the bull terrier and the Great Dane, or German boarl.ound, often comes up, both among the foncli i i and the laity The American public Is so accustomed to see the pointed ears in these breeds that there arises a loud wall of contempt when a dog. of either class is produced with all the appendages or pans thereof that nature ga him Some years ago a law was passed In England prohibiting cropping and U was then proplv sled that the breeeda on which cropping had been practiced would di -generate. On the contrary, these i lasses have become more popular, and are Just as highly prized In their natural form as when a veterinary s shi rs lias trimmed th-.-m Into a fashionable figure. Indeed, both the bull terrier and the Great Dane are more acc ptable to the real lover of the dog now In England than before, for the reason that personal prejudices and a desire im' to give pain, in conjunction with the universal rj to conform to prevailing Id-as. forbade many man from keeping these breeds where ropplng was considered nei sssary and n failure to crop reprehensible in this country ear cropping la still In vogue. Some day there will bi 0 lav pi-sr-d ;,g.tlnsl M lor it is onl custom that gives the impression that tin nrrbr looks sharper or more Intelligent With tl -ears cut. Five years of non-cropping and people would wonder why so much iu-phasls iu-phasls was put on the necessity of ;rlm- i mlng the ears to the shape of a horn to make them beautiful One thing however, can be said In favor fa-vor of cropping, and that Is the operation opera-tion removes a portion of the ear that is erv susceptible to disease iind injury |