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Teddy IV.," and many others were not in them- 

 selves noted winners, and the same statement 

 may be made of the dams of many of the prize 

 winning dogs, but they possessed in themselves 

 and their ancestry that "hall mark" of quality 

 which appeared in a pronounced form in their 

 offspring. Experience has shown that first class 

 qualities must exist for several generations in 

 order to render their perpetuation highly prob- 

 able. The converse of this is equally true, that 

 any bad qualities bred for the same length of 

 time are quite as hard to eliminate. If the dog 

 or bitch possesses weak points, be sure to breed 

 to dogs coming from families that are noted 

 for their corresponding strong points. In this 

 case the principle of "give and take" will be 

 adopted. It used to be the ambition of every 

 breeder (or, at least, most of them), to produce 

 a winner, rather than the production of a line 

 of dogs of good uniform type, of good average 

 salable quality, but most have lived long enough 

 to see that this has not paid as well in money 

 or expected results as where similar endeavors 

 have been directed towards the production of 

 good all-round dogs, always striving to advance 

 their dogs to a higher grade of excellence. In 

 this way in nearly every instance prize winning 

 dogs have been produced, and there is this 

 peculiarity noticeable in this breed, that any one. 



