{American Field, Dec, 1903.) 



Last week I spent a couple of days with Fred Erb, Jr., of LaFay- 

 ette, and had a most delightful time. We found plenty of birds, owing 

 to Mr. Erb's habit of stocking the fields every spring with fresh quails. 

 We did not kill many, but I enjoyed watching the puppies which are 

 now in training work on them. Mr. Erb has one puppy less than four 

 months old that would find and point birds and then retrieve them if 

 killed. We shot a few pigeons one morning and I had a lot of fun 

 watching the younger ones retrieve. While I was there some twelve 

 orders arrived for the training device, five one morning before break- 

 fast and all the orders mentioned the American Field as the paper 

 in which the advertisement was seen. Further, Mr. Erb told me that 

 he had received ten times as many orders through his advertisement 

 in the American Field than all of the other papers combined. The 

 training device is by far the surest method I know of making a forced 

 retriever now on the market and at the same time it is easier on the 

 dog. John M. Lilly. 



Lidianapolis, Ind. 



{At the Illinois State Tournament, 1898 and 1899.) 

 Mr, Fred Erb, Jr., the great handler of gentlemen's shooting dogs, 

 did the retrieving of all the pigeons. His work caused no delays of any 

 kind. 



{American Field, Chicago, III., Aug 5, 1899.) 

 We have always considered that retrieving is an important factor 

 to a successful day's shooting and consequently it is quite as essential 

 that a pointer or setter should be taught to retrieve as to back or drop 

 to shot or to wing. Field trials have made the pointers and setters what 

 they are today, for they have not only stimulated breeders to produce 

 superior animals, but they have developed a higher and more intelli- 

 gent standard of training. Why not add to this standard the art of 

 retrieving? What state field trial will be the first to require it? 



{American Field, Oct. 10, 1903, Chicago, III.) 

 Fred Erb, of LaFayette, Ind., was at the tournament of the In- 

 dianapolis Gun rinV. with a string of his retrievers and gave to the 



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