sportsmen present a fine exhibition of retrieving, demonstrating beyond 

 all question his ability to make a good retriever in a short time out 

 of any bird dog which has sense enough to come in to him when called. 



(American Field, November 28, 1903.) 

 I inclose money order for registering two puppies in the F. D. S. B. 

 I refuse to let anyone breed a bitch to my Keystone unless she is 

 registered, and unless he will try to have the puppies registered. My 

 dog Rodstone has been in charge of Fred Erb, Jr., of LaFayette, Ind., 

 for the last eight months, and I have just got him home. He is a 

 magnificent dog in the field, and I only had him in Mr. Erb's hands to 

 make a retriever of him. George Denny. 



Lexington, Ky. 



{American Field, August 8, 189 1.) 

 A VISIT TO MR. FRED ERB, JR.'S KENNELS. 



Mulberry, Ind. 

 Editor American Field: It is not very well known among the 

 sportsmen of the country that we have here in Indiana a man who 

 is capable of training setters and pointers for high-class field work 

 for private shooting as well as for field trial competition. However, 

 most of his training, up to the present, has been for eastern gentle- 

 men who only have their dogs trained for their private shooting; so 

 he has not had the opportunity to run any of his dogs in the trials, 

 but I understand he will have several entries in the trials this season. 

 The gentleman referred to is no one less than the noted trap shot, 

 Mr. Fred Erb. Jr., of La Fayette, Ind. 



I visited him some time ago and had the pleasure of taking a day's 

 snipe shoot with him as well as to see his dogs work on snipe, which 

 I assure you was a pleasure to me. He had at that time some fourteen 

 dogs in training, and all looking well and working in good shape. He 

 took out with him on our day's hunt two high-bred English setters 

 that he has in training for a gentleman in Wisconsin. I don't know 

 his name, but can say that he has a brace of good ones ; and when Mr. 

 Erb turns them over to him he can justly be proud of owning a 

 brace of as well broken setters as any man can boast of. 



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