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Oban it has found patrons not a few, and at 

 Inverness, Dingwall, Skye, &c., numerous and 

 enthusiastic breeders have arisen. All are bent on 

 cultivating the genuine article only, and they are 

 able to recognise, in the standard of the clubs, the 

 conditions which their localities required, and its 

 correspondence with all hereditary information they 

 possess. If the efforts to bring up the breed to the 

 standard of the club are to succeed, attention must 

 be given to the defects that abound in the more 

 typical specimens as well as to the exclusion of the 

 wrong type. 



" In judging Skye terriers I should put lowness and 

 length first ; head, chest, and shoulders second; coat 

 third; level back fourth; all other points being inferior 

 and subordinate. Most of the older judges decide by 

 length of coat alone a most deceptive and injurious 

 standard the coat concealing faults and becoming 

 softer the longer it is, and encouraging untypical 

 breeding 5^ inches of coat is ample. 



" During the past two years I have attended most 

 of the large shows from Inverness to London, 

 including Glasgow, Edinburgh, Carlisle, Preston, 

 Liverpool, Manchester, Crystal Palace, &c., and 

 have witnessed the prevailing defects specified. 



" Some leading breeders of the true type make 

 weight their chief objection to winners of the present 



