THE GRAFTON 



the Genesee Valley, thus giving the members and subscribers a chance to 

 hunt every day in the week. This plan worked well, and Mr. Smith writes 

 that he intends to go there another season, after finishing his cubbing in 

 Massachusetts. 



The Genesee " Upland country " is chiefly grass and pasture, with some 

 large woodlands and almost no plough; post-and-rail fences, interspersed 

 with a few stump-fences and very little wire, forming the majority of the 

 enclosures, and it requires a bold, fast, big-jumping horse to live with hounds. 



To the Master of the Grafton is due, more than to any other one man in 

 the United States, the credit for a long needed organization, as he was in- 

 strumental in calling a meeting which led to the formation of The Masters 

 of Foxhounds Association of America. 



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