The Loudoun County Hunt 



DISTINCTIVE COLLAR - Scarlet with gieen piping 



MASTER - Westmoreland Davis, Esq. 



SECRETARY W. A. Metzger, Esq.. Leesburg. Va. 



HUNTSMAN Robert Dodd 



WHIPPER-IN ■ - G. Glasscock 



HOUNDS 12 couples, American 



KENNELS " Morven Park." Leesburg, Va. 



POST-OFFICE - - Leesburg, Va. 



DAYS OF MEETING - Tuesday and Saturday 



LENGTH OF SEASON - October 1st to February 15th 



LEESBURG, VIRGINIA, the county-seat of Loudoun County, 

 is so placed by the conditions of nature that it should have every 

 chance to become one of the great hunting centres of America. 

 Situated in the heart of a beautiful hunting country, convenient to reach by 

 rail from Washington, from which it lies about thirty-five miles northwest on 

 the banks of the Potomac River, it offers many attractions to the hunting 

 man. Its chief drawback lies in the vast quantity of wire fencing which is 

 gradually, but quite surely, taking the place of the timber. 



Attempts to overcome this evil by putting in panels of post-and-rails are 

 being made, but until some more systematic work is done along these lines, 

 the remedy will amount to little. Still another drawback to the country is 

 the scarcity of foxes in certciin portions of it, although they are very plentiful 

 along the creeks. 



Various men, some of them members of the Loudoun County Hunt, have 

 kept their own hounds from time immemorial, and among these Mr. William 

 Heflin stands pre-eminent. Mr. Heflin has hunted his own hounds in his 

 own way, when and where he chose, for twenty-five years, and continues to 



67 



