WHO'S WHO IN BIRD DOGS 45 



Look at the Count Whitestone bitches, of some 50 

 per cent Laverack blood through Queen Stella, 

 bred to Mohawk sires to-day to produce Derby 

 winners. And some of the best grouse dogs in the 

 country have been straight Laveracks, notably Sir 

 Eoger de Coverly, Ch. Deodora, Albert's Mallwyd 

 Mixture, Ch. La Besita, recent national champion. 

 During the last two years the notable preponder- 

 ance of pointer wins in the field trials has been 

 due undoubtedly to too great inbreeding of 

 Llewellins, while the increase in setter wins of 

 1915 and 1916 shows up clearly, in the fresh out- 

 crossing of Laverack blood. In general it would 

 be the best side to lean to, in breeding grouse dogs 

 for eastern woods shooting; by all means send 

 your Llewellin bitch to a noted Laverack grouse 

 dog or his get if you don't want to have the dis- 

 gust of hollering your head off at a wide ranger 

 who makes more noise in the dry leaves and 

 flushes more grouse than you will see in a day's 

 march, which will likely be your fate if your pup 

 is of straight field trial stock. 



Taking the pointers of to-day we need not go 

 much farther back than four or five great names 

 that began to compete with the setters success- 

 fully some seven years ago. Fishel's Frank, 



