150 THE AMERICAN HUNTING DOG 



RETRIEVING AIREDALES 



I have a cliance to get a registered Airedale 

 free of cost, and the breed is recommended by this 

 owner to make good dogs for quail and prairie 

 chickens. If they are not good for that I do not 

 want one at all. Can they be trained like a setter 

 or pointer? H. B. Cakr. 



Ans. — An Airedale can be taught to retrieve 

 both quail and prairie chicken. 



We do not compare his scenting powers with 

 either a pointer or setter, but he is a fine dog, and 

 if you can bring him up and take him frequently 

 afield with pointer and setter he can undoubtedly 

 learn the game as many of them have done. 



WHICH IS THE BEST DUCK RETRIEVER? 



I want to buy a good duck dog, one who will 

 do first-class work on both land and water. I 

 noticed a number of different kinds of dogs adver- 

 tised in your magazine, but as I do not know much 

 if anything about the different breeds of dogs I 

 am at a loss to know what breed to get. 



In this country we have shooting from blinds 

 on shore, from boats out in the rushes, and also 

 pass shooting on dry land where a great number 

 of the ducks will fall on dry land, in tall grass, in 



