QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 195 



IRISH SETTERS 



I would like to get your advice about dogs, 

 especially in regard to Irish setters. 



I have read in your magazine, as well as in 

 others, advice to always purchase pups whose 

 parents are actual field and hunting dogs — not 

 just bench and show dogs. Will you advise me 

 what would be a good breeding of such a pup, and 

 could you give me the names of one or more 

 breeders whose kennels are headed by good hunt- 

 ers, as well as well-bred dogs — parties on whom 

 I could rely. 



I have a letter from Walter McRoberts, in 

 which he says that he intends to breed Highland 

 Rose to Sammy Oge, owned by F. E. Morrow, 

 Hawkeye, la. Are both of these dogs field dogs, 

 and what do you think of that breeding? 



ROBT. L. RUTAN. 



Ans. — Either the Law, St. Cloud or Morty Oge 

 stock is good. Irish setters make equally as good 

 hunters as bench dogs, as they are not bred exclu- 

 sively for the bench as some English setters are. 



BUYING AN IRISH SETTER 



I want a red Irish setter, but find it impos- 

 sible to obtain what I desire. I realise the fact 



