THE COLLIE. 



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specimens have left these shores for other 

 lands. Some of the finest stock of the times 

 have been exported to the kennels of such 

 connoisseurs as Mr. Pierpont Morgan and 

 Mr. Samuel Untermyer, in the United 

 States, while South Africa has claimed 

 some excellent examples of the breed. 



Five years ago no one held a better 

 stock of brood bitches than Mr. James 

 Agnew, of Old Hall, Newton Stewart, and 

 few produced a finer array of 

 prize-winners. Unfortunately 

 for the fancy, however, Mr. 

 Agnew, who is a busy husband- 

 man, has, like many others, 

 given up breeding, and it is 

 to be regretted that, while our 

 old breeders are retiring, their 

 vacant places are not being 

 filled. It is a satisfaction, 

 though, to note that we have 

 still such eminent Collie en- 

 thusiasts as the Rev. Hans 

 Hamilton, Mr. T. Stretch, Mr. 

 Hugo Ainscough, Mr. H. E. 

 Packwood, Mr. W. T. Horry, 

 and Mr. R. Tait, all of whom 

 are prominent breeders, judges, 

 and exhibitors. 



Neither can the charge o c 

 neglect be made against the 

 admirers of the smooth Collie 

 which has gained in popularity quite as 

 certainly as his more amply attired rela- 

 tive. Originally, the smooth Collie was a 

 dog produced by mating the old-fashioned 

 b'ack and white with the Greyhound. 

 But the Greyhound type, which was form- 

 erly very marked, can scarcely be discerned 

 amongst the prize-winners of to-day- Still, 

 it is not nfrequent that a throw-back is 

 discovered in a litter producing perhaps a 

 slate-coloured, a pure white, or a jet black 

 individual, or that an otherwise perfect 

 smooth Collie shouM have the heavy ears 

 or the eye of a Greyhound. 



At one time this breed of dog was much 

 cultivated in Scotland by Mr. George 

 Paterson, of Dundee, but nowadays the 

 breeding of smooths is almost wholly con- 

 fined to the English side of the Border, 



and especially in the northern counties. 

 Mr. John Bell, of Stanhope, Durham, has 

 produced many admirable examples, among 

 the best being Village Boy and Village Girl. 

 Many breeders, in order to perpetuate the 

 Collie type and eliminate the Greyhound 

 character, have used rough-coated dogs in 

 their breeding operations, and often with 

 marked success, although the result often 

 brings forward the fault of a too heavy coat. 



MR. A. H. megsons CH. ORMSKIRK EMERALD 



BY HEATHER RALPH AUGHTON BESSIE. 



BRED BY MR. W P. BARNES. 



The smooth Collie is a very clever dog 

 in most ways, but of little practical use 

 as a worker among sheep. An odd one 

 may indeed be able to go round and 

 bring in a flock, but, taking them gener- 

 ally, they are not workers. They can 

 graduate as professional hunting dogs, having 

 speed, and few dogs of any breed can 

 capture a rabbit or a hare more scientifically. 

 In colour, the merle predominates. Many 

 of the blue merle have a merle or wall eye, 

 and in judging the smooths on exhibition, 

 I give preference to a wall-eyed one, pro- 

 vided other points are equal. 



The best dog of the breed at the present 

 day is without a doubt Eastwood Eminent. 

 He made his first appearance when very 

 young at the Collie Club show held at 

 Southport in the spring of 1906, and has 



