66 Horse and Hound, 



State are hemp and tobacco, and a run of fox 

 and hounds alone through the tobacco means a 

 serious loss to the owner. Fields and woodlands 

 not in cultivation contain hundreds of fine brood 

 mares whose colts, either by their sides or in 

 utero, are worth thousands of dollars, and noth- 

 ing so excites thoroughbred mares as a pack of 

 hounds. 



The talk abount hunting being a source of rev- 

 enue to the farmer may do in a small country like 

 England; but in America hunters and grain may 

 be raised three thousand miles away from where 

 hunting is indulged in. 



Hunting in America requires an altogether 

 different hound from England, conditions being 

 very dissimilar. Here hounds require superior 

 hunting ability, wide ranging, greater persever- 

 ance and patience, and, above all, a much better 

 nose to enable them to take an old and cold track, 

 probably made the day before, and work it out 

 inch by inch for six or eight hours if necessary. 

 They get absolutely no assistance from the hunter 

 and have no one to rely on but themselves. I 

 have known instances where a single hound would 

 slip away from home, travel eight or ten miles to 

 where he had previously run a fox, find an old 

 trail, and work it diligently for fifteen or twenty 

 hours without ceasing. 



If there are any such hounds in England they 

 have never been sent to this country. 



