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peers, but the superiors, of all other nations, and 

 this applies to all domestic animals as well as the 

 horse and hound. 



As to hounds, they have established a high 

 standard of excellence as to size, symmetry, con- 

 formation, and beauty of form and style, and 

 breed for these qualities to the detriment of nose, 

 speed, endurance, and fox sense. While we must 

 admit that an even, level, sorty-looking pack, well 

 balanced in size, color, and markings, are pleas- 

 ing to the eye, yet none of these qualities can 

 compare with those of nose, speed, endurance, 

 and fox sense when it comes to hunting foxes in 

 America. We admit the English are far our 

 superiors in breeding, and had they for the past 

 two hundred years employed their ability and 

 efforts to perfect hounds in the latter qualities, 

 they would undoubtedly have produced a hound 

 that could come to this country and eclipse any 

 of our hounds in the field, instead of taking posi- 

 tion as second-raters, as they invariably do. 



Admirers of English hounds excuse their 

 many faults by stating they are well adapted for 

 the work required of them in England. Grant- 

 ing this, until it is proven that the American 

 hound is their inferior on their own ground in 

 England, I must take issue with them, for I am 

 prepared to state emphatically from, personal 

 knowledge, that under the conditions obtaining In 

 the greater hunting portions of America, the Eng- 



