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greyhound blood was used as late as 1880, in- 

 creasing the speed to the detriment of other qual- 

 ities equally as desirable in a hound. 



With probably the exception of the Walker 

 strain the Trigg strain is the best known of the 

 modern, up-to-date hounds. The master, Col- 

 onel H. C. Trigg (Full-Cry), of Kentucky, has 

 owned and hunted his pack continuously for over 

 a half-century. Being a man of ample means, 

 he has never spared expense in the improvement 

 of his hounds, and he can well be proud of his 

 success as a breeder, as the annals of the fox- 

 hound trials show that his hounds are always in 

 the awards. 



His original pack, used in 1845, was the old- 

 time, long-eared, rat-tail, deep-toned, black and 

 tan, Southern hound. The first out-cross on 

 these was the Birdsong strain, he having pur- 

 chased Chase, Bee, George, Rip, and Fannie from 

 Mr. Birdsong in the early sixties, paying what 

 was at that time considered a fabulous price for 

 them. Twenty years later he introduced the 

 Walker-Maupin blood with signal success. He 

 made but one attempt to introduce the English 

 blood, through ''Portland," from the Quorn ken- 

 nels, but considered it a failure and soon weeded 

 it out. 



Though a master for over fifty years, he is 

 to-day as hard and straight a rider to hounds as 

 one will find. A few years ago I followed him 



