BREEDING. 



Importance of Securing good Stock Snowball Collateral 

 Breeding Laws of Heredity Selection of the Brood 

 Bitch Importance of Pedigree Trained Brood Bitches 

 Consanguineous Breeding Selecting the Dog Nicking 

 Season for Breeding Foster Dams (Estrum and Service 

 Predetermining the Sexes Treatment during Pregnancy 

 Prevention of Worms in Pups Transmission and Repro- 

 duction of Parasites Tcenia ccenurus Vermifuge 

 Parturition Pups in the Nest Weaning. 



IT may be said of coursing men, with more truth, than 

 of most other classes who use dogs, that every one is a 

 breeder. It is at once a greater pleasure and a higher 

 honour to win with dogs a man has bred and reared than 

 with those purchased. Of course there are circumstances 

 which render purchase compulsory if the sport is to be 

 enjoyed at all, but the desire is general to win with dogs 

 that are entirely the courser's own in the sense referred 

 to. It is essentially necessary, therefore, for the young 

 aspirant to coursing fame to pay attention to the principles 

 of breeding as taught by physiology and enforced by ex- 

 perience. 



The first step is to secure possession of the right . stock, 



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