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so spaniel breeding with judgment must have proved 

 a profitable enterprise. With this great sale a 

 private one Mr. Jacobs gave up exhibiting, and, 

 indeed, his kennel was then broken up, still its 

 plums may be found in the possession of Mr 

 Woolland, already alluded to, and of Captain 

 Moreton Thomas. 



Of course, Mr. Jacobs had bred and mated his 

 dogs and bitches carefully, and succeeded in pro- 

 ducing spaniels longer in the body, lower on the leg, 

 and with greater bone than any of his predecessors 

 had done, and, had he kept his strain more to himself, 

 there is no doubt as a spaniel breeder he would have 

 taken a higher position even than the one he did 

 attain. 



Of course, as would be inferred from his original 

 stock, his purest black bitches and black dogs never 

 yet had a litter that wholly took after their parents. 

 Browns or livers, brown and white, black and tan, 

 black, black and white, even the handsome mirl 

 or roan colours at times appeared. However, with 

 judicious mating, and ordinary care, it is quite 

 possible, with the material at command, to, at any 

 rate in a few years, bring the breeding for colour as 

 near perfection as possible. 



Mr. J. F. Farrow, of the Fountains, Ipswich, has 

 a strain of admirable " blacks " which produce a 



