CHAPTER XIII. 



BREEDING. 



CHE main and most important question in 

 breeding race horses as well as hounds is 

 to get always the very best and to do this, 

 one has to be on the move and watch the 

 hunting and staying quality as well as the style 

 of looking for trails, etc. ; and a breeder should 

 always be ready to pa.y the price for a good sire 

 or dam. And he should always bear in mind 

 that there is no more trouble or bother and that 

 it does not cost more to raise a pair of dogs 

 from Avell known hunting stock than from un- 

 known stock but where it tells is when the dogs 

 are of age for training. It is here where the 

 great difference exists and where a sportsman is 

 willing to look at the right side of the matter 

 finds his mistake and where he regrets not hav- 

 ing paid a few dollars more for the right stock. 

 Some say that if pedigreed dogs were 

 trained they would beat the other dogs. The 

 question is to train them. Hounds which come 

 from untrained or from partly or badly trained 

 stock Avill always be poor hunters. They will 

 never be the dogs that they would have been had 



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