194 The Sporting Dog 



Belle are all dogs that mind readily and do not 

 have to be corrected very often. The very best 

 one of the bunch for a sportsman to take out to 

 find birds and get them is Colonel R. There 

 were very few birds last winter. If we had had 

 the ordinary dogs, we would not have had any 

 shooting at all. I hunted some three or four 

 weeks, and found an average of eight to nine 

 bevies a day. To be absolutely honest, I don't 

 think the dogs flushed three bevies of birds dur- 

 ing these three or four weeks. 



I think that when people rail against field trial 

 dogs they are misinformed. A dog to get a place 

 in an all-age stake must necessarily have all the 

 attributes that go to make a high-class dog. 

 Generally speaking, he must be under good con- 

 trol. All he needs to make him a first-class 

 shooting dog is experience in good hands. 



DOGS FOR CANADA SHOOTING 



By Mr. H. Marshall Graydon of London, Ontario 



You ask me for expression of opinion on the 

 kind of dogs that are best suited for field work on 

 the birds usually found in Western Ontario, and 

 in reply I would say that, as quail are much the 

 most abundant of our upland game birds, a wide- 

 ranging dog, with considerable speed, so applied 

 that he is always hunting for birds and at the 



