Forty Years Beagling 



them to stick and work. I claim if a pack of bea- 

 gles can't catch, on fair footing, a majority of rab- 

 bits started, if the cover is not too dense and briary, 

 so the dogs can't make a run at them, they are not 

 properly handled, if well-bred beagles. Beagles 

 are like setters, their instinctive qualities can be 

 greatly improved by proper handling." 



"Dalg," in Forest and Stream, of February 

 10th, 1887, states that the reason beagles can not 

 run hare successfully in Northern New England, 

 is that fii'st, hares give very little scent; secondly, 

 that they are hunted after a snowstorm, which in 

 these latitudes are by no means damp storms; 

 thirdly, the dogs barking jumps other hares, which 

 will often cross, or follow along for a distance, the 

 runway of the first hare jumped. Finally, a small 

 dog w^ill sink nearly out of sight in the deep dry 

 snow, of which we have so much on our mountains, 

 and a large dog, in a light fall of snow will run 

 altogether too fast. 



This authority would seem to be in error as the 

 trials of the Northern Hare Club during the last 

 few years have proven that beagles, both the thir- 

 teen and fifteen inch size, can run the northern hare 

 or snowshoe rabbit successfully, and it is an admit- 

 ted fact that the snowshoe rabbit gives off more 

 scent than the cotton-tail rabbit. 



