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beagles should steer clear of pedigrees containing 

 the names of Blue Belles, Blue Boys and Blue 

 Caps. (This does not seem to have been followed 

 out, for in many of our successful beagles of today 

 we find the blood of Hiram Card's Blue Caps.) 



There is a photograph in the Stock Keeper of 

 February 6th, 1892, which states below it that 

 P^rank Forest is reputed to have been sold by the 

 Forrest Beagle Kennels of Franklin, Pennsyl- 

 vania, to Mr. W. S. Gates of Chagrin Falls, Ohio, 

 on January 30th, 1891, for $1000,00, so this great 

 hound did bring a great price even for those days 

 or now. 



Then we find some good advice from Mr. George 

 F. Beed, of Barton, Vermont, in the April 17th, 

 1893, issue of Forest and Stream, in which he says: 

 "I do not claim to Imow it all, but will say that 

 those intending to breed their bitches this year — 

 don't breed to the first dog you come across just 

 because he is called a beagle, and expect to raise 

 prize winners." Mr. Kreuder in replying publicly 

 to this remark says, a week later: "I will say that 

 I believe that while beagles have been bred for 

 many years, we are just now beginning to do it 

 systematically, and in the next few years an entirely 

 different dog will take the place of those now seen 

 so much, and forsooth, thought much of. Mr. 



