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when they are competent to do better work and 

 more of it, than such as are admitted to these events 

 on account of the present fixed measurement? 



"You cannot obhterate the type by any rule of 

 measurement; a beagle differs from a harrier as 

 much as a foxhound differs from a bloodhound, and 

 size has nothing to do with it. Why are neither of 

 the others required to be so high or so low? Some 

 dogs are classed by weight, why not these? 



"I am sure much could be added to the apprecia- 

 tion of beagles if they were bred truly in accordance 

 with natural laws, and not 'pinched' and starved to 

 have a pretty head and no substance. My dogs are 

 all 15 and 15^/2 hiches, and I know they are good 

 ones, and can sicken the field trial and bench show 

 winners in a five-days' himt. These dogs are not 

 registered, but they trace their ancestral lines back 

 to the old Rowetts. If this proposition goes 

 through I shall show them, if not I shall not change 

 them for smaller. They are full-blooded beagles 

 bred for work in the field, nourished and pushed 

 when young for bone and muscle, as all young stock 

 should be to assure proper strength and develop- 

 ment when matui^ed. There is but one thing that 

 surprises me in this discussion, and I have followed 

 it closely, and that is, that a man of Mr. Kreuger's 

 former standing and prestige as a beagle man 



