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bone' and was a good representative of 'the dogs 

 hover 'ome/ the young, inexperienced, haphazard 

 breeder sends his bitch half way across the United 

 States to breed to him, and some we know are kick- 

 ing themselves for doing it. 



"I can make all the bone necessary, in fact, as 

 much as any of the English dogs imported ever had, 

 by feeding proper food, and have living proof of 

 this assertion. Let us therefore do away with those 

 heads that, taken from the ear forward, are the 

 shape of a triangle, with perfectly flat faces, 

 covered with wrinkles, small terrier eyes, sharp 

 pointed muzzle, no flews, ears short and thick and 

 set high on the head, and give us a beagle with a 

 beagle head and expression as well as body and bone 

 of the sort of many I could mention of days gone 

 by, sired by such dogs as Dorsey's old Lee, Fitz- 

 hugh Lee, Royal Kreuger, etc., and then we will 

 have beagles, that, judged as beagles should be, 

 could beat the world on the bench or in the field, 

 when put to the real work of a beagle." 



Mr. C. O. Smith comes back with the remark that 

 "I could tell of some of our oldest beagle men who 

 have taken up breeding big dogs to keep in the 

 fashion" and advocates the use of the small hound. 



A short editorial in the American Stock Keeper 

 of May 25th, 1901, says that, "If we had fewer 



