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pack of seven couple, well up to the requirements of 

 his country in all three of these particulars, is in- 

 deed lucky. Another thing that has hurt the beagle 

 very much is allowing a good hound to serve a poor 

 bitch. I know it means stud fees, but if a man owns 

 a really good bitch he would willingly pay more 

 for a good dog. 



"Also, the showing of puppies has, I am sure, 

 lost us many, how many, no one can tell, ripping 

 good hounds. Thus far the beagle breeders have 

 been breeding, with few exceptions, dogs for the 

 bench, and have shown young and old, large and 

 small, in order to win on the bench ; if a bench win- 

 ner was good in the field so much the better, he was 

 used in stud anj^way. The result is that nearly 

 every breeder has, until lately, gone for the individ- 

 ual and not for the strain of blood. As soon as 

 more attention is paid to similarity of type, size, and 

 speed, then, and not until then, will we be able to 

 equal the English packs." 



The West then takes up, through Dr. Arthur H. 

 Cohn, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the question "fox- 

 hound type in the beagle," and seems puzzled as to 

 what type to breed for, when he says in the Amer- 

 ican Stock Keeper of June, 1901, that "It seems to 

 me that we are at present at a loss what type to 

 breed for. As some say one judge prefers one, an- 



