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be credited with being pack men, or men like Mr. 

 C. Staley Doub of Frederick, Maryland, who has 

 maintained a four-couple pack of bitches for many, 

 many years. 



In order to maintain a pack of from eight couples 

 up requires the breeding, raising and training of 

 upwards of fifty puppies yearly. The English 

 system is to *'put them out at walk," or lend them 

 to farmers to raise, if this phrase can be so inter- 

 preted ; and they are returned in Derby year to be 

 broken to the pack. Mr. J. L. Kernochan, of the 

 Hempstead Beagles is the only American who ever 

 attempted to introduce this system in the United 

 States. Unfortunately he died before the system 

 could be given a fair trial in his part of the country. 



The National Beagle Club was the first to intro- 

 duce pack competitions at their trials. These were 

 held at Nanuet, New York, in 1892. Such compe- 

 titions were eventually worked from holding two- 

 couple pack stakes to the two, fom% and eight 

 couple pack competitions, which are now the fea- 

 ture of their annual trials. 



Pack competitions are judged differently from 

 individual or brace stakes. In these there is no 

 real competition, each pack being judged by its own 

 individual work; and a large latitude is allowed 

 from the keen-nosed leader of the pack, to those 



