46 HUNTING IN MANY COUNTRIES. 



maintained, except during a period of two or three seasons 

 when mange played havoc with the country. All the northern 

 packs were visited in turn by this terrible disease, but from 

 what I saw and heard I think the North Durham suffered 

 most, and for a time it was odds of 10 to 1 that every fox 

 followed by hounds was mangy. For Mr. Rogerson and his 

 staff the state of affairs was most exasperating, but they 

 battled on in dogged fashion, putting down all the mangy 

 foxes they could kill, destroying old earths, and bringing in 

 new blood when a suitable place cotdd be found ; Norwegian 

 foxes, perhaps of a rather bigger type than the original foxes 

 of the district, were importeid, and after a year or two these 

 seemed to strengthen and improve, and at the present day 

 North Durham foxes are probably as good as can be found 

 in any part of the kingdom. In 1919 Capt. Frank Bell joined 

 Mr. Rogerson in the masitership, and for the la&t two seasons 

 has acted aa huntsman to the pack. 



