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VOL. XV. FLINT, MICHIGAN, OCT. 10, 1902. NO. 10. 



ARTIFICIAL PASTURAGE. 



BY W. Z. HUTCHINSON. 



A Visit to Dr. Gandy and a Description of his Attempts 

 at Improving his Pasturage. 



HT Dr. Gandy's, Mr. Whitconib, myself, 

 and Bro. Root were treated right 

 royally. We were taken to his liome, 

 every hospitality extended, a team secur- 

 ed, and nearly the entire time spent in 

 driving about the country visiting his 

 farms and apiaries. Every facility was 

 afforded us for learning the truth in re- 

 gard to his bees and the artificial pastur- 

 age that has attracted so much attention. 

 THK doctor's F.\MILY. 



By the way, the Dr. has an interesting 

 family; a nice wife and five bright chil- 

 dren. His only son has recently graduat- 

 ed from a medical college, and is begin- 

 ning to take his father's practice. Two 

 daughters are married; there is a girl in 

 her teens, and another perhaps ten years 

 old. 



THE DOCTOR'S BLOOD HOUNDS. 



By the way, again, the Dr. is greatly 

 interested in blood hounds, such as were 

 used years ago in tracking down fugitive 



slaves. He has several old dogs, and, 

 when we were there, there was also a litter 

 of "pups." The scent faculty of these 

 animals is something almost beyond com- 

 prehension. They can follow a trail that 

 is even two or three days old, picking it 

 out even in the crowded streets of a city. 

 Their sagacity, too, in picking up, or 

 finding a trail when it is lost, is not much 

 less wonderful. When there is a break 

 in a trail they at once begin to circle. If 

 it is not found in making the first circle, 

 a still larger one is made, and even a still 

 larger until it is picked up again. Wad- 

 ing a long distance in running water is 

 about the only way that they can be 

 thrown off the track, and even then they 

 will go a long distance up and down each 

 bank of the stream looking for the trail. 

 If the pursued does not wade far enough, 

 they are sure to pick up his trail again. 

 When they overtake the object of their 

 pursuit they do not attack. They are as 

 Ukely to fawn upon the man as to do any- 



