430 DOGS USED FOR SPORT. 



tensive indigo plantations, on the bank of the St. Johns river in 

 East Florida, at a place still known as Lake Berresford, in the be- 

 ginning of the last century. 



Unfortunately for the fox-hound of England, the Marquis soon 

 discovered that the fox of Florida wouldn't run half a mile before 

 he climbed a tree, and fox-hunting was abandoned reluctantly. The 

 dog remained, however, and through neglect they rapidly mixed 

 with the cur of the country, and the blood has become extinct. In 

 the South they have some splendid new blood, which they have 

 crossed with the southern fox-hound, and have produced the per- 

 fection of a hound for their purposes. 



There are at least five thousand fairly bred fox-hounds in Geor- 

 gia, and at least twenty thousand if you include Maryland as one 

 of the Southern States. A small, or rather medium size, with 

 bushy tail, and color white and red. The best dogs we have now 

 is a cross of the English fox-hound and a native dog of Maryland. 

 These Maryland dogs are a cross with the long-haired Scotch 

 hound and the old English fox dog imported into Maryland many 

 years since. They combine speed, endurance, and nose, and are 

 only found in Hancock county, Georgia. The hounds most in use 

 in the State of Georgfia are a cross of the English fox-hound with 

 a small hound called the beagle, which g^ves nose to the EngUsh 

 dog, but takes away his speed. Excessive speed is not required ; 

 a speed of about a mile in two and three-quarter minutes, capable 

 under a hot scent of being increased for a short time to two min- 

 utes and ten seconds, is all that is wanted. A fox is killed in an 

 hour at an average speed of three and a quarter minutes to the 

 mile. A medium sized dog is much the best, is often more fleet, 

 and being of light weight his feet do not become sore after a run 

 Feed gfreasy mush once a day, when the dogs are not expected to 

 run, and bread once a day.. Twice a week give them meat stewed 

 with com meal, when you do not run them. If you wish to run 

 them in the morning, give them the night before as much hard 

 bread as they will eat, and in the morning, before starting, give 

 each dog a small piece of hard bread to keep him from nausea. 

 Train the pups with the old dogs at one year old, often practicing 

 with a drag, and we find it the only method to train and break cross 

 Dred fox-hounds successfully. The best breeds of fox-hounds in 



