90 WOLF DAYS IN PENNSYLVANIA. 



wolves on horse-back. The animals were baited 

 to come into the open, and then mounted men 

 and wolf-hounds rtiade after them, the effort being 

 put forth to prevent them from getting back to cover. 

 The huntsmen were armed with spears, and pinioned 

 the fierce beasts to the earth from their galloping 

 steeds. In our Western States, coyotes, and occasion- 

 ally timber wolves, are coursed on the open plains by 

 Russian wolf-hounds, followed by mounted hunters. 

 The wolves, if run down, are killed by the pack of dogs 

 or elses shot by the hunters. This is often done on 

 the Russian Steppes, by a stronger race of wolf- 

 hounds than has been developed as yet in the United 

 States. In an effort to arouse interest in a better type 

 of wolf dogs, the writer of these pages- offered two 

 special prizes at the Dog Show of the Westminster 

 Kennel Club, held in New York in February, 1914, 

 for Russian wolf-hounds which had actually coursed 

 wolves, or were kept for this purpose in a wolf coun- 

 try. At present the Irish wolf-hound looks to be more 

 capable of running down wolves than the Russian 

 variety, which is called the Borzoi. The breeding and 

 sale of wolf dogs would add greatly to the income of 

 Pennsylvania mountaineers. A comparison of the 

 different varieties of wolf dogs can be gleaned from 

 the following, which is quoted from the New York 

 "World": "Several years ago General Roger Wil- 

 liams, of Lexington, Ky.,was a judge in a wolf hunting 

 contest in Colorado, in which Russian wolf-hounds 

 and Scotch deer-hounds contested. Under the stipu- 



