480 
FOREST AND STREAM 
October, 1921 
Is This Worth the Price? 
Stop your dog breaking shot and wing. 
Teach him what whoa! means. No long 
trailing rope or spike collar. Our field 
dog control is not cruel. Can be carried 
in pocket and attached instantly to dog's 
collar. Dog can’t bolt. Fast dogs can be 
worked in close and young ones field 
broken in a week. Works automatically — 
principal South American Bolas. Sent 
postpaid with full directions for $2. Testi- 
monials and booklet, Making a Meat Dog 
sent on request. 
MAPLE ROAD KENNELS Ntw Co p r 10B 
■pOR SALE, EIGHT ENGLISH SET- 
TER PUPS, six bitches, two dogs, whelped June 9, 
1921, by West Down Rollick, ex Earnshaw Bee. Rollick 
won the Derby, 1915. Bee is a most brilliant bitch, and 
is by Lovely of Gerwn, ex Stylish Masterpiece. Lovely 
of Gerwn, by Pitchford Donald out of Laura of Gerwn. 
Stylish Masterpiece is by that well-known field trial 
winner Stylish Aeroplane 1st of Stylish Cora. Price of 
pups, 15 guineas each. They will not be sent on trial, but 
can be seen here any time by appointment. SIDNEY S. 
POWNCEBY, The Grange, Chitterne, Wiltshire, England. 
COCKER SPANIELS FOR SALE 
Both Puppies and Mature Dogs 
Suitable for show or field purposes. No dog excels 
the Cocker for the home. Spry, affectionate, and 
faithful. We have blacks, reds, and part-colored. 
Nomid Chief Crow, AKC No. 270,059, at stud, solid 
black, the son of a champion. Inquiries solicited. 
Fire Arms and Sporting Goods Catalog sent on re- 
quest and stamps. 
KIRTLAND BROS. & CO., 96 Chambers St., New York City 
Winner of all-American 
Endurance Race. Litter 
brother to Champion 
Mary Montrose. Peer- 
less on the bench and 
in the field. Dogs 
trained and handled. 
Setter, pointers and 
Walker hounds for sale. 
20,000-acre game pre- 
serve. 
EDWARD D. GARR 
Lagrange,^ Kentucky 
POHIC 38976 
The Lion of His Tribe 
at Stud. A Winner — A 
Producer Fee $40.00 
The Blue Grass F arm Kennels of Berry, Ky. 
M offer for sale Setters and Pointers, 
Fox and Cat Hounds, Wolf and 
Deer Hounds, Coon and Opossum 
Hounds, Varmint and Rabbit 
Hounds, Bear and Lion Hounds, 
also Airedale Terriers. All dogs 
shipped on trial, purchaser alone 
to judge the quality ; satisfaction 
guaranteed or money refunded. Eighty-four page, 
highly illustrated, instructive, and interesting 
catalogue for ten cents in coin. 
A 
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DOG DISEASES 
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BOX 103 REEDSBURG, WIS. 
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Foxes 
muscles still remain undeveloped to the 
requirements of work afield, the body 
is weak because of insufficient nourish- 
ment, the feet remain weak and tender, 
and the heart and other organs are not 
in condition to meet the extra strain 
imposed by prolonged exertion. 
The reduction of a fat dog is at best 
slowly accomplished. That is the proper 
way. Fie can exert himself but a few 
minutes at one time before becoming 
blown and exhausted. If he suffers too 
much distress from galloping he may 
refuse to gallop at all. In such event 
it is obvious that conditioning is im- 
possible. As a rule, every recurrent 
time a dog is permitted to accumulate 
a gross quanity of flesh it is much more 
difficult to work it off. 
Even if kept in good condition, as 
the dog advances in years, there is a 
natural predisposition to take on extra 
weight. The muscles gradually grow 
larger and lose their elasticity. Their 
capacity for prolonged effort diminishes. 
All this gain is extra weight to carry, 
besides the incidental physical impair- 
ment. While this state comes naturally 
in any event, it is hastened by permit- 
ting the dog to become over-fat. As a 
purely mechanical proposition, a body 
that is strained and held out of its 
natural position for a long while may 
not return to its natural position when 
the strain is removed. Fat in a way is 
a cause of strain. 
When the dog is over-fat his gait, 
when in action, is materially changed. 
He is thrown more or less off his bal- 
ance ; his limbs have not the same free 
play and perhaps cannot play on the 
same easy lines; he has extra weight 
to carry which may seriously strain his 
feet, and altogether the consequent in- 
ability and discomfort are serious ob- 
stacles for the dog to overcome. Under 
the best circumstances the dog’s feet 
and shoulders are not formed for 
weight carrying, hence every unneces- 
sary pound added to his body is cor- 
respondingly a straining factor and an 
incumbrance. 
Besides his disabilities as a servant 
to his master afield, the over-fat dog has 
a digestion more or less impaired ; his 
breath commonly is foul, his teeth have 
accumulated tartar which in time is 
destructive to both 
teeth and gums ; his 
lungs are far from 
being vigorous, and 
his years of life 
are thereby likely to 
be materially short- 
ened. On the other 
hand, if a dog is 
worked down too 
fine physically 
kept at his wc 
afield too regularly he may become 
“stale” ; that is, he may lose interest in his 
work and become averse to any useful 
effort. When in this condition, days or 
even weeks of rest may be required to 
restore his vivacity and enthusiasm for 
work. This state of overtraining, phys- 
ically, is quite as much antagonistic to 
the laws of the dog’s physical wellbeing 
as is the opposite extreme, that of in- 
dolence and over-fatness. Of the two, 
however, over-fatness, due to over- 
feeding and indolence, is much more 
common than is staleness from over- 
work. 
T HE average sportsman, though he 
may be conspicuously keen, alert, 
provident and resourceful in business 
matters, is — during the close season — 
notoriously negligent of his dog’s physi- 
cal condition, as it pertains to leanness 
and therefore is thoughtless of his best 
interests during the open season when 
he sallies forth to sport afield. A fat, 
soft dog is but one remove from no dog 
in respect to work afield, if indeed he is 
not an incumbrance. A little fore- 
thought and attention during the close 
season in the way of daily exercise 
and proper feeding will obviate much 
disability and disappointment during 
the open season. Give the working dog 
but one meal a day, and let that be of 
substantial and good food. Table scraps 
are excellent if they are not too scrappy. 
That is, potato skins and clean bones 
would hardly serve the purpose. Thus, 
as concerns table scraps, their value 
would in a measure depend upon their 
source. Good lean beef or mutton, and 
plenty of either or both, boiled with cab- 
bage, beets, turnips, potatoes, etc., mak- 
ing a stew afford a nutritious and palat- 
able food. In addition to the whole- 
some diet the sleeping quarters should 
be sweet, well ventilated and free from 
vermin. The most scrupulous care to 
keep the sleeping quarters in perfect 
sanitary condition should be observed. 
INTERNATIONAL STUD 
BOOK 
'T'HE subscription list is now open to 
the first volume of the International 
Stud Book to be published in January. 
It contains authentic pedigrees and 
many pictures of noted hunters and 
famous hounds with rules for judging 
in the field and on the bench, together 
with a list of the annual Field Trial 
events and other information invaluable 
to the hunter. 
It may be had by subscription only 
from the Chase Publishing Co., Inc., 
Lexington, Ky. 
NEW MARLIN CORPORATION 
A NEW corporation, known as the 
Marlin Firearms Corporation, has 
purchased the former Marlin Firearms 
plant, at New Haven, Conn., which has 
heretofore been conducted by the Marlin 
Firearms Company and the Marlin- 
Rockwell Corporation. 
The new corporation will manufacture 
the full Marlin line of Repeating Rifles 
and Repeating Shotguns; also Single- 
Shot Rifles, Single Guns, Double-Barrel 
Guns and Revolvers 
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