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THE RURAt NEW-YORKER 
February 8, 
A Pack of Foxhounds. 
Whether one regards the dog, indi¬ 
vidually and collectively, with affection 
or dislike, it is hard to look upon a 
pack of well-bred foxhounds without 
strong admiration. Their shiny satin¬ 
like coats, expression of keen intelli¬ 
gence and instant obedience to the duty 
in which they have been trained makes 
them most interesting, and one familiar 
with hounds finds as many varieties of 
expression among them as among hu¬ 
man faces. The pack pictured in cut 
belongs in the Chagrin Valley, Ohio, 
but there are a number of other locali¬ 
ties in this country where the hounds 
receive, the same care, and repeat the 
picturesque features that accompany 
them in Great Britain, even to the red- 
coated huntsmen. It is true that in 
some cases the huntsmen are driven to 
the expedient of trailing an aniseed bag, 
in default of a fox, but then the hunt 
is the object, and not the quarry. Some 
of the ancient Assyrian and Egyptian 
sculptures show hounds held in leash 
just as they are in the present day, and 
be told systematically in the order pre¬ 
scribed by the editor, giving suitable 
headings that will suggest to the farmer 
just what is wanted, and much of it 
could be told with brevity. 
HORACE LORD. 
R. N.-Y.—We have already tried 
something of this. The suggestion is a 
good one and we will try to develop it. 
The trouble is to get accounts which 
are clear from the bitterness of failure 
or prejudice on one hand or from the 
boastful or “optimistic” spirit on the 
other. It is really one of the hardest 
things in life for a farmer to describe 
either his failure or his success on the 
farm so that the reader will obtain the 
true meaning of it. There is a per¬ 
sonality about such things. There is 
also something about farming and coun¬ 
try living which cannot be taught or 
conveyed through ink. 
Snaring Wild Cattle. 
The call of the wild on page 2 re¬ 
minds me of a couple of Jersey heifers 
that got out in the woods some years 
ago. One disappeared and I finally 
found it with a neighbor; the other had 
certain paths it used to rur along in 
A PACK OF CHAGRIN VALLEY, OHIO. FOXHOUNDS. 
it is the belief of naturalists that the 
various classes of dogs characterized as 
hounds were originally introduced to 
Europe from the East. 
True Stories of Farming. 
There are many city men who are 
reading agricultural papers and agricul¬ 
tural literature with the ultimate pur¬ 
pose and intent of invading the country 
and trusting the soil to supply their 
necessities, hoping to find in the life of 
the farmer greater inspiration for good 
and avoid the confined life of the city 
dweller. Such men are in no position 
to attend a college of agriculture or 
make a personal investigation of farm 
conditions, and their experience leads 
them to question the value of one man’s 
success or another man’s failure. Much 
is said of the difficulty of making a 
living on the farm by one class of peo¬ 
ple, and another advocates intensive 
culture, with promises of such quick 
and abundant returns that, if believed, 
would make the bank presidents tremble 
in fear of losing their prestige. It is 
this large divergence of human opinion 
as found in books and magazines and 
in the mouths of teachers that acts as 
a restraining influence in accepting the 
life of a farmer and keeps many an 
unwilling man at his desk in town. The 
man himself is undoubtedlv the largest 
element in success on the farm as well 
as in the city, but a man in the city 
can judge only of the chances of suc¬ 
cess or failure of the things that have 
come within his experience, and his 
knowledge of farm life is confined to 
a few weeks’ vacation in the heat of the 
Summer. No one man’s experience is 
convincing, and I have often thought 
that if you were to give some space in 
each issue of your valuable paper to the 
practical experience of one or more 
farmers, told by themselves, it would 
not only be helpful to the doubting 
Thomases of the city, but might be a 
direct means of leading many farmers 
into the way of success. Let the stories 
the woods. Taking several strong pieces 
of one-half inch rope six or eight feet 
long I made some snares, one end tied 
to a tree, the other end a slip noose, 
and hung them on bushes along the 
paths. Then I fooled around awhile, 
found the animal, and she started down 
one of these paths, ran her head in the 
noose and was caught. It would not 
do to leave these nooses hanging and go 
off very far, for the animal would 
choke to death if she got into it and 
stayed there awhile. My advice to Mr. 
Mead would be to stop chasing these 
animals for a few days; they will settle 
down to traveling certain paths and 
grazing in certain places; then he could 
set the snares, and he could start them 
in that direction easily. Sometimes 
they have certain hours to go to water, 
and they will most likely travel certain 
paths or the same paths to drink in 
some favorite place. Wild cattle or 
range cattle, that is, cattle that are run¬ 
ning in the open country where there 
are no fences, can very often be handled 
and penned by two or three men who 
go at them easily rather than by six or 
eight men who w'ill yell, hoot and hol¬ 
loa and run them. G. N. 
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E IGHT years ago the farmers in a central state 
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