Suggestion for Beginners—A Rabbit Hunt 53 
sell puppies at a year old that are from small sires 
and dams and be perfectly honest when he gives 
the buyer the measurements of the dog and those 
of his sire and dam. Some breeders make a prac¬ 
tice of underfeeding their puppies when they come 
from strains known to develop too rapidly, or are 
likely to go oversize occasionally. But this always 
seemed a doubtful mode of procedure to me, when 
it is a plain case of starvation, but food values may 
be studied to good advantage and thus the ration 
may be so arranged that it will impart the nutritive 
qualities that make for wholesome development and 
still not impart to the puppy an unnatural or abnor¬ 
mal growth. 
Tn buying a beagle the beginner should keep in 
mind what he intends to use him for and thus be 
governed in making his selection. If he wishes to 
take up the show game exclusively, then perhaps 
it might be well to confine his investigations to that 
branch, for there is no gainsaying the fact that there 
are some strains—beautiful and typey dogs—that 
are good for nothing else but the show bench, just 
as this same statement applies to setters, pointers 
and Airedales. Only a study of bench show records 
and the frequent attendance at shows will give the 
novice this knowledge at first hand. If he is buying 
for field trials, let him scan the records closely and 
see that he is buying stock from reputable hunting 
and winning strains. 
While gunshyness is not inherited in the real 
sense, still there are many strains of nervous high 
strung beagles in »which this serious fault may be 
developed by the slightest false move, which with 
