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The Ideal Sportsmen’s Dog for game hunting of any 
kind. We have puppies for sale from $25 each, bred 
from the greatest English and American bred specimens. 
Also brood bitches in whelp. Champion Red Raven at 
stud, fee $25. Two successive years winner for best 
Airedale at Madison Square Garden, New York. 
ELMHURST FARM KENNELS 
5900 Jackson Avenue, Kansas City, Mo. 
FOR SALE. 
Champion Lake Dell Damsel and Endcliffe Briarwood 
(English name, Fountain Ranger), both winners and 
world beaters. Address DR. L. C. TONEY, 204 Currier 
Block, Los Angeles, Cal. 
POINTERS FOR SALE 
The two thoroughly broken pointers, “Maxim’s Dan” 
and “Midkiff Jennie,” registered. These two dogs have 
had hundreds of birds killed over them; they know their 
business perfectly, work close to gun in cover, and range 
out wide in open; require little or no handling. An ideal 
brace, but will sell singly if desired. 
MIDKIFF KENNELS, Dallas, Pa. 
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Stream: I wish to call your attention to a 
matter in connection with the judgment of the 
popular Airedale terrier. 
The great points now insisted upon by prac¬ 
tically all the judges seem to be the black color 
of the coat and the dark-colored eye. If a dog 
has a grizzled gray coat on his back, no matter 
how fine he may be in terrier conformation, 
showing qualities and the other points, he has 
no show against the fancy bred black-coated dog 
that is in no other sense as good a terrier as he. 
If he has a light-colored eye, the blue rib¬ 
bon is almost as quickly taken away by an in¬ 
ferior dog. 
Now the Airedale terrier has been bred and 
inter-bred with varoius breeds to produce an 
ideal hunting dog, a dog that can stand a par¬ 
tridge, retrieve a duck and tree a bear; an im¬ 
provement on any breed of hound, setter or 
pointer. In effect he is a combination of all 
these breeds and possesses more gray matter in 
his head than any other dog. He can kill a 
rat with the same agility as a cat and the power 
of his jaws is so great that he can bite through 
the hide of a grizzly bear; in fact, some of the 
Western bear hunters say they don't use them 
because they tear whole pieces out of the skin 
and spoil the pelt. 
They have been crossed several times with 
the old English sheep dog to give them a soft 
woolly coat under their terrier wire hairs to 
enable them to stand any extreme of tempera¬ 
ture, and the result is that they can come out 
of the water, give themselves a shake and dry 
off in a few minutes. The undercoat of gray 
wool acts like the down beneath the feathers 
of a bird and protects them from the chill of 
the water. Now this woolly coat grows just 
as fast as the wire terrier hair, but it is curly 
and lies closer to the skin, so when you strip 
the dog to get him ready for the show ring, 
the dark wire hairs show most prominently for 
perhaps six weeks. And it is just at a certain 
period during this six weeks that the dog is 
considered right by the present standard of 
judging. Two weeks earlier or two weeks later 
he will not be in perfect coat, as the refinement 
of judging goes now. It takes from ten to 
twelve weeks to grow a show coat, and there- 
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OXFORD KENNELS, 
35 North Ninth St., Philadelphia, Pa. 
FOR SALE. 
B., \Y. & T. English Setter Dog, whelped Jan. 11, 1912. 
No pedigree, but bred from pure-bred working field dog 
of quality. It’s the last one of the litter I will dispose of. 
C. J. FUHRMAN, Hanover, Pa. 
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AIREDALES FROM EM POST KENNELS. 
From left to right, top row: Empost Princess Nell, Empost Endora, Empost B. Price. 
Bottom row: Empost Oui Oui (dam), Empost Emma R., Empost Capt. Andrew, Empost Tot McLean. 
