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FOREST AND STREAM 
Dec. '14, 1912 
Resort* for Sportsmen. 
Alaska. 
Bear Hunting 
I am prepared to take parties 
out in the spring of 1913. 
A. Hasselborg Juneau, Alaska 
Florida. 
Oakland Hotel 
OAKLAND, FLA. 
On shore of the charming Lake Apopka, second largest 
lake in Florida. 
The Sportsman's Opportunity. —Where he can 
get his full bag every day of Quail, Duck, Jacksnipe, 
Oiwego Bass, Brim and Trout. In a territory not 
overcrowded and little shot over. 
The man from Missouri is the one we want be¬ 
cause we will show him or refuse his money. 
Climate delightful. Write now for terms and reserva¬ 
tion, information or booklet to 
OAKLAND HOTEL. 
Winter Sport with Rod and Gun 
Sportsmen, spend your winter vacation here. Good 
•hooting; thousands of ducks; plenty of quail. Both 
fresh and salt water fishing can be had within a short 
distance of the house. Booklet sent free. Correspond¬ 
ence invited. Address 
THE RENDEZVOUS, Homosassa, Florida. 
T. D. BRIGGS, Proprietor. 
Maine. 
MACH1AS LAKE CAMPS, Ashland, Me. 
Best Moose and Deer hunting in Maine. Remote camps. 
MACHIAS LAKE CAMPS, W. P. McNally, Prop. 
North Carolina. 
Center of Winter 
out-of-door life in 
the Middle- South. 
Four excellent Hotels — 52 cottages—The 
Carolina now open. 
Holly Inn opens January 10; Berkshire and 
Harvard open January I 5. 
SPECIAL RATES DURING DECEMBER 
AND JANUARY. 
Three 18-hole golf courses and one 
6-hole practice course, tennis, livery 
and saddle horses, model dairy, shoot¬ 
ing preserve, trap shooting. 
Good Roads in a radius 
of 50 miles or more 
Through Pullman Service from New York 
via Seaboard Air Line. Only one night 
out from New York, Boston, Cleveland, 
Pittsburgh and Cincinnati. 
Sendforillustratedbookletgivingfullinformation. 
Pinehurst General Office, Pinehurst. 
Leonaid Tufts, Owner, Boston, Mass. 
fore a dog can be got ready fit to show four 
times a year at the outside. 
I maintain that this is a ridiculous condition 
of affairs and should be abolished. It is just as 
artificially produced a coat as if the hair were 
dyed and stiffened with rosin for the day of 
the show. It is not the dog’s natural coat; in 
fact, it is an artificial condition that can only 
be arrived at three or four times a year. Why, 
every Airedale that is to be shown at the West¬ 
minster Kennel Club Show next February will 
be stripped this week in order to have his coat 
just right for that event. Every dog there will 
be in an artificial condition, and the most arti¬ 
ficial one of all will win the blue ribbon. 
Now, this is all wrong and will do more to 
kill the breed than any other thing. The great 
English terrier, the Airedale, is too fine a speci¬ 
men of the dog family to be abused in reputa¬ 
tion by any such silly requirement that his coat 
shall be jet black. In the English dog books 
they require that he should have a grizzly gray 
coat, and surely that is much more desirable for 
a dog that is to be used in all kinds of hunt¬ 
ing. It makes him less conspicuous on the trail 
or in the water, and the less it approaches the 
pure black, the better. 
The question of the color of the eyes is 
another one that seems to me to be absurd. It 
is all right to require the proper shaped terrier 
eye, small, narrow and placed deep in the skull 
out of harm's way, but why in the name of 
Dame Fancy should it be dark brown, or dark 
anything, rather than light ? Does anyone con¬ 
tend that a dark-eyed dog can see any better 
than a light-eyed one? If such a person exists, 
let him bring out his theory before the world. 
It would be new and startling. If no such 
claim is made, why should the dark-eyed dog 
win over the lighter-eyed one? 
The whole situation can be briefly stated. 
The “fancy” requirements of the present judges 
are all wrong and devoid of reason. They are 
encouraging certain artificial points that have 
nothing to do with the merit of the Airedale or 
his usefulness. As an Airedale breeder myself 
I have to breed to their requirements, and my 
last litter of seven pups were whelped on Elec¬ 
tion day. Every one of them has a jet black 
coat and very dark eye; the two requisites that 
count the most nowadays. But I maintain it 
is an artificial requirement and might well be 
superseded by requiring better manners, obedi¬ 
ence to command, docility and safety. I men¬ 
tion these as we have more than one champion 
now on the benches so dangerous and unruly 
that they have to be screened off from the 
public to prevent their biting someone. At a 
recent show I offered to wager the owner of 
one of these champions that he could not throw 
his glove and make his dog retrieve it nor make 
his dog obey any command whatever. He de¬ 
clined the wager and said “No, he won’t mind 
anybody.” Now, is that the proper kind of dog 
to make a champion of ? 
I wish Forest and Stream would publish this 
letter and invite a wide discussion over the points 
I have tried to make. I realize that I have only 
stirred the surface, but I feel it is in a worthy 
cause. I do not believe the winners in the 
show ring to-day are as good for the purpose 
the Airedale was bred for as many of those 
who have not the artificial perfections that bring 
ribbons. If this is true, should there not be a 
change? Edwin Main Post. 
Resorts for Sportsmen. 
North Carolina. 
HUNTER’S LODGE! 
Good Quail Shooting! 
Choice accommodations for ladies and gentlemen. 
Best Chef south of Potomac 
Terms: $3.00 per day; $75.00 per month. 
GEN’L FRANK A. BOND - - Buies, N. C. 
PINE TOP LODGE 
Halifax County - North Carolina 
Finest quail country in the Old North State. Thousands 
of acres and tens of thousands of quail. Guides, dogs, 
teams, telegTaph and telephone. F'ine automobile roads. 
Leave New York at night and arrive at Halifax follow¬ 
ing noon. Bring your wife and have rare sport in the 
Sunny South. Till Nov. 1st, address C. & L. P. Blow, 
at Virginia Beach. After Nov. L at Tillery, Halifax 
County, N. C. 
New York. 
W. J. O’Neil, proprietor, and Hammond, guide; goodboardand 
first-class accommodations. Good bird dogs and hounds. 
Centerville Station, Sullivan Co., N. Y. 
Advertisers in Forest and Stream have 
the habit stronger than ever. 
Taxidermists. 
J. KANNOFSKY. 
PRACTICAL GLASS BLOWER 
and manufacturer of artificial eyes for birds, animals and manu* 
facturing purposes a specialty. Send for prices. All kinds of 
heads and skulls for furriers and taxidermists.. 369 Canal 
Street, New York, 
Please mention “Forestand Stream.” 
SAVE YOUR TROPHIES 
Writs for I llujtrated Catalogue 
“Heads and Horns” 
It gives directions for preparing and preserving Skins, Antlers, 
etc. Also prices for Heads and Rugs. Birds and Fish, and nil 
kinds of work in Taxidermy. 
Ward’s Natural Science Establishment 
ROCHESTER. N. Y. 
ROWLAND, 
TAXIDERMIST, 
A specialty in mounting Moose, Elk, Caribou and Deer 
heads. Call and examine work. 
No. 182 SIXTH AVENUE, 
Tel. 4205 Chelsea, Near 13th St. NEW YORK 
The Passenger Pigeon 
The only single book devoted 
solely to this now extinct bird. 
Bound in cloth, stamped in gold, size Syi x 
9 % in., 225 pages. Illustrated. Price, $ 3 . 00 net. 
Postage prepaid. Supplied by the author. 
W. B. MERSHON 
Saginaw - Michigan 
