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AUGUST , 1917 
FOREST AND STREAM 
THE KENNEL MART 
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SPRATT’S 
In asking you definitely to say 
“Spratt’s” when buying DOG, 
POULTRY, or CAGE BIRD 
FOODS, we are asking you to accept 
our guarantee of the dependability, 
purity, and excellence of all our pro¬ 
ductions. 
NO FANCY-NAMED FOOD is of our manufacture un¬ 
less coupled with our name and trade mark X. 
Write for samples and send stamp for catalogue which 
contains much valuable information regarding care, 
rearing, etc. 
SPRATT'S PATENT LIMITED NEWARK, N. J. 
San Francisco; St. Louis; Cleveland; Montreal. 
Factory also in London, England. 
Gregmore Farm Kennels 
WE WOULD LIKE TO TRY OUT 
YOUR FIELD TRIAL PROSPECTS 
or thoroughly train your shooting dogs. 
We have the birds to work on and the 
country to train over. Send us your 
dogs and we will convince you that you 
and your dog have received honest 
treatment. KNEEDLER & UTER- 
MANN, Hutton Valley, Mo. 
Use Perfection Dog Food 
At Our Expense 
Send $4.00 for 100 pounds, use 25 per cent and 
if not the best you ever used, send it back; youi 
money will be refunded and we will pay the re¬ 
turn freight. Cooked, ready to feed; a perfectly 
balanced ration—feeding instructions sent with 
each shipment. Order to-day 
PERFECTION DOG FOOD CO., Dept. K 
165 Gladstone Ave., Detroit, Mich., Factory, Battle Creek 
The Blue Grass Farm Kennels 
OF BERRY, KENTUCKY 
offer for sale Setters and Pointers, Fox and Cat 
Hounds, Wolf and Deer Hounds, Coon and Opos¬ 
sum 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. 60-page, highly illustrated, interesting 
and instructive catalogue for 10c. in stamps or 
coin. 
WANTED—Sportsmen and bird dog fanciers 
to know that they can see the big All America 
Trials in the movies. Why not have field 
trial night at your local movie theater? 
Birds in the air, famous dogs pointing and 
ranging, camp scenes, prairie life, and the 
famous handlers and their dogs just as they 
appeared at the All America Trials. For full 
information write WM. CORCORAN, care 
220 Third Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa. 
WANTED—Pointers and setters to 
train; game plenty. For sale trained 
setters, also some good rabbit hounds. 
Dogs sent on trial. Dogs boarded. 
Stamp for reply. O. K. Kennels, 
Marydel, Md. 
Pointers 
and 
Setters . 
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GEO. W. LOVELL 
MIDDLEBORO, MASS 
Telephone, 29-M 
a result of crossing bulldog on hound. 
This sort of dog is liked by some of 
the cattlemen, and Jake is said to be a 
good one of his kind. His grandfather 
was a white bulldog; possibly a bull ter¬ 
rier, but it makes no difference. Jake him¬ 
self is black-and-tan and when you first 
look at him the hound appearance predom¬ 
inates. It shows again the prepotence of 
the black-and-tan hound, that it should so 
cofnpletely ignore the white bulldog grand¬ 
father. On closer inspection Jake’s stolid, 
rather sullen, disposition shows the effect 
of the grandfather; and his ears and gen¬ 
eral formation are somewhat off the hound 
type. He has no hunting instinct; grand- 
daddy killed that. He may be a good cat¬ 
tle holder; but I do not like him—no bull¬ 
dog cross for me. 
I secured a fairly good picture of a dog 
called Buck, as he stood out on the prairie 
one day. He is owned by J. B. Hicks, 
near Fort Kissimmee—and it would be 
hard to find a finer specimen of the real 
breed: no bulldog or rottenness of any 
kind in him. Though Mr. Hicks says he 
is nearly all cur, as they call it, he evi¬ 
dently has a good deal of hound in him. 
He will slow-trail a deer, and hunt a coon 
or anything else. He has a heavy scar on 
his flank where a bad bull he tackled man¬ 
aged to reach him with his horn, and al¬ 
most let out his intestines, throwing Buck 
over his other horn. Buck in that position 
retained the nose grip for a moment or 
two, but was soon shaken loose. Then, in 
spite of his wound, he rushed in again and 
secured a grip which brought the bull to 
most peaceful terms. 
Buck is of a beautiful light tan color, 
glossy, with health and vigor, and with 
the usual black markings ’round eyes and 
jaws. He is the quietest gentlest citizen 
you ever saw, and on the slightest approach 
from a human being will smile all over his 
face. His intelligence is most varied and 
remarkable. From one member of the fam¬ 
ily it is said he will obey whispered com¬ 
mands; and his fearlessness is perfect. 
They are a little worried about him at 
times, because his sense of guardianship 
of property and the family is so intense 
that a very slight indication would lead 
him to rush at a human being as he would 
at a bull. He does not bark at strangers 
coming to the house, but watches them in¬ 
tently. 
He is a delightful companion; and if you 
were camping out alone and had Buck— 
well, you would not be alone. You could 
roll yourself in your blanket at night as¬ 
sured that you had a sentinel whose nose 
and ears never slept, and whose fury of 
defence could be ended only with his life. 
MAKING A MEAT DOG 
M UCH has been writtefi about training 
and developing the high class field 
trial dog, the specialist that is useless to 
the mixed bag sportsman. In the Sep¬ 
tember issue of Forest and Stream will be 
published the first of a series of articles on 
training the plain ordinary every day 
“meat dog,” whether pointer, setter or 
griffon—the dog which will hunt all day 
and every day, and be as useful in the 
thickets after woodcock as he is in the 
woodlands after grouse. 
