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FOREST AND STREAM 
OCTOBER, 1917 
FOR POPPIES THERE IS NOTHI NG TO EQUAL 
SPRATT’S 
PUPPY 
BISCUITS 
(The Standard Puppy Food) 
We manufacture specially pre¬ 
pared foods that will keep the dog 
in perfect health from puppyhood 
to old age. 
Write for samples and send stamp 
for Catalogue on Dog Feeding. 
SPRATT 
NEWARK, NEW JERSEY 
“USE PERFECTION DOG 
FOOD AT OUR EXPENSE" 
Since we began making this offer our busi¬ 
ness shows an increase of over 10,000 pounds 
a month—a 10,000 pounds a month increase 
in about four months; in other words, out of 
the hundreds of new customers there was 
but one that owned dogs that would not eat 
our food, which you know as a breeder, is 
"going some.” Dogs, like people, do not all 
like the same food and when you can buy a 
food with an average equal to the above, you 
better stock up. Our offer Is: first order- 
use 25%, and if not absolutely satisfied, 
send it back—we will refund your money In 
full and pay the return freight. We have 
thousands of satisfied customers in all parts 
of America. 
PRODUCTS AND PRICES : 
Perfection Ready-to-u*# Dog Food, $5.00 per 
100 lbs. $4.75 in 500 lb. lots. 
This product is made principally of wheat 
and corn cereals, from the big cereal mills 
here the best meat we can buy, nothing but 
what is pure and wholesome, all prepared, 
cooked and ready to feed, moistened or dry. 
A perfectly balanced ration, good for all 
breeds, young or old. They will like it and 
thrive on it. 
("Looks and smells good enough to eat, 
our customers say.) 
Perfection “All Meat’’ Dog Food, $8.00 per 
100 lbs. $7.75 in 500 lb. lots. 
Cooked clean, and over 75% protein, a 
bone and muscle builder, good to have as a 
change. 
Perfection Ready-to-u»e Puppy Food, $6.00 
per 100 lbs. Order Today or Write for 
Catalog. 
PERFECTION^FOODS CO., Inc. 
Successors to Perfection Dog Food Co. 
30 Perfection Bldg., Detroit, Mich. 
Factory, Battle Creek, Mich. 
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. 
Pointers 
and 
Setters 
GEO. W. LOVELL 
M1DDLEBORO, MASS 
Telephone, 29-M 
The Blue Grass Farm Kennels 
OF BERRY, KENTUCKY 
offer for sale Setters and Pointers, box. and Cat 
Hounds, Wolf and Deer Hounds, Coon and Opos¬ 
sum Hounds, Varmint and Rabbit Hounds, Bear 
and Lion Hounds; also Airedale Terriers. _ AH 
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. 
Hounds, Hounds, Hounds 
Why not a well bred and broke coon, fox or 
rabbit hound broke to gun and field. Fox, 
coon and rabbit hound pups, from the best of 
blood and broke stock, $5.00 each. Buy your 
dog now and know him when the season 
opens. Stamp for reply and photos. H. C. 
Lytle, Fredericksburg, O. 
Trained Rabbit Hounds, Fox¬ 
hounds, Coon, Opossum, Skunk, 
Squirrel Dogs, Setters, Pointers, Pet 
and Farm Dogs. Ferrets, ioc. 
BROWN’S KENNELS, YORK, PA. 
The Moose 
Dog 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
In the August number of Forest and 
Stream I notice an article by Sydney G. 
Fisher called “Passing of the Florida Catch 
Dog.’’ This article reminds me of the 
moose dogs that were kept in the rural 
districts of Nova Scotia some years ago. 
These moose dogs were a cross of mastiff 
and bull dog, and were used for “crusting” 
moose. 
I think it was forty years ago that during 
the month of March 250 moose carcasses 
(mostly cows) were hauled across the ice 
on Lake Jolly, in this County, and out 
through the tiny village of Morganville. 
All of these moose were killed by crusting. 
Men who owned these dogs would wait 
until the early spring sun melted the sur¬ 
face of the snow and the sharp frost of 
night formed a heavy cutting crust. Over 
this crust the men with their snow shoes 
would approach a moose yard from the lee¬ 
ward, and when the dogs got scent of the 
game the hunters would slip them and the 
race was on. Very often as many as a 
dozen dogs would be hunted together as a 
pack and moose after moose caught and 
held until the hunters came up. The first 
man to put a ball out of his old smooth 
bore into the game was given tne shanks of 
the animal as a token of his prowess as a 
mighty hunter. The dogs in many cases 
would “anchor” the moose before they ever 
left the yard. Sometimes two men would 
hunt in company with a pair of dogs which 
had been trained to catch and hold the 
moose by the muffle and gambrel. A pair 
of dogs so taught would stop and hold the 
biggest bull that ever roamed the Nova 
Scotia forests. 
I well remember one old-time hunter with 
whom I talked about crusting many times. 
His eyes would flash and blood veins stand 
out upon his forehead while he narrated 
his hunting experiences. “Yes sir,” he 
once said to me, “it was the greatest sport 
in the world, and many a morning I have 
jumped out of bed before daylight and 
run out of doors to try the crust with 
my bare heel to see if it was stiff enough 
to hold the dogs.” Replying to my ques¬ 
tion as to his marksmanship, he replied, 
“Mister, I never pulled a trigger without 
raising a blood blister.” These moose dogs 
were also used to catch and hold cattle, 
and would run under the animal between 
its legs and seizing by the nose would im¬ 
mediately back up with a sideways wrench. 
The result was the beast would turn a 
somersault. 
As a rule these dogs were kept muzzled 
as they were vicious brutes. They nearly 
exterminated the moose in this Province; 
however, just in time wise laws were en¬ 
acted and the passing of the moose dog was 
the result, which in this case was a blessed 
thing. At the present time I doubt if there 
is a “moose dog” in Nova Scotia, and I 
trust there will never be one, but the ex¬ 
pression “Holds on like Beecher Millberry’s 
old moose dog” is still occasionally heard 
in Digby County. H. A. P. Smith. 
Nova Scotia. 
