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“charge” or “Come in” from a good 
trail or hot trail. If I can eall a dog 
from a trail he is running, I don’t want 
him. He should come in to you on all 
other occasions and obey you. But if he 
is hot on a rabbit track, leave him 
entirely alone if you have to wait an 
hour. Control in the beagle case is 
simply obedience, for at a field trial, 
time is a valuable factor and one must 
be able to keep along and have his dog 
at hand and in obedience, so that the 
judges may watch them in all their 
capacities. But when the game is 
“started” then it is your turn and also 
the judges’ to “follow the dog.” 
If you can call your hound in when 
he comes to a loss, if you can call him 
in when it is time to leave the field for 
home or call him when you are ready 
to cross to another woods, etc., (pro-- 
vided he is not running a trail), that is 
all you may ever expect of a real hunt- 
ing beagle. 
Some beagles start at five or six 
months of age to hunt. Some are one 
and a half and sometimes two years of 
age before they show any form. Don’t 
get discouraged (if they are bred 
right), in all cases they will hunt if 
given the opportunity. 
I PUT down a pup six months old in 
the Empire trials I think in 1915. 
She had to go down with the derbys. 
There was no puppy class. She had 
been running rabbits about a month 
and I had a lot to gain and nothing to 
lose if she showed. Mr. Ray Watts, of 
Guilford, Conn., was one of the judges 
and she so impressed him, that he 
offered a cup, the “Watts Cup” for 
several years to the winner of a puppy 
class for pups born after the first of 
March preceding the trials which were 
held in November. 
I have always tried to breed a typical 
bench and field hunting hound. I have 
sacrificed all else, and never been as 
far up in the parade as I should have 
been, but I have had the satisfaction 
of having as good blood and as fine a 
lot of beagles as any one in this old 
Uses pAd 
During my presidency of the Empire 
Beagle Club I offered at the field trials 
a silver cup, known as the “president’s 
cup” for the best hound (beagle) 50 0/o 
Bench Type and 50 0/o Field Dog. It 
was a little inducement to the boys to 
bring along their best. Dr. J. R. Mac 
Elroy offered a silver cup for the- best 
voice. In this way we tried to promote 
education, competition and _ better 
knowledge and breeding. There were 
other prizes and inducements I can- 
not recall at this time. 
Hounds for the field trials are divided 
into two classes as to size. The 13 
inch or under and the 15 inch or under, 
sometimes, but very rarely, there is a 
12 inch class. Each of these classes 
are divided into two classes—dogs and 
Tt will identify you. 
bitches. And there are pack classes— 
two couple, four couple, ete. 
HOUND over 15 inches is not con- 
sidered a beagle and is not eligible 
and a dog to win must be recognized 
as the beagle or he may be thrown out 
for lack of beagle type. 
There are a great many clubs now 
over the country and there are more 
coming into prominence every day. 
These clubs are to promote the beagle 
in all his many points and bring into 
competition the greatest and _ best 
beagles from all over the country or 
world as it may be. No one is barred, 
and the qualifications are just and not 
hard to conform to. It is a poor man’s 
game as well as for the rich. There 
seems to be no friction on this point; 
it is dog first and man after. Any one 
who makes a pretense at decency or 
respectable citizenship can enter his 
hound and he has the freedom and the 
benefits of everyone’s experience and 
difficulties. In other words, if you own 
or breed a good dog, there must be 
some possible good in you, so they take 
you in on the strength of your dog. 
Can you beat that? 
Modern Trapping Methods 
(Continued from page 648) 
to get in his deadly work. If you hap- 
pen to be extra hard on sox, as most 
trappers are, reinforce the heels with 
thin pieces of buckskin. This is a ease 
of a patch in time saving nine. 
During summer the north country 
trapper can wear what he likes on his 
feet; personally we prefer a good pair 
of leather boots ten or twelve inches 
in height. Avoid too heavy footwear 
as such is needlessly tiring. And never 
start on a long trip in shoes that haven’t 
been previously “broken in.” 
But, what of the mountain trapper 
in the west coast ranges, where the 
snow is more than often so wet you 
can wash the dishes in it! Patently, 
Indian-tanned moccassins would be 
worse than useless for such a climate. 
Only two kinds of footwear will keep 
one’s feet dry in wet snow — rubber 
shoes or ones made of oil-tanned 
leather. Rubber is very injurious to the 
feet but this danger may be overcome 
to a certain extent by wearing snug- 
fitting moccasins inside them. Special 
rubbers are made for wear over moc- 
casins, having no heels and are fairly 
good for snowshoes, being not too 
clumsy for the tie-strap arrangement. 
I have even used sixteen inch pacs in 
the mountains, with heels, for snow- 
shoeing. Because the heels were hard 
on the ordinary snowshoe filling I tore 
. out the lacing and substituted with a 
few intersecting bars of half-inch raw- 
hide. 
If you are wearing moccasins and 
rubbers, leggings or spiral puttees will 
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