Outing . nine world. It is indeed discouraging to raise a lot ofpuppies to the age of six months or a year,bright, intelligent fellows, any one of whichyou would choose for a companion, whichyou have nurtured and cared for, then tosee them drop off one by one, with thatmost dreaded of diseases, distemper, yet,like a child having whooping cough, it isbest for them to take the disease and getover it, for then one can spend his moneyon a certainty. It is disheartening, afteryou have educated a dog and made himworth $500 or $1,000, to have the diseasetake him off just at the time when youbegin to
Outing . nine world. It is indeed discouraging to raise a lot ofpuppies to the age of six months or a year,bright, intelligent fellows, any one of whichyou would choose for a companion, whichyou have nurtured and cared for, then tosee them drop off one by one, with thatmost dreaded of diseases, distemper, yet,like a child having whooping cough, it isbest for them to take the disease and getover it, for then one can spend his moneyon a certainty. It is disheartening, afteryou have educated a dog and made himworth $500 or $1,000, to have the diseasetake him off just at the time when youbegin to enjoy the fruits of your field trial has been a great method ofbringing out these high-class dogs. Wereit not for the field trials, they would neverhave been heard of, and a peculiar thingabout the field trial business is that everyman is an enthusiast, every owner has thebest dog, which is bound to win, and heenters his dog and pays his expenses, feelingsure that he will certainly carry off the. The veteran reporter—My, that was a bad break! prize, but out of seventy-five or eightyentries in a field trial, only eight of themcan win, as there are only four prizes ineach stake. Somebody must lose. Thereis an element of luck, but luck cannot al-ways be against your particular dog, andcertainly in a half a dozen of these fieldtrials, under possibly a dozen or moredifferent climatic and field conditions, itwill have all the opportunity in the worldto demonstrate whether or not it is madeof the winning stuff. The field trials cannot be successfully run in a small brokenterritory, or in a country which is too muchwooded. It requires a large area, from tento twenty thousand acres of good birdcountry, because the dogs as a rule are veryfast, wide ranging individuals and cover anenormous amount of territory. Some of the largest field trial associationsin the country, which have excellentgrounds, are the Independent Field TrialClub, S. H. Sockwell, Sec, Indianapolis,Ind.; Ill
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