. American farming and stock raising, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments. Agriculture. DOGS. 1523 the third or fourth cross that the Terrier shape comes out predominant. Tliis is all a matter of chance, and the exact reverse may just as probably happen, although the Terrier was quite free from the stain of the Bull, which is seldom the case. The points of the Bull-Terrier vary in accordance with the degree of each strain in the specimen examined. There should not be either the projection of the under jaw, or the crooked fore legs, or the small and we
. American farming and stock raising, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments. Agriculture. DOGS. 1523 the third or fourth cross that the Terrier shape comes out predominant. Tliis is all a matter of chance, and the exact reverse may just as probably happen, although the Terrier was quite free from the stain of the Bull, which is seldom the case. The points of the Bull-Terrier vary in accordance with the degree of each strain in the specimen examined. There should not be either the projection of the under jaw, or the crooked fore legs, or the small and weak hind-quarters; and until these are lost, or nearly so, the crossing should be continued on the Terrier side. The perfect Bull-Terrier, may, there- fore, be defined as the Terrier with as much Bull as can be combined with the absence of the aliove points, and showing the full head (not of course equal to that of the Bull-dog), the strong jaw, the well-developed chest, powerful shoulders, and thin fine tail of the Bull-dog, accompanied by the light neck, active frame, strong loin, and fuller proportions of the hind, quarter of the Terrier. A dog of this kind should be capable of a fast j)ace, and will stand. OWXED BY EDMUXD ORGILL, BROOKLYN, any moderate amount of road work. The height varies from ten inches to sixteen, or even twenty. The color most admired is white, either pure or patched with black, blue, red, fawn, or brindle, sometimes black and tan. or ; The Pointer. — Among spoi-tsmen, the Pointer and the Setter seem to be equally admired, they being the most beautiful and valuable of all sporting dogs. With the New- foundland, St. Bernard, Collie, and many other varieties, they belong to the Spaniel class, yet the Pointer seems more remotely removed from this class than any other breed belonging to it. He possesses a more delicate scent than any other of the field dogs, and in pointing game he has no superior. They are exceedingly intelligent animal
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