. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 14 THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN [Saturday, December 26, 190S. ROD, GUN AND KENNEL CONDUCTED BY J. X. DeWITT. THE WORKING AIREDALE. [By R. M. Palmer.] The Airedale Terrier has become in a compara- tively brief period of time the sine qua non as a dog for big game in the West and Northwest, the term big game as popularly used including bears, cougars, lvnx, deer, wildcats, coons, coyotes and all varieties of ground fur-bearing animals. There are those who still have a fondness for the game little Fox or Irish Terriers, but wherever the Airedale is given a chance to
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 14 THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN [Saturday, December 26, 190S. ROD, GUN AND KENNEL CONDUCTED BY J. X. DeWITT. THE WORKING AIREDALE. [By R. M. Palmer.] The Airedale Terrier has become in a compara- tively brief period of time the sine qua non as a dog for big game in the West and Northwest, the term big game as popularly used including bears, cougars, lvnx, deer, wildcats, coons, coyotes and all varieties of ground fur-bearing animals. There are those who still have a fondness for the game little Fox or Irish Terriers, but wherever the Airedale is given a chance to show his superior strength, endurance, speed and wonderful scenting powers in practical hunting work, his popularity eclipses all other breeds of terriers; and rightly so, for the Airedale possesses all the general terrier characteristics, a better temper and that "something more" which terrier breeders for years hoped to develop but never could to a degree of reliability, but which the Airedale as a breed has in the foundation of its make-up, namely, great scenting and trailing propensities, honestly inherited from the original Otter-hound crosses in their blood. In writing about a breed of which so much is related as true concerning its precociousness, it is difficult to cover the whole subject. I can adopt no more pointed plan of showing what the Airedale has proved himself capable of than by quoting herein from correspondence from sportsmen and big game hunters in different localities in the West, who are able to relate illustrative experiences with their working Airedales, being so situated as to he able to put their dogs onto big game frequently. While Eastern Airedale fanciers and breeders are doing much for their favorites at shows and in specialty clubs, Western fanciers are likewise breeding along scientific lines, maintaining that blood which has for vears been found to be unfailing in gameness, and blending this same blood with the best importations obtain
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