. Outing. t is in the setter. Also the pointer is more easily gottenin hand and retains his early trainingbetter than the setter. One seasonstraining makes a comparatively finishedperformer in the one case, while a shortterm at school is needed in the setterssecond mature year. Young pointers usually surpass settersof the same age as to finish in trainingduring their first season, and this affectsthe owners pocketbook, for most trainerscharge for their work at a monthly must not be thought, however, thatthis backwardness of the setter is anargument against him. It is the con-trary. The
. Outing. t is in the setter. Also the pointer is more easily gottenin hand and retains his early trainingbetter than the setter. One seasonstraining makes a comparatively finishedperformer in the one case, while a shortterm at school is needed in the setterssecond mature year. Young pointers usually surpass settersof the same age as to finish in trainingduring their first season, and this affectsthe owners pocketbook, for most trainerscharge for their work at a monthly must not be thought, however, thatthis backwardness of the setter is anargument against him. It is the con-trary. The difficulty in training him comesnot from lack of intelligence or desireto hunt, but from a more rugged andindependent state of mind, a higher de-termination to hunt and a consequentlonger resistance to being brought un-der control. The hunting instincts, be-ing primarily for supplying the animalwith food and always under onlyan artificial control, are the most valu-able where most strongly manifested, 467. THE HIGH-HEADED DOG IS MOST CONSPICUOUS. and while they are more trouble for thetrainer, are the more valuable to theshooter. After the setter is well trained heretains his education no less well thanthe pointer and both dogs add to theirfund of experience from year to as they grow older the pointer is theharder to get into condition each in hard working shape, the setterremains so, while the pointer is liable-ale and to take weeks to getback into condition. This is a consid-eration of great importance to the ownerof one or two dogs, particularly if helives in the city where they get littlereal exercise for most of the year. The setter will always have the ad-vantage of his long coat which protectshim from briers, from cold, and fromwet, and, in spite of arguments to thecontrary, which must be based more oninference than on experience, he enduresheat equally well with the burs. Spanish needles, andparticularly the dreaded sand bur ofFlorida an
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