. The American farmer. A complete agricultural library, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments and details. nglish authority says ofthem: Many of our smooth Terriers are slight crossed with the Bull-dog, in order to givecourage to bear the bites of the vermin which they are meant to attack. When thus bred,the Terrier shows no e\-idence of pain, even though half a dozen rats are hanging on to hislips, which are extremely tender parts of the body, and where the bite of a mouse even willmake a badly bred dog yell with pain. In fact, for all the purposes to
. The American farmer. A complete agricultural library, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments and details. nglish authority says ofthem: Many of our smooth Terriers are slight crossed with the Bull-dog, in order to givecourage to bear the bites of the vermin which they are meant to attack. When thus bred,the Terrier shows no e\-idence of pain, even though half a dozen rats are hanging on to hislips, which are extremely tender parts of the body, and where the bite of a mouse even willmake a badly bred dog yell with pain. In fact, for all the purposes to which a Terrier canbe applied, the half or quarter cross with the Bull, commonly known as the Bull-Terrier, orhalf-breed dog, is of more value than either of the purely bred progenitors. Such a dog, however, to be useful, must be more than half Terrier, or he will be tooheavy and slow, too much under-jawed to hold well with his teeth, and too little under com-mand to obey the orders of his master. Sometimes the result of the second cross, which isonly one-quarter Bull, shows a great deal of the shape peculiar to that side; and it is not untU. ENGLISH BULL-TEBRIEB. DOGS. 689 the third or fourth cross that the Terrier shape comes out predominant. This is all a matterof chance, and the exact reverse may just as probably happen, although the Terrier was quitefree 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 thespecimen examined. There should not be either the projection of the under Jaw, or thecrooked 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 theabove points, and showing the full head (not of course equal to that of the Bull-dog), thestrong jaw, the well-developed chest
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