Hunting Dogs: Describes in a Practical Manner the Training, Handling, Treatment, Breeds, Etc., Best Adapted for Night Hunting as Well as Gun Dogs for Daylight SportAs if hunting for profit, night hunting for either pleasure or gain and professional hunting generally had no importance, writers of books have contented themselves with dwelling on the study and presentation of matters relating solely to the men who hunt for sport only. Even then the Fox Chase and Bird Hunting has been the burden of the greater percent of such books. It remained for the A. R. Harding Publishing Co. (publishers of the Hunter-Trader-Trapper magazine and a number of helpful and practical books on hunting topics), to appreciate the demand for books and reading matter adapted especially to the tens of thousands of hunters who make, or partially make, their livelihood from hunting and trapping, as well as a million casual hunters and farmers of the United States and Canada. |
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Page 194 - Throat showing dewlap and folds of skin to a degree termed "throatiness." Shoulders, Chest and Ribs. — Shoulders sloping — clean, muscular, not heavy or loaded — conveying the idea of freedom of action with activity and strength. Chest should be deep for lung space, narrower in proportion to depth than the English hound — 28 inches in a 23-inch hound being good. Well sprung ribs — back ribs should extend well back — a three-inch flank allowing springiness. Back and Loins.
Page 245 - Out at £7fco)rs"—This term defines itself. Bulldogs and Dachshunde are desirable with elbows so shaped, but it may occur as a fault through weakness. Expression. — The expression of a dog is largely but not wholly determined by the size, angular position, and degree of prominence of the eye. For instance in a St. Bernard the eye is small, somewhat sunken, showing a little haw. This gives a dignified and rather benevolent expression. "Collie expression" depends largely on the angle at which eyes...
Page 178 - a white man will abandon a horse as broken down, and utterly unable to go further; a Mexican will then mount, ride him fifty miles and abandon him; an Indian will then mount and ride him for a week.
Page 247 - A tail with a single break or kink in it. LEATHER: The ears, ie, the loose visible part of them. LAYBACK: Receding nose.
Page 70 - GENERAL APPEARANCE— The Irish Wolfhound should not be quite so heavy or massive as the Great Dane, but more so than the Deerhound, which in general type he should otherwise resemble. Of great size and commanding appearance, very muscular, strongly though gracefully built; movements easy and active; head and neck carried high; the tail carried with an upward sweep, with a slight curve towards the extremity. The minimum height and weight of dogs should be 3 1 inches and 120 pounds, of bitches 28...
Page 70 - Anything below this should be debarred from competition. Great size, including height at shoulder and proportionate length of body, is the desideratum to be aimed at, and it is desired to firmly establish a race that shall average from 32 to 34 inches in dogs, showing the requisite power, activity, courage, and symmetry.
Page 239 - Wells, of this town, trapped a big one a short time ago, which measured five feet three inches from the tip of his tail to the end of his nose. They may occasionally exceed that size, but we believe this one is voted a "right smart
Page 244 - Cobby. — Well ribbed up; short and compact. Cloddy or Cobby. — Thick-set, short-coupled and low in stature. Couplings. — The length or space between , the tops of the shoulder-blades and tops of the hip-joints, or buckle-bones. A dog is accordingly spoken of as long or short "in the couplings.
Page 246 - Height. — The height of a dog is measured. at the shoulder, bending the head gently down. The proper method is to place the dog on level ground close by a wall, and to lay a flat rule across his shoulders so as to touch the wall; then measure to the point touched by the rule.