Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-10


invited to the meeting Field and Ken
nef' has taken much interest in the
proposed meeting. but any further refer
ence to the subject in this column hinges
on the result of the meeting.
| the writer has received letter. dated
| March Z, from Mr.. Grason III. Gent. pres
| ident of the Maryland and District of
Columbia Field Trial Association, warmly
commencing the meeting and saying he
| would certainly try to attend the meet
ing" The Baltimoreans were requested
to call a meeting. and local men acted
only after waiting a reasonable time for
them to do SO. The Baltimore sports
! men are all cordially invited, and if they
| expect Washingtonians to unite with
them it is hoped they will come over and
say so.
The writer was recently shown let
ter from brother of Capt Michael
Wallace of the Treasury Department.
written from Capt. Wallace's home, in
Madison county, Va. The letter stated
that the writer had gone out after the
late cold spell Ito take a census of the
quails. and had found seven or eight
nice beyies. One particularly large covey
| is thus described: II think this is the
| same coyey Mike and / used to shoot at
SO often last fall" 1t is said that Mil
ton E. Allies of the Riggs Bank and Sr.
Fitzpatrick of the Treasury Department
also enjoyed two weeks of practice lat
| this same cOvey.'
| A letter from one Of the officials in
| forms Field and Kennel that there are
| 525 entries in the Baltimore dog show,
! which Is to be held March Ills This
insures a great show.
That the extracts from the letter Of Mr..
| Purcell IIewellin have created great in
| terest is evidenced by communications re-
ceved by Field and Kennel" or those
who think that Mr.. Llewellin's views are
correct the letter from Mr.. J. A. Hoffar,
for many years a close student Of breed
ing. may be quoted. Mr.. Hoffar writes:
rs there not more in the note of warn
ing that he (Mr Llewellin) sounds than
you give him credit for? Breeders in
other lines have seen something Of the
same thing. notably in fox terriers of
| twenty years ago a type was threatened
| that was more likely to vie with the fox
| hound. in speed than to perform it's own
| original function of going to ground. And
at present breeders of Airedales are fight
! ing for their lives to keep that breed
within the bounds of original intention,
while others in striving to produce speed
and power bid fair to rival the great
dane in size, which the very name ter
rier" repudiates. So may not the craze
| for speed produce the same lamentable
| effect in the setter. and would it not be
we'll to consider the true functions of the
field dog and whether we are not depart
| ing from it in our desire for abnormal
range and speedo'
Field and Kennel has always regard
ed Mr.. Llewellin as the patron saint of
the setter family. and accepts his opin-
ions as ex-cathedra on all things relat-
American settlers. however, have ever
gone to England. and none of the great
ones. Mr.. Llewellin's opportunities of
judging them have in consequence been
limited. In England, as Mr. Llewelin
states, very few sportsmen shoot over
dogs. And as there Is little room for
them to range. wide rangers are not de-
sired. Not for an instant. speaking from
his limited observation does the writer
concede that in nose what is often
termed bird sense has the slow, close
ranger any possible advantage over the
fast, wide ranger. for, on the contrary,
the best bird finders and handlers he has
ever known were of the latter class.
Mr.. Hoffar may recall that in the early
fdays Of field trials the Irish settlers were
we'll represented. often exceeding English
settlers in the entry lists. and held their
own fairly well in the winnings. Their
admirers were not satisfied to breed to
the best field representatives, but bred
strictly for type" The result is one
never hears of an Irish setter in field
trials, and rarely hears of one as a
shooting dog. Breed to field dogs for
field dogs is safe rule to follow. There
are enough worthless ones on the bench
to breed to for type"
A well known writer in speaking of
ISenatoT-elect Broussard of Louisiana,
lsays: HE kept flock of five horses and
a retinue of blue-blooded hunting dogs"
Now, will Hon. Ollie James. who knows
all about fine horses, and Senator jeff
-hn I'm AL N
Iplease tell us just how many of each Mr..
Broussard had from that description:
Frank Beall is the owner of setter
that he thinks shows fine field trial class.
land intends developing him for next falls
meeting. Those who have seen him say
he has andoubted class.
late number of the London Field
contains some interesting statistics on
the number of grouse killed on the Scot
fish moors. The figures are for the year
1910, and are the last compiled. On the
Cawdor moor in Nailnshire. 6,o13 brace
We're killed on its 5000 acres; OH Glen
turret East, 512o acres. 3,135 brace. or
six grouse to every five acres; on Carron
moor Morayshire. on 1000 acres. 1,oto
brace were killed. But the best report
Twas from BroOmhead moor in Yorkshire,
where. on 1900 acres, 200 brace were
killed The season of 1911 is said to have
afforded even better shooting than 1910.
The Field says that there appears to be
an unvaryfng law of two years OF splen-
did shooting and then disease among the
birds, when they die by thousands.
| E. NJ Wilson, E. A. Conway and John
Slayden have been named as a commit
tee to make arrangements for the
| Washington dog show. AS yet neither
the date nor place for holding the
show has been selected. AS the sane
ton of the American Kennel Club has
not been secured as yet the show Will
be a local one. although entries from
all sections will be solicited, and it is
hoped that by next year q. first class
/ n IN hold