Related article: [August breeding record is not a good one, and even should this Persimmon filly turn out a smasher, Metacam Meloxicam he will have the opportunity of breeding one like her in the future. Borderer. Foxhounds, Ancient and Modern. The illustrations which accom- pany this article may well set breeders of Meloxicam 15mg foxhounds thinking on the origin and progress of the hound which is in such great request to-day. Of theories theie are plenty ; of definite information we have next to none, and we are left virtually in the dark as to how the foxhound has been bred, and how the present Meloxicam 7.5 evolution has come Meloxicam 75 Mg about. Two facts are clear, viz. : that long ago there were at least two kinds of hounds, the heavy south- ern hound, and the lighter northern hound mentioned in the ** History of Meloxicam 5mg Manchester *' ; and the chances are that Ibuprofen Meloxicam the foxhound of the present day is, like our thorough- bred horse, a composite animal made up of the above-mentioned hounds, and Meloxicam 7.5 Mg probably the blood- hound, though some people have entertained the idea that the blood- hound has had little to do with the building Meloxicam Tablets 15mg up of the foxhound. We are unfortunately without any definite information as to the kind of hound which commended itself to early masters ; but we may take it for granted that the old southern hound played a prominent part in many kennels. Then again we have to take into account the real staghound of old. In the seventeenth century the Earls of Lincoln hunted the stag in Lincolnshire and Notting- hamshire ; the Badminton hunted the stag, and it is generally be- lieved that there were staghounds at Belvoir Castle before the limited liability company started the famous foxhound pack. The Devon and Somerset were, we know, the old staghounds, as were the Royal pack, and it is quite probable that the staghound was found in other staghunting establishments, including the £p- ping forest. The Devon and Somerset hounds went to Ger- many in 1825, and the Royal to France about 181 3, when the Duke of Richmond gave up his country, and presented his fox- hounds Meloxicam Tablets to the king ; and, so far as can be Meloxicam 15mg Tablet ascertained, there were no Meloxicam 15 real staghounds left in England after the Devon hounds were dis- posed of. There appears little room to doubt that the staghound was crossed with the lighter hound ; but at a time when the same pack hunted fox, hare, the marten, and Meloxicam Mg perhaps an occasional fallow deer indiscriminately, not very much attention was paid to breeding to type, nor up to any particular standard. Nevertheless, there have always been some masters of hounds in advance of their time, and both the Bridgewater and the Charlton (Goodwood) hounds were carefully bred and hunted the fox alone prior to the year 1700. Of the Bridgewater hounds we know little or nothing ; but of the Charlton pack more details are forthcoming. They appear to have been very much like the foxhound of to-day, and so were those of the proud Duke of Somerset, who started a rival pack, inasmuch as the Duke him- self once mistook his own hounds I900.] FOXHOUNDS, ANCIENT AND MODERN. 91 for the Charlton, then under the management of Mr. Roper, who when upwards of eighty years of age fell from his horse in a fit when hunting in the Findon coun- try, and died on the spot. Mr. Meloxicam Canine Roper had devoted himself to hound breeding for something like sixty years, as even when he had to leave England with the Duke of Monmouth he took the manage- ment of some hounds in France, to resume his connection with the Sussex pack Meloxicam Ibuprofen when the storm What Is Meloxicam had blown over. That the Charlton were pure foxhounds, as the term was then understood, is a certainty ; but at that time foxhounds were not all built on the same lines, as in the pages of The Sporting Magazine for 1827 we find old Tom Grant, huntsman to the Duke of Rich- mond at Goodwood, saying that Sir John Millar's hounds, bought by the Duke, were different to their own, and improved the pack a good deal, probably because the Goodwood were much inbred, judging from the only list extant. Still the Goodwood was for some time the source to which most masters had recourse from year to year, and eventually Mr. Noel's (the Cottesmore), Lord Yar- borough's, the Belvoir and the Grove became the purest packs of England. As time has gone on, however, puppy shows have been established, and more and more masters have bred, at any rate Meloxicam Meloxicam some of their hounds, instead of depending almost entirely upon drafts from those kennels which remained in the same families from generation to generation, upon those breeders who, though they frequently* changed their countries, nevertheless made breed- ing a science. Mr. Meynell never had but one country, the Quorn, and it was not till very many years after he gave up that the Quorn kennels became famous. Mr. Meynell, Mr. Meloxicam Tablet Warde, Lord Yarborough and Mr. Osbaldeston were, however, the most reputed breeders of their day, and it is in connection with Mr. Warde and Mr. Osbaldeston that the accompanying engravings are interesting. Everyone knows Canine Meloxicam the story that Mr. Warde and Mr. Meynell would never use each other's stallion hounds, and the former obtaining two of the latter's cast- off, christened them Meloxicam Metacam Queer'em and Quornite; never entered them, and used to show them to his Meloxicam 15mg Tablets friends as ** the things with which they hunted foxes in Leicestershire." Now Mr. Meynell was an admirer of a rather small active hound, whereas Mr. Warde fa- voured a large and somewhat heavy kind, which were known as ** John Warde's Jackasses." The story runs that some one asked Mr. Warde why he liked hounds with such big heads, and the answer was that he preferred " large knowledge boxes," because when his hounds once had their noses on the ground their heads were so heavy that they could not