This volume follows right along with Best Way To Train Your Gun Dog: The Delmar Smith Method book, taking you from puppy to finished dog.
Delmar (assisted by sons Tom and Rick Smith) covers the bird dog basics from introducing 8 week old puppies to the field; tieing a bowline knot in a check cord; and making and using a "chain gang" to teaching a dog to be steady to wing and shot and to mark his birds down.
Yard and Field Training Volume I includes teaching "all right", "here", "ho", "birds", "whoa", "sit", and "heel" using a 20' check cord, a pinch collar, a "whoa post" and a "pigeon on a hose".