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post put in about the centre of the yard. This 

 latter will be well patronised according to the 

 dog's nature to hoist his leg, and will save much 

 soiled fencing. After a case of distemper, dig up 

 the post and put in a new one. 



For larger kennel operations, such as keeping 

 hound packs and dog breeding, the kennel becomes 

 a house partitioned into several of them. For 

 summer undoubtedly the healthiest scheme is a 

 set of outlying small kennels, each located in its 

 own patch of field. The combination of a peach 

 or other fruit orchard with such a kennel proposi 

 tion is a good one, about thirty brood matrons 

 and a few classy sires, in combination with a ten- 

 acre orchard being about all one man could man 

 age for a year-around business. Some day I may 

 start such a proposition myself on a southern 

 plantation, as the need for a large kennel in the 

 East, supplying good bird-dog pups at reasonable 

 prices is so great that all the pups raised could 

 be marketed with very little advertising. After 

 the cultivating season is over the dogs are moved 

 out of winter quarters and kept in separate ken 

 nels, with suitable fencing to avoid fights and mix 

 ing of puppies. It is quite as wholesome a way 

 to raise them as putting the puppies out to walk 

 at neighbouring farms, as is often done by large 



