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course, under the watchful eye of the kennel 

 man. 



The large breeders will also require a separate 

 building at some distance from the main kennels 

 for use as a hospital, a small kennel for his 

 bitches in season, and some small, portable ken- 

 nels which can be placed under adequate shade 

 trees for his litters of puppies during the hot 

 weather. It would be an excellent plan if good 

 shade trees could be planted to cover all the 

 runs, but if this is not possible, then it is advis- 

 able to have at the rear of the kennels a clear 

 space covered over with a roof, say ten or twelve 

 feet wide, for the dogs to have free access to 

 during the heat of the day. 



Perhaps a description of our own kennels, 

 entirely different in construction from these, 

 and costing more to build, may be of interest 

 here. We have two buildings, seventy-five feet 

 apart, built exactly like a house, with two stories 

 and a high basement or cellar, twenty-five feet 

 wide and thirty feet long. One of these houses 

 is lined with matched paneling and divided off 

 on each floor into separate compartments; the 

 other is only boarded, one thickness of good 

 paper and clapboarded and, of course, not nearly 

 as warm. This second building has no pens in 

 it. The basement has a stone wall at the back, 

 but on the east, south and west sides is boarded 



