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scrubbed, dried, and ventilated, a most impor- 

 tant consideration. 



The cook-room should have a small, up- 

 right, single-flue, four-horse power boiler for 

 generating steam, connected to a steam-jack- 

 eted kettle holding sixty gallons. This is a 

 far better way of cooking food than the direct- 

 fire furnaces and kettle, the food cannot be 

 scorched, and can be more thoroughly, evenly, 

 and quickly cooked. 



The storeroom can be used for the storage 

 of raw and cooked food, straw, brooms, mops, 

 shovels, etc., and should have a good-sized 

 closet for the kennelman's individual use, as 

 well as a well-arranged medicine chest. 



All four sides of the kennel should have a 

 covered porch from four to six feet wide, upon 

 which should be located the gates connecting 

 the different yards, where the hounds can lie 

 during wet and rainy weather. 



If the weather is cold enough to require 

 heating the kennels, which is seldom, if ever, 

 the case, a coil of steam pipe can be run 

 through the compartments, connected to and 

 returning the condensation to the boiler. Indi- 

 vidual whelping boxes should be placed in the 

 breeding yard. They should be thirty inches 

 high at back, and forty-two inches in front, 



