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witli their usual diet ; and in the shooting season barley 

 meal and horse-flesh, the latter thoroughly boiled, and 

 some biscuits, is a good addition to this food. Barley 

 meal does not require so much boiling as oatmeal ; with 

 the latter hounds are always fed, as it is better food 

 when much speed in the animal is required. Some- 

 times I have given my dogs in the spring, and when 

 the weather was not very hot, a few sheep paunches 

 well boiled and mixed with barley meal ; these they are 

 very fond of. I recommend during the summer months 

 dog boxes to be placed in a grass field : here the dogs 

 enjoy fine fresh air; and if the weather should be very 

 hot and sultry, let the boxes be placed under the shade 

 of trees : of course the dogs must be chained to the 

 box. At night they should retrun to their kennel, for 

 if they remain out you run the risk of having them 

 stolen, I had once three of my best dogs stolen in 

 the night from their boxes, about a fortnight before 

 the 1st of September; and although I omitted no 

 exertions to recover them they all proved fruitless, and 

 I suppose they were sent abroad. A\Tien the man, the 

 feeder of the dogs, is sent to fetch some horse-flesh, he 

 should make strict inquiry whether the horse was killed 

 by some accident or died of some common disease of 

 old age. In these cases the flesh would be wholesome 

 for the dogs ; but if the horse died of the glanders or 

 farcy, or any other infectious malady, decide at once 

 to purchase none of the flesh. The gallows on which 

 to hang your horse-flesh should be in a retired shady 

 place. When the dogs return from shooting, the feeder 

 should be careful to have their food ready for them, for 

 if once they lie down to sleep they become careless 

 about it. In the spring and during the summer months, 



