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PLATES XXIV. & XXV. 



Design for Kennels, e-r. 



WE now come to the consideration of kennels on a more extended 

 scale than that just brought under our notice in the last Plate. 

 Without presuming to any practical knowledge as to the proper man- 

 agement of hounds, it lies quite within my province to make suggestions 

 and remarks as to the housing of these animals, and the best method of 

 arranging their quarters in regard to their health and management. 



As I have already said, the principal and most important points 

 which should guide one in the erection of kennels is, first, the selection 

 of a proper site on a soil that is naturally dry and unabsorbent, free 

 and open to the air. Having gained that point, it is then necessary 

 that the aspect be studied, and all other matters of arrangement and 

 detail should follow and fall in with these in the manner found to be 

 most convenient. Plan B shows a method of arrangement which 

 would work well where a large establishment was kept up. In this 

 plan there is a kennel for a hunting-pack and another for a resting- 

 pack. The kennel for the hunting-pack faces the south-east, and 

 derives all the benefit to be had from the sun from early morn till 

 mid-day. There is a lodging for dogs and young hounds, and each is 

 provided with a court enclosed with walls and iron railing. In the 

 opposite wing are the quarters for the resting-pack, and at the extreme 

 end of the wing, as far as possible from the neighbourhood of the dogs, 

 is accommodation for bitches. Each of these also has a court in front, 

 and the aspect is towards the north-west. The floors of these chambers, 

 as well as the rest of the buildings, would be paved with Portland 

 cement concrete, and the cement rendering carried up for about three 

 feet above the floor as a precaution against any chances of damp being 

 sucked through the walls. The ventilation of the lodgings would be 



