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feeding-room are tlie hospitals for dogs and bitches, and on the other 

 side a room for the feeder and a drying-room. The bath I should 

 have placed at a short distance from the kennels, and if possible in 

 running water ; but I should lay on as much water as I could to the 

 courts and kennels for drinking and working purposes, for this is 

 very essential to the cleanliness and sweetness of the establishment, 

 and a great saving of time and labour. There should be drinking- 

 troughs in each yard and court, taps in the boiling-house and feeding- 

 room, and elsewhere. All the rain-water from the roofs should be 

 conducted along the guttering to a rain-water tank, and used in feeding 

 the drinking-troughs in the courts, &c. 



I will not say anything as to the drainage, as the nature of the site 

 would in each case have something to do with the arrangement of the 

 drains ; but in all cases in the building I would recommend open 

 drains, so far as practicable. The drains outside the building ought 

 to be cut off altogether from any connection with the inside, trapped 

 and ventilated according to the most approved principles of modern 

 times. 



The bird's-eye view shown on Plate XXV. will give a very tolerable 

 idea of the disposition of the principal parts of the building. The two 

 side-wings with their yards are devoted to the accommodation of the 

 hounds, the back -wing is taken up with feeder's house, stores, and 

 sheds, while the centre block is occupied by the feeding department. 

 I have attempted to give some little architectural pretensions to the 

 front of this building by receding in the space between the two side- 

 wings, and marking the centre by slightly elevating the roof and 

 crowning it with a ventilator. The gable-ends of side-wings have 

 been treated with a plain design of half-timbering and projecting gables. 

 The buildings would be built of brick with tiled roofs, and the whole 

 would doubtless present a pleasing aspect to the eye. Residences for 

 the huntsmen and whippers-in might be provided where shown on the 

 plan, also stabling for hacks and cart-horses in some convenient site 

 near to the kennels. 



