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Wash room should be built on a slant to allow all water to run away freely. 

 You will now have a space of forty feet between office and cook room 

 which will be used for kennels or stalls for the dogs as follows: On each 

 side of building from office to cook room make a solid bin or box of match- 

 ed flooring three feet high and four feet wide; the frame work of this 

 stall should be of two-inch strips, one inch thick, have them cut three and 

 four feet long, nail firmly at corner one of each size; this will form a square; 

 now draw a line from one end of room to other on each side near wall, 

 this will line up your frame work perfectly. Nail one end of frame to each 

 studding, the other corner to floor, now proceed to put on your matched 

 flooring. Nail front solid, the top should be en hinge to get at dogs and 

 clean out easily, so only nail firmly the two first boards near wall, then 

 have balance of top work on hinge. Now divide this long stall in small 

 compartments by placing a partition of matched flooring at every second 

 studding or four feet, studding being two feet apart; have top sawed across 

 every four feet so that each stall will have a separate door at top, which 

 will give you ten separate stalls on each side. Now have an opening cut 

 through siding, 12x18, for a door in each stall; have this at one end of 

 each stall instead of centre, as your dogs can lay away from doorway in 

 case of heavy winds or hot or cold weather. In winter weather for day 

 protection have a common grain sack or carpet tacked on inside over door 

 to keep out cold and severe drafts. For night protection a dog should 

 have even more than this for a dog, like the human being enjoys comfort 

 at night. For this purpose the simplest and best method is to have a 

 sliding door on outside. This should be made of matched flooring four 

 inches wider and longer than the opening, and have this door made so it 

 will slide easily up and down by placing a screw eye on top to which is 

 fastened a good heavy cord, having this pass up and over a pulley through 

 a hole in building, so that door can be raised or lowered at will from each 

 side of building. After the stalls are made you will have a large room, 40 

 feet long and 8 feet wide, where you can keep a sick dog or bitches in 

 season, or use it as a store room for crates, etc. One side of the kennel and 

 yard should be kept for matured dogs, the other for puppies and bitches in 

 season or for bitches with pups. In order to protect the pups and bitches 

 in season, get some wire fencing and divide off one side of kennel yard 

 same as their stalls, nail one end of fencing firmly to building or to a post 

 set at building and have this fencing go straight out to a post at fencing 

 which composes your main kennel fence. This will give you ten separate 

 yards that are four feet wide and about forty feet long, sufficient for the 

 puppies until they are old enough to go in the main yard with the matured 

 dogs. Bitches kept in an enclosure like this are absolutely safe from stray 

 stud dogs, neither can they get out, as has been the source of much an- 

 noyance to many owners of bitches in season. Do not neglect to place eva 

 troughs on building, have a large tank to catch the water so that you may 

 always have a good supply of soft water for washing the dogs. The handiest 

 tub to wash dogs in is made of clear pine boards 14 in. wide, 6 feet long. 

 Make box tight and paint it. With a box like this you can work all around 

 your dogs in washing. Place this tub near tank, have tank elevated so that 

 after washing you can give the dog a good rinsing from tank which should 

 have a faucet and short piece of hose at bottom. Remember that the 

 kennel yard should be plowed up or spaded over once a month; this will 

 keep the soil in a sweet and sanitary condition. Do not forget that a dog 

 likes to lay under the spreading branches of a shade tree, and that it will 

 add to their comfort to have a generous amount set in the yard as well 

 as a row around it. For this purpose there is not a handsomer or more 

 thrifty fast-growing, tree than the Carolina poplar, not the tall, lanky 

 Lombard poplar, which is an eye sore and nuisance. The Carolina poplars 

 can be secured from any nursery at from 15 to 25 cents each when ten feet 

 high; these will make large trees in three years. The kennel yard would 

 mot be complete without a good pump and well so that the dogs can have 

 fresh water several times each day. An earthen dish of good size is best 

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