48 FOX-HUNTING 



Any time after eight weeks old, and the sooner 

 the better, you should send your pups out. 

 Remember the pups should look healthy and 

 well when they go out, or you cannot expect 

 them to return in good condition. A dressing 

 of sulphur, lard, and turpentine the week before 

 they go will be found beneficial, if they have the 

 least suspicion of insects on their skin. However 

 early you have pups, it is better not to send them 

 out before April. 



The following March you will send a cart 

 round to collect them, having previously given 

 each walker notice by post the day you intend to 

 fetch his puppy in, or you may have your journey 

 for nothing. The first thing to be done when 

 these young hounds come in is to give them all 

 a dose of worm medicine or, better still, two at 

 an interval of three or four days. This is the 

 time when you may expect distemper to ravage 

 your kennel, and a beautiful lot of young hounds 

 may come in that will be all dead in a week. By 

 removing all worms you will have given their 

 constitutions a better chance of fighting the dis- 

 ease, and with care you ought not to lose many. 

 Every case should be isolated directly it appears, 



