688 - MANUAL or MODERN FARRIERY. 



(lemned horses are not always to be discovered, and may be 

 dangerous to others ; the hounds may also be brought into 

 this field to empty themselves after feeding ; and the draft 

 for the next day's hunting can be here made with greater 

 accuracy than when confined in the kennel. 



Should ticks at any time be troublesome, the walls of the 

 kennel should be well washed ; if that does not destroy 

 them, white- washing should then be adopted. 



When the hunting season is over, one kennel will suffice ; 

 the other, with the grass-yard adjoining to it, may be 

 allowed to the young hounds. This separation, which should 

 continue till the season commences, is necessary, as it pre- 

 vents many accidents which might happen at this time of 

 the year. Should there be conveniences, the dogs being 

 kept separate from the bitches during the summer months, 

 will be all the better. When hounds are very riotous, the 

 feeder may sleep in a cot in the adjoining kennel : if well 

 chastised at the first quarrel, his voidfe^^U be sufficient 

 afterwards. 



CHAPTER YIL 



DIFFERENT DOGS, USED IN FIELD-SPORTS AND FOR DO-MESTIC 

 PURPOSES, WATCH-DOaS, ETC. 



I HAVE already said that dogs, in all their varieties of form, 

 are but one species, modified and altered by adventitious 

 circumstances. Climate, feeding, crossing one breed with 

 another, accident, and education, all combining to give that 

 almost infinite variety of form and intelligence now to be met 



