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a triangular door for getting at the interior of 

 the kennel to clean it. Then, with a circular saw, 

 cut a dog door in one side of the end, 10 by 16 

 inches, and the kennel is ready to line inside with 

 ordinary tarpaper, which the builders use for 

 sheathing, and outside with one of the many 

 brands of ready roofing paper. It then receives 

 a coat of paint outside and is ready to set up, at a 

 cost, complete, of about $1.50. To set up proper- 

 ly, remember that the dog likes a high place to 

 roost, and that too near the ground means liability 

 to rheumatism, pneumonia and distemper, so drive 

 in four stout posts and saw off their tops about 8 

 inches above the ground and set the box on them, 

 nailing fast with wire nails driven down through 

 the bottom of the box into the posts. For sum- 

 mer, your mat will be the best bed to put in the 

 kennel, for then is the height of the flea season and 

 the kennel will need to be sprayed every week and 

 the mat taken out and aired and sunned. The in- 

 side tarpaper also helps in discouraging the flea 

 population, but not very much. A good kresol 

 dip, consisting of a tub of water with two table- 

 spoonfuls of kresol in it, makes a real flea-killer, 

 annihilating every one; but even this they will 

 live through if not freshly mixed. 

 For a bitch the kennel had best be two-storied, 



