126 THE AMERICAN HUNTING DOG 



breeders. These outlying kennels would, of 

 course, be identical in design with the one-dog 

 kennel described above, except that for nursing 

 mothers a whelping-box would be needed, that is, 

 a shallow sleeping box with an inner rim around 

 the edge of yg-in^li ^ 3-inch stock, forming a sort 

 of refuge for pups that have fallen in behind the 

 mother's back, and would likely be crushed with- 

 out some such gallery to protect them. 



But for warmth and compactness in winter the 

 kennel house is needful. This will have three or 

 more 6 x 8-foot pens, for dogs and bitches not in 

 season, an 8-foot x 8-foot room for bitches in whelp 

 or in heat, a puppy room of the same size, and a 

 large 8-foot x 16-foot room for cooking and stor- 

 age. A small steam boiler, similar to those used 

 for greenhouses, answers for cooking operations in 

 the daytime and at night is s\vitched onto the hot- 

 water piping of the kennels, as a very moderate 

 amount of heat is well worth while in mid-winter, 

 and is particularly necessary in the puppy and 

 whelping-rooms. The great problems of success- 

 ful kennel management are, cheap wholesome food 

 and isolation of disease. No dog can get distem- 

 per without smelling or touching something al- 

 ready contaminated by a dog that has had it. 

 Each of the main rooms of the kennel house lead 



