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out to a yard or runway, built like the one de- 

 scribed for the two-dog kennel, the larger the bet- 

 ter, and the healthy dogs in them are in no danger, 

 provided the hospital is isolated from the rest of 

 the kennel, and any dog showing any suspicious 

 symptoms removed to it at once. Distemper is 

 the great contagious disease, and, aside from 

 prompt treatment with antitoxine serum, I hold 

 that dry quarters and fresh air with no artificial 

 heat makes the best condition favourable to recov- 

 ery. It is essentially a spring disease, and is most 

 rife in April and May when no heat is wanted, 

 whence there is no objection to isolating the hos- 

 pital as far as possible from the main kennel. 



But cooking operations are another matter. 

 They must be carried on on a large scale, without 

 danger of scorching, whence the use of steam in a 

 worm surrounding a large boiler. The best in- 

 gredients are cornmeal, wheat bran and restau- 

 rant meat scraps with bones. These are mixed and 

 boiled soft in the boiler, and then baked in pans 

 in the kennel oven, the harder the better. The 

 oven is best a flue attachment of the heater so 

 that one charge of anthracite does for all, instead 

 of two fires, each with its own inevitable waste of 

 partly burned coal, to which all small fires are 

 prone. Each dog will need two half-pound cakes 



