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suggestions on the subject of Kennel Lame- 

 ness, and appreciating most highly his 

 experience on sporting subjects, I was buoyed 

 up with the hope that his discoveries would 

 have thrown some new light on the case; 

 but was much disappointed at reading his 

 recommendations to try the effect of fires in 

 the lodging-rooms. Knowing them to have 

 been tried by Sir B. Graham, Mr. Boycott, 

 also in the kennels occupied by Mr. Nicol, I 

 believe also by Lord Kintore, with prejudicial 

 consequences, it only remains to intimate that 

 the practice is incompatible. Moreover, the 

 diuretic tendency which it produces, in 

 encouraging hounds to perform their evacua- 

 tions in the lodging-rooms, instead of in the 

 yards, is a reason why the adoption of fires, 

 however secured, in kennels, cannot be carried 

 out consistently with the usual discipline and 

 necessary observance of cleanliness. One of 

 the most positive cases in proof, that on some 

 occasions kennel lameness proceeds entirely 

 from the unhealthy situation of their habita- 

 tion, is that of Mr. Foljambe. With the 

 utmost attention to kennel management, a 

 long series of years passed with nothing but 

 disappointment and vexation to crown the 



