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denomination of garden stuff, may be boiled with the 

 meal; but potatoes are less to be recommended, as 

 being the most difficult of digestion. They have been 

 used to great extent in some kennels, and would prove 

 a great saving of meal, could they be pronounced unob- 

 jectionable. Cabbage and lettuce may act as alteratives ; 

 but the best of all vegetable matter of that kind which 

 I ever tried, was mangel-wurzel. This root will boil 

 down to a thick jelly, and form a very agreeable and 

 wholesome addition to the broth. I have no doubt that 

 it would answer as well also for hounds in w^ork. By 

 an apphcation from a most respectable mealman, Mr. 

 Crampern, of Jermyn street, I was induced to make a 

 trial of sago, which he imagined, and I beheve still con- 

 siders, a most important discovery as an article of food 

 for hounds. Its cheapness would be a great recom- 

 mendation ; but, instead of the nutritious properties we 

 expected to find in the jelly which it will produce, it 

 disagreed with hounds, and the experiment proved alto- 

 gether a failure. From the said Mr. Crampern, to whom 

 I was recommended by Mr. H. Combe, I have had great 

 quantities of superior Dantzic biscuit, for summer use ; 

 not as being less expensive than oatmeal, for the price 

 is about the same, but for the sake of variety, and some 

 saving in the stock of old meal. Well soaked in water, 

 and then broken up with equal quantities of meal, it will 

 be found highly useful, even to the end of cub-hunting. 



