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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. 

 Milk is an invaluable article of kennel consumption, and 

 one or two cows are greatly advantageous, if not neces- 

 sary, to the establishment. In the spring, when there 

 are dozens of litters of puppies at the same time, — all of 

 which should be well kept, indeed forced, like young 

 foals, with abundant sustenance, — milk will avail, when 

 nothing else would serve the purpose. No bitch should 

 be allowed to suckle more than four puppies. If you 

 are strong in numbers, and can afford to lose the ser- 

 vices of two for one of bitches whelping early, it is easy 

 so to arrange as to have wet-nurses ready for the pro- 

 geny of those which you are most anxious to rear ; and 

 this plan is far preferable to the attempt of bringing 

 up by hand, or introducing mongrels as foster-mothers. 

 In selecting walks, it is certainly a great point to get 

 puppies out, where they will be well fed ; but it is of 

 still greater consequence to ensure their having liberty. 

 What cruel instances occur, of hounds coming in from 



