238 KENNELS AND KENNEL ^lANAGEMENT. 



control is obtained out of doors whicli could never be accomplisbed 

 in any other way. Once a week, on a non-bunting day in the 

 winter, and every three or four days in the summer, some green 

 food, or potatoes or turnips, should be boiled up with the puddings, 

 and serves to cool the hounds very considerably. If this is 

 attended to very little physic is required, except from accidental 

 causes. 



A rer/uJar dressing and phi/sicking is practised in some kennels, 

 the former to keep the skin free from vermin and eruptions, and the 

 latter with the same view, but also to cool the blood. This is by 

 no means necessary, if great care is taken with regard to cleanli- 

 ness, feeding, and exercise ; and in the royal kennels neither one 

 nor the other is practised, excepting when disease actually appears, 

 and not as a preventive measure. When it is considered desirable 

 to adopt either or both, directions for their use will be found given 

 in the next Book. 



POINTERS AND SETTERS. 



These dogs do not require a covered yard, and may be 

 treated in all respects like hounds, the only difference being in 

 regard to numbers. More than three or four brace should not 

 be kept together if it can be avoided, as they are apt to quarrel 

 when not thoroughly exercised or worked, and then a whole lot 



