8 MANAGEMENT OF HOUNDS. 



or three times a day, into a paddock or field, and not 

 allowed to lie about in the yard or courts, but should be 

 shut up in their lodging rooms as soon as they return 

 home, particularly the day after hunting. 



In the rear of the kennels should be a covered passage 

 (into which the doors of the middle kennel should open) 

 leading to the feeding house, which stands under the 

 same roof with the boiling house, and is only separated 

 from it by a lath and plaster partition or wall. This 

 passage is intended to answer the purpose of a warm 

 bath, also for the hounds' feet after hunting, for which 

 purpose the bricks are to be gradually sloped from each 

 end to the centre, which is to be about a foot deep, and 

 in which is placed a large flat stone with a plug hole, to 

 let off the water into a drain, as soon as the hounds are 

 washed. On both sides of this passage will be a paved 

 court, with a small lodging house at each end, one for 

 lame hounds, and the other for those young hounds 

 who may be seriously ill from distemper. 



In the feeding room should be also two large coolers 

 for the oatmeal, when boiled, to be placed in. You may 

 then make by one boiling sufficient pudding to last two 

 or three days, which will be a considerable saving in 

 fuel. In clean coolers it will keep well for this time, 

 but not if placed in the feeding troughs. At the end of 

 the feeding house is a door leading into the grass yard, 

 or out into the field. When hounds are very dirty they 

 may be passed several times through the passage bath ; 

 four buckets of hot liquor, with a handful of common 

 salt being thrown into the bath to keep it at a moderate 

 temperature. 



A plan of these kennels is here annexed, the con- 



