CHAPTER VI. 

 Plan of Kennels. 



A. Lodging rooms, i6ft. by i8ft. H. Meal house, 12ft. by 12ft. 



a. Open paved yards, 1 6ft. by 20ft. L Coal store, 12ft. by 12ft. 



B. Lodging rooms, 12ft. by i8ft. J. Flesh house, 12ft. by i6ft. 



b. Open paved yards, 12ft. by 20ft. K. Open paved slaughter yard, 



C. Feeding room, i8ft. by 20ft. 12ft. by i6ft. 



c. Open paved yard with flat sur- L. Huntsman's house 



face for showing hounds on, M. Three kennels for brood 

 20ft. by 20ft. bitches, each compartment 



D. Boiling house, 12ft. by i6ft. 6ft. by 6ft. 



E. Room for turning hounds in R. Open gutter 



after feeding, 12ft. by 20ft. S. Underground drain 



F. Straw lodge, 8ft. by 12ft. T. Water taps 



G. Bitch house, loft. by 12ft. Y. Gulley trap 

 g. Open paved yard, loft. byi2ft. Z. Cesspool 



An important point in connection with the building 

 of kennels is the system of draining employed. It is 

 as well to have as few underground drains as possible. 



In the accompanying plan the floors of the lodging 

 rooms have a good fall to the doors, and the adjoin- 

 ing yards slope to the open gutters R, which carry 

 the water to the gulley trap marked Y. 



The same system is shown at the back of the 

 kennels, the washing-down water from the boiling 

 house, etc., being conveyed to another gulley trap, 



