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can give tliem. Of course, if a person has but 

 one dog, he can generally get enough from the 

 house scraps from the table, but when you have 

 a dozen or so 3 ou will have to get your dog food 

 elsewhere. In warm weather this mush will 

 sour in a few hours, but in cold weather it will 

 keep sweet. I feed my dogs once a day when 

 they are idle, but when I am hunting them I feed 

 them twice a day. Feed each dog by himself. 



NoAv as to their sleeping places, if you can 

 let your dogs run loose, and they will find warm 

 places to sleep, with plenty of bedding in the 

 barn or other out buildings where the ventila- 

 tion is good, but no drafts of air to blow on 

 them, that is the best place for them. I keep 

 part of my dogs tied up, as they would be off 

 hunting if I let them run loose. For those I 

 use on the chain I use a 20-foot chain. Build 

 a good, warm dog house with a shingle roof, an 

 individual house for one dog. Cut a hole that he 

 can get thru easily and then tack some burlap 

 just above the hole and let it hang down over 

 the hole. When it is cold weather I leave it 

 down, but when it is pleasant I fasten it up so 

 that it leaves the hole open. The air can get 

 thru the burlap but it breaks the wind off of 

 the dog and keeps the snow from blowing in on 

 his nest, or rain if it is raining. He can go out 

 and in when the burlap is down. 



