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young hounds if they bolt out of yard they are stopped by alley fence. 

 The beds for hounds are made of deal, two in each lodging house, 

 7^ feet long by 5 feet wide, made to fit with length of kennel. They 

 work on hinges, so that they can be chained up to back wall when 

 cleaning out. The floor of lodging room is a wooden latticed 

 .flooring of deal to prevent hounds lying on damp or cold floor, a 

 fruitful source of rheumatism. Two coppers, one for flesh and one 

 for meal pudding, are shown in plan, together with coolers, feeding 

 troughs, &c. There is a loophole at the end of whole range of building 

 so as to let a top current of air right through. The top kennels are 

 quite new and a little larger. The grass yard is half gravel and 

 half grass. At the top of the old wall on the north side a paling 

 to heighten it has been erected. The kennels face South, top 

 kennels about South-East by East. The young hounds are gene- 

 rally kept in the top new kennels ; the old ones in the lower, dogs 

 and bitches being divided. The granary floor and walls half-way 

 up were boarded to keep the meal from getting damp — doorways 

 are 2 feet 10 inches wide all through. The cottage at end v/as 

 there when the kennels were made, and now kennelman and two 

 whips live in it. The water supply is from a cistern which is filled by 

 horse-power from the river and laid on into all places. In each yard 

 is a trough of cast iron raised on two or three bricks. The other 

 part of the original ofthand farm consisted of a barn, a long shed 

 and outbuildings now converted into the following : Two small 

 kennels, one for sick hounds, one for bitches which it may be 

 desirable to separate from the pack, and coal house. The barn was 

 converted into a capital stable with a floor made of cement as in 

 kennels, but ribbed for water ro run off into surface drains. A long 

 row of buildings of the same height as kennels were made into a 

 forge, a place to shoe horses, a hay and straw room, a corn 

 room, a sleeping and mess room for stable helpers, a harness room, 

 a washing room with coppers for hot water. As to the cost, both 

 included : 



I s. d. 

 Converting old shed, and making yard into kennels .158 7 6 



Fittings, &c. , 56 5 6 



Top kennels . . . . . . .I11130 



£^26 6 o 



The stables &c &c. cost about 700/. Two nice houses for hunts- 

 men and stud groom cost about 600/. the pair. It is necessary to 

 have a meat house for dead horses well ventilated. A new one was 



