HORSES AXD HOUXDS. 



297 



Food for 30 couples of hounds. 



12 tons of oatmeal, at £l5 per ton 



Flesh 



Fuel, at 5s. per week . 

 Medicine for hounds . 



180 

 36 

 13 

 10 



£239 



Six horses. 



78 quarters of oats, at 25s. per quarter 

 15 tons of hay, at £3 per ton 

 Shoeing and medicine 



Sadler 



Helper in stable, at 12s. per week 

 Lad in do., at 6s. ... 



Tax upon hounds 

 Do. on four servants . . * 

 Do. on six horses 



Sundries 



96 

 45 

 20 

 10 

 31 

 15 

 36 

 4 

 6 



£263 



685 



15 



£700 



In this estimate everything is put down on a fair scale. The 

 wages for first whipper-in are perhaps high for some countries. 

 Six horses and thirty couples of hounds are sufficient to hunt 

 at least five days a fortnight. No hunter, however, is worth 

 keeping which cannot come out twice a week, and here each 

 horse is allowed one day only. Two bushels of corn are allowed 

 to every horse per week, throughout the -whole year, and hay 

 also. To a gentleman, however, who has a farm in hand, the 

 expenses will not amount so high, and the general produce 

 from the land will be raised in proportion to the manure em- 

 ployed upon it from the stable and the kennels. The bones 

 also from the boiling-house will be of verj^ great service in pro- 

 ducing root crops of heavy weight. In point of economy I 

 consider a certain quantity of grass and arable land as a neces- 

 sary appendage to a hunting establishment, if only sufficient to 

 raise corn and hay for the horses. For this jjurpose, it is not 

 necessary that the land should be of very first-rate quality, as 



