218 EVERYTHING ABOUT DOGS. 



Uennel yard. Now get forty rods of good, reliable kennel fencing, which should 

 be six feet high, and a two-inch mesh. Fasten to posts iirmly, the lower wire 

 meeting the top wire previously fastened from post to post. 



The foundation of kennel building should be next to be considered. This 

 should be of stone, 18 inches thick and 3 or 4 feet high, 16x60; this will furnish 

 ample room. Have opening at each end of wall, 2x3 feet, to allow dogs to run in 

 during hot days or stormy weather. Next lay the joists, then the studding, 

 which should be six or seven feet high. Have good pitch to roof. Before put- 

 ting on siding or shingling, get, some good building paper, covering all sides 

 and roof. For this purpose there is nothing finer made than "Cabot'is" sheath- 

 ing, a superior building paper, two layers of paper between which is woven eel 

 grass 14 inch in thickness. This paper will keep out heat as well as cold, is 

 germ proof and can not burn on account of the salty nature of the lining. Place 

 this on roof boards before shingling if a thorough job is wanted). Next put on 

 your siding. Have three windows on each side, 30x60, two sash that will slide 

 by each other, much handier than ones that raise. Have door at each^gnd of 

 kennel. Have a brick chimney built at each end of kennel. In summer time 

 you can uso chimney in cook room with short length of pipe; in the cold weather 

 you can run stove pipe the full length of building to other chimney, which will 

 warm up the interior at no greater expense while the food is being cooked. 

 Next put up a partition at each end of building, 10x16, one to be used for cook 

 and wash room, the other for office. The floor in the wash room should be 

 built on a slant to allow all water to run away freely. 



You will now have a space of forty feet between office and cook room which 

 will be used for kennels or stalls for the dogs as follows: On each side of building 

 from office to cook room make a solid bin or box of matched flooring three feet high 

 and four feet wide; the frame work of this stall should be of two-inch strips, 

 one inch thick, have them cut three and four feet long, nail firmly at corner 

 one of each size; this will form a square; now draw a line from one end of 

 room to the other on each side near wall; this will line up your frame work 

 perfectly. Nail one end of frame to each studding, the other corner to floor, 

 now proceed to put on your matched flooring. Nail front solid, the top should 

 be on Binge to get at dogs and clean out easily, so only nail firmly the two first 

 boards near wall, then have balance of top work on hinge. Now divide this 

 long stall in small compartments by placing a partition of matched flooring at 

 every second studding or four feet, studding being two feet apart; have top 

 sawed across every four feet so that each stall will have a separate door at top, 

 which will give you ten separate stalls on each side. Now have an opening cut 

 through siding, 12x18, for a door in each stall; have this at one end of each 

 stall instead of centre, as your dogs can lay away from doorway in case of 

 heavy winds or hot or cold weather. In winter weather for day protection have 

 a common grain sack or carpet tacked on inside over door to keep out cold and 



