394 AN ENGLISH GAMEKEEPER. 



All the hutches should be made in the same 

 way, excepting the bedrooms, which should be 

 close boarded for warmth, one room at each 

 end of the hutch. A partition should be made 

 in the middle of the hutch, so as to slide in 

 and out ; thus you can, if you want, make two 

 hutches. If you only require one hutch you 

 should take out the partition, but, in that case, 

 you must be careful to block up one end by a 

 sliding door contrivance, or a brick, or some- 

 thing or other of the kind, to prevent the 

 ferrets from using both houses. Otherwise 

 they will use one house for sleeping purposes, 

 and will make the other filthy in a very short 

 time. By observing these precautions you 

 will not, or perhaps I ought to say you should 

 not, be troubled with foot rot in your ferrets. 

 Of course if other ferrets, suffering from foot 

 rot, are put into the hutch, your ferrets will be 

 sure to catch the disease, for foot rot is very 

 infectious. 



To cure foot rot you should take some train 

 oil, sulphur, gunpowder, and gas tar, or spirits 

 of tar, mix well together, and rub the feet and 



