4G SYSTEM OF KENNEL AND 



CHAPTER VII. 



Treatment of young hounds when brought home to kennel Going 



out in couples Jerusalem ponies to be especially avoided Cur 



dogs Cure for exuberant spirits Deer parks and hare warrens 



NCI- principiia obsta Following the plough Diet 



Extraordinary case of distemper lleruedies and prescriptions. 



THE first work to be done, or which ought to be 

 done, with the young hounds selected for entry, is 

 to put them in couples as soon as possible and have 

 them out into the fresh air, if a few only at a time. 

 In this matter wo know huntsmen are generally 

 miss, putting off the trouble with the coup- 



to a more convenient season, when they have 

 more leisure ; yet from this neglect the very worst 

 kind of distemper is generated. The young hounds, 



brought into kennel, are fed highly on plenty 

 of meal and meat, the reverse of what their treat- 

 ment ought to be, and, in addition, they are denied 

 any opportunity of exercise save that of playing 

 in the grass-yard attached to their lodging-house. 

 This is precisely the same course pursued by igno- 

 rant grooms, in feeding their horses just alike 

 whether they are in work or not ; but in this 

 case the animals under their care do get a certain 



