210 KENNELS AND KENNEL MANAGEMENT. 



ment for the feeder, which being raised above the level of the 

 other roof, will break the monotony of its appearance. At the 

 rear of the kennel there should be the boiling-house, feeding-court, 

 straw-bouse, and separate lodgings for bitches. In front of the 

 kennels, and extending round to the back door of the feeding- 

 house, there should be a good large green yard enclosed by a wall 01 

 pickets. I prefer the former, although more expensive, because 

 hounds, being able to see through the latter, will be excited by 

 passing objects ; and young hounds, for whose service the green 

 yard is more particularly intended, are inclined to become noisy, 

 barking and running round the fence when any strange dog makes 

 his appearance. 



In the boiling-house two cast-iron boilers will be required, one for 

 the meal, the other for flesh. Pure water must be conducted in some 

 way to the kennels, both for cleanliness and for the preparation 

 of food, and this should be placed at the service of the kennel- 

 man at all parts, so that there may be no excuse on the score of 

 trouble in carrying it. There must also be coolers fixed in pro- 

 portion to the number of hounds, each couple requiring from half 

 a foot to a foot superficial, according as it is intended to make the 

 puddings daily or every other day. Stone or iron feeding and 

 water-troughs are the best ; the latter should be tixed high enough 

 to keep them clean. 



To each lodging-room there should be two doors; one at the 

 back with a small sliding panel, and high up, through which the 

 huntsman may observe the hounds without their seeing him ; and 

 another in the front with a large opening cut at the bottom, high 

 enough and wide enough for a hound to pass through easily, and 

 which should always be left open at night to allow free egress to 

 the court. In addition, there must also be another between each 

 of the rooms, so as to throw two into one in the summer for the 

 purpose of making them more airy. The benches should be 

 of pine or oak spars, and if they are made to turn up according to 

 the following plan several advantages result. This plan is de 

 scribed by a recent authority as follows : 



