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There are, here and there, differences of opinion. Where notes are 

 not signed or dated I have placed them by handwriting. 



Meal. — The very best Scotch oatmeal should be used, and should 

 be boiled so as to be quite soft and squeeze easily in the hand. It 

 should be made thick. . . . The price of the meal varies with the 

 market, but you may take the average price to be 16s. per cwt. A 

 hundredweight at a time is much the most convenient way of 

 having it. Whatever oatmeal you buy, see the effect it has on 

 the hounds ; if not good it is certain to scour them. — J. S. Carr- 

 Ellisox. 



I found hounds did well on wheatmeal and maize mixed. . . . 

 Hounds hunted four days a week regularly, and seemed to do well 

 on the mixture. — K. Walker. 



I fed for the whole of this term (October 1898) on maize (2 

 buckets) and bran (f bucket) wdth occasionally some wheatmeal. 

 Hounds in splendid coat and condition. They had also plenty of meat 

 and broth, well mixed so as to feed fairly sloppy. — C. F. Mitford. 



I found hounds best on maize meal and one-third oatmeal mixed ; 

 oatmeal being too expensive to feed entirely on. Hounds hunted 

 from four to six days a week on it this season, 1902-3. — D. G. Hoare. 



Biscuits. — The biscuits I got from P. Barr and Co., Miller's 

 Buildings, Liverpool, price 10s. per cwt. ; they are quite equal to any 

 biscuit, and hounds do wonderfully well on them. I used to give the 

 hounds one or two biscuits after their ordinary meal. — Anon. 



I (and so did Pease) got my biscuits at Warren and Son, 

 Cambridge, price 12s. per cwt. I got biscuits without any meat in 

 them, as they don't require it when they have horseflesh besides. 

 Plain biscuits {i.e. without meat in them) make a good change in 

 their food, as meat is very apt to make them hot in their blood. — 

 J. S. C.-E. 



Greaves can be procured from H. F. Collier, Norwich, at 14s. per 

 cwt. They are of very good quality. — K. W. 



A very good summer food, I found, was Pike and Tucker's Hound 

 Food, 13s. per cwt. They then need no meat or bran, and I found it 

 quite as cheap as maize meal, and much better, especially for young 

 hounds. 



