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of Yarborough's), where every thing connected 

 with the kennel department is conducted on a 

 scale of the greatest liberality, the huntsman is 

 permitted to keep two cows, and the whippers-in 

 and boiler have the run of one each in the park. I 

 shall not enter into the detail of managing and rearing 

 the young puppies, it is so well known to every kennel 

 man, who may have had even a moderate share of 

 experience ; and I shall only add upon this subject, 

 that the cleaner they are kept, and the better they are 

 fed, the more likely they are to arrrive at maturity. 

 If the distemper breaks out, those which are affected, 

 should be immediately removed to a distance from the 

 rest which may be healthy, or the most fatal conse- 

 quences will ensue. Sometimes young puppies, 

 without any apparent cause, become notty in their 

 skins, and whilst their bellies are much distended, the 

 flesh upon their bones visibly wastes away ; it almost 

 invariably proceeds from the place where they lie 

 being more or less damp, and nothing will be found 

 more likely to eradicate the evil, than the removing 

 them to a warmer and a drier place ; they should have 

 tincture of rhubarb administered to them in small 

 doses, and be dressed with a little of the common 

 kennel dressing, adding but a small quantity of the tur- 

 pentine, and totally omitting the spirit of tar.* Each 

 litter should be separately marked, independant of 

 branding them, or when they return from their quar- 

 ters by having rambled about the country, and having 

 changed their walks with others of the same age and 

 colour, it will be totally impossible to remember how 



* See receipt for dressing. 



