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Barley meal with it, which has been grown 

 on light land, but it must be given with as 

 much caution as you would beans to a 

 horse. 



Wheat meal, mixed with oatmeal in 

 equal quantities, is used in some kennels ; 

 but the oatmeal requires the longer boiling. 

 Feeders are often negligent, and in too 

 great a hurry to finish their work, to attend 

 properly to this necessary point. Your 

 meal should be put into the copper when 

 the water quite boils, and then should be 

 boiled up a second time; you must allow 

 at least an hour and a half from that time 

 to boil it well, and if an hour and three- 

 quarters, it will be none the worse for it ; 

 for nothing will choke hounds so soon as 

 meal half boiled. 



In the summer it is of little consequence 

 what hounds are fed upon, provided they 

 have wholesome food ; but in the hunting 

 season, if every thing is not of the very 



