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EXPENSES OF REARING AND TRAINING. 

 Many young coursers may like to know the outlay which must 

 be incurred in order to bring a small stud of greyhounds into the 

 field. For their information, the following table of expenses is 

 added, premising that it is the lowest possible calculation, in 

 accordance with the directions given in this book, and on the 

 supposition that success attends upon each particular litter : 



s. d. 

 To one quarter of the value of brood bitch, reckoning that she 



will last four years, and cost 201. . . . . . .500 



To travelling expenses and stallion 6 10 



One year's keep of bitch, and tax on ditto 3 10 



Rearing six puppies till eighteen months old at 10s. Qd. a week, 

 for food and litter only flesh 3s. 6d. } meal 5s. Gd., trotters Is., 



straw Qd 37 16 



Tax on ditto for one year . . . . . . . . 3 12 



Man to exercise and feed ditto, reckoning one-third of his time, at 

 12s. per week this is on the supposition that he can be. occupied 

 in other work . 14 8 



70 16 



This sum, divided by six (the full average number of a litter), 

 will make the cost of each puppy, when ready for training, in 

 round numbers, 121. 



You may thus fairly calculate upon each of your greyhounds 

 standing you in about 121. or guineas at his first appearance, and 

 this with the best luck, and on the calculation that you rear six 

 good greyhounds out of each litter. But every old courser will 

 know how much this is above the average. It is not every one 

 who has a s Mocking Bird,' a ' Scotland Yet,' or a c Riot,' nor has 

 every master the good management of Messrs. Davy, Campbell, 



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