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and are utterly useless, are often kept. For a 

 moderate scope of ground, two brace of setters are 

 quite sufficient, unless you are breeding clogs. 

 Then you must, of course, have your brood bitches 

 as well. I should have mentioned, it will be a 

 great saving to you if you keep a first-rate stud 

 clog. You will not only have his services, but you 

 can advertise him as a stud dog ; and he can form 

 one of your working team likewise. 



I must impress on my readers that puppies can 

 hardly be kept too well. They must have little or 

 no meat during their puppyhoocl, but plenty of 

 milk and oatmeal, the latter always to be well boiled. 

 Feed them three times a clay for the first three or 

 four months, and twice a clay till nine months 

 old. After that one good meal a day is sufficient. 



A large volume might be written how to keep 

 and feed clogs, on kennels, &c. This has often been 

 clone before ; but things are now altered, and we 

 must keep pace with the times. 



I have never been able to afford an expensive 

 shooting, and being abroad from the time I was 

 twenty-one till I was middle-aged, I never had the 

 chance ; but, coming over to England every year, 

 as I did, and shooting in all parts, it enabled me to 

 know the localities, and where shooting at a reason- 

 able price was to be had. 



