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fed yourself. No servant will do it as it should be dona 

 Ten minutes or a quarter of an hour devoted to this as soon 

 as you return from the field, will be more than repaid when 

 next you use them. K you ride, or rather drive to your 

 ground, as is best to do when more than a mile away, ride 

 your dogs also ; ditto as you return. Every little helps, and 

 this short ride wonderfully saves your animals. I invariably 

 do this. But when I drive, say twenty miles or so, to a 

 shooting station, I generally run one brace or so the whole 

 way, and the other brace perhaps ten miles, taking out next 

 day that brace which only ran the short distance. Always on 

 a trip of this kind take a bag of meal with you also. You 

 are then safe. The neglect of this precaution in one or two 

 instances has obliged me to use boiled beaf alone, to the 

 Tery great detriment of the olfactory senses of my dogs. 

 Their noses, on this kind of food, completely fail them. 

 Greasy substances also are objectionable for the same cause, 

 unless very well incorporated with meal. For this reason I 

 object to " tallow scrap " or chandlers' graves ; but this I 

 sometimes use in summer. Regular work, correct feeding, 

 and regular hours, that is the great secret of one man's dogs 

 standing harder work than others. A little attention to the 

 subject will enable any one to keep his animals pretty near 

 the mark. Amongst the receipts will be found one used in 

 England for feeding greyhounds when in training, if any one 

 likes to go to the expense of it. 



KENNEL. 



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