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remarks on that very essential tting, the kennel. Where 

 only a brace of dogs are kept, the common inovable box 

 kennel is sufficient. This should be large enough to hold 

 the two comfortably, with a sharp pitch to the roof and 

 projecting front ; but I should recommend one for each dog, 

 slightly raised from the ground, sufficiently high for the dog 

 to stand up in, and wide enough for him to turn round in. 

 The entrance had better be boarded up, except a hole for 

 him to enter and get out by. But where a large number of 

 dogs are kept, this plan of separate houses is expensive, and 

 in their place I would recommend a brick building sixteen 

 feet long by five feet wide and six feet high, or, if biick be 

 not get-at-able, a boarded house will do ; but it ought to be 

 lined and boarded outside, the space between the two filled 

 up with sawdust, and weather-boarded. Besides, this sixteen 

 feet must be divided into three compartments right up to 

 the top, one eight feet for the dogs, one five for the bitches, 

 and one three feet for the worked dogs. The doors should 

 be large enough to admit a man to clean. The beds ought 

 to be raised on a bench from the floor, this bench movable 

 on hinges at the back, so that it can be hoisted up, and 

 cleaning done below. The dogs ought to be prevented 

 getting under their beds, by a board reaching from the out- 

 side edge of the bench to the floor. Six or eight inches is 

 sufficient raise. The floor of this kennel should slope out- 

 wards, to carry off wet. The door should have a small hole 

 in it, with a swing door, so that by pushing against it, the 

 dogs can get either in or out. In front of these two, that is 

 to say, the dog and bitch departments, a court-yard, either 



