280 KENNELS AND KENNEL MANAGEMENT. 
it acquires the name with the solidity of “ puddings.” There 
should always be two qualities made, one better than the other for 
the more delicate hounds, which must be apportioned by the hunts- 
man properly among them. This may be reduced with cold broth, 
when wanted, to any degree of thinness; and the meat, being cut 
or torn up, is mixed with it. 
In feeding the hounds, the huntsman, having the troughs sup- 
plied with the different qualities of food, orders the door to be 
thrown open which communicates with the lodging-room ; then, 
having the hounds under proper control, they all wait till each 
is called by name, the huntsman pronouncing each name in a 
decided tone, and generally summoning two or three couples at a’ 
time, one after the other. When these have had what he con- 
siders sufficient, they are dismissed, and others called in their turn ; 
the gross feeders being kept to the last, when the best and most 
nourishing part has been eaten. By thus accustoming hounds in 
kennel to wait their proper turn and to come when called, a control 
is obtained out of doors which could never be accomplished in any 
other way. Once a week, on a non-hunting day in the winter, 
and every three or four days in the summer, some green fvod, or 
potatoes or turnips, should be boiled up with the puddings, which 
serves to cool the hounds very considerably. If this is attended to 
very little physic is required, except from accidental causes. 
A regular dressing and physicking is practised in some kennels, 
the former to keep the skin free from vermin and eruptions, and the 
latter with the same view, but also to cool the blood. This is by 
no means necessary, if great care is taken with regard to cleanli- 
ness, feeding, and exercise; and in the royal kennels neither one 
nor the other is practised, excepting when disease actually appears, 
and not as a preventive measure. When it is considered desirable 
to adopt either or both, directions for their use will be found given 
in the next Book. 
POINTERS AND SETTERS. 
These dogs do not require a covered yard, and may be treated 
in all respects like hounds, the only difference being in regard 
to numbers. More than three or four brace should not be kept 
together if it can be avoided, as they are apt to quarrel when not 
