42 The Dog Book 
place and fastened at night. “Two ofthese windows, which are hothouse 
sash and slide open, will admit enough light, and three might thus be covered 
permanently during the winter and give less trouble than the suggested 
swinging covers. The raising and lowering of the doors to the yards’ is 
controlled by the cords shown in the photograph as extending to the passage- 
way above the height of the wire netting. 
Previous to altering the interior of this house we had already put up 
a six-foot-high outside inclosure, sixteen. by forty, with a ten-foot reserve 
at the far end for the chickens which might arrive. The cash outlay for two 
rolls of netting and lumber for that was about eleven dollars. The labour 
was home talent. The house altering was put into the hands of a carpenter, 
and. in his bill-‘of forty-eight dollars some extra work and material was in- 
cluded pertaining to a tennis-court which probably offset the first outlay for 
the outside work, and our reckoning is that the whole business cost fifty 
dollars, but that of course is only alterations to the original house. 
The barn photograph shows an adaptation of the ideas of Mr. Thomas 
and the box arrangements at Mr. Gooderham’s kennels. The boxes were 
the travelling-boxes the dogs came across the Atlantic in. Two were cut 
with holes like those at the Toronto kennels, but this was abandoned because 
the dogs kept. continually barking, mainly at each other, while it was found 
that dogs shut up entirely were quiet. It will be noticed that the boxes 
are placed on strips of four-inch stuff, and the strip in front is placed 
sufficiently far back to admit of the sweepings of the box to fall in front 
of it through an opening about two inches by six, cut in what is, as they 
lie on their backs, the bottom of the box. Every morning when a dog 
is liberated his box is swept clean, and at the left-hand corner of the front 
of the second box from the left may be seen the sweepings from that box. 
When all are cleaned the floor is swept with a broom and the business is 
complete. No dogs are kept continually in these boxes, but are changed 
with the dogs in the other kennels, or liberated into the large top floor of 
the barn during the day, and all have two good long walks and runs daily. 
Their advantage as sleeping-boxes ‘iis unquestionable, for the dogs are quiet 
and therefore. sleep well. 
Another Americanism in the way of working out ideas suitable for the 
necessities of the case is'seen in the Russian Wolfhound kennels of Dr. De 
Mund at Bath Beach. The most of Dr. De Mund’s dogs are kept at 
Saddle River, N. J., with Mr. Nichols as partner in charge, but a few are 
