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out, except with the greyhound, whose size and strength are so 

 important as to call for every care to procure them in a high 

 degree. In hounds, as well as pointers and setters, a check in 

 the growth is of just as much consequence ; but as they are not 

 tested together as to their speed and stoutness so closely as grey- 

 hounds are, the slight defects produced in puppyhood are not 

 detected, and, as a consequence, the same attention is not paid. 

 Nevertheless, as most of these points require only care, and cost 

 little beyond it, they ought to be carried out almost as strictly in 

 the kennels of the foxhound and pointer as in those devoted to 

 the longtails. These chief and cardinal elements of success are, — 

 1st, a warm, clean, and dry lodging; 2dly, suitable food; 3dly, 

 regularity in feeding ; and 4thly, a provision for sufficient exercise. 



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All puppies require a dry lodging, and in the winter season 

 it should also be a warm one. "Greyhound whelps, up to their 

 third or fourth month, are sometimes reared in an artificial tem- 

 perature, either by means of a stove, or by using the heat of a 

 stable, the temperature chosen being 6o° of Fahrenheit. Beyond 

 this age, it can never be necessary to adopt artificial heat in 

 rearing puppies, because for public coursing they are required to 

 be whelped after the last day of the year, and four months from 

 that time takes us on to May, when the weather is seldom cold 

 enough to require a stove ; and then during the summer months 

 they are . gradually hardened to the vicissitudes of the weather, 

 and as they become older their growth is established, and they 

 are no longer in danger of its being checked. It is true that 

 some few coursers always keep their kennels at 6o° ; but oh the 



