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KENNELS AND KENNEL MANAGEMENT. 



hounds must be carefully attended to, and for this purpose the 

 shaft alluded to at page 300 is by far the best adapted. It 

 resembles in . external appearance that usually placed above well 

 constructed stables, &c. ; but there is this important internal 

 alteration, that the square is divided perpendicularly into four 



Muir's Ventilating Apparatus, a, b, c, d, the four divisions of shaft ; e, /, board for 

 distributing down current. 



triangular tubes, one of which is sure to be presented to the wind 

 from whatever quarter of the compass it is blowing, while the 

 opposite one allows the foul air to escape, to make room for that 

 descending through the first-named tube. When this is once con- 

 structed, it only remains to lead a metal tube from each of these 

 four compartments to every one of the lodging- rooms, which will 



