of course, be well constructed, covered with good sheathing paper, and either clapboarded or shingled.  Such a building should be cool in summer and warm in winter, and thoroughly weather proof.  If provided with a good “Eureka ventilator” and well painted, the dogs and their owner will be satisfied.  Where a much larger number of dogs are kept, then a corresponding amount of floor space is a necessity.  I rather like the style of a kennel, say from fifty to a hundred feet long, twelve to fifteen feet wide, with an open compartment or shed, about twelve feet long (in which the dogs can take a sun bath or get the air if the weather is not favorable to go outside.  This also makes an ideal feeding pen), in the middle of the house, without outside runs to each pen, and each run opening into a large exercising yard, so that all the dogs may have a good frolic together, of course, under the watchful eye of the kennel man.

The large breeders will also require a separate building at some distance from the main kennels for use as a hospital, a small kennel for his bitches in season, and some small, portable kennels which can be placed under adequate shade trees for his litters of puppies during the hot weather.  It would be an excellent plan if good shade trees could be planted to cover all the runs, but if this is not possible, then it is advisable to have at the rear of the kennels a clear space covered over with a roof, say ten or twelve feet wide, for the dogs to have free access to during the heat of the day.

Perhaps a description of our own kennels, entirely different in construction from these, and costing more to build, may be of interest here.  We have two buildings, seventy-five feet apart, built exactly like a house, with two stories and a high basement or cellar, twenty-five feet wide and thirty feet long.  One of these houses is lined with matched paneling and divided off on each floor into separate compartments; the other is only boarded, one thickness of good paper and clapboarded and, of course, not nearly as warm.  This second building has no pens in it.  The basement has a stone wall at the back, but on the east, south and west sides is boarded to the ground, and has a dry gravel floor.  These buildings are well supplied with windows (the same as a house), and get the sun all day.  In these buildings we have no artificial heat whatever, and all stock, except small puppies, are kept there.  Our pups in the winter have warm quarters until they are four months old, when they are placed in the south side of the warmer kennels.  All puppies are kept in the cool basement in the hot weather, and during the summer our bitches in whelp are kept there also.  We have not any separate runs attached to these buildings, which entails a much closer watch on the dogs, of course, but each building opens into a very large enclosure with abundant shade trees, and the dogs can, if let out, have the run of several acres.