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also not been able to give them a name.' Personally, I 

 think it highly probable that these cells may have lost their 

 contents, but the cell -wall was not broken down, as is 

 generally supposed to happen in milk-formation. If the 

 trouble continues I should like to be put in direct com- 

 munication with the owner of the goat, as I think the 

 subject is worthy of a little investigation it is certainly 

 rather exceptional." 



Goafs' Mil1(.for Fappies. 



Goats' milk seems particularly well adapted for feed- 

 ing puppies. Although in making this statement I do not 

 speak from my own experience, I have nevertheless good 

 authority for the assertion, it being founded on the results 

 of trials made by several prominent dog-breeders, some 

 of whom believe that puppies fed with this milk are much 

 less liable to be troubled with worms that pest of all 

 breed ing- kennels than those fed with cows' milk. A 

 correspondent, writing to the Live Stock Journal some years 

 ago, stated that after losing from these parasites 75 per 

 cent, of the puppies he bred, the cause of which he attri- 

 buted to the use of cows' milk, he was induced to try 

 goats' milk, which proved so successful that, at the time 

 he wrote, he had bred more than fifty puppies without one 

 showing a sign of worms. 



Considering that there is a wide difference in the con- 

 stituents of goats' milk compared with the milk of the 

 bitch, which contains not only more casein, but also more 

 sugar, it is somewhat remarkable that the former should 

 agree so well with puppies. In an article devoted to 

 this subject in the kennel section of the journal just 

 referred to the writer stated : " In looking over the table 

 of the different constituents of the two milks, in juxta- 

 position to the milk of the bitch, it is evident at a glance 

 that although the differences are still great, yet the com- 



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