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forty years with most gratifying results, and 

 strongly recommend it. 



There is an ''old woman's fable" to the 

 effect that fresh cow's milk will breed 

 worms in puppies. This is as nonsensical 

 as the old fish story that pickerel are pro- 

 duced from pickerel grass. 



I have also read that worms are trans- 

 mitted to puppies through the medium of 

 the mother's milk. While this may look a 

 little more rational, it is, if possible, still 

 more absurd, as a slight acquaintance with 

 the Immutable laws which orovern the re- 

 production of life will conclusively show. 

 It is an incontrovertible fact that no dog 

 was ever infested with worms in his stom- 

 ach or intestines unless he first swallowed 

 the eggs of the parasite. How the eggs 

 are taken into the stomach may not always 

 be clear, but when we take into considera- 

 tion the fact that the female worm will 

 deposit many thousands of eggs that are 

 discharged with the faeces, and that these 



