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the smallest grown Beagle in this country, it standing in 

 height only about seven to eight inches and weighing about 

 four pounds. This Beagle was proportionately small before 

 weaning. When some eight weeks old, and before weaned, 

 it passed several large bunches of worms; and nearly all 

 the puppies I have ever raised have been afflicted with 

 these pests. 1 have always considered santonine to be the 

 most efficacious, and, at the same time, the safest remedy 

 for worms in puppies. My mode of administering it is to 

 give a dose each morning, a short time before feeding, for 

 five days. Dose for a puppy, say ten weeks old, two grains. 

 It may be given in about a teaspoonf ul of milk or in a little 

 butter; the former is the more convenient, and the puppy 

 usually is more sure of swallowing the santonine. After 

 the last dose I give a physic, composed of about one tea- 

 spoonful of castor-oil, the same amount of syrup (not ex- 

 tract) of buckthorn, with two or three drops of turpentine 

 added. It must be borne in mind that any treatment for 

 worms is useless unless the medicine be administered on an 

 empty stomach, the plan being to have the worms feed on 

 the drug, which is poisonous to them. 



Regarding preparing Beagles for the bench, it should be 

 remembered that as the standard calls for a coarse instead 

 of a fine coat, in texture, the novice should not endeavor to 

 get the coat, as is done with most breeds, in as fine a condi- 

 tion as possible. One of the characteristic faults of Bea- 

 gles is their tendency to being too slack in loin; therefore, 

 if your Hound is unduly slack in loin, do not have it too 

 low in flesh. It would, in such a case, be better to have it 

 over-full in flesh. The former condition aggravates in ap- 

 pearance the fault mentioned, while the latter tends to cover 

 it up. 



I predict that, as the worth of the Beagle becomes better 

 and more widely known and appreciated, and as the nat- 

 ural order of events causes him to become the field dog best 

 adapted to the circumstances that are sure to exist, particu- 

 larly in the settled localities of the East and the North, he 



