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without a good tail is almost as worthless as a 

 check without a signature. 



Be sure at the time of breeding the bitch is 

 free from worms. A great many are troubled 

 whose owners are totally ignorant of the fact, 

 and this frequently accounts for non-success. 

 Always remember that worms thrive the most 

 when the alimentary canal is kept loaded with 

 indigestible or half-digested food, and that 

 liquid foods are favorable to these pests, while 

 solids tend to expel them. Freshly powdered 

 areca nut, in teaspoonful doses, and the same 

 quantity of a mixture of oil of male fern and 

 olive oil, three parts oil and one part male fern 

 oil, I find are both excellent vermifuges to give 

 to matured dogs. Give a dose and two days 

 after repeat, and this, I think, will be found 

 generally effectual. 



Do not, on any account, allow the breeding 

 stock to become too fat. Proper feeding and 

 exercise, of course, will prevent this. It will 

 be found if this is not attended to that the 

 organs of generation have lost their functional 

 activity, and if pups are produced, are, as a 

 rule, small and lack vigor. My experience with 

 Bostons is that it is very desirable to breed them 

 as often as they come in season ; if allowed to go 

 by it will be found increasingly harder to get 

 them in whelp. I think a stud dog, to last for a 



