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being offered a number of times ten times the 

 sum he paid for him. 



The day after Brownie whelped she and her 

 mother went off for an hour or so, and they fin- 

 ished digging out Mr. Skunk (which the atten- 

 tion to her maternal duties necessitated a post- 

 ponement of), the old dog dragging him home 

 in triumph. I attribute the success these dogs, 

 in common with the rest of the bitches in the 

 kennels who had similar advantages, had in 

 whelping and the rearing of their young to the 

 fact that they always had unlimited natural ex- 

 ercise. I can enumerate scores of cases similar 

 to these attended with equally good results, if 

 space permitted. 



In regard to mating, one service, if properly 

 performed, is usually enough, if the bitch is 

 ready to take the dog. If a bitch should fail to 

 be in whelp I should advise the next time she 

 comes in season two or even three visits to the 

 dog, and where convenient I should suggest a 

 different dog this time. In case this time these 

 services were unsuccessful, then I should sug- 

 gest the course that breeders of thoroughbred 

 horses pursue, viz., to let the female run with the 

 male for three or four days together. There are 

 many things connected with breeding that we 

 do not understand, and frequently going back to 



