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biscuit. These, as previously written, are first 

 rate supplementary food, but where they are 

 made the "piece de resistance," look out for 

 breakers ahead. The mere fact of their being 

 available under all circumstances and in all 

 places contributes largely to their general use. 



At the new million dollar Angell Memorial 

 Animal Hospital, Boston, Doctors Daly and 

 Flanigan have conducted a series of scientific 

 experiments on dogs. I had talked with Dr. 

 Flanigan, and stated my experience was that 

 an exclusive dog biscuit diet was the cause of 

 skin trouble invariably. 



They selected forty dogs in perfect physical 

 condition, dividing them into two groups of 

 twenty each. To one was fed exclusively dog 

 biscuits, and the other a diet of milk in the 

 morning, and at night a feed composed of a 

 liberal amount of spinach they had to use 

 the canned article as it was in winter boiled 

 with meat scraps and thickened with sound 

 stale bread. 



At the end of a fortnight seventeen of the 

 first group were afflicted more or less with 

 skin trouble, while the other twenty were in 

 the pink of condition. To effect a cure, the spin- 

 ach diet called by the French "the broom of 

 the stomach" was fed, and the coat washed 

 with a weak sulpho-naptha solution. No inter- 

 nal medicine was given. In a month's time the 



