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raise "mutts" as it does the real article. Weed 

 out the inferior stock that never did or will 

 pay for their keep. Keep half a dozen good 

 ones that will reproduce, if bred rightly, their 

 quality, if you have not plenty of room for a 

 large number. To those fanciers who only own 

 two or three, sufficient food is usually furnished 

 from the scraps left from the table, supple- 

 mented, of course, with dog biscuit. 



Many kennel-men, who have a large number 

 of dogs to feed, obtain daily from hotels or 

 boarding houses the table scraps, and this 

 makes an ideal food. We fed quite a large 

 number of dogs for several years in this way 

 with perfect success. I know of a large pack 

 of foxhounds that are fed from the same food 

 furnished by a large hotel. Fish heads boiled 

 with vegetables make a good diet be sure 

 there are no fish hooks left in them, and the 

 scraps from the butchers that are not quite 

 fit for human consumption make ideal food 

 when cooked with rice or vegetables. Be care- 

 ful they are not too old, however. When 

 skimmed milk is obtainable at the right price, 

 with waste stale bread, it makes a well bal- 

 anced ration for occasional feeding. A few 

 onions boiled up with the feed are always in 

 order. 



I think the subject of "Tails" requires more 

 than a passing mention here. All observers at 



