200 EEARING. 



Dearly a year old. It may therefore Ln; considered that mo-1 

 or oatmeal is the best meal, unless the price of wheat-flour e;ui 

 bo afforded, when the best red wheat should be coarsely ground 

 and not bolted, and in this state made into biscuits or dump- 

 lings, or used to thicken the broth. 



If corn meal is employed, it must be mixed with the water or 

 broth while cold, and then boiled for at least an hour, stirring it 

 occasionally to prevent burning. If it is intended to mix oatmeal 

 with the com meal, the former may be first mixed with cold 

 water to a paste, and then stirred in after boiling the latter for 

 three quarters of an hour ; then boil another quarter, reckoning 

 from the time that the contents of the copper came to the boiling 

 point a second time. 



Wheat-flour should be boiled from fifteen to twenty mmutcs, 

 and may be mixed with the oatmeal in the same way as the corn 

 meal. 



Oatmeal pudding, and porridge, or stirabout, are made as follows : 

 the first name being given to it when so thick as to bear the 

 weight of the body after it is cold, and, the last two to a somewhat 

 thinner composition. In any case the meal is stirred up with cold 

 water to a thick paste, and, when quite smooth, some of the broth 

 should be ladled out and added to it, still stirring it steadily. Then 

 return the whole to the boiler, and stir until it tliickeus, ladle out 

 into coolers, and let it " set," when it can be cut with a spade and is 

 quite solid. The directions as to the length of time for tlie boiling 

 of oatmeal vary a good deal, some preferring at least half an hour's 

 boil, while others are content with ten or fifteen minutes, but for 

 most purposes from a quarter to half an hour is the proper time, 

 remembering that this is to be reckoned from the moment that 

 the water boils. 



The animal food used should be carefully selected to avoid in- 

 fectious diseases, and the flesh of those creatures which have been 

 loaded with drugs should also be avoided. Horseflesh, if death 

 has been caused by accident, is as good as anything, and in many 

 cases of rapid disease the flesh is little the worse, but though in 

 foxhound kennels there is little choice, yet for greyhounds those 



