140 The Collie or Sheep Dog. 



according to their age, followed in a couple of hours by a 

 dessert-spoonful of castor oil and buckthorn. The nut 

 must, however, be given on an empty stomach, the patient 

 having just previously been kept without food for from ten 

 to twelve hours. The most successful and simple vermifuge 

 for an ordinary full grown collie is i drachm of newly 

 powdered areca nut and 2 grains of santonine, given in 

 broth or mixed as a bolus, followed in three hours by a 

 large table-spoonful of buckthorn and castor oil. In this 

 case the patient must have been kept without food for 

 twenty-four hours prior to the medicine being given. It is 

 well to repeat this a second time after a week's interval. 



I do not here intend to enter into any, learned or other- 

 wise, disquisition on canine diseases, for there are many 

 works which treat them fully, carefully, and practically, 

 but there are sundry little disorders incident to the canine 

 race which must be mentioned, and first and foremost 

 comes distemper. Almost every kennelman and huntsman 

 has his pet remedy for this complaint, which annually 

 carries off thousands of puppies, an especially large number 

 succumbing from the more or less unhealthy surroundings 

 of dog shows to which they have been sent before their 

 time. Personally, I would not allow a dog under twelve 

 months old to be exhibited at all, unless it were at one of 

 the open air gatherings of the Agricultural Societies, which 

 open at ten o'clock and close at three or four o'clock 

 on the same day. Mr. Everett Millais is taking a great 

 interest in the exhibition of puppies, especially so far 

 as disinfecting the show benching is concerned but the 

 remedy of total exclusion is the best of all. Moreover, 

 showing these puppies tends to make breeders force them 

 in their growth, and often enough, especially in the variety 



