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to which this volume is dedicated, have we seen unnaturally 

 grown puppies winning even in the all-aged classes, which 

 when matured have proved but sorry specimens. No doubt 

 this has led the Collie Club to make their classes according 

 to the age of the exhibits, those under twelve months old, 

 under two years old, and over the latter age, competing in 

 separate and distinct groups. This arrangement applies 

 to no other variety of dog. 



However, to our distemper. This disorder occurs in 

 such various forms, and may be attended by so many 

 complications that no one remedy can avail in all cases. 

 If severe, the nearest veterinary surgeon should be called in 

 immediately, but ordinary cases may be cured by the remedy 

 advertised by Spratt's Patent, that should be kept handy 

 for cases of emergency. One old gamekeeper I was 

 acquainted with placed every reliance on a bolus of tar 

 about the size of a small walnut, which he would give to his 

 spaniels or retrievers directly the first symptoms appeared. 

 Others I know are equally confident in the curative powers 

 of Frank Gillard's specific. As I have said, puppies reared 

 on the lines suggested seldom suffer very severely from 

 distemper, and, during one period of ten years, when rearing 

 a large number of puppies, I never lost a single one from 

 this so often fatal complaint, and the worst attack in my 

 kennel I traced to my folly in exhibiting a puppy at one of 

 the four days' shows. That was a lesson to me I shall 

 never forget. 



Mange of one kind or another may occur through negli- 

 gence ; and, as prevention is far better than cure, cleanli- 

 ness, with regular exercise and dietary, minimise the 

 chances of such an outbreak. A useful remedy for ordi- 

 nary red mange, one which can easily be compounded by 



