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a steam-jacketed kettle, then baked brown in 

 a regular brick oven. In summer it is best to 

 substitute oats for cornmeal, as the latter is 

 too heating, and two tablespoonsful of hypo- 

 sulphite of soda should be added for every 

 ten couples. It should be baked hard, forcing 

 them to chew it up, thus causing a flow from 

 the salivary glands that aids digestion. 



The feeding of soft, sloppy, starchy foods, 

 while fattening, leaves the hounds soft and 

 flabby and produces eczema and mange. 

 Baked hard the hound cannot bolt it, requir- 

 ing crunching and better mastication. It keeps 

 the teeth clean and firm, a soft food fed 

 hound of two years of age frequently has the 

 mouth of a four or five-year-old hound. 



Dogs fed wholly on farinaceous foods take 

 on flesh rapidly, their systems become weak- 

 ened and predisposed to disease and lack the 

 highest development of courage, endurance, 

 and gameness so greatly desired in hounds. 



An occasional feed of vegetables should be 

 given as the meal diet is very heating to the 

 blood and frequently brings on attacks of 

 eczema and mange, the curse of all hound 

 packs. It is doubtless to supply deficiency of 

 vegetables that a dog is seen to eat grass. 



Bones, described as a dog's tooth brush, are 



