98 THE AMERICAN HUNTING DOG 



ing of table scraps, dog bread, and meat broth. 

 Once a week a tablespoonful of raw meat chopped 

 fine; bones a-plenty, nnless they happen to be 

 hard, sharp, splintery leg-bones of a chicken, when 

 they might puncture the dog's intestines. A 

 dog's stomach has so much hydrochloric acid in 

 it that he can swallow whole a bone as big as a 

 silver dollar and digest it as easily as a human 

 will cake. The thing simply turns to jelly in his 

 stomach and goes into his own bonal structure 

 forthwith, whereas if we tried to eat the same 

 bone we would need an emetic and a surgeon! 

 Bones that form hard splinters, however, are to 

 be guarded against. 



In cereals, corn bread and oatmeal are both 

 good, but must be stopped with the coming of hot 

 weather and also on noting any symptoms of ec- 

 zema. The latter comes from over-heating foods, 

 or too rich a diet, too much meat and not enough 

 stale bread baked brown; or it may come from 

 garbage-pail food and too little nourishment, but 

 generally, in the case of the over-zealous sports- 

 man, with too rich a diet. It shows up in continu- 

 ous scratching behind the ears and under the arm- 

 pits. Remedy: reduce the meat element of the 

 diet and wash coat with flowers of sulphur in 

 crude oil or some such patent preparation as 



