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Ans. — ^Answering your various dog questions, 

 would say that, until we have received the pedi- 

 gree, there is no way for us to judge whether he 

 is a thoroughbred Llewellin or not. The mark- 

 ings of the Llewellin vary all the way from the 

 pure white with a very little orange, to the darkest 

 Blue Belton, depending a good deal upon whether 

 he is of Whitestone, Gladstone, Antonio, Uncle 

 Bob, etc., extraction. We would advise your feed- 

 ing him up this winter, and enclose our standard 

 dog diet herewith. 



Except in very cold spells, the bam is just right 

 for a place to house him. 



The more exercise he gets with the farmer's 

 children the better. It will not do him any harm 

 as a pup, as this winter is the time he should get 

 his growth. 



Regarding scratching, we would suggest your 

 washing him all over with a solution of Boving's 

 or Glover's Eczema Cure, which will rid him of 

 any skin irritant, lice, fleas, etc., with which he 

 may be afflicted. He may be coming down with 

 eczema from improper feeding, in which case our 

 dog diet will set him right again. 



You will be able to work him on chickens ac- 

 cording to the Minnesota law, about next August 

 (as we recall it), and later take him hunting when 



