158 THE IMPROVED ART OF FARRIERY. 



^r sheep's head, makes good food for them at all 

 times, especially when potatoes or biscuits are added ; 

 the whole being mixed with the liquor in which the 

 meat is boiled. 



Animal food should never be used more than ofxce 

 a day ; and the liquor of salt meat should never be 

 given to a dog, as it will engender mange. Potatoes 

 and skim or butter milk have been found sufficiently 

 conducive to a dog's health and strength without the 

 aid of animal food; indeed, many say, that " parsnips, 

 carrots, cabbages, and, indeed, all vegetable matter, 

 will feed dogs sufficiently well for the purposes of ex- 

 istence." 



Where kennels are large during the hunting season, 

 dogs have been found to thrive well on meal and milk; 

 wheat, however, is preferable to barley or oats in this 

 case ; the two last named articles produce a heated 

 skin, when mange ensues. 



Next to horse-flesh, dogs most eagerly devour fowls' 

 entrails. Greaves, softened and mixed with potatoes, 

 are famous food for dogs. 



No dogs should be wholly fed on meat ; and flesh 

 of every description should be parboiled, at the very 

 least, before it is given to them. 



In cases of sickness and languor, it frequently hap- 

 pens that no better remedy can be given a dog than 

 change of food ; viz., from meat to vegetable, or vice 

 versa. 



THE DISEASES OF THE DOG. 



At the head of all diseases to which the dog is liable, 

 as it is the most formidable, stands — 



