THE AMERICAN FOXHOUND 9 



doubt that worms kill more puppies than all other diseases 

 combined. 



Never allow your pups to go until their mother weans them 

 before you start to feeding, if you do the results will often prove 

 disastrous. Let your feeding commence by degrees. 



After your pups are three months old, take them through 

 another course of vermifuge, and again at six months. 



In case of distemper, the pup's next worst enemy, as soon as 

 you have discovered that they have it, put them in a good dry, 

 airy room where there is no possible chance for them to get 

 damp. Keep their bowels open and feed plenty of good, 

 wholesome food, 



TRAINING. 



At the age of eight months take your pups out with the your 

 old dogs where you know you cannot find any game, circle them 

 through the woods a wliile and return home. Repeat this 

 several times before you attempt to have a race; it gets them 

 used to you, your horn, the older dogs, the woods, and teaches 

 them how to return home. 



If you desire your pups to be wide rangers, never permit an 

 old dog that hangs around you, to accompany you on these pre- 

 liminary trips, nor until the pup forms his habit of ranging, 

 which, if properly bred they will soon do when the old dogs you 

 have along range wide. 



After you think you have familiarized them with the old dogs, 

 your horse and horn, and where home is, go to where you have a 

 fox that is somewhat cowardly, for it will not do to get them in- 

 to a too hard race. If they are bred right they will try to stay 

 in the front flight. It would be best for the pups if the first five 

 or six races only lasted for an hour. It would give them confi- 

 dence, and only make them more anxious for another race. 

 Three races of an hour each, with a half hour intervening, is 

 better than one race of two hours. If possible never let your 

 pup find out that the other dogs can beat him at any place in the 

 race. 



If you are successful enough to jump a fox with your pups be- 

 fore they have ever run a rabbit or anything of the kind, you 

 will seldom have any trouble breaking them, although there are 

 lots of fine hunters who do not object to their pups running 

 rabbits. 



Above all things avoid getting your young, soft, eight or ten 



