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supposed to be rendered less delicate by high, feeding. From long 

 experience in this matter, however, I am satisfied that, while the 

 health is maintained in a perfect state, there is no occasion to fear 

 the loss of nose, and that such may be avoided with the above diet 

 I am confident from actual practice. At the same time it must 

 not be forgotten that all dogs so fed require a great supply of 

 green vegetables, which should be given once or twice a week dur- 

 ing the summer, without which they become heated, and throw 

 out an eruption as a proof of it, the nose also being hot and dry. 

 Green cabbage, turnip-tops, turnips, nettle-tops, or carrots, as well 

 as potatoes, may all be given with advantage boiled and mixed 

 with the meal and broth, in which way they are much relished. 



GreaveSy bought at the chandler's, and consisting of the refuse 

 of the fat melted to make tallow, make a very common article for 

 flavouring the meal of sporting dogs of all kinds. Beyond this 

 they have little value, but they certainly afford some degree of 

 nourishment, and are not altogether to be despised. They are 

 boiled in water first till soft, and then mixed with the meal to 

 form the stirabout or pudding. With oatmeal they form a good 

 food enough for pointers and setters, as they are not so heating as 

 flesh. 



The quantity hy weight which is required by the growing puppy 

 daily of such food as the above, is from a twelfth to one-twentieth 

 of the weight of its body, varying with the rapidity of growth, 

 and a good deal with the breed also. Thus a 12 lb. dog will take 

 from five-eights of a pound to a pound, and a 36 lb. dog from two 

 pounds to three pounds. When they arrive at full growth, more 



