224 MANAGEMENT OF HOUNDS. 



If dry, and pinched in appearance, the system is fevered 

 by over- warmth, or other causes. If moist and spongy, 

 it is a sure sign of good health. Sporting dogs, if fed 

 and taken care of as I have suggested, will (if not lamed, 

 or overworked so much as to refuse their food) be fit to 

 work again on the next or following day. Dogs, like 

 horses, require training by moderate and regular exercise, 

 before they can fairly be expected to undergo severe 

 work. Sheeps' trotters are also very excellent food, 

 when the bones are picked out. Dogs fed upon raw 

 flesh are not fit to work until the next day after, and 

 scarcely then. Barley meal, scalded with boiling water, 

 and then covered over in a pan for half an hour before 

 used, with some skim milk afterwards added, will do very 

 well ; but it is more heating and does not contain the 

 strengthening properties of oatmeal. Indian meal may 

 also do as a makeshift, when boiled for half an hour. 

 Dogs should have always a pan of clean water before 

 them, day and night, winter and summer. When fever- 

 ish, give them half a small tea spoonful of yellow sulphur 

 and half of cream of tartar, mixed up in some butter or 

 lard, at night. This dose once a week will keep a dog 

 in health ; it may be given twice a week if he is feverish. 



