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 food. Dogs in kennels are sometimes fed wholly on 

 nieal and milk, and they will thrive on it during 

 the season they do not hunt ; but when they are 

 strongly exercised, this food will not be suthciently 

 nutritious, or stay by them. This makes it here 

 proper to inquire \\ liat meal is best ; and it is no 

 dithcult matter at once to decide that wheat meal is 

 preferable, for it is much less likely to produce 

 mange and a heated skin. 



Barlev, meal, and oatmeal, are very generally 

 used, and are nutritious wlien mixed with milk or 

 broth ; but they have tome tendency to produce a 

 red itching skin when constantly used, for which 

 reason a portion of potatoes should be mixed with 

 them. Potatoes, it will be found, form a most ex- 

 cellent food for dogs who are not M'antcd to hunt : 

 they are nutritive and yet cooling, and, when mix/d 

 with milk or buttermilk, will be found a conve- 

 nient, ccoiiomical, and wholesome food. Many dogs 

 are found not readily to lake to potatoes as food, par- 

 ticularly \\ljen it is found necessary to feed them 

 almost wholly on ihem ; and which becom.es often a 

 very necessary matter, as in many cases when the 

 health requires a complete change in the diet, and 

 that that change sliould be from a meat to a vege- 

 table one. 



Potatoes in this instarce are particularly conve- 

 nient as well as pioper, because they are within every 

 one's reach ; and as, being at every one's table, they 

 are peculiarly iitted for food for small dogs and 

 pets. 



However averse dogs may be to vegetable food, it 

 will be always in the power of those who feed them 



