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and he awards prizes not only to the cottagers or other 

 persons who have the best young terriers, so far as outward 

 appearance goes, but other prizes to those whose dogs are 

 in the best health, cleanliest, and in the nicest condition. 

 This plan answers well, and is to be recommended to those 

 admirers of the terrier who keep a large kennel ; and 

 there are many fanciers in this country who breed from 

 fifty to nearly a couple of hundred puppies annually. 



If at six months old or so the puppy is very crooked in his 

 fore legs, possesses enormous ears, is likely to grow into a 

 twenty-four pound dog, or has any other failing sufficiently 

 exaggerated as to quite spoil his appearance, destroy him 

 at once, as perhaps you have done others earlier on. 

 Inferior dogs are not worth the cost of rearing, and the 

 country already contains plenty of such without more being 

 added to the number. By no means is it a bad plan 

 to give your four or five months old puppies a slight dose 

 of newly ground areca nut, from 10 to 20 grains, according 

 to their age, especially if you have found, or suspect, 

 worms present. When you have decided to do this, be 

 careful to have the stomach empty by keeping the patient 

 without food of any kind for twelve or fourteen hours. 

 Then, following the nut, in two hours administer a dessert- 

 spoonful of castor oil and buckthorn. These are simple 

 remedies, and in fully grown terriers the fasting must be 

 enforced for twenty-four hours, 25 grains of the areca nut 

 and 2 grains of santonine administered in milk, or made up 

 into a bolus, followed by a tablespoonful of the castor oil 

 mixture. If the dog is inclined to vomit after having the 

 nut given him, it is advisable to tie his mouth up and fasten 

 him by the collar in such a position that he cannot lower 

 his head until nearing the time when the medicine is 



