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an egg and adding half a teaspoonful of 

 brandy to it. The dose was repeated at in- 

 tervals for two or three hours as it seemed ad- 

 visable. Strange to say, her puppies were born 

 with a want of proper instinct about food, for 

 they would never attempt to nurse till they were 

 forced by hunger, and even then had to be held 

 to her breast and almost taught how to help 

 themselves. But Jinny Dean and her babies are 

 the only family which needed such pernickety 

 nursing. 



About four weeks before the babies are ex- 

 pected, a dose of worm medicine is adminis- 

 tered, and another one a few days later. We 

 prefer, and always use, Dr. Wurms powders, 

 both for mother and babies. Give babies of 

 any of the large breeds a three-grain dose 

 when three weeks old, and from then on every 

 six weeks until past puppyhood, increasing the 

 dose slowly after the second one. 



Use clean, unbroken oat straw for the bed; 

 let it be changed the day after the babies arrive, 

 and every week during the time they occupy the 



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