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box. In hot weather, keep mother and babies 

 as cool as possible. We have an old smoke- 

 house shaded by a large tree, with a big, open 

 chimney at one end, and a door at the other, so 

 there is always plenty of ventilation. On very 

 sultry days a burlap curtain is thoroughly 

 soaked in water and hung over the screen door 

 to lower the temperature. And in the winter 

 the maternity ward is a little room partitioned 

 off from the brooder-house, which is always 

 comfortably warm, as the steam-pipes pass 

 through it. 



Puppies should be taught to drink as soon 

 as possible after they are six weeks old. We 

 use goats' milk, but when there are no goats to 

 furnish it, condensed milk is really the safest. 

 I If cows' milk has to be used, it must be scalded 

 and allowed to cool as for a human baby; and 

 let me assure you that as much care should be 

 exercised in feeding young animals as young 

 children, for, like children, the least neglect is 

 likely to cause bowel trouble and indigestion. 



Lessons in eating will be much easier if the 

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