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TREATMENT QF DOGS FOOD. 



Every Dutchman, to analogyze for a convenient phrase, has, in this affair been 

 sworn at Highgage he will never walk when he can ride, be it but for half a mile. 

 In the Dog-days, these patient, laborious, and most willing animals, are sometimes 

 driven to such excess, that they drop down upon the road, and there remain until 

 their exhausted powers are renewed for fresh and unceasing labours. They have 

 however the full benefit of the Sabbath, resting undisturbed on that day. Canine 

 Madness is not more frequent in that Country than in this. In the summer 

 season, the best draught dogs, near the sea-side, are driven down to the beach 

 daily, and even several times in the day, to bathe and repose themselves, and some 

 of them have light clothing to preserve them from the flies. 



Various receipts have been published, and indeed continue to be so, for the best 

 mode of feeding dogs, as if there were some mystery or difficulty in it. Potatoes 

 and Oatmeal, are certainly the Itestjill-up for the purpose, and Horse-flesh should 

 be allowed, whenever it can be obtained. The best method is to skin the potatoes, 

 and put them into boiling water : when they are about half boiled, add oatmeal, 

 after the rate of two pounds to a peck of potatoes, stirring and boiling the whole 

 sufficiently, to make a thick soup. Some salt ought to be allowed, and more espe- 

 cially when no animal food is given with the soup ; and also, when it is. 



