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ley to make the color of milk, a little lime water 

 and give to the kits just warm enough to drink. 

 Some of the kits will lap it readily, others it 

 may be necessary to teach by putting their noses 

 into it or putting some on their mouths but as a 

 rule they soon learn. Give them this three times 

 a day and if the mother cat has scant nurse, 

 let her also have the barley. At five weeks, 

 a pinch of raw scraped beef, moistened with 

 lime water, can be given once a day to each 

 kit. About as much as the tip of the finger 

 and do not let them swallow it all at one time. 

 See that each kit gets its portion. 



At six weeks add a little of Spratt's pepsin- 

 ated puppy meal to the meat with a speck of 

 salt and bonemeal. Old Trusty puppy meal 

 makes a splendid food for kits. For a litter of 

 four, take a tablespoon of the meal, moisten 

 with hot water, add the meat, salt and bone- 

 meal, mix well and divide into equal parts and 

 see that each kit gets an equal share. Some 

 are greedy and may take more than one share. 

 At first feed this once a day with three feedings 

 of the Barley. In a week or ten days as the 

 kits grow, feed twice a day with two feedings 

 of Barley. Increase the amount as the kits 

 grow, but do not start vegetables too soon, but 

 a little cream of wheat may be added to the 

 Barley three of four times a week, at the age of 

 two months. 



