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prove burdensome to the digestive organs were tftey 

 served in concentrated forms. 



This bread is very well suited to the wants of man, for 

 although it is deficient in important nutritive principles 

 — thrown out in the processes of bolting and sifting — he 

 takes in other foods and ways like principles in sufficient 

 quantities, and oftentimes in a more digestible form than 

 that in which they appear in wheat. Hence, notwith- 

 standing much that has been written about the superi- 

 ority of wheat meal — simply the produce of grinding — 

 over wheat flour, all things considered, bread made of 

 the latter is of quite as high a value to him as the "brown 

 bread," which is made of the meal and contains the exter- 

 jial as well as the internal parts of the grain. 



But the diet of dogs is not varied to such an extent as 

 that of man, and were much white bread given them to 

 the exclusion of other and more nutritious foods they 

 must be deprived of many principles required for their 

 support, not the least important of which are the nutri- 

 tive salts — highly essential to the bone and other tis- 

 sues — and in consequence decline in health and vigor, 

 although they might still appear in good condition, 

 remaining very nearly at weight under its fattening 

 influence. 



This fact should sink deeply into the minds of those 

 breeders who are accustomed to feed their dogs largely 

 on trimmings and broken and stale pieces of bread, for 

 to ignorance of it or failure to accept its importance can 

 be attributed untimely deaths of some of the most valu- 

 able members of the race this country has ever known. 



Such bread remnants if untainted are all very well 

 in their way, for when softened with broths and mixed 

 with meat they render these foods more digestible as 

 well as slightly more nutritious ; at the same time they 



