DIETARY FOR PUPPIES. 53 



they are dry and crisp, and crush by squeezing them 

 through the fingers. Pour over this bread scalding hot 

 milk to which a little sugar and a small piece of butter 

 have been added ; or instead of the bread well-boiled rice 

 can be used, and the same is sure to be thoroughly cooked 

 — but not too much so — if left overnight in a "slow 

 oven." 



The feeding at eleven can properly be of toast softened 

 with a little light broth. 



At two, again the scalded milk and bread. 



At five, a little scalded milk alone will be sufficient. 



Scalded bread or rice and milk, or toast and broth, 

 should constitute the last meal. And this and the first 

 feeding after daylight should be somewhat larger than 

 those between them, but in no instance should the quantity 

 be sufficiejit to swell the abdomen. 



These foods and these methods can properly be per- 

 sisted in during the first week after weaning. 



It is necessary to stop here for a time and discuss at 

 some length the vital question of the number of meals 

 daily for young puppies. 



Upon this breeders are widely at variance, and some 

 maintain that for all healthy puppies three meals daily are 

 amply sufficient after the fifth or sixth week, while others 

 contend that "little and often" should be the invariable 

 rule. 



Not impossibly a few have had fairly good success with 

 the three-meals-daily system, and that it might do in occa- 

 sional instances with the largest breeds is possible, yet 

 there is no gainsaying that as a general thing it means 

 failure. And for this there are many reasons. 



Were but three meals a day given the first would be 

 presumably between seven and eight in the morning and 

 the last between six and seven at night — or at least 



