DIETARY FOR PUPPIES. 59 



milk and bread or rice ; while for the feedings at eight in 

 the morning and two and five in the afternoon a little 

 scalded milk alone will be sufficient. 



By the next, or about the seventh, week the puppies 

 will be old enough to eat the vegetables and meat from 

 which the broth is made ; and these after having been 

 thoroughly cooked should be taken out and broken up 

 with the fingers or crushed to a paste in a mortar, and 

 returned to the kettle. 



This vegetable and meat soup can be given at the same 

 hours as the light broth in the previous week — that is, 

 at eleven and the last thing at night ; while scalded milk 

 with bread or rice should constitute the breakfasts, and 

 scalded milk alone the other feedings. 



At this age — about the seventh week — it is advisable 

 to fortify the food of the puppies of the largest breeds, as 

 mastiffs and St. Bernards, with bone-making material in 

 the form of precipitated phosphate of lime — against the 

 occurrence of rickets or bone deficiencies of a kindred 

 nature. For every four puppies one teaspoonful of this 

 should be given once a day in the food — with the last 

 meal — in all instances even if suspicious signs of 

 deformity have not appeared ; while where such signs 

 are manifested the lime should at once be given twice 

 every day, and in steadily increasing doses until each 

 puppy is taking half a teaspoonful. And it will Ije well 

 to persist in the use of the lime, once a day at least, for 

 three months whether or not it seems required. 



Up to this time the puppies have been given shin bones 

 from which the meat has been scraped. Now all the 

 large ones — also nearly cleaned — that are taken from 

 the soup should be thrown into their yards after break- 

 fast, but the small pieces, sharp splinters, etc., must be 

 withheld, for they might choke them. It will be well, 



