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quantities and the chances are many that the puppies 

 so fed will in consequence increase rapidly in bone and 

 muscle. 



Evidently, therefore, in order that puppies may be kept 

 down in weight and size and still be strong and healthy 

 their breeders must feed with exceeding nicety. They 

 must rely largely upon milk, and the quantity of this even 

 must be restricted as nearly as possible to the actual 

 requirements of the body as it then stands, for excess 

 would favor increase in the size of the frame and 

 amount of flesh. 



But even in large quantities milk does not tend to fat- 

 ten if deprived of its cream, yet this is the specially force- 

 producing part, and were milk largely depended upon, to 

 deny very young puppies this part would be to invite 

 weakness and frailties beyond those they inherited. 

 Therefore it would be better to give them new milk 

 for the first month or two, and when they are strong 

 and active — that is for their kind — use skimmed milk 

 or buttermilk largely ; and they can generally be safely 

 allowed these at frequent intervals. But it must be 

 little and often even with milk, and a fairly large quan- 

 tity during the day ; and on no account should they be 

 given a large quantity at any one feeding. 



All this bears as well on other varieties that must be 

 kept down in size and weight in order to be able to pass 

 under the standard. Their food must be principally ani- 

 mal — milk or meat — and what starchy substances are 

 given them must be reduced in quantity as soon as they 

 put on too much fat ; while too rapid growth in frame and 

 muscle will call for a reduction in the quantity of animal 

 food, and especially the meat. 



As for the use of vegetables, the safest rule is to allow 

 them only such as grow above ground, as spinach and 



