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Other "greens," lettuce, nettle tops, squash, etc., for those 

 from below the ground, as potatoes, carrots, beets and the 

 like are decidedly fattening. 



Returning to delicate toys and considering them with- 

 out reference to ages, the fact appears that those with 

 long coats, as Yorkshires and Maltese terriers, cannot 

 bear much meat because of its stimulating properties, and 

 when given in excess it not only tends to create internal 

 derangement and disease but "heats up their blood." 

 This condition in turn excites skin affections, especially 

 those attended with intense itching, and has a ruinous 

 effect on the coat. And the same evils of excess of meat 

 appear in some of the short-coated toys — the black-and- 

 tan terriers, for instance — in which such skin diseases 

 are never easily cured. 



But while toy terriers are easily injured by excess of 

 meat they must not be deprived of this food, and although 

 much of it may be in the form of broths or extracts, — as 

 the " blood gravy " from roast beef or mutton — under 

 ordinary conditions they should have one of these meats 

 at least once a day. 



New milk should constitute their breakfasts, luncheons 

 in the middle of the afternoon, and the last meal at bed- 

 time — late in the evening — if one is allowed them. 



Fresh tripe that has been boiled in milk and then 

 chopped fine is very acceptable to these little ones, and 

 mixed with a small quantity of boiled barley — the same 

 being softened with a little of the milk in which the tripe 

 was boiled — does nicely for the feeding in the middle of 

 the forenoon. 



Bread cut thin and buttered is suitable for a change 

 and may be given occasionally to all that like it, the 

 slices being broken into small pieces and fed from the 

 hand. 



