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he is more than likely he will be ready to eat whatever is 

 set before him. His food must be concentrated ; in other 

 words he should have a good solid feed, and it should be 

 varied and consist of an admixture of several articles. 



As for instance, if there are not table scraps in ample 

 quantity and eminently suitable in quality for him, one 

 supper should consist principally of stale white bread and 

 beef, the next of mutton and boiled rice, the next of beef 

 and Graham bread, and so on, with boiled sheep and beast 

 heads and corn meal or oatmeal for change. Many, by 

 the way, object to corn meal, but very likely one pro- 

 nounced reason is that they have used it day after day and 

 week after week. But if given once or twice a week it 

 can do no harm unless it is old and rancid. 



With each meal there should be one vegetable at least, 

 and herein, also, should be variety — one night boiled tur- 

 nips, another beets, then cabbages, carrots, potatoes or 

 some of the various greens. And accepting without 

 qualification the fact that the bowels should be regulated 

 in the feeding-pan, not by drugging, these greens, oat- 

 meal and Graham bread should be mainly relied upon when 

 the bowels are confined, while boiled flour would be the 

 proper remedy were they relaxed. 



In preparing the supper the bread, crackers, rice or 

 other starchy foods should be just softened with a good 

 rich broth. The beef or mutton should then be chopped 

 quite fine, and the vegetables mashed if they are turnips, 

 carrots, beets or potatoes, or minced if they are cabbages 

 or greens. And after the ingredients have been treated 

 in these ways they should be all so well mixed that the dog 

 cannot pick out the meat if disposed to do so. 



A word here as to forced or spoon feeding. It is only 

 in extremely rare instances that it is necessary except in 

 sickness, and certainly it should not be resorted to unless 



