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convenient out-building and treated with the same powder, 

 which should be used generously and well worked into 

 their coats. 



This powder, by the way, is not at all likely to do mature 

 dogs harm, but in very young puppies it may produce 

 symptoms of poisoning, the most pronounced of which are 

 extreme prostration and paralysis of the hind legs. Conse- 

 quently, after it has been used and allowed to remain in the 

 hair for about five minutes the most of it should be brushed 

 or combed out. And he who need not be sparing of time 

 should use the comb, — a fine one, — by which means he 

 will remove many fleas that are apparently dead yet 

 merely narcotized and promise to be as lively as ever in 

 the course of an hour. 



The mother, when released, will shake herself and throw 

 off most of the powder from her coat, therefore she should 

 be kept lying down and prevented from doing this for ten 

 or fifteen minutes. Her breasts wiped with a cloth, and 

 the floor swept — precautions necessary lest the powder 

 get into the puppies' mouths — and new bedding, that 

 has been lightly sprinkled with kerosene oil, put in, she and 

 her little ones can be returned to their old quarters. And 

 as a rule they will be comparatively free from the pests 

 for two or three days, when the same procedures will 

 again be demanded. 



The treatment required by puppies infested by lice has 

 been fully described under " Troublesome Insects," there- 

 fore it need not be gone into. 



Those who breed should be fully alive to the fact that 

 the milk secretion is susceptible to no small number of 

 influences which may arrest it, deteriorate it, or even 

 render it highly poisonous. And among them the pain- 

 ful emotions, as fear, grief and anger, are some of the 

 most potent. Let a mother be the victim of either of 



