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18 inches in the river bank; or you may pull 

 up a clod and put it under, only you must not 

 let the dog see where you place it. Then take 

 the dog with you near to where the rat or skin 

 is buried, and you will soon see that the dog 

 knows its w T ork. Do this a few times, and you 

 will see that once the dog finds the dead 

 Rat or the skin it w r ill never forget. The 

 younger the dog the better, the right age to 

 break a puppy this way being about four or five 

 months. Break it in for taking to the water 

 at the same time. If you want a good working 

 dog always keep it on the chain when at home, 

 and feed it at the same time as the ferrets, but 

 do not over-feed it ; also give it one dose of 

 castor oil or syrup of buckthorn every 14 days. 

 I recommend this because you never know the 

 nasty poisonous stuff that the dog gets on its 

 .stomach from the dirty brook and river sides. 



Let me add that all I have written about 

 ferrets and dogs are not given merely from 

 hearsay, but are the facts derived [from study 

 and experience during 25 years of dog and 

 ferret-keeping. 



