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Food for Greyhounds when Training. 



Take wheat-meal, and oat ditto, equal quantities, 

 liquorice, aniseeds, and whites of eggs ; beat them into 

 a paste, make loaves, and bake them : they are to be 

 broken and given in rich broth. 



Fleas. 



Constant cleanliness is the best preventive. Lather 

 the coat well all over, and through to the skin, with 

 the strongest soap ; adding pearl-ash, if necessary; 

 taking care to kill all the fleas within reach : then wash 

 clean. This, repeated a dozen times, will exterminate 

 them. 



Or an ounce of pepper, boiled in a quart of water, is 

 a good wash to rid dogs of these vermin ; but Scotch 

 snuff, steeped in gin, is infallible. 



To Cure the Skins of Dogs, Foxes, Fawns, Cats, $c. 



In casing these animals, begin at the muzzle, and 

 from the pelt downwards, when they are to be stuffed. 



Let alum be beaten fine, and put into boiling water, or 

 boiled in the water with a little salt, in the proportion 

 of one pound to two gallons. Put the skins into a tub, 

 and cover them with the water when it is lukewarm. 

 Let them stand four days ; then take them out and rub 

 them well the way the hair lies, with lukewarm water 



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