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"Above doses are for clogs that weigh when grown from 50 pounds to 100 

 pounds. For smaller dogs weighing about 25 pounds take two-thirds, and toy dogs 

 of about 10 pounds take one-third the above doses. In treating puppies with this 

 remedy, give only one dose; on old dogs, repeat once or twice." 



There is no use giving any worm remedy unless the dog has been prepared 

 for it by a proper fasting, and the medicine is put in them when bowels are 

 empty. You must catch the worms by fishing for them when they are hungry, 

 the exception of this rule being, of course, in the case of treating puppies yet un- 

 weaned. This is, as before said, not so often necessary. There is a remedy made by 

 A. Burlingame & Co., Greenwich Village, Mass., called Dr. Wurm's Worm Powders, 

 that I use in cases of puppies unweaned when the worms have shown up, and I 

 have found it safe in puppies as young as two weeks. Miss M. B. Servossi, the 

 collie breeder of Edison, 111., wrote me as follows just before I got out this book, 

 as to her experience wt.th Dr. Wurm's Powders, and as her object was such a 

 good one I herewith give her ideas in her own words. She says: 



"Destroy the worms before the worms can do. the damage, and then see how 

 the youngsters will get on and thrive. The tendency of worms is to stunt the 

 growth by living on what the puppy has digested, and 'the younger the puppy the 

 less able it is to feed a lot of worms, and they must stunt the growth even if the 

 puppies are never sick from them. My plan was to give the young pups some- 

 tiling that would not be too severe, make them sick, or require fasting, which is 

 impossible in art unweaned puppy, and after many experiments I tried Dr. Wurm's 

 Worm Powders, as follows: I began with every puppy in the litter on the tenth 

 day ; giving a three-grain capsule night and morning on the tenth, eleventh and 

 twelfth clay, and again on the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth day. It will 

 not make them sick a minute, they do not seem to know they have taken it, but 

 a peculiar odor more or less around their pen will show whether they had them 

 cr only a few. Try it on one litter and you will be convinced. The only 

 reason 'the puppies get worse about weaning ttme is that they are not able to 

 digest enough of other food than milk to supply themselves and the worms, then 

 make the puppies' digestion give out." 



Miss Servoss was treating collie pups, so you can judge of the sized breed to 

 which she gave 3-grain doses at ten days old. Her ideas are good ones, but I 

 would not advise beginning treatment quite so young as at ten days old in any 

 pups. I have at this writing a litter of pug pups now a month old, thriving and 

 healthy pups, that I have watched their passages daily for three weeks past, and 

 have failed to see any signs of worms in the passages until this very day, when 

 I discovered some mucus, and I shall now give them each a 3-grain capsule of 

 Dr. Wurm's Powders every morning for three days, and later on repeat with a 

 treatment of either this remedy or some one of the vermifuges mentioned. The 

 Columbia Vermicide, advertised in thib book, is a liquid put up in an elastic soft 

 capsule, easy to give, of course tasteless to the puppy, and is strongly recom- 

 mended. They put them up in two sizes for puppies and for older dogs. Dr. 

 Glover's Vermifuge is a strong, well known destroyer of worms, many a bottle of 

 \viij.-h 1 have used with good results. In a recent letter from Dr. Glover, reply- 

 ing to one I wrote him as 'to using his vermifuge on young puppies, He writes me 

 as follows: 



" 'You can give 14 to |/ 2 teaspoonful to a three or four-weeks' old puppy. 

 Graduate the close according to breed of the dog, and as the pup gets older in- 

 crease the dose by a few drops each time." 



