378 SHOOTING. 



his game, or in many instances his finding a 

 wounded bird would be of no advantage to the 

 shooter. 



KENNEL TREATMENT. 



The best regular food for sporting dogs is oatmeal 

 well boiled, and flesh, which may be either boiled 

 with the meal or given raw. In hot weather, dogs 

 should not have either oatmeal or flesh in a raw 

 state, as they are heating. Potatoes boiled are 

 good summer food, and an excellent occasional 

 variety in winter, but they should be cleaned be- 

 fore being boiled, and well dried after, or they will 

 produce disease. Boasted potatoes are equally 

 good, if not better. The best food to bring dogs 

 into condition, and to preserve their wind in hot 

 weather, is sago boiled to a jelly, half a pound of 

 which may be given to each dog daily, in addition 

 to potatoes or other light food ; a little flesh meat 

 or a few bones being allowed every alternate day. 

 Dogs should have whey or butter-milk two or three 

 times a week during summer, when it can be pro- 

 cured, or in lieu thereof, should have a table-spoon- 

 ful of flour of sulphur once a fortnight. To bring 

 a dog into condition for the season, we would give 

 him a very large table-spoonful of sulphur about 

 a fortnight before the 12th of August, and two 

 days after giving him that, a full table-spoonful of 

 syrup of buckthorn should be administered, and 

 afterwards twice repeated at intervals of three days, 

 the dog being fed on the sago diet the while. There 

 should always be fresh water within reach. Dogs 

 should never be chained up. 



