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will return from this digression to the subject more 

 immediately under our consideration. 



In an artificial state, where the supply of food 

 is regular at certain intervals, it is obvious that 

 there being no craving from absolute hunger, the 

 quantity should be moderate. And there is another 

 consideration which huntsmen lose sight of how 

 will whelps fare when sent out to their walks in 

 the country at farm-houses ? Take their chance 

 of getting what the calves leave at the bottom of 

 the pail, or share the meal of whey with the pigs 

 in the yard. Whelps, when young, are very sub- 

 ject to worms, which may be removed at this early 

 period by a dessertspoonful of linseed oil, given 

 fasting for two mornings following, an hour at least 

 before they are fed ; and if this does not expel 

 them, a very small quantity of turpentine may be 

 added. Rape-oil, thickened with yellow sulphur, 

 will also suffice to destroy the little white lice by 

 which puppies are worried when a month or six 

 weeks old. Unless properly treated as to diet and 

 clean bedding, which requires changing every third 

 day, eruptions will soon appear on the skin to 

 remove which alteratives must be used. For the 

 first, a teaspoonful of sulphur and cream of tartar, 

 in equal quantities, given alternate evenings for a 

 week, will prove sufficient, and a light dressing of 

 rape oil and sulphur, as above mentioned. 



When two months old, whelps may be sent out 

 to those quarters where they are sure to be taken 

 good account of; but, as a general rule, perhaps it 

 is safer to keep them another month in the paddock, 



