238 The Sporting Dog 



Never use corn meal alone. In fact, it is a poor 

 food in any form of mixture if graham bread or 

 oatmeal is available. 



In active training field dog men could learn 

 a great deal from greyhound trainers. There 

 are few handlers of shooting dogs who know 

 how to get or keep their dogs in good condition. 

 For the last week of a greyhound's training and 

 when he is at a meeting, he is fed on a manufac- 

 tured biscuit in the morning and solid, raw, lean 

 beef in the evening. A greyhound seems to 

 get both blood condition and nervous energy on 

 this feeding, and I have no doubt that a setter, 

 or pointer, on the eve of a field trial would come 

 to a sharper edge if fed something the same way. 

 It is true that a shooting dog or hound should 

 not have even half the proportion of meat fed to 

 a greyhound in training, but each would be the 

 better for more than is commonly allowed. While 

 field dogs are not as delicate or as liable to 

 suffer from exposure as greyhounds, they have 

 their susceptibilities and need some care, other 

 than they get at field trials, to guard against 

 congestions, exhaustions, and the effects of 

 extreme weather. 



In a field trial kennel is usually a tank filled 

 with " dip " to destroy fleas and prevent mange. 

 The favorite solution — liked because it does 

 not hurt the eyes and facilitates the quick work 



