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It is, therefore, important to study what were the good, 

 and still more so the bad, points in the parents and grand- 

 parents. If you do not know these, other Newfoundland 

 breeders will willingly give information, and any trouble 

 involved in tracing the knowledge required will be amply 

 repaid in the results, and probably save great disappointment. 



When rearing puppies give them soft food, such as well- 

 boiled rice and milk, as soon as they will lap, and, shortly 

 afterwards, scraped lean meat. Newfoundland puppies 

 require plenty of meat to induce proper growth. The puppies 

 should increase in weight at the rate of 3 Ibs. a week, and this 

 necessitates plenty of flesh, bone and muscle-forming food, 

 plenty of meat, both raw and cooked. Milk is also good, 

 but it requires to be strengthened with Plasmon, or casein. 

 The secret of growing full-sized dogs with plenty of bone and 

 substance is to get a good start from birth, good feeding, 

 warm, dry quarters, and freedom for the puppies to move 

 about and exercise themselves as they wish. Forced exercise 

 may make them go wrong on their legs. Medicine should not 

 be required except for worms, and the puppies should be 

 physicked for these soon after they are weaned, and again 

 when three or four months old, or before that if they are not 

 thriving. If free from worms, Newfoundland puppies will 

 be found quite hardy, and, under proper conditions of food 

 and quarters, they are easy to rear. 



