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milk, varying according to the peculiar process adopted in making 

 the cheese. It is, however, very little better than barleymeal and 

 greaves, and is only useful in default of better articles of diet. 

 These are the most common mistakes made in giving too little 

 animal food ; but the opposite error is even worse, since it leads 

 to the production of a great overgrown, mastiff- looking greyhound, 

 heavy and bulky about the shoulders, yet with a small chest, and 

 not wind enough to follow the butcher's cart, which is generally 

 the accompaniment of a dog fed in this way. I allude to the dog 

 reared at a butcher's, and fed upon offal, and nothing else in the 

 shape of meal. Most of these dogs die in the rearing ; they get 

 diseased, generally in the form of dysentery, and die complete 

 skeletons. But if the butcher has had experience in rearing grey- 

 hounds, he adopts a plan which saves him trouble and expense, 

 and also the lives and health of the puppies which he has to rear. 

 It is true that this plan is not so good as the mixture of meal with 

 the offal, but still, after they become accustomed to it, it agrees 

 very well, and is the best as well as the cheapest substitute for the 

 flesh and meal plan with which I am acquainted. This mode is 

 the following : Instead of cleaning the entrails and paunches, the 

 whole should be preserved, that is, the whole of the vegetable 

 food contained in the stomach and intestines, taking care to reject 

 those lower entrails in which the food has become impacted in the 

 sheep, and all nourishment extracted. This may be given raw, 

 and dogs soon eat it eagerly, taking care to mix it altogether, by 

 cutting the entrails and stomach into small pieces ; but it is much 

 better to boil it all up together, stirring it the while, and mixing 



