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hand into the boiling water, being well stirred all the 

 time — the fire then removed, and the pudding allowed to 

 stand half an hour in the copper before it is taken out and 

 placed in the pudding-troughs. I have been rather prosy 

 and particular on these points, from the questions so often 

 asked by masters of setters, pointers, and other dogs, how 

 their food should be cooked, and this explanation will, I 

 hope, suffice. But if they are too fastidious to see these 

 directions attended to by their servants, the consequence 

 will be that their dogs will still continue thin and out of 

 condition as heretofore. " The master's eye makes the 

 horse fat " ; and it is of course the same with his dog. 



Upon the principle that " children and chicken should 

 always be picking," whelps require feeding at least three 

 times a day — morning, noon and night ; but they are 

 not to be crammed with a quantity of food at one meal, 

 which will have the effect of making them pot-bellied — 

 excessive repletion being particularly injurious to young 

 animals of every genus and species. Puppies also require 

 a constant change of straw, and when a month or six 

 weeks old should be put out into the air, in a sunny 

 situation, protected from the north and east winds ; and 

 when the weather is cold or frosty, they should be kept 

 warm during the night, and not let out too early in the 

 morning. 



To destroy the little white lice with which whelps are 

 generally tormented, a simple dressing of linseed-oil and 

 sulphur will be sufficient, which may be repeated, if 

 necessary, without any injurious effects to the mother or 

 her offspring ; but tobacco water, and other such noxious 

 remedies, should never be used for the purpose. 



Many inquiries have been made as to the treatment of 

 what is considered a new kind of mange, but in my opinion 



