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have at hand some of the works upon diseases 

 of dogs, and will find plenty of opportunity to 

 practise. Distemper will rarely trouble you if 

 you buy drafts of full age for such purposes 

 as the average drag pack requires. It is the 

 height of folly to try to breed, although handling 

 puppies, training them, and watching them learn 

 to work is great fun. If you successfully raise 

 six couple out of twenty pups you are doing 

 wonders ; and if two couple out of the six are 

 any account you are in great luck. The game is 

 not worth the candle, save as a side issue. A 

 number of true and tried receipts for various 

 ailments are appended, and it is hoped that these 

 rambling and imperfect notes may urge you to 

 actively take up this most interesting sport, and 

 derive from it the health and the unlimited en- 

 joyment that such outdoor recreation, and its 

 attendant intimate association with dumb animals, 

 has procured for the writer. 



Vermifuge 



25 grains areca-nut 

 2 grains santonine 

 Follow in two hours with tablespoon castor oil. Repeat in 

 three days. Withhold food twenty-four hours previous. Pups, 

 half quantity. 



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