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down that the quantity of meat can be reduced 

 during the close season and increased during 

 the working season to almost an all-meat diet 

 with satisfactory results. Unbolted wheat flour 

 is the most desirable of grains. Wheat flour, 

 rye or barley shorts, should be baked as bread 

 pones and allowed to cool and afterward bro- 

 ken up and softened with meat liquor, soup 

 or milk. Corn-meal is a popular food with 

 trainers, probably on account of its price, ease 

 in obtaining and preparing, but it is a fat 

 producer and not a muscle builder. No horse 

 trainer would feed it to a thoroughbred when 

 conditioning him for a race, and while some 

 trainers feel satisfied with the way their dogs 

 thrive on it, the animals would undoubtedly 

 be capable of greater muscular development 

 if fed on one of the other grains. 



A very good way of preparing food for a 

 string of dogs is to purchase a few sheeps' 

 heads, a couple of beeves' heads, or twenty 

 or thirty pounds of chucks or neck pieces 

 chopped fine. Boil the heads in a kettle until 

 they are thoroughly cooked, and the meat can 

 be scraped easily from the bones. This meat 

 then should be chopped or shredded into small 

 pieces and mixed with from three to six times 

 its weight of whole wheat flour, rye or corn- 

 meal, softened and worked up with the soup 

 liquor. To this may be added enough black 



