General Management. 5 
old style of feeding ; the innovation is cleanly and conven- 
ient; various kinds have been put on the market. For 
many years I have given considerable attention to this class 
of food—indeed, have made it my business, apart from 
manufacturers’ solicitations, to examine and test the different 
sorts, but always finding room for some improvement, and 
not a few in the fancy, whose personal acquaintance and 
practical knowledge I appreciate, can bear testimony to my 
repeated assertion, that a perfect canine food in this form 
—zie., a biscuit adapted to the natural requirements com- 
patible with domestication, of the canine stomach—was still 
wanted. Ina patent I have recently taken out it has been 
my aim to as nearly as possible produce such a biscuit. 
The intestinal relaxed condition of biscuit-fed dogs has 
long taxed the manufacturers’ genius, as well as being a 
continual cause of public complaint, and I have had frequent 
conferences with biscuit vendors and purchasers on this 
question, 
The increasing prevalence of eczema and allied skin 
diseases in biscuit-fed dogs, though usually put down to 
heredity, is nevertheless in frequent instances due to the 
mal-assimilation of food consequent on, and producing 
dyspepsia, and, bearing this fact in mind, I have carefully 
avoided those ingredients which are a common source of 
digestive disturbance,-and substituted those easily assimi- 
lative, corrective, and in touch with the animal’s natural 
requirements, this being especially the case with the vege- 
table ingredients. The subjoined high professional report 
and analysis will speak as to the merits of this formula, 
which has been submitted to z very lengthy trial on a 
variety of canine breeds :— 
OFFICIAL REPORT AND ANALYSIS. 
‘In my opinion these Biscuits are highly nutritious, containing as they do, in 
suitable proportions, some of the best adapted and most easily digested food stuffs 
for Dogs. ; ; ; ; 
“The addition, for the first time, of a most essential vegetable ingredient in 
canine dietary, and the substitution of a valuable bone product for the usual bone 
