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REARING. 



out an erruption as a proof of it, the nose also being hot and dry. 

 Green cabbage, turnip-tops, turnips, nettle-tops, or carrots, as well 

 us potatoes, may all be given with advantage boiled and mixed 

 with the meal and broth, in wliich way they are much relished. 



Greaves, bought at the chandler's, and consisting of the refuse 

 of the fat melted to make tallow, make a very common article for 

 flavouring the meal of sporting dogs of all kinds. Beyond this 

 they have little value, but they certainly afford some degree of 

 nourishment, and are not altogether to be despised. They are 

 boiled in water first till soft, and then mixed with the meal to 

 form the stirabout or pudding. With oatmeal they form a good 

 food enough for pointers and setters, as they are not so heating as 

 flesh. 



The quantity by weight which is required by the growing puppy 

 daily of such food as the above, is from a twelfth to one- twentieth 

 of the weight of its body, varying with the rapidity of growth, 

 and a good deal with the breed also. Thus a 1 2 lb. dog will take 

 from five-eighths of a pound to a pound, and a 36 lb. dog from two 

 pounds to three pounds. When they arrive at full growth, more 

 than the smaller of these weights is very seldom wanted, and it 

 may be taken as the average weight of food of this kind for all 

 dogs in tolerably active exercise. 



Spratt's or other meat biscuits are now in very general use for 

 puppies above four or five months old as well as for adult dogs. 

 Tor shooting dogs, those made with 2 5 per cent, of meat are far 

 too strong; 10 per cent, is quite enough. 



GENERAL TREATMENT. 

 During the whole time of growth, the only general management 



