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FOREST AND STREAM 
OCTOBER , 1917 
FEEDING THE HUNTING DOG 
THE^MARKET PLACE 
REAL ESTATE FOR SPORTSMEN 
WANTED—To lease my country home place 
to a club for period of 5 years; $500.00 per *ea- 
son. Pay you to investigate this. Can furnish 
all lands necessary for hunting privileges. E. 
E. Stallings, Enfield, N. C. (3 t c 12-7) 
FOR SALE OR TO LET —Elkins, N. H. Two 
beautiful cottages 8 and 10 rooms. Situated on 
Pleasant Lake, N. H. All modern, conveniences; 
fine trout, salmon and bass fishing. Address Cot¬ 
tage, Box 76, Forest and Stream. (11) 
FOR SALE —Camps situated on theToad from 
Phillips to Salem about one mile fr Salem 
village, good fishing and hunting, and good spring 
water. Will sell land to go with the camps if 
wanted. Apply to George G. Batchelder, Phil¬ 
lips, Me. (1 t) 
TO LET —Small furnished camp on Long Pond. 
H. E. Parker, Rangeley, Maine. (11) 
GRAND VIEW HOTEL, Eustis, Florida, doing 
profitable year-round business; successful tourist 
season just ended; building centrally located, has 
spacious verandas, 87 sleeping rooms, 42 with 
connecting bath, 48 newly furnished. Eustis, 
largest town in Lake county, is tourist and com¬ 
mercial center; fishing, golf, motoring, tennis; 
many miles hard surface roads; good train service. 
For particulars address J. F. Mayer, Owner, 
Eustis, Florida. 
ORANGE, grapefruit and avocado groves, vege¬ 
tables, rich lands, lots, bungalows; big profits; 
fine winter climate. Buy a farm, grove, lot or 
home; also fishermen’s and hunter’s paradise. 
C. C. Ausherman & Co., Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. 
TO LOVERS OF DUCK SHOOTING —Splendid 
clubhouse and grounds, and all equipment, boats, 
etc., ready for hunting on Back Bay, Virginia. 
Ex-President’s favorite hunting grounds. Price 
for the outfit $4,000. For full particulars ad¬ 
dress Powell Trust Co., Real Estate Agents, 
Newport News, Va. (R) 
1,200 CASH buys Summer Home, furnished, 
sleeping-porches, inside toilet, acetylene gas, well 
water, boat-house, barn. Fishing, hunting, boat¬ 
ing, bathing. Cost $3,000. Box 214, Trumans- 
burg, N. Y. W 
TENT, CABIN AND COTTAGE SITES ON 
Bois Blanc Island, Straits of Mackinac, Michigan. 
Also new cottages very cheap. A paradise for 
sportsmen. A. D. J. Schinmel, Pontiac, Mioh. 
CHEAP HUNTING LODGE— Horse pasture 
next cattle range, fine new fences. Fairbanks- 
Morse water plant, two lakes. Three million feet 
great timber; seven hundred acres. Sold be¬ 
cause moving East. PECKHAM, Bull River, 
British Columbia. (R) 
FLORIDA COTTAGE LOTS, $28—Miami 
Suburb. Quail, duck, bass, kingfish, barracuda, 
tarpon, sea trout. Motor down on hard roads. 
Live in your own cottage. Avoid the cold win¬ 
ter. Wm. Barber Haynes, 152 N. Union Street, 
Akron, Ohio. (R) 
15.000 ACRES rich corn land in Southern Mis¬ 
souri drainage district. Very easy terms. Rich¬ 
ard Boyden, Neelyville, Missouri. (R) 
FOR SALE —At Train Island, located in Lake 
Superior between Marquette and Munising, and 
only one mile from mainland. This island con¬ 
tains over 106 acres and is an ideal site for J 
Summer resort, fishing club or fox ranch. This 
island is timbered and a bargain at my price. 
$4 ,000, one-half cash, balance on terms. W. W. 
Smith, Au-Train, Mich. (R) 
CALIFORNIA, little farms near Los Angeles 
for sale, easy payments. Write E. R. Waite, 
Shawnee, Oklahoma. (R) 
BELGIAN HARES— Best on the market. Well 
bred. Prices reasonable. Write Ralph Pilking- 
ton, 617 Ellicott Suare, Buffalo, N. Y. (R) 
GRIFFON 
Pure blooded dog about 2 years old. Sire 
Is the famous “Kob de Merlimont,” Dam 
“Margot,” she sold for $600.00. Registered 
name “Jacque.” Will be sold cheap for 
such a dog. 
John P. Reynolds, 
30 State St., Boston. 
I HAVE FOR SALE 
a flue litter of Gordon setters of pure breeding. Their 
sirs, Stylish Ben, Is Imported and registered. Their dam, 
Katy Kay. Is a prise winner. These puppies should de¬ 
velop Into fine specimens of a breed that Is compara¬ 
tively rare and make good ruffed grouse and woodcock 
dogs; prices reasonable. 
J. M. COOK. Hamilton. Pa. 
T OO many are led to believe that the 
requirements of a string of dogs are 
the same as for a single animal, and 
this is right where so many beginners go 
astray. They think because they have 
handled one dog and have brought it up to 
a high state of working condition on a 
certain food, a number of dogs should 
thrive under the same treatment. 
Probably more ills in the kennel come 
from improper feeding and poor food than 
from anything else. One man can use a 
food, and have dogs keep in condition on 
it, another will venture in the same path 
and meet with failure. The one has studied 
the use of this feed almost as an art that 
required the closest attention, while the 
other feels that he has done all that is 
necessary by giving the dogs all they eat. 
Ordinary foods such as table scraps, 
when not allowed to sour, can be fed safely. 
But it is usually a very hard proposition 
for a family of moderate size to accumulate 
sufficient scraps except for a very modest 
number of dogs. Hotel scraps have been 
used by some, but they have many faults, 
and unless one can see them from the mo¬ 
ment they leave the table to the time they 
are gathered for the dogs, it is best that 
they should be left alone. 
A staple food, that can be blamed for 
most troubles peculiar to,kenneled dogs, is 
corn meal. Corn meal itself is a fair food, 
abundant in carbohydrates, but it requires 
some other food rich in protein to balance 
it properly. Meat of some kind is used 
for this purpose—principally beef or pork 
cracklins. Cracklins that are to be had 
in the cities lack much of being a suitable 
article for dog food. They are low in pro¬ 
tein, and are frequently the by-product of 
packing house carrion. And, furthermore, 
to rid them of the grease, chemicals are 
used, and they will ultimately reap its toll 
Gn your string. Meal well baked, and fed 
to dogs after being treated to a soaking in 
a stew of clean meat scraps, is very good. 
But where meal has failed, and carried in 
its wake many evils, is when fed in the 
form of mush, or to a bunch of dogs to¬ 
gether. Usually mush is only half-cooked 
—for it takes a long time to cook it prop¬ 
erly—and when poured out in a trough it 
is bolted down by the dogs as fast as pos¬ 
sible. The animals all want to have a 
trifle more than their companions. Then 
the food is not digested, and its effect is 
shown in the form of skin diseases. 
Over half of the skin diseases resembling 
mange come from heating and badly di¬ 
gested foods, and working the dogs on 
sloppy diets. Corn meal is heating at the 
best, and should be well baked —and served 
in connection with clean boiled beef or 
mutton to bring good results. When baked, 
dogs are not so prone to bolt it, and it is 
also an assurance that every particle of the 
meal has been well cooked. 
Of late commercial preparations of dog 
foods have made great headway, and they 
have achieved a noticeable advance in 
canine food products. The best of these is 
Spratts Dog Cakes. They are carefully 
prepared, and handy in the kennel and field 
upon all occasions; but to get the best out 
of them, they should be supplemented with 
other foods of which vegetables compose 
a great part of the ingredients. In this 
manner they are digested more easily, and 
are eaten more avidly. They have been a 
wonderful boon to trainers away from 
available foods of a bulky nature. 
As a food for dogs much attention has 
been given to rice, but not as much as it 
deserves, and the experience of many in¬ 
duces them to believe that, when fed in 
conjunction with other foods, it has no su¬ 
perior, and perhaps not an equal. Alone 
commercial, clean rice does not rank so 
highly as a food, but a food made from 
boiling the rice well with a small percent¬ 
age of meat, and when this is cool poured 
on clean stale wheat bread, there is no 
food that equals it. The dogs digest every 
particle of it, and can stand an enormous 
amount of work. They will also stay in 
nice, hard flesh when this is their diet. 
Another feature, which must not be over¬ 
looked, is that dogs seldom tire of it. 
With this as with other foods it must 
be fed cool. Hot foods will cause diges¬ 
tion troubles no matter how carefully pre¬ 
pared. Stale wheat bread must be clean 
and free from any indications of mold. 
It effects no heating of the blood, and can 
be had from the city bakeries at a price of 
