Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-04-15
HOW a Dog shonld BE Fed.

The puppy. when Just weancd, should
be fe., fo,r five, or even six times a day.
and from two months to four months of
ace. four times; after that three times, to
the age of nine 10 twelve months, ac-
cording to the breed tho smaller varie-
ties reaching maturity soonest after
that twice day is enough a full meal
being given each time. until maturity is
reached. Regularity rs TO time is inn
portaut in feeding, both because it
assists health and is a considerable help
in intoxicating orderly and clcanly
habits. Minute calculations have been
made as to the amount of food required
by dog, with the result of conflicting
statements OF opinion, ranging from
one-twentieth to one-twelfth Of his own
weight per day, and it is often stated in
This fOrm-One ounce of food for every
pound the dog weighs. Experience CON
viuces me that in the matter of quantity
of food the scales are better dispensed
with, using instead the dogs appetite as
the correct measure; | therefore always
advise that a dog should have rs much
at meal as he viii eat freely, and that
when he stops to turn il over and pick
out bits here and there, the dish should
be removed.
The composition and quality of the
food is the next point claiming con
sideration. in reference to the first
point, | think it necessary to refer to
theories propounded by Dr.. Billings, V.
s.. of Boston. Massachusetts, IN two
lectures delivered in that city. and re-
produced with apparent approval by
that section of the American press which
specially deals with canine matters.
have not the text before me, so can
not quote with verbal accuracy; but,
briefly stated, DR.. Billings. founding his
argument on the admitted fact that the
dog is a caInivorous animal, declared
he should be fed entirely on flesh, and
even went so far as to say that tarina-
ccous food was poison TO the dog The
English practice for centuries from the
time of that excellent huntsman and dis
courser on dogs and their treatment,
Edmund de Langley of the early part
of the fourteenth century, confirmed by
such practical writers as Turberville and
Gcryase Markham, of the sixteenth.
Cox, Jacobs, and others, of the seven
tecnth, and all the masters of hounds.
huntsmen, gamekeepers, kennel men,
and every other person who has kept q
dog sincc-is dead against Dr. Billings's
theory, which, indeed should rather be
named "crotchet" For dogs there is
no more wholesome food than the mixed
scraps from the table, consisting OF
meat, bones, bread and vegetables. and
when there are more dogs kept than
There are bones and scraps for, the
broken victual, should be taken as the
standard of the component parts Of that
which hats 10 be further provided
In regard to pet dogs kept by ladies,
the great mistake often made is to over
feed and feed too richly. 1t is mis-
taken kindness to feed dogs on rich,
fat-pyoducing diet; and to give sugar
and sweet cases and buildings is to GER
family destroy HE powers of the diges-
tive and ass.m,atiyc organs; and any
thing that produces excessive fairness
viii bring ON asthma, TO which disease
pugs and other short-faced pets are
especially prone Occasionally we meet
with. in all breeds, dog that is
dainty feeder These have to be coaNed
to cal, little at q time being given, and
a tonic of iron and quinino with gentian
given daily for week on two ut time.
-H99h Dalsici, Ia Hd5pcr'S Hagasiae
for March,