Use luke warm water in summer, but in winter it can be warmer. Wash almost any place in summer, except in a windy place; but in winter do it in a warm room. A couple of baths a week in summer are sufficient for health and cleanliness, and one bath a week is really just as good, and, if you would give the dog in addition a brushing and grooming, I much prefer this plan. Once a month in winter is enough.

Winter baths are risky, and great care should be exercised as to exposure to wet or cold weather afterward. In giving a bath in cold weather do so in a warm room, using warm water. Give him a good shampooing - and nothing so good as your hands - using plenty of soap and rubbing it in so as to open the pores of the skin, and then rinse off with lukewarm water. Avoid getting the soap suds into the dog's eyes, or down too deep into his ears, and thoroughly dry the ears inside. An old wool blanket (a clean one of course), is a good thing for the first drying, finishing up with rough towels. Be sure and get the dog's head, neck and breast dry, for here lies the danger of catching cold, and be careful as to exposure out of doors that day if weather is cold or wet, exercising the same care and precaution you would for yourself after a bath.

Now, as to soap. Don't consider that any soap will do for your dog, for it won't if you value a fine coat on him. Many common soaps will injure and ruin a dog's coat even more than they would your own skin if you used them. A cake of dog soap will only cost a quarter and last for several baths, so it's not expensive to use a good one, in fact is cheaper in the end. There is no dog soap "just the same," or, quite as good as Eberhart's. It is a different soap from any other, containing one ingredient that no other dog soap ever made - does contain - this one ingredient is a secret. There is no carbolic acid in my soap, as there is in so many dog soaps, a dangerous article to use, and quite so in a soap through absorption. It is made in as careful and cleanly a manner as is any soap made for our own use, and I just want to say here that no face soap made for people is quite so good to use on your own face. As a dandruff cure on your head nothing made can surpass it, besides it is a hair grower, and a cure as well for any scalp disease. A quarter pound bar of it I can send you by mail for Twenty-five Cents, or a dozen for $2.50, carriage paid.

Spend at least ten minutes in thoroughly shampooing your dog, then rinse and dry dog thoroughly. In summer weather a good walk, or a romp in a grassy yard is a very good thing for the dog after a bath and it has been partially dried, which saves you some labor as in turning the dog out in the yard; it will naturally run and romp and finishing drying up. This plan can only work in warm, sunshiny weather. If my soap is used to kill fleas or lice, both of which it will do, then it must be used as directed for such cases - the lather being allowed to remain on for some time. Don't allow dog to rest or lie down till its coat is absolutely dry, and never wash within two hours after it was fed.

As to washing Long Coated Dogs, that will often appear to be dry when they are not, you must exercise great care. Fill a foot tub with lukewarm (not hot) water, so that it reaches to the elbow of the dog, and beginning at head, cover the entire body with soap suds, never letting the soap itself get into the coat. With a soft hair brush of long bristles, brush the hair with the soap suds downward from the centre, until he is perfectly clean. Rinse out the coat with lukewarm water, place the dog on a table, envelope in a soft towel, and smooth it from the centre downward till he is absolutely dry. Never ruffle or rub the coat, or you will spoil it; simply smooth it.

To prevent a dog catching cold after a bath apply alcohol over the entire body. Exercise after a bath will stimulate circulation. A very little cocoanut oil, thinned with warm alcohol in the palm of the hand, rubbed over the coat will greatly improve it after washing.

In lieu of winter baths with no risk to run as to catching cold, a good grooming for ten minutes with a stiff brush will accomplish all the good results of a bath, and this you can do every day with great benefit to the dog. Grooming is better and safer than baths in winter. In preparing dogs for a bench show professional handlers groom their dogs every day for a month beforehand, and this is why you always see show dogs with such fine coats.