In calling the attention of our readers to the advertisement of the STERLING COLLIE KENNELS we do so with special pleasure because of the personal knowledge that we have of the kennel and owner. The STERLING COLLIE KENNELS has been in existence for the past six years and has held a pronent place in the breeding and exhibiting of collies in this country. Just now this kennel doing some special experimental breeding work, endeavoring to prove the Mendelian laws of heridity on their collies, with the result that dogs of a fixed type and color are being produced with a degree of certainty that we have not heard of before and much good is being done for the breed. Get in touch with this kennel If you are interested in collies.

"This disease is a peculiar disturbance of the bones of the whole System, and seems to be a deficiency of lime-salts in the bones, making them solft and flexible. The bones become soft enough so that they can be cut easily with a knife, and the ends of the bones become much thickened, which accounts for the peculiar enlargements mentioned above. It is very often that the enlargements make their appearance on the bones of the face, which gives the animal that peculiar expression. Deformed and distorted bones are very frequent occurrences in this disease, especially noticeable in the limbs, which no doubt comes from the weight of the animal at the time the bones are soft. The disease as a rule is chronic, and it takes a long course of treatment to bring them to a normal condition again, and very often the treatment is not satisfactory. I have in mind a case now that entirely recovered from the disease, but it was a mild one, and was treated before the bones were much deformed. If the disease is taken early, it may be checked by means of proper feding; but when the deformity is once formed, it is only in extremely rare cases that it does not show as the animal grows to an adult age. It very frequently leaves them 'bowlegged,' or with twisted limbs.

"I would suggest that you feed plenty of nitrogenous food, such as meat, and encourage digestion as much as possible. Give bones, and perhaps it would be well to give small amount of lime water to drink. In the medicinal treatment use syrups calci locto-phosphatis, in thirty drop doses, once daily."