This puppy will grow straight and strong on his legs and upright in his pasterns; moreover, from his food he will extract its greatest good; and, in a word, he will in a short time be far ahead of the other and top-heavy puppy.

Never feed all together is another rule which should be fixed at once after the weaning. Ignore this and the puppies will rarely ever take just the right quantities, for the stronger will push the weaker aside. And another point to be kept in sight is, that when fed with others a puppy not only eats what he needs but he eats what he fancies others are going to take from him, whereas if fed quietly by himself he is likely to stop when he has had just a little more than he actually requires - yet not enough to injure him and throw him all out of shape. But now take this same puppy after he has had his fill and put him with others that are eating, and he will go into the pan as though ravenously hungry.

The novice may accept without qualification that these rules - feed little and often, and feed separately - are the two greatest secrets of success in puppy raising. And certainly it is not hard to believe this, for every breeder knows that the puppy that leaves him soon after the weaning and goes into a home where he is the sole pet of his kind - if the diet and management are nearly equal - is sure to do better than other members of the litter that remain in the kennels.

The reasons for this are apparent. He has far more exercise in his new home, and if there are children in it he is sure to be "kept on the go." He is played with, pulled by the tail, dragged around, - in fact led a lively dance by these little ones, - and full of frolic, a short nap now and then is all he gets or all he cares for. He is rarely fed regularly or with exceeding care, it is true, and besides his scraps from the table he has a bit of the children's cake or their molasses and bread, helps the cat empty her saucers of milk, and so on, but he really never gets very much of anything. Yet ever on the move, bright, merry and full of fun, and with a little something always in his stomach, he grows like a weed and as strong as a young lion.

All this is in favor of "walking" as it is called abroad, but "boarding out" as expressed here, and the breeder who resorts to this plan with the puppies which he cannot sell readily is sure to have far better success in raising than he who keeps all his young stock in the kennels, provided always the "walking" is in pure air, as in the open country, and where there is an abundance of milk and light foods, as on farms.

Some of the most pronounced reasons for the advisability of feeding little and often have now been given against the three-meals-daily system. Much more might be said to sustain the position taken on this question, but it is not necessary to go farther. In the absence of exercise all those sovereign essentials, health, good limbs and good feet, are impossible for young puppies; consequently it must be encouraged and they must be put on their feet at the earliest moment and kept on them as much as possible.

The reader will now be taken back to the litter of puppies which were left in the first week after the weaning. And that there may be no mistake it is urged that these puppies be given until the tenth week the same number of meals and at about the same hours as directed in the week following the weaning - the fifth week. If then they are straight and strong on their legs the number of meals may be reduced to four, and kept at that until the fifth month. But this reduction must not be made as long as there is any deformity of the feet or legs, or any seems threatened.

From the fifth month until the tenth month the puppies should have three meals daily; and thereafter two will be sufficient.

Having been fed on well-baked stale bread and rice and milk, toast and light broths, for about one week, these puppies, assuming that; they are other than toys, should have - even as early as the beginning of the sixth week - more concentrated and heartier food. Therefore a sheep's head which has been split lengthwise, or, if this cannot be obtained, lean meat, should be cooked with vegetables, as potatoes, beets, carrots or cabbage leaves, and the whole seasoned with a little salt. After a thorough boiling the vegetables, meat and bones should be removed and the broth thickened to the consistency of pea soup by the means of well-baked stale bread, rice, or a flour made by grating one or more dog cakes on a nutmeg grater.

This should be given them for about a week; and convenience suggests that it be their food at eleven and the last thing at night, and that their breakfasts be of scalded milk and bread or rice; while for the feedings at eight in the morning and two and five in the afternoon a little scalded milk alone will be sufficient.

By the next, or about the seventh, week the puppies will be old enough to eat the vegetables and meat from which the broth is made; and these after having been thoroughly cooked should be taken out and broken up with the fingers or crushed to a paste in a mortar, and returned to the kettle.

This vegetable and meat soup can be given at the same hours as the light broth in the previous week - that is, at eleven and the last thing at night; while scalded milk with bread or rice should constitute the breakfasts, and scalded milk alone the other feedings.

At this age - about the seventh week - it is advisable to fortify the food of the puppies of the largest breeds, as mastiffs and St. Bernards, with bone-making material in the form of precipitated phosphate of lime - against the occurrence of rickets or bone deficiencies of a kindred nature. For every four puppies one teaspoonful of this should be given once a day in the food - with the last meal - in all instances even if suspicious signs of deformity have not appeared; while where such signs are manifested the lime should at once be given twice every day, and in steadily increasing doses until each puppy is taking half a teaspoonful. And it will be well to persist in the use of the lime, once a day at least, for three months whether or not it seems required.