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Title: Kennel secrets : how to breed, exhibit, and mannage dogs
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Perry, Joseph Franklin, 1846-
Subjects: Dogs Dogs -- Diseases
Publisher: Boston : Little, Brown and Co.
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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and andused about the bench, woodwork and floor, not alone forits deodorizing effect but for its unfriendliness to verminand disease. Efficacy, economy and safety all duly considered, thepermanganate of potassium has as much to recommend itas any other agent of its class. It costs at wholesale onlyabout fifty cents a pound, and this quantity is sufficient tomake fifteen gallons of powerful deodorizer, which whenrecently prepared is no mean antiseptic. But as the solu-tion rapidly loses its virtues it is best to make it asrequired, by adding a tablespoonful of the crystals to aquart of water, and sprinkle it about with a small gardenwatering-pot. Summarizing briefly, the paramount essentials in a ken-nel are, cleanliness, ample sunlight, an abundance of pureair, freedom from dampness and draughts, and protectionfrom cold. Where these requirements are all met goodhealth may be confidently expected, but where even oneof them is disregarded, disease will invariably be a fre-quent visitor.
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CHAPTER VII. EXERCISE. Man possesses many great truths that he is slow toreduce to practice, and very strangely no small proportionof them bear on his physical welfare. He wishes to bewell and dreads to be sick, yet for some unaccountablereason he insists upon indulging his inclination in viola-tion of what he knows to be right, and scarcely any sub-ject is more unwelcome to him than that of organic lawwhich he holds so lightly. Among his many shortcomings but few are more pro-nounced than failure to give due attention to muscularexercise. He recognizes that it is beneficial, and theo-retically he is in favor of it, but of enthusiasm, as a rulehe is surprisingly destitute. His notions of the good itdoes are also decidedly hazy, and when pressed to definethem he usually indulges in vague generalities, amongwhich appear opening the pores, getting up a muscle,brightening the spirits, etc. Usually, also, he is contentwith his indifferent knowledge of the subject, and hismethods of applyin

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