Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1881 — A New Way to Raise Setter Dogs. [ARTICLE]

A New Way to Raise Setter Dogs.

Hendenoo Tobacconist A citizen of our community has a fine litter of setter dogs. He has been taking special pains to gfre them a good start in the world, and to this end it was his custom to rise from his bed at short intervals to feed them. It became rather tedious business for him to “crawl out" during the cold winter nights to attend to their warns, so he tried a new plan. Setting a pan of milk in a warm corner behind the stove, he went to bed, and In the small hours the young canines called for food. Thinking to make one job of it, he arose in the dark and carried the pan to the woodhouse, when, seizing each pup by the nap of the neck, ne thrust its nosh into the pan. and when all had “got to their work" returned to bis bed. The next morning he was aroused by his wife, who wanted to know what in the world he had done with her bread-pan. Investigation followed; his wife wet up a batch of bread and had set it behind the stove to rise: this pan our “shot" had carried to the pups, and they, after gorging themselves with the dough, waddled back to their warm nest. The yeast was good and the puppies rose, looking like so many muffs with the head of the animal used for trimming, while their legs and tails resembled warts on an early rose potato,