These are familiar to every one, I mean the fleas that are found on dogs, and no description is really necessary. There are a number of good remedies.

"Eberhart's Dog Soap" is the easiest and surest remedy for fleas of anything made and much less trouble to use. All your dog needs is a good shampoo with this soap swice, twenty-four hours apart. After applying it thoroughly all over the dog, not missing a spot, or you leave some fleas that will be heard from, then rinse the dog in lukewarm water and dry-thoroughly with rough towels. There is, however, nothing - unless you would keep some preparation on the dog all the time in summer - that will keep fleas off of a dog in case he comes in contact with them again, as he may do if he meets another dog that has them, when your dog is certain to get a new supply. If all his bedding is not destroyed while being treated, or his sleeping box not thoroughly disinfected, he will again get more fleas. The best plan is to burn all the bedding he has used in his sleeping box, basket or kennel, and then scrub it out with some good disinfectant, getting into the cracks and corners with Standard Disinfectant, (see advertisement of the Standard Disinfectant Co.)., which will do the work. Fleas breed every twenty-four hours, so that in using my soap you must give the second bath twenty-four hours later to destroy the young ones.

Dogs which have dense, long coats are subjects of special delight to the fleas. The mouth of the flea is specially adapted for sucking; the wings are rudimentary, being represented by four minute scales. The lavse is a footless grub, which, in about twelve days, spins a "cocoon," (i. e., an outer covering of silky hairs) for itself, and becomes a chrysalis, from which the perfect flea emerges in about a fortnight more.

Here are also some home-made remedies that you can try - they will all kill fleas - but my soap is so sure, so pleasant to use, and also so beneficial to the coat that it seems foolish to try anything else. One part of oil of cloves to 20 parts of methylated spirit. Directions: Apply all over after washing. Or, terebene 1 part, glycerine 1 part, methylated spirits 4 parts. Apply as before. Or, a lime and sulphur lotion, made by boiling 16 ounces of sulphur with half this quantity of slacked lime in a gallon of water, the whole being boiled down to 2 quarts and filtered. Apply as above. Or, precipitated sulphur 4 ounces, powdered camphor 1 ounce, powdered resin 1 ounce, terebene 1 dram. Directions: Mix; dust well into the hair.

There are two flea powders made, both are very good, to rid .a dog of fleas, if you prefer a powder instead of a liquid remedy as is often desirable, especially in cold weather, to avoid the danger of dog catching cold. Dr. Clayton's, (see his advertisement), will do the work, if used as directed. The other one is "Vermilax Flea Powder," considered one of the best made. See the advertisement of Vermilax Co., in this book. I carry this Flea Powder in stock, and can send it by mail postpaid, at thirty cents a box.