A troublesome, and, in some forms, the most loathsome disease met with in the dog, occurring in so many forms as to be not always easy of distinction. The trouble with too many dog owners is, that, when any skin trouble appears they are most likely to call it Mange. Mange and Eczema are too often confounded, and, as there is a decided difference, mange being a skin trouble, due to a parasite, while eczema is a blood trouble, the two diseases require different treatment. The term mange, as applied to animals, is identical with itch in the human race, in both of which exist parasite life in the skin, and is a cutaneous disease. The very pronounced distinction between true mange and eczema, and other causes of irritation of the skin, is that mange is caused by a parasite invisible to the naked eye, and that it is transferable by contact, from one animal to another, while eczema, blotch, surflet or red mange, is not. And, while a whole kennel may be suffering from the latter compalints, it must be because all have been subjected to conditions of life occasioning derangement of the system, eczema remains an individual disease, and is never transmitted. True mange resembles itch in man, as it is due to a small parasite that burrows or tunnels through the skin in all directions, drawing its nourishment therefrom. The female deposits her eggs in the canals formed, which hatch out in about two weeks; the young continue burrowing and occasion intense itching. True mange is entirely a local affection, and the uneasiness and loss of sleep causes the animal to continually scratch and bite itself in its vain efforts to allay the intolerable pain and itching. This has a very debilitating effect upon the system, and will soon transform a healthy and sleek coated pet into a loathsome object.

The cause is invariably the result of having met some dog or other animal that was Affected with mange. One dog meeting another or occupying his kennel or sleeping quarters, or being shipped in a crate that was used by a dog with mange, will surely contract it. Absolute cleanliness is necessary in the treatment of mange. When your dog shows signs of mange, remove it immediately from its quarters to new ones, burn the bedding it has used, wash its kennel with boiling water, to which has been added the Standard Disinfectant, or Sanitas (See advertisement of both in this book). Either one, if thoroughly applied, will destroy every parasite in the kennel.

Now give your dog a good bath with Eberhart's Dog Soap, using quite as warm water as the dog can stand, cleansing its entire body and opening the pores of the skin. After drying the dog thoroughly, then apply Eberhart's Skin Cure all over the dog. rubbing it in well with your hands and not, missing a spot on the dog's body, lor if you do you leave some parasites - a very busy and industrious pest they are - and in a day later many newborn ones would be hard at work again. Take plenty of time in putting on "this skin cure, using "plenty of elbow grease," applying it the same as you would a liniment. Repeat this the next day, and probably tor two days more, the bath not being strictly essential except the first day. If you wish, or the dog is a house dog, you can give it a bath after the skin cure has been on for half an hour, for it has then done its work, this bath simply to put the dog in more presentable and cleaner shape, as all skin or mange cures contain oil of some kind and arc therefore greasy. There are several good mange cures aside from mine.

Ordinarily a case of mange should be cured in a week or iwo, and after three or four applications all over the dog. it is only necessary to apply it daily to the sore places, or where no hair, as my skin remedy is, also, a great hair grower, and never fails to restore the hair, unless the hair roots have been destroyed - when nothing will bring back the hair. It is not necessary to change the food in treating mange.

A very good mange cure is the following:

Train oil .................................. 1/4 gallon.

Venice turpentine ........................... 2 ounces.

Oil of tar ................................. 1/2 ounce.

Lac Sulphur ............................... 1 pound.

First mix the oil and turpentine and then add the oil of tar and sulphur. Your druggist may not have train oil, as it is often hard to procure. If so, common "black oil" or crude petroleum will do just as well.

All mange cures should be applied the same as directed in vising mine.

'Hie following, as a dip, was recommended by a friend, who used it in his kennels. The only objection I can see is that it would not do to use in cold weather:

"For quick cure of mange use 1 quart of Standard Oil of Tar to 10 quails of water; have water as hot as possible without scalding or burning hand, mix thoroughly, place liquid in small narrow tub, one that will just fit the dog if possible; plare dog in tub, take 1 cup and pour the liquid all over him, beginning at head, Just below tiara; saturate dog thoroughly, loosen up all old scabs, applying well the cure to affected parts, Take stiff brush, wet with liquid, brush clog thoroughly; remove clog from tub, give him a bed of clean straw to roll in, do not rinse off with clean water or rub skin dry. Do not allow dog to roll in dirt immediately after his wash, as he will if not chained up or placed in a room. Rolling in sand after a wash will irritate the sores and make the cure all the harder. When about dry, the sore spots may be touched up with equal parts of water and Standard Oil of Tar. In curing mange, the bedding must be changed every day, wash all woodwork where dog rubs, once every week with hot water in which has been placed Standard Oil of Tar."

There is no use in taking medicine unless you follow your doctor's advice, so don't expect the desired result unless you follow directions, as one or two applications will not effect a cure in a case Of mange. Mange can be cured, no matter how bad a case it appears to be, if you go at it right and have the right remedy, in fact, it is one of the easiest to cure of all troubles. The reason why so many people dread this disease is because of their failure to cure what they wrongly suppose is mange, when it perhaps is eczema, which is a much longer story, but can also be cured ami the treatment of which is given under that heading. Remember, thai, if you have more than one dog, the others will get it unless the afflicted one is removed and isolated in time. The advantage of having a regular kennel or place for each dog to sleep is manifest in treating the dog for mange, as thus you can disinfect his kennel and destroy the bedding, which are both infected, whereas, if your dog was sleeping any place he wanted to in your house, this would be a very difficult matter, and while you cured him he could again contract it by coming in contact with the parasites that had not been destroyed.

You need not have any fear of contracting mange from your dog; I have treated many cases for years past and never got it - not transmit-ahie from the dog to man.

There are several skin diseases called by different names, or designated as different kinds of mange, but the treatment I have given for mange, and the one for eczema, about covers the whole ground of skin trouble, or, my remedy will cure them all, excepting that in some of them, as in eczema, internal remedies must also be used at the same time to work on the blood. Eczema is fully treated elsewhere. Carbolic acid is used in many mange cures, a dangerous ingredient unless carefully used and in small quantities.

My long-time friend, Harry W. Lacy, editor of American Fancier and Stock-keeper, has this to say of mange- read if also:

"It is quite true that eczema or red mange is to some extent contagious, but we have not found it to be so to any extent which would justify the term being applied to it. It is desirable, always to keep a dog affected with skin disease away from other (togs, because constant contact in the kennel or at play is liable to give rise to an exchange of skin complaint. On the other hand, a dog with distemper, which is very contagious, is made to give it to animals which never come near to him, and a dog with fleas will furnish a supply to all his fellows in the neighborhood. In most cases mange is, however, not due to contact by the victim with another mangy cur, but is due to out-and-out neglect. Mange is never known in kennels where the dogs are properly looked after; it is a cultivation of the back-yard, and thrives best upon the poor chained-up brute that is more human than his owner who keeps him chained there'. In a word, filth is the soil on which alone the sarcoptic parasite can thrive.

"A dog with ordinary skin irritation, developing into redness and rash, has acquired that in one of two ways. Either he has an hereditary predisposition to skin complaint (and here let it be said that this hereditary predisposition is a very common fact, and is due undoubtedly in a great measure to the in-breeding which has been carried on to a greater or less extent in all breeds) or else he is suffering from impurity in the blood which may be clue to over-feeding or liver complaint or want of sufficient exercise or any one of a dozen other things. If the former be the case it is by no means probable that a cure will be effected, and the most important thing that can be done is in the direction of preventing the disease from being handed down to other generations. If it is intended to breed from the dog it should be mated with the newest blood possible - that is to say with an animal having a very different pedigree from its own. The disease is certain to reappear even after the dog has been apparently cured. A change of diet or of weather will always be liable to precipitate a fresh attack."

The following treatise on mange was written by Dalziel, and to it your attention is called. A very able handling of the subject: