Bellefonte, Pa., June 19, 1981. FIND MEAT 1S BEST DIGESTED BY DOES HUMAN'S THAN ANY OF FARM ANIMALS. If you saw a man and his dog walk: ing down the street, you would not be likely to confuse one with the other, but if you saw ‘skeletons of the two mounted in a museum, with the man down on all fours in the position of the dog, you might have quite a time of It puzzling out which Is which, de- clares the Chappel Kennel Foundation, Rockford, Illinois. The strikinz similarity In the anat- omy of man and dog Is well shown In the accompanying illustration prepared by the Foundation. The dog's anatom- fecal structure is more nearly like a < human's than that of any of the farm ~ animals. Te statement holds true mot only of ("e skeleton formation but also of the organization and operation of the internal organs. In fact, what we know today of the working of man’s internal organs has been learned largely as the result of experimental work on dogs. Proper feeding is the keynote of su cessful dog keeping. If man may be sald to thrive best on a mixed diet of meat and vegetables, meat must form | Odd New Zealand Bird, | | Kiwi, Nears Extinction The strangest bird in the world— the kiwi-kiwi, is described as follows | In Boys' Life, the Boy Scout publi i i i i | cation. “Native of New Zealand, he nearly makes fact of ancient fable—current when the continent was first discov- ered—that everything around Austra- lia was upside down. The kiwi is practically wingless and completely flightless. Fle has no visibie tail. His brownish plumage, moreover, because | the feather-filaments are disunited, TANINE ANATOMY MORE LIKE | 100k more like coarse hair. His nos- | trils, unlike any other bird's, are at the base and bulk of any satisfactory | “food for dogs. Despite the beliefs hell by many people, the dog Is by nature SKELETON OF A MAN ‘on all fours" 7 ~fo that of a dog CHAPPEL KENNEL FOUNDATION a flesh-eating animal and his digestive system Is Ideally adapted to the han- ging of meat. No one has succeeded in preparing a perfectly balanced ra- * tion for humans, but It has been done for dogs with horse meat, cereals, pow- - dered bone, cod liver oil and other matural foods, prepared in balanced proportions. Tests with hundreds of + dogs have shown that a dog fed on it— | plus possibly some dog biscuits in the morning—required nothing else save | water. This Is the ration fed the ex- © perimental dogs in the Northwestern | “umiversity medical school and the famed movie dog, Rin-Tin-Tin, recently - mabjected to s'ringent physical exami- | bations after eight years on this regime, was found to be in condition “that belied his 13 years, Of particular interest to the dog owner will be the following informa- ‘tien from a report on the efliciency of * warious foods given dogs under vari- - ous conditions by three members of * the Mayo Clinic. + mmong the best-digested foods, and the . fmvestigators marveled at the thor- © sughness with which they were di- + gested. On the other hand, practically ‘ mone of the starch of a corn source © was digested, as evidenced by the residue which appeared to be un- + changed. Furthermore, it passed * through the digestive tract slowly, re- ‘quiring more than 24 hours. Also Poorly digested were stewed tomatoes, ‘Baked bananas, stewed prunes, stewe:l ‘corn and beets. A dog bolting his Is following a good rather than ful instinct, since meat Is best - digested In the form of lumps. Anx- ‘ fety and excitement during feeding in- - fluenced adversely the efficiency of i- gestion. Food when taken In oue Sarge amount was better villized than when taken in several fractions at -sbort intervals. Apparently each feed- “Smg stimulates persistaltic action and