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By R. A. Craig, D.V.M.
[Illustration: Frontispiece—INSANITARY DAIRY STABLE AND YARDS. DISEASE AND
FINANCIAL LOSS ARE TO BE EXPECTED WHEN FARM ANIMALS ARE KEPT IN FILTHY,
INSANITARY QUARTERS]
In preparing the material for this book, the author has endeavored toarrange and discuss the subject matter in a way to be of the greatestservice and help to the agricultural student and stockman, and place attheir disposal a text and reference book.
The general discussions at the beginning of the different sections andchapters, and the discussions of the different diseases are naturallybrief. An effort has been made to conveniently arrange the topics for bothpractical and class-room work. The chapters have been grouped under thenecessary heads, with review questions at the end of each chapter, and thebook divided into seven parts.
The chapters on diseases of the locomotory organs, the teeth, surgicaldiseases and castration, although not commonly discussed in books of thisclass, the writer believes will be of value for reference and instructionalwork.
When used as a text-book, it will be well for the instructor to supplementthe text with class-room discussions.
The writer has given special emphasis to the cause and prevention ofdisease, and not so much to the medicinal treatment. Stockmen are notexpected to practise the medicinal treatment, but rather the preventivetreatment of disease. For this reason it is not deemed advisable to give alarge number of formulas for the preparation of medicinal mixtures to beused for the treatment of disease, but such treatment is suggested in themost necessary cases.
PURDUE UNIVERSITY, LaFayette, Ind. August, 1915.