THIRD PART. 



To Farmers and Graziers. 



You would have had just cause to reproach 

 me with a want of common sense if I 

 had obliged you to read a book of two 

 hundred pages, and to lose your time in look- 

 ing for the advice you will require, if the 

 cattle plague should visit your stalls and 

 herds, instead of being able to turn at once 

 to the matter which concerns you. I have 

 taken up my pen on purpose to be of service 

 to you; this is my principal duty, which I 

 am now going to fulfil by summing up in 

 a few pages the most important facts which 

 have been described in the two first parts of 

 this work. 



The cattle plague, which has lately fallen 

 upon horned beasts, is a plague, no doubt : 

 but there are different species of plagues, and 

 it is necessary that you should know that this 



