PREFACE. 



An experience as a student in animal husbandry in 

 two .agricultural colleges (Ont. Agl. Col., Guelph, Can- 

 ada; Iowa Agl. Col., Ames, Iowa), leads me to believe 

 that, in common with the veterinary works written for 

 stockmen, the veterinary courses were far too technical, 

 thus being a drudgery to the students and calculated to 

 mystify rather than enlighten, due, I believe, to the idea 

 that the agricultural student or stockman should get 

 veterinary knowledge in the same form as the veterinary 

 student, the difference being only one of degree. The 

 demands of the Short Course in Agriculture in the Uni- 

 versity of Wisconsin would not allow of the use of tech- 

 nical terms or big words, or even a multiplicity of diseases, 

 hard to distinguish between, with their attendant treat- 

 ment. This book embodies in a simple form the lectures 

 as delivered to Short Course students, the main object of 

 the author being to fit the stockman so that he shall be 

 to the veterinarian what the trained nurse is to the phy- 

 sician. The proper recruiting ground for veterinarians 

 is from among the stockmen. To become so no one 

 bnould attend a veterinary college having less than a 

 three-year course. I have placed under contribution 

 Hayes' Points of the Horse and his Veterinary Notes for 

 Horseowners; Smith's Veterinary Physiology; Henry's 

 Feeds and Feeding; and Fleming's Obstetrics; a perusal 

 of any of those works will repay the reader. 



A. G. H. 



University of Wisconsi 



Madison, Wis. 



CU-Berkeley 



86480 



